- Co-founder of the Fayetteville Little Theatre (now Cape Fear Regional Theatre) and community theaters in other cities.
- He served as chairman of the Myrover-Reese Fellowship Home for more than 35 years and helped develop the Army's anti-drug program in the 1970s.
- Senior staff writer for the Fayetteville Observer.
- In 1983, Reese was shot in the mouth by William K. "Billy" Graham, who was then the director of the Cumberland County mental health center; Graham then killed himself.
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