SPRING 2014

A voice for aphasia Giving patients a chance to communicate again The sheer energy of Marilyn Sheerer The provost steps down Feeling the heat Can basketball compete in a tougher conference?

Family practice Four brothers, all doctors. One mission. One medical school. Though their degrees were conferred on Friday the 13th, ECU’s most recent class of graduates knows they are lucky to be Pirates. More than 2,300 students received degrees at fall commencement, including about 1,600 bachelor degrees and 723 graduate degrees. Story, page 9 Photo by Cliff Hollis

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Family practice 18 Four Kornegay brothers, all graduates of ECU’s Brody School of Medicine, are living the Brody mission by practicing family medicine in eastern North Carolina—and becoming a vital part of the fabric of small-town life.

A voice for aphasia 28 An ECU researcher’s work into communication in older adults is giving aphasia patients a chance to talk again.

The sheer energy of Marilyn Sheerer 32 ECU’s indefatigable provost announces plans to step down after helping to lead the university through a pivotal era.

Feeling the heat 36 As ECU prepares to move up to a tougher athletic conference on July 1, the team facing the greatest challenge isn’t football. It’s basketball, which suddenly will be competing against national powerhouse schools.

Mattie Breault, 5, peers out at parents during a DanceAbility dress rehearsal at Eastern Elementary School. DanceAbility is an international program adopted by ECU four years ago to teach dance to children with cognitive or physical disabilities. “One of the things we like to do is really provide an opportunity for each child to go beyond what might be expected of them,” said Boni Boswell, program director from the College of Health and Human Performance’s Department of Kinesiology. Photo by Cliff Hollis

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WINTER 2014 WINTER East If you really want to know what East Carolina’s Brody School and myself. John gets the website. If you’re happy reading magazines because he writes the magazine online and want friends and donors. To begin of Medicine is all about, just look at the Kornegay brothers. SPRING 2014 the checks or gifts to ECU on to stop your print magazine, receiving the magazine, mail VOLUME 12, NUMBER 3 behalf of myself and son Tyler, email Lisa Gurkin at gurkinl@ your check using the postage- Their story is our spotlight in this issue. It is a story of paid reply envelope inside. East is published three times a year by a senior at ECU. We should only ecu.edu. commitment to medicine, to community, and to the How much is up to you but East Carolina University. receive one magazine. Only mail we suggest a $25 minimum Brody mission. Fast-tracking one copy to an address even if THE ROCK STAR OF SNAKES workers for there are multiple graduates at contribution. jobs in the I just received my Winter The four sons of a Duplin County doctor came to ECU, new economy the home. It’s a great book. And The ECU Foundation supports EDITOR 2014 East magazine and was by the way, today ECU beat NC stayed for medical school, then chose to remain in eastern Steve Tuttle ’09 ’12 delighted to see that Dr. Sean many scholarships. Learn how State…at State! Go Pirates. North Carolina practicing primary care medicine. 252-328-2068 / [email protected] Bush has joined the ECU to help a student struggling —Rose W. Smith RN ’87, faculty. Dr. Bush is the rock star with finances at the foundation’s Winston-Salem Their story is testament to the impact of ECU’s medical ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER of snakes! Whenever Venom website, www.ecu.edu/ecuf. was on the television, I was Brent Burch Editor’s note: We already do ER Where is your money most school, which reaches a milestone this year. It’s the 40th usually in front of it, holding that when it’s clear that the needed? The colleges, schools my breath. I anniversary of when East Carolina first received state funding PHOTOGRAPHERS two donors at one address and programs within ECU Jay Clark, Cliff Hollis BSIT CHANGED MY LIFE hope Dr. Bush are husband and wife. have defined their funding for a four-year medical school. I received the latest edition and his family Then we mail just one copy priorities and posted them CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS of the magazine and will love the East addressed to “Joe and Sally here: www.ecu.edu/ecuf/ From the beginning, Brody has focused on taking bright Doug Boyd ’99, Forrest Croce, was excited to see the BSIT Carolinas as Jones.” But there are other funding-priorities.cfm. Rob Goldberg Jr., Michael Zirkle program highlighted. I can much as I students from North Carolina and training them as a special cases, like this one, where draw so many parallels to always have. Another way to support ECU kind of physician—doctors who understand the critical we have two seemingly CONTRIBUTING WRITERS those individuals mentioned I wish him is to join the East Carolina distinct donors sharing an importance of primary care medicine to the people of Crystal Baity, Jamitriss Bowden, in the article. I worked for well in his Alumni Association and address. Then we tend to Doug Boyd ’99, Harley Dartt, Lacey Gray, Honeywell Aerospace as a research on receive the magazine as eastern North Carolina. err on the side of caution Joy Holster, Jeannine Manning Hutson, machinist for 10 years when I copperheads, well as other benefits and ’09 ’12 and continue sending two, Kathryn Kennedy, Steve Tuttle decided to go back to college. and know that services. Minimum dues are Brody is consistently ranked tops in the nation by the unless asked to stop one I, too, transferred into ECU he will also find $35. Visit www.piratealumni. American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) for CONTRIBUTING DESIGNER subscription, which we’ve BSIT program in 1997 after much to study with our native com to learn how to remain Jay Clark done for the Smiths. We see producing primary care doctors. Brody sends 60 percent of its taking a few classes required rattlers and cottonmouths connected. this a lot with recent grads who to complete my associates as well. graduates into primary care residencies, and many remain here CONTRIBUTING ILLUSTRATOR move back home for a while from Wilson Community —Sarah White Casseday ’70, Contact us Mike Litwin ’01 before getting that first job and to practice medicine. That achieves a goal set by the General College. I continued to work n 252-328-2068 moving on. If you want to stop Chevy Chase, MD full time, and 9 1/2 years later— n [email protected] Assembly and is evidence that ECU is improving access to COPY EDITORS a second magazine, or change involving both on campus, n www.ecu.edu/east health care throughout the region. Jimmy Rostar ’94, Spaine Stephens your address, send an email to POISONOUS ISN’T VENOMOUS night classes and distant ed—I Lisa Gurkin at [email protected]. I enjoyed the article on Dr. Sean Customer Service “All of us here are committed to serving the citizens of ECU REPORT EDITOR had earned my undergraduate Bush very much. We are indeed To start or stop a subscrip- degree in manufacturing as tion, or to let us know North Carolina and in particular the East,” Brody School of Jeannine Manning Hutson HAPPY TO READ THE fortunate to have someone well as a master’s in industrial MAGAZINE ONLINE of the caliber of Dr. Venom about a change of address, Medicine Dean Paul Cunningham said after receiving the most CLASS NOTES EDITOR distribution. This opened I applaud your efforts to joining our community. Your please contact Lisa Gurkin, recent AAFP honor. “Our state-supported medical school is Joanne Kollar doors for me to move from reduce cost in the publication proofreaders, however, hit a [email protected] or an entry level machinist to [email protected] of the East magazine. May I nerve with me. Four times in the 252-328-9561. passionate about that purpose, and it is therefore no surprise product engineer, to lean suggest another way to reduce article there are references to Send letters to the editor to expert deploying Toyota when the results confirm the motive.” EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATION, cost is to allow alumni to opt “poisonous” snakes. The proper [email protected] or PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND MARKETING Production System, to my for email delivery or web-only term is venomous. You can eat Howard House Mary Schulken ’79 current role as customer “It’s easy for a lot of people to leave and never come back,” delivery. Imagine all the money a venomous copperhead and Mail Stop 107 quality engineer managing you could save by reducing it is not poisonous. A toadstool East Carolina University Jon Kornegay, the youngest, says in our story. “But for us, the quality improvement projects mailing and printing calls. Just may be poisonous but it is not Greenville, N.C. 27858-4353 experiences I had here in the community…helped lead to the for multiple Honeywell sites. an idea for you to consider. venomous as it can’t inject East Carolina University is a constituent institution of Send class notes to successes I was able to have in life.” —Andy Stephen Moore ’08, Keep up the excellent work. It’s venom into anyone. Otherwise The University of North Carolina. It is a public doctoral/ [email protected] Rocky Mount greatly appreciated! a great article. research intensive university offering baccalaureate, or use the form on page 44. Make your own connection with this family of Brody doctors. master’s, specialist and doctoral degrees in the —Herschel J. (Jim) Watts ’72, —Dan Furimsky ’79, Greenville Their story begins on page 18. liberal arts, sciences and professional fields, including JUST MAIL ONE COPY TO US Greenville medicine. 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2 3 At ECU, philanthropy is personal Borim Song, left, Among the many get-well throughout the difficulties of talks to students at cards that Lynn Lane received my first semester, and I look Photo provided the Greenville Korean while recovering from knee- forward to getting to know Language School. replacement surgery last them further over my stay in September at her Chocowinity Greenville and beyond.” home, one was special. It came Such opportunities for donors from the ECU Honors College to meet the students they students whose scholarships are supporting is an unusual are being paid for by her and aspect of philanthropy at husband Pat Lane ’67. East Carolina, according to “The card I got from Kelli Katie O’Connor, director of (Soos) and Matt (Earley) was the EC Scholars program and so nice,” Lynn Lane said, “and assistant dean at the Honors after I had recovered a little bit, College. Pat said as a donor he drove out to see me and he appreciates that approach. we watched the ECU-Carolina “ECU is very receptive to its football game together.” alumni remaining involved,” Pat and Lynn Lane he said. If one of the Lanes gets sick this fall, they can expect Funding for the EC Scholars to get more special cards, program is one of the highest because then they will be priorities of the Honors and the Alumni Association “Some of these kids will go on supporting three EC Scholars. College, which recently met board. They have served or to be great teachers, scientists ECU’s most prestigious a goal of offering 20 EC continue serving on a number and accountants,” Lynn Lane Cliff HollisCliff scholarship program, the Scholar awards per year. of university advisory panels. added. “Then they can make EC Scholar award is worth The program achieved the their own impact on society.” Besides funding three EC $61,000. It covers full in-state goal when several donors, ECU professor trains aspiring teachers through service-learning Scholar awards, the Lanes The Lanes already are im- tuition and a semester abroad. including the Lanes, stepped The art of teaching takes “Being in the setting where service-learning experience and language with North also fund two fine arts planting the philanthropy bug forward last fall to support patience, diligence and the everybody else is speaking a for her students. She Carolina traditions through “We will have a junior, a scholarships and four in in their scholarship students. five additional EC Scholars. ability to multi-task. different language, that is a contacted Dennis McCunney, visual arts. The Korean sophomore and a freshman,” the College of Education. “ECU has done a much better very educational experience,” director of ECU’s Volunteer art from the 17th and 18th said Pat Lane, sounding Others pledging to Beginning next semester, Working with a group of job now of creating a culture Song said. She said her ECU and Service-Learning Center, centuries will be compared pleased as any parent with support EC Scholars were the Lanes will be providing 25 children ranging from of giving among students by students should be able to who worked to make the with the Black Mountain stair-step children. VantageSouth Bank as friendship and guidance—as kindergarten to fifth grade— encouraging student volunteer take this experience and planned partnership official. College art movement in coordinated by Steve Jones well as financial support—for on a Saturday—takes even “We try to develop a work and by educating apply it to their future careers Students in the course can North Carolina from the ’91. A group of directors of nine ECU students. more of those talents. relationship with the student them on where funding for as teachers. fulfill the service-learning mid-20th century. A focus the ECU Foundation—Bill if they want to,” he added. Pat Lane became a CPA after scholarships comes from,” ECU art education professor component by observing at on two artists from the Blount, Kurt Fickling, Kel The collaboration began a little “If they want to we are very college and had a successful Pat Lane said. “So we try to Borim Song is helping aspiring least two classes. Black Mountain College arts Normann ’85, Bubba Rawl, more than one year ago, when open to that, like go out career in the corporate world, make then understand how it teachers hone those skills movement and two from and Sam Wornom ’65—are Greenville Korean Language Students like Brittany to dinner, catch a game or including 12 years with R.J. works, that after you gradate through a service-learning Korean art history should pooling their resources to School principal Jan-Di Kim Brisson, who has completed attend an event on campus.” Reynolds Tobacco Co. in you give back.” experience that connects enable the students to make support a scholarship. Max contacted Song about starting Song’s course, can return Winston-Salem. Lynn, who ECU art education students connections between the two The students have responded Ray Joyner Sr. ’55 announced “Both Pat and Lynn are a visual art program. Kim as co-teachers to gain more graduated from Greensboro with children at the Greenville cultures, Song explained. warmly to the Lanes. “It’s his support for an award. great leaders and I feel so said through the biweekly art experience. She said she College, also worked at RJR Korean Language School. become very apparent that ECU Board of Trustees Chair blessed to have them as my classes, the children are open appreciates the opportunity Song said her goal for and retired as senior vice they genuinely care about Robert Brinkley ’78 and other donors and role models,” Song requires students in to learning and interacting to teach, rather than watch the children is to “have president and treasurer. my success and happiness, trustees announced they will said Soos. “I could never her ART 2123 class to join with each other. someone else teach. the opportunity to really and that truly means a lot,” fund an EC Scholar award. “We feel like we have been thank them enough.” her for observation and co- understand and rediscover “All students love art and “It changes your perception said Soos, a sophomore fortunate over our lives and teaching art lessons for the themselves through art and The Lanes are among East Lynn Lane, the first woman they can communicate with of art elementary education,” from Gastonia. it’s our way of giving back to Korean-American children at by looking into their culture Carolina’s most consistently to chair the ECU Foundation that,” Kim said. “They can said Brisson. “It gave me society,” Pat Lane said. “We the school, held at Immanuel and other cultures.” “I have loved getting to generous volunteers and board, received its top honor, share their opinions, and they confidence to teach believe in higher education Baptist Church in Greenville. know them over the past donors. Between the two the James R. Talton Service can open their minds and get younger kids.” The project is supported by because we can see what a Song said she would like for all semester,” said Earley, a of them, they have served Award, in September. close to each other.” a grant from the National Art difference that can make, of the art education students During spring semester freshman from Rocky Mount. long terms on all three of She served on the board Education Foundation. not just in an individual but to eventually teach the class. Song said she thought this the program focused on “They have been great the university’s foundations for 16 years. —Jamitress Bowden in society.” opportunity would be a great connecting Korean culture mentors and friends to me —Steve Tuttle

4 5 Veterans Day paver dedication honors military service ECU recognized 40 veterans the military and those who Each paver costs $125 and and military supporters serve, said Dr. C. Steve raises funds for Army and during its annual Veterans Duncan, assistant vice Air Force ROTC student Day paver dedication. chancellor of administration scholarships. The initiative The Nov. 11 event brings the and finance and director of is sponsored by the ECU total number of pavers to military programs. College of Health and Human nearly 200. The 6-by-9-inch He noted that East Carolina Performance and Office of bricks honor men and women started one of the nation’s Military Programs. who have served in the armed first Air Force ROTC For more information forces or who have supported programs in 1948—one on ordering a paver, call the military in various ways. year after the U.S. Air 252-737-1812. “There are stories behind Force was established. —Doug Boyd these bricks,” said Dr. Jim HollisCliff Bearden, director of the BB&T Center for Leadership Development at ECU and Cliff HollisCliff an Army veteran. “There are View of Gateway East and West at the top of College Hill with College Hill Suites and Tyler Hall on the right many stories, and there are varied stories.” Renderings courtesy Davis Kane Architects, PA One is that of Maj. James F. An impressive new gateway to campus Davenport Jr., a 1938 East Carolina Teachers College Crews have been working this new building,” said graduate who went from since mid-January taking Aaron Lucier, director of Greenville to the National apart Belk Residence Hall housing operations. Guard to the shores of to make way for two new Some of the living–learning Normandy in World War II. dorms that will anchor a communities located in other “He was dedicated to sleek new entrance to the residence halls will move ECTC,” said his widow, Edith top of College Hill. The last into Gateway. “The building Davenport. “He really did students moved out of the is being designed for the love the Army.” 47-year-old dorm at the end living-learning communities She was joined at the event of fall semester. that are…supportive of a by their children, Martha Residence halls Gateway East student’s academic success,” Huggins and Jim Davenport and West will better link the McCartney explained. III. Huggins said her father, College Hill neighborhood to The Neighborhood Service who died in 2003, once had the athletics complex and the Office and the computer lab her cut out different bumper 14th Street corridor. The new residence halls seen from 14th Street for College Hill will move into stickers to make one with the “They’re kind of our gateway Gateway, ensuring that it letters “ECTC” that he could to the future,” said Bill will be a focus of that part people who stayed until the time in Belk. Rodríguez- put on his car. McCartney, associate vice of campus. end of the semester were the Mendez said when alumni Jim Davenport said that chancellor of campus living. “From a literal and a most connected (to Belk),” came to visit, some teared up while his father did not The new halls will be similar figurative standpoint, it said Rodríguez-Mendez. at the sight of their old room. participate in D-Day, he did though not identical. Both will be the crown jewel,” Jessica Jones, a Belk Hall Others visited with friends cross the English Channel will be five stories and said Lucier. RA, began the fall semester they met for the first time in soon after and fought in the Belk Hall. contain suites and traditional Belk Hall has housed close with nearly 50 students, European theater. rooms. Each suite will to 500 students almost ended the semester with Belk will comes down in a The event was held at the accommodate four students, continually since 1966. only 15 and strived to build gradual process. Bricks, door Freedom Wall on the west who share a bathroom. a nice community among plates, suite numbers and Gateway East and West side of Christenbury Gym, Dr. John Stiller interacts with biology students working in groups to figure out the next her residents. “We worked mailbox covers were on The new dorms will have will house a combined 720 a site dedicated in 2011 to step in a DNA replication question. The students work at tables in the new problem- hard to build that because sale as one way to music practice rooms, students, who are expected honor the military service based learning classroom, which offers four Smart projection screens and 11 white they only had one semester remember Belk. conference rooms, quiet to move in by fall 2015. of ECU faculty, staff boards in the Howell Science Building. Upgrades to the classroom were paid for with (together),” said Jones. rooms, study rooms and Verónica Rodríguez-Mendez, For more information and students. campus reallocation funds with the support of Academic Affairs, and the classroom is lounges. Outside will be a Belk Hall coordinator, said As alumni and recent on purchasing a piece Having a place on campus used by the faculty in biology and a number of other departments. courtyard, a sand volleyball she and other RAs took pride residents prepared to say of Belk or the project to honor service at ECU For Stiller, who was recognized by the UNC Board of Governors for his work in court and a basketball court. in being in the “last class of farewell to the 47-year-old progress, visit www.ecu. is important because the problem-based learning, the classroom “has improved student performance and “We want to center the Belk” fall semester. “There ECU landmark, there were edu/cs-studentaffairs/ university has had a long retention and has increased my own enthusiasm and creativity in the classroom.” energy for the hill into was a lot of movement, so the opportunities to tour the hall rememberbelkhall.cfm. and close relationship with For one of Stiller’s students, freshman Stephanie Strong of Raleigh, the classroom and reminisce about their —Jamitress Bowden set-up was different but not unwelcomed. “It’s helpful. It’s more engaging.”

6 7 Trustees talk tuition, Graduates received kudos new student centers and well wishes from ECU Cliff HollisCliff HollisCliff Chancellor Steve Ballard, the Medical and dental students UNC Board of Governors, at ECU will pay more in faculty, administrators tuition next year under and their own senior a plan approved by the class officer, who said Board of Trustees during its the memories they made November meeting. together at ECU are what bonds “Pirate Nation.” The board also approved a Rick Niswander fee increase for all students “I can’t imagine spending the beginning the 2015-2016 last few years with any other academic year to help fund people,” continued Clark construction of two new Williams. “Congratulations on student centers—one on your big day.” Main Campus and one on the The commencement speaker Health Sciences Campus. was cardiac psychology No tuition increases are expert Sam Sears, director recommended for in-state of the health psychology undergraduate students. program at ECU and recipient However, next year out-of- of the O. Max Gardner Award. state undergraduate students Sears asked that as graduates will see a 6 percent increase write their life stories, they in tuition, a total of $1,084, can continue telling the story which was mandated by $425 to be phased in over of East Carolina. state legislators in the last Nursing, business rank among the best three years to help pay for legislative session. ECU’s graduate programs in distance education students. “We have to tell the story the two student centers. That of East Carolina University. Revenues from this increase nursing and business rank would generate about $9 The online program in You have to demonstrate the will be used to offset cuts to among the nation’s best in million; the total cost of both the College of Business value of East Carolina. It’s state appropriations by the online education, according centers is estimated at $56.3 has grown from a single your efforts that tell the real same amount, said Dr. Rick to U.S. News & World Report. million, Niswander said. course offering in 1998 Class of ’13 celebrates milestones at fall commencement story. No matter where you Niswander, vice chancellor The new 200,000-square- The ECU College of Nursing to undergraduate and go from here, you will always for administration and Though their degrees were ship. Blinking lights rimmed “It’s been a wild ride. This past foot student center on Main ranked fifth out of 96 master graduate degrees in several be from East Carolina now.” finance. That will result in conferred on Friday the 13th, the cap’s edges “so my month has been exciting and Campus will sit about where of nursing programs in the concentrations. The College —Crystal Baity and no additional revenue for ECU’s most recent class of parents can see me,” she said. nerve-wracking, looking for Mendenhall is now. The country. The online master of Business has the largest Kathryn Kennedy the university. of business administration online MBA program in the graduates knows they are jobs and trying to graduate.” student center for the Health lucky to be Pirates. Tuition for the Brody School Sciences Campus would be program ranked 58 out of UNC system. 171 such programs. of Medicine would increase situated between the East Of 743 total students “I’m ready to go; I’m just

$2,000, and the School Carolina Heart Institute and ECU’s College of Nursing enrolled in the MBA a free spirit,” said Kelley Jay Clark of Dental Medicine would Laupus Library on North has been consistently program last fall, 587—or Logan, a graduate from the increase $713 beginning in Emergency Drive. ranked as one of the 79 percent—were distance College of Health and Human the 2014-2015 academic year. Performance. “But ECU will When Mendenhall Student largest distance education education students. Those figures represent a always have my heart.” Center opened in 1974, East programs in the country. 13.72 percent and 3 percent Carolina had 11,000 students More than 2,300 students rise, respectively. Nursing offers seven online and 37 student organizations. options in the master of received degrees at fall The UNC Board of Governors commencement, including Today, 402 student organiza­ science nursing program: Sam Sears was scheduled to review and tions and about 27,000 adult-gerontology nurse about 1,600 bachelor degrees approve tuition increases students use the facility. practitioner, clinical nurse and 723 graduate degrees. from all 16 campuses at its “Ten years ago when I came, specialist, family nurse College of Nursing February meeting. (then Board of Trustees practitioner, neonatal graduates Kate Murdock, Even with the increases, member) Steve Showfety nurse practitioner, nursing Brooke Taylor and Reagan tuition at ECU’s medical and said we need a new student education, nursing leadership Moore held tubes of confetti, dental schools remain among center,” said Chancellor Steve and nurse midwifery. cans of silly string and noise the lowest in the country, Ballard during the trustees’ Of 723 students enrolled poppers as they waited to said Niswander. lunch discussion. “I think the in the MSN program in the walk in the processional. Trustees approved a time is right.” 2012-2013 academic year, Perched on Murdock’s mortar­ maximum student fee of —Crystal Baity and 628—or 86.9 percent—were board was a tall foam pirate Jeannine Manning Hutson

8 9 Student interest in Greek life surges Sigma Nu and Lambda Chi followed. There were 17 by and Dean of Men James were the first Greek chapters 1964 and more than a dozen Mallory. The event Mirroring a national trend, Pi and Pi Kappa Phi, soon will Right: Charlie White and on campus. Lambda Chi, owned houses—including raised $850. the number of East Carolina be back in the university’s Roddy Jones look at the chartered as the Iota-Upsilon the ones still lining Fifth Jan. 27, 1958, telegram Many successful business students choosing to join good graces after serving Zeta chapter, signed with Street. Greek Week was a from Sigma Nu national people came out of Sigma a fraternity or sorority has suspensions for alcohol national on May 2, 1959. Two major event. accepting the ECU colony Nu, including Greenville soared in recent years, rising and conduct problems, weeks later, Kappa Sigma Nu as the Eta Beta chapter. Sigma Nu brothers insurance executive Charles from about 1,200 in 2008 Tingley said. was installed as the Eta Beta were leaders in student White ’59, Phillip Morris to more than 2,300 today, chapter. But Sigma Nu was ECU now has 39 fraternities government, including Roddy executive Lyle Cooper ’59 according to Director of Below: Seven of the the first Greek organization and sororities; 26 have houses. 11 members of ECU’s Jones ’58 of Raleigh, a former of Richmond and longtime Greek Life Keith Tingley. to own its house, a two-story “Mainly what we’re seeing is 1959 NAIA national chair of the ECU Board of Greensboro mayor John ECU sororities are leading frame on West Fifth Street. more students come to East championship swim Trustees. Sigma Nu and Forbis ’63. the growth, with average and dive team were Almost a dozen fraternities Lambda Chi usually took the Carolina looking for a Greek Several swimmers on ECC’s membership doubling in five Sigma Nus. and sororities soon lead on fundraising projects. experience in the first place,” 1957 and 1959 NAIA national Jerry McGee ’65 years to 130, Tingley said. When students Tingley said. “Plus, we have championship teams were is the president of wanted to create The growth likely will been able to keep a full staff Sigma Nus, including six-time Wingate University, a summer theatre accelerate with the impending in the Greek Life office to All-Americans Glen Dyer, but for more than program in 1963, return to campus of Kappa support the growth. Parents Ken Midyette ’60, Jake Smith, 20 years he also Sigma Nu sold Sigma Nu and Lambda seem to know that joining a Tommy Tucker and Jack worked weekends the ads for a day- Chi Alpha, two of ECU’s Greek organization is a good McCann ’60. as a back judge oldest Greek organizations way to make sure their kids long live radio at college football that closed amid declining do well academically and broadcast from its Seven of the 11 members of games. He learned membership a few years ago, socially,” Tingley added. “The house, featuring the ’59 squad were Sigma refereeing at ECU Tingley said. Sigma Nu, which GPA for the sororities is 3.0.” guest appearances Nus. They won 11 of the 18 as a student paid closed in 2005, and Lambda by President Leo medals captured during the to work intramural A group of alumni brothers Chi, which closed in 2010, Jenkins, football championship meet. Sigma football games. He calling itself the Sigma Nu both opened chapters here in coach Clarence Nus Butch Edwards and said the fraternities Snakes held reunions and the late 1950s. Stasavich, baseball Steve Wilkerson also were fielded the toughest raised funds to help restart coach Earl Smith All-American swimmers. teams. “If you can Similarly, Alpha Kappa Alpha, the local chapter, according Honoring that tradition, the work the Sigma an historically African-American to Millard Maloney ’64 of A daylong live radio Sigma Nu Snakes are raising Nu–Pi Kappa Alpha sorority that opened here in Raleigh. Tingley said Sigma show broadcast from game, then Notre 1973, is in the process of reac­ Nu is scheduled to complete the Sigma Nu house money to fund a scholarship Dame–Michigan is tivating after closing in 2011. a multiyear review process at 411 West Fifth on the ECU swim and dive a walk in the park,” In each case alumni groups and return to campus in 2016. Street in 1964 raised team, according to Maloney. he once said. are behind the reactivation The university allows only one money to launch He said Danny Wood ’63 of efforts, Tingley said. new or returning chapter each the first season of Franklin, Tenn., is leading the the East Carolina year so it can focus resources fundraising effort. Two other fraternities, Sigma All photos courtesy University Archives Summer Theatre. on existing Greeks. —Steve Tuttle

100 YEARS AGO 75 YEARS AGO 50 YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO High school students jam campus Were the Ramblers too good? “Skyscraper dorm” opens Leo Jenkins dies

To establish ties with ECTC’s intercollegiate The first building with Retired chancellor Leo high schools beyond Pitt women’s basketball elevators on campus opens Jenkins dies Saturday, County, East Carolina, in program ends after the 1939 in the spring of 1964 and Jan. 14, 1989, at age 75. April 1914, hosts a track season when the school is named for novelist Inglis The cause was cancer. meet and oratorical finds it difficult to schedule Fletcher. She is famous for A moment of silence is competition for schools suitable opponents. In five her Carolina Chronicles observed when the news is across the region. Races years of intercollegiate play, series of historical romance announced that evening at a among the boys are the Ramblers lost a total of novels (Rogue’s Harbor, Minges Coliseum basketball held in the afternoon (at eight games and had two Men of Albemarle, Lusty game. Jenkins served the left, the racers pass Old undefeated seasons. Some Wind for Carolina). At seven school for 31 years and had Austin and approach opponents complained the stories, Fletcher Residence been retired 11 years. Asked

Old Wilson). In the Ramblers were “boisterous” Hall is the tallest building in All photos courtesy University Archives in 1986 about his greatest evening girls and boys and ran up the score. northeastern North Carolina achievement, Jenkins said: participate in public Typical were the 1936 and becomes known as “Some folks say it was speaking contests. team’s 85-10 win over the “skyscraper dorm.” It the medical school, and The event attracts more Carolina Beauty College, the maintains that distinction others say it was obtaining than 2,000 high school ’37 team’s 50-8 win over only four years, until university status, but I feel it 10 students and becomes Chowan and the ’38 team’s 35-2 victory over Wingate. In 1940 women’s basketball 10-story White Residence was instilling a sense of pride in the people here in the East. People walk a little taller an annual event. returns to intramural status and continues on that level for the next 30 years. Hall opens beside it. because of ECU, and they take a greater pride in themselves.” ECU history professor talks Civil War topics in weekly podcast ECU provides medical care in Nicaragua The word podcast was included historians James people—the two reviewers The show has spawned a For 15 years, a team led by valvular and congenital heart barely in use when Gerald McPherson, Doris Kearns and the audience—and they following. One individual Dr. John D. “Jack” Rose, a disease. The surgical team Prokopowicz began Goodwin and Gary Gallagher, form a triangle.” has generated a Facebook cardiologist and professor performed 11 recording Civil War Talk as well as artist Don Troiani page dedicated to the in the Department of operations in five Photos byCliff Hollis Prokopowicz receives a Radio. But the professor and filmmaker Ken Burns. show. Another fan Cardiovascular Sciences at days, mostly valve fair amount of email from and chair of the Department has created a website the Brody School of Medicine, replacements. Another strength is the people who say they didn’t of History at ECU has been (www.impedimentsofwar. has been healing hearts and Over the years, show’s informal conversation, know much about the war, engaging a worldwide org) where visitors will more in Nicaragua. they have Prokopowicz said. He has an but that they have learned a audience through his weekly find links to current and completed hour with his guest without a lot by listening to the show. Rose and some Brody show for nearly a decade. archived episodes. 105 open-heart prepared list of questions. Some people have playfully colleagues have established a procedures with Produced by Internet radio complained that they’ve spent “The show is generally partnership with the medical “I learned from the old Siskel a success rate of station Voice America, too much money on books interesting to me because school in the bustling city and Ebert movie review more than Civil War Talk Radio airs because they have to buy every week I learn some­ of León. This relationship show,” Prokopowicz said. 98 percent. live every Wednesday at 7 that week’s book and read it. thing,” he said. “There’s no enables them to offer “I met Gene Siskel once in p.m. on www.voiceamerica. shortage of people with specialized medical care in Nicaragua is the Chicago. He recorded a piece “I found the podcast by com/show/2205/civil-war- interesting stories.” Nicaragua that would be second-poorest for a museum I worked in happenstance back in talk-radio. —Lacey Gray unavailable otherwise, as nation in the Western at the time, and he talked February this year and have well as frequent mission Hemisphere. With a Each episode is recorded about how the secret of their since listened to every show,” opportunities for medical population of 6 million, in Prokopowicz’s office show was that there are three emailed one listener. students and residents. 48 percent live below the on the third floor of the poverty line, and 80 percent Brewster Building. The team usually makes subsist on less than $2 a day, two trips a year, each about “Initially the idea was that Rose said. The government Cliff HollisCliff two weeks long. The first is Internet radio would be the provides universal medical in September and involves next big thing, and they care, but funds and resources evaluating patients with valve wanted content for their are meager. and congenital heart disease shows. So someone at the and bringing down a surgical For example, the university ECU dental students and student-athletes were among station came up with the team to perform open-heart hospital in León has no CT the volunteers at the Give Kids a Smile event Feb. 7 idea about a show on the surgery. The second trip is in scanner and provides only at Eastern Pediatrics and Orthodontics in Greenville. Civil War,” Prokopowicz said. February. It involves general basic laboratory services, Volunteers from ECU, along with 20 local dentists, “They found someone to clinics as well as cardiology. Rose said. Rheumatic fever collaborated to treat approximately 140 patients with host the first four episodes, and rheumatic heart disease, free dental care, ranging from simple cleanings to and for the fifth one, I was On the team with Rose are Dr. now rare in the United States, more advanced procedures. Inset: ECU dental student contacted in October 2004. Harry Adams, an infectious are common afflictions there, Amanda Stroud smiles while getting a hug from So I did one. Then I did the disease specialist; Dr. and rheumatic heart disease 5-year-old Jaden Wilson after she worked on his smile. next one. Then I did the next Theodore C. Koutlas, a heart is the most common 210 or so in a row.” surgeon; Dr. David Hannon, heart-related cause of a pediatric cardiologist; Each week, Prokopowicz death in young people Dr. Curtis Anderson, a and a guest discuss various in developing nations. Advanced training to enhance medical education cardiothoracic surgeon and aspects of Civil War history. ECU associate professor; “Each journey reinforces just A group of ECU faculty The TQA is part of He said the show forces perfusionist Bill Hodges, and how fortunate we are,” Rose members will spend this year the American Medical him to keep current on other surgical team members said. “Sometimes, friends exploring ways to educate Association’s Accelerating recent publications about from ECU and Vidant Medical and colleagues ask, ‘Why students about patient safety, Change in Medical Education the Civil War. He reads Center. They all go on the do you travel all the way to quality improvement and Initiative. The Brody School of nearly one book a week—or trips at their own expense. Nicaragua when the medical team-based care along with Medicine is one of 11 medical approximately 40 books needs in eastern North new ways of teaching that schools nationwide that a year—with short breaks Brody faculty members Carolina are so great?’ We engage students more actively received grants through the during the summer. who work out of León are hope that we help to satisfy in their own education. program to change the way members of Project Health “One of the strengths of the these needs in our daily medical education is taught. for León, an effort organized The 38 participants in the show is that it’s aimed at a work and in our volunteer by Dr. John Paar, a Raleigh Teachers of Quality Academy ECU calls its program knowledgeable audience,” activities here. But Nicaragua cardiologist who established will undergo advanced Redesigning Education Prokopowicz said. is a special case. There, the the cardiology program in training in those areas and to Accelerate Change in medical problems are so Prokopowicz hosts expert León years ago. develop projects to apply Healthcare, or REACH. great and the resources so these skills across the health authors, musicians, artists, “The first component is This past Sept. 14-18, the limited that it is difficult for sciences division and train preservationists and other training the teachers who team saw 350 adults and Americans to comprehend.” students and other caregivers people in fields connected are going to be developing children, most with serious —Doug Boyd in these concepts. to the Civil War. Guests have continued on page 14

12 13 Photos byCliff Hollis Christopher­ at the start of fall semester M. Dyba, the after leading the college for senior eight years. He later accepted associate a leadership position in the vice College of Arts and Sciences president of at the University of South develop­ Carolina. John C. Sutherland ment at was named interim dean. Tulane White oversaw the addition University, of new undergraduate, was named East Carolina’s master’s and doctoral new vice chancellor of programs, the founding university advancement. of the Thomas Harriot Dyba, who holds a bachelor’s College of Arts and Sciences degree from Louisiana State Advancement Council University and a master’s in Distinguished Professorship divinity from Duke University, in the Natural Sciences previously was director of and Mathematics, and the A team of College of Technology and Computer Science advancement at Auburn establishment of the Voyages students placed third in 2013 Association of Technology, University. He will begin his of Discovery Lecture Series. Management and Applied Engineering’s (ATMAE) Students swapped textbooks and laptops for sleds and snow role March 24. Glen Gilbert, national robotics competition in New Orleans. It was the boots for three days in late January after a snowstorm coated dean of the College of Health Gerald fourth year ECU’s student chapter of ATMAE participated the region with 4 to 5 inches of snow and ice. Above, Wyatt and Human Performance, has Lewis, who in the competition. Bland pulls Anna Pierce, both from Goldsboro, in front of the served as interim vice held the Leo W. Jenkins Fine Arts Center. chancellor of advancement rank of since the resignation of major and was ECU women’s basketball coaches John Marcum, Heather Macy Mickey Dowdy. and Land-grant Universities. at Georgia Regents University and Ollin Dunford take the ceremonial first jump at the 18th command­ Danielle Velde, who served as chair- in Augusta, Ga. Hicks, who annual Polar Bear Plunge. Outside temperatures dipped below ing officer of Walsh, a elect of the group this year, joined the ECU faculty in freezing Jan. 23 as more than 1,000 ECU swimmers dove into the N.J. pediatric will serve a one-year term as August 2006 as professor the icy waters of the Student Rec Center’s outdoor pool. Police Office surgeon and of Community Affairs, was chair this year. She was and chair of chemistry, an associate named chief of the ECU elected during the annual said he would miss many professor at Police Department. He meeting of the APLU held aspects of the college, the Brody replaces Scott Shelton, who Nov. 10-12 in Washington, university and Greenville School of retired. The university police D.C. Velde also is a professor community. Allison Danell, of occupational therapy in ECU associate professor and this new curriculum,” said Instructors include Brody Medicine, force has 60 full-time officers, the ECU College of Allied director of undergraduate Dr. Elizabeth Baxley, senior faculty members and was elected 10 reserve officers and 20 president of the Association Health Sciences. studies in chemistry, is associate dean for academic professors from ECU’s Main Dr. Danielle Walsh, a pediatric staff members. Lewis earned of Women Surgeons. Walsh serving as interim chair of affairs at the Brody School Campus, such as College of surgeon and associate his bachelor of arts in public Susan Beck-Frazier will serve one year as the department. of Medicine. “More and Engineering and College of professor, is part of the administration and his master was named director of The emphasis will be to president. She previously more in medical education Education faculty members, REACH Project Team and of administrative sciences institutional assessment Melissa prepare faculty members to served as president-elect and and higher education, it’s as well as experts from helped develop the TQA. degrees from Fairleigh within the Office of Bard is teach quality improvement, has been involved with the not about lecture-based Vidant Health and invited She said the focus will be on Dickinson University in Institutional Planning, the new patient safety and system AWS leadership for several education, it’s how do you national-level speakers. improving quality, increasing Teaneck, N.J. Assessment and Research. associate analysis competencies to years. With more than 1,400 design a more meaningful value and measuring results. Provost Marilyn Sheerer, who vice “Turns out as we started students while also fostering Beth Velde, learning experience.” women surgeons as announced the appointment, chancellor looking there’s a lot of She said government and interprofessional contact director of members, AWS is one of the said Beck-Frazier has been for human The group comprises faculty expertise in our own private insurance payers and understanding, said Dr. public largest organizations instrumental in working resources. members from the Brody backyard,” Baxley said. are requiring health care Harry Adams, a longtime service and dedicated to increasing the closely with all the units on She comes School of Medicine, College professionals to increase professor of medicine and a community At the end of the year, interaction and exchange of campus to compile ECU’s to ECU from of Nursing and the College of the quality and outcomes TQA participant. relations at participants will receive information among women SACS response relative to Penn State, where she was Allied Health Sciences plus of the care they provide. ECU, was a credential in medical “We need to focus on surgeons in the United States student learning outcomes. director of HR for the College medical residents. Faculty “The purpose of this TQA named chair education from the ECU improving the quality of and other countries. of Agricultural Sciences. She members from the School of is…to assess how well we’re of the Department of Chemistry College of Education. care and safety issues,” holds an undergraduate and Dental Medicine are likely to doing what we’re doing and Alan R. White retired as Council on chair Rickey Hicks resigned to Continuing education credits Adams said. a master’s degree from the participate in future years, providing value to those dean of the Thomas Harriot Engagement and Outreach become dean of the College are also possible. —Doug Boyd University of Maryland. Baxley said. we’re serving,” she said. College of Arts and Sciences for the Association of Public of Sciences and Mathematics

14 15 Spring Arts Calendar BY JEANNINE MANNING HUTSON AND HARLEY DARTT

in the Voyages of Discovery gospel and soul. The show, The Capitol Steps put the “mock” the ECU Voices, Frequencies, the Wright Auditorium stage for a The Senior Choreography Series on “Shakespeare in beginning at 8 p.m., features in democracy. While not all of the Talea Ensemble, the NewMusic free concert on April 15 in the Showcase on April 26-27 will America” on March 27 in Wright Wayne Catania as Jake and Steps (left) are former Capitol Hill Camerata, the ECU Symphony Bandorama extravaganza. feature ECU senior students who Auditorium. Shapiro is the Kieron Lafferty as Elwood staffers, in total, the performers and Premier Performances. Visit have created their unique works Jazz Larry Miller Professor of English (bottom). Tickets are $35 for have worked in 18 congressional www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/music/ for presentation. From the risqué School of Music jazz faculty will and Comparative Literature at the public. offices. Their show, featuring the newmusicfest/ for the detailed to the ridiculous, the audience come together in a free concert on

AP Photo/George Osodi Columbia University. Shapiro group’s special brand of topical schedule of performances. should be ready for anything March 28 at 8 p.m. in A.J. Fletcher is currently writing The Year of satirical humor, will be presented when the shows are performed in Voice performances Recital Hall. For more information Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, as well at 8 p.m., April 10 in Wright the Burnette Studio Theatre. All On April 11, the ECU Chamber call 252-328-6851. To purchase as a Library of America volume Auditorium. Tickets are $35 seats are $5. Tickets available at Singers join ECU organist Andrew tickets contact 1-800-ECU-ARTS entitled Shakespeare in America. for the public. Of the Capitol www.ecuarts.com Scanlon and regional high school or www.ecuarts.com. He is a governor of the Folger Steps, former choirs in concert at 7 p.m. at Shakespeare Library and on the President World music FAMILY FARE SERIES St. Paul’s Episcopal Church board of directors of the Royal George Music of the world will be Revisit favorite Schoolhouse in Greenville. The ECU Men’s Shakespeare Company. Tickets Bush said, represented in concert as ECU’s Rock songs, such as “Just a Chorus, Women’s Chorus and are $10 for the public. “They student ensemble Zamba Yawar Bill,” “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly” and Chamber Singers perform at 7:30 make it performs traditional music from “Conjunction Junction,” when p.m. April 29 at The Memorial SRAPAS easier beyond our borders on April 17 the musical hits the stage at Baptist Church in Greenville. Both Jake, Elwood and the band bring to leave in A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall. Wright Auditorium on April 4. events are free and open to the their mix of humor, music and office.” Free and open to the public. Tickets for this Family Fare Series public. For more information call mayhem to Wright Auditorium Call 252-328-6851 for information. production are $7 for youth and 252-328-6851. on March 21 with The Official $10 for adults. Call the Central Blues Brothers Revue. Presented Guest artists ON THE STAGE Ticket Office at 1-800-328-2787. by Dan Aykroyd, Judy Belushi Two talented guest artists The ECU School of Theatre and and musical director Paul Shaffer, travel to Greenville this spring. Dance will present The Great FESTIVAL the live concert show combines On March 27, concert pianist God Brown by Eugene O’Neill The Youth Arts Festival will the comedy and hits from the Yukiko Sekino presents a solo from April 24-29 at the McGinnis be March 29 on the university original movie and pays homage performance and on March 29, Theatre. Dion and Billy have both mall, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is a to Chicago’s rich history of blues, renowned flutistGary Schocker fallen in love with Margaret. And all free event, featuring hands-on performs. Both events are have secrets to hide. Their images activities for children of all ages. CAMPUS VISITORS Kymia Nawabi, The ECU Symphony Orchestra scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in A.J. on the outside both protect Rain site: Leo W. Jenkins Fine Internationally acclaimed writer who graduated under the direction of Fletcher Recital Hall, and are free their vulnerability and hide their Arts Center. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from the ECU Jorge Richter will perform and open to the public. For more emotional turmoil. Combining EXHIBIT (above) will visit campus April 2 School of Art Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto information, call 252-328-6851. realism and expressionism, this and Design No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23, brilliant tragedy of love focuses The School of Art and Design as part of the ECU Contemporary Four Seasons in 2003, will featuring Van Cliburn finalistDi on the search for identity and the MFA Thesis Exhibit opens April Writers Series. The Nigerian- Chamber Music Festival present “Not Wu at 8 p.m., April 24 in Wright devastating consequences for 21 and continues through May 16 American poet and novelist is the Also this spring the Four for Long, My Auditorium. Also on the program those who are unable to discover in the Wellington B. Gray Gallery. author of The Purple Hibiscus and Seasons Chamber Music Festival Forlorn.” are Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. a true sense of self. Tickets are Opening reception will be 5 p.m., Half of a Yellow Sun—frequent presents the free family night Nawabi’s 1 and Delibes’ Suite from the $12.50 for adults and $10 for youth. April 25. The show is free and titles on ECU course reading lists. with clarinetist Richard Mannoia artwork (right) ballet Sylvia. The Peninsula open to the public. Adichie won the on March 26, and the free Next is based on Reviews wrote, “By any Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Generation Concert III on April alchemy, Greek standard, Di Wu is an Best First Book in 2005 and the 6. The ticketed two-concert and Egyptian extraordinary artist, Orange Prize in 2009; her latest “Thrilling Season Finale” is April mythology and I would gladly work, Americanah, was published 10 and 11, featuring Thomas as well as crawl over broken in 2013. It is the story of the Sauer, piano; Soovin Kim, religions from around the world. glass to hear her Americanization of a young violin; Elina Vähälä, violin; Ara She has invented her own again.” Tickets for Nigerian woman in Obama-era Gregorian, viola; and Zvi Plesser, mythology of characters and the public are $25. America learning the difference cello, performing Bach/Mozart’s between “African-American” and landscapes speaking of death, Tickets for all the afterlife, rebirth, spirits, souls SRAPAS are Preludes and Fugues K. 404 for “American-African.” Ernest Bloch’s and the cosmos. available at www. String Trio, Piano ECU English professor Antonín Dvorák’s In these emotionally ecu.edu/arts or call Quintet No. 1, Richard Taylor describes charged drawings with life-size 1-800-328-2787. Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81. Adichie as a writer who “has, For tickets call 1-800-ECU-ARTS characters, Nawabi presents in a short time, transcended or visit www.ecuarts.com. Go to the viewer of this show with MUSIC the boundaries of her Nigerian www.ecu.edu/fourseasons for moments of enlightened New Music home and become an important more information. figure in world literature.” and transcendental states of The ECU existence from this life and School of Music Bandorama The winner of the second season beyond. The museum is located celebrates the Bring the kids when three of of Bravo TV’s Work of Art: The at 802 Evans St., Greenville. music of our time ECU’s performance bands—the Next Great Artist will have her Free admission. with the NewMusic@ Concert Band, the Symphonic work featured at the Greenville ECU Festival March 19- Band and the Symphonic Dr. James Shapiro will present Museum of Art through April 27. 23, with concerts including Wind Ensemble—hit the the Thomas Harriot Lecture

16 17 Family practice The Kornegays are living the Brody School of Medicine’s mission by providing primary care to rural communities in eastern N.C.

BY KATHRYN KENNEDY PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAY CLARK Todd ’02 ’06 Five of Kornegay’s seven children are ECU him around as his chief residents during ’06 ’08 liked East Carolina so much he Hervy Jr. ’90 ’94 graduates, with four sons following their medical school at Brody and now technically decided to stay on as an instructor in the undergraduate tenure with a degree from the works for—though mostly —Chad at Department of Mathematics. Brody School of Medicine. Vidant Duplin. with However, the Kornegay doctors were certainly First there was Hervy Kornegay Jr. ’90 ’94, They’re a big, close family. And as you might shaped by the same influences: early exposure who works today as an emergency doctor at expect, talk at Kornegay family gatherings to family medicine in a rural area and the Wayne County Memorial. Ten years later, often turns to medicine. mission of ECU’s Brody School of Medicine. Chad Kornegay ’01 ’05 followed his older “We probably talk about medicine much After the N.C. Legislature appropriated brother to ECU and then Brody. Chad is a Jon ’04 ’08 more than we should,” Hervy Jr. admits. “My the funds to get an ECU medical school hospitalist at Vidant Duplin in Kenansville. dad will call sometimes and ask for a consult, up and running 40 years ago, its members Just one year behind in school, Todd Kornegay which is quite comical because he usually set forth a three-fold mission. Brody was ’02, ’06 is practicing in Wilmington. It’s knows the answer. I think he’s testing us.” to increase the supply of primary care a more urban environment than where his physicians to serve the state, to improve the But each also say there was no grand plan for brothers work, but his work in primary care as health status of citizens in eastern North the family to follow in dad’s footsteps. Chad ’01 ’05 part of the New Hanover Medical Group is Carolina and to enhance the access of rich with the values of rural family medicine. “There was no pressure (to go into minority and disadvantaged students to a medicine),” Hervy Sr. insists. “It was each medical education. Jon Kornegay, ’04 ’08 is generally considered their own choice.” Hervy Sr. most competitive of the brothers. Can you That second mandate is paramount to the blame him? He had Chad and Todd bossing After all, youngest son Paul Kornegay four young doctors practicing varied versions

Deborah Price Kornegay ’71 ’76 ’81 graduated in ECU’s first class of nurse practitioners.

Somewhere in eastern North Carolina, there’s a Kornegay on call. It started with Hervy Kornegay Sr., a Duplin County native who finished medical school at Wake Forest University in 1957, returned to his hometown and opened the Mount Olive Family Medicine Center. Though never officially a Pirate, he now boasts an honorary degree and owns as much purple and gold as black and gold. Todd Kornegay There’s a good reason. He raised up his own Pirate Nation.

20 21 hematology consult.’ Well, we don’t have a “When you’re in the hospital you take to practice in eastern North Carolina. hematologist. We don’t have a cardiologist care of patients who are much sicker,” And I felt the place that would prepare there but two days a week right now. Chad explains. “It’s more stressful, but it’s me best for that was Brody. It was a great more rewarding.” experience. They select really excellent “We don’t do catheterizations at Duplin; people to get in med school, and so you we don’t do dialysis at Duplin. The big The quietest of the group, Chad was really get through it as a group.” thing for us is diagnosing those patients and inspired by the way his father practiced making sure we’re getting them out when we medicine, but also by the challenge of The sense of community he experienced need to. It’s important to know what you the field. at Brody has replicated itself at Duplin, know, but it’s more important to know what where a small staff must work closely to “Medicine is always changing, so it’s never Jon Kornegay you don’t know.” provide the best care for patients. the same thing,” Chad says. “Things get At least he has his brother to lean on. A updated, things get outdated. You get to “I know all the names of the nurses I work portrait of the pair smiles down on Duplin make a connection with people and their with. The doctors I work with, I have their County from a billboard standing between families in times when they’re sick. And most cell phone numbers. You form those kind Beulaville and Kenansville. They are the only of the time you get to make people better, of relationships.” two doctors serving as hospitalists at Vidant which is nice. “You can have a lot more influence at the Duplin, meaning they work full time at that “When I went to med school, I wanted smaller hospitals,” Chad continues. “So when facility rather than in clinics.

of primary care in the region that raised them. When he gets the woman on the phone, he think doing primary care in a rural setting is Primary care is the umbrella term for those delivers the diagnosis. the place to go.” practicing family medicine, internal medicine, “It’s going to be a game-time decision and All the Kornegays believe in giving back with pediatrics and obstetrics-gynecology. Chad Kornegay we’ll see how he does,” Jon tells her. “But if time and talent, which reflects the university’s “I don’t know anyone else who has four I’m not there and it starts hurting, he’s gotta motto, but also something they say is (children who are Brody graduates),” Hervy come out.” present Servire,at Brody. Sr. says, smiling. “It’s quite a story, if I say This isn’t Jon’s day job, but it’s one of the “Service was emphasized a lot at Brody,” so myself.” reasons he loves practicing medicine in Jon says. “I was helping out here at North a rural area—the bonds you build with Duplin.…A lot of (my peers) were heading Poster boys for rural medicine patients and the community. Jon attended up clinics even as first or second years.” North Duplin himself, playing basketball On the sideline of a practice field at North Jon and his brother Chad—hospitalists at and baseball as a teen. He’s happy to give Duplin High School, Jon Kornegay is eyeing Vidant Duplin—also volunteer regularly by back by acting as the school’s team doctor. and questioning a young football player. speaking to medical students at Brody. Jon Taylen Lewis, a senior defensive tackle, wears “It’s easy for a lot of people to leave and says they do their best to educate students number 58 for the Rebels. He’s got a big never come back,” Jon explains. “But for us, on the differences between practicing in a game coming up Friday night and has been the experiences I had here in the community large hospital versus their 101-bed unit with experiencing back pain. and at this high school…helped lead to the fewer resources. successes I was able to have in life.” After a brief examination, Jon pulls out his “A lot of times I’ll present cases I’ve had at cell phone and punches in a number. “If you really want to get involved and get to Duplin and ask, ‘What would you do?’” Jon “What’s your mama’s name?” he asks Taylen. know people in the community,” he adds, “I says. “(The med students) say, ‘I’ll order a

22 23 I come to work, I feel like I’m making a “Nobody (at Brody) ever says, ‘You must ments owned by his patients, including Bon difference. I’m not just running an assembly go into primary care.’ But the mission is Appetit restaurant on Carolina Beach Highway. line of patients in and patients out.” communicated to the students in a very subtle “This guy’s my squeeze,” owner Eugene way and I think that’s why they’re so effective Costa declares proudly when Todd arrives for at putting graduates into primary care.” City practice, small town values lunch. “My whole family’s squeeze. I’ve got Wilmington is only 60 miles outside Todd says it’s his responsibility to represent his number in my phone.” Pirate Nation in the New Hanover Medical Duplin County, but in terms of medical When the second of Todd’s two children was Group—a practice full of Tar Heels, he access, the urban area is worlds away. born in 2013, Todd says Costa backed up his laments. ECU paraphernalia covers Todd’s catering truck to the hospital and brought in New Hanover County has more than 23 office: a baseball cap, a panoramic photo box after box full of food. physicians per 10,000 people, according to of Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium and his framed 2011 data from ECU’s Center for Health degrees, of course. As Todd talks, a woman in fatigues comes in Systems Research and Development. to pick up a takeout order. “He’s my doctor, “We’re hardcore ECU,” Todd says of himself Compare that to 5.5 per 10,000 in Duplin too,” she tells Costa. Todd waves. or 3.9 per 10,000 in Pender County, just and his brothers. “If anybody bleeds purple, north of New Hanover. we bleed purple.” “I’ve got it made,” he says, grinning. He also describes the need to prove the rigor Nonetheless, Todd Kornegay says he’s A lifelong calling meeting a specific need in health care. of their education to people from other North Carolina universities. The young Hervy Kornegay Jr. had no “Most counties in North Carolina are doubts. He was going to be a doctor. underserved counties…when you look at “Medical school was a whirl. The first Hervy Kornegay Jr. primary care. There’s still a great shortage of couple of months were the worst because “I knew I wanted to go into medicine when I and daughter Brittney primary care doctors…in the country.” you didn’t know where you stack up against was in the second grade,” Hervy Jr. recalls. “I the rest of the class. Everybody looked used to carry a first aid kit to school. Data presented to the UNC Board of smart and sounded smart and I don’t “(Medicine) is all that I grew up with. I went Governors last year confirms that assertion. always sound so smart. We got our first to the office with my dad, made house calls Interest in practicing primary care has set of exams back…and I realized that with my dad. I started going on EMS calls declined among North Carolina medical I stacked up just fine against those other when I was 13 or 14. There’s a photo of me school graduates, which parallels a national students and my undergraduate training helping him bandage a leg. That’s the first trend. ECU graduates are the exception. had been worthwhile.” time I remember working with a patient.” “As a medical student, they put us in clinics a lot of primary care in the emergency on a different area of the Health Sciences “I wanted to do something where I could Hervy Jr., Todd and Jon all majored in and hospitals in eastern North Carolina,” department. We take care of everything from Campus—the newly founded School of As the first Kornegay son to choose East be a jack of all trades,” Todd explains of his biology as undergraduates. Chad earned Hervy Jr. recalls. “Sometimes they weren’t colds and congestion to what people more Dental Medicine. decision to specialize in internal medicine. “I Carolina, he saw ECU as the best fit for his the nicest or fanciest clinics, but you felt like (often) think about when they think about degrees in biochemistry and math. “I think you have to like your job,” Hervy do a little bit of dermatology, a little bit of life goals. After four years in Greenville, he you were taking care of people the way they the emergency department—people in “We feel like our (undergraduate) training Jr. says. “I think you have to like where cardiology, treat a lot of hypertension and applied for early acceptance to Brody— deserved to be taken care of. wrecks and with heart attacks and strokes. It is as good as training we could have gotten you live. We think people in eastern North diabetes. But we see orthopedics, too. something his brothers would also do in the can run the whole gamut in one shift.” anywhere,” Todd says. “We’re proud of ECU.” years to come. “I think East Carolina University in general Carolina are good people and are nice and “I see adolescents and adults, 15 and has been here for eastern North Carolina. As Hervy Jr. says there is greater access to they’re very appreciative. At the end of the Todd practices like he’s in a small town, up, pretty much all the way through “I always planned to come back home,” you go to school there, you embrace that.” primary care in Wayne County than counties day, you have to feel good about what you’ve where you’re bound to run into patients in (life). Most of what I do is disease Hervy Jr. says. “My brothers and I are all farther east—it had 15 physicians per done. And I think (practicing medicine) church or at the grocery store—wherever Hervy considered following his father into management, preventative care-type stuff. proud that we’re able to fulfill the mission 10,000 people according to the 2011 data gives you that opportunity.” your day takes you. family practice but felt a greater pull from But we have people come in with heart of the school, and that’s to help people in —but there exists “a large uninsured East emergency medicine. “He ruined me early attacks, big lacerations on their face or “I wanted to build long-term relationships eastern North Carolina. My dad came back population that does not have primary care.” on taking me on all those EMS calls,” Hervy broken arms. What I do encompasses with some of my patients. Seeing my dad as an home, I came back home and all my brothers says of his father. “We see complications from their untreated a lot. I’m the first place people go with example, some patients he’s seen for 50 or 60 are practicing in eastern North Carolina.” Hear more from the Kornegay high blood pressure and diabetes, and we most of their problems.” years and some families for four generations. However, his job at the hospital is not too He agrees with Todd that the ideals of deal with it,” he says. brothers in a video at Todd followed Chad to Brody because That was what made it more worthwhile service to underserved areas and the far removed, at times, from primary care. Hervy Jr.’s oldest daughter, Brittney www.ecu.edu/east. he wanted to stay in the East, and he also than just an eight to five sort of job.” importance of primary care were instilled “Unfortunately, we have a large population Kornegay, is a freshman at ECU. And though wanted a medical education focused on that In Wilmington, Todd frequents the establish­ throughout the Brody curriculum. without primary care physicians so we do brand of medicine. she’s also studying biology, she has her eye

24 25 But in late 1974, plans changed. The next their best to make the school successful. year, upon recommendation of the UNC Once in Chapel Hill, however, they Inaugural class of medical school honored Board of Governors, the General Assembly experienced a different, learn-at-your-own- appropriated $43 million for construction of pace environment. facilities and implementation of a four-year Members of the first medical school at ECU. The charter class of “All of a sudden, we didn’t have weekly exams,” one-year medical class 28 students enrolled in 1977. The school he said. Instead, students were given self- received full accreditation in February 1981, instruction packets to study on their own if Marjorie Barnwell Carr and the first class graduated that spring. they preferred. “It was so much more relaxing.” Paul Douglas Barry Today, the Brody School of Medicine at After completing medical school and a ECU enrolls 80 students with each class. residency at N.C. Memorial Hospital, John Jacob Brantley II Privette completed a fellowship in cardiology Privette ( ) retired Leon Douglas Davis at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, then from patientleft care in returned to Greenville to open his practice. James Williams DeTorre 2008 and now works as an administrator with For the first few years, he also served as Ronald William Gerbe the East Carolina Heart an ECU clinical assistant professor, with Institute at Vidant students rotating through his practice for a George Daniel Jacobs First-year medical students at East Carolina University in a classroom with Chancellor Leo W. Jenkins and Dr. Wallace R. Wooles Medical Center. He’s month at a time. David Malcolm Larsen also a board member of Privette said he, probably like most graduates the ECU medical of UNC, is proud of his medical alma Kenneth David Lempert In 1972, when he and his classmates of Dr. Wallace Wooles, a pharmacologist and room specially refurbished for the medical foundation. mater. But ECU holds a special place, too. David Blair Neeland made up the first group of East Carolina the first dean. The following year, the General students. Burden taught anatomy in a The son of a Baptist minister from Havelock (His daughter and son-in-law have medical University medical students, Dr. Douglas Assembly appropriated operating funds to double-wide trailer near Christenbury Gym. with a biology degree from ECU, Privette fit degrees from ECU.) James Sheridan Parsons Privette said they knew they had to excel. allow enrollment in the one-year program. Originally, university and state leaders the demographic East Carolina was aiming “We worked very hard,” he said. “We “We are lucky we got into medical school,” In 1972, those first 20 students arrived, intended that ECU would grow to a two- for: North Carolinians who wanted to stay in Douglas Craig Privette basically studied just about continuously, he said. “We were lucky ECU was starting followed by two more classes of 20 each, all year program, with expansion to a full four- the state, preferably in the region, to practice. except maybe Friday and Saturday night. We its medical school the year we were starting. Sheldon Michael Retchin North Carolinians, in 1973 and 1974. year program later. He and his classmates knew they had to do had regular tests. You were forced to keep up.” If ECU had not had its medical school, it’s “Oh, what an exciting time to be starting conceivable I would not be a physician now. Robert Scott Shapiro Privette was one of 20 in the program, after a medical school,” said Dr. Lynis Dohm, a All 20 members of the class feel the same way. which students transferred to UNC-Chapel Thomas Lee Speros physiologist and one of the original ECU We were at the right place at the right time.” Hill. It was the first step toward ECU having medical faculty members who still works as a Fronis Ray Thigpen its own medical school. Today, the class members have spread north diabetes researcher at the school. “The first- to Ohio, south to Florida and west to the John William Uribe “We knew we were sort of under a micro­ year class was just excited to be here. They Rocky Mountains and have impressive scope, under the gun to make sure we weren’t were all good students and worked hard.” accomplishments. For example, Dr. Sheldon George Waterhouse behind when we got to UNC,” he said. Dr. Hubert Burden, a professor of anatomy Michael Retchin is a national expert in Ray Allen Wertheim The program helped fulfill the vision of Dr. and another original faculty member, health policy and health care delivery. He is Leo Jenkins, chancellor of the newly named described the one-year program as a senior vice president for health sciences at Richard Lee Wing East Carolina University, to build a medical compromise, a chance for ECU to show it Virginia Commonwealth University Health school in Greenville. The first class was could operate a successful medical school. System and chief executive of the VCU honored in November by the ECU Medical Health System. “Considering the politics of those days, I & Health Sciences Foundation. think it was important for our people to go to “It is just fascinating to be here at a time In 1965, a year after Jenkins began his Chapel Hill and show they were just as good as when the school has clearly come into its campaign for a medical school, the N.C. any recruited at Chapel Hill and better in many own, and the earliest graduates are displaying General Assembly authorized East Carolina cases,” said Burden, who still teaches part- all of the high qualities of the profession, in Groundbreaking ceremony to establish a school and provided planning time. “Everybody was under the microscope, of the Medical Sciences Building of leadership and service, that were imagined so funds for its development. and I think everyone passed the test.” the East Carolina University School of many years ago,” said Dr. Paul Cunningham, Medicine. Left to right: Dr. William Laupus, dean of the medical school. The first ECU medical faculty members Classes were held on Main Campus in what Gov. Jim Hunt, Dr. Leo Jenkins and started work in 1970, under the leadership is now the Howell Science Complex, a Chancellor Thomas Brewer. —Doug Boyd

26 27 A voice for aphasia

ECU researchers are dedicated to improving communication for people who’ve had stroke or brain injury.

BY CRYSTAL BAITY PHOTOGRAPY BY CLIFF HOLLIS

Heather Wright

28 Research on aphasia In 2012 ECU welcomed associate professor and director of doctoral education Heather Harris Wright, whose lab is dedicated to improving communication for people who’ve had stroke or brain injury. Two of her doctoral students have a background in linguistics. “It’s a very nice complement,” Wright said. “I learn from them, too—especially with their unique background in looking at the semantics of words and sentences. They have a deeper understanding of language theory and the subtleties of language.” Wright and her master’s and doctoral students whammy since communication is very The ECU aphasia group ( ), which are investigating written and spoken important to social health and daily life, usually has eight to 12 participants,above has been communication and cognitive abilities across Wright said. offered the past three years. the adult lifespan. She is recruiting people with aphasia to participate in a study. It’s important for people with aphasia to “We’re always trying to find different not be isolated, Wright said. “Patients activities to do and contacting different “I’m interested in how individuals can continue to improve if they stay aphasia groups to see what’s working,” communicate and what role their memory, series of strokes changed Ervin and Susan graduate students and faculty in the Department of communicatively active,” she said. “It won’t said Sherri Winslow, clinical supervisor attention, and executive function abilities be rapid but they will improve. It can have a in communication sciences and disorders. Harris’ plans for retirement but not their Communication Sciences and Disorders through games, play in their ability to communicate with positive domino effect.” “The class provides a connection with outlook for living a good life. drawings or other mental exercises. A others,” Wright said. “One of the main other people in addition to practicing Engaging with others, using language, Active in the church and in the Bear “He’s a social person. Seeing other goals is to develop a normative database communication skills. Communication is listening, reading, emailing—anything that Grass community where he and his people deal with the same issues he for discourse ability for comparison to not just speaking, but writing, gesturing individuals with aphasia to better diagnose uses language—is helpful, Wright said. wife live, 63-year-old Ervin Harris is, at different stages, gives him hope and reading. It’s a safe place where they can communication difficulties in aphasia. had four strokes just days apart in and encouragement,” said Susan ’80 connect with others of similar experience.” Ultimately we want to determine best The road ahead April 2011. The first came after ’85. “This group has allowed him to Ervin and Susan Harris have been supported practices for improving communication Because it’s not well known, there often physical therapy for knee surgery. share his interests. That’s normalcy. abilities in individuals with aphasia.” by their friends and family, and hope to help “We went directly from rehabilitation Individuals don’t go back into a are misperceptions about people who have educate others about aphasia. to the emergency room,” Susan said. cocoon of illness; independence is As people age, memory and attention aphasia, Wright said. “You may hear of “Just because the communication is not there the goal. And we’re reminded of that decline. “An 80-year-old tells a story very individuals living with aphasia who have been At first, Ervin was unable to swallow mistakenly confused for ‘being drunk,’ ‘not doesn’t mean the intelligence and the person’s every week.” differently than a 20-year-old,” Wright said. or talk but months of therapy helped “The intent of communication changes smart,’ or ‘intellectually impaired,’” Wright not there,” Susan said. “There is a way to him to walk, eat and care for himself The continuum of care and network as we age. Older adults look at every said. “Just because they can’t speak doesn’t communicate. When you care enough about again. A lingering effect has been of resources at ECU and Vidant opportunity to engage in communication, mean they don’t understand. Oftentimes they a person, you find a way.” aphasia, an acquired communication Medical Center have made a difference and this plays out in how they tell stories.” are able to understand every word that is said. Ervin talks often through body movement They have their memories. They just can’t disorder typically caused by stroke or in his recovery, Susan said. “Everything Wright is seeking funding for additional and facial expressions, and can say a few access the words to tell you about them.” head injury which impairs a person’s helps. We’re so thankful for where we studies to investigate interaction between words. He can write his name and address, ability to speak, understand, read are,” she said. memory and attention and communication Some communication strategies include: Susan said. “My husband could be a quiet or write but does not affect their person, but he’s not,” she said. “Everybody About 1 million Americans are living abilities in older adults and adults with using yes or no questions; engaging in intelligence, humor or personality. has a contribution to make. Although his with aphasia and approximately 80,000 new cases are aphasia and other communication normal activities and involving the individual in conversations; talking to the person, not talents have changed, he’s still a man with Ervin attends the aphasia group for two hours each diagnosed each year. It is more common than Parkinson’s impairments. The work previously has been funded by the National Institutes of Health about the person; using simpler sentences purpose. There are no accidents. We’re here Friday in East Carolina University’s College of Allied disease, ALS or cerebral palsy yet most people have not and National Institute on Aging. and emphasizing key words; repeating for a reason.” Health Sciences where participants interact with heard of it. information if needed; giving the person Older adults with aphasia—where language To learn more, visit www.aphasia.org or with aphasia time to speak and not finish has been taken away—are dealt a double myweb.ecu.edu/wrighth. East their thoughts or sentences.

30 31 sheerThe energy Marilynof Sheerer

Hard work and the radiant power of her intellect illuminated ECU’s path during a pivotal era.

BY STEVE TUTTLE PHOTOGRAPHY BY CLIFF HOLLIS

Provost Marilyn Sheerer, who steered the university through SACS reaffirmation of accreditation while cutting budgets and sparking creation of the Honors College, says she will step down at the end of the semester, take a retreat year and then return to the classroom.

32 Sheerer has served as the university’s No. of the Department of Engineering. Most “Austin (Bunch, senior associate provost) start of the national recession “I think tenure is at risk,” she North Carolina’s political journey 2 administrator since 2007. Previously importantly, she is an exemplary team and I started it to help some of these when state appropriations began says. “I’ve been put on the Board East Carolina University political science she was dean of the College of Education player and colleague to all of our academic sophomores and juniors who can’t get falling, “and now we prioritize of Governors’ Post-Tenure professor Tom Eamon tracks how North for eight years. She is one of several leadership,” Ballard said. accepted into their majors. A lot of our every dollar.” She doesn’t Review Committee. And it’s clear Carolina has politically evolved since the 1940s in The Making of a women Steve Ballard, now in his 10th majors have an entrance requirement of a 2.5 complain. “We should be held they want more teeth in post- Southern Democracy: North year as chancellor, early on tapped for his Proud of the Honors College GPA, whereas the university standard is 2.0. accountable. We can do more tenure review. So, if the faculty Carolina Politics from Kerr leadership team, and the first to step down So what do you do if you’re halfway through with less.” are about trying to protect Scott to Pat McCrory, from the Executive Council. Sheerer was present at the founding of ECU’s college, have a passing GPA but can’t get tenure, they better do a good job published in January. Many will say her greatest now-booming Honors College. “Without accepted into a major?” of reviewing people.” Eamon outlines the state’s Sheerer started as a high school English Marilyn’s foresight, persistence and leadership, achievement was creating among stormy political and social teacher after graduating from Bloomsburg the Honors College would not exist nor If those students pursue the university the largest online degree programs She says decisions about most history, explaining how State College in Pennsylvania. She earned studies degree, they are more likely to in the UNC system by partnering things, including tenure, too North Carolina played would it be the best model for honors colleges a pivotal role in 21st a master’s degree at Syracuse University in North Carolina,” says Marianna Walker, remained engaged academically and more with community colleges to train often turn on a dollar. She century American history. and a Ph.D. at Ohio University. She was a who became dean there in July 2013. likely to graduate, Sheerer says. schoolteachers for the region, and mentions the time about four He said the state has department chair at Edinboro University of then obtaining funding for the years ago when the ECU Board “often been a test tube “I’m not sure I knew at the beginning what for the political strains Pennsylvania and Northern Illinois University Connecting women to opportunities initiative from Wachovia Bank. of Trustees, over the objection in American society,” before coming to East Carolina in 1996. an impact it would make,” Sheerer says. of the SGA, voted to raise the “I remember approaching (N.C. with influential political “We collected all this data that showed we Sheerer quietly has coached a group of student activity fee. The extra figures that include “I don’t want to retire because I don’t know Community College President) were losing a lot of bright students who younger women faculty who now occupy revenue would go toward the Republican Senator what I would do,” she says. “I am serious came here, did well, and then transferred emerging leadership positions. Scott Rawls when he was Jesse Helms and Olympic Sports Complex. Democratic Governor about wanting to retool and I need time to do someplace where they would be more president at Craven Community Dotson-Blake, the faculty member in the Jim Hunt. that. I bought a new computer (to organize academically challenged. College, and I said, ‘if I put an “All that stuff we have (in the teaching files). I feel obligated to come back College of Education, is one of those ECU faculty member on your Olympic sports venues) is The book begins immediately after World War II, with here or teach in another UNC institution.” “We needed to do something to increase the mentees. She said that for Sheerer, “leading campus and we did a partnership wonderful, and I admire Terry academic profile of the institution, which is as natural as breathing; it is just what descriptions of how elections from this around preparing teachers, would Holland, but I can show you labs date to the present reflect the strengths Sheerer says she and her husband plan to would change the image, and I think the she does. She makes connections, identifies you give me some rent-free down here that are inferior. I like and weaknesses of a society, in addition relocate to Wilmington where her daughter Honors College has accomplished that.” resources and maps the assets in her space?’ And he did. Suddenly, sports but I do think that we to the foresight and shortcomings of the and two grandchildren live. She also has a son state’s leaders. community as easily as most people consider it became possible for a lot of need to keep it in perspective, so in New York City who is helping her organize Sheerer is admired across campus even where to go for lunch.” people who were in these local I was really disheartened that the “It is the most detailed coverage to date of teaching materials on her new computer. though she often was the bearer of bad North Carolina’s modern elections, a story budget news. Tighter budgets require heavier “She has a way of connecting women to communities—a lot of them were board voted the other way. I think of how and why they came out as they did,” She hopes to return as a full professor in faculty teaching loads and other belt- one another and to new opportunities,” says teacher assistants, bus drivers—to­ that was a bad signal.” Eamon said. ECU’s higher education doctoral program. get a four-year degree and stay tightening measures recommended by the Elizabeth A. Swaggerty, another mentee. Another thought comes, and she A native of Kinston, That’s the route back to the classroom blazed there as classroom teachers.” Eamon grew up in Program Prioritization Committee. waves her arms as if to embrace by former Chancellor Richard “Dick” Eakin. School of Communication Chair Linda Durham. He earned In an era of escalating tuition rates and Kean says, “One of Marilyn’s greatest the whole university mall. a bachelor’s in Often compared to the Energizer Bunny ‘I feel lucky’ political science student debt, Sheerer believes it’s important strengths lies in her candor. I have always felt “What this place will look for her infectious energy and enthusiasm, from the University for the university to remain focused on as if she speaks her mind and gets straight to Bridging the mental gap between like five or 10 years from now of the South in 1965. Sheerer—who is barely 5 feet and rail graduating students on time, which puts the point. I like that no-nonsense approach her provost’s responsibilities and will be completely different. From UNC-Chapel thin—is known for an even temper, a dogged demands on the curriculum. “The bottom because it feels very honest.” her roots in the classroom often is Hill, he earned a We won’t have nearly as many master’s in political determination and an engaging smile. line is that we are committed to providing Sheerer came to East Carolina as chair of a challenge, Sheerer says. students on campus, filling up science in 1969 and the courses that students need to complete a Ph.D. in political “I have seen her walk off one of the world’s the Department of Elementary and Middle “One of the things that this that big football stadium. Most their degrees,” Sheerer said. science in 1975. fastest speedboats and back into the office Grades Education, becoming dean of position has to deal with is of them will be watching that for another five hours of work with just a Another project was creating ECU’s first education one year later. game on TV at home, registered Eamon is associate professor of political the perception of the faculty science at ECU. smile and a laugh about the interesting places University Manual, which required a rewrite as DE students!” While she was dean the college won two that there is this big difference her leadership role takes her,” says Kylie of the Faculty Manual. Walker was chair of The Making of a Southern Democracy: national awards for excellence in teacher between administrators and Then with a finger she flips those P. Dotson-Blake, a faculty member in the the faculty during the long and strenuous North Carolina Politics from education. She smiles and a laugh escapes faculty. I have never felt that worries away and the smile is Kerr Scott to Pat McCrory College of Education. process. “I applaud her for her dedication recalling those years. “That was back in I have made enough progress back. She knows she worked hard, The University of North Carolina Press to shared governance and for her ability to 416 pages, $39.95 Ballard said Sheerer “has made a huge the day when we had money—of course in narrowing that gap. I don’t made a big impact and is leaving collaborate across faculty and administrator difference for ECU.” we didn’t know then that we had it—and I know it’s any different here than a legacy. lines,” Walker says. elsewhere; I just thought I could “She is largely responsible for initiating rarely had to say no to anything.” “I feel good about having been Among Sheerer’s recent initiatives is ECU’s do a better job at that.” huge game changers at ECU, including Sheerer notes that she became provost at the here. I feel lucky.” new bachelor’s degree in university studies. Sheerer sees seismic shifts ahead. the Honors College and the expansion East FACULTY BY BOOKS

34 35 Feeling the heat As ECU prepares to move up to a tougher athletic conference on July 1, the team facing the greatest challenge isn’t football. It’s basketball. BY STEVE TUTTLE PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROB GOLDBERG JR. ILLUSTRATIONS BY MIKE LITWIN

Most people think East Carolina, with Shane This fall the men’s basketball team begins seasons, he’s produced the best ECU teams C-USA semifinals. During the season the Carden returning at quarterback, will score conference play with, among others, UConn, in a generation. Lady Pirates thrilled the student body with early and often during football games this fall which has played in 30 NCAA tournament a 14-1 home record. After an appearance in He’s upgraded ECU’s nonconference in the new American Athletic Conference. In games and won three national titles, most the WNIT—the school’s first postseason schedule to include games against Carolina, their last season in Conference USA before recently in 2010-11; Cincinnati, which has game in three years—Macy was voted Duke and N.C. State. The Pirates were moving to a tougher league, the Pirates racked two NCAA titles, appeared in 26 March C-USA coach of the year. competitive in all three, kept the score close up 10 wins, beat N.C. State and North Madness games and reached the Sweet 16 in and had chances to win. But ECU’s lack of Now in her fourth season, Macy has proven Carolina on the road, and went bowling for 2012; and Memphis, which has 13 straight polish showed in three losing scores. to be a wily coach and an astute recruiter the seventh time in the last eight years. 20-win seasons and made it to the Sweet 16 with an ability to spot talented junior college four of the last five seasons. There will be more games like that on After you’ve played—and beaten—your players and transfer students. With UConn the basketball teams’ schedules in coming bigger ACC cousins, it’s just not intimidating Of all the ECU sports programs, the looming on the schedule, Macy knew she seasons—more N.C. States and fewer N.C. to think about playing UConn, Memphis change in conferences probably will have the couldn’t wait for a bunch of high school Wesleyans. Conference rules say members and the other new conference schools on this greatest impact on the women’s basketball recruits to mature. She needed players with must play nonconference teams within certain fall’s football schedule. team. Talk about a step up in competition; game experience. RPI rankings. So, you can say so-long to the Lady Pirates will have to contend with But it’s a whole different ball game to think Chowan and other Division II schools on In the past two seasons she recruited the the seven-time NCAA national champion about playing UConn, Memphis and the ECU’s usual early-season calendar. top high school player in North Carolina UConn Huskies. At 25-0 late in the season, other new conference schools on this fall’s and signed three highly regarded junior the Huskies were on track for an eighth Women’s basketball coach Heather Macy basketball schedule. college transfers. Her team burst out of national title. thought she would have two years to the gate in November, rolling to eight prepare for this jump in competition. The consecutive victories. university said in November 2012 it would Who will we be playing? join the new conference as a football-only But attendance at women’s basketball games American members as of July 2014 member for 2014 and other sports a year or continues to average just under 1,000, so later. But that timetable was moved up. according to Tom McClellan, ECU assistant We’re in the “Big East,” except…

East Carolina announced last March that it athletic director for media relations. East Carolina was aiming to exit The league prefers to be called “the will step into the American on July 1 as an Macy believes her team will perform better Conference USA and join the Big East American” because going by its initials all-sports member. just as the Big East nearly collapsed might cause confusion with the ACC. if fan support keeps growing. She hopes during the conference realignment Central Florida Cincinnati Connecticut East Carolina Houston That gave Macy just one recruiting season to 8,000-seat Williams Arena will be full when madness in 2011 and 2012. In all, 14 Big ECU said in November 2012 that it prepare to face the Huskies. And, she quickly UConn comes to town. East schools left for other conferences, would join the new conference as a and 15 other schools announced plans football-only member for 2014 and points out, only a year for ECU and Minges Also in his fourth season, Lebo has led the to join (eight as all-sports members, other sports a year or so later. But Coliseum to prepare to host a conference and four for football only). that timetable was moved up. East Pirates to the school’s first-ever postseason game against an opponent like UConn. Carolina announced last March that it Southern tournament championship. The Pirates Three of the latter group eventually will step into the American on July 1 South Florida Methodist Temple Tulane Tulsa “It’s going to take a lot of different resources posted back-to-back winning records, the backed out and seven other schools, as an all-sports member. known as the Catholic 7, announced to make this transition,” Macy says. first time that had happened in 19 years. that they would leave as a group and ECU joins the American in the “Mainly it means we will need our fan and take the Big East name with them. conference’s second season, filling a “For basketball this is a substantial jump for That’s the startling reality sinking in on Is ECU a basketball school? community support. Because we are going to The incoming schools then chose the spot created by Louisville’s move to us,” Lebo said. “Today there are three top-10 American Athletic Conference name. the ACC. play in these venues…in front of five-to-ten many ECU fans. Playing in the American, as When ECU does take the court against teams in the conference. We are going to be thousand people. And we need to make sure the conference prefers to be known, probably UConn, don’t be surprised if the score playing a lot of national programs, schools that when they come to Greenville that we won’t offer any David-and-Goliath moments is close—in both the men’s and women’s that have been playing on the national are meeting that expectation.” high school), so it will take us time to get place. We have an intimidating place and a for the football team. We’ve won against games. If that happens, it could be the stage for a long time. We will be playing into that level of recruiting. Remember, we fun place to play. Our students have been most of these teams before. Moreover, moment people stop saying ECU is just a in big-time arenas against people who are are a program that has had only two winning terrific to date, they have come out for us, the football team’s road to a conference football school. Hit the ground running accustomed to winning.” championship won’t have to run through seasons in 36 years, so it will take some time and I think they will really come out when Macy has invigorated a women’s basketball Tuscaloosa, Ala., or Tallahassee, Fla. To prepare for a higher level of Having only one recruiting year to prepare for our recruiting to take that step up.” they see who we’re playing, and that it’s going competition, ECU men’s basketball coach program with a proud history but without makes the job tougher, Lebo said. “Most to be on television.” He’s looking forward to that first conference But basketball? Its road ahead is a lot rockier, Jeff Lebo seems to be taking a page out of a conference title since 2007. Her team good players have been recruited (all through with lots of Goliaths. the Pirate football team’s playbook. In past was 22-10 in 2012-13 and made it to the game in Minges. “We don’t have a huge

38 39 No more apologies Charlotte, also against an ACC team; the While many financial details have yet to be New Era Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium worked out—the first conference schedules ECU IN THE AMERICAN For years, ECU’s weak basketball program ECU IN THE AMERICAN in New York against a Big 12 team; the won’t be announced until later this spring— was cited as an argument against the BBVA Compass Bowl in Birmingham, Ala., Floyd says membership in the American will school’s bid to move up to a premier sports Capacity of against an SEC team; the AutoZone Liberty add at least $1 million a year to the ECU conference. The blame mostly was laid on baseball field: tied for 1st Bowl in Memphis, Tenn., also against an athletics budget. East Carolina’s inadequate facilities, which Largest: ECU, Tulane, SEC team; and the Beef ‘O’Brady Bowl in St. coaches said inhibited recruiting. Houston – 5,000 Smallest: Temple – 1,000 Petersburg, Fla., against a C-USA team. Out with the old logos But with the opening of the new Smith- Capacity of Reynolds Center beside Minges Coliseum— Shelley Binegar, associate athletic director basketball arena: 9th for external relations, says that to her, the $17 million basketball practice facility ECU IN THE AMERICAN Largest: Cincinnati – 13,176 mostly paid for by the Pirate Club— joining the new conference means thousands ECU: 8,000 coupled with Macy’s and Lebo’s recent win- of small changes. “Every logo on every Smallest: Tulane – 3,600 loss records—tangible signs are emerging of sports uniform, home and away, for all 19 ECU’s commitment to basketball. channels way up there in the 600s that a lot postseason tournament. Eighteen regular- of our teams, will have to be changed,” she of people don’t even get.” season games will be televised nationally. The says. “All the flags over the football stadium, tournaments against nearby schools, not a “When we bring recruits on campus, we women’s basketball tournament semifinals every logo on our website, every business That’s how Nick Floyd, ECU’s executive home-and-away conference schedule. walk them and their parents through that and the championship game will be on card and page of letterhead that we use— associate director of athletics, describes what building and we tell them, ‘You can see the ESPN or ESPN2. we must have all those changed by July 1.” While details are still being worked out, many the move to the American will mean to the Size of investment ECU has made in basketball.’ of ECU’s Olympic teams will begin playing average Pirate fan. Beginning this fall, the American conference student body: 7th The conference change also upends And then I hear them say, ‘Wow, basketball a conference schedule. That will substantially football champion will compete in the Largest: UCF – 59,767 traditional practices and expectations for really is important at ECU,’” Macy says. The ink was barely dry on the documents raise the level of competition for those College Football Playoff semifinals—the ECU: 27,816 ECU’s Olympic sports teams. In C-USA, creating the conference last March when the teams—and the size of the budgets after After the Smith-Reynolds tour, Macy says new playoff system that replaces the BCS Smallest: Tulsa – 4,352 the golf, tennis and track and field teams league announced a $126 million, seven- accounting for additional travel expenses. she asks recruits one question. “I say, do bowl system—if it is among the top competed most often in invitational year contract with ESPN to telecast its East you want to compete against the best there four teams following the regular season. is? You come here, you play UConn twice football and basketball games through 2020. a year. And that means you will play on Separately, the conference signed a six-year, national TV at least twice a year, because $54 million deal with CBS to broadcast ECU IN THE AMERICAN all of their games are.” other basketball games and some Olympic sports games. Other coaches talk about competing in the American A big TV contract The conference championship football game, which is expected to begin in 2015 “It’s the difference between our games Track and field coach Men’s golf coach Men’s tennis coach Soccer coach Baseball coach after the Naval Academy joins, will be Curt Kraft Press McPhaul Shawn Heinchon Rob Donnenwirth Billy Godwin being seen on ESPN instead of those cable carried by ABC or ESPN in early January “In our sport, we “The American could be “We are looking “There is no question “I really believe this on what’s known as college championship already were in a very one of the nation’s best forward to being a very that the American league has a chance Population of competitive world with conferences for men’s competitive tennis is a step up in talent to be a top baseball ECU IN THE AMERICAN Saturday, the contract states. local community: 9th Central Florida and Tulsa; golf. UCF is a perennial conference with several level. I joked with the league. Only two of the then you add these (old top-20 team. Southern highly ranked national Memphis coach that we schools—Connecticut Largest: UCF – 2.1 million In men’s basketball, all games controlled Big East) schools and Methodist has made programs. We are one are getting the band and Temple—are by the conference will be televised on one ECU: 86,000 it just became a much tremendous investments of the few sports that do back together again. unfamiliar to us in UConn – 15,400 of the ESPN family of channels. More Smallest: better league. I’ve been in their program’s not play a full conference We have had some big baseball. (The six to about every facility infrastructure. So schedule, and the games through the years former C-USA schools than 63 percent—a minimum of 107 in the league, and our has Houston, which American is looking at against Memphis, UCF, now in the American) conference games­—will be carried on Olympics Sports village has won over 15 having us play a soft SMU and Tulsa. We also competed for the league national broadcast or national cable. The Otherwise, the league would place its facilities are right up national titles. Tulsa is conference schedule had big games years ago championship or were in champion in the Cotton Bowl, Fiesta Bowl there if not the best.” traditionally a top-40 (against) about half the against Cincinnati and the top half of the league conference postseason basketball tournament program and is coached teams in the league South Florida when they year in and year out. I also will be on national television, with the or Peach Bowl if it is ranked higher than the by Bill Brogden ’65, each year.” used to be in C-USA. All love the fact that we are an ECU alumnus who of the teams are well- centrally located from a championship game televised on ABC or champions of Conference USA, the Mid- American Conference, the Mountain West is in the Golf Coaches coached, and there are travel standpoint.” Capacity of ESPN. Association Hall of some great facilities in football stadium: 5th Conference and the Sun Belt Conference. Fame. Memphis and the conference.” In women’s basketball, nearly 60 conference South Florida are both Largest: Temple – 68,532 games will be televised on national cable, The American has reached deals to send excellent programs. ECU: 50,000 teams to six bowl games. Those are the We have our work cut Smallest: Tulsa – 30,000 regional sports networks and ESPN3, out for us to keep up in including the entire women’s basketball Russell Athletic Bowl in Orlando, Fla., this league.” against an ACC team; the Belk Bowl in

40 41 Athletics adopts Race for scholarships 2013 Stokes High School, King. Laura Elizabeth White wed Tyler revised logo Alexandra “Alex” Boncek is The East Carolina Alumni Edwin Clark on Aug. 3 at United executive director of Nash Methodist Church, Morehead East Carolina’s Department Association’s seventh annual County Travel and Tourism. John City. The wedding party included Pirate Alumni Road Race and Hart is an instructor of computer of Athletics is tweaking Leslie Anne Biggs ’10, Edwin technology in the School of the popular “Skull and Fun Run will be Saturday, Lafayette Clark Jr. ’79, father of Business, Engineering and April 12, starting at 9 a.m. the groom, William Lafayette Crossbones” logo as the Technical Studies at Davidson Clark ’13, Sarah Elizabeth Lloyd university moves into “Paint It Purple” is this year’s County Community College. ’11 and Justin Taylor White. the American Athletic theme because runners will 2012 She teaches at Faith Christian be dusted with purple and Conference. Athletics also Eric Bentz received a direct Academy, and he works at St. released a strategic plan to gold colored powder along commission to first lieutenant Peter’s Catholic School. guide ECU as it adjusts to the the way. The cost is $15 in in the USAF Medical Service 2011 Corps. He is stationed at advance, and $20 the day of Mitch Gay joined Service Roofing greater media exposure it will Ellsworth AFB, S.D., as the chief & Sheet Metal Co. as a salesman, experience in the new league. the race. Register by March 31 information officer. Jessica estimator and project leader in to guarantee a T-shirt. Details Emery was promoted to account the company’s Greenville office. The strategic plan and brand executive at Buchanan Public can be found at PirateAlumni. He was a vice president and identity initiative includes Relations, Ardmore, Pa. Kaitlyn com/RoadRace. For more commercial relationship manager Marie Harrison wed Donald Lee the “Undaunted” video, at BB&T. Richard J. Gough information, contact Director Howard Jr. on June 22 at Open is president of the newspaper ads in major Door Ministries, Greenville. The of Alumni Programs Shawn Technical College dailies across the state, wedding party included Matt Moore ’91 ’98 at 252-328- of the Lowcountry, Burnette, Kayla Chandler ’09 television commercials Beaufort, S.C. He 5775. All proceeds benefit ’10, Jessica Harrison ’09, Joshua and billboards. “ECU is was executive vice the Alumni Scholarship Harrison ’07, Megan Pulaski president of Undaunted” is the title of the ’10 and Miriam Wamer ’09. program, which has awarded Sandhills video at YouTube. She teaches second grade in more than $250,000 to 178 Community Cumberland County. College, Pinehurst. Fred Rowe ECU Director of Athletics Jeff students since 2005. Sara Lewis, a formulation wed John Michaels on Aug. 12 at development specialist at Metrics Compher said the updated the District of Columbia Superior Inc., Greenville, earned the brand identity initiative will Save the date Court, Washington, D.C. He is a certified pharmaceutical industry software architect for IBM in help achieve a departmental The Magnolia Belles, an professional credential. There Raleigh. Scott Senatore is are only 76 CPIP-credentialed goal of building a consistent, change was 15 years ago. nationally televised Thursday all-female a cappella president of Greenville-Pitt pharmaceutical professionals recognizable and nationally night home contest against group sponsored by the County Chamber of Commerce. “I think the new ECU brand worldwide. Katelyn Fowler Larissa Tripp opened Limited respected image. Virginia Tech, will continue its East Carolina Alumni Peyton wed Parker Reynolds is clear, bold and true to the DanceWorks in Snow Hill. Alan mid-field visibility at Dowdy- Association, will hold their Bateman on April 13 at Cypress Tromba won the Clair Armstrong “The timing of this branding East Carolina spirit,” student Landing Yacht Club, Chocowinity. Ficklen Stadium and at mid- annual spring concert on Endowment Award for his Greenville furniture maker Stuart Kent ’08 recently initiative could not have been body president Tim Schwan The wedding party included court inside Williams Arena at April 27. Come hear their lithograph “Monotony” in the completed a yearlong teaching and research project in Costa Kassy Mosley ’13. Suzanne better from all perspectives,” said. “A uniform Pirate autumn 2012 show, “Images,” at Rica underwritten by a Fulbright Core Grant. He worked as Minges Coliseum. renditions of modern pop Wilson Ruff wed Andrew Compher said. “The new identity is a must if we are the Jacksonville Council of the a visiting assistant professor of sculpture at the National Kenyon O’Neal on Sept. 7 at —ECU Sports Information hits as well as the fight Arts. Kathryn Anne Zabriskie University of Costa Rica, where he taught workshops on primary icon, wordmarks and to become a national brand the home of her parents. The song and alma mater! A wed Austin Kent Smith on April wood joinery and finishing, and helped develop a curriculum typography offer consistency and this initiative creates wedding party included Ethan Golden Alumni reunion 27 at Kenan Chapel, Wilmington. for furniture design. The project raised awareness of two CD of their repertoire is Dail ’13 and Lauren Tuttle. She is and present an opportunity a consistent mark that The wedding party included species of sustainable, tropical hardwoods. He organized also available for purchase. a nurse at Wake Forrest Baptist The class of 1964 will Jordan Proctor ’07 and Tess exhibitions to demonstrate possible uses for these two trees. for East Carolina to gain embodies East Carolina and Health, Winston-Salem, and he celebrate 50 years as Pirates For more information, Martin ’09 ’11. She works for Since returning to the United States Kent has worked to a fresh national presence our Pirate spirit.” is a physical education teacher visit PirateAlumni.com/ Netsertive. connect timber growers in Costa Rica with American lumber through its placement and during a Golden Alumni and head soccer coach at West With the implementation of Reunion this spring. Members MagnoliaBelles or call dealers, opening a viable path to market for a cost effective usage. At the same time, I and sustainable new raw material. He organized the nation’s the updated primary icon, 800-ECU-GRAD. believe it also symbolizes will be honored during first major international public art event, after which the the bearded “Pirate Head” our tradition by maintaining commencement and other works by artists from seven nations were donated to the city logo that has represented 2014 Pirate Voyages of Heredia. Kent was assisted in his work by his wife, Susan classic elements from ECU’s activities the weekend of ECU Athletics since 1998 Kent ’04. They returned from Costa Rica in September. storied history.” May 8-9. The event begins Discover the flavors of will remain on the branding Thursday afternoon with northern Italy (May 24- The tweaking of East roster as a legacy mark for campus and a celebration June 1) or experience the Carolina’s existing graphic use in areas such as the Hall with graduating seniors. chills and thrills of Alaska identifiers are part of of Fame, Letterwinners and Friday morning golden alumni (Aug. 9-16, 2014) on the The Great 100 Nurses, an effort to streamline, other tradition aspects to tie will lead the class of 2014 into Alumni Association’s 2014 which promotes nursing excellence in North Carolina, has strengthen and better define the past to the future. the graduation ceremony, Pirate Voyages. Enjoy the recognized in its 2013 Great 100 Nurses the following Vidant ECU’s brand. The initiative However, the logo will remain have lunch with the university camaraderie of a small group will better enable ECU to Health nurses: Christine Barnes ’10, Lana Brunk ’86 ’07, Leanne available on retail products. historian then a dinner. For of friends connected by ECU. manage the use of its brand more information, contact All alumni and friends are Perkins Coore ’03, Jessica Griffin ’01, Barbara Malpass ’93, images, Compher said. The “Pirates State of Mind” Christy Angle ’95 at 252- welcome. Call 866-639-0079 Danielle McMullen ’08, Kimberly Pittman ’10, Susan Redding graphic, which made its debut The last significant logo 328-1958 or Christy.Angle@ or visit PirateAlumni.com/ ’00 and Chandra Speight-Rahilly ’96 ’02. in November 2009 prior to a PirateAlumni.com. PirateVoyages.

42 Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Clark ’84 2010 Hunter is public information Rock Springs Center, Greenville. was named commander of officer for the Greenville Police The wedding party included Margaret Rachael Arnold wed Walter Reed National Military Department. She is a former Addison Cox ’10 ’13, Kristin EAST CAROLINA ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME James Cleveland Wrenn on Aug. Medical Center in Bethesda, reporter and producer for WNCT Gordon ’11, Brittany Hawkins ’12, Five former outstanding athletes were inducted 3 at the Wrenn family home in Md. He assumed command Channel 9, Greenville. Kristen M. Daniel Jones ’11, Matthew Oakley into the East Carolina Athletics Hall of Fame Henderson. The wedding party in September and is the first Kennedy was sworn into the Pitt and Robyn Sauls ’12. She is a on Nov. 8. They are basketball standouts included Meredith Magnuson ’13 Army officer to lead the facility, County Bar Association. Steven math teacher at Farmville Middle Sylvia Bragg ’87 of Chesterfield, Va., and the and Adam Robinson. Richard known as “the president’s Macgilvray was sworn into the School and a part-time tutor late Donald B. Harris ’57 ’60 of Sierra Vista, Paul Barnhill wed Megan Alicia hospital.” Clark has spent Pitt County Bar Association. at Huntington Learning Center. Ariz.; swimming and diving star Tammy Gajewski on April 12 at The 29 years in the Army. Born Anne Mann is finance director for He is a physical education/ Putnam-Lenox ’82 of Raleigh; football Octagonal Garden, Middleton in La Grange, he attended the town of Nashville. She was health teacher and coach at standout Harold Randolph and the Plantation, Charleston, S.C. The Davidson College on an ROTC a CPA with Flowers and Stanley Washington High School. late Carter Ray Suggs ’79 of wedding party included Blake scholarship, then came to ECU’s LLP. Ashdon Lauren Martin Tarboro, who Smith. He is a meteorological 2009 Brody School of Medicine on an wed Brian Christopher Little on excelled in track software tester for Raytheon, Army scholarship. His wife, Sue, May 28 at Sandals Grande St. Tara Austin is assistant district and field. Former Silver Spring, Md. Whitley is a 1980 ECU nursing graduate. Lucian Resort, Castries, St. Lucia. attorney in District 19-B NFL quarterback Timberlake Brown wed Ann They have three children. She is an RN at East Carolina (Randolph, Montgomery and David Garrard ’01 Brooks Skinner on Oct. 19 Before taking over at Walter Heart Institute, Vidant Medical Moore counties). She earned her of Jacksonville, at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Reed, Clark commanded Europe Center, Greenville. Meagan law degree at Elon University. Fla., and former Church, Wilson. The wedding Regional Medical Command, Caitlin Moore wed Christopher Jessica Lauren Jennings ’09 ’12 football coach party included Tyler Patrick Heidelberg, Germany, and prior Lee McFarland on Oct. 26 at wed Jonathan William Polk on Steve Logan, Bolton ’09, Christopher Lee to that commanded Landstuhl the Chapel at South Harbour, April 6 at Mount Herman United who were Eisenzimmer ’10 ’12 and Daniel Regional Medical Center in Southport. The wedding party Methodist Church, Lizzie. The elected to the Staten Waters ’09 ’10. He is Landstuhl, Germany. He has included Leslie Sugg. She works wedding party included Justin Hall of Fame last a broker with NAI Carolantic served in Korea, Kosovo, Iraq for Mission Hospitals, Asheville. Culpepper, Chelsea Duffy ’09 year but unable Realty, Raleigh. Chris Dorman and in New Orleans during relief William Thomas Osborne wed ’11, Sarah McLawhorn ’05 ’09, to attend the is senior vice president and efforts following Hurricane Karanda Velvet Fletcher on Sept. Angel Reavis ’09 ’10, Meredith ceremonies, also CEO for Tift Regional Health Katrina. —Doug Boyd 21 at The Citadel Beach House, Southworth ’06 and Ashton were enshrined during System, Tifton, Ga. He was Isle of Palms, S.C. He is a flight Turnage. She teaches math the Homecoming festivities. an administrator in a CEO respiratory practitioner with at Cape Hatteras Secondary development program at Air Ambulance Caribbean Inc. School, Buxton. He works for the Southside Regional Medical Kayla Anne Strayer wed Jeffrey National Park Service at Cape Center, Petersburg, Va. Kristen Landon Walker on July 20 at Hatteras National Seashore.

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She is a media specialist that faculty and arriving at East Carolina, she years of work MacLeod Koonce on Oct. 5 at ’11 wed Jesse Wilson Harris in Edgecombe County Public students often was disappointed to learn she at the medical All Saints Episcopal Church, III on April 13 at Fearrington Schools. Dr. Jacob Enterkin had to defend the was paid less than male faculty school weave Roanoke Rapids. The wedding Village, Pittsboro. The wedding joined Carolina Pines Regional school from its members doing the same through my party included Emily Black ’11, party included Abigail Medical Center, Hartsville, S.C., more established work. She demanded—and mind, creating Kyndall Guest, Emmett Koonce Parker Elmore ’09, Allison as a neuro-interventional and rivals. M. Evelyn got—equal treatment from a warm tapestry ’67, father of the groom, Elsa Freuler ’07, Ashley Gwaltney diagnostic radiologist. Kamesha McNeill, who taught neuroanatomy from the university. She writes that of goodwill, Swenson ’10 and Jason Wood Covington ’10 and Katie Lilley Johnson received the MEd 1972 until accepting emeritus status in 2001, she is proud of the record appreciation, ’12. She works for Vidant Medical Odell. She is an oncology in executive leadership from recalls that the first med school classes were for gender equality that the and love.” Center. He works for Professional nurse at the Duke Outpatient Gardner-Webb University. She held in trailers. “A member of the charter medical school has compiled Finance Service, Greenville. Cancer Center, Durham. Erin teaches English and social class (1977–81) reported being chided by since then. “The first one- Zero to Eighty studies at Dillard Middle School, 2008 Elizabeth McGillicuddy wed a friend at the UNC School of Medicine for year class included one Over Unpaved Tobin Wayne Hurd on Oct. 19 Goldsboro. Andrea Smith is attending medical school on a ‘used trailer woman. The second and Roads: A Memoir Rachel Brinkley ’08 ’12 at Jarvis Memorial Methodist director of testing for Nash- lot.’ After revealing the accusation in the third classes of 20 students Hardcover Marisha Wallace made her is manager of the Case Church, Greenville. The wedding Rocky Mount Public Schools. yearbook, the students sought to set the had two women each. The 249 pages Broadway debut in the ensemble Management Department party included Holly West Kourtney Elise Thompson wed record straight. ‘All of these trailers,’ he charter class of 28 students Garcia Publishing Co. of the musical Aladdin. Sarah at Nash Health Care, Rocky McGillicuddy ’94. She is a John Wesley Landen IV ’04 wrote, ‘every single one, were purchased had seven women. When I $29.95 Michelle Whittemore ’07 ’09 Mount. John Howard Garner registered nurse at Vidant ’05 on Sept. 7 on Lollipop Bay, wed Christopher Allen Mooring wed Garner Merritt Leigh Medical Center and is enrolled Wrightsville Beach. The wedding on June 29 at the Country Club Droste on Oct. 26 at Epiphany in the family nurse practitioner party included Heather Lauren of the Crystal Coast, Pine Knoll Lutheran Church, Richmond, program at UNC-Chapel Hill. Barbour ’06 ’07, John Wesley Shores. The wedding party Va. Catherine McKenna Fodor Kelley Wernert ’08 ’11 is athletics Landen III ’77 and William Cobb included Brooke Lyerly ’09. wed Andrew Browne Jordan director, physical education Landen ’08. She is an account Garrett Elizabeth Young wed ’11 on Oct. 12 at St. Gregory the teacher and volleyball coach at executive for Loren Hope

David Robert Broyles ’04 on party included Ginny York ’05 ’05, Vance Alan Stephenson ’05 assigned to the Administrative Sept. 21 at St. Paul’s Episcopal ’07 and Elizabeth Novotny ’07 and Kyle Robert Yunaska Services Bureau of the Greenville Church, Greenville. The wedding ’11. She teaches at St. Peter’s ’07 ’09. She is a member of Chi Police Department. Angela party included Katherine Young Catholic School, Greenville. Omega sorority and teaches Garland ’05 ’07, assistant Oakley ’08, sister of the bride. Stephanie Parker-Helmkamp in Arlington Public Schools. He principal of Jacksonville High She is assistant to the CEO and is county extension director at was on the ECU cross-country School, is Onslow County School the human resources director Hertford County Cooperative team and is senior art director District’s 2013-14 Assistant with Divers Alert Network Inc., Extension. She was the family at Delucchi Plus, Washington, Principal of the Year. Regina Joy Durham. He is an attorney with and consumer sciences agent D.C. Jennifer Dawn Edwards Gatti wed Samuel Clifton Fogle Bode, Call & Stroupe, L.L.P., in Hertford and Gates counties. ’05 ’07 wed Scott Jeffrey Polner on May 18 at Press Lounge atop Raleigh. Kathleen Ann Phillips wed John on Nov. 2 on the beach at Fort the INK 48 Hotel in New York 2006 Carr Gibson on Sept. 28 at the Fisher State Recreation Area at City. The wedding party included First United Methodist Church, Kure Beach. The wedding party Alicia Belle ’03 and Meg Fox Thomas Doyle was promoted Morehead City. The wedding included Tracy L. Cone ’06, Groves. She is a recruitment to management at Stateside party included Kimberly Phillips Allison R. Currie ’10, Jonathan director for Green Key Associates, Arlington, Va. Ellis ’11, Mandria Jen Beale ’04 B. Edwards ’09, Amber B. Resources, New York City. William D. Edgar was appointed and Jill Devinney Mullis ’94. Godwin ’10, Lindsey E. McMahan Donetta Steiner Godwin ’04 ’06 by Gov. Pat McCrory to the She works for the Foundation of ’13 and Kristin S. Riley ’05 ’07. is associate director for the N.C. Rate Bureau. He is a Wilson Medical Center, Wilson. She teaches in Wilson County Greenville location of BAYADA Protecting Shane on the field of play...... commercial banker at Southern Dr. Beatrice Zepeda, a pediatric Schools. Diadra Powell ’05 ’11 is Pediatrics, a national provider of Bank and Trust Co., Rocky critical care specialist, joined finance director for the city of home health care services to Mount. Heather Dickson is ECU’s Brody School of Medicine Americus, Ga. children. She was a quality development director for the and its group medical practice, 2004 practice support consultant at Pirate Club members providing Shane N.C. Chamber of Commerce. She ECU Physicians, as a clinical the Eastern Area Health was executive assistant to first assistant professor. Ati Coughlin opened Alfredo’s Education Center, Greenville. a first class ECU education...... lady Ann McCrory. Nancy Carter NY Pizza in Greenville. Wesley 2005 Larry Bryan Holt was sworn into Gilmore is director of admissions Barnes is commercial relationship the Pitt County Bar Association. for Arendell Parrott Academy, Brian Colligan is editorial manager for the little bank, Candace Moore Kinston. She was director of page editor for the Daily Press, Greenville. He is a graduate of ’04 ’06 was Watching Shane excel on the field, in the academy’s academic center Newport News, Va. He was the N.C. School of Banking. promoted to vice the classroom and in the Eastern North and coordinator for the school’s editorial page editor for The Officer Kolenya president at BB&T extended day program. Dr. Brent Daily Reflector, Greenville. Carol Edwards ’04 ’09 where she is a Carolina community...... Lindsay Hawkins ’06 ’09 earned “Carrie” Winslow Crawley ’05 was named corporate banker his doctorate from Clemson ’08 wed Ryan Guerra Strohl ’04 “Woman of the in BB&T’s Capital University where he will join the on June 29 at The Village Chapel, Year” by the N.C. Markets Corporate faculty. Carmen Marie Pack ’06 Pinehurst. The wedding party Law Enforcement Banking department in Winston- ’07 wed Matthew Bengel Boyd included Carolyn Hunt Byrnes Women’s Salem. Matt Robbins had a show on July 20 at St. Peter’s Catholic ’07, Lindsey Leigh Chandler ’05 Association. She is of his work in 2013 at Full Circle Church, Greenville. The wedding ’07, Matthew Joseph Hanlon a personnel and recruiting officer Arts, Hickory. Jeanne Stewart

47 ’04 ’08 is a lecturer in the 2000 1996 Patrick O’Bryant Tom Tozer ’76 Department of Communication, was appointed has retired after Chesley “Chess” Margaret “Mardy” Peal is a Languages and Cultures in the to the Brunswick 40 years as a Black ’00 ’08 is senior planner with the NC Thomas W. and Robin W. College Community newspaper executive director Health and Human Services of Humanities and Fine Arts at College Board of journalist, the of IT service Department. Coastal Carolina University, Trustees. He is in last 30 at the management for Conway, S.C. 1995 medical device Charlotte Johnson & Wales sales for Johnson Observer, where 2003 University’s four- Dale Cole ’95 ’07, principal of Southside High School, and Johnson. Carol Jones he finished as Dr. Nneka Jones is a first campus system Chocowinity, was appointed by Shields ’94 ’00 is executive senior editor assistant executive director (Providence, Charlotte, Denver Gov. Pat McCrory to the Task director for Roanoke River for regional of the Cook County (Ill.) and North Miami). He is based in Force on Safer Schools. William Partners Inc., Scotland Neck, publications. Department of Corrections Charlotte. Kelley Deal received Henry Thompson II wed Laura which develops partnerships to Tozer has overseeing mental health the Nash Community College Marshall Harris at Emmanuel stimulate rural economic embarked on a strategy at the Cook County 2013 Ambassador Award. She is Episcopal Church, Southern development throughout the new career as a Jail. Patrick Kennedy received a the senior director of marketing Pines. He works for the U.S. Golf five northeastern N.C. counties freelance writer, double master’s degree in health and communication at Nash and Association. Ashley Driver Vincent bordering the Roanoke River. editor and designer. He penned a feature in administration and leadership a master’s degree candidate in and Charles Drock Vincent ’96 1993 the December issue of Richmond Magazine and organizational change ECU’s School of Communication. had their first child, a son. entitled “The Richmond Tycoon” about his from Pfeiffer University. He is 1999 Renita D. Allen Dawson ’93 ’02 wife Dana’s ’77 notable but long-forgotten compliance officer and revenue 1994 is associate vice president of Ryan Griffin was recognized by ancestor, Henry W. Rountree. In the magazine integrity manager at Nash Health continuing education services the Great 100 Inc., which honors Jeffry Cooke is head football article, Tozer tells the tale of Rountree, a Care, Rocky Mount. Adrienne at Wayne Community College, the nursing profession. He is coach at East Lee Middle School, wealthy luggage manufacturer and Although she plays a dead woman, Beth Grant ’73 DeAnne Smith wed Robert Leroy Goldsboro. Carley Eason director of critical care at Nash Sanford, of which he is an alum. civic-minded luminary in post-Civil War is receiving glowing reviews for her performance Covington Jr. on Sept. 7 at The Evans (formerly Kim Valerie General Hospital, Rocky Mount, He was the defensive coordina- Richmond. At ECU, Tozer was managing in As I Lay Dying, the new adaptation of William Imperial Centre, Rocky Mount. Kreil) works with acute care and has provided volunteer tor at SanLee Middle School, editor of the Fountainhead and a member Faulkner’s 1930 book by She is the controller at Barton patients in a nationally ranked medical assistance to earthquake Sanford, last season. Greta of the Alpha Phi Gamma honor society the same name. Directed College, Wilson. Justin Tart cardiothoracic surgery and victims in Haiti, AIDS patients Louise Fritz Metcalf, COO at of journalism. by James Franco, the film earned accredited investment gastroenterology practice. She in Uganda and residents of Jackson and Haywood County recounts the struggles of fiduciary® designation from the has published three novels and remote villages in Zambia. Psychological Services, was ap- a poor Mississippi family Center for Fiduciary Studies.TM is working on a fifth one. Merrill SaraKate Hammer is president pointed by Gov. Pat McCrory to transporting their mother’s He is a financial advisor with G. Jones II was recognized as of the board of directors for the Task Force on Safer Schools. body across rough terrain Culpepper-Jones Investment Downtown Milford Inc., Delaware. in a mule cart so she can be Group of Wells Fargo Advisors, Wendy Jordan ’99 ’12, principal buried in her hometown. Greenville. The film was first screened of Mineral Springs Elementary at Cannes (where the 2001 School, Winston-Salem, was accompanying photographs Dr. Brian Cabarrus practices appointed by Gov. Pat McCrory were taken), and later at with Vidant Medical Group, to the Task Force on Safer the Sundance Film Festival. Vidant Cardiology-Greenville. Schools. James Michael “Mike” Grant plays Addie with a Craig Conticchio ’01 ’11 is dean King ’99 ’06 is head of the Upper verve that The New York of academics at John Paul II School at Nansemond-Suffolk Times said “registers the Catholic High School, Greenville. Academy, Suffolk, Va., from strongest impression” He was teaching math and which he graduated in 1994. among the ensemble cast. science at The Oakwood School, 1998 The Hollywood Reporter Greenville. Glynis Litwin has Julie Bateman ’98 ’01 was said Franco “has pulled been inducted as a board promoted to senior vice president off a devilishly difficult member for ECU’s Friends of of BB&T, Raleigh. Matt Cook literary adaptation the School of Art and Design. exhibited his paintings at the with this faithful yet Mike Litwin has Artists Guild, Statesville, in cinematically vibrant authored his fall 2013. Steven and Luciana version” of the novel. first children’s Gambino ’01 Onufrey had twins, Despite its positive reviews, the movie was seen as an book, Lost in and he was promoted to fire art house film that might not attract a broad audience. Bermooda, lieutenant with the Fairfax County The producers canceled a planned theatrical release which was Fire and Rescue Department in to distribute the film on iTunes. Elsewhere in her busy released in Virginia. Josh Hooton ’98 ’00 is career, Grant has joined the cast of The Mindy Project. March. He has vice president and retail sales illustrated leader for the Tar River region of nearly a First South Bank, including the Wendy Leutgens ’87 of dozen Greenville and Kinston markets. Chicago, chief operating officer children’s of Loyola University Health books, 1997 System, was elected to a including Flavia Diaz-Hays is three-year term on the board of several administrative director of nursing ESTABLISH YOUR LEGACY: SUPPORT EAST CAROLINA directors of the Metropolitan New York operations at Del Sol Medical Chicago Healthcare Council. Times Center, El Paso, Texas, where A gift from your retirement plan (IRA, By utilizing this specific asset, where often the joining the Leo W. Jenkins Society, please call MCHC is composed of more bestsellers. she was director of quality 401(k), and other qualified retirement plans) greatest amount of your wealth resides, you 252-328-9573 or e-mail [email protected]. than 150 hospitals and health Vaddrick management. 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For these reasons, gifting Greg Abeyounis, CFRE County Health Department. lar total from your retirement plan to East this asset versus others with less tax burden Associate Vice Chancellor for Development Leutgens was associate hospital was an independent corporate Jennifer Griffin is Carteret Carolina University through the East Carolina Office of University Development director of professional services at Vanderbilt legal consultant. Brooke Potts County Public School System’s allows you to take better care of your heirs University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn. Prior to Preslar is principal at Pinebrook University Foundation Inc., East Carolina Uni- while leaving a perpetual legacy at ECU. This 2200 S. Charles Boulevard Exceptional Children’s Educator versity Medical & Health Sciences Foundation Vanderbilt, Leutgens was COO of PhyCor in Elementary School, Davie of the Year. She was recognized easy process can be done through one simple Mail Stop 301 Wilmington, a multispecialty group practice. County. She was assistant for her work as a physical Inc., or the East Carolina University Education- piece of paperwork (Beneficiary Designation East Carolina University principal at Pinebrook. therapist in Carteret schools. al Foundation Inc. (Pirate Club), you can help Form) provided by your plan provider. For Greenville, NC 27858-4353 future students while gaining a tax advantage. more information about this planned gift or 48 one of the 2014 Best Lawyers in 1990 Tenn., library director after 1984 North Carolina Symphony America. He handles commercial 23 years. Director of Education David Stephanie Quinn Morris was Michael L. Parnell is a health and litigation in the Winterville office Albert ’82 and Symphony appointed by Gov. Pat McCrory 1986 physical education instructor at of Ward and Smith P.A. violinist David Kilbride take

to an at-large seat on the Tryon Cape Fear Community College, Michael Zirkle Wanda Capps ’86 ’94, division part in a recent “North Carolina 1992 Palace Commission. Wilmington. Ronald E. Stone was chair of health programs at Symphony Music Discovery” named president/CEO of Adams Darrell Overton is developmental 1989 Sampson Community College, program. Supported by a grant disabilities manager at Martin was selected as a program Radio Group, Lakeville, Minn. Leah Futrell ’89 ’07 was promoted from PNC as part of its Grow Enterprises, Williamston. evaluator for the Accreditation 1983 to director of human resources Up Great initiative to improve Dr. Michael Wells Commission for Education for the city of Greenville. Kim Moody, a special events early childhood education, the is dean of in Nursing. Lois Knapton Chris Johnson is coordinator for Belk of program is the Symphony’s Campbell is superintendent of the the full-time Greenville, was one of the first for preschool audiences. University’s Canterbury School District in economic winners of the 2013 Belk Award Preschoolers and their families College of Arts Connecticut. E.R. Mason, current development of Excellence. listen to a story, hear music and Sciences. He Clinton City Board of Education director for from North Carolina Symphony was the Edna vice chair and past Clinton High 1982 Johnston County. musicians, and experience Queener Proffit School associate principal and For the past 22 Phyllis Locke Byers retired the Symphony’s Instrument Chair of Chemistry at Campbell. athletic director, was inducted years, he and his from the Cherokee County Zoo. During the month of Renee Whitford into the Shaw University Athletic wife, Kimberly Gower Johnson School District 2013 after 28 August, musicians visited six ’92 ’03, principal Hall of Fame. Dr. Chuck Mills was ’88, have owned and operated years of teaching. She received Wake County public libraries. of James W. Smith named South Carolina Office of Jewel’s Formals in Smithfield. Teacher of the Year in 1992 Programs are also planned Elementary Rural Health’s 2013 Outstanding and was team leader for many throughout the 2013-14 season 1987 School, Cove City, Rural Practitioner of the Year. years. Sally Dunn is senior vice for Fayetteville, New Bern, is Craven County Robert Davis ’87 ’03 is director He practices at Southern Medical president and retail banking Wilmington and Southern Pines. Schools 2014 of N.C. Wesleyan College Associates, Loris, S.C. manager for Alliance Bank & Principal of the Greenville and Washington Dean S. Wilkerson joined the Trust. She was vice president Year. She was the 2009 Principal campuses. Paul Hoggard local advisory board of directors and manager at Park Sterling of the Year while at Bridgeton coached the offensive line for for Wells Fargo Bank, Greenville. Bank overseeing Belmont, Mount Elementary School before the USA National 18 Under Team He is a licensed funeral director Holly and Stanley branches. coming to James W. Smith four in Austin, Texas, in 2013. Kathy and president of S. G. Wilkerson Camella Gaskill Marcom, an years ago. Pagles retired as Blount County, & Sons Funeral Home, Greenville. instructor in the nursing program

presented by the N.C. Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Recognized for more than 40 years of service to mathematics and mathematics education in North Carolina, he taught math at Farmville Central High School, was a mathematics lecturer at ECU and was an instructional coach for N.C. New Schools Project. Michael Dennis Walker ’76 of Asheboro died Jan. 26. In 2010 he retired as director of Randolph County Environmental Health. 1975 Dan Smith ’79 exhibited at the historic Lyerly House, Hickory, “Murray’s Mill: An Artist’s Vision by Dan Smith,” featuring seven artworks that capture the spirit of the historic Murray’s Mill, which is celebrating 100 years of operation. Davis H. Englert, CPA, retired as vice president-finance/treasurer of Southern Tile Distributors at Vance-Granville Community 1978 Board of Trustees, Longview, Inc., Norfolk, Va., after 32 years College, earned the designation Texas. Angela A. Robertson, of service. Previously, he was George Bell, owner of G. Bell Certified Nurse Educator. interim director of Mississippi an auditor with the U.S General We believe. Productions Ltd., was named Dr. Kenneth Olive is interim State University’s Social Science Accounting Office for six years in And so do our members. to a three-year term on the dean of Quillen College of Research Center, was recognized their Norfolk regional office. N.C. Real Estate Commission Medicine, East Tennessee State as a prolific national female by Gov. Pat McCrory. Linda 1972 University. Following selection scholar in criminology by the Teel ’78 ’80 received the Order of a new dean, he will return to Journal of Criminal Justice E. Russell Jackson, former of the Long Leaf Pine in 2013. the Alumni Association in the power of our impact on the his former position of executive Education. She is an adjunct senior vice president at the We believe We believe We believe She retired in 2013 as head associate dean for academic and professor in MSU’s sociology Florida Medical Association, of services of ECU’s Joyner enhances the reputation of our University the Pirate alumni network student experience is integral faculty affairs. department and research and received the Medical Executive Library Teaching Resources development coordinator for Lifetime Achievement 1981 Center. For 35 years she was by promoting the accomplishments of and advance the concept of to the concept of building the Mississippi Alcohol Safety Award, given by the AMA to a school media coordinator, Robert H. Ladd III is the Tarboro Education Program. honor a medical association alumni throughout the Pirate Nation. Pirates supporting Pirates. lifelong relationships. market executive for Rocky high school vocational teacher, executive who has contributed 1976 Mount-based Providence Bank. community college director of substantially to the goals and library services and an associate John P. Evans III is editor of ideals of the medical profession. 1979 professor in the UNC system. The Banner, Cambridge, Md. 1971 Join our more than 7,900 members who believe that the East Ann Roberson Kent ’79 ’87, 1977 He was editor of the Times- program chair of developmental Record in Caroline County, John Dowd merged his Patrick C. Kinlaw ’77 ’81 is Carolina Alumni Association is a Pirate’s lifelong connection to studies at Edgecombe Md., for eight years. William Edenton real estate firm with superintendent of Henrico County Community College, was named Ray Jernigan of Winterville another eastern North Carolina Public Schools, Va. He was the ECU. Show you believe in ECU by becoming a member today at recipient of the 2013-2014 Keihin received the W.W. Rankin office in Hertford and is now deputy superintendent. Larry Endowed Faculty Chair, which Memorial Award for Excellence known as United Country/ PirateAlumni.com/JoinToday. Mercer was reelected as vice rewards excellence in teaching. in Mathematics Education, Dowd Forbes Realty. His chair of LeTourneau University partner is Jake Forbes ’99.

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1966 James T. “Jim” Hammond was elected to the East Carolina THE ALL NEW Alumni Association Board of Directors. His son Steven ’92, daughter Lisa ’96 and brother J. Dean ’69 are also ECU alums. 1965 Don Parrott was appointed to a four-year term on the Louisburg College Board of Trustees. He is a 1963 graduate of the college Michael F. Edwards ’71 ’01 won and a CPA in Greenville where medals in high jump, long jump, he was mayor from 2001-2007. 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and Alan Ritter retired in 2013 after MOBILE APP discus for three bronze, two 30 years as an adjunct instructor silver and two gold medals at teaching computer science the 2013 St. Cloud/Kissimmee courses at Prince George’s Senior Games in Florida. William Community College, Largo, Md. was elected director F. Grant III 1964 and audit committee chair of FSG Inc., and FSG Bank, NA, Brenda Reges Shaw of Red Oak Chattanooga, Tenn. He is a is district governor of Rotary Three ECU College of Nursing graduates are playing major founder, director and audit International for a region in roles at the UNC Center for Transplant Care at UNC Health committee chair of Square 1 northeastern North Carolina that Care in Chapel Hill. Ken Davis ’84, Dushun Evans McCowan Financial and Square 1 Bank, includes 41 Rotary clubs. A former ’00 and Amy Sluder Woodard ’95 each heads a group Durham. He retired from the U.S. executive with Sears, she owns which includes other coordinators, social workers and Treasury Department and lives in Reges & Associates, a marketing financial counselors. Davis leads the lung team; McCowan Williamsburg, Va. E. Hayes company in Rocky Mount. leads the liver team, while Woodard leads the kidney and Petteway was reelected to a one- 1962 kidney-pancreas team. year term as chair of the Board of Trustees of Bladen Community James C. Burns was inducted College. He has been a member into the Bandmasters Hall of Fame. He was band director at Steven Combs ’92 was named since 1999. Southern Alamance High School, director of the Criminal Justice 1969 Zebulon High School, Cary Standards Division within the Claudia Alligood was High School, Daniels and Ligon N.C. Department of Justice. reappointed by Gov. Pat Middle School and East Cary The position administers the McCrory to a five-year term on Middle School. He continues Criminal Justice Training and the Historic Bath Commission, to play trumpet in jazz bands Standards Commission’s of which she is the secretary. in the Triangle area. Blanche certification program for sworn The commission acquires, Monroe ’62 ’89 was reappointed police officers. Previously FREE DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE NOW disposes, restores and maintains by Gov. Pat McCrory to a five- Combs worked for the State historic properties in and near year term on the Historic Bath Bureau of Investigation for 15 the Town of Bath in Beaufort Commission. The commission years. He began his career with County. She is a retired teacher acquires, disposes, restores and the Raleigh Police Department. with Beaufort County Schools. maintains historic properties in Stephen T. and near the Town of Bath in Smith of Beaufort County. She retired Four alumni ( shown McMillan & from her fabric design business, left to right with the Smith, Raleigh, Marbleous, in 1988. ) governor in the middle former chair who met while serving 1949 of the N.C. in student government Environmental played major roles in Gov. Management Pat McCrory’s election. Commission, ’10, Patrick Sebastian received the a nephew of McCrory, Tar-Pamlico ran the governor’s River Foundation’s 2013 Great campaign political action Blue Heron Award for committee and was state “outstanding long-term political director for Romney for President in 2012. He contributions to the protection recently came back from New Jersey where he served as of environmental quality in state director for the Republican National Committee and the Tar-Pamlico watershed.” Gov. Chris Christie. Sebastian was Interfraternity Council He also received Wake County president in 2009. ’06 is the public information Dan Spuller Bar Association’s 2013 Joseph Betty Debnam Hunt was officer to Secretary of Commerce Sharon Decker. He Branch Professional Award, inducted into the 2013 Raleigh served as field director during McCrory’s 2008 run for the highest honor the Wake Hall of Fame for people who governor. 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52 53 System, she was a teacher, Year in 2008. Jasper William “Jay” FACULTY Kevin Ray Ousley ’91 ’95 of Greenville, administrator of federal programs, Dunn IV ’87 of Dunn died Oct. 28. a sociology instructor and an Dr. Carl G. Adler Jr. executive director of Head Start and Kelly Luann Saunders Hemric ’88 of academic advisor at ECU, died Jan. 6. of Greenville died director for early childhood initiatives Lynchburg, Va., died Sept. 4. She was He was 57 and was married to Kara Nov. 17. He retired in and federal services at Thompson a home educator. Frederick Wayne Ousley, a computer technician who 1999 after teaching Early Childhood Center. Arlene King ’82 of Morehead City died Nov. also works for the university. 1930s taught for several years before moving Army veteran, he coached and taught Oct. 11. A U.S. Navy veteran, he worked physics for 34 years with her husband to Zebulon where in the high schools of Wampee-Little for the N.C. Department of Mashburn Hodges ’77 of Louisburg 4. William E. “Dr. Matt” Matthews Aubrey Annette and serving as she worked with him. Bettie Jo River, S.C. (their first football coach) Transportation in the statewide died Oct. 12. Julia Braswell Jackson ’83 ’87 of Williamston died Nov. 20. STAFF McLean Folks ’35 department chair for Morgan ’46 of Ruby, Mich., died Oct. and Whiteville and in sales with planning branch for more than 30 ’75 of Gastonia died Oct. 7. She was a He was a retired junior high and high of Myrtle Beach, several years. An Joan Pierce Adams of Ayden died 13. In the 1960s she taught at Yale Carolina Power and Light, Southern years. Jan Elaine Land Smith ’67 of retired teacher at Belfast Elementary school principal in Williamston, who S.C., died Oct. 25 early proponent of Nov. 7. She retired from ECU’s Brody High School. Margaret Bradley Nelson Industrial Distributors and Wal-Mart. Cornelius died Aug. 20. She taught at School in the Wayne County Public taught with Coach Herman Boone at 100. She retired solar energy, he School of Medicine after 24 years. ’47 of Chambersburg, Pa., died Aug. Melba Brown Howard Stallings the Alexander County Head Start Schools. Lee Williamson Knox ’71 of before he went on to coach the from teaching in served 14 years in the Faculty Senate Paulette Briley of Greenville died 29. She worked at Maryview Hospital, ’50 of Greenville died Sept. 27. program and later at Charlotte, Tarboro died Oct. 3. After more than ’Titans’ from the movie Remember the Lancaster Oct. 24. She was retired from ECU. Portsmouth, Va., and taught Clark Odell “C.O.” Spindale and Mooresville City Schools, 30 years of teaching, she retired from the Titans. Elizabeth Barnes Scott Dr. Christopher de County Schools, William Howard “Boss” Hawkins exceptional children at Brown’s Mill Taylor ’59 of Winston- where she was named Teacher of the Edgecombe County Schools. ’82 of New Bern died Sept. 24. She Groot of Greenville Lancaster, S.C. of Grimesland died Nov. 5. He was Elementary School. Marion Burton Salem died Aug. 26. Year. She owned Moontree Children’s Afterward she returned to the school was a librarian with the New Bern died Nov. 9. He was Doris Hollowell a supervisor for more than 32 years Nicholson ’48 of Bethel died Oct. 9. For 30 years, he Books in Mooresville in the 1980s. system to work with struggling Public Library and with the New Bern medical director of Gurley ’39 ’62 of Greenville, formerly of at ECU. James Carroll Holland of She taught in Bethel, Kinston City taught and coached at Katherine Davis Smith ’65 of Wilson students. Jane Marie Littleton ’76 ’81 and Craven County public school the inpatient New Bern, died Woodway, Texas, died Oct. 5. An Schools and Roanoke Rapids City Reynolds High School died Aug. 17. In 1985 she retired after of New Bern and formerly Frederick, systems. Susan Clements Trull ’85 psychiatric service Nov. 15 at 95. For assistant ECU football coach from Schools. Ethel Gaston Thayer ’40 of receiving many teaching 35 years in Wayne and Md., died Sept. 10. She worked at Fort ’06 of Rocky Mount died Sept. 20. at Pitt County 42 years, she 1980 to 1982, he coached defensive Melbourne, Fla., died July 6 at 94. She honors, including N.C. Wilson county schools. Doris Detrick, Md., as an education She taught special needs children Memorial Hospital taught high school ends. Stella Elizabeth “Lib” Kittrell taught physical education, health, Tennis Coach of the Dillingham Waite ’63 of Cascade, counselor and as an education in Nash and Wake County school and a psychiatrist in and community Proctor of Greenville died Nov. 20. history and geography at Central Year in 1979, N.C. Industrial Arts Idaho, died Aug. 9. Colon Wayne specialist at the Department of systems. David “Spiderman” Craig ECU’s Department college English and She worked at ECU’s Student Health Junior High School, Melbourne, until Teacher of the Year in 1982. He is Wescott ’66 ’68 of Nags Head died Agriculture and the Defense Security Wemyss ’86 of Warrenton died Sept. of Medicine. He served as president of sometimes French Services for 20 years. Larry Edwin retiring in 1982. Ruth Bizzell Warren recognized on the N.C. Sports Wall of Aug. 1. For 26 years he worked in Services for 23 years. Brenda 10. He was manager of accounts the Violin Making Society of America in Broadway, Snyder of Roanoke, Va., died Oct. ’43 of Durham died Aug. 29 at 90. She Fame and was inducted into the Manteo as a marine agent and Edwards Moran ’70 of Virginia Beach, payable and purchasing information and was recognized as a major Master Clayton, Rocky 9. In 1995 he retired as the facilities was an assistant home demonstration Winston-Salem Sports Hall of Fame assistant scientist through the N.C. Sea Va., died Oct. 20. She taught at systems for Glen Raven Norlina Plant. Luthier of the 20th century for the Mount, Princeton, mechanical engineer at ECU. agent in Pitt County and later taught and the Reynolds High School Sports Grant program. He won the various Virginia Beach elementary violins, violas and cellos that he created. Nahunta, Goldsboro, Southern Wayne 1990s in North Carolina and Virginia schools. Hall of Fame. At ECTC, he was a prestigious National Sea Grant Agent schools, and most recently at the Dr. Michael Steven Meloth of and Wayne Community College. Claudine Nicholson Campbell ’94 FRIENDS charter member of Pi Kappa Alpha of the Year award. George Arthur Adult Learning Center in Virginia Greenville died Nov. 15. He joined the Madeleine Homer 1950s of Golden, Colo., died Nov. 9. She Fraternity. Joseph “Joe” Rex Wallace Wright ’68 of Whitakers died Nov. 9. Beach. Michael Irving O’Briant ’79 of College of Education faculty in 2007 Fred Edward Hunneke of Kinston died Byrum McNatt ’39 was a member of Alpha Phi sorority Sarah Catherine Aman ’58 ’70 of ’57 of Jacksonville, Fla., died Aug. 10. He worked at Dorothea Dix where he Durham died Nov. 8. He worked for after teaching for 14 years at the Aug. 9. A WW II and Korean War U.S. of Fredericksburg, and vice president of her graduating Jacksonville died Oct. 14. She was A U.S. Army veteran, he taught in did job placement for young adults. O’Briant Motor Co., Coman Lumber University of Colorado at Boulder. Marine veteran, he was a member Va., formerly of class. Evelyn Little Wyke Dancho a teacher, advisor and guidance Jacksonville, Fla., at Nathan B. Forrest Co. and Dealer’s Supply. William of ECU’s Business Advisory Council Winston-Salem, 1970s ’97 of Clemmons died Oct. 14. Effie Dr. Charles C. counselor at White Oak High School High School and was an administrator Clifton “Cliff” Stuckey III ’73 ’77 of and occasionally lectured to business died Oct. 17 at 95. “Grace” Matthews Hadden ’99 of Mitchell of for 38 years from 1969 through 2007. at Florida Community College there. Undine Miller Chesson ’76 of Raleigh Whispering Pines died Sept. 6. He students. Dr. George Podgorny of She taught English Doris Heath Branch ’57 of Kinston died Sept. 2. She retired after 32 was an art teacher, advisor and Pinetops died Sept. 9. She worked Greenville died Oct. Winston-Salem died Nov. 5. He was 1960s at Stedman High died Oct. 9. For 30 years she taught years of service with Dorothea Dix department chair at Sandhills for many years as a leisure activities 31. He joined ECU’s a staunch advocate for medical School, Stedman, at Dover School and Southwood Myron Mooney Angell ’67 ’77 ’78 of Hospital as a rehabilitation supervisor Community College. Ann Harris specialist at Longleaf Neuro-Medical psychology education in North Carolina, and and at Griffith Elementary in Lenoir County. She and Jacksonville died Nov. 10. He taught in adolescent services. Ronald Gary Sumrell ’73 of New Bern died Aug. 16. Center, Wilson. Jill Naomi Meads ’91 department in 1965 ECU’s Brody School of Medicine offers High School, Winston-Salem. She was her mother opened Vogue Hat Shop science at Swansboro High School Cross ’71 of Franklin died Sept. 26. For 32 years she was a guidance of Hertford died Sept. 7. She was an and chaired the the George Podgorny Scholarship later the librarian at Griffith Junior in Kinston in 1961, later expanding as from 1969 to 1993. Sara Gaskins Bass He taught for 33 years at Nantahala counselor from Craven Community educational specialist with Children’s department from for highest achieving High for 25 years until retiring in 1983. Vogue Hat & Bridal Shop. She then ’60 of Flowery Branch, Ga., died Aug. School and Andrews Middle School College. Betty Goodson Sutton ’73 of Developmental Services Agency, 1971 until 1980. From medical student pursuing 1940s partnered with her daughter, Belinda, 16. She taught primary school. William and for many years coached Cary died Oct. 12. Justice Tice ’79 of Elizabeth City. 1967 to 1993 he emergency medicine. until the closing in 2004. Melvin Gray “Bill” N. Bostic Jr. ’65 of Beulaville basketball. Mark Dane Dough ’78 of Washington died Sept. 23. A U.S. Air worked part time at Wayne County David Ray Twiddy of Sue Parker Banks ’43 of Trenton died 2000s Cunningham ’58 of Walstonburg died died Nov. 15. He was a former teacher Kitty Hawk died Oct. 26. In 1991 he Force veteran, he was a teacher, Mental Health Center and served twice Elizabeth City died Aug. 7 at 90. She taught in Lenoir David Dowling Baker ’00 of Greenville Nov. 17. He farmed in Greene County. and coach, served as a Duplin County became manager and then part owner assistant principal, athletic director as interim director and board member Sept. 15. CEO of County and at Trenton Elementary died Aug. 8. He was self-employed as His service to the community was magistrate and was a real estate of Frisco’s Restaurant, Kitty Hawk. and Future Teachers of America of Pitt County Mental Health, Hampton Roads School, Jones County. Later she a carpenter. Claire McMillan Horton awarded with the Governor’s Award developer. Wesley Baxter Cheek ’66 After selling the restaurant in 2000, adviser with Beaufort County Schools Developmental Disabilities and Bankshares, established the guidance department ’05 of Richmond, Va., died Sept. 13. for Volunteerism. Jasper Willis “Pete” of Smith Mountain Lake/Penhook, Va., he started a landscape business. in Aurora. Kathleen Jean Luce Ullom Substance Abuse Center. He was he served at Jones Central High School, Trenton, She worked at the Richmond (Va.) Dixon Sr. ’58 of Grifton died Nov. 18. A died Nov. 15. In 2008 he retired from Terry Flanagan ’74 ’78 of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., died president of the Pitt County Mental on the ECU retiring as a guidance counselor in Ballet and the Valentine History U.S. Air Force veteran, he worked with VA T’s as an account executive. James of Raleigh died Aug. Oct. 1. She retired after 26 years with Health Association. In 1993 he Foundation 1975. Louise Mizelle Bullard ’42 of Museum. She was a member of Zeta Grifton Fertilizer and Supply Co for 28 Robert Cooper ’60 of Auburn, Ga., 14. She was manager the Morgan County Head Start received the Order of the Longleaf Board and Rocky Mount died Oct. 9 at 92. She Tau Alpha sorority at ECU. Stephen years while also being a tax accountant. died Nov. 9. He retired from Johnson of all N.C. Welcome Program. Larry Don Woody ’73 of Pine from Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. the ECU taught in N.C. public schools and Jackson ’09 of Greenville died Sept. Dr. Guy M. Lewis ’50 and Johnson Co. where he was a Centers in the Hunt Victoria, Texas, died Oct. 15. A retired Board of was a real estate agent at Ocean Isle 7. A playwright, he was also an Italian- Edward “Eddie” Morris of Wake of Columbia, S.C., pharmaceutical representative for 37 administration and U.S. Marine Corps major, he was a Visitors. Beach. Edith Wilkerson Currin ’44 of English translator, translating many Forest died Oct. 29. He taught at ECU died Oct. 1. years. Linda Faye Sharpe Douglas ’67 was a top-selling trial lawyer for 38 years. Oxford died Sept. 1 at 92. In 1977, she books and articles for publication. from 1995 to 2000. He retired in 2000 of Troutman died Oct. 20. She taught real estate agent in retired after 20 years of teaching. 1980s McKenzie Lucile Moore ’11 of Pilot as founder and kindergarten in Iredell County Schools, Raleigh for many Dr. Kathleen A. Dr. Genevieve Mountain died Sept. 1. She worked chair of the sports mostly at Mt. Mourne Elementary. years. Cecil Adair Fuquay ’70 of Lt. Col. (Ret.) Robert G. “Bob” Lawler Row of Hodgin Gay for Interlam Design and Chili’s. David administration Stephen Garfield Hinshaw ’69 of Raleigh died Aug. 23. A WW II Army Brackenhoff ’83 of Greenville died Greenville died ’44 ’54 ’82 of Winborne Rees ’08 of Greenville died department at the Southern Pines died Nov. 16. He veteran, he retired in 1986 as principal Sept. 1. An Air Force pilot, he served Sept. 21. From Goldsboro died Aug. 23. He was office manager and University of South worked for IBM for 25 years. Susan F. of Lafayette Union School, Lillington. in both the Korean and Vietnam 2006 until 2012 Aug. 29 at 92. For paralegal at Alcorn & Haggard. He Carolina. Clifton Kohler ’61 of Lansdale, Pa., died Nov. 1. David Scott Glasgow ’76 of Newport wars. He taught mathematics in she chaired ECU’s 43 years she was a was the son of former ECU professor Hines “Moe” Moore For 37 years she was a teacher, mostly died Oct. 26. He worked at Carteret Fayetteville and Ayden-Grifton psychology teacher, principal James Rees and Franceine Rees, the ’50 of Point Harbor died Sept. 23. For in the Colonial School District. She was Community College and was an High Schools, and was an assistant department, where and supervisor former Class Notes editor of East. 51 years he worked at Griggs Lumber. a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. instructor at the Carteret County principal in Hickory and Tarboro High she supervised the mostly in He served on the ECU Board of Margaret Moye Department of Corrections. Schools. Candace Ray Davis ’80 of 2010s startup of a new Northampton Trustees from 1970 to 1971. Margaret Lane ’60 of William A. “Bill” Sanford died Sept. 22. For 33 years doctoral program in health County Schools. In 1991 she retired as Jacob “Jake” Kelly Collins, a “Peggy” Hamilton Moore ’54 of Reidsville died Oct. Gordon ’79 of she was a nutritionist and director of psychology, increased the number of associate superintendent in charge of Burlington native and student at Greenville died Oct. 24. She worked as 22. She taught in Smithfield, Va., died the WIC program in Moore Country, faculty members in the department curriculum and instruction. She was ECU, died Oct. 18. Jeffrey Fisher an interviewer with the U.S. Census Reidsville City Sept. 13. He was a retiring in 2013. Lisa Tagert Dimock and strengthened the department’s inducted into the N.C. Order of the ’12 of Swansboro died Oct. 24. He Bureau and the University of Michigan. Schools from 1960 graphic designer ’84 of Greensboro died Sept. 22. focus on undergraduate and graduate Long Leaf Pine. In 1995, ECU underwent cancer treatments while Martha Lou Bowen Moye ’52 ’78 of to 1990. Jane for the Paralyzed She taught students with autism, programs. She was nationally known recognized her as an Outstanding completing his sociology degree. A Maury died Oct. 29. In 1986 she retired Stephenson Veterans of the last ten years at Sternberger for her research at the University of Retired Educator and in 2012 she was month before his death, he received from the Greene County School Montgomery ’67 of America. Dr. Emma Elementary School. She received Tennessee examining the relationship inducted into the ECU Educators Hall the Honorary Rotarian Paul Harris System after 37 years as a teacher and Lynchburg, Va., died Sept. 7. She was a Kay Bender Guilford County Teacher of the Year between forgiveness and health. She of Fame. Joyce Hill Hales ’40 of Fellow Award from the Swansboro librarian. William “Bill” Barry Rogers church musician and music educator. Gresham ’76 of Jacksonville died Oct. in 2007 and the Guilford County was married to former East arts editor Oxford, Miss., died Oct. 3 at 93. She Rotary Club. ’54 of Wilmington died Sept. 3. A U.S. Davis Lee Moore Jr. ’66 of Garner died 30. In the Onslow County School Special Education Educator of the Steve Row.

54 55 “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

An N.C. State banner on the wall at left and an embroidered pillow partially obscured at right reveal the affections of members of the 1937 ECTC Commerce Club. The I.C.T.Q. banner apparently represents a Wake Forest fraternity. When the State boys came calling

n the Progressive era of the 1910s Carolina’s Robert Wright and A&M’s Wallace prohibited a speedy arrival at the college. As and ’20s, forward-thinking educators Riddick corresponded regularly to create we alighted we were cautioned by Miss (Sally Ibelieved that women who went to opportunities for their students to mix and Joyner) Davis to remember the instructions college should marry men who went to mingle. The first came in the spring of 1917. given before we left: that was not to let our college, and vice versa. The presidents of On a class trip to Raleigh, a group of 89 joy at being at A&M be too evident. East Carolina and N.C. State (then known as students from ECTTS, which was all female “We were met by President Riddick and N.C. Agricultural and Mechanical College) then, was invited to visit the all-male A&M escorted out to the field, where a dress so firmly held that view that they played campus. In a story for the parade was given for our special benefit. The matchmaker. Lizzie Stewart ’17Training reported School that: Quarterly, masses became groups and scattered around Over a period of nearly 20 years, East “Our cars were waiting for us so nothing to various places of special interest.

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“The dinner hour came all to year after year, not only too soon. The dining room because of the concert but was beautifully decorated with because of the social features red and white carnations. The connected with their visit. boys showed their college “President Riddick, who spirit by giving us yells. These came with the boys, was were responded to in such a introduced to the audience manner by the girls that the by President Wright. He said boys said they were almost that if the president expected ashamed to let such a small to make school teachers out crowd of girls beat them so of these girls, he was afraid much. Many of the happy it would be a failure, because memories of the day will stay for every girl turned out with us forever.” from this school there was a During that dinner, ECTTS boy turned out from State senior Viola Kilpatrick Fagan College, and attractive girls ’17 of Greenville rose and would not remain long in the read a toast she had written school rooms.” saluting the hosts. Her At a reception after that 1922 words so impressed the concert, “the refreshments A&M students that her toast were served in a unique was reprinted in its entirely manner. Thirty young ladies in the school yearbook, the wearing caps and aprons ( ). Agromeck right of the State College red In 1919 Riddick began and white marched in and an annual tradition of handed out the plates of bringing the State College cream and cakes, mints and Band to perform at East salted peanuts, and then the Carolina. The band’s 1922 thirty members of the band appearance christened were lined up and the caps Wright Auditorium and was and aprons presented to described in this them. They wore them the Teachersarticle: remainder of the evening.” College Quarterly “The visit of the State The annual visits stopped College Band…is an event to in the 1930s, following a which the students, especially surge in the number of men the seniors, look forward students at East Carolina.

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The ECU women’s swim team completed a perfect 11-0 dual meet season and coach Rick Kobe became the sixth swim coach in NCAA history to record 500 victories. Photo by Jay Clark