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Mrs. Shirley Taylor Frye has been named as the News & Record Woman of the Year for 2017. She was born and raised in Fremont, NC, and graduated valedictorian of Friendship High School. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from North Carolina A&T State University with high honors in education and English. She later received a Master of Science degree with honors in psychology and special education, from Syracuse University.
Mrs. Frye is the recipient of over 25 honors and awards, including the 1985 Governor’s Order of the Long Leaf Pine Award, 2003 WFMY-TV Community Champion Award, 2005 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Bennett College, 2006 American Judicature Society (AJS) National Justice Award, 2006 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from UNC-Greensboro, and the 2008 Greensboro Partnership Distinguished Citizen Award.
In 2016, YWCA Greensboro honored Frye with the permanent naming of their newly renovated 19,300 square foot building.
Mrs. Frye started her professional career in Greensboro, NC, as a public school teacher. She taught second grade and exceptional children. She taught briefly at Bennett College and later returned to Bennett as a special assistant to the president and director of planned giving.
She has worked at NCA&T in three different capacities including assistant vice chancellor for development and university relations and most recently, a special assignment as executive assistant to the chancellor. One of the most exciting and rewarding jobs to Mrs. Frye was vice president of community relations for the Greensboro CBS affiliate, WFMY-TV.
Shirley T. Frye is married to the former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Henry E. Frye. They have two sons, Judge Henry E. Frye Jr. (daughter-in-law Angela) and Harlan Frye; and three granddaughters, Whitney, Jordan and Endya Frye.
Photographed, Thursday, September 7, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
Mrs. Frye is the recipient of over 25 honors and awards, including the 1985 Governor’s Order of the Long Leaf Pine Award, 2003 WFMY-TV Community Champion Award, 2005 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Bennett College, 2006 American Judicature Society (AJS) National Justice Award, 2006 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from UNC-Greensboro, and the 2008 Greensboro Partnership Distinguished Citizen Award.
In 2016, YWCA Greensboro honored Frye with the permanent naming of their newly renovated 19,300 square foot building.
Mrs. Frye started her professional career in Greensboro, NC, as a public school teacher. She taught second grade and exceptional children. She taught briefly at Bennett College and later returned to Bennett as a special assistant to the president and director of planned giving.
She has worked at NCA&T in three different capacities including assistant vice chancellor for development and university relations and most recently, a special assignment as executive assistant to the chancellor. One of the most exciting and rewarding jobs to Mrs. Frye was vice president of community relations for the Greensboro CBS affiliate, WFMY-TV.
Shirley T. Frye is married to the former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Henry E. Frye. They have two sons, Judge Henry E. Frye Jr. (daughter-in-law Angela) and Harlan Frye; and three granddaughters, Whitney, Jordan and Endya Frye.
Photographed, Thursday, September 7, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
