pirate nation Archives

A man seated at a table surrounded by various boxes of peanuts, contemplating his next culinary creation.
Jan 13, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Peanut passion project

A flash of Pirate-inspired flare adorns every can from Hancock Peanut Company. The purple stripes on the logo of the golden legumes highlight the talents and family history of Scott...

Two men in safety vests assess the debris of a collapsed building, highlighting the aftermath of a structural failure.
Jan 13, 2025
  • Ken Buday

Building for the future

Dana Reed Fox ’07 learned valuable lessons as a construction management student at ECU. As the chief operating officer of Richmond (Virginia) Public Schools, she puts those lessons to work...

Jul 31, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Air Care

Growing up, Hunter Venters ’07 walked the fields of his family’s farms near Chicod in southern Pitt County, often seeing aircraft fly overhead. Today, he can hardly remember a time...

Jul 31, 2024
  • Doug Boyd

Proactive Performer

Greenville native Kristin Wetherington ’05 was in town earlier this year singing Broadway showstoppers with the Greenville Choral Society. And she’ll be back in December for her annual holiday show....

Jan 10, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Rehabilitation Leader

In time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first graduating class of East Carolina University’s occupational therapy program, a large group of nonprofit therapy and rehabilitation hospitals and clinics,...

Jan 10, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Educator and Advocate

A college education provided Meredith College President Jo Allen ’83 a foundation from which she learned, questioned, taught and led in administrations at five institutions. Allen believes in the value...

Jul 10, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

Artillery Officer, Proud Pirate

For Maj. Daniel Self ’20, completing an online master’s degree in security studies at East Carolina University helped him to bridge the gulf between his experiences as a fires officer...

Jul 10, 2023
  • Ken Buday

Taste for Success

When Ryan Mitchell ’01 came to ECU, he thought he had seen the last of the family barbecue restaurant in Wilson where he had been working since age 13. “I...

Dec 16, 2022
  • Doug Boyd

Headache Hunter

It might start with an aura — a scintillating scotoma of zigzag lines, opaque circles, rings of colors. You might turn or blink, but it just gets worse. Then the...

Dec 16, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Distinguished Flying

Even though the Navy awarded him one of the military’s highest honors, for Maj. Cory Jones ’06, surviving a midair collision and helping lead his crew to a safe emergency...