[2] She went to study at Marion College for two years having resided on campus during the period her father was its president,[3] before she travelled to Springfield, Ohio, to enroll at Wittenberg University.
She had been either a trustee or a board member for Salem College and Academy, the Moravian Music Foundation and the N.C. Museum of Arts located in the state capital Raleigh.
[1] She donated an 1861 Civil War flag to the Historic Crab Orchard Museum in Tazewell, Virginia, and gave funds to construct a pleixglass cover that allowed the banner to be displayed.
[1] On November 9, 2010, she was inducted into the North Carolina Women's Hall of Fame in a ceremony held at the Raleigh Convection Center.
[6] 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".