2011 COB Annual Report

Tomorrow starts here.

2011 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY OF SUPPORTERS

75 years of excellence

“The mission of the College of Business is to provide an environment where students, faculty, and business professionals can pursue the acquisition of applied and theoretical knowledge relevant to the operation of profit and nonprofit organizations …”

TA B LE O F CO NTE N TS Message from the Dean..................................................................3 Year in Review.....................................................................................5 Our Faculty..........................................................................................9 Honors and Awards........................................................................ 13 Faculty Highlights..................................................................... 17, 19 Awards for Scholarships.............................................................. 23 Beta Gamma Sigma....................................................................... 27 Timeline............................................................................................... 29 Era 1: Dean Elmer Browning....................................................... 33 Era 2: Dean James Bearden......................................................... 41 Era 3: Dean Ernest Uhr.................................................................. 51 Era 4: Dean Rick Niswander....................................................... 57 Saluting Our Supporters.............................................................. 63 Business Advisory Council.......................................................... 65 Partners for Excellence................................................................66 Commerce Club............................................................................... 70 Young Executives........................................................................... 77 Directory............................................................................................ 79

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Message from the Dean

This year, we celebrate a significant milestone in the College of Business: our 75th anniversary. From humble beginnings as a small school that primarily taught teachers, we have grown into a world-class business college with unique programs that are second to none. Our alumni continue to make significant contributions across the state, nation, and world.

I’m proud to be at the helm of the College of Business during this momentous time. As many of you know, Rick Niswander accepted a position as vice chancellor for administration and finance at ECU in early 2011—during a fiscally challenging time when our university needs his expertise the most. I have served as associate dean with Rick throughout the past six years, and I’m honored to be currently leading our fine college.

We have a lot to be proud of in the College of Business. Since opening the doors to what was then called the Department of Commerce, we have been blessed with talented faculty who work together to achieve unbelievable results. Our students and alumni continue to achieve and have proven themselves competitive across the globe. With our new Leadership and Professional Development program well underway, students are now even better prepared with vital 21st-century skills like leadership, communication, and teamwork.

Today we face unique economic challenges. Fears abound about the U.S. possibly heading into another recession as other parts of the world also experience financial crisis. Our teachers have an overwhelming responsibility like never before to prepare our students for these trying times and enable them to make a positive difference in their communities and careers. I know together we will continue to rise to the challenge and help our students and college continue to thrive.

As a college alumnus, donor, faculty member, student, or simply someone reading this annual report, you should be extremely proud of what our people are doing today and what they have done throughout the last 75 years. Our past efforts have established a solid base. The collective ideas, efforts, vision, and achievements of our people have created a strong college today. Our people— those today and those tomorrow—will help ensure our continued success.

Here’s to another 75 years of excellence.

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Warm Regards, Stanley G. Eakins Dean, College of Business

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Year in Review Leadership Changes Dr. Stanley G. Eakins was named dean of the College of Business effective January 1, 2012, after serving in an interim role. Eakins has served as associate dean of the College for more than five years and is a former chair of the Department of Finance.

The College’s previous dean, Dr. Rick Niswander, took the position of vice chancellor for administration and finance at East Carolina University on a permanent basis after serving in an interim role for several months. Niswander had served as dean since 2004.

Leadership and Professional Development Program Off to a Strong Start The College of Business launched a new leadership course in fall 2010 for all sophomore business students—just one of several innovative courses planned as part of the college’s new Leadership and Professional Development program. In Leadership I, the sophomore course, students focus on the applied leadership skills needed to move a team toward successfully completing a goal. The course even has a lab component, making it the first laboratory class for the College of Business.

A new junior-level leadership course began in fall 2011, the latest class offered as part of the Leadership and Professional Development program. In Leadership 2, students examine topics in professionalism and leadership, giving them the tools necessary to monitor and manage themselves in diverse, professional environments throughout their career. Students discuss why professionalism and business etiquette matter and investigate topics in ethics, values, and beliefs.

Culture and diversity are woven throughout the entire course to help students evaluate companies and situations for cultural fit based on knowledge as well as personal values.

ECU Kicks off New Insurance Program The College of Business officially kicked off its new risk management and insurance program on February 8, 2011, when a series of special events culminated with a national insurance executive visit through the Beta Gamma Sigma Distinguished Lecture Series. During a student luncheon and special presentation, insurance executive Bob

The ECU chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Management (SAM) won numerous awards at the national conference in Orlando, Florida. (See story on the next page.) Pictured right to left, Eric Vozzo, Vishal Shah, Sarah Moran, Jennifer Leone, Dr. Joshua Aaron, and Shelby Boruff.

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open division, which allows one or more graduate students on the student team, ECU won first place—taking home the Thomas R. Greensmith Award. Three ECU students also received recognition for excellence in service and scholarship, with Regional Outstanding Student Awards given to Alex Bosco, Vishal Shah, and Heather Nelson. In addition, Dr. Joshua Aaron received an Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award.

Students in Dr. Tracy Tuten’s Social Media Marketing class worked with the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Restrepo—who is chairman, president, and CEO of State Auto Insurance Companies—welcomed students to the insurance industry, which he described as an “industry in transition.”

Directed by Dr. Brenda Wells, an insurance expert who holds a PhD in risk management and insurance from the University of Georgia, ECU’s risk management and insurance concentration is a direct result of partnerships with industry professionals. Officials also announced a collaboration between ECU and the National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research, which will allow students to earn the university associate certified insurance counselor (UACIC) designation through their course work—giving them an important head start on earning the prestigious certified insurance counselor (CIC) designation. During the luncheon, the College of Business honored 15 students who had recently passed the UACIC certification test.

ECU Ranks Third in State for CPA Exam Pass Rates East Carolina University had the third-highest CPA exam pass rate among major North Carolina colleges and universities for the most-recent reporting period of 2009. The ranking is based on candidates without advanced degrees who passed all parts of the exam. Only Wake Forest University and Davidson College had higher pass rates; ECU beat out 31 other universities with a pass rate of 48.28 percent.

ECU Students Win Top Prizes at National Small Business Conference For the sixth year, student teams from the College of Business at East Carolina University took home top prizes at the National Small Business Institute® (SBI) Conference, held from February 17–19, 2011, in Bonita Springs, Florida.

One student team won first place in the Undergraduate Business Plan Division for its work with physicians proposing an East Carolina Integrative Medicine Clinic. Another student team earned second place in the Undergraduate Comprehensive Division for its consulting work with Fabricate Too, a Greenville-based women’s clothing boutique located in Arlington Village.

The College of Business has enjoyed a long tradition of winning top honors in the SBI’s Project of the Year Competition. Since 2005, ECU has earned eight finishes in the top three, including four first-place winners.

Management Students Win International Strategy Game Two business students in Dr. Joshua Aaron’s Strategic Management class won top honors in May 2011 for their team’s first-place performance in an international online simulation exercise called the Business Strategy Game. Every semester, student teams in Aaron’s class operate a virtual company in this hands-on strategy game used by more than 300 universities around the world.

ECU students Charles Kariuki and Jesse Bramble received a “Grand Champion” certificate in May for winning first place in the Best-Strategy Invitational as the overall top-performing company in their industry. The award is extended to less than 5 percent of all players of the Business Strategy Game.

Marketing Students Help Charlotte Motor Speedway Student teams in Dr. Tracy Tuten’s Social Media Marketing class performed consulting work for Charlotte Motor Speedway during the fall 2010 semester, helping develop real-world social media marketing campaigns for the home base of

SAM Wins National Awards ECU took home numerous honors at the Society for Advancement of Management (SAM) national conference, held from March 31–April 3, 2011, in Orlando—earning recognition at the chapter, advisor, and individual student levels. ECU won second place in the chapter competition among larger schools. The recognition is one of the highest national honors given by SAM to its individual chapters. In the case competition

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NASCAR. While students were mostly involved virtually throughout the project, they attended a NASCAR event in mid-October.

Accounting Student Awarded AICPA Minority Scholarship The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) honored accounting student Kendell Harris with a 2010–2011 AICPA Minority Scholarship—the first ever for an East Carolina student. The AICPA Minority Scholarship program provides awards each year to outstanding minority students, encouraging their selection of accounting as a major and their ultimate entry into the profession.

Originally from Hertford, North Carolina, Harris graduated from Pitt Community College in 2008 with a degree in accounting. He immediately enrolled at ECU to continue his undergraduate education, and he hopes to ultimately earn a master of science in accounting as well as a CPA designation.

Students Enjoy Annual Trip to Washington, D.C. During spring break, a group of 17 students visited Washington, D.C., led by College of Business Career Services Director Scotty Andrews.

The annual trip, held March 8–10, 2011, helped expose students to organizations and potential career opportunities available in the nation’s capital. Students also met with a panel of ECU alumni in the area. In addition, students toured the US Capitol, thanks to a guided visit and photograph coordinated by US Senator Richard Burr’s office. They also enjoyed coffee and doughnuts with US Senator Kay Hagan.

Outstanding Seniors Named for 2010–2011 Five outstanding seniors from each department in the College of Business were honored for their academic achievement during the annual Graduate Recognition Ceremony in May 2011.

The Department of Accounting honored Andrew Stoker, the team captain of ECU’s varsity swim team. He plans to return to his

Featured at left, accounting student Kendell Harris was awarded the 2010–2011 AICPA Minority Scholarhip—the first ever for an East Carolina student.

College of Business students take a picture with US Senator Richard Burr during their annual visit to Washington, D.C.

home state of Pennsylvania and work with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was an intern last summer. The Department of Finance selected Ashley Wetherington as its outstanding senior. She plans to pursue her MBA at Clemson and begin a career in finance. The Department of Management named Jessica Forbes at its outstanding senior.

She plans to pursue her MBA at ECU and earn a graduate certificate in professional communication.

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Tim Bryant was selected by the Department of MIS as its outstanding senior. He has accepted employment with Orasi Software in Greensboro, North Carolina, and is the first online student to receive the outstanding senior award. The Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management honored Brittany McKinney, who will pursue her MBA at ECU and ultimately work in advertising.

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Our Faculty New Tenure-Track Faculty Members

Accounting Rebecca Fay joins the Department of Accounting from Virginia Tech University, where she recently earned her PhD in accounting and worked as a graduate teaching assistant. In addition, she holds both an MBA and BS in accounting from Liberty University in her hometown, Lynchburg, Virginia.

Prior to earning her PhD, Fay worked in public accounting for eight years with Cherry, Bekaert & Holland where she was an audit manager.

At ECU, Fay will teach managerial accounting.

“I was excited to meet my students on the first day of class,” she says. “They are intelligent, personable, and engaged. I look forward to getting to know them better and helping them prepare for their careers. I believe they have promising futures ahead.”

Fay’s research interests include improving auditor judgments, enhancing cognitive processes at the team level, and the impact of international financial reporting standards. She is the lead author on an International Financial Reporting Standards textbook supplement developed by a team of authors from Virginia Tech. In the classroom, she says her goal is to help students understand the material, how it applies in the business world, and how it can help them achieve success in their chosen career.

“I strive to actively engage students in the learning process through in-class discussion and activities as well as the incorporation of first-hand experiences and current newspaper headlines,” Fay explains.

Her husband, Patrick, also works at ECU as the communications and marketing manager for Undergraduate Admissions. Together, they enjoy exploring Greenville and the surrounding areas with their three-year old daughter, Erin.

Management Ericka Lawrence joins the faculty at ECU from the University of Alabama, where she earned her PhD and taught leadership, business ethics, and human resource management. At East Carolina, she will teach organizational change and development in the Department of Management.

Originally from Bessemer, Alabama, Lawrence also holds a MAcc and BSBA. She worked for several Featured at left: Associate Professor Huigang Liang with the Department of Management Information Systems.

New faculty members (left to right) Stacey Robinson, Christine Kowalczyk, Jon Kicrchoff, John Drake, Ericka Lawrence, Rebecca Fay, and Cody Chullen.

years in a variety of roles as a certified public accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Her research interests include work-family balance issues, burnout, leadership, and business ethics.

“My primary role as an instructor is to maximize student learning by creating an engaging atmosphere and by using multiple approaches to present materials,” Lawrence says, describing her teaching philosophy. “I make every effort to ensure that students have a solid foundation in course-related concepts and that they are able to use this knowledge during their careers. I believe that students who are engaged are more likely to participate in class discussions and to retain the information that is presented.”

Lawrence lives in Greenville with her husband, Cornelius, and daughter, Kaila.

Management Information Systems John Drake comes to ECU from Eastern Michigan University, where he worked for three years before moving to Greenville. He also has experience teaching at Louisiana Tech University. At East Carolina, Drake will teach web development through the Department of Management Information Systems.

In addition to his teaching experience, Drake also worked for five years as an information

technology professional. He earned his PhD in management information systems from Auburn University in 2008 and obtained his BS in physics from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in 1998. His research interests include business and IT ethics, decision making, and e-commerce. In the classroom, he says his teaching philosophy is to develop a deep conceptual understanding of class material and a passion for information technology.

Originally from O’Fallon, Illinois (a small town near St. Louis), Drake says he loves seeing the “sea of purple” at East Carolina. “The students at ECU show incredible pride in their university and a passion for learning,” he says. “My wife and three kids love Greenville and look forward to living here for many years.”

In his spare time, Drake is a triathlete, juggler, camper, and avid reader.

Marketing and Supply Chain Management Jon Kirchoff joins the College of Business from the University of Tennessee, where he earned his PhD in business administration with a concentration in logistics and supply chain management. He taught numerous logistics classes as a graduate student in Knoxville, and at ECU he teaches operations and supply chain management.

Kirchoff holds an MBA from The Ohio

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State University, a MS in economics from the University of Utah, and a BA in economics from the University of Utah. In addition, he has nearly 15 years of experience in supply chain management, purchasing, management, contract negotiations, and logistics. He has worked for OEA Aerospace, Mercedes-Benz US International, and Echostar Satellite Corp. in Denver, Colorado.

Currently, Kirchoff ’s main research focus is on emerging strategic issues in supply chain management, including green and sustainable supply chain management, demand and supply integration, and global supply chains. In the classroom, he says he believes an active process of give and take should exist.

“Students should not be passive players if they are to get the maximum benefit from their education experience,” Kirchoff explains. “I find that students respond positively to the encouragement for the expression of ideas, thoughts, and questions, ultimately learn more, and have a greater learning experience.”

Born in Asheville, North Carolina, and raised in Brigham City, Utah, Kirchoff enjoys mountain sports and has also been playing, writing, and recording music most of his life. He now lives in Greenville with his wife Amy and two children, Angela and Anders.

Marketing and Supply Chain Management Christine Kowalczyk comes to ECU from Tennessee, where she recently earned her PhD in marketing from the University of Memphis. She also holds an ABJ in public relations and an MBA from the University of Georgia.

Originally from Atlanta, Kowalczyk has extensive experience in public relations and marketing. She has worked in marketing/communications at AutoTrader.com as well as LeasePlan, a fleet and vehicle management services company. At ECU, she will teach both cultural environment in international

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business and advertising and promotions.

“I try to impress upon my students that learning is for a lifetime, and education should extend beyond the classroom,” she says. “My teaching philosophy is guided by providing my students with new knowledge but also life skills.

Learning should be fun!”

Kowalczyk’s research interests include celebrity brands, product placement in reality shows, and marketing and advertising to children. She is married to her high school sweetheart, Matt, and together they have two children: Max (4) and Anna (2). Although they are huge Georgia Bulldogs fans, they also enjoy cheering on the Pirates.

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Stacey Robinson joins the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, where she recently earned her PhD in marketing.

She also has an MBA from Meredith College in Raleigh and a BSBA from the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Robinson has experience in the financial services industry, having served as vice president–product and segment manager and assistant vice president– advertising specialist at First Citizens Bank and in the roles of banking center manager and marketing sales representative at Bank of America.

At ECU, Robinson teaches consumer behavior and retail management. Her research interests include retail and services marketing, social influence, and signaling. She says so far, ECU students have been very hospitable—both welcoming and friendly. Robinson says she strives to maintain an open and interactive classroom.

“I believe a topical and conversational classroom is essential to true learning,” she says. “I chose this profession for a number of reasons, one of which is that I have a strong desire to make a difference in students’ lives. I personally know the power of

caring and mentoring professors and hope to have a like impact on those entrusted to me.”

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Cody Chullen joins the Department of Management from Purdue University, where he is finishing his PhD in organizational behavior and human resource management. He also taught various courses along with microteaching sessions through Purdue’s Center for Instructional Excellence. At ECU, he teaches managerial negotiations.

Originally from Benton, Illinois, Chullen earned his MBA and BS in management from Southern Illinois University–Carbondale. He has held several professional positions prior to focusing solely on academia, such as serving as a congressional aide to US Congress, working as a financial specialist for the US Department of Agriculture, managing information technology at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale, and being a paralegal for a mid-west law firm.

When it comes to research, Chullen’s primary interests include occupational stress and strain.

He is specifically interested in “burnout” and the harmful effects it has on employee commitment and performance. In the classroom, he says he believes it’s his mission to develop students as a whole person rather than a learner of a singular subject.

“I practice a process of growth that begins with an existing core of intellectual tools and works outward in all directions to include all realms within the fields of management,” Chullen explains. “The process is structured while allowing for freedom, challenging while focusing on successes, and, above all else, recognizes that we are fellow human beings—a belief that holds at the forefront of my pedagogy.”

In his spare time, Chullen is an avid billiards player and bowler. He says he’s always up for a game of straight pool, 8-ball, 9-ball, or a match on the lanes.

This scholarship means a lot to me because without financial support, I would not be able to attend a university. Because of financial support like yours, my dreams are coming true. Thank you for giving back and

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helping others reach their dreams.

— Kendell Harris

Frank and Renee Floyd Scholarship Donors: Frank and Renee Floyd

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Honors and Awards Joshua Aaron Department of Management • Awarded a 2011 Summer Research Stipend for “A Change in Market Responses to Environmental Management Reputation.” He also received an award for Outstanding Faculty Advisor at the Society for Advancement of Management (SAM) national conference held in Orlando, Florida in April.

Robin Armstrong Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management/Former Assistant Director for Graduate Studies • Named to the Servire Society for the third consecutive year.

Eli Beracha Department of Finance • Awarded a 2011 Summer Research Stipend for “Determinants of EREIT Valuation Premiums to Fundamental Values.”

Margaret Capen Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management • Selected by the graduating MBA students to serve as marshal for the fall 2010 and hooder for the spring 2011 graduation ceremonies.

Haozhe Chen Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management • Inducted into the Servire Society.

Reid Claxton Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management • Honored by the College of Nursing for his service and contribution to the school over the past decade. He was presented a special award at the College of Nursing’s 50th Anniversary Gala.

Brett Cotten Department of Finance • Was a finalist for the Max Ray Joyner Award for Faculty Service through Continuing Education.

He was also nominated for the Robert L. Jones Award.

Cal Christian Department of Accounting • Nominated for the Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Shanan Gibson, Bill McDowell, and Michael Harris Department of Management • Selected to present at the 11th Annual National Outreach

Scholarship Conference (NOSC) in Raleigh in October 2010.

The three also presented their joint research, titled “Enhancing the Techniques, Talents, and Performance of Minority Business Owners,” at the 2011 United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference as well as at the 2011 National Small Business Institute Conference.

Charmaine Glegg Department of Finance • Selected by the graduating FINA student to serve as faculty marshal during the fall 2010 graduation ceremony.

Lee Grubb Department of Management • Selected by the graduating MBA student to serve as hooder during the spring 2011 graduation ceremony.

Joey Hagan Department of Accounting • Selected by the graduating MSA students to serve as hooder during the fall 2010 and marshal during the spring 2011 graduation ceremonies.

Michael Harris Department of Management • Was one of 15 nominees for the James Talton Jr. Leadership Award.

He was also nominated for the Max Ray Joyner Award for Faculty Service through Continuing Education. Harris also chaired the national Small Business Association (SBI) conference for 2011.

Oneil Harris Department of Finance • Awarded a 2011 Summer Research Stipend for “Do Busy Boards Facilitate Managerial Entrenchment?”

Andrew Herdman Department of Management • Awarded a 2011 Summer Research Stipend for “Expanding the Boundaries of Strategic HRM Research: Exploring the Antecedents and Outcomes of Variation in HR System Climate Perceptions.” He was also honored as the HR division’s best paper of 2011 by the Academy of Management for his paper (coauthored with Jeffrey Arthur of Pamplin College of Business and Jae Win Yang of Virginia Polytechnic and State University) titled “How a Climate for Incivility Affects Business Unit Performance: Testing a Linkage Model.” Selected by graduating management students to serve as marshal during fall 2010 graduation ceremony.

James Kleckley Department of Finance/Director for the Bureau of Business Research • Interviewed on Raleigh’s WRAL-TV in July regarding the state’s economic health and unemployment issues. He was also appointed to the Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER) Board of Directors for 2010–2011.

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John Kros Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management • Nominated for the Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Max Ray Joyner Award for Faculty Service through Continuing Education, and the Robert L. Jones Award.

Karen Kus COB Academic Advising Center, Director • Received the Centennial Award for Excellence in Spirit in honor of her work with the ECU Pirate Summer Read Committee.

Shirley Enping Mai Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management • Awarded a 2011 Summer Research Stipend for “Greener Logistics: a Joint Effort between 3PL Service Providers and Customers.”

Kenneth MacLeod Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management • Received the Max Ray Joyner Award for Faculty Service through Continuing Education. He was also nominated for the Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Teaching Award, and for the Robert L. Jones Award. Selected by graduating MBA students to serve as hooder for fall 2010 and marshal for spring 2011 graduation ceremonies.

Mark McCarthy Department of Accounting • Was chosen by the graduating MSA students as faculty marshal during the fall 2010 graduation ceremony.

Bill McDowell Department of Management • Won best paper award at the National Small Business Institute Conference held in Bonita Springs, Florida, in February for his work, titled “Performance of Historically Underrepresented Firms in the Public-Private Sector.” He was also selected by the graduating MGMT students to serve as faculty marshal during the fall 2010 graduation ceremony.

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Dan Schisler Department of Accounting • Chosen by the graduating MSA students as faculty hooder for the spring 2011 graduation ceremony.

Elaine Seeman Department of Management Information Systems • Selected by the graduating MIS students to serve as faculty marshal during the fall 2010 graduation ceremony.

Wanda Naylor Department of Finance • Selected by the graduating FINA students to serve as faculty marshal during the spring 2011 graduation ceremony.

Rick Niswander Former College of Business Dean • Nominated for the Centennial Award for Excellence in Service.

• Was appointed to the Board of Examiners of the American Institute of CPAs. Jason Oliver Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management • Awarded a 2011 Summer Research Stipend for “The Impact of Eco-labels on Demand for Sustainable Food.”

He was also nominated for the Robert L. Jones Award. Also selected by graduating MSCM students to serve as faculty marshal at fall 2010 and spring 2011 graduation ceremonies.

Ravi Paul Department of Management Information Systems • Awarded one of six Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Teaching Awards and the Robert L. Jones Award for Outstanding Teaching. He also received one of nine ECU Scholar-Teacher Awards for 2010–2011 and was a finalist for the May Ray Joyner Award for Faculty Service through Continuing Education. Also selected by graduating MIS students to serve as faculty

marshal at the spring 2011 graduation ceremony.

Nancy Ray Department of Finance • Member of the Servire Society for the fourth consecutive year.

John Reisch Department of Accounting • Presented “Using Internal Auditing Students to Assess Controls: A SBL Project” at the 11th annual National Outreach Scholarship Conference (NOSC) held in Raleigh in October 2010. This article was coauthored by Denise Dickens (ACCT) and Margaret O’Hara (assistant dean for online programs). Reisch was also selected by the graduating ACCT students to serve as faculty marshal during fall 2010 and spring 2011 graduation ceremonies.

Thomas Robbins Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management • Awarded a 2011 Summer Research Stipend for “Call Center Simulation Analysis.”

Paul Russell Assistant Director for Graduate Programs • Member of the Servire Society for the second consecutive year.

Audrey Scarlata Department of Accounting • Awarded a 2011 Summer Research Stipend for “Can XBRL Improve Financial Search Processes and Analysis?”

Roy Simerly Department of Management • Selected by the graduating MBA students to serve as hooder during the fall 2010 graduation ceremony.

Tracy Tuten Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management • Published a landmark book set that explores how the latest Internet innovations continue to impact business. Enterprise 2.0: How Technology, eCommerce, and Web 2.0 are Transforming Business Virtually is a

two-volume book that grew out of her first book on social media marketing, Advertising 2.0: Social Media Marketing in a Web 2.0 World.

Tuten was also quoted in the New York Daily News in an article dealing with her research on gift-giving.

The article was published by United Press International (UPI).

Tina Williams Director for Graduate Programs • Member of the Servire Society for the fourth consecutive year.

Tiffany Woodward Department of Management • Member of the Servire Society for the second consecutive year.

Yajiong (Lucky) Xue Department of Management Information Systems • Awarded a 2011 Summer Research Stipend for “Investigating the Impact of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) on Efficiency, Quality, and Costs of Medical Care.”

AWARDS FOR 2011 SUMMER RESEARCH STIPENDS Josh Aaron Department of Management “A Change in Market Response to Environmental Management Reputation” Eli Beracha Department of Finance “Determinants of EREIT Valuation Premiums to Fundamental Values” Oneil Harris Department of Finance “Do Busy Boards Facilitate Managerial Entrenchment?”

Andrew Herdman Department of Management “Expanding the Boundaries of Strategic HRM Research: Exploring the Antecedents and Outcomes of Variation in HR System Climate Perceptions” Shirley (Enping) Mai Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management

“ Greener Logistics: a Joint Effort between 3PL Service Providers and Customers” Jason Oliver Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management “The Impact of Eco-labels on Demand for Sustainable Food” Thomas Robbins Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management “Call Center Simulation Analysis” Audrey Scarlata Department of Accounting “Can XBRL Improve Financial Search Processes and Analysis?”

Yajiong (Lucky) Xue Department of Management Information Systems “Investigating the Impact of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) on Efficiency, Quality, and Costs of Medical Care”

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Accounting Dan L. Schisler, Chair PhD, University of Memphis

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Highlights DR. andrew herdman Department of MANAGEMENT Hometown: Davidsville, Pennsylvania Favorite thing about ECU students: Some suggest that members of “Generation Y” (or “millenials”) are characterized by a sense of entitlement. In my experience, there is little evidence of this mentality among ECU students. They tend to understand that hard work, service, and investing yourself deeply are the keys to success in most endeavors. I also find ECU students to be optimistic.

Classes taught: Human resource management, managerial negotiation, and conflict management Teaching philosophy: My goal in the classroom is to assist in the development of managers and leaders who are capable, ethical, and understand their own ability to make a positive and lasting difference in the lives of others at work.

Dr. Andrew Herdman, assistant professor in the Department of Management, is this year’s recipient of the Commerce Club New Faculty Teaching Award.

Herdman has earned numerous accolades for his teaching and research since he joined ECU’s faculty four years ago. On the teaching side, he recently received recognition for the large number of seniors who have identified Herdman as the “person at ECU who had the greatest impact.” He enjoys working closely with students and served as a faculty advisor for ECU’s chapter of the Society for Advancement of Management for two years. During that time, the chapter was honored with First Place in the Overall Chapter Performance competition, and he received the organization’s Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2010, a recognition given at the national level. He is also the incoming faculty advisor for Beta Gamma Sigma at ECU. Herdman has also been elected to serve as graduation marshal by management majors numerous times.

On the research side, Herdman enjoys exploring strategic humanresource management, person-environment fit, and negotiations. His research on “uncivil organizations” was selected as the HR division’s best paper of 2011 by the Academy of Management. Herdman and his coauthors presented their work at the annual Academy of Management conference, a premier conference for management researchers. Their research was also featured in a researcherpractitioner forum at the meeting.

“As a teacher, I think I am able to create a memorable experience for students in which they are engaged and challenged­—and sometimes amused or knocked a bit off-balance. I work hard to keep their attention and continually test their understanding and ability to apply the material,” Herdman says. “I take my responsibility to the students very seriously. My experience has taught me the importance and power of good managers and leaders in positively impacting the lives of others. I consider it a privilege to be involved in their development and education.”

Herdman has taught at ECU since fall 2007. Prior to earning his PhD in management from Virginia Tech, he served as vice president of human resources at Crown American Properties L.P., a Pennsylvania-based real estate development company. Herdman is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University where he earned a BS in labor and industrial relations. He also received an MA in industrial relations from Saint Francis University. Herdman lives in Winterville with his wife, Jennifer, and three children: Anna (5), Jamie (3), and Benjamin (2). He also enjoys coaching baseball and soccer.

Rose L. Bailey LLM, New York University School of Law; JD, St. Mary’s University School of Law Rachel Brassine MSA, East Carolina University J. Cal Christian PhD, Florida State University Denise Dickins PhD, Florida Atlantic University Edwin A. Doty PhD, University of Massachusetts Kimberly M. Everett MSA, East Carolina University Rebecca Fay PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Patricia Fritz MSA, East Carolina University Joseph M. Hagan PhD, Georgia State University James M. Kohlmeyer III PhD, University of South Florida Malcolm H. Lathan Jr. PhD, University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill Mark G. McCarthy PhD, University of South Carolina Frederick D. Niswander VC Administration and Finance PhD, Texas A&M University Brian A. O’Doherty PhD, University of Florida Dennis O’Reilly PhD, University of South Carolina John T. Reisch PhD, University of South Carolina Michele H. Reisch MBA, Florida Atlantic University Audrey N. Scarlata PhD, University of Kentucky

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Kaysia Campbell PhD, Georgia State University Brett Cotten PhD, Florida State University Stanley G. Eakins Dean PhD, Arizona State University Anne K. Fisher Director, Professional Programs MBA, East Carolina University Ralph Flanary MBA, East Carolina University Christina Futrell JD, Regent University Charmaine Glegg PhD, Florida Atlantic University Aaron Gubin PhD, University of Florida Oneil Harris PhD, Florida Atlantic University James E. Holloway JD, University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill Jack E. Karns SJD, Loyola University–Chicago LLM, Georgetown University James W. Kleckley Director, Bureau of Business Research PhD, University of South Carolina Carol Moore JD, Syracuse University Wanda M. Naylor JD, North Carolina Central University James Nelson PhD, University of Arizona Robert Prati PhD, Florida State University Bill Pratt MBA, Hood College Nancy Ray JD, University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill

Debra Schisler MSA, Auburn University

Len Rhodes Director of Institutional Research MBA, East Carolina University

Douglas K. Schneider PhD, University of Georgia

Frederick P. Schadler PhD, University of South Carolina

Jan Skillen Workman MBA, East Carolina University

David Silver JD, University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill

Finance Scott D. Below, Chair PhD, University of Kentucky

Dean Smith MBA, East Carolina University

Jaclyn Beierlein PhD, University of Utah Eli Beracha PhD, University of Kansas James F. Buck DBA, Florida State University

Sarah Smith MBA, East Carolina University Samuel Tibbs PhD, University of Tennessee– Knoxville

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Highlights Dr. John Kros Marketing and Supply Chain Management

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Mark C. Weitzel MBA, Loyola University of Chicago

Roy L. Simerly PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Brenda Wells PhD, University of Georgia

James O. Smith Jr. PhD, University of Mississippi

Management Joseph M. Tomkiewicz, Chair PhD, Temple University Joshua Aaron PhD, University of Alabama Tope Adeyemi–Bello PhD, University of Arkansas Kenneth Bass DBA, Louisiana Tech University

Laura Stanley PhD, University of Georgia Steve Sullivan MBA, University of Connecticut John M. Toller MS, University of Hartford Tiffany Woodward MBA, East Carolina University Robert Zinko PhD, Florida State University

Cody Chullen MBA, University of Illinois Management Information Systems Richard D. Hauser Jr., Chair PhD, Florida State University

Hometown: Blair, Nebraska

John H. Davis MBA, East Carolina University

Favorite thing about ECU students: Their spirit and love for ECU, their determination to succeed, loyalty to eastern North Carolina, ECU, and their roots.

Shanan G. Gibson PhD, Virginia Polytechnic and State University

John H. Bradley PhD, University of Texas–Arlington

Classes taught: Business decision models, operations and supply chain management, logistics and materials management.

Anthony D. Gribble MBA, East Carolina University

John Drake PhD, Auburn University

Teaching philosophy: Three basic principles guide my teaching.

First, my enthusiasm and commitment to my students must be very conspicuous. Second, I think it essential to establish demanding and rigorous standards of all students. In addition, I strive to innovate, bringing new material and methods into the classroom. Finally, it is essential that my students know we are partners in the learning process. They must feel that we share a relationship in regard to the material being presented and learning process. Although I must be in charge of the class, I also believe it is possible to establish a relationship of cooperation.

Walter Lee Grubb III PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University

Laurie A. Eakins MBA, Arizona State University

Dr. John Kros, associate professor in the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, is this year’s recipient of the Commerce Club Teaching Excellence Award.

Kros began teaching in ECU’s Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management in May 2002, and he has won numerous teaching awards throughout the past nine years. He was recognized with the Commerce Club Teaching Excellence Award in 2006, and he earned the East Carolina University Scholar-Teacher Award in both 2004–2005 and 2009–2010. The award, one of the most prestigious offered at ECU, recognizes faculty members who effectively integrate research and creative activity in the classroom. Kros also won ECU Teaching Foundation Grants in 2003–2004, 2004–2005, 2007–2008, 2009–2010, and 2011–2012.

“I am extremely honored to be recognized with the Commerce Club Teaching Excellence Award for 2011,” Kros says. “Teaching—along with research—is a true passion for me, and I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to integrate both at ECU.” Kros earned his PhD in systems engineering from the University of Virginia in 1997. He holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a BSBA from the University of Texas. Kros’ work has been published in numerous textbooks and journals, including the Journal of Business Logistics, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, Quality Management in Health Care, Advances in Business and Management Forecasting, and International Journal of Production Research.

In addition to ECU, Kros has experience teaching at Virginia Tech and industry experience in both electronics and auto parts manufacturing.

He runs his own personal consulting business that specializes in helping small firms with computer training, systems analysis, and strategic business planning.

Michael L. Harris Director, Small Business Institute EdD, North Carolina State University

Kevin Fontana MBA, East Carolina University Pam Gray MBA, East Carolina University

Joanne M. Hartsell MBA, East Carolina University

Greg Hodges MBA, East Carolina University

Andrew Herdman PhD, Virginia Polytechnic and State University

John Howard MBA, East Carolina University

R. Eugene Hughes DBA, University of Kentucky– Lexington Judith R. Hunt PhD, University of Tennessee– Knoxville Sharon Justice MBA, East Carolina University Joy H. Karriker PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University Abby Knight MA, University of Alabama Ericka Lawrence PhD, University of Alabama Susan Lynch-Smith MBA, East Carolina University William McDowell PhD, University of North Texas

Richard L. Kerns Associate Dean for Computer Services PhD, University of Virginia Brenda L. Killingsworth PhD, University of South Carolina Michael Lapke PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University Huigang Liang PhD, Auburn University Crystal Lopez MS, East Carolina University Tendai Ndabvonga Assistant Director for Graduate Programs MBA, East Carolina University Henry Newkirk PhD, University of Kentucky

Amy McMillan DBA, Louisiana Tech University

Margaret O’Hara Assistant Dean for Online Programs PhD, University of Georgia

L. Melita Prati PhD, Florida State University

James Orr MBA, East Carolina University

JoAnna Robinson MBA, East Carolina University

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Robin Armstrong Director of Graduate Admissions MBA, East Carolina University Christy Ashley PhD, University of Rhode Island Terrence Boardman MBA, University of Wisconsin– Milwaukee Charles Brown MS, East Carolina University Margaret M. Capen PhD, University of South Carolina Haozhe Chen PhD, University of Oklahoma Reid P. Claxton PhD, University of Arkansas Margy Conchar PhD, University of Georgia

Ravi Paul PhD, Clemson University April Reed PhD, DePaul University Paul S. Russell Assistant Director for Graduate Programs MBA, East Carolina University Paul Schwager Acting Associate Dean PhD, Auburn University Elaine Seeman PhD, Indiana State University Joanie Tyson MBA, East Carolina University Claudia VanSalisbury MBA, East Carolina University John Wall MA, Central Michigan University Harold Wise MS, University of Virgina William D. Wittman Director, Information and Technology Services MBA, East Carolina University Yajiong “Lucky” Xue PhD, Auburn University Marketing and Supply Chain Management Kenneth Anselmi, Chair PhD, University of Nebraska Courtney Altizer Assistant Director for Graduate Programs MBA, Mississippi State University

Richard Cook PhD, Wayne State University

Enping (Shirley) Mai PhD, Syracuse University Roger P. McIntyre PhD, Arizona State University Havva J. Meric PhD, University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill Jason Oliver PhD, University of Rhode Island Tony Polito PhD, University of Georgia Tom Robbins PhD, Pennsylvania State University Stacey Robinson PhD, Florida State University Jason Rowe PhD, University of Kentucky Peter Seissel MBA, University of Chicago

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Travis Bulluck Academic Advisor MA, East Carolina University Amy Eason Academic Advisor MEd, East Carolina University Jason Jones Instructional Technology Consultant MBA, East Carolina University Kristen Harris Academic Advisor MEd, University of North Carolina– Greensboro Kelli Maynard Johnston Academic Advisor MBA, East Carolina University Leah Katell Research Associate MS, University of North Carolina– Charlotte

Scott A. Dellana PhD, University of Missouri

William Swart PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology

Karen Kus Director, CoB Advising Center MA, Bowling Green State University

Susan K. DelVecchio PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Judy Wagner PhD, Virginia Polytechnic and State University

Brad McAllister Academic Advisor MEd, Georgia Southern University

Mauro Falasca PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Dave A. West PhD, University of Rhode Island

Richard O’Dor Director, CoB Business Communication Center MS, University of Southern California MA, University of Missouri– Kansas City

Richard Gooner PhD, University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill Christopher Keller PhD, Indiana University JD, University of Chicago

Tina Williams Director for Graduate Programs MBA, East Carolina University Beverly Wright PhD, Georgia State University James E. Zemanek Jr. PhD, Texas A&M University

Jon Kirchoff PhD, University of Tennessee Christine Kowalcyzk PhD, University of Memphis John F. Kros PhD, University of Virginia

Professional Staff F. John Paul “Scotty” Andrews Director, College of Business Career Center MS, Columbia University

Jane M. Lang MBA, East Carolina University

Jennifer Brezina Communications Director MBA, East Carolina University

Pat Long Director, NC Center of Sustainable Tourism EdD, Western Michigan University

Lee Brown Assistant Director, College of Business Career Center BSBA, East Carolina University

Kenneth R. MacLeod PhD, University of South Carolina

Barbara Patterson BBR, Research Associate MAP, University of Arkansas– Little Rock James R. Westmoreland Associate Dean for External Affairs EdD, North Carolina State University Kevin Williams Academic Advisor MBA, East Carolina University

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Awards for Scholarships 2011–2012

Benton Family Access Scholarship Maci Raney...................................................... ACCT/FINA............... Kinston, NC

McGladrey and Pullen Accounting Scholarship Isabell Katharina Maegebier...................... MSA.............................. Friedberg, Germany

David and Pamela Bond Access Scholarship Jason Bernard Harris................................... MKTG........................... Cary, NC Erica Denise Hawkins.................................. MIS................................ Roanoke Rapids, NC Jessica Ann Swanson.................................. MGMT.......................... Jacksonville, NC Stephen Allen Watson................................. ACCT........................... Jacksonville, NC

Danny R. Scott Scholarship Emilio Esteban Santiago............................ MIS................................ West Lawn, PA

Howard and Virginia Brown Community Service Award Casey Marie King........................................... MGMT.......................... Fayetteville, NC Eakins Scholarship Stephon Ahmeer Thomas.......................... MIS................................ Wadesboro, NC Gourley Scholarship Holley Watts.................................................... FINA............................. Elizabeth City, NC Tom Savitski Scholarship Robert Batchelor........................................... FINA............................. Greenville, NC Risk and Insurance Program Scholarship Christian Denise Airington......................... FINA............................. Clayton, NC Trevor Ryan Black......................................... FINA............................. Burlington, NC Hillary Kate Cork........................................... FINA............................. Beulaville, NC Kristi Lee Fogelquist.................................... FINA............................. Fayetteville, NC Heather Faye Glisson................................... FINA............................. Goldsboro, NC Thomas Joseph Hill...................................... FINA............................. Summerfield, NC Jacqueline Lukas........................................... FINA............................. Wenonah, NJ Sarah Beth Maguire...................................... FINA............................. Wilson, NC Jesse Rogers................................................... FINA............................. Severna Park, MD Brandon Jeffery Serbus.............................. FINA............................. Jacksonville, NC David Thomas Taylor................................... FINA............................. Manteo, NC Justin Bradford Wadsworth...................... FINA............................. Whitakers, NC

RBC Bank Scholarship Brandon David Hall....................................... ACCT and FINA....... Hickory, NC Vishal Shah...................................................... FINA............................. Apex, NC Bruce and Amanda Austin Scholarship for Business and Medicine Danielle Marie Bliss....................................... MD/MBA..................... Goldsboro, NC Mandy Kelly Beta Alpha Psi Scholarship Jordan Blaine Myers..................................... MSA.............................. Carolina Shores, NC Beta Gamma Sigma Scholarship Philip Tyler Barr............................................. ACCT........................... King, NC George Coffman Scholarship Samantha L. Sweeny.................................... MKTG........................... Herndon, VA Commerce Club Scholarship Chelsea Benner.............................................. MKTG........................... Greenville, NC Andrew David Steffensen.......................... ACCT........................... Grimesland, NC Connally Branch Scholarship Joseph Villari.................................................. FINA and MGMT...... Raleigh, NC Edward Jones Scholarship in Memory of Landon Blackley James Barber.................................................. FINA and MKTG....... Sanford, NC Michael Bunting Business Scholarship Mark Andrew Hatcher................................. ACCT and FINA....... Charlotte, NC

W. Kel Normann Business Scholarship David Patrick Jauss...................................... MGMT.......................... Naples, FL

Emma Morris Scholarship Vondella Smith............................................... MGMT.......................... Morehead City, NC

Archie R. Burnette Scholarship Joshua Sobel Anderson.............................. ACCT and FINA....... Kinston, NC Robert Bradley Brumbaugh...................... FINA............................. Raleigh, NC

Hal S. Johnson Scholarship William Coleman Spain............................... FINA............................. Grimesland, NC

Mark F. and Tracy W. Copeland Scholarship Kevin J. Hale.................................................... ACCT........................... Greenville, NC Natalie Allen Tetterton................................ MSA.............................. Jamesville, NC Margery W. and R. Roy Pearce Scholarship Amanda Hooper Walters........................... ACCT and FINA....... Kill Devil Hills, NC Frank & Rene Floyd Scholarship Kendell Harris................................................. ACCT........................... Greenville, NC Keturah Mayberry......................................... ACCT/MGMT............. Edenton, NC Grady and Martha Davis Scholarship Brooke King Kessing.................................... MGMT.......................... Chapel Hill, NC Ernst and Young Accounting Scholarship Alesha M. Schillig.......................................... MSA.............................. Greenville, NC Walter Douglas “Trey” Vliet....................... MSA.............................. Concord, NC Donald and Barbara Hatch Scholarship in Marketing Andrew Blazek............................................... MKTG........................... Durham, NC Elizabeth and Kenneth Schneider Accounting Scholarship Ashley West.................................................... MSA.............................. Greenville, NC McGladrey and Pullen Alumni Scholarship Camille Marie Hefner.................................... ACCT........................... Taylorsville, NC Lucas William Nash...................................... ACCT........................... Wingate, NC

Hickman Family Scholarship Reginald J. Little............................................ MIS................................ Kinston, NC Independent Insurance Agents of NC Scholarship Hillary Kate Cork........................................... FINA............................. Beulaville, NC Kristi Lee Fogelquist.................................... FINA............................. Fayetteville, NC Rhiley Suzanne Kennedy............................ FINA............................. Pink Hill, NC James and Deborah Hooper Scholarship Joy Ruth Holleman....................................... ACCT........................... Deep Run, NC James and Anne Nordan Scholarship Heather Jean Nelson.................................... MGMT.......................... New Bern, NC Judi Marvel Scholarship Christine Collum............................................ MBA............................. Fayetteville, NC Latney Pittard Scholarship Danielle Oleta Stanley................................. ACCT........................... Chocowinity, NC NC Board of CPA Examiners Scholarship Davidson Burton Gillette............................ MSA.............................. Winterville, NC NC Board of CPA Examiners Exam Coupon Melissa Davids Ebili...................................... MSA.............................. Jacksonville, NC

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Camille Hefner (ACCT) received the McGladrey and Pullen Alumni Scholarship, and Josh Anderson (ACCT and FINA) was the recipient of the Archie R. Burnette Scholarship.

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NCACPA Scholarship Virginia Driggers........................................... ACCT/FINA............... Greenville, NC Brian James B. Ferguson........................... MSA.............................. Pfafftown, NC Stephanie W. Rose........................................ ACCT........................... Ahoskie, NC Abigail Lynn Shoemaker............................ ACCT/MGMT............. Cary, NC

Conley Marketing Scholarship Nicolaas Steven Silverstein........................ MKTG........................... Apex, NC David Allen West........................................... MKTG........................... Pfafftown, NC

Michael and Rose O’Hara Scholarship Laura Doran..................................................... FINA............................. Maple Hill, NC Delores Huemiller.......................................... MKTG........................... Chinquapin, NC

Commerce Club Book Scholarship Sean Austin Dunn......................................... MGMT.......................... Nags Head, NC David Eckell..................................................... MBA............................. Hickory, NC Carter Joseph Gagnon................................ FINA............................. Greenville, NC Antoine Elias Khoury................................... MGMT.......................... Greenville, NC Stephen W. Kretschmer.............................. MKTG........................... Clayton, NC Marisa Ashley Melchiorre........................... MGMT.......................... Aliquippa, PA Kesler A. Pollard............................................ MBA............................. Greenville, NC Barton Shoulars............................................. MBA............................. Raleigh, NC Adam E. Thornton......................................... MGMT.......................... Dunn, NC Diana Tong....................................................... MBA............................. Raleigh, NC

Frank Booth Memorial Scholarship Travis Jackson Strickland........................... MSA.............................. Littleton, NC

Associated Brokers Scholarship Justin Bradford Wadsworth...................... FINA............................. Whitakers, NC

Margaret Pthisic Memorial Scholarship Breonna Shari Godette............................... MIS................................ Raleigh, NC

Credit Pofessionals International Scholarship Alex Wadford.................................................. FINA............................. Winterville, NC

William and Lisa Shreve Scholarship Adam Bradford Wells.................................. FINA............................. Winterville, NC

First American Savings Bank Scholarship Kelley Lynn Cox............................................. MIS................................ New Bern, NC

Pitt-Greenville Board of Realtors Scholarship Joshua Idol...................................................... Gen Bus...................... Wilmington, NC

Institute of Management Accountants Scholarship Christina Weaver........................................... ACCT and FINA....... Goldsboro, NC

Audrey J. Smith Scholarship Tamon Myrick................................................. ACCT........................... Hobgood, NC

Department of Accounting Book Scholarship Charles Gullette............................................. MSA.............................. Ayden, NC Charles Scott Gupton.................................. MSA.............................. Greenville, NC Cody Lawson.................................................. MSA.............................. Asheville, NC Samantha T. Reed......................................... MSA.............................. Roanoke Rapids, NC

Raymond and Martha Jones/AMA Scholarship Alejandra Anez-Citraro............................... MKTG........................... Champaign, IL Student Accounting Society Scholarship Kseniya V. Shakotko..................................... ACCT........................... Ukraine

Management Department Student Award Shelby E. Boruff............................................. MGMT.......................... Landisville, PA J. Fred Hamblen Scholarship Casey Makovy................................................. MIS................................ Raleigh, NC UBE Business Scholarship Michelle A. Bryce........................................... ACCT........................... Gaithersburg, MD Zachary Joseph Carideo............................ FINA............................. Cary, NC Kylie J. Moss.................................................... MKTG........................... Charlotte, NC

Outstanding Seniors Accounting............................................................................................. Andrew Stoker Finance..................................................................................................... Ashley Wetherington Management.......................................................................................... Jessica Forbes Management Information Systems............................................... Tim Bryant Marketing................................................................................................ Brittany McKinney

Anna Francis & Philip Jukoski Memorial Scholarship Brooke Barton McGuirt............................... MBA............................. Lake Toxaway, NC

Walter Allen Howard Memorial Award Luke Rezeli

Alexander Pappas Memorial Scholarship Micah Leggett................................................ MBA............................. Washington, NC

Commerce Club Scholars Chelsea Benner Andrew Steffensen

Gwen Potter Scholarship Jessica Hope Boyd....................................... ACCT........................... Chocowinity, NC Elsie and Silas Abernathy Scholarship Emily Irene Molgaard................................... ACCT/FINA............... Angier, NC

Donald B. Boldt International Excellence Award Amanda Kelly

James and Ann Bichsel Scholarship Joshua T. Carter............................................. FINA............................. Washington, NC

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I am thrilled that I was chosen as the recipient of the Hatch Scholarship.

It is such a privilege to receive this award, and I cannot thank you enough. Aside from feeling honored, I am very grateful, as this also provides financial relief for my last year of school.

— Andrew Blazek

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Recipient of the Donald and Barbara Hatch Scholarship in Marketing Donors: Donald (deceased) and Barbara Hatch and their family

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Beta Gamma Sigma Beta Gamma Sigma Founded in 1913, Beta Gamma Sigma is the national honor society for collegiate schools of business. Chapters may only be chartered with programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest national recognition a student of business can receive in an undergraduate or masters program at a school accredited by the AACSB. Of the 1,600 institutions with degree programs in business, only 504 are accredited by the AACSB with 408 currently having active chapters of Beta Gamma

Sigma. To be eligible for membership, a student must rank in the top of his or her class.

The Gamma Chapter at ECU is proud to have been inducting academically superior undergraduate students since 1967. The master of business administration program has been accredited and has been honoring graduate level students since 1976.

Beta Gamma Sigma Distinguished Lecture Series The Beta Gamma Sigma Distinguished Lecture Series was held at the Hilton Greenville on

Tuesday, February 8, 2011. The annual lecture series—made possible by a generous gift from Donald B. Boldt, former assistant dean for graduate programs (retired)—honors an outstanding executive who speaks on issues of regional and national importance. This year’s speaker was Robert P. Restrepo Jr., the president, chairman, and CEO of State Auto Insurance Companies. His speech, “An Industry in Transition,” was delivered to an audience of 350 people, consisting of faculty members, students, alumni, and business professionals.

Honor Society 2010–2011 Beta Gamma Sigma Inductees Juniors Joshua Anderson Michael Andrews Mita Aravapalli Jonathan Bailey Philip Barr C. Austin Bayliss Shelby Boruff Chelsea Benner Robert Brumbaugh Michelle Bryce Alexandria Cafarelli Kimberly Cummings Jacob M. Davis Chelsea Dygert Michael E. Elliott Jennifer Ehrman Andrew Flowers Breonna Godette Arielle Goldenstein Kevin Hale Erica Hawkins Joshua Idol Robert Jackson David Jauss Jonathan Kennington Geneva Martin Robyn Mondin Elise Mundal Lucas Nash Anthony Okunak

Paige Victoria Pernell Sunil Persaud Maci L. Raney Ryan Ross Daniel Seavey Matthew Sedore Vishal Shah Frederick Shipley II Tyler Southern Andrew Steffensen Brent Vaden Landon Vick Eric Vozzo Holley Watts Christy Wilson Najla Zeitawi Mikhail Zhovtanovskiy Seniors Jordan Askew Megan Brothers Timothy Bryant Taylor Bullard Brian Cooke Virginia Driggers Morgan Ence Nikki Evanger Sheila Garner Heather Garland Shelly Sink Gentle Jennifer Glover

Joy Holleman Delores D. Huemiller Kaitlyn Ihly Corey Jinnette Mark Larouche Mary Lasseter Matheson Lassiter Justin Laughlin Ashleigh Lee David Lutter Michael Lyons Sarah Miller-Maguire Ranu Manik Scott Marshall Richard M. Mills Shaneka Montague David F. Riddle Malon Rogers Abigail Shoemaker Andrew Smith John Mark Springer Warren Straub Tiffany J. Temple Adam E. Thornton Alex Wadford Stephen Watson Nicole West Ashley Wetherington Christina Williams Laura Williams

Masters Daniel Landon Allen Jason Amar Jonathan Boone Daniel Brezina Benjamin Brown Stephen Campbell Diana Carroll LuAnne F. Clark Leigh A. Cleland Suzanne M. Dunlow William Foust Tamara Frost Matthew H. Hale John Hance William Haxton Samuel Hayes Amanda Kelly Markus Leandersson Joseph Marks Thomas McCaskill Ronald Moorehead Coretta Peel Charles Powell James Reingruber Christian K. Robinson Margaret Rogers Kenneth Savell Kate Scarabelli Salem Smith-Shupp Joel Sickert

Clark Stevens Dennis J. Sullivan Michael Whitfield Yanhao Zhu Officers • Dr. Andrew Herdman, President • Philip Barr, Student Vice-President • Dr. Audrey Scarlata, Treasurer • Dr. Jason Oliver, Secretary • Dr. Joy Karriker, Past President

Chapter Honorees • Drew Covert, Chief Operating Officer Southern Bank & Trust Company and Southern Bancshares NC Inc. • Mark Copeland, Partner Ernst & Young LLP

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East Carolina Teachers Training School chartered

Department of Commerce established

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1951

ECC receives university status, renamed East Carolina University; School of Business earns AACSB accreditation

First students enroll for classes

ECTC receives college status, renamed East Carolina College

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Department of Commerce transitions into School of Business

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ECTTS renamed East Carolina Teachers College and begins fouryear programs

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School of Medicine established

Leadership and Professional Development program launched

2002 School of Business formally renamed College of Business

2007 ECU centennial celebrated; the College of Business celebrates 40 years of AACSB Accreditation

2011 College of Business celebrates its 75th anniversary

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Era 1: Dean Elmer Browning (1936–1968) At the beginning of the winter quarter on January 6, 1936, the administration of the East Carolina Teaching College organized a curriculum to prepare young men and women for careers in teaching business. A new Department of Commerce was launched, and attic space on the top floor of the old Austin Building was quickly converted into classroom space—with just two instructors, 11 students, and 25 typewriters.

Dr. Elmer Browning served as the first dean of what is now the College of Business, and he led the department for 32 years. Also working other jobs simultaneously during his tenure, he was faculty manager of the student store, the university postmaster, and head of the Y-Hut, a building available for activities sponsored by the YWCA. A native of Logan, West Virginia, Browning began his training in business at Bowling Green College of Commerce in Kentucky and later received an AB from Marshall University in West Virginia and a DEd at Colorado State College. He came to Greenville after teaching and serving as principal in West Virginia high schools.

Very few schools in the state offered business courses when Browning came to East Carolina, and even fewer offered business courses in the region. In the beginning, the Department of Commerce was entirely a teacher education program, with an emphasis on typing, shorthand, and other office skills.

Throughout his tenure, the school gradually evolved. It went through the developmental stages of being a department of commerce to a department of business education, then to a department of business. In 1945, after WWII ended, the department increased its male enrollment—enabling it to grow fast, become more coed, and get away from teaching only the secretarial side of things. It was a time of transition during these early years, and Browning strived to help make ECTC a modern university.

He laid the foundation as the department changed from a teaching program to a professional business and management program. In 1960, it became the School of Business.

Browning was considered an outstanding leader throughout his three decades as dean. He worked tirelessly to achieve accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the national accrediting agency for higher education in business. It took 12 years from the time Browning began working toward undergraduate accreditation until it was achieved in 1967. ECU then became one of just 132 schools of business in the entire nation boasting membership in the AACSB. East Carolina also became a top choice for students who chose to study business.

Browning and his wife, Marie, moved to Marshall University around 1968, when he took a post to teach in his home state. At the time he left ECU, the School of Business had grown to 1,800 students, 51 full-time faculty members, and 20 graduate teaching fellows. Similarly, while 17 courses in business and economics were listed in the catalog for 1936, the 1968–1969 catalog listed more than 100 course offerings. The school had long since outgrown its facility in Austin and was then moved to the Rawl Building.

Near the time he left, the Rawl Building lounge was named in honor of Browning. President Leo W. Jenkins of East Carolina, as principal speaker of the occasion, called the dedication a “fitting tribute” to Browning and an evidence of the “high regard in which students and colleagues hold him.”

Jenkins told The Daily Reflector, “He has the admiration and respect of all of us, not only his integrity as a teacher and administrator, but for his unfailing interest in the college.”

Top: Old Austin before it was razed. Bottom: Charter members gather from the Beta Kappa chapter of Pi Omega Pi, the business education fraternity, in 1943. At left, a portrait of Dean Elmer Browning.

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Faculty Highlight LOUIS “BUDDY” ZINCONE When he first came to East Carolina as a newly minted PhD, Buddy Zincone faced a university on the brink of change. It was 1966, and ECU had primarily educated teachers up to that point.

Now, ECU was making the transition to not primarily educating teachers —and Zincone was among the new generation of educators. His wife, Maria, was also blazing trails as the second physical therapist to practice in Pitt County. She practiced physical therapy at local nursing homes and in home health as well as being a clinical assistant professor of physical therapy at ECU while Zincone taught economics in the College of Business.

Looking back on his 39-year career at ECU, Zincone is proud to have served in numerous areas throughout his tenure—and also under each of the College’s four deans. He was initially hired by Elmer Browning, and he remembers the dean as a “fine southern gentleman who was

very sensitive to the changes happening at ECU.” Browning also helped the College of Business earn its accreditation by the AACSB, something Zincone remembers being a big tipping point.

Zincone taught and also served as founding chair of the Department of Economics, but the department left the College of Business for the College of Arts and Sciences in 1980. He was also founding chairman of the Department of Decision Sciences in the College of Business. In addition, he served as director of the College’s Bureau of Business Research for five years. In 1989, Zincone was named the associate dean for academic programs, where he served until his retirement in 2006. He also continued teaching throughout his tenure at ECU. Zincone has especially fond memories of his time in the classroom. He says he has enjoyed watching so many of his students—everyone from Kelly King at BB&T to Adam Mitchell in Ayden—go on to enjoy successful careers.

“I have had the pleasure of knowing a lot of outstandingly successful graduate students,” Zincone says. “I keep up with many on a personal basis, and it makes my day to see someone’s picture in the paper.”

Zincone also enjoyed his role as associate dean.

“Business relies on so many disciplines, and so no one person is an expert in everything,” he explains. “Dean Ernest Uhr and I made a great team. My job was to deliver the goods as associate dean—all the nuts and bolts to make the College run effectively. Plus, I dealt with faculty on

curriculum issues and tried to fit all ideas into a coherent whole.”

The quality of faculty, says Zincone, is one area that has shifted the most in the College of Business over the years.

“The credentials of the faculty have changed over the decades, and now we are becoming more research oriented—but you can still go and see your professor in person,” Zincone says.

He adds that balancing increased research productivity with teaching is delicate, but the College has been able to do it—and the quality of faculty has changed for the better.

Although he is retired, Zincone has hardly slowed down. He keeps active with music, golf, fishing, and “mental gymnastics” such as statistical analysis for Greenville’s Special Task Force on Public Safety. He has been an active Rotary Club member for 32 years in Greenville, and he enjoys playing the banjo in two bands: the Tar River Boys and the Greenville Grass. Zincone plays with these other “journeymen musicians” in local venues, festivals, and private parties—and he still keeps the tradition of Wednesday-night porch pickings. He also enjoys spending time with his two daughters and grandchildren. Zincone’s wife, Maria, passed away in 2010.

“I could not have asked for a better or more rewarding career, and I couldn’t have been any happier most of the time,” Zincone says. “The College of Business continues to be blessed with dedicated faculty and outstanding leadership. Each dean has made a difference.”

Highlights “

Thank you for the great honor of receiving this scholarship. I will do my best to give back to East Carolina University and the community, as you and your family have done in so many ways.

— Brooke Kessing

Recipient of the Grady and Martha Davis Scholarship Donor: John and Cindy Davis

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Alumni Highlights BOB WARD and MARK COPELAND In the 49 years since Bob Ward graduated from East Carolina University, he and his wife have contributed significantly to the growth and progress of their alma mater—while also having a profound impact on students.

One way that Ward has given back to ECU involves an interesting story about a student internship. Before he retired, Ward served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Unifi Inc. When Ernst & Young began planning its annual audit on his company in 1995, he requested that an ECU student be part of the audit team. Little did Ward know how one request would have a life-changing impact on senior BSA/ MSA student Mark Copeland.

When Copeland learned about the internship opportunity with Ernst & Young, he took a semester off his College of Business course work to join the Unifi audit team. He had such a great experience that he was offered a full-time job after graduation. Today, Copeland lives in Charlotte with his wife and two children—Taylor, 8, and Bryan, 4.

He is a partner with Ernst & Young LLP and serves as leader of the Carolina’s Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) practice. He has worked with Ernst & Young for more than 14 years and was recently featured in the Charlotte Business Journal’s 2011 “Forty under 40” publication, honoring his career, leadership, and extensive volunteer work. Copeland says he is thankful to Ward for taking a chance on an ECU student and for inspiring him to give back to ECU and his community.

“Bob Ward made a huge difference in my

professional career,” Copeland says. “He believed in students at ECU and took a chance in opening a door for someone like me. He has also made a big impact in how I give back to ECU. As your careers blossom, it’s important to remember where you went to school, as your support will help the next generation of Pirates excel.”

Interestingly, Ward never realized the impact he had on Copeland until they met each other for the first time at a home football game last year.

Copeland was able to thank him personally in Pirate Country.

In addition to helping students, the Wards’ professional and civic involvements are numerous.

Bob Ward served on the ECU Board of Trustees for 10 years from 1989–1999, including the role of chairman. Margaret Ward served eight years on the BOT, or two full terms. Only one other husband-wife couple in the university’s history has served on the BOT. She also has served as secretary of the Board and has been chair of the Athletic Committee.

In addition, Bob Ward was a member of the ECU Foundation Board and ECU College of Business Advisory Council. He also served on the steering committee for the 1986 ECU School of Business Golden Anniversary Campaign. In 1995, he cochaired the university’s Shared Vision Campaign, which raised more than $50 million.

Ward currently serves on the board of directors and audit committee of MidCarolina Bank, which merged with American National Bank of Danville, Virginia. He has also served on the Board of Trustees for Elon University.

Margaret Ward is past president of the ECU Alumni Association and is a current member of

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the ECU Foundation Board. She is also the past president of Elon University’s Board of Visitors.

She has been president of the Alamance County Chapter of the ECU Alumni Association and previously served on the Alumni Association Board of Directors.

The ECU Board of Trustees voted in 1992 to honor the couple for their long and varied service to the university with the naming of the Ward Sports Medicine/Physical Education Building, where the Student Development Program is housed, thanks to a $500,000 endowment funded by the Wards.

In 1993, the Wards donated to ECU a residence and lot on East Fifth Street across from Main Campus, where their son Bert lived while studying at East Carolina, graduating in 1991. The home, called the Ward Guest House, accommodates special visitors to the university. They made an additional gift to the ECU Foundation Inc., to furnish the home.

Although the Wards are retired today and spend most of their time in Charleston, S.C., they still maintain a residence in Burlington—mainly to see their grandchildren and stay connected to family.

They also attend most football games played at ECU and are already grooming their two young granddaughters to become future Pirates. Margot (9) and Isabel (6) haven’t missed many home games since 2005.

“Both Margaret and I are very educationally minded,” Ward explains. “We believe in being supportive of higher education in many aspects.

We have an excellent institution here, with dedicated and positive people. We are very happy and proud to be a part of East Carolina’s success and its future.”

I attend school full time and work two jobs to support myself and pay for my education. This scholarship will financially assist me in continuing my education. Your generosity has inspired me. In the future, I hope to help

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students achieve their goals, just as you have done for me.

— Micah Leggett

Recipient of the Andrew J. Pappas Memorial Scholarship Donor: Alex Pappas and Richard Pappas

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Bob Ward (left) stands with Mark Copeland in Ward’s Burlington residence.

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Thank you for your generosity in funding this scholarship. This means a great deal to me, especially being an out-of-state student struggling with tuition payments. You are making such a difference in helping me reach

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my educational goals.

— Samantha Sweeny

Recipient of the George Coffman Scholarship Donor: George and Martha Coffman and past and present employees of Coffman’s Men’s Store

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DAN GUY As a member of the first graduating MBA class in the College of Business, Dan M. Guy says he feels privileged to have been among the first few to make it through.

“I remember when Dean Browning announced the approval of the MBA degree,” he says.

“Obviously, he had been fighting to obtain the program for some time. He choked up when he made the announcement. It was an extremely exciting time at ECU.” Guy describes his graduating MBA class as a very close-knit group of students—with only about three of them altogether.

“The professors were excellent teachers and the classes were demanding but exciting. I learned a lot, not just about subject matter, but about public speaking and writing,” he explains.

The skills learned at ECU proved invaluable to Guy throughout his career. After earning both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from ECU, he went on to earn his PhD at the University of Alabama in 1971; serve as a professor at Texas Tech University for seven years; enjoy an 18-year career with the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) in New York; and work as an expert witness in litigation involving financial statement fraud.

Today, Guy lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, who is a Texas Tech graduate.

He continues to operate a litigation consulting practice and works as a testifying expert in matters involving generally accepted auditing standards, compilation and review standards, ethical requirements for CPAs, and responsibilities of audit committees in public companies.

Prior to New Mexico, Guy worked with the AICPA in New York City, where he had overall responsibility for accounting standards, auditing and attest standards, compilation and review standards, the Technical Information Hotline, the Private Companies Technical Issues Committee, and international accounting and auditing standards. Guy joined the AICPA as director of auditing research in 1979, became vice presidentauditing in 1983, and vice president-professional standards and services in 1996. He has published more than 50 articles, 13 continuing-education courses for CPAs, and 11 books.

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Outstanding Alumni Award, one of the most prestigious offered by the university. It recognizes alumni with outstanding and uncommon achievement in their profession. In 1998, Guy received the John J. McCloy Award for outstanding contributions to auditing quality in the United States. The annual award was presented by the Public Oversight Board, an independent, private sector body that monitored and reported on the self-regulatory programs and activities of the SEC Practice Section of the Division for CPA Firms of the AICPA. In 2001, Guy received the Distinguished Service Award from the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association for a lasting and significant impact over a 20- to 25-year span in the field of auditing.

Reflecting on his career, Guy encourages current students to emphasize education first.

“These are challenging times, especially for accountants,” Guy says. “Build a strong foundation of knowledge at ECU and take advantage of your great business teachers. You will be all the more prepared for your challenges and opportunities ahead.”

Words cannot describe how thankful I am for this blessing. Your financial assistance has allowed me to further my education and complete a second concentration. You have inspired me to one day made a contribution to East Carolina, so I, too, can make a difference in students’ lives.

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— Joseph Villari

Recipient of the Connally Branch Scholarship Donor: Connally Branch

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Era 2: Dean James Bearden (1968–1983) After serving as the second dean of the School of Business from 1968 until 1983, Dr. James Bearden is far from retired. In fact, you can still find him directing the BB&T Center for Leadership Development at ECU, making him the university’s most senior faculty member in years of service. Until recently, he led official academic processions for ECU and carried the university mace, one of three official symbols of East Carolina. It was a fitting tribute for a man who has contributed so much to ECU. Originally from Marion, Alabama, Bearden first came to Greenville in 1958. He had just completed a two-year tour of duty at Fort Bragg as an artillery officer, and his future wife encouraged him to look at East Carolina’s business program. He soon signed up to earn his master’s degree.

One class had an especially big impact; it was called Executive Technique and was taught by Dr. Elmer Browning. Through that one-on-one relationship with the dean, Bearden came to understand Browning’s vision for the future—a substantive shift in a business department that had been rooted in office administration and business education. Bearden stayed on to teach as an instructor at East Carolina and became an assistant professor, an associate professor, a full professor, and then assistant dean for administration and development. Finally, just 10 years after arriving in Greenville, Bearden was tapped to become dean of the College of Business at age 35. He was on the ground floor of major change.

“The early to mid 1960s were really among the most exciting years that this university has ever experienced, and the business program was such a central part of ECU’s transformation,” Bearden says.

During this time Bearden worked closely with chancellor Leo W. Jenkins whose bold work to achieve university status for East Carolina was being restrained since “only the branches of the consolidated university were authorized to offer graduate professional education.” Bearden says, “The initial hurdle in that aspiration was gaining approval to offer a master of business administration degree, a goal that was met successfully when AACSB accreditation was achieved in 1967. University historian Mary Jo

Bratton’s conclusion that the years between 1960 and 1967 were ‘The years of transformation’ for this institution was clearly valid.”

Among Bearden’s long list of accomplishments is his spearheading the establishment and accreditation of the master of business administration degree. He completed numerous departmental modifications, including the addition of a BS degree in accounting and the formation of the marketing and decision science departments. Bearden developed the Bureau of Business Research at ECU and also established the East Carolina Business Foundation, which supplemented the support of the business school’s activities.

Bearden also stayed very active at the university, community, and state levels as dean, serving on 19 university committees, six committees of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, and five committees for the State of North Carolina, including the Governor’s Committee on Economics and Environment.

He also contributed significantly to civic and community affairs, serving on the Greenville Board of Education and the Pitt County United Fund, among many others. In 1971—just three years after his appointment as dean—he was named “Tar Heel of the Week” by the Raleigh News & Observer.

Because of his long tenure and closeness with the community and people of eastern North Carolina, Bearden has touched the lives of countless individuals. Many of his former students—now successful business executives— continue to show their appreciation to Bearden and support of ECU by serving on the board of

the BB&T Center for Leadership Development.

Bearden developed the BB&T Center for Leadership Development in 1983, when he stepped down as dean but still wanted to help ECU. Through this center, he began a program for encouraging leaders—long before “leadership” was a buzz word. He founded the initiative with a generous $250,000 donation from BB&T Corporation, and the gifts have continued to just under $3 million. Thanks to the BB&T Center for Leadership Development, Bearden administers grants throughout ECU to advance student leadership development in courses and classrooms—and he has had a profound impact on the university’s direction of building a leadership culture.

Bearden, now 78, says he plans to work for several more years part time. Then, he says it will be time to step down for good and enjoy retirement with his wife of 50 years, children, and grandchildren.

“My association with East Carolina, which is approximately 53 years, is a source of pride and satisfaction, and this is due to many components,” Bearden says. “We have had great students, we have had a faculty that is talented and diverse and fully cooperative with the heavy demands on their time, and we have had administrations which have all made a contribution to the College of Business.

By virtue of my role with AACSB accrediting activities, Beta Gamma Sigma, and the honor community, I have had the opportunity to travel in this country and abroad, and I’m proud to say the reputation of higher education in North Carolina is very respected. I think our College of Business has something to do with that.”

In 1969, the First National Bank of Eastern North Carolina gave $50,000 to establish an endowed professorship. Shown third from left is Dean James Bearden with Dr. Leo W. Jenkins.

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RICHARD KERNS From card punches to iPads, Dr. Richard Kerns has kept the College of Business technologically on top throughout the past four decades. During his tenure, the College’s computer services department has grown from himself and a few hand-picked student assistants to a unit that serves the technology needs of more than 150 faculty and staff and almost 4,000 students.

Kerns stepped down as associate dean of computer services this past July, after a career at ECU spanning more than 37 years. Kerns first joined ECU in 1973, when he was hired to teach and manage information technology in the School of Business. He had just finished his PhD at the University of Virginia in 1972 and earned his MBA at East Carolina.

At that time, the technology lab on the second floor of the Rawl Building consisted of computer card punches and electric calculators. Kerns helped ECU plug into what was the first large state-based computer network, sharing the newly installed IBM 370 mainframe located in Research Triangle Park through the Triangle Universities Computation Center (TUCC). He also established the College’s first computer center, installing the first digital leased line in eastern North Carolina at 1,200 bits per second (compared to the routine 10 million bits per second commonly found in homes today.) Over time, Kerns helped install newer RJE terminals and modems capable of 4,800 bps with two side 150 bps (15 characters per second) channels, enabling interactive computing for the first time. With the interactive terminals, he began

using the first e-mail system running on an HP mini-computer.

“It was the frontier,” Kerns explains. “And it was an exciting and challenging experience to manage so much change and growth.”

Fortunately, support from the College, contributors, and the university increased dramatically as the opportunities for capitalizing on new technology presented themselves. The student technology fee was also implemented, which paid for lab and classroom equipment, along with the decision by Chancellor Eakin to earmark newly available funds for a faculty computer program.

“There seems to be no limit to technology’s impact on education and society in general,” Kerns says. “Those who seem to think that technology

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has become a commodity must not have their eyes open. Much of today’s innovation has its roots in technology, and that is certainly true in education as much if not more than elsewhere.”

Between the early years and today, major milestones in College of Business technology have included the first personal computer, a Radio Shack TRS-80 in 1978, the first personal computer lab on campus in 1981 utilizing first Vector computers and then IBM computers, the first Macintosh in 1985, the first laser printer and desktop publishing, the first classroom projector, the first local area network, and the first desktop video. In March 1988, the College of Business moved into the Bate Building—and installation for the computer services department alone required four years of intensive planning, especially for the four rooms that make up the computer lab suite.

Twenty-three years later, many renovations to Bate’s facilities still measure up to those in new business buildings at other universities.

Graduate assistants selected by Kerns himself have assisted him throughout the years. He would ask the top student each year to serve as his chief lab assistant—helping perform non-routine tasks and managing the other graduate students who worked in Kerns’ lab. Kerns remembers how one outstanding graduate student, Paal Kaperdal from Norway, helped hand-carry the College’s heavy Apple laser printer from Rawl to Bate to protect it from moving services. Occasionally, Kerns would choose a promising undergraduate student to help.

One in particular was Dr. Brenda Killingsworth, who went on to earn a PhD in management information systems and ultimately returned to ECU as an MIS faculty member and also served in a number of university and UNC–General Administration roles.

“The first chief lab assistant was Duane Tolan, who now is an accountant in Rocky Mount,” Kerns says. “He was followed by many exceptional students without whom, what became Computer Services would have never been able to do nearly as much as it did. I continue to be in contact with several of them—all of whom have been very successful after graduating. I am very proud of them.”

Throughout his tenure at ECU, Kerns’ unofficial title across campus has been “the computer man”—since he has helped everyone from the provost to library leaders to Brody School of Medicine officials. He says he’s always willing to share what the College of Business has accomplished and has learned a lot from helping others. Kerns even helped ECU’s Department of Information Technology and Computing Services (ITCS) and its predecessors get established. At one time, he served on every computer committee ever present on campus, both administrative and academic up until that time. Kerns says he worked

Dr. Richard Kerns (front row left) with the College of Business’ Decision Sciences Department in the Computer Lab circa 1980. Seated (front row right) is Dr. Buddy Zincone, who was chair of the department at that time.

for years to see the technology fee established, which has enabled progress such as smart classrooms on the technology front.

In addition to his extensive computer services work, Kerns also created the original management information systems curriculum in the College of Business, teaching each of the original set of courses the first time they were taught (except one). His nuclear physics background, coupled with his business expertise, helped make analytical tools an important part of the school’s curriculum—and ECU business graduates became known for their strong analytical skills.

Kerns says everyone from the students who worked for him and were in his classes to his many colleagues over the years have meant a great deal to him. He has enjoyed great friendships with Dean Bearden, who first hired him, along with Dean Uhr, who promoted him to associate dean of computer services. He says he’s also thankful to his Computer Services personnel—including Dawn McQueen, Kim Watkins, Bill Wittman, Mike Tate, Chris Mayo, Jason Jones, Phil Raynor, Paul Russell, and Jeff Hope—who have contributed to his department’s success. Perhaps most of all, Kerns is grateful to former associate dean Dr. Charles Broome, who served as his mentor for many years.

After stepping down from his associate dean role in July 2011, Kerns has remained on faculty as professor of management information systems—a position he has held since 1973. He says retirement will happen at some point but not for the foreseeable future. For now, he plans to use any free time improving his classes, helping his successor with the transition, writing a history of technology in the College of Business for its 75th anniversary, and spending time with family.

“If I have done anything well, it has been to find such good people and somehow get them to stay for so long and do so many good things,” Kerns concludes. “Nothing makes me feel better than to have a former colleague or student come by or see me somewhere and talk about how they are doing and tell me something that I did that helped them. I am very thankful for the opportunities that have been given to me for so many years, and I hope that others feel I have contributed to their success.”

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Featured above: Henry Williamson, Ken Chalk, and Kelly King at ECU’s BB&T Leadership Center.

THE BB&T TRIUMVIRATE BB&T celebrated an anniversary of sorts this past May. Almost 40 years ago, the heart of the bank’s core management team started to arrive for training, fresh out of business school from East Carolina.

Back then, BB&T focused on farm lending in eastern North Carolina. Today, however, BB&T’s blue-chip reputation spreads far beyond its Winston-Salem headquarters, owing in large part to the contributions of three ECU alumni— Henry Williamson, Kelly King, and Kendall Chalk.

Henry Williamson was the first to arrive at BB&T in 1972, just after earning his MBA. One month later, Kelly King also began training in BB&T’s management development program. The two had been classmates at ECU, and Williamson

convinced King to interview with BB&T. Impressed with the small bank, they decided to begin their careers at BB&T—never dreaming they would one day serve as its top leaders.

Williamson says, “When we started to work with the bank, which was a much smaller $300-million bank back then, it was unusual to hire the number of recent college graduates it did.

Clearly the bank had aspirations to grow, and we were at the beginning of it all.”

Ken Chalk followed a different path to BB&T. He earned his MBA in 1971 while also teaching business courses part-time at Beaufort County Community College. After graduating, he became chairman of the community college’s business department. Chalk knew he wanted to get into

the business world, and he began his BB&T career in 1975—also going through the management development program.

Although Chalk says he hadn’t met the two other ECU grads at BB&T, he soon found out they had much in common.

“In addition to being East Carolina business school alumni, we were all from small North Carolina towns and we all selected BB&T to begin our careers,” Chalk says. “It was special to have those connections.” Chalk and King even learned they grew up down the road from each other and had dated the same girl.

Williamson, King, and Chalk all quickly advanced within the bank, and they helped BB&T experience phenomenal growth.

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One year after joining BB&T, Williamson was named manager of BB&T’s management development program credit training unit.

He also served as a business loan manager in Fayetteville, regional loan administrator in Tarboro, and manager of BB&T’s human resources and administrative operations divisions before taking on the chief operating officer role in 1983.

Williamson retired in 2004 after serving as chief operating officer—the No. 2 ranking executive manager at BB&T—for 15 years.

King followed a track including early roles as manager of BB&T’s central and metropolitan regions, Raleigh city executive, Charlotte business services manager, Statesville consumer lending manager, and banking manager for BB&T’s branch network. He is currently chairman and chief executive officer of BB&T Corporation. Before his appointment to CEO, King served as BB&T’s chief operating officer from 2004 to 2008— following in Williamson’s footsteps.

With his strong background in education, Chalk ran BB&T’s entire management development program after joining the bank.

He also worked in Goldsboro as a business loan manager and then returned to Wilson, assigned to the loan administration area of bank. In 1983, Chalk became chief credit officer. He retired in 2008 after serving the bank for 33 years.

Under the trio’s leadership, the former eastern North Carolina farm bank has grown to become one of the nation’s top financial holding companies. Assets have increased from about $275 million in 1972 when their careers at BB&T began to approximately $157 billion today.

Throughout its growth, BB&T’s operating strategy has distinguished itself from other

financial holding companies—a strategy that was honed by Williamson, King, and Chalk. Under this strategy, BB&T’s banking subsidiaries are organized as a group of community banks, each with a regional president, which allows decisions to be made locally and therefore close to the client.

Despite the pressures of their jobs and other commitments, Williamson, King, and Chalk have always remained loyal to ECU and have given generously of their time. Williamson cochaired the $50-million Shared Visions fundraising campaign in the mid 1990s. Chalk served as chairman of the ECU Foundation for several years in addition to being on the board, and he now serves on the Board of Trustees. King chaired the Board of Visitors. The three were also instrumental in creating the BB&T Center for Leadership in the College of Business. The center was established in 1983 with a gift of $250,000 from the bank; followed by a $350,000 gift in 1991; a $250,000 gift in 1998; and a $1-million gift in 2005. BB&T just made a new $1-million commitment to the center in 2010. The BB&T Center for Leadership is directed by Dr. James Bearden, their former professor and dean of the College of Business.

Williamson and Chalk still serve on the center’s board of directors.

The BB&T trio all credit their ECU experience for laying a foundation for successful careers.

They have fond memories of campus life 40 years ago, when they witnessed the school’s growth first-hand. While they were students, East Carolina College became East Carolina University. Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium had just been built, and the football program was expanding.

Old Austin was demolished and New Austin was built. ECU was approved to begin a medical

school. All the while, the Vietnam War was raging, and interesting social changes during the 1960s impacted all students in college.

All three agree that time is short, and it’s important to work hard, seize opportunities, and fine-tune leadership skills—much like they did as young business students.

“My experience in life has shown that every person can make a positive impact on the world,” Williamson says. “You have as much opportunity and as many doors open to you as you are willing to work for and have the skills to open.”

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By providing a student like me with this scholarship opportunity, you allow me to achieve my goals in life so that I can give others the opportunity you have given me. I truly appreciate what you have done for this university, and I will strive to do well in order to make you proud.

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— Adam Wells

Recipient of the William H. and Lisa D. Shreve Scholarship Donor: Bill and Lisa Shreve

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Alumni Highlight DENNIS A. YOUNG SR. (ACCT ’69) At the end of 2011, alumnus Dennis Young will retire from an outstanding career at ECU that has spanned 20 years.

A native of Winston-Salem, Young earned his undergraduate degree in accounting from ECU in 1969. ECU gained university status while Young was a student, and it was an exciting time under Leo W. Jenkins’ leadership. He also played football for the Pirates under the direction of the late Clarence Stasavich, earning letters in 1966 and 1967. ECU ran the single-wing offense, and that worked well for Young, who was a single-wing tailback in high school.

Young says he thoroughly enjoyed his football experience and the lifelong friendships he made.

He also enjoyed the opportunity to attend college with his brother, Steve.

Young, who became a licensed certified public accountant in 1972, worked in public accounting, commercial mortgage banking, real estate, and long-term health care for the first half of his career.

In the summer of 1991, Young was on his way to Teaneck, New Jersey, to become the operational officer of a rehab chain called Medifit of America. He had already accepted Medifit’s offer when ECU’s athletic director Dave Hart invited Young to return to ECU and head up athletic fundraising. The rest is history, Young says.

“Dave Hart’s invitation to come back to my old school resulted in my leaving the business world,” Young explains. “I had been involved with the Pirate Club over the years, going back to 1976, when I became a supporting member.

I served as chapter president of the then Forsyth County Pirate Club Chapter and as an executive committee member of the Educational Foundation in the late 1980s. I was ready to come back to Greenville and help my alma mater.”

At right, senior MIS student-athlete Kimmy Cummings stands on the soccer field. She has been named to the ECU Director of Athletics Honor Roll numerous times at East Carolina. Photo by Jay Clark

So for the latter part of his career, Young returned to the ECU Educational Foundation Inc. as its executive director. Under his leadership, the Pirate Club raised more than $50 million in capital gifts in support of the foundation’s endowment fund and funding for the expansion of Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, construction of the Murphy Center, construction of the state-of-the-art Clark-LeClair Baseball Stadium, and currently private funding for a proposed basketball practice facility. During his 15 years as executive director, the Pirate Club’s annual fund campaigns also experienced a significant rise from $500,000 to nearly $4 million in annual student-athlete scholarship support provided to ECU Athletics.

Since 2006, Young has served as associate athletics director for major gifts at ECU, where he has been primarily responsible for the planning and execution of all major athletic fundraising initiatives. As a former ECU football player, he has a keen understanding of the importance of athletic fundraising. As a result of the Pirate Club’s success over the year in its fundraising efforts on behalf of ECU Athletics, Young is nationally respected and honored for his fundraising abilities.

In 2010, he was named first vice president of the National Association of Athletic Development Directors, the first organization of its kind to provide educational and networking opportunities, enhancement of acceptable operating standards and ethics, and the establishment of the overall prestige and understanding of the profession of athletics development and fundraising. NAADD is administered by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.

“I’ve been blessed to have had the opportunity to give back over the last 20 years of my professional career to a university and athletics program that gave me a wonderful educational experience 40-plus years ago,” Young says.

After retiring, Young plans to move to River Landing in Wallace, North Carolina, where he looks forward to spending time with his wife of 43 years, Ellen, his high-school sweetheart.

Together they have two children: Dennis Allen Young Jr., of Jacksonville, Florida, and Allison Baise, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They also have two grandchildren.

“I’m looking forward to an active retirement life, including spending time with my wife and family, travel, golf, and most importantly, using my talents as God sees fit.”

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STEVEN WRIGHT (MGMT ’78) Although he’s from Boston originally and even attended the same high school as comedian Conan O’Brien, Steven Wright did not know

he was destined to attend East Carolina University—and continue the legacy of his mother, Ledonia Wright.

Wright first moved to Greenville after high school in 1974, when his mother took a position as associate professor in ECU’s Department of Community Health. She was one of the first African-American professors at the university and quickly made an impact on campus.

In her short tenure at ECU, Ledonia Wright became a leader for the recruitment, development, and financial support of minority and disadvantaged students in addition to being a public health professional. The impact of her influence was dramatic. Through her leadership, minority enrollment grew significantly. She also served as advisor to the first African-American organization at ECU and gained a reputation for encouraging the students to be leaders.

Although she died in 1976 while her son was still a young business student, Ledonia Wright’s efforts and mark on the school did not go unnoticed. In 1979, the former “Y” Hut on campus was renamed the Ledonia S. Wright Afro-American Cultural Center, with the mission to facilitate a campus-wide and sustained effort to support campus diversity and enrich student skill development and leadership through cultural and

educational opportunities for all ECU students.

A scholarship was also named in her honor and is given bi-annually.

Inspired by his mother’s work and a business law class, Steven Wright believed law was a good vehicle to pursue access to justice toward the end of the civil-rights era. After graduating in 1978 with a management concentration at ECU, Wright returned to his hometown to attend law school at Boston College.

Since earning his law degree in 1981, Wright has been extremely active in his profession. He has served as deputy counsel to the Office of the Mayor of the City of New York, where he resolved legal and policy issues for the mayor and his executive cabinet. He was also general counsel to New York City’s Public Advocate, a “watch dog” over the budget and policies of New York City Government. Wright also served as deputy chief of the Civil Litigation Bureau of the Massachusetts Department of Attorney General and chief of its trial division. In addition to managing its legal staff, he provided strategic representation to Massachusetts state agencies on litigation, regulatory, and compliance matters.

In 1997, Wright joined international law firm Holland & Knight LLP (“H&K”), which has 1,000 attorneys in 17 offices. Today, he serves as executive partner, overseeing management of the firm’s 120-attorney Boston office. As part of his role, he also serves as lead counsel and strategic advisor for several Fortune 500 companies.

Additionally, he is a director of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and was a trustee and executive board member of The Boston Bar Foundation. He is a member of H&K’s Director’s Committee and the Board of Director’s Committee of Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts.

He lives with his wife, Dani, in Boston. He has one daughter, Serena, who is 23. Even though Wright stays busy up north, he and his wife still find time to serve ECU as co-chairs of the Chancellor’s National Leadership Council and return to campus at least once per year.

“My education at ECU has been extremely valuable, and it has helped me to successfully blend business with legal skills—both of which are applicable in many contexts,” Wright says.

“I feel honored to have attended ECU and will continue to participate in important campus initiatives.”

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TOM ARTHUR (MBA ’71)

After serving three years in the US Army— earning the Silver Star and other military awards for his valor during the Vietnam War—Tom Arthur returned to his hometown of Greenville.

It was June 1969, and he had already completed his undergraduate studies several years earlier at UNC–Chapel Hill. ECU offered the perfect opportunity to come home, spend time with his mother and stepfather, start a family of his own with his wife, and earn his MBA. Arthur also had an interesting connection to Pirate country: his grandfather, Louis C. Arthur, was one of nine men involved with founding East Carolina more than 60 years earlier.

Arthur says, “My fondest memory at ECU was my interview with Dean Bearden, when we discussed my possible enrollment. At the end of the interview, I thanked him and told him when I was scheduled to take the GMAT test. He said it wasn’t necessary, in that he had already decided to accept me for the MBA program.”

Arthur says he has wonderful memories of his fellow students and challenging courses. His first daughter was born while he was at ECU, so he felt like a “student of parenting,” too. Arthur discovered that he enjoyed accounting and finance throughout his course work, and he landed a job

with a Florida-based investment banking firm immediately after graduating.

He ultimately became CEO and majority shareholder of Hav-A-Tampa cigar company, serving as head of the organization for almost 20 years beginning in 1978. In 1998, he started a Tampa-based family firm called ASAP Capital Partners—run by his daughter, Tready Smith, and son-in-law, Drew Pittman (ASAP stands for Arthur, Smith and Pittman).

Today, Arthur enjoys dividing his time between Tampa, Florida in the winter and Saratoga, Wyoming in the summer. He also spends as much time as possible with his family, which now includes two daughters, their husbands, and four grandchildren.

Every year, Arthur returns to campus for the annual board meeting of the BB&T Center for Leadership Development. In 2007, he donated $1 million to the center to establish an endowed chair in the College of Business focusing on leadership. Dr. James Bearden—the former dean of the School of Business who helped Arthur enroll at ECU—serves as director of the BB&T Center for Leadership Development. Arthur has been involved with Bearden and the center since it was first proposed, and he has served on the center’s board since its founding in the early 1980s.

When reflecting back on his career, Arthur says he believes luck is a major factor in success.

“Those who believe their success is due to their brilliance and hard work are misleading themselves,” he says. “The adage about being in the right place at the right time is very true.

However, you can prepare yourself to take advantage of luck.”

He offered the following thoughts on how to prepare for success: study and/or work hard—and put in extra effort; be totally honest and ethical; volunteer for difficult assignments and then show good results; try to make things look easier than they are—this will help your confidence and lead others to “marvel” at your abilities; bosses like good attitudes, and it will pay off for you; be physically fit, and spend time keeping yourself in shape and “looking good”—most of your workplace competition will not, and your diligence will be noted and rewarded.

He also strongly encourages students to consider serving in the military. “The education that you will get about yourself and your abilities is not available anywhere else,” he concludes. “It’s the best training available anywhere, and you get paid. The three to five years spent in the military (assuming you don’t choose it for a career) will initially put you behind your business peers, but you should catch up and pass them.”

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Era 3: Dean Ernest Uhr (1983–2004) During Dr. Ernie Uhr’s 21-year tenure as dean, he oversaw phenomenal growth—ushering in two decades of important academic, scholarly, and private investment achievements for the College of Business.

From 1983 to 2004, faculty doubled in size from 55 to about 100 members as the student population continued to boom. By 1985, the College of Business had outgrown its home in the Rawl Building, and work began on a new, $10.5-million General Classroom Building (now called the Harold H. Bate Building). Uhr says he stayed actively involved with the building from start to finish. He put many hours into planning the building with architects and other designers, and he delighted in taking photos from the rooftop of Rawl to document progress. Uhr still likes to joke about how the building was first named for a famous general: General Classroom.

“The new facility took two years to build and one year to plan, and when the doors opened we all fit inside, thankfully,” he says. “It was a lot of fun to be part of the process.”

Around the same time, the Commerce Club was established along with the Business Advisory Council. Plus, the College began producing an alumni newsletter called Stocknotes as well as an annual report.

Uhr undertook the university’s first capital campaign for an academic unit when the school celebrated its 50th anniversary. This Golden Anniversary Campaign quickly surpassed its $2-million goal, providing important funds to help expand programs while supporting students and faculty development. Uhr calls it a “moment of destiny,” giving the College the private resources it needed to enter a new phase of development and assume a leadership role in redirecting the economic thrust of the region.

“We had many enthusiastic participants, and every single faculty member also made a contribution to our capital campaign. The average gift was around $1,000—and remember this was in 1986,” Uhr says. “People are very important, and I was deeply appreciative of everyone’s extraordinary support.”

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at ECU followed on the heels of the campaign with the Robert Dillard Teer Jr. Distinguished Professorship in Business.

Major advances and revisions in the business curriculum also took place following the Golden Anniversary Campaign. The MBA program was enhanced by adding new optional concentrations available to students. Uhr also worked closely with Brody School of Medicine officials to develop the dual MD/MBA, a program Uhr calls ECU’s “crown jewel.” New five-year plans were created that allowed non-business students to earn an MBA with only one additional year of study. The master of science in accounting program also gained final approval. In addition, ECU’s first MBA course was put online at a time when no online programs or degrees were offered. Today, the College’s online program offering is the largest in the state in terms of enrollment.

Faculty quality also continued to improve under Uhr, with more PhDs joining the College of Business who had experience in their field of research. Instructors also increasingly had advanced degrees coupled with real-world experience.

During his time as dean, Uhr actively enhanced the international student-body presence in the College of Business, striving to expose students in Greenville to more diversity since few could study abroad themselves. Uhr says he went out of his way to set up exchange programs with other universities, traveling to schools in Europe as well as China.

At one point, more than half of the international students at ECU were business students.

When he retired in 2004 with more than two decades of leadership as dean, Uhr was recognized

Dr. Ernest Uhr, dean of the School of Business, views the construction of ECU’s long-awaited Bate Building from a nearby vantage point in 1986.

for his longstanding service by having a classroom in the Bate Building—the same building he worked so tirelessly to plan—named in his honor. In addition, Business Advisory Council members along with ECU faculty, staff, and friends collected $25,000 to establish the Uhr Recognition Fund, which honored Uhr by providing general support to the College of Business.

Uhr says he and his wife, Jean, initially chose ECU because they fell in love with the collegetown community and vibrant student population.

Since retiring they have stayed close by, building a home in Chocowinity. They enjoy traveling worldwide, boating, and golfing. In November, the two celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a special cruise to the pyramids in Egypt.

“I never dreamed I would stay at ECU as long as I did, but it was a great fit both personally and professionally,” Uhr says. “We had a tremendous run in terms of growth and development, and it lasted a long time.”

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DON BOLDT If you’ve ever taken a business policy or entrepreneurship class with Don Boldt, chances are you remember it very well. Boldt, who taught part-time in the College of Business for almost 25 years and also served as assistant dean for graduate programs, drew heavily upon his own entrepreneurial experience to make the courses fast moving and stimulating—and notorious among students for the amount of work involved.

“My course evaluations were always bi-modal: students either loved it or hated it,” Boldt says.

“But I can honestly say I never had one student fall asleep. Our class discussions were very lively and based on the Harvard Business School case method, where students were presented with a case and would place themselves in the role of the decision maker.”

Originally from Iowa, Boldt spent the first half of his career as an international businessman after serving in the US Air Force as a first lieutenant in missile testing and then earning his MBA from

Harvard. He helped manage various companies in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, and he specialized in helping troubled companies turn around. He was the No. 2 officer at one such Fortune 1,000 company in 1972, but several years later he found himself taken over and was immediately fired. At that point, Boldt says he’d had enough of “big business,” so he began looking for smaller companies to buy—and his discovery of Wall Lenk Corporation in Kinston brought him to eastern North Carolina.

In 1979, Boldt became president of Wall Lenk, a small public company manufacturing specialty hand tools, and he took it private.

Around the same time, he began to meet professors from the College of Business at ECU as he became involved in community activities.

Due to a need for additional instructors, Boldt was invited to teach at ECU as an adjunct professor on the side and was responsible for one night course per semester.

Boldt remained active in the community

and the university. He participated in Junior Achievement, served on the board and as chairman of Lenoir Memorial Hospital, and worked with various advisory boards at ECU. In 1988, Boldt was given the first-ever Honorary Alumni Award from East Carolina University, recognizing his outstanding service and loyalty to the school.

A position opened up for the assistant dean of graduate programs in the College of Business in 1992—just when Boldt was ready to retire from Wall Lenk. He took the job at ECU, calling it a “great way to end a business career.”

In his new role with graduate programs, Boldt worked hard to further develop the MBA. He launched the school’s first real marketing program to help sell the College of Business and focused on three key points: quality, flexibility, and value. He was also instrumental in developing MBA concentrations, as well as the highly successful MD/MBA combined degree that is offered in concert with the ECU Brody School of Medicine. In addition, Boldt increased international student participation to 9 percent from 21 countries in the College of Business’ graduate programs. He even helped develop the first-ever website for the College’s graduate programs. Overall, enrollment went up 20 percent during Boldt’s seven years in the graduate programs office.

In 1999, Boldt retired from the assistant dean position but stayed on teaching at ECU part-time as an adjunct professor. As a tribute, graduate students raised money and created an endowment for the Donald B. Boldt International Excellence Award, which is given each year to the most outstanding international graduate student.

Boldt continued teaching at ECU until 2004, when he retired full time. Today, he enjoys living in Kinston and spending time with his wife, Wilma, who has been active at the local, state, and national level with hospital volunteering.

They enjoy traveling together and try to do one major international trip each year. This past fall, they visited Greece and Turkey.

“I’m a real fan of our College of Business,” Boldt says. “I think it has come a tremendously long way, and I have enjoyed watching it develop over the past 30 years. Without a doubt, we remain one of the top MBA programs in the region, and I’m very proud of our reputation.”

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Alumni Highlights angela Moss (acct ’97, MSA ’98) RON MOSS (ECON ’97, MBA ’98) When Angie Moss (ACCT ’97, MSA ’98) first toured East Carolina University as a prospective student, she fell in love with the school’s culture— so much so that she aspired to lead those campus tours one day.

Moss enrolled at ECU and immediately immersed herself in university life. She ran for freshman class president and won, served as sophomore class president, was elected treasurer of the Student Government Association, and ultimately became student body president from 1996–1997. She also worked as an orientation advisor—realizing her dream to lead the same campus tours she fell in love with as a high school senior.

Moss also met her future husband, Ron, through mutual friends as an undergraduate student. Ron Moss was a junior studying economics at ECU while she studied accounting, and the two hit it off right away—even taking classes together. After they graduated in 1997, the couple got engaged. They both earned their graduate degrees from ECU—he earned his MBA and she earned her MSA—and then they tied the knot in 1998 after graduating again.

To kick off their careers, the newlyweds moved to Boston, where a combination of work opportunities in the finance/business arena and nearby family created a unique experience for them. After eight years, the two moved back home to North Carolina, where they could further their careers and start a family.

Today, Angie works with the University of North Carolina Management Company, helping manage a $3-billion portfolio on behalf of several institutions, including the UNC and ECU endowments. She says she feels fortunate to work for some of the same institutions that helped her as a student leader at East Carolina. Ron has a similar role to Angie at Progress Energy, where he has worked for the past several years managing the

Ron and Angie Moss sit with sons Conner and Ian in their Raleigh home.

company’s $2-billion pension portfolio.

Living in Raleigh, the two make frequent trips to Greenville, especially since Angie serves on both the East Carolina University Board of Visitors and the East Carolina Alumni Association Board of Directors. The Moss family now includes two young sons: Conner and Ian. Angie and Ron say they cherish the memories made at ECU—not just meeting each other, but also making lifelong friends, cheering on the Pirates at football games, and learning from top-notch mentors, including Dean Uhr and Rick Niswander in the College of Business; Don

Joyner, associate vice chancellor for admissions and advising; and Laura Sweet, who helped Angie throughout her involvement with Alpha Phi and the Panhellenic Council.

The couple says the mid-1990s was an exciting time at ECU, with a brand-new 150,000plus square-foot Student Recreation Center that opened and lots of campus enthusiasm. The Moss family encourages other students to take advantage of the university experience and get involved.

“ECU has all of the advantages of a big school, but with a small school atmosphere,” Angie says.

“Your experience is what you make it.”

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Alumni Highlight MARYBETH EASON (MKTG ’00, MBA ’01) Originally from Elizabethtown in eastern North Carolina, Marybeth Petteway Eason grew up surrounded by BB&T bank branches and Pirate fans—and both have played major roles in her life.

After attending a small high school and an even smaller college (Eason earned her associate of arts degree at Peace College in Raleigh), she says she was ready for a larger school with a hometown kind of feel. East Carolina was the perfect fit— especially since she had cheered for the Pirates ever since she could talk. It also helped that her father, E. Hayes Petteway, is a 1971 College of Business alumnus and was eager to have more purple blood in the family. In fact, both of Eason’s parents grew up in Pitt County, so she knew the area well.

At ECU, Eason joined Alpha Xi Delta sorority and enjoyed her marketing studies while spending time with friends, especially at football games.

Even today, she says she doesn’t miss a home game.

She also met her future husband while working as a marketing graduate assistant in the ECU Athletics Department. Tommy Eason—now the head baseball coach of Pitt Community College— was ECU’s assistant baseball coach at the time, and the two got to know each other through sports.

Among the good times, Eason also vividly remembers when she was a senior in 1999, and Hurricane Floyd ravaged eastern North Carolina.

“We were out of school for nearly two weeks, and some of my friends lost everything,” she says.

“I was able to get out of Greenville and go to Columbia, South Carolina to see ECU beat South Carolina in football—and then we watched ECU beat Miami in Raleigh. It was a very trying time in Greenville, but we all seemed to rally behind the football team and make it through.”

Since earning her MBA in 2001, Eason has worked with BB&T Merchant Services in Wilson.

In her current role as channel manager, she is responsible for the research, development, and implementation of products that allow the bank’s

business clients to accept cards for payment. She also serves as marketing liaison for the merchant services line of business.

Eason says, “I grew up with BB&T in my hometown, so I have always known the name and a little about the company. BB&T attended career fairs at ECU and visited our business classes to recruit students, which is where I really learned more about the company and wanted to be a part of it.”

Today Eason stays busy between her full-time work in Wilson, home in Greenville, weekends filled with baseball, and two-year-old twin girls,

Mary Robert and Hayes. Mary Robert is the sixth generation “Mary” and also took the maiden name of her grandmother. Hayes is family name on her grandfather’s side. Balancing a rewarding career with her role as a twin mom takes a lot of work, but Eason says she is passionate about all areas of her life.

“At BB&T, we talk a lot about passion—finding your passion and doing something that you’re passionate about. Ten years ago, I never imagined I would be passionate about banking, but I am. Find what you are passionate about—it will make going to work every day much easier.”

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Era 4: Dean Rick Niswander (2004–2011) Under Dr. Rick Niswander’s seven years of leadership as dean, the College of Business continued experiencing a tremendous amount of growth—growth in faculty as well as growth in student body. A new undergraduate curriculum was also launched to meet the demands of the 21st-century business environment, a program like nothing else offered throughout the entire country.

When he became dean in 2004, Niswander says he sought to set the College of Business apart from other business schools, or in other words, have points of distinction.

“We had a good, solid business program, but there were about 300 other business schools that could say the same thing,” Niswander explains.

“The question became how is ECU different, and why should a student come to our business program as opposed to someplace else? If 300 other schools can offer the same education, why is this the place?”

The answer came from a massive faculty

collaboration, leading to a revamped undergraduate program. This new program teaches 21st-century skills such as leadership, communication, and professional development, along with the technical material.

“For decades, we did a great job of teaching the basic nuts and bolts of business,” Niswander says.

“That’s still critically important, but we now also have to teach the rest of the student. We have to teach students how to act and react in the larger world from an interpersonal perspective.”

Niswander says this includes everything from how to develop critical thinking skills to how to run a meeting to what fork to use at dinner. The things the rest of us learned through the “school of hard knocks” are now taught to students in a formal program that includes curricular pieces as well as non-curricular pieces offered in one big package.

Niswander says when the new Leadership and Professional Development program was finally launched, it was far better than anything he had envisioned.

“After years of planning, what came out the other end was superior because of the many faculty members who were involved. They care a lot about our students, and they put together a comprehensive program that nobody else in the country does,” Niswander says.

At one point, the College had 75 percent of its faculty involved in either a committee or another area associated with the program’s planning.

With so many new elements incorporated into the undergraduate business program, the College became a four-year college, allowing freshmen to declare business as their intended major so their training could begin earlier than junior year. This also led to “off the charts” growth in the College of Business.

Niswander continues to live in Greenville with his wife Debi, although he now serves as ECU’s vice chancellor for administration and finance. He says he is constantly reminded how remarkable the faculty and staff are in the College of Business.

For 18 years at ECU, Niswander says he worked in the College of Business in various capacities, and he “grew up” with a lot of the folks there.

“As you go around other places, you become very aware that the people in the College of Business are special,” he says. “They know what they’re doing, they care about students, they go above and beyond, and they’re willing to rise to a challenge.

I’m very proud of our college and our university.”

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Faculty Highlight Featured at left with Jim Westmoreland is Neelam Patel (FINA ‘08), a former student he helped during her time at ECU. Today, Patel works with Summit Hospitality Group, Ltd., as an area sales manager for RDU/Durham/Chapel Hill.

JIM WESTMORELAND It’s safe to say that Jim Westmoreland is a “people person,” especially when it comes to East Carolina and connecting others.

Westmoreland, who serves as associate dean for external affairs in the College of Business, has worked at ECU for more than 35 years. During the first six years of his career, he primarily worked with the Division of Student Life, focusing on campus living and orientation programs.

For the next 20 years, he worked with ECU Career Services—initially as assistant director and ultimately as director. Westmoreland says working with students and alumni in this role was an important part of his life.

“I found it to be a time of self-reflection for those I helped, when I was able to help their thoughts become clearer about the future,” he says. “I enjoyed the interactions, the honesty of conversations about what really mattered, and the

chance to be a mirror for those who were seeking to find their best path.”

Since 2001, Westmoreland has functioned as an ambassador for the College of Business, a role that involves connecting students, alumni, and faculty with each other.

“I try to support others wherever I am,” Westmoreland says. “Whether on campus or off, in my community/church, or with students traveling to [Washington] D.C. or Australia, I want the best positive image for all persons associated with East Carolina University.”

Westmoreland grew up in Statesville, North Carolina. He earned his doctorate in occupational education with a focus on training and development from NC State University in 1989, thanks to the proceeds from a book he wrote titled The ABC’s of Career Preparation and more recently copyrighted as Career Basics. He also holds two master’s degrees in counseling and adult education from ECU, as well as an undergraduate degree

from ECU in political science and business.

As a student at East Carolina, Westmoreland worked as a resident advisor in Jones Hall and served as senior class president. He says he enjoyed getting to know Dr. Leo W. Jenkins and Attorney General Robert Morgan, among many others.

No one has more Pirate Pride than Westmoreland. In fact, in 2008 East Carolina University honored him with the first ever “Spirit Award” during the March 27 centennial celebration. The special recognition was one of 13 Centennial Awards for Excellence bestowed, with winners in the categories of leadership, service, spirit, and ambition.

Some of Westmoreland’s other recent honors include serving as keynote speaker for ECU’s Omicron Delta Kappa chapter—a national leadership honor society—in 2008. In 2006, he was honored for his outstanding leadership with student groups as the Student Activities Center’s banquet speaker/honoree. The Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce recognized Westmoreland as Volunteer of the Year in 2004, commemorating his work with teen leadership programs. He also enjoys serving as a faculty chaperone for student trips in the College of Business, including the College’s Summer Study Abroad trip to the Netherlands this past summer and a trip to New York City last spring for marketing students.

“I see my own career as so much more than just a job,” Westmoreland says. “I try to offer a positive spirit in whatever I do and wherever I interact with others. The motto of ECU—To Serve—has been one I have tried to live.”

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Alumni Highlights JACOB ALPHIN (FINA ’09) J. M. DICKENS (MGMT ’09) After forming a friendship as students at East Carolina, Jacob Alphin and J. M. Dickens took a big leap of faith together: they established their own insurance company shortly following their graduation in 2009. Their business, Triangle Insurance & Associates, is located in downtown Louisburg, North Carolina, and it serves as a licensed independent insurance agency specializing in life, home, auto, farm, and commercial insurance. With six employees, the company insures customers throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.

Alphin and Dickens, now 24, first met in a business management class at ECU, where they worked together on a group project. The two worked well as a team and found they had much in common—both have a passion for business, enjoy strong family ties, and grew up in small North Carolina towns (Alphin is from La Grange and Dickens is from Louisburg). They also discovered that their skill sets and personalities complement each other: Dickens has a knack for selling and talking with people, along with a solid knowledge of business management and how things should run. Alphin, on the other hand, is more detailoriented and enjoys the inner workings of finance, accounting, and just generally making sure all of the Is are dotted and Ts are crossed.

While still in school, they began thinking about their future together as business partners. They earned their North Carolina real-estate licenses and became licensed insurance agents at the age of 22.

In spring 2009, Alphin graduated Magna Cum Laude with a concentration in finance, and Dickens graduated with honors in business management. Several months later, after shadowing experts in the field and learning from other insurance companies, they opened Triangle Insurance & Associates.

Alphin says, “My education at ECU prepared me well for the challenges of starting up a new company. We’ve had a lot to figure out, but our foundation is strong.”

Dickens agrees. “Going to school at ECU took me out of my comfort zone and helped me build relationships with different types of people from different backgrounds. Those skills have come in very handy as an entrepreneur.”

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Featured above, Jacob Alphin and J. M. Dickens, owners/agents of Triangle Insurance & Associates.

their own boss, although that can be the most challenging part, too.

“The most rewarding part of owning our business is that we started from scratch, set our goals, and now have built a successful business that continues to grow and hopefully keeps expanding,” Alphin explains.

Both Alphin and Dickens enjoy coming back to campus for football games and still have many connections to Pirate country. Alphin and his wife, Kristen Potter Alphin, met at ECU in a personal finance class. They were married last October.

Dickens’ girlfriend, Whitney Howell, is also at ECU finishing up her nursing degree. Even their office has ECU ties—one of their sales agents, Tyler Pollock, is a College of Business graduate.

Alphin and Dickens encourage current students

to work diligently and always go to class— especially since you never know who you might meet. “Study and learn, but also have fun and try to meet as many people as possible,” they say.

“Once you graduate, a whole new adventure starts.”

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TENDAI NDABVONGA (MBA ’09) Growing up in Harare, Zimbabwe, Tendai Ndabvonga says she knew little about the United States—except what she saw through television shows such as Beverly Hills 90210 and the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She had strong grades and a supportive family, but that wasn’t enough to guarantee college acceptance and ultimately employment in Zimbabwe, where she saw the economy crumbling and the middle class disappearing.

When she was 18, Ndabvonga decided it was time to leave her home and her country, and she

enrolled as a freshman at Edinboro University in northwestern Pennsylvania.

“It was a difficult decision to leave my family and all that I knew was certain to move to the U.S.,” she says. “What I did know was that in the U.S., I actually had a chance at achieving my goals with passion, hard work, and dedication.”

After spending four years of undergraduate studies in the “snow belt,” Ndabvonga earned her MIS degree and decided to head south for a warmer climate. Her future husband, Clyde, whom she met at Edinboro, had family from eastern North Carolina and it seemed like a nice, familyoriented place to settle down. She thought ECU was the perfect place to earn her MBA. “I did not leave Zimbabwe with my family, and therefore I have very little family here. I wanted to make sure I could settle in an area where I would grow strong relationships,” Ndabvonga says. “The MBA program was internationally accredited, which is also something that appealed to me as I consider myself a global citizen. The graduate assistant opportunity that I was offered sealed the deal.”

Along with meeting new friends, tailgating, and forging friendships at Chico’s Mexican Restaurant, Ndabvonga says one of her favorite experiences at ECU was meeting future president Barack

Obama when he stopped in Greenville during his campaign. She even got to shake his hand at a town hall meeting.

“That was an event I never thought would happen to a young woman from Zimbabwe!” she says.

Throughout her two years in the MBA program, Ndabvonga excelled academically and worked as a graduate assistant in the Graduate Programs office, where she helped support the MBA and MSA programs. When she graduated in 2009, she was offered a full-time position as assistant director in the Graduate Programs office—an opportunity she says she jumped on. As part of her duties, Ndabvonga advises current and prospective graduate business students, conducts MBA/MSA information sessions, oversees graduate assistant assignments, serves as an international liaison, and is part of the diversity action committee. She was married just over two years ago and makes her home in Greenville.

“It was a difficult decision for me to study in the U.S., but it’s a decision that has made all the difference in enhancing my future,” Ndabvonga says. “I like to think of myself as an explorer; I love to travel, try new foods, and make the most of my experience. As an immigrant, I’m especially passionate about helping people on the same path.”

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I am so grateful for being awarded this scholarship. As a single mother of two, earning enough money is a real challenge. I know my education will allow me to secure our future, but until then, managing the bills can be daunting. This scholarship counts twice: the financial assistance is such a blessing, but I also truly cherish the honor of being awarded.

— Amanda Walters

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Saluting Our Supporters Lifetime Donors to the College of Business through June 30, 2011 $250,000+

Thomas D. Arthur The Dillard Teer Family Estate of Pearl R. Potter Vince & Linda McMahon Family Foundation Inc. Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina RBC Bank W. Howard Rooks $150,000–$249,999

Ken and Kay Chalk Charles D. Jamerson Jr. National Spinning Company/ James W. Chesnutt Wachovia, Wells Fargo and Wells Fargo Foundation $100,000–$149,999

Bank of America and Bank of America Foundation David A. Bond and Pamela S. Bond Bonnie Brown Estate of Archie R. Burnette Stephen and Ellen Cunanan Dixon Hughes Goodman The Thelma Roberts Hall Irrevocable Trust Kevin M. and Lori Coates Shannon $75,000–$99,999

Frank and Renee Floyd and Family Foundation NC Association of CPAs and the Coastal Plains Chapter Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation $50,000–$74,999

Belk Tyler Stores Jerod and Marnie Pearce Cohen Mark and Tracy Copeland Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund The Gourley Family Foundation Inc. Johnson & Johnson Foundation Kelly S. King Charles Lee McGimsey W. Kel Normann North Carolina Surplus Lines Association Margery W. Pearce

Danny R. Scott Richard Worsley $25,000–$49,999

Bruce N. Austin Jr. Howard Hodges Aycock Kenneth A. Barlow Lisa D. and Walter Benton Bruce A. Biggs Donald B. Boldt* David J. Bradley Burlington Industries Capital Community Foundation Inc. Cliff Weil Inc. George and Martha Coffman John Hunter Davis* and Cindy C. Davis The Domestic Industries Foundation/Fred Hunneke The Edward D. Jones & Company Foundation Empire Brushes Inc. Kurt Englebert and Dale West Engelbert Ernst & Young A. E. Finley Foundation Foundation for the Carolinas William P. and Emily Furr Dan M. Guy James & Deborah Hooper David Reece Howell Alvin B. Hutzler II Hal S. Johnson John Richard Lancaster Richard Finley Moldin Ryan Perry and Shana Stone Perry Edward R. Pupa R & D Development LLC RSM McGladrey Inc. James R. Talton Jr. (deceased) Unifi United Energy Inc. James A. Walker Robert A. and Margaret C. Ward The H. O. West Foundation $20,000–$24,999

American Society for Quality (ASQ) Anheuser-Busch ARAMARK Corporation

Charles S. Atwater David K. Barger Archie R. Burnette (deceased) Willie R. and Linda B. Creech Gertrude Goble Goldman Sachs Greenville-Pitt Association of Realtors Inc. McGladrey & Pullen Frederick D. Niswander* North Carolina Real Estate Educational Foundation PepsiCo Foundation The Pantry University Book Exchange Inc. David Womack Louis H. Zincone Jr.* $15,000–$19,999 William N. Alexander Jr. Arthur Andersen & Co. Janice B. Buck (deceased) Century Business Services Inc. Stanley G. Eakins* and Laurie Eakins* John Robert Hooten Ray L. Jones* (deceased) KPMG LLP David Ernest Leonard W. Guy Lucas National Council on Economic Education William H. and Lisa Shreve Robert E. Taft Robert Howard Weber Jr. $10,000–$14,999

AHG Associates, LLC Paul J. Alar The Ashland Inc. Foundation Barnhill Contracting Company E. Leonard Blackley John Henry Bradley* Kathleen A. Brady Connally Branch Charles L. Broome* Rodney Cantrell William Richard Cobb Kevin James Collins Collins, Asbell, Ward & Greene LLP Inez M. Conley Eastern Carolina Chapter IMA

*Current or past College of Business faculty member Ex-Cell Home Fashions Inc. Gannett Foundation GlaxoSmithKline Grady-White Boats Inc. Frank Edward Grayiel III Umesh* and Usha Gulati H & R Block Foundation Hampton Industries Inc. Heilig-Meyers Furniture Company Hooker and Buchanan Thomas Garner Horne Elaine H. Howard Judith R. Hunt* David R. Hunt I.S.S.A. Foundation The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Jeffrey T. Joyner Richard Lee Kerns* Brenda Killingsworth* Christopher D. Mandaleris Gary M. Massie Microsoft J. Fielding Miller Miller Family Foundation Monsanto Nabisco Foods Group Mino Owen Osterkamp Jr. Don H. Perry Julian W. Rawl Edward H. Ripper Ryo Leo Sasaki Timothy James Shearer Benjamin Todd Singleton J. Troy Smith Jr. Sonoco Products Company Southern National Bank of NC State Farm Phillip W. Tetterton Jack Thomas Thompson Jr. Ernest B. Uhr* Leo Allen Venters Gary L. Warren Kathy Brittain White H. Glenn Williams (deceased) Henry G. Williamson Jr. William H. Yarborough Dennis Allen Young Sr.

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Supporters

Your Annual Gift Makes a Difference

Annual giving at the ECU College of Business is made up of generous gifts from alumni, parents, faculty/staff, friends, and students.

Your annual gift to the college goes to work immediately to • strengthen academic programs, • attract top faculty members, and • make ECU affordable for all students.

More specifically, annual giving allows the College of Business to provide extraordinary opportunities for learning and discovery; to extend financial aid to students who need it; and to help meet emerging needs and challenges.

These unrestricted funds provide the flexibility to undertake new initiatives, such as implementing our new leadership curriculum, and the necessary departments to support it.

Regardless of size, your annual gift makes a difference. Every gift is important and is a vote of confidence in the College of Business and its future. Annual gifts may be made by check, transfer of stock/securities, or credit card with our Secure Online Gift Form.

ECU College of Business

Business Advisory Council The Business Advisory Council provides advice, guidance, and support for the continuing development of quality business programs at East Carolina University. The council has helped to establish a broad range of ongoing relationships with the College’s business partners, including the Business Partners for Excellence program.

Wanda Burgamy Business Development Manager Dell Inc.

David J. Guilford President DLG Associates Inc.

James W. Chesnutt President and CEO National Spinning Co. Inc.

Franz F. Holscher Management Consultant Retired, Thurston Motor Lines

Fred E. Hunneke Chairman and CEO Domestic Industries Inc.

Chip Chesson President Chesson Management Inc. Jerod S. Cohen Director of Employee Benefit Services Snipes Insurance Service Inc. Kevin Collins Specialist Team Unit Director Microsoft Paul J. Alar Managing Director West Mountain Partners, LP Charles S. Atwater President and CEO Hydro Service and Supplies Inc. Howard Aycock Retired CIO Tropicana Lisa Benton Senior HR Business Partner Wells Fargo Robert F. Bird Retired Executive Vice President Independent Insurance Agents of NC Donald B. Boldt Consultant Retired Business Owner/Faculty David Bond Executive VP Sales Navicure Connally Branch President Clark-Branch Inc. Realtors Bonnie Brown Independent Consultant Pricewaterhouse Coopers Partner (retired)

Mark Copeland Partner Ernst and Young R. W. Daniels Jr. Eastern Regional President BB&T Gary S. Davidson Chief Financial Officer Emigra Group, LLC Bernita Demery Director of Financial Services City of Greenville, NC Beth G. Everett Partner Land Concepts and Solutions

Alvin B. Hutzler II President, Cliff Weil Inc. Van Isley President Professional Builders Supply Inc. Kirk Little Vice President/General Manager Apogee Solutions Inc. W. Guy Lucas Financial Advisor Citigroup Smith Barney Sarah Mayo Chief Financial Officer Lenoir Memorial Hospital Donald C. McGlohon President, McGlohon & Company J. Fielding Miller Sr. CEO/Managing Partner CapTrust Financial Advisors Harry W. Moser III Vice President CD Group

Ralph W. Flanary Manager, retired Celanese Current ECU faculty member

W. Kel Normann Senior Vice President The Normann Group

William P. Furr Retired Cumulus Fibres

Ron Peoples Regional Executive RBC Bank

Joe Gantz Business Consultant GC Capital

Ryan Perry Co-owner Live Oak Homes Inc.

William F. Grant III President William Franklin Group

Edward R. Pupa CEO DesignAdvance

W. Howard Rooks Real Estate Consultant Business Owner

Kevin M. Shannon Retired Bank of America Tim Shearer President and CEO EP2 LLC Thomas L. Southern CLU, ChFC Mass Mutual Phillip W. Tetterton Chief Financial Officer Solideal Industrial Tire & United Solideal Jack Thompson CEO and President FemPartners Inc. James A. Walker Chairman The Advisory Group LLC Benny Ward Former CFO Inner Pulse Inc. James H. Ward III Managing Member Ward Holdings LLC Robert A. Ward Executive Vice President Unifi Inc. David H. Womack President Womack Electric Supply William H. Yarborough President and CEO US Postal Service Federal Credit Union

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Partners for Excellence Gifts made between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011 Jarvis Circle ($10,000+) Mark and Tracy Copeland The Edward D. Jones & Company Foundation The Frank and Renee Floyd Family Foundation Inc. Gertrude Goble North Carolina Association of Insurance Agents RBC Bank Danny R. Scott Vince and Linda McMahon Family Foundation Inc. Wright Circle ($5,000–$9,999) ARAMARK Corporation Lisa D. and Walter Benton Bruce A. Biggs David A. and Pamela S. Bond Central Carolina Community Foundation Ernst & Young David R. Hunt Monsanto Margery W. Pearce Jenkins Circle ($2,500–$4,999) Howard Hodges Aycock Edgar Leonard Blackley Robert Gentry Brinkley Rodney Cantrell Stan* and Laurie* Eakins Frederick D. Niswander* North Carolina CPA Foundation Inc. RSM McGladrey Inc. Thomas William Savitski Robert A. and Margaret C. Ward Wells Fargo Jeffrey Graham Williams Chancellor’s Circle ($1,000–$2,499) John Post Alkire IV Charles Elliott Andrews Charles S. Atwater Richard and Colleen Balot David J. Bradley Michael L. Bunting Eugene G. Chewning Jr. Charles Ervin Clontz Jr. William Richard Cobb Kevin James Collins Willie Ray and Linda Creech John H. Davis* and Cindy C. Davis Denise E. Dickins* C. Wayne Edwards II Dan M. Guy H & R Block Foundation William A. Haney Jr. James and Deborah Hooper Thomas Garner Horne Judith R. Hunt* Jeffrey T. Joyner William Richard Koch Langdon & Company William Guy Lucas The National Christian Foundation

North Carolina State Board of CPA Examiners Margaret T. O’Hara* PepsiCo Foundation Joseph Alvin Pope Craig Ridenour RSM McGladrey Inc. Douglas Kenneth Schneider* Lynn M. Schubert Pamela J. Smith Carey Meredith Swann III Tatum and Edwards PA Kimblery S. Tatum Phillip W. Tetterton Jack Thomas Thompson Jr. University Book Exchange Inc. Leo Allen Venters Gregory A. Weigum Kendrick Martin Whitehurst Pamela Matthews Williams Moye Wayne Woolard William H. Yarborough Associate ($500–$999) Ken Douglas Adams Rose L. Bailey* Stephen J. Barnes Sharron Henderson Batchelor Samuel J. Bernstein Beta Alpha Psi Donald B. Boldt* Sequoya Santana Borgman Kathleen A. Brady Henry V. Cashwell Sr. Stanley Wilson Cox James R. Daniels Jr. Joseph Colby Daughtry Jr. Jeffrey C. Davis Emery G. Doughtie Robert L. Edwards Jon Lawrence Frank Kenneth M. Gunn Jr. Barbara H. Hatch Corinne M. Heath Wade Hampton Henkel Edward Allen James KPMG Foundation Thomas E. Leake James R. Lewis Duane Kirk Little Wesley M. Measamer Microsoft James Ernest Mitchell III Louis Mullinger Eric Francis Mussler N. R. Milian & Associates John O’Hara Robert Earl Poole II Cathy G. Porter William H. Powell III Joyce Reto RJR Nabisco Inc. Ryo Leo Sasaki Paul Schwager* William Herman Shreve Ellen Whitman Sidbury Eric Lee Sinclair Jr.

Zachary Alan Smith Anne Edwards Squire State Farm Stephen Paul Steelman Jr. Barry Thomas Sugg Joseph Tomkiewicz* Hope Harrell Turnbull G. Albert Turner Verizon Keith T. Wallace Walmart Robert Howard Weber Jr. Dane Todd Whitmoyer Samuel Joseph Wornom III David Jefferson Worthington Buddy Zincone* Affiliate ($250–$499) Altria Group Inc. Robert Ernest Anderson Richard Lee Ashworth Edward Bennett Atwill Bank of America James H. Bearden* Stephen McKinley Blizzard James Andrew Bogardus Jan L. Bohmuller Jason Nicholas Brown Gene E. Butner Edward Evans Callis Camberley Properties Inc. Creola Smith Campbell Bonnie Caudle Francis Louis Clement John Graham Clements Charity Meekins Cooke Charles Anthony Costanzo John Morris Davis Michael Wayne Davis Sondra M. DeVincenzo John Robert Draper Robert Eash David L. Forbis Graduate Business Association Rebecca Harmon Guffey Deborah L. Hardin Robert N. Hatch Cleveland M. Hawkins Wayne A. Hildebrandt Miriam A. Hobgood Richard Anthony Hourigan Richard Lee Kerns* Douglas Dale Kittle James Kleckley* Sidney Gale Koonce Mark E. Kral Denis L. Lamparter Luther Gary Leonard Kerry Lee Lovitt Rachele Villanueva Manansala Mark G. McCarthy* Raymond K. McCulloch Steven A. Menaker Patrick B. Mitchell Margaret Ann Mitchell Cynthia S. Modlin Linda Golden Murphy

NC Association of CPAs Norfolk Southern Colin O’Connor* Alexander Timothy Pappas Richard Michael Pappas Alan Daniel Parrish Herbert H. Patrick Jr. Michael Wayne Phillips Doris B. Rodormer RSM McGladrey Inc. Dan L. Schisler* Kieran J. Shanahan Stewart H. Smith Larry B. Swaney Clarence Nolan Talbot Jr. Brian Keith Taylor Lowell G. Taylor Joe E. Terrell Mary Ellen W. Thorp Donald Umstead Arnold and Kay Wallace Joseph L. White Jr. Ronnie Leo Wilkes Gary Robert Williams Tina Louise Williams* Contributor ($100–$249) Abbott Laboratories Tope Adeyemi-Bello* Douglas J. Alcorn Caleb Daniel Alexander Tracey Hill Allen Alpha Delta Pi Sorority Timothy Scott Aman John Charles Anthony Jr. Cory Matthew Arrowood Charles F. Atkins Douglas and Kathleen Austin Steven Randall Ayers William David Ayers James Terrell Bailey John David Bain Richard Marvin Baker III William Horace Baker Jr. James B. Banks Jr. Kenneth J. Bansemer Michael Vernon Barber Linda Barbour Joe Hilton Barrett II William Stephen Bartley Sr. Willis and Bonita Batts Marvin E. Baugh Becker Professional Education Marvin Cooper Beland Charles Garland Benson II Thomas Otho Biggs Robert F. Bird Douglas Allen Black Robert Edward Blizard Jr. Blue Bell Inc. C. Benny Bowes Kenneth T. Bowling David A. Bradley Martha S. Bridges Carroll Merton Britt Frederick Brian Britt John Daniel Brooks

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Anita Woodford Brown Justin L. Brown III Robert Lee Brown Stephen Anthony Brown Anita Woodford Brown Richard Stuart Browning Leslie Gray Bunch Dianne Beamon Bunn Andrew George Burch Jerry Evan Burgdofer David W. Burke Mary Burnes Davidson and Kathy Burns Mrs. Adelaide W. Burton Ann B. Byrd John Fielding Cantrell Myrtle P. Carowan Robert Allen Carr Louisa Sukfong Chan Alexander Luckton Chandler Edward L. Chapman Joyce Gilbert Cherry Stephen Redfern Chesnutt Michael Lynn Chestnutt Clariant Corporation Dolphus Thomas Clark William B. Cleaver III Elizabeth C. Cobb Matthew C. Coffland

Joseph Haywood Cogdell Janette Florence Conklin-Crumley Charles Mitchell Conover Marc David Cook L. Edward and Ginny F. Cooper William Joseph Cotton CPI of Eastern North Carolina F. Taylor Cranor III David Nathaniel Crawford William Douglas Creech Sr. Donna V. Creef Kelly O’Neal Crisp Lisa Nicole Crouse Melissa Barrow Culbreth Johnna Price Cumbee Cumberland Community Foundation Inc. Melvin G. Cunningham Jack E. Cutler Kevin Dale Cutler Gordon Parker Davis John Miller Davis III Hazel E. Davis Jamie Burnette Davis Patricia Herring DeForest Judith Nestor Deme Brent T. DeVantier Roy Glenn Dixon William Charles Dodd

*Current or past College of Business faculty member Timothy N. Domke Dennis Earl Duke Richard B. Dupree David Henry Durant Terry Worth Durham Mary Beth Eason William Pete Edmundson Michael C. and Laura H. Edwards William Hans Edwards Louis Lamar Elliott David H. Englert Kenneth Wayne Evans Ella Johnson Evans Kimberly Mallard Everett Thomas Edward Faircloth Ellory Scott Farrar Jesse Leonard Farris III Robert Joseph Fehrs Kevin Scott Fisher Anne Klutey Fisher* Karen Griffin Flippin Charles Ray Flowers Jr. Lyle O. Forbes Jr. R. D. Frazelle Steven L. Fussell Robert Burten Gagnon George F. Garner Jr. David Benton Gattis John Ashley Gatton

Harriet Jordan Geiger Edwin Chester Giddings Lori Kay Glass Jonathan Pastor Gomez Alton Ray Gower Jr. Timothy John Grabus William F. Grant III Pamela Kaye Gravely Joan Gillette Gray Audrey Porter Grillo Charles Mitchell Gurganus Brandon Jared Hales Robert Melver Haley Jr. Robert Haywood Hall Crystal Michelle Hamilton Susan Elaine Hardee Gerald Keith Harmon Betsy H. Harper Dana J. Harrell C. Grey Harris II James A. Harris Jr. Lesley Paige Harris Bobby Gene Hathaway Tamara Lee Hatley Robert J. Haubenreiser Richard Doub Hauser Jr.* Stephanie Ann Hawley James B. Hayward Jeffrey Paul Heavner

Breonna Godette MIS student

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Russell Davis Herring Robert L. Hicks Jr. Ronald G. Hight Keith William Hiller Carol Roberts Hinnant Walter Lee Hinson Latham Pate Hodges Mary Smithwick Hodges John Cordon Hoerter James* and Joyce Holloway Marjorie Register Holmes George William Holt Jr. Darren Slate Howell James G. Hudson Jr. John C. Humphrey Jr. Courtney Anderson Humphrey Jerry G. Hunt* Lisa Bunch Hunter Donald W. Ingram George Robert James Akshay and Swati Javeri Charles and Sandra Jernigan Hal Swords Johnson Wesley Ross Johnson Jr. Rose Graham Johnson David Ward Jones Merrill Glenn Jones II Helen Lee Jones Clifford D. Joyner Brenda Hodges Joyner Thomas Franklin Justice Ronald S. Kallman Joseph R. Karns Jr. Kenneth Ray Kearney Diana Folk Kincer Terry Hall Kingery Walter A. Koch Ronald William Kohake Jr. Tracy Michelle Korschun Michael Stanley Kowalczyk Joseph Andrew Kraus Karen Kus* Gary Edward Lakin Debra Ann Lancaster

Charles N. Landen Jane Margaret Lang* Ralph Gray Langley Jr. William L. Lanier Jr. Morton Larmore Robert George Larrison Jr. Justin Todd Lassiter Charles F. Laughinghouse Algernon M. Lee Allen Dale Lee Cynthia L. Lilley Bobby and Rebecca Lockamy Jerry A. Long Jr. Wallace Bryant Long Michael James Lundberg William Iverson MacKenzie Jr. John Steven Mahoney Edmund Spencer Mann Jr. Mac Edwin Manning Toni J. Marshburn James Earl Martin III Timothy N. Martin Kelli Jo Maynard* Milton Worth McKeel W. Scott McKinnon Braxton Elder McKoy Joseph E. McKoy Stephen B. Meadows Patricia R. Measley Kevin Gray Mickle David R. Minges Cecil Mizelle Elizabeth Williams Mizelle Rachael Modlin James E. Monroe H. Douglas Moore Robert Downey Morris Charles B. Moye Jan Bass Murphy Judith Tucker Newman James Luther Nichols III Robert D. Norman Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals Inc. Paul Lee Nunn Jr.

*Current or past College of Business faculty member Sonya McCoy O’Brien ECU Office of Student Transitions and First Year Programs Joe Frank Ogburn William Cooper Oglesby III Dennis Michael O’Reilly* James Russell Orr* Johnny B. Overby Jr. E. Neel Overman O. Wright Overton Patsy Cherry Owens Joseph Benjamin Pace Sherlon L. Page Trudy Fay Page W. Charles Paradee Jr. Chandreshkumar Amrutlal Parmar Jay and Amy Parris Donald R. Payne Jr. Dariush Andre Payrow Joseph Waters Pegram David M. Perry Pfizer Inc. James Edwin Phelps Jr. Martha Griffin Phelps Kim Thurman R. Pierce Jr. Gregory Carl Piner Mark Stephen Piper William Paul Poole Robin Foster Porter Mr. Melbourne H. Diana Pridgen Jennifer Jo Priebe Carl Purcell Jr. James Michael Quinn Phillip Matthew Quinn James L. Rabon Jr. Jay Paul Ramey Jr. Radell C. Rasmussen Joseph Reginald Reeves Blake Lee Reifschneider Meleah Barnhill Reynolds Len and Donda Rhodes Charles Austin Rice Bennett Coleman Richardson Charles Stewart Rigsbee Edward Henry Ripper Gail G. Rivera Kevin Jackson Roach William and Constance Roberson Virginia R. Roberts E. Dudley Robinson Matthew and Jillian Robinson Thomas Joseph Robinson Gregory Scott Rosen William Hardy Rouse Jr. William Joshua Rowe Timothy Ryan Rowland Robert and Jeanne Rucks Martha M. Sadler Colette Joy Sagar James Lawton Salisbury Robin Ann Sanford John Bruce Satterfield Jr. Melanie Marlow Scheffler Steven Ward Scoggin John and Dava Scott Jeffrey Parker Sears Elaine Dorsch Seeman* Teresa Shingleton

Samuel Edwin Short Donald H. Shumaker Mary Ruth Sikes Frederick Thomas Simon Hinton James Skipper Jr. Betty W. Slade John L. Smith Alton Glenn Smith Jr. John C. Smith Jr. Kenneth L. Smith Sharon Ann Smith John Carlton Southern III Ray McFarland Spears Jr. Rocky Speight Leo Hardee Starling Christopher Coe Steele Ray G. Stephens Robert Donald Strain R. Dennis Strickland Jr. Robert Charles Strickland William Glenn Strickland Gregory Charles Suggs J. Craige Summers Hugh Sexton Surles III Jerry Norman Swann Sonny Swanner Thomas Churchill Swanner Jr. Jonathan Edward Sweet Jeffrey Pierce Taft Shauna Lodowski Talbot Carlton E. Taylor Ernest Ward Taylor George Keith Taylor Marjorie R. Taylor Stephanie Sprouse Taylor The Medtronic Foundation Albert Justice Threewitts Jason Lee Thuringer Patrick B. Timberlake Steven Michael Troutman Adrian E. Turney Tracy Lynn Tuten* Universal Leaf Tobacco Company Gwendolyn Ann Vinson David Fenton Voiles Edward and Diane Walters Perry Clarke Walton Eugene M. Ward John William Ward Pamela Beavers Ward Robert Hunter Warren Andrew Lamar Watkins Nathan R. Weavil David Allen West* Christine Allabach Westbrook Debra Bryant Wheeler Herbert and Sylvia Wheless William Worth Whittington Judson and Patricia Wike Thomas L. Wilkens Richard A. Williams Thomas Edmond Williams Patricia H. Williams Henry G. Williamson Jr. Joe Linwood Williamson Donnie Chester Wilson Franklin Wilson Jr. James Ivey Wilson

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William and Ruth Wilson Joe Louis Winbush Brett Gray Withers Benjamin O. Womack Jr. Leigh C. Woodall Jr. Kellie Ann Woodruff Wanda L. Wynne Terry K. Yeargan

Firms Providing Matching Gifts Abbott Laboratories Alliance One International Altria Group Inc. Bank of America Blue Bell Inc. Clariant Corporation Ernst & Young H & R Block Foundation KPMG Foundation Microsoft Monsanto Norfolk Southern Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals Inc. PepsiCo Foundation Pfizer Inc. RJR Nabisco Inc. RSM McGladrey Inc. State Farm The Medtronic Foundation Universal Leaf Tobacco Company Verizon Wachovia Wells Fargo

The Accounting Society Chancellor’s Society ($1,000+) Mark and Tracy Copeland Dan M. Guy H&R Block Foundation James and Deborah Hooper Thomas Garner Horne Jeffrey T. Joyner Langdon & Company North Carolina CPA Foundation Inc. Chapter & Committee Scholarship Program North Carolina State Board of CPA Examiners Douglas Kenneth Schneider* Tatum and Edwards PA Associate ($500–$999) Rose L. Bailey* Beta Alpha Psi Sequoya Santana Borgman Charles Ervin Clontz Jr. Stanley Wilson Cox Willie Ray and Linda Creech Craig Ridenour Jeffrey Graham Williams Affiliate ($250–$499) Jason Nicholas Brown Kenneth M. Gunn Jr. KPMG Foundation Luther Gary Leonard

Rachele Villanueva Manansala Mark G. McCarthy* Margaret Ann Mitchell NC Association of CPAs Alan Daniel Parrish Dan L. Schisler* Lowell G. Taylor Keith T. Wallace David Jefferson Worthington Contributor ($100–$249) Tracey Hill Allen Steven Randall Ayers Richard Marvin Baker III Becker Professional Education Robert Edward Blizard Jr. Kenneth T. Bowling Davidson and Kathy Burns Louisa Sukfong Chan William and Constance Roberson David Nathaniel Crawford Lisa Nicole Crouse Cumberland Community Foundation Inc. John Morris Davis Kimberly Mallard Everett Alton Ray Gower Jr. Crystal Michelle Hamilton Ronald G. Hight Mary Smithwick Hodges Marjorie Register Holmes Richard Anthony Hourigan Lisa Bunch Hunter Joseph Andrew Kraus Justin Todd Lassiter Allen Dale Lee Cynthia L. Lilley Joseph E. McKoy Kevin Gray Mickle Linda Golden Murphy Jan Bass Murphy Paul Lee Nunn Jr. Joe Frank Ogburn Dennis Michael O’Reilly* Jay and Amy Parris Robin Foster Porter Charles Stewart Rigsbee Edward Henry Ripper E. Dudley Robinson Timothy Ryan Rowland Robin Ann Sanford John Bruce Satterfield Jr. Teresa Shingleton John C. Smith Jr. Kenneth L. Smith Thomas Churchill Swanner Jr. Universal Leaf Tobacco Company Pamela Beavers Ward Debra Bryant Wheeler Kellie Ann Woodruff

Firms Providing Matching Gifts Accounting Society H&R Block Foundation KPMG Foundation Universal Leaf Tobacco

From the Advancement Office The celebration of our College’s 75th anniversary is an exciting time for all of us—an occasion not only to celebrate our legacy of innovation and achievement but also to develop a vision that will guide our next 75 years.

As we look to the future, it is clear we must continue to find new ways to enrich our students while building on the strengths that have made us distinctive for so long: remarkable faculty members who are dedicated teachers and outstanding researchers, engaged students who share a passion to make a difference in their communities, and a close-knit environment that fosters learning and the exchange of ideas.

We are marking our diamond anniversary with a special fundraising effort. One of our biggest objectives of the campaign is to create an endowment of $7.5 million to establish merit-based scholarships. The 75th Anniversary Merit-based Scholarship Pool will give us a critically important tool to attract top-performing students, typically high-school seniors still deciding where to attend college.

ECU attracts talented students from North Carolina and beyond, and the best of these students have many opportunities. Your generosity will assist us in recruiting the best and brightest to Pirate country—while helping students defray the cost of their education.

Thank you to students, alumni, corporate partners, staff, and faculty who have helped to shape the program over the years. This will be an exciting year as we celebrate 75 years of excellence.

For more information about supporting the College of Business Diamond Anniversary Campaign, please contact me. Your gift makes a difference.

Colin O’Connor Senior Major Gifts Officer and Director of Academic Leadership Programs Philanthropy College of Business 252-328-9562 oconnorc@ecu.edu www.ecu.edu/cs-bus/support.cfm

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The Commerce Club

Founded in 1984, the East Carolina University Commerce Club is an annual giving society designed to support College of Business students, faculty, and alumni by enhancing the quality of our academic programs, helping our students succeed, and strengthening ties with our alumni and our community.

• Seed money for new programs and opportunities within the college

Membership dues and other contributions from Commerce Club members provide unrestricted support each year for critical needs in the College of Business, including the following:

• A certificate representing a share of stock in the College of Business

• Two Commerce Club scholarships and 10 Commerce Club book scholarships • Travel funds for students and faculty to attend course- related conferences and/or visits to corporations • Faculty development and recognition, including the Commerce Club Teaching Excellence Award and the Commerce Club New Faculty Award

• Development and printing costs of Stocknotes, our alumni newsletter published three times per year

Membership Benefits

• Opportunities to reconnect to ECU through special events, receptions, and seminars for Commerce Club members • The College of Business Annual Report, distributed at the end of every calendar year

How to Join Joining the Commerce Club is easy.

Simply complete the membership form online at www.ecu/commerceclub/, and your membership is activated.

Membership dues to the Commerce Club are $50 annually, although you may certainly choose to donate more.

If you are a recent graduate, the College of Business offers a special Young Executive membership option, which provides complimentary access to the Commerce Club for the first year following graduation.

Thank you for supporting the College of Business. Together, we shape future leaders to succeed in business and contribute to their communities.

• Recognition as a Commerce Club member in College publications • The pride that comes with helping the ECU family

Shown above are Commerce Club Scholarship recipients Chelsea Benner and Andrew Steffensen.

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Full Members of the Commerce Club

*Current or past College of Business faculty member

Ken Douglas Adams, Brevard, NC Tope Adeyemi-Bello*, Winterville, NC Eric Allen Airola, Fayetteville, AR Todd A. Albaugh, Frederick, MD Douglas J. Alcorn, Springfield, VA Caleb Daniel Alexander, Nags Head, NC Jason Daniel Alexander, Sterling, VA John Post Alkire IV, Atlanta, GA Tracey Hill Allen, Greenville, NC Patricia Allred, High Point, NC Timothy Scott Aman, Roanoke Rapids, NC Sally Marie Amatruda, Alpharetta, GA Robert Ernest Anderson, Elkton, MD Bradford Hunter Andrews, Calabash, NC Charles Elliott Andrews, Vienna, VA Craig Jason Anson, Apex, NC John Charles Anthony Jr., Wilson, NC Philip Tyler Antle, Kissimmee, FL Cory Matthew Arrowood, Wilmington, NC Joanne Ashworth, Altadena, CA Richard Lee Ashworth, Altadena, CA Charles A. Askew Jr., Williamston, NC Mary Lee Askew, Williamston, NC Charles F. Atkins, Sanford, NC Charles S. Atwater, Durham, NC Edward Bennett Atwill, Richmond, VA Douglas Ashley Austin, Winterville, NC Kathleen Sue Austin, Winterville, NC Garrett Lee Austin, Callaway, MD Howard Hodges Aycock, New Smyrna Beach, FL Steven Randall Ayers, Winterville, NC William David Ayers, Saint Pauls, NC Louise M. Bagi, New York, NY James Terrell Bailey, Raleigh, NC Megan Renee Bailey, Raleigh, NC Rose L. Bailey*, Huntersville, NC John David Bain, Silver Springs, FL Richard Marvin Baker III, Sneads Ferry, NC William Horace Baker Jr., Wendell, NC Colleen Balot, Grimesland, NC Richard Balot, Grimesland, NC James B. Banks Jr., Wake Forest, NC Robert Brantly Banks, Sparta, NC Kenneth J. Bansemer, Charlotte, NC Michael Vernon Barber, Whitsett, NC Linda Barbour, Clayton, NC Wayne Morgan Barker, Semora, NC Rayford Lee Barnes Jr., Clemmons, NC Stephen J. Barnes, Rocky Mount, NC Joe Hilton Barrett II, Camden, NC Robert Troy Barrett, Orangeburg, SC Stephen T. Barrow, Kittrell, NC Mr. William Stephen Bartley Sr., Hubert, NC Dilara D. Batca, Winterville, NC Sharron Henderson Batchelor, Wallace, NC William Hodge Batchelor, Washington, NC Bonita Edwards Batts, Greenville, NC Willis Ray Batts Jr., Greenville, NC Marvin E. Baugh, Greensboro, NC James Hudson Bearden*, Greenville, NC Warren Tucker Beck, Raleigh, NC Debra Hill Bedford, Goldsboro, NC Marvin Cooper Beland, Greenville, NC Christopher Stewart Bender, Raleigh, NC Charles Garland Benson II, New Bern, NC Lisa D. Benton, Greenville, NC Walter Benton, Greenville, NC Samuel J. Bernstein, Charlotte, NC Bruce A. Biggs, Elizabeth City, NC Thomas Otho Biggs, Manteo, NC Robert F. Bird, Cary, NC Douglas Allen Black, Washington, NC Edgar Leonard Blackley, Bullock, NC Robert Edward Blizard Jr., Allentown, PA Stephen McKinley Blizzard, Newport, NC

Elizabeth C. Cobb, Raleigh, NC William Richard Cobb, Rocky Mount, NC James Eddie Cockman, Saint Petersburg, FL Matthew C. Coffland, Cary, NC Joseph Haywood Cogdell, Nashville, NC Kevin James Collins, Charlotte, NC James Richard Conder Sr., Rockingham, NC Janette Florence Conklin-Crumley, Virginia Beach, VA Charles Mitchell Conover, Midlothian, VA Marc David Cook, Orlando, FL Charity Meekins Cooke, Nags Head, NC Ginny Flynn Cooper, Kinston, NC L. Edward Cooper Jr., Kinston, NC Mark Fearing Copeland, Charlotte, NC Tracy Waters Copeland, Charlotte, NC James Dallas Corbett, Greenville, NC Mary Elizabeth Corbin, Greenville, NC Charles Anthony Costanzo, Collegeville, PA William Joseph Cotton, Goldsboro, NC Anthony L. Cottrell, Browns Summit, NC Albert Barbee Council III, Rocky Mount, NC Kimberly H. Council, Rocky Mount, NC Christopher Andrew Cox, Holly Springs, NC Matthew Steele Cox, Winterville, NC Stanley Wilson Cox, Broadway, NC F. Taylor Cranor III, Little Rock, AR David Nathaniel Crawford, Roanoke Rapids, NC William Douglas Creech Sr., Mint Hill, NC Linda Creech, Prospect, KY Willie Ray Creech, Prospect, KY Donna V. Creef, Kill Devil Hills, NC Kelly O’Neal Crisp, Washington, NC Lisa Nicole Crouse, Blackwood, NJ James Joseph Cuff, Newark, DE Melissa Barrow Culbreth, Raleigh, NC Delmas Cumbee, Williamston, NC Gerald Arthur Cunningham, Greensboro, NC Melvin G. Cunningham, Walstonburg, NC Janet Gail Curtis, Rocky Mount, NC Jack E. Cutler, Tarboro, NC Kevin Dale Cutler, Bath, NC Tracey Russell Dail, New Bern, NC Brenda B. Dalton, Pilot Mountain, NC William Herman Dams, New Bern, NC James Reginald Daniels Jr., Rocky Mount, NC Joseph Colby Daughtry Jr., Raleigh, NC Gordon Parker Davis, Wilson, NC Hazel E. Davis, Greensboro, NC Jamie Burnette Davis, Louisburg, NC Jeffrey C. Davis, Kinston, NC John Miller Davis III, Albany, CA John Morris Davis, Cary, NC Cynthia Callaway Davis, Merry Hill, NC John Hunter Davis*, Merry Hill, NC Michael Wayne Davis, Raleigh, NC Patricia Herring DeForest, Winston-Salem, NC Steven Peter DeLorm, Littleton, CO Judith Nestor Deme, Kinston, NC Brent T. DeVantier, Raleigh, NC Sondra M. DeVincenzo, Wake Forest, NC Michael Clay Dickerson, Charlotte, NC Denise E. Dickins*, West Palm Beach, FL Roy Glenn Dixon, Salisbury, NC William Charles Dodd, Raleigh, NC Timothy N. Domke, Lorton, VA Michael Robert Donohue, Bethpage, NY Emery G. Doughtie, Roanoke Rapids, NC John F. Douglas, Troutman, NC Brian Mark Dow, Stafford, VA Brent Nathan Downing, Wilmington, NC John Robert Draper, Suffolk, VA Janet VanLandingham Drinnon, Greenville, NC Dennis Earl Duke, Fuquay-Varina, NC Richard B. Dupree, Angier, NC

Paula Ann Bobish, Mount Laurel, NJ James Andrew Bogardus, Fair Haven, NJ Jan L. Bohmuller, Hickory, NC Donald Bernard Boldt*, Kinston, NC David A. Bond, Raleigh, NC Pamela Bond, Raleigh, NC Sequoya Santana Borgman, Franklin, WI Raymond H. Bottorf, Midlothian, VA Bradley James Bowers, Cincinnati, OH C. Benny Bowes, Winston-Salem, NC Kenneth T. Bowling, Greensboro, NC Glenn T. Boyd, Fort Mill, SC David J. Bradley, Nashville, NC David A. Bradley, Virginia Beach, VA Kathleen A. Brady, Winston-Salem, NC Kevin Dale Braswell, Raleigh, NC Martha S. Bridges, Rocky Mount, NC Robert Gentry Brinkley, Charlotte, NC Carroll Merton Britt, Merry Hill, NC Frederick Brian Britt, Washington, TX John Daniel Brooks, Matthews, NC Anita Woodford Brown, Dunkirk, MD Jason Nicholas Brown, Apex, NC Justin L. Brown III, Fuquay-Varina, NC Robert Lee Brown, Kinston, NC Ruth W. Brown, Williamston, NC Stephen Anthony Brown, Raleigh, NC Richard Stuart Browning, Charlotte, NC William Ross Browning, Salisbury, NC William Iain Bruce, Nags Head, NC Martin P. Brunk, Lutherville, MD Shelby Lynn Buck, Holly Springs, NC Leslie Gray Bunch, Greenville, NC Dianne Beamon Bunn, Greenville, NC Michael L. Bunting, Julian, NC Andrew George Burch, Raleigh, NC Jerry Evan Burgdofer, Statesville, NC David S. Burgess Jr., Camden, NC David W. Burke, Winston-Salem, NC Mary Burnes, Saint Louis, MO Davidson Mitchell Burns, Apex, NC Kathy R. Burns, Apex, NC Jason Metro Burtick, Raleigh, NC Adelaide W. Burton, Atlanta, GA Frank F. Butler, Clinton, NC Gene E. Butner, Mechanicsville, VA Ann B. Byrd, Farmville, NC Edward Evans Callis, Asheville, NC Creola Smith Campbell, Zebulon, NC Edward Graham Campbell III, Rocky Mount, NC Richard Luby Cannon Jr., Vanceboro, NC John Fielding Cantrell, Charlotte, NC Rodney Cantrell, Washington, NC Myrtle P. Carowan, Pantego, NC Robert Allen Carr, Holly Springs, NC William Howard Carr Jr., Palm Harbor, FL James Harold Carter, Raleigh, NC Phillip Reed Carter, Boulder, CO Henry V. Cashwell Sr., Colfax, NC Bonnie Caudle, Roanoke Rapids, NC Michael S. Chaffee, Garner, NC Louisa Sukfong Chan, Greenville, NC Alexander Luckton Chandler, Clayton, NC Hui Chang, Herndon, VA Edward L. Chapman, Williamston, NC Joyce Gilbert Cherry, Kinston, NC Stephen Redfern Chesnutt, Rocky Mount, NC Michael Lynn Chestnutt, Clinton, NC Eugene G. Chewning Jr., Bloomington, IN Dolphus Thomas Clark, Sanford, NC William B. Cleaver III, Alexandria, VA Francis Louis Clement, Medford, NJ John Graham Clements, Raleigh, NC Charles Ervin Clontz Jr., Morehead City, NC Andrew Scott Coats, Cary, NC

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David Henry Durant, Florence, SC Terry Worth Durham, Elgin, SC Laurie Eakins*, Winterville, NC Stanley G. Eakins*, Winterville, NC Robert Eash, Raleigh, NC Mary Beth Eason, Greenville, NC William Pete Edmundson, Pikeville, NC C. Wayne Edwards II, Creedmoor, NC Don Edwards, Greenville, NC Laura H. Edwards, Raleigh, NC Michael Charles Edwards, Raleigh, NC Paul D. Edwards, Fayetteville, NC Rhonda Lane Edwards, Raleigh, NC Robert L. Edwards, Winston-Salem, NC Robert Wade Edwards, Rocky Mount, NC William Hans Edwards, Wilmington, NC Louis Lamar Elliott, Washington, NC David H. Englert, Norfolk, VA Douglas Marlin Evans, Murrells Inlet, SC Ella Johnson Evans, Clayton, NC Kenneth Wayne Evans, Eden, NC Kimberly Mallard Everett, Greenville, NC Thomas Edward Faircloth, Cary, NC Brent Gregory Falcon, Raleigh, NC Ellory Scott Farrar, Cary, NC David L. Farris, Raleigh, NC Margaret Louise Farris, Raleigh, NC Jesse Leonard Farris III, Andover, MA Walter C. Faulkner, Pinetops, NC Robert Joseph Fehrs, St. Augustine, FL Martha Elizabeth Fife, Kenansville, NC Anne Klutey Fisher*, Greenville, NC Jerry Fisher, Chapel Hill, NC Kevin Scott Fisher, Greenville, NC Karen Griffin Flippin, Greensboro, NC Charles Ray Flowers Jr., Tarboro, NC Lou Ellen Flowers, Fremont, NC Frank Floyd Jr., Raleigh, NC Lyle O. Forbes Jr., Shawboro, NC David L. Forbis, Savannah, GA Cannon Wade Forrest, Bridgeton, NC Carissa Frampton, Jacksonville, NC Jon Lawrence Frank, Bristow, VA R. D. Frazelle, Swansboro, NC Keith Layne Frazier II, Raleigh, NC Wayne Richard Frazier, Charlotte, NC Robert W. Frye, Winterville, NC Steven L. Fussell, Jamestown, NC Timothy Shawn Gaghan, Springfield, VA Robert Burten Gagnon, Raleigh, NC George F. Garner Jr., Lancaster, SC David Benton Gattis, Columbia, MD John Ashley Gatton, Raleigh, NC Marshall Lee Gay, Raleigh, NC Harriet Jordan Geiger, Matthews, NC Edwin Chester Giddings, Arlington, VA Amber L. Gill, Greenville, NC Michael David Gillikin, Winterville, NC Robert S. Gilmore Jr., Elon, NC Mark Blaine Given Jr., Roanoke Rapids, NC Lori Kay Glass, Havelock, NC Gertrude Goble, Raleigh, NC

Jonathan Pastor Gomez, Delray Beach, FL Joseph Higgs Goodson Jr., Greenville, NC Alton Ray Gower Jr., Dunn, NC Timothy John Grabus, Kernersville, NC William F. Grant III, Williamsburg, VA Pamela Kaye Gravely, Winter Springs, FL Joan Gillette Gray, Wilmington, NC James Henry Grdich, Charlotte, NC Sandra F. Grdich, Charlotte, NC Alton Cutchin Greene Jr., Clarkesville, GA Paula V. Gribble, Jacksonville, NC Robert Scott Griffin Jr., Greenville, NC William B. Griffin, Durham, NC Audrey Porter Grillo, Virginia Beach, VA Rebecca Harmon Guffey, Anderson, SC Kenneth M. Gunn Jr., Richmond, VA Charles Mitchell Gurganus, Washington, NC Dan Guy, Santa Fe, NM Brandon Jared Hales, Greenville, NC Robert Melver Haley Jr., Scottsdale, AZ Robert Haywood Hall, Apex, NC Crystal Michelle Hamilton, Cary, NC Michael Kent Hammond, Fountain, CO William A. Haney Jr., Rocky Mount, NC Kelley Kane Harar, Newtown, PA James A. Hardee, Raleigh, NC Susan Elaine Hardee, Nashville, NC Deborah L. Hardin, Greensboro, NC Alison Deidrick Harding, Mt. Pleasant, SC Jane Tucker Hardison, New Bern, NC Brian Terrence Hardy, Leesburg, VA Gerald Keith Harmon, Bessemer City, NC Betsy H. Harper, Grifton, NC Robert Stevenson Harper, Laurel, MS Dana J. Harrell, Farmville, NC William C. Harrell, Columbia, NC C. Grey Harris II, Charleston, WV James A. Harris Jr., Alpharetta, GA Kenneth M. Harris, Matthews, NC Lesley Paige Harris, Alexandria, VA Robert Oliver Harris Jr., Charlotte, NC Janine Leanne Harrison, Ayden, NC Linda Whitehurst Harrison, Washington, NC Barbara H. Hatch, Goldsboro, NC Robert N. Hatch, Goldsboro, NC Bobby Gene Hathaway, Raleigh, NC Tamara Lee Hatley, Chatsworth, CA Robert J. Haubenreiser, Deep River, CT Richard Doub Hauser Jr.*, Farmville, NC Terry W. Hauser, Naperville, IL Brian James Hawkins, Richmond, VA Cleveland M. Hawkins, Sunbury, NC Stephanie Ann Hawley, Cary, NC James B. Hayward, Roxboro, NC Corinne M. Heath*, Robersonville, NC Jeffrey Paul Heavner, Wilmington, NC Mary Catherine Heim, Wilmington, DE Wade Hampton Henkel, Frederick, MD Christian Hernandez, Candler, NC Russell Davis Herring, Wilmington, NC Peggy Andrews Herrman, Littleton, NC Robert L. Hicks Jr., Catonsville, MD Ronald G. Hight, Hickory, NC Wayne A. Hildebrandt, La Grange, NC Jan M. Hill, Chocowinity, NC Keith William Hiller, Clemmons, NC Carol Roberts Hinnant, Wendell, NC Walter Lee Hinson, Wilson, NC Miriam A. Hobgood, Raleigh, NC Latham Pate Hodges, Fayetteville, NC Mary Smithwick Hodges, Winston-Salem, NC John Cordon Hoerter, Oak Island, NC Brandon Lynn Hollis, Raleigh, NC James Edward Holloway*, Greenville, NC Joyce Swain Holloway, Greenville, NC Marjorie Register Holmes, Greenville, NC

*Current or past College of Business faculty member George William Holt Jr., Raleigh, NC Andrea Brianna Honea, Durham, NC Deborah L. Hooper, Greensboro, NC James Edward Hooper, Greensboro, NC Thomas Garner Horne, New Bern, NC Richard Anthony Hourigan, Virginia Beach, VA Alton E. Howard, Raleigh, NC John L. Howard Jr., Greenville, NC Darren Slate Howell, Durham, NC Suzette Starling Hubbard, Matthews, NC James G. Hudson Jr., Thomasville, NC Ines Malson Hull, Waldorf, MD Courtney Anderson Humphrey, Raleigh, NC John C. Humphrey Jr., Lumberton, NC David R. Hunt, Greenville, NC Jerry G. Hunt*, Round Rock, TX Judith R. Hunt*, Bethel, NC David Randolph Hunter, Hendersonville, NC Lisa Bunch Hunter, Wake Forest, NC Homer Ford Hutchinson Jr., Sanford, FL Donald W. Ingram, Rock Hill, SC Marsha L. Ivey, Lincolnton, NC Edward Austin Jackson, Roanoke Rapids, NC Edward Allen James, Cary, NC George Robert James, Williamston, NC William R. Jameson, Clayton, NC Akshay I. Javeri, Cranbury, NJ Swati Javeri, Cranbury, NJ George Nathaniel Jennings, Burlington, NC Charles Jernigan, New Bern, NC Sandra Jernigan, New Bern, NC Hal Swords Johnson, Winston-Salem, NC Lloyd Michael Johnson, Greensboro, NC Michael Lloyd Johnson, Mooresville, NC Rose Graham Johnson, Fairmont, NC Tina Maroschak Johnson, Fayetteville, NC Wesley Ross Johnson Jr., Powder Springs, GA Robert Bunn Johnston, Toano, VA David Ward Jones, Washington, NC Helen Lee Jones, Oriental, NC James Michael Jones, Raleigh, NC Edwin B. Jones, Walstonburg, NC Merrill Glenn Jones II, Winterville, NC Virginia Lee Jones, Greenville, NC John Joseph Jordan, Raleigh, NC Brenda Hodges Joyner, Rock Hill, SC Carl Waylon Joyner, Greenville, NC Clifford D. Joyner, Nashville, NC Jeffrey T. Joyner, Winterville, NC Kevin Scott Joyner, Fuquay-Varina, NC Thomas Franklin Justice, Norcross, GA Ronald S. Kallman, Richmond, VA Seth Hanson Kardos, Sarasota, FL Joseph R. Karns Jr., Greensboro, NC Craig Bennett Katzman, Charlotte, NC Kenneth Ray Kearney, Greenville, NC Christopher Blair Keeter, Raleigh, NC Richard Lee Kerns*, Greenville, NC Kenneth K. Kilpatrick, Charlotte, NC Janice Kay Kimble, Charlotte, NC Diana Folk Kincer, Germantoun, MD Terry Hall Kingery, Marietta, GA Dawn Frederick Kirk, Morehead City, NC James Philip Kissinger, Knightdale, NC Douglas Dale Kittle, Montpelier, VA James Kleckley*, Greenville, NC Walter A. Koch, Lindenhurst, IL William Richard Koch, Greenville, NC Ronald William Kohake Jr., Winterville, NC Sidney Gale Koonce, Wendell, NC Tracy Michelle Korschun, Southlake, TX Michael Stanley Kowalczyk, Chicago, IL Mark E. Kral, Charlotte, NC Joseph Andrew Kraus, Greenwood, IN William Paul Kraus Jr., Greenville, NC Kelly Carr Kurz, Grimesland, NC

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Karen Kus*, Greenville, NC Gary Edward Lakin, Virginia Beach, VA Denis L. Lamparter, Cambridge, MD Debra Ann Lancaster, Raleigh, NC Henry H. Land, Kannapolis, NC Charles N. Landen, New Bern, NC Jane Margaret Lang*, Winterville, NC Ralph Gray Langley Jr., Charlotte, NC William L. Lanier Jr., Wilmington, NC Kirk Long Lao, Garner, NC Morton Larmore, Virginia Beach, VA Robert George Larrison Jr., Indian Trail, NC Elsie Schuyler Larsen, Scottsdale, AZ Justin Todd Lassiter, Midlothian, VA Lisa Lynn Lauder, Pfafftown, NC Col. Charles F. Laughinghouse, Emerald Isle, NC Melissa B. Lawver, Liberty, NC Thomas E. Leake, Roanoke Rapids, NC Algernon M. Lee, Charlotte, NC Allen Dale Lee, Raleigh, NC Gregory D. Lee, Miami, FL William H. Leffler, Glenwood, MD Luther Gary Leonard, Greensboro, NC James R. Lewis, Blue Ridge, VA Julie Wessler Liddle, Raleigh, NC Robert George Liddle, Raleigh, NC Cynthia L. Lilley, Williamston, NC Kim Marie Linville, Fuquay-Varina, NC Duane Kirk Little, Chesapeake, VA Bobby Scott Lockamy, Warsaw, NC Rebecca Lockamy, Warsaw, NC Wilber Lee Loftin Jr., La Grange, NC Jerry A. Long Jr., Raleigh, NC Wallace Bryant Long, Littleton, NC Kerry Lee Lovitt, Providence Forge, VA William Guy Lucas, Raleigh, NC Denise Michele Luken, Apex, NC Michael James Lundberg, Tampa, FL William Iverson MacKenzie Jr., Huntsville, AL Mary H. Magee, Charlotte, NC Philip Roger Magnuson Jr., Lakewood, NY John Steven Mahoney, Apex, NC August Frank Malson II, Waldorf, MD Rachele Villanueva Manansala, Cary, NC Anthony Mancilla III, Escanaba, MI Matthew Corey Mangum, Raleigh, NC Brian Rai Mann, Greensboro, NC Edmund Spencer Mann Jr., Chocowinity, NC Mac Edwin Manning, Williamston, NC A. Melvin Marchant III, Richmond, VA Toni J. Marshburn, Raleigh, NC James Earl Martin III, Wadesboro, NC Timothy N. Martin, Rocky Mount, NC Kelli Jo Maynard*, Winterville, NC Mark G. McCarthy*, Greenville, NC Raymond K. McCulloch, Raleigh, NC Christopher McDaniel, Winterville, NC Susanna Hudson McFadyen, Eastover, NC Milton Worth McKeel, Goldsboro, NC W. Scott McKinnon, Wilmington, NC Braxton Elder McKoy, Charlotte, NC Joseph E. McKoy, Chocowinity, NC Linda E. McMahon, Stamford, CT Vincent Kennedy McMahon, Stamford, CT Stephen B. Meadows, Issaquah, WA Wesley M. Measamer, Greenville, NC Patricia R. Measley, Snow Hill, NC Steven A. Menaker, Charlotte, NC Kevin Gray Mickle, Raleigh, NC Nathan Rene Milian, Indian Beach, NC Phyllis Karen Miller, Kitty Hawk, NC Dale Brooks Mills, Dillon, SC David R. Minges, Raleigh, NC James Ernest Mitchell III, Sanford, NC Marcus Bain Mitchell, Raleigh, NC Margaret Ann Mitchell, Raleigh, NC

Michael Wayne Phillips, Advance, NC Thurman R. Pierce Jr., Jackson, WY Chad Brian Pike, Siler City, NC Gregory Carl Piner, Raleigh, NC Mark Stephen Piper, Wilson, NC Robert Earl Poole II, Fayetteville, NC William Paul Poole, Chocowinity, NC Joseph Alvin Pope, Clinton, NC Cathy G. Porter, Rocky Mount, NC Robin Foster Porter, Seven Lakes, NC Rebecca Lynn Garlits Poucher, Arlington Heights, IL Alan Reid Powell, Greenville, NC Charles Fleming Powell, Saint Augustine, FL William H. Powell III, Salisbury, MD Frank Vincent Preto, Marlton, NJ James Thomas Price, Winterville, NC Diana Trask Pridgen, Rocky Mount, NC Heather Hower Pridgen, Midlothian, VA Melbourne Henry Pridgen, Rocky Mount, NC Sean Carpenter Pridgen, Midlothian, VA Jennifer Jo Priebe, Branson West, MO Carl Purcell Jr., Lorton, VA Alan Joseph Questell, Southern Pines, NC Wallis Strickland Questell, Southern Pines, NC Linda Ann Quick, Columbia, SC James Michael Quinn, Clayton, NC Phillip Matthew Quinn, Winterville, NC James L. Rabon Jr., Monroe, NC Frank J. Rackley, New Bern, NC Allison Nash Radford, Ashburn, VA Jessica Raphael Ramby, Fairfax, VA Jay Paul Ramey Jr., Charleston, SC Margaret U. Raskind, Richmond, VA Radell C. Rasmussen, Washington, NC Robert Zachary Raynor, Clinton, NC Joseph Reginald Reeves, Macclesfield, NC Paul Burtner Reif, Winchester, VA Blake Lee Reifschneider, Raleigh, NC Eric Todd Reifschneider, Greenville, NC Riley Earle Reiner, Wake Forest, NC Scott Respess, Winterville, NC Joyce Reto, Mt. Holly, NC Meleah Barnhill Reynolds, Mt. Pleasant, SC Donda Hill Rhodes, Winterville, NC Ira Len Rhodes*, Winterville, NC Steve Edward Rhoney, Hickory, NC Charles Austin Rice, Farmville, NC Bennett Coleman Richardson, Plano, TX John H. Richardson II, Charleston, SC Kay Riddick, Ocracoke, NC Craig Ridenour, Cary, NC Charles Stewart Rigsbee, Durham, NC Edward Henry Ripper, Crozet, VA Gail G. Rivera, Stafford, VA Kevin Jackson Roach, Virginia Beach, VA Peggy Horner Robbins, Asheboro, NC Constance Roberson, Durham, NC William F. Roberson, Durham, NC Barbara F. Roberts, Elizabeth City, NC Virginia R. Roberts, Winterville, NC E. Dudley Robinson, Hillsborough, NC Jillian Mistak Robinson, Greenville, NC Matthew Quay Robinson, Greenville, NC Thomas Joseph Robinson, Salisbury, NC Doris B. Rodormer, Lighthouse Point, FL Harold S. Rogers, Mount Gilead, NC Michael Robin Romance, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Jeffrey V. Roscoe, Apex, NC Sandra Rives Roscoe, Apex, NC Gregory Scott Rosen, New York, NY Gary L. Rosenbaum, Lexington, NC Elizabeth Paige Rouse, Alexandria, VA William Hardy Rouse Jr., Kinston, NC Todd G. Rowe, Apex, NC William Joshua Rowe, Kinston, NC Neil Arlan Rowerdink, Raleigh, NC

Patrick B. Mitchell, Birmingham, AL Richard Stephen Mitchell, Charlotte, NC William Jeffrey Mitchell, Elizabeth City, NC Cecil Mizelle, Greenville, NC Elizabeth Williams Mizelle, Washington, NC Cynthia S. Modlin, Williamston, NC Rachael Modlin, Ahoskie, NC James E. Monroe, Greenville, NC Boyce Stevenson Moore Jr., Greenville, NC Candace Cheryl Moore, Winston-Salem, NC H. Douglas Moore, Erwin, NC Merrill Charles Moore Sr., Georgetown, DE Robert Downey Morris, APO, AE George Shephard Mount IV, Wilson, NC Charles B. Moye, Wake Forest, NC D. Ralph Mozingo, Greenville, NC Rebecca Lynn Mueck, Raleigh, NC Louis Mullinger, Wake Forest, NC Jan Bass Murphy, Greenville, NC Lenwood Morris Murphy Jr., Kinston, NC Linda Golden Murphy, Morehead City, NC Eric Francis Mussler, Raleigh, NC Larry F. Naylor, Newton Grove, NC Sue Holloman Nesbitt, Washington, NC Judith Tucker Newman, Raleigh, NC James Luther Nichols III, Wrightsville Beach, NC Douglas Heath Nisbet II, Greenville, NC Frederick D. Niswander*, Greenville, NC Walker P. Norford, Waynesboro, VA Robert D. Norman, Fayetteville, NC Charles Wilson Northcutt Jr., Gibsonville, NC Paul Lee Nunn Jr., Goldsboro, NC Sonya McCoy O’Brien, Mount Olive, NC Colin O’Connor*, Winterville, NC Virginia Balsley Odom, Roanoke Rapids, NC Joe Frank Ogburn, Shelby, NC William Cooper Oglesby III, Portsmouth, VA John O’Hara, Kearny, NJ Margaret T. O’Hara*, Greenville, NC Dennis Michael O’Reilly*, Greenville, NC James Russell Orr*, Winterville, NC Andrew Francis O’Toole, Glencoe, MO Johnny B. Overby Jr., Henderson, NC E. Neel Overman, Douglas, AZ O. Wright Overton, Harkers Island, NC Patsy Cherry Owens, Williamston, NC Joseph Benjamin Pace, Wilmington, NC Sherlon L. Page, Spring Hope, NC Trudy Fay Page, Greenville, NC Alexander Timothy Pappas, Greenville, NC Richard Michael Pappas, Huntersville, NC W. Charles Paradee Jr., Smyrna, DE Donald L. Park, Greensboro, NC Charles David Parks, Greensboro, NC Chandreshkumar Amrutlal Parmar, Columbus, OH Donald Wayne Parr Jr., Hopewell, VA Amy Edna Parris, Kinston, NC Jay Arthur Parris, Kinston, NC Alan Daniel Parrish, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Evelyn Little Pate, Zebulon, NC Tommy B. Pate, Zebulon, NC Herbert H. Patrick Jr., Asheville, NC Christopher T. Patton, Charlotte, NC Donald R. Payne Jr., Thomasville, NC Gregory Clark Payne, Cumming, GA Dariush Andre Payrow, Atlanta, GA Margery W. Pearce, West Columbia, SC James Buchanan Pearsall, Greenville, NC Gregory Charles Pechmann, Fayetteville, NC Joseph Waters Pegram, Charlotte, NC Collin Peregoy, Dunn, NC David M. Perry, Goldsboro, NC Susan Lynn Perry, Chocowinity, NC James Edwin Phelps Jr., Hendersonville, NC Martha Griffin Phelps Kim, Norcross, GA Roy E. Phibbs, Raleigh, NC

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Timothy Ryan Rowland, Kittrell, NC Jeanne Campbell Rucks, Vienna, VA Robert Reid Rucks, Vienna, VA Joseph Michael Rusnak, Mebane, NC Carmen Russoniello, Greenville, NC Martha M. Sadler, Alliance, NC Colette Joy Sagar, Andover, MA James Lawton Salisbury, Raleigh, NC Thomas Hargett Sanders, La Grange, NC Robin Ann Sanford, Battleboro, NC Ryo Leo Sasaki, Clemmons, NC John Bruce Satterfield Jr., New Bern, NC Thomas William Savitski, Apex, NC Kimberly Marie Scarborough, Kinston, NC Melanie Marlow Scheffler, Clayton, NC Dan L. Schisler*, Greenville, NC Jessica Wearne Schmidt, Chicago, IL Douglas Kenneth Schneider*, Greenville, NC Suzanne D. Schneider, Durham, NC Lynn M. Schubert, Washington, DC Paul Schwager*, Greenville, NC Steven Ward Scoggin, San Diego, CA Betty Wright Scott, Wilmington, NC Danny R. Scott, Swansea, IL Dava Davis Scott, Newbury Park, CA John Edward Scott, Newbury Park, CA Ronald Guy Scronce, Hickory, NC Jeffrey Parker Sears, Dalton, GA Elaine Dorsch Seeman*, Winterville, NC Jerry Dwain Shackelford, Kinston, NC Parnian D. Shahin, Ashburn, VA Kieran J. Shanahan, Raleigh, NC Pamela Anne Shannonhouse, Winston-Salem, NC Marcie Rae Shelton, Charlotte, NC Teresa M. Shingleton, Durham, NC Samuel Edwin Short, Fayetteville, NC William Herman Shreve, Wilson, NC Donald H. Shumaker, Asheboro, NC Michael Alexander Shusko, Wake Forest, NC Ellen Whitman Sidbury, Annandale, NJ Mary Ruth Sikes, Winterville, NC Frederick Thomas Simon, Atlanta, GA Eric Lee Sinclair Jr., Denver, NC Hinton James Skipper Jr., Greenville, NC Betty W. Slade, Bath, NC Mary Polk Smathers, Greensboro, NC Alton Glenn Smith Jr., Goldsboro, NC Eric Glenn Smith, Wilson, NC Harold Dean Smith, Winterville, NC Jared Darryl Smith, Locust, NC John C. Smith Jr., Pink Hill, NC John L. Smith, New Bern, NC Kenneth L. Smith, Winterville, NC Kyle Matthew Smith, Rocky Mount, NC Pamela J. Smith, Morganville, NJ Sharon Ann Smith, Fuquay-Varina, NC Steven Christopher Smith, Winterville, NC Stewart H. Smith, New Bern, NC Trinetta Copeland Smith, Greenville, NC Zachary Alan Smith, Clayton, MO John Carlton Southern III, Greenville, NC Ray McFarland Spears Jr., Greenville, NC Rocky Speight, Rocky Mount, NC Johnny W. Spencer Jr., Greenville, NC Crystal Swaim Spicer, Lewisville, NC Bryan Cole Spragling, Raleigh, NC Stephen N. Spruill, Greenville, NC Anne Edwards Squire, Wilmington, NC William Robert Stallings, Zebulon, NC Leo Hardee Starling, Greensboro, NC Christopher Coe Steele, Winston-Salem, NC Stephen Paul Steelman Jr., Kinston, NC Constantine Steve Stephanos, Rockville, MD Ray G. Stephens, Athens, OH Sharon Bates Stewart, Addison, IL Michael Joseph Stoop, Richmond, VA

John William Ward, Raleigh, NC Pamela Beavers Ward, Chocowinity, NC Ralph E. Ward, Greenville, NC Robert Allen Ward, Burlington, NC Robert Hunter Warren, Chapel Hill, NC Gail L. Washington, Fairfax, VA Andrew Lamar Watkins, Bentonville, AR Fran Styons Watson, Elizabeth City, NC Larry G. Wayne, Cary, NC Nathan R. Weavil, Holly Springs, NC Jeanne K. Webb, Morehead City, NC Robert Howard Weber Jr., Wilmington, NC Verna B. Weeks, Pikeville, NC Gregory A. Weigum, Grifton, NC David Allen West*, Chapel Hill, NC Christine Allabach Westbrook, Lancaster, PA James Rogers Westmoreland*, Greenville, NC Shannon Latoya Wharry, Raleigh, NC Debra Bryant Wheeler, Grifton, NC Elizabeth Sickles Wheeler, Shrewsbury, MA Herbert W. Wheless, Greenville, NC Sylvia Jones Wheless, Greenville, NC Joseph L. White Jr., Lumberton, NC Wade Clifford White, Vail, CO Carolyn Ball Whitehurst, Oxford, NC Kendrick Martin Whitehurst, Winterville, NC Dane Todd Whitmoyer, Lancaster, PA William Worth Whittington, Kinston, NC Judson Douglas Wike, Catawba, NC Patricia Pezdek Wike, Catawba, NC Thomas L. Wilkens, Matthews, NC Ronnie Leo Wilkes, Charlotte, NC Charles Farrow Williams, Pantego, NC Frederick Alton Williams Jr., Atlantic Beach, NC Gary Robert Williams, High Point, NC Jeffrey Graham Williams, Trent Woods, NC Pamela Matthews Williams, Clayton, NC Patricia H. Williams, Kinston, NC Rhonda K. Williams, Fort Mill, SC Richard A. Williams, Raleigh, NC Thomas Edmond Williams, Raleigh, NC Tina Louise Williams*, Greenville, NC Henry G. Williamson Jr., Advance, NC Joe Linwood Williamson, Matthews, NC Donnie Chester Wilson, Winston-Salem, NC Franklin Wilson Jr., Rocky Mount, NC James Ivey Wilson, Sanford, NC Kaley Williford Wilson, Edenton, NC Ruth Burchette Wilson, Raleigh, NC William Gilbert Wilson, Raleigh, NC Joe Louis Winbush, Havelock, NC Brett Gray Withers, Gastonia, NC Sean Raymond Woehrle, Richmond, VA Benjamin O. Womack Jr., Jamestown, NC Leigh C. Woodall Jr., Roxboro, NC Kellie Ann Woodruff, Tipp City, OH Tiffany Combs Woodward, Washington, NC Moye Wayne Woolard, Washington, NC Elizabeth Oliver Wooten, Kernersville, NC Jan Skillen Workman*, Greenville, NC Samuel Joseph Wornom III, Sanford, NC Billy Ray Worrell, Augusta, GA David Jefferson Worthington, Cary, NC Karen Davis Wrenn, Greenville, NC Kimberly Ann Wright, Sanford, NC Wanda L. Wynne, Greenville, NC William H. Yarborough, Alexandria, VA Terry K. Yeargan, Willow Spring, NC Buddy Zincone*, Greenville, NC

Robert Donald Strain, Charlotte, NC R. Dennis Strickland Jr., Dunn, NC Robert Charles Strickland, Goldsboro, NC William Glenn Strickland, Bellarthur, NC Scott Gordon Stubbings, Winterville, NC Eric Michael Styron, Suffolk, VA Barry Thomas Sugg, Greenville, NC Gregory Charles Suggs, Raleigh, NC Nicole Tripp Suggs, La Grange, NC J. Craige Summers, Durham, NC Hugh Sexton Surles III, Augusta, GA Billy Frank Sutton, Cary, NC Ethel Marion Sutton, Ayden, NC Larry B. Swaney, Raleigh, NC Carey Meredith Swann III, Wilmington, NC Jerry Norman Swann, Sumter, SC Sonny Swanner, Washington, NC Thomas Churchill Swanner Jr., Washington, NC Jonathan Edward Sweet, Burke, VA Jeffrey Pierce Taft, Apex, NC Nicholas Robert Talarico, Raleigh, NC Clarence Nolan Talbot Jr., Greenville, NC Shauna Lodowski Talbot, Millersville, MD Mark Alan Tanner, Annapolis, MD Grover C. Tarlton Jr., Burlington, NC Kimberly S. Tatum, Creedmore, NC Brian Keith Taylor, Greensboro, NC Carlton E. Taylor, Rocky Mount, NC Ernest Ward Taylor, Greenville, NC George Keith Taylor, Lumberton, NC Pat Taylor, Greensboro, NC Lowell G. Taylor, Williamston, NC Marjorie R. Taylor, Greenville, NC Maxwell L. Taylor, Winston-Salem, NC Michael Clayton Taylor, Greenville, NC Sherry Robbins Taylor, Virginia Beach, VA Stephanie Sprouse Taylor, Pikeville, NC Joe E. Terrell, Clyde, NC Deborah Cobb Tetterton, Winterville, NC Phillip W. Tetterton, Charlotte, NC Lee Chandler Thaxton, Greensboro, NC Toni M. Thereault, Charlotte, NC Charles L. Thomas, Winterville, NC Georgia Mooring Thomas, Wilson, NC Roy N. Thomas, Rocky Mount, NC Carol Angela Thompson, Charlotte, NC Jack Thomas Thompson Jr., Houston, TX Jerry Wayne Thornton, Garner, NC Mary Ellen W. Thorp, Oxford, NC Albert Justice Threewitts, Lumberton, NC Jason Lee Thuringer, Trent Woods, NC Candy Williams Tilley, Hertford, NC Patrick B. Timberlake, Raleigh, NC Joseph Tomkiewicz*, Farmville, NC Terry Lee Trickler, Henderson, NC Steven Michael Troutman, Charlotte, NC David Lester Tucker, Lenoir, NC Hope Harrell Turnbull, Wallace, NC G. Albert Turner, Preston, MD John S. Turner, Monroe, NC Adrian E. Turney, Decatur, AL Tracy Lynn Tuten*, Washington, NC Donald Umstead, Raleigh, NC Joshua Taylor Vannamee, Cicero, NY Dana Green Vaughn, Wake Forest, NC Leo Allen Venters, Winterville, NC Gwendolyn Ann Vinson, Charlotte, NC David Fenton Voiles, New Bern, NC Arnold Wallace, Clayton, NC Kay S. Wallace, Clayton, NC Keith T. Wallace, Raleigh, NC Robert Justin Wallace, Greenville, NC Diane Gray Walters, Raleigh, NC Edward Thomas Walters, Raleigh, NC Perry Clarke Walton, Henderson, NV Eugene M. Ward, Wadesboro, NC

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Young Executives Trent Jackson Abraham Nicole Ahearn Ali Akkan Gideon Lee Alexander Christopher Allen Deanna Allen Jazzanetta D. Allen Landon Allen Ileah Alston Soloman Ambaye James M. Anderson John Charles Anthony Alvin Lee Ashworth Thomas Ausbon Jared Avchen Rachel C. Bacon Ayman Badwan Jason Baker Michael Band Dustin Ryan Becton Benjamin Beddis Daniela Berrone Burnie D. Best Sidney Best Eric Billing Richard Corey Blair Chad Lawrence Blakaitis Dustin Blundell Jerrod Bornman Alexander Bosco Andrew S. Boswell Megan Brothers Daniella Bowman Justin Boyette William David Bradford II Patrick Bradsher Jesse Bramble Ashley M. Brewer Nicholas D. Bridgers David Edward Bristol Roy Brooks David Nolen Brown Robert Bryan Brown Amanda Broz Chantella Bryant Daniel Bryant Sarah Burnette Mark Burris Michelle Burris Amelia J. Byrd Hanna Elizabeth Byrd Hannah Jo Byrd Joseph Calenda III Jeffrey Campbell Kurt Carlson Michael Carrington Dianna Elizabeth Carroll Ezequiel Casarin Courtney Cason Ryan Chadwell Brooke Chamberlain Sarah C. Chewning Andrew Christian Leighann Adkins Cleland Mackenzie Coghlan Jessica Ann Cole Georgia Ann Collier Kimberly Collins Justin Cooperten Josh Cornwell Joseph T. Covington Daniel Cowan Frank E. Cox Kevin Cox Lisa J. Cox Kenneth Jamison Crampton Thomas Jordan Creech William Thomas Curtin III Robert Daigle Danielle Daley

Mark Daniel Mark Davies Sarah Kay Davis Steven Demeo Charlotte Dietrich Marcus Christopher Dill Joshua Dorsey Terrance Dorsey David Paul Dowd Meridith C. Duke Reva Dunn Eli Dutcher Samantha Eads Silha Eaton-Bess Jennifer Edinger Catherine L. Edwards Scott Egan Sherrie Denise El-Amin Rebecca Ashley Ellis Jonathan Epler Tom Espinoza William Ethington Ellen Farino Jared Randolph Fauber Taylor Fennen David Ferrise Jason W. Fife Harvey Fisher Matthew Flamman Walaiporri Flanigan Jessica Forbes Cannon Forrest Harold Jackson Fountain Eddie Foy Ashley E. Frank Justin Paul Freeman Jimmy Freudenberg Kelsey Galen Lu Geng Kylie Gilmore Preston Garrett Gomez Annesa Goode Steven B. Goode Natalie Goodman Jeff Gorka Bradley Gray Charles Downing Gray Scott Gray Zeb Gray Jack Gregoire Brittney Grieco Heather Griffin Brett Hahn Michael Hale Corrie Hall Christie Hansen Morgyn K. Hardee Sarah Hardison Lauren Harper Jacob D. Harrington Omar Harris Stacy M. Hartman Jackson Hayes Robert Heale Kolicia Hedgepeth Krystal Hicks James A. Hilton Meagan Hodges Allison Holland Chase Powers Hooper Alexis Nichole Hoover Chad Houck Susan Houghtalin Morgan Howell Thomas O’Ferrall Howie Jr. Jonian Hoxha Daniel Hudson Meagan S. Humphrey Kaitlyn Ihly Kyle Irwin

James Jared Jackson Nicholas Jackson Phillip Jacobs Bryan Taylor Jeffries Jonathan T. Jenkins Keya Latrice Jenkins Brian Sherwood Jernigan Ashleigh H. Johnson Decoda Johnson Katelyn Johnson Mitchell Johnson Tom Johnson Timothy Matthew Johnston Brandon R. Jones Emily Staton Jones Jordan Gray Jones Anthony Jones Finley H. Jones Kirsten Lynn Jones Mahoganie Jones Brandon Tremain Joyner Jennifer Ann Joyner Hiral Kamdar Charles Kariuki Hayley Marie Kelly Michael Kelly Catherine W. Kendrick Thomas Walton Kincaid Yatin Kishan Jenzie Talib Knight Jessica Knuckles Katelin Ann Koop Michael Laign Katherine Lane Kathleen Lane Mark Alexandre Larouche Mary Lasseter Matheson Lassiter Joseph B. Lavin William Thomas Laws Ashleigh Ellen Lee Kathleen Lehnes Jamey Alex Lewis Philip Charles Lindsey Tyler Lindsey Kaitlin Lloyd Pilar Lopez Sai Lor Tyler Lumley Jessica Luvender Tammy Lynn Lauren Maarschalkerweerd Muhimen Zahereldin Mahmoud Lindsey Majors Kenneth Malloy Michael Seth Maness Mark Giulio Marchioni Caroline E. Marks Laura Martinez Maria Martinez David Masciormi David Ryan Massengill Coleman Matthews Michael A. McGilvary Jeffrey Mark McGowan Terry McLaurin Charles R. Means TeAira Melvin John Christopher Miller Jason Mitchell Terrence Mitchell William Jackson Monday Mary Frances Moore Peggi Melaine Moore Charles Hugh Morris Emily F. Morris Joshua Morris Megan Moseley Lauren Moss Devin Matthew Moye

Jennifer Muir Christopher T. Munn Paul Naoum Andrew Neville Amanda Newport Heather Kathleen Nguyen Anella Niewenhous Ashley Nobles Lewis Norman Brittany Nicole Nowell Katelyn O’Brien Charles West Overman Sarah Palumbo Alexander David Pardue Soo-ji Park Grayson Adams Parker Joshua Parker Katherine Parker Mark Parker Serge Pastergin Ashwini Patel Sheena P. Patel Zinal Patel Bradford Carson Peaden Tamara Peak Jessica Pearson Brandon C. Peedin Matthew Pendry Nathan Perry Reginald Peterson Nicholas Petrie Brittney Pettis Jason Petty Telish Diane Phillips Melissa Pierick Coleman Piland Eric Pineiro Alexa Francesca Plett Ralph Polk Kristen Potter Kyler Potter Joshua Adam Powell Erin D Priddy Ernest M. Pugh Jr. Kyle Brayden Quinn Charles Lloyd Ramsey Justin Raymond Erin Rayner Jessica Reabe Luke Rezeli Adam Forbson Rhodes Olivia Ribbe Andrew Carson Ricciarelli James E. Riley Shawn Roberts Amy Deana Rogers Kyle William Rogers Margaret Mary Rogers Zack Rogers Sarah Rowe Rebekah Russo Alexandra R. Ryan Greg Sagel Kevin Saile Katie Ann Sandeford Browning Scott Sanderson James Greyson Sargent Greg Sass Jonathan Sato Joseph Anthony Savino Bradley Scarlett Cameron Donald Schaeffer Brenton S. Schneider Katelyn Schraml Addison W. Scott Samuel David Shalhoud Stephen Bernard Shapiro Adam Jamil Shayeb Kelsey Shea Ryan Shea

Phillip Shelton Abigail Shoemaker Whitney Sibol Phangnay Saderio Simmons Brooke Sinclair Henrik Skalmerud Tyler Skinner Brianna Mae Skinner Andrew Ryan Smith Charles Mills Smith Hillary Paige Smith Joseph Brice Smith Robert Smith William Bryan Smith William Chris Snipes Roberto Soares Steve Spence Gregory “Hunter” Sprague Terri Danielle Stacker David “Zach” Stahr Sherry Lynn Steele Dominick Shaun Stephenson Andrew Stoker Jared Stone Warren Straub Travis Jackson Strickland Nicholas Strong Tyler B. Sutton Michael Swartz Chelsea Alyce Sweet Donald Tait III Martin Tanski Britt Taylor Joshua Taylor Nicole Taylor Jonathan Myles Teague Tiffany J. Temple Natalie Tetterton Nathan Tetterton William A. Tetterton Zachary David Thomas Crystal Tucker Brittney Elise Tyner Edward Raul Ugrinsky Jarrod Umphlett Trancine Utuje Joseph Villari Salvatore Villari Scott Walsh Marck C. Walvoord Bryan Ward Patrick Wardwell Aunika Warren Ross Warren Matt Waters Phillip Cameron Watson Seth Weaver Matthew James Webb Joshua Robert Wentz Ashley N. West Ashley Wetherington Kimberly Wheeler Linden E. White Richard White Jessica Whitley Keith Wilbur Heather Dawn Williams Laura Williams Nicholas Trey Williams Charles Wills Angelo Devon Wilson Donna Wood Shade Allen Wooten Thomas Colton Wrenn Brantley Wright Wylie Walker Francis Yeager Lauren Zorbis Zachary Zumbach

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Directory ADMINISTRATION Dr. Stanley G. Eakins Dean of the College of Business 252-328-6966 eakinss@ecu.edu Dr. Paul Schwager Acting Associate Dean 252-328-6966 schwagerp@ecu.edu Dr. Margaret O’Hara Assistant Dean for Online Programs 252-328-9867 oharam@ecu.edu Dr. James Westmoreland Associate Dean for External Affairs 252-328-0130 westmorelandj@ecu.edu

Dr. Dan Schisler Chair, Department of Accounting 252-328-6055 schislerd@ecu.edu www.ecu.edu/cs-bus/accounting.cfm Dr. Scott Below Chair, Department of Finance 252-328-6670 belows@ecu.edu www.ecu.edu/cs-bus/finance.cfm Dr. Joseph M. Tomkiewicz Chair, Department of Management 252-328-6836 tomkiewiczj@ecu.edu www.ecu.edu/cs-bus/management.cfm

Dr. Richard Hauser Chair, Department of Management Information Systems 252-328-6893 hauserr@ecu.edu www.ecu.edu/cs-bus/decisionsciences.cfm Dr. Ken Anselmi Chair, Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management 252-328-6368 anselmik@ecu.edu www.ecu.edu/cs-bus/marketing.cfm

DIRECTORS Courtney Altizer Assistant Director, Graduate Programs 252-328-6970 altizerc@ecu.edu

Michael L. Harris Director, Small Business Institute 252-328-6063 harrismi@ecu.edu

Tendai Ndabvonga Assistant Director, Graduate Programs 252-328-6970 ndabvongat@ecu.edu

F. John P. “Scotty” Andrews Director, Career Center 252-737-1237 andrewsfa@ecu.edu

James Kleckley Director, Bureau of Business Research 252-737-1441 kleckleyj@ecu.edu

Paul Russell Assistant Director, Graduate Programs 252-328-6970 russellp@ecu.edu

Lee Brown Assistant Director, Career Center 252-737-1238 brownjo@ecu.edu

Karen Kus Director, College of Business Advising Center 252-328-5571 kusk@ecu.edu

Tina L. Williams Director, Graduate Programs 252-328-6970 williamsti@ecu.edu

Anne K. Fisher Director, Office of Professional Programs 252-328-6377 fishera@ecu.edu

Richard O’Dor Director, Business Communication Center 252-737-2759 odorr@ecu.edu

William D. Wittman Director, Computer Operations 252-328-6564 wittmanw@ecu.edu

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