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BIGGEST FRESHMAN CLASS EVER! 14 Officials were working overtime to prepare for a record 4,600 or more freshmen for fall semester, pushing total enrollment to around 27,000. ECU is leasing private apartments to house 300 still on a waiting list for dorm rooms.

FACULTY SALARIES RISE 20 PERCENT 22 Faculty salaries have risen 20 percent or 14 moreBy Bethany over the Bradsher past five years, raising the paycheck of a typical full professor to $94,900 in 2007. While the pay hikes are impressive, Office on the Go Leading three initiatives faculty salaries remains below the national average and are produces a packed calendar 24 30 strikingly less than the pay at N.C. State and UNC Chapel Hill. for Director of Student Outreach Tarrick Cox ’96 A FIRM FOUNDATION ’07. He runs the Legislators’ 2 4 Roddy Jones ’58, who built Crabtree Valley Mall and School for Youth Leadership manyBy Steve other Tuttle Raleigh landmarks, believes in building things up, not Development and he advises the Gospel Choir tearing things down. and the Student N.C.A.E. Club. Always on the run, his CREATING CREATIVITY, MUSICALLY office is anywhere he can 30 Professor Eddie Jacobs has ways of bringing the get the Internet. Bymusic Steve out Row of students, even those who admit coming to class unprepared. In those cases, he often asks the student do one simple thing: Play one note on the keyboard.

LUXURY SUITES IN STADIUM EXPANSION 34 Plans are in the works to add 4,500 seats plusBy Bethany 24 private Bradsher suites to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium by enclosing the east end zone. Also in the works are a new women’s softball stadium, a new track and field facility and a new auxiliary gym at Minges Coliseum.

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FROM OUR READERS ...... 3.

THE ECU REPORT ...... 4.

FALL ARTS CALENDAR ...... 13.

PIRATE NATION ...... 40

CLASS NOTES ...... 43

34 UPON THE PAST ...... 56 from the editor from our readers fall 2008 fall EastThe Magazine of East Carolina University Read East on your computer Volume 7, Number 1 My dad was in the Coed Club at www.ecu.edu/east is published four times a year by I enjoyed the “Upon the Past” in the last East East Carolina University OrientationThere’s nothing quite as still and expectant as an empty college campus Division of University Advancement issue [about how men students went from 2200 South Charles Blvd. a decided minority to a majority of the in summer, or so I thought until I turned the corner at the School of Greenville, NC 27858 Communication building and ran headlong into a throng of parents and student body right after World War II]. My father, Alfred McLawhorn, is in the group teenagers touring the grounds during a new student orientation session. h photo [of the Coed Club]. I have never seen East Carolina will welcome roughly 4,600 new freshmen this fall, EDITOR that particular photo, so you can imagine a record number. Hundreds of them and their parents have spilled Steve Tuttle how excited I was to see it. He used to talk 252-328-2068 / tuttles@ecu edu. across the mall this summer during eight two-day briefings. A campus about those early days at ECTC and being already swollen with five years of record enrollment growth is bracing ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER outnumbered by the girls. A lot of the guys Brent Burch mentioned in that article went on to be for another wave. Including transfers, officials say the new student Touchdown, McGee successful and prominent men. population will approach 6,000. PHOTOGRAPHER I enjoy the magazine and especially the Winterville Forrest Croce recent articleEast on my friend, fellow ECU grad —Ryan McLawhorn ’76, All the new buildings funded by the state’s $3.2 billion higher education How do I subscribe? COPY EDITOR and fellow ACC football official Dr. Jerry bond issue of a few years ago already are full to bursting. The university Readers can order reprints of pictures seen on Jimmy Rostar ’94 McGee ’65. It’s always nice to read about Send a check to the ECU Foundation, had to hire about 50 new faculty to accommodate this year’s growth and the “Upon the Past” page from University Archives. using the postage-paid reply envelope successful alums and us officials are definitely stuffed in every issue of the magazine . was forced to convert the ground floor of Umstead Residence Hall on CONTRIBUTING ARTIST For information, call 252-328-0272. Michael Dorsey glad for positive publicity like this. Even How much is up to you, but we suggest the Main Campus to faculty offices. Total enrollment this fall should be though I live in Greenville, it’s nice to keep Counting adjectives a minimum of $25 . Your generosity is CONTRIBUTING WRITERS appreciated . up about 1,000 to stand at roughly 27,000. up with all the Pirate happenings through n 252-328-9550 Marion Blackburn, Bethany Bradsher, Editor’s note: A few issues back we reported that Are n www ecu. edu/dev. t Erica Plouffe Lazure, Steve Row your magazine. Keep up the good work. Robert Rutter IV ’03 won $500,000 on Actually, admitting 4,600 new freshmen is the last step in a process You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? n give2ecu@ecu edu. — Greenville by correctly that began last winter with evaluating nearly 16,000 applications. CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Darrell Harrison ’74 ’79, Join the Alumni Association and receive a The Admissions Office says that’s roughly 1,000 more applicants Jay Clark, Lois Greenfield, answering 10 questions, including this one: How subscription as well as other benefits and It turns out we have three ECU alumni working services . Minimum dues are $35 . than last year, with much of that reflecting greater interest from Marc Kawanishi, Fred Prouser many adjectives are in the following sentence: ACC games. McGee is the dean of the crew with “Spencer takes good care of his hairy dog.” Rutter n 1-800-ECU-GRAD out-of-state residents. CLASS NOTES EDITOR 35 years experience as a side judge at ACC n www .piratealumni co. m said there are two. A retired faculty member wrote n alumni@PirateAlumni com. Leanne Elizabeth Smith ’04 ’06 football games. His day job is being president of We take a look at this new crop of students in the cover story in ecuclassnotes@ecu edu. in to say that’s wrong. Join the Pirate Club and get the magazine this issue. We also offer a few stories on how growth has changed Wingate University near Charlotte. Harrison In my view there are three [adjectives in the as well as other benefits appreciated by ADMINISTRATION has officiated at football games for 15 years. He, sentence]: “good,” “his” and “hairy.” I see sports fans . Minimum dues are $75 . East Carolina, how the whole college experience has changed since n 252-328-4540 Michelle Sloan like McGee, is a side judge. Harrison’s day job no way to eliminate any of those. “Good” your day, and what kind of college town Greenville has become. n www ecupirateclub. co. m is running Document Solutions East, a licensed sometimes appears as a noun, as in “He n contact@ecupirateclub co. m Call it your personal orientation session. h Xerox agency. Raymie Styons ’84 of Greenville went about doing good,” or “I am concerned And so another year begins at East Carolina. Thousands of young DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY MARKETING has officiated at ACC basketball games since for the good of the nation.” “Hairy” is an Contact us n 252-328-2068 Clint Bailey 1989. He owns an insurance agency. people will turn a corner and run smack into an exciting but uncertain adjective modifying the noun “dog.” And n easteditor@ecu ed. u future. Parents will worry about money and ask questions that mortify Bubba says thanks “his” is a possessive adjective, also modifying n www ecu. edu/eas. t the noun dog. is a superior publication. Customer Service their kids. Move-In Day, as usual, will fall on the hottest Saturday of East Carolina University is a constituent institution of I want to thank you and Steve Row for the The University of North Carolina. It is a public doctoral/ My wife, PatriciaEast Morrison ’67, and I, a To start or stop a subscription, the year. Classes will begin and the university quickly will settle into article on Beth Grant in the summer edition or to let us know about a change of research intensive university offering baccalaureate, master’s, member of the foreign languages faculty from comfortable, age-old routines. Somewhere on campus, a student will specialist and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts, sciences of magazine. It was a fine tribute to a address, please contact Ann Windham, and professional fields, including medicine. Dedicated to the East 1958–67, enjoy reading most of every issue. windhama@ecu edu. or 252-737-1506 look up and think: I’m a little scared but I believe I can do this. great actress and more importantly, a great achievement of excellence, responsible stewardship of the — Hawthorne, Fla. Send letters to the editor to I can become somebody. public trust and academic freedom, ECU values the Pirate. I literally had dozens of ECU people Robert Morrison, easteditor@ecu ed. u or contributions of a diverse community, supports shared come up to me at the baseball regionals in 1206 Charles Blvd . governance and guarantees equality of opportunity. For 4,600 young lives, tomorrow will start here. Myrtle Beach and tell me about the great We asked English professor and grammar expert Building 198 ©2008 by East Carolina University O. Bruce Southard to settle the question. He East Carolina University article in magazine. They all expressed Greenville, n .c . 27858 Printed by The Lane Press how proudEast they were of Beth, but none were said the sentence has three adjectives. By the way, Rutter is now studying chemistry at the Send class notes to U.P. 08-466 60,656 copies of this public document were as proud as her brother! ecuclassnotes@ecu ed. u University of South Florida and plans to apply to or use the form on page 50 printed at a cost of $45,551.77 or $.75 per copy. — Cary Bubba Grant ’86, the medical school there next year. 2 3 The ECU REPORT

Universities need $6 billion funded both by including $107.3 million in building; Elizabeth City State, $20 million State approves $107 million for new buildings the new state budget. for a School of Education building: to build dental school, Fayetteville State, $43 million for a general Next on ECU’s wish list are two major Family Medicine Center The 16 campuses of the University of classroom building; N.C. A&T, $27 classroom buildings—a $130 million home East Carolina “had its best year ever in the North Carolina need roughly $6 billion million for a general classroom building; for biology and science plus an $84.5 million General Assembly,” according to Chancellor in capital improvements to respond to N.C. Central, $25 million for a School of classroom building to be shared by the Steve Ballard, receiving appropriations an unprecedented and continuing boom Nursing building; UNC Asheville, $27 colleges of Education and Business. The plan totaling $107 million to build the new dental in enrollment, according to a long-range million to replace Carmichael and University also calls for major renovations to more than school and a new Family Medicine Center for construction plan adopted by the Board of lecture halls; UNC Greensboro; $48 million a dozen existing buildings around campus. the medical school. With full funding now in Professor turns Colbert into spider man Governors. The biggest chunk of that for a classroom and office building; UNC place, both projects will begin construction money would go for new classroom Both N.C. State and UNC Chapel Hill need Wilmington, $43 million for a health and be ready in about two years. buildings to provide seats for the 30,000 more than $1 billion for new and renovated sciences classroom building; and Western Biology professor Jason Bond didn’t is on his list of people to honor, additional students expected to enroll in buildings. Under the plan, State’s top Carolina, $40 million for an education The $36.8 million appropriated by the want Comedy Central talk show spiderwise. He received a number the next four years. priorities are a new library at the Centennial classroom building. General Assembly in early July for the Family host Stephen Colbert to feel jealous of grants from the National Science Campus, estimated to cost $114 million, and Medicine Center will create a new jewel on when he was being interviewed for Foundation in 2005 and 2006 to The 2007–13 Capital Improvements Plan Enrollment at North Carolina’s public a $214 million complex for the College of the Health Sciences Campus. Brody will the June 24 show about how he had classify the trapdoor spider species provides for some new or renovated buildings universities grew by 37,000 in the last six Engineering. Expansion of its dental school have three times the space it now rents from named a new species of trapdoor and contribute to the foundation’s at every campus but it directs a lion’s share years, to roughly 215,000, and is projected is Carolina’s top priority, a $99 million Pitt County Memorial Hospital. Legislators spider after classic rocker Neil Tree of Life project. He described of spending to those that have experienced to climb by another 30,000 students by project that is being coordinated with ECU. also appropriated $69 million to complete Young. To be gracious, Bond agreed the new genus of trapdoor spider the most growth. For East Carolina, the 2012, for an overall 33 percent growth fastest-growing UNC campus over the past Next on its list is $169 million for initial construction on the new dental school to name a spider after Colbert, too. in a paper he co-wrote with in enrollment over the decade. ECU’s Norman I. Platnick, curator at the five years, the plan calls for $786 million in development of the Carolina North campus. and earmarked $1.5 million for its initial After all, Bond has plenty of naming enrollment spurted from 20,600 in 2002 American Museum of Natural spending on 34 projects. operating costs. opportunities. He’s discovered 27 Classrooms are the top priority at many to 26,000 last year and is planned to hit History in New York. Bond is both new spider species in the past 10 ECU’s top bricks-and-mortar priorities campuses in the UNC system, including: 28,500 in 2012, a 38 percent growth in ECU doctors and medical students treat a spider systematis—someone who years, including one he found in are the dental school and the new Family Appalachian State, $42 million for a new students. Ten years from now, ECU is 52,000 patients a year at the Family studies organisms and how they rural Alabama in 2007 and named Medicine Center. The General Assembly College of Nursing and Health Sciences projected to have an enrollment of 37,000. Medicine Center, more than twice the are classified—and taxonomist— after Young. That spider now number the facility was built for. The new someone who classifies new species. structure will be 117,561 square feet and officially is known as Its body is Myrmekiaphilaabout half an Spiders in the trapdoor genus include a geriatric care practice. Architectural neilyoungi. drawings show a facility with 33 exam rooms inch long and its bite is not harmful are distinguished on the basis of in the clinical area plus 12 other exam rooms to humans. differences in genitalia, Bond said. He confirmed through DNA tests for geriatrics. He says he honored Young because that each species of spider is distinct he is a well-known peace advocate In addition to the $36.8 million in state within the trapdoor genus. For the who supports environmental causes. funding, East Carolina has set aside $10 one that will be named after him, Many species of spiders, ECU’s Top 10 Capital Needs Estimated already 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 million of its own money. BSOM also Colbert told Bond on the TV show dollars in millions Cost funded Request Request Request Request Bond says, are being received a $2.5 million gift from the Monk that he would like to examine the as- 1. School of Dentistry $ 90.0 $ 28.0 $ 62.0 $ $ $ threatened by pollution and family in Farmville and a $1 million grant yet-unnamed species and choose loss of habitat. Besides, Bond is 2. Family Medicine/Geriatric Center 36.8 from the Golden LEAF Foundation. one that is the best fit. 3. Biology/Science Classroom Building 130.0 58.5 71.5 Groundbreaking will be this fall, with a big Neil Young fan. “I play the guitar a little bit and I like 4. Business/Education Classroom Building 84.5 42.3 42.3 construction taking two years. to play his songs. I guess my 5. Performing Arts Building 85.0 8.5 38.3 38.3 “We are out of teaching space, and this favorites are and 6. Campus Utility Infrastructure Improvements 9.9 9.9 facility will allow us to teach more medical Cowgirl in the Sand ” 7. IT Infrastructure Improvements, Phase II 3.8 3.8 students,” said Dr. Kenneth Steinweg, The Needle and the Damage Done. Previously, Bond honored 8. Health and Human Performance Building Expansion 11.7 1.2 10.5 interim director of the Department of Nelson Mandela and his 9. Facilities Services Building 10.5 1.1 9.4 Family Medicine. — wife with spider names. 10. Austin Building Modernization 13.3 1.3 12.0 Greenville Daily Reflector Angelina Jolie also Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi 4 5 the ecu report

Cunningham returns as dean through his practice. Cunningham joined the Busy hurricane season predicted Second Century campaign To date, he said the campaign has recorded a program, which is now providing full in-state of Brody School of Medicine ECU faculty full time in 1984 and became off to energetic beginning 26 percent increase in deferred gifts received tuition scholarships for 58 financially needy After several years with hardly any severe medical director of trauma the following and more than 1,400 new first-time gifts to students. Paul R. G. weather, the East Coast likely will see Generous support from alumni and friends year. He was interim director of the organ the annual fund. Cunningham, between two and five major storms make has allowed East Carolina to surpass the Alumni and friends who have not yet transplant division from 1990–1991 and who taught at the landfall between August and September, halfway mark in its goal of raising $200 Dowdy said the impressive totals come on contributed to the Second Century Campaign chief of the medical staff at Pitt County Brody School of the National Weather Service said in million. Just six months into the public the heels of generous individual, corporate may send in a check using the postage-paid Memorial Hospital in 1991. He rose to Medicine for 21 predicating what it called an above-average phase of the Second Century Campaign, and foundation support last year that funded envelope inserted in the magazine. professor of surgery in 1993 and was chief years before hurricane season. The forecast is based on officials said more than $105 million has the creation of the ECU Access Scholarship of general surgery from 1999–2002. From leaving in 2002 above-normal sea-surface temperatures in been raised for scholarships, faculty support 1990–1998 he also served as a major in the to become head the Atlantic as well as lingering La Niña and new campus facilities. Army Reserve Medical Corps. of surgery at the atmospheric conditions. “We are absolutely ecstatic that we are off State University Walter Pories, a professor and former chair Some are worried that several years without to such a good start and excited about what of New York of surgery who recruited Cunningham to a major hurricane has lulled coastal North the future holds,” said Mickey Dowdy, vice Upstate Medical ECU in the 1980s, called him a role model, Carolina into complacency. A similar lull chancellor for university advancement. Center, is returning to East Carolina as the an excellent teacher and physician and a came to an abrupt end in 1996 when Bertha new dean of the medical school. He also will skillful leader. “I think we’re fortunate to Dowdy pointed to a 120 percent increase and Fran devastated eastern North Carolina. serve as senior associate vice chancellor for have, first of all, someone who’s a passionate, in gifts to the East Carolina University The cycle continued with hurricanes Bonnie medical affairs. Cunningham is believed to be thoughtful and highly competent physician,” Foundation this fiscal year over last as in 1998 and Dennis and Floyd in 1999. The the first African-American to lead a medical Pories said. “He has the unusual capacity evidence of widespread support for the four Category Four hurricanes that struck school in North Carolina. to pull segments together and unite. I can’t campaign. He also highlighted a 17 percent in 1999 were the most since records were think of anybody who is more fitting in increase in gifts to the ECU Educational Chancellor Steve Ballard said Cunningham first kept in 1886. Since then, only Isabel in these times and the challenges that we face.” Foundation, more commonly known as “is a highly accomplished, widely respected 2003 caused major damage to the region. the Pirate Club. Plus, the ECU Medical physician. He is familiar with the school’s He said his goals include expanding student Officials say the absence of hurricanes the & Health Sciences Foundation leads the mission and with the health care challenges enrollment, stabilizing the school’s finances last few years is a fundamental cause of the way in raising funds for distinguished facing this region and state.” Ballard thanked and increasing the diversity of the school’s drought gripping the region. professorships, having established seven new Phyllis Horns, the dean of the College faculty and administration. He credited Should a hurricane threaten the Carolina ones since the campaign’s inception. This of Nursing who also directed the medical his wife, Sydney, with encouraging him to coast, East Carolina will follow a natural fiscal year alone campaign donations include school during the yearlong search for a new consider and accept the job as dean. They disaster emergency plan that kicks in when more than $2.7 million for new scholarships. medical dean. have four children, all of whom live in the storm is still two to three days away. North Carolina. “We are benefiting from strong volunteer Cunningham said the medical school and the leadership by members of the boards entire Health Sciences Campus have grown of directors of the university’s Board of since he left. He said the university has all Trustees, the three foundations, the Alumni the tools in place to achieve “measurable Association and the Board of Visitors,” positive statistics in the health indices for Dowdy added. “We have seen a 40 percent eastern North Carolina.” increase in new members joining the Alumni A native of Jamaica, Cunningham graduated Association. As we had hoped, the campaign from the University of the West Indies in is providing a margin of excellence for ECU Jamaica. He completed surgery training there as it supports the university’s strategic plan.” and at Mount Sinai Hospital, Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital and City Hospital at Robert J. “Bob” Greczyn Jr. ’73 of Durham, president and CEO of Blue Cross Elmhurst, all in New York City. and Blue Shield of North Carolina, was re-elected chairman of the ECU Board of Trustees at the board’s July meeting. Greczyn has served on the board since After beginning his career as a surgeon in 2003. David S. Brody of Kinston, managing partner of Brody Associates and New York, Cunningham moved to the Bertie other enterprises, was re-elected vice chairman. Robbie O. Hill of Kinston was County town of Windsor in 1981. He elected secretary. The new president of the Student Government Association joined the board. He is Andrew H. Griffin, a senior finance major from Fuquay- practiced there, was vice chief of the medical Varina who is president of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Meanwhile, Steve staff at Bertie Memorial Hospital and Jones ’91 of Raleigh, an executive with RBC Centura, was elected chairman of the Board of Visitors, succeeding Carl Davis ’73 of Raleigh. taught ECU medical students who rotated Hurricane Floyd

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2008–2009 Football schedule Athletics posts $1 million surplus Date Opponent Location Time Spiking the ball, hitting the books Aug . 30 virginia Tech* Charlotte 12:00 p .m . Revenue from East Carolina’s appearance Sept . 6 west Virginia* Greenville 4:30 p .m . The volleyball team is succeeding on the court in the Hawaii Bowl and an overall increase Sept . 13 tulane * New Orleans 3:00 p .m . and in the classroom, winning 16 games and in football ticket sales helped the athletics Sept . 20 n .c . State Raleigh tBA compiling a team GPA of 3.521, the highest department post a $1 million surplus for Sept . 27 houston* Greenville 3:30 p .m . in team history. Senior Kelley Wernert, chosen the fiscal year ended July 31, according to a Oct . 11 virginia Charlottesville tBA for the 2007 Conference USA All-Academic report to the Board of Trustees. The budget Oct . 18 Memphis* Greenville 12:00 p .m . team, achieved a perfect 4.0 mark spring surplus sharply reduces the $1.5 million Nov . 2 central Florida* orlando 8:00 p .m . semester. Every member of the team was on deficit compiled the previous year, the report Nov . 8 Marshall (Homecoming) greenville 3:30 p .m . the honor roll; seven of the 12 were either on indicates. Nov . 15 southern Miss * hattiesburg tBA the Chancellor’s List (4.0 semester GPA) or Nov . 22 alabama Birmingham* Birmingham tBA the Dean’s List (3.5 or higher). “Our team Football ticket sales of $5.6 million were Nov . 28 texas El Paso* Greenville 1:00 p .m . goal since I’ve stepped foot on campus three $270,000 over budget while the actual cost * indicates televised games years ago has always been to have a yearly team of football operations, at $6.2 million, was GPA above 3.3 and to have everyone above a slightly more than expected. Total athletics 3.0 in a given semester,” said head coach Chris revenues were $25.6 million, or about Rushing. “Our team GPA has steadily risen $2.7 million more than budgeted. Total Terry Holland said the grades of basketball since that day and this was the semester that expenditures for the year were $24.2 million, eventually put us over the top. We shattered NCAA players have improved in recent years, rising abut $1.4 million higher than expected, for our goal this year with the high expectations penalizes from 2.13 in 2004 to 2.78 in 2007. Holland an overall surplus of $1.067 million. these athletes have put on themselves.” The basketball said that every men’s basketball student- Pirates return 11 letterwinners and welcome East Carolina received $924,200 for its team athlete recruited since the coaching change appearance in the December bowl game. in 2005 has been eligible every semester in five newcomers for the 2008 season, which After paying all expenses associated with the The men’s basketball attendance and those who transferred did so began in August. game, including flying the team and dozens program will lose one in good academic standing. of officials to Hawaii, East Carolina still scholarship next season made a profit of around $30,000 on the and will have to cut its Holland said the team played all of its non- game, the report says. weekly practice time from 20 conference schedule last season without hours to 18 because it failed to missing a single class. By using chartered ECU set a new stadium attendance record meet the NCAA’s standard for academic airplanes, the team missed only two days of for the second straight year in 2007, progress. The men’s team reported an classes throughout the 16-game conference Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback David Garrard ’01, right, takes a break from filming averaging 41,537 fans in six home games. academic progress rate (APR) of 861, an schedule. a TV spot for a medication for Crohn’s disease, which he has. Garrard and a crew from Total tickets sold for the year was 249,219. NFL Films were on campus in July to film the public service announcement at the improvement of 12 points over the previous Sixty-two scholarship athletes were honored football stadium. Garrard recently signed a six-year, $60 million contract with the team. year but still below the 900 threshold at this year’s Academic Excellence Awards required to avoid NCAA sanctions. banquet for posting GPAs of 3.5 or higher, The football team reported a 922 APR and up from 59 last year. Ten of the 59 scholar also must develop an academic improvement athletes boasted a GPA of 4.0. plan, though it will not be penalized. We’re No. 4 in license plates East Carolina ranks fourth in the number “Our men’s basketball staff has worked of collegiate license plates issued by School Number of Plates The APR was developed to better measure extremely hard to address the factors the North Carolina UNC Chapel Hill 7,751 in “real time” how athletes and teams are under their control and the resulting GPA Division of Motor n .c . State University 5,523 doing in the classroom, based on eligibility, improvement is nothing short of spectacular,” Vehicles. A collegiate Appalachian State University 2,370 retention and graduation rather than just on ECU Chancellor Steve Ballard said. East Carolina University 2,088 plate costs $25 and six-year graduation rates. This is the fourth Clemson University 1,395 The highest multi-year APR scores at East can be personalized year of APR data. University of Florida 1,341 Carolina were earned by the women’s tennis for an additional Wake Forest University 1,276 East Carolina said it developed a required (1,000), volleyball (994), women’s swimming $30, of which $15 Duke University 1,134 academic improvement plan for men’s (988), men’s golf (985) and women’s golf is remitted to the NC Central University 1,122 basketball and that the two lost hours of (984). Women’s tennis and volleyball, school. Virginia Tech 1,118 practice time would be replaced by additional were cited as being in the top-10 percent Kelley Wernert tutoring and study halls. Athletics Director nationwide for their respective sports.

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Campus construction update additional space to accommodate East and building an expansion onto the current valve. An estimated 40,000 patients a year, Carolina’s growing student body. The decision chancellor’s residence. Officials dismissed many under the age of 50, have operations Construction has New Wright Fountain: came at the April meeting of the ECU Board the proposal because of likely neighborhood on their mitral valve, the inflow valve for the begun on a new fountain on Wright Circle. of Trustees, who were told that the project resistance. Trustees then considered building left side of the heart. Most standard mitral The $600,000 project, which will replace would add only 7,000 square feet of space. a new house in the Rock Springs area, but valve operations require a sternotomy, or the original fountain with an enhanced Kevin Seitz, vice chancellor for administration that idea drew little support. A plan to give cracking of the sternum, resulting in a 12- model, was undertaken when decaying utility and finance, said that renovating Mendenhall the chancellor a housing allowance and allow week recovery. With a robotic device there are lines caused the fountain to begin sinking. will take two years, and staff members want him to live where he wants, while keeping only three small incisions, scarring is minimal, The old fountain was removed in early 2007. to be sure that the outcome will justify the the Dail House for official functions, died infection rate is lower and recovery time is inconvenience. “We want to be more because the UNC General Administration lessened to two weeks. From a psychological proactive in looking at the planning does not allow such a stipend. Trustees perspective, instead for future projects and make sure that said they want the committee to get input Film touts professor’s we are looking at the distant future,” from several groups on ways to improve the ‘forgiveness’ research of moral or spiritual Seitz said. “We have a number of things housing for the chancellor. value, does forgiveness going on institutionally that will have an The old adage “forgive and forget” could impact on this project.” Chitwood passes milestone be good advice for the body as well as for Kathleen Row have a physical value? the mind and heart, according to Kathleen Chancellor’s residence: Trustees have Chief of Surgery Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood Row, the chair of the psychology department or spiritual value, does forgiveness have a are more likely to be forgiving, and that women endorsed a plan advanced by its facilities and Jr. performed his 400th robot-assisted mitral who studies correlations between a person’s physical value?” are more likely to be forgiving than men, resources committee to form a commission valve repair in June and now has performed health and the ability to forgive. Row has although men had shown to be more forgiving to study updating or renovating Dail House, more of these surgeries than anyone. The been studying how forgiveness relates to Row’s research has shown a marked difference when considering specific situations. the chancellor’s residence. Over the past two operation took place at Pitt County Memorial spirituality, well-being and health for almost a in the blood pressure and heart rate recovery The project is expected to be completed in years the board has considered and rejected a Hospital, the teaching hospital of the decade. Her findings were reported in a PBS levels of those who can more easily forgive For much of her 25-plus year career in early fall 2008. The new fountain will have series of proposals to improve the residence. Brody School of Medicine, with 11 cardiac documentary, The that compared to those who cannot. “You literally psychophysiology, Row studied the mind- a stronger, more visible plume, better seating The house hosts many university functions surgeons from across the county obvserving aired in June. The documentaryPower of Forgiveness, won the Best carry it around with you,” Row said. “If you body connection of how certain behaviors and markers containing trustees’ names. and is essentially the same structure as it was the procedure while attending a two-day Film award at the Sun Valley Film Festival. had a heavy sack on your back, your blood could be predictors of cardiovascular disease. when it was purchased in 1948. Trustees training program. Chitwood is a pioneer in pressure would raise to let you be able to Her work in the past seven years, she said, Mendenhall renovation delayed: The $38 “Some people would like to forgive and they considered a suggestion for buying a larger the development and expansion of mitral valve carry it around with you. My question is: validates that forgiveness can yield positive million renovation of the Mendenhall can’t; but they still see it as a value. Religions house near campus but no suitable properties repair surgery, producing outcomes better than how is forgiveness mapped onto the body?” benefits not only for the forgiven, but for the Student Center has been delayed because treat it as a value,” Row said. “From a were available. The board also considered valve replacement, a once-prevalent surgical forgiver as well. officials believed the plan didn’t offer enough psychological perspective, instead of moral Row has found that older people, in general, buying an adjacent property, demolishing it treatment for a leaky or narrowing mitral — Erica Plouffe Lazure

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YEARS AGO YEARS AGO YEARS AGO YEARS AGO 75 50 40 25 First master’s The Big Yellow House Incident Old Austin falls Archaeologist makes waves Deanie Boone Haskett ’26 of Forty-seven students, mostly guys and their dates, are In the fall of 1968 Underwater archaeologist Greenville, who had been suspended for 10 days and four other male students work begins to raze Gordon Watts, co-director of teaching at Rose Hill are expelled for the rest of the term after officials raid a Old Austin, one of the ECU’s program in Maritime High School, returns to party at a large, yellow house near campus on Jan . 10, four remaining original History and Underwater enroll in East Carolina’s 1959 . The party, something of an alternative to the formal buildings on campus, to Research, captures new master’s degree senior dance in the gym that night, featured “a record make way for the new international attention in program and in August player going at high pitch” and a bartender . The students Jenkins Fine Arts Center . August 1983 when he recovers 1933 receives the are charged with having alcohol and conducting an As the demolition begins, the anchor and other artifacts first master’s degree unchaperoned party . The girls are charged with violating members of the faculty from the Civil War ironclad conferred by the dorm sign-out rules . Smoldering resentment over the raid raise $3,800 to preserve Monitor, which sank during a college . For her thesis forces President J .D . Messick to meet with the student the building’s distinctive storm off the North Carolina she collects more than body . He defends the women’s dorms regulations and rules bell tower, or cupola . But coast in 1862 . 300 pages of poetry against public displays of affection . His attempts at defining when the crane tries to Images courtesy University Archives by North Carolina what is an acceptable kiss (which is not “this clinging kiss lift it from the roof, the writers . Fifty years later, of such a long nature [that] will cause people to begin cupola collapses into the school awards its talking”) prompt a flood of newspaper stories across the pieces . A twice-life-size first Ph .D ., in anatomy, to country . Historians say the Big Yellow House incident is replica now adorns the Thomas Curry Jr . the origin of the myth of ECU as a big party school . campus lawn .

University Life

FINE ARTS Pinafore Oct . 23–25, conducted Nov . 10 at the North Carolina to ECU in the late 1990s . The Linda Patriarca, Schadler, Heather Vance-Chalcraft, John of Dr. Hyder and Mrs. Shamim Arastu of The fall schedule of S. Rudolph by Daniel Bara, director of choral Music Educators Association annual ECU faculty exhibition is who spent 25 Howard, Gregg Hecimovich, Daniel J. Bara, Greenville; Mary Elizabeth Windham ’07, Alexander Performing2008 Arts music activitiesFall . Subtitled TheArts meeting in W inston-CalendarSalem . scheduled Oct . 17–Nov . 22, and Series begins Sept . 19 with the play the annual holiday exhibition is years on the Carol Goodwillie, Carl Haish, Andrew daughter of Dr. Charlie Sang Jr. and Mrs. Lass That Loved a Sailor, INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC the North Carolina Symphony includes such G&S songs as scheduled Dec . 4–6 . I’m Highlights this fall include faculty of Morehead, Laura Prividera and Karen Jonsi Sang of Greenville; Bryan Howington, Orchestra performing Dvorak’s Called Little Buttercup, We Sail performances by the ECU Wind OCTUBAFEST symphony and Elgar’s and Michigan State Vail-Smith. a graduate of UNC Pembroke and son New World the Ocean Blue Oh Joy, Oh Ensemble and Symphonic Band Tom McCaslin is planning a In the South. Philadanco (the Rapture Unforeseen. on Sept . 25, a concert by the second Octubafest to highlight University, is the of Spencer and Frankie Howington of Philadelphia Dance Company), a College of Business Associate Dean Stanley THEATER ECU Symphony on Sept . 28, the contributions of the lower new dean of the Pembroke; and Wesley Thomas O’Neal, contemporary dance ensemble, The ECU/Loessin Playhouse Bandorama on Nov . 6 . and a brass instruments Oct . 29–30 . The Eakins and Assistant Professor Samuel will perform Oct . 23 . Begun College of an N.C. State University graduate and son opens the season with Of Thee I concert by the ECU Chamber program includes two concerts Tibbs won the 2008 Charles H. Dow Award by Joan Myers Brown in 1970, Sing, George and Ira Gershwin’s Orchestra on Nov . 8 . The full that will feature a mixture of solos Education. She of Mr. and Mrs. James Wyatt O’Neal of Philadanco helped found the from the Market Technicians Association. Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, at symphony will play Verdi’s and chamber piece performed by International Conference of comes to ECU Wilson. The Brody Medical Scholarship McGinnis Theater Oct . 2–7 . Love overture to The Force of Destiny, ECU students . Eakins and Tibbs each received a $2,000 Black Dance Companies and from Caldwell provides full tuition and fees, along with Is Sweeping the Country and the Bartók’s viola concerto, featuring International Association of Blacks WHO’S IN TOWN? prize for their work exploring how past title song are among the better ECU faculty member Melissa College in New Jersey, where she was most living expenses, for four years of in Dance . Marvin Hamlisch will John Wustman, considered “dean performance can predict future performance known Gershwin tunes . The Reardon, and Beethoven’s appear with the ECU Symphony of American accompanists,” associate dean of education. She was medical school. The scholarship also funds second play of the season will be Symphony No. 5. The Chamber when looking at certain groups of stocks. Orchestra at Wright Auditorium will serve as Robert l . Jones Moliere’s comedy The Imaginary Orchestra will play Britten’s Simple national president of the Teacher Education summer enrichment programs, such as travel Nov . 21 . Hamlisch has earned Distinguished Professor of Music Invalid Nov . 20–25 . Symphony, Haydn’s Symphony Division of the Inter­national Council for Gale Brown Adcock ’78, Hazel J. Brown, abroad, in addition to any service projects the three Oscars, four Grammys, four for the 2008–09 academic year . No. 49 and Vivaldi’s Concerto for Emmys, a Tony award and three CHORAL MUSIC Wustman became affiliated with Exceptional Children. Gabriel “Gabe” Cipau ’74 and Walter L. scholars undertake during medical school. Flute, with ECU faculty member Golden Globes—in addition to The ECU Chamber Singers, Robert Shaw early in his career, Williams ’51 ’55 were appointed to the Christine Gustafson . Donna Gooden Three student-athletes were named to a Pulitzer Prize—for his musical accompanied by the ECU and he has appeared in concert Medical & Health Sciences Foundation. ESPN compositions . The King’s Symphony Orchestra, will FINE/VISUAL ARTS halls worldwide . North Carolina Payne was Academic All-District at-large present Mozart’s on All Don’t miss a special exhibit Sept . native Julianne Baird, a soprano The Magazine’s Singers will bring their blend of Requiem named university Ralph Rogers, dean of the College of teams. Senior swimmer Geoff Handsfield choral skill and showmanship to Saints’ Day on Nov . 1 at St . Paul’s 3–Oct . 1 of ceramics from the widely known for her skill in attorney. She Technology and Computer Science during (3.97 GPA in physics) was named to the Greenville on Dec . 11 . Equally at Episcopal Church . The Chamber Dwight M. Holland Ceramics interpreting early music, will visit ease singing motets by Tallis and Singers also will present a concert Teaching Collection, named for Oct . 27–28 . She is best known for previously held a five years of significant growth in grant District 3 University Division men’s at- Byrd and the music of Lennon Oct . 3, and the University Chorale the Asheboro art teacher who performances and recordings of similar position funding, scholarships and enrollments, large first team, while junior golferMarkus and McCartney, the King’s Singers and St. Cecilia Singers will donated his collection of folk, Bach and Handel . resigned to become vice chancellor for encompass music from medieval, present a concert Nov . 16 . The national and international pottery —Steve Row at UNC Leandersson (4.0 GPA in finance) was named Renaissance, Romantic and Mozart program will be repeated and contemporary ceramics Pembroke. A academic affairs at Purdue University second team. Senior tennis player Hannah contemporary periods . native of Bladen Calumet in Hammond, Ind. Under Priest (3.98 GPA in physical education) was CHAMBER MUSIC Philadanco County, Payne is Rogers’ leadership, the college initiated voted to the women’s second at-large team. The Four Seasons Chamber Music a graduate of an engineering degree program and its Festival opens this year with three offerings on campus . Music director 2007 G reenfield ois

UNC Chapel Hill, where she was a first graduates were honored at May You Should Go Ara Gregorian will team with L Morehead Scholar, and she holds a law commencement. pianist Robert McDonald and cellist © Former CNN Emanuel Gruber in performances degree from the University of Texas at Steve Duncan, director of military CEO Walter of a Janacek sonata for violin and Austin. She succeeds Kitty Wetherington, programs, was presented with the General Isaacson, now piano, Beethoven’s Ghost piano trio who resigned to join a law firm in Greenville. and Franck’s sonata for violin and William E. DePuy Award by the U.S. Army CEO of the piano . The concerts take place in was named associate Cadet Command. The award is considered Aspen Institute, Fletcher Recital Hall the evenings James N. Gehlhar of Sept . 4–5 . vice chancellor for international affairs. He the most prestigious honor given by the will discuss “Six The Festival’s October program comes from the University of Tennessee at Cadet Command, the parent organization of Thinkers Who will consist of Mozart’s Quintet Knoxville where he was director of its Center the Army ROTC program. Influenced for Clarinet and Strings, a for International Education for 16 years. History” during Mendelssohn string quartet Leonard G. Trujillo was named chairman of and a Smetana string quartet . this year’s Louis Warren, who teaches curriculum and the Department of Occupational Therapy Joining Gregorian will be violinist Voyages of Hagai Shaham, violist Nicholas in the College of Allied Health Sciences. instruction in the College of Education, Discovery lectures on Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. in Cords, cellist Michael Kannen and won this year’s UNC Board of Governors Trujillo has been an occupational therapist clarinetist Christopher Grymes Wright Auditorium. Tickets are $10. from the ECU faculty . The concerts Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest for 30 years with the majority of his clinical will take place Oct . 16–17 in teaching award given at the university. He experience in the U.S. Air Force. On Nov. 18, Marcus Borg, emeritus Fletcher Recital Hall and Oct . 18 at professor of religion and culture at Oregon the History Place in Morehead City . received a commemorative bronze medallion Four students admitted to the Class of State University, will discuss “Christians in OPERA and a $7,500 prize. Other faculty members 2012 have been awarded the Brody Medical an Age of Empire,” at The Jarvis Lecture in The ECU Opera Theater will recognized as top teachers were Fred Scholarship: Nabeel H. Arastu ’07, son present Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Religion and Culture.

12 13 Back to which generally is a good guide, I would say

awanishi the freshman class would be around 4,700,” Campus Britt says. “But to be conservative, I would Marc K Marc say it would be between 4,500 and 4,600 Issue freshmen. Either way, it will be a record.” While 4,600 freshmen is a big number, it is only about a quarter of the roughly 16,000 high school freshmen who applied for admission, Britt says. His office also evaluated about 3,000 applications from students hoping to transfer to East Carolina from some other college and admitted less than half of them. East Carolina has no plans at present to build additional residence halls, but an Atlanta company has begun construction on a private dormitory overlooking the Tar River on First Street in downtown Greenville. The building is expected to be ready by next fall semester. Place Properties of Atlanta is developing the four-story, 193-unit building, to be called First Street Place. The company currently owns private dorms serving N.C. State University, UNC Charlotte and UNC Pembroke. The private apartments that East Carolina is leasing for this fall will have all the same safety features as on-campus dorms. Officials say the unprecedented move will cost $600,000, which should mostly be covered by rents paid by the students. The plan is to move as many of them as possible to campus as dorm rooms become available later in the semester. University officials were working overtime to it has for five years running. A task force Ten years ago, the new freshman class prepare for a record 4,600 or more freshmen appointed by Chancellor Steve Ballard is numbered 2,819, with transfer students about to hit town for fall semester, a number preparing recommendations for a fall report adding 1,089 to the total enrollment of that is straining campus facilities and forcing that many believe will propose raising 18,263. This fall there should be around some unprecedented maneuvers. At the last ECU’s admissions standards as a means of 6,000 new students for an expected total minute, the university was forced to lease managing enrollment growth. enrollment of 27,000. “Every indication is we private apartments around Greenville to East Carolina offered seven orientation will grow to 36,000 within 10 years or less,” house 300 freshmen still on a waiting list for sessions in 2007 that were attended by Britt says, citing enrollment targets set for East dorm rooms. Officials also were rounding up roughly 3,900 new freshmen and their parents, Carolina by the UNC Board of Governors. at least 50 additional faculty members and according to Admissions Director Anthony “The bottom line is we are seeing more converting the ground floor of one residence Britt. Not all incoming freshmen attend applicants and better applicants,” Britt says. hall as their offices. Total enrollment should orientation. By the time school started last “They are more well-rounded in terms be around 27,000, up about 1,000 students year, 4,222 freshmen were enrolled. Demand of extracurricular things and leadership since this time last year. this year prompted the addition of an eighth opportunities and an increasing number have With the campus full to bursting, this may orientation session, with total attendance of college credits when they arrive [from taking be the last semester that East Carolina’s 4,498 new freshmen and their parents. “If community college courses.]” The average enrollment grows at the heady pace that we just go by the numbers from orientation, SAT score of admitted freshman was 1,044

14 15 last year; it’s 1,056 this year. her and said, ‘Can I help you find where you Janet Taylor of Mount Olive attended anything that you learn in the classroom.” members. To accommodate them, we are in need to go?’ And when he had gotten her orientation with her only child, daughter the process of converting the ground floor After talking to hundreds of parents and Griffin offered himself as an example of there, she said she thanked the student for Courtney, and said efforts by the Office of of Umstead Residence Hall into faculty students during orientation sessions, Britt what to do, and what not to do, to succeed helping with orientation, and he replied, Admissions to make parents feel welcome offices,” she says. says he repeatedly hears three reasons cited in college. “Go to class, go to class, go to ‘Oh, I’m not a tour guide. You just looked and informed helped her feel better about for ECU’s popularity. “I would say the class,” he said to loud applause from parents. “We had nowhere else to go,” she adds. like you needed help.’” Courtney leaving home for college. “It’s biggest reason I hear them say is the diversity “I used to not go to class, and that didn’t “We are in a critical situation with space. hard. She’s the only one. But I feel good of academic programs offered and that we work. So now I do go to class and I make We are looking at renting more space off about it because everyone here is so helpful. offer enough of those classes so students can Getting acclimated good grades. It’s amazing.” campus.” The university badly needs two I really feel she’ll be good here. She’s met a complete their degree in four years. additional, large classroom buildings and has For most, attending orientation was their lot of people already, and she’s excited about He also encouraged students to get involved made their construction a top priority. One “Kids these days want to study something first time on campus since being admitted. her classes,” Taylor said. on campus and take the opportunities would provide additional space for biology they can get a good job doing after college. The two–day sessions begin with check-in afforded at ECU to try new things. New students and parents were formally and science classes; the other would provide The degrees we offer in the health care field and walking tours of the main campus, “Whatever your name was in high school, or welcomed to ECU in Wright Auditorium a new home for the growing colleges of are very attractive. We are getting a lot of followed by registration for fall classes, whatever you were classified as, it’s over. You by Phyllis Horns, interim vice chancellor Education and Business. questions about the new dental school, and placement tests, and learning about life as a are in college. You have a chance to reinvent for health sciences and interim dean of the I believe that will only add to the interest by student. The experience was an eye-opener yourself, and a chance to be whatever you “One short-term option would be to take Brody School of Medicine; Associate Provost incoming students in our health care offerings. for many. want to be,” he said. one of the residence halls and refurbish it Austin Bunch; Kemal Atkins, vice provost for [as classrooms] and replace it with a new “Second, I hear folks comment all the time “I didn’t realize it was such a close-knit student affairs; and ECU student Andrew residence hall. We are looking at establishing about what a beautiful campus we have. college,” said incoming freshman James Jeter Griffin. Together they offered encouragement At capacity some public-private partnerships for residence They say it looks like a college campus of Fayetteville, who attended orientation and insight into what it means to become a It’s doubtful whether East Carolina can halls,” Sheerer says. “Wilmington has some ought to look, with the traditional grassy with his parents, Bruce and Linda. “I just member of the ECU community. continue growing at the blistering pace it new dorms on campus but they were built by mall surrounded by classroom buildings and figured it was a big school, just a bunch “Every person, every student on this has recorded in recent years. According to a private entity and leased to the university.” residence halls. One student at orientation of people. But they do care here. They campus, has the opportunity to grow and Marilyn Sheerer, interim provost and vice who was interested in studying art said care about the students, they care that we In the meantime, administrators are trying learn,” said Horns. “How to be a really chancellor for academic and student affairs, she didn’t have any trouble finding the art succeed.” to get maximum use out of existing space, productive citizen, how to engage with the campus has about reached its maximum building because of all the statues and works particularly Joyner Library. But the only The goal of orientation is to acclimate new They also are introduced to extracurricular people who are different from the people physical capacity. “There are no empty of art around the building. solution is a major injection of money. students to the place they will call home for activities and organizations at the Student you know from high school and your classrooms; there are no empty faculty “We are hoping for another [$3 billion] “Third, they talk about how warm and the next four years, and to introduce them Involvement Fair. Many questions focus on local communities—that’s as important offices. We are full,” she says emphatically. state bond issue like we had a few years ago. welcoming the people are here. They say to the mechanics of academic and social financial matters—including university fees, a part of the educational experience, we “Because of the enrollment growth, [this Something on that scale is the only thing everyone they meet is friendly. One woman life. Students learn about Banner, OneStop, payment options, and even meetings with believe here at East Carolina University, as summer] we had to hire new faculty that will address the need.” said she got lost and a student came up to Blackboard and other technological resources. representatives from local banks.

reflect the liberal arts approach that is vital programs were available . Then, the university academic program development . “We try It’s a different atmosphere: If arts and “It’s more than how many students you admit What’s different about to becoming a fully educated individual and offered roughly 50 master’s programs and to help them think in broad terms, say of sciences was once the central academic and how many you graduate,” says Judith college these days? are called the Foundations Curriculum . less than 75 undergraduate programs . economic benefits to the region, but also grouping on campus, the years since 2000 Bailey, senior executive director of enrollment “These are the familiar liberal arts courses Today, there are 19 doctoral programs, 77 to focus on programs that will serve the have brought major changes . The university management . “It’s how you sustain them we’ve always required, such as English, master’s degrees and certificates of advanced university’s goals and mission . We need to now organizes itself into nine colleges, the through graduation in programs of relevance By Marion Blackburn history, math and art,” said Linner w . Griffin, study and 104 bachelor’s degree programs . make sure our graduates are prepared for School of Dentistry, the Brody School of to them and to the state of North Carolina ”. the 21st-century job market ”. Medicine and the Graduate School . You graduated from ECU a few years ago associate vice chancellor for academic Students can also supplement their education Burning the midnight oil: With all the new (we’re not counting how many) and now affairs . “But the courses have evolved by choosing from nearly 70 departmental Some degree options available now that you New approaches have come to campus, degrees and disciplines, has anything about your child or a nephew or the kid across and their content has, too ”. But in those certificates in many academic areas . would not have seen at ECU some years ago as well . Computers are everywhere and East Carolina stayed the same? Well, yes . the street is heading to campus . You want traditional disciplines you should expect While familiar majors like math and business include engineering, nutrition and dietetics, completing assignments online is a mainstay Students still are rabid about football . They to share some of your wisdom, but you’re some new ideas and perspectives, he added . are evergreen, students today are likely to distribution and logistics, hospitality of academic work, along with essays, still head downtown for fun . It still takes long wondering: How has college changed? More specialties: The junior and senior years consider areas like engineering, health services management and child life . research papers and lab reports . hours and late nights studying to graduate . English, history and biology . . college must offer students a banquet of majors, minors and management, construction management and What’s more, students today can pursue Bigger, sure, but better, too: Rapid growth “Grading for our courses has the same be about the same, right? Well, not exactly . everything in between . Programs these days information and computer technology . departmental certificates—a credential in the student body is pushing programs to standards,” said Griffin . “Parents may Here is a rundown of the new academic allow students to focus on professional goals “When our faculty are developing new that gives them valuable expertise beyond evolve . That wave has led the university to sometimes say to their children, ‘Your landscape and how it differs from the while experiencing a broad range of topics . programs, they’re thinking about emerging their major . For example, English majors create new structures, such as the Office of education is not as difficult as mine was ’. student experience of a generation ago . The biggest change is the types and numbers areas in their fields of study and we can obtain certificates in multicultural Enrollment Management, to accommodate That may be romanticizing what we The foundation’s the same: You’ll certainly of degree programs available . If you attended encourage them to also consider degrees and transnational literature; education them . The student body has about doubled experienced . There are the same academic find recognizable courses like chemistry, ECU before 1977, when the School of Medicine that are suitable for our region,” says Sharon majors have certificate options in autism from the 13,000–14,000 students here during expectations as always for our students ”. art history and political science, especially enrolled its first students, no doctorate Morris Bland, assistant vice chancellor for and international teaching . A certificate in the Leo Jenkins years . Numbers are only part during the first two years . These courses security studies is also available . of the story, however .

16 17 Back to Campus Issue Things Every Freshman Should Know By Steve Tuttle

Who knows better about surviving freshman n Boxes and storage bins (“to keep your junk everything work out for the best.” The worst thing that can happen is ___. avoid, our upperclassmen said, if you just when they stopped caring how they looked. year than the juniors and seniors to whom separate from her junk,” one student wrote). will do what you were told at orientation: The “It was when I stopped calling my Mom Don’t ever lose your ______. Flunking out, obviously. That’s what nearly n the shocks of that transition are still fresh in Bubble sheets for taking exams. half of the students surveyed said. Several day before classes begin, print out your class every day,” one student wrote. mind? So we asked them in a survey to share n Late-night snacks schedule and slowly walk the mall observing The winners here are the twin constants others said it was indulging in behaviors Others said they felt more mature when they their tips and insights with this year’s crop of n Tylenol the locations of buildings and plotting the of freshman existence, the 1 Card, with 22 often associated with academic problems, stopped: freshmen. Our thanks go to professor John n Flip-flops path you will walk from class to class. Failing votes, and dorm room key, with 10. If you like excessive drinking and partying. You n Dating my high school girlfriend/hanging Howard for offering two of his School of that, “just keep your head down and keep Oddly, electric extension cords turned up lose one you don’t eat and if you lose the can almost feel the pain lingering from out with my high school friends Communication classes as our survey sample. walking if you trip,” one veteran advised. on both the “packed way too many” and other you don’t sleep. Enough said. the student who wrote: “Getting so drunk n Asking for directions Sixty-one of his students answered our 10 “When you fall when walking to class,” “nobody told me I needed so many” lists. and stupid that everyone remembers you n Sleeping (“Partying or studying, all- questions. Here are their responses: Other items freshmen should avoid losing: another wrote, “just lay on the ground and You figure. as ‘that girl.’” Looking back, some said the nighters are the norm,” one wrote.) n Focus—7 votes no one will notice.” Another seemed resigned n Wallet—5 votes worst thing is “not taking advantage of n Following the crowd Don’t bother bringing ______. to the inevitable: “Never care about it because Thinking back to my n opportunities” or “taking classes seriously.” n Eating at McDonald’s and started fixing Cell phone—4 it’s going to happen, so accept it.” freshman year… We have a three-way tie, with seven mentions n Shower shoes—3 Five said the worst thing that can happen is my own meals each: n Personality not making new friends. Other ways to avoid looking stupid and their When I left home for college I packed votes: Your folks won’t get too upset unless n Your car, because there’s nowhere to park it. n Flash drive Other horrors mentioned: your GPA falls below ______. way too many ______. n Just be yourself—7 n Your high school girlfriend/boyfriend, n Being in the shower when the fire alarm their photos or phone numbers, because, The best way to get along with a n Act mature/ask questions—4 This is interesting. You might expect the Clothes, clothes, clothes. Almost all the roommate is ______. goes off n Get your work done and go to class—4 juniors and seniors would say that a 2.0 is students surveyed said they brought too well, you know. n Getting walked to your dorm room by a many of everything, including shoes and n Pets. Apparently some people still don’t Fifteen said, in so many words: You have campus cop n Laugh at yourself—3 the survival line, and that’s exactly what 25 n Don’t wear high heels to class—3 students put down. But 20 other students even toiletries. And don’t even think about read the memo. to learn how to communicate with a n Missing the last bus n Think before you speak—2 said it takes a 2.5 to keep the parents off bringing winter clothes, three students said. Other practical tips for lightening the roommate, to speak up and talk things n Getting your car towed ( “It never gets really cold here,” one wrote. suitcase load: out. Nine others offered this similar ) see “Don’t bother n Get someone else to do it first—2 your back and 10 said they had to get a 3.0 n A stereo, because you listen to music advice: Be friendly and patient, be bringing” above. to keep mom and pop happy. In case you’re I finally felt like a real college student Nobody told me I needed so many ___. through your laptop accepting and don’t be judgmental. Agree The best way to avoid looking stupid wondering, that averages out to a 2.36. is ______. when I stopped ______. Things that fall under the broad category n Napkins, plastic spoons/forks and on ground rules from day one and learn to Now this is maturity talking: Thirteen It’s more important to ______. of “stuff you need to study”—notebooks, condiments, because you can lift those compromise, six others said. Don’t room Our juniors and seniors clearly agree on students said, in so many words, that the note cards, highlighters, pencils, pens—were from the dining halls with your best friend from high school, what is the most embarrassing thing that n Show up for every class—43 votes change came when they stopped partying mentioned most frequently in the survey. n A phone (the old-fashioned kind, silly) several others said, apparently speaking can happen to a freshman. It’s seen every fall n Turn in every piece of homework—16 and started studying. Or as one said, “When “Money for food,” aka Pirate Bucks, was n A first aid kit (“We have a free clinic for a from sad experience. Some practical on campus: A lost kid, carrying a load of n Sit in the front row—2 reason,” one wrote.) advice: Have an escape plan, like a friend’s books and anxiously scanning the names of I started going to class because I wanted to next on their lists. Hopefully, this solves the deepest mystery room you can go to, for those times when buildings to find his next class, doesn’t see the and not because I thought I had to.” Five Perhaps the most hopeful advice was the of freshman life, which is how to make good Other items our juniors and seniors never you can’t stand roomie one more second. curb and takes a header into the grass, books said it came when they stopped going home student who wrote: “Your anxiety— grades without really trying. thought they would need in such abundance: and papers flying. It’s a terrible fate you can most weekends and five others said it was 18 19 With a population now in excess of 70,000, Aeropostale, Gap and American Eagle. It’s one by Regal, but they show virtually the same from September through April. Garrison Greenville offers at least one of nearly located just blocks south of the football movies. Neither complex devotes a screen to Keillor and some of his “Prairie Home everything most college students—and their stadium. The city also has many strip independent or foreign films. Various film Companion” acting company visited in April, parents—expect to find in a college town. shopping centers plus one Wal-Mart, one series offered on campus partially fill that void. for instance, and this year, the King’s Singers, What’s Greenville Like But most of the time, it’s only one. Kmart, one Target, one Sears, one Staples, Marvin Hamlisch and the North Carolina Food: Students planning to cook a bit on one Office Depot. A handful of upscale Symphony will be among the performers. The population center of the eastern third their own will find several grocery stores retailers can be found (Talbot’s for women See. of North Carolina doesn’t have quite the nearby, but only one—a Harris Teeter—is as a College Town? and Jos. A. Bank, Steinbeck’s and Coffman’s the full schedule of fall cultural events on page 13 same breadth of attractions or commercial within walking distance from campus. Off campus, the Folk Arts Society for men). Several locally owned, trendy and development as Chapel Hill, Raleigh Further out are a Kroger, another Harris of Greenville stages traditional and By Steve Row boutique-y type shops and stores are not far or Greensboro, but the coziness of the Teeter, and several Food Lions. The upscale contemporary music series and sponsors from campus. community enables new students and their Lowe’s Foods has one store, and by the twice-monthly contra dances. Touring big- families to more easily discover their new Greenville’s tiny downtown sits at the west beginning of 2009, the area’s first Fresh name pop concerts come to, well, Raleigh, home. May we recommend: end of campus and is dominated, as one Market should be open on the southwest 80 miles to the west. might expect, by several bars, restaurants side of town (near Sears and Kohl’s). This Restaurants: A nice mix of dining choices is The area plays host to several festivals and and a few retailers catering to students— store will provide some great bakery and one of Greenville’s bright spots, The city has fun events, some right next to campus, University Book Exchange, Tipsy Teapot pastry items, but many of the groceries likely three beef/steak/chophouse-type restaurants some farther away. In early October is the (a comfortable used book store as well as will be priced out of reach of most students. (be sure parents pick up the tab; the prices at Pitt County Fair, on the northeast side of a nice café), the Bicycle Post, the Catalog these places can raise an eyebrow or two), and Culture: The culture of Greenville pretty town, and St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church Connection, for example—but local officials a variety of ethnic restaurants. Try Finelli’s much depends on the university. Nearly sponsors a popular Lobster Fair in late say downtown (promoted as “Uptown for Italian, Lemongrass for Thai, Chico’s for all the good live theater comes from the October. Early December means the annual Greenville”) is still a work in progress. Mexican. Consistently tasty, well-prepared School of Theatre and Dance, which puts on Christmas Parade, and a Festival of Trees meals (lunch and dinner) and some to-die-for Most students likely will head south to the comedies, tragedies, musicals, contemporary takes place throughout December in the desserts can be found at The Daily Grind. strip malls along Greenville Boulevard to find plays and Shakespeare each year and is Greenville Convention Center. more of what they want: Rugged Wearhouse, generally recognized as one of the best Other upscale eateries include Christinne’s at Greenville has a small art museum with Old Navy, Great Outdoor Provision Co. and theatrical programs in the region. Likewise, the Hilton and Chef ’s 505, but if you want occasional special exhibits, an extreme a range of additional clothing stores, such as just about all the good, serious music comes to impress a special friend, or the parents, sports park, as well as other more traditional Ross and T.J. Maxx at the lower end to Stein from the School of Music (the Four Seasons you might try the Lakeview Room at Brook recreational areas, and River Park North has Mart at the middle range. Chamber Music Festival is a special treat Valley Country Club, southeast of campus, hiking trails, five ponds, picnic areas and each year); ECU also hosts a new music which has a spectacular view, good food and A new shopping center is under development frontage along the Tar River. The park also festival and the Billy Taylor Jazz Festival. more reasonable prices. on the southwest side of town, with an older contains the Walter L. Stasavich Science and Sears store to be linked to a newer Kohl’s The broadest variety of world-class Nature Center, which includes a 70-seat Despite its proximity to three coastal fishing by several stores and shops. This center entertainment is the S. Rudolph Alexander theater and a variety of exhibits, including centers (the Outer Banks, the Crystal Coast could begin to fill out by the time incoming Performing Arts Series, which brings a 10,000-gallon freshwater aquarium and and Wilmington), the Greenville area still freshmen finish their sophomore year. renowned performers in music and dance turtle touch tank. East lacks an upscale restaurant specializing in Northeast of town, the local Atlantic seafood, although several North Campus Crossing restaurant menus boast fine fish and apartment complex is Back to seafood entrees, and Calabash-style proving to be a magnet for seafood restaurants are available. Campus new stores and restaurants. Greenville has a Dunkin’ Donuts near Entertainment: Blockbuster the medical campus and a Krispy Kreme Issue and Hollywood Video have Greenville City Hall across the street from the Main Campus. local stores, as do Circuit The town has four Starbucks, a Panera Bread, City, Best Buy, F.Y.E. and a Bear Rock Café, and a McAllister’s Deli. A East Coast Music + Video. good variety of homemade sandwiches and The Barnes & Noble store baked goods can be found at Swiss Chalet has plenty of books but no At the end of Move-In Day, hundreds of new students and their families not far from campus. likely will hop in the car in search of a meal, a mall or maybe a movie . music section. Greenville Shopping: Greenville has one enclosed mall, now has two multiscreen What impressions will they form as they explore Greenville for perhaps now known as Greenville Mall, anchored movie complexes, one the first time?W hat words of advice would help these new Pirates be by JCPenney and Belk and also containing operated by Carmike and welcomed and well fed? We put together this newcomers guide .

21 Associate assistant Average Average salaries paid at: Professor Professor Professor instructor all faculty UNC Chapel Hill $ 138,500 $ 90,900 $ 76,900 $ 78,700 $ 101,900 Faculty salaries n .c . State 110,800 82,000 69,900 49,200 84,600 UNC Charlotte 105,000 77,200 67,000 * 73,300 UNC Greensboro 103,200 75,600 62,800 55,000 70,100 up 20 percent UNC Wilmington 91,000 72,600 60,500 * 69,900 Appalachian State 86,800 71,700 59,600 49,100 69,100 in five years East Carolina 94,900 73,500 65,200 53,700 68,100 UNC Asheville 84,000 65,500 57,700 * 65,300 National average $ 106,495 $ 74,075 $ 63,131 $ 43,541 $ 79,448 By Bethany Bradsher *Does not employ instructors Source: American Association of University Professors figures for 2007–08

augment the salaries of deserving faculty. When turnover does occur, competitive “We are definitely shifting to a research Bowles also created a special fund to offer salaries—plus the lower cost of living university,” Sheerer said. “Some of the raises to excellent professors who are being here—put ECU in the running for some of really strong candidates want to know that. courted by other universities. the brightest minds to fill vacancies. Those The more resources we have, the more factors, plus ECU’s designation as a doctoral we can become known as a multifaceted That’s how East Carolina recently managed institution in 1997, have enticed many research university as compared to just a to hang on to a valuable member of the professors to come to Greenville, even from teaching university. Now I’m not trying to School of Music faculty. Sheerer said the larger universities with deeper pockets. deemphasize teaching, but the research piece professor was offered a job with higher pay and the service piece, those pieces are really elsewhere. East Carolina countered the other Sheerer tells of a professor in special important. And you need resources to be school’s offer, and the professor is still part education who came east after five years at able to handle them.” of the ECU family. UNC Chapel Hill because ECU offered a larger, more collegial department whose University officials acknowledge that ECU is If money does indeed talk, then East Carolina While the pay hikes are impressive, faculty peer group was,” said Sheerer, who served as “You win some and you lose some,” said faculty was engaged in various grant projects about middle of the pack in faculty salaries is sending a clear message to the faculty: “We salaries remain well below the national education dean her first eight years at ECU. Mark Taggart, who served as chair of the and outreach programs. He came even among its peer institutions. Compared to appreciate you.” Faculty salaries have risen average and are strikingly below the pay at “You have to keep playing with it. You have to Faculty Senate for two years before Tovey though, from a salary standpoint, ECU is ECU’s average 2007 salary of $94,900, I20 percent or more over the past five years, N.C. State and UNC Chapel Hill. A stated keep your eye on the compression issues that took over. “There is always going to be still behind the state’s “big two”; UNC-CH four of ECU’s peer schools average a lower raising the paycheck of a typical full professor goal of East Carolina for some time has been occur for faculty who have been here for some turnover. What I liked to see when I was professors averaged $138,500 and N.C. salary for their professors. The other seven to $94,900 in 2007. That’s according to the to raise faculty salaries to 80 percent of the time; and you have to be constantly thinking chair here was to make this a very welcoming, State’s made $110,800, according to the peer institutions pay their professors more American Association of University Professors, average of its peer universities. of creative ways to move money around.” open, nourishing environment for faculty.” which gathers salary data from universities AAUP report. than ECU, with the highest, University of Rising faculty salaries are made possible by Even if pursuing a favorable salary range nationwide to produce an annual report. Nevada-Reno, averaging $116,500. several factors: a priority from legislators is a never-ending challenge, East Carolina Other attractions for new “It really is philosophically a statement of as expressed in the state budget and the is enjoying the best climate in years for faculty are the quality of “We’ve got a ways to go,” Taggart said. “We’re worth,” said English professor Janice Tovey, judicious and creative use of funds by the reaching its stated goal of 80th percentile in certain programs and the still very below the 80th percentile, and who became chair of the Faculty Senate on deans. The focus has not been to increase all salaries. It’s a brighter outlook that can be Average professor salaries at peer universities administration’s willingness to certain disciplines are worse than others. July 1. “They are asking, ‘What’s my value to salaries across the board, but on a university- credited to UNC System President Erskine University of Nevada-Reno $116,500 offer perks that increase job Faculty salaries in the performing and creative the department, to the university?’ We want wide commitment to working toward Bowles, who has emphasized competitive Virginia Commonwealth $110,500 satisfaction. For instance, a arts are a lot lower than in science and math.” Florida International $103,800 professor might be offered a to say, ‘We value what you do. We value your competitive salaries for faculty of all ranks, salaries across the system with promises The N.C. General Assembly showed its University of Missouri-Kansas City $101,700 leave from teaching while he teaching, your research.’ One of the few ways genders and ethnic backgrounds. backed up by policy. support by including $34.6 million in the Texas Tech $99,900 does research, or an assistant we can say that is with a raise.” new state budget to help the campuses deal To Marilyn Sheerer, the interim provost and “I think there’s been, bottom line, a more Wright State $97,500 professor in the College of with enrollment growth. Enrollment in the The average pay for other faculty ranks vice chancellor for academic and student definitive emphasis on increasing faculty Ohio University $96,400 Education might make extra also has jumped by double digits. An affairs, and other administrators who look at salaries with Erskine,” Sheerer said. public colleges is up around 8,000 this year East Carolina $94,900 money teaching in the school’s associate professor here on average earned the numbers daily, the process of eliminating alone. More students require more teachers, The measures instituted by Bowles include Western Michigan $92,600 extensive summer programs. $73,500 in 2007 compared to $60,265 salary inequities can seem like the leaks which puts pressure on salary budgets. The a decree that 25 percent of any campus- Northern Illinois $90,300 Salary is an important factor in in 2002. An assistant professor was paid that spring up in a dike each time another additional funding means East Carolina and based tuition hike must go to faculty salaries. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee $89,700 the equation, but research and $65,200 last year, up from $51,366 five one is repaired. “My goal at the College other schools won’t have to be quite so tight Growing universities like ECU also get University of North Dakota $80,300 service opportunities also figure years ago, and an instructor made $53,700, of Education was always to get our mean with a dollar in hiring decisions this year. enrollment-increase money each year that in prominently, Sheerer said. up from $43,324 in 2002. salary for each of the levels above what our Source: American Association of University East goes to fund new faculty positions and to Professors figures for 2007–08

22 23 Firm Foundation Roddy Jones, who constructed many Although it happened 33 years ago, Roddy Raleigh landmarks, believes in building Jones ’58 remembers the phone call from Leo Jenkins like it was yesterday. The call things up, not tearing things down from the president of East Carolina came shortly after the UNC Board of Governors By Steve Tuttle had pointedly declined to reappoint Jones to the ECU Board of Trustees, which he had chaired the past two years. “Do you know what those b******* did today?,” Jenkins shouted into the phone. Jones hadn’t heard the news but he knew he had irritated university leaders with his strong advocacy for a medical school in Greenville. Bill Friday, who then was president of the nascent UNC system, thought people inside the 16-campus university system should remain neutral in the political debate over a medical school in Greenville. Jones admittedly had become “quite verbose in several newspaper articles” in favor of the medical school. Jenkins told Jones that the unprecedented move so upset David Whichard, the Greenville publisher who sat on the BoardDaily of Governors,Reflector that he had nominated Jones from the floor for another term, to no avail. (“His removal from the board strikes us as a petty act that is not becoming to the University of North Carolina system,” Whichard wrote in an understated editorial the next day.) Jones tried calming Jenkins down by putting things in perspective. “If getting kicked off the board of trustees is what I have to do to get the medical school here, then that’s a mighty small price to pay,” he said flatly. Such a personal slight would infuriate some Hear Roddy Jones talk about the people. Others might have vowed revenge. MP3 phone call from Leo Jenkins at Not Roddy Jones, a tall, lanky man with a our web site, www.ecu.edu/east. quick smile and a soft laugh who only seems interested in building things up, not tearing things down.

24 25 A well-heeled and politically well-connected quietly and diligently for the next 11 years. relationships with UNC Chapel Hill Raleigh developer who had built Crabtree In 1988 he was elected board chairman, and N.C. State University. “We have to Valley Mall and many of Raleigh’s finest becoming the first person who was not a support the two flagship institutions and homes, Jones knew how to handle touchy graduate of UNC Chapel Hill and the first we recognized that. But [East Carolina] political situations like this one. He didn’t non-lawyer to preside over public higher had so much to offer and the state had so complain; he made it a point to continue education in North Carolina. He served on much to gain by building up that campus in supporting higher education across the the board for 18 years. Greenville. The flagships will continue to get state by serving on other school boards, favorable treatment because they are involved He says he tried to treat everyone fairly and including the one at Shaw University. in so many things. But things are much more focused on healing bruised feelings. “During Active in Democratic politics, he continued fair now.” my term [as chairman] there was a coming writing big campaign contribution checks together to be more fair across the system He pauses, looks out the window and to politicians who put education at the top because [until then] it was always the bigger considers the tectonic changes that East of their agendas, particularly that newcomer got bigger and the smaller got stepped on. I Carolina has undergone over the past 50 from Wilson, Jim Hunt. think we brought some parity there.” years, and his central role in many of those Two years later Hunt was elected governor events. “We have established ourselves and To this day he remains diplomatic about and Jones was his first appointment to the achieved the high end of the results we were East Carolina’s sometimes sensitive Board of Governors. He served on the board after,” he says simply.

Joining the family business Roddy Jones knew he had a job waiting for him after college if he wanted it. His father Jones is continuing traditions and great uncle had created one of Raleigh’s begun by his father and uncle, largest construction companies, Davidson who founded the company. and Jones. Founded in 1918, the company had built more than 100 churches and many national Greek organizations]. We followed of Raleigh’s larger homes.” He was named a distinguished alumnus in of the city’s finest homes, including several his road map and we got them. We got the 1972, the same year Crabtree opened. He And then disaster struck. “My dad came in the toney Hayes-Barton and Country board to agree to approve it without the joined the board of trustees in 1973 and was down with Guillain-Barre Syndrome after I Club Hills neighborhoods. He did carpentry president even knowing it was going to come immediately elected chairman, succeeding had been out of college a couple of years. work for the company most summers and up.” Months later, he and others founded the Robert Morgan. He has remained active He was at home [recuperating] and out of knew how to handle a hammer. His father, Sigma Nu chapter on campus. He served as and involved in East Carolina affairs ever the business for two years. I had to pick it Seby Jones, who later was mayor of Raleigh, Intra-Fraternity Council president in 1957, since. He chaired the fundraising effort for up. So I got a crash Ph.D. in how to run a wanted his son to join the family business. his junior year. the football stadium expansion in 1977. He construction company.” created and continues funding several grants Jones relished college life and admittedly Near the end of senior year, his father said it and scholarships, including the annual Robert was something of a party animal. He helped was time to decide on a career. “Dad asked Becoming a major player L. Jones Award for Outstanding Teaching organize the first panty raid at East Carolina, me if I wanted to get into the business, and I and the Robert L. Jones Distinguished in 1956. “These things sound so silly to the said I didn’t know. Graduation day, he asked, Davidson and Jones survived, even thrived, Professorship in the School of Music. kids these days.” A geology major, he also ‘Are you coming into the business or not, I under the 20-something Jones. He put a was among a small group of students who have to know.’ I said I would give it a shot. new emphasis on commercial construction He also assumed his father’s mantle as organized the first fraternities and sororities This was a Sunday. He said, ‘OK, be in the and shifted away from the company’s core a pillar of Raleigh’s business and civic on campus. office tomorrow morning at 7 o’clock.’ I said business of building churches and expensive communities. He was a founder of “Dr. Leo was vice president at that time and wait, I’m going to the beach tomorrow. He homes. By the dawn of the 1970s he was Highwoods Properties, a Raleigh real estate Dr. [John] Messick was president, and he said, ‘If you want to give it a shot, be in the ready to take on what then was the biggest development company that went public in was 100 percent against that sort of thing. office at 7 o’clock.’ And I was.” construction project in Wake County’s 1994 and is traded on the New York Stock Roddy Jones with President Leo Jenkins at a 1975 trustees meeting history, Crabtree Valley Mall and its more Exchange. He served as president of the Dr. Leo told us how to do it [by drafting an He became an apprentice carpenter. “At than one million square feet of stores and Carolinas chapter of the Associated General innocuous-sounding proposal to the board that time we were about 50-50, still doing a high-rise hotel. He became president of Contractors of America. He served on the of trustees that, somewhere down in the fine a lot of residential and some commercial print, allowed local groups to affiliate with Davidson and Jones in 1973 and stayed in boards of trustees at Peace College, Shaw work, and I cut my teeth building some that post for the next 20 years.

26 27 University, Ravenscroft School, and the on nothing more than a handshake. “Several experience. I don’t think the Lord meant Babcock School of Wake Forest University. years ago we had some land in Cary and the for us to have too much pride, so maybe He chaired the Greater Raleigh Chamber Yorks had some [adjoining] land in Cary, He has a way of lowering our self-esteem of Commerce and was on the boards of the and we both wanted to build a mall there. sometimes.” Tammy Lynn Home and the Raleigh Rescue Things were getting pretty complicated. And It took more than two years of 12- and Mission. He was a director of Carolina then I remember Willie York proposing a 14-hour days to resolve the company’s debt Federal Savings and Loan Association, solution: We would build the mall buildings issues, and Jones was looking forward to NCNB of North Carolina, cement maker and they would build the service center. better times when, in 1993, he suffered Giant Corp. and Carolina Power & Light Co. Today that’s called Cary Towne Center.” a heart attack. His doctor said it was In 1983 he was one of the founders of imperative that he reduce the stress in his Wake Education Partnership, the first Going national, coming home life, which led Jones to sell the company to independent local education fund in North With Roddy Jones pushing hard into the Beers concern. But he refused to sell the Carolina. Using seed money from The commercial real estate development, Imperial Center and continues to manage Ford Foundation, the organization brought particularly hotels, Davidson and Jones that property. together business leaders and local educators branched out into several states in the He didn’t need the heart attack to let him to boost the local school system. He still early 1980s, with projects from Ohio to know it was time to slow down. “You know serves on its board. Florida and a branch office in Orlando. you’ve been working longer than you feel “I think I got it beat into me early that you But during those boom times many of the like when the buildings you built are now don’t just go to work and go home. I think company’s most notable projects rose in being torn down. We built the original Civic I forgot to say no too many times because I North Carolina. Jones built Eastland Mall in Center and how it’s been torn down. You was on too many boards. But I have always Charlotte, the Raleigh Civic and Convention build them to stay forever but times change.” enjoyed civic life. I think more people should Center, the Highwoods office complex But that’s not the end of the Davidson and do things like that.” in Raleigh, several buildings for IBM in Jones story. His son, Robert Davidson Jones Research Triangle Park and the American Over the years Raleigh came to appreciate ’94, an industrial technology major, came Airlines terminal at Raleigh-Durham Roddy Jones as head of one of the Big Three to him a couple of years ago and said he International Airport. Davidson and Jones families in the construction business. The wanted to revive Davidson and Jones and built the N.C. Biotechnology Center and the three families largely built the Capital City start building houses again. He agreed and N.C. Microelectronics Center, both in RTP. as it exists today. Besides the Joneses, there gave his son the same advice he got from His personal favorite is the Imperial Center were the Yorks (Willie and son Smedes), his father: “My dad taught me early on to in RTP, an office and hotel complex visible who built Cameron Village and other major never fall in love with a rooftop. There’s a from I-40. Opened in 1984, the Imperial properties; and the Richards family, who time to build them and a time to sell them. Center and its attached Sheraton hotel built North Hills Mall. But people are different. When you make a still boasts the largest convention facilities friend, when you make a commitment, you “We are fortunate he is in here in Raleigh,” in the Triangle. keep those forever.” says Smedes York, also a former mayor. “He But then the real estate market abruptly has always been a friend and somebody I It’s been 50 years since Roddy Jones collapsed in the late ’80s, leaving Davidson could count on. He is responsive and very graduated from East Carolina, and he has and Jones with unsold projects and talented and gets things done. He has created remained a true friend of the university ever mountains of debt. Rather than seek the a lot of things that have done good for since. “I celebrated the 50th anniversary in safety of bankruptcy, as many developers Raleigh. In many ways, when you look at 1957 when I was a student there. I was back did, Jones personally visited each creditor to Raleigh, you’re looking at Roddy Jones.” there last year for the 100th anniversary. I negotiate resolutions, often swapping equity know that school has been good for me all Although the Yorks and the Joneses competed for debt. In a 1992 interview in these years and the friendships I made there. in business, they cooperated in numerous magazine, Jones saidBusiness those I still see a lot of them. And now I’ve been in civic endeavors. Both families were and remain Northdebt workout Carolina meetings were devastating to this business 50 years.” prominent in progressive Democratic politics. him personally. “When you’re home-grown and have to sit across the table from friends As he and every good carpenter knows, a Jones, who turned 72 this summer, you’ve known a long time, or you’ve known good building starts with a firm foundation. remembers once when competition between their bosses for a long time, it’s a humbling East the families turned into cooperation, based

28 from the classroom

By Steve Row

Eddie Jacobs has ways of bringing the music Few, if any, come to him having had training out of students, even those who admit coming or instruction in creating music; younger Creating creativity, musicallyto class unprepared. In those cases, Jacobs students generally come into composition often asks the student do one simple thing: with some performance experience, such Play one note on the keyboard. He then asks as a local orchestra, Suzuki instruction or the student to play a second note, then a third marching band, but not much in the way of and a fourth note. Then he sets a timer for thinking creatively about music. five minutes and tells the student to compose “For me, composition is approached in something based on those four notes. multiple stages by dipping into one’s “Generally works every time,” says Jacobs, creativity. You write down ideas and filter associate professor of music composition, through them to find the best one idea to theory and electronic music in the ECU pursue. You decide, ‘Which ones are good School of Music. thesis statements?’” A member of the ECU faculty since 1998, J. Christopher Buddo, director of the School Jacobs teaches one of the most difficult of Music, admires Jacobs’ way of staying courses in any college catalog—a course current in an ever-changing field as he based almost entirely on student creativity. teaches. “One of the things that I find most A course with no single right answer and fascinating is that Eddie is always keeping very few wrong answers. abreast of what’s new. He stays on top of things, and this lets him engage students in a Although he has his own ideas about way that reaches them where they are.” composing—his own works carry such titles as and Jacobs “always brings a level of quality to his Time As A—he Fly, Ensemblespieltries not to impose The those Thing teaching, because he is quite demanding of ideasWith Featherson his students. “I don’t care what his students in a way that turns them on, not they do stylistically, but the demands they off,” Buddo adds. encounter are that this is a process of constant A jazz saxophone player from age 10 decision-making. As we meet each week and through college, Jacobs earned a bachelor’s review materials, it’s my job to ask what works, degree in music composition from the what doesn’t, why it doesn’t. I hope that in the University of Massachusetts in 1984, a process, they will get rid of the chaff,” he says. master’s from the University of California- “But everything is so subjective.” Berkeley in 1986 and a doctor of musical Jacobs encounters three broad groups of arts from Columbia University in 1994. students in composition classes—those He taught at Wabash College in Indiana curious to know what it’s like to create, from 1995 to 1998 before coming to ECU. those who think they have something to say, Before Wabash, he also was a part-time or and those who think composition is their adjunct instructor at Columbia, Manhattan life’s path. College and Yeshiva College.

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In addition to teaching, Jacobs has been contemporary music, but it also exposes Brahms and Mendelssohn.

active in conducting. He founded the music students to contemporary music ty “If you put Brahms and Jacobs next Wabash College Chamber Orchestra composers and performers. “Student to each other, they complement each and conducted the Wabash Brass composers will write an exercise for

other,” Jacobs says. “In fact, I’m greatly c ul Ensemble, Columbia University great artists to review and evaluate and influenced by Brahms. I believe that a Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra. He for performance,” he points out. contemporary and older music both sort also was a guest conductor with the The 2008 festival, for example, featured of inform each other.” Jennifer Kurowicki ECU Symphony Orchestra in 2002. Speculum Musicae, a New York-based competes in the Strong Gregorian is a fan of Jacobs. “I can see Woman games held each One of his most prominent roles on ensemble that served as Robert L. Jones the great relationships that students have summer. Football players the ECU campus, however, is founder Distinguished Visiting Professor of spend summers working with him and the amount of respect and director of the New Music @ ECU Music during the academic year. Also out in the Murphy Center. that they have for him. Eddie is greatly Festival, which concluded its eighth performing were the ECU New Music respected by me and all of his colleagues annual session in the early part of the Camerata with soprano Louise Toppin; F by B oo ks for the quality of his work and for the spring semester. pianist Geoffrey Burleson; the ECU way that he interacts with the students Chamber Orchestra; and ECU faculty as well as his colleagues. He is a true member and clarinetist Christopher ‘An interest in hearing leader in the School of Music.” this stuff’ Grymes. Organist Colin Andrews gave a Why they hate us recital to mark the 100th anniversary of The festival started almost by accident. the birth of composer Olivier Messiaen. A teacher first In his new book, history professor Jacobs recalls that then-School of Michael Palmer answers the Jacobs, who was nominated for the question that’s been on the minds Music dean Brad Foley had “told me “There’s always a teaching component to ECU Alumni Distinguished Teaching of Americans since 9/11, which is on the first day I was here we need to the festival,” Buddo says. “His students “Why do they hate us so?” They Award in 2004, considers himself a hear your music.” In 1999, a year later, always have the chance to interact with hate us now, Palmer argues, the teacher first, then composer, conductor same way they hated us centuries Jacobs put together a program that the composers and performers.” and festival director. And he does not ago when the Crusades invaded featured his own music and that of their insular world . Much of the Jacobs has composed more than 30 restrict his teaching to ECU classrooms. ECU faculty member Mark Richardson, pieces of music since 1983, and his Islamic world, particularly the He goes into local schools to work with parts of it the u .s . has invaded or which prompted another faculty work in composition drew national fourth through sixth grade students in a bombed, feels attacked by member to suggest that perhaps more the West in what they see as a attention in 2005, when he was named “young composers” program. contemporary music should be available a winner of a $15,000 Charles Ives new crusade . on campus. Fellowship from the American Academy “The kids make music, and the teachers Palmer eschews political teach note names, rhythms and values,” correctness to address a singular In spring 2001, Jacobs asked soprano of Arts and Letters. He was one of he says. “At first, they learn that we’re difference between the western Christine Schadeberg to perform more than 50 composers, artists, and Islamic worlds . Much of the just playing with sound. But then we a 45-minute “landmark piece”Pierrot architects and writers to receive cash Muslim world spent four centuries do the same thing with percussion under the thumb of the Ottoman forlunaire, voice and instruments by Arnold awards for their work. instruments, then recorders, then guitars. Empire in a society that embraced Schoenberg from 1912, and even feudalism even after the West “It’s a wonderful honor to be recognized I act as a secretary, and the students though it was a Friday afternoon, “the rejected it for democracy and an alongside so many distinct composers,” tell me what to cut and paste to create recital hall was packed,” Jacobs says. open, secular society . Islam did Jacobs said at the time. “I’m flattered a melody.” not experience a Renaissance, The performance prompted a standing to be included among such a wonderful a reformation or enlightenment . ovation, and she performed the music a group.” Some of the results are impressive, the Thus, two points of view now second time that evening. The hall was same as some of the results he hears in conflict: Someone who is a radical His work continues to get exposure Islamist in our eyes is a religious packed again. his ECU classroom. before a larger audience. During the final reformer in theirs . “That made me think that there is concert of the 2007–08 Four Seasons “What I look forward to the most is Some would call Palmer a hawk an interest here in hearing this stuff,” Chamber Music Festival, for example, going into the classroom. So much of for contending that we probably will win the political war against he says, and the idea of continuing artistic director Ara Gregorian included what I teach is based on music with the jihadists, and that the sooner a contemporary music festival-type Jacobs’ a piece for string which I am very familiar, and yet every we do so, the less brutal it will be . Time As A Fly, time I teach it, it’s like I’m hearing it program took hold. quintet that had been completed only The Last Crusade: Americanism for the first time. I enjoy hearing the Not only does the festival expose a short time before. His composition and the Islamic Reformation shared a program with quintets by students hearing the music,” he says. 273 pages . Potomac Books local audiences to a wide range of $17 .95

32 33 Luxury suites in Backed by Pirate Club fundraising, East sport. The university has committed to a make a difference in a close game. Carolina plans to add 4,500 seats to range of projects, including a new women’s “Most importantly,” Bass added, “[the Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium by building softball stadium, a new track and field expansion] would open about 3,000 seats bleachers topped by luxury suites in what facility and a new auxiliary gym at Minges stadium expansion plan for us on the north side that we could sell to is now the open east end zone with the Coliseum that will house practice courts for Pirate Club donors and open up new revenue Jumbotron TV screen. The Student Pirate the men’s and women’s basketball teams and By Bethany Bradsher streams.” A scheduled reseating of Dowdy- Club section probably would move to the the volleyball team. Now, the basketball and Ficklen Stadium planned for 2009 likely new horseshoe to make that end zone hostile volleyball teams all must share one gym for will be postponed until 2010 to allow for space for visitors or welcoming arms for practice and games. the adjustments that the new end zone will the home team. To manage the $24 million Also on the list are 12 new tennis courts, necessitate. Prime seats in other parts of the project, East Carolina has retained the same a women’s soccer field and practice facility, stadium could also be vacated when boosters Chapel Hill architectural firm that oversaw a women’s sports field house and a sports move in to one of the planned luxury boxes. the latest stadium expansions at N.C. State medicine facility. The university is financing and UNC Chapel Hill. There have been questions about how that part of the facilities plan from good the view will be from luxury suites Just 10 years after the last Dowdy-Ficklen indebtedness to be repaid from a $70 annual situated high over the end zone instead of expansion, the project planning already student debt service fee and gifts. midfield. However, a recent survey of Pirate is under way, at least underground where “ECU may be the only Division IA Club donors indicates the club will have a sewer pipe needs to be upgraded. That institution in the country with only one gym few problems selling as many as 28 boxes, $800,000 improvement began earlier this for three sports,” Holland said. “Health each containing 16 seats. The survey asked year. The hope is that the expansion, which and Human Performance also uses the one respondents to rate their interest in a luxury will raise the stadium’s seating capacity to gym until after lunch each class day. Many box. Twenty-two percent of the 2,529 48,000, will be completed by the start of schools now have separate practice facilities respondents indicated some level of interest the 2010 season. for all three sports that are available to those in leasing a luxury box. While the details of the new horseshoe student-athletes 24-7.” Bass said that end zone luxury boxes at section remain in flux, Jimmy Bass, senior Funding for all of these new digs will come other schools have been well received. “The associate director of athletics for external from a variety of sources, but current plans suites create a premier seating option for operations, said that Pirate Club demand don’t call for a capital campaign. The first those who can contribute the larger gifts we and the visions of Terry Holland and Skip phase of the Dowdy-Ficklen expansion—the need to be competitive in today’s world of Holtz have shown that East Carolina must east end zone seating and luxury suites— big time intercollegiate athletics,” Holland said. have better football facilities. “We’re trying won’t rely on the sale of seat licenses or to create for all of our sports world-class Carolina is adding 20 luxury boxes in similar investments as once contemplated. facilities so that they’ll have a chance to the west end zone of its stadium; similar The Board of Governors has approved the recruit, and for those student-athletes to layouts house fans at West Virginia and use of self-liquidating bonds for the funding. compete on the very best surfaces available,” Virginia Tech. When a Pirate contingency Much of the money will come from the sale Bass said. toured Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, an of season tickets in the space vacated by the administrator there said that only one of Long term, officials are mulling a phase two students when they move to the new end their 30 end zone boxes had turned over in expansion of Dowdy-Ficklen. Some existing zone seats and from the revenue generated by 10 years. spaces in the stadium will be freshened up. the luxury boxes. The press box and other spaces on the south Pirate Club director Mark Wharton said he The relocation of the Student Pirate Club side will be refurbished. Those renovations is trying to educate the Pirate Nation on the (SPC) to the new end zone section makes will be done with the future in mind. The uniqueness of the end zone project. “I think sense from both atmospheric and financial work will prepare the top portion of the there’s still a lot of cloudiness on whether angles, Bass said. The largest student south side with footings for another upper we’re going to put boxes on the press box organization on campus, SPC members deck years down the road. side, Wharton said. “The answer to that received 4,200 tickets last season, so they right now is no, these are the only boxes we’re The football stadium expansion is the will fill that section easily. Students will have going to have” centerpiece of a broader sports facilities the horseshoe to themselves where can create East upgrade plan that will impact virtually every a “Pirate Pound” pandemonium that could

34 35 Fall Alumni Events HomecomingFriday, November 7 Alumni Tailgate 2008 2008 Homecoming Luncheon Tailgating is a tradition at ECU and the 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Mendenhall Student East Carolina Alumni Association provides Center, Great Room the perfect opportunity to leave your Start your Homecoming weekend off with grill at home and join our family-friendly a great meal at Mendenhall Student Center . Alumni Tailgate two-and-a-half hours prior Vice Chancellor for Administration and to kick-off . Enjoy food provided by local Finance Kevin Seitz will share future plans restaurants, plenty of cold beverages, a for the campus . Parking is available behind chance to see Pee Dee the Pirate and the Mendenhall . ECU Cheerleaders, and win great door prizes under our Tailgate tent . Alumni Tailgate is Bus Tour of Campus located outside Gate 1 of Minges Coliseum 1:00–2:00 p.m., Bus will depart from the on the north side of Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium . Joyner Library clock tower The cost is $5 per person for Alumni Join host Jim Westmoreland ’74, ’77 for a bus Association members and $10 per person for tour of ECU’s campus . This tour is the perfect non-members; children 10 and under are free . opportunity to see your old residence hall and favorite hangout . Not a member of the Alumni Association? Show your Pirate Pride and join today . Go to ECU Classroom Experiences take alumni PirateAlumni com/jointoday. for details about back to college days and provide unique the many benefits of membership, including learning opportunities . The Alumni Alumni Tailgate, or call us at 800-ECU-GRAD . Association is proud to offer three ECU Note: Tailgate and kickoff times are subject Classroom Experiences during Homecoming: to change . ECU history professor and author Home Alumni Tailgates will lead a Dr. Gerald J. Prokopowicz Sept. 6, WVU. vs. ECU. Tailgate 2:00–4:00 take Tailgate on the road . This year we are discussion on his thought provoking p .m ., kickoff, 4:30 p .m ., sponsored by excited to offer Tailgate at five away games . book, Did Lincoln Own Slaves?: And O’Charley’s and ARAMARK Other Frequently Asked Questions Away game Tailgates offer the same family- About Abraham Lincoln. Sept. 27, Houston vs. ECU. Tailgate 1:00– friendly atmosphere you’ve come to expect 1:00–2:00 p.m., Joyner Library, 3:00 p .m ., kickoff at 3:30 p .m . sponsored by during home Tailgates, along with great food 2nd Floor Conference Room Chico’s, Fuddrucker’s and ARAMARK and plenty of prizes . Away game Tailgates are $20 per person; children 10 and under are free . Lt. General Gary North ’76, Oct. 18, Memphis vs. ECU. Tailgate 9:30– Commander of the 9th Air Force 11:30 a .m ., kickoff at 12 noon sponsored by Away Game Alumni Tailgates and u .s . Central Command Air Forces, The Honeybaked Ham Co . and Café and August 30, Va. Tech vs. ECU in Charlotte. ECU Goes for the and 2008 Outstanding Alumni Award ARAMARK Tailgate 9:30–11:30 a .m ., kickoff at 12 noon recipient returns to campus . Sept. 13, ECU vs. Tulane. Tailgate 11:30 a .m .– 2:15 p.m., Mendenhall Student Center, Nov. 8, Marshall vs. ECU, Homecoming Tailgate 1:00–3:00 p .m ., kickoff at 3:30 1:30 p .m . CT, kickoff at 2 p .m . CT GGoldold Great Room 2008. to East Carolina University to participate in the many events for alumni taking p .m . sponsored by ARAMARK Come home Sept. 20, ECU vs. N.C. State. Tailgate TBA, Explore ECU place this fall . Bring your family and join us for Alumni Tailgate, the ECU Alumni Scholarship Classic and Tailgate 10:30 a .m .– kickoff TBA Special Collections and Archives Nov. 28, UTEP vs. ECU. 12:30 p .m ., kickoff at 1:00 p .m . sponsored by Homecoming 2008: ECU Goes for the Gold . We hope you will come back to Greenville to renew old friendships 2:15 p.m., Joyner Library Oct. 11, ECU vs. UVa. Tailgate TBA, ARAMARK and make new ones with fellow Pirates . Be sure to visit our Web site at PirateAlumni com. for event details and kickoff TBA Reception Honoring In addition to our home Tailgates, join the registration forms, or give us a call at 800-ECU-GRAD . Welcome home . Nov. 2, ECU vs. UCF. Tailgate 5:30–7:30 p .m ., Reverend Kenneth Hammond ’73, ’83, ’85 Alumni Association and the Pirate Club as we 4:00 p.m., Ledonia Wright Cultural Center kickoff at 8 p .m . The Black Alumni Chapter of the East ECU Alumni Scholarship Classic Carolina Alumni Association will host a reception in honor of Rev . Kenneth Hammond, Thank you to our Alumni Tailgate sponsors: Presented by the Hilton Greenville beach music, hors d’oeuvres, Pirate beverages, and auction 2008 Outstanding Alumni Award recipient . Friday, October 17, 2008 items . Our four-person superball tournament begins Friday Hammond is senior pastor at Union Baptist Grab your clubs and call your golfing buddies to with breakfast from ARAMARK at 8 a m. . followed by Church, one of the largest congregations in make a team for the ECU Alumni Scholarship Classic the first flight at 9 a m. . Then enjoy a catered lunch form Durham, NC, and a charter member of ECU’s at Ironwood Golf and Country Club . This annual O’Charley’s and the second flight at 2 p m. . Join fellow Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity . tournament raises funds for Alumni Scholarships given players for the 19th Hole Reception at the clubhouse after to deserving ECU undergraduates . 2007 was a banner a great day on the links as part of your player package . Alumni Awards Cocktail Reception year for our golf tournament, which raised more than 6:00 p.m., Hilton Greenville $25,000 . Let’s make history again in 2008 . Visit our web site at PirateAlumni com/golf. for complete details and to see all of the businesses that make our Take a moment to congratulate this year’s The night before you play, bring friends to the Hilton for tournament a success . Please contact Liz Ellerbe at award recipients before the awards dinner . our Pirate’s Bounty Scholarship Auction, a fun evening with 800-ECU-GRAD for sponsorship details . …continued on page 38

36 37 HomecomingAlumni Awards Ceremony 2008 Colleges, Schools, and Department 7:00 p.m., Hilton Greenville Join us in recognizing alumni who have Homecoming activities demonstrated outstanding merit and achievement as we honor this year’s award Friday, November 7 Department of Physics recipients: Department of Technology Systems— Physics graduates reunion and lunch 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m., Howell Science Complex Outstanding Alumni Award recipients Distribution and Logistics Capt . David M . Fitzgerald, Jr . ’66, retired u .s . Golf outing RSVP to Tom Sayetta by October 1 at Navy captain, 2007 Congressional Veteran 9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m., Bradford Creek Golf Club 252-328-1957 or sayettat@ecu ed. u . Commendation recipient RSVP to Mark Angolia by October 1 at College of Business 252-737-1036 or angoliam@ecu ed. u . Rev . Kenneth r . Hammond ’73, ’83, ’85, Homecoming Social senior pastor of Union Baptist Church, pastor Department of Chemistry 9:30-11:30 a.m., Tent on Fifth Street in front mentor for Duke Divinity School, and adjunct Homecoming Celebration of the Jenkins Fine Arts Center professor of United Christian Bible Institute 5:30 p.m., Science and Technology Building Contact Anne Bogey at 252-328-4396 or Black Alumni Reunion Dr . Jerry e . McGee ’65, president of Wingate Contact Keith Holmes at 252-737-1566 or bogeya@ecu ed. u . This year’s Black Alumni Reunion University, and NCAA football official holmesk@ecu ed. u . Department of Geography weekend will be better than ever . We’ve Lt . Gen . Gary l . North ’76, u .s . Air Force ECU Student Judicial Board Open House planned something for everyone with Commander, 9th Air Force and u .s . Central 7:00 p.m., Cynthia Lounge in 10:00–11:00 a.m., Brewster C-201 activities on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday . Command Air Forces, Shaw Air Force Base, s .c . Mendenhall Student Center Contact Karen Mulcahy at 252-328-4991 or Start this fun-filled reunion weekend on Distinguished Service Award recipient Meet and greet for current and past judicial mulcahyk@ecu ed. u . Friday with a reception honoring 2008 Stephen D . Showfety ’70, president of board members . Outstanding Alumni Award recipient Rev . Department of Technology Systems— Koury Corporation, board member, ECU Contact Jason Sininger at siningerj@ecu ed. u . Kenneth Hammond ’73, ’83, ’85 . Then Foundation; member, Henry VanSant Society While you’re in town… Distribution and Logistics take your pick of attending the Alumni of the Pirate Club; former Vice Chairman, Friday, November 7 On-Campus Homecoming Discounts School of Music Tailgate Awards Ceremony or the energetic Step ECU Board of Visitors; former Secretary, Volleyball: Southern Miss vs. ECU ’70s Alumni Reunion and Recital 12:30–3:00 p.m., Under the scoreboard, Show at Wright Auditorium . Later, we’ll Dowdy Student Stores across from Elmhurst Elementary School Vice Chairman, and Chairman, ECU Board 7:00 p.m., Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum “Welcome Back” Celebration A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall get together for midnight bowling and of Trustees Thursday, November 6–Saturday, November 8 Contact Bonnie Mani ’73 at manib@ecu ed. u RSVP to Mark Angolia by October 1 at 252- catching up with friends . Saturday, November 8 737-1036 or angoliam@ecu ed. u . to RSVP and/or play . On Saturday, start the day by watching Honorary Alumni 1st Annual ECU Army ROTC Pirate Battalion Visit the Dowdy Student Store to view the lively Homecoming Parade . We’ll Dr . Richard r . “Dick” Eakin, ninth Chancellor Wounded Warrior 10K and 1 Mile Road various ECU memorabilia and take Athletic Training Saturday, November 8 pre-game at the Alumni Tailgate before of East Carolina University, and Mrs . Jo Ann Races: Warriors Supporting Warriors advantage of our “Show Us Your Ring Sale ”. Alumni Reunion College of Allied Health Sciences heading over to Dowdy-Ficklen for the “Jo” McGeehan Eakin, wife of Dr . Eakin and 8:30 a.m., Lynndale neighborhood behind We will open early on Saturday, for pre- 1:00–3:00 p.m., Gatorade tent in V.I.P. “Second” 40th anniversary celebration Homecoming game . ECU campus beautification advocate Food Lion on Red Banks Road parade shopping! parking lot off of Charles Blvd. This race benefits the Fort Bragg Wounded Complimentary breakfast reception After the game, enjoy the smooth sounds Charles Rogers, owner of Lifetime Houses Student Recreation Center free workout Contact Morgan Cooper at cooperm@ecu ed. u . Warrior Program . 8 a.m., Allied Health Sciences Building Lobby of renowned jazz artist Carroll Dashiell and avid volunteer and supporter of Friday, November 7–Saturday, November 8 numerous ECU organizations Swimming and Diving: College of Recognition ceremony Brody School of Medicine and his jazz combo during the Jazz Social . Charleston, Catawba vs. ECU Alumni and a guest will be admitted for free 10:00 a.m., “Old” Laupus Library Medical Alumni Tailgate Dashiell is director of ECU’s Jazz Ensemble 8:30 a.m., Minges Natatorium in Minges at the Student Recreational Center . Stop “A,” an internationally recognized group RSVP to Pat Frede by Nov . 1 at 252-747-3523 1:00 p.m., Pirate’s Cove, catered by Parker’s BBQ Aquatic Center by the registration desk when entering the that has played at Carnegie Hall, Birdland or fredep@ecu ed. u . RSVP to Candace Darden by November 1 at Saturday, November 8 Recreation Center . Alumni may bring two Jazz Club in New York City, and on The sunday, November 9 252-744-2238 or dardenc@ecu ed. u . Alumni Open House additional guests for $5 each . Tonight Show with Jay Leno . Volleyball: UCF vs. ECU College of Education 9:00 a.m., Taylor-Slaughter Alumni Center 1:00 p.m., Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum Homecoming “Breakfast on the Porch” ECU Chapter of the Continue the night at the After Hours Start your day with a complimentary 9:00 a.m., Light breakfast American Library Association Dance Party, dancing to a mix of the breakfast with the Alumni Association . Then 10:00 a.m., Parade watching Pre-game cookout latest jams and some old favorites . Shuttle grab a front-row seat for the Homecoming 1:00 p.m. service will be provided for reunion parade . Homecoming Reunions Front porch of Speight Building participants, and childcare will be offered RSVP to Gayle McLawhorn by Nov . 3 at Contact Jami Jones at jonesj@ecu ed. u by ECTC and ECC Alumni Reunion Dinner Dance featuring The Collegians for children ages 1 month–12 years . Homecoming Parade 252-328-6397 or mclawhorng@ecu ed. u . October 15 . 10:00 a.m., Fifth Street Share memories of East Carolina Teachers College and East Carolina College with former Before heading out of town on Sunday Watch the annual ECU Homecoming parade College of Human Ecology Interior Design classmates throughout the weekend . A number of other activities are planned during morning, gather with fellow black alumni as the Marching Pirates and plenty of Pre-parade Homecoming gathering Interior Design Lunch Homecoming, including a tour of campus, breakfast at the Alumni Center on Saturday for worship at Cornerstone Missionary decorated floats parade down Fifth Street . 1:00–3:00 p.m., East Carolina Alumni morning, and front-row seats for the Homecoming Parade . After the football game, top the 9 a.m., Light breakfast and activities for children Baptist Church and brunch at K&W weekend off with a dinner and dance featuring The Collegians at the Hilton Greenville . Rivers Building Lobby Association Alumni Tailgate location Homecoming Alumni Tailgate Cafeteria . 10 a.m., Parade watching Contact Charles Gustina at 252-737-2057 or 1:00–3:00 p.m. Golden Alumni 50th Reunion Be sure to register early and order a Contact Sandy Jackson at 252-328-5754 or gustinac@ecu ed. u . See the Alumni Tailgate section on the Black Alumni polo shirt . Proceeds from Celebration of the 50th class reunion is a milestone for our 1958 Pirates . Join us in jacksonsa@ecu ed. u preceding pages for Alumni Tailgate the sale of the polos will go toward the information . congratulating members of the Class of 1958 as they are inducted as Golden Alumni . This special ceremony takes place during the ECTC and ECC Alumni Reunion Dinner Dance on Black Alumni Chapter’s textbook gift Saturday night . certificate program . Please visit PirateAlumni.com/Homecoming for complete details on all Homecoming activities.

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His sound of music concert. And was getting off the bus in Ogden, Utah, at Lenior Community College in Kinston as Navy Unit VT708; Battle Watch he’s still thrilled a truck stop and getting separated from the an instructor and head of library media, Commander for the Commander-in-Chief, If you enjoyed Jimmy Buffett in concert at to be employed group. I thought they had left me but they as media coordinator for D.H. Conley Atlantic Fleet Headquarters, Norfolk, VA; East Carolina, or Charlie Daniels, Cheap in the music business. had just parked where I couldn’t see the bus. High School in Greenville, and Media Commanding Officer, USS Stump DD-978; Trick, the Pointer Sisters, America, Styx, Then I spotted our merchandising people, Center supervisor for New Bern High Operations Officer, USS Suffolk County “My job starts about Molly Hatchett or any of the bands that who were traveling separately in a Suburban. School in New Bern. She has represented LST-1173; and Shore Patrol Liaison for a month before played Minges in the late 1970s and I jumped in the Suburban with them and we District 9 (Pitt County) in the House of Greece and Turkey. the concert. I get early ’80s, you can thank ran down the highway looking for the tour Representatives since 1999. information regarding While in the reserves, Newman was Hugh Johnson bus. Eventually, we stopped at a truck stop in the show from the McLawhorn served as chair employed as a Certified Public Accountant. ’81. During Cheyenne, Wyoming, and reached someone booking agent or of the Appropriations He currently works in North Carolina those years he who had just talked with Vince and they venue management. Subcommittee on Education state government as the chief fiscal officer/ chaired the SGA were wondering what happened to me.” I get the name of a and the Joint Legislative controller for the Department of Insurance. entertainment contact person and How time flies, he says. “I really had no idea Committee on Domestic Previously, Newman was controller for the committee that then make all the that this would lead me down the path I’m Violence; as vice chair of the Department of Corrections, chief of the picked the bands arrangements for on now but it certainly did,” he muses. “I’m Education Subcommittee on State Productivity Center for the Office and provided the o’clock, accompanied by a semi loaded with the show, like whether we need a full band, certainly grateful that I found a career in Pre-School, Elementary, and Secondary of State Budget and Management, and volunteer labor equipment. Johnson directs a crew of eight a symphony or just a piano player. At that what I enjoyed doing the most in college. Education; and as a member of the Health, coordinator for the State’s Efficiency Project, needed to stage unloading the trucks, setting up the sound point I sit down with the person on the You know, in this business it’s unusual to Mental Health Reform, Pensions and among other positions. the concerts. In the system, microphones and mixers. Lunch venue end who is responsible for having work so long for one person so I’m really Retirement, Ways and Means, Joint Legislative process Johnson, an offers an opportunity to check out the local Newman is chairman of the State Association everything ready for us when we get there. lucky to have worked all these years for Commission on Governmental Operations; English major from attractions. Early afternoon is a rush because of Chief Fiscal Officers, a member of the That’s when I will make all the arrangements someone who has a family mentality about and Joint Legislative Education Oversight Dunn whose dad owned everything must be ready for a sound check N.C. Association of CPA’s Management for the technical side of the performance. the people around them.” committees, among others. the local Radio Shack, by the band at 4 p.m. The show’s usually over Advisory Services, a representative for On the day of the show, I supervise all of learned a lot about the around 10 o’clock and the crew spends an Several times over the years people in the She also has been involved with numerous the American Lung Association, and the technical operations. The last thing I do entertainment business. hour or two breaking down the equipment crowd have approached him after a show and community organizations including The Arc representative for the Pirate Club. is mix the front of house PA for the show. and loading everything back in the trucks, asked, “Didn’t you go to East Carolina?” He of Pitt County, ECU Women’s Roundtable, Johnson had so much fun staging the campus That’s my favorite part.” Newman and his wife, Judith, live in Raleigh. which immediately hit the road for the next enjoys those visits. “Tell everybody from Friends of the School of Music at ECU, concerts that after graduation he moved to It’s also the most important because the town on the tour. Sometimes Johnson flies ECU that if Vince Gill is ever playing in Greenville Museum of Art, Grifton Chamber The terms of these new board members the beach and tried making a living managing acoustics vary from one concert hall to but he usually lives and sleeps on the tour their town, come on down to the show and of Commerce, Magnolia Arts Center, NAACP, began on July 1. The executive board for some local bands, with mixed success. He the next but the quality of the sound— bus, which is a multimillion-dollar yacht ask for me. I’d love to talk.” National Order of Women Legislators, the the 2008–2009 fiscal year includes: Chair moved to Nashville in 1986 to take a job as a particularly Gill’s voice—should remain on wheels that sleeps 12 comfortably. He — Pirate Club, Sir Walter Cabinet, Uptown Sabrina Bengel; Vice Chair Ernest Logemann sound engineer at a recording studio and soon constant in the “front of the house” where works two weeks of concerts and then has Steve Tuttle Greenville and Women’s Forum. ’68; Treasurer Carl Davis ’73; and Secretary was moonlighting as a sound man at clubs on the audience sits. two weeks off for rest or maybe relocating to Two join alumni board Yvonne Pearce ’82. Former Chair Brenda McLawhorn has been married to Richard Music Row. That’s where, in 1989, he struck another part of the country, where Gill will Myrick now serves as past chair of the board. up a friendship with a young guitar player This fall’s tour is a bit different because start another two weeks of shows. The Alumni Association is pleased to McLawhorn for 42 years and has four named Vince Gill. An emerging star in country Gill is performing exclusively acoustical, announce the addition of two new board children and three grandchildren. The directors are looking forward to which requires less equipment and a smaller Traditionally, Vince Gill’s fall tour members, state Rep. Marion McLawhorn strengthening the Alumni Association music, Gill was launching a national tour and Newman holds a bachelor’s road crew. The tour got under way when culminates with three weeks of the popular ’67 ’88 ’97 and retired Navy Captain James through increased membership, the needed someone to produce the sound at the in psychology and a master’s Johnson staged Gill’s big Fourth of July Christmas shows he does with his wife, Amy Newman Jr. ’68 ’74. These Pirates are ready addition of services concerts. He offered Johnson the job. in accounting concert at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Grant. After those shows, Johnson has a few to add their insight, talent and passion for ATE and programs, and Johnson has been on the road with Vince Gill and management. SAVE THE D the traditional home of the Grand Ole Opry. months off. East Carolina to our dedicated, hard-working greater recognition ever since, through 10 hit albums, thousands His career in the Then he set out on a month of shows across Board of Directors. ECU Alumni among the university’s of live concerts and, in 2007, Gill’s induction Many in Gill’s inner circle have been with Navy spans more Scholarship Classic the Northeast, to be followed by a West alumni. To learn more into the Country Music Hall of Fame. For him for years. “We’re a family,” Johnson says. McLawhorn holds a bachelor’s in business than 35 years of October 17 .m . Coast swing. 9 a .m . and 2 p about the Alumni But sometimes the family doesn’t all stay administration, a master’s in library science, active and reservist duty. He enlisted nearly 20 years now Johnson has been Gill’s Homecoming 2008 Association Board of Johnson’s life on tour rolls in a constant cycle: together, as he recalls from the days before and a certification in educational leadership in 1963 and served during the November 7–8 production manager and “front of house” Directors please visit or FOH man, the person in charge of about Having driven all night from the previous everyone carried cell phones. “One of the and supervision. She spent a number of Vietnam War. He held many posts, See the Homecoming insert on pgs . 36–39 PirateAlumni.com. everything associated with staging a major show, the tour bus hits town around 9 funniest things that ever happened to me years in eastern North Carolina serving including: Commanding Officer,

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Alumni Spotlight 2007 Kyle M. Greer of Greenville was named personal lines specialist for the Jacksonville branch of SAI World Wrestling Group. He is also a lead vocalist with a rock band. Entertainment Ashley Yvonne Hardy and Christian Michael (WWE) Chairman Lane of Raleigh were married March 30 in Kinston. Vince McMahon She teaches at Wake County’s Cedar Fork Elementary ’69 received a

School. Robert Edward Morgan II and Prouser REUTERS / F red star on the Jaclyn Kay White were married March 15 in Raleigh. Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 recognition of his pioneering work William Edgar Jr., a commercial loan officer in television at First Carolina State Bank, was the first recipient of syndication and the Weldon “Red” Kimball Award, which recognizes particularly in exemplary performance. Edgar has seven years of pay-per-view banking experience and works with small and mid- sports program­ sized businesses. He is treasurer of the Nash-Rocky ming . His star, Mount Rotary Club. Dr. Ethan Lenker, former the 2,257th 0000%& 0000%& superintendent of Jones County schools, was named embedded in the superintendent of Sampson County schools. A native sidewalk along of Mechanicsburg, Pa., he was in Jones County for Hollywood and 10 years as director of personnel and accountability Vine streets in and a middle school principal before spending three Los Angeles, is years there as superintendent. JUSTIN SPRuiLL located next to is now a federal air marshal. Lauren White Kermit the Frog’s opened a franchise of the Wilmington-based women’s near the boutique Monkee’s in Arlington Village with Brian Hollywood and Dishman ’95. A New Bern native, she has worked Highland metro in retail since she was 16. stop .

2005 McMahon, who is married to WWE CEO Linda McMahon ’69, also was honored earlier this year with the lifetime Stacy Bowens Gaskins is member services achievement award from Promax/BDA, a national association director for the Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of broadcast professionals working in motion graphics . Linda of Commerce. She was married on Leap Day in McMahon was honored by East Carolina last year as one of 2004, worked as executive director of the Ayden its 100 most distinguished alumnae . Chamber of Commerce, and shadowed Dr. Bill Bogey in Pitt County Medical Society’s Intern Program. WWE, based in Stamford, Conn ., is an international media Jennifer Marie Harris and Edmond Elliot conglomerate with a market capitalization of $1 .2 billion . Smith were married July 28, 2007, in Winterville, The company maintains offices in New York, Los Angeles, where they reside. She teaches second grade at Snow Chicago, London, Shanghai, Tokyo, Toronto and Sydney . Hill Primary School. Karen Elaine Harris ’05 In 2007, WWE performed 308 live events, including 75 5IF
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’07 and Mark Freeman McKittrick were married April international events, entertaining more than 2 million fans . 7, 2007, in Winterville, where they reside. She teaches McMahon is a supporter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation reading recovery at W.H. Robinson Elementary School. of America and serves on its National Advisory Council . Elizabeth Liles is associate relations manager In 2006, he received the Secretary of Defense Medal for for U.S. Cellular’s eastern N.C. area. She was a learning Exceptional Public Service Award for WWE’s support of development instructor, sales manager, and retail deployed service members in Iraq and Afghanistan . wireless consultant. Jennifer Leigh Reel and 1JSBUF
/BUJPO Gilbert Thomas Rutledge were married May 24 at Rock Springs Center in Greenville. They are traveling nurses and plan to continue their traveling careers after honeymooning in St. Lucia.

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Alumni Spotlight Jane Daniels ’05 ’07 of Winterville were science at ECU. She is a foster care and adoption 2001 of the Triangle, which gives special needs children married Dec. 29, 2007, in Beaufort. He works social worker at Beaufort County Department of opportunities to play baseball. She is vice president April Michelle Avina is a school psychologist with City of Greenville Fire and Rescue, and she Social Services. They live in Greenville. Justin and branch manager of Capital Bank in Cary, an Elexis Gillette ’07 in the Ashtabula, Ohio, school system. Rufus teaches kindergarten at Snow Hill Primary School. Wagoner and Alexsis Allen of Lexington were ambassador to the Cary Chamber of Commerce, and a is representing Dalton Smith III and Amy Jo Bell of Greenville Matthew Brooks is branch manager at married May 17 at Atlantic Beach. He works for Blue member of the Cary Rotary Club. Scott Lyons, the United States were married May 10 at Whitehurst Lake House in Ferguson Plumbing Supplies in Rocky Mount. He Cross Blue Shield in Winston-Salem. Jennifer who has worked with Coldwell Banker Howard Perry in the Paralympic Washington. He is a planner for Roanoke Rapids. Games in Beijing worked at the Greenville store for three years before Beth Wood and Russell Lee Elks were married and Walston for four years, was named the builder his promotion and transfer. Robert Carney of April 26. She works in labor and delivery at PCMH. representative for the Heritage Wake Forest community China . Gillette, 2000 who has a visual Miami, Fla., is the new existing industry and marketing in Wake Forest. He is a member of the Triangle Spokes impairment, manager at the Mooresville-South Iredell Economic 2002 Mary Ruth Brantley ’00 ’01 and Michael Group and the Home Builders Association, and is Development Corp. A Hickory native, he oversaw Bradley Sikes of Winterville were married May 10. on the special events committee for the Triangle Sales participated in David Q. LaBarre II was named to the Durham the distribution of in Miami and She is an account manager at DSM Pharmaceuticals. and Marketing Council. Josh Simmons ’00 ’02, the Athens County Sheriff ’s bomb squad, which will lead to worked with brand Sixawareness Degrees Magazinefor Rockstar Energy Clayton Porter Johnston and Laura formerly a volleyball coach and baseball assistant at Paralympics in certification from the Department of Homeland Drink. Anthony Goodson Jr. of Arden Ann Guy of Winterville were married May 17. He Surry Community College, was named the school’s 2004, where he won a silver medal in the long jump . He Security. The Durham Civitan Club named him deputy is Asheville’s housing development analyst, CEO/ is an engineering assistant with Greenville Utilities. new head baseball coach. He also teaches physical is the American record holder in the long jump and triple of the year for outstanding service. He has helped partner of M.G.G.S., and a member of the Mayor’s Dwayne Ledford is an offensive assistant with education at SCC. jump for individuals with his classification of visual solve more than 30 break-ins and participated in a Task Force for Affordable Housing in Asheville. ECU’s football coaching staff. At ECU, he was a four- impairment . A native of Raleigh, he is training at the u .s . record-breaking $1.6 million heroin bust. Ronda Bryan Matthew Hancock and Christy year football letterman and won the 1998 Jerry T. 1999 Olympic Committee center in Chula Vista, Calif . He has a Sortino ’02 ’06 is the new principal at Grifton Lynn Lunceford of Rockingham were married March Brooks Award for academics. He played for five NFL web site, www .nostoppinnow co. m . School. She was assistant principal at Farmville Central George Hollen completed his MBA at UNC 8. He works for Richmond County government. teams from 1999 to 2006, coached the Frankfurt High School and interim public information officer for Wilmington in May and received the Norman Kaylor Michael D. Holt is assistant vice president and Galaxy in NFL Europe, and was an offensive line Pitt County Schools. In her 10 years in education, she Most Outstanding MBA Student Award. Lynn C. Dustin “Dusty” Field ’94 business banker at Albemarle Bank & Trust’s Greenville coach at Sanderson High School in Raleigh in 2007. was an exceptional children’s teacher at Wellcome Middle Wilczewski, the social studies department chair at of Raleigh, the loan office. He worked for First Citizens Bank for Mimosa Natasha Flame Mallernee and School, and a 2004 N.C. Principal Fellow Scholarship Monacan High School in Richmond, Va., was accepted entrepreneur four years. Rodney L. McNeill and Gerald S. Jason Cooper Hines were married May 9 in Asheville. Recipient. Caroline Eagles Toumey and to the Goethe Institute’s Trans Atlantic Outreach extraordinaire who paid Coleman of Winterville were married March 15. He She is assistant art director for University Publications Henry Sheldon Dellinger of Charlotte were married Program to study history and culture in Germany in his way through college is a fifth grade language arts and social studies teacher at ECU. KATHRYN ANNE MATTHEWS Feb. 2 in Charlotte. She is the human resources manager summer 2008. from proceeds of gumball with Pitt County Schools. Elizabeth Ashley was named to the board of the Miracle League for Bobcats Sports and Entertainment. and pistachio machines Philips and William Gaston Brown of Greenville he placed in downtown were married April 19. She is a sales representative for bars and who went on to Lorillard Tobacco. ANdrew Brent White and build an empire of ATM Catherine Grace McLaurin of Raleigh were married C<1 machines serviced April 12 in Rockingham. He is a supervisor with 4]`SdS`>W`ObS olinaB7=< through his own armored Alliance Building and Development. East/:C;<7 Car/AA=17/ Over 70,000 car company, has latched Association members on to a new business 2003 venture: a winery . Joshua Michael Avina re-entered the Marines Fields, who operates as an officer after graduation and was promoted mainly through The to captain on June 1 during his second tour in >SS2SS Boylan Cos . commercial Iraq. CAPT. JONATHAN EDWARD DARDEN real estate firm in Raleigh, was assigned to his third Middle East deployment. 72( '% launched Tobacco Road Commissioned into the Military Intelligence Branch, 63:> S`AW\QS $ Cellars just four years ago he was deployed to Afghanistan for 12 months, spent ;S[P and already is attracting critical acclaim . The boutique 12 months in Hawaii, was deployed to Iraq for 12 Connection winery took home a gold medal at the 2008 Riverside months, the returned to Hawaii for nine months. Your East Carolina University International Wine Competition for its 2005 “Vitality” He attended the military officer advanced course in Cabernet Sauvignon . The competition attracted 2,136 Arizona before being deployed for another 12 months CA entries from 417 wineries around the globe . in Iraq. BRIAN KELLY FULLERTON of Charlotte DWaWb>W`ObS/Zc[\WQ][ is a pilot based in Dayton, Ohio, with PSA Airlines Tobacco Road Cellars, which is based in Raleigh, ]`QOZZ&31C5@/2 (US Airways Express). Having completed training as produces its wines from grapes grown in California’s a first officer for the CRJ 200 regional jet, he flies up @/7A3 b][OYSg]c` Napa Valley, Russian River Valley and Santa Barbara and down the East Coast and Midwest. Valerie County . It bottles a limited production of specialty <1AB/B3 Galberth is principal at H.B. Sugg and Sam D. bOfRSRcQbWPZS Cabernet, Syrah and Pinot Noir for premier steakhouses, Bundy elementary schools. She was assistant principal Over 20,000 bistros and country clubs, and sells directly to the public [S[PS`aVW^ for two years and principal for three years at Farmville B63 Association members through its web site, www tobaccoroadcellars. co. m . The Central High School after being a school counselor Q]\b`WPcbW]\b]ROg award-winning Cabernet Sauvignon goes for $75 a bottle . for 20 years. Charles David Kemble ’03 ’06 Field co-founded The Boylan Cos ., which develops of Rockingham and Katherine Elizabeth upscale apartment and condo communities in the Cottle ’06 of Goldsboro were married May 10 0/@ Triangle . in Goldsboro. He is assistant director of the activity promotion lab and an instructor in exercise and sport 31C!%

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1998 Orleans and various national venues. Christopher College in Princeton, N.J., in May 2007. On Jan. 11, Anne Driver ’95 of Greenville were married April Alumni Spotlight Haddock is vice president and city executive at 2008, she and her husband, Jarrod A. Purdon, had 12. He is land development and acquisition manager Chris Cabral ’98 ’06 is a new ranger at Goose Albemarle Bank & Trust’s Greenville loan production their first child, Sarah Grace.TREVOR WINNELL for Bill Clark Homes, and she is a nurse at PCMH. Creek State Park. He maintains eight miles of trails office. A Greenville native, he practiced business and is a vice president, structural engineer, and inspections Virginia Hardy, senior associate dean for and handles alcohol and speeding violations in the Danny Scott ’84, vice president real estate law for four years, was a commercial banker manager at Falcon Engineering, the new Cary-based academic affairs at BSOM, was named to a three-year 1,670-acre park. Alicia Marie Talmadge of diversity for Anheuser-Busch for five years, and as assistant vice president for First engineering and construction management firm that term on the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation advisory DelSasso of Ringwood, N.J., and her husband had in St . Louis, made a charitable Citizens Bank was the bank’s 2007 top-producing merged with Raleigh-based geotechnical and materials panel, which examines North Carolina issues and new their first child, Parker Christopher, on Nov. 27, 2007. gift to the College of Business commercial banker. Eric Maas and Julie testing firm Tierra North Carolina. directions for grantmaking. Dwain P. Teague ’93 leading to the creation of a Blazier Maas moved to Belize, Central America, ’98 is the new director of development for the School 1997 scholarship aimed at increasing with their children, Ciera (5) and Josiah (8 months), in 1994 of Information and Library Science at UNC Chapel racial diversity . The Anheuser- Adriena Dame is founding editor and publisher summer 2008 to be volunteer directors of the Baptist Hill, where he oversees a multimillion dollar capital Michael Edward Biasi of Fuquay-Varina Busch Foundation matched of . She is assistant managing editor Training Center in Belmopan. They facilitated work and campaign to raise funds for a new building, scholarships, became the director of bands and department Scott’s gift . The $52,000 for 94 Creations Ink and Fleur-de-Lis Press in housing for mission teams, hosted pastors for biblical and other funding opportunities. He previously served The Louisville Review of fine arts chair at the new Holly Springs High endowment will fund the first Kentucky and ghostwrites for The Family Seal, a training and churches for Vacation Bible School. Jenai as the director of development for the University of School in Wake County in 2006 after seven years as diversity-based scholarship memoir assistance company. LaVette Ford Paul, a psychiatric clinical specialist at the University Central Florida Libraries and College of Arts and director of bands at Southwest Onslow High School. offered through an academic ’97 ’03 was promoted from assistant principal to of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and Michael Sciences in Orlando, Fla. Before then, he managed major Tamara T. Flynn received the 2008 N.C. Health college at ecu . The Danny r . Scott Scholarship will be principal at South Greenville Elementary School. She is Paul had a daughter, Whitney Kathryn, on May 27, gift fundraising as associate director of development at Information Management Association’s Distinguished awarded annually to a student in the College of Business working on a degree in educational leadership at ECU. Michael’s birthday. They have two other children, Avery ECU’s Joyner Library. Member Award. Patrick Cullom O’Bryant who contributes to educational diversity while demonstrating William “Dee” Jones and Amy Elliott and Mason. Joseph Raczkowski is Moore of Belville is executive representative of Ortho academic excellence and financial need . The amount of each Jones ’99 had a son, William Garan Jones, on Feb. County’s new planning director. His previous positions 1992 McNeill. He and his wife Suzanne were married on scholarship will total $2,300 per year . “This scholarship is a 15. He joins daughter Avery. Dee is a project manager include planning and community development director Nov. 5, 2007. Jessica Everett Wahler ’94 Christina Dees Coggins and Phillip Douglas way for me to help deserving students attain a quality for Marand Construction in Charlotte, and Amy is a for Pender County, planning and inspections director ’96 of Raleigh and her husband, Todd, had a daughter, Jethro Jr. of Virginia Beach were married Oct. 6, 2007, education, while also reflecting the university’s strong senior marketing coordinator for FreemanWhite. for Wilson County, planning director for Nashville, and Sarah Elizabeth Charlotte, on Nov. 30, 2007. She at Port O’Call Restaurant in Kill Devil Hills. She commitment to diversity and education,” Scott said . Scott a planner in Edgecombe County. joins her sister Mary-Everett Virginia. works for Branch Bank and Trust Mortgage. Garry lives near St . Louis, Mo ., with his wife Connie Shelton ’85 . He 1996 L. Dudley was one of 22 national inductees for has worked with Anheuser-Busch for more than 19 years . The 1995 Ron Bennett of Waggaman, La., won the 2008 1993 Schering-Plough’s Diamond Club, the highest honor for first recipient of scholarship will be announced in April . Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship. He regularly Helen S. Pridgen Purdon received her the company’s representatives. He has made Presidents William Hunter Clark Jr. ’93 and Ashley exhibits at Issa Galleria and Barrister’s Gallery in New master’s in vocal pedagogy from Westminster Choir Club numerous times and was representative of the Actress Ali Hillis ’95 married year for 2006 and 2007. He lives in Chesterfield, Va., Matt Schwarz, an entrepreneur with his wife, Monica Reavis Dudley ’94 ’96, and hedge fund manager, on and daughters, Summer and Kendall. Aug . 2 on a cliff above Shell Christian Keiber, Beach, Calif . They met in New co-founder of independent film York City where Schwarz is part company Creative Alley Productions owner of Brother Jimmy’s, a in Los Angeles, played a U.S. popular nightspot where the Marshal investigating a mob hit on New York-New Jersey chapter the season finale of NBC’s . He of the Pirate Club meets to guest starred on a new courtER drama watch football games . Hillis called from waited tables there before creator Steven Bochco. MelissaRaising the D. Bar MarsalNYPD is Blue breaking into television with executive vice president and chief marketing officer at recurring roles on Albemarle Bank & Trust’s Greenville loan production NYPD Blue and Her next movie is office. She is also vice president and senior loan officer Felicity. Beverly Hills Chihuahua, out for a branch of New Vision Mortgage. D. Paul Sept . 26, in which she stars with Powers Jr. ’92 ’94 is executive vice president and Piper Perabo and Jamie Lee regional president at Albemarle Bank & Trust’s Curtis . She previously co-starred with Ben Stiller as his Greenville loan production office. A 35-year Greenville would-be bride in as Diane Lane’s sassy resident with 15 years of banking experience, he was Heartbreak Kid, younger sister in and as Robert Downey Jr’s First Citizens Bank’s senior vice president and business Must Love Dogs, tryst in banking manager for Pitt County and was the bank’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. top-producing business banking manager in 2007. More than 40 Years of Breathtaking Performances, O ered for a Song Cliff Godwin ’00 ’02, who was the hitting coach for Louisiana 1991 State University in the 2008 College World Series, is the new William Harris ’91 of Seattle, Wash., received hitting coach for the University of Central Florida’s baseball ESeWZZc\dSWZ]c`\SeaSOa]\a]]\5SbbVS a Northwest Regional Emmy for best promo news team . At ECU, he slammed 24 home runs, 31 doubles and 95 RBIs, and earned first team all-conference his senior year . He U]]RaSOba(QOZZ &31C/@BAb]`SQSWdS campaign for his work as a creative services writer/ producer for the ABC affiliate KOMO TV. He also played professionally with the Gateway Grizzlies for two years and was an assistant baseball coach at Notre Dame in 2005 . ]c` '³  aSOa]\O\\]c\QS[S\b¿`ab was nominated for best promo news single spot. He’s been with KOMO 4, which won the Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Station Excellence,

46 47 class notes for 10 years. The station’s helicopter pad at Fisher a regional manager of rear-operations for Shoney’s of professor in the Department of Kinesiology. Plaza is used in the TV show as Restaurant and is married to Kerry Hale Ford, an Stephanie Hinnant, sales manager for Taff Seattle Grace Hospital. DEAN Grey’s TAYLOR Anatomy ’91 ’93 is orthopedic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Office Equipment, has 20 years experience with sales, director of retail sales for the Carolinas/Tennessee Minn. They have two children, Riley (4) and marketing, and customer service in Greenville. She is on Region for Verizon Wireless. He has 13 years of Elias (7), and plan to live in Yellowknife. Caryl the Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce’s telecommunications experience and was director Holoman, a pulmonary nurse manager in executive committee, the Pitt County Committee of 100 of retail sales for Verizon Wireless in Georgia and BSOM’s internal medicine department, was named board, and the STRIVE advisory board. She was board jspoxppe Alabama. Cindy Thompson-Rumple, writing 2008 BSOM nurse of the year at the annual nurses president for United Way of Pitt County in 2007. as C.G. Thompson, won the 2008 N.C. State Poetry banquet. At ECU since 1997, she totals 22 years of Contest. Her poem, “Post Card to Ravinna,” competed nursing experience. Robert Logan, formerly the 1982 omeJspoxppe!Hpmg! ome ! against more than 300 entries to take the $500 Brenda associate superintendent of innovation and school Wayne E. Murphy, senior vice president of L. Smart Grand Prize. It was also featured in transformation at the N.C. Department of Public Southern Bank, was promoted to regional supervisor Sunday Reader. The News Instruction, is the new superintendent of the Chatham '!Dpvousz!Dmvc for Martin, Edgecombe, and Pitt counties. With & Observer’s County Schools. He was superintendent of Asheville the bank since 1995, he has 24 years of banking 1990 City and Lee County schools. experience and is on the boards for the Rocky Kenneth Grantham is the new head of the Mount Chamber of Commerce and Northeastern 1985 football program at Greene Central High School, where Entrepreneurial Roundtable. /! he played football and his father was coach for 20 years Dr. Stephen Bridgers is a family medicine FaturedMff!Usfwjop!Tjhobuvsf!29.Ipmf!Hpmg!Dpvstf Amenities— before retiring to assist Kenneth at Nash Central High specialist with Southeastern Health Center of 1981 /!Tpdjbm!Bdujwjujft School, where he led playoff-caliber football teams. Clarkton. Martha Katrenia Kornegay /! Linda Ann Fasolt Hollamon of Cary Txjnnjoh!Qppm Ann Elizabeth Lawrence and Michael Johnson ’85 ’96, a seventh grade inclusion and her husband opened an independent coffee house /! Connolly were married June 14 in Charlotte. She is a teacher at West Craven Middle School, received her Mjhiufe!Dpnqptjujpo!Ufoojt!Dpvsut in Apex’s Davis Drive Village called The Wake Zone /! vice president in learning and leadership development National Board Certification in November 2007 as an Dmvcipvtf Espresso. She also has worked for 27 years as a nurse for Bank of America in Charlotte. exceptional needs specialist for early childhood through /! in the surgical prep and recovery unit of Rex Hospital Gmfyjcmf!Nfncfstijq!Dbufhpsjft young adulthood. Married to Rev. Robert Johnson, in Raleigh. Reginald T. Holt ’81 ’85 was named 1989 she has two sons, Emmanuel and Isaiah. Cynthia president and CEO of member-owned Farm Credit Anne Mills and Robert Edward Farish III of Suzanne Slack Camden ’89 ’91 was of Central Florida. He was a branch manager for East Maury, N.C., and Beverly Hills, Calif., were married Qsftuxjdl!Bu!Jspoxppe!! promoted to associate vice president for Mid Atlantic Carolina Farm Credit in Swan Quarter before moving April 5 in Atrani, Italy. She is a managing partner in Engineering and Technical Services in Chesapeake, to South Carolina in 1985 and Florida in 1992, Mills & Economos law firm in Greenville.G reg Va. She is secretary for the Norfolk chapter of the when he joined FCCF as area vice president and later Shelnutt, director of the N.C. School of the National Contracts Management Association and a directed agribusiness lending. He has four children. Arts’ visual arts program, received a $5,000 fellowship PTO member at the Goddard School in Virginia Beach, from the Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship Program to where her 4-year-old daughter attends. Lee Riddle 1980 travel to Bendigo, Australia, to be an artist-in-residence left the Pepsi Bottling Group in Maryland after 16 at LaTrobe University and study bell casting. Jane Stone Allen is an educational technologist years and moved to Chattanooga, Tenn., to be special for the Air Force’s 42nd Attack Squadron, a field projects director for Lodge Manufacturing Co. His 1984 training unit that teaches personnel to fly the Reaper great-grandfather founded Lodge, the only domestic unmanned aerial vehicle. She and her husband Doug, JspoxppeÖt!Ofxftu!Hbsefo!Ipnf!Dpnnvojuz/!! producer of cast iron cookware, in South Pittsburgh, Tom Overcash of Bahama has 21 years a legal counsel for Steelman Design Group, live in Las Tenn., in 1896. He married Lynn AucOin experience as a senior financial advisor for AIG Jg!zpvÖwf!bmxbzt!esfbnfe!pg!dpnjoh!ipnf!up!Hsffowjmmf!boe!Fbtu!Dbspmjob!Vojwfstjuz-!opx!jt!uif!qfsgfdu!ujnf!up!ublf!b!mppl!bu!uif! Vegas. Elizabeth Branch of Winterville is a real Riddle ’90 14 years ago, and they have two sons, Retirement Advisors and received his fifth “Top 50” Jspoxppe!Dpnnvojuz-!Fbtufso!ODÖt!Qsfnjfs!Hpmg!boe!Sftjefoujbm!Dpnnvojuz/!Jspoxppe!qspwjeft!uif!qfsgfdu!tfuujoh!gps!boz!qibtf! estate agent and broker with Williams and Associates Alexander (12) and Zachary (10). Vinson Smith recognition from the President’s Cabinet. He and his Realtors and has three children. Michael Eury, pg!mjgf!gfbuvsjoh!gbcvmpvt!ipnft!po!qsjtujof!mput!cvjmu!cz!uif!bsfbt!ßoftu!cvjmefst/!Qmvt-!Jspoxppe!jt!tjuvbufe!jo!uif!qfsgfdu!mpdbujpo-! is head of the new football program at Statesville wife Lisa have four daughters. Raymie Styons has a Concord native, is the new executive director for the mftt!uibo!6!njovuft!gspn!uif!iptqjubm!boe!nfejdbm!ejtusjdu-!21!njovuft!gspn!uif!Vojwfstjuz!ejtusjdu-!jnnfejbuf!bddftt!up!VT!375-! Christian School. At Statesville High School, he was an officiated ACC basketball games since 1989. Historic Cabarrus Association, which was formed from boe!xjuijo!dmptf!qspyjnjuz!up!HsffowjmmfÖt!tipqqjoh!boe!ejojoh!bsfbt/ All-American football player before attending ECU and He also owns a Nationwide Insurance agency in a merger of Historic Cabarrus Inc. and the Concord joining the NFL for 12 years. He was a linebacker for Greenville and has two children in athletics. Patricia !/! ! Museum. A former editor for DC Comics and Dark 6!Qmbot!up!Dipptf!Gspn Sbohjoh!Gspn!2-811tg!up!3-511,tg the 1992-93 Super Bowl-winning Dallas Cowboys. “Pat” Williams of Kinston retired after 40 years Horse Comics, he has written books on comics and Fvspqfbo!Tuzmf!Fyufsjpst!Gfbuvsjoh; as a real estate paralegal. She started work for James media history and worked as a communications director Fohmjti!Hbsefot!/!Tubdlfe!Tupof!Gfbuvsft!/!Xspvhiu!Jspo!Xjoepx!Cpyft!/!Dfebs!Qptut!/!Bmm!Csjdl!Fyufsjpst!/!Mbshf!Dpwfsfe!Qpsdift! 1987 Hodges in 1968, and in 1977, moved with him to and popular culture historian. Sherwood Wayne White & Allen, where she assisted with foreclosures, Fmfhbou!Joufsjpst!Gfbuvsjoh; Dr. Susan Aycock is a family medicine specialist Harp of Wake Forest was named city executive for title work, and commercial and residential sale closings. Hpvsnfu!Ljudifot!x0!Hsbojuf!/!Hsboe!Nbtufs!Tvjuft!/!Bsdife!Pqfojoht!/!Fyufotjwf!Usjn!Qbdlbhft!/!Ibsexppe!'!Dfsbnjd!Ujmf!Gmppst with Southeastern Health Center of Clarkton. New Republic Savings Bank in Henderson. Kenny Wesley Payne Newsome co-opened a Moore of Harrells was inducted into the Sampson 1983 tex-mex restaurant called Guacamole Grill in Cary County Sports Hall of Fame in April 2008 for his in March 2008. Joseph W. Clark of Durham received the Lifetime athletic record at Union High School and as a football IRONWOOD REALTY, INC Certified Local Governmental Purchasing Officer player at ECU and in Canada. Ann Sutton, THE EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATIVE FOR IRONWOOD DEVELOPMENT, INC 1986 and Purchaser of the Year recognitions from the who has 13 years experience in interior design and Carolinas Association of Governmental Purchasing. lighting, is a new consultant at Lighting by Design. Edwin M. “Sandy” Hardy was re-elected He is purchasing manager and deputy finance officer Christopher James Vigren of Pittsfield, chair of the trustees of Beaufort County Hospital. Ipnft!Opx!Bwbjmbcmf"!¦!Qspve!Nfncfs!pg!Qjsbuft!Tvqqpsujoh!Qjsbuft" for Durham and is treasurer of the CAGP board. Mass., is a board member and executive vice president He was first appointed to the board in 2003 by the Warren Franke, who has taught at Iowa State of Citibank/Citigroup. He was an economics advisor Beaufort County commissioners. Jim Ford of University since 1991, was promoted to the rank under both Clinton administrations. Jan Welborn 'OLF#LUB7YND 'REENVILLE .#s Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, Canada, is 6IEW/UR7EBSITEATWWWIRONWOOD REALTYCOM 48 49 class notes of Charleston, S.C., was selected to participate in the 1977 1975 Tenn., retired Sept. 26, 2007, from the cardiac rhythm Alumni Spotlight Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program in management division (implantable pacemakers and BILLY LEE started a new career as director of sales MAGGIE BISHOP ’75 ’76 of Deep Gap, who was October 2008. The program, funded by the Japanese defibrillators) of Medtronic, the largest manufacturer in the sports division of the Raleigh-based Travel named as one of the 100 Incredible ECU Women government, offers study tours about Japanese culture and supplier of medical implanted devices. He recently Management Partners. His 30 years of collegiate in 2007, released a new mystery, , Guilford and education. Welborn taught art studio and art history re-married, vacations in St. Thomas, and cruises the basketball coaching earned him 400+ wins. He for her Appalachian Adventure seriesPerfect in forNovember. Framing College at Mount Olive College and College of Charleston Tennessee River in his 40-foot boat, a retirement coached at high schools, two years at ECU, seven years Set in Boone, it follows a propertyowners association established before teaching art at Charleston Day School and in a present to himself. at UNC Pembroke, 18 years at Campbell University power struggle that includes robbery, romantic the Mary n . Charleston County Public School gifted and talented and three seasons at St. Andrews Presbyterian College. tension, blackmail, and murder. Leonard “Mike” Broos program during the summers. 1973 Eric Davis Van Nortwick of Dale City, Va., Ernest is interpreter programs manager for the Endowment was named 2007 Ducks Unlimited conservationist of Virginia Department for the Deaf and Hard of David Stevens Jr., a former Air Force pilot, flies for Athletic 1979 the year for his water quality work with Neabsco Creek Hearing in Richmond. He coordinates interpreters for transcontinental jets to Europe for U.S. Airways. When Training in Anna Spear of Havelock was named 2008 Doris in Prince William County, where he is a member of state agencies and courts, and manages the Virginia he got his pilot’s license in 1974, his father, a former honor of Howard Female Coach of the Year by the N.C. High Adopt-A-Stream. Quality Assurance Screening program for interpreters. ECU attorney who retired from the Air Force in 1970, Mary Broos School Athletic Association. The women’s basketball From 1985 to 2005, he was program manager and gave him his silver wings. Stevens Jr. recently passed the ‘67, the head coach and assistant athletic director for women’s sports 1976 professor of interpreter education at Hillsborough wings to his son when he graduated from flight school. athletic at Havelock High School for nine years, she also Community College in Tampa, Fla. Candace Little Turk ’73 ’92 ’98 ’03 is the trainer at the Carol Pearce Davis ’76 ’82 ’95, who has 32 coached for 17 years at North Lenoir High School, new principal at West Pine Middle School in West college who retired May 30 after 30 years there . The years experience working in elementary schools, is the where she started the volleyball program and led the 1974 End. She was a special education teacher, an assistant endowment supports sports medicine scholarships and new principal at Franklinton Elementary School in softball team to the state finals. principal, and the assistant superintendent for human intercollegiate athletic training programs . She will continue to Franklin County. Marsha Moore Lewis ’76 Dr. Gabriel “Gabe” Cipau, of Key Healthcare, resources and operations in Duplin County, and was teach in the sports studies department . In 1978, Broos ’85 was selected for a three-year term on the board of is a new board member for the ECU Medical & Health 1978 named Duplin County 2003-04 principal of the year. became the first woman in North Carolina to lead a the International Reading Association at the group’s Sciences Foundation. David C. Reavis of Raleigh, collegiate sports medicine program . She has been inducted Gale Adcock, director of corporate healthcare annual conference in Atlanta, Ga. She is a second e-commerce manager for the N.C. Office of the State 1972 into the halls of fame at Guilford College and the n .c . at SAS, is a new board member for the ECU Medical grade National Board Certified teacher at Kenansville Controller, finished his term as president of the N.C. Athletic Trainers Association . She received the 1996 Girls and & Health Sciences Foundation. Susan Dickens Elementary School in Duplin County. She has served Treasury Management Association. He is now chair of Beverly Kilpatrick Thompson ’72 ’79 ’96 Women in Sports Day Committee Award of Excellence, the Lynch of Warrenton retired from Warren County on advisory boards for the state superintendent of the board for NCTMA, a nonprofit group for treasury of Nashville, formerly of Kenansville, was promoted 1989 NCATA athletic trainer of the ar, and the 1998 Heart and High School in July after more than 30 years as a public instruction and the N.C. End-of-Grade Reading and finance professionals from N.C. corporations and from a bankcard sales support manager to a banking Hand Award from Guilford’s students . She was on the athletic business education teacher. Comprehension Tests Specifications Committee. banks. Alan Dean Reimann of Chattanooga, officer with BB&T in Wilson. She retired from the training staff for Olympic teams in the 1980s . She also served N.C. Department of Public Instruction before joining for 12 years on the Davidson County Board of Education and BB&T in 2007. was its chair for four years . 1971 William R. “Bill” Sage Sr. was elected mayor NASA doesn’t manufacture any of products OF YOUR NEWS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS of Oriental, “The Sailing Capital of North Carolina.” that makes America’s space program fly . 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Williford also works with for a start-up state-chartered bank in North Carolina. the Space Shuttle Reusable Solid Rocket Motor contract . CLASS year e-MAIL DAY PHONE EVENING PHONE 1969 Sheri Strickland ’76 ‘84, preschool disabilities ADDRESS CITY state zIP Adra Allison Kennedy of Washington coordinator for the Pitt County Schools, was retired in July 2007 after 29 years of teaching second elected president of the 70,000-member n .c . through fifth grades and remedial reading in New YOUR NEWS Association of Educators (NCAE) . She will serve York, and Wake and Beaufort counties. She developed a two-year term . An NCAE member for 30 magnet school curriculum, was named teacher of years, Strickland served on the NCAE Board of the year, and was recognized in Who’s Who Among Directors for seven years and on the NEA Board American Teachers several times. Robert D. “Bob” of Directors for three years . She has worked in the Pitt Rynearson of El Cajon, Ca., retired from a County Schools since 1976 . 32-year teaching career with the Grossmont Union High School District in San Diego County. Gary Wayne West of Greenwood, S.C., is the new chief information officer for the S.C. Department of

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Alumni Spotlight Education. With S.C. schools for 32 of his 38 years in education, he has taught and served as a district administrator and director of technology. Vicki Cox MA ’74, a veteran 1966 administrator at the Federal 1920s Inman Ward Morrison ’32 of Lumberton, and at Trent Park School for two years until her 1980 Aviation Administration, was Nancy Babb Appler of Vienna, Va., retired in formerly of Rowland, died April 2 at age 96. She was retirement. She was active in Alpha Delta Kappa and Two members of the Class of 1927 have died. appointed senior vice Nov. 2007 after 42 years with the U.S. Department treasurer for Rowland United Methodist Church, and participated in service projects during her retirement. Lillian Walston Creal ’27 president of the FAA’s of the Interior in Washington, D.C. She was most worked for the Bank of Rowland and later Southern Joyce Turner Gardner ’47 of Fountain of Newport News, Va., died April 9 NextGen project . NextGen is a recently a senior administrator in the Secretary of National Bank. Sallie Evelyn Williams died April 29. She sang on the radio and played piano at age 99. She taught elementary mammoth undertaking to Interior’s Office of Congressional and Legislative Robinson ’33 of Charlotte died March 7. She in the community, worked at a New York law firm school in Scotland Neck and modernize the FAA’s Affairs, and plans to garden, play piano, and study taught school before marrying in 1937, documented in the 1920s and for Southern Bell in Durham; and Roanoke Rapids before moving to antiquated computer systems Spanish. Edward D. Barnes, a family lawyer her family history for her descendants, and was enjoyed restoring antiques, telling stories, and cooking. Newport News in 1938 and with a satellite-based system in Chesterfield, Va., and the founding chair of the active in her church, the Battle of Charlotte Chapter Frances Elizabeth Nance Nash ’40 teaching there until her 1973 that will revolutionize air National Center for Family Law at the University of of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the of Columbia, S.C., died March 15. Originally from retirement from St. Andrew’s travel . Cox, who was vice Richmond, received the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Virginia Dare Chapter of the Daughters of American Chatham County, she started at ECTC at age 16, Episcopal School. She was a longtime president in the FAA’s Air Award from the Virginia State Bar’s Family Law Colonists, Myers Park Country Club, and Friends and taught in Manteo before joining the Navy during hostess at a restaurant in Newmarket Circle, taught Traffic Organization, was the Section. From 1966 to 1969, he was a first lieutenant of the Mint Museum. Christine Williams WWII as an ensign and being posted to Washington, Sunday school and was a member of the Swingin’ featured speaker at the in the Army Corps of Engineers, and in 2006, received Tripp ’38 of Greenville died March 14 at age 91. D.C. She had six children and retired as an accounting Singers at First Baptist Church, and was a past matron Department of Physics spring the University of Richmond’s alumni award for his Originally from Nash County, she taught high school clerk in Winston-Salem, where she taught Sunday of the Emira Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. graduation ceremony . role in continuing legal education there. science in Greenville and Rocky Mount for 35 years. school and held offices in her church for 30 years. Mavourneen James Vera Dare Rouse Webster ’39 of Eden Barbara Selby Stevens ’48 of Dudley died Cox’s new assignment at the FAA is leading the effort to Havens ’27 of Tarboro died 1959 died May 16. She taught home economics for 15 April 4. She taught seventh and eighth grades in transform the nation’s airspace system by using 21st century March 16 at age 100. She and her years in Wilmington and Eden, N.C., Martinsville, eastern N.C. and retired from Brogden Middle School technologies . Some of NextGen’s modernization activities Doug Watts was inducted into the N.C. husband, Richard Bonner, owned Va., and Indiana, and edited science textbooks for 22 in 1982. At St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, she have already begun, including the initial deployment of American Legion Baseball Hall of Fame for his 40 and operated Havens Feed and years in New York City. Alumni relatives include her was in the adult choir, altar guild, Episcopal Church satellite-based technology, airspace redesign and runway years working with the league as a coach, manager, Seed Store in Tarboro for more daughter Jenifer Wynn Webster Day Avina ’77, and Women, and volunteered with the soup kitchen. ADA safety improvements . athletic director, and chief fundraiser. After serving in than 50 years. grandchildren April Michelle Avina ’01 and Joshua ROSE YOW STOKES ’41 of Lake Junaluska died the Army in Korea, he walked on to ECU’s baseball She came to the FAA from the Department of Defense, Michael Avina ’03. Feb. 23. When Atlanta schools began desegregation team, was the starting catcher, and then during his 1930s where she served as Director of International Technology in 1961, she was the only white teacher to show up senior year was co-captain. He was later head football Programs . A physicist, she also served as chief of physics Hattie Holland Bass ’38 of Fayetteville died 1940s for work. She and her husband enjoyed traveling, and baseball coach at Hope Mills High School. and scientific director of the European Office of Aerospace March 17 at age 90. She was valedictorian of Gray’s especially in Korea, and founded the Bishop Mack and Jane Currin Adcock ’43 of Oxford died Research and Development in London . A native of Creek High School, taught math at Fayetteville High Rose Stokes Chair in Theology at Emory in 2008. 1958 March 12. She taught at Helena Elementary School in Spartanburg, s .c ., Cox received her undergraduate degree School, and retired from civil service in Germany and Peggy Adams Tatarski ’48 of Atlantic Beach Roxboro and at Tolar-Oak Hill Elementary School in from Converse College . Stephen Everett Davenport of China at the Pentagon. She was buried with her husband at and formerly of Reidsville, died April 30. She was a Granville County. Margaret Brown Benson Grove was nominated in the summer 2007 issue of Arlington National Cemetery. Mildred Estelle teacher, co-owned Adams Electric Company, and was ’40 of Marshallberg died March 19 at age 92. She got as one of 20 most influential urban Corbett Brown ’37 of Hillsborough died active in Bogue Banks Baptist Church. Page Duke Carolina Planning her masters degree at George Washington University planners in North Carolina for the past fifty years. March 8. She taught in Moncure before marrying and Thompson ’47 of Roanoke, Va., died April 4 in Patrick King ’90 in 1949 and taught public school in Prince George’s Dr. Royce Shingleton Sr. of Gatlingburg, working in the family business, J. L. Brown & Sons. She Durham. She taught in Mount Olive before getting performed a trick golf County, Md., for 43 years until her 1984 retirement. Tenn., has published numerous works, including his was a Cub Scout den mother, Girl Scout leader, and married and moving to Roanoke, where she taught shot to win the audience She received her ministerial diploma from Southeastern show and tell contest books (1979), member of the PTA, church circle, and Hillsborough fifth grade for 30 years at Wasena Elementary School. John Taylor Wood: Sea Ghost of the Confederacy College in 1987. Sybil Davis Brantley ’41 of recently on the David (1985), and Historical Society. She taught school again starting in She was assistant principal for a while and was awarded Richard Peters: Champion of the New South Charlotte died March 21. She played in the Charlotte Letterman show . King, the 1950s and traveled the U.S. and Canada with her lifetime membership in the PTA. She was also active High Seas Confederate: The Life and Times of John Newland Symphony, held office in her church, was active in her who was on the ECU (1994). A Theta Chi member, he served in the husband. Frances Spainhour Hardee ’36 of Concord in her church. Garnette Leake Crocker Maffitt book club, and volunteered with Friendship Trays. Army in Hanau, West Germany; taught high school died May 14 at age 95. One of 14 siblings, she taught Tuten ’46 of Raleigh died May 10. She was a golf team, bounced a Lois Green Brown ’43 of Greenville died in Dinwiddie, Va., and Snow Hill; was dean of men at elementary school for 30 years, was married to a home economics agent in Williamston for the N.C. golf ball off a club March 19. She taught home economics in Washington Lees-McRae College; and taught at Darton College Methodist minister for 37 years, and traveled to all 50 Cooperative Extension Service; served a term as vice several times, then before getting married. Active in her church for 55 in Albany, Ga., and Georgia State and Oglethorpe states and her ancestral home in Munitz, Switzerland. president of the Junior Woman’s Club in the 1960s; knocked it high in the air years, she held offices and received honorary life universities in Atlanta. Mabel Dickens Council Johnson ’34 and enjoyed Peru, the Outer Banks, ACC basketball, and caught it in a cup on top of his head . King is deputy membership from the Women of the Church in 1987. of Lillington and Fuquay-Varina died March 22 at needlework, and dancing. Sallie Joe GURGANUS general manager of the Army Navy Country Club in She was a member of the Thalian Book Club and 1956 age 95. She spent 26 of her 32 years of teaching in Williamson ’49 of Charlotte died March 29. A Arlington, Va . A leisure studies major at ECU, King played traveled internationally. Memorials may be made to the Fuquay-Varina, coached girls basketball, and was the Bethel native, she lived in Raleigh for 50 years after professionally on the Hooters Tour for two years before William HUgh Knox and his wife, Dr. W.W. and Lois Brown Family Scholarship, c/o ECU first female school-sponsored drivers education teacher getting married and battled diabetes for 73 years. settling into country club management . Angelina E. Knox, operate Knox Clinic Pediatrics in Foundation. Ophelia Parker Carraway in North Carolina. She was active in church choir and Wilmington. Their son, Dr. Lenard Edralin, will join ’49 of Abingdon, Va., died May 22. A Pitt County enjoyed golfing, bowling, gardening, and attending her 1950s the clinic after completing his residency in pediatrics native, she taught at James Hurst Elementary School students’ class reunions into her 90s. Kathleen Call for ghost stories at BSOM. in Cradock, Va., and second grade at G.A. Treakle W. Edward Anderson ’57 of Raleigh died Robertson Lamkin ’37 of Fredericksburg, Va., Class Notes Editor Leanne Smith is gathering stories about Elementary School until her 1989 retirement after 23 April 23. He was in the Navy during the Korean War; died July 2, 2000. She worked for the Department of ghosts and scary places around Greenville, and she wants 1951 years of teaching. Married for 58 years, she had three retired as vice president of Sir Walter Chevrolet, Pylon the Navy at Arlington Hall during WWII, later taught to hear your experience . If you remember tales or—better children and was active in her church. Virginia Commercial Park, and Anderson Realty; was on the Walter L. Williams ’51 ’55, vice president of elementary school in Montgomery County, Md., yet—actually saw something spooky, contact her at Sullivan Dunlap ’40 of New Bern died April boards for Edenton Street United Methodist Church Trade/WilcoHess, is a new board member for the and was a Girl Scout leader, active church member, ecuclassnotes@ecu ed. u . 8. She taught in Anson County from 1940 to 1945, and Wake Rehab Center; and was a member of the ECU Medical & Health Sciences Foundation. and senior citizens center volunteer. Maggie in New Bern at Eleanor Marshall School for 23 years Carolina and Cape Fear country clubs in Wilmington

52 53 in memoriam and the Surf Club at Wrightsville Beach. Jane He was a Mason, Elk, Shriner, and a member of Thomas Gillam III ’68 of Windsor died March Creek, formerly of Greenville, died April 5. He served faculty deaths Bullock Barnhill ’59 ’65 of Bethel died the Royal Order of Jesters. Eugene Franklin 31. In the Army during WWII, he fought in the Battle in the Army before returning to school and working April 16. She retired after 32 years teaching public Olive ’58 of Raleigh died March 24. During the of the Bulge. He was active in St. Thomas Episcopal for NACCO for 34 years. A baseball lover, he coached Dr. Mary Morecroft Fowler of Greenville school and was active on the Pitt County Planning Korean War, he was in the 100-member drum and Church, a docent at Hope Plantation, taught history his sons in the Winterville Recreation League for the died March 22. She taught counselor education from Board and at Bethel Baptist Church. Sallie Gail bugle corps called “Young’s Yankees” while stationed at Bertie High School, and enjoyed antiques and the Pitt Bulldogs and the Greenville Little League for 1972 to 1988. She taught children on an Indian Hines Britt ’52 of Greenville died April 1. at Lockbourne Air Force Base in Columbus, Ohio. beach. Garland Francis Johnson ’61 ’63 Jarman’s Auto, and enjoyed watching his great-nephew reservation on Long Island before getting married At St. James United Methodist Church, she was in He was a state government auditor for 33 years and died Feb. 24 in Hillsborough. In the Navy, he served play for the Greenville Lions. Marian Langley and moving to Ohio. She traveled internationally, the Methodist Women’s Circle and past director of a member of Freemason of Raleigh Lodge #500. with the First Marine Division at Guadalcanal and in Wilson ’78 of Grimesland died March 13. She volunteered with groups for disadvantaged people, was Operation Sunshine. She enjoyed cooking, sewing, Edward Oliver ’56 ’63 of Alexandria, Va., died the Pacific Theater under General MacArthur during taught first grade at Greenville Christian Academy for active in the Unitarian church, and was known for her and gardening, and was a member of Home Pride March 21. He was a Marine and taught high school WWII. Before retiring as a chief pharmacist’s mate, he 24 years and Sunday school at her church. motto, “Make it a good day.” Memorials may be made Garden Club and Brook Valley Country Club. She English and social studies in Greenville and Virginia worked on Adm. Richard Byrd’s last trip to Antarctica. to the Alzheimer’s Research Fund, ECU Medical & was married to Austin Hoover Britt ’53 for 56 years. before becoming an assistant principal and director of He taught school, worked for the N.C. Health 1980s Health Sciences Foundation. Clara Jenkins Crabtree ’51 of Durham employee relations for Arlington County Schools. He Department, and was married to Ida Yolanda Johnson Ernest Lewis Davis Jr. ’86 of Rockingham, Gordon Brazil Gilbert Sr. of Stillwater, died April 7. She was a teacher, school librarian, also taught at the University of Virginia and Defense ’44 for 60 years. Lillie Ann Midgette “LIL” formerly of Richmond, Va., died March 11. He Okla., died Feb. 27 at age 100. He taught health and and the first library supervisor for Durham County Department schools in Okinawa, Japan, and Verdun, Jones ’61 of Peachtree City, Ga., died May 26. played cello in churches and symphony orchestras. physical education at ECTC from 1938 to 1940 Schools. She held office in numerous state and France. He enjoyed skiing in Utah and Argentina, She was active in Peachtree City United Methodist Mary Hobbs Armstrong Valentine before serving in the Army during WWII. He was national professional library organizations. After her owned 1,000+ books, and traveled to six continents, Church. Harold Jason Mills ’66 died March McIntyre ’82 of Nashville died March 2. She also a high school coach and history teacher and was retirement, she received life membership from the including Antarctica. A. Glenn Rowell ’59 22. He was in the Navy for four years before working Michael Dixon and David was a nurse in Norfolk, Va., Raleigh, and High Point director for men’s intramural sports at Oklahoma State Hawkins watch Jim Rees N.C. Library Association. She worked in Braggtown ’78 ’86 of Fayetteville died May 20. He worked for at Fieldcrest Mills and spending 24 years as an before becoming director of nursing at Wilson’s University for 33 years. produce a radio show Baptist Church’s library and was the 21-year volunteer Atlantic Coastline Railroad before serving in the accountant with Burroughs-Wellcome until his 1993 Guardian Care. She worked in quality assurance at librarian for the Yates Baptist Association Library. Army during the Korean War. With the Cumberland retirement. Nancy Gayle Compton Odham Rhoda marie Nielsen, of College Park, Md., James Lester “Jim” Rees Nash General Hospital from 1984 to 1998 when she She also directed the Associational Media Library County Board of Education for 23 years, he retired in ’64 of Matthews died April 21. After graduating in died April 19. A native of Vindblaes, Denmark, she of Greenville died April 17 . retired as department head. In 1992, she was named Organization. Roberta Hall Gainey ’53 of 1987 as an assistant principal at Westover Junior High the first class from ECU’s School of Nursing, she was was a nurse in Denmark and Iowa before becoming A graduate of Millersville State one of N.C.’s Great 100 Nurses. She was a Nashville College with a master’s degree Stedman died March 7 in Clinton. She taught at School. He operated Woodland Nursery for 31 years, a public health and genetic nurse who was active in a nurse for the American Baptist Foreign Mission town council member from 1997 to 2001. She enjoyed from Syracuse, he worked at Stedman High School, now Stedman Primary School, held office in his church, and was a member of the several civic and charity groups. Memorials may be Society in the Belgian Congo from 1956 to 1960. playing bridge and slot machines, betting on horses, radio stations and taught high for 39 years, and taught Sunday school at Magnolia Cumberland County Historical Society. made to the ECU School of Nursing. Charles She taught at ECU from 1965 to 1969 and at Emory and teaching children to play poker and bet with school in Pennsylvania before Baptist Church in Stedman. Frances Estelle Ernest “Chuck” Pace ’69 of Suffolk, Va., died University before retiring as the International Nursing M&Ms. Angela Briggs “Angie” Pettus joining the faculty here in 1966 . Greene Hendrix ’55 of Franklin, Tenn., died 1960s March 11. In the Army, he was stationed in Vietnam Program’s acting curriculum coordinator. He retired as professor emeritus ’80 of Clayton died April 26. She was a business May 18. A descendant of Revolutionary War General and later worked as a counselor for the Portsmouth in 2003 but continued to BETTY JEAN BAKER ’67, formerly of Knightdale, operations manager at SAS. Edgar Allen JOSEPHINE BISHOP “Jo” Saunders ’65 of Nathaniel Greene, she was a counseling psychologist Department of Juvenile Justice. He was married to teach part time until 2007 . He died June 24. She retired as chief statistician with Toney Sr. ’85 of Orlando, Fla., died March 18. Greenville died April 5. A Laurinburg native, she who worked with Hospice volunteers and Alzheimer’s Linda Watson Pace ’69. Thomas Jefferson taught voice and diction, public the government records section of the Office of He was in the Marines from 1955 to 1982 when he taught dance for almost 20 years before attending speaking, broadcast announcing, patients and their caregivers through the Nashville Powell ’61 of Spencer died May 12. He was Archives and History in Raleigh. She published retired as a major, and he was involved in the Drill ECU, where she later taught in the health, physical audio production, and business- Mental Health Association Homes program. She a middle school industrial arts teacher in Rowan articles on history and genealogy and books on Instructors Association reunions. A past commodore education, recreation, and safety program from 1964 professional speech . He raised and showed horses and led 4-H trail rides County, a church construction volunteer at Spencer seven N.C. familes, including Gov. Jim Hunt’s. Rev. of the Rugged Point Yacht Club at Camp Lejeune, he to her 1985 retirement. She was named N.C. dance produced two recordings of through the Bulldog Bridle Club in Athens, Ga. She Presbyterian Church, and a foreign mission worker in Lawrence Kempster Brown ’64 of and his wife of more than 50 years owned the sailboat teacher of the year by the N.C. Association of Health, School of Music ensembles, was a member of the Heritage Foundation and the Africa. Sue Wallace Tyer ’67 of Oak Island hosted media programs for Raleigh died May 5. He was a two-sport scholarship . Physical Education and Dance in 1992. In 2002 she AAUW Recent Graduates Group and volunteered died April 17. She taught in Beaufort County and ECU and radio shows broadcast athlete at ECU. In December 1968, he was ordained Tuition received the teacher of the year award from the S.C. with the Lauback Literacy Method—Each One Teach Fayetteville and Kinston city school systems. in North Carolina and Virginia . and accepted St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in 1990s Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation One. Lawson Alan Jackson Sr. ’58 of He narrated theater and music Havelock as his first parish. He was rector at other and Dance. For 57 years, she was married to Frank productions, played the Lord of Savannah, Ga., formerly of Charlotte, died April 19. 1970s Bradley Shane Beatty ’95 of Greenville churches in Raleigh for more than 20 years, owned Wendell Saunders, who taught math at ECU from the Manor at ECU’s Christmas He was an Army paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne died May 12. He owned Big Al’s Tavern and rental Eastwind Bar and Grill in Carolina Beach and a Wesley Neal Daughtry ’78 of Greenville 1961 to 1994. Madrigal Dinner series with wife during the Korean War and retired as a salesman in property, and was an electrician. He was active in dog state automobile inspection station in Raleigh. He died May 12. He worked at ECU’s Joyner Library. Franceine Perry Rees ’65, the the southeastern U.S. His son, Alan Jackson Jr. ’01, rescue, his church, and the Brotherhood Motorcycle Mary Goodman Sorensen died March 18. opened Knightdale Academy of Gymnastics with his Carolyn Frazier Moxley ’78 of Kinston former class notes editor of this is a doctor in Atlanta. Lt. Col. Arthur Henry Club, which hosted weekly fundraising steak dinners at A Hendersonville native, she taught English at ECU magazine . He was a consultant daughter in 1995, and, after his parochial retirement, died April 13. She taught in Knightdale for a year King ’53 of Forest City and Kinston died April 17. Big Al’s to support the Vietnam Veterans Association. from 1957 to 1976. During her 50 years in Greenville, for the General Electric Co ., owned Da Vinci’s Pasta in Raleigh with his wife. and in Lenoir County for 24 years until her 1995 He retired from the Air Force and was former owner James Reid Hooper ’93, an honorary member she was active in her church, the ECU Retired Faculty n .c . Regional Drug Program, His Australian Terriers won three consecutive breed retirement. She was active in Alpha Gamma Delta; and president of Lakeside Mills. In addition to his of the ECU Alumni Association, died April 5. Association, Alpha Phi Gamma, the Delta Alpha n .c . Humanities Committee, competitions at the Westminster Kennel Club in Sunday school director at her church; a Brownie, Girl, n .c . State Board of Education, Vietnam Service Medal, he received the Distinguished He served for two years in the WWII European Chapter of Alphi Phi, and the Sierra Book Club, and New York City, and he was featured in the 100th and Cub scout troop leader; past president of Kinston America’s 400th Anniversary Flying Cross; the Bronze Star, National Defense Theater, worked with Wachovia bank for 35 years was married to Dr. Frederick Sorensen, who taught Anniversary Westminster Kennel Club book. Rev. W. Lions Club Auxiliary; and a “Pink Lady” volunteer for Committee, and n .c ./ECU Center Service, and Combat Readiness medals; the Small and was Greenville city executive, and taught at the English at ECU from 1961 to 1973. Murray BULLOCK ’60 of Tarboro died May 4. the Lenoir Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. She enjoyed for Applied Technology; and Arms Expert Service and Air Force Longevity Service American Institute of Banking. He was on the boards ‘ He worked with the N.C. Probation Commission and international travel, animals, and collecting antiques he gave numerous lectures and awards; and Air Force Commendation. Lt. Col. for PCMH, the East Carolina Vocational Center, workshops for professional, civic, was an assistant administrator at Edgecombe General and dolls. Capt. John Parker Sheehan ’71 Dr. John Robert Kluttz ’53 of Fayetteville and East Carolina Farm Credit Association; a past and honor societies . Memorials Hospital before becoming a minister. Among other of O’Fallon, Ill., died May 1. He was in the Air Force died March 21. Born prematurely in 1929, he was president of the Host Lions Club of Greenville and may be made to ECU’s Lester churches, he pastored Church of the Ascension in at Scott AFB, and then worked in civil service there as the Goldsboro hospital’s first incubator baby. He was Greenville Golf and Country Club; and a member of and Alta Rees Memorial Hickory. After retirement, he was an interim priest a computer programmer/analyst from 1972 to 2002. Scholarship . senior class president at ECU, married Jeanine Ennis the Pitt Golden “K” Kiwanis Club. He was the 1982 in other states. MARVIN LEE CAVINESS ’69 He played volleyball at the AFB, and with the St. ’53, served in the Air Force for 20 years, and was a Greenville Chamber of Commerce citizen of the year of Knoxville, Tenn., died April 8. He was a biology Louis Turner Organization and other U.S. Volleyball therapist with the Veterans Administration Center’s and received the Jack Edwards Service Award from the teacher, respiratory therapist, and clinical perfusionist. Association teams, and was a setter on the 1983 Readjustment Counseling Service in Fayetteville. Greenville Noon Rotary Club in 1997. Bonny Cameron Gilchrist ’60 of Sanford All American Men’s Senior First Team. He coached BENJAMIN JOEL MARTINDALE ’50 of Rocky died May 2. She taught high school English for 34 volleyball at McKendree University. William Mount died June 24. A veteran of WWII, he retired years before retiring at Western Harnett High School. Arnold “Bill” Williamson ’73 of Blounts in 1985 as claims manager at CSX Transportation.

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Live from New York, it’s East Carolina The contestants on the NBC set just before the program aired. Left, each contestant received a on the GE College Bowl medal engraved with their name and school.

The most well-known students on campus in the fall with signaling devices and a scoreboard, where the of 1965 and early ’66 were four brainy kids who beat team was tested in live matches against faculty out many competitors to represent East Carolina in the members. The students defeated faculty two out of GE College Quiz Bowl, the “varsity sport of the mind” the three practice matches, which were broadcast by broadcast coast to coast by NBC. They set off for New the campus radio and TV stations. York on a Friday afternoon in April 1966 and appeared The four flew back to New York the following live—and in living color!—that Sunday evening. Everyone on weekend to face Rice University. They again checked into campus was glued to a TV set, and President Leo Jenkins the Warwick Hotel and saw another Broadway play before later declared it “one of the happiest days of my life” entering the NBC studios on Sunday afternoon. when they defeated the squad from Ursaline College, a The Rice team was faster on the button, and Catholic girls school in Louisville, Ky., by a score of 175- won 390-135. (Rice eventually beat four 100. The victory came with a $1,500 scholarship. other colleges and retired as a Quiz Bowl To prepare John Clement, Barry Brodsky, Mike Conley and national champion.) The ECU squad flew Patricia Evans for the bright lights and cameras, adviser Carroll home with a $500 consolation prize and Webber created a mock TV set in the Flanagan Building, complete were received as heroes.

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Tremayne Smith, one of the tour guides during freshman orientation, welcomes parents and new students to campus. Photo by Jay Clark

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