Alumni Spotlights
Hiding health tips in print
Dr. Sharon Allison-Ottey, MD ’95 has written two books and authored a line of greeting cards that all have a little something extra inside: sprinkled throughout are bits of health information, encouragement and uplifting messages. “I believe in a sneak attack,” she says. “I take big medical school words and break them down so people can understand them.”
Her first book, All I Ever Did Was Love Man, released in 2006, is a story about a faithful, divorced middle-aged woman, and educates the reader about the dangers, risk factors and treatment options for HIV/AIDS.
Her second book, Is That a Fried Chicken Wing, released this fall, is about weight and lifestyle choices. Ten percent of the proceeds go to the Avon Foundation for Women.
A practicing physician in suburban Washington, D.C., she spends much of her time traveling the country speaking on issues like AIDS/HIV, women’s health and health literacy. She is the executive director of The COSHAR Foundation, a nonprofit committed to health outreach and education.
“I want to provide useful, practical, relevant health messages in simple terms that everyone can understand,” she said.
Healing with music
Michele Erich ’87, ’95 doesn’t carry a doctor’s bag as she wanders the halls of New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington. She usually carries a guitar, a pinwheel or other toys. As the hospital’s music therapist, she might use a kaleidoscope to distract a child getting an IV line put in. Later, she could be playing soft music by a bed to comfort a dying patient. Other days, she strums the guitar to relax cancer patients getting chemotherapy treatments
Erich has been a music therapist for more than 20 years—the past 12 at New Hanover Regional. Seven years after completing a degree in music therapy, she returned to ECU to become the first to earn the program’s then-new master’s degree. A music enthusiast, she plays the alto saxophone, xylophone and keyboard among other instruments.
“I had an interest in music, and I had an interest in working with people,” she says. Moving around the hospital and seeing all kinds of patients is the best part of her job, she says, because she enjoys working with patients of different ages.
“It’s nice to be able to offer them something that’s pleasant and not another piece of bad news or something that hurts,” Erich says. —Wilmington Star News
Troy Pate Jr. ’58 of Goldsboro received the Air Force’s highest civilian honor, the Distinguished Public Service Award, at a ceremony at the Pentagon in May. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. William Fraser presented the award to Pate in recognition of his more than 30 years leading community efforts to strengthen ties between Wayne County and Seymour Johnson AFB. Pate chaired the county’s Military Affairs Commission from the late 1970s until he relinquished the role earlier this year. He also spearheaded a new group, the Seymour Support Council, which formed in 2000 to defend Seymour Johnson during the military’s Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC). Pate remains chair of the N.C. Advisory Commission on Military Affairs.
His new career in golf
He would rather be playing than talking, but John Maginnes is having fun either way. A former PGA touring pro and the 1991 Colonial Athletic Association champion and player of the year, Maginnes now gives fans an insider’s perspective as a radio commentator for Sirius/XM golf broadcasts, a columnist on the PGA Tour’s web site and a writer for other web sites and publications.
“I am doing something that I never anticipated, and that is using my major from ECU,” Maginnes, 41, said during the 2009 Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, where he lives.
Maginnes played at ECU from 1987–1991 while majoring in English with concentrations in philosophy and creative writing. He then competed on lower-level tours before qualifying for the PGA Tour in 1996.
During nearly a decade at golf’s top level, he won more than $1.7 million; his top finish was a tie for second in the 1996 Buick Challenge. He has three wins on what is now the Nationwide Tour.
But in 2004, while hitting an approach shot in a tournament in Memphis, a bone spur injured his tricep. He fell to his knee in pain and had surgery the following week. His return to the tour the following year was brief.
“At the time I felt like my best years on tour were in front of me,” Maginnes said. “I was in my mid-30s in a career that can last for decades more.” His playing career was over, but a new one opened.
“My entire adult life I have kept waiting for someone to tap me on the shoulder and tell me that they were just kidding, that this really isn’t my life,” he said. “The best job in the world is playing on the PGA Tour. Short of that, covering the game and staying close to the action is the second-best thing.” — Doug Boyd
Taking Chili's to China
Katie Brower ’07 is back in Jacksonville, N.C., after spending the summer in Singapore helping open the first Chili’s restaurant there.
She is the first of a new team of about 20 restaurant managers picked by Dallas-based Brinker International to assist in overseas store openings. Brower may be packing her bags again soon because the company, which already has 200 international locations, plans to open up to 500 overseas units in the next five years.
Brower was the first manager to travel under the new program. “Working globally for Brinker has been life-changing, incredible, an adventure, a learning opportunity and so much fun,” Brower says. At ECU, Brower worked at a local Chili’s while studying globalization and cultural studies.
She is currently working on a master’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in international business.
After attending a Brinker leadership forum for women, Brower learned she could shadow people in the company’s global business development division. She’s from a true Pirate family: her father, sister and two brothers graduated here and she has two nieces currently attending.
Beard's back in Buffalo
After 26 years as an Emmy-winning TV journalist in Los Angeles, John Beard ’75 is back on the East Coast. Beard joined WGRZ-TV Channel 2 in Buffalo, N.Y., in September as anchor of the morning and mid-day newscasts.
He was news anchor at another Buffalo station from 1977 to 1981. He worked at WITN in Washington, N.C., for two years after graduation. “In some ways I guess I’ve been Buffalo’s unofficial ambassador to the West Coast, telling people on and off the air what a great town this is,” Beard says.
In L.A., Beard was the evening news anchor for many years at KNBC and then at the Fox station, KTTV, until 2006.
He’s also appeared on several television shows playing a newscaster, including 15 episodes of Arrested Development, and two episodes each of Spider-Man, The Bernie Mac Show, and 24. Since leaving KTTV Beard has been traveling and writing a murder mystery novel.
Promoted at Ole Miss
Lynnette Schwartz Johnson ’88 was promoted to executive associate athletics director and senior women’s administrator at the University of Mississippi, where she has worked for 19 years.
Johnson administers 15 Ole Miss sports programs, including all 10 women’s programs, men’s indoor and outdoor track and field, cross country, tennis and golf.
She handles many other internal and external operations in the department, including committee work, gender equity and bid proposals for all SEC and NCAA championship events.
Johnson became the first female head athletic trainer in the Southeastern Conference in 1997.
A dozen days of Christmas
Judy Marlowe Stead ’70 wrote and illustrated The Twelve Days of Christmas in North Carolina, one in a series of such books by Sterlin Publishing on each state.
In each, a cousin from another state visits the in-state cousin over Christmas vacation, and they visit as many places of interest as they possibly can.
In Stead’s book about North Carolina, the kids travel from the mountains to the Outer Banks visiting the zoo in Asheboro, the hot air balloon festival in Statesville, and other Tar Heel events.
The fact that North Carolina is such a large state presented some problems for Stead: “I had to find a way to cover the distance of our long state in 12 days, so I have a helicopter-flying mother doing the driving,” she said.
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 New Class Notes editor named
Joanne Kollar, who retired last year after 20 years as ECU’s director of publications, is the new Class Notes editor for East. She succeeds Leanne E. Smith ’04 ’06, who continues teaching in the English Department. Before coming to ECU, Kollar worked in various editorial capacities at Penn State’s Department of Publications and at Little, Brown & Co. in Boston, Mass. She has a BA in English from Bucknell University and an MA in journalism from Penn State.
By Joanne Kollar
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2009
BENJAMIN ANDREW MULHERIN and Carmen Mary Meadows were married June 13 in Newport News, Va., where they live. He works at Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding in Newport News. ASHLEY NICOLE RUNNER and Matthew Charles Epler were married June 27 in Fayetteville where they live. JASMINE YOUNG, former ECU standout point guard, signed a professional contract with Aguas Buenas Tigresas of the Baloncesto Superior Feminino basketball league of Puerto Rico. Miss USA KIRSTEN DALTON made it into the final 10 at the Miss Universe pageant, becoming the only American contestant in three years to reach the top ten of the competition. Dalton also managed not to fall on stage, as happened to her two predecessors.
2008
ERIN ELIZABETH MCGEE and JOSEPH JAY CAMPBELL ’98 of Sanford were married June 20 in Winston-Salem. DAVID EARL BARRETT JR. and Jennifer Quinto Lagasca were married June 6. He is a policy analyst for the Navy at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. FRANK BENEFIELD exhibited his work at the Community Council of the Arts in Kinston. He is a retired Marine. BRYAN BROTHERS, a graduate of the ECU BB&T Leadership Development Program, was named business services officer at the BB&T financial center in Greenville. CAROLINA GRACE CLARY and BROCDUNN NEAL RUSH were married Aug. 1 in Newport News. She teaches in Asheboro City Schools, and he is employed by Klaussner Furniture International. JESSICA DAVIS and CASEY SPILLMAN ’07 were married June 24 in Greensboro. Both teach in Chatham County, where she is a fourth-grade teacher, and he teaches middle school band. BRIAN T. JONES and Kimberlea Wilson were married June 20. He is a project engineer with TA Loving in Goldsboro. AARON PRILLAMAN was selected as a full-time intern at Valley Wesley, the United Methodist Campus Ministry at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., where he is pursuing a doctorate of musical arts. ERICA WILSON was named assistant director of the Pirate Club. She was director of membership and convention services for the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators in Wilmington. KELLY REBECCA WILSON and Brandon Gene Moore were married May 2. She is a recreational therapist at Roanoke-Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie.
2007
Air Force Airman 1st Class MONICA L. BROWN graduated from basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. CHRISTIE FREDERICK is teaching English in South Korea. Previously, she taught at St. Andrew Elementary School in Panama City, Fla. SAHUN “SHAWN” A. HULSIZER graduated from Army combat training at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C. BENJAMIN LUSTIG exhibited his classical painting and photography at the Community Council for the Arts in Kinston, where his works will hang in the Permanent Collection Gallery. He is a faculty member at Pitt Community College and ECU. LISA MACE, competing as Miss Greater Sandhills, was chosen fourth runner-up in the Miss North Carolina Pageant. She was the talent winner at the pageant. JEREMY MILLS, assistant project manager with Precision Walls in Greenville, earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design accreditation. GLORETTE ODESSA SHANNON of Greenville was appointed by Gov. Bev Perdue to the State Board of Barber Examiners. She is a rehabilitation counselor for N.C. Vocational Rehabilitation. STEPHEN “ANDY” WILLIS joined Century 21 The Realty Group in Greenville as a sales associate specializing in residential property sales. JENNIFER RENEE WINCHESTER and Charles Joseph Taylor were married May 2. She is a third-year dental student at UNC School of Dentistry.
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Pirate Nation
As Brody School of Medicine students, Mary and Brian Dawson traveled to Uganda on a medical mission, and what they saw there changed them forever. Soon after graduation in 2006, they founded a nonprofit organization, ChooseAneed, that to date has raised close to $100,000 to pay for several small medical and health-related projects mainly in Africa.
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2006
CHRIS BALANCE ’06 ’08 is an assistant defensive football coach at Campbell University. He was an assistant football coach at New Bern High School. AYRORA FAIN BLACKBURN and Derek Joshua Barker were married May 23. She works for the SERVE Center at UNC Greensboro. SARA MARGARET BOSEMAN and David William Roberts were married May 16. She is in her third year of pharmacy school at Campbell University. SARAH B. FOSTER was certified as a professional in human resources by the HR Certification Institute. She works at Smith Elliott Kearns & Co. in Hagerstown, Md. DRUSILLA HATLEY of MHAworks in Greenville earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design status through the U.S. Green Building Council. She also became a National Council for Interior Design Qualification certified interior designer. MATT HILL, superintendent for WIMCO Corp., passed the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design professional accreditation exam. ANNA MARIE LEGGETTE and Dallas Parker Goldston were married May 2. She is a nurse at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. DANIEL MORANCYNTHIA ANN MULLEN and Wesley Taylor were married April 25. She is a pediatric occupational therapist at Therapeutic Life Center in Greenville. JOSEPH B. RUDOLPH of Wilson graduated from the Pettit College of Law at Ohio Northern University. received the Charles J. Zencey Memorial Award at Widener University, Wilmington, Del. The award is given to a student who demonstrated a commitment to protecting the environment and who is likely to pursue a career that furthers environmental protection.
2005
JESSICA ELIZABETH BROWN and Scott Randall Hondros were married June 6. She is a senior accountant with Ernst and Young in Greensboro. ERIN IVY COLLINS ’05 ’08 and ADAM BOUCHARD SAUNDERS were married June 13 in Dublin, N.C. She works for the public schools in Robeson County, and he works for Heartland Publications. CAROLINE COPELAND earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification. She is a designer at A.R. Chesson Construction Co. in Williamston. Dr. SARAH CATHERINE FERGUSON ’05 ’06 and Dr. JUSTIN CLARK CURLEE ’05 ’06 were married June 3 in Santorini, Greece. Both are traveling physical therapists with Ardor Health Solutions in Colorado. AMANDA PEELE HARRELL earned the designation of Certified Public Accountant. She is a staff accountant with Pittard Perry & Crone in their Williamston office. MIRIAM ANN JAMES and WILLIAM POWELL KEMP IV were married April 4. She is the billing manager with the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the East Carolina Heart Institute. He is co-owner and operator of Carolina Woods and Water in Scotland Neck. LIONEL KATO was named principal of Farmville Middle School, where he completed an administrative internship in 2005. He was assistant principal at West Greene Elementary School in Greene County and is enrolled in the doctoral program in educational leadership at UNC Wilmington. TIMOTHY JAMES MORGAN rejoined The Clement Companies as a sales associate in the Raleigh office.
2004
KEVIN DAVID ANDERSON married Farhana Khan May 2 in Toronto, Canada, where he is an optometrist. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania College of Optometry. CAROLINE COOPER joined Kitchen and Bath Decisions in Winterville as its residential designer. She was a kitchen and bath designer in Wilmington. SARA COWLING ’06 married CLINT SHOEMAKER May 9 in Wilmington. He is in the ECU accounting program. JESSICA CORIE CAROLYNE GRAINGER and Jonathan David Stewart were married April 18. She works in the surgical intensive care unit at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in Myrtle Beach, S.C. WINFRED JOHNSON is teaching middle school social studies and coaching varsity baseball at Harrells Christian Academy in Roseboro. The former ECU baseball player was inducted into the ECU Hall of Fame in 2001. JACK METCALF had a solo exhibition, “Object of a Fiction,” showcasing his recent prints, drawings and mixed-media work at Gallery Espresso in Savannah, Ga. PETER JOSEPH MILLS of Falls Church, Va., married Kelly Renee Gilbert on Aug. 8. He is a senior pricing analyst for a government contracting company in Lansdowne, Va. MATTHEW WARNER NORRIS and Kelly Suzanne Brown were married Oct. 11, 2008. He works at Perkins + Will in Washington, D.C. KRISTEN DENISE WARD and Aaron Penny were married June 20. She is a kindergarten teacher at Williamston Primary School.
2003
JILL EBERLE exhibited her work in a three-woman show at the Bank of the Arts in New Bern. She is on the faculty of the ECU School of Art. NICK SCHNABEL was named assistant baseball coach at Liberty University, where he will be the hitting and infield instructor. He was the hitting instructor at West Point.
2002
HILLARY ANDREWS and ALEX LEFEVRE ’93 were married May 2 in New Bern. ERIK BAKICH was named head baseball coach at the University of Maryland. He was assistant baseball coach at Vanderbilt. Dr. DAWN KENDRICK joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine as an assistant professor. She recently completed a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Children’s Hospital of Alabama. NIKI LITTS was named program coordinator for the Cultural Center in Holly Springs. JESSICA MAUCH and SETH WILFONG were married March 28 in Dilworth. She is co-owner of New Directions and he is a developer and partner in uptown Charlotte’s EpiCentre. MELISSA MITCHELL-STUEBER and her husband Craig of Glen Allen, Va., had a daughter, Adriana Leigh, July 16, 2008.
2001
DAVID GARRARD, quarterback for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, received a key to the city from Durham Mayor Bill Bell at Southern High School, from which he graduated in 1997. The presentation coincided with the David Garrard Foundation’s first-ever “Air it Out” Football and Cheer Summer Camps held at Southern High School to raise awareness of Crohn’s disease and to educate children and adults on the ways that they can live healthier, happier lives. JOSE GARCIAJOSEPH ZACHARIAH “ZACK” MIXON,a design/build projects coordinator with A.R. Chesson Construction Co. Inc. in Williamston, earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification. DANIEL WIGGINS joined Bouvier Kelly in Greensboro as a media buyer and negotiations specialist in both the new media and traditional media platforms. He was a media buyer at Mullen.
was named Greene County Schools Teacher of the Year. He teaches science at Greene County Middle School in Snow Hill and coaches soccer.
2000
DAVID LEWIS was named principal of Rosewood Elementary in Wayne County. He was principal at Rosewood High, assistant principal at Goldsboro High, and a teacher and assistant principal in Edenton. KATHRYN ANNE MATTHEWS and Eric Kenneth Elder of Holly Springs were married May 9 in Charleston, S.C. She is retail group manager for Capital Bank in Cary. LEE SMITH graduated from Officer Candidate School at Ft. Benning, Columbus, Ga., and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army. As a National Guardsman, he serves as a transportation officer with the 1452nd Transportation Co. based in Winston-Salem.
1999
TERESA K. ANDERSON ’99 ’00 ’05 was named principal at Newlin Elementary School in the Alamance-Burlington School District. She was principal at Hawk Eye Elementary School in Red Springs. She is working toward a doctorate in educational leadership at Fayetteville State University. AARON CARROW was certified as a construction documents technologist. He is a construction administrator at BJAC, an architectural firm in Raleigh. TERRI KIRBY HATHAWAYTARA PARKER ’99 ’02 ’06 was named administrator of Pitt County Schools’ Health Science Academy. She was assistant principal at Wahl-Coates Elementary School in Greenville. received the Volunteer of the Year award from the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary. She is the marine education specialist for N.C. Sea Grant.
1998
JULIE BATEMAN ’98 ’01, an information technology relationship manager in BB&T’s IT Client Services department, was promoted to vice president. MARVIN BURKE was named head football coach at Lewisville High School. He played inside linebacker at ECU from 1993–96. He was assistant coach at Southeast Magnet School in Raleigh. Dr. SUSAN NIKROOZ joined Frye Regional Medical Center in Newton. She is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology.
1997
MITCH GALLOWAY was honored by the Fayetteville Guard of the American Indoor Football Association, which retired his jersey No. 3 for his efforts to promote arena football in Fayetteville. ERIN GRIMSLEY was named director of marketing, business development, and gifts at Heritage Hospital in Tarboro.Shewassales and marketing manager at Kanban Logistics. LINDA LAYDEN was appointed principal of Perquimans Central School. She also teaches at the College of the Albemarle and is working on her doctorate of education at ECU. RICHARD ROBINSON ’97 ’99 joined Super Shred of Greenville as an information security consultant for the Triangle area. He was an account manager for several financial institutions in Florida. SONYA TOMAN was named director of the Beaufort County Department of Social Services. She was program manager for the Division of Children, Youth and Families in the Arizona Department of Economic Security.
1996
LENA HOLLAND was named Teacher of the Year for Swansboro Elementary School. She was Nationally Board Certified in 2002 and is currently working on a master’s in elementary education at UNC Wilmington. JEFF LAUER was appointed curriculum development administrator for the Midland Public Schools in Michigan. He was principal at Eastlawn Elementary School and assistant principal at Dow High in Michigan. PAM SUTTON MCCULLEN, a Whiteville Primary School teacher, was nationally board certified. She was a Teaching Fellow and taught elementary school at Elizabethtown Primary School. Dr. LEANNA THORN joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine as a clinical assistant professor. She was associate medical director of emergency services at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence, S.C. ALLISON WISSER-PYLE and JAMES “JAMIE” PYLE had a son, James Edward Pyle, on May 5 in Tucson, Ark.
1995
MICHAEL PRESTON was named director of student affairs at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. MEGHAN REED joined Premier Properties of Southwest Florida Realtors at their Vanderbilt branch office. She has 10 years of experience in the residential building industry as co-owner of a tile and marble company. LAURA WRIGHT received the 2008–09 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award at Western Carolina University, where she directs the graduate program in English.
1994
SCOTT BASS led a group of death penalty opponents on a 300-mile march around eastern North Carolina in June to bring awareness to their cause. He and his wife operate Nazareth House in Raleigh, a ministry supporting people who have had loved ones murdered and those on death row. LORENZO “LO” CARMON was inducted into the N.C. Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame after directing 26 high school and 32 USA Wrestling tournaments, affecting more than 6,000 young athletes. He is assistant to the manager for the town of Carrboro. DUSTY FIELD, CEO of Boylan Companies, was elected to the board of directors of the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. He is also on the ECU Foundation board. WILLIAM HENDRICKSON was named Warren County Schools’ Teacher of the Year in his first year teaching science at Warren New Tech High School, where he began a Student Academy of Science. He has also taught in Edgecombe County Schools and Nash/Rocky Mount Schools. SEAN PUMPHREY was named social worker of the year by the N.C. Coastal District of the National Association of Social Workers. He is a psychotherapist and clinical social worker at ECU Physicians’ Fire Tower Medical Office, Greenville. MARNY RUBEN was named principal of Seawell Elementary School in Chapel Hill. She was the school’s assistant principal. CAROL JONES SHIELDS ’94 ’00 co-presented a session on rural business development with Dr. Pat Long, director of the ECU Center for Sustainable Tourism, at the Association of Resource Conservation & Development Councils’ national conference in Albuquerque, N.M. KELLEY ROTH SIMPSON was selected as a N.C. Principals Fellow, which helps selected individuals to complete a two-year full-time masters of school administration program in preparation for a career in school administration. She is attending NCSU. AMY TAYLOR ’93 ’95 coauthored the textbook Extreme Science: From Nano to Galactic, written for middle and high school teachers to help their students understand scale and develop quantitative evaluation skills. She is a research assistant and doctoral student at N.C. State.
1993
Dr. RICK HENDERSON ’93 ’97 ’02, an electrophysiologist, joined the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of cardiology. He completed a cardiology residency at Wake Forest Baptist’s Heart Center, a cardiology fellowship at Penn State University/M.S. Hershey Medical Center, and an electrophysiology fellowship at the Heart Center. Tara Lynne Schiphof, daughter of CHRISTOPHER SCHIPHOF and MELANIE OAKLEY SCHIPHOF ’95, was crowned Junior Miss North Carolina.
1992
TERESA BYRUM ’92 ’98 ’08 was named principal at Ayden Elementary School. She was the director of licensed personnel for Pitt County Schools. Dr. C. SCOTT CALLICUTT ’92 ’97 joined Premier Surgical Associates in Knoxville, Tenn. He practiced for five years with Gastonia Surgical Associates in Gastonia.
1991
SCOTT BAILEY was selected as one of five Easter Seals UCP North Carolina staffers to participate in “Advancing Strong Leadership for North Carolina DD Professionals,” a three-year training program for promising individuals under 40 in the developmental disabilities field. CHARLES CHESTNUT ’91 ’96 was named principal at Northwest Elementary School near Belvoir. He was principal at Darden Middle School in Wilson County.
1990
MARY CHATMAN ’90 ’96 was appointed chief nursing officer at Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, Ga. She was vice president and chief nursing officer at Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville. She is working on her doctorate in nursing. DREW COVERT was appointed president of Southern Bank and Trust Co. He was the bank’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. BOB DAVIS ’90 ’93 retired as a criminal justice instructor from Edgecombe Community College in Tarboro. He is now an adjunct instructor at N.C. Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount. JON DECKERGARY GORE was appointed president of Bank of America’s Richmond market. He was managing director and mid-Atlantic regional executive for Bank of America’s U.S. Trust. Lt. Col. CHRISTOPHER R. RAMSEY became commander of the 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, at Fort Polk, La. He was deputy chief of current operations for the Joint Special Operations Command. JEFF STEPHENS was named branch manager and commercial lending officer for Select Bank & Trust’s East 10th St. office in Greenville. Lt. Col. MICHAEL J. TIMMERMAN retired from the U.S. Air Force after 25 years. He lives near Goldsboro, where he is aerospace science instructor at Southern Wayne High School in Dudley. KEVIN WALKER was appointed director of business development at Elliott & Company Appraisers in Greensboro. was named by Golf Digest as the 21st ranked golf instructor in Florida, where he is the head instructor at the Grand Cypress Academy of Golf in Orlando. He is also the director of instruction at the New Albany Country Club in Columbus, Ohio.
1989
GARY WOODLIEF, senior vice president and chief business development officer for North State Bank’s CommunityPLUS division in Raleigh, graduated from the American Bankers Association Stonier National Graduate School of Banking at the University of Pennsylvania.
1988
JOHN CLARK was appointed CEO of NarTest Technologies, a Morrisville-based company that distributes high-speed drug detection equipment in North America. JEANNIE GUTHRIE ’88 ’89 was selected teacher of the year at Queens Creek Elementary School in Swansboro. She has taught in Wilson, Pitt and Onslow counties for 20 years. Dr. CAROL MOORESCOTT THOMAS of Vanceboro was appointed chair of the Governor’s Crime Commission by Gov. Bev. Perdue. He was elected in 2006 as district attorney in the district comprising Carteret, Craven, and Pamlico counties. He was a state senator from 2001–2006. joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine as a clinical assistant professor. She is a reservist in the U.S. Naval Medical Corps.
1987
ANTHONY D. JACKSON was named superintendent of New Henry County Schools in Virginia. He was the executive director of K–12 curriculum and instruction and director of secondary education at Spotsylvania County Schools in Virginia. Dr. CARL E. HARRIS was named the Central Carolina Regional Superintendent of the Year. He is the superintendent of Durham Public Schools. Dr. LINDSAY STEVENSON ’87 ’91 joined the staff at Greenville Women’s Clinic, a division of Physicians East. He was a partner at Coastal Women’s Clinic in Elizabeth City and chief of the medical staff at Albemarle Hospital. He serves on the executive board of the N.C. OB/GYN Society.
1986
ROBERT “BOB” W. HAYWORTH III was promoted to executive vice president of Lockton, a privately held insurance broker in Kansas City, Mo. He was COO of the company. JOANNE JOHNSON, an instructor and director of accounting at Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute, received the Donald W. Lackey Teaching Excellence Award. GAIL PERRY JOHNSTON published The Social Cause Diet: Find A Service That Feeds Your Soul. Since 1989 she has been the head of P. Johnston Design & Advertising in Lafayette, Calif. CARL KRATZ joined ERA Evergreen Real Estate as a realtor in Bluffton, S.C. He was a sales manager for Republic Services of Savannah, Hilton Head, and SWS of Georgia. ELLEN SHEEHAN, digital media teacher, was named Teacher of the Year for Swansboro High School. She produces Pirate Talk, the school’s television program, and is also assistant coach for the women’s tennis team.
1985
CHERYL STEPHENSON was elected to a two-year term as president of the Southeastern Region of the American Music Therapy Association. She is executive director of Music Academy of Eastern Carolina, a nonprofit community music school in Greenville.
1984
SUE LUDDEKE ’84 ’93 exhibited her work in a three-woman exhibit at the Bank of the Arts in New Bern. She is on the faculty of the ECU School of Art. MARION ALTMAN retired as president of Pamlico Community College after serving 10 years. He was principal of Fred A. Anderson Elementary School.
1983
SUE ORMOND SINGLETON ’83 ’92 was honored as a distinguished alumni from the School of Human Environmental Sciences at UNC Greensboro. She helped start an orphanage in Cambodia. JOYCE WADE retired as associate superintendent of human resources for Johnston County Schools and received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine for her 38 years of service. She was a teacher, assistant principal, and principal at Benson Elementary School.
1982
WILLIAM “BILL” H. HOPKINS JR. joined the financial team at Southern Investment Services, a division of Southern Bank and Trust Co. He has 18 years of experience as an investment consultant. FRANK M. MAIORANO joined Foundation Source, a provider of support services for private foundations, as executive vice president, sales. He was the founder, managing director, and head of the RIA and Institutional Consulting Services Group of Nuveen Investments.
1981
Dr. GEORGE HUGHES JR. published Pfarma Pfables, a humorous expose of the career of a CEO in the pharmaceutical industry told from the animal point of view. JANET CLARK SMITH was named Martin County’s LEARN NC coordinator. Previously a media coordinator for Martin County Schools, she will connect all Martin County schools with LEARN NC, the Internet-based teacher resource program at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Education.
1980
DEBBIE COOK was named assistant vice president for North State Bank. She was a mortgage loan underwriter for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. Dr. JANE T. LEWIS received a Spotlight of Excellence Award from Campbell University’s School of Education in May. The award recognized her exemplary leadership, dedication, loyalty, and selfless acts of service to Campbell. The Department of Social Work also presented her with a plaque in appreciation of her contributions to that program. SHARON LAMB RAYNOR was elected to a three-year term on the New Century Bancorp board of directors. She is president of LIFE Inc., a behavioral health care center in Goldsboro.
1979
JULIA TAYLOR HYMAN was remembered posthumously through creation of the Taylor Hyman Nursing Scholarship Fund established at Carteret Community College Foundation to assist nursing students. THERESA PARKER PIERCE was named the N.C. American History Teacher of the Year. She is a history specialist at Horizons Unlimited in Salisbury and is working on a graduate degree at Catawba College.
1978
CARLA BASS was named to oversee community corrections operations in Pitt County. She was judicial district manager for Lenoir and Greene counties. MICHAEL “MIKE” GOODING ’78 ’86 was appointed regional vice president of commercial markets for Wilmington by RBC Bank. E. LEON OWENS JR. was named director of the Caswell Developmental Center in Kinston. He was the facility administrator for the Pee Dee Regional Center in Florence, S.C.
1977
MARVIN E. “MARK” GARNER JR. of Greenville was reappointed to a four-year term on the ECU Board of Visitors. He is a vice president of Rivers & Associates architects in Greenville. DOROTHY ANN KOSZULINSKI received her MS in Christian counseling from Philadelphia Biblical University. SUSAN WHITFIELD ’77 ’95 published her third mystery novel, Hell Swamp, and is working on a fourth, Gator Creek.
1976
STEVEN D. BENJAMIN was sworn in as second vice president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He is an attorney in private practice with the Richmond, Va., firm of Benjamin & DesPortes. SHEILA MOORE, a marine science and earth and environmental science teacher, was named Teacher of the Year at Croatan High School. DEAN SAULS was named principal of Rosewood High in Wayne County. He was director of secondary education.
1975
GLENN EURE had a show of his work at his Ghost Fleet Gallery in Nags Head. THOMAS HAGER was appointed superintendent of Whiteville City Schools after a 35-year career with the federal school system. Maj. Gen. WILLIAM L. HOLLAND was promoted to commander of the 9th Air Force at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., after serving as the unit’s vice commander. GREY MORGAN became chair and CEO of Southern Bank and Trust Co. in Mount Olive. He was executive vice president and regional executive of the bank’s Southern Region.
1974
ROBERT LUCAS was elected vice chair of the ECU Board of Trustees. He is an attorney in Selma. MILT SHERMANWrestling Spoken Here, a novel about a high school wrestler. A four-year starter on the wrestling team, an All-American wrestler, and a member of the ECU Athletic Hall of Fame, he taught and coached wrestling at D.H. Conley High School in Greenville for nearly 30 years. THOMAS R. “TOM” WILSON was promoted to vice president of quality operations at Metrics Inc. in Greenville. He was manager of the company’s quality control division.
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1973
GWYN COGHILL was appointed lower school principal for the Cape Charles Christian School after retiring as principal of Kiptopeke Elementary School in Cape Charles, Md. LESLIE FERGUSON retired as principal of St. Egbert Catholic School in Morehead City after 32 years as principal. LEE MYERS did not seek reelection as mayor of Matthews after serving nine terms. He practices with his son, Matthew Myers, at the Myers Law Firm. PAT WILLIAMS was named training director at Four Oaks Bank & Trust Co. in Four Oaks.
1972
TIMOTHY PITTMAN ’72 ’81 ’90retired as principal of SouthWest Edgecombe High School in Tarboro. In 36 years with Edgecombe County Public Schools, he was a driver’s education teacher; assistant principal, junior varsity and varsity basketball coach; principal of Carver Elementary; and principal of Pattillo A+ School.
1971
BETTY JO GWALTNEY RODGERS was appointed pastor of Haw Branch United Methodist Church in Richlands. TERRY LEE ROWLAND was appointed pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in Lexington. He has a master of divinity degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and has served in the Western North Carolina Conference for 28 years.
1970
JAMES “DALE” HALL was named executive vice president for the Wilmington market for First Federal of Charleston. He spent 39 years at Bank of America and most recently served in Greensboro as BofA’s Southeastern regional senior vice president and market executive for health care and institutions. BOB RANKIN exhibited his work in Arts of the Albemarle’s annual show at the center’s Jaquelin Jenkins Gallery. The Raleigh-based artist is known nationally for his representational scenes, abstracts, and mixed media pieces.
1969
PAUL M. BOWMAN was named Kent County circuit court judge after 36 years of practicing law in Kent, Md. He earned his law degree at the University of Baltimore School of Law. BEVERLY DUDLEY ’69 ’04 of Garner received the Teacher Leadership Award sponsored by the Western Wake Area Principals. She is a health and physical education teacher and department chair at Reedy Creek Middle School in Cary.
1968
W. KENDALL “KEN” CHALK ’68 ’71 was appointed interim president and CEO of the Risk Management Association. He is the former senior executive vice president and chief credit officer of BB&T and immediate past chair of the ECU Foundation and co-chair of the BB&T Center for Leadership Development. GERALD HORNER retired from Rappahannock Community College as an associate professor of health, physical education and recreation. JOHN S. KALIVODA and his wife, Marilyn, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Aug. 9. He works at the Florida Division of Blind Services. MARY WILLIAMS retired from the Edgecombe County Public Schools, where she had worked for 34 years.
1967
GERALD MCGOWAN and THELMA MCGOWAN ’68, retired Craven County educators, were presented with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine by Mildred Council, mayor pro tem of Greenville, on behalf of Gov. Bev. Perdue. He worked in the public schools before serving as assistant director and later director at the Craven Evaluation and Training Center. He later worked at Craven Community College. She was a teacher and librarian in the Craven County Schools and retired from Havelock High School in 1998.
1966
CHARLES R. JENKINS ’66 ’67 ’68 was appointed interim chancellor of UNC Pembroke, where he was provost, professor, director of admissions, director of student teaching and academic dean.
1964
KAY YOW was honored posthumously by the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators as its Award of Distinction recipient.
1959
CHARLIE ADAMS ’59 ’62 was recognized by the N.C. High School Athletic Association Board of Directors by a new scholarship fund, the Charlie Adams Endowed Scholarship. He joined the NCHSAA in 1967, became executive director in 1984, and retired in 2009. MAXVILLE B. WILLIAMS ’59 ’65 wrote the outdoor drama, First for Freedom, which has been performed in Halifax nearly every year since its premiere in 1976.
1958
RODDY L. JONES was named chair of the board of directors for the Foundation for Ethics in Public Service, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that educates citizens and public officials about ethics and public corruption. He is a former chair of the ECU Board of Trustees.
1957
ROBERT HYATT celebrated 50 years in the bond business. Currently with the Clement Companies, he worked with Travelers Insurance, Johnson & Higgins, and 23 years with his own company, The Hyatt Agency, in Richmond, Va.
1956
LOIS G. BRITT was posthumously honored when Duplin County commissioners named the Duplin Agricultural Center at Duplin Commons the Lois G. Britt Agricultural Center. A life-long Duplin County resident, she was the first woman to serve as a county extension director and worked with 4-H, home economics, community development, and agriculture even after her retirement and up until her death in 2005.
1953
WILLIAM H. ROWLAND of Kinston received the N.C. Society of Historians’ top honor in recognition of a book he co-authored on a major Civil War battle fought near Kinston. The book, Through the Eyes of Soldiers: The Battle of Wyse Fork, was published by the Lenoir County Historical Association.
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