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ECU charts bold course Old-school values Coaching home

Ancient answers Discovering treasures in Jordan B More than 1,000 students had the chance to meet with 126 employers ranging from the Biltmore Company to Wells Fargo at the fall career fair, held at Minges Coliseum on Oct. 16. Photo by Cliff Hollis

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Ancient answers 24 An ECU team unearths priceless treasures in Petra, Jordan.

‘Bold, distinctive and authentic’ 30 ECU’s new strategic plan sets a confident path.

Old-school values 34 Quietly but consistently, Max Ray Joyner has nurtured East Carolina in much the same way the university nurtured the region.

Coaching home 40 Cliff Godwin is the latest alumnus who’s come back to ECU to coach.

On the cover: From left, ECU students Mansi Trivedi, Tara Stanko and Kathryn Parker, faculty member Megan Perry and student Laurel Appleton examine artifacts brought back from an archaeological dig in Petra, Jordan. Read more beginning on page 24. Photo by Jay Clark

Nina Davuluri, Miss America America title. The Syracuse, not about agreeing with one spoke about being harassed as 2014, challenged ECU students New York, native and daughter another, or all believing the a child because of her race and to celebrate their diversity— of Indian immigrants devoted same thing. It’s about finding religion and the stereotypes whatever that may be—and to her year of service to a platform an understanding between she still faces today. “Your be accepting of others during of “Celebrating Diversity all cultures and being able to words have power,” she said. her visit to campus Oct. 22. through Cultural Competency.” communicate in an open and “Any time you speak, you are honest manner.” influencing someone.” Davuluri is the first Indian- “Everyone has a story, —Grace Haskin Amercian and second Asian- regardless of where the come Growing up as the only Indian- Photo by Cliff Hollis American to hold the Miss from,” said Devuluri. “It’s American in her school, Davuluri

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Max Ray Joyner Tropical Storm Ernesto was drenching Greenville in September 2006 and threatening to wash out the year’s first performance of the Four WINTER 2015 Seasons Chamber Music Festival. VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2 East is produced four times a year by Five distinguished musicians who were to star in the festival had arrived East Carolina University. in Greenville just before the deluge began and were hunkered down in the homes of several Greenville families. EDITOR East Carolina announced that the campus was closing. That seemed to Steve Tuttle ’09 ’12 252-328-2068 / [email protected] seal the festival’s fate because the musicians would not have a place to practice together before performing. MANAGING EDITOR Doug Boyd ’99 Festival artistic director Ara Gregorian racked his brain trying to come ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER up with a plan. He called Max Ray Joyner ’55 to ask a favor. Brent Burch

Would the Joyners open their home to all five musicians for the next PHOTOGRAPHERS couple of days? Also, would Max Ray and his wife, Kitty, mind if the Jay Clark, Cliff Hollis

musicians also used their home as a practice facility? CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Mike Litwin ’01, Nigel Parry, Marvin R. Preston Come on, Joyner said. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS “That night they all came in around 9 o’clock, two ladies and three Crystal Baity, Jamitress Bowden ’14, men,” Joyner recalls. “We had to move some furniture around and get Jennifer Brezina ’02, Harley Dartt, Amy Adams Ellis, Lacey Gray, Grace Haskin, Jeannine Manning Hutson, out the trundle bed, but we got them all settled in.” Kathryn Kennedy, Kelly Setzer, Spaine Stephens, Margaret Turner, Steve Tuttle “It was like a sleepover at summer camp,” Gregorian says. CONTRIBUTING DESIGNER “We had a great time,” Joyner says. “They practiced all the next day in Jay Clark the playroom, which Kitty loved because she was a musician herself.” COPY EDITORS The storm had blown out of town by Friday evening, and the campus Jimmy Rostar ’94, Spaine Stephens reopened. The show went on. ECU REPORT EDITOR Jeannine Manning Hutson “And then we did the concert, and to everyone’s surprise we did great because we had been able to practice together,” Gregorian says. CLASS NOTES EDITOR Joanne Kollar Joyner, who is the subject of our alumni profile in this issue, has [email protected] nurtured his alma mater in many ways over the decades. He has funded EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATION, several scholarships, served on the Board of Trustees and led many PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND MARKETING Mary Schulken ’79 campus organizations. He’s an iconic figure to many people at East Carolina. Opening his home to five soggy strangers is just one example why. Please turn to East Carolina University is a constituent institution of The University of North Carolina. It is a public doctoral/ page 34 to read many more. research intensive university offering baccalaureate, master’s, specialist and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts, sciences and professional fields, including medicine. Dedicated to the achievement of excellence, responsible stewardship of the public trust and academic freedom, ECU values the contributions of a diverse community, supports shared governance and guarantees equality of opportunity. ©2015 by East Carolina University Printed by RR Donnelley

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Bedsides and bronze statue of Leo Jenkins for Central Florida, and we boardrooms How do I subscribe? The pencil man would be an inspiration to are on track to achieve our makes his mark A season of fi rsts those who went to ECU, third year in a row where ECU sends East magazine to those who are there now we donate $1.5 million in friends and donors. To begin and those who will be there school supplies. Your article receiving the magazine, mail All eyes in the future. really inspired me to keep your check using the postage- on safety T. Jerry Williams, Raleigh up the effort, and I wanted paid reply envelope inside. Keeping you to know my sincere How much is up to you but campus secure appreciation. we suggest a $25 minimum —Tim Gomez ’92 ’95, contribution. Edgewater, Florida The ECU Foundation supports many scholarships. Learn how ANOTHER ECU CONNECTION to help a student struggling In the fall 2014 edition of with finances at the foundation’s on page 49, the picture East, website, www.ecu.edu/ecuf. of Lt. Col. John Shirley ’92 (below) also has another Where is your money most ECU connection. The officer needed? The colleges, schools on the left is Maj. Gen. Jack and programs within ECU Shanahan. Jack is married have defined their funding CAMPUS SAFETY to our daughter, the former priorities and posted them STORY REASSURING Laura Ann Green ’97. Laura here: www.ecu.edu/ecuf/ I was glad to see the cover received her BS degree in funding-priorities.cfm. story regarding campus nutrition and she is a native Another way to support ECU security and the sidebar of Franklin County. I thought is to join the East Carolina on sexual violence in this event was an interesting Alumni Association and the latest issue of East coincidence. There are receive the magazine as magazine. I am sure it is many things that I am proud well as other benefits and very reassuring to parents, of ECU for, and among services. Minimum dues are students and alumni. Keep them is the quality of the $35. Visit www.piratealumni. up the good work. publications that it presents com to learn how to remain —Martha Logemann, to the public, and East is at connected. Winston-Salem the top of the list. Thanks for ‘YOUR ARTICLE INSPIRED ME’ your efforts. Thank you very much for Contact Us A STATUE OF JENKINS NEEDED —John ’60 and Patricia writing such a wonderful n 252-328-2068 I fully agree with the “We Green ’59, Louisburg article about the work we n [email protected] Need Another Leo” item do in my company. We n www.ecu.edu/east in the fall 2014 edition of really enjoy our community We welcome your letters. the magazine but I want Customer Service service activities and already Send them by email to to take that concept one To start or stop a we are working with Junior [email protected] or step further. I believe that subscription, or to let us Achievement to raise money. by mail to East magazine, East Carolina University, know about a change of Next weekend I am running a Howard House, Mail Stop Greenville, eastern North address, please contact 5K with 20 of my employees 107, East Carolina University, Carolina and the state of Lisa Gurkin, [email protected] to raise money for the Greenville, N.C. 27858-4353. North Carolina should honor or 252-328-9561. Dr. Leo Jenkins with a life- Send letters to the editor to size bronze statue on the [email protected] or campus. Those of us who Howard House attended East Carolina Mail Stop 107 College before it even East Carolina University became a major university Greenville, N.C. 27858-4353 know what Leo Jenkins Send class notes to did for eastern Carolina. [email protected] He saved it. And yes, we or use the form on page 48. need to think about how desperate the region would be today had he not worked so tirelessly for that part of North Carolina. Having a statue of this great man on campus is way overdue. We can never repay him for the difference he made in

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New university studies program starts strong From zero to 142 majors in one they took a bunch of courses. interest was an emerging field us probably would have left the year is rapid growth for a new that blends computer science university without a degree,” “Off-ramp students are those degree program at East Carolina and art. he said. University. The university studies that tried a traditional degree. program has experienced They got pretty far into the major “My main area of study is sound After an initial introductory that surge because its flexible but changed their minds, so they design…for electronic music,” course, students meet with curriculum appeals to a definite try to transition into another he said. “So, my major is part advisers who design a “thematic niche of students, officials said. major.” computer science, part music and core” of courses that best fit part animation. each student’s interests. For the “We’re getting off to a very The problem for both kinds required capstone experience, strong start,” said program of students, Rice said, is they “The best thing about this degree students may chose to work an director Rondall Rice. The first sometimes get discouraged and is that it allows me to learn internship, complete a project or four graduates with the university drop out. many aspects” of sound design, write a research paper. studies degree graduated at the Mangold said. “It’s still early but University studies takes an end of summer session. Twenty- I enjoy the fact I get to focus on For now, the university studies individual, personal approach. three are on track to graduate different fields.” program is a free-standing unit, “We look at what they have taken this winter, Rice said. Rice said. “We are not under and then look at what they’re Students declaring for the any of the colleges. It is under ECU created the university trying to do,” Rice explained. university studies major on the academic affairs division, studies major in response to average arrive with just under 109 “We try to help them find their and we work directly for (Senior the needs of students whose credit hours earned, Rice said. “If inner passion,” he said. Associate Provost) Austin Bunch.” interests and talents don’t easily you consider that most degrees fit into any major. One university studies major is require 120 hours, they’re close to The unit operates out of offices in Connor Mangold, a junior from getting a degree.” the Old Cafeteria Building. Generally speaking, the students Kinston in the ECU Honors he sees come from two academic Rice said some new students in Among the first four graduates College. He’s what Rice would backgrounds, Rice said. “There the program arrive without the was Katelyn Morris. Rice said her call an off-ramp student. are the journey students and the 2.5 GPA that most majors require, thematic core, titled “adaptive off-ramp students. “I was a music student, but I while others have great GPAs but technology,” included courses decided that wasn’t for me,” just couldn’t decide on a major. in communication, technology, “Journey students didn’t find a Mangold said. He decided his real leadership, multicultural sensitivity passion for something, although “The students who are drawn to and children’s special education. She interned with a high-tech company in Charlotte, which hired her after graduation. Morris said she hopes her degree will allow her to “work towards selling technology that would allow the autistic child to learn to communicate through devices that will give these students a new sense of freedom.” Rice said one university studies student is conducting research this fall, in concert with the Brody School of Medicine, on how electronic medical records are changing the health care industry. He said he expects the university studies program will experience another growth spurt next fall. “The next level (of growth) will come from ‘part-way home’ students after we advertise to them. These are ones that dropped out or had other problems. This is specially tailored for former military,” Rice said. Rice said he expects that by next Connor Mangold fall all of the program’s courses will be available online. —Steve Tuttle

4 Brooke Burnette and Toni Ormond, an administrative support specialist at the Ahoskie center

Dental students prepare for practice, serve rural residents Most people dread root canals Chadwick, dean of the dental spent treating twice that many lot of other dental students—if and tooth extractions, crowns school. “They’re developing an patients, on average. any—get to have.” and dental fillings. But fourth- understanding about people “I had to figure out how to be Additionally, the students are all year students in the ECU across the state—why they might more efficient,” Burnette said of acting as informal ambassadors School of Dental Medicine have not have access to care, why her rotation at the Ahoskie clinic. from ECU and its dental school. been looking forward to those they might not hold oral health as Their presence helps attract procedures for three years. a high priority.” She said the students also have patients to the clinics. Arriagada to make sure they’re asking “I was the kid that loved to go Rebecca Ferguson was in Sylva said he and his classmates all the right questions. Many to the dentist,” said Brooke for only three weeks before she are often stopped as they run patients are on other medications Burnette, a Chocowinity native noticed the difference between errands in their scrubs. People that could cause issues during and member of ECU’s first class practicing dental medicine in are curious about who they are the course of dental care and of dental students. “I know that’s Greenville and at the mountain and why they’ve come to their may be unaware of the potential pretty rare. I wanted a career clinic. “It’s a totally different patient community, he said. for adverse drug reactions. where I could give back…and see population,” the Waynesville “Eventually, we’ll be on roller people smile again.” native said. “There’s definitely a “You really don’t know anything skates going from patient to demand and a need (for dental about your patients,” said Jorge Burnette and the other members patient,” Arriagada predicted, care in western North Carolina).” Arriagada, who completed his of her class left Greenville this fall laughing. “We’re offering first rotation in Lillington. “You to engage in applied learning at Other students agreed it’s not affordable care, and that’s going have to review everything.” ECU dental community service uncommon to see patients at the to be a huge benefit to these learning centers built and staffed clinics come in with pain rather ECU faculty dentists working communities.” in rural, underserved areas across than for preventive care. alongside the students at each The students said they’re the state. location support their transition There are also day-to-day benefiting, too. to the clinic. ECU is pioneering this model for operational differences for the “I was expecting to enjoy it, training dental students. Each will students. During their third year “You get one-on-one teaching but it definitely lived up to (my complete eight-week rotations at in ECU’s Ross Hall—where the for all aspects of dentistry,” expectations) and surpassed three different clinics as part of dental school is housed—the said student Jeremy Hyder, a them,” Hyder said. “It’s what life their final year of study. average day consisted of a mix of Hickory native on rotation in will be like after graduation.” course work and care for about Elizabeth City. “It’s a unique “This is more than just drilling —Kathryn Kennedy two patients. Now, their days are experience that I don’t think a and filling,” said Dr. Greg

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“I believe the small classroom size is what sets this program apart from most any other,” Barnes said. “This creates a learning environment that caters to the student and the available time needed for each student to succeed. I hope this student-to-instructor ratio can be maintained with the growth of the program.” The caliber of students enrolled in the program has evolved with tougher admissions criteria. More than 450 students applied to the program in 2013, and 159 are now enrolled as freshmen for the 2014-15 academic year. Students earn a bachelor of science degree in engineering and can choose from one of five concentrations: bioprocess, biomedical, electrical, industrial and systems, and mechanical. Classes began in August for the program’s first graduate degree, a master of science in biomedical engineering. The rapid expansion of ECU’s engineering program earned it a step up in academic standing this spring when the UNC Board of Governors approved renaming the College of Technology and ECU program celebrates 10 years of engineering Computer Science to the College of Engineering and Technology. ECU’s engineering program Kauffman, Tarek Abdel-Salam “And then I talk about our The change had the unanimous launched at a perfect time for and Phil Lunsford started the relationship with ECU and the support of other engineering Kyle Barnes. Department of Engineering to engineering school and how programs in North Carolina’s meet a growing need for degreed that pot of graduates is going The 2004 Roanoke Rapids public university system. engineers to help support a large to win our business.” High School graduate planned manufacturing industry in eastern David White, dean of the to enroll at ECU for two years Crisp said he’s hired at least five North Carolina. The program has College of Engineering and and then transfer to another ECU engineering grads in the been instrumental in providing a Technology, said the move sends university where he could last two or three years because steady pipeline of engineers to a clear message to companies complete an engineering degree. they bring a problem-solving support workforce needs, said considering locating here. mindset to the job. Many, like But Barnes didn’t have to leave Hayden Griffin, department chair Barnes, started as interns while “Our economic development to earn his degree. He met Paul for engineering. in college. partners inform us that our Kauffmann, one of the founders Barnes, 28, is an engineering new name…is important for of ECU’s engineering department, Another benefit of hiring ECU manager at Carver Machine promoting economic prosperity who encouraged Barnes to apply engineering graduates, Crisp Works, a fabrication and welding in the East, which is consistent for the new program. said, is that they often are company in Washington, North with our university mission,” from eastern North Carolina “Everything it offered appeared Carolina, that serves customers White said. “This name sends a themselves “so they tend to to be a perfect fit for my needs in the aerospace, defense and message to prospective business remain here for several years.” and interests,” Barnes said. power-generation industries. and industry that we can provide The program graduated its the engineering-related talent As one of 35 close-knit Lindsey Crisp, president and chief first class of 26 in 2008. Now, they need.” engineering students in that first executive of the company and 550 engineering students are class, Barnes said he “was able to an ECU graduate in accounting, About 95 percent of ECU’s enrolled, and the department build relationships with students said he’s often asked how his engineering graduates are expects to grow to 1,000 who were undergoing the exact company—given its rural location offered jobs within 90 days of students in the next five to same challenges.” —finds quality employees. graduation. Approximately 65 10 years. However, class sizes percent of them stay in North ECU celebrated the 10-year “I say all the time to our average 20-25 students, allowing Carolina—and about half of those anniversary of its engineering customers that we are in rural for individual attention and in eastern North Carolina. program during Homecoming eastern North Carolina, but hands-on learning in state-of-the- —Crystal Baity with Steve Tuttle weekend in October. we serve customers all across art laboratories beginning with and Margaret Turner contributing the United States,” he said. the first semester of classes.

66 Trustees review design plans for new student union The design team for the areas—will be moved from the and a dividable ballroom as the Brody School of Medicine. university’s new Student Union is Sonic Plaza side to the street side. well as balconies, patios and an An almost-72,000-square-foot going back to the drawing board Revised plans for the first and outside media screen. student union also will be built following input from the Board second floors are expected at the “It will be a transformative on the Health Sciences Campus of Trustees. November trustees meeting, said building for this campus for between the East Carolina Heart Virginia Hardy, vice chancellor for decades and decades to come,” Institute and Laupus Library. Perkins+Will architects presented a student affairs at ECU. model to the Finance and Facilities said Chancellor Steve Ballard in The University of North Carolina Committee during the board’s “We need to take pause,” said Bill his remarks to the trustees during Board of Governors and the N.C. quarterly meeting Sept. 18-19. Bagnell, associate vice chancellor the full meeting. General Assembly approved for campus operations at ECU. plans for both buildings earlier The project includes a 700-car Trustees asked that the center, “We want to make sure that we this year. parking deck in same area as which will front approximately do it right the first time.” 300 feet on 10th Street, have the current parking lot south In other business, trustees a more defined presence since Plans call for the student union of Mendenhall Student Center. approved final plans for a new it will be so visible from the to cover almost 209,000 square With a short delay in approved $4 million dance building to be street. There is no physical entry feet with an adjacent parking plans, officials expect the center built one block west of the corner planned on 10th Street; students deck, with construction costing to be completed by the 2018 fall of 10th and Evans streets. The will access the center from all $95.5 million. Furniture, fixtures, semester. Construction will take building’s 16,000 square feet is other sides. audiovisual and other equipment 24 to 30 months. the minimum amount needed for plus design costs and fees will dance program accreditation. Mendenhall Student Center was “We had talked about how this push the total to $122.2 million. It will include dance studios, a completed in 1974 when East (building) would be one of those The facility will provide a new library, courtyard and parking. Carolina had 11,000 students. ‘front’ doors to campus,” said home for the Ledonia Wright Bids will be taken in spring 2015 Since then, the student body has chairman Robert Brinkley. “It Cultural Center, a new lesbian- with an estimated completion in grown more than 145 percent, needs more enhancement.” gay-bisexual-transgender center, early 2016. and an extensive health sciences student government and student —Crystal Baity To try to invigorate the campus with more than 3,000 group office space, multi-venue streetscape, some of interior students has developed around spaces—such as dining seating dining facilities, a new bookstore

Jim Merriman, left, principal architect, and Jeffrey Stebar present models of the proposed Health Sciences Campus (on table) and Main Campus student union buildings to the Finance and Facilities Committee of the Board of Trustees.

7 Author encourages students to make the most of college A hush swept over the standing- the annual Pirate Read program, Moore emphasized the answers on how two lives could room-only crowd Oct. 21 in through which incoming importance of choosing a go in such different directions. Wright Auditorium as Wes Moore freshmen are expected to read positive direction in life based The letters continued, followed bounded to the center of the and study a selected book on motivation to improve by face-to-face visits at the stage. The author of The Other before arriving on campus. society and how accountability prison. Wes Moore delivered a message Students then participate in class can change individuals and Moore stressed that the point that touched on the importance discussions, seminars and other society. The book also shows of the book is not to “celebrate of accountability, opportunity activities based on the book’s how factors like socio-economic one” Wes Moore and “castigate and community. central themes. status and the presence of role the other,” but that one thing models can play a part in how “You’re here to be heard,” Moore The Other Wes Moore explores he hopes readers get out of the people perceive their strengths told the group composed of how the paths of two “Baltimore work is “how thin that line is and abilities—and what they mostly students. “You’re here to sons” with the same name between our life and someone choose to do with them. give it everything you’ve got.” diverge based on decisions and else’s,” he said. circumstances. “There are people standing on He urged them to take advantage Earlier in the day, Moore met the edge of greatness,” he said, of higher education and all it The author and the man who with a small group of selected “and they don’t even know it.” has to offer, to experience it not shares his name were born blocks students for an in-depth only for good grades but also apart within a year of each other. After considering both Moores’ discussion of the book and a to make a positive difference The author became a Rhodes life stories and whether to write question-and-answer session. for themselves and for others in Scholar, decorated combat the book, the author decided to The students peppered Moore college and beyond. “Take this veteran, White House Fellow and write a letter to the imprisoned with creative inquiries about the experience, and drive it till the business leader. Moore. The response he received title of the book and how the wheels fall off,” he said. “Higher was “one of the most interesting incarcerated Moore felt about its The other Wes Moore is serving a education will never simply be letters I’ve ever read in my life,” publication. life sentence for his involvement determined by your transcripts.” he said. It was also one that in the 2000 murder of a The author Moore said he would raised more questions than Moore visited ECU as part of Baltimore County police officer. not have moved forward with the

Author Wes Moore conducts an in-depth discussion of his book, The Other Wes Moore, with a small group of students before addressing a standing-room-only crowd in Wright Auditorium.

8 project without the other Moore’s permission—he agreed and gave the author contact information for friends and family whose accounts also appear in the book. Even with his cooperation, said the author, tensions naturally flared at times throughout the research process because of the investigative nature of the project. “We had to delve into a place of discomfort,” he said. “It was definitely a delicate dance.” Lindsey Greene checks her He said the imprisoned Wes mail in White Residence Hall. Moore was amazed after reading the book, seeing how his decisions and actions changed the course of his life. The author added that he is haunted that the two Wes Moores could have easily been in opposite situations. “I wanted to let the reader go on a journey,” he said, “to see that it’s the smallest decision—made by us or to us—that can make all the ECU plans to phase out residence hall mail delivery difference in where we end up.” In another sign of technology’s year through the two phone at the end of the hall with Evidence of that journey was continuing impact on student Neighborhood Service desks free phones in every dorm room. present in the students’ questions life, a yearlong project to phase alone, McCartney said. Now we’ve taken the phones for Moore. Some wondered which out mail delivery to the roughly out of the dorm rooms because To make picking up packages Moore was truly the “other Wes 5,600 residents of ECU’s 14 every student has a cell phone, and mail more convenient for Moore,”—both are, Moore said— residence halls has begun. and the landline phones were students, ECU plans to open a while others wanted to know the just in the way. very moment the author knew It’s not like the students will second delivery center in the his own life was headed in a miss the six-day-a-week new Gateway dormitory complex “And guess what’s back at the positive direction. One student service, according to William that will serve the College Hill end of the hall on every floor? A wanted updates on other people L. McCartney, associate vice community. public phone.” chancellor for campus living. mentioned in the book who Space now taken up by post Cable TV and desks, believe it played parts in both Moores’ “The fact is, they just don’t get offices in the dorm lobbies will or not, might be the next dorm lives—some updates were good; much mail at all anymore,” he be remodeled for other uses, fixtures to go. McCartney said others were tragic. said. “Mostly it’s junk mail and McCartney said. Some dorms surveys have shown students Destiny DeHart, a senior majoring circulars. If you watch them when will get larger computer rooms, don’t watch much TV, and when in art and psychology, was they come pick up their mail, it others will get better lounges or they do, they just tune in on their selected to attend the small goes straight to the trash can.” larger gyms, he said. laptop computers. group session through the Beginning fall semester 2015, McCartney said ECU modeled its Likewise for desks; McCartney Honors College and EC Scholars McCartney said the process transition away from residence said students tend to sit on their program. She said hearing Moore of delivering student mail on hall mail delivery on the beds to study. “Their desks now speak helped her view the book campus will be the same as the experience of the University of are mainly used for piling stuff and its themes in a new narrative current system for handling North Carolina at Greensboro, on, so maybe the desks can go voice and perspective. package deliveries. which dropped the service last to make room for whatever is the year. ECU’s similar proposal, next big thing,” he said. “I want to go back and re-read it When a dorm resident gets a which carries an estimated in his voice,” she said. “You could box of cookies from home or McCartney said there is one trend $800,000 price tag, was really see how he grew.” shoes bought online arrive, the in campus living that should only reviewed and approved by the university sends an email and grow stronger—the demand for DeHart said having access to UNC Board of Governors at its a text message to the student quick access to good food. authors and other guest speakers Aug. 1 meeting. saying the package is available for on campus enriches students’ “Not too many years ago, there pick up at the central mail facility The end of mail delivery in experiences and enables them to weren’t a lot of places you could behind the Flanagan Building on the dorms is another of those learn as much as possible from eat on Main Campus. Now we Main Campus or one of the two “back to the future” moments the speakers’ expertise. have 26. And the expectation Neighborhood Service Offices in that McCartney said he has that most students have is that “These kinds of opportunities,” the student housing areas. experienced working in every one of them will be like she said, “are really important to Campus Living. the quality and our outlook as a That system worked fine with going to a nice restaurant.” college and as individuals.” the more than 7,000 packages “Back in the day, it was a big —Steve Tuttle —Spaine Stephens delivered to students last deal when we replaced the pay

9 Simulation trains students to care for patients outside clinical settings Al Schreier rocked back in his Simulation coordinator Jane recliner surveying the three Miles, an assistant professor in future Pirate nurses who filled the College of Nursing, once his small apartment. They were worked as a home health nurse there, they explained kindly, and knows firsthand how

to follow up on an injury to different a home visit can be Photos by Jay Clark Schreier’s leg. He needed his from a clinical setting. bandage changed and a general “You have to function very condition assessment. independently, be ready to He listened patiently for a while, respond to any situation,” Miles nodding as they advised him said. “The information that to limit his smoking and refrain you get initially may be very from drinking while on pain different than what you see medication. But then something when you get there.” else crossed his mind. She described how her first home “Have you seen my pet cobra?” health job in Hawaii was far from he asked. “Or my lizard? paradise. Miles encountered Sometimes they escape from very poor living conditions, the terrarium.” infestations, dogs and cats, and hostile or defensive patients and Fortunately for the students, family members. Schreier was not a real patient. The experience was part of a But as health care evolves, she 45-minute simulation for seniors said, it’s important that ECU in the ECU College of Nursing. nursing students have a grasp The fake cockroaches and mice, on many different models for empty wine bottles and bad delivering care. habits of their mock patients “The trend and prediction as we Nursing student Morgan Hampton were intended to convey the try to save health care dollars is unique challenges associated that we need more preventative with administering health care in care and to keep people out of a home setting. the hospital,” Miles said. “Nurses Students encountered three who can do (home health visits) different care scenarios—an are in high demand.” adult patient on a small porch, Home health and hospice nurses Schreier in his mock apartment work exclusively in patient and a mother-and-child wellness homes, but Miles said it is not visit in a mobile home. Each was unusual for nurses working in conducted in the Rehabilitation health departments or schools to Center at Vidant Medical Center. make home visits, too.

Students emerging from their Long, who was in the same simulation lessons admitted to simulation group as Locklear. being distracted by some of the “I felt like we jumped around information provided by the too much.” actors and by the setting. But there are also advantages, “I knew he would have issues and students said, in seeing patients concerns, but the alcohol threw in their home environments. me off,” said Brittany Locklear “When (patients are) in the after meeting with a mock hospital, they’re under a lot of patient who claimed he drank stress,” said Gabe Pantoja. “But three bottles of whiskey the when they get home…they’re night before. more ready to learn. So you get Bryan Duttman changes a “I wish we could have talked to focus on education rather than bandage for Al Schreier. more about (his alcohol acute care.” consumption),” added Sarah —Kathryn Kennedy

10 But there are more than 500 non-public NC Pre-K programs in the eastern region alone. Licensed teachers at these schools have had to rely on the state for the required mentoring and evaluation, which led to an extensive waitlist from a lack of resources. “DHHS is saying, ‘We need to be able to serve more teachers; we have way too many on the waiting list. And we think we can do it through institutes of higher education, rather than just the state government.’ So our charge, our scope of work at ECU, is to serve all the teachers in the eastern half of the state,” Brehm said. Through the EESLPD funding, ECU recognized for leadership in diversity, inclusion independent consultants will be hired, contracted, trained, ECU has been recognized with Lenore Pearlstein, publisher diversity plan for the next five supported and monitored out of the HEED award for the third of Insight Into Diversity, said, years in alignment with the ECU. They must possess specific consecutive year for its efforts “We hope the HEED award university’s strategic plan,” credentials to be selected, and in diversity and inclusion. serves as a way to honor said Alston. they will each be assigned a those institutions of higher The Higher Education Working to provide students caseload of schools close to their education that recognize Excellence in Diversity award with a globally diverse and home offices throughout eastern the importance of diversity North Carolina. is given by Insight Into inclusive environment and and inclusion as part of their Diversity magazine. It annually curriculum is important for everyday campus culture.” “The mentors will go out once recognizes U.S. colleges and success, Alston said. Providing or twice a month into the universities that demonstrate This recognition also aligns employees with a diverse classrooms where they’ll offer an outstanding commitment to with the university’s new and inclusive workplace is resources to improve the specific diversity and inclusion. strategic plan, Beyond equally important and both learning methods of the children Tomorrow, which includes remain a priority in groups “ECU continues to be among being taught,” Brehm said. “The continuing the commitment at the university, such as the leaders of diversity and evaluators go in four times a year to diversity and inclusion and the Chancellor’s Diversity inclusion efforts and initiatives to do an observation and rank increasing opportunity as two Leadership Cabinet. within higher education, and the teacher on the state teaching of the seven guiding principles. we’re being recognized for our Also recognized from North standards.” efforts,” said LaKesha Alston, “The Office for Equity and Carolina were Elon University Debbie Saperstein has been a associate provost for equity Diversity will be collaborating and North Carolina State mentor-evaluator for NC Pre-K and diversity. with partners across campus University. schools near Wilmington for to develop the institution’s —Jamitress Bowden three years under the old system. She says administration of these teacher support services through ECU should be much ECU to provide early childhood mentoring to eastern N.C. educators more effective because the Incoming kindergartners undergraduate program in the Targeting 4-year-olds at risk, the consultants will be focused on throughout eastern North College of Human Ecology, state-funded “NC Pre-K” program one geographical area. Carolina will soon be better will oversee the Early Educator aims to ensure all kindergartners “And having the resources of prepared for classroom learning Support, Leadership and start their elementary years ECU will help tremendously by thanks to a $1.3 million grant Professional Development project. with a similar foundation. The making professional development awarded to ECU. Department of Public Instruction “What we have seen over more readily accessible to requires an assigned teacher The Department of Child and over again, and what the teachers and EESLPD staff,” to mentor and a principal to Development and Family research shows, is that the more Saperstein said. evaluate for all NC Pre-K classes Relations was selected to knowledgeable and intentional a as part of those efforts. Funding for the project is renew- receive the funding by the North teacher is in using developmentally able every two years and was Carolina Department of Health appropriate practices with young This is a simple process for public split evenly with the University and Human Services to provide children, the higher the outcomes schools, since all principals qualify of North Carolina at Charlotte, mentoring and evaluation to are in social, emotional and as evaluators based on their which will offer similar services pre-kindergarten teachers in 46 academic domains of learning,” hiring requirements, and there’s to early childhood teachers in the counties in the region. Brehm said. “So, that’s the goal. also at least one qualified mentor western half of the state. We want children to come to teacher on staff by mandate. Barbara Brehm, coordinator —Kelly Setzer kindergarten ready to learn.” of ECU’s birth-to-kindergarten

11 Professors publish book on political humor “Earlier today, George W. Bush Center for Media Public Affairs, said he has one goal for these which Lichter directs. Jody Baumgartner, left, debates. He wants to show and Jonathan Morris “(The CMPA) has been collecting the American people that he’s jokes from late-night comedy presidentiamable.” programs and classifying them —David Letterman by whom the joke was targeted “And in a town meeting in Rhode at or who said the joke. We used Island, Bill Clinton said there are that information, which was over ‘powerful forces’ threatening to 100,000 jokes,” said Morris. bring down his administration. I Baumgartner, who read through think they’re called ‘hormones.’” the 100,000 jokes, was responsible —Jay Leno for selecting which ones to put These are just two of the political into the book. “It was tough,” he jokes listed in Politics is a Joke!: said, but he managed to narrow How TV Comedians Are Remaking them down to about 200. Political Life, a new book written “We weren’t looking for any kind by two ECU professors, which of bias in the jokes, but we clearly explains how late-night talk found a tendency for late-night shows have influenced the comics to joke about Republicans success of politicians. more than Democrats,” said Written over the course of two Morris. This was no surprise to he made their job easier,” said American Politics in the Media which he co-edited years by Jody Baumgartner Morris or Baumgartner, who have Baumgartner. Age, with Morris. and Jonathan Morris of ECU’s been studying humor and politics Writing a book about political political science department for the past 10 years. jokes wasn’t intentional, Whereas Laughing Matters and S. Robert Lichter, professor was academically oriented, “Presidents are the most frequent Baumgartner said. “We just of communication at George Baumgartner said targets of late-night comedians. stumbled upon a topic that Politics is Mason University, the book was could be enjoyed by Again, no surprise, but the data happened to be really popular,” a Joke! published in July. anyone with an interest in shows this,” said Baumgartner. he added. political humor. “The primary late-night talk show Morris added that former Morris and Baumgartner came up hosts that we’re talking about President Bill Clinton is, by far, with the idea to research humor “We’re hoping to reach a more are Jay Leno, David Letterman, the most-joked about politician and politics while they were general audience with this book, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. within the past two decades. driving to a conference together but also have it accessible to our We didn’t set out to restrict colleagues who study political “More than one late-night talk in 2004. “We have been studying ourselves to them, but for the humor to use it as reference,” show host has said something it ever since,” said Morris. past decade, they have been the said Morris. “People who have to this effect: If there was a hall Baumgartner’s latest books major players,” said Baumgartner. read the book keep saying that of fame for late-night comedy, include Conventional Wisdom they skip through our analysis The data for the book has been Clinton would be the founding and American Elections” and and go straight to the jokes.” collected since 1988 from the guy that they put in because Laughing Matters: Humor and —Grace Haskin

100 YEARS AGO 75 YEARS AGO Students train as coaches Fewer dances rile students

A year after the student In early 1939, Athletic Association organizes President Leon to oversee basketball, tennis Meadows angers and softball matches, the students when he cuts group takes an important in half the number of step forward in early 1915 by informal dances held training students as referees, in Wright Auditorium umpires and coaches. Faculty from 90 minutes six members—most of whom nights a week to one knew little about sports—had hour three nights a volunteered in those roles. The week. He says the basketball tournament that fall auditorium is needed demonstrated that students for other events. At “have developed no less skill, more initiative, and a better understanding of a Feb. 9 mass meeting, students vote to ask Meadows to reconsider, but he says the meaning of sportsmanlike play than when they saw the game from the his hands are tied. “What we need is a gymnasium,” Meadows says, but he takes viewpoint of the player only,” according to an article in the spring 1915 issue of no action to get one built. Meadows touches off another wave of student unrest the Training School Quarterly. later in the year when he orders the majorettes to perform in long pants. College of Business named a top business school for 2015 For the eighth straight year, the highlighting academics, career ECU College of Business ranks and placement, student life and among the best in the nation by admissions information. The The Princeton Review. profile says “ECU has an intimate feel.…Professors know students’ The education services company names, and the campus has a features ECU in the 2015 edition of friendly atmosphere.” The MBA The Best 296 Business Schools. program “provides students with “The College of Business is proud lots of individual attention and to be honored once again as one allows them to tailor the program of the nation’s most outstanding to their needs.” business schools,” said Stan The Princeton Review compiled Eakins, dean of the college. the information based on its “Through all that we do, we strive Fall brings record number of undergraduates 80-question survey asking 21,600 to prepare and challenge our students to rate their schools ECU welcomed its largest history. In the graduate school, students with the necessary skills on several topics and report on number of undergraduate enrollment stands at 4,740, to think, act and lead in today’s their experiences. Some school- students to campus with the start which is 162 less than last year. business world.” of the fall semester. reported data also was used. The number of new freshmen In the guide, the college is —Jennifer Brezina The university enrolled 22,252 enrolled—4,226—is the third- featured in a two-page profile undergraduates, which is 744 largest in ECU history. more than last fall and the largest Also up is the number of new number in university history, transfer students—1,779—which said John Fletcher, associate

Jay Clark is 451 more than last year. provost for enrollment services. This year’s number of transfer Enrollment figures are considered students is the largest in school preliminary until reviewed and history, Fletcher said. approved by the University of North Carolina General “The increase in overall Administration. enrollment at ECU represents an acknowledgement from students The enrollment numbers for ECU new and continuing, from North reflect a national trend, Fletcher Carolina and outside the state, said. Undergraduate enrollment who recognize the quality of remains strong, while there is a our faculty, the rich culture and small decrease in the number of traditions of the Pirate Nation Stan Eakins graduate students. and the value for their education Total enrollment is 27,511, which is dollar,” Fletcher said. 624 more than last year and the —Jeannine Manning Hutson fourth-largest enrollment in ECU

50 YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO College Union sent packing Campus begins to recycle

A remodeling project ECU gets serious in 1965 uproots the about reducing College Union from its waste in early home in the basement 1990 by initiating of the Wright Building. mandatory The union mostly sets recycling programs. up shop in the lobby of The results are Wright. The normally surprising at the quiet space becomes a end of that first hub of activity with TV year. University sets, pingpong tables Recycling All photos courtesy University Archives and seemingly endless Coordinator George bridge and bingo games. Armistead (in photo The College Union’s left) reports that return is delayed by a an estimated 10 fire that destroys parts tons of cardboard, of the renovated space. aluminum, glass, paper and other materials were collected across campus. Research networks gain ground at ECU Most enzymes spend their lives Marshburn, director of the Office might be local, national or interest among people.” breaking down proteins to of Research Development at international. Scientists working together benefit their host organisms, ECU. Those efforts include “They have no hesitation of isn’t new. But what used to be so East Carolina University STEM@Starlight, Research Mingle contacting scientists all over the dividing the work or sharing biochemist Lance Bridges has and research meetings at the country,” Phil Pekala, chair of the research samples is now people an apt description for one he’s Tipsy Teapot cafe. biochemistry department at the with diverse skills working on a investigating that apparently According to Jason Owen- Brody School of Medicine, says problem from different angles. does nothing. Smith, a professor of sociology of his faculty members. “In these “You still collaborated. There “The Walking Dead—that’s at the University of Michigan days of tight funding…gone are was never a time when I wasn’t the best way I can put it,” who studies network theory, the days of the individual who reaching out to find someone Bridges, an assistant professor networks are a concrete pattern does everything by himself.” to work with,” says Pekala, of biochemistry and molecular of relationships. Hubs, or key Part of the reason scientists who joined ECU in 1981 after biology at the Brody School players, form branches to others. who study various aspects of completing postdoctoral studies. of Medicine at East Carolina Networks serve as resource metabolism at ECU are getting “The collaborations are more University, says, referring to and information channels, they together is because of the dynamic now than they were the popular TV series about can signal that a researcher has “laboratory without walls” setting then. Now these people are co- zombies in a post-apocalyptic status and they can influence on the fourth floor of the East investigators with each other. world. “You have a whole family, other researchers, according to Carolina Heart Institute at ECU, They write grant applications or class, and then an oddball Owen-Smith. where they work. together.” sticking out. It doesn’t make sense why your body would take More angles yield “Two people working in very Anne Spuches, an associate the time and energy to make an fuller answers different parts of biochemistry— professor of chemistry, is an inactive enzyme. kinetics and proteins—we’ve inorganic chemist specializing never had that proximity of talent in ways metals are “trafficked” “They’re in the cells; they’re there Research networks aim to bring before,” Pekala says. “That sort within cells. Some metals, such for a reason, but no one really together people who have an of open laboratory is supposed as magnesium, are vital to knows,” he adds. interest in studying a particular condition or population. They to promote collaboration and human health. Others are toxic. He’s in the office of Tonya Zeczycki, another assistant professor of biochemistry. Despite similar job titles, their Tonya Zeczycki and Lance Bridges roles are different. Bridges is a protein expert. Zeczycki is a physical biochemist/ enzymologist who specializes in, as she says, “how this little machine works and moves.” And that’s why their presence together is significant. If Bridges’ protease actually does something, Zeczycki will figure out what gets it into action. This type of scientific collabora­ tion has taken hold in research labs around the world and across ECU. Called research networks, they are helping scientists solve more complex problems and gain research funding by bringing together experts in disparate fields who work together to answer specific questions. “Not only is organizing and developing research networks across campus is an institutional priority, research and graduate studies in partnership with other state agencies as well as campus colleges and schools are proactively supporting, promoting, hosting and, in some cases, sponsoring the development of research networks,” says Ernest

14 From left, J.P. Walsh, Mark Sprague, Roger Rulifson and Joseph Luczkovich

Even healthful metals can cause ecology expert Joe Luczkovich, Wake Forest University that he and establishing credibility. Then problems when there’s too much biologist and fisheries expert helped found have sprouted. they start getting interested and or too little of them. Roger Rulifson, physicist and They bring people with a depth talking with you. It’s a good way acoustics expert Mark Sprague of expertise in various fields to market and advertise.” For example, calcium plays a and geologist J.P. Walsh to together to tackle cancer, heart role in regulating heartbeat. Last He said using modern study sounds fish make, how disease, obesity and other year, Spuches, Joe Chalovich, a communications technology to those sounds travel through problems, he says. biochemist at the Brody School build networks is easier than sediment and how that can of Medicine at ECU and a heart Collaboration doesn’t end with what his predecessors had to do determine where they are, how muscle specialist, ECU chemist the publication of the research to build relationships. This year, many there are and what they’re Yumin Li and others published article, however. “After you solve Shaikh has published articles communicating. a study that looked at calcium the problem, now how do you with scientists at the University binding within heart muscle. “Adding a physicist with a produce this for the marketplace?” of North Carolina at Chapel background in acoustics to that Edgeton says. That brings in Hill, WFU and Michigan State She’s also working with Dr. Walter made all the sense in the world,” engineers, businesspeople, University. Pories, ECU’s gastric-bypass says Luczkovich, an associate marketers and more. surgery pioneer, to better under­ “Collaborations are much easier professor of biology. “It’s not stand if people who get the to come by because you can strictly a biology question. It’s surgery are absorbing enough Technology has changed communicate much faster a physics question as well as a nutrients from their meals, and how scientists work together online,” Shaikh says. “Science biology question.” Marty Roop, a microbiologist today is more integrated. They specializing in the infectious According to Doug Edgeton, As science is always evolving, fund research teams. They don’t so, too, is the technology bacteria Brucella. She and Bridges president and chief executive of fund single individuals anymore.” plan to start working together. the North Carolina Biotechnology that allows collaboration and Center, which, among other roles, networking. ECU biochemist “The more angles you know…the Networks yield dollars funds scientists in universities Saame Raza Shaikh uses more of a complete story you’ll and private industry, intensive the social media platform Collaborative projects are obtain,” Spuches says. “That is collaboration is vital today. LinkedIn to make contacts with drawing favor from funding the trend I’ve been seeing several researchers and companies. agencies. Criteria for awarding years now.” “In general, most of the life- research grants at the National science problems we’re dealing “That led to meeting people In the Thomas Harriot College Institutes of Health include with today don’t lend themselves at conferences,” says Shaikh, of Arts and Sciences, scientists the following question: “If to one disciplinary approach an associate professor of worked together to secure the project is collaborative… anymore,” says Edgeton. That’s biochemisty and molecular a $281,393 National Science do the investigators have why in the last 20 years or so, he biology. “Bottom line is right Foundation grant to buy an complementary and integrated says, centers and core research now I’m negotiating a clinical ocean-going robot for coastal expertise; are their leadership facilities such as the heart study. The broader concept is and fisheries research. It’s part approach, governance and institute at ECU and the Institute that networking is critical for of research by biologist and fish organizational structure for Regenerative Medicine at establishing a research track

15 Researchers receive grant to study how pathogens ‘talk’ Two researchers at the Brody School of Medicine at ECU have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue the work they began years ago on one of the world’s most common bacterial pathogens. Everett Pesci and Jim Coleman, professors in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, received a four-year grant of nearly $1.5 million to continue studying the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which Pesci said “is everywhere.” “It’s commonly found on flowers, vegetables and things like that,” he said. “We eat it all the time, but healthy bodies can fight it off.” Pesci said the bug is opportunistic, meaning it infects people whose immune systems are compromised in some way due to illness. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is

David Brown, left, and Saame Raza Shaikh Everett Pesci, left, and Jim Coleman appropriate for the project?” government agencies and a co-author with other scientists large private foundations, are including Shaikh and Brown on “These are the ‘big money’ grants increasingly focusing their two research articles published that are awarded to investigators funding programs on addressing this year. Bridges and Shaikh whose science is expected to major human or societal were among the authors on a fish make a significant, paradigm- problems or on programs oil study published last year. shifting impact on the field or that will yield some significant health and disease research as Luczkovich just finished working economic benefit,” she says. a whole,” says Zeczycki. “There with colleagues to submit “The problems are multifaceted, has been a push to come at another grant proposal to requiring experts from many a single project from several the NSF’s “Physics and Living disciplines to work together different aspects, (such as) Systems” program. to develop and test possible from a mechanistic and more solutions. So we are seeing more Networks extend to students as translational approach—the complex collaborative proposals well. Two doctoral programs, ‘from-lab-bench-to-bedside’ with researchers from different one in biological sciences and mentality. Collaborations disciplines and with researchers the other in coastal resource where a problem is addressed from other institutions management, bring together from several different yet participating. faculty from departments ranging complementary research areas from chemistry to recreation and seem to do better with the NIH. “Collaboration between basic leisure studies to give students and clinical scientists is also an “It is one of those things that we an interdisciplinary education and area of current funding emphasis; hear from program officers and experience in forming their own such collaboration speeds up the NIH study section members— networks. translation of new discoveries to collaborative grants are more practice,” she adds. “We all need each other’s help in competitive when it comes to one way or another, especially funding,” she says. Shaikh and ECU physiology in this funding climate,” Spuches faculty member David Brown Barbara Gray, who directs the says. “Sometimes, the best ideas recently received a $366,744 NIH Office of Sponsored Programs at come from just having a chat grant to investigate new ways ECU, agrees. with somebody.” to protect the heart during a —Doug Boyd “Funders, particularly federal heart attack. Zeczycki has been

16 responsible for about 10 percent intracellular communication of all hospital-acquired infections, signal they discovered when causing ailments such as they began collaborating in 1998. pneumonia and urinary tract and They call it the Pseudomonas surgical wound infections. quinolone signal, or PQS. It also infects most cystic fibrosis “Basically the bacteria use this patients at a very early age and signal to talk to each other Pictured are the morphs causes a chronic pneumonia that and to tell the whole bacterial of R. imitator that are is very difficult to cure. Cystic population to delay expressing the focus of the Nature fibrosis is a genetic disease virulence factors until enough Communications paper. At in which patients produce an bacteria are present to overcome top is the striped R. imitator unusually thick, sticky mucus that the host’s immune response,” and at the bottom is the clogs their lungs and leads to life- Pesci said. “Once enough of Varadero morph. threatening lung infections. them are gathered, and the environment is ideal, the bacteria “Pseudomonas infections are will send the signal out that says, difficult to treat because there ‘Now’s the time to turn it on and aren’t a lot of antibiotics that get the job done.’” will kill these organisms,” said Mimicry in frogs can cause new species to arise Pesci. “But scientists are starting “If we can figure out how to to believe that maybe you mess with those signals so they Researchers at ECU have found and analyze data. don’t need to kill them—you can’t talk to each other, it could that certain populations of a “Specifically, the collecting done just need to interfere with their lay some groundwork for the South American frog species for this project was difficult communication.” development of a therapeutic have changed their appearance simply because the main study treatment for Pseudomonas to avoid predators through Pesci said he and Coleman are site was so remote,” Twomey infections,” Coleman said. “That mimicry of other species, and studying the communication said. “It could only be reached by could have a great impact for this change has caused the system that pathogens use to river, and it was normally a six- cystic fibrosis patients, for populations to diverge, possibly control their virulence, or ability to-eight-hour ride in a motorized patients who are on respirators to the point of evolving into two to cause disease. In particular, dugout canoe. I feel like it’s really and for burn patients.” different species. they will focus on one chemical a testament to the biodiversity ­— Amy Adams Ellis Their findings, published in of the region that we’re able to August in the journal Nature make discoveries such as this.” could Communications, The results of this research signal a major advance in provide “strong evidence” that evolutionary biology. mimicry is driving population “The species that we study divergence and new speciation (Ranitomeya imitator, the between two populations of the Peruvian mimic poison frog) Peruvian poison frog, Summers is unusual in that different said. The frogs have evolved populations of this one species to mimic two different model have evolved to resemble species that are distinct from (mimic) four distinct ‘model’ each other in color and pattern. species in different geographic “This connection between regions in northern Peru,” mimicry and speciation has said Kyle Summers, a biology only been demonstrated in one professor and expert in evolution other group of organisms— at ECU. Heliconius butterflies—and “The different mimetic morphs never in a vertebrate,” said are very different in appearance, Summers. “Hence, the results having striped, banded, spotted of this study represent a major or ‘Varadero’ color patterns,” advance in evolutionary biology.” said Summers. Varadero is the Summers said the next step in village near where researchers the research is to determine discovered the frogs. exactly what genes have Summers said the work involved changed and what impact those long-term, intensive research on changes have. multiple aspects of the species, In addition to funding from the including morphology, behavior, National Science Foundation and acoustics, ecology, biogeography, the National Geographic Society, population genetics and the research was supported by evolution. During the past five the Thomas Harriot College of years, graduate student Evan Arts and Sciences at ECU. Twomey, who is lead author on the research article, spent many The research article is online at months in Peru overcoming www.nature.com. numerous challenges to gather —Doug Boyd and Lacey Gray

17 Grant funds chronic pain study Two ECU researchers have sensory neurons—which relay neurodegenerative diseases. fatal 50 years ago. Of the more received funding for a project sensory information like pain— than 1 million people who live They hope their findings will lead that could lead to better quality grow and form connections. She with spinal cord injuries in the to an effective pharmacological of life for people living with became especially interested United States, about 50 percent treatment for the sharp, burning chronic pain. in the uncontrolled growth—or develop neuropathic pain within neuropathic pain commonly “sprouting”—of sensory cells the first six months of their injury, Sonja Bareiss and Kori Brewer experienced by patients after in the peripheral nerves, which and as many as 90 percent received a two-year, $300,000 spinal cord injuries. Specifically, are those beyond the brain and report it at the five-year mark, grant by the Craig H. Neilsen they’re trying to determine spinal cord. she said. Foundation to study the whether reducing sensory development and possible “This branching off of peripheral “sprouting”—with a specific drug Brewer called the team’s treatments of the debilitating sensory cells to form new known to stop it—will combat research a “novel approach to a pain that commonly occurs after connections in the spinal cord the pain without sacrificing motor long-standing problem” because a spinal cord injury. has been recognized in humans function. Current treatments are rather than focusing on the who’ve suffered spinal cord ineffective, they said. brain or the spinal cord, they are Bareiss, an assistant professor injury,” Bareiss said. “It’s thought studying the peripheral nerves in the Department of Physical “Chronic pain is debilitating, and to contribute to abnormal that carry pain information from Therapy in the College of Allied it affects every facet of life,” sensations, including pain.” outlying areas of the body into Health Sciences, practiced said Bareiss. “Once these pain the central nervous system. physical therapy for eight years Brewer, an associate professor conditions arise, they tend to Understanding the cellular before earning her doctorate in and associate chief of the persist or worsen over time. It mechanisms involved, she said, anatomy and cell biology. Division of Research in the Brody reduces quality of life and hinders could have applications for all School of Medicine’s Department a person’s reintegration into “My clinical experience informs types of chronic pain. of Emergency Medicine, is well- community and vocation.” the way I ask the questions,” she versed in the basic science of pain. It could also have implications said. “When I was practicing in According to the Institute of beyond pain relief. the clinic, I didn’t feel like I had a The pair has collaborated since Medicine and the American lot of tools to treat patients with 2010, when they received seed Academy of Pain Medicine, “What if, instead of reducing the chronic pain. That motivated me funding from the Harriet and chronic pain affects more than sprouting, you were to enhance to do basic science research so John Wooten Lab for Alzheimer’s 100 million Americans—more it, fostering new synaptic I could better understand what and Neurodegenerative than diabetes, heart disease and connections in brain cells? was happening with my patients.” Diseases Research, which aims cancer combined. Could that help with Alzheimer’s? to jump-start Brody faculty The signal may be the same,” Subsequently, her doctoral One reason, Bareiss said, is on multidisciplinary research said Bareiss. studies focused on pain at the people are surviving spinal cord projects about molecular and —Amy Adams Ellis cellular level; specifically, how injuries that would have been cellular mechanisms involved in

Sonja Bareiss, left, and Kori Brewer

18 Beth Velde, a professor emerita and director of strategic planning in the College of Allied Health Sciences, was inducted into the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship. The national academy recognized her for the “practice and model of excellence in collaboration with communities and the university while addressing critical issues of mutual benefit.” Beth Chaney, an assistant professor in the Department of Health Education and Promotion, was appointed by Gov. Pat McCrory to a two-year term on the N.C. Substance Abuse and Underage Drinking Prevention and Treatment Task Force. Mary Kirkpatrick, who joined the nursing faculty in 1977, retired Dr. Walter J. Pories was selected Sept. 1. She had primary teaching to serve as second vice president responsibilities in the new of the American College of master’s of science in nursing Surgeons—the highest office in program. During her career, she that organization ever held by a served as department chair, chair Brody School of Medicine doctor. of numerous college committees The position is one of five officers Melody and and as the international in the national organization. Stephen Thomas coordinator for the College of Pories previously served the Nursing. She took many students organization as president-elect for study-abroad experiences. of the Ohio chapter, president Stephen Thomas, dean of the The evening closed with the of the North Carolina chapter College of Allied Health Sciences unveiling of a portrait of Thomas Dr. Robert R. Foreman was and two terms on its board of since 2003, retired in October by artist Irene Bailey ’93 ’95 named associate dean for clinical governors. Pories is perhaps after 34 years on the East to be displayed in the Health affairs for the School of Dental best known for modifying a type Carolina University faculty. Sciences Building. Medicine after serving as director of weight-loss surgery into the of clinics since September 2012. “Greenville Gastric Bypass.” He Thomas came to ECU in Before coming to ECU, Thomas Before coming to ECU in 2012, showed that not only does it 1980 as a faculty member held academic, research and Foreman served on the faculty of result in durable weight loss but in the rehabilitation studies administrative positions with the the University of Maryland School also causes a long-term remission department. He was named University of Arizona in Tucson, of Dentistry. of type 2 diabetes in patients chair of the department in 1998 the University of Wisconsin-Stout who have diabetes and undergo and became interim dean of the in Menomonie and the University School of Music professor the surgery. Pories, a professor College of Allied Health Sciences of Texas Medical Branch in Edward Jacobs was named the of surgery, biochemistry and in April 2001. Galveston. Thomas received his Robert L. Jones Distinguished kinesiology, joined ECU in 1977. doctorate of education and his Professor in Music for the 2014- After his promotion to dean in Among other honors, he was the master’s degree in rehabilitation 2015 academic year. The Jones 2003, Thomas led the college 2001 recipient of O. Max Gardner studies from the University Distinguished Professorship, through several new endeavors, Award, the highest honor given of Arizona and his bachelor’s created by Robert L. “Roddy” including the move from its former by the University of North degree in psychology and Jones ’58 of Raleigh, is one of the location in the Belk Building to Carolina Board of Governors. sociology from Texas Christian oldest endowed professorships the new Health Sciences Building University in Fort Worth. at ECU. It is awarded for a three- in 2006 and a name change from year term and provides startup its original moniker, the School of Thomas said he bases his and/or continuing funding for Allied Health Sciences. leadership philosophy on a important music performance quote by sailor and author John At a reception in his honor on initiatives that will significantly Rousmaniere: “The goal is not to Oct. 13, Thomas was presented impact ECU, the School of sail the boat, but rather to help with a certificate of appreciation Music and the region. Jacobs is the boat sail herself.” Several for his work with the annual Jean a professor of composition and faculty and staff remarked that Mills Health Symposium. Thomas music theory. He is founder and they will miss having him as also was named dean emeritus director of the North Carolina their captain. and given a gold stole signifying NewMusic Initiative, begun in that new role. March 2001.

19 WINTER SPRING ARTS CALENDAR

BY JEANNINE MANNING HUTSON AND HARLEY DARTT Nigel Parry/CPI Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor John Lithgow offers a touching and humorous reflection of storytelling as the tie that binds humanity in Stories by Heart. He invokes memories of his grandmother and father by interspersing his story with two great works that were read to him when he was a child: Uncle Fred Flits By by P.G. Wodehouse and Haircut by Ring Lardner. The first is the story of a fretful young Englishman who is taken on a wild afternoon escapade in suburban London by his irrepressible uncle. In a hilarious tour de force, Lithgow performs with abandon, portraying 10 distinct, outrageous characters—including a parrot. By contrast, Haircut is a darkly comic look at Midwestern American implacability. It is a captivating yarn told by a gossipy barber in small-town Michigan as he gives a shave and a ©Koresh Dance Company haircut to a stranger. Lithgow performs at 8 p.m. April 18 in Wright Auditorium. The production is part of the S. Rudolph Alexander Performing Arts Series. Tickets are $65 for the public and $30 for students and available at www.ecuarts.com.

20 S. RUDOLPH ALEXANDER PERFORMING ARTS SERIES During a three-year run on Broadway, the Swiss troupe Mummenschanz pioneered a new form of visual theatre, paving the way for the likes of modern dance company Pilobolus and the Blue Man Group. Mummenschanz creates a playful yet compelling experience through the inventive use of shadow, light and the creative manipulation of objects. They will perform at 8 p.m. Feb. 13 in Wright Auditorium. Tickets are $35 for the public and $10 for students. Experience choreographer Roni Koresh’s latest innovative work, Come Together, when the Koresh Dance Company performs at 8 p.m. March 20 in Wright Auditorium. The piece juxtaposes Israeli folk dance and contemporary movement alongside Middle Eastern music and classical favorites by Chopin, Beethoven and Ravel. This performance opens with a short Koresh piece performed by ECU dance students. Tickets are $35 for the public and $10 for students. The ECU Symphony Orchestra with cellist Nina Kotova will take the stage of Wright Auditorium at 8 p.m. April 23 for a special performance. The “fantastically gifted cellist” Kotova has been hailed as “passionate and inspiring” and “a musician of high seriousness and real talent.” She’s performed as a soloist with symphony orchestras around the world, including the Czech, Russian National, Chinese Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic and BBC. She’s performed for the Imperial family of Japan and at Buckingham Palace. Tickets are $25 for the public and $10 for students. Tickets for the S. Rudolph Alexander Performing Arts Series productions are available through the ECU Arts website, www.ecuarts.com, or through Roni Koresh the Central Ticket Office at 252-328-4788.

21 ON CAMPUS MUSIC guest artists, are scheduled for Norfolk on Feb. 5, Raleigh on Christopher Grymes Near-death experiences and John Four Seasons Feb. 7 and Greenville on Feb. 8. Donne poetry are the topics for Chamber Music Festival the spring Voyages of Discovery The Four Seasons Chamber Complete Four Seasons Festival lectures, sponsored by the Music Festival inaugurates two information is online at Thomas Harriot College of Arts programs for spring 2015—the www.ecu.edu/fourseasons. and Sciences. Winter Workshop in January and North Carolina Raymond the Chamber Music Dressed Down NewMusic Initiative concerts in February and April. Moody The North Carolina NewMusic will present The Winter Workshop brings Initiative brings the innovative the Jarvis string and piano students duo of clarinetist Christopher Lecture on from throughout the world to Grymes and pianist Xak Bjerken Religion and Greenville Jan. 5-10 to study and to Greenville Jan. 23 for a concert Culture on perform chamber music with of contemporary music including Life After renowned artists in a focused a world premiere composition Life: The six-day format. Students and by ECU alumnus Travis Alford. Meaning of teachers will perform free public Grymes returns to Greenville to Near-Death Experiences at 7 concerts Jan. 9 and 10. perform with the ECU Symphony p.m. Feb. 24 in Wright Chamber Music Dressed Down Orchestra March 28 in a concert Auditorium. Moody is emeritus that will include a new work professor of consciousness concerts include Four Seasons Family Night on Feb. 20 and the by ECU faculty member Mark studies at the University of Richardson and the winner Nevada, Las Vegas. This lecture is Goldberg Variations on April 11. The public is invited to dress of the 10th annual orchestral co-sponsored by the Department composition competition. of Philosophy and Religious casually and should expect Studies and Jarvis United to interact with the musicians Electronic music takes the Methodist Church. Moody is the before, during and after the stage Feb. 22 as the NewMusic performances. Family Night Initiative presents an event in author of 14 books, including Life or student-composed pieces After Life (1975) and Glimpses of is free; Goldberg Variations is collaboration with the New York- ticketed. based Circuit Bridges concert presented in Frequencies and Eternity (2010). Moody, who Premiere Performances concerts holds a medical degree and a Four Seasons spring concerts in series. The Circuit Bridges series connects with communities to and the ECU Chamber Winds doctorate in philosophy, is best Greenville are scheduled for Jan. performing a commissioned known for his study of near-death 15 and 16 and April 16 and 17. The foster and promote innovative electroacoustic music and world premiere by ECU alumnus experiences and his interviews festival visits New Bern on Jan. Aaron Brooks on March 21. with people around the world 17, Raleigh on Feb. 28 and April sound. The event will feature who have had these occurrences. 19 and Southern Pines on March 2. North Carolina and New York Go to www.ecu.edu/music/ In his lecture, he will discuss the composers and sound artists. newmusicfest for NewMusic Next Generation concerts, new methods of studying such concert information and to learn featuring returning and current Other NewMusic concerts experiences and the relationship how to support this series. ECU students with faculty and include student-performed and/ to humanity’s biggest question: What happens when we die? On March 24, Ilona Bell Next Generation will discuss Sexual Seduction in John Donne’s Poetry in the Thomas Harriot Lecture at 7 p.m. She is the Samuel Fessenden Clarke Professor of English at Williams College and is the author of Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch and Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship. She also edited John Donne: Selected Poems. Complimentary tickets for both lectures are available to all attendees through the Central Ticket Office by calling 252-328- 4788 or 800-ECU-ARTS.

22 Symphony Orchestra All faculty and guest recitals are A mix of cutting-edge FAMILY FARE in A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall at choreography from the ECU Maestro Jorge Richter and Set sail with ECU Storybook 7:30 p.m. and are free and open School of Theatre and Dance the ECU Symphony Orchestra Theatre on a quest to find to the public. faculty and students will be welcome the winner of the 2014- Captain Flint’s buried treasure. presented in the Contemporary 2015 ECU Concerto Competition Since he’s a pirate, it’s at a Instrumental Ensembles Dance Concert Feb. 28 and in performance at 7:30 p.m. Feb. spot marked by an “X.” Robert The Concert and Symphonic March 1 in the Archie Burnette 21 in Wright Auditorium. Also on Louis Stevenson’s classic tale, Bands are in concert Feb. 19. Studio Theatre. the program are Rachmaninoff’s Treasure Island, comes to life Vocalise in E minor and Brahms’ The Symphonic Wind Ensemble joins them April 14 for the three- The Senior Choreography in this coming-of-age story Symphony No. 1 in C minor. The April 25 and 26 will band spring Bandorama. Both Showcase presented at 7 p.m. March 27 in Symphony Orchestra performs feature ECU senior students who concerts are free and in ECU’s Wright Auditorium. in Greenville March 28 as part have created unique works for Wright Auditorium. Curious George always helps of the North Carolina NewMusic presentation. From the risqué his friend Chef Pisghetti cook Initiative. These concerts are free The ECU Jazz Combos spring to the ridiculous, the audience meatballs and serve them to and open to the public. concert is March 19 at 7:30 p.m. should be ready for anything a hungry crowd on “All-You- in Fletcher Recital Hall. ECU Jazz when the shows are performed Voice Ensembles Can-Eat Meatball Day.” But this Ensemble-A will perform with Jon in the Burnette Studio Theatre. year, the crowd has vanished. ECU Opera Theater presents Metzger, percussionist and Tickets are available for all dance Something is keeping people John Gay’s groundbreaking The director of jazz studies at Elon productions at www.ecuarts.com. Beggar’s Opera March 30-31. University, and Charlie Young, away. That something is Phinneas Lightspeed’s Meatballs O’Matic For tickets call 800-ECU-ARTS saxophonist and director of STAGE PRODUCTIONS or go online at www.ecuarts. instrumental jazz studies at machine. Find out the rest of com. Unticketed voice ensemble Howard University, at 8 p.m. April A brilliant comedy that explores the story when Curious George performances include the Men’s 24 in Wright Auditorium. Both the difference between classical is presented at 7 p.m. April 17 in and Women’s Choir on Feb. jazz events are free. and romantic temperaments, Wright Auditorium. 16 and April 26, the Chamber Arcadia, will be performed Tickets for either Family Fare Singers on April 7 and the Zamba Yawar, the ECU World by the School of Theatre and Music ensemble specializing Series production are $11 for Collegiate Choir on April 19. Dance Feb. 26–March 3 at adults and $8 for children and in traditional music from the McGinnis Theatre. Written by Faculty and Guest Artists Andean highlands and the Creole are available at www.ecuarts.com Tom Stoppard, the play features or by calling the Central Ticket Guest pianist Wei-Yi Yang of expressions from the Pacific action that moves seamlessly Office at 252-328-4788. Yale University comes to the coast of South America, performs between the 1890 Coverly estate School of Music on Jan. 29. in Fletcher Recital Hall on April 9. and modern day as Coverly Yang’s performances have been The concerts feature vocal and descendants attempt to research SYMPOSIUM featured on NPR, PBS and ABC instrumental repertoire using a possible scandal in their family The College of Art and Design and on recordings by Ovation, variety of authentic, traditional estate. Arcadia won the New will host Metals Symposium Albany Records, Renegade non-Western instruments. York Drama Critics’ Circle Award 2015, featuring lectures, Classics and the Holland-America The Percussion Ensemble and the Olivier Award for Best demonstrations and workshops. Music Society. Another guest performs Feb. 5, the Percussion Play. Parental guidance advised The event, set for Jan. 16-18, artist, flutist Alan Weiss, who has Players on Feb. 18 and the because of mature themes. will include an art walk and been featured on PBS and NPR Percussion Extravaganza will be Tickets are $15 for the public and lecture topics such as “Crafting and has recorded for the Golden loud and proud on April 8; the $12 for students. a Community” and “The Tone, Carlton Classics and Dorian Descriptive Line: Soldering ECU Trombone Week hosts public The title of the show, Random labels, performs Feb. 26. Guest with Steel/Apply(ing): Public concerts March 3 and 4; and the Acts, describes what attendees multigenre tenor Ron Brendel Art & Commissions.” Details ECU guitar ensemble performs can expect from School of is in concert March 1. For more and registration information April 28. All are in A.J. Fletcher Theatre and Dance students information, call 252-328-6851 or are available at ecusymposium. Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. and are March 28 and 29. Dance, musical visit www.ecu.edu/music. wordpress.com. free and open to the public. theatre, poetry and other styles Spring faculty performances of performance art will be include Jonathan Wacker, DANCE represented in the performance ON EXHIBIT percussion; a combined voice From graceful ballet to bold in the Burnette Studio Theatre. The Gray Gallery in the Jenkins faculty recital; John Kramar, contemporary and explosive Tickets are $5. Fine Arts Center will host several baritone, and Eric Stellrecht, exhibits during the spring tap will be represented during William Shakespeare’s political piano; Jami Rhodes, mezzo- semester, including the Ninth Dance 2015 presented Jan. play, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, soprano, and Stellrecht, piano; Photographic Image Biennial 29–Feb. 3 by the ECU School of is a timeless tale of pride, Duo St. Caelia, featuring Christine Exhibit Jan. 22-Feb. 20 and the Theatre and Dance on the stage revenge and political chicanery. Gustafson, flute, and Elliot Frank, 2015 School of Art and Design of McGinnis Theatre. Attendees Its themes remain relevant even guitar; the Bath Duo, featuring Undergraduate Exhibition will see original works and re- today. The School of Theatre and Joanne Bath, violin, and Charles March 5-April 3 with the awards creation of masterpieces. Tickets Dance will perform this Roman Bath, piano; and Douglas Monroe, ceremony and reception at 5 are $15 for the general public tragedy by Shakespeare April clarinet, Emanuel Gruber, cello, p.m. March 5. In the gallery, and $12 for students. A Day of 23-28 on the McGinnis Theatre and Catherine Garner, piano. For the School of Art and Design Dance, featuring ballet, jazz, tap stage. Tickets are $15 for the more information, call 252-328- MFA Thesis Exhibition will be and modern dance classes for public and $12 for students. 6851 or visit www.ecu.edu/music. dancers 10 and older, will be presented April 17-May 17 with Feb. 14 in Messick Theatre Arts the opening reception at 5 p.m. Center. Call 252-328-4916 for April 17. The shows are free and more information. open to the public.

23 answersAncient An ECU team unearths priceless treasures in Petra, Jordan.

BY KELLY SETZER

24 Courtney Canipe ’14 uses a surveying instrument during archaeology work near Petra, Jordan. She received her master’s degree in anthropology in August.

25 Long before Indiana Jones was swinging through Petra, Jordan, on the big screen in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the city had a story of its own to tell. East Carolina University professor of anthropology Megan Perry was immediately fascinated by the ancient city’s story when she first visited in 1993. “I’ll definitely have to return for another trip before I can truly see this place,” she thought back then. And return she did; multiple times over the next 21 years, most recently with ECU students and staff in tow.

Megan Perry

Perry is co-directing the Petra North Petra is an archaeologist’s dream. Beneath Since then, researchers like Perry have been Ridge project with fellow archaeologist and the rose-colored rock and sandy cliffs lies asking questions about the lives of ordinary historian Thomas Parker of North Carolina the complex story of one of the oldest people who lived there. State University. Their task is to piece metropolises in the world. The city was the “To answer these questions, we’re excavating together the puzzle of an enigmatic people. center of the Nabataean Kingdom until it tombs from the first century A.D., which is In doing so, Perry hopes to build a unique fell into ruin sometime between 300 and 700 sort of the height of Petra’s urbanity; it’s the cultural competence in her students by A.D. It remained virtually unknown to the florescence of the city,” Perry says. “And then exposing them to the larger global society. Western world until a Swiss explorer discovered also domestic structures that date from that it in 1812, at which point the civilization’s Their research has involved group period up until about the fourth century, relics were still beautifully preserved thanks to excavations during 2012 and 2014 with when the city started going into decline.” the protective nature of the rock formations. another scheduled in 2016.

26 A view of Petra facing east. The Great Temple and Pool and Garden Complex are in the foreground, along with the main colonnaded street. The North Ridge is off to the left. The so-called “Royal Tombs” are carved into the cliff in the distance.

Lebanon Syria The much larger Roman Empire had doing chemical analysis of the bones to look Mediterranean taken over Petra by then, and a number of at diet from that perspective.” Sea Iraq economic and political factors led to its fall The Petra North Ridge Project focuses AMMAN years later. Tons of artifacts were left behind, Israel • specifically on understanding the “invisible” though, which allows Perry and her team to people—the non-elites who weren’t written Jordan look for clues about the Nabataean culture Egypt • about in historical sources. Perry says this PETRA in everything from pottery and coins to makes their work even more interesting. bones and beads. “Their bones provide intimate glimpses of “In the tombs, of course, we’re looking to Saudi Arabia their life—a chipped tooth, a broken foot, see what kind of evidence of health and even a fetus not carried to term,” she says. disease we can determine,” Perry says. “We’re Red Sea 27 Members of the Petra North Ridge Project team excavate domestic structures been farther from Greenville. and tombs on the North Ridge. The rubble seen is from collapsed buildings. The 2014 excavation took place during Ramadan, an Islamic observance that involves fasting from dawn until sunset. The timing of their trip gave students and faculty a rare opportunity to see the religious celebration of the Muslim holy month firsthand. ECU graduate student Kelsey Roepe attended the excavation for her forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology studies, but she says she would never forget the cultural exposure she gained as well. She described the city as dramatically coming alive as soon as the sun set each night. “(Ramadan) required many of us to behave differently than we normally would in America,” she says. “We were staying in a small town called Um Seyhoun, and, “I like to imagine how they got that injury, “It’s important for anyone who wants to be of course, we stuck out as a group of or how they reacted when the mother gave an archaeologist to (attend) a field school,” 50 Americans, so we were always sure to birth to that stillborn baby.” Appleton says. “You can learn many things dress, speak and act appropriately to avoid from a book, but it can’t replace the value accidentally offending anyone.” But more than just an imaginative adventure, and necessity of hands-on experience.” the project exemplifies a broader goal of put- This kind of global awareness and She added that whether her next step is a ting human behavior into a global perspective international experience goes beyond tourism doctorate or a cultural resource management for ECU students, according to Perry. to provide an in-depth perspective of job, this trip gives her an advantage. another part of the world and enhances what “It’s important to understand humans Separate from the undeniable career she teaches, Perry says. “Any study-abroad in the larger picture, not only through opportunities offered to students attending experience is incredibly valuable for ECU (geographical) space, but also through time,” the field school, culturally, it couldn’t have students to best engage in a global society.” she says. “And understanding different cultural frameworks that exist and have existed around the world…is a necessary Jessica Walker ’07 cleans a burial site for photos. part of the educational experience.”

Benefits to students The most recent excavation took place from June 26 to Aug. 6. Eight ECU students, two alumni and two faculty members took the 6,100-mile trip to participate. They were among 27 total staff and 19 multi- institutional students working together on the dig. Laurel Appleton, an ECU graduate student in anthropology, jumped at the chance to be a part of the research. Petra’s selection as one of Smithsonian’s “28 Places to See Before You Die” is reason enough to want to go, but she says participating in the excavation was crucial for her career.

28 On the left are five unguentaria, or perfume jars, found within the tombs. In the middle is a polished, faceted agate set within a gold setting, part of a piece of jewelry also found within a tomb. The five lamps on the right were found within the tombs as well.

Perspectives on death experience that they had with the dead.” for a student on the project team to scan each of the artifacts so that online users can The group’s 2012 excavation was the first “The fact that their houses were built so access dynamic 360-degree views of the time they were able to systematically dig close to where they buried the dead, and objects they’ve found. The virtual artifacts into houses and tombs. It allowed them to that they actually had feasts with them, library will likewise provide information on begin building data for grant applications, is extremely interesting to me,” adds Eva each of the objects’ archaeological context which would help fund the remainder of Falls, another ECU archaeology graduate and meaning. the project. In addition to seed money, their student working on the project. “They don’t efforts earned $290,000 from the National separate the dead from the living, which is so Perry is also hoping to work with ECU’s Endowment for the Humanities. different than us.” Department of Geography on a geographic information systems project to compile the In 2014, they focused on specific aspects of Perry describes an exciting mystery solved in Petra North Ridge data into an interactive the city’s 800 carved tombs. the tombs over the summer. In prior trips, map of the excavations. she had found numerous small copper bell- Both excavations were physically demanding, shaped objects located only near the dead. Ultimately, the goal is to partner with ECU’s with long, hot hours of intense work, Apple- For years, she struggled to explain them. foreign languages and literatures department ton says. Petra is situated in a mountainous What were these used for? Were they bells? and others to aggregate these types of digital basin in southwestern Jordan, along the Small cups? projects into one publicly accessible website Israeli border. It is a hot, dry and sandy city, portal, sharing the university’s research with a as one might expect in the Middle East. But this year, they uncovered more in a well- larger audience. preserved burial site at the bottom of a floor Appleton was an assistant tomb supervisor, shaft. “The ‘bells’ were scattered around the Plans for the 2016 excavation are under which meant she had to be flexible and body in roughly a rectangular shape, and one way as well. Scientific articles detailing the worked long shifts where she “could be was still adhering to the coffin wood,” she group’s conclusions about the Nabataeans digging, brushing soil away from bones, says. “They were stud-like coffin decorations. will be released after the final trip, which will helping to take elevations or measurements We would never have known without luck help other archaeologists working the region for drawings, or working the sifter to look and the careful excavation of the burial by and other urban settlements. for artifacts missed while digging,” she says. our students and staff.” In the meantime, ECU continues to At the end of each day, they were sunburned strengthen its international footprint with and covered in dust. But through their Future impact of the project the project. hard work, researchers quickly noticed a fascinating aspect of the Nabataean culture: Artifacts collected from the latest excavation “Having ECU running a research project in Their views on death were unique. recently arrived at East Carolina and N.C. the largest tourist destination in Jordan, one State from their overseas shipment. The of the new Seven Wonders of the World, is “The link between death and life was project team will clean, study and preserve a really big deal,” Perry says. “It’s not easy different for them; the dead are not as their finds over the coming months to to get permits to work there because it’s a ostracized as they are in our society,” continue painting a picture of Petra’s World Heritage Site, and (they’re) very strict Perry says. “The tombs show us a very common people from afar. about what you can do. But we have that multisensory experience. There’s a lot of recognition, and that says a lot.” incense, perfumed oils and jewelry, as The anthropology department recently East well as funerary feasts. It’s an interactive acquired a 3-D scanner, and Perry intends

29 30 ‘Bold, distinctive and authentic’ ECU’s new strategic plan sets a confident path

BY DOUG BOYD PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAY CLARK AND CLIFF HOLLIS

he next five years will see East Carolina success, serving the public and leading regional University grow important academic transformation—that the plan calls “commitments.” programs, work to address the needs “It’s not what we do regularly, but what we want of eastern North Carolina and to become,” says Austin Bunch, senior associate Tgraduate students who are ready to lead in the provost and co-chair of the Strategic Planning workplace and community. Advisory Committee. That’s the message of the university’s new strategic Elaine Scott, an associate professor in the ECU plan, titled Beyond Tomorrow: Our Commitment College of Nursing, also served as a co-chair. She to the Future. says part of the purpose of the plan is to set “stretch “ sets a bold course for the goals” for the university. university,”Beyond Tomorrow says ECU Chancellor Steve Ballard. “It “Part of strategic thinking is where do we need to is a reflection of the values and principles of the expand,” she says. “Where do we want to go over university. It also points to one of the defining five years?” qualities of East Carolina: our readiness to confront the challenges of today while pushing beyond them Work on the underpinnings of the plan began last toward a better tomorrow.” fall in the form of meetings of faculty, staff members, administrators and students who listed six potential Ballard described the plan as “bold, distinctive and directions and goals along with strategies and action authentic.” It’s also aspirational. It aligns with ECU’s items to meet them. Those were consolidated into mission in three key areas—maximizing student three commitments and several related goals and

31 compiled into a formal strategic plan. approved it in August. During the fall, 25 units within the university worked to develop their own “We have tried to be as inclusive and transparent as strategic plans based on the broader plan along with possible,” Bunch says. “We’ve really had a lot of input, action items to accomplish their goals and metrics to and with every version the input we received improved measure their success. Those plans will be reviewed by the plan.” peer groups in the university before being approved by William Downs, who joined ECU this year as dean of the Executive Council in February. the Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, praised the The Southern Association for Colleges and Schools, plan and says his college is ready to be a cornerstone which accredits ECU, requires that strategic plans be of ECU’s work to achieve its goals during the next measured for success in achieving goals. several years. “We won’t necessarily make every one 100 percent, “As a new dean and as a newcomer to East Carolina but at least we have (said) what we want to be as an University, I’ve been impressed by the significance institution,” Bunch says. we attach to ” Downs says. “All universities engageBeyond in Tomorrow, strategic planning exercises, but He says ECU’s plan aligns with the goals and here at ECU, I clearly have the sense that we will use directions of the University of North Carolina’s our new plan to intentionally and genuinely guide strategic plan, priorities, effort and resources.” Our Time, Our adoptedFuture: The last UNCyear. Compact with North Carolina, In July, the plan was presented to the ECU Board Along with Bunch and Scott, Interim Provost Ron of Trustees, and the chancellor’s Executive Council Mitchelson led the Strategic Planning Committee.

32 Read the entire strategic plan at www.ecu.edu/beyondtomorrow

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Max Ray Joyner Sr. BY STEVE TUTTLE PHOTOGRAPHY BY CLIFF HOLLIS

School of Medicine. He funded a cash prize Raleigh and Don Leggett ’58 of Greenville to recognize faculty excellence in continuing were two), a retired teacher who lived nearby education. He endowed a University would call the college to complain. And then Scholars award and recently funded a second Joyner’s phone would ring. scholarship in the Honors College. “Dr. Messick called me practically every His gifts have entitled him to membership morning, saying ‘Max Ray, Mrs. Clark called in all of ECU’s major philanthropic groups, me again, and we’re going to have to do including the Leo Jenkins Society, the Order something about those boys over there.’” of the Cupola, the Old Austin Society, the John Messick was seven chancellors ago. Order of Wright Circle and the Polaris Society—the new group supporting the As his business career blossomed, Joyner Honors College. became an enthusiastic supporter of Messick’s successor, Leo Jenkins, although He’s 83 and—after more than five at first he thought Jenkins faced a big decades—he’s still giving his time and impediment—his accent. money to the university. Why? “When Messick was leaving (as chancellor Max Joyner’s 1953 yearbook portrait He considers the question as he glances in 1959), a lot of people didn’t think Leo around the living room. This home in the would get it…because he was from New East Carolina University and Greenville Forest Hills neighborhood is where he and Jersey,” Joyner recalls. “Back then a lot of should be forever grateful that Max Ray Kitty lived for 50 years—where they hosted people didn’t cater to Yankees. And he Joyner ’55 never had a real hobby. many dinners and receptions for ECU, sounded like a Yankee. I thought in politics where Chancellor Richard Eakin was first His late wife, Kitty Smith Joyner ’59, who he would be a flop as soon as he opened introduced to the community. died in 2011, certainly did. “Kitty had more his mouth. But I was very wrong. Leo was a hobbies than any human being I ever knew,” He shrugs his shoulders. “It’s not hurt great leader.” he says as he looks up at an oil painting of my standard of living any,” he says with a He and other local business people found it her in the living room of his Greenville home. twinkle in his eye. “I never did. I guess you could say that the hard to resist when Jenkins invited them to college and civic work was my hobby.” dinner meetings to pitch his pet projects for Thought Leo ‘would be a flop’ the college. He has quietly engaged in that hobby for Most alumni tell stories about things nearly 60 years now, becoming a leading “I went to a lot of Leo’s ‘free’ dinners,” that happened on campus several years citizen of Greenville and one of the Joyner says. “One time he asked a bunch of ago. Joyner’s stories are about events that university’s most reliable volunteers and most us to dinner and said he needed $15,000 happened several chancellors ago. generous donors. for something for the school. He said that Like this one: Joyner was just three years out of if 10 of us gave $500 each for three years, It’s hard to think of a campus group he East Carolina in 1958 when he raised $50,000 he would have it. That was the beginning of hasn’t led. He was president of the East and built Greenville’s first off-campus what’s now the ECU Foundation.” Carolina Alumni Association and then the student apartments, The Collegiate, a 20- Pirate Club. He was a founding member As the decades rolled by, Joyner was a unit building at Fifth and Holly streets that’s and president of the ECU Foundation quiet presence at seminal moments in East still in use. It’s now called Sycamore Hill. and served on that board for more than 20 Carolina history. He was on the search years. He served two terms on the Board of committee that picked Jenkins’ successor, Trustees and was its chair for two years. Thomas Brewer, and was chair of the inauguration committee for Chancellor He started giving money to East Carolina in Eakin. Joyner served on other search the 1960s “when you could pay for a scholar- committees that hired a university athletic ship in the business school for around $650.” The Collegiate director, a head football coach and a head In the years since, he has funded an endowed basketball coach. scholarship in the College of Nursing and When his renters stayed up past 10 p.m. Through the many scholarships he supports created the first endowed chair in the Brody talking in the parking lot (Roddy Jones ’58 of

36 HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

and the gift of his time to lead university Kitty was from a prominent family. Her agencies across the country. and civic organizations, Joyner has become mother, Mary Bertolet Smith, taught piano He became a chartered financial consultant, a the embodiment of East Carolina’s motto, at East Carolina from 1917 to 1926. Her chartered life underwriter and an accredited —to serve. father, Guy Smith, was a local business estate planner. He was a founder and Servire owner and civic leader for whom Greenville’s “Max Ray has lived the very goals that chair of North State Savings and Loan in baseball stadium is named. A Terpsichordean ECU seeks to advance for eastern North Greenville and sat on the local board of Club debutante, Kitty went to Duke for her Carolina with his service and commitment to Planters Bank. undergraduate degree before returning to improving the lives of others,” Eakin says. Greenville to marry Joyner and enrolling in He developed a keen eye for real estate graduate school here. and invested in several apartment projects, Lifetime connections including Tar River Estates in Greenville and Max Ray, as he is called by his legions of Wilson Woods in Wilson. His most recent Joyner was a junior at Greenville High friends, was one of seven children. His development is Meridian Park, a 374-unit School in 1949 when he walked by the home family lived in the Red Oak community, and community in west Greenville. demonstration class one day and saw Kitty his father worked for Guaranty Bank. His Smith for the first time. “She was sitting older brother, Wilton Joyner ’50 ’53, taught Over the years, he says, “I would have a little behind a sewing machine, and she was the in the ECU education department from profit in stocks, or I’d sell some real estate, most attractive thing I had ever seen. Our 1976 to 1998. He and Wilton are the last and I’d give the money to the college.” first date—she invited me because it was surviving siblings. Sadie Hawkins Day. Six years to the day Why? “While I was attending East Carolina later, we were married.” Joyner went to work for the Jefferson-Pilot I worked several part-time jobs and also Insurance Co. almost straight out of college received $110 a month for serving in the In the interval he served in the Army in Korea and stayed with the company for 39 years Army, and I realized it was tough working as a master sergeant with the 987th Armored until retiring in 1995. For 24 years he was your way through college,” Joyner says. Field Artillery. Then he came home and Jefferson-Pilot’s manager for the 25 counties “Today, it is nearly impossible for a student completed a degree in business administration in northeastern North Carolina. His agency to work their way through college. That in three years. He sold shoes in a downtown produced the most life insurance sales in the is the reason that I decided to start giving store to supplement his GI Bill benefits. history of Jefferson-Pilot, which included 75 scholarships.” He enjoys meeting the students who are awarded the scholarships he funds. “The Kitty and Max Joyner watch as Chancellor Richard Eakin (right) presents one of the first University Scholars awards in 1987 to Patricia first one I remember, she was there with Lynn Jones ’91 of Kinston (left). The Joyners funded the scholarship. her daddy. It was kind of touching because her daddy came up to me and said he appreciated this because, he said, ‘there is no way I could send her to college.’” He says he didn’t plan to have an endowed chair in the medical school named for him and Kitty. It happened simply because he was asked and the arithmetic looked right. “We had a new president of Jefferson-Pilot, and I went with Dick Eakin up to (the company headquarters in) Greensboro to meet him. A week later I got a letter saying Jefferson-Pilot would give East Carolina $250,000. “Then Dick came to me and said, you know, the state will match us one-third to raise the half-million dollars you need for an

37 Max Ray Joyner poses with EC Scholar Kelly Forbis. Joyner has helped fund ECU’s leading undergraduate scholarship program.

endowed chair. So with that quarter-million involved in growing up,” says Max Jr. “He’s I was Max Joyner’s daughter.” from Jefferson-Pilot, he said if we just had given land for two churches in town and land Joyner is sadly contemplating the end of his $87,000 more we could have a chair, the first for a fire station.” 20-year business relationship with Leigh Ann one at the medical school. Kitty’s philanthropic interests were in the fine Raiford Odom ’91, who manages Meridian “I thought it was a right good idea, so we arts. She and Max Ray supported the Four Park. She is leaving to follow her husband to did,” he says. Seasons concerts, the ECU Friends of Music, his new banking job in Wilmington. “He is the Friends of Theatre and Dance, and the S. the nicest, most considerate and giving man I Eakin speaks glowingly of Joyner. “Max Ray Rudolph Alexander Performing Arts Series. have ever met,” Odom says. has been a supportive and loyal friend to my wife, Jo, and me since our introduction to Joyner, who has eight grandchildren and two Joyner says he doesn’t plan any more real ECU in 1987. He provided wise counsel great-grandchildren, also supported the local estate ventures but he does intend to remain as chair of the Board of Trustees while Boys and Girls Clubs and the Boy Scouts. active around town and engaged with the I was chancellor. His dedication to ECU campus. A gregarious, warm-hearted and Daughter Catherine Joyner Hoft ’78 lives in is remarkable.” loyal person, he still drinks coffee most Raleigh. “He has just done so much for so mornings with a group of friends that’s been many people,” she says. “My parents were together for more than 50 years. ‘The best person I know’ always very open and welcoming to anybody Max Ray and Kitty had three children. whether they were ECU people or folks from He’s also carrying on Kitty’s traditions. the community. After mother died, I had a The middle one, Max Ray Joyner Jr. of “One night I called him, and he wasn’t home, lot of people come up to me and say how Greenville, attended ECU and now is which worried me,” says daughter Julia. nice my parents had been to them when they associated with Town Insurance Agency. “Finally I reached him, and he said he had moved to Greenville.” He serves on the ECU Board of Trustees. been at a dance recital on campus. He still He says his dad is “the best person I know, Daughter Julia Joyner Fulcher lives in goes to all those things.” certainly the best role model.” Wilson and drives down regularly to check Habits built up over a lifetime, thankfully, on him. “I value that one day a week that He points out that his dad helped start the are hard to break. booster club at J.H. Rose High School. “He I get to spend with my daddy. Growing up East was at every game, everything that I was in Greenville, I always felt special knowing

38 Important deeds done far from the spotlight

When he was chair of the ECU “I saw him a hundred times, when Board of Trustees in the early 1990s, I was in high school and later in Max Ray Joyner initiated a project college. He only worked at night, to compile a list of every building, and he had this big key on a chain James Louis conference room and lounge on around his neck. He would walk “Pop” Williams campus that had been named for around and turn that key in these faculty members, important donors stations around campus. And or honored alumni. He wanted to be sometimes we would talk. sure these memorializations weren’t “I just thought there should be lost over time. some record of someone who As he looked over the list, it had served the college that occurred to Joyner that one person long, who had done important had been overlooked, a person things but done them away from who played a key role in East the spotlight. Carolina’s history. But it wasn’t a “It took me a while to finally get a chancellor, a dean or a rich donor marker put up in his memory, and Joyner was concerned about. I’m glad we got that done.” It was James Louis “Pop” Williams, The marker is in the parking who was the campus police chief lot at the corner of Fifth and from 1917 until 1953. For most of Harding streets. those 36 years, Williams was the only campus cop. Coaching home Alumni coaches have a bond—to their players and their university.

40 Coaching

Baseball coach home Cliff Godwin BY DOUG BOYD PHOTOGRAPHY BY CLIFF HOLLIS AND JAY CLARK

Coaching legend Paul “Bear” Bryant put it alma mater,’ it will be surreal,” Godwin In the American Athletic Conference, succinctly in 1958 when he explained why says in his office at Clark-LeClair Stadium. Connecticut baseball coach Jim Penders, he left Texas A&M to coach at his alma But that’s not why he came to Greenville Houston baseball coach Todd Whitting and mater, Alabama. after assistant coaching stops at the Tulsa football coach Bill Blankenship are also University of Mississippi, Louisiana State coaching at their alma maters. “Mama called,” the football coach said. University and others. “And when Mama calls, you come running.” ECU Director of Athletics Jeff Compher Building on a legacy Three current East Carolina University said having a coach of Godwin’s caliber— head coaches have answered that call, the Godwin, a four-year Pirate letterman at alumnus or not—want to work at ECU most recent being head baseball coach Cliff catcher from 1998-2001, has been a part shows how far the program has come. Godwin ’00 ’02. He joins football coach of seven NCAA Regional and two College Ruffin McNeill ’80 and women’s golf coach “To have a nationally recognized coach World Series appearances coaching at the Kevin Williams ’85 as head coaches who also such as coach Godwin want to come back Division I level, including this year’s run by hold ECU degrees. Several assistant coaches to his alma mater says a lot about the Ole Miss to the College World Series, held are also ECU alumni. commitment the university has made to each year in Omaha, Nebraska. He became the baseball program or any program,” ECU’s 16th head baseball coach in June. “To be able to go out and coach third base Compher says. and look up and say, ‘I’m coaching at my “It’s not like I needed to come home. It is

Godwin has his eyes set on the College World Series. “I owe it to coach LeClair.”

42 Women’s golf coach Kevin Williams watches as Frida Gustafson Spang practices.

East Carolina’s commitment to aiming at when I have good players,” he adds. “No question,” he says. “Coaching at a place the highest level,” Godwin says. “I took you went to school, you have so much pride Former ECU teammate and University of this job because I want to get East Carolina in and for. Also, it helps you in recruiting Michigan head baseball coach Erik Bakich to Omaha. I owe it to coach LeClair and when you’re fully invested in the university calls Godwin “the perfect person” to coach the guys I played with. It’s going to be as a student, graduate and working there. the Pirates. phenomenal.” Having walked down College Hill to class “He will attack the recruiting trail and every day—they can tell I love the place.” Raised in Snow Hill, Godwin played three develop his players to their maximum sports at Greene Central High School. His Williams coached men’s golf from 1995- potential as students, as athletes and as men,” father, Lewis, coached him on the boys 2005, men’s and women’s golf from 2000- Bakich says. “Coach LeClair’s dream for basketball team. His mother, Kathy ’76, an 2005 and women’s golf from 2007 to today. East Carolina to go to Omaha will become a ECU nursing graduate, was the school nurse. He graduated from ECU in 1985 with a reality under Cliff ’s leadership. He will make bachelor’s degree in history, though he didn’t The coach says his status as an alumnus will it happen because he is a champion and has play golf while in school. He tried out twice help on the recruiting trail. been a winner his entire life.” but didn’t make the team. He later went “When I say that teams I played on built on to play in two PGA Club Professional this stadium, I think you’re able to see the A boost to the program Championships. passion I have when I talk about it,” he says. Williams agrees that being a graduate helps He’s guided the Lady Pirates to seven con- And recruiting top players is a priority. “I’m attract student-athletes. secutive NCAA East Regional appearances. a good coach, but I’m a much better coach

43 Football coach Ruffin McNeill creates a family atmosphere.

He coached the 2013 Conference USA director from 1988 until 1995 and now Compher says he groups alumni student- player and freshman of the year, part of the athletics administration at the athletes and former ECU assistant coaches Frida Gustafsson Spang. University of South Carolina—his alma together as people who know ECU and what mater—says when schools hire alumni, the it takes to win in Greenville. His players are competitive on the course benefits can be wide-ranging. and in the classroom. In July, the team was “It’s very important to have someone… recognized for having a collective GPA of “When you put your people into the field who’s familiar with this region and what 3.635, ranking it 25th nationally. after they graduate, if they’re qualified to it takes to recruit here,” Compher said. come back, that’s a feather in your program,” Alumni also stir excitement among the fan “I know the area. I know the golf pros. says Bloom, who directed the Southeastern base. Ticket sales surged for baseball after That’s a big asset for us,” says Williams, Conference’s media and public relations Godwin’s hiring was announced even though who’s also worked as a club professional in efforts for 17 years. “That says a lot about the team’s schedule hadn’t been released yet. eastern North Carolina. an institution. That’s a very good thing for “There’s a familiarity there, and people Charles Bloom, ECU’s sports information all the parties involved.”

44 remember them as players or have familiarity The following with them as a coach,” Compher says. men played “That’s a great way to start off.” sports at ECU Jim Johnson Fostering a feeling of home and later served as McNeill says being an alumnus gives him head coaches perspective on how the athletic program has grown and nurtured its student-athletes— in football or almost in a patriarchal way. baseball:

“When I came to East Carolina, it was that FOOTBALL

(family) atmosphere,” says McNeill. “Coach Ed Emory Jim Johnson Dye was my substitute dad, and the guys on PLAYER 1933-1937 the team were brothers.” COACH 1946-1948 Among those, Johnson is part of one of the Having been a Pirate football player gives Ed Emory most unusual stories PLAYER 1957-1959 connected to Pirate him an instant bond with players before COACH 1980-1984 athletics, though it they choose ECU and after they arrive Ruffin McNeill occurred after he had on campus. PLAYER 1976-1980 retired from coaching. COACH 2010-PRESENT “It’s a place that takes the ordinary and Ruffin McNeill In October 1977, the heavily favored Pirates makes it extraordinary,” says McNeill, who BASEBALL were playing William guided quarterback Shane Carden to player- Earl Smith* & Mary in the Oyster of-the-year honors last season in Conference PLAYER 1939 Bowl in Norfolk, COACH 1963-1972 Virginia. In the fourth USA. “It’s not a sell job. When I talk to quarter, ECU led by them, I actually have gone through the exact Hal Baird three points. With time PLAYER 1970-1971 ticking away, William & same things as a student, as an alumnus, and COACH 1980-1984 I’ve come back as a coach. I’ve had a chance Mary quarterback Tom Earl Smith Gary Overton Rozantz broke loose to coach at all kinds of venues. This is one PLAYER 1970-1973 and appeared headed of the best jewels in the country here.” COACH 1985-1997 for a touchdown. Junior linebacker Montese Overton, himself Cliff Godwin Johnson, described PLAYER 1998-2001 by The Virginian-Pilot the son of a former Pirate athlete, basketball COACH 2014-PRESENT newspaper as “a portly player Darrell Overton, says McNeill’s status 65-year-old gentleman as an alumnus makes a difference for players. * Smith also coached in a raincoat,” ran basketball at from the sidelines and “It’s a great atmosphere,” Overton says. East Carolina. threw a block tackle Hal Baird “Everyone just bought into the program. He on Rozantz just before he reached the end was here in the past, so he knows how hard it zone. The unusual turn was to build from there to here.” of events silenced the William & Mary Reciting Bryant’s famous quote, Bloom, a fans, and the officials graduate of South Carolina, knows how gathered to discuss special it can be to go back to Mama. their course of action. After deliberation, the play was ruled a

“When I came back here, part of the allure Gary Overton touchdown, giving was coming back to the alma mater,” he says. William & Mary a “As an alumnus, there’s that added passion. 21-17 victory. Can you go home? That’s the question. Johnson, who also coached baseball and “Sometimes it doesn’t work out, but when it basketball and served does work out, it’s very nice.” as athletic director, East died in 2004.

Cliff Godwin 45 we have to tailor the socket—the part of the device that connects to their body—to fit them perfectly. Cliff Hollis He understands “The reimbursement issues around Medicare have become more his patients complex. They are doing more audits into patient outcomes, which actually was needed but it’s causing a lot of small practices to go out of business.” He connects his patients with local support groups and the Amputee Coalition, the nation’s largest organization serving patients with limb loss. He believes in the coalition’s approach to improving the quality of life for amputees and their families. He hopes technology will soon deliver a mechanical arm as Shane Coltrain’s orthotics from a cut on his right leg, residencies to learn their craft, he rugged and natural as the C-leg. practice is seeing an increase of probably from sliding into second says. Recently, a more rigorous “We aren’t there yet because a particular type of patient, and base, he says. academic discipline has emerged. with the hand, you often use that he’s not happy about it. The infection got worse. “There still are maybe just 10 outdoors, in wet weather. And His eight-year-old Greenville Eventually the leg had to be or 12 schools throughout the that isn’t a good environment company, Orthotics and amputated above the knee. country that have a prosthetics for a complicated device. But Prosthetics East, fits individuals the Navy has technology where That was a personal tragedy, and orthotics discipline. ECU who have lost limbs with devices like that operate on ships he says, but from it grew a just started its master’s degree prosthetic devices. In recent on the ocean, so surely we can rewarding career. program in 2013,” he says. years, he says he’s seen an uptick adapt that to making a hand that He believes in a team approach in patients with diabetes who “I do things differently than most can pick up a cup of coffee and that connects his therapy with the have lost a foot. practitioners simply because I won’t fry if hot coffee spills on it.” patient’s primary care physician know exactly what the patient is —Steve Tuttle “There are many things in life experiencing. A lot of the difficult and local support groups. where the health care outcome fits in this area are referred to me.” “We fit some of our patients Alumni scholarship is unavoidable—accidents, birth with the C-leg, which has a He career path has been long applications due Jan. 30 defects. But people with diabetes microprocessor-controlled knee. and winding. The East Carolina Alumni should not have to lose their It’s a mechanical device, so feet,” he says. Association is accepting After graduating from high you have to come in and get applications for Alumni He gives those patients special school in 1993, he got a job routine maintenance. Scholarships for the 2015-2016 working for a prosthetics and attention. “My diabetic patients, “Plus, as people learn to walk school year through Jan. 30. orthotics firm in New Bern while we see every four months” to be better—if they go from a walker Scholarships and application attending Craven Community sure their prosthetic foot contin- to a crutch to a cane—the details are online at PirateAlumni. College. Four years later he ues to fit and wear well, he says. alignment of the prosthetic needs com/Scholarships. To receive a transferred to ECU. He completed Coltrain’s specialty is patients to change because their gait scholarship, students must be a degree in rehabilitation studies who have lost a leg up to and changes,” he says. able to attend the scholarship in December 2000. luncheon April 25. including part of the hip. That’s His practice usually sees 100 or Then he transferred to called a hip disarticulation. so patients each week. Northwestern University Medical Class of 1965 reunion May 7-8 “If there’s a hip disarticulation School in Chicago to study He says the key to success in his amputation in this area, typically Members of the class of 1965 are prosthetics and orthotics. medical field is keeping up with invited to return to East Carolina I see them because I am one. technology and mastering the He returned to Greenville two for their 50th reunion, when they That’s how I am fit.” Medicare system. years later and completed a will be honored as Golden Alumni That’s one reason why Coltrain residency at Hanger Prosthetics “We situated ourselves from the during commencement weekend. and his patients often develop & Orthotics, a national leader in beginning with electronic medical Plan to arrive May 7 for a special special bonds. He knows what developing and fitting artificial records. It actually made my dinner with the class of 2015 they’re going through. limbs. He opened his Greenville life easier. We embraced new before leading the graduates He was active in sports growing practice in 2006. technology. I have a 3-D scanner into Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium here that I use to get the exact during commencement May 8. up in Jamesville in Martin County. He says his field is growing and shape and dimension of the area More information will be online at He especially loved baseball. In evolving. Practitioners once above the amputation, because PirateAlumni.com. 1991 he developed an infection depended on internships and

46 2014 Fellows develop and implement service projects addressing the Katelyn Louise Biggs wed root causes of health disparities. Jordan Richard Jones ’09 on He is a member of the class of Victoria Kidd ’01 of June 14 at the Dunes Club, 2017 at ECU’s dental school. Winchester, Virginia, Atlantic Beach. The wedding Carmen Moyer is a visiting executive director of OMP party included Leslie Anne assistant professor in the health Consulting Group LLC, Biggs ’10, sister of the bride, and human sciences department received the Democratic Megan Elizabeth Camp, at Bridgewater College, Katherine Leigh Faulkner ’11, Community Action for Bridgewater, Va. Jake Smith Joshua Harper Jones ’10, twin Equality Award. The annual is construction superintendent brother of the groom, Sarah award, presented Sept. 6, for Habitat for Humanity of Pitt Elizabeth Lloyd ’11, Elizabeth recognizes individuals living County Inc. Anne Price ’13 and Katherine in Virginia who have made Dayne Wynn ’13. She is a 2013 significant contributions to second-grade teacher at West Thomas Alligood and Andrew advancing the rights of LGBT Greene Elementary School, Denton opened Campus Corner, citizens in the state. She and Snow Hill. He works for ECU’s a high-end men’s clothing store, her partner were among the Student Health Services. Jenny in downtown Greenville. Holly four couples who successfully Marie Everett wed Mark Edward Berenotto was on the Ocean sued to overturn Virginia’s Ethington on May 31 in an City Beach Patrol crew that won ban on gay marriage. Kidd outdoor ceremony at McGuire’s the Ocean City Beach Patrol does extensive volunteer work with the USO and is active in Millrace Farm, Murphy. Michael Women’s Invitational this past Rotary, where she was a Paul Harris Fellow this year. Brandon Landreth was selected summer for the fourth straight as a N.C. Albert Schweitzer team title. Bonnie Jeanne Cox Fellow for 2014-2015. Schweitzer wed Nicholas Landon Baker on

May 3 at Smyrna Pentecostal Fisher wed Mark Robert Blecher Holiness Church, Smyrna. on April 12 on the ocean front The wedding party included in Nags Head. She is a physical Christopher Alan Baker ’09, therapist with Carolina Therapy brother of the groom, Erin Services, Wilmington. Kiahna Laura Diamond ’08 ’14, Cory J. Johnson received her master Adam Noe ’14 and Ashton of environmental health degree Davis Springle. She is a certified from the University of St. registered nurse anesthetist Francis, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Angela with East Carolina Anesthesia Noblitt is a business teacher in Associates, Greenville. He is Camden County Schools. She enrolled in ECU’s physical was Elizabeth City-Pasquotank therapy doctoral program. Public Schools’ director of Emily Catherine Cozart wed community-school relations. Andrew Elliot Dowd on April Meghan Osborne is public 27 at Yankee Hall Plantation, relations and events coordinator Greenville. The wedding party for the Jo Ann Carter Harrelson included Ginger Hardee. She Center, Wilmington. Dr. Jennifer works at St. Luke’s Presbyterian Sattler is assistant professor Hospital, Chesterfield, Mo. of physical science in the Allison Camille Farless wed School of Arts and Sciences Ryan Colt Mills ’11 on June 7 at Northwestern Oklahoma The museum of the national headquarters of the at Edenton United Methodist State University, Alva, Okla. Pi Kappa Phi fraternity in Charlotte has an addition Church, Edenton. The wedding Sally Sutton’s “Food, Farm and thanks to four ECU alumni. From left, Mike Terry of party included Alexander Community” paintings featuring Robert Dunn ’12, Bradley Scott flowers and scenes from farmers Charlotte, Bill Marks ’69 of Charlotte, Ralph Finch ’67 of Kimrey ’11, Elizabeth Berry markets was exhibited at Midlothian, Virginia, and Dan Ray ’64 of Clinton donated Laughridge ’10 ’11, Sarabeth City Art Gallery, Greenville, in a letter received in 1965 from Simon Fogarty, who was Moore, Keehln Ross Page ’10 August. one of three people who founded the fraternity at the and Nathan Templeton Perry ’11. 2012 College of Charleston in 1904. Fogarty was 78 when In Washington, D.C., she works he wrote the letter congratulating members of the in the office of U.S. Rep. Scott Natalie Adele Hamstead wed new chapter. Pi Kappa Phi CEO Mark Timmes said the Desjarlais, Md., and he works Bradley Anderson Gray ’11 letter will become “one of the most prized items” in the for Berman and Company. Air on Aug. 2 at The Memorial fraternity’s museum. The four also donated a vintage Force Airman 1st Class David Baptist Church, Greenville. ECC mug to replace the damaged one that had been a A. Crowe graduated from basic The wedding party included part of a fraternity museum display. The local chapter military training at Joint Base Lindsay Garth Gray ’11, Taylor closed in 2011 and recolonized last spring. It now has San Antonio-Lackland, San Nichols Herendeen ’10 ’11, Ashley Elizabeth Keel ’09, Hillary Varner approximately 65 brothers. Antonio, Texas. Hannah Marian

47 McLawhorn ’10 and Matthew Eugene Cook III ’13, Carl Louis and is a sales associate with Gabriel McLawhorn ’10. She is a Doughtie ’12, Rebecca Danielle Builder’s First Source. Courtney parent coordinator with Family Orzechowski, Ashton Elizabeth Ann Harris wed Hugh Therman Support Network of Eastern Turner ’12 and Cade Barrett “Trey” Hardee IV on May 17 North Carolina, Greenville. He Turner ’12. She works at CM at Longstraw Farms, Ayden. is the general manager of Auto Ranch, Dubois, Wyo. The wedding party included Connection, Wilson. Amanda 2010 Megan Garner ’09, Christin Malkiewicz is head coach in Tew and Jenn Warren ’09. She women’s soccer at Concord Zakiya Rashida Durojaiye wed works at N.C. Health Services University, Princeton, W.Va., James Earl Pierce on June 28 at and Bayada. Stephanie Laura ECU BASEBALL St. Paul Baptist Church, Rocky DRAFTEES where she was the assistant Lineberry wed Jack Michael coach. Katherine “Kitty” McLeod Mount. The wedding party New on May 3 at Penn House, Junior pitcher Jeff Hoffman wed Charles Lofton Johnson included Samantha Brown Reidsville. The wedding party (above), the ninth pick overall, ’11 on Aug. 2 at Angier Baptist ’00. She works for Nash-Rocky included her sister, Jennifer signed with the Toronto Blue Church, Angier. She is a financial Mount Public Schools. Patricia Lineberry Carter ’07 ’09, and Jays. Senior relief pitcher advisor with Edward Jones Jane “P.J.” Fidler wed Lindsay Ashlee Lawson. She works at Ryan Williams was selected in Investments, Smithfield. He is Garth Gray Jr. ’11 on May 3 Inmar, Winston-Salem. Anne the 10th round by the Chicago shipping manager for Smithfield- at Cape Fear Country Club, Mann is finance director for Cubs. Redshirt junior pitcher Farmland, Wilson. Ailton Wilmington. The wedding party the town of Tarboro. She was Tyler Bolton, selected in the Temotio is assistant swimming included Stacy McDonald Cline finance director for the town 33rd round by the Arizona coach at Willamette University, ’11, Bradley Anderson Gray ’11, of Nashville. Meagan Moore Diamondbacks, plays for the Salem, Ore. He was coaching Natalie Adele Hamstead ’12, McFarland wed Christopher Lee Missoula Osprey in the Pioneer age group swimmers at the Charles Ryan Harris, Taylor McFarland on Oct. 26, 2013, on League. Senior third-baseman West Houston Aquatic Team in Nichols Herendeen, Ashley Oak Island. She works in the Elizabeth Keel ’09, Hillary Zach Houchins, selected in the Houston, Texas. neurosciences department at Varner McLawhorn, Taylor 2011 Mission Hospital, Asheville. In 13th round by the Los Angeles Akel Rouse ’11, Christopher Angels, is a member of the 2013, she was Nash Healthcare’s Emily Hayworth Long wed Ryan Rowlett ’12 and Melissa Nurse of the Year. Greg Orem (Utah) Owlz, also in the John Gray Melvin on May 10 at Cotten Wilkerson ’12. She was Pierce is the Wyoming state Pioneer League. Saint Mary’s Chapel, Raleigh. in Alpha Delta Pi sorority and is archaeologist. He is a doctoral The wedding party included a travel agent with AAA. He was candidate in anthropology at Jordan Paul Abbott, Donald in Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity the University of Wyoming and

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YOUR NEWS has conducted research and Rick Sanford ’07 of Rocky fieldwork in the American West Mount has a lot to smile about and Southeast. Laurel Ann these days. CNBC recently Truelove wed William James named his investment Currie on June 14 at St. Andrews advising firm, Whitener By-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Capital Management, one Nags Head. She works at Nash of the top 100 fee-only Rocky Mount Early College. wealth management firms 2009 in the country. CNBC Courtney Brown Cherry wed ranked Whitener 72nd on John Frederick Horns ’07 its list; only one other North ’11 on July 12 in Wildwood Carolina-based company Presbyterian Church, Newport. was included. Sanford began The wedding party included working at Whitener Capital Margaret Mary Rogers Cherry ’11 Management in 2004 after ’14. In Greenville, she works for spending six years as a broker Earp Dentistry of Greenville, and with a major investment firm. he works for the Department He earned his MBA online in of Information Services, Vidant five years while working full Health. Scott Cormier is an time. His firm serves more occupational therapist with Kinetic Physical Therapy and than 150 clients and manages Wellness Inc., Greenville. Ben more than $150 million in Gardner is operations manager assets. He is married to of SILVERcare, a home care Kimberly Cary Sanford ’96 agency in Greenville. Thomas ’07. He proposed to her Gillespie joined the Nash on the steps of Belk County parks and recreation Residence Hall. department as an athletic coordinator. Lowell Webster Guthrie is head boys basketball

CLASSCLASS OFOF 19651965 GOLDENGOLDEN ALUMNIALUMNI REUNIONREUNION If you are a member of the class of 1965, mark your calendars for May 7-8, 2015 for your 50th class reunion! Reconnect with your alma mater and fellow graduates during this special time. Reunion activities include campus tours, dinner on the campus mall with members of the class of 2015, a candlelight ceremony, ushering in the class of 2015 at commencement, a luncheon with the university historian, and a reunion dinner and celebration. Registration will open in spring 2015.

PirateAlumni.com/2015GAR 800-ECU-GRAD coach at Ashley High School, 2008 2006 and Washington counties for the Wilmington. He is a 2003 N.C. Department of Agriculture Phoebe Pollitt published Melissa Chappell is executive graduate of Ashley. He was JV and Consumer Services. her first book,The History of director of the Durham boys basketball coach at New Nursing in North Carolina. Jeff Technical Community College 2005 Hanover the last three seasons. O’Geary is general manager of Foundation and director of Dr. Adam Harrell joined the Lauren Asby, branch manager Saks Fifth Avenue Greenwich development for the college. dental practice of Lee, Fussell, at the Greenville Medical Center (Conn.). Katherine Cooper She was project manager for Humphreys & Humphreys P.A., branch of Southern Bank, was Trevathan wed Benjamin the Office of Annual Giving at Greenville. He received his recognized as the bank’s top James Dorman on July 12 at the N.C. State. Joel Gilmore was dental degree at UNC-Chapel mortgage producer at the home of the bride’s parents in promoted to vice president Hill. Sierra Jones ’09 ’12 is bank’s annual Best Bankers Atlantic Beach. The wedding and senior credit analyst at communications assistant for event in spring 2014. Dr. Rachel party included her sister Lauren Providence Bank. Landon the Greenville-Pitt County Thomas joined Vidant Internal Trevathan Daigle ’14. Thomas Minges wed Bridgett Convention & Visitors Bureau. Medicine-Greenville as part of Dawn Mooring on May 3 at Janie Pendleton Taft wed 2007 Vidant Medical Group. First Presbyterian Church of David Clark Strange on Aug. Catherine Leigh Reilly wed Kinston. The wedding party 2004 16 at Jarvis Memorial United Christopher Glenn Wagoner on included Bryan Jackson Buck, Corinne Spence Dorey and Methodist Church, Greenville. June 7 in Wallace. The wedding William Allen Hollowell and Jamie Dorey had a daughter in She is a financial analyst at party included Katie Carlough Brooks Hunter Sasser ’09. 2014. He achieved the Certified Flanders Corp., Washington. ’08, Matt Carlough ’09, Mike Catina Moore is principal at Commercial Investment Jordan Talley received a Crooke ’08, Mary Kate Harris, Northwest Elementary, Pitt Member designation from the doctor of osteopathic medicine Jonathon Honour ’03, Kourtney County. She was principal at CCIM Institute. degree from Lake Erie College Landen and Kenny Walters ’08. Bethel School. Dennis Mitchell of Osteopathic Medicine 2003 She was a member of Alpha was appointed to a three-year Bradenton, Fla. He is interning Delta Pi sorority. She works at term on the Greenville Utilities Sarah Ward Lage is a career at Manatee Memorial Hospital Chesterbrook Academy, Raleigh. Board of Commissioners. He counselor in ECU’s Career in Bradenton. His medical He was a member of Sigma Phi is a business development Center. She is a liaison to the residency in anesthesiology Epsilon fraternity. He works for consultant for SynerGrowth graduate school, student- at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Brasfield and Gorrie, general LLC. Jacob Searcy is regional athletes and deciding students. Baltimore, Md., begins in 2015. contractors. agronomist for Beaufort, Dare, Hyde, Martin, Pamlico, Tyrrell

Shop our Holiday Sale & Festivities December 9, 2014 Wright Bldg. Store 2002 Michael Aho returned for his ninth season as the “Voice of the Marching Pirates” for all ECU home football games in the 2014 season. He also began service on the ECU Board of Visitors. Willie James Bell Jr. is Franklin (Va.) City Public Schools superintendent. He was director of instruction for Sussex County National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Marvin R. Preston Schools. Kate Tillman Brown ’02 Col. John D. Slocum ’84 is the new Command, Air Combat Command and Air Force ’03 and her husband, André, a commander of the 127th Wing at Selfridge Special Operation Command. student in ECU’s construction Air National Guard Base in Michigan. He will In the photo, Lt. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III management department, had command approximately 1,700 members of (right), director of the Air National Guard, their second child, a daughter, in the Michigan Guard. presents Slocum, at the time the director of 2014. She works in commercial Slocum received his Air Force commission ANG Safety, with the Air Force Safety Hall of real estate in Raleigh. Heather in 1984 and served as an F-4 and F-16 pilot. Fame Award during a town hall meeting Jan. Dail is marketing director for He joined the Arizona ANG in 1992 and has 22, 2013, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Pitt County Arts Council at had several leadership positions at the ANG The Air Force Safety Hall of Fame Award Emerge in Greenville. Readiness Center, most recently serving as the is given to a recipient whose achievements 2001 ANG inspector general. have significantly increased Air Force safety Flying the A-10 Thunderbolt II and the KC-135 by reducing mishaps while improving safety Crystal Lail is principal at Stratotanker, the 127th supports Air Mobility policies, guidance or procedures. Elizabeth Lane Elementary, Charlotte, where she has been a principal fellow since

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April 11, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. • U.B.E. in Uptown Greenville • PirateAlumni.com/2015RoadRace Paintings by Terry Formyduval ’97 were featured in the exhibition Verve of Abstraction at August 2013. Jeremy Woodard School. Marc Whichard ’99 ’05 Agora Gallery, New York City, is appearing in Sting’s new is lead principal for Edgecombe in summer 2014. Broadway musical, The Last Ship. County Public Schools. 2000 1998 Jennifer Coleman Nixon is Chad Aldridge is a home executive director of the mortgage consultant in the Reidsville Area Foundation. Greenville office of Wells Fargo Ashley Tucker Moore ’00 ’07 Home Mortgage, a division of wed Laura Elithe Phibbs on Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Aug. 9 at North Raleigh United Asa Buck, Methodist Church, Raleigh. The Carteret County wedding party included Jason sheriff, was Paul Dorazio ’99, Jennifer Lynn elected president Lippincott ’03, Tony Preston of the N.C. Moore ’87 ’02, father of the Sheriff’s groom, Andrew Henry Phibbs Association. Joel ’99, Roy Earl Phibbs ’73, father Butler was Kiki Farish ’06, an adjunct professor of the bride, Ryan Fletcher appointed to a three-year term at Meredith College in Raleigh, is Williams ’97 and Laura Sutton on the Greenville Utilities Board serving as artist in residence at the Young ’99 ’01. He works in his of Commissioners. He is chief N.C. Museum of Art for programs family’s business, North Carolina external affairs officer of Vidant aimed at teenagers. She began the Driving School, in Winterville. Health. Rick Owens ’98 ’01 was residence in August and will continue promoted to vice president of in that role through April. Farish will 1999 administrative services at Pitt help students explore the artistic process and personal expression Brian Hill is an assistant Community College, Winterville. through drawing. She also will lead a January teen workshop. Farish, principal at Southwestern He was assistant vice president who exhibits her work at Artspace in Raleigh, is one of 13 North Randolph High School, of information technology and Carolina artists chosen for the Line, Touch, Trace special exhibition Asheboro. He was teaching services at PCC. on display at NCMA through March 8. health and physical education 1997 and serving as the girls soccer coach at Archdale-Trinity Middle Elizabeth Anne Brooks Newell

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Gift funds LBGT center Peel said, his parents, the late J. Harriot College medallion in Woolard and Helen Peel, believed recognition of service to the college. The new student center planned ECU was critical to the future of for East Carolina University’s Main eastern North Carolina. Campus will contain an LGBT Reindeer Dash for Cash center as a result of a $500,000 Among other gifts to ECU, Peel The 10th annual gift from an Atlanta physician. has funded a distinguished Reindeer Dash for professorship in religious studies. The donation is the latest gift to Cash will be Dec. 7 He also set up a core competencies ECU from Dr. Jesse R. Peel, who and will start from program at the Brody School of established a University Scholars the Greenville Town Medicine. Award in 1986 in honor of his Common. The event parents. Peel, a psychiatrist, was Through his estate, Peel will raises money for among the earliest benefactors of establish a distinguished a foundation that the University Scholars awards, now professorship in social diversity is sponsoring a called the EC Scholars program. in the Department of Sociology; scholarship for a a distinguished professorship in health and human nearly 1,000 runners participated in Officials said the $500,000 gift will social diversity in the College of performance the 10k and 5k events the last two come from an investment account Education; a new EC Scholars student. years, and she hopes to beat that established by Peel. Separately, award in memory of his mother; number this year. Peel made an outright gift of Christopher Cash, and an endowment of support $25,000 to establish the Dr. Jesse pictured at right, The event, which has raised for the Center for Diversity R. Peel LBGT Center Endowment. whose two ECU nearly $210,000 so far, benefits and Inequality Research in the degrees are in health and human the Captain Christopher Cash A native of Martin County, Peel Department of Sociology. performance, was killed in action in Foundation. Cash-Salau said the completed his undergraduate and Peel is a member of the Chancellor’s Iraq in 2004 while serving with the foundation previously has funded medical studies at the University Diversity Council, is an honorary National Guard. some scholarships in the College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. member of East Carolina’s chapter of Health and Human Performance. However, he has directed his The fundraiser was started by his of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor The foundation plans to endow the philanthropy to ECU because, widow, Dawn Cash-Salau. She said Society and received the Thomas scholarship next year.

Cato is a home mortgage the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington, D.C. He was vice 1991 consultant at the Greenville Lynchburg (Va.). He is with the president of policy and Dr. Mary Kirk office of Wells Fargo Home credit union financial services innovation at Raleigh-based retired as Mortgage, a division of Wells and benefits company CUNA Capitol Broadcasting Co. Misty president of Fargo Bank N.A. Amy Edwards Mutual. Dr. Bethann Buzitsky Walker ’93 ’00 is principal of Montgomery of Amy Edwards Family Law, Fine ’94 ’99 wed Dr. Jack Cecil Washington High School. Community Greenville, is accredited by the Cole on June 28 at the Umstead 1992 College, U.S. Department of Veterans Hotel and Spa, Cary. She is Asheboro, to Affairs to represent on a pro associate chair of ECU’s Dr. Teresa become a vice bono basis veterans filing Department of Math, Science, Conner-Kerr ’92 president of the Southern disability claims based on and Instructional Technology ’94 is dean of the Association of Colleges and illnesses or injuries that occurred Education within the College of College of Health Schools Commission on while on active duty. Education. Mickey Foster and Science Colleges, Decatur, Ga. Charlie Frank J. Rygiel is is executive vice Professions at the Langley ’91 ’97 is principal of vice president of president of Cone University of C.M. Eppes Middle School. He business Health and North Georgia. was principal at the Greene development in president of The She was professor and chair of County Early College High the Tampa, Fla., Moses H. Cone the physical therapy department School and former principal of office of Batson- Memorial in the School of Health and J.H. Rose High School. Cook Co., general Hospital, Sciences at Winston-Salem State contractors. He Greensboro. University. Dr. Pamela Susan 1990 Lovelace is assistant director for was a senior project manager He was president of Annie Penn Judy Mattocks Taylor, a development and extension at with the company. Natasha Hospital, Reidsville. Grace first-grade teacher at L.C. Kerr the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium. Savage is leading business Daughtry Smith is president of School, is the 2014-2015 Jack She was manager of the Human development and account the N.C. Association of Zoning and Kitty Morisey Teacher of the Dimensions Research Program management activities for Officials. She is planning Year for Clinton City Schools. Metrics Inc.’s Southeastern supervisor of zoning at the National Oceanic and 1989 clients. She was director of administration for Durham Atmospheric Administration business development for City-County. Hollings Marine Laboratory. D. Greg Peele is football coach Paul Powers Jr. ’92 ’94, senior Intertek’s Pharmaceutical 1993 for East Carteret High School. Services division. vice president and manager of He was physical education Sam Matheny is the Pitt County Commercial 1996 teacher, athletic director, executive vice Banking Unit for Southern Bank, football and basketball coach Allison Setser ’96 ’10 is principal president and was recognized as top at Southwest Middle School, at Bethel School. She is the chief technology commercial banker in the region Jacksonville. Gary Woodlief is former H.B. Sugg and Sam officer for the at Southern Bank’s annual Best chief banking officer for North Bundy assistant principal. National Bankers event held in Norfolk, State Bank. 1994 Association of Va., in 2014. Broadcasters in Tim Campbell is on the board of

53 1971 2014 Coach of the Year. His team had an 11-1 league record. Don Mills was elected secretary of the Greenville Utilities Board 1965 of Commissioners.­ He is the Dr. Jerry E. retired plant manager of NACCO McGee, president Materials Handling Group. of Wingate 1970 University, was inducted into Bob Rankin’s paintings were Appalachian It was 60 years ago, but F.B. their education? She was an exhibited at City Art Gallery, State University’s Hall Jr. ’70 of Alexandria, excellent teacher who made Greenville, in August. Virginia, vividly remembers every aspect of school and Reich College of 1969 his first-grade teacher,Marion learning exciting for me. I am Education’s Rhododendron Chesson Coster ’54, at so thankful for Mrs. Coster Ronald “RV” Vincent, baseball Society, which honors Riverside Elementary School and look forward to future coach at J.H. Rose High School, exemplary service to education in New Bern. He wondered if visits with her,” Hall said. Greenville, is The Daily Reflector and community. she were still alive and, if so, Hall, who majored in art he wanted to find her and education at ECU, had a 33- thank her for sparking his year career in the classroom interest in learning. at schools in North Carolina It took a couple of years to and Virginia. In 1990, he was track her down, but last May chosen by the Washington he visited her at her home Post to receive the Agnes in Greer, South Carolina. Meyer Outstanding Teacher “How many people ever have of the Year. Since retiring in the opportunity to thank 2003, he has written several their first-grade teacher for books and created many giving them a great start in works of art.

1987 struction and technology at Pitt Community College. He was Chris Egan ’87 dean of corporate and com- ’89 is executive munity development at Edge- director of the combe Community College. N.C. Council on Developmental 1981 Disabilities. He is Melissa Colson Miller Cardinali a former clinical is assistant county manager assistant for finance and administrative professor in the School of Social services for Cumberland County. Work at UNC-Chapel Hill and She has been the county’s clinical coordinator for the finance director since August Developmental Disabilities 2013 and was financial services Training Institute within the director for the city of Sanford Jordan Institute for Families in for 15 years. the School of Social Work. Dawn When he was a student here, Masters Diving Invitational last Hunter ’87 ’91 ’08 is principal of 1979 Jim Burden ’76 was injured November. Then he won two while competing as a diver silver medals at the Masters Comfort Elementary School in Mark A. Holmes is executive on the swimming and diving Spring Nationals in Texas. Jones County. She was principal vice president and COO of team. “On my last college dive Those performances qualified of Northwest Elementary School Select Bank, a merger of Select at ECU, we were competing him to compete in the 60-64 in Lenoir County. Bank Trust Co. and New Century against Johns Hopkins and I age group at the FINA World Bank. He was president and 1986 separated a rib and shoulder,” Masters Championships held in CEO of Select Bancorp Inc. and he said. For divers who must Montreal in August. John Minges was elected for Select Bank and Trust Co. his first term as chair of the contort their bodies to be able Competing for Team USA at Greenville Utilities Board of 1978 to spin in the air and twist into the world masters, Burden won Commissioners. He is president Herman Boyd Overman Jr. odd shapes, such an injury can the gold medal in the 1-meter and founding partner of Minges is clinic director of Carolina end a career. springboard diving event. He & Associates LLC. Physical Therapy Associates Burden, who lives in also won a bronze medal in Poquoson, Virginia, didn’t 3-meter diving. 1985 Inc., Greenville. compete in diving for the next He was surprised at how Dr. Tamara Hill ’85 ’89 1976 38 years, although he did coach well he performed. “My opened her new practice, Hill Jerry Brett is the sport at the high school expectations were essentially Dermatology, Bartlesville, Okla. senior vice level. Then in 2013—when he not to embarrass myself or Diane Villa is curator of design president and turned 60—he decided to give Team USA,” he said in an at the N.C. Zoo, Asheboro. eastern regional diving another try. interview with a Newport News She was the zoo’s graphics executive of He began a limited practice newspaper. supervisor for 20 years. Albemarle Bank & schedule at the Midtown The absence of competition 1982 Trust overseeing Aquatic Center in Newport over the years may explain why the Greenville News, assisted by Danita Fox he’s now doing so well in the Mark Faithful is dean of con- and Edenton markets. (pictured at right), the center’s sport. “A lot of older divers are aquatics director. He entered beat up. Diving takes a toll on 54 the Mid-Atlantic Springboard­ you,” he said. “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” -Aristotle

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Proudly Supporting the ECU Campus Community for 24 Years. 1930s ’60 of Farmville died June 8. A North Carolina and Virginia, Hammond Inc. and Lakeville U.S. Army Korean War veteran, retiring from the Richmond Auto Center. His brother Jim ’66 Roxie Suit Lincoln ’36 of he was a teacher and principal Public School System. Jean is a member of the ECU Alumni Wilmington died July 11 at 99. in North Carolina schools. In Mitchell Waters ’58 of San Diego Board of Directors. Ralph Montel During WWII, she was a nurse retirement he was an interpreter died June 14. She taught in the Hawkins Jr. ’64 of Petersburg, at U.S. Army Camp Butner. She for events at the Lost Colony, Norfolk/Virginia Beach Systems, Va., died Aug. 2. He was an then taught for 35 years. Manteo. Barbara Ann Fitts ’57 of Charleston, S.C., and the Navy insurance adjustor who owned 1940s Silver Spring, Md., died June 23. Dept. Dependent School System his own insurance company for Jane Cooke Cox Gordon ’47 Edward in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Lt. more than 20 years. Kenneth of Monroe died July 10. Mannon “Ed” Col. Floyd C. Williams, USAF Ray Proctor ’63 ’64 of Calhoun, Marguerite V. Gore Sr. ’54 (Ret.) ’52 of Stafford County, Ga., died July 20. He taught at H. Greer ’40 of Sunset Va., died Aug. 18. During his Chowan College and then at of Whiteville Beach died 29-year career, his assignments Calhoun High School until his died July 9 at July 16. A U.S. included serving as flight retirement. Virginia A. Read 96. She Air Force commander at Otis AFB, Mass.; ’65 ’74 of Greenville died Aug. taught for 40 veteran, he serving as base commander of 13. For 28 years, she was the years at monitored Wallace Air Station, Philippines; biology teacher at J.H. Rose High Whiteville Russian radio and flying with the 42nd Tactical School, Greenville. Walter Clay High School in transmissions Recon. Squadron in West Rose ’62 of Ocala, Fla., died July Columbus during the Cold War. With his Germany. After retiring from the 25. He served in the U.S. Army County. father, Mannon C. Gore, he military, he worked for Medical Service Corps, retiring Virginia Riddle Moore ’43 developed Sunset Beach. He companies including Lockheed after 16 years as a major. He then of Wilmington­ died Aug. 19 co-founded Sea Trail Plantation Martin and then worked another taught several years in the N.C. at 92. She retired as an and with his sons developed 20 years as a teacher and Community College System. elementary school teacher Ocean Ridge Plantation. He was instructor for adult driver safety Jay Patrick Schwertfeger ’67 in Cumberland County. a founding contributor to ECU’s programs. Lola Joyce Dixon Zeh of Hendersonville died April Aydlette Champions of Freedom fund. ’51 of Raleigh died July 13. A 12. A U.S. Army Vietnam War Hoflar “Doc” Callaree Jarvis Horton ’57 ’60 of lifelong educator, her schools veteran, he retired from the Perry Jr. ’49 Washington died June 6 at 95. included Greenville Junior High Department of Defense. Grace of Virginia “Mrs. Callaree,” as she was School. In 1985 she retired from “GiGi” Dail Smith ’67 of Raleigh Beach, Va., known, taught in Washington Wake County Schools. died July 4. She taught high died May 29. City Schools for 34 years, 1960s school English. Betty Holden During 30 teaching kindergarten, first Stike ’63 of Wilmington died Bobby Lewis Anderson ’60 years in the grade and serving as librarian, June 24 at 95. She taught ’61 of Raleigh died July 30. military, he supervisor and assistant for 24 years in Brunswick, A U.S. Army Korean War served in principal. She was inducted into Harnett and New Hanover veteran, he worked with the WWII, Korea the ECU Education Hall of Fame County schools. She taught in N.C. Department of Community and Vietnam. In 1974 he retired in 2006 along with her two the Watson School College of Colleges. Sandra Nelson from the Marine Corps and went sisters, Mona Jarvis ’32 ’36 ’47 Education at UNC Wilmington Arthur ’62 of Worcester, Pa., to work as adult parole and and Ada Jarvis ’30 ’36 ’47. for more than 21 years, and a died July 7. She was a teacher probation officer in Portsmouth Daniel Wilbur learning lab there is named for and guidance counselor in and Chesapeake, Va., from Jones ’51 of her. She helped charter the elementary schools in New York, which he retired in 1989. Alta Cary died Student N.C. Association for Maryland, North Carolina and Tyson Shoe ’48 of Greenville June 6. A Educators on Campus. Robert Virginia. In retirement she was died June 1. She taught at teacher and a Howard “Dan” Williams ’60 a school volunteer in Onslow Chicod School and was a principal, he of Hillsborough died Feb. 18. A County. Jimmy Lee DeBruhl substitute teacher in Pitt County had a 30-year founder and editor of the ECU ’61 of Rocky Mount died July for 40 years. career with Literary Journal and a member the N.C. State 23. From 1956 to 1978, he was of the original Southern Writers’ 1950s Board of a reservist in the Army National Conference, he was in book Alta Mallard Abernathy ’56 of Education and Guard. He owned and operated publishing with Doubleday Greensboro died July 29. She the Department of Public J De Supply for 36 years. Bettye Publishing Co., Time, Appleton was a teacher and community Instruction. At ECC he was a Louise Crouch Davis ’65 of Century Croft and Harcourt volunteer. Doris Edwards feature writer for the student Black Mountain died June 9. She Brace Jovonovich. In 1989, with Blevins ’51 of Elizabeth City died newspaper and yearbook editor was an inter-library loan librarian his wife, Julia, he founded Tryon July 21. She was a dietitian for his senior year. Dewey Benson at Duke University and a teacher Publishing Co., specializing in the N.C. School for the Deaf and “Duke” Preast Sr. ’59 of and librarian at Murfreesboro nonfiction. They also published Mars Hill College and taught Middlesex died May 28. He was a High School and Charles D. coffee table histories with noted for 38 years at Clarke School railroad telegraph operator Owen High School, where the Southern authors Lee Smith and for the Deaf in Massachusetts. before serving in the U.S. Army current library is named in her Clyde Edgerton. In 1995 they Elvin Ray Brewer ’59 of during the Korean War. He honor. Ralph Edward Elledge moved to Chapel Hill and then Greenville died June 10. For retired from the N.C. Department ’69 of Lewisville died July 22. Hillsborough, where they opened more than 33 years he owned of Revenue. He was instrumental He retired from the Forsyth an independent bookstore. County Department of Social and operated Kentucky Fried in organizing the Wake County 1970s Chicken restaurants, growing to Pirate Club chapter. Dr. Bobby Services. J. Dean Hammond 13 restaurants in eight counties, Lee Sigmon ’59 of Richmond, Jr. ’69 of Salisbury, Conn., died Ikie “Ike” Edward Arnold ’73 of until retiring in 1998. Joseph Va., died June 10. He taught in Aug. 10. He was a Connecticut Greenville died Aug. 1. He was Speight “Buddy” Collins ’57 elementary and high schools in state trooper from 1979 until an accountant and a Pirate Club 1986 and then president of J.D. member. Cathy Whitehurst Ellis

56 ’74 of Trussville, Ala., died July of that time. Known as “Mr. T” to years. Lt. Col. (ret.) William geography instructor in the 28. She worked in education for his students, he received Best Stuart Meredith ’80 of Titusville, history of the department.” She 37 years, 27 of which were in Teacher Award for the class of Fla., died June 4. He served was the author or co-author Jefferson County (Ala.). She was 1989-90 at J.C. Tayloe School. 28 years in the U.S. Air Force. of numerous academic books, a guidance counselor at Clay- Charles Mitchel “Mitch” Turner Donna Jean Hicks Nettles ’80 articles and papers, including Chalkville Middle School since Jr. ’71 of Greenville died July 21. of Lake City, S.C., died Aug. 26. A Catalogue of Latin American 1996. Mark Norman Griffiths ’74 A U.S. Army Vietnam War She was a senior vice president Flat Maps. of Keene, Va., died July 23. He veteran, he worked in and market executive of First Vincent Conrad Pelletier of worked in government and as a pharmaceutical sales for 20 Citizens Bank. New Bern died June 4. He teacher and tutor in China and in years. Robert Lee Williford ’74 1990s taught in ECU’s School of Charlottesville, Va. Barbara Stout of Greenville died June 28. A U.S. Medicine and School of Nursing David J. Preve Jr. ’93 of Miami, Haithcock ’74 of Fayetteville died Air Force Vietnam War veteran, from 1997 to 1999. July 4. For 40 years she taught he worked for more than 34 Fla., died July 19. He worked in Cumberland County Schools, years as an engineer for the at the U.S. Department of Mary Ellen Wojtasiewicz, of primarily at Teresa C. Berrien former Carolina Telephone and Education in Washington, D.C., Winterville died June 1. She was Elementary and Warrenwood Telegraph Co., retiring in 2008. for more than 15 years. a teaching assistant professor and director of bioethics at Elementary. Patricia Scoggins 1980s 2000s Jenkins ’71 of Raleigh died July ECU’s Brody School of Medicine. Shawn P. McCarthy ’05 of 25. For more than 30 years, she Judith Ann Cowart Banks ’80 of She was the founding advisor Union City, N.J., died June was a teacher and educator. Conway, S.C., died June 2. She of the Brody School of Medicine 22. He played hockey for the Frances Lorraine Williams Kane worked as a library assistant, Gold Humanism Honor Society. CP Hockey Association. Billie ’72 of Cary died June 5. She radio announcer, personnel Walter Joseph Zoller of Jean Vaughn McDonough ’01 taught for almost 25 years at analyst, community college Greenville died July 21. He was a ’07 of Leland died July 18. She Camp Lejeune and in the Wake instructor and nursing home former government documents was a nurse in hospice care County Public School System. assistant. Susan L. Jeffery librarian at Joyner Library. receiving her National Hospice Patsy Cherry Owens ’70 of Bear Collins ’81 of Brooksville, Fla., and Palliative Care Nurse Grass died June 26. For nearly died July 7. She worked in risk Certification in 2012. STAFF 30 years she taught business management for several years. Emily Marie Roebuck Hall education at Roanoke-Chowan Gordon Commodore Jr. ’84 Averett of Scotland Neck Community College, Ahoskie. of Cary died June 24. Born in FACULTY died June 4. She worked Maria Theresa London, he moved to the U.S. Dr. Robert at ECU for more than 30 “Terry” where he joined the U.S. Marine Griffen Brame years and continued to work Totzauer Corps, serving from 1966-1977, of Clemmons part time at ECU after her Shank ’77 of including a combat tour in died June 14. retirement. Thomas Arthur Greenville Vietnam. He obtained his U.S. A pioneer and Buck of Greenville died July 5. died July 27. citizenship in 1971 and later a leader in Darlene Hassebroek Peszko She was a degree in technical education women’s of Greenville died July 16. delegate from from ECU. Goldie Morris Eley health care in For more than 20 years, she North ’80 of Jackson died May 21 North worked at ECU’s printing Carolina to at 90. A lifelong teacher, she Carolina, he services and was one of the the developed and implemented was the only three individuals credited with International Non-Governmental one of North Carolina’s first obstetrician-gynecologist in the starting the department. Janie Women’s Conference in Beijing; migrant education programs state to serve on the faculty of Walston Radford of Greenville named Volunteer of the Year by and later the Northampton the medical schools of Duke, died July 4. For 19 years she Gov. Michael Easley; Volunteer County school system’s reading Wake Forest, the University of worked at ECU, and she held of the Year by the American and literacy program. Dora Ann North Carolina at Chapel Hill and several positions in the State Cancer Society; and nominated Cobb Freeman ’85 ’88 of Cove ECU. From 1977-1995 he was the Employees Association of N.C. for N.C. Volunteer of the Year by City died Aug. 2. She taught first chair of the OB-GYN Annette Weaver of Beaufort, the Business and Professional in Jones, Pamlico and Craven department at ECU’s medical S.C., died Aug. 9. She was Women. She was inducted in counties. She later became a school. He also served on the executive secretary for the late the ECU Education Hall of Fame counselor at H.J. McDonald faculties of the University of ECU president Leo Jenkins, in 2007 and was recognized as Middle School, New Bern, until Virginia School of Medicine, the and she retired from BellSouth. one of ECU’s 2013 Women of retirement. Nita Hedreen ’80 of University of South Carolina Michael A. Young of Grimesland Distinction. She received the Emerald Isle died Aug. 18. An School of Medicine and died July 23. He worked at ECU Order of the Long Leaf Pine in Air Force veteran, she was a Carolinas Medical Center. in the Brody Medical Sciences 2013. Henry C. Stokes III ’77 of registered nurse at Pitt County Dr. Brian Lamont Harris of Building as an air-conditioning Belvidere died July 5. He retired Memorial Hospital, Greenville, Washington, N.C., died Aug. and refrigeration technician. from the N.C. State Park System, for 19 years and most recently 6. An associate professor of serving at Jockey’s Ridge State worked at the naval hospital German, he taught at ECU from Park, Pettigrew State Park, Kerr at Camp Lejeune. Since 2003, FRIENDS 1982 to 2004, he was known for Lake State Recreational Area she was an Emerald Isle town his love of teaching, his research Rachel and Dismal Swamp State Park. commissioner. Yuevonne Owens on Dada and German fiction Fleming Julius Lansinger ’88 of Virginia Beach, and essays, his translation of Edwards of Sylvester Va., died May 9. She was an Hugo Ball, his poems and plays, Greenville “Buster” elementary teacher in Selma and his saxophone playing and his died June 29. Tetterton Jr. a reading recovery coordinator presence on faculty governance In 1963 she ’77 of in Virginia Beach Public Schools. committees. and her Pinetown died Christopher Donaldo Lewis ’87 husband, Jack June 15. A U.S. of Elkin died July 7. He was a Palmyra “Pia” M. Leahy of ’60, started Army Vietnam therapist at a mental institution Greenville died July 13. She the Book War veteran, in Atlanta and a race car driver. retired in 1997 after teaching Barn, the he taught in Karen Moore Medlin ’83 of geography for 30 years. The forerunner of UBE. Washington Durham died July 10. She was an ECU Department of Geography City Schools for 30 years, occupational therapy assistant official history notes that she teaching fourth grade for most at WakeMed in Raleigh for 12 was “arguably the most popular

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To celebrate his 79th birthday on Jan. 18, “I rejoice in the fact that there are schools 1915, faculty and students at East Carolina where teachers can be trained. I rejoice in Teacher Training School hosted a party the knowledge that it will not be many years for former Gov. Thomas Jarvis in what before nobody who is not trained will be is now the Old Cafeteria Building. Jarvis, permitted to teach North Carolina children. the founder of the school, was a frequent “Some enthusiastic lover of music once speaker on campus, but this occasion would said: ‘Let me write the songs of the country, be the last. and I care not who makes its laws.’ I will President Robert Wright asked Jarvis to paraphrase that sentiment by saying: Let me talk about the principles that had guided train the teachers for the primary schools in him through 50 years in public service as a my state, and I care not who makes its laws.” lieutenant governor, governor, ambassador He concluded: “The greatest satisfaction and U.S. senator. that can come to you is knowing that you Jarvis had overseen construction of the six have helped some human being. If you want original campus buildings and had given happiness, peace and joy at the end of life, give generously of his time leading the Board of your life to the service of your fellow beings.” Trustees through its first eight years. But he Six days later, the Raleigh began by apologizing for not doing more, published a letter from JarvisNews thanking & Observer the according to a transcript of his remarks many people who had sent letters and telegrams in the spring 1915 issue of the Training congratulating him on his birthday. He wrote: School Quarterly. “I cannot hope to be able to work in this, “I shall only regret that I cannot render To learn more about Thomas Jarvis and his importance to East Carolina, please visit my chosen field, many years longer, but as to you the service I would render if the https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/ecu-icons/jarvis. long as I am living my theme shall be: ‘Give Legislature would let me. Oh, the buildings the children of North Carolina well trained, that would be added here, the numbers of godly men and women for their teachers.” (students) that would come here and the “Did I think along the lines of self-interest numbers of children that would be helped, in doing this, or in refusing to do that, or Jarvis’ health began failing in April; he died if the Legislature would only hear my cry was I seeking the good of others? June 17, 1915. Students walked together to for the children!” “I stand here, fully conscious of all the Cherry Hill Cemetery for his funeral and stood in a silent circle around the mourners. Then he turned introspective. responsibility that goes with the statement and truthfully say that I have always tried, In his eulogy, Wright said: “Without “I have been analyzing this event and as best I knew how, to serve my fellow man. children of his own, he loved all the children that event—in my boyhood days, in my Whether I always judged wisely or not, of all the people in the state.” manhood days and in my more mature I cannot say. years, trying to find the motive that Jarvis made a final plea for public schools in prompted me each time. “I made the best use I could of the oppor- his will: “Intelligence and virtue mark the tunity when I (was) governor, working the standing of any people in state and nation, “I have debated with myself whether I could best I could for forwarding the people and and I would therefore urge the people to truthfully say that, from the time I began to furthering prosperity, believing firmly that the press the education of their children far know what life meant and to understand the question of educating the people was the very beyond anything heretofore attempted.” duties and obligations of life, one motive foundation of prosperity. Without an edu- controlled my actions. cated people you cannot have a great state. —Steve Tuttle

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A setting sun colors the sky over Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Sept. 20 as the Pirates close out a 70-41 win over the University of North Carolina Tar Heels in front of a crowd of more than 51,000. The Pirates’ 789 total yards set a record and were the most UNC had ever given up. East Carolina’s 70 points were the second-most they’d ever scored and the most the Tar Heels had ever allowed. Photo by Mike Litwin