Juanita Hudson Received Superior Service Award, 1985

January-March 1986 issue, Tar Heel Homemakers

Juanita (Mrs. Mack) Hudson of Benson was named recipient of the third NCEHA Superior Service Award at the State Council Awards Luncheon in October in Raleigh. Previous winners are Mrs. B.W. Pshyk and Mrs. Elmer B. Lagg.

Mrs. Hudson, a state, district, and county council president, through the North Central District, has been an Extension Homemaker for 37 years. She served three years as National EH Council cultural arts chairman. In 1972, it was her suggestion that started the Nickels for National fund for leadership development during the National EHC Conference. Two years ago, the fund was renamed Nickels for Leadership and provides Regional Leadership Training workshops in the four NEHC regions. Mrs. Hudson attended her first RLT workshop with the NC delegation in November in Jacksonville, Fla.

She is beginning a five-year term as consultant to the NCEHA cultural arts, textiles and clothing program of work committee.

In other Extension involvement, she is a member of the Harnett County Extension Advisory Council and has just completed several years as treasurer of the NC Extension Advisory Council, serving since the council first organized. She is a life member of the Associated Country Women of the World and was a delegate to the ACWW Triennial Conference in Perth, Australia. Currently, she is a member of the advisory board of the NC State University School of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

As outstanding 4-H club president in her youth, Juanita invited by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to christen the USS Tyrrell, an AKA vessel named for Tyrrell County.

Twice named Harnett County Outstanding Homemaker, she is recipient of the coveted state A&P Leadership Award; received the State Friends of Extension Award in 1983 from Epsilon Sigma Phi professional fraternity of the Extension Service; was named one of three volunteers of industry nationally in 1985 and was honored at a reception during the American Home Economist meeting in Philadelphia, Pa.

The former Juanita Ogburn, born in Johnston County, she and Mack live on his family farm in Harnett County. She graduated from Cleveland High School in Smithfield, Massey’s Business College, Jacksonville, Fla., and New York School of Design.

Her business, Crossroads Interiors and Antiques, is the restored log cabin where Mack’s great-grandparents started housekeeping. She is a consultant in interior design and in consumer affairs, often speaking before the State Legislature.

She and Mack have two sons, Michael of Los Angeles, Calif., a consultant with Arthur Anderson, and Kent of St. Simons Island, Ga., Southern Region manager with Accuray Corp. of Columbus, Ohio; three grandsons and one granddaughter.

In addition to her Extension activities, Juanita is a member of the Coats Woman’s Club, served as precinct chairman and member of the Harnett County Democratic Women, member of Ebenezer Presbyterian Church where she is a deacon and Sunday school teacher. She is currently president of the Women of the Church in Fayetteville Presbytery and a member of the Ministry Group of Women, Synod of North Carolina.