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John Christenbury, football coach at East Carolina Teachers College, guided his team to an undefeated season in the fall of 1941. That feat has never been duplicated. Bradsher discusses the legendary coach who was killed in an explosion on July 17, 1944, while serving in the Navy during World War II.
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25403
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The internet has made many things from teaching to signing up for classes much more efficient. Even so, some teachers are not quite as excited about it as the students.
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In an effort to honor the academic superstars of East Carolina University sports, East Magazine has highlighted their achievements in the Winter 2010 issue.
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The flood fueled by Hurricane Floyd in the fall of 1999 was massive and destructive. Over 8,000 homes were destroyed, and 15,000 were left uninhabitable. Loss of livestock and crops deprived farmers of their livelihoods. While many citizens have recovered a year later, for others the recovery process is far from over. Worse still, the threat of another storm and flood remains a possibility for the future.
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Fans are important to the teams they support, creating the type of noise and spirit that makes an opposing team wish it had stayed home. At East Carolina University, a group of student basketball fans call themselves the Minges Maniacs. The group originated in 1991, and on game day, they are loud and proud in support of their basketball team.
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Pirate football coach Skip Holtz discusses the challenges the team will face with the improvements made by the teams they will face this year.
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Terry Holland is East Carolina University's new director of athletics. Holland came to the university in the fall of 2004, with four decades of success in college athletics and an impeccable national reputation. Standing six feet eight inches tall, he is hard to miss on campus. Bradsher talks with him about his first few months on campus and about what he hopes to accomplish during his tenure.
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3516
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Five of the state's most talented photographers - Hugh Morton, Susan Page, Mark Wagoner, Carolyn DeMerrit, and Roger Manley - are profiled.
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Founded in 1952, Henderson County's Flat Rock Playhouse, North Carolina's official state theater, continues to stage dramas, musicals, and comedies for some 50,000 playgoers each summer.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 62 Issue 3, Aug 1994, p24-25, il
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25458
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The graduate program in sports medicine at ECU provides opportunities to understand athletics in a data-driven business approach as well as the emotional investment. Through marketing, finance, philosophy, and sociology, students examine professional, recreational, and intercollegiate sports within a larger context.
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36047
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Charles Hayes sought to help build other people’s lives as much as his business and personal capital. Buttressing his efforts were two beliefs. One was universities are the state’s “best economic development tool. The other was all people deserve a chance, even a second chance.
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The introduction of ice hockey, surfing, and Frisbee clubs, played at ECU and the greater Greenville area, was intended to expand the definition of club sport. Additional testament to their on-campus popularity were the number of student participants and a list of club and martial arts sports, including fencing and Tai Chi.
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Freshmen Kathryn Simpson is learning the ups and downs of starting college life away from home. While the adjustment can be tough, many students do it each year meaning there are high hopes for Simpson to adjust in a timely manner.
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The Pitt County Courthouse was built in Greenville in 1910. The courthouse, designed in the neo-Classical Revival style, is the fifth in the county's history. It is one of eleven North Carolina courthouses designed by the Washington, D.C., architectural firm of Milburn and Heister. By 1997, the courthouse was in a state of disrepair, and there was a movement to build a new one on the north side of the Tar River in the county government complex. Bradsher describes the seven-year, $17 million renovation of the courthouse.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 6, Nov 2005, p98-100, 102-103, il Periodical Website
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Despite struggling with grades and qualifications as a freshman, Harold Varner has turned it around and made North Carolina golf history at East Carolina. Varner sped up the leaderboard and win the North Carolina Amateur Championship and posted the best score in Pirate history at the Outer Banks Intercollegiate. He hopes to continue his string of victories at ECU several large invitationals and Conference USA championships.
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