7 WINTER 200 ETHE MAGAZINEa OF EAST CAROLINAs UNIVERSITYt The New Country Doctors How ECU health care grads are caring for small-town families VIEWFINDER 7 WINTER 200 ETHE MAGAZINEa OF EAST CAROLINAs UNIVERSITYt F E A T U R E S THE NEW COUNTRY DOCTORS 12 18 12 The doctors, nurses and allied health care prByof Steessionalsve Row that ECU has sent into eastern North Carolina are improving lives and providing the “boots on the ground” that experts say are the critical front line of health care. THE MISCAST MARTYR OF STUDENT RIGHTS 18 Robert Thonen, the conservative editor of the studentBy Steve Tnewspaperuttle who got himself kicked out of college over a four-letter word, was an unlikely ! gure to be at center stage during the protests that shook ECU 35 years ago. FOOD FOR THOUGHT 24 Remember the free spaghetti dinners at the BaptistBy Betha nStudenty Bradsh eUnion?r They’re still going, and students still are seeking out a safe haven from the wild side of campus life. BUILDING THE TRIANGLE 28 Charles Hayes, a member of the small but powerful gByroup Steve that Tuttle has propelled North Carolina’s economy into the 21st century, doesn’t run an employment agency, but he helped 40,000 people ! nd jobs in the past year. BANANAS OVER BASKETBALL 24 32 They were born the night ECU upset No. 9 MarBy Bethanquettey Br inadsher bask etball, and four years later the Minges Maniacs are still giving the Pirates a home-court advantage. D E P A R T M E N T S FROM OUR READERS 3 THE ECU REPORT 4 32 Petite Pirates and a pony As fl oats fi lled with students FROM THE CLASSROOM rolled down Fifth Street during the 36 Homecoming parade, two petite Pirates showed their excitement by sharing a hug with a pony CLASS NOTES named Lightning. Kaitlyn Glynn, 4, 40 and big sister Bayleigh, 8, are the cheerleader mascots. Lightning is UPON THE PAST owned by Laura and Steve Garrett 48 of Greenville. FROM THE EDITOR 7 FROM OUR READERS WINTER 200 ETHE MAGAZINEa OF EAST CAROLINAs UNIVERSITYt Volume 5, Number 2 LOVED THE URBAN MYTHS STORY Running with Scissors, is published four times a year by Great job with the latest edition of Battle of Iwo Jima; and East East Carolina University magazine. It is the best issue ever. TheEast stories a comedy starring Annette Bening, Gwyneth Paltrow The ‘professor moment’ Division of University Advancement and Jill Clayburgh. call it the “professor moment,” that point in an interview with an alum when 2200 South Charles Blvd. about our educational mission were very Greenville, NC 27858 he or she will digress from talking about their current career to give credit to good. They highlighted the mission and how RENOVATE DAIL HOUSE a college teacher who changed their lives. They often say they were just sliding we are going about ful! lling our mission. First o# let me tell you how much I I h The story about ECU urban myths was my along at East Carolina when they took a course from that professor, and suddenly enjoy and how proud I am of this East life was exciting and full of possibility. favorite. I’ve heard them all and was very talented of that ! rst group. I think history publication. I just received the fall issue EDITOR pleased to discover that I was wrong about has shown him to be right in that judgment. and was a little put o# with your “From Steve Tuttle It was journalism professor Ira Baker who touched o# that spark in Robert Thonen, most of them! I agree with you about the The Editor” column about Dail House. I 252-328-2068 / [email protected] —Miner K. Brotherton ’61 ’62 whose story we tell on page 18. Thonen was editor of the student newspaper in chancellor’s home. We need to solve this Bristol, Rhode Island can’t really comment as to the functionality 1971 who became embroiled in the campus strife over dorm visitation. As Thonen ART DIRECTOR problem. Keep up the good work. of this historic and proud home, but I guided the paper’s coverage of Brent Burch Raleigh DON’T FORGET BETH GRANT will comment on you being set up to be —Carl W. Davis ’73, the demonstrations and student As brother to actress Beth Grant ’71, I Dr. Ballard’s mouthpiece. Of course the If any more were needed, I could provide arrests, he in turn was guided PHOTOGRAPHER always perk up and pay close attention next thing we will hear about is a “Capital additional corroboration of the urban by Baker, his constitutional law Forrest Croce when there is any mention of Hollywood, Campaign” to raise $3,000,000 for a new legend about a top-secret facility on the third teacher. Baker “made a staggering as was recently in “The ECU Report.” house out in some exclusive neighborhood. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS " oor of Old Austin classroom building. impression on me,” Thonen says I’m extremely proud that we continue to I have proudly given to the Shared Visions, Bethany Bradsher, Erica Plouffe Lazure, As editorial writer for the about his mentor. It was Baker produce successful actresses from our drama Kicko# to Victory and the baseball stadium Nancy McGillicuddy, Peggy Novotny, in the 1950s, I was recrGreensboruited ob yDaily a to whom Thonen turned when department like Ali Hillis and Kimberly drives. I’d personally prefer that a major Steve Row, Jimmy Ryals, Leanne E. Smith rNewsepresentative from the then United States deciding to stand up for the Patterson but when you mention upcoming renovation/addition be put on the house to Information Agency. If Washington were principle of free speech—by CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS movies for Sandy Bullock and another meet the current needs. ECU has purchased obliterated by an atomic bomb, I was to publishing a letter to the editor Cliff Hollis, Erica Plouffe Lazure, season of CSI for Emily Procter and not a lot of property around the campus and we rush to ECU and take up my duties in the that o# ended the chancellor—even Ira Baker and Margaret Blanchard Nancy McGillicuddy mention Beth Grant, you’re not doing your should do it again if necessary. Dail House of the English department in 1970. European section of a newly constituted if it got him kicked out of college. homework. Beth must have ! lmed over a should continue as a campus landmark and USIA in Greenville near where the Voice of CLASS NOTES EDITOR dozen movies this year alone, and is truly the chancellor’s home. If you check into Franceine Perry Rees America was. I went to a training session at Thirty-! ve years later, Thonen still recalls that in class Baker “truly ‘lit up’ and at the peak of her career. Her latest release, UNC-Charlotte’s new house, it’s…at least USIA in Washington [and worked for] USIA seemed to radiate his passion, and he covered me with it like a blanket.” Baker taught the Sundance Film Festival smash 30 minutes away from the campus. A lovely a total of 26 years. Fortunately, Washington at ECU from 1968 to 1980. He retired to China Grove in Rowan County and died h has taken o# nationally andLittle is noMissw a home and a bad idea at best. Let’s not make was never destroyed by an atomic bomb and in 2002. majorSunshine hit. She has also nabbed a regular role that mistake. Thanks for the hard work. I was never called to duty at Old Austin. I DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY MARKETING in the new CBS TV series . Beth Grant Charlotte have, however, served ECU many years as Rick Atkinson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of , was the Clint Bailey is one of Hollywood’s hardestJericho working —Luther J. “Jack” Snypes ’80, An Army at Dawn a member (and president) of the board of student public defender who represented Thonen before the university disciplinary character actresses and is well-respected by HOW ABOUT “PIRATE ARMADA”? board. After graduating, Atkinson reported for the for 20 years and directors of the Friends of Joyner Library. everyone in the business. On top of all that, I really like the magazine although I do have walked the battle! elds of Iraq, but three and a half Wdecadesashington later Post he can still rattle Windsor East Carolina University is a constituent institution of —Mack Bell, she gives back to her beloved university. She two suggestions. First, since we are a naval o# the names of his ECU English professors: David Sanders, Paul Farr, Ted Ellis, The University of North Carolina. It is a public doctoral/ While perusing the [fall] issue of I makes ECU proud, and her proud ECU mascot shouldn’t we di# erentiate ourselves Norman Rosenfeld, Erwin Hester. research intensive university o# ering baccalaureate, master’s, East, specialist and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts, sciences was pleasantly surprised to see one of my brother unabashedly shouts it out! from the other schools by referring to the and professional ! elds, including medicine. Dedicated to the former professor’s name mentioned in the faithful as the “Pirate Armada” and not the In the year that I’ve worked on the ECU campus, I’ve heard many people say that achievement of excellence, responsible stewardship of the —Bubba Grant ’86 urban legends story, Dr. James Batton. I took “Pirate Nation”? Second, a review of bios/ university life has its unique rewards, and it ain’t the pay. I’m coming to understand public trust and academic freedom, ECU values the contributions of a diverse community, supports shared one of his courses the ! rst year he came to Including projects not yet released, Beth Grant has books/movies/plays/artwork on pirates (or what they mean.