Growing up in the St. Louis area, Carol attended Webster Groves High School where she is recognized on the school’s Wall of Fame. She graduated from Carleton College in 1967 and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in 1975 and an MBA from Duke University in 1982. She worked for Nortel Corporation in the Research Triangle Park for four years before establishing a market consulting firm named the Competitive Advantage with clients in the United States and Japan. Her career shifted to teaching marketing courses at North Carolina State University, Campbell College, and Meredith College.
Her international interests led to Fulbright grants to teach business courses in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in 1992 and Vladivostok, Russia, in 1999. More recently she taught for one year at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and two years at the American University in Bulgaria in Blagoevgrad. Carol enjoyed learning foreign languages and could communicate in Russian, Japanese, and Spanish.
She has lived in Raleigh since 1970 with her husband Marvin Soroos, a retired professor of political science at North Carolina State. In May they celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary and in retirement have spent summers at Marvin’s childhood home in Missoula, Montana. Carol is also survived by her son Joel, who lives in Houston, Texas, with his wife Fay and two daughters, and her daughter Valerie, who resides in Raleigh.
No immediate funeral is planned.
In lieu of flowers, contributions would be appreciated in Carol’s name to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, which supports research on one of the most deadly forms of cancers (https://www.pancan.org) .
Arrangements by Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, 300 Saint Mary's St., Raleigh, NC.
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