East Carolina University

Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
 
Founders Day Celebration
of Centennial Honorees
 
March 27, 2008
2:00 p.m.
Hendrix Theatre
Mendenhall Student Center

INTRODUCTIONS
Dr. Frank Romer, Chair
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
 
Professors and Heads of Foreign Language Sections
Debra Anderson (French)
Charles Fantazzi (Italian)
John Given (Latin and Greek)
Birgit Jensen (German)
Elena Murenina (Russian)
Michael Schinasi (Spanish)
John Stevens (Classics)
Nobuaki Takahashi (Japanese)
 
Special Recognition
Ralph C. Deal, Director, 1923-1945
James L. Fleming, Chair, 1945-1970
Joseph Fernández, Chair, 1970-1973
Marguerite Austin Perry, Professor emerita, Chair, 1973-1981
Martin Schwarz, Chair, 1981-1989
Rosina Chia, Vice Chancellor for Global Academic Initiatives, Interim Chair, 1989-1991
Peter Standish, Chair, 1991-1995
Charles Sullivan III, Professor of English, Interim Chair, 1995-1997
Sylvie Debevec Henning, Director, International Studies, Chair, 1997-2004
John Stevens, Interim Chair, 2004-2005
 
Ann Molic Heumann, Secretary to the Department, 1964-1986
Georgeanne Davies, Secretary to the Department, 1984-2008
 
Retired FL&L Faculty Members

CENTENNIAL ADDRESS
Dr. Frank Romer
 
PRESENTATION OF HONOREES
 
Remarks
Dr. Georgia Hooks Shurr, President
Advancement Council, Friends of FL&L
 
Awards Ceremony
Dr. Frédéric Fladenmuller, Assistant Chair, Department of FL&L
Dr. Schurr and Members of the Departmental Awards Committee
 
CLOSING REMARKS AND RECOGNITION OF MEMBERS
OF THE ADVANCEMENT COUNCIL
THE FRIENDS OF FL&L
Dr. Frank Romer
 
Robert Albanese
Manolita Fernández Buck
Dolly Overton Hathaway
Pia Leahy
Marguerite Austin Perry
Robin Potts
Georgia Hooks Shurr
Susan Wilkins Valentine
 
RECEPTION
 
Mendenhall Multipurpose Room

Robert Pasqual Albanese Jr.
Joyce Dunham Akins
Lorie Tetterton Alligood
Ann Mayo Allred
Theresa Ann Bell
Mary Dixon Bellamy
John Birmingham
Diane Harris Bowen
Sylvia Domaratsky Briley
Mark Steven Bunch
Michelle Suddarth Camarena
Paul Camarena
Javier Yamil Castillo Jr.
Kathy Peed Chesson
Karel L. (Kiefer) Chirico
Robert Currier Christesen
Lynn Hanold Cline
Ann Coker
Robert Wilson Copeland Jr.
Tracy Haddock Coston
Martha Amelia Culton
Anne Sonia Dalrymple
Frances Daniels
Ann Williamson Davis
Diana Burnette Dean
Leo Paul Franke
Donald Ray Franks
Katharine Demnicki Garner
Kara C. Ginter
William L. Gore
Robert Benton Griffin
Katrin Ynez Haege
Carole Rankin Hall
Kimberly Ives Hampton
Dolly Overton Hathaway
Carolyn Pippen Howard
Arminda B. Israel
Stefanie Nicole Janssen
Jonathan Keathley
Karen Gordon Klaich
Ann Elizabeth Laliotes

Cristina Marie LaRaia-Gray
Nell James Lewis
Eric K. Mason
Kathleen Brewington McLamb
Linda Edwards McMahon
Ursula Faust McRae
Barbara Allen Miller
Catherine Pfeiffer Moore
Katie Owen Morgan
Martha Fisher Moses
James Madison O'Donnell
Laura Scharf Olson
Jacqueline Perri
William Scott Pierce
Paul Popov
Robin Roberson Potts
Clyde Williams Pryce
Margaret Ann Rabon
Lynne Hollis Reynolds
Dorothy Maynard Riddle
Leroy Salazar
Joanna Woods Sayblack
Georgia Hooks Shurr
Jean Fisher Smith
Stephen Clark Smith
Sandra Matlock Stinson
Alish Hill Stratton
Cristina Roncaglia Sturm
Margaret Bays Tankovich
Elizabeth Kittrell Taylor
Janet Lee Thomason
Sonia Torres-Quiñones
Ann Marie Trotta
Christopher Carl Turner
Kim Wise Undrosky
Susan Wilkins Valentine
Mary Whichard Vars
John Patrick von Suskil
Lucy Overton Watson
Vivian Faye Whiteman
Cynthia Matthews Wooten

Dr. Steve Ballard
Chancellor, East Carolina University

Dr. Alan White
Dean, Harriot College of Arts and Sciences

Paul J. Clifford
Associate Vice Chancellor for Alumni Relations

The following members of the
Foreign Languages and Literatures Advancement Council:
 
Georgia Hooks Shurr, PhD, President
Manolita Buck, Secretary
 
Robert Albanese, MD
Dolly Hathaway
Pia Leahy
Marguerite Austin Perry
Robin Potts
Susie Valentine