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looK WHO’S TEACHING NOW 10 16 10 East Carolina, North Carolina’s largest source of educators,By Steve Tuttle aims to further ease the state’s chronic shortage of classroom teachers by launching groundbreaking programs that make it easier for adult learners to get a degree.

rare ELEMENT 16 Karen Singer ’93 ’03 could have chosen a lucrativeBy Marion career Blackburn in the private sector but instead she stuck with teaching and is prospering in one of education’s hardest-to-fill jobs: a science teacher eager to work at a rural school.

hearD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE 20 Urban legends abound at East Carolina, where crazy clownsBy Steve Tuttlesupposedly inhabit clock towers and a professor grades papers by tossing them down the steps. The new crop of freshmen on campus likely are hearing these tales for the first time.

songs IN THE KEY OF LIFE 24 Hubert Walters, one of East Carolina’s first African-AmericanBy Marion Blackburn graduates, drops by with his Boston College gospel choir to extol the life-changing power of music.

TAILGATIN’ TIME 20 30 With five consecutive home football games, thisBy Bethany year’s tailgatingBradsher season promises to be one of the best ever. Check out our tips for enjoying one of the best Pirate traditions. see the special section listing all fall alumni events.

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Native heritage THE ECU REPORT ECU junior Justin Richardson 24 4 of Hollister honors his heritage at this year’s East Carolina Native American FROM THE CLASSROOM Organization pow-wow 28 on campus. About 130

ECU students are Native CLASS NOTES Americans. Richardson is 41 a member of the Haliwa-

Saponi tribe. 48 UPON THE PAST from the editor from our readers

East THE MAGAZINE OF EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY Fall 2006 Volume 5, Number 1 Get your law schools straight is published four times a year by I enjoy very much but your opening Epsilon as official campus organizations, the East East Carolina University letter hadEast three errors. There is no law school Native American groups aren’t under Greek Life The chancellor’s house Division of University Advancement because they don’t fit neatly into the existing structure ail House has served as the official chancellor’s residence since 1949 and 2200 South Charles Blvd. at North Carolina A&T State University Greenville, NC 27858 of the Interfraternity Council (traditionally white remains one of the most beautiful houses on Fifth Street. Built in 1920 but there is one at North Carolina Central. fraternities), the Panhellenic Council (traditionally by brick baron Haywood Dail not many years after he helped found the Second, there is a school of pharmacy at D white sororities) or the National Pan-Hellenic Council university, the chancellor’s residence is rich in history and is a beloved icon of the h Wingate University, and third, there are (traditionally black fraternities and sororities). campus. But it’s past time for it to be retired and succeeded by a new structure, at a divinity schools at Gardner-Webb and a ECU Director of Greek Life Ion Outterbridge different site, that can adequately serve the needs of a premier university. EDITOR seminary located on the old Wake Forest Steve Tuttle campus in Wake Forest. None of these errors said his office is launching a Multi-Cultural Greek Beautiful as it is, Dail House Office this fall that will include the Native American Can I get a picture reprint? lessens my enthusiasm for a dental school is too small for entertaining groups and other organizations that don’t fit the ART DIRECTOR The Spring 2006 edition of has a at ECU. It is sorely needed by the residents large numbers of guests. Brent Burch national model. picture of the graduation ClassEast of 1957. of North Carolina and I shall add my voice There’s practically no parking to its support by talking with my local 6 My wife (Joan Carolyn McKenzie) and I 200 PHOTOGRAPHER around it. And it’s showing PRING S East are members of that graduating class. The representatives in the General Assembly. THE MAGAZINE OF EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY its age. Chancellor Steve Forrest Croce picture brought back many fond memories. Ballard was awakened one —Christine Joyner Greene ’57 Although we used a magnifying glass, the night recently by the persistent CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Marion Blackburn, Bethany Bradsher, detail was not sufficient to allow individual Several readers caught one or more of those mistakes, ringing of the front doorbell. Pirates Storm Doug Boyd, Steve Row identification. Is it possible to obtain an Manhattan But there was no one at the including Dr. Carolyn L. Jackson ’81, Jerry Phillips enlarged version? I would be pleased to pay door; the wiring had just gone ’85, Brent Lawrence and Ginger Coble Reynolds. CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS the cost. Please let me know what is possible. Relying on Google under deadline pressure caused bad. The chancellor went back Greg Eans, Cliff Hollis to bed only to be awakened the pharmacy and seminary mistakes. I knew N.C. —Lloyd R. Chason, Ph.D. ’57 Is East available online? later that night by the persistent ringing of the back doorbell. CLASS NOTES EDITOR Central has a law school—that’s where Gov. Mike Thank you for the great magazine. Great spring edition of I’ve enjoyed and Franceine Perry Rees East Easley got his J.D. But what my mind knows and what East. There are no kitchen facilities on the second floor private residence area, which is an I was in the class of 1957 and was delighted my fingers type occasionally do not agree. learned from all of them but this one was a inconvenience to family life. Then there is the peculiar charm of having a number to see our graduation picture on the inside visual head turner. Keep up the great work. of fraternities and sororities as neighbors, such as when the brothers and sisters h back cover. The College Choir marched in Native Americans Is there any access to articles online? I overlooked again demonstrate their school spirit by exchanging shouts of “purple” and “gold” up and front because we sang at the graduation. would like to share theEast article about Dr. Lisa I would like to inform you of an error that down the street. Greek mixers have been known to spill over to the chancellor’s lawn. DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY MARKETING I was a member of that great choir. Callahan with my personal trainer but don’t Clint Bailey Also, I was the featured soloist and was has happened with the article by Bethany East Carolina should provide better living space for its chancellor. As importantly, want to risk losing my magazine! Maybe I accompanied by the college orchestra. Bradsher on Greek life. My fraternity, ECU needs to follow the lead of other universities that have learned the advantages of could buy a couple more copies? I am so thankful for my years at East Epsilon Chi Nu, was founded in January having a chancellor’s residence that doubles as a banquet and meeting center. People Siler City Carolina College. I have a question. Is it 1996 here on the campus of ECU. We are a —Mike Yorke ’67, like to be invited to events at the chancellor’s house and usually come away with possible for me to purchase the picture? small Native American fraternity, the first in East positive impressions. That is, if they can find a place to park. the country, that is overlooked quite a bit on You can read online at www.ecu.edu/east. East Carolina University is a constituent institution of I would so much like to hang it with my We don’t mind providing a few extra copies to readers Several campuses in the University of North Carolina system already have The University of North Carolina. It is a public doctoral/ campus. We also have two chapters started Jerry Miller drawing of Wright Auditorium, for special occasions moved toward this new model of what a chancellor’s house should be. UNC research intensive university offering baccalaureate, master’s, at N.C. State and UNC-Pembroke. We were specialist and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts, sciences the place I spent many memorable, happy Charlotte opened a spectacular new facility two years ago. UNC Wilmington just and professional fields, including medicine. Dedicated to the hours with dear friends with whom I left out of the article and so was our sister What’s the subscription price? completely renovated its majestic home on Market Street. N.C. State is set to begin achievement of excellence, responsible stewardship of the continue to see and correspond. sorority, Sigma Omicron Epsilon. I, as an How can I subscribe to this magazine? public trust and academic freedom, ECU values the alumni, am a little hurt that another article construction on a $3.5 million facility with a completely private residence area, contributions of a diverse community, supports shared Creedmoor banquet facilities for larger meetings and close to 200 parking spaces. governance and guarantees equality of opportunity. —June Crews Cross ’57, has failed to mention our organizations. —Merrie-Peyton Cuthrell ’ 03

It’s official policy of the UNC System Board of Governors that state universities ©2006 by East Carolina University Yes. Unless otherwise noted, the photos we use on the —Joshua L. Doliber ‘04 EastAs the official magazine of East Carolina University, provide their chancellors with a residence, and that the chancellors must live in Upon the Past page are obtained from University is not sold by subscription. It is mailed to the them. For ECU, that should be a blessing, not a curse. Archives. Reprints can be purchased for $9 for an 8 by The article accurately listed all fraternities and more than 50,000 individuals who have made a Printed by The Lane Press 10 inch black and white, plus a $3 mailing charge. To sororities at ECU supervised by the Office of Greek donation to the university’s Annual Fund in the past order a reprint, call Archives at 252-328-0272 or Life. While the Office of Campus Activities and couple of years. You can use the envelope stuffed in these 50,000 copies of this public document were printed at a cost of Organizations in the Division of Student Life does $27,411.58 or $.55 per copy. visit their web site at www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/archives/ pages to send in a check. How much? How much do services.cfm. recognize Epsilon Chi Nu and Sigma Omicron you pay for other magazines you receive?   The ECU Report

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Dowdy named new VC of advancement: Michael B. “Mickey” Dowdy was Now starring in a major Kimberly Patterson Fine wine from a biz project been a wholesale change to the list, which appointed vice chancellor for university motion picture… ’92, landed her first was last revised in 1999. Buddy Harrell knows a lot about making advancement. Dowdy comes to ECU from major role in the We still love Sandra wine from the vines that cover much of the The change speaks to ECU’s present Virginia Commonwealth University, where remake of Bullock, but a couple 138 acres that have been in his family since achievements but there’s more than bragging he was president of the Medical Foundation She previouslyPoseidon. of other Miss colonial times. But he could use a little help rights at stake. Peer comparison is a useful and chief development officer of the appeared in some Congenialities have managing his growing winery business. He got tool for universities in strategic planning, Medical Campus. At the medical small movies and come out of ECU that help from a team of ECU grad students benchmarking, managing change, evaluating foundation, Dowdy managed an investment several community recently to star on the who worked more than 500 hours to complete progress and measuring effectiveness. There portfolio of $120 million. Chancellor Steve theater productions silver screen. One is a consulting report for Bennett Vineyards. appear to be two major reasons for the Ballard, who announced the appointment, said Dowdy has “a consistent record of while earning her master’s in fine arts degree Ali Hillis, who broke Their work earned the grad students first change in peers: accomplishment in leading higher education advancement programs. He is well-known in the from UCLA. Patterson is a native of through last year in place in the competition sponsored by the nation, a great fit with our programs, and most importantly a real leader. I look forward to Greensboro. ECU’s dramatic enrollment growth. Average working with him.” Dowdy succeeds Bill Shelton, who moved to the College of Education two movies, notably in , and is National Small Business Institute. enrollment of ECU’s new peer schools is in two more this fall. KnownMust Love as AleciaDogs when Bullock, by the way, also has two new movies last summer to work with a program designed to train future community college leaders. The Institute works with small businesses around 23,000 compared to around 15,000 she was a student here, Hillis will appear in out, with Keanu Reeves and Pirate Club gets a new leader: Mark Wharton ’93, associate director of athletics at the The Lake House in eastern North Carolina to offer in the old peer group. , which was filmed in Charlotte . Meanwhile, Emily Procter can University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is returning to East Carolina as executive director of the Infamous comprehensive business assistance. whereThe Ultimate she grew Gift up, and in the action thriller be seen in another season of the TV hit East Carolina’s status as a major medical Pirate Club. He succeeds Dennis Young, who was promoted to associate athletics director Consulting teams consists of senior-level . Both are due out this fall. . center. Only five schools in the old peer responsible for major fund-raising efforts. Wharton was the Pirate Club’s assistant director Adrift CSI: Miami students who, under the guidance of the group had medical schools. Nine schools on from 1996 to 2000. “We are fortunate to have someone of Mark’s capability who also program director, use their knowledge the new list do. brings a wealth of experience to this job,” Pirate Club President John Hudson said. “He and research skills to help business developed his foundation at ECU and will bring a passion back to the Pirate Club.” owners identify critical problems and However, officials give equal or more weight New head of emergency medicine: develop recommendations to improve the to other reasons for the new grouping, Dr. Theodore Delbridge joined the Brody School of performance of the business. Students including research expenditures, student Medicine as professor and chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine. Delbridge, help clients with marketing, personnel, retention and graduation rates and average 44, has a bachelor’s from Penn State, a master’s from Old Dominion and a medical degree accounting, financial management, inventory faculty salaries. from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. He did his residency at the University control and strategic management. of Pittsburgh, where he also obtained a master’s of public health and served on the faculty. Three new peers—Ohio University, the Delbridge also was director of emergency services at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Bennett Vineyards is located 35 miles University of South Carolina and the State Center Presbyterian. He has done significant work in telemedicine and led a communications southeast of Greenville in Beaufort County. University of New York at Buffalo—are center that provided continuous emergency medical support for a number of commercial ranked among the top universities in the airlines and travel medicine firms. His hobby is flying and he is a pilot. nation by . None in Who are our academic equals? School of Nursing: was appointed associate dean for community the old groupU.S. Newswere. & World Report Dr. Alta Andrews partnerships and practice in the School of Nursing, responsible for facilitating faculty In athletics, East Carolina is a Conference Surprisingly, several of the new peer schools practice, strengthening clinical programs and enhancing community outreach. A veteran USA school that competes against the likes are in urban areas. Ten are in cities of at least faculty member, Andrews came to ECU as an assistant professor of family and community of West Virginia, Tulane and Southern Miss. 150,000; five of those are in cities of at least health nursing in 1977. You could say those schools are our equals in a quarter-million people. Greenville isn’t the sports. But who are our academic equals? School of Music: J. Christopher Buddo, associate dean for administrative affairs and smallest college town on the list. That honor director of the division of ensembles at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, was named the You’d be surprised. According to a new list goes to Athens, home of Ohio University, first permanent director of ECU’s School of Music. He received his bachelor’s degree in of ECU’s “peer universities” announced with barely 21,000 souls. music from James Madison University and his master’s and doctorate degrees from the with little fanfare recently, they include Texas ECU measures up well against its new peers University of Iowa. He has taught at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., the University Tech, the University of South Carolina, the with a couple of exceptions that are serving of Northern Iowa and the Birch Creek Summer Music Festival. As a musician, Buddo is University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and as targets for improvement. Twelve of the the principal bass of the Waco Symphony Orchestra. He performs with the Fort Worth Ohio University. Those four are among new peers are classified as major research Symphony Orchestra and is a former member of the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra. 15 universities that the UNC Board of universities by the Carnegie Foundation for the Governors, with the consent of Chancellor Retiring: Dr. Jimmie Grimsley ’66 has retired after teaching for 39 years in the College of Fresh from winning a Tony Award for best lighting in the Broadway production of Jersey Advancement of Teaching, and ECU is not. Health and Human Performance and the Department of Exercise and Sport Science. “The Boys, Howell Binkley ’78 (left) receives congratulations from ECU theatre professor John Steve Ballard, agree are schools that ECU Shearin at a Greenville reception in his honor. Jersey Boys, about the lives and career of should compare itself to these days. There’s The Carnegie Foundation, an independent thing I’m most proud of is the students I’ve had who I’ve helped put in responsible positions Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, was Binkley’s 20th Broadway production. policy and research center chartered by an from elementary teachers to principals, superintendents and college presidents,” he said.

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act of Congress, tracks research grants to their diabetes within a few days after the Learning from poison frogs environmental health who led the group.

universities and sorts them into six groups. Provided surgery. Was this a clue to the ultimate cure How do you study poison frogs? The United Nations reported last year At the top are those known for operating for diabetes? Thanks to a $491,000 grant Question:Very carefully, which is what ECU that 56 people died as a direct result of vast research programs supported by huge from Johnson & Johnson, he and other ECU biologistAnswer: Kyle Summers and some of his the explosion, and another 3,940 people federal and private-sector grants. Duke, researchers may find out. The grant will students have been doing this summer could die prematurely of cancer caused by N.C. State and UNC Chapel Hill are in fund a two-year clinical study of adults with as they slog through the wilds of Peru. radiation exposure. Greenpeace, on the other that top group. The second group includes diabetes to evaluate insulin sensitivity and Summers won a $227,000 hand, released a report estimating 93,000 other well-known schools that also operate glucose metabolism before and after gastric- National Science people have died or will die from Chernobyl. major research programs but with less bypass surgery. Foundation grant to study funding. North Carolina schools in that The group also visited the ghost town of “This grant is key to the work the mating and parenting group include N.C. A&T, UNC-Greensboro Pripyat, the city built in 1970 approximately that ECU scientists are doing as habits in three species of and Wake Forest. ECU falls into a third a half-mile from the power station as the they pursue a cure for this disease,” poison frogs, building group, with UNC Charlotte, of doctoral modern home of those who worked there. said Chancellor Steve Ballard. “Dr. on his 20-year career in universities that conduct some research. Pories and his colleagues are at the evolutionary biology. On the way to Ukraine, the ECU group One other area where ECU can aim for forefront of diabetes research, and this stopped in Vienna to meet with experts at the International Atomic Energy Agency, the improvement is in faculty salaries. The Thirty-five College of Business students got to yell “Good morning, America” support will ensure their ability to continue Chancellor boosts worker pay average at ECU is about $59,500 whereas on live TV and then hear the opening bell at the NASDAQ stock market. The trip their path-breaking investigations.” United Nations’ nuclear watchdog group. the average at our peers is about $66,400. gave the biz whizzes a chance to see market trading up close by shadowing a Saying it was “time for ECU to take a The trip was funded primarily with grants real trader, ECU alumni Joe Gantz. The students later visited with officials of Researchers hope to pinpoint the cause of leadership role in promoting appropriate from energy companies. several large Wall Street firms who might be hiring soon. this surgical “cure” of diabetes in the severely pay levels,” Chancellor Steve Ballard gave Old Peer Group New Peer Group obese to determine if a medication could be —Doug Boyd a $500 a year raise to all ECU employees Indiana State Florida International historic fountain in Wright Circle Back then it was place for male residents developed to achieve the same result. Miami of Ohio Northern Illinois the earning less than $25,000 a year. Mostly Montana State-Bozeman Ohio University and hope to have the landmark of Campus Hill to meet girls living in Old Dominion Old Dominion In 2003, ECU was one of six centers that includes the housekeeping and grounds Cliff H ollis University of Alabama-Birmingham Texas Tech fixture spouting again by early the all-female dorms on East Campus. University of Central Florida University of Missouri-Kansas City nationwide designated by the National maintenance crews. As a result, the overall University of Louisiana-Lafayette University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee fall. Most of the expense is for “I remember kissing a girl or two sitting University of Maine Western Michigan Institutes of Health to work together to minimum salary level of those workers will University of Missouri-Kansas City Wright State repairing underground drainage around the fountain,” Kelly said. That isn’t develop a deeper understanding of obesity be $20,612 a year, or $21,746 after the 5.5 University of New Orleans University of Nevada-Reno pipes that are the cause of a necessarily what he hopes current students University of North Dakota University of North Dakota and standards for its surgical treatment. percent raise all state employees got this year. University of South Alabama Virginia Commonwealth persistent sinkhole beneath the will be doing there. “You sit out there, (the University of South Dakota State University of New York-Buffalo ECU is receiving $1.3 million from the “While I value the work of all employees, we Wichita State University of Louisville structure. Trustees approved water)’s very therapeutic,” Kelly said. “It’s Wright State University of South Carolina National Institutes of Health to fund its need to address the most critical salary needs spending $460,000 to repair easy to sit there and read.” part of the investigation. by focusing resources on those at the lowest the water, sewer and storm drain pay levels,” Ballard said. lines passing under the fountain. Separately, Closer to curing diabetes By the numbers trustee William Bodenhamer Jr. is leading Research on Latino migration Dr. Walter Pories, a pioneer in bariatric Sobered by Chernobyl a private fund-raising effort to rebuild the An East Carolina professor of geography th new surgery, found it puzzling that four out of U.S. News & World Report’s fountain itself, which was a gift of the Class received a $430,000 National Science As the culmination of a class about atomic 6 ranking of the Brody School of five of his patients who had type 2 diabetes of ’32. Trustee Mike Kelly ’72 recalls the Foundation grant to study how the Latino power and public health, a group of East Medicine among the top 50 medical schools achieved a full and lasting remission of in America. Brody ranked 34th in last year’s fountain fondly from his years on campus. presence in eastern North Carolina affects Carolina students visited the shuttered list. Other rankings by the magazine: the region’s rural areas. Rebecca Torres Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the has been tracking migration patterns from Ukraine this spring and returned with an in rural medicine, among 125 th Mexico to eastern North Carolina for the increased respect for the power of the atom. accredited U.S. medical schools 7 past three years. She will spend the next judged by an average of seven indicators. Student Michael Apple said he sees nuclear five years collaborating with colleagues to power, which emits no greenhouse gases, as a in family medicine program, up develop research findings, coursework and th clean way to generate electricity, but he isn’t from 11th in the nation last year. service projects centered on this growing 9 likely to forget the scenes around Chernobyl. Three out of four students graduating from population. “The overarching goal is to “You can look at pictures in a book, you can Brody enter primary care residencies. understand Latino migration in rural areas in see it on TV … but you don’t realize what North Carolina and the South. The research can happen when people mess up and how component looks at factors that shape Fountain springs back to life many lives are affected.” migration. I hope our findings can help University officials are spending more inform policy — particularly policy that “I think it was a sobering experience,” said Graduate student Chris Henry takes a radia- than half a million dollars renovating the focuses on rural development,” Torres said. Dr. Daniel Sprau, an associate professor of tion reading at Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor.

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ECU’s dental school. If that study supports the need for a new school at ECU, then the state would need to appropriate about $80 Daily Reflector million to construct the facility. Assuming all goes as planned, ECU’s new dental school G reenville would accept its first students in 2010.

reg E ans/ G reg North Carolina ranks 47th nationally in the dentist-to-population ratio. Four counties have no dentists at all, and 28 have two or fewer practitioners.

Stamping out more librarians As the cover story in this issue points out, rural schools are having a tough time finding enough classroom teachers. But they also are encountering problems attracting librarians. East Carolina will help ease the shortage of librarians by offering 45 full-tuition scholarships over the next three years to students pursuing masters’ degrees in Sailing away with the Tall Ships weather, and we enjoyed it,” he said after library science. ECU received a $737,000 the race. “We did our best, and we finished Biology professor Lee Sutton had a great federal grant to fund the Community second. We just didn’t quite have enough.” A r ts C a l e n d a r ••••• F a l l 2 0 0 6 vantage point for the Class B sailing race Oriented Librarian Recruitment Scholarship during the Pepsi Americas’ Sail 2006 festival Second place was good enough for Sutton to (COLRS) program. be invited to participate in a Tall Ships race over the July 4 holiday at Beaufort and The COLRS scholar will pursue their Aug. 24, 25: The Four Seasons Oct. 3: Jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton Oct. 22: The ECU Symphony Orchestra in New London, Conn., in 2009. Morehead City. He was in the race. And he degrees entirely through on-line courses so Chamber Music Festival presents its and trio performs at 7:30 p.m. in Children’s Concert, featuring Saint- almost won. —Steve Row season opening extravaganza at 7:00 Wright Auditorium. Tickets are $35, Saens’ Carnival of the Animals and that they can continue working and living p.m. in Fletcher Recital Hall. Tickets are $10 for students. Benjamin Britten’s Young Person’s A specialist in anatomy and physiology at home. The project was initiated by Drs. $20, $10 for students. Guide to the Symphony at 3:00 p.m. Oct. 5–10: The ECU/Loessin Playhouse Big smiles for dental school in Wright Auditorium. Free. Call since his arrival in Greenville four years ago, Larry White and John Harer, professors Sept. 5–Oct. 7: Wellington B. Gray presents the musical, nightly Chicago, 252-328-6851. Sutton piloted his two-masted, gaff-rigged The North Carolina General Assembly in the Department of Library Science and Gallery presents an exhibition of works at 8 p.m. in McGinnis Theatre. Ticketed. schooner to a second-place finish in appropriated $7 million to expand the dental Instructional Technology. by alumni of the School of Art and Oct. 27: Family Fare presents Alice, the competition.Jeanie B Sutton named the boat for Design. Free. an adaption of the classic novel by school at UNC Chapel Hill and to study Whoopi Goldberg, at 7 p.m. in Sept. 15: The Family Fare series his wife. the feasibility of establishing one at East Freshman class the biggest ever Wright Auditorium. Tickets are $9, begins a new season when DinoRock Carolina. The money was included in the state $6 for students. With a nine-member crew consisting mainly Although he won’t know an exact number Productions presents Dinosaur of campers from Camp Sea Gull, the budget for the fiscal year that began July 1. Desperados! at 7:00 p.m. in Nov. 7: L.A. Theatre Works presents The Jeanie until classes begin, this year’s freshman class finished the 15-mile race only 1 minute The legislature acted after the UNC Board will be the largest in East Carolina’s history, Wright Auditorium. Tickets are $9, Caine Mutiny Court-Martial at 7:30 p.m. andB 12 seconds behind the winner. The race $6 for students. in Wright Auditorium. Tickets are $35, of Governors unanimously endorsed a according to Dr. Thomas Powell, assistant $10 for students. started at Old Beaufort Seaport and finished plan developed by East Carolina and UNC vice chancellor and director of admissions. Sept. 27: Van Cliburn gold medal pianist about two miles from Shackleford Banks. Alexander Kobrin performs at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 11: Storybook Theatre presents Chapel Hill for increasing the availability The previous record of about 3,550 was in Wright Auditorium. Tickets are $35, James and the Giant Peach at 2 p.m. Sutton bought the 72-foot vessel a year of dental services statewide, particularly in set last year. The average SAT of admitted $10 for students. in Wright Auditorium. Tickets are $9, rural areas. The plan calls for expanding the $6 for students. ago to teach young people about sailing at freshmen also was the highest on record. Sept. 28, 29: Four Seasons Chamber dental school at Chapel Hill from 80 to 100 Camp Seafarer and Camp Sea Gull during More freshmen continue to come from Wake Music Festival presents Musical Oct. 17: New York Gilbert & Sullivan Nov. 16–21: ECU/Loessin Playhouse students and opening a new dental school in at 7 p.m. on Sept. 28 and Players presents Pirates of Penzance at presents Ibsen’s nightly the summer. He plans to start a “School County than any county in the state, but Masterpieces Hedda Gabler Greenville capable of enrolling 50 students. 8 p.m. on Sept. 29 in Fletcher Recital 7:30 p.m. in Wright Auditorium. Tickets at 8 p.m. in McGinnis Theatre. Ticketed. of the Compass” next year to provide ECU an increasing percentage are coming from ECU also would develop eight to 10 dental Hall. Tickets are $20, $10 for students. are $35, $10 for students. students with academic credit while learning the Triad area and metropolitan Charlotte, For more information or tickets to any about sailing. health clinics in rural counties. Oct. 1: The ECU Symphony Orchestra Oct. 19–Nov. 18: Wellington B. Gray of these events, visit www.ecuarts.com; Powell said. Still, about 30 percent of performs with guest organist Janette Gallery: 2006 School of Art and call 252-328-4788, 1-800-ECU-ARTS, or “It was a great time, a great crew, great The Board of Governors is expected to incoming freshmen continue to come from Fishell at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Design Faculty Exhibition. Free. 252-328-4736 V/TTY. hire a consultant to study the feasibility of east of Interstate 95. Church on Fourth Street. Free. Call 252-328-6336.

  t e a c h i n g healing d i s c o v e r i n g First in a three-part series on vital ways ECU serves North Carolina Look Who’s Teaching Now

For 16 years Kathy Jones ’06 worked as a teacher’s aide at schools in rural Pamlico County and drove a school bus every day, as aides are required to do. But this fall she will walk into the classroom not as an aide but, finally, as the teacher. It will be a moment of deep pride for her and another validation of East Carolina’s groundbreaking approach to solving the state’s chronic shortage of classroom teachers.

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It wasn’t easy for Jones to be a college Over the next two years, Jones received This fall, Pamlico Elementary will realize student. Working full time and raising two guidance, counseling, financial aid something of a dream as well. The school boys, she managed to complete two years and a shoulder to lean on while gets a well-trained educator—she compiled of night classes at Pamlico Community completing her degree work through a perfect 4.0 GPA—plus, as a native of the College. That’s when her dream of becoming online courses and classes taught at county with family ties there, she’s not likely a teacher probably would have died if she the community college by visiting ECU to leave soon. Retaining good teachers is a hadn’t been recruited into the Wachovia faculty. During that time she officially frustrating problem for rural schools that can’t Partnership East program run by was an ECU student but she rarely set match the lifestyle or the salary supplements East Carolina. foot on campus. offered in urban counties.

10 11 She was one of 25 adult learners in the How Bad Is North Carolina’s Teacher Shortage? around the state as a blueprint for other to prepare them—traditional programs, about determining what would it take to second graduating class this summer of 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 campuses to follow. alternative licensure programs, 2+2 programs turn them into teachers. the Wachovia Partnership East (WPE) with community colleges, and online UNC System Projected Graduates 2,654 2,957 3,262 3,507 3,710 The blueprint comes in two parts. First, it “We found that it came down to three things program; 16 received diplomas as part of programs. This is what we’re all about; this Projected Lateral Entry Teachers 1,706 1,842 1,953 2,070 2,198 details East Carolina’s pedal-to-the-metal that would have to happen for them to do the first graduating class last December. is what will make a significant impact.” Total Projected New Teachers 4,360 4,799 5,215 5,577 5,908 efforts to increase the number of traditional it,” Sheerer says,not counting off on her fingers. With degrees in elementary education and Projected Need for New Teachers 11,164 11,169 10,984 11,063 11,144 students receiving undergraduate teaching Jones also wants to make an impact, albeit “One, they said there was no way they could special education, most already have or soon Projected Teacher Deficit 6,804 6,370 ,769 ,486 ,236 degrees. Through increased scholarship aid, on a smaller scale. “I just can’t wait to quit their jobs and go back to college. Two, will begin teaching in rural communities mentoring programs and other initiatives, decorate my classroom. I’ve been waiting they said there was no way they could leave across eastern North Carolina. Roughly 200 that number has climbed from 280 in 2001 16 years to do that.” home to take classes. And three, they said students now are enrolled in the 2-year-old to 370 in the 2004-05 school year. they would need a little financial help and a program, a number projected to swell to How Many Teachers Are UNC System Campuses Producing? whole lot of support and encouragement to 600 in five years. By then at least 100 new Part two of the plan is finding people Thinking outside the box Student Number Number get through such a long-term challenge.” teachers are expected to be graduating from Teachers Licensed Employed like Jones who want to become teachers Sheerer realized a few years ago that East the program each year. 1. East Carolina 370 348 250 but who can’t put their lives—and their Carolina couldn’t solve the state’s entire Beginning in 2002, Sheerer began striking 2. Appalachian State 355 334 237 livelihoods—on hold for four years by partnerships with community colleges across In many respects, it’s adult learners like Jones teacher shortage crisis so she focused the 3. UNC Wilmington 291 279 179 becoming university students. ECU removed eastern North Carolina that solved the first and her classmates who are the new face of university’s efforts on its own backyard—the 4. UNC Charlotte 198 190 152 that stumbling block by partnering with two parts of that problem. Three “hub teaching in eastern North Carolina. . UNC Greensboro 214 190 130 counties east of Interstate 95 that compose community colleges across eastern North sites” were created—at Craven Community 6. UNC Chapel Hill 138 128 96 ECU’s traditional service area. It’s tough North Carolina can hardly wait for them. 7. Western Carolina 116 108 78 Carolina to deliver the course work locally, finding teachers willing to work in those College, the Rocky Mount campus of As one of the fastest-growing states in the 8. N.C. State 97 87 58 often through night classes. In addition, small towns, where challenges are high and Edgecombe Community College, and nation, North Carolina needs to hire more 9. UNC Pembroke 71 66 53 East Carolina converted much of its teacher resources are low. Wayne Community College—which than 11,000 new teachers each year. But the 10. UNC Asheville 67 65 41 training curriculum to online courses. ECU essentially became extensions of ECU’s state’s public universities graduate only about 11. Fayetteville State 66 58 37 is tops in the state in distance education, and She knew that most of the college-going College of Education. The three hubs 3,000 education majors annually. That leaves 12. N.C. Central 65 53 30 almost half of all those online learners are kids from those towns aren’t interested in in turn linked with 18 other community 13. n.C. A&T 42 37 26 a yawning gap of more than 7,000 teachers taking teacher training courses. teaching, mainly because of the relatively colleges, one private college, an Air Force 14. Elizabeth City State 32 27 18 that the state’s public schools must find low pay. They have aspirations of getting base and 29 public school systems. A fourth 15. Winston-Salem State 26 22 14 The result is that East Carolina now somewhere else, usually by recruiting from up in the world and getting out, preferably hub site will open this fall at Beaufort Totals 2,148 1,993 1,399 produces more classroom teachers than any out of state or even overseas. with a degree in business or science. But Community College. Sources: N.C. Public School Forum analysis of UNC General Administration data other UNC system campus. As importantly, Sheerer reasoned that other bright kids were Those worrisome numbers have galvanized ECU has not sacrificed quality in the pursuit graduating from those rural schools and The final piece of the puzzle fell into place the state’s higher education community. of quantity. The College of Education not going on to college, usually for financial in 2004 when the Wachovia Corporation President Erskine Bowles has declared that gets high marks from the North Carolina or family reasons. They were taking jobs as stepped forward with what was the biggest graduating significantly more teachers is Job Why Did One in Seven Teachers Resign Last Year? State Board of Education for the quality bank tellers, in restaurants and quite often as corporate donation in East Carolina’s One throughout the 16-campus University Resigned to teach somewhere else (mostly at another NC school) 2,500 of its education graduates. Last year, the teacher aides, as Jones did. They were raising history. The majority of the $1.25 million of North Carolina system, and he has Retired 2,032 Carnegie Corporation’s Learning Network families and putting down roots. grant goes directly to student scholarships challenged (some would say threatened) the Family relocated 1,794 for Teachers for a New Era project asked for people like Jones. The initiative was deans of education to think of new ways Resigned for personal reasons 1,523 East Carolina to share its ideas for producing Always one to think outside the box, Sheerer renamed the Wachovia Partnership East. to ramp up their teacher training programs. Career change 532 high-quality school teachers with universities saw those negatives as a positive. Because More money to support the effort came ECU’s response to the challenge, formulated Dissatisfied with teaching 397 across the nation. they have roots in those rural communities, Not rehired 391 when the College of Education secured a by Dean of Education Marilyn Sheerer and she believed these adults would be more Went back to school 346 “We are sending out hundreds of graduates federal grant of $800,000 to help recruit based on efforts she and others implemented likely to stay and teach in their hometowns. to work in our public schools,” Sheerer adult learners as special education teachers. here over the past six years, is drawing praise Source: N.C. Department of Public Instruction Having identified her targets, Sheerer set says, “and we’re using a variety of pathways The Golden Leaf Educational Consortium

Sheerer accepts new challenge 23,000 students. Sheerer will become I am delighted that she has agreed Sheerer is credited with several Perhaps the hallmark of her leadership educational administration. She followed interim vice chancellor of the Division of to serve in this role. Marilyn’s success achievements since being named dean has been East Carolina’s commitment to that with a doctorate in education from After leading the College of Student Life this fall. She succeeds Dr. in the College of Education is well of education in May 1998. During her increasing the quantity and the quality of Ohio University. Education for more than Garrie Moore, who left for a similar known. We are the leading producer time there the College of Education its graduates going into teaching. eight years, Dean Marilyn position at City University of New York. of educational professionals in North received two national awards for Student life is one of the most diverse Sheerer has accepted a Carolina, and the college has a sterling excellence in teacher education, increased A native of Pennsylvania, Sheerer divisions of the university, with new challenge offered her “Marilyn Sheerer brings to this new national reputation.” enrollment by 40 percent, built the largest received her undergraduate degree responsibilities that range from campus by Chancellor Steve Ballard position an exceptional level of talent, distance education program in the from Bloomsburg State College and dining to campus safety to the student —to use her considerable enthusiasm and dedication,” Ballard Dr. John Swope, who served as associate UNC System and increased grant initially worked as a high school English newspaper. Greek life, student transit, energy to improve everyday said. “She is one of the most skilled dean under Sheerer, was named interim resources by 40 percent. teacher before enrolling at Syracuse cultural affairs and health services all are life for East Carolina’s and respected leaders on our campus, and dean of education. University, where she earned a master’s in part of student life.

12 13 provided funds to establish teacher resource ranging from a few hundred dollars a year in whose lives have been enriched by a professor aid through nearly 50 other scholarship and Also helping with teacher retention is the centers and other local groups created rural counties to more than $5,000 a year in or teacher can recognize that person through endowment funds. Golden Leaf Foundation, which gave ECU scholarships specifically for WPE students. urban counties. The average local supplement a minimum gift of $1,000, which secures a $250,000 grant in 2004 to help school is $2,865, yielding an average total salary for a plaque for that person in a permanent systems in eight rural eastern North Carolina “Marilyn has built a reputation as an out- Helping beyond graduation beginning teachers last year of $29,125. exhibit in the Speight Building. counties develop a research-based Model of of-the-box dean of education,” says John While East Carolina has succeeded in Teacher Recruitment and Retention. Dornan, president of the influential N.C. That ranks at the bottom of incomes for The goal is to create an endowment fund of implementing programs that are increasing Public School Forum think tank in Raleigh. other new college graduates, according to $1 million. Interest from that endowment the number of graduates going into teaching, East Carolina also is finding ways to use “Thanks to her reputation around the state, data from the National Association of will fund merit-based scholarships for Sheerer worries that more needs to be done. technology to support teachers after they ECU is now at the table on a number of Colleges and Employers. An accounting College of Education students. In addition, A major concern is the high number of begin their careers. “There is so much state task forces and commissions, and her major could expect a starting salary of the College of Education offers financial teachers who leave the classroom for other potential,” says John Swope, associate dean “For as long as I can remember, work is establishing ECU as a leading school around $46,000. Computer engineers earn jobs after just a few years. for administration, finance and technology of education.” $56,000 right out of college. Even liberal at the College of Education, who is helping I have wanted to be a teacher. arts majors are getting bigger paychecks. The most recent statistics indicate that more bring new technology into teacher training. As a child I practiced my than 12 percent of all teachers statewide “Technology really has the potential to save Addressing the money issue Compounding the issue is the fact that many teaching skills to an imaginary quit their jobs each year. The turnover rate time, to create more real experiences for folks students interested in majoring in education Sheerer’s fingers began tingling after about is higher in most eastern North Carolina and to expose them to things they wouldn’t class of dolls and stuffed often require financial aid to pay for college. the 200th handshake with College of counties. It was more than 23 percent in be able to see otherwise.” animals. I knew then that one Education majors at spring graduation, “When our recruiters go into high schools Pasquotank County last school year, for The new tools include video conferences, day I would stand in front of a and there were more than one hundred to on their career days, they specifically seek out example, and nearly 16 percent in Bertie which allow teachers to visit classrooms go in the cap-and-gown line. Still, she was kids who might be interested in becoming County. Pitt County’s turnover rate was classroom of real students. without having to travel to them. Students ecstatic at seeing the record number of teachers,” Sheerer says. “In many, many cases below the state average at 10.5 percent. fresh faces going into teaching. “I turned from rural eastern North Carolina could these students say they are interesting in “We in higher education need to stretch “The WPE collaboration several times to the provost who was sitting take part in a real-time broadcast of a teaching but their families can’t afford college ourselves even more to try to keep these behind me on stage and said, ‘These are classroom in, say, Charlotte. “Imagine the between ECU and the tuition. We had to do something about that. graduates in our public schools,” Sheerer actual teachers and administrators for the possibilities,“ Swope says. “You can begin We can’t let money get in the way.” says. “Retention is just as big a problem as community colleges brought classrooms of North Carolina!’” to better understand cultural issues of rural Thus, increasing financial aid for education recruitment. ECU has a commitment to versus urban.” the classes within my reach. It While East Carolina is counting on majors became a priority and has shown serve eastern North Carolina in particular. enabled me to continue my job nontraditional students to help ease the That includes the challenged school districts notable results. The number of ECU What happens next? and spend quality time with my teacher shortage crisis, the university students receiving N.C. Teaching Fellows that employ some of our graduates. We must continues to focus the majority of its efforts grants, a state-supported program that try to insure that our graduates succeed once UNC System President Erskine Bowles has family while pursuing my degree. on campus. It’s here that the overall effort is provides $6,500 yearly scholarships to they become part of these systems.” directed the 15 campuses that have schools of I know without a doubt that I showing some dramatic results. education, including East Carolina, to focus students who agree to teach for at least In surveys, teachers often said they left the on graduating more teachers and to develop would never have reached my The number of traditional students earning four years after graduation, rose steadily. classroom because they felt overwhelmed by plans for accomplishing that goal. The teaching degrees and walking across stage The state selects 500 Teaching Fellows each the workload and had no one to turn goal without WPE. programs described in this article comprise at ECU graduations has been climbing year; 60 Teaching Fellow recipients enrolled to for day-to-day advice and support. much of ECU’s response to that directive. about 30 percent each year since 2000, in ECU last year. Those problems are particularly acute in “I can hardly believe that I am to 406 this year, and there’s a bulge in the In May, the College of Education announced rural schools. Bowles now is reviewing the plans developed finally beginning my career as undergraduate pipeline that should keep by each campus with an eye toward the creation of the Maynard Scholarship ECU has launched several programs aimed at the surge continuing for years to come. identifying individual initiatives that are a teacher. I know that teaching program, funded by a major grant from addressing those problems. One is the Rural Including those specializing in a field outside working well and which could be replicated James ’65 and Connie ’65 Maynard of Education Institute (REI), which provides is a tough job, but I feel my the classroom—as librarians or information at other campuses. Raleigh. Modeled after the Teaching Fellows ongoing support for teachers in low-wealth education has prepared me to technologists, for example—and those program, the Maynard Scholarship will award schools in 16 eastern counties. Perquimans Bowles is to give a report to the North receiving advanced degrees as principals or handle the obstacles that occur $20,000 to ten outstanding students yearly. County recently obtained a $34,000 REI Carolina General Assembly no later than administrators, ECU sent 908 educators into Maynard scholars will be expected to teach grant, funded by the Karen and Christopher Dec. 30 on what each campus is doing and in elementary classrooms. I schools last year, up from 578 in 2000. for four years in eastern North Carolina. Payne Family Foundation, to hire a retired which programs he believes should receive want to prepare students with Those numbers are climbing despite the Sheerer has focused much attention on the teacher to mentor a group of new teachers. additional state funding. the same love of learning that I lukewarm appeal that teaching offers as a The mentor helped them with classroom ECU Educators Hall of Fame. Begun in By the end of next March, the General career. The starting state salary for a teacher management, teaching strategies and lesson experienced through WPE.” 1999 as a vehicle for honoring those who Assembly wants a status report on fresh out of college in 2005 was $26,260 plans. As a result, 18 of the 19 teachers have made an impact on society through progress made at each campus, with for 10 months of employment. Local school helped by the mentor stayed to teach another —Kathy Jones teaching, the Hall of Fame has emerged as specific numbers on enrollment growth systems supplement teacher pay in amounts year in the county. a major source of financial aid. Individuals in education programs. East

14 15 Young teachers with such skill and flair are teachers each year for the next 10 years, but about MTV. She could take instruction and hard to find these days as North Carolina only about 3,000 are expected to graduate make it relevant. Those are things you can battles a teacher shortage crisis. Too few from education programs at the state’s public learn and coach, but some of it comes from people are choosing education, and many of universities. Older teachers are retiring and passion. And she definitely had that.” those who do are leaving after a year or two. more students are enrolling. Singer also had some doubts. She credits The hardest hit are rural schools that can’t At the same time North Carolina’s schools Covington with helping her overcome them. Rare Element compete with big cities for opportunities, are growing, thousands of teachers are “During the second semester, I thought, salaries and social amenities. Farmville Central simply leaving. ‘Oh my gosh, this is what I’m going to do?’ has most of those challenges, but its location I had the feeling of being overwhelmed. The state needs in Pitt County eases the financial pressures. “When you factor in the number of teachers It’s one thing to know something, but who retire or leave teaching, the demand What’s worse, a chronic shortfall of science another to teach it.” thousands more for new teachers is at a crisis point,” says and math teachers has left schools in John Dornan, executive director of the Singer’s commitment hasn’t flagged since those teachers like desperate straits. Teachers with those skills N.C. Public School Forum, a respected early days despite the increasing demands she often are lured by the better pay and lower education think-tank. “Supply-and-demand faces from students who dream of college Karen Singer, stress found in the private sector. is becoming our No. 1 problem.” and successful careers. “It helps if you show Even Singer considered nursing, but stayed them you care,” she says. “Some days, I do a science and math Singer has considered the perils and joys of true to her dream of teaching. “Some people more showing concern than teaching. I may be her job from all angles. But she’s never given instructor eager to in science think, ‘Why would I teach it? The putting out fires for 20 minutes.” a second thought to leaving. money is in other fields,’” Singer says. For Usually the disasters are manageable—hurt work at a rural school. college seniors, generous job offers make the “It has its ups and downs, and you teach feelings, crushes, lost football games. Other temptation even greater. She has seen it many knowing you’re not going to get paid as times they are more serious, such as the time times. One of her own student teachers, with much as in other jobs. But you go into it a young girl lost her job and learned about degrees in chemistry and science education, thinking, ‘I love kids, and I get the summers it on the television news. “She truly needed had to decide. “She wants to be a teacher, off,’” she says. “You have days when it’s the By Marion Blackburn that job,” Singer says. but when you have these offers that pay hardest job you will ever do, and you have much better, it’s hard to make that choice.” days when you walk away and say, ‘Wow, that was a great day.’” Teachers in Greatest Demand In her eight years’ teaching, she’s seen 1. high school math some leave for better salaries and for other Singer may be as uncommon as the rare he test tubes circling the classroom 2. special ed reasons. “There are some issues, and they are elements she describes in her physical 3. high school science appeared to defy natural laws. One everywhere,” she says. science classes. A North Carolina Teaching 4. Middle school math was filled with a liquid that, even as it Fellow, she was named Farmville Central’s T Some feel burdened with take-home work, 5. Middle school science passed from one sweaty palm to another, kept Teacher of the Year, becoming one of five others struggle with large classes. They know Source: N.C. Department of Public Instruction getting colder. Another was filled with a liquid system finalists, and was awarded the Floyd their pay isn’t based on their own merit and that kept getting hotter. The students in the Matheis Award for Teaching Excellence in that without specialized degrees they can’t Rural schools, heavy demands high school chemistry class were enthralled. Science by East Carolina. rise into management. It’s hard to impress a group of teenagers, Many believe teaching really is harder especially before 9 a.m., but Karen Singer ’98 And then there are the pens, paper, scissors Real-life, real-time today. Students face more pressure than ’03 has a winning formula. The Farmville and supplies teachers must buy from their ever to master material, often while holding Singer says student teaching opened her eyes Central High School teacher knows that rarely adequate stipends. Some schools lack down part-time jobs. Many have attention to the excitement—and terror—of having to teach students she must win them, and strong support systems for new teachers. disorders, autism, developmental delays or your own class. “When I did my student she does so with warmth and spontaneity. There’s the blizzard of paperwork and so physical handicaps. many tests to grade. There’s the pressure to teaching I was hooked,” she says. “A lot of Students feel comfortable talking to her An additional hardship for rural students “teach to the test” to maximize the number times it’s the opposite. It was really high about problems with math—or the prom— is that they miss the cultural, educational of students who pass the mandatory end-of- energy and fast paced, so I really liked it.” and she’s equally at ease explaining molecular and academic opportunities available at big- grade exam. reactions as discussing the calamities of an Her supervisor was Dr. Vivian Covington, city schools, making it harder for them to average high-schooler’s day. then an instructor at Farmville Central. compete at the highest levels. With pinched Pressure x volume = classroom Today, Covington is director of teacher Standing for hours, running when she has budgets, rural schools also often can’t education at ECU’s College of Education. to, Singer draws on the potential chaos of While Singer thrives in this high-pressure offer technological resources. In Singer’s the classroom and focuses it, encouraging world, she’s not the norm. The N.C. “Karen was very much at ease with all kinds class, students use old-fashioned scales for students to uncover questions and answers for Department of Public Instruction reports of students immediately,” Covington says. experiments, compared with the electronic themselves while she prods from the sidelines. the state needs to hire as many as 11,000 new “She could talk about rap, about fashion, ones found in university labs.

16 17 family.” She lives in nearby Greenville. Her students come from all walks of life but face the burdens shared by many young people in eastern North Carolina. They may Two Bright Futures You have days when be poor, lack health care or the experiences that help them succeed academically. In some cases, their parents may feel apathetic about college or just want them to find a job. A Winning Combination it’s the hardest job Singer tries to help her students to figure out a plan and follow it, whatever their circumstances. you will ever do, “You can see some students are so bright, but their parents aren’t pushing college because they think they can’t afford it,” she says. “You try to encourage students to find and you have days out what they want.”

Measure by measure when you walk away Whatever the school day brings, the show must go on. Sometimes experiments don’t go as planned. Sometimes the boss visits at the and say, ‘Wow, that wrong time. As Singer left for work one recent morning, she fell and was temporarily unable to walk. She hobbled to her car, then was delayed he standards of excellence being set by our University and the ECU Alumni are reflected in the was a great day.’ while a car accident was cleared from the 4 country road she takes to school. growth of our University, our award winning healthcare and healthcare research facilities, and Barely able to stand, she was late for her the City of Greenville. own evaluation. “As soon as the bell rang, At Ironwood, we pride ourselves in maintaining those same standards of excellence. Our prime the assistant principal was there for my real estate, championship golf, and family-oriented club make Ironwood the address of choice “You can still get the material across without people going into the profession, you’re not observation,” she remembers. “I had been the technology,” she says. “So I don’t think it going to find someone from Raleigh who’s sick, and the end-of-course tests were in for East Carolina University Alumni. Join your fellow “Pirates” and come home to Ironwood. two weeks. All I could think about was affects how much they learn. But in science willing to go to such a rural county,” he says. CALL NOW for more information about Ironwood and our exiting growth. Visit our websites education, it is a struggle.” “It’s all about, what does a young person everything I had to do. Because everything is want? Do they want nightlife, do they want determined by that test. If they fail it, they at www.ironwood-realty.com and www.ironwoodgolf.com. For real estate information contact The rural setting makes it hard to attract to live in a city? Do they want to return to fail the class. There is a lot of stress.” teachers, too. Jackie Britt at (252) 752-4653(GOLF) or toll free @ 1-800-343-4766. For golf and membership where they grew up? That’s why growing Her students could have clammed up, information contact John LaMonica (252) 752-4653(GOLF) or toll free @ 1-800-343-4766. “Rural counties have a lot of variables,” says your own is so important. You can give them hammed up or otherwise doomed her lesson. Dan Holloman ’97, special assistant to the a reason to come back.” Instead, they returned a favor. director of human resource management and Surrounded by the farmlands of rural Pitt manager of the Center for Recruitment and “They participated, they answered County, Singer feels right at home. She )2/.7//$2%!,49 ).# Retention at the N.C. Department of Public questions,” she remembers. “They were so grew up in Aurora, population about 600, 4(%%8#,53)6%2%02%3%.4!4)6%&/2)2/.7//$$%6%,/0-%.4 ).# Instruction. For instance, he says, candidates good. Later, I thanked them. I told them and sought a community like Farmville, may wonder: Is there an employment how bad my morning was. population about 4,500. 200 Golf Club Wynd, Greenville, NC 27834 • 252.752.4653 / 800.343.4766 opportunity for my spouse? “For them to be so well behaved was a “I was looking for a small school, because www.ironwood-realty.com • www.ironwoodgolf.com Moreover, smaller communities don’t always moment when you say to yourself, ‘Gosh, I that’s what I was used to,” she says. “Students offer the kind of social life a 22-year-old love them.’ They drive me nuts, but I truly from smaller communities seem to know college graduate hopes for. “They don’t have care about them. And if you show them you how to behave. And it helps when you East EQUAL HOUSING a night life, and if you’re looking at young care, they will care about you.” OPPORTUNITY teach siblings and you know the whole !,EE4REVINO3IGNATURE#OURSE

18 Heard it Through

the Grapevine By Steve Tuttle illustrations by Mike Litwin

Urban legend: At midnight on nights with a he university provides copious amounts of full moon, an evil clown emerges from the clock tower information and advice to help freshmen make at Joyner Library and shouts weird things. T True, except for two things. First, the clown the difficult transition to college life. But it’s the emerges from the clock tower every night at midnight, not just on full-moon nights. sophomores, juniors and seniors—those veterans of Second, the clown doesn’t shout. Most likely the vicissitudes of life—who can be counted on to a philosophy major, he simply states: “Time is futile.” educate the neophytes about the really important stuff. This urban legend has cropped up occasionally since the 1997 opening of the Like, if you’re lousy in math you should take this one new library and the courtyard between it and professor because he grades tests by throwing a stack Joyner East. It gained renewed currency last year when the student paper ran a front-page of them down the stairs of his house. The ones that story about the mystery. land at the top get A’s, the ones at the bottom get F’s, The story began: “A motley crew of onlookers and students not yet old enough and yours might land near the top. Or, the reason to drink gathered in the cold Saturday at midnight to catch a glance of the fabled the sidewalks around the dorms on College Hill go clown that, legend has it, appears in the clock off at odd angles is because the contractor waited to tower across from Joyner Library. “At last, the clock struck midnight, and as see what paths students would beat down before he all present leaned into the cold, eerie carnival poured the concrete. music began to play, accompanied by maniacal laughter. One could hear the gears Most universities have urban legends like these, stories inside the tower grinding and an opening slowly appeared. The face of a jester emerged passed along as gospel from student to student, year and slowly moved forward. The music grew louder, and a voice recording began to drone after year. With a new crop of freshmen on campus, about how futile time is.” we thought it would be enlightening to explore some What the students saw was one of the four cuckoo clock features of the 85-foot-tall of the tales they likely are hearing for the first time. tower. At sunrise a rooster emerges from the Getting to the bottom of these stories can be a tower and crows. Brass horns poke out at noon and a musical sound track plays. At slippery path, but we happily pass along what truth we sunset a cannon booms and emits smoke. The clown performs at midnight. could uncover about each one.

20 21 The crowing, tooting, booming and been required simply as a matter of safety Urban legend: Playboy unlock the secret doors in Old Austin and parts. Several museums have acquired his philosophizing occur, that is, when the and practicality. Colleges started teaching magazine once ranked flip the switch on all the silently waiting works and others were displayed at the 1996 mechanism inside the clock tower works swimming long ago because back then ECU as the top party school in the nation. equipment. From there they would inform Olympics in Atlanta. However, the Acid Park False. Of all the oft-told tales about riotous properly, which is a sore point to the they were one of the few places that had the world that America was still alive. myth continues to attract kids who often times in Greenville, this one has done the maintenance crews charged with keeping the pools. Today, ECU includes its swimming trespass, throw out beer bottles and damage his most to cement the notion that ECU students Urban legend: apparatus running. The crews also spend requirement in a course called EXSS 1000, property, usually in the dead of night. Simpson have very limber elbows. First, it’s not true The Brewster Building looks time tinkering with the three other features which mainly is a phys ed class providing doesn’t mind visitors coming to admire his that publishes an annual ranking of like a military bunker because it was built at a time of the courtyard that give the space its name, students with a working knowledge of how work. Just do it in the daytime when you can America’sPlayboy top party schools. The magazine of campus protests against the Vietnam War. It was Sonic Plaza. regular exercise positively affects health. adequately appreciate his creations. has done that only twice, in January 1987 designed to prevent anti-war demonstrators from Early on in that one-hour class the instructor occupying the building. When the new Joyner Library was being and in November 2002. ECU was absent Urban legend: invites everyone to jump in the pool. Unlikely. But if this legend isn’t true, the planned, a state law (since repealed) required from the ’87 list but we came in at 18th in Greenville’s 1907 bond Those who demonstrate they can swim university isn’t doing much to refute it. a small percentage of the cost of all state the nation in the ’02 update. But that ’02 referendum on whether to financially support the are checked off and spend the rest of the An official history of the building on the buildings to be devoted to public art. ECU ranking should be taken with several grains founding of what became ECU passed because a school semester working out and playing other ECU web site states: “Built during the commissioned noted architect and jazz of salt. based its ’87 rankings on supporter ate the “no” ballots. sports. Those who can’t swim receive 60’s, a turbulent campus political period, True. No less an authority than the late Dr. musician Christopher Janney to come up with actual interviewsPlayboy with club leaders, fraternity intensive instruction until they can. A [Brewster]…was built as a fortress around an Leo Jenkins has confirmed the story of how some ideas. His brainchild was Sonic Plaza. presidents and others in the know at more student who really has a phobic fear of water O-shaped courtyard. The windows have small local businessman Haywood Dail chewed than 250 schools. All it did for the ’02 The plaza would have chimes that would can bring a note from their doctor and be slits in them so that no one can climb in or up enough ballots to ensure passage of the update was solicit e-mail recommendations. ring whenever someone passes beneath excused. Incidentally, ECU is one of the out. The windows also have stone shutters so $50,000 bond referendum. In an article in Students at some universities took that as a the old library columns at one end of the last schools in the state still requiring the Urban legend: that no one can see in or out unless they are the university archives, Jenkins quotes Dail, challenge and organized e-mail drives. Perhaps During the Cold War, most of plaza, a “percussive water wall” intended swim test. N.C. State threw in the towel a right in front of them. It also has a generator who helped organize the election, as saying, the most accurate thing that can be said about the third floor of the Old Austin classroom building as an aquatic symphony, and a “ground decade ago, as did Duke. UNC-Chapel Hill that can support the whole building and “I’m not sorry I did it because if I hadn’t the ’02 ranking, then, is that ECU was 18th was off-limits to students and teachers because cloud wall” to spray an ethereal mist from succumbed this year. metal gates can be lowered quickly to shut the issue wouldn’t have carried. It was a best in the nation in creating spam. underground jets. Janney’s fourth idea was government agents maintained some kind of top-secret anyone from the outside out.” There’s one long time before I said anything about it to the so-called “media glockenspiel” in the There’s an interesting footnote about this facility there. problem with this explanation. There were no anyone, but I’ll be damned if I’m ashamed True, according to professor Jim Rees, clock tower. urban legend that explains why it lives on student riots here against the Vietnam War. of it.” Obviously one to plan ahead, Dail whose office was on the third floor of Old at any number of schools all claiming to be The biggest campus protests in those days insisted that the slips of paper for the ballot Of the four features the chimes are the most Austin until it was torn down to make way premier partiers. After the ’87 list came out, were over the administration’s opposition to be small. In his article, Jenkins observed that dependable. The water wall has proved to be for the arts building. He said the doors to the magazine reportedly was bombarded with co-ed dorms. (A new urban legend! Brewster Dail “must have chewed vigorously.” East difficult to maintain and often sprouts mold. the rooms in that part of Old Austin were calls from distraught students whose schools was originally meant to be a girl’s dorm.) A It and the “ground cloud wall” can only be covered with metal and had locks like a bank didn’t make the cut. In an impressive burst of more plausible explanation is that Brewster turned on during warm weather out of a fear vault. Occasionally, several stern-looking men PR genius, magazine staffers were instructed represents architecture’s early attempts at of frozen pipes and icy walkways. would come down from Washington and to tell the callers: “Your school was left out passive heating and cooling. Narrow windows enter the rooms. Rees said the administration One assumes that the media glockenspiel because we decided not to rank professionals.” keep out the summer sun. A building that frowned on people asking questions about remains a mystery to students for obvious encircles a courtyard minimizes the surface Urban legend: what they were doing. Then one day in 1969, reasons: They’re not awake at dawn. With area exposed to the winter wind. It was an ECU professor who dozens of the men from Washington showed iPods and cell phones constantly in their taught John Glenn and the other Mercury astronauts up, opened all the secret doors and began Urban legend: ears they’re not likely to hear the brass how to navigate in space. emptying the rooms. Rees approached one There’s a place out in the country horns or the cannon. And whatever they True, although the training occurred right of the men and asked what was going on. near Wilson where this weird man has put up a lot are doing at midnight rarely involves a trip before Dr. James Batten came to ECU. “He said, well, since the program is over and of strange windmills and reflectors. The place is called to the library. A naval navigator in World War II who later they’re tearing down this building I guess Acid Park because 40 years ago the man’s daughter studied astronomy at Columbia, Batten spent Urban legend: it’s OK to tell you.” The secret rooms were was high on acid one night and wrapped her car around During the 1940s, a very two years teaching celestial navigation to the backup broadcast center for the Voice a tree right at her driveway and died. Her car is still popular student who was a football star drowned Glenn, Scott Carpenter and the other original of America, whose huge towers outside there. The windmills and reflectors represent what the during a fishing trip. Ever since then, the university “right stuff ” guys. Much of the training Greenville transmitted signals around the man thought his daughter was seeing on the acid. has required students to know how to swim before occurred at Morehead Planetarium in Chapel False. The only reason we recount this world. VOA’s broadcast headquarters were in they can graduate. Hill, which in the late 1950s was the closest urban legend is to discourage students from Washington. But if Washington were wiped Half true. Long-time instructors in the thing available to a space simulator. Batten, bothering an esteemed artist, Vollis Simpson, out by a nuclear attack—a national fear in Department of Exercise and Sport Science who retired in 1986 after 26 years at ECU, who has been hounded by the curious for far the Cold War years—how could the VOA say they’ve heard many such tales about received an honorary doctorate from the too long. Simpson constructs gaily decorated remain on the air? Simple. The broadcasters why ECU requires swimming and don’t University of Arizona for his role in space whirligigs, windmills and other amazing and technicians would escape to Greenville, believe any of them. They say swimming has technology. He died last year. works of art from old machines and industrial

22 23 Songs in the Key of Life

Hubert Walters, one of East Carolina’s first African- American graduates, drops by with his Boston College gospel choir to extol the life-changing power of music.

By Marion Blackburn

24 25 The rest of the nation was beginning a eight bars of a Bach chorale by ear. Three long and often violent journey to racial years later, Walters was among the first integration when a gifted musician named African-Americans to obtain a degree Hubert Walters, along with a handful of from ECU and the first from the School African-American students, quietly made of Music. history in 1962 by enrolling at East Carolina After a successful career in academia, without incident. including the past 24 years at Boston Walters longed to be a part of the college College, Walters, 73, enjoyed a jubilant in a way his parents could not—as an homecoming this spring. The university equal. Growing up on Reade Street, he gospel choir he directs gave concerts at ECU passed the campus almost daily feeling he and at Sycamore Hill Baptist Church. The belonged there but knowing he could not Imani singers (the word is Swahili for faith) attend. So, he followed the only path to is composed of about 40 students from higher education open to him at the time many ethnic and cultural backgrounds. by attending N.C. Central University, from Looking back on his days as a student at East where he graduated in 1955. Carolina, Walters believes he contributed In the early 1960s, then-chancellor Leo more than his musical abilities. “I felt I was Jenkins and others set out to end campus bringing something to ECU, an experience segregation without a court order. Jenkins’ that neither the faculty nor the students ever plan was to admit a few minority students at had,” he says. “I felt I knew about them, but the time. Among those recommended to him they knew nothing about me.” was Walters, who had completed a hitch in He relied on humor to put others at ease the Army and was director of music at E.E. during those awkward moments, such as the Smith High School in Fayetteville. Another day a classmate approached him cautiously. in that group was Laura Leary, ECU’s first “He said, ‘I’ve never even touched the hand African-American undergraduate student. of a black person,’” Walters recalls. “So I Like all School of Music hopefuls, Walters grabbed his hand and slapped it onto mine The Rev. Walters and the Boston College gospel choir are welcomed to East Carolina University by Dean Jeffrey Elwell. first had to prove he deserved the honor and said, ‘Do you feel any different?’ through an audition. He perfectly notated We laughed.” “We have a tendency to fear what we Army he was the only African-American first African-American concert singer to win “We grew up together,” she says of Walters. don’t understand,” Walters says of those chaplain’s assistant at Fort Meade, Md. widespread acclaim. “We started taking music at the same time, times. “But at ECU there was no hostility.” He was chosen a Martin Luther King Jr. from the same gentleman. We’ve had a lot of Walters attended the only performance Spending time with students who didn’t Fellow by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation cultural experiences. We went through a lot Hayes gave in Greenville, a touching concert always accept him helped Walters find and studied at Boston University, where he of things there.” with a bittersweet epilogue. “He performed common ground with others. Eventually, his received his doctorate. a group of French, Italian and German Walters, too, treasures those days and the classmates and college family warmed to him “I felt I was bringing something He joined the faculty of Boston College in At the end, he sang a group of spirituals.lieder. nurturing he received in the South despite and to the changes taking place. 1982, earning its artistic achievement award He came to the edge of the stage, folded his the racial barriers he grew up with. “My family, my church and my school gave in 2004. Today, he is a popular lecturer in hands and assumed a striking pose, and sang, “Most of my students today are from the to ECU, an experience that me the balance that I’ve been able to carry music and African-American studies. His You could hear a pin drop.” North or from out of the country. They have with me,” he says. “We were all nurtured by courses, and Were You There. That night Hayes had to spend the night in no idea what the South is like,” he says. “I the triangular experience of the home, the areRhythm always and filled. Blues in America Jazz in neither the faculty nor the a private home because hotels would not rent explain to them that blacks and whites are school and the church. That was very helpful America, “I represent a generation who are able to rooms to minorities. Walters himself later more close in the South than they realize. And to me because there were high expectations.” look back and forward,” he says. “I was the became one of the first African-Americans everyone greets you. They’re friendly. When students ever had. I felt I knew Walters’ ability to energize others vaulted first black in many situations in my life.” to stay in a Greenville hotel. you come into a store, they speak to you. him to the front lines of the civil rights Walters affectionately remembers his father, The father of four, Walters has kept in touch “Boston is not like that,” he says. “I never struggle during the 1960s and 1970s. Herman E. Walters, as an elegant tenor with many of his old Greenville friends, appreciated my Southern upbringing more about them, but they knew While on faculty at Harvard University, he whom he compares to the late Roland Hayes. including Sallye Streeter, financial secretary than when I came here. I miss the warmth helped found the African-American studies The son of slaves, Hayes rose to prominence for Sycamore Hill Baptist Church for more of the South. In conversation, in seeing each program and led the Kuumba Singers, who with the Fisk Jubilee Singers and eventually than 30 years. other and in speaking. It’s amazing.” East nothing about me.” took part in campus protests. While in the sang for the Queen of England. He was the

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here’s one thing Jody Baumgartner Laughed dumb and venal? Does the trend toward “There’s a lot of people doing Baumgartner puts this point and Jonathan Morris want to get “soft news” in the media, in which most research like this,” said Morris, in simpler terms: “One of Books by ECU faculty Tstraight upfront. The ECU political coverage of political events is reduced to still a bit bemused by all the the reasons we think this is an science professors think with overly simplified horse races and sound bites, media attention the pair received. important subject relates to the The Daily Show The Transformation of Jeff Davis: Just Jon Stewart on cable TV’s Comedy Central contribute to this cynicism? “We’re not busting down the fact that these young people, who when you thought there was nothing is one of the funniest shows on television. So Hard doors to be known as the soft are displaying different political To find out, Morris and Baumgartner did more that could be learned about the They just wish their students didn’t get the news people.” news consumption habits, will what all good academics do. They conducted Civil War, along comes Donald E. majority of their information about politics eventually get older. Their news a scientific survey—this one involving They also weren’t eager to be Collins’ fascinating book about the from Stewart and other comedians like Jay habits, however, may not change. They Cried nearly 800 ECU students—and detailed known as the political scientists transformation of Jefferson Davis Leno and David Letterman. That would mean that within a their findings in an article published in the who blamed a popular TV from unpopular and failed war-time generation, the breadth and In class discussions, Morris and Baumgartner scholarly journal The comedian for America’s civic leader to revered cultural icon. By Steve Tuttle depth of information that increasingly were hearing students retell funny professors were pleasedAmerican to Politics have madeResearch. a small malaise, which most media Collins, ECU associate professor citizens use to make their political things they had heard Stewart say about contribution to the field of political science; stories implied. Pestered by a of history emeritus and the author decisions will be effectively George Bush, John Kerry and other national Which made the professors wonder: Does they were shocked by what happened next. reporter at a Toronto newspaper, of numerous articles on the Civil lessened. This potentially has, figures. The students’ comments weren’t watching a lot of political satire diminish Their phones started ringing with calls from Morris stressed that “we are not War, begins by reminding us in other words, longer-reaching partisan, but it was clear they had formed young people’s faith in government? Does journalists far and wide writing stories about saying is bad for that Davis was widely disliked effects on citizenship.” darkly cynical views of politics and politicians. it make them believe that all politicians are their research. democracy.The Daily We’re Show just pointing across the South during the war for imposing out that exposure to this show Their research did find some a draft and forcing independent-minded states to toe among young adults is associated good news. “The people who the line. But after the war Davis had the perverse good with cynicism toward political do watch these shows are more fortune of being treated shamefully by the Union Army. candidates and the political knowledgeable about politics,” His shabby treatment at the hand of Union jailers, first Jonathan Morris and Jody Baumgartner process as a whole.” Morris says. Or at least it reported by New York newspapers, transformed him makes them think they are. into the martyr who suffered for the defeated South. Specifically, their research Their research indicated showed that watching The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis, “even though increased students’The cynicism Daily by Donald E. Collins. Rowman & Littlefield generates cynicismThe Daily toward Show the aboutShow politicians, particularly Publishing Group. 174 pages. $22.95. media and the electoral process, lesser-known figures, and that it simultaneously makes such “negative perceptions Managing Sustainable Tourism: young viewers more confident of candidates could have A week at the beach is what about their own ability to participation implications by tourism once was for most people, understand politics.” keeping more youth from the but not anymore. It’s a major polls.” That effect might be Morris and Baumgartner industry, especially in North amplified, they argued, because believe they have uncovered Carolina, but one whose future is so few young adults regularly an important nexus between in some doubt. Dr. David Edgell, read newspapers. “Stewart’s political satire and cynicism director of the Institute for Tourism style of humor paints the that they pursue further in a at East Carolina, writes convincingly complexities of politics as a book due out later this year. about the increasing importance of function of the absurdity and It’s entitled a clean environment to the continued Laughing Matters: incompetence of political elites, financial success of this vital industry. thus leading viewers to blame Humor and American Politics Managing Sustainable Tourism: A Legacy for the Future, any lack of understanding not in the Media Age. by Dr. David Edgell Sr. Haworth Press. on themselves but on those who 144 pages. $19.95 run the system.”

28 29 Rod ’63 and June Knowles of New Bern enjoyed steak and lobster at a tailgate last fall. Tailgatin’ Time

By Bethany Bradsher If Dowdy-Ficklen is the living room of the Pirate Nation, then the parking lots around the stadium are its front porch. And its kitchen, too, because, as everyone knows, Pirates like to eat as much as they like to watch football.

Tailgating is a storied tradition at ECU, and Virginia. Those dates cover some the best It’s not unusual on game days to bump this year’s season promises to be one of the weather for tailgating, when the afternoons into groups that have been tailgating at the best ever. There will be five home games in are warm and the evenings just cool enough same spot for 20 years or more. J.C. and a row in September and October, including to whet the appetite for cold chicken. Eleanor Morris of Plymouth, for example, back-to-back games with Virginia and West started gathering with several other families

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Better Team Faces E CU A Tougher Opponents

Skip Holtz knows that expectations are high for his second Pirate football team, and he’d like nothing better than to deliver eight wins and a bowl game. But he won’t promise that—not because he doubts that this year’s team has improved. It has. But the competition has, too. In all, eight teams that played in bowl games last year will be lining up against the Pirates in 2006, including ACC powerhouses N.C. State and Virginia, which will be making its first trip to Greenville. Four games will be televised, twice as many as last year. “It’s hard to tell how good we can be with the schedule we play,” says Holtz, who came to ECU in December 2004 from South Carolina, where he was an assistant Tony ’74 and Linda ’73 ’77 Franklin of Rocky Mount, David Hendricks of Nashville, N.C., and coach under his father, Lou Holtz. “I think we will be much Henry Edmonson ’75 of Rocky Mount enjoy a pot of Brunswick stew. Above right, Tula ’68 a m oveable fea st better than we were a year ago. I don’t know that that’s ’76 and John Satterfield ’72 ’95 of New Bern deserve crowns for creative tailgate food. going to result in a lot more wins, because the schedule is Looking for something different and tasty to eat while tailgating at football games so much more difficult this year. in the ’80s. “We’ve watched children get catered. A number of independent caterers this fall? Try these recipes recommended by “I’m excited about it, but I’m also realistic about it. As I Jennifer Holtz, the wife of football coach old enough to have children and bring the now sell complete meals from vans around told [Athletics Director Terry] Holland, scheduling is the Skip Holtz. children back,” Eleanor Morris says. the stadium parking lots. Parker’s Barbecue, easy part. The hard work is being put in by these players a Pitt County favorite, employs seven to 10 Hanky Pankies right now.” “We’re just college fans, and this is a college James Pinkney extra caterers to accommodate game-day 1 pound ground beef Through spring practice, summer conditioning and two-a- town, and we like to get together,” explains demands, says co-owner Billy Parker. “Last 1 pound ground sausage days starting in early August, the players have developed Tony Brown of Greenville, a veteran tailgater 1 pound Velveeta cheese, cubed year we had to rent some vans to cater out increased confidence in their senior leadership and who’s been known to haul a portable 1 mini loaf cocktail bread (rye and coaching staff. of because we had more caterers than we had sourdough are my faves) dance floor for shagging. “We come to the vans,” Parker says. He estimates that half Fry beef and sausage. Drain fat and return “The biggest difference I can see is that we’re all on the ballgames just to be with people.” pan to stove. Place cubed Velveeta on same page,” says senior wide receiver Aundrae Allison, of all tailgaters cook their own food and top of meat mixture. Stir until cheese is who in 2005 became the first Pirate ever to gain more While many fans go all-out, it really doesn’t half buy their meals from a restaurant or completely melted. Remove from heat. than 1,000 receiving yards in a single season. “We all know require much to stage an enjoyable tailgate. caterer. Another option is to bring the easy- Spoon mixture onto individual slices of that we’re capable of doing great big things this year.” cocktail bread. Lay slices on foil on counter The basic equipment list includes a folding to-fix cold dishes from home and buy the top to set. Once mixture has cooled and With seven starters returning on offense and six on card table; one folding chair per person; a chicken, ribs or barbecue at a take-out place. set, serve immediately, or freeze for later defense, the Pirates have different strengths than they small charcoal or propane grill with utensils; That eliminates the charcoal grill from the use. Place frozen Hanky Pankies on a cookie did last year, Holtz says, and they are deeper at every sheet and broil in the oven until cheese is position except offensive line. For seasoned players like one large cooler loaded with beverages; equipment list. bubbly. Makes approximately six dozen. plastic plates, cups, spoons and forks; a roll quarterback James Pinkney, the development of the It’s fun to be creative with tailgate food, as second and third string is akin to adding several layers of of paper towels. Remember to keep one bag Holtz’s Half-Time BBQ Baked Beans Bill ’98 and Cynthia Anderson of Greenville cinderblock to the foundation the starters have laid. of ice unopened for drink cups, and that 1/4 pound bacon, cut into bite-sized pieces showed last year in winning the Alumni 1 pound hamburger “Depth is being created on this football team, and that’s glass bottles are a no-no. All that will fit where we’re going to be a lot better than we were a year Association’s first Pirate Tailgate Contest. 1 white onion, diced ECU’s Pirate Club long-standing traditions of Purple the 2006 edition of our Champions Collection. For easily into the back of a minivan or SUV. ago,” Holtz says. They served hot dogs made to look like 1/4 cup brown sugar Pride and the sense of individual contributions are eligibility requirements for receiving this print, go to Use the rear hatch as a sunshade. 1/4 cup dark molasses reflected in this year’s theme, The Power Of One. As ecupirateclub.com. If you’re not already a member Pirate ships, complete with tiny “ECU” 1 tablespoon prepared mustard One of the most talented units on the Pirates’ squad is Athletics Director Terry Holland puts it: “There is no of the Pirate Club, there couldn’t be a better time to 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger the secondary, where seniors Kasey Ross, Kyle Chase and Everyone agrees that it’s best to tailgate logos on the side of the buns. The hot dogs greater example of The Power Of One that if each join than right now. 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin Pierre Parker have developed into strong leaders that with another couple or two so you can Pirate Club member accepts the responsibility and were served on a plate of Goldfish crackers 1/4 teaspoon ground pepper young players want to follow. On a larger scale, all of the accountability of signing up one new member, the share the fun and the work of setting up, to complete an ocean effect. Also on the 1 40-ounce can baked beans seniors have taken on the mantle of guiding the team, a 1/2 cup barbecue sauce membership will double immediately. Think about cleaning up and putting away the tailgate menu were barbecue chicken legs (“peg- task that Holtz encourages his seniors to take seriously. The Power of 17,000 Pirate Club members.” This Lightly fry bacon. Drain fat and set aside. items. “The friends are the most important legs”) and meatballs (“cannonballs”). “The biggest difference is senior leadership,” Ross said. year we have created a 16”x20” Limited Edition Fry ground beef and onion. Drain fat and Print of Head Football Coach Skip Holtz portraying thing, by all means,” says tailgater “Coach Holtz really tells the seniors, ‘I’m going to give ECU Educational Foundation Be sure to glance through the special set aside. In saucepan, over medium heat, The Power Of One person being able to lift the level Ward Sports Medicine Building Frank Ewing. “We kid around a lot, combine sugar, molasses, mustard and the team to you.’ They did lay a foundation, but now we of play by creating the excitement of the present East Carolina University Homecoming section for additional stories Greenville, NC 27858-4353 but we really do have a good time.” spices. Stir until thickened. Combine all have to build on it more and more. The seniors are taking and the challenges of the future. The original, ingredients and cook over low heat or in Telephone: (252) 737-4540 and details on entering this year’s search control of the team.” painted by ECU alumnus David Stanley, represents ecupirateclub.com A growing trend is to have your tailgate for the top tailgater. East crockpot on low for 1-2 hours. —Bethany Bradsher

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Pirate Club Priority...... $200 Faculty/Staff...... $160 May purchase up to 2 tickets, plus family living at home Graduate Plan...... $50* *each for the first two tickets, $100 each for the next two tickets Valid for ECU graduates of 3 years or less East Carolina Pirate Club Economy ...... $100 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Sections 1, 11, 13–15, 215, 219, and 220 General Public Economy...... $100 Sections 215, 219, and 220 only Come Home to ECU E C U E V E N T S The East Carolina Alumni Association invites all alumni Scholarship and friends to return to campus this fall for alumni Golf Classic activities and events on campus, and to cheer on the Friday, October 6, 2006 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. ATHLETIC TICKET OFFICE Pirates in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. You have many Ironwood Golf & Residential Community East Carolina University opportunities to show your support for ECU through- Support East Carolina Alumni Scholarships Greenville, NC 27858 while reconnecting with alumni and friends out the fall, from the annual scholarship golf classic on the course at Ironwood Golf & Residen- Toll free: 800-DIAL ECU tial Community. The four-person superball Home Football Schedule to reunions and events surrounding Homecoming. tournament will offer flights at 8:00 a.m. Phone: 252-328-4500 and 1:00 p.m. Participants will enjoy lunch September 16 Memphis Award nominations for Outstanding, Distinguished by Chili’s and an awards social following the September 23 West Virginia last round. Sponsorship opportunities are Fax: 252-328-2255 Service, and Honorary Alumni are now being accept- available. Early registration is recommended October 7 virginia ed. The deadline for submission is November 1, so visit as the tournament is expected to sell out ECUPIRATES.COM October 14 Tulsa quickly! Please visit Golf.PirateAlumni.com for details and registration information. October 21 SMU PirateAlumni.com to nominate worthy individuals. November 11 Marshall The Alumni Association looks forward to welcoming Conference USA games in bold you home to ECU this season. PirateAlumni.com Homecoming Reunions Come home to East Carolina for Homecoming 2006. The Alumni • Dr. Lisa Rowland Callahan ’83, ’87, assistant professor of medicine For more information and registration on all upcoming reunions, Association and campus departments and colleges offer a host of at Cornell University Medical College; attending physician, medical please visit Reunions.PirateAlumni.com or call 800-ECU-GRAD. activities for all alumni during Homecoming Weekend, October 20–21. director at Women’s Sports Medicine Center; and trainer for the For a complete listing of Homecoming Weekend activities and informa- new York Knicks Spirit Reunion tion on event registration, please visit Homecoming.PirateAlumni.com. • Douglas J. Morgan Jr. ’88, senior special agent/national program October 13–14, 2006 manager for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Office of Calling all former ECU Marching Pirates, majorettes, cheerleaders, PirateFest Pep Rally investigations, Contraband Smuggling Division mascots, Golden Girls, Pure Gold Dancers, and color guard members. Thursday, October 19, 2006 • Thomas J. Spaulding Jr. ’92, CEO of Up with People and If you were a part of East Carolina’s Spirit teams, please make plans 6:00 p.m. leader’s Challenge to attend the Spirit Reunion to reminisce and share stories of your ECU students and alumni are invited to catch the Pirate spirit for time at East Carolina cheering on the Pirates. There will be a social on Homecoming Weekend at the campus pep rally and celebration. Alumni Open House Friday night at Club Level in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium from 7:00 p.m.– Saturday, October 21, 2006 until. On Saturday, enjoy the Alumni Tailgate prior to the game. Homecoming Luncheon 9:00 a.m. Friday, October 20, 2006 Taylor-Slaughter Alumni Center ECTC/ECC Alumni Society Reunion Noon Enjoy a complimentary breakfast with the Alumni Association spon- October 20–21, 2006 The luncheon will take place on campus and will feature a guest sored by ARAMARK and a front-row seat for the Homecoming parade. East Carolina alumni who attended ECTC or ECC are invited to attend speaker who will discuss the history of ECU. the ECTC/ECC Alumni Society Reunion on Homecoming Weekend. Homecoming Parade Reunion activities include a campus tour, breakfast at the Alumni Campus TOUR Saturday, October 21, 2006 Center on Saturday prior to the parade, the Alumni Tailgate, and a Tailgate 2006 Friday, October 20, 2006 10:00 a.m. reduced-price football ticket. Following the game, enjoy a reception Make the Alumni Association tailgate a part of your game- 2:00 p.m. Fifth Street and dinner at Mendenhall Student Center, then dance to the tunes of day tradition. Leave the grill at home and attend the Alumni Reunion participants are invited to take a tour of campus to revisit the Collegians as you reminisce and reconnect with friends from your Tailgates sponsored by area restaurants. Enjoy a variety of favorite campus sights and take a closer look at new developments. Alumni Tailgate college days at East Carolina. Our special honorees this year are mem- great food, Pirate beverages, door prizes, live music, and a ECU Ambassadors will lead the tour. Plan to dress comfortably and Saturday, October 21, 2006 bers of the Class of 1956. These alumni will be inducted as Golden chance to see PeeDee the Pirate and the ECU cheerleaders. wear your walking shoes! 12:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. Alumni at the evening event. Cost is $5.00 per person for Alumni Association members For Alumni Tailgate information, see the Tailgate 2006 section on the and $10.00 per person for nonmembers. Visit Membership. Outstanding Alumni Awards Ceremony next page. Black Alumni Reunion PirateAlumni.com for details on how to become a member Friday, October 20, 2006 October 20–21, 2006 of the Alumni Association. The Alumni Tailgate starts two 6:00 p.m. Pirate Tailgate Contest The members of the East Carolina Black Alumni Chapter invite you to and a half hours prior to kickoff and is located outside Gate The East Carolina Alumni Association’s Outstanding Alumni Award Saturday, October 21, 2006 take part in their annual Homecoming reunion. Begin your weekend 2 of Minges Coliseum on the North Side of Dowdy-Ficklen recognizes alumni who have at least five years of work experience Noon–1:00 p.m. by stopping by the chapter’s hospitality room located at the Ledonia Stadium. Visit Tailgate.PirateAlumni.com for details. Kickoff and show outstanding and uncommon achievement in their profes- Put your Pirate spirit to the test in the Pirate Tailgate Contest! Last Wright Cultural Center between 2:00 and 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Octo- times are subject to change. sion, civic affairs, and/or politics. We invite you to join us at this year’s year’s participants wowed the judges with their creativity in food ber 20. That evening, enjoy the ECU Step Show, which begins at 8:00 awards ceremony as we recognize these outstanding alumni: and decorations. See if you have what it takes to claim the title of p.m. Reunion attendees can take part in a number of Saturday events, September 16, sponsored by O’Charley’s. • Charles Earl Bishop ’59, North Carolina high school teacher and Pirate Tailgate champion! Entries will be judged on food, decoration, including the Alumni Association Open House for breakfast with a Memphis vs. ECU. Kickoff at 7:00 p.m. coach (retired) atmosphere (music, etc.), spirit of attendees, and incorporation of this view of the parade, the Alumni Tailgate, and the Homecoming football September 23, sponsored by The HoneyBaked Ham Company year’s Homecoming theme, “How the Pirates Won the West.” game. End the weekend in style at the Black Alumni Reunion Social, and Café. West Virginia vs. ECU. Kickoff TBA. which kicks off at 6:00 p.m. at the Hilton Greenville. Judges will stop by your tailgate between noon and 1:00 p.m. Each October 7, sponsored by Chico’s. tailgate captain will receive a tailgate contest apron, and the winner ECU NC Teaching Fellows Reunion Virginia vs. ECU. Kickoff at 6:00 p.m. will receive a pair of alumni tailgate chairs, a Pirate grill cover, and the October 20–21, 2006 October 14, sponsored by Fuddrucker’s. respect and admiration of the Pirate Nation! To register, visit Tailgate. ECU North Carolina Teaching Fellows will gather Homecoming Tulsa vs. ECU. Kickoff at 3:00 p.m. PirateAlumni.com. Weekend beginning on Friday, October 20, with a staff development session. That evening, enjoy the ECU North Carolina Teaching Fellows October 21, sponsored by ARAMARK. Reunion Dance and Social at Brook Valley Country Club beginning at SMU vs. ECU. Kickoff at 3:00 p.m. HOMECOMING. 8:00 p.m. Saturday morning, reunion participants are invited to attend Society and College Alumni Events November 11, sponsored by The HoneyBaked Ham Company the College of Education’s Breakfast on the Porch at Speight and the and Café. Marshall vs. ECU. Kickoff at 1:00 p.m. Individual school and college receptions will welcome back alumni Alumni Tailgate prior to the Homecoming game. throughout campus during Homecoming Weekend. The following In addition to our home-game tailgates, join the Alumni Asso- programs are planning activities for alumni this October: Military Reunion ciation and the Pirate Club as we take Tailgate on the road to November 10–11, 2006 select away games. Start the season in Annapolis, where the • Alpha Phi Omega Former members of Army ROTC and Air Force ROTC, as well as East Pirates face the Navy Midshipmen on September 2. Cheer on • College of Business Carolina alumni who have served or are serving in the military, are the Pirates in the South as they face the UCF Golden Knights in Orlando, Florida, on November 4. Join us prior to the final • College of Education invited to return for a special military reunion this November. Included game of the regular season in Raleigh as the Pirates take on • College of Fine Arts and Communication in the weekend will be a Friday night social at Club Level in Dowdy- • Hospitality Management the N.C. State Wolfpack on November 25. Visit PirateAlumni. Ficklen Stadium, the alumni tailgate prior to the ECU vs. Marshall com for details. • School of Nursing football game, and special group seating and recognition during the special Military Appreciation Day game on Veterans Day. For the most up-to-date information, visit Homecoming.PirateAlumni.com.

Annual Dowdy Student Stores From page 35: The Outstanding Alumni Award is one of the most Homecoming Sale prestigious awards offered by East Carolina University. Last year’s October 19–21 recipients were recognized during Homecoming Weekend festivities. Fall is the perfect time to freshen up your ECU Pirate wardrobe! Show Shown from left are Layton Getsinger ’69, past president of the Alumni Association Board of Directors; Dr. Deitra Lowdermilk your class ring at the Dowdy Student Stores and receive a 1 percent ’66, award recipient; Clay Walker ’89, award recipient; Conwell S. discount for each year you’ve been away! If you’re a recent grad, you’ll Worthington II ’72, award recipient; Dr. Steve Ballard, chancellor; and receive 5 percent off your purchase of regular-price gifts and apparel. James Cromartie ’66, award recipient. Been gone a long time? Sorry, we have to cap our discount at 30 percent. 36 pirate connections

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As East Carolina approaches its centennial in 2007, the Alumni Association continues to adjust to the realities of communicating, programming and serving an alumni population of more than 120,000 Pirates worldwide. In order to provide the type of organization that our alumni and the university deserve, additional resources need to be generated to fund a quality program. Like many similar organizations at universities across the nation, the East Carolina Alumni Association has launched a membership program that offers a great way for alumni and friends of ECU to show Pirate Pride. We’re asking you to become a charter member in our growing Alumni Association. To serve our growing alumni population Alumni Spotlight: The Collegians more effectively and to help the university East Carolina really knew how to swing during the Big Band era in the 1940’s and ‘50s, thanks achieve greater heights, the Alumni largely to The Collegians. Formed in 1946 by Professor Herbert Carter, a member of the music Association will extend extra benefits to faculty, many of the original band members were veterans who had played in the Army and Navy service orchestras. The Collegians became a mainstay at campus events, and remained dues-paying members. Membership is offered a part of the campus scene until 1966, when the changing musical tastes of students led to at several levels for both individual and joint its demise. Alumni members of the band reformed the group a decade ago to perform once a year at the ECTC reunion. The Collegians have given concerts at every homecoming since members. There is an annual level, a lifetime 1993, and will do so again this year at the ECTC/ECC alumni reunion dinner dance. and senior lifetime level. Additionally, 100 Centennial Pirate memberships will be beyond the classroom with Alumni Awards. Association. The most visible way we honor available during the first year of the program. In addition, your membership supports alumni is twice a year at our spring and fall A Pirate’s Life for Me! Pirate Partners Membership gives alumni a tangible way and delivers (alumni e-news), Alumni Awards ceremonies. PiratePulse A The Alumni Association’s half-hour radio program, A Pirate’s Life for Pirate Partners are companies that are affiliated with the East Carolina to demonstrate their pride, dedication and (members-only newsletter), Me!, continues this fall on Saturday mornings at 10:00 a.m. Tune in to Alumni Association to provide products, services, or discounts to the The success of this program and the caliber PirateAlumni.com,Pirate’s Chantey PirateAlumni RSS feeds Pirate Radio 1250 and 930 AM or worldwide on PirateRadio1250.com 120,000 alumni members of the Pirate Nation. They feature trusted commitment to their alma mater. While you of our award winners hinges on the letters as we feature interviews with East Carolina alumni, from well-known names and customer-friendly service, and some offer you substantial cannot put a price on the pride you’ll feel and , the association’s A Pirate’s Life for Me! and nominations that alumni like you personalities to professional athletes, as well as alumni human interest savings thanks to your ECU connection. when joining, you will be able to add up radio show. stories. The show will also include information about upcoming alumni send recommending fellow Pirates for our events throughout the country. If you would like to hear past inter- MBNA of America the savings from the valuable benefits and Your membership expands the resources awards. The process for choosing the annual views, you may listen to the archives available on PirateAlumni.com or Pirate Radio 1250 & 930 AM services we offer members. We encourage available to East Carolina University. We recipients of the Outstanding Alumni, sign up for the Pirate’s Life podcast so you never miss a show! University Book Exchange members to utilize the quality programs Alumni Loan Consolidation Program encourage you to take an active role in your Honorary Alumni and Distinguished Service Liberty Mutual made possible because of the membership Alumni Association to do all we can for Awards can be found at PirateAlumni.com. American Insurance Administrators program such as career programs like Pirate ECU. Join today by visiting PirateAlumni. Just click on Awards and Scholarships. Freeboot Friday ECU Dowdy Student Stores Career Calls and the Pirate Alumni Network, Start your home football weekend with live music, food, and fun for com or by calling 800-ECU-GRAD. LTC Advisers Inc. Nominations are accepted year-round, but the entire family at Freeboot Friday. Freeboot Friday events take University Meal Deal continuing education programs, cultural and place on the first five home-game Fridays from 5:00–8:00 p.m. at the athletic events, and traditional activities such due by Nov. 1, 2006, to be considered as a corner of Evans and Sixth streets. The Alumni Association is a proud as homecoming and reunions. 2007 award recipient. You are encouraged sponsor of this Uptown Greenville event series. Call for award nominations to nominate someone today so that they can • September 15, Molasses Creek Your membership also helps us recognize be honored by the Alumni Association and • September 22, The Dick Knight Express Honoring the achievements and service of • October 6, Spare Change achievers in the classroom with scholarships, be held up as an example for the rest of the • October 13, Parrot Beach the Robert H. 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,)6% ,/#!,!,7!93%.4%24!).).' KRISTIN MARIE teacher at Aycock Middle School, Greenville, was the Jake Smith ’06, who 2005 WETHERINGTON appeared subject of the winning “My Teacher, My Hero” essay led the East Carolina as Maggie in the Theater of the American South sponsored by the Greenville and two baseball team in Daily Reflector production of in Wilson, in local businesses. ELIZABETH LEE GLASGOW seven offensive two Cape Fear CatRegionalon a Hot Theatre Tin Roof productions and KNIGHT of Winterville was one of 50 recipients categories, won two ECU/Loessin Summer Theatre musicals. of James Madison Fellowships awarded to secondary this year’s Coleman ANTHONY JAMES HOLSTEN and MARLO school history and social studies teachers. She teaches Company-Johnny AMBER HOFFMAN HOLSTEN ’97 of Greenville at Rose High School in Greenville. Bench Award, which is given to the are among founders of the Greenville Theater Project. SHARON JOYCE ARENA nation’s best college Anthony is a lecturer in the ECU English department, ELLIOTT of Winterville was catcher. Bench, the and Marlo works in public relations for Barnes and 2001 one of four occupational therapists in the nation to Hall of Fame catcher, Noble Booksellers. presented the trophy to Smith during a receive board certification in gerontology from the ceremony in Wichita, Kan. A Greensboro 7iiŽ`>ÞÃÊ>ÌÊx«“ÊEÊn>“ LT. ROGER LEE VOGEL III American Occupational Therapy Association. She native, Smith boasted a .988 fielding 2004 of the Army’s 82nd Airborne works at Therapeutic Life Center. DANIEL JAMES percentage behind the plate, meaning Division, Fort Bragg, was featured speaker at the HAUGHT is enrolled in a doctoral program at the he made only four bad throws all year March 28 Victory Bell ceremony on campus. University of Colorado at Boulder. He is working as a out of 322 chances. He led the Pirates EMILY RENEE CUTHRELL of Greenville has research assistant at the Institute of Behavioral Science. led the team in batting average, hits, joined Faulkner & Associates Advertising as media doubles, RBIs, total bases and slugging GEORGE THOMAS percentage, while ranking second coordinator. 2000 COLLIER ’00 ’04 and OLIVIA in home runs. ECU’s baseball team KELLY ELIZABETH GRIFFIN ANNE HILL ’02 ’04 were married Oct. 8, 2005, in compiled a 33-26 record this year, its 2003 SMITH has been promoted Fuquay-Varina. Both are federal grant administrators tenth consecutive winning season. Smith to branch manager of First South Bank’s Greenville with the N.C. Department of Commerce. LESLI was drafted by the Oakland Athletics. office on Arlington Boulevard.DR. ANTHONY GRANDY of Greenville, a fourth-grade teacher at CARL “TONY” BREUER of Greenville, an artist Pactolus Elementary School, was recognized as one of / iÊ-Ì>̈œ˜ÃÊ Adreinne Millican and physician, is showcasing his artwork online at Pitt County’s “top teachers” by the Greenville Daily ’05 showed why www.breuerworksart.com. ALTRICE MELODY she’s arguably the CARTER GALES of Grimesland is working with Reflector. Attorney JONATHAN VANN best woman golfer the Pitt Community College law enforcement training to come from BRIDGERS of Greenville was sworn program. GARY RUDOLPH REDDING ’03 ’05 is a 1999 ECU by winning in as a member of the N.C. state bar this spring. He ÊÊÊvœÀÊ*ˆÀ>ÌiÃÊ lecturer in the ECU Department of English. the N.C. Amateur received his law degree from Regent University School Championship this KATHERINE MARIE EVANS of Law in Virginia. JOHN ADLIN DAIGLE JR. of summer. Millican 2002 of Fayetteville is a social worker Winterville was promoted to director of finance at stormed from with Cape Fear Valley Home Health. She formerly Overton’s Inc. of Greenville. JENNIFER LYNN SISK behind on the final worked with Advantage Hospice and Home Care. ’99 ’05 is a lecturer in the ECU Department of English. three holes to post ÊLÞÊ*ˆÀ>ÌiÃt NICOLE MICHELLE SONBERT HOUSE, a music the lowest score in the tournament’s 57 years. The Greensboro native, who won five tournament championships in a stellar college career, now is thinking about turning pro. James Davis Frank Lin ’05 was a big baseball fan at ECU and landed his dream job right out of college when he was hired by the Boston Red Sox as an interpreter for four young Taiwanese players. The four are playing this season in the farm system of Boston Red Sox, with Lin as their constant companion. The bilingual native of Taiwan caught the Former presidents of the Student Government Association have organized themselves into attention of Red Sox officials through a 0)2!4%2!$)/,)34%.%2,).%  the Robert Herring Wright Society. The group will support programs and services offered by web site he created while attending ECU, the Division of Student Life. Pictured at the society’s organizational meeting, and the year Franksfieldofdreams.com, which focuses each was SGA president, are (from left) Scott Forbes ’77, (rear) Tom Mallison ’62, Ian Eastman 0)2!4%2!$)/#/- on Asian athletes playing American ’94–’95, Alex Martin ’91, David Lloyd ’68, society director Bill Clutter, (front) Brent Queen ’00, baseball. M. Cole Jones ’05–’06, Shannon O’Donnell ’04, Dallas Wells ’59, and Keith Dyer ’93.

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DR. WILLIAM ALEXANDER coordinator at the University of Maryland’s Spring by as one of Greensboro’s “Forty LINDA KAYE DARTY of Baker Watts in Virginia Beach as a senior vice president SHARON LYNETTE PARROTT Business Journal 1998 BENSON IV of Plymouth is Grove Hospital Center, has received board certification Leaders Under 40.” Chris, vice president of Question 1989 Greenville is author of and investment advisor. He was previously a vice 1982 KINSLEY of Greenville, a teacher practicing dentistry in Raleigh. He received his in psychiatric pharmacy. Technologies Inc., recently earned a pilot’s license. a book on the art of applying glossyThe Art president for investments at Morgan Stanley. at Creekside Elementary School, was selected Pitt dental degree from New York University. MELANIE LISA SPIRIDOPOULOS of McLean, Va. has been finishesof Enameling, on metal, glass or ceramic ware. She teaches County’s Sam’s Club Teacher of the Year. BRANDON MONROE TATE DONALD CHRISTOPHER SARA McSTINE of Manassas, Va., competed in her named director of marketing for Crescent Heights, in the ECU School of Art. EDWARD GLENN and 1995 ’95 ’98 of Greenville has opened his LANCASTER of Youngsville has DR. MADGE LOU BARNES first marathon in Miami on behalf of the National Va. She was previously an associate vice president LINDA JEFFERSON “JEF” GLENN (Honorary) 1986 third U.S. Cellular retail store. His Atlantic Wireless joined Union Bank & Trust Co. as market executive ’81 ’87 of Grand Prairie, Texas, is AIDS Training Program, helping raise funds for the at Brotman-Winter-Fried in Falls Church and also of Greenville, owners of Jefferson’s, received the 1981 operation is one of seven U.S. Cellular “platinum for Franklin County. He was formerly a vice president medical director for the City of Dallas Department Whitman-Walker HIV/AIDS Clinic in Washington, a statistician for the Washington Wizards and the Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce agents” in the nation. at First Citizens Bank in Louisburg. WILLIAM of Environmental and Health Services’ public D.C. She is training coordinator for the Environmental Washington Mystics. Amazing Customer Service Award in May. The Glenns JOSEPH “BILL” McBRIDE III of San Francisco has health division. She was formerly medical director at Systems Research Institute in Vienna. BOBBI MICHELLE WILSON of have moved their business into the renovated Jefferson CHRISTOPHER SMITH been promoted to chief operating officer of Club One Concentra Medical Center. SELENE WHELESS 1994 Clayton has left the tax department Blount-Harvey building on Evans Street in downtown ANGELA CAROL CLARK 1992 WOELKERS has opened Inc., an international fitness and wellness organization. GWALTNEY ’81 ’87 of Asheville is clinical of Ernst & Young LLP, where she worked for eight Greenville. Attorney TERENCE ERNEST 1997 MILLS of Greenville, a nurse at Greenville’s first bed and breakfast. His 5th Street Inn He was previously a senior vice president at the coordinator for Allergy Partners PA, the nation’s largest years, to become tax manager with General Parts Inc., McENALLY III of Garner is operating a weekend Pitt County Memorial Hospital’s Pain Management is in the National Register-listed Shuff-Smith House Sport & Health Co. in Washington, D.C. SHARON single-specialty practice in allergy, immunology and the holding company for all CarQuest stores. DALE satellite firm in Fuquay-Varina to serve Hispanic Center, was recognized as the hospital’s Outpatient at the corner of Fifth and Library Streets. ANN DENISE GARRIS ANGEL of Winterville has asthma with 21 hubs in 12 states. TERRY WADE C. MANN of Felton, Del., is a band director and clients. Terence is fluent in Spanish. Services Division Nurse of the Year. YOMI MUJIB ELIZABETH STRUCINSKI WEINGARTZ has received state bar certification as a paralegal. She is an head coach for varsity golf at Milford High School. MIZESKO, bass trombonist with the North Carolina SHAFAU of Greenville is a program manager at been named director of ECU’s University Printing, accountant and specializes in bankruptcy. Symphony, composed a MARCELLUS MACQUEEN “MARC” GAINEY GREGORY WHITLEY NACCO Materials Handling. He appeared in the Graphics and Mail Services. and piece premiered at the Lastsymphony’s Voyage of theconcertCurrituck, presented of Dublin, Ohio, is a “Mac Genius” at Apple 1988 JARRELL STACY ANN MICHAEL ROBERT GRUBBS Farmville Community Arts Council production of ’89 of Greenville are at Pepsi Amercas’ Sail 2006, the recent Tall Ships Computer Inc. in Columbus. He is certified in three JEFFREY PAUL McLOUD of HAMILTON JARRELL of Pfafftown has been appointed this spring. KARRIE BROWN RUSHING partners in Jarrell Design Collective. In March they 1984 event held off the Carteret County coast. technical areas. DENNY WARREN PURSER of Kinston has been appointed to the 25- plant manager at Winston-Salem Industries for the JANE andRagtime husband Matthew are the parents of a daughter, 1991 Greenville is a certified financial planner with Purser member N.C. Independent Living Council. He also serves won four regional ADDY Awards for excellence in Blind. He was previously operations and production CAROL McLAURIN of Holly Springs is president Anna Southerland, born last Aug. 9. The family Financial Solutions. on the Governor’s Advocacy Council for Persons with advertising materials. LORI ANN SHRANK of manager for Sara Lee Sportswear/Underwear/Socks. at McLaurin Safety Consulting. She was previously an lives in Garner. DALE SHANNON HOLLOWAY Burnsville, Minn., married Matt Standafer last spring. OSHA compliance supervisor at the N.C. Department Disabilities and holds office on two mental health boards. RONALD DEAN JONES of Greensboro has LACKEY of New Bern and husband Tony welcomed JONATHAN RICHARD Lori is controller at The Blake School, a private earned a master’s degree in adult education. He is a of Labor in Raleigh. new daughter Marlena Shannon last August. Dale is a POWERS of Greenville, an Edward GAIL DILLAHUNT SMITH of 1993 prekindergarten-grade 12 school. career counselor with Guilford County Training and physical therapist at Craven Regional Medical Center. Jones investment representative, has been appointed 1990 Greenville, a teacher at Rose High KATHY KLEPPINGER of Employment Services. of Greenville is president a field trainer for new brokers.CHRISTOPHER School, was recognized by the Greenville MARK ALDO DeSALVO 1980 SPRAU JENAI EILEEN STERN PAUL Chesapeake, Va., has joined Ferris of the local Business and Professional Women’s JOHN LANEY of Greensboro was recognized as a “top teacher” in Pitt County. Daily Reflector 1987 1996 of Baltimore, clinical pharmacy

“Frances and I have enjoyed a lifelong relationship with East Carolina. I grew up a block from campus, met my bride at class registration, got h Frances in trouble for holding her hand on the Mall, and have made great friends with so many fellow Pirates, including President Wright and The 2006–2007 Chancellors Jenkins and Messick.” SRAPAS Season Join Virgil ’50 and Frances ’52 Clark as charter members of the East Carolina Alumni Association. Membership in the Alumni Association Hear the music of Grammy winners and other internationally renowned artists. • Van Cliburn Gold Medalist pianist helps to provide quality programs and services such as Pirate Career Treasure the adventures of swashbuckling pirates and the drama of a courtroom Alexander Kobrin tragedy. Revel in the performance of North Carolina’s own symphony orchestra. Calls and the Pirate Alumni Network, traditional activities such as It’sSway with the grace ofShowtime the world’s best dancers. • Jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton Homecoming and reunions, alumni and faculty awards, and student • New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players: scholarships. As a member, you will join the ranks of alumni like the Enjoy all of this with your season subscription to the 2006–2007 S. Rudolph The Pirates of Penzance Alexander Performing Arts Series, starting this fall in historic Wright Audi- Clarks who demonstrate their pride, dedication, and commitment to torium on the campus of East Carolina University. • L.A. Theatre Works: The Caine Mutiny East Carolina University. Join today! Court Martial For a limited time, SRAPAS is offering a special ticket package to paid members of the East • Grammy-winning violinist Hilary Hahn “Our support of East Carolina is out of a grateful heart for what we Carolina Alumni Association at a discounted rate of $175.50 per person. Act now, and show received here—an education. Our membership in the Alumni Association • North Carolina Symphony Orchestra your pride in your alma mater’s celebration of the arts. is another way we support a place that has given us so much.” • The Koresh Dance Company 252-328-4788 • Moscow Festival Ballet: Don Quixote • The Emerson String Quartet 252-328-4736 (voice/TTY) www.ecu.edu/ecuarts 42 Join today 43 class notes

Network. DR. JOSEPH ANTHONY NELSON correction for the Arlington County Sheriff ’s Office. Advisory Council. The board advises the N.C. Office Salvation Army, the Keep America Beautiful program Calling all members ’80 ’85 of Winterville has been appointed principal at He is now working as a personal fitness trainer in two of Environmental Education on programs serving and other civic and charitable organizations. Stokes School. He has been an educator in Pitt County area health clubs. RONALD DEAN PAYNE ’75 educators and the general public. of the Class of 1956 JANE BRUTON for 24 years. ’83 of Matthews is retiring as director of bands for JERY WADE TILLOTSON of DAUGHTRIDGE of Wilmington Come home to your 50th college reunion and Providence High School. 1958 CORETHA MELVIA 1965 New York has published his latest has been named senior planner for New Hanover choose from several activities planned for Oct. 1979 RUSHING of Atlanta has been DR. PHILLIP BAXTER WATTS novel, set in the Blue Ridge County. She was formerly director of planning for Oak 20–21. To learn more, call 800-ECU-GRAD or named chief administrative officer at Equifax Inc., an 1974 of Harvey, Mich., received Mountains.House Afterof Screaming more Clowns,than 30 years in the city, Jery Island. visit Reunions.PirateAlumni.com. information technology company based in Atlanta. the Northern Michigan University Excellence in plans to move back to North Carolina this year. His E. O’BRIEN EDWARDS of She was previously senior vice president of human Professional Development Award. He is a specialist in books are labeled under various pen names, including Durham has retired after 41 years resources at the Coca-Cola Co. and an official with exercise physiology. DARRELL HARRISON ’74 ’79 Andrea d’Allasandra. JAMES H. BUNDY of Raleigh 1957 with Broyhill Furniture. He worked in sales and Cameron Wesley LLC. CATHERINE LAWRENCE of Greenville is owner of Xerox Document Solutions has retired as regional director of the National Student management throughout the U.S. and Canada. SPRUILL was one of 19 artists whose work was East Inc. and will begin his 15th year this fall as a Clearinghouse. He is N.C. State University’s university displayed in nine Greenville gardens for the “Art in college football official.DR. ALTA ANDREWS registrar emeritus. James is married to FAYE BAKER LT. COL (RET.) RALPH the Yard” public tour benefiting the local Ronald of Ayden has been appointed associate dean for BUNDY ’62. NEIL EDWARD DORSEY ’65 ’67 1955 PARKINSON SMILEY ’55 ’59 McDonald House. community partnerships and practice in the ECU of Columbia, Md., was selected for three awards and JOAN KELLY SMILEY ’59 ’83 of Walnut Creek School of Nursing. She is a member of the Eastern for his achievements in volunteer service, including and Island View Shores celebrated their 50th wedding MARK ALAN TANNER of Area Health Education Center home health advisory recognition as PR/marketing volunteer of the year for anniversary in June. An Air Force veteran, Ralph was a Annapolis, Md., has retired as 1978 board. DENNIS WOODARD DELAMAR of the Central Maryland American Red Cross. navigator bombardier on the B-52, then an educator in director of the FBI’s Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Charlotte directed a local production and Wayne County. Joan retired after 30 years as a teacher, Force. He has joined CollabraSpace as director of law Wizard of Oz HARRY ELBERT “HAL” returned to Greenville to appear in the ECU/Loessin principal and counselor. enforcement and homeland security. The organization’s SMITH JR. of Greenville has Summer Theatre production of He 1962 purpose is to foster collaboration among agencies and retired as counselor at Pitt Community College. He was retired from teaching after 30 years.The Fantasticks. CHARLES T. FUTRELL of organizations involved in protecting America from featured speaker at the school’s graduation this year and 1942 The Village, Fla., was honored by Student Union board members in 1956, seated terrorist activities. NOEL MORRIS “SANDY” received an award for distinguished service to PCC. the Florida Department of Elder Affairs and featured left to right, were Jo Anne Harris, Dot Lloyd, HARRIS III of Greenville has in a Wisdom of Age exhibit in Tallahassee. Charlie Alumni Spotlight DEBORAH JEAN HARRIS 1973 SYLVIA ANN JONES WHELESS Libby Small, Decoma Byrd, Linda Whitehurst and Although Katie Corbett Johnson been promoted to battalion chief of the City of has competed in more than 400 road races, dozens PARKER of Grifton was named of Greenville was presented the Cynthia Mendenhall. Standing left to right: Eddie ’31 retired from the classroom in 1977 Greenville’s Fire/Rescue department. 1959 of triathlons and six Hawaii Ironman competitions, to Manpower’s Circle of Stars, a national recognition local Best-Irons Humanitarian Award in February. She Dennis, Roy Askew, Charles Simmons, Joel Farrar 1978 she firmly believes that no winning two world triathlon championships. program for the company’s top performers. She is MICHAEL W. KELLY of Nags has worked with prison ministries, the Shrinettes, the and Greenville Banks. one should ever stop learning. branch manager for Manpower in Wilson, New Bern Head, owner of Kelly’s Outer University Archives photo “They taught me back then to keep 1972 and Kinston. Banks Restaurant, has pledged $25,000 to ECU’s learning,” she said during a recent Institute for Tourism. Mike is an ECU trustee and a reception in her honor in Greenville. DR. GLORIA FISHER-SNEAD founding member of the College of Human Ecology’s ’76 ’94 of Greenville received the “I came to East Carolina to learn 1976 advancement council. OF YOUR NEWS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS Emmons-Flintom Award from the Eta State Chapter how to teach, and the teachers and of Delta Kappa Gamma honor society for educators. RICHARD R. “RIC” COX professors were superb. I cannot She is the principal at Whitfield School in Grimesland. of Greenville was co-winner of Complete this form (please print or type) and mail to: Class Notes Editor, East Carolina University, Howard House, 1001 E. say enough about how East Carolina 1971 SHERI ANN MOSLEY STRICKLAND of the Greenville-Pitt County Small Business Leader MFifth Saketreet, Greenville, a N NCo 27858-4353;te or FAX to ­252-328-6300. While East happily prints wedding announcements, it is our helped me to learn the methods of Greenville has been elected vice president of the N.C. Award. He is owner of the Richard R. Cox CPA firm. policy not to print engagement announcements. Also, when listing fellow alumni in your news, please include their class year. teaching.” Teaching, she said, is Association of Educators, a full-time position, and will DONALD WAYNE MILLS and ADA “BOOTS” Please use additional paper as necessary when sending your news. “the noblest profession.” be working in Raleigh. She was preschool disabilities ASKEW MILLS of Greenville were jointly honored Please send address changes or corrections to: Kay Murphy, Office of University Development, MAIL: East Carolina University, Johnson spent her entire career in coordinator for Pitt County Schools. DR. WILLIAM by the Pitt District of Boy Scouts of America with 2200 S. Charles Blvd., Greenville, NC 27858-4353, FAX: 252-328-4904, or E-MAIL: [email protected]. eastern North Carolina schools. After EDWARD SCHLENGER of Raleigh, a psychologist, its Distinguished Citizen Award. Don is manager of retiring, she served as a substitute has joined Abt Associates as a principal and senior NACCO Materials Handling Group, and Boots is elementary teacher until 1998. technical official. He has produced several publications retired from the ECU education faculty. DONNA LEA In 1999 she became a volunteer on post-traumatic stress disorder. RAINEY WARE ’71 ’80 of Winterville has retired as NAME First Middle Last Maiden teacher. Her dedication to education child nutrition director for the Pitt County Schools. WANDA EDWARDS YUHAS was acknowledged by the Governor’s JACK S. MOODY of Braxton, Miss., is director of of Winterville has been named CLASS year e-MAIL DAY PHONE EVENING PHONE Award for Outstanding Volunteer 1975 the Mississippi Office of Geology’s geospatial resources director of the Pitt County Economic Development Service. She also has been honored division. He formerly directed the Mississippi Geologic Commission. A new novel by MARGARET ADDRESS CITY STATe ziP by the Clinton County Schools and Survey’s energy and coastal division. “MAGGIE” BISHOP ’75 ’76, is Sampson Community College. set for publication this fall. TheMurder setting at is Blue a dude Falls, ranch SAMUEL R. KENNINGTON YOUR NEWS Her three daughters all followed her near Boone. Maggie lives in Deep Gap. DR. ROGER 1968 of Roxboro has been appointed footsteps by graduating from East DEAN SHARPE of Harmony won the Democratic principal of Roxboro Community School, a charter Carolina and becoming teachers. Party’s nomination as a candidate for the fifth school for middle grades and high school students Daughter Ann is married to ECU congressional district, representing 12 counties along scheduled to open this year. Sam has been executive Athletics Director Terry Holland. the North Carolina/Virginia line. He has written director of the Roxboro Uptown Development Corp. and about his ECU experiences in previously was an educator in Burlington and Statesville. During her college years, (Mercer University Press, 2005).Ceremony CAPT.of WILLIAM Innocence KATHERINE VIRGINIA Mrs. Johnson lived in Cotten Hall, ROBERT “BILL” McKNIGHT of Falls Church, JONES REVELS of Raleigh has sang in the glee club and acted Va., has retired after 30 years as assistant director of 1966 in several plays. been appointed to the N.C. Environmental Education

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’00, ’05 DR. JAMES HENRY McGLONE of ’75 THE REV. RONALD DALE CYR of Kinston planner of the San Diego light-rail system. ’54 ADA CATHERINE BREWER GRIFFIN of ’31 LOUISE MARGARET HUDGINS Keith Aaron LeClair Goldsboro died June 3, 2005. He was program died April 11. He was a Methodist minister and served Wilson died Sept. 30, 2004. She taught in Wilson, KITTRELL of Corapeake died March 25. She taught ’65 VICKI BARRETT GILLIAM of Roxboro died director for NOVA Behavioral Health Care. as chaplain at Caswell Center. Rocky Mount and Wayne County schools and at school in Gates County and was active in the United March 4. She was a teacher and a founder of Family Wayne Community College. Methodist Women. Keith LeClair, ’94 JAMES TODD McRAE of Chesapeake, Va., ’72 REVA LEWIS BUTLER of Dunn and Cary and Life Services of Person County. East Carolina died Sept. 28, 2005. He was business manager of the died June 15. She was a retired teacher in Harnett ’51, ’52 EDWIN D. AVERETTE SR. of New Bern ’30 MARY WINIFRED ROUSE DAWSON ’64, ’70 WILLIAM PENN “BILL” EYERMAN University’s head Ferguson Enterprises Inc. HVAC division. County and former officer of the N.C. Order of the died May 22. He was a veteran of the Army and of Snow Hill died April 30, 2005. A former of Raleigh died June 3. He piloted several Eastern Star. served in the Korean War. seventh-grade teacher, she was active in arts and baseball coach ’93 JOHN ROBERT McLEOD PARKS of Raeford publications promoting economic development history organizations. from 1997 to died April 1. He worked for the U.S. Park Service in ’70 FRITZ FILLMORE LITTLE of Middlesex in the Triangle region. ’51 LOU SMITH NELSON of Simpson died April 2002, died last the West and in sales and was a volunteer speaker for and Leicester died May 16. He was an adjuster 29. She taught English at Belvoir High School and was ’28 ETHEL SPRATT BOWDEN of Faison ’62, ’64 RUBY DRIVER HARRIS of Rocky Mount month following the National Alliance for Mental Illness. for the State Farm, Allstate and Horace Mann author of a grammar textbook. died Feb. 8. She taught in Glen Alpine and in died March 20. She worked in school systems in the an extended insurance companies. Duplin County and was active in church and ’82 MICHAEL EUGENE “GENE” LEWIS of Carolinas and in Michigan. ’49 YVONNE HONEYCUTT AVERETT of community organizations. illness. LeClair, 40, Oak City died May 24. He was retired from Carolina ’69 CARLTON REID BEAMAN SR. of Tarboro Greenville died June 18. She was a teacher in eastern had been battling ’62 CHARLES LEONARD HOLLIDAY SR. Telephone/Sprint and was a licensed auctioneer died May 13. He was retired from Carolina Telephone North Carolina for 29 years. ’28 VIRGINIA HIGHSMITH BLOUNT of of Fuquay-Varina died April 11. He was director amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and realtor. /Sprint and owner of Beaman Construction Inc. High Point died Nov. 16, 2005. She was a former of the N.C. State Property Office and owner of a ’43, ’60 BOBBIE LORRAINE PRITCHARD commonly referred to as ALS or home economics teacher and worked for Virginia ’79, ’85 ROBERT FRANCIS “BOB” MATTHEWS ’69 MARGARET GOLD EVANS BUNCH of development company. MATTHEWS of Rocky Mount died Oct. 1, 2005. Lou Gehrig’s Disease, for the past Power and Light Co. in the Government Nutrient SR. of Williamston died April 13. He was a 20-year Greenville died March 28. She had taught at Beaufort She was regional director of school music in the N.C. five years. ’60 JAMES H. “JIMMY” DAUGHTRIDGE of Project during World War II. veteran of the U.S. Navy and taught for the ECU and Pitt community colleges and worked at Pitt Department of Public Instruction. Rocky Mount died Nov. 27, 2004. He was an Army Division of Continuing Education. County Memorial Hospital. ’27 RUTH HARRELL OVERMAN of Edenton During his collegiate baseball career veteran, school principal, teacher and basketball coach. ’43 NELLIE REECE BARNES MULHOLLEM of died May 7. She taught in Pasquotank County schools as a player, assistant coach and head ’78 DIANNE GIBSON HUMPHREYS ’66 WILLIAM HYTHE “BILL” MORRIS JR. Clayton died Oct. 31, 2005. She taught first grade for ’56 WILLIAM N. “BILL” HOWARD of Bath died and was an officer in the Order of the Eastern Star. coach at Western Carolina University WOODWARD of Greenville died May 17. She had of Hawthorne, Fla., died April 1, 2004. His 38 years in Johnston County schools. June 27. He was a Coast Guard veteran and retired as and East Carolina, LeClair was a part taught in Virginia Beach, Myrtle Beach and eastern transportation career included positions vice president of Hannah & Dunn Inc. of Greenville. ’42 MARTHA RICE MATKINS of Burlington died FACULTY DEATHS North Carolina. throughout the U.S., most recently as lead of 13 NCAA Tournament teams and Sept. 25, 2005. She taught in Roanoke Rapids and earned five conference coach-of-the- FRANCES FAULKNER DUDLEY of Greenville Raleigh schools, then directed the UNC-Chapel Hill died March 6. She taught mathematics from 1964 year awards. Graham Memorial and Student Union. until 1986. He officially relinquished his coaching ’41 SALLY MARY MATHIAS FREEMAN of DR. RAYMOND LAWRENCE “RAY” JONES of duties in 2002 after leading the Gates died March 31. She was an elementary grades Greenville and Chapel Hill died July 8. He taught in teacher for more than 30 years and a member of the Pirates to their fourth consecutive the School of Business from 1961 until 1989. Order of the Eastern Star. NCAA Regional appearance DR. CHARLES H. MOORE of Greenville died before. LeClair remained with the ’40 ANNA LAURIE BEALE BURGESS of March 25. He taught psychology for 30 years, Department of Athletics as a special Pendleton died Feb. 7. She was a retired teacher and beginning in 1968. assistant to the director of athletics also worked for the Northampton County Department until his death. of Social Services. DR. EVERETT PITTMAN of Greenville died March 10. He was chairman of the School of Music ’38 GRACE MARIE SPENCER MITCHELL of “Keith LeClair and his approach from 1971 until 1980 and later taught music classes. Harellsville died April 1. She was a retired teacher, to life touched so many people in having taught in Hertford and Bertie county schools. DR. CHARLES LEWIS PRICE of Greenville died this community while providing June 8. He was a member of the history faculty from inspiration for all who had the good ’36 CAROLYN BRINKLEY EURE of Gatesville 1957 until 1983. died June 19. She formerly taught at Gatesville fortune to meet and know him,” Director of Athletics Terry Holland High School. DR. KATYE OLLIVER SOWELL of Greenville and Atlanta died May 13. She taught mathematics for said. “His legacy in Pirate Athletics is ’35 LOU PITTS “SU SU” WATKINS STATON of more than 35 years, beginning in 1965. unmatched and his good counsel will Oxford died May 2. She had taught in several North be sorely missed in our daily lives.” Carolina schools and was a member of the DAR. “Keith represents the true spirit of ’35 EDITH SMITH MARLSENDER MALLARD of Jacksonville died Nov. 17, 2004. She was a public ECU athletics,” Chancellor Steve school teacher and also taught piano. Ballard said. “He taught us all to dream big dreams and make them ’32 HELEN McLAUCHLIN MITCHELL of come true. He was a close friend and Lake George, N.Y., died Sept. 5, 2004. Her teaching career included positions at Columbia University, trusted adviser, and he was the best the universities of Illinois, Alabama and Florida and possible model of someone who puts Appalachian State University. ECU first.”

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“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

Move-in day More than 5,100 students will be lugging heavy boxes across parking lots and up the stairs to their dorm rooms on Aug. 19, the day everyone says always is the hottest day of the year in Greenville. Move-in day was supposed to be a little easier on students and their parents this year because, for the first time, every dorm room on campus would be air-conditioned. But with surging enrollment, ECU was forced to reopen Belk Residence Hall, which has no air conditioning and was slated to be taken out of service. The unidentified student in the picture above, taken on move-in day 1985, apparently was one of the lucky ones to get an air-conditioned room because there’s no boxy window fan visible among her possessions. ECU now has 14 dormitories, including the new College Hill Suites, which is configured in two- or four-person suites, all with kitchenettes. An ECU dorm room now costs around $3,800 a year, or $4,300 for the more luxurious College Hill Suites. Ten of ECU’s dorms are co-ed, one is male only and three are female only. Every dorm room has a micro fridge, Internet access and a cable TV port. All dorms are now smoke-free, except for the top floor of Fletcher Hall.

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Moments after a summer rainstorm, unusual shapes and textures emerge from drops of water on a lily pad at the North Carolina Estuarium in Washington. Geometry of the Swamp #14 by Forrest Croce

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