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Scream if you like his movies Kevin Williamson’s strange ride

Copyright 2011 by Max S . G erber by 2011 Copyright from Dawson’s Creek to Hollywood viewfinder spring 2012 EastThe Magazine of East Carolina University Construction worker Willie Joyner Jr. is part of the renovation of Tyler Residence Hall, one of the older dorms on College Hill. Opened as a men’s residence in 1969, it was switched to all women in FEATURES 1972 and remained so for 20 30 years. It was named for SCREAM IF YOU LIKE HIS MOVIES Arthur Lynwood Tyler, a 2 0 His TV series became former university trustee. By David Menconi Dawson’s Creek Photograph by Forrest Croce iconic, then Kevin Williamson ’87 became king of the scary movie genre and now his scripts about teenage vampires fill primetime TV. He’s had hits and some misses, so now he’s hoping to find an elusive balance in his creative and personal lives. “I’m not good at highs and lows,” he says.

heart throb 3 0 Professor Sam Sears, a leading 30 authorityBy Spaine onStephens the psychology of living with what are called implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), helps patients adjust to living with the constant worry that the device will deliver a 700-volt punch. “It’s a modern-day paradox of safety and fear,” he says. “I see more courage on a daily basis than anyone.”

GENTLE GIANT 3 6 For 24 years, Dean of Students James ByTucker Steve laid Tuttle down ’09 the law on campus, from the time of the Big Yellow House Incident through the protests over the 36 Vietnam War. But there was always a gentler face behind “that infamous Dean Tucker stare.”

CRISIS CREATES A CHAMPION 40 East Carolina’s best men’s golfer in severalBy Bethany years Bradsher had trouble adjusting to college, with poor grades keeping him out of tournaments. But Harold Varner refocused his life, then charged up the leaderboard. Plus, read a roundup of spring sports teams.

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Volume 10, Number 3 We were in Germany before Italy trips enhanced our education far beyond any is published four times a year by classroom experience. The field trips were to from 75 years ago. He e-mailed to ask if he East East Carolina University Editor’s Note: Our story in the last issue about Paris, London, Brussels, Moscow, Vienna, could get a copy of the picture and was pleased TheOur In Memoriam greatest pages ofgeneration were filled during 2011 with the obituaries Division of University Advancement Italy Intensives, which recently was expanded into to learn he could find it himself because all the East 2200 South Charles Blvd. Amsterdam and Toledo. of faculty emeriti and longtime supporters from all corners of the university. Greenville, NC 27858 a full-time overseas academic program, prompted — school’s old annuals—back to 1923—are It is a sad fact that the greatest generation of East Carolina leaders is quickly responses from some alumni who spent a semester CarlSaint “Eddie” Albans, Hereford West ’75Virginia ’82, Mabelavailable Hassell online. WeBasnight asked about his grandmother, passing away, and with their passing an important chapter in the university’s h or two at ECU’s European Study Center in Bonn, ’31 of Manteo, and history closes. Their shoulders at the wheel helped create the business school, Germany, during the 1970s. Readers like the one My copy also arrived damaged he provided this recollection: EDITOR “I remember her telling me the nursing school and then the medical school. It was their dedication to below asked whether they should be called first. One I just received my winter edition and read Steve Tuttle ’09 how Grandfather courted academics that delivered on the promise of university status. 252-328-2068 / [email protected] could argue, I suppose, that the students who visited the letter regarding [readers receiving copies] her while attending Cuba in the early 1930s on the school-sponsored missing front covers [as a result of rough I was in this reflective mood when Richard Tucker ’71 called to ask if I ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER ECTC. [His trip to Rick’s Tours also deserve some mention. handling in the mail]. My magazine arrived would like to meet his father, Dr. James Tucker, who was dean of students Brent Burch About 40 students studied and lived in a campus from the with three vertical tears from the top of here for 24 years, until his retirement in 1979. He said his dad, now 96, is three-story boarding house, “Haus Steineck,” Outer Banks required] PHOTOGRAPHER the cover. Maybe the stock is not thick still sharp and has hundreds of stories about working beside Leo Jenkins for for the academic year 1971–72. ECU faculty a borrowed horse to Forrest Croce enough to go through our postal system. so many years. were shuttled to this site and taught [several] the ferry, where he would — Rocky Mount, Va. The afternoon I spent with Dean Tucker was like stepping into a time COPY EDITORS subjects as well as special seminars that Don Woodard ’77, catch a ride with whomever Jimmy Rostar ’94, Spaine Stephens involved interviews with government officials would pick him up. Sometimes a horse and machine, transported to the East Carolina College of decades ago to hear Editor’s Note: To save money, we did switch to a and trade union leaders. We students felt like cart, sometimes a truck. Once in Greenville, his firsthand accounts so many touchstone moments—the first recorded CONTRIBUTING WRITERS thinner grade of paper for the covers, and we are Marion Blackburn, native Germans as we became immersed in he was allowed to stay with local families panty raid in 1956, the Big Yellow House Incident in 1959, the arrival of concerned that several readers have reported instances Doug Boyd, Bethany Bradsher, the culture. Several of us have made lifelong along Fifth Street as long as he was “behaving Greek life in the early ’60s, integration in the late ’60s, the fight for coed like this. Let me know if this happens to you. Kathryn Kennedy, David Menconi, friends and have visited Germany several in the proper fashion.” While at ECTC, dorms and the war protests of the 1970s. His imposing bearing, even 32 ’06 ’08 Jessica Creson Nottingham , times over the passing years. The school was Grandmother’s in that picture Grandmother worked for [school treasurer J.B. years into retirement, made me appreciate how frightening it must have been Steve Row, Mary Schulken, Spaine Stephens for a generation of students to be summoned to the dean’s office, where they the brainchild of [political science professor] Spilman and his wife, Johnetta Webb Spilman, Editor’s Note: GlancingMichael at Basnightthe Timeline in the would be subjected to, as one called it, “that infamous Dean Tucker stare.” CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Dr. Hans Indorf. The ECU Bonn Germany Fall 2011 issue, ’95 of San the assistant treasurer]. One of Grandmother’s Jay Clark, Diane Coltraine, Andrew Eccles, Campus was all year. All subjects were Diego, Calif., spotted his grandmother in the jobs…was to take the daily deposits down But by the end of our visit I became convinced he is a tenderhearted softie Max S. Gerber, Cliff Hollis credited toward our degrees. Seminars and Fifth Street to a bank that was located in who cultivated a gruff persona to scare students into doing what was in group picture of the Association for Education CLASS NOTES EDITOR the Five Points area. Because of her working Mayor Peter Kraemer (center) welcomes ECU Bonn Center students at a reception in 1972. their own best interest. What an amazing talent, I thought; all he had to do Joanne Kollar relationship, she was given the ability to leave ECU professor Hans Indorf, who directed the Bonn Center program, is in dark suit at left. was look at a kid to make them shape up. His family says that over the years [email protected] campus without signing out or wearing the hundreds of former students have called or written to thank Dean Tucker for required gloves. She would tell that story with some kindness he had shown them. “They would say he helped me when I ADMINISTRATION Michelle Sloan a slight gleam of rebellion in her eye. She also had a problem with my classes, he got me into a dorm room, he found me a commented on how nervous she would get, job and some loan money to keep me in school,” Richard Tucker said. h wondering what would happen if the wrong I’m glad I spent that afternoon with Dean Tucker, while I still could. You can Assistant Vice Chancellor people ever found out just what she was read more about our visit on page 36. for University Marketing carrying in that shoulder bag. “I remember Clint Bailey thinking, what would I ever do if someone Is there someone who smoothed your path through college, perhaps by tried to steal the money from me before I scaring you into partying less and studying more, who challenged you to East Carolina University is a constituent institution of made it to the bank?” I love what your group reach higher? Who handed you that book whose words remain seared in your The University of North Carolina. It is a public doctoral/ is doing with Keep the stories coming, as memory? They may still be among us, but probably not much longer. research intensive university offering baccalaureate, master’s, East. specialist and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts, sciences there are so many great ones from the history and professional fields, including medicine. Dedicated to the of ECU and eastern North Carolina. achievement of excellence, responsible stewardship of the public trust and academic freedom, ECU values the contributions of a diverse community, supports shared Did your grandmother attend East Carolina? You can governance and guarantees equality of opportunity. find her in the old yearbooks available online. The link ©2012 by East Carolina University is digitalnc.org/collections/nc-yearbooks. From there, Printed by Progress Printing click on East Carolina University and then select books U.P. 12-134 81,500 copies of this public document were printed at a cost of $48,520 or $.60 per copy. from the years she attended. 2 3 the ecU Report

distinction is its problem-solving seminars. “but in some ways it’s a lot more difficult.” instruments and models marks a welcome Indeed, before they graduate, they will departure from the familiar. She previously Getting his drill felt a lot like being have worked through more than 5,000 case worked as a pharmaceutical researcher, knighted, says Alex Crisp, 24. “It was problems and completed more than 1,000 investigating new drugs to treat cancer and official,” he says. “It was really exciting.” The procedures. They’ll learn the body’s systems, nerve conditions. But, she says, “it was a program has moved quickly but he expected an important component for dentists in little too far from working with patients. it would. With tests every Wednesday, rural areas where they will likely encounter And that’s what I wanted.” Her father is a labs Tuesday and Friday and lectures and complex dental cases in people with dentist and her mom a hygienist, so she felt seminars Mondays and Thursdays, there’s advanced health problems. drawn to it. Since arriving at ECU, she hasn’t not a minute to spare. Like medical students, looked back. Their practical training is spread over four they also have rounds with presentations by years, starting with models their first year. faculty members—medical doctors as well “After we got into the lab—that’s when This fall, they will treat patients under the as dentists—who discuss complicated or the real excitement set in,” Ferguson says. supervision of an attending dentist. Their interesting cases and research. They conduct ”Instead of just book work, we were third year brings more complex cases and their own rounds, as well, presenting cases to applying our dexterity. That was when it treatments. each other and to faculty members. finally hit me: wow, this is great.” — By year four, they will be working under a For Rebecca Ferguson, 27, working with Marion Blackburn faculty member at one of several planned ECU dental offices both at the dental school and outside Greenville, where they’re expected to complete three different nine- Dental students learn the drill on during class and after hours. week rotations. These practices, known as Drill in hand, Shannon Holcomb ’07 ’11 “We’re like family,” Holcomb, 27, says of community service learning centers, are follows the chewing grooves on the tooth her classmates, the first enrolled at the dental under construction or planned in Ahoskie, she’s filling, a hard-to-reach molar far back in school. “We celebrate birthdays and all Elizabeth City, Lillington, Sylva and Spruce the patient’s mouth. She makes a tiny hole, want to see each other succeed. That’s part Pine. Five more sites will be announced. then another, before stopping to review her of being in the first class.” Instructors, too. “Everything is going according to plan,” says notes and ask questions. Because she’s left- “They don’t view us as students, but more as Greg Chadwick, interim dean, who took over handed, using the instruments and mirror is colleagues,” she says. “They stand by us.” from James Hupp in 2011. Hupp is now taking some practice. This inaugural class of 52 is navigating its serving as a professor. But that’s not a problem for her patient, first, fast year. And what a ride it’s been. The model heads used in their lab, located a plastic model called Dexter. Although Only a few weeks into their first semester, in a second-floor area of the former Laupus she got the drill only a few weeks earlier, they began lab work with models and Library, allow students to insert and change Holcomb, a first-year student at the ECU wax teeth. They spent two days a week the hinged teeth sets they work on. Using School of Dental Medicine, already is there learning what are called hand skills, a thin blue rubber sheet, they cover most preparing model teeth for restorations, the manual training to prepare, fill and of the teeth, exposing only those they’re learning the ins and outs of dentistry and otherwise restore teeth. The dental school is studying. Looking up, they can review notes developing the hand skills she’ll need to treat temporarily housed on the second floor of and diagrams on their laptops as they go her first real patients. That may come as early the Brody Health Sciences Building, but that through the procedure. as August. By then, she will have studied should change by the start of their second For many of them, taking up a dental drill the body’s systems and anatomy, heard a year, when the new dental school building is was a rite of passage. “We were all pretty year’s worth of practical lectures and solved expected to open. Once it does, they’ll see nervous,” says Phillip Cochran, 25, who’s hundred of case problems using the school’s their first patients under the supervision of also class president. “Once you dive in you’ve online discussion network. faculty members. got plenty of good instruction. It’s easier The good news is that between now and That brisk pace distinguishes ECU than I thought it would be,” he says, adding, then, she’ll have plenty of friends to count from traditional dental schools. Another

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He cured ECU Physicians’ same year. “We’re reaching a foundation students, oversee residents, and treat patients representing an overall 14 because of this higher payout. Paul Cunningham balance sheet point which we anticipated with great hope,” as part of the faculty practice. Their earnings percent cut. “We’ve carried our If in the past the school Cunningham says about ending the red ink. come from patient charges, professional indigent care burden with pride,” After bleeding $14 million in red ink as depended less on making money “There are always complexities, because we contracts, directorships and other services. Cunningham said. When the state recently as six years ago, ECU Physicians and counting on reserves to fund live in a volatile world.” Because of the region’s poverty, they treat withheld reimbursements, “we is experiencing healthier finances and its growth, patient care is more many patients with Medicaid or no insurance weathered the storm bruised and actually turned a profit last year. While the Even with the overhaul, the future is important now. That’s to keep up at all. Of the estimated half-million patients worse for wear.” anything but clear for the faculty practice. with expensive new technologies medical school faculty continues providing they see each year, about 60 percent are While Jowers intends for the plan to The low point was fiscal as well as to attract—and keep— unreimbursed care to thousands of poor covered by Medicaid or Medicare. Another continue pushing for healthy cash reserves, 2005 when the practice plan the best doctors. people in the region, the practice plan is third have commercial insurance, leaving looming cuts from state and federal sources experienced a disastrous seeing more paying patients at the much about 7 or 8 percent self-paying—which Around the medical school, you will require flexibility and planning. Because $14 million loss. In 2006 larger Family Medicine Center and through usually means unpaid. hear the phrase “No money—no ECU doctors see so many Medicaid patients, the university hired ECG the addition of other services. The big news mission,” which refers to the the school relies heavily on governmental Estimated unpaid charges for fiscal year Management Consultants of is that it has secured higher reimbursement need to fund the Brody’s three- reimbursement for these services and when 2009–10 came in at $25.8 million and Boston to analyze contracts, rates from Medicaid, which could bring in as part directive: to train primary those payments are cut, it means less revenue. 2011 charges are about that high. Of that, billing and operations. By fiscal much as $1 million more each month. care doctors, to improve the Medicaid covers the poor and other qualified faculty, staff and materials charges alone 2007, the plan had made a profit “I don’t like losing money,” said Brian Jowers, health of eastern North Carolina patients. Cuts to Medicare, the program for came to almost $10 million. While the state of $820,000. While it went on the ECU Physicians executive director who and to increase the number of the elderly, have also been proposed as part helped with a $2 million appropriation, that to have another losing year, the arrived in 2008 with a mandate to turn minority doctors. of the effort to balance the national budget. hardly covered the losses. tide—and the mindset—was things around. “You had to figure out where turning. One of the group’s It’s anticipated that medical the problems were and start working on There are 359 faculty members at the Brody In 2011, the Legislature trimmed ECU’s recommendations was to hire an school revenues will continue to them. We’re finally turning a corner.” School of Medicine. They teach medical indigent-care reimbusement to $1.7 million, executive administrator schooled on chemotherapy drugs, which the medical go up, which Jowers considers Most of 2011’s profit came from a deal with in the financial side of medicine. Previously, school did not. essential to its operation. “My goal is that we Pitt County Memorial Hospital to operate that responsibility fell to the medical school have a reserve account of $75 to $80 million,” the Leo Jenkins Cancer Center as a joint dean and the administration. These changes should allow the cancer he says. “Then I’ll feel comfortable.” venture. Unlike the university, the hospital center to operate more efficiently and receive The deal to operate the Leo Jenkins Cancer The reserves would allow the medical can take advantage of higher federal payment financial benefits associated with a hospital, Center—which had been losing nearly $3 school to absorb fluctuations from reduced guidelines for cancer treatments. A rigorous such as greater reimbursements for some million a year—jointly with PCMH is reimbursements and weather state budget review and renegotiation of contracts and cancer treatments. The hospital and medical a clear example of this new emphasis on uncertainties. In addition, cash reserves billing also have been key to the turnaround. school will each share half of the doctor- the bottom line. ECU sold its CyberKnife will allow the medical school to grow by More doctors, services and patients add generated revenue, which could amount to device, a high-dose system for treating expanding and purchasing new practices up to the healthiest bottom line in years. $1 million a year in the future. tumors without surgery, to the hospital for and subspecialties. Indeed, without the cancer center deal, the about $4.7 million. The roughly $1 million Another boost to medical school revenues plan would have only lost $430,000 for the That growth will include a new cancer center annual cost of operating the machine also from this year forward will be a higher level year ending in June. ECU Physicians earned building, Jowers says. “It’s seen its time and passed to the hospital. ECU Physicians also of reimbursements for patients covered by a profit of $17.6 million in the fiscal year is ready for a major renovation or a new received a one-time payment of $4.2 million Medicaid. The school teamed up with UNC endng June 30. The faculty practice plan building.” That reflects an understanding that as the hospital’s 50 percent investment Chapel Hill, home of North Carolina’s other continued its healthy ways by running a $1.6 paying patients expect to be seen in offices in the medical services practicing at the state-supported medical school, to apply for million positive balance five months into the comparable to private practice sites. The new cancer center—ECU Physicians cancer increased reimbursements. Both will now current fiscal year. center could open in three to five years. services (hematology/oncology, surgical receive what’s known as the upper payment What do these numbers mean to the Brody oncology, gynecologic oncology and limit for Medicaid patients. Only 19 states The medical school’s ongoing financial School of Medicine? A lot. About 70 radiation oncology)—and the purchase of participate in the program. health must remain a priority, but so must percent of the medical school’s financial two linear accelerators used for radiation In November, the medical school received its mission, says Cunningham. “The demand operations come from the patient fees earned Brian Jowers therapy. While these devices will remain in its first payment of $8,314,028. That is for physicians to make more money by faculty doctors and staff. Jenkins, the joint venture will pay for their covers the period of July 2010 through to support the mission,” he says, adding, operation. Likewise, the hospital will provide “Medicine is a bright spot, economically. In addition to bringing in Jowers as executive March 2011 and left ECU Physicians with all chemotherapy services formerly offered at It provides economic benefits to our region director in 2008, the medical school also a profit of $1,608,000 for the first five the cancer center, for which it paid about $5 and generates enormous social good.” named Paul R.G. Cunningham as dean the months of the current fiscal year. Jowers million. The hospital qualified for a discount — expects about $1 million more each month Marion Blackburn 6 7 the ecu report

Rebel again wins national award from North Carolina and also won second Grant boosts coordinated care investigator on the project. Dennis Russo, morbidity and mortality, he said. place for Best of Show at the conference. a psychologist and clinical professor of A five-year, $799,876 grant from the The center will further ECU’s goal of the university’s student-run family medicine, is the other co-director of Rebel 53, Tarboro native Anna Vaughn Creech edited federal Health Resources and Services creating patient-centered medical homes. In literary magazine, won the 2011 Pacemaker the project. award at the 90th National College Media with a staff that included Rich Administration will fund development of that model, a patient’s personal physician Rebel 53 Convention in Orlando, Fla. Considered by Griffis of Burlington, JoEllen Pollard of the proposed Center for Integrated Care Patients with chronic diseases such as obesity, leads a team that takes responsibility for many the Pulitzer Prize of college student Macclesfield and Alex Watson of Apex, Delivery on the Health Sciences Campus. heart disease and diabetes face critical the ongoing care of the patient. Care media, the award was presented by the all graphic design majors. Graphic design The center will focus on better coordination behavioral choices daily in the management is coordinated and integrated across all Associated Collegiate Press. The publication faculty members Craig Malmrose and of health care along with the inclusion of their disease, and recent evidence suggests elements of the health care system to assure is the print version of the Rebel art show, Gunnar Swanson and Student Media of behavioral and psychosocial aspects of that up to 40 percent suffer from concurrent that patients receive needed care when and which includes all traditional arts as well as director Paul Isom advised Creech and her chronic disease management. depression, anxiety and marital problems where they need and want it. poetry, literature, music and film. staff. “We were going on the theme of that limit their ability to care for themselves, The project will train students in several The grant is the second HRSA grant illumination—illumination as in raising said Doyle Cummings, a pharmacist, was one of four magazines among medical disciplines to work together after awarded to the Department of Family awareness—and each category had a social professor of family medicine and one of hundredsRebel 53 of entries to win for general graduation as a team to meet patients’ needs Medicine recently. The federal agency also issue paired with it,” Creech said. the project’s co-directors. These and other for medical and behavioral care. Kenneth funded a five-year, $480,739 project to place excellence in the four-year literary magazine behavioral/psychosocial limitations lead category. whose numbering begins with For the competition, the staff put out Steinweig, chair of family medicine at the family medicine residents in underserved Rebel to poor choices, inadequate disease Rebel, a call for entries to students. “We charged Brody School of Medicine, is the principle communities in eastern North Carolina. its founding in 1958, was the only winner outcomes, and, ultimately, in premature — Doug Boyd

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place a $3 entry fee for every piece entered,”

first Creech said. “I believe we got around 500 (entries).” Fees collected from the entries were used to print the publication. Since 1927, the Abigail Heuss Liz Steiner Take the D & H Out of Town Lithic Fragments Pacemaker has been the Mixed media Paper, found objects highest honor available “Everything begs with the silent rocks for you to be ung out like light.” — Rumi to Associated Collegiate

Part love letter, part personal instruc- Press members and is tion manual, this book utilizes sev- eral quotes by 13th-Century Muslim considered one of the Su and poet Jalaladin Rumi. Each letterpressed quote references earth, most prestigious awards dust or stone in the context of spiri- tual enlightenment. Interspersed between each quotation are collages in collegiate media. consisting of images and materials relating to geology and my greater first won an body of work. is piece is wearable Rebel with the book resting at the hip; it's Associated Collegiate based on the idea of “girdle books,” collections of prayers or psalms Press award in 1962. worn by monks in the Middle Ages. e hollow rock form, meant to be carried in the hand, holds a quote It previously won the by Coleman Barks, a premier Rumi translator, questioning what comes top Pacemaker award aer transcendence. in 1984–1985, 1996– 1997,1999–2004 and in 2009.

Football Coach Ruffin McNeill has lost nearly 150 pounds in the year since he had bariatric surgery, followed three months later with a   hip replacement. A noticeably slimmer and more mobile Coach Ruff roamed the sidelines this season, providing a positive focus to an otherwise frustrating season that saw the team miss a bowl game for the first time in five years.

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News briefs Sloan Foundation to research the forms the region. The upgrade was completed recently received the Award for Excellence of microbes living underneath the Earth’s through the Golden LEAF Rural Broadband in Public Service from the UNC Board of Appalachian State University ECU is No. 2: oceans and continents. Called the Deep Initiative, a $144 million expansion of the Governors. “I hope every one of you will led the nation and East Carolina was second Life Directorate, the project will include N.C. Regional Education Network, which make a difference, and above all, that you will in the number of graduates receiving the cooperation among 10 other universities serves the Intranet and Internet network find joy,” he said. National Board Certification in 2011, and institutes. Schrenk will work with needs of almost all of the state’s educational according to data from the National Board Bacteria research: Md Motaleb, an assistant colleagues from and research institutions. ECU Chief for Professional professor of microbiology and immunology seven countries to Information Officer Tom Lamb said the Teaching Standards Top Ten U.S. Universities at the Brody School of Medicine, received collect and analyze upgrade provides essential bandwidth and (NBPTS). North a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the Appalachian State ...... 130 data over a two-year broadband capacity to service the school’s Carolina again was National Institutes of Health to study Lyme East Carolina 118 period. “The main online and distance learning programs, tops in the nation disease. He is studying the bacteria U. of Washington 111 goal of the research videoconferencing, economic development Borrelia in teachers receiving the agent that causes the tick-borne Western Washington 104 is to fill in the ‘black and other essential services. burgdorferi, the prestigious disease, to determine exactly how the germ Central Washington ...... 103 box’ of the rock- designation, with Fall graduation: More than 3,300 students moves through tissue, reaches its destination Washington State ...... 81 hosted subsurface 1,244 credentialed were recognized at East Carolina’s fall and causes infection. Information about that U. Arkansas-Fayetteville 65 microbial biosphere, teachers out of the commencement exercises on Dec. 16, process could help lead to a vaccine. U. South Carolina 65 which may be the Teachers turn into students It’s also helping me relearn what life is like as 6,200 national total. including approximately 2,220 bachelor UNC Chapel Hill 65 largest habitat on Most affordable med school: The Brody a student. It’s a lot busier than I remember. Nationwide to date, degree candidates and 1,110 graduate degree About two dozen professors who usually Earth, but also that School of Medicine charges the least for in- It’s been a long time since I’ve had to do 97,291 teachers UNC Greensboro ...... 65 candidates. “Today, as we say goodbye, we stand at the front of the class are taking seats with the least data,” state tuition and fees of all public medical homework.” have received the Source: National Board for can look back on these last four years with Schrenk said. schools in the country, according to as students to further ECU’s goal of helping Professional Teaching Standards a smile,” said Senior Class Officer Casey certification. For magazine. Brody’sU.S. students prepare to compete in a global Organized by the Office of International Network upgrade: Anthony. “Our education should never stop, the first time, the Newstuition & and World required Report fees are $11,554, more economy. The teachers-turned-students in Affairs, the class meets for three hours A 10-gigabit even though our formal schooling has.” Dr. NBPTS released data than $2,000 less than the No. 2 school on the Faculty Language Development Program weekly and will continue studying Spanish upgrade to network services at East Carolina, Thomas G. Irons, associate vice chancellor on colleges attended by the newly certified the list, Texas A&M Health Science Center. (FLDP), which was launched fall semester, for two years. Besides syntax and grammar, which is a main network hub for most for health sciences and professor of teachers, and seven UNC system schools are ECU also charges nearly $3,000 less than the are learning Spanish but other languages may the professors also are learning customs public institutions east of I-95, will boost pediatrics at the Brody School of Medicine in the top 20 nationally. Two Wake County UNC Chapel Hill medical school, ranked be added later, said James Gehlhar, associate and traditions observed in many Spanish- high-speed broadband capacity throughout at ECU, delivered the primary address. He high schools, Leesville Road and Athens No. 4. The national average cost of in-state vice chancellor for international affairs speaking nations. An ignorance of those Drive, are in the top 10 nationally in the customs can cause problems for Americans tuition and required fees at public medical “There is a high level of enthusiasm on number of board certified teachers on staff. studying or doing business overseas. schools is $26,418, the magazine said. the part of the faculty to learn Spanish in Enrollment drops: Higher tuition costs Grant boosts teledentistry: The ECU order for them to use it in their field,” said “This is so important in order to conduct and the weak economy were blamed for a School of Dental Medicine will use a grant Olmanda Hernandez-Guerrero, a teaching business,” said Hernandez-Guerrero. “Some slight decline in enrollment at UNC system of $392,748 from the U.S. Department instructor in the Department of Foreign common gestures in the U.S. may be campuses this past year. A report by the of Agriculture to expand its rural residency Languages and Literatures, who is leading offensive in another culture. Even the types UNC Board of Governors said overall program by implementing a telemedicine the class. Professors from several disciplines of food that are strange for an American enrollment fell by 1,422 students a year system. The system will allow dental residents are enrolled, she added. Some professors in could be a delicatessen in another country. In earlier to 220,305 in fall 2011. Enrollment to receive academic lessons via teledentistry the class have led student groups in overseas Peru, for example, people eat the guinea pig. increased by seven campuses and declined at equipment while working at three rural clinics study and want to be better prepared for A negative reaction to the dish might be very nine others, including East Carolina, where it in underserved areas of North Carolina. They future trips. “Business professors are learning offensive for a Peruvian.” dropped by about 400 students to 27,386. also will allow consultation about complex because they take students on business trips Gehlhar said plans are being made for The biggest declines were at Elizabeth City cases with specialists in Greenville. The sites to Latin America and Spain. And professors ECU to partner with a college in Latin State, down 11.4 percent to 2,930 students; will be at the community service learning want to set the example for students,” she said. America that FDLP students will visit over and UNC Pembroke, down 10 percent to centers in Ahoskie, Elizabeth City and Sylva. “The FDLP program is one of ECU’s the summer for a complete immersion in 6,251. Fayetteville State had the largest The school plans to apply for another grant better ideas,” said Brian Massey, an associate Spanish language and culture. percentage increase in enrollment, up 2.6 to fund telemedicine at sites in Lillington professor in the School of Communication “Every student should be aware of the percent to 5,930. “Hey, I have got to tell you that this has to be the most beautiful mountain in the and Spruce Pine. The funds will also pay for world,” ECU Associate Provost for Enrollment Services John Fletcher wrote on a who also is a student in the class. “It’s needs in the world beyond his environment. Studying life underground: Biology a central telemedicine site at the school’s new blog post last July when he and his RMI Expeditions group reached the 19,340-foot helping to equip professors with foreign Learning a language and the culture opens professor Matthew O. Schrenk was awarded peak of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Fletcher also has climbed Mount McKinley in Ross Hall, under construction on the Health language skills, which in our case is Spanish. the doors to the world beyond East Carolina a $1.5 million grant from the Alfred P. Alaska, North America’s highest mountain at 20,320 feet, as well as Mount Orizaba Sciences Campus. (18,701 feet) and Mount Ixtaccihuatl (17,802 feet), both in Mexico. And that serves ECU’s globalization efforts. University,” Hernandez-Guerrero said.

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East Carolina’s new peers Two programs in nation’s top 20 The online program in the College of Business when little or no new information is available. developed from a single course offering in Southern Illinois, Central Michigan, Two online graduate programs at East One issue that emerged that day involved 1998 to undergraduate and graduate degrees in Southern Mississippi and East Tennessee Carolina are among the top 20 such students not receiving the university’s initial numerous concentrations today. State are new peers that East Carolina programs in the U.S., according to a new text message alert. The text problem was a can measure itself by, according to the ranking by The result of human error, said Koch, when an UNC Board of Governors. The board in College of NursingU.S. News ranked & World 18th Report. out of 79 Officials review response operator missed a check box while initiating November released new lists of schools that master’s or doctorate of nursing practice Campus officials issued a positive assessment a notification. As a result, operators can now each UNC campus should consider peers. programs. The online MBA program in the of measures taken during a lockdown Nov. select “all” and text all subscribers. Below is the list. Schools with an asterisk are College of Business ranked 17th out of 161 16 after a student walking toward campus Other means of notifying students including carried over from 2006. The three schools graduate business programs. with an umbrella was mistaken for an armed announcements scrolling on classroom in bold are “aspirational peers” that ECU ranked 523 online master’s degree man. “This is the most critical piece,” plasma screens and projected from phones can specifically learn from. U.S.programs News in business, engineering, nursing, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Environmental and outdoor speakers were found effective. education and computer information in four Health and Campus Safety Bill Koch said of The university will install an antenna system Florida International* categories: admissions selectivity, student the analysis completed in December. “We to increase cell reception in some buildings. Northern Illinois* engagement and accreditation, faculty always uncover things we didn’t know before.” Southern Illinois One factor no drill could predict was the credentials and training, and student services University of Louisville* Koch said the decision to lock down the flood of rumors throughout the nearly three- and technology. Programs had to have at Western Michigan* campus was the right one, and applauded hour lockdown on social media sites. There least 80 percent of their course content Central Michigan the response by and communication between was never a gun, no suspect existed or was available online to be considered. University of Missouri-Kansas City* N.C. a grad school magnet by the UNC Board of Governors, through multiple law enforcement agencies. Parking spotted in the Rivers Building—which was University of Southern Mississippi nine years of the program, 388 out-of-state The College of Nursing has been and Transportation employees also reacted evacuated—and no hostages were taken. So North Carolina is a donor state in a regional University of North Dakota* students enrolled in grad school at one of consistently named since 2004 by quickly to block vehicular access to campus much false information created unnecessary consortium in which universities agree to U.S. News University of Nevada-Reno* 11 participating UNC system campuses, as one of the largest distance education and ECU Transit halted their routes, he said. anxiety, the report states. charge in-state tuition to an out-of-state University of Buffalo* while 293 North Carolina students enjoyed programs in the country. But the new “I think we did really well, especially on the graduate student if that same degree isn’t Officers determined incorrect statements Ohio University* a similar tuition break when they enrolled ranking assesses qualitative categories over big things,” Koch said. “All the things that available in the student’s home state. Called by witnesses who mistook an umbrella for a Wright State University* in grad school in one of the other Common size. Nursing offers seven online options in would protect life, we did.” the Academic Common Market, the compact gun prompted the lockdown and subsequent University of South Carolina* Market universities. The report says the the master’s of science in nursing program: encompasses the 16 states that are members The review identified areas needing search. Koch said it will be important to East Tennessee State reciprocal tuition arrangement saved N.C. adult nurse practitioner, clinical nurse of the Southern Regional Education improvement. Among the most important, educate about how to best report suspicious Texas Tech* students about $6.5 million, while out-of- specialist, family nurse practitioner, neonatal Board, and is intended to prevent duplicate Koch said, is communication with students activity. “Say what you observe,” he stressed. Old Dominion* state students enrolled in UNC schools nurse practitioner, nursing education, programs. According to a November report about the lockdown. More frequent updates “Don’t make assumptions.” Virginia Commonwealth* saved about $8.9 million in tuition. nursing leadership and nurse midwifery. and alerts will be made in the future, even — Kathryn Kennedy

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Girls invade the Minor success for PE majors Twisting the night away A medical miracle 100 boy’s dorm 75 ECTC tries to attract more men 50 The patience of a conservative 25 and a tragedy In the school’s students by offering a new major administration is tested when two new An EastCare medical first four years, in PE to begin in the fall of fads hit campus in the spring of 1962— helicopter rushing Wilson Hall for 1938. Professor J.D. Alexander the twist dance craze and girls’ skirts a baby from Camp women always is (left) arrives from Tennessee to that don’t cover the knee. The Women’s Lejeune Naval crammed while chair the new department and Judiciary Council, whose rules require Hospital to Pitt Jarvis Hall for coach football. With more men on girls to wear raincoats over their shorts County Memorial men sits half campus, it was believed, the football while walking to gym class, initially Hospital crashes in empty. A little- team would have more talent to bans the short skirts called “knee- the Hoffman Forest noticed provision choose from. But while Alexander’s shiners” but backs down when students near Pollocksville on in the charter classes are popular the Teachers win swamp the demerit system by wearing Jan. 8, 1987, claiming amendment of only three games in two years. He them anyway. Nothing seems to stop the lives of three 1911 gives the is replaced in 1939 by O.A. Hankner, the twist, even warnings that it may crew members and administration who goes winless. Things finally cause spinal dislocations. The student the three-month old discretion to turn around for the PE department paper editorially laughs at a suggestion patient. Five weeks stop offering a and the football team with the 1940 from the administration that students later, a Brody School men’s dorm. In arrival of John Christenbury, whose restrict themselves to a milder version of Medicine surgeon performs the first successful heart transplant at PCMH. The 1912 the women occupy both Wilson and Jarvis, and the few men students are left to seek teams produce the school’s first of the dance called the peppermint condition of Malcolm Huffman, a Washington, N.C., auto mechanic, is upgraded to fair rooms in town. The number of men students declines steadily until 1919, when there are none. undefeated season. twist. one day after the Feb. 17 surgery. Photos courtesy University Archives

East Caroli na tim eline the ecu report he College of Education honored 20 Teachers of the Year from eastern North Carolina at a December event Trustees divided on tuition hike Administration and Finance Rick Niswander. Tcelebrating the work of outstanding But with this year’s tuition adding $9 million educators and their positive impact within NIVERSITY IFE The ECU Board of Trustees approved U L to the $49 million base budget cut from the the region. The Teachers of the Year recommended tuition and fee increases of state, the university would still be $30 million honored at the event were Janita Allen, 9.5 percent for resident undergraduates and short, Niswander said. Jessica Ballstzglier, Andrea Bell, Andy 9.9 percent for other students for the 2012– —Greenville Cole, Sherri Cox, Justin Frederes, Tammy Stan Eakins is Elizabeth “Bettie Ann” Carroll is among Susanne Grieve, Hedgepeth, Dewanna Holt, Jacqueline 13 school year. The 13-member board was Daily Reflector the new dean of four 2011 recipients of the Board on director of split, with five members in opposition. Lanier, Lori Lolies, Brian McDowell, Marie Degree programs scrutinized Mullins, Antio Nadioz, Malinda Pennington, the College of Human Sciences Awards presented by the conservation for The 9.5 percent increase would mean a Melissa Southerland, Elise Staats, Jennifer Business, Association of Public and Land-Grant the Department $505 rise in tuition and fees for full-time Chancellor Steve Ballard in January received Tyndall, Chavaleh Wetzel, Donna Whitfield succeeding Rick Universities. Carroll, associate professor of History, was undergraduate residents, who would be a faculty committee’s report analyzing and Roneca Wallace. Most are ECU Niswander, who of child development and family relations, invited by the graduates. The teachers represent schools paying $5,822 per year instead of this year’s academic programs that could be eliminated moved up last accepted the award at the organization’s Smithsonian to partially offset a steep decline in state that are members of the Latham Clinical $5,317. With the 9.9 percent increases out- Schools Network that comprises 36 year to become 124th annual meeting in San Francisco. A Institute to help of-state undergraduate students would pay funding. The report by the Program counties in eastern North Carolina. vice chancellor member of the faculty for 15 years, Carroll the Haitian $1,740 more, in-state graduate students Prioritization Committee evaluates which for administration has worked to improve the lives of military government would pay $547 more, and out-of-state degree programs the university should and finance. families in North Carolina through the assess, recover and graduate students would pay $1,584 more. eliminate or maintain at current levels and chemistry, economics and geography, Eakins came to East Carolina soon after delivery of the program she developed in restore the country’s cultural treasures those that merit increased funding. would be narrowed to just the bachelor of completing his doctorate at Arizona State in 2004, Essential Life Skills for Military damaged by the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake. The increases include fee hikes of $95 for all 1990. He worked in banking for 10 years Families. Using a $2.8 million grant As part of the Haitian Cultural Recovery students. For students in the Brody School Of the 277 programs assessed, the science degree. committee found that 48 (about 17 percent) after completing an MBA at the University from the U.S. Department of Health and Project supported by the Smithsonian, of Medicine, tuition would go up by $1,500. All programs in the College of Nursing of Alaska-Fairbanks in 1981. His under­ Human Services, she created the program Grieve focused on conserving waterlogged The jump would be $1,365 for students in could be targets for reduced spending or would be maintained or invested. In the elimination. The study said colleges and graduate degree is from Washington State. to help strengthen marriages and couple organic archaeological materials. the new dental school. College of Education, some master’s Last fall, the Princeton Review ranked the relationships by providing an engaging, schools identified 67 programs as worthy of Senior Rachel Castro of Falls Church, programs would be removed, including ECU College of Business among the best evidence- and skills-based curriculum for The trustees also approved incremental future investment. According to the colleges, Va., studied in Germany in December history education, business education and U.S. business schools, the fifth straight year National Guard and Reserve families. tuition increases of $202 per year for the the majority of programs (167, roughly 60 courtesy of the German-American Fulbright next five years—already built in to this year’s science education. Some bachelor’s programs the college received that distinction. percent) should be maintained at essentially will be expanded, such as elementary Gary A. Stringer, Commission’s Berlin Capital Program, which increases—to “catch up” to what other current levels of investment. Seven professors in the College of Education professor and offers an opportunity for students and young comparably sized universities charge. education, middle grades education and East Carolina lost $49 million in state special education. with a combined 196 years of service to East scholar of English professionals in journalism to learn firsthand “We don’t take those figures lightly; they will Carolina retired, including Floyd Mattheis, Renaissance about German culture and media. Castro be tough for students and families to bear,” funding last year on top of $106 million the Other undergraduate programs considered previous three years. who for over 50 years was a science Literature, is the was one of only 15 participants selected Chancellor Steve Ballard said. for further investment include finance with education professor, a department chair, 2011 David Julian nationwide and the only participant from The UNC Board of Governors and the Appointed by Ballard in April, the risk management and insurance, studio and director of Summer Ventures. Alfred and Virginia Suther North Carolina. 13-member Program Prioritization art with an added emphasis on digital Muller was a professor in the Department Whichard General Assembly must approve the decision. Elementary education professors Liz Fogarty Committee conducted forums for animation, communication, music education, of Curriculum and Instruction for 35 years. Distinguished Most other UNC system campuses are and Peggy Yates were finalists for the UNC each college in October, and the initial dance performance and engineering. Veronica Pantelidis was a professor in the Professor in the Humanities. He comes from enacting tuition increases to make up for Board of Governors Distinguished Professor compilation of data was released in Department of Library Science for 35 years. Texas A&M University. Stringer, who has dwindling state support. Trustees at UNC Graduate programs that could get more for Teaching Award, which recognizes November for feedback leading to the Others are Lynn Bradshaw, 15 years; Joseph received multiple National Endowment for Chapel Hill voted for a 6.5 percent increase resources include: health information excellent teaching. in in-state undergraduate tuition next year updated version presented to the chancellor. management (the bachelor level would be Ciechalski, 24 years; Ruth Hough, 28 years; the Humanities awards to support his and by 15.6 percent over five years. N.C Some undergraduate programs up for eliminated), music education, nutrition and Sue Steinweg, nine years. research into the poet John Donne, will teach Summer Wisdom ’11 was appointed one course each semester in the Department coordinator of the LGBT Resource Office State adopted a plan that would raise tuition elimination include public history, fabric science, accounting (bachelor’s in accounting Mary Olson is the new assistant to of English. This spring semester he is and Student Affairs Assessment by Vice by 6.4 percent near year and by 29 percent design, weaving and organ performance. would be maintained), communication and Chancellor Steve Ballard, succeeding Lou teaching a graduate-level course related to Chancellor for Student Affairs Virginia over the next five years. Graduate programs on the line include health, biomedical, molecular biology and McNamee, who retired. Olson came to ECU digital humanities. Hardy. Wisdom came to ECU from construction management—the bachelor biotechnology. in 2007 as executive assistant to the chair of The increases are expected to bring in roughly Appalachian State University in January level would be maintained—and athletics the Department of Chemistry and has most Lou Anna Hardee, a College of Education $14 million, of which 25 percent or about No decision on the fate of those programs is 2011 to organize the office, which serves training. recently served as executive assistant to the staff member since 1968, was recognized by $3.5 million is required to go to need-based expected before late April. Officials said they do lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered dean of the College of Health and Human the Greenville Optimist Club as Optimist of financial aid, with some additional funds for Some programs in which bachelor of arts not expect any immediate, large savings from students. merit-based financial aid. This leaves about and bachelor of science degrees are offered, elimination of degree programs. The intent, the Performance. the Year. She was governor of the N.C. East $10 million for the university’s operating such as communications, computer science, officials said, is to right size the university District in 2010–11. budget, according to Vice Chancellor for over the coming five to 10-year period.

14 15 Joseph Kalichstein, pictured with Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson

World-renowned pianist Joseph Kalichstein, perhaps best known for his performances and recordings with violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson, is scheduled to perform in solo recital Thursday, March 22, at A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. Kalichstein earned a master’s degree from the Juilliard School, a year after appearing at age 20 in a televised concert with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He has played with leading Bugallo-Williams Duo orchestras throughout the world.

Seraphic Fire, a Miami-based ensemble, will The 12th annual New Music@ECU Festival Orchestra, with ECU faculty member Elliot they are to perform Three Dances for Two present a concert of music for choir and is scheduled March 14–18, with programs by Frank as soloist. Faris is a teaching assistant Prepared Pianos by John Cage, Myzel by organ as part of the Fisk-on-Fourth Concert visiting guest artists, the ECU Symphony professor at ECU. Carola Bauckholt, Duelocity by John King Series Wednesday, Feb. 29, at 7:30 p.m., at Orchestra and ECU combined choirs and and Diptych by Chris Arrell. The JACK St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, in a collaboration ECU faculty members. The orchestra and Among the festival’s guest performers will Quartet, one of the nation’s leading quartets between the ECU School of Music and choirs, along with ECU faculty member John be the Bugallo-Williams Duo, pianists, and specializing in new music, will perform the East Carolina Musical Arts Education Kramar, will perform Henryk Gorecki’s Beatus the JACK Quartet, a string quartet. Helena March 16. The quartet consists of violinists Foundation. The group, founded in 2002, Vir Saturday, March 17, at Wright Auditorium. Bugallo and Amy Williams have been Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violist consists of singers from around the country Kramar will sing the baritone role. The performing programs of contemporary John Pickford Richards, and cellist Kevin and performs a wide variety of music. program also will include the world premiere music throughout Europe and the Americas McFarland. of marc faris’ Concerto for Guitar and since 1995. At the ECU festival March 14,

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Natalie Cole Performing Art s in concert ECU’s Sixth Annual Organ Competition will The 50th anniversary season of the S. The Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival take place April 20–22, and the judge for Rudolph Alexander Performing Arts Series will conclude its 12th season April 26–27 the competition, Joby Bell, will present a will conclude with a performance by Ballet with music for six instruments, highlighted recital April 20 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Memphis March 15 at 8 p.m. at Wright by a performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s at 7:30 p.m. Bell, university organist and Auditorium and by singer Natalie Cole April Transfigured Night. Artistic director Ara assistant music professor at Appalachian 12, also at 8 p.m., at Wright Auditorium. Gregorian will be joined by violinists Soovin State University, will perform works by Bach, Ballet Memphis is one of the nation’s best Kim and Axel Strauss, violist Hsin-Yun Huang Franck, Gawthorp and Jongen. known midsize ballet troupes. Cole, daughter and cellists Ani Aznavoorian and Michael Among other student ensemble programs in of music legend Nat “King” Cole, is a Kannen. Other works will be Edward Elgar’s the spring: Grammy Award-winning singer of jazz and String Serenade in E-minor and Johannes pop music. Brahms’ String Sextet in B-flat. Gregorian The ECU Symphony Orchestra plays April arranged the Elgar work for string sextet. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Wright Auditorium, with The ECU Storybook Theatre will close out works by Aaron Copland and Leonard its 2011–12 season March 30 at 7 p.m. with a Also in the spring will be the annual Billy Bernstein, and a performance by the winner production of The Secret Garden, adapted Taylor Jazz Festival, directed by Carroll of the ECU Concerto Competition. from the beloved book by Frances Hodgson Dashiell Jr. This year’s festival will take place The Zamba Yawar Afro-Andean Ensemble Burnett. The story tells of orphaned Mary April 20–21, concluding a week of jazz- will give its annual performance April 10 at Lennox as she finds a new life in England related programs. A nationally known guest 7:30 p.m. at Fletcher Recital Hall. with her sickly cousin Colin. performer, along with ECU jazz musicians and ensembles, will play, and a special event The ECU Guitar Ensemble will play Monday, The ECU/Loessin Playhouse will bring its will be an Alumni ECU Jazz Ensemble-A April 16, at 7:30 p.m., also at Fletcher. season to an end with the intense drama co-conducted by Music School alumni The Elephant Man Feb. 23–28 and the dark Cameron “Chip” Crotts, Dorsey Mitchell cinema musical The Threepenny Opera April 19–24. Butler III, Vaughn Ambrose and Jeremiah The second season of the Southern Circuit Miller. Another feature of Jazz Week will be Tour of Independent Filmmakers ends in Who’s in town? the Airmen of Note, the U.S. Air Force’s well- March and April. The March 13 movie will known jazz band, which will play April 16 at J. Kameron Carter, who teaches theology be A Good Man, about African-American 7:30 p.m. The ECU Jazz “B” Band will play and black church studies at Duke University choreographer Bill T. Jones putting on a Wednesday April 18, 7:30 p.m., and the Jazz Divinity School, will give the Jarvis Lecture dance-theater piece in honor of Abraham Bones group will play Thursday, April 19, also on Christianity and Culture March 13 at 7 p.m. Lincoln, and the April 17 movie will be My at 7:30 p.m., both at Fletcher. at Wright Auditorium as part of the Voyages Perestroika, a film byR obin Hessman about of Discovery Lecture Series sponsored The ECU Opera Theater will present Mozart’s the last generation to grow up in the former by the Thomas Harriot College of Arts popular Così fan tutte March 29–31 at Soviet Union. The films are presented at 7 and Sciences. Carter is author of Race: A Fletcher Recital Hall. The production will p.m. at the Greenville Museum of Art and published in 2008, and Theological Account, be conducted by Andrew Crane, director the directors of the films will be present to is completing The Secular Jesus: Religion and of choral activities. The opera recounts the answer questions about their work. for Yale University the Project of Civilization story of two mismatched couples who find Press. He earned a bachelor’s degree from happiness despite their muddled emotions. on exhibit Temple University, a master of theology Some of Mozart’s most beautiful music can degree from Dallas Theological Seminary and The School of Art and Design’s annual be found in this opera. a doctorate from the University of Virginia. exhibition of undergraduate work takes place March 1–31 at the Wellington Gray Gallery, and the exhibition of works by master of fine arts thesis students is scheduled April 13–May 18 at the gallery. The undergraduate students’ awards will be presented March 1.

18 19 if you like his movies Scream Kevin Williamson dominates the scary movie genre, and he’s back in primetime with The Vampire Diaries. Now, the creator is hoping to find Dawson’s Creek an elusive balance in his creative and personal lives. “I’m not good at highs and lows,” he says. Copyright 2011 by Max S . G erber by 2011 Copyright

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“When I lived over in Hancock Park (a “My new show on Fox is about a serial killer nearby L.A. neighborhood), the kids would who removes eyes,” he deadpans, an impish be lined up for three blocks,” Williamson says twinkle in his own piercingly blue, nonplastic as he pokes through boxes yet to be unpacked eyes. “So to congratulate me on selling it, a after his recent move. “Not because I was friend of mine gave me a bunch of plastic the ‘ ’ guy, but because I really decked eyes as a gift.” out theScream house for Halloween. I’d go all out— strobe lights, scary music, the works.” Son of a waterman Well, the man does have a reputation to Williamson was born in New Bern in 1965 uphold. the wildly successful 1996 Scream, in a waterman’s family. We he was an infant, slasher flick that Williamson wrote, was his his family moved to Texas, where the family big breakthrough. It earned $173 million lived for 13 years while his father worked at the box office. A year later he wrote the as a shrimper in the Gulf of Mexico. When script for I Know What You Did Last Summer, a series of oil slicks killed the shrimping a revenge-from-beyond-the-grave fantasy business, the Williamsons moved back home that sold $126 million in tickets. Williamson to North Carolina. Young Kevin had become then traded gore for teen angst with the interested in community theater in Texas, and TV drama series which was Dawson’s Creek, he kept at it while a student at Pamlico County filmed in Wilmington and ran for six ratings- High School in Bayboro. He and a few friends filled seasons on The WB. He has returned gravitated to the school drama club.

Copyright 2011 by Max S . G erber by 2011 Copyright to scarier territory lately with now in its third seasonThe on Vampirethe CW “We did a lot of one-act plays out of the televisionDiaries, network. Samuel French catalog,” he says about his high school days. “And we’d write, direct He gives his guest a quick tour of his new and star in our own shows, too. I wrote home, which is nice but not huge. There’s a this nuclear-holocaust-type one-act about a small outdoor theater for viewing parties on survivor having a conversation with God—a the patio out back, which also offers a hot big, big hit at the science fair. I was also the tub. The master bedroom closet is crammed nerdy A/V guy wheeling the cart whenever with artifacts from his movies, including the someone needed a TV monitor.” When it comes to holiday decorating, there are Christmas people and there are Halloween original mask. Settling into an easy chair, WilliamsonScream offers his visitor candy Williamson’s original college plan was to from a bowl on a glass-top coffee table study journalism at UNC Chapel Hill. But people. Not surprisingly, Kevin Williamson ’87 is a Halloween kind of guy. Ghoulish items held up by a boat propeller—a nod to his on a weekend tour of East Carolina, where family of fishermen back home in coastal his older brother was a student, Williamson fill his home in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, including a sinister-looking mummy North Carolina. Along with the expected got a look at the theater department and assortment of lollipops and chocolate drops, changed his mind. As a freshman, he took the bowl also contains (gulp) a bunch of set-design classes alongside another new guarding the doorbell. A painting shows a Hangman game with the phrase “I will die alone.” plastic eyes. student, Sandra Bullock ’87. Later, he was

22 23 to her Tiger Lily in which ran in Hard times in New York about going to the grocery store, she could October 1985. The Peternext Pan,month he played be mesmerizing.” After graduation, Williamson moved to New Bullock’s Russian soldier brother-in-law in York hoping to break into theater while In 1991, Williamson moved to Los Angeles

The Three Sisters. sharing a tiny apartment with the brother to continue working with the music-video But it was in his senior year in 1987 when of actor Woody Harrelson, who introduced director, who promptly fired him. He was Williamson found his acting touchstone. He them. But between big-city culture shock broke, but he kept interviewing for jobs won rave reviews in and the difficulty of landing parts, he and writing. He even sold a script called Children of a Lesser God as the teacher who falls in love with his deaf was miserable. It also didn’t help that he inspired by a real-life Killing Mrs. Tingle, pupil—the role William Hurt made famous was trying to come to terms with his own dressing-down he’d gotten from a teacher in the movie version. Directed by Biehn as a sexuality after years of conflicted emotions. in high school. But the fee wasn’t much and theatre arts department collaboration with Williamson continued struggling. “I was pretty much straight through college. ECU’s program for the hearing impaired, I was struggling with coming out in my was staged in McGinnis Theatre early 20s in New York, which was a big Childrenwith sign language translators positioned reason why I was depressed and hated those at either side of the stage. Williamson days. Just the travails of growing pains— plunged into the role, becoming fluent in struggling with your identity and how you fit sign language. ECU students and many deaf into the world.” people from the area who attended the play cast with her in two East Carolina Playhouse on a more serious gave it standing ovations. Williamson spent more time waiting tables productions. Bullock, he says, radiated path. The first was and working odd jobs than he did acting charisma even when wielding a claw hammer winning the Edgar A review in the April 14, 1987, issue of during those early years in New York. It was a in that first set-design class. Loessin scholarship headlined “Playhouse The East Carolinian, harsh dose of reality that brought to his mind his sophomore closes with a winner,” said Williamson “has “She’s just the sweetest and kindest girl alive,” some wisdom Biehn had imparted at ECU: year, which was been preparing for this role since the fall, Williamson says of Bullock. “And funny. “Other people might strike it big right away, as important for and his work has paid off with deft, fluid Always kept the rest of us entertained during but you might take a while. So remember that the confidence signing. He pours his energy into the nimble the wee hours of tech rehearsals. We’ve slow and steady wins the race.” boost as for the gestures.” (A quarter-century later, he can bumped into each other over the years since money (after still sign.) During that hardscrabble four-year period, then. Always hugs and laughs.” Bullock’s Loessin died Williamson bounced between New York many film credits include Biehn “can be proud of this production both in the summer and North Carolina, doing production- and Speed, forMiss which she as director and acting teacher,” the review of 2011, assistant work in Wilmington and landing Congenialitywon the Best ActressThe Blind Oscar Side, in 2010. concluded. “His two years of instructing the occasional bit part in soap operas. Williamson Williamson show dividends on stage.” For the small-town boy Williamson was, made a substantial After getting a job as assistant to a music- ECU felt like the big leagues. His classmates donation to the scholarship fund). The “Kevin was a lot of fun, a crazy actor,” says video director, Williamson began to focus from back then recall him as the life of the second was getting accepted his sophomore “You could tell in the way Scott Charles Rymer ’86, who also acted in more on the behind-the-scenes aspect of party. But in his telling, he had difficulty and “He’d get way entertainment. He’d always written, but year into Donald Biehn’s acting class, which he’d ask questions or explore his work Peter Pan The Three Sisters. getting out of his shell. Edgar Loessin, out there with then come back meeting some professional writers on the Biehn ran like a conservatory where each as an actor that there was also a writer Peter Pan, founder of ECU’s theater department, took and do something really finite like set of the NBC soap opera student had to be invited back every year. and a director there. Those are different Children Williamson under his wing and encouraged ” says Rymer, an actor based inspired him to take his writingAnother more World A scary inspiration Biehn taught the Sanford Meisner Technique, intelligences and it’s unusual to find a good of a Lesser God, him to audition for everything, including in St. Simons Island, Ga. “His work in that seriously. It was an instinct he came by an internalized method of acting centered actor who’s a good writer—or vice-versa. I While housesitting for a friend one night musicals, even though he couldn’t sing to was just impeccable. He was a really good honestly. on connecting with emotional truths. think the sensitivity in his acting transferred in 1994, Williamson discovered an open save his life. “Just do it,” Williamson says student of the work. Exceptional, I thought, Williamson says it was “perfect for an overly well to writing, producing and directing. He “My mom bought me a typewriter when window and became convinced someone had Loessin told him. “Learn how to stand in one of the better actors to come out of sensitive young gay boy from Goose Creek,” could play roles other people couldn’t, used I was 10 years old, because she wanted broken in and was lying in wait. Alarmed, front of people and fail.” ECU. I always felt like acting was where his the truth of himself in unusual ways. From to write herself,” Williamson says. “I’m he telephoned an old ECU classmate and his family’s rural Pamlico County home. The real talent was.” work was intense, and Williamson “went early on, I think he understood truthful convinced she wanted to be Judith Krantz, fellow Don Biehn disciple, David Blanchard. A Don Biehn prodigy total theater geek.” behavior and that transferred to his writing.” Set design for that 1987 production, as or the female Sidney Sheldon. I’d stumble As Williamson searched the house, he and well as was by Robert Alpers, upon chapters she’d written, really cool and Blanchard chatted nervously over the phone, Mostly, however, Williamson spent his “He had great sensitivity as an actor, and Williamson acted in a number of East Peter Pan who recently retired from the faculty of the interesting stuff. If I got humor from my making dark, satiric comments about serial early college years trying not to fail out of also other instincts at work,” says Biehn, Carolina Playhouse productions and worked School of Theatre and Dance. dad, I got storytelling from my mom. She killers and slasher movies like and school. He was not, he admits, the most avid who is now retired and living in Chicago. as a stagehand in several others. He shared Halloween knew how to weave a story. Just talking student. But two things happened to set him the stage with Bullock twice. He was Smee Friday the 13th.

24 25 There was no intruder, but it was a scary movies to satirize the horror film genre. movie was a huge hit when it reached theaters profitable sequels; hit the theaters stream near Oriental—the place where high being particularly influential for him). experience—and it started the wheels turning in December 1996, eventually grossing more last April. WilliamsonScream also 4 wrote screenplays school kids would go to party. He also based Murder and mayhem fill his movies and TV “I was so broke I had to borrow $15 to get in Williamson’s head. Not long after that, than $170 million worldwide. Williamson for the movies directed by Robert many of the show’s episodes and events on shows, but also pop-culture references and a cartridge to print it out,” he remembers. he went to another friend’s house in Palm was off and running. Rodriguez, andThe Faculty, things that happened during his own wonder ironic allusions to earlier horror flicks like “I was in the worst financial shape of my life. Springs, locked himself away for a weekend in which hisHalloween old ECU H friend20: Twenty David Years years. The TV series launched then-unknown But things happened fast.” followed and wrote a screenplay he called Blanchard,Later, who these days teaches acting and actresses Michelle Williams and Katie Friday the 13th. Iin Know 1997. What Based You on Did a script Last WilliamsonSummer “Kevin’s an exquisitely sensitive man and a As inspired by that phone call withScary Blanchard, Movie. His agent took the script to splits his time between L.A. and Arizona, Holmes to stardom. Scary Movie adapted from the Lois Duncan novel, the remarkably talented writer,” says Peter Roth, the opening scene shows a young woman on market, and a bidding war broke out. The had a minor role as a waiter. film afforded Williamson the opportunity to As a writer, Williamson is an unabashed president of Warner Bros. Television. “He the phone with a serial killer who eventually studio owned by the Weinstein Brothers use his father as a consultant, demonstrating Then came the wildly popular TV series populist who genuinely loves the pulp novels loves TV, and storytelling, characters, taking bursts in and murders her. The story bought it for $400,000. Retitled and Scream creative ways to torture and kill people on which debuted in 1998. his mom had around the house when he audiences on a journey—because he is first combined comedy and whodunit mystery starring Drew Barrymore, Courteney Cox, a boat. Both and yielded WilliamsonDawson’s Creek, named the series after an actual was growing up (Sidney Sheldon’s and foremost an audience member.” with the violence of traditional slasher Neve Campbell and David Arquette, the Scream Summer Bloodlines

Kevin Williamson’s Filmography Credits as a writer, creator or screenwriter

1996 1997 1998 in Wilmington, with beach 1999 2005 a 17-year-old girl who falls 2011 The Faculty exteriors at Wrightsville Beach Wasteland Cursed in love with a 162-year-old Williamson writes the and college scenes at Duke Williamson tries to repeat Williamson and Craven vampire. Based on a book by screenplay for this science University. The opening scene the Dawson’s Creek ratings produce this flick about a the same name, the show is fiction film in which the of Dawson sitting on a dock success with an hour-long werewolf loose in Los Angeles now in its third season on the faculty and students at a high amid marsh grass was filmed drama about three LA post- who attacks three people CW network. school are taken over by alien in Masonboro. Creek eventually college friends who lead who must kill their attacker if parasites. The film grossed $40 runs for 128 episodes on the conflicted lives. But ABC they hope to avoid becoming 2011 million. WB network. cancels the show after just werewolves, too. Produced on three episodes. a $38 million budget, the film 1998–2003 1999 2000 grossed only $30 million. Scream 3 Neve Campbell, Courteney 2007 Cox and David Arquette return Hidden Palms Another primetime miss with for what is considered by this TV series about kids living some as the best of the movie in Palm Springs. It ran for eight franchise. It cost $40 million to episodes on the CW network. make and earned $161 million in ticket sales. 2009–2012 The Secret Circle Williamson transforms another 2002 book series into a TV show, Scream I Know What You Did Glory Days this one about six teenage Williamson writes the script for Last Summer Williamson again bombs on witches with magical powers. a movie about a high school His screenplay follows four primetime TV when the show It’s now in its first full season girl who becomes the target young friends driving around about a novelist who returns on the CW network. With of a mysterious killer known as town who strike and kill a to his hometown to find odd Circle and Vampire Diaries, Ghostface. The film, the first of pedestrian and then dump things happening is canceled Williamson carries the his many collaborations with the body in the ocean. But he after three months on the WB network’s Thursday lineup director Wes Craven, cost $15 Scream 4 returns for revenge. The film cost network. from 8–10 p.m. million to make and earned In this fourth collaboration $17 million to make and earned $173 million at the box office. by Williamson and Craven, $126 million at the box office. Dawson’s Creek Teaching Mrs. Tingle Ghostface is still stalking the Scream 2 Williamson strikes prime-time Even Helen Mirren in the same cast of Campbell, Cox Ghostface returns in the sequel gold with a show portraying starring role can’t save this and Arquette, with Emma in what is announced will be the lives of a close-knit group black comedy about a sadistic Roberts and Hayden Panettiere a trilogy. Budgeted at $26 of teenagers as they change high school teacher who joining the fun. Produced million, it earns $172 million in in high school and college. A on a $40 million budget, its is tortured by three of her The Vampire Diaries ticket sales. multiple winner of Teen Choice gate was at $97 million and students. The box office barely Williamson finds TV ratings Awards, it was filmed mostly covers its $13 million budget. counting. at EUE/Screen Gems Studios success with this drama about

26 27 Meteoric rise, then a crash horror, but I don’t like horror movies. You have to pull The rush of success from and me in, wrap me up gave WilliamsonScream the clout in it, make me care Dawson’sto revive hisCreek long-dormant first script, and then scare the Script for scream although he had to change the name to hell out of me. Put He both wrote and Teaching Mrs. Tingle. together Home alone, the girl answers the phone and talks to directed the 1999 movie, which starred Dawson’s and a stranger, and the conversation turns deadly. Helen Mirren. The movie bombed but it Creekand you’veScream, got hardly seemed to matter. ” Man: Here’s how to play. I ask you a question. Vampire Diaries. “My 20s were slow and starving,” he says. If you get it right, Steve lives. “That all changed as soon as I hit 30 and ‘I’m not good Casey: please, don’t do this. wrote That’s the overnight part, and Scream. at highs and it was bang-bang-bang for a few years. Then lows’ Man: come on, It’ll be fun! there was a spiral downward because I was Casey: please-- so overworked and overtired. I went crazy. Where Williamson I was creatively spent, couldn’t write. I’d get describes his 30s as Man: it’s an easy category. glamorous, nowadays wrapped up in projects I didn’t care about Casey: please. and they went south. I did not have the he says he leads a more mojo to get it done. I also had to deal with sedate existence. He Man: movie Trivia. I’ll give you a warm-up my personal life. My mom got sick, some comes back to North question. Carolina frequently relationships went sour. Life got in the way.” Casey: Don’t do this, I can’t. His mother died in 2004. to visit his father and his older brother, John Man: Name the killer in Halloween. After a nearly decade-long funk, redemption Wade Williamson ’85, Casey: No. arrived from an unlikely source. The WB was who lives in Goldsboro. looking to get a piece of the vampire craze He has returned to Man: come on, It’s your favorite scary movie triggered by the series and wanted remember? He had a white mask and he Twilight ECU a few times over Williamson to take a crack at adapting a the years, including time stalked babysitters. book series called spent visiting several The Vampire Diaries. Casey: i don’t know. Williamson overcame his initial hesitations fraternities and sororities and decided that working through personal for research while writing Man: come on, yes you do. issues by creating a show about people in 1997. While No, please. Scream 2 Casey: literally coming back to life was something he was here then he sat in What’s his name? he wanted to do. He was emerging from a on an acting class taught Man: long stretch of grieving over the death of by his mentor Don Biehn, Casey: i can’t think. who pulled a plot twist someone close to him, and this was just the Steve’s counting on you. tonic. The first episode of of his own by having a Man: debuted in September 2009,Vampire and the Diaries show is student stage a surprise still going strong in its third season. attack on the class wearing a mask. he says, “is like a perfect Scream Vampire Diaries, spend his time watching them. “I’m 46 combination of everything I’ve lived through. These days Williamson has a circle of now, and nothing beats laying on the couch It’s an epic love story that reminds me of Hollywood friends he’s very generous watching TV every night,” he says. “I’ve got every Judith Krantz novel I read when I was with. “Kevin always remembers everybody’s a good core group of friends, we go out to 10—thank you, mom! Every episode is epic, birthday, and the cupcakes always show dinner, and then I come home and watch TV. which is the key word on that show. It’s epic up,” says Andrew Rona, president of Silver It’s boring, but it’s life. I’m not good at highs melodrama like the best Sidney Sheldon. Pictures, who has worked with Williamson and lows. The bottom is too far to climb out There are twists, turns, cliffhangers every since Scream. of, and it’s too easy to fall from the top. I’d week. It’s emotional, and my favorite genre When he’s not writing and developing shows rather be comfortable in the middle, so I’ll is emotional horror. I like the emotion of

for television, Williamson is content to just try to keep it there.” East Max S . G erber by 2011 Copyright

28 29 Imagine walking around with a device implanted in your chest that will deliver up to 700 volts of electricity if it detects a heart arrhythmia— a life-saving jolt that feels like being kicked by a mule. Knowing it could go off at any time causes fear and depression in many patients, and helping ease that pain is Sam Sears’ mission. “It’s a modern-day paradox of safety and fear,” he says. “I see more courage Heart on a daily basis than anyone.” throb

30 31 By Spaine S tephens photography by forrest croce Award, which acknowledges a UNC system see how open and supportive and humble or active-duty military setting. Sears, she faculty member who has made far-reaching he is about his own accomplishments, they says, models “a leadership style which contributions to mankind. feel empowered to follow his example.” demonstrates respect and confidence in his Row applauds Sears’ ability to accomplish students’ abilities.” Students admire him. Kate Cutitta, a so much in so many different realms. “He doctoral student in Sears’ cardiac psychology In the classroom, all of his attention is has a special gift in mentoring students and lab who is working under his direction on focused on providing students a real-world junior faculty to find their own strengths and More than 1 million people worldwide wake up every morning her thesis, says, “I look forward to hopefully vantage point from which to anticipate ways to apply them to important problems,” having a career similar to Dr. Sears.’ He has their future patients’ needs through health she says. “Given ECU’s mission of service the ability to advise students, teach graduate- psychology. He incorporates current events with a tiny defibrillator implanted in their chests to protect them to eastern North Carolina, his research and level courses, do clinical work, all while and controversies into instruction. “My teaching focus really aligns our doctoral contributing to research and knowledge students need to understand that they’re program with the university mission. I also of patients living with different cardiac going to be leaders in the world,” he says, from an abnormal heart rhythm that could cause sudden cardiac think his enthusiasm is a unique quality; diseases.” Her thesis studies the effects of “and they need to understand a lot of while being an outstanding scholar, he has ICD shock on patients’ daily behaviors. things that are going on.” Because health also managed to become such a strong arrest. While having the device is often described as like having care topics and practices are constantly Dr. Kathleen Row, chair of the Department advocate for the health psychology program shifting, Sears’ teaching material shifts as of Psychology, says Sears leaves lasting and for ECU.” well to incorporate the latest findings in impressions on students, teaching them a paramedic constantly at your side, many patients experience “He has given me just the right amount the field. “I think it’s fun,” he says. “I don’t valuable lessons, including, “‘Demand of independence to grow, while also being think there’s any way for my lecture notes to the most from yourself, while being available for guidance,” says Jessica Ford, a become yellowed.” While he was studying compassionate with others,’” she says. “Given uneasiness, anxiety and depression from worrying it could go off at fourth-year student in the health psychology at the University of Florida, there was a Dr. Sears’ reputation, faculty and students doctoral program. She plans to practice series of murders in Gainesville, and Sears can feel intimidated at first, but once they any second. It’s Dr. Samuel Sears’ mission in life to ease their pain. clinical health psychology in either a veteran didn’t understand why none of his professors

Dr. Sears with members of the Heart Failure Team at the East Carolina Heart Institute (left to right): Angela Mayo, PharmD; Cindy Christian, RN; Amaris Tippey, health psychology doctoral student; Tracey Vaughn, RN; Emily DiNatale, health pschology doctoral student; Sears; Trisha Evans, BSN; and Connie Fecik, FNP

The director of ECU’s health psychology Carolina even more. “The people at ECU patients and his enthusiasm for research program and director of the Cardiac trust me to do what will do the most good,” have led him to many media appearances, Psychology Service at the East Carolina he says. “They are supportive of me trying including a regular stint on PBS’s Heart Institute, Sears is a leading authority to do a little bit of everything. The balance a medical information show.Second He on the psychology of living with what are is fragile, but it really is what I thrive on. The alsoOpinion, created ICD Coach, a mobile phone called implantable cardioverter defibrillators constant change and challenge is the most application for ICD patients. Having (ICDs). Demand for his expertise in this exciting part.” information at their fingertips is crucial to evolving field is booming. He has written patients’ ability to cope with the devices or contributed articles to more than 100 Kick like a mule because they sustain life. “The mortality rate scholarly publications addressing the without the ICD is unacceptable,” Sears says. psychological perspective focused on helping An ICD can deliver up to 700 volts of “Your life is there for the taking; you’ve got patients adapt to life with ICDs. His goal electricity when it detects a heart arrhythmia, to learn to cope with this, to get the benefit is to find some level of harmony between a which Sears says can feel like being kicked by out of this.” life-sustaining machine and the emotional a mule or punched from the inside. Patients Sears was asked to speak on several occasions impact it has on patients and their families. have to learn to cope with the possibility of shock on a daily basis. “It’s a modern-day at a seminar at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Besides his research, Sears also teaches paradox of safety and fear,” he says. “I see Baltimore. “After Dr. Sears spoke an initial and advises students, works with patients, more courage on a daily basis than anyone.” time, patients have repeatedly requested conducts research and travels to worldwide that he return to lecture again,” Dr. Hugh speaking engagements. Dividing his time Patients must learn to trust the technology, Calkins, professor of cardiology at Johns among so many responsibilities is an much like learning to trust a stranger, Sears Hopkins, wrote in a letter supporting Sears’ opportunity that makes him love East says. His empathetic interactions with nomination for the 2011 O. Max Gardner

32 33 incorporated what was happening locally brain, and he began to study how people The décor makes a statement, quelling any devotion to the university is infectious to students to see how far they can go in their better we understand human motivation and into their curricula. He makes a point now coped psychologically with injuries as they belief that Sears could want to be anywhere students. “He brings a certain Pirate swagger careers while also balancing time between behavior, the better we will be at preventing to do so. “The world is really our classroom worked toward recovery. Psychology research else. Sears holds an unparalleled regard for to the Psychology Department that students family, hobbies and a love of life. the physical, emotional and financial pain in terms of these issues,” he says. challenged Sears like no other topic had, East Carolina, one he hopes will spread are receptive to,” Cutitta says.“I hope to that accompanies diseases,” says Hazelton. “That kind of energy has been a and it turned into a career. Sears completed beyond the region. “I want the citizens of carry on and incorporate his enthusiasm in demonstration to me of how hard work and Patients and medical experts trust him to his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate at the North Carolina to see East Carolina the way my future career. I think Dr. Sears’ teaching The emotional impact of injury enjoyment can coexist during one’s career,” provide the latest and best information about University of Florida. He left Gainesville to I see it,” he says, “a place with tremendous and practicing at ECU says that this says Dr. Garrett Hazelton, a postdoctoral ICDs. Even with so many eyes at ECU, Some of his lessons come from personal join the ECU faculty in 2007. strength, potential and benefits to the school is just as competitive and advanced fellow in integrative medicine at Duke across the state and around the world trained experience. From childhood, Sears longed to state. I want ECU to receive the honor it’s in research and medicine as any school in His own experiences have lent themselves to University. Hazelton studied clinical health on him and his work, Sears is humbled by play football for the University of Florida. due.” Sears believes ECU has given him North Carolina.” his students, who can see their own futures psychology under Sears. “Dr. Sears has a the patients he affects every day. To him, his Approaching that goal like he tackles research opportunities that other universities can’t in his success. He also brings to the table That pride and energy currently are knack for making a Tuesday feel like a Friday. impact is stark and straightforward. “I like and lab work, he walked on the team as a match. “Coming to East Carolina has been an unyielding confidence in East Carolina. pushing for ECU’s Ph.D. program in health You look up and the day is gone and you feel my work to be practical and useful,” he says. wide receiver and played some before knee a creativity bonanza,” he says. “It’s allowed His Rawl office looks like the ultimate ECU psychology to become fully accredited by the like you have done something worthwhile.” “The only reason my work matters is that and shoulder injuries sidelined him by his me to develop and grow my skill sets in a lair, draped in a life-size Pirate area rug and American Psychological Association (and Students trust him to prepare them for the the ICD saves lives.” junior year. The emotional impact of the supportive and appreciative environment that memorabilia hanging jauntily from the walls. eventually the best in the state) and pushing field, to achieve something meaningful. “The East physical injuries sparked something in his I simply cannot imagine anywhere else.” That

Research by Dr. Sears showed that providing patients with lots information instantly available. Calling it the ICD Coach, Sears and clinical experience into mobile phone applications around East Carolina called Quality of Life Applications, or QOL Apps Inc. of information about the ICD, along with emergency measures created the phone system after consulting with several ECU cardiac survivorship, confident thinking, confident behavior, and The company is focused on developing multimedia educational that may need to be taken, made them feel more at ease. He professors in business, marketing, visual design, graphics and confident relationships with interactive exercises and information. products focused on helping patients achieve quality of life. East created an application, or app, for cell phones that makes this technology transfer. The application blends Sears’ research In November 2010 he created a start-up company spun off from Carolina remains a stakeholder in this endeavor.

34 35 GENTLE GIANT

He ran the campus for 24 years with an iron fist in a velvet glove East Carolina had about 2,800 students when President John Messick hired Dr. James Tucker as dean of students in 1955; it had more than 15,000 when Tucker retired 24 years later. He worked beside President Leo Jenkins all that time, leaving a year after Jenkins’ retirement. The staff Dean Tucker hired became icons themselves, including Rudy Alexander to head up student activities in 1958 and Jim Mallory as dean of men in 1962. Tucker kept a tight grip on campus from the time of the school’s first recorded panty raid in 1956, through integration in the ’60s, and the student unrests of the ’70s. He’s enjoyed a long retirement and at 96 still has a valid driver’s license. He lives with his wife at Sterling House assisted living center in Greenville. We visited with him just before the holidays.

by steve tuttle Penny G raham Penny

36 37 The first thing I want to ask about is the Big it was hard finding enough financial help when Yellow House Incident in 1959 and the students so many of the students were coming from you expelled or suspended for putting on that poor families. now-famous off-campus party complete with girls, “When I first got here, [treasurer] Fitzhugh Duncan beer and a loud record player. told me we had a sum total of $3,000 in financial “My wife and I were at our dinner club meeting, aid and scholarship money. That wouldn’t help playing bridge, and the phone rang. It was the chief very many, even for partial aid. We had lots of little of campus police—we had two then, the chief jobs mopping floors, that sort of thing, they could and the deputy chief—and he told me to come do to earn some money. Then in 1958 Congress down there. They all looked pretty embarrassed. I passed the National Defense Education Act [the didn’t want to throw them out of school but we did first college loan program besides the GI Bill]. I give out some punishments. I think most of them remember going to a meeting in Washington to eventually finished school. And you know, years later find out how the program worked, and we learned At his 96th birthday party, Dean Tucker celebrated with his wife, Virginia, and their sons, Howard ’82 of Raleigh and Richard ’72 of Newport. I got called by one or another of them, and they East Carolina could get $50,000. That was a huge wanted to know if that suspension was still on their sum of money for us, enough for many more record, and if it was, could they do something to scholarships. clear the record. So I asked Leo, and he said, ‘Didn’t “Finding enough dorm rooms was the real challenge. he turn out OK?’ And I said he sure did. Most We had just one boy’s dorm then, Slay Hall, and of them did. So Leo said, you just clean up those ‘That infamous Dean Tucker stare’ then Umstead. One year a secretary in Admissions Thomas B. Carroll ’61 ’63, a retired counselor now living in Bartow, Fla., records, and I did. went a little crazy and checked the box guaranteeing recorded this recollection for the Centennial celebration, condensed below: dorm rooms to every boy that was accepted, way more than we had room for. We packed those boys In the spring of 1961, three weeks before graduation, I received a summons from Dean Tucker to report to his office immediately. Like most students a call from the dean’s office could cause in three to a room, even put them in the break an acceleration in cardiac rhythm, a cold sweat, and a great deal of intense [pain trying] to rooms. Then we opened the dorms on College Hill figure out what academic, social or behavioral “crack” my posterior just fell through. [in 1960–61] and the tide really hit us.” After waiting for what seemed an eternity in Dean Tucker’s outer sanctum, I was escorted into his office. Who did you spend time with outside the office? The dean allowed me to cool my heels as he went through a stack of papers on his desk. When he had “I was close friends with Coach Stas for many years. finished reading and signing them, he finally put his pen The year we went to the Tangerine Bowl in Florida, down and fixed me in that infamous Dean Tucker stare. my wife and I rode down on the train as chaperones Finally he said, “Mr. Carroll, you will not be graduating for the marching band. It was a great trip.” with your class.” My worst nightmare had been realized, the one where you forgot that you had registered for a course, never attended and had failed? Somehow I You saw major changes to the campus in your managed to squeak out a, “Why not?” career. Which one stands out? “But most people don’t remember another incident Dr. Tucker then dropped the bomb by stating, “You have that happened around then that at the time we “In the early ’70s we got our first computer. It was not passed the Swimming Proficiency Test.” After the initial shock wore off, I giggled. I had just completed thought was just as bad. It had snowed, pretty deep, so big we had to remove a window on the second my fourth year on ECC’s Swimming and Diving Team and a few of the boys caught some girls down at the floor [of Spilman] to get it in the building.” during which time I had been recognized eight times fountain and packed snow in their blouses. Leo was as a N.A.I.A. All American, earned four varsity letters, You were here during the battle to establish the and been a member of a relay team that won a national pretty upset about that. He called me to his office championship. The thought of me not graduating because I had not passed a basic swimming and wanted to know how many I was going to kick medical school. What was that like? competency test was just too ludicrous to even enter the field of fantasy! out. But not many of them got in much trouble. We “Well, I was here during the battle in the early ’60s I explained [all that] to Dean Tucker. He patiently waited for me to finish before taking a copy had punishments like, they couldn’t have their car on to get the School of Nursing. And it was the same of the college catalog from his shelf, turning to the section on “Graduation Requirements,” and thing then as the medical school was later. Carolina reading me the part from it that stated that in order to graduate from ECC a student had to pass campus or they had to move to a different dorm the Swimming Proficiency Test. Rules were rules, no exceptions would be made in my case. room. Some of the punishments we had sounded just said, you don’t need a school of nursing because At this point, the dean informed me that there was one way for me to make graduation with bad but they didn’t amount to much.” we already have one. So, Leo and the rest of us were my class. The last possible time to take the swim test was at the college pool in 15 minutes already pretty put out with them before the med and if I hurried I might be able to make it. So I did just that, literally running across campus to Your other title for many years was director of school fight ever started.” get there in time. student aid and work-study placement. I guess East

38 39 Crisis creates a champion

East Carolina’s best men’s golfer in several years had trouble adjusting to college, with poor grades keeping him out of tournaments. But Harold Varner refocused his life, then charged up the leaderboard. By Bethany Brad sher Photographs by jay clark

There have been two turning points in a great round, but with the leaders still on the Harold Varner’s career as an East Carolina Harold Varner made North Carolina golf history course he didn’t know that victory was within golfer. The first came at the end of his reach. “He just kept doing what he does, and freshman year when he struggled on the last summer by winning both of the state’s major that is, pick good shots, execute them, and try course and in the classroom. Because of his everything he could to get putts to the hole,” poor grades, he didn’t qualify for several amateur tournaments—the N.C. Amateur and McPhaul says. “He was just hanging around tournaments. That exclusion became a life- the clubhouse, and somebody said, ‘You might changing moment that propelled him two the N.C. Match Play Tournament. No other golfer win this thing.’” years later to a second turning point. As a Two months after that feat, Varner made better student and player, Varner charged up North Carolina amateur history by the leaderboard in historic fashion to win the had won both and he did it in the same year. completing what is known as an “N.C. Am North Carolina Amateur Championship. Slam” with a victory over Colin Chapman “The best thing that ever happened to me in the final round of the Match Play as a freshman was not playing,” he says. “I for Varner—that he was talented enough ‘Every shot’s another opportunity’ Championship in Bermuda Run. He became to prevail in a large collegiate field. Before wasn’t playing good. My grades weren’t good. Varner’s second overall collegiate title—at the first golfer in the state to win both events, winning the Outer Banks Intercollegiate, he That was a pretty low point. It was one of the AutoTrader.com Collegiate Classic and he accented that accomplishment by wasn’t convinced he was good enough to take the best things that ever happened, because I in November—came during the last taking both titles in the same year. a title without some extraordinary luck. But started appreciating playing so much more.” tournament of his fall senior season. With from that day on, he knew that hard work As long as he was collecting milestones, the spring schedule featuring two big Florida He headed home to Gastonia with a would take him far. Varner also learned that he was the first reinforced resolve to make the summer invitationals and the Conference USA African-American male golfer to win the count, and he spent most of his waking “I think several things happened,” McPhaul Championships in April, Varner’s confidence amateur championship in the 102-year history hours on the golf course during that says. “One is, he saw that his best was good is at a peak, and he hopes to add onto of the event. (Earlier in the year, Angela vacation. When he returned for his enough, that he didn’t have to step outside his string of victories as his ECU career Stewart, an African-American woman from sophomore season, he earned the lowest of himself to win, much like a quarterback concludes. Greenville, won the N.C. Senior Women’s doesn’t have to force a throw or a basketball scoring average on the team and was named “Once I won, I figured out, ‘I can win; I championship.) And while Varner loves stories player waits for his shot. He started to second team All-Conference USA. don’t have to do anything special to win,’” of courageous stands taken against injustice— realize that patience was a good thing. He’s he said. “I love winning. There’s nothing one of his favorite movies is —he “Before that, he had been able to get making a decision to actively commit to a Glory Road better than winning. You’ve got to hope for says he didn’t start playing golf in a quest to through life by smiling and being charming,” process that he knows will work, and he the best at all times. Every shot’s another be a revolutionary. says his head coach, Press McPhaul. “School started to do that over and over again. and golf weren’t working, and he realized, opportunity. That’s how I approach life. “I don’t think about it much, but I get it,” he ‘I can’t fake my way through.’ That clicked “He’s incredibly gifted physically. He never Every day’s another opportunity.” says. “If it opens up doors for other African- knows when his firepower is going to take sometime that spring, and before long he He spent last summer taking advantage of Americans who aren’t playing golf, that’s over and he’s going to make four birdies in started to see results.” two big opportunities. He competed in both awesome.” five holes. So I think he learned that he just of the state’s major amateur tournaments— Varner continued to make steady progress needs to keep doing good stuff and wait.” If young players of any background are through that year and the early part of his the N.C. Amateur in June and the N.C. looking for a role model, McPhaul considers junior season, until late October of last One of the Harold moments that is seared Match Play Tournament in August—and Varner an excellent candidate. He routinely year brought the next major milestone. At in McPhaul’s memory happened that night won them both. thinks of others before himself, and as part of as the team boarded the van to return the the Outer Banks Intercollegiate, the last He entered the final day of the N.C. a strong senior class of five golfers he has been Greenville. They had not even pulled out of tournament of ECU’s fall season, he posted Amateur, played at Greensboro Country working toward becoming a vocal leader for the parking lot when Varner asked, “How the best 54-hole score in Pirate history (a Club, tied for 11th and four strokes back. the Pirate underclassmen. And with the spring many days until our next tournament?” 20-under 196) to become the individual What followed was a classic case of schedule pointing to the C-USA Tournament McPhaul quickly did the math and gave champion. It was a key boost to his faith in everything clicking at the right time, as he and the NCAA Tournament, McPhaul knows him the answer: 90 days. Varner responded, his own potential. carded seven birdies and an eagle for a 66, that the time is ripe for Varner to emerge as a “Well, that’s 90 days to get better.” East That tournament marked a major realization the lowest score of the day. He knew it was player with national potential.

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Track and field Two of the most accomplished Lady Pirates in recent years are poised to top their Aisha Goggins and Tynita Butts considerable accomplishments from the 2011 outdoor season. Junior high jumper Tynita Butts, Softball who finished sixth at the U.S. Outdoor Championships, and When the 400m runner Aisha Goggins, 2011 team went to the 13th place national finisher the NCAA Regional at in her event, will both compete the University of Maryland last with strength for ECU in both spring, they set a national record for the indoor and outdoor seasons. freshman starters in a regional, with Men’s Butts, who finished seventh at the eight. And the ECU squad will look to tennis NCAA Outdoor Championships as a that youthful group—and the maturity freshman, jumped higher than world they gained through a 41-22 campaign, The youth record holder Chaunte Lowe at the for leadership in 2012. Led by top hitters movement is also in USA Championships. Alex Fieldhouse and Jordan Lewis, the play on the men’s tennis sophomore class will look to pace the team, which was led during the Pirates in head coach Tracey Kee’s 16th fall schedule by the play of freshmen season. Nicholas Soriano, Chase Baker and Patriek Wolterbeek. Soriano and his doubles partner, sophomore Joran Vliegen, won their flight in doubles at the ECU Fall Shootout in September, and Baker and Wolterbeek won their respective flights to close out the fall season at The Citadel Invitational. The spring tennis schedule features matches at N.C. State and Conference USA foe Memphis.

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Alumni Spotlight 2011 SCOTT BARRINGER is the Pioneer League Athletic Trainer of the Year. He is athletic trainer for the Missoula Osprey, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the Arizona Diamondbacks in Missoula, Mont. AMANDA HOWARD BUIE wed BRYAN KEITH THIGPEN ’10 on Sept. 24 at Englewood United Methodist Church, Rocky Mount. She works for Pitt County Schools, and he is attending graduate school at ECU. BRADLEY CRAFT teaches freshman introduction to algebra at Northern Vance High School, Henderson, where he graduated in 2007. HEATHER POPE is a fourth-grade language arts and social studies teacher at Selma Elementary, Selma. JAMES “JJ” ARTHUR REGAN JR. wed Marcy Beth Hebert, who is attending ECU, on Sept. 3 at Core Sound Water Fowl Museum, Harkers Island. KELSEA LEANNE SANDERS wed John William Walters at Mount Olive First Pentecostal Holiness Church, Mount Olive. She teaches sixth grade at Grifton School, Grifton. LACEY WINSLOW provides science A jersey thought to have been worn by support for K–2 students at Selma Elementary, Selma. legendary East Carolina baseball coach Jim 2010 Mallory during the Pirates’ 1961 NAIA national championship season was donated to the BRITTANY NEILAND BELL wed Lawrence school by Steve Loper ’01 of Cary. Accepting Anderson Moye IV on Sept. 17 at St. Egbert is current coach Billy Godwin (left). Loper, Catholic Church, Morehead City. She is a nurse who collects ECU memorabilia, said he found the at Rex Hospital, Raleigh. KRISTEN D’ANNE jersey offered for sale on eBay by a person in Australia. Mallory, who HEFFELFINGER wed Christopher Paul Wilson at compiled a record of 161-60 during nine years in the dugout, also Boiling Springs Baptist Church, Boiling Springs. She served as dean of men during a 33-year career at East Carolina. works for Coastal Carolina Cardiology, Greenville. Dr. ALICIA MARIE MYERS wed Dr. James Baltimore-based band Future Quinto Lagasca on Oct. 8 at St. Peter’s Catholic Islands (left) is touring Europe and Church, Greenville. She is an internal medicine Japan to showcase its third album, resident at George Washington University Hospital, On the Water, which was recorded Washington, D.C., with plans to continue a fellowship at a waterfront house in Elizabeth in infectious diseases. AMY LAND teaches fifth City. Formed at ECU when they were art students here, Future Islands is grade at Selma Elementary, Selma. ELIZABETH composed of singer Sam Herring, PIKE is the assistant manager of Catalog Connection, guitarist William Cashion ’06 and a women’s boutique in Greenville. JESSICA LYN keyboardist Gerritt Welmers. Their PORTERFIELD wed PHILLIP DEAN PRICE ’01 first band at ECU, Art Lord & the ’10 on June 11 at White Lake. She is working on a Self Portraits, which featured Kymia master’s in public health at ECU, and he works for Nawabi ’03, performed widely Beaufort County Community College in Washington. across the state until it broke up ALEXANDRA STEPHENS is a registered nurse in 2005. Future Island’s music has been described as “post-wave,” “post-punk” and “new-wave” but the at Gastroenterology East P.A. and Endoscopy Center band calls it “synpop.” Since adopting Baltimore as home a couple in Greenville. J. DEREK SWART teaches upper years ago, the band has become a favorite of the city’s club scene. school English and history at the Oakwood School in In reviewing the new album, which was released by the independent Greenville. label Thrill Jockey, the Baltimore Sun said “the trio has cultivated a lush, nuanced sound, and Herring’s Jekyll-and-Hyde singing is its 2009 centerpiece.” The paper’s music critic commented on the group’s ANGELA GRACE MCDONALD and EDWARD “growing catalog of danceable break-up songs” and Future Islands CROFT MASSEY ’11 wed on Sept. 17 at Jarvis “sticks to what the members naturally gravitate to—propulsive backbeats, a sturdy low end, floating-in-mid-air synthesizers and Memorial University Methodist Church, Greenville. Herring’s vocal bloodletting.” Lonnie Walker, a roots-rock band She is a registered nurse on the Progressive Care fronted by Brian Corum, ’08, often is the opening act when Future Unit at Lenoir Memorial Hospital. He is an account Islands performs in North Carolina. Lonnie Walker recently won the services specialist with Ripken Baseball. Annah Last Band Standing contest at the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh.

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Alumni Spotlight Westbrook Schwartz ’09 was a bridesmaid. TRACY United Methodist Church, Bethel. She is in graduate NICHOLS wed Jeremy Mark Stewart on Sept. 17 at MYERS WILKERSON wed SEAN EDWARD school. Dr. NICHOLAS JERNIGAN, a physician Trinity Free Will Baptist Church, Greenville. She works Pitt County Teachers Honored Attendance and GOUGH ’10 on Sept. 24 at Jarvis Memorial United with Wilmington Health in Leland, passed board for the Salvation Army in Greenville. GLENN REED school spirit Methodist Church, Greenville. examinations in internal medicine and pediatrics and ’05 ’07, principal of Blue Creek Elementary School in Julie Cary ’84 ’87, South Central weren’t as high met training, licensure and procedural requirements Jacksonville, is the 2012 Wells Fargo Principal of the 2008 as many hoped at to become a board-certified physician.EMILY ROSE Year for Onslow County Schools. ALLISON SWART High School principal, is the 2012 basketball games BRITTANY ANN CRAIG wed Joshua Timothy SEATON wed Wesley Bryant Sheffield on Oct. 15 is worksite wellness coordinator for the Greenville-Pitt Principal of the Year for Pitt County in the then-new Gore on Oct. 2 at the Duplin Winery, Rose Hill. at Christ Episcopal Church, Charlotte. She works County Chamber of Commerce. Minges Coliseum in She teaches in Wayne County Schools. MELISSA for a private wealth management team of Wells 1970, so the SGA 2004 Schools. Finalists included Tracy L. and BRAD ’06 EAKES own the Pour Haus Pub in Fargo Advisors in Charlotte. Dr. ERIK ROGER was receptive to Cole ’02, Lionel Kato ’05, Sandra ideas for boosting Farmville. Dr. CHARLENE LOCKLEAR joined SWANSON works at Charleston Ear, Nose and LISA BARBER, regional director of business fan interest. A Southeastern Medical Clinic North Lumberton Throat Associates, Charleston, S.C. development for the Greenville Convention Center, Denise Morris ’89 ’98 ’03, Nicole freshman walked where she will work with her sister, Dr. Andrea earned the designation of Certified Meeting 2005 into the SGA Simmons ’05. NIKKI WALKER, media coordinator Professional. RICHARD HIBBITTS is a Tripp Smith ’96 ’98 ’04 and Betty offices one day at Edgewood Elementary School, Whiteville, is that LAUREN DAVIS ASBY is banking officer and programmer and web developer for S&S Cherokee, A. Tolar ’99. Assistant Principal of asking if the school school’s 2011-12 Teacher of the Year. branch manager in Southern Bank’s Greenville Medical a full-service communications company, in Cary. had a dance team, Center Office. She completed her first year of the MICHAEL D. HOLT is vice president and business the Year finalists includedLinda and the idea was 2007 N.C. School of Banking in Chapel Hill. SEAN P. development officer for Southern Bank’s South Charles hatched for a Brantley ’85, Victor Coffenberry II group that is still SARA AMANDA ALLEN wed JAMES WEST DOOLEY was promoted to senior analyst in Matrix Boulevard office, Greenville.ERIC NICKENS JR. thriving on campus POTTER ’04 on June 25 at Bethany Free Will Capital Markets Group’s energy and multi-site retail ’04 ’08 received two awards from the N.C. Public ’99, Maurice Harris ’98 ’06, Daniale 41 years later. Using a small SGA grant to buy uniforms, the group, Baptist Church, Winterville. She teaches fourth grade group in Richmond, Va. LIONEL KATO, principal Health Association: Public Health Staff Recognition initially known as the Pirateers and in recent decades as the Pure Gold at Wintergreen Intermediate School, Greenville, and of Farmville Middle School, is the 2011 Media Award and the 2011 All-Star Award. He is director Elaine Stancil ’91 ’04 ’07 and Dancers, performed for the first time at Homecoming 1970. Greenville he manages The Trophy Case and is self-employed in Administrator of the Year awarded by the N.C. School of health education and public/media affairs at Sharon Y. Ward ’92 ’94 ’06. attorney Phil Dixon ’71, a former chair of the ECU Board of Trustees sports entertainment. JENNA BUIE ’07 ’11 teaches Library Media Association. SHAUNDA MOORE Alamance County Health Department, Burlington. and current member of the UNC Board of Governors, was SGA vice fifth grade at Selma Elementary School, Selma. is banking officer and branch manager in Southern BRANDON SHOAF is the Hertford town manager, president in 1970. Among his duties was seeing that the grant to the Pirateers would be used properly. Other alumni who remember that Bank’s Winterville office. AMANDA ELIZABETH where he was the town planner for nearly four years. beginning include Julia Brooks Wilson of Greenville and Joey Horton, who was the freshman who walked into Dixon’s SGA office asking about a dance team. In the photo above, Wilson is at back left. Others on that original squad were Jan Bainbridge, Marcia Gill, Cynthia Erdahl, Shelley Beeler, Pam Lowry, Terry Roach, Betty Boyd, Beverly Nickens and Debbie Stone. If you recognize others in the picture, please let us know. JESSICA L. HAUSER ’07 ’08 is the administrator of The Laurels of GreenTree Ridge, Asheville, a East Carolina staff 100-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility. member Diane Coltraine was at work in her office ROY HOPKINS opened Pro Fitness 24 Training on the second floor of Studio and Wellness Club in Greenville. CHADWICK Diane Coltraine Ragsdale Hall recently STOKES joined AXA Advisors, Greenville, as a when Linda Jones Miner financial adviser.TIMOTHY ANDREW WATKINS ’66 of Annapolis, Md. wed Lynn Cornelia Hartough on June 11 at St. (right), stuck her head in Paul’s Episcopal Church, Wilmington. He is a project the door to ask, “Is it OK engineer for ColonialWebb Contractors, Richmond, if I come in and look Va. Navy Seaman LAURA A. VEALE completed around, because this was my dorm room.” Of Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, course, Coltraine replied. Great Lakes, Ill. With Miner were two 2006 friends, Ann Peedin Parrish ’65 ’66 ’82 ’91 of LAUREN CALDWELL BUCK is the manager Benson (center) and Ann of Catalog Connection, a women’s boutique in Vick Johnson ’66 ’85 of Jacksonville (left), who lived in other rooms Greenville. Dr. MATTHEW COLLINS joined in Ragsdale during their student days. Close friends during college, Eastern Urological Associates P.A. after specialized the three lost touch over the years until Miner e-mailed them and training in laparoscopic and robotic surgical techniques suggested a reunion. A fourth friend, Judith Taylor Bell Darden ’66 of Greenville also came to the reunion. “We loved campus,” Miner, who for the kidney and prostate. CHRISTINA IRENE grew up in Swansboro, said about returning after so many years. “The COVINGTON wed Joseph Chad Martin on Sept. trees are huge today. We were so happy the old buildings had not 23 at Bald Head Island Chapel, Bald Head Island. been torn down and that they’ve been preserved. We talked to the She is pursuing her master’s in elementary education students while we were walking around campus and they were so through Gardner Webb University and teaches friendly to us.” Walking with them as they left the building, Coltraine, kindergarten at Mineral Springs Elementary School, who is editor of university catalogs, said she heard one say: “This is Ellerbe. REBECCA DANIELLE EASTMAN wed where my future husband kissed me for the first time.” John Linwood Gurganus IV on Sept. 10 at Bethel

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Alumni Spotlight LEANNE E. SMITH ’04 ’06 received her MFA in Charles Foster on Sept. 10 at Richardson Adventure Roanoke, Va. He is an assistant DA in Durham. who imagine themselves traveling the world only to creative nonfiction from Goucher College, Baltimore, Farm, Spring Grove, Ill. She is the primary massage Michael J. Sandlin ’02 was a groomsman, and discover that their favorite place is home. Md. For her thesis, she began documenting the 40- therapist at Oasis Center for Health, a holistic health Cynthia Moreno Wallace ’01 ’09 was a bridesmaid. 1998 The Wilmington Star year history of the Green Grass Cloggers, started at care clinic in Hinsdale, Ill., and an instructor at the CHRISTOPHER NUNNALLY joined the fine News selected an ECU in 1971. She teaches in ECU’s Department National University of Health Sciences. CHRISTINA arts department and is the strings director across all AMY KILGORE is public relations specialist at Cape original watercolor by of English. BERNADETTE WILSON is a special MCALPIN TAYLOR was selected as a 2011 Leader divisions at the Oakwood School in Greenville. Fear Museum of History and Science, Wilmington, artist Adrienne Willis education teacher at Selma Elementary, Selma. She in the Law by the She practices and on the board of directors of the YWCA of the Jungmann ’94 to 2000 previously taught special education for six years in with Smith DebnamN.C. in Lawyer’sRaleigh inWeekly. its creditors’ rights Lower Cape Fear. KAREN SHARPE is Teacher of the feature on the 25th annual edition of the Lenoir County. practice group where she represents a wide range of Dr. KENGIE BASS is principal of Moore Square Year for Bertie Early College High School in Windsor, newspaper’s collection businesses. TANYA TURNER, principal of Chowan Magnet Middle School, Raleigh. He is one of the where she teaches science. 2003 of coffee mugs youngest school administrators with a doctorate in Middle School, was named principal of the year for 1997 featuring Port City FRANK ADAMS earned an exemption into his Edenton-Chowan Schools. the Wake County Public Schools. He was an assistant landscapes. Her view of the Wilmington waterfront was chosen over first European Tour golf tournament in the King principal at Knightdale High School where he also Daniel E. Bain was the work of 90 other artists. Jungmann’s earlier work was honored in 2002 Hassan II Trophy tournament to be held in spring did his internship. MARK LOCKLEAR and wife, named president of 2008 by the Wilmington-Cape Fear Home Builders Association’s 2012 in Morocco. He was on the ECU golf team. BERNITA W. DEMERY completed a three-year Katie, had their first child, Cannon Martin.SARA J. Jefferson Davis Annual Art contests and the “Building Healthy Coastal Communities” CHANTÉ LASSITER, principal of Perquimans term on the N.C. Association of Certified Public SINGLETON is program coordinator for economic Community College in contest in 2009. Her works were exclusively featured on the High School, was named principal of the year for Accountants board of directors where she was minority development at the University of Georgia, managing Brewton, Ala. He was homebuilders’ association Parade of Homes magazine covers in 2008 president of and 2009. The waterfront scene featured on this year’s mug was Perquimans County Schools. HEATHER PAIT, action committee liaison and a member of the audit UGA’s Economic Development Leadership Council captured in her certified physician assistant, provides care three days a committee. LAURA O. DOUNA is an associate and directing outreach activities to businesses, Independence memory on an week at the Southeastern Medical Clinic Bladenboro. dentist at Earp & Gamboa Dentistry by Design in governments, nonprofit organizations and individuals Community College in afternoon in 2007 MARY MCCRORY SEBASTIAN wed Joseph Greenville and Farmville. Dr. NITIN GUPTA, a throughout Georgia. Independence, Kan. as she stood on Campbell Jenkins on Oct. 22 on the Presentation specialist in retina care, joined the practice of his the grounds of the 1999 1996 Deck of The Shoals Club, Bald Head Island. She is father, Smithfield ophthalmologist Dr. Madan Lal. Battleship North a clinical trials coordinator, RN, at Duke Clinical FREDERICK A. MORENO wed Jennie Leigh Doss STEPHANIE WHITLOCK DICKEN illustrated the BOBBY C. DARDEN is executive director of the Carolina. Looking Research Institute. KRISTA MARIE SOLI wed Paul on May 21 at Southview United Methodist Church, book about a mother and daughter three-county Coastal Environmental Partnership for the Cape Fear Where Shall We Go? solid waste in New Bern. He was county manager in River at the Wilmington river­ Perquimans County since 2004 and assistant county front, she was manager there for two years previously. Dr. DORIS struck by the H. HUNTB lackwellwed Gene Lyndon McLaughlin on Oct. beautiful, placid 17 on a gondola at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, scene—boats Nev. She is the exceptional children’s director with the were docked, When making your estate plans, Robeson County Public Schools. JASON MILLER colorful trees filled in the gaps between buildings and the steeple of First Presbyterian place East Carolina University ’96 ’07 is principal at Lenoir County Early College High School, Kinston. He was assistant principal at Church pierced the blue sky. Jungmann operates through Southern Flair Fine Art Gallery, conceptualrender.com/index.html, where a among your loved ones. Greene County Middle School. KELLY CAMERON variety of her watercolors and renderings can be viewed. TAYLOR received a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Gardner-Webb University, where We all hope to leave our legacy through family, friends and she is chair of middle grades education. DONNIE New York printmaker Barbara McPhail ’76 WARREN was promoted to divisional vice president loved ones. Ultimately, we hope to leave behind our precious was featured on a recent edition of the gained lifetime assets to those who are most important to us. with Healthcare Services Group responsible for Out of Bounds radio show hosted by Tish East Carolina University always encourages families to take care business development and operations in North Pearlman on NPR. She discussed her body Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. of themselves first, but if there are other assets remaining after of work composed of paintings, satisfying those goals, please think of leaving your perpetual 1995 drawings, prints, legacy at East Carolina University. RONALD L. VILLINES JR. is an assistant principal hand-built ceramics, collage A bequest provision is among the simplest yet most effective at Graham High School in Graham. He was an assistant principal at East Mooresville Intermediate and handmade ways to make a long-lasting impact at ECU. By naming any of paper. Her School in the Mooresville Graded School District near the three ECU foundations (East Carolina University Foundation artwork focuses Charlotte. Amy Sluder Woodard ’95 Inc., East Carolina University Medical & Health Sciences on social justice, of Apex, a nurse and the environmental and Foundation Inc., and/or the East Carolina University Educational lead kidney transplant political issues as envisioned through Foundation Inc. [Pirate Club]) as beneficiary of a percentage or coordinator at UNC experimental and traditional techniques specific dollar amount from your estate, you are investing in the Tomorrow starts here. Hospitals, was named to and imagery. She has exhibited at the future of young people for generations to come. Thank you for board of directors of the Coo Gallery and Columbia University Southeastern Kidney in New York City, and at the Garrett considering how you can give students educational support and Gallery in Cambridge, Mass. She recently Council, which works to the opportunity for an outstanding future. had a solo exhibit, Hydrofracking, that improve the lives of people For more information about bequest provisions or any planned appeared at Keuka College. She blogs at with or at risk for kidney www.thespeakingimage.tumblr.com. giving instruments, please call Greg Abeyounis, assistant disease in the Carolinas vice chancellor for development, at 252-328-9573 or e-mail and Georgia. [email protected]. Visit us online at www.ecu.edu/devt.

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1994 1993 1990 STEPHEN JAMES HAMMOND wed Rachael MILTON EUGENE “GENE” HODGES ’93 ’99 is ABBOTT DEES opened a new Chick-fil-A franchise in Semcheski on Nov. 13 at St. Aloysius Roman Catholic assistant county manager for Craven County. He was Winterville. He transferred from the Greenville Mall unit. Church, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He is a construction assistant county manager in Person County. LANCE MARCUS D. GOODSON, Follow the Pirates manager in Chesapeake, Va. BRYAN HARPOLE L. METZLER is the Rockingham County manager. executive director of the is general manager of Ubiquity Studios, a division He was the Montgomery County manager. HUNTER Housing Authority of the of Ubiquity Broadcasting Corp., a digital lifestyle ANDERSON MOORE wed Jennifer Leigh Culler on City of Fort Myers, Fla., was and multimedia company, in Los Angeles, Calif. Aug. 20 in Jones Chapel, Meredith College. He works elected to a two-year term as LOUISE CREECH PRICE ’94 ’00 received her for GENBAND in RTP. ELIZABETH ASHBY president of the Florida worldwide... National Board certification in 2010. She is media QUARLES wed Matthew McNaughton on Sept. 22 Association of Housing and coordinator at Fike High School, Wilson County. at Starry Night Cafe, Ferrisburgh, Vt. She works for G. Redevelopment Officials. CAROL JONES SHIELDS ’94 ’00 was named to Housen Distributors. GEORGANN a three-year term on the State Advisory Council for ATHANAELOS SAPP ’90 1991 the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service. She serves on ’91 was named Elementary the Halifax County CES Advisory Council and is a SCOTT JONES received the Charlie Adams Art Educator of the Year by the N.C. Art Education Roanoke Valley Extension Master Gardener. GRACE Distinguished Service award in Region 1 of the Association. She teaches elementary art at Jackson Park “MISSY” DAUGHTRY SMITH is the 2011 N.C. N.C. High School Athletic Association. At Camden Elementary School in Kannapolis. Association of Zoning Officials Member of the Year. County High School, he is head coach of football 1988 In 2009 she was NCAZO Zoning Official of the Year, and women’s basketball and teaches social studies. making her the only member to win both awards in Adams ’59 ’62 led the N.C. High School Athletics DAVID SINGLETON is advertising director at the

the organization’s 30-year history. She is a planning Association for many years. DONNA PHILLIPS ’91 Greenville. He was advertising director Daily Reflector, supervisor for Durham City-County. ’94, senior economic developer and manager for the for Key West, Fla. RANDY N.C. Department of Commerce’s recruitment efforts WHITAKERThe Key West is TeacherCitizen, of the Year for Bertie High for the Eastern region, was named to the ECU Board School in Windsor where he is a physical education of Visitors. teacher and coach.

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Alumni Spotlight Alumni Spotlight 1987 1975 Dr. SUSAN AYCOCK, family medicine specialist, KATHRYN SAULS ’75 ’76 ’81 joined the fine arts provides care two days a week at the Southeastern department and teaches middle school and upper An exhibition of works Medical Clinic Bladenboro. school chorus at the Oakwood School in Greenville. by Kymia Nawabi ’03, Jay Clark Jay entitled “Not for Long, STEVE TERRY, Coker College vice president for 1985 My Forlorn,” occupied student enrollment services, received the Joseph O. B ravo Courtesy much of the second KAREN GARDNER, media coordinator at Ayden- Nixon Award for chief student affairs officers from floor of the Brooklyn Grifton High School, is the 2011 Media Coordinator the South Carolina College Personnel Association. Museum of Art for a of the Year awarded by the N.C. School Library GAYLE MCCRACKEN TUTTLE won two blue six-week showing that Media Association. SUZANNE HACHMEISTER ribbons at the State Fair in Raleigh for her preserves. ended Feb. 5. The ’85 ’86, academically and intellectually gifted It’s the second year in a row she has won at least one exhibition included 12 lead teacher for Pitt County Schools, received the blue ribbon at the fair. paintings, two sculptures and a poem 2011 Ann Harrison Service Award, given to gifted Dill 1974 that represented her educators whose innovative approach has positively winning entry in the influenced gifted education in eastern North JOHN NARRON was selected a 2011 Leader in the Bravo TV network’s Carolina. She is the daughter of Frances Cahoon ’58 Law by the He is a partner and Work of Art program. N.C. Lawyer’s Weekly. and Everett Bradley ’59 of Sanford and is married to head of the litigation practice with the Raleigh-based Crowned by a panel of Chip Hachmeister ’85 ’88. law firm of Smith Debnam. He is also recognized art experts in as a Board Certified Family Law Specialist by the December as America’s 1984 N.C. State Bar. JANET WOOLARD PREVATTE “Next Great Artist,” she received a $100,000 GERRY ROGERS was named to the TriCounty received the Special Person Award in Region 6 of the prize and the Sports Hall of Fame, Pottstown, Pa. He played N.C. High School Athletic Association. She is special opportunity to exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. Much of her work is football and boxed in high school and played football populations coordinator at Butler High School in inspired by the Egyptian deity Thoth, who holds the universe in at the University of Maryland, Villanova and ECU, Matthews and coach of the Butler Dream Team. balance and who greets the deceased in the afterlife and is where he was an all-conference selection. represented as a man with the head of an ibis. A first generation 1971 Iranian-American, Nawabi was born in San Diego, Calif., and grew up 1982 CHARLES CHAMBLISS retired as assistant in Durham. She has been living in New York City since earning her DEWANA JO SCEARCE HOLT, first-grade superintendent of Halifax County Schools where he master of fine arts from the University of Florida in 2006. teacher at Eastover-Central Elementary School in worked for 40 years. His three children, Christopher Fayetteville, is the 2011-2012 Cumberland County Mark Chambliss ’95, Christal Chambliss Pittard Teacher of the Year. She teaches first grade at Eastover ’00 and Caren Chambliss Godfrey ’03, are all ECU Central Elementary School, Eastover. WENDY graduates as are his three siblings. PERRY won first place at Midstate Mill’s “Best 1967 Southern Biscuit®” contest. HARTWELL H. FULLER was posthumously 1980 inducted into the Twin County Hall of Fame, which SAMUEL J. BERNSTEIN is director of celebrates the people of Nash and Edgecombe merchandising, marketing and global sourcing at Boy counties. He taught at Rocky Mount Senior High and Scouts of America National Supply Group. Previously, Wilson Technical Institute before joining the newly he was at Family Dollar Stores for more than formed Edgecombe Technical Institute in 1968. For thirty years, most recently as vice president–general 35 years, he served Edgecombe Community College, John Cooper ’89 has brought a lot of news into the living rooms merchandise manager. with the last 10 as president from 1994 to 2004. of TV viewers across the country over the past 20 years, from the 1979 1965 attack on the Pentagon on Sept. 11 to Steve Jobs’ death. During that time he has worked for the NBC News Channel in Charlotte, CAROLYN WILLIAMS received a Showcase Award Jerry McGee, the president of Wingate University an arm of the national NBC News network, including a brief stint from the Virginia Community College Association, near Charlotte who enjoyed a stellar weekend career as at the Washington, D.C., bureau. As the deputy manager of the live recognizing her contributions to the community a college football referee, is among eight individuals desk, he works with reporters in the field to oversee and produce college experience and her dedication to students. who will be inducted into the N.C. Sports Hall of their national and international news stories. The stories, or video She is a counselor at Tidewater Community College’s packages, are distributed daily to local NBC affiliates nationwide. Fame in May. McGee pledged $333,000 to East Last November, Cooper came back to ECU as the keynote speaker Counseling Center. Carolina to establish the Jerry E. McGee Distinguished at the fourth annual High School Media Day hosted by the School 1977 Professorship in the College of Health and Human of Communication. “I remember sitting where you are now thinking Performance. Also in this year’s class of inductees about my future,” Cooper told about 150 students from 12 eastern HOMER DOYLE SPRING JR. received the is Henry Trevathan ’55 ’56 ’81, a former North Carolina high schools attending the one-day workshop. “ECU Lifetime Service to Wrestling Award from the National assistant ECU football coach. gave me direction and I discovered how TV news impacted my life. Wrestling Hall of Fame. He is a math teacher and Journalism is not the oldest profession, but it’s the best. Every day is athletic director at Dixon High School in the Onslow 1958 an education.” Cooper lives in his native Charlotte, where he is from County School System. He is the former wrestling RICHARD CONDER of Rockingham, former originally, with his wife, Chris, and 4-year-old daughter, Prentiss. coach for Dixon High School where his wrestling —Jessica Creson Nottingham ECU football player and 1982 alumni of the year, teams won four state titles. He currently referees was inducted into the N.C. County Commissioner middle and high school wrestling. Association inaugural Hall of Fame. He is married to Barbara Speight Conder ’57. 56 57 in MemoriAm

1930s from 1955 to 1970, and state planner for the N.C. ’65 of Charlotte died Sept. 24. He and a business SARAH ELIZABETH “BETH” BROWN WIKE Bamberg, S.C., which was recognized in the National NOTABLE DEATHS OF 2011 Department of Administration until retirement in partner owned Al Smith Customs Brokers, where he ’75 of Huntersville died Oct. 3. She worked for the Historic Registry in 2010. Mrs. Beulah Lassiter 1978. ELLEN B. GRAY ’45 ’62 of Greenville died was president until 2008. LOLA ROUSE HAYNES Federal Reserve Bank and Mecklenburg County Hot Mark Brinson, taught biology Raynor ’31 of Winston- Dr. AMOS O. CLARK Nov. 10. She taught school in LaGrange, Wilmington, ’64 of Kinston died Sept. 6. She taught in the Tabor Meals on Wheels for the Elderly Program and earlier from 1973 to 2010. Salem died Jan. 8 at age 101. ’48 ’51 of Greenville Goldsboro and Greenville. For a number of years, she City area several years and then in Kinston at Bynum taught in the family and consumer science department She was believed to be East died Oct. 10. From 1962 Morris Brody, championed was supervisor of adult services at the Pitt County Elementary and Northwest Elementary Schools until at Vance High School, Charlotte. Carolina’s oldest living to 1989 he taught in the growth of the medical school. Department of Social Services, retiring in 1986. retiring. JOHN P. RISTAINO ’66 of Charlotte died alumnus. After receiving a 1980s School of Education, CATHERINE WILSON STAFFORD ’45 of Nov. 6 at 93. A WW II and 20-year Army veteran as Edward Douglas Crotts, taught bachelor’s degree in French including several years Harrisburg died June 8. well as an undefeated Golden Glove Welter Weight RICHARD ANTHONY “RAGMAN” GARNER in the Department of Health and English, she taught school as department chair in Education and Promotion. Boxing Champion, he fought in exhibition fights to ’82 of Fayetteville died Nov. 6. He led his Rock 103 for 14 years before becoming 1950s the 1980s. He retired increase enlistment in the service. After his active sales team to exceed all expectations and won the Donald B. Guest, professor of assistant to the dean of as professor emeritus Dr. BOBBY LANE CRISP ’52 ’54 of Falkland service, he managed the arts and crafts programs Cumulus Broadcasting Salesman of the Year award. marketing from 1984 to 1994. women at Wake Forest College, on the old campus. She in 1989. died Oct. 7. He was a retired education professor at Ft. Bragg until retirement. HUGH PARHAM He was also owner of Am Pro Pressure Washing and completed a master’s at Wake Forest in 1947, joined DORIS LEE DAVENPORT of Greenville died Sept. Lena Collins Ellis, taught from Methodist University of Fayetteville and STANLEY ’66 ’71 ’76 of Newport died Oct. 28. For Lawn Care Service and a partner at ER Marketing the English faculty and taught there for 32 years before 24. She retired from teaching in the College of Allied business from 1937 to 1964. Fayetteville State University. JOHN HENRY “JACK” 36 years, he taught industrial personnel management as well as a stand-up comedian. He was a Phi Kappa retiring in 1979. Mrs. Raynor held the distinction of Health Sciences with emeritus status. EDWARDS JR. ’57 of Williamston died Oct. 21. at Pitt Community College. HOWARD T. SITTON Phi at ECU and a second lieutenant in the Army. Bill Grossnickle, a 46-year becoming the first woman to receive tenure as a member of the psychology He joined his father in running and owning Roanoke ’69 of Hendersonville died Sept. 22. He was a framing MARY “MICKIE” WARUSZCAK MOSS ’83 of Dr. DONALD B. GUEST of Jacksonville, Fla., died professor at Wake Forest, as well as one of the first faculty. Chevrolet Co. from 1957 until July 2006. He was a carpenter with several companies, including Mark Williamston died Oct. 10. She taught English at Dec. 16. He retired as professor emeritus of marketing women to be honored as a professor emeritus. She was retired fireman.FLORA JACKSON HANCHROW Searcy Custom Homes. CAROLYN LILES SMITH J.H. Rose (Greenville), Jamesville, Williamston and in 1994 after teaching in the College of Business from Ruth Ann Henriksen, associate preceded in death by her husband, K.T. Raynor, a ’59 of Greensboro died Sept. 27 at 94. She was retired ’64 of Cary died Sept. 5. She taught art in the Wake Washington High Schools. 1984 to 1994. professor of biochemistry from legendary math professor at Wake. Memorials may be as a counselor at Ralph L. Fike High School, Wilson. 1988-1999. County School System. BENJAMIN TRAVIS 1990s Dr. SUDESH KATARIA of made to the Beulah Lassiter Raynor and Kenneth JOHN KOVALCHICK ’52 of Greenville died May TERRELL ’68 ’78 of Winston-Salem died Oct. 4. He Greenville and Raleigh died Oct. Edgar Hooks Jr., professor of Tyson Raynor Scholarship Fund at Wake Forest 1. He worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 19 years. JOHN F. DEVINCENS ’90 of Brielle, N.J., died was the youngest high school principal at the time he 16. She was professor emeritus health from 1966 to 1990. University or to the Beulah Lassiter Raynor Col. E. WAYNE MCLAMB ’54, USAF (retired) Sept. 28. He started in construction working for was named principal of Scotland Neck High School. at the Brody School of Scholarship Fund at East Carolina University. of Summerville, S.C., died Oct. 14. He served in Circle-A Construction, then with the Hovnanian Kitty Joyner ’59, founder of the He also was principal at East Davidson High School Medicine, having taught there MARGARET ISABEL Vietnam, earning the Bronze Star. He was director of Companies and Toll Brothers before establishing DC Friends of the ECU School of for 14 years. He retired as director of student services from 1978 until retirement. Music and of the Friends of the RAWLS STANCIL ’34 ’37 personnel for the Military Airlift Command. He was Custom Home of Brielle. EDMOND E. HODGE for the Davidson County Schools in 2010. She was a leading authority ECU Summer Theatre. ’54 of New Bern died Oct. also base commander of Scott AFB near St. Louis, Ill., SR. ’97 of Jacksonville died Sept. 26. He was a retired 1970s on developmental-behavioral 25 at 96. She taught school and later at Rhein-Main AFB in Frankfurt, Germany, gunnery sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. JAMES Anne Elizabeth Kellogg, pediatrics, a professor of for a number of years in where in January 1981, he assisted with the return of CARROLL FAILE ’74 of Pageland, S.C., died Sept. STANCIL MORSE ’95 of Rockingham died Oct. physician/researcher in the pediatrics and an author of Raleigh and Smithfield and the Iranian hostages back to the USA. SARAH VANN 18. After retiring from teaching in Cumberland 16. He was a registered nurse at Richmond County pathology department at the numerous peer-reviewed medical school held administrative positions WISE ’50 of Raleigh died Oct. 23. She was retired County schools, he began a 16-year tenure as mayor Juvenile Detention Center and a nursing supervisor at articles. She served on various public commissions with the New Bern and from the N.C. Museum of Art. of Pageland. JOHN STEWART FINCH ’76 of FirstHealth Richmond Memorial Hospital. He played Evelyn Laupus, widow of the baseball at ECU. relating to underserved children’s health issues. Craven County school 1960s Greenville died Aug. 25. An Army veteran, he owned first medical dean for whom the systems for many years. and operated Turnage Insurance Agency. PATTIE 2000s Dr. FRANCIS THORNTON THOMAS of medical library is named. PAULINE BARBER LENNON ’34 of EDITH HODGES BARNHILL ’63 ’64 of Pactolus Birmingham, Ala., died Nov. 25. A pioneer organ JONES ’77 of New Bern died Sept. 5. She was a KARINA RAMONIA COOPER ’05 of Grifton Lara “Mama” Lee, was the Alpha Murfreesboro, Tenn., died Nov. 3 at 98. She was a died Sept. 29. She taught fifth grade at Pactolus transplant surgeon, retired former professor at the retired schoolteacher. Rev. NASH ODOM ’71 of died Aug. 24. She was a social worker with the Wayne Delta Pi housemother for 17 years. retired teacher with the Rutherford County school Elementary School in Greenville for 25 years. University of Alabama Department of Surgery Lumberton died Oct. 3. A retired Baptist minister, County Health Department. AMANDA GRACE system. RENNIE LASSITER ROGERS ’39 of ERNEST HERMAN BEAMAN ’65 of Snow Hill and lifelong medical scholar, he founded the organ Edgar Loessin, founding chair of he was a historian who wrote on numerous subjects, JOHNSON ’05 of Wilmington died Sept. 13. She the theater program. Gloucester, Va., died Nov. 5 at 93. She taught school died Oct. 3. He owned Beaman’s Restaurant and the transplantation program at ECU’s School of Medicine, mostly covering Robeson County history and families. was a program assistant for Osher Life Long Learning for many years. ELEANOR B. RAY ’36 of Refugio, Cook Pit. CAROLYN GLENN BIGGERS ’65 of where he was professor (1979-1995) and director George Martin Jr., taught DOUGLAS “DOUG” BRIGHT STRICKLAND Institute. JULIE KAY WORKMAN OSMON ’06 of Texas, died Sept. 21 at 96. She taught in Pitt County Georgetown, S.C., died Sept. 9. She was a retired of the program before relocating in 1995 to the geography from 1948 to 1975. ’78 of Thomasville died Oct. 18. He was a residential Nags Head died Aug. 29. She was chair of the Manteo and in Fairfax County, Va. CHARLOTTE LEE school teacher with the Union County public schools. University of Alabama at Birmingham. He was the builder with Homes By Dickerson of Raleigh. High School English department and Manteo High Robert Myers, professor of RENN ’36 ’57 of Lillington died Sept. 29 at 93. She JACK F. BUTLER ’63 of Williamston died Nov. 2 first to demonstrate that human hearts could withstand JOANNE ST. LOUIS THOMAS ’76 ’82 of School Teacher of the Year in 1999. psychiatric medicine from 1987 taught for more than 30 years in Lillington and at 95. A WW II Navy veteran, he served in the South Jacksonville died Oct. 10. She taught exceptional long distance transport for transplantation. to 1998. Shawtown Elementary Schools in Harnett County. Pacific and China. He was a teacher, band director children for 20 years at Richlands Elementary School Mallie Penry, taught at the CHRISTINE ROWE ROSE ’38 of Kenly died Aug. and primary school principal in the Williamston FACULTY in Onslow County where she was Teacher of the Year STAFF medical school from 1967 to 1986. 27 at 95. For 38 years, she taught at Micro, Glendale schools for 30 years, retiring in 1979. BARBARA HELEN MAREADY ABBOTT of Winterville died one year. ROBERT MYRON TUTTLE ’70 of YVONNE RUSSELL MCLAWHORN of and Princeton schools. JEAN “JEANNIE” CARSON CARSTARPHEN Oct. 14. She taught nursing at ECU and was later Francis Thorton Thomas, pioneer Morehead City died Sept. 20. He was active in Tuttle Greenville died Nov. 10. She worked at ECU for more 1940s ’69 ’82 ’84 of Greenville died Sept. 25. She was a Realtors for 27 years, retiring in Morehead City in director of nursing and director of nursing recruitment transplant organ surgeon guidance counselor for Pitt County Schools for 29 than 30 years, retiring as executive assistant in the 1990. SUSAN JACKSON WALLACE ’76 of St. at Pitt County Memorial Hospital. William Jeffress Senter, early ELLA MAE CASHWELL BOOKER ’48 of Asheville years. WILEY EUGENE “GENE” CAULBERG School of Art. Pauls died Sept. 28. She taught in the Cumberland Dr. RICHARD “RICK” BAMBERG of Greenville proponent of the medical school. died Oct. 20. A teacher (Burlington, Greensboro and ’60 ’70 of Haw River died Aug. 25. A Navy veteran County School System for 30 years. CAMILLA died Oct. 24. He was a faculty member and chair of Asheville), poet and literary critic, in 1986 she received and member of Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society at Kelly H. Wanderman, taught SNIPES WEBER ’73 of Wilmington died Sept. 4. the clinical laboratory science department from 2001 FRIENDS the Terry Sanford Award for Creativity and Innovation ECU, he was a special education teacher in Alamance French from 1963 to 1981. She taught special education in Wrightsville Beach, to 2010. He was an associate editor of the LAWRENCE ED TIPTON of Greenville died Sept. in Teaching and Administration for Buncombe County. County for 17 years and was ARC Teacher of the Year Greensboro, northern Virginia, Charleston and and had more than 90 academicNational 25 at 91. He participated in the growth of Greenville Wayne Williams, taught at the PAUL WILKERSON BROOKS ’48 of Vale died in 1981. Previously, he taught in Bladen, Beaufort and medical school from 1976 to 1990. Columbia, S.C., Charlotte and Wilmington. publications.Health Science Journal He owned Pinewood Plantation in from building homes to supporting his beloved Pirates Aug. 15. He was Durham’s director of city planning Vance counties. ALBERT KOONCE HARRISON In recent years, she tutored students in Wilmington. and was a member of the Pirate Club.

58 59 upon THE PAST “We are not here to destroy the old and accept only the new, but to build upon the past…” —Robert H. Wright, Nov. 12, 1909 From his inaugural address and installation as East Carolina’s first president

As ECTTS transitioned to a four-year college in 1920, President Robert Wright wanted to impress on students that he expected them, as members of a higher-order academic institution, to assume more responsibility for their affairs. He worked with them to create the first student government association on campus, and gave it surprisingly broad powers. One year later, the school paused to evaluate this experiment in articles published in the spring 1921 issue of the It was Training School Quarterly. the last issue of that publication before being renamed the Teachers

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President Helen Bahnson ’21 is at far left in this photo of the senior members of the first Student Government Association. In SGA’s first year, ‘we had our ups and downs’

President Wright wrote: “This has been the SGA President Helen Bahnson ’21 wrote: believe it will be easier for our successors. Yet easiest year we have had and I attribute much “We have had our ups and downs. There we know that they, in turn, will need to blaze to the splendid work of the SGA. It is through are many times in making decisions that more and more trails and broaden the old the SGA that our students have prepared we would much prefer laying our hands on paths as the student body grows in qualifies themselves for the responsibilities soon to come the defendant’s shoulder and saying, ‘Go, of self-government.” to them as citizens in our state and nation.” my sister, and sin no more.’ But that would neither be right nor just. So, for the sake of footnote: Student interest in the SGA was Lady Principal Kate Beckwith, the the right and justice, we, as members of a so keen that electing officers for its second SGA adviser, wrote: “Its council in its Student Government Association, must hold year was difficult. “The mass meeting of activities has been the exponent of the civic before us that fine thing—personal honor, the students was like a political convention,” consciousness of the whole school. Hence its our neighbor’s honor and our school’s honor. reported the same issue of the “Owing TSQ. rulings have met with the hearty support of We must look for the best in others and to the fact that a deadlock arose it took four officers and teachers; though to gray-haired give the best we have. We feel that we have and one-half hours to elect the president and experience the sanity and fairness of its accomplished something in our work; but we two hours to elect the other officers. It was a decisions and their sure executions have not realize that much is yet to be done. We have very interesting meeting.” yet lost the charm of welcome surprise.” tried to find a way and make a path and we

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Cindy Reaves, left, and Kristen King write the names of slain U.S. servicemen on a mural representing the number of troops killed in Iraq. The mural was created by Give2TheTroops, which collects donations for care packages and letters sent to soldiers overseas. Photograph by Jay Clark