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spring 2007 EastThe Magazine of easT Carolina UniversiTy research Under the Microscope rdogan e ykut ykut a min e tockphoto.com/ s ©i viewfinder spring 2007 EastThe Magazine of easT Carolina UniversiTy 12 22 f e ATU r e s RESEARCh UnDER THE MiCROSCoPe 12 Already known for medical discoveries, East CarolinaBy Marion is Blackburn inventing a broader research mission to better serve the university community and the region. PILLARS OF sTRENGTh 22 The financial rewards are substantial but the moreBy Bethany than Bradsher150 ECU students who are Army and Air Force ROTC cadets say it’s the discipline, structure and accountability that they most value. SELF PORTRAIT 26 After four decades together, Beverly Cox ’67 and theBy Steve National Tuttle Portrait Gallery in Washington reflect the same sense of timeless grace. EXTRA BASES 32 After stellar college careers, six former Pirate baseballBy Bethany players Bradsher now are coaching at Division 1 universities using skills learned from the late Keith LeClair. 26 CROSSING THE BARRE 36 After a distinguished international career as a prima ballerina,By Steve Tuttle Galina Panova assumes a new role as teacher, further strengthening ECU’s reputation as center for the performing arts. d e p A r TM e n T s Joyful noises FROM oUr READERS Members of the eCU Chamber 3 singers hold a high note during a rehearsal for the group’s performance at the religious Arts THE eCU REPORT festival at st. paul’s Church in 36 5 greenville. The group has attracted national attention and was invited a CENTURY OF SERVICe to perform at what’s called the 20 “world series of choral events”— the American Choral directors Association annual convention in CLASS NOTES Miami in March. More than 10,000 40 conductors, singers, teachers and church musicians usually attend the convention. UPON THE PAST Photo by Forrest Croce 48 E7<B3@ % froM The ediTor 4PbcB63;/5/H7<3=43/AB1/@=:7</C<7D3@A7BG froM oUr reAders BVS<Se 1]c\b`g2]Qb]`a 6]e31CVSOZbVQO`SU`ORaO`S QO`W\UT]`a[OZZb]e\TO[WZWSa spring 2007 EastThe Magazine of easT Carolina UniversiTy Volume 5, Number 3 it rained off and on, complicating travel as well as taking photographs. I’m 99.9 is published four times a year by and parking, but despite the gloom, the percent sure I took the picture of the players East East Carolina University general enthusiasm of the day could not be dampened by weather. My older son, Paul, his looking for four leaf clovers. But the picture A gotlife lost in driving one in placea pouring rain in Alexandria, Va., in neighborhoods Division of University Advancement 2200 South Charles Blvd. wife, and my youngest daughter had joined was taken on the campus of Morningside around Old Town I hadn’t seen in 20 years. After cruising several blocks, Greenville, NC 27858 me for the occasion. We were gathered to participate in the white coat ceremony for College where we stayed while we waited I finally spotted the house I was looking for—600 Little Street, the tidy my younger son, Daniel. Unfortunately, my for a bus to transport us to the stadium. I iMproving heAlTh CAre husband was unable to join us because he bungalow on a corner lot where Gayle and I brought home our first baby, h That last win for the championship is as “The New Country Doctors” article showed was on call. actually, when the same event Katie Rose, in 1983. We lived in that house a year or so, then moved just was held for Paul’s first year medical school exciting today as it was all those years ago. three blocks away to…there it is, 106 West Mason, the larger split-level we EDITOR many concrete examples of why our health class in 1999, my husband attended but i was When Cotton Clayton’s bases-loaded home steve Tuttle science programs have been so successful not there; i was on call. bought before our second, Harrison, was born in ’86. 252-328-2068 / [email protected] run won the game, I watched the ball until at East Carolina. The new cardiovascular as we waited for the ceremony to commence, it went out of sight over the fence. That Looking through the rain-splattered windshield, the house across the street is i thought of the problems my husband and institute and the proposed dental school will was a great team with great players and a hauntingly familiar. There’s the spot on the driveway I patched. We lived here ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER i have faced over the years in the practice brent burch continue this tradition of providing people of medicine: rising practice expenses and marvelous coach in Jim Mallory. Thank you two years, then moved to New York after a job change. The rain deepens my and services to our region and our state. overhead, medical liability litigation, declining reimbursements and ever-increasing demand for the look back. reflective mood and I wonder: what if ? How would life have turned out if we PHOTOGRAPHER Keep up the good work. I can’t wait to see for more services. We were forthright with Roanoke, Va. hadn’t left Washington, had never moved away, if we had raised our kids in forrest Croce your spring edition! our children about these issues; we let them —Roy Martin ’61 ’67, that very house? Raleigh know the sacrifices that would be expected. —Carl W. Davis ’73, our sons knew all these things and they still I learned two interesting facts about Roy Martin CONTRIBUTING WRITERS chose to follow this path for their life’s work. while chatting with him via e-mail. One is that People who have moved around chasing better jobs know this feeling. They sarah bell, Marion blackburn, sodA shop wAs in wrighT how were they able to identify the rewards he grew up in a house where Mendenhall Student say the average person will have seven different jobs and probably live in as bethany bradsher, Michael Crane, through all of the fog and trouble? First, I want to tell you how much I am Center is now. Second, he had two careers, the first many places. Hardly anyone stays in one place these days or has the same job henry ferrell These young men and women choose this enjoying and to commend you on doing in journalism, including years as night city editor at their whole life. East path, knowing the risks, frustration and Washington Star CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS such a great job! However, I must make some exhaustion of a career in medicine. They the and later as news director at chose this work because, despite all the Cliff hollis, Marc Kawanishi comments regarding your article on the WSLS Roanoke. He followed that with 18 years as a Except Beverly Jones Cox, the alumnae I had interviewed that morning at the difficulties, it is a calling like no other. The National Portrait Gallery in downtown Washington, where she is director of renovations to the Old Cafeteria Building. privilege, bestowed by society, of healing and schoolteacher in Roanoke, teaching English as a second collections. She’s worked at the gallery for nearly 40 years, the only job she’s CLASS NOTES EDITOR There was no soda shop in the Cafeteria helping people at their most vulnerable and language to immigrant children, “some of whom have leeanne elizabeth smith Building in the 1950s. There was a soda often most frightening moments of their lives gone on to advanced degrees and great jobs,” he said. had since graduating from East Carolina in 1967. She worked in the same [email protected] is entrusted to only a few. The indescribable office in the same building for more than 20 years. fountain next to the campus bookstore in reward of being that person—empowered by Legendary ECU journalism professor Ira Baker once the Wright Building. Did you know that the medical education to serve at that moment— described Martin, who retired in 2002, as the first h is the compelling force that still brings some She’s that rare individual whose first job was the perfect job, but that Old Cafeteria Building contained a one-lane of our best and brightest to the doors of from Greenville to make it in big-time journalism. isn’t what’s special about Cox, whom we profile on page 26. It’s what she bowling alley in the 40s? Its pins had to be medical schools across this state. “I’ve always appreciated him saying that. Now look: DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY MARKETING set by hand. I wonder if any of your readers accomplished in that span of time that impresses me. She wrote the catalog Clint bailey at the end of the ceremony they asked the Our graduates are everywhere, writing books and for the museum’s first exhibition and has personally put together more than remember it? class to turn around and face the audience, winning Pulitzers.” wearing their new white coats. They were 300 exhibits since then. One show she mounted on American sports icons Hendersonville —Jim Phelps ’58, introduced as the Class of 2010. across the More on beTh grAnT country, there are about 19,000 first year so impressed President Reagan that he invited the museum staff over to the Thanks to Bubba Grant for informing us of whiTe Coat MeMories medical students who are now working their White House for lunch. East Carolina University is a constituent institution of way through the first year of medical school.

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