Stack wasn’t looking for a career change when the Wolfpack Club’s Bobby Purcell, a friend from Stack’s days in student government, called him up about a job opportunity.
After completing the management training program, he began happily moving up the ladder with Sara Lee. Stack started out in Galax, VA, where he learned the manufacturing process from the time the bale of cotton entered the plant to when the packaged t-shirt shipped out to the marketplace. When Stack graduated from NC State in 1992, his textile management background and leadership experience landed him a position with Sara Lee’s management training program. Every job Stack has held since college has been a direct result of the relationships he formed through NC State, he explained. The common thread tying it together is the Wolfpack connection. On paper, Stack’s career path is hard to explain. As he graduated from NC State, Stack took these skills and network of connections with him.
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Open access to the faculty senate and deans, plus direct contact with the chancellor and board of trustees, trained him to overcome his star-struck tendencies and become comfortable in powerful company. Looking back, he attributes his career success, in part, to his days as student body president, where he learned to take a seat at the table with highly successful and influential people. “The experiences that you get as student body president are unparalleled for a student,” Stack said. Stack eventually took his enthusiasm and talent for student government to the university level and became one of few in NC State’s history to serve as student body president twice.
He was elected freshman representative to the Wilson College of Textiles Student Council and got his first taste of university student leadership. With his close-knit College family behind him, Stack began to thrive as a campus leader. At the invitation of some Textiles friends he joined a fraternity, Delta Sigma Phi, which gave Stack a support network that would help him through his college years and beyond. Stack, a gregarious student with a natural tendency to get involved, began making connections inside and outside of the College. In the classroom, Stack was taking classes in Textile Management and soaking up tremendous opportunities to meet corporate giants from across the textile industry who visited the College. The College does a great job of helping people - particularly rural kids whose parents didn’t have a college experience - to find their niche.” “The smallness of the college helped me overcome the largeness of NC State. “The Wilson College of Textiles was the first place I found that niche,” Stack said. Stack arrived at the Wilson College of Textiles in the fall of 1987 as a small-town kid struggling not to be overwhelmed by a large university in a big city. “NC State is entwined in who I am.” Building a Network “Everything that I’ve done since I was 18, I owe back to NC State,” Stack said. His friends, his career path and even his wife are all linked to his days at NC State. In those four years he would make connections and develop friendships that would impact every corner of his life. Stack, now vice president of administration and development for Jarrett Bay Boatworks in Beaufort, N.C., looks back at his days at NC State as the beginning of everything. Stack was sold on NC State from the first encounter. As fate would have it, the NC State recruiters who showed up at South Rowan High School were from the Wilson College of Textiles. For him, that meant being the first person in his family to go to college. As a high school student in rural Rowan County, NC, Stack craved a future that took him anywhere but the local textile mills. When Ed Stack (B.S.,Textile Management ‘92) reflects on the influences that shaped him, three rise to the top: his mom, his dad and NC State.
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