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NEW DEGREES SPUR GROWTH IN GRAD SCHOOL 2 0 Greater competition for jobs or a desireBy Marion to change Blackburn careers is what motivates most students to seek a graduate degree these days.

pie in the sky 20 2 8 Reid Fogleman finds a winning recipe for businessBy Steve Tuttle built on his core competencies—and valuable alumni ties.

THE MAP MAN 3 2 Derek Alderman teaches students to see geography’sBy Spaine Stephens potential to change the world.

younger team sets bigger goals 36 After losing four seniors, the 28 men’sBy Bethany Bradsher team and the university huddle around Coach Lebo.

DEPARTMENTS FROM OUR READERS ...... 3

THE ECU REPORT ...... 4

32 WINTER ARTS CALENDAR ...... 18

FROM THE CLASSROOM ...... 32 Homecoming meets Halloween 36 With temperatures in the low 40s PIRATE NATION ...... 42 and rain threatening, students seemed to seize every opportunity to keep the blood pumping by CLASS NOTES ...... 45 jumping and cheering during the Pirates’ 34-13 Homecoming victory UPON THE PAST ...... 60 over Tulane. The rain hung around the rest of the weekend and put a damper on the usually boisterous Halloween revelry . Students in the master’s in nurse anesthesia On the cover: Photo by Jay Clark program train in a simulation lab. from the editor from our readers winter 2012 fall 2011 fall T Carolina UniversiTy EastThe Magazine of eas EastThe Magazine of East Carolina University

Volume 10, Number 2 My copy had no cover In good company is published four times a year by My husband, Bill [Thiesen ’88 ’93], and Perusing the pages of the (fall issue) East East Carolina University I recently received the latest issue of magazine reminded me of how blessed I Graduate School Division of University Advancement East, I had arrived early for class so I would have time to begin 2200 South Charles Blvd. which arrived without its front cover. am to share my alma mater with people reviewing the draft for the cover story in this issue, but as the Greenville, NC 27858 It arrived with the back cover (and our like Jim and Connie Maynard, John Clark, clock ticks past 6 p.m. and the other students began drifting in, I mailing address) hanging on by a few Liza Wieland, Beulah Raynor and so many h Waiting for an put away the printout and get out my books. I’m about halfway ECU dentist valiant paper fibers. I noticed that the other wonderful people. Thank you. toward completing a master’s degree in communication, and one EDITOR cover stock used for this and previous — Wingate Jerry McGee ’65, thing I’ve learned is that it’s really important for nontraditional Steve Tuttle ’09 editions is fairly lightweight. If that’s 252-328-2068 / tuttles@ecu edu. A sin against barbecue students like me (translation: ones with gray hair) to be prepared the case, perhaps going with a heavier Hope you’re ready for all the hate mail ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER cover stock would be a good idea. for the academic rigors that grad school classes require. It’s tough regarding your blasphemous barbecue just keeping up with the reading assignments; in some courses we Brent Burch —Mary HatchChesapeake, Thiesen ’86, Va. mistake at the end of your first paragraph [in cover hundreds of pages of material each week. PHOTOGRAPHER the Editor’s Desk column, which should have Forrest Croce As another student stands to lead tonight’s discussion, my mind Loved the dental school story Editor’s note: To save money, we switched to said folks in the Piedmont put ketchup, not vinegar, on their barbecue]. drifts back to the main theme of our cover story, which is that COPY EDITOR As deep as my Pirate Pride runs, it somehow what’s called a “self-cover,” in which the front and Jimmy Rostar ’94 managed to grow exponentially after I read — Arlington, Va. grad school at ECU these days is different than many of you back cover pages are the same stock as the interior Chip Gurkin ’00, the article “Waiting for an ECU Dentist” remember. While most students still are coming straight from pages. We would like to hear from other readers I really enjoyed your editorial in the fall CONTRIBUTING WRITERS in the fall 2011 edition of magazine. Crystal Baity, Marion Blackburn, who may also have received damaged copies. 2011 magazine. I would love it if all Tar undergraduate work to earn professional credentials or perhaps to I was incredibly moved at theEast strength and East teach at the college level, many others are returning years later to Doug Boyd, Bethany Bradsher, Rachel Castro, Jones County has a dentist Heels could be Pirate fans. I think we have Lacy Gray, Jessica Creson Nottingham ’06 ’08, vision of ECU’s response to such a desperate jump-start stalled careers or to learn skills required for different I have found a mistake in the article made great strides in gaining recognition Steve Row, Spaine Stephens and prevalent need throughout the state of “Waiting for an ECU dentist.” On page across the state in recent years. We’ve lost jobs in the new economy. Many are earning advanced degrees . So many of us take dental 23, it is stated that “four North Carolina some of our “podunk” image that we’ve in fields that didn’t exist just a few years ago, like sustainable CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS care for granted. We tend to forget that Jay Clark, Chris Ellenbogen, Chris English, counties (Tyrrell, Jones, Hyde, Camden) had to wear for many years. Just one little tourism, construction management and homeland security. Cliff Hollis, Steve Tuttle for a lot of people, this is a hard-to-come- have no dentist at all.” Jones County does problem with the above mentioned article. by luxury, and we overlook its systemic have a dentist, Dr. Sue Fowler, who has been Actually, the eastern brand of barbecue uses East Carolina’s graduate school has more than doubled in CLASS NOTES EDITOR impact on whole body health. I work in the practicing in Maysville for several years. She the vinegar-based sauce while the western enrollment in the past decade and now serves an older student Joanne Kollar nonprofit health and human services field, body. About one in three is over 30 and a noticeable number, ecuclassnotes@ecu edu. is a very fine dentist and has a large practice. brand (Lexington) has a tomato-based sauce. and I see unmet needs in our community Maysville Don’t know where you hail from but maybe like my friend Rufus Walston ’73 and I, are old enough for ADMINISTRATION and others every day. It’s heartbreaking, —Shirley Bryan ’82, checking barbecue (or other) facts would be AARP. Students come from nearby and far away, like the young Michelle Sloan and humbling. The new School of Dental Editor’s note: The story relied on data supplied a good idea before putting them in print. Medicine is going to produce more than lady from China leading tonight’s discussion who absolutely h by the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Tarboro dentists; through the work of these new —Jane G. Harper ’69, amazes me that she can think in two languages. The young man Research in Chapel Hill. Jones County did not Assistant Vice Chancellor dental professionals, the health and quality sitting beside me is from Ireland. have any dentists from 1993 until 2003, but it Editor’s note: I made a pilgrimage to B’s Barbecue for University Marketing of life for so many people can be improved. Clint Bailey did have at least one as of 2007. That fact was to atone for this mistake. There were a few other If you’ve ever thought about returning to school for another This is life-changing, and in some cases, overlooked in the 2009 Sheps Center report we typos in the fall issue. Greenville civic leader degree, you should give it serious thought. You might not even life-saving help. Honestly, I’ve never been East Carolina University is a constituent institution of cited in the story. James S. Ficklen Jr. went by Jim, and not Jack. have to leave home because many degrees can be completed prouder to be an ECU graduate! The University of North Carolina. It is a public doctoral/ Liked the sports story And it was Booger Scales and Jim Ficklen (not online. Classes often meet at night to accommodate students like research intensive university offering baccalaureate, master’s, , Greensboro specialist and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts, sciences —Paige Highsmith Moné ’87 I loved “He’s got my back” [the sports story Jack Minges) who both died within hours of each me who hold day jobs. And, yes, the work is hard, but if Rufus and professional fields, including medicine. Dedicated to the on the supportive relationship between other on Christmas Day 2001. We confused the achievement of excellence, responsible stewardship of the Editor’s note: Our cover story on ECU’s and I can hack it, you can, too. quarterback Dominique Davis and offensive duties of artist and art director in an item about public trust and academic freedom, ECU values the new dental school attracted the attention of the N.C. Literary Review. contributions of a diverse community, supports shared coordinator Lincoln Riley]. I live in the Joan Mansfield ’82 BCBSNC Foundation. As part of its Inspired governance and guarantees equality of opportunity. almost totally separated from ECU fans and I is the artist and Dana Ezzell Gay ’96 is the initiative, Thomas Story, the Perquimans County ©2012 by East Carolina University am excited about the possibilities. Thanks for art director. In a news story about the new state farmer pictured on the cover, was invited to appear Printed by Progress Printing the excellent journalism. budget, we mischaracterized money for the ECU U .P . 12-101 66,500 copies of this public document in one of several videos spotlighting the work of were printed at a cost of $39,703 77. or $ .60 per copy . — Byron, Ga. Geriatrics Center as an appropriation when it was nonprofits to improve the health and well-being of Preston Phillips ’81, retainable receipts. North Carolinians. 2 3 the ecU Report

ECU grows an outpost in Italy F urnished Orvieto Cathedral The ECU students spending fall semester in the centuries-old village of Certaldo Alto in central Italy aren’t treated as tourists by the villagers. Most nights they see the students in the local restaurants and chat with them on the train to nearby Florence and Siena. Having seen ECU students around town for a few years now, they assume they aren’t just passing through. Now, it’s official that they’re in Certaldo Alto to stay. East Carolina’s Italy Intensives program, begun four years ago as a summer enrichment offering, has proven so popular and academically effective that it’s being strengthened into a year-round endeavor, with classes offered during fall and spring semesters and during summer sessions. Committing to a firmer footprint in Italy requires ECU to reach long-term business arrangements for classroom space, meals and apartments for the students. It also means four or more faculty and support staff residing in Italy for extended periods. The Board of Trustees was briefed on these new responsibilities at its September meeting. Operating its own curriculum in such a year- round setting means Italy Intensive students receive direct credit, not transfer credit, for their classes. Operated by the College of Fine Arts and Communication, the program is especially popular with BFA students majoring in art and design. They say it’s inspiring learning to draw, sculpt and create other art forms in the heart of Tuscany, the region that gave the world Dante and da Vinci. You can draw Michelangelo’s statue of David from a picture but that doesn’t compare to standing in front of the real thing, sketchbook in hand, as these students do. This semester, professor Linda Darty ’89, coordinator of the metals arts program in

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the School of Art and Design, and three semester, when the faculty will grow to seven in-law of former Senate President Pro Tem With the latest round of budget cuts forcing

. eserved other faculty members are teaching classes professors and an expanded curriculum. Marc Basnight. the university to shed more than 200 in Certaldo Alto, where Renaissance writer positions, class sizes are larger, especially in Chancellor Emeritus Richard Eakin, who The new members take the seats occupied by Boccaccio was born in 1313. The 23 general requirement courses, surpassing the is leading the Honors College, said Italy past trustees David Brody, David Redwine students there are enrolled in up to 15 hours capacity of most rooms on campus. Intensives “is an absolute gem. The setting in ’72, Robert Greczyn ’73 and William of courses such as art history, jewelry design, the Tuscan hill town of Certaldo is picture Bodenhamer, who completed their terms “We have some significant challenges with painting, digital photography, enameling and postcard perfect. Student accommodations in the spring. physical space,” Rick Niswander, vice ceramics. Students are learning Italian while are in my estimation among the best anywhere chancellor for finance and administration,

© 2011 Chris E llenbogen A ll R ights © 2011 others are studying communication subjects for study abroad. If I were a student again, I said in noting that Main Campus has only like international news and feature writing. Small drop in enrollment would participate without question.” 19 classrooms with more than 90 seats. To date, about 250 ECU students have lived Enrollment dropped a bit this fall from last and studied in Certaldo Alto. The program “is providing an extraordinary year, but an increasing number of returning The freshman class numbers 3,850 students, experience for ECU students,” said Provost compared to 4,210 last year. While fewer They meet in classrooms located in a students are remaining in school, according Marilyn Sheerer. “Due to Professor Darty’s freshmen are enrolled, officials said the renovated medieval palace, to a report to the Board of Trustees. Officials keen skill for putting together a very university received the highest number of Stiozzi Ridolfi, which dates to 1330. said 27,367 undergraduate and graduate integrated, authentic program in another applications in the past 10 years with more Students live in apartments in a Renaissance- students were enrolled for fall semester, country, the students have an in-depth than 15,400. Their average SAT score was era building surrounded by ancient compared to 27,783 last year, a drop of experience and become part of the city 1057, also the highest in the past 10 years. olive groves and vineyards. Each evening about 1.5 percent. John Fletcher, associate of Certaldo and all of its cultural richness The state average is 1001. students dine together with the locals at a provost for enrollment services, told trustees and history.” village restaurant where they can practice that the poor economy likely is the cause. conversational Italian and learn the finer Darty is committed to the program she But he noted that 81.3 percent of students Fairer way to rank colleges returned to classes this year following their points of Mediterranean cooking. Some founded in 2008 because it was a semester East Carolina moved up several notches in freshman year, which is a record. classes are taught nearby at the highly she spent in Italy as a sophomore that she the latest rankings of American colleges and regarded Le Meridiana International School says changed her life. of Ceramics. Two join board of trustees

The Italy Intensives full-semester program Cliff H ollis costs $9,850 per semester, which covers Edwin Clark ’79 of Greenville, executive tuition, lodging, in-country transportation vice president of WillcoHess LLC, and and many meals. Also included are expenses Robert “Bobby” Owens Robert “Bobby” Owens of Manteo, a Dare and Edwin Clark for scheduled trips to Rome, Florence, Pisa, County political leader and former member Assisi, Naples and other cities for museum of the N.C. Utilities Commission, were tours and similar enrichment experiences. appointed to the ECU Board of Trustees Students sunbathed on the Amalfi Coast and by Gov. Beverly Perdue. They will serve explored Pompeii during one recent break. four-year terms and took their seats at the The number of ECU students studying board’s September meeting, as did two abroad has noticeably increased in the other new trustees, Raleigh attorney Keiran last couple of years as the university has Shanahan ’79 and Deborah Davis ’79 ’83 of made it a priority. Besides Italy Intensives, Richmond, COO of the Medical College programs operated by other departments of . Shanahan and Davis were and schools on campus sent 388 students appointed by the UNC Board of Governors. to 15 other countries in the past year. All Clark founded Trade Oil Co. with his father- of the 48 current EC Scholars will spend a in-law, Walter Williams ’51 ’51, in 1984. semester abroad because it’s included in their The chain of gas and convenience stores scholarship. About a third of all Honors eventually grew to form WilcoHess. Owens, College students will study abroad. Now, who attended East Carolina but didn’t Italy Intensives is the first study-abroad graduate, is chairman of the board of Outer program to operate year-round. Twenty-five Banks Hospital and a past board member of students already were registered for spring University Health Systems. He is a brother-

6 7 the ecu report universities compiled by time undergraduates received need-based Marine Fisheries’ research vessel chief information officer, fewer than 5,000 but when reportersU.S. asked News Chancellor & World grants or scholarships that averaged $6,634. was used as the principle recoveryShell vessel Point with mobile users visited ECU’s website in Cliff H ollis Report,Steve Ballard to comment, he downplayed ECU’s seagoing barge on hand for transport 2009–10. A year later, more than 1.2 million VSA even measures how much smarter the news. “ECU continues to rely on the to the site, which is in Beaufort Inlet mobile users visited the site. A recent survey students are after four years in college. The Voluntary System of Accountability to offshore from Macon State Park in Atlantic showed that more than 50 percent of ECU objective is to measure the change, from measure our quality,” he said. Beach. NOAA’s Marine Sanctuary Program students own smartphones, not counting freshman to senior years, of a student’s provided the vessel for raising the cannon. users of iPods, iPads or Galaxy Tablets. VSA was begun in 2007 by public four- analytic reasoning and evaluation, writing ECU has partnered with those and other year universities, including all UNC system effectiveness, writing mechanics and problem No more paper cups: Styrofoam containers agencies on conserving the wreck for the past campuses, to make the college-selection solving. In tests of performance task abilities and paper cups used for “to go” meals have 14 years. decision less of a beauty contest by making and analytic writing skills, ECU students been banned from campus dining halls as the reliable information about each school easily scored “above what would be expected at university implements a program to reduce available online at a searchable database, an institution testing students of similar ECU Physicians in the black waste that goes into landfills. Now, students www.collegeportraits.org. “The VSA academic abilities,” according to the VSA. For the first time in five years, ECU who want take-out meals are offered reusable actually addresses the learning behaviors of boxes and beverage bottles. Students return What it’s like to actually be a student, Physicians earned a profit. Operating our students and what difference a college the items on their next trip to the dining hall however, can’t be reduced to numbers. For revenues last fiscal year were $158.8 education makes,” Ballard explained. and exchange the containers for ones that that, colleges usually hire professionals to million for the medical faculty practice East Carolina suffered an estimated $1.7 million in damages from Hurricane Irene, and the campus was closed for two days at the beginning of fall semester for repairs to buildings have been washed and sanitized. The rankings compiled by produce awe-inspiring videos. East Carolina plan, which exceeded expenses by $17.5 U.S. News & and grounds. Officials said at least 170 trees on campus, including some of the stately oaks are based on several criteria, chose a different route. It handed the camera million. The bottom line was boosted by a lining Fifth Street, were blown over or were so severely damaged they had to be removed. CON honored: ECU’s College of Nursing butWorld the Report biggest factor, at 22.5 percent of to students. David Weismiller, associate $17.9 million payment from Pitt County The Spilman Building, which houses the chancellor’s office and other administrative offices, is among only eight schools in the nation to lost part of its roof, resulting in water damage to 20 rooms. Part of the roof of Minges the total, is an assessment of a school’s provost for institutional planning and Memorial Hospital as the university’s share Coliseum was blown off, causing water damage in the arena area and leaks onto the court receive top recognition for the way it teaches reputation as expressed by officials at rival research, oversaw the project to produce a of revenues from the Leo Jenkins Cancer floor. About 100 rooms in the Brody Medical Sciences Building had water damage. students. The National League for Nursing schools and by high school admissions portrait of student life at ECU. “The first Center, which PCMH now operates under bestowed its Center of Excellence award a joint agreement. Another $9 million to counselors. education ones the students produced were a PBS-style News briefs year, 10 more students will receive grants. on ECU for offering a variety of programs Post revenue came from accounting shifts related columnist Valerie Strauss, among others, thing, but our new ones are much more A year’s tuition and fees at the dental and technology to help students learn, to the Healthspan electronic medical record East Carolina will receive has focused her criticism of the magazine’s watchable,” he said. “The students came Money for repairs: school, which covers three terms, amount including distance education, simulation implementation. about $5.9 million from the state to help rankings system on that point. In a column up with all the concepts, the scripts, did to $27,276. labs, clinical placements pay for repairs and renovations to campus published after the new rankings were all the editing.” You can watch the videos Brian Jowers, executive director of ECU and study abroad. ECU buildings. The money comes from an annual Mobile app debuts: released in September, she wrote, “The at ecu.edu/cs-admin/vsa. Physicians, reported to the ECU Board of is known for innovative appropriation from the General Assembly for Continuing the trend leaders I have talked to over the years tell me Trustees that although operating revenues online outreach efforts maintenance at UNC campuses. This year, to make university it is hard enough to be sure what is going QAR’s biggest cannon raised continue to fall short of expenses of designed to increase the fund amounted to $62.3 million. Over resources available to on in their own institutions, much less their providing direct patient care, the medical working nurses’ access to The annual fall archaeological expedition the past few years, ECU has used a large users of smart phones rivals’, at least not across the board and well practice is close to balancing its budget. He education in rural areas. enough to give a fair rating.” to the shipwreck site part of its repairs and renovations money to and similar devices, Queen Anne’s Revenge said the practice is seeing more patients, Wrecking ball for discovered that Hurricane Irene did not install sprinklers in residence halls and other ECU launched a free In contrast, the VSA focuses on outcomes, improving its charging and bill collecting, apartments: Demolition damage the shipwreck site, which allowed similar student safety projects. application, or app, for and using better business practices. such as retention and graduation rates, and divers on Oct. 25 to on recover cannon iPhones, iPods, iPads of the old Stratford Scholarships for dental students: Ten ECU explains them in common-sense terms, such C23, one of the ship’s largest guns. State approval of Medicaid upper payment and Android phones Arms apartment dental students received scholarships as as: at ECU, of all students enrolled in the fall Project Director Mark Wilde-RamsingQAR led limits closer to what commercial insurers and devices, including complex across from part of a five-year federal grant of nearly of 2004, 88 percent had either graduated or a class of ECU student volunteers on a pay will help revenues in coming years, Galaxy Tablets. The the sports complex on $1.4 million. The Health Resources and were still enrolled four years later. four-week dive that began in early October. Jowers said. Once approved, ECU will be new app comes Charles Boulevard was Services Administration, part of the U.S. expected to begin in The magazine lists tuition charged by each Using new underwater technology, divers reimbursed for services delivered after July on the heels of a Department of Health and Human Services, December. The ECU school but VSA puts costs into perspective. attached aluminum rods called sacrificial 1, 2010, and higher reimbursement rates mobile version of the awarded the grant for dental students from Real Estate Foundation It focuses on the typical annual cost of anodes to the remaining cannons to change will continue. The upper payment limit university’s web site, rural areas, disadvantaged backgrounds purchased the 10.5-acre attendance, which besides tuition includes the electrochemical process that corrodes reimburses the state’s two medical school ecu.edu, that launched and underrepresented minorities who site and transferred it to housing, food, books, transportation, fees iron in saltwater. The process will reduce practice plans, at ECU and UNC Chapel last year. Students have financial need and who plan to the university in the fall and other expenses. At ECU, the typical the amount of conservation time in the lab Hill, which treat significant numbers of are using the mobile practice general dentistry in underserved after receiving approval annual cost of attendance for 2010–11 was after the artifacts are raised. “We’re seeing Medicaid patients at rates closer to what web site in staggering communities. The school received $170,000 from the N.C. Council $19,014. To add further perspective, ECU’s really good results,” Wilde-Ramsing told the commercial insurers pay. numbers. According this year to support the 10 students. Next of State. VSA report states that 46 percent of full- The N.C. Division of — to Joe Norris, ECU’s Jacksonville Daily News. Doug Boyd 8 9 the ecu report

with 16 treatment rooms, X-ray equipment, course that teaches the link between regular educational space and more. The state will exercise, good nutrition and overall health. F urnished F urnished own the land, and construction likely will Glen Gilbert, dean of the College of Health begin next year, said Dr. Gregory Chadwick, and Human Performance, said continuing interim dean of the dental school. Site to require EXSS 1000 makes good sense selection is ongoing. in light of the nation’s obesity epidemic. “Requiring college students to participate in Full-time dental school faculty members will an exercise science class taught by proficient staff the center, along with dental hygienists instructors has been proven to provide the and other staff members, and fourth-year skills necessary to help young adults develop dental students and residents will train at the healthy lifelong habits,” he said. center. Chadwick has described the centers as similar to “moving the fourth floor of the Physiology professor Tim Gavin said the dental school—the clinical training—off exercise course teaches students about habits campus to rural areas of our state where they can use now and after college to maintain dental services are needed.” good health. “Many people do not know the first place to start living an active, healthy State Rep. Mitch Gillespie of Marion, chair lifestyle,” Gavin said. Just like people need of the House Appropriations Committee, special skills to manage their finances, they said local and university officials worked Spruce Pine need to learn skills to manage healthy habits. six years to make the dental school and the Spruce Pine center a reality. “These things Although passing the swim test will no don’t just happen,” he said. “They don’t longer be a graduation requirement, EXSS magically appear. This took years to happen, 1000 students will continue to offer Spruce Pine gets dental clinic Mitchell, Avery and Yancey counties. and it’s a miracle it ever happened this year swimming lessons and lots of opportunities the way the budget was.” to get into the pool. — ECU will partner with Blue Ridge Regional Spruce Pine, a town of about 2,200 near the Rachel Castro Spruce Pine currently has three dentists, only base of Mount Mitchell, the highest peak A village in Guatemala now has safe water to drink thanks to a $5,000 gift from the May Hospital to open a dental clinic in the Professors study climate change east of the , is the fifth site to be one younger than 60. — graduating class from the College of Nursing. Before, residents of the village drew water Mitchell County community of Spruce Pine. Doug Boyd from a hand-dug well and sometimes suffered from cholera and dysentery. “Seeing pictures It’s the second community service learning named for what will eventually be 10 such Geography professors Tom Rickenbach and of the grateful faces of those affected by this project was priceless,” said class president center sited in western North Carolina, centers across the state. Besides Sylva, the Exercise class remains a must Rosana Nieto-Ferreira won a $314,000 Kaitlyn Whitlock of Raleigh. For several years, Dr. Kim Larson, assistant professor of other sites identified so far are Ahoskie and National Sciences Foundation grant to nursing, has led summer study abroad classes to Guatemala where students work in health joining one previously announced for Sylva Beginning this fall, students will no longer clinics, schools and nutrition centers. “Students always say, ‘I wish I could do more.’ Now I Elizabeth City in examine how changes in the atmosphere in Jackson County. At the Spruce Pine center, be required to pass a swim test in order to can say, ‘You have,’” Larson said. and Lillington in central North Carolina. control the manner in which rain and snow dental students and residents will train and, graduate, but they still will be required to The 7,700-square-foot center in Sylva will fall in North Carolina and how those together with ECU faculty members, provide take Exercise and Sports Science 1000, a care to residents of the Mayland area— be a fully functioning general dentistry office changes affect the state’s current and future of the puzzle is crucial to knowing whether Nieto-Ferreira added. precipitation reaching the ground will help climate. Because precipitation is a primary The scientists will conduct their research in or hinder us as we lead our lives. Knowing source of water for North Carolina’s three steps. First, every precipitation system what I want, and, Lord willing, I’ll be able to how a given amount of precipitation reached Scholarship es tablished rivers, soils and groundwater reservoirs, the that occurred across North Carolina over A resident of Bakersville in Mitchell County do that ”. us—as gentle widespread daily showers, professors believe that studying the manner a three-year period will be identified and is the recipient of a scholarship at the East Duncan is the son of Wanda and Tommy intense isolated but brief thunderstorms, Carolina University School of Dental Medicine . Duncan and a graduate of Mitchell High in which the precipitation arrives will help characterized using newly available high- or heavy snowfall—determines how we can Kyle Duncan, a May graduate of Appalachian School . He started dental school this fall . scientists understand how population resolution precipitation and three-dimensional best harness it for our needs and whether we State University, has received the first Samuel The scholarship provides full tuition, fees and growth, climate change and land-use patterns radar reflectivity data sets. Next, the mode of l . Phillips Family Foundation Scholarship . The living expenses for four years of dental school . must protect ourselves from its impacts.” foundation is based in Mitchell County . Scholarship recipients must practice for at affect the state’s climate. delivery of the precipitation will be placed “I can never repay you or express my least five years in the Mayland area—Mitchell, “Scientists and engineers are constantly Nieto-Ferreira said that scientists do not in the context of the prevailing wind and gratitude to you,” Duncan told members of Avery and Yancey counties—said Gina Phillips, fully understand how the state’s fresh weather patterns of the atmosphere, based the Phillips family during an announcement in a family member and foundation board improving our ability to measure how much Spruce Pine about the site of the school’s fifth member . rain and snow reach the surface. What we water resource responds to changes in the on archived maps and analysis. Finally, the community service learning center . “This has The foundation will award a scholarship to an don’t understand as well is the manner in environment. “We may then better under­ climatology will be applied, with the goal always been home to me and where I want to area resident every four years . stand how these variations in precipitation of improving the interpretation of state-of- come back to, where my heart is . That’s really —Doug Boyd which that water is typically delivered to us,” said Rickenbach. “That missing piece impact our lives, such as agriculture, urban the-art model simulations of future regional runoff, coastal development and flooding,” climates. — Lacey Gray 10 11 the ecu report

Using cooking to teach math Grant extends Wounded Cistola credited the grant to the leadership led to a successful peer-reviewed grant Warriors program of Vice Chancellor for Research and proposal,” Cistola said. Mageean hired ECU researchers Melani Duffrin and Cliff H ollis Graduate Studies Deirdre Mageean. “She retired Colonel Michael DeYoung to Virginia Carraway-Stage received a $1.27 East Carolina will receive $10.4 million walked the halls of Congress in the early champion ORNC in Washington, which was million federal grant to develop teaching from the Department of Defense over the stages and established the traction that instrumental in Department of Defense and aides that will add a dash of math and a next five years to support the Operation ultimately led to a Department of Defense congressional support. cup of science to seventh-grade classrooms Re-Entry North Carolina (ORNC) appropriation for ORNC, which in turn in eastern North Carolina. The grant from program to wounded soldiers the National Institutes of Health was returning from combat overseas, and their awarded to the FoodMASTER program, families. The program partners with the which uses the hands-on activities of U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel cooking—measuring, mixing and following Command center at Fort Detrick, Md. The

directions—to teach math and science. cooperative agreement gives ECU $2.1 Department of Defense million this year with an additional $8.4 FoodMASTER, which stands for Food, million in subsequent years. Math and Science Teaching Enhancement Resource Initiative, was developed by Duffrin “We are honored to participate in this to help increase math and science skills vitally important work, which will advance through food preparation and handling. the quality of health care and family The curriculum was developed in 1999 by FoodMASTER at Wintergreen Intermediate School support for those who put their lives and Duffrin, an associate professor of nutrition well-being on the line for our nation,” science at ECU, and Sharon Phillips, an said Dr. David P. Cistola, a professor and elementary school teacher. It is now science resources out of their bag. Food eastern North Carolina. associate dean for research in the College of operational in North Carolina and Ohio, activities are a natural, fun way to help Allied Health Sciences who is the principal The ECU FoodMASTER program and officials plan to spread the program students apply math and science to their investigator of the program. received a $504,000 NIH grant in 2009 across the country. The concept behind everyday lives, and we believe this is an that was used to develop course materials The ORNC began three years ago and the program is that pupils can better effective way to teach those subjects.” that were used in classrooms at schools in has progressed to an externally funded, comprehend math and science principles The funds also will be used to develop a Pitt, Ashe, Mecklenburg, Craven, Harnett, university-wide, multi-institutional research when they are applied to vital everyday FoodMASTER summer camp. The ECU Gaston, Pamlico, Wake and Surry counties. partnership in support of wounded soldiers activities, like cooking a meal. Center for Mathematics, Science, and Learn more about the program online at and their families, as well as military and Duffrin said the grant “allows us to help Technology Education will support the foodmaster.org. Veterans Administration providers who seventh-grade teachers pull fresh math and project’s teacher training and outreach in care for them.

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Clifton Britton takes the stage His final frontier The Howells depart 100 75 A freshman steps forward in the 50 On Oct . 29, 1961, John Glenn and the 25 Chancellor John Howell, for fall of 1936 to take charge of other original “right stuff” astronauts whom the science building The Maskers, the theater group arrive at Morehead Planetarium in Chapel is named, announces his that has been dormant since the Hill for the first of many training sessions retirement in the fall of departure a year earlier of ECC’s in celestial navigation taught by, among 1986 and departs the only drama teacher . With Clifton others, East Carolina professor James W . following April, 30 years Britton ’40 ’42 in charge, The Batten (right) . As a Navy commander in after he arrives as a Maskers reorganizes as the Chi World War II, Batten was twice decorated political science teacher Becoming a year-round school Pi Players, which stages its first for guiding ships across oceans using just and eight years after he In early 1912 President Robert Wright proposes that ECTTS take the novel student-acted, student-directed the stars . That’s a skill astronauts Scott is named East Carolina’s step of elevating summer school (above) to the equal of fall, winter and show in February 1937 . For six Carpenter (seated in simulator Batten eighth chancellor . It’s a spring . Any three of the four terms will compose a school year, Wright years Britton (at center in photo, designed) and Wally Schirra (next to double loss for the campus decides . The school operates informally on this year-round schedule until directing a 1939 production) is Batten) will need in orbit if navigation because the Howells are the Board of Trustees institutionalizes it in 1922, making ECTC among the both a student and the school’s systems fail . Such an emergency occurs in May 1963, forcing Gordon Cooper a team and among the first colleges in the South where a student can obtain a bachelor’s degree in director of dramatics . Britton’s to take manual control of a crippled Mercury 9 in final orbit . Using stars campus’s most successful three years . master thesis becomes a widely as beacons and his wristwatch to time the retrojets, Cooper navigates the two-career couples . used handbook for high school capsule through a fiery reentry and to a perfect splashdown within sight of his Gladys Howell taught sociology for 20 years while they were raising two sons, which Images courtesy University Archives except Batten photo English teachers who also direct school plays . In a long career at the Waterfront recovery ship . Batten works with the astronaut-training program until 1982 . He required both to juggle work schedules to care for the children . The Howells, now in courtesy Morehead Planetarium and Science Center Theatre, he is stage manger and then director of The Lost Colony outdoor drama . retires in 1989 after nearly 30 years on faculty, and dies in 2004 . their late 80s, still reside in Greenville .

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Statistics on crime show decline do assessments. I really get the feeling just competitiveness and competence? “You being here today that it’s more than a SACS want people to feel good about the degrees Liquor law violations continue to be a requirement. It will benefit students, and students earn at ECU,” Wheelan said.

I nc . HOW ECU WOULD COMPARE: problem on Main Campus, according to an that’s a good feeling.” ATTENDANCE FOR 2010 SEASON annual report by the ECU Police Department Provost Marilyn Sheerer said assessment has that shows 92 arrests and 659 disciplinary She said questions ECU administrators always been a critical part of the academic erial Photos Photos erial A Percent of Average should continue to consider include the environment, and is even more so today with BIG EAST Capacity Attendance actions for that offense during 2010. Drug law violations led to 82 arrests and 91 following: What skill sets will students emphasis on accountability and demand for

A merican West Virginia 93 .87 56,325 disciplinary actions during the year, the take away when they graduate? How does use of assessment results in improving the Pittsburgh 80 .25 52,165 report said. However, the report shows that a student’s life improve as a result of being learning environment. “We still need to keep Dick Tate/ Dick Louisville 120 .59 50,648 East Carolina remains a secure environment at ECU? How do you expose students to a the expectation of student learning front and East Carolina 99.33 49,665 for students, with just 18 criminal offenses broad view of the world and how it relates to center,” Sheerer said. Rutgers 89 .63 47,013 recorded during the year, which is down from each discipline? How do you ensure student — Crystal Baity TCU 95 74. 42,466 28 in 2009 and 45 in 2008. South 98 .57 40,849 Burglary remains the most common criminal Syracuse 77 05. 40,064 offense on Main Campus, with eight such 95 62. 38,248 incidents in 2010. But that’s down from 10 Cincinnati 100 19. 35,067 in 2009 and 34 in 2008. For at least the third year in a row, there were no instances Percent of Average of murder or manslaughter at ECU. There ACC Capacity Attendance were four reports of forcible sex offenses, Big enough for the big leagues markets would be the fourth-largest overall Clemson 94 .38 75,786 down from 11 in 2009, the report said. market in the country, with the Pirates Florida St . 86 .60 71,270 The Health Sciences Campus remains very East Carolina’s long-held aspiration to consistently delivering solid ratings across Virginia Tech 100 00. 66,233 secure. There were no reports of criminal competing at the highest level of sports a region located in one of the U.S.’s fastest- North Carolina 97 08. 58,250 offenses or hate crimes there in 2010 and was evident when the university applied for growing states. only one report of a drug law violation, the membership in the Big East conference and North Carolina St . 98 77. 56,877 report said. retained former Gov. Jim Hunt to lobby its Other “Undaunted” talking points trumpet Miami (FL) 70 18. 52,575 case. But as the drama in collegiate sports that East Carolina was second in the nation East Carolina 99.33 49,665 unfolded this fall, ECU was focused on last football season in average attendance Georgia Tech 84 .45 46,449 SACS president lauds ECU among all schools that aren’t members of a correcting impressions that the school isn’t Virginia 73 .92 45,459 East Carolina University is ahead of the conference that automatic qualifies for one ready for prime-time TV. 76 05. 39,168 curve compared to other institutions in of the national bowl games. Nationally, ECU The university unveiled a fact-filled web site, Boston College 86 .22 38,369 measuring student learning, the president ranked 44th in average football attendance. www.ecu.edu/undaunted, that challenges the Wake Forest 96 74. 30,474 of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools said during a September conventional wisdom that ECU just isn’t big The web site also notes that East Carolina Duke 84 70. 28,750 enough to be considered for membership­ in an fans travel to support their team. ECU had visit to campus as part of the university’s automatically qualifying Bowl Championship the highest ticket sales of all Conference Top 10 Percent of Average reaccreditation process. “I think the fact Series (BCS) conference like the Big East or USA teams that traveled to a bowl game in BCS non-AQ Capacity Attendance that you’ve got concrete examples of what’s the ACC. With detailed charts and statistics, 2010. The Pirates sold their entire allotment BYU 95 84. 61,381 going on in the different departments, that of tickets for the 2010 Military Bowl. faculty are talking about it not just in the the “Undaunted” web site makes the case East Carolina 99.33 49,665 departments but across the campus, and that Pirate sports are a consistent TV ratings Sales of licensed merchandise is a good 100 .98 45,459 you’re having conversations about learning, powerhouse with a rabid fan base. indicator of fan support. East Carolina Gifts to the Access Scholarship program are enabling these 79 students to attend ECU this TCU 95 74. 42,466 that puts you out front of a lot of your University logo merchandise is the top-seller year. Launched in 2005 by the ECU Foundation, Access Scholarships are intended to be the Viewership, not location, is the real Air Force 85 87. 40,093 peer institutions,” Dr. Belle Wheelan told “tipping point” that makes college affordable for students with above-average grades from measurement of the size of a TV audience, of all non-automatic qualifier schools east of families with limited financial resources. To date, alumni and friends have given $3.2 million UCF 87 .40 39,614 a packed auditorium at the East Carolina according to the web site. The Pirates the Mississippi River. In Conference USA, for the scholarships, which are worth $5,000 each year for four years. Access Scholars Heart Institute. She indicated ECU is give back to the school by volunteering 20 hours of service. They write thank you letters ECU consistently holds the top position for Hawai’i 74 .62 37,311 dominate the local TV market and drive very taking an enlightened approach toward its to donors who made their scholarships possible and say thanks in person at a luncheon merchandise sales. Sales last season of ECU San Diego State 66 .93 34,133 for donors. Access Scholarships have grown to become ECU’s second-largest scholarship strong audiences in four of the top 50 media scheduled reaccreditation in 2013. “There is markets located in the university’s home state merchandise would have ranked it seventh in Fresno State 83 16. 34,120 program. The premier EC Scholars program currently supports about 70 students receiving a better collective understanding of why we scholarships worth $40,000. and region. Considered together, these four the Big East and ninth in the ACC. Boise State 103 .96 33,269

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Institute for Outdoor Drama thriving at East Carolina U NIVERSITY L IFE The curtains came down in October on another season of outdoor drama in North Gregory Chadwick, University, postdoctoral fellowship from the Summers, who has taught at ECU for 15 Carolina, long the nation’s hot spot for who was the School of University of Rochester, and her pediatric years, is nationally recognized for his research live community theatre. Dental Medicine nurse practitioner certificate and master of on poisonous frogs. in Boone celebrated its 60thHorn year; in the West associate dean for arts degree from the University of . again entertained large crowdsThe inLost Scott Mantie, former associate dean of planning and ManteoColony and is gearing up for next year’s Thomas G. Irons, institutional research and effectiveness extramural affairs, was historic season, its 75th. Extreme weather associate vice at Plymouth State University in New named interim dean of held down attendance at most of the 13 chancellor for Hampshire, was named director of the school by theatre sites, from persistent rains in the health sciences institutional assessment in East Carolina’s Chancellor Steve mountains to hurricanes on the coast. and professor of Office of Planning, Assessment, and Ballard. Chadwick is a pediatrics, Research. Scott holds a bachelor’s degree Many enthusiasts worried that budget cuts Well-attended auditions former president of the American Dental received the from New England College, a master’s from would curtail the outdoor dramas this year, helped IOC start a good Association, the N.C. Dental Society and the year at East Carolina. Award for Western University, and a doctorate and concerns worsened when the Institute Dental Foundation of North Carolina. Excellence in from University. for Outdoor Drama (IOD), which provides Previously, he taught at the dental school at Public Service management and talent support for the 13 UNC Chapel Hill. He also practiced from the UNC Samuel F. Sears, a professor of psychology outdoor dramas in North Carolina and dentistry in Charlotte for many years. “Dr. Board of Governors. The award, which and cardiovascular sciences in the Brody many more in 29 other states and Canada, Chadwick has been positively engaged in the carries a $7,500 cash prize, recognizes public School of Medicine, is East Carolina’s lost its state funding and its home of nearly development of the dental school for over service and outreach by faculty across the nominee for the O. Max Gardner Award, 48 years at UNC Chapel Hill. The IOD, five years and has earned this appointment,” university system. A member of ECU’s which is presented annually by the UNC with one remaining employee, Susan Phillips, Ballard said. The appointment came after medical faculty for three decades, Irons has Board of Governors to one faculty member moved to East Carolina with a mandate from James Hupp resigned as dean after a report by devoted his career to providing clinical care throughout the 16-campus system. Sears’ the state to find its own financial way. It’s State Auditor Beth Wood ’84 found $90,000 to under-served children and improving work has focused on identifying and treating been a part of the College of Fine Arts and in irregularities in his travel expenses. The access to health care for the people of the psychological aspects of cardiovascular Communication for the past year now and audit also faulted Hupp for teaching part- eastern North Carolina. A Greenville native disease, particularly recovery from sudden reviews so far are positive. time at the dental school in Chapel Hill and the son of primary care physicians, Irons cardiac arrest. The recipient of the award without disclosing that income as required. In a memo sent to IOD supporters and is a four-time winner of the Clinical Science will be announced in April. An ECU faculty Michael Hardy, a former ECU faculty The IOD’s year got off to a successful start This is Chadwick’s second stint as interim member companies, Dean of Fine Arts and Faculty Award presented by graduating member last won the award in 2004 when it member and current general manager of when it held national auditions on campus dean. He served in the same role during the Communication Michael Dorsey said, “By students at ECU’s Brody School of was presented to Dr. Jr. was named IOD director for roles in dozens of dramas around the dental school’s formative years as ECU and all accounts it was a very successful year.” The The Lost Colony, Medicine. The medical Class of 2006 effective Jan. 30. Joining Phillips on staff country, with aspiring Daniel Boones and University of North Carolina system leaders Andrew Crane, the IOD came to ECU with only $36,000 in its created the annual Thomas G. Irons Award and responsible for the day-to-day operation Sir Walter Raleighs coming from as far as approved its creation, and legislators former director of endowment, he noted, but has raised $59,000 in Medical Professionalism in his honor. of the institute, Hardy also will teach one Scotland. It provided paying consulting choral activities at in nonstate funds since its arrival and is appropriated funds for it. “It’s a great time to course per semester in the School of Theatre services to companies in and Biology professor State becoming financially sound. “These efforts be involved with the dental school,” Chadwick and Dance. South Dakota as well as the 13 here in Kyle Summers is the University at San plus an increase in national consultantships said. “It’s just really rewarding to see all of North Carolina. Thomas Harriot Bernadino, has and the best year ever in national auditions Over a 40-year career, Hardy has served as this come to fruition,” he added. “At this College of Arts and assumed that position are due to the heroic efforts of one individual CEO of performing arts centers in Illinois, What’s next? Dorsey said the IOD is point, we’re not looking backward. We’re Sciences Distinguished in East Carolina’s and her loyal supporters,” Dorsey added. City, Louisville and Miami and was partnering with Theatre and Dance to looking forward to the future.” Chadwick Professor for 2011. music department, “We are lucky to have Susan Phillips.” executive director of the International Society establish a regional Shakespeare Festival in said he plans to appoint Frank Serio, a The award recognizes succeeding Daniel for the Performing Arts. Hardy was born in New Bern. “The arts at ECU now have a professor and associate dean for clinical Phillips has done double duty since coming a professor whose Bara. Crane arrived over the summer and led Durham and studied at Duke University and national voice which will serve us well in the affairs at the school, as interim vice dean. to ECU, as the IOD’s manager and director. career exemplifies the ECU Chamber Singers in an October UNC Chapel Hill before earning his Ph.D. in future,” he said. Jana Pressler was named associated dean Phillips has spent more that 30 years a commitment to performance. Crane holds bachelor’s and theater at the University of . He was for graduate programs in the College of performing on stage, including four summers He’s also proud that ECU was able to save the and a love for knowledge and academic life, master’s degrees in music from Brigham general manager for the drama department at Nursing. She comes to ECU from the with outdoor drama. She’s also a veteran IOD, founded by the playwright Paul Green as demonstrated by outstanding teaching Young University and a doctorate from East Carolina for two years before pursuing a University of . She earned her of the Children’s Television Workshop, in 1937 and which had grown to become a and advising, research and creative Michigan State University. career in arts management. doctoral degree from Case Western Reserve producers of pillar of the state’s artistic landscape. productivity, and professional service. Sesame Street. 16 17 Winter Arts Calendar by steve row Four Seasons Piano Trio in D, Op. 70, No. 1, named the comes to ECU after appearances this with Locomotion, a play based on the The ECU Guitar Ensemble performs on Who’s in town? Chamber Music Fes tival “Ghost” trio, and Shostakovich’s Piano season in London and Lincoln Center in book by Jacqueline Woodson about Nov . 30 at 7:30 p .m . at Fletcher, and The Voyages of Discovery lecture Three piano quartets, including an early Trio in E-minor, Op. 67. Gregorian and New York . an African American boy growing the School of Music Combined Jazz series continues with an appearance 20th century work by English composer Sauer will perform Brahms’ Sonata for Other concerts in the performing arts through sadness to hope . This will be concert is scheduled for Dec . 1 at 7:30 by Bland Simpson, the UNC Chapel Frank Bridge, highlight the second Violin and Piano and A, Op. 100. series include New York Voices, a a production of the Kennedy Center p .m . at Wright Auditorium . Hill distinguished professor who also concert in this year’s chamber music The second of two “Next Generation” Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Theatre for Young Audiences on Tour . The School of Music’s annual holiday performs with the Red Clay Ramblers . festival, with performances on Dec . 8 concerts is scheduled for Jan . 22, when renowned for their excellence in jazz The ECU Loessin Playhouse offers concert will be Dec . 4 at 3 p .m ., and will He will discuss “Eastern North Carolina at 7 p .m . and Dec . 9 at 8 p .m . at a .J . the featured guest artist will be cellist and the art of group singing, which Dance 2012, the annual extravaganza by feature portions of Handel’s Messiah, Culture in Music and Literature” on Feb . Fletcher Recital Hall . Joining artistic Michael Kannen, director of chamber will appear on Jan . 20 . The quartet School of Theatre and Dance students featuring the ECU Symphony Orchestra 2 at 7 p .m . in Wright Auditorium . director and violinist Ara Gregorian for music at the Peabody Conservatory . performs music with jazz, rhythm showcasing original choreography in and the ECU University Chorale, as well concerts will be ECU faculty member The concerts are played by ECU string and blues, Brazilian, classical and ballet, modern, tap and jazz styles . A as community and church choirs, all Exhibitions and pianist Benjamin Hochman, violist and keyboard faculty members, current pop influences . Jazz instrumentalist guest artist will join the cast for the under the direction of Dr . Jeffrey Ward . Maria Lambros and cellist Amit Peled . ECU string students, a guest artist and Chris Botti, whose four No . 1 albums performances Jan . 26–31 . The playhouse A separate holiday music program by The popular Holiday Exhibition and The latter two are faculty at the at least one ECU music school graduate . have earned several Grammy Awards, next offers The Elephant Man, by ECU choral ensembles is scheduled Sale, the annual showcase of works Peabody Conservatory . Other works will appear on Feb . 9 at 8 p .m . in Wright Bernard Pomerance, on Feb . 23 and 24 . for Dec . 6 at 7:30 p .m . at St . Paul’s by School of Art and Design student in a variety of media, will take place on the program are Schumann’s Piano S. Rudolph Alex ander Auditorium . He has performed with Joni All performances begin at 8 p .m . Episcopal Church . On Feb . 11, the Quartet in E-flat, Op. 47, and Brahms’ Mitchell and Paul Simon, among others, symphony will perform Beethoven’s at the Wellington b . Gray Gallery Dec . Performing Art s Series 1–3 . Sales benefit individual artist Piano Quartet in C-minor, Op. 90. as well as at the World Series and a Student ensembles Fidelio Overture, Op. 72; Richard The 50th anniversary season of the arts Nobel Peace Prize ceremony . Strauss’ Concerto for Oboe in D, with guilds within the school . The Art of A more intimate program is planned for series continues with performances by The Percussion Players present a Influence, an exhibit of art and design Jan . 12 and 13, with two piano trios and ECU faculty member Bo Newsome the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on concert on Nov . 16 at 7:30 p .m . in as soloist; and Brahms’ Variations on using metals, will be on display at the a sonata for violin and piano . Gregorian Dec . 2 at 8 p .m . in Wright Auditorium . Theatre a .J . Fletcher Recital Hall . The Wind gallery Jan . 13–Feb . 18 . Works by nearly will be joined by frequent Four Seasons a Theme of Haydn, Op. 56, the “St . Now directed by Ben Jaffe, son of the The Family Fare series continues on Ensemble Chamber Players will perform Anthony” Variations . 50 artists of national and international guests Thomas Sauer, piano, and Colin band’s co-founders, Preservation Hall Jan . 13 at 7 p .m . in McGinnis Theatre on Nov . 29 at 7:30 p .m ., also at Fletcher . prominence will be on display . Carr, cello, to perform Beethoven’s F urnished F urnished

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Dr. Megan Perry and forensic grad school anthropology graduate students Novel programs in the medical sciences and technology propel growth in enrollment 20 21 By Marion Blackburn photography by forrest croce Having an edge is critical in an economic doubling in the past decade. Officials say the certificates, East Carolina’s grad school has climate where applicants face amped-up growth mostly is a reflection of the recession roughly 6,000 students, a sure sign that the competition for jobs and companies and higher expectations by employers who former teachers college has come of age. jockey for business like never before. Even demand that new hires have the skills, in- Most of the advanced-degree programs are Glenn Graham was 49 when he returned to management because it would give him the “Every class was attacking issues that are in academia, budget cuts are sending depth knowledge and leadership that come tailored to fit the needs of today’s students, East Carolina to enroll in graduate school, practical knowledge he needed to advance his real-world issues,” Graham ’03 ’10 says about instructors packing. Responding to these with an advanced degree. many of whom work full- or part-time and he chose a program that didn’t even exist career with a construction his grad school experience. “Every class hit demands while following its own progressive while going to school. Some degrees can be Now offering 78 master’s degrees, 16 when he was a student here in the 1970s. He company. Now, the Charlotte resident is in a target with what I was working on. It has vision, ECU’s Graduate School continues completed entirely online, such as the nurse doctorates and additional professional pursued a master’s degree in construction line to become president of the firm next year. helped me so much in my business life.” to grow, with total enrollment more than practitioner program, while others offer a hybrid of online and traditional classroom courses, such as the master’s of business administration, for which students can take some, all or none of their classes in the traditional classroom setting. While traditional postgraduate degree programs in education and health sciences Graduate program How we compare in director Nasseh remain strong, the university is emerging as a Tabrizi with software grad school numbers leader in fields that in many cases didn’t exist engineering students Campus Enrollment just a few years ago, including sustainable tourism and security studies, the latter a UNC Chapel Hill 10,811 direct outgrowth of the nation’s response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. n C. . State 9,129 The largest graduate program by far is East Carolina 6,120 in the College of Education, with 1,330 UNC Charlotte 5,308 enrolled as of 2010, the latest year for which complete data is available. With more than Winston-Salem State 4872 900 students, the College of Business has UNC Greensboro 3,831 the second-largest graduate program, with almost 800 of those pursuing an MBA. Elizabeth City State 3,307 Some programs have had to cap enrollment n C. . Central 2,125 in the face of soaring demand, such as the physician assistant program, which typically Appalachian 2,085 has between 300–400 applicants for 30 seats. Western Carolina 1,904 Over the past decade, in fact, the majority n C. . A&T 1,644 of ECU’s enrollment growth has been in the Graduate School, says Paul Gemperline, UNC Wilmington 1,301 dean of graduate studies. “We expect to see UNC Pembroke 778 about a 2 to 3 percent rise in admissions

Fayetteville State 678 this fall, even as we see a drop in nondegree seeking students.” UNC Asheville 51

Source: UNC General Administration numbers as Taking stock, getting focused of fall 2010 In the past, grad school often was considered a path to a life in academia as a professor. These days, students are seeking advanced degrees for new reasons, often as the next step in a professional journey that can follow twists and turns. The traditional path—in which students go from bachelor’s to master’s

22 23 in the same field, and then on to a job—has But even as more traditional students and ideas and intellectual curiosity may take a five, is doing just that by threading together interdisciplinary approach in the study of been altered by the recession and the greater adult learners return to campus for advanced back seat to practical matters such as student basics like anatomy, biochemistry and coastal and marine policy, as well as looking willingness by many adults to change careers. degrees, East Carolina, like every state demand and market needs. cell biology—the bench sciences—with at the how scientific information is used to In fact, less than a quarter of all current institution, has been forced to respond to the clinical sciences of internal medicine, develop those policies. A change in how enrollment figures are ECU grad school students enter directly budget cuts by taking a hard look at its emergency medicine and pathology. The categorized for education programs after finishing an undergraduate degree. A programs to decide which ones stay and resulting degree will serve researchers as well contributed to a dip in enrollment from a The new inventors third are over 30 and a few are older than 65. which ones go. That means the traditional as MDs to advance the understanding of high that year of 6,417 to less than 5,900 in emphasis to serve as a center of thought, human medicine. Deep within the Science and Technology 2009. The number of new students entering Building on 10th Street, behind an otherwise graduate school likely will be down by 6 “‘Some will go onto medical school, some to ordinary door, sits the Innovations Lab. percent this year, which can be attributed industry, some to a doctorate,” says George Once inside, one finds a few desks topped to budget cuts at the state and federal level. Kasperek, assistant dean for graduate studies with what appear to be moderate-sized Most campuses across the UNC system at the Brody School of Medicine. “This A look at Enrollment bY college and computer screens. An unassuming stack of are reporting similar downward trends in program allows them to get their feet wet.” their most popular Graduate degrees servers sits in a far corner. enrollment. Yet many programs continue to Brody is also home to several doctoral 2006 2010 grow, such as those in the Brody School of Yet step in front of one of those computer programs in the bench sciences, which are Brody School of Medicine 410 488 Medicine, which increased enrollment from screens and you might see your own some of the oldest graduate programs at M .D. 308 178 to 194 students because of the new moving image in 3D, or a demo featuring ECU. In addition, the School of Medicine College of Allied Health Sciences 402 465 master’s in biomedical science. the newest virtual classroom instruction M .s, . speech, language and auditory pathology 121 offers a graduate program leading to a created by graduate students using video- While overall enrollment is down, scores on medical degree with a master of business College of Business 577 930 game technology. They’re students in ECU’s MBA 792 the Graduate Record Examination, a test administration; another combines an master’s of science in software engineering, used to determine admission, along with MD with a doctorate in public health. College of Education 1,222 1,332 which began in 2008 as the state’s first. Master’s of library science 288 undergraduate grades and other qualifications, Its doctoral programs—biochemistry have risen slightly. Average GRE scores of and molecular biology, microbiology and Student Hossein Adeli hopes to design College of Fine Arts and Communication 137 141 technology allowing autistic children to MFA 46 admitted and enrolled students increased from immunology and others—serve as an 1016 in 2009 to 1041 in 2011. Gemperline incubator of sorts for teams seeking answers respond with hand movements, an important College of Health and Human Performance 238 318 goal because for those kids ordinary M .a ., health education 85 suggests that aggressive new recruitment to key health questions. Students generally tools—100 graduate scholar awards work in a research lab while they complete communication with others is a struggle. By College of Human Ecology 297 361 worth $4,000 each—encourage graduate one or two years of instruction, and making a connection between what children M .s, . social work 179 program directors to go after the very best continue their lab work afterward. hear—in this case music—and what they College of Nursing 386 540 applicants. From academic year 2010–2011 do, this approach may enable them to speak M .s, . nursing 491 “There is a very close relationship between to academic year 2011–2012 funding with others. “We’re trying to build assistive the mentor and the students, with two College of Technology and Computer Science 156 237 for graduate assistantships dramatically technology,” he says. “They’re not always M .s, . technology systems 129 or three students in a lab,” Kasperek says. increased, especially in thesis-based programs, rational in what they do.” “These research degrees are highly focused Harriot College of Arts and Sciences 563 663 with additional funding of $1 million. M .a ., English 134 on experimentation. They are trying to Meanwhile, his lab mate, Pooya Rahimian, understand what’s involved at the molecular is using Xbox sensors to develop three- Degrees conferred 2006 2010 Mixing it up level with cancer, diabetes, obesity.” dimensional representations of people and objects that can be used for distance Brody School of Medicine 94 105 What students study in grad school today Other new programs at ECU include education, the first to do so in the state. College of Allied Health Sciences 142 178 is changing as well. In the past, graduate the nation’s first master’s of science in And Majid Darabi is developing security College of Business 195 202 programs generally focused on a single sustainable tourism, which combines topics strategies for cloud computing. College of Education 477 548 discipline like English or chemistry. such as greenhouse gas emissions with Programs today are complex, with classes They work under the direction of Nasseh College of Fine Arts and Communication 36 64 protecting local cultures. The program’s goal Graduate school dean that range across different departments. This is to enable its graduates to contribute to Tabrizi, graduate program director, who’s Paul Gemperline College of Health and Human Performance 80 111 interdisciplinary approach allows graduate local economies by nurturing tourism jobs, been at ECU for 27 years and was one of the College of Human Ecology 139 106 programs to synthesize viewpoints from revenues and taxes—while protecting an first to work with computer programming College of Nursing 58 117 disparate fields. And because it responds area’s own culture and natural resources. here. With 70 students enrolled, he says, the quickly to changes, ECU has the potential software engineering degree is “something College of Technology and Computer Science 75 50 The doctorate in coastal resources to do interdisciplinary studies better than we should all be proud of.” management, now in its 13th year, also Harriot College of Arts and Sciences 199 195 others. The new master’s of science in reflects ECU’s special relationship to the On another part of campus, classes in biomedical sciences, with its first class of Source: ECU Office of Institutional Planning, Assessment and Research ocean environment. That program uses an the master’s of science in security studies

24 25 program, now in its second year, is training education process, more applied and students to safeguard information and reflective,” says Vivian Mott, interim associate public spaces. The degree has four areas dean for research and graduate studies at the of concentration: homeland security; College of Education. “If you consider an international security; science and undergraduate degree, you’re learning the technology security; and environmental and nuts and bolts. At the master’s-degree level, occupational safety and health. ECU hired the knowledge base, the exercises and the Medicine meets engineering four additional faculty members to establish writing are all more rigorous. They also add

Security studies graduate this program, which prepares graduates for a component of reflection. You’re learning program director Jalil Roshandel fields ranging from emergency response to how to apply that knowledge. Graduates intelligence. Bioterrorism, the Middle East become more reflective and critical in their and international politics are all part of this thinking, and question the theories that degree, another interdisciplinary program you learned as an undergraduate.” At the that includes biology, computer science, doctorate level, she adds, you are expected to criminal justice, environmental health and contribute knowledge to your field, as well. safety—even international studies. The College of Nursing, with more than “Since Sept. 11 we have been looking at 500 enrolled in graduate programs at all East Carolina is pushing forward with plans for a new master of terrorism, cybersecurity and the study of levels, allows nurses to gain the skills they science in biomedical engineering degree . The new program, which the policy and practice of security in a need to provide advanced care. With many will be housed in the College of Technology and Computer Science’s Department of Engineering, will train students to develop medical historical perspective and also in current programs online, nurses in rural areas and solutions for emerging health problems . It will create opportunities for times,” says Jalil Roshandel, program who are already working can complete their collaboration among several colleges and schools, including the new School of Dental Medicine . Its graduates will go on to develop and test director. “That means computers, degree in their own hometowns. devices, tests and diagnostic tools . networking, encryption, information The MBA program, too, gives students many This program, if approved by the UNC Board of Governors, could admit security. We have an emphasis on homeland options. With the MD/MBA, doctors can students as early as 2013 . It would enroll about 10 students each year . security policy—because that’s one of the graduate from medical school equipped to Other graduate programs in the planning stage include a doctor of areas most students would like to study.” manage a large business, which most medical nursing practice and a Ph .D . in integrative biological systems . Some other graduate degrees, including a doctorate in economics and one in practices are. A four-plus-one in biology maritime archaeology, have been proposed but are not expected to take Still a need combines an undergraduate degree with the shape for some time . While these novel programs have brought MBA—preparing scientists for careers in the “This master of science in biomedical engineering has broad campus biotech industry, where “companies want buy-in and is the campus’ No . 1 priority,” says Paul Gemperline, dean exciting new directions to the Graduate of graduate studies . Planning documents describe a cross-disciplinary School, many long-standing programs employees with both science and business approach that integrates several fields, from business to human continue to serve a vital role for students, skills,” says Courtney Altizer, assistant performance . While other campuses offer an M .s . in biomedical director of business graduate programs. engineering, some do it in a partnership with another campus, such as employees and the region as a whole. Within the partnership between UNC Chapel Hill and n C. . State University . that context, it’s hard to overestimate the Whatever a student’s destination, chances If approved, ECU would be the first institution bringing together on importance of ECU’s graduate programs in are good that ECU can provide a path. one campus the resources of a medical school, dental school, allied education, business, nursing, allied health health sciences, business and engineering to create a degree program . For Graham, obtaining the master of It could also incorporate the colleges of Arts and Sciences and Health sciences, health and human performance and construction management degree inspired and Human Performance . The degree would combine engineering arts and sciences. him to start a doctorate degree. Through a principles and approaches with several science fields­—physics and physical sciences, chemistry and math—and apply novel understanding “These programs are serving a need for the collaboration with Indiana State University, to problems in biology, medicine, behavior and health . These discoveries region,” says Belinda Patterson, associate he’s taking classes at ECU that will apply to will be more important for an aging population as well as to meet it. What’s more, he’s taking them without a general expectation for better cures, joint replacements, targeted dean for graduate studies. “There are always treatments and anti-aging approaches . leaving home. teacher shortages and nursing shortages.” East Carolina is mulling several other graduate degrees, Gemperline says . In descending order of priorities for the university, they include: For educators, a graduate degree may mean “Being mobile, taking classes without DNP, Doctor of Nursing Practice MAEd, Gifted Education a salary increase, but it most certainly helps being on campus 24–7 has given me more opportunities to pursue more than I could PhD, Integrative Biological MA, Hispanic Studies develop a more thoughtful approach to Systems MS, Network Technology ever have imagined,” he says. “When you’re teaching methods. Ideally, it creates a more MCP, Community Planning PhD, Maritime Archaeology well-rounded teacher. excited about something, I think you can MS, Health Informatics PH, Economics succeed at it.” PhD, Epidemiology PhD, Curriculum and Instruction Graduate study “is a more rigorous East —Marion Blackburn

27 Reid Fogleman finds a winning recipe for business built on his core competencies—and valuable alumni ties

By S teve Tuttle

It’s past 2 o’clock on a Wednesday, a time grand opening on Monday. Instead of the soon, in Greenville. And after that, another when the lunchtime rush slows to a trickle traditional ribbon cutting, he invited the one in Jacksonville. And then one in Virginia at most restaurants, but customers are still community to share in a pizza cutting and Beach. And then one in Norfolk. And then, streaming through the door at the new a $4,000 check presentation to Fayetteville who knows where. Mellow Mushroom in Fayetteville. The Cares, an organization that supports Fort He’s especially looking forward to opening gourmet pizza restaurant has been open just Bragg families. the Greenville restaurant, which will be two days but there’s no sign of confusion With the hoopla of opening day behind located on a Greenville Mall outparcel on or delays. As the waitstaff briskly takes him, “Now I get to do what I do best,” says Charles Boulevard almost within sight of the orders and the cooks pull steaming pies, Fogleman, who lives in Raleigh. “Now, I football stadium. Many of his closest friends calzones and specialty sandwiches out of can focus on keeping the business going, on are alumni he’s associated with through the ovens, one man sitting at a table over by hiring good people, taking care of them and various booster organizations, including the the bar watches with intense interest. He’s thanking people for their business. If I do five alumni who are a part of his restaurant the proprietor, Reid Fogleman ’89, who those things right we will be just fine.” He venture. “I learned so many important things has labored 75 to 80 hours a week since also should be able to cut back on the hours in college,” he says as a smile creeps across the beginning of the year preparing for this he spends at the restaurant on McPherson his face, a telltale sign that a joke is about to moment. Church Road—not because he’s looking follow. “Like, you always start tailgating three He’s says he’s still excited about the for more leisure time but because he will be hours before the game, and at the beginning community support demonstrated at the opening another new Mellow Mushroom of the semester you should find out if your

28 29 successful, very smart people. They expect “The biggest need we have now is a lot out of this. But I am the operations to continue to recruit some strong BOOKS BY guy. I am the majority owner. I created the board members. We need to keep management company that will operate this a diverse group in place. With our restaurant and the others that will follow. budgets being slashed, fundraising FACULTY But if I don’t do well, the investors can fire has never been more important. I the management company.” think you will see some younger faces (on that board and others) but Besides his investors, Fogleman has been there still will be plenty of mentors getting advice from another alumnus who there. The important point is we knows a thing or two about the restaurant can’t be complacent.” business—James Maynard ’65, the founder Nature will win, but of the Golden Corral chain of restaurants. Michael “Dusty” Field ’94 of “One time he asked me, ‘What’s the most Cary, who has worked with important fertilizer a farmer puts on his Fogleman on several local civic we don’t have to lose crops?’ He said, ‘It’s his shadow.’ I really projects, predicts some hot times The Fayetteville restaurant employs 120. didn’t understand what he meant until after for the Mello Mushrooms. “We’ve I had worked so many hours to get the spent many nights talking of professors have an attendance policy.” fondly is that’s where he met his wife, Jenny, As residents of the Outer Banks west by the end of this century . restaurant opened. He meant that the most opportunities, strategies, timing and a University of Georgia graduate. They now recover from Hurricane Irene and However, that doesn’t mean we He leans forward, serious again, an index valuable thing you can invest in a business is the importance of execution. Most have three children. “Our favorite restaurant the state digs into its depleted must abandon the islands that are finger tapping the table for emphasis. “No, your time and attention.” businesses start off slow, but this treasury for money to repair n C. . so loved by almost everyone who then was Mellow Mushroom. So I have some the most important thing in college for me one will fly straight out of the gate.” Highway 12 yet again, an old has ever vacationed there . But we really good associations with that brand.” Maynard’s advice has been tactical as well was developing a lot of relationships. East Henry Hinton ’76 of Greenville, debate resumes between must jettison the notion that we Mellow Mushroom was founded in Atlanta as theoretical. “Another time he asked me, environmentalists and can erect permanent structures Carolina allowed me to meet a lot of people, president of the in 1974 by two Georgia Tech roommates. It ‘How many hours should you book yourself the tourism industry so on shifting sand, especially those read a lot of minds. Hinton Media important to the coastal gaudy beach houses sitting barely now has around 120 outlets nationwide. on the work schedule?’ I threw out all kinds Group who economy . And as that above the high-tide line . “I worked for (former senior associate of numbers, but his response was, ‘Don’t either-or argument we’ve All Fogleman needed to make his dream a serves with The authors—Stanley r . Riggs, athletics director) Jimmy Bass in the sports ever put yourself on the schedule because heard so many times kicks Dorothea v . Ames, Stephen J . reality was investors, who weren’t hard to Fogleman on the up again, it’s refreshing to marketing group, I worked at WZMB (the you don’t want the staff to know when Culver and David J . Mallinson— find once he put out some feelers through ECU Foundation learn that there may be a station), I worked at Chico’s you’re coming.’” envision vacationers tooling the ECU grapevine. His partners in Capital third way, one advanced board, says, “Reid around in golf carts to reach and Cubbie’s (two downtown restaurants). So, in this surprisingly Food Group, the operating company he is a dynamo. He’s cottages clustered around some I was always out and about, meeting people. readable and well- formed, are Jim Ward III ’74 of Greenville, Giving back for what he got a combination of the current Outer Banks villages It’s amazing how those relationships I made illustrated book by four a real estate developer; Burney Warren III of energy and sheltered in broader stretches then helped me to get where I am today.” As someone who values relationships and ECU geology professors . ’70 of Greenville, a former executive vice passion and he of the islands . A flotilla of ferries appreciates how much he has benefitted Grasping this third way crisscrosses the sounds to connect president of BB&T; David Bond ’78 of from his ECU connections, Fogleman has loves ECU.” begins by accepting the villages and the mainland . College connections Raleigh, former president and COO of A4 been unstinting in giving back to his alma Most Mellow the fact that the This vision is appealing for its Health Systems of Cary, a health care IT Outer Banks are aesthetics and for its positive The restaurant business is not actually a mater. He is a Jarvis Circle member of the Mushrooms are company; Steven W. Jones ’91 of Raleigh, not and never were economic implications, and new field for Fogleman, who also is chief Chancellors’ Society and he and his wife decorated to reflect CEO of VantageSouth Bank and an ECU permanent . And here lessens the sting of realizing the marketing officer of Maxwell 3, a small but endow an Access Scholarship. He has served the interests and we are not talking folly of pouring more tax dollars trustee; and Bob Greczyn ’73 of Cary, the successful PR and brand marketing company for three years on the ECU Foundation, tastes of the local about millions or into rebuilding Highway 12 and a retired CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Raleigh. “I had been doing that for 16 the main fundraising arm of the university. community, which even thousands of new Bonner Bridge . of North Carolina who is a former trustees years . Geological years, and it was rewarding. But one day I sat During that time the foundation was part is why Fogleman chairman. Greczyn is more than a passive studies show they predate down, reflected on my passions, and I asked of the Second Century Campaign, which used jet fighter wings the Lost Colony by perhaps The Battle for investor in the business. He recently opened myself what I really enjoyed doing. I thought raised more than $200 million. In October for the bar in the 100 years and undoubtedly will North Carolina’s Coast a Mellow Mushroom of his own, in Cary. back to the time after college when I moved he began a two-year term as chairman of Fayetteville restaurant. So, how will disappear under the waves or UNC Press Capital Food Group then retained Soaring migrate far to the north and 142 pages, $25 to Atlanta and worked in management for the foundation, succeeding Carol Mabe he decorate the one in Greenville, Management, a company Fogleman created the Rio Bravo chain. I was 27 and I loved it. ’70 of Oriental, the former president of which is expected to open in mid- to manage the restaurants. So, I realized then that I was really good at Russell Athletic. The passing of that baton is February? “I think there may be a the restaurant business.” “The biggest challenge has been this: When widely seen as a generational change for the Pirate involved,” he deadpans. foundation, a signal that it’s time for younger Another reason he remembered Atlanta you bring dynamic individuals together you East have dynamic expectations. They are all very alumni to shoulder their share of the load.

30 31 from the classroom

The map man

Derek Alderman teaches students to see geography’s potential to change the world

33 By Spaine S tephens opportunities, through which he can see Alderman says. “It’s particularly important for geography not to infiltrate that time. “I student enthusiasm firsthand. “I want for African Americans because they have love traveling in the South, and I discover students to be passionate about what they such an intense history when it comes something new every time I travel. I’ve study,” he says. to history in the South.” The initiative never visited a place that I don’t think is drives researchers to pursue avenues of interesting.” His personal and work time His students remember many things about geography professor Derek Alderman. Alderman has taught at East Carolina since strengthening minority travel and tourism is intertwined because of the powerful 2000 after earning his doctoral and master’s by studying brochures and publications connections between self and place. Always They talk about how he uses humor to liven up lectures and how he opens doors degrees from the University of Georgia and in visitors’ centers around the state and learning, always teaching, Alderman is a bachelor’s from Georgia Southern College. noting the presence of minorities—or helping students find their sense of place in to research and publication opportunities. They say he has a knack for being He encourages his undergraduate students lack thereof—in photos in the brochures. the world and what that means for society. to get involved with research and presenting The research also sets out to ensure that everywhere at once while de-emphasizing place as simply a physical location. their findings at conferences as a way to “When you’re finished up at East Carolina, minorities have access and awareness to instill confidence in them that geography can you’re not finished up with Dr. Alderman,” outdoor travel, resources and recreation. And while his work is studied and praised worldwide, one of his top priorities become a rewarding career. Those experiences says Modlin, who is pursuing a Ph.D. at give them the tools they need to stand apart. State University and teaching at is making sure his students have a rich academic experience, coming away thinking “Dr. Alderman has improved my graduate Socially responsible history Norfolk State University. “He’s what I hope about how they can make changes in society through the field of geography. experience professionally by encouraging me Another area of Alderman’s research focuses to become as a professor.” to present a poster at an upcoming geography on Southern plantations and how often conference as well as present with him at the historic sites mention slavery in visitor another later in the year,” Casperson says. tours. Failing to do that, Alderman points out, could cause African Americans to lose “I want them to be passionate about what “I always thought of geography as map this by encouraging the whole classroom to Much of Alderman’s own research is a sense of history and belonging. “It’s not they study. I want to get them to think memorization and learning about different discuss, laugh and enjoy the general company conducted through ECU’s Center for just about history; it’s socially responsible,” Sustainable tourism about how they can improve the world,” says cultures, but it is so much more than while at the same time teaching solid Sustainable Tourism, where he pursues he says. “We’ve got to recognize different Alderman, who received the UNC Board of that,” says undergraduate Jamie Wheeler. geographic knowledge.” public outreach and conducts community histories and identities, and we’ve got to deal degrees awarded Governors Teaching Award in 2009. “Geography involves where everything is, and engagement research, such as studying the with difficult memories.” how it is all connected together, so it is a very politics of naming streets after Dr. Martin “There’s an excitement that Dr. Alderman The world as classroom Four ECU students graduated last broad field. Dr. Alderman helped me realize Luther King Jr. He examines the social, racial There’s also an economic side to that generates,” says Arnold Modlin ’06 ’08, who that I could follow my dream of helping the Exploration is a key factor in the syllabus and political aspects that communities take kind of omission. Historic plantations summer with the new master’s earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees environment through geography, and how of Alderman’s courses. Students venture into account as they work to agree on roads open for tourism struggle in part because in geography with Alderman’s guidance. of science in sustainable tourism powerful tools like [geographic information into the community to get a better sense of or parts of streets to name after King. “I they leave out an important part of the Alderman, he says, pushes students to degree, the first program of its kind systems] can be in problem solving.” geography’s impact on life. One field trip like the idea of actually having an impact population. Working with Alderman understand geography beyond maps and took the class to Cherry Hill Cemetery in on discussions of public issues,” he says. He and other researchers, many plantations in the United States . Established locations. From attending local festivals and In the classroom, Alderman encourages Greenville to photograph, map and analyze stays connected with activists across the state are becoming receptive to including in 2010, the degree program observing the demographics of the crowd conversation so students don’t just sit and the area, studying evidence of demographic and often fields questions on the topic from information about slavery on their tours. to discussing the differences among regional absorb information; instead, they play an incorporates an interdisciplinary patterns, social attitudes, history, media ranging from the Students have collaborated on much of the barbecue recipes, Alderman’s students see active role in learning and teaching each Atlanta Journal- approach to teach students how to environment and possible preservation issues. to the BBC. RESET research, allowing them to see how geography come to life. other. That also helps him learn, he says. Constitution It brings geography to life for the students. geography can bring about social change. protect and enhance the resources “I want to make them feel like they can Alderman concentrates on socially That’s his goal and his teaching philosophy. Another course studies how traditional Alderman also has worked closely with Carol participate,” he says. “I want the classroom sustainable tourism, particularly cultural of popular tourist areas, while at the Alderman, who came to East Carolina in barbecue recipes vary across regions, even Kline, assistant professor in the Department to be a place of dialogue.” But learning isn’t heritage tourism. He is interested in studying same time encouraging tourism and 2000, teaches classes from the undergraduate within the state. “It’s really helpful in of Recreation and Leisure Studies, on always serious business. He spices his lectures trends in the promotion and development to the doctoral level and has mentored illustrating geography and how things vary RESET efforts. Alderman, she says, “is the resulting economic boost to the with humor and casual conversation. “It helps of African American heritage tourism, going dozens of students. In and out of the from place to place,” Alderman says. “It’s a very student-centered and has his students’ area . The program reflects a growing to brighten the mood,” he says. “It shows that so far as to help museums and historic classroom, he works to mold each one to way of reaffirming place.” best interests at heart. He is always looking you’re human, you have your own stories and sites better speak to minority visitors. One concern about how to balance the understand the role of space, place and for opportunities for his students to grow experiences. It’s OK to laugh and approach A research fellow with ECU’s Center for initiative that is making this happen is the landscape in the past, present and the future. outside the classroom.” benefits of tourism with its impact on the world in a way that recognizes that.” Sustainable Tourism, Alderman understands center’s Race, Ethnicity, Social Equity and Teaching undergraduate courses gives him vacation destinations . that teaching forces him to strengthen his Tourism Initiative (RESET). Alderman is Alderman himself also is growing outside the chance to shape minds early. “Teaching “He wants each person in a classroom to connection between research and classroom working with other ECU faculty and some the classroom and his research. He spends intro-level undergraduate courses keeps you be engaged and enthused about the subject instruction, to maintain knowledge of at other institutions to identify, study and as much time as possible cycling, enjoying grounded,” Alderman says. “It forces you to of the day,” says Janna Casperson, a current recent issues in geography and related areas. challenge patterns of social inequity in film and music, spending time with his see the world in a broader way.” student and advisee, “and he accomplishes the tourism industry. “It’s pretty exciting,” Those connections lead to mentorship G raham Penny family and traveling. It’s hard for his passion

34 35 Younger team sets bigger goals

After losing four seniors, the team and the university huddle around Coach Lebo

Erin Straughn, Darrius Morrow, Robert Sampson and Corvonn Gaines with Coach Jeff Lebo. By Bethany Bradsher photography by jay clark

If you win some games, you apparently will pin many of their hopes on one senior extended Lebo’s contract through the Behind Morrow, Gaines and Straughn wait a lose some big-name opponents. That’s who has spent three years in a Pirate uniform 2018–19 season, an addition of three years host of players who are less known to Pirate the reality facing East Carolina’s men’s —Darrius Morrow. Morrow, a 6-8 forward to his original contract. “I have a tremendous fans but talented enough to play important basketball team after enjoying its first who averaged 13 points a game last season appreciation for this great university and the roles. Senior Austin Steed and junior Miguel Men’s Basketball Schedule winning season in 14 years. Clemson, N.C. and has been ECU’s top rebounder for the confidence that [Chancellor Steve] Ballard Paul were forced to sit out last season under Date oPPonent Location tipoff State and other big-name programs that past three years, knows he is the leader of and [Athletics Director] Terry Holland have NCAA transfer rules after they transferred Nov. 11 Milligan Home 7 p.m. once were happy to play ECU apparently this team. He hopes to make an impression shown in me,” Lebo said. from larger Division I programs. Steed, who Nov. 14 campbell Away 7 p.m. want very little to do with the Pirates now. on and off the court. came from South Carolina with one year of “Coach Lebo’s contract extension clearly “My first year, I had a thousand calls to eligibility after earning his degree in three Nov. 17 coker Home tbA “It’s what I’ve always dreamed of, being the shows that both coach Lebo and East play,” second-year coach Jeff Lebo says. and a half years, and Paul, who was the top Nov. 22 Appalachian State charlotte 7 p.m. leader of a team,” he says. “I feel I’m ready Carolina University are very happy with “This year, we’ve made a lot of calls to the substitute at for two years before Nov. 26 chowan Home 5 p.m. to lead a team. I’ve been kind of a quiet each other and wish to publicly express their ACC and the SEC to come play here, but transferring to ECU, have the potential to leader since I’ve been here, but this year I feel intention to work together to build a great Nov. 29 old Dominion Away tbA we couldn’t get anybody to bite.” be difference makers. I’m going to come out of my shell.” basketball program here at East Carolina,” Dec. 3 UNC Charlotte Home 5 p.m. That change of heart was frustrating as Lebo Holland said. Other returning players who have proven Dec. 6 Home 7 p.m. Typically, the introduction of a new coach worked to upgrade ECU’s nonconference their worth are sophomores Robert Sampson can equal a rocky adjustment for players like Whether ECU enjoys a second winning Dec. 16 UNC Greensboro Away 7 p.m. schedule, but it’s good news as well. It means and Peter Torlak. Sampson, the son of Morrow, who are accustomed to the old way season will depend on players like Erin Dec. 19 coastal Carolina Home 7 p.m. the college basketball world has taken notice former Virginia and NBA standout Ralph of doing things. But when Lebo and his staff Straughn and Corvonn Gaines, juniors who that the Pirates aren’t the pushovers they Sampson, averaged three rebounds a game Dec. 22 gardner-Webb Home 7 p.m. arrived, Morrow says it took just a few weeks averaged more minutes than anyone last year once were. off of the bench. In the case of both Dec. 29 n.C. Central Home 7 p.m. before he felt at ease with the new system but the departed seniors and Morrow. They veterans and newcomers, Lebo said, the most Dec. 31 UVA-Wise Home 1 p.m. Lebo is fixated on winning more games and the new leadership. And because the were saddled with considerable responsibility significant defining factor in their individual than last year and making a splash in the younger players are buying into Team Lebo as sophomores and delivered, Lebo says, so Jan. 4 Southern Miss* Away 8 p.m. success will be their dedication to practice postseason. But for that to happen a group with even greater ease, he feels this year’s the table is set for them to be players the Jan. 7 central Florida* Home 5 p.m. and to strength and conditioning. of younger players needs to step up and fill squad will be unified from the first tipoff. Pirate Nation depends on this winter. Jan. 14 tulsa* Home 5 p.m. the holes left by four graduating seniors. In addition to the new upperclassmen, Lebo says the rapport between players and “Those two guys started for us almost every Jan. 18 -El Paso* Away tbA freshman recruits like Paris Roberts- With the departure of Brock Young, Jamar coaches has been excellent, and he personally game of the season,” Lebo says. “We have Jan. 21 Houston* Away tbA Campbell and Yasin Kolo are expected to Abrams ’11, Jontae Sherrod and Chad Wynn is more comfortable on the ECU campus. high expectations for them. As sophomores Jan. 25 Southern Miss* Home 7 p.m. pitch in for the Pirates in their quest to ’10, the ECU squad lost three of its top “Obviously when you take over a program, last year they got a little taste of what can build on Lebo’s strong opening act. Roberts- Jan. 28 UAB* Away tbA five scorers and a wealth of experience from there are a lot of moving pieces, a lot of be. We’ve got to get those guys better. They Campbell, a star guard from Charlotte who Feb. 1 SMU* Home 7 p.m. the team that won 18 games and qualified different things, you’re trying to fly by the know what to expect.” was an All-State player for United Faith Feb. 4 rice* Home 5 p.m. for the Collegeinsider.com Tournament, seat of your pants, because you’re trying to Gaines, a 6-4 guard who asserted himself Christian Academy, and Kolo, a forward who its first postseason appearance since 1993. touch a lot of different things that you’re Feb. 8 * Home 7 p.m. on defense with a team-leading 55 steals last is originally from Germany but averaged Now, Lebo is looking forward to seeing unfamiliar with,” he says. “So that’s all Feb. 11 Marshall* Away tbA year, says he expects a group of six juniors 22 points a game for Fayetteville Christian which players will emerge as pacesetters in a behind us.” Feb. 18 UCF* Away tbA will step in to provide backbone to a team Academy, will be fully steeped in the Lebo season where the Conference USA title could Still, Lebo knows it can take years for with just two seniors. Before he had even culture as they grow into starring roles. Feb. 22 Memphis* Away tbA seemingly go to anyone. coaches to install their own culture. He taken the floor with some of the players who Feb. 25 UAB* Home 5 p.m. “I think we’ll have some depth,” Lebo says. “We’ve got a lot of question marks, but the believes it will take three seasons of will become key contributors this fall, Gaines “I think we’ve helped ourselves with our Feb. 29 Marshall* Home 7 p.m. league lost a lot of players, too,” he says. consistent leadership—of older players was confident that they could come together ability to shoot the ball from the perimeter. March 3 tulane* Away 3:30 p.m. “Last year Conference USA was eighth in passing down expectations to younger to topple some powerful teams. Hopefully we’ll be able to space the court *conference game the power rankings, which is the highest it’s teammates—before he is able to build “I feel like we can beat a team like that, as out a little bit. We’ve got a lot of unknowns. ever been. This year is different; the players something enduring. long as we click at the right place and the We’re going to be relying on some guys that are a lot younger.” Acknowledging that it does take time to right moment,” he predicts. haven’t played.” In the midst of that uncertainty, Pirate fans instill a winning mentality, East Carolina East

38 39 Britny and Whitny Edwards with Coach Heather Macy Twins transfer from UVa

With the departure of three starters from last year’s squad, women’s basketball coach Heather Macy knew she had some holes to fill during the offseason. So she was woMen’s Basketball Schedule delighted when one phone call yielded two quality players Date opponent Location Tipoff from a family with a top Pirate pedigree. Nov . 11 College of Charleston Away 5 p .m . Nov . 13 st . Andrews home TBA Britny and Whitny Edwards, the daughters of arguably Nov . 17 virginia Intermont home TBA the ECU’s most famous basketball player, Theodore Nov . 20 UNC Wilmington away 2 p .m . “Blue” Edwards, transferred over the summer to ECU after graduating from the University of Virginia, where ECU Thanksgiving Tournament Britny played for three seasons and Whitny for two. The Nov . 26 Elon Home TBA NCAA requires most transfers to sit out for a year, but that Nov . 27 State home TBA requirement was waived for the Edwards twins because they Nov . 30 Monmouth Home TBA had finished their undergraduate degrees in three years and Dec . 7 vCU Home TBA Virginia did not offer the graduate degree they wanted. Both Beach Ball Classic (at Myrtle Beach) are enrolled in ECU’s masters in communication program. Dec . 18 Jacksonville MB 1 p .m . Dec . 20 north Carolina MB 7 p .m . “The girls are absolutely wonderful,” Macy says. “They’re just incredibly mature. They’re very good communicators. Terrapin Classic (at College Park, Md.) I look for them to come in and contribute right away and Dec . 28 Delaware CP TBA also contribute some leadership for us.” Dec . 29 Lafayette/Maryland CP TBA Regular Season Whitny, a 5-11 guard, averaged 6.6 points a game for the Jan . 2 hampton Away TBA Cavaliers last season, and Britny, a 6-1 forward, appeared Jan . 5 UCF* Away TBA in 23 games off the bench. Britny redshirted her freshman Jan . 8 UAB* Home TBA campaign at Virginia, so she has one more year of eligibility Jan . 15 Memphis* Away TBA than her sister. Jan . 19 UTEP* Home TBA Both players were standout athletes for Providence Day Jan . 22 sMU* Away 3 p .m . School in Charlotte, earning All-State and All-Conference Jan . 26 rice* Away 8 p .m . selections. Whitny was ranked as the fourth-best shooting Jan . 29 Memphis* Home TBA prospect in the state her senior year, and both received an Feb . 12 Tulane* Home TBA invitation to the Nike Skills Academy. Feb . 5 southern Miss* away TBA Feb . 9 UAB* Away TBA Their father played junior college ball at Louisburg College Feb . 12 Marshall* Home TBA before transferring to ECU in 1986. Inducted into the Feb . 16 houston Home TBA ECU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1994, he still holds the Feb . 19 Tulsa* Away 3 p .m . school record for most points in a single season (773). He Feb . 23 UCF* Home TBA had a 10-year career in the National Basketball Association, Feb . 26 Marshall* Away TBA playing for the , the , the Boston March 1 Southern Miss* home TBA Celtics and the . Their mother, Valerie Cooper, *conference game also played basketball for ECU, in 1987. — Bethany Bradsher

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In hindsight, it was pretty valuable. But the Alumni board nominations

B ureau hard work drove me away. My family, when we The Alumni Association is looking for ews N ews go back now, my thoughts are, ‘How could I dedicated Pirates to serve on the board have not appreciated this more?’ For example, of directors. These individuals assist the Oriental—it’s a beautiful place. And I lived association in meeting its mission to Courtesy UC LA Courtesy in that and didn’t realize how beautiful.” He inform, involve, and serve members of and his wife have four grown sons. the ECU family throughout their lifelong Edgerton followed the example of his two relationship with the university and advance older brothers, Robert Allen ’59 and Jessie the organization to achieve its strategic Jack, in coming to East Carolina. As a goals. Directors serve as university advocates student, Reggie was president of the Physical in their communities and encourage fellow Education Club and manager of the college alumni to stay connected with their alma swim team. He also coached swimming at mater. Nominations for the 2012–2013 Greenville High School. board are currently being accepted and new — Sun Journal directors will assume their role in July 2012. The New Bern Please download a nomination form at contributed to this report PirateAlumni.com and return to the Alumni Association.

Stay connected with social media Members of the Class of 1961 gather on the campus It’s easy to stay connected with East Carolina mall during the annual Golden Alumni Reunion. the Department of Integrative Biology and A giant step forward and the Alumni Association through Physiology, as well lecturing at the University social media. Not only does the Alumni A spinal cord implant device perfected by of Goteborg in Sweden, Tokyo Metropolitan Save the date! Class of 1962: kitchen—and the Alumni Association will Association have a mobile web site for your UCLA scientist V. Reggie Edgerton ’62, Neuroscience Institute, and the Panum Golden Alumni Reunion help you promote your activity to fellow convenience, but it also offers information which mimics signals the brain normally Institute of the University of Copenhagen. Pirates in your area. Service project details are through Facebook and Twitter, as well as Members of the Class of 1962 are invited to transmits to move muscles, allowed a He received a Citation Award from the due by January 30 to Tanya Kern at 252-328- its online directory at PirateAlumni.com. celebrate their Golden Alumni Reunion the paralyzed patient to stand on his own and American College of Sports Medicine, has 1958 or [email protected]. Prefer to get your information through weekend of May 3–4, 2012. Activities will walk on a treadmill with assistance. served NASA in a number of roles and sits pictures and video? Then visit the Alumni include tours of campus, a special dinner, the on the scientific advisory board of the Reeve Research into the device, as described in Association’s Flickr and YouTube pages annual Candlelight Ceremony, ushering in Foundation. the June issue of the journal and for the latest updates. Those seeking the Class of 2012 to graduation, and much Lancet He received an 1960 ECU swim team demonstrated at a New York event, was job advice can join the conversation more. Help plan the reunion by contacting Outstanding umni Receptions supported with grants from the Christopher on LinkedIn, where thousands of East Director of Alumni Programs Tanya L. Pirate Al Alumni Award Wayne County and Dana Reeve Foundation. The implant Carolina alumni are connecting with Kern ’02 at 252-328-1958 or e-mailing • .m . from ECU in Nov . 18, 7–9 p builds on prior techniques that rely on each other for career advancement. The [email protected]. Mark your 1981. Murphy’s Place electrodes taped to the skin to stimulate Alumni Association also sends e-mail calendars for this celebratory reunion and • Pitt County muscles. “This does not represent a cure for A native of .m . to keep alumni and friends connected look for more information soon. Dec . 7, 7–9 p spinal cord injury,” Edgerton told CNN, Pamlico County and informed about upcoming events Hilton Greenville ounty “but it’s something to build on.” who returns to visit and activities. Be sure to update Plan a Service Month project • Mecklenburg C family, Edgerton .m . One of the preeminent scientists in his field, your current e-mail address at Dec . 8, 7–9 p said he’s shocked at April is service month and the East Carolina Upstream Edgerton has taught and conducted research PirateAlumni.com and/or sign up for how the once-sleepy Alumni Association will continue its annual Please find more information at at UCLA since earning his doctorate in your free [email protected] com/receptions . fishing village of celebration of the university’s motto, PirateAlumni . exercise physiology at Michigan State in account. Find links to all of the Servire, Oriental has changed. meaning “to serve.” Plan a service project 1968. In more than 40 years at UCLA, he Alumni Association’s social media on “I grew up on a farm. in your area—something as simple as a has served in many roles, including chair of the homepage at PirateAlumni.com. clothing drive or volunteering at a local soup

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Alumni Spotlight 2011 STEPHEN EDWARD LUEHRMAN wed Renita Michelle Compton on May 27 at Les Bourgeois In an e-mail from former SGA president Winery, Rocheport, Mo. He is a freelance violist Tremayne Smith ’11, who is now a staff based in Raleigh. Coast Guard Seaman JOSEPH F. assistant in the Capitol Hill office of MURPHY graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Sen. Kay Hagan, he describes his Recruit Training Center, Cape May, N.J. experiences during the recent debt ceiling debate: 2010 “I was fortunate enough to be in the ANNE BRENNAN is director of Wilmington’s U .s . House chamber yesterday to Cameron Art Museum. She was acting director witness its passage and the return of and previously assistant director and curator at the Congresswoman Gabby Giffords . Later museum. A painter, she has been a fellow in the N.C. I had a few candid moments with Vice + Arts Council’s A Schools Program since 2007. President Biden, who was there to VONTA LEACH, an All-Pro fullback, signed a welcome her back . Today, I spent my lunch hour in the U .s . three-year, $11-million contract with the Baltimore Senate chamber to watch the debt bill pass . I truly feel that Ravens. He had played for the Houston Texans. I’m where I need to be at the point in my life that I need to SARAH MAMMARELLA is a family and consumer be here . Despite all the excitement, I have a lot of time to sit sciences agent with the N.C. Cooperative Extension, and think and read . I’ve really begun to, for the first time in Richmond County Center. Dr. DAN MAYO is dean my life, ‘gather myself ’. To top off everything, today at lunch of Pitt Community College’s public services and I ran into President Obama . He was having lunch with some fine arts division. He was assistant vice president for economic advisors . I sang happy birthday to him ”. academic affairs at PCC.KATHARINE ROBIN MCDUFFY ’10 wed GEOFFREY CREIGHTON MARETT ’04 on June 18 at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Morehead City. She is a school psychologist Six months after graduation, former with Lenoir County Schools, and he is a supervisor head cheerleader Antwan Bethea ’10 was in New York auditioning for for Lenoir County Social Services. LUCYBETH a role in a new stage production of NIEVES ARRIBA is a gynecology oncologist at New Hanover Regional Medical Center’s Zimmer the hit movie Bring It On, a teenage- angst film about competitive high Cancer Center. TONI PAISLEY was named one of 12 Conference USA recipients of the Jim Castañeda school cheerleading . About 1,700 Postgraduate Scholarship Award. She is working on a auditioned for 27 roles; Bethea master’s degree in criminal justice at Long Beach State landed a part in the ensemble cast . A month later, University. WILLIE SMITH, an offensive tackle at Bring It On: The ECU, signed an undrafted free agent contract with Musical had its premiere at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre and was hailed by the Washington Redskins. JENNIFER M. TATE wed Marvin L. Gilliam Jr. on April 2 at the historic the Journal-Constitution as “one of Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, Va. She works the most exciting Atlanta world for the Department of Defense, Army Logistics premieres in many years ”. The production is directed by Tony University, Fort Lee, Va. ERIC WHITE exhibited his sculpture at Bottega Art & Wine, Wilmington. Award-winner Andy Blankenbuehler (), with libretto by 2009 Jeff Whitty, who won a Tony for LEON ARCILLA JR. and his wife opened La . (Howell Binkley ’78 provided lighting design for Hacienda Mexican Grill in Greenville. STEPHEN both those shows during their Broadway runs .) After a few BENSON is a financial services representative months off to tweak the production, Bring It On: The Musical for MetLife of the Carolinas in Raleigh. SETH began a national tour with a six-week engagement at Los MICHAEL FIRQUIN is a senior account Angeles’ Ahmanson Theatre (where Beth Grant ’71 was executive with Pirates IMG Sports Marketing. discovered) . The l .a . shows run through Dec . 11 . The tour CHRISTOPHER JAMES GODWIN wed Elizabeth comes to North Carolina this spring with performances at Susan Moeller on July 16 in an outdoor ceremony at Theatre in Charlotte April 10–15 and at the Durham Rose Hill Plantation. He is a computer technician with Performing Arts Center April 17–22 . As an ECU cheerleader, Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools. WHITNEY Bethea was known for running back flips from one end zone JOEILL McFARLAND is Miss Lumbee 2011. She to the other . He once put so much effort into the routine that is a public health educator at the Robeson County he flipped right out of his shirt, bringing howls of approval Health Department. RUBY RODRIQUEZ is a from the stands .

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Alumni Spotlight banking officer at BB&T’s Rockville Pike office, office.TIMOTHY JAMES MORGAN received the Relations Association and is a board member for Rockville, Md. Master WorkComp Advisor designation through the ECU’s School of Communication CommCrew. She Pitt County Institute of WorkComp Professionals. He is a regional is public information officer for Pitt County Schools. 2008 Teachers Honored account executive with The Clement Companies, CANDACE C. MOORE ’04 ’06 was promoted to Dr. ASHLEIGH FREEMAN is a family medicine Greenville. MARTHA MAXWELL SNEAD wed assistant vice president at BB&T in Winston-Salem. The county’s top physician at the Maxton Family Practice Center, David Lee Facenda on Oct. 1, 2010, at the Boothe MATT and ERIN SCULLY opened The Scullery elementary teachers for Maxton. ASHLEY JO GODLEY ’08 ’11 and House, Morrison Grove, Manteo. NATALIE Coffee House and Creamery in Greenville. She is 2011–12 include Cynthia JOSHUA FRANKLIN TRIPP ’07 ’11 wed on SUZANNE STALLINGS ’05 ’10 and JOSHUA the music teacher and fine arts coordinator at The Beaudoin ’03, Angie Aug. 20 at Faith Assembly of God, Winterville. In HOGAN SWEELEY ’09 wed on April 16 at the Oakwood School, and he is a server at Starlight Cafe. Gaddis ’99, Cu’tris Greenville, she works for the Family Wellness Center, Village Chapel of Bald Head Island. Both work for Marie Kimble ’07, David 2003 and he works for Practicon. JOSHUA POTTER is Pitt County Public Schools. Liebfreund ’10, Connie director of the band program at Charlotte Catholic BRIAN K. FULLERTON joined Sonic Aviation Ellison Minor ’81, Debra 2004 High School. He was director of bands and chair in Charlotte, where he is a pilot for Bruton Smith, Scharringhausen Pagona of the art department at Wakefield High School, LISA BARBER received the Meeting Professionals owner of both Speedway Motorsports Inc. and Sonic ’96, Jeff Pizzutilla ’88 ’94, Raleigh. CALLISON PAIGE RUDD ’08 wed International-Carolinas Chapter Tomorrow’s Automotive. He is ATP certified and PIC Typed Kenyada Pretlow ’00, April JASON MICHAEL ANDERSON ’07 on May 21 Leader Award. She is regional director of business in the Dassault Falcon 2000. He was a first officer M. Shackleford ’99, Ashley at the Chapel at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, development for the Greenville Convention Center. with USAirways. MICHAEL GRIFFIN received an Layne Smith ’92 ’05, Annie Greenville. She is a marketing coordinator for AMANDA CHRISTINA BRON wed Henry MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke Watts ’92 ’07 . Top K–8 Greenlight Collectibles, Indianapolis, Ind. He is a Edwin Boyd IV on Aug. 27 at St. Andrews-Covenant University. He and wife, MERCER HAMBLEN teachers include Heather The Read and Rise youth literacy program created in 2008 freelance software programmer and owner of Desktop Presbyterian Church, Wilmington. She is an oncology GRIFFIN, had their first child, Stirling Elizabeth. Cribb ’01, Kimberly Harry by Dillon Kalkhurst ’89, director of corporate and community Shark. ISA BRETT THOMAS ’08 wed WILLIAM nurse at Duke University Hospital, Durham. DANA A. LASSITER is the practice administrator ’07, A’mia Pope ’04, alliances for Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher and DAVID SMELCER ’06 on June 4 at First United DONALD DANIELS and his wife opened Yummy at Carolina Women’s Physicians, Greenville. He was an Lauren Rothwell ’06 . distributor of children’s books, has now served more than Methodist Church, Pfafftown. She works at Moses Yogurt, a self-serve frozen-yogurt shop, in Greenville. exercise program specialist at Viquest Wellness Center, Top high school teachers one million at-risk students . By partnering with community Cone Memorial Hospital, and he works with Frank L. Dr. ANNA WEISS KIRK is an internal medicine Greenville. KELLY REBECCA ROGERS ’03 wed include Rod Smith ’05, groups, local celebrities and radio stations, Read and Rise Blum Construction Co. physician at Roper St. Francis Physician Partners, BENJAMIN CLARK DILDA ’04 on May 21 in an Phillip M. Woolard Jr. ’92 . Charleston, S.C. HEATHER WILSON MAYO outdoor ceremony at Rock Springs Center, Greenville. provides students with books they want to read and own . 2007 The program also reinforces the parents’ role as their child’s was elected treasurer for the N.C. School Public She is public communication specialist and head of most important teacher . Kalkhurst (circled in photo, with kids ELIZABETH FULTON was elected class president from a New Orleans program), lives near Orlando, Fla . At for the 2011–2012 school year at the Charleston ECU, he was senior class president, a Pi Kappa Phi brother School of Law, Charleston, S.C. She is completing her and president of the Interfraternity Council . “Jim Reese was third year of law school. LEIGH CHESSON HOLT my favorite teacher while at ECU; he really took me under his was promoted to customer service representative at wing,” Kalkhurst said . “He knew I had a passion for radio and Select Bank & Trust in the Greenville office.ADAM WESLEY PHILLIPS wed Shanelle June Wilson on worked closely with me to hone my skills . Those skills helped “Having left Greenville in 2003, we joined the Alumni Association me land a job immediately after graduation at WIKS-FM April 1 in Oklahoma City, Okla. He is a 1st lieutenant KISS 102 in New Bern ”. You can follow him on Twitter at in the U.S. Air Force stationed at Tinker Air Force to keep us close to the University through exciting events like @On_MissionTV and read his blog at www dillonblog. com. . Base, Oklahoma City. MARTHA ELIZABETH THOMAS wed Thomas Joshua Moore on June 25 at Alumni Tailgate, Homecoming and reunion activities, and annual First Baptist Church, Sanford. She is an ICU nurse at scholarship events. It’s satisfying to know that we are funding Wake Med Hospital. Now this is a big Pirate family: Current students Taylor Wooten ’15 2006 scholarships for successful students so that they may experience and Stewart Wooten IV ’13 are the ROBIN PAUL BAER ’06 ’08 was named to The an ECU education and share our passion for the University. children of Jay Wooten III ’84 and Daily Record’s Top 50 Very Important Professionals Kelly Poe Wooten ’84 of Raleigh . Most importantly to us, the Association is a way to maintain Successful by 40 list for the state of Maryland. They are the niece and nephew of HEATHER BARBOUR is co-owner of Wine & our Purple Pride, no matter where we are in the Pirate Nation.” Bill O. Wooten ’87 and Beth Oliver Design Charlotte. She was doing marketing for Wooten ’87 of Kernersville, whose Join Garry ’92 and Monica ’94, ’96 Dudley as members of various departments at N.C. State University. LEAH daughter, Ashley E. Wooten ’13, WILSON ’06 ’08 is a clinical supervisor of Youth the East Carolina Alumni Association to demonstrate your also is a student . They have an Villages’ Intercept intensive in-home services program, aunt, Dail Wooten Hovey ’82 pride, dedication, and commitment to ECU. Did you know helping children with emotional, behavioral and mental of Jacksonville, Fla . Catherine, health issues and their families in the greater Raleigh- that alumni membership increases ECU’s national ranking? John IV and Ashley are the Durham area. She was a senior family counselor for grandchildren of John S. Wooten Show your support and begin making a difference by becoming Youth Villages. Jr. ’59 ’65 and Marlene Overman a member today at . Wooten ’61 of Asheboro and the 2005 PirateAlumni.com/jointoday great-grandchildren of Pearl G. ERICA LYNN HINK wed Matthew Tyler Barton ’34 (pictured) . Mooring Wooten on May 21 at the First United Methodist Church, By the way, 1934 was the year Washington. 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Alumni Spotlight communications and development for ECU’s Laupus Central School. BRAD JOHNSTON ’02 ’09 is the DAVID GARRARD sponsored the David Garrard Cooperative Extension. Dr. THOMAS TRAVIS ’00 Library. He is a project manager for Todd Edwards principal of Farmville Central High School where Golf Classic at the Greenville Country Club to benefit ’03 joined the faculty at the University of Construction, Farmville. he was assistant principal. SCOTT KINSMAN was Beau’s Buddies Cancer Fund. The event featured several as an assistant professor of clinical nutrition in the Tommy Edwards ’70 of promoted to captain with Pinnacle Airlines, where he NFL athletes including some former ECU players. College of Health Sciences. 2002 Pittsboro, for 40 years the handles Delta flights across the USA.SUSANNAH JASON LEE MCDONALD and wife, Lindsey, had a 1999 driving force behind The ASHER WELDON BARKLEY wed Simona G. HURLBURT wed Benjamin Christopher Lock son, Reid Oliver. Bluegrass Experience, Mihaela Josan on June 26 at the gardens of The on May 27 on the beach at Emerald Isle. She CHENA WILLIAMS CAYTON ’99 ’06 is 2000 assembles an all-star cast for a National Society of the Colonial Dames of America teaches music at Midtown Academy, Baltimore, Md. principal of Wahl-Coates Elementary School, new album that he says in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. He teaches at CARLTON MARCUS ROBBINS wed Catherine CLIFF GODWIN ’00 ’02 is the hitting coach at Greenville. She was Pitt County Schools director of combines his two favorite the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Dr. Alexis Tighe on March 12 at Second Empire, Raleigh. the University of Mississippi. He was hitting coach career and technical education, 9–12 programs and things: traditional roots music JOHN BROOKS, a cardiologist, is a clinical assistant He works for the History Museum, Marbles Kids and baseball recruiting coordinator at the University staff development.BINH DURANT, community and North Carolina history . The professor at the Brody School of Medicine and its Museum and the Contemporary Art Museum in of Central Florida. He was the Pirates’ catcher from employment services program manager at Eastern album, North Carolina: History, group medical practice, ECU Physicians. LORI Raleigh. CHRIS SETSER ’02 ’07 is assistant director 1997–2001, and went with ECU to the NCAA Carolina Vocational Center, received the 2010 Mystery, Lore and More, ANN CARR ’02 ’06 wed RICHARD NICHOLAS for transportation for Pitt County Schools. He was Regionals as a No. 1 seed in 1999, 2000 and 2001. National Council of Work Centers Management features well-known songs set ANDERSON ’04 on July 16 at Memorial Baptist principal of Grifton School. AMANDA GALE HESTER wed Wesley Scott Excellence Award for her work with people with in the state like Carolina Moon, Church, Greenville. She teaches in Edgecombe Oglesby on July 16 at Wait Chapel at Wake Forest disabilities. STEPHANIE GRIFFIN, an occupational 2001 Tom Dula, Black Mountain Rag County, and he is head football coach at Kinston University. She is a school program account manager therapist at Nash Day Hospital, earned her and Freight Train. The album High School. GEORGE CATALANO is principal KIMBERLY SUZANNE BARBOUR ’01 ’03, a at Southeast United Dairy Industry Association in certification in hand therapy. also has six new songs he of Coopers Elementary School in Elm City. He was senior financial examiner with the N.C. Department Atlanta. MARIA PHARR is assistant vice president 1998 penned for the project, principal of Winstead Avenue Elementary School. of Insurance, earned the certified public accountant of academic affairs at Pitt Community College. She including tunes about the ghost light of Maco Station and the WENDY COX ’02 ’04 is administrative support designation. CYNDI BELLACERO ’01 ’04 is was a dean of liberal arts and university transfer, JASON BARCLIFT ’98 ’06, band director at E.B. Devil’s Tramping Ground . Edwards, who was twice named specialist for N.C. Sea Grant. She had worked at department chair of the social sciences and humanities director of planning and assessment, and chair of Aycock Middle School, Greenville, was elected to World Champion Bluegrass Guitarist at the Union Grove NCSU College of Management in the master of programs at Craven Community College, New science, math, health and physical education at Craven the American School Band Directors Association. Fiddlers Convention, calls on old friends to join him on the accounting program. JASON GRIFFIN ’02 ’07 is Bern. Dr. JAIME CEPEDA JR. is a board-certified Community College. SUSAN PAPOT REECE RHONDA BASS is superintendent of Noble Public album, including Alice Zincone ’89 ’98, daughter of retired Teacher of the Year for Perquimans County Schools, bariatric, vascular and general surgeon at Dingmans retired from Pitt County government as an extension Schools, Norman, Okla. KRISTY CONWAY ’98 College of Business associate dean Louis h . Zincone Jr . Also where he teaches second grade at Perquimans County Medical, Dingmans Ferry, Pa. NFL quaterback agent, family and consumer sciences, with the ’02 is a partner in ENC Property Management LLP. contributing are Bobby Hicks and Jim Mills, formerly of Ricky She worked in real estate part time since 2006. ASA Skaggs’ band Kentucky Thunder; former Bill Monroe sideman T. JOHNSON of High Point opened AJ ChemDry, Stan Brown; and Ralph Stanley’s fiddler, Dewey Brown . a carpet andBlackwell upholstery cleaning business. ASHLEY Edwards taught school for 30 years, and he served as a BLAIR PATE ’98 ’00 wed DAVID BURNS trustee of Central Carolina Community College in Sanford and GOLDSTON III ’97 on May 21 on the beach at as an officer of the Chatham County Arts Council . Now retired North Myrtle Beach, S.C. She works at Atlantic from teaching, Edwards performs frequently around the state Physical Therapy in North Myrtle Beach, and he is and hosts a radio show, Bluegrass Saturday Night, on WLQC- executive director of Shallotte Assisted Living. FM Rocky Mount . You can purchase the album online from 1997 Our State magazine’s catalog at www ourstatestore. com. . KIM PICKLES is principal of Stonehouse Elementary in the Williamsburg-James City County (Va.) school system. She was vice principal at D.J. Montague Five years after Elementary School. STEPHANIE LEE WILLIAMS they began wed David Guanzini on Sept. 17 in Southport. She is knocking on a financial advisor for Edward Jones in Wilmington. doors on Nashville’s Music 1996 Row, Justin ’02 BILL BURNETTE and his wife had a daughter, and Ryan ’05 Abigail Anne, on Aug. 16, 2010. JENNIFER Harris got a big CORLEY, a former teacher, opened iTeach in break this downtown Greenville, which carries educational toys summer when and materials. She has taught preschool, kindergarten their band, and sixth grade. ADRIAN COX ’96 ’00 is community McKenzies Mill, won the Wildhorse Saloon’s “Battle for the impact director for United Way of Pitt County. Saddle” contest . That means the duo will be the official house WAYNE ROBBINS read his work at the Authors @ band for the famous restaurant for a year and be treated to an Upstate Visiting Writers Series at the University of appearance at the County Music Association Festival . “It was South Carolina, where he teaches. NICOLE TRIPP such a great experience in a sense to play at the largest music SMITH ’96 ’98 ’04 is principal at H.B. Sugg and venue in Nashville and for such a good audience,” Ryan Harris Sam D. Bundy Schools, Farmville. She was principal said, adding, “We had a packed house ”. The brothers, whose of Eastern Elementary School, Greenville. PAM music is inspired by Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers and SUTTON, first-grade teacher at Whiteville Primary a touch of Waylon Jennings, grew up in West End, near School, is the Whiteville City Schools’ 2011–2012 Pinehurst, on—you guessed it—McKenzies Mill Road . You can Teacher of the Year. listen to their self-titled second album at the band’s web site, www .mckenziesmill com. . —Southern Pines Pilot

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1995 MARGARET SHARPE ’93 ’06 is principal of She was assistant principal at Wintergreen Intermediate Nashville Elementary School. She was principal of School, Winterville. SCOTTY ROBINSON, former DAVID “REED” BAER III of the Hickory Police Red Oak Elementary School. Arena League player, coaches the defensive line at Department graduated from the FBI National Salisbury High School. ANDREW D. SCHMIDT, Academy, which offers advanced investigative, 1992 sales and marketing manager for the Greenville-Pitt management and fitness training for selected officers JOY JOYNER CAMERON was promoted County Convention & Visitors Bureau, won the Patsy who have proven to be professional leaders within their to chief probation officer in Greene County. B. Smith Award from the Association Executives of organizations. EMMANUEL McDANIEL, former EMILY WORLEY COOK, chair of education, North Carolina. ECU defensive back, joined the staff of ECU strength communications and humanities at Southeastern coach Jeff Connors.NICOLE LAURION MILLS 1989 Community College, received the T. Elbert Clemmons and husband, Brian, had a son, Blake Mills. Outstanding Faculty Award presented to an instructor ELLEN PROIA LAWSON 1994 who demonstrates dedication to the students and is a certified life coach. the institution. JERRY A. GARNER is branch Through her “Your Life, Your CATHY HOMEYER is executive director of manager of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage’s downtown Choice” workshops held emergency services for three Southcoast Hospitals Charleston, S.C., office. He was a reverse mortgage throughout Cary and Raleigh, in Massachusetts. She was administrative director of specialist with the company, for which he has worked she assists women of all ages. emergency services at Cox Health, Springfield, Mo. 17 years. LEE RIDDLE caught a LINDY SHORT MEDLIN ’94 ’06 graduated as a 609-pound blue marlin out registered nurse from Nash Community College and 1991 of Inlet. Along on the received licensure from the N.C. Board of Nursing. CHARLES CHESTNUT ’91 ’96 is principal of trip were his wife, LYNN ’90, She was inducted into Gamma Beta Phi and works at Johnson Elementary School. CYNDI GALBRAITH two sons and his parents. ROBIN YOUNG is manager Nash Health Care Systems. She and son, Brandon, live HEALEY ’91 ’11 received an MS in nursing with an of events for the host committee for the Democratic in Red Oak. adult nurse practitioner concentration from ECU. National Convention in Charlotte in September 2012. 1993 1990 1988 DAWN TERRY ’93 ’09 is principal of Monroe CATHY KENNEDY KIRKLAND ’90 ’04 is Dr. WILLIAM ENNIS “CHIP” OAKLEY JR. ’88 Avenue Elementary School, Richmond County. principal of Eastern Elementary School, Greenville. ’92 is an urgent care physician with America’s Urgent

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Alumni Spotlight Care-Hunter’s Creek, Orlando, Fla. He continues as the visual arts program since 2005. His sculptures have V. Sykes on May 14 at Leaflet Presbyterian Church, FoodBank and her longtime efforts to end hunger in medical director for four CVS Minute Clinics around been exhibited in more than 350 solo, invitational and Broadway. She is director of information services at western North Carolina. DOUG PICKETTE is head Orlando; associate medical director for Svelte Medical group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the U.S. Sandhills Community College, Pinehurst. athletic trainer at Rocky Mount High School. He has Weight Loss Clinic and weekend medical supervisor and abroad. been a social studies teacher and a trainer at the school 1982 for Walt Disney World Employee Health Services. for the last 12 years. 1984 WILLIAM RUSSELL OVERMAN is Carteret SONNY SWANNER is vice president and city 1980 executive for the Washington branch of Select Bank & DONNA MOONEYHAM was the aquatics County manager. He was county manager for Martin Trust Co. THOMAS J. TARICANI is a trustee of coach at the 2011 Special Olympics World Games County. DENNIS TEEL ’82 ’84 ’88 ’92 is principal ROGER L. “VERN” DAVENPORT ’80 ’81 was the Scholarship Fund with the Institute in Athens, Greece. WILL SANDERSON ’84 ’92 of Northwest Elementary School, Pitt County. A past named to the ECU Board of Visitors. He has three of Certified Public Accountants. He is a partner is principal of Grifton School. He was principal principal at Falkland Elementary, he was director of decades of experience in health care IT businesses. specializing in taxation, valuation and litigation with of Wahl-Coates Elementary School. MOLLIE principal development and teacher induction under He provides strategy consulting for Quintiles, the

randfather Mountain of G randfather courtesy Photo Boyer & Ritter CPAs in State College, Pa. FRANCIS TRIPP ’84 ’01 wed Herbert Dorman a grant in collaboration with ECU for the past year. biopharmaceutical services company. THERESA Powell on May 21 at Cypress Landing Marina, GLORIA EVANS WHITLEY ’82 ’89 is principal EDMONDSON, director of Walter B. Jones Alcohol 1987 Chocowinity.Dill She is a nurse practitioner in the of W.L. Greene Alternative School where she was and Drug Abuse Treatment Center, Greenville, received Dr. WANDA PARKER DAWSON ’87 ’08 is neonatal ICU at PCMH and a clinical assistant assistant principal. the Dr. Frederick B. Glaser Award, recognizing a professor at ECU’s College of Nursing. substance abuse professional who demonstrates superintendent of Pamlico County Schools. J. 1981 contributions in increasing access to alcohol or other K. ELKINS, C.E.M., is senior global regulatory 1983 compliance manager for energy and electrical KENNY DELOATCH ’81 ’86 is vice president- substance abuse care in areas of treatment, education, regulations at Invista S.à.r.l., a subsidiary of Koch JOSEPH MAUTHE, a tax partner with Deloitte community banking officer for First South Bank in research or leadership. DUANE GROOMS ’80 ’82 Industries. He was director of the N.C. Rural Electric Tax, LLP based in Los Angeles, was named regional Rocky Mount. The late WILLIAM RILEY GRAY, is assistant athletics director for facilities services Eric Frasure ’08 of Charlotte was declared the Top Authority in Raleigh. RICKY GRAVES of Reidsville marketplace leader for the West Region. A CPA, he former chief financial officer and vice president for at the University of South Carolina. He was a Professional Scottish Heavy Athlete at the Highland Games on is director of the Rockingham County Head Start has been with the firm for 24 years and a partner since fiscal services for Carteret General Hospital, Morehead major gifts officer for ECU’s College of Health and Grandfather Mountain last July . In individual competitions at program. Dr. ANTHONY D. JACKSON is 1997. CHRIS MOXLEY ’83 ’00 is Pitt County City, was honored by his co-workers with a robot Human Performance. BOB PEOPLES is a director the event atop Grandfather Mountain, Frasure placed second superintendent of Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools. Schools induction specialist through the Teacher named “Riley” that connects stroke victims with stroke of business development in the Southeast U.S. for in the 56-pound throw for distance, first in the 28-pound He was superintendent of Henry County Public Quality Partnership grant with ECU. He also develops specialists worldwide. LEIGH COAKLEY PETTUS Norwich, a full-service contract development and throw for distance, second in the 22-pound hammer throw for Schools in Collinsville, Va. and implements the Beginning Teacher Training and was honored at the 20th annual Tribute to Women manufacturing provider for the pharmaceutical and Support program. DOROTHY P. SAVIN wed David of Influence in Asheville for her work with MANNA biotech industry. He has directed manufacturing and distance, second in the 22-pound hammer throw for distance 1986 and second in the 56-pound toss for height . Frasure also won the top award at the 2008 games and was third in 2010 . ELLA HEDGEPETH BATTS ’86 ’93 is principal Frasure, whose day job is investigating theft and fraud for the of Winstead Avenue Elementary School. She was state Division of Motor Vehicles, was an All-American athlete principal of Williford Elementary School. JIM at ECU . He still holds school records in the 35-pound weight FORD, a principle-in-charge for the Canadian throw, discus throw and hammer throw . “I was always pretty Biodiversity Project (Medicine Hat, Alberta), will strong for my age and I liked working out and training better lead the introduction of Mexican gray wolves into the front-range of southern Alberta and south- books by alumni than anything else . ECU had a really good throw coach, David Price . He got there about the time I did and he taught me a lot central British Columbia. Initially, the project will of things . He helped me figure out how to be athletic and not release 23 breeding pairs in January and February of 2012. Virginia Beach ophthalmologist Roger In his second book on innovative teaching strict regimens. Although every pupil Mary Flinn ’81 of rely just on brute strength ”. Frasure added: “Please say hello methods, Ron Clark ’94 shares can learn, “Not every child deserves a Summerfield is completing a for me to all the folks in Exercise and Sport Science . I love Newsom won the SunTrust State Open of Virginia ECU and really miss the place ”. golf tournament for the second time, winning by insightful anecdotes and inspiring ideas cookie,” he writes, insisting that rewards triology of books with the eight strokes at the July event at the Independence on how teachers and parents can ignite a in the classroom should be reserved impending publication of Golf Club in Midlothian, Va. He also won the 2008 passion for learning in every child. Clark, a for superior performance. “I’ve made it tournament, which annually attracts Virginia’s best Clayton McCullough ’06, manager of the Dunedin Blue Jays, national Teacher of the Year whose life was my mission to make a difference in the Threewhich Gifts, builds was named Manager of the Year in the Florida State League, amateur and club professionals. chronicled in a TV movie, used the proceeds lives of all of our children, Clark writes. on her two a Class A-Advanced level minor league team affiliated with 1985 the Toronto Blue Jays . He took the team to the playoffs last from his first book, “I have traveled throughout our earlier RICHARD LEO BARFIELD JR. is athletic director season and had them atop the league’s North Division again to foundThe a country, visiting schools novels. at Durant Road Middle School, Raleigh, and co- this year . McCullough, a Greenville native, was a standout Essential 55, chair of the healthful living department. He and private academy in Atlanta in all 50 states, seeking out Her first catcher on the Pirate baseball team . His father, Howard his wife and three children live in Garner. AMY JO serving underprivileged remarkable teachers who inspire work, deals with McCullough ’76 ‘81, also a standout player at ECU, is a scout COOPER ROGERS ’85 ’96 ’11 earned her D.Ed. The One, for the Diamondbacks . children. Here he assails our children to greatness. death and its aftermath as from ECU. She is executive director for elementary standard elementary Sadly, I have also witnessed experienced by teenagers. and middle grades education for Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools. She and her family live in Nashville. methods as boring and classrooms that seemed sapped Her second novel, Sophomore pitcher Shawn Armstrong signed with the NORAINI ROSLAN is president of Kuala mind numbing. At the of all energy, filled with students Cleveland Indians . Pitcher Seth Maness ’11 signed with the St . Selangor District Council and the first woman to be Second Time’s a Charm, Louis Cardinals . Senior pitcher Brad Mincey signed with the Ron Clark Academy, struggling to stay awake and continues some of the same characters appointed president of a local council in Selangor, Florida Marlins . Senior pitcher Seth Simmons signed with the teachers make learning teachers in desperate need of as they find romance in adulthood. Flinn is Malaysia. GREG SHELNUTT is chair of Clemson Arizona Diamondbacks . Junior pitcher Mike Wright signed University’s art department. He was a member of the fun while still inspiration. These ‘molasses married to Michael Flinn and the mother of with the Baltimore Orioles . Junior catcher Zach Wright was visual arts faculty at the UNC School of the Arts, adhering to some classes’ broke my heart.” Jessica Lee Flinn ’08. drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies but did not sign and will where he had taught since 2000 and was director of return to ECU .

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Alumni Spotlight packaging operations at Burroughs Welcome and DSM retired as athletic director at Princeton High School. received the 2011 J. Edgar and Peggie T. Moore 1972 Pharmaceuticals and spent the last 10 years in sales SUSAN WHITFIELD ’77 ’95, author of the Logan Excellence in Teaching Award. WILLIAM W. JACKIE G. COLBERT ’72 ’77 ’82 received the Order and customer service. JEWEL SMITH retired from Hunter Mystery series, published her fourth novel, with PHIPPS was elected chair of the N.C. Council of the Long Leaf Pine. She was a longtime director Rachelle Vanceboro Farmlife Elementary School after 31 years a fifth on the way. The most recent, focuses of School Attorneys for 2011–2012. at the N.C. Department of Public Instruction from Friedman ’08 and of teaching. on the Cape Fear River and the nearbySin GatorCreek, Creek. MILT SHERMAN which she retired in 2010 after 24 years. GLENN R. Chris Chapman ’74 ’79 earned the 1979 1976 CROSHAW was elected by the General Assembly of ’05 ’08 of bronze medal in Virginia for an eight-year term as a judge of the Second Knightdale were DEBBIE KNIGHT is director of Duke Center ALTA ALLEN ’76 ’91 ’07 is Teacher of the Year badminton singles Judicial Circuit Court for the city of Virginia Beach. married July 22 at of Living at Fearrington, a fitness center offering at Hertford Grammar School. STEPHEN D. at the Senior Games the Fearrington medically-based wellness programs. is president-elect of the National THERESA P. BENJAMIN National 1971 House in PIERCE, lead teacher and curriculum coach at Overton Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers for 2011– Championships in Pittsboro . They Elementary School, is the 2011 Rowan-Salisbury 2012. He will serve as president in 2012–2013. He is HENRY GORHAM published the novel Houston, Texas, in Secotan, honey­mooned in School System Teacher of the Year. an attorney with the Richmond, Va., firm of Benjamin set in eastern North Carolina, which explores the June. As an ECU Fiji . The wedding & DesPortes. MARTHA LANCASTER is head of environmental and economic perils of American 1978 undergraduate, he occurred 14 lower school at the Rocky Mount Academy. A National addiction to oil. JIM QUINN was appointed board was the Southern months after she DENNIS F. RAMSEY retired after 26 years Board certified teacher, she joined the academy faculty chair of the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority Conference was paralyzed by practicing law, 16 in Florida and 10 in . in 2010, after teaching in the Edgecombe, Rocky Board for fiscal year 2012. He is a commercial and champion in a fall at her Mount and Virginia school systems in music education, investment real estate broker affiliated with Creative 1977 wrestling. bachelorette gifted education and fourth- and fifth-grade regular Properties Inc. party . Among her PATRICK education. GALE RAYNETTE PERRY retired 1973 1970 many wedding FLYNN wed from teaching after 35 years with the Camden County GLORIA SUVON TALLEY JUNKINS ’73 ’91 DWIGHT JAMES FLANAGAN ’70 and his wife, presents was a wheelchair-accessible van donated by the Belinda Baker, School system where she taught at the high school and received an Ed.D. in educational leadership from LINDA HANEY FLANAGAN ’71, retired from Toyota car company . and they own middle school. Georgia Southern University. She and husband, Mike, their State Farm Insurance business, which served Edenton Coffee live in Lexington, S.C., where she is the chief academic 1974 Brunswick County for 26 years. A football letterman House with a officer for Lexington School District One. bookstore in DIANNE BOSEMAN ’74 ’95 was promoted to at ECU, he and his wife plan to spend more time at Steve ’01 and Kirti ’01 ’02 Loper of Edenton. AL professor of computer engineering technology at their Greenville home on the Tar River watching their Cary felt motivated to do some­ MUSGRAVE Nash Community College, Rocky Mount. She beloved Pirates. thing to help after watching a TV 1969 show on the hardships experienced by military wives . They started JEANNE C. HART retired from teaching in Wake CoUnT On Mee, a support group County Schools after 40 years but plans to substitute that offers free haircuts for teach in the future. military spouses, with the help of 1968 Steve’s sister, Meegan, a hairstylist in Fayetteville, near Fort Bragg, ERNEST V. LOGEMANN is serving a four-year where they grew up . Meegan term on the ECU Board of Visitors. He was also committed to donating free haircuts to military spouses for a appointed to a three-year term on the Winston-Salem year . After creating a Facebook page and a blog to spread Recreation and Parks Commission. the word, other hairsylists at Fort Benning, Ga .; Fort Hood, 1965 Texas; and Fort Sill, Okla ., have joined the cause . The group is on track to provide 1,000 free haircuts in its first year . You can WILLIE MARLOW had more than 100 small track developments at their web site, countonmee com. . paintings exhibited in September in seven different venues, including Croatia, Canada and Ireland. Dr. NORMAN WALTER SHEARIN JR. retired from Jimmy Fleming ’63 of Creedmore, the longtime coach of Vance County Public Schools after serving more several sports at South Granville High School, was inducted than eight years as superintendent. From 1996 to into the n C. . High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 2002, he was principal and deputy superintendent September . His basketball teams won four men’s conference in New Hanover County Public Schools. In 1996 championships . His softball teams once won 14 consecutive he retired from the Palm Beach County (Fla.) Public league titles and a whopping 164 conference games in a row School System after 31 years as a teacher, coach, to go with a 54 consecutive game win streak that spanned assistant principal and principal at five highs schools three different seasons . His teams won five NCHSAA slow- in the system. pitch state championships, finished second twice and then 1963 made the transition successfully to fast pitch, winning one LELA CHESSON ’63 ’84 received the 2010–2011 state crown in that version . A member of the NCHSAA Board Barry Gaskins Award presented by the N.C. School of Directors from 1990 through ’94, Fleming also served as Public Relations Association for outstanding leadership athletic director at South Granville for many years . in school public relations and communications. Retired from the Nash-Rocky Mount Schools, she was community relations director for more than 20 years.

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Alumni Spotlight 1961 J. PAUL DAVENPORT, a retired military officer Nichole Cerimele ’02 has found a and Greenville businessman, is chair of the Pitt career that blends her passion for Community College Board of Trustees. He has 1930s ’63 of Whiteville. BESSIE FRANCIS COUNCIL MAC LANCASTER ’58 ’61 volunteer work, fitness and the Big YOUNG ’45 of Raleigh died June 14. She taught of Lawndale died July 15. A served on the college’s governing board since 2005. BETTY CASTELLOW DAVIDSON ’36 of Apple in one package . In 2008 she elementary school in Wake County for many years. founding brother of Pi Kappa FRANCES “FRANKIE” BAYNOR PARNELL ’61 Newport News, Va., died July 4. She began teaching volunteered her time with the New Alpha fraternity, he led the local ’81 was honored as a 50-year member of the American in Pantego schools and later taught and retired from 1950s York chapter of Kids Enjoy Exercise to affiliate with Pi Kappa Alpha Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. She is a Newport News School System after 18 years. Now (KEEN), a nonprofit that facilitates William Vance “Bill” in 1958. He was an educator in retired family and consumer sciences teacher and CEO ROSALIE BULLOCK FRANCIS ’38 of Charlotte activities for children with disabilities Arnold Jr. ’59 of Raleigh the public schools in Martin, of Natural and Family Resources Inc. died June 15 at 94. She taught elementary school for by pairing them with trained died Aug. 14. For 26 years he Hertford and Cleveland counties 31 years, primarily at Rama Road School. volunteers . Within three months she 1959 served as director of the North and founder of Cleveland ZIBA HELEN MORGAN was the chapter’s executive director . “A Carolina Film Office, where he County Educational Foundation that provided college NANCY ALLEN retired from Vanceboro Farmlife MEADOWS ’38 of Oxford lot of our kids don’t get regular aided in the production of 700 scholarships to Cleveland County seniors. He and his Elementary School after 32 years of teaching. died June 13 at 94. She exercise and at KEEN we let them play movies filmed in the state. He is wife, Gail, had a separate scholarship fund for 1956 taught at Oak Hill and Berea and be themselves,” she says . “The survived by his wife of 54 years, Cleveland County seniors who attend ECU. JAMES schools. She and her parents get a two-hour break, which lets them catch up on MARVIN “BEAR” BALDREE ’56 and his wife, Dorothy Arnold ’58. FRANKLIN “JIM” LEE ’54 of Raleigh died June 29. husband, Brent, were former other things so they can have more time for their children later ”. SARAH SELLERS BALDREE ’70, celebrated their MIRIAM DEMPSEY BATTEN ’54 formerly of A WW II Navy veteran, he retired from the N.C. owners of Meadowview With more than 2,000 volunteers in the three years of KEEN 60th wedding anniversary. Hope Mills died June 16. She taught elementary Department of Transportation Personnel Office, where Memorial Park and Oxford New York and at least 100 volunteers working with children at school for many years in Cumberland County, retiring he received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine in 1999. 1953 Implement Company. any given time, the children are not the only ones who feel the in 1995 from C. Wayne Collier Elementary School. PATRICIA SMITH OWEN ’55 of Charlottesville, DOROTHY LAWSON MATTOCKS impact of this organization . “To see the children’s smiles and REBECCA PATE MCLAWHORN, retired teacher Thomas A. Bennett Va., died Aug. 9. She taught high school before VONCANNNON ’35 of Richlands died May 10. the impact on the parents is why I do it ”. She continues to and now tutor, substitute teacher and volunteer at Sr. ’59 of Naples, Fla., the marrying the Rev. J. Malloy Owen III and serving She was a retired teacher. volunteer with the Achilles Track Club and the World Vanceboro Farmlife Elementary School, where she retired vice chairman and COO churches in Greenville, Clayton and Raleigh, and the Association of Nongovernmental Organizations . She completed taught for 25 years, received the Order of the Long 1940s of Wachovia Bank, died July United Methodist districts of New Bern and two marathons as a guide for an athlete with disabilities . She’s Leaf Pine for her lifelong contribution to education. 19. He was a member of the Goldsboro. ANNETTE BASS PARKER ’59 of Four ALICE ALLIGOOD CLARK ’40 of Greenville an active member of ECU’s New York Metro alumni group and Chancellor’s Society and the Oaks died June 14. She taught language arts at Four 1942 died Aug. 26 at 92. During WW II, she worked at managed to find time to earn a master’s degree in nonprofit Sabre Society, and served from Oaks Elementary for 33 years of her 34-year career. Pope Air Field, later moving to Greenville where she management from The New School in New York . CHARLES FUTRELL of The Villages, Fla., became 1981 to 1989 on the Board of She first taught at Meadow School.LORENZO taught in Pitt County Schools for 23 years. MARGIE —Jessica Creson Nottingham ’06 ’08 the oldest man to complete a USA-Triathalon- Trustees. Memorial contribu­ WILLIAM “PETE” PETERSON ’56 of Chesapeake, LYNETTE HOLLOWELL CLARK ’43 of Tarboro sanctioned event on June 11. At 91, he finished the tions may be made to the ECU Medical Foundation, Va., died July 8. A Korean War Army veteran, he was a died June 12. She worked for Howard Memorial 440-yard swim, 10-mile bike and 3-mile run in 2 525 Moye Blvd., Greenville, NC 27858 or to the civil service auditor for the Navy. VOIGHT VERNE Presbyterian Church for 36 years. WILLIAM Inducted into the ECU Athletics Hall of Fame for 2011 were hours, 18 minutes, 38 seconds. He is a retired teacher. ECU Educational Foundation, 901 East 5th Street, PRITCHARD ’58 of Goldsboro died Aug. 16. A KNIGHT “BILL” DELBRIDGE ’48 of Norlina Michelle Clayton ’98 ’00 of West Lebanon, n .h ., the Greenville, NC 27858. ALSTON WINSLOW member of Sigma Nu fraternity, he worked for died July 10. In WW II he received two Bronze first female Pirate athlete to earn All-America honors BURKE ’53 ’58 of Hampstead died June 19. A Navy Commercial Credit Corp. for 32 years. EUPHA Stars, a Purple Heart, a Presidential Citation and in the hammer throw; Tony Collins, whose 100-yard veteran, he was principal for several years at Belvoir JONES PULLEY ’51 of Ayden died July 17. She the Belgian Fourragere. He helped organize the local kickoff return against Florida State in 1980 still ranks as Falkland School and a teacher and coach at Dixon taught high school in eastern North Carolina. In 1971, Peoples Bank and was postmaster in Norlina for 26 the longest in school football history; Justin England High School. He also owned and operated Gateway she and her husband, Jim, opened Krispy Kreme years. DORIS S. ELLINGTON ’46 of Raleigh died ’01 of Raleigh, the first Pirate athlete to qualify for Motel and Topsail T-Shirt Town in Surf City. Doughnut Co. in Greenville from which she retired in July 23. She taught at Apex High School, Laurel Hill the NCAA Cross Country Championships; and the TROY RHYNE JACKSON SR. ’59 ’64 of Grifton 1996. EUGENE PADEN SMITH ’51 of High School in Scotland County, Millbrook High late Stuart Tripp ’45 ’48 of Wilmington, the center died Aug. 26. Following a career in teaching and Williamston died July 25. A resident of Havelock for School and at Fuquay-Varina High School. She also on the 1941 team that remains the only undefeated school administration, he was in education­al sales more than 50 years, he was editor, publisher and owner coached basketball. ELIZABETH MATTHEWS football team in school history . The new inductees were and founded Sweet Caroline’s restaurant. of weekly newspaper. He was JONES ’43 of Harrellsville died June 19 at 90. She introduced during halftime of the Oct . 1 football game CATHERINE “KITTY” instrumentalThe Havelock in theProgress referendum establishing the town of taught for 34 years in Harrellsville and Colerain. against UNC Chapel Hill . Clayton collected multiple All- Charles Futrell LORAH SMITH JOYNER Havelock, where he was mayor from 1975 to 1984. HILDA MARTIN HARRELL ’43 of New Bern East Region accolades and was a three-time recipient ’59 of Greenville died Aug. 2. WILL B. PITTMAN ’50 ’53 of Trent Woods died died Aug. 13. She taught French and English in Nash of the team’s Most Outstanding Field Performer She was a founder of the Aug. 12. He was an Army veteran. Under his County schools for 22 years. GRACY MAYS ’41 Award as well as the school’s Most Outstanding Friends of the ECU School of leadership, New Bern city schools integrated and, of Hixson died July 25. She retired from teaching Female Scholar-Athlete in 1997 . Collins was a four-year Music and a founder of the before his retirement in 1981, consolidated with Craven at Allen Elementary School in Concord in 1983. letterman and was the Pirates’ all-purpose yards leader Friends of the ECU Summer County schools. CARL DAVID TOLSON JR. ’53 of EDNA EARLE HOLLOMAN MELTON ’49 of for three consecutive seasons . England was named Theatre. She and husband, Lancaster died June 11. An Army veteran, he was an Goldsboro died June 3. She taught in the Goldsboro ECU’s Male Scholar Athlete of the Year for 1998–99, Max, endowed a University auditor with Armour and Co. in Atlanta and later City School System for 30 years. CATHERINE following a season in which he earned cross country Honors Scholarship and other scholarships in the worked with Springs Cotton Mills, now Springs WILSON STAFFORD ’45 of Harrisburg died all-district honors, won the individual title at the College of Nursing. The first Chair at the Brody Industries. GAYE BATTEN VANN ’51 of Selma died June 8. She taught in Harrisburg schools and state championship cross country meet . Tripp, whose School of Medicine, endowed in 1992, is named the July 13. She was a retired teacher from Princeton High organized the first 4-H club there. When the town college career was cut short by World War II, was Catherine and Max Joyner Distinguished Professorship School. SARA ELIZABETH ADAMS WHITE ’59 of Harrisburg incorporated, she was one of the first elected to the n C. . High School Athletic Association in Primary Care Medicine. They were members of the of Greenville died June 8. She was a past member of town council members. She was the oldest of four Hall of Fame in 2004 after a long coaching career at Chancellors’ Society and the Order of the Cupola. She the board for Friends of ECU School of Music. sisters who attended ECU—Frances Wilson Massey Ayden High School that included two state basketball served on the Friends of the Joyner Library board and JANICE ALBRITTON WHITEHURST ’53 of ’51 of Raleigh, Hattie Ruth Wilson Dietzel ’56 championships . was president in 1995–1996. Greenville died Aug. 5. She taught school for 11 years of Washington State, and Dixie Wilson Batten ’61

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before she and her husband opened Tom’s Restaurant in WILLIAM LEGGETT “BILL” SLAUGHTER A decorated 20-year Army Military Police veteran, DOROTHY PURSER JENKINS ’70 of Greenville WADE ’07 of Snow Hill died July 4. She was head Greenville, which they owned and operated for 30 years. ’65 of Seven Springs died July 22. He retired from he owned an insurance agency in Palm Beach County, died Aug. 9. For 20 years, she was a staff nurse and librarian of the Greene County Public Library. the Navy Reserve as a commander and retired from Fla. HELEN LISK BYRD ’77 of Durham died then a systems analyst at Pitt Memorial Hospital in 1960s 2010s the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation. RAWLEY Aug. 5. She worked at Albemarle Savings and Loan in Greenville. HOWARD JAMES MARSHALL ’74 WILLARD JOHN ANGEL JR. ’69 of Cascade, GALLOWAY SPEIR ’67 of Loudon, Tenn., died June Albemarle. MARY “PENNY” MARTIN DALY ’77 of Greenville and formerly of Currie died May 27. SAMANTHA GREER of Hope Va., died June 6. For 35 years, he owned Angel 11. He worked for E.I. DuPont, Bernhardt Furniture, ’82 of Bailey died June 19. She retired as principal of HAMISH POLLOCK JR. ’70 of Bradenton, Fla., died Mills died June 27. She was a rising junior majoring Design where he was a product designer for the Burlington House Furniture, Singer Furniture and Bailey Elementary School in 1995. She was the first July 26. He retired as a special education teacher in in communications and minoring in film studies. furniture industry. BEVERLY “SUZI” JAQUAYS Lane Action. JOHN RUSSELL STANCIL SR. ’61 female principal in the Nash County School System. Florida public schools. DAVID ROGERS SR. ’73 ’81 LAMANDA MICHELLE REID of Lillington died ’69 of Yuma, Ariz., died June 30. An Alpha Xi Delta ’69 of Raleigh died May 28. He was a counselor and ARTHENEUS “ART” DEW ’76 of Fayetteville died of Goldsboro died July 2. He served for 34 years in the July 15. She was a graduate student in social work. sister, she taught at Ronald Reagan School for 14 administrator for 30 years in the N.C. Department of July 3. During 33 years in the Fayetteville-Cumberland Wayne County Public Schools. years. Betsy Young Justus ’67 of Cary, the Vocational Rehabilitation Services. County School System, he was principal of Manchester Faculty 1980s first woman to chair both the N.C. Employment Elementary School and principal of Westarea 1970s Dr. WILLIAM F. “BILL” GROSSNICKLE of Security Commission and the N.C. Department Elementary School. RICHARD CARL EVANS BARBARA JEAN DOUGLAS ’80 of Carthage Greenville died July 1. A 46-year member of the of Revenue, died July 9. After her career in state MARY ROBERTS ANDREWS ’76 of Robersonville JR. ’70 of Charlotte died June 4. He taught biology died June 29. She was a special education teacher at psychology faculty, he was a long-standing member of government, she was a founder and first president of died Aug. 2. She retired in 1993 after teaching for 39 in Cook County (Ill.) schools and later moved to Cameron Elementary School and received Teacher of the faculty senate, chairing the curriculum committee the N.C. Electronics and Information Technologies years, including 14 years as principal of Williamston Charlotte where he worked at Dillard’s until retirement. the Year twice. JAMES KENNETH EDWARDS for 25 years. He chaired 87 master’s theses. Association. JANE MEWBORN LAYNO ’66 of Primary School. KATHERINE JANE BLACKBURN JULIA GRAY GAY ’70 of LaGrange died July 13. ’85 of Ayden died Aug. 9. After retiring as a land Sarah Stallings May Dr. ROBERT D. MYERS of Fort Myers, Fla., died Morehead City died July 15. She taught French at ’78 of Beaufort died July 22. She worked in radio and She was a nurse for 38 years at Wayne Memorial surveyor and civil engineering tech from NCDOT, ’29 of Bailey in Nash July 16. In 1987, he was named joint professor of Sanderson High School in Raleigh for 28 years. She television ad sales before becoming general manager Hospital. JEANETTE MATTHEWS GIBSON ’75 he was licensed as a real estate broker. LESLIE County died Sept . 15, two pharmacology and psychiatric medicine at the Brody was active in Chi Omega Sorority, Rho Zeta Chapter, at Summa Information Systems Inc., from which of New Bern died April 28. She was a bookkeeper BENNETT FETNER ’81 of Rockingham died months after celebrating School of Medicine and was director of the research and was an advisor when the Alpha Kappa Chapter she retired. WILLIAM FRANKLIN BOWEN ’79 and accountant in New Bern and Morehead City, Aug. 8. A member of First United Methodist Church her 101st birthday in July . division at ECU’s Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse formed at N.C. State in 1984. JOHN RIVES “BIG of Wilmington died July 4. At UNC Wilmington, comptroller at Craven Community College and a state in Rockingham, she administered and taught classes Her daughters, Celia Studies. In 1996, the Board of Trustees named him RED” RICHARDSON ’69 of Stevensville, Md., he worked in continuing education, the admissions auditor. CLIFTON BELL “CLIFF” HICKMAN ’78 in the Discipleship Bible Study. DIANE SORRELL Glover ’63 of Bailey and Distinguished Research Professor of Pharmacology, died July 31. A Vietnam War veteran, he earned department and was the first executive director ’86 of Greenville died Aug. 5. An Army veteran, he HARDISON ’84 of Raleigh died July 15. She taught Betsy May ’69 of New and he retired in 1998 with emeritus status. a National Defense Service Medal and an Army of the Alumni Association. MICHAEL ALLAN retired as assistant director of the Edgecombe County the multiple handicapped class at Vinson-Bynum Bern, hosted a birthday Commendation Medal. He worked in the FDIC. BUCHANAN ’77 of Lake Worth, Fla., died June 7. Department of Social Services after a 27-year career. Elementary School in Wilson until 1975, when EVELYN FIKE LAUPUS of Greenville died July luncheon in her honor she became the director of exceptional children’s 15. The wife of the late Dr. William E. Laupus, at the Bailey Café . The programs in Wilson County. She was named the the first dean of the Brody School of Medicine, she editor of East magazine Outstanding Special Education Administrator by the worked with her husband to support the medical was honored to attend the N.C. Council of Special Education in 1994. ADAM school. She founded the Pill Guild, an association of event . On behalf of Gov . H. HARRIS II ’81 of New Bern died July 20, 2010. medical faculty wives. In Laupus Library, the Evelyn Beverly Perdue, Bailey Alternative Investments: SUSAN FAIR LIKOSAR ’85 of Winterville died Fike Laupus Gallery on the fourth floor is named in Mayor Owen Strickland Compare charitable gift annuities to low-yielding Aug. 30. She sold real estate for almost 20 years with her honor. presented her with the certificates of deposit CD( s) Aldridge and Southerland. KAREN PATRICIA STEVENS REEP of Order of the Long Leaf Pine . Mrs . May, who was 1990s Bakersfield, Calif., died June 13. She was the wife Single life Two lives of Edward Reep, artist-in-residence at ECU from a cousin of Ledyard Ross Age Payout Rate Age Payout Rate Lt. JASON MICHAEL CAMPBELL ’95 of the ’51, for whom the School of 55 4 .8 % 55/55 4 1. % 1970–1985, and a quilter who taught seminars on the Fayetteville Police Department died July 18. He Dental Medicine building 60 5 0. % 60/60 4 .6 % East Coast. 65 5 3. % 65/65 4 .9 % received two Life Saving Awards, two Departmental is named, taught school 70 5 7. % 70/70 5 .2 % Citations, three Individual Commendations, two Staff in and around Bailey for 75 6 .3 % 75/75 5 .6 % Departmental Unit Commendations and a Good 35 years . A stained glass DEL KINGSLAND of Greenville died July 13. 80 7 1. % 80/80 6 1. % Conduct Award. JAMES EDWARD MCGEE IV ’96 window was installed He was the long-time supervisor of the Steam 90+ 9 .5 % 90/90 8 .3 % of Morehead City died June 16. He was an admissions in the Bailey Methodist Distribution Shop at the main campus Steam Plant. representative at Miller-Motte College in Jacksonville. Benefits of a charitable gift annuity: Church in her honor . With CHRIS RITTER ’94 of Virginia Beach, Va., died July EILEEN MARY MCINERNEY of Winterville died her death, retired Wake • Substantially guaranteed higher payout rates 24. He was a physical education teacher at Lynnhaven Aug. 2. She retired from ECU and worked for the city Forest University professor • Substantial income-tax deductions Middle School in Virginia Beach. DURWOOD of Greenville. Beulah Lassiter Raynor ’31, • Partial tax-free income for the remainder of up to two lives SCOTT WESTON SR. ’92 of Blounts Creek died CHRISTOPHER RANDOLPH MURPHY ’96 ’10, who turned 101 in June, is • The ability to use the residuum of your gift to fund a meaningful May 29. He retired from Beaufort County Community ECU assistant director of undergraduate admissions, now believed to be ECU’s project with any of the three ECU foundations (East Carolina College as the system administrator and instructor in died July 10. The Chris Murphy Memorial Scholarship oldest living alumni . University Foundation Inc ., East Carolina University Medical & the business division. Fund was established in his memory. Health Sciences Foundation Inc ., or the East Carolina University CHARLES W. POLLARD ’90 of Greenville died July Educational Foundation Inc . [Pirate Club]) 2000s Tomorrow starts here. 28. He worked at ECU for 25 years, most recently in • Membership in the Leo W . Jenkins Society BRIAN JAMES EUNSON ’00 of Skowhegan, Me., radiation safety. For more information regarding charitable gift annuities or any other died July 12. After a 20-year Air Force career, he type of planned gift (bequest provisions, IRA, or other qualified taught at Robert Smalls Middle School in Beaufort, Friends retirement plan designations, trusts, real estate contributions or gifts of S.C., and at Lawrence Middle and High Schools in Dr. WILLIAM JEFFRESS SENTER of Raleigh life insurance), please contact Greg Abeyounis, assistant vice chancellor Fairfield, Me. Dr. ERIK OISTEIN LIE-NIELSEN died May 28 at 93. He lobbied for the establishment for development, at 252-328-9573 or e-mail at abeyounisg@ecu edu. . ’02 of Winston-Salem died July 8. He was an assistant of the ECU Medical School and served on the board For examples and more information on planned giving mechanisms, professor in the Wake Forest University School of of the Pitt County Memorial Hospital. visit our Web site at www ecu. edu/plannedgiving. . Medicine. FRANCIS THOMASINE “FRANNIE” 59 upon THE PAST “We are not here to destroy the old and accept only the new, but to build upon the past…” —Robert h . Wright, Nov . 12, 1909 From his inaugural address and installation as East Carolina’s first president

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President Robert A rchives University Wright says in a 1921 letter to local school superintendents announcing that East Carolina will dispatch the principal of its teacher-training Model School, Miriam McFayden, on a weeks-long trip around the state to meet with and coach young alumnae, many of whom are working in one- and two-teacher rural schools. ECC’s “helping teacher,” as Wright calls McFayden, journeys from Manteo to the The ‘helping mountains bringing encouragement and supplies to about 80 recent grads. teacher’ arrives She recounted her experiences in the that they had acted on my suggestion and spring 1922 issue of the what an improvement they could see.” condensed below:Teachers College Quarterly Known as a tough taskmaster in the “The girls acted just like I was someone classroom, McFayden issued this report card from home and I believe they were sincere, on the job the young teachers were doing: for superintendents and supervisors in so 10 got A’s, 14 got B’s and 53 made C’s. She many cases told me how the girls had talked gave three failing marks for not maintaining about and looked forward to my coming, discipline in the classroom and two were hoping that I would find they were doing chastised for “automobile riding at night” and everything just as we here at the school other perceived violations of the social order. would have them do it. They asked for and wanted help along most every line, and were The message from superintendents to ECC, glad to try out anything suggested, almost McFayden concluded, was: “Send us some invariably writing me afterwards telling me more teachers just like the ones we have.”

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Former U.S. Sen. Robert B. Morgan ’47 of Lillington received the Distinguished Service Award from the Alumni Association during Homecoming festivities. He used the occasion to showcase East Carolina to his granddaughter, high school senior Elizabeth Reeves of Raleigh, who Morgan hopes will become a Pirate. Morgan’s drivers in the Homecoming were Linda and Randy Tripp. Photograph by Forrest Croce