Helen Copenhaver Hanes

Helen Greever Copenhaver "Copey" Hanes (October 2, 1917 – December 28, 2013) was an American promoter. She was the founder and supporter of several arts organizations across North Carolina. Hanes was a significant figure in the founding of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She was inducted into the North Carolina Women's Hall of Fame, and received several awards for her work.

Biography Hanes was born on October 2, 1917, in Marion, Virginia. She was the daughter of Lutheran minister, the Reverend Eldridge Copenhaver, who was the interim president of Marion College, and Margaret Greever Copenhaver. She had one sister. She went to study at Marion College for two years having resided on campus during the period her father was its president, before she travelled to Springfield, Ohio, to enroll at Wittenberg University.

She her husband worked to commission a sculpture of dancers for the Arts school. The pair assisted in the rebuilding of the school's sculpture studio which had been burned in a fire, and was named for the faulty emerita in the School of Design and Production Visual Arts Program Martha Dunigan. She died on December 28, 2013, at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home in Winston-Salem.

Legacy Thomas S. Kenan III, the trustee and founder of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts described Hanes as "one of a kind" and "irreplaceable".