Gov. Roy Cooper told Woody Durham on Wednesday that he knew Durham long before Durham knew Cooper. Growing up in North Carolina, Cooper was among the untold thousands in this state who came of age to the familiar soundtrack of Durham’s voice on the radio.
Durham, the longtime play-by-play voice of North Carolina football and men’s basketball games, visited the governor’s mansion on Wednesday while Cooper signed a proclamation designating June Aphasia Awareness month in North Carolina.
A little more than a year ago, Durham, 75, went public with his diagnosis of Primary Progressive Aphasia.