April 2013

ECU HAS ‘EGG’CELLENT TIME RAISING FUNDS ECU HOSTS TOWN HALL MEETING President Har- U.S. Senator Tom grave and Execu- Coburn spoke to a full- tive Director of the house during a town ECU Foundation hall meeting earlier this Phyllis Danley end month. Coburn serves on the “43 for ECU” the Senate Committees campaign with for Finance, Homeland Security and Government Af- an egg roulette fairs and Judiciary. Healthcare, the Defense of Mar- challenge. Also riage Act and gun control were among the topics. pictured are the first 10 employees BOSWELL LECTURE TO BE HELD to donate to the The 2013 Boswell Lecture will be held campaign. They were treated to pizza with the Presi- on Tuesday, April 16 at 2 p.m. in the dent. The entire campaign raised $8,708. All funds Estep Multimedia Center. ECU Alum will go toward the ECU book scholarship. Kristen Cambell will be the featured speaker. Cambell is now the Chief PRIVATE TOUR FOR GOVERNOR Program Officer for the Washington, Chickasaw Nation Gov. D.C. based National Conference on Bill Anoatubby (‘72) Citizenship or NCoC. Categories included in the index toured the Chickasaw are Social Connectedness, Volunteering, Political School of Business and Involvement, Confidence in Public Institutions and Conference Center at Citizenship Education. ECU for the first time. Dean Wendell Godwin SAVE THE DATE and President Hargrave gave him a personalized The ECU Distinguished Award Recipients for 2013 tour and informed him that the building construction have been announced and will be recognized at the is still on schedule. ECU Foundation’s Honors and Recognition Banquet on Friday, May 10, 2013. MARCUM TO GIVE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Distinguished Alumni Distinguished Alumni recipient Alan Alan Marcum and Steve Stokes (posthumous award) Marcum (‘90) will be the speaker at The Distinguished Family ECU’s 2013 commencement on Satur- Ramadan Family day, May 11. Distinguished Former Faculty Dr. Elizabeth Schmelling (posthumous award) and Marcum is the executive vice president for admin- Ms. Margaret ‘Peggy’ Nims istration at Devon Energy Corporation in Oklahoma Distinguished Service Award City and has held that position since 2008. Marcum Monical Neal also received ECU’s Milam Award in 2009, which is Distinguished Philanthropist presented to a former ECU football player who has Chickasaw Nation excelled in his chosen profession. 580-332-8000 www.ecok.edu Page 2 Campus Update April 2013

REVERSE ARTICULATION AGREEMENT EIGHTH ANNUAL SCISSORTAIL CREATIVE ECU has worked a reverse WRITING FESTIVAL articulation agreement with Over 50 published authors Murray State College, East- participated in the Eighth ern Oklahoma State College Annual Scissortail Creative and Seminole State College. Writing Festival earlier this With the agreement, ECU month. The featured au- students who have transferred in thors included poets Andrew from those three institutions, but Hudgins and Walter Bargen along with historical have not achieved their associ- fiction writers Constance Squires and Anna Myers. ate’s degrees, can do so by taking courses at ECU. Students must LOCAL WRITERS RECOGNIZED have completed 50 hours of course Winners of the Ninth work from MSC, EOSC or SSC in Annual R. Darryl order to obtain their associate’s degrees from those Fisher Creative Writ- respective institutions. ing Contest were announced at the SEXUAL ASSAULT Scissortail Creative AWARENESS MONTH Writing Festival. April is Sexual Assault Meagan Harden of Norman, Cheyenne Hope Bal- Awareness Month and lard of Shawnee, Samantha Ciaramitaro of Lawton, with community part- Joshua Marrs of Norman, Colleen Maher of Dickson nership, ECU par- and Katelyn Elrod, of Chickasha. ticipated in “Stomp Out Sexual Assault,” which was a community-wide event MCALESTER MAIN that featured a 5k walk and will host “National Walk a STREET BOARD Mile in Her Shoes” on April 16. VISITS ADA A contingent from OKLA. BUSINESS McAlester recently WEEK ACCEPTING toured the ECU Arts APPLICATIONS Incubator to learn Applications are being about the sheltered accepted for ECU’s environment of low rental rates and tax breaks for Second Annual Okla- arts-related businesses. homa Business Week Camp, June 2-7. The camp is open to all high school students, who will complete SERVICE LEARNING PROJECT the ninth through 12 grades this spring. The camp TO BENEFIT ADA COMMUNITY introduces students to the business world as they Dr. John Ulrich’s public policy capstone class is learn about business practices and compete in a working with the community for their service-learn- simulated business challenge. For more information ing requirement. As part of the class, students had visit okbusweek.com to propose a project. They took the proposal all the way to the Ada City Council. And with the coun- BOOKS FOR FIJI cil’s blessing, the students are conducting a study Books For Fiji was a complete among Ada residents concerning the reasons for success as the ECU ENACTUS low-voter turnout, particularly in municipal elections. Team, along with the ECU School of Business and the Ada Rotary Surveys are being conducted on the internet at Club collected over 30,000 books http://goo.gl/iaFg3. Randomly selected residents are to be distributed to 70 public also being surveyed by telephone. schools in and around Nadi, Fiji.

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ECU GRAD STUDENT SHINES PSYCHOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP ESTABLISHED Tatiana Booth, an ECU graduate Tom Crab- student, has made an impact as a tree and student teacher and coach in the his family nearby Byng School District. Booth established excelled as a student teacher in the first Lynne White’s eighth grade history psychology class and as an assistant coach scholarship for Byng High School Basketball Team. Booth had at ECU such a bond with the team she volunteered after her in memory of Tom’s wife, Judy. She attended and student teaching duties were completed to help the taught at ECU. The scholarship will be awarded to team go on to qualify for the state basketball tourna- outstanding junior or senior students. ment. Something the BSH will never forget. MAINTENANCE WORKERS HELP SAVE LIFE RELAY FOR LIFE FASHION SHOW Two ECU maintenance The ECU Family and Consumer Sci- employees – Jonathan ence/Retail Merchandising Program Townsend (left) and Keith in conjunction with Maurices recently Hopper (right) – helped held a fashion show at Maurices in to save the life of ECU Ada. The show, which included a si- student Tracy Holman lent auction, benefited the American (middle). The two were Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. changing air filters and when they arrived at Holman’s door and knocked, ONLY EPA GRANT AWARD IN THE STATE there was no answer. Sensing that someone was Dr. Dane Scott and home and something was wrong, they unlocked the students – Josh Smith door and found Holman sprawled out on the floor of Ardmore, Cody and unconscious on the other side of the door. They Soden of Owasso and immediately sprang into action and Holman feels Laura Blanco-Berdugo they saved her life. of Colombia – are headed to Washington D.C. later this month to NEW PHYSICAL PLANT DIRECTOR make a presentation on a grant they received from Darryl Overstreet, who has spent the the Environmental Protection Agency. The study last 18 years in various capacities at the focused on solar cells that are devices that con- University of Oklahoma, has been se- vert solar energy into electricity but are not used in lected as the new physical plant director everyday lives as they have limitations due to cost, at East Central University. availability, stability and lack of efficiency. The grant was the only one awarded to an individual or col- Overstreet most recently served as OU’s director of lege institution in the state. facilities, housing and food services.

OBW RECEIVES AWARD HOLLINGSWOTH PARTICIPATES IN PARADE ECU’s Oklahoma Business Week Dr. Mark Hollingsworth re- was presented the Exceptional cently participated in the Program Award for Best Confer- Arbroath Pipe Band of Okla- ence in the Great Plains Region homa City for the St. Patrick’s of the Association for Continu- Day Parade in Bricktown on ing Higher Education. The award was presented March 16. Bagpipe bands to Stacey Bolin, OBW Camp Director, and Charlee throughout Oklahoma gather Lanis, coordinator of ECU’s Community Education together for this annual event. Program, at a banquet at Kansas State University.

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CONGRATULATIONS! NEW EMPLOYEES AND PROMOTIONS UPCOMING EVENTS Michael Frye Mica Howard Tommy Daubenspeck Alisha Hughes All Month Stephanie Moss Amie Orr Summer/Fall Enrollment Glenn Ronning Randy Pippin Katherine Sleyko Davis Sadongei 58th Annual Student Art Exhibition Scotty Sprague Kim Rogers Pogue Art Gallery Carol Sugg Peggy Saunkeah Jonathan Townsend Wendy McKibben April 13 Softball vs Northwestern, ECU STUDENTS HAVE FUN THIS SEMESTER 12 p.m. double header, ECU Softball Field

April 15- 17 State Band Contest, HBFFAC

April 15 First United Awards, 6:45 p.m., Ataloa Theatre

April 16 Boswell Lecture, 2 p.m., Estep, UC

Tennis vs OBU, 3 p.m., Mayhue Court

College of Health & Sciences Awards 7 p.m., Ballroom

Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, 7 p.m., UC Mall Tickets available now! April 18 School of Business Awards, 6 p.m., Ballroom

April 18 - 20 Picnic, 7:30 p.m., Chalmers Theatre, HBFFAC

April 19 Human Resources Awards, 12 p.m., Ballroom

Baseball vs Northwestern 2 p.m., ECU Baseball Field

African-Caribbean Fusion Night 7 p.m., Ballroom

April 20 Baseball vs Northwestern 1 p.m. double header, ECU Baseball Field

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