Eldridge Hanes
Eldridge Hanes, nicknamed Redge, was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He graduated from Woodberry Forest school in 1963 and from Duke University with a degree in economics in 1967. Given the state of the world in 1967, Redge subsequently spent three and a half years as an officer in the U.S. Army, being discharged after fourteen months service in Vietnam.
During a forty-year career in business that spanned five continents, Redge also found time to work on behalf of numerous nonprofit institutions in the arts, education, and environmental fields. These included both local, state, and national organizations. A few examples are chariman of the board of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, board of the American Arts Alliance, trustee of the Fuqua Graduate School of Business at Duke University, and trustee of the North American Wildlife Foundation.
For the last twenty years Redge has written numerous articles and essays and has published three novels. Redge served as vice president of the North Carolina Writers network.
Ten Things I Can’t Do Without
- Jane, wife and best friend for 54 years
- Though ashamed to admit it … cell phone
- Great Cigar, Cuban when available
- Cigar companion, 16-year-old Lagavulin single malt scotch
- Five grandchildren
- Politics
- Fly-fishing and wing shooting
- Laptop for writing
- Skechers Slip-ins
- Duke athletics, especially lacrosse