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Volume 8, Number 1 B63;7AA7<5AC;;3@7AAC3 Nevertheless, the concept of “university” is published four times a year by [as] the repository of all knowledge expands @SOREast ]\ZW\SOb East East Carolina University We sent an e-mail to in!nitely out to cyber space. eeeSQcSRcSOab Thanks for your help Division of University Advancement about 22,000 At this time a year ago, East Carolina was recording its best-ever year in 2200 South Charles Blvd. — fund raising, with about $37 million in new private giving to the university. Greenville, NC 27858 alumni and friends in Stephanie ScarboroughFuquay-Varina Ashworth ’73, With the onset of the worst recession in decades, few expected ECU would mid-May alerting be able to match that level of philanthropy this year, but it did. Total new them that, because of Thanks for the great job that you all do in dollars $owing into ECU’s three foundations reached $38 million at the i the state budget crisis, producing a beautiful magazine, which is the summer issue of such a grand tribute to ECU! end of the !scal year on June 30, a new record. The worst of times, it EDITOR East would not be — Kinston seems, brings out the best in many people. AbSdSBcbbZS¸' Anne McCutcheon ’69, # ! & $&bcbbZSa.SQcSRc printed. The e-mail I was impressed by that accomplishment and wanted to know why it I appreciate the magazine and the e"ort directed readers to the magazine’s web site, where happened. I wondered why so many alumni and friends, even as their stocks ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER y’all are putting forth. I see a lot of alumni/ they could read the new issue and even download tanked and their 401Ks sank, still managed to send a check to their alma 0`S\b0c`QV university magazines over the last handful of a copy. Because of technical snags, the e-mail did mater. I asked writer Marion Blackburn to nose around and !nd out why. years and am very happy with what you’ve PHOTOGRAPHER not reach everyone, but several who did see the note done at ECU. Her report, which begins on page 12, o"ers a surprisingly simple answer. 4]``Sab1`]QS took the time to respond with their comments: — Chehalis, Wash. 6]eR]7acPaQ`WPS- It just makes people feel good when they see their money going to help How disappointing that the only Patrick O’Neil ’89, COPY EDITOR I’m absolutely OK with this. I actually AS\ROQVSQYb]bVS31C4]c\RObW]\ a current student. Many of today’s donors struggled to pay for college 8W[[g@]abO`¸'" communication tool the university has with prefer to read this type of stu" online 6]e[cQVWac^b]g]cPcbeSacUUSab themselves. They know from experience that a scholarship, even a small its alumni can’t be sent out because of the O[W\W[c[]T #G]c`US\S`]aWbgWa one, can mean the di"erence between staying in school—and being able to CONTRIBUTING WRITERS state budget crisis. versus on paper. O^^`SQWObSR a"ord all the textbooks plus three squares a day—or going home. ;O`W]\0ZOQYPc`\2]cU0]gR Dallas, Texas — Winterville ■ # ! &'## 0SbVO\g0`ORaVS`8W[[g@]abO` —Tom Zielinski ’81, Christian K. Robinson ’02, ■ eeeSQcSRcRSdb Unlike Carolina with its Morehead-Cain scholarships and N.C. State AbSdS@]eA^OW\SAbS^VS\a In the future, save the money for other Isn’t it unrealistic to expect state funds ■ UWdS SQc.SQcSRc with its Park scholarships, ECU doesn’t have a prestigious, well-endowed university needs because most of us can go to pay for the magazine’s publication? 8]W\bVS/Zc[\W/aa]QWObW]\O\R`SQSWdS CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS online and read to stay informed. It’s a nice, Isn’t the magazine something that should OacPaQ`W^bW]\OaeSZZOa]bVS`PS\S¿ba scholarship program bearing the name of a wealthy alumnus. It mostly 8Og1ZO`Y@]P5]ZRPS`U O\RaS`dWQSa;W\W[c[RcSaO`S!# relies on hundreds of smaller donors to fund its two largest scholarship 1ZWTT6]ZZWa;WYS:WbeW\5ZS\\AWRSa well done publication but the magazine be !nancially supported by dues and/or ■ &31C5@/2 programs, the East Carolina Scholars and the Access Scholarships. But usually hits the recycle bin the next day after I other grants/gifts, maybe even appropriate ■ eee^W`ObSOZc[\WQ][ ■ OZc[\W.>W`ObS/Zc[\WQ][ philanthropy is more personal here; if you support an Access Scholarship, CLASS NOTES EDITOR receive it, which is a terrible waste. Use e-mails commercial advertising? :SO\\S3ZWhOPSbVA[WbV¸"¸$ which you can do for only $20,000, you get to meet the student who, like this one to alert us that new articles, etc. — Sarasota, Fla. 8]W\bVS>W`ObS1ZcPO\RUSbbVS SQcQZOaa\]bSa.SQcSRc Robert Blake ’66, [OUOhW\SOaeSZZOa]bVS`PS\S¿ba but for your help, probably wouldn’t be here, and hear them say thanks have been posted and save the mailing cost. You have a great publication that has been O^^`SQWObSRPga^]`baTO\a;W\W[c[RcSa in very personal terms. This year there will be 77 Access scholars, and all ADMINISTRATION — Raleigh O`S%# Gary Rabon ’76, well received and will be missed by many ■ # ! &"#" of them have taken the opportunity to thank the people who made their ;WQVSZZSAZ]O\ I haven’t !nished reading the in pdf who just are never going to be able to ■ eeeSQc^W`ObSQZcPQ][ scholarships possible. i format yet. It is beautiful, as always,East but condition themselves to read a magazine o" ■ Q]\bOQb.SQc^W`ObSQZcPQ][ their computer screen. The state budget crisis is placing an even greater burden on ECU’s fund ASSISTANT VICE CHANCELLOR there is some satisfaction lost by not holding 1]\bOQbca FOR UNIVERSITY MARKETING the magazine in my hands. Thank you for — ECU director of athletics ■ # ! & $& raising. Reduced state appropriations, which had provided just 36 percent Terry Holland, of the university’s budget, are being concentrated on the classroom, so 1ZW\b0OWZSg your hard work and a wonderful job! ■ SOabSRWb]`.SQcSRc ■ eeeSQcSRcSOab there’s no state money for any academic extras. Philanthropy must make up — Robersonville A>=@BA;/<:7931=<2C1B Donna W. Roberson ’91, Thanks for including the photo of Jerry 1cab][S`AS`dWQS the di"erence. Even before the recession it was estimated ECU would need I think this is a great protocol for all future B]abO`b]`ab]^OacPaQ`W^bW]\ East Carolina University is a constituent institution of McGee ’65 and me from the BCS National ]`b]ZSbcaY\]eOP]cbOQVO\US]T one billion dollars in funding above its state budget in the next 15–20 The University of North Carolina. It is a public doctoral/ editions of It’s a beautiful, glossy, high- East. Championship Game in the summer issue. ORR`Saa^ZSOaSQ]\bOQb:WaO5c`YW\ years to attain the university’s goals. research intensive university o"ering baccalaureate, master’s, color product in hard-copy, but traditional Uc`YW\Z.SQcSRc]` # ! &'#$ specialist and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts, sciences It was a blessing and real privilege to have That’s a lot of money, but no one here is afraid of the challenge. Not when and professional !elds, including medicine. 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Redshirt sophomore pitcher Toni Paisley was area Wednesdays through Saturdays from 10 Marianna Walker, associate professor of along Fifth Street to the cupola in the center named the Conference USA Female Athlete- p.m. until 3 a.m. Police also increased foot communication sciences and disorders in of the campus, where they were joined by 15 of-the-Year, the !rst time that an East patrols in the downtown area. the College of Allied Health Sciences, was members of the Blackley family, including Carolina athlete in any sport has won the Annual statistical reports prepared by the elected chair of the ECU faculty for the Laura Dean ’82 and Lennie Blackley ’78, award. Paisley shares the annual recognition campus police, which are required by law, 2009–2010 academic year. This is the !rst Landon’s parents. The family lives in Bullock, with Tulane volleyball player Sara Radosevic. show a decline in the number of most time a faculty member from the College which is in Granville County. This is the !rst time the conference selected criminal o"enses. There have been no of Allied Health Sciences has held this co-female athletes-of-the-year. His father thanked those who came to the murders or negligent homicides on campus position. Walker is the Barbara W. Bremer A native of Lakewood, Calif., she will return memorial vigil, describing his son as “…the in at least three years, the reports indicate. Distinguished Professor in Language for her junior year already ranked among Learning and Literacy Disorders, the !rst ECU’s career leaders in pitching appearances, endowed professor in the College of Allied Derek Alderman, associate professor in the Teresa Parent, a nurse in the thoracic wins, strikeouts and shutouts. Nationally, she Health Sciences. Department of Geography, was selected oncology clinic at the Leo W. Jenkins !nished this season ranked seventh in wins, as the ECU recipient of the annual UNC Cancer Center, is the 2009 Brody School of 11th in ERA, 16th in strikeouts, 26th in Board of Governors Award for Excellence Medicine nurse of the year. She works with saves and 30th in shutouts (9). in Teaching. Alderman, who has authored a patients newly diagnosed with lung cancer She showed talent early on. As a freshman, book and more than 40 journal articles, is a to help them understand their disease and she struck out 15 batters in an away game nationally known expert on the politics of treatment plans. naming streets and other public places after against UNC Wilmington. She was !rst or Marching Pirates Band Director Christopher Martin Luther King Jr. The honor comes second in every conference pitching statistic Knighten resigned to become director with a commemorative bronze medal and a that year. Injuries ended her sophomore of the University of Arkansas Athletic $7,500 cash prize. Six faculty members were season after just seven games. In those games Bands. Knighten, an Arkansas native, had she posted a 4–1 record and a 1.96 earned selected for the 2009 Board of Governors Pediatrics professor Tom Irons, director led the Marching Pirates since 1993. The run average and struck out 30. Distinguished Professor for Teaching Awards: of ECU’s generalist physician program and Razorback Marching Band was formed in Michael Harris, Jeannie Golden, Mark She will return for her junior season in 2010 associate vice chancellor for regional health 1874 and is one of the oldest collegiate Richardson, John Howard, Sue Steinweg ranked among the ECU career leaders in services, was the featured speaker at spring bands in the nation. and Linda Mooney. Each recipient received pitching appearances, wins, strikeouts and graduation exercises at the Brody School of shutouts. $1,000 from the UNC system. Assistant Athletics Director for Medical Medicine. 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Last year, the Pirate Club raised $5.4 million combined gifts of $100,000 and more. The to be involved on campus, to join the Pirate husband took part in the Leo W. Jenkins Society, with about 100 in unrestricted giving, a record for the club, reconnect with “Knowing that one Club and the Alumni Association, and to be early stages of planning and $8.9 million in total giving. Membership person could make a members, recognizes those who have made an advocate for ECU.” the gift. “He knew he reached 13,531, another record. This giving di"erence gave us a lot a planned gift. A planned gift includes any wanted to do this,” she funded scholarships for roughly 450 student Old friends are making new gifts, too. The ECU, we of con!dence to do it,” kind of contribution that is made after a says. “This is something athletes, as well as capital improvements and Alumni Association, under the leadership Lamont Wooten says. person’s death, and includes bequests in wills, that will last.” life insurance policies, real estate or other other athletic-related needs. The scholarships of Paul J. Cli"ord, has intensi!ed its can share “Even with a small lab, bequest. The Chancellors’ Society recognizes include Gibbs’ women’s basketball endow ment, outreach to alumni and they’ve responded. The activities of the one person can come up annual gifts of $1,000 or more. as well as a golf endowment and others. The association currently has about 5,900 Wooten Lab are with a great discovery.” members, but there is a goal to increase coordinated by an advisory Mark Wharton ’93, executive director of our treasure. Sabrina Bengel, who “We would like for all true Pirates to end up that number to as high as 10,000. There board that includes Bob —Sabrina Bengel the Pirate Club, says athletics and academics %&'()*'+, ,'-. %')/0(+' attended ECU in the in one of these societies,” says William Clark, is renewed emphasis on giving as part of Lust, chair, Dr. Lamont go hand in hand at ECU. “We’re the front '01*+( '--/%('.(/+ 2/')3 1970s and is now ’69 ’73, president of the ECU Foundation. greater overall engagement. Wooten, son of Drs. porch of the university,” he says. “ When you completing her degree “Not everybody is able to give in a lifetime at John and Harriet Wooten can see Pirate sports on national TV, you “ECU alumni are the most loyal in the online, serves as chair of the $100,000 mark, but everybody is able to who is also a physician, can’t put a price tag on the exposure and the country,” Cli"ord says. “Other schools enjoy the alumni association leave something behind. When you’re thinking and Qun Lu, along with publicity. It builds a lot of excitement among loyalty for their athletics or other marquee board. She and her about leaving something for those you love, other scientists. Lu is an people from all over the country. The bigger programs but at ECU our alumni are husband own New Bern we hope you’ll include East Carolina.” associate professor in the our program, the more exposure the total passionate about all aspects of our university, Tours, and she operates Department of Anatomy To accommodate these levels of giving, university gets, and from there, people realize from athletics to the arts to our world-class several other businesses and Cell Biology. “The the university has strengthened the systems how great our university is, and people want medical school. When it comes to making in that historic city. Wooten gift is the !rst and sta" overseeing contributions of all to be a part of it.” gifts, that loyalty generates tremendous She believes alumni can private contribution to kinds. Its endowment investments are held support for scholarships and program share their talent, time Wharton hopes the Second Century ECU devoted to studying by three foundations: the ECU Foundation development.” or other “treasure.” (supporting academic programs); the ECU Campaign raises funds needed for planned the basic, molecular and Medical & Health Sciences Foundation expansions of the football stadium, as well Funding for research is also receiving cell biology mechanisms “All of us have treasures (for the School of Medicine, Colleges as for creating Olympic sports facilities, new emphasis. The John and Harriet of Alzheimer’s and to give, and they are of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, including a softball !eld. Wooten Laboratory for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative di"erent,” Bengel says. Neurodegenerative Diseases Research is diseases,” he says. “They can be !nancial School of Dentistry and Laupus Health “ We have a sophisticated investment a grant-producing fund to support basic “Understanding these when people have become Sciences Library), and the ECU Educational approach and we are very conservative,” sciences research at the medical school diseases will allow the successful in their Foundation (Pirate Club for athletics). In says Carol M. Mabe, ’71, chair of the ECU through the Medical & Health Sciences discovery of drugs to !ght careers and understand addition, the ECU Alumni Association Foundation Board of Directors and member Foundation, led by president Carole Novick. against Alzheimer’s, which the responsibility of helps graduates stay in touch through special of the Board of Trustees. She retired after a The Wooten family already funds two increases each year even stewardship. But we also events, programs and newsletters. The career that included serving as an executive awards, the Henry Husted Wooten Keyboard while we see a decrease have other treasures, such foundations are each managed by volunteer- for the Russell Corporation and Russell Scholarship, honoring the Wooten’s late in heart disease. I am as mentoring students or led boards of directors, many of whom Athletic in Atlanta. When the endowment son, and a music therapy fellowship. extremely impressed by the serving the university in a have signi!cant !nancial and investment began showing signs of the down economy, Funding medical research serves a deeply Wooten family’s passion volunteer capacity. It could experience. They work in concert with a she says, “we began talking to donors, to important cause for Dr. Harriet Wooten and commitment.” be hiring Pirates. When professional investment advising !rm that is explain where we were. A lot of times they that also commemorates her husband’s alumni reconnect with employed by them. Sta" members serve as would write a personal check, to do whatever Lamont Wooten shares a accomplishments. ECU, we can share our liaisons between the university, the boards, it would take to keep scholarships going. sense of satisfaction from treasure.” 4Pbc the funds and their donors. That’s the true spirit of philanthropy.” Dr. John Wooten was the !rst orthopedic his family’s gift to the surgeon east of I-95 when he opened his Academics and athletics come together in Clark says this kind of partnership comes practice in 1954. A vivacious, intelligent the ECU Educational Foundation, better from bringing together people who have man, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s known as the Pirate Club. In its 48 years, strong skills and personal commitment. several years before his death in 2004, at 80.

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& Uncle J.S. “Sammy” Brody used to say giving was a sel!sh thing. The more he gave, the better he felt. As a young man setting out in the world, these words made a powerful impression on David S. Brody. He knew his uncle meant business; whenever he concluded a successful deal, he gave to one of his many causes.

By the 1960s, ECU became one of those he was set to become chairman. Hyman arrived in Greenville after World War II causes when Sammy Brody, along with and David are members of the Medical & to serve as the managing partner of the brothers Leo and Morris, met with then- Health Sciences Foundation’s investment Greenville store. He and his wife, Lorraine, Chancellor Leo W. Jenkins to hear more committee, while Stacy Brody, Hyman’s wife, continue to live in Greenville. about the daring idea of opening a medical is a member of that foundation’s Board of Under the direction of David Brody and school here. They liked the idea so much Directors. Hyman Brody, the stores expanded to several they gave $200,000 toward it. One of their most memorable gifts came locations in eastern North Carolina, and “He was an unusual person, the most in 1999, when the Brody family announced became very successful. In 1998 they were generous person I knew,” David Brody said an $8 million gift to the medical school. sold to Pro#tt’s. during an interview in his Kinston o#ce. “His It provided research funding into illnesses When Reuben Brody passed away, Sammy, thought was, ‘Don’t make small gifts. If you’re prevalent in eastern North Carolina, including a successful businessman with Atlantic going to do something, make a di"erence.’ diabetes, heart disease, obesity and high blood Bottling Co. and Atlantic Telecasting, I’ve adopted his philosophy of making a pressure. In tribute to their gift, the medical became a compelling mentor to David. He di"erence. Even a small gift, combined with school was renamed the Brody School of warmly recalls the many conversations that other gifts, can make a di"erence.” Medicine at East Carolina University. opened with his uncle’s trademark greeting, By 1977, the medical school was operating It was a capstone act that followed other “What’s up, Sport?” and in 1979, the Brodys made a $1.5 million exceptional gifts. In 1983, another gift “He never talked about himself,” David gift that, when matched with state funds, funded the Brody Medical Scholarship, a Brody remembers. “And when he walked into built the school. It was dedicated as the prestigious award aimed at attracting the a room, you knew it. He had an aura about Brody Medical Sciences Building in 1982. best and brightest to the medical school by him.” At his funeral in 1994, “many people providing full tuition and living expenses. Today, David Brody is carrying on the came up to me and said, ‘He gave me my The Brody scholarship enables them to tradition of giving. He is co-president, start,’” David says. graduate without the burden of debt that along with his cousin Hyman, of the Brody saddles many young doctors, allowing them A genuine sense of caring for one another is Brothers Foundation, a philanthropic fund to practice in rural areas where salaries are at the heart of the Brody family’s giving. The that has been a powerful agent of change at typically lower than in metropolitan areas. 11 children were each charged with looking ECU. While the fund has provided broad It also encourages them to pursue careers in out for the next younger sibling—as well funding for research at the medical school, family medicine and primary care. as another sibling. “Their devotion to each the Brodys themselves continue to serve as other was legendary,” David says. loyal advocates for the university and region The Brody story began in South Carolina, they adopted as their own. David graduated where the 10 Brody brothers and their sister He cherishes the lessons of philanthropy from the University of Pennsylvania. grew up. David Brody’s father, Reuben, learned from Uncle Sammy, whose rule of opened The Capital clothing store, where he thumb for gifts went like this: In addition to managing the family If you can often worked nights and weekends to build foundation, David Brody has served for six write a check without thinking about it, then a loyal client base. Several of the brothers years on the university’s Board of Trustees, you’re not giving enough money. opened Brody’s Department Store in Sumter often working on committees related “He was the genesis of the foundation,” and, in 1928, Leo Brody opened Brody’s in to health care. He was vice chair of the David Brody says. “It was his philosophy, Kinston, which expanded to Greenville in trustees the past two years, and this summer and he led by example.” the 1930s. Hyman Brody’s father, Morris, —Marion Blackburn  Ghost stories never die 0GA>/7<3AB3>636=B=5@/>6G0G8/G1:/@9/<2;793:7BE7< Tales of unexplained occurrences in East the hallways like the Cotten ghost. Rather, Pactolus Light story and tales of deaths on Carolina’s historic halls saturate campus life. the ghost moves things around in students’ Halloween—but the lore also is studied in Recollections like Brockmann’s abound, and rooms,” Brockmann says. “Students also say academic settings. older, more widely circulated ghost stories they hear odd noises that are not necessarily English professor James Kirkland teaches a at ECU have withstood years of whispered attributed to the building or pipes and such. folklore class during which he asks which repeatings and survived the tweaks that It is a rattling of drawer handles and the like.” stories his students have heard and where the campus legends endure as they are passed Not far away, McGinnis Theatre has a tales originated. on. These ghostly tales have helped preserve “mischief ghost” that rattles chains, opens some of the history and tradition at a “The details of the stories change depending doors that were once !rmly closed and says Gretchen Brockmann saw the light was on, university with a storied past. on popular culture, when they’re passed on “hello” to those who !nd themselves alone through the oral process,” Kirkland says. There’s the Cotten Hall ghost, which there at night, says Je" Woodru", managing “The core of these stories always stays the is purported to be a wandering suicide director of most of the theater’s shows. again, in the attic of Jarvis Hall. It was not same. There’s a sort of intrigue with these victim returning to the scene. Students and “Every theater is haunted to some degree, or things. With the supernatural, if there’s sta" have reported seeing the specter of a so the legends go,” Woodru" says. something you can’t explain in rational Confederate soldier near the Mall and west long after the 1998 renovation of the stately Students have reported seeing gray !gures terms, then you !ll the gap with what you do campus, a part of which supposedly covers and hearing unexplained noises while alone understand.” the graveyard where he was laid to rest. A in McGinnis. A light is left on in the theater shadowy apparition in Christenbury gym ECU’s stories seem to follow the same at night for safety, and, some say, so spirits old dorm when Brockmann, then the residence is said to swing from the rafters, the result pattern as those on other college campuses: watching from the shadows can see who’s of another suicide. McGinnis Theatre, suicide from unrequited love, buildings there. One story tells of a girl preparing according to some who frequent it, is erected atop graveyards, ghosts of those who for a starring role in a show who stayed late hall coordinator, began seeing a light shining plagued with mysterious bumps in the night. died tragic and untimely deaths. Others, one night to record the piano music for including accounts of seeing the apparitions Ghost or no ghost, the eerie tales told her musical number. Afterwards, when she of children in residence halls, come from at ECU o"er the campus community an replayed the recording, a ghostly voice was in the attic even after she knew she had turned it unknown beginnings. The stories also example of how, as the backdrop for a singing the lyrics to her accompaniment. She normally take place in attics, basements, century of history and the scene of countless later heard that another actress, years earlier, empty residence halls or other locations pivotal moments in the lives of so many had tragically died during her stint in the o" and asked maintenance workers to padlock the where people often !nd themselves alone. students, the past meets the present every day. same role of the same show. No matter the setting, the stories help give Most college campuses have ghost stories, “A theater is one type of community or site people a sense of East Carolina’s history and attic door. “I would turn it o" in the afternoon and and East Carolina is no exception. Why? For that gathers ‘wonder’ tradition; a college is help them understand where they !t into one thing, ECU is in a region that has seen its another,” Win!eld says. “When you have a that timeline. The ghost of the Confederate share of historic events: wars, natural disasters, theater at a college, you have a double, maybe soldier connects the campus to a time rich again that night it would be on, though maintenance civil unrest. There’s also a simpler answer: even a triple whammy.” in historical meaning. The idea of living and People, especially students, like to be scared. Other campus buildings are equally plagued studying in buildings that may be built over claimed they didn’t access it,” says Brockmann, now “High school and college are the perfect with rumors. Howard House, home to the graveyards makes students wonder about ages to enjoy and perpetuate ‘wonder’ tales,” ECU News Bureau, is said to be haunted lives gone by. “There’s a sort of intrigue with says Mason Win!eld, author, researcher and by a noisy ghost, and visitors to Ward these things,” Kirkland says. nationally known paranormal historian. Guest House have vacated its rooms in assistant director of Campus Living. “Very odd.” Even as ECU’s popular ghost stories change “Most college kids are away from home for favor of a hotel in the middle of the night. over time, they still lend themselves to the !rst time and spreading tradition to new Sorority and fraternity houses are home to preservation of campus tradition. Whether contacts. No wonder a few ghost stories legends of suicides, untimely deaths and or not there’s any truth to them and no would do the rounds at colleges.” disgruntled spirits. Flanagan Building and matter where they originated, the tales, and even Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium are said to The residence halls near the Mall seem to perhaps the spirits they recall, live on. 4Pbc be the sites of suicides and other violent be particularly fertile fodder for the tales. events, with the spirits of the dead restlessly Cotten and Fleming are the most mentioned roaming the grounds. when it comes to these accounts. Editor’s note: Most of the stories have been passed down Did you experience something “In Fleming Hall, students say it has ghosts by students looking for fun—much like the spooky on campus? Tell us what you saw or but that the ghost typically does not wander heard in an e-mail to [email protected]. " # Life’s Back Nine Like many Southern writers before him, Jim Dodson left home to !nd fame and fortune Up North. But during a low point in his life he felt the tug of his roots and gave up a national audience to start a second career writing for the newspaper in Southern Pines. “To go through an open door sometimes, especially at midlife, is not easy. But I knew I wanted to come back. I knew something good would come of this.”

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The author of four best-seller books, the game of golf, at least that version of it stories was a pro!le of one of the best including one that became a made-for-TV hawked by the PGA on television. women amateur golfers of the 1940s and movie about his life, turns sideways to ’50s, Glenna Collett Vare, who then was in The monthly arts and culture magazine he scoot between desks in the cramped o#ces her 80s and living in obscure retirement. The edits, also is doing well. In the of magazine, and then steps out inspiring story caused a minor stir. Dodson year sincePineStraw, he took the job, it’s expanded ontoPineStraw the shady sidewalks of Southern Pines. had had a love-hate relationship with golf to 100 pages and won the N.C. Press He’s headed for lunch at the diner around since high school, and the story about Vare Association award for best periodical. the corner and is explaining to a visitor why clearly demonstrated that he had a $air for he gave up a comfortable and !nancially Understandably, Dodson feels like he’s just writing about the sport and the people who rewarding perch in the publishing spotlight turned to the back nine holes of his life, and played it. After the story ran in it was to work for the local paper. birdied the 10th. There’s talk of expanding reprinted by, among others, Yankee, A the circulation into Raleigh and Greensboro, job o"ered followed, and hisGolf byline Magazine. became a It was one of those o"ers you just can’t Dodson’s hometown. !xture on the masthead of the sport’s biggest refuse, says Jim Dodson ’75. It came when magazine. He settled into a comfortable life he was in town to cover the 2005 U.S. Understandably, Dodson feels like he’s had in a rustic home he built in Maine, married Open golf tournament in Pinehurst; he lots of risk and reward in the !rst nine holes and began raising two kids. was approached by David Worono", the of his life. But now he’s turned to the back publisher of and o"ered a job nine, and birdied the 10th. During the 1980s and most of the ’90s, as the paper’sThe writer Pilot, in residence. Dodson Dodson became known as one of the best had just published his sixth book—a well- GO\YSSQVO`[ golf writers around. 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He was invited to become Charlotte Observer, seated at far right The Pilot, two years out of East Carolina, he became a a^]`baSRWb]`]TbVS3Oab]\;R^O^S`B]hS``SQOZZabVObSdS`g]\SWaZOcUVW\UW\bVS^V]b]PSQOcaS recognized as one of the best small papers a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf VWaR]U1]^gVORXcabXc[^SRc^]\bVSbOPZSO\RY\]QYSR]dS`bVSR`W\Ya feature writer for the Sunday in the country, comes out three times a week Atlanta Journal’s Club of St. Andrews, the birthplace of golf. and has a circulation around 15,000. magazine and during seven years there He wrote about things other than golf for collected two major journalism awards. The “He said ‘I can’t pay you what those people one prize he valued most came when Gentlemen’s Quarterly, The New York Times, will but I can promise you all the North called with a job o"Theer. That Sports Illustrated, Travel and Leisure, Town Carolina barbecue you can eat and all the Washington Post Spouting off at the was his dad’s paper before moving up into in and Country, and Reader’s other national Digest, Geo, publications. Outside sweet tea you can drink.’ What he didn’t newspaper management at other papers, lastly Magazine, know was that was just the deal I was and notably at the In 1995, when he learned that his father 8W[2]Ra]\¸aPSabQ]ZZSUS[S[]`WSaO`SVWabe] b]bVS/`OP]WZS[PO`U]Fountainhead6Se`]bSbVObVSY\Se looking for. I agreed to do it on a lark. I Greensboro Daily News. had cancer, the two decided to !nally take gSO`ae]`YW\UT]`bVSabcRS\b\Sea^O^S`bVS a^`W\UVORQ][SPSQOcaSOT`WS\Rb]ZRVW[aVS 4]c\bOW\VSORµ7eOabVSTSObc`SaSRWb]`Rc`W\U aOeVS`VWbb]e\µAVSb]ZR[SbVObaVSVORXcab thought I would stay here two weeks and Weighing the o"ers, Dodson thought of some the gol!ng trip they always had promised advice his dad had given him. “I had told bVS6OZZ]eSS\`W]bW\¸%!O\RbVS\Rc`W\UbVS abS^^SR]cb]TbVSI@ObVaYSZZS`PO`KObOP]cb (! four years later, here I am.” themselves. They played the famous courses ab`SOYW\UQ`OhSbVObaeS^bQO[^cabVS\Sfb Ob\WUVbO\ReOab`gW\Ub]TW\RVS`eOgb]bVSQc`P him I was honored with the writing awards I in Scotland and England, and the Continent. a^`W\U7`S[S[PS`eS`O\O^WQbc`SW\bVS^O^S` b]aWbR]e\eVS\aVSUZO\QSRc^4WTbVAb`SSbb] He’s had ample opportunities to dine on had won in Atlanta and the recognition that When they came home his father learned his ]TIOQO[^ca^]ZWQS]TTWQS`KeV]O^^O`S\bZgVOR bVSPcaabObW]\O\RbVS`SeOaA^`W\U¬abS^^W\U swine during some recent media tours for his would come from working for cancer had spread. In the !nal months of his Q]\TWaQObSROQOaS]TPSS`T`][a][SP]RgO\RVS R]e\T`][OB`OWZeOga>ZSOac`S1`cWaS`¬eSO`W\U eighth book, published where he had worked, but TheI said Washington I have eOaeOZYW\UPgeWbVbVWaPSS`O\RVSa]`b]TVOR TZ]eW\U`]PSa A Son of the Game, life, Dodson became his father’s caregiver. 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The book is set S\QVO[PS`SRPgbVSaV`]cR]TeW\bS`;W`bVO\R write about something you love.’” was published in 1997. ,It Final attracted Rounds. favorable \]bVO^^gObOZZ¶ in Pinehurst and Southern Pines amid the T`Wd]ZWbg^`SdOWZO\ROa]`b]T[OR\SaaRSaQS\Ra reviews, made several best-seller lists, and 2]Ra]\e`]bSOeSSYZgQ]Zc[\QOZZSR=TTbVS1cTT c^]\caOZZ7\RSSRSdS\]ZR3[WZg2WQYW\a]\VOR famous golf courses and handsome old inns So he passed on the and took the job Post has sold more than 300,000 copies in six bVObQO^bc`SRbVSZOWRPOQYObbWbcRS]TbVSbW[Sa b]Q]\QSRSbVOb·OZWbbZS[OR\SaaW\bVSA^`W\U and restaurants of the gol!ng mecca. It’s at magazine, where he would be free Yankee languages. ]TbS\a^WQW\UVWa^`]aSeWbVZWbS`O`g`STS`S\QSa7\ WaeV]ZSa][SSdS\T]`bVSYW\U¸/\RaW\QSeS selling quite well despite its critical look at to pursue his muse. 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& ' 5]W\Ua]cbV a swirl of complexities, marked by near- “I believe this state needs a popular magazine ;=@3=<B63E30 constant travel and the pain of being that has a literary quality but still has a After publication of Dodson’s EObQVdWRS]QZW^a]T separated from his children. About that sense of mirth and fun,” Dodson declares. ]c`W\bS`dWSeeWbV marriage ended and heFinal had Rounds, to decide how time he had to make another painful trip, to He is quick to point out that two other OcbV]`8W[2]Ra]\ to tell his kids, particularly 11-year-old visit an old friend who was dying—Harvey ECU alumni have contributed to Ob]c`eSPaWbS Maggie. He did that during a $y-!shing eeeSQcSRcSOab Ward, the man whom Byron Nelson called success. Andie Stuart Rose ’82 is thePineStraw’s trip with her across America that started in the “best player in the world” while he magazine’s founder and creative director. the Adirondacks and ended at Yellowstone was winning back-to-back U.S. Amateur Robyn James ’76, who owns The Wine Cellar National Park. On the way Dodson championships in 1956–57. Dodson and Tasting Room in Southern Pines, writes discovered a great deal about !shing and grieving and healing. When he returned he got thought there was a marvelous story in a regular wine column. :SO`\W\UbVSe`WbW\UQ`OTb about the special relationship that exists a call from the Atlanta paper o"ering a job. Ward’s storybook career went up in smoke The son of a newspaper man, Jim Dodson only between a father and daughter. That Don Sweeting ’85, executive vice president He took it and threw himself into his work. when he was embroiled in a controversy over grew up in Greensboro and gained his !rst experience became which, of golf and club operations for Pinehurst During seven years in Atlanta he perfected his his amateur status. Exiled from the game, recognition as a writer while still a student like madeFaithful the Travelers, best-seller Resorts, is among the many locals who have writing skills and rebuilt his personal life. Ward, who had played golf at Carolina, at Grimsely High School. Described by list. TheFinal book Rounds, also became aTimes made-for-TV warmly welcomed Dodson to the region’s eventually settled in Pinehurst and became a friends as thoughtful and re$ective from an From the deep emotion that comes from movie on CBS called which close-knit gol!ng community. “He exudes preeminent golf instructor. Dodson wanted early age, he considered Episcopal seminary death experienced at close hand, and the still turns up occasionallyDodson’s on cable.Journey, the history, the tradition and the honor of ' to write a book about Ward but kept putting years of writing under deadline came golf. As you would expect from a high-quality but enrolled instead at East Carolina. He A Son of the Game On the last night of his book tour for it o" until it was nearly too late. the skill and insight that would animate ' ^OUSa writer, he is a serious person, but he’s also a gravitated toward the English department Dodson got a phone call that Faithful his writing career. Dodson’s greatest gift, /ZU]\_cW\0]]Ya]T1VO^SZ6WZZ By 2005, Dodson had published six books fun person to be around, which you would and the student newspaper, where he was a Travelers,forever sealed his reputation as an elite golf according to Worono", “is this great ability in eight years, buried his father and mother expect from an East Carolina graduate.” sta" writer, features editor and columnist. writer. Arnold Palmer phoned to ask him to to write with great sentiment but he avoids $ and confronted divorce and its painful Dodson transferred to Chapel Hill his junior write his biography. Dodson spent extended Worono", who owns along with being sentimental. He has an uncanny ability Beautiful Madness aftermath. Plus, magazine had a new The Pilot year but stayed there just two semesters !"^OUSa>S\UcW\5`]c^ periods with Palmer and his wife and had Golf Frank Daniels Jr., Frank Daniels III and to !nd the most extraordinary stories in the owner who was chopping expenses by before returning to East Carolina and the unfettered access to Palmer’s personal life. others associated with the most ordinary of people.” chopping writers from the sta". He was Raleigh News & student paper. Why? “It just felt like home. " The result was before its sale to the McClatchy Arnold Palmer: A Golfer’s Life, bone tired and feeling low when he blew into Observer There was an intimacy at East Carolina that Dodson Dodson, who was honored by ECU Ben Hogan: An American Life which came out in 2001. It also made the chain, says the paper’s reputation (the Daniels Pinehurst that spring to cover the men’s open I just loved. It was the smartest decision I as an alumni of the year in 2002, says he’s #""^OUSa0O\bO[0]]Ya best-seller list. bought it from Sam Ragan, a former state and to spend as much time as he could with surprised by “the intensity of the reactions Times’ poet laureate) probably contributed to ever made.” Other books soon followed, including Ward. That’s when he got an o"er he just to [ because] I thought this book   ! Dodson’s decision to come there. “We have a He wouldn’t take anything for his years in Final Rounds in 2001, which told of a yearThe couldn’t refuse. might lack a big gut hit. It’s all about coming The Road to Somewhere Dewsweepers saying here that we are always small town but Greenville. “[The reaction I got] when I !"^OUSa>S\UcW\5`]c^ Dodson spent playing with an eclectic group home. What it does have is hitting 50 and never small time,” says Worono", who grew turned down the job at the of men who always were the !rst to tee !nding the ground shifting under your feet.” :WTSO[]\UbVSZW\Ya up in Greenville. to write for magazineThe Washington was just o" each morning at their club. It’s about   likePost the people whoYankee said to me that if you He sees his children as often as he can and friendship as much as golf. At !rst, Dodson’s job as writer in residence With publication of his latest book, The Dewsweepers A Son of relishes a phone call he gets during lunch ! ^OUSa>S\UcW\5`]c^ for —he’s believed to be the only Dodson has had to travel frequently go to East Carolina instead of Chapel Hill, His $y-!shing trip with daughter Maggie The Pilot from Jack, who is doing a summer internship person with such a title at any newspaper in forthe Game,book tours and media interviews. “I get your life will be over. They said if you want Arnold Palmer: a Golfer’s Life had been so rewarding to both that he to be a journalist, Carolina is where it’s at. at a newspaper. Jack is about to go out on an " ^OUSa@O\R][6]caS America—was to write a Sunday column. so many requests to give speeches and make replicated the experience with his son, Jack. interview, and dad delights in passing along He wrote about people and places he came appearances, and I’ve adopted a policy that if And I love Carolina. But it wasn’t where I Dodson, who had hit 50 and was sensing a few tips. across—“anything that passed under my it’s something in North Carolina, where I can was intended to go. East Carolina was where ''& opportunities slipping away, dropped nose.” One day it would be about an old lady go speak and still get back to lay my head on I learned the classics, learned writing, had “My spirituality has deepened,” Dodson says Faithful Travelers everything to take his 10-year-old son on a !"^OUSa0O\bO[0]]Ya in Carthage who saves animals hit by cars. my own pillow at night, then I don’t charge fantastic professors, had the opportunity to later. “I apply that sacredness to my writing. gol!ng vacation across Europe, hitting all PSQO[SbVSBD[]dWS Another time it would focus on a Korean anything. Out of state, that’s another matter.” work at the student paper.” I had a father who said there are no mistakes 2]Ra]\¸a8]c`\Sg the high and low spots and encountering journalist Dodson meets who tells him that After graduating in the fall of ’75, he went in life. There are no time limits here. And problems that only brought them closer. Dodson now is married to Wendy Dodson, reading changed his life. to work for the , what he said is true. ' ' % The experience resulted in his 2005 book, Final Rounds who works at Sandhills Community where he had internedGreensboro for twoDaily summers News Final Rounds His biography of Ben In 2008, though, Dodson’s role at the College as an assistant to the president “I have been lucky to have several during college. This promising start to his #%^OUSa0O\bO[0]]Ya TheHogan, Road one to Somewhere.of the least-understood icons of paper expanded when he became editor of and secretary to the board of trustees. He opportunities where I have taken the road a monthly magazine had frequently is asked to emcee local events career was shattered within a year when his less traveled. I think it’s because I tried not to golf, also came out that year. PineStraw, The Pilot started a year or so before. Dodson attracted and to speak at various functions, such as girlfriend, while working at a country club in think too much about what I should do and As Dodson was !nishing the Hogan book other talented people to the magazine and a big Father’s Day event in Southern Pines Hickory, was murdered by a robber. Dodson instead of what I love to do. My dad said to in the summer of 2004, which took much !lled its pages with good writing about the that he says was a blast. Life is settling into took a leave of absence from the paper for try writing about something you love. That longer than anticipated, his life became people and culture of the Sandhills. comfortable rhythms. three months and wandered around Europe, was very good advice.” 4Pbc

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Federation, Sierra Club, Environmental SObW\UTSeS`QO`P]VgR`ObSaWa\¸bbVSaSQ`Sbb]aZW[[W\UR]e\ members within the University of North “We’ve just scratched the surface,” he says. “It’s Defense Fund, Southern Environmental Law µGSO`aOU]bVSWRSO]TV]eg]cU]bTObeOag]cObSb]] Carolina system. Riggs, believed to be the a very complex system, and we aren’t going to Center and the Nature Conservancy. [cQVacUO`]`TOb¶aOga@]\OZRE2cRSY/aO`SacZb youngest recipient of the award at the time, VSaOgaTSRS`OZRWSbO`gUcWRSZW\SaORdO\QSRW\bVS '%a quit learning for a long, long time to come.” was honored for his work on coastal and D.R. Bryan, a former student, Chapel Hill ^`][]bSRQO`P]VgR`ObSaO\R^WZZ]`WSRTOb marine systems and economic minerals To learn more, Riggs spends a lot of time developer and Nature Conservancy board µBVOb¸aeVS\]PSaWbgaYg`]QYSbSR¶2cRSY aOga`cSTcZZg including phosphates and their impact on in the !eld. He shares that knowledge with member, calls Riggs a “great ambassador world agriculture. In 1994, Riggs was ECU’s schoolteachers through workshops such as for East Carolina.” A student in Riggs’ 6WaaQWS\bW¿QO^^`]OQVb]eSWUVbQ]\b`]Z !rst distinguished professor in the Thomas Earth View and Sea View, projects funded entry-level geology class in about 1972, WaPOaSR]\V]ebVSP]Rg^`]QSaaSa QO`P]VgR`ObSa1O`P]VgR`ObSab`WUUS`W\acZW\ Harriot College of Arts and Sciences. by the National Science Foundation and Bryan was in the audience during that ^`]RcQbW]\eVWQVQOcaSaTObb]PSab]`SRW\ the North Carolina Sea Grant Program, Chapel Hill meeting. P]RgbWaacS1]\ac[W\UTSeS`QO`Pa`SRcQSa Dr. Scott Snyder, a retired ECU paleon- respectively. He also participates in many W\acZW\PcbSZW[W\ObW\UQO`P]VgR`ObSaT`][ tologist, worked with Riggs, studying the “I’d say he was one of the two or three of the teacher workshops sponsored by ]\S¸aRWSbe]\¸be]`YVSaOgaµ7¸[\]bb`gW\U fossils found during Riggs’ !eld research. professors who had the biggest impact on b][OYSQO`P]VgR`ObSabVSPORUcg¶2cRSY the N.C. 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If the Pirates win the games they should and tradeo" is that it’s going to be great exposure opportunity =Qb % @WQS !(! ;/A< learned from last When Wilson !ts the pieces together— pick o" a couple in their familiar role as an for the school and give us an opportunity to to talk =Qb % Ob;S[^VWa &( 3A>< year, when an euphoric win experienced veterans plus strong, eager underdog (remember last year’s Virginia Tech showcase a little bit about this university.” to some <]d#DW`UW\WOBSQV %(! 3A>< over then-No. 8 West Virginia was newcomers—he likes the picture that emerges. game?), this season could mark the moment di"erent <]d # ObBcZaO &( # 3A>< followed by three disappointing losses in the “It’s exciting,” Pinkney says. “It’s tough, but when ECU gets the phrase “perennial football “It was a good surprise to see some of the people, and <]d  C/0 !(! ;/A<E7B< next four weeks. But the team recovered and it’s a good position to be in. We’ve got ESPN power” permanently attached to its name. young guys, how they played and stepped it makes me <]d & A]cbVS`\;Waa ( rallied for an improbable run through its games. This is a dream for us.” up,” says Wilson, who was named the 2008 2SQ# 1CA/QVO[^W]\aVW^ B0/ conference schedule, followed by a win over Or not. It wouldn’t take many bad breaks for realize what The season opens on Sept. 5 with another /ZZYWQY]TTabO`baO`S3OabS`\BW[S Tulsa for ECU’s !rst C-USA championship. C-USA Defensive Most Valuable Player by the Pirates to fall to Appalachian; just ask a special milestone game of sorts—ECU’s !rst It was a signi!cant milestone, but the “We’re a well-rounded Michigan. Road games against an improved place I have. he says. “Florida State was where we are. So Sporting News Magazine. contest against Appalachian in 30 years. The subsequent trip to the Liberty Bowl ended in team right now. It’s good at every position.” North Carolina team and always-tough West The grass isn’t always greener on the other can you build it here? Well, that would be Mountaineers own a 19–10 lead in a series Virginia follow, meaning East Carolina could side, and if you ever make a job decision for a 25–19 loss to Kentucky. ideal. You’d like to build it right where you <]P`SObVS`aOUOW\bVWagSO` that dates back to 1932 but the two programs open conference play 0-3 wondering where money you’ll never make it twice.” are. There are a million questions circling “We had a taste of it last year and we haven’t met since the Pirates posted a 38–21 its mojo went. Either way, the stands will be about college football and its future. But I didn’t cope with it well, so we live and One of Holland’s hallmarks as athletic victory over ASU in Boone on Nov. 3, 1979. full of happy tailgaters. Season tickets were BVS01APZcSa don’t think we can concern ourselves with learn,” says Pinkney, who completed 223 director is scheduling opponents who will But the game that has generated the most nearing a sell-out three months before the what everybody else is doing. We’ve got to passes for 2,675 yards last season. “I think either highlight the football team’s strengths Many observers cite three things in assuming preseason buzz is already marked on Pirate Sept. 5 opener against the Mountaineers, build this program to where we’ve got to in the same situation we’ll handle it better or expose its $aws, and the 2009 schedule that Holtz would leave East Carolina if the fans’ calendars for Thursday, Nov. 5—the and o#cials announced that any single-game make them take us. We’ve got to become the this year. It’s all about staying focused and continues that trend. There isn’t a breather right o"er came along. Those three things primetime ESPN matchup against Virginia tickets, if available, would be o"ered !rst to elephant in the room.” being consistent.” from early September to Thanksgiving, and are the letters B-C-S. Conference USA, in Tech. That Thursday night college game, Pirate Club members. Attendance is expected three consecutive games—Memphis on Oct. which the Pirates play, is not a member of Holtz says he wouldn’t want to coach at a Pinkney is a key player in a senior class that Holtz said, has become like Monday night to shatter last season’s stadium-record 27, Virginia Tech on Nov. 5 and Tulsa on the Bowl Championship Series alliance, which school where fans aren’t passionate about includes four returning starters on o"ense football for NFL fans—the only game 42,016 average. Ten of the 12 games this Nov. 15—will air on national television. stages the major bowls and the national their football, and he knows that the Pirate and six on defense. It’s a group of young o"ered, and a must-watch. season will be televised, !ve nationally. Because of those TV contracts, the Pirates championship game. Thus, East Carolina isn’t Nation’s meticulous attention to his career men who are eager to jump into leadership will deviate from the traditional Saturday “I think about it, and I try not to think A core of returning starters on o"ense and automatically eligible for those high-pro!le path is a sign of a healthy program. But roles and to capitalize on the trials and routine, playing those three games on about it,” says Wilson, well aware that a defense will be led by senior quarterback bowl games. Although he will never say never, as his team suits up for another season, he triumphs they have experienced so far. Head Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, respectively. player should focus only on the game ahead. Patrick Pinkney, who learned in January Holtz, 45, acknowledges that an o"er could hopes that coaches, players and fans can set strength coach Mike Golden is legendary Instead of a normal bye week, ECU will play “I know that it’s going to be packed.” 4Pbc that he would be granted another year of come along that would be impossible to turn aside conjecture and focus on the six home for pushing players to their absolute limits eligibility after missing the 2005 season with down. One of those might be Notre Dame, games and six road trips that will decide how during his summer workout regimens, but 2Od]\2`Se a shoulder injury. On the sidelines, head Holtz’s alma mater, where coach Charlie Weis Pirate Football is viewed in 2010. Pinkney says the seniors have been asking coach Skip Holtz begins his !fth season with him for more than he was dishing out. reportedly is on thin ice. “I think we are opening some people’s eyes >7@ /B3A7<  B63>@ = A a 29–22 record, a sweetened contract that “We’ve got to be ready to roll,” Pinkney says. Holtz and Athletic Director Terry Holland to what we’re doing over here,” Holtz says. now pays him $1.16 million a year, and some “We can’t take days o".” BVSaST]`[S`>W`ObSaeS`S]\<4:`]abS`a media speculation that he’s bound for bigger would like to see the Pirates move up to “It’s kind of like that man who achieved U]W\UW\b]b`OW\W\UQO[^( overnight success in about four years. We Besides Pinkney, key senior contributors things if the Pirates enjoy a great season. the BCS level. The most likely re-alignment 2Od]\2`Se¸&³0OZbW[]`S@OdS\a scenario would send East Carolina to the Big didn’t just start playing hard last year. We’ve on this Pirates squad are expected to be The team’s success over the past three East, following in the footsteps of former been building this thing.” wide receiver Jamar Bryant, running back 9VOZWT;WbQVSZZ¸&³AO\4`O\QWaQ]"'S`a seasons has produced some unsought C-USA opponents Louisville and Cincinnati, Dominique Lindsay, o"ensive linemen AbO\ZSg0`gO\b¸&³2S\dS`0`]\Q]a attention for head coach Skip Holtz. His who made the switch in 2005. But Big East :SO`\W\UT`][ZOabgSO` Terence Campbell and Sean Allen, free safety 1V`Wa8]V\a]\¸%³BS\\SaaSSBWbO\a name was bandied about last fall when o#cials have made unfavorable comments Van Eskridge, linebackers Jeremy Chambliss /c\R`OS/ZZWa]\¸$³;W\\Sa]bODWYW\Ua Syracuse and Boston College were looking about further expansion. Quarterback Pinkney says he can’t wait to and Nick Johnson and defensive linemen to !ll vacancies. Holtz continues to insist see the heights his team can reach with an Scotty Robinson, Jay Ross and C.J. 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The Deans Steve Tuttle 5SbQ]\\SQbSRW\g]c`O`SO the business community for tournament on Deck series fosters communication and Adams is about to say more when the !rst of sponsorships, another of Adams’ innovations As the East Carolina Alumni Association knowledge sharing between the university’s an eventual stream of well-wishers stops at /aa]QWObW]\OW[aT]`  that other states have copied. strives to inform, involve and serve members deans and alumni and friends. The cost his table to slap his back and shake his hand. Three years after it converted to a of the ECU family throughout their is $10 for Alumni Association members He greets each visitor with warmth and The NCHSAA was the !rst in the nation to dues-based structure, the ECU Alumni lifelong relationship with the university, and $15 each for non-members, which patience, his lunch slowly getting cold. Even create an endowment for high school sports, Association has grown to 5,800 members we take great pride in providing events and includes non-alcoholic beverages and heavy Dorrance comes over to pay his respects. funded by a small surcharge on tickets to and is aiming for 10,000 within the coming activities for our alumni and friends to stay hors d’oeuvres. A cash bar will be available. high school games. The endowment now year. Association o#cials said the revenue connected with the university and with Almost everyone associated with high exceeds $12 million and regularly doles out Visit PirateAlumni.com/deansondeck for school and college sports in North Carolina from membership dues has allowed it to each other. Take advantage of the following complete details and to register online. grants, often to smaller schools struggling maintain and expand its services during an networking and informational opportunities knows Adams, who is retiring after 42 Winston-Salem: Wednesday, Sept. 30, The to maintain their programs amid shrinking era of tight budgets. The additional revenue to gather with fellow Pirates and hear the years with the N.C. High School Athletic Piedmont Club, 6–8 p.m., with College of local budgets. supports publication of the quarterly latest news from ECU. Association (NCHSAA), the last 25 as Business Dean Rick Niswander and Brody magazine, which goes only to associationServire executive director. The association, based in “We have tried to make high school sports School of Medicine Dean Paul Cunningham Chapel Hill, oversees athletics at 381 public a memory forever for our student athletes,” members. The dues are $35 for one year for 31C/[POaaOR]`a`Sc\W]\ Cary: Wednesday, Oct. 7, Bistro 64, high schools in the state and certi!es the says Adams, who lives in his native Cary. one person or $50 for a couple. 6–8 p.m., with College of Fine Arts and eligibility of more than 150,000 athletes “Our role has been to get them involved, Find out what’s been going on with those you A predominately self-funded organization, Communication Dean Je"ery Elwell and annually. A search committee is expected to o"er them participation, competition and served with as an Ambassador. This reunion the association provides a variety of will include the Pirate’s Bounty Scholarship College of Education Dean Linda Patriarca recommend his replacement by Nov. 1. carry over values. We have stressed academics, programs and services for alumni and Auction, the Alumni Scholarship Classic, New Bern: Thursday, Oct. 29, The Chelsea, citizenship and sportsmanship.” A scholar- students, from the classic tailgating parties to “My wife Sue and I feel that this is a good a get-together at Ham’s Restaurant, and a 6–8 p.m. with Harriot College of Arts and athlete program he started in 1986 has grown helping alumni !nd jobs through its Career time to retire, and in closing out our career, special Ambassador event on Saturday, Sept. Sciences Dean Alan White and College of to include about 30,000 students a year. Center. Fundraising and other activities we feel extremely fortunate to have had the 26. Visit PirateAlumni.com/ECUAR for Technology and Computer Science Dean His personal focus has been on changing by the association, which was founded in opportunity to serve the association all Adams, who has been inducted into further information and registration details. David White these years,’’ says Adams, 72, who remains as several sports halls of fame, including East NCHSAA from a regulatory body to a 1912, also generates more than $20,000 in Charlotte: Wednesday, Nov. 11, Upstream, tall and slender as he was as a guard on the Carolina’s, says the biggest change he’s seen service organization. “We were the people scholarship money each year. that declared schools ineligible for the

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/ : C ; < 7 A> =B:756B ' KRISTEN DALTON of Wilmington, Miss North Carolina USA, was crowned Miss USA 2009 in 1O^^W\UO!!gSO`QO`SS`eWbV April and will compete in the Miss Universe contest. bVSCA2S^O`b[S\b]T3\S`Ug BRITTANY FORREST and Joey Reddington of 5S]`US0ZO\QVO`R¸$&`SbW`SROa Greenville were married May 16 in Kinston. She RS^cbgOaaWabO\b[O\OUS`T]` majored in elementary education, and he is studying ASQc`WbgO\R3[S`US\Qg computer science at ECU. Among her bridesmaids ;O\OUS[S\beWbVbVSCA were ASHLEY SMITH ALLEN ’06 and ERICA 2S^O`b[S\b]T3\S`Ug¸a PARKER SANDERSON ’03. TOQWZWbWSaOb=OY@WRUSBS\\4]` bVSZOabaWfgSO`aVS^`]dWRSR & aSQc`Wbgac^^]`bb]OZZ2=3 AMANDA JANOWSKI of Greenville was named \ObW]\OZZOP]`Ob]`WSaO\R the 2009 Most Promising Female Entrepreneur by the TOQWZWbWSaaS`dSRPgbVS=OY Business and Professional Women’s Network. Through @WRUS=TTWQS/\Sf^S`b]\ Life Inc. Ministries, she leads “Next Generation aOTSbgO\R^`]bSQbW]\]TVWUVZg Husband” conferences for mothers raising sons. aS\aWbWdSU]dS`\[S\baWbSa 0ZO\QVO`ReOaV]\]`SRT]`VWa % `]ZSW\e`WbW\UbVS2=3aSQc`Wbg^]ZWQgW\bVSZObS '&a6S JORDAN VAINRIGHT and her mother MARTHA OZa]VSZ^SRQ`OTbbVSTW`abaWbSaSQc`Wbg^ZO\T]`bVSAb`ObSUWQ EAST “MARTY” VAINRIGHT ’81 opened Coastal >Sb`]ZSc[@SaS`dS7\ ''"VSeOabVS2=3TSRS`OZaSQc`Wbg Fog, a home decor booth at Artisans in Greenville. In `S^`SaS\bObWdST]`bVSW\WbWObWdSbVObZSRb]bVS`S[]dOZ]T 2007, Jordan founded Signature Jordan Vainright LLC. \cQZSO`[ObS`WOZT`][9OhOYVabO\ Marty has directed recreation therapy departments in 3\bS`W\UbVS/`[gOTbS`Q]ZZSUS0ZO\QVO`RU`ORcObSR geriatric facilities and taught in autistic settings. T`][bVS3\UW\SS`=TTWQS`1O\RWRObSAQV]]ZO\ReOa $ Q][[WaaW]\SRW\[WZWbO`gW\bSZZWUS\QS/\ObWdS]T3RS\b]\ VSbVS\e]`YSRObbVS2STS\aS7\bSZZWUS\QS/US\QgPST]`S SUSAN ELIZABETH GLENN ’06 ’07 of Durham X]W\W\U2=3W\ '%$6SX]W\SRbVS=OY@WRUS]TTWQSW\ '&! and Jarrod S. Dennis of Raleigh were married Dec. OaOaSQc`Wbgac^^]`ba^SQWOZWabb]bVS=OY@WRUSO[eV]bSOQVSaa^SQWOZSRcQObW]\Ob1O`bS`3ZS[S\bO`g RANDY CAHOON, a New Bern native, is Oriental’s AQV]]ZW\9\]fdWZZSBVSgVOdSbe]a]\a/\R`SeO\RW`ObSTO\ " A[WbVWaO\OQbWdS JOSHUA B. HOWARD and Lawrence E. Babits, [S[PS`]TbVS director of ECU’s maritime studies program, published A]cbVSOabDW`UW\WO >W`ObS1ZcPO\R31C Long, Obstinate,Howard and Bloody:is a research The Battle historian of Guilford at the N.C. /Zc[\W/aa]QWObW]\ OCourthouse.#ce of Archives and History. They previously =\S]TVWaZOeaQV]]Z published QZOaa[ObSaeOa Fortitude and Forbearance: The North Carolina 6SObVS`EWZZWa¸# CContinentalHRISTINA Line LE in IGHthe Revolutionary ROEBUCK War, and 1775-1783. Andrew Daniel Mayse were married April 25 in Cornelius and live in Huntersville. She works in the Belk Corporate O#ce in Charlotte. LEANNE E. SMITH ’04 ’06

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/ : C ; < 7 A> =B:756B is in the MFA in Creative Non!ction program at Goucher College in Baltimore, Md. >OcZ9AbSdS\a ! ¸&!eOa\O[SR QVWST`O\US`T]` DAMANE DUCKETT is a new o"ensive lineman bVS\ObW]\OZ with the New England Patriots after playing for the ^O`Ya]\bVS Carolina Panthers, New York Giants, and San Francisco =cbS`0O\Ya 49ers. LAUREN E. HUBER and Ryan Priem of ]dS`aSSW\UO Baltimore, Md., were married March 21 on the beach abOTT]T$$O\R at Grand Bahama Island. She is a cartographer for OPcRUSb]T the National Aeronautical Charting O#ce. She and  %[WZZW]\ four of her bridesmaids are Chi Omega sisters. WILL AV]`bZgPST]`S JACKSON, who was a lead singer in a heavy-metal bVS^`][]bW]\ band, moved back to Mount Airy, opened a skate shop VS`SQSWdSRbVS called Canvas because he enjoys painting, and with '<>AA]cbVSOab@SUW]\6O``gG]c\b>O`Y@O\US` seven others, created a nonpro!t, Skate Mount Airy, /eO`RBVS^SS`\][W\ObSRV]\]`\O[SROTbS`bVSTW`ab to raise funds to convert a basketball court into a skate Y\]e\\ObW]\OZ^O`Y`O\US``SQ]U\WhSaSfQSZZS\QSW\bVS venue. ERIN E. NORTON is a dance educator at TWSZR]T`O\US`W\U New Town High School in Owings Mills, Md. NATE WOOD ’03 ’04 of Fredericksburg, Va., was promoted AbSdS\aeWZZaS`dSOabVSQVWST]TbVS`O\US`OQbWdWbWSa to vice president at BB&T, which he joined in 2005 as a RWdWaW]\O\R[O\OUSbVSZOeS\T]`QS[S\bS[S`US\Qg business services o#cer in the commercial department. aS`dWQSaOdWObW]\TW`SZWTSUcO`RO\RTSSQ]ZZSQbW]\  ^`]U`O[aBVS=cbS`0O\Ya5`]c^Q]\aWaba]T1O^S 6ObbS`OaO\bVS`a[ORSbVSAeSSb $ women’s basketball team. Originally of Ayden, he W\ # played for the University of Tennessee for one season before transferring and becoming captain of ECU’s =`WUW\OZZgT`][OQYS`aO\RVSZ^SRZSORbVSbSO[b]OAc^S`0]eZ dWQb]`gW\ ''%)VSZObS`X]W\SRbVSbSO[¸aT`]\b]TTWQSOa SAMUEL THOMAS EASON ’97 ’99 and RW`SQb]`]T^ZOgS`RSdSZ]^[S\b9]]\QS`Sbc`\SRb]31CW\ MARYBETH PETTEWAY EASON ’00 ’01 had "OaOa^SQWOZOaaWabO\bObVZSbWQRW`SQb]`e]`YW\UeWbV twin daughters, Mary Roberts and Elizabeth Hayes, on ^`][]bW]\aO\R[O`YSbW\U2c`W\UbVObbe]gSO`abW\bVS`S Jan. 14. JEREMY KENNETH MCDONALD and VSSO`\SRO[OabS`¸aRSU`SSW\a^]`b[O\OUS[S\b6S Virginia Glenn Startsman were married May 9 and live ^ZO\ab]Q]\bW\cSe]`YW\U]\VWaR]Qb]`ObSOb;O`_cSbbS in Wilmington. He received his law degree from the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C. STEPHANIE L. WILLIAMS of Wilmington is a !nancial advisor with Edward Jones in Leland with ten years of sales experience and eight

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/ : C ; < 7 A> =B:756B years of experience with business ownership. In 2005, '' of banking experience, was named executive of the '%' she received her general contractors license. She was bank’s Tar Region, which includes Greenville, Rocky DENISE WICKER OWEN of Sumter, S.C., is a 2nd WENDY WHITSON participated in the Martha Burns named to the 2009 Biltmore Who’s Who. Mount, and Tarboro. Lt. in the Civil Air Patrol, the PTO secretary at her Reunion Exhibit, sponsored by the Columbus County µESO`SO\ObW]\]TbVS ''$ daughter’s school, and a Girl Scout leader. '&  Arts Council, with several of Burns’ former students. PSabPSQOcaS]T]c` Whitson worked as a graphic designer and photographer, RICKY BENTON JR. of Cerro Gordo was named to '&' LISA ROGERSON ’82 ’83 ’08 is director of the ^S]^ZS4]`OZZeSO`S and moved from Atlanta to Asheville, where she resumed the board for the Brunswick-Columbus Business Parks. College of Education Advising Center at ECU. T]`bVSPSOQ]\]TT`SSR][ W. LEE ALLEN III, a Greenville attorney, was painting and has a studio in the River Arts District. He works for family-owned Black’s Tire and BTS Tire bVOb]c`\ObW]\abO\RaT]` certi!ed as a family !nancial mediator by the N.C. '& and Wheel distribution. '%& W\P]bVOb`]cPZSRO\R Dispute Resolution Commission and gained eligibility ANGELA W. ALLEN, as a vice president for IBM’s ''# to serve as a mediator in N.C. family law cases. A JULI ANNE CALLIS is president and chief executive RO\US`]cae]`ZRg]cbVS Global Business Services, is an Americas Delivery Wake Forest School of Law graduate with 16 years of the National Institutes of Health Federal Credit U`ORcObSa]T 'eWZZ DEBBIE CERRITO DOLAN and her husband, Excellence leader for the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. experience in law practice, he also was an Army o#cer Union in Rockville, Md. She was executive vice `WaSb]bVSbOaYG]cO`S Patrick, of Wake Forest had a daughter, Marissa, on during Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2004 to 2005. '& president and chief operating o#cer of Keypoint bVSV]^ST]`]c`Tcbc`S March 18. J. SCOTT FLEMING and Heather A. GREER BEATY is communications director at the Credit Union in Santa Clara, Calif. DAVID HAMM Zelinsky were married Sept. 27, 2008, and live in WAYNE BOLT was named director of football T]`]c`Tcbc`SZWbS`OZZg N.C. Department of Transportation. Her public ’78 ’79 retired from Chatham County Schools in Eagle, Colo. He is a GIS specialist for Eagle County. relations at Auburn University. He was an All- `SabaW\g]c`VO\Ra¶ relations consultant work includes stints with the American o"ensive lineman at ECU under Pat Dye, 2007 after working as a !rst grade teacher, assistant '' ´:b5S\5O`g:<]`bV¸%$ state commerce department and Smart Start. DAWN for whom he later was an assistant coach at Auburn. principal, and principal, and is now on the school STEVE RAPER, vice president of Geo. Raper & RAIFORD is a private banker for RBC Bank in He has spent 21 of his 31 years of coaching in board. His wife, ELLEN HAMM ’79, teaches in <]`bVeV]eOaQ][[O\RS`]TbVS'bV/W`4]`QSO\RCA Son Inc., with 14 years of management experience, Greenville. She has 10 years banking experience and Alabama. He also coached at ECU, UAB, Clemson, Chatham County Schools, and the Pittsboro family /W`4]`QSa1S\b`OZ1][[O\RObbVSbW[S]TVWaa^`W\U received his Leadership in Energy and Environmental works with the American Heart Association, Rocking and Wyoming. JERRY JACKSON ’80 ’96 is includes oldest daughters MELISSA HAMM ’05 ’06 Q][[S\QS[S\bYSg\]bSORR`SaaeOa^`][]bSRb]T]c`abO` Design accreditation from the Green Building Horse Ranch, Education Cabinet for Pitt-Greenville deputy director of the Penland School of Crafts. and CATHERINE HAMM ’06. US\S`OZW\8cZgPg>`SaWRS\b=PO[O6Sb]]YQ][[O\R]T Chamber of Commerce, Uptown Greenville, and the Certi!cation Institute. He specializes in found-object assemblages, which '%$ >OQWTWQ/W`4]`QSa]\S]T\W\S[OX]`/W`4]`QSQ][[O\Ra Pitt County Education Foundation. have been exhibited in the Southeast U.S., Finland, >OQWTWQ/W`4]`QSaPOaSROb6WQYO[/W`4]`QS0OaSW\ '' JOHN BULLARD is the new parks and recreation '&! Germany, and Estonia. His work recently appeared 6OeOWWVOa[]`SbVO\"#[WZWbO`gO\RQWdWZWO\^S`a]\\SZ director at North Myrtle Beach, S.C. 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'!a HELEN DAVENPORT SANDERSON BRAME '#a voice-over artist for commercials and !lms; and a two Purple Hearts, and after his 1972 military a ’41 ’59 of Greenville, formerly of Cadiz, Ky., and media instructor for the Screen Actors Guild and the retirement, was a guidance counselor at Rocky Mount DR. JAMES F. “JIMMY” CARR JR. ’36 of Searcy, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS JR. ’52 ’53 of KEVIN JOHN DORNBLASER ’00 ’04 of Kings Kinston, died March 24. Her 31 years of teaching American Federation of Radio and Television Artists Senior High School until his 1984 retirement. Ark., died April 1. He was 95. He was manager of Columbia, S.C., died March 15. After 32 years with Mountain died March 12. He held a doctorate included time as chair of Grainger High School’s and an occasional actor in Hollywood. CLAIRE SETH DAVID LATHAM ’79 of Belhaven died athletic teams at ECTC and submitted the Pirates Blue Cross/Blue Shield in N.C. and S.C., he retired in physical therapy from Shenandoah University, business department. She was a charter member of HARDIN HOLT ’61 of Greenville died March 26. April 13. He worked at the family-run C.F. Latham name as a possible mascot to replace the Teachers. in marketing in 1985. He was a member of the Air worked at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, Kinston’s Northwest Christian Church and was active She was a charter member, Sunday school teacher, and Co. He was a scoutmaster, helped preserve the During WWII, he was in the Army Air Corps Force Reserve, North Trenholm Baptist Church, and was a member of Boyce Memorial ARP Church of in the Pitt County Community Pop Singers and the and deacon at Oakmont Baptist Church; enjoyed Wilkinson Center, was a founding member of the stationed in the Cook Islands. He was an administrator the Gideons. MAJ. HAROLD JAY EDWARDS Kings Mountain, and was married to Jennifer West Cypress Glen retirement community. EMMA LEE music, swimming, and entertaining; and was married SCV Camp of Belhaven, established the Middleton at Florida State University and was on the Florida ’54 of Simpson died March 24. He was an Air Dornblaser ’04 ’07. GARRIS JARVIS ’48 of Ayden died May 7. She for 66 years to Robert Holt, a professor and vice Confederate Monument, gave guest lectures in schools Board of Regents until his 1970 retirement. After Force navigator, returned to Simpson for retirement, was a teacher, realtor, writer, painter, housewife, and chancellor here for 34 years. Memorials may be about Belhaven history, and was active in Belhaven retiring from Searcy’s Harding College in 1997, enjoyed !shing, and was a member of Salem United mother. GLADYS MUMFORD JONES ’44 of made to the ECU Medical Foundation’s Alzheimer’s Missionary Baptist Church. STEVEN FRANKLIN he was assistant to the president of White County Methodist Church. CAROLYN MASON GASKILL FACULT Y DEATHS Zebulon died March 10. She was a teacher, dietician, Research Fund. JAMES GREGORY MEADS ’60 “STEVE” ROBERTS ’70 of Raleigh, originally of Medical Center until he turned 95. MILDRED ’51 of Atlantic died April 11. She taught at Atlantic homemaker, and a member of the N.C. Pharmaceutical of Kill Devil Hills died April 24. At ECU, he was a Key West, Fla., died March 4. He was an artist, a “MID” FURCHES ’39 of Southern Pines died March and Smyrna elementary schools and at Camp Glenn `QVWdSa

Association, Rotary Club, and Zebulon Baptist Church. four-time All American swimmer and was inducted fan of ECU and Miami Dolphins football, and was / 13 at age 90. From 1939 to 1944, she was a home School in Morehead City. JULIUS C. MILLS ’50 of LOUISE WOOTEN MARSTON ’45 of Greenville into the Sports Hall of Fame. He was a $ood plain married for more than 38 years. LARRY WELDON management supervisor at USDA. With her Army Raleigh died March 15. He !nished high school in died April 28. For 20 years, she was a social worker manager in Dare County and enjoyed outdoor sports. SHREVE ’78 ’85 died March 6. He was in the Air

husband, she lived in several states and Japan, where Rocky Mount early to enlist in the Army in February C\WdS`aWbg with Pitt County’s Department of Social Services. EDWARD T. RABEL ’67 of Westminster, Md., Force, taught at Lenoir and Pitt community colleges she taught home economics. They were educational 1945, and later retired from the National Guard as She was also active in St. James United Methodist died May 1. After receiving his masters in accounting and ECU, and worked in construction with his benefactors for multiple institutions, and in 1996, a command sergeant major. He was an accountant Church and Meals on Wheels. NAOMI ELIZABETH at Widener University, he was an accounting and brothers. PHILLIP ANTHONY TEMPLETON ’74 received The Order of the Long Leaf Pine. MAY and a member of Hayes Barton United Methodist WILLIAMS MORGAN ’43 of Groveland, Fla., died economics professor in Delaware and Maryland. of Savannah, Ga., died May 2. While living in Athens JOHNSON EURE HARVEY ’39 ’60 of Greenville Church. KATHRYN G. “KITTY” RING ’54 of March 29. She met her husband of 62 years met while BOBBY WAYNE RAINEY ’60 of Rockingham for 30 years, he co-owned Sparky’s Seafood Café and died April 1. She taught in Lenoir County for two High Point died April 27. She was an artist and teaching at Angier High School. She retired after 36 died March 31. He taught and was a high school then managed T-Bone’s Steakhouse. BARBARA ANN years and Pitt County for 26 years, held o#ces in First designer, and taught in Washington and at Ferndale years of teaching, was the pianist at Groveland’s First football, basketball, and baseball coach in Alamance, WILFONG ’73 of Matthews died March 30. She was Presbyterian Church, and was a member of Greenville’s Junior High, High Point University, and High Point’s Baptist Church for 40 years, and also played for the Guilford, and Richmond counties for 38 years until a social worker for Charlotte/Mecklenburg Schools Service League, German Club, Inter Se Book Club, and William Penn Alternative School. LARRY PIERCE seniors’ Joyful Singers. OTHELIA HEARN “SIS” his 1998 retirement. He was the 1987 Southeastern and enjoyed traveling. the Golf & Country Club. WHEATLEY MARTIN WILLIAMS ’53 of Norfolk, Va., and Ocracoke Island TREADWELL ’41 of Richmond, Va., died May 8. AAAA conference baseball coach of the year, and his STRICKLAND ’36 of Dunn died March 21. She died April 9. A native Ocracoker, and the youngest '&a She was a member of the Daughters of the American 25 years as a referee included being a 1999 N.C./S.C. taught in Clayton and Meadow, and later at Wayne of seven children, he started teaching English in Colonists, Daughters of the American Revolution, Shrine Bowl referee. HUBERT RAINES “RED” JAMES K. COPPOLA ’80 of Fredericksburg, Va., Avenue School until her retirement. She was named to Wilmington. In 1954, he moved to Virginia Beach, and Raleigh Fine Arts, and was named to SHEARON JR. ’62 of Mt. Pleasant, S.C., died died April 21. He was an environmental engineer for the ECU Educators Hall of Fame in 2008. where he also started teaching drama and developed L. HOWARD WHITWho’sEHURST Who March 16. He was a high school band director in N.C. the Army for !ve years in Germany, then worked for the public schools’ award winning drama program. A RUTH A. GRABER SHAW of Greenville died April '"a of’49 American of Greenville Women. died March 24. He taught at and S.C., wrote music for beginning band students, the Corps of Engineers headquarters in Washington, board member of the Virginia Beach Little Theatre, he 2. A music professor at ECU from 1966 to 1992, she Robersonville High School from 1950 to his 1982 worked in real estate and construction, and published D.C. KATHERINE LUCINDA PARNELL ROBERT COWLEY “BOB” YOUNG SR. ’42 directed such productions as and enjoyed playing piano, watching football and !gure retirement, volunteered at PCMH for 26 years, received the visitor/newcomer guide He “CINDY” GURLEY ’87 of Clinton died March 27. ’43 died March 23 at Spring Arbor of Greenville. With FoyThe Shaw, Glass heMenagerie owned and skating, and singing in the Sweet Adelines and St. the Governor’s Award for his volunteer service, and played in several Charleston bands,Lighthouse for Magazine. 20 years worked At ECU, she was named the Outstanding Nursing At ECTC, he was a member of the 1941 undefeated Lookoperated Homeward Ocracoke’s Angel. Island Inn & Dining Room from Paul’s Episcopal Church choir. was a member of Jarvis Memorial United Methodist with the Mt. Pleasant recreation adult league softball. Graduate Student and was in the Sigma Theta Tau football team, and was also on the baseball, basketball, 1977 to 1990, when the inn—a building that was the Church, the N.C. Association of Educators, National DONALD F. SMITH ’60 of Falls Church, Va., Honor Society. She was a nurse at Durham County HARRY “VANN” LATHAM JR. ’68 of Greenville and track teams. He was in the Army during WWII, island’s !rst public school—was featured in national Education Association, and Association of Classroom died March 23. He received both his bachelor’s and General Hospital and taught at Sampson Community died April 2. He taught math and psychology at ECU worked in the auto business for more than 50 years, was publications. He was a founding member and the Teachers. ELIZABETH PEARSALL “LIBBY” master’s degrees from ECU in 1960, and a doctorate College, where she was also division chair of healthcare from 1968 to 1974, and math at E. B. Aycock Junior a Mason and Rotarian. Memorials may be made to the !rst president of the Ocracoke Preservation Society, WIGGS ’41 of Raleigh died April 28. She taught from American University in 1968. He taught social programs until her 2007 retirement. THOMAS L. High School from 1974 to 1986. He also enjoyed ECU Medical Foundation’s Alzheimer’s Research Fund through which he helped revive several Ocracoke home economics for several years and later worked in studies at Fairfax and George C. Marshall high schools, KIEHL JR. ’86 of Virginia Beach died April 11. philosophy and writing poetry. or the John B. Christenbury Memorial Scholarship. traditions, including beauty pageants and the July 4th food research with NCSU’s horticulture department. and at George Mason University from 1971 to 1999, DONALD ALONZA NELMS ’87 of Havelock parade. He was active in the Methodist church and DR. AKE MATTSSON of Washington, D.C., died where he also helped found a Phi Delta Kappa chapter. died April 9. He was a land surveyor and co-owned enjoyed spending time with his dog, Maggie. March 31. He was chair of child psychiatry at BSOM GUY WALTER WARD ’62 of Bella Vista. Ark., Coastline Surveying in Morehead City. from 1992 to 1997. He was a research professor at '$a died March 20. He retired as a lieutenant colonel ''a New York University Medical Center before coming after 25 years in the Marines was a member of Judson WILLIAM DOUGLAS CAULEY ’68 of Raleigh to ECU and was clinical professor of psychiatry at American Baptist Church. SHANNON BAIRD JENKINS ’99 of Vale died died March 15. He was in the Army 82nd Airborne March 16. A BSOM graduate, she completed a family George Washington University since 2004. Division for four years during the Vietnam War, '%a medicine residency in 2001 and was later a module DR. CHARLES LEWIS “CHUCK” RAVARIS of worked as a salesman, and enjoyed boating and SCOTT ROY BRIGHT ’78 of Oxford died April leader and attending physician in the family medicine West Lebanon, N.H., died May 4. He was a professor !shing. JAMES OWEN “PAPA” HALL SR. ’61 23. He worked for Rose’s stores in N.C., S.C., department. In 2004, she joined ECU’s MedDirect and vice chair of psychiatric medicine at BSOM from BVS '"  of Clarkesville, Ga., died March 5. He was in the and Virginia. He received the district level senior sta", and in 2005, became director of family medicine 1978 to 1981, retired from Dartmouth’s psychiatry POaSPOZZbSO[ Air Force during the Korean Con$ict, and retired assistant merchandise manager award twice. After his hospitalists and associate chief of hospital medicine department in 1996 with emeritus status, continued 0OQY`]eZSTb after more than 25 years in management with the Wa1]OQV8]V\ 1985 diagnosis with progressive multiple sclerosis, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School/ teaching and practicing at Dartmouth and New Centers for Disease Control. MIKE HANDLEY 1V`WabS\Pc`g he adopted the motto “Don’t shut out a shut in.” UMass Memorial Hospital in Worcester, Mass. Hampshire Hospital, and was married for 54 years. 0OQY`]eTO` ’69 of Citrus Heights, Calif., died April 10. 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