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Announces 2005 Outstanding Alumni Award Recipients |
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Four alumni have been named...The
East Carolina Alumni Association has named four East Carolina
alumni as the 2005 recipients of the Outstanding Alumni Award.
The recipients include James “Jim”Cromartie ’66, Dr. Deitra
“Dee” Lowdermilk ’66, Clay Walker ’89, and Conwell S.
Worthington, II ’72.
The Outstanding Alumni Awards
ceremony will be held Friday, October 28 at 6:00 p.m. at the
Hilton Greenville. The cost is $25 per person and reservations
may be made online at PirateAlumni.com or by calling
800-ECU-GRAD.
The East Carolina Alumni Association’s
Outstanding Alumni Award recognizes alumni who have at least
five years of work experience and show outstanding and
uncommon achievement in their profession, civic affairs,
and/or politics.
 James “Jim” Cromartie is
one of America’s leading historical artists. Cromartie is
credited for introducing a style of painting called “Hard-Edge
Realism” to the art world in 1968. Cromartie painted the
official White House portrait and has been commissioned to
paint significant historical landscape portraits such as the
U.S. Capitol, Smithsonian Institute buildings and the Cape
Hatteras lighthouse. Cromartie’s rendition of the U.S. Capitol
is featured as an example of symmetry and balance in “Art
Talk,” a Time-Life art history textbook for high school
students.
 Dr. Dee Lowdermilk graduated
from East Carolina with a B.S. degree in Nursing in 1966. She
later received a M.Ed. and Ph.D. from UNC at Chapel Hill where
she works today in the School of Nursing as a clinical
professor. Certified in In-Patient Obstetrical Nursing,
Lowdermilk began her nursing career in public health nursing
and has worked in a variety of maternity and women's health
care clinical settings. She has been in nursing education
since 1970. She is co-editor of two maternity and women's
health textbooks and a leader in the North Carolina Section of
the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal
Nurses. Lowdermilk is one of North Carolina’s Great 100 RNs
for Excellence and is a Fellow in the American Academy of
Nursing.
 Clay Walker is the Senior Vice
President for PLAYERS INC, the licensing and marketing
subsidiary of the National Football League Players
Association. Under Walker’s management, the revenue generated
from sales of PLAYERS INC’s licensed merchandise has grown
from $350 million in 1994 to $750 million. Walker had the
foresight to encourage the development of licensing fantasy
football when no other sports leagues were doing so. Walker
received a B.A. in English from East Carolina University in
1989, an M.B.A. from Colorado State University, and a M.S. in
Labor Relations from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
He was named to the Advancement Council for the School of
Health and Human Performance at East Carolina University and
serves as an adjunct professor of sports management at George
Washington University. He is on the Board of Directors for the
National Council of Youth Sports and on the Board of Directors
of USA Football. Walker was recently selected by Street &
Smith’s Sports Business Journal as a recipient of the Forty
Under 40 award which honors the forty most influential people
in sports business under the age of 40 each year.
 Conwell Worthington is the
Co-President and Chairman of Cornerstone Entertainment
International, Inc. located in California. Mr. Worthington
earned a B.F.A. degree in Theatre Management and Directing and
received a Minor in Voice and Piano in 1972 from East Carolina
University. Worthington joined The Walt Disney Company in 1988
and held various leadership roles including Producer of Walt
Disney Theatrical Productions for the internationally run
musical stage shows of “Beauty and the Beast,” the producer of
the opening entertainment of National Hockey League, Mighty
Ducks shown nationally on ESPN, the MLB All-star game in
Anaheim, the Super Bowl in Florida and more than one-thousand
special events at Disneyland, Disneyworld, national tours and
Los Angeles shows. More recently, Worthington has co-directed
the critically acclaimed one-woman comedy, “Vatican II: What
the Hell Happened,” is the associate producer of “Dirty
Dancing, the stage musical” in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
and will direct a new Broadway show about the American Civil
War entitled, “Crossroads to Freedom.”
For more than
thirty-two years, Mr. Worthington has successfully worked as a
producer, director, manager and stage manager of live theatre
and special entertainment events including Broadway, National
Tours, International tours, spectacles, corporate theatre, Las
Vegas and regional theatre. |
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