Ed Funkhouser, right, on game day. Voice of the Pack Ed Funkhouser keeps the crowd engaged from behind the mic at Carter-Finley.

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d Funkhouser really knows how to work a crowd. He sports in the region. While working on his bachelor’s degree in does so every Saturday in the fall when NC State plays a business administration at Madison College (now James Madison Ehome football game at Carter-Finley Stadium. On game University) in Harrisonburg, Va., Funkhouser also worked five days, Funkhouser, the stadium’s public address announcer, can days a week as a disc jockey. get nearly 60,000 Wolfpack fans to yell “first down” in unison by “I don’t know how I graduated in four years,” Funkhouser says. simply inflecting his voice, measuring his tone and pacing his “I passed my classes and made OK grades, but I could have done delivery. a lot better if I hadn’t been working at the station all the time. But “FIRST DOWN!” the crowd responds. it’s what I love to do.” The cheer has become a fixture at Wolfpack home games since Shortly after joining the faculty at NC State in 1977, Funkhouser Funkhouser first took over the microphone 10 years ago. Later, became the announcer for the marching band and held that post while back in his office in Tompkins Hall, Funkhouser, a veteran until 1999. That’s when C.A. Dillon, the longtime public address communication faculty member and associate dean in the College announcer for NC State football and men’s basketball games, of Humanities and Social Sciences, explains that the popularity of approached Funkhouser about taking over the announcing duties the cheer is based on concepts of “paralanguage,” which refers to for football. Funkhouser has been behind the microphone on the manipulation of one’s voice during communication to achieve game days at Carter-Finley Stadium ever since, and he also a desired effect. serves as the public address announcer at NC State women’s “People think I announce the games because I love football,” basketball games. Funkhouser says. “Well, I do love football, but I do this most of “Communication is all about conveying information, and there’s all because I really love communication. I enjoy the process of a lot of information to convey during the course of a football or engaging audiences, and I’ll do it for as long as I can.” basketball game,” Funkhouser says. “Announcing these games In fact, being behind a microphone is all Funkhouser says he’s gives me an opportunity to be behind the microphone. I’ve done it ever wanted to do. for so long that being behind the microphone is just part of who I By the time he was a teenager, Funkhouser hosted his own am. sports show called “Eddie’s Corner” at his hometown radio station “I would miss it greatly if I didn’t have that opportunity.” in Mount Jackson, Va., where he covered news and high school

Bulletin | November 5, 2009 2 Doc Hendley works on a water project in Ethiopia. Wine to Water NC State honors alum Doc Hendley, nominee for CNN Hero of the Year.

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ow do you go from pouring cocktails to providing clean This is CNN’s third global search for ordinary people water for people in impoverished countries? Ask Doc accomplishing extraordinary deeds. Hendley was chosen as one HHendley, a 2004 NC State graduate who has been named of the top 10 heroes of 2009 from among 3,700 nominations by a CNN Hero for tapping into his bartending experience “to save a panel of world leaders and luminaries recognized for their own thousands of lives on the other side of the world.” Hendley is dedication to public service, including Gen. Colin Powell, Whoopi founder and executive director of Wine to Water, an international Goldberg and Elton John. People can vote for CNN’s Hero of the faith-based organization in Boone that installs running water and Year online until Thursday, Nov. 19. sanitation systems in the neediest parts of the world. “Water is by far the most important resource to life on our Hendley will attend a rally on the Brickyard at noon today in his planet. Sadly it is also a resource that acts as a breeding ground honor, along with Chancellor Jim Woodward and Raleigh Mayor for diseases that kill children worldwide,” Hendley says. “I am so Charles Meeker. grateful for the recent exposure to our work from CNN, and also Wine to Water raises funds by hosting benefit wine events, from my alma mater, NC State. In the end, the more people that such as tastings, to support water projects around the world. To get excited about our work, the more lives we will all be able to date, Hendley’s group has worked in five developing countries, save. Thank you NC State for your support.” including India, bringing safe drinking water to more than 25,000 CNN will announce the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year and honor people in refugee camps, orphanages, schools, hospitals and a the Top 10 CNN Heroes in a Thanksgiving Day telecast, “CNN leper colony, as well as directly into hundreds of homes through Heroes: An All-Star Tribute,” on Thursday, Nov. 26, from the the installation of bio-sand filters. Wine to Water is also building Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. two training centers in northern Uganda to teach locals how to access clean water without having to rely on international aid.

3 Bulletin | November 5, 2009 Century Middle-Class Britain,” at 4:30 p.m. The 2005 film was directed by David Bulletin Board on Tuesday in Winston Hall 001. Zeiger. Selective Service System Story Gilllooly, associate director of the (10 minutes) revisits the 1970 short film Heyman Center for the Humanities, has “Selective Service System” and interviews Homecoming Blood Drive had essays and reviews published in its two creators, who as film students Don’t miss your chance to roll up your The New York Times Book Review and graphically depicted attempts to avoid sleeve for the final homecoming blood in a number of collections and journals, the Vietnam War draft. The 1998 film was drive today from 3 to 7:30 p.m. in the including Victorian Studies and Feminist directed by Bill Daniel. Honors Common Village. Every donor Studies. She is the author of Smile Admission is free. For more information, receives a free T-shirt. Sign up online. of Discontent: Humor, Gender, and contact Devin Orgeron, associate Nineteenth-Century British Fiction and professor and director of film studies, at Homecoming Parade co-editor of Victorian Prism: Refractions 515-4138 or [email protected]. Hillsborough Street will host the of the Crystal Palace and Contemporary homecoming parade at 6 p.m. Friday. Dickens. Her talk is sponsored by the Is the New Testament Forged? Before the parade, Hillsborough will close English Department Speakers Committee. Bart Ehrman, James A. Gray from Dan Allen Drive to Pullen Road to For more information, send an e-mail to Distinguished Professor of Religious make room for the lineup of coaches and Elaine Orr at [email protected]. Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, will give a athletes, cheerleaders, university dance talk titled, “Is the New Testament Forged? team members, marching bands, student- Equal Employment Opportunity Reflections on the Authors of the Christian sponsored floats and vintage cars. Some Workshops Scriptures,” at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday side streets will close as well. Improve your knowledge of equal in Withers Hall 232. Ehrman is author of Floats will be built and staged in the opportunity hiring at upcoming workshops. the best-selling books Misquoting Jesus Sullivan parking lot behind the tennis The Office of Equal Employment and Jesus, Interrupted. He has appeared courts and Doak Field. The C parking Opportunity is sponsoring a series on the on NPR’s Fresh Air and on the History behind the tennis courts will be restricted 10 protected classes of people covered in Channel. His talk is sponsored by the Friday for parade preparations. Those with university policies. Here are the remaining Religious Studies Colloquium Series. For C permits may also park on the west side workshops this month: more information, contact Anna Bigelow at of Varsity Drive. > Protected Class of Veteran Status: 1 [email protected]. Wolfline will suspend bus service shortly to 4 p.m. on Tuesday in the Talley Student after 5 p.m. for the parade. All routes Center Blue Room Building Bridges Workshop except 4 (Westgrove) and 11 (Village Link) > Protected Class of National Origin: 9 The National Coalition Building will resume normal service as soon as a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Nov. 18, in Initiative will hold a campus workshop roads clear, projected after 7 p.m. the Talley Student Center Walnut Room on strengthening leadership for diverse For a complete list of upcoming communities from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on NIH Funding Workshop workshops, visit the EOE site. Thursday, Nov. 12, in the Talley Student Friday is the deadline to RSVP for a Center Brown Room. For registration and workshop on applying for funding from the Delany and Fiction Contest Winners details about this workshop and others, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Thomas Find out who won NC State’s 2009 visit http://www.ncsu.edu/ncbi/. Hess, psychology professor and graduate fiction contests and hear science fiction coordinator for lifespan developmental author Samuel Delany read from his works Philosophy Presentation psychology, will share his successes in at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the Caldwell Ruth Elizabeth Chang, associate receiving NIH funding and his perspectives Hall lounge. professor of philosophy at Rutgers as a grant reviewer. The discussion is Delany judged this year’s statewide University and fellow with the National noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday in Withers Hall contests for short fiction and short-short Humanities Center, will give a talk titled, 331. RSVP to Joyce Jones at joyce_ fiction. A professor of English and creative “Do We Have Normative Powers?” at 4:30 [email protected]. writing at Temple University, he is the p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, in Withers Hall author of Nova, Dhalgren, Stars in My 344. Sustainable Agriculture Speaker Pocket Like Grains of Sand, The Mad Will Allen, founder and CEO of Growing Man, Atlantis: Three Tales and the award- America Recycles Day Power Inc., will give the Center for winning autobiography The Motion of Light NC State will have an electronics Environmental Farming Systems’ 2009 in Water. For event details, visit http:// recycling and paper shredding drive for Sustainable Agriculture Lecture at 7 p.m. english.chass.ncsu.edu/creativewriting/ America Recycles Day from 10 a.m. to 2 on Monday at the McKimmon Center. story_contest.php. p.m. on Friday, Nov. 13, in the Reynolds Allen, recipient of a 2008 MacArthur Coliseum carriageway. Waste Reduction fellowship, commonly called a “genius Veterans Day Film Event and Recycling staff will offer games with grant,” is known for urban farming Watch two films and hear from panelists prizes. initiatives in Milwaukee and Chicago. He with a variety of views during a Veterans Confidential shredding and recycling was recently featured in the movie Fresh. Day event at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in will be provided by Shred-it. All personal Witherspoon Cinema. Panelists include and departmental confidential materials Victorian-Era Parenting war veterans and conscientious objectors are welcome, with a limit of seven boxes. Eileen Gillooly, associate faculty who became educators, poets and clergy. No private business items will be allowed. member in English and women’s studies at Two films will be shown. Sir! No Sir ! Gently used office supplies and electronics Columbia University, will give a talk titled, (85 minutes) tells the story of intense, are also welcome. Campus property will “Anxious Affection: Parental Feeling in 19th widespread upheaval during the 1960s. go to Surplus Materials Management. For

Bulletin | November 5, 2009 4 those with personal electronics, Synergy Charron Writes Biography Electronic will recycle many devices Dr. Katherin Mellen Charron, assistant Pint-Size Pick with cords for free and will dispose of professor of history, is the author of televisions, which are banned from county Freedom’s Teacher: The Life of Septima landfills, for $5. Last year, organizers Clark, which will be published by the recycled 14,000 pounds of electronics University of North Carolina Press this fall. and gave away 15 bins of reusable office supplies. Redfield Curates Exhibit Wendy Redfield, associate professor of architecture, curated an exhibit of student Faculty and Staff Notes work from a previous studio for the Lodi Project, a local gallery. Evocations of Adams Named AVC Space opens Friday. Dr. Daniel N. Adams will become associate vice chancellor for campus H1N1 Nasal Spray Vaccine Offered to You loved it by the scoop at the enterprises on Dec. 7. Adams will oversee Priority Groups Emporium, the NC State Fair and the Campus Enterprises Division, which NC State students, faculty and staff who includes University Dining, NC State are most at risk for H1N1 flu can receive the Creamery at D.H. Hill Library. Bookstores, convenience stores, vending, nasal spray vaccine from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Now, you can enjoy NC State’s concessions, campus retail operations in the Student Health Center, Room 2301. Howling Cow ice cream by the and the All-Campus card. He will manage No appointment is needed. Those who the Talley Student Center, Witherspoon qualify for the nasal vaccine are: pint. Howling Cow, made at the Student Center, Erdahl-Cloyd Atrium and > Healthy people 24 years and under Feldmeier Dairy Processing Lab support facilities in the future Town Center who are not pregnant and do not have on Centennial Campus. health conditions such as diabetes or on campus, is available in the asthma. freezer section of the Bragaw Barrax Receives NC Literature Award >Healthy people 25 to 49 years old who Gerald Barrax, English professor are emergency or health care workers convenience store for $4.50 per > Healthy people 25 to 49 years old who emeritus, received the North Carolina pint. Flavors include chocolate Award for Literature from the governor live with or care for infants younger than on Oct. 29. The North Carolina awards, six months. chocolate chip, vanilla, cookie The vaccine is free, but all recipients established in 1961, recognize significant dough, chocolate chip mint and individual contributions in the fields of fine must present a current university ID. arts, literature, public service and science. Campfire Delight. For more dairy Seasonal Flu Clinic Barrax served on the NC State faculty scoops, go to http://icecream.ncsu. from 1970 to 1997. Don’t miss the last seasonal flu shot clinic scheduled on campus. State Health edu. Fulbright Seminar Offered Plan members can receive free shots Faculty and staff with an interest from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. in international study are invited to a 12, in the Talley Student Center ballroom. Fulbright information session from 4 to 6 Register online at http://www7.acs.ncsu. p.m. on Monday at the Friday Institute for edu/hr/benefits/enrollment/flushots. 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