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ERSIT<br />
BETH<br />
BETH<br />
ORTH<br />
ETING<br />
ERSIT<br />
LINA<br />
Home of the<br />
Mighty Vikings
ECSU Magazine<br />
ECSU Magazine is published by the<br />
Office of <strong>University</strong> Relations & Marketing<br />
1704 Weeksville Road<br />
Campus Box 778<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 27909<br />
252.335.3594<br />
FAX: 252.335.3769<br />
E-mail: infoline@mail.ecsu.edu<br />
Managing Editor<br />
Editors<br />
Contributors<br />
Editorial Staff<br />
Marsha McLean<br />
Deborah S. Flippens<br />
Kesha D. Williams<br />
La’ Tanya Afolayan<br />
Terence Boyd<br />
April Emory<br />
Jeanette H. Evans<br />
Rhonda M. Hayes<br />
Mary L. Hill<br />
Barbaina Houston-Black<br />
Melanie L. Peel<br />
Vandalyn M. Ray<br />
Soraya D. Spellman<br />
Barbara B. Sutton<br />
To submit information for ECSU Magazine, e-mail,<br />
fax or send drafted articles to the address listed or<br />
call the office at 252.335.3594. All items submitted<br />
will be edited.<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> is committed to<br />
equality of educational opportunity and does not<br />
discriminate against applicants, students, or employees<br />
based on race, color, national origin, religion,<br />
gender, age, or disability.<br />
Photo and cover design by<br />
Gordon Kreplin/Ascencion Photography<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, North Carolina<br />
Magazine layout and design by<br />
Flowers Printing<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, North Carolina<br />
chancellor’s message<br />
Greetings! We are pleased to bring to you the first<br />
edition of the ECSU Magazine. One of the priorities<br />
and continuous goals at <strong>Elizabeth</strong><br />
<strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> is to make<br />
qualitative improvements in all<br />
areas of the institution. This new<br />
publication, we believe,<br />
accomplishes that goal. The<br />
ECSU Magazine replaces our<br />
former publication, Campus<br />
Update. While it contains similar<br />
information, it has been enhanced in its look, reader<br />
friendliness, and content diversity. We certainly hope<br />
it appeals to our readers.<br />
The topics covered in this issue show how the<br />
faculty and staff are working diligently to strengthen<br />
ECSU and, subsequently, the students we serve.<br />
Again this year, we will focus on enrollment growth,<br />
private fund raising, academic prestige, and<br />
institutional effectiveness. In addition, we will<br />
broaden our marketing efforts, enhance student<br />
services, and advance our capital improvement plans.<br />
We will keep you up-to-date on our progress toward<br />
these goals and priorities through the publication of<br />
fall and spring issues of the magazine.<br />
As you may know, to be successful, we need the<br />
support of the entire university community, including<br />
our alumni, boards, and friends. Please know that the<br />
ECSU Magazine will be our way of keeping you<br />
involved and informed about what we doing to keep<br />
ECSU in the forefront of higher education institutions.<br />
So as you sit back and relax to read the ECSU<br />
Magazine, jot down your comments and suggestions.<br />
We would certainly welcome your feedback.<br />
Please read and enjoy this inaugural issue! We<br />
look forward to your input and support.<br />
Charles W. Penny, Chair .......................................... 2003<br />
Walter C. Davenport, Vice Chair ............................. 2005<br />
Betty Sugg Meggs, Secretary ................................... 2003<br />
Betty Barr-Randolph ................................................ 2003<br />
Earl M. Brown .......................................................... 2005<br />
Earl T. Brown ............................................................ 2005<br />
H. Kel Landis III ....................................................... 2005<br />
Rev. Henry B. Pickett, Jr. ......................................... 2005<br />
Frank H. Skidmore, Jr. ............................................. 2005<br />
Calvin R. Worsley .................................................... 2005<br />
Frederick L. Yates ..................................................... 2003<br />
*(Open)<br />
Ex Officio Member<br />
Damiyon Sledge ........................................................2003<br />
* Vacancy (1)<br />
ECSU Board of Trustees<br />
<strong>2002</strong> - 2003<br />
<strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2002</strong> Spring 2003<br />
October 12-16<br />
NCATE/DPI Continuing<br />
Accreditation for<br />
Teacher Education<br />
November 2<br />
2:00 pm<br />
HOMECOMING<br />
Football Game<br />
vs. St. Augustine’s College<br />
Roebuck Stadium<br />
November 4-8<br />
International Week<br />
November 17-22<br />
American<br />
Education<br />
Week<br />
December 1<br />
7:30 pm<br />
<strong>University</strong> Choir<br />
Christmas<br />
Candlelight Concert<br />
Floyd Robinson Auditorium<br />
Fine Arts Complex<br />
December 14<br />
<strong>Fall</strong> Commencement<br />
January 8-10<br />
8:00 am<br />
Winter Faculty/Staff Institute<br />
K.E. White Graduate Center<br />
January 13<br />
8:30 am<br />
Official Registration<br />
January 20<br />
Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Day<br />
Classes Dismissed, Offices Closed<br />
9:00 am<br />
MLK March<br />
February 24-March 1<br />
CIAA Tournament<br />
Raleigh, NC<br />
March 5<br />
Founders Day<br />
March 31-April 5<br />
Viking Fest Week<br />
April 9<br />
7:00 pm<br />
Symphonic Wind Ensemble<br />
Spring Concert<br />
Fine Arts Auditorium<br />
April 16<br />
7:30 pm<br />
Collegians Jazz Ensemble<br />
Spring Concert<br />
Fine Arts Auditorium<br />
April 17<br />
Honors Convocation<br />
Fine Arts Auditorium<br />
May 10<br />
Spring Commencement<br />
(See Alumni News and Athletics for<br />
additional events and schedules.)
ELIZ BETH CIT<br />
TE UNI ERSIT<br />
A constituent institution of The <strong>University</strong> of North Carolina<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, North Carolina • 252.335-3400 • www.ecsu.edu<br />
Quick Facts<br />
Founded: 1891<br />
Enrollment: 2,147<br />
Student-Faculty Ratio: 16:1<br />
Location: <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, North Carolina is a waterfront community in<br />
the historic Albemarle region of northeastern North Carolina.<br />
Institutional Classification: Coeducational public university<br />
Degrees Conferred: Bachelor’s and Master’s<br />
Institutional Accreditation:<br />
Southern Association of<br />
Colleges and Schools<br />
Departmental Accreditations:<br />
• Teacher Education – Approved by North Carolina <strong>State</strong> Board of<br />
Education and accredited by the National Council for the<br />
Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)<br />
• Industrial Technology – Accredited by the National Association<br />
of Industrial Technology<br />
School Colors: Royal blue and white<br />
Mascot: Vikings<br />
Athletics Affiliations: NCAA Division II,<br />
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIAA)<br />
Points of Pride<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
U.S. News and World Report America’s Best Colleges:<br />
ECSU ranked #3 in the Top Public Comprehensive Colleges<br />
in the South - 1999, 2001, <strong>2002</strong><br />
Kiplinger’s:<br />
ECSU listed in Top 100 Best Public Colleges in the country<br />
based on value (cost/quality) - <strong>2002</strong><br />
USA Today and NCAA Foundation:<br />
ECSU listed in Top Ten for “Highest Overall Student-Athlete<br />
Graduation Rate-Division II” – 2001<br />
The <strong>University</strong> of North Carolina System:<br />
• In three of the past four years, ECSU has been number 2 in the<br />
UNC system in 4-year graduation rate.<br />
• ECSU is the safest campus in the UNC system based on the<br />
annual report of campus crime statistics.<br />
ECSU is<br />
proud of its<br />
history and<br />
track record<br />
of helping<br />
students<br />
SUCCEED!<br />
inside. . .<br />
FEATURES<br />
2<br />
3<br />
3<br />
5<br />
• Ebony’s “African-American Men’s Day”:<br />
Chancellor and fraternity represent ECSU in NYC<br />
• ECSU alumnus featured<br />
on CBS Early Show<br />
• The Maynard Outreach Project<br />
• Marshall A. Rauch<br />
Distinguished Professor named<br />
GIVING MATTERS<br />
15<br />
17<br />
18<br />
19<br />
20<br />
23<br />
ATHLETICS<br />
41<br />
42<br />
42<br />
43<br />
• ECSU & your personal financial plans<br />
• ECSU Foundation:<br />
Your key to assisting today’s students<br />
• ECSU Foundation announces<br />
Winifred J. Wood Scholarship Fund<br />
• Clifton Davis Celebrity Golf Classic<br />
• Sponsored Programs, Contracts & Grants<br />
• ECSU Honor Roll of Donors<br />
• ECSU hoops bring in new era<br />
• Vikings baseball coach and players go global<br />
• Lady Vikings Softball <strong>2002</strong> CIAA Champions<br />
• <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2002</strong> schedules<br />
BRIEFS<br />
7<br />
8<br />
9<br />
12<br />
• ECSU Jazz Ensemble releases CD<br />
• N.C. Senator Basnight<br />
awarded honorary degree<br />
• ECSU and Halifax Community College<br />
launch partnership<br />
• Chancellor’s Leadership Development<br />
Institute produces new leaders at ECSU<br />
ALUMNI NEWS<br />
29<br />
30<br />
31<br />
32<br />
34<br />
• From the President<br />
• Chapter news updates<br />
• Torchbearers<br />
• Viking Varsity Club<br />
• Homecoming <strong>2002</strong><br />
IN REMEMBRANCE<br />
UPCOMING EVENTS<br />
48 ECSU MAGAZINE FALL <strong>2002</strong>
features<br />
Ebony’s<br />
“African-American<br />
Men’s Day”<br />
Chancellor and fraternity<br />
represent ECSU in NYC<br />
Ebony magazine held its<br />
second “African-American<br />
Men’s Day” program in New<br />
York <strong>City</strong> in June and<br />
welcomed <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> (ECSU) Chancellor Mickey<br />
L. Burnim and the men of Alpha Phi<br />
Alpha Fraternity, the Beta Zeta<br />
(student) Chapter at ECSU.<br />
Dr. Burnim joined a panel of<br />
educators and professional men who<br />
discussed key steps youths should<br />
take in preparing for college.<br />
Education was one of four topics<br />
Ebony raised in this program targeting<br />
young African-American males.<br />
Others included the importance of<br />
good health, careers options and<br />
spirituality. Several national media<br />
representatives, film makers, NBA<br />
athletes and entertainers appeared on<br />
2 ECSU MAGAZINE FALL <strong>2002</strong><br />
the program.<br />
The main luncheon event was a<br />
salute to African-American fathers<br />
and sons. Radio celebrity Tom Joyner<br />
and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<br />
(posthumously) were among those<br />
honored. Lerone Bennett Jr., Executive<br />
Editor of Ebony Magazine, was the<br />
keynote speaker for the daylong event.<br />
Dr. Burnim said the event was a<br />
successful initiative to motivating<br />
youths.<br />
“It was [done] to be positive and<br />
uplifting and to give the younger<br />
brothers a vision for what they can<br />
become, to see what kind of support<br />
they have,” Burnim said. “It brought a<br />
range of males together, fathers and<br />
grandfathers like myself and some<br />
older. They (Ebony) need to provide<br />
this kind of opportunity to fathers and<br />
sons in other parts of the country, to<br />
provide them similar opportunities.”<br />
Burnim said he enjoyed attending<br />
the event and was very pleased with<br />
the performance of the fraternity<br />
members and the warm reception they<br />
received from the audience.<br />
Approximately 13 members of<br />
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at ECSU<br />
traveled to New York to perform a 20-<br />
minute step show. These young men<br />
caught the eyes of Ebony officials<br />
ECSU Alpha Phi Alpha Beta Zeta Chapter<br />
performed a special presentation step show.<br />
L-R: President Edison O. Jackson, Medgar Evers College; Chancellor<br />
Mickey L. Burnim, ECSU; and Ron Ransom, Associate V.P. Sales,<br />
Prudential Financial participated on panel moderated by Dr. Frederick S.<br />
Humphries, President & CEO, NAFEO (not pictured).<br />
earlier this year by winning a contest<br />
of eight competing sororities and<br />
fraternities at the <strong>2002</strong> Central<br />
Intercollegiate Athletic Association<br />
Basketball Tournament.<br />
The fraternity includes a number of<br />
studious young men who serve the<br />
university diligently. Two examples<br />
include Keith Richardson and<br />
Damiyon Sledge. Richardson served<br />
as Student Government Association<br />
(SGA) President for the 2001-<strong>2002</strong><br />
school term and now serves as Mr.<br />
ECSU. Sledge, the <strong>2002</strong>-03 SGA<br />
president, is the correspondence<br />
secretary for the ECSU chapter of the<br />
fraternity.<br />
Attending fraternity members<br />
included Gregory Lassiter of Sunbury,<br />
NC; Jonathon Williams of <strong>Elizabeth</strong><br />
<strong>City</strong>; Jonathon Owens of Chesapeake,<br />
VA; Kevin Thomas <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>;<br />
Willie Gilchrist of Halifax, NC; Randy<br />
Jordan of <strong>Elizabeth</strong>, <strong>City</strong>; Chabra<br />
Mercer of <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>; James Futrell<br />
of Ahoskie, NC; Adrian Roberson of<br />
Newport News, VA; Damiyon Sledge<br />
of Roanoke Rapids, NC; General Irvin<br />
Barrett Greenville, NC. and Keith<br />
Richardson of Rocky Mount, NC.<br />
Their advisor, Kuchumbi Hayden of<br />
Portsmouth, VA, also attended. <br />
CIAA 2003<br />
Raleigh Entertainment and Sports Arena<br />
Raleigh, North Carolina<br />
February 23 - March 1, 2003<br />
HOTELS<br />
Holiday Inn Highwoods<br />
Raleigh, NC<br />
919-872-3500 (Alumni)<br />
Country Inn and Suites<br />
Raleigh, NC<br />
919-872-5000<br />
Call hotels directly for<br />
reservations.<br />
in remembrance ...<br />
TICKETS<br />
For ticket information,<br />
call the<br />
ECSU Athletics Department<br />
at 252-335-3388.<br />
For further information,<br />
call the<br />
Office of Alumni Relations<br />
at 252-335-3226.<br />
ECSU Board of Trustees Emeritus E. V. Wilkins died June 7. Mr. Wilkins<br />
served as chairman of the board for several years. For his many years of<br />
loyal and dedicated service, a campus building is named in his honor.<br />
Dr. Andrew L. Roberts, former ECSU Assistant Dean, Professor in the<br />
now School of Education and Psychology and Professor Emeritus, died<br />
April 11.<br />
Dr. Charles Pinrose, former Professor in the Department of Music, died<br />
May 29.<br />
Robert Harvey, one of the founders of the Tri-<strong>State</strong> Alumni Chapter and<br />
the first chairman of the General Alumni Association Life Membership<br />
Committee, died in New Jersey on June 28.<br />
Vernon Levels, father of ECSU First Lady LaVera Levels Burnim, died on<br />
August 14. Funeral services were held in Teague, Texas.<br />
Charlene Stokley Creekmur, staff, died March 2. She worked as an<br />
applications programmer in the Administrative Computing department.<br />
Ian G. Brown, student, died July 8 in a motorcycle accident. He was a<br />
member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.<br />
Tia M. Simms, student, died on September 3, 2001 in an automobile<br />
accident. She was a member of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority<br />
WORDS OF WISDOM<br />
“<br />
Once we<br />
discover how to<br />
appreciate the<br />
timeless values<br />
in our daily<br />
experiences,<br />
we can enjoy<br />
the best things<br />
in life.<br />
”<br />
- HARRY HEPNER<br />
ECSU MAGAZINE FALL <strong>2002</strong> 47
Early Show<br />
<strong>2002</strong> - 2003<br />
LADY VIKINGS BASKETBALL SCHEDULE<br />
DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME<br />
11/22-23 ECSU Tip-Off Tourney <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 6:00 & 8:00<br />
11/26 The Apprentice School Newport News, VA 7:00pm<br />
11/29-30 Catawba Univ. Tournament Salisbury, NC TBA<br />
12/3 Clark-Atlanta <strong>University</strong> <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 5:30pm<br />
12/5 Allen <strong>University</strong> Columbia, SC 6:00pm<br />
12/7 Johnson C. Smith Univ. Charlotte, NC 5:30pm<br />
12/14 Winston-Salem <strong>State</strong> Univ. <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 5:30pm<br />
1/7 Shaw <strong>University</strong> Raleigh, NC 5:30pm<br />
CBS’s “The Early Show” spotlighted<br />
ECSU alumnus and former ECSU<br />
Assistant Football Coach Elvin James.<br />
James appeared in recognition of his<br />
selection as USA Today’s<br />
Most Caring Coach in<br />
America. He is the first<br />
coach named for the honor.<br />
James was the first and<br />
only recipient of this<br />
prestigious award in 1996.<br />
At that time, he was Head<br />
Football Coach at<br />
Goldsboro High School in<br />
Goldsboro, North<br />
Carolina. The award has been presented<br />
each year since, however, now it is given to<br />
multiple recipients.<br />
James received the “Most Caring Coach<br />
in America” award because during his<br />
tenure at Goldsboro H.S. he had an<br />
extraordinary reputation for helping his<br />
football players. He helped 85 students<br />
obtain scholarships to attend colleges<br />
nationwide and did so by using 45 days<br />
of his own leave time, $5,000 of his own<br />
money, and by putting approximately<br />
185,000 miles on his own car. Also, he<br />
opened his home to several of his former<br />
players for short periods of time allowing<br />
them to live with him and his family.<br />
Goldsboro H.S. is an inner city school with<br />
a population that is over 99% African<br />
American.<br />
Also known as “Bam Bam,” James is a<br />
native of Beaufort, North Carolina and<br />
currently resides in Goldsboro and has<br />
returned to Goldsboro High School as<br />
Head Football Coach. <br />
ECSU<br />
alumnus<br />
and<br />
former<br />
football<br />
coach<br />
featured<br />
1/11 Virginia <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Norfolk, VA 3:00pm<br />
3rd Annual CIAA Legacy Classic<br />
1/14 Saint Augustine’s College <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 5:30pm<br />
1/18 Fayetteville <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Fayetteville, NC 5:30pm<br />
1/21 Allen <strong>University</strong> <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 5:30pm<br />
1/23 Saint Paul’s College <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 5:30pm<br />
1/25 Virginia Union <strong>University</strong> <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 5:30pm<br />
1/28 Bowie <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Bowie, MD 5:30pm<br />
1/30 Univ. of District of Columbia <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 5:30pm<br />
2/1 Shaw <strong>University</strong> <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 5:30pm<br />
2/4 Livingstone College <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 5:30pm<br />
2/8 Saint Paul’s College Lawrenceville, VA 5:30pm<br />
2/11 North Carolina Central Univ. Durham, NC 5:30pm<br />
2/15 Virginia <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Petersburg, VA 5:30pm<br />
2/18 Bowie <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 5:30pm<br />
2/22 Virginia Union <strong>University</strong> Richmond, VA 5:30pm<br />
46 ECSU MAGAZINE FALL <strong>2002</strong><br />
THE<br />
Maynard<br />
Outreach<br />
Project<br />
The School of Psychology and<br />
Education at ECSU has successfully<br />
identified nine young North Carolina<br />
men who are the first to participate in<br />
the Maynard Outreach Project. They<br />
will major in education and upon<br />
graduation return to the state’s<br />
northeastern schools to teach. The<br />
students selected are Kevin Leonard<br />
and Damien Silver of Nashville, NC;<br />
Lorenzo Epps III and William Kearney<br />
of Warrenton, NC; Ramond Davis of<br />
Roanoke Rapids, NC; Kenneth<br />
Creighton and Tiyon Simmons of<br />
Edenton, NC; Terrance Jackson of<br />
Plymouth, NC; and Marquiche<br />
Hughes of Camden, NC. Hughes is<br />
already enrolled at ECSU and the<br />
others begin fall <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
The Maynard Outreach Project,<br />
coordinated by Dr. Claudie Mackey,<br />
targets high school seniors in the 21<br />
northeastern counties that surround<br />
ECSU to increase the number of<br />
minority males teaching in North<br />
Carolina schools. Earlier this year,<br />
James H. Maynard and his wife<br />
Connie, contributed $200,000 to the<br />
School of Psychology and Education<br />
specifically to assist ECSU in its quest<br />
to address the teacher shortage.<br />
Maynard is chairman and co-founder<br />
of Golden Corral Corporation. The<br />
couple, already linked to ECSU from a<br />
previous scholarship venture that<br />
assists education majors currently<br />
enrolled at the university, extended<br />
their hands of generosity again in<br />
February.<br />
Applicants must meet ECSU<br />
admissions requirements and<br />
graduate in the top half of their<br />
graduating high school class. The<br />
School of Psychology and Education<br />
provides academic enrichment<br />
sessions, mentoring and career<br />
conferences to help these young men<br />
prepare for a career in education.<br />
For more information, contact Dr.<br />
Claudie Mackey, coordinator of the<br />
Maynard Outreach Project,<br />
at 252-335-3479. <br />
features<br />
ECSU MAGAZINE FALL <strong>2002</strong> 3
ECSU faculty honored<br />
for teaching excellence<br />
<strong>2002</strong> - 2003<br />
VIKINGS BASKETBALL SCHEDULE<br />
Dr. Flora Bryant Brown receives<br />
UNC-system excellence in<br />
teaching award<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> (ECSU) Professor Flora Bryant Brown of<br />
the Department of Social Sciences recently received the <strong>University</strong> of North<br />
Carolina Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching.<br />
Dr. Bryant Brown, a history professor who arrived at ECSU in 1990, was<br />
one of 16 professors across the state’s public higher education system to<br />
receive the award. The winners received a commemorative bronze medallion<br />
and a $7,500 cash prize. Brown has been credited with revising the history<br />
curriculum, coordinating the social sciences teacher education program<br />
within the social sciences department; developing online courses and<br />
working as a consultant to the N.C. Museum of History and the Museum of<br />
the Albemarle. She is also known for her supportive response to students<br />
who are academically or personally challenged while pursuing their college<br />
degrees.<br />
The UNC Board of Governors established the awards in 1994 to<br />
underscore the importance of teaching and to reward good teaching across<br />
the university. The board selects tenured faculty members who have taught<br />
at their present institutions at least seven years. <br />
Departmental faculty<br />
receives ECSU<br />
teaching honors<br />
ECSU also recently recognized four<br />
of its professors for their outstanding<br />
work as teachers within their<br />
departments. They are Dr. Kwabena<br />
Boansi (5 years), Social Sciences; Dr.<br />
Harold Ellingsen (3 years), Mathematics<br />
and Computer Science; Dr. Edmond<br />
Koker (18 years), Chemistry and<br />
Physics; and, Dr. Emmanuel<br />
Ngwainmbi (5 years), Language,<br />
Literature and Communication. <br />
DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME<br />
11/22-23 Johnson C. Smith Invitational Charlotte, NC TBA<br />
11/26 Mountain <strong>State</strong> <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 7:30pm<br />
12/2 Benedict College Columbia, SC 7:30pm<br />
12/6-7 Walt Baker Classic Salisbury, NC TBA<br />
Catawba College<br />
12/10 Wingate <strong>University</strong> <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 7:00pm<br />
12/14 Winston-Salem <strong>State</strong> Univ. <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 7:30pm<br />
12/19 Univ. District of Columbia <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 7:30pm<br />
12/30 Johnson C. Smith <strong>University</strong> Charlotte, NC 7:30pm<br />
1/2 Mountain <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Beckley, WV 7:30pm<br />
1/7 Shaw <strong>University</strong> Raleigh, NC 7:30pm<br />
1/11 Virginia <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Norfolk, VA 5:00pm<br />
3 rd Annual CIAA Legacy Classic<br />
1/14 Saint Augustine’s College <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 7:30pm<br />
ECSU names interim<br />
Vice Chancellor<br />
for Academic<br />
Affairs<br />
Effective September 1, <strong>2002</strong>, Chancellor Mickey L.<br />
Burnim named Dr. Carolyn R. Mahoney, Dean of<br />
the School of Mathematics, Science<br />
and Technology, to serve as Interim<br />
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs<br />
while a national search for a permanent<br />
replacement is underway. Dr. Mahoney<br />
replaces Dr. Albert Walker who accepted<br />
the position of President at Bluefield <strong>State</strong><br />
College in West Virginia.<br />
In a statement to the university,<br />
Chancellor Burnim said, “We seek to<br />
conduct a smooth transition while we<br />
search for our next Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.<br />
Dr. Walker has done a fine job and we congratulate him on<br />
features<br />
his new appointment. We believe that the Division of<br />
Academic Affairs will continue to thrive under the<br />
leadership of Dr. Mahoney. Please give her your full<br />
support and cooperation during this time.”<br />
Dr. Mahoney joined ECSU in August 2000,<br />
to serve as the first Dean of the School of<br />
Mathematics, Science and Technology. Prior to<br />
coming to ECSU she spent 10 years at the new<br />
California <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> San Marcos where<br />
she served as one of 12 founding faculty,<br />
Chairperson of the Department of Mathematics,<br />
and Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs.<br />
Mahoney also has served as Program Director in<br />
the Office of Systemic Reform at the National<br />
Science Foundation. <br />
1/18 Fayetteville <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Fayetteville, NC 7:30pm<br />
1/21 Benedict College <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 7:30pm<br />
1/23 Saint Paul’s College <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 7:30pm<br />
1/25 Virginia Union <strong>University</strong> <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 7:30pm<br />
1/28 Bowie <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Bowie, MD 7:30pm<br />
1/29 Univ. of District of Columbia Washington, DC 7:30pm<br />
2/1 Shaw <strong>University</strong> <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 7:30pm<br />
2/4 Livingstone College <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 7:30pm<br />
2/8 Saint Paul’s College Lawrenceville, VA 7:30pm<br />
2/11 North Carolina Central Univ. Durham, NC 7:30pm<br />
2/15 Virginia <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Petersburg, VA 7:30pm<br />
2/18 Bowie <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 7:30pm<br />
2/22 Virginia Union <strong>University</strong> Richmond, VA 7:30pm<br />
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<strong>2002</strong> VIKINGS VOLLEYBALL SCHEDULE<br />
DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME<br />
September<br />
8 Univ. District of Columbia <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 2:00pm<br />
10 Virginia <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 6:30pm<br />
13-15 CIAA Round-Up Durham, NC TBA<br />
19 Virginia Union <strong>University</strong> Richmond, VA 6:30pm<br />
23 Peace College Raleigh, NC 6:30pm<br />
25 Shaw <strong>University</strong> <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 6:00pm<br />
27-29 Mount Olive Tournament Mount Olive, NC TBA<br />
30 Saint Paul’s College <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 6:30pm<br />
October<br />
5 Bowie <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 2:00pm<br />
10 Virginia <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Petersburg, VA 6:30pm<br />
16 Virginia Union <strong>University</strong> <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 6:00pm<br />
18 Univ. District of Columbia Washington, DC 8:00pm<br />
19 Bowie <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Bowie, MD 5:00pm<br />
22 Saint Paul’s College Lawrenceville, VA 6:00pm<br />
24 Peace College <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 6:30pm<br />
30 Shaw <strong>University</strong> Raleigh, NC 6:00pm<br />
November<br />
15-17 CIAA Volleyball Tournament Winston-Salem, NC<br />
<strong>2002</strong> VIKINGS CROSS COUNTRY SCHEDULE<br />
LADY VIKINGS BOWLING TEAM SCHEDULE<br />
The Lady Vikings Bowling team will compete against each CIAA<br />
Eastern Division team at three meets, against the CIAA Western<br />
Division teams at the CIAA Roundup, and against the finalists at<br />
the championship games:<br />
October 5-6<br />
DATE MEET LOCATION TIME<br />
September<br />
17 Virginia <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Invitational Petersburg, VA 4:00pm<br />
21 William and Mary Invitational Williamsburg, VA TBA<br />
29 Virginia Union <strong>University</strong> Richmond, VA TBA<br />
October<br />
5 Norfolk <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Norfolk, VA TBA<br />
24 CIAA Championships Greensboro, NC TBA<br />
@ Bowie <strong>State</strong>, Bowie, MD<br />
October 19-20<br />
athletics<br />
October 26-27<br />
November 2-3<br />
November 18-19<br />
@ ECSU<br />
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CIAA Roundup @ Virginia <strong>State</strong><br />
(compete against CIAA Western Division teams)<br />
@ Shaw <strong>University</strong>, Raleigh, NC<br />
CIAA Championship @ Winston-Salem <strong>State</strong>, NC<br />
Athletics staff<br />
on the move<br />
Addie Griffin, senior women’s<br />
administrator, recently was elected<br />
President of the Senior Woman<br />
Administrators Association and<br />
Women’s Vice President of the CIAA<br />
Basketball Tournament Committee.<br />
April Emory, sports information director,<br />
was recently elected Secretary of the<br />
Black College Sports Information<br />
Directors of America (BCSIDA).<br />
Marshall A. Rauch<br />
Distinguished Professor<br />
Dr. Camellia M. Okpodu<br />
named first<br />
Distinguished<br />
Professor<br />
in Biology<br />
Dr. Camellia M. Okpodu joined <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> in August <strong>2002</strong> as the first<br />
Marshall A. Rauch Distinguished Professor in<br />
Biology. The position is supported by an initial<br />
endowment of $500,000. Funds for the<br />
endowment were donated by Derick S. Close, a<br />
former member of the UNC Board of Governors<br />
and his sister, Crandall Bowles; funds from a<br />
matching funds program established by the state<br />
legislature in 1985; and funds from the<br />
C.D.Spangler Foundation. The chair is named for<br />
former N.C. state senator Marshall A. Rauch at<br />
the request of Mr. Close and is the second<br />
endowed chair established at the university.<br />
Dr. Okpodu, a North Carolina native, was<br />
formerly chair of the Department of Biological<br />
Sciences at Hampton <strong>University</strong> in Hampton, VA,<br />
and had been a faculty member there since 1996.<br />
Dr. Okpodu also served as a postdoctoral<br />
research associate in plant molecular biology in<br />
the Department of Plant Pathology at Virginia<br />
Tech. She earned both a B.S. degree in<br />
biochemistry and a doctorate in plant physiology<br />
from North Carolina <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>. She is the<br />
author of a laboratory manual in plant<br />
physiology and numerous publications in<br />
scientific journals including the Journal of Plant<br />
Physiology, Analytical Biochemistry, Plant<br />
Physiology & Biochemistry and Biotechniques, to<br />
name a few. Her involvement in curriculum<br />
development has resulted in new courses and<br />
modules for both undergraduate and graduate<br />
students. A strong advocate of outreach<br />
programs, Dr. Okpodu has served as the program<br />
coordinator for the Newport News Public Schools<br />
and Hampton <strong>University</strong> Center for Excellence in<br />
Research, Teaching and Learning, and for the<br />
Lucille Packard Summer Research Enrichment<br />
Program.<br />
In July of 1999, Okpodu was a guest on the<br />
nationally televised “Oprah Winfrey Show” and<br />
was featured in the episode “Teaching Our<br />
Daughters to Succeed.” Okpodu, who has three<br />
daughters, discussed ways in which young<br />
women can achieve their goals. She is also<br />
featured in How Jane Won, a book about 55<br />
successful women who share their experiences<br />
from being “just girls” to becoming extraordinary<br />
women in today’s society.<br />
Dr. Okpodu holds membership and serves on<br />
national committees of the American Society of<br />
Plant Biology and the American Phytopathology<br />
Society. Her grantsmanship has resulted in<br />
millions of dollars in extramural funds from the<br />
National Institutes of Health, National Science<br />
Foundation and NASA for student programs and<br />
research.<br />
The Department of Biology and <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> welcome Dr. Camellia M.<br />
Okpodu—Marshall A. Rauch Distinguished<br />
Professor of Biology. <br />
features<br />
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iefs<br />
accreditations<br />
ECSU reaffirmation of<br />
SACS accreditation<br />
complete<br />
In July, ECSU was notified by the<br />
Southern Association of Colleges and<br />
Schools Commission on Colleges that<br />
all reviews were complete and<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
accreditation was reaffirmed. No<br />
additional reports or follow-up is<br />
needed.<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> is<br />
accredited to award degrees at the<br />
baccalaureate and master’s levels.<br />
The next SACS review will take place<br />
in 2011, as reaffirmations are<br />
conducted every 10 years.<br />
ECSU Laboratory<br />
School receives<br />
accreditation<br />
The National Association for the<br />
Education of Young Children<br />
(NAEYC) recently accredited the<br />
ECSU Laboratory School. This<br />
prestigious recognition has been<br />
achieved by only 7% of early<br />
childhood programs nationwide. Dr.<br />
Beverlyn Cain, Director of the Lab<br />
School, is excited about their<br />
progress.<br />
“The heart of NAEYC<br />
accreditation focuses on the child’s<br />
experience,” said Dr. Cain. “The<br />
process carefully considers all aspects<br />
of a program including health and<br />
safety, staffing, staff qualifications,<br />
and physical environment.”<br />
The ECSU Laboratory School is<br />
part of the School of Education and<br />
Psychology. It annually serves<br />
20-25 students between the ages of<br />
three and five years old.<br />
Top graduate<br />
goes to<br />
UNC Chapel<br />
Hill Law<br />
School<br />
Sherri Horner, class of <strong>2002</strong>,<br />
was honored as the Bearer<br />
of the Mace at the 134 th<br />
Commencement held in<br />
May, receiving top honors in her graduating class. Ms. Horner will be<br />
attending UNC Chapel Hill Law School this fall.<br />
Groundbreaking for new<br />
physical education/field house<br />
Left to Right: Greg Magee, ECSU Director of Design and Construction; Nathaniel Moore, 1961<br />
alumnus and Viking Varsity Club president; ECSU Chancellor Mickey L. Burnim; <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> Mayor<br />
John Bell; ECSU Board Member Betty Meggs; Matt Wood, President of ECSU Foundation Board of<br />
Directors and Pasquotank County Commission Chairman; Dr. Edward McLean, ECSU Athletics<br />
Director; Sam Roebuck, ECSU supporter and for whom ECSU Roebuck Stadium is named; and<br />
Henry Rhoulac, 1969 alumnus and Viking Varsity Club Advisory Board member.<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> recently held a Ground<br />
Breaking Ceremony for the new physical education<br />
building. Chancellor Mickey L. Burnim, Dr. Edward<br />
McLean, Athletics Director, and other ECSU administrators<br />
were on hand to celebrate the occasion.<br />
This new building will house physical education classrooms,<br />
locker rooms, showers, storage, and bathroom facilities and it will be located<br />
within Roebuck Stadium. The project budget is $1,172,300 and was designed<br />
by Applegate Architects, a New Bern, North Carolina firm.<br />
Vikings football picked to<br />
finish 7th in CIAA<br />
Morey, Williams receive pre-season nod<br />
The <strong>2002</strong> CIAA Pre-Season and Predicted<br />
Order of Finish as selected by the CIAA Football<br />
Coaches Association, was released at the annual<br />
CIAA Football Roundup July 25, <strong>2002</strong> in<br />
Petersburg, VA.<br />
The <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Vikings<br />
were picked to finish 7th out of the 10 CIAA<br />
schools that will compete in <strong>2002</strong>. Preceding the<br />
Vikings are the Rams of Winston-Salem <strong>State</strong>,<br />
2001 Champion Virginia Union, Bowie <strong>State</strong>,<br />
Fayetteville <strong>State</strong>, North Carolina Central, and<br />
Virginia <strong>State</strong>. Johnson C. Smith, Livingstone, and<br />
Saint Augustine’s follow ECSU.<br />
Senior offensive lineman D.J. Morey and<br />
Sophomore Strong Safety Howard Williams, Jr.<br />
were named to the <strong>2002</strong> CIAA Preseason Football<br />
Team. Morey, a native of Camden, NC, helped<br />
lead an offensive line that allowed only six sacks<br />
in 2001, first in the CIAA.<br />
Last season, Morey was named to the All-<br />
CIAA Offensive Team. Williams, Jr. is coming off<br />
an impressive year in which he was named to the<br />
2001 CIAA All-Rookie Defensive Team. An<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> native, Williams was third<br />
amongst the Vikings in tackles with 51 total,<br />
along with two fumble recoveries in 2001.<br />
The Vikings opened their season at Kutztown<br />
<strong>University</strong> August 29th and held their home<br />
opener September 7th against Virginia Union<br />
<strong>University</strong>.<br />
(See Football Schedule for remaining games.)<br />
<strong>2002</strong> VIKINGS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE<br />
DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME<br />
2 Saint Augustine’s <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 2:00pm<br />
HOMECOMING<br />
athletics<br />
9 Winston-Salem <strong>State</strong> Winston-Salem, NC 1:00pm<br />
16 CIAA Championship Winston-Salem, NC 1:30<br />
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August<br />
29 Kutztown <strong>University</strong> Kutztown, PA 4:05pm<br />
September<br />
7 Virginia Union <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 7:00pm<br />
(Hall of Fame)<br />
14 Fayetteville <strong>State</strong> Rocky Mount, NC 6:00pm<br />
(Down East Viking Football Classic)<br />
28 North Carolina Central Kinston, NC 6:00 pm<br />
October<br />
5 Johnson C. Smith <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 7:00pm<br />
(Youth Outreach)<br />
12 Virginia <strong>State</strong> <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 1:30pm<br />
(High School Day)<br />
19 Bowie <strong>State</strong> Bowie, MD 1:00pm<br />
26 Livingstone Salisbury, NC 2:00pm<br />
November
Vikings baseball coach<br />
and players<br />
go global<br />
Head coach travels<br />
to South Africa<br />
The players weren’t the only ones to travel<br />
internationally this summer. Head Coach Terrance<br />
Whittle traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa to<br />
serve as an Envoy Coach on behalf of Major League<br />
Baseball International. Coach Whittle worked in<br />
conjunction with the South African Baseball<br />
Federation (SABF) to help introduce the game of<br />
baseball to underdeveloped areas in Johannesburg.<br />
He worked with both national and junior national<br />
team members and assist the SABF with forming<br />
baseball leagues.<br />
<strong>2002</strong><br />
CIAA<br />
Champions<br />
compete at<br />
NCAA<br />
Division II<br />
athletics<br />
Indiana (PA) <strong>University</strong> 14-3.<br />
Regional<br />
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Baseball players go<br />
abroad<br />
Four members of the <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> baseball team were busy this summer,<br />
showcasing their skills in different parts of the<br />
world. Jesse Jones, Robert Kravitz, Bobby Byrum,<br />
and Brad Privott participated as members of the<br />
USA Baseball Team of USA Athletes International.<br />
Currituck, NC native Jesse Jones and Windsor,<br />
NC natives Robert Kravitz and Bobby Byrum<br />
participated in the German Baseball Open July<br />
19-29, <strong>2002</strong> in Regensburg, Germany. Jones, a<br />
senior shortstop, participated for the second<br />
consecutive year traveling again to Amsterdam.<br />
Kravitz a senior catcher and Byrum a junior<br />
pitcher participated for the first time.<br />
Brad Privott, also a native of Currituck, NC,<br />
traveled to Townsville, Australia to compete in<br />
the Down Under Games July 22-August 4, <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
This was the senior pitcher’s second year with<br />
USA Baseball. Last year, he went to Germany.<br />
Lady Vikings Softball<br />
Fighting their way out of the<br />
losers bracket on the final day last<br />
April, the <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> Lady Vikings became<br />
the <strong>2002</strong> Central Intercollegiate<br />
Athletic Association Softball<br />
Champions.<br />
This is the first CIAA Softball<br />
Championship in ECSU history!<br />
The Lady Vikings beat the<br />
previously undefeated Lady<br />
Golden Bulls of Johnson C. Smith<br />
<strong>University</strong> 4-3 in the opener of the<br />
championship round, forcing a do-or-die<br />
contest, and it would be the Lady Vikings<br />
staying alive with the 7-2 triumph.<br />
The win also ensured that the Lady<br />
Vikings (21-9) would advance to the NCAA<br />
Division II Regional as the CIAA’s first<br />
automatic bid qualifier. Held at<br />
Bloomsburg (PA) <strong>University</strong>, the Lady<br />
Vikings fell to the hosts 12-1 and to<br />
All in all, it was one of the best seasons<br />
in history. Freshman pitcher Lisa Harris,<br />
senior short-stop Raquita Washington, and<br />
senior third baseman Tavheisha Walton<br />
were named to the <strong>2002</strong> CIAA Softball All-<br />
Tournament Team. Walton was named<br />
tournament MVP. Head Softball Coach<br />
Janie Cofield was selected CIAA Coach of<br />
the Year.<br />
A<br />
dazzling spring concert saluting<br />
Benny Goodman and fellow jazz<br />
legends Dizzy Gillespie and<br />
Lionel Hampton wasn’t enough. The<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> (ECSU) 22-piece jazz<br />
ensemble took the next step and recorded many of their<br />
selections on a CD touting the music that won those artist<br />
generations of fans. The ensemble<br />
recorded their CD on campus in the<br />
Floyd Robinson Auditorium of the<br />
Fine Arts Center.<br />
Vince Corozine, an ECSU professor<br />
of music and director of the ensemble,<br />
said the CD was two years in the<br />
making. Throughout the school year,<br />
students and a few community musicians , who are also<br />
public school music teachers , gathered weekly to rehearse<br />
for jazz ensemble performances and to<br />
prepare for the recording. Having<br />
students and teachers work together<br />
on challenging assignments such<br />
as swing jazz recordings is a<br />
lesson in itself.<br />
Their repertoire includes<br />
Two years in the making<br />
ECSU Jazz Ensemble<br />
releases CD<br />
“This is the training<br />
ground for young<br />
musicians ...”<br />
selections from Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Miles<br />
Davis, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie and Horace<br />
Silver. Corozine said the goal is to have students share<br />
through performance the cultural and aesthetic<br />
experience of great composers. These selections display<br />
various periods and styles of jazz.<br />
“We want to build a standard of musical taste<br />
within the ensemble; to develop an interest and an<br />
appreciation for jazz and improvisation,” Corozine said.<br />
“This is the training ground for young musicians planning<br />
careers in music education or professional performance.”<br />
The Jazz Ensemble included<br />
trumpet players Jeff Au; Marcus<br />
James; Danielle Turner; Saxophone<br />
Cedric booth; Nick Goehring; Wade Johnson; Rachel<br />
Kirksey; Joplin Brock; Rhythm Section, Adam Nixon<br />
(guitar); Dennis Figgs (piano) Chris Whitehurst (drums);<br />
Lee Waterfield (Bass) and vocalist Mandy Futrell<br />
For more information or to obtain a copy, contact Mr.<br />
Vince Corozine at 252-335-3377. <br />
THE FOLLOWING SELECTIONS ARE ON THE CD:<br />
Girl From Ipanema ............................................................. Jobim/Berry<br />
Georgia on My Mind .......................................................... Carmichael/Taylor<br />
Take the A-Train ................................................................. Strayhorn/Barduhn<br />
A Night in Tunisia.............................................................. Gillespie/Sweeney<br />
Harlem Nocturne................................................................ Hagen/Berry<br />
Satin Doll ........................................................................... Strayhorn/Barduhn<br />
Stormy Weather .................................................................. Arlen/Noak<br />
The Preacher ....................................................................... Silver/Edmondson<br />
briefs<br />
Over the Rainbow ............................................................ Arlen/ Wolpe<br />
Malaguena .......................................................................... Lecuona/Kerchner<br />
Gospel John ......................................................................... Steinberg/Clark<br />
Watermelon Man ................................................................ Hancock/Nowak<br />
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N.C. Senator Basnight<br />
awarded honorary degree<br />
North Carolina <strong>State</strong> Senator<br />
Marc Basnight was the<br />
keynote speaker at ECSU’s<br />
134th Commencement on<br />
May 11. It was the perfect<br />
opportunity to honor Senator<br />
Basnight for his untiring<br />
efforts and years of support<br />
for <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> by conferring<br />
him with an honorary<br />
degree.<br />
Basnight, President Pro Tempore<br />
for the N.C. Senate, is serving his<br />
ninth term in office. He began his<br />
legislative duty in 1984 only to<br />
become the longest serving Senate<br />
President Pro Tempore in state history.<br />
Basnight represents North<br />
Carolina’s Senate District 1, a<br />
northeastern corner which includes<br />
Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare,<br />
Hyde, Pasquotank, Perquimans,<br />
Tyrrell and parts of Beaufort, Bertie<br />
and Washington counties.<br />
This coastal region was his birthplace.<br />
Senator Basnight’s<br />
accomplishments are numerous. He<br />
has been credited with playing an<br />
instrumental role in the passage of a<br />
$3.1 billion higher education bond<br />
package in 2000 to help universities<br />
and community colleges with their<br />
most critical building needs so they<br />
could address enrollment growth.<br />
Only a few years ago, he worked<br />
diligently to make it possible for ECSU<br />
to receive the funding needed to<br />
complete the Fine Arts building.<br />
He has always taken a strong<br />
stance on education. Basnight fought<br />
for an overhaul of the state’s public<br />
school system and supported calls for<br />
a system of incentives and<br />
accountability. He pushed to expand<br />
the former Gov. Jim Hunt’s Smart Start<br />
early childhood initiative in the state’s<br />
100 counties. Most recently, he has<br />
diligently pressed to bring a school of<br />
pharmacy to <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> and this northeastern<br />
corner of the state.<br />
“Senator Basnight has been an<br />
asset to the entire state of North<br />
Carolina,” stated Chancellor Mickey<br />
L. Burnim. “What he has done and<br />
continues to do for northeastern North<br />
Carolina and particularly <strong>Elizabeth</strong><br />
<strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> has not gone<br />
unnoticed. We wanted to recognize<br />
him with this honorary degree for his<br />
tireless efforts.” <br />
athletics<br />
ECSU hoops<br />
Shawn Walker, ECSU alumnus (’94), is<br />
the new Head Coach of the Vikings<br />
Basketball team.<br />
Having served as Head Coach of the<br />
Lady Vikings during the 2001-<strong>2002</strong> season,<br />
Assistant Coach for the Vikings during 1996-97,<br />
and a basketball player from 1991-94, Walker is<br />
no stranger to the ECSU intercollegiate athletics<br />
program. Most recently, under Walker’s<br />
leadership, the Lady Vikings finished the season<br />
at 14-13, second place in the CIAA Eastern<br />
Division.<br />
Prior to his most recent stint with ECSU,<br />
Walker served as the Head Men’s Basketball<br />
bring in<br />
new era<br />
Walker named ECSU Vikings<br />
Head Basketball Coach<br />
Coach at Voorhees College in Demark, SC. While<br />
at Voorhees, he won two EIAC Championships<br />
(1998,1999), competed in the NAIA National<br />
Tournament (1999) and was named EIAC Coach<br />
of the Year in 1998 and 2000. He also served as a<br />
graduate assistant at Slippery Rock (PA)<br />
<strong>University</strong> where he received a Master’s in<br />
Athletics Administration in 1998.<br />
Walker, a native of Roper, NC, and a secondgeneration<br />
Viking, graduated with honors from<br />
ECSU in 1994 with two degrees, one in Biology<br />
and the other in Health/Physical Education. He<br />
was also an All-CIAA selection for the Vikings in<br />
1993 and 1994.<br />
Two new degrees<br />
available this fall<br />
Communications Studies and Aviation Science are two<br />
new bachelor’s degree programs available to ECSU students<br />
starting this fall. Communication Studies is in the<br />
department of Language, Literature and Communication in<br />
the School of Arts and Humanities and Aviation Science is<br />
in the Technology Department in the School of Mathematics,<br />
Science and Technology.<br />
briefs<br />
With the addition of these two new degree programs,<br />
ECSU now offers 34 baccalaureate degrees.<br />
8 ECSU MAGAZINE FALL <strong>2002</strong><br />
Batchelor named<br />
ECSU Lady Vikings<br />
Head Basketball Coach<br />
Fred Batchelor, II is the new<br />
Head Coach of the Lady<br />
Vikings Basketball team.<br />
Batchelor joins the ECSU<br />
coaching staff after serving as<br />
Head Women’s Basketball Coach for<br />
two years at <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> of New<br />
York (SUNY) at Buffalo. While at<br />
Buffalo <strong>State</strong>, he also had two stints as<br />
an Assistant Men’s Coach (1994-1996<br />
and 1998-1999) and served as the<br />
Interim Head Men’s Coach (1999-<br />
2000). From 1996-1998, Batchelor was<br />
an Assistant Men’s Coach at SUNY<br />
<strong>University</strong> at Buffalo.<br />
Coach Batchelor received his B.A.<br />
in Religious Education from Valley<br />
Forge Christian College in<br />
Phoenixville, PA and his M.S. in<br />
Multidisciplinary Studies from SUNY<br />
Buffalo <strong>State</strong>.<br />
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Viking Voice Exchange “Alumni”<br />
SUMMER<br />
Summer School<br />
<strong>2002</strong> enjoys<br />
significant growth<br />
Summer School <strong>2002</strong> at <strong>Elizabeth</strong><br />
<strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> had one of its<br />
largest enrollments ever. With 753<br />
students, enrollment was up from 694<br />
students in 2001 and 563 in 2000.<br />
Dr. Ali Khan, director, stated, “We<br />
took a couple of approaches. We<br />
changed the brochure and gave it a<br />
new look with information that<br />
students particularly ask about, like<br />
housing, financial aid and parking.<br />
We also had more evening classes for<br />
students that were working so that<br />
they could come after 4 or 5 o’clock<br />
and take some classes.”<br />
Another indicator of growth was<br />
that an increased number of faculty<br />
were on staff this summer. With the<br />
steady year-to-year growth, Dr. Kahn<br />
is considering two five-week summer<br />
sessions next year.<br />
ECSU and Halifax<br />
Community College<br />
launch partnership<br />
SCHOOL<br />
McNair Scholars<br />
program holds<br />
award ceremony<br />
The 7 th Annual McNair Scholars<br />
Summer Research Symposium and<br />
Awards Ceremony was recently held<br />
at <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
(ECSU) to recognize eight student<br />
research teams, their mentors and<br />
instructors.<br />
The topics for the research teams<br />
ranged from the study of naturally<br />
occurring purple colored bacterium in<br />
a stream on campus to the study of<br />
social work techniques and their<br />
impact in managed health care<br />
settings. Dr. Cheryl Lewis, Director of<br />
the Ronald E. McNair<br />
Postbaccalaureate Achievement<br />
Program at ECSU, congratulated and<br />
presented awards to the students for<br />
their intensive research projects and<br />
the public presentations made at the<br />
July 26th ceremony.<br />
ECSU and Halifax Community College have<br />
formed a partnership to address the shortage of<br />
teachers in this region. The two institutions have<br />
joined forces to offer a curriculum for students to earn<br />
a B.S. degree in elementary education. Plans are to<br />
offers courses on-site at Halifax Community College in Weldon, NC. Courses will be taught<br />
by faculty from both institutions.<br />
The issue of staffing in public schools has been compounded further due to new federal<br />
regulations stating that newly-hired teacher assistants must meet new postsecondary<br />
requirements, and those already in the professional fields must meet the same requirements<br />
by 2006.<br />
The key planners of this partnership have included from Halifax Community College,<br />
Dr. Laura Buffaloe, Evelyn Kientz, Terry Wheeler, Dee Amason and B.T. Brown. From ECSU,<br />
the delegation included Dr. Albert Walker, Dr. Charles Cherry, and Dr. Daniel Green from<br />
the UNC Office of the President.<br />
For more information, call ECSU Division of Academic Affairs at 252/335-3291. <br />
Ronald McNair Scholar Program<br />
Director, Dr. V. Cortez Henderson of<br />
The <strong>University</strong> of Arkansas, Pine<br />
Bluff, spoke at the ceremony and<br />
encouraged ECSU students to<br />
continue seeking answers to questions<br />
raised in their summer research<br />
projects.<br />
Seven ECSU faculty and staff<br />
members accepted awards for their<br />
contributions to the eight research<br />
projects presented at the ceremony.<br />
They include Dr. Michael Winrow, Dr.<br />
Howard Price, Dr. Nwojo Agwu, Dr.<br />
Scott Bradshaw, Ms. Brenda Norman,<br />
Dr. Hirendra Banerjee and Dr. Akbar<br />
Eslami.<br />
The Ronald McNair<br />
Postbaccalaureate Achievement<br />
Program is a national initiative<br />
named after Dr. Ronald Erwin McNair,<br />
a renowned laser physicist and<br />
astronaut, who died in the 1986<br />
explosion of the USS Challenger Space<br />
Shuttle. <br />
Seated from left: ECSU Chancellor<br />
Mickey L. Burnim, HCC President, Dr.<br />
Ted H. Gasper, Jr., and Senator Frank<br />
Balance. Standing left to right: Emmett<br />
N. Kimbrough, superintendent of Weldon<br />
<strong>City</strong> Schools, John G. Parker,<br />
superintendent of Roanoke Rapids<br />
Graded Schools, Mary D. McDuffie,<br />
superintendent of Northampton County<br />
Schools, and Dr. Willie Gilchrist,<br />
superintendent of Halifax County<br />
Schools and ECSU alumnus.<br />
briefs<br />
ECSU MAGAZINE FALL <strong>2002</strong> 9
WHO’S NEW<br />
AT<br />
ECSU<br />
Staff<br />
Institutional Advancement<br />
La’Tanya Afolayan, Director,<br />
Major & Planned Gifts<br />
Bettie Lyons, Research Assistant<br />
Student Affairs<br />
Warren H. Basket,<br />
Director of Housing & Residence Life<br />
Enrollment Management,<br />
Planning, Research & Outreach<br />
Barbara Holley,<br />
Processing Assistant - Financial Aid<br />
Aileen Whidbee,<br />
Processing Assistant (Admissions)<br />
James Whitley,<br />
Small Business Specialist - SBTDC<br />
<strong>University</strong> Relations & Marketing<br />
Michele Johnson Brown,<br />
Programming Assistant - WRVS-FM Radio<br />
Rhonda Hayes, Office Assistant<br />
Athletics<br />
Fred Batchelor, II,<br />
Instructor/Head Women’s Basketball Coach<br />
Jeremy “Tremayne” Henry,<br />
Lecturer/Assistant Football Coach<br />
Stacy Sage, Head Athletic Trainer<br />
Shawn Walker,<br />
Lecturer/Head Men’s Basketball Coach<br />
Marcus White, Lecturer/Assistant Football Coach<br />
Information Technology/<strong>University</strong> Computing<br />
Abdual Hoggard, Application Programmer<br />
Business & Finance<br />
Luevern Cheson, Housekeeping<br />
Linda Dewald, Housekeeping<br />
Lance Taylor, Housekeeping<br />
Daryl Wood, Housekeeping<br />
Academic Affairs<br />
Dr. Bonita T. Ewers,<br />
Interim Associate Vice Chancellor<br />
Loretta Powers,<br />
Information Technology Consultant -<br />
Virtual College<br />
School of Arts and Humanities<br />
Language, Literature & Communication<br />
Dr. Joseph Lisowski, Associate Professor<br />
Dr. John Luton, Associate Professor<br />
Ida Muldrow, Assistant Professor<br />
Music<br />
Amelia Harris-Horne, Assistant Professor<br />
Dr. Penny Kwiatkowski, Assistant Professor<br />
Social Sciences<br />
Marie Billie, Visiting Assistant Professor<br />
Dr. Margery Coulson-Clark, Associate Professor<br />
Rebecca Seaman, Associate Professor<br />
School of Business & Economics<br />
Dr. Joe Barrett, Assistant Professor<br />
Harvey Beasley, Lecturer<br />
Joyce Green, Visiting Assistant Professor<br />
Dr. Freda McBride, Associate Professor<br />
School of Education & Psychology<br />
Dr. Saundra Copeland, Assistant Professor<br />
Dr. Linda Lisowski, Associate Professor<br />
Terry Mitchell, Diagnostic Testing Coordinator<br />
Anne White,<br />
Associate Professor/Middle School Education<br />
School of Mathematics, Science &<br />
Technology Biology<br />
Dr. Camellia Okpodu,<br />
Marshall A. Rauch Distinguished Professor<br />
Chemistry & Physics<br />
Dr. Lei Zhang, Visiting Assistant Professor<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
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Geological, Environmental & Marine Sciences<br />
Dr. Karen Fischer, Assistant Professor<br />
John White, Visiting Assistant Professor<br />
Liz Noble, Project Coordinator<br />
Math and Computer Science<br />
Dr. Jamiiru Luttamaguzi, Assistant Professor<br />
Antonio Rook, Instructor<br />
Technology<br />
Dr. Howard Price, Visiting Associate Professor<br />
DR. JEANETTE EVANS, CHAIRPERSON TELEPHONE: (252) 335.3618<br />
ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY<br />
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alumni<br />
ECSU MAGAZINE FALL <strong>2002</strong> 39
Student recruitment initiative<br />
The Office of Alumni<br />
Relations recognizes the<br />
outstanding achievements<br />
in student recruitment.<br />
We challenge all chapters<br />
to compete with other<br />
universities in recruiting<br />
students to your<br />
Alma Mater.<br />
General Alumni<br />
Association Officers<br />
<strong>2002</strong>-2004<br />
Dr. Paul Norman,<br />
President<br />
Carol Heyward,<br />
1st Vice President<br />
Mary Cates,<br />
2nd Vice President<br />
Jessie Riddick,<br />
Recording Secretary<br />
Edith Williams,<br />
Corresponding Secretary<br />
Sandra Gibson,<br />
Parliamentarian<br />
Rochelle Vann,<br />
Chaplain<br />
James R. Spence,<br />
Sergeant-at-Arms<br />
Board of Directors<br />
Patricia Harris, Chair<br />
Alonza Harrell<br />
Shirley Jones<br />
Dr. Curtis Bryan<br />
Elaine Hopkins<br />
Estela Simons<br />
Julius Walker<br />
Norman Cherry<br />
Nathaniel Moore<br />
38 ECSU MAGAZINE FALL <strong>2002</strong><br />
Eva J. Lewis: Held College Fair on November 10, 2001.<br />
J.T. Doles: Held High School and Community College Reception.<br />
Roanoke Chowan: Held their annual High School Reception on<br />
November 15, 2001<br />
Kinston-Lenior: February 2, <strong>2002</strong>, held their annual luncheon and<br />
invited Students from high schools and middle schools.<br />
Pennisula: February 12, <strong>2002</strong>, sponsored their annual high school<br />
reception.<br />
Raleigh-Durham-Wake: February 16, <strong>2002</strong>, sponsor a bus trip bring<br />
students to Winter Homecoming.<br />
Washington DC Metro: February 16, <strong>2002</strong>, brought two buses of<br />
students Winter Homecoming.<br />
Evelyn A Johnson: February 16, <strong>2002</strong>, Brought students to Winter<br />
Homecoming<br />
Bertie County: February 9th <strong>2002</strong>, brought the Knight of the Round<br />
Table Youth Group to tour the campus and attend the basketball<br />
game.<br />
Richmond Metro: February 24, <strong>2002</strong> Church service and recruitment<br />
fair.<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> Chapter: in February, March, April , May and June<br />
sponsored a church service and recruitment reception.<br />
Washington County: April 24, <strong>2002</strong> held a high School recepton<br />
Cape Fear: on april <strong>2002</strong> held a ceremony to award a scholarhip to a<br />
student from the Fayettevill area.<br />
Roanoke Missionary Baptist Conference: On May 22, <strong>2002</strong> , Director<br />
of Alumni Relations spoke with the group about student recruitment<br />
and Scholarships.<br />
Calling all published authors!<br />
Have you published in the last year? Send a copy* to the Office of<br />
Alumni Relations and we will note it in the next issue of the<br />
magazine. Articles should be sent to:<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
Office of Alumni Relations<br />
Campus Box 977 • 1704 Weeksville Road<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 27909-7806<br />
alumni<br />
news<br />
*All submitted copies become the property of the Office of Alumni Relations<br />
on the move<br />
staff<br />
Sherry Figgs, a contract and grant<br />
accountant in Accounting,<br />
recently became a Certified Public<br />
Accountant (CPA), earning all<br />
rights and privileges designated<br />
by the North Carolina Board of<br />
Certified Public Accountant<br />
Examiners. Figgs is a graduate of Northeastern High<br />
School in <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> and East Carolina <strong>University</strong><br />
where she earned bachelor and master of science<br />
degrees in Accounting.<br />
• Brutus Jackson, Director of Career Services, recently<br />
received the North Carolina Association of Colleges and<br />
Employers (NCACE) Outstanding Professional Award<br />
for <strong>2002</strong>. NCACE is a professional development<br />
organization of college and university Career<br />
Development/Service Officers that partners with<br />
corporate Human Resources/Recruitment professionals.<br />
From left to right, Dr. George Jackson, Dean of the Walter R. Davis<br />
School of Business and Economics; Michael Bailey, V.P. Human<br />
Resources, Southern Bank and Trust Co.; Jean Sims, adjunct faculty<br />
and ECSU Human Resources Director; Dr. Ebere Oriaku, faculty<br />
• The Walter R. Davis School of Business and Economics at<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> named Dr. Ebere Oriaku as<br />
the Outstanding Full-Time Faculty Member and Ms. Jean<br />
Sims as the Outstanding Adjunct Faculty for 2001-02.<br />
They received awards sponsored by Southern Bank and<br />
Trust Company of eastern North Carolina.<br />
• Dr. Gloria J. Knight, chair (Department of Music),<br />
published the article “Prospective Music Educators<br />
Attending Professional Conferences,” in the April <strong>2002</strong><br />
edition of Teaching Music. She was also elected to the<br />
office of Member-at Large for the North Carolina Music<br />
Educators Association (NCMEA).<br />
• Jean Sims, Director of Human Resources, and Donna<br />
James-Whidbee, Staff Development Coordinator, were<br />
recently awarded “Certified Trainer” status from the<br />
Development Dimensions International, Inc. (DDI). DDI<br />
is an international organization with over thirty years of<br />
training and program development experience. Sims and<br />
James-Whidbee’s facilitator certifications will allow them<br />
to present over 50 DDI programs which include topics,<br />
such as Preparing Others to Succeed, Helping Others Adapt<br />
to Change, Leading Your Team to Optimal Performance and<br />
Components of Effective Leadership, to name a few. Sims<br />
and James-Whidbee also received Certificates of Merit for<br />
completing a seminar hosted by the American<br />
Management Association (AMA) on techniques for<br />
creating comprehensive training strategies, improving<br />
training programs, measuring training impact (behavior<br />
changes on the job), and recognizing key principles of<br />
adult learning.<br />
• Paula Bowe, benefits coordinator for Human Resources,<br />
accepted a Certificate of Appreciation on behalf of the<br />
university during the <strong>University</strong> of North Carolina<br />
Benefits Network meeting. The NCFlex Program<br />
recognized ECSU for having a 24% participation increase<br />
over the previous year (2001). The percentage of<br />
employees participating in the NCFlex program for <strong>2002</strong><br />
is 76%.<br />
• Vincent Corozine (Department of Music) published the<br />
book Arranging Music for the Real World, Melbay<br />
Publications, 219 pps. (February <strong>2002</strong>)<br />
• Christopher Palestrant (Department of Music) presented<br />
an original music composition, “Aubade,” for the College<br />
Music Society during the Annual National Conference in<br />
Santa Fe, NM.<br />
• Dr. James McClenon (Department of Social Sciences)<br />
published the book Wondrous Healing: Shamanism,<br />
Human Evolution, (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois<br />
<strong>University</strong> Press).<br />
• Dr. Ronald Blackmon, Dr.Gary Harmon, and Moses<br />
McDaniel (Department of Biology) published an article<br />
“Sodium butyrate-induced changes in antioxidant enzymes of<br />
rapid-cycling Brassicas,” in volume 34 of the Gene Families<br />
and Isozymes Bulletin.<br />
• Dr. Thomas J. Rossbach (Department of Geological,<br />
Environmental and Marine Sciences) presented the paper<br />
briefs<br />
“Variation in the Genus Spinatrypa (Brachiopoda<br />
Atrypindina): Teratology, Hypertrophism or Speciation?”<br />
at the joint meeting of the North-Central and<br />
Southeastern Sections of the Geological Society of<br />
American in Lexington, KY.<br />
faculty<br />
ECSU MAGAZINE FALL <strong>2002</strong> 11
Chancellor’s Leadership<br />
Development Institute<br />
produces<br />
new leaders<br />
at ECSU<br />
Chancellor Mickey L. Burnim recently congratulated<br />
the first group of graduates from his ECSU Leadership<br />
Development Institute. The group of employees attended<br />
four-hour sessions throughout the 2001-<strong>2002</strong> academic<br />
year concluding their studies in August <strong>2002</strong>. Participants<br />
included ECSU faculty, staff, and administrators.<br />
The institute, initiated and taught by Chancellor<br />
Burnim, is designed to develop employees who desire to<br />
strengthen their leadership skills and broaden their<br />
knowledge of the university’s vision, goals, objectives and<br />
values. The program covered perspectives on leadership,<br />
critical thinking skills, shared vision, and dealing with<br />
change. Graduates receive certificates and become part of<br />
a talent pool from which leaders are drawn for future<br />
campus positions.<br />
The second leadership institute began September <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
• Dr. Ronald Blackmon,<br />
Interim Dean-School of Mathematics, Science & Technology<br />
• Laura Cross, Institutional Advancement<br />
• Selma Davis, Staff-Business & Economics<br />
• Scott Hale, Business & Finance<br />
• Dr. Jean Holt, Student Life<br />
• Benjamin Hunter, Facilities Management<br />
• Dr. Ali Khan,<br />
Faculty Senate Chairperson, Faculty-Chemistry & Physics<br />
• Ruth Lewis, Staff-Student Affairs<br />
• Deidre Moore, Admissions & Recruitment<br />
• Dr. Emmanuel Ngwainmbi,<br />
Faculty-Language, Literature & Communication<br />
• Dr. Alex Ogwu, Faculty-Business & Economics<br />
• Dr. Francisco San Juan,<br />
Chairperson-Geological, Environmental & Marine Sciences<br />
• Doraine Spence, Business & Finance<br />
• Patricia Stoddard, Financial Aid<br />
• Beatheia Weeks, Residence Life<br />
briefs<br />
• Derrick Wilkins, Academic Computing & End-User Support<br />
• Lewellyn Wills, Facilities Management<br />
Congratulations<br />
to the first<br />
Leadership<br />
Development<br />
Institute<br />
graduates<br />
12 ECSU MAGAZINE FALL <strong>2002</strong><br />
alumni<br />
60’s Decade Reunion<br />
A Decade Reunion Celebration<br />
Homecoming <strong>2002</strong><br />
Born in a discussion among Chancellor Mickey L. Burnim,<br />
Claudie J. Mackey, Class of 1965, and Shirley Murphy Turnage,<br />
Class of 1967, the idea to bring the 60’s alumni together in fun<br />
and celebration began to take on real meaning during<br />
Homecoming 2001. Anxious to fast forward this idea, Shirley<br />
shared their vision with Jeanette Hawkins Evans, Class of 1963,<br />
who suggested that the idea be broadened to include fund<br />
raising.<br />
To that end, Shirley and Jeanette invited class representatives<br />
to a meeting to discuss their interest in being involved in the<br />
planning of the university and General Alumni Association’s<br />
first decade reunion effort. There was widespread support and<br />
the fun began. After days of brainstorming, research, and<br />
analysis, the 60’s Decade Reunion Committee decided on its<br />
reunion activities, which will include a kick-off banquet on<br />
October 31, <strong>2002</strong>, and set its fund-raising goal of $250, 000.<br />
Knowing that individual effort, class pride, and tenacity drive<br />
the 60’s alumni, the committee established a spirit of friendly<br />
competition among the classes to see which class would raise<br />
the greatest amount toward the reunion goal.<br />
As this decade reunion campaign comes to a close, the<br />
organizers are making a Mighty Viking appeal to 60’s alumni to<br />
contribute to this worthwhile endeavor. They want the 60’s<br />
alumni – and all alumni – to know that a gift to ECSU is an<br />
investment in the success of future Viking leaders and the<br />
university.<br />
REUNION <strong>2002</strong><br />
If you are a member of a class ending in 7 or 2, contact<br />
the Office of Alumni Relations at 252.335.3226 or<br />
335.3329 or e-mail us at:<br />
• bmhouston-black@mail.ecsu.edu<br />
(Barbaina Houston-Black)<br />
• mlhill2@mail.ecsu.edu<br />
(Mary Hill)<br />
60’s Decade Reunion<br />
HOMECOMING<br />
October 31 – November 3, <strong>2002</strong><br />
~Participate and Give Generously~<br />
For more information, contact:<br />
Jeanette Hawkins Evans<br />
(252) 335-3618<br />
or<br />
Shirley Murphy Turnage<br />
(301) 809-9039<br />
Visit 60’s Reunion Web Site:<br />
www.ecsu.edu/reunions/60s/index/cfm<br />
news<br />
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MUSIC<br />
NEWS<br />
TALK<br />
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SPORTS<br />
MUSIC<br />
• Gospel<br />
• Contemporary Jazz<br />
• NRP Jazz:<br />
Jazz Set<br />
Jazz from Lincoln Center<br />
Jazz Profiles, Jazz from the Kennedy Center<br />
Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz<br />
• Locally-produced “C.B. Jones Jazz Excursion”<br />
• Late Night Urban Contemporary<br />
• Classic R&B<br />
• Reggae<br />
NEWS<br />
• All Things Considered (NPR)<br />
• <strong>State</strong> and Local News<br />
TALK/PUBLIC AFFAIRS<br />
• The Tavis Smiley Show (NPR)<br />
• PowerPoint<br />
• Issues and Answers<br />
• In Black America<br />
• Like It Is<br />
SPORTS<br />
• ECSU Sports Broadcasts<br />
• The Black College Sports Report<br />
S U P P O R T<br />
SuccessFest <strong>2002</strong><br />
WRVS BI-ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP DRIVE<br />
Oct. 27-Nov. 1, <strong>2002</strong><br />
CONTACT<br />
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Public Radio for Northeastern North Carolina<br />
and Southeastern Virginia<br />
252-335-3515<br />
800-868-4491<br />
Student<br />
news<br />
Honors Program<br />
enriches students’<br />
experiences<br />
“There’s no substitute<br />
for the value of students<br />
seeing different<br />
standards of living ...”<br />
Left to right: Arthur H. Keeney, III, President and CEO of The East<br />
Carolina Bank; Dixie Armstrong, Dr. Charles Cherry, Dean of ECSU<br />
School of Education and Psychology. Back row, left to right: Dr.<br />
Claudie Mackey, professor in ECSU School of Education and<br />
Psychology; and G. Paul Carr, ECSU Institutional Advancement.<br />
For many years, the ECSU Honors Program has<br />
helped students travel abroad and enhance<br />
lessons taught in classrooms. This summer, that<br />
tradition continued with 13 students traveling<br />
internationally.<br />
Honor students qualify by earning a 3.0 or better grade<br />
point average, having record of an impeccable, mature<br />
character, and by submitting an essay. Dr. Carol Jones,<br />
director of the Honors Program and an avid traveler<br />
herself, offers a travel seminar to the selected students to<br />
ease them into international travel.<br />
The Honors Program spends approximately $50,000 to<br />
pay for transportation, lodging, and the cost of courses<br />
they take. Regular destinations include Scotland,<br />
England, Ghana, Italy, Australia and New Zealand,<br />
lasting anywhere from four to six weeks. Students divide<br />
their time between foreign classrooms and designated<br />
sites that enhance the classroom discussions.<br />
“There is no substitute for the value of students seeing<br />
different standards of living,” Jones said. “On foreign<br />
soil, students fully grasp the concepts boldfaced in their<br />
textbooks.”<br />
Jones admits the trips are not just good for students<br />
who take the trips, but those who hear accounts of the<br />
trips the following semester. The wonder of traveling<br />
abroad is infused into the student body. Jones continues,<br />
“These are honors type experiences where the region is<br />
the text. Certainly it broadens [their] horizons and the<br />
need for global understanding and global tolerance.”<br />
ECSU student receives<br />
scholarship from the<br />
East Carolina Bank<br />
Dixie Armstrong, a junior majoring in elementary<br />
education at ECSU, recently received a $300 scholarship from<br />
The East Carolina Bank.<br />
Armstrong is a Tyrrell County resident who earned an<br />
Associate Degree of Arts at the College of the Albemarle before<br />
transferring to ECSU. After raising three children with<br />
husband, Terry, and years of farming, she returned to college.<br />
Armstrong, an honor student in the ECSU School of<br />
Education and Psychology, plans to return to Tyrrell County<br />
and teach elementary school after graduation. ECSU<br />
education<br />
briefs<br />
professors say Armstrong’s eventual graduation<br />
will help them meet their need to train more teachers and<br />
return them to rural schools.<br />
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Community<br />
outreach<br />
INCLUDING 60’S REUNION ACTIVITIES<br />
events<br />
ECSU Community<br />
Development holds<br />
computer classes<br />
Seven students are celebrating their new found<br />
computer literacy after completing a summer<br />
computer class held at Herrington Village<br />
Apartments in <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>.<br />
The ECSU Office of Community Development<br />
collaborates with Herrington Village to offer the<br />
basic skills courses as a public service. The students<br />
earned continuing education credits through ECSU,<br />
as well as certificates.<br />
Morris Autry, director of the Community<br />
Development Program, secured a grant from<br />
Housing and Urban Development that subsidizes<br />
the nominal fee that students pay.<br />
briefs<br />
Front row (left to right): Devonna Quattlebaum, Pasquotank<br />
Elementary; Molly Harris, P.W. Moore Elementary; Katie Bateman,<br />
Weeskville Elementary. Back row (left to right): Breanna Campbell,<br />
J.C. Sawyer Elementary; Vanessa Beasley, Sheep-Harney<br />
Elementary; Jordan Bostillo, Northside Elementary.<br />
Front row, left to right: instructor Sandra Hendricks; students Mollie<br />
Beasely and Loretta White; Back row, left to right: students Dr. T.V.<br />
Beasley and Wilhelma Cooper; Dr. Demetra Tyner, Director of ECSU<br />
Weekend College and Continuing Education; students J. R. Spence<br />
and Emma Spence. (Not pictured: student Valeria Vaughan.)<br />
Where in the world is technology?<br />
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Technology Expo<br />
salutes winners<br />
ECSU salutes the winners of its art contest held during<br />
the spring <strong>2002</strong> Technology Expo. Fifth grade students<br />
from the <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>-Pasquotank County schools<br />
competed for a digital camera and $100 savings bonds.<br />
ECSU’s Virtual College and the Academic Computing<br />
department organized the contest. Approximately 150<br />
students posted their work at the expo. “Where in the<br />
world is technology?” was the theme for the contest. Each<br />
participant was allowed to submit one drawing.<br />
Ms. Alumni and Court 2001<br />
Alumni Dinner<br />
Saturday, Nov. 2, 5 pm or<br />
immediately following the game<br />
The Office of Alumni Relations will sponsor a fish dinner<br />
for all alumni in the Bedell Hall. Don’t miss it!<br />
(Compliments Office of Alumni Relations)<br />
The Concert/After Party<br />
Saturday, Nov. 2, 8:00 pm<br />
It’s showtime at the Fine Arts Center! The Dells will walk<br />
us down memory lane with songs from the 60’s. There<br />
will be fabulous door prizes and the drawing for the 60’s<br />
Decade Reunion Raffle. After the concert, there will be an<br />
after party in the K. E. White Center for a memorable<br />
evening of 60’s “oldies but goodies.” Music will be<br />
provided by DJ Greg Sampson. Scrumptious late-night<br />
hors d’oeuvres will be served.<br />
Attire: Dressy Casual<br />
Prayer Breakfast<br />
Sunday, Nov. 3, 9 am to 10:30 am<br />
Join Chancellor and Mrs. Mickey L. Burnim and several of<br />
the 60’s spiritual leaders. Don’t miss this time of spiritual<br />
rejoicing!<br />
HOTEL RESERVATIONS<br />
Contact directly the hotel or motel of your choice in<br />
making reservations. The rates listed do not include<br />
applicable taxes. Please note: The Hampton Inn will<br />
serve as the 60’s Reunion Headquarters Hotel and rooms<br />
will be reserved on a first come, first serve basis. One<br />
name must be given for each room requested. Multiple<br />
rooms will not be held under a single name.<br />
Hampton Inn<br />
60’s Reunion Headquarters Hotel<br />
402 Halstead Blvd. • <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 27909<br />
(252) 333-1800<br />
Rates: Thursday, October 31<br />
King $75 Two beds $85 Executive $110<br />
Friday, November 1<br />
King$100 Two beds $110 Executive $125<br />
Saturday, November 2<br />
King $100 Two beds $110 Executive $125<br />
Reservation Code: 60’s Reunion<br />
Note: Fifty percent (50%) of the total is due at the time<br />
the reservation is made and the balance 30 days prior to<br />
the arrival date. Cancellation is 72 hours prior to the<br />
arrival date to receive a refund.<br />
Traveler’s Motel<br />
US Hwy. 17 N. • <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 27909<br />
(252) 338-5451<br />
Rates: Single - $65.00 • King - $75.00<br />
Microtel Inn & Suites Comfort Suites<br />
848 Halstead Blvd. 1550 Crossways Boulevard<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 27909 Chesapeake, VA 23320<br />
(252) 331-7751 (800) 221-2222 or<br />
Rates: Single - $65.95 (757) 420-1600<br />
Double - $85.95 Rates:Thurs., Oct. 31-$89.00<br />
Suite - $99.95 Friday, November 1, $69.00<br />
Reservation Code: Viking<br />
Quality Inn<br />
Courtyard Marriott<br />
522 S. Hughes Blvd 1562 Crossways Boulevard<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 27909 Chesapeake, VA 23320<br />
(252) 338-3951 (800) 321-2211 or<br />
Rates: $85.00 (757) 420-1700<br />
Rates: $83.00 (Thurs.-Sat.)<br />
Reservation Code: Viking<br />
**Comfort Suite and Courtyard Marriott are approximately<br />
40 minutes from <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>. The Office of Alumni<br />
Relations will arrange transportation to and from ECSU<br />
should the need arise.<br />
alumni news<br />
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giving matters<br />
INCLUDING 60’S REUNION ACTIVITIES<br />
events<br />
ECSU &<br />
your personal<br />
financial plans<br />
Sports Hall of Fame Banquet<br />
Friday, Nov. 1, 7 pm to 9 pm<br />
Attend this banquet and you will hear<br />
some of the most amazing stories from<br />
the honorees and their mentors. This<br />
year, we will learn more about the<br />
athletic feats of Bruce Carmichael,<br />
Valerie Crocker, Dwight Taylor, and<br />
Atlas Davis, the <strong>2002</strong> ECSU Sports<br />
Hall of Fame inductees.<br />
Attire: Dressy Casual.<br />
Mr./Ms. Alumni<br />
Coronation/Alumni Icebreaker<br />
Friday, Nov. 1, 10 pm to 2 am<br />
This event will showcase the<br />
contestants for Mr./Ms. Alumni and<br />
the new king or queen will be<br />
crowned. Following a brief formal<br />
ceremony, alumni and friends will<br />
spend the rest of the evening enjoying<br />
friendly conversation and dancing to<br />
60’s music provided by The Good life<br />
Band, a red hot band from Norfolk<br />
(VA). There will be prizes for the<br />
most creative 60’s attire.<br />
Sports Hall of Fame 2001<br />
Tailgating<br />
Saturday, Nov. 2, 7:30 am to 5 pm<br />
Several tents will be set up inside<br />
Roebuck Stadium for tailgating<br />
parties. Tents will be provided;<br />
individual classes will be responsible<br />
for providing food and fun.<br />
Attire: Sports Casual<br />
The Parade<br />
Saturday, Nov. 2, 10 am to 11:30 am<br />
The <strong>2002</strong> Homecoming Parade will<br />
display a 60’s theme. Prominent<br />
alumni will serve as Grand Marshals.<br />
All parade participants will be asked<br />
to acknowledge the 60’s as a decade of<br />
progress in the design of their floats<br />
and other parade entries. Come out to<br />
see the unparalleled performance of<br />
the Alumni Band and more!<br />
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Homecoming Parade 2001<br />
The Game<br />
Saturday, Nov. 2, 2 pm<br />
Don’t miss the gridiron contest<br />
between the ECSU Vikings and St.<br />
Augustine’s College. The main<br />
attraction for alumni and fans, this<br />
game will show the Vikings football<br />
team at its best. Also, the ECSU<br />
Marching Band and cheerleaders will<br />
keep the fans pumped up for a Mighty<br />
Vikings win.<br />
The above example is merely one of<br />
a number of ways to make, what is<br />
commonly referred to as, a planned gift<br />
to ECSU. These vehicles can, depending<br />
on your circumstances, help you to<br />
accomplish your financial planning<br />
objectives.<br />
• You may realize a substantial tax<br />
advantage through a partnership<br />
with ECSU.<br />
• You can be immortal at ECSU.<br />
• You can secure the future of a<br />
loved one by working together<br />
with ECSU.<br />
• You can do all of this while helping<br />
to secure the future of ECSU.<br />
A fifty-five year old woman purchased $20,000 worth of securities in 1993.<br />
Despite the downturn in the stock market over the last two years, in September<br />
<strong>2002</strong>, this stock is worth $93,000. In other words, the appreciated value of the<br />
stock is $73,000. Unfortunately, this nine-year-old investment is currently<br />
paying a zero dividend.<br />
The woman has several problems. Her income has recently been reduced,<br />
due in large part to slack sales for the company where she works as a result of<br />
a sluggish economy. She needs the money that was invested in 1993 to<br />
supplement her reduced income. If she sells stocks with an appreciated value<br />
of $73,000, she will be stuck with an enormous payment to the Internal Revenue<br />
Service in capital gains taxes. What can she do?<br />
She can contribute the entire $93,000 in securities to the <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Foundation in the form of a Charitable Remainder Annuity<br />
Trust. That trust will be held apart from all other monies and will generate an<br />
ongoing income stream for her until the day she dies. She can even structure<br />
the trust contract to cover the life of her spouse.<br />
Now, she has solved the problem of her need for more income, she has<br />
avoided capital gains taxes, she can stretch her charitable deduction with the<br />
IRS for the gift over several years (so she will pay less immediate income<br />
tax), and she will help secure the future of <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />
The Office of Major and Planned<br />
Gifts at ECSU is available to assist you<br />
in accomplishing your goals. Here are<br />
a few of the more significant ways that<br />
we can assist you:<br />
• Monetary Gifts: Cash gifts are the<br />
simplest way of offering support to<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>. Your gift<br />
may be designated to the program or<br />
fund of your choice. The university can<br />
process gifts made by check, bank draft<br />
or with a major credit card. Employees<br />
of ECSU may elect to participate in a<br />
payroll deduction program. In addition,<br />
many employers offer a matching gift<br />
program, allowing you to double or even<br />
triple your gift to ECSU. Contact your<br />
human resources office for information<br />
about your company’s program.<br />
• Securities: Gifts of shares in public<br />
companies, such as stocks, bonds and<br />
mutual funds that have appreciated in<br />
value provide excellent tax savings for<br />
donors. Your trust officer or broker<br />
should contact the Director of Major and<br />
Planned Gifts to determine the process<br />
for making this kind of charitable gift.<br />
You may notify the ECSU Foundation<br />
by separate letter regarding the<br />
designation of your planned gift.<br />
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ECSU<br />
your<br />
personal<br />
financial<br />
plans<br />
• Charitable Lead Trusts: This option<br />
involves the income from a personal<br />
asset. That income is paid to ECSU for<br />
a predetermined number of years. At<br />
the end of that period of time<br />
(designated by the donor), the asset is<br />
transferred to your designated<br />
beneficiary(ies). The charitable lead<br />
trust permits the transfer of assets to<br />
heirs with reduced gift and estate tax<br />
consequences. During the time that<br />
your asset is held by the <strong>University</strong>, you<br />
also enjoy a charitable tax deduction.<br />
• Charitable Remainder Trusts: This<br />
type of trust makes payments, either a<br />
fixed amount or a percentage of the<br />
trust principal, to whomever the donor<br />
designates. The donor may claim a<br />
charitable income tax deduction and<br />
may not have to pay any capital gains<br />
tax. <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> university<br />
will receive the remainder of the funds<br />
at the end of the trust term.<br />
• Life Insurance: Donors can make<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> the<br />
owner and beneficiary of a life insurance<br />
policy and receive an income tax<br />
charitable deduction for the surrender<br />
value of the policy. The insurance<br />
company will provide a simple form<br />
with which to make the transfer.<br />
• Real Estate: The appreciated growth<br />
of real estate makes it an attractive option<br />
for a planned gift. In many cases, high<br />
appreciation value leads to higher<br />
capital gains taxes on the sale of real<br />
estate. Gifts of real estate can eliminate<br />
high capital gains taxes, broker’s<br />
commission fees, attorney’s fees and<br />
other sales costs.<br />
• Bequests: You may designate a<br />
portion of your estate to <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> in your will.<br />
• Artwork, Antiques, Books and other<br />
valuables: All collectible items,<br />
original paintings and sculpture may<br />
be donated to the <strong>University</strong>. An<br />
appraisal should accompany your gift.<br />
As with any financial decision, we<br />
recommend that you consult with an<br />
attorney, tax consultant or financial<br />
planner. We welcome the opportunity<br />
to discuss all possibilities and options<br />
with you. Feel free to contact La’Tanya<br />
Afolayan, Director of Major and<br />
Planned Gifts, Office of Institutional<br />
Advancement at 252-335-3966 or via e-<br />
mail at: ldafolayan@mail.ecsu.edu.<br />
Please forward all correspondence<br />
to: Office of Institutional<br />
Advancement, <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong>, Campus Box 978, <strong>Elizabeth</strong><br />
<strong>City</strong>, NC 27909.<br />
Do you have a will? <br />
Viking Varsity Club<br />
THE OFFICIAL SUPPORT ORGANIZATION FOR ECSU ATHLETICS<br />
My gift to Viking Varsity Club<br />
MATCHED BY MY COMPANY?<br />
q Yes (please send form)<br />
q Form included<br />
q No<br />
$ _____________________________________<br />
___________________________________________________________________________________________________<br />
Name<br />
___________________________________________________________________________________________________<br />
Contact Name (If corporate membership)<br />
___________________________________________________________________________________________________<br />
Mailing Address<br />
Email Address<br />
___________________________________________________________________________________________________<br />
<strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> Zip<br />
___________________________________________________________________________________________________<br />
Telephone (home)<br />
Telephone (business)<br />
Important: Please indicate your preferred mailing address. The address you list will be used for all mailing and record<br />
purposes. Please use this mailing address on all correspondence.<br />
Are you an ECSU Graduate? ____________________________ Class? ______________________________________<br />
___________________________________________________________________________________________________<br />
Business<br />
___________________________________________________________________________________________________<br />
Title<br />
Alumni Association Member? ________________________________________________________________________<br />
Varsity-lettered Athlete?________________________ In which sport? ______________________________________<br />
All gifts are deposited into the ECSU Foundation Athletic Fund for the university’s athletic grant-in-aid program<br />
and to provide unrestricted support for the ECSU Athletic Program.<br />
Make checks or money order payable to the <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Foundation and mail it, along with this form, to:<br />
Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina present $50,000 check to ECSU.<br />
giving matters<br />
ECSU Foundation<br />
izabeth Cit<br />
Campus Box 978<br />
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ECSU Foundation<br />
alumni news<br />
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Viking Varsity Club<br />
ECSU<br />
foundation<br />
Your key to assisting today’s students<br />
THE OFFICIAL SUPPORT ORGANIZATION FOR ECSU ATHLETICS<br />
PURPOSE<br />
The Viking Varsity Club, composed of <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> alumni, businesses, and other friends of<br />
intercollegiate athletic, was established to create greater<br />
interest in and financial support for varsity ECSU<br />
athletics. Members of the Viking Varsity Club make<br />
possible scholarship support for student athletes which<br />
include five men’s and seven women’s teams.<br />
The Primary Mission of the Viking Varsity Club is to<br />
strengthen financial support for athletic programs.<br />
The Secondary Mission of the Viking Varsity Club is to<br />
generate School spirit, increase attendance at sporting<br />
events, and build overall enthusiasm for the ECSU<br />
Athletic Department.<br />
CHARTER MEMBERSHIP: To become a charter member<br />
of the Viking Varsity Club, the annual dues of $1,000 must<br />
be paid by July <strong>2002</strong>. All charter members will have their<br />
name inscribed on the wall of the new field house.<br />
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS<br />
VIKINGS PRIDE<br />
($900 or more)<br />
• Membership Card/Decal<br />
• Invitation to all sports Banquets<br />
• Access to Stadium room and Parking<br />
• On list for Priority purchasing of Down East Classic<br />
Tickets<br />
• On list for Priority seating of CIAA Tickets (2)<br />
• Name Listed on Program<br />
• Newsletter<br />
• Discount on Football and Basketball Season (2)<br />
• Free Tickets (2) to Hospitality room at Basketball Games<br />
• Priority purchasing of Winter Homecoming Tickets (2)<br />
• Access VIP Seating<br />
VIKINGS LOYAL<br />
($500 to $899)<br />
• Membership Card/Decal<br />
• Invitation to all Sports Banquets<br />
• Free tickets (2) to Hospitality room at Basketball Games<br />
• On list for purchasing of Down East Classic Tickets (2)<br />
• On list for purchase of CIAA Tickets (2)<br />
• Newsletter<br />
• Access to Stadium Room and Parking<br />
• Name Listed on Program<br />
VIKINGS BLUE<br />
($300 to $499)<br />
• Membership Card/Decal<br />
• Access to all Sports Banquets<br />
• Newsletter<br />
• On list for Priority Purchasing of Down East Classic<br />
Ticket (1)<br />
• Name Listed in Program<br />
VIKINGS WHITE<br />
($100 to $299)<br />
• Membership Card/Decal • Newsletter<br />
• Name Listed in Program<br />
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE<br />
Members of the Viking Varsity Club maintain their active<br />
membership by virtue of annual contributions over the course of a fiscal<br />
year (from July 1, through June 30). Active membership is withdrawn<br />
if membership contributions are not maintained. A name will be taken<br />
off the membership list if one full year passes after the year in which the<br />
member made their last contribution. Only active members can serve as<br />
officers of the club at a national or local level.<br />
The Viking Varsity Club has the following<br />
officers and board members:<br />
•President •Vice President •Treasurer •Secretary<br />
•Local Club Presidents •Ex-Officio Members (2)<br />
National officers are elected by the national membership in good standing<br />
(active members). Local clubs are also encouraged to hold elections among<br />
their active membership. The two ex-officio members that sit as officers<br />
are the chancellor (or his/her designee) and the athletic director (or his/<br />
her designee).<br />
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ECSU Foundation Board Members (left to right): Kennis Wilkins,<br />
Matt Wood, Chairman, and Robert Vaughan present $7,360.00 check,<br />
proceeds from Clifton Davis 2001 Celebrity Golf Clasic, to <strong>Elizabeth</strong><br />
<strong>City</strong> Boys and Giirls Club with the help of ECSU cheerleaders.<br />
ECSU Foundation<br />
Board of Directors<br />
Matt Wood, Chair<br />
Willie Mae Jones Johnson, Vice Chair<br />
Janice Cole, Secretary<br />
Dennis Melville, Treasurer<br />
Ulysses Bell<br />
Mickey L. Burnim<br />
Clifton Davis<br />
Jimmie Dixon, Jr.<br />
Peeples Harrison<br />
Willis Langley<br />
Paul Norman, General Alumni Association President<br />
Abdul Sm Rasheed<br />
Billie J. Reid<br />
Mitchell St. Clair<br />
David Twiddy<br />
Robert Vaughan<br />
Kennis Wilkins<br />
Caught between the proverbial rock and a hard<br />
place, a new student at ECSU begins to despair<br />
— she does not have enough money to attend the<br />
university in the fall. She had worked while in<br />
high school and worked in the summer, but family<br />
obligations stood in the way of her plans to save<br />
money for room and board and tuition at ECSU.<br />
Before completely giving way to her despair, she<br />
turns to the ECSU Financial Aid Office. They tell<br />
her that she was eligible to receive support from a<br />
scholarship fund that resides within the <strong>Elizabeth</strong><br />
<strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Foundation. She should not<br />
worry — she can attend class in the fall.<br />
Scholarship support is one of the many ways that<br />
the ECSU Foundation helps people.<br />
The ECSU Foundation exists to assist <strong>Elizabeth</strong><br />
<strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> in fulfilling its mission to meet<br />
the needs of the students and citizens of the state.<br />
This is accomplished by providing funds to support<br />
increased opportunities for students to enroll at ECSU,<br />
and to support the growth and development of faculty<br />
and university-sponsored programs. The Foundation<br />
is an IRS designated 501(c)(3) organization.<br />
Contributions to the Foundation are tax-deductible as<br />
provided by law.<br />
The Foundation serves as a conduit between<br />
people and organizations that want to partner with<br />
ECSU and its students. There are many ways to assist<br />
ECSU and its students by making charitable<br />
contributions to the ECSU Foundation. The simplest is<br />
by writing a check to the ECSU Foundation. You can<br />
restrict your gift for scholarships or for support of a<br />
specific school or department within the university.<br />
To create a scholarship or other endowed fund at<br />
ECSU requires a minimum contribution of $5,000.<br />
Contributions can continue to be accepted and the<br />
giving<br />
matters<br />
amount of growth for the fund can be limitless. To make<br />
a contribution for any purpose, please contact the ECSU<br />
Foundation, P.O. Box 1467, <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, NC 27906-<br />
1467, or call 252-225-3224. <br />
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ECSU Foundation<br />
announces<br />
Winifred J. Wood<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
“<br />
I am happy to have this<br />
opportunity to provide<br />
needed support for students<br />
who want to come to ECSU<br />
and to provide our university<br />
with an additional tool to<br />
improve the lives of young<br />
people and the communities<br />
in our area.<br />
”<br />
- Winnie Wood<br />
The <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Foundation<br />
recently received a significant donation to<br />
establish the Winifred J. Wood Scholarship Fund<br />
for Northern Albemarle. This scholarship fund<br />
is for students with a minimum 3.0 cumulative high<br />
school grade point average who enroll at ECSU and<br />
carry a minimum course load of 12 credit hours per<br />
semester. It will be used to attract and retain top high<br />
school students from one of the four counties served by<br />
the Northern Albemarle Community Foundation:<br />
Camden, Gates, Pasquotank, and Perquimans.<br />
Winnie Wood, the benefactor for this scholarship<br />
fund, is the first president of the Board of Directors of the<br />
Northern Albemarle Community Foundation. Her<br />
foundation’s mission is to enable and encourage<br />
residents and friends of Camden, Gates, Pasquotank,<br />
and Perquimans counties to make significant and<br />
lasting gifts that benefit their communities. Mrs. Wood is<br />
also a member of the Board of Trustees of the College of<br />
the Albemarle Foundation and the Board of Directors of<br />
the North Carolina Community Development Initiative.<br />
Over the years she has served on boards and committees<br />
throughout northeastern North Carolina.<br />
“I am happy to have this opportunity to provide<br />
needed support for students who want to come to ECSU<br />
and to provide our university with an additional tool to<br />
improve the lives of young people and the communities<br />
in our area,” Wood said.<br />
The ECSU Foundation’s mission is to seek external<br />
funding in support of the <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
mission. Scholarships for deserving students are one of<br />
the primary purposes for fundraising by the<br />
Foundation. For more information, call (252) 335-3250.<br />
<strong>2002</strong> NAFEO<br />
Distinguished<br />
Alumni<br />
Three ECSU Alumni were recognized as<br />
distinguished alumni at the <strong>2002</strong> NAFEO<br />
conference. Congratulations to:<br />
Lillian Bias Abron (‘42): Retired educator,<br />
principal and administrator and<br />
community leader, Raleigh (NC)<br />
Dr. Johnny G. Reid (‘89): Dentist in private<br />
practice, Crozet (VA)<br />
Julius Walker, Jr. (67): Superintendent of<br />
Schools, Washington County (NC) and<br />
community leader<br />
Moses McDaniel (‘96): Received a M.S. in Biology<br />
from North Carolina Central <strong>University</strong> (Durham) in<br />
December 2001. He is a Research Associate in the ECSU<br />
Biotechnology program.<br />
Florence Turner Myrick (‘95): Co-authored a research<br />
paper on a potent inhibitor of drug-resistant HIV-1<br />
isolates in volume 29 of the Journal of Acquired Immune<br />
Deficiency Syndromes. Florence is employed as a<br />
research scientist at Triangle Pharmaceuticals in<br />
Durham (NC).<br />
Sam James (‘87), NASA scientist, was featured in a<br />
segment of NASA’s “Why? Files: on PBS Stations.” The<br />
television program was one of a series of instructional<br />
programs produced by the Langley Research Center<br />
Office of Education. At. Langley, James is responsible<br />
for making scaled airplane models for the U.S.<br />
Department of Defense and the airplane industry. He<br />
specializes in creating unique “wind tunnel” models<br />
and large-scale aircraft.<br />
Dennis Deloatch (’73) is the new interim<br />
superintendent of Hertford County Schools. Deloatch<br />
replaced Dr. Steve Stone, an associate member of the<br />
Roanoke-Chowan Alumni Chapter.<br />
Earl Norfleet (‘73) was named Gates County Schools’<br />
(NC) Principal of the Year for 2001-<strong>2002</strong>. He currently<br />
serves as principal of Central Middle School in<br />
Gatesville.<br />
Eva S. Brown (’77) was named Gates County Schools’<br />
Teacher of the Year for 2001-<strong>2002</strong>. She teaches 5 th grade<br />
science and math at Gatesville Elementary School.<br />
Lola Scales Boone (‘79) published a novel, Murdered<br />
Dreams.<br />
Delores Locke McClain (‘70) was the recipient of the<br />
2001 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics<br />
and Science Teaching (PAEMST), the nation’s highest<br />
award for science and mathematics teachers. She is<br />
currently chair/mathematics teacher at Hines Junior<br />
High School in Washington, D.C. The National Science<br />
Foundation (NSF) awarded McClain a $7,500 grant.<br />
Daphne Dixon (‘87), public school teacher and<br />
certified EMS worker in Cove <strong>City</strong> (NC), worked as a<br />
volunteer for the Word Trade Center rescue effort on<br />
September 11, 2001. She was in Jersey <strong>City</strong> (NJ) visiting<br />
her sister during the time of the attack and quickly<br />
rendered her services. She worked as a triage volunteer<br />
at Liberty <strong>State</strong> Park where most of the victims were<br />
being treated.<br />
Jeanette Kain-Hones (’73) completed the National<br />
Board Certification for teachers in 2001.<br />
Tim Bellamy (’81) was promoted to recruiter for the<br />
Greensboro Police Department.<br />
giving matters<br />
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alumni<br />
news<br />
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Chapter news<br />
updates<br />
news<br />
and<br />
events<br />
from<br />
area<br />
chapters<br />
Roanoke-Chowan: Honored in<br />
January <strong>2002</strong>, by the Hertford County<br />
(NC) Public Schools, at the 4 th Annual<br />
“Continuing the Dream” celebration<br />
commemorating Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.,<br />
the Roanoke-Chowan chapter was<br />
recognized for bring people together and<br />
for providing the leadership needed to<br />
form cooperative, harmonious,<br />
community-strengthening bonds of<br />
friendship and love.<br />
Richmond Metro: Held a Blue &<br />
White Gala on June 1 to raise<br />
scholarship funds for students at ECSU<br />
and Fayetteville <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Raleigh/Durham/Wake: Sponsored a<br />
very successful picnic on June 22.<br />
Special recognition goes to Tony<br />
Lassiter, Paul Norman, and the entire<br />
chapter that has a membership of 65!<br />
This chapter also hosted a Scholarship<br />
Extravaganza and awarded three $1,000<br />
scholarships to the Mickey and LaVera<br />
Burnim Scholarship, the General<br />
Alumni Association, and to entering<br />
freshman Eric Peeple, respectively.<br />
J.T. Doles: Hosted a scholarship<br />
dinner on June 22 honoring Halifax<br />
County (NC) Superintendent Willie<br />
Gilchrist (’73). Guest speaker was Dr.<br />
Jimmy Jenkins (’65), President of<br />
Edward Waters College in Jacksonville<br />
(FL) and former Chancellor of ECSU.<br />
Robert Harvey Tri-<strong>State</strong>: Hosted a<br />
scholarship luncheon June 29. Special<br />
recognition goes to Ella Ivory, Margaret<br />
Sharpe and the entire chapter for a job<br />
well done!<br />
Washington DC Metro: Hosted an<br />
eloquent evening at the LaFountaine<br />
Blue April 20. Approximately 400<br />
alumni and friends attended the event,<br />
which included a silent auction and<br />
door prizes. The Bill Clark Ensemble<br />
provided the entertainment.<br />
Kinston-Lenoir: Hosted a scholarship<br />
luncheon February 2. Chapter president<br />
Mrs. Martha Thompson (’43) recognized<br />
future and potential Vikings.<br />
Rocky Mount-Wilson: Mr. Nathaniel<br />
Grant, Jr. (‘68) hosted the fourth annual<br />
Grant’s Barbecue in Wilson (NC).<br />
Proceeds will go to the ECSU Foundation<br />
Scholarship Fund.<br />
Greater Triad: Presented two $200<br />
scholarships to incoming freshmen<br />
Jamal Willis and Cory Richardson. The<br />
chapter also donated $100 to the Urban<br />
Ministry.<br />
Peninsula: Hosted the 2 nd Annual<br />
Scholarship Dinner and Gala June 8 in<br />
Hampton (VA). The event recognized<br />
seven recruited students who are to<br />
attend ECSU fall <strong>2002</strong> and Miss ECSU<br />
<strong>2002</strong>. Several ECSU chapters supported<br />
the event, including E.A. Johnson,<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Tri-<br />
<strong>State</strong> and Virginia Beach. Chapter<br />
member Karla Crump and the band “As<br />
One” provided entertainment. Special<br />
recognition goes to Margaret M. Jones,<br />
president, and the chapter for a<br />
successful event.<br />
New York: Hosted the Alumni<br />
Summer Workshop, July 2001, in<br />
Secausus (NJ). The workshop included<br />
informative sessions and activities on<br />
recruitment efforts, financial awards<br />
and providing personal support.<br />
Portsmouth: Hosted an Appreciation<br />
Banquet for outgoing president<br />
Napoleon Byrd November 2001. Mr.<br />
Byrd provided leadership to the<br />
Portsmouth chapter for over 20 years.<br />
Additionally, he served as Mid-Atlantic<br />
Regional Director and provided many<br />
years of untiring support to ECSU.<br />
alumni news<br />
30 ECSU MAGAZINE FALL <strong>2002</strong><br />
It was an event like no other in northeastern<br />
North Carolina. National and local celebrities,<br />
alumni, and friends teed off on the course at<br />
The Sound Golf Links at Albemarle Plantation<br />
in Hertford (NC) for the 7th Annual Clifton Davis<br />
Celebrity Golf Classic On September 20-22, the<br />
classic brought people together from all walks of<br />
life for a common cause—to provide enrichment<br />
opportunities for local youth and resources for<br />
higher education.<br />
Rick Durren, Jr., the chairman of the Clifton Davis<br />
Celebrity Golf Classic and general manager of Biggs<br />
GM/Pontiac in <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong>, has been involved<br />
in the event since its inception. “This fundraiser<br />
brings the city and the university together as one,”<br />
said Durren. “I think we’ve done a great job of<br />
bringing people together, as well as benefiting the<br />
Boys and Girls Club and the ECSU Foundation.”<br />
Proceeds from the classic over the years have<br />
generated approximately $200,000 for the ECSU<br />
Foundation Scholarship Fund and the <strong>Elizabeth</strong><br />
<strong>City</strong> Boys and Girls Club. “We hope that<br />
alumni, friends and the entire community<br />
will continue to support these two worthy<br />
and important causes for years to come,”<br />
said Terence Boyd, Executive Director of<br />
the ECSU Foundation and Vice Chancellor<br />
for Institutional Advancement. “Whether<br />
you are a seasoned golfer, beginner or<br />
merely someone who wishes to support<br />
the Boys and Girls Club and the ECSU<br />
Foundation, the classic is a wonderful<br />
way to make a difference in the lives of our<br />
youth.”<br />
Patricia Gibbs, coordinator of the<br />
Celebrity Golf Classic and Director of<br />
Sponsored Programs, Contracts and<br />
Grants, spearheaded the steering<br />
committee again this year. Participation<br />
and sponsorships met the foundation’s<br />
expectations due to their diligent efforts.<br />
For information regarding participation<br />
and sponsorship opportunities for next<br />
year’s event, contact Ms. Gibbs at (252)<br />
335-3120 or the ECSU Foundation office at<br />
(252) 335-3225.<br />
Two-day Golf Tournament<br />
at The Sound Golf Links<br />
at Albemarle Plantation<br />
Art Clinic<br />
at the Boys and Girls Club,<br />
hosted by celebrity artist<br />
Danny Maltzman<br />
<strong>2002</strong> EVENTS INCLUDED<br />
ECSU<br />
Foundation<br />
makes a<br />
hole-in-one<br />
for area<br />
youth<br />
giving<br />
Pre-Tournament<br />
matters<br />
Rap Session<br />
with Celebrities<br />
for students from H.L. Trigg<br />
Community School<br />
Golfing Demonstration<br />
for children from the Boys<br />
and Girls Club at the ECSU<br />
driving range<br />
Celebrity Pairings Party<br />
at Mulligan’s on the waterfront<br />
Gala/Auction<br />
at K.E. White Center<br />
Awards Presentation Closing<br />
Ceremony and Barbecue<br />
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The Office of Sponsored Programs, Contracts and Grants<br />
(SPCG) at ECSU conducts an aggressive and comprehensive<br />
program to support the university’s mission of teaching, research<br />
and community outreach. For the fiscal year ending June 30, <strong>2002</strong>,<br />
faculty and staff submitted 55 proposals requesting more than $21<br />
million and were awarded more than $7 million in funding. Of<br />
the 48 programs funded, 15 were continuations and 22 were new<br />
proposals.<br />
Proposal Writers in Demand<br />
Sponsored Programs,<br />
Contracts Grants<br />
The Office of Sponsored Programs is especially interested in<br />
recruiting new and developing proposal writers. To accomplish<br />
this, Sponsored Programs offers mini-grant writing workshops to<br />
faculty, staff, students and community partners to enhance writing<br />
skills. In addition, a Faculty Mentors Program that provides<br />
assistance to grant writers was implemented in the fall of 2001.<br />
Seasoned proposal writers provided on-on-one guidance to assist<br />
new writers in researching, acquiring guidelines, writing and<br />
submitting proposals to foundations, federal, state ad local<br />
agencies for external funding.<br />
Agency Expo<br />
Dr. Linda Hayden<br />
recognized as<br />
Top Achiever<br />
&<br />
YEAR<br />
IN<br />
REVIEW<br />
In February <strong>2002</strong>, SPCG held an Agency Expo<br />
on campus. ECSU, NASA, and NCI cosponsored<br />
the event.<br />
More than 150 participants were able to<br />
network with federal, state, and private<br />
foundations to gain inside knowledge of funding<br />
opport-unities and take advance of grant writing<br />
workshops. To culminate the event, an awards<br />
banquet was held. This event recognized faculty<br />
and staff for their success in acquiring grant<br />
funds.<br />
Dr. Linda Hayden (School of Mathematics,<br />
Science and Technology) received the prestigious<br />
Chancellor’s Award for overall achievement in<br />
the grant-writing arena.<br />
Chancellor Mickey L. Burnim<br />
and Dr. Linda Hayden<br />
giving matters<br />
alumni news<br />
Vision <strong>2002</strong>: The light of a new day<br />
Better days<br />
are ahead<br />
Dear As President Alumni,<br />
of the General Alumni Association<br />
(GAA), I am honored and elated to have this<br />
opportunity to serve you this year. I pledge to give all<br />
that I have so that I can lead us to a position of which<br />
we will all be proud. I will give a minimum of 100%<br />
and will ask each alum to do the same.<br />
The General Alumni Association has embarked<br />
upon a strategic course that will position and enable us<br />
to provide even greater support for our alma mater.<br />
Today we know there are many challenges that the<br />
association faces, including fundraising, membership<br />
concerns, and student recruitment obstacles. A plan<br />
has already been developed to address the shortcoming<br />
and challenges of the association. The plan speaks to a<br />
need to involve ECSU students and younger alumni,<br />
increase communication to its members, increase the<br />
association’s visibility, provide training to its leaders<br />
and lay members alike, and lastly, provide an<br />
atmosphere that is conducive to young and older alumni<br />
where we can network with each other. These challenges<br />
only serve as opportunities for us to address through<br />
our strategic plan.<br />
As your leader, I am committed to make a difference<br />
in the life of the association; however, I cannot do this<br />
alone. Your support is key and essential. We must<br />
move forward from this point. Failure is not an option.<br />
We must not rest or dwell on the past, but position<br />
ourselves to be the best we can be.<br />
FROM THE PRESIDENT ...<br />
If we are going to work for ECSU, let’s work smarter.<br />
As a team working together, we can continue to assist<br />
with student enrollment growth, increase association<br />
membership, and increase financial contributions to<br />
ECSU. Some of you have already made a difference in<br />
the life of your alma mater and your support is<br />
appreciated; however, there is a need for greater<br />
participation. For too long, a few of us have being<br />
carrying the load for over 10,000 graduates of this<br />
school. Let’s do the math! Is it fair? I realize that most<br />
of you are busy. But, are we too busy to make a difference<br />
when it really counts? The support and sacrifice that<br />
you make today in a young person’s life will result in<br />
positive dividends in years to come. I am thankful and<br />
appreciative of the support that I have received as a<br />
student at ECSU. What about you?<br />
It is a new day in the General Alumni Association. I<br />
challenge members of the GAA to make a difference.<br />
The “New Day” is personified by the ideas and<br />
suggestions that you have in order to move the<br />
association forward. Your input is welcome.<br />
Let’s work together to build a stronger alumni<br />
association. I look forward to working with the board,<br />
chapter presidents, officers, committee chairpersons,<br />
and members. Remember, I am only a phone call or e-<br />
mail away from addressing your concerns. Keep me<br />
posted and informed.<br />
In the Viking Spirit,<br />
Paul Andrew Norman, Ed.D.<br />
President<br />
General Alumni Association<br />
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Jesse M. Majette ‘63<br />
Jimmie L. Manley ‘63<br />
William Matthews ‘66<br />
Carolyn McCloud ‘68<br />
Janie Melton ‘63<br />
Lossie P. Mills ‘64<br />
Barbara Mitchell ‘66<br />
Cecil M. Mitchell ‘66<br />
Annie W. Mobley ‘65<br />
Leonard E. Mobley ‘65<br />
Nathaniel Moore ‘62<br />
Jessie A. Moore ‘67<br />
Gwendolyn Moore ‘69<br />
Izila Mouring ‘69<br />
Harold Murrill ‘69<br />
Frank Neal ‘65<br />
Joyce P. Nowell ‘62<br />
Ethel Bailey Odens ‘67<br />
Irene Bullock Overton ‘63<br />
P. Woodson Pearson ‘63<br />
Alfred Leon Pearson ‘64<br />
Bernice D. Peele ‘69<br />
Ruby L. Perkins ‘65<br />
Dorothy Peterson ‘63<br />
Mary H. Pickett ‘60<br />
Henry B. Pickett, Jr. ‘61<br />
Linda D. Pierce ‘68<br />
Lloyd T. Porter ‘64<br />
Jesse Lee Powell ‘68<br />
Jethro Pugh ‘65<br />
Janet Ransom ‘67<br />
Ralph Ransom ‘68<br />
Maxine Reid ‘68<br />
Johnny G. Reid ‘69<br />
H. C. Reid Jr. ‘65<br />
Henry B. Rhoulac ‘69<br />
John W. Richardson ‘67<br />
Vonda Riley ‘65<br />
Bobby Riley ‘66<br />
Lula Roberts ‘61<br />
Eddie J. Roberts ‘67<br />
Paul Robertson ‘68<br />
Jackie Robertson ‘69<br />
John Robinson ‘66<br />
Albert Rodgers ‘63<br />
David Rogers ‘62<br />
Mary Settle ‘66<br />
William Settle ‘68<br />
Phyllis Sexton ‘67<br />
Joe Shambley ‘62<br />
Evelyn S. Shaw ‘66<br />
Doris Shepherd ‘60<br />
giving matters<br />
Lionel K. Shropshire ‘66<br />
Barbara Shropshire ‘65<br />
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Charles Singleton ‘68<br />
Leonard A. Slade, Jr. ‘63<br />
Phillip Smith ‘61<br />
Frederick E. Smith ‘66<br />
Bettie R. Smith ‘67<br />
Lula B. Speller ‘67<br />
Cassie Swimpson ‘62<br />
James E. Swimpson ‘62<br />
David T. Trotman ‘63<br />
Mildred T. Trotman ‘64<br />
Kenneth E. Turnage ‘63<br />
Shirley M. Turnage ‘67<br />
Sunny Stewart Vick ‘63<br />
Julius Walker, Jr. ‘65<br />
Lindell Wallace ‘63<br />
Ruby Vincent Ward ‘67<br />
Juanita H. White ‘60<br />
Argle Whitfield ‘65<br />
Alise Williams ‘63<br />
Celeste A. Williams ‘64<br />
Leroy Williams ‘65<br />
Jethro C. Williams ‘67<br />
Carolyn Williams ‘69<br />
Charles J. Wynn, Sr. ‘67<br />
70’s Decade Class<br />
Robert L. Backus ‘76<br />
Randy Bell ‘72<br />
Carolyn J. Bizzell ‘73<br />
Lindsay Carmon ‘71<br />
Alfred L. Carter ‘70<br />
Carolyn Cooper ‘71<br />
Sandra S. Copeland ‘71<br />
Robert L. Copeland ‘72<br />
Emily M. Cross ‘71<br />
Gertrude Cox ‘71<br />
Angela Daughety ‘74<br />
Eddie Davis, III ‘71<br />
Wilbert Davis, Jr. ‘75<br />
Anita Edwards ‘73<br />
Willie J. Gilchrist ‘73<br />
Gilbertin Griffin ‘78<br />
Marion H. Harrell ‘71<br />
Carol Heyward ‘71<br />
Gerald K. Hill ‘71<br />
Elton & Balinda Hollowell ‘74<br />
Lubertha James ‘76<br />
Leonard F. Jarvis ‘73<br />
Alma F. Jenkins ‘75<br />
Washington Johnson ‘71<br />
Lavern Jones ‘76<br />
Vivian Key ‘73<br />
Eulice Langford ‘72<br />
Deloris Lawson ‘71<br />
Elois B. Maske ‘71<br />
Ernestine W. Megginson ‘71<br />
Johnnie K. Melton ‘79<br />
Vernon Miller ‘79<br />
Charles Moore ‘71<br />
Glendell C. Moore ‘76<br />
Hubert Moorer ‘71<br />
Bettie J. Parker ‘71<br />
Ethel Parker ‘71<br />
Clifford Eugene Patterson ‘71<br />
Howard L. Price ‘71<br />
Lillian E. Purington ‘70<br />
Earnell Purington ‘70<br />
Charles Rascoe ‘72<br />
Billie J. Reid ‘70<br />
Richard Reid ‘71<br />
William Sawyer ‘71<br />
Ervin C. Simons ‘71<br />
Debra Stokley ‘77<br />
Shirley Weaver Taylor ‘71<br />
Beverly Ann Taylor ‘71<br />
Carl Taylor ‘71<br />
Isolene A. Taylor ‘71<br />
J. Demeatrious Teel ‘71<br />
Carl Turner ‘71<br />
Demetra Tyner ‘71<br />
Gwendolyn Weaver ‘71<br />
Kennis & Brenda Wilkins ‘76<br />
Jewel E. Williams ‘71<br />
James Young, Jr. ‘71<br />
80’s Decade Class<br />
Patrick A. Andrews ‘87<br />
Scotty E. Arnold ‘88<br />
Dwayne A. Aydlett ‘87<br />
Sam Beamon ‘85<br />
Charlenzo V. Belcher ‘83<br />
Barbaina Houston-Black ‘80<br />
Melody Brackett ‘88<br />
Zelene Bunch ‘84<br />
Sandra T. Graham ‘84<br />
Tammye V. Hill ‘86<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> Linney ‘87<br />
Lorri A. Perkins ‘89<br />
Anthony Price ‘81<br />
Mable Riddick ‘89<br />
Shelton V. Spence ‘80<br />
Mary Swain ‘84<br />
Vickie B. Tillett ‘87<br />
Derrick Wilkins ‘88<br />
Terry Williams ‘82<br />
90’s Decade Class<br />
Jeanie Billups ‘95<br />
Paula G. Bowe ‘94<br />
Nekesha D. Ferebee ‘97<br />
Dennis Scott Perry ‘91<br />
Alisha M. R. Sessoms ‘98<br />
Fred Sessoms ‘98<br />
Barbara Shannon ‘94<br />
Doraine Spence ‘91<br />
Cheryl Sutton ‘93<br />
Queenie Turner ‘93<br />
grants $$ grants<br />
$The Underground Railroad<br />
Video Project for the<br />
Public Schools (TURPS)<br />
ECSU, in collaboration with Center for<br />
Educational Technologies (CET) at Wheeling<br />
Jesuit <strong>University</strong> and the National Aeronautics<br />
and Space Administration (NASA), received a<br />
planning grant to study for the preparation of a<br />
proposal involving The Underground Railroad<br />
Video Project for the Public Schools (TURPS).<br />
Dr. William Porter (Department of Geological,<br />
Environmental and Marine Sciences), the<br />
Project Director, conducted a two-day<br />
conference at the Portsmouth Renaissance<br />
Hotel in Portsmouth, VA to consider details of<br />
proposal construction. In attendance at the<br />
conference were officials from NASA, CET and<br />
ECSU as well as teachers and administration<br />
from the Bertie County Schools, who will be<br />
responsible for implementing the project. The<br />
centerpiece of the project is to improve the<br />
curriculum in the nation’s public schools based<br />
on science, pedagogy, and technology inherent<br />
in the video. The video documents the<br />
movements of slaves from the South to the<br />
North along strategic routes in their attempt to<br />
escape confinement.<br />
$<br />
Erasing the Digital Divide<br />
ECSU received a $12,346 grant from the USDA<br />
Challenge Grant Program through Virginia<br />
<strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> (Petersburg). The proposal<br />
“Advancement of Technology: Erasing the<br />
Digital Divide-Mid Atlantic Region” will be<br />
used for faculty development activities.<br />
Virginia Tech (Blacksburg) is the lead<br />
university. Dr. Ali Khan (Department of<br />
Physical Sciences) is the Project Director.<br />
$<br />
$<br />
Doubling minority graduates in<br />
the fields of science,<br />
mathematics, engineering, and<br />
technology (SMET)<br />
ECSU is part of a consortium charged with<br />
doubling the number of minority graduates in<br />
the fields of science, mathematics, engineering,<br />
and technology (SMET). Virginia Union<br />
<strong>University</strong> (Richmond) is the recipient of a $3.3<br />
million grant from the National Science<br />
Foundation to increase the number of African<br />
American, Hispanic, and Native Americans in<br />
technological education and enterprise.<br />
Virginia Union <strong>University</strong>, under the National<br />
Science Foundation’s Louis Stokes Alliances<br />
for Minority Participation (NSFLSAMP), will<br />
lead the consortium of six other institutions<br />
over the next five years. Other partner<br />
institutions include Fisk, James Madison,<br />
Virginia Tech and Johnson C. Smith<br />
Universities and St. Augustine’s College.<br />
Jointly, these institutions had 374 students to<br />
graduate with SMET degrees in 2000. The<br />
consortium seeks to double that number in the<br />
next five years. ECSU will receive $450,000 for<br />
the next five years to aid in accomplishing this<br />
goal. Dr. Ali Khan (Department of Physical<br />
Sciences) is the ECSU Project Director.<br />
Summer<br />
Transportation Institute<br />
ECSU conducted its fourth Summer<br />
Transportation Institute for four weeks in June.<br />
The goal of the institute was to create<br />
awareness and stimulate interest in secondary<br />
school students to take full advantage of the<br />
opportunities that exist in the transportation<br />
industry. The institute, funded by the Federal<br />
Highway Administration (FHWA), exposed<br />
students to new ventures such as highway<br />
design transportation of people and cargo,<br />
laws, regulations, safety requirements and<br />
careers in the transportation industry. The<br />
mathematical and computer-aided design skills<br />
needed for the highly technical positions in the<br />
transportation environment were emphasized<br />
in this Institute. Dr. Ellis E. Lawrence<br />
(Department of Technology) was the Project<br />
Director.<br />
$<br />
Housing Counseling<br />
ECSU was awarded $26,145 for a Housing<br />
Counseling program by the U. S. Department of<br />
Housing and Urban Development to provide<br />
comprehensive housing counseling services to<br />
assist homebuyers, homeowners, and tenants<br />
in meeting housing needs and resolving<br />
housing problems. Housing Counseling<br />
services, including fair housing related<br />
workshops and seminars, will be available to<br />
community residents in Pasquotank,<br />
Perquimans, Chowan, Currituck, Gates and<br />
Camden counties. Morris Autry, ECSU Director<br />
of the Community Development office, is the<br />
giving<br />
Project Director.<br />
matters<br />
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I T ’ S E A S Y Here are some simple rules for ways to give:<br />
Gifts with no stipulation as to purpose or use are<br />
unrestricted. Restricted gifts are those given for a<br />
specific purpose designated by the donor.<br />
A gift may be expendable — immediately usable<br />
for current purposes. Or, it may be retained,<br />
perhaps as an endowment gift to be invested and<br />
held permanently for the income derived.<br />
Besides monetary gifts, the ECSU Foundation also<br />
receives gifts such as:<br />
Marketable Property – Securities, real property,<br />
and saleable personal property;<br />
Gifts-in-Kind – Gifts to be used in the form in<br />
which they are given; art objects, books, equipment,<br />
etc.;<br />
Rights and Insurance – Royalties, copyrights,<br />
trademark rights and insurance policies, naming<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong> Foundation as a<br />
beneficiary (the Foundation holds strong preference<br />
for becoming the owner of life insurance<br />
policies);<br />
Gifts-in-Trust – agreeing to hold and manage<br />
principal resources given by the donor in exchange<br />
for the dividend income for life, after which this<br />
income will be used by the ECSU Foundation<br />
according to the wishes of the donor.<br />
SPECIAL HANDING FOR SELECT GIFTS<br />
Memorial Gifts – The families of students and other<br />
individuals make gifts “in memory of” or “in honor<br />
of” persons by name. When received by the ECSU<br />
Foundation, these funds will be used as unrestricted<br />
income. Non-specified memorial gifts of $5,000 or<br />
more are deemed significant contributions; donor<br />
wishes for use of these funds will be examined with<br />
the Executive Director of the Foundation, Foundation<br />
Chairperson, Chief Fiscal Officer of the university (or<br />
his/her designee) prior to deposit.<br />
Planned Gifts – Gifts can be made for current tax<br />
benefits with future benefit going to the ECSU Foundation.<br />
(See article in this publication on ECSU and<br />
Your Personal Financial Plans.)<br />
An individual who makes a contribution to ECSU or the ECSU<br />
Foundation may have their gifts credited to any number of different<br />
constituency groups. According to the Council for Aid to Education<br />
(CAE) and the Council for the Advancement and Support of<br />
Education (CASE), the following constituency categories are<br />
Where<br />
appropriate for use on all public contribution’s reports:<br />
• Under Individuals – Alumni, parents, others<br />
• Under Organizations – Foundations, corporations, religious,<br />
fundraising consortia, others.<br />
gifts<br />
To avoid double counting contributions, individuals or<br />
organizations that qualify under more than one constituency group<br />
must be listed only once. Primary listing of a donor is according to<br />
the order that each constituency group is listed (In other words,<br />
are<br />
Alumni is the primary group for individuals and Foundations is the<br />
primary group for organizations.)<br />
For distinctive purposes within the ECSU Institutional<br />
Advancement office or the ECSU Foundation, other constituency<br />
giving matters<br />
groups may be regarded as having primacy (in response to requests<br />
counted<br />
from specific constituent groups). For example, an individual may<br />
have a private foundation; they may also be an alumnus or alumna<br />
who sits on the ECSU Foundation Board. For a special report to the<br />
ECSU Foundation, they may be listed as an ECSU Foundation Board<br />
22 ECSU MAGAZINE FALL <strong>2002</strong><br />
giving<br />
member instead of an alumnus/alumna or a member of another<br />
constituent group.<br />
The Fitness Warehouse of EC, LLC.<br />
Town of Winton<br />
Carl Turner ‘71<br />
Demetra Tyner ‘71<br />
Gerald E. Tyree<br />
John O. Vann<br />
Visions(Glynis Powell)<br />
Brenda C. Walker<br />
Nancy Palmer Wardropper<br />
Gwendolyn Weaver ‘71<br />
Helen M. Wheeler<br />
Trevelyn E. Williams<br />
Herfue O. Williams<br />
Jethro C. Williams ‘67<br />
Carolyn Williams ‘69<br />
Jewel E. Williams ‘71<br />
Leronia Witherspoon<br />
Kathleen W. Wright<br />
Matthew B. York<br />
James Young, Jr. ‘71<br />
Alumni who have contributed to<br />
ECSU or the ECSU Foundation<br />
from 7/1/2001 – 6/30/<strong>2002</strong><br />
by Decade Class<br />
20’s Decade Class<br />
Mary Inez White Sayles Estate ‘26<br />
30’s Decade Class<br />
Alfred B. Spellman, Sr. ‘35<br />
Chester S. Askew ‘39<br />
40’s Decade Class<br />
Clara Jones ‘40<br />
Williams Honeyblue ‘41<br />
Evelyn R. Coleman ‘46<br />
Elessie R. Desboine ‘42<br />
Mary A. Douglas ‘42<br />
Mary Felton ‘46<br />
Dorothy A. Joyner ‘47<br />
Naomi C. Lomax ‘45<br />
Ruth Harvey Moore ‘49<br />
Edna G. Randolph ‘45<br />
Dollie M. Speight ‘49<br />
William E. Stanton, Sr. ‘44<br />
Susan Vann ‘49<br />
matters<br />
50’s Decade Class<br />
Byrtle H. Mitchell ‘50<br />
Wilhelmina S. Amado ‘57<br />
Dennis H. Askew, Jr. ‘59<br />
Melvin Boyd ‘58<br />
Marie Cooper ‘58<br />
Marie Dunne ‘58<br />
Viola B. Elam ‘52<br />
Bettie T. Francis ‘54<br />
Nancy G. Joyner ‘53<br />
Shirley M. McGalliaria ‘57<br />
Ruth P. Overton ‘54<br />
Elaine Perry ‘54<br />
George W. Pierce ‘54<br />
Raymond Reddrick ‘55<br />
Mary E. Sharpe ‘57<br />
Estella Simons ‘55<br />
Dorothy L. Smith ‘55<br />
Emma Spence ‘53<br />
Randolph F. Tootle ‘58<br />
Bennie L. Williams, Sr. ‘52<br />
60’s Decade Class<br />
Ziner Alexander ‘66<br />
Vivian Armstrong ‘67<br />
Minnie Trovene Artis ‘63<br />
Lillie Atkinson ‘65<br />
Randolph J. Barnes ‘62<br />
Mildred W. Battle ‘67<br />
Bell Group, Inc.(Ulysses Bell ‘65)<br />
LeRoy Brickhouse ‘67<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Frank Britt ‘62<br />
Trumilla J. Britt ‘63<br />
Curtis E. Bryan ‘60<br />
Bertha Bryant ‘67<br />
Joseph Buggs ‘61<br />
Ruben Buggs ‘65<br />
Gwendolyn Buggs ‘65<br />
Carolyn Buggs ‘67<br />
Mamie M. Burse ‘63<br />
Cheryl Riddick Canton ‘69<br />
Mary L. Cates ‘61<br />
Martha P. Chamblee ‘61<br />
Charles D. Cherry ‘63<br />
Irving Coggins, Jr ‘69<br />
Ralph Cole ‘62<br />
Joyce Cole ‘65<br />
Julia Congleton-Bryant ‘63<br />
Clara L. Cox ‘63<br />
Gertrude A. Cox ‘71<br />
Margaret Davie ‘62<br />
Charles C. Davis ‘65<br />
Catherine G. Dildy ‘63<br />
Patricia Eckles ‘69<br />
Pretlo S. Edmonds ‘62<br />
Ethel G. Meekins ‘65<br />
Jasper D. Evans ‘63<br />
Jeanette H. Evans ‘63<br />
Howard Evans ‘63<br />
Charles B. Evans ‘65<br />
Thomas Evans ‘68<br />
Jasper Evans (35 th Reunion)<br />
Joyce Felton ‘68<br />
Henry Felton ‘69<br />
Carl Fennell ‘67<br />
Geneva Fennell ‘67<br />
Annie W. Fields ‘63<br />
Phillip T. Flood ‘65<br />
Norris Francis ‘64<br />
Will Francis ‘65<br />
Ervin Francis ‘67<br />
Carol Francis ‘69<br />
Joseph E. Freeman ‘64<br />
Doris Froneberger‘63<br />
Doris J. Fuller ‘67<br />
Milton Gainey ‘62<br />
Wilma S. Gainey’63<br />
Sudie Gatling ‘60<br />
James A. Gatling ‘60<br />
Oliver George ‘62<br />
Ralph Glover ‘61<br />
Mary R. Glover ‘67<br />
Richard M. Gore ‘64<br />
Nathaniel Grant, Jr. ‘68<br />
Earnest A. Green ‘68<br />
Alvin C. Griffin ‘65<br />
Theodosia B. Griffin ‘66<br />
James E. Griffin ‘66<br />
Willie M. Hagans ‘67<br />
Ina L. Hager ‘63<br />
R. F. Hager ‘63<br />
Mamie S. Hall ‘64<br />
E. Alphonzo Harrell ‘60<br />
Loisteen E. Harrell ‘63<br />
Janice Harrison-Peace ‘65<br />
John T. Hazel ‘66<br />
Susie S. Hodges ‘65<br />
Benny Hodges ‘67<br />
Barbara B. Hoggard ‘62<br />
Ernest M. Holley ‘64<br />
Phillippa Holley ‘65<br />
Marcell E. Hooks ‘68<br />
Mildred Hopkins ‘63<br />
Samuel Hubbard ‘63<br />
Ella H. Ivory ‘65<br />
Barbara W. Jackson ‘60<br />
James H. Jackson ‘65<br />
Peggy L. Jeffries ‘67<br />
Gloria Faye Johnson ‘65<br />
Willie Mae Jones Johnson ‘66<br />
Margaret Jones ‘63<br />
Horace R. Jones ‘64<br />
Marjorie H. Jones ‘68<br />
John W. Jordan ‘63<br />
Willie Lamb‘67<br />
Leevon Lansden ‘67<br />
Barbara Lee ‘64<br />
Maryella W. Leigh ‘67<br />
Matthew & Lucy Lewis ‘64<br />
Herbert A. Littlejohn ‘64<br />
Joyce E. Long ‘65<br />
Al C. Lucas ‘63<br />
Claudie J. Mackey ‘65<br />
Lenora Jarvis Mackey ‘66<br />
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Swimme & Son Building Contractors<br />
Joe Taylor<br />
Vickey B. Tillett ‘87<br />
Henry H. Tolbert<br />
Tom Currier Corporation DBA-Mail<br />
Boxes<br />
Queenie Turner ‘93<br />
Claudia C. Twiford<br />
Susan Vann ‘49<br />
Vann’s Place II<br />
W. W. Owens and Sons Moving and<br />
Storage, Inc<br />
Walson Funeral Home<br />
Roy Robert Wade<br />
Nancy Palmer Wardroper<br />
Aleric Wheeler<br />
Velma Williams<br />
Celeste A. Williams ‘64<br />
Leroy Williams ‘65<br />
Terry Williams ‘82<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Bennie L. William, Sr. ‘52<br />
Edethia L. Wright<br />
Members Under $100<br />
Ronald Anderson<br />
Patrick A. Andrews ‘87<br />
Minnie Trovene Artis ‘63<br />
Ester Askew<br />
Dwayne A. Aydlett ‘87<br />
Bailey, King & Associates<br />
W. Edwyn Baird<br />
Alice Ballance<br />
Barbecue Barn<br />
Mildred W. Battle ‘67<br />
Jeanie Billups ‘95<br />
Marian Bivens<br />
Carolyn J. Bizzell ‘73<br />
Ruth Harvey Bowen<br />
Melody Brackett ‘88<br />
Ervin H. Brother<br />
Lorraine W. Brown<br />
Ralph Burns<br />
Lindsay Carmon ‘71<br />
Central Insurance Agency<br />
Eric Chamblee<br />
Alice Clark<br />
William C. Clark<br />
Evelyn R. Coleman ‘46<br />
Committee to Elect Frank W. Ballance, Jr.<br />
Carolyn Cooper ‘71<br />
Sandra S. Copeland ’71<br />
Robert L. Copeland ‘72<br />
giving matters<br />
Vicent S. Corozine<br />
James Earl Cox<br />
26 ECSU MAGAZINE FALL <strong>2002</strong><br />
Emily M. Cross ‘71<br />
Vernice S. Dabney<br />
Angela Daughety ‘74<br />
Wilbert Davis, Jr. ‘75<br />
ECSU Department of Social Sciences<br />
Linda Dickson<br />
Richard Durren, Jr.<br />
Frankie A. Eaves<br />
Viola B. Elam ‘52<br />
Portia English<br />
Joseph Evans<br />
Woodrow Felton<br />
Joyce Felton ‘68<br />
Henry Felton ‘69<br />
Geneva Fennell ‘67<br />
Nekesha D. Ferebee ‘97<br />
Tenekquala L. Ferguson<br />
Michael E. Gale<br />
Gardner-Harrell Development<br />
Gilliam Funeral Home<br />
Mary R. Glover ‘67<br />
Sandra T. Graham ‘84<br />
H. V. Brown Schoolmasters<br />
Agnes M. Hall<br />
Jo Ann Hall<br />
Hardy Moving & Storage<br />
William H. Harrell<br />
Eleanor L. Harris<br />
Linda Hayden<br />
Herman Hallet Daniels Properties<br />
Dorothy Hill<br />
Tammye V. Hill ‘86<br />
Wade Hobgood<br />
Barbara B. Hoggard ‘62<br />
Deborah J. Howard<br />
Hughes Oil Company<br />
Alice Hughley<br />
Horace B. Hussey<br />
Sylvia M. Jacobs<br />
Sharon Jane Felton-James<br />
Matthew Jarmond, Jr.<br />
John R. Jordan, Jr.<br />
Roger Jones<br />
Josephine J. Jones<br />
Lealer P. Johnson<br />
Elsie W. Jordan<br />
Harvey M. Kearney<br />
Malinda Keys<br />
Keystone Barber & Beauty<br />
Wendy King<br />
K-Mart<br />
Frank H. Kosak<br />
Deloris Lawson ‘71<br />
Curtis B. Leak<br />
Juantia LeBarron<br />
Dangun Lee<br />
Katie L. Lee<br />
Marvin Littlejohn<br />
Susie N. Littlejohn<br />
Leonzo D. Lynch<br />
M. E. Enterprises, Inc.<br />
Suzanne H. MacMorris<br />
Magic Spray Car Wash Inc.<br />
Mail Boxes, Etc.<br />
Elois B. Maske ‘71<br />
Janie M. Melton ‘63<br />
Johnnie K. Melton ‘79<br />
Annie C. Miller<br />
Lossie P. Mills ‘64<br />
Vivian P. Mitchell<br />
Byrtle H. Mitchell ‘50<br />
Cecil M. Mitchell ‘66<br />
James Travis Monney<br />
Ruth Harvey Moore<br />
Vivien M. Morris<br />
Morris Funeral Home<br />
Harold Murrill ‘69<br />
National Cash Advance<br />
Douglas J. Newsome<br />
Olive Branch Baptist Church<br />
Irene Bullock-Overton ‘63<br />
Bettie J. Parker ‘71<br />
Icelean D. Payton<br />
John E. Pellam<br />
Lorri A. Perkins ‘89<br />
Dennis Scott Perry ‘91<br />
Anthony Price ‘81<br />
Barbara L. Purnell<br />
Edna G. Randolph ‘45<br />
Johnnie G. Reid, Jr.<br />
Richard Reid ‘71<br />
Mary E. Riddick<br />
Lula Roberts ‘61<br />
Paul R. Robertson<br />
Cynthia Sawyer<br />
William Sawyer ‘71<br />
William A. Shepard, M.D.<br />
Estella Simons ‘55<br />
Ervin C. Simons ‘71<br />
Ravi Sinha<br />
Sky Enterprise, Inc.<br />
Pattie Smith<br />
Cynthia M. Smith<br />
Edna A. Smith<br />
Frederick E. Smith ‘66<br />
Dollie M. Speight<br />
Lula B. Speller<br />
Doraine Spence ‘91<br />
Mar Speller<br />
Debra Stokley ‘77<br />
William Steve Stone<br />
Otis Strozier<br />
Mary Swain ‘80<br />
T. J.’s Hobbies, Inc<br />
Martha R. Taylor<br />
Shirley Weaver Taylor ‘71<br />
Beverly Ann Taylor ‘71<br />
Carl Taylor ‘71<br />
Isolene A. Taylor ‘71<br />
J. Demeatrious Teel ‘71<br />
This listing includes the names of<br />
donors who made their contributions<br />
to ECSU or the ECSU Foundation<br />
between 7/1/2001 and 6/30/<strong>2002</strong>.<br />
ECSU and the ECSU Foundation<br />
gratefully acknowledge all gifts in<br />
support of the ECSU mission.<br />
Hugh Cale Founder’s Society –<br />
$100,000 or More<br />
James H. & Connie M. Maynard<br />
Dr. Peter W. Moore Society -<br />
$50,000 – $99,999<br />
North Carolina Association of<br />
Insurance Agents, Inc.<br />
Dr. John H. Bias Society –<br />
25,000 – 49,999<br />
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation<br />
Lorimer & Margaret Midgett Trust<br />
Dr. Harold L. Trigg Society -<br />
$10,000 - $24,999<br />
AETNA Financial Services<br />
Daily Advance<br />
FDY Sodexho<br />
Charles & Carolyn Mahoney<br />
Quality Inn<br />
G. Matt & Holly Cook Wood<br />
Winifred J. Wood<br />
Dr. Sidney D. Williams Society -<br />
$5,000 - $9,999<br />
Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc.<br />
Arzo Burnim<br />
Billie J. Reid <strong>State</strong> Farm Insurance Co.<br />
Mary A. Douglas ‘42<br />
ECSU General Alumni Association, Inc.<br />
Earhart Foundation<br />
IBM International Foundation<br />
Willie Mae Jones Johnson<br />
The Kroger Company Foundation<br />
Moroch & Associates, Inc.<br />
RBC Centura Banks Inc.<br />
giving matters<br />
Mary Inez White Sayles Estate ‘26<br />
Frank White<br />
Frank H. Skidmore, Jr.<br />
The East Carolina Bank<br />
Dr. Walter Nathaniel Ridley Society -<br />
$2,500 - $4,999<br />
Ajac Foods (KFC of EC)<br />
Biggs Pontiac-Buick-Cadillac-<br />
Oldsmobile-GMC Trucks<br />
Bruce and Anna Biggs<br />
Earl M. Brown’67<br />
LaVera L. Burnim<br />
Mickey L. Burnim<br />
Don V. Ruck Product<br />
Dover Foundation, Inc.<br />
Jeanette H. Evans ‘63<br />
Emmanuel D. Harris<br />
Charlie H. Jordan<br />
Linda-Spitzer Naylor<br />
NC Legislative Black Caucus<br />
Foundation<br />
Prudential Foundation<br />
<strong>State</strong> Farm Companies Foundation<br />
St. Stephens Missionary Baptist Church<br />
Shirley M. Turnage ‘67<br />
Wachovia Bank N.A.<br />
Chancellor’s Society - $1,000 - $2,499<br />
Albemarle Hospital<br />
Albemarle Mini Warehouse<br />
Ziner Alexander ‘66<br />
Alltel<br />
Barbaina Houston-Black ‘80<br />
David & Phyllis Bosomworth<br />
Earl T. Brown<br />
Mellonee Burnim<br />
Helen M. Caldwell<br />
Charles D. Cherry ‘63<br />
Walter C. Davenport<br />
ECSU Championship Team<br />
ECSU Sports Hall of Fame<br />
Thomas Evans ‘68<br />
First Carolina (Hampton Inn)<br />
Frank W. Ballance, Jr. Association, P.A.<br />
H. Richard Gardner<br />
Willie J. Gilchrist ‘73<br />
Ina L. Hager ‘63<br />
Loisteen E. Harrell ‘63<br />
Harris & Associates, L. L. C<br />
M. Peebles Harrison<br />
Billy Hines<br />
William Honeyblue ‘41<br />
ICBC Broadcast Holdings-NY, Inc.<br />
Gloria Faye Johnson ‘65<br />
Clara Jones ‘40<br />
Kramer’s Garage<br />
H. Kel Landis<br />
Willis & Clara Langley ‘70<br />
Gregory H. Magee<br />
Jenny McIntosh<br />
Marsha McLean<br />
Roger McLean<br />
Mid-Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling<br />
Company, Inc.<br />
NC Community Development,<br />
Initiative, Inc.<br />
PSNC Energy<br />
Betty Barr-Randolph<br />
Floyd L. Robinson<br />
Sonja W. Hibbard, CPA<br />
John N. Smith<br />
The Tom Joyner Foundation, Inc.<br />
The Trey Whitfield Foundation, Inc.<br />
Southern Bank Foundation<br />
Southside Boys & Girls Club Inc.<br />
Alfred B. Spellman, Sr. ‘35<br />
Dr. Claudie Mackie ‘65<br />
Sprint<br />
Mitchell St.Clair<br />
William E. Stanton, Sr. ‘44<br />
Ish Sud<br />
Louise Sutton<br />
Robert Vaughan<br />
Whitehurst Sand Company<br />
Tilton Whitehurst<br />
Kennis & Brenda Wilkins ‘74<br />
Derrick Wilkins ‘88<br />
Deans’ Golden Circle - $500 - $999<br />
Albemarle Propane, Inc.<br />
Back Swamp Church of Christ<br />
Steven B. Beals<br />
Randy Bell ‘72<br />
Bertie County Alumni Chapter-ECSU<br />
Blackwater Training Center, Inc.<br />
Trumilla T. Britt’60<br />
Zelene Bunch ‘84<br />
C.S.T. Products<br />
Mary L. Cates ‘61<br />
Martha P. Chamblee ‘61<br />
Janice Cole<br />
Ralph Cole ‘62<br />
Compustar Computers, LTD<br />
Marvis M. Conley<br />
John Cooper ‘58<br />
Crossroads<br />
Wauna L. Dooms<br />
Eastern Carolina Cardiovascular, PA<br />
ECSU Local Alumni Chapter<br />
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Enigma Entertainment<br />
Jasper Evans 35 th Reunion’63<br />
Carl Fennell ‘67<br />
Charles Foster<br />
Bettie T. Francis ‘54<br />
Doris Froneberger ‘63<br />
Wilma S. Gainey ‘63<br />
Gateway Bank & Trust Co.<br />
James A. & Sudie G. Gatling ‘60<br />
Ralph Glover ‘61<br />
Nathaniel Grant, Jr. ‘68<br />
Theodosia B. Griffin ‘66<br />
James E. Griffin ‘66<br />
John T. Hazel ‘66<br />
Gerald K. Hill ‘71<br />
Tim Hobbs<br />
Samuel Hubbard ‘63<br />
George Jackson<br />
Margaret M. Jones ‘63<br />
Horace R. Jones ‘64<br />
Marjorie H. Jones ‘68<br />
Barbara Lee ‘64<br />
Matthew & Lucy Lewis ‘64<br />
Local Alumni Chapter-ECSU<br />
Naomi C. Lomax ‘45<br />
Jesse M. Majette ‘63<br />
Barbara A Masonis<br />
Ethel G. Meekins’65<br />
Betty S. Meggs<br />
Mail Boxes Etc.1516<br />
Dennis Melville<br />
Minuteman Press<br />
Mitchell Insurance Agency<br />
Nathaniel Moore ‘62<br />
“N” Time Music<br />
N. Cheng. CPA, PC<br />
Northeastern Schoolmasters<br />
Raymond F. Paris, Jr.<br />
Pell Paper Box Company, Inc.<br />
Charles W. Penny<br />
Pepsi Bottling Ventures, LLC<br />
Henry B. Pickett, Jr. ‘61<br />
Mary H. Pickett ‘60<br />
Ramco Management Corporation<br />
Henry B. Rhoulac ‘69<br />
Bobby Riley ‘66<br />
Paul & Jackie Robertson ‘68<br />
Senior Matrons Social Literary & Art Club<br />
Evelyn S. Shaw ‘66<br />
Leonard A. Slade, Jr.‘63<br />
Emma Spence ‘53<br />
Salvage D. Stith<br />
giving matters<br />
Sharon M. Tanner<br />
Randolph F. Tootle ‘58<br />
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giving<br />
Mildred T. Trotman ‘64<br />
Trysher Inc. DBA-Mail Boxes ETC<br />
Albert L.Walker<br />
Wesley Peachtree GRP CPAS<br />
Calvin R. Worsley<br />
Professor’s Silver Circle - $250 - $499<br />
Vivian Armstrong ‘67<br />
Randolph J. Barnes ‘62<br />
Beaufort County Alumni Chapter-ECSU<br />
Bell Group, Inc. (Ulysses Bell)<br />
Terence M. Boyd<br />
LeRoy Brickhouse ‘67<br />
Trumilla J. Britt ‘63<br />
Curtis E. Bryan ‘60<br />
Bertha Bryant ‘67<br />
Julia Congleton-Bryant ‘63<br />
Joseph Buggs ‘61<br />
Ruben Buggs ‘65<br />
Gwendolyn Buggs ‘65<br />
Carolyn Buggs ‘67<br />
Mamie M. Burse ‘63<br />
James E. Caldwell<br />
Cheryl Riddick Canton ‘69<br />
Margery Couslon Clark<br />
Joyce Cole ‘65<br />
Edwin Corder<br />
Clara L. Cox ‘63<br />
Margaret Davie ‘62<br />
Charles C. Davis ‘65<br />
Catherine G. Dildy ‘63<br />
Vernell F. Eason<br />
Patricia Eckles ‘69<br />
<strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong> Boys & Girls Club<br />
Pretlo S. Edmonds ‘62<br />
Carolyn F. Edward<br />
Howard Evans<br />
Jasper D. Evans ‘63<br />
Charles B. Evans ‘65<br />
F. S. Taylor & Associates<br />
Beatrice Ferebee<br />
Floyd C. Ferebee<br />
Joyce E. Ferebee<br />
Tommy & Ethel F. Ferebee<br />
Lewis Ferebee<br />
Josephine Ferebee<br />
Willis Ferebee, Jr.<br />
Annie W. Fields ‘63<br />
First Citizens Bank<br />
Thomas Fils<br />
Norris Francis ‘64<br />
Will Francis ‘65<br />
Ervin Francis ‘67<br />
Carol Francis ‘69<br />
Joseph E. Freeman ‘64<br />
Doris J. Fuller ‘67<br />
Milton Gainey ‘62<br />
Oliver George ‘62<br />
Earnest A. Green ‘68<br />
Alvin C. Griffin ‘65<br />
Bob Gulledge<br />
H&R Block<br />
Willie M. Hagans ‘67<br />
Roscoe F. Hager, Sr. ‘63<br />
E. Alphonzo Harrell ‘60<br />
Janice Harrison-Peace ‘65<br />
Anne Hedgebeth<br />
Carol Heyward ‘71<br />
Susie S. Hodges ‘65<br />
Benny Hodges ‘67<br />
Ernest M. Holley ‘64<br />
Phillippa Holley ‘65<br />
Marcell E. Hooks ‘68<br />
Mildred Hopkins ‘68<br />
Hutchins Allen & Company, P.A.<br />
Ella M. Ivory ‘63<br />
Barbara W. Jackson ‘60<br />
James H. Jackson ‘65<br />
Lubertha James ‘76<br />
Peggy L. Jeffries ‘67<br />
Jo Von Fashions<br />
Lavern Jones ‘76<br />
John W. Jordan ‘63<br />
Willie Lamb ‘67<br />
Leevon Lansden ‘67<br />
Maryella W. Leigh ‘67<br />
Levels Family<br />
Herbert A. Littlejohn ‘64<br />
Al C. Lucas ‘63<br />
Lenora Jarvis Mackey ‘66<br />
Jimmie L. Manley ‘63<br />
Edward J. Masonis<br />
Carolyn McCloud ‘68<br />
Edward McLean<br />
Millennia Community Bank<br />
Leonard E. Mobley ‘65<br />
Annie W. Mobley ‘63<br />
Izila Mouring ‘69<br />
Ernest Murphrey<br />
Frank Neal ‘65<br />
Joyce P. Nowell ‘62<br />
Ruth P. Overton ‘54<br />
Ethel Parker ‘71<br />
P. Woodson Pearson ‘63<br />
Alfred L. Pearson ‘64<br />
Anonymous<br />
Ruby L. Perkins ‘65<br />
Jesse Lee Powell ‘68<br />
Jethro Pugh ‘65<br />
Janet Ransom ‘67<br />
Ralph Ransom ‘68<br />
Charles Rascoe ‘72<br />
H. C. Reid, Jr. ‘65<br />
William Rich<br />
John W. Richardson ‘67<br />
Richmond Metro Alumni Chapter<br />
Eddie J. Roberts ‘67<br />
Jackie Robertson ‘69<br />
John Robinson ‘66<br />
Albert Rodgers ‘63<br />
David Rogers ‘62<br />
Alice Mills Sadler<br />
Mary Settle ‘66<br />
William Settle ‘68<br />
Phyllis Sexton ‘67<br />
Joe Shambley ‘62<br />
Doris Shepherd ‘60<br />
Barbara Shrophire’65<br />
Lionel K. Shropshire ‘66<br />
Charles Singleton ‘68<br />
Phillip Smith ‘61<br />
Shelton V. Spence ‘80<br />
Cassie Swimpson ‘62<br />
James E. Swimpson ‘62<br />
The Crosby Fund<br />
The Ruffin Group<br />
Marvin Trotman ‘62<br />
David T. Trotman ‘63<br />
Kenneth E. Turnage ‘63<br />
Sunny Sewart Vick ‘63<br />
Bettie R. Smith ‘67<br />
Julius Walker, Jr. ‘65<br />
Lindell Wallace ‘63<br />
Ruby Vincent Ward ‘67<br />
Paul T. Washlesky<br />
Juanita H. White ‘60<br />
Alise Williams ‘63<br />
Charles J. Wynn, Sr. ‘67<br />
Frederick Yates<br />
Century Club - $100 - $249<br />
Cynthia H. Alderman<br />
Alliance Nissan<br />
Wilhelmina A. Amado ‘57<br />
Susie Armstrong<br />
Scotty E. Arnold ‘88<br />
Chester S. Askew ‘39<br />
Dennis H. Askew, Jr. ‘59<br />
Lillie Atkinson ‘65<br />
Morris Autry<br />
BB & B Construction Co., Inc.<br />
Robert L. Backus ‘76<br />
Janice Baker<br />
Leonard Ballou<br />
Christopher E. Banks<br />
David H. Bead, Jr.<br />
Sam Beamon ‘85<br />
Charlenzo V. Belcher ‘83<br />
Velma Blackmon<br />
Ronald Blackmon<br />
Nettie L Blakeley<br />
James Blount<br />
matters<br />
Paula G. Bowe “94<br />
Jean B. Bowen<br />
Melvin Boyd ‘58<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Frank Britt ‘62<br />
Anthony Brown<br />
Peggy B. Brown<br />
Ken Burgess<br />
Ruby Burnim<br />
C & K Associates, Inc.<br />
C. C. Cameron<br />
Alicia Jenkins Campbell<br />
G. Paul Carr<br />
Janelle Carter<br />
Alfred L. Carter ‘70<br />
<strong>City</strong> of <strong>Elizabeth</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
William Clark<br />
Irving Coggins, Jr. ‘69<br />
Columbia Metropolitan Airport<br />
Gertrude A. Cox ‘71<br />
Levin Culpepper<br />
Eddie Davis, III ‘71<br />
Joshua Dawson<br />
Elessie R. Des Boine ‘42<br />
Edge Restaurant Group, Inc.<br />
Anita Edwards ‘73<br />
Mary Felton ‘46<br />
Ralph E. Fennell<br />
First Class Travel<br />
First Internet Travel, Inc.<br />
First Union<br />
Phillip T. Flood ‘65<br />
Deborah Fontaine<br />
Carl & Mary Franklin<br />
William C. Friday<br />
G. Wendell Spivey Attorney at Law<br />
James A. Gatling ‘60<br />
Richard M. Gore ‘64<br />
Cornelius Goodwin<br />
Gilbertine Griffin ‘78<br />
Griggs Lumber Product Company Inc.<br />
Mamie S. Hall ‘64<br />
Marion H. Harrell ‘71<br />
Helen A. Harris<br />
H. Bernetta Hayes<br />
James Hedgbeth<br />
Elton & Balinda Hollowell ‘74<br />
Hornthal, Riley, Ellis and Maland LLP<br />
Leonard F. Jarvis ‘73<br />
Alma F. Jenkins ‘75<br />
John H. Bias Alumni Chapter ECSU<br />
Carolyn Johnson<br />
Washington Johnson ‘71<br />
Dorothy A. Joyner ‘47<br />
Nancy G. Joyner ‘53<br />
Vivian Key ‘73<br />
Wendy A. King<br />
Eulice Langford ‘72<br />
James Leather<br />
Eliabeth Linney ‘87<br />
Joyce E. Long ‘65<br />
James R. Lucas<br />
Mail Boxes Etc. (Eva Russell)<br />
Vinod Manglik<br />
Manson Mortuary<br />
J. Kevin Martino<br />
Geneva Matthews<br />
William Matthews ‘66<br />
John J. Mudra, Jr.<br />
Gerald McCants<br />
Shirley M. McGalliaria ‘57<br />
Willis B. McLeod<br />
McPherson Auto Supply, Inc.<br />
Vernon L. Miller<br />
Barbara Mitchell ‘66<br />
Ruth Harvey Moore ‘49<br />
Jessie A. Moore ‘67<br />
Gwendolyn Moore ‘69<br />
Charles M. Moore ‘71<br />
Glendell C. Moore ‘76<br />
Hubert Moorer ‘71<br />
William F. Myers<br />
Roger C. Myrick<br />
Geneva S. Nixon<br />
Louis E. Newsome<br />
Paul Norman ‘81<br />
Ethel Bailey Odens ‘67<br />
P. C. & J. Inc. (Mail Boxes Etc.)<br />
Clifford Eugene Patterson ‘71<br />
Bernice D. Peele ‘69<br />
Elaine Perry ‘54<br />
Dorothy Peterson ‘63<br />
Philip Morris Companies, Inc.<br />
Linda D. Pierce ‘68<br />
Pierce Construction<br />
George W. Pierce ‘54<br />
Valerie M. Pittman<br />
Lloyd T. Porter ‘64<br />
Howard L. Price ‘71<br />
Anthony R. Prichett<br />
Lillian E. Purington ‘70<br />
Earnell Purington ‘70<br />
Rascoe Poole, Jr.<br />
Raymond Reddrick ‘55<br />
Maxine Reid ‘68<br />
Johnny G. Reid ‘69<br />
Mable Riddick ‘89<br />
Vonda Riley ‘65<br />
Elliott Robinson<br />
John T. Rowland<br />
Gordon S. Roylance<br />
Alisha M. R. Sessoms ‘98<br />
Fred Sessoms ‘68<br />
Barbara Shannon ‘94<br />
Mary E. Sharpe ‘57<br />
Dorothy L. Smith ‘55<br />
Stuart M. Squires<br />
Star Services, Inc.<br />
Tommy T. Steward<br />
Carlton & Edna Stewart<br />
Tony M. Stewart<br />
Inez Sutton ‘61<br />
Cheryl Sutton ‘93<br />
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