SPECIAL EVENTS
July 29 - August 6, 2006: 2006 Medical Mission Trip to Guyana
A group of about 60 professionals from Eastern North Carolina will team
up to minister to the needs of the people in the capital city Georgetown
and its surrounding areas.
Please contact
deenas@ecu.edu for additional information.
PROGRAM BROCHURE
February 19, 2005: African
American Reading Day

Several faculty and students participated in 2005
African American Reading Day at Ledonia Wright cultural Center. There
were two sessions. Participants included Assistant Vice Chancellor Lathan
Turner and professors Deena, Melvin, Miles, Socolovsky, Southern, and
Watson.
November 20, 2004. CLASS-Center
for Learning and Advanced Scientific Studies
Seodial F. Deena, Debbie Deena, Prof. Tope Bello,
Mrs. Wendy Peterson, Ms. Terry Congleton, and Ms. Jennifer Harris organized
CLASS-Center for Learning and Advanced Scientific Studies. CLASS develops,
evaluates, and disseminates information and programs that foster the
ethical, social, spiritual, and intellectual development of under-represented
students in Math, Science, and Technology. This Saturday Academy consisted
of 38 students from grades 4 to 10, and was taught by ECU professors
and Pitt County Residents. The first semester (Fall 2004) was a great
success, and it will be continued in the spring of 2005.
November 16, 2004. Multicultural/International
Reading Day at Ledonia Wright Cultural Center

Approximately 85-90 in attendance including Chancellor Ballard-who gave
the opening address, Vice Chancellor Garrie Moore, Assistant Vice Chancellor
Lathan Turner, faculty, staff, students, and residents from the community.
March 4, 2004: 2004
TAG Lecture
ECU Department of English, Graduate Multicultural Literature Concentration
Dr. Bruce Southard, Chair; Dr. Biodun Jeyifo, Associate
Chair, Cornell University; Dr. Gay Wilentz and Dr. Seodial Deena, Co-Coordinators
of Multicultural Literature concentration.
February 19, 2004: African American
Reading Day
(L to R) Stephanie Grey, Swaby, Feature Writer;
Tina Rodgers-James, Feature Writer; Bernice Cherry, Feature Writer;
Donna Lloyd, Feature Writer; Deborah Deena, Feature Writer; Professor
Laureen Tedesco; Dr. Latham Turner, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Intercultural
Student Affairs; Dr. Ellen Arnold; Dr. Seodial Deena, Co-coordinator
of the Graduate Multicultural Literature Concentration