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FEATURES 18 CURING TIME 18 For generations, tobacco paid the wayBy Marion to a better Blackburn life in eastern North Carolina, but it also brought illness and disease. Now an ECU doctor is leading the N.C. Health and Wellness Trust Fund that is addressing chronic health problems caused by tobacco.

unto the least of these 26 Durham minister Rev. Ken Hammond ’73 ’83By Steve’85, Tuttlepart of an underground network that rescues teen 26 gang members by paying them to start new lives in other cities, would rather save a child’s life than his own.

PIRATES RANTING 30 Pirate Rants, a popular feature in the studentBy Steve newspaper,Tuttle often exposes the exquisite agony of college life these days.

STUDYING ABROAD, STAYING HOME 32 ECU’s global understanding classes allowBy Spaine students Stephens to see and talk to other students all over 30 the world.

PAY IT FORWARD 40 Ruffin McNeill built a solid coaching careerBy Bethany by always Bradsher stepping up and never over the people around him. Children meshed creative skills with more than 100 visual DEPARTMENTS and performing artists at the sixth annual Youth Arts Festival 40 FROM OUR READERS ...... 3. on the Mall. THE ECU REPORT ...... 5. Photograph by Cliff Hollis SUMMER ARTS CALENDAR ...... 16 FROM THE CLASSROOM ...... 36. PIRATE NATION ...... 46. CLASS NOTES ...... 49. UPON THE PAST ...... 60. from the editor from our readers summer 2010 EastThe Magazine of East Carolina University

Volume 8, Number 4 The photo was in poor taste East is published four times a year by I received my copy of magazine this of sexism. I was wrong. has strengthened Read East online at East East Carolina University Teen smoking week and I wish to commendEast you on an its existing internal review procedures to begin www.ecu.edu/east It was, thank goodness, one of those government reports that didn’t Division of University Advancement screening photographs for gender issues, just as we 2200 South Charles Blvd. overall good publication. I appreciate the gather dust on a shelf somewhere. Greenville, NC 27858 range of people featured in the magazine already were screening content for racial diversity and other concerns. Back in 1999, in one of his last major initiatives before completing his and I think that for the most part, the h Tangerine Bowl was in ’64 fourth term in office, Gov. Jim Hunt created the Governor’s Task Force publication reflects well on East Carolina The entire magazine is testament to the for Healthy Carolinians. Hunt asked a number of professionals and lay EDITOR University. How unfortunate, then, that the Steve Tuttle ’09 feature piece on Kristen Dalton does not outstanding things happening in Greenville people to brainstorm and set healthcare goals the state should attempt 252-328-2068 / tuttles@ecu edu. and eastern North Carolina. However, I to meet by the year 2010. After a year of work, the task force issued its uphold the otherwise high standards of the publication.It is certainly appropriate to do have one correction to point out. On recommendations, including one widely thought at the time to be overly ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER Brent Burch report on the successes and achievements of page 4 of the Spring issue, the bottom ambitious: Slash by half the number of teenagers who smoke. Back then, a nationally known alum such as Ms. Dalton, picture shows Coach Clarence Stasavich nearly four out of every 10 North Carolina teenagers were using tobacco. PHOTOGRAPHER and the cover photo of her appropriately exiting our plane following a bowl trip to Forrest Croce Orlando. The problem is the date. During The recommendations initially received a flurry of media coverage but shows her engaging in a public service my four undergraduate years at ECC, we the story soon died. Then, in 2003, the N.C. Health and Wellness Trust COPY EDITOR activity, as do the photos on pages 22 and How do I subscribe? Jimmy Rostar ’94 25. The photograph spread across pages 20 played in three football bowl games, 1963 Fund accepted the task force’s challenge by launching several initiatives Send a check to the ECU Foundation. and 21, is, however, entirely inappropriate in the Eastern Bowl and in two Tangerine How much is up to you, but we suggest to reduce teen tobacco use. This spring, the trust fund released a survey CONTRIBUTING WRITERS for magazine. Instead of dispelling the Bowls. In 1964 we defeated the University a minimum of $25 . Your generosity is of more than 7,000 students showing that the middle school smoking Marion Blackburn, Bethany Bradsher, East of Massachusetts 14-13 on a 2-point appreciated . Megan Reavis, Steve Row, Karen Shugart, myth that Miss America is little more than a n 252-328-9550 rate in 2009 had dropped to 4.3 percent and the high school rate Spaine Stephens, David McKay Wilson Barbie doll that breathes, this article and the conversion. The pre-Disney World trip n www ecu. edu/dev. t dropped to 16.7 percent, an all-time low. In order words, we are right on photo on pages 20–21 have trivialized Ms. to Orlando was quite an experience for a n give2ecu@ecu edu. CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER track to achieve a seemingly impossible goal. young college student who had never flown Join the Alumni Association and receive Cliff Hollis Dalton and her accomplishments. — on an airplane until then. We had some a subscription as well as other benefits In human terms, those numbers translate into 53,865 teenagers who were Dr. Donna L. Lillian great teams and certainly some outstanding and services . Minimum dues are $35 . CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATOR Associate Professor, Discourse and Linguistics n saved from nicotine addiction. That’s roughly equal to the population of 1-800-ECU-GRAD Mike Litwin ’01 Associate Chair, ECU Department of English players in those years. As a freshman in n www .piratealumni co. m Rocky Mount. 1963, I remember beating Wake Forest in n alumni@PirateAlumni co. m CLASS NOTES EDITOR Editor’s note: the inaugural game in Ficklen Stadium. The Join the Pirate Club and get the magazine This remarkable success in slashing teen smoking is mainly attributed to Joanne Kollar A dozen other readers wrote to ECC Pirates ran the last single-wing offense as well as other benefits appreciated by the Truth/Reality/Unfiltered media campaign (www.realityunfiltered.com) ecuclassnotes@ecu edu. express similar reactions to the photo. We intended sports fans . Minimum dues are $75 . launched by the Health and Wellness Trust Fund, which now is led it to be dramatic but in hindsight I can see it n 252-328-4540 ADMINISTRATION is, as one writer said, “way too New York for n www ecupirateclub. co. m by ECU’s own Chuck Willson. You probably have seen some of the Michelle Sloan n contact@ecupirateclub co. m Greenville.” Ms. Dalton’s schedule was such that campaign’s TV spots, which feature testimonials by real North Carolina h she was not in North Carolina during the time Contact us teens on the dangers of smoking. One of the most memorable spots we were producing the story, so we had to rely n 252-328-2068 features Reena Roberts of Asheville, who began smoking at 13, became Assistant Vice Chancellor n easteditor@ecu ed. u for University Marketing on supplied art, mainly images available from n www ecu. edu/eas. t Clint Bailey hoarse at 19 and lost her voice box to throat cancer at 21. the public information officers at military bases Customer Service The campaign is successful because it relies on a peer-to-peer approach, where she had appeared, usually as a part of To start or stop a subscription, USO shows. The cover photo shows her speaking or to let us know about a change of not a parent’s sermonizing. It also looks at things that are most relevant East Carolina University is a constituent institution of address, please contact Lisa Gurkin, The University of North Carolina. It is a public doctoral/ at a Pentagon event promoting motorcycle safety. gurkinl@ecu ed. u or 252-328-9561 to kids these days, such as a survey that found that 90 percent of teens research intensive university offering baccalaureate, master’s, There were lots of pictures available from the don’t think smoking is attractive, and 70 percent would rather get specialist and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts, sciences Send letters to the editor to and professional fields, including medicine. Dedicated to the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, but we easteditor@ecu ed. u or 1206 Charles Blvd . romantic with someone who doesn’t smoke. Now that’s a good way to achievement of excellence, responsible stewardship of the chose to use very little of that. For the dramatic get a teenager’s attention. public trust and academic freedom, ECU values the Building 198 contributions of a diverse community, supports shared opening photograph, we purchased an image from Mail Stop 108 governance and guarantees equality of opportunity. the Reuters News Agency, which had covered a East Carolina University Greenville, n C. . 27858 ©2010 by East Carolina University joint publicity event for Miss USA and Miss Send class notes to Printed by Progress Printing Teen USA. I thought that by not including any ecuclassnotes@ecu ed. u U .P . 10-224 62,000 copies of this public document were printed at a cost of $35,689 or $ .58 per copy . swimsuit pictures we would avoid an appearance or use the form on page 51

2 3 from our readers the ecU Report in America. Thank you for continuing to believe the picture is from 1964. In 1964 Remembering my fraternity highlight both programs and people in the everyone wore tangerine colored bow string Thanks for the mention of the Phi Kappa magazine. Those of us who have moved ties with Tangerine on one string and Bowl Alpha fraternity in the Winter issue. I was a from the area and find it difficult to return on the other. I believe Coach Stas is wearing member of the fraternity (which was) the first ECU again wins service award during the academic year truly appreciate that kind of tie. to have a chapter room off campus (in the For the fourth year in a row, East Carolina was Cliff H ollis reminiscing about our days on campus. — Alexandria, Va. floor above Fleming’s Gift Shop downtown) named to the President’s Higher Education — Michael McShane ’66, and the first to have a leased house off Dr. Bill Dickens ’67 ’68 Editor’s note: Community Service Honor Roll, the highest Professor, Health and Human Performance, Among other alert readers who campus. I believe either Lambda Chi or federal recognition a college or university can Northwestern State University, spotted the error were Marc Duggins ’66 ’67 of Sigma Nu was the first to purchase a house. receive for its commitment to volunteering, Natchitoches, La. Conway, S.C., and Andrew Di Giovanni ’97 Greensboro —Fred Robertson ’60, service-learning and civic engagement. of Raleigh. Something good came from this typo: My wife and I enjoy the publication. It Leo’s dreams came true “This is national recognition for the entire is exciting to get the copyEast and read through Several old teammates got back in touch with each other and I learned more about an important bit In the spring of ’59, Leo Jenkins met with ECU community,” said Mike Loeffelman, it, usually front to back, all at one time. a group of us men who were to graduate volunteer coordinator for the university’s Having grown up in Greenville, I especially of East Carolina history. Liked the Mark Kemp story in May. He asked us to “talk up ECC” to Volunteer and Service-Learning Center. The enjoy seeing some of the “old” items, young men about coming to our school. center strives to engage students in activities I enjoyed the article on Mark Kemp ’89 by pictures and articles, since I frequently “We need more male students here. One day that strengthen communities, promote an David Menconi. Also, the photography and recognize the photos, the people and the we will play ACC schools and be a university, enduring commitment to civic responsibility layout were wonderful. I’m so glad to know event mentioned. This brings me to the and we need your help getting those things,” and enhance the academic experience. More more about Mark Kemp and his ties to reason that I am writing and that is in he told us, as best I can remember verbatim. than 11,000 students are registered at the ECU. What a talented guy! I devoured the reference to the photo on page 4 of the I came away thinking “What a dreamer.” VSLC, and students performed more than Spring issue! Keep up the good work, and Spring edition, which has a caption “Coach It turns out I was oh so wrong! All Leo’s 161,700 hours of service last year for a wide keep the magazine coming to us. Clarence Stasavich… Tangerine Bowl.” dreams came true. range of projects and organizations. 1960 — Tarboro ECU played in the Tangerine Bowl two years Dana Stone, Wake Forest in a row, Dec. 12, 1964, and again on Dec. —Bob G. Daniels ’59, “Our nation’s students are a critical part of 11, 1965. They also played in the Eastern Congratulations on the degree the equation and vital to our efforts to tackle Bowl in 1963 but did not play a bowl in I just finished reading the Spring 2010 the most persistent challenges we face,” said 1960. I was in attendance at all three games. edition [about you graduating from ECU Patrick Corvington, CEO of the Corporation Also in the photo at the top of the ramp is last May] and I just wanted to write and say for National and Community Service, assistant coach Odell Welborn (in dark suit it is indeed an honor to have you in the ranks which oversees the Honor Roll. “They have on left) who used to coach at Rose High but of the blessed few who have shared the ECU achieved impactful results and demonstrated joined the ECU staff in late 1959. I played experience and lived to tell about it. I read the value of putting knowledge into practice football for two years (’63–’64) at ECU every page of every edition, and I especially to help renew America through service.” During a tour of Campus Kitchen’s new home at Todd Dining Hall, Kim Caudle explains how the project will cut food waste and address hunger. but got hurt. I was sports editor of enjoyed the last issue and the article on the ECU has been named to the Honor Roll and also a cheerleader forThe a year. East Jenkins family as I had the opportunity to Carolinian each year since the recognition program meals to those in need through partnerships Army with its Freedom Team Salute Award — Raleigh be in grad school when he was president and began in 2006. Awards will be presented at Judy ’69 and Jim Newman ’68 ’74, served on the Grad School Advisory Board. with the Ronald McDonald House and the signed by Secretary of the Army John M. You had a picture of Coach Clarence the National Conference of Volunteering Great article on Marc Basnight. Little Willie Center. McHugh and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Stasavich coming home from the Tangerine honoring Senator East and Service Conference in New York in June. George W. Casey Jr. The N.C. chapter of Charlotte “I believe that when we feed the hungry Bowl in 1964, not 1960. Behind him was Thank you for the 30 Years Ago remem­ —Joe Harwood ’75, — Give2TheTroops nominated the center. ECU News Bureau in our community, especially children, we Ted Day, Dave Bumgarner and Coach Odell brance regarding Sen. John East. We often Editor’s note: Through the center, more than 1,000 Joe and I crossed paths frequently in not only strengthen their bodies but their Welborn. This was after ECC had beaten U. read about teachers or professors who have Students volunteer to fight hunger ECU students volunteered to pack care the 1990s when I was editing the North Carolina minds,” said Sarah Schach, a member of Mass on Dec. 12, 1964. Just do not want to the most impact on a student, and Dr. packages and supplies for service members magazine in Raleigh and he was a top lobbyist East Carolina is the first college in the UNC Campus Kitchen’s ECU leadership team. forget the old days. I enjoy East was mine. He was without doubt the overseas. The center is “a favorite place for East. for Duke Power Co. in the General Assembly. system to open a Campus Kitchen, a project Mike Lysaght, resident district manager for Portsmouth, Va. brightest and most intelligent man I have students to go,” said Shawn Moore, the Richard Huneycutt ’64, He worked with Duke Power CEO Bill Lee that will bring student-powered hunger relief Aramark, said the company welcomed the Co-captain of 1963 Pirates ever known, and he always had time for me. I center’s community partner coordinator. for passage of the state’s first modern economic to Pitt County. ECU’s Volunteer and Service- partnership. “The big question I get asked was stationed in Germany when I read the “Everybody’s touched by the military in On page 4 of the Spring issue of there development laws, including the use of incentives Learning Center and Aramark opened the all the time is, ‘What do you do with all that East front-page headlines that some way, especially in this area. I think is a picture of Coach Clarence Stasavich Stars and Stripes to attract industries. Bill Lee died unexpectedly kitchen in late February at Todd Dining Hall. leftover food?’ I finally have an answer.” day in June 1986. Like so many others, I was that it empowers students to feel like they’re deplaning from what the caption says is then, and the law—copied by other states and still Using surplus food from campus dining shocked our country had lost such a patriot. The Volunteer and Service-Learning doing something for the troops.” the 1960 Tangerine Bowl game. Actually, I on the books here—was named in his honor. Joe now halls, student volunteers prepare and deliver — Prior Lake, Minn. Center recently was honored by the U.S. David Whitley ’71, manages Duke’s wholesale contracts in the Carolinas. 4 5 the ecu report Cliff H ollis New transplant surgeons arrive The outlook for people with kidney failure got brighter this year with the addition of two transplant surgeons at the Brody School Cliff H ollis Neel (left) and Tommie Thomas learn they are headed of Medicine. Drs. Jason Rolls and Robert to Wake Forest University-Baptist Medical Center in Harland are kidney transplant specialists Winston-Salem, where Neel will train in anesthesiology. who have made an impact since arriving in January. In the first three months of this year, ECU performed 18 kidney transplants compared to 38 in all of 2009.

The man—and his family— hinges on private giving,” said School of received a doctor of dental surgery degree whose name graces the building Dentistry Dean James Hupp. “Dr. Ross’ from Northwestern University Dental very generous philanthropic gift will School in 1953, and a master of science On his first day working as a dentist, he propel us toward greatness, allowing us to degree in orthodontics from UNC Chapel saw 16 scheduled patients and several other Jason Rolls Robert Harland accomplish our grand vision of improving Hill in 1959. Before going to college, Ross walk-ins and was so tired at the end of the health and quality of life of North served for three years in the U.S. Marine Rolls came from New York Presbyterian the day he had to rest at his desk before Carolinians by leading the nation in Corps. He is married to Alta Dant Ross. Hospital, where he completed a fellowship in attempting the drive home. Dr. Ledyard community-based, service-learning dental He has four children, Dr. Dennis Ross of abdominal organ transplantation. He has a E. Ross ’51 kept up the same sort of education. We cannot thank him enough.” Greenville, Cynthia Teague of Raleigh, medical degree from Columbia University in grueling schedule for the next 38 years at Kathryn Ross Pitts of Huntersville, and Chancellor Steve Ballard said Ross’ gift will New York and completed residency training his Greenville orthodontics practice. Since Jody Ross Odaniell of West Linn, Ore. be used for student scholarships, faculty at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Harland retiring in 1991, he has given back to the Ross’s mother and sister attended ECU, as research and other academic enterprises. arrives from the University of Chicago community that gave him so many patients did one of his daughters. Medical School, where he was associate over the years, including a $250,000 gift “This generous gift…puts us in a position professor and director of the Multi-Organ last year to the Boys and Girls Clubs of to support faculty and students at its Ballard told trustees that securing operating Transplant Fellowship Program. He has a Pitt County and a $4 million pledge this inception,” Ballard said. funds for the dental school is his top priority for this year’s legislative session. medical degree from Duke University and year to East Carolina to support its new The General Assembly appropriated about The General Assembly appropriated completed residency training in surgery and dental school. $90 million for construction of ECU’s $3 million for operations last year, but the a fellowship in transplant surgery at Duke. dental school and 10 community-service In honor of Ross’ gift—one of the largest school needs another $11 million to begin They join Dr. Carl Haisch on the ECU learning centers in rural and underserved in East Carolina’s history—the trustees hiring faculty. transplant surgery team. voted to name the dental school building areas of the state. The first three locations “I saw that this was a tremendous Ledyard E. Ross Hall. Now rising on the announced for those centers are Sylva, “We understand the economic condition opportunity, a good pool of patients and a More than half of the students graduating from the Brody School of Medicine Health Sciences Campus, Ross Hall, with Ahoskie and Elizabeth City. Dental of the state, and we are taking nothing for this semester are going into primary care residencies, according to the results of school faculty members will be based in granted,” Ballard said. “I need the help of great hospital,” Harland said of his decision the annual Match Day when BSOM graduates learn where they will perform their about 100,000 square feet of classroom, to come to Greenville. He and Haisch residencies. Of the 65 graduates, 13 are entering some type of internal medicine labs and offices, will welcome its first class the centers, along with advanced dental every board member and everyone possible residency, nine are entering pediatric residency and five are entering obstetrics also plan to restart the pancreas transplant of 50 students in fall 2011. residents and senior students who will to make sure we stay on target.” and gynecology. “I’m so thrilled,” said Crystal Bowe of Ahoskie, who, like 14 of receive enhanced dental education in real program at ECU. her classmates, will be staying in Greenville to pursue a family medicine residency Ross, 84, has supported several ECU As a result of his 2009 gift to the Boys at ECU and Pitt County Memorial Hospital. “I could not wait for today. I dreamed practice settings. The dental school is & Girls Clubs of Pitt County, a new club More than 2,700 North Carolinians are about getting this envelope, and I got my first choice.” Bowe, mother of a 9-year- initiatives over the years. He is a member of expected to have 65 faculty members and old son, said family medicine was the only choice for her. “I like treating the whole was constructed on the grounds of Ayden awaiting a kidney transplant, according to the Leo Jenkins Society and the Order of 100 staff members. family,” she said. “I couldn’t just treat children. I wanted to treat the parents, the Cupola, organizations whose members Elementary School. Named for Ross, the the United Network for Organ Sharing’s too.” U.S. medical school graduates normally complete a three- to seven-year March figures. Another 382 need a liver residency programs. The class of 2010 was accepted into institutions in 18 states have made substantial gifts to the university. Ross attended Greenville High School and facility can serve more than 150 kids daily, transplant, 30 need a pancreas and 81 are in 17 specialties. Thirty-one of the 65 graduates will stay in North Carolina. ECU Hardbarger Business College before being over double the capacity of the facility it was expected to be rated among the 10 best schools for family physicians by a “The difference between being a good admitted to East Carolina College. He replaced. waiting for a pancreas-kidney transplant. prominent national medical organization. dental school and a great dental school

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Alumni giving grows author Jean Chatzky, the financial editor The Women’s Roundtable welcomes Kristen Williams Janessa Jean Long Beatriz Reyes for NBC’s Chatzky also is a women from all walks of life. Participation The number of alumni giving money to contributingToday editor Show. for magazine and in the roundtable is not limited to ECU East Carolina rose sharply last year, which a columnist for the More alumnae. Contributions to the roundtable helped offset a decline in the value of the She is the author ofNew six books, York Daily including News. support ECU’s Access Scholarship university’s endowment caused by the gloom best-sellers program, which provides financial assistance on Wall Street, according to reports which Pay It Down:and From Debt to to a historically underserved group of indicated that ECU’s investments fared Wealth on Her $10 latest A Day best-seller, Make Money, Not students who demonstrate both financial better than many other schools. Excuses.was released in January 2009. HerMoney blog, 911, need and proven academic potential. The Participation JeanChatzky.com, recently was named one Women’s Roundtable is funding two Access Year Donors rate of the best financial sites for women. Scholarships. 2005 7,783 7 13. % Nationally known humorist Jeanne For more information about the roundtable 2006 8,298 7 .34 Robertson will be the luncheon speaker. and how to become a member, visit 2007 8,311 7 .44 Robertson uses her positively funny style www.ecu.edu/womensroundtable or contact 2008 10,694 9 .29 to illustrate that a sense of humor is an Marcy Romary at 252-328-9580. 2009 12,394 10 .38 approach toward working with people. She believes that this humor attitude can be In a report to the Board of Trustees, Vice Campaign hits $165 million developed and improved, and she outlines Chancellor for University Advancement how to do so while captivating audiences To date, East Carolina has raised more than Mickey Dowdy said ECU ranks third with funny, original stories. $165 million toward its $200 million goal among its 15 peer institutions in alumni for the Second Century Campaign, which Gates Scholars say thanks entirely on studying and pursuing a career Honors college for top students participation in fundraising and fourth The event will conclude with the recognition seeks to raise critical resources necessary for in medicine and not have to be stressed among UNC campuses. of five outstanding alumnae as Incredible Three ECU students are getting a East Carolina University is moving forward many aspects of the university. The Access about how I will pay off my student loans ECU Women and remarks by BB&T CEO great education for free through the with plans to open an honors college on A separate report by the National Scholarship program is one initiative that when I graduate.” and board chairman Kelly King ’70 ’71. campus, with the first students arriving this Association of College and University has supported students across the university. Gates Millennium Scholars initiative, Janessa Jean Long, a native of Ada, Okla., fall. A search committee will hire a dean, Business Officers noted that the 6.3 percent Last year, East Carolina provided 69 Access the nation’s largest and most successful came to ECU for a master’s degree in and officials are looking for a place to house drop in the value of ECU’s endowment last Scholarships sponsored by individuals, scholarship program for African- counselor education, which she finished the program on campus, Provost Marilyn fiscal year is well below the national average. foundations, corporations and organizations Americans, Native Americans and other in May, to complement an undergraduate Sheerer said. The university expects that in University endowments nationwide lost an such as the Women’s Roundtable. Many of minorities. Founded in 1999 and funded degree from her hometown college. Her three to five years about 400 students will be average of 18.7 percent then. N.C. State these students might not otherwise have with a $1 billion grant from the Bill scholarship has paid for everything since enrolled in the prestigious program. University took a 14.8 percent hit to its afforded a college education. and Melinda Gates Foundation, the scholarships are unique in that they come freshman year. “Without this scholarship, endowment while UNC Chapel Hill suffered The creation of an honors college—an “Students who receive Access Scholarships in no fixed dollar amount, providing a full my options would have been limited and I a 19 percent decline. Duke University saw upgrade from the school’s current honors are required to sustain solid academic boat ride through undergraduate study, would have been in some serious debt due to the largest drop, at 27.5 percent. program which includes about 900 students progress and complete at least 20 hours of graduate school and post-doctoral work financial constraints. Thank you Bill Gates —will allow the university to recruit better volunteer time through ECU’s Volunteer if necessary. The Gates Foundation works and the American Indian Graduate Center students and faculty, Sheerer said. The Roundtable to focus on and Service-Learning Center,” said Vice with the United Negro College Fund, the for being so generous and helpful!” students in the current honors program are women’s financial issues Chancellor for University Advancement American Indian Graduate Center and Mickey Dowdy. “With this volunteer Beatriz Reyes, a native of Gallup, N.M., gifted, with SAT scores of 1200 or better The Women’s Roundtable will hold its other similar organizations. We asked the requirement, we hope to instill in these also is in graduate school earning a and a high school GPA of 3.5 or better. third major event, a one-day conference three to talk about how the scholarships students the importance of giving back to master’s in public health. Like Long, Sheerer said the university loses about 100 focusing on women’s financial issues. have changed their lives. their communities to help those that come she, too, has seen the scholarship pay for such students every year, including some The event, to be held Thursday, Oct. after them, like they have been helped.” Kristen Williams, a junior from everything since high school. “The Gates who choose to leave ECU because they are 14, at the Hilton Hotel in Greenville, Plymouth majoring in psychology with Millennium Scholarship provides me not challenged enough. will be packed with useful, entertaining In these difficult economic times, private a pre-med minor, is the first one in her with a continued belief that one person “They may come here and get a good information provided through break-out support for scholarships is more important family to go to college. “This scholarship can positively change the lives of many. I academic average and then go on to a school sessions and keynote addresses than ever. Please consider supporting your has given me the chance to aspire to do have learned that [with] quality secondary that they perceive has a better academic university through the Second Century far more than what anyone in my family and post-secondary education, a person The day will begin at 8 a.m. with reputation,” Sheerer said. “But we need to Campaign. For more information visit has ever had the chance to do. It has can truly realize and utilize his or her registration, followed with remarks by Jean Chatzky turn that around to keep them with us.” www.ecu.edu/devt or call 252-328-9550. made my life much easier. I can focus potential.” award-winning journalist and best-selling — ECU News Bureau 8 9 the ecu report

Making dreams come true realized we didn’t really have enough to part of a national movement giving new life Holland to stay through 2014 have a good boutique this year,” says Gagne to the glittering, flouncy outfits that rarely More than 60 girls from families with In a unanimous vote, the Board of Trustees Cloutier, coordinator at the Volunteer and get more than one use otherwise. Local modest incomes have been transformed into approved a three-year extension of athletics Service-Learning Center. “We didn’t have businesses also rose to the occasion, with one prom queens for a day by a volunteer center director Terry Holland’s contract until the sizes they needed. When a girl comes in jewelry store offering earrings and necklaces. on campus that provided them with gowns to Dec. 31, 2014. The contract, which was and is so excited, and you have to send them Restaurants offered meals, and salons wear on one of high school’s biggest nights. set to expire next year, continues Holland’s away, it’s a difficult moment for them to walk volunteered to give the girls elegant hairdos The Fairy Tale Boutique, led by coordinator annual salary at $356,400. Chancellor out without one.” and manicures. Jessica Gagne Cloutier, started collecting Steve Ballard noted that none of his senior gently used prom dresses, shoes, costume A prom dress means a lot to a young ECU’s Fairy Tale Boutique is by invitation administrators are receiving raises in the jewelry and accessories for deserving girls in woman who’s already struggling with other only. Guidance counselors at area schools current budget climate. 2008. After two years of making some big hardships. Some of the girls have had select young women, who visit campus to Terry Holland Holland came to ECU in 2004, has overseen dreams come true, the boutique is taking exhausting illnesses; others have lost parents pick out their dress. Students help them and Jeff Lebo athletics department improvements such as a break to restock. A drive will continue and are living with relatives. Some girls have select a style and fit that’s just right. higher academic achievement by student- through the fall to collect prom dresses, fancy endured house fires that left them with For students, it’s a chance to learn skills like athletes, increased attendance at football shoes, tiaras, unopened make-up and hair nothing. For all of them, going into a nice managing inventory and working in small games and enhanced facilities. supplies for next year’s prom goers. dress shop and spending hundreds of dollars groups. Students are now helping to advise basketball coach. Lebo received a six-year where he compiled a 96-93 record. He for a single night is out of the question. East Carolina’s sports programs are closing “We’ve given away so many dresses, that the boutique as part of a new committee contract worth about $3.4 million, excluding began his head-coaching career at Tennessee in on another profitable year, with revenue when we went through our inventory we The Fairy Tale Boutique began at ECU as which met for the first time this spring. performance incentives. Tech in 1998 before moving to Tennessee- over budget, expenses under budget and a Chattanooga four years later. He went to The dress drive hopes to net around 400 projected surplus of more than $900,000 “I feel like the luckiest guy in the world right Auburn in 2003. He compiled winning dresses, giving student volunteers the chance out of a $25.7 million budget. Giving a now,” Lebo said at his introductory press Cliff H ollis records at all three schools. to have them pressed and ready for next year’s mid-year report to the Board of Trustees, conference. “I have never been so happy in my prom season. The boutique will also accept Senior Associate Director of Athletics Nick life to get a 4:00 a.m. wake-up call to catch a “I can’t stand up here and tell you how many bridesmaids gowns and evening dresses, which Floyd indicated most of the surplus comes plane to come here today and be named head wins we’re going to have, but I can tell you a also make good prom attire. Donated items from football tickets and game guarantees. basketball coach at East Carolina.” He was couple of things. One, you’re going to see a should preferably come from 2005 or newer The university had expected to generate unemployed less than two weeks. team out there that’s going to play hard. The and shouldn’t have any holes or tears. Nice about $5 million in such revenue by mid- one thing that I don’t coach is effort. I expect Lebo becomes ECU’s third basketball coach vintage gowns are also welcome. year but actually brought in $5.9 million. that. We want to play smart. We want to play in four years and will attempt to do what The conference football championship together. We want guys who understand our “This shopping experience is really a blessing his predecessors couldn’t: produce a winning game generated $708,550 in revenue, Floyd core values: being accountable, dependable, to me,” wrote Jasmine, a student from South team for a school that sits in the shadow of said. Women’s sports programs, at $4.3 reliable and trusting. Those things aren’t just Central High School. “I know that my mom several big-time college basketball programs million, represent about 17 percent of the important on the basketball floor. They’re couldn’t afford to buy one right now because on a campus where it’s probably the fourth entire sports budget. The athletic fund important in other areas of their lives as well, she’s on a fixed income. What I really like is most popular sport, after football, baseball was projected to have a $2.3 million fund like academics and social settings. Those are that I got the color that I really wanted in a and women’s softball. Lebo becomes the balance by June 30 end of the fiscal year, up the things I believe in and that we’re going to prom dress—I really thank you guys for this 11th coach during a stretch in which the from $1.8 million one year ago. instill in this basketball program.” opportunity.” Pirates have had 28 losing seasons in 35 With continued support, the Fairy Tale years, hasn’t been to the NCAA tournament Lebo was part of a Tar Heel program that A lucky bounce for Lebo Boutique could one day become an since 1993, and last had a winning record posted a 116-25 record during his four years independent community project. It may Jeff Lebo, a three-time All ACC Tournament in the 1996–97 season. However, plans as a starter. In 1989, Lebo was honored as also offer tuxedos and formal attire for selection and a point guard on Dean Smith are moving ahead to build a new basketball the school’s top student-athlete. He still young men. To contribute to the Fairy Tale teams that made four straight Sweet 16 practice facility, which observers say will ranks eighth on Carolina’s career assists list Boutique or donate a dress, shoes, costume appearances, will try to jumpstart an ECU boost recruiting. and 24th on its career scoring chart. He is married to the former Melissa Mills of jewelry or other accessory can contact the basketball program that hasn’t had a winning “I’ve been at some places where I was told Williamston and they are the parents of two Volunteer and Service-Learning Center, Old season in 13 years. Lebo, 43, who was I was committing coaching suicide going daughters and a son. Lebo’s father-in-law Cafeteria Complex, East Carolina University, fired in March after six mostly successful there,” Lebo said. “This is certainly not one is former ECU football letterman Dennis Greenville NC 27858. Or, contact Jessica seasons at Auburn University, succeeds of those places. I think it’s in a lot better “Dink” Mills ’66 ’76, the long-time football Gagne Cloutier at [email protected]. Mack McCarthy, who accepted a job in shape than some other places I have been.” coach and athletics director at Williamston sports fundraising after three seasons as Lebo had coached Auburn for six years —Marion Blackburn High School.

10 11 the ecu report Cliff H ollis

News briefs Research dollars swell: East Carolina was awarded $30.5 million in research grants in the second half of 2009, nearly doubling

the $17.2 million awarded in the same 2008 Kyle Summers period, according to a report to the trustees by Vice Chancellor Deirdre Mageean. She Biologists find monogamous frog: A trio of noted that ECU is being more aggressive in biologists, including two from East Carolina, seeking public and private funding for research have discovered in Peru the first confirmed projects on campus, with 238 proposals species of a monogamous amphibian, submitted in the second half of 2009 better known as the compared to 210 in the year-ago period. Ranitomeyamimic poison imitator, frog—a finding that provides Bonds issued for construction: East Carolina groundbreaking insight into the ecological will issue up to $38 million in special factors that influence mating behavior. The obligation bonds to finance construction of findings, published in the April issue of may be the most solidThe new Olympic sports facilities on campus American Naturalist, and for completion of renovations to Wright evidence yet that monogamy can have a single ecological cause. “We were able to tie the Place and Tyler Residence Hall. Student fees These Delta Zeta sisters were among hundreds of alumnae who returned to campus in and dorm rental income will be used to repay March to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the eight original sororities at evolution of monogamy and the evolution Brainy ball players: East Carolina ranks La Manga Club in Murcia, Spain. She is the bonds. Moody’s has given East Carolina East Carolina—Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Omricon Pi, Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi Delta, Chi Omega, of biparental care to variation in a single in the top five nationally in the number the first ECU women’s golfer to earn her Delta Zeta, Kappa Delta and Sigma Sigma Sigma. Dozens of photos from the various ecological factor, and that’s rare,” said ECU of students on the baseball team who had LET or LPGA Card. bonds a relatively high rating of Aa3. The reunion events can be seen at the Alumni Association’s web site, www.piratealumni.com. biology professor Kyle Summers. earned their diploma before playing their $11 million renovation of Tyler begins this Wright Place remodeling: Starbucks comes senior season. Eight players on the squad had summer and will be completed in 2012. totally proficient in English, and others, Center accredited: The Breast Wellness Center Student named top journalist: to campus this fall when the company graduated by the start of the 2009 season such as foreign professionals here on at ECU received accreditation from Carlton Purvis ’09, a double major in opens a store in the remodeled Wright Language academy opens: East Carolina and 14 others received diplomas during fall business and spouses of international the National Accreditation Program for Breast communication and anthropology who was Place food court adjacent to the bookstore. is opening an academy to provide intensive graduation exercises. English-language instruction to international faculty. Many community colleges offer Centers, part of the American College of a copy editor and news editor of the student Also coming are a new Burger Studio and a similar programs, but those are often geared Surgeons. ECU demonstrated compliance with newspaper, , was named Golfer gets her card: ECU star golf Sbarro’s Pizza. The existing Einstein’s Bros. students and professionals from overseas. The East Carolinian The ECU Language Academy will begin in more for vocational work whereas the ECU standards of leadership, clinical management, the College Journalist of the Year by the team member Emelie Lind ’08 earned Bagels will be updated. While the food court June. The program will serve international program will focus more on higher-order research, community outreach, professional Southeast Journalism Conference. He’s now her 2010 Ladies European Tour (LET) was closed for the remodeling, two mobile communication. education and quality improvement. a multimedia journalist at the card after recording a 15th-place finish at food units were set up outside offering hot students enrolling in ECU who are not Morning News in Florence, S.C. the 2009 LET Qualifying School at the and cold meals.

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YEARS AGO YEARS AGO YEARS AGO YEARS AGO 100 75 50 35 Teaching teachers to farm Campus beautification begins Nursing’s first dean arrives Medicine moves into Ragsdale “The public school teacher A growth spurt that adds 10 new Eva Warren (at registration With funding from the state of the near future is going buildings and doubles the size of table) arrives in the spring finally in hand, East Carolina’s to be required to have Main Campus leaves the grounds of 1960 as the first dean new School of Medicine sets up a much more definite cluttered with debris and ankle- of what will become shop in a remodeled Ragsdale knowledge of farm life… . deep in mud . Plans are laid for the the School of Nursing, Hall in 1975, and the first To meet this need the “largest beautification project ever which then consists of students arrive there two years school should own a farm,” undertaken by the college,” according two rooms in Spilman . later . Ragsdale remains the President Robert Wright to the May 8, 1935, Teco Echo. Many She hires a faculty of four home of the medical school tells trustees in 1910 . The roads and sidewalks around campus (two of whom soon quit) until 1982, when the current school already is leasing are paved, and work begins on and works furiously to be facility opens on the medical 17 acres on which it raises creating a botanical garden . Bridges ready for the 47 students campus . Photos of the first two (with mostly student labor) are built over the lake in Davis who register for the first graduating classes are taken crops and hogs that end up Arboretum, which had been a pig lot . classes that fall . By the on the steps of Ragsdale . Many in the dining hall . Wright The arboretum at the eastern end of time she retires nine of those early students proudly reports that for the 1910 campus eventually provides hundreds years later, nursing has 17 display those photos to prove year the school earned a of the boxwoods, camellias, azaleas faculty members and 238 their status as pioneers . net profit of $375 09. from and other shrubs planted to beautify students . . its farm operations . the campus . Many thrive to this day . Images courtesy University Archives

U NIVERSITY L IFE ironwood Eastern North Carolina’s Premier Golf and Residential Community work closely with the Dean of the Honors Michael F. Rotondo, College, to be hired by summer 2010, in the professor and chair design of curriculum and service-learning of surgery at Brody programs. School of Medicine and director of the Melani Duffrin, Center of Excellence assistant professor of for Trauma and nutrition, was the Surgical Critical Care College of Human at Pitt County Ecology’s winner of Memorial Hospital, this year’s Scholar- was appointed chair of the Committee on Teacher Award. The Trauma of the American College of Surgeons. award recognizes faculty members who Katie Walsh, athletic training program effectively integrate director in the Health Education and research and creative activity in classroom Promotion Department and one of the teaching. Duffrin and other Scholar-Teacher first females to work full time in men’s Staff and faculty crowded the Willis Award winners presented their research at a professional athletics, was named the most Building for a reception honoring Wanda symposium on campus. distinguished athletic trainer of the year by Scarborough (right), who is retiring after the National Athletic Trainers Association, a 40-year career with the university. She the professional membership association for Take a Closer Look at the Ironwood Lifestyle began as a teller in the Student Bank, then 30,000 certified athletic trainers worldwide. joined the staff of the Student Supply Football coach Store in 1971. She progressed through the Ruffin McNeill ’80 ranks, becoming director of the student was honored by the store in 1996, managing the bookstore on 100 Black Men of Main Campus and the medical bookstore West Texas for at the Brody School of Medicine. She also serving as a role oversees souvenir and merchandise sales at Stephen W. Thomas, dean of the College model to Texas Tech, Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, Minges Coliseum of Allied Health Sciences, was elected where he coached for and Clark-LeClair Stadium. Bryan Tuten, Club Amenities: Real Estate: chair of the Council for Allied Health in 10 years, and the • 12,000 square foot Clubhouse • Quality Real Estate For Any Phase of Life who had been associate director under North Carolina. The CAHNC keeps pace broader Lubbock Scarborough, was appointed interim director. with trends and needs in allied health and community. Accepting for her husband, • Lee Trevino Signature 18 – Hole Golf Course • Built by the Area’s Finest Builders manages statewide workforce studies used in Erlene McNeill ’79 said, “If Ruffin was • Pool and Tennis Facility • Planned Community projecting future educational needs. here, I’m sure he would say: ‘Coaches don’t • Social Activities and Dining • Prestwick – Ironwood’s Newest Garden Home Community Jayne Geissler, director of the ECU cry. Their eyeballs just sweat.’” • Banquet & Meeting Facilities • Homesites from the $40’s Advising Center, has accepted additional Jeff Elwell, dean of the College of Fine • Flexible Membership Categories • New Home Packages from the $280’s responsibilities as the point person Arts and Communication since shortly after • Call or Click Today for Club Tour! • Call or Click Today for More Real Estate Information for campus retention programs and its creation in 2003, is leaving to become services. She will provide leadership for provost at the University of Alabama increasing the retention and graduation Montgomery. Michael Dorsey, a former rates of our students and also serve as a co- dean of both the School of Music and the IRONWOOD IS A PROUD MEMBER OF THE EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Michael Bassman was named the first chair of the Retention and Graduation Task School of Art, was named interim dean HOST OF THE ANNUAL ECU ALUMNI GOLF TOURNAMENT Distinguished Honors Professor in the Force. she will guide the development of until a successor for Elwell is chosen. Under HOME GOLF COURSE OF THE ECU PIRATES MEN’S AND WOMEN’S GOLF TEAMS! Honors Program, soon to become the new a freshmen immersion program for at-risk Elwell, the college grew to more than 106 PROUD MEMBER OF PIRATES SUPPORTING PIRATES Honors College. He will design and teach first-year students. faculty and 2,350 students. honors seminars, advise honors students and

14 200 Golf Club Wynd, Greenville, NC 27834 | 252-752-GOLF | www.ironwoodgolf.com | www.ironwood-realty.com15 summer arts calendar The beach, the stars music ECU Summer Music Camps Suzuki Institute Scheduled for July 4–9, the camp offers training for students The once-every-three-years Orff- and teachers that includes private Schulwerk program for music teachers lessons and small master classes, as of students in grades K–8 will run June well as group repertory for all levels 21–July 2 in the ECU School of Music . from Book 1 through advanced study . ECU Performance Schedule The instructor will be Vivian Murray Separate instruction in orchestra, The Fantastics Caputo . The workshop combines music, chamber music, fiddling and cello are June 15–17 at 7 p.m. drama, speech and movement into offered . The program will conclude with “Meet the cast” June 15 at 2 p.m. lessons that resemble child’s play . Linda a concert July 9 at 3 p .m . “A La Carte Afternoons” High of the ECU music school’s music ECU Vocal Pedagogy Institute This June 16 and 17 at 2 p.m. education program expects about summer’s institute runs July 12–13 and Dance: Moonshine and Molasses 25 teachers to participate . For more will feature Clifton Ware, professor June 22–24 at 8 p.m. information, call her at 252-328-4277 or emeritus of vocal pedagogy at the Outdoor Pavilion send e-mail to highl@ecu edu. . “Meet the cast” June 22 at 2 p.m. University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, “A La Carte Afternoons” Band Camp This year it’s June 13–18 whose theme will be “Explorations: June 23 and 24 at 2 p.m. for students in grades 6–12 with full Discovering Your Authentic Voice ”. concert band, small ensemble and solo George M. Cohan Review Guitar Workshop This workshop, performance opportunities . Special June 29–July1 at 8 p.m. scheduled July 23–26, combines Outdoor Pavilion coaching will be provided in jazz instruction with performance, and this “Meet the cast” June 29 at 2 p.m. performance techniques . The camp year sees the return of popular Italian “A La Carte Afternoons” ends with a concert June 18 at 7 p .m . June 30 and July 1 at 2 p.m. guitarists Matteo Mela and Lorenzo Choral Conducting Institute, Micheli, who perform as Soloduo . Summer Choral Camp Designed American guitarist Jason Vieaux will for teachers, church musicians, perform, as will Stephen Aron and Duo graduate students and other aspiring Spiritoso, Andrew Zohn and Jeffrey Roanoke Island Festival Park outdoor pavilion conductors, the workshop consists McFadden . Mitch Weverka and Isaac of daily seminars, conducting master Bustos, former ECU solo competition If you’re vacationing near Manteo this present a musical play, a dance program actors and technicians drawn mainly students’ skills when they work in a classes, discussions, peer interaction winners, will appear in a duo recital, and and ensemble singing . The camp is summer and already have seen The Lost and a musical revue . from the university community, “and different place,” he says . last year’s solo competition winner, Chad for rising seventh grade through 12th Ibison, will play . The performers serve as Colony many times, be sure to drop The play is The Fantasticks, with we will have at least as many of our Two summers ago the Loessin grade singers . The two programs run teachers during the workshop, which is by the Roanoke Island Festival Park performances June 15–17 . A week students involved as we usually do, Summer Theatre performed at June 20–25 . open to students of all skill levels . to take in the live theatre and drama later, June 22–24, a full-length jazz though we probably will be using fewer the renovated Turnage Theater in performances by ECU’s Loessin Summer dance work by ECU’s Tommi Galaska, stagehands,” Woodruff says, mainly Washington while improvements Theatre and the arts departments at Moonshine and Molasses, will be because the productions are smaller in were under way at Messick Theatre seven other UNC system schools . The presented . The Fantasticks, a popular scale . The Fantasticks, for example, will on campus . Last summer, because of series provides university performing musical by Harvey Schmidt and Tom have seven performers on stage and two budget considerations, the summer arts programs the chance to present Jones, was part of the 2006 Summer musicians; the other two productions series scaled back to one large summer productions in both a small Theatre series . might have as many as 15 on stage . production, Big River, but offered more indoor theater and a larger outdoor Galaska’s jazz dance piece will be set to The ECU portion of the Roanoke Island performances than the usual summer amphitheater . Students are on stage, music by the Uncle Mountain band . play or musical . backstage and working throughout the series will conclude June 29–July 4 with a musical revue based on the songs Woodruff says Roanoke Island officials He also says ECU would not rule out festival through a summer internship discussed the university’s participation program run by the state . of George M . Cohan . Jeff Woodruff, undertaking similar programs in the managing director of the ECU summer “a long time ago about whether we future . “We might do one big show in Throughout the season, music and theatre program, says the final details could do some productions one day, and Greenville and a smaller show on the road, theater programs from East Carolina, on the revue were being decided by this year, that’s what we’ll be doing . They in Washington or in Manteo,” he says . UNC Chapel Hill, UNC Greensboro, UNC are basically hiring us to do the shows ”. artistic director John Shearin and Additional information on the summer Pembroke, Western Carolina University, Michael Tahaney, assistant professor and Woodruff says the chance to perform n C. . A&T University, Elizabeth City State series in Manteo can be found at BFA coordinator for musical theatre . away from the home stage should www .roanokeisland co. m . University and n C. . Central University benefit the students . “It sharpens the will perform free of charge . ECU will The ECU performances will rely on local —Steve Row

16 17 For generations, tobacco paid the way to a better life in eastern North Carolina, but it also brought illness Curing By Marion Blackburn Ph o totimegraphy by forrest croce and disease . Now, tobacco companies are paying millions into a trust fund, led by an ECU doctor, that is addressing chronic health problems caused by tobacco .

18 19 oday, tobacco is still A quarter, or about $1.15 billion, funded the “If you go to other farming areas of the paying the bills in eastern Health and Wellness Trust Fund (HWTF), country, and see their homes and lifestyles, North Carolina, though operating under the North Carolina State and compare it to what we have here in not in traditional ways. Treasurer. The first commissioners were rural areas, there’s a tremendous difference With funding each year from appointed in 2001 and were led by Perdue and it’s all because of tobacco,” Davenport tobacco companies, North until June 2009, when Willson assumed says. “If we had not had that industry here, Carolina has set up two agencies leadership. Based in Raleigh, it has allocated I don’t think ECU would be here,” he adds. dedicated to improving life in about $199 million for preventive health and “The people who made money off tobacco formerly tobacco-dependent counties. $116 million for prescription drug assistance wouldn’t have been here to fight to get it statewide, with about $5.3 million coming here. Then, the support that tobacco gave, One of them, the North Carolina Health to the Greenville and Pitt County area in the from the donations, and the tax base here for and Wellness Trust Fund, focuses on past several years. the last 100 years—it has all been tobacco improving health and especially preventing dependent. Everything came from tobacco. smoking and tobacco use. It is now headed The HWTF has funded high-profile media If not for tobacco, we wouldn’t be here.” by ECU’s own Dr. Charles Willson, who campaigns that have been successful in reducing followed Gov. Beverly Purdue in the role. teenage smoking in North Carolina. One is Despite the bounty tobacco brought the Willson, a pediatrician at the Brody School the compelling Truth/Reality/ Unfiltered East, Willson says the time has come to of Medicine and former president of campaign (www.realityunfiltered.com) and its shift our health habits. “Raising tobacco is the North Carolina Medical Society, is TRU TV public service ads featuring, among an art,” he says. “I watch my neighbor do it bringing a spirit of change to the trust fund, others, a young Asheville woman who lost every year, and tobacco growing in a field combined with a powerful mission to reduce her voice box to cancer. The foundation also is wonderful, but it does cause these health smoking rates among youth. is aggressively targeting obesity. In addition, problems. We need to move beyond that and it funds medication assistance for the elderly, get into healthier lifestyles.” “There is a proud heritage of tobacco in mental health programs and efforts to eliminate eastern North Carolina, but over the years, health disparities arising from ethnicity or race. we have realized that tobacco was causing The problems illness, and that tobacco use was the leading Willson sees the foundation’s goals in An estimated 12,200 adults die each year cause of preventable illness in North personal terms, to “help people lead from tobacco use in North Carolina, the Carolina,” he says. “I love the tobacco healthier lifestyles, so we could try to do trust fund reports. About 1,500 people die heritage, but it’s time to put that aside and what we all want to do—have the longest, each year who don’t even use it; they die from move forward.” most productive life we possibly can, so secondhand smoke. Nationally, 400,000 when the end comes, it doesn’t come from No one doubts that tobacco made the tobacco users die and another 50,000 perish a form of cancer, or severe emphysema, difference in eastern North Carolina, where from second-hand smoke each year. with oxygen tanks, strokes, heart disease or After a long, snowy winter, spring arrived in eastern communities prospered despite isolation and congestive heart failure that tobacco has been In eastern North Carolina, smoking causes a lack of jobs. Greenville and Pitt County North Carolina with freshly plowed fields dotted with known to cause.” even more damage. Cancer could soon were once the largest producers of flue-cured become the number-one cause of death in tiny tobacco plants shooting up in perfect rows. If you tobacco in the nation, most of it high- The settlement created another trust, the eastern North Carolina and in the state quality bright leaf, and that windfall reached Golden LEAF, based in Rocky Mount, to from its current number-two spot, according were raised east of Raleigh, this pastoral scene likely far into the community. Whether you fund economic development in formerly to the ECU Center for Health Services evoked deep memories of hard work and reward. You worked in the fields pulling the slide beside a tobacco-dependent areas. The East Carolina Research and Development, which works mule or ran a restaurant or country store that Heart Institute, the new Family Medicine with researchers to gather and analyze may even know firsthand that for generations, when sold Pepsis and Cokes to hot, tired workers, Center and the metabolic institute are among information about health needs and status in you benefitted from it. the Golden LEAF recipients. it was time for children of farming families to attend eastern North Carolina and the state. In all, Today we know that profitable crop brought These two foundations represent a new the death rate from cancer here is 9 percent college—many of them the first in the family to do so— serious consequences to those who used it. chapter in eastern North Carolina’s long higher than in the rest of the state. In fact, smoking is so harmful the tobacco and complicated relationship with tobacco. the tuition money came from the back-breaking work Among cancers in eastern North Carolina, companies agreed in 1998 to send billions back It’s a relationship typified by long-time Pitt those closely linked with tobacco use of pulling sand lugs, looping leaves to poles and then to states to help them deal with its effects. This County tobacco grower Lawrence Davenport, (cancers of the throat and lungs) are the top agreement, known as the Master Settlement, a former chair of both the Golden LEAF cause of death. Those cancers continue to packing the crop into tin-roofed barns for curing. left North Carolina with an estimated payout Foundation and the Pitt County Memorial be higher here than elsewhere in the state, of $4.6 billion through 2025. Hospital Board of Trustees. and while they are going down among men,

21 Timeline N.C. Health and Wellness Trust Fund 2000 n C. . General Assembly creates trust fund to dispense one-quarter of state’s tobacco settlement money . Chuck Willson is among original 18 commissioners HWTF sets a 10-year goal of reducing middle school smoking rate to 7 .5% 2003 HWTF Launches youth smoking prevention program High school smokeless tobacco use 9 .5% Middle school smokeless tobacco use 4 .5% 2005 Survey finds 41% of pupils have seen teacher or other school official smoke on school grounds . HWTF launches tobacco-free schools program evidence shows the death rate from them have thought tobacco’s dangers only happened “There are naysayers, who doubt that “We ought to be able to control obesity, they are successful, they can be funded in n C. . raises cigarette tax from 5 cents among white women is increasing. In terms after years of use—or to older people. prevention works,” says Vandana Shah, who which is an epidemic,” says longtime health the long term. It is in place at the state’s four to 35 cents per pack . A year later, of the regional disparity, there is hope: the until early March of this year served as the educator Don Ensley, associate professor medical schools. “One of the most powerful ads is when she consumption declines 18% lung cancer mortality rate for eastern North executive director of the Health and Wellness and director of graduate programs in the says what she regrets most is her children In addition, the medical school received nearly 2007 Carolina is decreasing, and at slightly faster Trust Fund. “The fact that we managed in College of Allied Health Sciences. “Obesity will never hear her voice,” Willson says. $500,000 to study the Fit Together grant rate than for the rest of the state. less than six years to cut those (middle school is the next frontier, along with smoking and 10 .5% of middle schoolers think program. The university’s Department of tobacco is “cool” smoking) rates in half has been heartening tobacco use. Obesity is creating havoc in Women are a special focus of many anti- Health Education and Promotion, part of the The programs that, yes, we can make a difference.” public health.” 2008 smoking efforts by the Health and Wellness College of Health and Human Performance, HWTF launches $12 .6 million Trust Fund, which has largely keyed in on Naturally the primary goal of the Health and The next major push is obesity prevention. Ensley wonders if we should tax the food received about $200,000 to study the A+ Fit effort to reduce health disparities Wellness Trust Fund is reducing smoking. in diabetes young people for meaningful prevention. The Many health experts consider childhood industry, as with cigarettes, to recoup the School Designation Program. commission successfully eliminated tobacco obesity a greater threat than smoking, costs of obesity’s lethal effects. Because In addition to the Tobacco-Free Schools and Reflecting on the fund’s ambitions and 2009 on school campuses through the Tobacco- given its recent decline. In North Carolina, overeating, like smoking and other addictive TRU campaigns, the trust fund has awarded accomplishments, Gov. Purdue hails the Chuck Willson elected HWTF chair Free Schools program which began in 2003 two-thirds of all adults (65.7 percent) are health habits, comes down to a choice, more than $29.4 million in Teen Tobacco advances it’s made possible. 115 out of 115 school district in and today boasts that all the state’s 115 Grants since 2003. These grants use peer overweight or obese, according to Eat Smart, whether or not it’s an easy one, Ensley says n C. . are tobacco-free school districts indeed are tobacco free. groups to give presentations about smoking Move More North Carolina, an organization education and awareness may not be enough “The North Carolina Health and Wellness n C. . raises cigarette tax to 45 cents working to improve these numbers. The to make a difference. Trust Fund is a leader in fighting obesity, No doubt the highest-profile effort has and support for quitting while pushing for group notes that North Carolina ranks fifth eliminating health disparities and reducing Beating 10-year goal, middle school been stripping smoking of its coolness tobacco controls especially for young people. “You have people who say, ‘I’m going to smoking rate drops to 4 3%. worst nationally for childhood obesity. teen smoking,” Perdue said in a statement among teenagers. The HWTF launched a While there are no Teen Tobacco grant funded do what I want to do. It’s my body.’ Those for this article. “That’s why I, along with the Middle school smokeless tobacco major anti-smoking campaign across the programs in Pitt County, another program, Overall, 6 percent of all health care expenses are the people we need to address,” he says. use drops to 3 0%. rest of the trust fund, did something that state known as “TRU,” or Tobacco. Reality. Question Why (?Y) has instructed young in the state were related to obesity in “They don’t recognize that others are paying nobody thought we could do by reducing the Smokeless tobacco use down Unfiltered. people from the area as anti-smoking peers. 2003—that’s $2 billion, according to for their health through cost shifting. It’s like slightly to 8 .5% number of teen smokers in North Carolina a reportThe seat belts. When we say you’ve got to wear a High school rate drops to 16 7%,. TRU television spots introduced viewers to These efforts have paid off. While smoking by more than 50,000 since 2003. North fromBurden the of stateObesity Division in North of Carolina,Public Health. seat belt or a motorcycle helmet, it’s because lowest on record, on track to the heartbreaking story of Reena Roberts, was already going down among young Carolina is healthier today in no small part meet 10-year goal when you are hurt, I will have to pay for your a young woman who began smoking at people in the years 1999–2003, since these When you consider that threat within the because of the work done by the Health and Red flag report: 15 4%. of middle campaigns started the rate of decrease has accident or our tax dollars will pay for it.” schoolers think smoking is “cool” 13 and lost her voice box to throat cancer area’s overall health condition—in 2007 Wellness Trust Fund.” at 21. The striking image of her youthful accelerated. Smoking went down more than the death rate in eastern North Carolina The trust granted ECU’s Brody School Yet the trust faces serious threats from Change since 2003 appearance and the grating, mechanical sound 30 percent among high school students in was already 6 percent higher than the state of Medicine more than $250,000 for budget shortfalls, which have driven state Middle school smoking rate of her synthesized voice provided immensely 2003–2007 and dropped by more than 51 rate, which was itself 1 percent higher than IN4Kids, a program studying whether having down 52 7%. Dalton applies lipstick while posing for photographers lawmakers to rob it for other state needs. compelling evidence that cancer knows no age percent among middle school students in the national average—the need for action nutritionists in community clinics helps High school smoking rate on the “Top of the Rock” observation deck at the Since 2002, state lawmakers have diverted down 38 .8% limits. 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22 23 tm more than $489 million from the trust of tobacco use, but he also knows it defined cocaine or heroin. With teenagers, he admits, students? to the General Fund for other needs, says life in eastern North Carolina for decades. you can’t simply say, “Don’t smoke, it’s Barbara Moeykens, social marketing and dangerous,” and expect to see results. His own family grew tobacco in Vance communications director. thy are County, and among his many childhood jobs “One of the challenges is that when you How heal We’re not alone. A study released in was pulling the slide, or leading a mule with talk about future risks, it doesn’t work with East Carolina December 2009 by the Robert Wood Johnson a sled of leaves behind it. adolescents,” he says. “You have to frame it By Megan Reavis Foundation showed that in fiscal year 2010, in terms of something more immediate, such “We didn’t carry it into market in sheets, we states will collect about $25 billion in revenue as, ‘The most popular students don’t smoke.’ were still hand bundling it,” he remembers. from the tobacco settlement and tobacco That you’ll get cancer carries no weight at Every week, about 1,000 East Carolina But while smoking is down, obesity is a weight, blood pressure and blood sugar Farmers graded their own tobacco, he says, taxes, but will spend barely 2 percent of all. You don’t ask, ‘Do you smoke?’ You ask, students walk into Student Health Services growing problem at ECU. In 2007, the measurements and looking into a patient’s after making a fist-sized ball from the golden it—$567.5 million—on tobacco prevention ‘Do your friends smoke?’ It’s safe for them to seeking medical help, and while most are health center diagnosed six student patients social history. By implementing these leaves. “It was a beautiful aromatic display, and cessation programs. Only North Dakota say, ‘Yes, a couple of friends smoke.’” suffering maladies typical of all college as either overweight or obese; one student measurements, Jernigan says the health center and farmers were so proud when they were currently funds tobacco prevention at the level students, increasingly doctors here say they was listed as morbidly obese. Those numbers hopes to establish a plan for student weight on the warehouse floor. It was an event to Changing attitudes from the ground up will recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease are seeing conditions usually found among shot up in 2008 to 45 students considered management and provide more accurate care. go to the auction. My father took me out of take time, a redefinition of our culture Willson their parents—hypertension, obesity, overweight or obese and six as morbidly Control and Prevention. These changes are the framework for a larger school, so I could experience it.” compares to other great historical shifts. diabetes and similar conditions. obese, then decreased in 2009 with 33 modification in student health. Beginning diagnosed as overweight or obese and three The future That pride derived from the sweat of hired “When you look at the history of our “We’re seeing hypertension in 18-year-olds fall semester, a “hard waiver” student health as morbidly obese. But Jernigan says obesity help and family members like himself. “It was economy, there was pain when we went from and more obesity,” says Jolene Jernigan, insurance plan goes into effect at all 16 Hanging in his dining room is a large is on the rise again in 2010. The health very labor intensive,” he says. These days, he’s the horse-drawn carriage to the automobile,” director of clinical operations for Student UNC campuses. Then, all students must painting of a tobacco harvest, which Dr. center recently purchased a new scale to happy to be a physician. “It’s a lot less work.” he observes. “Change is inevitable. If we find Health Services, where 118 students were have health insurance, either as a dependent Dale Newton admits may seem strange for that a product is causing so much disease— accommodate heavier students. As a pediatrician and internal medicine treated for hypertension in 2009 compared on their parents’ policies or under a policy a doctor. Newton, a professor of pediatrics, shortened life span, disability and death—it’s physician, he regularly sees the ravages of to 57 in 2008. Jernigan says most of this “We’re not as healthy as in the past on purchased through the UNC system. The clinical professor of medicine and vice chair important that we move on beyond that.” tobacco use, which includes chewing. He stems from excessive alcohol use by students average because of obesity,” Jernigan says. UNC plan offers basic benefits for students of pediatrics, well knows the harmful effects East compares nicotine addiction to drugs like between the ages of 18 and 20. According Nationwide, 21.9 percent of college and can be expanded to include coverage to a 2009 study by the American College students are classified as overweight and 10 for a spouse and/or children. The annual Health Association, 26.1 percent of college percent are considered obese, according to premium for an ECU student will be $747 students reported consuming between five the American College Health Association. ($373 for the fall semester and $374 for and eight drinks the last time they partied, The U.S. Center for Disease Control and spring). With a deductible of just $150, while 11.6 percent said they consumed nine Prevention reports that 25 to 29 percent of students covered under the UNC plan will or more drinks. North Carolina adults are obese. cover the costs of all services delivered by the Student Health Services as well as a vision High to moderate levels of alcohol Stress, another major health issue across care plan, a basic annual dental exam with consumption can often lead to serious America, is often cited as the leading cause cleaning and several other services. injuries, as Christine Robertson knows from of poor academic performance. Shawnte her experience at Pitt County Memorial Elbert, health educator for ECU Health ECU student Pariss Coleman says the Hospital. An educational nurse specialist, Services, says the most common complaint student health insurance plan is a positive Dale Newton Robertson says alcohol and drugs are what she receives from students is feeling stressed addition to the health system. “I think typically send a student to the hospital. by time-management problems and adjusting it’s a great idea for college students to Injuries such as sprains, contusions and to the college environment. have insurance because it will become a broken bones also are common. “We see responsibility as well as a huge need in Student Health Services is laying the a lot of injuries and trauma that deal with the future,” says Coleman, a junior who is groundwork for several quality improvement substance problems,” Robertson says. currently on her parents’ insurance plan but projects next year when new insurance knows many who don’t have that option. “I According to the requirements will give doctors easier access know people who had to struggle because a 25 percentJournal of college of American students College to students’ health histories. loved one didn’t have insurance,” she adds. consideredHealth, themselves active tobacco smokers “Right now we’re really unable to see any in 2009. Jernigan says Student Health Services Jernigan says she’s optimistic about the pre-existing history,” Jernigan says. The main has seen a slight decrease in the number of student insurance plan. “Overall, student improvements will focus on chart reviews, student smokers over the last few years. health’s decent, but could use improvement. pulling patient information like previous This should help.” Watch a video presentation of this feature story at our web site, www.ecu.edu/east East occasionally publishes original work by ECU students. This writer, a native of Henderson, North Carolina, is a senior majoring in communication. 24 25 The 75 pupils at Union Independent School may come from Durham’s most blighted urban neighborhood but each morning they arrive eager to learn, and cute as Unto the buttons in their blue and yellow school uniforms. A tall man in a stylish suit often is there to greet them outside this new $10 million school, laughing and calling kids by name. He is the Rev. Ken Hammond, the man who transformed the church across the street into a ministerial least of powerhouse, then challenged it to build this academically rich private school and open it, tuition-free, to the most deserving kids from the neighborhood. Welcoming kids to school in the morning, and overseeing youth programs offered by his these church, is what Ken Hammond ’73 ’83 ’85 considers the most important part of his day job. In the dark of night he’s known to slip around Durham as part of his other youth ministry, one he’s uncomfortable talking about until he’s reminded that this work is what landed him on the front page of USA Today. He meets cops, social workers and distraught parents who bring him teenagers, usually boys caught up in gangs whose lives are in imminent danger. As a local conductor on a modern day Underground Railroad, Hammond secretly relocates them to another state. In the pulpit on Sunday morning and the street corner at midnight, Ken Hammond is the man with a ticket to a new life.

26 By steve tuttle

In the story, Hammond says study and extras such as nutrition education, Service Ministry annually prepares and he was USApushed Today to this extreme measure character development, entrepreneurship, delivers thousands of meals. The Ministry after preaching the funerals of six kids in global awareness and economic literacy. of Congregational Care and Counseling two years. He became connected with two provides licensed psychologists and social S ervices U N C Chapel H ill ews He knew people like Troy K. Weaver, a New other ministers in Durham and like-minded workers to counsel congregants experiencing Yorker who came to Duke University to clergymen in Providence, R.I., Washington, a crisis. Often, the church takes care of the become a pediatrician but instead became D.C. and Richmond, Va., who work together mind and body at the same time: During a teacher after volunteering in the local to rescue boys as young as 13 from gangs. a symbolic “Walk to Jerusalem” at Easter, public schools and seeing the enormous He has relocated kids to new homes as far congregants logged 12,938 miles of needs. Weaver became Union Independent’s away as Ohio, often reaching into a church contemplative exercise. headmaster, bringing an academic résumé discretionary fund to give them a few that includes experience as a teacher and Hammond and his wife, Evelyn Patrick hundred dollars to make a clean start. administrator at the prestigious Cary Hammond, an instructional technology “Sometimes, there is just too much danger to Academy, Durham Nativity School and teacher in Orange County schools who keep them here,” he says with sad resignation. Triangle Day School. Weaver structured a earned a master of art education degree But he knows his congregation can save school day that runs from 7:30 a.m. to 6 at East Carolina in 1993, are so dedicated some, a conviction realized in the brick and p.m., with extra tutoring and enrichment to the work of Union Baptist that there Ken Hammond and James H. Johnson Jr. steel of the 49,000-square-foot school across programs. One of his goals is to have pupils is a church ministry focused just on them. the street. bilingual by the eighth grade. The Pastor’s Aide Ministry makes sure the Hammonds have the support and resources “I have given much focus to youth ministry two staff meetings in this millennium,” he was my mentor. He found out I enjoyed Baptist in 1992. magazine they need to do such a big job. Gospel Today for a number of reasons,” he muses. “First, A servant leader says with a smile. That must be why his golf public speaking, and he went out and bought named him one of America’s Most youth today are confronted with many more After 19 years leading 113-year-old Union game remains in decent shape. equipment for me to use to practice.” Beloved Pastors in 2001. He was named an “I believe that it is our job to prepare the next Outstanding Alumni of ECU in 2008. He’s severe challenges than youth of previous Baptist into so many ministries, what Thoughtful and introspective, Hammond generation of leaders and I believe that we a past president of the Shaw Theological generations without the necessary support is Hammond most proud of ? That the A pioneer in integration was active in the SOULS student have a responsibility to ensure that they have Alumni Association and on the board of systems that used to be available. As a result, membership has more than tripled? That the organization and was among a handful of a moral and ethical compass,” Hammond The youngest of five children of a Baptist the Divinity School there. He is a director the church has had to give greater attention congregation met its commitment to open black students who established the Eta Nu says. Plus, he says with an easy smile, minister who pastured churches in Pitt, of the Greater Durham YMCA, Habitat for and resources to youth to ensure that they Union Independent School? Is it that the chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, ECU’s first “working with youth keeps you young.” Martin and Washington counties for 42 Humanity, the Durham County Hospital don’t become a ‘lost generation.’” church budget has grown by more than $2 black fraternity. He was the first African- years, Hammond enrolled at East Carolina Corporation, New Vision Community Union Baptist, which has operated a large million, or that the church now is regarded as American elected senior class president. Opening the elementary school took a lot because it was close to home. His four older Development and the Joyland Foundation. preschool for years, sponsors all the usual a major part of life, leadership and politics He was the student public defender who of prayer and so many fundraisers over the brothers and sisters had left home for N.C. He serves on advisory boards for the scouting and club programs, but you see in Durham? No. represented student newspaper editor Bob past eight years at the 5,100-member church Central and N.C. A&T and were grown Durham Scholars Program and the Durham its real focus in its other youth programs. Thonen ’77 when he was kicked out of that folks lost count. But it also required It’s that the church’s many youth programs by the time he went to college. Living at Housing Authority. He is a director of Duke One is JUMP, for Jesus Understands My school for publishing a letter to the editor financial savvy, knowledge of real estate and have produced 17 young men and women home made it a little easier attending East University Health System. For the past six Purpose, a mentoring program for girls 10- critical of Leo Jenkins. an academic’s understanding of education 12, who later more into Sisters of Promise, a who are following Hammond into the Carolina then because the few African- years Hammond has led total immersion policy. More than anything else, it required support group for girls 14-18. Reaching the ministry and following his example by American students enrolled at the time were After completing his bachelor’s in history, training programs for American pastors to a skill Hammond most definitely has— Unreachables is a group of youth and adult becoming servant leaders. experiencing stiff resistance as the school Hammond was asked by Rudy Alexander, partner them with local pastors in Guyana, leadership, the ability to articulate a vision struggled, peacefully, to fully integrate. leaders who venture into the worst parts of “I see my role as that of a servant attempting then the associate dean of student activities, Jamaica, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Italy. and motivate followers to achieve that dream. Actually, the environment then was a to take a job leading student center activities. town to connect with troubled teens. ACE to model the kind on behaviors I’d like to see He and his wife are the parents of a son, He also had an extensive network of friends little worse than the record indicates, says Hammond accepted and continued working Tutoring provides academic enrichment and in our congregation. I am quite comfortable Brandon, who is sales manager for a Raleigh and professional contacts he could persuade Hammond, who turns 59 in July. on campus, either full- or part-time, tutoring in reading, math and other core in empowering others but also recognize company, and a daughter, Kennetta Hammond to pitch in for a worthy cause. until 1991. He began ministerial work in courses; ACE tutors help high school seniors when I must step to the forefront. I consider “When I enrolled in 1969, the school said Perry, who is an ECU history professor. Hammond knew people like James H. prepare for the SAT and elementary kids for a good leader as one who listens, is empathic, there were 61 black students here but I knew 1974, pastoring Mount Shiloh Baptist in Johnson Jr., the William R. Kenan Jr. end-of-grade tests. persuasive, builds community, and is caring.” every one of them and all I could count was Williamston and Cedar Grove Baptist in “I look back on my days at ECU as the distinguished professor of strategy and 45,” he recalls. Early on, Hammond took Greenville. For years he also was a part-time catalyst for what I do here,” he says. But he The full list of church ministries runs Hammond directs a full-time church staff of entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler a course from professor Albert Conley, the student, earning a master’s in education and can’t give much time to reflection. The new four pages and covers every age group. The nine, plus 13 part-time employees. Managing Business School at UNC Chapel Hill. man who Hammond now says was, after a certificate in advanced study. To those school across the street needs a $35 million Economic Ministry group offers classes in such an enterprise really is a snap, he says, Johnson, a member at Union Baptist, designed his father, the most influential person in ECU degrees he added a doctor of divinity endowment. And he might get a midnight financial literacy. Parish Nursing supports because everyone is focused on the same goal: an operating model for the school that covers his life. The older, white professor took the from Shaw University, where he later taught. call to meet a young man on a dark corner, health-related groups, runs blood drives and saving the lost, healing the sick, and—above the typical elementary school course of young black student under his wing. “He to hand him a ticket to a new life. East promotes careers in health care. The Food all—loving and supporting kids. “We’ve had Hammond became senior pastor at Union

28 29 by steve tuttle illustratION by mike litwin

You see it all over campus on Tuesdays several years; similar columns appear in the that supervises it, Pirate Rants cannot contain and Thursdays when a new issue of student papers at most other universities. illegal or defamatory statements, threaten a student paper comes Theout. certain person or organization, or be sent in Many Pirate Rants are gross or shocking but EastStudents Carolinian pick it up and immediately turn to by any Student Media professional or student amid the crude humor and sophomoric jibes the editorial page to read the Pirate Rants, staff. Otherwise, any topic is fair game. Pirates are some that expose student life for all its an open forum where anybody can e-mail a wonderful diversity, such as this confession: We monitored the Pirate Rants column over thought about most anything they choose, “When I’m alone in my car, I jam out to the past calendar year to glean ones that anonymously, and see it in print, unedited. Christian rock.” seem to offer insights into what it’s like being Under different names, the Rants column a college student these days. They seem to has been a staple of the student paper for Under the policy adhered to by the student fall into the categories below: paper as approved by the Student Media Board

To whom it may concern n I graduate next December and I still don’t completely spill your heart to someone and n To the girl in the Greene Hall elevator: know what to do with my life. Sorry mom. get absolutely nothing in return. n I’m sorry I dropped a case of water on Those raging hormones I no longer invest time thinking about the your foot. past, but the last time I saw you made me n I wish the guys who live across from us n realize it was ALL my fault. To the guy at Chick-fil-A: Thank you would come out on their balcony so we n for using your Pirate bucks for my meal: could stare at them more! Everyone thinks I’ve got my life so together. THANK YOU! Sometimes it’s hard to keep up the show. n Hey ladies, say something and don’t just n n To the person who turned my wallet into stare, it’s creepy. Newsflash: You’re the boy. I’m the girl. You Belk: THANK YOU! text me first or we don’t talk today. n To the blonde who sits across from me in n n To the wonderful person who folded my Shakespeare: if you catch me looking at you, I just got a Dear John text [message]. How laundry in Jarvis: THANK YOU!!! it’s only because I think you’re beautiful. pathetic is that? n n The more boys I meet, the more I love To the tall blonde girl with the cleft lip: n I know I have a boyfriend, but I don’t want I think you are absolutely beautiful! BTW , him, I want you. my dog. anybody reading this that knows who I’m n OK, I’m 5'7" and you’re 6'1", but girl we Stop me if you’re heard this talking about, please let her know just so she can make it work. n sees it! 3.14 percent of sailors are Pi Rates. n Just ask me out already, dang! n n To the girl with the blue L.L. Bean book Gas for the ride to Columbia [for the bag who walks between Dowdy and Rawl Complicated relationships baseball regional tournament]: $100, Hotel for two nights: $237, Ticket to the Carolina every Monday, Wednesday and Friday: You n If a guy sits beside you all through class Cup: $35, Going to the bar only to find that have the sexiest waist and tummy on campus and doesn’t say a word and then suddenly everyone there is from ECU and you already and you know it! starts to talk about the weather as you’re know them: PRICELESS. n To the person who said the girl with a blue walking out of class, does that classify as L.L. Bean backpack had a sexy waist: Thank flirting? Hey, sports fans you. Even if you were not talking about me, n Do you know what it feels like loving n My brother goes to WVU and still will it still made me smile to think MAYBE, just someone who’s in a rush to throw you away? not return my phone calls. I promise I am maybe, it was me you were talking about. n I am FINALLY over you and it feels great. not going to rub the game in your face The real me anymore. I just want to know how Grandma n Boys just come crawling out of the wood- is doing! n I have a 3.7 GPA and still feel like a failure. work as soon as you have a boyfriend, and n Remember those blissful times when ECU n People have told me that I have changed, then when you’re single, they all disappear, sucked at football and we didn’t have to start but the truth is I think I just found myself. and you know what lonely really feels like. waiting in line for tickets at 5 a.m.? anting n R It always amazes me how you can

30 31 Studying abroad, staying home

ECU’s global understanding classes allow students to see and talk to other students all over the world

Nathan Lean’s education went international after his first global understanding class at ECU in 2005. The course, the first of its kind at any university, connects students around the globe through simple technology to break down boundaries and expand students’ perspectives. Through a video link and e-mail chat, ECU students enrolled in the program connect with students at partner institutions to discuss customs, family, college life and a multitude of other topics. “I enjoyed discussing controversial topics like gender roles, religion, stereotypes,” says Lean, who is now a graduate student in international studies. “What I enjoyed most about interacting with my peers in other countries was tackling the tough issues in an open way, addressing the elephant in the room.” That open dialogue appeals to today’s ECU students— so much so that sections of the global understanding course fill up quickly during registration. The program’s Global understanding program founders founders, Rosina Chia and Elmer Poe, want to see Rosina Chia and Elmer Poe additional sections added so that more students can experience learning from other students around the world.

33 by spaine stephens PHOTOGRAPHY BY FORREST CROCE Luci Fernandes teaching in the global classroom What started as a conversation at a break U.S. Embassy and the State Department and student’s journal; it serves only as a measure wish we could share this with you,’” Poe says. during a committee meeting has had traveled the country, teaching music classes for students to see what they’ve learned from Seeing students learn about themselves reverberations for students at ECU and its 28 and performing with Moroccan musicians. their counterparts. “They really see in their through their understanding of another partner institutions in 20 countries. ECU is When he returned to ECU, Lean enrolled in own words how these cultures compare on culture has value beyond the video screen. changing the face of education, and putting the international studies program to add a all the topics,” Poe says. “They can see the “They begin to understand that there a face on each and every culture explored global component to his education. Now, as differences and similarities. The students can are different views of knowledge and through the global understanding course. a graduate student in international studies, see their own attitudes changing.” understanding within one’s culture,” says he serves as a liaison between ECU and its Chia, assistant vice chancellor for global About 1,000 students worldwide take the ECU Provost Marilyn Sheerer. “Issues are foreign global understanding partners. He is academic initiatives, and Poe, associate course each semester, and the planning not black and white, but are somewhat planning a career in cultural diplomacy. vice chancellor for academic outreach, behind that is no small feat. Chia, Poe or relative because of the way they are approached the concept in 2003 in an effort “By interacting with people from a variety other technology and pedagogy experts at positioned within our own experiences in our to boost ECU’s strength in online and of cultures across the globe,” Lean says, ECU travel to each new partner country— families and our communities.” Earlier this distance education and to encourage more “ECU students will be better aware of trips are paid for by the State Department— year, Sheerer and Poe presented the global students to study abroad. The first global the possibilities for collaboration and to meet face to face with facilitators and understanding model to the legislative joint understanding course connected students cooperation at a global level.” government officials to establish a bond. education oversight committee as a part of at ECU and Soochow University in China, Equipment is set up, lighting and sound are ECU’s distance education strategies. “One Poe and Chia thought carefully about what Chia’s native country. Chia bridged the tweaked, and the course schedule is lined up. senator actually stood up and clapped because class format would best allow students to partnership through her connections, and she Because of global time differences, students of the emphasis on global understanding,” be exposed to multiple cultures during a and Poe were encouraged as they set out to at ECU might convene early in the morning Sheerer says, “because he said it was what all semester. The course is divided into three build new, similar affiliations. They worked to meet in real time with their counterparts students need to experience to compete in five-week sessions that include four partner with the U.S. Department of State and who attend class late at night. There have today’s world of work.” universities. Throughout the semester, foreign governments to attract institutions been several instances, Chia says, when the partners switch off so that each one Because the course uses low-cost equipment from potential partner countries. inclement weather caused ECU to open late. communicates through video and e-mail chat like simple Internet connectivity and a The global understanding students came to Today, those partners include Russia, with every other institution. Partners for a video-conferencing computer, and the class at their regular meeting time so as not Pakistan and India. Poe and Chia continue particular semester sometimes are chosen support of the State Department, there is to inconvenience their overseas classmates. to foster new relationships that can benefit based on current world events, Chia says. room to expand the program at no cost to ECU students and other institutions’ For example, ECU began a relationship with With its low cost, far reach and full support East Carolina. Poe, Chia and other program participants as well. Partnerships with institutions in Muslim regions of the world of the university administration, ECU’s administrators continue to work diligently to countries like Namibia, Malaysia and to stimulate that dialogue and understanding. program has earned recognition, including find new worldwide partners that are a perfect Gambia allow students who may have been Different sections of the course focus on the Institute of International Education fit for ECU’s program. The plan is to include exposed to fewer educational opportunities different issues and are taught by instructors and the American Association of University more course sections so that more students to participate. The low cost of equipment whose area of expertise lie in fields like Administrators awards for innovative provide its students a real-time video speech Chia and Poe have seen and heard stories can participate and possibly study abroad and online readings (no textbooks required) anthropology, psychology and sociology. international education. given by the manager of a major Beijing of their own that prove the value of the following their in-class experiences. More put the world in their hands. One facet of the course, with support from academic disciplines and newer technologies “We are the only university that is offering hotel. Health-education majors have used global understanding course. Once, ECU the State Department, will focus on global will link even more ECU students to people, While the course, which is taught universally this type of course,” Chia says. “It is cost the technology to discuss issues like health students were communicating with Pakistani climate and includes the United States, ideas and cultures the world. in English, has global reach, Poe says the effective and sustainable, and there is no disparities, disease and maternity with students who, with 10 minutes of class China, Brazil and India, countries with experience for students remains personal. “I other university with a similar program.” students and professionals in countries like time left, said they needed a break to eat. As a student whose academic and career important roles in global climate change. imagined the power of face-to-face dialogue Moldova. Poe and Chia are using the course’s The ECU students asked them to wait until paths have been altered by the global During the semester, teams made up of However, other universities are modeling changing and shaping student attitudes at all success to encourage other professors to after class, but the Pakistani students were understanding course, Lean also would like students from each country must propose programs after East Carolina’s. “We’ve of the universities,” he says of his hopes for incorporate the format into their classes.“The insistent that they needed to leave right then to see the program expand and introduce a project that has the potential to improve done invited presentations at a number of the course from the beginning. program is helping the faculty see how they but would return. The ECU class waited, new ideas to more students before they climate on a level local to each student. For conferences and schools,” says Poe, “and can integrate these international experiences and their counterparts returned as promised graduate from East Carolina. “The program Lean’s experience struck a particularly other sections of the course, students team some are beginning to move to integrate into their classes,” Poe says. and explained that they needed to break a has a chance to globalize the minds of personal chord. He enrolled in a second up beyond national borders to write papers these ideas and techniques.” religious fast. After that, the ECU students In Patch Clark’s theatre-education courses, ECU students,” he says. “The course has section of the course and won a scholarship and complete projects. would stop class at the time the Pakistani At ECU, the global understanding strategy students traded folk tales with Peruvian the capability of showing them that while through the global understanding program students needed to leave and remind them to Each ECU student is required to keep a is catching on. A global component is being and Russian students. The ECU students learning can take place in a classroom, the to study at one of ECU’s partner institutions go eat. At one point, the Pakistani students journal that records his or her personal added to the curriculum of many colleges then adapted the foreign tales into skits real learning starts when they leave school in Morocco. Then a piano performance returned and held their food up so the ECU growth in respect to beliefs and views of and schools. The College of Human Ecology that they performed for schools all over and go out into the world.” major, Lean developed a program with the class could see it up close. “They said, ‘We other cultures. No professor ever reads a has used video and distance education to eastern North Carolina. Over the years, East

34 35 from the classroom

Bringing business to the arena

ECU’s graduate program in sport management gives students a CEO’s appreciation of the business of fun and games

By Bethany Bradsher

How many reasons are there to get a master’s your gut decisions about sport or based on product that we possibly can,” says Melanie degree focusing on sport management? About your favorite team.” Sartore, the concentration coordinator for as many as the motivations that prompt sport management. “I think our students, Exercise and When it awarded its first degrees in sport science people to pick up a ball and throw, kick they’re coming out, they know what they 2004, ECU’s graduate program in sports faculty members or hit it. To that list you can also add the want and they’re going after it.” Melanie Sartore and management became the first nationally Mark Moore with knowledge that sport is a dynamic business accredited program in North Carolina and Robin Taylor ’06 ’08 was one of those department chair with an array of career opportunities. Any of Stacey Altman one of only 26 nationwide. The curriculum students with a clear goal in mind. As an those reasons can lead to a successful career if borrows from disciplines like finance, undergraduate, she became interested in students understand athletics from the data- marketing, sociology and philosophy to place sports marketing while working in the ECU driven approach of a businessperson as well intercollegiate, recreational and professional athletic department. From that point on as the emotional investment of a fan. sports in their larger contexts. Each of the she knew she wanted a marketing career “Sport is not like selling widgets,” says 30 students in the program follows the in collegiate athletics. Today Taylor is the Stacey Altman, chair of the Department same track, but each is given an opportunity director of marketing and promotions for of Exercise and Sport Science, one of the to choose projects, practicum hours and the University of Louisiana at Monroe. She newer academic endeavors at East Carolina. internships. Because the program is small says her master’s degree from ECU comes “It’s a different product entirely. We love the and the faculty committed to tailoring each into play every day as she coordinates the passion for sport, but you have to be able to student’s path, no two sport management school’s in-game and ticket promotions. take a critical look, and you have to be able experiences turn out the same. “The professors were really good to work to apply some data, something more than “We’re always just trying to give the best with, and they kind of understood that

37 from the classroom Cliff H ollis college athletics is one of those things that Take the American Junior Golf Association, “Financial Management in Sport.” Because ISP marketing office, Bass the more experience you have, the better,” which took an ECU student three years sports management overlaps so extensively was named Elon’s director says Taylor, who began her job at ULM early ago for one of its competitive summer with business, ECU developed a joint degree of football operations in in 2009. “Working in collegiate athletics, I internships. Those interns travel all over program for MBA candidates. Students can February. In his new role, he was able to apply more from what I learned the country staging junior golf events, an select graduate-level electives from the College oversees areas from travel to in the classroom, and vice versa. It worked experience that gave the student a leg up for of Business or from Recreation and Leisure academic services to quality hand in hand.” jobs that involve event management. Another Studies. One elective offered this semester, control—everything that student interned with Sun Life Stadium in “Comparative Sport: International Aspects,” affects football players except While she was a student in the master’s Miami, a position that allowed her to be at focused on sports in the global marketplace what happens between the program, Taylor worked with a couple of the center of preparations for both the Pro with an emphasis on diversity issues and the end zones. Even though he her professors to author an article for an Bowl and the Super Bowl. Another doggedly cultural and sociological implications of grew up watching his dad academic journal about sports rights holders. pursued and won an opportunity to work events like the Winter Olympics. navigate the business side Now that she’s out in the real world, she has BOOKS BY FACULTY with the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii. of sports, Bass said that even found occasion to apply principles from Sartore, who earned her doctorate at Texas the skills and concepts he a sport philosophy class that examined Plato In sport management, success comes to those A&M University, studied with George learned from the master’s and Aristotle’s views on competition. who take the initiative, and the program’s Cunningham, who was the first to introduce program have been invaluable Murder as an art form professors reinforce that point in the way the topic of diversity to the study of the “It was a little weird at the time [learning in helping him make his own they guide students through internship and sports industry. “My research is really heavily As a child growing up in Rhode Island, “I just felt like I was on fire doing it,” he such diverse material], but everything in the way in the business. job hunting. They offer some direction, into the diversity side of things, which really ECU associate theatre professor recalled . “I was just really excited about program is definitely done for a reason,” she but the ball is always in the student’s court. carries over nicely to the sociological and “I was exposed to so Gregory Funaro suspected that the the story . I look back, and I don’t know said. “It all plays together.” statues surrounding his grandfather’s how I did it with that little sleep . There “Much of the onus is on them in finding social culture side of sport,” she says. many angles of the sports pool came alive at night . Decades later, are literally portions of the book that I where they want to go,” Sartore says. business,” said Bass, whose the idea of sculptures as living beings have absolutely no memory of writing ”. Even though much of sport management Internships are integral “They’re very proactive. We don’t necessarily goal is to become a university would form the basis of Funaro’s first Had he known the travails a first-time looks as much like business or sociology as novel, The Sculptor. place them, because we want their own athletic director. “There’s novelist faces when trying to get That’s the idea, say the program’s architects, anything else, the field still attracts plenty of The murder mystery introduces published, Funaro said, he might never interests to guide their decisions.” no cookie cutter way to be who try to structure the classes in a way former athletes who want to stay connected readers to Sam Markham, an FBI have written that first book . “Just to successful in this business. that one body of knowledge builds on to the world of sports. Undergraduate agent with a knack for tracking down get an agent to read even the first 25 You have to learn to deal serial killers . Markham is tasked pages, the first chapter, was almost another. Enrollment has been kept small The business of sports sport management programs are full of such with his most puzzling case yet: A impossible . At least it seemed next to deliberately—about 25 to 30 students in with different situations.” Two decades ago, aspiring sports students but most of those are thinned out missing professional football player impossible, for me,” he said . each class—to guarantee personal attention by the time they get to the master’s level. Successful graduates like has been found murdered, posed like His experience as an actor influences professionals had only a handful of a famous statue by Michaelangelo . and an abundance of hands-on experiences. Taylor and Bass serve as his writing, he said, and helps him schools from which to choose, including “We love the passion for sport, but you With art historian Cathy Hildebrant develop characters, craft dialogue and guides for prospective sports by his side, Markham must find the Internships are an integral part of the sport the program at Ohio University, which have to be able to take a critical look, and overcome writer’s block . management students and so-called Michelangelo Killer before management program and have been since was founded in 1966 and has the highest you have to be able to apply some data, he strikes again . “I would find myself acting out as encouragements for the characters as I was writing, especially an early feasibility study found a willingness number of graduates in sports careers something more than your gut decisions has earned accolades program’s faculty, who The Sculptor in the second book, the prequel to The by ECU and other sports and recreation in the country. In North Carolina, N.C. about sport or based on your favorite team,” from masters of the mystery/thriller are increasingly convinced Sculptor, Funaro said . “I would find agencies in the area to let students in their State has a large undergraduate sport Altman said. “We really are focused on the genre, including New York Times myself talking the way the characters doors. Sartore says ECU has received great management concentration, and smaller that sports is a world of bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and talked, trying to look around my office process of understanding sports, of thinking Kevin O’Brien . some have drawn cooperation from the community when programs are operated by Western Carolina boundless opportunities for and see things the way the character about the questions.” parallels between Funaro’s novel and might see things ”. placing interns in settings that offer the most University, Wingate University and Elon those who are trained to Thomas Harris’ Silence of the Lambs. Becoming a first-time novelist differs valuable experiences. University. N.C. State and the University navigate it. Already, German and Russian language ‘The family business’ rights to the book have been sold . from acting in one important respect, The most glamorous internships, of course, of North Carolina Chapel Hill, like ECU, “I think that’s one of our however: the lasting nature of the Corey Bass ’07 ’09 refers to sports Funaro has a prequel to The Sculptor written word . “In the theatre, if you’ve are with a professional sports team; some have master’s level programs, but ECU’s strengths, is that we give due out next January . he also has just is the only one accredited by the Sport management as “the family business”—his got a night that doesn’t go very well, ECU students have interned with the NBA’s them the information they finished a third novel, a family saga you can make it up the next night,” he father Jimmy is ECU’s senior associate set in the 1940s that he wrote before Charlotte Bobcats. Minor-league baseball Management Program Review Council. need so that they can go out said . “This an entirely different process . director of athletics for external operations. The Sculptor and recently rewrote It’s new and exciting and scary at the teams like the Kinston Indians and Carolina As the sports management curriculum and really do some good completely . After earning his undergraduate degree in out there,” says Sartore. “I same time ”. Mudcats also have been generous with evolved, it moved from a humanities slant to Around ECU, Funaro is known chiefly —Karen Shugart communication while playing on the football internships. But Sartore says it’s often the a business management focus. The required always propose to them that for his work in the School of Theatre The Sculptor team, he worked as a graduate assistant in the lesser-known organizations that offer the core courses in the two-year program include they are the agents of change and Dance, where he teaches, acts and 352 pages in paperback marketing department while he earning his directs . He wrote The Sculptor in the Kensington Publishing Corp./ best internship opportunities. “Management and Leadership in Sport,” when they leave our doors.” master’s. After a year with Elon University’s hours between those duties, usually Pinnacle Books “Legal Aspects of Sports Management” and getting by on four or five hours sleep . $6.99

38 39 Pay it forward

Ruffin McNeill built a solid coaching career by always stepping up and never over the people around him .

40 41 By Bethany Bradsher Photography by forrest croce

Ruffin McNeill has practiced a forward- McNeill brings a new staff and a new After 10 years in Lubbock, McNeill was Hello and goodbye because I’ve made sure I’m prepared for Coach and counselor looking philosophy since he first began offensive scheme to Greenville, but his is a looking for the job he had been practicing this, and I’ve surrounded myself with men With national signing day looming only When his collegiate playing career ended, coaching football three decades ago: Work familiar face in eastern North Carolina. He for. Enter East Carolina, with an opening left and women who are prepared to handle this two weeks after he was named the new head McNeill returned to his hometown hard at the job you have now, but also do played defensive back for the Pirate football by the Jan. 15 departure of Skip Holtz. with us.” coach, McNeill hardly had time to glance of Lumberton as an assistant coach at everything you can to prepare for the next one. team in the late ’70s and graduated in 1980; “Coach Holland called, and the committee, at his new office before hitting the road. As McNeill said he will do what is required Lumberton High School. After four years his wife, Erlene, earned her master’s degree When he was an assistant coach he did the and we interviewed, and it happened,” he said. a product of Pirate football, he didn’t have to continue ECU’s football success, but he there, the door to collegiate coaching opened at ECU. He knows it sounds clichéd, but things that would prepare him to be a great “It was one of the most stress-relieving parts any trouble selling the program to the young said he will never let what is necessary get in 1984 when he took a job as a graduate in every sense this was far more than a job coordinator. When he became a coordinator of our lives. Because, one, we were at a place men he visited. Amid those recruiting trips in the way of what is most important—his assistant and linebackers coach at Clemson change. It was coming home. he started learning the nuances of the job that where we were home. Two, all of our family he also hired a staff, starting with 26-year- responsibility to his players. “My main University. He credits coaches like Pat Dye would prepare him to become a head coach. “It’s a blessing,” he said. “My simple mind is from North Carolina, everyone. It was an old Lincoln Riley as offensive coordinator. reason is to coach the football team, and and Clemson colleague Woody McCorvey The years he served as an assistant head coach started thinking about what was next, when emotional deal, and I still get a little emotional, that will never get lost in the shuffle, and with believing in him and helping him find Hiring, recruiting, community relations, at two different schools groomed him for the really it was God’s plan the whole time.” because of what we had gone through. To have I hope that everyone around the program opportunities during those years. But his facilities, budget and academics are just a few well-chronicled day when he had to step up to a chance to come back, it was very awesome. understands that my primary responsibility is time at Clemson proved to be a crucial rung The elation the McNeills felt upon of the issues that cross a head coach’s desk in a lead his team at a most difficult time. We were just looking for some recovery, but to the players,” he said. “Whenever I feel like on his career ladder. returning to Greenville was all the more given day, even when his chief role is to coach this has gone far beyond recovery.” that’s getting lost, then I’m going to take a All of that was preparation for the day pronounced because of the turmoil that had football games. As a head-coach-in-training While he was at Clemson, McNeill earned step back, because the most important thing he returned to East Carolina, put on a surrounded them in their last months at “Coach McNeill’s interview revealed his the past several years, McNeill hasn’t been a master’s degree in counseling. Both of are our players, and their well being.” purple cap and embraced his new job as the Texas Tech. There, head coach Mike Leach strong commitment to doing things the surprised by the many hats he finds himself his parents and many of his relatives are school’s 20th head football coach. It was a was fired over accusations that he mistreated right way and his love of coaching young wearing. His energy tackling the challenges he’s Many who have played for or coached teachers, and he knew that he would want role McNeill seemingly was made for. “I’ve a player, and as his top assistant McNeill felt men to grow in every part of their lives,” faced so far seems undimmed from the day he with McNeill say he is a consummate to work in a school if coaching ever ran its known for a long time that he has unique the tension among players and the relentless Athletic Director Terry Holland said the day was introduced as the head coach. player’s coach. Texas Tech running back Eric course. Intended as something of a career motivational skills, and he needs to be a head media scrutiny. Amid the uproar, McNeill McNeill was introduced. “His excitement Stephens captured his team’s admiration for insurance policy, the degree changed the “I really relish the challenge,” he said. “I coach more than any man I’ve ever known,” was handed the responsibility of preparing for what ECU football can become in the McNeill after the Alamo Bowl when he said, way he coached. He learned how to listen to know it’s hard work, but I’m not opposed to said new associate head coach John Wiley. the Red Raiders in the Alamo Bowl game. future was contagious, and his deep and “To the world outside Tech football this players, how to understand what they want hard work. I was asked, ‘Am I overwhelmed?’ McNeill, Wiley added, is one of the few He coached the embattled Texas Tech team abiding appreciation for what East Carolina week was chaotic. But inside Tech football and to help them redefine their limits. No. Because I’ve been prepared for it. ‘Am I people who could have convinced him to leave to a 41-31 victory over Michigan State, but University has meant to him and his family everyone knew Coach Ruff had this team intimidated?’ By no means am I intimidated, “The thing with counseling is that you Appalachian State after a 19-year career there. then he was passed over for the head job. was truly moving.” under control.”

Offense D Efense Left to right Left to right Clay McGuire Mark Nelson Running Backs Special Teams Donnie Kirkpatrick Coordinator/ Recruiting Defensive Ends Coordinator/ Ruffin McNeill Inside Receivers John Wiley Lincoln Riley Associate Head Offensive Coach/Linebackers Coordinator/ Chris Bland Quarterbacks Staff Assistant/ Ruffin McNeill Defense Dennis Simmons Marc Yellock Outside Receivers Defensive Tackles Landon Hoefer Tripp Weaver Staff Assistant/ Student Assistant/ Offense Defense Brandon Jones Brian Mitchell Offensive Line Defensive Coordinator/ Secondary

42 43 2010 Football Schedule who coached with McNeill at Texas Tech, Sep. 5 vs. Tulsa* Greenville, N.C. 2:00 p.m. ET working primarily with wide receivers. It’s Join as life members like the Ellerbes and never pay dues again. Sep. 11 vs. Memphis* greenville, N.C. TBA going to be one of those things where if you Sep. 18 at Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Va. TBA turn around, if you reach down to grab your drink or something, you’re going to miss a Oct. 2 at UNC Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, N.C. TBA play. I think it’s going to be more exciting. I Oct. 9 at Southern Miss* hattiesburg, Miss. TBA think the fans are going to love watching it.” Oct. 16 vs. NC State Greenville, N.C. Noon ET Directing the defense will be Brian Mitchell, Oct. 23 vs. Marshall* greenville, N.C. TBA another former Texas Tech assistant coach Oct. 30 at UCF* Orlando, Fla. TBA who helped the Red Raiders become the best Nov. 6 vs. Navy Greenville, N.C. TBA pass defense in the Big 12 in 2006 and 2007. Riley and Mitchell were two of the top hires Nov. 13 at UAB* Birmingham, Ala. 8:00 p.m. ET on a staff that McNeill believes had a unique Nov. 20 at Rice* Houston, Texas TBA ability to lead plus an exceptional attention Nov. 27 vs. SMU* Greenville, N.C. 2:00 p.m. ET to detail. He made most of his hires in just a few weeks, but there was nothing haphazard Dec. 4 CUSA Championship* TBA TBA about it, he said. *Conference USA event “I wanted to be sure that we moved in a very sequential type manner, and I’m very pleased with the guys that we’ve hired,” McNeill said. “They’re all really good football coaches, really good recruiters and X and O guys, but have to listen, and you have to analyze ‘We’re going to play fast’ they’re all better men. And that was the key.” personalities, you have to analyze what each McNeill’s staff is also notably diverse, with As McNeill has gotten to know his players, he person is saying to you,” said McNeill. “And five African-Americans among the 10 new made some early assessments of each athlete’s every word’s a pearl. So the counseling degree coaches that he has hired. He is the first role in the new scheme he brings from Texas I’ve used probably as much as the coaching African-American head football coach in Tech. The hiring of Riley confirmed his experiences when dealing with a young man. ECU’s history and one of only 13 in the intention to employ the same wide-open nation in NCAA Division I. But he is not “Sometimes it may not be what that person offense that made the Red Raiders the No. 1 looking for a social crusade, just to do his wants to hear, but if they come in here, I’m passing team in the Big 12 in 2009. going to be very, very honest with them.” job so well that ECU becomes a postseason A more pass-happy incarnation of the West mainstay and a viable threat to the BCS McNeill, who names trust, commitment and Coast offense developed by Bill Walsh in monopoly. caring as the three pillars of his coaching the 1980s, the offense the Pirates will run “One of the things I take seriously is philosophy, expects a great deal from the in 2010 will use one running back and four being a role model,” he said. “If I do it young men on his roster, he said. He expects wide receivers. Each of those five players will with class and professionalism, that may them to work hard on the practice field and be equally involved in the offense, said Riley. lead to another young coach to have an on game day. But they also must give their It is a high scoring, up-tempo scheme that is opportunity. I plan to work extremely hard, time and energy to the community and to often frustrating for opposing defenses and “It was important for us to become life members of the Alumni Association as another way stay extremely focused, and do the best job the university. At his first press conference, entertaining for fans. to show our support for the University, which we love so much. Our family has always had a he made a statement that has already become I possibly can. I know that I’m not coming strong bond and history with ECU and joining as Forever Pirates ensures that the tradition “We’re going to play fast,” said Riley, associated with him around ECU. He said to a downtrodden program. I’m coming will continue. Meeting each other, graduating, getting married, and having a son are some to a program that understands how that he wakes up each morning and asks, of the many wonderful life events we have shared together because of ECU and we hope “What can I do today to make ECU to win and has won. My job is to continue that and many more generations in our family will share in the same positive experiences. East better?” and he expects Carolina University is a special place and is a true ‘Pirate Treasure’ to the Ellerbe family.” everyone around perhaps take it him to ask that to another Jonathan ’97 and Liz ’01 Ellerbe question, level.” East too. Join today! call 800-EcU-GRad oR visit PiRatEalUmni.com/Jointoday.

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Binkley welcomes an lighting, sound, scenery and acting. It’s a “In the flashbacks, the lighting has to take more shows, including East Carolina through exceptional service. Grease, Avenue Q , Steel intern to Broadway time of great collaboration between all you out of reality and create a dream-like and Honorary Alumni Awards are bestowed upon easier and convenient for these alumni aspects of play, which Binkley says can be fantasy. The lighting is so much a part of the Magnolias Minnelli on Minnelli. those who did not attend East Carolina, to stay connected with each other, share Howell Binkley ’77, one of the world’s top Among his current Broadway shows, quite invigorating. story-telling process.” Jersey but have adopted it as their own through information, and plan terrific alumni events theatrical lighting designers, will welcome has played the longest, having opened Boys outstanding service, continuing commitment, and activities, the Alumni Association has an East Carolina University student to “That’s the great thing about live theater— That process has developed significantly on Nov. 6, 2005. The musical has seven and loyalty. created regional Facebook pages. These pages Broadway this fall for a three-month all the departments are layering in their since Binkley graduated from ECU companies performing at venues around are managed by our dedicated volunteers and internship. In a field that relies heavily on part, and it’s a process to see if it all works and headed out on the road with dance the world; Binkley designed the lighting for Nominations for the 2011 Alumni Awards provide a central location for open dialogue, networking and experiential learning, Binkley together,” he says. “Sometimes we’ll find companies and touring rock n’ roll bands. each of them. “Some shows, like are now being accepted. Please visit Jersey Boys, offering event and program ideas, and wants to give up-and-coming designers a things that are horrible, and you have to find Today, much of the lighting is wireless, and are successful, and some shows have opened PirateAlumni.com/awardsprocess for promoting upcoming regional events. The taste for work in the heart of America’s that alternative you have up your sleeve. “ one fixture can carry up to 120 colors of and closed in three months,” he says. “You nomination materials and directions on following regions have Facebook pages: light, which can be mixed to send just the think of all the people who have worked submitting a nomination. Please call the theatrical world. The ECU intern will work His challenge in is lighting the crucial right hue to the stage. on the show, and then a critic comes in and Alumni Center at 800-ECU-GRAD with In North Carolina with Binkley and his team of 12 lighting flashback scenes.Quartet The play takes place mostly rips it apart, nobody buys tickets, and they questions. Catawba County Kinston professionals who are involved in shows on in the recording studio, so the lighting creates His break on Broadway came in 1992, when pull the plug. I guess that’s the nature of the Chapel Hill Pitt County Broadway and in regional theaters. the atmosphere to set it apart from the room he was hired as the lighting designer for Kiss business.” Charlotte Triad Binkley, 54, created the internship to give where the music is being recorded on vinyl. which won the Tony Award Network with fellow Pirates of the Spiderwoman, — Edgecombe County Wake County back to the school that gave him his start in “My visuals are helping the audience to for best musical and ran for 905 performances. David McKay Wilson A number of networking events will Fayetteville Wilmington the business. “This is the Mecca for theater, absorb and learn the characters,” says Binkley. He has since been the lighting designer on 31 soon take place in areas across the Pirate Harnett County and I want to help as much as I can,” says Alumni welcome at outings Nation. In these challenging economic Outside of North Carolina Binkley, who grew up in Winston-Salem and The Alumni Association’s summer outing times, networking is a terrific way to make Alabama South Carolina won a Tony Award in 2006 for lighting the series Freshmen Sendoffs is a fun way for the social and business connections that California Charleston musical That show was among See a Binkley show this summer alumni to reconnect with each other and are so important in today’s market. Make Hollywood Greenville six productionsJersey Boys. showing on Broadway this Million Dollar Quartet to meet the newest class of Pirates. Held plans now to attend one of the following San Diego Tennessee spring for which Binkley designed lighting. Nederlander Theatre, (212) 921-8000 across the Pirate Nation, these summer networking events: Colorado Knoxville The others are Nightly except Monday, with weekend outings are open to alumni and friends who West Side Story, In the Heights, Richmond, Va., Networking Breakfast Florida Memphis and a new one, matinees, tickets from $46 want to encourage Pirate spirit and instill All About Me, Memphis, Wednesday, May 19 at Can Can Brasserie Minnesota Texas Pirate pride in the Class of 2014. Freshmen Million Dollar Quartet. Jersey Boys from 7:30-9:00 a.m. New York Virginia John Shearin, director of ECU’s School of August Wilson Theatre, (212) 239-6200 Sendoffs will occur in the following areas: Pennsylvania Fredericksburg Nightly except Monday, with Wednesday and Atlanta, Ga., Networking Evening Theatre and Dance, says Binkley approached Arlington, Va. New York metro Richmond weekend matinees, tickets from $97 Wednesday, May 26 at Ri Ra on Peachtree him last year about establishing the Charlotte, N.C. Philadelphia metro Washington, D.C. Street at 5:30 p.m. internship, which will be open to advanced Memphis Clemmons, N.C. Raleigh, N.C. Visit PirateAlumni.com/regionalcontacts for Schubert Theatre, (212) 239-6200 lighting students or recent graduates who had Elon, N.C. Richmond, Va., area Washington, D.C., Networking Evening links to each of our regional Facebook pages. a concentration in design and production. Nightly except Monday, with Wednesday and Wednesday, June 2 in the Cabinet Room of weekend matinees, tickets from $116 Fayetteville, N.C. Tidewater, Va., area For students still enrolled at ECU, they could Morehead City, N.C. Wilmington, N.C. The Old Ebbitt Grill at 6:00 p.m. receive course credit for the internship. All About Me ate Henry Miller Theatre, (212) 239-2820 Networking events introduce alumni to other Save the D “It’s an incredible opportunity for a Opened March 16, call for show times, Nominate someone for an award ECU professionals who can provide insight July 12: Alumni Tailgate student to learn at the highest levels of the tickets from $146 on the economic forecast and offer career tickets on sale for members Each fall the Alumni Association recognizes profession,” says Shearin. “Building networks advice. Those new to the city will also find West Side Story alumni and friends through our Alumni October 14: Third Annual is incredibly important in this business.” networking events as useful tools to meet Palace Theatre, (212) 730-8200 Awards Program. Alumni are recognized Pirate’s Bounty Scholarship other ECU alumni in the area. Auction Binkley’s latest project is Revival opened March 9, call for show times, through Outstanding Alumni Awards for The Million Dollar tickets from $188 a new musical based on an actual those who have demonstrated uncommon October 15: ECU Alumni Quartet, Scholarship Classic recording session in 1956 with Johnny Cash, In the Heights achievement in their profession, in civic Regional Facebook pages Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Richard Rogers Theatre, (212) 221-1521 October 22–23: affairs, and/or in politics. Distinguished Alumni in regional areas have more than Lewis. The “teching process” he initiates Homecoming Opened March 9, call for show times, Service Awards are given to alumni that just Pirate Pride in common—they also pulls together all the play’s elements— tickets from $40 have given their time and talents to advance have the same geography! To make it even

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Alumni Spotlight 2009 JENNIFER FITZGERALD joined RE/MAX UNITED-New Homes Services as the K. Hovnanian Let’s just say that NASCAR Homes Marketing Coordinator for the Triangle area. was not a big deal to him in RACHEL GAFFNEY is an account coordinator Waltham, Mass ., when Greg with Media Partners Inc. in Raleigh. She was the Morin ’01 was growing up local sales manager for University Directories in there . It still wasn’t even after Greenville. JESSICA LYNN JONES wed Timothy he graduated and married a Wayne Dunn on Oct. 17 in Snow Hill. She is a nurse fellow recreational therapy at Pitt County Memorial Hospital. CHRISTINE H endrick Motorsports Courtesy major, Holly Jarrett ’01, who is KENT joined Murphy & Bunch CPAs in Greenville related to two icons of the as a staff accountant. CARLTON PURVIS was sport, great uncle Ned Jarrett named College Journalist of the Year by the Southeast and cousin Dale Jarrett . But in Journalism Conference for his work as a copy editor the past five years Morin has and news editor at ECU’s student- emerged as an elite trainer of run newspaper. He Theis a Eastmultimedia Carolinian, journalist at the NASCAR pit crews . For the in Florence, S.C. ALEXANDRA second straight year he MorningSALEEBY News wed Jeffrey Wayne Lawrence Jr. on Oct. 10 coached the crew for the No . in Fuquay-Varina. She teaches first grade at Harnett 48 Hendrick Motorsports Primary School in Dunn. Lowe’s car raced by Jimmie Johnson, who won a historic fourth consecutive Est. 2003 2008 championship title last season . ELIZABETH MADGELLE BEAN ’08 wed Morin initially was a recreational therapist working with JEREMY TRAD GODWIN ’07 on Oct. 10 in physically and sexually abused kids in Charlotte . The Wilmington. She teaches music at Coker-Wimberly Charlotte suburb of Mooresville is home base for dozens of Elementary School in Edgecombe County, and he is NASCAR teams and other businesses that support them, the chorus teacher at Hunt High School in Wilson. including Performance Instruction & Training (PIT), known Army Reserve Spec. MELISSA LYNN BEDDARD around town as Pit Crew U . He enrolled in the school, ’08 wed BRADLEY BROOKS EAKES ’06 on Nov. graduated, and was offered a job training other students . He 7 at the historic Bonner Point in Bath. She works at quickly became a master of the millisecond . “The technical ECU, and he works with Tar Heel Amusements and side of the pit stop has not changed much over the last The Pool Table Shop in Greenville. DIAMOND seven years, so the speed and the ability to take time off the COLEY is the resident director in the Office of pit stop has to come from improved athletic ability of the Student Life at High Point University in High Point. pit crew,” Morin says . “In addition to our strength training, The Official Station of the BRENNA LEIGH EVANS ’08 wed KENNETH conditioning and practice, our guys do yoga once a week, we ALAN WESTON ’08 ’09 on Nov. 21 in the do aquatics workouts . We have sports psychologists ”. Winterville Baptist Church. She is a nurse at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, and he works at D. H. He’s now PIT’s director of motorsports in charge of training Conley High School in Greenville. BRANDON W. for all types of racing, including the Truck Series . Morin began MILLER graduated from basic combat training at the 2008 season with Hendrick Motorsports as the head Ft. Jackson, Columbia, S.C. LINDSEY SAWYER pit crew coach for the No . 48 team, as well as Jeff Gordon’s ECU Alumni Association joined OIC Family Medical Center in Rocky Mount No . 24 team . The No . 48 team won the 2008–09 Sprint Cup as a physician’s assistant. WILLIAM LUCIUS championships and Mechanix Wear MVP Pit Crew award SCOTT IV wed Kathryn McCoy Everton on Oct. worth $100,000 . listen online 3 in Whiteville. He is a health and safety director Morin says he keeps bumping into other ECU people as he with the Nucor plant in Auburn, N.Y. ASHLEY moves around the NASCAR circuit, including Ed Watkins www.pirateradio1250.com DEWS SMITH of Winterville was named alumni ’98, who now is jack man for driver Elliott Sadler and a relations director at Pitt Community College. She was parts manager for Gillette Evernham Motorsports; Jeff executive director of the Martin County Chamber of Kerr ’99, now with Stewart-Hass racing who won the 2006 Commerce. KEAUNA VINSON was inducted into 252.317.1250 NASCAR Nextel Pit Crew Challenge as a member of Martin the East Wake High School Hall of Fame where she Truex Jr ’s. pit crew; and Brian Rimpf ’03 of Raleigh, the played basketball and volleyball and ran track. Among former Baltimore Ravens lineman who recently joined the her honors, in her senior year she was named MVP developmental program at Hendrick Motorsports . “The Voice of the Pirate Nation” and All-Conference in each of the three sports. She was named the Wake County Female Athlete of the Year and named the WRAL Athlete of the month.

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Alumni Spotlight She is the volleyball and basketball coach at East Wake She graduated from Mitchell’s Hairstyling Academy Greenville. She works at the Polly Piland Insurance CATHERINE NEEDHAM wed Timothy George Middle School. in 2009. GAIL MARIE EVAN ’04 wed HEATH Agency in Greenville. GABRIELLE KAHLIAN Couillard on June 27 in Richmond, Va. She teaches fifth LAYTON COURTRIGHT ’03 ’05 on Sept. 26 in JAMES wed ASHTON NICHOLAS SLATE grade at J. B. Watkins Elementary in Midlothian, Va. Shopping for 2007 Erie, Pa. In Charlotte, she is a clinical counselor at on Nov. 14 in Hickory. She teaches in the Wake nursery furniture 2001 and accessories Army 2nd Lt. BRYAN M. BEARD graduated from Anuvia Prevention and Recovery Center, and he is a County public schools, and he works at The Wooten after her son was the U.S. Army Ranger School at Fort Benning, financial adviser at RM Stark and Co. Dr. YOLANDA Company, an engineering consulting company. ANNA WHITNEY OAKLEY, principal at Sylvan born, Kelly Barnes Columbus, Ga., with authorization to wear the M. NEWTON joined FirstHealth Richmond REBECCA LOPEZ wed WILLIAM BRYANT Elementary School in Snow Camp, was chosen by Rightsell ’90 of distinctive Ranger Tab. LAURA KELLY TAYLOR ’07 Medical Group–Women’s Center in Rockingham. WARD on Nov. 14 on the Kings Crown Lawn of the N.C. Physical Education Association as 2009 Greensboro was wed BRAD HUGHES BOYD ’00 ’06 on Nov. 21 KATIE MELIA wed Chance Jackson on Sept. 19 South Seas Resort, Captiva Island, Fla. She is the NFL Elementary Distinguished Principal of the Year. She surprised by the in Williamston. She works at Pitt County Memorial in Cary. She works at Marco Environmental near merchandise manager for Vanity Fair License Sports was also selected as the 2010 Alamance-Burlington tackiness of a lot of Hospital, and he works with NACCO Materials Washington, D.C., and the couple lives in Ellicott City, Group, and he is an assistant baseball coach for the School System Wachovia Principal of the Year. JAMIE what she saw in Handling Group Inc. in Greenville. Md. JENNIFER MIGLIACCIO wed Lt. Thomas University of South Florida. MELISSA YVONNE TIER WILLIAMS ’01 ’04 and JONATHAN WILLIAMS ’05 had a son, Aiden Edwin Williams, stores . And she 2006 Joseph Gibbons on Oct. 10 at the U.S. Naval Academy THORNE wed Thomas Earl Owens Jr. on Oct. 2 at should know what Chapel in Annapolis, Md. She works for Gateway the Greenville Country Club. She is employed by ECU. on July 6. REAGAN BLAIR WILLIAMS wed John good art looks like, SPENCER TODD BRADLEY, principal at Brinson Academy in Charlotte. MARCELO MERCADANTE SYLVIA ADAMS WINGLER received her PhD in Daniel Wayne Deans on Oct. 24 at Fifth Avenue having majored in Memorial Elementary School in New Bern, was named PARIZ wed Frances Careen Thomas on Oct. 17 at educational leadership and cultural foundations from United Methodist Church in Wilmington. She fine art and the 2010 Wachovia Principal of the Year for Craven the Southport Community Center facing the Cape UNC Greensboro. She teaches art at Starmount High teaches social studies and coaches varsity cheerleading printmaking at East County. JESSICA ERIN CRESON ’06 ’08 wed Fear River. He works with the State Employees Credit School in Yadkin County. at D.H. Conley High School in Greenville. MARC MARK AUSTIN NOTTINGHAM ’08 on Oct. Union in Raleigh. RYAN STROHL of Arlington, YELLOCK, who played football for ECU from 1997 Carolina, 2002 buttressed by a six- 3 at the historic Brookstown Inn in Winston-Salem. Va., became art director of Delucchi+, a strategic to 2000, was named ECU’s defensive assistant coach. week independent KATHERINE L. DAVIS ’06 ’08 joined SILVERcare, marketing communications firm, in Washington, D.C. STEPHANIE CLARK FOGARTY wed Matthew He was a defensive assistant at Elon University for the study trip to the a licensed home-care agency, as public relations/ LACHELLE NICOLE WILLIAMS ’04 wed Earl Robert Rygler on Sept. 26 in Greensboro. She was past four seasons. resource coordinator. WILLIAM D. EDGAR JR. attended by ECU roommates Abby Stallworth ’03 ’04 Blackheath School Reese Owens Jr. on Oct. 24 at Rock Springs Center in 2000 of Art in London was promoted to senior vice president and chief credit Greenville. She works for Pitt County schools. as maid of honor and Elizabeth Warren as matron officer of First Carolina State Bank in Rocky Mount. of honor. The couple lives in Wilmington, Del. LESLIE GRAY BUNCH was promoted to partner and other training at the Penland School . Plus, she had taught 2003 elementary school art for five years . Someone suggested that BRENDA HAGAN, Snow Hill Primary School KIMBERLY JOHNSON wed Carlos Hooper on Oct. at Jan Murphy CPA, and JAN MURPHY ’77 she make some prints of her own artwork and show them at principal, was named 2009-2010 Greene County KELLY MEREDITH GARNER wed Hunter 23 in Atlanta, Ga. She is a registered nurse at Emory changed the practice name to Murphy & Bunch CPAs the Atlanta Gift Show . She did, sold $10,000 worth of prints Schools Principal of the Year. BEN JENSEN had Grey Dixon on Aug. 29 at Yankee Hall Plantation in University Midtown Hospital in Atlanta. ALLISON PA. ELLEN GOLDBERG ’00 ’08 and MARC in one day, and has never looked back . The business has an exhibit titled “Sameness” at the Janalyn Hanson grown so quickly that her husband, Brian Rightsell ’90, a White Gallery at Mount Mercy College in Cedar business major, quit his job to manage the enterprise . Kelly Rapids, Iowa, where he is an adjunct art professor. Rightsell’s father is David Barnes ’66 of Lenoir . He also teaches ceramics at Kirkwood Community College. HALEY EDWARD JOHNSON ’06 wed OF YOUR NEWS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS Today, Kelly Rightsell Design licenses her wall art, baby MICHAEL DAVID MORGAN ’08 on Aug. 29 shower gifts and other nursery decorations through on the beach at Atlantic Beach. They opened Uncle several major retailers, including Bloomingdale’s, Saks, Yammy’s Rib Shack in Greenville, with the bride’s Complete this form (please print or type) and mail to: Class Notes Editor, Building 198, Mail Stop 108, East Carolina University, Essex Collection and others . It’s sold at fine art shops father, Uncle Yammy. MICHAEL RHODES, MGreenville,ake NC 27858-4353; a No orte fax to ­252-328-4269 . Please use additional paper as necessary when sending your news . You across the Southeast . She’s had a few famous clients . She physical education teacher at Rand Road Elementary also can e-mail your news to ecuclassnotes@ecu edu. . While East happily prints wedding announcements, it is our policy not created a print and matching rug for Olympic skater Kristi School in Wake County, was recognized for having to print ­engagement announcements . Also, when listing fellow alumni in your news, please include their class year . Yamaguchi’s baby, and even painted a mural on the nursery the Outstanding PE Program of the Year for Wake Please send address changes or corrections to: Kay Murphy, Office of University Development, Greenville Center, East Carolina wall . Glancing through Us magazine, she saw a photo of County Public Schools. He also won the N.C. Physical University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353, fax: 252-328-4904, or e-mail: murphyk@ecu edu. . Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez holding his daughter, Education Association’s Outstanding Program Award. who was holding one of Rightsell’s dolls . She sent a gift 2005 basket of artwork to Paula Deen, then saw some of the items decorating the nursery of Deen’s grandchild when it was MELISSA BRITNER, kindergarten teacher at NAME First Middle Last Maiden featured in a magazine . Her creations have been featured on Creekside Elementary in Winterville, is a national the TV shows Extreme Home Makeover and Reba. board certified teacher.LISA DESIREE BROWN CLASS year e-MAIL DAY PHONE EVENING PHONE HOGAN ’05 ’09 earned a master’s in adult education Where did it all begin? She thinks it was in London, studying and a certificate in community college instruction from ADDRESS CITY STATe ziP at the Blackheath School of Art . “It was an incredible learning ECU. ALLEN N. TRASK III joined Ward and Smith experience that gave me my true passion for creating art ”. at their Wilmington office as a litigation attorney. He received his JD from Campbell Law School in 2009 YOUR NEWS and was a 2008 summer associate at Ward and Smith. RACHEAL YOUNG ’05 and TREMAINE YOUNG

’02 ’04 ’09 had the first baby born in Pitt County in 2010, Tremaine Ronnell Young Jr. She is a nurse at Pitt Community Memorial Hospital, and he is a school counselor at two elementary schools in Jones County. 2004 SUSAN CHESSON opened Set Salon in Greenville.

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Alumni Spotlight GOLDBERG ’01 of Winterville had a son, Mason Books by alumni is a wildlife program coordinator for the Kentucky Duval, on Sept. 5. DWAYNE LEDFORD was Department of Fish and Wildlife. ERIC S. CLARK inducted into McDowell High School (Marion, N.C.) On her 31st birthday, was promoted to city executive of First South Bank’s

Athletic Hall of Fame where he was a two-time All- Meredith Manoly Greenville, N.C., market from vice president. JOLEEN owery Conference selection and led the team in sacks three McNerney ’98 was M. NEVERS, health education coordinator at the straight years. He was an offensive lineman at ECU for University of Connecticut, Storrs, was certified as a L amont four years and played for several NFL teams, including diagnosed with a rare sexuality educator through the American Association the San Francisco 49ers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Carolina and aggressive form of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists and Panthers, and the Cleveland Browns during his career. of cancer, Merkel cell became a certified health education specialist through He was an offensive staff assistant at ECU for the carcinoma. The cancer the National Commission for Health Education 2008 and 2009 seasons. ROBERT BRIAN TUCK Credentialing. She received two Outstanding Advisor wed Jennifer Leary Clark on Dec. 12 in Hartsville, formed a tumor on her Awards through regional conferences in New England S.C. He is district sales manager for Coca-Cola North left cheek that required and is currently president of the New England College America managing the Glaceau brands. They live in three surgeries to remove, Health Association. ROBERT C. SCALISE serves as a Columbia, S.C. CHAD TUCKER ’00 ’02, reporter followed by extensive flight surgeon at the Naval Air Station Souda Bay on the for FOX8/WGHP in Winston-Salem, received an rounds of radiation to Greek island of Crete. He received a degree as doctor Emmy Award for his story of osteopathic medicine from the Edward Via Virginia in the “GeneralThe AssignmentLast Day of NancyReporting her face. Not one to College of Osteopathic Medicine at Virginia Tech. withinReynolds 24 School Hours” category. He is also an adjunct sit and curse her fate, 1994 instructor of communications at Forsyth Technical McNerney wrote a book Community College in Winston-Salem. about her experience and CHRISTINE ANDRE ’94 ’99, principal of A second generation of the Kornegay family is training for Swansboro High School, was named the 2010 careers in medicine at East Carolina, including two brothers 1999 launched a foundation Wachovia Principal of the Year for Onslow County. now serving as chief residents in internal medicine at ECU ELIZABETH ANNE ROONEY DOLBY ’99 ’02 to provide support to MICHAEL BAKER ’94 ’98 joined the Pinehurst Physicians . Dr . Chad Kornegay ’01 ’05 (left) and Dr . Todd and Keith Dolby had a son, Gavin Patrick Dolby, on people like herself. The office of Wells Fargo Advisors as a financial adviser. Kornegay ’02 ’06—who are only 11 months apart in age—join Sept. 11. JOHN M. PERSON CPA, PA joined with book, is He was an accountant with James F. Baker, CPA, in older brother Hervy Jr. ’90 ’94, who practices emergency MICHAEL V. JOYNER ’73 CPA, PA to form Joyner, Facing Cancer: A Spiritual Journey from Pain to Peace, Raeford for 12 years. Dr. PHIL CAMERON joined medicine in Goldsboro, and younger brother Jon ’04 ’08, Person & Co., CPA, PA in Greenville. DEBORAH an exploration of how the disease affects the daily lives of Rowan-Cabarrus Community College as dean of a second-year medicine/pediatrics resident at BSOM, in WESTBROOK LCSW was named to the Austin sufferers with a special insight into how a woman deals with special projects. He was with the Anolik Law Offices continuing the family tradition . Only baby brother Paul ’06 Hatcher Foundation board of directors for 2010. disfiguring facial surgery. The foundation, A Message of in San Francisco, where as a law clerk, his focus was on ’08 is following a different career path . He teaches in the ECU She is a clinical evaluator and admissions liaison at Hope Cancer Fund, is an all-volunteer organization that to the travel and tourism industry. STEPHEN J. LEWIS Department of Mathematics . The five are the children of Dr . Shepherd Spinal Center in Atlanta, Ga. FARAH LISA date has raised more than $170,000 and provided financial won the 2009 Chicago/Midwest Emmy Award for Hervy B. Kornegay Sr., an honorary alumnus who practices WHITLEY-SEBTI wed Driss Belmadani on Oct. 3 Outstanding Achievement for Informational Programs: family medicine in Mount Olive, and Deborah K. Kornegay ’71 in Greenville. She practices law with Alston and Bird assistance to about 25 cancer patients and their families. Public Affairs/Current Affairs—Single Program for ’76 ’81, who graduated in ECU’s first class of nurse practitioners . in Raleigh. Serving as the treasurer of the foundation is Elizabeth producing the 30-minute special He is a producer and writer at WLS-TVSurviving ABC Suicide.7. 1998 Wilder Phipps ’98 of Matthews. McNerney, who won the Catherine M. Fodor Robert H. Wright Outstanding Alumni Leadership Award 1993 RICK OWENS ’98 ’01 was named assistant ’08 was named vice president of information technology at Pitt her senior year, was a gifted reading teacher at an award- Dr. VIRGINIA DARE HARDY wed Darth Darnelle communications Community College in Greenville, where he has been winning public school in Silver Spring, Md., when she was Akins on Oct. 31 at Yankee Hall Plantation in director for since 2006. TERRELL WILLIAMS is the defensive diagnosed with cancer. More information is available at the Greenville. She is vice provost for student affairs at Congressman line coach at Texas Tech. He coached defensive linemen foundation’s web site, www.amessageofhopecf.org. ECU. VICTORIA ELIZABETH VAUGHN ’93 Walter B . Jones, a at Purdue for the past four seasons. He was a standout ’04 wed BRADLEY RUSSELL MCALLISTER on Republican who nose guard for the Pirates and a member of the 1995 Washington, N.C., writer Michael Dec. 12 in Greenville. She is an academic advisor for represents North team that defeated Stanford 19-13 in the Liberty Bowl. Bilbro ’95 is working with a ECU’s College of Allied Health Sciences, and he is a Carolina’s Third doctoral candidate in ECU’s educational leadership Congressional 1997 Florida nonprofit to donate copies program and an academic advisor for ECU’s College District . She has NIKKI EPPS wed Kenny Todd on Apr. 18 at of his first children’s book, Where of Business. worked for Jones Hallsboro Baptist Church. She is a certified athletic to the children since a month after 1992 trainer. ofDo Haiti.They Go?, The book follows the graduation, first as JOHN KENYON received the Award of Excellence a staff assistant . 1996 magical journey of a young boy in the slide and multimedia programs category by She was promoted to her current position last September . “My Dr. DAVID DAVIDIAN of Durham joined the and his grandfather. Bilbro, who the Council for the Advancement and Support of degree in communication from ECU has really helped me with Triangle Implant Center as a dental anesthesiologist. has a second children’s book Education, District III. He was cited for his role as my responsibilities on Capitol Hill,” Fodor said . “My duties He is a member of the American Society of Dental coming out this summer, is producer, editor, and videographer for the multimedia include speech writing, all contact with press, and writing Anesthesiologists and has served on the UNC-CH video produced in March press releases ”. Fodor, who majored in communication with a seeking donors to contribute to Musical Theatre Program, dental school admissions committee. Michael Bilbro 2009 as a promotional video for Western Carolina concentration in broadcast journalism, also produces a fund he will send to Haitian University. He joined the staff of ECU Publications Congressman Jones’ cable show, Washington Watch, which 1995 officials along with several Written by Michael Bilbro as web editor in March. STANLEY SCOTT LEWIS airs monthly on 12 stations in the 3rd District . She also STEVEN DOBEY wed Amanda Haynes on Oct. Illustrated by Michael Graham hundred copies of his book. earned the professional geologist license. maintains the congressman’s website and YouTube channel . 10 at Shell Island Resort at Wrightsville Beach. He 11/11/08 7:37:32 PM

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Alumni Spotlight 1991 1986 was commissioned for the center’s new exhibit “Ice Annual Hall of Fame award from the Raleigh Counterpoint: Encounters in Antarctica and the Regional Association of REALTORS. He is JOHN F. CHILTON was awarded the contract to JIM FORD and JIM CRUMMER opened the first Arctic.” Since 1971 he has played bass trombone with a founding member of the Raleigh Regional Benjamin Keaton ’57 ’61 of provide all the art for the new Holiday Inn Express Brew, Breakfast, and Bed franchise in Yellowknife, the NC Symphony. RANDY MURPHY ’81 ’84 Association of Realtors Foundation and on the state Chapel Hill, co-founder, in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., the first LEED-certified green Northwest Territories, Canada. GARY NEMCOSKY retired as defensive football coordinator at West Craven level serves as a regional vice president of North music director and hotel in South Carolina. His company, Earthscapes ’85 and ANN THOMPSON NEMCOSKY ’86 had High School. He continues to teach U.S. history at the Carolina Association of Realtors’ Homes 4 NC. Dr. conductor of the Long Photography, specializes in photographic art for the art exhibits at the Jones House Community Center in school. MICHAEL A. FELDSTEIN ’76 ’78 was selected Leaf Opera Company, was hotel/hospitality industry. New regional council Boone sponsored by the Watauga Arts Council. He as director of planning, research and institutional one of four individuals members at the Food Bank of Central & Eastern teaches art at Appalachian State University. JUDITH 1977 effectiveness at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. across the country North Carolina at Greenville include STEVE JONES “JUDY” ANN TYRANCE was one of five women MELISSA BRANTLEY HIGHT ’77 ’90 retired in He was a training and assessment consultant with honored by Opera was named chair of the regional council of the Food named as the 2010 Intriguing African American 2009 as county director of the NCSU Cooperative TRG/Learning V2 in Raleigh. Dr. THOMAS R. America with a National Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. He is Women of Onslow County. For 21 years with the Extension in New Hanover County after 32 years. KOBALLA JR. ’76 ’78 was named dean of the College Opera Trustee Recognition executive vice president of First American Financial Onslow County School System, she was a substitute JAN MURPHY of Jan Murphy CPA promoted of Education at Georgia Southern University. He award during a February Management Co. in Raleigh. teacher, reading assistant, classroom teacher, and night LESLIE GRAY BUNCH ’00 to partner and changed was a faculty member in the University of Georgia’s gala at the University Club school teacher. In 1965, she was one of seven students 1990 the practice name to Murphy & Bunch CPAs PA. Department of Mathematics and Science Education. in New York City . The to integrate Dixon School. In her community, she STEPHEN W. PARDUE was named CEO of D’zine MARSHA MOORE LEWIS ’76 ’85 was named award recognizes trustees FREDDIE LEE HEATH was elected president of has worked with more than a dozen organizations, Garage, India’s oldest digital agency and a leading Outstanding Alumni Teacher of the Year by the Mount of U .s . opera companies the N.C. Alliance for Athletics, Health, PE, Recreation including AmeriCorps VISTA and Concerned Citizens provider of digital media communication services and Olive College Alumni Association. She teaches second for exemplary leadership, and Dance. He is a dance educator for Wake County Association. offshore digital production solutions. He is based in grade at Kenansville Elementary School. generosity and audience- public schools and is working on a master’s in school 1981 San Diego, Calif. He was senior vice president with building efforts . Based in administration at N.C. State. G. CABELL LAWTON 1975 Visual Sciences. ROGER WHITSON ’77 ’09 won Chapel Hill with most performances at venues across the IV was named administrator of New Kent County C. STEVEN EAGLE of Savannah, Ga., completed the seat of Snow Hill town commissioner. He teaches GLENN EURE received the fourth annual Living Triangle, Long Leaf is in the midst of its 12th season . It is in Virginia. He was the director of Fluvanna County, 10 years of service to the United Way Board of the social studies at E. B. Frink Middle School in La Legend Award from the Land of Beginnings Festival known as the only professional U .s . company presenting Va. DENISE WICKER OWEN published her first Coastal Empire in 2009. He was the 2006 campaign Grange. on the Outer Banks. He is an artist and supporter of exclusively fully-staged operas originally written in English . children’s book, about a little girl who chair, raising more than $7.6 million, and was board the arts who runs the Ghost Fleet Gallery in Nags wonders what it Turtlewould Gliding, be like to meet a sea turtle. chair in 2009. TERRY MIZESKO premiered his 1976 Keaton co-founded Long Leaf Opera in 1998 with Head. He created the Century of Flight monument at Her mother, Jo Wicker, illustrated the book. Dr. new composition at the FedEx Global Dr . Randolph Umberger . Concerned with the lack of Ice Counterpoint PARKER CREECH was honored with the 2009 Kitty Hawk. opportunities for young American composers, Keaton set JERRY L. POWELL ’90 ’95 was named associate Education Center at UNC Chapel Hill. The work out to recruit the finest regional and national composing medical director of Hospice of the Piedmont in High talents and to follow a colorblind casting policy . Since Point. He was a hospitalist with High Point Regional then, Keaton has overseen the production of 33 operas, Health System. JOHN RODMAN was promoted to including seven world premieres . In 2007, he established an director of the planning and community development international competition for new operatic works, and to date department in Washington, N.C., where he was the over 100 compositions have been received from countries planning administrator. Investing in Champions including Germany, Australia and the U .K . Under his baton, 1989 the company’s orchestra and vocalists have evolved from ANNE R. COREY was named senior vice president local performers to a professional company of artists with and chief credit officer at Select Bank & Trust Establishing Excellence established careers at major opera houses both in Europe in Greenville. She was senior vice president and and the United States . senior credit risk manager at First South Bank in A native of Belhaven, Keaton was a founding member of the Washington, N.C. Zeta Psi Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha at East Carolina . He has 1988 endowed scholarships at ECU for voice majors . Keaton taught 20th century music and theory for 18 years at n C. . Central THOMAS ASBELL was named superintendent at University and has served as maestro for several musical Greene Correctional Institution. He has 20 years organizations, including the Carolina Playmakers, the Durham experience in corrections. SONYA MCGRAW Savoyards, Opera House Productions in Wilmington, Jenny became Gaston County Schools’ staff attorney. For Wiley Summer Theatre in Kentucky, and Opera Ft . Collins 18 years, she primarily handled family law cases at in Colorado . He has directed in England and also currently Ferguson and McGraw law firm. serves as opera advisor to Chez Nous Productions in Paris . 1987 He was recently awarded the Durham Jaycees Outstanding Citizen Award and the ECU School of Music’s Distinguished YONNIE BUTLER was elected to the board of Alumni Award for 2009 . directors for the ECU Medical & Health Sciences Foundation. He is director of business development at the N.C. Biotechnology Center in RTP where he manages investments through the center’s loan-based programs to support life science companies through inception, research, and growth stages. CRAIG WILLARD was promoted from territory sales representative to Mid-Atlantic sales manager for the Burke Corporation. ecupirateclub.com

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Alumni Spotlight 1973 BOB GRECYZN retired as CEO of Blue Cross and Female high school Blue Shield of North Carolina. He is on the ECU basketball and soccer Board of Trustees and is its immediate past chair. 1930s KENNETH LARRY “COACH” BURGESS ’58 of on the village council and as mayor of Whispering players are eight times Portsmouth, Va., died Feb. 3. An all-state high school Pines. FRED LOUIS JOHNS ’62 of Stamford, Vt., MICHAEL V. JOYNER CPA, PA merged his CPA FRANCES DEAN CURRIN more likely than boys baseball player, he played football and baseball at ECC, died Dec. 7. He was a professor of biology from the firm with JOHN M. PERSON ’99 CPA, PA to form CURRIE ’37 of Broadway, to suffer a torn serving as captain of the football team and a starting early 1970s until 2000 at the Massachusetts College Joyner, Person & Co., CPA, PA in Greenville. LEE N.C., died Dec. 21 at 93. For anterior cruciate guard for three years. He earned all-conference honors of Liberal Arts, formerly North Adams State College. MYERS received the order of the Long Leaf Pine 36 years she taught in the ligament in the knee, and was chosen as the outstanding senior his last year. He had a special interest in ecology, microbiology, for his 18 years as mayor of Matthews, N.C. He Angier and Broadway public and coaches should The Pittsburgh Pirates offered him a pro baseball and scientific and technical photography, which he did not seek reelection in 2009. He practices law in schools. BEATRICE adjust their training contract, but he wanted to be a high school coach. taught in addition to biology. PEGGY HARRELL Mecklenburg County with his son, Matthew Myers, as HAMMOND “BEA” regimens to protect He taught in Portsmouth and Chesapeake, Va., public MOORE ’62 of Wilmington died Oct. 11. She taught the Myers Law Firm, PLLC. MASSINGALE ’35 ’37 of them against such schools for 48 years. CAMILLA SELBY BURRUS at Bradley Creek Elementary School and Tileston Evans, Ga., died Jan. 4 at 93. She retired from Forest injuries, Dr . Lisa 1974 ’51 of Suffolk, Va., died Dec. 19. After 36 years, she Junior High School in Wilmington. MARIE LOUISE Hills Elementary School in Decatur, Ga., where she Rowland Callahan ’83 retired from teaching in the Suffolk City Schools, MOORE MORROW ’65 of Springmoor Retirement TERRY MANN was elected mayor of Whiteville was a fifth-grade teacher and later school librarian. ’87 said at a major including Forest Glen High School. WALTER Center in Raleigh died Jan. 3 at 93. She taught in after serving one 4-year term as city councilman. He is HATTIE MALLARD conference in New ELLIOTT FAULKNER ’58 of Callaway, Fla., died Beaufort County schools before becoming a librarian president of J. S. Mann’s in Whiteville. ODOM ’36 of Fayetteville York in late February . Feb. 4. A Vietnam War veteran, he served 24 years in at schools in Chocowinity and at Washington High 1971 died Feb. 19 at 95. She retired She cited studies showing that when boys jump, they tend to the Air Force. He continued to serve as a Disabled School. CHARLES SALISBURY SHARP JR. ’69 as a teacher in the Cumberland land on both knees, with legs bent to soften the landing . Girls, RICHARD FOLSOM ’71 ’74 published Veteran Outreach Program counselor with Panama of Wilmington died Feb. 11. An Army veteran, he County School System. She on the other hand, are more apt to land on one leg that’s not Indian. Wood: City Workforce Center. CLYDE H. GENTRY JR. worked in the addiction treatment field, including more taught a variety of subjects and bent . Female soccer players should strengthen their A Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island ’54 of Wrightsville Beach died Dec. 27. He was retired than 16 years as executive director of CRC Health 1970 grade levels but will be hamstring muscles, which act to reinforce the ACl . She said from the Social Security Administration. MARY Corp.’s Wilmington Treatment Center. WALLACE remembered most as an earth coaches can address both problems by teaching girls better PHIL BILODEAU received his MBA from Franklin HELEN KILBY HIGH ’53 of Bath died Feb. 1. EDWARD THOMPSON ’68 of Easton, Md., died science teacher at Alexander Graham Jr. High School. body mechanics to protect their knees . Pierce University. He works for the city of Concord, JOSEPH CARROLL LINA ’57 of Fairfax, Va., died Dec. 13. He sold real estate in North Carolina and N.H., and is president of the New Hampshire Water 1940s Jan. 10. He retired after 30 years with the Fairfax Ocean City, Md., where he earned Realtor of the Year “You see a lot of girls in high school tear their ACLs . Some Works Association. FRED HOLDER joined Helen County School System as a teacher and assistant Awards and Top Selling Agent in the Ocean City area. have surgery, have a good rehab program and come back to ELIZABETH HAISLIP DENNING ’42 of Benson Adams Realty in Charlotte. KELLY KING, CEO of principal. JOE NEVETT MCWHIRTER ’57 of CHARLES ROBERT ZUCAL ’64 of Millville, N.J., play . But there is attrition . Many are lost in high school, and died Jan. 31. She taught third and fourth grades in BB&T Corp. in Winston-Salem, was elected chair of Shelby died Feb. 12. A teacher and principal for 30 died Dec. 16. He taught accounting and business law they never come back to compete ”. Johnston and Sampson counties. MATTIE LEE the BB&T corporate board. TOM MARSH ’70 ’05 years in North Carolina, he enjoyed teaching “basic” at Vineland High South for 43 years where he also “PAT” JACKSON BARNES STRAUSS ’40 ’44 of was named principal of New Bern High School. math and science but loved teaching geography. Col. served as chair of the business department and head One of the nation’s leading experts on sports medicine, Southern Pines died Feb. 6. She was a teacher and FURNEY POWELL ’56 of Marietta, Ga., died of the finance department. Mrs.N ancy Foley Callahan also warned that high school athletes, like 1965 counselor for more than 40 years, mostly in Robeson Dec. 7. A Vietnam War veteran, he retired from the Humphrey ’68, an Alpha Xi Delta sister, died hospital patients, must remain vigilant against the MRSA County. During that time, she earned a master’s in JAMES “JIM” EDWARD MAHAN is cofounder U.S. Air Force after 30 years. He taught quality Nov. 10 in Anne Arundel County, Md., where she had staph infection, which has developed a strong resistance five subjects. MAXIE BROADWELL SMART ’40 of American Eye Care Technician School, which sells assurance at Southern Polytechnic University in a long career in early childhood development and as a to antibiotics . “The bug can cause skin and soft-tissue ’52 of St. Petersburg, Fla., died Aug. 27. For 34 years, training school franchises to eye care offices across the Marietta, Ga. EVELYN PENNEY RHODES ’58 media specialist in the public schools there. She also infections, and it can spread to the lungs or joints,” said she taught first grade in North Carolina, Georgia, and Callahan, medical director of the Women’s Sports Medicine country. He is the author of a children’s book, of Greenville died Jan. 17. She taught for a few years was an author and artist. Harry Florida. IDA DAVIS WELLS ’40 ’47 of Durham Center at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan that and is working on a after graduation. WILLIAM KENNETH SYKES and Bogey, Challenge to America, died Jan. 27. She taught in Roxboro, Burgaw, Chapel 1970s book describing his recovery from paralysis. ’59 of Pink Hill died Dec. 6. He was a retired teacher sponsored the conference . “You can get very sick from this ”. Hill, and Durham schools. 1954 with the Duplin County School System. RUSSELL BRENDA JEAN BAGGETT ’72 of Greenville Callahan, who also is director of player care for the New York 1950s BOLLING TATUM ’51 of Hopewell, Va., died Dec. died Nov. 30. As Mrs. Ross, she taught at Ayden- Knicks and New York Liberty professional basketball teams, ANN HARRISON ’54 ’61 ’82, a retired ECU faculty Grifton High School for 18 years and was employed CONETOE PAIGE BAKER ’58 ’59 of Athens, Tex., 18. He served in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force says the bacteria can spread if athletes share towels or don’t member, joined the regional council of the Food Bank of at Pitt County Memorial Hospital for 10 years as a died Feb. 10. For 32 years she taught at Trinity Valley and was a retired production control coordinator with properly clean abrasions or athletic equipment . She says Central and Eastern North Carolina. For 10 years, she HIMS supervisor. SUSAN HUNT BAILEY ’73 Community College in Athens, where she was an active Continental Can Company. wrestlers and football players are most vulnerable, but others has directed the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church food pantry. of Morehead City died Feb. 16. She worked for participant in Phi Theta Kappa and Delta Kappa 1960s also can become infected by sharing training facilities with the NC Division of Health Services and retired in 1959 Gamma. In 1997, she retired to Levelland, where she those who play contact sports . BRUCE D. BROWN ’69 of Lafayette Hill, Pa., 1994 as a public health program consultant with continued her involvement with family, church, and CHARLIE ADAMS ’59 ’62 was honored when the died Jan. 17. In 1999, he retired after teaching 30 the Division of Public Health responsible for the “Something as simple as hand-washing can really help,” civic groups. ALLEN HOLLAND BATEMAN ’53 Cary High School gymnasium was named in his honor. years in Round Meadow Elementary School in 33 eastern North Carolina counties. LEONARD suggested Callahan, who stays in shape skiing and riding of Washington, N.C., died Dec. 10. As a U.S. Marine He was an outstanding athlete at Cary High and later Upper Moreland School District, Pa. CHARLES B. JONATHAN BREARY ’71 of Beaufort died Jan. 17 her titanium road bike . “And athletes should use liquid soap, in WW II, he fought at Iwo Jima and was awarded coached basketball there. The Greater Raleigh Sports “CHUCK” GORDON ’62 of Clayton died Jan. 8. He at 93. In 1968 he retired from the U.S. Marine Corps not bar soap in the locker room to prevent spreading the two Purple Hearts. After graduating from ECTC, he Council awarded him a Lifetime Achievement Award for played varsity football for ECU for four years and was as a decorated chief warrant officer 3. He taught one bacteria ”. returned to work the family farm in Beaufort County. his work as executive director of the NC High School captain for two years. He was all conference and NAIA year at Swansboro High School and retired in 1978 Dr. KENNETH WALLACE BLAKESLEE ’51 ’61 Among the estimated 30 million American children and teens Athletic Association from which he recently retired. and nominated Who’s Who in 1960. He was a land from the Employment Security Commission. KEVIN of Jacksonville, Fla., died Dec. 27. He was a retired that play youth sports, about 3 .5 million require medical developer, builder, utility contractor, and owner of CAMERON ’79 of Sanford died Dec. 5. He worked 1945 Duval County Public School teacher and administrator. treatment each year . Charles B. Gordon Construction Company, currently with Home Shield, Inc., of Raleigh. DORIS M. HILTON E. BOYD ’50 of Greenville died Jan. 31. —David McKay Wilson BETTIE SMITH DRESSER ’45 ’46 and Philip L. known as EBG, Inc. & CBE Development. GILES CHEUNG GARNER ’75 of Riverside, Calif., died A WW II veteran, he retired in 1981 after 30 years Dresser celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in DION HOPKINS ’63 of Whispering Pines died Dec. 4. She taught special needs children. BARRY with the IRS in Wilmington and Greenville. ROBERT 2009. A retired school teacher, she taught in North Dec. 9. He started GDH Consulting after many years DALE GRAY ’73 of Lexington died Feb. 5. He ODELL BRADLEY JR. ’52 of Salisbury died Carolina public schools in Penderlea, Concord, Angier, working in county and city planning. He also served worked at Lowes Home Improvement. His hobby was and Wilmington and in Fairfax County, Va. Dec. 26. He was a U.S. Navy veteran from WW II.

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raising Black Angus cattle. Dr. LARRY O. LAMM Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren. BENJAMIN Refractive Center at Eye Associates in Wilmington 1990s for 10 years before retiring completely to help care for Dr. CYNTHIA SUMMERLIN JONES of ’78 ’83 of Mishawaka, Ind., died Dec. 11. He was FRANKLIN CRAWFORD ’80 of Valdosta, Ga., and the first physician certified to perform laser vision his wife, Sally, who died in 2004. He practiced internal Greenville died Feb. 1. She was assistant director of NANCY WILSON ANDERSON ’92 of Falls a research professor in the physics department and died Nov. 30. He was a teacher and principal in North correction in eastern North Carolina, according to medicine and cardiology for more than 35 years in administrative services at Joyner Library. After 36 Church, Va., died Dec. 30. She was an Environmental technical director of the Nuclear Science Lab at Notre Carolina and Georgia school systems. WILLIAM Eye Associates. Kathy Arnold Taft ’81 of Red Bank, N.J. A gifted student, he graduated from years, she had retired from Sprint Telephone Co. and Protection Agency manager whose work included Dame. CAROL MCCOMBS NOBLE ’78 ’82 of “RILEY” GRAY of New Bern died Feb. 16. He was Greenville died March 9 while in Raleigh to attend a high school early and entered Cornell University at went on to earn a doctorate from NC State. revising federal rules on mercury, which resulted in Winterville died Dec. 26. She operated Southridge a CPA and vice president of fiscal services at Carteret meeting of the State Board of Education, on which 16. Due to WW II, he entered medical school before an EPA Gold Medal for Exceptional Service. MARY J. CARLTON TAYLOR of Greenville died Jan. 16. Learning Center, providing diagnostic services and General Hospital. DEBBIE HARTSELL ’88 of she had served for 15 years. Born in Milwaukee, she completing his premed degree. The war was over by ELIZABETH BROOME ’90 of Colorado died Dec. 7. He owned Coastal Leasing Corp. and later Taylor tutoring for students in eastern North Carolina. Raleigh died Nov. 30. She worked in the business was raised in Kinston and was a graduate of Grainger the time he completed medical school, but he remained Properties. In 2008 he became CEO of Brook Valley JAMES PAPPAS ’76 of Joplin, Mo., died Dec. 13. He department at the ECU Brody School of Medicine. High School. She was a former vice chair of the Pitt 2000s in the army, with the rank of captain, and during the Country Club. An ardent supporter of the Pirate Club, retired in 1975 from a career in the U.S. Marines going ALBERT JAMES ’87 ’95 of Jacksonville died Jan. County Board of Education, a founding member Korean War, he served at the Veteran’s Hospital in KATHERINE BRAY-STRICKLAND ’09 of he was active in many community organizations. on to earn a master’s and two doctorates and working 16. He was the principal of Northside High School of Pitt County Communities in Schools, a board Valley Forge, Pa. Farmville died Feb. 10. She was a family medicine ROBERT WALLACE HOWARD of Greenville died for Vocational Industrial Clubs of America based at in Jacksonville. A U.S. Army veteran, he served in member of the Governor’s Schools, a guardian ad litem resident at ECU Brody School of Medicine. KEITH NANCY JANE MILLER HOUSTON of Nov. 23 at 94. He was a former member of the board Pittsburg State University in Kansas from which he Vietnam. KIM GLOVER MCDANIEL ’85 ’95 of volunteer, a member of the ECU Women’s Roundtable JOSEPH ZAMBITO ’00 of Washington died Jan. 29. Chocowinity died Dec. 31. She was the lead of directors of the ECU Foundation. retired in 1999. JULIEN DAVID RATTELADE SR. Greenville died Jan. 3. During her 28-year career at Pitt and a member of the ECU Educator’s Hall of Fame. coordinator in the Office of Clinical Experiences for He worked in insurance, investments, and landscaping. ROBERT “BOBO” GLEN RECTOR, formerly of ’75 of Raleigh died Feb. 6. He worked in community County Memorial Hospital, she held various staff and Memorial contributions may be made to the Kathy the College of Education. In Ohio, she was a highly Sanford, died Dec. 31 in Winston-Salem. He was a association management as a founder of Talis leadership positions and most recently was a surgical A. Taft Scholarship for a female undergraduate in regarded educator for 30 years as a teacher, reading FACULTY member of the advisory board that established ECU’s Management Group. FRANCES B. “BLOSSOM” patient facilitator. MARY FRANCES JOHNSON education policy at UNC-Chapel Hill and the Kathy specialist, curriculum coordinator, and a regional construction management program, serving as its STEVENS ’77 of Port Charlotte, Fla., died Nov. 19. MILLER SIGMON ’84 of Statesville, formerly of A. Taft Scholarship for a female undergraduate Dr. ROBERT LUKE HAUSE III of Greenville died director of teacher development for the state of Ohio. In 2006 she retired from opening and operating homes Charlotte, died Jan. 21. She taught business education in education leadership in the ECU College of president for a couple years. He worked for American Feb. 4. He joined ECU in 1967 and was a professor of GWENDOLYN SIMPKINS ’01 ’06 of Elizabeth for persons with developmental disabilities and visual at the high school and collegiate levels and retired from Education. STUART K. WARD ’89 of Morehead South Contractors of Sanford and was a member of music and conductor of the ECU symphony when he City died Dec. 28. She was a distance education impairment in California. the Fayetteville/Cumberland County Public School City died Feb. 9. He was a business account executive their board until his death. retired in 2005. He founded and directed the North instructor for ECU. system. BYRON STRATAS ’86 of St. Petersburg, for Verizon Wireless in Morehead City. MARY BETH 1980s Carolina Suzuki Institute. With Charles Kuralt and EDNA LEWIS of Blowing Rock died Feb. 17. Fla., died Feb. 8. He was the cataract surgeon at St. WHITFIELD ’88 of Greenville died Dec. 8. She was Loonis McGlohon, he conducted GLADYS M. SAIEED of Greenville died Dec. 31. A native of Pitt County, she worked for the ECU EDWARD F. COLSTON ’84 of King George Luke’s Cataract & Laser Institute in St. Petersburg. He a medical technologist in the pathology department at for UNC Public Television. NorthIn addition Carolina to hisIs My In 1990, she retired as an assistant librarian at Joyner Bookstore and the Pitt County Tax Collector’s Office. County, Va., died Dec. 6. He was a retired physicist at was the founding medical director of the LASIK and Pitt County Memorial Hospital for 23 years. Homecareer as a musician, composer, conductor, and music Library. educator, he was an avid sailor and was active in the North Carolina Power Squadron, Pamlico-Tar River STAFF AND FRIENDS Two recent graduates have given their lives for their country while serving in Afghanistan. Chapter. FRANCEINE PERRY REES ’69, a former Class Capt. David J. Thompson ’02 of Pinehurst SYLVIA MARTHA IWANOWSKI ENGLISH Notes editor of and long-time writer for the ECU died on Jan. 29 of injuries sustained while supporting of Greenville died Feb. 3. She was a certified diabetic News Bureau, diedEast Apr. 2 in Greenville. She joined the combat operations in Operation Enduring Freedom in Alternative Investments: educator and served as an adjunct faculty member of News Bureau after graduation and in the late 1980s Wardak Province, Afghanistan. A U.S. Army Special Compare charitable gift annuities to low-yielding the School of Nursing. She was also a clinical nurse became editor of the campus newsletter, Operations Command soldier from Fort Bragg, specialist at Pitt Community Memorial Hospital. Since from which she retired in 2000. Pieces of Eight, Thompson, 39, a native of Oklahoma, was on his certificates of deposit (CDs) 2007 she chaired the Pitt Partners for Health dedicated second deployment to Afghanistan. He also served

Single life Two lives to improving the health of Pitt County residents. in Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti as well as Age Payout Rate Age Payout Rate EDITH HILL “EDIE” WEBBER of Greenville died many deployments with the N.C. National Guard. His 55 4 .8 % 55/55 4 1. % Dec. 26. A professor emeritus of English, she taught military awards and decorations include the Bronze 60 5 0. % 60/60 4 .6 % from 1965 to 1985, specializing in teaching the hard Star medal with “V” device, Army Commendation 65 5 3. % 65/65 4 .9 % of hearing and serving as faculty sponsor for the ECU medal (four), Army Achievement Medal (three), Army 70 5 7. % 70/70 5 .2 % Good Conduct Medal (three), National Defense 75 6 .3 % 75/75 5 .6 % gay community. She was best known in the community 80 7 1. % 80/80 6 1. % for her 15 years of work with the Little Willie Center, Service Medal (two), Armed Forces He is survived by 90+ 9 .5 % 90/90 8 .3 % where they named a library and a garden in her honor. his wife, Emily, and their two daughters. Sgt. David Smith ’11, an industrial distribution Benefits of a charitable gift annuity: DAVID “ROD” COMPTON of Greenville died Feb. 12. Since 1970 he was an assistant professor and major, died on Jan. 26 of injuries suffered in a suicide • Substantially guaranteed higher payout rates program director of safety and first aid education in attack during a patrol three days earlier in Helmand • Substantial income-tax deductions the Department of Health Education and Promotion. Province, Afghanistan. The 25-year-old Marine was • Partial tax-free income for the remainder of up to two lives He was also the former director of sports medicine for For many years she portrayed the Lady of the Manor a 2002 graduate of Frederick (Maryland) High • The ability to use the residuum of your gift to fund a meaningful the athletics department and received many honors for at the ECU Christmas Madrigal dinners. She was School, where he wrestled, played lacrosse and soccer, project with any of the three ECU foundations (East Carolina his research and publications in sports medicine. married to ECU communication professor Jim Rees, and participated in the school plays. Known for his University Foundation Inc ., East Carolina University Medical & who died in 2008. She was active in the Greenville playfulness and his deep love of his family, Smith Dr. ELAINE MAYO PAUL of Greenville died Jan. Health Sciences Foundation Inc ., or the East Carolina University community through voter registration efforts and was also serious about being a Marine. He served 15 at 94. She earned an undergraduate degree from Educational Foundation Inc . [Pirate Club]) helping local Democratic party candidates and one deployment in Iraq in 2006 and deployed to ECU and later taught history at ECU from 1964 to • Membership in the Leo W . Jenkins Society neighborhood association activities. She was a member Afghanistan with Frederick’s 4th Light Armored 1967. In 1989 she retired from teaching and returned of the Greenville Historic Preservation Commission Reconnaissance Battalion Company B last November. For more information regarding charitable gift annuities or any other to Greenville, where she was an active community and on the board of the Friends of Joyner Library, His military awards included the Combat Action type of planned gift (bequest provisions, IRA, or other qualified volunteer. One of her favorite causes was teaching of which she was past president. She was active in the Ribbon, the Selected Marine Corps Reserve Medal, retirement plan designations, trusts, real estate contributions, or gifts of Tomorrow starts here. prison inmates. the National Defense Service Medal, the Afghanistan life insurance) please contact Greg Abeyounis, assistant vice chancellor DAR and the Jamestown Society, among others, and Dr. JOSEPH LAWRENCE GLUCK of Central Campaign Medal, the Iraq Campaign Medal, the for development, at 252-328-9573 or e-mail at abeyounisg@ecu edu. . had an ongoing interest in genealogy. A member of St. Jersey, N.J., died Nov. 23. A professor emeritus, he Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and others. For examples and more information on planned giving mechanisms, Paul’s Episcopal Church, she volunteered in the office taught medicine at ECU Brody School of Medicine He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. visit our web site at www ecu. edu/plannedgivin. g . and the food pantry. 58 59 upon THE PAST “We are not here to destroy the old and accept only the new, but to build upon the past…” —Robert h . Wright, Nov . 12, 1909 From his inaugural address and installation as East Carolina’s first president

We’re the ECTC tourists! Our eyes have seen the glories of Three thousand miles and more

University A rchives University We have seen the tops of mountains And we have seen the valley floor . We have seen the rugged coastline Of New England’s rocky shore As we have traveled on .

c h o r u s We’re the e C. T. C. . tourists We’re the e C. T. C. . tourists We’re the e C. T. C. . tourists And we’ve been moving on . From the lofty summit We have heard Niagara roar As across the mighty horseshoe Untold million gallons pour Through the rapids and the whirlpool Swelling Lake Ontario’s shore As we have traveled on .

c h o r u s In the mighty cities A tour group inside a We have seen the works of man church in Havana, Cuba. Buildings reaching into heaven Far as engineer can plan We have traveled on the water, Under surface, and the land As we have traveled on .

c h o r u s At the homes of authors And the graves of men of fame Road trip! We have sought for some good reason Why remembered is their name . It must have seemed like they were embarking on a journey to the ends of the And their life achievements Will more real and vital seem earth when busloads of excited East Carolina students and their chaperones rolled As we have traveled on . out of campus that summer of 1936 bound for Quebec, Havana and Mexico City. c h o r u s

While hundreds more would follow them trip to Florida with a cruise over to Cuba. Out in front of City Hall is this statue called over the next few years, they were the first Including transportation, meals and lodging, Civic Virtue, and it looks like a man with to sign up with the Educational Field Trips the tours cost from $85 up to $150 for the his foot on a lady’s neck. This mountain Committee, which had been charged with Florida-Cuba trip. Students earned between sprout, I don’t know her name, we always creating more mind-broadening opportunities three and eight hours academic credit. called her Mountain Sprout, but she was for students. Working with a local tour from up in western North Carolina, (looked Elizabeth Evans Savage ’18, a sociology operator, Rick’s Tours, the college had at this statue and) said, ‘Is that the Statue teacher, was a chaperone on several tours. She planned to offer a 21-day trip that summer of Liberty?’ Some man standing there said, recalled one memorable moment in a 1981 through Philadelphia, New York, New ‘What’s this, a convention of farm women?’ interview. “When we got to New York I England and Canada. But when that trip was I’ve never forgotten that. I had a good time.” always took them down to Welfare Island to first publicized in the Feb. 11, 1936, the Children’s Hospital, to the Henry Street The summer field trips remained popular interest was so high that two additionalTeco Mission, usually down to City Hall, out to among students and faculty alike until the destinationsEcho, were added—a 32-day jaunt to the Cloisters and to the Statue of Liberty. 1940s, when gas rationing at the onset of the Southwest and into Mexico and a 27-day Anything we thought would be interesting. the war dictated their demise.

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At this year’s Barefoot on the Mall, students enjoyed a day of fun between the end of classes and the beginning of finals. Photograph by Cliff Hollis