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Campus Box 778
Elizabeth City, NC 27909
252.335.3594
FAX: 252.335.3769
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Managing Editor
Editorial Staff
Marsha McLean
Editors Deborah S. Flippens
Kesha D. Williams
Contributors La’ Tanya Afolayan
Terence Boyd
April Emory
Jeanette H. Evans
Rhonda M. Hayes
Mary L. Hill
Barbaina Houston-Black
Melanie L. Peel
Vandalyn M. Ray
Soraya D. Spellman
Barbara B. Sutton
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Elizabeth City State University is committed to equality of educational opportunity and does not discriminate against applicants, students, or employees based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, or disability.
Photo and cover design by
Gordon Kreplin/Ascencion Photography
Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Magazine layout and design by
Flowers Printing
Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Greetings! We are pleased to bring to you the first edition of the ECSU Magazine . One of the priorities and continuous goals at Elizabeth
City State University is to make qualitative improvements in all areas of the institution. This new publication, we believe, accomplishes that goal. The
ECSU Magazine replaces our former publication, Campus
Update . While it contains similar information, it has been enhanced in its look, reader friendliness, and content diversity. We certainly hope it appeals to our readers.
The topics covered in this issue show how the faculty and staff are working diligently to strengthen
ECSU and, subsequently, the students we serve.
Again this year, we will focus on enrollment growth, private fund raising, academic prestige, and institutional effectiveness. In addition, we will broaden our marketing efforts, enhance student services, and advance our capital improvement plans.
We will keep you up-to-date on our progress toward these goals and priorities through the publication of fall and spring issues of the magazine.
As you may know, to be successful, we need the support of the entire university community, including our alumni, boards, and friends. Please know that the
ECSU Magazine will be our way of keeping you involved and informed about what we doing to keep
ECSU in the forefront of higher education institutions.
So as you sit back and relax to read the ECSU
Magazine , jot down your comments and suggestions.
We would certainly welcome your feedback.
Please read and enjoy this inaugural issue! We look forward to your input and support.
Charles W. Penny, Chair ..........................................
2003
Walter C. Davenport, Vice Chair ............................. 2005
Betty Sugg Meggs, Secretary ...................................
2003
Betty Barr-Randolph ................................................
2003
Earl M. Brown .......................................................... 2005
Earl T. Brown ............................................................ 2005
H. Kel Landis III ....................................................... 2005
Rev. Henry B. Pickett, Jr. ......................................... 2005
Frank H. Skidmore, Jr. ............................................. 2005
Calvin R. Worsley .................................................... 2005
Frederick L. Yates ..................................................... 2003
*(Open)
Ex Officio Member
Damiyon Sledge ........................................................2003
* Vacancy (1)
2002
October 12-16
NCATE/DPI Continuing
Accreditation for
Teacher Education
November 2
2:00 pm
HOMECOMING
Football Game vs. St. Augustine’s College
Roebuck Stadium
November 4-8
International Week
November 17-22
American
Education
Week
December 1
7:30 pm
University Choir
Christmas
Candlelight Concert
Floyd Robinson Auditorium
Fine Arts Complex
December 14
Fall Commencement
January 8-10
8:00 am
Winter Faculty/Staff Institute
K.E. White Graduate Center
2003
January 13
8:30 am
Official Registration
January 20
Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Day
Classes Dismissed, Offices Closed
9:00 am
MLK March
February 24-March 1
CIAA Tournament
Raleigh, NC
March 5
Founders Day
March 31-April 5
Viking Fest Week
April 9
7:00 pm
Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Spring Concert
Fine Arts Auditorium
April 16
7:30 pm
Collegians Jazz Ensemble
Spring Concert
Fine Arts Auditorium
April 17
Honors Convocation
Fine Arts Auditorium
May 10
Spring Commencement
(See Alumni News and Athletics for additional events and schedules.)

Founded: 1891
Enrollment: 2,147
Student-Faculty Ratio: 16:1
Location: Elizabeth City, North Carolina is a waterfront community in the historic Albemarle region of northeastern North Carolina.
Institutional Classification: Coeducational public university
Degrees Conferred: Bachelor’s and Master’s
Institutional Accreditation: Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools
Departmental Accreditations:
• Teacher Education – Approved by North Carolina State Board of
Education and accredited by the National Council for the
Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
• Industrial Technology – Accredited by the National Association of Industrial Technology
School Colors: Royal blue and white
Mascot: Vikings
Athletics Affiliations: NCAA Division II,
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIAA)
U.S. News and World Report America’s Best Colleges:
ECSU ranked #3 in the Top Public Comprehensive Colleges in the South - 1999, 2001, 2002
Kiplinger’s:
ECSU listed in Top 100 Best Public Colleges in the country based on value (cost/quality) - 2002
USA Today and NCAA Foundation:
ECSU listed in Top Ten for “Highest Overall Student-Athlete
Graduation Rate-Division II” – 2001
The University of North Carolina System:
• In three of the past four years, ECSU has been number 2 in the
UNC system in 4-year graduation rate.
• ECSU is the safest campus in the UNC system based on the annual report of campus crime statistics.
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2 • Ebony’s “African-American Men’s Day”:
Chancellor and fraternity represent ECSU in NYC
3 • ECSU alumnus featured on CBS Early Show
3 • The Maynard Outreach Project
5 • Marshall A. Rauch
Distinguished Professor named
15 • ECSU & your personal financial plans
17 • ECSU Foundation:
Your key to assisting today’s students
18 • ECSU Foundation announces
Winifred J. Wood Scholarship Fund
19 • Clifton Davis Celebrity Golf Classic
20 • Sponsored Programs, Contracts & Grants
23 • ECSU Honor Roll of Donors
41 • ECSU hoops bring in new era
42 • Vikings baseball coach and players go global
42 • Lady Vikings Softball 2002 CIAA Champions
43 • Fall 2002 schedules
7 • ECSU Jazz Ensemble releases CD
8 • N.C. Senator Basnight awarded honorary degree
9 • ECSU and Halifax Community College launch partnership
12 • Chancellor’s Leadership Development
Institute produces new leaders at ECSU
29 • From the President
30 • Chapter news updates
31 • Torchbearers
32 • Viking Varsity Club
34 • Homecoming 2002

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

Swimme & Son Building Contractors
Joe Taylor
Vickey B. Tillett ‘87
Henry H. Tolbert
Tom Currier Corporation DBA-Mail
Boxes
Queenie Turner ‘93
Claudia C. Twiford
Susan Vann ‘49
Vann’s Place II
W. W. Owens and Sons Moving and
Storage, Inc
Walson Funeral Home
Roy Robert Wade
Nancy Palmer Wardroper
Aleric Wheeler
Velma Williams
Celeste A. Williams ‘64
Leroy Williams ‘65
Terry Williams ‘82
Mr. & Mrs. Bennie L. William, Sr. ‘52
Edethia L. Wright
Members Under $100
Ronald Anderson
Patrick A. Andrews ‘87
Minnie Trovene Artis ‘63
Ester Askew
Dwayne A. Aydlett ‘87
Bailey, King & Associates
W. Edwyn Baird
Alice Ballance
Barbecue Barn
Mildred W. Battle ‘67
Jeanie Billups ‘95
Marian Bivens
Carolyn J. Bizzell ‘73
Ruth Harvey Bowen
Melody Brackett ‘88
Ervin H. Brother
Lorraine W. Brown
Ralph Burns
Lindsay Carmon ‘71
Central Insurance Agency
Eric Chamblee
Alice Clark
William C. Clark
Evelyn R. Coleman ‘46
Committee to Elect Frank W. Ballance, Jr.
Carolyn Cooper ‘71
Sandra S. Copeland ’71 giving matters
Vicent S. Corozine
James Earl Cox
Emily M. Cross ‘71
Vernice S. Dabney
Angela Daughety ‘74
Wilbert Davis, Jr. ‘75
ECSU Department of Social Sciences
Linda Dickson
Richard Durren, Jr.
Frankie A. Eaves
Viola B. Elam ‘52
Portia English
Joseph Evans
Woodrow Felton
Joyce Felton ‘68
Henry Felton ‘69
Geneva Fennell ‘67
Nekesha D. Ferebee ‘97
Tenekquala L. Ferguson
Michael E. Gale
Gardner-Harrell Development
Gilliam Funeral Home
Mary R. Glover ‘67
Sandra T. Graham ‘84
H. V. Brown Schoolmasters
Agnes M. Hall
Jo Ann Hall
Hardy Moving & Storage
William H. Harrell
Eleanor L. Harris
Linda Hayden
Herman Hallet Daniels Properties
Dorothy Hill
Tammye V. Hill ‘86
Wade Hobgood
Barbara B. Hoggard ‘62
Deborah J. Howard
Hughes Oil Company
Alice Hughley
Horace B. Hussey
Sylvia M. Jacobs
Sharon Jane Felton-James
Matthew Jarmond, Jr.
John R. Jordan, Jr.
Roger Jones
Josephine J. Jones
Lealer P. Johnson
Elsie W. Jordan
Harvey M. Kearney
Malinda Keys
Keystone Barber & Beauty
Wendy King
K-Mart
Frank H. Kosak
Deloris Lawson ‘71
Curtis B. Leak
Juantia LeBarron
Dangun Lee
Katie L. Lee
Marvin Littlejohn
Susie N. Littlejohn
Leonzo D. Lynch
M. E. Enterprises, Inc.
Suzanne H. MacMorris
Magic Spray Car Wash Inc.
Mail Boxes, Etc.
Elois B. Maske ‘71
Janie M. Melton ‘63
Johnnie K. Melton ‘79
Annie C. Miller
Lossie P. Mills ‘64
Vivian P. Mitchell
Byrtle H. Mitchell ‘50
Cecil M. Mitchell ‘66
James Travis Monney
Ruth Harvey Moore
Vivien M. Morris
Morris Funeral Home
Harold Murrill ‘69
National Cash Advance
Douglas J. Newsome
Olive Branch Baptist Church
Irene Bullock-Overton ‘63
Bettie J. Parker ‘71
Icelean D. Payton
John E. Pellam
Lorri A. Perkins ‘89
Dennis Scott Perry ‘91
Anthony Price ‘81
Barbara L. Purnell
Edna G. Randolph ‘45
Johnnie G. Reid, Jr.
Richard Reid ‘71
Mary E. Riddick
Lula Roberts ‘61
Paul R. Robertson
Cynthia Sawyer
William Sawyer ‘71
William A. Shepard, M.D.
Estella Simons ‘55
Ervin C. Simons ‘71
Ravi Sinha
Sky Enterprise, Inc.
Pattie Smith
Cynthia M. Smith
Edna A. Smith
Frederick E. Smith ‘66
Dollie M. Speight
Lula B. Speller
Doraine Spence ‘91
Mar Speller
Debra Stokley ‘77
William Steve Stone
Otis Strozier
Mary Swain ‘80
T. J.’s Hobbies, Inc
Martha R. Taylor
Shirley Weaver Taylor ‘71
Beverly Ann Taylor ‘71
Carl Taylor ‘71
Isolene A. Taylor ‘71
J. Demeatrious Teel ‘71
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Hugh Cale Founder’s Society –
$100,000 or More
James H. & Connie M. Maynard
Dr. Peter W. Moore Society -
$50,000 – $99,999
North Carolina Association of
Insurance Agents, Inc.
Dr. John H. Bias Society –
25,000 – 49,999
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Lorimer & Margaret Midgett Trust
Dr. Harold L. Trigg Society -
$10,000 - $24,999
AETNA Financial Services
Daily Advance
FDY Sodexho
Charles & Carolyn Mahoney
Quality Inn
G. Matt & Holly Cook Wood
Winifred J. Wood
Dr. Sidney D. Williams Society -
$5,000 - $9,999
Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc.
Arzo Burnim
Billie J. Reid State Farm Insurance Co.
Mary A. Douglas ‘42
ECSU General Alumni Association, Inc.
Earhart Foundation
IBM International Foundation
Willie Mae Jones Johnson
The Kroger Company Foundation
Frank H. Skidmore, Jr.
The East Carolina Bank
Chancellor’s Society - $1,000 - $2,499
Albemarle Hospital
Albemarle Mini Warehouse
Ziner Alexander ‘66
Alltel
Barbaina Houston-Black ‘80
David & Phyllis Bosomworth
Earl T. Brown
Mellonee Burnim
Helen M. Caldwell
Charles D. Cherry ‘63
Walter C. Davenport
ECSU Championship Team
ECSU Sports Hall of Fame
Thomas Evans ‘68
First Carolina (Hampton Inn)
Frank W. Ballance, Jr. Association, P.A.
H. Richard Gardner
M. Peebles Harrison
Billy Hines
William Honeyblue ‘41
ICBC Broadcast Holdings-NY, Inc.
Gloria Faye Johnson ‘65
Clara Jones ‘40
Kramer’s Garage
H. Kel Landis
Willis & Clara Langley ‘70
Gregory H. Magee
Jenny McIntosh
Marsha McLean
Roger McLean
Mid-Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling
Company, Inc.
NC Community Development,
Initiative, Inc.
PSNC Energy
Betty Barr-Randolph
Floyd L. Robinson
Sonja W. Hibbard, CPA
John N. Smith
The Tom Joyner Foundation, Inc.
The Trey Whitfield Foundation, Inc.
Southern Bank Foundation
Southside Boys & Girls Club Inc.
Alfred B. Spellman, Sr. ‘35
Dr. Claudie Mackie ‘65
Sprint
Mitchell St.Clair
William E. Stanton, Sr. ‘44
Ish Sud
Louise Sutton
Robert Vaughan
Whitehurst Sand Company
Tilton Whitehurst
Kennis & Brenda Wilkins ‘74
Derrick Wilkins ‘88 giving matters
RBC Centura Banks Inc.
Mary Inez White Sayles Estate ‘26
Frank White
Dr. Walter Nathaniel Ridley Society -
$2,500 - $4,999
Ajac Foods (KFC of EC)
Biggs Pontiac-Buick-Cadillac-
Oldsmobile-GMC Trucks
Bruce and Anna Biggs
Earl M. Brown’67
LaVera L. Burnim
Mickey L. Burnim
Don V. Ruck Product
Dover Foundation, Inc.
Jeanette H. Evans ‘63
Emmanuel D. Harris
Charlie H. Jordan
Linda-Spitzer Naylor
NC Legislative Black Caucus
Foundation
Prudential Foundation
State Farm Companies Foundation
St. Stephens Missionary Baptist Church
Shirley M. Turnage ‘67
Wachovia Bank N.A.
Loisteen E. Harrell ‘63
Harris & Associates, L. L. C
Deans’ Golden Circle - $500 - $999
Albemarle Propane, Inc.
Back Swamp Church of Christ
Steven B. Beals
Randy Bell ‘72
Bertie County Alumni Chapter-ECSU
Blackwater Training Center, Inc.
Trumilla T. Britt’60
Zelene Bunch ‘84
C.S.T. Products
Mary L. Cates ‘61
Martha P. Chamblee ‘61
Janice Cole
Ralph Cole ‘62
Compustar Computers, LTD
Marvis M. Conley
John Cooper ‘58
Crossroads
Wauna L. Dooms
Eastern Carolina Cardiovascular, PA
ECSU Local Alumni Chapter
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Mildred T. Trotman ‘64
Trysher Inc. DBA-Mail Boxes ETC
Albert L.Walker
Wesley Peachtree GRP CPAS
Calvin R. Worsley
Enigma Entertainment
Jasper Evans 35 th Reunion’63
Carl Fennell ‘67
Charles Foster
Bettie T. Francis ‘54
Doris Froneberger ‘63
Wilma S. Gainey ‘63
Gateway Bank & Trust Co.
James A. & Sudie G. Gatling ‘60
Ralph Glover ‘61
Nathaniel Grant, Jr. ‘68
Theodosia B. Griffin ‘66
James E. Griffin ‘66
John T. Hazel ‘66
Gerald K. Hill ‘71
Tim Hobbs
Samuel Hubbard ‘63
George Jackson
Margaret M. Jones ‘63
Horace R. Jones ‘64
Marjorie H. Jones ‘68
Barbara Lee ‘64
Matthew & Lucy Lewis ‘64
Local Alumni Chapter-ECSU
Naomi C. Lomax ‘45
Jesse M. Majette ‘63
Barbara A Masonis
Ethel G. Meekins’65
Betty S. Meggs
Mail Boxes Etc.1516
Dennis Melville
Minuteman Press
Mitchell Insurance Agency
Nathaniel Moore ‘62
“N” Time Music
N. Cheng. CPA, PC
Northeastern Schoolmasters
Raymond F. Paris, Jr.
Pell Paper Box Company, Inc.
Charles W. Penny
Pepsi Bottling Ventures, LLC
Henry B. Pickett, Jr. ‘61
Mary H. Pickett ‘60
Ramco Management Corporation
Henry B. Rhoulac ‘69
Bobby Riley ‘66
Paul & Jackie Robertson ‘68
Senior Matrons Social Literary & Art Club
Evelyn S. Shaw ‘66
Leonard A. Slade, Jr.‘63
Emma Spence ‘53 giving matters
Sharon M. Tanner
Randolph F. Tootle ‘58
Professor’s Silver Circle - $250 - $499
Vivian Armstrong ‘67
Randolph J. Barnes ‘62
Beaufort County Alumni Chapter-ECSU
Bell Group, Inc. (Ulysses Bell)
Terence M. Boyd
LeRoy Brickhouse ‘67
Trumilla J. Britt ‘63
Curtis E. Bryan ‘60
Bertha Bryant ‘67
Julia Congleton-Bryant ‘63
Joseph Buggs ‘61
Ruben Buggs ‘65
Gwendolyn Buggs ‘65
Carolyn Buggs ‘67
Mamie M. Burse ‘63
James E. Caldwell
Cheryl Riddick Canton ‘69
Margery Couslon Clark
Joyce Cole ‘65
Edwin Corder
Clara L. Cox ‘63
Margaret Davie ‘62
Charles C. Davis ‘65
Catherine G. Dildy ‘63
Vernell F. Eason
Patricia Eckles ‘69
Elizabeth City Boys & Girls Club
Pretlo S. Edmonds ‘62
Carolyn F. Edward
Howard Evans
Jasper D. Evans ‘63
Charles B. Evans ‘65
F. S. Taylor & Associates
Beatrice Ferebee
Floyd C. Ferebee
Joyce E. Ferebee
Tommy & Ethel F. Ferebee
Lewis Ferebee
Josephine Ferebee
Willis Ferebee, Jr.
Annie W. Fields ‘63
First Citizens Bank
Thomas Fils
Norris Francis ‘64
Will Francis ‘65
Ervin Francis ‘67
Carol Francis ‘69
Joseph E. Freeman ‘64
Doris J. Fuller ‘67
Milton Gainey ‘62
Oliver George ‘62
Earnest A. Green ‘68
Alvin C. Griffin ‘65
Bob Gulledge
H&R Block
Willie M. Hagans ‘67
Roscoe F. Hager, Sr. ‘63
E. Alphonzo Harrell ‘60
Janice Harrison-Peace ‘65
Anne Hedgebeth
Carol Heyward ‘71
Susie S. Hodges ‘65
Benny Hodges ‘67
Ernest M. Holley ‘64
Phillippa Holley ‘65
Marcell E. Hooks ‘68
Mildred Hopkins ‘68
Hutchins Allen & Company, P.A.
Ella M. Ivory ‘63
Barbara W. Jackson ‘60
James H. Jackson ‘65
Lubertha James ‘76
Peggy L. Jeffries ‘67
Jo Von Fashions
Lavern Jones ‘76
John W. Jordan ‘63
Willie Lamb ‘67
Leevon Lansden ‘67
Maryella W. Leigh ‘67
Levels Family
Herbert A. Littlejohn ‘64
Al C. Lucas ‘63
Lenora Jarvis Mackey ‘66
Jimmie L. Manley ‘63
Edward J. Masonis
Carolyn McCloud ‘68
Edward McLean
Millennia Community Bank
Leonard E. Mobley ‘65
Annie W. Mobley ‘63
Izila Mouring ‘69
Ernest Murphrey
Frank Neal ‘65
Joyce P. Nowell ‘62
Ruth P. Overton ‘54
Ethel Parker ‘71
P. Woodson Pearson ‘63
Alfred L. Pearson ‘64
Anonymous
Ruby L. Perkins ‘65
Jesse Lee Powell ‘68
Jethro Pugh ‘65
Janet Ransom ‘67
Ralph Ransom ‘68
Charles Rascoe ‘72
H. C. Reid, Jr. ‘65
William Rich
John W. Richardson ‘67
Richmond Metro Alumni Chapter
Eddie J. Roberts ‘67
Jackie Robertson ‘69
John Robinson ‘66
Albert Rodgers ‘63
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David Rogers ‘62
Alice Mills Sadler
Mary Settle ‘66
William Settle ‘68
Phyllis Sexton ‘67
Joe Shambley ‘62
Doris Shepherd ‘60
Barbara Shrophire’65
Lionel K. Shropshire ‘66
Charles Singleton ‘68
Phillip Smith ‘61
Shelton V. Spence ‘80
Cassie Swimpson ‘62
James E. Swimpson ‘62
The Crosby Fund
The Ruffin Group
Marvin Trotman ‘62
David T. Trotman ‘63
Kenneth E. Turnage ‘63
Sunny Sewart Vick ‘63
Bettie R. Smith ‘67
Julius Walker, Jr. ‘65
Lindell Wallace ‘63
Ruby Vincent Ward ‘67
Paul T. Washlesky
Juanita H. White ‘60
Alise Williams ‘63
Charles J. Wynn, Sr. ‘67
Frederick Yates
Century Club - $100 - $249
Cynthia H. Alderman
Alliance Nissan
Wilhelmina A. Amado ‘57
Susie Armstrong
Scotty E. Arnold ‘88
Chester S. Askew ‘39
Dennis H. Askew, Jr. ‘59
Lillie Atkinson ‘65
Morris Autry
BB & B Construction Co., Inc.
Robert L. Backus ‘76
Janice Baker
Leonard Ballou
Christopher E. Banks
David H. Bead, Jr.
Sam Beamon ‘85
Charlenzo V. Belcher ‘83
Velma Blackmon
Ronald Blackmon
Nettie L Blakeley giving matters
Paula G. Bowe “94
Jean B. Bowen
Melvin Boyd ‘58
Mr. & Mrs. Frank Britt ‘62
Anthony Brown
Peggy B. Brown
Ken Burgess
Ruby Burnim
C & K Associates, Inc.
C. C. Cameron
Alicia Jenkins Campbell
G. Paul Carr
Janelle Carter
Alfred L. Carter ‘70
City of Elizabeth City
William Clark
Irving Coggins, Jr. ‘69
Columbia Metropolitan Airport
Gertrude A. Cox ‘71
Levin Culpepper
Eddie Davis, III ‘71
Joshua Dawson
Elessie R. Des Boine ‘42
Edge Restaurant Group, Inc.
Anita Edwards ‘73
Mary Felton ‘46
Ralph E. Fennell
First Class Travel
First Internet Travel, Inc.
First Union
Phillip T. Flood ‘65
Deborah Fontaine
Carl & Mary Franklin
William C. Friday
G. Wendell Spivey Attorney at Law
James A. Gatling ‘60
Richard M. Gore ‘64
Cornelius Goodwin
Gilbertine Griffin ‘78
Griggs Lumber Product Company Inc.
Mamie S. Hall ‘64
Marion H. Harrell ‘71
Helen A. Harris
H. Bernetta Hayes
James Hedgbeth
Elton & Balinda Hollowell ‘74
Hornthal, Riley, Ellis and Maland LLP
Leonard F. Jarvis ‘73
Alma F. Jenkins ‘75
John H. Bias Alumni Chapter ECSU
Carolyn Johnson
Washington Johnson ‘71
Dorothy A. Joyner ‘47
Nancy G. Joyner ‘53
Vivian Key ‘73
Wendy A. King
Eulice Langford ‘72
James Leather
Eliabeth Linney ‘87
Joyce E. Long ‘65
James R. Lucas
Mail Boxes Etc. (Eva Russell)
Vinod Manglik
Manson Mortuary
J. Kevin Martino
Geneva Matthews
William Matthews ‘66
John J. Mudra, Jr.
Gerald McCants
Shirley M. McGalliaria ‘57
Willis B. McLeod
McPherson Auto Supply, Inc.
Vernon L. Miller
Barbara Mitchell ‘66
Ruth Harvey Moore ‘49
Jessie A. Moore ‘67
Gwendolyn Moore ‘69
Charles M. Moore ‘71
Glendell C. Moore ‘76
Hubert Moorer ‘71
William F. Myers
Roger C. Myrick
Geneva S. Nixon
Louis E. Newsome
Paul Norman ‘81
Ethel Bailey Odens ‘67
P. C. & J. Inc. (Mail Boxes Etc.)
Clifford Eugene Patterson ‘71
Bernice D. Peele ‘69
Elaine Perry ‘54
Dorothy Peterson ‘63
Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
Linda D. Pierce ‘68
Pierce Construction
George W. Pierce ‘54
Valerie M. Pittman
Lloyd T. Porter ‘64
Howard L. Price ‘71
Anthony R. Prichett
Lillian E. Purington ‘70
Earnell Purington ‘70
Rascoe Poole, Jr.
Raymond Reddrick ‘55
Maxine Reid ‘68
Johnny G. Reid ‘69
Mable Riddick ‘89
Vonda Riley ‘65
Elliott Robinson
John T. Rowland
Gordon S. Roylance
Alisha M. R. Sessoms ‘98
Fred Sessoms ‘68
Barbara Shannon ‘94
Mary E. Sharpe ‘57
Dorothy L. Smith ‘55
Stuart M. Squires
Star Services, Inc.
Tommy T. Steward
Carlton & Edna Stewart
Tony M. Stewart
Inez Sutton ‘61
Cheryl Sutton ‘93
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