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INVESTING IN T OMORROW 2 4 ECU’s largest-ever fundraising campaign Bycreates Marion 324 Blackburn scholarships and 24 endowed professorships and nearly doubles the university’s endowment. The Second Century Campaign exceeded its $200 million goal by nearly $20 million a year ahead of its scheduled completion. On the cover: 24 Carol Mabe ’71 of Oriental, N.C., with Access Scholar Navreet Singh ’15 of Dallas, N.C. DURHAM’S BIG DOER 3 4 His work as a developer can be seen all Byover Steve Research Tuttle Triangle’09 Park in buildings occupied by IBM, Glaxo and Biogen. Robb Teer’s civic leadership also can be seen across the region as he continues a family tradition of public service.

HEARING THEIR VOICES pride of accomplishment 3 8 The word A tangible sense of pride filled 34 By“immigration” Jessica Creson often Nottingham brings to’06 mind ’08 thoughts of border Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium during spring graduation when about patrols, detainees and difficult political debate. But one 3,800 students received their ECU professor’s work is reshaping and broadening the diplomas. See story, page 15. image of immigrants in the U.S. and expanding global Photo by Jay Clark understanding in classrooms on campus.

JUST DOING IT 42 You don’t see many couch potatoes hustlingBy Bethany to Bradsherpractice for one of ECU’s 44 club sports teams. Getting in shape is the goal, whether the sport is paintball, 38 figure skating or bass fishing.

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Volume 10, Number 4 2012 spring Ty easT Carolina Universi EastThe Magazine of East is published four times a year by Read East online at East East Carolina University. www.ecu.edu/east The view from comes the window home in my new office on the second floor of Howard House surely is one of the best on campus. I look across Fifth Street through the Beckwith Gate h and found a Lida Midyette of Belhaven listed and down Founders Drive. The fountain is perhaps 150 yards away. Arrayed around as a student in the Sixth Annual Catalogue for it are some of the most historic buildings on Main Campus. The view from the EDITOR 1914-15. The catalogue lists students enrolled window in my old office on the other side of campus was of a pizza place. Steve Tuttle ’09 during the year ending June 7, 1915. University 252-328-2068 / tuttles@ecu edu. Since the last issue of the magazine, has moved to News Services as a small archivists said Ms. Midyette likely was a summer East part of the university’s ongoing efficiency efforts. The unit that was a part of, ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER school student. Those with a high school diploma East Brent Burch scream if you could teach elementary school at the time, and

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more with less” in a perfect storm of events. citing a recent study by ECU Department of Enrollment at ECU grew by a third between Planning faculty: Cliff H ollis Cliff H ollis 2001 and 2010. Meanwhile, total spending n The economic impact of ECU on eastern power decreased by about $120 million North Carolina is $1.8 billion. during the last four years, costing ECU n The economic impact for the entire state 200 faculty positions and cultivating “great exceeds $3.3 billion and includes more uncertainty,” he said. than 17,000 jobs. “But we are the leadership university, and n The return on the state’s investment in we do things that leaders always do,” Ballard ECU is nearly $14 for every $1 invested. said. “We are responding aggressively.” n Five areas where ECU continues to That response includes an ongoing “make a positive difference” in the state assessment of ECU’s academic programs and and region were also identified: research, structure in an effort to locate savings and economic impact, workforce preparation, synergies. Any change must be accomplished building communities and excellence in while maintaining the university mission—to public service. be a national model of public service and With each topic, Ballard pointed to regional transformation—and the quality of outstanding members of the East Carolina classroom experiences offered to students, community—those who embody ECU’s Ballard said. “soul,” he said. They ranged from a Generous donations will support that effort, pediatrician who founded a clinic serving he continued, but students will also be asked underprivileged county residents to a student to pay a higher percentage of the total cost swimmer who established a charity walk of education. Tuition and fees for in-state, benefiting ovarian cancer after the disease ‘We will flourish tomorrow of a new athletic conference, joining the old undergraduate students will increase by 9.3 touched his family. and in the future’ Conference USA with the Mountain West. percent for 2012-13 at ECU, making the He assured listeners that regional rivalries “ECU has a strong and authentic mission,” East Carolina University continues to face annual total approximately $5,813. remain a priority, as does the academic he said. “We live it every day. You live it every challenges wrought by an unprecedented success and graduation of student athletes. “We will do all we can to balance the need day. It makes a huge difference in North financial crisis, but its people and their Professor named a women are responsible for some of the most “I believe ECU will be recognized by for excellence in the classroom with our Carolina. Help me deliver this message and dedication to serving the region will enable Sloan Research Fellow exciting science being done today.” performance on the field…not by the name traditional goals of access and affordability,” commitment every chance you have. We have the institution to persevere, according to of our conference,” he said. he promised. to repeat it as much as we possibly can.” An ECU faculty member was honored earlier Awards historically focused within seven Chancellor Steve Ballard. The third annual this year with a Sloan Research Fellowship scientific fields: chemistry, computer science, Ballard spoke about continuing fiscal Ballard reminded the audience that ECU is “Your actions give us hope,” Faculty Senate State of the University address delivered and $50,000 to further his research in economics, mathematics, evolutionary limitations, and congratulated those “doing important to the local and regional economy, Chair Marianna Walker told Ballard before April 10 in Hendrix Theatre centered on ocean sciences. Matt Schrenk, an assistant and computational molecular biology, dismissing the audience. “Your words do, that theme. professor of biology, was selected alongside neuroscience and physics. This year, the as well.” “We will flourish tomorrow and in the 125 other researchers from the U.S. and foundation added ocean science. Schrenk, future because we have an authentic goal College of Allied Health Sciences Dean Canada. Awarded annually since 1955, the whose research focuses on the subseafloor and because we believe in people,” Ballard Stephen Thomas said after the speech that fellowships are given by the Alfred P. Sloan microbial biosphere, is one of first eight said. “Our DNA is true. Our resiliency while budget cuts and increased workload Foundation to early-career scientists and individuals to be honored in that category. is unparalleled. We work together better $242 Million $3.3 Billion for faculty have dampened morale, student scholars whose achievements and potential State Appropriations ECU’s Economic “We’re really at the frontier of studying than anywhere I’ve ever been.” Impact to the State success has been a bright spot. identify them as rising stars, the next marine life and a lot of oceanography,” generation of scientific leaders. During the course of the half-hour- “(Faculty members) are turning people out Schrenk said. “(This award) means my long speech, Ballard updated the ECU that will have an impact on the health of our “Today’s Sloan Research Fellows are community appreciates my work…and community on matters of interest state,” he said. “You go to work every day tomorrow’s Nobel Prize winners,” said believes in my potential. It’s sort of a gold star beginning with the possible configuration saying, ‘I’m doing something good.’” Dr. Paul L. Joskow, president of the Sloan for the work you’ve done. A pat on the back.” — Foundation. “These outstanding men and — Kathryn Kennedy Kathryn Kennedy 4 5 the ecu report

Trustees approve said while introducing representatives “As we looked at campus, this edge along campus master plan of the planning and architecture firm, Fifth Street is an iconic image for the SmithGroupJJR, who presented highlights of university. That’s the historic front door to A more pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly the master plan to the trustees. “It is intended the university. But what we found is that campus, a unified look to the 10th Street to be looking 10, 15, 20 years down the road. doesn’t translate to this 10th Street edge,” corridor, a new performing arts center And with the fiscal situation as it is now, we said Neal Kessler with the SmithGroupJJR. on First Street and a new alumni center might be looking to pull that out even more. downtown were all parts of the campus “And the 10th Street edge in the future master plan highlighted for the ECU Board “But none of us can know what five or 10 or will become extremely important to the of Trustees during their February meeting. 15 years from now can bring with certainty. university. That’s where we’re connecting to Trustees voted Feb. 24 to approve the We can provide some direction and general the health sciences campus and that’s a campus master plan, which provides a ideas that we need to think about as we go major point where visitors first encounter the framework for changes to campus during the forward in making specific decisions.” university,” Kessler said. next 15 or more years as funding allows. David Johnson with SmithGroupJJR described A new student union and parking area, Niswander pointed out that funding ECU Transit acquires new home offices and a repair bay with 27-foot ceilings for projects will be a large hurdle in the and eight roll-up doors. There is a separate Rick Niswander, vice chancellor for the master plan’s two primary parts: one a renovated Mendenhall Student Center ECU Transit, which was used by students administration and finance, described the vision for main campus and one for health for conferences and meetings, and a new coming years. 1,350-square-foot vehicle wash building and 2.5 million times last year, has outgrown its ample fenced parking. Built in 2000, the master plan as three years of work by many sciences. The main campus plan includes “Academic Building A” to house business “I think from a funding perspective that operations and maintenance base and will facility passed all environmental and health people inside and outside the university. downtown development and a warehouse and education classes would be on that 10th the master plan gets pulled out in time. It’s be moving soon to a larger site with modern inspections by ECU’s Environmental Health district to the west of main campus. Street edge, Kessler explained. directionally what we want to do, but we’re not “This is a living document,” Niswander facilities. The ECU Real Estate Foundation and Safety team and the State Property Office, going to be getting the money quite as fast as acquired the 9.44-acre parcel in March according to a Board of Governors report. we want,” Niswander said after the meeting. for $1.325 million. The former Briggs ECU Transit is mainly funded with student “In the next 10 years, there’s a reasonable Construction Equipment location is situated fees plus revenue from advertising on its chance we’re going to get money to build off Memorial Drive just north of the Pitt- buses. Several private apartment complexes the biotech building, the academic building Greenville Airport. popular with students also pay fees to be and the medical education building. And the “We sit on about four acres now and we’ve connected to the bus system. ECU students time frame might be more. It depends on the used up every bit of space on this site,” said only need to show ID to ride the buses. state of the economy and some very difficult ECU Transit Director Wood Davidson. decisions that the legislature will have to He described the current facility—which Students earn money driving the 36 buses make,” he said. is barely half a mile from the new site— in the transit fleet, which also includes six vans and three support vehicles. Students Moving forward, the SmithGroupJJR was as inadequate to support the repair, rode the bus 2,464,437 times in fiscal selected to design a new student union maintenance and storage of a fleet of 36 2010-11, according to an ECU Transit building and a 500-space parking structure. buses and nine smaller vehicles. The property was described as “in deteriorating condition” annual report. Ridership rises and falls The trustees also approved the demolition in a February memo to the ECU Board of with the academic calendar, from a peak of Main Campus and replacement plan for Belk Residence Trustees from ECU Real Estate Foundation 366,089 trips in September 2010 to a low Hall, which was built in 1966. The new Director Scott Buck. of 41,782 in July 2011. facility will sit at the same location and The growth in ridership on ECU Transit consist of two buildings housing 500 to 600 The UNC Board of Governors authorized buses has paralleled the growth in enrollment beds. In keeping with the university’s policy ECU’s acquisition of the new site in April. but has not been affected by the recent surge for all new buildings, it will have the goal Approval by the N.C. Council of State, in gasoline prices, Davidson said. “We have to be LEED certified at completion. Ratio which is composed of the governor and kept up with the students as ECU has grown Architects of Raleigh were approved as the the popularly elected heads of major state (but) we don’t really see spikes based on design firm. agencies, is required before the deal becomes final. Officials said that’s expected before fuel prices (because) you are either riding Funding for the two new construction projects Sept. 30 when the university’s lease on the the bus or not. Usually, if you have to drive, comes from student fees, Niswander said. current site expires. you always have to drive. For most students, Details of the ECU master plan are available if the bus is coming close to them, they’re ECU Transit’s new home at 285 Easy St. riding the bus.” at www.ecu.edu/masterplan. has a 15,885-square-foot main building — — Jeannine Manning Hutson that contains warehouse space, room for Steve Tuttle Health Sciences Campus 6 7 the ecu report

ECU’s structure deemed n Move the Department of Scholarships bolster North Carolina, which offers scholarships trains teachers from Wayne, Craven and ‘relatively efficient’ Nutrition into either the science majors to income-eligible and in-state freshmen Beaufort county schools how best to teach Cliff H ollis College of Health and accepted to the ECU Department of physics to grades K-8. East Carolina University’s current A national grant totaling more than Human Performance or the Engineering; and Physics is Essential, which — academic structure is “relatively efficient $500,000 will fund scholarships for 24 high- College of Allied Health Kathryn Kennedy and effective” and not in need of achieving students demonstrating financial Sciences. significant reorganization, according to need to study biochemistry and science at a final report issued by a chancellor- The announcement follows ECU. The National Science Foundation

appointed committee April 27. a series of forums held April provided $599,945, guaranteeing three years E lbert Kennard 9-12 in which faculty and of funding for students admitted to the The organization of 13 colleges staff asked that colleges new BioExcellence Scholarship Program. under three divisions is not in need of not be split and questioned Six freshmen will be awarded renewable adjustment “unless warranted by budget whether cost savings would scholarships at the $10,000, $7,500 reductions,” the report states. Chancellor be worth potential setbacks. or $5,000 level this year. Another nine Steve Ballard appointed committee freshmen will join BioExcellence in 2013 members in April 2011 and tasked “There’s an element of and nine more in 2014. them with reducing costs in the face of truth in what they’re continuing fiscal challenges. ECU took saying,” Mitchelson said. To qualify, students must be admitted to a 16.1 percent cut in state funding for “Rearranging the departments ECU with an intended major of biology the 2011-12 fiscal year following four is really disrupting.” or biochemistry, demonstrate financial need consecutive years of state budget cuts. Instead, he said, it will be up and have at least a 3.0 high school GPA. That GPA must be maintained during The Program Prioritization Committee to departments and schools their time at ECU. Dr. Mary Farwell, did, however, recommend cost-cutting to find administrative cost BioExcellence administrator and director steps. Committee chair Ron Mitchelson savings on their own. of undergraduate research, said they hope estimates the following could add up to “We’re not telling them how to attract students from areas with limited $1.3 million in annual savings: to do this,” he explained. academic resources and students whose n Reduce campus-wide academic Mitchelson said those suggestions, coupled parents did not attend college. administrative costs by between $1 million Mitchelson doesn’t believe with the committee’s first phase of work, will and $2 million. Plans to reach that target a thorough consideration of more drastic Required course work will be accompanied save the university approximately $4 million would be due to the chancellor by Oct. 15. measures such as the elimination of whole by support programs including peer tutoring, in annual expenses. Phase I targeted individual n colleges and wide-scale redistribution of career counseling and block scheduling Reduce the number of academic programs for investment, maintenance, programs caused unnecessary angst. during their first two years, followed by departments by four. That includes reduction or elimination over time. mergers within the College of Education “We had to go through a discovery phase,” undergraduate research mentoring and and the relocation of programs in the A handful of academic departments are he said. “I still think it leaves the door open internship opportunities prior to graduation. Brody School of Medicine. recommended for relocation or consolidation for change. Each recipient will also be required to spend n Move ECU centers and institutes in the April 27 report: two years residing in a Bio Living-Learning “Everybody feels anxiety during discovery. (including the Center for Sustainable n Merge Library Science and Business and Community housed at Garrett Hall. We had to dig into the units to see where the Tourism and the Center for Health Information Technologies within the production was. You’re trying to make the best The goal is for recipients to complete their Disparities Research) into related colleges College of Education. decisions out of a bunch of bad options.” bachelor’s degrees in four years, leading to a n to reduce costs and take advantage of joint Merge Higher, Adult and Counselor career in biosciences. “We really think this is ECU medical student Lindsey Waugh runs to get her match envelope during Match Day faculty appointments. Education and Educational Leadership The committee also made an informal going to be a way to say to the best students on Friday at the Brody School of Medicine. She’s headed to Maine Medical Center for an OB/GYN residency. n Seek operational and administrative within the College of Education. recommendation in the report. The in the East that this is a good place for you cost savings and coordination between n Move Physician Assistant Studies into university must find other sources of revenue to go to school and get these opportunities,” Academic Library Services and Health Family Medicine at the Brody School of to fund academics. Farwell said. Medicine brought Vontrelle Roundtree in family medicine. “Today feels like a Sciences Library Services. Medicine. to Greenville from the North Carolina miracle,” she said after opening the envelope “An effort, equal to the year-long self- This grant is the latest in a series of efforts n Conduct efficiency audits any time a high- n Move Clinical Laboratory Sciences to mountains. Now that it’s keeping her here, that held her assignment. Roundtree was examination of the PPC, should place to bring students interested in STEM level administrative office (department Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the she couldn’t be happier. Just weeks before among 72 students taking part in Match clear focus on expanding non-state funding subjects—science, technology, engineering chair or higher) is vacated. Brody School of Medicine. graduating from the Brody School of Day 2012 to learn where their medical sources at ECU,” it states. and math—to ECU. Other examples All recommendations are subject to approval n Move the School of Hospitality Medicine, she learned that she will stay training will take them next. — include Expanding Engineering in Eastern by Chancellor Ballard. Management to the College of Business. Kathryn Kennedy at the medical center for her residency

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ECU leads nation in family docs News briefs Book costs rise 4.2 percent The Brody School of Medicine is the top ECU joins PTSD coalition: The Brody The average amount that ECU students paid for a year’s medical school in the country for sending School of Medicine is one of more than worth of all-new textbooks rose 4.2 percent in 2010- graduates into family medicine, according to 100 medical schools nationwide working 11 from a year earlier to about $811. That’s a net figure the American Academy of Family Physicians. with First Lady Michelle Obama’s Joining deducting nearly $137 that the average student got from Forces project to better diagnose and treat selling last year’s pile back to the bookstore. The net cost of Based on a three-year average for the period post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic buying all-used books also rose slightly at ECU, but used ending last October, 20.9 percent of the brain injury in service members and veterans. books are cheaper here now than five years ago, according to school’s graduates have entered an accredited Joining Forces, the Association of American a report by the UNC Board of Governors. family medicine residency program. That Medical Colleges and the American ranked ECU first in the country and marked Since 2007, all UNC schools have submitted a range of Association of Colleges of Osteopathic the sixth consecutive year ECU has been data to the General Administration on textbook costs Medicine will work together to better train ranked in the top 10. tracking the price of books and other factors that impact physicians and medical students to diagnose costs, such as timely Representatives of the Brody School of and treat the medical needs of veterans and adoptions by faculty of Medicine and the other schools were their families. Dr. Daniel Moore, professor A year’s worth of recognized with an award at the Society of required texts. Books bought textbooks at ECU costs: and chair of the Department of Physical at the last minute cost more Teachers of Family Medicine meeting in Medicine and Rehabilitation at Brody, said than if ordered early. The Year All New* All Used* April in Seattle. ECU’s focus in the project will be traumatic campuses also have worked to 06-07 $ 788.01 $ 592.47 “East Carolina University is defined by its brain injury. “Our goal is to help share clinical control costs by starting book 07-08 742.86 555.40 mission,” said Dr. Paul Cunningham, dean of knowledge with the military in the region via buyback or rental programs 08-09 762.98 559.82 the Brody School of Medicine. “The recent telemedicine conferences,” Moore said. for required textbooks for 09-10 778.84 585.25 acknowledgment by the American Academy Next Pirate Read: The highly acclaimed introductory courses. 10-11 811.47 588.88 of Family Physicians, that the Brody School by RebeccaThe The numbers across of Medicine ranks first in the nation for Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Source: UNC Board of Governors. Skloot is the Pirate Summer Read for 2012. the UNC system aren’t Figures stated net of book producing family physicians, is confirmation The work tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, comparable because campuses buyback proceeds. of our purpose.” the forgotten woman behind one of the follow different business Other universities in the top 10 for most important tools in modern medicine, models. Six campuses training family physicians include Oregon and of her descendants, many of whom feel outsource bookstore operations—UNC-Charlotte, Health & Science University of Medicine betrayed by the scientific establishment. The UNC-Greensboro and UNC-Wilmington contract with (18.4 percent); the University of North Pirate Read committee is working to bring Barnes & Noble; NC Central and Winston-Salem State Dakota School of Medicine and Health Two years after receiving a National Science Foundation award of nearly $900,000 to Lacks’ grandson to campus in the fall for contract with Follett. Appalachian State, Elizabeth City replace ECU’s 1970s model particle accelerator, the machine is almost ready to fire its Science (18.1 percent); John C. Edwards activities with students, faculty and, possibly, State, Fayetteville State and Western Carolina focus on first ion beams. A remodeling of the lab housing the machine is nearing completing, the community. First-year students are asked School of Medicine at Marshall University according to professor Jeff Shinpaugh (above), director of the accelerator lab. “We textbook rental programs. ECU, N.C. State and UNC- (16.8 percent); the University of Kansas attempted to find a larger lab to house the new machine but we couldn’t find space to complete the Pirate Read before arriving Chapel Hill coordinate their bookstore operations to large enough, so what we did was we knocked out some walls in the existing space to School of Medicine (15.4 percent) and on campus in August. achieve efficiencies of scale. add space,” Shinpaugh said. “We’ve done the initial tests and this should allow us to get the University of Washington School of our graduate student research back on track.” Grandkids lessen depression: Grandfathers The report notes that campuses are increasingly offering Medicine (15.3 percent). who are more involved with their students the option of renting textbooks, even if the The AAFP is a national medical association education in family medicine. “All of us here are committed to serving the grandchildren have fewer symptoms of campus does not have a full mandatory rental program. representing more than 94,000 family citizens of North Carolina and in particular Meanwhile, the Brody School of Medicine depression than grandfathers who are less East Carolina began a hybrid optional rental program in physicians, family practice residents and the East,” Cunningham said. “Our state- at ECU is the least expensive public medical involved, according to a new study by ECU spring 2011 and was moving toward a larger rental program medical students interested in family supported medical school is passionate about school for in-state students, according to a researcher Alan C. Taylor, an assistant this academic year. ECU has succeeded in raising its early- medicine. Family physicians are medical that purpose, and it is therefore no surprise story published in professor in the Department of Child adoption rate of textbooks simply by making the order specialists trained in the diagnosis and when the results confirm the motive.” The cost of tuitionU.S.News here, which & World excludes Report. Development and Family Relations. He and forms available to faculty online, by email and hard copy, treatment of the majority of medical room and board, books and other costs, co-author James S. Bates of South Dakota the report said. On March 16, 22 percent of Brody’s problems. Family physicians care for people is $11,554 a semester. The UNC-Chapel State University produced the study, titled graduating students matched with family of all ages and both sexes. UNC system students on average buy about two-thirds of Hill medical school was ranked fourth, at “Grandfather Involvement and Aging Men’s medicine residency programs during the their books new and a third used, the report said. The STFM is an academic organization $14,400 per semester. Mental Health.” The study was published in school’s annual Match Day. — committed to improving the quality of the Steve Tuttle American Journal of Men’s Health. 10 11 the ecu report

Doctors perform Getting kids excited highlighting the university’s programs. The STEM Day activities was job skills. new heart procedure Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hofmann about science event targeted juniors and seniors and drew George Wang, an assistant professor in the Doug Boyd participants from Beaufort, Onslow and Department of Construction Management, At nearly 86 years old, Joe Hofmann is The clear box of sand and soil in front Pitt counties. taught how to conduct soil tests at a building looking forward to getting out and doing of East Carolina graduate student Shawn site while a colleague demonstrated the use “We want to make sure students know what more. That’s because he recently received a Thieme resembled an ant farm without the of land surveying equipment. new aortic valve in an advanced procedure ants. With a medicine dropper, he inserted goes on here (at ECU),” said Farwell, who led by a team of East Carolina University red dye into an opening at the top. Five organized the event with help from two Farwell said it’s important for students to see physicians and performed at the East Carolina students watched closely as it seeped down colleges, the Center for STEM Education and where a college degree could take them. “We Heart Institute at Vidant Medical Center. through the layers of dirt to form a red the N.C. Eastern Region. “It’s not just sitting feel students don’t really understand that in splotch in a lower level of earth. Thieme then in class. There’s a lot of hands-on stuff, too.” the STEM majors, they can really walk into “I couldn’t walk five steps without having grabbed another syringe and started pumping a job when they graduate,” she said. “A lot to stop to catch my breath,” he said at his Teachers chaperoning the high school students water out of a well running through the soil. of other (programs) can’t say that.” Washington home after wiping some dust said the event helps get students interested off his Toyota pickup. With the new valve, he “Watch as I pump how that (red) plume in pursuing math and science. “I think they A favorite among visiting students was a said, “I’m going to live another 15 years.” starts to migrate toward that well,” he see things that they wouldn’t get to see in Department of Engineering demonstration told them. The simulation shows how a regular classroom,” said Heather Scott, a featuring robots built by ECU students. The new valve and the catheter-based contaminates from gas stations and landfills math teacher at Washington High School. “There was one robot, if it came too close procedure doctors use to implant it helps to a wall, it would back up and change could pollute a water supply over time. “We don’t have the technology to do this,” patients with stiff or narrowed aortic valves directions,” explained Joseph DeMatty, a she added, gesturing around an analytical get back to more normal activities. It could This is what geologists—and Thieme in junior at Jacksonville High School. “There chemistry lab where assistant professor soon be a standard of care. particular— study at ECU. The topics are was another one that would follow a black much broader in scope than what many Anthony Kennedy showed students how The procedure, known as transcatheter aortic line, so it could sense the colors between believe, said Mary Farwell, director of to conduct gas chromatography. It’s a valve replacement, or TAVR, allows doctors black and white. I thought it was pretty cool. undergraduate research. She hopes early common test used for analyzing drugs and in to replace a worn valve without opening It was my favorite.” exposure to science, technology, engineering processing crime scenes, he told them. the chest. TAVR is considered to be less “Knowing that people can actually work those and math (STEM) curriculum and careers “And it’s good that college students are in invasive than a traditional valve-replacement and make them is pretty cool,” agreed Logan will change that. there,” Scott continued. “They’re explaining operation, which involves open-heart surgery. Webb, a sophomore at D.H. Conley High what they study in their major and what Candidates for a TAVR are either not good Approximately 100 high school students School. “I’m interested in science and math they’re going to do with it.” candidates for the traditional surgery or visited campus April 19 to participate so I came to this to see what my options are.” might be considered too weak or too old to in High School STEM Day activities The emphasis of multiple High School — undergo the surgery. are associated with traditional aortic valve involved in this selective clinical trial because Kathryn Kennedy In the TAVR procedure, the valve is inserted replacement. Patients say they have more of our superb track record for innovation in with a catheter through either an artery in energy, and studies show better one-year cardiac care,” Tan said. survival rates compared to no therapy. Cliff H ollis the leg (transfemoral) or by making a small While doctors have taken their time on these chest incision and inserting the valve through A team of ECU physicians performed the initial procedures, the process will typically the tip of the left ventricle of the heart first TAVR procedure at the heart institute take about 90 minutes to perform. (transapical). The TAVR can be performed on Jan. 23 on an 85-year-old man from Hofmann had his valve implanted Jan. by implanting the new valve and pushing Elizabeth City. 30 and went home Feb. 3. He said he is back the old one. While Hofmann received an FDA-approved breathing more easily and has more energy. “Many years ago, doctors could never valve that’s been available since November, “I don’t know that I would have made fathom a valve replacement without opening ECU physicians are also using a newer, more 86,” said Hofmann, who also has diabetes the chest,” said Dr. Walter A. Tan, an flexible model called the Edwards SAPIEN and pulmonary fibrosis, which can cause interventional cardiologist and associate XT Transcatheter Heart Valve as part of a shortness of breath and fatigue. “As I tell professor of cardiovascular sciences at ECU. clinical trial. Tan implanted the first of these everyone, they gave me a new life.” “It is a game-changing technology.” valves in the Carolinas last month. Within the next five years, Tan estimated, a Patients will benefit from less invasive aortic “The ECHI has the unique distinction of TAVR procedure will be the option for about valve replacements with faster recovery, being the only center in the world with a 30 percent of patients with aortic stenosis. less pain and fewer complications than population less than a half a million people — Doug Boyd 12 13 the ecu report

Summer camp for teen leaders “The leadership challenge…has 3,800 caps in air public service built into it, has a social Cliff H ollis A new weeklong summer camp at East Undergraduate students celebrated along responsibility component, has a diversity Carolina will offer 40 high school students with master’s, doctoral and certificate component, has integrity, honesty. Those a chance to grow their leadership skills. recipients at ECU’s 103rd spring are the cornerstones,” said Mandee The Shelton Leadership Challenge, a commencement ceremony. Approximately Foushee Lancaster, director of the Shelton six-day residential program running July 3,800 students graduated, including 73 from Leadership Initiative in ECU’s Office of 15-20, is for youths entering the ninth the Brody School of Medicine. Engagement, Innovation and Economic through 12th grades or who graduate Development. Dave McRae ’85 of Greenville, chief from high school this spring. They will executive officer of Vidant Health, formerly participate in activities that help build “With higher education in general and at University Health Systems, gave the featured a greater understanding of personal ECU…we want everyone to uphold those address. He focused on the positive impact leadership, the role of values and ethics in cornerstones: anybody who works here, Pirates can have on the region and world, but leadership and goal setting. anybody who comes here, anybody who didn’t shy away from the difficulties they may wants to come here and anybody who leaves “I truly believe in this program and it has face. “Don’t expect everything to fall in place here. We’re really trying to be a leadership had a huge impact on my life,” said Michael right away,” he said. “The message is to stay university and this is a very good model, a Carter, an ECU freshman who completed flexible, to grow and change in your career proven model that really changes the kids,” the Shelton Leadership Challenge at but to stick to the values and core strengths Lancaster said. N.C. State University in 2009. “Shelton your family gave you.” introduced me to new perspectives, as well The program at ECU is led by other Nursing graduates Stephanie Gibson of Vass as two teams that became my family.” high school students who have completed and Ashley Smith of Coats wore mortarboards the Shelton Challenge, college students The challenge program was developed at proclaiming, “I survived.” “Nursing school is like Carter and ECU faculty and staff N.C. State’s Shelton Leadership Center, not easy,” said Smith, the first in her family volunteers. The cost of the program is created a decade ago by Gen. H. Hugh to attend ECU. More than 20 friends and $575 per student. Organizers were seeking Shelton. After a 38-year career in the U.S. family came to watch her graduate. sponsors to help defer some of the program Army, Shelton became the 14th Chairman costs, which include transportation, lodging McRae told graduates it’s important to keep of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in October and meals. generations connected—a message that rang Campus Living and Dining Services and the ECU Ceramics Guild collaborated to combat hunger through an Empty Bowls fundraiser on 1997 and served two terms. campus in March, raising approximately $3,000. In exchange for a cash donation, guests at the event received a simple meal of soup and — true to the members of the Class of 1962, bread. They were also invited to select a handcrafted bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. The bowls were created and Kathryn Kennedy donated by members of the Ceramics Guild. Funds collected were donated to the Greenville Community Shelters and the Food Bank of who looked on from the Murphy Center. Central & Eastern North Carolina.

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Women in slacks ‘a disgrace’ The end of Normal School No Time for Sergeants Marguerite Perry retires 100 The Lanier Society causes a 75 The decade-long transition from 50 East Carolina’s 25 After 48 years on the faculty, professor tizzy in March 1912 when it says a two-year teachers school to tradition of featuring Marguerite Austin Perry retires in May it will use women students a four-year college reaches its published authors on 1987 . She was fresh from grad school dressed as men when it stages climax in 1937 with graduation the English faculty when she applied for a job at ECTC over She Stoops to Conquer, an of the last two-year Senior continues with the July Christmas break in 1939 and was hired to Oliver Goldsmith comedy whose Normal class . Beginning in 1938 1962 announcement teach French beginning the next week . characters mostly are male . the state will require all but rural by Ovid Pierce (right), Over her long career on the foreign Recalling the incident in a 1982 primary school teachers to hold himself the author languages and literatures faculty, she interview, Mattie Moye King “A” certificates earned from four of several popular helped run the student radio station, Gaylord ’12, who had the lead years of college . “The last of books, that Mac chaired the campus entertainment role as Sir Charles Marlowe, the D classes goes out proudly Hyman (left), will teach committee, and advised the yearbook said: “After some debate, it was upholding the record of its 37 creative writing at ECC staff . She also studied overseas for decided by the board that for predecessors,” class president beginning fall quarter . extended periods as a Fulbright scholar . women to dress in slacks would Irene Williamson of Chadbourn Hyman is the author For many years she also patrolled be an indignity to the girls and (left ) writes in the 1937 Tecoan. of No Time for Sergeants, the hilarious 1954 book that became the hit 1958 graduation exercises to straighten the disgrace the school to the point There is no Junior Normal class movie staring Andy Griffith . Students who sign up in droves for his classes mortarboards of students before they of ruining its reputation . So we that year, leaving room in the assume Hyman will be a comic cutup but find he’s serious about the writing walked across the stage “so they wouldn’t look so cocky, or slap-happy, I suppose ”. wore a shirt, vest, coat, and a yearbook for a new feature, candid craft . After a successful first year, Hyman is expected to return to teach a As the longest-tenured faculty member, she carries the bejeweled Trustees Mace at long black skirt in the play ”. snapshots from around campus . second year but suddenly dies of a heart attack in July 1963, at age 39 . graduation exercises for six years . Photos courtesy University Archives

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Record-setting season for score a total of 19 points in the event. Boise, Idaho, in March at the NCAA Indoor Conference USA adds five I would love it if (the next

women’s track Championships with a record-setting six Clark Jay PeeDee) was even better On the men’s side, ECU benefited from Chancellor Steve Ballard said an expansion ECU athletes—the 4x400 relay squad, Butts than I was. Being PeeDee is The women’s track and field squad won its all-conference performances by Joseph of Conference USA announced May 4 offers and Morrow—competing at the national something that I’m passionate first-ever Conference USA championship Samuels’ second-place result in the 60-meter the potential for growth and competitive level. The relay team came in 12th place and about, and that’s why I take in February by edging defending champion hurdles. Austin Lewis ended up third in excellence and reflects a continued emphasis Morrow in 15th. so much pride in it.” Central Florida by a score of 123-113.5. the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.80 and by the conference on academic success The men took third place at the event in Jakub Trzasalski grabbed the bronze medal Less than a week later, the team began the for student-athletes.“Conference USA is At most other universities, Birmingham, Ala., their highest-ever finish. in the 800-meter run. Miles Coats also outdoor portion of their season. aggressively improving its membership, two or more students share broke his personal-best effort in the triple the mascot job, splitting the Head coach Curt Kraft was named C-USA “We can’t rest on our laurels; we have to and East Carolina University is especially jump, posting a mark of 14.65 meters and time inside the suit at games Indoor Women’s Coach of the Year. put this behind us and move on,” said Kraft. appreciative of the strong TV markets that grabbing second place. are being added and the commitment of because it’s so hot inside the “This is a complete team effort by the “Now, we have motivation to defend the the conference to academic success of the costume. But when Brooks coaching staff and athletes,” Kraft said. “Winning was a phenomenal feeling,” said outdoors. There is a huge target on the student athlete,” said Ballard. inherited the suit and had the “Teams do not win championships without Goggins, a sophomore criminal justice major. ladies’ backs, but they know what’s in front chance to share the role, he great coaches and athletes. All the credit goes “We all have a stronger bond and trust in our of them and they have the self motivation to Conference USA commissioner Britton declined because he wanted to our kids today. We knew as a staff if they abilities to win—we’re doing what we’ve been prove that they are conference champs and it Banowsky said the new members include to be solely responsible continued to work hard and stay focused, this training to do. It’s a sisterly-type bond on and wasn’t just a fluke or luck that they won the UNC-Charlotte, Florida International for the personality he gave championship dream would come true. We off the track. We really trust each other.” indoor title.” University, Louisiana Tech University, PeeDee. He gets paid a small feel so lucky to represent the Pirate Nation!” — University of North Texas and the The 2012 indoor season came to a close in Jessica Nottingham stipend for his work. University of Texas at San Antonio. The championship-clinching 10 points “I was almost territorial were provided by the 4x400 relay tandem The conference will be at 13 members with about it,” he said. “I was like, of Tyshonda Hawkins, Tiffany Harris, Cliff H ollis these five new schools and will continue to ‘I don’t want somebody else Tania Minkins and Aiesha Goggins as they consider expansion in the short term. Each to do it, because this is my finished the race in a league meet record time new member will join the league in all sports thing.’ People said I brought a of 3:39.00—just five seconds shy of the for 2013. Charlotte will begin conference new aspect to PeeDee. When automatic NCAA qualifying standard. play in football in 2015. Divisions will be I’m in the suit, the crazier set up in the near future and the conference Junior Tynita Butts qualified for the NCAA you get, the more everybody intends to continue hosting its football Indoor Championships after posting a mark loves it.” championship game. of 1.85 meters to win the gold in the high Brooks loves almost jump. She tied the C-USA indoor meet Conference USA and Mountain West PeeDee graduates everything about being record with the effort and fell just .02 short also will continue to talk about a future After more than three years performing in PeeDee. But there are a few things he won’t of her own school standard. affiliation that could begin as early as 2013, the PeeDee the Pirate suit, Aaron Brooks is miss, like the times parents bring their child Banowsky said. The Pirates captured a total of five graduating and saying goodbye to a routine for a picture with PeeDee even though the individual championships at the conference Conference USA said the new institutions that has dominated his college years. He child is clearly terrified of the mascot. It meet. In addition to Montrell Morrow’s win were selected based on a variety of has performed as PeeDee for every home also can be worrisome, he said, when parents in the weight throw, senior Dennis Aliotta factors, including athletic competitiveness, basketball and football game since 2009, hand tiny babies to him because his vision turned in a school-record mark of 18.36 market, academic fit and geography. except four games he missed for injury. He is limited in the suit. Once, he came within meters to claim the gold medal in the shot The new members have a combined has posed for untold photos, risked heat inches of being hit by a foul ball during a put while junior Brooke Kott recorded her enrollment of more than 150,000 and stroke and pumped up home crowds with game at Clark-LeClair Stadium. first-ever league title with a victory in the an estimated 650,000 living alumni. The his dance moves and antics. He says he often Despite the occasional uncomfortable 800-meter dash. Senior Brittany Copeland metro area population of these schools is hears that he has set a new standard for the moment, Brooks has loved the chance to set a new C-USA meet record in the nearly 18 million. mascot’s persona. make Pirate fans smile week after week. “It’s 3,000-meter run in a time of 9:30.08 to The expansion adds more than 2 million “People have said, ‘Nobody is going to be like your own stage the entire time you’re in earn her spot atop the podium. TV households to Conference USA’s as good as you,’” said Brooks, who was to the costume. You’re not yourself; you have to The 400-meter dash proved to be a huge Track and field head demographic profile, maintaining exposure in graduate in May with a degree in construction try to be somebody else. That’s one of the factor in the victory for the women, as coach Curt Kraft the Dallas-Fort Worth market while adding management. The Apex native hopes to reasons I love it so much. It’s not the most brought the conference Hawkins (54.24), Harris (54.36) and Goggins championship trophy to top 40 markets such as Charlotte, Miami continue as a performer, possibly at Walt glamorous style of acting, but it is acting.” (54.45) placed second, third and fourth to the Board of Trustees. and San Antonio. Disney World or on a cruise ship. “Honestly, — Bethany Bradsher 16 16 17 the ecu report

By Ar thur Carlson ’07 ’11

Many items of great historic value are preserved and protected in the Special Collections Division of Joyner Library. These rare items document important aspects of American history and culture. Many other items in Special Collections, while not as important historically and culturally as, say, a 400-year-old map of the New World, still are noteworthy. The surprising thing is that these historic and not-so-historic items are available for public inspection, and many people do just that. In a typical year, about 1,100 people visit Special Collections for research or just out of curiosity; another 1,000 call or telephone for information. Special Collections has a big web following, with online visitors viewing 54,000 pages of material last year. Curators and archivists with Special Collections, which occupies space in the top floors of the library, were asked to identify items that seem to be the favorites of these visitors. Below is their Top 10 list:

question the details surrounding of student life at Cambridge . cancer in 1921 . After Cambridge, Monroe’s death . Capell’s work Eberhart began to express Eberhart served as a tutor for joins a wealth of literature on himself through poetry after the son of King Prajadhipok communism that makes up the death of his mother from of Siam (now Thailand) . He Joyner Library’s J . Edgar Hoover Collection on International Communism . Donated by Kinston dentist J C. . Peele, the collection features material related to the pro-communist and anti-communist factions . 9. WW II propaganda poster, 1940-1945 (right) Robert L. Ghormley Papers (#1153) A 1906 graduate of the U .s . Naval Academy, Robert Ghormley served in the military for 40 years . In 1940, he was appointed by President Roosevelt as the Special Naval Observer to the American Embassy in London . While there, he helped to formulate the combined Allied strategy that successfully resisted the German Blitz . In 1942, FDR selected Ghormley to command all U .s . forces in the South Pacific until he was replaced by Admiral William 10. The Strange Death of “Bull” Halsey . Ghormley continued Marilyn Monroe, 1967 to serve with distinction until his J. Edgar Hoover Collection retirement . His papers contain correspondence, logs, reports and Written by Frank a . Capell, a collection of British propaganda The Strange Death of Marilyn posters . The posters were Monroe explored the mystery distributed throughout Britain surrounding one the most to emphasize the importance of famous actresses of all time . In protecting state secrets and were it, Capell presents information collected by Ghormley during his including an autopsy report, time in London . claims against the Monroe estate, and rumors of romantic 8. Richard Eberhart Letter, treasures in ECU’s attic involvement with Robert Oct. 15, 1927 Kennedy . Though widely Stuart Wright Collection (#1169) criticized, Capell’s work influenced many conspiracy Written upon Eberhart’s arrival theorists and Monroe fans to in England, this letter describes the poet’s early experiences

18 19 19 the ecu report U NIVERSITY L IFE published his first book of interest in colonization with poetry, A Bravery of Earth, in this important book . His first 1930 . Eberhart’s life experiences book, Divers Voyages Touching are reflected in his works, with the Discoverie of America, in Katherine Anne “Katie” O’Connor was many of his poems featuring 1582, attracted the attention Patch Clark, Greg Hurley, and Bethany Bondurant his journeys as a ship’s hand, of Sir Walter Raleigh . Raleigh Jay Clark Jay named associate dean of the Honors College teacher and member of the U .s . and Hakluyt persuaded and director of the EC Scholars program. Naval Reserve during World War Queen Elizabeth I to explore ii . His support of Allen Ginsberg colonization efforts, leading An associate professor in the Department of and the Beat Generation was to the eventual founding of Curriculum and Instruction in the College instrumental in drawing attention the Roanoke and Jamestown to an emerging subculture in colonies . In Principal Navigations, of Education, O’Connor joined the faculty America . Eberhart enjoyed a Hakluyt compiled first- and in 2003. She received the 2009-2010 UNC long life filled with accolade second-hand accounts of Board of Governors Distinguished Professor and praise before dying in 2005 explorations to the New World . at the age of 101 . Other noted A second, similarly titled Teaching Award and the 2009-2010 ECU authors in the Stuart Wright invention on the Outer Banks . congressman serving eastern compilation, The Principal Scholar-Teacher Award. collection include Randall Jarrell, Among those who witnessed Tennessee, Crockett wrote to Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert the achievement, Associated fellow Congressman John h . and Discoveries of the English Winners of the 2012 ECU Lifetime Press correspondent and Bryan of New Bern . Crockett Penn Warren and Eudora Welty . Nation, followed in 1598, which Achievement Award are Professor Walter The collection comes from noted weatherman Alpheus Drinkwater hoped Bryan would agree to let included information from the literary agent Stuart Wright, who brought worldwide attention two men lease property with Medieval period and the decade J. Pories of Department of Surgery, Brody collected items from authors to the Wrights after reporting the promise to improve the following the publication of School of Medicine; and Professor Jamie over the course of his lifetime . on their initial flights in 1903 . In land . In the letter’s postscript, Principall Navigations. 1911, Orville Wright set a gliding Crockett expresses confidence in Brown Kruse of the Department of 7. Babe Ruth hunting photos, record of 9 minutes 45 seconds his chance to win an upcoming 1. Lost Colony Signet Ring, Economics, Thomas Harriot College of 1920s with Drinkwater again in the area campaign, though his opposition 1585? Arts & Sciences. Both received a cash award Fred I. Sutton Papers (#706) to record the event . to Andrew Jackson’s Indian Croatan Archaeological Site Removal Act contributed to his and conducted a special public seminar to An avid outdoorsman, Babe Ruth 5. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Collection (#1061) defeat in 1830 . showcase their research during Research and enjoyed visiting eastern North 1st Edition, 1st Impression, In 1998, East Carolina Carolina’s fields and streams dated March 20, 1852, 3. Moseley Map, 1733 archaeology professor David Creative Achievement Week. Winners of during baseball’s off-season and Rare Book Collection North Carolina Maps Collection s . Phelps uncovered a 10-carat the Five-Year Achievement for Excellence in was a frequent visitor to the signet ring with an The greatest-selling novel (#17) Camp Bryan Hunting and Fishing insignia of a prancing Patricia “Patch” Clark, who coordinates students who work at the paper. Barrows Research and Creative Activity Award were of the 19th century, Harriet Discovered in an Edenton attic Club in Craven County . This lion during an Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s in 1984 by Don Lennon, the both the theatre for youth and theatre was one of two local-news editors whose associate professor Craig Landry of the photo is one of many featuring archaeological Cabin is credited with swelling William Moseley map is one Department of Economics and Assistant Ruth from the collection of Fred excavation near education programs and who founded ECU hands-on supervision guided the the ranks of the abolitionist of three known copies to Observer’s i . Sutton, former Kinston mayor present day Professor Guili Zhang of the Department movement during the 1850s . still exist and is the only Storybook Theatre, will travel to Iraq this 1987 reporting on evangelist Jim Bakker that and state senator . Buxton . Such Stowe, a teacher in known copy left in America . summer to work with students as part of earned the Pulitzer Gold Medal. of Curriculum and Instruction. Recipients rings often Connecticut, first Now prominently displayed were used to an American Voices program. She plans to of the Achievement for Excellence in published the story on the north wall of the Dr. Taffye Benson-Clayton departed seal a letter in the National Search Room, the Moseley direct children’s theatre programs and train Research and Creative Activity Award are by embossing to become vice provost for diversity and Era, an abolitionist Map identifies settlements, recognized for the originality and excellence an emblem university students in youth theatre June 29- periodical . Over waterways, natural resources multicultural affairs at UNC Chapel Hill. on drops of July 30. Accompanying Clark to Kurdistan, of their research and creative activities, as the course of its and soil conditions as hot wax . Two of LaKesha Alston ’01 ’03 was appointed 40 installments, they existed in colonial era Iraq, will be Bethany Bondurant, a senior evidenced by sustained high-quality work the colonists were interim associate provost for equity and the story of Tom’s North Carolina . Map insets performed at ECU. members of the Kendall in the School of Theatre and Dance’s experiences provide detailed information diversity. She has served ECU since 2006 in family, whose family crest was a with slavery and on the area’s important ports, youth and theatre education program, and Cardiovascular surgeon Dr. W. Randolph prancing lion, leading authorities various capacities in the equity office, most religion captivated including Port Brunswick Greg Hurley of the School of Music. to conclude the ring was a Lost Chitwood Jr. was inducted as an honorary readers . Owing to (Wilmington area), Port Beaufort recently as senior director of the Office of Colony relic . The mysterious The Association of American Voices offers popular demand, (Topsail Inlet), and directions Equity, Diversity and Community Relations. member in the German Society for Thoracic, disappearance of the colonists the publishing for navigating the Ocacock similar workshops and concerts in more than has become one of the greatest Heart and Vascular Surgery. Chitwood, the house of John P . (Ocracoke) Inlet . Bryan Tuten was appointed director of mysteries in North Carolina 110 countries, mainly in nations emerging Jewett convinced Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Distinguished history . from conflict, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Dowdy Student Stores, succeeding Wanda Stowe to 2. The Principall Navigations, Chair of Cardiovascular Sciences and transform the story into a book Voiages, and Discoueries of the Sudan and Lebanon. Scarborough, who retired. He has served director of the East Carolina Heart 6. Wright Brothers Flight complete with illustrations . English nation, made by Sea or as interim director since 2010. He joined Photograph, 1911 over Land, to the most remote Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Frank Institute, received the honor in Freiburg, 4. Davy Crocket letter, and farthest distant Quarters Editor’s note: The writer is an ECU as a purchasing agent in Materials Alpheus W. Drinkwater archives specialist at Joyner Barrows, former managing editor of the Germany, from Dr. Frederich W. Mohr of May 26, 1829 of the earth at any time within Management in 1996. Katherine Burney, Collection (#805) the compassee of these 1500 Library . You can view these was hired to serve as the University of Leipzig. Chitwood, who John Heritage Bryan Papers (#147) images and many more at the textbook manager at Dowdy Student Stores, North Carolina license plates yeeres, 1589 (shown on page 18) Charlotteinterim advisor Observer, for the delivered his acceptance speech in German, proudly tout the state as First Davy Crockett’s renown as the Special Collections website, The East Carolinian, retired in February after 32 years of service “King of the Wild Frontier” Rare Book Collection digital .lib ecu. edu. . student-run newspaper. Barrows will serve worked with specialists in Germany to in Flight because Orville and with East Carolina. Among other honors, Wilbur Wright first soared into influenced generations of young A noted chaplain, ambassador in a consultant advisory role overseeing the develop the tools and techniques that led to the skies while working on their boys to demand coonskin hats as and author, Richard Hakluyt she was chosen a Treasured Pirate in 2010. tribute to their idol . While a U .s . helped spark England’s day-to-day publication and online needs of robotic heart surgery in the U.S.

20 21 Exhibitions Paintings by Leo Jenkins: J . y . Joyner Library is hosting SUMMER CALENDAR an exhibit of select paintings by former East Carolina Chancellor Leo Jenkins, after collecting them from around campus, from the Jenkins family and from other friends . Leo Jenkins and CEO of Piedmont Craftsmen actors to put on productions in veterans of earlier workshops to coaching will be available in jazz and the Art of Giving highlights in Winston-Salem . First prize will Greenville, New Bern, Goldsboro instruct and perform . Featured performance techniques as well . Jenkins’ love of painting, his be $800 . and again at Roanoke Island near performers this summer will Choral Camp, June 24-29, for embrace of eastern North Manteo . This summer’s playlist be Jason Vieaux, Duo Spiritoso grades 7-12 . Andrew Crane, Carolina, and his generosity Summer Theatre returns consists of Thornton Wilder’s (Andrew Zohn and Jeffrey director of the camp, says with his works . Jenkins was a The lights are coming back classic Our Town, Shakespeare’s McFadden), and the Akerman- this year’s program will give hobbyist painter during the years on for the School of Theatre romantic comedy A Midsummer Teixeira Duo (Mary Akerman participants an opportunity to he was chancellor and often and Dance’s ECU/Loessin Night’s Dream, and a children’s and Robert Teixeira) . In addition, enhance their choral singing gave his works to friends, family Summer Theatre . Because of play, Seven in One Blow. A play Mark Edwards, who was the skills, with instruction aimed at and charities . The paintings budget cuts, the 2011 season or plays will be produced on solo competition winner in 2011, strengthening vocal skills, music typically were landscapes, but of the summer program was campus the week of June 18, at will perform, as will Frank . The reading and aural perception Jenkins also painted sites such canceled; in 2010, there were Roanoke Island Festival Park the guitar workshop is open to of music . Private voice or piano as Hope Plantation House . no campus productions, but the week of June 25, at the Cullman students of all skill levels who lessons also will be available . Curated by University Historian Theatre at Tryon Palace in New want to acquire or improve skills program staged shows at the Drama Camp, Aug . 6-10, will John Tucker, the exhibit will Bern the week of July 2 and on the classical guitar . Other Roanoke Island Festival Park . again be divided into three remain up through July 1 and at the Paramount Theatre in ECU summer music camps and This summer, the program will sections for ages 5-10, 11-13 then will be available online at Goldsboro the week of July 9 . workshops include: put on at least one production and 14-18 . The final showcase www ecu. edu/. LeoJenkinsGallery . in Burnette Studio Theatre jurors selecting the best in show . Fiber Arts Alliance and ECU’s will be Ray Pierotti, a former Band Camp, June 17-22, for program is scheduled Aug . 10, on campus . Jeffrey Woodruff, Summer camps grades 6-12 . Scott Carter, director Fibers and textiles: ECU will “Spotlight on Student Fiber School of Art and Design . The director of the Arrowmont 6-7 p .m . managing director of the The annual ECU Summer of the camp, says instruction be the site this summer of a Trends” will be shown June 1-29 exhibition is open to students in School of Arts and Crafts and summer program, says plans Guitar Festival takes place July will be provided in concert North Carolina Suzuki Institute, regional exhibit of student art at Wellington Gray Gallery under North Carolina and eight other the Sawtooth School for Visual call for creating a repertory 14-17, and workshop director band, small ensemble and July 8-13, traditional student using fibers and textiles with two the sponsorship of the Southeast southeastern states . The jurors Art, and Jane Doub, president company of about two dozen Elliot Frank is bringing back solo performance, and special institute .

Music faculty on tour is to be released in 2013 on the the Great Lakes Chamber Music In August, Kramar will travel to be a member of the New York Music Festival in western North the Summit Music Festival under the direction of Dr . Jeremy ECU School of Music faculty Avie label . Hochman received Festival in Michigan . California to record an album State Summer School of the Carolina July 7-24 . In August, in New York in August . The Thompson, who has come to members will have a busy an Avery Fisher Career Grant Baritone John Kramar will be of songs by composer Alva Arts faculty, teaching voice and the quartet will be in residence recording is one of three sets North Carolina from McGill summer taking part in music last year, which is presented to on the faculty of the Tennessee Henderson . theater arts classes, and she will at the Interlochen College of of compositions for cello and University in Canada . The festival festivals, workshops or recording talented instrumentalists with Governor’s School for the Arts Soprano Rachel Copeland will sing in recital at the School of Creative Arts . The East Coast piano by Romantic composers will focus on works by 19th studio sessions . Among them: great potential for solo careers . during June and appear in be on the voice faculty at the the Arts in July . Chamber Orchestra, of which she undertaken by Gruber . In 2011, he and early 20th century French Andrew Crane, director of recital with pianist Jerome Reed Musica nelle Marche program in Violist Melissa Reardon will is a founding member, will play recorded works by Mendelssohn composers . Later in the summer, Keyboard faculty member at the Skaneateles Festival in and Schumann; the Mendelssohn she will collaborate with Boston Benjamin Hochman will go choral activities, will sing with featuring works of Ives, Wolf Urbania, Italy, in July, a month be active with both chamber a new professional choir, the and Mozart . He later will teach after working for the Oberlin in music ensembles that she New York Aug . 28-Sept . 2 . recording was released last composer Elena Ruehr on a into a New York City recording summer, and the Schumann piece for flute and piano, which studio June 23-24 to record Yale Choral Artists, in June . The voice and opera at the New York Italy program as office manager plays in . With the Enso String Cellist Emanuel Gruber will travel ensemble will collaborate with State Summer School of the and Italian-American liaison Quartet, she will participate to Israel in June to record works recording is in final editing . is to be given its premier at ECU Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonatas before the end of the year . D . 664 and 850 and “Six the Mark Morris Dance Company Arts, where he will sing recitals in Arezzo . In August, she will in the Madeline Island Music for cello and piano by Johannes Flutist Christine Gustafson will Schubert Reminiscences” by on various projects . Also in June, with ECU pianist Eric Stellrecht, sing with the Brussels Chamber Camp in Wisconsin June 25-30 Brahms and then will participate take part in a new music festival contemporary German composer he will be the tenor soloist in featuring works of Schumann, Orchestra . and the Swannanoa Chamber as performer and teacher at in May and June in Goldsboro, Jorg Widmann . The recording Stravinsky’s “Les Noces” with Poulenc, Caldara and Thomson . Mezzo-soprano Jami Rhodes will

Benjamin Hochman Andrew Crane John Kramar Rachel Copeland Jami Rhodes Christine Gustafson Investing in tomorrow Second Century Campaign excels in creating a stronger East Carolina

He conducted chemistry experiments, tutored biology students and sold suits at a department store for extra money . But one thing Jacksonville native Isaac Morton ’11 didn’t do during college was worry about paying for tuition, even though his family had limited means . An Access Scholarship covered those costs, freeing him to concentrate on making good grades . Graduating in three years with a double major in biology and chemistry, he was admitted to the first class at Douglas H. “Wil” Wilkinson III ’99 (right) and his wife, Betsy ’97 funded an Access the ECU School of Dental Medicine, debt free . Scholarship benefitting Isaac Morton.

24 25 By Marion Blackburn East Carolina’s largest donors According to University Advancement records, these are the largest donors to ECU during the Second Century Campaign:

Without his scholarship, “I’m not sure I build a stronger ECU. The largest fundraiser The Access Scholarship program is one Focusing on students, officials say, Thomas D. Arthur Brody School of Medicine . Beginning Tom Arthur ’71 of Tampa, Fla ., donated with a generous gift to help establish would be in dental school,” Morton says. “I in university history garnered almost $220 of Second Century’s most tangible results. keeps the university, its alumni $1 million to the BB&T Center for the medical school, the family has wouldn’t have been able to achieve the grades million—10 percent more than its goal Launched at the start of the campaign, it and supporters focused on the Leadership Development on campus supported medical education through many gifts and programs, including I did. I would have been worrying about how and a year ahead of schedule. By the time helps high achieving but financially strapped future, when more such fundraising to establish an endowed chair in the College of Business focusing on the Brody Scholars program honoring to pay for it or worried about being $50,000 it officially concluded in December 2011 students get a degree without accumulating campaigns clearly will be needed. leadership . He is the grandson of Louis J .s . “Sammy” Brody (right), who died in debt. I was able to stay in school and just it had received contributions from more burdensome debt. Thirty scholarships were C . Arthur, one of the nine men who in 1994 . He and his brother, Leo (left), submitted the formal offer for the were among the earliest supporters do well.” than 30,000 alumni and nearly doubled the awarded in 2007-08, including Morton’s. The dream team location of the East Carolina Teachers of medical education in eastern North university’s endowments. Since then the number of scholarships has Carolina . Subsequent gifts through the “College is really expensive,” says another Training School to the State Board of increased each year, and 78 undergraduate When Ken Chalk ’68 ’71 of Education in 1907 . Brody Foundation have allowed the Access Scholar, freshman Navreet Singh, 19, Many contributors directed their gifts to school to train physicians and conduct students were supported with access Winston-Salem, Carol Mabe ’71 Branch Banking & Trust Co. of Dallas, N.C. “It really helped me not to take need-based scholarships. Donald R. ’75 research . The foundation contributed scholarships in 2011-12. of Oriental and other members The BB&T Center for Leadership more than $2 million during the out loans,” she adds. “If I’d gone somewhere and Fran ’90 Bryan of Chapel Hill did of the ECU Foundation met in Development at ECU was established in campaign . else, I would have had to stress out.” that by paying for Singh’s scholarship and During the campaign, donors contributed 1983 with a $250,000 grant . Throughout 2006 to imagine ECU’s future, Harold H. Bate Foundation two others, at $5,000 each, for four years. about $1.5 million that went right back the years, BB&T has made several But most students do worry about paying for they dreamed big. They reviewed a significant contributions to the center, The Harold h . Bate Foundation Douglas H. “Wil” Wilkinson III ’99 and out into scholarships, according to Bill including $1 million commitments in contributed more than $2 7. million to college. About 80 percent of East Carolina study produced by the Chancellor’s his wife, Betsy ’97, of Sanford, made the Clark, president of the ECU Foundation, a 2005 and 2010 . ECU academics and athletics during graduates borrowed money for college, Executive Council showing that the the campaign . The foundation was same decision by funding Morton’s Access nonprofit governed by an independent board Estate of Geraldine Mayo Beveridge leaving school on average about $19,000 in university’s long-term needs, over established by the late Harold h . Bate Scholarship. that is the university’s largest fundraising Geraldine Mayo of New Bern, a philanthropist, investor debt. That’s one of the highest amounts in and above state appropriations, and retired lumber executive . The arm. Another $1.8 million in contributions Beveridge ’39 the UNC system. ECU also has the highest Why did they give? “You can make a were in the range of $1 billion. taught home foundation is used for education, youth endowed 15 Access scholarships, meaning economics in the and recreation and quality of life for number of students with demonstrated huge difference for a student—and for the Clark, the foundation’s president, they are funded forever. Over the length of Carteret County the communities of Craven, Pamlico financial need of any UNC campus. university,” Wilkinson says. When Morton remembers that several board Schools for 40 and Jones counties and at ECU . The the campaign, contributions for academic graduates from dental school, and sets up members looked at each other years . She left $1 .5 Bate Foundation also supported Students like Morton and Singh are just programs at ECU (including scholarships, million to East a distinguished professorship for practice, he will create jobs and help people and stammered, “A billion—with two of the hundreds of students benefitting distinguished professorships, research and Carolina in her Project STEPP—Supporting Transition in eastern North Carolina lead healthier lives. a ‘b’?” In that light, the group’s name and also to and Education through Planning from the Second Century Campaign, an building programs) exceeded $146 million, “It’s an investment,” Wilkinson explains. original idea of shooting for $100 honor her and Partnerships . STEPP is a new ambitious, multiyear fundraising effort to Clark says. husband, Capt . David l . Beveridge . Her program for students who benefit million—twice the size of ECU’s gift awards scholarships to graduates of from instruction outside the traditional The campaign netted ECU 320 new previous largest campaign—looked Ocracoke, New Bern, Pamlico and East classroom . The Bate Foundation also Carteret high schools . supports 15 Access Scholarships . The scholarships of all kinds, including small. Let’s double that, the general classroom building on campus is Robert and Amy Brinkley Second Century Campaign ones for high-achievers who receive EC foundation board decided. named for Bate, whose gifts to ECU now Scholars awards. The number of those full Robert ’78 and Amy Brinkley of Charlotte total more than $3 .2 million . Scholarship Funds Created But then Lehman Brothers, the made a major commitment of $1 million William H. Clark Family scholarships rose from 35 to 55. Worth nation’s fourth largest investment in support of the Honors College and $45,000, an EC Scholarship provides the baseball stadium campaign . Bill ’66 ’68 and Gloria ’67 Clark of 100 bank, went bankrupt. Wall Street Greenville are longtime supporters of tuition, fees and a stipend to the highest- Brody Foundation East Carolina athletics and the Pirate Grand Total: 320 tanked. The worst economic achieving undergraduates. It also includes a conditions since the Great Club . He is a real estate developer who 80 semester of study abroad. owns Bill Clark Homes of Greenville Depression prompted some and residential communities in Raleigh, The campaign also created 24 distinguished universities to shelve plans for Wilmington and Myrtle Beach . He and 60 Gloria are the parents of sons Hunter professorships, giving outstanding classroom fundraising campaigns, including ’93, Lance and leaders more resources for research, teaching UNC-Chapel Hill. “We finished Heath ’94 . The William h . 40 opportunities and academic enrichment. a campaign in December of 2007 Clark Family and had success with that campaign Second Century Campaign contributions of Greenville but the economy was going along committed 20 shored up the university’s scholarship pool The Brody Medical Scholars program $1 .5 million very well then,” recalls Matt Kupec, and academic programs during a time of state was established by the Brody family in support of Total Scholarships Created Total Carolina’s vice chancellor for of Kinston and Greenville as part of the baseball 0 budget cuts. Last year alone the Legislature university advancement. “Right its long-standing commitment to the stadium, now budgeted $35 million less in financial aid

2011 after that we were thinking about 2010 2007 2005 2008 2006 2009 for UNC campuses than the previous year. (continued)

26 27 East Carolina’s largest donors (continued) 250Second Century Campaign Progress during the later stages of a campaign, Indeed, the first goal was to execute in cumulative dollars smaller donors often can contribute then, not just any campaign but a according to the views of several university “record-breaking Second Century known as Clark-LeClair Stadium . of Medicine will create the James and Connie Maynard Distinguished 200 Hess Foundation Inc. Campaign Goal development officials quoted in the story. capital campaign.” Professorship in Pediatrics . During Clark said the Second Century Campaign The New Jersey-based foundation the course of the Second Century “We were looking to the future,” supported Project STEPP for college closely tracked that experience. Campaign, the Maynards committed 150 Mabe recalls. “For this university to students with learning differences and $2 million to the College of Education the athletics campaign, with a total supporting scholarships for future “We launched the campaign just as the grow and be great, and to fund all giving of $1 .2 million . teachers . This four-year $20,000 Public Kicko economy went bust. We all looked at each those things that we’ve kind of been scholarship is awarded to outstanding Tapley Johnson 100 3/27/08 other and said, ‘Good timing,’” laughs Mabe. behind on, such as scholarships and high school seniors each year and is Tapley o . Johnson III ’83 of Burlington modeled after the n C. . Teaching Fellows A magna cum laude graduate who is a retired endowed chairs, we felt we really made gifts to athletics to endow Scholarship . retail executive, she took the helm as chair of had to be aggressive.” scholarships totaling $1 million . 50 $ 219,916,000 McMahon Family Foundation Millions of Dollars the ECU Foundation and led it during most Golden LEAF Foundation Total contributions to the ECU Vince ’69 and Linda McMahon ’69, of the campaign. “We had such dedication The Golden LEAF Foundation, based in the chairman and CEO, respectively, foundations were $140 million, Rocky Mount, has awarded the university that we made it happen in one of the most of World Wrestling Entertainment, 0 with the largest donation—to more than $2 .5 million to bring economic gave $1 .332 million, which received difficult times in recent history. Even in the improvement, based on the foundation’s the Medical & Health Sciences matching funds from the C .D . Spangler

2011 guidelines to help tobacco-dependent, 2012

2010 Foundation and the state of North

2007 toughest times, people were willing to give.” 2005 2008 2006 2009 2004 Foundation—coming from Ledyard economically distressed and rural Carolina, to endow two distinguished Despite the economy, “we needed to help E. Ross ’51, a retired Greenville communities of North Carolina . Golden professorships in foreign languages LEAF contributed $1 million toward the chancellor and the university realize its orthodontist, whose $4 million gift (Linda’s major) and business construction of the Family Medicine (Vince’s major) . They also endowed vision,” Chalk says. “How much support will is equipping the new dental school Center and another $1 million to help a $250,000 Access Scholarship that launching another campaign without a lot of was likely a smart decision. Most American establish the East Carolina Diabetes and that take? What can we do to help?” building. The ECU Educational will carry their name . time in between, but we put our plans on the recessions last two years while university Obesity Institute . Other grants helped Foundation, better known as the to fund expansion of ECU’s telemedicine Robert and Frances Monk back burner, and other schools did the same.” fundraising campaigns usually run for three The foundation board set as its goals Pirate Club, raised more than $73 network . to five years or more, the article noted. examining current scholarships and creating Yet according to reporting by CASE, the million. Its biggest goal was raising E.R. Lewis Construction Co. Wealthier donors, who largely are unaffected new ones; developing a culture of giving Council for Advancement and Support money to build a practice facility The company headed by Harvey Lewis by recessions, often can be relied on for among alumni; having a strong endowment provided the grading work for Clark- of Education, in its April 2009 magazine, for the basketball and volleyball major gifts early in campaigns begun during investment strategy; advocating for the LeClair baseball stadium, shaping the ECU’s strategy of moving ahead teams that will rise adjacent to field, drainage areas and parking lots . Currents, a bad economy. As the economy recovers university; and exploring partnerships. Minges Coliseum. Construction on The work is valued in excess of a million dollars . the $15 million facility is expected to start this summer. “I can’t say James and Connie Maynard enough good things about the The $2 .5 million gift by the Monks Pirate Nation stepping up to help helped build the geriatric center within this athletic program move forward the new Family Medicine Center on ECU’s Health Sciences Campus . The Second Century Campaign Summary and realize our dream,” says Dennis Frances J . and Robert T . Monk Sr . Young, the Pirate Club’s associate Geriatric Center now bears the family’s Support of colleges, schools, departments, centers and institutes $ 57,601,151 name . Frances Monk became interested athletic director for major gifts. in health care for older adults from Distinguished professorships and lectureships 15,385,421 firsthand experience as a caregiver for The Medical & Health Sciences her mother and husband . Foundation raised more than $30.7 Scholarships 26,291,428 Oak Foundation million for the medical school, the The Oak Foundation, based in Geneva, Research, education and outreach (corporate/foundation grants) 42,307,000 College of Nursing and the College Switzerland, made a two-year grant of In addition to giving $9 million to of Allied Health Sciences according $304,699 to the College of Education’s Capital projects 5,200,000 the new Children’s Hospital addition, Project STEPP, led by Sarah Williams . to the campaign report. James ’65 and Connie ’62 Maynard of Because of the program’s success, the Total academic program support 146,785,000 Raleigh committed $1 5. million toward foundation has supported this program’s Membership in the Alumni a distinguished professorship in the expansion throughout the UNC system, Association grew from 2,154 Department of Pediatrics within the with awards of more than $3 million . Athletics (scholarships, endowments, facilities) 73,131,000 medical school . Maynard is the co- members in 2008 to 6,975 by the founder and chairman of Investors PCMH Foundation 219,916,000 time the campaign ended. During the Management Group, the parent The PCMH Foundation provided a CAMPAIGN T OTAL (109 .9% of goal) campaign, the Alumni Association company of Golden Corral Corp . The research professorship in the East Carolina $1 .5 million gift to the Brody School Heart Institute with a gift of $1 million . Deferred gifts (included in total) 27,960,859 awarded 118 scholarships worth a total of $170,500. (continued)

29 East Carolina’s largest donors (continued) A new culture of giving He is this year’s distinguished professor in who plans to attend medical school after the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and graduation. “ECU serves the region and to Alumni loyalty to ECU always has been strong, Sciences. “What the professorship means for be one of its top students is an honor.” Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust Harry and Tammy Smith but officials say that loyalty hasn’t consistently The Kate B . Reynolds Charitable Trust Harry ’92 and Tammy Smith of me is having the resources to bring in expert translated into financial support. About 7,800 Former Chancellor Richard Eakin, who now has given more than $3 .5 million in Washington, n C. ., pledged $1 million speakers who add something that we don’t grants, including a school-based obesity toward the Step Up to the Highest Level alumni were annual donors in 2007. “Our leads the Honors College, says expanding already have. (Those lectures) created a lot reduction program for middle school Campaign to construct a new basketball job was to turn that pride into gifts to the the EC Scholars program has changed how students, along with programs to reduce practice gym . He is CEO of Flanders of interest across campus even among people institution,” said Vice Chancellor for University ECU is viewed by potential students and the risk of chronic diseases among Corp . not inclined toward science. So if ECU agricultural workers and their families . Advancement Mickey Dowdy, adding, “We parents eying college decisions. “We’re C.D. Spangler Foundation has 24 more professors who all have these The trust is based in Winston-Salem . matured a bit during the process.” already finding out in going out and talking The C .D . Spangler Foundation provided resources, just think about all the new things Ledyard E. Ross ’51 $250,000 matches to four distinguished to high school guidance counselors that (the that our students will be exposed to.” professorships So how does one cultivate a culture of Honors College) is making a difference to Wachovia/Wells Fargo giving? Mabe says campaign volunteers and students (when choosing a college to attend). advancement staff had to learn who wanted Wachovia/Wells Fargo provided $1 Looking to the future As each year goes by, and as more EC million for the Partnership East program to support ECU and why, then connect scholarships are created, that reputation will to enable community college students As the third-largest university in the state, to become teachers . It also provided a with them. They needed to engage students only increase.” and build relationships with businesses and East Carolina has a more important role gift for the athletics campaign . corporations. And as part of an ongoing than ever in North Carolina’s future. What’s it like to teach a class full of honors Walter and Marie Williams relationship, it was important to thank those There are new expectations for it to lead in students? “Colleagues…say it’s one of who gave. academics, education, health and medicine, the most rewarding academic experiences and to serve as an economic driver for the they can imagine,” Eakin says, “because Even current students were asked to donate. region. Contributing to the arts, music and you’re talking about a class of 15 or so During the campaign, purple piggy banks culture is part of that vision, too. students who are just at the very top of Motivated by the importance of dental were distributed on campus and then care in eastern North Carolina, Dr . Ross The deep recession has meant smaller state the expectations. What we are seeking to provided $4 million for the School of collected. “It was all small change, but the do here is to establish ourselves as a high- Dental Medicine . The new classroom amount they gave isn’t important,” says appropriations for all North Carolina’s building will bear his name . This was the public universities. Contributions during quality undergraduate institution. And these campaign’s largest single gift . Dowdy. “We were showing them in a simple students are key to that.” and direct way that they’re expected to give the Second Century Campaign helped ECU Alfred P. Sloan Foundation back to ECU, just like alumni gave back.” address a large part of its budget shortfall. There’s plenty of work to be done ahead, Dr . Matthew o . Schrenk, assistant While many large contributors supported professor of biology, received a $1 .5 Many faculty and staff members also wrote however, Dowdy says. “There’s more need million grant from to develop the checks to the campaign. the Second Century Campaign (see list, page within our student body that’s greater than Deep Carbon Observatory’s Deep 27), officials say the effort was successful within any other UNC institution,” he says. Carol Mabe ’71 Life Directorate . This interdisciplinary project looks at deep fractures in Walter ’51 ’55 and Marie ’53 Williams By 2010, the number of alumni donors had largely because it focused on casting a large “We’re striving to be the best university we climbed to more than 12,600. continental rocks, groundwater wells of Greenville provided approximately net and creating innovative programs. can be,” he adds. ECU, she says. They may have in ancient ocean crust and newly $3 .5 million in support of Project STEPP, Dave Whichard of Grimesland, a board discovered hydrothermal systems in the athletics program initiatives and a One new program is Project STEPP, or What motivates Mabe to continue a child attending, or they may Caribbean . He also received $50,000 to student leadership program . Walter member and former chair of the medical Supporting Transition and Education volunteering so much time for her alma see a doctor who’s a graduate of further his research in ocean sciences . Williams is the founder of Trade Oil Co . foundation, with other family members through Planning and Partnerships, which mater? A simple goal inspires her work. She the Brody School of Medicine. Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Stuart T. Wright established the Whichard Chair in the offers nontraditional instruction to students wants to see ECU thrive in the right ways They may want to advance public The North Carolina native, noted bibliographer and collector who lives Humanities in honor of his father “Big with learning disabilities. It offers additional and serve people who, like herself, had a education. Or they may want to Dave” Whichard who served as editor and in England made a gift of manuscripts academic and life-skills instruction at no cost good start toward their dreams thanks to promote economic development in and other first-edition books by well- publisher of for 60 years. to students. With its 95 percent retention the East. “Everybody has something known authors, including Robert Penn The Daily Reflector their ECU degree. Warren . The prized addition to Joyner He passionately believes in the university’s rate, it now serves as a model for other that connects them to ECU in “My years at the university were a wonderful Library’s special collections is valued at vision and has helped promote it as a force universities. Walter ’51 ’55 and Marie ’53 some way. $1 .5 million . experience,” she says. “I was able to be —Marion Blackburn for change. “ECU has been the catalyst that’s Williams of Greenville, the Oak Foundation successful in my career, traveled the world— “For everyone involved—the deans, made this area grow,” Whichard says. and the Bate Foundation, among others, but it all started with the education I got at foundation members, volunteers, made major gifts to STEPP. The ECU student experience will grow ECU. The things I learned there, the values down to the secretaries sending out richer and more diverse as each of 24 new Being selected as an EC Scholar, said Deepak I established, the principles I still follow, it memos—everyone has this passion distinguished professorships is filled, says Ravindranathan, 21, helped him grow as really all started at ECU.” for ECU,” Mabe says. “That’s why The $1 332. million gift from the Grady Go to our website, White Boats executive and his wife biology professor Kyle Summers, an expert a leader. It “instills a sense that you can everyone does it. It’s an act of love. www.ecu.edu/east, to see a Thousands of contributors to the Second created a distinguished professorship in video thanking all Second in evolutionary genetics who is nationally achieve your dreams,” says Ravindranathan, You care about its future.” the East Carolina Heart Institute at East known for his research on poison frogs. Century Campaign share that kinship with East Carolina University . Century Campaign donors.

30 31 31 A new kind of Jean Chatzky

organization for service, At an event showcasing notable alumnae, Women’s Roundtable incoming president Valeria Lassiter ’90 of Columbia, Md., greets Beverly Cox ’67 of Arlington, Va., the long-time director of exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; and giving and leadership Margaret O’Connor ’71, who won two Pulitzer Prizes for photography with The New York Times.

Looking around the ECU campus, Valeria without the Second Century Campaign.” Incredible Women as part of the university’s One award honors the late Kathy Taft ’81, fundraising,” Chalk says, adding, “We have Roundtable’s role even more vital as the Lassiter ’90 is glad to see more women Centennial celebration. In 2010, financial a longtime educator who took part in a long way to go. We challenge every woman university identifies women leaders for key “The Roundtable promotes values that are in leadership positions. The founder and commentator Jean Chatzky spoke. Activist the earliest Roundtable discussions. Her alum to become a part of the Roundtable.” positions as volunteers, administrators, very important to me,” says Lassiter, founder president of her own fundraising and Erin Brockovich has committed to speak at daughter Jessica Gorall ’88, a Roundtable Members point to the large number of living academics and researchers, supporters of the and president of Lassiter & Associates. event management firm in Columbia, the 2013 event. board member, considers the Kathy A. Taft women graduates—more than 70,000—and group say. By funding Access Scholarships, the Md., Lassiter says women don’t always see Memorial Women’s Roundtable Access some consider it a membership goal. Roundtable provides “access to students By reconnecting with women graduates The youngest member, Allison Peel themselves as trailblazers. Scholarship a tribute to her mother’s life who have the desire for a high-quality of varied backgrounds and experiences, The Incredible Women roster has now grown ’99 of Cary, became involved in order work and passion for the university. The ECU Women’s Roundtable is going education but may not have the financial the Roundtable has created a new kind to 107 and includes Deborah Davis ’79 ’83, to encourage women’s leadership in the to change that, she believes. The group, resources it takes to go to college,” she says. of organization for service, giving and The Women’s Roundtable excited Taft, says chief operating officer of VCU Medical sciences. “I was a biology major and believe with 200-plus members, has attracted “My passion and commitment toward the leadership. Gorall. “She would say, ‘This is really going Center hospital and clinics in Richmond, Va. we need more women in all the STEM distinguished graduates such as Lassiter, advancement of women and gender equality to be something.’ It was an important part of She has enduring ties to the university and to (science, technology, engineering and “The Roundtable provides a wonderful who imagines it as a keystone group for the is equally important. her connection to ECU. When they told me the region. She’s one of two women on the math) fields,” Peel says. “Working with the opportunity to network with other ECU university’s next century. the scholarship was in place, I was ecstatic. ECU Board of Trustees and serves on the Women’s Roundtable would be a great way “Women must ask who’s not at the table. To alumni where they live, attend fun and I couldn’t think of anything more powerful board for the BB&T Center for Leadership to do that.” During the Second Century Campaign, ask the hard questions. That’s how we show educational events, and support scholarships to represent my mom.” The Roundtable has at the College of Business. the Roundtable focused its energy on new our commitment to the issues women face.” for deserving students,” says Romary. “The She’ll be working with leaders such as also supported the Honors College with a need-based Access Scholarships—while Roundtable is not just limited to women “I was the first to go to college, as was my Jennifer Little ’86, who hosts a program on a Since taking shape in 2003, the Women’s $10,000 grant. providing women graduates a firsthand look or ECU alumni. We have several men and husband,” Davis says. “We struggled, having Greenville radio station. The Roundtable, she Roundtable has served as a focal point for at programs, projects and professorships friends of ECU who are active members. Kay Chalk ’76 of Winston-Salem, a former to work full time and go to school full time. says, acknowledges the historical importance women’s philanthropy and service. By 2005, throughout the university. “When women The Women’s Roundtable is inclusive and Roundtable chair, is providing endowment We were given an opportunity by ECU to of women at ECU—and beyond. it hosted a major community event when got involved with the Roundtable they open to all.” funding for the Kay Chalk Women’s Round­ get an education and we personally have felt surgeon and health correspondent Dr. Nancy “ECU started out as a teachers college,” could really see what the needs were,” table Access Scholarship. The beauty of the a strong commitment to ECU. Snyderman spoke to a standing-room only The Roundtable funds three tuition awards Little says. “A lot of success has come from says Marcy Romary, ECU senior major Roundtable, she says, is that everyone can audience during the Charting a Course through the Access Scholars program, worth “I have a strong feeling about women teachers and they are very important to the gifts officer and director of women’s take part at any level. Membership dues help for Better Health conference. It continued $5,000 to recipients. Members are working getting re-engaged, but it’s a bigger challenge future. I think it is very fitting to have a philanthropy. “They could take on the fund another Access Scholarship and every the speaker series in 2007 with National toward fully endowing the scholarships, at a sometimes for women because of all the Women’s Roundtable formed to recognize philanthropic purpose of funding these contribution makes a difference, she says. Public Radio personality Cokie Roberts. cost of $125,000. pressures we have with our family lives as the accomplished women from ECU.” scholarships. That wouldn’t have happened The Roundtable also unveiled its list of 100 “We have come a long way with our well as our work lives.” That makes the — Marion Blackburn 32 33 Durham’s Doer

His work as a developer can be seen all over Research Triangle Park in buildings occupied by IBM, Glaxo and Biogen . Robb Teer’s civic leadership also can be seen across the Triangle in airport terminals, the state’s first modern toll road and—now— with the Uso .

34 35 By Steve Tuttle more visible creations in RTP are the Glaxo headquarters Biogen Idec headquarters building and the Radisson Governors Inn just off I-40. On his 41st birthday, his family honored him by making Robert D. Teer Jr. ’67 knows how it feels maybe an illness. What we do is we have an did that literally when his father stepped a gift of $333,000 to East Carolina to endow the Robert to be in uniform at strange airports far honor guard escort the casket when it arrives down after serving for 31 years on the Dillard Teer Jr. Distinguished Professorship of Business, from home. For 28 years he served in the at the hangar, offload it, with the family Raleigh airport commission. the university’s first endowed chair. His younger sister, Army Reserve, commuting on weekends the there, then load it on a hearse. Then the He also knew he would marry his high Lyda Mihalyi ’76 of Durham, an Alumni Association last six years from Durham to the Health Guardian Angels escort the family home.” school sweetheart, Susan Tatum Teer ’67. Distinguished Service Award winner in 1990 who later Services Command base in San Antonio, When he’s not volunteering with the USO, “Susan and I graduated from Durham High served on the ECU Board of Trustees, says, “I think he’s Texas. Weekdays he went about his day job he spends time serving on several other School in June 1963 and went off to college done a good job of carrying on the Teer name in the developing real estate in Research Triangle boards and civic organizations in Durham to East Carolina. My first year I stayed in community. He is not one to want the accolades or want Park. So he took personal pride in christening and across the Triangle. He’s a longtime Jones Hall and she stayed in Umstead. We his name out there for people to rah-rah about. He got that the new USO Travel Center inside Raleigh- board member and former chair of the got married in August of 1964. We had a from our dad and from our grandfather.” Durham International Airport, which opened Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority, and led used office trailer on a job site that one of last year inside RDU’s huge new Terminal it through construction of the airport’s new our superintendents had used, so Daddy Uniting the Triangle 2. He has attended or presided at many $570 million Terminal 2. He’s the secretary- moved it to Greenville (for the young couple ribbon cuttings over the years—for huge treasurer of the N.C. Turnpike Authority, to live in) and set it up on Fifth Street in the No one knew how Triangle drivers would react when the office buildings, a fine arts center, even a toll which unclogged a major bottleneck when old T.C. Williams trailer court, right across Triangle Expressway opened in January. Some thought road—but this one was special. it opened a 3.5-mile section of the Triangle from the Highway Patrol station. commuters would shun it, but Robb Teer thought differently, Buildings Constructed by Robb Teer “These young soldiers are a great group of Expressway last December, creating the and he’s been proven correct. “We had 106,000 passenger “We both had jobs. I worked in the Student 99 Alexander Drive Magnequench Technology kids and the USO is there for them on these state’s first modern toll road. He’s vice chair cars use the expressway in January and the projection Store down in the basement of Wright as a was much less than that. We designed it to be as easy to Technology Center Center intermediate stops,” Teer says from across the of the UNC-TV Board of Trustees and 27,608 square feet 30,000 square feet stock clerk and Susan worked over in the soda conference room table in his Durham office. provided major funding for production of use as we could. There are no tollbooths. You can buy a shop, which was on the other side of campus Biogen Idec Beta Facility NetEdge Systems “They don’t have a lot of money. This gives the recent two-hour documentary transponder that mounts on the windshield. And if you 90,000 square feet 42,500 square feet North in the basement of the dining hall. We paid travel to the Northeast or Southeast the same transponder them a comfortable place to watch TV, work Biogen Idec Large Scale N.C. Center for a lot of attention to our grades and got a lot on the Internet, eat, change clothes.” Carolina’s World War II Experience. works on the toll roads there.” Commuters have purchased Manufacturing Biomanufacturing “What I call my nonpaying jobs keep me out of the college experience.” He received about 14,000 transponders since October 2011, he says. 225,000 square feet 341,000 square feet Teer threw his support behind the USO busy, which is a good thing,” he laughs. “I’m the Fieldcrest Achievement Award, presented Terry Yeargan ’79 of Willow Spring, an executive with Biogen Idec Lab/ Network Appliance after retiring from the Reserve in 1994 as a at an age, a place in my career where that’s a annually in the School of Business to the Administration 200,000 square feet DPR Construction Inc., says Teer is “that rare leader who 150,000 square feet lieutenant colonel. He became a director of thing that I’m glad I have time to do.” senior with the highest grade-point average. Park Offices retail center the USO of North Carolina and chair of is decisive and is accustomed to cutting right through Biogen Idec Parking Deck 18,653 square feet He joined the Army Reserve and was a complex situation and getting to the heart of making 280,000 square feet the organization’s RDU Council. He helped 50 Park offices Family traditions attached to a hospital unit based in Durham. raise $700,000 for the new USO center at decisions.” Yeargan serves with Teer on the RDU Airport Biogen Idec 29,400 square feet He also went to work in the Nello L. Teer Authority and succeeded him as chair. “I really schooled Purification Suite RDU, which came soon after the opening There are some things Robb Teer always 100 Park offices Co. administrative office. Over the next 13 46,000 square feet of the new USO Travel Center at the knew would happen in his life. Mainly, under him,” Yeargan adds. 24,200 square feet years he worked his way up to assistant vice Central Park West Fayetteville Regional Airport. The USO of he knew he would continue in the family 200-300 Park offices president and treasurer. When the family Teer counters that he’s more interested in building his 100,000 square feet N.C., which is mostly led by volunteers and construction business founded by his 81,292 square feet sold the construction business in 1980, he community than in erecting buildings. “If you don’t have Central Park South receives no government funds, now operates grandfather, the legendary Nello L. Teer the roads, if you don’t have the airport, the office space, 130,000 square feet Radisson Governors Inn formed his own real estate development 125,000 square feet four centers in the state plus a mobile unit. Sr., who built the Pan American Highway company, Teer Associates. That launched then none of (the desired public amenities) would be Central Carolina Bank in Central America, hydroelectric dams in possible because no one would move here.” Operations Center 400 Park offices In one recent month, he notes, the RDU South America, the international airport in a building spree that saw him construct 90,000 square feet 57,648 square feet center served more than 2,500 soldiers, their more than 3.7 million square feet of offices Malawi, East Africa, and several U.S. military To him, public television is an important public asset. 3400 Croasdaile Drive Sigma Xi Center 52,000 square feet families and retirees, plus another 2,000 at bases. His father, Dillard Teer, and uncle, in RTP and Durham, including four IBM In 2009, he and Susan were honored with UNC-TV’s Executive Suites 38,250 square feet ceremonies for troops either returning home Nello Teer Jr., expanded the business into buildings, the Glaxo headquarters building Producers Circle Award. The Durham Performing Arts The Summit 120,000 square feet or shipping out. commercial real estate development. Among and five manufacturing facilities for Biogen Center is another public amenity improving the region’s Glaxo Inc. Headquarters Idec, a major biotechnology company. 55,000 square feet Teer Development Park His smile fades as his thoughts turn to many others, they built the Blue Cross and quality of life. On opening night four years ago, Teer and Glaxo Inc. Bide Building 452,200 square feet another USO initiative. “We also do Blue Shield of North Carolina headquarters Prominent Durham architect John Atkins his sister, Lyda, and their three siblings shared a special moment when, as a result of a $1.2 million gift they 175,000 square feet United Therapeutics something that’s been well received. Last building, which looks as futuristic today as says you can look around RTP and see 202,000 square feet made to equip the new city-owned facility, the stage was IBM Buildings A, B, C, & D month we provided assistance for six families when it opened in 1973. Teer’s fingerprints everywhere. “His tenacity 515,837 square feet for the repatriation of their loved ones’ and leadership helped recruit Glaxo and named in honor of their parents, Mildred and Dillard He also knew it was expected that he would Teer. Making the evening even more special was that both remains. We do this for any service member, follow their example of public service. He Biogen. His vision and foresight are tangibly whether they died from hostile action or evident in the park today.” Among his parents were in attendance. East

36 36 37 from the classroom Hearing their voices

Susan Pearce is reshaping the image of immigrant women By Jessica Creson Nottingham ’06 ’08

The word “immigration” often brings to mothers, sisters and daughters, and the are getting started in their entrepreneurial impact they have on students.” many concerts that our excellent School mind thoughts of border patrols, detainees idea of a full community of immigrants.” ventures, the challenges they face and what of Music puts on as possible,” says Pearce. Stimulated by Pearce’s research, ECU, and difficult political debate. But one ECU their work means to them personally. She blended these interests in a book Pearce was awarded a fellowship to further in collaboration with the community professor is working to address that image. chapter about the impact of Hurricane her research on migration from the Title VIII “Today’s immigrants as a whole are more organization AMEXCAN, hosted a panel Her work is reshaping and broadening Katrina titled “Saxophones, Trumpets, and Residential Scholar Grant Program of the educated than those of the past,” Pearce in March focused on immigrant Latina the image of immigrants in the U.S. Hurricanes: The Cultural Restructuring of Woodrow Wilson International Center for says. “One reason is that girls and women women entrepreneurs. Panelists included and expanding global understanding in Scholars in Washington, D.C. The fellowship are getting access to education at a global four Latina entrepreneurs discussing their New Orleans.” The chapter was included in classrooms on campus. the 2007 book supported her work for almost four months level more than ever, and this is in large part paths as foreign-born entrepreneurs in Racial Implications and Lessons Susan C. Pearce, an assistant professor of last summer at the center. due to the global women’s movement. So we North Carolina. Learned from Hurricane Katrina. are seeing a very new phenomenon: a cohort sociology, co-wrote “The fellowship is a way to marry my In December 2011, the Immigration Policy Pearce’s research findings will reach beyond Immigration and Women: of women coming independently, working a book immigration and Eastern Europe research Center held a press conference on the the classroom, according Understanding the American Experience, in atypical professions, coming to advance containing the stories of 89 women who interests, as well as my concerns with gender- increased numbers of women immigrant to Marieke their education.” came to the U.S. from 35 countries. Their based violence,” says Pearce. “This project entrepreneurs in recent years. In addition Van Willigen, stories deal with domestic service, business targets southeast Europe and the larger to Pearce and her co-authors, panelists interim chair and ownership, human trafficking, domestic former Communist Eastern Bloc.” ‘Should be required courses’ included Ecuador native Yolanda Voss, who associate professor violence and hidden labor. The book and is president of Yolanda Voss Fashion Gallery of the sociology subsequent reports and panels have gained Pearce brings her global outlook to the department and Women’s voices come through of Columbia, Md., and Rubina Chaudhary, the attention of immigration centers, classroom and to all her activities on campus. director of the She teaches the global understanding an Indian-born owner and president of the nonprofit organizations and policymakers. The women interviewed for the book gave engineering firm MARRS in Fullerton, women’s studies sociology course in ECU’s Global program at ECU. “Immigrant women often deal with multiple dynamic accounts of how foreign-born Calif. The event prompted further media Classroom, which connects students here “She uses her confusions when beginning their new lives, women are navigating the United States coverage and a speaking engagement with with counterparts in three countries. research to give caring for children and families, venturing into workforce to find success professionally New American Media fellowship students. voice to issues of the workforce, producing creative works and and provide for their families. The accounts Students say Pearce creates an open and “A student of mine read about (Voss) in inequality, which championing for social change,” says Pearce. describe how they now contribute culturally respectful classroom environment that makes in their communities and socially through it easier to discuss sensitive gender and the newspaper in Maryland and suggested affect individuals’ “One approach (to the book) was to activism. One woman’s story in particular cultural issues. “In my time as a graduate I interview her. She turned out to be just lives. Her work on make sure that the women’s voices come stood out to Pearce. Reyna Gomez of student in sociology at ECU, Dr. Pearce’s delightful and hardworking. She’s passionate immigrant women through, so the reader gets to know their Honduras arrived in the United States after class has stood out to me as one of the most about giving back to the United States reflects this approach personalities, and they became more than crossing Mexico and swimming the Rio open and informative courses that I have through her support for local charities.” and has received very research statistics,” Pearce adds. “We Grande. She worked as a janitor and was taken,” says Jennifer O’Neill, a sociology positive attention were also determined to highlight the exposed to toxic chemicals in cleaners that graduate student and women’s studies minor. Changing societal views across the country. multidimensionality of immigrant women; damaged her lungs and liver. She fought for She is also committed For undergraduate Justin Hryckiewicz, A native of Mississippi, Pearce did her to break out of any assumptions that they and won the right to have health insurance. to making sure that connecting with college students in other undergraduate work at Mississippi College, are one type and of one social class or her research has an The book was published in May 2011 countries in Pearce’s global understanding where she developed a passion not only for occupation.” impact beyond the scholarly community.” and inspired a special report released in and gender and society courses has been studying race relations, but also for music. In the U.S., perhaps the most commonly December by the Immigration Policy Center, eye opening. “The two classes that I had She completed a master’s of divinity at The 320-page book Immigration and Women held image of an immigrant is of a the research division of the American the opportunity to take with Dr. Pearce Southeastern Theological Seminary in Wake is published by New York University Press working-class Hispanic male, Pearce says. Immigration Council in Washington, D.C. are probably the most memorable I have Forest and a doctorate in sociology at the and is available for $26. Pearce is a co-editor Yet when women are integrated into the The report continues to tell the story of taken at ECU,” says Hryckiewicz. “They New School for Social Research in New of the anthologies Reformulations: Markets, picture, the migrant experience becomes immigrant women who are owners and truly help broaden students’ minds and York, N.Y. Her ECU office is next door Policy and Identities in Central and Eastern more complex, she says. “Including women creators of restaurants, hi-tech firms, real- give students such an amazing experience. to the music department, which allows her and Europe Mosaics of Change: The First Decade fleshes out the reality (of immigration) estate agencies and motels. Like the book, I think they should be required courses to indulge one of her earliest interests. “I of Life in the New Eastern Europe. and connects men to their families: the report explores how immigrant women here at ECU because of the positive was a music minor in college, so I go to as East

40 41 Just doing it For members of ECU’s 42 club sports teams, getting in shape is the goal whether it’s paintball, figure skating or bass fishing

Martial arts club Isshinryu By Bethany Bradsher photography b y jay clark

If your mental image of a typical college they have to (complete) an affiliation form, Hung-ta Chen, president of the Style of clubs, such as the martial arts groups and Offroad trucking, for example, simply student is an out-of-shape kid who would they have to do a constitution, and they have Motion club, got involved just after the club more traditional sports clubs such as soccer couldn’t be justified as a sport. The university rather watch a game from the couch than get to show they have some student interest,” he formed in 2009. He and his fellow dancers and rugby, run throughout the school year. had similar questions about a discipline dirty playing one, a few minutes with Gray says. Hodges added the students also have to practice two nights a week at the Student called Parkour, in which participants try A main benefit of club sports that Hodges Hodges will change your mind. Hodges runs show they have facilities to play and practice Rec Center, and they share a dedication to to jump or climb over natural obstacles. is quick to point out to students willing to the Club Sports organization, a division of and convey how they will organize their club. improving their skills and promoting their Skydiving, which does exist as a student step up to lead one is the responsibility of Student Affairs, which now supports 42 sport in the community. “Breakdancing is organization, was vetoed from club sport Once a team meets those requirements and managing a club. The job requires fundraising, sports teams, up from just eight 15 years ago. a lot of commitment,” Chen says. “It’s self- consideration because of liability concerns. comes up with a budget for the club, the travel logistics and event planning, which are The students he sees perhaps never fancied taught in a way. We had to be committed But for every “no,” Hodges has been able to university agrees to fund 60 percent of business and interpersonal skills that will themselves as athletes yet are embracing the and determined to learn to dance, and we give a handful of encouraging yeses to sports the cost, providing club members come up come in handy in the job market. opportunity to get in peak physical condition also have to teach others about dance.” like inline hockey and scuba. with the rest through dues or fundraising. and compete at a high level. Hooks and his fellow bass fishermen traveled One of the major expenses in those budgets And for some students, being involved in a With 42 options, most students will find a to boat shows across the state where they sold Paintball is one of the new club sports is travel; almost every weekend, an ECU club sport is a way to connect to their new sport they like. Or maybe one they had never T-shirts to help defray the cost of travel. As added in recent years, and it is anything but club is traveling somewhere to compete for university and new city. When Christopher heard of before, such as Bryan Henney when the club president, Hooks says he encounters a game for its members. “We try to schedule Pirate glory. Hamby was a high school student in West he discovered a specialized style of Okinawan challenges that stretch his problem-solving one or two practices a month,” says Taylor Jefferson, he became an avid disc golf karate called Isshinryu. The ECU Isshinryu Because club sports involve a range of travel skills. “Just this year we’ve gotten a lot of Eaddy, who started the team with a friend player, and the sport provided a supportive Club, which has been around for nearly 20 and equipment, the budgets submitted to new members and kind of ramped up our because of their shared love for paintball. community for him in his hometown. Now years, now is an important part of Henney’s Hodges vary from $500 to $20,000, with fundraising. I’ve been learning to manage “We go out to the field, work on drills and that he’s at ECU, Hamby is the president of Pirate experience. Like many club athletes, he equestrian and ice hockey among the priciest people and delegate duties, and learning how fundamentals just like any other sport, and the fledgling ECU disc golf team, and he is has been stretched as much by the rigors of activities. The university’s contribution the business runs and how licensing fees and we play real matches against each other.” grateful for the chance to recreate those close the sport he loves as by his academic studies. toward the team’s expenses comes directly things like that work. I’ve also learned about ties formed around a common interest. The paintball Pirates will travel to at least from student fees. Those expenditures are financial management and how club sports “It has helped open my eyes to the different three states this year to participate in worthwhile, says Interim Associate Vice “I met most of these guys early last semester and the business itself is run.” things ECU has to offer,” Henney says. “It’s tournaments, and the club’s members have Chancellor of Student Services Nancy by going out every Sunday and playing,” he something I wish I had found earlier. It’s also Men’s LaCrosse club Not every proposal for a club sport makes their sights set on nationals, where they Mize, because club sports are an invaluable says. “To come down here and have same kind helped build my character.” the cut, Hodges says. placed 12th last year. source of fitness and community for East of atmosphere I had at home is really good.” East Carolina students. Bass fishing is another newer club sport with an extensive travel schedule. The growth of “The club sports program provides great Competition not required ECU’s club parallels the intensified interest opportunities for our students to pursue Although many teams have surprisingly busy in competitive fishing. ECU anglers compete activities and sports that they enjoy with schedules, competing is not a requirement in events on two bass fishing tours, both people who have similar skills and interests,” to be recognized as a club sport. When of which sponsor divisions for college Mize says. “Since the clubs are student registering, club officers must designate teams. “We get more TV exposure than organized and led, the development of whether their club will be recreational, any club sport at ECU,” says club president leadership skills such as time management, instructional, competitive or some Nathan Hooks. “We’ve been on Versus and conflict resolution, fiscal and budget combination of the three, Hodges explains. club sports ESPN. They saw that market (of fishing application, and accountability are Some clubs start as one type of organization Men’s Teams Women’s Teams Co-ed Teams Martial Arts enthusiasts), and it has definitely exploded. paramount to their success.” and transition to another over time. When Baseball Basketball Badminton Racquetball Isshinryu It’s huge. It’s really almost like NCAA, Even the ECU breakdancing team, known the fencing club formed, members were Basketball Dance Bass fishing Running Judo where you have high school, college and officially as Style of Motion, travels to mostly interested in getting together to Frisbee Lacrosse Bowling Scuba diving Tai chi professional levels.” enjoy the activity. Now after three years as Inline hockey Rugby Boxing Skiing/snowboarding Tae kwon do competitive events. And the Pirates hosted Ice hockey Soccer Equestrian Style of motion Jui-jitsu their own breakdancing tournament last a recreational and instructional club, the Lacrosse Softball Fencing Swimming Making it easy to get moving spring at the Student Recreation Center. The members are planning their first foray into Rugby Volleyball Field hockey Tennis competitive fencing. Soccer Figure skating Water skiing/ East Carolina makes it easy for students event featured clubs from across the state and a judge from Philadelphia who flew in to Volleyball Golf wakeboarding to start and manage a team, says Hodges. A few clubs, notably the skiing and Wrestling Mixed martial arts Water polo “They’ll come in and express their interest, teach a clinic to the competitors. snowboarding group, are seasonal. Other Paintball

44 45 PIRATE NATION

Working for his younger brother isn’t a Congratulations Alumni Scholars a helping hand in your community. This of this year’s Freshmen Sendoff summer The Narrons and the national pastime problem, Johnny said. “I respect my brother April, a number of ECU alumni and friends outings. These gatherings are the perfect Each spring, the Alumni Association awards tremendously as a man and as a baseball participated in service projects to show opportunities to get to know the newest Players for the Milwaukee Brewers baseball Actually, this will be the third time that deserving undergraduate students with manager. He has more time in the big their Pirate pride. “Thank you” to each members of the Pirate Nation, share your team who are accustomed to hollering into Johnny and Jerry Narron have worn the Alumni Scholarships. Awarded based on leagues than I have, so he and I have a very of you for making a difference! If you are love of East Carolina, and instill Pirate pride. the dugout for “Coach Narron” will have same uniform. They coached together with academic achievement, demonstrated service special relationship as friends and as baseball interested in planning a service project in Events will be held in the following areas: to be more specific this the Cincinnati Reds from 2005- to the University and community, and a teammates.” your area next year, please contact Director season. Johnny Narron ’74 07. They started out in pro letter of recommendation, these scholarships June 22 Morehead City July 14 rockville, MD of Alumni Programs Tanya Kern ’02 at ( ) joined the team in baseball together as teammates Before joining the Brewers, Johnny Narron are funded through the ECU Alumni June 23 nags Head July 15 arlington, VA right [email protected]. June 24 norfolk, VA July 19 Clayton the offseason as the team’s on a Yankees rookie league team was an assistant coach for several seasons Scholarship Classic golf tournament, Pirate June 30 fayetteville July 21 Wilmington hitting coach and will in 1974. That season they were with the Texas Rangers, where he was P Photo/Tony G utierrez A P Photo/Tony Alumni Road Race and Fun Run, Pirate’s Alumni memberships enhanced July 1 raleigh July 26 Midlothian, VA work alongside his younger known to opposing pitchers as instrumental in resurrecting the career of Bounty Scholarship Auction, and generous July 12 Clemmons July 28 new York Metro brother, Jerry, who returns “Big Poison” and “Little Poison.” slugger Josh Hamilton, a native of the contributions. The 2012-2013 scholarship Beginning July 1, the Alumni Association July 12 greenville Area, n .y . for a third year as the Brewers’ Batting third in the order, Jerry Raleigh area whom Johnny Narron has recipients are: will offer enhanced benefits to its members, July 13 Charlotte July 29 Cherry Hill, n .J . bench coach. If that sounds was a talented catcher drafted known since Hamilton’s Little League days. increasing the value of membership. As Alumni Scholars ($2,500) Please visit PirateAlumni.com/ confusing, it would be even straight out of Goldsboro High Arun Ajmera of Greenville, who is the the heart of the organization, alumni of “I take a tremendous amount of pride in more complicated if the team School; hitting cleanup, Johnny Yvonne Pearce ’82 Memorial Scholar East Carolina deserve the best from their freshmensendoffs to register. East Carolina and the good memories I Cara Carr of Clinton needs a pitching coach and hires Johnny and was a sure-handed first baseman who had Alumni Association. These enhanced have,” Johnny Narron said. A business major, Matt Edwards of Greenville Plan an alumni reunion Jerry’s nephew, Sam Narron ’03, from the been a key player on the 1974 East Carolina Morgan Grissom of Salisbury benefits demonstrate the Association’s he was a member of the Accounting Society, Washington Nationals organization. And squad that won the Southern Conference Chelsea Guild of Chapel Hill commitment to inform, involve, and Reunions are at the heart of the Alumni the Law Society and the Pi Sigma Alpha Sarah Morgan Hunter of Henderson you definitely would need a scorecard if championship. Johnny’s playing days ended serve members of the ECU family, while Association. 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The our university are essential to maintaining part of a very Zach Teachey of Raleigh by many as the Ellisa Thompson of Frisco membership enhancements include: ties with fellow graduates and keeping the In fact, you could form your own baseball strong baseball Yankees’ back-up Jackie Traish of Rocky Mount lines of communication open between team with Narrons, a well-known family in program there.” n Receiving all four issues of EC Alumni catcher who was ECTC Scholars ($1,000) magazine . the university and alumni. The Alumni the Goldsboro area with strong ECU ties, He added that F ile A P Photo/ Michael Avery of Charlotte asked to fill the big n Access to all online issues of EC Alumni Association would like to help you plan an beginning with Johnny and Jerry’s cousin, the late Keith Tabitha Bednarczyk of Wilmington magazine on PirateAlumni com. . Non- shoes of perennial Lindsay Callahan of Greensboro members will have access to the fall issue . alumni reunion. Whether it’s a class reunion Sam “Rooster” Narron ’70, a former minor- LeClair played Mary Greyard of Dunn All-Star Thurmon n Exclusive access to the Association’s online or a get together for an affinity group, give us league catcher who was East Carolina’s an important Tim Schwan of Hampstead Munson, who had alumni directory at PirateAlumni com. . a call at 800-ECU-GRAD. Let us help you first All-American; Rooster has owned the role in his son’s Juliann Stalls of Williamston died midseason in n A complete version of the monthly make the most of your reunion and renew Sportsman’s World store in Goldsboro for life. “He played Mary Jo Outland Baugh ’55 e-newsletter ECUpdate . Non-members will a tragic plane crash. Alumni Scholar ($2,500) receive a condensed version . good feelings about your alma mater. many years. Also on the squad would be baseball his Jennifer Warren of Goldsboro n Increased discounts on most alumni events . Rooster’s father, Sam, a catcher for the St. It certainly will freshman and Megan Grace Lavinder n Participation in Pirate Career Casts free Louis Cardinals in the 1930s. Johnny and be different than sophomore Memorial Scholar ($1,000) of charge . The cost will be $10 00. for Jerry’s father, Randle, also was in the big their first stint on New York Yankees line up on the dugout steps at years, but Amanda Morgan of Monroe non-members . Yankee Stadium, their sleeves wrapped in black New York Metro leagues, as was their uncle, M.A. Narron. the same team. arm bands, during a moment of silence for Yankees he became Take advantage of all the Alumni Alumni Chapter Scholar ($1,000) ve the date! Such a team would have plenty of fans in “We had a great catcher Thurman Munson after he was killed in an interested in Stacey Bala of LaGrangeville, n .y . Association has to offer by becoming Sa other Narrons, including time together” airplane crash . From left are, catcher Jerry Narron, Yogi Berra, Don Hood, Mike Ferraro, Bobby Murcer, medicine, so he Retired Faculty Association Scholars a member today! Memberships are July 10 – Alumni Tailgate tickets Rooster’s wife, Robin in their first year Charley Lau, and manager Billy Martin . talked to Coach Graduate—Anna Taylor of Rocky Mount tax-deductible and support the programs on sale to members Cauthorne Narron ’73. in professional LeClair and Undergraduate—Skylar Mills of Greenville and services provided by the Association. Tidewater Virginia Where did it all start? baseball, Johnny Narron said in a recent together they decided that he should focus Join online at PirateAlumni.com/ Sept. 27 – Pirate’s Bounty Alumni Chapter Scholar ($1,000) uction Probably with Johnny interview with MLB.com. “It was a very on medicine. He really touched Johnny’s life Bobby Writtenberry of Suffolk, VA jointoday or by calling 800-ECU-GRAD. Scholarship A and Jerry’s mother, special time for both of us. We stayed in a that way.” His son now is in his third year Sept. 28 – ECU Alumni Vileigh Austin Narron single-wide trailer and got up every day and of residency at Penn State and remains a big Service Month You’re invited Scholarship Classic golf ’40 ( ), who lettered cooked pancakes and watched “The Young ECU baseball fan. “He has season tickets left Service Month is a great time to live the Spend a sunny afternoon with incoming in basketball, soccer and the Restless.” We had one car and rode and drives six hours each way to see them tournament University’s motto of service by lending ECU freshmen and their families at one and volleyball. everywhere together.” play,” Johnny Narron said.

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Alumni Spotlight 2011 JAMAR ABRAMS, former ECU basketball standout, is on the Maine Red Claws roster, an NBA Developmental League team in Portland, Maine. The Red Claws are the D-League affiliate of the Boston Celtics, Charlotte Bobcats and Philadelphia 76ers. TAYLOR MCCASKILL is the distance learning coordinator at Richmond Community College, Laurinburg. 2010 MARY WHITAKER COTTRELL wed ROBERT RAYMOND HILGOE ’04 on Aug. 13 at Oxford Baptist Church, Oxford. She works with Wake County Schools, and he is a construction superintendent with MI Homes, Raleigh. GILLIAN FARROLL wed Jonathan Griffin on Aug. 27 at Colonial Heights Freewill Baptist Church, Clinton, during Hurricane Irene. She works as an RN at Sampson Regional Medical Center, Clinton. HEATHER NICOLE GRAY wed CHARLES HUNTER ROGERSON ’09 on Oct. 1 at Yankee Hall Plantation, Greenville. She is a sales representative with Pediatric Specialists of Williamston, and he works with the Roberts Company, Winterville. ASHLEY ELIZABETH GWALTNEY wed WALKER LANIER COVINGTON ’08 ’09 on Oct. 22 in the garden of the Harper Fowlkes House, Savannah, Ga. She is an auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Raleigh, and he teaches seventh-grade social studies at Mills Park Middle School, Cary. When we last heard from Rachelle Friedman Chapman AUSTIN HOMAN, former ’08 (right), she had married Chris Chapman ’05 ’08 and Pirate baseball player and two- was beginning rehabilitation for the paralysis caused by an time honorary No. 23 jersey accident at her bachelorette party . She traveled in January recipient, is director of baseball to the largest spinal cord injury recovery center in the world, operations at ECU. BRITTANY Project Walk Spinal Cord Injury Recovery Center in Carlsbad, LYNN MCGRATH wed Calif ., a whole continent away from ECU . You can imagine JOSHUA GLENN her surprise when she met Johanna Leinenweber ’07, who RICHARDSON on Oct. 8 at the is the non-profit organization’s fundraising coordinator . Ayden Christian Church, Ayden. She is a cardiac nurse After graduation, Leinenweber took a job with Marriott at the East Carolina Heart Institute of Vidant Medical International near her hometown of Rockville, Md . Two years Center, Greenville, and he is the buyer, merchandiser later, she accepted the position with spinal cord recovery and co-manager at his family-owned business, Colt’s center . Although a tragic event connected them, Leinenweber Guns, in Winterville. SHERRI PETERSON said, both are confident that Chapman’s recovery is moving exhibited her work featuring Cajun culture and Mardi in a positive direction . Gras scenes in Davidson County Community College’s 2012 spring art exhibit called “New Expressions.” 2009 DAVID ALLEN FORBES wed Sarah Brittany Clark on June 18 in an outside ceremony at Rock Springs Center, Greenville. He works for Coastal Beverage Co., Farmville. ANGELA GRACE MCDONALD wed

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Alumni Spotlight CROFT MASSEY ’11 on Sept. 17 in Greenville. She Edgecombe County in 2005. KELLY ARNELL and head wrestling and baseball coach at Southwest is a registered nurse, and he works for Cal Ripken GRADY and husband, Thomas, had their third child, Onslow High School in Jacksonville. He teaches in the They say they have witnessed Baseball in Baltimore, Md. BEVERLY SCURRY, a Summer Paige. She is a registered nurse at Lenoir business information technology department. The Great 100 Nurses public health education Memorial Hospital and the great niece of the late miracles while serving for 29 2003 in North Carolina years as missionaries in Haiti . specialist for the Rockingham Sarah Stallings May ’29. GUENN MCCARTHY Foundation, which But the life-changing events County Department of Public PETERSON is co-host of “QC Mornings” on ANNA HELEN WATSON BIENECK wed Dustin that Prit ’79 and Dana ’79 Health, received the Grace WKQC-FM (“K” 104.7) in Charlotte. CLYDE Mitchell Shaw on Sept. 17 at Stevenson Ridge, Spotsyl­ promotes nursing Adams witnessed in their own Daniels Promising New Health SIMMS plays soccer with the New England vania. She works for Basware in Charleston, W.Va. excellence, recognized lives two years ago is the story Award at the Governor’s Task Revolution. He was a midfielder with D.C. United. ALLEN SMITH, president the following Vidant Force for Healthy Carolinians and CEO of the Greater that she recounts in “Into the 2004 Medical Center nurses Storm ”. While on a sabbatical and the N.C. Society of Public Greer Chamber of in its list of the top 100 to Canada in 2010, Prit Adams Health Educators annual CHRIS BASON is executive director of the Delaware Commerce, Greer, S.C., was suffered a cerebral meeting. Center for the Inland Bays, Rehoboth Beach, Del. named Citizen of the Year nurses for 2011: He was acting director of the center. SUSAN by the city’s newspaper, The hemorrhage . While 2008 Jennie Blevins ’99, ELDRIDGE BRANCH ’04 ’09 wed ERNESTO Greer Citizen. After 18 hospitalized in critical Linda Bond ’87 ’97, KIMBERLY BRITT HARRISON wed James MICHAEL VILLAREAL ’10 on Oct. 8 at The First months on the job, his condition, he suffered a Debbie Skinner Hines ’95 second cerebral hemorrhage, Christopher Bennett on Oct. 15 at Enfield United United Methodist Church, Morehead City. At the influence in Greer helped and Donna Moses ’84 . which his doctors expected Methodist Church, Enfield. She is a physical therapist University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, chamber membership grow would be fatal . Rather than assistant at Nash Health Care Systems. JORDAN Va., she is a registered nurse in the cardiothoracic post- from 500 to 670 members, and the Greater Greer Vidant Medical Center give in to the inevitable, Dana Adams describes SUZANNE WATERS wed Leon Tracy Burwell on operative intensive care unit, and he is a second-year Education Foundation raised a record $31,000 during is the new name of Dec. 17 at the Lake Placid Community Church, pediatric resident. ALLISON CARLOW CROFT ’04 its annual gala. how she and a circle of friends prayed for Prit Pitt County Memorial Lake Placid, N.Y. ’06 wed Alex Hill Flora on Aug. 27 at the Sutherland non-stop for 52 days, and he completely 2002 Plantation, Wake Forest. She owns Tri-Speech Therapy Hospital . recovered . During the crisis, she said it would 2007 have been helpful to read an account of Services, Raleigh. CHARLIE DEMPSEY, former JACQUELINE MCDUFFIE GREGORY is “someone’s story of not only fighting for their ELIZABETH JUDD ANDREWS wed Britt Armfield ECU offensive lineman, is assistant football coach assistant principal at Rockingham Middle School loved one, but winning . Daring to fight for a Preyer Jr. on Dec. 31 at Saint Mary’s Chapel, Raleigh. miracle and receiving it ”. She wrote “Into the She works at Rex Hospital, Raleigh. CHRISTINE Storm” for those undergoing the same KEEL ’07 ’09 is a health information technology dilemma . It was the second time that Dana instructor at Edgecombe Community College. She Adams feared for Prit’s life . In 2006, as he left was a supervisor in health information management his church in Cape-Haitien, he was kidnapped services/training at Vidant Medical Center. by bandits and held for random . Prit and 2006 Dana Adams, natives of Tarboro, now are KATHLEEN MEGAN DAVIDSON wed Robert back in Haiti after spending several weeks James Cocker on Nov. 19 at Hayes Barton United resting and fundraising in Fayetteville Methodist Church, Raleigh. She was a member of this spring . Their Rehoboth Ministries Kappa Delta sorority and is a marketing manager (rehobothhaiti com). has grown to offer of Capstrat, a communications agency in Raleigh. three churches, three schools, a Bible Dr. BENJAMIN COHEN GERSH, a behavioral institute and a radio program in Creole . “The work medicine specialist, joined the Brody School of is still going and still growing,” she wrote in an email to us . Medicine and its group medical practice, ECU “We are launching a feeding program…that will feed over Physicians. He is an assistant professor with joint 1,250 children in three schools ”. appointments in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine and the Department of Family Medicine. Jo Allen ’83 was inaugurated as He is also associate medical director for inpatient president of Meredith College in psychiatry services at Vidant Medical Center, Raleigh in March after joining the Greenville. Dr. CAROLINE MORGAN opened Pirate school in April 2011 . She previously Pediatrics P.A. in Greenville. was senior vice president, provost 2005 and professor of English at Widener University in Chester, Pa . A North MELISSA DAWN COLE ’05 ’08 wed Christopher Carolina native, she earned a B .a . in James Felice on Oct. 8 in St. Joan of Arc Catholic English at Meredith, her master’s Church, Yorktown, Va. She works at Riverside degree from ECU and her doctorate Regional Medical Center, Newport News, Va. from Oklahoma State University . KAREN LAVELLE HUFF DAMERON was She served as tenured associate promoted to associate superintendent for operational professor of English at ECU from services (formerly called Human Resource Services) 1986 to 1999, leaving to become a tenured associate professor for Edgecombe County Public Schools. She worked in English at n C. . State University . Meredith is one of the with Martin County Schools for 25 years in various largest private colleges for women in the United States . positions as teacher, alternative school principal and assistant personnel director before moving to

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Alumni Spotlight in Rockingham. She was director of secondary Nicole Belcher on Sept. 10, 2011, at Mount Vernon International, an honor society for outstanding education for Richmond County Schools. Baptist Church, Raleigh. Groomsmen included John educators. She teaches sixth-grade math at W.A. Glenn Sheppard Cooper ’01 ’04 and Brent Lubbock ’03. He works for Pattillo School in Tarboro and serves as the school After playing nine seasons was named director of Wake Research Associates. improvement chair, math chair and grade-level chair. with the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Chattanooga, Tenn., Dr. VENKATA JONNALAGADDA, a child, 2000 quarterback David Garrard Parks and Recreation adolescent and adult psychiatrist, joined Greenville ’01 signed with the Miami Department. He NACOLE EVERETTE is a health information Psychiatric Associates. Dolphins of the nfl . The previously was with the technology instructor at Edgecombe Community 1991 incentive-laden one-year N.C. State Parks College. She was Pitt County Memorial Hospital contract will pay him $3 .35 System, where he manager of health information management services. PETER F. DAMATO retired as a social worker— million . Garrard sat out last investigative/assessment and treatment with the coordinated projects with engineers, contractors and 1999 season with surgery for a various statewide parks. In his hiring announcement, Pitt County Department of Social Services. Capt. herniated disc . “I think I’ve Sheppard was cited for his experience in AUTOCAD, MARC WHICHARD ’99 ’05, principal at SouthWest BRUCE PANNETON ’96 ’02 is chair of the science S. MILES RUDD, MD, FAAFP, a physician and proved a lot of things as a sedimentation and erosion control, utility construction Edgecombe High School, Pinetops, is the Edgecombe department at Edgecombe Community College. In clinical director, Indian Health Services (IHS), starting quarterback, but I and wastewater certifications. Sheppard will manage 76 County Public Schools Principal of the Year. 2009, he received the ECC Keihin Endowed Faculty Warm Springs Health & Wellness Center, Warm just want to go further than full-time employees. ANGELA SANFORD 1997 Chair, which rewards excellence in teaching. Springs, Ore., was awarded honorary membership I’ve gone before,” he told the WATKINS is principal at Washington Street in the American Pharmacists Association for 2012. Bradenton (Fla .) Herald . “I AMY EDWARDS, a principal in the Greenville firm 1994 Elementary School in Rockingham. She was assistant CINDY HOWELL WORTHY is director of the want to go deeper in the of Mattox Davis Edwards & Alexander P.A., is a board- principal of Rockingham Middle School and was EMILY JOYCE TURNER is executive director of the Emergency Care Center of Nash Heath Care in playoffs . Get a taste, a shot at winning a championship ”. certified specialist in family law. named Richmond County Schools’ Assistant Principal Edgecombe County Cultural Arts Council. Rocky Mount. She has also served as director of care Garrard has thrown for more than 16,000 yards with 89 of the Year in 2007-2008 and again in 2011-12 management and, most recently, interim Emergency 1996 1993 touchdowns . He also rushed for 1,746 yards and 17 Care Center director. touchdowns during his career . In 2010, Garrard was named to 2001 NICOLE SUMMEROUR CARROLL ’96 ’06 is an JAMIE LEGGETT DAVIS was inducted into the AFC Pro Bowl . His best season so far was 2007, when he OB/GYN physician at Wilmington Health OB/GYN. 1990 THOMAS BRENT WOOLARD wed Stephanie Gamma Lamda of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society led the Jaguars to an 11-5 regular season record and a wild- RODNEY JACKSON ’90 ’92 is director of emerging card playoff game win over the Pittsburgh Steelers . technologies at Edgecombe Community College. He was program chair of geospatial technology at Central Piedmont Community College and Co-PI of the Former ECU Board of Trustees National GeospatialBlackwell Technology Center. Chair Bob Greczyn ’73 was 1989 named a director of Vidant Medical Center, formerly SUZANNE SLACK CAMDEN ’89 ’91 is the known as Pitt County accounting manager for Colonna’s Shipyard, Norfolk, Memorial Hospital . Greczyn is Va. LANE B. MILLS is superintendent of schools a former president and CEO of for Craven County. He was an associate professor of Blue Cross Blue Shield of educational leadership at ECU. North Carolina . Vidant Medical Establish Your Legacy: Support East Carolina 1988 Center is a tertiary care, teaching hospital with 861 A gift from your retirement plan (IRA, 401(k), and other qualified retirement plans) Dr. MARK BATTS received the Donald D. McNeill beds and is home to the only M.D. Award for Outstanding Physician Leadership. Level 1 trauma center east of can enable you to leave a perpetual legacy at ECU while capturing multiple tax benefits! He has served as chief of the emergency department at the Raleigh area . Caldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir for nine years, When you give a percentage or a specific dollar total from asset is also among the most difficult to pass to beneficiaries vice chief of staff for one year, and chief of staff for your retirement plan to East Carolina University through because it is a deferred tax asset. For these reasons, using this three years. Dr. LARRY WEISNER joined Riverside the East Carolina University Foundation Inc., East Carolina asset as a gift allows you to take better care of your heirs while Shore Surgical Associates in Nassawadox, Va., as a University Medical & Health Sciences Foundation Inc., or leaving a perpetual legacy at ECU. This easy process can be general surgeon. Carl Davis ’73 of Raleigh the East Carolina University Educational Foundation Inc. done by filling out a beneficiary designation form, which is 1987 resigned as assistant (the Pirate Club), you can help future students while gaining available through your plan provider. For more information general manager and GARY D. PARISHER launched an online specialty director of engineering a tax advantage. This specific asset is often the place where about contributing a planned gift or joining the Leo W. 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1984 represents top-rated health insurance companies in with emotional, behavioral and mental health issues North Carolina. and their families in their own homes in the BOYD T. HOLMES, president of Holmes Insurance Greenville area. ED TYER ’79 ’80 is the 2011 Agency in Laurinburg, merged with Scotland Insurance 1979 Ayden-Grifton Kiwanian of the Year. LISA Agency. ED JACKSON joined the Roanoke Rapids Follow the Pirates PHIL HODGES ’79 ’84, WEATHERSBY joined Keller Williams Realty Savings Bank as executive vice president and chief co-founder, president and in Greenville. credit officer. He has 25 years of banking experience in CEO of Metrics, received a Halifax County. 1978 CMO Leadership Award 1983 recognizing the company’s MARY JO ADAMS was elected to the Laurinburg outstanding performance in City Council. She retired from the Scotland County worldwide... After retiring from military service, DOUGLAS W. solid-dose contract School System in 2008. KELLY ANDERSON ’78 HUGGINS ’83 ’93 formed a company to perform manufacturing service. The ’03 is an early childhood education instructor at physical and computer security audits. He established award is presented by Edgecombe Community College. She was director of a website to assist all professionals with continuing magazine.Life His advising for the accelerated professional programs at education requirements to track, manage and report companyScience Leader was also named to Barton College. such data as a public service. magazine’s “Mid-Market Fast 1977 1982 40”Business list, Northwhich Carolina highlights companies that have experienced the greatest growth in revenues and EDWARD “LEN” LYNN LEGGETTE opened his Dr. DEBBIE HARRIS ROLLINS ’82 ’94 ’97 employees within the last three years. Metrics ranked third retail furniture store, Furnish 123, in Fayetteville ’03 is superintendent of Bertie County Schools. No. 21 in the list of midlevel companies. LOUISE in 2012. His first store in Cary opened in 2010, and WANDA STEPHENS owns an insurance agency in HUDAK ’79 ’11 joined Youth Villages North the second opened in Durham in 2011. Raleigh, Health Insurance Solutions of N.C., that Carolina as a family counselor. She will help children

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1976 director of the auditory research laboratory at James Federation, lastly as executive vice president. From 1967 1965 the gold medal for the eighth time out of the last 11 Madison University and an adjunct professor of 2006 to 2008, he was senior executive director for the years. He also was a member of the Super Senior 60s Jordan Tozer, son of Tom ’76, and Dana Bishop ROBERT L. MARTIN JR. placed second in the N.C. psychology and of speech and hearing at the University University of California, San Diego, and from 2008 to Tennis Team that won the state title and competed in Tozer ’77 of Charlotte, received his doctorate of Senior Games in 2011, winning a silver medal in the of Maryland. MIKE JONES is the director of 2012 he was a senior development officer at the Scripps the Southeastern Championships in Hilton Head, S.C., medicine from Virginia Commonwealth University 5K males 65-69 age group. Pamlico County’s Small Business Center. He was the Research Institute. He has received Leadership Awards in December 2011. in Richmond in May. He will start his residency as Northeastern Region coordinator for existing industry from the Council of Jewish Federations, Agency 1958 a emergency room physician at VCU Hospital. Tom 1956 for the N.C. Department of Commerce. Professionals, National Federation Professionals, Tozer is an editor at the and Dana is PAT DUNN, former mayor United Jewish Federation and United Jewish Appeal. ESTHER COLLIER ’56 ’57 was named to the an occupational therapist.Charlotte Observer 1970 of Greenville and retired Michael Bumpass, Columbus County Cooperative Extension Hall of ECU faculty member, was 1973 JUDY MARLOWE STEAD, a noted children’s president and CEO of both Fame. She is a past president of the Columbus County named the 2011 Citizen of author and illustrator, published the Guilford Merchants Advisory Council, member of the State Advisory KIRK DOLL is the running backs coach and special The New Quotable the Year by the Greenville- Association and Greensboro Council, N.C. 4-H Honor Club member and was teams coordinator for the ECU football team. In 1971 Woman in 2011. The Twelve Days of Christmas in North Pitt County Chamber of a children’s book she wrote and illustrated, debt collection company inducted into the 4-H Hall of Fame in 2010. She and 1972, he lettered as a defensive end for ECU and Carolina, Commerce. She was came out in 2009, sold out and was reprinted for FirstPoint Inc. for the past volunteers to teach arts and crafts to others, including helped Sonny Randle’s Pirates to a Southern Conference TIM SHEARIN received the Order of the Long Leaf recognized for the generosity 2010 and again for the 2011 season. It has also been 25 years, retired May 31. senior centers, garden clubs, Extension and Community title as a senior. He has coached collegiate football for Pine Award. He served two terms on the board of of her public and private included in the Christmas Gift Guide of “When I got here 25 years Association on the local, district and state level, visually the last 33 years, most recently at San Jose State. Our State directors for the Roanoke Island Historical Association service, not just for working magazine for the past two years. ago,” he told the Greensboro News & Record, impaired persons and others who ask for assistance. (producers of “The Lost Colony”), the board of for Greenville as mayor and a councilwoman, but for 1971 “I found a first-class organization with great She was head of the home economics department 1969 directors for the Outer Banks Visitors’ Bureau, the Dare working with nonprofits. at West Columbus High School and was declared a BRENDA MORGAN RYALS employees, members and customers. My single County Social Services Board and the Advisory Board The International Bipolar 1957 Master Teacher. ROBERT E. “BOB” HILL received a received the 2012 Jerger goal was to leave it better than I found it.” for the State Employees Credit Union. He also served Foundation appointed certificate of appreciation from the 4th Fighter Wing at Career Award for Research in Under his leadership, the Greensboro Merchants for 20 years in the Manteo Rotary Club, as treasurer DAVE CARSON won the N.C. Senior Games gold Steve Abramson Seymour Johnson Air Force Base for 55 years of Base Audiology from the American Association doubled its membership and and later as president. He is retired after 36 years with medal in tennis singles in his age group and won the as development officer. interviews on WGBR radio Goldsboro. He and his Academy of Audiology. She is expanded its workshop offerings and Belk Department Store. silver medal in tennis doubles. His basketball team won Abramson previously spent wife, Lynda, celebrated 50 years of marriage in 2012. a professor of communication networking programs. 25 years at the United Jewish sciences and disorders and

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1930s For 37 years she taught in the elementary grades in and 25 years at Charles B. Aycock High School. LOIS died Nov. 27. He coached and taught at James Blair, VEACH ’70 of Dover, Del., died Nov. 19. She was 2000s Goldsboro, Grifton and Onslow County schools. TUCKER SCHELLER ’54 of Greenville died Dec. 8. Buena Vista, Lord Botetourt and James River High a high school guidance counselor for Milford School MARGARET ELLEN HUFF PICKETT ’31 of Dr. VICTORIA “VICI” Dr. FRANK M. She taught high school science, owned and operated Schools. Dr. KENNETH PAUL TROGDON ’62 ’65 District, Lake Forest School District and the Capital Greensboro died Jan. 12 at 99. She taught school for JOHNSON ’01 of Hurdle Mills HAMMOND ’55 of H&R Block in Farmville for more than 22 years and of Blythewood, S.C., died Dec. 12. A psychologist in School District. She taught elementary school for a 36 years, first in Warsaw, then in Jonesville and finally died Jan. 9. In 1997 at 56, she Washington died Jan. 7. assisted her husband in Scheller Associates. private practice, he was also a professor at the few years in Chesapeake, Va., Elizabeth City, N.C., in East Bend. entered ECU’s Brody School of He was a U.S. Air Force University of South Carolina Honors College. and Greenville, N.C. Rev. THADDEUS CLIFTON 1960s Medicine joining the Rural 1940s pilot with the Strategic Air WEST JR. ’73 of LaGrange died Nov. 11. He was a 1970s Practitioner Program. She was the Command from 1955 to BARBARA SMITH BRUNSON ’62 of Bolivia died teacher and principal with Goldsboro/Wayne County PAULINE “POLLY” oldest person on record to graduate 1958. In a life devoted to Jan. 18. She taught for 41 years in the Cumberland JEAN THOMAS “TOMMIE” ALBERT ’77 of Schools for 31 years at Pikeville Union, Rosewood, ABEYOUNIS BURKETT from a major U.S. medical school. music and music County school system including Seventy-First High Goldsboro died Dec. 6. For 27 years, she worked as a Goldsboro Junior High, Goldsboro High School West, ’41 of Wilmington died In 2004 she joined the Caswell Family Medical Clinic education, he taught School, South View High School, Webb Academy nurse and nursing instructor in several hospitals and Dillard and Norwayne schools. An ordained Methodist Dec. 27 at 91. She taught in Yanceyville, where she worked for four years before instrumental music in N.C. public schools for 13 years, and Massey Hill Classical High School. She also facilities throughout North Carolina. ROSE MARIE minister for 50 years, he ministered at Zion, Indian school for nearly 30 years. At joining Orange Family Medical in Hillsborough. taught music at UNC-Greensboro and at N.C. State, worked at Sears for 21 years as a customer service CASEY ANDERSEN ’76 of Provo, Utah, died Jan. 7. Springs, Seven Springs, Jerusalem, Airboro, Garris ECU she was president of ANDREW THOMAS PHILLIPS ’09 of Los he was the conductor of the marching band, representative and a safe custodian. ELIZABETH She worked at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center as Chapel, Bethel, Beston and Walker Memorial. He was the French and English Angeles died Nov. 2. He completed his five years in the symphonic band, British Brass Band, trombone choir, CAMPBELL CHERRY ’61 of Washington died the secretary of care management. DEBRA LOWERY the chaplain for Goldsboro Milling Co. RACHEL clubs, sang in the glee club, Marine Corps with a rank of sergeant, serving in the tuba choir and the jazz ensemble, retiring in 1995. Dec. 27. She was a retired high school English teacher. BAYZLE ’72 ’75 ’79 of Greenville died Nov. 25. She NEEL OVERMAN WRIGHT ’73 ’78 of Goldsboro belonged to Chi Pi theater Second Gulf War (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and was Along with his academic career, he continued WALTER worked for 26 years with the Division of Vocational died Dec. 19 at 94. She taught elementary students in group and performed in awarded a commendation for his performance. He was performing, including playing with the Ringling CLEVELAND Rehabilitation Services under the Department of private and public institutions. She also held positions plays and musicals. HAZEL KIRBY BARNES ’49 of in the process of applying to medical school. Dr. Brothers Circus, Holiday on Ice, Modern Jazz Quartet, FAULKNER ’67 of Health and Human Services, starting with VR Services with the N.C. Department of Rehabilitation Services Kenly died Jan. 4. She taught school in Wayne and LINDA KEITH RAY ’06 of Raleigh died Dec. 11. Clark Terry and John Lewis. As a trombonist, he often Pinetops died Nov. 27. in 1979 and retiring as a quality development specialist from which she retired. Johnston Counties until her retirement. RUTH She worked in adult education at Wake Technical performed in small and large ensembles, including the He was a consultant in 2005. SALLY LATHROP BLACKISTON ’72 died CHANDLER LLEWELLYN ’42 of Charlotte died 1980s Community College. AMY LYNN BURRESS Tar River Community Band and the Emerald City Big with Carolina Medical Jan. 8 in Greenwich, Conn. A former physical therapist, Dec. 11. She taught in public schools for 24 years, the RENFROW ’01 of Middlesex died Dec. 12. She was Band. He enjoyed performing annually at Supply in Farmville. He she was active in her community. DAVID G. COSTAS EMILY BRINSON ’81 of New Bern died Jan. last 14 in Halifax County. ALICE ROWELL a math and science teacher in the Wilson and Johnston Homecoming with the Collegians, “the best band in was editor of the 1962 ’70 of Norfolk, Va., died Dec. 10. He retired after 14. She taught kindergarten and first grade in MATTHEWS ’45 of Petersburg, Va., died Dec. 19. county school systems and assistant principal at Tar Heel Land,” a group of ECU alumni who had and 1963 “Buccaneer” 27 years from the Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Virginia Beach, Va., Charleston, S.C., Raleigh and She taught school in Jackson until she married an Glendale-Kenly School. She was principal of Corinth- performed in the Collegians dance band while yearbook. DAVID Relations Court. He then worked for nine years at Havelock, retiring in 1995. ROBERT LEE JR. ’85 Army soldier and traveled with him to where he was Holders Elementary School. ERIK RYAN undergraduates. LAURA FRANCES POPE LEONARD GROCE Family Services of Tidewater as director of program of Jacksonville died Dec. 8. He retired as a decorated stationed. MILDRED GRIGGS MOORE ’48 of SYLVESTRE ’10 of Carrboro died Dec. 13. LASSITER ’54 of Danville, Va., died Jan. 14. She ’66 ’68 of Jonesville development. ROBERT VANCE GRADY ’71 of master gunnery sergeant after 26 years of service. Point Harbor died Dec. 24. She taught elementary ASHLEY LAUREN WILLIAMS ’08 of Greenville worked as a public school music teacher, a certified died Dec. 16. He taught Hollywood, S.C., died Nov. 28. He was a business EDDIE CLIFTON RICHARDS ’88 of Zebulon school for 20 years. MARGARET PERSON died Jan. 24. school counselor and a registered practicing counselor. drafting at Green consultant for the University of South Carolina died Jan. 14. He was an educator and coach for 32 REVELLE ’46 of Murfreesboro died Oct. 27. EXAVE M. LUPTON JR. ’55 of New Bern died Jan. Central High School Small Business Development Center. FREDERICK years in Franklin County, primarily at Louisburg MILDRED TAYLOR SIMMONS ’40 of Sea Level FACULTY 2. A U.S. Army veteran, he served in the 7th Cavalry in before returning to WATSON GREEN ’70 of North Wilkesboro died and Bunn High School. RONALD ALEXANDER died Dec. 15. She taught in public schools in Newport Dr. PAUL WILSON DOWELL of Shallotte died Jan. the Korean conflict, receiving a Purple Heart. He Jonesville in 1968 where he taught at Starmount High Dec. 2. He was a certified public accountant and “ANDY” RIDGE JR. ’82 of Winston-Salem died in the 1940s, in Raleigh in the early 1950s and then at 3. A U.S. Army veteran, he was on the ECU faculty worked in the financial industry and later operated School for 32 years. He was active in vocational worked at Carolina West Wireless. LYNN GREY Jan. 1. He worked at Bernie’s Lunch, the family North Henderson School, Henderson, in the 1960s from 1973 to 1999, where he retired as associate dean H&L Personnel and Ex-L Personnel, Jacksonville, Fla., education at the local, state and regional levels. JAMES KING ’73 of Dublin died Dec. 5. For 43 years in business, until 1997; then moved to Pinehurst, where and 1970s. She retired in 1980 after 26 years of of arts and science. He also served as the under­graduate and Lupton Realty, New Bern. JAMES CHARLES RUSSELL HATCHER ’67 of Eden died Jan. 16. He Bladen County, he was a teacher, coach and principal he worked for 13 years before returning to Winston- service and was a longtime member of the Alpha Delta director in English from 1992 to 1999. From 2000 to MADISON ’58 of State Road died Nov. 17. After taught school and coached in Braswell, Va. DAVID at Elizabethtown Junior-Senior High School, Dublin Salem in 2010. MELONY JEAN SULLIVAN ’82 Kappa professional teaching sorority. LULA MAE 2002 he was interim chair of the math department. serving in the U.S. Air Force, he taught at Elkin, BAXTER HOWARD ’69 of Newport News, Va., School, Elizabethtown Primary School and Bladen of Greenville died Nov. 19. She worked with children WHITEHURST WILSON ’42 of Winterville died Wilkes Central and Starmount High Schools and later died Nov. 25. He retired from Hampton City Schools. County Developmental Center. In 1997, he retired for many years as a Sunday school teacher and vacation JOANNE BARTOE LEWIS of Winterville died Nov. Jan. 16 at 91. A master seamstress, she worked with at Surry Community College, where he taught until He was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. as president of Bladen Community College and in Bible school instructor. KYLE WILLIAMS ’87 19. She taught in the ECU School of Nursing from the Pitt County Home Extension Service for many retiring in 1987. Since 1993, he was on the Surry BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MOORE ’60 ’62 of that same year received The Order of the Long Leaf of Buxton died Dec. 28. She owned the Munchkin 1985 to 1991. years. JONES DEWEY “JD” WOODLIEF ’49 of Community College Board of Trustees, where he Williamston died Jan. 25. After more than 30 years, he Pine in recognition of his educational contributions. Academy and served on many child advocate boards. Roswell, Ga., died Dec. 14. A World War II Navy STAFF served two years as chair and two years as vice chair of retired from Belk as an assistant manager. He was a U.S. JEANNE BACON LANUM ’72 of Chapel Hill veteran, he retired from State Farm Insurance in 2001 1990s the board. AUDREY HEATH MCMULLAN of Army veteran where he served as a chaplain’s assistant. died Nov. 30. She taught school and worked in the JACKIE WAYNE ADAMS of Grimesland died Jan. 9. after more than 47 years. Kitty Hawk died Oct. 19. She taught in the public He taught math at Robersonville High School and Orange County offices. She also worked in day-care WILLIAM JOSEPH “BILL” CARROLL II ’92 He retired from ECU Maintenance Department. 1950s school systems of Mecklenburg and Pasquotank Jamesville High School for several years. SHELDON centers in the county and was day-care director at the of Charlotte died Nov. 13. SCOTT STEPHEN ELOISE WARREN HUNSUCKER of Winterville RAY LASSITER ’63 of Gatesville, Va., died Dec. 8. First Baptist Church of Hillsborough. WILLIAM CRAUN ’98 of Kaheohe, Hawaii, died Dec. 15. He ALICIA BLUE CAISON ’53 ’60 of Clinton died Counties for 30 years. GEORGE NOBLE ’51 of died Sept. 10. She retired from the ECU Student He taught at Kellam High School, Virginia Beach, Va., WOOLARD “BILL” MODLIN ’72 of Myrtle was president of Island Nurses, Inc., in Honolulu. Jan. 7. She began her teaching career in Cameron Dover died Nov. 21 at 92. A World War II veteran, he Supply Store in 1990. then worked at County Cleaners, and later retired from Beach, S.C., died Jan. 4. A U.S. Air Force veteran, he FORD “MAC” MCGOWAN JR. ’94 of Greenville and retired after 32 years from Clinton High School was an Army staff sergeant and received many MONICA LUCILLE MAGNAN LEMNAH of Stewart Saw Works, both in Gatesville. He served in the worked in local hotel/motel management. TONI P. died Dec. 10. He was a licensed building contractor. as a guidance counselor. JOHN LEWIS GOFF decorations for valor, including the Purple Heart. A Tarboro died Sept. 10. She worked at Joyner Library U.S. Coast Guard. PHYLLIS GAYE BATTEN SHERRILL ’79 of Sneads Ferry died Nov. 16. She JOY WEAVER SAMUELS ’96 of Kernersville died JR. ’53 of Gastonia died Dec. 7. For 30 years he farmer and builder, he was active in many organizations for 15 years. RENFROW ’61 of Kenly died Jan. 12. She was a worked for SAS Institute, Cary. ASA CLARENCE Jan. 3. She worked for the Winston-Salem/Forsyth worked for the Gastonia City and Gaston County and was chair of the Lenoir County Agricultural DANIEL BOONE VAUSE of Hookerton died Jan. retired teacher from Johnston County Schools. SINGLETON ’74 of Winterville died Dec. 19. He County School System. ROBERT SCOTT WEBB public school systems as teacher, coach and principal Drainage District for many years. PERRY W. REGAL 23. He was an HVAC technician at the Brody School NANCY HASKINS HARRIS THOMASSON ’60 was retired from Pitt County Memorial Hospital as ’92 of Troutman died Jan. 23. JASON YASSER at Arlington Junior High, principal at Gardner Park ’50 of Kingsport, Tenn., died Nov. 28. JAMES of Medicine. KORNEGAY “JK” THOMPSON ’52 of Goldsboro of Sunset Beach died Dec. 10. She retired from a plumbing supervisor. CARTER RAY SUGGS ’79 ’95 of Rocky Mount died Jan. 15. Along with his Elementary School, and finished his career as assistant GRADY LEE WHITEHURST of Pactolus died died Jan. 1. He taught for 33 years with the Wayne teaching in the Carmel Clay School System in Indiana. of Princeville died Jan. 17. He worked for Edgecombe father, he owned and operated a mortgage company in superintendent for special services. MADLINE Sept. 27. He was a plumbing supervisor with the County School System with eight years at New Hope OTIS E. TIMBERLAKE JR. ’67 of Fort Myers, Fla., County Schools. ELIZABETH ANNE MINTZ Raleigh for seven years. HALL GRIFFIN ’58 of Wilmington died Nov. 16. Brody School of Medicine for a number of years.

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

After shadowing the 76-year-old Mamie E. Jenkins on campus one hectic day in February 1951 to write a story on “the grand old lady of East Carolina Teachers College,” the Raleigh newspaper reporter was News & Observer & Observer News Courtesy surprised that Jenkins’ day wasn’t yet over. She still had to hurry down to the gym to chaperone the Teco Echo ball and keep an eye out for couples slipping off into dark corners. One of East Carolina’s 11 original faculty members, Miss Jenkins had retired five years earlier, in 1946, after teaching English for 37 years. She had moved to Raleigh to live with a sister but continued “‘Go’ was arriving on campus to volunteer for events large and small. the first verb “I just cannot settle down to the humdrum routine expected of an old lady,” she told the I learned” reporter as she pinned on a corsage. “Some of my contemporaries give me the creeps. I find it difficult to sustain interest in their A rchives University arthritis. And the same goes for their wistful sighs for the good old days.” This long day was all the more remarkable for how it began, the reporter wrote. “Usually she comes (to campus) on her own steam. That is, she hops in her car and rips off the miles with all the élan of a teenager. She can still fix a flat or putter with the carburetor if the occasion arises.” Miss Jenkins once said she learned hell-for- leather travelling during a 1939 sabbatical to Italy and Germany when she fled through playing out.’ I looked at him and realized yearbook and as a founder of the campus the Brenner Pass and across the Rhine just that, if we had been going down grade two news bureau. When the campus collapsed in ahead of the Nazis’ invasion of Poland. A generations after him, my face could never be sorrow upon the sudden death of President story about that experience in the student my fortune.” Robert Wright in 1934, it likely was she who had the mental toughness and deadline newspaper was headlined, “Hitler Oiled The daughter of a noted Methodist His War Machine For Big Battle And Miss discipline to write his obituary and send it minister, she became one of the first out to the wire services. Jenkins Made A Hasty Exit From Europe.” women to graduate from Duke University She was noted for self-deprecating humor, as and followed that with a master’s from “‘Go’ was the first verb I learned,” she once said. when she explained why she never married. Columbia. She helped pay for her education “The ugliest man in his country, a great by working as a typesetter in print shops, Mamie Jenkins died in 1957 at age 82. The uncle, looked at me with pity, shook his an experience she relied on during her many original campus infirmary building, now the head and muttered, ‘The family beauty is years as adviser to the student newspaper and home of the Honors College, is named for her.

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Wearing special pink jerseys to remember those whose lives have been affected by cancer, the ECU softball team observes a moment of silence before a special home series in April, the Pink and Purple Strike Out Cancer event. ECU swept the doubleheader against Longwood, 5-0 and 5-2. Photo by Jay Clark