Cornerstone

Cornerstone A PUBLICATION FOR THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF THOMAS HARRIOT COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

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“ There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and miseries.”

Julius Caesar Act IV, scene iii, lines 217-220 William Shakespeare

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Welcome from the Director by John Tucker

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Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series: What’s in That Name?

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Voyages of Discovery: Liberal Arts Education as Learning Journey by Lorraine Hale Robinson

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Perspectives on the Voyages of Discovery Series

by Dr. Lester Zeager

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10 Student in the Spotlight: Edward T. Smith 12 Advancement Councilor Spotlight: Harvey Sharp Wooten 14 Voyages of Discovery Timeline This issue of Cornerstone is devoted exclusively to Harriot College’s Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series.

22 Afterword by Alan R. White 23 Development Column by Jennifer Tripp 24 Annual Honor Roll of Donors

Cornerstone is a publication for the alumni and friends of Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina University. It is produced by the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences.

General editor and writer Lorraine H. Robinson Graphic design Five to Ten Design, Inc.

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W E L C O M E F RO M T H E D I R E C TO R It is my particular privilege to welcome you to this issue of Cornerstone.

Devoted exclusively to Harriot College’s Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series, the magazine provides a close-up view of the development of this initiative and some “inside” looks at people and events that have been formative. You’ll also see comments and perspectives from people on- and off-campus.

Dr. John Tucker

When I saw the ad calling for applications for the position of director of a lecture series that did not yet exist, I was immediately attracted because, in the very uncertainty of what would be the content of the series I saw an incredible opportunity to help shape something that would be of immediate and abiding significance for Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, for ECU as a major research university with its quintessential mission of service, for eastern North Carolina, and indeed for the state as a whole.

East Carolina’s contributions to local culture are often understood simply in terms of athletics, medicine, or the performing arts. The university had not, in any systematic way and in the public’s perception, made nearly as much of an intellectual impact. Harriot College’s advertisement for the directorship suggested that the lecture series was intended to be the “premier intellectual event” in eastern North Carolina; and as someone whose own research focuses on intellectual history, I was excited to see that the proposed lecture series would be addressing that dimension of cultural life in the region.

Looking back at the history of East Carolina we see that when the institution was a training school, Helen Keller (assisted by her companion and interpreter) gave a presentation on campus. In 1936, Amelia Earhart gave a lecture in Wright Auditorium. And in 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt also spoke in Wright. Later, in 1952, Vice President Alben Barkley spoke in Wright. Senator John F. Kennedy delivered a campaign speech in the old College Stadium in 1960. East Carolina has hosted some incredible presentations since its beginning.

“The months and days are the travelers of eternity.

The years that come and go are also voyagers . . .” from The Narrow Road of Oku (Oku no Hosomichi); Bashō [Matsuo Bashō, 1644-1694]; in Anthology of Japanese Literature; Grove Press, 1994; translated by Donald Keene

Since the Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series began in the fall of 2007, I am especially proud of the succession of speakers who have come to ECU and who have become, even if briefly, a special part of this campus. Lecturers have included Richard Leakey; Walter Isaacson; Gloria Steinem; Neil deGrasse Tyson; Sir Salman Rushdie; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; and Louise Leakey; and next year, our premier lecturer will be Jane Goodall. In addition to these luminaries, two dozen other lecturers have come to campus to discuss various dimensions of religion, history, literature, folklore, drama, women’s studies, Asian history, anthropology, evolution, space travel, and the universe itself. While there remains much that needs to be done, the lecture series has contributed significantly to the intellectual quality of the campus, the university, and the state. In this, we have sought to continue the broad intellectual legacy of English Renaissance polymath Thomas Harriot for whom our college is named.

Enjoy this issue – both a stroll down a stimulating “memory lane” and an invitation to partake of next season’s offerings. Voyage with us!

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Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series – to paraphrase William Shakespeare: what’s in that name?

First, there is Thomas Harriot himself, English renaissance polymath. A brief biography chronicling some of the major achievements in his astonishing range of accomplishments can be found on page 9. Here at East Carolina University, Harriot inspires and impels all of us on the learning journey.

Second, College. From the Latin, the word means “an association, partnership.” Since the fourteenth century, the word has come to be related closely to that particular partnership of practitioners in higher education.

Arts and Sciences. The liberal arts and sciences comprise the unfettered entirety of studies appropriate for free [liberated] minds – as opposed to limited subjects fit only for enslaved persons.

Voyages. Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language (1966) says: “a relatively long journey or passage by sea” OR “a written account of a voyage.” So the lecture series is, itself, a journey, and this account of the series here in Cornerstone is also a voyage.

Discovery. From the verb “discover” – literally, to uncover, to reveal that which is hidden. Discoveries are simply the product of the uncovering process.

And finally, Series. Simply a group of related things arranged in succession. There are specific

uses of the term “series” in literature, rhetoric, mathematics, or electronics. The word itself opens broad disciplinary vistas of inquiry.

So there is much to be found, just in the name of this series.

The purpose of the series – for students, for faculty and staff, for members of communities close or far, is to explore and expand galaxies of knowledge, to penetrate and illuminate black holes of ignorance. The time line (pages 14 to 21) is a visual demonstration of the series’ intellectual ports of call.

It all began, once upon a time . . .

With a memory from Edward Smith (interview on pages 10-11), with a visionary commitment to make the series the premier intellectual convocation in eastern North Carolina. Prior to setting sail, there were meetings and conversations about what this vision might be and what this journey might encompass. For detail about this, see Dr. Lester Zeager’s personal reflections on the embryonic stages of the process (pages 6-8).

And where might the journey take us in the future? Significant and consistent funding is a major challenge. For opportunities to help “fit out this ship” for continuing voyages, see Harriot College Major Gifts Officer Jennifer Tripp’s column on page 23.

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(as opposed to, simply, training) is a complex and lifelong process. It involves journeys both external – school field trips and study abroad opportunities are two obvious examples – and journeys internal. Those internal journeys are much more difficult to chart. Their destinations are often obscure and what we think might be a “final destination” often turns out to be just a waypoint on the trip.

when we arrive in foreign ports of call. Or education may help us confirm why we believe what we do. So, what is “knowing?”

In that sense, education may be a “messy” process in a world that likes clearly identified goals and clearly articulated measurements of progress.

– the sun traveled around the Earth (the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church)

The intellectual complexity of the liberal arts learning journey is both breathtaking and daunting. For the learner, there is a palpable excitement of not knowing, of longing to know, of being on the verge; and, as playwright Eric Overmyer writes, the cartography of learning may be a “geography of yearning” (1986).

Journeys – particularly those to distant and foreign shores – challenge us, stir us up, afflict us in our comfort zones. In this way, the more interior intellectual journeys parallel the external and physical journeys that we make.

Education is not necessarily about tacit agreement and comfortable consonance. Education is about interior change that may lead us to make changes in our exterior environments. Educational voyages, to continue the metaphor, may cause us to revise and reshape ourselves 4

Education is about the process of knowing and, to coin a term, re-knowing. Examples in history abound. At one time, humanity knew for sure that: – the world was flat (lots of people for millennia)

– the female parent determined the gender of the child (Henry VIII of England) – unicorns were native to India (Ctesius of Cnidus, Greek physician) Perhaps “knowing,” then, is just a way-station on the learning journey. Knowledge, like many other things, seems to be vigorously organic, fluid, changing.

Living with rapid change requires perceptive imagination to envision something new. It is this power of imaginative critical thinking that advances the learning journey. The “thinking outside the box” popular saying describes educational discovery perfectly. There is a requisite “vision beyond the present horizon” that energizes learning.

Such imagination might be called a kind of intellectual “second sight.” Thomas Harriot’s contemporary Francis Bacon (philosopher, scientist, author, 1561-1626) writes

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by Lorraine H ale Robinson of the voyage in arriving at the destination? Or perhaps the value of voyaging is in the process of the travel itself.

The teaching and the learning that advance our intellectual journey explore beyond the facts. Where are our potentials – in our minds, in our physical environments, in sites not yet imagined?

Here in Harriot College, how do we journey? In many ways, the Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series is a rich, flowing river of experiences. We, like Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha, sit in Wright Auditorium on the campus of East Carolina University. Our speakers travel to us and then invite us to join them – via their presentations – on journeys astrophysical or archaeological, political or economic, historical or theological, literary or medical.

From our seats in Wright, we plumb the Olduvai Gorge or rocket beyond the solar system. And liberated from the rigid strictures of “what is,” we might ourselves jump into that moving river of ideas, become a force in the flow, and travel toward what might be.

Sometimes the learning voyage may be across pacific waters, sometimes across stormy seas of doubt, discouragement, and unbending opposition. Is the value

By any measure, then, liberal education – in the classroom, in the laboratory, in Wright Auditorium – that is a voyage worth taking.

eloquently about imagination-driven education in his The Advancement of Learning: “[t]hey are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea” (II, vii. 5).

Therefore, real learning and real progress in ideas are not limited just to “where we presently are” and “what we presently see.”

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by Dr. Lester Zeager

Initial Ideas The origins of the “Voyages of Discovery” idea can be traced to a visit to Oxford University in June 2004.

I presented a paper at a conference organized by the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (“Analyzing Conflict and Its Resolution”) at St. Catherine’s College, the youngest of the colleges that constitute Oxford University. During the visit I spent hours walking through the streets, alleys, and meadows, soaking in the atmosphere of that magnificent collection of colleges. One afternoon, I glanced at the Harriot College bag I was carrying and thought, “Wasn’t Thomas Harriot from Oxford?”

I had permission from the Refugee Studies Centre to use their library (my presentation at the conference was on refugee negotiations), so I checked the Harriot College web site and found that Thomas Harriot was a graduate of Oriel College. However, the portrait that we associate with Harriot hangs in Trinity College. I asked Diana Williams (traveling with my co-author John H.P. Williams) to contact Trinity College and inquire whether we might view the portrait. Diana found the people at Trinity very receptive to – indeed, honored by – our request, and we were invited to view the painting and tour the campus the 6

next day. It was inspiring to have such an intimate tour of a college with a long and rich tradition (e.g., the grounds feature a bust of one of its most famous graduates, John Henry Newman, the author of The Idea of a University, the definitive essay on the purposes of such an institution).

Upon arriving home, I was overflowing with excitement about the experience. I began to imagine ways to explore the possibilities latent in our connection to Oxford University, made possible by the naming of Harriot College. Through discussions with a few other people within the College, some ideas began to take shape in my mind. I put these ideas into writing on June 29 and sent them to Dean Sparrow by e-mail. The attachment, titled “Thomas Harriot Voyages of Discovery,” contains the first mention in writing of the name initially adopted for the lecture series. Hardly more than one hour after receiving the message, he responded enthusiastically. Though recognizing that the proposal needed some refining, he wrote, “And if I didn’t like the proposal, I find its name – Thomas Harriot Voyages of Discovery – so resonant of Harriot’s (and Raleigh’s) character and so attractive I’d find it hard to say ‘no’ anyway. It’s the perfect choice for a name.”

Dr. Lester Zeager

Development of the Idea The following summer (2005), Harriot College received an invitation to attend the annual Thomas Harriot Lecture at Oriel College. Dean Sparrow chose me to represent the College at the lecture. I was housed in the living quarters for Oriel College during my stay, and had a tour of the campus given by the President. After the lecture, in a series of brief conversations at the reception, I had opportunities to explore the level of interest in several ideas that had emerged since my last visit (the academic equivalent of doing business on the golf course). The idea that generated the most interest, by far, was to bring some of the Harriot lecturers to ECU, so as to give their ideas broader exposure.

At the formal dinner, someone attended who had not been invited, so there was no chair for me when I arrived.

Oriel’s President (an economist, incidentally) ordered a chair placed beside his, so I was strategically located.

Fortunately, Dean Sparrow and Lou McNamee provided me with gifts to share with my hosts, so the President gave me five minutes after the meal to give the gifts and make any comments I wished on behalf of Harriot College at ECU. I used the time to suggest the idea of a “Thomas Harriot Voyages of Discovery” lecture series in North Carolina, perhaps including visits to Roanoke Island. The response was very favorable, with the group in attendance

assuring me that speakers from England would be happy to cooperate with us. At that point, we envisioned a series of annual lectures, related in some way to Thomas Harriot’s broad interests. Indeed, this idea bore fruit, transforming occasional events commemorating Thomas Harriot’s interests into an annual affair, involving speakers from both sides of the Atlantic.

The next step in the development of the lecture series occurred not long after Dean White arrived at ECU. He had embraced Harriot College’s namesake quickly, and he wanted me to listen to ideas taking shape in the Advancement Council. We met with several Advancement Council members at the office of Edward Smith, where they challenged us to expand the series in several ways: (1) offer several lectures each year, (2) address topics of broader interest, (3) invite some high-profile speakers, (4) pursue contributions to underwrite the costs, and (5) appoint a director for the lecture series. As these ideas gained momentum, Dean White shortened the name of the series to “Voyages of Discovery.”

After a college-wide search for a director, the ad-hoc search committee recommended John Tucker (History) for the position, and he was appointed by Dean White. From that point, Dr. Tucker gave leadership to the lecture series, with 7

support from faculty committees to choose speakers and to oversee the development of the series from year to year.

Showing exceptional ingenuity, Dr. Tucker and Dean White have guided the series through funding uncertainties and the challenges of campus politics, making it the most widely recognized lecture event anywhere in the region. The most prominent speakers have virtually filled Wright Auditorium, generating an air of excitement. Their daring forays into the world of ideas make enduring impressions on our students, engaging them (along with many others from the community and region) in the joy of discovery and awakening in them the possibilities in the life of the mind.

The key to sustaining the momentum of the lecture series and the sense of excitement it has brought to ECU is attracting a few high-profile speakers each year who are instantly recognized, even off campus. The premier lecturer for next year, Jane Goodall, is such a speaker. Having an opportunity to share an evening with her will create powerful memories that last for a lifetime, inspire people of all ages who hear her story, and move us to consider how we are spending our lives. Our students and the people in our region will be infused with a new sense of purpose by encountering people from time to time who have achieved greatness.

Dreams for the Future I dream of someone, or several people, stepping forward to underwrite the lecture series, placing it on a firm foundation for the years to come. Dr. Tucker and Dean White have gained financial support from across the campus (east and west) and beyond by choosing speakers and topics that appeal to a broad cross-section of interests. Harriot College has found partners that have enabled the lectures to continue, one year at a time. With the prospect of further budget cuts affecting the entire campus, new partners are needed from beyond the campus.

With the event having achieved unprecedented visibility in the community, the time seems ripe for new partners to join us.

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“I was…contented with a private life for the love of learning that I might study freely.”—Thomas Harriot, December 16, 1605

Thomas Hariott (variously spelled Harriot, Hariot, or Harriott), English Renaissance polymath, was born in Oxford, England, in 1560. He was educated at St. Mary’s Hall (now Oriel College), Oxford University, receiving a BA there in 1579.

Harriot subsequently joined the household of Sir Walter Raleigh and taught mathematics and science, especially as these applied to ship navigation and design. When the 1584 Raleigh-sponsored New World expedition returned to London, Harriot engaged Manteo and Wanchese, two Native Americans who had come to England, in a successful attempt to learn Algonkian, and even devised an alphabet for that language.

Harriot also traveled with the 1585 expedition to establish a settlement on Roanoke Island. On the outbound voyage aboard the Tiger, Harriot observed and recorded a solar eclipse with such precision that today, scholars and navigators can locate exactly the ship’s position at the time of that eclipse.

While on Roanoke Island, Harriot was a close observer of the natural environment and the native population. His detailed account was condensed and published as A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588).

Harriot’s book remains an English-language classic in ethnography and anthropology.

Harriot’s other accomplishments include his development, around 1601, of the sine law of refraction of light; his identification of the trajectory of a projectile, a tilted parabola; his astronomical observations and drawings; his invention, contemporary with Galileo Galilei, of the “perspective trunke,” or telescope; his poetry and scriptural studies; his ethnographical collaboration with fellow explorer John White; and his development of a theory of the genesis of equations— one of the last discoveries in the field of algebra.

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Student in the Spotlight

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M E D SOCIAL A Edward T. Smith: Education, meetings, conversations . . .

Nature photography by Edward T. Smith

Edward T. Smith arrived on the campus of East Carolina College in 1960. In those days the national news was fifteen minutes long, and there was – at least in eastern North Carolina – a limited exposure to major idea trends that were shaping and reshaping the world beyond the Inner Banks. Smith graduated from ECC and went on to earn additional degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, later engaging in careers in education and finance.

Fast forward to 2013 – news occupies entire media networks, is available in multiple languages twenty-four hours a day every day. Trends flash across the human experience via Twitter®, Facebook®, and countless forms of instant messages. Trends (like Andy Warhol’s observation about fame) may last only fifteen minutes. But

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we are bombarded with trend information, in “real time,” as events are actually happening. Time is ultra-compressed.

Flashback – family and friends of Smith’s who live in other places across North Carolina are attending thoughtprovoking lectures or “learning weekends” in Charlotte, Chapel Hill, Greensboro. Smith himself travels out of eastern North Carolina to avail himself of these sorts of opportunities.

Pause – in 2006, East Carolina University isn’t yet providing the same kind of opportunities.

Flashback – but it once did. Edward Smith remembers vividly and describes ardently sitting in Austin Auditorium and hearing a penetrating point-counterpoint discourse between William F. Buckley and Fred Rodell. On opposite

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ends of the political spectrum, conservative and liberal points of view are aired and debated. Students, faculty, staff, and community members experience an event that remains vivid over fifty years later. In memory, time stands still.

Fast forward – making a reality of a vision. Alan R. White, Dean, appoints a committee of leaders from across the campus and from the community to discuss and plan. Consensus – ECU needs a top-notch series that will expose students and the community to diverse ideas. The goals are ambitious: a premier lecturer will make a public presentation, will interact with faculty and students, and will meet with members of the community.

Other speakers will present on the encompassing range of liberal arts subjects – science, humanities and fine arts, social science. Harriot College’s Dean’s Advancement Council embraces this project and takes it on.

2014 and beyond – what is a stable source of ongoing funding? How can resources be coordinated through the years so that in 2064, another ECU alum can remember with vivid clarity those “amazing lectures in Wright Auditorium,” can say “I was in the same room with renowned paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, space shuttle commander Eileen Collins, writer Sir Salman Rushdie!”

For ECC student and now-Harriot College Advancement Councilor, Edward Smith, the memory of Buckley and Rodell helped to lay the keel for the vessel that today voyages into uncharted intellectual territories. Perhaps a new iteration of E=mc2 is developing through the power of the speakers on Harriot College’s lecture series: Education = meetings x conversations squared.

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Harvey Sharp Wooten, a member of the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Advancement Council, is enthusiastic in her support for Harriot College’s Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series.

these premier lecturers is encouraging people to come hear other speakers on the slate. Perhaps these speakers are not yet as well-known as the premier lecturers, but every one of them has opened new vistas for me.

“There is a real intellectual thrill in being in the same room with the kind of luminaries that the Voyages Lecture Series brings to East Carolina University. In particular, the Premier Lecture each season brings speakers who are, in and of themselves, recognizable to a broad audience. I’ll never forget the inaugural season’s Richard Leakey, or later, Walter Isaacson or Sir Salman Rushdie.

And what is happening is that the powerful credibility of

I have been privileged to be a College of Arts and Science advocate for many years. It was a joy to help enhance the College’s W. Keats Sparrow Conference room with a new portrait of Thomas Harriot; it has been wonderful to participate in the creation of endowed professorships; but there are few things in which I’ve been involved that give me deeper personal satisfaction than the Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series. These have

We are working toward identifying a series “angel” or group of angels who will make the necessary advance planning more effective.

Wooten and White examine a copy of an early map.

become – for me and for, by now, thousands of others our personal journeys to and beyond our own horizons.

This series is Harriot College’s gift to the university community and to the region. A special strength of the series is that it casts a wide net in its choice of speakers.

Each speaker broadens our minds, expands our view of the world – so essential in our increasingly globalized environment, and informs us about people and work in the widest variety of fields.

In order to grow this series and to expand its impact, we are seeking major underwriting. Too often, the series

has struggled from year to year in order to provide the quality and diversity of speakers that distinguish each season’s slate. We are working toward identifying a series “angel” (major donor) or group of angels who will make the necessary advance planning more effective. To negotiate contracts with major speakers, the series needs a reliable source of secure funding. So accomplishing that goal may be even bigger than the project of bringing in our many presenters.”

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ECU’s liberal arts college is designated as Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences

DECEMBER: Dr. Ivor Noël Hume delivers the inaugural Harriot College Lecture

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SUMMER: Harriot College is invited to attend the Thomas Harriot Lecture at Oriel College, Oxford; Dr. Zeager represents Harriot College and explores with Oriel College President the possibility of an annual academic speaker exchange

Edward Smith of the Harriot College Dean’s Advancement Council reminisces enthusiastically about the “high-powered” public presentations he enjoyed while a student at East Carolina College

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At another (unrelated) on-campus activity, the idea that the Voyages Series’ major lecture would be called “the premier intellectual event in eastern North Carolina” is developed

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JUNE: Dr. Lester Zeager travels to Oxford University for a conference and has an opportunity to view Thomas Harriot’s portrait with members of Trinity College

JUNE: Dr. Zeager shares his ideas about a possible ECU – Oxford University connection with Dean W. Keats Sparrow who endorses the concept enthusiastically

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30 MARCH: First Voyages of Discovery Lecture: “Thomas Harriot: Renaissance Scientist” delivered by Robert Fox, honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford

Dean Alan R. White reassembles the Harriot Lecture Committee in order to explore the possibility of a lecture series (perhaps two events); members include campus leadership, Advancement Councilor Edward T. Smith and others to select a slate of lecturers

2007 The slate for the visionary four-event inaugural season is announced including an inaugural lecture; a premier lecture; a Sallie Southall Cotten Lecture (focusing on women’s issues), and a Thomas Harriot Lecture (related to Harriot or his period)

2007 10 OCTOBER: The Premier Lecture: “On the Origins and Future of Humanity” delivered by Dr. Richard Leakey, paleoanthropologist, head of Kenya’s Wildlife Department, and Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University

2008 21 FEBRUARY: The Sallie Southall Cotten Lecture: “Captain Ahab Had a Wife” delivered by Dr. Lisa Norling, Department of History at the University of Minnesota

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11 APRIL: The Thomas Harriot Lecture: “Sir Walter Raleigh and the Elizabethan World of Thomas Harriot” delivered by Dr. Mark Nicholls, St. John’s College, Cambridge University

The series also incorporates two long-standing college lectures (the Jarvis Lecture in Christianity and Culture and the Lawrence F. Brewster Lecture in History)

2008 8 OCTOBER: The Premier Lecture: “Creative Leaders Who Have Shaped Our World” delivered by Walter Isaacson, author and CEO of the Aspen Institute and former CEO of CNN

2009 2 APRIL: The Thomas Harriot Lecture: “The New Worlds of an Elizabethan Scientist” delivered by Dr. Stephen Clucas, Birkbeck College, University of London

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2009 25 FEBRUARY: The Lawrence F. Brewster Lecture in History: “The Man Who Gave His Name to America” delivered by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University

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6 OCTOBER: The North Carolina Lecture: Reflections on the Last Samurai” delivered by Dr. Mark Ravina, scholar in transnational history and Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Russian and East Asian Studies, Emory University

6 NOVEMBER: The Premier Lecture: “Reflections on Feminism: A Voyage of Discovery with Gloria Steinem” delivered by Gloria Steinem, feminist, political activist, and author

2008 24 SEPTEMBER: The North Carolina Lecture: “Medical Discoveries in the 20th Century” delivered by W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr., MD, ECU’s own Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences and Founding Director of the East Carolina Cardiovascular Institute

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18 NOVEMBER: The Jarvis Lecture on Christianity and Culture: “Christians in an Age of Empire: Then and Now” delivered by Dr. Marcus Borg, emeritus Professor at Oregon State University

27 JANUARY: The Sallie Southall Cotten Lecture: “Darwin’s Legacy in Science and Society” delivered

by Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education

2009 10 SEPTEMBER: The Lawrence F. Brewster Lecture in History: “Black Pirates: The Curious Early History of the Amistad Rebellion” delivered by Dr. Marcus Rediker, Professor and Chair of the Department of History, University of Pittsburgh

THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME: SERENDIPITY ON THE JOURNEY

BY CHERYL DUDASIK-WIGGS One of the most popular speakers to appear as part of the Voyages of Discovery series came via a bit of serendipity. Thendirector of the Women’s Studies Program, Cheryl Dudasik-Wiggs, remembers it this way: “One Wednesday afternoon in late September of 2009, I received a call from a representative of Soapbox, the feminist speaker’s bureau. It was just by chance that I was in my office that late, as I had attended an afternoon meeting and had decided to catch up on some grading before driving home. The cheerful voice on the other end of the line said that Gloria Steinem would be making several stops in the South over the next few months—and would ECU be interested in having her speak on our campus? Frankly, I was so stunned that I couldn’t speak for a moment; and I actually asked her to repeat her request! I had been a follower of Steinem since the mid-1970s, and even the thought of having her on our campus was beyond thrilling. Without hesitation, I agreed to explore this possibility while trying desperately to sound professional!”

Immediately, Dudasik-Wiggs contacted the Harriot College Dean’s Office, which—in turn—led to several meetings with Voyages Director John Tucker. Continued Dudasik-Wiggs: “Our Women’s Studies executive committee was tasked with raising the funds to bring Steinem to campus while Dr. Tucker’s team agreed to coordinate the logistics. Ours was the much easier task: Within a week, we had secured pledges of funding—quite literally—from every source we had contacted. The excitement was palpable from throughout the ECU community.”

When Steinem appeared on November 9, Wright Auditorium was filled with over 1400 ticketholders to hear the Premier Lecture—“Reflections on Feminism: A Voyage of Discovery with Gloria Steinem.” And the American feminist icon did not disappoint her audience. She spoke on the common links between seemingly diverse political movements, stating that “we truly are all one movement;” and she challenged her listeners to make a difference in someone else’s life every day. But, she added, her appearance on stage was just an “excuse to bring you together and discover that you didn’t need me in the first place…You have all the energy and creativity and hopes and dreams…, and you know what needs changing here much more than I do.”

That is what journeying does: it energizes the traveler to take on new tasks, to explore uncharted territories, to expand personal horizons.

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2010 26 JANUARY: The Jarvis Lecture on Christianity and Culture: “Recovery from the Long Nightmare of Amnesia” delivered by Dr. Walter Bruggemann, Old Testament scholar and emeritus Professor at Columbia Theological Seminary

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18 MARCH: The Thomas Harriot Lecture: “Native Americans of North Carolina” delivered by Dr. Theda Perdue, past president of the American Society for Ethnohistory and emerita Professor, UNC at Chapel Hill

9 SEPTEMBER: The Lawrence F. Brewster Lecture in History: “The Language of Slavery, the Diction of Freedom: Voices from the Nile Valley and Ottoman Empire” delivered by Dr. Eve Troutt Powell, Professor of History and Middle East and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

2010 9 NOVEMBER: The Jarvis Lecture on Christianity and Culture: “Reinventing Christianity” delivered by Dr. Matthew Fox, spiritual theologian, Episcopal priest, former member of the Order of Preachers (Dominican Order) in the Roman Catholic Church

2011 5 OCTOBER: The Premier Lecture: “Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World” delivered

by Sir Salman Rushdie, author, advocate of intellectual freedom, and Distinguished Writer in Residence in the Department of English, Emory University

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2010 17 FEBRUARY: The Sallie Southall Cotten Lecture: “Little Old Ladies and the Last Word: An exploration of Sassiness and Risqué Behavior in African American Folklore” delivered by Dr. Trudier Harris, scholar on African American literature and culture and J. Carlyle Sitterson emerita Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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2010 6 OCTOBER: The Premier Lecture: “On the Origins of the Universe” delivered

by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History

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24 MARCH: The Thomas Harriot Lecture: “A Briefe and True Report of The Lost Colony Drama in the New Found Land of Virginia” delivered by lebame houston, historian and Outer Banks thespian

13 SEPTEMBER: The Lawrence F. Brewster Lecture in History: “Sky as Frontier: America’s Air and Space Century” delivered by Dr. David T. Courtwright, John A. Delaney Presidential Professor. Department of History, University of North Florida

2011 10 NOVEMBER: A University Lecture Celebrating Fifty Years of Diversity: “African-American Lives: Genetics, Genealogy, and Black History” delivered by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African-American Research, Harvard University

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2012 2 FEBRUARY: The Thomas Harriot Lecture: “‘Temperate Air, Requisite Care’ from Thomas Harriot’s ‘Conclusion’ in A Briefe and True Report on the New Found Land of Virginia” delivered by Bland Simpson, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2012 5 SEPTEMBER: A University Lecture Celebrating Fifty Years of Diversity: “Exploring the Frontiers of Science and Human Potential” delivered by Mae C. Jemison, MD, former NASA astronaut and research director for the “100 Year Starship Project”

2012 13 NOVEMBER: A Space Lecture: “Leadership Lessons from Apollo to Discovery” delivered by Colonel Eileen Collins, NASA space shuttle commander

2013 21 MARCH: A Joint Thomas Harriot/Lawrence F. Brewster lecture in History: “Native Peoples and the Battle of the Nooherooka” delivered by Dr. Daniel K. Richter, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania

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2012 13 MARCH: The Jarvis Lecture on Christianity and Culture: Religion and the Post-Racial Condition” delivered by Dr. J. Kameron Carter, Associate Professor in Theology and Black Church Studies, Duke University

2012 2 OCTOBER: The Premier Lecture: “Secrets in the Sands: Revelations into How We Became Humans” delivered by Dr. Louise Leakey, paleontologist, National Geographic Explorerin-Residence, and Department of Anthropology Research Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University

2013 5 MARCH: The Jarvis Lecture in Christianity and Culture: “Strange Bedfellows: The Bible, American Politics, and Homosexuality” delivered by Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, Vanderbilt University Divinity School

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Alan R . White This issue of Cornerstone is a logbook of the fantastic voyages that Harriot College has taken over the past years. Our collective travels have broadened our minds and enriched our spirits. From seats in Wright Auditorium, Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series attendees have reached out into the universe, reached deep into art and politics and nature and matters of faith.

Each lecture has, itself, been a culmination, a destination. But each lecture has also been a waypoint in the longer journey of life. The “journeys” of the lecture series also echo our lives. We set out, destination in mind, provisioned for travel.

And then we round a bend and find the unexpected. We reassess and reroute ourselves. And then we round another bend and, again, find the unexpected.

Life is its own journey.

—Laurens Jan van der Post (1906-1996)

The Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series is – in microcosm – liberal education. We begin with an “itinerary” that is constantly being altered and expanded. What liberal education does is equip us with the knowledge, critical thinking skills, and curiosity that enable us to respond to change – perhaps the only certainty in our frenetic contemporary life.

Here, at the end of this season of voyaging, we are in port, repairing our vessel, refitting it, re-provisioning it for next year’s journeys. Quietly in harbor, I want to take this opportunity to thank members of Harriot College’s Advancement Council, especially Edward Smith and Harvey Sharp Wooten; John Tucker, lecture series director; Lester Zeager, visionary educator; the staff of Harriot College; and students, faculty, and friends who have been on board. I also want to thank the long list of distinguished lecturers who have taken us to places beyond our own experience.

As Laurens van der Post has said, “Life is its own journey.” In this period of its life, Harriot College will embark on new voyages, will reach new and as yet unknown destinations. English Renaissance polymath Thomas Harriot, for whom our College is named, lived and worked for a time in eastern North Carolina. But he also voyaged in the intellectual realms of mathematics, ethnography, linguistics, theology, cartography, astronomy, and natural history. His probing and enquiring mind is the model for all that we do. Lifelong learning compels us to embark again and again. We come to harbor, not to say with complacent finality – “that’s it, journey’s over.”

Rather, we wish each other “bon voyage” as we set sail into the future.

Here, at the end of this season of voyaging, we are in port, repairing our vessel, refitting it, re-provisioning it for next year’s journeys.

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Friends, In 2007, the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Advancement Council initiated the Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series and invested annual funding. Through Harriot College, the Advancement Council, and other campus and community members, the series has experienced great success since its inaugural year.

The Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series has become the premier intellectual event for students and faculty of ECU, the citizens of eastern North Carolina, and a showcase for the quality of academic life at ECU. To advance the spirit of exploration and discovery that is the hallmark of the liberal arts, the series offers a slate of distinguished speakers whose pioneering work continues to shape our understanding of the world around us.

The lecture series enables Harriot College to provide for students an exceptional learning environment that augments the general curriculum while raising the profile of the university by attracting preeminent scholars in a particular field. These lectures are made possible by the generosity of our donors, and the funds allow us to attract distinguished scholars to our campus and to maximize the impact of their visits to East Carolina University.

Your gift, of whatever size, will play an important part in enabling Harriot College to continue to provide a thriving, dynamic environment for excellence and achievement far into the future. We hope you will consider joining the visionary benefactors who are already taking part in this unprecedented philanthropic effort.

You can help. Contact me to become a visionary benefactor and help us change our world.

Jennifer Tripp, Major Gifts Officer trippj@ecu.edu 252-737-4201

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Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences

Updated as of May 28, 2013

Annual Honor Roll of Donors During the past year, hundreds of friends have generously supported Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences with their financial gifts. In these days of shrinking government funding, contributions from institutions and individuals provide expanded programming, academic opportunities, and liberal arts enrichment for students and faculty. The following list reflects gifts made to Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences from July 1, 2012, through May 28, 2013.

To notify us of any changes or to add your name to the list, please contact Harriot College’s Director of Development, Jennifer Tripp, 252-328-490 1.

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THOMAS HARRIOT COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

DEPARTMENTS Anthropology Dr. Randy Daniel, Interim Chair 328-9430 Biology Dr. Jeff McKinnon, Chair 328-6718 Chemistry Dr. Rickey Hicks, Chair 328-9700 Economics Dr. Richard Ericson, Chair 328-6006

English Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, Chair 328-6041

History Dr. Gerald Prokopowicz, Chair 328-6496

Political Science Dr. Brad Lockerbie, Chair 328-6189

Foreign Languages and Literatures Dr. John Stevens, Interim Chair 328-6017

Mathematics Dr. Johannes Hattingh, Chair 328-1881

Psychology Dr. Susan McCammon, Chair 328-6800

Philosophy Dr. George Bailey, Chair 328-6121

Sociology Dr. Marieke van Willigen, Interim Chair 328-6883

Geography Dr. Burrell Montz, Chair 328-6230 Geological Sciences Dr. Steve Culver, Chair 328-6360

Physics Dr. John Sutherland, Chair 328-6739

INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS African and African American Studies (Minor and BA)

Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Minor)

Asian Studies (Minor and BA in Multidisciplinary Studies)

Multidisciplinary Studies (BA/BS)

Classical Studies (Minor and BA in Multidisciplinary Studies)

Neuroscience (Minor, BA and BS in Multidisciplinary Studies)

Coastal and Marine Studies (Minor)

Religious Studies (Minor and BA in Multidisciplinary Studies)

Ethnic Studies (Minor)

Russian Studies (Minor)

Great Books (Minor)

Security Studies (Minor and Graduate Certificate)

International Studies (MA and Minor)

Women’s Studies (Minor and BA)

Leadership Studies (Minor)

AUXILIARY OPERATIONS Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee

Harriot College Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series

Center for Diversity and Inequity Research

Laboratory for Instructional Technology

Center for the Liberal Arts

North Carolina Center for Biodiversity

Center for Natural Hazards Research

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Executive Secretary Denise Miller millerde@ecu.edu

Major Gifts Officer Jennifer Tripp trippj@ecu.edu

Honorary Co-chairs Mr. Robert L. Jones Raleigh, NC

Chair Mr. Doug Gomes Greenville, NC

John M. Howell, Chancellor Emeritus

Vice Chair Ms. Harvey S. Wooten Greenville, NC

Mrs. Gladys Howell Greenville, NC

Dr. James H. Bearden Greenville, NC Mr. Thomas R. Bland Raleigh, NC Dr. J. Everett Cameron Atlantic Beach, NC Dr. Shirley M. Carraway Winterville, NC Mr. Kurt Fickling Greenville, NC Dr. Paul Fletcher, Jr. Greenville, NC

Mrs. Marguerite A. Perry Greenville, NC

Mr. John W. Forbis Greensboro, NC Dr. James M. Galloway, Jr. Greenville, NC

Mr. J. Phillip Horne Greenville, NC Mr. Mitchell L. Hunt Greensboro, NC

Dr. Virginia Hardy Greenville, NC

Mr. Michael McShane Alexandria, VA

Mr. John S. Rainey, Jr. Richmond, VA Mr. Edward T. Smith Greenville, NC

Dr. H. Denard Harris Morehead City, NC

Mr. James H. Mullen, III Greenville, NC

Mr. Tod Thorne Charlotte, NC

Mr. W. Phillip Hodges Williamston, NC

Mr. M. Reid Overcash Raleigh, NC

Mr. Glenn C. Woodard, Jr. Atlanta, GA

Ms. Sherry Holloman Greenville, NC

Dr. J. Reid Parrott, Jr. Rocky Mount, NC

Mr. Mike W. Yorke Greenville, NC

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