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Freshmen Sendoffs in your area
| Welcome East Carolina's newest students by attending a Freshmen Sendoff in your area! These summer outings are the perfect opportunity to get together with fellow alumni to share ECU experiences with each other and incoming freshmen students and their families. Freshmen Sendoffs will take place in the following locations:
- Norfolk, VA on June 27
- Powhatan, VA on June 28
- Wilmington, NC on July 12
- Fayetteville, NC on July 17
- Clemmons, NC on July 29
- Charlotte, NC on July 30
- Princeton, NJ on July 31
- Raleigh, NC on July 31
- Cherry Hill, NJ on August 1
- Morehead City, NC on August 2
- Arlington, VA on August 8
Freshmen Sendoffs are free for incoming freshmen and children 12 and under. All other guests are $15.00 per person, which includes food and beverages.
Help spread Pirate pride and wish incoming students well at a Freshmen Sendoff!
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Lunch and Learn event in Raleigh
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Lunch and Learn is a new series offered by the Alumni Association for alumni and friends of East Carolina who are interested in networking, excelling in their careers, and having unique learning experiences. Each Lunch and Learn will give attendees an opportunity to network, broaden their social and professional connections, and learn ways to thrive in today's tough market.
The first Lunch and Learn event is on Wednesday, June 23 at 11:30 a.m. at Winston's Grille in Raleigh, NC. Jim McAtee '08 from ECU's Career Center and Career Coach Gail Ostrishko '84, '85 will discuss "Developing Your Personal and Professional Networks" over lunch. This session is $10.00 for Alumni Association members and $15.00 for non-members, which includes your meal. Register now!
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Alumni Tailgate tickets
| Attention Alumni Association members! Football season is only a few months away and that means it's time for Alumni Tailgate! Tickets are $10.00 for Alumni Association members and $20.00 for non-members, which includes food, Pirate beverages, live entertainment, activities for children, and a chance to win ECU door prizes. Children 12 and under are free. Tickets for this year's Alumni Tailgate series go on sale for Alumni Association members on July 12. If tickets are still available, non-members can purchase Alumni Tailgate tickets beginning August 1. If you are not a member of the Alumni Association, join today to take advantage of member pricing.
Thank you to this year's Alumni Tailgate sponsors: ARAMARK, Chico's Mexican Restaurant, East Carolina Bank, Honeybaked Ham, Liberty Mutual, Minges Bottling Group, Inc., Mutual Distributing, Occasions Party & Tent Rentals, O'Charely's Restaurant, RA Jeffreys Distributing, Rep Express, Tripps Restaurant, Uncle Yammy's Rib Shack, and WITN.
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Alumni Directory
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The 2010 East Carolina University Alumni Directory is on it's way! For those alumni that ordered a copy of the book, they will be mailed the middle of this month.
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Summer Orientation
| Parents of incoming freshmen, join other freshmen parents for an informational session about scholarships and student programs offered by the East Carolina Alumni Association. Paul J. Clifford, president and CEO, will discuss the Alumni Association’s scholarship program, our three student organizations, the many events held annually for ECU students like Freshmen Sendoffs, Real Life 101, and senior events, and how parents can stay connected through the Alumni Association. This Summer Orientation session will be held on June 14, June 16, June 21, June 28 and June 30, as well as three additional dates in July. Each session is scheduled from 1:00 to 1:40 p.m. in Mendenhall Student Center, Room 15 on ECU's campus.
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Fall events for alumni
| Fall is a great time to come home to East Carolina and Greenville! Mark your calendar now and make plans to attend the following events this fall:
- Thursday, October 14 – Pirate’s Bounty Scholarship Auction at the Hilton Greenville
- Friday, October 15 – ECU Alumni Scholarship Classic presented by Hilton Greenville at Ironwood Golf and Country Club
- Thursday, October 21 – 1960 Reunion Dinner
- Friday, October 22 – Homecoming Luncheon, Classes without Quizzes, Campus Tours, Alumni Awards Ceremony and Dinner at the Hilton Greenville
- Saturday, October 23 – Alumni Homecoming Breakfast, Black Alumni Chapter Breakfast, Homecoming Parade, Alumni Tailgate, Homecoming Football Game, ECTC & ECC Dinner and Dance featuring The Collegians
Look for complete details in future issues of PiratePulse and the fall issues of EC Alumni and East magazines.
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Paint It Purple Night at the Carolina Mudcats
| Take me out to the ballgame! ECU Head Football Coach Ruffin McNeill '80 will throw out the first pitch to kick off Paint it Purple Night at the Carolina Mudcats as they take on the Mississippi Braves on Wednesday, June 16. Join fellow Pirates for a great night of fun at Five County Stadium! Gates open at 6:15 p.m. and the first pitch is at 7:15 p.m.
Be sure to look for the East Carolina Alumni Association table located on the main concourse behind home plate. We’ll be passing out ECU goodies!
Game tickets are $6.00 per person as part of the special ECU Paint it Purple Night rate. To receive discounted tickets, call the stadium at 919-269-2287 or order online. Select the number of tickets you want from the dropdown menu located next to “Paint it Purple Night” and enter ECU! as the password.
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Mediterranean Pirate Voyage
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Make your next vacation a Pirate Voyage! Join fellow alumni and friends for a spectacular Mediterranean cruise June 2-13, 2011. Ports of call include: Venice, Italy; Dubrovnik, Croatia; Kotor, Montenegro; Corfu, Greece; Taormina (Sicily), Italy; Amalfi/Positano, Italy; Florence/Pisa (Livorno), Italy; Cinque Terre (La Spezia), Italy; and Monte Carlo, Monaco. Discover the Mediterranean’s fabled seas and exotic lands on the luxurious, upscale Oceania Cruises’ Nautica. And don't forget our Ireland excursion and Mayan Mystique cruise! Register now for a Pirate Voyage!
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East online
|  East magazine's summer issue is available online. Articles include "Curing Time," "Unto the Least of These," "The Business of Sports," "Stay Home, Study Abroad," "Pay It Forward," and "Pirates Ranting." Of course there are also Class Notes, news from the University, sports information, an arts calendar, classroom highlights, and obituaries. Read East online now.
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Liberty Mutual's advice for renters
|  Spend a little. Protect a lot.
As an East Carolina alumnus/a, you may qualify for a savings on Renters Insurance – on top of our already competitive rates. Think you don’t need it? Think again. Got a laptop? An iPod? Flat-screen TV? Digital camera? Imagine those items being stolen or damaged – in your home or in your car. That’s a lot of money out the window.
Read more about how Liberty Mutual can help you save on renter's insurance.
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CBS College Sports
| Follow East Carolina Athletics with the
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sports while you're on the go! The Pirates Mobile iPhone application
allows fans easy access to up-to-the-minute news, scores, schedules,
rosters, and streaming audio and video for the 2009-2010 school year.
Whether you follow ECU football or baseball, soccer or tennis, you're
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by sport from ecupirates.com; scores, including score updates, schedule
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team rosters and athlete bio information; and on-demand audio and video
clips as well as streaming audio for live events. Download the Pirates Mobile iPhone App today!
Click here for more CBS College Sports. Tun in--the game is on!
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Pirate Alumni on Twitter
|  The Pirate Nation mourns the loss of junior chemistry major Terry Paul... [More]
Photos from graduation ceremonies... [More]
The Pirate Nation mourns the loss of Amanda Wall '06... [More]
ECU may lose 50 faculty positions... [More]
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Upcoming Events
| June 2
Networking Evening
Washington, DC
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June 16
Cypress Glen Second Quarter Meeting
Greenville, NC
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June 16
Paint It Purple Night at the Carolina Mudcats
Zebulon, NC
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June 23
Lunch and Learn
Raleigh, NC
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June 27
Freshmen Sendoff
Norfolk, VA
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June 28
15th Annual Slaughter '50/Johnson '38 Golf Tournament
Chesapeake, VA
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June 28
Freshmen Sendoff
Powhatan, VA
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 Dr. Ashley White '86
Dr. Ashley White '86 was recently elected to the Governing Board and became a Trustee for the Archaeological Institute of America. The AIA was founded in 1879 and was chartered by the United States Congress and is the foremost organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of the world's archaeological resources and the information they contain.
Over the last two decades, Dr. White has been researching ancient diseases and their initial presentations for prevention of future pandemic plagues. This evidence based paleopathology research has granted Dr. White access to some of the world’s most sensitive archaeological sites. These locations have been in England, Scotland, North and Central America, Nine additional countries in Europe, Asia - including Russia and China, the Middle East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa, and South America including the Amazon Basin.
Dr. White is currently the archaeological project director for one of the most important archaeological sites in the early history and exploration of the United States discovered in Florida.
 Kyle Smithwick
This past academic year, Kyle Smithwick served as president of the ECU Ambassadors organization, the premier service organization whose members are the official student representatives for the Alumni Association, Chancellor, Office of Admissions, Department of Athletics, and the surrounding community. As president, Smithwick led the ECU Ambassadors through hundreds of hours of service projects and volunteer opportunities, including campus tours, assisting with athletic recruits, attending official University events, helping at Alumni Tailgate and other Alumni Association activities, and sponsoring the Special Populations Prom. Smithwick said of his year as Ambassador president, "Being the president of the ECU Ambassadors was such an honor. I had the pleasure of serving with 75 other students whose first priority was to serve their University and their surrounding community. I truly enjoyed being able to serve alongside the Alumni Association to help make each alum's interaction with ECU the best."
Smithwick is also a member of the Alumni Association's newest student organization Forever Pirates. Students who join Forever Pirates pledge to be life members of the Alumni Association upon graduation. “ECU is so much more than a university, it is my home. I joined Forever Pirates to stay connected with the place that has taught me so many things about myself and the world around me,” said Smithwick. Student Forever Pirates receive the same membership benefits as alumni life members and can also participate in special student Forever Pirates activities, like T-shirt days, etiquette dinners, cruisin' to spring break, study breaks, and BEAT T-shirts. The Forever Pirates program strives to solidify students' pride in the University before they become alumni and foster communication between current ECU students and the Alumni Association. All current ECU students are encouraged to join Forever Pirates and can find out more information on our Web site.
Would you like to volunteer with the Alumni Association? Contact Kendra Alexander at 800-ECU-GRAD.
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