ECU DC Pirate Club and Alumni Association

Toys for Tots Happy Hour

Believe it or not – Christmas is just a few weeks away.

So mark your calendars – December 9, 2009 is the date for our annual Toys for Tots Happy Hour hosted by North Carolina schools (Duke, East Carolina, Elon, North Carolina, North Carolina State and Wake Forest). This year especially there are many deserving families and needy kids in the Nation’s Capital area who will have a Happier Holiday because of the toys you purchase and bring to this event.

As in the past, it will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. in The Sand Bar located within Whitlow’s on Wilson at 2854 Wilson Blvd, Arlington VA.

Whitlow’s donates a percentage of the total proceeds for the night and we encourage everyone to bring an unwrapped toy as your “admission ticket”.

This year there will be a silent auction – from the ECU Alumni Association, a Skip Holtz autographed football.

Washington/Metro Alumni Chapter Freshman Sendoff Cookout - Thank you!

On a cloudy, warm August weekend day, Saturday the eighth to be exact, approximately seventy Washington DC area families and ECU volunteers assembled at Upton Hill Regional Park in Arlington, Virginia to celebrate the twenty Class of 2013 incoming Freshmen entering The Pirate Nation and to facilitate these newest Pirates meeting each other (Face Book and other social network links were exchanged by a number of the young Pirates during the meet and greet period).

Several Volunteers from the Chapter, specifically Doug Morgan and Vince Smith who served as grill masters; Jamie Blake, Bobbie Herbst and Mary Schubert who served as greeters; Mark Herbst and Harry Stubbs who kept things stocked, worked with Alumni Association liaison Stephanie Bunn and her husband Brooks to make this a successful event. Derek Denton from the Pirate Club was also there and provided those in attendance with Student and regular Pirate Club information.

After brief introductions from the Volunteers, Stephanie and Derek, a picnic was consumed before Stephanie began an ice-breaker scavenger hunt type game followed by several other East Carolina University history, facts and figures providing games. Prizes were awarded to these newest members of The Pirate Nation.

One highlight to most of we volunteers was the widespread amount of ECU clothing worn not only by the students but their proud parents including one former entirely Virginia Tech Hokie family the mother of whom told several volunteers “East Carolina University was the only acceptable option for our daughter if she was not going to become a Hokie”

By consensus it has been decided our 2010 Freshman Sendoff picnic would be held at Upton Regional Park and we invite others of you in our Washington/Metro Chapter to join us as a volunteer for this most worthwhile event.

2009 Report on OUR Washington/Metro Alumni Chapter Scholarship

Beginning this year OUR Washington/Metro Alumni Chapter Scholarship will be awarded by the East Carolina University Alumni Association as one of its more than thirty awarded scholarships. Prior to this year, it was awarded by University Advancement. These scholarships provide $1,000 to the recipient and are open to Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors and admitted to ECU Graduate Students. Applicants, even scholarship recipients, must apply annually for the awards. Members of the Alumni Association Board of Directors serve as the awards committee for these Alumni Association, ECTC/ECC (these are specifically available to the children of Pirates), New York Metro Chapter and now Washington/Metro Chapter Scholarships. This should give our scholarship more visibility and allow a really deserving Pirate to receive this scholarship through consecutive years.

2009 Football Home Kickoff Times Announced

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