Biggest freshman class ever! fall 2008 East The Magazine of easT Carolina UniversiTy Back toCampusIssue vIewfInDer East fall 2008 the MagazIne of east carolIna unIversIty fE aT uREs 14 14 BIggest freshMan class ever! Officials were working overtime to prepare for a record 4,600 or more freshmen for fall semester, pushing total enrollment to around 27,000. ECU is leasing private apartments to house 300 still on a waiting list for dorm rooms. faculty salarIes rIse 20 Percent 22 By Bethany Bradsher Faculty salaries have risen 20 percent or 14 more over the past five years, raising the paycheck of a typical full professor to $94,900 in 2007. While the pay hikes are impressive, OffiCE ON ThE GO faculty salaries remains below the national average and are leading three initiatives produces a packed calendar 24 strikingly less than the pay at N.C. State and UNC Chapel Hill. for Director of student Outreach Tarrick Cox ’96 a fIrM founDatIon ’07. he runs the legislators’ 24 By Steve Tuttle Roddy Jones ’58, who built Crabtree Valley Mall and school for Youth leadership many other Raleigh landmarks, believes in building things up, not Development and he tearing things down. advises the Gospel Choir and the student N.C.a.E. Club. always on the run, his creatIng creatIvIty, MusIcally office is anywhere he can 30 By Steve Row Professor Eddie Jacobs has ways of bringing the get the internet. music out of students, even those who admit coming to class unprepared. In those cases, he often asks the student do one simple thing: Play one note on the keyboard. luXury suItes In staDIuM eXPansIon 34 By Bethany Bradsher Plans are in the works to add 4,500 seats plus 24 private suites to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium by enclosing the east end zone. Also in the works are a new women’s softball stadium, a new track and field facility and a new auxiliary gym at Minges Coliseum. DEpa RTmENTs froM ourreaDers 3 theecurePort 4 fall arts calenDar . 13 PIrate natIon 40 class notes . 43 34 uPon the Past 56 30 fall 2008 froM the eDItor East froM our reaDers the MagazIne of east carolIna unIversIty Read East on your computer Volume 7, Number 1 mY DaD was iN ThE COED CluB at www.ecu.edu/east Orientation East is published four times a year by I enjoyed the “Upon the Past” in the last East Carolina University There’s nothing quite as still and expectant as an empty college campus Division of University Advancement issue [about how men students went from 2200 South Charles Blvd. a decided minority to a majority of the in summer, or so I thought until I turned the corner at the School of Greenville, NC 27858 student body right after World War II]. My Communication building and ran headlong into a throng of parents and father, Alfred McLawhorn, is in the group teenagers touring the grounds during a new student orientation session. h photo [of the Coed Club]. I have never seen East Carolina will welcome roughly 4,600 new freshmen this fall, EDITOR that particular photo, so you can imagine a record number. Hundreds of them and their parents have spilled steve Tuttle how excited I was to see it. He used to talk 252-328-2068 / tuttles@ecu edu about those early days at ECTC and being across the mall this summer during eight two-day briefings. A campus ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER outnumbered by the girls. A lot of the guys already swollen with five years of record enrollment growth is bracing Brent Burch mentioned in that article went on to be for another wave. Including transfers, officials say the new student TOuChDOwN, mCGEE successful and prominent men. population will approach 6,000. 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By the greenville, n c 27858 Printed by The Lane Press how proud they were of Beth, but none were way, Rutter is now studying chemistry at the send class notes to U.P. 08-466 60,656 copies of this public document were as proud as her brother! University of South Florida and plans to apply to ecuclassnotes@ecu edu printed at a cost of $45,551.77 or $.75 per copy. —Bubba Grant ’86, Cary the medical school there next year. or use the form on page 50 2 3 the ecurePortthe ecurePort want Comedy Central talk show professor turns Colbert into spider man 1. school of Dentistry $ 90.0 $ 28.0 $ 62.0 $ $ $ 2. family medicine/Geriatric Center 36.8 3. Biology/science Classroom Building 130.0 58.5 71.5 4. Business/Education Classroom Building 84.5 42.3 42.3 5. performing arts Building 85.0 8.5 38.3 38.3 6. Campus utility infrastructure improvements 9.9 9.9 7. iT infrastructure improvements, phase ii 3.8 3.8 8. health and human performance Building Expansion 11.7 1.2 10.5 9. facilities services Building 10.5 1.1 9.4 10. austin Building modernization 13.3 1.3 12.0 4 building; Elizabeth City State, $20 million for a School of Education building: Fayetteville State, $43 million for a general classroom building; N.C. A&T, $27 million for a general classroom building; N.C. Central, $25 million for a School of Nursing building; UNC Asheville, $27 million to replace Carmichael and University lecture halls; UNC Greensboro; $48 million for a classroom and office building; UNC Wilmington, $43 million for a health sciences classroom building; and Western Carolina, $40 million for an education classroom building. Enrollment at North Carolina’s public universities grew by 37,000 in the last six years, to roughly 215,000, and is projected to climb by another 30,000 students by 2012, for an overall 33 percent growth in enrollment over the decade. ECU’s enrollment spurted from 20,600 in 2002 to 26,000 last year and is planned to hit 28,500 in 2012, a 38 percent growth in students. Ten years from now, ECU is projected to have an enrollment of 37,000. 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 Request Request Request state approves $107 million to build dental school, family medicine Center East Carolina “had its best year ever in the General Assembly,” according to Chancellor Steve Ballard, receiving appropriations totaling $107 million to build the new dental school and a new Family Medicine Center for the medical school. With full funding now in place, both projects will begin construction and be ready in about two years. The $36.8 million appropriated by the General Assembly in early July for the Family Medicine Center will create a new jewel on the Health Sciences Campus. Brody will have three times the space it now rents from Pitt County Memorial Hospital. Legislators also appropriated $69 million to complete construction on the new dental school and earmarked $1.5 million for its initial operating costs. ECU doctors and medical students treat 52,000 patients a year at the Family Medicine Center, more than twice the number the facility was built for. The new structure will be 117,561 square feet and include a geriatric care practice. Architectural drawings show a facility with 33 exam rooms in the clinical area plus 12 other exam rooms for geriatrics. In addition to the $36.8 million in state funding, East Carolina has set aside $10 million of its own money. BSOM also received a $2.5 million gift from the Monk family in Farmville and a $1 million grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. Groundbreaking will be this fall, with construction taking two years. “We are out of teaching space, and this facility will allow us to teach more medical students,” said Dr. Kenneth Steinweg, interim director of the Department of Family Medicine. —Greenville Daily Reflector Biology professor Jason Bond didn’t is on his list of people to honor, spiderwise. He received a number host Stephen Colbert to feel jealous of grants from the National Science when he was being interviewed for the June 24 show about how he had named a new species of trapdoor spider after classic rocker Neil Young. To be gracious, Bond agreed to name a spider after Colbert, too. After all, Bond has plenty of naming opportunities. He’s discovered 27 new spider species in the past 10 years, including one he found in rural Alabama in 2007 and named after Young. That spider now officially is known as Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi. Its body is about half an inch long and its bite is not harmful to humans. He says he honored Young because he is a well-known peace advocate who supports environmental causes. Many species of spiders, Bond says, are being threatened by pollution and loss of habitat. Besides, Bond is a big Neil Young fan. “I play the guitar a little bit and I like to play his songs. I guess my favorites are Cowgirl in the Sand and The Needle and the Damage Done.” Previously, Bond honored Nelson Mandela and his wife with spider names. Angelina Jolie also Foundation in 2005 and 2006 to classify the trapdoor spider species and contribute to the foundation’s Tree of Life project. He described the new genus of trapdoor spider in a paper he co-wrote with Norman I. Platnick, curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Bond is both a spider systematis—someone who studies organisms and how they are classified—and taxonomist— someone who classifies new species. Spiders in the trapdoor genus are distinguished on the basis of differences in genitalia, Bond said. He confirmed through DNA tests that each species of spider is distinct within the trapdoor genus. For the one that will be named after him, Colbert told Bond on the TV show that he would like to examine the as- yet-unnamed species and choose one that is the best fit. Myrmekiaphilaneilyoungi universities need $6 billion for new buildings The 16 campuses of the University of North Carolina need roughly $6 billion in capital improvements to respond to an unprecedented and continuing boom in enrollment, according to a long-range construction plan adopted by the Board of Governors. The biggest chunk of that money would go for new classroom buildings to provide seats for the 30,000 additional students expected to enroll in the next four years. The 2007–13 Capital Improvements Plan provides for some new or renovated buildings at every campus but it directs a lion’s share of spending to those that have experienced the most growth. For East Carolina, the fastest-growing UNC campus over the past five years, the plan calls for $786 million in spending on 34 projects. ECU’s top bricks-and-mortar priorities are the dental school and the new Family Medicine Center. The General Assembly ECu’s Top 10 Capital Needs dollars in millions funded both by including $107.3 million in the new state budget. Next on ECU’s wish list are two major classroom buildings—a $130 million home for biology and science plus an $84.5 million classroom building to be shared by the colleges of Education and Business. The plan also calls for major renovations to more than a dozen existing buildings around campus. Both N.C. State and UNC Chapel Hill need more than $1 billion for new and renovated buildings. Under the plan, State’s top priorities are a new library at the Centennial Campus, estimated to cost $114 million, and a $214 million complex for the College of Engineering. Expansion of its dental school is Carolina’s top priority, a $99 million project that is being coordinated with ECU. Next on its list is $169 million for initial development of the Carolina North campus. Classrooms are the top priority at many campuses in the UNC system, including: Appalachian State, $42 million for a new College of Nursing and Health Sciences Estimated already 2008–09 Cost funded Request the ecu rePort Cunningham returns as dean of Brody school of medicine Paul R. G. Cunningham, who taught at the Brody School of Medicine for 21 years before leaving in 2002 to become head of surgery at the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center, is returning to East Carolina as the new dean of the medical school. He also will serve as senior associate vice chancellor for medical affairs. Cunningham is believed to be the first African-American to lead a medical school in North Carolina. Chancellor Steve Ballard said Cunningham “is a highly accomplished, widely respected physician. He is familiar with the school’s mission and with the health care challenges facing this region and state.” Ballard thanked Phyllis Horns, the dean of the College of Nursing who also directed the medical school during the yearlong search for a new medical dean. Cunningham said the medical school and the entire Health Sciences Campus have grown since he left. He said the university has all the tools in place to achieve “measurable positive statistics in the health indices for eastern North Carolina.” A native of Jamaica, Cunningham graduated from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. He completed surgery training there and at Mount Sinai Hospital, Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital and City Hospital at Elmhurst, all in New York City. After beginning his career as a surgeon in New York, Cunningham moved to the Bertie County town of Windsor in 1981. He practiced there, was vice chief of the medical staff at Bertie Memorial Hospital and taught ECU medical students who rotated through his practice. Cunningham joined the ECU faculty full time in 1984 and became medical director of trauma the following year. He was interim director of the organ transplant division from 1990–1991 and chief of the medical staff at Pitt County Memorial Hospital in 1991. He rose to professor of surgery in 1993 and was chief of general surgery from 1999–2002. From 1990–1998 he also served as a major in the Army Reserve Medical Corps. Walter Pories, a professor and former chair of surgery who recruited Cunningham to ECU in the 1980s, called him a role model, an excellent teacher and physician and a skillful leader. “I think we’re fortunate to have, first of all, someone who’s a passionate, thoughtful and highly competent physician,” Pories said. “He has the unusual capacity to pull segments together and unite. I can’t think of anybody who is more fitting in these times and the challenges that we face.” He said his goals include expanding student enrollment, stabilizing the school’s finances and increasing the diversity of the school’s faculty and administration. He credited his wife, Sydney, with encouraging him to consider and accept the job as dean. They have four children, all of whom live in North Carolina. hurricane floyd Busy hurricane season predicted After several years with hardly any severe weather, the East Coast likely will see between two and five major storms make landfall between August and September, the National Weather Service said in predicating what it called an above-average hurricane season. The forecast is based on above-normal sea-surface temperatures in the Atlantic as well as lingering La Niña atmospheric conditions. Some are worried that several years without a major hurricane has lulled coastal North Carolina into complacency. A similar lull came to an abrupt end in 1996 when Bertha and Fran devastated eastern North Carolina. The cycle continued with hurricanes Bonnie in 1998 and Dennis and Floyd in 1999. The four Category Four hurricanes that struck in 1999 were the most since records were first kept in 1886. Since then, only Isabel in 2003 caused major damage to the region. Officials say the absence of hurricanes the last few years is a fundamental cause of the drought gripping the region. Should a hurricane threaten the Carolina coast, East Carolina will follow a natural disaster emergency plan that kicks in when the storm is still two to three days away. second Century campaign To date, he said the campaign has recorded a off to energetic beginning 26 percent increase in deferred gifts received and more than 1,400 new first-time gifts to Generous support from alumni and friends the annual fund. has allowed East Carolina to surpass the halfway mark in its goal of raising $200 Dowdy said the impressive totals come on million. Just six months into the public the heels of generous individual, corporate phase of the Second Century Campaign, and foundation support last year that funded officials said more than $105 million has the creation of the ECU Access Scholarship been raised for scholarships, faculty support and new campus facilities. “We are absolutely ecstatic that we are off to such a good start and excited about what the future holds,” said Mickey Dowdy, vice chancellor for university advancement. Dowdy pointed to a 120 percent increase in gifts to the East Carolina University Foundation this fiscal year over last as evidence of widespread support for the campaign. He also highlighted a 17 percent increase in gifts to the ECU Educational Foundation, more commonly known as the Pirate Club. Plus, the ECU Medical & Health Sciences Foundation leads the way in raising funds for distinguished professorships, having established seven new ones since the campaign’s inception. This fiscal year alone campaign donations include more than $2.7 million for new scholarships. “We are benefiting from strong volunteer leadership by members of the boards of directors of the university’s Board of Trustees, the three foundations, the Alumni Association and the Board of Visitors,” Dowdy added. “We have seen a 40 percent increase in new members joining the Alumni Association. As we had hoped, the campaign is providing a margin of excellence for ECU as it supports the university’s strategic plan.” Robert j. “Bob” Greczyn jr. ’73 of Durham, president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue shield of North Carolina, was re-elected chairman of the ECu Board of Trustees at the board’s july meeting. Greczyn has served on the board since 2003. David s. Brody of kinston, managing partner of Brody associates and other enterprises, was re-elected vice chairman. Robbie O. hill of kinston was elected secretary. The new president of the student Government association joined the board. he is andrew h. Griffin, a senior finance major from fuquay varina who is president of the Tau kappa Epsilon fraternity. meanwhile, steve jones ’91 of Raleigh, an executive with RBC Centura, was elected chairman of the Board of visitors, succeeding Carl Davis ’73 of Raleigh. program, which is now providing full in-state tuition scholarships for 58 financially needy students. Alumni and friends who have not yet contributed to the Second Century Campaign may send in a check using the postage-paid envelope inserted in the magazine. jacksonville jaguars quarterback David Garrard ’01, right, takes a break from filmingaTvspotforamedicationforCrohnsdisease,whichhehas.Garrardandacrewfrom Nflfilmswereoncampusinjulytofilmthepublicserviceannouncementatthe football stadium. Garrard recently signed a sixyear, $60 million contract with the team. we’re No. 4 in license platesEast Carolina ranks fourth in the number the ecu rePort athletics posts $1 million surplus Revenue from East Carolina’s appearance in the Hawaii Bowl and an overall increase in football ticket sales helped the athletics department post a $1 million surplus for the fiscal year ended July 31, according to a report to the Board of Trustees. The budget surplus sharply reduces the $1.5 million deficit compiled the previous year, the report indicates. Football ticket sales of $5.6 million were $270,000 over budget while the actual cost of football operations, at $6.2 million, was slightly more than expected. Total athletics revenues were $25.6 million, or about $2.7 million more than budgeted. Total expenditures for the year were $24.2 million, abut $1.4 million higher than expected, for an overall surplus of $1.067 million. East Carolina received $924,200 for its appearance in the December bowl game. After paying all expenses associated with the game, including flying the team and dozens of officials to Hawaii, East Carolina still made a profit of around $30,000 on the game, the report says. ECU set a new stadium attendance record for the second straight year in 2007, averaging 41,537 fans in six home games. Total tickets sold for the year was 249,219. school Number of plates unc chapel hill 7,751 n c . state university 5,523 appalachian state university 2,370 East Carolina university 2,088 clemson university 1,395 university of florida 1,341 wake forest university 1,276 Duke university 1,134 nc central university 1,122 virginia tech 1,118 2008–2009 fOOTBall sChEDulE Date Opponent location Time aug 30 virginia tech* charlotte 12:00 p m sept 6 west virginia* greenville 4:30 p m sept 13 tulane * new orleans 3:00 p m sept 20 n c . state raleigh tBa sept 27 houston* greenville 3:30 p m oct 11 virginia charlottesville tBa oct 18 Memphis* greenville 12:00 p m nov 2 central florida* orlando 8:00 p m nov 8 Marshall (homecoming) greenville 3:30 p m nov 15 southern Miss * hattiesburg tBa nov 22 alabama Birmingham* Birmingham tBa nov 28 texas el Paso* greenville 1:00 p m * indicates televised games spiking the ball, hitting the books The volleyball team is succeeding on the court and in the classroom, winning 16 games and compiling a team GPA of 3.521, the highest in team history. Senior Kelley Wernert, chosen for the 2007 Conference USA All-Academic team, achieved a perfect 4.0 mark spring semester. Every member of the team was on the honor roll; seven of the 12 were either on the Chancellor’s List (4.0 semester GPA) or the Dean’s List (3.5 or higher). “Our team goal since I’ve stepped foot on campus three years ago has always been to have a yearly team GPA above 3.3 and to have everyone above a 3.0 in a given semester,” said head coach Chris Rushing. “Our team GPA has steadily risen since that day and this was the semester that eventually put us over the top. We shattered our goal this year with the high expectations these athletes have put on themselves.”The Pirates return 11 letterwinners and welcome five newcomers for the 2008 season, which began in August. kelley wernert NCaa penalizes basketball team The men’s basketball program will lose one scholarship next season and will have to cut its weekly practice time from 20 hours to 18 because it failed to meet the NCAA’s standard for academic progress. The men’s team reported an academic progress rate (APR) of 861, an improvement of 12 points over the previous year but still below the 900 threshold required to avoid NCAA sanctions. The football team reported a 922 APR and also must develop an academic improvement plan, though it will not be penalized. The APR was developed to better measure in “real time” how athletes and teams are doing in the classroom, based on eligibility, retention and graduation rather than just on six-year graduation rates. This is the fourth year of APR data. East Carolina said it developed a required academic improvement plan for men’s basketball and that the two lost hours of practice time would be replaced by additional tutoring and study halls. Athletics Director Terry Holland said the grades of basketball players have improved in recent years, rising from 2.13 in 2004 to 2.78 in 2007. Holland said that every men’s basketball student- athlete recruited since the coaching change in 2005 has been eligible every semester in attendance and those who transferred did so in good academic standing. Holland said the team played all of its non- conference schedule last season without missing a single class. By using chartered airplanes, the team missed only two days of classes throughout the 16-game conference schedule. Sixty-two scholarship athletes were honored at this year’s Academic Excellence Awards banquet for posting GPAs of 3.5 or higher, up from 59 last year. Ten of the 59 scholar athletes boasted a GPA of 4.0. “Our men’s basketball staff has worked extremely hard to address the factors under their control and the resulting GPA improvement is nothing short of spectacular,” ECU Chancellor Steve Ballard said. The highest multi-year APR scores at East Carolina were earned by the women’s tennis (1,000), volleyball (994), women’s swimming (988), men’s golf (985) and women’s golf (984). Women’s tennis and volleyball, were cited as being in the top-10 percent nationwide for their respective sports. 8of collegiate license plates issued by the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles. A collegiate plate costs $25 and can be personalized for an additional $30, of which $15 is remitted to the school. the ecu rePort Campus construction update New Wright Fountain: Construction has begun on a new fountain on Wright Circle. The $600,000 project, which will replace the original fountain with an enhanced model, was undertaken when decaying utility lines caused the fountain to begin sinking. The old fountain was removed in early 2007. The project is expected to be completed in early fall 2008. The new fountain will have a stronger, more visible plume, better seating and markers containing trustees’ names. Mendenhall renovation delayed: The $38 million renovation of the Mendenhall Student Center has been delayed because officials believed the plan didn’t offer enough additional space to accommodate East Carolina’s growing student body. The decision came at the April meeting of the ECU Board of Trustees, who were told that the project would add only 7,000 square feet of space. Kevin Seitz, vice chancellor for administration and finance, said that renovating Mendenhall will take two years, and staff members want to be sure that the outcome will justify the inconvenience. “We want to be more proactive in looking at the planning for future projects and make sure that we are looking at the distant future,” Seitz said. “We have a number of things going on institutionally that will have an impact on this project.” Chancellor’s residence: Trustees have endorsed a plan advanced by its facilities and resources committee to form a commission to study updating or renovating Dail House, the chancellor’s residence. Over the past two years the board has considered and rejected a series of proposals to improve the residence. The house hosts many university functions and is essentially the same structure as it was when it was purchased in 1948. Trustees considered a suggestion for buying a larger house near campus but no suitable properties were available. The board also considered buying an adjacent property, demolishing it EasT CaROliNa TimEliNE 75 75 YEaRs aGO 50YEaRs aGO first master’s Deanie Boone haskett ’26 of greenville, who had been teaching at rose hill high school, returns to enroll in east carolina’s new master’s degree program and in august 1933 receives the first master’s degree conferred by the college . for her thesis she collects more than 300 pages of poetry by north carolina writers . fifty years later, the school awards its first Ph D , in anatomy, to thomas curry Jr . and building an expansion onto the current chancellor’s residence. Officials dismissed the proposal because of likely neighborhood resistance. Trustees then considered building a new house in the Rock Springs area, but that idea drew little support. A plan to give the chancellor a housing allowance and allow him to live where he wants, while keeping the Dail House for official functions, died because the UNC General Administration does not allow such a stipend. Trustees said they want the committee to get input from several groups on ways to improve the housing for the chancellor. Chitwood passes milestone Chief of Surgery Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood Jr. performed his 400th robot-assisted mitral valve repair in June and now has performed more of these surgeries than anyone. The operation took place at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, the teaching hospital of the Brody School of Medicine, with 11 cardiac surgeons from across the county obvserving the procedure while attending a two-day training program. Chitwood is a pioneer in the development and expansion of mitral valve repair surgery, producing outcomes better than valve replacement, a once-prevalent surgical treatment for a leaky or narrowing mitral The Big Yellow house incident forty-seven students, mostly guys and their dates, are suspended for 10 days and four other male students are expelled for the rest of the term after officials raid a party at a large, yellow house near campus on Jan . 10, 1959 . the party, something of an alternative to the formal senior dance in the gym that night, featured “a record player going at high pitch” and a bartender . the students are charged with having alcohol and conducting an unchaperoned party . the girls are charged with violating dorm sign-out rules . smoldering resentment over the raid forces President J D . Messick to meet with the student body . he defends the women’s dorms regulations and rules against public displays of affection . his attempts at defining what is an acceptable kiss (which is not “this clinging kiss of such a long nature [that] will cause people to begin talking”) prompt a flood of newspaper stories across the country . historians say the Big yellow house incident is the origin of the myth of ecu as a big party school . valve. An estimated 40,000 patients a year, many under the age of 50, have operations on their mitral valve, the inflow valve for the left side of the heart. Most standard mitral valve operations require a sternotomy, or cracking of the sternum, resulting in a 12week recovery. With a robotic device there are only three small incisions, scarring is minimal, infection rate is lower and recovery time is lessened to two weeks. film touts professor’s ‘forgiveness’ research The old adage “forgive and forget” could be good advice for the body as well as for the mind and heart, according to Kathleen Row, the chair of the psychology department who studies correlations between a person’s health and the ability to forgive. Row has been studying how forgiveness relates to spirituality, well-being and health for almost a decade. Her findings were reported in a PBS documentary, The Power of Forgiveness, that aired in June. The documentary won the Best Film award at the Sun Valley Film Festival. “Some people would like to forgive and they can’t; but they still see it as a value. Religions treat it as a value,” Row said. “From a psychological perspective, instead of moral 40 40 YEaRs aGO kathleen RowFrom a psychological perspective, instead of moral or spiritual value, does forgiveness have a physical value? or spiritual value, does forgiveness have a physical value?” Row’s research has shown a marked difference in the blood pressure and heart rate recovery levels of those who can more easily forgive compared to those who cannot. “You literally carry it around with you,” Row said. “If you had a heavy sack on your back, your blood pressure would raise to let you be able to carry it around with you. My question is: how is forgiveness mapped onto the body?” Row has found that older people, in general, 25 25 YEaRs aGO are more likely to be forgiving, and that women are more likely to be forgiving than men, although men had shown to be more forgiving when considering specific situations. For much of her 25-plus year career in psychophysiology, Row studied the mind- body connection of how certain behaviors could be predictors of cardiovascular disease. Her work in the past seven years, she said, validates that forgiveness can yield positive benefits not only for the forgiven, but for the forgiver as well. —Erica Plouffe Lazure Old austin falls In the fall of 1968 work begins to raze old austin, one of the four remaining original buildings on campus, to make way for the new Jenkins fine arts center . as the demolition begins, members of the faculty raise $3,800 to preserve the building’s distinctive bell tower, or cupola . But when the crane tries to lift it from the roof, the cupola collapses into pieces . a twice-life-size replica now adorns the campus lawn . archaeologist makes waves underwater archaeologist gordon watts, co-director of ecu’s program in Maritime history and underwater research, captures international attention in august 1983 when he recovers the anchor and other artifacts from the civil war ironclad Monitor, which sank during a storm off the north carolina coast in 1862 . Images courtesy University Archives University Life 2008 Fall Arts Calendar Linda Patriarca, who spent 25 years on the faculty of Michigan State University, is the new dean of the College of Education. She comes to ECU from Caldwell College in New Jersey, where she was associate dean of education. She was national president of the Teacher Education Division of the International Council for Exceptional Children. Donna Gooden Payne was named university attorney. She previously held a similar position at UNC Pembroke. A native of Bladen County, Payne is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead Scholar, and she holds a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin. She succeeds Kitty Wetherington, who resigned to join a law firm in Greenville. James N. Gehlhar was named associate vice chancellor for international affairs. He comes from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville where he was director of its Center for International Education for 16 years. Louis Warren, who teaches curriculum and instruction in the College of Education, won this year’s UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching award given at the university. He received a commemorative bronze medallion and a $7,500 prize. Other faculty members recognized as top teachers were Fred Schadler, Heather Vance-Chalcraft, John Howard, Gregg Hecimovich, Daniel J. Bara, Carol Goodwillie, Carl Haish, Andrew Morehead, Laura Prividera and Karen Vail-Smith. College of Business Associate Dean Stanley Eakins and Assistant Professor Samuel Tibbs won the 2008 Charles H. Dow Award from the Market Technicians Association. Eakins and Tibbs each received a $2,000 prize for their work exploring how past performance can predict future performance when looking at certain groups of stocks. Gale Brown Adcock ’78, Hazel J. Brown, Gabriel “Gabe” Cipau ’74 and Walter L. Williams ’51 ’55 were appointed to the Medical & Health Sciences Foundation. Ralph Rogers, dean of the College of Technology and Computer Science during five years of significant growth in grant funding, scholarships and enrollments, resigned to become vice chancellor for academic affairs at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Ind. Under Rogers’ leadership, the college initiated an engineering degree program and its first graduates were honored at May commencement. Steve Duncan, director of military programs, was presented with the General William E. DePuy Award by the U.S. Army Cadet Command. The award is considered the most prestigious honor given by the Cadet Command, the parent organization of the Army ROTC program. Leonard G. Trujillo was named chairman of the Department of Occupational Therapy in the College of Allied Health Sciences. Trujillo has been an occupational therapist for 30 years with the majority of his clinical experience in the U.S. Air Force. Four students admitted to the Class of 2012 have been awarded the Brody Medical Scholarship: Nabeel H. Arastu ’07, son of Dr. Hyder and Mrs. Shamim Arastu of Greenville; Mary Elizabeth Windham ’07, daughter of Dr. Charlie Sang Jr. and Mrs. Jonsi Sang of Greenville; Bryan Howington, a graduate of UNC Pembroke and son of Spencer and Frankie Howington of Pembroke; and Wesley Thomas O’Neal, an N.C. State University graduate and son of Mr. and Mrs. James Wyatt O’Neal of Wilson. The Brody Medical Scholarship provides full tuition and fees, along with most living expenses, for four years of medical school. The scholarship also funds summer enrichment programs, such as travel abroad, in addition to any service projects the scholars undertake during medical school. Three student-athletes were named to ESPN The Magazine’s Academic All-District at-large teams. Senior swimmer Geoff Handsfield (3.97 GPA in physics) was named to the District 3 University Division men’s at- large first team, while junior golfer Markus Leandersson (4.0 GPA in finance) was named second team. Senior tennis player Hannah Priest (3.98 GPA in physical education) was voted to the women’s second at-large team. You Should Go Former CNN CEO Walter Isaacson, now CEO of the Aspen Institute, will discuss “Six Thinkers Who Influenced History” during this year’s Voyages of Discovery lectures on Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. in Wright Auditorium. Tickets are $10. On Nov. 18, Marcus Borg, emeritus professor of religion and culture at Oregon State University, will discuss “Christians in an Age of Empire,” at The Jarvis Lecture in Religion and Culture. fiNE aRTs the fall schedule of s. Rudolph alexander performing arts series begins sept . 19 with the north Carolina symphony orchestra performing Dvorak’s New World symphony and elgar’s In the South. Philadanco (the Philadelphia Dance company), a contemporary dance ensemble, will perform oct . 23 . Begun by Joan Myers Brown in 1970, Philadanco helped found the International conference of Black Dance companies and International association of Blacks in Dance . Marvin hamlisch will appear with the ecu symphony orchestra at wright auditorium nov . 21 . hamlisch has earned three oscars, four grammys, four emmys, a tony award and three golden globes—in addition to a Pulitzer Prize—for his musical compositions . the King’s singers will bring their blend of choral skill and showmanship to greenville on Dec . 11 . equally at ease singing motets by tallis and Byrd and the music of lennon and Mccartney, the king’s singers encompass music from medieval, renaissance, romantic and contemporary periods . ChamBER musiC the four seasons Chamber music festival opens this year with three offerings on campus . Music director ara gregorian will team with pianist robert McDonald and cellist emanuel gruber in performances of a Janacek sonata for violin and piano, Beethoven’s Ghost piano trio and franck’s sonata for violin and piano . the concerts take place in fletcher recital hall the evenings of sept . 4–5 . the festival’s october program will consist of Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, a Mendelssohn string quartet and a smetana string quartet . Joining gregorian will be violinist hagai shaham, violist nicholas cords, cellist Michael kannen and clarinetist christopher grymes from the ecu faculty . the concerts will take place oct . 16–17 in fletcher recital hall and oct . 18 at the history Place in Morehead city . OpERa the ECu Opera Theater will present gilbert and sullivan’s HMS © lois greenfield 2007 Pinafore oct . 23–25, conducted by Daniel Bara, director of choral music activities . subtitled The Lass That Loved a Sailor, the play includes such g&s songs as I’m Called Little Buttercup, We Sail the Ocean Blue and Oh Joy, Oh Rapture Unforeseen. ThEaTER the ECu/loessin playhouse opens the season with Of Thee I Sing, george and Ira gershwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, at Mcginnis theater oct . 2–7 . Love Is Sweeping the Country and the title song are among the better known gershwin tunes . the second play of the season will be Moliere’s comedy The Imaginary Invalid nov . 20–25 . ChORal musiC the ECu Chamber singers, accompanied by the ecu symphony orchestra, will present Mozart’s Requiem on all saints’ Day on nov . 1 at st . Paul’s episcopal church . the chamber singers also will present a concert oct . 3, and the university Chorale and st. Cecilia singers will present a concert nov . 16 . the Mozart program will be repeated nov . 10 at the north carolina Music educators association meeting in winston-salem . iNsTRumENTal musiC highlights this fall include performances by the ECu wind Ensemble and symphonic Band on sept . 25, a concert by the ECu symphony on sept . 28, Bandorama on nov . 6 . and a concert by the ECu Chamber Orchestra on nov . 8 . the full symphony will play verdi’s overture to The Force of Destiny, Bartók’s viola concerto, featuring ecu faculty member Melissa reardon, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. the chamber orchestra will play Britten’s Simple Symphony, haydn’s Symphony No. 49 and vivaldi’s Concerto for Flute, with ecu faculty member christine gustafson . fiNE/visual aRTs Don’t miss a special exhibit sept . 3–oct . 1 of ceramics from the Dwight m. holland Ceramics Teaching Collection, named for the asheboro art teacher who donated his collection of folk, national and international pottery and contemporary ceramics to ecu in the late 1990s . the annual ecu faculty exhibition is scheduled oct . 17–nov . 22, and the annual holiday exhibition is scheduled Dec . 4–6 . OCTuBafEsT tom Mccaslin is planning a second Octubafest to highlight the contributions of the lower brass instruments oct . 29–30 . the program includes two concerts that will feature a mixture of solos and chamber piece performed by ecu students . whO’s iN TOwN? john wustman, considered “dean of american accompanists,” will serve as robert l . Jones Distinguished Professor of Music for the 2008–09 academic year . wustman became affiliated with robert shaw early in his career, and he has appeared in concert halls worldwide . north carolina native julianne Baird, a soprano widely known for her skill in interpreting early music, will visit oct . 27–28 . she is best known for performances and recordings of Bach and handel . —Steve Row 13philadanco Marc kawanishiBack toCampusIssueMarc kawanishiBack toCampusIssue University officials were working overtime to prepare for a record 4,600 or more freshmen about to hit town for fall semester, a number that is straining campus facilities and forcing some unprecedented maneuvers. At the last minute, the university was forced to lease private apartments around Greenville to house 300 freshmen still on a waiting list for dorm rooms. Officials also were rounding up at least 50 additional faculty members and converting the ground floor of one residence hall as their offices. Total enrollment should be around 27,000, up about 1,000 students since this time last year. With the campus full to bursting, this may be the last semester that East Carolina’s enrollment grows at the heady pace that it has for five years running. A task force appointed by Chancellor Steve Ballard is preparing recommendations for a fall report that many believe will propose raising ECU’s admissions standards as a means of managing enrollment growth. East Carolina offered seven orientation sessions in 2007 that were attended by roughly 3,900 new freshmen and their parents, according to Admissions Director Anthony Britt. Not all incoming freshmen attend orientation. By the time school started last year, 4,222 freshmen were enrolled. Demand this year prompted the addition of an eighth orientation session, with total attendance of 4,498 new freshmen and their parents. “If we just go by the numbers from orientation, which generally is a good guide, I would say the freshman class would be around 4,700,” Britt says. “But to be conservative, I would say it would be between 4,500 and 4,600 freshmen. Either way, it will be a record.” While 4,600 freshmen is a big number, it is only about a quarter of the roughly 16,000 high school freshmen who applied for admission, Britt says. His office also evaluated about 3,000 applications from students hoping to transfer to East Carolina from some other college and admitted less than half of them. East Carolina has no plans at present to build additional residence halls, but an Atlanta company has begun construction on a private dormitory overlooking the Tar River on First Street in downtown Greenville. The building is expected to be ready by next fall semester. Place Properties of Atlanta is developing the four-story, 193-unit building, to be called First Street Place. The company currently owns private dorms serving N.C. State University, UNC Charlotte and UNC Pembroke. The private apartments that East Carolina is leasing for this fall will have all the same safety features as on-campus dorms. Officials say the unprecedented move will cost $600,000, which should mostly be covered by rents paid by the students. The plan is to move as many of them as possible to campus as dorm rooms become available later in the semester. Ten years ago, the new freshman class numbered 2,819, with transfer students adding 1,089 to the total enrollment of 18,263. This fall there should be around 6,000 new students for an expected total enrollment of 27,000. “Every indication is we will grow to 36,000 within 10 years or less,” Britt says, citing enrollment targets set for East Carolina by the UNC Board of Governors. “The bottom line is we are seeing more applicants and better applicants,” Britt says. “They are more well-rounded in terms of extracurricular things and leadership opportunities and an increasing number have college credits when they arrive [from taking community college courses.]”The average SAT score of admitted freshman was 1,044 last year; it’s 1,056 this year. her and said, ‘Can I help you find where you Janet Taylor of Mount Olive attended anything that you learn in the classroom.” members. To accommodate them, we are in need to go?’ And when he had gotten her orientation with her only child, daughter the process of converting the ground floor Janet Taylor of Mount Olive attended anything that you learn in the classroom.” members. To accommodate them, we are in need to go?’ And when he had gotten her orientation with her only child, daughter the process of converting the ground floor After talking to hundreds of parents and Griffin offered himself as an example of there, she said she thanked the student for Courtney, and said efforts by the Office of of Umstead Residence Hall into faculty students during orientation sessions, Britt what to do, and what not to do, to succeed helping with orientation, and he replied, Admissions to make parents feel welcome offices,” she says. says he repeatedly hears three reasons cited in college. “Go to class, go to class, go to ‘Oh, I’m not a tour guide. You just looked and informed helped her feel better about for ECU’s popularity. “I would say the class,” he said to loud applause from parents. “We had nowhere else to go,” she adds. like you needed help.’” Courtney leaving home for college. “It’s biggest reason I hear them say is the diversity “I used to not go to class, and that didn’t “We are in a critical situation with space. hard. She’s the only one. But I feel good of academic programs offered and that we work. So now I do go to class and I make We are looking at renting more space off about it because everyone here is so helpful. offer enough of those classes so students can Getting acclimated good grades. It’s amazing.” campus.”The university badly needs two I really feel she’ll be good here. She’s met a complete their degree in four years. additional, large classroom buildings and has For most, attending orientation was their lot of people already, and she’s excited about He also encouraged students to get involved made their construction a top priority. One “Kids these days want to study something first time on campus since being admitted. her classes,”Taylor said. on campus and take the opportunities would provide additional space for biology they can get a good job doing after college. The two–day sessions begin with check-in afforded at ECU to try new things. New students and parents were formally and science classes; the other would provide The degrees we offer in the health care field and walking tours of the main campus, “Whatever your name was in high school, or welcomed to ECU in Wright Auditorium a new home for the growing colleges of are very attractive. We are getting a lot of followed by registration for fall classes, whatever you were classified as, it’s over. You by Phyllis Horns, interim vice chancellor Education and Business. questions about the new dental school, and placement tests, and learning about life as a are in college. You have a chance to reinvent for health sciences and interim dean of the I believe that will only add to the interest by student. The experience was an eye-opener yourself, and a chance to be whatever you “One short-term option would be to take Brody School of Medicine; Associate Provost incoming students in our health care offerings. for many. want to be,” he said. one of the residence halls and refurbish it Austin Bunch; Kemal Atkins, vice provost for [as classrooms] and replace it with a new “Second, I hear folks comment all the time “I didn’t realize it was such a close-knit student affairs; and ECU student Andrew residence hall. We are looking at establishing about what a beautiful campus we have. college,” said incoming freshman James Jeter Griffin. Together they offered encouragement at capacity some public-private partnerships for residence They say it looks like a college campus of Fayetteville, who attended orientation and insight into what it means to become a It’s doubtful whether East Carolina can halls,” Sheerer says. “Wilmington has some ought to look, with the traditional grassy with his parents, Bruce and Linda. “I just member of the ECU community. continue growing at the blistering pace it new dorms on campus but they were built by mall surrounded by classroom buildings and figured it was a big school, just a bunch “Every person, every student on this has recorded in recent years. According to a private entity and leased to the university.” residence halls. One student at orientation of people. But they do care here. They campus, has the opportunity to grow and Marilyn Sheerer, interim provost and vice who was interested in studying art said care about the students, they care that we In the meantime, administrators are trying learn,” said Horns. “How to be a really chancellor for academic and student affairs, she didn’t have any trouble finding the art succeed.” to get maximum use out of existing space, productive citizen, how to engage with the campus has about reached its maximum building because of all the statues and works particularly Joyner Library. But the only The goal of orientation is to acclimate new people who are different from the people physical capacity. “There are no empty of art around the building. solution is a major injection of money. students to the place they will call home for you know from high school and your classrooms; there are no empty faculty “We are hoping for another [$3 billion] “Third, they talk about how warm and the next four years, and to introduce them local communities—that’s as important offices. We are full,” she says emphatically. state bond issue like we had a few years ago. welcoming the people are here. They say to the mechanics of academic and social a part of the educational experience, we “Because of the enrollment growth, [this Something on that scale is the only thing everyone they meet is friendly. One woman life. Students learn about Banner, OneStop, believe here at East Carolina University, as summer] we had to hire new faculty that will address the need.” said she got lost and a student came up to Blackboard and other technological resources. reflect the liberal arts approach that is vital programs were available . then, the university academic program development “we try it’s a different atmosphere: If arts and “It’s more than how many students you admit what’s different about to becoming a fully educated individual and offered roughly 50 master’s programs and to help them think in broad terms, say of sciences was once the central academic and how many you graduate,” says Judith are called the foundations curriculum . less than 75 undergraduate programs . economic benefits to the region, but also grouping on campus, the years since 2000 Bailey, senior executive director of enrollment college these days? to focus on programs that will serve the have brought major changes . the university management “It’s how you sustain them “these are the familiar liberal arts courses today, there are 19 doctoral programs, 77 university’s goals and mission . we need to now organizes itself into nine colleges, the through graduation in programs of relevance we’ve always required, such as english, master’s degrees and certificates of advanced By Marion Blackburn make sure our graduates are prepared for school of Dentistry, the Brody school of to them and to the state of north carolina ” history, math and art,” said linner w . griffin, study and 104 bachelor’s degree programs . the 21st-century job market ” Medicine and the graduate school . associate vice chancellor for academic students can also supplement their education Burning the midnight oil: with all the new you graduated from ecu a few years ago affairs “But the courses have evolved by choosing from nearly 70 departmental some degree options available now that you new approaches have come to campus, degrees and disciplines, has anything about (we’re not counting how many) and now and their content has, too ” But in those certificates in many academic areas . would not have seen at ecu some years ago as well . computers are everywhere and east carolina stayed the same? well, yes . your child or a nephew or the kid across traditional disciplines you should expect include engineering, nutrition and dietetics, completing assignments online is a mainstay students still are rabid about football . they the street is heading to campus . you want while familiar majors like math and business some new ideas and perspectives, he added . distribution and logistics, hospitality of academic work, along with essays, still head downtown for fun It still takes long to share some of your wisdom, but you’re are evergreen, students today are likely to management and child life . research papers and lab reports . hours and late nights studying to graduate . wondering: how has college changed? more specialties: the junior and senior years consider areas like engineering, health services english, history and biology college must offer students a banquet of majors, minors and management, construction management and what’s more, students today can pursue Bigger, sure, but better, too: rapid growth “grading for our courses has the same be about the same, right? well, not exactly . everything in between Programs these days information and computer technology . departmental certificates—a credential in the student body is pushing programs to standards,” said griffin “Parents may here is a rundown of the new academic allow students to focus on professional goals that gives them valuable expertise beyond evolve . that wave has led the university to sometimes say to their children, ‘your “when our faculty are developing new landscape and how it differs from the while experiencing a broad range of topics . their major . for example, english majors create new structures, such as the office of education is not as difficult as mine was ’ programs, they’re thinking about emerging student experience of a generation ago . can obtain certificates in multicultural enrollment Management, to accommodate that may be romanticizing what we the biggest change is the types and numbers areas in their fields of study and we and transnational literature; education them . the student body has about doubled experienced . there are the same academic The foundation’s the same: you’ll certainly of degree programs available . If you attended encourage them to also consider degrees majors have certificate options in autism from the 13,000–14,000 students here during expectations as always for our students ” find recognizable courses like chemistry, ecu before 1977, when the school of Medicine that are suitable for our region,” says sharon and international teaching . a certificate in the leo Jenkins years . numbers are only part art history and political science, especially enrolled its first students, no doctorate Morris Bland, assistant vice chancellor for security studies is also available . of the story, however . during the first two years . these courses 16 17 They also are introduced to extracurricular activities and organizations at the Student Involvement Fair. Many questions focus on financial matters—including university fees, payment options, and even meetings with representatives from local banks. Who knows better about surviving freshman nBoxes and storage bins (“to keep your junk separate from her junk,” one student wrote). nBubble sheets for taking exams. Who knows better about surviving freshman nBoxes and storage bins (“to keep your junk separate from her junk,” one student wrote). nBubble sheets for taking exams. Things Every Freshman Should Know Back toCampusIssue By steve Tuttle year than the juniors and seniors to whom the shocks of that transition are still fresh in mind? So we asked them in a survey to share their tips and insights with this year’s crop of freshmen. Our thanks go to professor John Howard for offering two of his School of Communication classes as our survey sample. Sixty-one of his students answered our 10 questions. Here are their responses: Thinking back to my freshman year… when i left home for college i packed way too many ______. Clothes, clothes, clothes. Almost all the students surveyed said they brought too many of everything, including shoes and even toiletries. And don’t even think about bringing winter clothes, three students said. “It never gets really cold here,” one wrote. Nobody told me i needed so many ___. Things that fall under the broad category of “stuff you need to study”—notebooks, note cards, highlighters, pencils, pens—were mentioned most frequently in the survey. “Money for food,” aka Pirate Bucks, was next on their lists. Other items our juniors and seniors never thought they would need in such abundance: n Late-night snacks n Tylenol n Flip-flops Oddly, electric extension cords turned up on both the “packed way too many” and “nobody told me I needed so many” lists. You figure. Don’t bother bringing ______. We have a three-way tie, with seven mentions each: n Your car, because there’s nowhere to park it. n Your high school girlfriend/boyfriend, their photos or phone numbers, because, well, you know. n Pets. Apparently some people still don’t read the memo. Other practical tips for lightening the suitcase load: n A stereo, because you listen to music through your laptop n Napkins, plastic spoons/forks and condiments, because you can lift those from the dining halls n A phone (the old-fashioned kind, silly) n A first aid kit (“We have a free clinic for a reason,” one wrote.) Perhaps the most hopeful advice was the student who wrote: “Your anxiety— everything will work out for the best.” Don’t ever lose your ______. The winners here are the twin constants of freshman existence, the 1 Card, with 22 votes, and dorm room key, with 10. If you lose one you don’t eat and if you lose the other you don’t sleep. Enough said. Other items freshmen should avoid losing: n Focus—7 votes n Wallet—5 votes n Cell phone—4 n Shower shoes—3 n Personality n Flash drive The best way to get along with a roommate is ______. Fifteen said, in so many words: You have to learn how to communicate with a roommate, to speak up and talk things out. Nine others offered this similar advice: Be friendly and patient, be accepting and don’t be judgmental. Agree on ground rules from day one and learn to compromise, six others said. Don’t room with your best friend from high school, several others said, apparently speaking from sad experience. Some practical advice: Have an escape plan, like a friend’s room you can go to, for those times when you can’t stand roomie one more second. The worst thing that can happen is ___. Flunking out, obviously. That’s what nearly half of the students surveyed said. Several others said it was indulging in behaviors often associated with academic problems, like excessive drinking and partying. You can almost feel the pain lingering from the student who wrote: “Getting so drunk and stupid that everyone remembers you as ‘that girl.’” Looking back, some said the worst thing is “not taking advantage of opportunities” or “taking classes seriously.” Five said the worst thing that can happen is not making new friends. Other horrors mentioned: n Being in the shower when the fire alarm goes off n Getting walked to your dorm room by a campus cop n Missing the last bus n Getting your car towed (see “Don’t bother bringing” above.) The best way to avoid looking stupid is ______. Our juniors and seniors clearly agree on what is the most embarrassing thing that can happen to a freshman. It’s seen every fall on campus: A lost kid, carrying a load of books and anxiously scanning the names of buildings to find his next class, doesn’t see the curb and takes a header into the grass, books and papers flying. It’s a terrible fate you can avoid, our upperclassmen said, if you just do what you were told at orientation: The day before classes begin, print out your class schedule and slowly walk the mall observing the locations of buildings and plotting the path you will walk from class to class. Failing that, “just keep your head down and keep walking if you trip,” one veteran advised. “When you fall when walking to class,” another wrote, “just lay on the ground and no one will notice.” Another seemed resigned to the inevitable: “Never care about it because it’s going to happen, so accept it.” Other ways to avoid looking stupid and their votes: n Just be yourself—7 n Act mature/ask questions—4 n Get your work done and go to class—4 n Laugh at yourself—3 n Don’t wear high heels to class—3 n Think before you speak—2 n Get someone else to do it first—2 i finally felt like a real college student when i stopped ______. Now this is maturity talking: Thirteen students said, in so many words, that the change came when they stopped partying and started studying. Or as one said, “When I started going to class because I wanted to and not because I thought I had to.” Five said it came when they stopped going home most weekends and five others said it was when they stopped caring how they looked. “It was when I stopped calling my Mom every day,” one student wrote. Others said they felt more mature when they stopped: n Dating my high school girlfriend/hanging out with my high school friends n Asking for directions n Sleeping (“Partying or studying, all- nighters are the norm,” one wrote.) n Following the crowd n Eating at McDonald’s and started fixing my own meals Your folks won’t get too upset unless your Gpa falls below ______. This is interesting. You might expect the juniors and seniors would say that a 2.0 is the survival line, and that’s exactly what 25 students put down. But 20 other students said it takes a 2.5 to keep the parents off your back and 10 said they had to get a 3.0 to keep mom and pop happy. In case you’re wondering, that averages out to a 2.36. it’s more important to ______. n Show up for every class—43 votes n Turn in every piece of homework—16 n Sit in the front row—2 Hopefully, this solves the deepest mystery of freshman life, which is how to make good grades without really trying. 18 19 With a population now in excess of 70,000, Aeropostale, Gap and American Eagle. It’s one by Regal, but they show virtually the same from September through April. Garrison Greenville offers at least one of nearly located just blocks south of the football movies. Neither complex devotes a screen to Keillor and some of his “Prairie Home everything most college students—and their stadium. The city also has many strip independent or foreign films. Various film Companion” acting company visited in April, parents—expect to find in a college town. shopping centers plus one Wal-Mart, one series offered on campus partially fill that void. for instance, and this year, the King’s Singers, What’s Greenville Like But most of the time, it’s only one. Kmart, one Target, one Sears, one Staples, Marvin Hamlisch and the North Carolina Food: Students planning to cook a bit on one Office Depot. A handful of upscale Symphony will be among the performers. See The population center of the eastern third their own will find several grocery stores retailers can be found (Talbot’s for women the full schedule of fall cultural events on page 13. as a College Town? of North Carolina doesn’t have quite the nearby, but only one—a Harris Teeter—is and Jos. A. Bank, Steinbeck’s and Coffman’s same breadth of attractions or commercial within walking distance from campus. Off campus, the Folk Arts Society for men). Several locally owned, trendy and development as Chapel Hill, Raleigh Further out are a Kroger, another Harris of Greenville stages traditional and By steve row boutique-y type shops and stores are not far or Greensboro, but the coziness of the Teeter, and several Food Lions. The upscale contemporary music series and sponsors from campus. community enables new students and their Lowe’s Foods has one store, and by the twice-monthly contra dances. Touring big- families to more easily discover their new Greenville’s tiny downtown sits at the west beginning of 2009, the area’s first Fresh name pop concerts come to, well, Raleigh, home. May we recommend: end of campus and is dominated, as one Market should be open on the southwest 80 miles to the west. might expect, by several bars, restaurants side of town (near Sears and Kohl’s). This Restaurants: A nice mix of dining choices is The area plays host to several festivals and and a few retailers catering to students— store will provide some great bakery and one of Greenville’s bright spots, The city has fun events, some right next to campus, University Book Exchange, Tipsy Teapot pastry items, but many of the groceries likely three beef/steak/chophouse-type restaurants some farther away. In early October is the (a comfortable used book store as well as will be priced out of reach of most students. (be sure parents pick up the tab; the prices at Pitt County Fair, on the northeast side of a nice café), the Bicycle Post, the Catalog these places can raise an eyebrow or two), and Culture: The culture of Greenville pretty town, and St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church Connection, for example—but local officials a variety of ethnic restaurants. Try Finelli’s much depends on the university. Nearly sponsors a popular Lobster Fair in late say downtown (promoted as “Uptown for Italian, Lemongrass for Thai, Chico’s for all the good live theater comes from the October. Early December means the annual Greenville”) is still a work in progress. Mexican. Consistently tasty, well-prepared School of Theatre and Dance, which puts on Christmas Parade, and a Festival of Trees meals (lunch and dinner) and some to-die-for Most students likely will head south to the comedies, tragedies, musicals, contemporary takes place throughout December in the desserts can be found at The Daily Grind. strip malls along Greenville Boulevard to find plays and Shakespeare each year and is Greenville Convention Center. more of what they want: Rugged Wearhouse, generally recognized as one of the best Other upscale eateries include Christinne’s at Greenville has a small art museum with Old Navy, Great Outdoor Provision Co. and theatrical programs in the region. Likewise, the Hilton and Chef ’s 505, but if you want occasional special exhibits, an extreme a range of additional clothing stores, such as just about all the good, serious music comes to impress a special friend, or the parents, sports park, as well as other more traditional Ross and T.J. Maxx at the lower end to Stein from the School of Music (the Four Seasons you might try the Lakeview Room at Brook recreational areas, and River Park North has Mart at the middle range. Chamber Music Festival is a special treat Valley Country Club, southeast of campus, hiking trails, five ponds, picnic areas and each year); ECU also hosts a new music which has a spectacular view, good food and A new shopping center is under development frontage along the Tar River. The park also festival and the Billy Taylor Jazz Festival. more reasonable prices. on the southwest side of town, with an older contains the Walter L. Stasavich Science and Sears store to be linked to a newer Kohl’s The broadest variety of world-class Nature Center, which includes a 70-seat Despite its proximity to three coastal fishing by several stores and shops. This center entertainment is the S. Rudolph Alexander theater and a variety of exhibits, including centers (the Outer Banks, the Crystal Coast could begin to fill out by the time incoming Performing Arts Series, which brings a 10,000-gallon freshwater aquarium and and Wilmington), the Greenville area still freshmen finish their sophomore year. renowned performers in music and dance turtle touch tank. East lacks an upscale restaurant specializing in Northeast of town, the Back toCampusIssue local Atlantic seafood, although several North Campus Crossing restaurant menus boast fine fish and apartment complex is seafood entrees, and Calabash-style proving to be a magnet for seafood restaurants are available. new stores and restaurants. Greenville has a Dunkin’ Donuts near Entertainment: Blockbuster the medical campus and a Krispy Kreme and Hollywood Video have Greenville City hall across the street from the Main Campus. local stores, as do Circuit The town has four Starbucks, a Panera Bread, City, Best Buy, F.Y.E. and a Bear Rock Café, and a McAllister’s Deli. A East Coast Music + Video. good variety of homemade sandwiches and The Barnes & Noble store baked goods can be found at Swiss Chalet has plenty of books but no at the end of Move In Day, hundreds of new students and their families not far from campus. music section. Greenville likely will hop in the car in search of a meal, a mall or maybe a movie . Shopping: Greenville has one enclosed mall, now has two multiscreen what impressions will they form as they explore greenville for perhaps now known as Greenville Mall, anchored movie complexes, one the first time? what words of advice would help these new Pirates be by JCPenney and Belk and also containing operated by Carmike and welcomed and well fed? we put together this newcomers guide . If Faculty salaries have risen While the pay hikes are impressive, faculty salaries remain well below the national average and are strikingly below the pay at N.C. State and UNC Chapel Hill. A stated peer group was,” said Sheerer, who served as education dean her first eight years at ECU. “You have to keep playing with it. You have to keep your eye on the compression issues that faculty salariesup 20 percentin five yearsBy Bethany Bradsherfaculty salariesup 20 percentin five yearsBy Bethany Bradsher i raising the paycheck of a typical full professor to $94,900 in 2007. That’s according to the American Association of University Professors, which gathers salary data from universities nationwide to produce an annual report. “It really is philosophically a statement of worth,” said English professor Janice Tovey, who became chair of the Faculty Senate on July 1. “They are asking, ‘What’s my value to the department, to the university?’We want to say, ‘We value what you do. We value your teaching, your research.’ One of the few ways we can say that is with a raise.” The average pay for other faculty ranks also has jumped by double digits. An associate professor here on average earned $73,500 in 2007 compared to $60,265 in 2002. An assistant professor was paid $65,200 last year, up from $51,366 five years ago, and an instructor made $53,700, up from $43,324 in 2002. goal of East Carolina for some time has been to raise faculty salaries to 80 percent of the average of its peer universities. Rising faculty salaries are made possible by several factors: a priority from legislators as expressed in the state budget and the judicious and creative use of funds by the deans. The focus has not been to increase all salaries across the board, but on a university- wide commitment to working toward competitive salaries for faculty of all ranks, genders and ethnic backgrounds. To Marilyn Sheerer, the interim provost and vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, and other administrators who look at the numbers daily, the process of eliminating salary inequities can seem like the leaks that spring up in a dike each time another one is repaired. “My goal at the College of Education was always to get our mean salary for each of the levels above what our occur for faculty who have been here for some time; and you have to be constantly thinking of creative ways to move money around.” Even if pursuing a favorable salary range is a never-ending challenge, East Carolina is enjoying the best climate in years for reaching its stated goal of 80th percentile in salaries. It’s a brighter outlook that can be credited to UNC System President Erskine Bowles, who has emphasized competitive salaries across the system with promises backed up by policy. “I think there’s been, bottom line, a more definitive emphasis on increasing faculty salaries with Erskine,” Sheerer said. The measures instituted by Bowles include a decree that 25 percent of any campus- based tuition hike must go to faculty salaries. Growing universities like ECU also get enrollment-increase money each year that goes to fund new faculty positions and to associate assistant average average salaries paid at: Professor Professor Professor instructor all faculty unc chapel hill $ 138,500 $ 90,900 $ 76,900 $ 78,700 $ 101,900 n c . state 110,800 82,000 69,900 49,200 84,600 unc charlotte 105,000 77,200 67,000 * 73,300 unc greensboro 103,200 75,600 62,800 55,000 70,100 unc wilmington 91,000 72,600 60,500 * 69,900 appalachian state 86,800 71,700 59,600 49,100 69,100 East Carolina 94,900 73,500 65,200 53,700 68,100 unc asheville 84,000 65,500 57,700 * 65,300 national average $ 106,495 $ 74,075 $ 63,131 $ 43,541 $ 79,448 *Does not employ instructors Source: American Association of University Professors figures for 2007–08 augment the salaries of deserving faculty. Bowles also created a special fund to offer raises to excellent professors who are being courted by other universities. That’s how East Carolina recently managed to hang on to a valuable member of the School of Music faculty. Sheerer said the professor was offered a job with higher pay elsewhere. East Carolina countered the other school’s offer, and the professor is still part of the ECU family. “You win some and you lose some,” said Mark Taggart, who served as chair of the Faculty Senate for two years before Tovey took over. “There is always going to be turnover. What I liked to see when I was chair here was to make this a very welcoming, open, nourishing environment for faculty.” When turnover does occur, competitive salaries—plus the lower cost of living here—put ECU in the running for some of the brightest minds to fill vacancies. Those factors, plus ECU’s designation as a doctoral institution in 1997, have enticed many professors to come to Greenville, even from larger universities with deeper pockets. Sheerer tells of a professor in special education who came east after five years at UNC Chapel Hill because ECU offered a larger, more collegial department whose faculty was engaged in various grant projects and outreach programs. He came even though, from a salary standpoint, ECU is still behind the state’s “big two”; UNC-CH professors averaged $138,500 and N.C. State’s made $110,800, according to the AAUP report. Other attractions for new faculty are the quality of certain programs and the average professor salaries at peer universities administration’s willingness to university of nevada-reno $116,500 offer perks that increase job virginia commonwealth $110,500 satisfaction. For instance, a florida International $103,800 professor might be offered a university of Missouri-kansas city $101,700 leave from teaching while he texas tech $99,900 does research, or an assistant wright state $97,500 professor in the College of ohio university $96,400 Education might make extra East Carolina $94,900 money teaching in the school’s western Michigan $92,600 extensive summer programs. northern Illinois $90,300 Salary is an important factor in university of wisconsin-Milwaukee $89,700 the equation, but research and university of north Dakota $80,300 service opportunities also figure in prominently, Sheerer said. Source: American Association of University Professors figures for 2007–08 “We are definitely shifting to a research university,” Sheerer said. “Some of the really strong candidates want to know that. The more resources we have, the more we can become known as a multifaceted research university as compared to just a teaching university. Now I’m not trying to deemphasize teaching, but the research piece and the service piece, those pieces are really important. And you need resources to be able to handle them.” University officials acknowledge that ECU is about middle of the pack in faculty salaries among its peer institutions. Compared to ECU’s average 2007 salary of $94,900, four of ECU’s peer schools average a lower salary for their professors. The other seven peer institutions pay their professors more than ECU, with the highest, University of Nevada-Reno, averaging $116,500. “We’ve got a ways to go,”Taggart said. “We’re still very below the 80th percentile, and certain disciplines are worse than others. Faculty salaries in the performing and creative arts are a lot lower than in science and math.” The N.C. General Assembly showed its support by including $34.6 million in the new state budget to help the campuses deal with enrollment growth. Enrollment in the public colleges is up around 8,000 this year alone. More students require more teachers, which puts pressure on salary budgets. The additional funding means East Carolina and other schools won’t have to be quite so tight with a dollar in hiring decisions this year. East firm foundation roddy Jones, who constructed many raleigh landmarks, believes in building things up, not tearing things down By steve Tuttle Although it happened 33 years ago, Roddy Jones ’58 remembers the phone call from Leo Jenkins like it was yesterday. The call from the president of East Carolina came shortly after the UNC Board of Governors had pointedly declined to reappoint Jones to the ECU Board of Trustees, which he had chaired the past two years. “Do you know what those b******* did today?,” Jenkins shouted into the phone. Jones hadn’t heard the news but he knew he had irritated university leaders with his strong advocacy for a medical school in Greenville. Bill Friday, who then was president of the nascent UNC system, thought people inside the 16-campus university system should remain neutral in the political debate over a medical school in Greenville. Jones admittedly had become “quite verbose in several newspaper articles” in favor of the medical school. Jenkins told Jones that the unprecedented move so upset David Whichard, the Greenville Daily Reflector publisher who sat on the Board of Governors, that he had nominated Jones from the floor for another term, to no avail. (“His removal from the board strikes us as a petty act that is not becoming to the University of North Carolina system,”Whichard wrote in an understated editorial the next day.) Jones tried calming Jenkins down by putting things in perspective. “If getting kicked off the board of trustees is what I have to do to get the medical school here, then that’s a mighty small price to pay,” he said flatly. Such a personal slight would infuriate some people. Others might have vowed revenge. Not Roddy Jones, a tall, lanky man with a quick smile and a soft laugh who only seems interested in building things up, not tearing things down. MP3hear Roddy jones talk about the phone call from leo jenkins at our web site, www.ecu.edu/east. 24 25 Roddy jones with president leo jenkins at a 1975 trustees meeting A well-heeled and politically well-connected Raleigh developer who had built Crabtree Valley Mall and many of Raleigh’s finest homes, Jones knew how to handle touchy political situations like this one. He didn’t complain; he made it a point to continue supporting higher education across the state by serving on other school boards, including the one at Shaw University. Active in Democratic politics, he continued writing big campaign contribution checks to politicians who put education at the top of their agendas, particularly that newcomer from Wilson, Jim Hunt. Two years later Hunt was elected governor and Jones was his first appointment to the Board of Governors. He served on the board quietly and diligently for the next 11 years. In 1988 he was elected board chairman, becoming the first person who was not a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill and the first non-lawyer to preside over public higher education in North Carolina. He served on the board for 18 years. He says he tried to treat everyone fairly and focused on healing bruised feelings. “During my term [as chairman] there was a coming together to be more fair across the system because [until then] it was always the bigger got bigger and the smaller got stepped on. I think we brought some parity there.” To this day he remains diplomatic about East Carolina’s sometimes sensitive relationships with UNC Chapel Hill and N.C. State University. “We have to support the two flagship institutions and we recognized that. But [East Carolina] had so much to offer and the state had so much to gain by building up that campus in Greenville. The flagships will continue to get favorable treatment because they are involved in so many things. But things are much more fair now.” He pauses, looks out the window and considers the tectonic changes that East Carolina has undergone over the past 50 years, and his central role in many of those events. “We have established ourselves and achieved the high end of the results we were after,” he says simply. joining the family business Roddy Jones knew he had a job waiting for him after college if he wanted it. His father and great uncle had created one of Raleigh’s largest construction companies, Davidson and Jones. Founded in 1918, the company had built more than 100 churches and many of the city’s finest homes, including several in the toney Hayes-Barton and Country Club Hills neighborhoods. He did carpentry work for the company most summers and knew how to handle a hammer. His father, Seby Jones, who later was mayor of Raleigh, wanted his son to join the family business. Jones relished college life and admittedly was something of a party animal. He helped organize the first panty raid at East Carolina, in 1956. “These things sound so silly to the kids these days.” A geology major, he also was among a small group of students who organized the first fraternities and sororities on campus. “Dr. Leo was vice president at that time and Dr. [John] Messick was president, and he was 100 percent against that sort of thing. Dr. Leo told us how to do it [by drafting an innocuous-sounding proposal to the board of trustees that, somewhere down in the fine print, allowed local groups to affiliate with jones is continuing traditions begun by his father and uncle, who founded the company. national Greek organizations]. We followed his road map and we got them. We got the board to agree to approve it without the president even knowing it was going to come up.” Months later, he and others founded the Sigma Nu chapter on campus. He served as Intra-Fraternity Council president in 1957, his junior year. Near the end of senior year, his father said it was time to decide on a career. “Dad asked me if I wanted to get into the business, and I said I didn’t know. Graduation day, he asked, ‘Are you coming into the business or not, I have to know.’ I said I would give it a shot. This was a Sunday. He said, ‘OK, be in the office tomorrow morning at 7 o’clock.’ I said wait, I’m going to the beach tomorrow. He said, ‘If you want to give it a shot, be in the office at 7 o’clock.’ And I was.” He became an apprentice carpenter. “At that time we were about 50-50, still doing a lot of residential and some commercial work, and I cut my teeth building some of Raleigh’s larger homes.” And then disaster struck. “My dad came down with Guillain-Barre Syndrome after I had been out of college a couple of years. He was at home [recuperating] and out of the business for two years. I had to pick it up. So I got a crash Ph.D. in how to run a construction company.” Becoming a major player Davidson and Jones survived, even thrived, under the 20-something Jones. He put a new emphasis on commercial construction and shifted away from the company’s core business of building churches and expensive homes. By the dawn of the 1970s he was ready to take on what then was the biggest construction project in Wake County’s history, Crabtree Valley Mall and its more than one million square feet of stores and a high-rise hotel. He became president of Davidson and Jones in 1973 and stayed in that post for the next 20 years. He was named a distinguished alumnus in 1972, the same year Crabtree opened. He joined the board of trustees in 1973 and was immediately elected chairman, succeeding Robert Morgan. He has remained active and involved in East Carolina affairs ever since. He chaired the fundraising effort for the football stadium expansion in 1977. He created and continues funding several grants and scholarships, including the annual Robert L. Jones Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professorship in the School of Music. He also assumed his father’s mantle as a pillar of Raleigh’s business and civic communities. He was a founder of Highwoods Properties, a Raleigh real estate development company that went public in 1994 and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. He served as president of the Carolinas chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America. He served on the boards of trustees at Peace College, Shaw 28 University, Ravenscroft School, and the Babcock School of Wake Forest University. He chaired the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and was on the boards of the Tammy Lynn Home and the Raleigh Rescue Mission. He was a director of Carolina Federal Savings and Loan Association, NCNB of North Carolina, cement maker Giant Corp. and Carolina Power & Light Co. In 1983 he was one of the founders of Wake Education Partnership, the first independent local education fund in North Carolina. Using seed money from The Ford Foundation, the organization brought together business leaders and local educators to boost the local school system. He still serves on its board. “I think I got it beat into me early that you don’t just go to work and go home. I think I forgot to say no too many times because I was on too many boards. But I have always enjoyed civic life. I think more people should do things like that.” Over the years Raleigh came to appreciate Roddy Jones as head of one of the Big Three families in the construction business. The three families largely built the Capital City as it exists today. Besides the Joneses, there were the Yorks (Willie and son Smedes), who built Cameron Village and other major properties; and the Richards family, who built North Hills Mall. “We are fortunate he is in here in Raleigh,” says Smedes York, also a former mayor. “He has always been a friend and somebody I could count on. He is responsive and very talented and gets things done. He has created a lot of things that have done good for Raleigh. In many ways, when you look at Raleigh, you’re looking at Roddy Jones.” Although the Yorks and the Joneses competed in business, they cooperated in numerous civic endeavors. Both families were and remain prominent in progressive Democratic politics. Jones, who turned 72 this summer, remembers once when competition between the families turned into cooperation, based on nothing more than a handshake. “Several years ago we had some land in Cary and the Yorks had some [adjoining] land in Cary, and we both wanted to build a mall there. Things were getting pretty complicated. And then I remember Willie York proposing a solution: We would build the mall buildings and they would build the service center. Today that’s called Cary Towne Center.” Going national, coming home With Roddy Jones pushing hard into commercial real estate development, particularly hotels, Davidson and Jones branched out into several states in the early 1980s, with projects from Ohio to Florida and a branch office in Orlando. But during those boom times many of the company’s most notable projects rose in North Carolina. Jones built Eastland Mall in Charlotte, the Raleigh Civic and Convention Center, the Highwoods office complex in Raleigh, several buildings for IBM in Research Triangle Park and the American Airlines terminal at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Davidson and Jones built the N.C. Biotechnology Center and the N.C. Microelectronics Center, both in RTP. His personal favorite is the Imperial Center in RTP, an office and hotel complex visible from I-40. Opened in 1984, the Imperial Center and its attached Sheraton hotel still boasts the largest convention facilities in the Triangle. But then the real estate market abruptly collapsed in the late ’80s, leaving Davidson and Jones with unsold projects and mountains of debt. Rather than seek the safety of bankruptcy, as many developers did, Jones personally visited each creditor to negotiate resolutions, often swapping equity for debt. In a 1992 interview in Business North Carolina magazine, Jones said those debt workout meetings were devastating to him personally. “When you’re home-grown and have to sit across the table from friends you’ve known a long time, or you’ve known their bosses for a long time, it’s a humbling experience. I don’t think the Lord meant for us to have too much pride, so maybe He has a way of lowering our self-esteem sometimes.” It took more than two years of 12- and 14-hour days to resolve the company’s debt issues, and Jones was looking forward to better times when, in 1993, he suffered a heart attack. His doctor said it was imperative that he reduce the stress in his life, which led Jones to sell the company to the Beers concern. But he refused to sell the Imperial Center and continues to manage that property. He didn’t need the heart attack to let him know it was time to slow down. “You know you’ve been working longer than you feel like when the buildings you built are now being torn down. We built the original Civic Center and how it’s been torn down. You build them to stay forever but times change.” But that’s not the end of the Davidson and Jones story. His son, Robert Davidson Jones ’94, an industrial technology major, came to him a couple of years ago and said he wanted to revive Davidson and Jones and start building houses again. He agreed and gave his son the same advice he got from his father: “My dad taught me early on to never fall in love with a rooftop. There’s a time to build them and a time to sell them. But people are different. When you make a friend, when you make a commitment, you keep those forever.” It’s been 50 years since Roddy Jones graduated from East Carolina, and he has remained a true friend of the university ever since. “I celebrated the 50th anniversary in 1957 when I was a student there. I was back there last year for the 100th anniversary. I know that school has been good for me all these years and the friendships I made there. I still see a lot of them. And now I’ve been in this business 50 years.” As he and every good carpenter knows, a good building starts with a firm foundation. East froM the classrooM Creating creativity, musically By steve row Eddie Jacobs has ways of bringing the music out of students, even those who admit coming to class unprepared. In those cases, Jacobs often asks the student do one simple thing: Play one note on the keyboard. He then asks the student to play a second note, then a third and a fourth note. Then he sets a timer for five minutes and tells the student to compose something based on those four notes. “Generally works every time,” says Jacobs, associate professor of music composition, theory and electronic music in the ECU School of Music. A member of the ECU faculty since 1998, Jacobs teaches one of the most difficult courses in any college catalog—a course based almost entirely on student creativity. A course with no single right answer and very few wrong answers. Although he has his own ideas about composing—his own works carry such titles as Time As A Fly, Ensemblespiel and The Thing With Feathers—he tries not to impose those ideas on his students. “I don’t care what they do stylistically, but the demands they encounter are that this is a process of constant decision-making. As we meet each week and review materials, it’s my job to ask what works, what doesn’t, why it doesn’t. I hope that in the process, they will get rid of the chaff,” he says. “But everything is so subjective.” Jacobs encounters three broad groups of students in composition classes—those curious to know what it’s like to create, those who think they have something to say, and those who think composition is their life’s path. Few, if any, come to him having had training or instruction in creating music; younger students generally come into composition with some performance experience, such as a local orchestra, Suzuki instruction or marching band, but not much in the way of thinking creatively about music. “For me, composition is approached in multiple stages by dipping into one’s creativity. You write down ideas and filter through them to find the best one idea to pursue. You decide, ‘Which ones are good thesis statements?’” J. Christopher Buddo, director of the School of Music, admires Jacobs’ way of staying current in an ever-changing field as he teaches. “One of the things that I find most fascinating is that Eddie is always keeping abreast of what’s new. He stays on top of things, and this lets him engage students in a way that reaches them where they are.” Jacobs “always brings a level of quality to his teaching, because he is quite demanding of his students in a way that turns them on, not off,” Buddo adds. A jazz saxophone player from age 10 through college, Jacobs earned a bachelor’s degree in music composition from the University of Massachusetts in 1984, a master’s from the University of California- Berkeley in 1986 and a doctor of musical arts from Columbia University in 1994. He taught at Wabash College in Indiana from 1995 to 1998 before coming to ECU. Before Wabash, he also was a part-time or adjunct instructor at Columbia, Manhattan College and Yeshiva College. Why they hate us BOOks BYfaCulTY froM the classrooM In addition to teaching, Jacobs has been contemporary music, but it also exposes Brahms and Mendelssohn. active in conducting. He founded the music students to contemporary music “If you put Brahms and Jacobs next Wabash College Chamber Orchestra composers and performers. “Student to each other, they complement each and conducted the Wabash Brass composers will write an exercise for other,” Jacobs says. “In fact, I’m greatly Ensemble, Columbia University great artists to review and evaluate and influenced by Brahms. I believe that Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra. He for performance,” he points out. contemporary and older music both sort also was a guest conductor with the The 2008 festival, for example, featured of inform each other.” ECU Symphony Orchestra in 2002. Speculum Musicae, a New York-based Gregorian is a fan of Jacobs. “I can see One of his most prominent roles on ensemble that served as Robert L. Jones the great relationships that students have the ECU campus, however, is founder Distinguished Visiting Professor of with him and the amount of respect and director of the New Music @ ECU Music during the academic year. Also that they have for him. Eddie is greatly Festival, which concluded its eighth performing were the ECU New Music respected by me and all of his colleagues annual session in the early part of the Camerata with soprano Louise Toppin; for the quality of his work and for the spring semester. pianist Geoffrey Burleson; the ECU way that he interacts with the students Chamber Orchestra; and ECU faculty as well as his colleagues. He is a true member and clarinetist Christopher ‘an interest in hearing leader in the School of Music.” Grymes. Organist Colin Andrews gave a this stuff’ recital to mark the 100th anniversary of The festival started almost by accident. the birth of composer Olivier Messiaen. a teacher first In his new book, history professor Michael Palmer answers the Jacobs recalls that then-School of “There’s always a teaching component to Jacobs, who was nominated for the question that’s been on the minds Music dean Brad Foley had “told me of americans since 9/11, which is the festival,” Buddo says. “His students ECU Alumni Distinguished Teaching on the first day I was here we need to “why do they hate us so?” they always have the chance to interact with Award in 2004, considers himself a hate us now, Palmer argues, the hear your music.” In 1999, a year later, the composers and performers.” teacher first, then composer, conductor same way they hated us centuries Jacobs put together a program that ago when the crusades invaded and festival director. And he does not featured his own music and that of Jacobs has composed more than 30 their insular world . Much of the restrict his teaching to ECU classrooms. ECU faculty member Mark Richardson, pieces of music since 1983, and his Islamic world, particularly the He goes into local schools to work with parts of it the u s . has invaded or which prompted another faculty work in composition drew national fourth through sixth grade students in a bombed, feels attacked by member to suggest that perhaps more attention in 2005, when he was named the west in what they see as a “young composers” program. contemporary music should be available a winner of a $15,000 Charles Ives new crusade . on campus. Fellowship from the American Academy “The kids make music, and the teachers Palmer eschews political of Arts and Letters. He was one of teach note names, rhythms and values,” correctness to address a singular In spring 2001, Jacobs asked soprano difference between the western more than 50 composers, artists, he says. “At first, they learn that we’re Christine Schadeberg to perform Pierrot and Islamic worlds . Much of the architects and writers to receive cash just playing with sound. But then we Muslim world spent four centuries lunaire, a 45-minute “landmark piece” awards for their work. do the same thing with percussion under the thumb of the ottoman for voice and instruments by Arnold instruments, then recorders, then guitars. empire in a society that embraced Schoenberg from 1912, and even “It’s a wonderful honor to be recognized feudalism even after the west I act as a secretary, and the students though it was a Friday afternoon, “the alongside so many distinct composers,” rejected it for democracy and an tell me what to cut and paste to create open, secular society . Islam did recital hall was packed,” Jacobs says. Jacobs said at the time. “I’m flattered a melody.” not experience a renaissance, The performance prompted a standing to be included among such a wonderful a reformation or enlightenment . ovation, and she performed the music a group.” Some of the results are impressive, the thus, two points of view now second time that evening. The hall was same as some of the results he hears in conflict: someone who is a radical His work continues to get exposure Islamist in our eyes is a religious packed again. his ECU classroom. reformer in theirs . before a larger audience. During the final “What I look forward to the most is “That made me think that there is concert of the 2007–08 Four Seasons some would call Palmer a hawk an interest here in hearing this stuff,” Chamber Music Festival, for example, going into the classroom. So much of for contending that we probably will win the political war against he says, and the idea of continuing artistic director Ara Gregorian included what I teach is based on music with the jihadists, and that the sooner a contemporary music festival-type Jacobs’ Time As A Fly, a piece for string which I am very familiar, and yet every we do so, the less brutal it will be . program took hold. quintet that had been completed only time I teach it, it’s like I’m hearing it The Last Crusade: Americanism a short time before. His composition for the first time. I enjoy hearing the and the Islamic Reformation Not only does the festival expose shared a program with quintets by students hearing the music,” he says. 273 pages . Potomac Books local audiences to a wide range of $17 95 32 33 luxurysuitesin stadium expansion planBy Bethany Bradsher34luxurysuitesin stadium expansion planBy Bethany Bradsher34 Backed by Pirate Club fundraising, East Carolina plans to add 4,500 seats to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium by building bleachers topped by luxury suites in what is now the open east end zone with the Jumbotron TV screen. The Student Pirate Club section probably would move to the new horseshoe to make that end zone hostile space for visitors or welcoming arms for the home team. To manage the $24 million project, East Carolina has retained the same Chapel Hill architectural firm that oversaw the latest stadium expansions at N.C. State and UNC Chapel Hill. Just 10 years after the last Dowdy-Ficklen expansion, the project planning already is under way, at least underground where a sewer pipe needs to be upgraded. That $800,000 improvement began earlier this year. The hope is that the expansion, which will raise the stadium’s seating capacity to 48,000, will be completed by the start of the 2010 season. While the details of the new horseshoe section remain in flux, Jimmy Bass, senior associate director of athletics for external operations, said that Pirate Club demand and the visions of Terry Holland and Skip Holtz have shown that East Carolina must have better football facilities. “We’re trying to create for all of our sports world-class facilities so that they’ll have a chance to recruit, and for those student-athletes to compete on the very best surfaces available,” Bass said. Long term, officials are mulling a phase two expansion of Dowdy-Ficklen. Some existing spaces in the stadium will be freshened up. The press box and other spaces on the south side will be refurbished. Those renovations will be done with the future in mind. The work will prepare the top portion of the south side with footings for another upper deck years down the road. The football stadium expansion is the centerpiece of a broader sports facilities upgrade plan that will impact virtually every sport. The university has committed to a range of projects, including a new women’s softball stadium, a new track and field facility and a new auxiliary gym at Minges Coliseum that will house practice courts for the men’s and women’s basketball teams and the volleyball team. Now, the basketball and volleyball teams all must share one gym for practice and games. Also on the list are 12 new tennis courts, a women’s soccer field and practice facility, a women’s sports field house and a sports medicine facility. The university is financing that part of the facilities plan from indebtedness to be repaid from a $70 annual student debt service fee and gifts. “ECU may be the only Division IA institution in the country with only one gym for three sports,” Holland said. “Health and Human Performance also uses the one gym until after lunch each class day. Many schools now have separate practice facilities for all three sports that are available to those student-athletes 24-7.” Funding for all of these new digs will come from a variety of sources, but current plans don’t call for a capital campaign. The first phase of the Dowdy-Ficklen expansion—the east end zone seating and luxury suites— won’t rely on the sale of seat licenses or similar investments as once contemplated. The Board of Governors has approved the use of self-liquidating bonds for the funding. Much of the money will come from the sale of season tickets in the space vacated by the students when they move to the new end zone seats and from the revenue generated by the luxury boxes. The relocation of the Student Pirate Club (SPC) to the new end zone section makes sense from both atmospheric and financial angles, Bass said. The largest student organization on campus, SPC members received 4,200 tickets last season, so they will fill that section easily. Students will have the horseshoe to themselves where can create a “Pirate Pound” pandemonium that could make a difference in a close game. “Most importantly,” Bass added, “[the expansion] would open about 3,000 seats for us on the north side that we could sell to Pirate Club donors and open up new revenue streams.” A scheduled reseating of Dowdy- Ficklen Stadium planned for 2009 likely will be postponed until 2010 to allow for the adjustments that the new end zone will necessitate. Prime seats in other parts of the stadium could also be vacated when boosters move in to one of the planned luxury boxes. There have been questions about how good the view will be from luxury suites situated high over the end zone instead of midfield. However, a recent survey of Pirate Club donors indicates the club will have few problems selling as many as 28 boxes, each containing 16 seats. The survey asked respondents to rate their interest in a luxury box. Twenty-two percent of the 2,529 respondents indicated some level of interest in leasing a luxury box. Bass said that end zone luxury boxes at other schools have been well received. “The suites create a premier seating option for those who can contribute the larger gifts we need to be competitive in today’s world of big time intercollegiate athletics,” Holland said. Carolina is adding 20 luxury boxes in the west end zone of its stadium; similar layouts house fans at West Virginia and Virginia Tech. When a Pirate contingency toured Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, an administrator there said that only one of their 30 end zone boxes had turned over in 10 years. Pirate Club director Mark Wharton said he is trying to educate the Pirate Nation on the uniqueness of the end zone project. “I think there’s still a lot of cloudiness on whether we’re going to put boxes on the press box side, Wharton said. “The answer to that right now is no, these are the only boxes we’re going to have” East Fall Alumni Events Homecoming 2008 Homecoming 2008 ECU GOES FOR THE GOLD Come home to east carolina university to participate in the many events for alumni taking place this fall Bring your family and join us for alumni tailgate, the ecu alumni scholarship classic and homecoming 2008: ecu goes for the gold . we hope you will come back to greenville to renew old friendships and make new ones with fellow Pirates Be sure to visit our web site at Piratealumni com for event details and registration forms, or give us a call at 800-ECu-GRaD . welcome home . ECU ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP CLASSIC presented by the hilton Greenville friday, October 17, 2008 grab your clubs and call your golfing buddies to make a team for the ecu alumni scholarship classic at Ironwood golf and country club this annual tournament raises funds for alumni scholarships given to deserving ecu undergraduates 2007 was a banner year for our golf tournament, which raised more than $25,000 let s make history again in 2008 the night before you play, bring friends to the hilton for our Pirate s Bounty scholarship auction, a fun evening with beach music, hors d oeuvres, Pirate beverages, and auction items our four-person superball tournament begins friday with breakfast from araMark at 8 a m followed by the first flight at 9 a m then enjoy a catered lunch form o charley s and the second flight at 2 p m Join fellow players for the 19th hole reception at the clubhouse after a great day on the links as part of your player package visit our web site at Piratealumni com/golf for complete details and to see all of the businesses that make our tournament a success Please contact liz ellerbe at 800-ecu graD for sponsorship details FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 homecoming luncheon 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., mendenhall student Center, Great Room start your homecoming weekend off with a great meal at Mendenhall student center . vice chancellor for administration and finance kevin seitz will share future plans for the campus Parking is available behind Mendenhall . Bus Tour of Campus 1:00–2:00 p.m., Bus will depart from the joyner library clock tower Join host Jim westmoreland ’74, ’77 for a bus tour of ecu’s campus . this tour is the perfect opportunity to see your old residence hall and favorite hangout . ECu Classroom Experiences take alumni back to college days and provide unique learning opportunities . the alumni association is proud to offer three ecu classroom experiences during homecoming: ecu history professor and author Dr. Gerald j. prokopowicz will lead a discussion on his thought provoking book, Did Lincoln Own Slaves?: And Other Frequently Asked Questions About Abraham Lincoln. 1:00–2:00 p.m., Joyner library, 2nd floor Conference room lt. General Gary North ’76, commander of the 9th air force and u s . central command air forces, and 2008 outstanding alumni award recipient returns to campus . 2:15 p.m., Mendenhall student Center, great room explore ecu special Collections and archives 2:15 p.m., Joyner library Reception honoring Reverend kenneth hammond ’73, ’83, ’85 4:00 p.m., ledonia wright Cultural Center the Black alumni chapter of the east carolina alumni association will host a reception in honor of rev . kenneth hammond, 2008 outstanding alumni award recipient . hammond is senior pastor at union Baptist church, one of the largest congregations in Durham, nc, and a charter member of ecu’s alpha Phi alpha fraternity . alumni awards Cocktail Reception 6:00 p.m., hilton Greenville take a moment to congratulate this year’s award recipients before the awards dinner . …continued on page 38 ALUMNI TAILGATE 2008 tailgating is a tradition at ecu and the east carolina alumni association provides the perfect opportunity to leave your grill at home and join our family-friendly alumni tailgate two-and-a-half hours prior to kick-off . enjoy food provided by local restaurants, plenty of cold beverages, a chance to see Pee Dee the Pirate and the ecu cheerleaders, and win great door prizes under our tailgate tent . alumni tailgate is located outside gate 1 of Minges coliseum on the north side of Dowdy-ficklen stadium . the cost is $5 per person for alumni association members and $10 per person for non-members; children 10 and under are free . not a member of the alumni association? show your Pirate Pride and join today . go to Piratealumni com/jointoday for details about the many benefits of membership, including alumni tailgate, or call us at 800-ecu-graD . Note: tailgate and kickoff times are subject to change . hOmE alumNi TailGaTEs sept. 6, wvu. vs. ECu. tailgate 2:00–4:00 p m , kickoff, 4:30 p m , sponsored by o’charley’s and araMark sept. 27, houston vs. ECu. tailgate 1:00– 3:00 p m , kickoff at 3:30 p m sponsored by chico’s, fuddrucker’s and araMark Oct. 18, memphis vs. ECu. tailgate 9:30– 11:30 a m , kickoff at 12 noon sponsored by the honeybaked ham co and café and araMark Nov. 8, marshall vs. ECu, homecoming 2008. tailgate 1:00–3:00 p m , kickoff at 3:30 p m sponsored by araMark Nov. 28, uTEp vs. ECu. tailgate 10:30 a m – 12:30 p m , kickoff at 1:00 p m sponsored by araMark In addition to our home tailgates, join the alumni association and the Pirate club as we Thank you to our alumni Tailgate sponsors: take tailgate on the road . this year we are excited to offer tailgate at five away games . away game tailgates offer the same family- friendly atmosphere you’ve come to expect during home tailgates, along with great food and plenty of prizes . away game tailgates are $20 per person; children 10 and under are free . awaY GamE alumNi TailGaTEs august 30, va. Tech vs. ECu in Charlotte. tailgate 9:30–11:30 a m , kickoff at 12 noon sept. 13, ECu vs. Tulane. tailgate 11:30 a m – 1:30 p m . ct, kickoff at 2 p m . ct sept. 20, ECu vs. N.C. state. tailgate tBa, kickoff tBa Oct. 11, ECu vs. uva. tailgate tBa, kickoff tBa Nov. 2, ECu vs. uCf. tailgate 5:30–7:30 p m , kickoff at 8 p m . Homecoming 2008 alumni awards Ceremony 7:00 p.m., hilton Greenville Join us in recognizing alumni who have demonstrated outstanding merit and achievement as we honor this year’s award recipients: Outstanding alumni award recipients capt David M . fitzgerald, Jr ’66, retired u s . navy captain, 2007 congressional veteran commendation recipient rev . kenneth r . hammond ’73, ’83, ’85, senior pastor of union Baptist church, pastor mentor for Duke Divinity school, and adjunct professor of united christian Bible Institute Dr Jerry e Mcgee ’65, president of wingate university, and ncaa football official lt . gen . gary l . north ’76, u s . air force commander, 9th air force and u s . central command air forces, shaw air force Base, s c . Distinguished service award recipient stephen D . showfety ’70, president of koury corporation, board member, ecu foundation; member, henry vansant society of the Pirate club; former vice chairman, ecu Board of visitors; former secretary, vice chairman, and chairman, ecu Board of trustees honorary alumni Dr . richard r “Dick” eakin, ninth chancellor of east carolina university, and Mrs Jo ann “Jo” Mcgeehan eakin, wife of Dr . eakin and ecu campus beautification advocate charles rogers, owner of lifetime houses and avid volunteer and supporter of numerous ecu organizations SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 alumni Open house 9:00 a.m., Taylor-slaughter alumni Center start your day with a complimentary breakfast with the alumni association . then grab a front-row seat for the homecoming parade . homecoming parade 10:00 a.m., fifth street watch the annual ecu homecoming parade as the Marching Pirates and plenty of decorated floats parade down fifth street . homecoming alumni Tailgate 1:00–3:00 p.m. see the alumni tailgate section on the preceding pages for alumni tailgate information . WHILE YOU’RE IN TOWN… fRiDaY, NOvEmBER 7 volleyball: southern miss vs. ECu 7:00 p.m., Williams arena at Minges Coliseum saTuRDaY, NOvEmBER 8 1st annual ECu army ROTC pirate Battalion wounded warrior 10k and 1 mile Road Races: warriors supporting warriors 8:30 a.m., lynndale neighborhood behind food lion on red Banks road this race benefits the fort Bragg wounded warrior Program . swimming and Diving: College of Charleston, Catawba vs. ECu 8:30 a.m., Minges natatorium in Minges aquatic Center suNDaY, NOvEmBER 9 volleyball: uCf vs. ECu 1:00 p.m., williams arena at minges Coliseum HOMECOMING REUNIONS ECTC and ECC alumni Reunion Dinner Dance featuring The Collegians share memories of east carolina teachers college and east carolina college with former classmates throughout the weekend . a number of other activities are planned during homecoming, including a tour of campus, breakfast at the alumni center on saturday morning, and front-row seats for the homecoming Parade . after the football game, top the weekend off with a dinner and dance featuring the collegians at the hilton greenville . Golden alumni 50th Reunion celebration of the 50th class reunion is a milestone for our 1958 Pirates . Join us in congratulating members of the class of 1958 as they are inducted as golden alumni . this special ceremony takes place during the ectc and ecc alumni reunion Dinner Dance on saturday night . ON-Campus hOmECOmiNG DisCOuNTs Dowdy student stores “welcome Back” Celebration Thursday, november 6–saturday, november 8 visit the Dowdy student store to view various ecu memorabilia and take advantage of our “show us your ring sale ” we will open early on saturday, for preparade shopping! student Recreation Center free workout friday, november 7–saturday, november 8 alumni and a guest will be admitted for free at the student recreational center . stop by the registration desk when entering the recreation center . alumni may bring two additional guests for $5 each . COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, AND DEPARTMENT HOMECOMING ACTIVITIES fRiDaY, NOvEmBER 7 Department of Technology systems— Distribution and logistics golf outing 9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m., Bradford Creek golf Club rsvP to Mark angolia by october 1 at 252-737-1036 or angoliam@ecu edu . Department of Chemistry homecoming Celebration 5:30 p.m., science and Technology Building contact keith holmes at 252-737-1566 or holmesk@ecu edu . ECu student judicial Board 7:00 p.m., Cynthia lounge in Mendenhall student Center Meet and greet for current and past judicial board members . contact Jason sininger at siningerj@ecu edu . school of music ’70s alumni reunion and recital a.J. fletcher recital hall contact Bonnie Mani ’73 at manib@ecu edu to rsvP and/or play . saTuRDaY, NOvEmBER 8 College of allied health sciences “second” 40th anniversary celebration Complimentary breakfast reception 8 a.m., allied health sciences Building lobby recognition ceremony 10:00 a.m., “old” laupus library rsvP to Pat frede by nov 1 at 252-747-3523 or fredep@ecu edu . College of Education homecoming “Breakfast on the Porch” 9:00 a.m., light breakfast 10:00 a.m., Parade watching front porch of speight Building rsvP to gayle Mclawhorn by nov 3 at 252-328-6397 or mclawhorng@ecu edu . College of human Ecology Pre-parade homecoming gathering 9 a.m., light breakfast and activities for children rivers Building lobby 10 a.m., Parade watching contact sandy Jackson at 252-328-5754 or jacksonsa@ecu edu Department of physics Physics graduates reunion and lunch 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m., howell science Complex rsvP to tom sayetta by october 1 at 252-328-1957 or sayettat@ecu edu . College of Business homecoming social 9:30-11:30 a.m., Tent on fifth street in front of the Jenkins fine arts Center contact anne Bogey at 252-328-4396 or bogeya@ecu edu . Department of Geography open house 10:00–11:00 a.m., Brewster C-201 contact karen Mulcahy at 252-328-4991 or mulcahyk@ecu edu . Department of Technology systems— Distribution and logistics Tailgate 12:30–3:00 p.m., Under the scoreboard, across from elmhurst elementary school rsvP to Mark angolia by october 1 at 252737- 1036 or angoliam@ecu edu . athletic Training alumni reunion 1:00–3:00 p.m., gatorade tent in v.i.P. parking lot off of Charles Blvd. contact Morgan cooper at cooperm@ecu edu . Brody school of medicine Medical alumni Tailgate 1:00 p.m., Pirate’s Cove, catered by Parker’s BBQ rsvP to candace Darden by november 1 at 252-744-2238 or dardenc@ecu edu . ECu Chapter of the american library association Pre-game cookout 1:00 p.m. contact Jami Jones at jonesj@ecu edu by october 15 . interior Design interior Design lunch 1:00–3:00 p.m., east Carolina alumni association alumni Tailgate location contact charles gustina at 252-737-2057 or gustinac@ecu edu . please visit piratealumni.com/homecoming for complete details on all homecoming activities. BLACK ALUMNI REUNION this year’s Black alumni reunion weekend will be better than ever . we’ve planned something for everyone with activities on friday, saturday, and sunday . start this fun-filled reunion weekend on friday with a reception honoring 2008 outstanding alumni award recipient rev . kenneth hammond ’73, ’83, ’85 . then take your pick of attending the alumni awards ceremony or the energetic step show at wright auditorium . later, we’ll get together for midnight bowling and catching up with friends . on saturday, start the day by watching the lively homecoming Parade . we’ll pre-game at the alumni tailgate before heading over to Dowdy-ficklen for the homecoming game . after the game, enjoy the smooth sounds of renowned jazz artist carroll Dashiell and his jazz combo during the Jazz social . Dashiell is director of ecu’s Jazz ensemble “a,” an internationally recognized group that has played at carnegie hall, Birdland Jazz club in new york city, and on the tonight show with Jay leno . continue the night at the after hours Dance Party, dancing to a mix of the latest jams and some old favorites . shuttle service will be provided for reunion participants, and childcare will be offered for children ages 1 month–12 years . Before heading out of town on sunday morning, gather with fellow black alumni for worship at cornerstone Missionary Baptist church and brunch at k&w cafeteria . Be sure to register early and order a Black alumni polo shirt Proceeds from the sale of the polos will go toward the Black alumni chapter’s textbook gift certificate program . PIrate natIonPIrate natIon concert. And was getting off the bus in Ogden, Utah, at Lenior Community College in Kinston as Navy Unit VT708; Battle Watch his sound of music he’s still thrilled a truck stop and getting separated from the an instructor and head of library media, Commander for the Commander-in-Chief, If you enjoyed Jimmy Buffett in concert at to be employed group. I thought they had left me but they as media coordinator for D.H. Conley Atlantic Fleet Headquarters, Norfolk, VA; East Carolina, or Charlie Daniels, Cheap in the music business. had just parked where I couldn’t see the bus. High School in Greenville, and Media Commanding Officer, USS Stump DD-978; Trick, the Pointer Sisters, America, Styx, Then I spotted our merchandising people, Center supervisor for New Bern High Operations Officer, USS Suffolk County “My job starts about Molly Hatchett or any of the bands that who were traveling separately in a Suburban. School in New Bern. She has represented LST-1173; and Shore Patrol Liaison for a month before played Minges in the late 1970s and I jumped in the Suburban with them and we District 9 (Pitt County) in the House of Greece and Turkey. the concert. I get ran down the highway looking for the tour Representatives since 1999. information regarding While in the reserves, Newman was bus. Eventually, we stopped at a truck stop in the show from the McLawhorn served as chair employed as a Certified Public Accountant. Cheyenne, Wyoming, and reached someone booking agent or of the Appropriations He currently works in North Carolina who had just talked with Vince and they venue management. Subcommittee on Education state government as the chief fiscal officer/ were wondering what happened to me.” I get the name of a and the Joint Legislative controller for the Department of Insurance. contact person and How time flies, he says. “I really had no idea Committee on Domestic Previously, Newman was controller for the then make all the that this would lead me down the path I’m Violence; as vice chair of the Department of Corrections, chief of the arrangements for o’clock, accompanied by a semi loaded with on now but it certainly did,” he muses. “I’m Education Subcommittee on State Productivity Center for the Office the show, like whether we need a full band, equipment. Johnson directs a crew of eight certainly grateful that I found a career in Pre-School, Elementary, and Secondary of State Budget and Management, and a symphony or just a piano player. At that unloading the trucks, setting up the sound what I enjoyed doing the most in college. Education; and as a member of the Health, coordinator for the State’s Efficiency Project, point I sit down with the person on the system, microphones and mixers. Lunch You know, in this business it’s unusual to Mental Health Reform, Pensions and among other positions. venue end who is responsible for having offers an opportunity to check out the local work so long for one person so I’m really Retirement, Ways and Means, Joint Legislative Newman is chairman of the State Association everything ready for us when we get there. attractions. Early afternoon is a rush because lucky to have worked all these years for Commission on Governmental Operations; of Chief Fiscal Officers, a member of the That’s when I will make all the arrangements everything must be ready for a sound check someone who has a family mentality about and Joint Legislative Education Oversight N.C. Association of CPA’s Management for the technical side of the performance. by the band at 4 p.m. The show’s usually over the people around them.” committees, among others. Advisory Services, a representative for On the day of the show, I supervise all of around 10 o’clock and the crew spends an Several times over the years people in the She also has been involved with numerous the American Lung Association, and the technical operations. The last thing I do hour or two breaking down the equipment crowd have approached him after a show and community organizations including The Arc representative for the Pirate Club. is mix the front of house PA for the show. and loading everything back in the trucks, asked, “Didn’t you go to East Carolina?” He of Pitt County, ECU Women’s Roundtable, Newman and his wife, Judith, live in Raleigh. That’s my favorite part.” which immediately hit the road for the next enjoys those visits. “Tell everybody from Friends of the School of Music at ECU, concerts that after graduation he moved to town on the tour. Sometimes Johnson flies It’s also the most important because the ECU that if Vince Gill is ever playing in Greenville Museum of Art, Grifton Chamber The terms of these new board members the beach and tried making a living managing but he usually lives and sleeps on the tour acoustics vary from one concert hall to their town, come on down to the show and of Commerce, Magnolia Arts Center, NAACP, began on July 1. The executive board for some local bands, with mixed success. He bus, which is a multimillion-dollar yacht the next but the quality of the sound— ask for me. I’d love to talk.” National Order of Women Legislators, the the 2008–2009 fiscal year includes: Chair moved to Nashville in 1986 to take a job as a particularly Gill’s voice—should remain on wheels that sleeps 12 comfortably. He —Steve Tuttle Pirate Club, Sir Walter Cabinet, Uptown Sabrina Bengel; Vice Chair Ernest Logemann sound engineer at a recording studio and soon works two weeks of concerts and then has constant in the “front of the house” where Greenville and Women’s Forum. ’68; Treasurer Carl Davis ’73; and Secretary was moonlighting as a sound man at clubs on the audience sits. two weeks off for rest or maybe relocating to Two join alumni board Yvonne Pearce ’82. Former Chair Brenda Music Row. That’s where, in 1989, he struck another part of the country, where Gill will McLawhorn has been married to Richard Myrick now serves as past chair of the board. up a friendship with a young guitar player This fall’s tour is a bit different because The Alumni Association is pleased to McLawhorn for 42 years and has four start another two weeks of shows. named Vince Gill. An emerging star in country Gill is performing exclusively acoustical, announce the addition of two new board children and three grandchildren. The directors are looking forward to Traditionally, Vince Gill’s fall tour music, Gill was launching a national tour and which requires less equipment and a smaller members, state Rep. Marion McLawhorn strengthening the Alumni Association Newman holds a bachelor’s culminates with three weeks of the popular needed someone to produce the sound at the road crew. The tour got under way when ’67 ’88 ’97 and retired Navy Captain James through increased membership, the in psychology services concerts. He offered Johnson the job. Johnson staged Gill’s big Fourth of July Christmas shows he does with his wife, Amy Newman Jr. ’68 ’74. These Pirates are ready in accounting concert at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Grant. After those shows, Johnson has a few to add their insight, talent and passion for Johnson has been on the road with Vince Gill and the traditional home of the Grand Ole Opry. months off. East Carolina to our dedicated, hard-working ever since, through 10 hit albums, thousands Then he set out on a month of shows across Many in Gill’s inner circle have been with Board of Directors. of live concerts and, in 2007, Gill’s induction Navy spans the Northeast, to be followed by a West him for years. “We’re a family,” Johnson says. McLawhorn holds a bachelor’s in business into the Country Music Hall of Fame. For Coast swing. nearly 20 years now Johnson has been Gill’s But sometimes the family doesn’t all stay administration, a master’s in library science, active and reservist duty. He production manager and “front of house” Johnson’s life on tour rolls in a constant cycle: together, as he recalls from the days before and a certification in educational leadership in 1963 and served during the Directors please visit everyone carried cell phones. “One of the or FOH man, the person in charge of about Having driven all night from the previous and supervision. She spent a number of Vietnam War. He held PirateAlumni.com. funniest things that ever happened to me years in eastern North Carolina serving everything associated with staging a major show, the tour bus hits town around 9 including: Commanding Officer, 40 41 􀀟􀀰􀀰􀀰􀀰􀀥􀀦􀀟􀀰􀀰􀀰􀀰􀀥􀀦 􀀵􀁉􀁆􀀁􀀷􀁐􀁊􀁄􀁆􀀁􀁐􀁇􀀁􀁕􀁉􀁆􀀁􀀱􀁊􀁓􀁂􀁕􀁆􀀁􀀯􀁂􀁕􀁊􀁐􀁏 listen free online www.pirateradio1250.com 2007 KYLE M. GREER of Greenville was named personal lines specialist for the Jacksonville branch of SAI Group. He is also a lead vocalist with a rock band. ASHLEY YVONNE HARDY and Christian Michael Lane of Raleigh were married March 30 in Kinston. She teaches at Wake County’s Cedar Fork Elementary School. ROBERT EDWARD MORGAN II and Jaclyn Kay White were married March 15 in Raleigh. 2006 WILLIAM EDGAR JR., a commercial loan officer at First Carolina State Bank, was the first recipient of the Weldon “Red” Kimball Award, which recognizes exemplary performance. Edgar has seven years of banking experience and works with small and mid- sized businesses. He is treasurer of the Nash-Rocky Mount Rotary Club. DR. ETHAN LENKER, former superintendent of Jones County schools, was named superintendent of Sampson County schools. A native of Mechanicsburg, Pa., he was in Jones County for 10 years as director of personnel and accountability and a middle school principal before spending three years there as superintendent. JUSTIN SPRUILL is now a federal air marshal. LAUREN WHITE opened a franchise of the Wilmington-based women’s boutique Monkee’s in Arlington Village with BRIAN DISHMAN ’95. A New Bern native, she has worked in retail since she was 16. 2005 STACY BOWENS GASKINS is member services director for the Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce. She was married on Leap Day in 2004, worked as executive director of the Ayden Chamber of Commerce, and shadowed Dr. Bill Bogey in Pitt County Medical Society’s Intern Program. JENNIFER MARIE HARRIS and Edmond Elliot Smith were married July 28, 2007, in Winterville, where they reside. She teaches second grade at Snow Hill Primary School. KAREN ELAINE HARRIS ’05 ’07 and Mark Freeman McKittrick were married April 7, 2007, in Winterville, where they reside. She teaches reading recovery at W.H. Robinson Elementary School. ELIzABETH LILES is associate relations manager for U.S. Cellular’s eastern N.C. area. She was a learning development instructor, sales manager, and retail wireless consultant. JENNIFER LEIGH REEL and GILBERT THOMAS RUTLEDGE were married May 24 at Rock Springs Center in Greenville. They are traveling nurses and plan to continue their traveling careers after honeymooning in St. Lucia. 2004 JAMES BRYANT BEDDARD and KATHRYN reuters/fred Prouser class notes ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT world wrestling entertainment (wwe) chairman vince mcmahon ’69 received a star on the hollywood walk of fame in recognition of his pioneering work in television syndication and particularly in pay-per-view sports program ming . his star, the 2,257th embedded in the sidewalk along hollywood and vine streets in los angeles, is located next to kermit the frog’s near the hollywood and highland metro stop . McMahon, who is married to wwe ceo linda mcmahon ’69, also was honored earlier this year with the lifetime achievement award from Promax/BDa, a national association of broadcast professionals working in motion graphics . linda McMahon was honored by east carolina last year as one of its 100 most distinguished alumnae . wwe, based in stamford, conn , is an international media conglomerate with a market capitalization of $1 2 billion . the company maintains offices in new york, los angeles, chicago, london, shanghai, tokyo, toronto and sydney . In 2007, wwe performed 308 live events, including 75 international events, entertaining more than 2 million fans . McMahon is a supporter of the Make-a wish foundation of america and serves on its national advisory council . In 2006, he received the secretary of Defense Medal for exceptional Public service award for wwe s support of deployed service members in Iraq and afghanistan . class notes ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT JANE DANIELS ’05 ’07 of Winterville were science at ECU. She is a foster care and adoption 2001 of the Triangle, which gives special needs children married Dec. 29, 2007, in Beaufort. He works social worker at Beaufort County Department of opportunities to play baseball. She is vice president APRIL MICHELLE AVINA is a school psychologist with City of Greenville Fire and Rescue, and she Social Services. They live in Greenville. JUSTIN and branch manager of Capital Bank in Cary, an Elexis Gillette ’07 in the Ashtabula, Ohio, school system. RUFUS teaches kindergarten at Snow Hill Primary School. WAGONER and Alexsis Allen of Lexington were ambassador to the Cary Chamber of Commerce, and a is representing DALTON SMITH III and Amy Jo Bell of Greenville MATTHEW BROOKS is branch manager at married May 17 at Atlantic Beach. He works for Blue member of the Cary Rotary Club. SCOTT LYONS, the united states were married May 10 at Whitehurst Lake House in Ferguson Plumbing Supplies in Rocky Mount. He Cross Blue Shield in Winston-Salem. JENNIFER who has worked with Coldwell Banker Howard Perry in the Paralympic Washington. He is a planner for Roanoke Rapids. worked at the Greenville store for three years before BETH WOOD and Russell Lee Elks were married and Walston for four years, was named the builder games in Beijing his promotion and transfer. ROBERT CARNEY of April 26. She works in labor and delivery at PCMH. representative for the Heritage Wake Forest community china . gillette, 2000 Miami, Fla., is the new existing industry and marketing in Wake Forest. He is a member of the Triangle Spokes who has a visual manager at the Mooresville-South Iredell Economic 2002 MARY RUTH BRANTLEY ’00 ’01 and Michael Group and the Home Builders Association, and is impairment, Development Corp. A Hickory native, he oversaw Bradley Sikes of Winterville were married May 10. on the special events committee for the Triangle Sales participated in DAVID Q. LABARRE II was named to the Durham the distribution of Six Degrees Magazine in Miami and She is an account manager at DSM Pharmaceuticals. and Marketing Council. JOSH SIMMONS ’00 ’02, the athens County Sheriff ’s bomb squad, which will lead to worked with brand awareness for Rockstar Energy CLAYTON PORTER JOHNSTON and Laura formerly a volleyball coach and baseball assistant at Paralympics in certification from the Department of Homeland Drink. ANTHONY GOODSON JR. of Arden Ann Guy of Winterville were married May 17. He Surry Community College, was named the school’s 2004, where he won a silver medal in the long jump . he Security. The Durham Civitan Club named him deputy is Asheville’s housing development analyst, CEO/ is an engineering assistant with Greenville Utilities. new head baseball coach. He also teaches physical is the american record holder in the long jump and triple of the year for outstanding service. He has helped partner of M.G.G.S., and a member of the Mayor’s DWAYNE LEDFORD is an offensive assistant with education at SCC. jump for individuals with his classification of visual solve more than 30 break-ins and participated in a Task Force for Affordable Housing in Asheville. ECU’s football coaching staff. At ECU, he was a four- impairment . a native of raleigh, he is training at the u s . record-breaking $1.6 million heroin bust. RONDA BRYAN MATTHEW HANCOCK and Christy year football letterman and won the 1998 Jerry T. olympic committee center in chula vista, calif . he has a SORTINO ’02 ’06 is the new principal at Grifton 1999 Lynn Lunceford of Rockingham were married March Brooks Award for academics. He played for five NFL web site, www nostoppinnow com . School. She was assistant principal at Farmville Central GEORGE HOLLEN completed his MBA at UNC 8. He works for Richmond County government. teams from 1999 to 2006, coached the Frankfurt High School and interim public information officer for Wilmington in May and received the Norman Kaylor MICHAEL D. HOLT is assistant vice president and Galaxy in NFL Europe, and was an offensive line Pitt County Schools. In her 10 years in education, she Most Outstanding MBA Student Award. LYNN C. Dustin “Dusty” field ’94 business banker at Albemarle Bank & Trust’s Greenville coach at Sanderson High School in Raleigh in 2007. was an exceptional children’s teacher at Wellcome Middle WILCzEWSKI, the social studies department chair at of raleigh, the loan office. He worked for First Citizens Bank for MIMOSA NATASHA FLAME MALLERNEE and School, and a 2004 N.C. Principal Fellow Scholarship Monacan High School in Richmond, Va., was accepted entrepreneur four years. RODNEY L. MCNEILL and Gerald S. Jason Cooper Hines were married May 9 in Asheville. Recipient. CAROLINE EAGLES TOUMEY and to the Goethe Institute’s Trans Atlantic Outreach extraordinaire who paid Coleman of Winterville were married March 15. He She is assistant art director for University Publications Henry Sheldon Dellinger of Charlotte were married Program to study history and culture in Germany in his way through college is a fifth grade language arts and social studies teacher at ECU. KATHRYN ANNE MATTHEWS Feb. 2 in Charlotte. She is the human resources manager summer 2008. from proceeds of gumball with Pitt County Schools. ELIzABETH ASHLEY was named to the board of the Miracle League for Bobcats Sports and Entertainment. and pistachio machines PHILIPS and William Gaston Brown of Greenville he placed in downtown were married April 19. She is a sales representative for bars and who went on to Lorillard Tobacco. ANDREW BRENT WHITE and build an empire of atM Catherine Grace McLaurin of Raleigh were married machines serviced April 12 in Rockingham. He is a supervisor with through his own armored Alliance Building and Development. car company, has latched on to a new business 2003 venture: a winery . JOSHUA MICHAEL AVINA re-entered the Marines fields, who operates as an officer after graduation and was promoted mainly through the to captain on June 1 during his second tour in Boylan cos . commercial Iraq. CAPT. JONATHAN EDWARD DARDEN real estate firm in raleigh, was assigned to his third Middle East deployment. launched tobacco road Commissioned into the Military Intelligence Branch, 􀀶􀀳􀀺􀀾􀀎 cellars just four years ago he was deployed to Afghanistan for 12 months, spent and already is attracting critical acclaim . the boutique 12 months in Hawaii, was deployed to Iraq for 12 winery took home a gold medal at the 2008 riverside months, the returned to Hawaii for nine months. International wine competition for its 2005 vitality” He attended the military officer advanced course in 􀁃􀁁􀀎 cabernet sauvignon . the competition attracted 2,136 Arizona before being deployed for another 12 months entries from 417 wineries around the globe . in Iraq. BRIAN KELLY FULLERTON of Charlotte 􀁄􀁗􀁡􀁗􀁢􀀎􀀾􀁗􀁠􀁏􀁢􀁓􀀯􀁚􀁣􀁛􀁜􀁗􀀜􀁑􀁝􀁛 is a pilot based in Dayton, Ohio, with PSA Airlines tobacco road cellars, which is based in raleigh, 􀁝􀁠􀀎􀁑􀁏􀁚􀁚􀀎􀀦􀀞􀀞􀀛􀀳􀀱􀁃􀀛􀀵􀁀􀀯􀀲􀀎 (US Airways Express). Having completed training as produces its wines from grapes grown in california’s 􀁀􀀯􀀷􀁁􀀳􀀎 a first officer for the CRJ 200 regional jet, he flies up 􀁢􀁝􀀎􀁛􀁏􀁙􀁓􀀎􀁧􀁝􀁣􀁠 napa valley, russian river valley and santa Barbara and down the East Coast and Midwest. VALERIE county . It bottles a limited production of specialty 􀁢􀁏􀁦􀀛􀁒􀁓􀁒􀁣􀁑􀁢􀁗􀁐􀁚􀁓 GALBERTH is principal at H.B. Sugg and Sam D. cabernet, syrah and Pinot noir for premier steakhouses, Bundy elementary schools. She was assistant principal 􀁛􀁓􀁛􀁐􀁓􀁠􀁡􀁖􀁗􀁞􀀎 bistros and country clubs, and sells directly to the public for two years and principal for three years at Farmville 􀁂􀀶􀀳􀀎 through its web site, www tobaccoroadcellars com . the Central High School after being a school counselor 􀁑􀁝􀁜􀁢􀁠􀁗􀁐􀁣􀁢􀁗􀁝􀁜􀀎􀁢􀁝􀁒􀁏􀁧􀀏 award-winning cabernet sauvignon goes for $75 a bottle . for 20 years. CHARLES DAVID KEMBLE ’03 ’06 of Rockingham and KATHERINE ELIzABETH field co-founded the Boylan cos , which develops COTTLE ’06 of Goldsboro were married May 10 􀀰􀀯􀁀􀀏 upscale apartment and condo communities in the in Goldsboro. He is assistant director of the activity triangle . promotion lab and an instructor in exercise and sport 44 45 􀁃􀀼􀀱 Over 70,000 Association members 􀀼􀀱􀀎􀁁􀁂􀀯􀁂􀀳 Over 20,000 Association members 􀀳􀀱􀁃􀀎􀀛􀀎􀀡􀀚􀀥􀀟 East Carolina􀀯􀀺􀁃􀀻􀀼􀀷􀀎􀀯􀁁􀁁􀀽􀀱􀀷􀀯􀁂􀀷􀀽􀀼 Your East Carolina University Connection 􀀴􀁝􀁠􀁓􀁤􀁓􀁠􀀎􀀾􀁗􀁠􀁏􀁢􀁓􀀾􀁓􀁓􀀎􀀲􀁓􀁓􀀷􀀲􀀨􀀎􀀑􀀟􀀧􀀞􀀥􀀻􀁓􀁛􀁐􀁓􀁠􀀎􀁁􀁗􀁜􀁑􀁓􀀎􀀠􀀞􀀞􀀤 class notes 1998 CHRIS CABRAL ’98 ’06 is a new ranger at Goose Creek State Park. He maintains eight miles of trails and handles alcohol and speeding violations in the 1,670-acre park. ALICIA MARIE TALMADGE DELSASSO of Ringwood, N.J., and her husband had their first child, Parker Christopher, on Nov. 27, 2007. 1997 ADRIENA DAME is founding editor and publisher of 94 Creations Ink. She is assistant managing editor for The Louisville Review and Fleur-de-Lis Press in Kentucky and ghostwrites for The Family Seal, a memoir assistance company. LAVETTE FORD ’97 ’03 was promoted from assistant principal to principal at South Greenville Elementary School. She is working on a degree in educational leadership at ECU. WILLIAM “DEE” JONES and AMY ELLIOTT JONES ’99 had a son, William Garan Jones, on Feb. 15. He joins daughter Avery. Dee is a project manager for Marand Construction in Charlotte, and Amy is a senior marketing coordinator for FreemanWhite. 1996 RON BENNETT of Waggaman, La., won the 2008 Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship. He regularly exhibits at Issa Galleria and Barrister’s Gallery in New More than 40 Years of Breathtaking Performances, Oered for a Song 􀁅􀁓􀀎􀁥􀁗􀁚􀁚􀀎􀁣􀁜􀁤􀁓􀁗􀁚􀀎􀁝􀁣􀁠􀀎􀁜􀁓􀁥􀀎􀁡􀁓􀁏􀁡􀁝􀁜􀀎􀁡􀁝􀁝􀁜􀀜􀀎􀀵􀁓􀁢􀀎􀁢􀁖􀁓􀀎􀁕􀁝􀁝􀁒􀀎􀁡􀁓􀁏􀁢􀁡􀀨􀀎􀁑􀁏􀁚􀁚􀀎􀀟􀀛􀀦􀀞􀀞􀀛􀀳􀀱􀁃􀀛􀀯􀁀􀁂􀁁􀀎􀁢􀁝􀀎􀁠􀁓􀁑􀁓􀁗􀁤􀁓􀀎􀁝􀁣􀁠􀀎􀀠􀀞􀀞􀀧􀂳􀀠􀀞􀀟􀀞􀀎􀁡􀁓􀁏􀁡􀁝􀁜􀀎􀁏􀁜􀁜􀁝􀁣􀁜􀁑􀁓􀁛􀁓􀁜􀁢􀀎􀂿􀁠􀁡􀁢􀀜 Orleans and various national venues. CHRISTOPHER HADDOCK is vice president and city executive at Albemarle Bank & Trust’s Greenville loan production office. A Greenville native, he practiced business and real estate law for four years, was a commercial banker for five years, and as assistant vice president for First Citizens Bank was the bank’s 2007 top-producing commercial banker. ERIC MAAS and JULIE BLAzIER MAAS moved to Belize, Central America, with their children, Ciera (5) and Josiah (8 months), in summer 2008 to be volunteer directors of the Baptist Training Center in Belmopan. They facilitated work and housing for mission teams, hosted pastors for biblical training and churches for Vacation Bible School. JENAI PAUL, a psychiatric clinical specialist at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and MICHAEL PAUL had a daughter, Whitney Kathryn, on May 27, Michael’s birthday. They have two other children, Avery and Mason. JOSEPH RACzKOWSKI is Moore County’s new planning director. His previous positions include planning and community development director for Pender County, planning and inspections director for Wilson County, planning director for Nashville, and a planner in Edgecombe County. 1995 HELEN S. PRIDGEN PURDON received her master’s in vocal pedagogy from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., in May 2007. On Jan. 11, 2008, she and her husband, Jarrod A. Purdon, had their first child, Sarah Grace. TREVOR WINNELL is a vice president, structural engineer, and inspections manager at Falcon Engineering, the new Cary-based engineering and construction management firm that merged with Raleigh-based geotechnical and materials testing firm Tierra North Carolina. 1994 MICHAEL EDWARD BIASI of Fuquay-Varina became the director of bands and department of fine arts chair at the new Holly Springs High School in Wake County in 2006 after seven years as director of bands at Southwest Onslow High School. TAMARA T. FLYNN received the 2008 N.C. Health Information Management Association’s Distinguished Member Award. PATRICK CULLOM O’BRYANT of Belville is executive representative of Ortho McNeill. He and his wife Suzanne were married on Nov. 5, 2007. JESSICA EVERETT WAHLER ’94 ’96 of Raleigh and her husband, Todd, had a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Charlotte, on Nov. 30, 2007. She joins her sister Mary-Everett Virginia. 1993 WILLIAM HUNTER CLARK JR. ’93 and ASHLEY ANNE DRIVER ’95 of Greenville were married April 12. He is land development and acquisition manager for Bill Clark Homes, and she is a nurse at PCMH. VIRGINIA HARDY, senior associate dean for academic affairs at BSOM, was named to a three-year term on the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation advisory panel, which examines North Carolina issues and new directions for grantmaking. DWAIN P. TEAGUE ’93 ’98 is the new director of development for the School of Information and Library Science at UNC Chapel Hill, where he oversees a multimillion dollar capital campaign to raise funds for a new building, scholarships, and other funding opportunities. He previously served as the director of development for the University of Central Florida Libraries and College of Arts and Sciences in Orlando, Fla. Before then, he managed major gift fundraising as associate director of development at ECU’s Joyner Library. 1992 CHRISTINA DEES COGGINS and Phillip Douglas Jethro Jr. of Virginia Beach were married Oct. 6, 2007, at Port O’Call Restaurant in Kill Devil Hills. She works for Branch Bank and Trust Mortgage. GARRY L. DUDLEY was one of 22 national inductees for Schering-Plough’s Diamond Club, the highest honor for the company’s representatives. He has made Presidents Club numerous times and was representative of the year for 2006 and 2007. He lives in Chesterfield, Va., with his wife, MONICA REAVIS DUDLEY ’94 ’96, and daughters, Summer and Kendall. CHRISTIAN KEIBER, co-founder of independent film company Creative Alley Productions in Los Angeles, played a U.S. Marshal investigating a mob hit on the season finale of NBC’s ER. He guest starred on a new court drama called Raising the Bar from NYPD Blue creator Steven Bochco. MELISSA D. MARSAL is executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Albemarle Bank & Trust’s Greenville loan production office. She is also vice president and senior loan officer for a branch of New Vision Mortgage. D. PAUL POWERS JR. ’92 ’94 is executive vice president and regional president at Albemarle Bank & Trust’s Greenville loan production office. A 35-year Greenville resident with 15 years of banking experience, he was First Citizens Bank’s senior vice president and business banking manager for Pitt County and was the bank’s top-producing business banking manager in 2007. 1991 WILLIAM HARRIS ’91 of Seattle, Wash., received a Northwest Regional Emmy for best promo news campaign for his work as a creative services writer/ producer for the ABC affiliate KOMO TV. He also was nominated for best promo news single spot. He’s been with KOMO 4, which won the Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Station Excellence, ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Danny scott ’84, vice president of diversity for anheuser-Busch in st . louis, made a charitable gift to the college of Business leading to the creation of a scholarship aimed at increasing racial diversity . the anheuser- Busch foundation matched scott s gift . the $52,000 endowment will fund the first diversity-based scholarship offered through an academic college at ecu . the Danny r . scott scholarship will be awarded annually to a student in the college of Business who contributes to educational diversity while demonstrating academic excellence and financial need . the amount of each scholarship will total $2,300 per year . this scholarship is a way for me to help deserving students attain a quality education, while also reflecting the university’s strong commitment to diversity and education, scott said . scott lives near st . louis, Mo , with his wife Connie shelton ’85 . he has worked with anheuser-Busch for more than 19 years . the first recipient of scholarship will be announced in april . actress ali hillis ’95 married Matt schwarz, an entrepreneur and hedge fund manager, on aug . 2 on a cliff above shell Beach, calif . they met in new york city where schwarz is part owner of Brother Jimmy’s, a popular nightspot where the new york new Jersey chapter of the Pirate club meets to watch football games . hillis waited tables there before breaking into television with recurring roles on NYPD Blue and Felicity. her next movie is Beverly Hills Chihuahua, out sept . 26, in which she stars with Piper Perabo and Jamie lee curtis . she previously co-starred with Ben stiller as his would-be bride in Heartbreak Kid, as Diane lane’s sassy younger sister in Must Love Dogs, and as robert Downey Jr s tryst in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Cliff Godwin ’00 ’02, who was the hitting coach for louisiana state university in the 2008 college world series, is the new hitting coach for the university of central florida’s baseball team . at ecu, he slammed 24 home runs, 31 doubles and 95 rBIs, and earned first team all-conference his senior year . he played professionally with the gateway grizzlies for two years and was an assistant baseball coach at notre Dame in 2005 . class notes for 10 years. The station’s helicopter pad at Fisher Plaza is used in the TV show Grey’s Anatomy as Seattle Grace Hospital. DEAN TAYLOR ’91 ’93 is director of retail sales for the Carolinas/Tennessee Region for Verizon Wireless. He has 13 years of telecommunications experience and was director of retail sales for Verizon Wireless in Georgia and Alabama. CINDY THOMPSON-RUMPLE, writing as C.G. Thompson, won the 2008 N.C. State Poetry Contest. Her poem, “Post Card to Ravinna,” competed against more than 300 entries to take the $500 Brenda L. Smart Grand Prize. It was also featured in The News & Observer’s Sunday Reader. 1990 KENNETH GRANTHAM is the new head of the football program at Greene Central High School, where he played football and his father was coach for 20 years before retiring to assist Kenneth at Nash Central High School, where he led playoff-caliber football teams. ANN ELIzABETH LAWRENCE and Michael Connolly were married June 14 in Charlotte. She is a vice president in learning and leadership development for Bank of America in Charlotte. 1989 SUzANNE SLACK CAMDEN ’89 ’91 was promoted to associate vice president for Mid Atlantic Engineering and Technical Services in Chesapeake, Va. She is secretary for the Norfolk chapter of the National Contracts Management Association and a PTO member at the Goddard School in Virginia Beach, where her 4-year-old daughter attends. LEE RIDDLE left the Pepsi Bottling Group in Maryland after 16 years and moved to Chattanooga, Tenn., to be special projects director for Lodge Manufacturing Co. His great-grandfather founded Lodge, the only domestic producer of cast iron cookware, in South Pittsburgh, Tenn., in 1896. He married LYNN AUCOIN RIDDLE ’90 14 years ago, and they have two sons, Alexander (12) and Zachary (10). VINSON SMITH is head of the new football program at Statesville Christian School. At Statesville High School, he was an All-American football player before attending ECU and joining the NFL for 12 years. He was a linebacker for the 1992-93 Super Bowl-winning Dallas Cowboys. 1987 DR. SUSAN AYCOCK is a family medicine specialist with Southeastern Health Center of Clarkton. WESLEY PAYNE NEWSOME co-opened a tex-mex restaurant called Guacamole Grill in Cary in March 2008. 1986 EDWIN M. “SANDY” HARDY was re-elected chair of the trustees of Beaufort County Hospital. He was first appointed to the board in 2003 by the Beaufort County commissioners. JIM FORD of Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, Canada, is a regional manager of rear-operations for Shoney’s Restaurant and is married to Kerry Hale Ford, an orthopedic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. They have two children, Riley (4) and Elias (7), and plan to live in Yellowknife. CARYL HOLOMAN, a pulmonary nurse manager in BSOM’s internal medicine department, was named 2008 BSOM nurse of the year at the annual nurses banquet. At ECU since 1997, she totals 22 years of nursing experience. ROBERT LOGAN, formerly the associate superintendent of innovation and school transformation at the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, is the new superintendent of the Chatham County Schools. He was superintendent of Asheville City and Lee County schools. 1985 DR. STEPHEN BRIDGERS is a family medicine specialist with Southeastern Health Center of Clarkton. MARTHA KATRENIA KORNEGAY JOHNSON ’85 ’96, a seventh grade inclusion teacher at West Craven Middle School, received her National Board Certification in November 2007 as an exceptional needs specialist for early childhood through young adulthood. Married to Rev. Robert Johnson, she has two sons, Emmanuel and Isaiah. CYNTHIA ANNE MILLS and Robert Edward Farish III of Maury, N.C., and Beverly Hills, Calif., were married April 5 in Atrani, Italy. She is a managing partner in Mills & Economos law firm in Greenville. GREG SHELNUTT, director of the N.C. School of the Arts’ visual arts program, received a $5,000 fellowship from the Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship Program to travel to Bendigo, Australia, to be an artist-in-residence at LaTrobe University and study bell casting. 1984 TOM OVERCASH of Bahama has 21 years experience as a senior financial advisor for AIG Retirement Advisors and received his fifth “Top 50” recognition from the President’s Cabinet. He and his wife Lisa have four daughters. RAYMIE STYONS has officiated ACC basketball games since 1989. He also owns a Nationwide Insurance agency in Greenville and has two children in athletics. PATRICIA “PAT”WILLIAMS of Kinston retired after 40 years as a real estate paralegal. She started work for James Hodges in 1968, and in 1977, moved with him to White & Allen, where she assisted with foreclosures, title work, and commercial and residential sale closings. 1983 JOSEPH W. CLARK of Durham received the Lifetime Certified Local Governmental Purchasing Officer and Purchaser of the Year recognitions from the Carolinas Association of Governmental Purchasing. He is purchasing manager and deputy finance officer for Durham and is treasurer of the CAGP board. WARREN FRANKE, who has taught at Iowa State University since 1991, was promoted to the rank of professor in the Department of Kinesiology. STEPHANIE HINNANT, sales manager for Taff Office Equipment, has 20 years experience with sales, marketing, and customer service in Greenville. She is on the Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce’s executive committee, the Pitt County Committee of 100 board, and the STRIVE advisory board. She was board president for United Way of Pitt County in 2007. 1982 WAYNE E. MURPHY, senior vice president of Southern Bank, was promoted to regional supervisor for Martin, Edgecombe, and Pitt counties. With the bank since 1995, he has 24 years of banking experience and is on the boards for the Rocky Mount Chamber of Commerce and Northeastern Entrepreneurial Roundtable. 1981 LINDA ANN FASOLT HOLLAMON of Cary and her husband opened an independent coffee house in Apex’s Davis Drive Village called The Wake Zone Espresso. She also has worked for 27 years as a nurse in the surgical prep and recovery unit of Rex Hospital in Raleigh. REGINALD T. HOLT ’81 ’85 was named president and CEO of member-owned Farm Credit of Central Florida. He was a branch manager for East Carolina Farm Credit in Swan Quarter before moving to South Carolina in 1985 and Florida in 1992, when he joined FCCF as area vice president and later directed agribusiness lending. He has four children. 1980 JANE STONE ALLEN is an educational technologist for the Air Force’s 42nd Attack Squadron, a field training unit that teaches personnel to fly the Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle. She and her husband Doug, a legal counsel for Steelman Design Group, live in Las Vegas. ELIzABETH BRANCH of Winterville is a real estate agent and broker with Williams and Associates Realtors and has three children. MICHAEL EURY, a Concord native, is the new executive director for the Historic Cabarrus Association, which was formed from a merger of Historic Cabarrus Inc. and the Concord Museum. A former editor for DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics, he has written books on comics and media history and worked as a communications director and popular culture historian. SHERWOOD WAYNE HARP of Wake Forest was named city executive for New Republic Savings Bank in Henderson. KENNY MOORE of Harrells was inducted into the Sampson County Sports Hall of Fame in April 2008 for his athletic record at Union High School and as a football player at ECU and in Canada. ANN SUTTON, who has 13 years experience in interior design and lighting, is a new consultant at Lighting by Design. CHRISTOPHER JAMES VIGREN of Pittsfield, Mass., is a board member and executive vice president of Citibank/Citigroup. He was an economics advisor under both Clinton administrations. JAN WELBORN ome ome  􀁪􀁳􀁰􀁯􀁸􀁰􀁰􀁥 􀁊􀁳􀁰􀁯􀁸􀁰􀁰􀁥􀀡􀁈􀁰􀁭􀁧􀀡􀀡􀀧􀀡􀁄􀁰􀁶􀁯􀁵􀁳􀁺􀀡􀁄􀁭􀁶􀁣 Fatured Amenities— 􀀯􀀡􀁍􀁦􀁦􀀡􀁕􀁳􀁦􀁷􀁪􀁯􀁰􀀡􀁔􀁪􀁨􀁯􀁢􀁵􀁶􀁳􀁦􀀡􀀲􀀹􀀮􀁉􀁰􀁭􀁦􀀡􀁈􀁰􀁭􀁧􀀡􀁄􀁰􀁶􀁳􀁴􀁦􀀯􀀡􀁔􀁰􀁤􀁪􀁢􀁭􀀡􀁂􀁤􀁵􀁪􀁷􀁪􀁵􀁪􀁦􀁴􀀯􀀡􀁔􀁸􀁪􀁮􀁮􀁪􀁯􀁨􀀡􀁑􀁰􀁰􀁭􀀯􀀡􀁍􀁪􀁨􀁩􀁵􀁦􀁥􀀡􀁄􀁰􀁮􀁱􀁰􀁴􀁪􀁵􀁪􀁰􀁯􀀡􀁕􀁦􀁯􀁯􀁪􀁴􀀡􀁄􀁰􀁶􀁳􀁵􀁴􀀯􀀡􀁄􀁭􀁶􀁣􀁩􀁰􀁶􀁴􀁦􀀯􀀡􀁇􀁭􀁦􀁹􀁪􀁣􀁭􀁦􀀡􀁎􀁦􀁮􀁣􀁦􀁳􀁴􀁩􀁪􀁱􀀡􀁄􀁢􀁵􀁦􀁨􀁰􀁳􀁪􀁦t 􀁑􀁳􀁦􀁴􀁵􀁸􀁪􀁤􀁬􀀡􀁂􀁵􀀡􀁊􀁳􀁰􀁯􀁸􀁰􀁰􀁥􀀡! 􀁊􀁳􀁰􀁯􀁸􀁰􀁰􀁥􀃖􀁴􀀡􀁏􀁦􀁸􀁦􀁴􀁵􀀡􀁈􀁢􀁳􀁥􀁦􀁯􀀡􀁉􀁰􀁮􀁦􀀡􀁄􀁰􀁮􀁮􀁶􀁯􀁪􀁵􀁺􀀯􀀡! 􀁊􀁧􀀡􀁺􀁰􀁶􀃖􀁷􀁦􀀡􀁢􀁭􀁸􀁢􀁺􀁴􀀡􀁥􀁳􀁦􀁢􀁮􀁦􀁥􀀡􀁰􀁧􀀡􀁤􀁰􀁮􀁪􀁯􀁨􀀡􀁩􀁰􀁮􀁦􀀡􀁵􀁰􀀡􀁈􀁳􀁦􀁦􀁯􀁷􀁪􀁭􀁭􀁦􀀡􀁢􀁯􀁥􀀡􀁆􀁢􀁴􀁵􀀡􀁄􀁢􀁳􀁰􀁭􀁪􀁯􀁢􀀡􀁖􀁯􀁪􀁷􀁦􀁳􀁴􀁪􀁵z 􀀡􀁯􀁰􀁸􀀡􀁪􀁴􀀡􀁵􀁩􀁦􀀡􀁱􀁦􀁳􀁧􀁦􀁤􀁵􀀡􀁵􀁪􀁮􀁦􀀡􀁵􀁰􀀡􀁵􀁢􀁬􀁦􀀡􀁢􀀡􀁭􀁰􀁰􀁬􀀡􀁢􀁵􀀡􀁵􀁩􀁦! 􀁊􀁳􀁰􀁯􀁸􀁰􀁰􀁥􀀡􀁄􀁰􀁮􀁮􀁶􀁯􀁪􀁵z 􀀡􀁆􀁢􀁴􀁵􀁦􀁳􀁯􀀡􀁏􀁄􀃖􀁴􀀡􀁑􀁳􀁦􀁮􀁪􀁦􀁳􀀡􀁈􀁰􀁭􀁧􀀡􀁢􀁯􀁥􀀡􀁓􀁦􀁴􀁪􀁥􀁦􀁯􀁵􀁪􀁢􀁭􀀡􀁄􀁰􀁮􀁮􀁶􀁯􀁪􀁵􀁺􀀯􀀡􀁊􀁳􀁰􀁯􀁸􀁰􀁰􀁥􀀡􀁱􀁳􀁰􀁷􀁪􀁥􀁦􀁴􀀡􀁵􀁩􀁦􀀡􀁱􀁦􀁳􀁧􀁦􀁤􀁵􀀡􀁴􀁦􀁵􀁵􀁪􀁯􀁨􀀡􀁧􀁰􀁳􀀡􀁢􀁯􀁺􀀡􀁱􀁩􀁢􀁴􀁦! 􀁰􀁧􀀡􀁭􀁪􀁧􀁦􀀡􀁧􀁦􀁢􀁵􀁶􀁳􀁪􀁯􀁨􀀡􀁧􀁢􀁣􀁶􀁭􀁰􀁶􀁴􀀡􀁩􀁰􀁮􀁦􀁴􀀡􀁰􀁯􀀡􀁱􀁳􀁪􀁴􀁵􀁪􀁯􀁦􀀡􀁭􀁰􀁵􀁴􀀡􀁣􀁶􀁪􀁭􀁵􀀡􀁣􀁺􀀡􀁵􀁩􀁦􀀡􀁢􀁳􀁦􀁢􀁴􀀡􀃟􀁯􀁦􀁴􀁵􀀡􀁣􀁶􀁪􀁭􀁥􀁦􀁳􀁴􀀯􀀡􀁑􀁭􀁶􀁴􀀭􀀡􀁊􀁳􀁰􀁯􀁸􀁰􀁰􀁥􀀡􀁪􀁴􀀡􀁴􀁪􀁵􀁶􀁢􀁵􀁦􀁥􀀡􀁪􀁯􀀡􀁵􀁩􀁦􀀡􀁱􀁦􀁳􀁧􀁦􀁤􀁵􀀡􀁭􀁰􀁤􀁢􀁵􀁪􀁰􀁯􀀭! 􀁭􀁦􀁴􀁴􀀡􀁵􀁩􀁢􀁯􀀡􀀶􀀡􀁮􀁪􀁯􀁶􀁵􀁦􀁴􀀡􀁧􀁳􀁰􀁮􀀡􀁵􀁩􀁦􀀡􀁩􀁰􀁴􀁱􀁪􀁵􀁢􀁭􀀡􀁢􀁯􀁥􀀡􀁮􀁦􀁥􀁪􀁤􀁢􀁭􀀡􀁥􀁪􀁴􀁵􀁳􀁪􀁤􀁵􀀭􀀡􀀲􀀱􀀡􀁮􀁪􀁯􀁶􀁵􀁦􀁴􀀡􀁧􀁳􀁰􀁮􀀡􀁵􀁩􀁦􀀡􀁖􀁯􀁪􀁷􀁦􀁳􀁴􀁪􀁵􀁺􀀡􀁥􀁪􀁴􀁵􀁳􀁪􀁤􀁵􀀭􀀡􀁪􀁮􀁮􀁦􀁥􀁪􀁢􀁵􀁦􀀡􀁢􀁤􀁤􀁦􀁴􀁴􀀡􀁵􀁰􀀡􀁖􀁔􀀡􀀳􀀷􀀵􀀭! 􀁢􀁯􀁥􀀡􀁸􀁪􀁵􀁩􀁪􀁯􀀡􀁤􀁭􀁰􀁴􀁦􀀡􀁱􀁳􀁰􀁹􀁪􀁮􀁪􀁵􀁺􀀡􀁵􀁰􀀡􀁈􀁳􀁦􀁦􀁯􀁷􀁪􀁭􀁭􀁦􀃖􀁴􀀡􀁴􀁩􀁰􀁱􀁱􀁪􀁯􀁨􀀡􀁢􀁯􀁥􀀡􀁥􀁪􀁯􀁪􀁯􀁨􀀡􀁢􀁳􀁦􀁢􀁴/ 􀀶􀀡􀁑􀁭􀁢􀁯􀁴􀀡􀁵􀁰􀀡􀁄􀁩􀁰􀁰􀁴􀁦􀀡􀁇􀁳􀁰􀁮􀀡􀀯􀀡􀁓􀁢􀁯􀁨􀁪􀁯􀁨􀀡􀁇􀁳􀁰􀁮􀀡􀀲􀀭􀀸􀀱􀀱􀁴􀁧􀀡􀁵􀁰􀀡􀀳􀀭􀀵􀀱􀀱􀀬􀁴􀁧! 􀁆􀁶􀁳􀁰􀁱􀁦􀁢􀁯􀀡􀁔􀁵􀁺􀁭􀁦􀀡􀁆􀁹􀁵􀁦􀁳􀁪􀁰􀁳􀁴􀀡􀁇􀁦􀁢􀁵􀁶􀁳􀁪􀁯􀁨; 􀁆􀁯􀁨􀁭􀁪􀁴􀁩􀀡􀁈􀁢􀁳􀁥􀁦􀁯􀁴􀀡􀀯􀀡􀁔􀁵􀁢􀁤􀁬􀁦􀁥􀀡􀁔􀁵􀁰􀁯􀁦􀀡􀁇􀁦􀁢􀁵􀁶􀁳􀁦􀁴􀀡􀀯􀀡􀁘􀁳􀁰􀁶􀁨􀁩􀁵􀀡􀁊􀁳􀁰􀁯􀀡􀁘􀁪􀁯􀁥􀁰􀁸􀀡􀁃􀁰􀁹􀁦􀁴􀀡􀀯􀀡􀁄􀁦􀁥􀁢􀁳􀀡􀁑􀁰􀁴􀁵􀁴􀀡􀀯􀀡􀁂􀁭􀁭􀀡􀁃􀁳􀁪􀁤􀁬􀀡􀁆􀁹􀁵􀁦􀁳􀁪􀁰􀁳􀁴􀀡􀀯􀀡􀁍􀁢􀁳􀁨􀁦􀀡􀁄􀁰􀁷􀁦􀁳􀁦􀁥􀀡􀁑􀁰􀁳􀁤􀁩􀁦􀁴! 􀁆􀁭􀁦􀁨􀁢􀁯􀁵􀀡􀁊􀁯􀁵􀁦􀁳􀁪􀁰􀁳􀁴􀀡􀁇􀁦􀁢􀁵􀁶􀁳􀁪􀁯􀁨; 􀁈􀁰􀁶􀁳􀁮􀁦􀁵􀀡􀁌􀁪􀁵􀁤􀁩􀁦􀁯􀁴􀀡􀁸􀀰􀀡􀁈􀁳􀁢􀁯􀁪􀁵􀁦􀀡􀀯􀀡􀁈􀁳􀁢􀁯􀁥􀀡􀁎􀁢􀁴􀁵􀁦􀁳􀀡􀁔􀁶􀁪􀁵􀁦􀁴􀀡􀀯􀀡􀁂􀁳􀁤􀁩􀁦􀁥􀀡􀁐􀁱􀁦􀁯􀁪􀁯􀁨􀁴􀀡􀀯􀀡􀁆􀁹􀁵􀁦􀁯􀁴􀁪􀁷􀁦􀀡􀁕􀁳􀁪􀁮􀀡􀁑􀁢􀁤􀁬􀁢􀁨􀁦􀁴􀀡􀀯􀀡􀁉􀁢􀁳􀁥􀁸􀁰􀁰􀁥􀀡􀀧􀀡􀁄􀁦􀁳􀁢􀁮􀁪􀁤􀀡􀁕􀁪􀁭􀁦􀀡􀁇􀁭􀁰􀁰􀁳t IRONWOOD REALTY, INC THE EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATIVE FOR IRONWOOD DEVELOPMENT, INC 􀁉􀁰􀁮􀁦􀁴􀀡􀁏􀁰􀁸􀀡􀁂􀁷􀁢􀁪􀁭􀁢􀁣􀁭􀁦􀀢􀀡􀂦􀀡􀁑􀁳􀁰􀁶􀁥􀀡􀁎􀁦􀁮􀁣􀁦􀁳􀀡􀁰􀁧􀀡􀁑􀁪􀁳􀁢􀁵􀁦􀁴􀀡􀁔􀁶􀁱􀁱􀁰􀁳􀁵􀁪􀁯􀁨􀀡􀁑􀁪􀁳􀁢􀁵􀁦􀁴" 􀀒􀀐􀀐􀀀􀀧􀁏􀁌􀁆􀀀􀀣􀁌􀁕􀁂􀀀􀀷􀁙􀁎􀁄􀀌􀀀􀀧􀁒􀁅􀁅􀁎􀁖􀁉􀁌􀁌􀁅􀀌􀀀􀀮􀀣􀀀􀀒􀀗􀀘􀀓􀀔􀀀􀁳􀀀􀀒􀀕􀀒􀀎􀀗􀀕􀀒􀀎􀀔􀀖􀀕􀀓􀀀􀀏􀀀􀀘􀀐􀀐􀀎􀀓􀀔􀀓􀀎􀀔􀀗􀀖 􀀶􀁉􀁅􀁗􀀀􀀯􀁕􀁒􀀀􀀷􀁅􀁂􀁓􀁉􀁔􀁅􀀀􀁁􀁔􀀀􀁗􀁗􀁗􀀎􀁉􀁒􀁏􀁎􀁗􀁏􀁏􀁄􀀍􀁒􀁅􀁁􀁌􀁔􀁙􀀎􀁃􀁏M class notes of Charleston, S.C., was selected to participate in the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program in October 2008. The program, funded by the Japanese government, offers study tours about Japanese culture and education. Welborn taught art studio and art history at Mount Olive College and College of Charleston before teaching art at Charleston Day School and in a Charleston County Public School gifted and talented program during the summers. 1979 ANNA SPEAR of Havelock was named 2008 Doris Howard Female Coach of the Year by the N.C. High School Athletic Association. The women’s basketball coach and assistant athletic director for women’s sports at Havelock High School for nine years, she also coached for 17 years at North Lenoir High School, where she started the volleyball program and led the softball team to the state finals. 1978 GALE ADCOCK, director of corporate healthcare at SAS, is a new board member for the ECU Medical & Health Sciences Foundation. SUSAN DICKENS LYNCH of Warrenton retired from Warren County High School in July after more than 30 years as a business education teacher. Make a Note OF 1977 BILLY LEE started a new career as director of sales in the sports division of the Raleigh-based Travel Management Partners. His 30 years of collegiate basketball coaching earned him 400+ wins. He coached at high schools, two years at ECU, seven years at UNC Pembroke, 18 years at Campbell University and three seasons at St. Andrews Presbyterian College. ERIC DAVIS VAN NORTWICK of Dale City, Va., was named 2007 Ducks Unlimited conservationist of the year for his water quality work with Neabsco Creek in Prince William County, where he is a member of Adopt-A-Stream. 1976 CAROL PEARCE DAVIS ’76 ’82 ’95, who has 32 years experience working in elementary schools, is the new principal at Franklinton Elementary School in Franklin County. MARSHA MOORE LEWIS ’76 ’85 was selected for a three-year term on the board of the International Reading Association at the group’s annual conference in Atlanta, Ga. She is a second grade National Board Certified teacher at Kenansville Elementary School in Duplin County. She has served on advisory boards for the state superintendent of public instruction and the N.C. End-of-Grade Reading Comprehension Tests Specifications Committee. 1975 MAGGIE BISHOP ’75 ’76 of Deep Gap, who was named as one of the 100 Incredible ECU Women in 2007, released a new mystery, Perfect for Framing, for her Appalachian Adventure series in November. Set in Boone, it follows a propertyowners association power struggle that includes robbery, romantic tension, blackmail, and murder. LEONARD “MIKE” ERNEST is interpreter programs manager for the Virginia Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Richmond. He coordinates interpreters for state agencies and courts, and manages the Virginia Quality Assurance Screening program for interpreters. From 1985 to 2005, he was program manager and professor of interpreter education at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Fla. 1974 DR. GABRIEL “GABE” CIPAU, of Key Healthcare, is a new board member for the ECU Medical & Health Sciences Foundation. DAVID C. REAVIS of Raleigh, e-commerce manager for the N.C. Office of the State Controller, finished his term as president of the N.C. Treasury Management Association. He is now chair of the board for NCTMA, a nonprofit group for treasury and finance professionals from N.C. corporations and banks. ALAN DEAN REIMANN of Chattanooga, YOUR NEWS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS complete 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 can e-mail your news to ecuclassnotes@ecu edu . while Easthappily prints wedding announcements, it is our policy not to print engagement 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 carolina university, greenville, nc 27858-4353, fax: 252-328-4904, or e-mail: murphyk@ecu edu . naMe first Middle last Maiden class year e-MaIl Day Phone evenIng Phone aDDress cIty state zIP your news Tenn., retired Sept. 26, 2007, from the cardiac rhythm management division (implantable pacemakers and defibrillators) of Medtronic, the largest manufacturer and supplier of medical implanted devices. He recently re-married, vacations in St. Thomas, and cruises the Tennessee River in his 40-foot boat, a retirement present to himself. 1973 DAVID STEVENS JR., a former Air Force pilot, flies transcontinental jets to Europe for U.S. Airways. When he got his pilot’s license in 1974, his father, a former ECU attorney who retired from the Air Force in 1970, gave him his silver wings. Stevens Jr. recently passed the wings to his son when he graduated from flight school. CANDACE LITTLE TURK ’73 ’92 ’98 ’03 is the new principal at West Pine Middle School in West End. She was a special education teacher, an assistant principal, and the assistant superintendent for human resources and operations in Duplin County, and was named Duplin County 2003-04 principal of the year. 1972 BEVERLY KILPATRICK THOMPSON ’72 ’79 ’96 of Nashville, formerly of Kenansville, was promoted from a bankcard sales support manager to a banking officer with BB&T in Wilson. She retired from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction before joining BB&T in 2007. 1971 WILLIAM R. “BILL” SAGE SR. was elected mayor of Oriental, “The Sailing Capital of North Carolina.” He was a lawyer in Greensboro before moving his career to Oriental. His wife, DELIA LOMAx “DEE” SAGE, was chair of the town planning board. 1970 WILLIAM F. GRANT III, a banking consultant in Williamsburg, Va., retired from the U.S. Treasury Department. He is a founder and director of Square 1 Bank and Square 1 Financial, headquartered in Durham. The company opened in August 2005 with $105 million in capital, the largest amount of capital raised for a start-up state-chartered bank in North Carolina. 1969 ADRA ALLISON KENNEDY of Washington retired in July 2007 after 29 years of teaching second through fifth grades and remedial reading in New York, and Wake and Beaufort counties. She developed magnet school curriculum, was named teacher of the year, and was recognized in Who’s Who Among American Teachers several times. ROBERT D. “BOB” RYNEARSON of El Cajon, Ca., retired from a 32-year teaching career with the Grossmont Union High School District in San Diego County. GARY WAYNE WEST of Greenwood, S.C., is the new chief information officer for the S.C. Department of ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT guilford college established the Mary n . Broos endowment for athletic training in honor of mary Broos ‘67, the head athletic trainer at the college who retired May 30 after 30 years there . the endowment supports sports medicine scholarships and intercollegiate athletic training programs . she will continue to teach in the sports studies department . In 1978, Broos became the first woman in north carolina to lead a collegiate sports medicine program . she has been inducted into the halls of fame at guilford college and the n c . athletic trainers association . she received the 1996 girls and women in sports Day committee award of excellence, the 1989 ncata athletic trainer of the ar, and the 1998 heart and hand award from guilford’s students . she was on the athletic training staff for olympic teams in the 1980s . she also served for 12 years on the Davidson county Board of education and was its chair for four years . nasa doesn’t manufacture any of products that makes america’s space program fly . It buys those things from someone else and relies on employees like Bryan williford ’89 to acquire the best technology at affordable prices . williford, who is the procurement chief in the solid Propulsion support office in the Marshall space flight center in huntsville, ala, was recognized as one of the best in the space program at that job when he was named nasas Procurement supervisor of the year . the award recognizes his work on the ares first stage and J-2X engine contracts . Both are major pieces of nasas plans for a next-generation launch vehicle fleet to replace the retiring space shuttles and launch vehicles . williford also works with the space shuttle reusable solid rocket Motor contract . sheri strickland ’76 ‘84, preschool disabilities coordinator for the Pitt county schools, was elected president of the 70,000-member n c . association of educators (ncae) . she will serve a two-year term . an ncae member for 30 years, strickland served on the ncae Board of Directors for seven years and on the nea Board of Directors for three years . she has worked in the Pitt county schools since 1976 . In MeMorIaM In MeMorIaM and the Surf Club at Wrightsville Beach. JANE He was a Mason, Elk, Shriner, and a member of THOMAS GILLAM III ’68 ofWindsor died March Creek, formerly of Greenville, died April 5. He served FACULTY DEATHS BULLOCK BARNHILL ’59 ’65 of Bethel died the Royal Order of Jesters. EUGENE FRANKLIN 31. In the Army during WWII, he fought in the Battle in the Army before returning to school and working DR. MARY MORECROFT FOWLER of Greenville April 16. She retired after 32 years teaching public OLIVE ’58 of Raleigh died March 24. During the of the Bulge. He was active in St. Thomas Episcopal for NACCO for 34 years. A baseball lover, he coached died March 22. She taught counselor education from school and was active on the Pitt County Planning Korean War, he was in the 100-member drum and Church, a docent at Hope Plantation, taught history his sons in the Winterville Recreation League for the 1972 to 1988. She taught children on an Indian Board and at Bethel Baptist Church. SALLIE GAIL bugle corps called “Young’s Yankees” while stationed at Bertie High School, and enjoyed antiques and the Pitt Bulldogs and the Greenville Little League for reservation on Long Island before getting married HINES BRITT ’52 of Greenville died April 1. at Lockbourne Air Force Base in Columbus, Ohio. beach. GARLAND FRANCIS JOHNSON ’61 ’63 Jarman’s Auto, and enjoyed watching his great-nephew and moving to Ohio. She traveled internationally, At St. James United Methodist Church, she was in He was a state government auditor for 33 years and died Feb. 24 in Hillsborough. In the Navy, he served play for the Greenville Lions. MARIAN LANGLEY volunteered with groups for disadvantaged people, was the Methodist Women’s Circle and past director of a member of Freemason of Raleigh Lodge #500. with the First Marine Division at Guadalcanal and in WILSON ’78 of Grimesland died March 13. She active in the Unitarian church, and was known for her Operation Sunshine. She enjoyed cooking, sewing, EDWARD OLIVER ’56 ’63 of Alexandria, Va., died the Pacific Theater under General MacArthur during taught first grade at Greenville Christian Academy for motto, “Make it a good day.” Memorials may be made and gardening, and was a member of Home Pride March 21. He was a Marine and taught high school WWII. Before retiring as a chief pharmacist’s mate, he 24 years and Sunday school at her church. to the Alzheimer’s Research Fund, ECU Medical & Garden Club and Brook Valley Country Club. She English and social studies in Greenville and Virginia worked on Adm. Richard Byrd’s last trip to Antarctica. Health Sciences Foundation. was married to Austin Hoover Britt ’53 for 56 years. before becoming an assistant principal and director of He taught school, worked for the N.C. Health 1980s CLARA JENKINS CRABTREE ’51 of Durham employee relations for Arlington County Schools. He Department, and was married to Ida Yolanda Johnson ERNEST LEWIS DAVIS JR. ’86 of Rockingham, GORDON BRAzIL GILBERT SR. of Stillwater, died April 7. She was a teacher, school librarian, also taught at the University of Virginia and Defense ’44 for 60 years. LILLIE ANN MIDGETTE “LIL” formerly of Richmond, Va., died March 11. He Okla., died Feb. 27 at age 100. He taught health and and the first library supervisor for Durham County Department schools in Okinawa, Japan, and Verdun, JONES ’61 of Peachtree City, Ga., died May 26. played cello in churches and symphony orchestras. physical education at ECTC from 1938 to 1940 Schools. She held office in numerous state and France. He enjoyed skiing in Utah and Argentina, She was active in Peachtree City United Methodist MARY HOBBS ARMSTRONG VALENTINE before serving in the Army during WWII. He was national professional library organizations. After her owned 1,000+ books, and traveled to six continents, Church. HAROLD JASON MILLS ’66 died March MCINTYRE ’82 of Nashville died March 2. She also a high school coach and history teacher and was michael Dixon and David retirement, she received life membership from the including Antarctica. A. GLENN ROWELL ’59 22. He was in the Navy for four years before working was a nurse in Norfolk, Va., Raleigh, and High Point director for men’s intramural sports at Oklahoma State hawkins watch jim Rees N.C. Library Association. She worked in Braggtown ’78 ’86 of Fayetteville died May 20. He worked for at Fieldcrest Mills and spending 24 years as an before becoming director of nursing at Wilson’s University for 33 years. produce a radio show Baptist Church’s library and was the 21-year volunteer Atlantic Coastline Railroad before serving in the accountant with Burroughs-Wellcome until his 1993 Guardian Care. She worked in quality assurance at librarian for the Yates Baptist Association Library. Army during the Korean War. With the Cumberland retirement. NANCY GAYLE COMPTON ODHAM RHODA MARIE NIELSEN, of College Park, Md., james lester “jim” Rees Nash General Hospital from 1984 to 1998 when she She also directed the Associational Media Library County Board of Education for 23 years, he retired in ’64 of Matthews died April 21. After graduating in died April 19. A native of Vindblaes, Denmark, she of greenville died april 17 retired as department head. In 1992, she was named a graduate of Millersville state Organization. ROBERTA HALL GAINEY ’53 of 1987 as an assistant principal at Westover Junior High the first class from ECU’s School of Nursing, she was was a nurse in Denmark and Iowa before becoming one of N.C.’s Great 100 Nurses. She was a Nashville college with a master s degree Stedman died March 7 in Clinton. She taught at School. He operated Woodland Nursery for 31 years, a public health and genetic nurse who was active in a nurse for the American Baptist Foreign Mission town council member from 1997 to 2001. She enjoyed from syracuse, he worked at Stedman High School, now Stedman Primary School, held office in his church, and was a member of the several civic and charity groups. Memorials may be Society in the Belgian Congo from 1956 to 1960. playing bridge and slot machines, betting on horses, radio stations and taught high for 39 years, and taught Sunday school at Magnolia Cumberland County Historical Society. made to the ECU School of Nursing. CHARLES She taught at ECU from 1965 to 1969 and at Emory school in Pennsylvania before and teaching children to play poker and bet with Baptist Church in Stedman. FRANCES ESTELLE ERNEST “CHUCK” PACE ’69 of Suffolk, Va., died University before retiring as the International Nursing joining the faculty here in 1966 M&Ms. ANGELA BRIGGS “ANGIE” PETTUS GREENE HENDRIx ’55 of Franklin, Tenn., died 1960s March 11. In the Army, he was stationed in Vietnam Program’s acting curriculum coordinator. he retired as professor emeritus ’80 of Clayton died April 26. She was a business May 18. A descendant of Revolutionary War General and later worked as a counselor for the Portsmouth in 2003 but continued to BETTY JEAN BAKER ’67, formerly of Knightdale, operations manager at SAS. EDGAR ALLEN JOSEPHINE BISHOP “JO” SAUNDERS ’65 of Nathaniel Greene, she was a counseling psychologist Department of Juvenile Justice. He was married to teach part time until 2007 he died June 24. She retired as chief statistician with TONEY SR. ’85 of Orlando, Fla., died March 18. Greenville died April 5. A Laurinburg native, she taught voice and diction, public who worked with Hospice volunteers and Alzheimer’s Linda Watson Pace ’69. THOMAS JEFFERSON the government records section of the Office of He was in the Marines from 1955 to 1982 when he taught dance for almost 20 years before attending speaking, broadcast announcing, patients and their caregivers through the Nashville POWELL ’61 of Spencer died May 12. He was Archives and History in Raleigh. She published retired as a major, and he was involved in the Drill ECU, where she later taught in the health, physical audio production, and business- Mental Health Association Homes program. She a middle school industrial arts teacher in Rowan articles on history and genealogy and books on Instructors Association reunions. A past commodore education, recreation, and safety program from 1964 professional speech he raised and showed horses and led 4-H trail rides County, a church construction volunteer at Spencer seven N.C. familes, including Gov. Jim Hunt’s. REV. of the Rugged Point Yacht Club at Camp Lejeune, he to her 1985 retirement. She was named N.C. dance produced two recordings of through the Bulldog Bridle Club in Athens, Ga. She Presbyterian Church, and a foreign mission worker in school of Music ensembles, LAWRENCE KEMPSTER BROWN ’64 of and his wife of more than 50 years owned the sailboat teacher of the year by the N.C. Association of Health, was a member of the Heritage Foundation and the Africa. SUE WALLACE TYER ’67 of Oak Island hosted media programs for Raleigh died May 5. He was a two-sport scholarship Tuition. Physical Education and Dance in 1992. In 2002 she AAUW Recent Graduates Group and volunteered died April 17. She taught in Beaufort County and ecu and radio shows broadcast athlete at ECU. In December 1968, he was ordained received the teacher of the year award from the S.C. with the Lauback Literacy Method—Each One Teach Fayetteville and Kinston city school systems. in north carolina and virginia and accepted St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in 1990s Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation he narrated theater and music One. LAWSON ALAN JACKSON SR. ’58 of Havelock as his first parish. He was rector at other and Dance. For 57 years, she was married to Frank productions, played the lord of Savannah, Ga., formerly of Charlotte, died April 19. 1970s BRADLEY SHANE BEATTY ’95 of Greenville churches in Raleigh for more than 20 years, owned Wendell Saunders, who taught math at ECU from the Manor at ecu s christmas He was an Army paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne died May 12. He owned Big Al’s Tavern and rental Eastwind Bar and Grill in Carolina Beach and a WESLEY NEAL DAUGHTRY ’78 of Greenville 1961 to 1994. Madrigal Dinner series with wife during the Korean War and retired as a salesman in property, and was an electrician. He was active in dog franceine Perry rees ’65, the state automobile inspection station in Raleigh. He died May 12. He worked at ECU’s Joyner Library. the southeastern U.S. His son, Alan Jackson Jr. ’01, rescue, his church, and the Brotherhood Motorcycle MARY GOODMAN SORENSEN died March 18. former class notes editor of this opened Knightdale Academy of Gymnastics with his CAROLYN FRAzIER MOxLEY ’78 of Kinston is a doctor in Atlanta. LT. COL. ARTHUR HENRY Club, which hosted weekly fundraising steak dinners at A Hendersonville native, she taught English at ECU magazine he was a consultant daughter in 1995, and, after his parochial retirement, died April 13. She taught in Knightdale for a year KING ’53 of Forest City and Kinston died April 17. Big Al’s to support the Vietnam Veterans Association. from 1957 to 1976. During her 50 years in Greenville, for the general electric co , owned Da Vinci’s Pasta in Raleigh with his wife. and in Lenoir County for 24 years until her 1995 He retired from the Air Force and was former owner JAMES REID HOOPER ’93, an honorary member she was active in her church, the ECU Retired Faculty n c . regional Drug Program, His Australian Terriers won three consecutive breed retirement. She was active in Alpha Gamma Delta; n c . humanities committee, and president of Lakeside Mills. In addition to his of the ECU Alumni Association, died April 5. Association, Alpha Phi Gamma, the Delta Alpha competitions at the Westminster Kennel Club in Sunday school director at her church; a Brownie, Girl, n c . state Board of education, Vietnam Service Medal, he received the Distinguished He served for two years in the WWII European Chapter of Alphi Phi, and the Sierra Book Club, and New York City, and he was featured in the 100th and Cub scout troop leader; past president of Kinston america’s 400th anniversary Flying Cross; the Bronze Star, National Defense Theater, worked with Wachovia bank for 35 years was married to Dr. Frederick Sorensen, who taught Anniversary Westminster Kennel Club book. REV. W. Lions Club Auxiliary; and a “Pink Lady” volunteer for committee, and n c /ecu center Service, and Combat Readiness medals; the Small and was Greenville city executive, and taught at the English at ECU from 1961 to 1973. for applied technology; and MURRAY BULLOCK ’60 of Tarboro died May 4. the Lenoir Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. She enjoyed Arms Expert Service and Air Force Longevity Service American Institute of Banking. He was on the boards ‘ he gave numerous lectures and He worked with the N.C. Probation Commission and international travel, animals, and collecting antiques awards; and Air Force Commendation. LT. COL. for PCMH, the East Carolina Vocational Center, workshops for professional, civic, was an assistant administrator at Edgecombe General and dolls. CAPT. JOHN PARKER SHEEHAN ’71 DR. JOHN ROBERT KLUTTz ’53 of Fayetteville and East Carolina Farm Credit Association; a past and honor societies Memorials Hospital before becoming a minister. Among other of O’Fallon, Ill., died May 1. He was in the Air Force died March 21. Born prematurely in 1929, he was president of the Host Lions Club of Greenville and may be made to ecu s lester churches, he pastored Church of the Ascension in at Scott AFB, and then worked in civil service there as and alta rees Memorial the Goldsboro hospital’s first incubator baby. He was Greenville Golf and Country Club; and a member of Hickory. After retirement, he was an interim priest a computer programmer/analyst from 1972 to 2002. scholarship senior class president at ECU, married Jeanine Ennis the Pitt Golden “K” Kiwanis Club. He was the 1982 in other states. MARVIN LEE CAVINESS ’69 He played volleyball at the AFB, and with the St. ’53, served in the Air Force for 20 years, and was a Greenville Chamber of Commerce citizen of the year of Knoxville, Tenn., died April 8. He was a biology Louis Turner Organization and other U.S. Volleyball therapist with the Veterans Administration Center’s and received the Jack Edwards Service Award from the teacher, respiratory therapist, and clinical perfusionist. Association teams, and was a setter on the 1983 Readjustment Counseling Service in Fayetteville. Greenville Noon Rotary Club in 1997. BONNY CAMERON GILCHRIST ’60 of Sanford All American Men’s Senior First Team. He coached BENJAMIN JOEL MARTINDALE ’50 of Rocky died May 2. She taught high school English for 34 volleyball at McKendree University. WILLIAM Mount died June 24. A veteran of WWII, he retired years before retiring at Western Harnett High School. ARNOLD “BILL”WILLIAMSON ’73 of Blounts in 1985 as claims manager at CSX Transportation. 54 55 uPon the PastuPon the Past “We are not here to destroy the old and accept only the new, but to build upon the past…” —robert h . wright, nov 12, 1909 from his inaugural address and installation as east carolina’s first president Photos courtesy Barry Brodsky live from New York, campus was glued to a TV set, and President Leo Jenkins later declared it “one of the happiest days of my life” when they defeated the squad from Ursaline College, a Catholic girls school in Louisville, Ky., by a score of 175 The most well-known students on campus in the fall of 1965 and early ’66 were four brainy kids who beat out many competitors to represent East Carolina in the GE College Quiz Bowl, the “varsity sport of the mind” broadcast coast to coast by NBC. They set off for New York on a Friday afternoon in April 1966 and appeared The contestants on the NBC set just before the it’s East Carolina program aired. left, each contestant received a on the GE College Bowl medal engraved with their name and school. 100. The victory came with a $1,500 scholarship. ecu gallery Tremayne smith, one of the tour guides during freshman orientation, welcomes parents and new students to campus. Photo by Jay Clark East University Advancement 2200 South Charles Blvd. East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858-4353 change service requested nonprofit organization u s Postage PaiD Permit no 251 Burl , vt 05401