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12 F E AT u r e s filling UP ON PIRATE PRIDE 12 Walter Williams ’51 ’55, the founder of the Trade MartBy Steve chain Row of gas stations and convenience stores, has fueled many university fund-raising campaigns simply because he believes it’s the right thing to do.

PLAYING IT SAFE 20 ECU enjoys a reputation as a safe campus for studentsBy Marion and Blackburn is putting a lot of effort and an extra $1 million into keeping it that way.

20 26 inTERNET READY 26 It’s not surprising that East Carolina has built one ofBy Stevethe largest Tuttle distance education programs in the nation because “the idea that somebody can’t come to campus is not a new idea to us. We take education to them.”

on THE BALL AT SUMMER CAMP 32 The hundreds of high school kids arriving forBy Bethanysports Bradshercamps ensures that the campus will be far from quiet STRAPHANGERS Every seat is taken on this summer. the 8 a.m. bus from the football stadium parking lots down to the main campus. East Carolina has 35 d e PA R T m e n T S buses in its fleet that transport about two million passengers a FROM OUR READERS year. The buses are on 3 the road about 1,500

hours a week and THE ECU REPORT log 550,000 miles a 4 year—enough to circle the Earth more than 22 times. All 85 drivers 2007 SUMMER ARTS CALENDAR are students. 32 11

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48 UPON THE PAST from the editor from our readers summer 2007 EastThe Magazine of East Carolina University

Volume 5, Number 4 The soda shop WAS in the Bobby sox at the Soda Shop, is published four times a year by Cafeteria Building Old Cafeteria Building, 1947. East Inset: Playing bridge in the East Carolina University I really do enjoy receiving and always Access Scholarships Division of University Advancement East booths. I couldn’t help but think about my own family when Bill Clark told me 2200 South Charles Blvd. look forward to the excellent articles. I would about the new Access Scholarships that will be awarded to 28 students this Greenville, NC 27858 like to take exception to Jim Phelps’ ’58 fall. The ECU Foundation he leads raised the money for the scholarships letter in the spring issue. There indeed was a after learning how deeply in debt many families have to go to put a kid— h soda shop in the Old Cafeteria Building as

well as a post office. I first learned how to rchives or in our case, three—through college. ECU students on average have more A than $19,000 in loans by the time they graduate, the second-largest debt EDITOR play bridge and enjoyed many pleasant hours Steve Tuttle playing there, some of which would have among the 16 UNC schools. 252-328-2068 / [email protected] University been better spent in the library. I enrolled at Many families confront a college tuition dilemma. We use what savings ECC in 1952 and left in 1954 to serve in we have, borrow a lot and leave it up to Junior to get a part-time job to ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER Brent Burch the Army. I returned in 1956 and graduated earn his spending money. Families with two or more children confront a in 1958. I think the soda shop was moved to downward financial cycle. As a father of three once told me, “when the PHOTOGRAPHER the Wright Building in the interim. third kid was ready for college, I got the bad news that there’s no such Forrest Croce Lancaster, S.C. thing as a third mortgage.” —Andy Caudill ’58, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS If [the soda shop in the Cafeteria Building] “There are existing programs for other types of students—scholarships for didn’t exist, I certainly must have dreamed the superstar academic students and grants and loan programs for students Marion Blackburn, Bethany Bradsher, Steve Row about the many cans of Vienna sausage and who are the neediest,” Clark told me. “It’s the students in the middle, those pork and beans, boxes of soda crackers, etc., Cafeteria Building as my father, Wendell 1950s. The campus soda shop was located in with both financial need and academic potential, who we are targeting to CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS that I consumed there. We always had our Smiley, was responsible for it as one of his this building until the end of the 1953–54 help with Access Scholarships.” Cliff Hollis, Charles Buchanan, Paul Dunn, snacks there when we picked up our mail at additional jobs. In those days administrators school year. During the 1954–55 school year After studying the problem, ECU Foundation board members did Andrea Hallgren, Marc Kawanishi the campus post office and played bridge in had many other assignments other than the soda shop was converted to a third lunch something that shows their personal commitment. At a board meeting last the soda shop. I’m sure it closed when the their primary job, his being the librarian. room in the Cafeteria Building [offering] a CLASS NOTES EDITOR new Student Center opened in the lower level October, they passed the plate and collected enough to support 12 Access Leeanne Elizabeth Smith ’04 ’06 Yes the bowling alley was a popular place. menu of hamburgers and hot dogs for a fixed Scholarships. They then approached RBC Centura Bank, the Harold Bate [email protected] of the Wright Building but it sure was the Does anyone remember the wonderful aroma price of 75 cents. The soda shop was moved Foundation, and the West Memorial Fund and found partners to support recognized spot for checking out the coeds of the fabulous Sally Lunn rolls? It is so to the new Student Union in the basement another 16 scholarships. h before then. much fun to return to campus and to have of Wright Auditorium. This new facility Raleigh watched it grow through the eyes of the four was much needed and included a soda shop, While Clark is happy to make a dent in the college affordability problem, —Don Umstead ’56, he worries about kids who’ve lost hope for a college education because the DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY MARKETING I really enjoy reading as I grew up generations of our family who have availed bookstore, game room, student bank and Clint Bailey East, family simply runs out of money. “If our enrolled students have this much literally on the campus (where the library themselves of fine educations at ECTC, other services. Keep up the good work with ECC and ECU. Thanks for the memories. I enjoyed my years at ECU, and I like to financial need, we can assume that financial need is indeed a great barrier now sits). Yes there was a soda shop in the East. to many others in eastern North Carolina who don’t even apply,” he said. tell others about the great memories I have —Sara Smiley Lommatzsch ’62 of such a great period in my life. “Our challenge is to continue funding these 28 scholarships and grow this I read with interest East Carolina University is a constituent institution of Danville, Va. to a flagship program that awards at least 100 scholarships a year.” The University of North Carolina. It is a public doctoral/ ‘What a beautiful lady’ the article in your —Harold T. Beck ’58 ’71, research intensive university offering baccalaureate, master’s, Winter 2007 That plate that the ECU Foundation board passed to start the Access specialist and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts, sciences The Beverly Cox story was edition concerning Articles in the university archives confirm Mr. Beck’s Scholarships—maybe we should keep it going around the Pirate Nation. and professional fields, including medicine. Dedicated to the awesome. I have never heard recollection. The original soda shop was installed in achievement of excellence, responsible stewardship of the of her, but I read every single the renovations to public trust and academic freedom, ECU values the the Old Cafeteria the Old Cafeteria Building in 1946 in the “large contributions of a diverse community, supports shared word of her success story and Building. Mr. Jim lobby adjacent to the post office and dining halls” governance and guarantees equality of opportunity. had tears in my eyes when I got connected to an outdoor terrace between the wings of to the end. I was sad the story Phelps’ letter in your ©2007 by East Carolina University Spring 2007 issue the building. The move to Wright apparently cameDaily in ended. Thanks so much. What 1958, according to an article in the Greenville a beautiful lady representing is in error when he Reflector. Printed by The Lane Press East Carolina! states that there was We welcome your letters. Send them by Greenville no soda shop in e-mail to [email protected] or by mail to U.P. 07-368 53,000 copies of this public document were —Marsha Fleenor ’96, East Magazine, Building 198, East Carolina printed at a cost of $28,500 or $.54 per copy. the building in the University, Greenville, N.C. 27858-4353.

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How ECC became ECU 81, he looks back on that time with University equal with the other state schools, that we Carolina comes to Dowdy-Ficklen on Sept. Around Campus appreciation for what was accomplished. were as good as the rest of ’em.” 8 (Pirate Club weekend) for the first time in A The Falls Free Coalition, Even as it begins celebrating its centennial, rchives four years; the State game on Oct. 20 will be East Carolina marks another important “Originally, I introduced a bill in the He says that vote on July 1, 1967, also marks a group of national the Wolfpack’s first trip to Greenville in eight milestone this summer—the 40th Senate just to cover East Carolina, and it the true beginning of East Carolina’s medical organizations and years. Homecoming will be the weekend of anniversary of attaining university status. passed the Senate. But when it got over to school. “[Then-chancellor Leo Jenkins] state coalitions, named Oct. 27 against UAB. For season or individual That achievement came on July 1, 1967, the House, they killed it. To say it in the had convinced the legislature that eastern the Department of game tickets, call 1-800-DIAL-ECU. when the General Assembly passed a bill nicest way possible, a lot of them thought North Carolina needed a medical school, Occupational Therapy’s supported by lawmakers from eastern North we just weren’t qualified to be a university. and they said, OK, sometime in the future Fall football schedule SPICE for Life program Carolina but opposed by Gov. Dan K. East Carolina has always been the redheaded maybe,” Morgan recalls. “But one year after as one of the ten most Sept. 1 at Virginia Tech Moore and many big-city legislators. Passage stepchild in North Carolina. One night we became a university, the General Assembly creative efforts in the was in doubt until Appalachian State, later I got a call from [former governor] passed a bill appropriating $2.5 million to Sept. 8 North Carolina, 6 p.m. nation to reduce the Western Carolina and N.C. A&T were added Terry Sanford, and he said the problem start a two-year medical school in Greenville. Sept. 15 Southern Miss, 6 p.m. number and severity of as a way of increasing political support for was that East Carolina’s base of support That was the first real money put into it.” Sept. 22 at West Virginia falls among the elderly. wasn’t broad enough. He said I ought to Sept. 29 at Houston the legislation. The The Brody School of Medicine accepted its Now in its seventh include Appalachian and maybe Western in Greensboro Oct. 6 UCF, 7:30 p.m. year, the SPICE for Former U.S. Senator Robert Morgan ’47, first students four years later. the legislation because it would give some paper thought Gov. Dan Moore Oct. 13 at UTEP Life program focuses who was a then a state senator and chairman would steamroll East Carolina’s bid for recognition to all the old teacher training Morgan was elected state attorney general Oct. 20 N.C. State, 4:30 p.m. on fall prevention and of East Carolina’s Board of Trustees, university status. schools, and because doing that would get in 1968. He later served a term in the U.S. Oct. 27 UAB, 3 p.m. intervention among led the fight in the legislature to elevate more votes. So we did. Senate and then was director of the State Nov. 3 at Memphis those who live in poverty East Carolina to university status. Now Scott Cooper “That bill was introduced in the Senate and Bureau of Investigation. The only person to Nov. 10 at Marshall throughout Pitt County. it passed. But when we sent that bill over receive the Alumnus of the Year award twice, Nov. 24 Tulane, 1 p.m. Carole Novick was named

rchives to the House it ran into trouble again. The he served on the East Carolina Board of A opponents put an amendment on the bill to Trustees from 1958 to 1973, the last nine president of the Medical make N.C. A&T a university, too, because years as chairman. He was required to step Foundation of ECU after

University University Teacher training honored again they believed it would kill the bill if it down from the trustees in order to implement serving in that capacity included one of the historically black schools. the new governance plan for the expanded The College of Education on an interim basis. They thought eastern North Carolina just university system his legislation created. continues to receive national Novick is also associate wouldn’t take that. You know, race relations acclaim for its innovative vice chancellor for health sciences development and weren’t as good then as they are now. Pack, Heels play Dowdy-Ficklen methods to increase the number of classroom teachers. The latest comes from alumni affairs. She joined “But when the bill came back to the Senate, Many schools schedule a few easy wins the American Association of Colleges for ECU in July 2005 after we surprised them. We said it would be a early in the football season before opening Teacher Education, which honored East nine years as the executive fine thing for A&T to be a university. And conference play, but not East Carolina. This Carolina and its Wachovia Partnership East director of the Medical after the Senate concurred in the House fall the Pirates will step outside Conference program at its annual meeting in New York. Alumni Foundation at amendment, I gave the only speech I ever USA for games with ACC rivals Virginia State University of New Entering its fifth year, Wachovia Partnership gave from the podium of the Senate. I said Tech, North Carolina and N.C. State plus York–Upstate Medical East links ECU with 18 community colleges, East Carolina knew what it was like to suffer a matchup with Big East powerhouse West University in Syracuse. a private college, an Air Force base and 34 from some bias, and so we welcomed A&T Virginia. Observers say this will be one of public school systems in eastern North Dr. Karla Hughes, because they had suffered, too.” the most ambitious schedules in the 75-year Carolina. The program currently enrolls dean of the College of Morgan says people today probably don’t history of Pirate football. 234 students and offers degree programs Human Ecology since understand why becoming a university was “Our 2007 schedule arguably is about as in elementary and special education. It 2004, resigned to become such a big deal. “University status was a challenging as they come,” said head football is designed to accommodate both non- provost and vice president much more important distinction then than coach Skip Holtz. “We certainly won’t have traditional and working students through on- of academic affairs at it is now. Heck, about every school out there the luxury of easing into it in September but site and online instruction. Morehead State University these days calls itself a university. But for it does represent a great opportunity for in Kentucky. us in eastern North Carolina back then, State senators Tom White and Robert Morgan (center) huddle in the General Assembly with our program.” The Wachovia Partnership East program was featured Lt. Gov. Bob Scott during the 1967 legislative debate over making East Carolina a university. becoming a university meant that we were an East. in the Fall 2006 issue of   The ECU Report

Gifts endow two new chairs More worries for rural dentists That’s when the school system called ECU. for the nervous system’s “information Faculty members John Pickard and Lee superhighway.” In addition, the mechanism East Carolina has received its third seven- The scarcity of dentists in rural counties Toderick of the Department of Technology involved in nerve fiber creation did not figure gift in recent months. is getting worse, according to a new report Systems and two students, Paul Bellamy depend on communication with or transport by the Sheps Center for Health Services Through their foundation, Eddie and Jo and Joe Nix, went to work on the problem. from the nerve cell body, its nucleus or Research at UNC Chapel Hill. The annual Allison Smith of Greenville have given $1.33 Through an exhaustive and meticulous surrounding support cells. Axonal nerve statistical update notes that Gates County million that will be matched by $667,000 process they reconfigured the entire fibers can be as long as 3 feet, and this lost its only dentist in 2005. Hyde, Tyrrell from the UNC system. Together, the funds computer system and moved or replaced independence makes RNAi a promising drug and Camden counties have had no dentists will create a $2 million endowed chair crucial pieces of equipment. They also made target. A drug could be made to activate since 1989. to support the director of the new East several improvements that enhanced the the expression of neuron-specific genes Carolina Heart Institute. The situation is different in urban areas system’s reliability. responsible for axonal growth, Murashov said. of North Carolina, where the supply of Tom Arthur ’71 donated $1 million to the Now, teachers in Greene County, which is The ECU research project began in 2003. dentists increased a bit in 2005, the latest BB&T Center for Leadership Development to just southwest of Greenville, can conduct It builds on the 2006 Nobel Prize-winning year for which complete data was available. establish an endowed chair in the College of online testing as well as stream video research of Andrew Z. Fire of Stanford In those urban areas there were 4.9 dentists Business focusing on leadership. Arthur, who presentations and projects, all never before University and Craig C. Mello of the per 10,000 population, compared to 3.1 in once owned the Hav-A-Tampa cigar company available. “Before ECU came on board, there University of Massachusetts. rural counties, according to the Sheps Center and now heads ASAP Capital Partners firm in was a bottleneck problem that no one could report. Overall, the state had a net gain of For their next step, Murashov and his team Tampa, Fla., has been a member of the BB&T find,” said Superintendent Steve Mazingo ’84 144 dentists in 2005, but North Carolina’s are working with Dr. Scott Hammond Center board since its founding. He also is a ’88 ’06. “We are 90 percent better off now Tom Arthur at ECU’s centennial celebration kick-off swelling population largely offset the gain. at UNC Chapel Hill to identify natural grandson of a local civic leader involved with than we were before they arrived, and we are microRNAs involved in regulating peripheral the founding of ECU. There’s more bad news for eastern North well on our way to bigger and better things to improve the health status of people The $60 million heart institute is now under nerve regeneration. “We have some very Carolina in a finding that dentists practicing for the students of Greene County.” Last fall, the estate of Frances Joyner Monk in eastern North Carolina is vital. “This construction ( ). promising preliminary data,” Murashov said. in rural counties tend to be older than the gave $2.5 million to fund a new geriatric heart institute is going to be just immensely see related story, page 9 The endowed chairs created by Arthur and rest. In 13 eastern counties, the average age In other medical news: center at the Brody School of Medicine. important to the region. East Carolina is just New insight into paralysis the Smiths are the 13th and 14th at ECU of dentists is between 55 and 66. Their Cancer patients experience significant Smith is chairman and chief executive doing such a wonderful job in so many ways East Carolina scientists have discovered a key funded in part through the Distinguished approaching retirement could further worsen decreases in pain and anxiety when their of Grady-White Boats in Greenville, a and is so important to this area,” Smith said. molecular mechanism that plays a role in the Professors Endowment Trust Fund. The access to dental care in those areas, the partners applied pressure to specific points leading manufacturer of sportfishing boats. regeneration and repair of damaged nerves, The chair endowed by the Smiths initially will Smiths’ gift also kicks off a $9 million fund- report says. on their feet, according to a two-year Though he is a graduate of UNC Chapel be filled by Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood Jr., raising campaign for the heart institute by an insight that gives new hope to those Funding for a new dental school at East study by a School of Nursing researcher. Hill, he said supporting ECU and its work the founding director of the heart institute. the ECU Medical Foundation. suffering from paralysis. Carolina, along with expansion of the school The findings by associate professor Nancy “The Smiths understand the importance in Chapel Hill, is included in the proposed Dr. Alexander L.N. Stephenson and her colleagues in ollis Murashov, an ECU H of recruiting and retaining the best leaders budget now before the state General Assembly. the School of Nursing were published

Cliff Cliff throughout East Carolina. It is a great gift,” associate professor of in the journal physiology, led the Oncology Nursing Forum. Chancellor Steve Ballard said. Who you gonna call? Funded by a $279,000 grant from the team that studied National Cancer Institute, the study is the A native of Greenville, Arthur earned his Hopes were high when Greene County whether the molecular fourth by Stephenson to show that cancer undergraduate degree from UNC Chapel Schools invested heavily in computers, process, RNA patients receive relief through what’s called Hill in 1966 and served in the military routers and switches so teachers and pupils interference, or RNAi, reflexology. Reflexology is a complementary for three years before pursuing a master of could use the new technology to expand might be a natural mechanism for regulating and alternative medicine therapy in which business administration degree at ECU, educational opportunities. But frustration set protein synthesis in axons, or nerve fibers. manual pressure is applied to specific points which he completed in 1971. His gift in last fall when many of the school system’s Using laboratory mice, Murashov’s group on the hand or feet thought to correspond qualifies for $500,000 in matching funds 3,000 computers began operating so slowly studied sciatic nerves and primary neuronal with specific organs or parts of the body. from the University of North Carolina that many “timed out” when trying to open cultures in mice and published their findings Distinguished Professorship Endowed Trust a web page. in the journal of the Federation of American Scholarships boost access Fund, which is funded by the state legislature. Societies for Experimental Biology. Consultants were called in to analyze the A major new scholarship program at ECU The BB&T Center for Leadership situation. They said the individual pieces of RNAi regulates the creation of proteins will help some families who often have to Development at ECU was established in the computer network were working fine but in the body. Until now, no direct evidence borrow large sums for college tuition. The 1983. BB&T has made several significant they couldn’t figure out why the system as a existed that RNAi controls local protein contributions to the center since then, Access Scholarship program, started by the Eddie Smith and Randolph Chitwood whole ran slower than molasses. synthesis in axons, which act as “pavement” including $1 million in 2005. ECU Foundation, will award 28 grants to

  The ECU Report students this fall worth $5,000 each, enough percent of the demonstrated financial need Construction Medicine Center will include the new A National Geographic moment to cover tuition and fees for a year. The Office of those students. is continuing Frances J. and Robert T. Monk Sr. Geriatric on the East It’s a classic story for of Financial Aid will select the students for Carolina Heart Center, funded with a memorial gift of $2.5 n 79 percent of ECU students graduate with magazine—scientists Nationaltrekking Geographic through a these awards based on both demonstrated Institute. The million from Frances Monk. college loan debt that averages $19,614 $60 million remote jungle, confronting a hostile native financial need and proven academic potential. per person, the second highest in the institute will Meanwhile, a new nonuniversity medical tribe, then discovering a rare species, in this UNC system. house several “This is a huge step because this is a new of the Brody building, Moye Medical Center, was case a half-inch-long poison frog. But this scholarship, and it fits a different profile,” “If our enrolled students have this much School of expected to open in May. The medical story, in the magazine’s April issue, is about said ECU Foundation President Bill Clark. Medicine’s school’s cardiology and pulmonary patient financial need, we can assume that financial cardiac care the work of an ECU biology professor and “There are existing programs for other types need is indeed a great barrier to many others services. care services were expected to locate to this two graduate students. of students—scholarships for the superstar center, with cardiology moving to the heart in eastern North Carolina who don’t even The story recounts last summer’s discovery academic students and grants and loan institute upon that building’s completion. apply,” Clark said. “Our challenge is to by professor Kyle Summers and grad programs for students who are the neediest. — continue funding these 28 scholarships and students Evan Twomey and Jason Brown of It’s the students in the middle, those with Marion Blackburn grow this to a flagship program that awards a habitat of the rare frog, both financial need and academic potential, at least 100 scholarships a year.” Wielding power, wearing pearls which had last been identifiedDendrobates incaptivus 1924 and who we are targeting to help through Access was thought to be extinct. The team now has Scholarships.” “We passed the plate among ECU At the inaugural Power and Pearls forum Foundation board members and received keynoted by author Maya Angelou, East returned to the Cainarachi Valley in northern Clark said the foundation became concerned gifts and pledges to support twelve Peru to continue their research. They hope “The Access Scholarship program is a very Carolina celebrated the work and influence and launched an internal fund-raising scholarships,” Clark said. “Then we decided the return visit will be less arduous. important part of East Carolina University’s of 10 women who have made an impact on campaign last fall after learning how far to approach RBC Centura Bank who agreed commitment to make a college education the university. Named to the list during the “Finding the frogs was complicated by the in debt many ECU students go to pay for to support ten scholarships.” The Harold “The foundation work is proceeding on accessible to the promising young people March conference hosted by the Ledonia inaccessibility and the native tribes that live college. He cited statistics showing that: Bate Foundation agreed to support three schedule and the steel construction is of our state, especially those with financial Wright Cultural Center and the Chancellor’s there,” said Brown, 26, a Ph.D. student in n More than 9,000 undergraduates at ECU Access Scholarships for students from Jones, arriving as scheduled,” Bagnell says. “At needs,” Chancellor Steve Ballard said. “We Committee on the Status of Women were: biological sciences. Assisted by Peruvian qualify for financial aid, the largest number Craven and Pamlico counties. And the West this time, we don’t anticipate any delays in hope that alumni, friends, corporations and Sharon Knight, associate dean of the entomologist Manuel Miranda, the ECU in the UNC system. Memorial Fund agreed to fund scholarships meeting our completion date.” foundations will partner with us to help College of Health and Human Performance researchers traveled several days by boat, for three Greenville students.” n East Carolina is only able to meet 56 these students.” PCMH’s new heart center will have 120 Dr. Margaret Bauer, Rives Chair in encountering water rapids into one of the cardiac beds, diagnostic labs and operating most remote and untraveled regions in The ECU Foundation is the oldest and Southern Literature, Department of English rooms and may have a cardiac rehabilitation Peru. After obtaining permission from the largest of the university’s foundations Dr. Shelia Grant Bunch, coordinator, center. It is expected to be completed in late somewhat hostile Aguarunas tribe to travel and is not to be confused with the ECU bachelor of social work program 2008 with occupancy in early 2009. in their territory, Twomey and Brown found Educational Foundation, otherwise known Dr. Anne Dickerson, chair, Department of the frogs in abundance. as the Pirate Club, which supports athletic The East Carolina Heart Institute, a joint Occupational Therapy project of the university and hospital, The frog is about one-half inch long, black programs. Dr. Patricia “Pat” Dunn, coordinator, addresses the need for cardiac care services in with red, yellow and orange spots. It is volunteer activities for international students, eastern North Carolina. poisonous to predators but not to humans. Medical campus expanding Global Academic Initiatives The heart institute marks the second major The team is obtaining permits from the Greenville’s booming health care facilities Dr. Mary “Dee Dee” Glascoff, director, expansion for the university’s health sciences Peruvian government to take tissue samples are entering another growth spurt as Pitt community health program, Department of since the new complex housing the Schools and do more extensive lab research with Memorial Hospital’s new six-story heart Health Education and Promotion of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences and center nears completion and the steel Dr. Virginia Hardy, interim chief diversity Laupus Library opened in 2006. skeleton rises nearby for ECU’s new East officer, interim Senior Associate Dean for

Carolina Heart Institute. Plans also are under way to construct a new Academic Affairs (SOM), and associate dean Brown Jason $30 million Family Medicine Center to for counseling and diversity (SOM) The $60 million heart institute will house provide primary-care services to patients. several of the Brody School of Medicine’s Dr. Susan McCammon, professor and It would replace the existing center, built cardiac care services as well as faculty director/chair, Behavioral and Social in 1977, which is no longer adequate for offices, a large auditorium and research Sciences IRB, Department of Psychology the large number of patients and medical areas. It should be completed by next Dr. Vivian Mott, chair, Department of services offered by ECU Physicians, the spring, says William E. Bagnell, director of Counselor and Adult Education medical practice of the Brody School of the university’s Facilities Engineering and Medicine. Construction of this new center Dr. Marilyn Sheerer, vice chancellor for the Chancellor Steve Ballard; RBC representatives Jim Brown, Mike Gooding and Jim Hansen; Architectural Services. ECU Foundation President Bill Clark. is set to begin in spring 2008. The Family Division of Student Life.

  The ECU Report the aim of publishing their findings. Summers, whose research is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, said he was concerned about taking grad students into such a remote region, but was proud of their work. “As a scientific research supervisor and advisor, one always wants to see students take initiative on their own and make new discoveries,” Summers said. “On the other hand, in this kind of work, there is always an element of risk, and that is certainly of concern to me as I worry about the health and safety of my students.”

Audition for humor festival Tell a good joke? Then you might want to audition for the inaugural East Carolina Humor Festival and Conference this fall that promises to be filled with funny stuff. 2007 Summer Arts Calendar The three-day event Nov. 1–3 will feature joke contests and stand-up and improv The shoe goes on said Jeff Woodruff, managing by Stephen Sondheim. One The Loessin summer series takes comedy, a film festival and an academic director of the ECU/Loessin of the most popular musicals its name from Edgar Loessin Tony and Maria in tennis shoes, Playhouse and Summer Theatre. of the second half of the 20th (pronounced “less-SEEN”), conference on humor. Featured acts include Pseudolus in sandals and the century, the story is set in 1950s who came to Greenville from This summer’s principal guest North Carolina native and author Jill Bratter newlyweds in fancy New York City and tells of the New York in 1962 to start ECU’s director will be Walter Schoen of footwear will step into town romance between Tony and Department of Theatre Arts and McCorkle, poet and NPR commentator the University of Richmond, who this summer when the Loessin Maria, two young people from served as its chairman for 28 will direct Andrei Codrescu and legendary Texas Summer Theatre stages three Barefoot in the Park different groups, against the years. He established the ECU July 10–14. He has participated songwriter and former gubernatorial of America’s best-loved plays. backdrop of gang rivalry. Summer Theatre, and during his in past ECU summer and regular The productions of West Side tenure the productions featured candidate Kinky Friedman. seasons as both an actor and Barefoot in the Park is Neil Story, Barefoot in the Park and such stars as Michael Learned, director. He most recently Simon’s play about Paul and A Funny Thing Happened on the Orson Bean, Catherine Bach, The academic conference will include panels directed The Time of Your Life Corie Bratter, a newly married Way to the Forum mark the 36th Karen Grassley and Kim Hunter. during the 2005–06 regular couple, and the strange on humor and healing, Southern humor, season of shows by the School theater season, and acted in neighbors in their small The summer series took on its of Theatre and Dance. The ethnic humor, satire and social change, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas apartment building in Greenwich current three-production format humor in film, and political cartoons. The ECU students, as well as some in the 2005 summer series. Village. The play was nominated in 2004, after several theater from other campuses, will join for a Tony Award in 1963 and later renovations and budget cutbacks Reel Funny Short-Film Fest will feature John Shearin, director of the ECU several professional actors in became a popular movie. Simon caused productions to be School of Theatre and Dance work from regional filmmakers. the productions. Auditions says he was inspired partly by the suspended from 2000 to 2002. and producing artistic director took place at the Southeastern early days of his first marriage of the summer series, will direct In 2003, productions resumed Event organizers are looking for the funniest Theatre Conference and when he wrote the play. June 26–30, with three Shakespearean plays jokes about North Carolina and the South. the North Carolina Theatre West Side Story and Robert Caprio, acting area and three musical revues. Before Conference in early March, as A Funny Thing Happened on Knock-knocks, riddles, puns, tall tales, coordinator in the school, will with 2000, the department often well as at a regional conference the Way to the Forum, direct July 24–28. All music and lyrics by Stephen staged as many as six plays spoonerisms and whatnots of no more in Memphis. Working with Forum performances are in McGinnis Sondheim, opened in 1962. The during the summer. Actors Equity, the ECU program than 150 words are welcome to win a cash Theatre beginning at 8 p.m., with play is based on the farces of also conducted auditions for Saturday matinees at 2 p.m. the Roman playwright Plautus, Season tickets for all three prize. If you’ve got a good one, send it to professionals in New York. relating a bawdy story of a productions, at $75, go on [email protected]. The winner and is the 1957 sale June 1. Call 252-328-6829 With silly string flying and beach balls bouncing, East Carolina awarded roughly “The ECU actors have to audition West Side Story slave named Pseudolus and his musical retelling of the Romeo for more information or go to finalists will be considered for publication by 3,800 diplomas at spring graduation exercises on May 4. For the first time, the like everybody else. They have attempts to win his freedom by and Juliet story, with music by www.ecuarts.com. the graduates wore purple robes, instead of black. And for the first time in many years to prove their worth. The same helping his young master woo Leonard Bernstein and lyrics North Carolina Literary Review. the ceremony was held outdoors, at the football stadium. is true for the technical people,” the girl in the brothel next door. —Steve Row

10 11 he small houses on County Home Road near TWinterville—the older one with tin siding, the newer one with frame siding—hold special significance for Walter Williams ’51 ’55. This is where he grew up in the 1930s, and coming back always evokes memories of when he and his brother and two Filling Up on Pirate Pride sisters helped with the chores, worked with their father in the tobacco fields after school and then came in to the By Steve Row kitchen for a hearty supper. Photography by Forrest Croce He moved out of the old home place in 1947 to begin a new life as a college student. He became a successful business owner, but he never really left home. He inherited the property after his parents passed, and he’s now painstakingly remodeling the two houses along with his mother’s wash house, the smoke house, chicken house, corn and potato barns and two tobacco barns. Williams, who is one of East Carolina University’s most loyal boosters, advocates and benefactors, isn’t sure if the expensive remodeling project is the smart thing to do. But he knows it’s the right thing to do. “You do some things that are crazy, and this might be one of them, but there’s too much sentiment tied up to let it rot down or to rent it or to sell it,” he says. “We may spend a little time there, but my hope is that at least one of our six grandchildren might like to live in a rural setting.” And if they do, there will be a first- class university just down the road. Williams has made sure of that.

12 13 illiams, 77, has done plenty of smart employees, friends and colleagues who do He smiles as he recalls the experience. and Walter Williams became executive vice things in his life, like founding so many things together. That’s how our president. WilcoHess now operates 320 “C” W “I thoroughly enjoyed my attempt to be a Trade Mart, a chain of gas stations and university has grown to what it is today.” stores and 43 restaurants in seven states. teacher. At least I know I tried to be a good convenience stores that grew to more than The company had about 2,800 employees teacher.” 100 outlets and made him a wealthy man. Growing up on a tobacco farm and revenue of more than $1.6 billion in Over the years, he has consistently done what But the pay was small—$2,900 during the 2006, according to a company filing with the he considers the right thing by generously He was the second of four children growing year he taught. He and Marie decided that Security and Exchange Commission. sharing that good fortune with East up on a tobacco farm south of Greenville. if they ever were to start a family, she would During those hectic years while he was Carolina. The basketball arena in Minges His older brother went to N.C. State stay home and he would be the provider. Just growing his business, Williams continued Coliseum is named for him. He finances two University; his two younger sisters would not on a teacher’s salary. follow him to East Carolina. He attended cultivating his roots in eastern North athletic scholarships and has supported many That’s when opportunity came knocking. Ayden High School and started to think Carolina and supporting his alma mater. other fund-raising appeals with his money Williams’ older brother, Arthur, had about the possibility of going to college only “If you like where you are, you’re not too and his time. Often, it was his major gift that graduated from State and gone into the in the summer after graduation. crazy about leaving,” he says. Parents in the got the ball rolling. tobacco business in Winston-Salem. He region often sent their children to far-flung Now he’s excited about a new program at “Being a farm boy in the aftermath of the married into a family that owned a fuel colleges, “and they never came back home. ECU that he’s supporting. The STEPP Great Depression, I didn’t travel very far,” company and began working for the firm. I think we should give an education here so program in the College of Education— Williams says. “I got interested in college When the company began looking for that you can make a living in eastern North bolstered by a $1.2 million gift from Williams after high school and finally decided I someone to run its new eastern North Carolina. We have proved that with the and his wife, Marie ’53—will enable students wanted to go.” Carolina operations, Arthur recruited Walter. medical school.” with learning disabilities to earn a college He applied to several colleges, but because it For the next 29 years, Walter worked for degree and pursue a career, possibly teaching was so close to the fall term, they already had what was Taylor Oil Co. Embodying the Pirate Club other learning-disabled students. picked their freshman class. Except one— In 1984, when he became eligible to retire, Williams rarely seeks attention for his good East Carolina Teachers College. So Williams Walter Williams decided to strike out on Williams joined the Pirate Club in 1966 and deeds and has few of the trappings of a enrolled at the college down the road. his own. over the years came to personify the boosters group. His Trade Oil Co. provided the Pirate millionaire. He and Marie still live in the “I thought I might transfer to N.C. State “I retired from one job one day and started a Club with its first-ever $1 million gift in same home in Greenville they have shared after one or two years, but after I got new business the next,” he says. 1993 during the university’s Shared Visions for nearly 40 years. As a way to get some there, I thought I would work on toward He established Trade Oil Co. Inc. with two campaign. The gift went toward renovating exercise, and to remind himself of his graduation.” farmboy upbringing, he mows part of his stores that had been Taylor Oil stations. Minges Coliseum, and in April 1994 the yard and rolls his garbage can to the curb He pursued a major in health and human Over the next two decades the firm grew basketball arena was rededicated as Williams rather than pay for yard service or backyard performance while developing a strong liking into a chain of more than 100 stores, mainly Arena in honor of the gift. for athletics. He didn’t play sports in college, in the eastern third of North Carolina. Trade garbage pickup. Marie helps cut the grass. Williams served as executive president of the but he was an avid spectator and went to as Oil developed Trade Marts, its version of the foundation in 1997, and he co-chaired the But he couldn’t escape the spotlight recently many games as possible. relatively new concept of pump-your-own Kickoff to Victory fund-raising campaign in when his contributions were recognized far gas and convenience stores, called “C” stores After graduation, he was drafted during the 1998, which exceeded its $10 million goal beyond Greenville. CASE, the Council for in the industry, in small towns like Oxford, the Advancement and Support of Education, Korean War. But he also became engaged to a by nearly $1 million. girl he met during his last semester at ECTC, Wake Forest, Henderson, Fuquay, Clayton, named him its southeast regional winner of He became executive director emeritus of the Marie Stallings. They became engaged while Fayetteville, Smithfield, Newport and the Bill Franklin Volunteer of the Year Award. foundation in 2002, which was around the he was in the Army and were married after Mount Olive. The award recognizes college benefactors time he co-chaired fund raising for the new his discharge. She had received her education The business grew through simple, yet whose efforts make a long-term impact on baseball stadium. By the end of 2005 the an institution and higher education and who degree and began teaching in Farmville. methodical, steps. “We grew our business Company revenues were $267 million in As Williams grew the Trade Mart chain, campaign had secured $9.4 million to build play a significant role in fund raising, alumni After his discharge, he came back to after we found a piece of property and built 2005, the year Williams sold to Amerada brother Arthur was doing the same with his Clark-LeClair Stadium. relations and student recruiting. Greenville with GI Bill benefits and enrolled a building,” Williams says. “Once our kids in graduate school. He received a master’s came into the business, they did the same Hess. string of 140 “C” stores from the Carolinas Walter and Marie Williams also endowed At the awards banquet in Nashville in up to Pennsylvania. In 2001, Arthur’s degree in education supervision in 1955. thing. I think the growth was fast because the The firm also developed a reputation two $150,000 scholarships for basketball early February, Williams joked that “the A.T. Williams Oil Co. merged forces with idea worked.” for service, mainly because of Williams’ players and one $100,000 fund for the Spirit competition must not be very good this “I never thought about teaching, but I thought Amerada Hess, the leading independent operating philosophy: “Treat the other guy of the East Scholarship Endowment. year.” Turning serious, he added: “No that getting a teaching certificate would help Trade Oil Co. was ranked as the nation’s oil company on the eastern seaboard, to like you want to be treated, whether he is a volunteer is any better than the other me get a job,” he said. And it did. His first job 74th-largest convenience store chain by become WilcoHess. Trade Oil Co. followed The Williamses have provided $25,000 customer or an employee. We operate like a volunteers who help. It’s volunteers, was teaching eighth grade in nearby Farmville. an industry newsletter. suit by merging with WilcoHess in 2005, annually for the past five years to go into a Convenience Store News, family, and our customer comes first.”

14 15 Terry Holland congratulates Walter and Marie Williams at the CASE awards dinner. passion Walter has for his university, and allgren H whenever his beloved Pirates have needed

ndrea ndrea him, he has come through for them,” A Holland says. Williams considers ECU “the University of Eastern North Carolina” and believes that it will continue growing in academic stature. “I can see an engineering school coming out of its infancy a few years from now. I’d like to see a separate school of journalism. If we really do need more lawyers, we could have a law school,” he says. “I want to see success at many levels.”

Still working every day Williams could be living a comfortable life leadership scholarship fund for freshmen. not gone to college. The process of preparing in retirement, but he goes to work daily at these students for college begins while they His interest in education extends beyond the eastern regional affairs of WilcoHess in are finishing their high school studies. ECU to include Pitt Community College, Greenville. He remains president of Trade where he serves on the board of trustees. “This gives us an opportunity to help Oil, which is now involved primarily in real He has been an adult education program eastern North Carolina, and it gives ECU estate. His son David and daughter Ann volunteer and a campaign volunteer for the an opportunity to learn how to teach those both have been involved in the business college’s baseball capital campaign. kids,” Williams says. “And it will give the since their graduation from college, David graduates firsthand experience in teaching from Mount Olive College and Ann from “Pitt Community College has done a others, if they so choose.” Meredith College. super job taking the average hard-working individual and giving that person some “Walter and I have a special place in our For all he has done for ECU, Williams opportunities through education. hearts for ECU,” Marie Williams said. doesn’t consider himself a philanthropist. [Pitt County Memorial Hospital] has “The economic and cultural impact [of “I’m just a hard-working old man. You can’t “Frances and I have enjoyed a lifelong relationship with East Carolina. I grew up a block from campus, tons of people who have been through the university] have influenced our family’s go through life getting accolades unless you met my bride at class registration, got Frances in trouble for holding her hand on the Mall, and have Pitt Community College’s medical-related financial success immensely. As a result, we are willing to pay the price of working for programs.” feel we need to give back to our university those accolades,” he says. made great friends with so many fellow Pirates, includingJoin President Wright andtoday! Chancellors Jenkins and our region when possible.” ECU Chancellor Steve Ballard respectfully and Messick.” Taking a STEPP forward This kind of thinking does not go disagrees. “Walter is humble and unassuming and does not seek the limelight through Now, he and his wife are turning their unnoticed. “He never stops talking about Join Virgil ’50 and Frances ’52 Clark as charter members of the East Carolina Alumni Association. his philanthropy. His only goal is to see attention to the STEPP program and [East Carolina]; he never declines to positive things happen for the university, and Membership in the Alumni Association helps to provide quality programs and services such as Pirate providing a college education for learning- represent it; and he consistently provides I hope he will be by our side for many years disabled students. Using the Williamses’ significant monetary support to it,” says Career Calls and the Pirate Alumni Network, traditional activities such as Homecoming and reunions, to come. I find it difficult to visualize East founding gift, Project STEPP—Supporting Marilyn Sheerer, vice chancellor for student Carolina University without his ongoing alumni and faculty awards, and student scholarships. As a member, you will join the ranks of alumni Transition and Education through Planning life. What is more impressive, she added, is support and advocacy.” like the Clarks who demonstrate their pride, dedication, and commitment to East Carolina University. and Partnerships—admitted its first two that “he doesn’t seek personal recognition; students in fall 2006. It should grow to rather, he wants the program that the gift The kind words are flattering, but Williams Join today! about 50 students over the next five years. supports to be highlighted.” prefers to keep it simple. “I never left the region, which is all the more reason to give Project STEPP is a collaborative effort by ECU Athletic Director Terry Holland says “Our support of East Carolina is out of a grateful heart back,” he says. “I grew up with a dad who several colleges and schools in the university, that one of the first things he learned when believed that if you lived in a community, for what we received here—an education. Our membership as well as community resources and high he arrived in Greenville in 2004 was the you had an obligation to support the schools. It opens the doors to higher impact Williams has had on the university. in the Alumni Association is another way we support a community. You had to put something back.” education to students who traditionally have “There are few individuals that possess the East place that has given us so much.”

16 17 a century of service

Chancellor Ballard welcomes House Speaker Joe Hackney, Senate President Welcome to the NC General Assembly Marc Basnight and UNC system President Erskine Bowles. By Chancellor Steve Ballard Mark Kawanishi Mark This is a great day to be a Pirate! A century ago, East Carolina Teachers Training School was born in the North Carolina General Assembly. A hundred years and more than a hundred thousand alumni later, we are proud to have become East Carolina University. And we are honored that the General Assembly is coming to our campus to recognize the university in a rare joint session away from the Capitol. Today, we are a nationally ranked research university known for our achievements in education, the arts, health ECU Gospel Choir sciences, athletics and more. We are defined by our motto of meaning “To Serve.” We are known for the Centennial Award of Excellence winners Kay Murphy and Lisa Overman successServire, of our partnerships with the city, the county, 1 the public schools, the community colleges, Pitt County Memorial Hospital and the private sector. East Carolina kicked off its centennial North Carolina and the nation,” the resolution Carolina. Former North Carolina Secretary celebration in March with the help of the concludes. of State Janice H. Faulkner ’53 ’56 served as We are the fastest-growing public university in the state, North Carolina General Assembly, the UNC After the joint session, the legislators moderator (4). At the forum, Chancellor adding more than twice as many students over the last Board of Governors and the best wishes of joined the ECU Board of Trustees and other Steve Ballard announced establishment of five years as any other campus. We are the state leader dozens of other admirers. dignitaries for a ceremonial groundbreaking the Servire Society to recognize faculty, Driven to Greenville from Raleigh on for the new fountain being constructed in staff and students involved in public service. in distance education. We prepare more education buses, members of the state House and Wright Circle (2). Servire, Latin meaning “to serve,” is the professionals, nurses and allied health practitioners than university’s motto. Senate held a ceremonial session in Wright After a lunch served to hundreds on the any other university in North Carolina. Our medical Auditorium and adopted a resolution During its two-day meeting in Greenville, mall (3), the Chancellor’s Forum on Service school graduates practice in North Carolina at a higher extolling ECU’s accomplishments (1). “The focused on the importance of public service the UNC Board of Governors confirmed the General Assembly recognizes and honors and volunteerism. Panelists are the forum appointment of two new members of the rate than those of the state’s three other medical schools. the founders of East Carolina University included Greenville attorney and Board of ECU Board of Trustees—Robert Brinkley ’78, for their vision, commends the university Governors member Phillip Dixon ’71, former a retired attorney from Charlotte; and Those of us lucky enough to be working and studying for its contributions to North Carolina and Duke Power president Ruth Shaw ’69 ’72, Carol Mabe ’70, a retired apparel executive at East Carolina today owe a tremendous debt to our its people, extends congratulations on the from Greensboro. They replaced board 3 former governor James B. Hunt Jr. and predecessors on this campus as well as to our friends and institution’s centennial anniversary, and looks Joel Butler, chief external affairs officer Chairman Steve Showfety, a Greensboro forward to a second century of service by for University Health Systems of Eastern developer, and Mike Kelly, a Nags Head supporters in Greenville and beyond. Beginning with the university on behalf of the people of restaurant owner. Gov. Thomas Jordan Jarvis, we have flourished because 4 of the effort and commitment of our champions. On 2 behalf of all of us at ECU, I want to say: Thank you. We couldn’t have done it without you. Mark Kawanishi Mark And I have a promise: We’re going to become even better. Eastern North Carolina is more than our home. It is in our name and in our genes. We are committed to five dimensions that are integral to our mission: access to our resources, student success, economic development, helping the underserved and creating partnerships that work. Together with you, we will make our second hundred years even more spectacular than our first. Tomorrow starts here.

18 19 ECU Police Officer Chester Jones ECU, which enjoys a reputation as a safe campus, is spending an extra $1 million to keep it that way

By Marion Blackburn Photography by Forrest Croce Playing it safe 20 21 These days, keeping students safe—even if is your downtown—and what are you doing but also to new crimes like identity theft. Students, too, are being called on to take they live off campus—is an integral part to make sure these areas are safe?’ Parents and greater responsibility for their own safety. With this new funding, campus leaders of university life. While ECU has largely students want to know what we are doing, Moreover, plans are ahead to equip all dorms are enhancing computers, cameras and escaped the tragedies that have hit other because safety can affect everything.” with fire sprinklers, at an estimated cost of communications. A full evaluation of universities, campus leaders want to make nearly $11 million. To strengthen safety on and around campus, campus lighting is under way, and a new sure students have a strong safety net. They’re the university has increased spending by $1 campus safety committee is examining the “There’s no way the police department can reaching beyond campus boundaries with million this year, part of a special focus by most important issues for staff and faculty. be responsible for all kinds of safety,” says innovative prevention programs and an Chancellor Steve Ballard. That emphasis Michelle Lieberman, director of the Center expanded role for campus police. Well before the two murders at UNC comes partially in response to violent, for Off-Campus and Community Living and Wilmington two years ago and the massacre “Parents have expectations of universities, often fatal incidents at other campuses but co-chair of the university’s safety committee. at Virginia Tech in April, East Carolina and so do students,” says Dr. Marilyn also reflects an ongoing concern at East Lieberman, who is East Carolina’s point was working to heighten student safety by Sheerer, vice chancellor in the Division of Carolina that college life today is different person to coordinate safety goals, has made enhancing patrols and boosting cooperation Student Life. “Many times parents will ask than a generation ago. Today’s students are national presentations on programs her office with the Greenville Police Department. me, ‘How safe is your campus?’ or ‘How safe susceptible to traditional risks like date rape is managing. She also is leading a series of Neighborhood Coalition meetings. Paul Dunn, courtesy The Daily Reflector “Safety isn’t just police, it’s everyone,” she ECU Police Officer says. “You have to be proactive.” Tamesha Moore “It is important to remember that no one hen fire erupted at an off-campus is immune to violence or disaster,” Ballard apartment building earlier this year, a said after the Virginia Tech tragedy. “But it is equally important to know that we Wteam from ECU arrived on the scene not constantly train, study and prepare for the long after the Greenville fire trucks. As smoke poured unexpected.” from the second-floor balcony, Dr. Lynn Roeder, Campus as community ECU’s interim dean of students, comforted the evacuated Think of towns the size of Statesville, New Bern or Sanford. Their populations are students, some cradling dogs in their arms, as they about the same as the nearly 26,000 ECU shivered in the winter chill. students, faculty and staff who live and work on campus. All those people are jammed into “We checked to see if they were OK, then made sure no some relatively small spaces—the 521 acres on Main Campus, 206 acres at the medical one was feeling a sense of trauma,” says Roeder, who also school and 650 acres at the West Research is associate vice chancellor. “Once we knew they were OK, Campus. In some ways that geographic concentration makes police work easier. we wanted to make sure that if a student couldn’t get back Trends in Campus Crimes One big downside of policing the campus into the building, they had somewhere to stay.” is the sheer inventory of buildings requiring constant security. There are 155 buildings 2004 2005 2006 Roeder ordered pizza and hot chocolate and began Violent crimes alone on Main Campus—dorms, office and classroom buildings. Most are full making arrangements for the displaced students. “They Rape 4 2 5 Robbery 4 0 3 of valuable equipment, such as the 2,325 already had a sense of loss, and we wanted to make sure Aggravated assault 5 3 6 computers available for students to use. Each building on campus is assigned a police no one was going to have to sleep in their car, and that Property crimes officer who checks it twice during a shift. their pets were also taken care of,” she says. “At a time Burglary 20 17 10 Dorms are locked at all times. Larceny 280 207 245 The campus is protected by 131 security Car theft 5 2 1 like that, students can’t always think about what the next cameras, more than 65 “blue light” phones for step should be.” Source: ECU Police Department. Statistics emergency calls and more than 100 alarms and are only for crimes occurring on campus. “panic buttons.” The ECU Police Department’s

22 23 control room is a nerve center of multiple burglaries at the homes of students living say that kind of immediate communication A wiser, more cautious campus computer screens surrounding the dispatcher. off campus, compared to more than 100 the is critical during a crisis. Peter Romary, ECU’s director of student year before. Lieberman says statistics bear out that ECU Greenville police have made student safety a legal services, expects the university will is a safe campus. There have been no murders Her office also has worked closely with priority, too. When Greenville Police Chief institute more broad, aggressive approaches on campus in the school’s history. The last Greenville Police and the City Council to William J. Anderson assumed his job last to combat crime involving students. In incident involving a gun occurred in 1989 encourage cooperation in other areas, such year he initiated “Impact Teams” for the January, Romary played a key role in a and ended without any injuries. There was an as enforcing rental guidelines, underage university community that helped reduce daylong higher education safety symposium accidental discharge of a gun at a dance on drinking restrictions and parking in the burglaries and assaults. at ECU, which featured speaker Steven campus without anyone being hurt. nearby communities. “Naturally, student safety is of major Healy, chief of police at Princeton Still, officials concede that some concerns “It takes a community effort,” Lieberman importance to our community,” Anderson University and president of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement over student safety remain. One concern is says. “We want to create an atmosphere says. “We have a lot of students who Planning for pandemic flu rape. Five were reported last year, four of of caring, because this community is our participate in downtown activities, and Administrators. Romary has conducted safety training for the entire UNC system, The 1918 pandemic flu struck so which were committed by acquaintances of neighborhood.” there were some problems in the past, so quickly on campus that every bed in the victims. we put a high priority on safety citywide, as well as for the Department of Public the infirmary was filled and students were moved out of one wing of old but particularly in the downtown and the Instruction. He is a member of the National Whether an assailant is known or unknown, Partners with police Wilson dormitory so their beds could university area.” Crime Victims Bar Association. be used by the sick. rape is a violent crime, says ECU Police Maj. Creating a sense of community also brings Frank Knight. None of the reported rapes What’s more, Anderson says, his force and “We have to look at our own campus, to see There are no records of deaths, but a changing role for campus police officers. what the problems are here. We can’t just the experience was so chilling that, last year included compounding injuries. While officers’ primary responsibility is to campus leaders soon will take a hard look three years later, a few students The acquaintance rapes occurred either in at alcohol use and abuse, the issue many look at what we read in the newspapers,” catching colds caused a quarantine enforce the law, these days campus cops are that lasted nine weeks. “When the assailant’s dorm room or in the female consider the underlying cause of most Romary says. For instance, he says alcohol emphasizing prevention and relationship- abuse is a major problem across the nation one was caught sneezing, she was student’s room. All but one involved alcohol. building more than ever. While officers are crime. In March, the Greenville City Council snatched up whether she wanted to approved the Greenville-ECU Task Force to on college campuses, and ECU is no go or not, and given a big dose of The university offers self-defense classes assigned to a dorm and make regular checks exception. U.S. Department of Justice salts or something worse,” alumna Study Student-Related Alcohol Issues. Attie Bray ’22 recalled in a memoir. that teach specific strategies for avoiding each shift, they also conduct safety programs statistics indicate that 90 percent of all acquaintance rape. Knight says the campus and get to know students, hoping to help No one wants to think about the A&T. The Greenville Police Department also college crime is related to alcohol use. In the possibility of an outbreak of bird flu police department plans to carefully analyze them learn to protect themselves and their Strangers not the problem is certified by the commission. “It makes for spring, ECU Police began riding campus on campus, but ECU is preparing a the number and type of rapes occurring this belongings. response in case one occurs. a more professional agency,” Stroud says. As in society at large, it’s often the people we buses at night to help quell some recent year to gauge trends. Any increase would “A lot of our programs are designed to know who are most threatening. Domestic alcohol-related rowdiness. “We have a plan,” says Bill Koch, ECU’s director of environmental bring more focus on the problem, he said. make people aware,” says ECU Chief of An extraordinary degree of cooperation abuse and relationship violence, along with between ECU and Greenville police has been Other hot-button issues include reckless health and safety. “The Student Health But Lieberman emphasized that what happens Police Robert Stroud, who recently left this date rape, are continued concerns for female Service is already instructing people good for town and gown. When a rash of driving—a problem that he says is often on campus is only part of the picture, because position. “Our officers make crime prevention students. in ways to prevent flu, and we’re also robberies in a downtown parking lot caused ignored. Moreover, stalking and date rape are putting together a web site and other more than 70 percent of students don’t live presentations and talk about how to stay safe, information programs for faculty, staff problems, both forces joined to solve them, “Stranger rapes are very rare on campus, but “silent epidemics” on any college campus. there. Most live in large-scale apartment for instance, if you’re going to a club. and students.” Stroud says. Similarly, an armed robbery we do see two to three sexual assaults on complexes scattered around Greenville. “We need to identify the major issues that The university’s plan in case of a “Security is not just the police department’s attempt close to campus was spotted by campus a year by an acquaintance,” Stroud our students face, whether it’s interpersonal serious flu outbreak is based on a Lieberman says there have been marked responsibility, it’s everyone working together,” ECU police, who radioed Greenville police, says. “We encourage students to report them, safety, such as assaults, relationship violence statewide response, because chances he says. “We try to get information out, and we have services to help.” Victims advocate are good that if a deadly flu appears reductions in crime in the nearby community who made an arrest and confiscated a gun. or sexual assault, or whether it’s Internet on one UNC system campus it won’t where many students and faculty live. so people will be more aware and take and counseling services are available to women be long before it’s at others. Gov. Mike A mutual aid agreement between the two safety,” he says. “We have to focus on arising Stepped-up patrols over the winter holidays, precautions, even steps that are as simple who experience sexual assault. The Student Easley has signed an executive order agencies means that from midnight to 4 issues.” that would close campuses and other typically the worst times for burglaries as locking your door when you leave your Health Center on campus can conduct a.m., both ECU and Greenville police are public meeting places in case of because most students leave town, made residence hall. We also encourage people that examinations and gather evidence without At the dean of students office, Roeder knows an outbreak. patrolling the area. What’s more, ECU a dramatic difference this year, as did if something doesn’t look right, give us a call.” requiring women to travel to a hospital. students need guidance through their hard police have enlarged their patrol area to now “We are coordinating with other UNC greater cooperation between the ECU times. That support can help keep them safe institutions, because if one closes, the The campus police department has focused include a greater off-campus area. This kind SafeRide, a student shuttle service, can help others will have to close, too. We’d and Greenville police forces. Lieberman’s and able to continue their studies, no matter more resources on improving the training of of flexibility has decreased the potential for students avoid unsafe situations, says Capt. like to have closed before flu hit our office distributed flyers to students living in what comes their way—whether it’s a fire or campus,” Koch says. its officers, an effort that bore fruit when it crimes near campus, Stroud says. Mike Perry, who heads the ECU Police a car accident. “We want to take care of our these off-campus neighborhoods offering received a stamp of approval this spring from Campus Safety Division and also co-chairs He says that East Carolina and N.C. own, to educate them and make sure they State University would consider tips to prevent break-ins and thefts. City the national Commission for Accreditation In addition, part of the university’s new the safety committee. The vans take students, police ramped up their efforts and used funding this year will purchase a Viper have the services they need,” she says. “A lot conditions within a 500-mile perimeter for Law Enforcement Agencies. East staff members or faculty from any place on of what this office does is to deal with crisis, when considering when to close. For undercover officers, foot patrols and intensive Carolina is one of only four UNC system communications system, estimated to cost campus to their homes. students, closure wouldn’t mean no and I want to be wherever I can to reassure school, however. Classes would likely monitoring of the hot areas. campuses to attain the certification, along about $400,000, allowing officers from ECU to reach Greenville Police without going “If you need a ride, we’re going to give it to the students.” continue through distance courses. As a result, last Christmas season saw no with UNC Chapel Hill, N.C. State and N.C. —Marion Blackburn through an operator or dispatcher. Officials you,” Perry says. East

24 25 from the classroom

lthough he’s associate dean Aof the East Carolina College of Business, Stan Eakins seems as comfortable around computers as Internet Ready spreadsheets. He should By Steve Tuttle Stan Eakins after spending the past six years leading the business school’s move to the Internet and its enviable status as the only nationally accredited online MBA program in the UNC system. He’s learned two important things about the online medium and its message. “We can’t tolerate downtime. You have to have an IT infrastructure that will get us back online in 15 minutes. You also Online education soars have to rethink how a teacher interacts with a as ECU opens its doors to class of students when you don’t see each other anyone with a computer face to face.”

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Distance Education Enrollment For example, when a student Triples in Three Years then, professors traveled around in a traditional classroom has a the region to hold classes. That 6,000 question, she raises her hand. gave way in the 1970s to classes Becoming the university of anywhere The professor answers the delivered by correspondence. question, and everyone in the 5,000 “ECU has a tradition of service

class shares the same information. S to our region and our region f North Carolina had to Every campus in the UNC How do you transfer that 4,000 is large geographically, people expand the UNC system system now offers online classes information-sharing process to a are spread out. So the idea that to provide classes for every but East Carolina’s program TUDENT I virtual classroom? somebody can’t come to campus student now pursuing a degree dwarfs the others. In 2005 its 3,000 is not a new idea to us. We take through distance education, it virtual students represented 12 It’s simple. Almost all of ECU’s education to them.” would need another Appalachian percent of the statewide DE online MBA classes involve 2,000 NUMBER OF S State and UNC Greensboro population. The 78,000 credit audio and video, often delivered The growth of the Internet in combined. Even then there hours taken by ECU’s DE live through the Blackboard the early 1990s allowed ECU wouldn’t be enough seats for the students compare to 27,000 portal, where the student—who 1,000 to plan the switch from the nearly 33,000 students enrolled at N.C. State, which has the might be in Beaufort, Benson or mailman to e-mail to deliver in online degree programs, state’s second-largest program, Baghdad—hears a lecture and course work; it offered its first according to a report to the state and 21,000 at UNC Pembroke. sees interactive graphics. On the 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 online classes in 1994 and by legislature by the UNC Board of UNC Chapel Hill had the corner of their computer screens 1996 had enough practical ACADEMIC YEAR Governors. The report concludes fourth-largest program and ASU is an icon in the shape of a experience with the medium to that the university system’s move was fifth. ECU also offers the hand. “The teacher will talk and begin offering an online master’s to the Internet as a way to open widest range of degrees that illustrate something by writing on degree in industrial technology, ECU alone is responsible for more than a public access to higher education can be completed online, with the screen or showing a PowerPoint,” Eakins Poe says. The UNC system watched ECU’s quarter of all distance education delivered is succeeding and should be 35—14 undergraduate and 21 explains. “Then he will stop and ask, ‘Are groundbreaking efforts and similar initiatives through the 16-campus UNC system. expanded, particularly at a time graduate programs. there any questions?’ If someone does, they at other state schools and officially made when the UNC system is full click [the hand]. The teacher will see that Who—and where—are all these virtual distance education a priority in 1997. After It costs the state $1,301 per to bursting. and can even call the student by name—‘I ECU students? Typically, she is a 35-year-old East Carolina and three other schools led student to deliver a course see that John has a question.’ And everyone woman with two or more children at home a pilot program to deliver classes by video “We have a lot of people to online, compared to $892 hears the discussion, just the same as if who is pursuing a degree primarily to get a conferencing, the General Assembly made accommodate, and we don’t have for a traditional student. The everyone were sitting in a class on campus.” better job. Almost 60 percent live east of the financial commitment to open the doors the physical space to do that,” By comparison, the University courses at their community 30 percent difference comes I-95 and many receive financial aid. Most are to higher education to everyone with a President Erskine Bowles said at of Massachusetts offers 61 college taught online or in from higher start-up costs in While this marriage of technology and getting degrees in high-priority areas: Nearly computer. a Board of Governors meeting degrees online, Penn State offers person by university instructors. technology, staff training and teaching may seem futuristic, it’s working half—48 percent—are majoring in teacher held at East Carolina in March. 14 and Texas offers 11. The Wachovia Partnership support services. The instructor’s today for the 343 adults who are getting By 2002, ECU’s virtual student body East program at ECU, which education as part of ECU’s commitment Projections are for a nearly 50 Most DE students were enrolled salary accounts for 60 percent of an MBA from East Carolina without had grown to nearly 2,000. Much of the has become a model for other to address the state’s teacher shortage crisis. percent jump in enrollment at in classes that meet occasionally that. Those and other per-pupil ever necessarily leaving home. While that necessary computer infrastructure had been campuses to follow, graduates Another 14 percent are getting degrees in the 16 state campuses over the at a regional location, such as a costs should decline when spread sounds impressive, it’s just a fraction of installed and a large number of faculty had hundreds of additional health care—many of them as nurses—and next decade, he added. community college, the report out over additional years, the the overall distance education delivered by been trained in the technology of online classroom teachers each year who 19 percent are in business-related fields. says. Often, that’s so someone report says. East Carolina, which has built the largest About half are completing an undergraduate teaching. “Our faculty members have this The number of distance rarely set foot on campus. such program by far in the UNC system mindset of service,” Poe says. “They’re willing education (DE) students at the community college can The Board of Governors degree and half are working at the master’s administer tests. In fact, 71 About 42 percent of online and the 12th largest nationwide, according level or higher. to explore new ways of communicating and enrolled at the UNC system’s 16 prepared the report at the to . This spring interacting with students. We just didn’t have campuses more than tripled in percent of DE courses were students were completing a request of the General Assembly semester,U.S. News roughly and World 5,800 Report distance education the resistance to online education that was five years to 33,045 in 2005, the delivered this way. baccalaureate degree and 56 as part of its ongoing effort to Blazing the trail percent were enrolled in master’s (DE) students were working on one of 35 seen at some other campuses.” latest year for which statewide Statewide, nearly a third of all expand online education through degree programs. Many also undergraduate and graduate degrees that can Why is distance education so much bigger at data was available. They DE students are enrolled in the the 16 public universities and 58 As DE enrollment swelled to 3,200 in were completing continuing be completed entirely online. East Carolina than most other schools? It’s completed 235,816 credit hours “2+2” partnerships between community colleges. A 1999 law 2003 and to 4,500 two years later, ECU education classes required to because the concept isn’t new here, according enrolled in more than 2,000 universities and community established a framework linking They earned 78,000 credit hours last year. became the world’s largest user of the Centra maintain licensure requirements, to Elmer Poe, associate vice chancellor for classes while working toward one colleges focused on producing the two systems and provided N.C. State, which has the second-largest software system, which essentially turns including nurses, community academic outreach. “You could say we started of 90 different degrees available more classroom teachers. After funding to get the ball rolling. program in the UNC system, delivered only an online student’s computer screen into college instructors and other this back in the 1940s when we had what was entirely online, one of the most completing a two-year degree, 27,000 credit hours to its DE students. similar fields. called extension education,” Poe explains. Back extensive offerings in the nation. those students continue to take —Steve Tuttle …continued on page 30 28 29 from the classroom CATCH THE PASSION • CATCH THE PRIDE • CATCH THE PIRATES!

…continued from page 28 Who’s Teaching online? the blackboard the teacher writes on. The The College of Education is by far the largest force in distance education at ECU, university became the world’s fifth-largest although all seven colleges and two schools offer courses online. This chart tracks user of the Blackboard system, a web portal credit hours taken by DE students during the fall 2006 semester. that is the online student’s virtual campus. College Undergrad Grad

State funding paid most, but certainly not College of Business 1,878 1,959 all, the tab for all the expensive computer College of Education 4,278 6,614 equipment. The General Assembly also started compensating UNC system campuses College of Fine Arts and Communication 2,433 172 for DE students roughly the same way it College of Health and Human Performance 697 671 does regular students. If you live in North College of Human Ecology 802 1,083 Carolina, you pay in-state tuition whether College of Technology and Computer Science 1,467 978 you’re on campus or online. Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences 1,676 570 That fact is a major reason why ECU’s School of Allied Health Sciences 1,251 493 online MBA program is rated tops in the nation for quality and affordability by School of Nursing 555 2,254 GetEducated.com, a national clearinghouse Totals 15,109 14,827 2007 HOME FOOTBALL SCHEDULE for distance education programs. An in-state student can complete ECU’s MBA degree September 8 North Carolina in one year at a cost of $7,164, the cheapest Keys to success online classes delivered from the bookstore September 15 Southern Miss in the nation of all online MBA programs in two or three days. They have a student ID Early on, Poe says ECU set a high standard accredited by AASCB, the Association to card that allows them access to other UNC October 6 UCF for its online classes. The university made Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. libraries. When they’re ready to graduate, the decision that instructors teaching October 20 N.C. State “We talk a lot about ROI—return on the Career Services office helps DE students online classes must have the same academic investment—in our MBA classes,” Eakins with preparing resumes. The center also October 27 UAB credentials as everyone else. Online classes says, “and for $7,000 our DE students stages career workshops that helps them would have the same academic content as November 24 Tulane are getting a pretty good ROI, while still prepare for job interviews. those given in class. In the broadest sense, carrying on their regular lives.” DE students would be considered equal to ECU also regularly surveys DE students East Carolina also has noticed a new traditional students. The university adopted to learn how to improve their educational trend—a growing number of students on an attitude that “they are not second-class experience. In one recent survey, 89 percent campus also are taking online courses. Many students,” Poe says. gave top marks to their online courses. Season tickets as low as $100 are students working part-time jobs to help That means DE students are a real part of Interestingly, some professors have come to pay for school who find online classes easier the student body. Thus, when ECU says it prefer teaching DE students. One is Sherry Pirate Club Priority. . . .$220 Faculty/Staff...... $180 on their complicated schedules. Currently, had close to 25,000 students this semester, Southard, who teaches graduate courses in almost 23 percent of DE students are also Economy Plan...... $140 Graduate Plan...... $100 it means it had 19,200 sitting in class and technical and professional writing in the attending classes on campus. 5,800 sitting in front of a computer. English department. “Many of them would To support their in-class and online never be able to get a degree were it not East Carolina provides DE students with an students, many departments at ECU have available online. Because of that, so many of extensive support structure. Early on, they dedicated staffs of IT people who maintain them are just very eager to learn,” Southard are assigned an academic advisor to guide banks of servers and miles of Internet adds. “They want that education.” For season tickets, visit their path toward a degree. A live help desk cables. The College of Business, for example, with an 800 number is open seven days a Helping those students is uniquely has a full-time IT staff of seven, buttressed ECUPIRATES.COM week. There’s even an online writing center rewarding, Southard says. “They share a lot by several grad students. to help DE students with day-to-day class about their lives with me (through e-mail), Because of ECU’s rapid growth in distance assignments. and I learn so much about them. When they or call education enrollments, recruiting and hiring come to graduation, even if it’s the first time ECU also provides a full-time DE librarian, nearly 200 faculty members was a challenge I have met them in person, they say ‘I think I 1-800-DIAL-ECU and students can get textbooks for their last year. really got to know you.’” East

30 ummer sports camps at East Carolina each evening practicing for the big skit they offer kids everything they love about will perform on their last night. Other kids traditional summer camp—new will scheme of ways to outsmart their friends friends, new experiences, and time away from during the swimming camp scavenger hunt. home—while also giving them a giant dose ECU’s formula for summer sports camps of the young athlete’s Holy Grail—hands-on S must be working, because the kids keep training from Division I coaches and players. By Bethany Bradsher coming back. “We get a lot of repeat The campers come by the droves even Illustration by Mike Litwin campers, not just from year to year but though the days are long and the regimen from week to week,” said Jeremy Shyatt, is tough. High school football players will On the Ball at Summer Camp an assistant basketball coach and the block and tackle their way through three coordinator for the two camps the basketball daily sessions, each lasting about three hours program will offer this summer. “I think the under the hot eastern North Carolina sun. East Carolina students by the thousands piled into their June and July, you see, are peak season for summer sports kids come back every year because they have They have a brief break after each meal, but fun, and because they make one or two new the rest of their time is spent on the football cars and headed home when spring semester ended, but camps at East Carolina, which draw hundreds of high friends they might not otherwise meet.” field, sweating. that doesn’t mean the campus will be quiet this summer. school athletes and kids as young as 6 intent on improving In most sports, Pirate athletes themselves Over at Minges Natatorium, swimmers as teach the young campers, many of whom young as 6 will hit the water for four hours Another line of cars—some from as far away as their skills at football, basketball, baseball, soccer, idolize college players because of the dream a day. they represent. But in football, volleyball and Florida and Connecticut—will be heading into volleyball and swimming. The football girls’ soccer, whose overnight camps include But there’s still time for fun and games. Girls the full dorm experience, the camp staff ’s job attending soccer camp will spend some time Greenville filled with hundreds of kids who will camps alone attract a goes way beyond coaching.

32 move into the dorms and line up at the cafeterias. thousand or more campers. 33 True to this may get more of the spotlight, but the Time for fun “The only stipulation we have is that it community’s summer camp experience yields benefits has to be PG-13,” said Donnenwirth. Because rigorous workouts are the order image as a even for those not on a path to a college “Sometimes we have to stop the skit.” of the day, the campers embrace diversions hotbed for scholarship. Besides the fun, parents like Karen Sneed of baseball, the when they do come along. Embedded in “We had about 1,000 kids on campus last Greenville like ECU’s summer camps because ECU baseball the two-day junior volleyball camp are year (for football camps), and we may get they offer kids an opportunity to try new camps are three hours of free swim at the Minges 10 kids to offer a scholarship out of it,” sports. Even though her sons love baseball— the most Natatorium. The swimming camp includes Snow said. “But those 1,000 kids who are her oldest son, Brandon, plays on the Barton specialized. watermelon races in the pool, scavenger here, ECU may end up with 200 or 300 College team—Sneed said her boys have There are hunts and tours of venues like Dowdy- of them down the road as students. The really enjoyed the basketball camps. separate camps Ficklen Stadium. goal would be those who are in the fourth for pitchers and But perhaps the most anticipated event of “Anything you want to improve in your grade, maybe they’ll come here for 10 years

catchers, one the summer comes on the last night of the game, we’ve got a camp for you,” said Ben

CU athletic department athletic CU E Photos courtesy of the the of courtesy Photos in a row, and they decide to make this their that specializes girls’ soccer camp, when groups present skits Sanderson, a graduate assistant coach for school football college choice as well.” kids until head just in hitting, and a father-son camp. Many in the courtyard of the dorm where they ECU and the summer camp coordinator. Although a fraction of the summer campers football coach high school kids will attend them all and have been staying all week. The skits are “It’s a blessing to be in a community that may end up as varsity athletes, they are all Skip Holtz and then hope to get noticed by attending the performed in small groups, and as the week has the caliber programs we have, where willing to work hard to improve their skills, his staff had final camp of the summer—the one reserved goes on the coaches see groups whispering our kids can learn from Division I coaches,” Snow said. “The camps are designed to be some difficult for college prospects. and plotting in corners all over campus. said Lisa Douglas of Greenville, whose two difficult, physically,” he said. “We want them experiences a “They’re definitely on a mission to be daughters have participated in Rushing’s to get their money’s worth while they’re here. couple of Current campers, future Pirates secretive,” said St. George. “Some of them volleyball camps. “We don’t have to go out They’re coming here to learn football, so Take summers ago. come to camp knowing what they’re going of town to get those experiences. We have women’s soccer Planning, promoting and running we want them to go away from here saying, “We spent a lot of to do. They bring props in preparation for them right here.” assistant Shannon St. George, who is known a summer camp is no small task for ‘Wow, they really worked us hard.’” time with little kids late at night that were skit night.” East as the camp’s “dorm czar.” Head coach Rob coaches—everyone from the housing office scared or homesick, away from mom and Donnenwirth laughs that the job isn’t too to food services to the janitorial staff dad for the first time” Snow said. “I’ve spent hard because the young women are so worn could be involved in the process—but the many nights at one or two in the morning out from a day of soccer that the nights annual events have a considerable upside for [on the phone with a parent] saying, ‘He rarely get out of control. The rule is that athletics and for the university as a whole, really is hysterical, and you need to come get they must be in their room for bed check, Snow said. him,’ and mom and dad live two hours away.” but if they stay up and talk, or watch movies Under NCAA regulations, coaches are quietly, no one will come in and make them Separate camps are offered for offensive and prohibited from conducting any recruiting go to sleep, she said. defensive linemen and for players in skilled during summer camps, but the young visitors The Pirate Club is so much more than just an organization. At ECU, we consider positions. There’s also the annual “Beast are paying attention. Every year when ECU the Club a nation. And it takes many members to help build that nation into a group “We have staff go around and make sure of determined and dedicated people who want to watch their favorite teams play, of the East Passing Tournament” in which everyone is in the room they’re supposed to coaches announce their new recruiting but who also believe deeply in the great traditions of ECU Athletics and the aura entire high school teams will compete. be in,” St. George said. “Usually, when we classes they mention one or more recruits of Purple Pride. Whether it’s football, basketball, baseball or any of the 19 sports we offer at our great institution, it takes an alliance of giving contributors and hear about them staying up too late is the Some sports, like swimming and basketball, who came through the summer camp pipeline. Volleyball coach Chris Rushing outstanding student-athletes. next day. They’ll be tired, and during the have switched entirely to a day-camp format We need to continue the process of reaching our goal of 15,000 Pirate Club said he sees an increase in the number of break times you’ll see them taking a nap to because the residential component is so members. Increasing our season ticket holders at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium try and recover.” complicated. Swimming coach Rick Kobe inquiries from potential players in the weeks to 25,000. And raising a minimum of $6 million annually for student-athlete scholarship support. We believe our common goals are worthy. We believe we’re said that hasn’t hurt attendance because the after summer camp. Clifford Snow, the director of football facing challenges that go right to the heart of every ECU alumnus. We believe majority of his campers live within a 60-mile that if you’re not a member of the Pirate Club, you should join right now. And we operations and coordinator for ECU’s four “If people come to camp, it helps us radius of Greenville. It also keeps costs down believe if you are a member, you should accept the challenge of bringing in at football camps, said that he has heard stories to take a look at kids; it helps them for the campers. Registration for the five-day least one new member this year and do your part in building the Pirate Nation. of young men sneaking out over the years, understand how we run drills and how swimming camp is just $275. but he said most of the campers observe the we run practices,” Rushing said. “Quite a rules and stay in their rooms. “We try to keep the team camp cost low, few kids came to camp and then e-mail us so we don’t offer cafeteria food and dorms,” with interest.” Nowadays, only the high school football and he said. “They’re not really interested in The talented high school athletes who women soccer athletes stay in the dorms. ECU Educational Foundation that whole package. They just want the good catapult from summer camp to Minges Ward Sports Medicine Building Overnight camps were offered for elementary East Carolina University competition.” Coliseum or Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium Greenville, NC 27858-4353 Telephone: (252) 737-4540 34 35 pirate connections

Time to log in, Matey! In an ongoing effort to keep alumni connected to the university and to one another, the Alumni Association has launched a new web site and online community that incorporates many new features, including a password-protected directory that will allow you to search for old friends and classmates. The Alumni Association urges all Pirates to go to the site, www.piratealumni.com, and register. You have to do this before you can search the directory. Registered users also can read current and past Class Notes columns and use the services provided by the Career Center. At the Career Center, you can post a resume, search for job openings and receive expert advice through Pirate Career Calls. The To sign up, go to www.piratealumni.com and click on First Time Users in the top left corner center also encourages Pirates to offer your of the page. Use your last name and your Constituent ID (9-digit number after your name) services as a mentor to current students or located on the mailing address label on the back page of this issue of East (inset). recent graduates. 333 Number of alumni honored through Under both agreements, the companies While you’re browsing through the new web our awards program. donate a portion of the proceeds to support site, be sure to share your e-mail address 2,225 Number of hours volunteered by ECU programs and scholarships. with the Alumni Association so we can keep ECU Ambassadors this year. you connected to ECU with our PiratePulse, 148 monthly e-newsletter. Number of alumni events this year. Save the dates 24,996 Number of alumni participating in The new web site also offers a calendar of June 11–12 those events. Annual Slaughter/Johnson alumni events, including some that may be Memorial Golf Tournament in 120,000 Number of living East Carolina Virginia Beach, V occurring in your community. You also can June 15 a. alumni. eCU Night at the subscribe to podcasts of the weekly radio Carolina Mudcats show Do you RSS? If so, 2,174 Number of Pirates who support East Aug. 3 eCU Night at the Durham Bulls A Pirate’s Life for Me! sign-up to receive instant news feed updates Sept. 1 a Carolina through their Alumni Association way Game Tailgate at of alumni news and campus news. membership. Virginia Tech Sept. 29 a way Game Tailgate at Houston By the numbers It pays to be a member Oct. 19 alumni Scholarship Golf Classic 16 Number of Alumni Association Still paying back your college loans? As an Oct. 26 f all Awards Ceremony scholarship recipients this year. ECU graduate you qualify for lower loan Oct. 27 homecoming, ECTC/ECC 3.86 Their average GPA. rates provided by Consolidated Funding Golden Alumni R Black Alumni R eunion, Services, a unit of the Chase Manhattan eunion $38,000 Amount awarded in Alumni Nov. 3 a Bank. There are other advantages of being way Game Tailgate Association scholarships since 2004. at Memphis a member of the Alumni Association, 52 Number of alumni featured on the including group discounts on home and radio program. A Pirate’s Life for Me! auto insurance offered by Liberty Mutual. 37 Class notes

Alumni Spotlight Ray Gunnell of Adam McComb is the 2006 Fredericksburg, Va., is the Mike Litwin 2000 assistant director at the sports programs coordinator at Bragg Hill Family ’01 won a recreation and parks department in Elkin. LESHAUN Life Center and director for FAST Ministries, a Gold ADDY JENKINS, a former ECU tennis player, mentors at- Christian sports ministry. Dazzala Knight, Award for his risk students and coaches basketball at his alma mater illustrations who teaches art at two Greenville schools, collaborated Tarboro High School. Mark Seymour is the

accompaning Department R aleigh Police with ECU art professor Mark Malley on a 144-foot the urban program manager for the Craven County Recreation & mural depicting significant moments and people in legends story Parks Department. Kim Stephenson is the new the history of Princeville, the first town chartered by in the Fall nurse manager for Greenville’s Gastroenterology East & freed slaves after the Civil War. Crystal Lynn 2006 issue of Endoscopy Center, the practice of Dr. Jack Cole, who works in recreation therapy services at PCMH. East. His was was a clinical instructor at BSOM from 1993 to 1995. Clayton McCullough, a Greenville native one of eight awards won Janell Bullock is a realtor and former catcher for the Pirates who played for Mimosa Mallernee ’00, another graphic by ECU’s designer in university publications, was 1999 with ERA Millennia in Greenville. the Cleveland Indians, was promoted from hitting Department also recognized during the competition. Annabella Benfield Cole of Youngsville coach to a manager for the Toronto Blue Jays minor of University Her design of East Carolina’s centennial works with the pediatrics team at UNC Children’s league baseball operations in the Gulf Coast League. Publications logo received a Silver ADDY Award. The Hospital. Julie Womble Smith of Apex is a Cassandra “Casey” Deck-Brown ’87 made ASHLEY MEYER and ADAM WITTER were staff from the logo has been designated the official history a second time when she became the Professional Ad Club East, a chapter of senior recreational therapist in the rehabilitation center married Dec. 28. She is pursuing her MAEd in health mark of ECU’s centennial celebration. In first woman elevated to the rank of major in the the American Advertising Federation. at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Lynn Cheryl education at ECU, and he plays for the San Francisco addition to centennial-related university Raleigh Police Department. Deck-Brown, who Litwin’s illustrations went on to win a Wilczewski of Midlothian, Va., received a Giants. Janna Thompson, a park attendant publications, the logo has appeared on a has worked for the Raleigh PD for 19 years, now Silver ADDY in PACE’s regional Fulbright-Hayes Award from the U.S. Department of at River Park North and after-school program variety of items ranging from golf shirts to competition. His latest work illustrates the Education to study in Russia and Poland for five weeks is in charge of the department’s Administrative coordinator at Wahl-Coates Elementary School, is Pepsi cans. summer sports camps article on page 32. during summer 2007. Services Division, which provides training, pursuing her environmental education certification. administrative support and technical services Heather Vercoe works part time in aquatics for Joel Butler, the chief to the department’s 750 officers. In 2003 she PCMH’s recreation therapy services. Dave White at Bryant T. Aldridge Rehabilitation Center in Rocky Patterson is the athletics supervisor for the 1998 external affairs officer for became the first woman to command one of works for the High Point Parks and Recreation Mount. Justine Smith Wilson works in City of Wilson Parks & Recreation Department and University Health Systems and an ECU trustee, was a Raleigh’s six police districts. Deck-Brown, who Department. recreation therapy services at PCMH. commissioner for Wilson City Little League. Holly panelist for the Chancellor’s Forum on Service as part also has a master’s in public administration of ECU’s centennial celebration on March 8. Kristy Dana Bullard is the Frances Scott and Robert Michael from N.C. State, is the sister-in-law of former Wesley Barnes was Conway ’98 ’02, who was recently a corporate and eastern superintendent for Harrington ’03 ’04 were married Dec. 6 in Raleigh police chief Mitch Brown. 2005 2004 promoted to a commercial taxation paralegal, is a new Re/Max Preferred Realty Sampson County Parks & Recreation in Newton Wanchese. She directs Spa Koru in Avon, and he is lender position at East Carolina Bank in Avon and staff member who specializes in residential real estate Deck-Brown grew up in Franklin County, Grove, and she coordinated a haunted trail at a local general manager of Resort Realty of the Outer Banks. now works at a Greenville branch. Shaquanna sales and coordinates marketing and administrative but spent summers in Philadelphia with park in fall 2006. TAYLOR BRAXTON HOLT, Johnson ’04 ’06 married Ian Stevens on Dec. 16. Meredith Broome is a programs as the manager for Team TNT, which her mother’s relatives. Her interest in law originally of Greenville and now of Wilmington, She teaches first-year composition at ECU.G ina 2001 relocation sales representative for includes two brokers. Kevin Haltigan of enforcement was aroused one day in accepted a job within a week of graduation as a Marie SUMMA Smith of Rocky Mount, and her Allied Vanlines in Raleigh. Debbie Bryne, who Greenville partnered with his older brother, Pat Philadelphia when she saw a woman officer project superintendent with Southeast Custom husband, Joshua, had a daughter, Kaitlyn Virginia, on worked with Maricopa County Parks in Arizona, lives Haltigan IV, to form P&K Land Development in working on the street. “She looked sharp in Homes and passed the N.C. Licensing Board for Jan. 12. Pam Wallace Toll, a professor at UNC in Syracuse, N.Y., and works for the Onondaga County 2000, a company that provides structure demolition her uniform. Just the way she carried herself general contractors exam in fall 2006. Michelle Wilmington and co-founder of the No Boundaries Parks system. Wendy Nicole Harris and and land preparation, and in 2006 to form New East and the way she handled her business. She Lonsway Mathis is the program director at International Art Colony and Acme Art Studios, Jonathan Coleman Sergeant were married on Jan. 20 Recycling & Container Service, which provides large was in charge.” Creative Living Center, an adult day care in Greenville. gave a talk at Cameron Art Museum in January about in Pactolus. She is a processing assistant in Academic containers for commercial and residential demolition April Britton Mathews is a recreational Deck-Brown entered the Raleigh Police inspirations for her mixed-media paintings. Cara Affairs at ECU.Ro bert M. Hughes IV, who was and debris clean-up. JAMES TED LOCKAMON is therapist and child life specialist at Heritage Academy shortly after graduating from college. White is in graduate school at UNC Chapel Hill. awarded fellowships from the Burroughs-Wellcome the sports coordinator for Henderson, Nev. The city’s She initially worked as a patrol officer and a Hospital/Northeast Rehabilitation Center in Tarboro. Foundation and the American Chemical Society Tiffany Griffis was youth sports program received the 2006 National crime prevention-community relations officer RANDALL LEACH worked on a section of a 144- Division of Organic Chemistry while completing his promoted from a loan processor Excellence in Youth Sports Award from the National and was later promoted to detective. After foot mural depicting significant moments and people 2003 doctoral work in organic chemistry at UNC, received to a retail lender at The East Carolina Bank in Alliance for Youth Sports and magazine earning her master’s degree, she was promoted in the history of Princeville, the first town chartered a post-doctoral fellowship at Duke University in Athletic Business Morehead City and now works at a Greenville branch. at the Athletic Business Conference and Expo in Las to sergeant and later to lieutenant and served by freed slaves after the Civil War. ASHKA LEWIS, biochemistry. James Parker is the athletic program ELIZABETH RICHMOND WEEKS, an Alpha Vegas. Gilbert Michael Whitford Jr., a as the department’s grants manager. an employment specialist at East Carolina Vocational coordinator for Fayetteville-Cumberland Parks and Delta Pi sister, and JUSTIN THOMAS HOTT, a safety coordinator with Pitt County Schools, and his Center, cut an R&B CD entitled Recreation Department. CHAD AUSTIN TRACY, Deck-Brown’s husband, David, has been with It’s About That Time Sigma Phi Epsilon brother, were married on Sept. 30, wife, Rolanda Toler Whitford, had a daughter, Isabella with 130 Entertainment Group, an N.C.-based a Charlotte native who played baseball for ECU from the Raleigh Police Department for 25 years. 2006, in Goldsboro and live in New Bern. Grace, on April 11, 2006. independent record label. Kathryn Osgood, 1999 to 2001, is a third baseman for the National “One of us outranking the other has never been an award-winning jeweler, metalsmith and instructor Mark Tyler Beard League’s Arizona Diamondbacks. Whitney MATT JONES DUFFY of an issue,” she said. “He’s my biggest fan.” for the College of the Albemarle’s Professional Crafts and Melissa Rana Meredith Wilson and Richard Ashton Oakley 1997 Roswell, Ga., received his MA Jewelry program, was selected as the featured artist 2002 Motahari ’03 were married Oct. 28. A Kappa were married on Dec. 30 in Greensboro. She is assistant in mass communication from the Grady College at the eighth annual Currituck Arts Council Art Delta sister, she teaches at Greenville’s Eastern principal at Alexander Wilson Elementary School in of Journalism at the University of Georgia in May Extravaganza in March at Currituck County High Elementary School, and he is a design engineer Graham and is pursuing her doctorate in educational 2006 and teaches journalism at Georgia College in School. Tyshon Pugh is a recreational therapist for Carolina Cabinet Co. in Wilson. Braxton leadership at UNC Greensboro. Dunwoody. Melissa Dawson Jernigan is

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Alumni Spotlight a recreation supervisor for Fayetteville-Cumberland CASSANDRA DARDEN BELL Delilah Jackson ’90 ’96 is executive director Sutton, a cardiologist with Mid Carolina Parks and Recreation Department. Kelly 1993 of Winterville released her fourth of human resources for Pitt County Schools. JIM Cardiology in Gastonia, was named 2007 secretary for Graham Kivette is a senior therapeutic novel, , in October, following LUX is the business manager of the Center for Gaston Memorial Hospital.

teven N ehl teven recreation specialist at UNC Healthcare in Chapel Changing Lanes The Color HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology in Durham, and S (2002), (2004), and Patrice Alexander, Hill. She and her husband, Aaron Kivette ’99, of Love Mississippi Blues After the combines planning and spontaneity when he crafts (2005). Jacqueline Ellis, an award- formerly human resources have a 1-year-old son, Cole. Olivia Plymale Storm his hand-built pit-fired pottery, which he shows each 1986 winning administrator, was promoted from principal manager for the Sara Lee Bakery in Tarboro, is the new Salter, who was Cary/Apex’s 1993 Junior Miss year at the Craven Allen Gallery. Georgann of Culbreth Middle School to a position in Wake director of human resources at Greenville Utilities. and was named the state’s Most Outstanding Local County Schools. , a Seagrove potter, Athanaelos Sapp ’90 ’91 was recognized by the BEN OWEN III RICHARD E. HALL, director of land use for Chairman after two years heading Pitt County’s Junior Kannapolis Board of Education for her art teaching will travel to Santi Mountain in Gidong, China, to Maryland’s department of planning and president Miss program, is an elementary school counselor and at Jackson Park and Woodrow Wilson Elementary participate in a dedication ceremony for a park at of the Maryland chapter of the American Planning master teacher instructor with ECU’s Department of schools and her community work: Kannapolis City the place where downed World War II fighter pilot Association, was nominated by Maryland Gov.-elect Curriculum and Instruction. Lynnette Taylor, Schools Mentor Committee, co-chair of Jackson Park’s Lt. Robert H. Upchurch was buried for 60 years. Martin O’Malley to be secretary of the state planning who was a WITN-TV 7 anchor and reporter from Owen made two jugs out of clay from Upchurch’s communications/family and community support department. Ella Tyson Harris, a vice 1998 to 2002 before accepting an anchor position in committee, Kannapolis City Schools news team, new Moore County gravesite; one will stay in Moore principal at J.H. Rose High School who is active in Gainesville, Fla., retured to Greenville’s WITN as the organizing Jackson Park’s secret pal program, serving County, and Owen will present the other in China. senior citizen ministry in her church and community primary weekend anchor at 6 and 11 p.m. on the Kannapolis centennial celebration and the Jeff programs via Alpha Kappa Alpha, was recognized Doyle Whitfield, who won Gordon Children’s Hospital fundraising committees, Eric Bartels oversees by the Girl Scout Council of Coastal Carolina at its 1992 more than 400 games as baseball and organizing Jackson Park’s annual Big Sweep with communications, marketing inaugural Women of Distinction Banquet in March. 1996 coach at Southern Wayne High School, was inducted the Cabarrus Soil and Water Conservation Service Newspaper editor Sandra Mims Rowe ’70 won the and advertising as manager of communications Dr. Linda Gardner Jobe ’86 ’88 of Enfield into the N.C. Athletic Directors Association Hall of and the school’s art enrichment program. Angela sixth Pulitzer Prize of her career when the Portland for the nonprofit Atlanta Junior Golf Association. received the Dellinger Lifetime Achievement Award Fame on March 27. Lynn Spear Stancil ’90 ’94, the graduation Oregonian was honored in April for a series of MEREDITH P. GOINS of Maryville, Tenn., is the from the N.C. English Teachers Association at the project coordinator at Pasquotank County High breaking news stories about a San Francisco family public relations and development director at the Great Krista Kamenski Adams, NCETA conference in October. On Jan. 1 she retired School in Elizabeth City, has two children and is snowbound in the Siskiyou Mountains. Her paper also Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, a nonprofit 1991 a national board certified teacher from a career in education that included teaching pursuing her principal certification. won a Pulitzer last year for a series of editorials environmental education center. CHRIS HADDOCK with 10 years of experience in Charlotte-Mecklenburg in the ECU Department of English from 1988 to calling for improvements in the state’s mental health of Winterville is a commercial banker at a Greenville Schools, opened Mathnasium South Charlotte, an Pam Gainey ’89 ’97 coaches 1994 and most recently a position as curriculum and care system. The Oregonian, the largest newspaper in branch of the Raleigh-based First Citizens Bank. Mia after-school math learning center for students in 1989 girls’ basketball at Rocky instructional specialist for Halifax County Schools. the Pacific Northwest, now has won five Pulitzers Pardue Hardy, a supervisor and recreational preschool through 12th grade. Coleman Bailey Mount High School and was inspired by Gerald Terri DeCresie, a 22-year since she became editor in 1993. Rowe also won a therapist at Morehead Memorial Hospital in Eden, ’91 ’93, a science teacher at D.H. Conley High Whitley ’76, her basketball coach at Goldsboro teacher currently working in the Pulitzer at the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, where she became a certified laughter leader in 2006. School, was the 2006–07 Teacher of the Year for the High School who was also the assistant school 1985 academically gifted program at A.G. Cox Middle worked for 22 years before moving to Portland. Northeast Region and the 2005–06 Pitt County superintendent of Goldsboro-Wayne County Schools. KELLY SCHEELE CORDER Schools Teacher of the Year. Ralph Holloway, School, was named Wachovia-Pitt County Schools What’s different about editing a West Coast paper? Mary Elizabeth Fordham Rhodes of 1995 and her husband, Tim, have who was an athletics director in Kinston and at 2007–08 Teacher of the Year. John Dew, who has “In Norfolk, anything that related to the federal Greenville, and husband, William, had a daughter, a daughter, Margaret Ann, born on Oct. 12. Ali West Carteret High School and and is currently the 20 years of personal and commercial loan experience budget or the military was automatically on the front Anna Jean, on Dec. 27. Hillis, a former Charlotte resident who played principal at East Carteret, was inducted into the N.C. in Edgecombe and Nash counties, manages Providence page. When I came out here I realized that salmon Maria in a summer theater production of Athletic Directors Association Hall of Fame on March Dr. Larry Davidson works Bank’s new loan production office in Tarboro. and trees—that’s the Navy here. Also different here West Side Story at ECU, and had roles in , 27. George Stackhouse, whose Kinston High 1988 at NorthEast Medical Center is that the Portland metro area, more so than any in Must Love Dogs Kiss Kiss Bang Donna Mooneyham, who , and , will appear in School basketball team won the 2001 3-A Eastern Carolina and Neurosurgery and Spine Associates in the country, is very eager to put limits on growth to Bang Law & Order Thowing Stars participated in the Japan Fulbright with Ben Stiller and , which was filmed championship and who coaches basketball at Gray’s Concord. 1984 prevent sprawl. We have tighter land-use restrictions.” The Ultimate Gift Memorial Fund Teacher Program in October, is the in Charlotte. Creek High School, offers weekend basketball lessons BILL COOK ’87 ’93, an award- transition coordinator for the exceptional children to children sometimes as young as 6. Tell us something we might not know about TRACY PROCTOR DANIELS 1987 winning teacher and administrator department of Brunswick County Schools. Portland. “This is a wonderful news city. We have the 1994 ’94 ’98 and husband Eric, who Susan Cooperman and the current principal of Marvin Ridge High busiest public library in the United States. This is a HENRY PROCTOR “HANK” have a 2-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, had a son, ’90 ’00 changed School in Waxhaw, will co-head an elementary-middle- 1990 Bradley SERMONS of Waldorf, Md., very literate and very involved market, so it’s a good Michael Wayne, on Feb. 28. Nancy Barrett high school cluster in Marvin with his wife, Donna, 1983 careers after 16 years as a band director and music retired from the Air Force as a colonel on Feb. 28 after newspaper market.” Lawrence, a former First South Bank branch and another administrator. Mark DeSalvo, educator in Beaufort County Schools and is now 23 years of service. What strikes you now when you look back on your manager in Greenville, is vice president and branch the eastern N.C. sales representative for Herff Jones senior vice president at Ferris Baker Watts, started a college days? “It was a very sheltering environment. manager for First South in Hope Mills, where she Yearbooks. Chris Cauble of Faith, who was an radio show called which airs at 6 p.m. on Spencer K. Stephens Smart Investor, We were isolated in what most people considered oversees consumer lending, business development and all-conference catcher on ECU’s baseball team and Mondays via Norfolk, Va.’s AM 850 WTAR. MARY 1982 started Packard Title & Escrow the poor part of the state and we were fighting for branch operations. Dr. Joy Lowry, a member of the head baseball coach for the title-winning team ANN SANDELL FORRESTER, who has eight years to complement his real estate and construction law university status. That permeated the campus. the N.C. Medical and N.C. Pediatric societies and an at West Rowan High School, accepted a coaching of realty experience, is part-owner of Keller Williams practice based in Rockville, Md., where he lives with There was certainly activism but I was astounded Academy of Pediatrics fellow, recently joined the staff job at the new Jesse Carson High School in China Coastal Area Partners in Savannah, Ga., which opened his wife, Catherine, and their two daughters, Caitlin when I got out of college that we were on the fringes. at Frye Regional Medical Center in Hickory. Jeff Grove to be closer to his family while developing the in 2005 and is the second-largest real estate company and Meredith. There was drug use but it was around the fringes. Saleeby, who worked for Systel for five years and baseball program. JON DECKER of Oakland, Fla., in Savannah. PAUL M. HOGGARD was an assistant James Roy Gorham, a colonel We were much more sheltered. I remember race and has a decade of experience as a CPA, is the new finance was named director of instruction at the New Albany coach and offensive coordinator for the N.C. football in the National Guard, was promoted Vietnam more than anything else.” director in Hope Mills. Lee Anne Henderson Country Club in Columbus, Ohio, and will teach team that won the 2006 Shrine Bowl in Spartanburg, 1981 to business banker at First Citizens Bank in Kernersville. Tragle of Yorktown, Va., is a nationally certified golf there from May to October and at the Grand S.C. On Feb. 23 he was named head football coach RANDY KEITH LANGLEY of Battleboro is an Rowe was inducted into the Virginia Journalism Hall pilates instructor who teaches classes at several Cypress Academy of Golf in Orlando, Fla., from at Richmond Senior High School in Rockingham. agent with Farm Bureau Insurance in Rocky Mount. He of Fame in 2000 and was named Editor of the Year locations, including the Victory YMCA in Yorktown, November to April each year. Mary Chatman, Anna Harris Ivory of Peachtree City, Ga., and his wife, Denise, have two children. by the National Press Foundation in 2004. She is Va., and she is vice president of the Junior League vice president of patient care services at PCMH and oversees management of health information, case and married to Gerard Rowe, an attorney active in local of Hampton Roads Class of 2006–2007. She and an ECU distinguished alumnus, was recognized by risk management, safety, patient relations and medical Roger L. “Vern” nonprofit work. They have two grown daughters who her husband, Aaron Thomas Tragle ’95, the Girl Scout Council of Coastal Carolina at its staff services as vice president of quality at Piedmont Davenport ’80 ’81, a Pitt live in Portland. 1980 have two children. inaugural Women of Distinction Banquet in March. Newnan Hospital in Newnan, Ga. Laddeus County native who was a wide receiver on ECU’s

40 41 class notes football team, senior vice president of solutions oversees nine parks as the north district superintendent to be placed around Greenville, like Beaufort County’s KEITH BEATTY of Intracoastal Alumni Spotlight and marketing at Siemens Medial Solutions, and for the State Parks system. ROY TURNER, the crabs and the horses on the Outer Banks. WAYNE R. 1973 Realty Corp. was named in the chief operating officer of Eastman Kodak, is the athletic director at Ashley High School in Wilmington, MYERS of Raleigh retired in November as a senior ’s Top 200 list of real estate professionals.Wall During 26 years as director of new executive vice president and general manager of received the NFHS Citation Award in December and is special agent with the USDA Office of Inspector KStreeten Journal Hammond, who was recognized in 2001 the North Carolina Film Office, Raleigh-based Misys Healthcare Systems. the 2007–08 president of the N.C. Athletic Directors General–Investigations after 30 years in law enforcement by magazine as one of America’s Most Bill Arnold ’59 aided in the Association. with the government. He is married with three children BelovedGospel Pastors Today and is pastor of Durham’s 3,500- production of 700 movies BRENDA COGDELL is Press Free Kinston and plans to go sailing. ROGER G. TAYLOR, of member Union Baptist Church, delivered the keynote shot in the state. But he was president of Tri-County Industries, David R. White is an assistant 1979 Roger G. Taylor & Associates and AXA Advisors, is the star when dozens of a Rocky Mount-based company that recently became town manager and director of address at Greenville’s annual Community Unity 1978 an award-winning 30-year veteran of financial services friends and industry leaders one of six N.C. vocational rehabilitation programs public services in Southern Pines. He and his wife, Breakfast honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Claude and received his second Silver Eagle Award from AXA , a professor at ECU, Duke and Wake gathered in Kinston recently with international standards certification, allowing Ann White ’79, have three children. Hughes recognizing outstanding sales achievement. GAYLE to honor his contribution to the company to do more subcontracting and provide Forest, and formerly an executive director of medical Betty Fentress, the first MCCRACKEN TUTTLE, director of public relations and scientific services at Quintiles Transnational, was the state’s film industry. job training and placement for disabled and low- Arnold was praised for director of Parks and Recreation in and external communications at Blue Cross & Blue named vice president for the Partnership for Genomics Charles Buchanan, courtesy income clients. Deborah Walters Davis 1977 Huntersville, returned to her directorship after a stint Shield of N.C., was named to the advisory board for the building the film industry in ’79 ’83, a Rotarian and a board member for Ronald and Molecular Epidemiology and chief medical as director of Parks and Recreation & Senior Services Durham YMCA. North Carolina into the McDonald House who was named to Oxford’s officer for RTI in Research Triangle Park.A lice F. in Carteret County. ’73 ’80, the special projects director for Pitt nation’s third largest, after , was recognized by the Girl ScoutWho’s ANNE SLOAN AULBERT Keene Who in Business County Schools and a board member for the North California and New York. “He Council of Coastal Carolina at its inaugural Women JACQUELINE FINCH opened Roomscape, a new custom 1974 Carolina Senior Games, was reappointed by Gov. Mike was the first person I spoke to of Distinction Banquet in March. David Perry JACKSON is a cross categorical interior design and decorating business in downtown 1976 Easley to the N.C. Commission on Volunteerism and in North Carolina,” Frank of Greenville modeled for several of former ECU art resource teacher at Lufkin Road Middle School in Apex. Hillsborough. DIANE CARLSON FLOYD ’74 Community Service. Harold Robinson, whose Capra Jr., president of Screen Gems Studios in student Marcia Dockey Smith’s Native American- ’76, a probation supervisor with the Virginia Beach Wilmington, said about Arnold during the event. Dr. Sylvia Brown ’75 record was 239-89 in his 25 years as football coach themed oil and watercolor paintings that appeared Court Service Unit, was recognized at the Virginia “From my viewpoint as a producer, Bill was a ’78, associate dean for graduate at Williamston High School and who is director of in “The Spirit Within,” a show at downtown Boone’s 1975 Juvenile Justice Association’s 15th Spring Juvenile tremendous resource for an out-of-state producer who programs in ECU’s School of Nursing, is acting dean football operations at ECU, was inducted into the Jones House Community Center in February. Mary Justice Training Institute for her 15-year work as the wanted to come to North Carolina and film. for the school. GLENN EURE, a Nags Head-based N.C. Athletic Directors Association Hall of Fame on Chauncey Schulken is an associate editor association’s training consultant and as chair of the Productions came here and were very well-received. artist, created sketches that were selected as models for March 27. Cliff Stuckey ’73 ’77, chair of the with the . William Totten, institute’s planning committee. They didn’t find antagonism. They found warmth and who worked Charlotte at Jordan Observer Lake State Park for 15 years, the 50 to 75 6-foot-tall fiberglass pirates scheduled fine arts department at Sandhills Community College, showed some of his latest paintings that incorporate hospitality.” Ever modest, Arnold said he was just landscapes with phrases written in runes at the doing his job. “To tell you the truth, after 26 years of Expressions & Impressions show in Southern Pines. doing it, I’m not sure I knew exactly what the job description was. It was a matter of responding to Georgia J. “Abbey” whatever their needs would be.” o f y o u R NEWS AND ACC O MPLISHMEN T S 1972 Abeyounis ’72 ’75 of Bethel, a technology specialist at South Greenville Elementary School, was appointed by Gov. Mike Easely to the John Angel ’69, who designed many of the consumer Complete this form (please print or type) and mail to: Class Notes Editor, Building 198, East Carolina University, Greenville, Governor’s Teacher Advisory Committee. BETH lighting products sold by Sears and other major MNC 27858-4353;ake a or faxN to o­252-328-4269.te Please use additional paper as necessary when sending your news. You also can GRANT of Valley Village, Calif., portrayed a pageant retailers throughout the 1980s, has endowed a e-mail your news to [email protected]. While East happily prints wedding announcements, it is our policy not to print official in , which received several $25,000 scholarship for sculpture students at the ­engagement announcements. Also, when listing fellow alumni in your news, please include their class year. internationalLittle awards, Miss Sunshine including an Academy Award School of Art and Design. “[Retired Development Please send address changes or corrections to: Kay Murphy, Office of University Development, Greenville Center, East Carolina for best original screenplay. The film is Grant’s Director] Janet Fischer called me a few years ago University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353, fax: 252-328-4904, or e-mail: [email protected]. second to be nominated for best picture. Larry and asked me, tongue in cheek, to start funding an W. Mallard, a Pollocksville native and Raleigh endowment. Then she pulled out a baseball bat.” Angel resident who was the quality and productivity executive enjoyed success early. “By age 23, I was in charge of all of consumer banking with Bank of America and the product development for lighting, in charge of seven NAME First Middle Last Maiden executive vice president of retail banking for First factories, and on the road for seven months a year,” South Bank, is the chief operating officer for First he says. His biggest account was Sears. After building CLASS year e-MAIL DAY PHONE EVENING PHONE South. RAY ROGERS, the finance administrator at an impressive resume, Angel left for another firm in Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church and a member Pittsburgh, then opened his own business in 1976. of the Pitt Community College Board of Trustees, ADDRESS CITY STATe ziP was appointed to the PCMH and University Health David C. Reavis ’74, who Systems boards by the UNC Board of Governors. manages e-commerce for the YOUR NEWS Phil Dixon, an attorney in State of North Carolina, 1971 Greenville, a member of the UNC received the 2006 Barry K. board of governors and former chairman of ECU’s Sanders Award, presented by trustees, was a panelist for the Chancellor’s Forum the Office of State Budget and on Service as part of ECU’s centennial celebration Management. David has over 31 on March 8. Walter Fields, formerly of the years of service in state Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission, joined government and is currently Raleigh-based Kimley-Horn and Associates’ Charlotte employed by the Office of the office as a land planning consultant. State Controller. He is married to Deelane Pinkston Reavis ’75, and they have one daughter, Evelyn Reavis SYLVIA DOMARATRY Bussell ’00. 1969 BRILEY of Columbia, S.C., is

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Alumni Spotlight retiring after 37 years as a French teacher, 33 of which Dr. Bruce I. Howell both of Lumberton, pledged $20,000 for each of the l’Ordre National du Mérite by the French government she spent at J.H. Rose High School in Greenville. She 1964 ’64 ’65, president emeritus of next five years to establish a middle grades education for his work as co-president and program coordinator and her husband plan to move to the South Carolina Wake Technical Community College, where the scholarship at ECU. of the Atlanta Council on International Relations. As coast and enjoy the beach. Joe Bynum ’69 ’76 library is named for him, lives in Cary with his wife, executive director emeritus of the University Center DAVE THOMAS, who was of Defiance, Mo., retired from American Airlines as in Georgia, past president of the International Club Mable Lea Smith Howell ’64 ’67, pursuing inducted into the ECU Sports a 767 captain after flying more than 22,000 hours 1960 of Atlanta and a trustee of the Georgia Council for churchwork, antiquing, genealogy, Civil War history Hall of Fame in 1998, retired in 2003 after 42 for Ozark Airlines, Trans World Airlines, American International Visitors, he and his wife, Nancy, who and stock market investing. He was president of years as a teacher, coach and administrator, and was Airlines, USAF, and the USAF Reserve, and will be is an attorney and mediator in Atlanta, are on the Sampson Community College from 1976 to 1980 elected to the Wayne County Board of Education an Embriar 170 instructor pilot for Flight Safety and of WTCC from 1980 to 2003. , the advancement council for the Thomas Harriot College KAY YOW in November. Rep. EDITH WARREN ’60 ’73, a International in St. Louis. Dr. Phyllis Horns, of Arts and Sciences. 32-season women’s basketball coach at N.C. State who Democrat from Farmville, was appointed co-chair of longtime dean of ECU’s School of Nursing, is was an ECU English major, was honored after her the N.C. House of Representatives Appropriations Janice Hardison now interim vice chancellor for health sciences and 700th career win with the naming of the basketball Subcommittee on Natural and Economic Resources Faulkner ’53 ’56, a former interim dean of the Brody School of Medicine. 1953 court at Reynolds Coliseum as Kay Yow Court. She is and vice-chair of the Education Subcommittee on ECU English professor who was the first female N.C. THOMASINE KENNEDY ’69 ’81 ’87, a retired the first ACC women’s basketball coach to receive such Universities. She shared college memories when she secretary of state and served several other roles in teacher, administrator, and mental health professional recognition. A member of the Naismith Memorial spoke in favor of a resolution recognizing ECU at the politics, was recognized by the Girl Scout Council from Chinquapin, is chair of the Duplin General Basketball Hall of Fame and the coach of the 1988 centennial celebration on March 8. of Coastal Carolina at its inaugural Women of Hospital board and was appointed to the PCMH Olympic gold-medal women’s team, Yow is the fifth- Distinction Banquet in March. She moderated the and University Health Systems boards by the UNC Sen. JEAN PRESTON ’57 ’73, winningest women’s basketball coach in Division I. Chancellor’s Forum on Service that was part of ECU’s Board of Governors. Ruth Shaw ’69 ’72, a former a former teacher who is Carteret After a 31-year career, Shirley Carraway ’75 ’85 ’92 1957 centennial celebration on March 8. president and CEO of Duke Power, is executive advisor Melton A. McLaurin County’s Republican senator in the N.C. General ’00 of Hillsborough announced she would retire ’62 ’63, a UNC Wilmington to the current chairman, president and CEO, and is 1962 Assembly, complimented ECU’s teacher education Joye Graham of Cedar Oct. 1 as superintendent of Orange County Schools, group executive for public policy and president of Duke professor emeritus of history, an award-winning author efforts when she spoke in favor of a resolution Creek makes at least one quilt which she has led the past four years. Before 1943 Nuclear. She was a panelist for the Chancellor’s Forum and husband of SANDRA MCLAURIN ’62 ’63, recognizing ECU at the centennial celebration on each month to donate to the Tar Heel Quilter’s Guild, coming to Orange County, Carraway was associate on Service as part of ECU’s centennial celebration on released a collection of personal narratives entitled March 8. which provides quilts for pediatric and geriatric care superintendent at Pitt County Schools, where she March 8. Ronald “RV” Vincent of Greenville, . centers. was the first minority, as well as the first female, The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines the baseball coach for J.H. Rose High School’s Jim kirkland and his wife, Evelyn ’61 ’62, CHARLES B. BEDFORD of to be a principal at any Pitt County school. “It’s multiple conference title and championship-winning 1955 Atlanta was named Chevalier dans exciting and scary at the same time,” she said after Rampants since 1974, achieved his 700th career win informing the school board of her plans. She said in a game against Eastern Wayne at Greenville’s Guy she plans to return home to Greenville. Carraway Smith Stadium on March 15. The Rampants have 30 received a master’s in educational administration consecutive winning seasons under Vincent’s leadership. and a doctorate in educational leadership from East Carolina, where she also received her bachelor’s Capt. Harry L. Baldwin degree in 1975. “I feel as young as I did 20 years ago,” 1967 III, a U.S. Coast Guard licensed she told a reporter for The Daily Tar Heel. Carraway captain and two-time Liberty town councilman, was selected to Orange County’s top spot in April retired from furniture manufacturing and landscape 2003 after an eight-and-a-half-month search fraught construction and now works for Tyson & Hooks with controversy. Her first task was working to close Realty in New Bern and leads fishing trips on the the school system’s $1.2 million budget gap. She also Neuse River. Pat LANE and his wife, Lynn, both dealt with issues such as the question of a district of Chocowinity, pledged $100,000 to the College of merger, the opening of a new middle school and Education to found the Pat and Lynn Lane Education issues with the state’s new education lottery. “I have Scholarship Program Fund, a two-year need-based always been prepared for whatever was going to award for rising traditional juniors majoring in special Your Campus Headquarters come next.” education, middle grades mathematics and science and high school mathematics and science. Recipients will have to teach for at least two years in one of eastern for East Carolina Rod Gray ’94 of Raleigh, who N.C.’s 29 counties. Rep. MARIAN MCLAWHORN was PeeDee the pirate his ’67 ’88, a Democrat from Grifton, was appointed chair entire four years at ECU and of the N.C. House of Representatives Appropriations Apparel & Gifts married a cheerleader, Amie Subcommittee on Education and vice chair of the Wilbanks ’95, was honored by Education Subcommittee on Preschool, Elementary, his company, First Quality and Secondary Education. She spoke in favor of Enterprises, for producing $26 a resolution recognizing ECU at the centennial celebration on March 8. Phone orders accepted. million in sales for the territory Proceeds benefit the in the Carolinas and Virginia. Kathy Taft, a founder of East Carolina Alumni Association. Some Gray, who previously worked 1965 the Communities in Schools for Southland Medical Supply, joined First Quality, items shown can be of Pitt County who has been on the group’s board specially ordered with which is based in Great Neck, N.Y., in 2000. He and of directors for 14 years, is the group’s new executive the Centennial logo his wife have a daughter, Olivia, and a son, Owen. director. Also on the State Board of Education, or the traditional East she was inducted into ECU’s Educator’s Hall of Wright Building • Brody Building • Athletic Venues Carolina seal. Fame in 2003. (252) 328-6731 • Toll-free 1-877-499-TEXT www.studentstores.ecu.edu 44 45 in memoriam

ROSA WILLIAMS PARKER DR. ROBERT HOGAN Department of Defense Overseas Schools, and was Mount City Schools and was active in her church ISAAC JACKSON “JACK” 1930s ’33 died March 7 at age 94. A 1950s GASKINS JR ’51 of a member of Cashie Country Club in Windsor and and Delta Kappa Gamma. LELA MAE MELVIN EDWARDS ’60 of Greenville Currituck County native, she taught in King, where Jacksonville died March 12. Originally from Greenville, a charter member of the American Overseas Schools HARRELL ’77 of Harrells died Jan. 23. She retired died April 8. He was 65. He she met her husband, and they moved to Winston- he practiced dentistry in Jacksonville from 1957 to Historical Society. SHIRLEY MINTON HAMLET from Sampson County Schools, and served on the received an undergraduate Salem. She retired in 1975 from North Davidson 1991. He was active in his church, professional dental ’63 of Bermuda Run died Feb. 20. An Elizabeth City Sampson Community College Board of Trustees and degree from UNC Chapel High School and was active in her church and the organizations and several civic groups, including native, she retired from Piedmont Airlines/USAIR Alpha Delta Kappa. In 1988, she was the Sampson Hill then a master’s in business community. NORMA HARRINGTON MELVIN Toastmasters and Kiwanis. WINFRED ARTHUR and was active in her church. CARNICE ELGIN County recipient of the Governor’s Volunteer Award. from East Carolina. He first BUNDY ’35 of Burlington and Greensboro died Feb. SORRELL ’52 of Clayton died March 2. He served MANNON ’66 of Floyd, Va., died Feb. 23. He was CHRISTY WALLER HAWKINS ’78 of Kinston managed his family business, 13. A White Oak native, she received her master’s in the Navy from 1941 to 1947 before graduating a guidance counselor in Floyd County Schools for died Jan. 1. Married to Alan Hawkins ’76 ’82, she Edwards Auto Supply, then degree from UNC Greensboro and was married to Dr. from ECC and N.C. State. He retired from Clayton 20 years. He and his high school sweetheart had four taught in Lenoir County Schools and was active in joined the faculty in the Business Department; he later V. Mayo Bundy. MARY ELIZABETH CRAWFORD High School in 1985 after 30 years as a vocational children and were married for more than 50 years. Woodington United Methodist Church. served as placement director. In the 1960s he and his JAMES RALPH TALTON JR. ’65 of MARTIN ’35 of Raleigh died Feb. 6. A Kinston education teacher. ANNA GERTRUDE “TRUDY” LILLIAN JEFFRIES SCOTT ’66 of Greenville died wife, Rachel, opened the Book Barn and University Raleigh, a former two-term chairman ROBERT WILLIAM NEESE native, she taught home economics at Charles L. Coon HARDISON CARTNER ’53 of Greenville died Jan. 25. She worked in Navy hospitals on the West Book Exchange in downtown Greenville. Known as of the East Carolina Board of Trustees, JR. ’81of Raleigh died Jan. 24. died April 3. He was 64. A prominent High School in Wilson before marrying and moving Dec. 8. She was the 1938 salutatorian at Stokes High Coast for the Red Cross’s Military Welfare Services 1980s among the Pirates’ most enthusiastic fans, Edwards was He was a sales representative for All Interior Supplies civic leader and retired managing to Raleigh in 1943. She was active in her church and School and coached archery at Meredith College. during World War II. In 1981, she retired after 14 a charter member of the Century Club, now Pirate and coached his children in several sports. JULES partner of the KPMG accounting firm in the PTA at several schools. She held office in the Before her 1983 retirement, she taught military and years as a media specialist at Sadie Saulter Elementary Club, founded in 1963. He served as president of both CAESAR RIVERA JR. ’82 ’84 of Havelock died in Raleigh, Talton also was a former Woman’s Club of Raleigh and was president of the public school children in Virginia and North Carolina, School. She was active in her church, the Pearl Harbor the Pirate Club and the ECU Foundation. He was a chairman of the ECU Foundation and Jan. 14. He was a career Marine who retired as a major local East Carolina Alumni Chapter. and was an adjunct at ECU. She was active in Delta Survivors Auxiliary, and Disabled American Veterans. member of the Chancellor’s Society and the Order of a member of the School of Business after serving from 1949 to 1974, and the father of Kappa Gamma and her church. ANISE K. MEKEE H.E. “HECKY” STELLINGS ’66 of Wilmington the Cupola. He was named both the “Citizen of the Advisory Council. His dedication to ELIZABETH HARRELL 10 children. In 1992, he retired after 10 years with ’55 of Mount Olive died Jan. 31. A Red Hill native, died Feb. 18. He was a CPA, founded an accounting Year” and the “Small Business Leader of the Year” by his alma mater earned him the 2001 DISOSWAY ’41 of New the State Department of Crime Control and Public 1940s she taught in the Mount Olive School System and was business, and fathered seven children. In the 1980s, he the Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce, Distinguished Alumni Service Award Bern died Jan. 21. She was salutatorian of the Gates Safety. MARTHA WARD SWAIN ’86 of Elizabeth from both the Alumni Association and active in her church choir and children’s ministry. She hosted a radio show using the DJ name “The Raven.” and was honored as “Man of the Year” by the Boy High School class of 1937, and received AB degrees City died March 5. For the past 18 years at the Phi Kappa Phi. He chaired the search was involved with the Twentieth Century Club, the ELLEN PRITCHETT ’69 of Raleigh died Jan. 19. Scouts of America. Memorial gifts may be sent to in English, French and history from ECTC before College of the Albemarle, she worked with the Student committee that brought Chancellor Daughters of the American Revolution and multiple She spent 30 years in Wake County schools teaching, The Pirate Club. teaching in Weeksville, Angier, Wilson and New Bern Ambassadors and was most recently the director of Steve Ballard to Greenville. bridge clubs. JOSEPH B. “JOE” COUNCIL ’58 coaching and mentoring a range of students. public schools. She was a member of Eastern Star counseling and career development. She received the Harold T. Ellen ’64 ’75 of Angier died Jan 17. died Feb. 28. He worked in chemical sales and lived After retiring from the accounting Chapter 129, the Retired School Personnel and the The remains of KENNETH Governor’s Award for Outstanding Services in 1999. At ECU from 1963 to 1966, he was assistant baseball firm in 1999, he became a partner and in multiple states, but resided in Jacksonville for the Golden Age Club, and was a charter member of Alpha CLONTZ CALDWELL JR. and assistant basketball coach. After leaving ECU, he chairman of Impact Design-Build, a past 28 years. CLARENCE OLIVER REVELLE 1970s WILLIAM MICHAEL ELAM Delta Kappa-Beta Gamma Chapter and Alpha Fidelis ’71 were found on March 2 in Statesville. Caldwell, was an award-winning and record-setting coach for prominent builder of custom homes ’59 of Burlington, Vt., died Dec. 16. He served in ’92 of Greensboro died Feb. Sigma. MARGARET PUGH HARDEN LANE who worked at the Statesville Public Library and 1990s high school sports and at Pembroke State University. in the Triangle. He also served as a the Army and was a representative for Boston Mutual 13. He managed The Corner, and worked at UNC director of Bear Rock Foods, The ’44 of Wilmington died Jan. 14. A Windsor native, Goodwill Industries in Mooresville, never married European Sales during his 40-year insurance career, Greensboro and Wachovia. ELIZABETH ANN Vicki Jenkins Peterson died Feb. 24. Jackson Companies, Datastream she studied home economics and early childhood and was active in his church. His family reported most of which he spent in Bitburg, Germany. MACK WORDEN ’96 of Greenville died March 4. She Starting in 1986, she was director of field placement Corp., the Bolton Corp. and Waste education at ECTC and contributed to statewide him missing in 2004. WILLIAM DORSETT CARLTON STOCKS ’59 ’63 of Greenville died worked for Target and was active in her Tarboro church. for ECU’s School of Social Work and Criminal Industries USA. regulations for kindergarten. She helped establish SEAWELL JR. ’71 of Greensboro died Jan. 31. A Jan. 22. A 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason from Justice. She taught until 1996 when she began work and manage kindergartens at several Wilmington Kappa Alpha brother, he was owner and president He served in leadership positions in Chicod, he was a cashier and chief clerk for Norfolk as a psychotherapist at Tideland Mental Health’s the Association of Certified Public churches. She enjoyed traveling, cutting kids’ hair in of Seawell Realty, and after a merger, vice president Faculty Southern Railroad before entering the Army Air Williamston branch. Accountants for North Carolina and her back yard, baking thin-layered coconut cakes, of Yost & Little Realty. He was active in Gate City Corps in 1945 and serving as a technical sergeant William Carlton “BILL” Byrd Sr. died Jan. South Carolina, the American Institute crafting afghans and stitching copies of the “Serenity Kiwanis Club and on the Salvation Army and BB&T radio operator on B-17 and B-29 aircrafts. He taught 7. From 1970 until his 1985 retirement from ECU, Cynthia “Eldean” Pierce ’74 ’77 of of Certified PublicA ccountants and Prayer” to give away. She met her husband on a blind boards. He was president of the Greensboro Regional business and accounting at Pitt Community College, he was an associate professor of community health Winterville died Jan. 15. From 1974 to 1997, she as national director of the Institute date, and they were married for 62 years. WORTH Realtors Association, Greensboro Preservation Society, for Management Accountants. He brokered stock for Interstate Securities and operated and assistant dean of the School of Allied Health taught adult health nursing at ECU and worked in the LANIER LANDEN ’45 of Wilmington died Jan. 28. Greensboro Merchants Association, and Starmount also was active in Greenville and Huey’s Restaurant. ESTHER JARVIS WARREN and Social Professions. He helped raise funds for the supplemental nursing pool at PCMH. She recently A Duplin County native and a member of Alpha Delta Forest Country Club. DR. MARION LEROY worked part-time as a family nurse practitioner at Raleigh chambers of commerce and ’59 ’64 died Jan. 19. She taught school for 18 years current Department of Environmental Health. He was a guiding force for the Council Kappa, she attended Union Theological Seminary in FISHER JR. ’73 of Roanoke Rapids died Feb. 19. Greenville Family Doctors. Pierce received several before becoming principal of Third Street and Sadie received the 1986 Distinguished Service Award from for Entrepreneurial Development, Richmond, Va., and worked for the Indian embassy He received degrees from Defiance College and Duke Saulter elementary schools in Greenville. She was the the N.C. Public Health Association and helped found awards, including the 1991–92 ECU Alumni the Research Triangle Regional in Washington, D.C. She taught public school in University and became a Methodist pastor in the N.C. 1970 N.C. Jaycees Outstanding Young Educator and rural health centers in eastern North Carolina. Association Teaching Excellence Award, N.C. Nurses Partnership, the North Carolina North Carolina for 30 years, 20 of which she spent Western Conference. He then earned educational was named Wachovia Principal of the Year in 1985. Association’s Nurse Educator of the Year recognition, Partnership of Economic Development at College Park Elementary School. GRACE LEE administration degrees from Bowling Green, East Dr. Calfrey C. Calhoun, of Bogart, Ga., After her 1989 retirement from Pitt County Schools, and the Beta Nu Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau’s and the North Carolina Small Business EVANS RICKS ’45 of Rocky Mount died March Carolina and Nova universities, and retired in 1989 died Jan. 25. He retired from the University of and Technology Center. she directed after-school tutorial programs in federal Outstanding Mentor designation. 10. She taught in post-World War II Germany, where after 21 years as superintendent of Weldon City Georgia after 25 years and then retired in 1988 as housing projects and supervised teacher interns for He was a trustee of Blue Cross and she met T.E. Ricks, her husband of 50 years. For Schools. WILLIAM HENRY “BILL” LOY III ’74 dean of ECU’s School of Technology after five years ECU. In 1991, she played on the winning National Blue Shield of North Carolina, and a more than 25 years she taught in the Rocky Mount of Greenville died March 10. He retired in March in Greenville. His third retirement was from Southwest Women’s Tennis Team. director of WakeMed and the Triangle School System and was a trustee of Nash Community 2006 as an engineer for Sprint. He was the organist Georgia Regional Education Service Agency. Chapter of the American Red Cross. College for 16 years. Gov. Jim Holshouser awarded GEORGE HENRY BIGGS at Robersonville United Methodist Church. JAMES He was inducted into the Order of the her the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. COLLEEN 1960s ’63 of Wilmington died Feb. “JIM” ALBERT WERDAL ’74 of Grifton died Feb. Longleaf Pine in 2003. CURRIER HARRIS ’49 of Trent Woods died March 3. A Wilmington native, he attended Mars Hill 11. He majored in political science, worked with DSW Jim is survived by his devoted wife 5. She taught school in Beaufort, Craven and Pamlico Junior College and ECU, and was active in his church. Electrical Contractors and was a New York Yankees of 43 years, Myrtle Weaver Talton; counties, and was active in her church. EUGENE “GENE” BROWN ’63 ’80 of Roper fan. BETTY JONES UPCHURCH EVANS ’75 of son, Jimmy Talton and daughter, died Feb. 9. A teacher and coach, he retired from the Rocky Mount died Jan. 27. She retired from Rocky Elizabeth Johnson.

46 47 “We are not here to destroy the old and accept only the new, but to build upon the past…” upon the past —Robert H. Wright, Nov. 12, 1909 From his inaugural address and installation as East Carolina’s first president rchives A University University

We are the Edgar Allen Poes! During the 1920s and ’30s, practically every East Carolina student was a member of one of three literary clubs that dominated campus life— the Edgar Allen Poe Society, the Sidney Lanier Society or the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. The few men on campus in those days belonged to a fourth group, the Jarvis Society. The Poe and Lanier clubs were founded in 1911, and the Emerson club followed in 1926. Of the three, the Poe Society usually was the largest and became known for a flair for the dramatic, as is evident from this photo in the 1933 yearbook. That appears to be the Old Austin in the background. The Poes and the Laniers staged one-act plays each spring in a competition that was the cultural highlight of the campus year. The Emersons sponsored a spring dance that was the social highlight of the year. The three groups delighted in playing pranks on each other at Halloween. For many years, the marshals for the graduation exercise were chosen by the Poe and Lanier societies, which could include the six ladies wearing sashes on the right of the photo. Interest in literary societies waned during the 1940s and they are last mentioned in the University Archives in 1948. Yet even across the years we can hear echoes of their songs:

OhThe Edgar,Poe Society Oh Edgar Song Allan! Oh,The Emerson Society,Society Song LetThe usLanier sing a Society song of Song praise to our society, We are the Edgar Allan Poes. Dear old White and Blue, Hail to thee, oh, Sidney Lanier! We are the Society, For you our hearts beat merrily, Loyal members ever proving your sobriety Choice and picked variety. As we sing this song to you; Tho’ our fun to us e’er will be dear. Oh Edgar, Oh Edgar Allan! Blue and white, everywhere Then let us to our banner each a tribute pay, March on! March on! We know that they mean only you Let us ever our motto uphold, Beneath the red and white, And all you hold so true. Always faithful, true, and loyal, For we will conquer all our foes, So, here we are, the Emersons, to thee night and day, And we’re sure to win in every fight. Boosting for our clan. Hurrah for the green and gold! Oh, Emerson, oh Emerson, Hurrah for the green and gold! For you we’ll always stand.

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After 18 months of work, the Greenville Quilters Guild is completing a quilt marking ECU’s centennial. Photo by Forrest Croce

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