1. DaVe Mirra
where the ChaMp
parks his bike
He’s the most decorated bike stunt
“Greenville is an easy rider in X Games history. BMX
Star Dave Mirra dominates the
town to live in. There’s competition vert ramps in major cities
around the globe, but when it comes
always something to to downtime, he prefers the simplicity
do! And the community of Greenville, North Carolina.
leaders are open He likes being a role model and
to adding new and inspiring youngsters to follow their
hearts and find their own destiny.
• Professional BMX Rider, Competing since 1987 exciting recreational After all, Mirra has found his own
• Winner of more X Games Competition medals than any
other athlete opportunities in action-packed destiny on ramps, in
parks, on the streets, and at home
• First to land a double back flip in BMX competition the area.” in Greenville.
• Voted “Freestyler of The Year” by BMX Plus Magazine
• ESPY Award for Best Male Action Sports Athlete in 2005
• Launched video game series: Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX
• Established scholarships through Woodward BMX Camp
• Hosts the Dave Mirra Charity Golf Tournament to benefit
the Dream Factory
Caroll V. Dashiell, Jr.
Mastering
the Downbeat
With citations in Who’s Who in
“Jazz is alive in
Music and DownBeat Magazine, Greenville. Folks can
Carroll V. Dashiell has been
recognized for excellence in the music
experience world-class
industry as a bassist, musical director, performances by world
composer/arranger, and an educator.
class artists in intimate • 1994-95 Recipient of the Robert and Lina Mays and
When not performing with the Boston settings. Audiences Robert L. Jones Distinguished Teaching Excellence Award
Pops, or talents such as Wynton • Assistant Professor of Music, East Carolina University
and Bradford Marsalis, Dashiell is feel connected to each • Director of Jazz Studies and Jazz Ensembles,
turning East Carolina University performance and East Carolina University
music students and the Greenville • Nominee, Carnegie Foundation Case Award
community on to the art of jazz. enjoy the experience of • Nominee, UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence
great music.” • Producer/Performer on national and international recordings
• Howard University alumnus, Masters and Bachelors in
Music degrees
• Washington D.C. native

2. phil hoDges
it takes gooD
CheMistry
When Phil Hodges isn’t hunting or
fishing, he’s on the trail of amino acids
research as the founder and president of
“So many opportunities Metrics, Inc.
are here. Being able Hodges has guided the company’s growth
to enjoy these things, from a start-up analytical development
laboratory to one of the country’s
along with that eastern premier pharmaceutical laboratories.
North Carolina sense
Hodges is just as dedicated outside
• Co-Founder of Metrics, Inc., 1994 of opportunity, is why I the lab, often coaching recreational
• President/CEO/Chairman of the Board, Metrics, Inc.
live here.” sports and volunteering with the Boy
• Recognized expert in high performance liquid Scouts. Hodges knows that professional
chromatography (HPLC), stability assessments of
pharmaceutical dosage forms, and drug
fulfillment and personal fun in Pitt
regulatory requirements County are a result of good chemistry.
• Author and editor of numerous technical documents for
regulatory submissions
• East Carolina University alumnus with undergraduate and
master’s degrees in chemistry and analytical chemistry
JeroMe Fuller
at the Center
oF it all
Aside from being the Center “Greenville provides the
Administrator for the ECU Brody
School of Medicine’s Minimally atmosphere for good, clean
Invasive Surgical & Robotic Center activities that everyone
of Excellence, Jerome Fuller enjoys
Greenville living with surgical in the family, no matter • Board Member, Mentor and Group Facilitator, E.C.R.A. East
precision. the age, can enjoy. It’s Coast Restorative Academy
• Co-Founder, School of Medicine Information Networking
He describes Greenville as a safe, also a great environment Consultants
friendly place for him and his wife • Member, North Carolina Electronics & Information
for professionals, and the Technologies Association
to raise two children. Fuller has
discovered an inviting community Robotics Training Center • Presenter, Monthly Minimally Invasive Tele-surgical “Video”
Conferences
for active young couples and sports attracts the attention of • Event Facilitator, Carolina Valve Symposium
enthusiasts. It’s a town, he notes,
where southern hospitality still has surgeons locally, nationally • Producer, Numerous National/International Medical
Industry Teleconferences
strong value and meaning.
and internationally.” • Speaker/Presenter, Numerous Medical Industry Conferences
and Civic Group Meetings
• Video & Training Consultant, Numerous Medical
Presentations

3. Joel butler
a stewarD
oF plaCe
As Chief External Affairs Officer of
UHS Medical Center, Joel Butler
is the hospital’s primary link to the
“Living here creates region. This true “people person”
a sense that the fosters on-going dialogue between
UHS and community-based
future promises to be educational, civic, and charitable
extraordinary. And no organizations.
matter where you come Butler’s own mission is to stay
• Chief External Affairs Officer of UHS Medical Center
from, Greenville makes involved. With prevention, wellness,
economic development and quality
• President, UHS/Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundations you feel like you’re of life as constants on his radar, he’s
• Board of Trustees, East Carolina University
finally home.” ever focused on how UHS can provide
• Board of Directors, NC Global TransPark Authority essential leadership or financial
• Board of Directors, NC Chamber of Commerce resources to improve the community.
• Board of Directors, Eastern Area Health Education Center
• Board of Directors, NC Business Committee for Education
• Board of Directors, First Citizens Bank
• Past Member, Board of Visitors, East Carolina University
JaniCe Faulkner
ForeVer
Ms. Fix-it
Her distinguished careers in state
government and education may
be behind her, but the whirlwind
known as Janice Faulkner has
“For retirees who wish to
not stopped. She’s used her be actively engaged in the
straightforward style to inspire other
women — and not a few men — to community, Pitt County
be leaders. A plainspoken woman is the ideal place to live. • Former Commissioner, NC Division of Motor Vehicles
known in government circles as • Former NC Secretary of State
“Ms. Fix-It,” Faulkner has turned Greenville is as close to • Former Secretary, NC Department of Revenue
her focus to the children of her heaven as I expect to be • Former English Professor, East Carolina University
beloved eastern North Carolina.
while still on earth.” • Former Director, ECU Regional Development Institute
• Former Vice Chancellor of Regional Development, East
She’s known all over the state, but Carolina University
her state of mind is happiest in • Former Executive Director, NC Democratic Party
Pitt County.
• Past Chair, Board of Directors, NC Institute of
Political Leadership
• “Citizen of the Year,” Greenville-Pitt County Chamber
of Commerce

4. MiChael Crane
in harMony
with the arts
He says he doesn’t create art. Rather,
“Greenville has the he works to draw others to the arts.
As Associate Dean of Research,
right mix of Southern Marketing and Outreach for ECU’s
hospitality, Yankee Schools of Art, Communication,
Music, and Theatre and Dance,
gumption, rapid Michael Crane has a job that lets him
expansion, and overall “put some beauty back.”
desire to be bigger than Crane understands the Greenville art
• Associate Dean of Research, Marketing and Outreach,
the sum of its parts. It’s scene’s cultural and economic impact
on the community. He works with
ECU Schools of Art, Communication, Music, and Theatre an exciting time to live ECU’s key arts players to develop
and Dance
• Overseer, Advertising/Ticketing/Publicity, S. Rudolph in a place that’s evolving programs, enact outreach, and bring
Alexander Performing Arts Series, Family Fare Series, and the community to the hundreds of
Arts Smart Series tangibly and favorably” music, dance, theater, and arts, events
• Production Coordinato, 40 Public Radio East broadcasts that occur each year on campus.
• Co-President, East Carolina University Child Development
Lab Parent Group
• Volunteer, Habitat For Humanity Pitt County Chapter
• Vice-President, Breakfast Optimist Club
• Chair, Breakfast Optimist Club Spelling Bee and
Essay Contest
hanna Jubran
JoDi hollnagel
Flying high with the
abstraCt & the FiguratiVe
Two acclaimed sculptors. Two artistic
styles. One explosive blend of talent. “We’re always traveling
The works of Jubran Jubran and Jodi to international
Hollnagel can be found around the Hanna Jubran
world. But the husband and wife team
exhibitions. We take Pitt • Commissioned Artist/Sculptor
has found a comfortable creative County with us all over. • Professor of Art-Sculpture, East Carolina University School
of Art and Design
base in Greenville. The couple finds
inspiration in the temperate climate.
We are ambassadors of • 2003 Winner, Semi-Grand Prize, Toyamura, Japan
International Sculpture Competition
They are involved in the thriving art this community, of the • Recipient, 2002 Artist Fellowship Award, Southeastern
scene, and exhibit extensively in a
community they believe is expanding arts, and of the College Art Conference
• Recipient, 2002 ECU Five-Year Achievement Award
in its cultural connections. United States.” Jodi Hollnagel
• Commissioned Artist/Sculptor
• Visiting Artist/Adjunct Professor, East Carolina University
School of Art
• Creator of 13’ bronze pirate for ECU’s Dowdy-Ficklen
Stadium

5. Dr. w. ranDolph ChitwooD, Jr.
straight to
the heart
“You don’t have to be in a big He could live anywhere in
city to accomplish something the world. But being a world-
renowned pioneer in minimally
exciting. I could have chosen invasive cardiac surgery hasn’t
any number of places to live and given Dr. Randolph Chitwood
wanderlust. Nor has teaching
work, but don’t think I could medical teams at leading
hospitals around the globe.
have found a more advanced
and integrated medical and He and his team have helped
position the East Carolina
• Director of the East Carolina Heart Institute industrial environment, more Heart Institute as a worldwide
• Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences,
East Carolina University recreational opportunities, or leader in the fight against
cardiovascular disease, and
• Architect of the UHS Medical Center cardiovascular friendlier people than in eastern Dr. Chitwood is right at home
surgery program
• First in the United States to perform a minimally invasive North Carolina.” in Greenville, NC.
mitral valve operation with the aid of a voice-controlled
robot in 1998
• Designer of surgical instruments for minimally invasive
cardiac surgery
• Developing a totally endoscopic procedure using 3D
cameras and robotic devices Dr. Joseph kalinowski
Dr. anDrew stuart
Dr. MiChael rastatter
FreeDoM
oF speeCh
After ten years of research at East Carolina
University, a groundbreaking device was “We had great support
developed that would change the lives of
stutterers everywhere. The creators are
from the University, the
Dr. Joseph Kalinowski, Dr. Andrew Stuart, City of Greenville, and
and Dr. Michael Rastatter. The device is • Kalinowski, Rastatter and Stuart: Professors, ECU School
known worldwide as the SpeechEasy. many local leaders... of Allied Health Sciences, Department of Communication
Sciences and Disorders
We feel a sense of • Rastatter: Recipient of ECU “Lifetime Achievement Award
The researchers and the SpeechEasy have
been featured on “20/20,” “Good Morning ‘community’ here in for Research”
• SpeechEasy: U.S. Patent # 5,961,443 awarded in 1999
America,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” and Pitt County • ECU licensed the rights to Janus Development Group for
in “People Magazine”, among other shows
and publications. For the SpeechEasy’s and Greenville.” marketing the SpeechEasy 2001
developers, the media attention is great, but - Dr. Kalinowski
helping those who suffer from stuttering is
enriching beyond description.