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By Marion Blackburn Alums and friends who give money
to ECU say they’re motivated by the satisfaction of knowing
they’re opening doors for a new generation.
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By Spaine Stephens The tales you heard as a student of
specters roaming campus live on today. Some of the old
dorms and classroom buildings have heard a century’s
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By Steve Tuttle Like many Southern writers, Jim Dodson
made his reputation Up North with four bestseller books.
But he is spending the second half of his career back home
because “that’s where I’m meant to be.”
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Thanks for your help
At this time a year ago, East Carolina was recording its best-ever year in
fund raising, with about $37 million in new private giving to the university.
With the onset of the worst recession in decades, few expected ECU would
be able to match that level of philanthropy this year, but it did. Total new
dollars flowing into ECU’s three foundations reached $38 million at the
end of the fiscal year on June 30, a new record. The worst of times, it
seems, brings out the best in many people.
I was impressed by that accomplishment and wanted to know why it
happened. I wondered why so many alumni and friends, even as their stocks
tanked and their 401Ks sank, still managed to send a check to their alma
mater. I asked writer Marion Blackburn to nose around and find out why.
Her report, which begins on page 12, offers a surprisingly simple answer.
It just makes people feel good when they see their money going to help
a current student. Many of today’s donors struggled to pay for college
themselves. They know from experience that a scholarship, even a small
one, can mean the difference between staying in school—and being able to
afford all the textbooks plus three squares a day—or going home.
Unlike Carolina with its Morehead-Cain scholarships and N.C. State
with its Park scholarships, ECU doesn’t have a prestigious, well-endowed
scholarship program bearing the name of a wealthy alumnus. It mostly
relies on hundreds of smaller donors to fund its two largest scholarship
programs, the East Carolina Scholars and the Access Scholarships. But
philanthropy is more personal here; if you support an Access Scholarship,
which you can do for only $20,000, you get to meet the student who,
but for your help, probably wouldn’t be here, and hear them say thanks
in very personal terms. This year there will be 77 Access scholars, and all
of them have taken the opportunity to thank the people who made their
scholarships possible.
The state budget crisis is placing an even greater burden on ECU’s fund
raising. Reduced state appropriations, which had provided just 36 percent
of the university’s budget, are being concentrated on the classroom, so
there’s no state money for any academic extras. Philanthropy must make up
the difference. Even before the recession it was estimated ECU would need
one billion dollars in funding above its state budget in the next 15–20
years to attain the university’s goals.
That’s a lot of money, but no one here is afraid of the challenge. Not when
ECU has friends and alumni like you.
Thank you.
Volume 8, Number 1
East is published four times a year by
East Carolina University
Division of University Advancement
2200 South Charles Blvd.
Greenville, NC 27858
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East Carolina University is a constituent institution of
The University of North Carolina. It is a public doctoral/
research intensive university offering baccalaureate, master’s,
specialist and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts, sciences
and professional fields, including medicine. Dedicated to the
achievement of excellence, responsible stewardship of the
public trust and academic freedom, ECU values the
contributions of a diverse community, supports shared
governance and guarantees equality of opportunity.
© 2009 by East Carolina University
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We sent an e-mail to
about 22,000
alumni and friends in
mid-May alerting
them that, because of
the state budget crisis,
the summer issue of
East would not be
printed. The e-mail
directed readers to the magazine’s web site, where
they could read the new issue and even download
a copy. Because of technical snags, the e-mail did
not reach everyone, but several who did see the note
took the time to respond with their comments:
How disappointing that the only
communication tool the university has with
its alumni can’t be sent out because of the
state budget crisis.
—Tom Zielinski ’81, Dallas, Texas
In the future, save the money for other
university needs because most of us can go
online and read to stay informed. It’s a nice,
well done publication but the magazine
usually hits the recycle bin the next day after I
receive it, which is a terrible waste. Use e-mails
like this one to alert us that new articles, etc.
have been posted and save the mailing cost.
—Gary Rabon ’76, Raleigh
I haven’t finished reading the East in pdf
format yet. It is beautiful, as always, but
there is some satisfaction lost by not holding
the magazine in my hands. Thank you for
your hard work and a wonderful job!
—Donna W. Roberson ’91, Robersonville
I think this is a great protocol for all future
editions of East. It’s a beautiful, glossy, highcolor product in hard-copy, but traditional
printing is just too costly for individuals,
for institutions and organizations, for
corporations, for communities—and for
the planet. If recipients find something
they’d like to print out (at home or at any
public library) then it’s a personal choice. Go
ahead and embrace the abyss—print is dead.
Nevertheless, the concept of “university”
[as] the repository of all knowledge expands
infinitely out to cyber space.
—Stephanie Scarborough Ashworth ’73,
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Thanks for the great job that you all do in
producing a beautiful magazine, which is
such a grand tribute to ECU!
—Anne McCutcheon ’69, Kinston
I appreciate the magazine and the effort
y’all are putting forth. I see a lot of alumni/
university magazines over the last handful of
years and am very happy with what you’ve
done at ECU.
—Patrick O’Neil ’89, Chehalis, Wash.
I’m absolutely OK with this. I actually
prefer to read this type of stuff online
versus on paper.
—Christian K. Robinson ’02, Winterville
Isn’t it unrealistic to expect state funds
to pay for the magazine’s publication?
Isn’t the magazine something that should
be financially supported by dues and/or
other grants/gifts, maybe even appropriate
commercial advertising?
—Robert Blake ’66, Sarasota, Fla.
You have a great publication that has been
well received and will be missed by many
who just are never going to be able to
condition themselves to read a magazine off
their computer screen.
—Terry Holland, ECU director of athletics
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Thanks for including the photo of Jerry
McGee ’65 and me from the BCS National
Championship Game in the summer issue.
It was a blessing and real privilege to have
had that opportunity and the feedback from
our work at the game has been very positive.
As in any game you work, you hope the post
game discussions are about plays from the
game and not about the officiating and that
was the case for the Orange Bowl.
—Darrell Harrison ’74 ’79, Greenville
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David S. Brody
An ECU student who isn’t covered under
of Kinston,
a parent’s health insurance plan can buy
managing
a $50,000 policy through the statewide
partner of
university system that costs $1,294 a year.
Brody Associates
A similar student at UNC Greensboro can
and co-owner of
buy $100,000 worth of coverage for just
Brody Brothers
$780. ECU students pay 40 percent more
Dry Goods and
for half as much coverage because health
Eastern Carolina
insurance is optional here whereas it’s a
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requirement at UNCG.
expected to
become chair of
It’s numbers like that that convinced the
the ECU Board
UNC Board of Governors to proceed with
of Trustees at its July meeting. He has served
a plan to require students at all 16 campuses
on the board for the past six years, the last
to have health insurance, either through
two as vice chair under Bob Greczyn ’73 of
a parent or through the UNC system,
Durham, and as a member of the board’s
beginning next fall semester.
executive committee. Brody, 58, graduated
Eleven UNC campuses already have
from the University of Pennsylvania but he is
adopted the so-called “hard waiver” health
not the first non-alumnus to chair the board;
insurance requirement. East Carolina,
the last such chair was newspaper publisher
Appalachian State, N.C. State, UNC Chapel Ashley Futrell of Washington in 1982.
Hill and UNC Wilmington are slated to
Brody’s family is one of the largest
join them next fall. With such a large pool,
benefactors of East Carolina, having given
the state universities will be able to offer
more than $22 million. Brody is president
students a health insurance plan with a
of the family’s philanthropic arm, the Brody
$100,000 maximum basic benefit for as
Brothers Foundation. See story on page 20.
little as $549 a year, according to a report
to the Board of Governors.
It’s estimated that 16 percent of the
216,000 UNC system students do not have
health insurance of any kind. Officials say
uninsured students often fail to get proper
health care or seek free care from the campus
infirmary—a service that many campuses say
they simply can’t afford any longer.
Some observers worry that requiring all
students to have health insurance will
further drive up the cost of college. Officials
said, however, that campus financial aid
offices will add student health insurance
to the total cost of attendance used to
compute financial aid packages.
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Four new trustees took office at the July
meeting. Appointed by the UNC Board of
Governors were Danny Scott ’84 (left), a
marketing executive with Monsanto in St.
Louis, and Steve Jones ’91 (right), an
executive formerly with RBC Bank in
Raleigh. Scott joined Monsanto this year
after serving as vice president for diversity for
Anheuser-Busch Companies. Jones served
last year as chair of the Board of Visitors.
Also joining the board in July was Ken Chalk
’68 ’71 (left) of Winston-Salem, a retired
BB&T executive, who was appointed by Gov.
Beverly Perdue, and Brad Congleton (right),
the newly elected president of the Student
Government Association. Congleton, of
Wendell, is a sports management major
who served as SGA vice president last year.
Chalk is a former chair of the ECU
Foundation board.
The Board of Governors reappointed
trustees Joel Butler ’98 of Greenville and
Mark Tipton ’73 of Raleigh. Butler, chair
of the board’s Audit Committee, is chief
external affairs officer at University Health
Systems of Eastern Carolina and president
of the UHS and Pitt Memorial Hospital
foundations. Tipton, a member of the
board’s Facilities and Resources Committee,
is CEO of Whistler Investment Group.
Gov. Perdue appointed Robert V. Lucas
’74, an attorney in Selma, to a second term.
Lucas, a former SGA president, chairs
the board’s University Affairs Committee.
Trustee Bruce Austin ’80 of Manteo did
not seek reappoinment.
Scott and Jones will fill the seats vacated
by Robert O. Hill Jr. and Margaret Ward
’61. Greczyn, who has two years left on his
second term, continues on the board.
Each UNC campus is governed by a board
composed of 13 members, with four
appointed by the governor and eight by the
Board of Governors. The SGA president at
each campus automatically serves as a trustee.
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Nathan Lean ’07, the recipient of a
U.S. Department of State Critical
Language Scholarship, one of the most
prestigious language scholarships in
the world, spent his summer studying
Arabic in Tunisia, which borders the
Mediterranean in North Africa. The
Goldsboro native, who spent the summer
of 2006 in Morocco through a Global
Understanding Scholarship from ECU,
is studying both Modern Standard Arabic
and the Tunisian dialect at the Centre
d’Etudes Maghrébines. We caught up
with him by e-mail from his “study
spot,” a quaint little village overlooking
the Mediterranean. At the time he was
planning a weekend camping trip out in
the Sahara desert.
What’s the hardest part of
Arabic to learn?
What’s the most interesting
thing you’ve seen or done?
How do you suppose this
experience will change your life?
[It’s] being able to construct
meaningful thoughts using the
vocabulary and grammatical
structures I have learned. It’s like
having a thousand bullets and the
struggle is to figure out how to get
them into the gun. This program,
however, has prided itself in placing
students in real-life situations where
you must think on your feet as you
interact with native speakers.
I was walking in Sidi Bou Said
near the capital city of Tunis when
I stumbled into an art shop. I
introduced myself to the owner, a
pleasant middle-aged woman who
showed me around and offered me
tea, only to learn later that evening
that she was the daughter of
[Tunisia’s] revered former president,
Habib Bourguiba.
[It will give me] the foundation of
language skills necessary to interact
in a meaningful manner with Arabic
speakers. I hope to concentrate my
academic and professional careers
in the North Africa region, so the
opportunity to live in Tunisia for
two months and build relationships
through language is valuable. I hope
that this experience [will] allow me
to understand the Arab world better.
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County is near Florence. The cannons are
from the CSS Pee Dee, a 150-foot Maconclass gunboat launched at Mars Bluff in
January 1865. However, the Pee Dee was
abandoned and set ablaze three months later
when commanders feared it would be taken
by Sherman’s advancing army.
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Required freshman read: A nonfiction work
chronicling one man’s mission to change the
world one school at a time was picked as
the summer reading selection for first-year
students. All freshmen were asked to read
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to
Promote Peace…One School at a Time by
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver
Relin before arriving on campus. The
book has sold more than 2 million
copies and has been on the New York
Times bestseller list for two years.
Bank boosts business course:
RBC Bank created a $500,000
endowment in the College of
Business to make it more affordable for
students to take a popular course designed to
introduce business strategies. Going forward,
all students taking the course will receive
free subscriptions to Business Week magazine,
which will become the course textbook.
About 800 students take the course each year.
Construction ahead: All 15 residence halls
on campus are being upgraded this summer.
Many are getting new electronic door locks
and others are being fitted with exterior
wheelchair ramps. Two halls, Jones and
Aycock, are being fitted with sprinklers. The
air conditioning is being upgraded at Cotten
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Residence
Hall. Scott Hall on
College Hill is undergoing a full
renovation and is closed until next fall. The
renovation includes a four-story addition
with 17 four-room suites. When it reopens,
Scott will be the largest dorm on campus
with the capacity of 613 students.
Confederate cannons recovered: ECU
archaeologists, working with colleagues from
the University of South Carolina, retrieved
two large cannons from a sunken Confederate
gunboat and discovered the once-hidden
location of the Mars Bluff Naval Yard.
East Carolina usually hands armloads of
printed materials to incoming freshmen
during summer orientation sessions—
pamphlets, brochures, catalogues and
similar informational pieces. But there was
hardly a single piece of paper handed out
during this summer’s orientations; instead,
the university handed out 5,000 computer
flash drives each capable of holding 2
gigabytes of information.
Karen Smith, associate director of the First
Year Center, said the switch to flash drives
will save money and paper. She added that
it also should please incoming students who
are accustomed to the technology.
“The cool thing about the flash drive is
that it will be linked to [various ECU]
web sites. As the web site changes,
the information available on
the flash drive will change,”
Smith said. “In that way, hopefully, this is
something the students can hold on to and
use for their full four years here.”
New student orientation began June 15
and was to continue through July 21 with
eight sessions for new first-year students,
two sessions for transfer students and two
summer school sessions. More than 4,000
incoming freshmen and transfer students had
signed up for orientation.
Most of the information given to parents at
orientation still will be on paper, but that,
too, may change, Smith said. “This year is
a transition year. We’ll see how it works,
and we’ll be asking parents at orientation
how they would have liked to have received
information, either on a flash drive or in
handouts. In the future, we might make it an
option for parents to get a flash drive.”
East Carolina also shifted to electronic
billing for student tuition and fees, a move
designed to save money and to give students
easier access to more information about their
accounts. Previously, the university mailed
bills to its more than 27,000
students. Officials say converting
to electronic billing
will save an estimated
$50,000 a year.
—ECU News Bureau
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His father thanked those who came to the
memorial vigil, describing his son as “…the
most courageous person I know. “Our family
will survive this with all of your prayers and
help, and this really warms our heart,” he
said. “It’s been a blessing in our life, and we
love East Carolina.”
“Let’s make a commitment to make
something good out of this tragedy,”
Chancellor Steve Ballard said in his remarks.
Responding to the incident, Greenville police
announced a plan to close the downtown
bar area just off campus to vehicular traffic.
Barricades will block streets going into the
area Wednesdays through Saturdays from 10
p.m. until 3 a.m. Police also increased foot
patrols in the downtown area.
Annual statistical reports prepared by the
campus police, which are required by law,
show a decline in the number of most
criminal offenses. There have been no
murders or negligent homicides on campus
in at least three years, the reports indicate.
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Marianna Walker, associate professor of
communication sciences and disorders in
the College of Allied Health Sciences, was
elected chair of the ECU faculty for the
2009–2010 academic year. This is the first
time a faculty member from the College
of Allied Health Sciences has held this
position. Walker is the Barbara W. Bremer
Distinguished Professor in Language
Learning and Literacy Disorders, the first
endowed professor in the College of Allied
Health Sciences.
Pediatrics professor Tom Irons, director
of ECU’s generalist physician program and
associate vice chancellor for regional health
services, was the featured speaker at spring
graduation exercises at the Brody School of
Medicine. It was the third time he has been
the graduation speaker in his 28 years on
the faculty, more than any other convocation
speaker. Medicine faces may challenges, he
said, but “whatever the problems, it’s still the
best job in the world.”
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Nearly 200 students, faculty and supporters
came together in July to remember rising
senior Landon Blackley and Andrew Kirby,
a downtown restaurant manager, who were
shot and killed while standing outside The
Other Place, a nightclub on Fifth Street.
Police said Blackley, 21, and Kirby, 29, were
innocent bystanders, victims of a drive-by
shooting alledgedly committed by James Earl
Richardson, 32, who has been charged with
two counts of murder and was in jail under a
$5 million bond.
The marchers walked from the nightclub
along Fifth Street to the cupola in the center
of the campus, where they were joined by 15
members of the Blackley family, including
Laura Dean ’82 and Lennie Blackley ’78,
Landon’s parents. The family lives in Bullock,
which is in Granville County.
Redshirt sophomore pitcher Toni Paisley was
named the Conference USA Female Athleteof-the-Year, the first time that an East
Carolina athlete in any sport has won the
award. Paisley shares the annual recognition
with Tulane volleyball player Sara Radosevic.
This is the first time the conference selected
co-female athletes-of-the-year.
A native of Lakewood, Calif., she will return
for her junior year already ranked among
ECU’s career leaders in pitching appearances,
wins, strikeouts and shutouts. Nationally, she
finished this season ranked seventh in wins,
11th in ERA, 16th in strikeouts, 26th in
saves and 30th in shutouts (9).
She showed talent early on. As a freshman,
she struck out 15 batters in an away game
against UNC Wilmington. She was first or
second in every conference pitching statistic
that year. Injuries ended her sophomore
season after just seven games. In those games
she posted a 4–1 record and a 1.96 earned
run average and struck out 30.
She will return for her junior season in 2010
ranked among the ECU career leaders in
pitching appearances, wins, strikeouts and
shutouts.
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chancellor for health sciences after serving
more than two years in an interim role.
Horns has been a faculty member since
1990, when she returned to her alma mater
to become dean of nursing. She also served
as interim dean of the Brody School of
Medicine at ECU from 2006–2008 and as
interim vice chancellor for health sciences
from 2001–2002.
for Residency Education. Delbridge chairs
the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Derek Alderman, associate professor in the
Department of Geography, was selected
as the ECU recipient of the annual UNC
Board of Governors Award for Excellence
in Teaching. Alderman, who has authored a
book and more than 40 journal articles, is a
nationally known expert on the politics of
naming streets and other public places after
Martin Luther King Jr. The honor comes
with a commemorative bronze medal and a
$7,500 cash prize. Six faculty members were
selected for the 2009 Board of Governors
Distinguished Professor for Teaching Awards:
Michael Harris, Jeannie Golden, Mark
Richardson, John Howard, Sue Steinweg
and Linda Mooney. Each recipient received
$1,000 from the UNC system.
Teresa Parent, a nurse in the thoracic
oncology clinic at the Leo W. Jenkins
Cancer Center, is the 2009 Brody School of
Medicine nurse of the year. She works with
patients newly diagnosed with lung cancer
to help them understand their disease and
treatment plans.
Theodore Delbridge was named the first
Distinguished Professor in Emergency
Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine
and Charles Hodson, a reproductive
physiologist in the Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology, was named the
first Dr. Darnell Jones Endowed Professor
Marching Pirates Band Director Christopher
Knighten resigned to become director
of the University of Arkansas Athletic
Bands. Knighten, an Arkansas native, had
led the Marching Pirates since 1993. The
Razorback Marching Band was formed in
1874 and is one of the oldest collegiate
bands in the nation.
Assistant Athletics Director for Medical
Services Mike Hanley was named the
National Athletic Trainers’ Association 2009
College/University Head Athletic Trainer
of the Year for Division I. Hanley, who is in
his 19th overall season on the ECU Sports
Medicine staff, also earned the state-level
award in 2005.
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outside the box when he
decided to give money to
his alma mater. Watching
his daughter play basketball
convinced him he could support
athletics and academics, so he
endowed a women’s basketball
scholarship. Ken and Kay Chalk
signed on to sponsor a prestigious
East Carolina Scholars Award to
make sure the university could
attract the best and brightest
students to campus. A dream of
sparking new dementia research
at the medical school inspired Dr.
Harriet Wooten to give. She created
a fund benefiting investigators
researching neurodegenerative
diseases as a tribute to her late
husband, who died of complications
from Alzheimer’s disease.
From athletics to zoology,
programs across campus are
benefiting from gifts like these
at a time when ECU needs them
the most. Alumni and friends are
funding programs like the premier
East Carolina Scholars Award and
the new Access Scholars program,
which provides scholarships to
hard-working students for whom
college tuition would present
a financial hardship. The EC
Scholarship is worth $10,000 a
year for four years and it provides a
one-time $5,000 stipend to study
abroad. Donors are making sure
professors have leadership support,
researchers have funding for
studies, and sports programs have
scholarships for top athletes.
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“I’ve been very fortunate and blessed with a
successful construction business,” says Philip
Gibbs ’81, formerly of Greenville and now
a part owner Hamel Builders in Maryland.
“When I was thinking about how I could
give back, I really liked the idea of a scholar
athlete. I have daughters, and felt a women’s
sport would be appropriate.”
The spirit of giving has taken the spotlight
recently during the Second Century
Campaign, which had its public launch in
2008 with a goal of raising $200 million
to support students, faculty and programs
in every aspect of campus life—on main
campus, at the medical center, in athletics
and beyond. The campaign already has
reached the $145 million mark, not bad
considering the nation’s current economic
downturn. Despite the overall gloom, Pirates
are making ECU a priority.
“We may actually have benefited,” says
Michael Dowdy, vice chancellor of university
advancement. “People may have postponed
giving to another entity so they could
support ECU.” Two recent generous gifts are
a good sign that’s true. The late Geraldine
Mayo Beveridge ’39, a former Carteret
County teacher, left a $1.5 million bequest
to be used as scholarships for high school
graduates in her area. Vincent K. and Linda
E. McMahon, graduates in 1969 and cofounders of World Wrestling Entertainment,
made a $1.332 million gift through their
McMahon Family Foundation. Their gift
will be matched with state funds to create
two endowed professorships and a needbased scholarship fund.
home. From the university’s earliest
supporters, many of whose names are found
on the campus buildings, collections or
other structures that bear their names, to
modern patrons like the Brody Brothers
Foundation (see accompanying story), they
have made sure the university continued
to grow. Like all UNC campuses, ECU
receives state funding but that money
only accounts for about 36 percent of the
university’s needs. The rest comes primarily
from students’ tuition and fees, grants and
contracts, clinical revenue and from private
philanthropy.
The Second Century goal is really just a
starting point, Dowdy says. It’s estimated
the university will need one billion dollars
in funding above its state budget in the
next 15–20 years to attain the benchmarks
set out in its strategic plan. That plan
includes building and instruction at ECU,
the state’s fastest growing university, and
expanded classroom learning, technology,
leadership, health and medical innovations,
arts and culture, and support for the
regional economy.
This campaign marks the first large-scale
fund-raiser since Shared Visions, which raised
about $54 million during the 1990s. It’s at
the center of a modern wave of philanthropy
from a growing sea of donors whose strong
ties to ECU are often matched with ideals
they’d like to set in motion. Contributing to
ECU is important—and personal.
Giving has a long tradition at ECU
supported by powerful loyalty to the
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are valued at about $75 million, down from
a high of about $95 million last summer,
before the economic downturn. But there is
some good news: total giving to the ECU
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Kay ’76 and Kendall Chalk ’68 ’71 are
long-time university supporters who also
volunteer as leaders. Ken Chalk, a retired
senior executive vice president at BB&T,
formerly served as chair of the ECU
Foundation and recently was appointed
to the ECU Board of Trustees. Kay
Chalk chairs the Women’s Roundtable,
a university organization recognizing
women’s contributions to the university and
encouraging their ongoing commitment.
The Women’s Roundtable hopes to create a
culture of giving among its members.
The Chalks were among the earliest
supporters of the East Carolina Scholars
Award, Kay Chalk remembers. “We heard
(former Chancellor) Richard Eakin talk
about the program when it was first getting
started, and he made an appeal,” she says.
“He said that if we were going to compete
with Carolina, we needed these scholarships.
We told him we’d endow one. When you’ve
been given so much, there comes a time when
you want to give something back.”
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flagship merit scholarship program, attracting
multitalented standouts with full tuition,
some living expenses, summer research and
study abroad. The university has about 60 EC
Scholars, which are funded by combinations
of individual gifts and endowments. There
are service and leadership requirements
attached to the scholarships, as well as a
senior project.
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The Chalks’ scholarship bears the name of
Kay Chalk’s late father, Elmer Haskell, a
hard-working retail manager for many years.
The award goes to a student in the College
of Business. The current Haskell scholar is
sophomore Jacob Davis of Wilson, where the
Chalks lived for many years.
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Having an EC Scholars award is “the biggest
honor you can get,” Davis says. “I was so
glad to have people like the Chalks who were
willing to give money for this program.”
Another award program attracting a lot
of support is the Access Scholarship. This
program began in 2007 to provide tuition
for students with strong academic records
who also had financial need. These hybrid
scholarships serve hard-working students
who might otherwise fall through the
cracks when it comes to financial support.
This year, the university hosted 62 Access
scholars. These awards are supported by
a donor’s $5,000 gift each year. So far,
77 Access Scholars are set for the next
academic year, which will include the current
students, plus 15 more. Three of the Access
Scholarship have been endowed and will exist
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Their gifts often bear personal touches,
reflecting their values or memories of loved
ones, and allow them to share the fruit
of successes made possible by an ECU
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The university has three societies to
recognize financial giving. The Order of the
Cupola, with about 200 members, recognizes
those with the highest levels of giving, with
combined gifts of $100,000 and more. The
Leo W. Jenkins Society, with about 100
members, recognizes those who have made
a planned gift. A planned gift includes any
kind of contribution that is made after a
person’s death, and includes bequests in wills,
life insurance policies, real estate or other
bequest. The Chancellors’ Society recognizes
annual gifts of $1,000 or more.
“We would like for all true Pirates to end up
in one of these societies,” says William Clark,
’69 ’73, president of the ECU Foundation.
“Not everybody is able to give in a lifetime at
the $100,000 mark, but everybody is able to
leave something behind. When you’re thinking
about leaving something for those you love,
we hope you’ll include East Carolina.”
To accommodate these levels of giving,
the university has strengthened the systems
and staff overseeing contributions of all
kinds. Its endowment investments are held
by three foundations: the ECU Foundation
(supporting academic programs); the ECU
Medical & Health Sciences Foundation
(for the School of Medicine, Colleges
of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences,
School of Dentistry and Laupus Health
Sciences Library), and the ECU Educational
Foundation (Pirate Club for athletics). In
addition, the ECU Alumni Association
helps graduates stay in touch through special
events, programs and newsletters. The
foundations are each managed by volunteerled boards of directors, many of whom
have significant financial and investment
experience. They work in concert with a
professional investment advising firm that is
employed by them. Staff members serve as
liaisons between the university, the boards,
the funds and their donors.
Academics and athletics come together in
the ECU Educational Foundation, better
known as the Pirate Club. In its 48 years,
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the club has been the driver behind many
projects to build or renovate several facilities
on campus. It’s also the primary sponsor of
athletic scholarships and academic support
for team members.
Last year, the Pirate Club raised $5.4 million
in unrestricted giving, a record for the club,
and $8.9 million in total giving. Membership
reached 13,531, another record. This giving
funded scholarships for roughly 450 student
athletes, as well as capital improvements and
other athletic-related needs. The scholarships
include Gibbs’ women’s basketball endowment,
as well as a golf endowment and others.
Mark Wharton ’93, executive director of
the Pirate Club, says athletics and academics
go hand in hand at ECU. “We’re the front
porch of the university,” he says. “ When you
can see Pirate sports on national TV, you
can’t put a price tag on the exposure and the
publicity. It builds a lot of excitement among
people from all over the country. The bigger
our program, the more exposure the total
university gets, and from there, people realize
how great our university is, and people want
to be a part of it.”
Wharton hopes the Second Century
Campaign raises funds needed for planned
expansions of the football stadium, as well
as for creating Olympic sports facilities,
including a softball field.
“ We have a sophisticated investment
approach and we are very conservative,”
says Carol M. Mabe, ’71, chair of the ECU
Foundation Board of Directors and member
of the Board of Trustees. She retired after a
career that included serving as an executive
for the Russell Corporation and Russell
Athletic in Atlanta. When the endowment
began showing signs of the down economy,
she says, “we began talking to donors, to
explain where we were. A lot of times they
would write a personal check, to do whatever
it would take to keep scholarships going.
That’s the true spirit of philanthropy.”
Clark says this kind of partnership comes
from bringing together people who have
strong skills and personal commitment.
“Philanthropy is more than just raising
money,” Clark says. “It means becoming
involved with the university. We are helping
people convert their passion for ECU into
action. That can mean giving money, but it
also means inviting people to give their time
to be involved on campus, to join the Pirate
Club and the Alumni Association, and to be
an advocate for ECU.”
Old friends are making new gifts, too. The
Alumni Association, under the leadership
of Paul J. Clifford, has intensified its
outreach to alumni and they’ve responded.
The association currently has about 5,900
members, but there is a goal to increase
that number to as high as 10,000. There
is renewed emphasis on giving as part of
greater overall engagement.
“ECU alumni are the most loyal in the
country,” Clifford says. “Other schools enjoy
loyalty for their athletics or other marquee
programs but at ECU our alumni are
passionate about all aspects of our university,
from athletics to the arts to our world-class
medical school. When it comes to making
gifts, that loyalty generates tremendous
support for scholarships and program
development.”
Funding for research is also receiving
new emphasis. The John and Harriet
Wooten Laboratory for Alzheimer’s and
Neurodegenerative Diseases Research is
a grant-producing fund to support basic
sciences research at the medical school
through the Medical & Health Sciences
Foundation, led by president Carole Novick.
The Wooten family already funds two
awards, the Henry Husted Wooten Keyboard
Scholarship, honoring the Wooten’s late
son, and a music therapy fellowship.
Funding medical research serves a deeply
important cause for Dr. Harriet Wooten
that also commemorates her husband’s
accomplishments.
Dr. John Wooten was the first orthopedic
surgeon east of I-95 when he opened his
practice in 1954. A vivacious, intelligent
man, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s
several years before his death in 2004, at 80.
Funding from the Wooten
Lab may help researchers
attract more funding.
“That’s what John would
have liked,” Harriet
Wooten says. Indeed, her
husband took part in the
early stages of planning
the gift. “He knew he
wanted to do this,” she
says. “This is something
that will last.”
The activities of the
Wooten Lab are
coordinated by an advisory
board that includes Bob
Lust, chair, Dr. Lamont
Wooten, son of Drs.
John and Harriet Wooten
who is also a physician,
and Qun Lu, along with
other scientists. Lu is an
associate professor in the
Department of Anatomy
and Cell Biology. “The
Wooten gift is the first
private contribution to
ECU devoted to studying
the basic, molecular and
cell biology mechanisms
of Alzheimer’s and
other neurodegenerative
diseases,” he says.
“Understanding these
diseases will allow the
discovery of drugs to fight
against Alzheimer’s, which
increases each year even
while we see a decrease
in heart disease. I am
extremely impressed by the
Wooten family’s passion
and commitment.”
Lamont Wooten shares a
sense of satisfaction from
his family’s gift to the
When alumni
reconnect with
ECU, we
can share
our treasure.
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chairman, east carolina
alumni association board
medical school. Since
the Wooten Lab has
no walls, it will enable
researchers to work with
others at the university
and beyond.
“Knowing that one
person could make a
difference gave us a lot
of confidence to do it,”
Lamont Wooten says.
“Even with a small lab,
one person can come up
with a great discovery.”
Sabrina Bengel, who
attended ECU in the
1970s and is now
completing her degree
online, serves as chair of
the alumni association
board. She and her
husband own New Bern
Tours, and she operates
several other businesses
in that historic city.
She believes alumni can
share their talent, time
or other “treasure.”
“All of us have treasures
to give, and they are
different,” Bengel says.
“They can be financial
when people have become
successful in their
careers and understand
the responsibility of
stewardship. But we also
have other treasures, such
as mentoring students or
serving the university in a
volunteer capacity. It could
be hiring Pirates. When
alumni reconnect with
ECU, we can share our
treasure.”
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Uncle J.S. “Sammy” Brody used to say giving was a selfish thing.
The more he gave, the better he felt.
As a young man setting out in the world, these words made a powerful
impression on David S. Brody. He knew his uncle meant business; whenever he
concluded a successful deal, he gave to one of his many causes.
By the 1960s, ECU became one of those
causes when Sammy Brody, along with
brothers Leo and Morris, met with thenChancellor Leo W. Jenkins to hear more
about the daring idea of opening a medical
school here. They liked the idea so much
they gave $200,000 toward it.
“He was an unusual person, the most
generous person I knew,” David Brody said
during an interview in his Kinston office. “His
thought was, ‘Don’t make small gifts. If you’re
going to do something, make a difference.’
I’ve adopted his philosophy of making a
difference. Even a small gift, combined with
other gifts, can make a difference.”
By 1977, the medical school was operating
and in 1979, the Brodys made a $1.5 million
gift that, when matched with state funds,
built the school. It was dedicated as the
Brody Medical Sciences Building in 1982.
Today, David Brody is carrying on the
tradition of giving. He is co-president,
along with his cousin Hyman, of the Brody
Brothers Foundation, a philanthropic fund
that has been a powerful agent of change at
ECU. While the fund has provided broad
funding for research at the medical school,
the Brodys themselves continue to serve as
loyal advocates for the university and region
they adopted as their own. David graduated
from the University of Pennsylvania.
In addition to managing the family
foundation, David Brody has served for six
years on the university’s Board of Trustees,
often working on committees related
to health care. He was vice chair of the
trustees the past two years, and this summer
he was set to become chairman. Hyman
and David are members of the Medical &
Health Sciences Foundation’s investment
committee, while Stacy Brody, Hyman’s wife,
is a member of that foundation’s Board of
Directors.
One of their most memorable gifts came
in 1999, when the Brody family announced
an $8 million gift to the medical school.
It provided research funding into illnesses
prevalent in eastern North Carolina, including
diabetes, heart disease, obesity and high blood
pressure. In tribute to their gift, the medical
school was renamed the Brody School of
Medicine at East Carolina University.
It was a capstone act that followed other
exceptional gifts. In 1983, another gift
funded the Brody Medical Scholarship, a
prestigious award aimed at attracting the
best and brightest to the medical school by
providing full tuition and living expenses.
The Brody scholarship enables them to
graduate without the burden of debt that
saddles many young doctors, allowing them
to practice in rural areas where salaries are
typically lower than in metropolitan areas.
It also encourages them to pursue careers in
family medicine and primary care.
The Brody story began in South Carolina,
where the 10 Brody brothers and their sister
grew up. David Brody’s father, Reuben,
opened The Capital clothing store, where he
often worked nights and weekends to build
a loyal client base. Several of the brothers
opened Brody’s Department Store in Sumter
and, in 1928, Leo Brody opened Brody’s in
Kinston, which expanded to Greenville in
the 1930s. Hyman Brody’s father, Morris,
arrived in Greenville after World War II
to serve as the managing partner of the
Greenville store. He and his wife, Lorraine,
continue to live in Greenville.
Under the direction of David Brody and
Hyman Brody, the stores expanded to several
locations in eastern North Carolina, and
became very successful. In 1998 they were
sold to Proffitt’s.
When Reuben Brody passed away, Sammy,
a successful businessman with Atlantic
Bottling Co. and Atlantic Telecasting,
became a compelling mentor to David. He
warmly recalls the many conversations that
opened with his uncle’s trademark greeting,
“What’s up, Sport?”
“He never talked about himself,” David
Brody remembers. “And when he walked into
a room, you knew it. He had an aura about
him.” At his funeral in 1994, “many people
came up to me and said, ‘He gave me my
start,’” David says.
A genuine sense of caring for one another is
at the heart of the Brody family’s giving. The
11 children were each charged with looking
out for the next younger sibling—as well
as another sibling. “Their devotion to each
other was legendary,” David says.
He cherishes the lessons of philanthropy
learned from Uncle Sammy, whose rule of
thumb for gifts went like this: If you can
write a check without thinking about it, then
you’re not giving enough money.
“He was the genesis of the foundation,”
David Brody says. “It was his philosophy,
and he led by example.”
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Ghost stories
never die
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Gretchen Brockmann saw the light was on,
again, in the attic of Jarvis Hall. It was not
long after the 1998 renovation of the stately
old dorm when Brockmann, then the residence
hall coordinator, began seeing a light shining
in the attic even after she knew she had turned it
off and asked maintenance workers to padlock the
attic door. “I would turn it off in the afternoon and
again that night it would be on, though maintenance
claimed they didn’t access it,” says Brockmann, now
assistant director of Campus Living. “Very odd.”
Tales of unexplained occurrences in East
Carolina’s historic halls saturate campus life.
Recollections like Brockmann’s abound, and
older, more widely circulated ghost stories
at ECU have withstood years of whispered
repeatings and survived the tweaks that
campus legends endure as they are passed
on. These ghostly tales have helped preserve
some of the history and tradition at a
university with a storied past.
There’s the Cotten Hall ghost, which
is purported to be a wandering suicide
victim returning to the scene. Students and
staff have reported seeing the specter of a
Confederate soldier near the Mall and west
campus, a part of which supposedly covers
the graveyard where he was laid to rest. A
shadowy apparition in Christenbury gym
is said to swing from the rafters, the result
of another suicide. McGinnis Theatre,
according to some who frequent it, is
plagued with mysterious bumps in the night.
Ghost or no ghost, the eerie tales told
at ECU offer the campus community an
example of how, as the backdrop for a
century of history and the scene of countless
pivotal moments in the lives of so many
students, the past meets the present every day.
Most college campuses have ghost stories,
and East Carolina is no exception. Why? For
one thing, ECU is in a region that has seen its
share of historic events: wars, natural disasters,
civil unrest. There’s also a simpler answer:
People, especially students, like to be scared.
“High school and college are the perfect
ages to enjoy and perpetuate ‘wonder’ tales,”
says Mason Winfield, author, researcher and
nationally known paranormal historian.
“Most college kids are away from home for
the first time and spreading tradition to new
contacts. No wonder a few ghost stories
would do the rounds at colleges.”
The residence halls near the Mall seem to
be particularly fertile fodder for the tales.
Cotten and Fleming are the most mentioned
when it comes to these accounts.
“In Fleming Hall, students say it has ghosts
but that the ghost typically does not wander
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the hallways like the Cotten ghost. Rather,
the ghost moves things around in students’
rooms,” Brockmann says. “Students also say
they hear odd noises that are not necessarily
attributed to the building or pipes and such.
It is a rattling of drawer handles and the like.”
Not far away, McGinnis Theatre has a
“mischief ghost” that rattles chains, opens
doors that were once firmly closed and says
“hello” to those who find themselves alone
there at night, says Jeff Woodruff, managing
director of most of the theater’s shows.
“Every theater is haunted to some degree, or
so the legends go,” Woodruff says.
Students have reported seeing gray figures
and hearing unexplained noises while alone
in McGinnis. A light is left on in the theater
at night for safety, and, some say, so spirits
watching from the shadows can see who’s
there. One story tells of a girl preparing
for a starring role in a show who stayed late
one night to record the piano music for
her musical number. Afterwards, when she
replayed the recording, a ghostly voice was
singing the lyrics to her accompaniment. She
later heard that another actress, years earlier,
had tragically died during her stint in the
same role of the same show.
“A theater is one type of community or site
that gathers ‘wonder’ tradition; a college is
another,” Winfield says. “When you have a
theater at a college, you have a double, maybe
even a triple whammy.”
Other campus buildings are equally plagued
with rumors. Howard House, home to the
ECU News Bureau, is said to be haunted
by a noisy ghost, and visitors to Ward
Guest House have vacated its rooms in
favor of a hotel in the middle of the night.
Sorority and fraternity houses are home to
legends of suicides, untimely deaths and
disgruntled spirits. Flanagan Building and
even Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium are said to
be the sites of suicides and other violent
events, with the spirits of the dead restlessly
roaming the grounds.
Most of the stories have been passed down
by students looking for fun—much like the
Pactolus Light story and tales of deaths on
Halloween—but the lore also is studied in
academic settings.
English professor James Kirkland teaches a
folklore class during which he asks which
stories his students have heard and where the
tales originated.
“The details of the stories change depending
on popular culture, when they’re passed on
through the oral process,” Kirkland says.
“The core of these stories always stays the
same. There’s a sort of intrigue with these
things. With the supernatural, if there’s
something you can’t explain in rational
terms, then you fill the gap with what you do
understand.”
ECU’s stories seem to follow the same
pattern as those on other college campuses:
suicide from unrequited love, buildings
erected atop graveyards, ghosts of those who
died tragic and untimely deaths. Others,
including accounts of seeing the apparitions
of children in residence halls, come from
unknown beginnings. The stories also
normally take place in attics, basements,
empty residence halls or other locations
where people often find themselves alone.
No matter the setting, the stories help give
people a sense of East Carolina’s history and
help them understand where they fit into
that timeline. The ghost of the Confederate
soldier connects the campus to a time rich
in historical meaning. The idea of living and
studying in buildings that may be built over
graveyards makes students wonder about
lives gone by. “There’s a sort of intrigue with
these things,” Kirkland says.
Even as ECU’s popular ghost stories change
over time, they still lend themselves to
preservation of campus tradition. Whether
or not there’s any truth to them and no
matter where they originated, the tales, and
perhaps the spirits they recall, live on. 4Pbc
Editor’s note: Did you experience something
spooky on campus? Tell us what you saw or
heard in an e-mail to [email protected].
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Life’s Back Nine
Like many Southern writers before him, Jim Dodson left home
to find fame and fortune Up North. But during a low point
in his life he felt the tug of his roots and gave up a national
audience to start a second career writing for the newspaper
in Southern Pines. “To go through an open door sometimes,
especially at midlife, is not easy. But I knew I wanted to
come back. I knew something good would come of this.”
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The author of four best-seller books,
including one that became a made-for-TV
movie about his life, turns sideways to
scoot between desks in the cramped offices
of PineStraw magazine, and then steps out
onto the shady sidewalks of Southern Pines.
He’s headed for lunch at the diner around
the corner and is explaining to a visitor why
he gave up a comfortable and financially
rewarding perch in the publishing spotlight
to work for the local paper.
It was one of those offers you just can’t
refuse, says Jim Dodson ’75. It came when
he was in town to cover the 2005 U.S.
Open golf tournament in Pinehurst; he
was approached by David Woronoff, the
publisher of The Pilot, and offered a job
as the paper’s writer in residence. Dodson
had just published his sixth book—a wellreceived biography of storied golfer Ben
Hogan—and had worked for nearly 20 years
as an award-winning columnist for Golf
Magazine, whose circulation in the millions
makes it a bible of the industry. The Pilot,
recognized as one of the best small papers
in the country, comes out three times a week
and has a circulation around 15,000.
“He said ‘I can’t pay you what those people
will but I can promise you all the North
Carolina barbecue you can eat and all the
sweet tea you can drink.’ What he didn’t
know was that was just the deal I was
looking for. I agreed to do it on a lark. I
thought I would stay here two weeks and
four years later, here I am.”
He’s had ample opportunities to dine on
swine during some recent media tours for his
eighth book, A Son of the Game, published
in the spring, in which he chronicles his
passage into this new stage of his life and
his changing love of golf. The book is set
in Pinehurst and Southern Pines amid the
famous golf courses and handsome old inns
and restaurants of the golfing mecca. It’s
selling quite well despite its critical look at
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the game of golf, at least that version of it
hawked by the PGA on television.
The monthly arts and culture magazine he
edits, PineStraw, also is doing well. In the
year since he took the job, it’s expanded
to 100 pages and won the N.C. Press
Association award for best periodical.
Understandably, Dodson feels like he’s just
turned to the back nine holes of his life, and
birdied the 10th. There’s talk of expanding
the circulation into Raleigh and Greensboro,
Dodson’s hometown.
Understandably, Dodson feels like he’s had
lots of risk and reward in the first nine holes
of his life. But now he’s turned to the back
nine, and birdied the 10th.
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Abruptly moving home to North Carolina
after 22 years in Maine wasn’t the first time
Dodson had heard a different drummer and
marched off in an unexpected direction. Just
two years out of East Carolina, he became a
feature writer for the Atlanta Journal’s Sunday
magazine and during seven years there
collected two major journalism awards. The
one prize he valued most came when The
Washington Post called with a job offer. That
was his dad’s paper before moving up into in
newspaper management at other papers, lastly
and notably at the Greensboro Daily News.
Weighing the offers, Dodson thought of some
advice his dad had given him. “I had told
him I was honored with the writing awards I
had won in Atlanta and the recognition that
would come from working for The Washington
Post, where he had worked, but I said I have
come to hate most of the things I write about.
He said, ‘Well, then get a job where you can
write about something you love.’”
So he passed on the Post and took the job
at Yankee magazine, where he would be free
to pursue his muse. He wrote only about
things that interested him; among his early
stories was a profile of one of the best
women amateur golfers of the 1940s and
’50s, Glenna Collett Vare, who then was in
her 80s and living in obscure retirement. The
inspiring story caused a minor stir. Dodson
had had a love-hate relationship with golf
since high school, and the story about Vare
clearly demonstrated that he had a flair for
writing about the sport and the people who
played it. After the story ran in Yankee, it was
reprinted by, among others, Golf Magazine. A
job offered followed, and his byline became a
fixture on the masthead of the sport’s biggest
magazine. He settled into a comfortable life
in a rustic home he built in Maine, married
and began raising two kids.
During the 1980s and most of the ’90s,
Dodson became known as one of the best
golf writers around. He won the William
Allen White Award for Public Affairs
Journalism from the University of Kansas,
plus more than a dozen awards from the
Golf Writers of America and other industry
organizations. He was invited to become
a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf
Club of St. Andrews, the birthplace of golf.
He wrote about things other than golf for
Gentlemen’s Quarterly, The New York Times,
Sports Illustrated, Travel and Leisure, Town
and Country, Reader’s Digest, Geo, Outside
Magazine, and other national publications.
In 1995, when he learned that his father
had cancer, the two decided to finally take
the golfing trip they always had promised
themselves. They played the famous courses
in Scotland and England, and the Continent.
When they came home his father learned his
cancer had spread. In the final months of his
life, Dodson became his father’s caregiver.
The result of all that intense love and loss
was Dodson’s first book, Final Rounds. which
was published in 1997. It attracted favorable
reviews, made several best-seller lists, and
has sold more than 300,000 copies in six
languages.
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After publication of Final Rounds, Dodson’s
marriage ended and he had to decide how
to tell his kids, particularly 11-year-old
Maggie. He did that during a fly-fishing
trip with her across America that started in
the Adirondacks and ended at Yellowstone
National Park. On the way Dodson
discovered a great deal about fishing and
about the special relationship that exists
only between a father and daughter. That
experience became Faithful Travelers, which,
like Final Rounds, made the Times best-seller
list. The book also became a made-for-TV
movie on CBS called Dodson’s Journey, which
still turns up occasionally on cable.
On the last night of his book tour for Faithful
Travelers, Dodson got a phone call that
forever sealed his reputation as an elite golf
writer. Arnold Palmer phoned to ask him to
write his biography. Dodson spent extended
periods with Palmer and his wife and had
unfettered access to Palmer’s personal life.
The result was Arnold Palmer: A Golfer’s Life,
which came out in 2001. It also made the
Times’ best-seller list.
Other books soon followed, including The
Dewsweepers in 2001, which told of a year
Dodson spent playing with an eclectic group
of men who always were the first to tee
off each morning at their club. It’s about
friendship as much as golf.
His fly-fishing trip with daughter Maggie
had been so rewarding to both that he
replicated the experience with his son, Jack.
Dodson, who had hit 50 and was sensing
opportunities slipping away, dropped
everything to take his 10-year-old son on a
golfing vacation across Europe, hitting all
the high and low spots and encountering
problems that only brought them closer.
The experience resulted in his 2005 book,
The Road to Somewhere. His biography of Ben
Hogan, one of the least-understood icons of
golf, also came out that year.
As Dodson was finishing the Hogan book
in the summer of 2004, which took much
longer than anticipated, his life became
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a swirl of complexities, marked by nearconstant travel and the pain of being
separated from his children. About that
time he had to make another painful trip, to
visit an old friend who was dying—Harvey
Ward, the man whom Byron Nelson called
the “best player in the world” while he
was winning back-to-back U.S. Amateur
championships in 1956–57. Dodson
thought there was a marvelous story in
Ward’s storybook career went up in smoke
when he was embroiled in a controversy over
his amateur status. Exiled from the game,
Ward, who had played golf at Carolina,
eventually settled in Pinehurst and became a
preeminent golf instructor. Dodson wanted
to write a book about Ward but kept putting
it off until it was nearly too late.
By 2005, Dodson had published six books
in eight years, buried his father and mother
and confronted divorce and its painful
aftermath. Plus, Golf magazine had a new
owner who was chopping expenses by
chopping writers from the staff. He was
bone tired and feeling low when he blew into
Pinehurst that spring to cover the men’s open
and to spend as much time as he could with
Ward. That’s when he got an offer he just
couldn’t refuse.
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At first, Dodson’s job as writer in residence
for The Pilot—he’s believed to be the only
person with such a title at any newspaper in
America—was to write a Sunday column.
He wrote about people and places he came
across—“anything that passed under my
nose.” One day it would be about an old lady
in Carthage who saves animals hit by cars.
Another time it would focus on a Korean
journalist Dodson meets who tells him that
reading Final Rounds changed his life.
In 2008, though, Dodson’s role at the
paper expanded when he became editor of
PineStraw, a monthly magazine The Pilot had
started a year or so before. Dodson attracted
other talented people to the magazine and
filled its pages with good writing about the
people and culture of the Sandhills.
“I believe this state needs a popular magazine
that has a literary quality but still has a
sense of mirth and fun,” Dodson declares.
He is quick to point out that two other
ECU alumni have contributed to PineStraw’s
success. Andie Stuart Rose ’82 is the
magazine’s founder and creative director.
Robyn James ’76, who owns The Wine Cellar
and Tasting Room in Southern Pines, writes
a regular wine column.
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Don Sweeting ’85, executive vice president
of golf and club operations for Pinehurst
Resorts, is among the many locals who have
warmly welcomed Dodson to the region’s
close-knit golfing community. “He exudes
the history, the tradition and the honor of
golf. As you would expect from a high-quality
writer, he is a serious person, but he’s also a
fun person to be around, which you would
expect from an East Carolina graduate.”
The son of a newspaper man, Jim Dodson
grew up in Greensboro and gained his first
recognition as a writer while still a student
at Grimsely High School. Described by
friends as thoughtful and reflective from an
early age, he considered Episcopal seminary
but enrolled instead at East Carolina. He
gravitated toward the English department
and the student newspaper, where he was a
staff writer, features editor and columnist.
Woronoff, who owns The Pilot along with
Frank Daniels Jr., Frank Daniels III and
others associated with the Raleigh News &
Observer before its sale to the McClatchy
chain, says the paper’s reputation (the Daniels
bought it from Sam Ragan, a former state
poet laureate) probably contributed to
Dodson’s decision to come there. “We have a
saying here that we are always small town but
never small time,” says Woronoff, who grew
up in Greenville.
Dodson transferred to Chapel Hill his junior
year but stayed there just two semesters
before returning to East Carolina and the
student paper. Why? “It just felt like home.
There was an intimacy at East Carolina that
I just loved. It was the smartest decision I
ever made.”
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With publication of his latest book, A Son of
the Game, Dodson has had to travel frequently
for book tours and media interviews. “I get
so many requests to give speeches and make
appearances, and I’ve adopted a policy that if
it’s something in North Carolina, where I can
go speak and still get back to lay my head on
my own pillow at night, then I don’t charge
anything. Out of state, that’s another matter.”
He wouldn’t take anything for his years in
Greenville. “[The reaction I got] when I
turned down the job at the The Washington
Post to write for Yankee magazine was just
like the people who said to me that if you
go to East Carolina instead of Chapel Hill,
your life will be over. They said if you want
to be a journalist, Carolina is where it’s at.
And I love Carolina. But it wasn’t where I
was intended to go. East Carolina was where
I learned the classics, learned writing, had
fantastic professors, had the opportunity to
work at the student paper.”
Dodson now is married to Wendy Dodson,
who works at Sandhills Community
College as an assistant to the president
and secretary to the board of trustees. He
frequently is asked to emcee local events
and to speak at various functions, such as
a big Father’s Day event in Southern Pines
that he says was a blast. Life is settling into
comfortable rhythms.
After graduating in the fall of ’75, he went
to work for the Greensboro Daily News,
where he had interned for two summers
during college. This promising start to his
career was shattered within a year when his
girlfriend, while working at a country club in
Hickory, was murdered by a robber. Dodson
took a leave of absence from the paper for
three months and wandered around Europe,
grieving and healing. When he returned he got
a call from the Atlanta paper offering a job.
He took it and threw himself into his work.
During seven years in Atlanta he perfected his
writing skills and rebuilt his personal life.
From the deep emotion that comes from
death experienced at close hand, and the
years of writing under deadline came
the skill and insight that would animate
his writing career. Dodson’s greatest gift,
according to Woronoff, “is this great ability
to write with great sentiment but he avoids
being sentimental. He has an uncanny ability
to find the most extraordinary stories in the
most ordinary of people.”
Dodson Dodson, who was honored by ECU
as an alumni of the year in 2002, says he’s
surprised by “the intensity of the reactions
to [Final Rounds because] I thought this book
might lack a big gut hit. It’s all about coming
home. What it does have is hitting 50 and
finding the ground shifting under your feet.”
He sees his children as often as he can and
relishes a phone call he gets during lunch
from Jack, who is doing a summer internship
at a newspaper. Jack is about to go out on an
interview, and dad delights in passing along
a few tips.
“My spirituality has deepened,” Dodson says
later. “I apply that sacredness to my writing.
I had a father who said there are no mistakes
in life. There are no time limits here. And
what he said is true.
“I have been lucky to have several
opportunities where I have taken the road
less traveled. I think it’s because I tried not to
think too much about what I should do and
instead of what I love to do. My dad said to
try writing about something you love. That
was very good advice.”
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Geologist Stan Riggs, an expert
on the impact of development on
coastal shorelines, knows it’s fruitless
to ‘fight a war against the ocean.’
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Even in his Graham Hall office, Stan Riggs,
dressed in jeans and an outdoorsy shirt, with
windblown hair and gray-blue eyes, looks
like he ought to be outside. And outside is
where he does his best work.
Now, outside means not only working along
eastern North Carolina shorelines but also
speaking at seminars and workshops across
the state, educating citizens and decisionmakers about coastal geology and North
Carolina’s dynamic barrier islands.
His rising tide of alarm
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Many people “still want to fight a war
against the ocean,” says Riggs, who retired
from classroom teaching in 2000 but has
continued with ECU as a distinguished
research professor, running a large research
program and working with graduate
students. “If we continue down the nolimits-to-growth-and-development path that
we’re on right now, we’re giving the coastal
systems a death sentence.”
That path includes oceanfront and inlet
development along with the push to harden
shorelines with seawalls and groins—even
condominiums—to hold back the Atlantic
and stabilize the beach.
Instead, Riggs urges his audiences to
understand how sand moves along beaches
and how human efforts to modify this natural
process cause unintended consequences. He
shows them where the ocean wants the islands
to be, what shape it wants them to be and
how the ocean will accomplish that. He also
shows them what the ocean does to structures
that get in its way.
“Once you understand how the coastal
system works, we can adapt to that and build
with these dynamics,” he says.
Riggs has spoken at about 100 events in the
past year. “It’s very different interacting with
the public than a college classroom, but it’s
very exciting,” he says, because the audience
generally recognizes the seriousness of the
conflict when they see roads and portions of
oceanfront or inlet developments disappear
as the shoreline erodes. They want to learn
about the coast and how they can adapt to
the changes and live in a sustainable way.
“The new vision for North Carolina’s coastal
system must be based upon adaptation to
a rising sea level and increased impact of
storm events. This vision is very different
from our past vision and approach to coastal
development,” Riggs says.
Riggs has been studying the North Carolina
coast since 1967, when he arrived at ECU
to help start the geology program. He grew
up in Wisconsin, investigating the geology of
Green Bay and Lake Michigan. He graduated
from Beloit College in Wisconsin, got his
master’s degree at Dartmouth College in
New Hampshire and received a doctorate
from the University of Montana.
During his career, Riggs has participated
in more than 73 multiyear grants and
contracts totaling more than $7 million,
plus equipment and ship time, which is time
spent aboard ship studying and mapping
the seafloor. He’s published 120 peer!!
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In 1983, Riggs received the O. Max Gardner
Award, the top recognition given to faculty
members within the University of North
Carolina system. Riggs, believed to be the
youngest recipient of the award at the time,
was honored for his work on coastal and
marine systems and economic minerals
including phosphates and their impact on
world agriculture. In 1994, Riggs was ECU’s
first distinguished professor in the Thomas
Harriot College of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Scott Snyder, a retired ECU paleontologist, worked with Riggs, studying the
fossils found during Riggs’ field research.
“It was always fun and exciting to be dealing
with Stan,” Snyder said. “He attracts a lot of
students, and they all speak highly of him.
They’re attracted by his high energy and
enthusiasm.”
One such student was his final doctoral
student, Peter Parham, who completed his
studies in coastal resource management
under Riggs this spring. Parham met the
geologist in 1986 when Parham was an
undergraduate at Beloit College, where Riggs
delivered a rousing lecture.
“It was so powerful to me, I decided to come
here for my master’s,” Parham says.
Riggs now is in the 10th and final year of a
$14 million U.S. Geological Survey project
in which he studied the origins and evolution
of the northeastern North Carolina coastal
system. That project has involved 20 senior
researchers from six universities and agencies
and more than 50 graduate students.
Even after his research and teaching career
at ECU and the findings of the USGS
project, Riggs says researchers are a long
way from fully understanding how the
coastal system works.
“We’ve just scratched the surface,” he says. “It’s
a very complex system, and we aren’t going to
quit learning for a long, long time to come.”
To learn more, Riggs spends a lot of time
in the field. He shares that knowledge with
schoolteachers through workshops such as
Earth View and Sea View, projects funded
by the National Science Foundation and
the North Carolina Sea Grant Program,
respectively. He also participates in many
of the teacher workshops sponsored by
the N.C. Center for the Advancement of
Teaching at Ocracoke. He takes teachers to
the beaches during storms, through maritime
forests and salt marshes and into estuaries.
He shows them roads that once went
somewhere but now dead-end in the surf.
“You can talk about it all day, but when you
see how the ocean works and what a storm
does to a barrier island, the teachers will
never forget that,” Riggs says. “That paints an
image on their minds that doesn’t go away.”
Riggs shows teachers how land, air and sea
are all connected through the hydrologic
cycle: how water travels from mountain
streams through Piedmont rivers to the
coastal estuaries and into the ocean and back
again to the mountains via storms.
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for East Carolina.” A student in Riggs’
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former students wish they had been.
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on is incredible. But as a society, we don’t
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ticket office—as East Carolina opens the
season aiming for a fourth straight bowl bid
and back-to-back conference championships.
If the Pirates win the games they should and
pick off a couple in their familiar role as an
underdog (remember last year’s Virginia Tech
game?), this season could mark the moment
when ECU gets the phrase “perennial football
power” permanently attached to its name.
Or not. It wouldn’t take many bad breaks for
the Pirates to fall to Appalachian; just ask
Michigan. Road games against an improved
North Carolina team and always-tough West
Virginia follow, meaning East Carolina could
open conference play 0-3 wondering where
its mojo went. Either way, the stands will be
full of happy tailgaters. Season tickets were
nearing a sell-out three months before the
Sept. 5 opener against the Mountaineers,
and officials announced that any single-game
tickets, if available, would be offered first to
Pirate Club members. Attendance is expected
to shatter last season’s stadium-record
42,016 average. Ten of the 12 games this
season will be televised, five nationally.
A core of returning starters on offense and
defense will be led by senior quarterback
Patrick Pinkney, who learned in January
that he would be granted another year of
eligibility after missing the 2005 season with
a shoulder injury. On the sidelines, head
coach Skip Holtz begins his fifth season with
a 29–22 record, a sweetened contract that
now pays him $1.16 million a year, and some
media speculation that he’s bound for bigger
things if the Pirates enjoy a great season.
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seasons has produced some unsought
attention for head coach Skip Holtz. His
name was bandied about last fall when
Syracuse and Boston College were looking
to fill vacancies. Holtz continues to insist
he loves his job and doesn’t see ECU as a
stepping-stone to somewhere else. “I have
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Many observers cite three things in assuming
that Holtz would leave East Carolina if the
right offer came along. Those three things
are the letters B-C-S. Conference USA, in
which the Pirates play, is not a member of
the Bowl Championship Series alliance, which
stages the major bowls and the national
championship game. Thus, East Carolina isn’t
automatically eligible for those high-profile
bowl games. Although he will never say never,
Holtz, 45, acknowledges that an offer could
come along that would be impossible to turn
down. One of those might be Notre Dame,
Holtz’s alma mater, where coach Charlie Weis
reportedly is on thin ice.
Holtz and Athletic Director Terry Holland
would like to see the Pirates move up to
the BCS level. The most likely re-alignment
scenario would send East Carolina to the Big
East, following in the footsteps of former
C-USA opponents Louisville and Cincinnati,
who made the switch in 2005. But Big East
officials have made unfavorable comments
about further expansion.
Holtz believes that there is only one
foolproof way to attract BCS attention:
continue winning football games. “Twenty
years ago Virginia Tech was where we are,”
about college football and its future. But I
don’t think we can concern ourselves with
what everybody else is doing. We’ve got to
build this program to where we’ve got to
make them take us. We’ve got to become the
elephant in the room.”
Holtz says he wouldn’t want to coach at a
school where fans aren’t passionate about
their football, and he knows that the Pirate
Nation’s meticulous attention to his career
path is a sign of a healthy program. But
as his team suits up for another season, he
hopes that coaches, players and fans can set
aside conjecture and focus on the six home
games and six road trips that will decide how
Pirate Football is viewed in 2010.
“I think we are opening some people’s eyes
to what we’re doing over here,” Holtz says.
“It’s kind of like that man who achieved
overnight success in about four years. We
didn’t just start playing hard last year. We’ve
been building this thing.”
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Quarterback Pinkney says he can’t wait to
see the heights his team can reach with an
experienced senior class and the confidence
that comes from toppling big programs in
the past. As one of the leaders in the locker
room,
Pinkney
feels that he
and his teammates
learned from last
year, when an euphoric win
over then-No. 8 West Virginia was
followed by three disappointing losses in the
next four weeks. But the team recovered and
rallied for an improbable run through its
conference schedule, followed by a win over
Tulsa for ECU’s first C-USA championship.
It was a significant milestone, but the
subsequent trip to the Liberty Bowl ended in
a 25–19 loss to Kentucky.
“We had a taste of it last year and we
didn’t cope with it well, so we live and
learn,” says Pinkney, who completed 223
passes for 2,675 yards last season. “I think
in the same situation we’ll handle it better
this year. It’s all about staying focused and
being consistent.”
Pinkney is a key player in a senior class that
includes four returning starters on offense
and six on defense. It’s a group of young
men who are eager to jump into leadership
roles and to capitalize on the trials and
triumphs they have experienced so far. Head
strength coach Mike Golden is legendary
for pushing players to their absolute limits
during his summer workout regimens, but
Pinkney says the seniors have been asking
him for more than he was dishing out.
“We’ve got to be ready to roll,” Pinkney says.
“We can’t take days off.”
Besides Pinkney, key senior contributors
on this Pirates squad are expected to be
wide receiver Jamar Bryant, running back
Dominique Lindsay, offensive linemen
Terence Campbell and Sean Allen, free safety
Van Eskridge, linebackers Jeremy Chambliss
and Nick Johnson and defensive linemen
Scotty Robinson, Jay Ross and C.J. Wilson.
“It’s not only senior heavy, but it’s senior
heavy with guys who have lots of experience,”
Holtz says.
Wilson says that he and his fellow seniors
know what’s expected of them now, and
they know how to prepare for big games
without being intimidated. But his overriding
impression of spring camp was the talent
and maturity of young players like Michael
Bowman, Josh Jordan and Brandon Jackson.
When Wilson fits the pieces together—
experienced veterans plus strong, eager
newcomers—he likes the picture that emerges.
“It was a good surprise to see some of the
young guys, how they played and stepped
up,” says Wilson, who was named the 2008
C-USA Defensive Most Valuable Player by
Sporting News Magazine. “We’re a well-rounded
team right now. It’s good at every position.”
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One of Holland’s hallmarks as athletic
director is scheduling opponents who will
either highlight the football team’s strengths
or expose its flaws, and the 2009 schedule
continues that trend. There isn’t a breather
from early September to Thanksgiving, and
three consecutive games—Memphis on Oct.
27, Virginia Tech on Nov. 5 and Tulsa on
Nov. 15—will air on national television.
Because of those TV contracts, the Pirates
will deviate from the traditional Saturday
routine, playing those three games on
Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, respectively.
Instead of a normal bye week, ECU will play
games 10 days apart during that period.
“We’re going to play three games in four
weeks, is what it boils down to, but we’re
not doing it the traditional way,” Holtz
said. “You don’t really have that week where
you can kind of give your players off. The
tradeoff is that it’s going to be great exposure
for the school and give us an opportunity to
showcase a little bit about this university.”
“It’s exciting,” Pinkney says. “It’s tough, but
it’s a good position to be in. We’ve got ESPN
games. This is a dream for us.”
The season opens on Sept. 5 with another
milestone game of sorts—ECU’s first
contest against Appalachian in 30 years. The
Mountaineers own a 19–10 lead in a series
that dates back to 1932 but the two programs
haven’t met since the Pirates posted a 38–21
victory over ASU in Boone on Nov. 3, 1979.
But the game that has generated the most
preseason buzz is already marked on Pirate
fans’ calendars for Thursday, Nov. 5—the
primetime ESPN matchup against Virginia
Tech. That Thursday night college game,
Holtz said, has become like Monday night
football for NFL fans—the only game
offered, and a must-watch.
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about it,” says Wilson, well aware that a
player should focus only on the game ahead.
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Charlie Adams ’59 ’62 points one long
finger toward a knot of people gathered
around Carolina women’s soccer coach
Anson Dorrance, who’s eating lunch at a
nearby table in the Chapel Hill restaurant,
and slowly shakes his head. “Look at that;
the poor fellow can’t eat his lunch in peace
for all the people wanting to shake his hand.
Dean Smith was like that. Dean gave up
eating in restaurants altogether because so
many people would stop at his table to say
hello. I’m glad I’m not like that.”
Adams is about to say more when the first of
an eventual stream of well-wishers stops at
his table to slap his back and shake his hand.
He greets each visitor with warmth and
patience, his lunch slowly getting cold. Even
Dorrance comes over to pay his respects.
Almost everyone associated with high
school and college sports in North Carolina
knows Adams, who is retiring after 42
years with the N.C. High School Athletic
Association (NCHSAA), the last 25 as
executive director. The association, based in
Chapel Hill, oversees athletics at 381 public
high schools in the state and certifies the
eligibility of more than 150,000 athletes
annually. A search committee is expected to
recommend his replacement by Nov. 1.
“My wife Sue and I feel that this is a good
time to retire, and in closing out our career,
we feel extremely fortunate to have had the
opportunity to serve the association all
these years,’’ says Adams, 72, who remains as
tall and slender as he was as a guard on the
varsity basketball teams of the late 1950s.
He announced his retirement after the
sudden death of a son last fall.
“Charlie is one of a kind, a consummate
professional,” says Dr. Bill Harrison ’77
’80, chairman and CEO of North Carolina
public schools and NCHSAA board chair.
“The NCHSAA is what it is, a first-class
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organization and the best association in the
nation, because of Charlie Adams. We deeply
appreciate the years he has devoted to the
students of this state.’’
for Carolina but he transferred to East
Carolina after one year. Adams was a deadeye shooting guard who still relishes the long
jumper he unleashed at the buzzer in 1959
to beat a fine Western Carolina team.
The NCHSAA is credited with vastly
improving the safety of high school sports
by mandating minimum standards for
all playing fields. Post-season play in all
sports is supervised and sanctioned by the
NCHSAA, with tournaments held at college
venues—something many other states
are copying. NCHSAA was the first state
organization in the country to partner with
the business community for tournament
sponsorships, another of Adams’ innovations
that other states have copied.
His years in Greenville were “probably the
happiest time of my life. We had excellent
professors, a beautiful campus and very
friendly students. I have so many great
memories that it is difficult to settle on just
a few. I still stay in touch with a lot of my
old teammates.”
—Steve Tuttle
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Three years after it converted to a
dues-based structure, the ECU Alumni
Association has grown to 5,800 members
and is aiming for 10,000 within the coming
year. Association officials said the revenue
from membership dues has allowed it to
maintain and expand its services during an
era of tight budgets. The additional revenue
supports publication of the quarterly Servire
magazine, which goes only to association
members. The dues are $35 for one year for
one person or $50 for a couple.
The NCHSAA was the first in the nation to
create an endowment for high school sports,
funded by a small surcharge on tickets to
high school games. The endowment now
exceeds $12 million and regularly doles out
grants, often to smaller schools struggling
to maintain their programs amid shrinking
local budgets.
“We have tried to make high school sports
a memory forever for our student athletes,”
says Adams, who lives in his native Cary.
“Our role has been to get them involved,
offer them participation, competition and
carry over values. We have stressed academics,
citizenship and sportsmanship.” A scholarathlete program he started in 1986 has grown
to include about 30,000 students a year.
Adams, who has been inducted into
several sports halls of fame, including East
Carolina’s, says the biggest change he’s seen
in high school athletics is the growth of
girls’ sports. The NCHSAA was the first
in the nation to put a female in charge
of girls’ sports, and the first to hire an
African-American woman as director of
student services. “I can’t count all the girls
who’ve played for Carolina that came out
of the programs fostered by Charlie and his
people,” Dorrance says.
His personal focus has been on changing
NCHSAA from a regulatory body to a
service organization. “We were the people
that declared schools ineligible for the
playoffs or made them forfeit games. But
what we really were, and what we became
known for, was being a service agency.
Everything we do should be helping the boys
and girls of North Carolina.”
A basketball standout who led Cary High
School to the state championship, Adams
was recruited by Frank McGuire to play
A predominately self-funded organization,
the association provides a variety of
programs and services for alumni and
students, from the classic tailgating parties to
helping alumni find jobs through its Career
Center. Fundraising and other activities
by the association, which was founded in
1912, also generates more than $20,000 in
scholarship money each year.
Membership is not restricted to alumni.
“We joined the alumni association because
of our love for ECU and our belief in
the tremendous promise that our newly
adopted alma mater holds as a leader
among universities. We are confident that
East Carolina’s promise can be realized
and magnified with the financial support
of alumni and friends,” said former
Chancellor Dick Eakin, recipient of the
2008 Honorary Alumni Award. Eakin and
his wife both are life members of the Alumni
Association. A life membership is $750 per
person or $1,000 per couple. A Centennial
Pirate membership is $5,000 per couple.
Installment plans for those larger amounts
are available.
Join online at PirateAlumni.com/jointoday,
by calling 800-ECU-GRAD, or mailing or
faxing the form on the next page.
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As the East Carolina Alumni Association
strives to inform, involve and serve members
of the ECU family throughout their
lifelong relationship with the university,
we take great pride in providing events and
activities for our alumni and friends to stay
connected with the university and with
each other. Take advantage of the following
networking and informational opportunities
to gather with fellow Pirates and hear the
latest news from ECU.
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Find out what’s been going on with those you
served with as an Ambassador. This reunion
will include the Pirate’s Bounty Scholarship
Auction, the Alumni Scholarship Classic,
a get-together at Ham’s Restaurant, and a
special Ambassador event on Saturday, Sept.
26. Visit PirateAlumni.com/ECUAR for
further information and registration details.
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Join alumni and friends to start the day off
right at one of our upcoming networking
breakfasts, which are a great way to stay
connected with ECU and make the business
and social connections that are so important
in today’s economy. Breakfasts are $5 for
Alumni Association members and $10 for
non-members.
Raleigh: Wednesday, Sept. 30, The
Irregardless Café & Catering, 7:30–9 a.m.
Charlotte: Thursday, Oct. 8, Byron’s South
End, 7:30–9 a.m.
Goldsboro: Thursday, Oct. 29, Plum Tree
Gardens, 7:30–9 a.m.
Greensboro: Thursday, Nov. 12, Kress
Terrace (Venue Only), 7:30–9 a.m.
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East Carolina University is privileged to have
many experts on faculty and staff. The Deans
on Deck series fosters communication and
knowledge sharing between the university’s
deans and alumni and friends. The cost
is $10 for Alumni Association members
and $15 each for non-members, which
includes non-alcoholic beverages and heavy
hors d’oeuvres. A cash bar will be available.
Visit PirateAlumni.com/deansondeck for
complete details and to register online.
Winston-Salem: Wednesday, Sept. 30, The
Piedmont Club, 6–8 p.m., with College of
Business Dean Rick Niswander and Brody
School of Medicine Dean Paul Cunningham
Cary: Wednesday, Oct. 7, Bistro 64,
6–8 p.m., with College of Fine Arts and
Communication Dean Jeffery Elwell and
College of Education Dean Linda Patriarca
New Bern: Thursday, Oct. 29, The Chelsea,
6–8 p.m. with Harriot College of Arts and
Sciences Dean Alan White and College of
Technology and Computer Science Dean
David White
Charlotte: Wednesday, Nov. 11, Upstream,
6–8 p.m. with Brody School of Medicine
Dean Paul Cunningham, and College of
Health and Human Performance Dean
Glen Gilbert
Richmond: Wednesday, Nov. 18, The
Berkeley Hotel, 6–8 p.m., with College of
Business Dean Rick Niswander, and College
of Health and Human Performance Dean
Glen Gilbert
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KRISTEN DALTON of Wilmington, Miss North
Carolina USA, was crowned Miss USA 2009 in
April and will compete in the Miss Universe contest.
BRITTANY FORREST and Joey Reddington of
Greenville were married May 16 in Kinston. She
majored in elementary education, and he is studying
computer science at ECU. Among her bridesmaids
were ASHLEY SMITH ALLEN ’06 and ERICA
PARKER SANDERSON ’03.
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AMANDA JANOWSKI of Greenville was named
the 2009 Most Promising Female Entrepreneur by the
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Life Inc. Ministries, she leads “Next Generation
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JORDAN VAINRIGHT and her mother MARTHA
EAST “MARTY” VAINRIGHT ’81 opened Coastal
Fog, a home decor booth at Artisans in Greenville. In
2007, Jordan founded Signature Jordan Vainright LLC.
Marty has directed recreation therapy departments in
geriatric facilities and taught in autistic settings.
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SUSAN ELIZABETH GLENN ’06 ’07 of Durham
and Jarrod S. Dennis of Raleigh were married Dec.
21 in Durham, and they live in Raleigh. She works for
Durham Public Schools.
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RANDY CAHOON, a New Bern native, is Oriental’s
new town manager. He was a planner in Wilson and
Pitt counties before working for the last three years
as Gates County’s planning director. LUKE HYATT
of Wadesboro is the new head football coach at
Anson High School, where he played quarterback and
wide receiver. He was an assistant coach, health and
P.E. teacher at Anson High and Peachland-Polkton
Elementary schools. In 2005, he was named Anson
County Schools teacher of the year, and for 2006-2007,
was named N.C. Southwest Regional Teacher of the Year.
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JOSHUA B. HOWARD and Lawrence E. Babits,
director of ECU’s maritime studies program, published
Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford
Courthouse. Howard is a research historian at the N.C.
Office of Archives and History. They previously
published Fortitude and Forbearance: The North Carolina
Continental Line in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783.
CHRISTINA LEIGH ROEBUCK and Andrew
Daniel Mayse were married April 25 in Cornelius and
live in Huntersville. She works in the Belk Corporate
Office in Charlotte. LEANNE E. SMITH ’04 ’06
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Goucher College in Baltimore, Md.
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DAMANE DUCKETT is a new offensive lineman
with the New England Patriots after playing for the
Carolina Panthers, New York Giants, and San Francisco
49ers. LAUREN E. HUBER and Ryan Priem of
Baltimore, Md., were married March 21 on the beach
at Grand Bahama Island. She is a cartographer for
the National Aeronautical Charting Office. She and
four of her bridesmaids are Chi Omega sisters. WILL
JACKSON, who was a lead singer in a heavy-metal
band, moved back to Mount Airy, opened a skate shop
called Canvas because he enjoys painting, and with
seven others, created a nonprofit, Skate Mount Airy,
to raise funds to convert a basketball court into a skate
venue. ERIN E. NORTON is a dance educator at
New Town High School in Owings Mills, Md. NATE
WOOD ’03 ’04 of Fredericksburg, Va., was promoted
to vice president at BB&T, which he joined in 2005 as a
business services officer in the commercial department.
TARA PIERCE, a licensed marriage and family
therapist, is the new director of Rockingham County
Youth Services. She was a clinical supervisor there.
DUSTIN HALL ’01 ’03 co-founded Hall & Burns
Wealth Management in Cary, an affiliate of Bostonbased LPL Financial. He was employed at ING
Financial. SCOTT ’01 and AMY ’00 BUCHHOLZ
HALL of Raleigh had a son, Holden Scott Hall, on
Sept. 20, 2008. He is the grandson of JOHN ’74 and
COLLEN ’73 BUNCH BUCHHOLZ.
JAY CZAP is the new principal of Clearview Elementary
School in Hanover, Penn. He taught history, and in 2005,
became assistant principal of Hanover Middle School.
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ALICO DUNK is interim coach of the ECSU
women’s basketball team. Originally of Ayden, he
played for the University of Tennessee for one season
before transferring and becoming captain of ECU’s
team his junior and senior years, and was assistant
coach of ECSU’s men’s basketball team for six seasons.
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SAMUEL THOMAS EASON ’97 ’99 and
MARYBETH PETTEWAY EASON ’00 ’01 had
twin daughters, Mary Roberts and Elizabeth Hayes, on
Jan. 14. JEREMY KENNETH MCDONALD and
Virginia Glenn Startsman were married May 9 and live
in Wilmington. He received his law degree from the
Washington College of Law at American University in
Washington, D.C. STEPHANIE L. WILLIAMS of
Wilmington is a financial advisor with Edward Jones
in Leland with ten years of sales experience and eight
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she received her general contractors license. She was
named to the 2009 Biltmore Who’s Who.
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RICKY BENTON JR. of Cerro Gordo was named to
the board for the Brunswick-Columbus Business Parks.
He works for family-owned Black’s Tire and BTS Tire
and Wheel distribution.
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DEBBIE CERRITO DOLAN and her husband,
Patrick, of Wake Forest had a daughter, Marissa, on
March 18. J. SCOTT FLEMING and Heather A.
Zelinsky were married Sept. 27, 2008, and live in
Eagle, Colo. He is a GIS specialist for Eagle County.
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STEVE RAPER, vice president of Geo. Raper &
Son Inc., with 14 years of management experience,
received his Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design accreditation from the Green Building
Certification Institute.
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LYNN MILLER, who studied commercial art and
theater at ECU, was appointed to the board of trustees
for the village of Cold Spring, NY.
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DENISE WICKER OWEN of Sumter, S.C., is a 2nd
Lt. in the Civil Air Patrol, the PTO secretary at her
daughter’s school, and a Girl Scout leader.
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W. LEE ALLEN III, a Greenville attorney, was
certified as a family financial mediator by the N.C.
Dispute Resolution Commission and gained eligibility
to serve as a mediator in N.C. family law cases. A
Wake Forest School of Law graduate with 16 years
experience in law practice, he also was an Army officer
during Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2004 to 2005.
GREER BEATY is communications director at the
N.C. Department of Transportation. Her public
relations consultant work includes stints with the
state commerce department and Smart Start. DAWN
RAIFORD is a private banker for RBC Bank in
Greenville. She has 10 years banking experience and
works with the American Heart Association, Rocking
Horse Ranch, Education Cabinet for Pitt-Greenville
Chamber of Commerce, Uptown Greenville, and the
Pitt County Education Foundation.
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DONALD “BEN” STRICKLAND JR. of Greenville,
a First South Bank senior vice president with 25 years
of banking experience, was named executive of the
bank’s Tar Region, which includes Greenville, Rocky
Mount, and Tarboro.
'& LISA ROGERSON ’82 ’83 ’08 is director of the
College of Education Advising Center at ECU.
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ANGELA W. ALLEN, as a vice president for IBM’s
Global Business Services, is an Americas Delivery
Excellence leader for the U.S., Canada, and Latin America.
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WAYNE BOLT was named director of football
relations at Auburn University. He was an AllAmerican offensive lineman at ECU under Pat Dye,
for whom he later was an assistant coach at Auburn.
He has spent 21 of his 31 years of coaching in
Alabama. He also coached at ECU, UAB, Clemson,
and Wyoming. JERRY JACKSON ’80 ’96 is
deputy director of the Penland School of Crafts.
He specializes in found-object assemblages, which
have been exhibited in the Southeast U.S., Finland,
Germany, and Estonia. His work recently appeared
in a show called “Assemblages” at the Caldwell Arts
Council’s main gallery in Lenoir.
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Arts Council, with several of Burns’ former students.
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of the National Institutes of Health Federal Credit
Union in Rockville, Md. She was executive vice
president and chief operating officer of Keypoint
Credit Union in Santa Clara, Calif. DAVID HAMM
’78 ’79 retired from Chatham County Schools in
2007 after working as a first grade teacher, assistant
principal, and principal, and is now on the school
board. His wife, ELLEN HAMM ’79, teaches in
Chatham County Schools, and the Pittsboro family
includes oldest daughters MELISSA HAMM ’05 ’06
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JOHN BULLARD is the new parks and recreation
director at North Myrtle Beach, S.C. He was
previously assistant recreation director and the director
of recreation and parks in Statesville, where he helped
the city add several facilities and acquire 300 acres of
land for parks. He was regional and state chairman
of the municipal division of the N.C. Recreation and
Park Association and was on the board.
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JUNIUS H. KOONCE ’74 ’82 received the 20082009 Keihin Endowed Faculty Chair award at
Edgecombe Community College, where he began
teaching in 1980 and has been the criminal justice chair
since 1988. DENNIS “AL” NICHOLS, a senior vice
president at First South Bank, was promoted to area
executive for FSB’s Pamlico/Neuse Region. Residing
in New Bern, he has more than 30 years of banking
experience and is a member of New Bern’s Chamber of
Commerce and the Craven County Committee of 100.
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Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership. In the 1980s, he
helped develop the National Main Street Program. In
Oklahoma, he supported residential development as
president of Downtown Tulsa Unlimited and chaired a
state movement for tax increment financing.
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2009 family lawyer of the year by Best Lawyers in
America. From voting among nearly 30,000 Virginia
lawyers conducted by SuperLawyers and Richmond
magazines, he was voted one of the top 10 lawyers for
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FRANCES P. TURBYFILL ’66.
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collection of columns and editorials from his more
than 50 years in journalism, including his time as
managing editor of Goldsboro’s News-Argus.
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DOT LEWIS WILKERSON ’45 ’47 of Lumberton
was named 2008 co-member of the year by the
Lumber River Council of Governments. She was the
first registrar and business manager at Wilmington
College (now UNC Wilmington); taught accounting
at ECU; co-managed the Robeson County Farm
Bureau office with her husband for more than 20
years; and was president and vice-president of the
Council of Governments Aging Advisory Council,
Robeson County’s first delegate to the N.C. Senior
Tarheel Legislature in Raleigh, and co-curator and
board member of the Robeson County Museum. She
was named a 2003 Robesonian Dynamic Woman
and a 2004 Outstanding Volunteer in Aging by the
Southeastern Aging Network Conference. She is
a hospice volunteer and is active in the Methodist
Church at the local and state levels.
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JOYE PARNELL GRAHAM taught vocational home
economics at Stedman High School and retired from
Cumberland County Schools in 1975.
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DR. JAMES F. “JIMMY” CARR JR. ’36 of Searcy,
Ark., died April 1. He was 95. He was manager of
athletic teams at ECTC and submitted the Pirates
name as a possible mascot to replace the Teachers.
During WWII, he was in the Army Air Corps
stationed in the Cook Islands. He was an administrator
at Florida State University and was on the Florida
Board of Regents until his 1970 retirement. After
retiring from Searcy’s Harding College in 1997,
he was assistant to the president of White County
Medical Center until he turned 95. MILDRED
“MID” FURCHES ’39 of Southern Pines died March
13 at age 90. From 1939 to 1944, she was a home
management supervisor at USDA. With her Army
husband, she lived in several states and Japan, where
she taught home economics. They were educational
benefactors for multiple institutions, and in 1996,
received The Order of the Long Leaf Pine. MAY
JOHNSON EURE HARVEY ’39 ’60 of Greenville
died April 1. She taught in Lenoir County for two
years and Pitt County for 26 years, held offices in First
Presbyterian Church, and was a member of Greenville’s
Service League, German Club, Inter Se Book Club, and
the Golf & Country Club. WHEATLEY MARTIN
STRICKLAND ’36 of Dunn died March 21. She
taught in Clayton and Meadow, and later at Wayne
Avenue School until her retirement. She was named to
the ECU Educators Hall of Fame in 2008.
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ROBERT COWLEY “BOB” YOUNG SR. ’42
’43 died March 23 at Spring Arbor of Greenville.
At ECTC, he was a member of the 1941 undefeated
football team, and was also on the baseball, basketball,
and track teams. He was in the Army during WWII,
worked in the auto business for more than 50 years, was
a Mason and Rotarian. Memorials may be made to the
ECU Medical Foundation’s Alzheimer’s Research Fund
or the John B. Christenbury Memorial Scholarship.
HELEN DAVENPORT SANDERSON BRAME
’41 ’59 of Greenville, formerly of Cadiz, Ky., and
Kinston, died March 24. Her 31 years of teaching
included time as chair of Grainger High School’s
business department. She was a charter member of
Kinston’s Northwest Christian Church and was active
in the Pitt County Community Pop Singers and the
Cypress Glen retirement community. EMMA LEE
GARRIS JARVIS ’48 of Ayden died May 7. She
was a teacher, realtor, writer, painter, housewife, and
mother. GLADYS MUMFORD JONES ’44 of
Zebulon died March 10. She was a teacher, dietician,
homemaker, and a member of the N.C. Pharmaceutical
Association, Rotary Club, and Zebulon Baptist Church.
LOUISE WOOTEN MARSTON ’45 of Greenville
died April 28. For 20 years, she was a social worker
with Pitt County’s Department of Social Services.
She was also active in St. James United Methodist
Church and Meals on Wheels. NAOMI ELIZABETH
WILLIAMS MORGAN ’43 of Groveland, Fla., died
March 29. She met her husband of 62 years met while
teaching at Angier High School. She retired after 36
years of teaching, was the pianist at Groveland’s First
Baptist Church for 40 years, and also played for the
seniors’ Joyful Singers. OTHELIA HEARN “SIS”
TREADWELL ’41 of Richmond, Va., died May 8.
She was a member of the Daughters of the American
Colonists, Daughters of the American Revolution,
and Raleigh Fine Arts, and was named to Who’s Who
of American Women. L. HOWARD WHITEHURST
’49 of Greenville died March 24. He taught at
Robersonville High School from 1950 to his 1982
retirement, volunteered at PCMH for 26 years, received
the Governor’s Award for his volunteer service, and
was a member of Jarvis Memorial United Methodist
Church, the N.C. Association of Educators, National
Education Association, and Association of Classroom
Teachers. ELIZABETH PEARSALL “LIBBY”
WIGGS ’41 of Raleigh died April 28. She taught
home economics for several years and later worked in
food research with NCSU’s horticulture department.
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS JR. ’52 ’53 of
Columbia, S.C., died March 15. After 32 years with
Blue Cross/Blue Shield in N.C. and S.C., he retired
in marketing in 1985. He was a member of the Air
Force Reserve, North Trenholm Baptist Church, and
the Gideons. MAJ. HAROLD JAY EDWARDS
’54 of Simpson died March 24. He was an Air
Force navigator, returned to Simpson for retirement,
enjoyed fishing, and was a member of Salem United
Methodist Church. CAROLYN MASON GASKILL
’51 of Atlantic died April 11. She taught at Atlantic
and Smyrna elementary schools and at Camp Glenn
School in Morehead City. JULIUS C. MILLS ’50 of
Raleigh died March 15. He finished high school in
Rocky Mount early to enlist in the Army in February
1945, and later retired from the National Guard as
a command sergeant major. He was an accountant
and a member of Hayes Barton United Methodist
Church. KATHRYN G. “KITTY” RING ’54 of
High Point died April 27. She was an artist and
designer, and taught in Washington and at Ferndale
Junior High, High Point University, and High Point’s
William Penn Alternative School. LARRY PIERCE
WILLIAMS ’53 of Norfolk, Va., and Ocracoke Island
died April 9. A native Ocracoker, and the youngest
of seven children, he started teaching English in
Wilmington. In 1954, he moved to Virginia Beach,
where he also started teaching drama and developed
the public schools’ award winning drama program. A
board member of the Virginia Beach Little Theatre, he
directed such productions as The Glass Menagerie and
Look Homeward Angel. With Foy Shaw, he owned and
operated Ocracoke’s Island Inn & Dining Room from
1977 to 1990, when the inn—a building that was the
island’s first public school—was featured in national
publications. He was a founding member and the
first president of the Ocracoke Preservation Society,
through which he helped revive several Ocracoke
traditions, including beauty pageants and the July 4th
parade. He was active in the Methodist church and
enjoyed spending time with his dog, Maggie.
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died March 15. He was in the Army 82nd Airborne
Division for four years during the Vietnam War,
worked as a salesman, and enjoyed boating and
fishing. JAMES OWEN “PAPA” HALL SR. ’61
of Clarkesville, Ga., died March 5. He was in the
Air Force during the Korean Conflict, and retired
after more than 25 years in management with the
Centers for Disease Control. MIKE HANDLEY
’69 of Citrus Heights, Calif., died April 10. He was
a narrator and public service announcer for federal
agencies and corporate clients in Washington, D.C.,
for more than 30 years; a freelance announcer and
voice-over artist for commercials and films; and a
media instructor for the Screen Actors Guild and the
American Federation of Radio and Television Artists
and an occasional actor in Hollywood. CLAIRE
HARDIN HOLT ’61 of Greenville died March 26.
She was a charter member, Sunday school teacher,
and deacon at Oakmont Baptist Church; enjoyed
music, swimming, and entertaining; and was married
for 66 years to Robert Holt, a professor and vice
chancellor here for 34 years. Memorials may be
made to the ECU Medical Foundation’s Alzheimer’s
Research Fund. JAMES GREGORY MEADS ’60
of Kill Devil Hills died April 24. At ECU, he was a
four-time All American swimmer and was inducted
into the Sports Hall of Fame. He was a flood plain
manager in Dare County and enjoyed outdoor sports.
EDWARD T. RABEL ’67 of Westminster, Md.,
died May 1. After receiving his masters in accounting
at Widener University, he was an accounting and
economics professor in Delaware and Maryland.
BOBBY WAYNE RAINEY ’60 of Rockingham
died March 31. He taught and was a high school
football, basketball, and baseball coach in Alamance,
Guilford, and Richmond counties for 38 years until
his 1998 retirement. He was the 1987 Southeastern
AAAA conference baseball coach of the year, and his
25 years as a referee included being a 1999 N.C./S.C.
Shrine Bowl referee. HUBERT RAINES “RED”
SHEARON JR. ’62 of Mt. Pleasant, S.C., died
March 16. He was a high school band director in N.C.
and S.C., wrote music for beginning band students,
worked in real estate and construction, and published
the visitor/newcomer guide Lighthouse Magazine. He
played in several Charleston bands, for 20 years worked
with the Mt. Pleasant recreation adult league softball.
DONALD F. SMITH ’60 of Falls Church, Va.,
died March 23. He received both his bachelor’s and
master’s degrees from ECU in 1960, and a doctorate
from American University in 1968. He taught social
studies at Fairfax and George C. Marshall high schools,
and at George Mason University from 1971 to 1999,
where he also helped found a Phi Delta Kappa chapter.
GUY WALTER WARD ’62 of Bella Vista. Ark.,
died March 20. He retired as a lieutenant colonel
after 25 years in the Marines was a member of Judson
American Baptist Church.
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SCOTT ROY BRIGHT ’78 of Oxford died April
23. He worked for Rose’s stores in N.C., S.C.,
and Virginia. He received the district level senior
assistant merchandise manager award twice. After his
1985 diagnosis with progressive multiple sclerosis,
he adopted the motto “Don’t shut out a shut in.”
WILLIAM RANDALL HUTCHISSON ’71 of
Palm Harbor, Fla., died April 22. A Marine officer
for 21 years, he served in Korea and Vietnam, received
two Purple Hearts, and after his 1972 military
retirement, was a guidance counselor at Rocky Mount
Senior High School until his 1984 retirement.
SETH DAVID LATHAM ’79 of Belhaven died
April 13. He worked at the family-run C.F. Latham
and Co. He was a scoutmaster, helped preserve the
Wilkinson Center, was a founding member of the
SCV Camp of Belhaven, established the Middleton
Confederate Monument, gave guest lectures in schools
about Belhaven history, and was active in Belhaven
Missionary Baptist Church. STEVEN FRANKLIN
“STEVE” ROBERTS ’70 of Raleigh, originally of
Key West, Fla., died March 4. He was an artist, a
fan of ECU and Miami Dolphins football, and was
married for more than 38 years. LARRY WELDON
SHREVE ’78 ’85 died March 6. He was in the Air
Force, taught at Lenoir and Pitt community colleges
and ECU, and worked in construction with his
brothers. PHILLIP ANTHONY TEMPLETON ’74
of Savannah, Ga., died May 2. While living in Athens
for 30 years, he co-owned Sparky’s Seafood Café and
then managed T-Bone’s Steakhouse. BARBARA ANN
WILFONG ’73 of Matthews died March 30. She was
a social worker for Charlotte/Mecklenburg Schools
and enjoyed traveling.
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KEVIN JOHN DORNBLASER ’00 ’04 of Kings
Mountain died March 12. He held a doctorate
in physical therapy from Shenandoah University,
worked at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center,
was a member of Boyce Memorial ARP Church of
Kings Mountain, and was married to Jennifer West
Dornblaser ’04 ’07.
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JAMES K. COPPOLA ’80 of Fredericksburg, Va.,
died April 21. He was an environmental engineer for
the Army for five years in Germany, then worked for
the Corps of Engineers headquarters in Washington,
D.C. KATHERINE LUCINDA PARNELL
“CINDY” GURLEY ’87 of Clinton died March 27.
At ECU, she was named the Outstanding Nursing
Graduate Student and was in the Sigma Theta Tau
Honor Society. She was a nurse at Durham County
General Hospital and taught at Sampson Community
College, where she was also division chair of healthcare
programs until her 2007 retirement. THOMAS L.
KIEHL JR. ’86 of Virginia Beach died April 11.
DONALD ALONZA NELMS ’87 of Havelock
died April 9. He was a land surveyor and co-owned
Coastline Surveying in Morehead City.
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SHANNON BAIRD JENKINS ’99 of Vale died
March 16. A BSOM graduate, she completed a family
medicine residency in 2001 and was later a module
leader and attending physician in the family medicine
department. In 2004, she joined ECU’s MedDirect
staff, and in 2005, became director of family medicine
hospitalists and associate chief of hospital medicine
at the University of Massachusetts Medical School/
UMass Memorial Hospital in Worcester, Mass.
There she was recognized as teacher of the year, and a
scholarship was named for her. She was a member of
Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Hickory.
RUTH A. GRABER SHAW of Greenville died April
2. A music professor at ECU from 1966 to 1992, she
enjoyed playing piano, watching football and figure
skating, and singing in the Sweet Adelines and St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church choir.
HARRY “VANN” LATHAM JR. ’68 of Greenville
died April 2. He taught math and psychology at ECU
from 1968 to 1974, and math at E. B. Aycock Junior
High School from 1974 to 1986. He also enjoyed
philosophy and writing poetry.
DR. AKE MATTSSON of Washington, D.C., died
March 31. He was chair of child psychiatry at BSOM
from 1992 to 1997. He was a research professor at
New York University Medical Center before coming
to ECU and was clinical professor of psychiatry at
George Washington University since 2004.
DR. CHARLES LEWIS “CHUCK” RAVARIS of
West Lebanon, N.H., died May 4. He was a professor
and vice chair of psychiatric medicine at BSOM from
1978 to 1981, retired from Dartmouth’s psychiatry
department in 1996 with emeritus status, continued
teaching and practicing at Dartmouth and New
Hampshire Hospital, and was married for 54 years.
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Huffing and puffing to build a stadium
Back when tobacco paid all the bills and
East Carolina needed cash to complete
a football stadium, the college naturally
turned to a big tobacco company, Liggett
& Myers, for fund-raising help. In January
1962, Durham-based L&M agreed to
pay a penny for every empty pack of the
company’s cigarettes collected on campus.
With the enthusiastic support of the student
body and the active encouragement of the
administration (this was four years before
the first Surgeon General’s warning), 76,600
empty packs of Chesterfields and L&Ms
were amassed in a matter of weeks, resulting
in a $766 donation.
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money today, the check from L&M helped
plug a hole in the construction budget for
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initial $200,000 cost was soaring beyond
$300,000. Worse, an anticipated $50,000
state grant evaporated at the same time as
engineers discovered the stadium would need
additional pilings costing $30,000.
A committee led by local insurance executive
W. M. “Booger” Scales initially raised
$215,000 from the Greenville business
community to build the stadium, which
East Carolina needed to move up in
athletics from the NAIA to the NCAA
and join the Southern Conference. When
costs rose, Scales went back to donors and
raised another $57,000 on the promise
that the stadium would be named for local
tobacconist and civic leader James S. Ficklen.
Students also wanted to help out. They gave
a benefit performance of the annual student
musical—it was Guys and Dolls that year—
and raised $1,100 for the stadium fund.
A wrestling match was staged that brought
in $1,300. And then the president of the
sophomore class, Burke Stancil, came up
with the idea of collecting empty cigarette
packs, and the SGA endorsed the project.
L&M provided receptacles on campus, in
the dorms, the soda shop, the cafeterias,
in the CU Lounge, and in the downtown
business areas. Students asked their parents
and relatives to mail their empty packs to the
college in care of the SGA.
After more than a year of fund raising and
setbacks—a worker fell to his death during
construction—town and gown packed the
new Ficklen Memorial Stadium beyond
capacity for its first game on Sept. 21, 1963,
and watched the Pirates down Wake Forest,
20–10.
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