Board members Brantley T. Poole and A. P. Carlton were recently honored by the National Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (NARELLO) at the Association's annual conference in New Orleans Louisiana. Mr. Poole was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association and Mr. Carlton was appointed to the NARELLO- Industry Liaison Committee.

Blanton Little, Secretary-Treasurer of the Licensing Board, was also recognized by being appointed e President of the Robert W.Semenow Foundation.

The Licensing Board indeed regrets to announce that Dianne Nobles, Financial/Clerical Supervisor and James E. Scarbrough, Board Legal Counsel, will be leaving the service of the Board this month.

Mrs. Nobles, who has been on the Licensing Board's staff since 1970, will be re-locating to Lake Junaluska where her husband recently assumed the position of County Supervisor for the Farmers Home Administration, and Mr. Scarbrough will be entering private legal practice in Concord ' North Carolina with attorney Phillip G. Carroll.

The Board commends Dianne and Jim for their dedicated service and wishes them the very best of success in their future endeavors.

Appalachian State University in Boone has announced the establishment of a Real Estate Research Center with Jerry D. Belloit, Assistant Professor of Real Estate, to serve as Director.

According to Mr. Belloit, the Center was created to serve three major functions: education, research, and community service. Projects undertaken by the Research Center will reflect these three functions.

The Licensing Board congratulates the University and Mr. Belloit for this conscientious and meaningful endeavor in the fields of real estate education and research.

The National Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (NARELLO) has announced that copies of its 1979 Interstate Cooperation Committee Report are now on sale to the public. This informative report contains statistical data covering the various licensing activities of NARELLO's 57 member jurisdictions including qualification requirements for licenses, licensing fees, and a roster of the administrative officials of each real estate licensing board or commission.

Copies of this report may be obtained at a cost of $10 per copy. Checks should be made payable to NARELLO and sent to:

Robert H. Peterson
Executive Vice President, NARELLO
Sunset Valley Law Building
28505 South 9oth Street
Omaha, Nebraska 68124

The licensing and regulatory operations of the Real Estate Licensing Board are currently being evaluated by the Governmental Evaluation ("Sunset") Commission. The Evaluation Commission was created by the 1977 Session of the North Carolina General Assembly to review the activities of approximately 100 state governmental programs and agencies to determine the need for their continued existence.

To date, the Licensing Board staff has prepared and filed with the Commission approximately 200 pages of reports, statistics, and other documentation relating to the Board's powers, duties, and functions, its objectives and accomplishments. This information, together with results of numerous public hearings and the findings of the Commission's administrative staff, will form the basis for the performance evaluation from which a final report will be prepared and submitted to the General Assembly. The General Assembly will then conduct further hearings and receive additional testimony to determine whether the programs of the various boards and agencies under review should be continued, modified, terminated.