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FEATURES 20 KRISTEN’S CONQUEST 20 She’s living the red carpet lifeBy Samanthanow as Miss Thompson USA, Hatembut less ’90 than a year ago Kristen Dalton was a bright ECU student with a big-time dream. on the cover: Kristen Dalton speaking at a May event at the Pentagon promoting safety.

A RESTS 26 He had written for 26 magazineBy David Menconiand directed Rollingon MTV, Stone but when it was time to write theTotal history Recall of LiveSouthern rock, Mark Kemp ’80 came home.

CAN YOU HEAR ME? 32 For these two professors, who are husbandBy Marion and Blackburn wife, communication is both a profession and a research passion.

SOFTBALL RIDES A WAVE 32 36 Eight seniors—six from either Byor Hawaii—willBethany Bradsher lead the Lady Pirates into a tougher schedule.

DEPARTMENTS FROM OUR READERS ...... 3. THE ECU REPORT ...... 5. 36 SPRING ARTS CALENDAR ...... 18 PIRATE NATION ...... 42. CLASS NOTES ...... 45. UPON THE PAST ...... 56. Spring and Spray A couple of kayakers cool off under the fountain in the six-acre lake at North Recreation Complex. from the editor from our readers spring 2010 EastThe Magazine of East Carolina University

Volume 8, Number 3 Have business degree, will travel More on ChooseAneed is published four times a year by I was one of the first graduates of the I enjoy receiving my magazine and want Read East online at East East Carolina University Did I tell you I graduated? East www.ecu.edu/east Sure did. I graduated from ECU last May with a BS in Division of University Advancement International Business program at ECU and I to thank everyone for their dedication to this 2200 South Charles Blvd. feel fortunate that I have fulfilled, in part, my publication. In the Winter 2010 publication, Communication. I’ve been going to school part time because I enjoy Greenville, NC 27858 goals of working in an international setting I was reading the article titled “Making a learning and because I wanted to experience the same things most of compliments of Dr. Tope Bello and the little do a lot of good” (about the charitable you did. I originally went to Appalachian and just so you’ll know, I College of Business. I am residing in Kuala medical work of BSOM grads Mary and turned 59 a month after getting my ECU degree. I liked college so h Lumpur, , working for the German- Brian Dawson) when I noticed the boxes of much I immediately went out, took the GRE and passed it (high five!) EDITOR based company ecenta, am responsible for gloves in the photographs. I looked closer and was admitted to the master’s in communication program here. I Steve Tuttle ’09 the global project management function for and realized that they were our private 252-328-2068 / tuttles@ecu edu. just started my second semester of grad school and, at this rate, may that company. We are the folks that come in, label glove that our actually get that MA before I retire. I’ leaning toward the thesis ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER install, configure, develop company had donated. route rather than comps. Brent Burch and implement the software I shared this article that large companies use with everyone in PHOTOGRAPHER 2010 winter T Carolina UniversiTy One good thing about being a part-time student is the perspective it EThe Magazine a of s eas t Forrest Croce to run their businesses. our office and sales gives me as I do my job. When I’m listening to a vice or After working for NetApp, staff, along with How do I subscribe? COPY EDITOR interviewing a dean for a story, I often will evaluate what they’re saying a California-based company, sending a copy to Send a check to the ECU Foundation. Jimmy Rostar ’94 Masters or doing from the ground level, the way it will impact typical students. I was offered a role to come of Critical the manufacturer, How much is up to you, but we suggest to and do the same thinking and everyone a minimum of $25 . Your generosity is I like talking to students; they don’t seem to have changed all that CONTRIBUTING WRITERS appreciated . much since our day. But I see many scraping by on loans and part- Marion Blackburn, Bethany Bradsher, thing on a much larger scale. commented on n 252-328-9550 time jobs. When I walked in May there was a lot of gallows humor Samantha Thompson Hatem ’90, David Menconi At ECU I remember listening how cool it n www ecu. edu/dev. t n give2ecu@ecu edu. about graduating into the worst job market in 25 years. to Dr. Bello speak about local was to see our CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS customs, business etiquette, product being Join the Alumni Association and receive Jay Clark, Cliff Hollis, Doug Smith a subscription as well as other benefits Another good thing about being a part-time student is it’s OK for and I find myself digging into used for such and services . Minimum dues are $35 . Doctor Basnight makes a house call you to just stroll around this beautiful campus, which I do a lot for CLASS NOTES EDITOR my memory bank to use what I a worthwhile n 1-800-ECU-GRAD my job and my schoolwork. After four years of this walking about, Joanne Kollar had learned when I walk into the project in a foreign country. n www .piratealumni co. m ecuclassnotes@ecu edu. n alumni@PirateAlumni co. m I’ve had the chance to get a degree and meet some fascinating people. room full of Asian businessmen and women. — Kinston Bobby Adams ’76, Join the Pirate Club and get the magazine ADMINISTRATION The remaining part of my journey entails If you’ve been reading regularly, you’ve met them, too, in our Remembering Leo as well as other benefits appreciated by From the Classroom profiles.East The brilliant vascular surgeon at Brody, Michelle Sloan continuing to learn and grow my career so sports fans . Minimum dues are $75 . that one day soon I can return to ECU and My husband and I are Greenville natives. We n 252-328-4540 the beautifully aging Russian ballet teacher who emigrated with n www ecupirateclub. co. m h talk to students about my experience. So far just read the article in magazine about Baryshnikov, the quirky physics teacher with the cool Camaro, the East n contact@ecupirateclub co. m Assistant Vice Chancellor away from , East Carolina still Jack Jenkins and thoroughly enjoyed it. We ocean biologist who loves dogfish, the guy with the great smile who for University Marketing makes its mark. This weekend I walked into both remember Dr. Jenkins and his family. Contact us Clint Bailey started the engineering program. a small restaurant wearing my “pirate” gear Jeff was in my class and my husband knew n 252-328-2068 Jimmy. My husband remembers when Dr. n easteditor@ecu ed. u With this issue we come to the next stop on our campus tour, Joyner and someone walked up to me and said, n www ecu. edu/eas. t “My brother studied in Greenville also.” Jenkins and his family lived in a small house East, home of my part-time home the past four years, the School of East Carolina University is a constituent institution of Customer Service I was very proud. on Eastern Street. Thank you so much for To start or stop a subscription, Communication. In this From the Classroom, which starts on page 32, The University of North Carolina. It is a public doctoral/ research intensive university offering baccalaureate, master’s, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia letting us know about this wonderful family. or to let us know about a change of we meet our first husband-and-wife professors, Drs. Linda Prividera specialist and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts, sciences —Charles Sigmon ’01, — address, please contact Lisa Gurkin, and professional fields, including medicine. Dedicated to the Nancy Hardee gurkinl@ecu ed. u or 252-328-9561 and John Howard. I’ve had classes under both of them and may have Liked the tie achievement of excellence, responsible stewardship of the I enjoyed the update on the Jenkins family. Send letters to the editor to public trust and academic freedom, ECU values the A quick question about the photo on the cover them again, so it wouldn’t be good journalism for me to write their I heard Leo Jenkins give essentially the easteditor@ecu ed. u or story, so I asked Marion Blackburn to write it. But I did poke Marion contributions of a diverse community, supports shared of the Winter 2010 issue. Can you share the 1206 Charles Blvd . governance and guarantees equality of opportunity. same speech three times while I was at East Building 198 in the ribs to tell her these are two really good professors. I know. name or brand of the tie in the picture or Mail Stop 108 ©2010 by East Carolina University Carolina. In every talk he advised us to pull where it came from? Or, if not, point me in the East Carolina University at least one all-nighter (studying, of course). Greenville, n C. . 27858 Printed by Progress Printing direction of someone who might be able to? Does anyone remember any other points he Send class notes to U .P . 10-181 74,000 copies of this public document — were printed at a cost of $43,269 or $ .58 per copy . Kimberly Komar would have made in this speech? ecuclassnotes@ecu ed. u — Fairfax, Va. or use the form on page 52 Editor’s note: The tie is from Brooks Brothers. Lyle Barlow ’79, 2 3 from our readers the ecU Report

1950 Homecoming Queen 1972. WECU used a series of low power Editor’s Note: We checked with the Jenkins family transmitters with one in each dorm. and to the best of their recollection, he often — Raleigh mentioned these two things in his talks with Carl W. Davis ’72, No longer a ‘residential’ campus? students: Be ready to go one more round, meaning Editor’s note: Information in the story about to be prepared to work hard at college every day; As East Carolina’s undergraduate enrollment WWWS was taken from archival material in and take at least one course way outside your continues to grow, the university is in danger Joyner Library. Those official records do not put major just for fun. of losing its identity as a “residential” WECU in the same category as WWWS and More on WWWS-FM campus, a distinction that applies to schools WZMB apparently because it was a “closed where at least 25 percent of undergraduates A renovated Scott Thanks for the write up on WWWS in the circuit” station that could only be received in live on campus. That’s one reason the Board Hall on College Winter issue. I worked there two years and Hill will open this campus buildings. WECU remained in of Trustees is considering partnering with fall with a new did the news as well as some DJ work. My operation until 1977. private developers to build more dormitories. four-story addition photo is on page 252 of the ’59 that will raise its Buccaneer. We had a great crew and Miss Hall was a Don’t malign Southern sayings! Coach There were 4,656 beds available in Main capacity to 613 and students, making great supporter as well as Mr. Smiley. We This is in response to the letter (in the the football team return Campus dorms fall semester, which meant it the largest dorm couldn’t have operated without them. Winter issue about writer Jim Dodson ’75) from the 1960 Tangerine Bowl. that only about 22 percent of the 21,424 on campus. — Wake Forest correcting you for writing that Dodson Courtesy Daily Reflector Image Collection undergrads were living on campus then. Bob G. Daniels ’59, “wouldn’t take anything for his years in Although higher admissions requirements I became affiliated with East Carolina Greenville.” I know exactly what he meant. instituted last fall held total enrollment to television and radio when responding to a I’ve used that same expression all of my life, 27,659, the campus needs more beds to campus recruitment for student personnel to and it means that there is not enough money climb back above the 25 percent threshold. work in television. The studio was used for (or anything else) in the world that is worth live transmission of several required courses “We are headed to becoming a commuter what (whatever the experience) means to me. to multiple TV equipped classrooms on the campus with a lot of apartments around You couldn’t PAY me as much as it means campus (my freshman year the pay was $.85 the campus,” said trustee David Redwine to me…I wouldn’t take anything for it. an hour and by my senior year it had risen to ’72, chair of the facilities and resources One may call that a “trade,” but to chastise $1.25!). During my four-year EC academic committee. “Personally, that is not what I anyone for saying “take” is unnecessary, career, when I worked through the ranks want to see.” Redwine’s committee held a to say the very least. It is certainly not to become radio station general manager special meeting to discuss partnering with meaningless, as Mr. Rutledge suggests. as a senior, I was also associated with every private developers to erect more dorms on — Greenville McGinnis main stage production and was Mary A. Whichard Vars ’48, campus. “ECU has grown faster than its property master for the first two seasons of facilities,” said trustees Chair David Brody. the Summer Theatre. After graduation, I I saw the Confederate ghost “Public-private partnerships have been had what I am proud to say was a successful I read with interest the article on ghost around for a while,” Redwine added. “It and productive career in educational and stories at ECU in the fall edition. As a is something that the university needs to commercial television, radio, and theatre student, living in White Dorm in 1970– 1971, I witnessed a sighting in a dorm continue to look at and get a handle on.” management, production and marketing. I If you like looking at the old photos we believe that none of my post East Carolina room on fifth floor. While rolling my hair print on the Timeline and Looking Back The General Assembly pays for construction successes would have been possible had it using orange juice cans, I saw, in the mirror pages, you’ll love a new feature offered of academic buildings at all UNC system standing behind me, a Confederate soldier in by Joyner Library . Archivists there not been for extracurricular activities as recently finished a massive project to schools, but each campus can work with supported by classroom academics. full regalia. When I turned around, the figure sort through about 85,000 photographs private companies to build dorms and was not there. I never saw him again, but I published by the Greenville Daily Reflector Sarasota, Fla. between 1949 and 1967 . About 7,000 other types of buildings. Campuses use the —Bob Blake ’66, am sure of what I had seen. images thought to be of the most revenue from renting the dorm rooms to pay I enjoyed the article “No Static At All” but — historic value were scanned and digitized for construction. Twelve of the 16 UNC I’m not sure of the accuracy of some of the Mason Delbridge ’73, and are now available to the public . The Lynchburg, Va. campuses have built dorms this way. parts of the story. The statement that “The collection was donated by the paper’s former publisher, D . Whichard iii . campus was without a student radio station All of the photos in the collection can be The Board of Trustees also is considering [from 1964 when WWWS went off the Errata: In the Class Notes section of the Winter searched and downloaded by the public the purchase of Campus Towers, a privately for free . All the photos in the collection, owned housing unit that abuts the campus. air] until WZMB went on the air” [in 1982] issue, we gave the wrong year for Kay Yow’s “Seeds of Change: The Daily Reflector is simply not true. I served as the student graduation. The legendary N.C. State basketball Image Collection,” can be accessed at Campus Towers would add 343 beds to the general manager of WECU in 1971 and coach graduated from East Carolina in 1964. digital .lib ecu. edu/reflector/. . campus. But the building is 25 years old and

4 5 the ecu report may not offer what students and parents ECU is crowded, thank goodness UNC campuses now are measured by their have come to expect from quality student capacity/enrollment (C/E) ratio, a yardstick An 18,000-square-foot, two-story dining hall is rising at the location of the old Croatan. Chick-fil-A will be joined by a Chili’s Everyone was pleased when the Pirate Club housing, officials said. that gauges available instructional space Too to better serve the eastern end of Main Campus. “With enrollment increasing, we needed more dining options,” said representative told the Board of Trustees in ECU food service director Joyce Sealey. “We had no room to expand, so this was the logical place to put a new building.” against enrollment and how many hours a The expectation for more amenities and November about the launch of a $15 million facility is used in a typical day. A relatively more space for each student should be a fundraising campaign to build a new practice low ratio generally indicates a high level of driving factor in the board’s future decisions, facility for the basketball and volleyball space utilization. Excluding the Division Chancellor Steve Ballard told trustees. teams. Now, those five squads and the swim of Health Affairs, ECU has more than one Ballard wants ECU facilities to remain team must compete for practice time with million square feet of classroom and library competitive with similar universities to all the phys ed classes that meet in Minges. space. Its C/E ratio of 3.80 is sixth best in continue attracting good students. The lack of a modern new practice facility the system. “A high percentage of our housing stock is for basketball is said to be a major obstacle to Because of technical problems in collecting not competitive,” Ballard said. “We have to greater success on the court. the data, the Board of Governors did not decide if we want to keep renovating or build But then one trustee brought up the capacity compute utilization data for the medical brand new, which is what I want to do.” issue and the smiles were replaced by schools at ECU or UNC Chapel Hill. worried looks. Trustees decided to devote time at future N.C. State University’s School of Veterinary meetings for a closer look at how housing As the UNC system grapples with tight Medicine similarly was excluded from the fits into the ECU master plan, how any new budgets and surging enrollments, the Board calculation. buildings will be paid for and operated and of Governors is pressuring the individual A school’s particular mission can impact the potential purchase of Campus Towers. campuses to make more efficient use of its C/E ratio. N.C. State and N.C. A&T — existing classroom buildings and other Greenville Daily Reflector State University have above-average space facilities. The board says it may not sanction in academic facilities per student and expansion projects at campuses where ECU’s now number two understated utilization. Those schools current facilities are underused. That could have extensive instruction and research East Carolina now has passed UNC Chapel be good news for East Carolina, which makes programs in agriculture and engineering, Hill in undergraduate enrollment—and so relatively efficient use of its current facilities which require significantly more academic has UNC Charlotte. Figures from all 16 and thus may make it easier to get approval space per student than is typical of other campuses for the fall semester put ECU’s for new buildings in the future, officials said. undergraduate enrollment at 21,424, academic programs. Charlotte’s at 19,419 and Carolina’s at 17,981. N.C. State is the biggest, at 25,255. university of north carolina space utilization But Carolina’s much larger graduate school Capacity/ enrollment, at 10,935, keeps it in overall School Total Space in Square Feet Enrollment Ratio second place, about a thousand students UNC Wilmington 499,539 2 95. ahead of East Carolina. A campus task force Appalachian State 730,177 3 10. is examining plans to increase ECU’s current UNC Charlotte 902,123 3 18. Fewer freshmen dropping out 31 percent a year ago. Across all UNC Increasing retention and graduation rates is a e f f i c i e n t graduate enrollment of 6,196. UNC Greensboro 711,406 3 38. campuses, 35.2 percent of students who priority for UNC President Erskine Bowles.

m o s t East Carolina came within an eyelash Winston-Salem State 297,738 3 75. enrolled in 2005 had graduated by 2009. ECU Chancellor Steve Ballard is serving on a of meeting its 2009 goal of raising its East Carolina’s fall enrollment actually fell East Carolina 1,004,072 3.80 UNC Chapel Hill is tops at 75.2 percent; committee of six to recommend n C. . State 1,584,013 3 86. freshman-to-sophomore retention rate to by 23 students in a planned move by the UNC Wilmington has the second-best rate, ways to do that. That panel is expected to Fayetteville State 287,726 4 17. 79 percent, ending the year with a 78.8 university to raise its admission standards at 42 percent. issue its recommendations in March. as a way of attracting brighter students UNC Pembroke 289,242 4 42. percent retention rate. That’s up from 75.9 NC Central 488,726 4 90. percent in 2008. ECU will have to make a The more typical way of evaluating One of Bowles’ policies to improve both and lowering its dropout rate. The move Western Carolina 501,086 4 92. graduation rates is after six years. ECU’s goal rates is to push more high school seniors obviously paid off; the average SAT score of UNC Asheville 273,778 5 09. similar dramatic improvement to achieve its retention rate goal for 2010 of 81 percent, was to raise its six-year rate to 56.5 percent in toward community college, and then to incoming freshmen shot up 21 points, to NC A&T 686,177 5 .28 e f f i c i e n t

1046, the biggest point gain in the system. UNC Chapel Hill 1,582,377 5 .59 which is about the level that the UNC 2009 and beat that by a fraction. The system- transfer to a UNC campus after two years. Elizabeth City State 251,187 6 .45 l e a s t system now expects all campuses to achieve. wide six-year graduation rate is 58.8 percent. At ECU, 68 percent of such students Enrollment in all UNC campuses grew to By 2013 East Carolina hopes to graduate 60 graduated two years after transferring. Most Source: UNC Board of Governors East Carolina also boosted its four-year 222,322 in 2009, up about 3,400 students. percent of students within six years. other campuses saw such high graduation graduation rate to 32.5 percent, up from rates among community college transfers.

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News Briefs will form the core of the new ’s grants, according to N.C. State Education membership. NC ALTA is a nonprofit Assistance Authority data. The Cliff H ollis Engineering program accredited: organization that provides a bridge between Accreditation Board for Engineering and “It was a really good idea and a really good educators, legislators and technology Technology (ABET) has accredited ECU’s program (because) you didn’t have to take on developers for the use and creation of fledgling engineering program. ABET is a ton of debt,” said Julie Poorman, financial advanced learning technologies, which the recognized accreditor of college and aid director at East Carolina, which had 575 include innovative web-based approaches. university programs in applied science, EARN recipients last year. “Your parents computing, engineering and technology. Too many Northern accents: East Carolina could afford to send you to college.” All East Carolina’s bachelor of science in will have to pay a $260,000 penalty for EARN grants end next year. admitting too many out-of-state freshmen. engineering program accepted its first The federal stimulus package approved last According to a January report to the UNC freshman class in 2004 and had its first year raised the maximum Pell Grant for low- Board of Governors, nonresident residents graduates in May 2008. The program now income students by 17 percent to $5,550 made up 18.7 percent of this year’s freshmen has more than 300 students. next year, and the Obama administration class, or 738 out-of-state residents compared The Sleep is considering federal loan changes. The Sleep center accredited: to the 3,218 in-state freshmen. That’s 26 Disorders and Research Center of the legislature also appropriated an additional too many. The fine was imposed because this Ruffin’s raring to go done. It will be expected here. If I can do it, Brody School of Medicine received program $23 million to provide need-based aid to was the second year in a row that ECU has everyone can do it.” accreditation from the American Academy UNC-system students. exceeded the 18 percent threshold imposed Ruffin McNeill ’80, who grew up in of Sleep Medicine. The accreditation McNeill concluded his 24th overall season on all UNC campuses. The money will be After all grants and other aid currently Lumberton and starred at East Carolina process involved detailed inspection of at the collegiate level as Texas Tech’s interim transferred to a state financial aid program. available, a student from a family of four as a four-year letterman, was named the the center’s facility and staff, including an head coach by rallying the No. 21 Red The top three states sending students to ECU with an adjusted gross income of $37,000 university’s new head football coach, evaluation of testing procedures, patient Raiders to a 41-31 victory over Michigan are Virginia, Massachusetts and New Jersey. a year would need just $3,125 in loans to succeeding , who resigned to take contacts and physician training. attend a typical UNC campus, according to over the football program at the University State at the Valero Alamo Bowl Jan. 2 after the dismissal of Mike Leach. Seen as a Rebel wins : The university’s student- a January report from the UNC Board of of South Florida. McNeill, 51, comes to Financial aid needs soar father figure by Texas Tech players, McNeill run literary magazine, won the Governors. That cost rises to $5,341 a year Greenville from Texas Tech, where he was an was credited with promoting a family-type Associated Collegiate PressRebel, Magazine Financial aid needs for East Carolina’s in- for a student from a family with an adjusted assistant coach for the last 10 seasons. He will atmosphere and disciplined instruction on Pacemaker award at the 88th annual ACP/ state undergraduate students soared from $98 gross annual income of $51,000 and to earn a reported $5 million over five years. the field. He said he wants to assure ECU College Media Advisers National College million in 2008 to $135 million in 2009 and $12,441 a year for a student from a family McNeill began assembling a staff by hiring parents that he will treat “their most prized Media Convention held in Austin, Texas. will worsen next year when a state scholarship earning $75,000 a year. Texas Tech’s wide receivers coach, 26-year-old possessions” as he would treat his own. Rebel won for general excellence in the program ends, a victim of the recession. But , as offensive coordinator, a clean category of four-year literary magazine. new data also show that the cost of attending Year at ECU to cost $8,900 sign the Pirates will be employing the same McNeill began his coaching career as a The winning issue was Rebel’s 51st edition, a UNC campus remains low for a family high-scoring offense as the Red Raiders. He defensive coach at Lumberton High School produced and published in fall and spring living at the poverty line. The $90 increase in tuition and $70 increase also named Texas Tech cornerbacks coach Brian from 1980–84, before entering graduate in student fees that East Carolina has 2008–09. Chris Schwing was the edition’s ECU, like most UNC campuses, reports Mitchell as his defensive coordinator, putting school at in 1985 and proposed for next year would raise the cost editor. Paul Isom, director of the ECU seeing greater numbers of students needing former Tech assistants in all the top jobs. becoming a linebackers coach there. He got Office of Student Media, and graphic design of a year of college here to about $8,900, up his master’s in counseling from Clemson in financial aid since the recession began, and “I’m honored, humbled, and excited to faculty member Craig Malmrose served 3.7 percent from this year. That’s below the 1987. McNeill later spent three seasons on those students are qualifying for larger become your next football coach,” McNeill as advisors. This is the ninth time ECU’s UNC system average of a 5 percent increase the staff at Appalachian State and returned amounts of loans. Congress raised Pell said when introduced at a Jan. 21 press Rebel has won the Pacemaker award. It and within the legislatively mandated figure to Boone after a year as defensive line coach grants this year from $4,731 to $5,300, conference. “This is a dream come true for an was the only finalist from North Carolina. of $200 or 8 percent, whichever is less. here in 1992. He was defensive coordinator which helped some, but the General East Carolina boy. This is a my alma mater.” “Being named one of the three best literary Assembly’s decision to end the Educational However, UNC President Erskine Bowles at Appalachian from 1993–96. magazines in the nation is an amazing Access Rewards North Carolina (EARN) is asking the General Assembly to consider “Coach McNeill’s interview revealed his At ECU, McNeill was a three-year starter honor,” Isom said. Scholars initiative, which gave $4,000 an alternative plan that would give the 16 strong commitment to doing things the right at defensive back and was the team captain way and his love of coaching young men to Advanced learning: ECU was picked as the grants to students in families with incomes campuses more latitude in setting tuition for two seasons. He helped lead ECU to grow in every part of their lives,” athletic home of the eastern chapter of the North up to twice the poverty level, operated for rates. That plan would raise about the the Championship director Terry Holland said. Carolina Advanced Learning Technologies only one year. The program, championed same amount of money over the next four in 1976 and an berth Association (NC ALTA). More than 50 by former Gov. to make years but would see tuition go up less for McNeill vowed to make sure his players in. McNeill and his wife, Erlene, have two faculty, staff and students at ECU’s Creative college debt-free for the neediest students, in-state undergraduates and more for out- graduate. “Again, I’m witness to graduating daughters, Renata and Olivia, the latter of Technologies/Cybernetics Innovation group gave 13,798 students $48 million in of-state students. while playing football,” he said. “It will be whom is a sophomore at Appalachian State.

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Swiss foundation aids ECU from high school to college and participate in programs that can be replicated in public in courses such as self-advocacy, time school settings; use research- and evidence- PROJECT STEPP East Carolina’s Second Century Campaign management, study skills and note taking, based programs and strategies; support has raised more than $160 million of its in addition to their regular course work. parent/guardian advocacy; provide services i n TE r n AT i o n A L $200 million goal, thanks to the generous STUDENT CENSUS STEPP participants receive support from to students regardless of ability to pay; support of individuals, corporations and Country students a network of advisors, assistive technology extend the knowledge and research base on charitable organizations. One such donor specialists, tutors, counselors, instructors and the use of assistive technologies to support 44 is the Oak Foundation, based in Geneva, other experts whose services are customized students with learning differences; provide 40 , which in November announced for each student. information such as materials and web sites 24 a two-year grant of $304,699 to the College accessible to users with learning differences; 13 of Education’s Project STEPP (Supporting “We are very grateful for the Oak extend the research to address learning needs 10 Transition and Education through Planning Foundation’s support that recognizes the not addressed by current programs and 9 and Partnerships). STEPP offers academic, great work of Project STEPP,” said ECU approaches; and provide strong methods for 8 social and life-skills support to students with Vice Chancellor for University Advancement measuring outcomes. 8 learning disabilities who have shown the Mickey Dowdy. “The Oak Foundation’s 8 potential to succeed in college, students who very generous investment will help Project Through its Second Century Campaign, 7 traditionally may not have access to college. STEPP to further develop its integrated and East Carolina University seeks to raise collaborative system of support, research critical resources necessary for many aspects 6 “Project STEPP is groundbreaking in its short-term and long-term outcomes, and of the university, including the success of 5 comprehensive approach to supporting create a program that is not only successful programs such as Project STEPP. In these 5 students with learning differences to earn a at ECU but ultimately at other universities.” difficult economic times, private support Bahamas 4 college degree, beginning with identifying for programs is more important than ever. 4 these students in high school and supporting The Oak Foundation commits its resources Please consider supporting East Carolina— 4 them from the application process through to address issues of global social and our university—through the Second Switzerland 4 graduation,” said Stacy Parker-Fisher, environmental concern, particularly those Century Campaign. 4 program officer of the Oak Foundation’s that have a major impact on the lives of the 3 Learning Differences Programme. disadvantaged. The foundation’s Learning For more information about Project STEPP, 3 “Ultimately, these students are a critical Differences program supports programs, contact Project STEPP Director Dr. Sarah Saudi Arabia 3 resource to the NC economy as 21st century research and activities that contribute to the Williams at 252-328-1101 or by e-mail at 3 thinkers and problem solvers.” body of knowledge and strategies available [email protected]. For more information to students with learning differences. about how you can contribute to the Second As of Fall 2009 Students who are accepted into Project Century Campaign, visit www.ecu.edu/devt STEPP receive guidance in their transition The Oak Foundation has a special interest or call 252-328-9550.

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YEARS AGO YEARS AGO YEARS AGO YEARS AGO 100 50 40 30 New broadens mission First Hardee’s opens Eclipse sparks planetarium plans A political family feud Barely a year after it opens, Students stream to the new Scientists and photography buffs The Pirate Nation is forced to choose sides East Carolina Teachers Training hamburger stand when it opens on from around the world descend when professor John East, a polio paraplegic, School sees the need to the edge of campus at 14th Street on Greenville on March 7, 1970, announces his bid for the Republican U .s . Senate produce more highly skilled and Charles Boulevard in September to witness a total eclipse of the nomination on Jan . 26, 1980 . He hopes to unseat teachers than its one- and two- 1960—even though it doesn’t have sun that will sweep directly over incumbent Democrat Robert Morgan ’47, a long- year curricula are producing . a dining room or a drive-through campus . Many come early for a time chair of the East Carolina Board of Trustees But the school’s original state window . The food is good and cheap, two-day conference on the rare who, as a state senator, had helped elevate charter stipulates it cannot which translates into a windfall for celestial event sponsored by the East Carolina to university status . East, who provide training “beyond that local entrepreneur Wilbur Hardee, National Science Foundation . announces his candidacy in a Brewster Building which would fit and prepare who already is involved with a dozen Students say it’s the strangest classroom, has taught political science here a student for unconditional eateries . Within a year, Hardee three minutes they ever since 1969 . Riding Ronald Reagan’s coattails, he entrance into the freshman decides to franchise the hamburger experienced when the campus narrowly defeats Morgan and becomes one of 12 class of the University of North stand and brings in partners Jim falls dark at noon and stars come new GOP senators elected that fall, the biggest Carolina ”. In the spring of 1910 Gardner and Leonard Rawls . Together out . The event sparks interest in swing in that chamber since 1958 . East serves a movement begins to amend they open a second Hardee’s in Rocky building a planetarium . Plans are drawn up and a fundraising campaign one term and announces he will return to the the charter so ECTTS can offer Mount in 1961 . Disagreements among the partners lead Hardee to sell them his shares for begins in which Wilbur Hardee (pictured with President Leo Jenkins) classroom . Suffering from cancer, he commits regular college courses, and the legislature agrees in 1911 . The Class of 1913 $37,000, although the chain keeps the original name . By the time Hardee dies in Greenville is a major contributor . But interest in the project wanes and the idea suicide at his Greenville home on June 29, 1986 . includes graduates who are the first to receive four years of teacher training . in 2008, there are nearly 2,000 Hardee’s generating $1 .8 billion in annual revenue . eventually is shelved . The next such eclipse will occur on Aug . 21, 2017 . Images courtesy University Archives the ecu report

A new corner for medicine project is adding turn lanes and sidewalks to feet of space. Its 32 crowded exam rooms Dr. Phyllis rises in Greenville the thoroughfare. Separate projects will add a see 46,000 patients a year. The new center Horns ’69, vice Growing by the square foot turn lane onto Arlington from Stantonsburg, is four times bigger, has 60 exam rooms, a chancellor for A construction boom continues to reshape with sidewalks along Arlington between pharmacy, laboratory, geriatric center and health sciences, New ECU Medical Facilities Year Size (sq. ft.) the Health Sciences Campus, where the Stantonsburg and West Fifth. State and city more parking. agrees there is Health Sciences Building 2006 303,000 newest project, the Family Medicine Center, is officials agreed to local demands that the an urgent need Meanwhile, at the Brody School of Medicine becoming visible as its steel skeleton rises on highway improvement projects not disturb for more of the East Carolina Heart Institute 2008 206,000 Arlington Boulevard near West Fifth Street. 78 students make up the class of 2013, B’s Barbeque, which sits just west of the physicians that Family Medicine Center 2010 117,000 up from 70 a few years ago. A state plan The site is adjacent to both the East Carolina Health Sciences Campus on West Fifth. The ECU specializes to expand Brody to 120 students, along ECU dental school 2011 184,000 Heart Institute at ECU, which opened last medical campus expansion began in earnest in. “Here at the year, and the construction site for the new with a concurrent expansion of the medical in 2006 with the opening of the Health Brody School Leased ECU Medical Facilities Year Size (sq. ft.) school at the University of North Carolina ECU dental school, which is scheduled to Sciences Building, the home of the colleges of Medicine, we at Chapel Hill, is on hold for now, awaiting Moye Medical I 2007 43,000 open in 2011. Those three buildings, along of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences and are recognized better financial times in the state budget. Moye Medical II 2010 44,259 with the four-year-old Health Sciences the Laupus Medical Library. Beside it quickly for preparing Building behind them, form the northwest rose the East Carolina Heart Institute, which The Brody building, which opened in 1982, primary care New PCMH Facilities Year Size (sq. ft.) quadrant of the Health Sciences Campus near spans two buildings and two institutions, is bursting at the seams and a replacement physicians,” Cardiac bed tower 2009 375,000 the Pitt County Memorial Hospital complex. ECU and its teaching hospital, PCMH. is badly needed, says BSOM Dean Paul Horns says. Cunningham. Estimated to cost $150 “We have The Health Sciences Campus will have The East Carolina Heart Institute at ECU Total 1,271,259 million, a new med school building would made that grown by more than 800,000 square feet by is a four-story, 206,000-square-foot, $60 have enough classrooms, labs and student commitment the time all the planned projects are finished million building housing offices and research areas to accommodate anticipated enrollment and are working with our colleagues next year—or well over one million square labs for cardiologists, surgeons and scientists spurt. “The rough estimate is that (North at the UNC Chapel Hill School of feet if you include the new six-story cardiac as well as outpatient and educational Carolina is) about 1,000 physicians short,” Medicine to expand medical education bed tower at nearby Pitt County Memorial facilities. Many patients who go there had or Cunningham says, adding that the doctor throughout North Carolina.” ECU is Hospital. That’s about the same size as will have their surgeries and hospitalizations deficit likely will grow in the years ahead, also working with PCMH to expand the entire Main Campus three miles away. at the new 375,000-square-foot, $160 given a growing but aging population and residency-training slots, she says. The growth is triggering a lot of private million heart hospital a long block away at epidemic-level incidences of obesity, diabetes development in the West Fifth Street corridor, PCMH, which now faces the former location Even with all the growth, no plans and heart disease. with a new hotel and some restaurants and of Moye Boulevard, which was rerouted to are in the works for the medical apartment complexes popping up there. make room for it. If ECU is to dramatically increase its annual school to claim college status. In crop of family doctors, it also will need 2007, Nursing and Allied Health There’s more construction across Moye The heart institute’s approach—bringing many more partnerships with local hospitals, Sciences became colleges, but medical Boulevard at the eastern edge of the medical together medical specialties that are often doctors offices and county health clinics school administrators have not made complex, where work progresses on Moye separate—distinguishes it from other centers where all the additional med students can a similar request. For Cunningham, Medical II, a new three-story practice site nationwide. The entire heart institute, intern during their third- and fourth-year holding on to the traditional title also expected to open this fall as the new including the hospital as well as ECU’s rotations. Such sites are in short supply but means staying in touch with the home of, among other specialties, bariatric patient, research and education center, is there are possibilities for new ones, including medical school mission of service. surgery. The new facility will offer a first under the direction of Dr. W. Randolph for the medical school—its own drive- the idea of co-locating them with dental Chitwood Jr., senior associate vice chancellor “We have an iconic name,” he says. through pharmacy. It’s the second of three students in the 10 remote clinics the dental for health sciences. “It is attractive to people, because of planned leased buildings to consolidate school will operate. Another possibility its uniqueness. It’s the Brody School ECU Physicians, the medical faculty practice The next phase of the expansion of the often mentioned is a Brody presence in of Medicine, which includes the name plan, into modern facilities. Moye Boulevard Health Sciences Campus includes the new Wilmington in partnership with a local of an incredible philanthropic family. itself had to be rerouted to make way for the Family Medicine Center, which will serve hospital or UNC Wilmington. What is most visible is the fact that we facilities and a new steam plant. 29 counties in that “There are potential sites where there is educate—and education takes place have some of the worst health indicators in a patient population, a medical center or in a school. We are admired across the West Fifth Street, the northern boundary of the nation. When it opens this fall it will hospital and a willingness to be part of country in the way that we educate the Health Sciences Campus that becomes become a focal point of the university’s the education process,” Cunningham says. doctors, and retain them in our region.” Highway 43, is being widened by the state efforts to reverse those statistics. The existing Department of Transportation to improve “It will require a model that will distribute — Family Medical Center is more than 40 Marion Blackburn with contributions access to the expanding list of medical students throughout the region during the years old and has less than 30,000 square by John Durham and Doug Boyd facilities available there. The $3.9 million last two years of their training.”

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she’s cancer-free. “I’m good to go. Route chosen for with right-of-way acquisition There’s an 85 percent chance it campus gateway beginning in May 2011. won’t return.” Construction is slated to begin After more than 20 years of in November 2013. After interning fall semester in the debate, an exact route has been office of Rep. Walter Jones, she chosen for Greenville’s 10th There now are essentially two will graduate in May with a degree Street Connector, a $48.6 million ways to get to Main Campus in political science and wants to be ECU introduces new mark roadway that will create an from the west. The much longer a lobbyist, a line of work that she attractive new gateway to Main but more attractive route is Now that East Carolina has concluded its already has had some success with. Campus for drivers coming into to exit US 264 at Greenville centennial celebration, the university is rolling the city via US 264. The roadway Boulevard and follow it, Last fall she walked into the out a new mark that will be used as a primary will have the added benefit of through many stoplights, to Washington office of Sen. Kay identifier on many kinds of ECU materials. linking Main Campus with the its intersection with Charles Hagan and left with Hagan’s Above is a look at that mark, which also is near its intersection with languished until a couple Health Sciences Campus, which Boulevard near the football promise to co-sponsor legislation featured on a decal included in most mailed Dickinson Avenue. of years ago when the city, now are separated by a couple stadium. The shorter route is to Bell is supporting called the Lung copies of this issue of (Those issues are PCMH and ECU agreed to miles of congested city streets. continue on US 264 Business The chosen route will require Cancer Mortality Reduction being mailed in plastic East.bags to keep the decals each contribute $2 million to a The four-lane roadway will have past PCMH, cross Memorial the demolition of about 30 Act of 2009. Among other from falling out.) fund that would jumpstart work a planter median, sidewalks, bike Boulevard and follow Farmville houses, 24 businesses, structures provisions, it would expand on the new roadway. William ECU’s centennial logo was introduced in lanes and a bridge over railroad Road to its intersection with housing seven small non-profits research and prevention programs Bagnell, associate vice chancellor 2007, and the plan adopted then directed tracks where trains often block all 14th Street, and from there and one church. The state with the goal of cutting very high for campus operations and that it be modified for permanent use at the traffic (above right). down 14th Street to Charles will provide compensation mortality rates by 50 percent by the ECU representative on the conclusion of the celebration. That mark Boulevard. While this route and relocation assistance for 2016. She got a commitment A steering committee corridor task force, said he’s has seen widespread use throughout the is much shorter, it can be displaced homeowners and from her local congressman, Rep. composed of city officials and been impressed by the teamwork university community during the past few confusing and takes drivers renters. The Greenville City Mike McIntyre, to champion representatives of ECU, Pitt shown by the parties. years. It’s been prominent on Pepsi cans, through one of Greenville’s most Council also allotted funds to the bill in the House of County Memorial Hospital busses, university publications and a host of blighted areas. compensate homeowners and is Besides improving access to Representatives. (PCMH) and the N.C. Soccer player to cancer survivor other spots. exploring similar compensation Main Campus, the project also Department of Transportation The new roadway will start out “It was an awesome experience,” Bell said for affected business owners. will significantly ease traffic The new ECU logo is combined with a selected the route in November following the latter route until In high school, Taylor Bell was considered of her meeting with the senator, which was around PCMH and shorten version of the existing university word mark at the conclusion of a series the intersection of Farmville City and state officials have been one of the best soccer players in the state. arranged by the Lung Cancer Alliance. “Sen. the commutes of many hospital to form what is officially referred to as the of community meetings. Final Road and 14th Street. There, a considering ways to improve She made East Carolina’s soccer team as Hagan immediately recognized me” because workers who live in nearby ECU primary logotype. This replaces the environmental impact studies new corridor will arch southeast east-west traffic flow into the a freshman, but her coaches were puzzled Bell and Hagan’s daughter, Carrie, had played Winterville and Ayden. by her dwindling stamina. She couldn’t soccer against each other on traveling teams old arches logo. should be completed this spring, and connect with 10th Street city since 1984. The project complete a fitness test of ten 120-yard runs as teenagers. “In one sense, it represents an important in less than 18 seconds each. By Christmas, Dusty Donaldson of High Point, also a technical improvement for our mark. she was in too much pain to play anymore, Unlike the old arches logo, the new but doctors couldn’t pinpoint a cause. lung-cancer survivor, went with Bell to the meeting with Hagan. When Bell told her primary logotype features a much stronger Then she came down with pneumonia. story, Donaldson said, Hagan “was moved by representation of the university name and She had a chest X-ray at Student Health compassion. You could see a mother’s heart in can also be rendered in purple and gold, Services and a physician’s assistant found a Sen. Hagan, like ‘This could be my daughter.’” both important parts of our identity,” spot on her lung that was attributed to the says Clint Bailey, assistant vice chancellor pneumonia. Later, she was struck with pain When Bell asked Hagan to co-sponsor the for university marketing. “But in another so severe she thought she had appendicitis bill, Donaldson added, the senator said, sense, the update to the mark is just another or a cracked rib. A CT scan showed her left “‘Well, of course I will.’ It was really sweet. reflection of the growth and development of lung was collapsed and doctors found a We all just hugged and thanked her.” Hagan East Carolina. It reflects our history while tumor there. recalled it as an emotional meeting. “I made still being new.” sure I had a box of tissues out.” Bell, who had never smoked a cigarette in her Implementing the mark will be a gradual life, had lung cancer. She underwent surgery “Taylor is an incredible spokesperson for process incorporated into the normal to remove a portion of her lung, and now lung-cancer survivors,” Hagan affirmed. “She replacement of materials and signs. can really articulate the need for research.”

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Including his seven years as a student here, White holds a bachelor’s degree from At COB she was responsible for recruiting, vying for seven open positions on the Jack Brinn ’64 ’66 ended a 44-year career at Concord College in West Virginia, a master’s graduate admissions, process improvement 12-member board. He will serve a three-year ECU when he retired Dec. 31. He held many from Radford College in Virginia and a and advising 350 MBA students. term. An active member of the organization, positions over the years, lastly as associate doctorate from the University of Tennessee. White has participated in several CCAS Len Rhodes ’82 vice chancellor and chief information officer. Before coming to ECU, he taught at the sessions as a presenter and session facilitator. ’99, a faculty A national expert in health care information University of Tennessee. member in Maryellen O’Brien was appointed director management, Brinn served last year as chair Virginia Hardy finance and of Sponsored Programs in the Division of of the UNC CIO Council, the UNC ’93, senior assistant dean in Research and Graduate Studies. She comes system’s organization for campus IT leaders. associate dean for the College of to ECU from Rutgers University where she Returning to Greenville in 1972 with a academic affairs Business, was held the position of acting director of the Ph.D. from Duke, Brinn became an assistant at the Brody named director office of research and sponsored programs. professor in the Brody School of Medicine, School of of Institutional rising to become chair of the Department Francis G. Serio Medicine, was Research, a of Anatomy and Cell Biology. In 2000 joined the School named vice position he held he became associate vice chancellor for of Dentistry as provost for on an interim health sciences information systems and associate dean for student affairs, basis since July. Rhodes joined the university managed the Center for Health Sciences Clinical Affairs replacing Kemal in 2000; previously, he was principal owner Communications in 2003. and Margaret B. Atkins, who of a small company in the access control He joined the Information Technology Wilson joined as accepted a position at Delaware State. Hardy industry. He has served on numerous and Computing Services department on an associate dean for joined the university in 1993 as a student university committees and teaches a sought interim role in 2004 and was appointed to Student Affairs. counselor at BSOM. She was the university’s after course on personal finance. My Room is Turning by Paul Hartley, an acrylic and oil painting his last position as chief information officer Serio will manage interim chief diversity officer from 2006 to held by a private collector. Image courtesy of Lee Hansley Gallery. in 2007. Through his leadership ECU’s Deb Jordan was appointed professor and areas related to 2008, and she has taught in the medical information technology functions flourished chair of the Department of Recreation clinical pre- His world seen through their eyes school since 2000. Chancellor Steve Ballard and gained state and national recognition. and Leisure Studies. She comes to ECU doctoral and clinical residency programs said, “Great leaders are essential to the Raleigh’s Glenwood South arts district hosts a major exhibition Brinn oversaw the implementation of SCT/ from State University, where while Wilson will manage areas related to success of higher education, and in Virginia of works by former students of the late Paul Hartley, with 200 Banner, the university’s new all-encompassing she was the graduate coordinator for the pre-doctoral student recruitment, admissions Hardy, we have an exceptional leader. She will paintings covering the walls of two galleries a block apart. “The computer gateway, and converted the phones leisure studies program and taught in the and support programs. Serio has been in be a member of the university’s Executive Legacy of Paul Hartley” will run through Feb. 27 at both Lee to a computer-based system. undergraduate, graduate and doctoral full-time academics and part-time practice Council, and she will be a mentor, teacher Hansley Gallery locations. Hartley, who taught art for 37 years A national search has begun to find a programs. She has authored or co-authored since 1981. He taught at the University of and example to our students.” She holds a here, died of cancer at Thanksgiving. His long-time friend, Raleigh replacement. six textbooks. Maryland and was chair of the Department bachelor’s degree in education from UNC gallery owner Lee Hansley, began working then on what he said of Periodontics and Preventive Sciences at David White, a Chapel Hill, a master’s in counselor education Alan White, dean turned out to be the largest exhibition mounted by a private gallery the University of School of faculty member from ECU and a doctorate in counselor of the Thomas in the history of the state—200 pieces by 100 artists from 17 Dentistry from 1993–2009. He is founder and administrator education from N.C. State University. Harriot College states and India. A committee that included the artist’s widow, and former director of the Dominican since 1981, was of Arts and Lane, and several friends and ECU colleagues compiled the list of Robin Dental Mission Project. Over a span of 28 named dean of Sciences, was artists to represent Hartley’s legacy through their art. The galleries, Armstrong, years, this project provided more than $8.2 the College of elected to a three- open Tuesday through Saturday, are in the 100 and 200 blocks of who was assistant million of services to the rural poor in the Technology and year term as a Glenwood South. director for . Wilson comes from Computer Science director of the graduate the University of Maryland where she spent The N.C. Museum of Art recently purchased one of Hartley’s after serving as an Council of programs in the 20 years. She is an alumna of David paintings for its permanent collection. He also has paintings in the interim for the Colleges of Arts College of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn., and Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro, the Greenville past year. White and Sciences, Business, was attended the Medical College of Virginia Museum of Art, the Cameron Museum of Art in Wilmington, is a former chair which is named director School of Dentistry. the Barton College Museum in Wilson and the Southeastern of the Department of Health Education and composed of accredited, baccalaureate- of graduate Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem. Several major Promotion and former interim dean of the granting colleges from across the United admissions in the corporations also own his works. School of Health and Human Performance. States. White was among 13 candidates Graduate School.

16 17 The spring semester also marks in spoken dialog and American Sign follows at 8 p .m . The performances are by The Imani Winds the conclusion of the Four Seasons Language . students and faculty members in ECU’s Chamber Music Festival’s 10th jazz studies program . Opera anniversary season . The final regular Faculty and student performances concert April 29-30 will feature two The ECU Opera Theatre will stage famous romantic chamber works, Mozart’s ever-popular The Marriage One of the main programs by student Johannes Brahms’ String Sextet in G, of Figaro, April 15–17 in a . J . Fletcher musicians in the spring semester will Op. 26, and Peter Tchaikovsky’s String Recital Hall . Directed by John Kramar, be a performance of Brahms’ German Sextet in D-minor, Op. 70, “Souvenir the comic opera is based on flirtations, Requiem April 25 that will combine de Florence.” Joining festival artistic amorous entreaties and rejections, the ECU Symphony Orchestra with director Ara Gregorian will be violinist and lost identities . First performed in the School of Music’s various choral Elina Vahala, violists Hsin-Yun Huang 1786, the opera is among Mozart’s most ensembles . The program in Wright and Maria Lambros and cellists Ani enduring works . Auditorium will be led by Dr . Daniel Bara, director of choral activities . Also Aznavorian and Nina Lee . Music on the program will be a performance The second of two new programs in the The 10th annual New Music@ECU by the winner of the 2009–10 concerto festival, the Next Generation Concerts, Festival takes place Feb . 24–28 and will competition . will take place March 28 . The principal include, among other guests, clarinetist guest artist will be pianist Robert Nathan Williams (who was ECU The ECU Chamber Singers, whose McDonald, and ECU students and professor Christopher Grymes’ teacher second compact disc is scheduled for faculty members also will participate . and predecessor), ECU percussionist release in early spring, will sing March Chris Nappi and composer Steven 4 and March 27 in Fletcher Recital Performing Arts Dembski of the University of Wisconsin . Hall . The second program marks the The festival will include the premiere conclusion of the annual The Imani Winds ensemble, whose repertoire ranges from The ECU School of Theatre and two-day ECU High School Dance will stage two plays in the of a new work by festival Mendelssohn to jazz, has been added to the popular s . Rudolph founder Edward Singers Symposium . The spring, Woody Allen’s Play It Again, Alexander Performing Arts Series for a limited-seating performance Jacobs, as will ECU Percussion Ensemble Sam, and Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Feb . 25 in a J. . Fletcher Recital Hall . The quintet, formed in 1997, an orchestral plays April 7, the St. Cecilia earned a Grammy nomination in 2006; its 2008 recording, This Party. The Woody Allen comedy, Singers perform April 10, which will be produced Feb . 25–March version of Mark Christmas, received several year-end “best of” mentions . Glick’s The the ECU bands play April 12 at McGinnis Theatre, focuses on 13, and the ECU Guitar bookish and insecure Allan Felix, who Wife of Bath for soprano and Ensemble performs April Chanticleer idolizes Humphrey Bogart but without orchestra, with 21 . Zamba Yawar, ECU’s any of Bogey’s manly attributes or Afro-Andean Music

© L isa Kohler soloist Karen Hall . Suzanne Vega technique . The play includes several Ensemble, will perform fantasy sequences in which Bogey The annual Billy April 20 in Fletcher tries to rescue Felix from his Taylor Jazz Festival Recital Hall . The 2009-10 SRAPAS predicaments . Lippa’s musical, takes place April 22– season concludes with a playing April 15–20, is set in the 24, with an opening The School of Music’s performance by singer- Roaring ’20s and focuses on a night program at keyboard program Suzanne vaudeville couple whose relationship the Hilton Greenville conducts its annual Vega April 20 in Wright is fraying . They decide to put on Hotel that includes the piano competition Auditorium . Vega’s a party to end all parties, and the Eastern Region Jazz March 12–13 and is first album was arriving guests show how they, too, Festival . A three-day sponsoring a recital named by Rolling are living on the edge . The play is Flute Symposium, which by Swiss pianist Stone magazine as described as “sexy, contemporary and Jean-Jacques includes master classes Jean-Jacques Schmid among the 100 best dangerous ”. and performances, will Schmid April 26 in recordings of the Fletcher Recital Hall . Family Fare take place March 18–20 in 1980s . Her second Fletcher Recital Hall . album, Solitude The school’s Family Fare program F i n e a r t s Standing, contains will conclude its 2009–10 season with Jazz at Christinne’s, hosted by Tom The School of Art and Design’s annual her biggest Nobody’s Perfect, a Kennedy Center Mallison of public radio’s An Evening With exhibition of undergraduate work takes commercial hits, Theatre for Young Audiences on Tour Tom the Jazzman, winds up the second place March 3–April 1, and the exhibition Luka, about an production . The musical play, based on season of Friday night jazz programs of works by Master of Fine Arts thesis abused boy, and Tom’s Diner, actress Marlee Martin’s book about a at Christinne’s restaurant in the Hilton students is scheduled April 16–May 21 . which takes place inside the same fourth-grader trying to figure out a new Greenville Hotel Feb . 26 and March New York restaurant featured on Seinfeld. classmate, is performed simultaneously 26 . Dinner begins at 6 p m. ,. and music —Steve Row

Chanticleer, a premier a cappella male chorus and winner of two Grammy , will appear April 15 in Wright Auditorium . In more than 30 recordings, the group’s music has ranged from sacred music of the Renaissance to Gershwin’s Summertime. SPRING ARTS CALENDAR Kristen’sIt all happened so fast for Kristen Dalton. One Conquestof red carpets. minute she was a college student, then Miss North “It was so magical. Carolina and then Miss USA, living in a Manhattan It was everything I apartment, chatting with Jay Leno and walking miles wanted it to be.”

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Yes, she’s a beautiful blue-eyed blonde with The power of visualization paid off. about winning. “It was almost like it wasn’t Much of it involved former , Miss USA Kristen Dalton comes from a family a dazzling white smile and a bright, bubbly Dalton’s been on and rubbed happening. It was kind of like a dream. I was . During the question-and- known for its success in beauty pageants . personality who is everything you might shoulders with JayThe Leno Today and Show other such like ‘What?’ Everything was happening so answer session of the pageant, Prejean was Her mom, Jennie Boger Dalton, was crowned think of when it comes to Southern beauty celebrities. It’s certainly a bigger stage but, fast that night.” asked by one the pageant judges about her USA in 1982 . She married Alan Dalton, and together they have queens. But Miss USA Kristen Dalton also she says, an experience that’s not unlike the views on same-sex marriage. Prejean said she She said the entire pageant went by so four children, including three daughters who is a hard-working, highly organized go- many times she stood in front of campus was opposed to gay marriage. quickly. Before she knew it, she was in the have all been pageant competitors . getter who was a busy senior honors student VIP visitors to perform skits with the ECU top five, then the top two. “I was like ‘Hold Dalton, meanwhile, got caught up in the Julia Dalton won Miss North Carolina Teen before she postponed graduation last spring Ambassadors. on a second. What just happened? I’m in the media storm that followed. The controversy USA in 2008 and later went on to win semester to chase her dream. second runner-up at Miss Teen USA that “She’s spent her whole life working towards top two with Miss California?’ And she was trailed her to post-pageant interviews same year . Sister Kenzie Dalton was a first She says her ECU experience was the reserve this,” Jennie Dalton says. so gorgeous. I was just stunned.” on shows such where The Today Show, runner-up in Miss North Carolina Teen USA of strength she drew on to stand calmly on she tactfully and diplomatically handled pageant . She is an actress who is engaged Winning was all that she had dreamed about stage at the Miss USA pageant, hearing her questions about Prejean and the issue of to actor Michael Murray . The two met ‘Such a surreal feeling’ and visualized, she said. In front of family name called again and again as the field of same-sex marriage. on the set of One Tree Hill, where she had a and friends and wearing a flowing turquoise role as a cheerleader . 50 was cut to 10, then to five, then to two. Dalton’s first taste of pageant success came gown, she seemed visually shocked after she “It’s been a learning and growing experience, Then the crown was on her head, a moment in 2005 when she was first runner-up in the But the family’s greatest pageant success so heard Miss California named first runner-up, a lot of self-discovery,” she said. she had dreamed about since she was 3. Miss North Carolina Teen USA pageant. far has been Kristen, who was Miss Greater making her the next Miss USA. Wilmington two years before competing The next year, she won Miss Greater Dana L. Reason ’02 of Raleigh, who was To get to that moment, Dalton had juggled in the Miss North Carolina USA pageant . In Wilmington and placed in the top 10 in “It was so magical,” she said. “It was Miss North Carolina in 2003, said she a double major, a part-time job and being 2005, she was first runner-up in Miss North the Miss North Carolina pageant. In late everything I wanted it to be.” sympathizes with Dalton. Reason took the Carolina Teen Usa . involved in leadership positions in several 2008, she won the Miss North Carolina Miss North Carolina crown the year after campus groups—she was president of her What followed the pageant, however, wasn’t After earning so many crowns, it’s a USA 2009 crown. She won the Miss USA Misty Clymer and Rebeka Revels fought disappointment that what would be her last sophomore class—while at the same time so magical, yet it proved to be a teaching tool title on the strength of her top scores in the their public battle over who was the rightful pageant didn’t end as well as the others . preparing for and competing in pageants. of sorts on how to gracefully accept a crown swimsuit and evening gown competitions. winner of the Miss North Carolina title. She placed in the top 10 at the and title—and all the drama that sometimes pageant held in in August . “I’ve worked so hard to be here and this has “It was such a surreal feeling,” she said goes with it. “I know what it’s like to be the title holder in been my lifelong dream and it’s finally here,” East Carolina has had its share of pageant a year when there’s been a scandal,” Reason she told the Associated Press after she won. winners . At least seven other students have said. “Kristen has done an extraordinary won tiaras, including Miss North Carolina “And whoever knew you could win in a Dalton dines with Marines at the mess hall at Marine Barracks Washington. job of holding her head up high. It’s not 2003 Dana l . Reason ’02 and Monica turquoise gown?” Palumbo, who was Miss North Carolina easy when a reporter comes up and asks a USA in 2001 . Palumbo went on to win Miss There were setbacks along the way; she question that has nothing to do with you.” Congeniality in the Miss USA pageant . missed the brass at several pageants Reason said Dalton has had plenty of Other noteworthy winners from ECU include: before being crowned Miss North Carolina pressure to up the pageant system amid Lynn Willford ’79, who was Miss North USA 2009, which propelled her to the Miss the controversy. “She certainly has overcome Carolina in 1981; Mary Rudroff Patterson ’71, USA pageant last April in Las Vegas. who was Miss North Carolina USA in 1971; a lot,” she said. “That certainly speaks to her Patsy Gail Wood ’69, who was Miss North “I’m just so happy for her that she character.” Carolina in 1971; Anita Johnson Comitor, who accomplished what she set out to achieve,” won the Miss North Carolina crown in 1969; Dalton says she’s been able to take what’s says her mom, Jennie Dalton of Wilmington, and Betty Lane Evans, who was Miss North happened, reflect on it and learn from it where Kristen grew up. “And to look back Carolina 1959 and later was a semifinalist in to help make positive changes in her own the pageant . and see all that she’s done. Nothing has life. One big lesson: Be yourself rather than stopped her.” Juggling the demands of college and the giving canned answers designed just to give pressures of the pageant world isn’t easy . It Simply put, Dalton was determined. She people what they want to hear. takes a special type of student, says Dana says she spent years visualizing what her life Reason ’02, a political science major at ECU “I was always concerned about being perfect who now lives in Raleigh and owns a line of would be like if she won, not just winning and impressing other people when it comes to skin care and cosmetics called Dana l . but also moving to New York and taking my boss or my teacher,” she says. “This year, on the daily duties of being Miss USA. “You have to be very focused, very I’ve kind of learned that nobody likes that. It determined and have great time She even packed her schedule while at ECU doesn’t really appeal to anybody. It’s better to management skills,” she said . “I think healthy so that she’d have the stamina to make it competition brings out the best in people . I be real and say what’s on your mind.” through the long days of public appearances have seen it transform many people’s lives ”. and TV interviews. —Samantha Thompson Hatem

22 23 As a sophomore, Dalton began volunteering with the ECU Ambassadors, an Alumni Association-sponsored From a family of beauty queens her mother says. “She decided she was going “I’ve always been very involved,” she says. group that performs many hours of service work on to keep a clean slate,” she says. “She didn’t “It’s something that’s a lifestyle that I campus and in the community. The Prejean drama likely wasn’t part of the drink, she didn’t smoke. She wanted to enjoy and I’m really good at planning my Doug S mith Miss USA life she imagined when she was remain abstinent.” schedule.” a child watching pageants at home with the family in Wilmington. Watching pageants Each pageant helped shape her in one way or She started out as an international business was a family event back then, she says. “It another, helping build strong self-esteem and major. But after taking an introduction was like a holiday at our house,” Dalton says. confidence, Kristen Dalton says. She also was to psychology class from Dr. Jeannie able to hone interpersonal and communication Golden, she started rethinking her academic On pageant nights, there were bowls of skills, which are essential in tackling the future. She took five classes under Golden popcorn and cups of orange juice in front relentless daily life of a beauty queen. and eventually she changed her major to of the TV. They’d make lists of who would psychology, hoping the degree might one day “It’s about competing with yourself and make it into the top 10 and they’d all have help her help others. score cards, Jennie Dalton says. being at your personal best,” she says. “Every girl brings something different to the table, Golden says she had no idea Dalton was Even then, Dalton favored the Miss USA a different look, a different background, a involved in pageants until Dalton came up to crown over the Miss America crown. “I different platform.” her after class one day and told her she was always looked up to Miss USA,” Dalton says. Miss North Carolina USA. “I always felt like Miss USA was more fresh and relevant, a little bit more natural.” Life as an ECU student “What impressed me about her was that she wasn’t a phony and full of herself in the The other major difference: The Miss USA She continued competing even after enrolling at ECU, a school she picked in part because least,” she says. “She struck me as humble pageant, which is owned by Donald Trump, and nice. She would talk to me about friends doesn’t have a talent portion, while the Miss of the school spirit. She readily admits, though, that what really sold her was the and relatives. She was a natural to be a America pageant requires contestants to psychologist.” perform a talent. school’s Student Recreation Center, where Dalton landed a job as a fitness trainer. “I Dalton has three Spanish classes left to But that likely wouldn’t have been a problem love working out,” she says. “I love fitness.” graduate. But she won’t be back on campus for Dalton. She’s a natural in the limelight. A She wasted no time immersing herself in to get those last few credits. Instead, she 2005 graduate of J.T. Hoggard High School plans to go to a Spanish-speaking country, in Wilmington, she grew up performing in student life at ECU. One of her favorite groups was the ECU Ambassadors. “I just where she hopes the cultural immersion will front of an audience, most recently at the translate into class hours so she can graduate. Opera House Theater Company at Thalian love that organization and all the people,” she As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month No beauty queen’s life would be complete But I only shop at bargain places.” Hall in Wilmington. says. “The people had a lot of spirit.” From her new home in New York City, in October, she spent several days in a van without the glamour and glitz, and Dalton Dalton plans to take advantage of a two- She’s also the kind of girl who, when Dalton’s initial fascination with pageants As president of her sophomore class, traveling to New York’s five boroughs passing says she gets her fill. Each week, she makes year scholarship to the N.Y. Film Academy, home for visit in Wilmington, likes to bake was purely based on what she saw on TV. Dalton set a goal of getting the student out flyers to educate and encourage women appearances at two to three red-carpet which was part of the package of winning chocolate-chip cookies, power walk “the She says her mother didn’t push her into the body more involved in volunteerism. She on the importance of breast self-exams. events. One recent one was to honor fashion Miss USA. She also has her eye on a TV loop” in Wrightsville Beach with her sisters business, even though her mother is herself worked to develop a student-to-student designer Calvin Klein. hosting gig, with one specific show in “I’ve met so many women who are 60 years and watch Lifetime movies. “They’re inspired a former beauty queen. She was Miss North mentoring program that would pair study mind. Dalton says she wants to work for old and never had a mammogram,” she says. She has a stylist to help her prepare for the by true stories,” she says. “And I kind of like Carolina USA in 1982. Kristen Dalton’s two abroad students with other students to help a Lifetime TV show “It’s so crazy to find out how uneducated big nights out. But Dalton likely could hold that. I like the suspense.” sisters, Julia and Kenzie, also are involved in familiarize them with American culture. The Balancing Act, that brings together two of her favorite people are about their bodies and their health.” her own on the red carpet. She says she beauty pageants. She was involved in Omicron Delta Kappa, While she likes suspense on the TV, it’s not things: talking to people and women’s loves fashion, with dress designer Nicole an honorary leadership organization that One day, she might read to developmentally something she has enjoyed during her reign. When Kristen turned 17, she made the issues including health. “It’s the perfect Miller among her favorites. During New recognizes those who have reached a high disabled children. The next, she’s testing her Dalton says she hopes her remaining months decision to take a shot at the Miss Teen combination of my interests,” she says. York Fashion Week in September, she went standard in college activities. And she was vice skills on TV’s as Miss USA will be less controversial and North Carolina pageant. “My mom to Christian Siriano’s and Custo Barcelona’s president of the psychology honors society. She’s alsoAre made You Smarter time to Than take a part 5th in a more focused on supporting the Miss USA wanted it to be my decision,” she says. “She runway shows. Pushing women’s health issues fewGrader. events in North Carolina. In September, platform initiatives. wanted it to be at an age for me when it’s Dalton says her busy schedule at ECU she was in Wilmington for an immigration But while she loves designer clothes, she’s not meaningful.” helped prepare her for the full days as Miss Her typical day as Miss USA is varied and “I’m looking forward to the second half of ceremony. She later took part in the Duke willing to pay full price for it. Dalton says USA. She kept it all in with a color- full, often spent working on the pageant’s being Miss USA,” she says. “There were a lot But Dalton had been setting the stage for her Cancer ovarian cancer walk in Durham. And she’s a serious bargain hunter, whether it’s coded day planner, which she decorated platform initiatives, including supporting of challenging issues to deal with before. But eventual involvement in the pageant business in October, she was in Raleigh to celebrate shopping at T.J. Maxx or at her new favorite with stickers and glittery pens to help make breast and ovarian cancer research. She says I have a very supportive team. So I’m looking years before that. In seventh grade, she military honorees at the USO North New York boutique, Mystique. “I love “being busy fun.” it’s rewarding work that had helped her see forward to it.” decided she was going to be a role model, Carolina Gala. shopping,” she says. “It’s kind of a weakness. more about how the diseases impact women. East

24 25 a rolling stone rests After 20 years at the apex of , Mark Kemp is exploring some homespun vibes .

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David Bowie turned 50 over dinner with rock the seamier side of human nature and magazine in 1991. There, Kemp explored the Returning to his roots journalist Mark Kemp ’83 at a Manhattan wrote a music column on the side. punk rock and hip-hop movements as well as Those personal problems led to some stock-taking, bistro. During a VH1 interview, Eric Clapton the rise of bands like R.E.M., Meat Puppets, “I hated to get up every morning, but I got especially after Kemp wrote a 1998 piece let Kemp play a few licks on “Brownie,” Sonic Youth, Nirvana and Public Enemy. to like it,” Kemp says about his first job. “It about the new wave of emerging SouthernNew York rock Times bands that Dad had come the guitar Clapton played on “Layla.” And After editing for five years, he was was good to sit and listen to the magistrates Option connected the dots between Drive-By Truckers and Lynyrd along with me on Emma “Baby Spice” Bunton took time out hired by in February 1996. As my journey through talk about what they saw on a daily basis, Skynyrd. A kernel of an idea began to take root about from a Spice Girls photo shoot for the magazine’sRolling music Stone editor, Kemp produced the South to keep because it was ugly. It doesn’t hurt anybody broader issues of race and history viewed through the magazine to plant a kiss on hisRolling lips, an first-time cover stories on Sean “Puffy” me company as I to start out as a police reporter. You learn prism of the music he grew up on. traveled from North Stoneexperience Kemp describes as “awesome!” Combs, and , as well a lot about humanity and real life, which Carolina to Florida, as a breaking-news cover story on the murder Inking a book contract with Simon & Schuster, he left Those were heady moments for the boy insinuates itself into your writing. When I Georgia, Alabama, of Tupac Shakur. MTV Networks in August 2000 to travel the South and Mississippi, from Asheboro who grew up loving music was an editor later, I could always tell the rediscover its music. After two years on the road, he settled Tennessee, and and writing while longing for a career as a kids who’d done newspaper journalism from “What I liked about Mark was that, even as in Charlotte and waited for to come out. Kentucky to talk rock journalist. He achieved that goal during the ones who hadn’t based on their writing.” he was covering all this out-there stuff, he was Dixie Lullaby with the musicians a career that took him all over the world also able to handle more mainstream things,” who sparked the Polished writing is one reason for the Subtitled before bringing him back home to North says Anthony DeCurtis, a former colleague A the Story book of Music, puts Southern Race, and rockNew thenBeginnings and now in a southern rock commercial and critical success of Kemp’s movement and Carolina in 2002 to reconnect with his at “He had a full picture of intoNew aSouth, broader cultural context encompassing everything 2004 book, the product of two Rolling Stone. the everyday fans roots—familial as well as musical. Along what the music scene was like and could write from school desegregation to ’s election as who spurred its years travelingDixie the South,Lullaby, often accompanied the way, Kemp also published a critically about it in interesting ways. There’s a lot of president. But it’s also deeply personal, which Kemp rise . When I was by his dad, on a journey of discovery about acclaimed book and even earned a Grammy feeling in his writing, which attracted me to says happened by accident. A paperback version came a teenager, Dad the racial and cultural links between the didn’t understand my passion for rock & nomination for his liner notes to a 1997 his work in addition to his intelligence.” out in 2006. South and its native-born music. Along the roll . He was a moderate Republican and a box-set retrospective of 1960s protest singer way, father and son rediscovered each other. Working at was a great “I didn’t set out to write a memoir,” Kemp says. “I’d never sports enthusiast who desperately wanted . Rolling Stone me to share with him his love of football and experience, although dealing with the whims written in first-person before. The first-person proposal basketball . He once told me in a rage that if I “I remember sitting in the pharmacy my Hitting the right note of mercurial publisher Jann Wenner could I wrote was just giving context as to why I should write kept listening to the music of cross-dressing mom worked at reading music magazines Writing paid the rent then and it does now be maddening. “Working for Jann was crazy, this. Then when I was showing it to my editors, chapter rock stars like David Bowie and Alice Cooper, I’d probably wind up homosexual . and dreaming about being either a writer for Kemp, who’s become well known around especially when he’d come swooping in at the by chapter, they kept saying, ‘It’s most interesting when or a musician,” Kemp says. “I wasn’t a good Charlotte since he left New York, wrote the last minute and demand massive changes,” you’re talking about yourself.’ So that proposal became the Dad had spent my childhood and his young adulthood working through the corporate enough musician to make it, so writing is the book and arrived in 2002 to kick back a Kemp says. “But I enjoyed it. We were still preface. The book is a musical history, a cultural history direction I went. I wanted to do this from doing a lot of longer stories in the mid-’90s, and a memoir about a guy and his father.” maze of General Electric, trying to provide bit as entertainment editor of the a better life for our family than the one he the time I was 12, and it almost feels weird Charlotte and I was there for some cool stuff. Like the and later as editor of Kemp thought he would return to New York after the had as a kid raised by a divorced mother . As that I grew up to do it. I mean, who wouldn’t Observer Creative 25-year anniversary of he climbed the ladder from a punch-clock Charlotte’s alternative weekly. The Fear and Loathing in book came out, but he stayed in Charlotte, close to family want to? But I did. It’s been a lot of luck, Loafing, Hunter S. Thompson came in to tradesman to a management position, he past three years he’s worked out of his home and friends. Thanks to , he’s in regular touch and also a lot of moxie—putting myself doLas hisVegas. song and dance, and Johnny Depp was found himself with less time for family outings . off The Plaza as a freelance writer for with more old friends from high school and college than where I needed to be.” Rolling following him around mimicking everything. On his days off, he played golf with his friends, and other magazines and as a media ever before. and at nights he and my mother would attend Stone ‘Wow,’ I thought, ‘I guess I’m here.’” Kemp came to ECU in 1978 to study consultant who gives workshops at colleges parties and community functions . About to turn 50, he spends a typical day writing in the English and philosophy, although he and media companies, as he has done for After nearly two years at morning, followed by a mid-day 12-step meeting and By 1996, when I became music editor of admits he put at least as much effort into Wake Forest University. Kemp accepted a job as aRolling vice president Stone, Rolling Stone, Dad had retired from work then a workout. and was beginning to show an interest in extracurricular activities. He sang with a Kemp, who was recognized as an of MTV Networks, working on news and Kemp is thinking about writing another book. One my career . Two years later, when my college punk/new wave band called The Trend, Outstanding Alumnus in 1998, still has the documentaries—everything from honored me as an outstanding alumnus, he Total promising subject is the influx of Latino immigrants to which did a handful of politically themed same passion for music that caused him, on MTV to on was right there in the front row, beaming as I Request Live Pop-Up Video the U.S., and the music they’ve brought with them. An delivered my acceptance speech . Later, Dad originals plus a lot of covers. One such cover at 27, to strike out for New York under a VH1. He was living the high life at the essay he wrote about that appeared in the 2008 collection told me he’d come to appreciate why I spent was Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird,” sped up summer internship program. That led in center of the music world. But Kemp found and rendered as “Dead Bird.” television to be disillusioning. As an executive, Whatever happens, my teenage years holed up in my bedroom 1987 to a job at magazine writing Making Notes: Music of the Carolinas. with records and magazines . He finally saw Discover he felt removed from the actual workflow. Kemp says he probably will stay in North Carolina. Graduating after five years, Kemp went science articles. While that job wasn’t exactly that I was learning from music what I couldn’t And it didn’t help that he was dealing with to work as a police reporter for the what Kemp was after, it did make it possible “Thomas Wolfe once said you can’t go home again and learn from him . substance-abuse problems and the end of his daily paper in Burlington. for him to start freelancing music stories. that’s not true,” Kemp says. “You can—and you can go On that breezy spring day in 2002, we were marriage to music critic Lorraine Ali, who’s Times-NewsDuring three years there Kemp earned his home and stay. I’ve been back here eight years, and I have learning from each other . His flair for music writing landed him the now a reporter for A decade later, journalistic bonafides, learned plenty about no thought of moving back. East job as editor of -based Kemp remains single.Newsweek. Option 28 29 Freshman year, the first season Lectures at orientation about the pitfalls of sudden freedom are replaced with informative, hip videos disguised as reality TV

By Steve Tuttle With its blogs, cast bios and “behind the to this age-old communication problem? Interestingly, there isn’t an ECU logo You’d think you had come across the web freshmen year as unexpected roommates.” end up sharing living space in an off-campus scenes” photos, The Loft site provides a Yes, Dermody told them. Working with the anywhere on web site and there’s site for reality show on MTV condo complex. We see their apartment comfortable home for the video series. In 18 counseling center, he came up with not a single mentionThe Loft of it anywhere else on In a few clicks you’re watching episode or anotherThe ofHills those TV teen dramas. in the background as cameras track their episodes so far, the story line has ranged from concept, scripted the dramas, recruitedThe theLoft campus or on the ECU web site. Just the one, when leaving home for college gets The darkly attractive site, called inevitable problems and rocky relationships, drinking, to sex, to friendship and herpes. cast (five of the six are ECU students) and freshmen receive the e-mail updates when a complicated for six kids when they arrive promotes a video series with the Thetease: Loft, “Find which unfold in four- to five-minute-long staged the productions. Most episodes were new episode comes out. But the link is soon at East Carolina and find a mix-up has cost This cool web site is East Carolina’s new out what happens when six strangers take on mini dramas. shot over two weeks last summer on a rushed obvious. Clicking on a banner ad that asks them their dorm room assignments. They way of schooling students on the good schedule with borrowed equipment. The “Looking for Adventure?” takes you to the and bad that can and sometimes does acting is better than you would expect (three Student Recreation Center web site. A click happen freshman year. It’s the same frank of the students are theatre majors) and the on the ad that asks “How Ya Feeling Today?” message the university has harped on for overall production is engaging if a bit jumpy. takes you to the Student Health Center and years—sudden freedom often has unforeseen The filming is what some would call cinéma a number to call for an appointment. costs—as retold for the Internet age. vérité and others would call low budget. Dermody says will continue filming Until recently, East Carolina delivered this The project launched at last summer’s orien­ new episodes forThe spring Loft semester. He’s also low-down on life to incoming freshmen tation sessions when incoming freshmen spending time analyzing web traffic statistics. during summer orientation. They heard watched the first few episodes of Out of the 4,000 or so freshmen receiving frankly worded lectures, with PowerPoints, Since then the roughly 4,000 freshmanThe Loft. have the e-mail links, he says some episodes are warning about risky situations freshmen received monthly updates on what’s new on getting thousands of hits while others get usually get tangled in. It was drilled into the show through e-mails alerting them that far less attention. Part of the learning curve them that the legal drinking age is 21, that Ashley is abusing her prescription medicine for the project, he adds, is determining when date rape is a real threat and that it’s better just to lose weight, for example, or that Zack is the best day and time of day to send to talk over problems with a roommate than is at a party and has to decide whether to the e-mails. “There aren’t many freshman to get into a fight. smoke pot. checking their e-mail Monday morning at 8 But university officials noticed that these o’clock,” he deadpans. The situations are real and the information, lectures, which had evoked riveted attention delivered subtly and with minimal moralizing, There is another reason for not identifying in years past—now were producing lots of is accurate and down to earth. Many of the ECU at web site, Dermody says. yawns. “We saw lots of (cell phone) texting episodes leave the viewer hanging. We never “We wantedThe Loftthe videos to look like a generic going on,” says Bob Morphet, assistant see if Zack actually takes the joint but we college campus. We didn’t want people to director of the Center for Counseling and hear him think through the pros and cons. get too hung up on this being an ECU Student Development. He and others began You watch. You learn. You decide. story and implying that these things don’t brainstorming how to update the message happen at Chapel Hill. We hope the viewer for kids who don’t remember when Google “The hard thing is striking a balance,” focuses on the content and not on this being wasn’t a verb. Morphet says. “We need to sound like we ECU. Another reason is we hope this will know what we’re talking about, but not like A working group reached out to visiting be used at other universities and colleges. we’re sermonizing. I’m not going to tell instructor Michael Dermody, a specialist All the links that we have on the web, we students what to do and what not to do, but in video production in the School of would work with another college and they I do want them to think about the decisions Communication. In so many words, the could just change the links to their drug and they are going to make here.” group asked him: Is there a YouTube answer counseling web site.” East

30 31 from the classroom Can you hear me? Women may be from Venus and men from Mars, but these professors, partners in marriage and research, are producing rare insights into the way we communicate.

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Secret flights to the patent office We all know what the Wright brothers brothers and the (Coast Guard) life- accomplished on Dec . 17, 1903 . The saving crews . The crew members By Marion Blackburn story of what happened after that would tell the reporters wild tales first powered flight is less well known, of how far the Wright brothers had an oversight that professor Larry flown out over the ocean—up to two Tise corrects in his newest work on miles from shore . And the reporters the Wright brothers . Conquering the would wire it in as a story ”. Sky: The Secret Flights of the Wright Tise points out that the famous Music makes it better No one really makes the connection until someone mentions Brothers at Kitty Hawk . The book image of the Wright brothers flight focuses on the brothers’ covert tests on Dec . 17, 1903, wasn’t published the dog. , a student will say. in May 1908 as they played a game until Sept . 1, 1908 . The brothers kept Hey, wait a minute of cat-and-mouse with international that image—along with others taken . press reporters and nosy Outer Banks in 1904 and 1905 documenting their My other communication professor has a dog named Sammy, too locals and raced the clock to produce work—filed away in their shop inO hio . About that time the lights come on and the secret’s commercial flying technology that Even though Conquering the Sky could be sold to the governments of focuses on the historical details of the out for the semester. Despite their different last names, and the . Wright brothers’ work and travels, it The book focuses on seven days is written in a conversational tone for communication professors Laura Prividera and that May when the Wright brothers general readers with an interest in went from relative anonymity to this part of American history . John Howard are husband and wife. worldwide recognition and cult Tise grew up in North Carolina and status . Between 1903 and when was always interested in the Wright their work was shown to brothers . the world in 1908, the During the Wright brothers worked centennial On campus, they teach separate include gender and communication, laugh over the unexpected turns that brought privately and secretly of their courses at different times, both of them intercultural communication, interpersonal them together. The first time they met, to improve and patent first flight, their flying machine . he started standout instructors at the College of Fine communication theory and introduction to instead of finding him charming, then-16- Meanwhile, would- working on Arts and Communication. But after hours, communication. year-old Prividera found her future husband be French aeronauts the brothers’ their passion for ideas means sharing pen insufferable. Maybe it’s because he woke her were working publicly North Carolina Howard teaches argumentation, and were being well story . “Most and ink more than your average married up with a boisterous entrance after a night communication theory, communication and documented in the historians treat couple. Their research interest is gender and out with her cousin, ruining her good night’s process . the Wright Head Music Librarian David Hursh conflict, organizational communication and communication, with an emphasis on war sleep during a family visit. “Everyone assumed brothers as has been fascinated with Alice persuasion, among other topics. He also has that the French great American Morgan Person, a folk musician and and the military. As a result of their uncanny an unusual niche: a pilot since he was 16, “I was mortified,” Prividera remembers. “I group was way heroes,” Tise patent medicine entrepreneur who ability to work together, Prividera and ahead (in the says . “I see them died in 1913, ever since he curated he researches aviation communication—the thought he was a flake.” His response was Howard have a considerable track record of technology race),” partly as tragic sheet music she published that was conversations between pilots and air traffic also, well, measured: “I could never date a says Tise, who is figures . Once donated by her great-great-grandson, papers and awards, including the Outstanding the Wilbur and they had the controllers. person like that,” he thought. Harry Stubbs IV, to Joyner Library . He Article Award from the National Orville Wright invention, they created a -winning audio digital Like George Burns and Gracie Allen, they Distinguished wanted to be like exhibit featuring Person’s music and Communication Association’s Critical and Finding a common interest Professor of Henry Ford and now has expanded into a biography

Cultural Studies Division last November. discovered a shared sense of humor, and a T Y History at ECU . Alexander Graham that recently won the Willie Parker Together, their combined curiosity has led warm repartee took shape between them over The Wright brothers knew Bell and become Peace History Book Award from The funny thing is, they never realized these they would have to fly publicly and rich off their invention and work . They the n C. . Society of Historians . to fascinating studies of gender and war. the years that blossomed into romance. Still shared interests until a few years into their returned from Dayton, Ohio, to North got the patent on their flying machine Good Medicine and Good Music: For a recent article, they spent their summer on separate paths, she became an accountant Carolina to prepare . They wanted to and then they didn’t work to further A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person is marriage, when images from the Gulf wars break sending drafts back and forth by in Albany, N.Y., while he entered graduate continue working in secret, but as flight . They worked to protect the co-authored by ethnomusicologist inspired them to examine media coverage of soon as they got back to Kitty Hawk patent ”. Dr . Chris Goertzen of the University e-mail—work they referred to as a “date.” school in communication at Bowling Green women in combat. in 1908, word spread through the Tise is now editing the North of Mississippi . It focuses on her Yet, they say, this mutual affection allows State University in Ohio. community . Carolina-related papers of Wilbur and contributions to the history of Then again, there is very little that’s usual them to function as a single mind in two “Word had gotten out—totally Orville Wright, which have been at American folk music and patent When Prividera realized she wanted to fictional—that they were flying out the Library of Congress since 1949 . medicine . about their relationship, a romance that places. One has a general idea for an article over the ocean . Newspapers around He plans to distill the 4,000 pages study interpersonal communication in the spans decades, campuses and cities. After and sets it out in a paragraph or outline. the world published that as fact,” of material to produce a complete Good Medicine and Good Music: workplace—how everyday conversations says Tise . “The New York Herald and edition on the Wright brothers’ A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person meeting as teenagers in upstate New York, The other expands the idea or fills in details. the London Daily Mail, two of the experience and heritage in North McFarland & Company, 216 pages, affect the business climate—she turned to L FACU S BY they hardly gave each other a second thought. Because of their different specialties, one leading newspapers on technological Carolina . $39.95 her old friend for advice. By this time he was Over the years their paths crossed often and provides content the other can’t. And because innovations of the day, sent reporters —Jeannine Manning Hutson teaching at Bowling Green and recommended to the Outer Banks . They were before long, sparks flew. They wed in 2000. they have a shared vision, their sections fit its program to her. Together at last in the interested in the advancement of new Conquering the Sky: together seamlessly. weapons . The Secret Flights of the Wright Prividera is associate professor and same location, their love grew and they “It was a colossal comedy of errors Brothers at Kitty Hawk between the reporters, the Wright Palgrave Macmillan, 256 pages, $25 interim associate director of the School In person, they spar good-naturedly about married. They completed their PhDs at BOO K of Communication. Her courses their work. When talk turns to their Bowling Green within a year of each other. courtship, which began in the 1980s, they

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Saving Private Lynch “When we talk about Jessica Lynch, the separate accomplishments, having won media talk about her in a feminine way,” top teaching honors within a year of each Finding work together was a gamble Prividera says. “So we create a double bind other. They both received the UNC Board but luck brought them to ECU in 2003 for women in the military. If we put people of Governors Distinguished Professor for during a major expansion of the faculty into traditional masculine and feminine Teaching Award, presented to six ECU faculty in communication as part of its attaining molds, then what does that do to people’s members each year. They also hold University college status along with fine arts. perceptions of them as soldiers? I hope Alumni Awards for Outstanding Teaching. what we’re bringing to the conversation is a “At this stage we didn’t know we had Howard is one of only a few scholars more critical way to look at our mediated common research interests,” Howard says. worldwide researching the conversations representations and our language usage for And so things might have continued, if not between pilots and air traffic controllers. women and men in the military.” for a story that took the nation by storm that Focusing on their exchanges may lead to year. A U.S. convoy, including 19-year-old In 2006 they followed with two more articles safer air travel. on similar topics. Working together they Private Jessica Lynch, was ambushed by Iraqis. Teaching keeps him energized and hopeful. found a perfect match. “I tend to be very big Lynch was held hostage for several days and Indeed, his first stint was teaching political picture,” Howard says. “Laura is very detail finally recovered during a rescue mission. science at a prison. “I can’t imagine doing oriented. She’s also very good with and As they watched the news and analysis, their anything else that gives me so much organizational structure.” Prividera agrees. “In conversations at home turned more and satisfaction,” he says. “I see education as an many ways we are opposites, and that works more to the dramatically conflicting images opportunity for people to create change. really well in our writing,” she says. “We both used for men and women soldiers. These They can change themselves, and they can know we’re aiming for a common purpose. depictions fell into familiar archetypes: men change the world.” We trust each other.” were “warriors,” the strong, competitive These days, communication—sharing ideas In the end, Howard says, “Most people and independent soldiers; women were and winning acceptance for them, and reading our articles presume it’s one person.” “mothers” or “mistresses,” the fragile, describing the world clearly—sits at the nurturing ones more likely to place group Considering their subject matter, it’s natural center of nearly everything, thanks to the welfare first. to wonder about their own interpersonal rapid pace of information on the Internet Jessica Lynch was often portrayed in terms communication, especially during the and 24-hour news cycles. These are heady that robbed her of soldier status, they later stressful process of writing an academic times for the field. article. “It’s very challenging,” Howard says. wrote. For instance, she was often referred “There’s no better time to be a communica- to in the media as “Jessica” rather than as “Sometimes we do it well, sometimes we tion major than now,” Prividera says. “It’s a Private Lynch. The resulting article—their don’t,” Prividera notes. “But we do it better popular major across campuses nationwide. first together—was published in 2004 in than most, I’d say,” Howard adds. After all, we all want to be competent com- under the title, Women and Language Rescuing municators. It’s the root of our lives; it’s the Patriarchy or Saving “Jessica Lynch:” The Rhetorical Honored for teaching root of our identities. It’s the root of change. Construction of the American Woman Soldier. In the classroom, they’ve notched many I can’t think of a more exciting profession.”

36 Softball rides a wave Eight seniors— six from either California or Hawaii—will lead the Pirates into a tougher schedule .

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Lofty goals, a new stadium spectators as well as a structure housing the studying or playing ball they’re planning and press box, toilets and concessions. Bullpens, preparing authentic island meals. The ECU softball team that won 40 Gusman-Brown is at the heart of Kee’s dugouts, field lighting and a scoreboard also In their efforts to maintain a sense of home games last year returns eight seniors this other main victory strategy—leveraging the will be constructed. A batting cage building in their college town, Gusman-Brown, season, and the Pirates will need every strength of a huge senior class with a distinct is planned but may be built in a future phase Cristen Aona, Kaui Tom and Charina ounce of that experience to face a schedule West Coast flair. Of the eight seniors on along with a team building. Chances are slim Sumner make dishes like “lau lau,” a made tougher with the addition of 2009 the roster, six are from either Hawaii or that the Lady Pirates will take the field in the traditional steamed pork wrapped in laurel national champion Washington, runner-up California. new stadium this season, because their last leaves (in Greenville, they substitute spinach) Florida and other perennial It’s an unusually large and experienced home game is May 6. powerhouses. And as the and another favorite that combines fried senior class that comprises the heart of the But even if they have to watch from the tuna with cilantro and onion. They eat a lot season progresses, the team Pirate lineup. Six or seven of those players will watch its new 1,000- stands in the new stadium next year, this of rice, Gusman-Brown said, and their house are expected to be starters, and the two year’s seniors will know they played a part in features Hawaiian decorative touches and seat stadium rising just —junior Paisley and sophomore beyond the left field fence. establishing the winning tradition that the customs. transfer Faith Sutton—also have put in a team will carry into its new home. As she commences her 13th season as the considerable number of innings. Paisley was “Everybody knows that they need to take their Pirates’ head coach, Tracey Kee has presided the featured in 2009 while Sutton “I think when it (stadium) gets done it’s shoes off before they come into the house, over a steady ascent of the softball program. played at UNC Chapel Hill her freshman going to attract a lot of excitement and because that’s what we do at home,” she said. maybe bring some more people to our In 2009 the women went 40–15 overall season. There is nothing young about this ECU’s West Coast connection becomes more games,” Merrida said. and 19–5 in Conference USA for the squad, no talk whatsoever about a building pronounced each year, as successful and most conference wins in program history. year. This is the year that each senior has happy Hawaii and California softball players They earned the No. 2 seed in the C-USA been building toward—and they can’t wait to A new focus on offense attract other talented recruits from those tournament and seemed poised for an easy see what they can accomplish. As far as the seniors are concerned, there states. This year’s recruiting class, announced road to the NCAA Tournament. “I’m excited,” said outfielder Christina isn’t any energy to waste on the things they in November, includes six players­—four But they lost in the first round to lower- Merrida, a senior from Woodland Park, can’t control. One thing they can control from California and two from Hawaii. seeded University of Texas-El Paso, and Calif. “I think our senior class is really is their hitting, which the coaching staff Two of the 2010 seniors do hail from that one stumble was enough to end their strong. There’s a lot of leadership, a lot of emphasized during the offseason. Kee said eastern North Carolina, and they enjoy the season. It was a blow for a team that defeated experience. I feel like I’ve been waiting for it was weakness on offense that led to some West Coast exposure while still representing teams like Florida State and N.C. State and this for the last four years. I want to go out heartbreaking losses last season. While the East Coast flavor that their teammates saw pitcher Toni Paisley named C-USA with a bang.” the defense can always use sharpening, the have adopted. Bethel native Tiffany Shaw, Pitcher-of-the-Week a record seven times. The senior class has its eye on milestones Pirates finished second in the conference in a catcher with one of the top fielding The selection committee attributed ECU’s like a C-USA championship and a fielding percentage last year and are returning percentages among returning players, said exclusion to an insufficient strength of long trip through the postseason, but the one most of those strong position players. “I’m that she has seen improvements in her schedule, even though the Pirates faced six distinction they can’t be sure they will reach anticipating a really great defensive lineup,” confidence and ability every year. And top programs in the regular season and beat is the chance to play in the new stadium. Kee said. Nicole Jordan, who transferred from Pitt three of them. The grading and preparation for the project With so many senior leaders and so many Community College as a junior, said that Kee had that history in mind when she began in the fall, with a projected completion women who are far from home (70 percent despite their cultural differences, the team put together a 2010 schedule that features date of May, said Jimmy Bass, the senior of the total roster comes from California or has banded together with a common matchups with Florida, Kansas, Penn State, associate athletics director for external Hawaii), the camaraderie on this Lady Pirates objective—to win so many games that their Washington and California in the first operations. That progress hinges not only on squad is even more crucial than normal. place on the national stage cannot be denied. month. “I don’t know what I was thinking,” the efficiency of the construction but on the They’re close because they have been playing “We all have the same goals in mind,” said she jokes about this year’s schedule. numerous licenses and approvals that must go together for a long time and because they Jordan, a Jamesville native. “We have a good through state government channels. have supported each other through each phase “That was our setback last year—strength work ethic. We work really hard and push of the adjustment to living on the East Coast. of schedule,” said senior Marina Gusman- The new softball complex, which will each other, and I think we have a lot of drive. The four Hawaiian seniors live together, Brown. “I guess our plan of attack is to resemble the nearby stadium, Coming in second has left everybody really Gusman-Brown said, and when they’re not jump on them from the start.” will feature grandstand seating for 1,000 hungry. We were so close.” East

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riangle-area pop artist LeClair biography in the works There are many ways you can serve your and magazines. Visit www. Alumni East Paul Friedrich ’89 A biography of former East Carolina community, but some we hope you take PirateAlumni.com/jointoday to make your might still regret not baseball coach Keith LeClair focuses on his advantage of are the projects coordinated tax-deductible membership contribution. taking a college course courage in the face of a debilitating five-year by our local alumni chapters. Please visit in business, but he’s illness as well as the legacy he left for the www.PirateAlumni.com/servicemonth for We Twitter and Tweet! done an impressive job university and its baseball program. ways to get involved in your area. The Alumni Association has found that figuring it out on his will beCoaching released online social networking is a good way to own. The Raleigh native has spent the last onThird: March The Keith5 in conjunction LeClair Story with the LeClair Why they joined keep in touch with you and for alumni to two decades turning a boyhood passion for Classic, the annual baseball tournament A note from Pat ’67 and Lynn Lane of get in touch with one another. We’re now drawing cartoons into a thriving business. played in LeClair’s memory. The author is Chocowinity on why they are members of the on LinkedIn, Flickr and Facebook and He’s probably best known for his ghoulishly Bethany Bradsher, a freelance writer and Alumni Association: send out daily Tweets on Twitter. There playful Onion Head Monster character, frequent contributor who has covered are many interesting videos to watch on which was the title of a comic strip in the East ECU sports for various Pirate Alumni’s You Tube channel. Visit local weekly, His bold, outlets for more than a The Independent. www.PirateAlumni.com to sign-up. colorful cartoons are hard to miss around decade. LeClair’s wife, town, and not just in obvious places, such as Lynn, collaborated restaurants and galleries. His work is on rock with Bradsher and also Become a regional contact CD covers, iPod cases, apparel, handbags, wrote the foreword. Volunteers are essential to the success of city buses and the graffiti wall at Marble’s At the end of the Children’s Museum in downtown Raleigh. the Alumni Association. It is through the book, which covers dedicated service of these individuals and “I’m the living embodiment of what I saw LeClair’s childhood groups that we are able to provide programs growing up would be like when I was 13,” in New Hampshire, and spread Pirate pride. As a regional Friedrich says. “I eat what I want, drink what his playing and contact, volunteers are the first point of I like, travel around the world, hang out with coaching careers and contact in their area for alumni and friends bands and draw cartoons all day.” Friedrich’s his battle with ALS who want to reconnect. Regional contacts latest coup was scoring a gig as the NHL’s (amyotrophic lateral attend events in their area whenever only cartoonist, creating weekly cartoons for sclerosis), LeClair’s own devotional writings possible and assist the Carolina Hurricanes mascot, Stormy. are featured. For more than three years, when the D March 19–20: Celebrateate in planning at he was housebound and unable to walk or “Even though we spend half the year His interest in cartooning wasn’t exactly 50 Y least one regional talk, LeClair wrote Christian devotionals living outside of the U.S., we stay ears of Sorority Life encouraged in high school and later at ECU, at ECU program during with the aid of an Eyegaze computer, a connected with ECU through the where he completed a degree in art. “One April 10: Alumni the year. Two such machine that recognized and typed letters Alumni Association. The monthly teacher said it was a waste of talent,” he said. Association Scholarship events that will take according to the movements of LeClair’s e-mail updates and Luncheon Instead, art professors pushed the basics— place this spring are eyes. LeClair then e-mailed the devotionals publication provide ECinformation Alumni drawing, sculpting and painting, classes that April 17: 3rd Annual the New York Metro to countless friends and acquaintances, of value to alumni of all ages. It’s Pirate Alumni R would help build a strong foundation for a Dinner and Silent who often then passed them on to others. a motivator to return to campus and Fun Run oad Race traditional career in art. He put his creative Auction on May 21 The book is being published by Whitecaps more often to experience first- talent to work instead writing the comic and the Tidewater Media. For more information, visit the hand all the exciting things happening strip “Hubie the Dead Cow” at Golf Tournament The East book’s web site, www.coachingthird.com. at ECU and to continue personal on June 28—both Carolinian. relationships on a face-to-face basis.” scholarship fundraising events to benefit Friedrich kept drawing after graduation, April is Service Month We invite you to join and show your support ECU students from those areas. We need but relied on graphic design jobs to pay the more alumni and friends to serve as regional his steady job to draw and paint full time. know. I said ‘I don’t like your reality. I’m Every member of the Pirate Nation is for all the programs and scholarships that bills. A few shows in the mid ’90s helped contacts. If you would like to volunteer, going to try mine.’” Stay tuned for more. encouraged to live the university’s motto, your dues will support. There are many proved there was a market for his paintings, “I had to take the challenge,” he said. contact Director of Alumni Programs Friedrich now has even bigger goals: a cartoon Servire, meaning “to serve,” by lending benefits, including discounted pricing on especially ones with Onion Head Monster. “Repeatedly I was told ‘You need to face Kendra Alexander at 800-ECU-GRAD or TV show similar to a helping hand in their communities alumni events such as Homecoming and So with some savings tucked away, he quit reality.’…But if you don’t try, you won’t SpongeBob SquarePants. e-mail [email protected]. — throughout April, which is Service Month. Alumni Tailgate, and subscriptions to Samantha Thompson Hatem EC 42 43 CLASS NOTES

Alumni Spotlight 2009 Dr. JESSICA KENT ANGE joined WestCare Health System as a primary care physician at Sylva Right after college, Family Practice in Sylva. Dr. CRYSTEN MARIE T.J. Jenkins ’99 ’00 BRINKLEY wed Dr. Christopher Patrick Kragel founded advertising on Oct. 17 in Gastonia. Both are in residency at and marketing the University of Alabama, Birmingham, where she company Wrijen Co . is in neurology and he is in pathology. BRENNA in Fayetteville, his MCCARTNEY BURNETT is a certified registered hometown, with a nurse anesthetist at Asheville Anesthesia Associates. $100 loan from his She was in the Surgical/Trauma Intensive Care Unit father . The company at UNC Hospital Chapel Hill. MARCIE LYNN grew steadily and CAHOON wed DANE SALATHIEL EUBANKS now includes among ’08 on Aug. 8 in New Bern. She is a nurse at Lenoir its clients the clothing Memorial Hospital, and he is a materials planner at store Citi Trends and NACCO Materials Handling Group in Greenville. a major franchisee for MAEGAN NICOLE “NIKKI” HOUSE teaches self- Popeye’s Fried contained students in all grades and subjects at Selma Chicken . We caught Middle School. GLENDA LENK of Goldsboro up with Jenkins to ask teaches exceptional children’s life skills at Selma him what it takes to Middle School. She was a teacher assistant for two turn a start-up years in Wayne County and interned at Greenwood business into a Est. 2003 Middle School in Wayne County. ELIZABETH successful and MOORE graduated from the Coast Guard Recruit profitable concern . Training Center in Cape May, N.J., as a seaman. “I started the vision of DAVID ROBINSON joined the real estate staff at my company at East Prudential Prime Properties in Greenville. Carolina [when I was 2008 living] in Garrett Hall . Initially it started as a music marketing and promotions company, but soon after I interned at the Ad DANNY BARNES of Wilson teaches eighth-grade Agency of Greenville for a semester during my senior year, math at Selma Middle School. He taught for 21 years I knew that it would evolve into a full-service marketing and at Speight Middle School in Stantonsburg, Southern advertising company . Nash High School in Bailey, and Nash Central High School in Rocky Mount. AMBER JULIET “The problem was that I had all the vision in the world and GEORGALIS wed Patrick Lewis Warrington on no communicated means of making them a reality . The more The Official Station of the Oct. 3 in Greenville. She works at David’s Bridal places I went to network and meet people, the more I learned and Formals of Wilmington, where the couple lives. that I had to have a story that set my business apart from any Spc. BRANDON W. MILLER graduated from other business . And most importantly, I had to have a success Army Reserve basic combat training at Fort Jackson, story that would make businesses believe in my company . So I Columbia, S.C. MARY ELIZABETH MOHN combined all of my skills in the realm of marketing, advertising, wed James Michael Lipcsak at Bethlehem Baptist music marketing and promotions, technical writing, media Church in Knightdale on May 2. She works at the planning and media buying, audio production, and my radio ECU Alumni Association Goddard School in Clayton. They live in Wendell. experience into one company . I saw a need for a company that Army Spc. JOSHUA C. PETERS graduated from a client could cut one check to and receive the same services the Infantryman One Station Unit Training at Fort that it took four separate companies to perform . listen online Benning, Columbus, Ga. AMY STEPHENSON wed “This created the ability for me to charge a client less and to JEFFREY MINCHEW in Raleigh on June 20. She ensure uniformity throughout a campaign from start to finish www.pirateradio1250.com teaches in Nash County Schools, and he works for by producing everything in house . Keihin in Tarboro. They live in Nashville. 2007 “Dr . Sherry Southard, my graduate school advisor in 252.317.1250 the English department, really helped me enhance my MARTHA HARRISON CHILTON wed Rickey communication skills that have taken me forward today . Daryl Arrington at Rosa Lee Manor, Pilot Mountain. You must know how to communicate in starting or running She works at Behavioral Services Inc. of Mount a business . The biggest barrier that I faced was my age and “The Voice of the Pirate Nation” Airy. Her ECU roommate, Jenna Kay Forrest, was a experience . Well, Citi Trends took a chance and my company bridesmaid. KRISTI GLICK joined Goshen College has grown them from a regional to a nationwide multi-million in Indiana as an assistant professor of art where she dollar public company within just four and a half years ”.

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Alumni Spotlight teaches Jewelry I and Design I. She was a studio artist in MATT CARTER stars on the Discovery Channel 2004 Charlottesville, Va. ASHLEY MORGAN HINES wed show LISA DEVRIES ’05 ’08 Outstanding Alumni recognized MEREDITH POINTER ANDERSON wed Charles Worth Lewis on Oct. 18 in Winterville. She is joinedSwords: The Victoria Life on Collegea Line. in Texas as an assistant JEFFREY BRANDT QUINN on May 17 in the The Alumni Association presented Wiley Burns Sullivan a kindergarten teacher at Snow Hill Primary School. professor of English. AMANDA P. HARRELL, a garden at Yankee Hall Plantation in Greenville. DZ the Outstanding Alumni Award at CALLIE ELIZABETH CRIBB wed WILLIAM staff accountant with Pittard Perry & Crone Inc. in sorority sisters Chrissie Wygand ’05, Ashleigh Homecoming to BRUCE BIGGS ’66, ROBERT PARKER ’96 on July 18. They live in its Williamston office, earned the Certified Public Edwards ’06, Adair Parks, Elizabeth Dickerson ’06, owner and president of Biggs Pontiac Greenville where she works in the billing department of Accountant designation. MALISSA MARIE HARRIS Lindsay Hargest ’07, and Elizabeth Blankenship OneSource, and he is the owner of Parker’s Barbecue. wed Robert Lewis Lane III in Ayden on Oct. 10. She Buick Cadillac GMC Truck, in Elizabeth ’06 attended the guest register. TIFFANY LEAH KELLY BARNES LAHAM is a board-certified adult teaches English at Greene Central High School in Snow City; Maj . Gen . WILLIAM HOLLAND BRINSON wed Anthony Luis Brewer at Belmont nurse practitioner at Goshen Medical Center in Bolton. Hill. COURTNEY ERICA RAY wed JORDAN ’75, of the 9th Air Force Estate, Reidsville. She is a veterinary technician at Army Spec. JOSHUA C. PETERS graduated from the GARRETT STEWART ’06 on Aug. 8 at Tabor at Shaw Air Force Base in South Miami Seaquarium, Miami, Fla. Casey East was one Infantryman One Station Unit Training at Ft. Benning, City Baptist Church. She is a mortgage originator at of her bridesmaids. MARIA GIRONDA ’04 ’08 was Carolina; Dr . GARRIE MOORE ’85, Columbus, Ga. Army National Guard Sgt. OLIN C. Cape Fear Farm Credit, and he has a law degree from runner-up for Beaufort County’s teacher of the year. vice chancellor of the City University WILKINSON ’07 ’08 was decorated with the Army Florida Coastal School of Law. They live in Stedman. Teaching for only three years, she taught children with of New York system and a former Achievement while deployed in . He is AMY SANCILIO wed Daniel Atwill on June 6 at autism at Eastern Elementary School in Greenville and associate provost and vice chancellor infantry squad leader with 10 years of military service Temple Garden at Landfall in Wilmington. They live Three East Carolina music majors are helping The Singing now Chocowinity Primary School. She was named NC at ECU; and Dr . JERRY M. WALLACE based in Smithfield. in Charleston, S.C. JESSICA LEA SMITH ’05 ’07 Sergeants, the official chorus of the U .s . Air Force, become an Autism Society’s Teacher of the Year for 2008-2009. wed DANIEL ROBERT BAKER in Lewisville United ’56, a pastor who is president of international favorite . Chief Master Sgt . Carol Hawkins Wiley 2006 BRITTON SCOTT GOODWIN wed Holly Kerry Methodist Church on Oct. 10. She is a speech language Campbell University in Buies Creek . ’88 is the manager and a soprano soloist . Senior Master Sgt . Lynn on June 20 at Western Prong Baptist Church near LAUREN WILLIAMS CALDWELL wed BRYAN pathologist with Guilford County Schools in High Angela Burns ’93 is the music director for the 22-member Whiteville. He is the band director at South Columbus JACKSON BUCK on Sept. 26 in Charlotte. He Point, and he is a key accounts sales representative at ensemble and an alto vocalist . And Master Sgt . Eric Sullivan High School. ANNA BATTLE WILKINSON wed owns Reliance Building Group in Charleston, S.C. Pepsi Bottling Group in Winston Salem. They live 2003 ’95 is a baritone vocalist . All three knew each other, in DAVID CHADWICK STINSON in Sanford on June MARCUS WAYNE CONNER JR. joined the in Clemmons. FELISHA WYCHE was named the roundabout ways, before, during or after college . Sullivan and 20. They live in Leland. She works for BB&T, and he REBECCA ALLEN ’03 ’07 wed CHIP DAVIS law firm of Graham, Nuckolls & Brown PLLC in Northampton County Schools Principal of the Year. Wiley are from Wilson while Burns is from Wilmington . works for PPD. ’09 on Oct. 10 in Farmville. CHARLES CLARK, Greenville as an associate attorney in general practice She is the principal of Northampton West STEM principal of Northeast Elementary School in When we talked to them in November, they were just back with an emphasis in criminal law. He received his High School. from a two-week tour with performances every day . Over JD from New School of Law in Boston. the winter small groups within the ensemble will the road . ASHLEY LAUREN DAIL ’06 ’08 wed JEREMY Sullivan is in a quartet that was to deploy to and RAY LANDVATER ’08 on Jan. 3, 2009, in the . Greenville. She works for the U.S. Air Force, and he is a lieutenant, junior grade, Medical Services Corps, “Angela and I knew each other in college,” Wiley explained . “I in the U.S. Air Force in San Antonio, Tex. BASIL Alternative Investments: went to high school with Eric’s sisters . All three of us learned JAWAD owns Hardware City Tavern in New Britain, Compare charitable gift annuities to low-yielding about this job in different ways,” Wiley continued . Then we Conn. His ECU roommate, MOHAMMED AMLEH certificates of deposit (CDs) went through basic training like everybody else, but after that ’07, manages the tavern while Jawad keeps his IT we knew what our assignment would be ”. consultant job. JONATHAN D. MATTHEWS Single life Two lives is the band director at New Bern High School. He Age Payout Rate Age Payout Rate “They were touring when I was in high school in Wilmington,” 55 4 .8 % 55/55 4 1. % taught in Onslow County Schools. Dr. CHRISTIAN said Burns, who is the first enlisted person to hold her 60 5 0. % 60/60 4 .6 % position . “I was just in awe of their musicianship and after I MORETZ joined Wellspring Family Practice in Sylva 65 5 .3 % 65/65 4 .9 % graduated from ECU I saw an ad and auditioned for them . I’ve as an obstetrician. Dr. SILVIA ABREU READ joined 70 5 7. % 70/70 5 .2 % been with the group almost 16 years now ”. Angel Medical Care in Asheville. She was employed by 75 6 .3 % 75/75 5 .6 % San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center in Alamosa, 80 7 1. % 80/80 6 1. % “Carol knew my sister in high school and Angela spent some Colo., in internal medicine practice. 90+ 9 .5 % 90/90 8 .3 % time with her in college,” said Sullivan, who has been with Benefits of a charitable gift annuity: the group for 10 years . “My personal highlight was singing 2005 • Substantially guaranteed higher payout rates for Reagan when he was lying in state in the Capital . And MIRIAM JO ABERNETHY ’05 ’07 wed STEVEN once when we were singing in the White House for (the first YOUNG ’05 ’07 in Hickory on Apr. 4. She is an • Substantial income-tax deductions president) Bush, after the event he gave us a personal tour of occupational therapist at Frye Regional Medical Center, • Partial tax-free income for the remainder of up to two lives the White House ”. and he is box office manager for the Winston-Salem • The ability to use the residuum of your gift to fund a meaningful Dash, a minor league baseball team. Dr. LAURA project with any of the three ECU foundations (East Carolina The Singing Sergeants have entertained every president since BRILEY joined the Dermatology & Skin Cancer University Foundation Inc ,. East Carolina University Medical & Truman and have performed with the New York Philharmonic Center in Raleigh. MICHAEL TAYLOR BRYAN Health Sciences Foundation Inc ,. or the East Carolina University and the Philadelphia, Cleveland, Houston and the National wed LINSEY BELL BRYAN ’06 in Wilmington on Educational Foundation Inc . [Pirate Club]) symphony orchestras . When not on tour, the Singing May 9. He is the South East and Mid Atlantic sales • Membership in the Leo W . Jenkins Society Sergeants perform for the public in Washington and lend and marketing manager for Forensic Analysis and musical support for Air Force . The group mainly performs For more information regarding charitable gift annuities or any other Engineering Corp. in Raleigh, and she is a freelance choral music of all styles, including barbershop, Celtic, type of planned gift (bequest provisions, IRA, or other qualified designer for the Wrangler Jeans Division of Vanity Broadway and opera . retirement plan designations, trusts, real estate contributions, or gifts of Fair Corp. Their bridal party included Michael’s SAE life insurance) please contact Greg Abeyounis, assistant vice chancellor brothers David Bryan ’07, Matt Carter ’05, and Parker for development, at 252-328-9573 or e-mail at abeyounisg@ecu edu. . Tomorrow starts here. Rowe ’06, along with Dan Sheron ’06, Leah Bell ’08, For examples and more information on planned giving mechanisms, Shellie Culler ’06, and Anna Rollins Shoemate ’06. visit our web site at www ecu. edu/plannedgivin. g . 46 47 class notes

Alumni Spotlight Pinetown, was named Beaufort County’s Principal teacher of the year for Edgecombe County Public on Sept. 19 in Raleigh. He is a senior graphic of the Year. DAMANE DUCKETT joined the BC Schools. CHRISTOPHER J. FREDERICK and designer/creative director at Ford Design and owner For B.J. Murphy ’02, getting sworn Lions Football Club in Vancouver, Can., as an offensive JENNIFER LYNN STROUD FREDERICK of Foster Barker Creative in Wilmington. PERNELL in as Kinston’s It’s tough for folks in the music business to lineman. He played for the 49ers, ’05 had a son, Owen Ellis, on July 16. JAMES GRIFFIN became a job counselor at the Workforce new mayor in keep a steady paycheck, but not so NY Giants, and Carolina Panthers. CATHERINE FRANCIS HERITAGE ’02 ’07 ’08 wed BARBARA Development and Training Center at Edgecombe December was a for Bill Congdon ’85 of Charlotte . He’s had HOLLY FUTRELL ’03 ’08 wed ROBERT ADAM LEONORA SALVADORI June 27 in Greenville. Community College. SHARON J. ELLIOTT of dream come true . the same job for the last five years as WHITE in an ocean-front ceremony in Nags Head He works in the ECU Athletic Department, and she Winterville, an occupational therapist for Therapeutic He entered the musical director of the touring cast of on May 16. JACKIE B. HILL ’03 ’08 is an assistant is a graduate student in English literature at ECU. Life Center Inc., was recognized by mayoral race as Mamma Mia! The downside is he’s not Cambridge Who’s an underdog but professor of library science at Mt. Olive College in SHAVONDRA DANYELLE PARKER was selected for demonstrating dedication, leadership, and home often, having spent just one week Mt. Olive. She was the school media library media as principal of Starmount High School in Elkin. Whoexcellence in senior care. With more than 20 years of finished as the city’s first there in the past four months . “I couldn’t coordinator at South Lenoir High School in Deep CATHERINE “KATE” BROOKS TILLMAN experience in health care, she is recognized as an expert Republican— imagine not having done this,” Congdon Run. JAMIE LELIEVER is business development ’02 ’03 wed Andre John Brown in Belhaven on Aug. in gerontology. Dr. ROBERT M. HUGHES IV and and at 29 the told the Charlotte Observer. Music has manager in the Durham office of Murgitroyd & Co. 8. They live in Raleigh where she is a commercial ELIZABETH “BETSY” KEVILLE HUGHES ’01, youngest—mayor been in his blood since high school, a Glasgow, U.K.-headquartered patent and trademark developer with Commercial Properties, Inc. ’02 had a daughter, Hazel Katherine, on April 28, in more than 100 when he played in the Charlotte Youth firm. He was president and co-founder of the Raleigh- who joins brother, Murray, age 3. He is a postdoctoral years . He said that his degree in business and 2001 Symphony and the Charlotte Pops Orchestra . After earning a based digital media production company Mediplay Inc. researcher in the Duke University Department of his SGA experience will help him along the music degree here, Congleton earned a master’s degree at way . in 2004. FELICIA TITTLE joined Duke University ERICA STANKWYTCH BAILEY was named Biology, and she teaches orchestra and Suzuki violin in the Eastman School of Music . He played in the pit when tours as managing director of campus recreation. She was one of the Top 5 Silver Circle Finalists in the Jewelry the Durham Public Schools. ROBIN VUCHNICH is “Researching business models, learning at the Performing Arts Center needed extra hands, including how to give a presentation, and working director of campus recreation at Florida Gulf Coast Design Business Development grant program, an creative director at Signal in Raleigh. She was a senior a 2002 run of Mamma Mia! Its producers remembered him collaboratively in groups all prepared University. annual contest held by Halstead Bead Inc. As part designer at Raleigh-based Capstrat and a principal in two years later, when they chose him to replace one of four of her prize, she will partner with an established her own design firm.JAMIE TIER WILLIAMS ’01 me for my work in the business and civic 2002 community,” he explained . “Networking keyboard players; he became associate music director in designer for a business mentorship program. She ’04 and JONATHAN WILLIAMS ’05 had a son, with ECU faculty and staff was also time 2005 and took the big baton last January . He plays dance JOHN BACON was promoted to vice president creates and sells sterling silver jewelry. She teaches Aiden Edwin, on July 6. well spent as a student . In fact, there are rehearsals, preps understudies and instructs new actors on and market executive for First Carolina State Bank’s classes on jewelry fabrication and metalsmithing at 1999 contacts I met in the College of Business the tour . But after five years of “Take a Chance on Me,” what East Arlington Boulevard office in Greenville. Fayetteville Technical Community College, Brevard who, as mayor, I will work with on a fairly keeps things fresh? “One of the happiest surprises is when we MARY BETH BARROW is fiscal officer for NC College, and Cape Fear Studios. FOSTER RAY Dr. KEVIN A. BAGGETT was named senior regular basis ”. reach some small city where we think we’re going to waste Sea Grant in Raleigh. LORI CARR ’02 ’06 is MEYER BARKER wed Katharyn Monseaux Rohde vice president and chief medical officer of Tenet Murphy and his wife Jessica Barwick Murphy away and it ends up being vibrant and fun ”. ’07, also a Kinston native, look forward to the opportunities ahead . The couple are especially enjoying their time as new parents to 1-year-old Gracyn . “I’m excited!” Murphy Sandra Mims Rowe ’70 stepped down as said . “Kinston is a special place, and it has a editor of the Portland Oregonian at year- Joining is easy! bright future . I look forward to making this end, a decision she made to minimize city the very best it can be ”. job cuts in the newsroom . The paper’s executive editor, Peter Bhatia, will assume her duties . “I wrestled with the number of layoffs we would need and Healthcare Corp. He was chief operating officer determined it was best to start by removing my own salary from the currently and vice president, clinical strategy for the HCA Clinical Services Group. RYAN CRAIG GENTEL budget,” she said in an e-mail to 6,400 wed Jillian Hunter Eddins Sept. 5 in Raleigh. He employees announcing the elimination members is a trader with E. Boyd and Associates in Raleigh. of 70 jobs . Rowe, 61, had been editor SCOT MCINTOSH wed Andrea Christine Pratt on since 1993 . Under her leadership, The Oregonian, which has a Join today and help July 11. He is a research technician for Wake Forest Sunday circulation of 375,000, won five Pulitzer and University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. numerous other national awards . Rowe, who edited the us reach our goal of BENJAMIN “BENJI” TAYLOR joined Tyre Realty Buccaneer yearbook two years while stringing for the Daily Group at Prudential Prime Properties in Greenville. Reflector, came to The Oregonian from The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Va ., where she was editor for the 1998 last 10 of her 22 years there . One of the most recognized CHAD ALRIDGE joined the Greenville office of women editors in America, Rowe served as president of the Bank of America Home Loans as a mortgage loan American Society of Newspaper Editors and chairwoman of officer. He was with Primary Residential Mortgage the Pulitzer Prizes Board, and was named Editor of The Year Inc. TREY CHERRY was selected as the first by the National Press Foundation in 2004 . She and Bhatia 10,000 webmaster at Edgecombe Community College. He was together were named editors of the year by Editor & an information technology studies instructor at the Publisher magazine in 2008 . Rowe said she and her husband, college. KELLY SMITH was named vice president for Gerard Rowe, will remain in Portland . “I look forward to taking finance at Bladen Community College in Dublin. She most of 2010 off to enjoy more time with my daughters and Call 800-ECU-GRAD or visit was assistant director of finance for Duke University year-old granddaughter,” she said . PirateAlumni.com/jointoday Auxiliary Services. Dr. SHANNON TWIDDY in 2010 joined Southwestern Medical Clinic PC in Niles, Mich., as a family medicine practitioner. BOBBY

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RAY WOODARD received a doctorate in student Anniversary Team. A three-time first-team all-conference 1986 Management. ROBIN HARRIS was selected as Year. KAREN GORDON KLAICH was appointed affairs administration from the University of Georgia Pitt County teachers honored player, she was named CAA Player-of-the-Year for the 2009 recipient of the R.J. Reynolds Excellence to a two-year term on the N.C. Council on the CHERYL BATCHELOR was elected secretary of in August. He is director of facilities and services for 1990-91. She still ranks fourth on ECU’s career scoring in Teaching award for N.C. community colleges. Holocaust by Speaker of the House Joe Hackney. SETH BROWN ’04 was named Pitt the board of directors of the N.C. Nurses Association the Department of Campus Life at the University of list with 1,532 points and was inducted into the ECU She teaches nursing at College of the Albemarle. TOM ROBINSON is serving a two-year term as County Principal of the Year . CATHY for 2010-2011. She is executive director of Clinical Georgia. SUSIE ELANAH SYKES was promoted to Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005. ALISA R. MCLEAN Dr. JOSEPH “JOE” SUTTON was appointed chair of the Georgia Food Industry Association. He KIRKLAND ’90 ’04 was named Pitt Operations at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital manager of office services at McKinney in Durham. is the assistant superintendent of curriculum for the superintendent of education for the N.C. Department is vice president and COO of Harveys Supermarkets. County Assistant Principal of the Year . in Pinehurst. RAY GRAY was selected as the 2009 Alamance-Burlington School System. She was assistant of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He WILLIAM STOCKS is principal of Daniels Learning 1997 KIM JESSUP ’82 ’94 was named Pitt Dare County Schools Principal of the Year. He is director of the state’s Principals’ Executive Program. was retired as professor of special education and chair Center, Wilson County Schools alternative school. the principal at Cape Hatteras Elementary School. RAYMOND MABRY ’97 ’03, who played football at County Teacher of the Year . Teacher of of the Division of Special Education at Bob Jones He was assistant principal at Carnage G/T Magnet 1991 MARY KAY JAMES ’86 ’05 was named principal ECU, was inducted into West Craven High School’s Hall the Year finalists included JENNIFER University, Greenville, S.C. SUSAN TOLLEFSEN, Middle School in Raleigh. of Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro. She was of Fame. A ’94 graduate of West Craven, he co-captained COUNTERMAN ’81 ’86, HEATHER JESSE “JERRELL” BASS and his wife founded the an interior designer in Raleigh, was chosen the 2009 an assistant principal at Greenwood Middle School 1982 the football team, helped lead the Eagles to the state CRADDOCK LANDRETH ’04 ’07, nonprofit Wisdom of the Ages Worldwide Inc. winner of the web-based reality competition in Wayne County. ERIN KATHLEEN MALONE playoffs in three consecutive seasons, and played running (www.wotaw.com) to help widows and widowers. SARA WIGGINS is chiefNation’s of CURTIS JAY FOLTZ ’82 ’83 was named head PAMELA B. SILVERTHORNE ’92, and published her first book, back and wide receiver. He also advanced to the state DON CARLOS FLOWERS III wed Margaret policeNext Top for Model the Sharpsburg Home. Police Department. She was of the Georgia Ports Authority, where he was the EMILY DEANS WALKER ’02 . Pitt County Designing Social Interfaces: , meet in track and field four consecutive years and was Phillips Eagles on Aug. 29 at the home of the bride’s a lieutenant with the Nash County Sheriff ’s Office. COO. ZITA MARIE ROBERTS was honored by top elementary school teachers included Principles,about social Practices web design and Patterns principles. for the MARTHA User Experience senior class president. KEVIN and APRIL PARRISH parents. He is vice president of Principal Construction the Cleveland County Commission for Women at HOPE DAIL ’04, ANDREW KIEVIT ’96, ELIZABETH WEST joined the human resources 1984 had their second child, Haley Rose, on Sept. 16. Company in Greenville. STACEY HEDDLESTON the annual Distinguished Women’s Banquet. She is an management team at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church ALISON POORMAN MALLISON ’99 ’06, ROSE and her husband, Pete, returned to North ERNEST L. CONNER JR. joined the law firm of HIV case manager with the Cleveland County Health 1996 in Burnsville, Minn. She is also pursuing an MA in RODNEY MCNEILL ’04, MARY BETH Carolina from Ohio and live in North Raleigh with Graham, Nuckolls & Brown PLLC in Greenville. Department. WARREN YANCEY was promoted to theology at St. Catherine University. MICHAEL OVERTON of Coldwell Banker RIDDICK ’00, WILLA SUGG ’89 ’92, and their two daughters. She is a team leader with The corporate director of Aftermarket for VT-Specialized 1983 Commercial CoastalMark in Greenville graduated SONIA C. WILLIAMS ’79 . Pitt County top Pampered Chef. 1985 Vehicles Corp. in Washington, N.C. from the Coldwell Banker Commercial Emerging K-8 teachers included LOIS BARRETT Dr. LAURETHA T. HODGE became Past Grand 1990 JOHN D. DRAGONAS ’85 ’87 was promoted 1981 Broker Training program. BRUCE PANNETON Supervising Deputy for District 2, a state recognition ’83, SHANNON MALONEY ’94, A’MIA to investment specialist at MetLife. He was a ’96 ’02 received the 2009-2010 Keihin Endowed DAREN TYNDALL ’90 ’97, Warsaw Elementary prin- from the Order of the Eastern Star fraternal SANDY FARRELL joined Corporate Facility Services POPE ’04, and KAREN THOMPSON financial services executive at MetLife.BENJAMIN Faculty Chair at Edgecombe Community College. cipal, is Duplin County Schools Principal of the Year. organization. She retired from teaching and works with as project manager. She has 20 years of design and ’02 ’06 . Pitt County top middle ALEXANDER FOREMAN II joined Investors He is coordinator of the Quality Enhancement Plan, the Marion County Alternative School in Marion, space management experience with major companies in school teachers included KAREEM 1989 Trust Co. in Chapel Hill as vice president of sales. adjunct faculty liaison, and a member of the college’s S.C. LEE HOLDER, history teacher at Lenior High Research Triangle Park. He was senior regional director for Voyageur Asset Service Learning Committee, Recruiting Committee, ATKINSON ’97, JESSICA GEIGER ’05 LIZ SARGENT exhibited an experimental fibers School in Kinston, was selected as Teacher of the and Employee Wellness Committee. STU STORY ’06, and SANDRA L. MATTHEWS ’93 . installation, “A Nostalgia for Inertia,” at the Pinnacle of Charlotte was promoted to district manager of the Pitt County top high school teachers Gallery in Savannah, Ga. She is a fibers professor at Charlotte sales office of Administaff, Inc., a provider of included PRESTON BOWERS ’91, CATHY Savannah College of Art and Design. human resources services for small and medium-sized THORNE BYNUM ’02, FRAN GREEN ’03, 1988 businesses. TRACY H. STROUD joined Colombo, KELVIN SHACKLEFORD ’06 teacher CYNTHIA N. STALLINGS retired as an instruction- Kitchin, Dunn, Ball & Porter LLP in Greenville as licensure, and LISA ANN SMITH ’01 an associate attorney specializing in estate planning, al technology specialist after 33 years with the Perqui- litigation, business planning, real estate, and bankruptcy. mans County Schools in June and received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine for her service to the community. 1995 Student Services at Edgecombe Community College. BRYAN JOHN RAITHEL ’94 ’96 and his wife 1987 KRISTEN DAWN HOWARD of Atlanta was Collette had a second child, Jonathan Thomas “J.T.,” named vice president for sales and marketing for SYLVIA BRAGG ’87 was named to the Colonial on April 7. He is vice president of Raithel Investments Heritage Plank Floors of Maury. She was with Carlisle Athletic Association (CAA) Women’s Basketball Silver in Cornelius. LISA SANDERSON of Greenville was Wide Plank Floors in Atlanta. SONIA DENISE Anniversary Team. After the 1985-86 season, she was promoted to business account executive for eastern WOODARD of Kingsport, Tenn., graduated with the first student-athlete named CAA Player-of-the-Year North Carolina by U.S. Cellular. She was U.S. Cellular’s a master’s in biblical counseling from Southeastern as she averaged 13.4 points and 3.9 rebounds per game direct sales support specialist and financial services Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest. during the league’s first year of inception. She earned representative in North Carolina. all-conference honors three times, the first two of which 1994 1993 came during the ECAC-South era. She graduated as CHRISTINE P. ANDRÉ ’94 ’99 was named Onslow ECU’s fourth all-time leading scorer and currently VIRGINIA D. HARDY was appointed to a three- County Principal of the Year. She is the principal ranks ninth on the list. PAUL M. HOGGARD ’87 was year term on the Greenville Utilities board of of Swansboro High School. WILLIAM “BILLY” one of 51 coaches, one from each state and the District commissioners. She is vice provost of student affairs at CASHION joined Corporate Facility Services as senior of Columbia, selected to participate in the eighth ECU. Dr. WILLIAM T. SMITH joined Brookview project manager. Noted educator RON CLARK received annual NFL-USA Football Youth Football Summit in Hills Internal Medicine in Winston-Salem. He was the a special Christmas present from Oprah Winfrey, a Canton, Oh. He teaches and coaches in Rockingham owner of Premier Internal Medicine P.C. in Hickory. check for $1.5 million to support scholarships for County Schools. His wife, CATHY L. PIERCE underprivileged students at his Atlanta private school. 1992 HOGGARD ’84, was named the 2009 Cape Fear Area Coordinator of the Year for Special Olympics. She is Clark first met Winfrey in 2001 when he appeared on JENNI GARRIS joined Edgecombe Community the local coordinator for SONC-Richmond County. her show after being named Disney’s Teacher of the Year. College as Datatel administrator. She was the assistant RANDY NEWMAN was promoted to superintendent CLIFF OGBURN ’94 ’98 was appointed Nags Head’s system administrator at Beaufort County Community of Ft. Macon State Park in Carteret County. He was a town manager. He served as interim town manager and College. TONYA HARGROVE was named to the veteran ranger at the park. was the town’s deputy town manager. SAMANTHIA Colonial Athletic Association Women’s Basketball Silver PHILLIPS was selected as a counselor in the Office of

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Alumni Spotlight 1980 Year. MONIKA FLEMING ’76 ’85 became program coordinator of the historic preservation trades MARGIE JONES GOODING ’80 ’84 was installed program at Edgecombe Community College. She was as the 2009-2010 governor of N.C. District East Catching up, chair of the English department and college transfer Civitan, a volunteer organization of clubs dedicated to by e-mail, coordinator at ECC. serving individuals with developmental disabilities. with Jennifer 1975 Renquist ’03, 1979 who studied DONNA PRICE HARRELL joined the staff of EDWIN L. CLARK JR. was elected to the board business Coldwell Banker Coastal Rivers Realty in Greenville of directors of Select Bancorp. He is executive vice management The ECU Athletics Hall of Fame inducted five new members in 2009: former baseball and after retiring with more than 30 years as a family and president of WilcoHess. WILTON THOMAS at East basketball letterman VINCE COLBERT, former sprinter DANITA ROSEBORO-CRUMPLER consumer sciences teacher. SUSAN MASON exhibited FINCH ’79 ’93 is assistant superintendent for Carolina . ’93, former softball All-America ISONETTE POLONIUS ’99 ’01, former NAIA All-America at administrative services of Wilson County Schools. He swimmer THOMAS CARROLL ’61 ’62, and former head football coach . theWild North Portraits—Local Carolina Aquarium Flora of Back in Pine Roads Knoll and BeachesShores. Where did served in that same position for Nash-Rocky Mount you go after 1973 Schools. ANN KENT ’79 ’87 was appointed interim graduation? program chair of developmental studies at Edgecombe championships and coached in three regional finals. He 1977 guided the Eagles to 19 playoff appearances. Under JESS ROPER MCLAMB, founder and president Community College. The firm of LOUIS W. CHERRY, Cherry Huffman I completed his tutelage, 51 West Craven football players went on of The Roper Group Inc., was named a Sam Walton Architects of Raleigh, was named 2009 firm of the my MA in 1978 to play college football. Three, George Koonce, Jesse Emerging Entrepreneur by the Sam’s Club Foundation year by AIA North Carolina. The award is presented International Campbell, and Anthony Wright, went to the NFL. and Count Me In. The Roper Group was also named PAUL JOHN ALAR’s hedge fund, West Mountain to a firm that has an established presence in the state Human Rights MICHAEL “MIKE” PAIT joined Daston Corp. as as a 2009 Top 100 Business by Business Leader Media. Partners LP, in Atlanta, was named the number one and has consistently produced quality architecture Law at the vice president of business development. He worked at The Roper Group provides QuickBooks training and Emerging Manager Fund by magazine. After with a verifiable level of client satisfaction for a period American InvestHedge Koniag Services, an Alaska-native-owned IT solutions bookkeeping services to small businesses. BOBBY working at Bear Stearns, Oppenheimer, and Deutsche of at least 10 years. GWEN JOHNSON was named University in company. JEAN BYRD WALL retired in July as a PARKER SHEARIN retired as warden in Cumberland, Banc, he started his fund in 2002. CLAY JORDAN Durham Public Schools’ Principal of the Year. She has Cairo in June social work supervisor in foster care/adoptions from Md., after 30 years with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. was inducted into the West Craven High School Hall been principal of Mangum High School since 2004. 2007 . I also of Fame where he was the head football coach until New Hanover County Department of Social Services. 1972 completed his retirement in 2008 after leading West Craven to its She and husband, Billy, reside in Wilmington and are 1976 a graduate Pirate Club representatives with the Cape Fear Pirate Dr. TERRY GRIER ’72 ’74 ’77 ’80 is superintendent first-ever appearance in a state championship game in EMILY ANDREWS ’76 ’03, Jones Middle School diploma Club chapter. of the Houston Independent School District. He was 2008. As head coach he won 253 games, 16 conference teacher, is the 2009-2010 Jones County Teacher of the superintendent of Unified School District. in forced migration 1971 and refugee Rev. TERRY LEE ROWLAND was appointed minister studies . I was of Trinity United Methodist Church in Lexington. in Cairo for almost three years and absolutely loved it . OF YOUR NEWS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS While I was studying in Cairo I assisted asylum-seekers from 1964 many African nations in documenting their refugee status Complete this form (please print or type) and mail to: Class Notes Editor, Building 198, Mail Stop 108, East Carolina University, RONNIE ROSS, former coach and athletics director with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . I also had the privilege of running a student organization which Greenville, NC 27858-4353; or fax to ­252-328-4269 . Please use additional paper as necessary when sending your news . You at Swansboro High School, was honored when Make a Note the Swansboro Century Club named the school’s provided literacy classes for refugees . also can e-mail your news to ecuclassnotes@ecu edu. . While East happily prints wedding announcements, it is our policy not to print ­engagement announcements . Also, when listing alumni in your news, please include their class year . refurbished baseball complex Ronnie Ross Field. I came back to the U .s . in the summer of 2007 and began looking for jobs . I was very close to going back out to Please send address changes or corrections to: Kay Murphy, Office of University Development, Greenville Center, East Carolina 1965 or the Middle East to do humanitarian work but felt an urge University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353, fax: 252-328-4904, or e-mail: murphyk@ecu edu. . MARIA KOONCE has published two books: to gain a better understanding of how the U .s . government about her experiencesLoving as worked in the field of international development . thean exchangeGringo, A studentBicultural and Life, meeting her husband, and Six What are you doing in Washington? NAME First Middle Last Maiden a tongue-in-cheek play where the six Tudorwives ofQueens, Henry VIII meet in modern times to discuss I work for the State Department in the Office of the U .s . Global AIDS Coordinator . I am a program officer and Country CLASS year e-MAIL DAY PHONE EVENING PHONE their lives and impressions of the king. Support Team Lead for the Caribbean region and . 1960 Although public health is not my “raison d’être” I have learned ADDRESS CITY STATe ziP JOHN SYKES was inducted into the Twin County an extraordinary amount about public policy, HIV/AIDS and Hall of Fame (Edgecombe and Nash Counties). how the bureaucracy of the U .s . government and its many YOUR NEWS He directed junior and senior high school bands in agencies and bureaus work together to implement and make Rocky Mount for 30 years. His bands performed for international policy . a U.S. President, for two Orange Bowls and in the I was accepted into the USAID Foreign Service in the Tournament of Roses, and won three Grand National Democracy, Crisis and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) Championships. Bureau . I believe my title will be as a Crisis, Democracy and 1954 Stabilization Officer . I am really looking forward to beginning this chapter in the fall and getting back into the democracy Campbell University named its football field in honor building/human rights field, although honestly, considering the of EDWARD M. GORE, long-time friend and broad scope, I do not know exactly what that will entail for me . benefactor of the university. I also don’t know where I will be posted yet .

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1930s from a textile management career with Burlington builder, he was an educator, retiring from Hugo A. ’95 of Stoneville died Oct. 2. He was a Mason and Significant Contributions to the Preservation of North died Aug. 31. He taught political science from Industries, Olympia Industries, and Monsanto. Owens Middle School in Chesapeake as a technology member of the Masonic Lodge in Greenville. Carolina History. In 2007 Sparrow was presented 1986 to 1991. LUCILE G. ANDERSON ’35 of Tarboro died JAMES E. THIGPEN ’57 of Carolina Beach died integration specialist in 2008. LYNETTE HAISLIP with the Roberts Award for his role in establishing the Feb. 5. EMMA DAUGHTRY BENNETT ’38 2000s Col. EDWARD EARL HOLLOWELL of Cary Aug. 2. He held band and choral teaching positions in BOWERS ’79 of Bethel died Sept. 27. She worked celebrated and in 2008, of Newport News, Va., died Oct. 16. LAURA died Nov. 9. He was an adjunct professor of medical N.C. and Va. He also taught in Japan, , England with her husband, Bob, for many years at the Bethel RYAN LEE CHURCH ’06 of Wilmington died Oct. the North NorthCarolina Carolina Society Literary of Historians’ Review History ELIZABETH BORDEAUX ’34 ’35 of Wilmington jurisprudence and affiliate professor of medical and Turkey before retiring to Wilmington. At ECC Pharmacy. BEVERLY MARIE NEELY BRUCE ’77 7. He worked for Pages Creek Marine. RACHEL Book Award for his edition of died Oct. 10. She taught school for a number of years jurisprudence at the Brody School of Medicine and he was pianist for The Collegians and sang in Men’s of Weddington died Aug. 17. She was an elementary HARDEE KLITZMAN ’05 of Philadelphia died The First of Patriots and and later retired as a civil service employee at Camp taught in the School of Allied Health Sciences from Glee Club, College Singers, and College Choir. art teacher in Charlotte and later opened Studiobev, Aug. 9. She was an orthopedic trauma nurse at the Best Uponof Men: his The retirement, Public Life the of RichardECU Board Caswell. of Trustees Lejeune, Jacksonville. ANNIE AVA TURNAGE ’35 1977 to 1987. The Brody School of Medicine’s annual WILLIAM ALLEN WEATHINGTON JR. ’57 of her professional artist’s studio. TERRY WAYNE Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. JOHN named the college’s Bate Building conference room in ’50 ’51 of Fredericksburg, Va., died Sept. 21 at the medical jurisprudence conference was renamed the Winterville died Oct. 20. A Korean Army War veteran, COCKMAN ’77 of Carolina Beach died Aug. 30. EDWARD “EDDIE” OGBURN ’03 of Raleigh his honor, and his department chairs, faculty, and other age of 93. A published poet, she taught in Snow Hill Edward E. Hollowell Health Law Forum in his honor. he was a former co-owner of Weathington’s Clover He was the corporate comptroller of Remington died Aug. 29. He worked at the SAS Institute. supporters created an endowment to support the W. schools for 41 years and was named Outstanding Farm. RUBY JACKSON SMITH WINSLOW of Apparel and CFO/COO of Flow Sciences Inc. MSgt. BRIAN K. PULLIAM ’07 of Raleigh died Feb. 12, Keats Sparrow Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts, Educator of the Year in 1970. ROGER ALLEN HORNSBY of Iowa City, Iowa, Asheboro died Sept. 30. Retired in 1984, she taught ERIC KEEN KORNEGAY ’76 of Fountain, Colo., 2009. A member of Theta Chi , he worked an honorary title to be held by all subsequent Harriot died Oct. 20. He was the Whichard Distinguished 1940s first grade in North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee died Aug. 30. He retired from the Army after more at Syngenta BioTechnology Inc. Dr. ELIZABETH College deans. Professor at ECU in 1997-98 and emeritus professor for more than 30 years. than 20 years and then drove trucks long distance. “BETH” T. QUICK ’00 of St. Petersburg, Fl., died of classics at the University of Iowa. MARGIE BAKER COX ’42 of Newport News, Va., Paul J. Hartley Jr., a well-regarded painter JAMES PLATANIA ’73 of Raleigh died Oct. 3. A Oct. 15. She was a physician at Johnnie Ruth Clark died Aug. 23. Thomas Stuart Tripp ’45 ’48 1960s and ECU art professor for the past 35 years, died veteran, he designed energy efficient lighting Community Health Center. Dr. ROBERT B. DITTON of College Station, Tex., died Sept. 8 in Wilmington. He was 86 and had been Thanksgiving Day after a 14-month fight against LOUISE JONES GURKIN ’65 of Washington systems for commercial businesses as the founder/ died Oct. 30. He was a visiting adjunct professor an educator for 42 years, mostly in his hometown of cancer. Hartley, who was 65, had retired in August. Art died Aug. 19 at 100. She taught English and Latin at owner of Task Lighting Co. JIMMIE RICHARD at ECU from 2003-2007 in the coastal resources Ayden. As a freshman in 1941, he played center on FACULTY professor Scott Eagle, one of Hartley’s former pupils, Washington High School for 21 years before retiring WILLIFORD ’71 ’73 of Portsmouth, Va., died management doctoral program. the football team that was untied and undefeated. He said Hartley spoke so rarely and so quietly that those in 1974. MOZELLE RICKS GURLEY ’62 died Oct. 21. He served Portsmouth Public Schools for was an outstanding high school coach who produced Dr. Christine Wilton in his class often leaned forward to hear his every word. Sept. 21 at 92. An elementary school teacher at 36 years as a coach, teacher, assistant principal, and two consecutive state championship basketball teams. Helms, who taught biology “He had an amazing ability to simply show up at the STAFF and friends Nahunta School for 20 years, she became director supervisor of health, physical education, and athletics Scholarships have been established in his honor at ECU from 1940 until her retirement in right time whenever you needed help with anything, and of elementary education for Wayne County Public for all schools in Portsmouth. WILLIAM DAVID ELIZABETH CHEATHAM DUNCAN of Greenville and Ayden Grifton High School. Upon retirement as 1971, died Sept. 23 in Greenville. he knew what you needed,” Eagle said. Hartley favored Schools for 19 years. BONNIE LEIGH BURCH WINSTEAD ’77 of Enfield died Sept. 21. He was an died Aug. 20 at 95. She was a clinical psychologist with principal of Ayden Elementary, he was elected as town A professor emeritus, she was 102. mixed-media paintings combining oil, acrylic, and HICKS ’62 of Walstonburg died Sept. 27. She was organist for several churches in the area. the Rehabilitation Center of Pitt County Memorial commissioner and served in that capacity for eight years. The widow of the late Marshall vice president and secretary of Farmers Oil Co. collage. Many of his works featured carefully rendered Hospital and the Developmental Evaluation Clinic at 1980s Helms, a professor emeritus who everyday objects such as a lemon slice, egg, or leaf 1950s HELEN SMITH KLARPP ’62 of Jacksonville died taught physics here from 1948 ECU’s Brody School of Medicine. Her husband, the late Sept. 3. She taught for the Camp Lejeune Independent SUZANNE BARNES SCOTT BAILEY ’83 of painted over an abstract background, making the image George Vernon Bagley Sr. ’59 died Dec. until 1972, she participated in research during World Fitzhugh Durham Duncan, taught administration and Schools for 33 years, retiring as principal of Berkeley Kenly died Aug. 18. She taught in Johnston County appear to float out from the canvas. Some of Hartley’s 8 in Williamston. He was 73. He owned Bagley’s War II to develop an American source of agar, a finance from 1936 to 1970 at ECU. Manor in 1988. RALPH FRANKLIN SULLIVAN Public Schools for 30 years and was instrumental in paintings hang in the collections of the Weatherspoon Equipment Co. and other concerns. He was past seaweed extract critical for bacteriological research that Dr. KAREL B. ABSOLON of Rockville, Md., died JR. ’69 of Garner died Oct. 7. He owned the Archery the founding and continued growth of what became Art Museum in Greensboro and the Southeastern president of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and was then was available only in Japan. Unmarried for many Oct. 2. A former chief of surgery at Washington Shop in Garner and was a retired construction the Tobacco Farm Life Museum. SAMUEL “SAM” Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, as a devoted member of the ECU Pirate Club. He is years, she lived in Erwin Hall, which was constructed Hospital Center who later worked at the National superintendent. Rev. ROGER E. THOMPSON ’60 RICHARD BOYD ’82 of Salisbury died Oct. 6. He well as numerous private collections. thought to be among the first purple-wig wearing for faculty housing, and planted the landscaping that Institutes of Health, he donated his 2,300-volume of Laurel Hill died Sept. 25. He was a Methodist worked for Phillip-Morris for 27 years as a supervisor. football fans. He was a county commissioner, a still surrounds the building. SARA MAGDALENE STOREY BATTEN of library of history and medical history to ECU, which minister serving many churches in North Carolina. JON KENNETH CARPENTER ’83 of Concord member of the county Economic Development Greenville died Nov. 16 at 94. She worked in Joyner also named an annual history of medicine lecture in CELIA HALL WILLIS ’62 of New Bern died Oct. died Sept. 5. With CRTS in Statesville, he was a sales W. Keats Sparrow, dean Commission, a Jaycee, a Rotarian, and Shriner. He Library from 1960 to 1977. She was married to the his honor, the Karel B. Absolon Lecture in the History 22 at 90. During more than 30 years in education, representative for western North Carolina. Lt. Col. emeritus of the Thomas Harriot was a local director of both BB&T and Wachovia. late Dr. James W. Batten, who taught in the English of Medicine and Surgery. He gave the inaugural lecture she taught typing and shorthand at New Bern High LOIS M. DIGGS ’85 of Jericho died Oct. 8. She was College of Arts and Sciences, died Lt. Col. DAVID VANCE BANNERMAN ’51 of department from 1960 to 1989. in 2001. School, was a supervisor and later principal at both commander of the Vermont Air National Guard. Ltc. Nov. 11. He was 67. He held AB Chesapeake, Va., died Oct. 12. A Korean and Vietnam James City and Brinson Memorial schools, retiring ALEXANDER TUNNEL JENNETTE JR. ’85 of and MA degrees from East GEORGE PASTI JR. of Shelburne, Vt., died Oct. 10. War veteran, he retired as a pilot with the U.S. Air MARY ISHAM RANDOLPH LEIGH of Mount from the latter in 1981. Washington, N.C., died Aug. 17. His 23 years in the Carolina College, where he was a He served in the Navy and Navy Reserves, 1942 to Force. DARRELL MILTON BOYD SR. ’58 of Crawford, Va., died Oct. 19 at 92. She was the former Army included two tours of duty in Vietnam, Korea, member of Sigma Nu fraternity, 1952, and in the Air Force Reserves, 1958 to 1972. A Walnut Cove died Sept. 5. After retiring from the city 1970s wife of James Edward Poindexter who taught English and other stateside assignments. He retired in June and a PhD in English from the visit to Nagasaki, seven days after the atom bomb was of Greensboro as manager of operations in 1987, at ECU from 1951 to 1966. GREGORY LEGRAND BENNETT ’74 of 1978. DR. THOMAS FRANCIS KELLEY III ’83 University of Kentucky. Before his appointment as dropped, influenced his opposition to nuclear war and he owned and operated Boyd’s Home Improvement. Colington Harbour died Sept. 21. On the Outer of Charlotte died Aug. 15. He worked at the Sanger dean in 1990, he had served as chair of the sparked a lifelong interest in Asian cultures. He taught ALLEAN R. TAYLOR of Greenville died Aug. 16. JAMES EDWARD JENKINS ’56 of Sneads Ferry Banks, he owned Birthday Suits, a nationally Clinic from 1989 until 2008. Department of English. He was a specialist in early social studies at ECU from 1950 to 1967 and later at She retired from ECU after 33 years. died Sept. 3. He was a Marine and was principal recognized four-store chain of swim- and beachwear. North Carolina literature and technical and SUNY Plattsburgh, where he was dean of the faculty for Jones Senior High School, Hamlet Junior High 1990s WILLIAM HENRY “CHIEF” BAKER JR. of He was a volunteer basketball and softball coach professional writing and published many articles and of social sciences and vice president of academic affairs. School, Graham High School, and Clinton High Greenville died Aug. 30. He retired as a supervisor and referee for Dare County Parks and Recreation. MARY LEATH CUSHMAN KIMBERLY books in those fields. He served as president of the School. ANN WILSON MARTIN ’59 died Jan. 24 HANNAH FRANCES DANIELS of Greenville died from ECU Facilities Services after 20 years and served JULIA ELIZABETH STATON BENNETT ’72 ’91 of Gloucester, Va., died Oct. 7. She taught Pitt County Historical Society and the N.C. Literary in Mt. Olive. She worked for the Durham County Oct. 4. She earned BS and MA degrees from ECTC, in the U.S. Navy for 22 years. of Raleigh died Oct. 23. She retired as professor and English at a number of schools and worked at the and Historical Association. Department of Social Services and later was founder later earned a doctorate at the University of Tennessee, chair of the art department of Mount Olive College in Gloucester County Library. SARAH ELIZABETH He won the 1982 National Council of Teachers ROBERT L. THOMPSON of Greenville died Sept. and proprietor of Ann’s Flower Shoppe in Mt. Olive. and taught business, vocational, and technical 1987. CLIFTON A. BERNARD ’71 of Chesapeake, KONJECZNY ’98 of Charlotte died Sept. 6. She was of English book award, the 1998 Award of Excellence 21. He worked for 21 years in the ECU Grounds JERRY ALLEN SHORT ’58 of Yorktown, Va., died education at ECU from 1956 to 1988, retiring as Va., died Oct. 16. He was president and CEO of a senior brand designer for Rubbermaid Food Service. for his term as President of the ECU Chapter of the Department. Oct. 11. He retired from the Army at Ft. Monroe. professor emeritus. Bernard Builders Ltd., which built custom homes in CONSTANCE NOEL PALMER ’98 of Raleigh died academic of Phi Kappa Phi, and the ROBERT STEPHEN TERRY ’58 of Gulf Breeze, VERTA BLACK MANNING of Charlotte died June Hampton Roads. to and after his career as a Oct. 27. ROBERT “STAN” STANFORD SMITH 2001 Christopher Crittenden Memorial Award for DANIEL F. HARKINS III of Claymont, Del., Fla., died Aug. 30. A Navy veteran, he retired in 1993 30. She worked for ECU Student Health for 30 years.

54 55 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

The Class of 1930 intramural basketball A rchives University champions

They played like girls The history of organized sports at East softball and tennis teams. Soon, there were ally until the cup was retired when the Class Carolina dates to 1912 when several 10 intramural basketball teams and tennis of 1930 team won it three years in a row. women students met to form the Athletic was played so often that it was hard to find Volleyball was added to the women’s Association and organize intramural an open court in the afternoon. sports program in 1916, and archery soon events for basketball, tennis and cross- A basketball tournament on Thanksgiving afterwards. All athletics were suspended in country walking. At the time the sum total Day 1914 was so successful that the the fall of 1918 due to the war effort and of campus sports facilities consisted of administration decided to make it an annual later by the influenza epidemic. Athletics 10 outdoor tennis courts, two outdoor event, along with another one in January resumed the next fall. By 1931, male basketball courts and plenty of dirt roads for and a major Field Day tournament in May. enrollment was great enough to compete walking. There were no coaches or phys ed “During the entire year sustained interest in intercollegiate games, but the women teachers on staff, so the students had to do has been shown in basketball and a number continued to play on an intramural-only everything themselves. of match games have been played,” the basis well into the 1950s. “The greatest need…is not so much a reported. “Thanksgiving Day was the climaxTSQ For nearly 40 years the Athletic Association gymnasium as a physical instructor, who of the fall athletics” when the seniors beat and the campus YWCA—along with the can devote her whole time to the work and the juniors, 10-2. Recapping that game, the Poe and Lanier literary societies—dominated use the outdoor gymnasium at hand,” the said the seniors exhibited “level heads, student life. The Y took charge of religious association pleaded in the winter 1914 issue beautifulTSQ team work, zeal and determination.” services and ran the student store. The of the ( ). Training School Quarterly TSQ At the first Field Day basketball tournament, Athletic Association, which was considered The students organized the association the juniors avenged their Thanksgiving loss to the fun bunch, managed all the sports, staged into two divisions, the Athenians and the the seniors. The faculty awarded a loving cup a formal dance and took its members on an Olympians. Each division fielded basketball, to the juniors, a practice that continued annu- expense-paid weekend trip to Atlantic Beach.

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Some graduates were bubbling over with enthusiasm at Fall Commencement. Photograph by Cliff Hollis