Theodore Clyde Collins

Background

Collins,, Theodore Clyde was born on December 21, 1928 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Son of Theodore Clyde and Jane Burwell (Matkins) Collins.

Education

Associate of Arts, Kings Business College, 1949.

Career

With Southern Life Insurance Company, Greensboro, North Carolina, since 1949. Assistant secretary and assistant treasurer, 1952-1961. Treasurer and assistant secretary, 1961-1963.

Vice president and treasurer and assistant secretary, 1963-1968. Vice president and secretary, 1968-1971. President, senior vice president and secretary, 1971-1987.

Executive vice president, chief finance officer, secretary, director, 1984-1987. President, chief executive officer Greensboro Life Care Retirement Community, Inc., since 1987. Director Northern region, member trust advisory committee Wachovia Bank & Trust Company, North Carolina, since 1975, chairman since 1984.

Politics

A believer should support social climates, in which human communities are maintained and strengthened for the sake of all persons and their growth.

Views

Every member of a Baptist Church should be delicate to other people and use appropriate language while communicating with others.

Membership

President Greater Greensboro Housing Foundation, 1974-1975. Board directors Industrial Counseling Service, 1968-1978, North Carolina United Community Services, 1972-1978, Medical Center Bowman Gray School Medicine, Wake Forest University, 1975-1981, Greensboro United Arts Council, 1980-1984. Board directors North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, 1971-1975, 77-80, trustee, 1977-1980, also chairman, 1978-1980.

Member executive board General Greene council Boy Scouts American, since 1971. Board directors Greater Greensboro Housing Found. North Carolina business advisory board Fuqua School Business Duke University, since 1986.

Trustee Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, since 1986, Greensboro Life Care, Inc., since 1986. Member Greensboro Chamber of Commerce (president 1981-1982), Life Office Management Association (board directors 1980-1981), Finance Executives Institute (president North Carolina chapter 1975-1976), Administrative Management Society (president 1962-1963, recipient Merit award 1963, Diamond Merit award 1967). Clubs: Greensboro Country, Greensboro City.

Connections

Married Dorothy Anne Buchanan, June 23, 1951. Children– Cynthia Leigh, Theodore Clyde III, Laura Anne, John Matkins.

Father:

Theodore Clyde Collins,

Mother:

Jane Burwell (Matkins) Collins,

Spouse:

Dorothy Anne Buchanan

child:

Theodore Clyde III Collins,

child:

Cynthia Leigh Collins,

child:

John Matkins Collins,

child:

Laura Anne Collins,