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winter 2010EastThe Magazine of East Carolina University2020FEATURESMASTERS OF CRITICAL THINKINGBy Marion Blackburn ECU’s MBA program adopts newtools to teach students more efficient ways to integrateknowledge and solve problems.26263236YOU DON’T KNOW JACKBy Steve Tuttle Whatever happened to Leo Jenkins’ babyboy, the one who grew up in Dail House and excelled incollege here? He went on to become Jim Hunt’s lawyer andnow is a judge.THE HUMAN ELEMENTBy Spaine Stephens This interior design professorchallenges students to create living spaces good for peopleand the planet.A LOT ON THE BALLBy Bethany Bradsher Our scholar-athletes of the year haveone thing in common: a commitment to excel on the fieldand in the classroom.DEPARTMENTS32FROM OUR READERS ................. 3THE ECU REPORT .................... 436WINTER ARTS CALENDAR ............ 18SEEN AT HOMECOMING. ............. 40PIRATE NATION ..................... 46CLASS NOTES ....................... 49UPON THE PAST. .................... 60

from the editorDoing our partEast Carolina University is now well into its second year of budget cuts,and tighter belts are evident everywhere around campus, from classroomsthat are a bit more crowded to landscaping that is much less manicured.ECU’s state appropriation is down by $19 million this year, which comeson top of the millions slashed from last year’s budget. News stories onpages 11, 14 and 16 update you on the latest steps the university has takento match income and outgo.Everyone has been asked to cut costs, and East magazine is no exception.With this issue we debut a new format that saves more than $5,000 inprinting and postage costs. We accomplish this by printing on thinnerpaper and abandoning the practice of using thicker, stiffer paper just forthe cover pages. Now, the covers and all the inside pages are printed on thesame paper. A concern I have about these changes is that the thinner papermakes it more likely that your copy will be creased and dog-eared by thetime it arrives in the mail. If that happened to your copy, I apologize.This is the second time in as many years that we have taken steps to curtailthe cost of publishing East. Last year, we rebid the printing contract totake advantage of more competitive pricing that emerged as the recessionfirst hit. That move reduced printing costs by roughly $5,000 per issue.The closer location of our new printer also allowed us to begin mailingthe magazine from the U.S. Postal Service hub in Greensboro and takeadvantage of lower instate rates (the majority of East readers live in NorthCarolina). Those lower rates more than offset a double-digit postageincrease imposed last fall on magazines and other such material. That wasabout the same time as a first-class stamp jumped from 34 to 41 cents.When more cuts were called for this time, the only reasonable option wasto switch to printing on thinner, less expensive paper. But there is an upsideto this downgrade. Now that the entire magazine—including the covers—is printed, folded and trimmed at the same time, it’s actually cheaper toprint more pages. This issue contains 60 numbered pages plus four coverpages whereas our previous model was 56 numbered pages.What impacts have these changes had on the bottom line? The fall 2008issue—the last one printed before we rebid the printing contract—cost$45,552 for 60,000 copies, or about 75 cents each. This issue, with fouradditional pages, cost $34,590 for the same 60,000 copies, or about 58cents each. That’s a 23 percent cost savings.We strive for excellence in the quality of the magazine we deliver to you.We believe we can continue to do that and save money, too.winter 2010EastThe Magazine of East Carolina UniversityVolume 8, Number 2East is published four times a year byEast Carolina UniversityDivision of University Advancement2200 South Charles Blvd.Greenville, NC 27858hEDITORSteve Tuttle ’09252-328-2068 / tuttles@ecu.eduART DIRECTOR/DESIGNERBrent BurchPHOTOGRAPHERForrest CroceCOPY EDITORJimmy Rostar ’94CONTRIBUTING WRITERSMarion Blackburn, Doug Boyd,Bethany Bradsher, Kara Loftin,Steve Row, Spaine StephensCONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERSJay Clark, Cliff HollisCLASS NOTES EDITORJoanne Kollarecuclassnotes@ecu.eduADMINISTRATIONMichelle SloanhAssistant Vice Chancellorfor University MarketingClint BaileyEast Carolina University is a constituent institution ofThe University of North Carolina. It is a public doctoral/research intensive university offering baccalaureate, master’s,specialist and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts, sciencesand professional fields, including medicine. Dedicated to theachievement of excellence, responsible stewardship of thepublic trust and academic freedom, ECU values thecontributions of a diverse community, supports sharedgovernance and guarantees equality of opportunity.©2010 by East Carolina UniversityPrinted by Progress PrintingU.P. 10-067 60,000 copies of this public documentwere printed at a cost of $34,590 or $.58 per copy.2

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Senate President Pro Tem MarcBasnight was on his way from Raleighto Manteo recently when he stoppedoff in Greenville to take a look aroundthe new East Carolina Heart Institute.You might say he was making a house call,checking to see how things are running at the$60 million facility one year after it opened.Basnight, who holds an honorary doctoratefrom ECU, also had occasion recently to seehow things are running at another healthcare project he championed, the $180million N.C. Cancer Center at UNC ChapelHill, which opened in September. Five yearsago, when initial state funding for the HeartInstitute and the Cancer Hospital appearedto be in doubt, Basnight pushed to keepboth in the state budget. And last year, whenthe onset of the recession forced the GeneralAssembly to curtail spending on manyprojects, Basnight made the tough decisionallowing both major health care facilitiesto be completed on schedule. He also wasinstrumental in securing state funding forECU’s new dental school.Meeting with Chancellor Steve Ballard andother university leaders, Basnight said theHeart Institute will save many lives, buthe declined to accept much credit for itscreation. “We all walk into buildings indifferent shoes and for different reasons.This building is important in what it housesand its cause and its purpose. Many peoplecome in to get healed; that’s why we’rehere. So how does it make me feel that Imay have been a part of this cause, or theconstruction? It doesn’t make me any moreimportant than any brick in the building.“The purpose [of the Heart Institute] isparamount. That’s why I go to Raleigh.”Now completing an unprecedentedeighth term as the Senate leader, Basnightincreasingly is being appreciated for hisrecord on health care and other issuesimportant to eastern North Carolina,Doctor Basnightmakes a house callincluding tourism. His interest in health carecan be traced to the early 1990s when hechampioned a form of universal health carefor every North Carolinian. His supportfor the new Cancer Hospital in ChapelHill is touched with some sadness. Hiswife, Sandy, died from cancer two yearsago. Basnight, 62, recently was diagnosedwith a rare degenerative nerve disease thatattacks the cells controlling balance, walkingand speaking. The only evidence of it nowis the pace of his speech has slowed a bit.The disease isn’t fatal but will become morepronounced over time.“You might not always agree with MarcBasnight’s position on issues, but he hasbeen without equal as the champion forthe East,” said N.C. Spin moderator TomCampbell, a veteran observer of the GeneralAssembly. “On several occasions, fundingfor the ECU dental school was taken fromthe budget. Many questioned whether or notthe school would ever become reality, butMarc promised leaders of eastern Carolina itwould happen, and it did.”“Geographically, you have to have a balance,”Basnight said during his visit to the HeartInstitute. However, he added, “we have to docertain things for this region of the state.”None of it has been easy, he said. “Theattention is the most difficult problem I seein funding projects like this. We had to worka lot of hours [to educate the public on thehealth care needs of the East].”Basnight said it helped ECU’s cause whenuniversity officials, trustees and othersupporters came armed with statistics andtalking points when they lobbied the GeneralAssembly during crucial budget negotiations.When East Carolina invited him to bethe commencement speaker in 2005 andbestowed an honorary doctor of lettersdegree on him, he referred to Ballard in hisremarks as “my chancellor” and to ECUas “my university.” He hung the diplomafor all to see inside the Lone Cedar Café,the restaurant he owns in Nags Head.The diploma went up in smoke when therestaurant burned in 2007, and ECU isworking to provide a replacement.How does he decide which projects getfunding while others don’t? “You take No.1 off the list and then No. 2 becomes No.1and you push that column up. I couldn’t tellyou the difference between 1 and 10 [on thelist of the state’s critical needs]. But for meand much of the Senate, I would say [thelist] would be health care, it would be scienceand it would be…the related industries thatsurround medicine.”ECU’s new dental school is an example ofhow improving health care also can improvethe economy, he said. “You look at the ruralclinics that the dental school will support.Those clinics will provide some companysome business, and somebody who will startup something in that community becausehealth care is available.” As important to him,though, are the ethics of the issue. “The veryessence of what you would expect a society5

the ecu reportBasnight is greeted by ECU administratorsPaul Cunningham, Phyllis Horns andChancellor Steve Ballardlike ours to provide a child is good healthcare for the mouth.”“With Marc it’s the result, not the methodpeople are looking for,” said commentatorand media entrepreneur Henry Hinton ’76.“The Heart Institute is a great example ofa case where the East benefited. It was touchand go and more than a year after he made thecommitment, but he came through in the end.”Basnight scored a major environmentalvictory this legislative session with passageof a law banning plastic bags from mostareas of the Outer Banks. Beginning thisfall, grocery stores and other shops in Dare,Currituck and Hyde counties may only usepaper bags made with recycled content. Asan incentive to encourage recycling, storeswill give shoppers cash refunds or storecoupons for bringing in their own bags tocart purchases home.6On the Outer Banks, “We sell beauty,”Basnight said during legislative debate on hisproposal. “We want people to come to ourcommunity to spend time, to see sunsets,shoreline, water, but [not to] see theseflimsy bags on the shoreline, on the WrightBrothers Memorial.”Stores will display a sign saying the county“discourages the use of single-use plasticand paper bags to protect our environmentfrom excess litter and greenhouse gases.We would appreciate our customers usingreusable bags, but if you are not able to,a 100 percent recycled paper bag will befurnished for your use.”Basnight knows how vulnerable the barrierislands are to environmental degradationand how expensive it can be to remove litterfrom such isolated places. Mainly, it deterstourism. The barrier islands also are hometo some of the most important sea turtlenesting areas on the East Coast. “They getup in the air and then into the ocean. Andthen where does the bag go? There wasresearch that found plastic bag bits in thestomachs of 27 sea turtles out of 400 somethat were tested.“I did not believe that the cost to thelandscape totally would warrant a ban on thebag; we could pick the bag up or we couldjust get used to seeing them at the WrightBrothers [Memorial], waving in the oak trees,although that is not very becoming. It’s aneconomic issue. We are in competition withother vacation destinations on the East Coastto present our beauty.”Nearly 20 states have considered or imposedlegislation regulating plastic bags, but onlythe city of San Francisco—and now NorthCarolina—has banned them.

the ecu reportGrant boosts teacher trainingThe College of Education was awardeda $1 million Department of Educationgrant to improve teacher preparation andteacher residency programs. U.S. Secretaryof Education Arne Duncan said the awardwill fund one of 28 new five-year TeacherQuality Partnership grants at universitiesacross the country to improve instruction instruggling schools.The grants are intended to reform traditionaluniversity teacher preparation and teacherresidency programs. ECU will use its grant,which is expected to reach $9 million duringa five-year period, to fund a partnershipbetween the College of Education, theCollege of Arts and Sciences, Greene CountySchools and Pitt County Schools. ECU wasthe only North Carolina university to receivethe grant in the first round of announcements.ECU expands psychiatric careThe new dental school under construction atEast Carolina will help address the chronicshortage of dentists in eastern NorthCarolina. Now the university is teaming withtwo local mental health organizations and theN.C. Division of Mental Health to addressthe shortage of psychiatrists in the region.Working with East Carolina BehavioralHealth in New Bern and the Beacon Centerin Rocky Mount, the Department ofPsychiatric Medicine at the Brody Schoolof Medicine in August began staffing threefull-time psychiatry positions throughface-to-face interactions with patients andtelemedicine interactions.The services have been offered inNorthampton, Gates, Hertford, Bertie,Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson, Pitt, Greene,Beaufort, Craven, Pamlico and Jones countiessince Aug. 1. Six of those counties—Gates,Bertie, Edgecombe, Greene, Pamlico andJones—had no psychiatrists practicing there,according to 2007 data from the ShepsCenter for Health Services Research atUNC Chapel Hill. Northampton had onepsychiatrist, Hertford had three, Beauforthad four, Nash and Wilson had five and PittCounty had 36. East Carolina is the siteof one of only four psychiatry residencytraining programs in the state, which explainsthe relatively large number of psychiatristspracticing in Pitt County.The total of 49 psychiatrists in the 13-countyregion compares to 1,009 statewide, accordingto the Sheps Center data.“We believe this project helps us get onthe right track for increasing access andavailability of quality psychiatric care tounderserved and unserved populationswhile also enhancing regional and localmechanisms to address the pressingshortage of psychiatrists,” said Dr. Sy Saeed,Department of Psychiatric Medicine chair.Saeed said the state’s population is growingfaster than the state’s supply of psychiatrists,setting the stage for an emerging shortage.In addition, he said, the lack of psychiatristsin certain counties means people mightnot have access to the mental health careservices, leaving people with mental disordersundiagnosed or untreated.“The partnership with ECU will create awalk-in crisis psychiatric network, which willincrease the access and availability of qualitypsychiatric care to currently underservedareas of eastern North Carolina,” said RoyP. Wilson, CEO of East Carolina BehavioralHealth. “We believe the network is a stepin the right direction and will become themodel program for addressing the shortageof psychiatrists in North Carolina.”Between 1999 and 2004, five N.C. countieslost all their psychiatrists, 48 countiesexperienced a decline in their supply relativeto population growth, and 12 counties hadno psychiatrists in either 1999 or 2004,according to the Sheps data.East Carolina timelineYEARS AGO100We are the YThe YWCA becomes the firststudent group on campuswhen it forms in the fall of1909; it serves as the studentgovernment until a formal SGAstarts in 1920; it opens the firststudent store in 1922. The TecoEcho says the new Y storeis “doing a good business,catching the sandwich andice cream trade that has beengoing elsewhere.” Profitsfrom the student store payfor construction of the Y Hutin 1925, which serves as thestudent center until it’s razedin 1952 to make way forJoyner Library.YEARS AGO75Men secede from SGASince its creationin 1920 all StudentSelf-GoverningAssociation officershave been women,which rankles the 100or so male students.Outnumbered 10–1,it’s the men who arecalled coeds. Mostbothersome to themen is that it’s theall-female SSGA thatsets residence hallrules, even for the men’s dorms. To address this, in 1932 a coed representative is added tothe Student Council. But the men continue to feel underrepresented, and in 1934 they splitentirely from the SSGA to form the Men’s Student Self-Government Association, the MSSGA.The separate SGAs co exist for nine years until a referendum in April 1943 produces a merger.

the ecu reportFreshman drop-out rate eyedA new mandate under consideration by theUniversity of North Carolina system willforce East Carolina University to reduce thenumber of freshmen who drop out beforetheir sophomore year. The system Boardof Governors is considering adopting rulesthat would prevent the 16 universities fromincreasing their enrollments unless theymeet retention and graduation goals. Theboard is expected to adopt the mandate incoming weeks.Officials said the current system isn’t servingthe state or the UNC system well because itgives universities incentive to admit studentswho are ill-prepared for the rigors of college.“They had a lot of people who wouldnot have been admitted under normalcircumstances,” UNC President ErskineBowles said after a September meetingof the Board of Governors. When thathappens, Bowles said, taxpayers get a rawdeal because they subsidize the education ofstudents who drop out. And he said it’s alsoa bad deal for the student who drops outwithout a degree and a mountain of studentloan debt to repay.ECU’s current retention rate of 75.9 percentfalls short of the current UNC GeneralAdministration goal of 79 percent, AssociateProvost Austin Bunch said in a report to theECU Board of Trustees. “Erskine Bowles hassaid that we will stop growing for growth’ssake but grow in quality,” Bunch said.At 96.2 percent, UNC Chapel Hill has thehighest freshman-to-sophomore retentionrate. N.C. State University’s rate is 85.6percent. The lowest rate in the system isUNC Pembroke at 67.3 percent.The new directive has not been formallyadopted as policy by the UNC system, andthe retention rate requirements for eachuniversity may be shifted before any policyis approved, but ECU’s leaders are notcounting on it. A decision is expected by theend of the year.YearECU freshmen returningfor sophomore yearFreshmen Retention UNC avg.1997 2,874 78.3% 81.2%1998 2,805 79.0 80.71999 3,257 76.4 80.72000 3,106 78.0 81.62001 3,184 76.9 81.52002 3,561 76.6 81.02003 3,462 78.8 81.82004 3,456 75.9 81.32005 3,223 78.7 80.62006 3,792 77.3 81.02007 4,196 75.9 81.2Source: UNC Board of GovernorsBunch said that a new retention task forceis working on ways to keep the studentswho are attending ECU at the university,including a plan for more tutoringopportunities, better advising practices andmore diverse classes for freshmen.“Those campuses that do not reach retentiongoals will not be allowed to grow,” saidProvost Marilyn Sheerer.Bunch said the retention rate required byUNC General Administration is expected toincrease from 79 percent to 81 percent nextyear and ECU has to be prepared for it.Enrollment growth funding is a valuable assetto ECU as it increases the size of the studentpopulation every year. The school is expectedto continue growing and reach 35,000students in the next decade. Enrollmentcurrently is at 27,673 students, Bunch said.—From news reportsPhysics professor Jeff Shinpaugh knew that ECU’s 1970s-era particle accelerator neededreplacing, but he also knew tight budgets meant there would be no money available to buya new one. So he and colleague Larry Toburen applied for and were awarded a $867,982grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to acquire a 2-million-volt tandem ionaccelerator and supporting components. “The new system will provide stable, energeticlight and heavy ion beams…perfectly suited for continuing and expanding our studies inradiation physics,” said Shinpaugh, who is director of the ECU Accelerator Laboratory.The new particle accelerator will be about 32 feet long and weigh more than 12,000pounds. During the past decade, the ECU Department of Physics’ Radiation Physics grouphas received more than $3 million in grants from the NSF, NASA, the National Institutes ofHealth and the U.S. Department of Energy.12

Gay couples fare well in studyResearch by two East Carolina professorsand a dean at the University of Texas showsthat children adopted by gay and lesbiancouples turn out about as well as thoseadopted by heterosexual couples.In a study published in Adoption Quarterly,Paige Averett and Blace Nalavany, ECUassistant professors of social work, andScott Ryan, dean of the University of TexasSchool of Social Work, compared the extentof emotional and behavioral problems ofadopted children in light of the sexualorientation of their adoptive parents.The researchers used survey results fromparents who adopted children throughFlorida’s public child welfare system and datafrom gay and lesbian couples throughout theUnited States. The study included 155 gayand lesbian couples and 1,229 heterosexualcouples. Couples responded to questionsabout parent and child characteristics, familycomposition and dynamics, the child’s preadoptivehistory, and current emotional andbehavioral functioning.“We found that the sexual orientation ofthe adoptive parents was not a significantpredictor of emotional problems,” saidAverett. “We did find, however, that age andpre-adoptive sexual abuse were predictorsof emotional problems. We also foundthat an increase in annual income, familyfunctioning, and parental satisfaction withadoption preparation services was predictiveof significantly less emotional problems.”Nalavany said they also found thatan increase in annual income, familyoperation and parental satisfaction withadoption preparation services could lead tosignificantly less emotional problems.As of 2007, there were about 130,000children in the U.S. child welfare systemwaiting to be adopted. Yet, social stigma andstate laws have created barriers to adoptionfor gay and lesbian couples.—ECU News BureauECU goes after brightest studentsEast Carolina is planning to expand its honorsprogram for brainy students into an honorscollege, a move intended to help recruiteven more top-tier students and faculty. Theuniversity affairs committee of the ECU Boardof Trustees discussed the move in Septemberand instructed administrators to come backwith a funding plan to implement the change.ECU’s current honors program includes about900 students who have SAT scores of 1200or better and a high school GPA of 3.5 orbetter. ECU students with a GPA of 3.3 alsoare admitted to the program. Adding morescholarships and classes taught by specializedprofessors likely would make the universitymore attractive to the brightest students.“It would help us recruit and retain someof the highest-caliber students from acrossthe state and from across the nation,” saidMichael Bassman, associate vice chancellorand honors program director. ProvostMarilyn Sheerer created the honors collegeplanning task force in February.Other University of North Carolina schoolswith honors colleges are able to attract studentswho want the recognition of graduatingfrom an honors college, Bassman said. UNCCharlotte, UNC Greensboro, UNC Pembrokeand Western Carolina University use theirhonors colleges to attract students and facultywho may be considering ECU.“We would also be able to offer somescholarships, which would make the honorscollege more attractive to students,” Bassmansaid. “We would also be able to offer moreseminars and more courses for the studentsand have more resources than we have now.”Bassman said an honors college wouldexpand collaborative relationships and buildnew partnerships with colleges, schoolsand departments across campus. Facultymembers would have more opportunities tocreate innovative seminars and lectures forhonors students.The plan also calls for a building to house thehonors college at some point in the future,Bassman said. But the college, which officialsare hoping will be up running within twoyears, will likely begin without a building.The faculty for the college will come fromexisting ECU faculty who apply to work inthe college. Bassman said the privilege ofworking with honors students would createinterest from the faculty and allow them towork on new projects.A funding plan for the college is in the worksand officials will present plans to the ECUBoard of Trustees in the coming months.—The Daily Reflector13

the ecu reportTrustees mull funding optionsThe ECU Board of Trustees is consideringcreating partnerships with private businesses tofund future capital projects. One building thatmight be built that way is a new life sciencesand biotechnology building, a campus prioritythat has been denied funding from the GeneralAssembly for three straight years.At the board’s September meeting, TrusteeMark Tipton said public-private partnershipscould give the university the opportunity tostart projects before funding is available fromthe state. With the continuing state budgetcrisis, few capital projects are expected to befunded in the coming years.Tipton wants the board to establish workingrelationships with the private sector thatwould allow the university to expand withouthaving to wait for state funding on certainprojects. One idea discussed was workingwith private developers that would erectneeded buildings, which the university wouldthen lease for a period of years. “We have tostop thinking on the historical side of howwe get money,” Tipton said.Fundraising sets another recordMore than 19,000 alumni, friends andsupporters contributed a record $38 millionto East Carolina in the 2008–09 fiscal year,a 3 percent increase over the previous year’srecord total. “The Pirate Nation has steppedup and showed their true dedication andcommitment to East Carolina,” said ViceChancellor for University AdvancementMickey Dowdy. “The support we continueto receive, in spite of some very tougheconomic circumstances for many alumniand donors, is a sure sign of the impactECU still has on its students, alumni andeastern North Carolina. We are gratified bythe show of support.”The Second Century Campaign has raisedmore than $146 million to date toward its$200 million goal. As a result, many studentsand faculty members are benefiting fromresources not funded by state support. While14More students are spending more time in Joyner Library this fall than in years past,according to a report by library Dean Larry Bower. “We have seen a really remarkableincrease in users this fall,” he said. “The Pirate Tutoring and Writing Centers havecertainly added to the number of people in the building, but it is my observation thatthere is just a lot more students here, more often, for longer periods of time, and takingadvantage of more services than we have seen in years past.”the type of gift, motivation for making it,and the size of the contributions vary widely,all have an impact on the university.In 2007, Dr. Sylvia Brown, acting dean ofECU’s College of Nursing, established a fundthrough the “Dean’s Gift,” which provides$10 in the name of each first-year nursingstudent. The fund was designed to assiststudents during times of financial hardshipand to develop a philanthropic environmentto encourage a lifetime of giving by students.In 2008, Robert and Betty Hill created theRobert E. & Betty S. Hill Endowment forthe College of Technology and ComputerScience. This endowment will fundthe Robert and Betty Hill RecognitionBreakfast, an annual awards ceremony tobuild community within the college andrecognize student scholarship recipients andoutstanding students and faculty.And just this year, the estate of thelate Geraldine Mayo Beveridge createdscholarships for students from four easternNorth Carolina high schools to attend ECU.“Over the next 10–15 years, it is estimatedthat East Carolina University will need morethan $1 billion to accomplish the goals setout by the university’s strategic plan,” Dowdysaid. “The Second Century Campaign isonly the first step toward those goals, andI look forward to seeing what other greatthings the Pirate Nation can accomplish. Weappreciate the planning of so many who areconsidering how they can help our leaders oftomorrow by supporting ECU.”If you would like to contribute to ECU’sSecond Century Campaign, please call252-328-9550 or visit www.ecu.edu/devt.—Kara LoftinFurnished

Making a little do a lot of goodAs Brody School of Medicine students,Mary H. and Brian Dawson traveled toUganda on a medical mission, and whatthey saw there changed them forever. Soonafter graduation in 2006, they founded anonprofit organization, ChooseAneed, thatto date has raised close to $100,000 to payfor several small medical and health-relatedprojects mainly in Africa.When they aren’t raising money for waterwells or supplies for health clinics, they bothhold down day jobs. Brian is an emergencyroom doctor at Lenoir Memorial Hospitalin Kinston and Mary, the daughter of retiredCollege of Business professor Rick Hebert,is a third-year family medicine resident atPitt County Memorial Hospital.Typical ChooseAneed projects include$1,500 to equip a maternity ward at a ruralhospital, $800 for a water well in Uganda,$3,140 to build and equip a classroom inSudan, or $2,700 to buy two goats for eachof 25 “guardians”—often the grandmothersand widows of orphaned and vulnerablechildren in Kabondo, Kenya—so the childrenwill have milk. We caught up with Brian tolearn more about their charitable work.How did you start ChooseAneed?“Mary and I have been on several tripsoverseas for different purposes, some medical,some church related, andsome related to college.On each of these tripsour eyes were openedto the vast differencesin the way we live in thedeveloped world and theway others must live inthe developing world. Wesaw many problems thatI call ‘needs.’ Many ofthese problems were smallthings that I thoughtto myself ‘I could helpwith that.’” We were in acafe in Uganda and wesketched out the conceptof ChooseAneed on anapkin as a way to bringthese kinds of givingopportunities back home.”What makes ChooseAneed differentfrom other charities?“We have seen people dying for lack of cleanwater, food or basic health care. It is ourbelief that the barriers involved with foreignaid do not excuse us from a human, societal,or religious obligation to do something,no matter how small. We believe that whatwe CAN do is choose a specific need thatwe see, or someone else shows us, andthen work to meet that need in some smallway, financially or otherwise, through ourknowledge or gifts. Thegoal of ChooseAneedis to help make thoseof us who can dosomething more awareof these specific needs,and then to helpfacilitate the meetingof those needs.”FurnishedTell us about one ofyour recent projects.“On our last tripto Africa, Uganda,we learned thatthe community wewere staying in hadworked for over two years on an idea for acommunity cow project. They had drawnup papers, had meetings, identified needs,identified responsibilities, and created abudget and five-year plan for the cattleand how they would be used. They wereonly lacking the money to buy the cattle.Here was the answer to our desire to giveresponsibly and in a way that did notmake us the rich Americans and them thepoor beggars. They knew about cattle andthey knew how to use them to better theircommunity and they had a plan in place.We simply provided the capital to make theproject a reality. We have since learned thatthe herd has almost doubled in size.”What’s next?“Completing our medical training—and thebirth of our son—has taken a lot of our timerecently, but Mary will finish her residency inJune and we will be able then to devote moretime to our work overseas. I can’t wait to getback there and help the people.”The board of directors of ChooseAneed,which is organized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit,includes several individuals with ECU ties.The board selects projects to promote todonors at the organization’s web site,www.chooseaneed.org.15

the ecu reportDelivering the news, bad and goodThe following is a condensed version of ChancellorSteve Ballard’s remarks to the fall convocation.For the last four months, the economicpicture has changed virtually by theday. However, as of last week we finallyhave a budget from the UNC system. Thisbudget is both very good and very bad news.For example:n Enrollment growth is fully funded forboth years of the biennium and we willrealize several million dollars to fundnew faculty positions and make keyinfrastructure investments;n Because of a new appropriation of $3million, the dental school remains on trackto open in the fall of 2011;n For the first time ever, we received recurringfunding ($3 million) for providing thehealth care safety net for our region;n Yet, we lose approximately $19.1 million.We have taken mandatory cuts to severalcenters and institutes that are centralto our commitment to eastern NorthCarolina. We know that nonrecurring cutsare coming this fall and more recurringcuts next spring.To protect (the academic) core, almosteverything else has been cut substantially.Our campus will not be as pretty as wewould like it, the lines for some services willbe longer, and certainly a few nonacademicservices such as parking will cost a bit more.But we are meeting our obligations to thestate of North Carolina with virtually noreduction in the quality of education and nocompromises to the safety of our campus.Only 2 percent of our cut comes fromacademic programs. The top three areasidentified by our Board last spring—administrative costs, nonacademic services,and cost savings—account for 73 percent ofour reduction. Most divisions and offices inthe university have taken reductions rangingfrom nine to 15 percent. That includes theChancellor’s Office, which has taken a 15percent reduction.Cliff HollisIn contrast, the academic colleges averageabout a 6 percent reduction, and most ofthat comes from consolidations, reducedadministrative costs, and reductions inoperations.While many vacant positions will be lostand a few RIFs will occur in offices that havebeen closed, such as the centennial office, orin functions that are no longer necessary, wewill meet these budget reductions with a bareminimum of layoffs. Our vice chancellorsare working on plans to minimize if noteliminate RIFs caused by the budget crisis.Perhaps most importantly, we haveauthorized searches for many facultypositions across the colleges. These searcheswill be vital to our commitment to studentsuccess and to meet our obligations to thestate of North Carolina. “Re-starting”faculty searches has been our first priority;no administrative hiring was allowed until wehad an approved plan for faculty vacancies.I established several diversity goals threeyears ago and I am very happy to announceprogress toward these goals. We have gonefrom 10.7 percent minority faculty to 15.2percent, exceeding the goals announced justthree years ago. Every college but one hasincreased its percentage of minority faculty.And finally, in spite of the economic times,our Division of University Advancement hashad remarkable success under the leadershipof Mickey Dowdy and great teamwork fromthe Pirate Club, the ECU Foundation andthe Medical Foundation. This year ECUwon a second consecutive national CASEaward for excellence in private fundraising.We are almost 75 percent of our way towardachieving our goal of $200 million in theSecond Century Campaign. Three years agothe Access Scholarship program did notexist; this year, 77 students from all collegeswill receive an access scholarship and nextyear we plan to reach our goal of 100 accessscholarships.16

U N I V E R S I T Y L I F ESylvia Brown ’75’78 was nameddean of theCollege ofNursing on apermanent basisafter serving morethan two years inan interim role.She succeedsPhyllis Horns ’69,who was elevatedto vice chancellor for health sciences. Brownhas been a faculty member since 1976.During her tenure as associate dean,enrollment of graduate nursing studentsgrew more than 250 percent. She is marriedto Dr. William Brown ’81, a Greenvilleobstetrician and gynecologist who graduatedin the first medical school class at ECU.Charles W.Calhoun wasnamed the 2009Thomas HarriotCollege of Artsand SciencesDistinguishedProfessor, anaward conferredannually upon aprofessor whosecareer exemplifiesa commitment to and a love for knowledgeand academic life. Calhoun has taughthistory at ECU for 20 years and is one ofthe nation’s leading scholars of late 19thcentury American political history. He haspublished nine books, with two currently inprogress, and has authored nearly 100 peerreviewedjournal articles, papers, bookreviews and book chapters. “Whatimpresses me most about ECU is the senseof optimism that pervades the place; thatthis is a university on the rise, striving tomake its mark rather than marking time,”says Calhoun.Darla Liles, a cancer specialist at the BrodySchool of Medicine, is the Leukemia andLymphoma Society’s Eastern North Carolina2009 Woman of the Year. Liles on her ownraised more than $23,000 during a 10-weekcampaign for the society. A larger group shevolunteered with raised more than $153,000for the society. Liles raised the moneythrough dinners, a silent auction and others.Burrell E. Montzis the new chair ofthe Department ofGeography in theThomas HarriotCollege of Artsand Sciences. Shecomes to ECUfrom BinghamtonUniversity at theState University ofNew York, whereshe began her academic career nearly 30 yearsago as a geography professor and mostrecently was department chair there.Martha Keehner Engelke was named theRichard R. Eakin Distinguished Professor inthe College of Nursing. Engelke, an assistantdean of research, is the first person to receivethe professorship, which honors the formerEast Carolina chancellor. Her nationallyrecognized research concerns school-based casemanagement of children with chronic illnesses.Clinical professorof pediatricsCharles “Chuck”Willson is the newchair of the N.C.Health andWellness TrustFund Commission.He succeeds Gov.Beverly Perdue,who has chairedthe commissionsince its inception in 2001. Willson hasserved on the commission since 2001.Created by the General Assembly to allocatea portion of North Carolina’s share of thenational tobacco settlement, the HWTF hasinvested $199 million to support preventivehealth initiatives and $102 million to fundprescription drug assistance programs.Willson, who is a former president of theN.C. Medical Society, also serves as codirectorof the Center for Children withComplex and Chronic Conditions.George Wang, Gazan Bozai and YuhongWang from the Department of ConstructionManagement received a $218,000 grant fromthe N.C. Department of Transportation toexamine tire and pavement noise on stateroadways. Their results will be included in anationwide database on noise modeling forfuture comprehensive study on mitigatingtraffic noise.Wayne Cascio, vicechair of theDepartment ofCardiovascularSciences, BrodySchool ofMedicine, andResearch TrianglePark-based startupEntegrion havereceived a$100,000 grantfrom the N.C. Biotech Center to study theability of freeze-dried platelets to help stopexcessive bleeding during heart surgery or inpatients taking anti-clotting drugs.Suzanne Lazorick, an assistant professorof pediatrics and public health at theBrody School of Medicine, is one of 15professionals selected nationwide to join theRobert Wood Johnson Foundation PhysicianFaculty Scholars Program. The award ofup to $300,000 helps outstanding medicalschool junior faculty members advance theircareers. Lazorick will study an innovativemiddle school-based obesity interventionprogram in eastern North Carolina.17

Four Seasons celebrates a decadeThe series also will present “A Taste ofBluegrass/Brown Earth” Jan. 14, an originalballet program by the Chuck Davis AfricanAmerican Dance Ensemble, followed by theSt. Lawrence String Quartet on Jan. 28. Thedance program depicts the transition of theoriginal African banjo-type instrument to thebanjo tradition of the Blue Ridge Mountains.The string quartet has been resident quartet atthe Spoleto USA Festival for the past 13 years.A pianoprodigy at 3South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son, who won the silver medal in the 2009 Van CliburnInternational Piano Competition, will perform in recital Tuesday, Nov. 17, at Wright Auditoriumas part of the S. Rudolph Alexander Performing Arts Series. The 23-year-old pianist startedlessons at age 3 and made her debut at 12. She recorded the complete Chopin etudes at18 and has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic and TokyoPhilharmonic orchestras.Chuck DavisAfrican AmericanDance EnsembleSome bold ventures that count on publicsupport often take a while to catch on. Butthat wasn’t the case with the Four SeasonsChamber Music Festival, which showedsigns of success in its first year and is nowcelebrating its 10th. “Even in our first year,we generated so much community supportthat we felt we had a great thing going,”says festival director and School of Musicprofessor Ara Gregorian.The festival has grown to include outreachefforts into local schools and performancesaround the nation and overseas. New for thisseason is a “master teachers next generationconcert,” in which visiting professionalmusicians team up with faculty, talentedstudents and alumni to perform together.Now consisting of five pairs of concerts, thefestival concentrates mainly on compositionsMoscowState RadioSymphonyOrchestraIn late winter, the series will present theMoscow State Radio Symphony Orchestraunder the direction of Alexei Kornienko, in aFeb. 11 program that will include the popularSecond Piano Concerto by Rachmaninoff,with pianist Alexander Sinchuck.18

Winter Arts Calendarfor strings and piano, occasionally for stringsand a wind instrument. Gregorian says therepertoire of works for those ensemblesis quite large and contains many piecesthat appeal to A.J. Fletcher Recital Hallaudiences. “We tend to focus on the existingpopular repertoire, though we look to adddiversity when we can. But we think this iswhat the audience enjoys most.”In the festival’s early years, many guestartists “on the rise” came to Greenville toplay; now, it’s so well known that “we aregetting calls from managers and artistswho want to come here to play. This showsthat we are developing a national andinternational reputation,” says Gregorian,who earned his bachelor’s and master’sdegrees from the Juilliard School and adoctorate from SUNY-Stony Brook.“I certainly don’t think we’re done yet, andthat’s intoxicating to me. This is as excitingnow as it was in the first season.”theatre and dance performancesThe stage of the ECU/Loessin Playhousethis winter will be filled with a rowdy musicalbased on a film, rather than the other wayaround. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, thestory of rough-and-tumble loggers seekingbrides in 1850s Oregon, will run Nov. 19–24.Music is by Gene dePaul and Joel Hirschhorn,and lyrics are by Johnny Mercer, Al Kashaand Hirschhorn.Dance 2010, this season’s version of thepopular annual program, is scheduled Jan.28–Feb. 2. Each year, ECU faculty from theSchool of Theatre and Dance stage originalchoreography in ballet, jazz, tap and modernstyles for large and small ensembles.The ECU Storybook Theatre will presentCharlotte’s Web Jan. 22 in Wright Auditorium,the musical version of the E.B. White story ofa friendship between a spider and a pig, withmusic and lyrics by Charles Strouse.Choral performancesThe ECU Chamber Singers will present aprogram of 20th century choral masterpiecesNov. 21 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,highlighted by Frank Martin’s Mass forDouble Choir. The program also will includeBritten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia and Barber’sReincarnations. Several choral ensembles willpresent Christmas at ECU Dec. 8, also at St.Paul’s, with performances by the ChamberSingers, St. Cecilia Singers and men’s andwomen’s choirs. Among the works to beperformed: Betelehemu, a South Africanpiece; Britten’s Ceremony of Carols; andBritten’s Hymn to the Virgin. The St. CeciliaSingers will perform Boccherini’s Gloria, andthe Choral Scholars will perform new studentwork, Feb. 19.Jazz at Christinne’sTom Mallison, host of public radio’s AnEvening With Tom the Jazzman, is masterof ceremonies for the second seasonof Friday jazz programs at Christinne’srestaurant in the Hilton Greenville hotel. Theseries resumes Jan. 22 and Feb. 26. Dinnerbegins at 6 p.m., and music at 8 p.m. Theperformances are by students and facultymembers in the jazz studies program.Faculty and student performancesThe ECU Symphony Orchestra will performa world premiere of Symphony of Spiritualsby faculty member Mark Taggart Dec. 2.Faculty soprano Louise Toppin will be soloist.The program will include Dvorak’s popularSymphony No. 9 “From the New World.” Theorchestra will perform Feb. 9, presenting aprogram of Respighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances,Richard Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration andBeethoven’s Third Piano Concerto, with facultymember Keiko Sekino as soloist.Among other student ensembleperformances: ECU Percussion Players,Nov. 18 and Feb. 4; combined ECU JazzEnsembles, Nov. 22 and Feb. 6; ECUSymphonic Wind Ensemble and bands, Dec.1; ECU Guitar Ensemble, Dec. 8; SymphonicBand Feb. 18. The Wind Ensemble and St.Cecilia Singers will present a program ofseasonal and holiday music Dec. 6.Fine artsThe School of Art and Design FacultyExhibition will close Nov. 21 at the WellingtonB. Gray Gallery. The annual holiday exhibitionand sale will take place Dec. 2–5 at thegallery. A new photography exhibition, JohnScarlata—Living in the Light: A Retrospective,will begin Jan. 11 and run through Feb. 20. Anopening reception is scheduled Jan. 14.FestivalsThe 14th annual Religious Arts Festival,presented in conjunction with St. Paul’sEpiscopal Church, is scheduled Jan. 29–31.Organizers were developing a themeSeven Brides forSeven Brothersand guest performer list in early fall. Theannual Stars in the East choral festival isscheduled Jan. 14–16. The 10th annual NewMusic@ECU Festival is scheduled Feb.24–28 and will include, among other guests,clarinetist Nathan Williams (who was ECUprofessor Christopher Grymes’ teacherand predecessor), ECU percussionist ChrisNappi and composer Steven Dembski of theUniversity of Wisconsin. The premiere of anew work by festival founder Edward Jacobswill be presented, as will an orchestralversion of Mark Glick’s The Wife of Bath forsoprano and orchestra, with soloist KarenHall. The music school faculty’s annualMozart Birthday Concert is scheduled Jan.27, and the university’s annual MotownConcert is planned Feb. 20.—Steve Row19

Masters ofCritical ThinkingECU’s MBA program adopts new tools toteach students more efficient ways to integrateknowledge and solve problems.

Department of DefenseBy Marion BlackburnWhile serving in the Middle East, Air Force Capt.Robert “Rob” Main ’08 knew that underestimatingthe competition could be deadly. To assure airsuperiority for aircraft carrying soldiers and supplies,he studied a market powerhouse—Wal-Mart—forstrategies on market domination.Drawing from its delivery model, this airlogistics officer and his colleagues designed aninnovative hub-and-spoke system to bring soldiersinto the region. Troops arrived and departed onschedule, ensuring the military dominated theairspace over areas in conflict.Main attributes this out-of-the-box creativity tolessons learned in East Carolina’s master’s of businessadministration program. Every class, he says, inspiredbetter solutions for his military challenges. “I haveseen immediate return on each class, in the civilianworld and in my military job,” says Main. “The MBAhelped me look past the surface of problems andexamine the core components.”

That’s the kind of thinking the MBAencourages—an ability to integrate all kindsof knowledge, make decisions and take thesteps that lead to success. Indeed, criticalthinking is a key focus of the program.While you’ll find expected material onfinance, accounting and management,it’s what happens with the material thatenergizes students for the real world. Theyenter the program from all walks of life tofind their own path of study. What’s more,these days, more students than ever arecompleting their degrees online.The MBA program is one of the oldestgraduate programs on campus. Its graduatespopulate banks, small businesses andreal estate enterprises, but they’re also inunexpected places, such as the military,education and medicine.The MBA is available on campus, onlineor as a combination of the two. The firstonline course was offered in 2000, and by2003 the entire program was online. Thesedays nearly 80 percent of MBA studentsare earning the degree this way. The MBArequires no business experience or priorundergraduate business courses, with aplan of study embracing up to 20 classesdetermined by a student’s background,experience and knowledge.Its innovative approach has made ECUa national standout. It is the only MBAprogram in the state accredited by theAmerican Assembly of Collegiate Schoolsof Business offered fully online. For severalyears it’s been rated a “Best Buy” foraccredited programs by GetEducated.com, aconsumer advocacy partnership of AmericaOnline and the Electronic UniversityNetwork. And for the third year in a row, thebusiness school was ranked among the bestin the country by the Princeton Review.“We have nearly 800 students, so that meansabout 800 programs going on at once,” saysFrederick (Rick) Niswander, dean of theCollege of Business. “We aim to give peopleoptions for improving their education andtheir life, without having to stop everythingelse they’re doing.”Since its beginning in 1966, the MBAprogram has adapted to and changed withthe flux of business. While many courseswould sound familiar to students 40 yearsago, others, like management informationsystems, would not. Students can expectessentials such as finance, accounting andmarketing along with the new tools ofcommerce—the Internet, rapid deliverysystems and computer-assisted analysis.Likewise, students explore the new culture ofbusiness, including the global marketplace.Information is the starting point, but pullingtogether key knowledge and developingsolutions is paramount. “We providestudents the critical thinking skills they needto survive in the business world,” Niswandersays. “We want our graduates to ‘master’ theinformation, and think about their world ina different way. That way they are open topossibilities they hadn’t thought of before.”That was certainly true for Main, whotoday works as an information technologyinfrastructure director for the N.C. Divisionof Public Health, in addition to his dutiesas a member of the North Carolina AirNational Guard. When faced with thisyear’s uncertain state revenues, he acceptedthe challenge of doing more—with less—without sacrificing quality.“We have to be creative in using the limitedfunds we have,” he says. “The MBA programfostered that creativity, that ability to22

Jay Clarkmaximize the funds you have, and knowhow to cut bait on a project when you seenegative returns and shift to another project.”Entering the Internet ageThe online option is more popular than ever,and the entire program is seeing dramaticgrowth. “Students are not having to choosebetween getting their degree or working.They can do both,” says Robin Armstrong’03 ’04, assistant director for graduateprograms. “That’s especially important inthis economic climate.” They chip away attheir degree while continuing to work andspending time with their families.“Before the online program, workingstudents were usually attending night classes,and driving into Greenville, sometimesfrom an hour away,” she says. “Now wehave students who are deployed in Iraq,and students have moved abroad with themilitary. They don’t have to interrupt theireducation when life throws them a curve ball.They can keep going with it.” Armstrongsays people whose employers transfer themto North Carolina from other states also cancomplete their degree at ECU.The online growth reflects a sound businessplan for the College of Business itself,which recognized a need for this type offlexible program. “In 2000, we had about330 enrolled and it was all face to face,”says Len Rhodes ’82 ’99, former assistantdean for graduate programs and currentlyinterim director of institutional researchfor the university. “It was the same formatas had been offered since the 1960s.” Thebusiness school identified a market thatwas underserved—the working adult—andexpanded online as a flexible, high-value,degree path.“Students can choose their pace. It allowsthem to squeeze education into their life,rather than put their life on hold while theycomplete their degree,” Rhodes says. Growthcontinues, with a waiting list for admission.Whether studying online or in person, MBAstudents develop real-world solutions as aFALLMBA enrollment up 44 percent in five years0405060708090 150 300 450 600 750 900part of their learning by directly workingwith participating businesses. These kinds ofon-the-ground experiences mean graduatestake part in field work, too. One recentproject had a group of students spendingtime at a local marina, where they devised aplan to strengthen the business. Their fixesranged from simple steps such as erectingmore visible signs to improvements oncollections.Training better doctorsJust how powerful is the MBA experience?Ask Dr. Paul Brezina ’04. He’ll tell you itmay have been the deal maker in landinga prestigious fellowship at Johns HopkinsHospital in Baltimore, Md. Only one fellowis accepted each year for this competitivethree-year program in reproductiveendocrinology and infertility.“When you’re going up against other veryqualified doctors, having anything that makesyou look different is huge,” Brezina says.“You have to justify why you’re going to beTotal MBA StudentsDE MBA StudentsEven as enrollment surged from 432 students five years agoto 767 this fall, the ECU College of Business maintained areasonable level of 25 to 30 students per MBA class. Most ofthose new classes are filled with online students, who grewfrom 130 five years ago to 592 this fall. Tina Williams, assistantdirector for graduate programs, says it’s important that faculty“have time to interact with and meet the learning needs oftheir online students.” All faculty teaching at the MBA level arefull-time tenured or tenure track faculty who hold a terminaldegree in the discipline they teach. Faculty who teach onlinealso have at least one campus-based class to ensure they areconnected to the campus community.an asset to their program. The MD-MBAdegree is that kind of asset.”Brezina completed his medical degree atthe Brody School of Medicine and theMBA through the distinctive MD-MBA, afive-year course of study. Medical studentscomplete the first two years, then take a leaveof absence to complete the MBA programbefore returning to complete their third andfourth year medical school rotations.Brezina was drawn to the promise oflearning business basics while sharpeninghis decision-making skills. After all,physician practices are small businesses,with employees, management, cash flow andinventory decisions for supplies, medicine,even gowns and gloves.“A business background can enhance anycareer path you choose,” he says. “Whetheror not you want to administer within a largehospital system—or run a small business,which a private practice physician’s officeis—the skills you learn with an MBA areparamount for succeeding.”23

FurnishedBeth EverettPreparing for the futureFor Beth Everett ’83, who grew up inRobersonville, N.C., completing the MBAbrought a new understanding of leadership.Growing up on a farm, she watched herparents and grandparents make decisionsabout planting, harvest and transportation,while facing the uncertainties of weather,demand and yield.“Farming families faced challengingdecisions daily,” she says. “They werejuggling many balls. As landowners, everyyear they determined the land’s highestand best use. They had to make the bestproduct possible, with the ultimate goal ofmaximizing its relative market value. We dothe same thing in today’s business world.”Realizing business was in her blood, sheentered the MBA program and has sinceworked for Fortune 500 and Fortune100 companies. After experience withWeyerhaeuser Real Estate Development andMerrill Lynch, she also participated in thestartup of two new companies.More recently, she is engaged with aplanned community in New Bern calledCarolina Colours. When completed, itwill be home to about 1,500 families. Thecomplexity of this project, she says, makes24good use of her degree.“Every time you develop a community,you are starting up a new business. Youare applying business concepts for startup,financing, production, marketing, selling andultimately closing out the community. TheMBA helped me learn to integrate all thesefunctions into a coherent whole.” She alsofeels comfortable using the web, and socialmedia Twitter and Facebook for her business.“The program teaches you how to think, andhow to make decisions,” she says. “You learnthe process of thinking and analyzing. TheMBA degree gives you the toolbox, and youmake the choices of which tools to use, giventhe business situation you’re in.”Likewise, it also means having the tools todiscover a new career path. Richard Kerns’73 held a Ph.D. in physics when he enteredthe MBA program. “I worked in physicslabs, run by physicists,” he says. “I thoughtI had a talent for management. I had notraining, but I thought I could learn.”Just out of graduate school, he joinedTerminal Communications, a subsidiary ofUnited Aircraft, now United Technologies.One of his first tasks was to developa quality control system for computerterminals manufactured there. “I appliedwhat I learned in the program to theirproducts and environment,” he recalls. Usingapproaches learned in quantitative methods,he helped develop a model for obtaining andmeasuring quality, and formatted a plan toimprove it, economically. Quality controlhad never been systematically studied before.Today Kerns is associate dean for computerservices for the College of Business. Part ofhis role is to keep the MBA online programrunning smoothly, and find other beneficialapplications of technology.When graduates grow with the businessworld, keep up with changes and flourish, theprogram is doing its job, says Stan G. Eakins,associate dean of the College of Business.“Our approach is to come up with a bundleof skills flexible enough to allow studentsto adapt to whatever comes along,” he says.“Some skills, such as communication, areneeded no matter what happens. If youcan think clearly, that, too, transcends anyenvironmental condition. People who usereason to find the best solution will succeed.“If we could have a single legacy, it’s that ourstudents, five or 10 years from now, wouldsay, ‘I learned how to think, how to solvea problem accurately,’” he says. “That’s atremendous part of our effort.” East

Why BB&T recruits at ECUOne of the more appealing stories inbanking is how three freshly minted EastCarolina MBA grads—Henry Williamson Jr.’68 ’71, W. Kendall Chalk ’68 ’71 and KellyKing ’70 ’71—took jobs at a little farmlenderin Wilson and played key roles intransforming it into the 10th-largest bankin America. It shouldn’t be surprising, then,that when BB&T goes recruiting for thebest business school graduates, Greenvilleis one place it always looks.“The MBA students from ECU I’ve found tobe well trained,” says King, who’s now CEOof BB&T Corp. “We hire lots of studentsfrom around the country and the world.ECU students stack up as well as anystudents in the environment. ECU studentsalso tend to distinguish themselves byhaving a strong commitment to improvingthemselves, along with a winning attitude.”King and his two ECU classmates workedtogether at BB&T for three decades.Williamson and Chalk, an ECU trustee,both retired recently from executivepositions at the bank. “We had aclear purpose, which was to help ourorganization grow, prosper and survive,”King says. “We felt there were changesthat needed to occur to make thathappen. We were able to accomplishsomething that has been successful.” Thethree were instrumental in creating theBB&T Center for Leadership in the Collegeof Business. The center was established in1982 and has received nearly $2 million ingrants from BB&T since then.Winston-Salem-based BB&T today is amarket leader in the Southeast, with morethan 1,500 financial centers in the Carolinas,Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana,Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee, Virginia,West Virginia and Washington, D.C.BB&T’s growth took shape, in part, thanksto courageous advancement and a senseof community ideals, King says. “Havingthat ECU MBA experience broadenedour thinking and our core abilities. Itwas extremely developmental. We hadleadership experience, and that gave us abit more courage and confidence to takeon tough issues and make changes—andtherefore, to make contributions.“What I’ve found is that when leadersare passionate about accomplishingsomething, it may be bold, and it maybe risky, but if it is pursued for the rightpurposes, versus for ego and personalgain, it tends to be much more successful.”—Marion Blackburn25

You Don’t Know JackWhatever happened to Leo Jenkins’ baby boy, the onewho grew up in Dail House and excelled in college here?He went on to become Jim Hunt’s lawyer and now is a judge.27

By Steve TuttlePhotography by forrest croceThere aren’t as many portraits of his fatheron the walls of Jack Jenkins’ home as onemight expect, a fact that the youngest oflegendary Chancellor Leo Jenkins’ six childrenexplains by saying, simply, “This is my life.My siblings have taken the same approach.”But the type of pictures hanging in hishouse on the waterfront in Morehead Cityis no barometer for the respect he has forhis father, who served East Carolina for 31years. Jack Jenkins ’78 speaks in reverentialterms when he says that three things ECU iswidely known for—as a medical center, as ahome for the fine arts and as a major powerin sports—are all because of Leo.We want to hear more of the Leo Jenkinslegends, but first there’s some catching upto do with the kid who literally grew upon campus. After college, Jack—who’s now52 and is one of four Jenkins kids whograduated from East Carolina—got his JD atUNC Chapel Hill. He returned to Greenvilleto work at a law firm, accompanied by MaryCharles Stevens Jenkins ’79, another RoseHigh School and East Carolina graduatewhom he married during law school. Sheis the daughter of Dr. Charles E. Stevens,who was dean of the School of Music herefor many years. Jack and Mary Charles, whowas a Chi Omega sister, moved to MoreheadCity in 1986 when Jack became a partnerin a law firm there. In 1993 he was namedgeneral counsel of the N.C. Department ofHuman Resources and the family moved toRaleigh; three years later he was appointeddeputy general counsel to Gov. Jim Hunt.Jenkins was named general counsel toGov. Hunt in 1997 and served in that rolethroughout Hunt’s fourth term.Hunt appointed him a Special SuperiorCourt judge in 2001. Gov. Mike Easleyreappointed him to the bench in 2006.Jenkins moved back to Morehead City whenhe first went on the bench, and he mostlyholds court in eastern North Carolina. Asthe name implies, Special Superior Courtjudges hear the gamut of cases and holdcourt across a broad area. He and Mary28Charles have two children, a son at UCLAand a daughter in high school.He was last prominently in the local newsin 2003 when he was a finalist for the job aspresident of Pitt Community College.Now, back to the Leo stories. Is it true thatas a toddler you were caught hiding under abanquet table at the Dail House receptionafter your father’s inauguration squirtingguests’ feet with a water pistol? Yes. Is it trueyou were something of a campus mascotand as a kid was cast in two college theaterproductions? Yes, L’il Abner and Oliver.“Growing up in the Dail House wasmagical,” Jack recalls. “I moved there whenI was 4 and lived there until I graduatedfrom East Carolina in 1978. The house wasreally a meeting place. My friends knewwhere the key was hidden, and they wouldcome and make themselves at home. We hada basketball court in the backyard. We hada ping-pong table in the garage. We playedtouch football games in the front yard. As Igot older it became the place where we hadparties. My parents were very happy to haveus there and they opened their house andtheir hearts to all my friends.”From his upstairs bedroom window, Jenkinssaw many pivotal moments in ECU historyunfold. During the tumultuous 1960s, hewatched protestors gather on the front porchof Dail House to confront Leo Jenkins overcampus integration. He remembers nightswhen security officers stood guard to protectthe chancellor’s family. Looking acrossFifth Street, he saw students arrested forprotesting the rigid rules of the time. Onemoment stands out: “I’ll never forget myfather’s reaction after getting the call aboutthe Marshall plane crash.”There were some quirky moments, too, likethe numerous prank calls in the middle ofthe night or the morning the family woke upto find a live goat tied to a porch column.Jack played about every sport at Rose HighSchool and was the second baseman andleadoff hitter on the baseball team that wonthe 1975 state championship. When it wastime for college he followed in the steps ofhis three older sisters and enrolled at EastCarolina. Smart as a whip, he was a memberof various honor societies, served as chairmanof the Honor Council, and graduated magnacum laude in three years with a degree inbusiness. Between classes he worked at theStudent Store under Joe Clark. He didn’t joina fraternity but hung out a lot at the Sig Ephouse with his lifelong friend and currentECU trustee, Robert Brinkley ’78.Jack’s graduation marked the end of an 11-year span in which at least one—and someyears as many as three—of the Jenkins kidswere East Carolina students. Jack says he andhis siblings weren’t treated any differentlyjust because of who their dad was. “For me,I tried hard to be just a regular student andI think I was. I did not think that anybodyshould be treated differently.”Becoming Jim Hunt’s lawyerThat sense of fairness obviously helped inthe legal career that unfolded for Jenkins.A big step came in 1993 when, after nineyears of private practice, he got a job as thein-house lawyer at the N.C. Departmentof Human Resources. He liked stategovernment work and knew his way aroundRaleigh from a year spent there before lawschool working as an auditor for the N.C.Cemetery Commission.His work at Human Resources gained thenotice of, among others, Brad Wilson, whothen was Gov. Jim Hunt’s general counsel.In 1996 Wilson brought Jenkins into thegovernor’s office as his deputy, and whenWilson left the Hunt administration tobecome an executive with Blue Cross andBlue Shield of N.C., Jenkins was namedgeneral counsel to the governor.His duties with the governor “ran the gamutfrom the mundane to the extraordinary,”Jenkins says. “One day I might be writingan executive order allowing state employeesto be paid before Christmas, the next day

Jack Jenkins has a collectionof newspaper editorial cartoonslampooning his father. This one isa Charlotte Observer cartoon byGene Payne ridiculing Leo Jenkins’bid for a medical school.I might be dealing with tornado relief inRockingham County. Judicial positions comeopen across the state almost on a weeklybasis, and for five years I handled these forGovernor Hunt. I also was the point personon clemency…in capital cases.”From the years they worked together,Wilson says he knows Jenkins “has aunique blend of legal expertise, politicalunderstanding and life experience. A manof character and high ethical standards, thecitizens of North Carolina are fortunate tohave someone like Jack who has been willingto serve the public interest.”“Serving as my legal counsel in the Office ofthe Governor, Jack Jenkins was a vital partof our efforts to reduce crime and push foropportunities for our young people,” Huntsays. “Jack is a man of highest integrity andstrong character. He is an excellent SpecialSuperior Court judge and I am proud of hisservice to our state. I am especially impressedwith his ideas and commitment to thedevelopment of eastern North Carolina.”Moving from the governor’s office to thebench was a bit of an adjustment. His priorexperience mostly was in business law andpublic policy issues. One thing that easedthe transition was his commitment tofairness and treating everyone equally. “Myparents taught me that as long as you treatpeople properly they will treat you properlyin return. I’ve learned as a judge that aslong as you listen to people and give themrespect and treat them fairly, you can’t askfor much more.“I think of a judge like an umpire. Thebest umpires are the ones whose work isn’tdiscussed after the game. The same thing istrue for a judge.”‘This is home now’Most everyone knows the stories of howLeo Jenkins wrung university status and themedical school out of the legislature’s hands,but lesser known, Jack Jenkins says, was hissupport for the arts. “People forget he didhis postgraduate work in New York City,”Jack says. “He gravitated toward Broadwayand really enjoyed seeing the summertheater-type shows like South Pacific and othermusicals. Right after he became presidentof East Carolina College he sat down withEdgar Loessin and they started the summertheater program.” The ECU Summer Theaterwill celebrate its 47th season next year.How did Leo bring big-time sports toGreenville? “He hired Stas,” is all Jenkinsneeds to say, referring to Coach ClarenceStasavich, who came to East Carolina29

and promptly compiled seven consecutiveconference championships in football.During the 1960s and ’70s when LeoJenkins was pushing for university status forEast Carolina, and throughout the strugglefor the medical school, he often was belittledin the editorial pages of the newspapers inRaleigh, Charlotte and Greensboro. Howdid his father feel about that? “He saw thosecomments in a positive way because it wasgenerating interest in the issue. He had abig issue, he knew he was right, and it didn’tbother him one bit.”Jack Jenkins served on the ECU Board ofVisitors and holds firm views about theuniversity’s future. He believes ECU coulddo more to boost economic developmentin the East. He thinks Dail Houseshould forever remain the chancellor’sWatch our interview withSpecial Superior CourtJudge Jack Jenkins on themagazine’s web site,www.ecu.edu/east.residence. “The university is doing much,but so much more is possible.”He says his father dedicated his life to EastCarolina simply because he considered theuniversity and the region it serves his home.He relates a story that is an integral part offamily lore, about his mother’s reaction uponseeing Greenville for the first time.“Some 62 years ago a young couple fromNew Jersey with their infant son, Jimmy,approached Greenville (by car) from acrossthe old Tar River Bridge. Many who grewup in Greenville will remember what thatarea looked like at that time. This was thefirst time my mother had ever laid eyes onGreenville. She pleaded with my father toturn around and go back home. But he saidno, this is home now and if we don’t likeit then by golly we need to make it better.That’s the legacy of Leo Jenkins: Makeyour home better. And home to him wasn’tjust the campus but all of North Carolina,particularly those 41 counties east of I-95.”A question pulls him back to the present.Have any of Leo and Lillian Jenkins’grandchildren gone to East Carolina? Onlyone, Jimmy’s son Jason, who got a master’sdegree here. “We encourage them to go toECU but, like my parents, we encouragethem to do what’s best for them. And theyall have gone to many different colleges.”One went to Harvard, one played basketballat the University of Virginia and two playedbaseball for Clemson. His son Jacob isattending UCLA partly because he fell inlove with the place on a trip there to visit aclose family friend, the actress Beth Grant.Jack and Mary Charles have another chancewith daughter Anna, who’s a sophomore atWest Carteret High School.Thinking about the next generation ofJenkinses, he repeats something his fatherused to say when people asked about his sixkids. “There’s not a bum in the bunch.”EastWhere are they today?Jack, Jeff and Patty (back row),Suzanne and Jimmy (middlerow), and Sallie (front)Jimmy Jenkins graduated fromDuke University and the medicalschool at UNC Chapel Hill. Ananesthesiologist, he’s now retiredand lives with wife Diane in St.Louis, where he was a hospitalchief of anesthesiology.Jeff Jenkins received undergraduateand MBA degrees fromUNC Chapel Hill. He’s a businessconsultant and developer whonow lives in New Bern and Bathwith his wife, Bedie H. Jenkins’73, an educator.Suzanne Jenkins Lodge ’71majored in education and wasa Chi Omega sister. She’s apreschool teacher in Raleigh,where she lives with her husband,Marc, an attorney with the N.C.Attorney General’s office.Patty Jenkins Hogan ’75 majoredin Driver and Traffic SafetyEducation and now providestechnology support to thefaculty of two school districtsin Columbia, S.C., where shealso owns a small business. Herhusband, Mike Hogan ’75, wasan all-conference outfielder forthe baseball team and now is apharmaceutical representative.Sallie Jenkins ’76 ’78 went onto get a doctorate in educationfrom UNC Greensboro and, afterteaching overseas for severalyears, now is a retired educatorliving in Swansboro.Jack Jenkins ’78 majored inmarketing and then went tolaw school at UNC ChapelHill. A Special Superior Courtjudge since 2001, he now livesin Morehead City with his wife,Mary Charles Stevens Jenkins’79, who is a banker with SoundBank.30

‘Leo, I foundone in theAt least one—and inbathtub!’some years as many asthree—of Leo and Lillian Jenkins’six children were students at EastCarolina, from 1967, when thirdoldestSuzanne enrolled, until 1978,when baby Jack graduated. In between,younger sisters Patty and Sallie earned degrees here. Threeof those four married other ECU students. The Jenkins kids are remembered bythousands of alumni who had classes with, dated or were in clubs with one or moreof them. They were the chancellor’s kids but they acted and were treated like ordinarystudents, and had been since the day, almost exactly 50 years ago, when the Jenkinsfamily, with six little stair-step children, moved into Dail House.University ArchivesLillian Jenkins (far left) made sure her six kids looked theirbest at their dad’s inauguration on May 13, 1960. From left areJimmy, Jeff, Suzanne, Patty, Sallie and Jack.Despite living ina fish bowl, LeoJenkins insistedon maintaining asnormal a familylife as possible. Atthe reception afterhis inaugurationon May 13, 1960,4-year-old Jackwas found hidingunder a table,squirting guests’pants legs witha water pistol.Older brothersJimmy and Jeffleft home forcollege at Dukeand Carolina,respectively, but were home often in those days. “My parents hosted a rush partyfor my Carolina fraternity, Sigma Nu, at the Big House,” Jeff remembers. “Sincemost attending were from out of town, they slept on couches, the floor, or anywherethey could find a spot. In the morning, my mom came downstairs to fix breakfast,stepping over sleeping students, went into the downstairs bathroom and announced,‘Leo, I found one in the bathtub!’Suzanne was married at Dail House. “I remember coming through the front doorbecause I was too nervous to try to walk down the staircase in my dress, past themany people in the main hall. It was a Saturday in mid-September, and very hot inthe house with no air conditioning at the time. We had to have the wedding earlyin the day because it was a home football weekend, and we had to be off on ourhoneymoon in time for everyone to get to the game.”She should know:Jack could make itin HollywoodJack Jenkins’ sister’s bestfriend was a theater artsmajor from Wilmington,Beth Grant ’72, the actresscurrently appearing in thefilm Extract. Beth andSuzanne Jenkins first metas high school kids servingas pages in the N.C. GeneralAssembly. During collegethe two spent so much timetogether that “I became oneof the family,” Grant saysnow. “I felt like I was theseventh child.”“Suzanne and I used to go toJack’s Little League gamesand he was a terrific player,who never said die. I alsoremember taking Jack andmy brother Bubba Grant ’86to a Chicago concert (inMinges Auditorium). I lovedfeeling like a cool big sisterto both 13-year-olds. Now I’mso proud that they both wentto ECU and then on to servethe state of North Carolina.“And here’s something youmight not know,” Grantcontinues. “Jack is a terrificand imaginative writerwho really understands alot about film. When NoCountry For Old Men cameout, Jack’s e-mails aboutthe movie were so insightfuland spot-on, I asked if hemight like to have a go atscreenwriting. He plungedin and the results were acompelling, thoughtfuland dramatic screenplaycomparable to A Time ToKill, a John Grisham bookand movie I was privilegedto be in. If Jack wants it, Istrongly believe he couldhave a second career as ascreenwriter.“31

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By Spaine StephensThisinteriordesignprofessorchallengesstudents tocreate livingspaces goodfor peopleand the planet.Human ElementRebecca Sweet’s eyes sparklewhen she talks about her zealfor teaching interior designand they truly shine when shementions her students. Hergoal is to channel the energyand enthusiasm they bring tothe classroom into creating asense of place while celebratingcultural diversity and communityservice. “I define myself asan educator, designer and aservant leader,” Sweet says.“I’m modeling what I think isimportant and hoping studentswill consider it to be important.”Sweet, an associate professorin the Department of InteriorDesign and Merchandising withinthe College of Human Ecology,engages her students in projectsand assignments with real-worldimpact. One such project wasdesigning the exhibit spaces insidethe Haliwa-Saponi tribe’s FirstPeople Heritage Center plannedfor Wayne County. Now in thefundraising stage, the heritagecenter will showcase artifacts anddemonstrations of WoodlandIndians’ ways of life. The projectwas a chance for her students tosee their efforts become a tangiblespace for people to enjoy. “I reallylove it when students’ work isrecognized as both creative andscholarly,” she says.Many of her students volunteerat Rebuilding Together PittCounty, the Sweet-foundedlocal affiliate of a nationalnonprofit organization. Sweet’s33

from the classroomstudents develop modifications and repairsto homes and service centers like the LittleWillie Center and the Lucille GorhamIntergenerational Center in west Greenville.Sweet “has worked to bring students outinto the community of eastern NorthCarolina to effect change through the builtenvironment,” says Charles Gustina, anassistant professor of interior design.Sweet pushes her students to bring a freshenergy to work sites and to use their skillsto make life more comfortable for others.In September, Sweet and other volunteers,including students, installed baseboardheating and painted the interior and exteriorof a home that desperately needed upgrades.Hands-on efforts like these help bridgeclassroom learning and service. “That makesit the best job in the world,” she says. “Thereare not many jobs where you can combinethose kinds of things.”Sustainable design explores ways toreduce consumption of nonrenewableresources, reduce waste and create healthyenvironments. Sweet wants to teach thenext generation of interior designersthe importance of thinking in terms ofsustainability and seeing the earth improveas a result. “Becky brings to the classroom apassion for good design,” says Dr. KatherineSwank, chair of the Department of InteriorDesign and Merchandising, “and a beliefthat interior design done really well canbenefit all types of people and provide goodstewardship of the planet.”The students are listening. “The studyof how the population’s everyday actionsaffect our planet—even when we thinkwe’re being ‘eco-efficient’—has reallyignited a passion in me to change the wayinteriors are designed and utilized,” sayscurrent student Gray Wharton. One waySweet makes sure students understandis through collaboration—which, shesays, comes naturally to designers. Thesepartnerships with other institutions andother departments add dimension to analready imaginative and dynamic classroomexperience.To Sweet, who earned BFA and MFAdegrees in interior design from VirginiaCommonwealth University and an MEdfrom the University of Virginia, interiordesign is about the human spirit. In a way,each class session with her is a celebrationof the human spirit and how it lends itselfto distinctive and creative interior design.That spirit is evident in Sweet’s unique“Chambers of a Memory Palace” project, inwhich students sketched settings illustratingways in which architecture and design fusewith memory to enhance what a personexperiences. “She inspired me to focus onhuman aspects of design and to be able tosee and show beauty to others through mydesign,” says past student Irina Skalova. “Shetaught me how to form my ideas, how tosee structures and individual elements innature, and how to get inspiration from mysurroundings.”Transitioning from the professional practiceof interior design to the classroom taughtSweet lessons as well. Interacting withstudents was a refreshing change, and onein which she had to be forthright about herexpectations of them. She also learned toderive inspiration from them. “I enjoy goingin the studio with students and having thembe themselves,” she says. “They ask questionsand just give you a lot of energy.”Now in her eighth year at East Carolina,Sweet feels a natural connection withher surroundings, much like she hopesher students can create for others. “Thisreally feels like where I want to be for therest of my teaching days.” Although sheis comfortable where she is, Sweet doesn’thesitate to encourage students to see theworld through the eyes of a designer. Sheaccompanies students on study abroad trips,where they see and experience differentsettings and design elements. The key is forthem to be motivated to go beyond whatthey see, and create new elements.“She really is changing the program tohelp guide our program to be a pioneer inthe industry,” says Chi Yiu, one of Sweet’spast students. “Being unique in our fieldis crucial.” Sweet poses the challenge tostudents to uncover the next groundbreakinginnovation in interior design. Byconstantly searching for solutions, theyconsider the question, “How can you bringsomething to a client’s life that they wouldnot have thought of ?”It’s a triumph for Sweet when her studentscome to successful conclusions. “I don’t giveanswers,” she says. “I ask them to find theanswers.”34“I define myself as an educator, designerand a servant leader. I’m modeling whatI think is important and hoping studentswill consider it to be important.”

A lot on the ballOur Top scholar-athletes of the year36

By Bethany BradsherEast Carolina sports fans know the football team won the Conference USA championship last year and thatsoftball narrowly missed taking the conference crown. But fans may not be aware of other honors brought homeby Pirate teams—that the softball and men’s golf teams had the highest GPA of the 12 teams in the conferencefor three straight years. Or that the women’s golf team has won the award twice in the past four years.Every time a Pirate squad grabs a new academic honor, it highlights a theme that athletic director Terry Hollandhas worked hard to hammer home: Achievement in the classroom is every bit as valuable as accomplishments onthe field or court. Holland has backed up those priorities by awarding a bonus of one month’s salary to a team’sacademic “coach” (a student development staff member who tutors athletes) every time one of their teams winsthe conference academic award. It’s the same bonus the university gives an athletic coach whose team takes aconference championship.“The athletic administration and our coaches have done our best to send a consistent message that classattendance as well as the response to our academic coaches should be at the same expectation level as therequirement for attending practice and responding to the sport coaches,” Holland said.In our effort to honor the academic superstars of sports, East collaborated with the student development staffto compile ECU’s Top Scholar-Athletes for 2009–10. They were chosen based on GPA, community service andteam leadership. Presented in alphabetical order, they are:Blake Briese, swimmingBriese grew up in Atlanta,and his first months ineastern North Carolinatook some adjustment. Buteven if he was somewhathomesick andunaccustomed to theextreme demands ofDivision I swimming, Briesearrived with the discipline he needed to excelin his business courses. He did so well that hefinished his business degree in just threeyears with a 3.85 GPA, and for his last year ofswimming eligibility he started workingtoward his MBA. At graduation in May, Briesereceived the Wall Street Journal StudentAchievement Award, which is only given toone business school graduate each year. Likemany of the top scholar-athletes, Briesespent many hours doing community service,especially last fall when he was paired withan Ayden-Grifton High School student whohad never been in a pool but wanted, for hersenior project, to learn how to swim. Briesespent about five hours a week with herthroughout the fall, and by the time theyfinished she could swim underwater acrossthe pool.38Colleen Estes, golfEstes, a junior with a 3.81GPA, has always had goodtime-management skills,she said, so her adjustmentto college life wasrelatively smooth. Sherates physics as hertoughest class so far, andshe said that October isthe hardest month to maintain academicexcellence because so much of the month isdevoted to traveling to golf tournaments.The secretary of the ECU Student-AthleteAdvisory Council (SAAC), Estes has ampleopportunity to share her coping tips withyounger Pirates. Every fall the SAACsponsors a freshman seminar whose primarygoal is to encourage new student-athletes asthey perfect the juggling act between theirsports commitment and their academic load.“I think most of them come in well-prepared,”she said. “In SAAC, we are a bridge betweenthe athletic and academic side. All thefreshman athletes come in, and we explain tothem how college works and how to balanceyour athletics with your academics.”Kimberly Gay, basketballKim Gay was a first-teamAll-State basketball playerin Georgia coming out ofhigh school, so she feltconfident about her abilityto make a difference on thePirate basketball court. Shewas less certain about howshe would fit academicsinto that picture. The 6-foot-2 forward admitsthat she was uncertain about her ability to doeverything well at East Carolina, but she madecorrections as she went along in those earlysemesters, spending more time in study halland trimming her schedule down to little morethan studies and basketball when it wasnecessary. “It took some time getting used to,”she said. “I just figured it out on my own.” As aresult of that diligence, Gay has compiled a3.37 GPA—an average that is consistently thehighest on the Lady Pirates squad. A juniorfinance major, she found accounting andstatistics to be the most challenging legs ofher journey so far. Her ultimate careerdestination? A job as a financial advisor,helping people manage their money the wayshe has learned to manage her campusresponsibilities.

Austin Homan, baseballThe college reality checkcame for Homan when hewas told to get upbetween 5 and 6 a.m.many mornings forstrength and conditioning.On top of that, the regularscience classes were muchmore intense than Homanhad ever encountered in high school inPennsylvania. But he found his rhythm, andas a senior he has a 3.36 GPA and his firstscholarship after playing as a walk-on forthree seasons. He will graduate with a degreein health fitness and return next year—his lastyear of baseball eligibility—for a master’s inphysical activity promotion. His ultimate goalis to own and operate his own health club.Samantha Lichtner,cross country and trackIf Samantha Lichtner’seducational and careerpath unfold the way shehopes, she will be a doctorworking with athletes likeherself. Her career goal ismedical school andtraining in osteopathicmedicine. Wherever sheends up pursuing her medical education,Lichtner is likely to have a step up on herclassmates because of the time managementskills she has honed en route to her 3.75 GPA.Competing almost nonstop from Augustthrough May, with separate seasons for crosscountry, indoor track and outdoor track, shedoes not have an offseason, creatingadditional strains on her academicobligations. As the president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) this year,Lichtner takes every opportunity toencourage other athletes who are trying tokeep their studies in the forefront.Amanda Malkiewicz, soccerMalkiewicz’s careerambition would make mostof her peers cringe; shewants to be a high schoolcalculus teacher. When shecame to ECU to playsoccer from Forked River,N.J., she was fifth in herhigh school class of 420and as excited about what she saw in themath classrooms she visited as the prospectof playing her sport as a Lady Pirate. Asophomore, Malkiewicz has a 3.9 GPA andsees it as her responsibility to make sure thatyoung soccer fans who flock to the LadyPirates’ games have examples of academicdiligence. “Everyone’s always watching youas a student-athlete, so you have to be ontop of your game,” she said. “I was alwaysraised to know that school comes first.”Jarrett Newby,cross country and trackNewby has learned plentythrough his four yearsearning a 3.62 GPA inexercise physiology andnow as an MBA candidate,but some of his richesteducation has comeoutside the classroom andaway from the track. He’spresident of the local SAAC chapter and anactive member of the national SAAC. Hehelped craft legislation for student-athletesand got to know the men and women at thehighest echelons of college sports. This yearhe is the only student-athlete on the NCAADivision I academic cabinet. Thoseexperiences have convinced Newby that hemight want to pursue a career in intercollegiateathletics himself, when hisgraduate studies and Pirate running careerare behind him.Katie Prast, volleyballShe knew the demands ofDivision I volleyball mightmake it difficult, but Prasthad always hoped to studyabroad. In 2008, thanks toa summer program inArgentina that allowed herto return to campus intime for the preseason,Prast had that opportunity. “I studiedSpanish there for six weeks,” said Prast, asenior from Chicago. “I learned so much. Itwas so nice to be submerged in a totallydifferent culture.” With a 3.77 GPA in Englisheducation, Prast is looking to become a highschool English teacher. For now, shepractices those teaching skills by tutoringother athletes in the ECU writing lab.Greyson Sargent, basketballSargent came to ECU viaFork Union MilitaryAcademy after completinghigh school at a smallChristian school in Raleigh,so the freedom of a largepublic university was a bitheady at first. But giventhe chance to monitor hisown activities, Sargent thrived. “I enjoyed thefreedom to juggle school and sports,especially coming from military school,” saidSargent, a marketing major with a 3.52 GPA.Basketball has a demanding travel scheduleand a long season, and many times Sargenthas sought out the computer in a hotel lobbyand logged on to Blackboard to get thenotes he missed that day. Like Homan, healso just earned his first scholarship afterthree years as a walk-on.Joe Sloan, footballSloan is one of three of ourtop scholar-athletes whofinished their undergraduatedegree in three years, andlike Briese he is earning hisMBA while playing his finalyear of eligibility. He hasworked in his father’sdevelopment business, butthe ECU holder’s ultimate goal is to coachcollege football. He found MBA courses moredemanding and intense than undergrad (hefinished his finance degree with a 4.0 GPA),with plenty of group projects to preparestudents to interact productively with all typesof people. He has also had the chance totransmit his academic discipline to youngfootball teammates as the monitor for one ofthe study hall rooms. “I had some guys whocame in just out of high school and I helpedthem get their feet wet and understand whatthey were getting into,” he said.Kaui Tom, softballAs a member of the teamthat won three straightC-USA sport awards, Tomhas distinguished herselfamong overachievers bycompiling a 4.0 GPA inhealth education andpromotion. Tom came toECU in 2006 from Hawaiiwith two friends, Cristen Aona and CharinaSumner, who were also coming to join thesoftball team. All three of the Hawaiian playershave excelled academically every semester,and they have pushed each other to greaterheights, Tom said. “We have a commitment tothis as a team, and I think it stems from ourcoaches,” said Tom, who plans to train to be anurse practitioner in Hawaii after graduation.“They have set the bar higher for us.”Brooke Walter, tennisWalter broke a recordbefore she ever swung aracquet in an ECU uniform;she came in with moreadvanced-placementhours—46—than any athletehad ever earned. Thataccomplishment allowedher to graduate in threeyears with a degree in English literature (and aperfect 4.0 GPA) and when she went toLondon to study abroad after what shouldhave been her junior year, she was alreadyearning graduate credit. While in London,Walter studied British literature and film andgot to attend two Shakespeare plays, includingone at the original Globe Theatre. When shecompletes her last tennis season and hermaster’s in English literature, she hopes topursue a career in publishing. “I’m bored if notoccupied,” she said.East39

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pirate nationScholarship more than doublesThe Alumni Scholarship awarded by the EastCarolina Alumni Association each year willincrease in value next year from $1,000 to$2,500, a step being taken to help deservingstudents offset the rising costs of attendingcollege. The increase takes effect with thebeginning of the 2010–2011 school year.Applicants must have a minimum cumulativeGPA of 2.7 and submit a completedapplication, a letter of recommendation (froma university official, a community leader or anemployer) and an official transcript. Studentsmay apply for a scholarship each year they areenrolled as a full-time, undergraduate student.Students graduating who intend to enroll atECU for graduate school may also apply foran Alumni Scholarship.So that university-based scholarships canbe awarded to a broader range of students,additional eligibility requirements have beenincorporated to the Alumni Scholarshipprogram. Students who are East Carolina andMaynard Scholars, Teaching Fellows, AccessScholars, full tuition student-athletes or fulltuition students with outside funding areineligible to receive an Alumni Scholarship.These adjustments will provide neededscholarship dollars to more ECU students.Lauren AlyseEverett is a twotimeAlumniScholarshiprecipient fromFayetteville. She is aspeech and hearingsciences major whostudied abroad atKingston Universityin London, and volunteers for Relay ForLife, the Boys and Girls Club, ProjectEnrichment, and Community Homecare andHospice. “I’m extremely grateful and feeltruly blessed to receive an AlumniScholarship. It helps me get the very best46education I can to fulfill my goal ofbecoming a speech language pathologist.”Kimberly DanielleJones is a familyand communityservices major witha minor in alcoholand drug abusestudies fromRaleigh. She is aresident advisor andvolunteers forEastern Elementary School, the GoldenLiving Center and Red Cross Blood Drives.“It means a lot to me to be chosen for thisscholarship opportunity. Paying for college isnot easy and so I really do appreciate thefinancial support the Alumni Association hasprovided me with.”Alumni Association Scholarships aremade possible through proceeds of theassociation’s annual scholarship fundraisers:the Pirate’s Bounty Scholarship Auction, theECU Alumni Scholarship Classic and thePirate Alumni Road Race and Fun Run. Taxdeductiblemembership contributions andoutright gifts to the Alumni Association alsosupport student scholarships. Please encouragethe undergrad in your life to apply for anAlumni Association Scholarship. Applicationsare available at the Taylor-Slaughter AlumniCenter located at 901 East Fifth Street, oronline at PirateAlumni.com/scholarshipsand must be postmarked or hand-deliveredby January 31, 2010.Road Race and Fun Run setMark your calendar for April 17, 2010, totake part in the third annual Pirate AlumniRoad Race and Fun Run. Our 5K race and1 mile fun run is a USATF-certified courseand awards are presented to the first threemale finishers overall, to the first three femalefinishers overall, and the top three maleand female finishers in six age categories.All proceeds benefit Alumni AssociationScholarships. Be sure to check online atPirateAlumni.com/roadrace in the spring formore details. Interested in being a sponsor?Contact Director of Alumni ProgramsKendra Alexander at 800-ECU-GRAD.Pirate Career CallsA new season of Pirate Career Calls is underway. A partnership among the AlumniAssociation, the ECU Career Center andECU Human Resources brings these monthlyconference calls to alumni and friends whoare seeking employment tips and advice.Held the first Thursday of each month fromnoon–1:00 p.m. EST, Pirate Career Calls areinteractive conference calls that cover key jobsearch or advancement issues. PowerPointpresentations are e-mailed to participants theday before the call so that they can followalong. Be sure to sign-up for one or all ofthese upcoming Pirate Career Calls:Dec. 3: Build Your Personal andProfessional NetworksJan. 7: Taking Advantage of DevelopmentOpportunities in Your WorkplaceFeb. 4: Standing Out in the MarketplaceMarch 4: Social Networks and Their Impacton Your Career SearchApril 1: The InterviewMay 6: Negotiating Salary, MovingExpenses, and HousingRegister at PirateAlumni.com/careercalls orcall 800-ECU-GRAD.New officers at Alumni AssociationNew officers and directors of the EastCarolina Alumni Association assumed officein July and will serve through the fiscal year.Elected were: Chair: Ernest Logemann ’68of Winston-Salem previously served as vicechair and treasurer. He is a CPA and partnerwith Gray Callison & Co. Vice chair: CarlDavis ’73 of Raleigh previously served astreasurer of the Alumni Association boardand chairman of the Board of Visitors. Heis assistant general manager of UNC-TV.

Secretary: Yvonne Pearce ’82 of Greenvilleis serving a second term in the position.She is a social worker at the Walter B. JonesTreatment Center. Treasurer: Justin Conrad’96 of Greensboro is president of Libby HillSeafood Restaurants. Past chair: SabrinaBengel of New Bern is an entrepreneurand co-owner of the Birthplace of Pepsi.Four new members have joined the board asdirectors. William “Bill” Burnette ’96 ofVirginia Beach, Va., is founder and developerof Portable On Demand Storage for easternNorth Carolina and northeastern SouthCarolina. Adrian Cullin ’06 of Charlotteis a loan administration manager for WellsFargo. Charles “Charlie” Martin Jr. ’68 ofGreenville is marketing director of Mid-Atlantic Auto Recyclers, a past chair ofthe Parents Association, a member of thePirate Club’s VanSandt Society, and a 2005recipient of the association’s DistinguishedService Award. Michael McShane ’66 ofAlexandria, Va., is congressional liaisonofficer with the Agency for InternationalDevelopment. He received the OutstandingAlumni Award in 1998.Oldest letter winner diesWilliam Eric Tucker ’33, who was EastCarolina’s oldest living letter winner, diedOct. 4 in Richmond, Va., where he had livedand operated a construction business formany years. He was 97. A member of thefirst football and basketball teams organizedon campus in 1932, he was the first malegraduate science major of East Carolina andonly the third male to graduate in any major.A native of Winterville, he was employedin the Civilian Conservation Corps aftercollege. He entered the Army during WorldWar II and retired as a lieutenant colonel. In1957, he started his own masonry businessin Richmond and continued operating thebusiness until he retired in 1981.Joining is easy!Join today and helpus reach our goal ofcurrently6,200members10,000in 2010Call 800-ECU-GRAD or visitPirateAlumni.com/jointoday47

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CLASS NOTESNew Class Notes editor namedJoanne Kollar, whoretired last year after20 years as ECU’sdirector ofpublications, is thenew Class Noteseditor for East. Shesucceeds Leann E.Smith ’04 ’06, whocontinues teachingin the EnglishDepartment. Before coming to ECU, Kollarworked in various editorial capacities at PennState’s Department of Publications and at Little,Brown & Co. in Boston, Mass. She has a BA inEnglish from Bucknell University and an MA injournalism from Penn State.2009BENJAMIN ANDREW MULHERIN andCarmen Mary Meadows were married June 13 inNewport News, Va., where they live. He works atNorthrop Grumman Shipbuilding in NewportNews. ASHLEY NICOLE RUNNER and MatthewCharles Epler were married June 27 in Fayettevillewhere they live. JASMINE YOUNG, former ECUstandout point guard, signed a professional contractwith Aguas Buenas Tigresas of the Baloncesto SuperiorFeminino basketball league of Puerto Rico. Miss USAKirsten Dalton made it into the final 10 at theMiss Universe pageant, becoming the only Americancontestant in three years to reach the top ten of thecompetition. Dalton also managed not to fall on stage,as happened to her two predecessors.2008ERIN ELIZABETH MCGEE and JOSEPH JAYCAMPBELL ’98 of Sanford were married June 20in Winston-Salem. DAVID EARL BARRETT JR.and Jennifer Quinto Lagasca were married June 6.He is a policy analyst for the Navy at the Pentagonin Arlington, Va. FRANK BENEFIELD exhibitedhis work at the Community Council of the Arts inKinston. He is a retired Marine. BRYAN BROTHERS,a graduate of the ECU BB&T Leadership DevelopmentProgram, was named business services officer at theBB&T financial center in Greenville. CAROLINAGRACE CLARY and BROCDUNN NEAL RUSHwere married Aug. 1 in Newport News. She teachesin Asheboro City Schools, and he is employed byKlaussner Furniture International. JESSICA DAVISand CASEY SPILLMAN ’07 were married June 24in Greensboro. Both teach in Chatham County, whereshe is a fourth-grade teacher, and he teaches middleAlumni SpotlightMichele Erich ’87,’95 doesn’t carrya doctor’s bagas she wandersthe halls of NewHanover RegionalMedical Center inWilmington. Sheusually carries aguitar, a pinwheelor other toys.As the hospital’smusic therapist,she might use akaleidoscope todistract a childgetting an IVline put in. Later, she could be playing soft music by a bed tocomfort a dying patient. Other days, she strums the guitar torelax cancer patients getting chemotherapy treatmentsErich has been a music therapist for more than 20 years—thepast 12 at New Hanover Regional. Seven years after completinga degree in music therapy, she returned to ECU to becomethe first to earn the program’s then-new master’s degree. Amusic enthusiast, she plays the alto saxophone, xylophone andkeyboard among other instruments. “I had an interest in music,and I had an interest in working with people,” she says. Movingaround the hospital and seeing all kinds of patients is the bestpart of her job, she says, because she enjoys working withpatients of different ages. “It’s nice to be able to offer themsomething that’s pleasant and not another piece of bad newsor something that hurts,” Erich says.—Wilmington Star NewsTroy Pate Jr. ’58 of Goldsboro received the Air Force’shighest civilian honor, the Distinguished Public ServiceAward, at a ceremony at the Pentagon in May. Air ForceVice Chief of Staff Gen. William Fraser presented the awardto Pate in recognition of his more than 30 years leadingcommunity efforts to strengthen ties between Wayne Countyand Seymour Johnson AFB. Pate chaired the county’s MilitaryAffairs Commission from the late 1970s until he relinquishedthe role earlier this year. He also spearheaded a new group,the Seymour Support Council, which formed in 2000 todefend Seymour Johnson during the military’s Base Closureand Realignment Commission (BRAC). Pate remains chair ofthe N.C. Advisory Commission on Military Affairs.49

class notesAlumni SpotlightDr. Sharon Allison-Ottey, MD ’95 haswritten two booksand authored a lineof greeting cardsthat all have a littlesomething extrainside: sprinkledthroughout arebits of healthinformation,encouragement anduplifting messages.“I believe in a sneakattack,” she says. “Itake big medicalschool words andbreak them down so people can understand them.” Her firstbook, All I Ever Did Was Love Man, released in 2006, is a storyabout a faithful, divorced middle-aged woman, and educatesthe reader about the dangers, risk factors and treatmentoptions for HIV/AIDS. Her second book, Is That a FriedChicken Wing, released this fall, is about weight and lifestylechoices. Ten percent of the proceeds go to the AvonFoundation for Women. A practicing physician in suburbanWashington, D.C., she spends much of her time traveling thecountry speaking on issues like AIDS/HIV, women’s healthand health literacy. She is the executive director of TheCOSHAR Foundation, a nonprofit committed to healthoutreach and education. “I want to provide useful, practical,relevant health messages in simple terms that everyone canunderstand,” she said.Judy Marlowe Stead’70 wrote andillustrated The TwelveDays of Christmas inNorth Carolina, one ina series of such booksby Sterlin Publishingon each state. In each,a cousin from anotherstate visits the in-statecousin over Christmasvacation, and theyvisit as many placesof interest as theypossibly can. In Stead’sbook about NorthCarolina, the kids travel from the mountains to the OuterBanks visiting the zoo in Asheboro, the hot air balloon festivalin Statesville, and other Tar Heel events. The fact that NorthCarolina is such a large state presented some problems forStead: “I had to find a way to cover the distance of our longstate in 12 days, so I have a helicopter-flying mother doingthe driving,” she said.school band. BRIAN T. JONES and Kimberlea Wilsonwere married June 20. He is a project engineer withTA Loving in Goldsboro. AARON PRILLAMANwas selected as a full-time intern at Valley Wesley,the United Methodist Campus Ministry at ArizonaState University in Tempe, Ariz., where he is pursuinga doctorate of musical arts. ERICA WILSON wasnamed assistant director of the Pirate Club. She wasdirector of membership and convention services for theNational Association of Collegiate Women AthleticsAdministrators in Wilmington. KELLY REBECCAWILSON and Brandon Gene Moore were marriedMay 2. She is a recreational therapist at Roanoke-Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie.2007Air Force Airman 1st Class MONICA L. BROWNgraduated from basic training at Lackland Air ForceBase in San Antonio, Tex. CHRISTIE FREDERICK isteaching English in South Korea. Previously, she taughtat St. Andrew Elementary School in Panama City, Fla.SAHUN “SHAWN” A. HULSIZER graduated fromArmy combat training at Fort Jackson in Columbia,S.C. BENJAMIN LUSTIG exhibited his classicalpainting and photography at the Community Councilfor the Arts in Kinston, where his works will hang in thePermanent Collection Gallery. He is a faculty memberat Pitt Community College and ECU. LISA MACE,competing as Miss Greater Sandhills, was chosenfourth runner-up in the Miss North Carolina Pageant.She was the talent winner at the pageant. JEREMYMILLS, assistant project manager with PrecisionWalls in Greenville, earned Leadership in Energy andEnvironmental Design accreditation. GLORETTEODESSA SHANNON of Greenville was appointed byGov. Bev Perdue to the State Board of Barber Examiners.She is a rehabilitation counselor for N.C. VocationalRehabilitation. STEPHEN “ANDY” WILLIS joinedCentury 21 The Realty Group in Greenville as a salesassociate specializing in residential property sales.JENNIFER RENEE WINCHESTER and CharlesJoseph Taylor were married May 2. She is a third-yeardental student at UNC School of Dentistry.2006CHRIS BALANCE ’06 ’08 is an assistant defensivefootball coach at Campbell University. He was anassistant football coach at New Bern High School.AYRORA FAIN BLACKBURN and Derek JoshuaBarker were married May 23. She works for the SERVECenter at UNC Greensboro. SARA MARGARETBOSEMAN and David William Roberts were marriedMay 16. She is in her third year of pharmacy schoolat Campbell University. SARAH B. FOSTER wascertified as a professional in human resources by the HRCertification Institute. She works at Smith Elliott Kearns& Co. in Hagerstown, Md. DRUSILLA HATLEY ofMHAworks in Greenville earned Leadership in Energyand Environmental Design status through the U.S.Green Building Council. She also became a NationalCouncil for Interior Design Qualification certified50

interior designer. MATT HILL, superintendent forWIMCO Corp., passed the Leadership in Energy andEnvironmental Design professional accreditation exam.ANNA MARIE LEGGETTE and Dallas ParkerGoldston were married May 2. She is a nurse at RexHospital in Raleigh. DANIEL MORAN receivedthe Charles J. Zencey Memorial Award at WidenerUniversity, Wilmington, Del. The award is given to astudent who demonstrated a commitment to protectingthe environment and who is likely to pursue a career thatfurthers environmental protection. CYNTHIA ANNMULLEN and Wesley Taylor were married April 25.She is a pediatric occupational therapist at TherapeuticLife Center in Greenville. JOSEPH B. RUDOLPH ofWilson graduated from the Pettit College of Law atOhio Northern University.2005JESSICA ELIZABETH BROWN and ScottRandall Hondros were married June 6. She is a senioraccountant with Ernst and Young in Greensboro. ERINIVY COLLINS ’05 ’08 and ADAM BOUCHARDSAUNDERS were married June 13 in Dublin, N.C.She works for the public schools in Robeson County,and he works for Heartland Publications. CAROLINECOPELAND earned the Leadership in Energy andEnvironmental Design certification. She is a designerat A.R. Chesson Construction Co. in Williamston.Dr. SARAH CATHERINE FERGUSON ’05 ’06and Dr. JUSTIN CLARK CURLEE ’05 ’06 weremarried June 3 in Santorini, Greece. Both are travelingphysical therapists with Ardor Health Solutions inColorado. AMANDA PEELE HARRELL earned thedesignation of Certified Public Accountant. She is astaff accountant with Pittard Perry & Crone in theirWilliamston office. MIRIAM ANN JAMES andWILLIAM POWELL KEMP IV were married April4. She is the billing manager with the Department ofCardiovascular Sciences at the East Carolina HeartInstitute. He is co-owner and operator of CarolinaWoods and Water in Scotland Neck. LIONEL KATOwas named principal of Farmville Middle School,where he completed an administrative internshipin 2005. He was assistant principal at West GreeneElementary School in Greene County and is enrolledin the doctoral program in educational leadership atUNC Wilmington. TIMOTHY JAMES MORGANrejoined The Clement Companies as a sales associate inthe Raleigh office.2004KEVIN DAVID ANDERSON married FarhanaKhan May 2 in Toronto, Canada, where he is anoptometrist. He is a graduate of the PennsylvaniaCollege of Optometry. CAROLINE COOPERjoined Kitchen and Bath Decisions in Wintervilleas its residential designer. She was a kitchen andbath designer in Wilmington. SARA COWLING’06 married CLINT SHOEMAKER May 9 inWilmington. He is in the ECU accounting program.JESSICA CORIE CAROLYNE GRAINGER andJonathan David Stewart were married April 18. Sheworks in the surgical intensive care unit at GrandStrand Regional Medical Center in Myrtle Beach,S.C. WINFRED JOHNSON is teaching middleschool social studies and coaching varsity baseball atHarrells Christian Academy in Roseboro. The formerECU baseball player was inducted into the ECUHall of Fame in 2001. JACK METCALF had a soloexhibition, “Object of a Fiction,” showcasing his recentprints, drawings and mixed-media work at GalleryEspresso in Savannah, Ga. PETER JOSEPH MILLSof Falls Church, Va., married Kelly Renee Gilbert onAug. 8. He is a senior pricing analyst for a governmentcontracting company in Lansdowne, Va. MATTHEWWARNER NORRIS and Kelly Suzanne Brown weremarried Oct. 11, 2008. He works at Perkins + Willin Washington, D.C. KRISTEN DENISE WARDand Aaron Penny were married June 20. She is akindergarten teacher at Williamston Primary School.51

class notes522003JILL EBERLE exhibited her work in a three-womanshow at the Bank of the Arts in New Bern. She ison the faculty of the ECU School of Art. NICKSCHNABEL was named assistant baseball coach atLiberty University, where he will be the hitting andinfield instructor. He was the hitting instructor atWest Point.2002HILLARY ANDREWSand ALEX LEFEVRE’93 were married May 2in New Bern. ERIKBAKICH was namedhead baseball coach at theUniversity of Maryland.He was assistant baseballcoach at Vanderbilt. Dr.DAWN KENDRICKBakichjoined the Departmentof Emergency Medicineat the Brody School ofMedicine as an assistantprofessor. She recently completed a fellowship inpediatric emergency medicine at Children’s Hospital ofAlabama. NIKI LITTS was named programcoordinator for the Cultural Center in Holly Springs.JESSICA MAUCH and SETH WILFONG weremarried March 28 in Dilworth. She is co-owner of NewDirections and he is a developer and partner in uptownCharlotte’s EpiCentre. MELISSA MITCHELL-STUEBER and her husband Craig of Glen Allen, Va.,had a daughter, Adriana Leigh, July 16, 2008.2001DAVID GARRARD, quarterback for the NFL’sJacksonville Jaguars, received a key to the city fromDurham Mayor Bill Bell at Southern High School,from which he graduated in 1997. The presentationcoincided with the David Garrard Foundation’s firstever“Air it Out” Football and Cheer Summer Campsheld at Southern High School to raise awareness ofCrohn’s disease and to educate children and adultson the ways that they can live healthier, happier lives.JOSE GARCIA was named Greene County SchoolsTeacher of the Year. He teaches science at GreeneCounty Middle School in Snow Hill and coachessoccer. JOSEPH ZACHARIAH “ZACK” MIXON, adesign/build projects coordinator with A.R. ChessonConstruction Co. Inc. in Williamston, earned theLeadership in Energy and Environmental Designcertification. DANIEL WIGGINS joined BouvierKelly in Greensboro as a media buyer and negotiationsspecialist in both the new media and traditional mediaplatforms. He was a media buyer at Mullen.2000DAVID LEWIS was named principal of RosewoodElementary in Wayne County. He was principal atRosewood High, assistant principal at GoldsboroHigh, and a teacher and assistant principal in Edenton.KATHRYN ANNE MATTHEWS and EricKenneth Elder of Holly Springs were married May9 in Charleston, S.C. She is retail group manager forCapital Bank in Cary. LEE SMITH graduated fromOfficer Candidate School at Ft. Benning, Columbus,Ga., and was commissioned as a second lieutenant inthe Army. As a National Guardsman, he serves as atransportation officer with the 1452nd TransportationCo. based in Winston-Salem.1999TERESA K. ANDERSON ’99 ’00 ’05 wasnamed principal at Newlin Elementary Schoolin the Alamance-Burlington School District. Shewas principal at Hawk Eye Elementary School inRed Springs. She is working toward a doctorate ineducational leadership at Fayetteville State University.AARON CARROW was certified as a constructiondocuments technologist. He is a constructionadministrator at BJAC, an architectural firm in Raleigh.TERRI KIRBY HATHAWAY received the Volunteerof the Year award from the Monitor National MarineSanctuary. She is the marine education specialist forN.C. Sea Grant. TARA PARKER ’99 ’02 ’06 wasnamed administrator of Pitt County Schools’ HealthScience Academy. She was assistant principal at Wahl-Coates Elementary School in Greenville.1998JULIE BATEMAN ’98 ’01, an informationtechnology relationship manager in BB&T’s IT ClientServices department, was promoted to vice president.MARVIN BURKE was named head football coach atLewisville High School. He played inside linebackerat ECU from 1993–96. He was assistant coach atSoutheast Magnet School in Raleigh. Dr. SUSANNIKROOZ joined Frye Regional Medical Center inNewton. She is board certified by the American Boardof Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology.1997MITCH GALLOWAY was honored by the FayettevilleGuard of the American Indoor Football Association,which retired his jersey No. 3 for his efforts to promotearena football in Fayetteville. ERIN GRIMSLEY wasnamed director of marketing, business development,and gifts at Heritage Hospital in Tarboro. She was salesand marketing manager at Kanban Logistics. LINDALAYDEN was appointed principal of PerquimansCentral School. She also teaches at the College of theAlbemarle and is working on her doctorate of educationat ECU. RICHARD ROBINSON ’97 ’99 joined SuperShred of Greenville as an information security consultantfor the Triangle area. He was an account managerfor several financial institutions in Florida. SONYATOMAN was named director of the Beaufort CountyDepartment of Social Services. She was program managerfor the Division of Children, Youth and Families in theArizona Department of Economic Security.1996LENA HOLLAND was named Teacher of the Yearfor Swansboro Elementary School. She was NationallyBoard Certified in 2002 and is currently workingon a master’s in elementary education at UNCWilmington. JEFF LAUER was appointed curriculumdevelopment administrator for the Midland PublicSchools in Michigan. He was principal at EastlawnElementary School and assistant principal at DowHigh in Michigan. PAM SUTTON MCCULLEN,a Whiteville Primary School teacher, was NationallyBoard Certified. She was a Teaching Fellow and taughtelementary school at Elizabethtown Primary School.Dr. LEANNA THORN joined the Department ofEmergency Medicine at the Brody School of Medicineas a clinical assistant professor. She was associatemedical director of emergency services at McLeodRegional Medical Center in Florence, S.C. ALLISONWISSER-PYLE and JAMES “JAMIE” PYLE had ason, James Edward Pyle, on May 5 in Tucson, Ariz.1995MICHAEL PRESTON was named director ofstudent affairs at Stephen F. Austin State University inNacogdoches, Tex.MEGHAN REED joinedPremier Properties ofSouthwest Florida Realtors attheir Vanderbilt branch office.WrightShe has 10 years ofexperience in the residentialbuilding industry as co-ownerof a tile and marble company.LAURA WRIGHT receivedthe 2008–09 Chancellor’sDistinguished TeachingAward at Western CarolinaUniversity, where she directsthe graduate program inEnglish.1994SCOTT BASS led a group of death penalty opponentson a 300-mile march around eastern North Carolinain June to bring awareness to their cause. He and hiswife operate Nazareth House in Raleigh, a ministrysupporting people who have had loved ones murderedand those on death row. LORENZO “LO” CARMONwas inducted into the N.C. Chapter of the NationalWrestling Hall of Fame after directing 26 high schooland 32 USA Wrestling tournaments, affecting morethan 6,000 young athletes. He is assistant to themanager for the town of Carrboro. DUSTY FIELD,CEO of Boylan Companies, was elected to the Boardof Directors of the Food Bank of Central & EasternNorth Carolina. He is also on the ECU Foundationboard. WILLIAM HENDRICKSON was namedWarren County Schools’ Teacher of the Year in his firstyear teaching science at Warren New Tech High School,where he began a Student Academy of Science. He has

also taught in Edgecombe County Schools and Nash/Rocky Mount Schools. SEAN PUMPHREY wasnamed social worker of the year by the N.C. CoastalDistrict of the National Association of Social Workers.He is a psychotherapist and clinical social worker atECU Physicians’ Fire Tower Medical Office, Greenville.MARNY RUBEN was named principal of SeawellElementary School in Chapel Hill. She was the school’sassistant principal. CAROL JONES SHIELDS ’94 ’00co-presented a session on rural business developmentwith Dr. Pat Long, director of the ECU Center forSustainable Tourism, at the Association of ResourceConservation & Development Councils’ nationalconference in Albuquerque, N.M. KELLEY ROTHSIMPSON was selected as a N.C. Principals Fellow,which helps selected individuals to complete a two-yearfull-time masters of school administration program inpreparation for a career in school administration. She isattending NCSU. AMY TAYLOR ’93 ’95 coauthoredthe textbook Extreme Science: From Nano to Galactic, writtenfor middle and high school teachers to help theirstudents understand scale and develop quantitativeevaluation skills. She is a research assistant and doctoralstudent at N.C. State.1993Dr. RICK HENDERSON ’93 ’97 ’02, anelectrophysiologist, joined the Wake Forest UniversityBaptist Medical Center faculty as an assistant professorof cardiology. He completed a cardiology residencyat Wake Forest Baptist’s Heart Center, a cardiologyfellowship at Penn State University/M.S. HersheyMedical Center, and an electrophysiology fellowshipat the Heart Center. Tara Lynne Schiphof, daughterof CHRISTOPHER SCHIPHOF and MELANIEOAKLEY SCHIPHOF ’95, was crowned Junior MissNorth Carolina.1992TERESA BYRUM ’92 ’98 ’08 was named principalat Ayden Elementary School. She was the directorof licensed personnel for Pitt County Schools. Dr.C. SCOTT CALLICUTT ’92 ’97 joined PremierSurgical Associates in Knoxville, Tenn. He practiced forfive years with Gastonia Surgical Associates in Gastonia.1991SCOTT BAILEY was selected as one of five EasterSeals UCP North Carolina staffers to participate in“Advancing Strong Leadership for North CarolinaDD Professionals,” a three-year training program forpromising individuals under 40 in the developmentaldisabilities field. CHARLES CHESTNUT ’91 ’96was named principal at Northwest Elementary Schoolnear Belvoir. He was principal at Darden MiddleSchool in Wilson County.1990MARY CHATMAN ’90 ’96 was appointed chiefnursing officer at Memorial University Medical Centerin Savannah, Ga. She was vice president and chiefAndy Lyons/AllsportAlumni SpotlightHe would rather beplaying than talking,but John Maginnes ishaving fun either way.A former PGA touringpro and the 1991Colonial AthleticAssociation championand player of the year,Maginnes now givesfans an insider’s perspective as a radio commentator forSirius/XM golf broadcasts, a columnist on the PGA Tour’s website and a writer for other web sites and publications. “I amdoing something that I never anticipated, and that is usingmy major from ECU,” Maginnes, 41, said during the 2009Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, where he lives.Maginnes played at ECU from 1987–1991 while majoringin English with concentrations in philosophy and creativewriting. He then competed on lower-level tours beforequalifying for the PGA Tour in 1996. During nearly a decadeat golf’s top level, he won more than $1.7 million; his top finishwas a tie for second in the 1996 Buick Challenge. He hasthree wins on what is now the Nationwide Tour. But in 2004,while hitting an approach shot in a tournament in Memphis,a bone spur injured his tricep. He fell to his knee in pain andhad surgery the following week. His return to the tour thefollowing year was brief. “At the time I felt like my best yearson tour were in front of me,” Maginnes said. “I was in my mid-30s in a career that can last for decades more.” His playingcareer was over, but a new one opened.“My entire adult life I have kept waiting for someone to tap meon the shoulder and tell me that they were just kidding, thatthis really isn’t my life,” he said. “The best job in the world isplaying on the PGA Tour. Short of that, covering the game andstaying close to the action is the second-best thing.”—Doug BoydLynnette Schwartz Johnson ’88 waspromoted to executive associateathletics director and senior women’sadministrator at the University ofMississippi, where she has worked for 19years. Johnson administers 15 Ole Misssports programs, including all 10women’s programs, men’s indoor andoutdoor track and field, cross country,tennis and golf. She handles many otherinternal and external operations in thedepartment, including committee work, gender equity andbid proposals for all SEC and NCAA championship events.Johnson became the first female head athletic trainer in theSoutheastern Conference in 1997.53

class notesnursing officer at Pitt County Memorial Hospitalin Greenville. She is working on her doctorate innursing. DREW COVERT was appointed presidentof Southern Bank and Trust Co. He was the bank’sexecutive vice president and chief operating officer. BOBDAVIS ’90 ’93 retired as a criminal justice instructorfrom Edgecombe Community College in Tarboro. Heis now an adjunct instructor at N.C. Wesleyan Collegein Rocky Mount. JON DECKER was named by GolfDigest as the 21st ranked golf instructor in Florida,where he is the head instructor at the Grand CypressAcademy of Golf in Orlando. He is also the directorof instruction at the New Albany Country Clubin Columbus, Ohio. GARY GORE was appointedpresident of Bank of America’s Richmond market.He was managing director and mid-Atlantic regionalexecutive for Bank of America’s U.S. Trust. Lt. Col.CHRISTOPHER R. RAMSEY became commanderof the 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment of the4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division,at Fort Polk, La. He was deputy chief of currentoperations for the Joint Special Operations Command.JEFF STEPHENS was named branch manager andcommercial lending officer for Select Bank & Trust’sEast 10th St. office in Greenville. Lt. Col. MICHAEL J.TIMMERMAN retired from the U.S. Air Force after25 years. He lives near Goldsboro, where he is aerospacescience instructor at Southern Wayne High School inDudley. KEVIN WALKER was appointed director ofbusiness development at Elliott & Company Appraisersin Greensboro.1989GARY WOODLIEF, senior vice president and chiefbusiness development officer for North State Bank’sCommunityPLUS division in Raleigh, graduated fromthe American Bankers Association Stonier NationalGraduate School of Banking at the University ofPennsylvania.1988JOHN CLARK wasappointed CEO ofNarTest Technologies, aMorrisville-basedcompany that distributeshigh-speed drugdetection equipment inNorth America.JEANNIE GUTHRIEClark’88 ’89 was selectedteacher of the year atQueens CreekElementary School inSwansboro. She hastaught in Wilson, Pitt and Onslow counties for 20years. Dr. CAROL MOORE joined the Departmentof Emergency Medicine at the Brody School ofMedicine as a clinical assistant professor. She is areservist in the U.S. Naval Medical Corps. SCOTTTHOMAS of Vanceboro was appointed chair of theBill Bunting ’04 of Manteo, marketing specialist at The Outer Banks Hospital, won first placein the landscapes category in Our State magazine’s annual Reader Photo Contest with thisphotograph entitled “Summer Sunrise.”Governor’s Crime Commission by Gov. Bev. Perdue.He was elected in 2006 as district attorney in thedistrict comprising Carteret, Craven, and Pamlicocounties. He was a state senator from 2001–2006.1987ANTHONY D. JACKSON was namedsuperintendent of New Henry County Schools inVirginia. He was the executive director of K–12curriculum and instruction and director of secondaryeducation at Spotsylvania County Schools in Virginia.Dr. CARL E. HARRIS was named the CentralCarolina Regional Superintendent of the Year. He isthe superintendent of Durham Public Schools. Dr.LINDSAY STEVENSON ’87 ’91 joined the staffat Greenville Women’s Clinic, a division of PhysiciansEast. He was a partner at Coastal Women’s Clinicin Elizabeth City and chief of the medical staff atAlbemarle Hospital. He serves on the executive boardof the N.C. OB/GYN Society.1986ROBERT “BOB” W. HAYWORTH III was promotedto executive vice president of Lockton, a privately heldinsurance broker in Kansas City, Mo. He was COO ofthe company. JOANNE JOHNSON, an instructorand director of accounting at Caldwell CommunityCollege and Technical Institute, received the DonaldW. Lackey Teaching Excellence Award. GAIL PERRYJOHNSTON published The Social Cause Diet: Find AService That Feeds Your Soul. Since 1989 she has been thehead of P. Johnston Design & Advertising in Lafayette,Calif. CARL KRATZ joined ERA Evergreen RealEstate as a realtor in Bluffton, S.C. He was a salesmanager for Republic Services of Savannah, HiltonHead, and SWS of Georgia. ELLEN SHEEHAN,digital media teacher, was named Teacher of the Year forSwansboro High School. She produces Pirate Talk, theschool’s television program, and is also assistant coachfor the women’s tennis team.1985CHERYL STEPHENSON was elected to a two-yearterm as president of the Southeastern Region of theAmerican Music Therapy Association. She is executivedirector of Music Academy of Eastern Carolina, anonprofit community music school in Greenville.1984SUE LUDDEKE ’84 ’93 exhibited her work in athree-woman exhibit at the Bank of the Arts in NewBern. She is on the faculty of the ECU School of Art.MARION ALTMAN retired as president of PamlicoCommunity College after serving 10 years. He wasprincipal of Fred A. Anderson Elementary School.1983SUE ORMOND SINGLETON ’83 ’92 was honoredas a distinguished alumni from the School of HumanEnvironmental Sciences at UNC Greensboro. Shehelped start an orphanage in Cambodia. JOYCEWADE retired as associate superintendent of humanresources for Johnston County Schools and receivedthe Order of the Long Leaf Pine for her 38 yearsof service. She was a teacher, assistant principal, andprincipal at Benson Elementary School.1982WILLIAM “BILL” H. HOPKINS JR. joined thefinancial team at Southern Investment Services, adivision of Southern Bank and Trust Co. He has18 years of experience as an investment consultant.FRANK M. MAIORANO joined FoundationSource, a provider of support services for privatefoundations, as executive vice president, sales. Hewas the founder, managing director, and head of theRIA and Institutional Consulting Services Group ofNuveen Investments.1981Dr. GEORGE HUGHES JR. published Pfarma54

Pfables, a humorous expose of the career of a CEOin the pharmaceutical industry told from the animalpoint of view. JANET CLARK SMITH was namedMartin County’s LEARN NC coordinator. Previouslya media coordinator for Martin County Schools, shewill connect all Martin County schools with LEARNNC, the Internet-based teacher resource program atthe UNC Chapel Hill School of Education.1980DEBBIE COOK was named assistant vice presidentfor North State Bank. She was a mortgage loanunderwriter for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. Dr.Jane T. Lewis received a Spotlight of ExcellenceAward from Campbell University’s School of Educationin May. The award recognized her exemplary leadership,dedication, loyalty, and selfless acts of service toCampbell. The Department of Social Work alsopresented her with a plaque in appreciation of hercontributions to that program. SHARON LAMBRAYNOR was elected to a three-year term on the NewCentury Bancorp board of directors. She is president ofLIFE Inc., a behavioral health care center in Goldsboro.1979JULIA TAYLOR HYMAN was rememberedposthumously through creation of the Taylor HymanNursing Scholarship Fund established at CarteretCommunity College Foundation to assist nursingstudents. THERESA PARKER PIERCE was namedthe N.C. American History Teacher of the Year. She isa history specialist at Horizons Unlimited in Salisburyand is working on a graduate degree at Catawba College.1978CARLA BASS was named to oversee communitycorrections operations in Pitt County. She was judicialdistrict manager for Lenoir and Greene counties.MICHAEL “MIKE” GOODING ’78 ’86 wasappointed regional vice president of commercial marketsfor Wilmington by RBC Bank. E. LEON OWENSJR. was named director of the Caswell DevelopmentalCenter in Kinston. He was the facility administrator forthe Pee Dee Regional Center in Florence, S.C.1977MARVIN E. “MARK” GARNER JR. of Greenvillewas reappointed to a four-year term on the ECUBoard of Visitors. He is a vice president of Rivers& Associates architects in Greenville. DOROTHYANN KOSZULINSKI received her MS in Christiancounseling from Philadelphia Biblical University.SUSAN WHITFIELD ’77 ’95 published her thirdmystery novel, Hell Swamp, and is working on a fourth,Gator Creek.1976STEVEN D. BENJAMIN was sworn in as secondvice president of the National Association of CriminalDefense Lawyers. He is an attorney in private practicewith the Richmond, Va., firm of Benjamin & DesPortes.SHEILA MOORE, a marine science and earth andenvironmental science teacher, was named Teacher ofthe Year at Croatan High School. DEAN SAULS wasnamed principal of Rosewood High in Wayne County.He was director of secondary education.1975GLENN EURE had a show of his work at his GhostFleet Gallery in Nags Head. THOMAS HAGER wasappointed superintendent of Whiteville City Schoolsafter a 35-year career with the federal school system.Maj. Gen. WILLIAM L. HOLLAND was promotedto commander of the 9th Air Force at Shaw Air ForceBase, S.C., after serving as the unit’s vice commander.GREY MORGAN became chair and CEO ofSouthern Bank and Trust Co. in Mount Olive. He wasexecutive vice president and regional executive of thebank’s Southern Region.1974ROBERT LUCAS was elected vice chair of the ECUBoard of Trustees. He is an attorney in Selma. MILTSHERMAN published Wrestling Spoken Here, a novelabout a high school wrestler. A four-year starter onthe wrestling team, an All-American wrestler, and amember of the ECU Athletic Hall of Fame, he taught55

class notesand coached wrestling at D.H. Conley High School inGreenville for nearly 30 years. THOMAS R. “TOM”WILSON was promoted to vice president of qualityoperations at Metrics Inc. in Greenville. He wasmanager of the company’s quality control division.1973GWYN COGHILL was appointed lower schoolprincipal for the Cape Charles Christian School afterretiring as principal of Kiptopeke Elementary Schoolin Cape Charles, Md. LESLIE FERGUSON retired asprincipal of St. Egbert Catholic School in MoreheadCity after 32 years as principal. LEE MYERS did notseek reelection as mayor of Matthews after servingnine terms. He practices with his son, Matthew Myers,at the Myers Law Firm. PAT WILLIAMS was namedtraining director at Four Oaks Bank & Trust Co. inFour Oaks.1972TIMOTHY PITTMAN ’72 ’81 ’90 retired asprincipal of SouthWest Edgecombe High School inTarboro. In 36 years with Edgecombe County PublicSchools, he was a driver’s education teacher; assistantprincipal, junior varsity and varsity basketball coach;principal of Carver Elementary; and principal ofPattillo A+ School.1971BETTY JO GWALTNEY RODGERS wasappointed pastor of Haw Branch United MethodistChurch in Richlands. TERRY LEE ROWLAND wasappointed pastor of Trinity United Methodist Churchin Lexington. He has a master of divinity degree fromSoutheastern Baptist Theological Seminary and hasserved in the Western North Carolina Conference for28 years.1970JAMES “DALE” HALL was named executivevice president for the Wilmington market for FirstFederal of Charleston. He spent 39 years at Bankof America and most recently served in Greensboroas BofA’s Southeastern regional senior vice presidentand market executive for health care and institutions.BOB RANKIN exhibited his work in Arts of theAlbemarle’s annual show at the center’s Jaquelin JenkinsGallery. The Raleigh-based artist is known nationallyfor his representational scenes, abstracts, and mixedmedia pieces.1969PAUL M. BOWMAN was named Kent County circuitcourt judge after 36 years of practicing law in Kent,Md. He earned his law degree at the University ofBaltimore School of Law. BEVERLY DUDLEY ’69’04 of Garner received the Teacher Leadership Awardsponsored by the Western Wake Area Principals. She isa health and physical education teacher and departmentchair at Reedy Creek Middle School in Cary.1968W. KENDALL “KEN” CHALK ’68 ’71 wasappointed interim president and CEO of the RiskManagement Association. He is the former seniorexecutive vice president and chief credit officerof BB&T and immediate past chair of the ECUFoundation and co-chair of the BB&T Center forLeadership Development. GERALD HORNERretired from Rappahannock Community College asan associate professor of health, physical educationand recreation. JOHN S. KALIVODA and his wife,Marilyn, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversaryAug. 9. He works at the Florida Division of BlindServices. MARY WILLIAMS retired from theEdgecombe County Public Schools, where she hadworked for 34 years.1967GERALD MCGOWAN and THELMAMCGOWAN ’68, retired Craven County educators,were presented with the Order of the Long Leaf PineMake a NoteOF YOUR NEWS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTSComplete this form (please print or type) and mail to: Class Notes Editor, Building 198, East Carolina University, Greenville,NC 27858-4353; or fax to 252-328-4269. Please use additional paper as necessary when sending your news. You also cane-mail your news to ecuclassnotes@ecu.edu. While East happily prints wedding announcements, it is our policy not to printengagement announcements. Also, when listing fellow alumni in your news, please include their class year.Please send address changes or corrections to: Kay Murphy, Office of University Development, Greenville Center, East CarolinaUniversity, Greenville, NC 27858-4353, fax: 252-328-4904, or e-mail: murphyk@ecu.edu.NAME First Middle last MaidenCLASS YEAR E-Mail day Phone evening PHONEADDRESS CITy sTATE ZIPYOUR NEWS56

y Mildred Council, mayor pro tem of Greenville, onbehalf of Gov. Bev. Perdue. He worked in the publicschools before serving as assistant director and laterdirector at the Craven Evaluation and Training Center.He later worked at Craven Community College. She wasa teacher and librarian in the Craven County Schoolsand retired from Havelock High School in 1998.1966CHARLES R. JENKINS ’66 ’67 ’68 was appointedinterim chancellor of UNC Pembroke, where he wasprovost, professor, director of admissions, director ofstudent teaching and academic dean.1964KAY YOW was honored posthumously by theNational Association of Collegiate Women AthleticsAdministrators as its Award of Distinction recipient.1959CHARLIE ADAMS ’59 ’62 was recognized by the N.C.High School Athletic Association Board of Directorsby a new scholarship fund, the Charlie Adams EndowedScholarship. He joined the NCHSAA in 1967,became executive director in 1984, and retired in 2009.MAXVILLE B. WILLIAMS ’59 ’65 wrote the outdoordrama, First for Freedom, which has been performed inHalifax nearly every year since its premiere in 1976.1958RODDY L. JONES was named chair of the boardof directors for the Foundation for Ethics in PublicService, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization thateducates citizens and public officials about ethics andpublic corruption. He is a former chair of the ECUBoard of Trustees.1957ROBERT HYATT celebrated 50 years in the bondbusiness. Currently with the Clement Companies, heworked with Travelers Insurance, Johnson & Higgins,and 23 years with his own company, The HyattAgency, in Richmond, Va.1953WILLIAM H. ROWLAND of Kinston received theN.C. Society of Historians’ top honor in recognitionof a book he co-authored on a major Civil War battlefought near Kinston. The book, Through the Eyes ofSoldiers: The Battle of Wyse Fork, was published by theLenoir County Historical Association.1956LOIS G. BRITT was posthumously honored whenDuplin County commissioners named the DuplinAgricultural Center at Duplin Commons the Lois G.Britt Agricultural Center. A life-long Duplin Countyresident, she was the first woman to serve as a countyextension director and worked with 4-H, homeeconomics, community development, and agricultureeven after her retirement and up until her death in 2005.Alumni SpotlightKatie Brower’07 is back inJacksonville,N.C., afterspending thesummer inSingaporehelping openthe first Chili’srestaurantthere. She isthe first of anew team ofabout 20restaurant managers picked by Dallas-based BrinkerInternational to assist in overseas store openings. Brower maybe packing her bags again soon because the company, whichalready has 200 international locations, plans to open up to500 overseas units in the next five years. Brower was the firstmanager to travel under the new program. “Working globallyfor Brinker has been life-changing, incredible, an adventure, alearning opportunity and so much fun,” Brower says. At ECU,Brower worked at a local Chili’s while studying globalizationand cultural studies. She is currently working on a master’sdegree in business administration with an emphasis ininternational business. After attending a Brinker leadershipforum for women, Brower learned she could shadow peoplein the company’s global business development division. She’sfrom a true Pirate family: her father, sister and two brothersgraduated here and she has two nieces currently attending.After 26 years asan Emmy-winningTV journalist in LosAngeles, John Beard’75 is back on theEast Coast. Beardjoined WGRZ-TVChannel 2 in Buffalo,N.Y., in Septemberas anchor of themorning and middaynewscasts. Hewas news anchorat another Buffalostation from 1977 to 1981. He worked at WITN in Washington,N.C., for two years after graduation. “In some ways I guessI’ve been Buffalo’s unofficial ambassador to the West Coast,telling people on and off the air what a great town this is,”Beard says. In L.A., Beard was the evening news anchor formany years at KNBC and then at the Fox station, KTTV, until2006. He’s also appeared on several television shows playinga newscaster, including 15 episodes of Arrested Development,and two episodes each of Spider-Man, The Bernie Mac Show,and 24. Since leaving KTTV Beard has been traveling andwriting a murder mystery novel.57

in MemoriAm581920sEVELYN TURLEY JONES ’29 ’54 of Menola diedMay 6 at 96. She taught in North Carolina publicschools for 43 years.LIZZIE GREYKNOX MAYBERRY’29 of Huntersvilledied June 18 at 102.She earned a master’sdegree from EmoryUniversity andMayberryworked in Floridabefore her marriage.1930sJANICE E. MCGOWAN BARBRE ’34 of MoreheadCity died May 20 at 93. A Greenville native, shewas an active charter member of St. James UnitedMethodist Church. REBECCA JANE TAYLORELKS ’35 of Virginia Beach died July 17 at 93. Shetaught for many years at Bear Grass Elementary School.SUSAN EVANS HILL ’39 of Black Mountain diedMay 7 at 90. She lived in Atlanta until her retirementto Highland Farms in 1988, where she operated thegift shop. ADELIA MAXINE NORRIS JENKINS’35 of Peletier died July 5 at 95. She taught five yearsat White Oak Elementary School and then 33 yearsat Swansboro Elementary School. DOROTHY M.TILLEY ’34, a resident of Brookfield RetirementCenter in Lillington, formerly of Fuquay-Varina andRaleigh, died July 19 at 96. She was a supervisorwith Durham Life Insurance Co. in Raleigh for morethan 40 years. KATHARINE P. TRUEBLOOD’37 of Hobbsville, Va., died at 95. She taught in thePerquimans County school system before marrying andbecoming a homemaker. MARY LEE COCKRELLWEEKLEY ’33 of Chesapeake died June 8. Shetaught kindergarten at Baylake Pines Private School.1940sBessie Fay Hunt ’43 of Wilmington, the formerexecutive director of the YWCA of Wilmington, diedJune 30 at 92. She was a plane spotter during WorldWar II, openly supported racial and women’s equality,and was the first woman elected to St. Paul’s EpiscopalChurch’s vestry in Wilmington. After she retired in1981, the main YWCA building on College Roadwas named for her. KATHRYN BOYD ROKITAHAMILL ’44 of Jackson died June 16. She livedand worked in New York for nearly 50 years beforereturning to Jackson. CORA BOND MORRISON’47 of Wilmington died Aug. 6. She retired fromteaching in 1958 after teaching in Sanford and Wilsonand later retired as the bookkeeper at The GeorgianRoom in Wilson. GERALDINE FRANCESGLOVER PEEL ’40 of Fuquay-Varina died July 3at 91. She was an elementary school teacher in NorthCarolina and in Richmond, Va., for many years.HARRY STUART RIDDICK SR. ’41 of Coleraindied May 25. A standout on both the baseball andbasketball teams, he was a World War II veteranselected by former heavyweight boxing champion GeneTunney, then a Naval officer, to assist in planning andimplementing a Navy-wide physical fitness program.After the war, he managed Turner Equipment Co.in Gatesville and later Whedbee Equipment Co. inAhoskie. He founded Riddick International Inc. inAhoskie, which he operated until retirement. JAMESLEE WEST SR. ’47 of Yadkinville died June 1.1950sJOHN WESLEY “JOHNNY” BROWN ’55 ofConover died June 21. He retired as president of BrownOperating Co. Inc. in Hickory in 2002. DONALDKEITH BURTON ’55 of Biloxi, Miss., died June26. He played football at ECU and after graduationentered the U.S. Air Force. A Vietnam veteran, heretired as a major after 20 years of service. JACK J.GARCIA ’58 of Greensboro died July 29. He served inthe U.S. Coast Guard and worked most of his life as asalesman for Pitney Bowes. FAYE PARKER HEATH’58 of Snow Hill died July 1. She retired from E. I.DuPont in Kinston. RACHEL STEINBECK STURZ’59 ’61 of Greenville died July 24. She taught musicand art for 25 years at Greenville Christian Academyand Trinity Christian School and gave private artlessons. JOSEPH AARON WINDLEY ’50 ofPantego died Aug. 8. He was a teacher, coach, and theprincipal of Pantego High School.1960sCURTIS F. ADAMS SR. ’62 of Angier died May 16.After serving in the U.S. Army, he returned to HarnettCounty where he owned and operated Adams’ FarmSupply Store before pursuing farming full time. Col.WILLIAM J. “WILD BILL” BOYLE ’63 of SaratogaSprings, N.Y., died June 12 at 91. After 28 years inthe Army and receiving the Distinguished ServiceCross, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, and two PurpleHearts, he retired in 1967 and moved to SaratogaSprings, where he headed security services at theSaratoga Harness Track, served in city government, andwas self-employed as an accountant. SEATON POEFAIRLESS JR. ’64 died July 26 in Harrisonburg, Va.He taught in Bertie County schools before becominga full-time farmer. NATHAN T. HARDEE ’62 ofChesapeake, Va., died Aug. 9. He served the Chesapeakepublic schools for 47 years as a teacher, coach,assistant principal, and principal. MITZI ODENKELLUM ’61 of Hatteras died May 28. She taughtat Camp Lejeune and in Naha, Okinawa. EUGENESTANLEY “BUCK” MASSEY died July 29. Heretired as assistant superintendent of EdgecombeCounty Schools and was an Army veteran who servedin Korea. DOUGLAS MURRAY O’NEAL ’63 diedJan. 17. BARBARA ROSE PATRICK ‘66, formerlyof Jacksonville, died Feb. 26. She was a teacher and acounselor who ended her career with the Camp LeJeuneDependent Schools. SARA N. REDMOND ’66 diedJuly 22 in Virginia Beach. She worked 38 years with theVirginia State Health Department.1970sNANCY “NAN” BUNDY BARBER ’75 ofGreenville died Aug. 7. She worked at Wachovia Bankfor a number of years and retired in 1998 from theWalter B. Jones Alcohol and Drug Abuse TreatmentCenter in Greenville. KAREN SAULS BRYAN ’76of Cary died June 3. She worked with special-needschildren. FRED HARRISON CLAYTON ’70 diedJune 24. He owned the restaurant, Harrison’s, in HawRiver. BILLIE COLLIE ’71 of Greensboro diedJune 26. He worked at and later managed Stamey’sBBQ Restaurant for 36 years. JULIA TAYLORHYMAN ’79 of Morehead City died July 4. Shewas an instructor and curriculum coordinator ofthe Carteret Community College practical nursingprogram for 15 years and fought a battle to overcomeparalysis after sustaining spinal cord injuries in abicycle accident in 2004. LEONARD WAYNEJONES ’76 of Morehead City died Aug. 7. Hisprivate accounting practice, Leonard W. Jones CPA,was located in Morehead City. SETH THOMAS“TOMMY” MODLIN ’73 of Williamston diedMay 28. He was the office manager for U.S. GradingService. CHARLES WAYNE TEDDER SR. ’71 ofElizabethtown died June 9. A 30-year educator forBladen County schools, he was principal at HickoryGrove Elementary School, Tar Heel High School, andEast Bladen High School.1980sTAMERYN HARROLD BENFIELD ’82 ofWinston-Salem died July 28. She was an activecommunity volunteer. MELVILLE H. DORSEYJR. ’88 died July 29. JOHNNIE MELVIN ELLISJR. ’80 of Carrboro died Aug. 2. He worked forUNC Healthcare System. GLORIA MACASHASSELBACH ’86, formerly of Goldsboro, diedJuly 27. She was an artist from a very early age andtaught calligraphy at Wayne Community College andother community colleges. GARY L. MCINTYRE’85 of Cary died June 4. He was employed by SharpeBusiness Systems in Morrisville. MALEESA JOANROUSE ’86 of Seven Springs died Aug. 2. She taughtat Lucama Elementary School in Wilson County andwas Teacher of the Year twice.1990sREBECCA GRAY ’98 died May 3. She was anadvocate for the abused, exploited, and neglected elderly

at the Department of Social Services in New HanoverCounty and as a social worker in Craven County.2000sEDGAR L. BLACKLEY died June 30. A resident ofGranville County, he was a rising senior and the sonof Edgar L. “Lennie” Blackley ’78 and Laura DeanBlackley ’82. Chris Raynor ’01 of Williamstonwas killed in an auto accident Sept. 12 while driving tochurch for his wedding. The accident occurred less thanfour hours before the ceremony at Cathedral of theSacred Heart. The priest delivered the sad news to thefamilies and friends gathered for the ceremony. Raynor,who worked at a construction company in Raleigh, washeading to breakfast with two of his groomsmen whentheir vehicle was hit by a car that ran a red light.FACULTY AND STAFFDr. Lucy Wright, a former associate deanof student living who taught in the Department ofForeign Languages and Literature from 1969 to 1975and who later retired from the Department of StudentLife, died Sept. 29. She mothered the internationalstudents of ECU, and later she and her husband woudstay with them when traveling abroad. Her death camejust months after that of her husband, DR. JAMES“JIM” WRIGHT, who died May 13. He taught in theEnglish department from 1969 to 1999, serving onthe Student Services and Scholarships committees, anactivity he said he loved because it involved recognizingstudents and giving away money. He was a brilliantlinguist and jazz pianist and was known for his wit andpractical jokes.DR. ROBERT BAXTER GANTT of Charlottedied on May 30. He was an assistant football coachunder Clarence Stasavich from 1962–70 and alsocoached wrestling for four years. Later he taught inthe Department of Health and Physical Education,retiring as department chair in 1993.DR. FRANKLIN D. JONES of Greenville diedJuly 15. Since 1993 he was chief of the Divisionof Neurosurgery in the Department of Surgery andclinical professor at the Brody School of Medicine.A graduate of UNC Chapel Hill’s medical school,he came to Greenville in 1985 as a clinical associateprofessor and on staff at Eastern Neurosurgical andSpine Associates.VIRGINIA VIOLA LINN of Martinsville, Ill.,died Aug. 4 at 91. She was a member of the voicefaculty in the School of Music from 1966 to 1984and retired as an associate professor emerita ofmusic. Her professional appearances included aPhillips Gallery recital and solo roles with numeroussymphony orchestras.ANDREA L. HARRELL of Grimesland died April30. She was assistant vice chancellor for administrationin the Division of Research and Graduate Studies.She is survived by her husband of 41 years,Dr. George Harrell, retired associate vice chancellorfor facilities services.JOYCE CARPENTER CALLOWAY of Charlottedied June 12. She was a founding member of theSummer Theater.VERTA BLACK MANNING of Charlotte died June30. She worked for ECU Student Health for 30 years.When making your estate plans,place East Carolina Universityamong your loved ones.We all hope to leave our legacy through family, friends, andloved ones. Ultimately, we hope to leave behind our preciousgained lifetime assets to those who are most important to us.East Carolina University always encourages families to take careof themselves first, but if there are other assets remaining aftersatisfying those goals, please think of leaving your perpetuallegacy at East Carolina University.A bequest provision is among the simplest yet most effectiveways to make a long-lasting impact at ECU. By naming any of thethree ECU foundations (East Carolina University Foundation Inc.,East Carolina University Medical & Health Sciences FoundationInc., and/or the East Carolina University Educational FoundationInc. [Pirate Club]) as beneficiary of a percentage or specific dollaramount from your estate, you are investing in the future of youngpeople for generations to come. Thank you for considering howyou can give students educational support and the opportunity foran outstanding future.For more information about bequest provisions or any plannedgiving instruments, please call Greg Abeyounis, assistantvice chancellor for development, at 252-328-9573 or e-mailabeyounisg@ecu.edu. Visit us online at www.ecu.edu/devt.Tomorrow starts here.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, 1909From his inaugural address and installation as East Carolina’s first presidentNo Static At AllMany students arriving in the fall of 1958couldn’t tune in to East Carolina’s new FMradio station because they only had AMradios. There was a rush on downtownstores for the new hi-fi receivers but theproblem wasn’t completely solved untilthe Phi Kappa Alpha fraternity stageda fundraiser to pay for residence halltransmitters that converted the FM signalto AM. But what the campus heard wasworth the equipment upgrade.Student-run WWWS 91.3 FM, whose callletters honored its faculty adviser, long-timeJoyner librarian Wendell W. Smiley, first wenton air in April 1957. It was the technologicalsuccessor to the campus’ existing AMstation, which was called “the Big 57.” Thenew station initially broadcast just two hours60a day over both the AM channel and its newFM frequency. The on-air time expandedas more students gained experience with thenew technology andmoney was found topay for additionalprogramming. Atthe start of fallquarter 1958,WWWS droppedits AM signal andwent FM-onlywith programmingthroughout the day.WWWS receivednews feeds fromthe InternationalGoodwill Network,University Archivesaired classical music from the FrenchBroadcasting Network and carried educationalprograms from the United Nations. Membersof the music faculty performed live andEnglish professors read classical texts. Manymarveled that WWWS could pump outstatic-free news and Perry Como records tolisteners within a 50-mile radius.In an era when most radio stations went offthe air at dusk, WWWS was jumping until9:30 p.m. because, as everyone knows, collegestudents stay up late. It was during thoseevening hours when Bach gave way to Elvisand the station attracted its widest audience.For an hour, students could call in, request asong and dedicate it to someone special.From broadcast studios in Joyner Library,WWWS ran telephone lines into WrightAuditorium, the gym and the baseball andfootball stadiums, and the phrase “liveremote broadcast” became a new buzzwordaround campus.Almost seven years to the day after it firstwent on-air, WWWS fell silent on March30, 1964, when a storm blew its broadcasttower off the library roof. The campus waswithout a student radio station until WZMBwent on the air in February 1982, stillbroadcasting over 91.3.Top 10 Songs of 1958At the Hop ............................. Danny and the JuniorsIt's All In the Game ........................... Tommy EdwardsThe Purple People Eater ......................... Sheb WooleyAll I Have to Do Is Dream ...................The Everly BrothersTequila. ......................................... The ChampsDon't ........................................... Elvis PresleyVolare ................................... Domenico ModugnoSugartime. ................................The McGuire SistersHe's Got the Whole World (In His Hands) ......... Laurie LondonThe Chipmunk Song. ...........David Seville and the ChipmunksSource: Billboard

EastUniversity Advancement2200 South Charles Blvd.East Carolina UniversityGreenville, NC 27858-4353NonprofitOrganizationU.S. PostagePAIDPPCOchange service requestedecu galleryECU senior Abby Bools hits out of a deep bunker on the 18th hole of the Greenville Country Club during the final round of the Lady PirateIntercollegiate Tournament. Bools took second place in the overall individual standings, and the Lady Pirates also took second overall, losingby only two strokes to defending tournament champion Georgia State University. Senior Ana Maria Puche, third-place overall, and sophomoreAmy Otteson, tied for seventh place, also broke into the top ten individual standings. The October tournament featured 15 teams from aroundthe country.Photograph by Jay Clark