Smarter student teaching Robert Boykin, a student at University of multiple universities who spent 10 weeks at The class was led by Dr. Junhua Ding of South Carolina, shares a project involving East Carolina University this summer in an ECU’s College of Technology and Computer data mining and cloud services with a room undergraduate research program focused Science and funded by a grant from the of peers. He is one of 10 students from on the fundamentals of software testing. National Science Foundation. B East Smarter Student Teaching ECU’s new co-teaching method produces graduates who can aid student achievement, even as interns No ‘I’ in Health Care The interdisciplinary approach to medical training teaches health sciences students to work in teams Paying It Forward Giving back to his community and ECU is fundamental to Kel Normann’s business strategy The Physics of Football Academic All-American Matt Milner relies on science to gain a competitive edge over bigger opponents Campers Quentin Hines (left) and Moreo White cool off at Camp Hope’s waterfront. The camp is open annually to sickle cell patients from the Brody School of Medicine’s pediatric hematology/oncology unit. Its sister camp, Camp Rainbow, hosts young people with cancer, hemophilia or other chronic blood diseases. See story, page 4. 1 From theEditor Who to watch at the Homecoming game LIkED THE oNLINE vIDEoS qualifications as the Honor Roll. only news is that I’m still here. I Carolina during the early days Thanks for the interesting and For teacher candidates to make entered ECU in September 1940 of the desegregation of the I want to start by giving you some important information diverse articles about ECU the Dean’s List, they needed to at age 16 and graduated in June hotels and motels of Greenville. about Homecoming and the football games this fall. First, faculty and alumni (in the be rated “superior” by the critic 1944 at age 20. I taught—mostly Dr. Best was a member of a bi- Homecoming is Nov. 11, which is much later than usual, so mark volume 12, NUMBER 1 summer digital issue of East). I and supervisor in addition to the math—for 30 years in North racial committee established that on your calendar. East is published three times a year by especially liked the video series 2.5 average. Carolina. I celebrate 33 years of by the city to oversee the East Carolina University. “Buildings upon the Past” with retirement in June of this year. transition. The committee This fall’s must-see games are virginia Tech at home on Sept. 14, Jessica Jewel, which gave a —Nina Cook Welch ’44, agreed that it was time to test Carolina in Chapel Hill on Sept. 28 and N.C. State in Raleigh on delightful tour of the central Rougemont, N.C. the law. Dr. Best asked me Nov. 23. There’s a four-page supplement inside this issue with EDITOR campus as it was developed Editor’s Note: Unfortunately, to register at the Holiday Inn details on all the Homecoming reunions, tailgates and other Steve Tuttle ’09 ’12 in the early 20th century and Mrs. Elliott died a few weeks that was located on Greenville special events. 252-328-2068 / [email protected] expanded as ECTTS grew to after the story about her Boulevard near Fifth Street. I ECC and eventually ECU. I look did so without incident, but I When you come to the games this fall, I want you to lift your appeared in East. forward to future installments. clearly remember remaining binoculars and look for an ECU defensive player, Matt Milner, ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER The video and images of the awake all night studying for my Brent Burch aNoTHER FaCE oF CHaNgE who wears number 98. When you see him, point him out to your various buildings brought classes the following day. I have just read in the spring friends because he’s special. back lots of memories of days As an alumnus of East PHOTOGRAPHERS 2013 issue of magazine an on campus 40 years ago, East Carolina University, I wanted to The six foot, four inch, 260-pound defensive end is East Jay Clark, Cliff Hollis I WaS WaLkINg THRoUgH excellent article titled “The Face and showed how much the share with you this information Carolina’s first football player to be named an Academic All- THE aIRPoRT… of Change,” which focuses on structures have changed. I also to add to the celebration that American. And Milner has earned that honor twice, while I read your article on “Away the experiences of Laura Marie COPY EDITORS liked learning about the various the university is undertaking. majoring in physics and battling diabetes. Jimmy Rostar ’94, Spaine Stephens Games” in the (spring 2013 Leary Elliott ’66. people each building was My experience during this issue of) East magazine and Reading her remarks East Carolina has had plenty of Academic All-Americans in named for. Good work! period at the university helped it reminded me of a picture I reminded me of some of the other sports, but Milner is the school’s first in football. He also CONTRIBUTING DESIGNERS —Monika Fleming ’76 ’85, me to be an active participant took with some Pirate volleyball experiences that I had while was on the Conference USA All-Academic Team, received the Jay Clark, Mike Litwin Tarboro in the desegregation efforts players. The volleyball team had enrolled at the university during Commissioner’s Academic Medal three years running and is a at Harvard University, Boston a layover at the Dallas-Ft. Worth the first semesterof 1962 four-time ECU Chancellor’s List honoree. CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS University, Boston College and SETTLE a BaR BET, PLEaSE Airport in Dallas and I was flying through the summer session of Forrest Croce, Marc Hom the University of Massachusetts Can you tell me when the dean’s out for a business trip. The girls 1965, at which time I completed A fifth-year senior from Cary who played high school sports at at Boston. list began at East Carolina? I were happy to meet a Pirate the requirements for the master Cardinal Gibbons, Milner completed a BS degree in physics in CONTRIBUTING WRITERS I would like to express again made good grades when I was so far from home and I think of music degree. May with a 3.99 GPA. He missed a 4.0, he admits sheepishly, Crystal Baity, Jamitress Bowden, Doug Boyd, my thanks and appreciation in school there but I don’t recall I made their day. I know they I left Greenville, my hometown because he made an A minus in a graduate-level course spring Jackie Drake, Jeannine Manning Hutson, to the East magazine for the ever being on an honors list. made mine! by the way, as soon as I received semester, the worst grade of his college career. kathryn kennedy, Spaine Stephens attention given to my visit in —Norm Pridgen ’57, —Tim Slavin ’90, Dallas, Texas the degree to accept the the fall of 2006, and for the Playing football actually has made it easier to live with diabetes, Winston-Salem position of chair of the music ECU REPORT EDITOR outstanding role the publication he says, because all the players keep regular schedules and stay Editor’s note: We forwarded department at Texas College In Jeannine Manning Hutson PostcaRD FRoM aBRoaD is playing in the celebration of on regimented diets. He can count the carbs on his dinner plate Tyler, Texas. I could not attend this question to university I saw the (“Postcards from five decades of desegregation as well as he can calculate the coefficient of friction. archivist Arthur Carlson ’07 Abroad”) story (in the spring the spring commencement CLASS NOTES EDITOR at ECU. ’11, and here is what he found: 2013 issue) and would like to of 1966 as I was on my way When this season is over, “I’ve been thinking of doing Joanne kollar —Rev. Hubert E. Walters ’65, “East Carolina introduced tell you about me. (I am) from Texas to North Carolina, engineering graduate school,” he says in the sports story [email protected] Framington, Mass. the grade point system ECU class of 1984. I was to accept a position at Shaw that starts on page 36. “I’ve been looking hard at mechanical beginning in fall 1942, a member of the Kappa University in Raleigh. Editor’s note: Rev. Walters and ADMINISTRATION engineering, aerospace, those fields. I think transitioning from where 1 was the highest, Sigma fraternity and was I knew Dr. Leo Jenkins and his Boston College gospel choir Judy Currin ’82 physics into engineering is the route I’m most likely to take.” 4 was the lowest passing production manager Dr. Andrew Best was my family were featured in the spring 2006 issue of East. Since he’s from the Raleigh area, I mention that he could go grade, and a 5 indicated of The East Carolinian physician. I was enrolled at East ExECUTIvE director OF communication, home for grad school at N.C. State, which has several excellent failure to meet course student newspaper. PUBLIC affairs AND MARKETING requirements. Today’s I live in Shenzhen, engineering programs. ’79 Mary Schulken ‘incompletes’ were actually China, a world-class city of over Milner looks at me like I’m dumb as dirt, like I couldn’t tell the “C”s and resulted in a 5 if the 14 million which was the start difference between Bernoulli’s equation and Young’s modulus. course was not completed in of the reforms.