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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.

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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

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. his sister Beth Grant’s successful film career The University of North Carolina. It is a public doctoral/ As I was flipping through the pages of the Take the world by storm, 2010; leave it a [in his Letter to the Editor in the last issue]. I wonder if Cox ever thinks how her life would be different if she hadn’t kept research intensive university offering baccalaureate, master’s, winter issue of I noticed the picture of better place than you found it. specialist and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts, sciences East, I have enjoyed her for years and most recently her first job out of college. There would have been other offices, other houses, and professional fields, including medicine. Dedicated to the the Brody white coat ceremony. I wondered Wilson —Dawn Brezina, in and never knew she was other best friends than the ones she’s known for four decades. Did she pass achievement of excellence, responsible stewardship of the if your readers would be interested in a more Flags of Our Fathers public trust and academic freedom, ECU values the an ECU Class of ’71 graduate. I looked up some opportunity? personal account of what that ceremony About that baseball picture contributions of a diverse community, supports shared up her bio and I wish you would include a governance and guarantees equality of opportunity. means to physicians. I was on faculty at the I’d just like to offer an additional tidbit On the other hand, what opportunities did the rest of us miss by frequently special feature article on Beth with pictures medical school from 1993–1998. My older of information [about East Carolina’s pulling up roots in search of greener grass? Would you switch places with her? ©2007 by East Carolina University from her last films in your next publication. son graduated from the MD/MBA program 1961 national championship baseball I just might. ECU needs to share her success with all her at ECU in 2004 and he is now a third year team pictured in Upon the Past in the last ECU family of friends and alumni. Printed by The Lane Press resident at PCMH. I wrote this after our issue]. I was the reporter who Daily Reflector Tucker, Ga. 60,000 copies of this public document were printed at a cost of younger son, Daniel, donned his white coat accompanied the team to Sioux City and —Graham Felton ’71, $33,600 or $.56 per copy. and began his first year at Brody: spent the week covering the Pirates’ games We profiled Beth Grant about three years ago.   from our readers The ECU Report

More on the Riot of ’71 institutions vital to our democracy such as the media and universities failed to question Our story on the 1971 campus demonstrations over authority when it was most critical to do so. dorm visitation prompted many calls and e-mails. The purpose of universities in a democracy what it is and are its future,” said Doug We heard from Bill Schell, the only one of the “rabble should not be to produce complacent and Kruger, chairman of ECU’s construction rousers” we weren’t able to track down for the story. management department. “Scott serves as a unquestioning graduates. The years at provided Photo The story also got the creativeFountainhead juices flowing in Ken university should be a time to explore new model of what can be accomplished when Finch ’71, the former cartoonist ideas, think outside the box and learn to both alumni support their alma mater.” who chronicled the period. He’s planning a comic book question and sometimes to challenge authority. In 2005, the program caught the attention (right) based on the student demonstrations and arrests. San Francisco of the National Housing Endowment, Many thanks for the retrospective on the —Cecil Myers ’72, 1971 events at ECU. Your extensive research, I read with interest “The the philanthropic arm of the National factual accuracy and reflection of the high Miscast Martyr for Student Association of Home Builders. It pledged spirit of student unity brought back many Rights” and was surprised to $100,000—its largest single gift ever to memories. In particular, it highlighted the has been forgiven. I thank you for printing find I was reported missing in a university. extensive efforts at responsible student self- a piece that is a reasonably accurate, if action in the “where are they Centex Corp. chairman and CEO Tim Eller government, following the Supreme Court incomplete, look at a most important period now” sidebar. I still annoy visited campus last fall as the featured speaker rejection of . Students then in the university’s development. university presidents; I led formation of a on a webcast seminar produced in partnership in loco parentis received the legal rights of adults, and ECU Olympia, Wash. faculty union to oppose an arbitrary president with the National Housing Endowment. students took this new role very seriously. —Ken Finch ’70, at Murray State University in Kentucky where When the student visitation demonstrations ECU trustee Mark Tipton moderated the As detailed in your article, the fact that most I’m a full professor. I didn’t attend the 1971 and boycotts began, it was the first time I discussion about the future of residential students chose to express themselves in legal campus demonstration because I thought it ever experienced a group of people banding construction. Industry professionals and and nonviolent ways, and that no one was would be a glorified panty raid and that the Scott Cooper together for a cause in which they believed. students from many universities tuned in to hurt in the demonstrations, highlights that Vietnam War was the more important issue. I The resistance of the administration the webcast. The second seminar is scheduled sense of responsibility. Freedom of speech is didn’t find out what happened until I went to Constructing a national reputation estate restoration in Florida. Mike Johnson served as a model for our own resistance. for later this spring. not the exclusive property of either liberals pull my shift at WECU campus radio. I wrote ’90 is vice president of operations for We pushed and they pulled. Somewhere, There were ten good reasons why or conservatives, but a gift to be shared by us my letter there and was just finishing when K. Hovnanian Homes in Raleigh. Scott it spiraled out of control and people were Department of Construction Management all. I believe this to be the most impressive someone came in saying the administration had Cooper ’90 is marketing manager for hurt. It stopped President [Leo] Jenkins’ faculty members were cheering so loudly element of your article. barred arrested students from taking exams. I Caterpillar’s Telehandler Alliance Group in political aspirations and extinguished some when quarterback Jeff Blake connected Carteret County didn’t know if this was true, but that perceived McConnellsburg, Pa. of the brightest stars at the university. But, as with tight end Luke Fisher to give ECU a —Bob Thonen ’77, injustice prompted my infamous salutation. Usually, I leave the magazine out in my Benjamin Franklin said, “Those things that come-from-behind victory over N.C. State “The construction management program East My expulsion was indirect. The student court den for people to see when they come in. hurt, instruct.” I learned much about myself in the 1992 Peach Bowl. Blake, Fisher and gave me a solid base to succeed in the allowed me to stay in school, but I got mono Not anymore. I do not appreciate the Finch and others through the events of those years. four other players on that team majored in construction industry by preparing me to and withdrew. When I tried to reenroll the cartoon. I do not need a cartoon to tell me And I wouldn’t trade that for anything. construction management. Four more were understand my customer’s needs,” Cooper administration considered me a new enrollee to “F---” anyone. To me this does not belong Los Angeles enrolled in what was then known as the said. “It was beneficial that everything in —Cindy Maultsby Burt ’73, and undesirable. I sued and my ACLU lawyer, in a professional and well-designed magazine. School of Technology. our program was hands on. We also were I was one of the student activists in 1971 and Jerry Paul, won an injunction and I enrolled for You made your point in the article. supported by a staff that knew everyone look back on those days as a defining moment a summer session where I met my wife, Janet Fifteen years later, construction management Greenville personally and made us feel like our family in my life. Looking at it superficially, it seems Wingfield ’72, [but didn’t graduate]. We is still drawing cheers, particularly from major —William F. Dorey ’71 ’85 ’90, away at school.” I’ve ignored ECU for 35 years [and] strange that the issue that set passions ablaze married and lived near Roanoke Rapids. [After companies in residential and commercial Another honor for Mott Blair probably would’ve ignored ECU for another at ECU was dorm visitation rather than serving in the Army and holding various jobs, construction. Founded in 1985, the program Cooper wanted to give back to ECU. His 35 years if not for Steve Tuttle’s article about the war in Vietnam. However, thousands of I] enrolled at UNC Chapel Hill. I finished my is now the largest in the Southeast, with 645 efforts yielded donations of several pieces Dr. Mott Blair of Wallace, the older of the my old editor, Bob Thonen, and the Riot students at ECU were motivated by the same BA and earned a PhD in history [at Carolina]. current undergraduate majors. For the past of Caterpillar equipment, and, in 2006, the Blair boys on the cover of our last issue, was of ’71. Reflecting on the years concerns as students elsewhere. Once again Today, although I have MS, life is good. six years the program has boasted a 100 Caterpillar Foundation pledged $250,000 in named state Family Physician of the Year Fountainhead and the crackdown that came after the riot, this country is bogged down in a distant and Looking back, all I can say is when I came to a percent placement rate. Last fall, it launched support of the construction assembly high by the N.C. Academy of Family Physicians. I realize I’ve been carrying more hurt and unjustifiable war and civil liberties are being fork in the road, I took it. an online master’s degree to help returning bay laboratory. Gregory Poole Equipment Co. Mott and younger brother Seaborn, both anger than I’ve wanted to acknowledge. More threatened. Would we be in another bloody Murray, Ky. professionals meet the demands of new in Raleigh matched the pledge. The money is Brody graduates, were featured in the cover —Bill Schell, than a few students of my generation, some war squandering lives and huge amounts of We welcome your letters. Send them by technologies, processes and equipment. for faculty professional development, research story on ECU’s impact on health care in this of the best and the brightest, left ECU quite treasury if authority had been challenged e-mail to [email protected] or by mail and the latest technology. region. Their father, the late Dr. Seaborn Today, Blake ’94 works in land development alienated from their alma mater. I doubt all before the invasion of Iraq? American to East Magazine, East Carolina University, Blair Sr., practiced medicine in Duplin Building 198, Greenville, N.C. 27858-4353. in Texas. Fisher ’92 is involved with real “Alumni like Scott Cooper make ECU

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Dr. Phyllis Horns, longtime dean of the County for many years. Seaborn Blair “I was surprised by how knowledgeable keep each other in the loop if you want to that will help National Guard troops to School of Nursing, was named interim vice practices in Ocracoke, and their sister, Dr. the writers I worked with were about ECU pull this off.” hold their marriages together while serving chancellor for health sciences and interim Elizabeth Blair, practices in Greenville. Mott athletics and their own school’s teams; overseas. The 12-hour program, Essential The editors from plan to dean of the Brody School of Medicine. She Blair has served on the Duplin County Board they were spitting statistics at me,” said Life Skills for Military Families, will help continue visiting theThe class East Carolinianto keep track of takes over from Dr. Cynda Johnson, who of Education and the Wallace Chamber of Gilmore. “It made me realize just how large citizen-soldier couples to meet the challenges their progress and assist in completing the was appointed to a senior post in the Commerce and is team physician for Wallace- of an audience we can reach through our of extended separations by improving their production of the first issue. Division of Research and Graduate Studies. Rose Hill High School. He’s a past president reporting.” skills in problem solving, conflict resolution, Horns, the senior dean at ECU, said her top of the N.C. Academy of Family Physicians communication, resource management and In addition to discussing the components —Sarah Bell objectives for the near term are reversing the flow of red ink from the and represented the state at the national parenting. of a good story, the editors stressed the medical practice plan and boosting morale and teamwork at the organization’s Congress of Delegates. The Helping our citizen soldiers importance of good communication and The five-year grant will underwrite the medical school and across the entire Division of Health Sciences. Blair brothers were reversed in the photo teamwork in a newsroom. “Don’t forget The U.S. Department of Health and development of a research-based curriculum, cutline on page 12 of the winter issue. That’s Chancellor Steve Ballard announced the changes in November as part about your photographers,” Sirkin said to the Human Services awarded East Carolina a offered first as a pilot program through N.C. Seaborn, not Mott, in the photo. of his concerted plan to improve the medical school while reducing class. “You need to talk to one another, and $3.1 million grant to develop programs State University’s Cooperative Extension the millions of dollars in losses the university suffers for providing Services, then as an ongoing program in indigent care. The faculty group practice, known as ECU Physicians, Sharing a passion for journalism communities across the country. The low- has lost $25 million in the last five years. As part of that move, The is run by 27 editors, writers ECU student Eric Gilmore, sports editor of The East Carolinian, helps Hope Middle cost skills training will teach couples how Dr. Michael Lewis, former vice chancellor for health services, was School pupils learn journalism. and photographersStang Times who work within to build “protective factors” into their appointed an executive assistant to Ballard directing initiatives such as relationships to buffer the risk factors that the new dental school. deadlines, coordinate story assignments and Carolinian East The use computers to piece everything together. accompany mobilization and deployment. Dr. Lynn Roeder was named interim dean Unlike other newspapers, however, the Since 9/11, more than 259,000 National employees of the aren’t worried about Guard and 152,000 Army Reserve members of students, a position that hasn’t existed for Times by provided Photo several years. In her new role, Roeder, who improving readership or competing with have been mobilized, including more than previously headed Counseling and Student Internet advertising; their goal is simply 10,000 N.C. National Guardsmen. Development, will bring together all surviving sixth grade. personnel who deal directly with student But the staff, which really is Mrs. Nice home here costs $263,000 complaints and violations. Officials said Jorgette TimesMullins’ class at Hope Middle Is Greenville an expensive college town? Yes having a dean of students will provide one School, is getting lots of help from ECU and no, according to a national survey by the central office to deal with all student issues. students who work for Coldwell Banker real estate firm. The survey student paper. Along withThe theirEast Carolinian advisor Ken found that a four-bedroom home here costs Dr. Marilyn Sheerer, a former dean of the Robol, production manager Jennifer Hobbs, $263,000, which is about $100,000 less College of Education, was named vice sports editor Eric Gilmore, web editor than the national average for Division I-A chancellor for student life after briefly Rachael Lotter, photo editor Zach Sirkin college towns. However, you could buy the holding the position on an interim basis. and editor Sarah Bell have supervised the same house much cheaper in Winston-Salem, She will oversee nonacademic areas of the newsroom’s formation and the direction of Durham or even Raleigh. Among college university, including housing and dining, the paper’s content. recreation services, the Student Health towns in North Carolina, only Chapel Hill Service, the student bus system, sororities “The students volunteered for positions in and Wilmington are more expensive than and fraternities, the student center, and the campus police the sections they found the most interesting, Greenville, according to the survey. and we helped guide them through department. The College Home Price Comparison brainstorming story ideas and setting up Index tracked prices of homes of roughly a chain of command,” said Hobbs. “The Robin Johnson, policy analyst in the 2,200 square feet, with two and a half whole class was enthusiastic and came up chancellor’s division, was named state baths, a family room and a two-car garage with some great articles.” relations officer and will become the located in what Coldwell Banker considered university’s main representative to the The class wrote stories on topics ranging a “neighborhood for corporate middle- General Assembly. That task previously was from student government and teacher-of- management transferees.” performed by Chief of Staff Austin Bunch. the-year nominations to how to get more The average price for all 119 college markets Before joining ECU last spring, Johnson accelerated reading points. There were studied was $359,779. 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Alto, Calif., home to Stanford University and depending on how much concretion has (Information Technology Experiences for revive classes in Chinese after a long hiatus the nation’s most expensive college town, it attached to them. Four smaller cannons Students and Teachers) program, the $1.3 and to hire a full-time instructor in Japanese goes for $1.7 million. pulled from the shipwreck have weighed million grant will enable ECU to host IT language and culture. Currently 60 students

Photo by Cliff H ollis by Photo between 800 and 1,000 pounds. academies and a symposium for teachers, are enrolled in Japanese language classes. The A surge in new faculty members at ECU is students and parents from 20 rural school students will have a chance to study in China one reason why Greenville’s housing market Blackbeard, whose real name was widely systems in eastern North Carolina. this summer at China Agriculture University remains strong. The faculty has grown by believed to be Edward Teach or Thatch, in Beijing or during the next academic more than 500 since 1995, to more than was tracked down at Ocracoke Inlet by Over the three years of the project, three year through one of the available exchange 1,600 today. “I found that housing prices volunteers from the Royal Navy and killed in groups of 60 high school students will programs. The grant also will enhance the were not out of line with my expectations a battle on Nov. 22, 1718. The come to ECU for a three-week summer interdisciplinary minor in Asian studies, for this market,” said Professor Bill Loving, is believed to have sunk theQueen same Anne’s year. IT academy. which debuted two years ago. who came to ECU last summer from Idaho TheRevenge ship, discovered in November 1996, is See page 18 for a list of other grants State. “Having looked at houses in the the oldest shipwreck found off the North received by the university in 2006. Boston area and on Long Island, Greenville Carolina coast. Gift funds geriatric center was a welcome break.” A $2.5 million gift from a Greenville family Making math practical “College towns have so much to offer will help build a geriatric center at the new residents, such as employment, continuing East Carolina is using a $1.2 million grant family medicine center planned on the East education, cultural opportunities and, of from the National Science Foundation to Carolina Health Sciences Campus. The course, sports,” said Jim Gillespie, president help public school teachers plan lessons that gift by the late Frances Joyner Monk of and CEO of Coldwell Banker Real Estate focus on business-related science, technology, Farmville will fund the Frances J. and Robert Corp. “The social and economic draw of Dr. Chitwood with the new da Vinci Surgical System engineering and math problems. The aim of T. Monk Sr. Geriatric Center. It is one of these communities is enticing. Many of the three-year project is to help students see the largest gifts the university has received these markets are very attractive to baby Brody gets third robotic surgeon pencil-sized instruments used to perform the how math and science are used in real-life in recent years. Remembering Marshall boomers who want to downsize or retire actual surgery. business situations. One day after East Carolina acquired its third Frances Monk, who died in June at age from urban areas.” Dignitaries from East Carolina and Marshall surgical robot, it was used to perform the Seated at a computer console apart from the The hope, said Ernie Marshburn, director 87, became interested in health care for University joined to dedicate a plaque at Home prices in N.C. college towns 300th robot-assisted mitral valve repair done operating table, the surgeon views the images of strategic initiatives in the Division of older adults from first-hand experience as a Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium commemorating in Greenville. Acquisition of the $1.5 million on the console while controlling the surgical Research and Graduate Studies at ECU, is caregiver for her mother and husband. She Greensboro...... $195,905 the 75 Marshall players and coaches who Winston-Salem...... $214,143 device, known as the Intuitive Surgical da instruments using two joystick-like devices. to help rural schools prepare high school read widely in geriatric health issues and Raleigh...... $218,575 died in the plane crash after the 1970 game Vinci S Surgical System, solidifies ECU’s The robot allows surgeons to perform students to meet the region’s growing was actively involved in the planning for the Charlotte...... $228,500 complicated procedures in a minimally at Greenville. The tragedy was retold in the Durham...... $240,954 reputation as a center for robotic surgery. demands for workers with high-tech skills. geriatric center. Frances Monk also wanted motion picture . Greenville...... $263,327 invasive manner with greater precision than to honor the memory of her husband, Wilmington...... $335,725 Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood Jr., ECU Faculty members from the colleges of We Are Marshall conventional surgery. Robert, who died in 2001. He was a former Chapel Hill...... $350,500 senior associate vice chancellor for health business and education are meeting with member of the Pitt County Memorial Tuition increases 5.9 percent sciences, chief of cardiothoracic and vascular In May 2000, Chitwood performed North high school teachers from Hertford, Home prices across the region Hospital Board of Trustees. surgery at the Brody School of Medicine America’s first robot-assisted total mitral Northampton, Halifax, Edgecombe, East Carolina trustees approved a 5.9 percent Marshall...... $177,750 valve repair at PCMH. “We’re clearly the Clemson...... $181,769 and a robotic surgery pioneer, said the new Beaufort, Martin, Nash, Washington and David Whichard, vice chairman of the hike in tuition and fees for next year, an Tennessee...... $184,933 da Vinci model has several improvements number one program in the state,” he said. Warren counties at Halifax Community Medical Foundation of ECU, expressed increase of $215 over the current $4,003 South Carolina...... $191,666 including smaller size, better vision and for full-time, in-state students. The increase Memphis ...... $193,875 College to develop the curriculum. More thanks to the Monk family and said he Georgia ...... $221,500 controls, and more capabilities. “It’s a very Divers returning to pirate ship than 30 businesses from these counties hoped their generosity would inspire others is below the 6.5 percent maximum allowed Vanderbilt...... $226,000 important step in the evolution of robotic have signed on to help the educators to consider such gifts as a tribute to their by the UNC Board of Governors. ECU’s Alabama ...... $242,000 The return of warmer weather and calmer surgery,” said Chitwood, who’s also director develop realistic business-related situations own families and a way to give back. “Their Student Government Association approved Auburn...... $258,000 seas means archaeologists can resume work Kentucky...... $266,750 of the East Carolina Heart Institute. and problems. As many as 70 high school legacy will live through this contribution to the increase Nov. 13. If approved, ECU on raising more cannons and the 2,600- Virginia Tech...... $275,225 teachers and students from northeastern their community,” Whichard said. students will see a $96 tuition increase, with UAB ...... $294,925 Surgeons make three small incisions to insert pound sternpost from what’s believed to North Carolina will participate in the $59 going toward student financial aid; $24 West Virginia ...... $322,100 three robotic arms into the patient. One be the flagship of the infamous pirate Georgia Tech...... $322,210 project over the next three years. for faculty salary increases; and $13 for arm holds a tiny camera that projects 3-D Blackbeard. Work was halted last fall because Asian studies expands U. Virginia...... $352,950 student access, retention, and graduation U. Maryland...... $431,250 images onto a monitor; images are magnified of the lack of an adequate lifting vessel. A second National Science Foundation The Asian studies program at East Carolina programs, Ballard said. ECU students would 10 times, to where millimeter-sized arteries grant received by ECU will help public Source: Coldwell Banker. Prices are for homes Project archaeologist Chris Southerly is expanding thanks to a $1,568,000 grant also see a $119 increase in fees, which of roughly 2,200 square feet, with two and a and veins appear about the size of drinking school teachers prepare students for half baths, a family room and a two-car garage said the cannons he hopes to raise can from the U.S. Department of Education. encompass non-academic program such as located in what is considered a “neighborhood straws. The other two arms, which move careers in technology, science, engineering weigh between 2,000 and 2,500 pounds, The two-year award allows the university to student government and life, recreational for corporate middle-management transferees.” similarly to the human wrist, hold the and mathematics. Known as the ITEST

  The ECU Report services, health services, athletics and technology. The tuition increase will generate approximately $1.12 million in financial aid for ECU students. Photo by Marc Kawanishi Marc by Photo Kirklands endow scholarship Getting a college diploma came within reach for Evelyn Kirkland ’61 ’62 of Lumberton when she received one of the first Prospective North Carolina Teachers scholarships awarded in 1958. She went on to teach sixth grade language arts for 30 years while husband Jim Kirkland ’61 built a tire and auto business in Lumberton. They always wanted to give something back to the university, and now they have. The Kirklands’ $100,000 gift to ECU will fund a scholarship benefiting 2007 Spring Arts Calendar undergraduate students majoring in middle Feb. 15: Duo-Trio-Quartet featuring Aishah with Bill Crews, March 23: The Robert L. Jones April 15: Faculty bassoonist grades education with a concentration in performance with guest artists vocals; Bill Ford and Aaron Distinguished Visiting Professor, solos before the ECU Symphony MinJung Kang, violin; Uwe Hirth- Graves, keys; 8:00 p.m., Wright organist Dame Gillian Weir, Orchestra. Free. either language arts or math and science. Schmidt; and faculty members Auditorium. Ticketed. performs in recital on the C.B. First preference will be given to qualified Keiko Sekino, pianist and Ara Fisk, Opus 126. Free. April 19-21: The School of Feb. 24: University Chorale and Music hosts the Billy Taylor students from Robeson County. “We both Gregorian, viola; 7:00 p.m., A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall. Free. Choral Scholars Concert, St. March 27: The Symphonic Jazz Festival, featuring three believe education is where everything begins,” Paul’s Episcopal Church, 7:00 Wind Ensemble and ECU public concerts, jam sessions, said Mrs. Kirkland. She added the reason Feb. 16: The Koresh Dance p.m. Free. Jazz Ensemble (A) perform in workshops for high and middle Company performs at 7:30 p.m. Meymandi Symphony Hall in the school jazz ensembles, and they chose to establish a scholarship for in Wright Auditorium. Ticketed. Feb. 27: Guest guitarist Kenneth BTi Center for Performing Arts in critiquing sessions with guest middle grades education is because it is a Meyer, 8:00 p.m., A.J. Fletcher Raleigh. Free. artists. Learn more at www.ecu. Feb. 20: ECU Symphonic Band, Recital Hall. Free. edu/music/jazz/jazz-festival. tremendous place to reach students who are 8:00 p.m., Wright Auditorium. March 29 through April 1: Enjoy Through April 2: Wellington our leaders of tomorrow. Free. an Italian/American double bill April 21: Billy Taylor Jazz Festival B. Gray Gallery presents the when the ECU Opera Theatre presents Sherrie Maricle and the Feb. 22–27: ECU/Loessin 2007 School of Art and Design presents Gianni Schicchi and Old DIVA Jazz Orchestra, an 18-piece Playhouse: Urinetown, the Undergraduate Exhibition. Free. Dental school is funding priority Maid and the Thief. Ticketed. old-school big band, with guest musical. Music and lyrics by Mark vocalist Marlene Shaw. Ticketed. Hollmann, book and lyrics by Feb. 28 through March 4: March 31: The School of Arts and Securing funding for its new dental program Greg Kotis. Nightly at 8:00 p.m. The NewMusic@ECU Festival Design presents the Youth Arts April 21-22: The seventh annual presents seven public is East Carolina’s top priority this year in except for a Sunday matinee Festival, beginning at 10:00 a.m. ECU Centennial Celebration at 2:00 p.m., McGinnis Theatre. concerts featuring the music on the ECU mall. Free. Antique Show and Sale will be the North Carolina General Assembly. Ticketed. of our time. Guest artists and held at the Greenville Convention The UNC system has requested $43.5 composers convene for informal March 31: The Friends of Center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Feb. 22–23: Four Seasons readings, score critiques and the School of Theatre and million each of the next two years to build Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Chamber Music Festival: A performances. Learn more Dance present “Night of the Sunday. Antique dealers from the dental school in Greenville. Tied to the Taste of Classics, 7:00 p.m., A.J. at www.ecu.edu/music/ Rising Stars,” a gala dinner several states will offer antique Fletcher Recital Hall. Ticketed. newmusicfest performance fund-raiser for rugs, maps, silverware, jewelry, proposal is a $96 million expansion of merit scholarships. Ticketed. the dental program at UNC Chapel Hill. Feb. 22: Undergraduate March 2: The NewMusic@ collectibles and more. The Exhibition Juror Lecture, 5:30 ECU Festival presents the Flux April 12, 13: Four Seasons event is sponsored by the Art Other priorities for ECU in the legislature p.m., Jenkins Fine Arts Center’s Quartet. Ticketed. Chamber Music Festival presents Enthusiasts, a support group for this year is $10 million over the next two Candles brighten the night and seemingly the spirits of East Carolina students during Speight Auditorium. Free. its Thrilling Season Finale. scholarships for the School of a vigil and march at College Hill marking the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Students March 3: The NewMusic@ECU Ticketed. Art and Design. Admission is $5. years to reimburse the Brody School of also participated in a daylong volunteerism effort benefiting several organizations, Feb. 23–April 2: Wellington B. Festival presents soprano Tony Medicine for care given to indigent patients heard a presentation by noted civil rights activist and filmmaker Keith Beauchamp, and Gray Gallery: 2007 School of Arnold (first vocal winner of the April 13 through May 24: The April 22: The Chamber Singers ended the day attending a performance by the ECU Gospel Choir. Art and Design Undergraduate prestigious Gadeamus Prize) Wellington B. Gray Gallery hosts and Early Music Ensemble join and $8.45 million to plan a new classroom Exhibition, free. Awards and Jacob Greenberg, piano, in the School of Art and Design together to present Bach’s building that the colleges of business and ceremony and reception on Feb. recital. Ticketed. MFA Thesis Exhibition. Free. Ascension Oratorio. Free. education would share. ECU also will ask to creation of doctor of dental surgery system’s budget, which was $6.4 billion 23, 5:00 p.m., Jenkins Fine Arts April 27: The S. Rudolph Center’s Speight Auditorium. March 6: The S. Rudolph Alexan- April 12-17: ECU/Loessin legislators for authority to designate parts degree program at ECU. An initial class of last year. The rest comes from tuition, fees, der Performing Arts Series pres- Playhouse presents The Tempest, Alexander Performing Arts Free. Series presents the Emerson of campus as nonsmoking areas. The UNC 50 students is expected. The state legislature federal appropriations, grants, donations and ents the Moscow Festival Ballet by William Shakespeare. Feb. 24: Black History Month in their performance of Don Ticketed. String Quartet. Ticketed. Board of Governors has given its approval pays for about 33 percent of the UNC investment income. Concert: A Tribute to Motown, Quixote. Ticketed.

10 11 10 t e a c h i n g healing d i s c o v e r i n g third in a three-part series on vital ways ECU serves North Carolina Research Under the Microscope

Already known for medical discoveries, ECU pursues a broader research mission

By Marion Blackburn

on’t be surprised if you pick up the paper one day Johnson & Johnson would bring to market. Dsoon and read that researchers at East Carolina “There’s tremendous data at East Carolina that shows University have discovered cures for obesity and diabetes, they’re onto something that could be a significant giving hope to the hundreds of thousands of people who breakthrough,” North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr said at a suffer the deadly consequences of those diseases. meeting on campus announcing the gift. It was an ECU doctor, after all, who helped perfect the Along with other health breakthroughs, including the first proven treatment for obesity with his refinements SpeechEasy anti-stuttering device and successful clinical to gastric bypass surgery more than 20 years ago. What’s trials of the da Vinci robotic surgery system, ECU’s search more, studies by bariatric surgery pioneer Dr. Walter for a cure for obesity and diabetes is putting Greenville on Pories produced the stunning insight that diabetes the map of major American research universities. disappeared in most patients who have the so-called That’s new terrain for a school that started “Greenville gastric bypass,” which reduces stomach size out as a teacher training academy. and reroutes part of the small intestine. East Carolina always has counted improving the quality That discovery led ECU researchers, including Dr. Joseph of life in eastern North Carolina among its core missions, Houmard, to focus on an abnormality that directs the Joseph Houmard and curing diabetes would do that in spades. Now the body to store fat from food rather than burning it as fuel. university is pursuing that mission in fields outside The work by these teams of researchers recently caught medicine while continuing to focus on achieving practical the attention of Johnson & Johnson, the giant health care results important to the average person. Two years into company, which believes ECU is close to finding solutions an overhaul of its Division of Research and Graduate to the metabolic flaws that give rise to obesity and Studies, officials believe ECU’s new synergistic approach diabetes. It provided a major grant to support what many to research offers hope for solutions to some of eastern believe will be the end-stage research into drugs, which North Carolina’s most worrisome problems.

12 13 Exploring uncharted territory that will attract other graduate students and work on immigration to the rural south. researchers.” East Carolina needed to do two things to The research and graduate studies get to this point: It had to make research a A surge in Graduate School enrollment is division also works closely with academic primary focus of the entire faculty, and it another way to measure that success. In just departments to shape the university’s goals had to create an administrative infrastructure the past five years, it has grown from about of expanding creative projects and grant and support services that would make it 3,400 to more than 5,100. Graduate students funding for them. now make up about 22 percent of ECU’s easier for faculty to pursue research grants. Dierdre Mageean “We have to increase the numbers of faculty total enrollment of more than 24,000. With federal dollars coming with more and who are research productive,” says DRGS more strings, when even the grant application Associate Vice Chancellor Paul Gemperline. process is entirely online, administrative Priming the pump “So while the message is coming from the support becomes critical. As it enlarges its research capabilities, East deans and department chairs that people Since the arrival on campus in 2005 of Carolina is learning that you often have to need to be more productive, we are also Dr. Dierdre Mageean as vice chancellor for spend money to make money. It’s doing providing seed funds.” research and graduate studies, the Division that through several internal grant channels, Faculty are embracing the challenge of of Research and Graduate Studies (DRGS) including more than $1 million a year in becoming more research oriented, Mageean has added several key staff and now has “seed money” it doles out to help recruit says. “We’re really moving,” she says. Paul Gemperline about 95 people. Several key DRGS support promising new faculty and jump start their “We’re agile and nimble, and not as heavily services have been grouped together, and the research projects. The start-up packages range invested in traditional views the way some office’s new mission is to help researchers from several thousand dollars to $200,000 universities are.” apply for grants and then ensure compliance and more, especially in fields like the physical “This is how the model should work,” with all stipulations that come with the sciences where the costs of establishing a Burr said about ECU’s collaboration with grants. The office promotes ethical conduct research laboratory tend to be high. and manages the institutional review boards Johnson & Johnson in medical research. for the university and the medical school. One recipient of this seed money is “It’s leveraging all the assets we have in Those IRBs have the critical task of associate professor Dr. Jennifer Bugos, the United States that the rest of the monitoring all research that involves human the university’s first music researcher. She world can’t do because they don’t have the subjects, whether they are taking part of a hopes to determine how music may help infrastructure.” improve mental clarity in older people. She is new cancer treatment or participating in a While early indications are that ECU’s new working with colleagues in allied health and sociology survey. research model is working well, the university psychology to see how concentration and has turned to outside experts to evaluate its The division has gained new abilities to music instruction are related. foster communication between the university, effectiveness. It retained the Yardley Research government agencies and large foundations, “The ECU community of researchers is very Group to review all graduate research while helping bring discoveries to the public open, and that’s important in maintaining programs and make recommendations. The through licensing. collaborations,” she says. “It’s a great university now has received that report and is community to be a part of.” implementing many of its suggestions. The swelling number and size of grants awarded to ECU researchers recently is proof Faculty Research and Creative Activity “We owe it to our students to expose them that the new approach is working. Already Awards also can help cover the cost of initial to cutting-edge research, to set a standard this fiscal year, about $14.5 million in grants data gathering, which is usually required for the skill level we expect so they will be before a researcher becomes eligible for and other external funding has flowed into to the billions that some elite universities in grant dollars also is concrete evidence prepared,” Mageean says. “Our students outside funding. research projects at ECU, compared to about receive, ECU officials argue that effectiveness that East Carolina has constructed a deserve the best exposure to research in their $9.5 million in the same period last year. If is what’s most important. They point to strong infrastructure to support its larger Dr. Rebecca Torres, an assistant professor of education.” these trends continue, the total could exceed a recent report by the Milken Institute research mission. geography, was able, with colleague Dr. Jeff “It’s important, as we move forward, that we $50 million this year, compared to about which ranked ECU sixth in the nation for Popke, to use such a grant to begin research “It’s hard to measure success,” says Mageean, focus our research on solving problems and $38 million last year, from agencies like the inventions per million dollars of research, into the demographics of Mexicans who who came to ECU from the University of helping with the health care needs of people National Institutes of Health, NASA and third for patents issued per million dollars come to North Carolina to work. She has Maine. “One way is dollars, but that doesn’t in eastern North Carolina,” says Dr. Martha the National Science Foundation. of research and sixth for start-ups per since received a $430,000 grant from the say it all. Creating critical mass is important, Engelke, associate dean for research and million dollars of research. The growth National Science Foundation to continue her While those amounts pale in comparison because it creates the dynamics for research scholarship at the School of Nursing.

14 15 Regional problems, as C-SIM, will examine diverse hazards to Novick, director of the Division of but not have so much development that no About this series global approach determine how computer databases can help Community Health and Preventive Medicine one wants to come here?” This is the third in a three-part series on vital ways that ECU serves the state. communities cope with natural disasters. at the Brody School of Medicine. “The most A>@7<5 % Attacking these problems can benefit those $ 4/:: E7

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forward in meeting the health needs of eastern b]QY^V]b]Q][ A across the state, this research holds focus on the region’s coastal areas. are environmental, social and economic –W North Carolina and preparing for disaster.” issues that are common denominators important implications for the future of Ernest Marshburn, DRGS director of Part 1: Teaching Part 2: Healing Part 3: Discovering eastern North Carolina. Meanwhile, ECU’s North Carolina Center around the world.” strategic initiatives, said the initiative will You can read all three parts of this series online at www.ecu.edu/east for Sustainable Tourism will help small At the heart of this effort is the Institute pull together the region’s atmospheric, As those initiatives go forward, East towns promote and protect their assets. for Interdisciplinary Coastal Science and ecological, medical and economic data, Carolina is continuing to explore health- “This is an area with lots of beautiful Policy, which brings together the doctoral with the goal of helping the region and its related research. The latest example of house clinical, research and educational house science and clinical research, robotic- resources and people want to visit here,” program in coastal resources management residents have the tools to be better prepared. that is the East Carolina Heart Institute, a components where faculty and staff will surgery training, future space for simulation Mageean says. “They want to visit our and the Institute for Coastal and Marine heart hospital, teaching and research center work together in outpatient care, research, laboratories, a clinical outpatient facility for The data will also prove useful for medical Outer Banks and inner banks, our historic Resources and several other areas. Coastal now under construction on the medical training and educational activities. The cardiovascular diseases, a database center, and emergency responders, said Dr. Lloyd towns. So how do we build that industry, Systems Informatics and Modeling, known campus. The $60 million facility will four-story, 206,000-square-foot facility will offices and an auditorium. East Relishing the ‘aha’ moment

fter more than 20 years of research Lab, in tandem with the School of Medicine, Houmard says. “We have been part of eventually caught the attention of Johnson into what causes obesity and have shown overweight people have a glitch the group that has proven it is real. We’ve & Johnson, which granted the university Arelated diseases like diabetes, the in their inner furnace, making them unable shown it in human subjects, and we’ve also $491,000 in 2005 to fund further studies.

moment of revelation was thrilling for the to burn fat the way someone of normal taken pieces of muscle and shown it there. Cliff H ollis by Photo “Dr. Pories was the first to report that teams of ECU researchers. It came when weight does. Instead of burning fat, they We’ve also shown it in cell cultures that diabetes was reversed after gastric bypass,” follow-up studies on patients who had the store it, especially in muscle tissue. They gain we grew from their muscle. So we have recalls Dohm, a physiologist at the medical “Greenville gastric bypass” showed that weight and find it almost impossible to lose. a comprehensive picture of it as a real school who has worked closely with Pories diabetes disappeared in four out of five of phenomenon.” “Very overweight people really are different,” for many years and today continues to study them. “The ‘aha!’ moment was when we saw says Dr. Joseph Houmard, director of Because the muscle tissue of overweight insulin’s signals to the cells. Lynis Dohm reversal of diabetes in a week,” Dr. Lynis the Human Performance Lab, part of the people doesn’t burn fat well, they become Dohm remembers. These days Dohm continues to search for College of Health and Human Performance. prone to insulin resistance, weight gain and the possible defect that interferes with an Obesity causes 300,000 deaths and costs the “It’s not just that they eat a lot and don’t do diabetes. obese person’s ability to use the hormone U.S. health care system about $100 billion a any physical activity. There are real metabolic Dr. Walter Pories, whose refinements to insulin, essential for human metabolism. year. It’s a greater threat to human health in problems. You may remember the kid in Drs. Hisham Barakat, research director of treatments for obesity and diabetes. ECU is gastric bypass surgery more than 20 years the U.S. than tobacco. It robs people of their high school that could eat a lot and not gain “I am interested in the insulin signaling the Diabetes and Obesity Center at ECU, home to the Metabolic Institute, approved ago at the ECU medical school helped make quality of life while killing them slowly with weight, and others who seem to look at food pathway, and how it is blunted in the muscle colleagues in Exercise and Sports Science by the UNC Board of Governors in 2005 it a safe method of weight loss, launched heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and gain weight. They are different.” of obese people, making them insulin including Ronald Cortright, Robert Hickner, and of which Pories is chief. these breakthrough studies with his discovery and chronic illness. resistant,” he says. “Those two seem to be Darrell Neufer, Scott Gordon and Timothy The idea that obese people had a problem that the procedure appeared to reverse “This university is one of the few places linked—the fat that accumulates in the Gavin, endocrinologists Dr. Chris Newton Researchers at ECU are working to crack was not entirely new when the team began diabetes in obese patients. where lots of people get together to look at muscle tends to cause the insulin resistance. and Dr. Robert Tanenberg, surgeon Dr. the code of this epidemic, in hopes their taking a closer look a few years ago, but a major project,” Dohm says. “Joe and I have What’s more, his patients’ diabetes went You have to figure out what fat oxidation William Chapman, Dr. Edward Seidel and discoveries will lead to better treatments. In ECU researchers were able to demonstrate it been partners for 15 years, Walter and I for away even before they lost significant does that reduces insulin signaling.” nurse Rita Bowden, among others. the search for causes, they have some critical was true. more than 20 years. We have our individual amounts of weight. “It’s evident that findings. Over the years, the research teams have They collaborate, yet pursue individual projects but they are integrated in a way that “The defect in fat oxidation answers a lot diabetes is probably caused by the intestine,” included, in addition to Pories and Dohm, research that may one day lead to better supports each other.” — Ongoing studies at the Human Performance of questions about why people get obese,” he says. “That’s a big deal.” Those results Marion Blackburn

16 17 n $146,710 to Anthony A. Ischema/Reperfusion Injury Kolasa, Doyle Cummings PhytoMyco Research Corp. Special Educators.” Dare County.” Capehart (Biology) for to Heart-A.” and Susan Morrissey n $112,801 to Brian E. Love n $249,999 to Warren for n $87,447 to Haiyong “Effect of Veriscan Mutation (Medicine) for “Child, Youth, (Chemistry) for Synthesis Making math add up n $100,000 to Arthur Bode “ECU Gateways: Opening Liu (Economics) for of Hyperparasite Fungal on Limb Development in (Medicine) for “Hemostatic and Community Obesity Doors for Special Educators “School Choice, Maternal Metabolite Analogues. Vitro.” Performance of Lypohilized Prevention/Reduction and Students with Low- Employment, and Child Initiative.” n $59,139 to Qun Lu Platelets (Stasix) in the Incidence Disabilities.” A $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation— This summer, 60 math and science teachers and guidance counselors Pitt County Memorial Achievement.” (Medicine) for “Delta- Presence of ADP Receptor N.C. Department of Public Hospital n $350,545 to Sandra n $165,333 to Wayne Cascio Catenin Cleavage by Blockade and other Platelet among the largest single research grant received by the university will be introduced to robotics and biomechanics and work with Instruction n $78,000 to Joseph Zanga Warren, Jennifer Williams (Medicine) for “Racial Presenilin and Synaptic Dysfunction.” last year—will enable East Carolina to help public school teachers engineering, mathematics and exercise science faculty to develop n $122,244 to David A. (Medicine) for a generalist and Dan Boudah Disparities in Cardiovascular Remodeling.” Powers (Education) physician program. (Education) for “ECU SPED Disease.” N.C. Commission on for “NCDPI Division of T2T: Special Education prepare students for careers in technology, science, engineering and lesson plans. Over the three years of the project, three groups of 60 National Aeronautics and Volunteerism and n $60,172 to Daniel n $100,000 to Wayne Exceptional Children Transition to Teaching.” Space Administration Community Services Everhart (Psychology) for Cascio (Medicine) for Contract.” mathematics. high school students will come to ECU for a three-week summer n $146,345 to Michael n $563,169 to Betty “Development of Research n $82,232 to Sylvie D. “Evaluate ECG for Potential Dingfelder (Physics) Beacham and John Swope n $145,493 to Marilyn Programs at the Sleep Henning (International Subjects.” Information Technology Academy for Students. for “Patterns of Energy (Education) for “Project Sheerer (Education) for Center at PCMH.” Studies) and John Tucker Known as the ITEST (Information Technology Experiences for n $594,593 to Linner Griffin Deposition by HZE Particles HEART.” “Educational Consultant (History) for an “Asian n $78,000 to Joseph Zanga (Social Work) for the “N.C. in Cellular Targets.” to Assist NC DIP with Students and Teachers) program, the grant will enable ECU to host During the student academy, public school educators and ECU (Medicine) for a “General Studies Program.” Child Welfare Education N.C. Department of Implementation of NCLB Physician Program.” Collaborative II.” information technology academies and a symposium for teachers, faculty members will show students how to integrate their knowledge National Institute of Environment and Natural Legislation.” U.S. Department of Energy Occupational Safety and Resources Pitt County Memorial n $50,000 to Ruth Kempf n $53,251 to Charles L. students and parents from 20 rural school systems in eastern of science, math, engineering and technology through two course Health n $442,009 to Mark N.C. Rural Economic Hospital Foundation (Center for Security Thompson (Education) n $229,999 to Kristen Borre Brinson (Biology) for “An Development Center Systems Research) for “Evaluation of the N.C. n $56,284 to John Olsson, North Carolina. This is one of two grants ECU has received this explorations. The biomechanics program will enable students to n (Agro-Medicine) for “A Approach to Coordinate $64,164 to Ron Kathryn Kolasa and Sarah for “Material Control Disadvantaged Student year from the National Science Foundation to help develop public use sensors along with engineering and mathematical software to Southern Regional Center Compensatory Mitigation Nowaczyk (Regional Henes (Medicine) for and Accountability in Supplemental Fund.” for Agromedicine.” Requirements so They Development Services) for “KIDPOWER.” Safeguards System Meet Goals of the Coastal “Rural Entrepreneurship Effectiveness.” UNC General school curricula. investigate the human gait. The robotics program will let students National Science Habitat.” Development System for n $72,500 to Micheal Administration Foundation North Carolina.” McCammon (Human U.S. Department of Health n $314,080 to Sidney assemble and program robot rovers for navigation and speed control. n $78,856 to Roger n $60,369 to D. Reide Performance Lab) for and Human Services Rachlin (Education) “We want to expose students and teachers of eastern North Carolina Rulifson (Coastal and Corbett, J.P. Walsh and N.C. Scottish Rite Masonic “Physical Activity and n $282,014 to D. Dean for “The Mathematics Marine Resources) for David Mallinson (Geology) Foundation Nutrition Intervention for Patton and Ronald Perkin Professional Development to a range of tools which can infuse science and math classes with Below is a list of other grants of $50,000 or more received in the “Establishment of an for “The MASS Event.” n $75,00 to Gregg Givens Overweight Adolescents.” (Medicine) for Obesity Component of the North Inshore Large Mesh (Communication Sciences Center in Primary Care. Carolina Partnership for practical and useful applications to stimulate student interest,” said first 11 months of 2006, alphabetized by donor. n $62,612 to Rebecca Torres n $56,284 to C. Tate Commercial Gillnet and Disorders) for the Improving Mathematics and Paul Kauffmann, chairman of ECU’s Department of Engineering. (Geography) for “CAREER: Observer Program in N.C.” Holbrook, John M. Olsson, n $104,544 to Janice Rural Transformation “N.C. Scottish Rite Clinic Kathryn M. Kolasa, and Daugherty (Medicine) for Science.” n $120,000 to Roger for Childhood Language and Latino Transnational Sarah Henes (Medicine) for “Predoctoral Training in n $285,956 to Karen Rulifson (Coastal and Disorders and Training Migration in the U.S. South.” “Kidpower.” Family Medicine.” Dawkins (Education) for Marine Resources) Program.” “North Carolina Partnership n $395,644 to Ernest n $89,950 to Sylvia T. Brown n $221,941 to Charles RIT International for Improving Mathematics Marshburn (Research and N.C. Small Business and (Nursing) for the “Advanced Daeschner III and Charles n $145,317 to Brian McMillen and Science Education.” American Federation for n $150,000 to Michael Lamson (Child and Treatment of Gait and n $126,804 to Rukiyah n $285,000 to Mary Jane Graduate Studies), Rose Technology Development Education Nursing Knupp (Medicine) for the (Medicine) for “Motivational Aging Research Van Scott (Medicine) for Development and Family Balance Disorders.” Van Dross (Medicine) for Thomassen (Medicine) for Sinicrope (Education), Center Traineeship Program.” n $228,000 to John “N.C. Sickle Cell Program.” Interviewing to Reduce n $53,363 to Scott Gordon “MRA DOM2: Collaborative Relations) for Integrated “Biofavoniod Apignein, “Cytokine Dysregulation in Ronald Preston (Education) n $57,076 to Carolyn Swope (Education) for College Drinking.” n $280,674 to Jackie (Exercise and Sports Investigation into the use Care for Rural Diabetic McNeil Nutritionals Induces Phosphorylations GM-CSF Autoimmunity.” n and Beth Eckstein $233,397 to O. Jean Hood Wilburn (SBTDC) for Hutcherson (Nursing) “ECU Affiliation with the Science) for “Targeted of Domain Antibodies in Patients. n $491,000 to Walter J. of ph-53.” (Business) for “TechMath; (Medicine) for “Genetic “N.C. Recovery and N.C. Teacher Recruitment n $285,144 to Paul DeVita Town of Rolesville for the “Nurse-Midwifery Rescue of Protein Asthma.” Pories and Ying Chang Real-World Math, Services Contract.” Redevelopment (NC Network.” n $144,550 to Angela n $278,3030 to Mary Jane (Exercise and Sport n $51,778 to Nelson Cooper, Program of North Carolina.” Translation and Synthesis in (Medicine) for “Cooperative Technology and Business READE).” Lamson and Jennifer Thomassen (Medicine) for Science) for “Mechanical n $138,000 to Gary Joseph Flood and Robert n $95,000 to John Swope Aged Skeletal Muscle.” Duke Endowment Research Initiative Between Connections.” n $187,914 to Alta Andrews Hodgson (Human Ecology) “Cytokine Dysregulation in Plasticity in Locomotion Stainback (Medicine) n $235,965 to Wilburn Wendling (Recreation (Education) for “ECU n $100,000 to Elaine Johnson & Johnson and (Nursing) for “Increasing for “Integrated Care for GM-CSF Autoimmunity.” with Age.” n $400,000 to Andrew for assistive technology for the “N.C. Small and Leisure Studies) for Affiliation with the N.C. American Heart Cabinum-Foeller and Dale ECU.” FNP's in Underserved Areas Rural Diabetic Patients.” Sargent (Chemistry), services. Business and Technology “Rolesville Parks and Teacher Recruitment Association Newton (Medicine) for n $209,388 to Anthony n $247,653 to Joseph via Technology.” Jason Bond (Biology), Paul Development Center.” Recreation Comprehensive Network.” n $66,000 to Yan-Hua “Project CARE.” National Institute Capehart (Biology) for Chalovich (Medicine) for n $216,558 to Charles GGNSC Administrative Fletcher (Medicine), Gerald Plan.” n $157,020 to Kelly Chen (Medicine) for of Arthritis and “Effect of Versican Mutation “Actin Based Regulation Daeschner III and Charles n $59,666 to Marilyn n $240,000 to Elaine Services Micklow (Technology and N.C. State Board of Lancaster (Medicine) “Regulation of Paracellular Musculoskeletal Skin and on Limb Development In of Smooth Muscle Knupp (Medicine) for “N.C. Sheerer (Education) Cabinum-Foeller (Medicine) n $105,457 to Tae Lee Computer Science) and Education Schering-Plough Corp. for “Scholarship for Ion Permeability by Diseases Vitro.” Contraction.” Sickle Cell Program.” for “Online 2+2 Degree for “Improving the System (Medicine) for “Greenville Ernest Marshburn (ITCS) n $63,000 to Sandra n $135,209 to Michael R. Van Disadvantaged Students.” Phosphorylation.” n $275,579 to Warren Completion Program in for Abused Children.” Health and Rehabilitation n $156,545 to T.K. Lee and n $210,766 to Mary Jane n $268,387 to Gary Warren and Alana Zambone Scott (Medicine) for “MRA Knudson (Medicine) for “Acquisition of a High- n $326,812 to D. Dean Center, Teaching Nursing Roberta Johnke (Medicine) Thomassen (Medicine) for SBP1: Expansion of the Dust Elementary Education and Association of American for “CD44 Mediated Performance Computing Stainback (Medicine) (Education) for “ECU Patton and Ronald M. 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18 19 a century of service

Superintendent William H. Ragsdale had nor state senator Fordyce C. Harding were connections with the Home Building and recruited a network of eastern school in the 1908 photograph. They should have Loan Association. Bennett W. Moseley (11) administrators to lobby for a normal school been and dozens of others as well. sold insurance, invested in real estate and somewhere in the east. He led the Pitt supplied cotton farmers with fertilizer. Before the mule-drawn drag pans began County’s Committee of Eighty to Raleigh to moving earth, lawyer and former North Robert D. “Bob” Harrington (7), and his secure the teacher training school. Carolina governor Thomas Jarvis invited some father, William A. Harrington (8), and 15 The state association of women’s clubs friends and neighbors to a groundbreaking. Cecil Cobb (20) were planters and large 8 11 21 and reformers, led in part by Pitt County As contractors prepared to begin grading landowners. William Harrington had sold 14 18 6 13 20 author and educational reformer Sally the rolling hills of the former Harrington part of one his farms as the site of the Southall Cotten, spoke for improved public Farm, stakes were placed; one is visible in teacher training school. Other Greenville education, better libraries and improvement the photograph a few feet in front of Nell investors included commodity factor of civil rights for women throughout the Skinner Moseley (10). And this explains the Jesse Speight (9) and attorney “Colonel” state. Identifying themselves as the arrival time and date of the famed picture. Fernando James (5). In his earlier days, James of the women’s movement, the association had studied law under Jarvis’ tutorship. The ceremony attracted a combination of proved politically influential—although friends and business associates. Thomas James and other Greenville leaders a few 19 women lacked voting privileges—by using Jarvis (15) and Mary Woodson Jarvis (2), years earlier had begun a Greenville chamber their wit and the political influence of their 16 his wife, both held strong commitments of commerce that would boost the city. 9 husbands and families. 3 4 5 7 10 12 to public education. A trustee of the He served on the organization’s legislative 2 17 1 22 A third combination—politicians—provided new school, he also chaired its executive committee and was a member of the staff the glue to hold together the crusade. committee. Also present were Mary B. Dail of Gov. Robert Glenn, an outspoken From former Gov. Charles Brantley Aycock (1) and Haywood Dail (14), the school’s supporter of the new school. Among the to members of the General Assembly, major contractor. groundbreaking group, James’ daughter, Mary educational reform had proved popular. Dancy James (3), stood a few feet away. The latter, fresh from site work, gripped a James Fleming, a rising politico in Pitt spade that had proven too short for Jarvis Nell Skinner Moseley’s (10) absent husband, County had, along with other eastern and too difficult for the old Confederate Alfred, was employed by the Ficklin Tobacco legislators, prompted the legislature to assure to manipulate. He had shattered an arm Co. Irma Cobb Dunn’s (12) spouse was an a teachers college. Denied a four-year school at Drewy’s Bluff in 1864. A longer shovel attorney. Richard W. King (17) could match by Piedmont interests, the easterners accepted was found. the local political influence of anyone within a two-year teacher school on March 8, 1907. camera range. He chaired the Pitt County A committee would recommend a site for the Other contractors and building material Who are these folks? commissioners. Samuel T. White (6) owned school somewhere in the eastern counties. providers and their spouses were in White’s Piano Co. and, with his wife Jennie attendance, These included Celeste Evans An odd mixture of civic leaders, developers and contractors eager for sales Fleming’s role proved significant as he (4), was an avid booster of the new school. (16) whose husband, Edward D. Evans (18), stare out from ECU’s most iconic photograph presented the advantages of a Greenville did contracting work and sold electrical In the tree screen to the left stood location. A new water system and a central fixtures. Charles V. York (21), another agricultural buildings that were soon to rail location were attractive to the authorities. builder who ran a planning plant that shaped be removed. On the right, horses of some Greenville and Pitt County citizens had By Henry Ferrell wooden beams, stood next to Robert J. of the participants’ rigs waited for a signal pledged two $50,000 bond issues. The Cobb (22). He owned the Pitt Lumber and to leave. Others members would walk sum would pay for much of the early Manufacturing Co. next to the Atlantic Coast down through the woods to Greenville. construction of the school buildings. On here they are, looking at us from a has been reproduced dozens of times and segregated years of the early twentieth century. lines at 12th Street. The school trustees had Before they departed, they posed for the July 10, 1907, members of the State Board hundred years ago. The photographer attracts our attention again with the arrival Several organizations statewide had argued selected him as board treasurer. Beside Dail photographer, who left us a keepsake of an T of Education chose the river town for the with his clumsy machine caught time of the university’s centennial celebration. with the General Assembly for such a resource. stood accountant Richard A. Tyson (13). exciting moment, a bit of East Carolina’s new school. Plans were laid that included in a bottle and left us the most famous photographic heritage. To come to this point, many years of Foremost in the group, the school Realty developers were present. With note photograph in East Carolina’s collection. architectural drawings and bids on four maneuver and compromise had been necessary. superintendent organization, whose members pad and pencil in hand, David J. Whichard Taken in midday of a warm July 2, 1908, buildings to be placed on Harrington Hill, North Carolina’s eastern counties lacked were in woeful needed of trained classroom (19), the Greenville editor, held on the outskirts of Greenville, this image east of the city. Neither Ragsdale, Cotten, a college to educate white teachers in the teachers, pushed hard. By 1904 Pitt County Daily Reflector Henry Ferrell is the university historian. University Archivist Suellyn Lathrop contributed to this article. 20 21 s a child living in low-income housing and watching his mom work two Ajobs to put food on the table, Omar Pillars of McArthur saw some vivid examples of what he did want out of life. not McArthur discovered what he did want when he Strength walked into the East Carolina Air Force ROTC office late in his sophomore year, after a troubled ROTC cadets say leadership training start to university life. Once he was a cadet, he makes them better students found the drive to catch up with his class. “Thinking about my future is what brought me By Bethany Bradsher here,” said McArthur, a junior who was chosen to be a field commander at the AFROTC’s training camp last summer. “I’m looking for security—job security and financial security. When I think about how my mother had to work so hard, and how she worked hard to get me things I needed and things I wanted, I wanted to try to have something better for me and for my family.” When he signed up, McArthur joined more than 150 students in the Air Force and Army ROTC programs who live dual lives as students and cadets on campus. He is part of a group for whom the backdrop of college life is discipline, structure and accountability—characteristics that can be in short supply among the students who sit beside the cadets in classes each day. “It’s definitely tough trying to live the college life and be with your friends when you know you have to get up for PT [physical training] in the morning at 6 o’clock,” said Charles Smith, an Army cadet from Knightdale. “It’s more of a mental toughness that’s prepared me for the future life.” The financial rewards are substantial. There are four-year, three-year and two-year scholarships available that can total $68,000, plus a living allowance of $4,000 a year and $900 for books. The program also awards four $1,000 book scholarships and doles out prime dorm room space, including 40 slots in Fletcher Hall and nine in Jarvis. ROTC students majoring in nursing are offered additional incentives and scholarships. When students enroll in either the Air Force or Army ROTC programs, they agree to take

22 23 ECU’s 2006 Army Ranger Challenge team to me about what this is all about,’” said going to sit you down and say, ‘What was and they’re 17 years old, and then you watch The benefits of the ROTC experience Lt. Col. Dennis Millsap, the lead officer going through your mind? And then they them until they graduate, and then you get transcend the eight years of military service for the Air Force ROTC program. get the idea that, wow, I am being held to a to hear about all the fun places they go,” that cadets are required to serve after they higher standard.” said Joan Phillips, the receptionist in the graduate, Bowen said. His time in Iraq and in Jacob Bowen spent his first three-and- Air Force ROTC office who is retiring this the Army program have prepared him to face a-half years at ECU as a traditional Senior cadets like Bowen and Adam Phillips spring after 46 years. “I’ve just seen a lot of virtually any situation and have, he believes, student. But as graduation neared, he say they learn valuable leadership skills in the them mature and spread their wings through made him more employable down the road. felt a pull of duty and enlisted in the protected university environment that they the program.” National Guard. In February 2004, he will soon employ on a military base. “You’re just a better student,” said Bowen, was deployed for a year in Iraq. Returning “It’s amazing to see them come back in a who served as company commander in the Phillips recalls a conversation with a recent home, Bowen could have finished school year or two, and hear the stories,” said Dr. fall. “You’re more prepared. You get so many ECU Air Force ROTC graduate—now a in just one semester. But the military was Steve Duncan, the ECU director of military leadership skills. When I do something field artillery officer—who arrived on her offering so many tuition benefits that he programs. “Some of them have been in in one of my classes, I feel like I’m light base and within 30 minutes was expected decided to complete a second major—this Afghanistan, some are flying jets. It’s just years ahead of the other students. All this to take command of a flight of 54 soldiers. time as a cadet in the Army ROTC program. astounding how fast they grow up.” experience, it just really builds you up and “You get to have them when they come in “I need to educate myself more,” he said. makes you very marketable.” East Leslie McCann started in a soccer uniform. Originally a member of the women’s Chancellor Steve Ballard congratulates Air Force cadets during soccer team, McCann traded her cleats for Military Appreciation Day

combat boots and found that the teamwork provided Photos of college athletics was trumped by the elective experience of working side-by-side with classes that teach other cadets. leadership and military theory. They agree to addition attend weekly leadership labs and participate to ROTC she is an “It was a transition, but what wasn’t new in physical training sessions at least three honors student and a member of the Student was being able to work as a team, and times a week. They spend most of one Government Association—sets her up to the camaraderie,” said McCann, an Apex summer—after sophomore year for Air succeed. native who comes from a military family. Force and after junior year for Army—at a “If I have lots of things to do, I can keep “It’s almost like it’s a different level of national camp with other cadets. myself on the right track,” Banjo-Johnson camaraderie. My mission to be on a sports team was just to win a game. Here, it’s part In addition, corps members attend countless said. “It’s when I get bored that I get in trouble.” of everything. It’s really hard to describe how university events, march in honor guards at awesome it is.” athletic events and parades and shoot the As a second-year cadet in the Air Force cannon at Pirate football games. Frequently, program, Banjo-Johnson is in full Providing a feeling of family they compete with units from other colleges preparation mode for field training, an at events like the Army Ranger Challenge intensive summer program that, for Air Several cadets mention the family aspect of in Virginia, in which the ECU Ranger team Force students, bridges the gap between the ROTC corps, but these families comprise placed second among 19 participating the two years of volunteer participation in more than just brothers and sisters. There schools. ROTC to the upperclassmen years, when are also mother and father figures—officers they sign a contract to serve after graduation in the cadre and senior cadets who hold the ‘I can keep myself on track’ in the active duty Air Force. younger students accountable on anything from parking tickets to sinking grades. It’s an For cadets like Joelle Banjo-Johnson, a Some, like Smith and McArthur, dive in even with no prior knowledge of the demands aspect of the ROTC experience that endears sophomore originally from London, the them to parents at home, Millsap said. military route seemed preordained. She and lifestyle of the military. was raised a Navy brat, moved from base “We have some who just come in off the “When you’re in the geography department, to base, so college wouldn’t have seemed street and they say, ‘Hey, my parents have and you get a ticket, the geography professor right without a built-in military family. She never been in the military, I don’t know will not pull you aside and say, ‘What were said that her full slate of obligations—in anybody who’s ever been in the military. Talk you doing going 60 in a 45 zone?” Millsap said. “But I will. That’s the difference. I’m

24 25 Self Portrait After four decades together, Beverly Cox and the National Portrait Gallery reflect the same sense of timeless grace

By Steve Tuttle Photographs by Forrest Croce

26 27 n air of serenity wafts from remembers lining up at Wright Auditorium oundation

Beverly Jones Cox ’67 as she to give blood for ECU boys dying in a F glides down the hushed halls of place people were just becoming familiar eynolds eynolds the National Portrait Gallery with—Vietnam. And then there were those R Ain Washington, where she is director of awful months after graduation when Bobby exhibitions. She is leading us to see Gilbert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were Stuart’s famous “Lansdowne” portrait gunned down. of George Washington (the original, not “I came home after graduation and the copy at the White House), which the interviewed at the Smithsonian. They said they museum recently purchased for $20 million. had a job at the new portrait gallery, which Along the way her guests stop at Sen. Hillary was opening in six months. I got a position Clinton’s recently hung portrait as first lady. as an historian writing labels for the opening Cox agrees that it flatters Mrs. Clinton, then exhibition. A few months later I was at lunch nods toward a nearby portrait of a 19th- when the waiter brought news that Dr. King century predecessor, Dolley Madison, who

had been shot, and the city had turned violent. W. Donald the of generosity the through nation the to gift a as acquired nstitution; was from Greensboro, you know. I I raced back to the gallery in time to watch mithsonian mithsonian

More intriguing facts fall from Cox as we as all of Seventh Street was being burned and S

turn down another hall, making it clear that looted. I had to get through a rioting mob in allery, G she knows every inch of the gallery and the order to get out of the building that evening. story behind many of its 19,400 historic The next day the National Guard was posted ational Portrait Portrait ational portraits. She should, because Cox has coffee shop. Her desk was in the same room Living the revolution all over the area. It was very frightening.” N worked here nearly 40 years, since graduating in this building for more than 20 years, in The peace and quiet found in a museum Cox threw herself into her work inside the from East Carolina in 1967. Within seven the area where Whitman himself toiled as a was exactly what Cox craved after college. comforting walls of the museum. She quickly years she was named curator of exhibitions clerk in the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the How Beverly Buys Art Like the rest of the ’60s Generation, she learned the velvet ropes process of staging and served in that role until 2000 when she 1860s. Revolutionary War portraits now What does the director of collections and exhibitions for experienced Vietnam, three assassinations exhibitions. Each one requires between two became responsible for all exhibitions and hang in that space. the National Portrait Gallery actually do? Sometimes she and graduated into a nation in flames. and four years of planning, she says. “Most collections management. She’s mounted just answers the phone and knows the right thing to say. “I raised my kids here; they are as familiar Growing up in suburban Washington, where of the work is done in the field, researching more than 300 exhibits and developed a with the gallery as their own home,” she says. her parents and many neighbors worked for the pieces of art, where they are, who owns Beverly Cox’s ringing phone back in 2000 is what started reputation for staging shows that pull in Years of staff Christmas parties were held the federal government, meant she felt those them, arranging for them to be loaned to us. a cascade of events which resulted in the gallery obtaining gobs of visitors. here in the coffee shop, which used to be stings more than most. You have to do all these necessary steps for ownership, at a price of $20 million, of what critics agree the library. “I can still picture my youngest is the most seminal piece of American art, Gilbert Stuart’s You could say that the museum itself is her It’s not surprising, then, that Cox identifies up to 200 pieces in each exhibit.” most recent show. It’s housed in the circa playing over there.” The gallery provided a famous “Lansdowne” portrait of George Washington. It her years at East Carolina with national With a couple of hundred exhibits under 1836 Old Patent Office building above the warm, inspiring focus for family life as she had been on permanent display at the gallery since 1968 but scares and tragedies, beginning with the her belt, Cox began thinking of ways to Gallery Place Metro Station at Eighth and and husband Norman Cox ’66, whom she actually was owned for generations by a British noble family. Cuban missile crisis her freshman year. “I broaden the public’s perception of the F streets NW. The imposing edifice, with met at East Carolina, raised two daughters. remember getting a call from my mother on gallery as just the place with all the portraits “I got a call from the owner, Lord Rosebery, saying that he a portico modeled after the Parthenon, The massive columns guarding the gallery the pay phone in the hall at Umstead. She of the presidents and first ladies. One needed to sell the painting to cover the costs of his farms,” reopened last summer after a five-year entrance seemed to block out unsettling worked for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and idea she had was a show entitled Cox recalls. “My heart sunk at the news [that he wanted renovation and again looks like the structure strife from the White House and the Capitol wanted to warn me to be extra careful and a 1972 exhibition of portraits ofIf all Elected, the $20 million] because I couldn’t imagine that we would Walt Whitman praised as “the noblest just blocks away. maybe pack a bag because we might go to candidates who ran for president and lost. ever be able to raise the money in the few short months he of Washington buildings.” During the After all these years together, the institution war with Russia. I remember sitting on the Critics initially sniffed at the idea but later gave us. Fortunately, our director went on the show renovation, most all of the gallery’s pieces Today and Cox have come to look like each other. dorm floor crying because I thought we were conceded that the show added new shades of making an appeal for support—school children from all remained on loan or in traveling exhibits. For The gallery reflects her personality and taste going to be bombed.” understanding of presidential campaigns. around the country sent in their dollars—and within a few the official reopening last July, Cox finally in a thousand ways, large and small. There days the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation of Las Vegas President John F. Kennedy’s assassination “That was a lot of fun, and it did generate a had the pleasure of displaying the collections also is a striking resemblance between the agreed to buy the portrait for the nation.” placed a pall over the campus her sophomore in a state-of-the-art facility. women in the historic portraits gracing the lot of discussion that some of those losers year. “We thought it was the end of the gallery walls and Cox’s own appearance. Her —Adlai Stevenson, George McGovern— And what did do at the office today? The National Portrait Gallery is much more world. A friend and I drove down to Emerald you face is unlined and untanned, just like Dolley really contributed to our understanding of than the only job Cox has ever had; it’s been Isle to get away from it all.” They walked the and many of the other figures smiling down what America is.” her life, she says later when we sit at the beach and cried to the stars. Junior year, she from the gallery walls.

28 29 She topped that in 1983 with people like Chuck Humphrey.” the Beverly also has maintained Champions exhibit, rememberedof American a friendship with former asSports probably the only time “I raised my kids here; North Carolina Sen. Bobby Hull’s hockey Robert Morgan, who stick has hung in a serves on the gallery’s museum. “It was one they are as familiar with advisory commission. of the best exhibits we’ve ever done. I got Even after 40 years to travel all over the the gallery as their of marriage, Norman country to different is Beverly’s biggest fan. sports halls of fame “She is an extremely collecting material. I got to own home.” bright woman, a kind meet such interesting people— woman, and one of those Bill Russell, Red Auerbach, success stories of people who Johnny Unitas, Arthur Ashe. came out of East Carolina and did well. She is a classic story of the person “It was one of our most popular exhibits. It who started at the bottom and worked her attracted an audience of people who might teacher at her old high school and being way to the top.” not normally come to a museum. President around her old teachers who remembered her Reagan liked it. He invited us to the White as ‘Bad Bev,’” Norman laughs. House for lunch.” Even the art The end of the tour New York Times critic was impressed after first wondering if Norman soon took a better-paying job with Beverly Cox senses that it soon will be the “Wilma Rudolph’s track shoes can compete a federal agency and eventually worked for right time to leave the only job she’s ever with van Gogh.” more than 30 years at the Federal Deposit had. The National Portrait Gallery is firmly Insurance Corp., retiring in 1997 as deputy established as a pivotal force in American art Meeting her husband director of personnel. During those years and is now ensconced in one of the Capital’s the family put down roots in Arlington and most beautiful buildings. There’s a sense of Beverly Cox knew only one other person— raised daughters Megan and Cara. Cox, who mission accomplished. an older girl from her hometown of barely stands five foot three, volunteered Arlington, Va.—when she enrolled at as a Brownie leader, soccer coach and PTA “When we’re talking about new shows I find East Carolina in 1962. She was pleasantly president. myself saying ‘we’ve done that’ or ‘that isn’t surprised to meet several other students from the way we did things in the old days.’ So, it’s the Washington area on campus. One was Megan graduated from UNC Chapel Hill almost time to wrap it up and let some new Be the one that students pick. Norman Cox, a Lambda Chi Alpha who and then the physician assistant program blood come into the museum. But I’m having served in student government and helped at Duke University. She works for the a hard time letting go.” Many factors infl uence a student’s choice of college or university. Reputation. Academic standards. state at a public health clinic in Durham. coach the JV swim team under Coach Ray She says this standing on the ornate tiled State-of-the-art resources. And while excellence in these areas is important, a contemporary, Martinez. Norman came to East Carolina Cara inherited her mother’s art sense and floor of the vaulted gallery in the main Gen-Y-relevant dining environment and experience can also help give your campus an edge with his twin brother, Tom. obtained a degree in graphic design from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington after hall. “Guests danced on this floor during to sway the decision. ARAMARK has been a proud partner with East Carolina University since Norman and Beverly hit it off immediately Lincoln’s second inaugural ball,” she says, first attending N.C. State. She now works in 1990. Through this partnership, ECU and ARAMARK have created an award-winning program and were married in 1966—her junior year, Philadelphia. adding softly after a pause that “maybe I’ll his senior year. He majored in psychology; retire in the spring.” that helps attract, satisfy, and retain students. Our passion for food, operational expertise, “We’re down in North Carolina pretty after taking a year off, she earned a teaching and strategic alignment with the university’s vision have brought campus goals to fruition. often to visit Megan, and we’ve stopped at Then she brightens and asks her guests if degree in American history while student we’ve seen Joseph Duplessis’ portrait of teaching at Robersonville High School. Greenville several times over the years on the way to the beach,” says Norman, who does a Benjamin Franklin, which graces the new Norman was hired as a special education lot of volunteer work with hospice. “We’ve $100 bill. Perhaps we’d enjoy Andy Warhol’s portrait of Michael Jackson or Jo Davidson’s teacher at Beverly’s old high school in always had a dream of coming back to East DINING SERVICES Arlington, “which was a little awkward Carolina, having a house at the beach. Some portrait of Gertrude Stein. They’re right ARAMARK Higher Education– at first because here she was married to a of my fraternity brothers still live there, this way. East Proud Partner with East Carolina University Since 1990

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B A s e b A l l S C h e d U l e Bakich 2/9 liberty home 2/10 liberty home 2/11 liberty home 2/16 UCLA away 2/17 UCLA away 2/18 UCLA away 2/21 Campbell home 2/23 st. John’s home 2/24 Washington home Ward Hastings 2/25 Duke home Godwin 3/2 Pepperdine home 3/3 n.C. State home 3/4 Western Carolina home 3/6 n.C. A&T home 3/9 Cal State Fullerton home 3/10 Cal State Fullerton home 3/11 Cal State Fullerton home 3/13 radford home 3/14 radford home 3/16 Michigan home 3/17 Michigan home 3/18 Michigan home Extra Bases 3/21 high Point home 3/23 Memphis home 3/24 Memphis home Billy Godwin 3/25 Memphis home After stellar college careers, six former Pirates now are coaching at Division 1 universities 3/28 UNC-Wilmington home 3/30 Tulane away Billy Godwin opens his second season as against 11 different teams that qualified for 3/31 Tulane away By Bethany Bradsher East Carolina’s baseball coach impressed the 2006 NCAA tournament. Other squads 4/1 Tulane away by the hard work his players put in during appearing at ECU’s 38 home games are 4/4 n.C. State away fall practice. He thinks this will translate Michigan, N.C. State, Memphis and Liberty. 4/6 rice home into better success than last year, when 4/7 rice home the Pirates finished the season 33-26 and The 2007 squad will feature returning standouts like shortshop Dale Mollenhauer, 4/8 rice home o find out what makes this group at different Division I-A schools. They’ve are now assistant baseball coaches at Division failed to qualify for the NCAA postseason 4/11 UNC-Wilmington away tournament for the first time in eight years. outfielder Harrison Eldredge and pitchers of college buddies special, you shared a lot over the years, in college and I schools: Erik Bakich ’02 at Vanderbilt, T.J. Hose, Jeff Ostrander and Dustin Sasser. 4/13 Marshall away Twould want to eavesdrop on a few afterward, but none of them wants to let Cliff Godwin ’00 ’06 at LSU, Nick “Their work ethic, I’ve been around a long The Pirates will sorely miss first team All- 4/14 Marshall away 4/15 Marshall away of their phone calls from university towns slip something about a prized recruit, even Schnabel ’03 at West Point, Bryant Ward time and I’ve had a lot of teams, but it’s far Conference USA catcher Jake Smith and exceeded any other team I’ve ever had,” second team honoree Adam Witter. A 4/18 old Dominion home like West Point, N.Y., Nashville, Orlando if the other coach was a groomsman in ’02 at South Florida and Ben Sanderson ’03 said Godwin, who will be marking his 20th busy recruiting season for Godwin and 4/20 savannah State home and Baton Rouge. his wedding. ’06 at ECU. year in the dugout. “I feel as good about his assistant coaches netted immediate 4/21 savannah State home where we are now as I possibly could.” contributors like David Forbes, a transfer 4/22 savannah State home Teammates on four straight NCAA “We talk once a week, but we won’t talk It’s extraordinary that so many college Off the field, Godwin conducted personal from Campbell University, and junior college 4/24 north Carolina away Tournament teams at ECU, they still talk about the recruiting side of it, because we’re teammates—the six represent 20 percent interviews with each player to discuss goals transfer Corey Kemp, both catchers. 4/27 southern Miss home and strengths and to emphasize the team’s 4/28 southern Miss home One of the final gaps that needs to be nearly every day, sometimes about new all going after the same players,” said Joe of ECU’s 2000 squad—would be coaching ironclad work ethic. 4/29 southern Miss home filled on the Pirates’ depth chart is the houses and plans for reunions. But most Hastings ’01, currently an assistant coach in Division I baseball at the same time. The Pirates have their eyes on the College closing pitcher. Godwin has several strong 5/4 houston away often they discuss conditioning drills, infield at Boston College. “One of the great things Some will even face each other on the field World Series in Omaha. So as Godwin candidates. It’s a search that is particularly 5/5 houston away 5/6 houston away strategies, scheduling and how to motivate is that we see each other on the road all this season. Vanderbilt and Bakich will play crafted the 2007 schedule, he looked for important for a team that lost nine games in chances to line up against the teams the the ninth inning last season. 5/9 north Carolina home underachieving players. summer long. We go grab a bite to eat, tell Hastings’ Boston College on Feb. 25. Bakich Pirates want to emulate. That led to this 5/11 UCF home year’s awesome schedule that features “I think we’ve got a lot of options,” Godwin 5/12 UCF home stories and make fun of each other.” and Godwin, both coaches in the SEC, will 28said. “We’ve got maybe 13 different guys One topic that is off-limits is the particulars the first-ever meeting between ECU and 5/13 UCF home meet in their last regular-season series in who can be in the lineup on any given day. of which high school prospects they’ve been Sitting around those tables with Hastings at Cal State-Fullerton, the 2004 national 5/17 UAB away mid-May. champion. The two teams will play a series That’s the kind of depth you need to have 5/18 UAB away recruiting lately. That’s because these former various recruiting stops across the country at Clark-LeClair stadium March 9–11. In to be really successful.” 5/19 UAB away teammates are now competitors as coaches could be any of the following ex-Pirates who … all, the Pirates will compete in 28 games —Bethany Bradsher 5/23 CUSA tournament new Orleans continured on page 34 32 33 It’s a phenomenon explained by their It was LeClair who modeled a whole-player a new stadium and a string of postseason common mentor—former Pirate baseball approach that valued not only what a young appearances elevated the Pirates’ program. coach Keith LeClair. To a man, each is man can contribute between the baselines “Whether me and the staff can even sniff sure that he wouldn’t be in the coaching but his academics and his relationships with what Coach LeClair did at ECU remains to be profession without the imprint of LeClair, those around him and with the community. determined,” Ward said. “But I got to be part who died of ALS in July. “The style of coach I am pretty much of those steps that Coach LeClair took, and mimics him,” Godwin said. “We all would have run through a wall for hopefully I can assist the staff in making that him,” Bakich said. “He was a players’ coach, LeClair helped some of the current coaches same environment happen here in Florida.” Around the horn 100 percent. He would fight for his players. break into the field. He helped Bakich find Perhaps some day all of them will meet in He set a high expectation level. We all felt a volunteer coaching position with his one tournament at Clark-LeClair Stadium. like we worked harder than anybody in the friend Jack Leggett at Clemson, and Ward But until that happens, they will continue country, and he instilled a mental toughness remembers LeClair writing him a letter of to burn up their cell phones and look for that really allowed us to gel as a team.” recommendation with his eye-gaze computer Erik Bakich, Joe Hastings, Cliff Godwin, LSU Ben Sanderson, Nick Schnabel, Bryant Ward, each other on recruiting stops, confident that Vanderbilt Boston College East Carolina West Point South Florida when the deteriorating effects of his disease An all-region “Until playing for Coach LeClair, I never their pursuit of excellence is grounded in the had made other correspondence impossible. The third baseman As a junior in catcher and two- He helped the The former second A standout really looked at coaching as a chance to firmest of foundations. had a .315 career 2000, he led ECU time Academic Pirates to four baseman was infielder from get involved with someone’s life at that They sent the letters and Ward’s resume to batting average in batting average All-American at NCAA Regional on back-to-back 1998–02 when the “Those teams weren’t the most talented teams magnitude,” said Ward, a Greenville native 75 colleges, and he ended up with a volunteer at ECU with 14 (.352), home runs East Carolina appearances CAA conference Pirates posted a in the country,” Sanderson said of the ECU home runs and 85 (13), RBI (60) in 1997 and ’01, (2000–03), one championship 182-67 record and who was LeClair’s first recruit at ECU. coaching position at Cal-State Fullerton, squads that produced a half dozen coaches. RBI in 1999–2000 and slugging Godwin was a Super Regional teams that earned made four straight one of the most dominant college baseball and was a central percentage (.605), three-year team (2001) and a No. 1 seeds in NCAA Tournament During Vanderbilt’s fall practice, Bakich put “But you look at so many of those guys that schools in the nation. He stayed at CSF for figure on a team while tying for captain who combined 170- regionals. Was appearances, the Commodore players through the same are coaching now, and that kind of tells you two years before taking his current post at that won two the team lead started 126 games 78-2 record. As a named first-ever Ward was captain conditioning test—eight 300-meter runs in one of the reasons why those teams won so Colonial Athletic in runs (50). As in his final three senior he earned CAA “Defensive his junior and South Florida in July. He was attracted to 55 seconds—that LeClair used to torture many games. They had a good knowledge of Association a senior, he led seasons. He his second of two Player of the Year” senior seasons. South Florida in part because it reminded him and his teammates in the late ’90s. the game, and really loved it.” East championships. the team with 62 earned All-East NCAA Regional in 1999 while He finished his him of East Carolina in the late ’90s, before He earned All- RBI and captured Region honors all-tournament batting .357 with ECU career fifth Regional honors All-America third- in 2001 after team selections a team-leading in games played in 1999. He team honors while batting .322 with in the Atlanta 20 doubles (194), seventh turned pro with leading the Pirates 15 home runs Regional and and 176 assists. in at-bats (687) the Springfield to an NCAA and 45 RBI. The became the first Compiled a career and third in Capitals in the regional title. In his left-handed hitter recipient of the two-year batting doubles (50). In Independent four years at ECU, also was named honorary No. average of .333 2001, he was first Professional Hastings and his first team All- 23 jersey which and was an All- team All-CAA, Baseball League classmates won a Colonial Athletic was the number Conference first second team All- in 2000. Is in his class-record 166 Association in worn by ECU team selection East Region and In the locker room, on campus, in the community, you can feel fifth season as an games. Drafted ’01, a year when head coach Keith in 2000. After NCAA All-Wilson it. This year, East Carolina University is celebrating its 100th assistant coach in the 24th round he also had 14 LeClair throughout graduation, played Regional honors, anniversary as an institution. And the Pirate Club is witnessing and recruiting of the 2001 draft, doubles and 23 his coaching and four years in the while leading the ECU’s Athletics Program getting significantly stronger every year, coordinator for the Hastings played walks in 57 games playing career. Montreal Expos Pirates in batting with Pirate Football leading the way. Commodores, the four seasons in the played. He played Sanderson earned organization after average (.368) But the Pirate Club experience is about to become a true school had the No. San Diego Padres’ two seasons his undergraduate being drafted in and doubles (22). members-only affair. If you’re a member, you’ll be able to 1 recruiting class organization. He of professional degree in exercise the 31st round in ECU went 47- take advantage of a full range of benefits that will no longer be in the country in was an assistant baseball (’01–’02) and sports science 2000. Appeared in 13, earning the available to non-members, including ticket priority, parking 2005, according to coach at Virginia for the Frontier from ECU in a Super Regional school’s first-ever advantages and member hospitality. Baseball America. and VMI before League’s Gateway 2003 and in May as an assistant national seed (No. Bakich began his taking the Boston Grizzlies in completed his coach at East 7) and finishing Demand for tickets and parking has never been greater. coaching career in College job. Sauget, Ill. He master’s degree Carolina in 2004. just two games In addition, seating reassignment for football is scheduled 2002 at Clemson graduated magna in exercise and Spent the 2005 shy of reaching for 2009. Before that happens, we’ll be offering better seats for as a hitting coach; cum laude in sports science. season coaching the College World Pirate Club members in the North Stands. If you’re a member, that year the 2000, received at Chipola Junior Series. consider yourself positioned for favorable consideration. Tigers advanced the Pat Draughon College and joined If you’re not a member, there’s never been a better time to join. to the College Postgraduate the baseball World Series. Prior Scholarship and coaching staff at to that he worked received his MBA the United States one year as an from ECU in 2002. Military Academy assistant strength in 2006. and conditioning coach at East ECU Educational Foundation Carolina. Ward Sports Medicine Building East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858-4353 34 Telephone: (252) 737-4540 34 35 from the classroom Books by ECU faculty Holy Crooks: While most theologians focus on the good and righteous people in the Bible, Mark Jones believes there is as much to be learned from examining the lives of the many crooks in the King James. Cain murdered Abel. Joseph’s brothers trafficked in slavery. Solomon was a polygamist. In his new book, , Jones examines 25 biblicalCriminals figures of theand Bible makes a Crossing the Barre strong case that their human failures are A prima ballerina assumes a new role as teacher as instructive as examining the lives of the saints. He also reminds us that some of By Steve Tuttle the good guys in the Bible should have had rap sheets. Moses was a murderer. David was he ballet students crowd the hall “I start the day with 35 students in my “One thing I like about this program an adulterer. outside the exercise studio, talking eight o’clock class, and then I have private is that our dance majors must take an Jones knows a thing or two about crooks. Tquietly as they tie ponytails and lessons all evening,” she says with a warm equal number of hours in ballet, jazz He is a professor of criminal justice who pull on pointe shoes. Then like gazelles they smile. “When I applied for this job, they and contemporary dance. To be able to formerly worked as a probation officer bound through the studio doors and into said ‘experienced artist preferred,’ so perform in those different styles, they and a prison recreation supervisor. “I the presence of Galina Panova, a real Russian I am sharing my experiences with all must learn good fundamental techniques. wanted to see what kind of lessons people prima ballerina who probably is the most these many students, and I think we both And it is that skill that will help them the could learn from the Bible in the area of exotic person these ECU students have are loving it.” most if they really want to get a job.” crime,” he said. “There are good guys and ever encountered. She teaches six classes, from an Critics said it was her mastery of bad guys throughout the Bible. And not She’s past 50 but still moves with the introductory course up through the technique that allowed her to successfully everyone accused in the Bible of breaking athleticism and fluid grace she first senior-level Ballet VII. perform such diverse classical repertoire the law actually did a bad thing.” It was exhibited as a star of the famed Kirov Ballet roles as diverse as and civil disobedience, after all, that got Daniel Panova came to East Carolina in 2003 Company in St. Petersburg. She graduated are from Swan Lakeand Sleeping thrown into the lion’s den. after teaching two years at Texas Tech. from the Perm Academy and won the SheBeauty received herCoppelia most glowingCarnaval. reviews as University life offered her a chance to “The good thing about studying the Bible is Varna international Ballet Competition the ill-fated Giselle. establish some roots after spending so that you can take away not just in 1968. She was invited to join the Kirov many years as a vagabond, performing Growing student interest one thing, but a lot of things,” and danced with Mikhail Baryshnikov and holding workshops in 13 countries in theatre and dance has Jones said. “One overriding but married another star of the company, in 15 years. The arrival of son Matti prompted the university theme throughout the book is Valerie Panov. The couple became the complicated her nomadic life. “I dragged to expand the department. of redemption and forgiveness. center of international attention when the my son from country to country to There now are 30 faculty No matter how bad a thing a Soviet Union at first refused to allow them country. He speaks several languages. He members, 10 alone in dance. person might do, there’s always to emigrate. Along with Baryshnikov, they wanted to go to college in New York, so This demand, coupled a way of divine forgiveness.” finally were allowed out in 1973. Galina and I thought it would be better if I settled with limited rehearsal Valerie performed together across Europe Case in point: if Absalom in one place for a while.” She leaps up to space, recently forced the until Henry Balanchine brought them to the had forgiven his father, retrieve a letter from a file cabinet and department to drop its open New York stage in 1982, launching her into David, for the rape of his waves it proudly in the air. It is her son’s door policy. Now, interested even higher orbits in the ballet world. sister by a half-brother, he acceptance letter to the New York School students must audition to be would not have been killed “Begin!” she commands a pas de deux who of Interior Design. accepted into the program. in a treasonous plot. are practicing a dance for an upcoming “ECU has a reputation for making “What I say to students is, program. She follows closely as they leap is an movie stars and I think we can be as we have small stages here. But Criminals of the Bible and spin across the floor, offering occasional interesting, quick read that’s likely to good in the performing arts. I am very there are small stages in London, too. bits of advice. “Smile! Put some emotion in become a favorite Sunday school text. good at recognizing talent. The girl you I also say to them that the size of the your legs!” saw dancing today is an exceptional stage has nothing to do with the size Criminals of the Bible Later in her office, she puts her legs up talent. That’s why I was invited here—to of the talent. We have some big talent By Mark Jones, FaithWalk Publishing to rest after a long day in the studio. produce talent and place it on the stage. here at ECU.” 256 pages, $14.99

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Alumni Spotlight Lilley and Jason Earl Brown were married June 3. Omega, she is a special education teacher for Wake County George Koonce picked up a shiny She works at Martin General Hospital. Kimberly Public Schools. William Harvey Whitehurst new MBA during fall graduation Marie Mills and Matthew Alexander Sessoms Jr. and Christina Denise Pate were married Aug. 26 exercises and is now immersed in his New Class Notes editor for East were married Nov. 18. She is pursuing a birth- and reside in Wilmington. He works with Ready-Mix new job as director of player kindergarten certification at ECU.C hristel Concrete. development for the Green Bay Russo and John Joseph Millichap were married Sept. Packers, where he was a star Leanne Elizabeth Smith ’04 ’06 of Greenville is the David Bryan Cox and Audra 2. She works in the neonatal intensive care unit at Pitt linebacker and a fan favorite for eight Leigh Mayton were married new class notes editor for magazine. She takes over County Memorial Hospital. MISTY WEST, the 2001 seasons. Koonce earned his master’s East July 8 and reside in Cary. He is a photographer with from Franceine Perry Rees, who will cover the ECU teen court coordinator with the Mediation Center of in exercise science from the College Lifetouch Studios. Kathryn Lennox of Greenville centennial programs for the magazine over the next Eastern Carolina, received certified recognition from of Health and Human Performance. was named executive director of the Mediation Center the Mediation Network of North Carolina. The Packers were playing the Lions in three years. An English major and French minor who of Eastern Carolina. Angela Sue Mitchell and Detroit that weekend, so he wasn’t teaches research writing at ECU, Smith received the Carmel Leah Deaver Russell Stuart Cayton were married July 15. She is a able to attend graduation in person. While working on his and Thomas Wilson Strickland CPA and a partner at Collins, Asbell, Ward & Greene in Robert H. Wright Alumni Leadership Award and was 2003 master’s, he spent most of the last two academic years as were married Oct. 28 and reside in Wilmington. Greenville. Alan Wright Riggs is assistant vice a DJ/newscaster at WZMB. She was the Department East Carolina’s special assistant to the athletic director in She is a mortgage loan assistant with Wachovia. president and Greenville branch manager for First South charge of program development. of English’s Outstanding Graduate Student last year. Cynthia Elizabeth Havens and Jason Bank. Smith also is president of the ECU Poetry Forum and Ryan Beaudoin were married Oct. 14. She is a In his new job with the Packers, Koonce assists players in Shawna Gray Batts and the ECU Folk & Country Dancers. One of Smith’s teacher in the Pitt County school system. April acclimating to their roles, both on and off the field, especially Brian Ray Sumerlin were married Lutheran, manager of design at Bill Clark Homes 2000 in terms of their expected contributions to their teammates, photos was selected as the cover image for the Fall Sept. 16. She is a nurse in the medical intensive care in Greenville, received the 2006 Outstanding Early the community and team chemistry. 2006 issue of . unit at Pitt County Memorial Hospital. Jonathan Achievement Award from the National Association Tar River Poetry Charles Forehand and Lauren Rae Smith of Industrial Technology’s Industry Division at the Koonce starred for the Pirates in 1989 and ’90 after were married Sept. 23. He works at Wachovia. Brian group’s convention in Cleveland. CLIF MOORE and transferring from Chowan College. After turning pro, he led Charles Minshew and Debbie Rochelle Vandiford ANGELA KENWARD ’05 ’06 were married July 15. Green Bay in total (119) and solo (78) stops in 1994 and made were married Aug. 5. She is a cardiovascular hospital He mentors children in Washington and she works at a season-high 12 tackles twice. He started 102 of 112 Packers specialty representative for Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals, games during a memorable run that included the team’s Kristen Barbee of Beddard McLawhorn III were married Nov. 4. She Metrics. William Matthew Vandiford and he is a senior systems engineer with Construction first Super Bowl championship in 29 years. He was inducted Concord, a faculty member is a kindergarten teacher at Snow Hill Primary and Laura Leigh George were married May 21. 2006 Imaging Systems. Kara Ann Parrott and Chad into the ECU Sports Hall of Fame in 2002. He launched the in the associate degree nursing program at the School. MEREDITH ANNE HARDISON He is finance manager for CTMG in Greenville. Eric Holland were married Sept. 30 and reside in Raleigh. George Koonce Sr. Foundation to provide underprivileged Cabarrus College of Health Sciences, was recognized works for Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Charlotte. Brooke Weitz, who has a background in legal She works for the State Employees Credit Union. children with educational, athletic, artistic and social as the N.C. Association of Nursing Students’ 2006 Teneisha Hardison of Greenville was technology, was named assistant marketing manager at opportunities. He also owns more than 100 apartment units in Adviser of the Year and elected to the board of the named executive director of the Pitt County AIDS Builder Services in Pineville. Troy Matthew Christopher Glenn New Bern under the moniker Koonce Properties. National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing. Service Organization. Mandi Nichols founded Wilcox and Diedre Renee Coffey were 1999 Bullock and Amy Elizabeth Price Barbee is the advisor for the association chapter at MISSON (Movitating Inner Strength, Sprituality, married Nov. 11 in Wilson. He works for Empire were married Oct. 21. He works at Eastern Radiologists. Cabarrus College. She earned her master’s degree and Optimal Nutrition), a fitness training and Distributors of Morrisville. Samuel Drew Dr. Henry Capps received a distinguished alumnus Opposing quarterbacks in a historic in nursing in July from ECU. ERICA PLOUFFE spritual development program at Courtside Athletic Williamson and Sarah Ann Forrest award and delivered a commencement address at Campbell college bowl game and pro football LAZURE of Greenville is in the low-residency master Club. Kelly Dodd Roberts and Matthew Waddill were married July 1. Both are employed by University in December. A full scholarship graduate of teammates since then, ECU’s David of fine arts program in writing and literature at Blake Grace were married Oct. 7. She works at New Hanover Regional Medical Center. BSOM, he practices at Lakeside Family Physicians in Garrard ’01 and Marshall’s Byron Bennington College in Vermont. , Murray’s Carpet Gallery. James Rogerson Huntersville, where he directs the urgent care center, DEA PAPAJORGJI Albert Delton Leftwich played out one of the most a coordinator with the Mediation Center of Eastern Jr. and Katharyn Jette were married Oct 28. He serves on the board and is a volunteer physician leader at Anderson Jr. and compelling stories in the NFL this Carolina’s Pitt County, received certified recognition teaches first grade at South Greenville Elementary. 2002 the Lake Norman Free Clinic. Kevin Eichner, who Melissa Lee Barbour were married June 10. season. Leftwich and Marshall beat Allison Leigh Whichard and Albert teaches metal sculpture at Central Carolina Community from the Mediation Network of North Carolina. She is an associate agent with Nationwide Insurance in ECU and Garrard 64-61 in double Ray Braxton Jr. were married Oct. 28. She is College, hosted an iron pour at his studio at the Moncure Jennifer Claire Taylor and Michael Todd Greenville; he is employed by Pitt County Memorial overtime at the 2001 GMAC Bowl. Anthony were married August 5. She is a counselor an occupational therapist at Pitt County Memorial Museum of Art during the 14th Annual Chatham Studio Hospital. Jeffrey Wayne Bell ’02, ’04 and Both ended up with the Jaguars, Hospital; he works at DSM Pharmaceuticals. Tour in December. Dr. Elisabeth Ann Scott, with Pitt County Schools. Jennifer Lynn Corey were married Sept. 9. He is where for the past four years Heather Michele Williams and Darin who practices family medicine and obstetrics at Kate B. Leftwich was the starter and Garrard Victoria Dawn employed with Pitt County Memorial Hospital’s Christopher Hall were married Sept. 30 and reside Reynolds Medical Center in Snow Hill and teaches family the backup. Leftwich went down with an ankle injury halfway Barton and Alan Lee Children’s Hospital. Jonathan Thomas 2005 in Chocowinity. She teaches at Eastern Elementary medicine part-time at BSOM, received the 2006 Pfizer into the season, and Garrard came off the bench to lead the Zell Jr. were married Oct. 28. She is the program Chambliss and Amy Lynn Whitehurst were School in Washington. Teacher Development Award. team to a respectable 5-5 finish. He threw for 1,735 passing manager at Carolina Support Services; he is store married Sept. 30. He is employed by BB&T in Wilson. yards and 10 touchdowns, a showing that quieted critics that manager with American Eagle Outfitters.K atrina Eric Carlyle Askew Brandy Piner ’02 ’05 of Charlotte was named Steven Bland ’98 ’00 and he didn’t have the skills to be a starting quarterback. Close Carter was named sales and media manager of 2004 and Shelley Elizabeth registrar at York Technical College, Rock Hill, S.C. Megan Elizabeth Oglesby 1998 losses in the season’s last two games took some of the steam the Kinston Indians baseball team. Matthew Williams were married June 15. He is an estimator She worked in the registrar’s office at ECU for seven ’00 ’02 were married Sept. 16. He is a loan officer at out of Garrard’s impressive midseason fireworks. Head coach Davis, a physician assistant, has joined the staff of with Great Southwestern Construction of Denver, years. CHAD SMITH ’02 ’06 is coordinator for the Home-A-Loan Mortgage in Greenville. She is a speech- Jack Del Rio isn’t saying whether Garrard will remain the Southeastern Occupational Health in Lumberton. Col. Kristen Amber Lankford and Citizens’ Water Quality Monitoring Program through language pathologist at Caswell Center in Kinston. starter next season. Most expect that the star-crossed The practice is affiliated with Southeastern Regional Jonathan Eric Locklear were married ECU’s Institute for Coastal and Marine Resources. Linda Christian Brewer and John David quarterbacks will continue their friendly rivalry. Medical Center and focuses on work-related health Aug. 19. She is in sales with WITN Channel 7; he is Patton Elizabeth Smith and Jordan Stanley Heuer IV were married Sept. 30 and live in Raleigh. She care. Sarah Beth Fordham and John a mortgage broker with HSBC. Jessica Elliott Simpson were married Nov. 25 in Fayetteville. A Chi is a medical sales representative for Zimmer Spine. DR.

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Alumni Spotlight SANDI PARDO has joined Family Medicine Associates, of Visitors. Dr. Reginald Watson, an ECU management and teaches at ECU. She is a realtor. with ECU’s School of Nursing, received the Great a Taylorsville location for the Catawba Valley Medical English professor, was appointed board chair of Karla Scott is the new director of the Naval 100 Nurses designation for North Carolina. She is Group. VICKIE SMITH is FavoriteAgent.com’s first Democracy North Carolina. Academy Gospel Choir. A resident of Bowie, Md., she pursuing a doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill. agent realtor in the Raleigh market. Jason Robert also teaches middle school English in Upper Marlboro, Pat Clark, principal of Bradford M. Brown, a Theobald and Caroline Graham Cameron Md., at a Christian private school and is working on Hope Middle School, was 20-year veteran of family business ’99 were married Sept. 9, at Saint Mary’s Catholic Church 1990 her doctorate in vocal pedagogy. 1985 named Pitt County’s Wachovia Principal of the Year. succession planning, benefit planning, and estate in Wilmington. He works for Sanofi-Aventis US and she Shelly Shuman-Johnson is director of the Cassandra “Casey” Deck- planning, joined Callahan and Rice Insurance Group works at Sun Trust Bank. Victim-Witness Assistance Program in the Henrico 1987 Brown is the first woman to in Fayetteville. Prentice Adam Turner County (Va.) Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office. be promoted to the rank of major in Raleigh’s police Ross Rhudy was named chief of Richlands and Elizabeth She is married with two children, 11-year-old Evin department. She worked as a community relations 1997 operating officer, general manager Suzanne Jaynes ’99 ’02 of Pfafftown were married and 8-year-old Brooke. MERRI KATHERINE officer, detective, and grants manager.D aniel 1984 and partner at Ammons Pittman GMAC Real Estate July 22 at Wendell Baptist Church in Raleigh. He is the “KATEE” TULLY ’90 ’92 of Staten Island, N.Y., was Hardy of Southern Shores was appointed to the in Raleigh. During his 23 years of residential sales human resources manager at Lowe’s of Apex and she is a named dean of continuing education and workforce ECU Board of Visitors. CHRIS KNOTT, a former and management in North and South Carolina, he physician assistant at Triangle Spine and Back Center in development at Borough of Manhattan Community sales representative for Burberry, has developed a also received the Realtor of the Year award from the Raleigh. College in New York City. Don M. Wilkerson clothing line called Peter Millar. Partly as a result of Raleigh Regional Association of Realtors, and he is Jr. a partner in S.G. Wilkerson & Sons funeral home, a large stock sale to Georgia’s Sea Island resort, Knott Meleah Lea Barnhill ’96 active in the N.C. Association of Realtors. was appointed to East Carolina Bank’s Greenville has expanded the line’s marketing into more media and and Darin Lee Reynolds were married 1996 board. men’s specialty stores. Greg Thomas ’87 ’95 of MARK KEMP, a former music As an executive director for the cable channel Si TV, Mark Zelenz Aug. 12 and live in Mount Pleasant, S.C. She is employed Greenville coached J.H. Rose High School’s football editor at and MTV ’86 has a pretty good day job in Manhattan, but it’s what he does on with Nucor Steel. Michelle Casey ’96 ’99, a Martha SPARks Brown 1983 team to their fourth consecutive N.C. High School Networks, read from his book,Rolling Stone weekends that is his passion. He’s the lead singer in a rock and roll special education teacher, was recognized as a teacher 1989 is one of Pitt County Memorial Dixie Lullaby: A Story band, The Short Bus, that’s become a local favorite in the Connecticut Athletic Association Class 4-A title in December. at a of the year at Polenta Elementary School in Garner. Hospital’s dozen staff chaplains. Ginger of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South, suburbs. The group was voted best cover band in Fairfield County, program sponsored by ECU’s creative writing program Michelle Harrell Courie, a board member Harrison, who has taught at Woodington Dr. Rosa E. Cuenca ’86 was Conn., and given a thumbs up by Gary Dell’Abate from the Howard on Nov. 28. Kathy Spencer ’83, ’87, ’03 of of March of Dimes and the Cape Fear Regional Theater, Middle School in Woodington for 15 years, was appointed to the N.C. Advisory Stern Show. Zelenz went into media sales and marketing in New York 1986 Sneads Ferry was named superintendent of Onslow was named 2007-2008 president of the Junior League named the Lenoir County Schools Teacher of the Committee on Cancer Coordination and Control by after college. After working for Playboy and the Sega Channel, he County Schools after 23 years of teaching and holding of Fayetteville. Gregory Tayloe Everette and Year. Steven Mills ’89 ’91 and Autumn Gov. Mike Easley. She is an associate professor of became vice president of media distribution at Bloomberg TV in 1999. administrative positions in the system. Her husband, That’s where he met his second wife, Karen, and they now have a Tiffany Paige Person ’01 were married Sept. Ngamthonglor ’03 were married Aug. surgery, director of the Breast Center and the surgical TIM SPENCER ’77 ’83 ’96, is principal at Richlands baby girl, Madison, joining her 11-year-old sister, Melody. 9. She works with Graham, Silver, Nuckolls & Brown; 26 at Yankee Hall Plantation. He works for Pitt director of photodynamic therapy at ECU. Donna High School. What’s your job like? “I manage the eastern regional affiliate sales he works with Triple E Trucking Co. Susan Jane County Memorial Hospital in clinical information White Roberson ’86 ’93, a clinical instructor team for Si TV, which is the first English language Latino network. I Kolvick Nazario, a teacher in Cumberland County, would say two of my successes were launching Bloomberg TV and has participated in the Visiting International Faculty now Si TV in New York, which is the largest cable system in the U.S.” (VIF) teaching program and was based in Surrey, England, with her husband, Gregory Javiel Nazario Did you lose friends on 9/11? “I lost three co-workers who were at Window’s of the World that morning. Standing at 5th Avenue and ’95. She earned the VIF Primary School Teacher of the “For Derek and me, East Carolina has been a family experience; from 45th Street as the second plane hit will haunt me the rest of my Year recognition. They recently had their first child, Riley my parents, our siblings, and all our friends to hopefully someday days. Karen and I volunteered for the Red Cross at Ground Zero and Nereida Nazario. Nicole Tripp Smith ’96 ’98 ’04 watched fireman with their boots melting. Not a day goes by without was named assistant principal at Falkland Elementary our daughter, Olivia.” a thought of that day and the e-mails exchanged up to the final School and received Pitt County’s Wachovia Assistant moments.” Principal of the Year recognition. Tamron Rene’ Join Derek ’98 and Heather ’97 Stepp as charter members of the What’s your favorite ECU story? “I met Sandra Bullock in college, Whitley and Michael Christopher Person were East Carolina Alumni Association. Membership in the Alumni and I had finally gotten up the courage to ask her out, and she married Sept. 23 and reside in Clayton. actually said yes to coffee the following Monday. But my former Association helps to provide quality programs and services such college sweetheart decided to reconnect that weekend prior to Anna Barrett, a case manager graduation, and I blew off the date with Sandra. How’s that for a sob 1994 at Pitt County’s JobLink Career as Pirate Career Calls and the Pirate Alumni Network, traditional story? I did see her twice in New York prior to her big break when she Center, was one of five people and two companies activities such as Homecoming and reunions, alumni and faculty was hostess at a restaurant I happened to dine at. She was always a to receive the Wayne Daves Award for Outstanding class act.” Achievement in Workforce Development during Gov. awards, and student scholarships. As a member, you will join the What’s the band like? “Rule #1 is we don’t take ourselves too Mike Easley’s award banquet in Greensboro in October. ranks of alumni like the Stepps who demonstrate their pride, seriously, and rule #2 is we have fun. We go from AC/DC to U2 to ROBERT CARL NELSON II of Bryan, Texas, has Fall Out Boy without missing a beat. If the mood strikes me, I walk completed his second year as president of the Association dedication, and commitment to East Carolina University. Join today! through the crowd with my wireless mic. I haven’t made it to Madison for Computer Educators in Texas (ACET). Square Garden yet but I haven’t quit trying either. My dream is still to “Joining the Alumni Association and supporting East Carolina in one day return to ECU as a headline act.” Stanton Blakeslee, founder 1993 of Eye Integrated Communications this way just made sense; our membership only strengthens our Learn more about the band at www.theshortbusrocks.com. and a line of kids’ chairs called Freddy & Friends, released connection and the pride we share for East Carolina.” a series of children’s books, , Octavia Burgess completed her MBA last semester despite being that accompany the chairs. The Chronicles of the Blue Moon wounded in Iraq, where she was working for a defense contractor and taking MGMT 6722 online. She suffered multiple injuries when Michele Susan Brooks and her office was bombed. She was transferred to the Army hospital in 1991 Richard Maury Miller Jr. Germany and to the U.S. to convalesce. She says the accommodating ’94 were married Sept. 16. She works for KB Home in ECU faculty allowed her to complete her final class and graduate on Charlotte and he works for Bank of America. Steve time. She is now in Lathonia, Ga., and will start a new job at the IRS. Jones of Raleigh was appointed to the ECU Board 42 Join today 43 class notes

Dr. William A. Burke Pitt County, joined the sales staff at Century 21, and TONY ROBERTSON BANKS, 1982 of Greenville was named to the will specialize in residential real estate and new home 1972 a special education teacher at A.G. list. He is the only dermatologist construction. Luke Whisnant of Greenville, a Cox Middle School in Winterville, has retired after Establish Your Legacy: in2006 the Bestgroup Doctors of 25 BSOM physicians named to the creative writing and literature professor at ECU, was 34 years. Before retiring, she received Winterville’s list. Mike Hughes of Raleigh was appointed named editor of and has published a Educator of the Year recognition. Tar River Poetry Your IRA or qualified retirement plan can be to the ECU Board of Visitors. Dr. Julius Q. new collection of short stories entitled Support East Carolina Down in the Steven D. Michael of Kitty Mallette was named director of telemedicine at . Terry Yeargan of Willow Spring was the best method for supporting ECU. Flood Hawk was elected president of the BSOM. appointed to the ECU Board of Visitors. 1971 N.C. State Bar. He received his law degree from UNC You can enjoy a wealth of benefits when you give: RAMONA SHANNON Tom Marsh was inducted into Chapel Hill and has served since 1996 as a state bar Tomorrow starts here. • Estate tax deduction 1981 HANSON of Edmond, Okla., has 1975 the New Bern/J.T. Barber High councilor representing the 1st Judicial District. • Income tax deduction for you and your heirs established the Social Security Disability Law Center School Athletic Hall of Fame after 19 years as the Bob Bird of Cary and Dr. • Membership in the Leo W. Jenkins Society of Oklahoma and was accepted to Oklahoma State wrestling coach for the New Bern Bears and principal Jim Galloway of Greenville University (Stillwater) in the philosophy masters of Pamlico County High School. 1969 • Establishing a legacy at East Carolina University have been appointed to the ECU Board of Visitors. program. , a realtor in Alexandria, Va., Dan Stone Dennis Delamar, who has You can name any of the ECU Foundations—East Carolina has reached $270 million in career sales and earned 1974 retired from teaching fifth grade ERNEST VICTOR University Foundation Inc., Medical Foundation of ECU Inc., several recognitions. He and his wife Cynthia have two in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools to pursue theater 1968 LOGEMANN of Winston-Salem, or the ECU Educational Foundation Inc. (Pirate Club)—as a teenage sons. full time, plays Joseph and Potiphar in the traveling who is treasurer of ECU’s Alumni Association, was elected to serve a three-year term on the board of the revocable beneficiary of a portion or all of your IRA or qualified ROBERT BENNETT “BOB” Troika Entertainment production of Joseph and the North Carolina CPA Foundation. retirement funds. Contact us today for more information. GARRETT of Broadway had . A new theater at Dilworth 1980 Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat perfect attendance during his four years in the Masters Elementary will be named for Delamar. At the Actor’s Edward M. Gore received Contact Greg Abeyounis Director of Planned Giving in Teaching program, which he completed at the Theatre of Charlotte, he recently directed a distinguished alumnus award I Am My 1955 east Carolina University Continuing Education branch at Fort Bragg while , and will direct Own Wife The Great American Trailer Park and delivered a commencement address at Campbell greenville, NC 27858-4353 teaching seventh grade and coaching several sports soon. Monty Castevens is celebrating Musical University in December. He is an Air Force veteran 252-328-9573 office teams. 10 years as executive director of Special Olympics and continues the coastal real estate business his father 252-328-4904 fax Florida. J. Richard Jones II of Chocowinity, a started, Sunset Beach and Twin Lakes. [email protected] Jackie Adams ’79 ’86, a senior vice president at Wachovia in Greenville, was 1979 former teacher and principal in Visit us on the Web at www.ecu.edu/devt/ appointed to the ECU Board of Visitors. and click on the “Planned Giving” link.

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’06 Donna Blake Williams died Dec. 24. She ’73 Donald Lee Moye of Greenville died Dec. ‘61 Ann Byrd Spell Jeffords of Winston- ’51 Helen Alderman Harper died Dec. ’33 Leta Mae Williams Shoulars of Elizabeth City, Dr. Robert Propst Lineberger of taught fourth grade at Southeast Elementary School 18. He was a farmer and volunteer firefighter in Belvoir. Salem died Nov. 18. She was a long-time elementary 19. She taught home economics in Murfreesboro and Kinston died Oct. 28. Her first teaching job was at Chapel Hill and Dr. Susan Lineberger Battigelli, of in Kinston and Sunday school at Rivermont Baptist school teacher in North Carolina and Florida. kindergarten in Snow Hill before becoming a full-time B.F. Grady School in Albertson, where she met her South Bend, Ind. ’73 Mary Anne Kerr Shelton of Oxford Church. homemaker. husband. Both then taught at Southwood School in died Oct. 15. A musician, she was active in the Oxford ’61 June Paige Murphy Looney of Suffolk, Lenoir County for 27 years. She later served as the ’98 Norman James Abernathy Jr. of Presbyterian Church. Va., died Dec. 24. She taught psychology at Elon ’50 William Pittman “Bill” Warren facult y reading supervisor for Lenoir County’s elementary Wilson died Dec. 13. He was director of RR College, where she became dean of women and of Candler died Oct. 12. He taught at Candler ’72 Martha “Sissie” Lewis of Winterville died schools. Janie Smith Archer of Atlantic Beach and Donnelly Co. and was active in the Lutheran church. associate dean of students. High School and then at Enka High School, where Dec. 21. A Burgaw native, she worked for the U.S. Raleigh died Nov. 26. She taught health, and physical he became the principal. He also was principal of ’31 Charlie Frances Roberts Terrell ’88 Michael Scott Bush of Statesville died Department of Veteran’s Affairs. ’60 John Earnest Burleson of Hampstead education from 1956 to 1960 and later worked at the Venable and Candler elementary schools, served on of Hillsborough died Sept. 18. She retired from Sept. 17. He was a certified financial planner. died Sept. 21. He was a professional pianist and state Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. ’72 ’75 Malcolm Bruce MacDonald of the Buncombe County School Board and taught at the Hillsborough Farmer’s Exchange. Active in the organist. ’86 jessica R. Smith of Winterville died Dec. Sebastian, Fla., died Nov. 11. He was a musician before Asheville-Buncombe Tech. community, she was a long-time Red Cross volunteer, Dr. F. Oris Blackwell of Washington died 30. Originally from New Jersey, she provided home changing careers to become an electrical engineer. ’59 Carolyn Roberts Leber of Matthews started an AARP Organization in Hillsborough, and Nov. 4. From 1974 to 1982, he was a professor of ’49 ’61 DENNIS BURNETTE BASNIGHT of health speech and language therapy as a Tri-Therapy died Oct. 4. For 30 years, she was a substitute teacher was a member of the Hillsborough Crafters. environmental health. ’71 Victoria Davis Josephson of Matthews Camden died Sept. 18. He taught and coached at East employee. for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. died Oct.3. She was an art teacher in North Carolina Camden High School and was principal at Grandy Dr. Robert Paul Bolande of Pineville died ’85 Sharon Hewitt Dixon of Reidsville died and Florida in public and private schools and colleges. ’58 Elizabeth “Liz” Merritt James of Primary School. Class of ’25, ’30 Lose four Dec. 9. He taught at BSOM from 1982 to 1988. In his 36-year medical career, he helped develop the field Oct. 2. She worked at Moses H. Cone Hospital. Savannah, Ga., died Nov. 7. A business teacher, she It is with sadness that we note the deaths of a member ’71 Alice Etheridge Liles of Knotts Island, ’47 Theodore Berkley Lupton Jr. of pediatric pathology. He founded the Society for worked in Florida and Georgia. of the Class of 1925 and three from the Class of ’82 Peter J. Joos of Conway, S.C., died Oct. 17. Va., died Sept. 5. She was a Kappa Delta who worked of Durham died Oct. 8. He worked for Liggett & Pediatric Pathology and its journal, 1930. They are: He owned and operated PJ’s Spirits and PJ’s Auto Sales with BB&T and owned several businesses. ’57 Robert “Bob” G. Baird of Richmond, Va., Myers Tobacco Co. and retired as supervisor of Leaf . Perspectives in Pediatric Pathology and created “Wildman” Competition Chili. died Oct. 12. In 2003 he retired from Lehigh Portland Information Services. ’30 Helen C. Butler, 99, of ’70 ’81 Jane Elizabeth Tuck Dodge of DR. Warren A. Galke of Columbia, Md., and Cement Co. Vanceboro died Dec. 18. She retired ’80 THOMAS BLACK of Plainwell, Mich., died Raleigh and Hampstead died Dec. 13. She was a career ’44 Anne Frances Robertson Tuttle formerly of Cary, died Dec. 5. He taught biostatistics in 1970 after 41 years as an Oct. 22. He served in the Navy, worked in the paper development coordinator at Athens Drive High School ’57 Marilyn Blinson Lee of Clayton died of Madison died Dec. 12. She taught sixth grade at and epidemeology from 1980 to 1985. industry and taught at community colleges. in Raleigh and Lakeside High School in Wilmington. Nov. 3. She worked as a legal secretary for the State several schools in Rockingham County before serving elementary school teacher in public Attorney General’s Office and at Carolina Power and two terms as alderman and then becoming the first schools in Canton, Rock Ridge, Dr. Leonard EUGENE “Bruno” Masters ’78 Glenn T. Carpenter of Washington, D.C., ’69 George Thomas Hicks of Raleigh died Light Co. woman mayor of Madison. Bailey and Vanceboro. She was of Jacksonville, Fla., died Dec. 23. He taught in the died Nov. 30. A Greenville native, he had worked as an Oct. 16. He was president of Pi Omega Pi in his inducted into the ECU Educators Hall of Fame family practice department and was associate chairman insurance agent. junior year. He taught business education at Whiteville ’55 Shepherd Russell Grist of Washington ’44 Dorothy Marie “Dot” Wilson of in 2002. for research at BSOM from 1979 to 1982. High School and later was self- employed in the rental died Nov. 25. He was principal of P.S. Jones Junior Raleigh died Oct. 7. From her ECTC graduation ’77 Alvin Joyner of Chicago died Nov. 17. He property business. High School in Washington from 1968 to 1989 until her 1991 retirement, she worked in the State ’30 Hilda Flowe Campbell, Dr. Carl Robert Morgan of Greenville died was a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. and then the Beaufort County Schools assistant Treasurer’s office. 95, of Pensacola, Fla., originally Nov. 5. He taught anatomy and cell biology at BSOM ’65 Jean Newton Reilly of Creedmoor ’77 Leonard Lee Oettinger III of Beaufort superintendent. from the Charlotte area, died Nov. from 1978 to 1996, and for 14 years, chaired the died Aug. 31. She was a member of the Mayflower ’43 Hazel Wall Strickland of Smithfield died Dec. 18. He was a mortgage broker and vice 6. She worked for the Florida Department of Anatomy. Descendents, the Daughters of the American ’55 Garland F. Williams Jr. of Conway, S.C., died Sept. 6. She was a homemaker active in 4-H and president with Great Southern Mortgage Corp. Department of Insurance in Revolution and the United Daughters of the died Aug. 31. He was an Army veteran, business owner, Cub Scouts. Tallahassee for 30 years, after which Dr. Richard L. Preston of Greenville, Confederacy. She was married to Dr. Bart M. Reilly, an and member of Pawley Swamp Baptist Church. Ohio, died Dec. 15. He was an associate professor in ’76 Mary George Akers of Kinston died Dec. ’37 ’39 Alma Ruffin Wellons of Dunn died she relocated to Pensacola. 27. She taught at public schools in Ohio and private ECU English professor emeritus. administration and supervision from 1981 to 1983 ’54 Vivian McDowell of Marion, S.C., died Nov. 16. She taught public school in Micro, Dunn schools in Kinston. She was active in Queen Street ’30 Treva Porter and then became associate superintendent in Pitt ’64 ’69 L. Michael Averette of Greenville Dec. 13. A retired elementary school teacher, she was and Erwin and received the Dunn Area Chamber of United Methodist Church for 50 years. Pendleton, 94, of Elizabeth County Schools. died Nov. 15. He taught for 33 years at Farm Life active in her church and studied the history of Bladen Commerce’s Woman of the Year recognition.. City died Oct. 14. She sang in her School in Vanceboro and then at West Craven High County, N.C. Joyce Grassman Reed of Greenville died Oct. ’76 Linda Butler Walker of Yanceyville died ’37 Ruth Wood Proctor of Southport died high school and college glee clubs Nov. 8. She was a social worker with the Division of School. 29. From 1991 to 2005, she taught law-related courses ’53 peggy Caldwell Ellers of Chesterfield, Aug. 31. She was a frequent speaker for garden clubs and the choir at Newbegun United Services for the Blind of Alamance County. for criminal justice and social work students in what is ‘64 ’66 ’76 Tommie Lawrence Phelps of Va., died Dec. 28. She taught seventh and eighth grade and sang in church choirs. Methodist Church. After retiring from public school teaching, she was a member of the now the Department of Criminal Justice in the College ’75 Ellen Mayer Roberson of Washington New Bern died Sept. 22. An Alpha Delta Tau, he in North Carolina and Virginia for 31 years. ’36 Glennie Mayo Smith of Macon, Ga., died National Education Association and the North of Human Ecology. She was the first director for the died Nov. 27. She operated two companies: Special taught in Craven County schools and was principal of ’53 Anne Cole Landing of Littleton died Nov. Nov. 7. In Macon, she was active in the First Christian Carolina Educational Association. She was active in the ECU Scholars program and associate director of the Shapes, a custom brick sculpting business, and Ellen’s New Bern High School. 6. She retired from federal civil service. Church. community through the Museum of the Albemarle ECU Honors program. Studio, a pottery on Water Street. ’63 Julian Daniel Rhem Jr. of Raleigh died and its Guild, the Weeksville Lions Club Auxiliary, and ’52 Donald Dean Blood Sr. of Statesville ’36 Janie Outland Sams of Thomasville died TRAVIS STOCKLEY died Aug. 24. He taught ’74 Raymond Lee Church Jr. of Wilmington Dec. 23. He worked for IBM in Fayetteville and the Elizabeth City Women’s Club. died Nov. 14. He was an English and French teacher Nov. 8. She taught for 30 years in Ahoskie, Woodland musical theater from 2000 to 2002 before going to died Sept. 25. He was a long-time director of Raleigh, at Kodak and Charron Sports Services. at West Iredell High School and Mitchell Community and Conway. ’25 Jeannette Propst UNC Pembroke to start its musical theater program. environmental management for New Hanover County. ’62 Graham Dalton Lyon SR. of Durham died College. ’36 Nell Griffin Green of Lexington died Lineberger, a native of Alfred E. Wellons of Chapel Hill died Nov. ’74 James Michael Williams of Greensboro Oct. 13. He worked for the Union Camp Corp. for 35 Catawba County, died Jan. 9. She ’52 Kathryn LONG “June” Liverman Dec. 16. She taught third grade for several years and 26. From 1973 to 1977, he taught international died Oct. 22 in an airplane accident. He was a years. A recent recipient of a 50-year Masonic pin, he was 100. She taught briefly before of Engelhard died Oct. 12.. She was a chemist at then was a homemaker. realations courses to Marines at Camp Lejeune cheerleader and a member of Phi Kappa Tau. He was a Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge in Winton. marrying. Her husband, Fred Powell Union Carbide and the first woman east of Raleigh through ECU’s continuing education program. established an alumni scholarship for promising ’33 Beulah Barbara Mewborn of Snow Lineberger, and her son, Dr. ’62 Edith Baker Rudder of Raleigh died Dec. to become a licensed pilot. She was married to students and served on several boards at ECU. Hill died Nov. 6. She was a pianist and organist, and Herman Propst Lineberger, predeceased her. She is 18. She taught for 30 years in Wake County Public Henry Liverman, who was Hyde County’s one family Memorials may be made to the ECU Educational was active in the Home Demonstration Club in Greene survived by four grandchildren, John Wayt Lineberger Schools. physician for 52 years. Foundation. County. of New York City, Ann Lineberger Duncan of

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

Photo may include: Elsie Horton, Amanda Tillman, SGA President Augusta Woodward, Grace Jordan, Elizabeth Wilkins, Margie Horton, Swannanoa Broughton, Gladys Broughton, Katie Farmer, Dorothy Broughton, Alice Pope, Cleo Richardson, Macy Siler, Kathleen Yates, Eric Smith, Rachel Olive, Lila Mitchell, Nancy Brantley, Louise Phelps and Lucille Lawrence. —University Archives photos

Cool music and hot cars There are a violin, a saxophone, a guitar and what appear to be six ukuleles being wielded by the members of the Wake County club in this photo from the 1924 The building in the background appears toTecoan. be the original president’s home, now the Career Services Building. Such county clubs were popular at East Carolina during the 1920s, with no fewer than 14 of them pictured in the 1924 yearbook. The arrival of cars on campus coincided with the club phenomenon and certainly helped in arranging rides home for the weekend. There even was the Racers Club, which squeezed 12 members into one flivver for a yearbook picture. Wake County has sent a prodigious number of students to East Carolina over the decades and the number has been soaring recently. There were 232 freshmen students from Wake County in 1995, or about 10 percent of the 2,177 total in-state freshman class. A decade later, Photo includes: Annie Morgan, Virginia Harper, Pat Walker, Mathy Harrell, there are 2,245 Wake students on campus, about 16 Shorty Grissom, Edythe Bradley, Jack Gardner, Cille Hooker, Pat Kitpatrick, Nan Burwell, Lil McPhaul and Hix West. percent of the total in-state enrollment of 16,722.

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A flower in full bloom beautifies the grounds around the Science and Technology Building. Photo by Forrest Croce

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