And now, tonight's presentation of Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrill's Suspense. Tonight, the story of a pleasant young Englishman and his wife, who encounter a murderer and a parson, they can't tell which is which, not for the life of them. So now with Laurence Dobkin as Edward and Paula Winslow as Joan, here is tonight's Suspense Play, A Little Matter of Memory. Some observations on Be Hard by Edward Mansell. I am recording the events of the past several hours, in the hope that my observations may in some measure be of assistance to those who must treat that violence, that derange, that homicidal psychotic, which is Barrington Howard. My contact with the case began at five o'clock this afternoon. At first, I feel I ought to explain the presence of my wife and self in this desolate and remote corner of the Moors. On August 1st, I'd suffered a stroke which resulted in a partial paralysis of my left side. For my convalescence, we came to this place. A tiny cottage, high on the Moors, near Buckworth. These Moors have been to me a revelation and a delight. Or rather, were so, until five o'clock of this afternoon. We'd been off on a tramp and were just returning to the cottage. Oh, but darling, what ever on earth would you do with all those flowers? Oh, I don't know. Dry them or something, I suppose. It was a talk in the wild, or something about hanging them upside down so they'll keep forever that way. Oh, here, hold them. Will you want to get the lock? Yes, I've got them. Well, that's just why anyone wants flowers hanging about upside down, beats me right side up the way they were intended to. You know what this is. Oh, someone's left us a note. Oh, two notes. But who's... Well, what is it? Close the door, John. Eight words. Oh, wait. I'll see this other. Well, what is it? What do they say? Well, this first is a threat. Rather violent and obscenely worded. Oh, let me see. No, I'd rather you didn't. Here, near the second tells the story. My dear Mr. Mansel, in view of the news about the man Howard being at large somewhere in these parts, and you're being so very isolated, you might welcome a little reinforcement. The police at Blackworth are all busy with cordons and whatever. The man Howard being fairly and extremely dangerous maniac, and they haven't anybody to spare. I will look in on you this evening, and if you think it's a good idea, help you do sentry go during the night. It will be a pleasure to make your acquaintance, and I hope you will not, under the circumstance, think me intrusive. It's signed George Beale, Curret at Blackworth. Edward, what is in that other note? Well, it's from the signature of Barrington Howard. The curret says he's a maniac. Yes. And he's threatening us.  But why? Well, there are no whys with maniacs. He's out there somewhere. I'm frightened. Well, there are the police cordons and this curret. As opposed to they don't catch him, or the curret doesn't come. Look, it's no use our standing here peering out that window. Let us look at this thing sensibly. The best thing we can do is to clear out. Out? Clear out where? It's only six miles into Buckwick. No reason we shouldn't make it by dark. But six miles over the moor? Chances are we'll run into the police on the way. But, but your heart and your side, you're still limping badly, you know? Nevertheless, we can make it. If you say so, dear. And first, a look round. The coast is clear. Let's go. Six miles. A man in good health could walk in an hour and a half. A man in good health, which I was not. And with each succeeding step, the dusky pale horizon, violet and smoky in the soft mist of the sinking sun, seemed ever more distant, more inaccessible. The heady mask of the moor grasses and the gorse, these we had delighted in until now, became choking. I could feel my eyes tear and my throat constrict. The heart and my chest, thumped and shuddered with each painful limping step I took. And then we topped the rise. Edward! Oh, look down there. A constable. Hello there. Wait there. I'm coming up. Oh, what luck. Yes, yes. You see, I told you. Oh, well, I must say we're glad to see you. You know, you people really haven't ought to be out here. Oh, you mean about the maniac? Yes, sir. Are you the folks renting Miss Bloff? That's right. But you see, we found a note from that. What's his name? A note? Yes. And so we thought the best thing would be to try walking it into the village. Don't think you ought to do that, sir. Excuse a suggestion. Why not? Well, between here and the town, there's any number of spots we haven't been able to check as yet. He might be hiding, you know. Well then, what shall we do? We'll go back to your house. It's a safe place. Well, now look here. Why don't you walk to the village with us? It's only three miles. It shouldn't take long. Well, I would, sir, but I'm due to join the search party over at the Dark at Woods. Well, to my orders, sir. Orders? I'll tell you what I will do. I'll walk along with you folks back to your cottage, so you arrive there safe and sound. Back to the... Edward? Very well. As we walked, we told the constable about the letter from the curate, and he gave us background on the man's verdict on Howard. Seems that Howard had been a sort of small-time actor and ex-acrobat, nothing worse than his police record and a couple of parking offenses. And then one night, out of the blue, he had murdered five people. Five in a single night, and each had received a notification in advance, a short, obscenely worded, threatening note. Just like yours. But... but didn't they take any precautions? No, miss. Or at least not enough. But you know better. And what with the curate coming to help a good man, the curate, used to be a commando. Oh, about this man, Howard. How'd you catch him before? It was what you might call psychological. He was very clever at disguising himself as an actor. He might have got clean away if it wasn't for this psychological thing. What psychological thing? Well, it was kind of a joke, sir.  You follow me? Oh, yes, I know the type. That's how Howard was. Compulsive, yes. And on this one topic, he had what they called total recall. He could remember everything he'd ever heard or read. Facts, and figures, and seats. We used to get him on his topic down at the pub just to hear him go.  And so after the crime, he was in disguise, but someone touched on his topic. Exactly. He thought to talk, gave himself away, we nabbed him. Well, what was his topic? Germany. Germany? Mm-hmm. Germany. He had a compulsive total recall about Germany. All about Germany. Well, here we are. Hello. I wish we could persuade you to stay. Your orders, Mum. Now, just you make sure your shutters are bolted on the inside. Yes. Put a bar across the door. Mm-hmm. It'll be snug and safe. Mind you, keep that door tight till you know who it is that wants in. Oh, don't you worry, Officer. We shall. Good night. Good night. With his departure, we barricaded ourselves. This cottage is very old and built in the days of highway robbers, ideally suited to our situation. We lit the lamp and turned it very low so that no light would be seen from without. And then we waited and we waited. Edward, the time, so slow. There's something out there. What? We're listening to A Little Matter of Memory, tonight's presentation in Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrill's Suspense. One of the most effective savings programs is Uncle Sam's Own, United States Savings Bond. You will find few other financial investments like U.S. Savings Bond for security. Invest regularly every week through payroll savings or bond a month plan. Where you work or where you bank. Now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Lauren Stubbkin and Paula Winslow in tonight's production of A Little Matter of Memory, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. In the dim light of the lamp, we watched the heavy oak door. You got my note, didn't you, sir? But how do we know it's not a trick? Yes. Got a torch? Stand back from the door and shine it on yourself. Excellent idea. It can't be too safe, you know. I'll just look out through the slit. Ah, yeah.  Oh, come in, sir. Mr. Mantle? Yes, yes. This is Mr. Mantle. Oh, I'm so glad to see you. I'd have got you sooner, but you know, every last person I saw wanted to talk, talk, talk, talk. Well, we were a little worried, Dr. Beale. We thought you just might have met with some accident. Accident? Oh, let's not grivel. You mean you thought I might have run into him, don't you? Yes, I suppose so. Oh, but you're here now. That's what matters. Yes. And now let's see. Excellent place you have here. Yes, they really built them in those days. Would you like some tea, Doctor? Oh, bother tea, John. I have a bottle of scotch in my bag. What, what, what's wrong? Oh, you mean on my account? Oh, my dear lady, my collar may be clerical, but my throat is British. And that's quite dry. You see, John, I've had some glasses, huh? Well, I find these... Ah, here we are. Good whiskey, a warm room, pleasant companions. And I'll turn up the lamp a bit, if I may. Oh, yes, do. Well, here are the glasses. There's little to fear about making light now, you know. I've got a gun, and I know the three of us should be a proper match for any man. Crazy or not, I should say. Well then, a toast, eh? To, uh, to... Safety in numbers. Ah, I really think we ought to keep clear heads tonight. John's the careful one in our family. Ah, proper feminine trait. So, here we are. And I can't tell you how much better I feel now that you're here. Oh dear. Constable told us that you were in the commandos during the war. Oh yes, hardly the sort of thing you'd expect from the village curate. Still, there was a job to be done, you know. Edward was in the Air Ministry. Well, John, uh, desk job, bad ticker.  The big do, I mean. Oh, don't be sorry. There are a lot of things I'd, I'd give my teeth not to have seen. Like, like Dunkirk? Like Dunkirk, sticky with your Dunkirk. It seems so long ago now that, uh, would you like to hear about it? Here, have another drop. Rum go for it. It was ought four, four, five hours that we rendezvoused with the main force off the beach. We sat there in the now snug little room and listened. He was a superb storyteller. And as he talked, the scenes of the war unrolled smoothly and excitingly and almost ethnothically. All the way clear. And ahead of us at long last lay the rye. And after a while, what would the scotch in the warm room, I began to lose track of what he was saying. And then with startling clarity, I was wide awake. We entered Germany on the Cologne Autobahn at 3.45 on the morning of May the 20th, 1945. I remember it as if it were yesterday. It made this first sight of Germany. A quite unforgettable impression on me. Of course, when one comes to think of Germany and the fate of Germany, then naturally. I looked at him as he chatted along. His eyes were glazed and he spoke with a curious intensity. And I knew. Jones sat petrified. I reached for the scotch bottle. It was still about half full. And as the man bent forward to pick up his glass, I swank. I should have known. I should have seen through him. Oh, is he dead? No, no, no, no. No, he's just out so quickly.  You must tie him quickly, Jones, quickly. Yes, yes, I will. I've never tied a man before. And Jones' knowledge of knots is limited to Christmas wrappings. But we use what was at hand. And now we wait. What has become of the real George Biel, Curit at Buckworth, heaven only knows. This thing at our feet. Bound like some grotesque cock-cold and myriad rags and strings. My best charbet ties about his wrists. Jones' nourishment like gown gagging his mouth. What has to become of him is not our affair. But rather that of the physicians who must treat him. And it is to those men, healers of the... Biel? Is that you, Biel? Edward Manfield, wait, wait, don't open the door. Biel? Yes. But haven't you had a day to look at me first? Oh, not now, man. He thought you'd been killed or something? Come right in. No longer any need to fear. What do you mean, Biel? Great scum. Yes, meet Barrington Howard. That's amazing. Did you do it? Man, the giant. Oh, matter of luck, I suppose. Really didn't see through the beggar forever so long. Look at the collar, too. Quite an actor, what? Indeed, he was. He wasn't a charlotte when he kept reaching for that bottle. There is a rather strong air in here. I had to use the bottle to subdue the man. Ah, pity. Scotch whiskey, dear me. Now then, let's take a look at these knots. Well, we did the best we could. This one's not too good, but we'll just re-do it. So it's really... Look at his legs. Oh, what's wrong? You only really tied the ankles. You ought to be careful of the knees, you know. And I'll give you another tip. If you really want to tie a man to his help, fasten his ankles to his wrists. From the back, like this. Edward, isn't that clever? I must say. So, was he armed? Good Lord. He had a gun. And told us, and we forgot, look in his pocket. Ah, here we are.  Think what this might have done to your wife's mental. With a bloner hole through, you've got stuff to break through.  Sorry, man, but I believe in being realistic. It's quite a gag you've made for him. Yeah, I don't think he'll do much talking until we're ready to take it out. We used a silk nightgown of mine from Paris. Linda, I just want to make sure this flower is in its place. Ah, there we are. All right, well, safe. Safe? But there's no longer anything or anybody to be safe from. Oh, you never know. Now, what other weapons did you have? Oh, just the bottle. Oh, I'd dealt him a good one with the bottle. Oh, and there's this carving knife. And the gun, which I have in my pocket. Well, it's really been quite a little adventure, eh, manful? Oh, you should say so.  Oh, may I? Oh, please. Some observations on Bihar, but I am recording the events of the past several hours in the hope that my observations may end some year.  Oh, no, no, no, no, I think you did splendidly, splendidly. I wonder who else may read these notes of yours. Look, his eyes are open. I never realize mad men rarely do roll their eyes. A glib beggar, isn't he? Yes, I must say. But about your report, this stuff about Germany, did he really say this? I wish he'd close his eyes. He's trying to say something. But about Germany, I mean, how could anyone say what was it? When one comes to think of Germany and the fate of Germany, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, that posh, that argle-bargle about the clone autobargle. Oh, yes, ladies and gentlemen. Any fool can see the man is dreadfully confused and misinformed about the organization of the National Socialist Party. Oh, you mean the Nazis? Because the fact is the organization of the party was divided into 26 garne or districts which did not in themselves form the various provinces of the German Reich. East Prussia, Greater Berlin, Brandenburg, March, Pomerania, Silesia, Magdeburg, Anhalt, Hallen, Mirsburg, Trinke, Schleswig-Holstein, BVM. He's got the knife. Get back. We'll help us. He can't. He's got the knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. The knife. In this case, the lack of a little loose change, we call it chicken feed. That's next week on Suspense. Suspense is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald, with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Bluskin. James Helvick's story, A Little Matter of Memory, was specially adapted for suspense by James Pol, featured in the cast were Edgar Barrier, Joseph Kearns, and Richard Heale. Follow the serial adventures of Mr. Keene evening times on the CBS radio network.


Hi, I'm Shayna from espressoenglish.net, and I'm going to explain two expressions used for talking about decisions, on the fence and at a crossroads. On the fence means undecided.  For example, if you're planning a vacation, but you don't know if you want to go to Italy or Australia, and someone asks you where you're going to travel, you can say, either Italy or Australia. I'm not sure yet. I'm on the fence. It means I'm not decided. On the fence is also very common for talking about deciding your belief or opinion about a controversial issue. For example, I'm on the fence about abortion, or I'm on the fence about the death penalty. It means you haven't decided, and you're not sure whether or not you support the death penalty. After on the fence, you can use the preposition about. For example, I'm on the fence about buying a car, or my sister is on the fence about quitting her job. At a crossroads means you are at a moment when a decision must be made. You can imagine standing at an intersection or a crossroads, and needing to decide which road to take. At a crossroads is different from on the fence. On the fence can be used for any decision, big or small, in day-to-day life. But at a crossroads is more used for decisions that will have a big impact on your future. For example, if you're trying to decide between going to university and taking a job offer in a different city, then you are at a crossroads because the decision you make will significantly impact your future. Anyone who is trying to decide whether to get married or whether to get divorced is also at a crossroads because the choice they make will determine their future. Now you know how to use the English expressions on the fence and at a crossroads when talking about making decisions.


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You guys know me mustache one month beard the next I Can never decide when it comes time to like shave.  I'll just shave my neck this time Yeah, post the pole Let people use their break credit So to sway it Ignacio Alvarez Averson, Artega 1,000 I bats guess how many home runs right? Oh, it probably It's probably something normal like 800 gold. It's a 50 paper brand in Barrera Yeah, I was about to say what you all just said Blue refractor Tristan Vreeling to 150 first bowman Volpe Hendrik we got chase me Drough John Kensi. No, no first woman auto JR Ritchie That's pretty good actually like that Intentional to walk 12 times Man, yeah, that's they were comparing Barry Bonds the wrong guy should have been you all along LeVar Fractors Owen Murphy Hassel Canon Lamar King you ever wonder who the little barbara account account is I realized Blue refractor Ezekiel Tovar Number to 150 got Jordan Beck Luciano Cho Saramac and Refractor auto Kumar rocker nice hit there. That is a variation auto to 99. That's sick That's awesome. We can get this bag Nice Kumar rocker variation auto to 99. Those are really rare. They're all numbered. I think only to 99 I think there's any parallels on these I don't want to know that who it is, you know, I mean like I don't want to know Yes, too fun like Sounded to Sean if I could see Sean do it Yeah, just in the variations illegal because it's not in first bowman Tristan Freeling Mikey Romero house Dominguez Light blue paper Mizorowski to 499. I know you're not Sean. I know I Know for a fact he's not Sean Sean be sitting here like the whole time LeVar is going off Kobe Mayo Sean McLean Luis Mesa Marcello Meyer blue wave chase me drop first woman auto to 150 Yeah, we've been in the same room at least a couple a couple days a week if not more We'll be in the same room tomorrow and then we're breaking together all night Saturday So that'll be a that'll be chaos right there I'll have to deal with that guy all night It's insult sliner to be talking smack about Derek Jeter Yeah, Ben Joyce Coonya Ritter Kevin Perotta. Yeah, I can't get as like I physically can't get as loud as Sam does. I don't think it's a hard task Not even just like at the boom just how he talks like I don't know how it gets that loud. It's crazy First bowman green sparkle auto and the auto but Sean McLean the 99 here Sean McLean more like John McLean diehard Conor pre-lip Logan Tanner Hayden Dunnhurst Boyd and a first woman auto jet Williams another jet Another one a lot of Mets so far in this one Mets are good in this product though All right, let's move it along super jumbo number two Yeah, I saw I'm wondering shady like This is diaphragm I mean he's got the pipes he's built for he's built for this He's more He's more Stephen A. Smith. I'm more Like sports podcast He's more Stephen A. Smith. I'm more like investigative journalism podcast Muncie Messick Allen and Barco Light blue paper Emmanuel Rodriguez the 499 no one's bragging about you LeVar you do that enough for yourself Fractors Watson win Ford and green Kumar rocker first bowman auto that's sick at the variation and now a green refractor Awesome card there we'll get that magged But I can't say the same oh man LeVar talking trash This one is just not all right. We need to warm up now. We need to get some big hits Come on Jackson holiday. Come on Elijah green. Come on now Invicta J. C. Young Compos Brannigan Thorpe Bergola. It's a light blue paper Drew Baker to 499 Hello, Luca, is that what is that what they're all saying now green sparkle Felix Valerio to 99 Jared McKenzie Willie Vasquez Nazir mule and first woman auto Brandon Barrera. I think of the bar. I figured That's what we would all do if we were in your if we were in your position though fractures of Duncan Mayo Noah Schultz Luis Mesa Think of a bar is weak. We'll have to see when baseball season starts. How much we see LeVar Aqua paper to 199 Eric Hernandez. Oh, he's playing against you illegal. Thank God I was like oh man, I'm hoping I'll play in Luca. Well, a broad beat the greatest team ever tonight You'll end up magic. So he's automatically the goat green refractor Colton Couser Number 59 of 99 Chandler Simpson L. Adela Cruz purple refractor first woman Jack Brannigan 75 out of 250 Brannigan, Brannigan, you know, I'm thinking of like Bennigans every time I hear that Never been to a Bennigans I think it's like a diner chain right guys like a Perkins almost I hop or something like a huddle house Right down the road Like I have an eight there, but like the service terrible. I see that I don't have to like do door-dash there before and like they take so long to even like come say hi or greet you Victor Drew Gilbert Hernandez Milbrant Gilbert and Judd Fabian Green Paper Felix Valerio to 99 base your fractures Valera Delos Santos Gavin Cross Robbie Snelling and refractor Otto Josh Kassovich to 499 That sounds about right right so Victor where it's like this just Typical like Applebee's ish type place. So it's not a diner chain then it's like a Neighborhood like barn grill type thing Yeah, awful house is awesome shady love awful house Dylan Lesko triantos Cabrera Dylan Ray Aqua paper yankiel Fernandez the 199 a la var ball. How do you feel about chips of white cookies? Aqualava Ricardo Cabrera Number 76 out of 199 Polino Valerio Deshara Prieto and first woman Otto Silas Ardoin Base Otto there Chewie 9.7. That's outrageous Stuffing not Sam Sam's not in chat enough So who have we not seen recently is it is it Rory who have we not seen recently in shadow on yet exactly Joshua That's that's true Fractors Hernandez Dylan Ray Cole Young Khalil Watson. Oh, man. I wonder I Want I wonder who it could be Man so many names to start with Ellen and are era parent Marco Luciano Green yeah green two of 99 Blue first woman refractor Clark Elliot number to 150 110 of 150 Vera Prieto Furman Refractor Otto of Samuel Munoz There's a non first Variation auto I want to say It's a 99. I believe it is Munoz there who's playing NBA 2k right now Brad He does he's just been taking time off for himself recently got Jayce young Troy Melton Diaz Tray Lipscomb Yeah, I mean it could be Uzi as well to 499 Jonathan met he a Cardinals Except LeVar has not one said let's go birds So I doubt it's easy No, you can't resist it blue refractor first woman jet Williams nice one there on the jet 116 of 150 Ryan Ritter Cole Phillips Zavala Jacob Miller and refractor Otto Elijah Green variation That is sick lots of variations in these boxes that one's nasty though 13 out of 99. There you go Sean Yeah Two and a half boxes left. I'm gonna rule out. It's anybody that works here They would they would not take this amount of time to Should I not rule it out? Okay, we know it's not Cortes or Lane, you know, what's that you me or Sean or Sam? Matt McLean Judd Fabian Thomas Harrington. It's not illegal. You want to send a box could be illegal I guess essentially the gold paper compost the 50 for the Tigers. No, it could be illegal. So I'm gonna think Yeah, we can It could be legal purple refractor Alan Serda Number 47 to 250 Christopher Pashola. Maybe it's just LeVar ball. Maybe it actually is Robbie Snelling Zack Nito a redemption Come on to Mark Johnson Carson Milbrant It is a Jace young class of 2022 insert auto redemption Maybe I don't want to know who it is. I don't know.  Oh and Murphy Gavin Cross It's okay. Kevin Parada sparkle first bowman Eric Brown jr. Wreckley Volpe Beck and a Brian Acunia What is with all of these variation autos? This is crazy. This is crazy I don't know why why it was what's going on here You Invicta Mikey Romero, Brandon Cox Gabriel Hughes Hernandez de los Santos Got light blue paper to 499 one been Joe. What if you're me? That's a good point. Could be me green speckle first bowman Jack Branigan Pirates number to 99 Alvarez cannon Williams no, well and a Jackson holiday Variation auto, okay, I mean, this is us right a little bit Let's talk to just like hey, let's just load one box. I mean don't get me wrong There have been some fire Variations, I'm just confused right now That's a big one needless to say 36 of 99 That is I we haven't pulled one. I don't think I've been pulled one at all and group breaks That is like the fifth or sixth the variation auto we pulled in this personal. That's just like a Coalition thing going there Yeah, they do they do stickers on the variations all the first moments will be on card and then all the variations will have stickers He'll come across them a whole lot. I'm not quite sure on values for them They're good hits. It's better than most of the first moments even up even as the variation like that Come on now, let's see some first bowman autos of some big names refractors Henry Bolts de Andrade McFarlane Cooper Jerp, is that how you would say his name jerk purple paper and simpulino to 250 blue refractor yeti cappy Number 38 of 150 Dalton rushing Bernabelle Fernandez Tamar Johnson and Invicta Auto Ostrich Coloss White Sox 15 of 99 a lot of inserts and variations Come on first bowman come on now We need to give we need to get back to the first bowman here. I don't know what to do I've never seen anything like this to be honest on Guzman Martinez Kempner Mead Now you're not Mark Wahlberg Mark Wahlberg be working out right now Or he'd be asleep getting ready to wake up at 3 a.m. Eastern to go work out Aqualava first bowman Dylan Ray to 199 Rincones First woman base autos sunny Dushara With a dust on that we'll get that off fractors of Hernandez Polanco Pashola Bittison aqua paper Mill Brandt to 199 This is actually stuck All right, this is stuck yeah, there's a bit of glue On the Pete Hanson Right there in the left That may come off nicely it may not to 99 on the first woman green sparkle Something to box right? Yeah We'll send a box diver Sean. There's probably some things about their base refractors. We want to get those replaced as well Cannon palmquist. Come on. Come on. Come on. Rainer Cox palette blue wave first woman auto Dominic Keegan to 150 LaVar Raptors Thomas Harrington Couser Rolvera jet Williams You could for sure be a random person All right, Jayce young on the insert Zack Nito Arias McLean the lotter and first woman base auto Trevor Martin Yeah, it was smack Yeah, this order was placed Sunday to Early early Sunday morning Eastern time. So maybe it's been late Saturday So we haven't really gotten into the Sunday orders yet You guys I would say pursels are full for tomorrow as well at this point Victor said down there off a yellow Cole young Hassel Mejia Lamar King jr. Got an aqua paper Michael Nord of 199 Feeling big auto coming right here. Come on big name purple refractor first woman Reggie Crawford to 250 Furman Luciano Hernandez Saramac and refractor first woman auto Jack Branigan the 499 good for a different pirate there Right last Super Jumbo Last box. All right, we'll recap the autos and stuff after this as well like 70 cousins this point No legal. Nope Do go zoe back Simpson, Mizorowski light blue paper Andrew Pintar to 499 Aqualava first woman Ben Joyce numbered to 199 York Hanson green James Wood first woman auto Jordan Sprinkle Serda Cappy Montgomery Robert Moore Justin Boyd sparkle first woman Donkone by as Schultz sprinkle and purple first woman auto Landon Sims the 250 you guys are ridiculous All right, come on Clark Elliot Coloss Munoz Balcazar Blue paper to 150 a 1 Murphy got refractors, Mazur beavers Martin Loller and blue first woman auto Cole Phillips to 150 Especially old Farrell of our especially Come on Super Factor. Come on Veen Rodriguez lamp Pintar Purple refractor first woman Caden Wallace to 250 Richie choreo Lee of costa Douglas Hodo the third first woman base auto But then the person behind it. I know I know illegal personally a variety last pack and Victor Mikey Romero Gutierrez Savino Sims Job Cleal Watson purple paper to 250 got true gold base parallel here Ryan Ritter first woman numbered to 50 True gold McLean Kassavich and a Tyler Schweitzer to 499 first woman refractor auto So put an end with a bigger hit there a bigger first woman at some point, but there were some nice variations Let's go back through every single auto Sean thanks again for the huge order. There we go. I'm just gonna get it's kind of gonna be in reverse order here I'm just gonna call out the names of all these Tyler Schweitzer Douglas Hodo the third cold Phillips Landon Sims Jordan Sprinkle Jack Branigan Trevor Martin Dominic Keegan Sonny Deshara Oscar Coloss Jackson holiday we got a magnet Jackson holiday Brian Acuna Jayce Young insert auto class of 2022 Sammy Munoz Silas Ardoin Jordan Sprinkle Steven Zoback Victor Scott the second Steven Zoback Walter Ford Steven Zoback He is class of 2022 term are Johnson Seal of our Logan Tanner Tanner Scobal John Kassavich Douglas Hodo the third cutter coffee Henry Bolt chrome prospect auto redemption Kenya Huggins Kevin Parada Ryan Sir Mac Jack Branigan Brandon Barrera Jet Williams Chase Meadroff JR Richie Peyton Pallet Jet Williams refractor to 499 Drew Gilbert Jimmy Crooks the third Henry Williams John Kassavich or sorry Josh Kassavich We had Elijah green on the variation auto green first woman Kumar rocker to 99 Kumar rocker variation auto to 99 black paper one-of-one Bryson Mott's and First woman base auto JC young and that is gonna do it. Thanks Sean. We'll get him out to you


And from other parts of Africa, Pope Francis has admonished youth in the Democratic Republic of Congo to work towards a better future and shun corruption in the deeply Catholic country which is plagued by violence in its east. About 60% of the Central African nation of roughly 100 million people are under the age of 20, and that's according to UN figures, addressing the crowd that Pope urged the people to build a better future for the church and the country.


Good morning, everyone. Welcome. I'd like to call the March 9, 2001 Board of Trustees meeting to order. And I'd like to call now on our distinguished trustee, Kennis Wilkins to provide the invocation for us. Thank you, church. Invocation today will be based upon signs 91. Let's pray.  We love you and we thank you for being our father. Your word remind us that a father pitted his children. So you pitted them who honor and adore you. We are eternally grateful to you for all things that pertain to life and goodness. We thank you for the vision of this university. A vision that gathered us to be a premier public institution, a leading partner for economic, social environment progress, a destination institution that developed leaders, leaders who would make a positive difference now and in the future. We thank you, Lord, for the leaders of this great university, the Board of Trustees, the Chancellor and her administrative team, the faculty members, Board of Governors, Governors and the entirety of the UNC system. Lord, together, each of us seek to make North Carolina a better place for all of our citizens, people, all races, babies, sexes. In spite of our differences, Lord, we may come together to make it better for all. Father, as leaders and trustees, we seek to make wise and God honor the decisions. Father, we seek to cast a broad vision. We seek to make sure that the right resources, both personnel and otherwise, are available in the right places at the right time. As we gathered this morning to be about the business of this great university, we humbly ask for your guidance, your protection and your presence. We ask for your guidance because you are the God who gives great vision. We need vision to fulfill our government's role at this great university. We ask for your protection because you are the God that take us through great adversity. Physical, political, personal challenges are no match for your protection. We ask for your presence because you are so the God who guide us to victory. Father, we declare that in you we will walk in safety.  Father, in this season COVID-19 pandemic, may we rest in your protection. May you protect each of us against the destructive force of every deadly disease. Thank you for your protective wings being around us, above us and surrounding us as a shelter. Father, we declare this because you have ordered your angels to protect us wherever we go. Father, we stand upon your promise of old to Joshua and Deuteronomy 31A, the promise that you will go before us to prepare our way, the promise that you will present with us every day, and the promise that your power will never fail nor forsake us. Father, in the matchless name of your son Jesus Christ, we ask all these petitions. Amen. Amen. Thank you. We have been fortified this morning. Thank you, trustee. Welcome. Yes, ma'am. Right. I'd like to take a moment before we move into our agenda to just welcome Governor Powers, who is with us this morning. Welcome, Governor Powers. Always nice to have you with the Vikings. Great to be here, Madam Chair. Great to be here. I want to say hello to everybody and thank you all. We've been through a pretty trying year. Coming on that first year anniversary, right? This week or so. And you and your colleagues around the system have really done a great job of keeping us on track as best we possibly can in very different, difficult circumstances. So on behalf of my board, I want to give you my most sincere and deepest thanks for the job you have done. I'm trying to keep things going, but keep things going strong and growing. I mean, y'all have just been what Chancellor Dixon has been able to do with her board and her staff and her faculty's help and her students' help is pretty amazing in this environment. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And I look forward to better years ahead, even better years ahead as we go through. Thank you, Governor Powers. And we appreciate that our success is the system success and that we are highly united in becoming more so. So thank you again for being with us this morning. Look forward to that time I can make that pretty drive out there and spend some time with in person please. Excellent. Alrighty, as chair of the ECSU Board of Trustees, I want to remind everyone that we'll be conducting today's meeting pursuant to the new amendments to the Open Meetings Act that apply during states of emergency. The amendments were signed into law and allow for public bodies to meet the electronic means. The new law does require, however, that we take all votes via roll call, which we will do today. Additionally, pursuant to the amendments to the law all chats, instant messages, text, or other written communications between members of the board regarding transactions of the public business during the remote meeting are deemed to be public record. I will ask all committee members, board members, and participating staff to please identify yourself before participating in deliberations, including making motions, proposing amendments and raising points of order. As chair of the Board of Trustees, it is also my responsibility to remind all members of the board of their duty under the State Government Ethics Act to avoid conflicts of interest and appearances of conflict of interest, as required by this act. Each member has received the agenda and related information for this Board of Trustees meeting. If any board member knows of any conflict of interest or parents of conflict with respect to any matter coming before the Board of Trustees at this meeting, the conflict or appearance of conflict should be identified at this time. Thank you. I call on Ms. Sanders for roll call. I'm sorry, that's Trustee Johnson for roll call. Good morning. Good morning. I would like to ask the board members to take their mute buttons off so that we can get through this part quickly and then turn them back on as soon as you answer present. Harold Bonds. Harold Bonds. Phyllis Bosenworth. Present. Kim Brown. Present. Lynn Bunch. Present. Andy Cole Pepper. Present. Jimmy Chambers. Present. Christine Evans. Christine Evans. Stephanie Johnson present. Jan King Robinson. Present. Tracy Swain. Tracy Swain. Paul Tine. Present. Paul Bonds. Present. Thank you. You might put your mute buttons back on. Thank you, Trustee Johnson. We will move to our consent agenda. We discussed these matters yesterday during committee meetings. We are asking for approval of a selected firm for the Rosenwald School of School and Principles House of Renovation and approval of selected firm for HVAC systems upgrade project. I will ask for a motion. Kenneth Wilkins will likely make a motion for approval of the selected firm for Rosenwald School and Principles House of Renovation. Thank you. Should we do both at the same time? We can do the consent agenda. You can do the entire consent agenda. And Madam Chair, don't forget about the other two items, the contracts as well. Oh, I'm sorry. I don't have that before me. It's on the agenda. You want me to do all of those? You can approve the consent agenda in total. The other two items that were on the consent agenda are men's basketball coach and ball coach. All of those are in the consent agenda together, ABC and D. Yes, they are. I'm happy to read those if you like. Perfect. Thank you. The consent agenda, approval of selected firm for Rosenwald School and Principles House of Renovation, approval of selected firm for HVAC systems upgrade project, men's head football and head basketball coach contracts, one year extension and Board of Trustees meetings one day for that. Perfect. Thank you. Madam Trustee, I would like to make the motion to approve the consent agenda. Thank you. May I have a second please. The list balsam or second. Thank you. Any discussion. This is consent agenda so we can move right to the roll call the Sanders door roll call vote for the consent agenda. Trustee Barnes. Trustee Bosenworth offered the second. Trustee Brown. Yes. Trustee Bunch. Yes. Trustee Culpepper. Yes. Trustee Chambers. Yes. Trustee Evans. I'm not sure if she has joined. Trustee Johnson. Yes. Trustee Robinson. Yes. Trustee Swain. Trustee Tine. Yes. And trustee Wilkins offered the motion for the consent agenda stands approved. Thank you. All right, I'd like to call on trustee Lynn Bunch for our report on the Committee on academic excellence and strategic growth. Madam chair if you can we go back to the approval of the minutes. Oh, I'm sorry. I did skip that. Thank you. May have a motion for approval of minutes for the December 14, 2020 board meeting. Lynn Bunch moved to approve. I have a second. All time second. Thank you. Any discussion. May have roll call. Miss Sanders roll call for the approval of the board minutes from the December 2020 meeting. Trustee Bosenworth. Yes. Trustee Brown. Yes. Trustee Bunch offered the motion. Trustee Culpepper. Yes. Trustee Chambers. Yes. Trustee Johnson. Yes. Trustee Robinson. Yes. Trustee Tine offered the second. And trustee Wilkins. Yes. Thank you. Chair Robinson. Thank you. Alrighty, we will move to trustee Bunch for our committee report on academic excellence and strategic growth. Thank you. Before I proceed with the official report from the committee, I'd like to take just a moment to commend Provost Ward and her staff for the commendable job that they've done this year. While dealing with all the changes in classes and types of instruction, they've also done a phenomenal job on preparation for the sax reaffirmation. So I'd just like to take a moment and commend her and her staff for the excellent job that they've done. We have talked many times over the years, over this year. And I could tell that she was extremely stressed, but she was taken it with poise and just doing a phenomenal job. So thank you. Okay. The academic excellence and strategic growth had no action items. As information, the committee received an update on the sax COC reaffirmation timeline. The on-site visit will be conducted virtually on March the 15th through 18th 2021. Provost Ward informed us that the Department of Business Accounting and Sports Management was reaffirmed with AACSB International Accreditation and that ECSU is the only HBCU with AACSB accredited sport management program. An update was provided regarding the $1 million COVID-19 mitigation grant. The testing occurred between October 15th and December 31, 2020 and served 21 counties. A total of 596 tests were conducted with 52 positive cases. Provost Ward shared the continued ongoing efforts throughout the campus regarding COVID-19. Information was shared regarding the various student engagement opportunities held virtually on campus. We're also currently working on certificate program criteria that's being reviewed and will be adding at least two new certificate programs for the 2021-22 academic year. The aviation science program has purchased two additional aircrafts and this brings our total of aircrafts to 14. And we also were notified that we have received the 25 million U.S. Coast Guard grant to fund restoration of the additional runway at the airport. Dr. Ward advised ECSU that advised us that ECSU and COA have executed bilateral agreements in business administration and social work programs. Provost Ward provided updates regarding the winter open house and the success of this event. And additionally, admissions is continuing the recruitment efforts virtually throughout the spring semester. Enrollment data for spring 2021 and fall 2021 was provided and showed increases in both applications and confirmation. Information on ECSU's inclusion in the common college black application was provided regarding the total application submitted, total complete applications, admitted applications and confirmed applications. This is the report from our committee. Thank you. Alrighty. I will now call on Trustee Kim Brown for the report from the committee on student excellence. Good morning. During the committee of student excellence, we received informational updates from our athletics director department. Mr. George Bright, vice chancellor for student affairs, Dr. Gary Brown and student government association president, Mr. Jimmy Chambers. Our athletics director highlighted the following. We are privileged that two Elizabeth City State University alums have been inducted into the CIAA Hall of Fame. They are Celeste Trayhan and the honorable Johnny Walton. He also updated us on student athletes and what their GPAs were. And the categories based upon GPA standards that have been established. We reviewed the 2021 softball schedule. And we did an in service on alumni booster requirements and those things that are not acceptable for boosters to participate in. During the division of student affairs update, vice chancellor Gary Brown provided an overview to include the spring 2020 update, which was broken into three categories, our reentry process and mandatory prescreening and negative COVID results. He informed us that we have a 71% occupancy rate of residents on campus. To date we had 26 confirmed COVID cases opportunities to host a COVID vaccine clinic on our campus were also discussed. I will also highlight the one of the things that was commendable about our student body is how many young people called before they even came to the campus, because they had already identified themselves as COVID positive and did not want to bring them to the campus so that speaks a lot about the maturity of our student body, and then engagement opportunities during COVID with our young people once again, hats off to all of our staff and the student body for the way they have mitigated COVID. It is just really impressive. This is a story that should be told strategic plan goals he went over with us that we had 58 virtual events held in fall with just under 5000 students participating to date just under $600,000 in grants have been sought, and $71,000 has already been awarded we have not received a no from anyone that we applied or requested grant funds from engagement of corporate connections and career conversations. And he dealt with the internships for our students talked about a spring many professional development and onboarding conference that scheduled for late March, and then review the campus climate survey, which was launched with a total of 537 respondents our goal was 500 professional initiatives he talked about project gap and their product progress with Golden Leaf Foundation, the governor's crime Commission grant and community connections. Program in which we were just privileged to have Nikki Giovanni lecture with over 700 registrants which is unbelievable. And then finally SGA President, Jimmy chambers highlighted 2021 goals for SGA. He talked about the importance of how they've managed to student activity fee and how they explained to students what that is used for he mentioned that the fix it ticket is in the final stages of completion, and that the UNC advocacy week was held on January 16 through 19. He also highlighted highlighted major events during the spring which included a town hall meeting, HBC you SGA presidents convening and the upcoming elections for student leaders for the next season of leadership. He also highlighted Royal Coronation crowning Miss Michaela Stoke less miss Elizabeth City State University and minister and Mr. normal practice Mr. Elizabeth City State University. This concludes the report from the student excellence committee. Thank you very much trustee Brown. All right, we're going to move on now to trustee Wilkins who provide the committee report on operational excellence trustee Wilkins. Please unmute. Good morning. I just want to make a statement before I start. You know I'm a graduate of Elizabeth City State University. I graduated here in 1977. I just want to look back on where we have come from. And now where our campus is today and the leaders that we have had and see and see me every leader we had we got a better leader each time. So now we have a, another leader that's taken us through another, another level so we appreciate her for what she's doing. On the committee of operational excellence, Vice Chancellor Alan Goodson gave us an update on the committee members on the following projects. 800 ton chiller constructions underway to improve the university cooling system. This upgrade will provide additional cooling to the campus, and this to be completed by the end of summer 2021. The Victorian repairs have been gone, and, and teams were asked to prioritize roof repairs by residence halls and key buildings. Vice Hall has a finishing point dated for the first week in April. He gave us a sneak peek, he gave us a sneak peek of the upgrades by way of a slide presentation was given to board members with pictures of the updated corridors to include modern flooring, crown molding, modern lighting, and a wonderful longevity. Very beautiful building. GR a little library, a connect bond project has been completed by Chancellor Goodson shared pictures of the upgrades. But we still need that new library is a government powers. We still need that new library. We're, we're, we're hopefully we need all that think you're okay I know you can do it right. Yes, sir. Yeah, more hall and connect bond project expect to get beneficial occupancy within the coming weeks. The station track is upgrade is going on. A new project upgrading the bond selling pool area will introduce with a slide presentation of needed repairs of the pool railing outdated fan core unit and replacement of the floors inside locker room and shower area. Project completion is for the fall of the semester. The committee approved two items to action items, approve a selected firm for the H back mechanical system upgrade renovation. Motion was made by trustee swing, second by trustee chambers, the roll call vote outcome, all approved. A second action item was approval of the selected firm for the Rosenwald school and principal house renovation. A second action item was made by trustee swing, second by trustee Bosnward, the roll call outcome, all approved. We all had a report from the chief information officer, so Reese Merrigan, sharing an update on just teaching initiatives. That operated excellence, develop it governments committee to prioritize standardized consolidate overseas technology growth. The Charlie framework has become has been completed and it governments council members identified. We had a report from the director for strategic communications. Miss Michelle ball. It was reported that the communication and marketing department is creating a process procedures, institutional tools for internal communication. It was also reported that an internet site for employees and students is being developed. This is to be completed by the end of the summer. Lastly, the social media sites have shown significant growth by followers. This is to report to the committee of operational excellence. Thank you. Thank you trustee Wilkins. We will now move to trustee Andy Culpepper who will provide us with the committee report on finance audit and university advancement trustee Culpepper. Thank you madam chairman. During the committee on finance audit and university advancement. March the eighth 2021 committee received updates from finance internal audit and university advancement vice chancellor for business in finance leasing the clinic. She presented information items, no action items. The information items were updates on the completed audit. fiscal year 21 general fund and trust and an all January budgets. COVID funded that ECSU has received. And a financial outlook for the fiscal year 22 general fund budget. The expenditures of the 2000. Excuse me of 1231 20 the six months in in 1231 20 were favorable at 46.9% of budget and trust in our jewelry fund balance where 27.5 million with 15 million of that. And I believe that was the best as been in a long time, even with that 15 million gift. I know it's the best as been in the last six years since I've been chairman of this committee. So we're looking good financially. She followed it officer, she needed Parker, presented information items only, which was a summary of completed reports to reports completed this quarter were financial aid operations and follow up. I just realized. Which resulting in no recommendations and purchasing process accounts payable. I'm sorry. It's completely went blank. I told you yes, I couldn't read. I had. I've been since the last meeting. I'm supposed to be able to read but I address is that sometimes it can focus focus. I'm sorry. Vice chancellor for university. Advancement and need a white excuse me I skipped it. Anyway, we had no action items from Miss Parker on the audit function. And vice chancellor for the university advancement and need a watch and providing committee with an update on fundraising fundraising progress today. Key data points that assist with quality control relationship building and help eliminate waste and update. Policies and procedures, engagement plan and that comes list. Elicitations and acceptable. Plans that dollars. I'm sorry. I printed it out. Let me see if I can read that. I'm sorry. Thank you. Miss Anderson, can you finish it for me? I can't see it. I'm sorry. No problem. We thank you. Bestie. Miss Sanders. I can't read it. I was starting with miss. Are we starting with, can, can you all see the screen? Yes. Okay. Are we starting with advancement? Yes, ma'am. Certainly. I'll be happy to share that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We have an update with an update on fundraising progress to date. Key data points that assist with quality control relationship building and help eliminate waste and update on policies and procedures and different plans and upcoming solicitations and stewardship plans. Total dollars received to date. We have a little over $1 million. fundraising goal, and 3,000 over where we were the same time this time last year. Steady trends for donor participation are reflected across various constituents. Alumni participation has increased. Leadership giving for both the foundation and the custody board are at 90% or greater. The support of other individuals and foundations is significantly with the number of supporting foundations nearly double of what it was this time last year. Recent engagement efforts were reviewed, which included evenings with the dean and planning giving presentations and upcoming plans for the annual ECSU Foundation Founder's Day Scholarship Gaila shared. Gaila will take place on March 13th and will be virtual. Currently, $80,000 has been raised for the scholarship fund. Finally, an update on upcoming solicitations and stewardship activity was given. This concludes the report of the Committee on Finance, Audit and University Advancement. And even though I cannot see, I would like to commend the entire staff for the excellent increase in the advancement area where it's beginning to roll and now we're gonna steam roll. Increase the funds that are being raised. So congratulations staff. We should all be thankful for them. Thank you. Thank you, Trustee Colpepper. And thank you for the assist from Ms. Sanders. Alrighty, we are going to move on to Trustee Paul Tynne who will provide the Committee report on regional development. Trustee Tynne. Thank you, Madam Chair. During the Committee on Regional Development, we received a progress report regarding the creation of a Board of Visitors. The bylaws have been completed and nominations are being accepted through April 15th. The regional economic summit planning meeting will be held on March 31st. Stakeholders in economic development have been invited. This meeting is intended to determine if the summit will be valuable and work on the content for an agenda. Dr. Wilkins announced the appointment of Wanda Gill, regional center director, small business and technology development center. He then shared a report on the small business and technology development center scoreboard activity, 2020 totals and year to date activity. Those categories include businesses, served, business counseling hours, capital formation created, jobs created and retained, new business starts and training events with participants. The Committee then received information from Carson Rich, special assistant to the Chancellor for External Affairs. Highlights included the Senate passed a $1.9 trillion COVID relief plan. A few changes were adopted from the original House version but ultimately funds for higher education remained untouched. Overall, the bill includes roughly 700 million for UNC system campuses, 509 million for regular higher education relief funding, plus 191 million for HBCUs slash MSIs slash SIPs, which will benefit 10 system campuses including ECSU. The bill now needs a final vote in the House due to changes but reports indicate it's not expected to be problematic. A $25 million appropriation was solidified for the U.S. Coast Guard base to repair and renovate the airport runways in Elizabeth City. At the state level, the 2021-2022 biennium is underway. The legislature has an appetite for the UNC system priorities and is very pleased with the four main pillars of the proposal. This includes overall enrollment funding, North Carolina Promise funding, building reserves and faculty staff salary raises. There is also an appetite for the UNC systems R&R funding list which includes roughly 56.2 million for ECSU projects. UNC system is not asking for a specific dollar amount to be appropriated for salary increases but rather asking that faculty and staff be treated equally to other North Carolina state employees. That includes the report for the Regional Development Committee. Thank you, trustee time. Alrighty, I will move on to provide the report on the Committee on University Governance. We had an update on the Board of Trustees goals supporting the ECSU 2020 to 25 strategic plan that was reviewed and I have a special thank you truly to our committee chairs and actually all of the trustees for indulging me. It's highly unusual to have written a strategic plan supporting the university strategic plan but the method to the madness was so that we could better evaluate ourselves and what we were doing throughout the year. So I thank you for all the work and for noting the work and also that we will reach our 100% goal of participation and fundraising which absolutely delights me to know it. Dr. Lane, Chief Human Resources Officer referenced the personnel report provided in the materials. She then presented the 2019 to 2020 diversity and inclusion report. Following that discussion, I received two calls from trustees requesting that we get the diversity numbers for management. And I've talked to Dr. Lane about that. He will provide us that information at a later date and I will share it with all of you. So I thank you trustees for requesting that information. I also, I know that we got some numbers from our provost on the diversity of our student population and we'll also provide those numbers with the same information. So thank you trustees and also staff. Vice Chancellor Goodson, General Counsel provided the legal affairs update and closed session. Also like to note that the committee approved moving our committee meeting to a full board meeting to one day and that the caveat that we agreed upon was that we'll review that decision again after we return to face-to-face meetings. And I would like to take a moment just to repeat what we've heard from so many of our committee chairs this morning. This has been, of course, an unprecedented year and it has been an amazing feat by our chancellor, the staff, the leadership team and the staff on what you've been able to accomplish under such dire circumstances.  And so I know that there is as we all appreciate a price, a personal price to your own self-care, the care of your family and you all went above and beyond. So our hope speaking on behalf of the board is that you will take a moment as we have these vaccines and we start seeing a little window that you'll start thinking about taking care of yourselves and modeling that behavior for your staff because we need to continue to move. We don't have to move at the rate we've been moving. The fire is gonna start coming down but we've got to model the long-haul sustainability approach. So I encourage you all to please take care of yourselves. And I thank you very much. And I'm gonna turn the meeting now over to our chancellor, chancellor for your report. Good morning, Chair Robinson. UNC Board of Governor David Powers, the members of the ECSU Board of Trustees, the ECSU leadership team and to everyone who has joined us today. This month is Women's History Month.  Thank you for all you do. So you may ask and some may wonder, why do we celebrate a month dedicated to women? Well, I found a quote that I think speaks very well to why we celebrate Women's History Month. We celebrate Women's History Month to remind ourselves of the accomplishments of women throughout the years to our culture and society. From science to politics is a chance to reflect on the trailblazing women who lead the way for change. We celebrate today and every day the beauty, the power and work of all women. So thank you so much women for all you do. And I'm sure the men on this call really appreciate you as well. So thank you so much. Elizabeth City State University stands today because of visionary leadership, resilient faculty and staff, dedicated alumni and donors and faithful friends of the university who dutifully served in the past and today continue to serve in ways that have had a profound impact on this region, the state and the nation. For 130 years now, ECSU has contributed to the upward mobility of graduates whose lives have been transformed by academic and social experiences provided by this great university. As you saw from presentations provided by my leadership team yesterday, ECSU was in great hands and the spring semester is off to an excellent start. I am fortunate to serve with such dedicated employees across this entire campus community. The ACE mindset is being reflected within our culture. We are all focused on accountability, commitment and excellence. Collectively, we have leveraged opportunities to join forces as a team of administrators, trustees, faculty, staff, students, alumni and supporters, all working together to keep our university advancing during these uncertain times that we are all experiencing. We are prepared for a successful SACS Reaffirmation Visit next week, March 15th through the 18th and I must thank and commend our amazing Provost Ward for your leadership in this process and thank you to the leadership team and everyone across ECSU's campus who have written a standard, provided information, assisted with technology needs, recorded videos or help in any way. I am confident that we will be well on our way to reaffirmation with SACS COC. As we are in the last quarter of our one year, our first year of our five year strategic plan, foraging our future, I look forward to sharing with the board our progress in June, which will be a complete calendar year for our first year of our strategic plan. I will have a visual that shows you the progress as my team have outlined various objectives within their reports on yesterday. A lot of energy and effort have gone into implementing the following areas of our strategic initiatives. Academic excellence, sustainable growth, institutional advancement, operational excellence and regional development. I am clear eyed in forging our future to ensure the success and sustainability of this great institution. With our strategic plan as our guide, we will be intentional and deliberate and decisions we make will continue to move our institution in the right direction. We continue to cultivate relationships with prospective advocates and supporters. Although we have experienced some challenging times over the past year, things continue to look brighter for ECSU. I wanna thank the UNC Board of Governors and the UNC System President Peter Hans and his staff in working with the campuses to come up with four major UNC budget priorities for the state budget. The first is overall enrollment funding. The second is North Carolina Promise funding. Third, building reserves and fourth, faculty staff salary increases. These are the four major asks from the UNC System that we all advocate for in seeing our university system move forward, but also seeing our faculty and staff be rewarded for their hard work. Some faculty and staff have not seen raises in two and a half years. Others have not seen it in three or more. Now is the time and we are aligned with the UNC System and the Board of Governors in support of these four priorities. As mentioned yesterday in Carson's report, the UNC System has included within the ask of the state budget for UNC that ECSU is allocated $56.2 million for infrastructure needs. At this time, there is no appetite for capital projects or new projects, but we know that our top priorities are our infrastructure needs that keep our university going forward. Things that we need fixed, things that are sometimes unseen because they may be underground like electrical issues, water pressure issues, but this funding will allow us to fix those things and not just with a band-aid approach, but a permanent fix that will last us for years to come. So we are grateful for the allocation as presented and we are hopeful that this budget will pass and we're able to secure that allocation to help ECSU be more effective and efficient but operate in a way that we are continuing to sustain this university for future generations. Last week, we hosted MC-Belt Pylon, chair of the John M. Belk Endowment Foundation, along with Scott Hamilton, president of the Golden Leaf Foundation and at MC on our campus for three hours. The leadership team highlighted our community engagement, academic excellence, experiential learning, workforce development and career readiness. We also highlighted our signature aviation program. It was clear at the end of this visit that our guests were highly impressed with what they saw and experienced in the afternoon that they spent on our campus. However, what I think was most impactful is that we were able to tell the ECSU story, where we work as an institution, where we are today and where we are going. We've come a long way and we will still be focused on continuous improvement. I thank all of you for your commitment to building this foundation that sustains ECSU for the future. Northeastern North Carolina needs Elizabeth City State University to thrive and to be successful for this region as a senior institution of higher education and a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system. I want to take a moment to announce a few accomplishments from members of my executive cabinet that I'm sure you would want to hear about. First, hot off the press. We just learned that Vice Chancellor Dr. Gary Brown has been selected as a 2021 protege by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities Millennial Leadership Institute. Please join me in giving Gary a hand. We are very proud of this prestigious opportunity for him. We also have two on my cabinet who have completed this program already as we continue to focus on professional development. We are building a pipeline for the leaders of tomorrow. And first is our provost, Dr. Farah Ward. She is in the process close to completion as part of the 2020 MLI cohort. Congratulations, Provost Ward. You have represented us quite well. And also our Chief of Staff, Derek Wilkins, finished this program in 2019. So we are delighted that he was chosen as well to be a part of this national program and the recognition that it has brought to our campus but more specifically the great deeds that this program serves across the country as they develop leaders for higher education. And we also have Vice Chancellor Allen Goodson participating in the 2021 UNC Executive Leadership Institute. And Allen will be finished with the Executive Leadership Institute sponsored by the UNC system very soon. So congratulations to V.C. Goodson as well. I want to welcome our newest member to my cabinet, Mr. Jacob Mullins. Jacob started in January. Jacob, if you will wait for everyone so they will see where you are on the video. Jacob serves as Associate AD for Compliance in our athletic department. And we are delighted to have him on our team. He brings years of experience in athletics and in compliance. And so we're happy to have him be a part of the Viking family. As we go forward, I will continue to maintain open communication lines and keep you informed of necessary topics as we are working towards shared goals by way of town halls, chancellors, communicates, ECSU news, social media outlets, phone and when we are able, when it's safe, I look forward to meeting all of you again in person. Health and safety on our campus remain our top priority as we maintain an environment that facilitates teaching, learning and working. We will continue to adhere to safety protocols wearing masks, washing hands and observing social distancing. I commend our students on how well they have responded to COVID restrictions and safety protocols while pursuing their education. And I have to thank our student body president, Jimmy Chambers, for aligning with us to create a culture of expectation where we're all holding each other accountable for doing the right thing during this pandemic. The future is very bright for ECSU. Let's work together for the good of this university, the region, state and world. Remember, a rising tide lifts all boats. Finally, I leave you with information on two upcoming events. You are invited to join us as we commemorate the founding of ECSU on Friday morning during a virtual Founders' Day Convocation at 10 a.m. Our keynote speaker will be the new city manager for the city of Elizabeth City and ECSU alumnus, Montray Freeman. Please join us also for ECSU's Founders' Day Scholarship Gala on Saturday evening. This virtual event promises to be one to remember. Thank you all for your leadership, your dedication to the success of this great institution. We are and will continue to be the mighty Vikings. Thank you so much. Ooh, thank you, Chancellor. It's just so inspiring. Thank you so much for that brilliant report. Your staff, our students, faculty, and our trustees. I mean, it's just an exciting time to be in such an unprecedented time. I'd like to call on Trustee Bunch, who's going to take us into, I'll make a motion to take us into closed session. Move that we go into closed session in accordance with North Carolina General Statute, section 143-318.11, subsection A3 to consult with our attorney in order to preserve the attorney client privilege between the attorney and ECSU. Thank you, may I have a second? Second. Thank you. Thank you, Trustee Brown. Ms. Sanders may have roll calls. Roll call, vote for closed session. Trustee Bosenworth? Yes. Trustee Brown, offer the second. Trustee Bunch, offer the motion. Trustee Culpepper? Yes. Trustee Chambers? Yes. Trustee Johnson? Yes. Trustee Robinson? Yes. Trustee Swayne? Yes. Trustee Tyne? Yes. And Trustee Wilkins? Yes. Okay. One moment as we. We can now begin. Thank you. Do we have any announcements other than looking forward to seeing everyone at our virtual scholarship gala and at our founder's convocation? Hopefully all our trustees have received that information. I think they both look to be very well attended meetings and we hope to see our trustees there. Any other announcements from trustees, staff? Well, we thank you very much for the robust meetings we've had over the course of these few days. Hope everybody continues to take care and we are so proud of the mighty Vikings. Happy to be associated with them. Just everyone have an excellent day. Without objection, we stand adjourned. So have a blessed day. Have a blessed day. Have a good day. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye.


We live in an age where everyone can be a journalist. It's changed the very definition of journalism. My advice for up-and-coming journalists is do not forget what lies at the heart of journalism. Endless curiosity and a desire for knowledge and a broad understanding of the world. What you learn has real life consequences. Countries change because of the arguments of people and what they put on paper.


on various Facebook handles of Twin Win and Inspiration School. As you can see, Dr. Sheetal Sharma, you are about to meet her in a minute. She is with the Honorable Prime Minister and many Chief Ministers and even with dignitaries from her own background. Then we can also see in the next slide that there's an India Denmark workshop on digital agriculture and Dr. Sheetal Sharma can be sitting in the benches. Next is Assar Consultation Meet, which is being held from 21st to 23rd of August 2019, which was held rather, and she can be seen here as well. And then she is a Japan Rational Awardee for Young Agricultural Researchers. So this makes this session very interesting and I know that all the students who are interested in science or even those who are not interested in science would love to meet her because as the tagline here says that there should be many heroes. So we have heard about heroes and then there are heroes who make everyone proud and she is one of them. In Indian tradition, there is a beautiful line which says Narse Narayan and I would like to tweak it a little bit and say in many contexts, in people like Dr. Sheetal Sharma, we have Narise Narayani. Getting up at 5 a.m. in the morning to go and take data from the field. Growing the crops yourself, knowing how the food comes from. These are few aspects, we never thought about initially but that's how my journey started. After MSC, there are different options that you could go for. So there are Department of Agriculture in every state which recruits people from BSE, MSC, these are called Agriculture Development Officers. It's a very good post, most of the states. But if you want to go for research, then you go for PhD, I did completed my PhD. And I think thankfully after completion of my PhD, I was interviewed by International Research Institution and recruited over here. Hello, ma'am. It's an honor to be interacting with you. So I remember this one time, I met a student of class 7th. She asked me and she said to me that I understand what engineers do. They work with softwares and all, but I don't really get what researchers do. And I'm really sure that most of the students here have this question on their mind. So if you could elaborate on your daily work obligations, it will be great. Sure. So as we say research, it's searching which is existing but searching it with the perspective that how that will be applicable in the current scenario. So my everyday routine, if you say it starts, nowadays it starts with opening the laptop and taking my position to start with. We do one session with my staff which is distributed across the globe. So I have staff right now in Myanmar, in Indonesia, in Bangladesh, sitting in Orissa, sitting in Varanasi. So we have one session where we interact and we kind of brainstorm on the research that we are doing, the experiments that we have put in the field, how they are going, what we are noticing. Is there something that we have to be concerned about? Just an example that we started an experiment on rice and there was no rain. So whether we need to include some drought tolerant varieties in those areas for the farmers because they are suffering that the rain patterns are changing. And then we brainstorm on what need to be done, what also we have to think beyond these times. Agriculture is something that will continue. You can live without cars, you can live without computers but you can't live without food. So you have to do something about it. And then I look at the, so you have to read a lot. We read a lot of research papers, journals, newspapers on what is happening. Think about it like how you can make a difference into it. How your work will help in changing something that is happening now or will happen in future. So just an example, we are working on developing varieties which can grow in high CO2 levels and under high temperatures. So that will be the scenario in future. And then we plan our research, make sure everything is happening on time. We can't do everything. So we work in a multidisciplinary team. I'm a soil scientist, I work with an agronomist, I work with an economist. So agriculture is a very broad subject but it has a lot of sub-subjects. So there are agriculture economists, there are agronomists, there are breeders, there are genetics people, there are social people who also interact with the farmers, how to take the technology to the farmers. Just developing it will not make a difference. So yeah. I'll ask one more question here that when it is said that if you want to achieve something that you have never had, you'll have to do something that you have never done. So I would like to request you to give this message to students that what kind of skills should they actually work upon to become like a scientist in a field like agriculture? So what are those essential skills? Okay, so in India scenario, the first thing is that you have to take a science subject doing plus one and plus two. Start looking for universities and institutions who offer these programs. And most of them are entrance test. There is also Indian Council for Agriculture Research, which is a main body of agriculture in India and they have institutions all over India. And even the state universities are affiliated to them. So they also put in entrance exams and you can apply and you also get scholarship for the studies. But finally, I mean, whatever subject you take, the key is hard work. It doesn't mean that you have to be very intelligent. What you need is the hard work and being persistent and having a passion for what you do. If we don't have a passion for what I am doing, I'll not be happy with what I'm doing. And if you see that you are making a difference for people like the farmers, who are at a very grassroot level, that's what encourages passion in you. So I think that's the key, hard work persistent and having a passion for what you do. One student like Ranjana who is asking a question, can you please tell what are the main subjects that are there in BSc agriculture? Okay, so BSc agriculture is a professional degree. And when you enter into agriculture, it's similar to any other. So it's more broad at that time at a BSc level. So we are taught everything that is related to agriculture, which is breeding, plant breeding, genetics, entomology, which is a study of insect and pest that affect the crop. We study agriculture economics, which is like what is the economics of producing the crop. We even study veterinary sciences because those are directly related to agriculture. We study home sciences, which are also related to agriculture. Then we have pathologist, which is the study of diseases. Agronomy, which is the study of basic crop production. Soil science, which is a study of soil, what is happening in the soil, what reactions are there? So can you list out some of the professions that students can take up in the research field or the science field after that? Okay, so there are many actually. So it's not only agriculture. After you complete your science, we have now a good score for biotech, it's growing. There's a very good scope in genetics, because of the climate change, we need new plant species. There is a very good scope in economics actually, agriculture economics, where there is a need to understand the value chain. And they have a good scope in international institutes like FAO, if you talk about World Bank and different international organizations. This is there. Even if you are doing PhD in chemistry, there is a big scope in everything that you do. So there are a lot of streams that you can choose from. There are a lot of options actually nowadays that are available and with good career scope. Exactly. Yes ma'am, thank you so much. Last but not the least, the environmentalist, I think you have on the panel. Yeah, policy making and yeah. Yeah, so I think these are some of the good scopes that you have, you know. And yeah, just I think just go for it, look at it. It's all about reading and knowing things. So be vigilant, keep your eyes, ears open and you'll find your career.


Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Scott Swift, visits your coast-gnaval base. As I travel around, the mechanism that I've found that is most useful for me and in feedback that I've received from sailors, most useful for them is all hands-call. I'm going to bring up a very taboo subject, which is maintenance and material management. Has there been any feedback from the... I feel honored because it was a direct correlation of feedback from the junior enlisted community and it's important, I feel like, to re-establish that connection and to feel like that there are people out there listening and addressing our concerns from the bottom. Admiral Swift looks forward to the future of the fleet and to again connect with his team in Yacosca. Petty Officer Brian M. Brooks, Yacosca Naval Base, Japan.


I always wanted to be a nurse. It was just part of me. And, you know, it's amazing what 60 years will do when you look back. Dr. Garfield had a vision for the School of Nursing which included being able to have nurses that were trained in the science of medicine and trained as physicians were to actualize the permanent way of practicing medicine. The whole atmosphere that was set up by Mr. Kaiser and Dr. Garfield and Mrs. Kaiser also was that this is going to be a place that we are all a family and we are going to produce the very, very best nurses. One of the things that distinguished our school from others is that the permanent physicians were part of our faculty. We all felt that the Kaiser Foundation School of Nursing gave us the foundation that we needed to be able to step in to our role as a nurse. Being the first nurse practitioner in all of California really didn't surprise me because Kaiser was always a pioneer in everything that they did and this was in 1968. We were taught to be nurse leaders from the very beginning and that really prepared me on my leadership trajectory. The environment in the school fostered that. They became nursing administrators, they became educators, psychologists, authors and they all got their education at Kaiser. I mean it's incredible. I have real strong feelings about the relationship that exists between the nursing staff and the patients and I'm talking about the human element.  They have to be caring, they have to want to be there. They have to really feel the spirit of taking care of that patient's needs. I think one of the basic skills is to look at humanity of the person, respect for the person and also listening to the patient. You've just got to maintain your integrity, your sense of being a human being. You can't lose that. If you lose that, then you become an automaton. It just doesn't work. The patient always comes first. Your patient is foremost in your job. In spite of all the computers and everything they have now don't lose the touch with the patients. Follow their feelings. Take care of yourself. Know your capacity. Being able to feed one's soul is so important to be able to continue going on with what one is doing and you can't give constantly unless you have something coming back in return. I had so much feeding me through my family. Try and maintain your equanimity and just not fall apart. I really think you need the support system. But there are some searing moments and you don't forget them. The joy of caring for my kids did do something going out in the garden. When I think about the school of nursing, the legacy of the school of nursing and I look back over my shoulder, I see it coming full circle. Building upon the foundation that came from the school of nursing, I am thrilled that the Nurse Scholars Academy is now available to help nurses actualize their educational pursuits. Through this, nurses are going to be prepared to provide the leadership roles that we need as time goes forward. Oh, it's not an eight hour job. It isn't. It's all encompassing. It gives you fulfillment in so many ways, in so many ways. I don't know, for me it was a wonderful 40 years. I have no regrets, none. I loved it. I want everybody to love nursing. And be sure you're keeping up with what's going on. Keep on reading, keep on tracking. It's a great, it's a great world. I loved it. Kaiser was a good place to be, really.