 DR. Scott Hovis practices with Gastonia Surgical Associates at Gaston Memorial Hospital. j.C. Moeler is commercial relationship manager of Capital Bank’s Raleigh commercial team. MICHAEL F. SANTOS is co-owner of Chefs 505 in Greenville and of Chefs 105, which opened in Morehead City in April 2007. Keisha Sheperson Stewart of Garner is a biologist for Talecris Biotherapeutics and has two sons. As a softball player at ECU, she started in every game, and set school records for hits (316), runs (263) and doubles (75), and is second in home runs (26), bases on balls (124) and stolen bases (162). 2000 Wil Aycock is a tax manager for RSM McGladrey’s Rocky Mount office. He has seven years of public and private sector accounting with individuals, corporations and non-profits. Chesley “Chess” Gray Black IV is director of campus services at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, where he was director of ITS after becoming assistant director for technology at UNC Charlotte. A former head drum major for the Marching Pirates, he is a conductor and adjudicator for several music programs and competitions. Kris Lundberg, a New York City-based actress, played Bianca in, and was fight director for, Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew at the Carolinian Shakespeare Festival in New Bern. Nick Schnabel, who lettered twice as a second baseman at ECU, is an assistant baseball coach at Liberty University. He played for farm teams in the Montreal Expos organization and for the Harrisburg Senators. Frank Wigins left his job as principal at Farmville’s Sam D. Bundy Elementary School to return to Henderson. 1999 Mary Elizabeth Hughes and Randall Gilbert Manning were married Aug. 4 in Winterville. She works for Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals. Rebeca M. Thompson was promoted to senior account manager/group operations manager at The Planning Group in Wilson after five years with the 36-year-old financial planning company. BRENT and AMANDA HANKS ANDERSON ’00 had a daughter, Kyleigh Grace, who joined 3-year old brother Chase William, on July 18. 1998 Brian Fields ’98 ’01 is a business banker at First Citizens Bank in Greenville. He is a former baseball pitcher for Greenville’s J.H. Rose High School and ECU, and a member of the University City Kiwanis Club. Angela Michele Maning and Dr. Brian Christopher Vinson were married May 12 at Historic Red Banks Primitive Baptist Church in Greenville. She works for Shealy Electrical Wholesalers. Leslie Loraine Meserli Maybery ’98 ’99 was promoted to chief financial officer at Eastern Radiologists in Greenville, where she was a controller. She is also a CPA with nine years of experience in finance. Lacey Rolins, originally of New Bern, is a vice president and a team leader in Winston-Salem at BB&T, where she has worked since 1999. Ed Watkins is the jack man for NASCAR driver Elliott Sadler and a parts manager for Gillette Evernham Motorsports. On ECU’s football team, he was a defensive lineman, guard and center from 1994 to 1996. 1997 Michael Clark of Laurinburg is an assistant vice-president and loan officer at First Capital Bank. He previously worked for RBC Centura and is active in the Laurinburg Optimist Club. Ryan Edric Featherer and Sarah Elizabeth Miles of Norfolk, Va., were married July 7. He is the orchestra director and fine arts department chair at Maury High School, where he was the 2007 teacher of the year, and where she is a social studies teacher. Chris Ivey was promoted from fitness supervisor to manager of Bladen Fitness Services in Elizabethtown. Chris Lenker ’97 ’00 and Laura Sharp Lenker ’99 ’02 had their first child, Addison Cade, on May 23. Adam McComb ’97 ’00 is the new director of parks and recreation in Surry County. A Yadkin County native, he was the recreation program supervisor for the Elkin Recreation and Parks Department for five years. For the N.C. Recreation and Parks Association, he is on the athletics director workshop steering committee and is the athletics division chair. He and his wife, Ruthan McComb ’96, have two sons, Thomas and Luke. Barbara An White and Derrick Stancill Page were married April 21 in Hertford. They live in Winterville, and she is a laboratory specialist for the N.C. State Laboratory of Public Health. 1996 Jenifer Bal is a community awareness coordinator for the Martin/Pitt Partnership for Children, the Smart Start agency for Martin and Pitt counties. Sonia Foster, a nursing professor at Catawba Valley Community College since 2003, received the Robert Scott Award from the N.C. Associate Degree Nursing Organization. She previously was with Catawba Valley Medical Center’s Birthing Center and directed the independent nurse-midwifery practice at Catawba Women’s Center. Nicole Smith ’96 ’98 ’04, former assistant principal at Falkland Elementary School, is the new principal at Greenville’s Eastern Elementary School. She was the Pitt County 2006 assistant principal of the year. 1995 Karen Elizabeth Floyd ’95 ’99 and Enis Le Pearce I ’97 were married June 16. At ECU, she works in advising and is pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership. He works for Nash-Rocky Mount Schools. Tod Reves Fowler of Concord, N.H., and Raleigh, and Sarah Kathryn Johnson of Winston-Salem were married June 2 at The Brookstown Inn in Winston-Salem. He works for TAC in North Andover, Mass., and they will live in Concord, N.H. 41 Alumni Spotlight Barnie Gyant ’89 was appointed supervisor of the Siuslaw National Forest in Corvallis, Ore. The forest covers 630,000 acres, stretching 135 miles along the Oregon coastline and 27 miles inland. Gyant was deputy forest supervisor for the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire. He’s considered an expert in threatened and endangered species, forest thinning and community collaboration. A native of High Point who played football at ECU for three years, Gyant, 41, worked for two years after graduating as a strength and conditioning coach for the team. He began his Forest Service career in 1991 at the Nantahala National Forest near Asheville and held subsequent posts at Croatan National Forest in New Bern and Francis Marion Sumter National Forests in South Carolina. In 1999, he became the deputy district ranger of the Appalachicola National Forest in Florida. Following that, he had assignments on the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests in Georgia and the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in Virginia. “I’m coming to a forest with a great reputation for restoration and strong collaboration with communities,” Gyant said. I’ve gained experience through my background in fisheries, love of fishing and work with the red-cockaded woodpecker. All of this will help me serve local communities and Siuslaw employees.” Sue Price Wilson ’75, the veteran Associated Press journalist who runs the AP’s North Carolina bureau, has had South Carolina added to her beat and now is responsible for both Carolinas. Wilson, based in Raleigh, has managed AP operations in North Carolina since 1999. A native of Goldsboro, she joined the AP in 1976 in Raleigh as state broadcast editor. She became the bureau’s news editor in 1996 and was promoted to bureau chief in 1999. She worked at the Goldsboro News-Argus during her high school years and at the Daily Reflector while attending ECU. She gets around Raleigh on a red scooter and keeps in constant touch with a Treo personal digital assistant. She takes her scooter with her when vacationing at Beaufort. “Going over the bridges was a bit nerve wracking the first time,” she said. clas notes 40 This collaboration of alumni Ralph Finch ’67 and Mike Litwin ’01 follows PeeDee through his first day as an ECU Pirate. All net proceeds benefit East Carolina. The book is available at. 42 43 1994 Eilen Barbour was promoted to assistant director of fitness services at Southeastern Lifestyle Center for Fitness and Rehabilitation in Lumberton. Anete Eubanks ’94 ’96 is the new regional long-term care ombudsman for the Mid-East Commission Area Agency on Aging, which serves Beaufort, Bertie, Hertford, Martin and Pitt counties. Jim Hering of Hartsville, S.C., is a senior vice president and credit card products marketing/sales manager for Bank of America. He is married to Beverly Hering ’91 ’93, a stay-at-home mother, and they have two children, Christian and Emily. Stephanie Suzane Raecher McDonald ’94 ’97 of Chester, Va., who teaches fifth grade in Chesterfield County, was named 2007-08 Teacher of the Year for Ettrick Elementary School in Ettrick, Va. BRYAN J. RAITHEL ’94 ’96 of Cornelius is a hedge fund manager for a private equity firm in Charlotte after 10 years working with The Vanguard Group, and he married Collette McCune on June 9, 2006. 1993 David Adams is the Raleigh city executive and leader of Capital Bank’s Raleigh commercial team. Jacqueline Boyd Elis is the new principal of Chapel Hill High School. She previously worked in Pitt, Guilford and Wake county schools, and was an administrator at Durham’s Riverside High School and Chapel Hill’s