Elizabeth City State University
FOUNDERS DAY GALA
Recognition of Legacy
Founders Day Gala XIX
Details to come
Previous Gala Honorees
2025 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA XVIII
Frankie Bordeaux ’80
David Carroll
Dr. Peter Eley ’00
Robert Goodman ’88
Milton Hagans ’79
Melvin Norman ’77
Wendy Pierce ’01
Dr. Kuldeep Rawat
Lee Stephenson ’80
2024 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA XVII
Senator Warren Daniel
Phyllis C. Elmore ’82
Dr. Lenora Jarvis-Mackey ’66
Senator Gladys Robinson
Gwendolyn Sanders ’77
Mr. James E. Swimpson ’62
2023 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA XVI
Dr. Eyualem Abebe
Ulysses Bell, J. D. ’65
Dr. Saundra Sellars Copeland ’71
Virginia Lawrence Houston
Tony E. Lassiter ’86
Senator Bob Steinburg
2022 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA XV
Dr. Sandra Singleton Newsome ’70
Delores Locke McClain ’70
Dr. Marcus Newsome ’75
Ernest G. Murphrey
Celeste Carr Williams ’64
2021 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA XIV
Mary L. Cates ’61
Dr. Laura Walton Buffaloe ’65
Brigadier General Richard Harrison ’94
Larry Johnson, Sr. ’73 and the 1971 CIAA Championship Football Team
2020 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA XIII
Ziner Johnson Alexander ’66
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
Emmanuel D. Harris
Dr. Ali A Khan
Abdul Sm Rasheed ’71
Rear Admiral Keith Smith
Ethel Faye Gregory Sutton ’65
2019 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA XII
Billy C. Hines
Norma M. James ’88
Joyce E. Long ’54
Justina M. Long ’54
Barbara Barnes Sutton ’74
Anthony “Tony” Swain ’82
Johnnie B. Walton ’69
Biggs Cadillac Buick GMC
2018 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA XI
John Shelton Best ’70
Dr. Ronald H Blackmon
Dr. Mary Albritton Douglas ’52
LTC Tyron W Eason (ret) ’86
Andy Hartsfield
Paul A. Norman ’81
Susie Sharpless Hodges ’65
Dr. Helen H. Muldrow
Honorable Bettie J. Parker ’71
2017 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA X
Dr. Glen Bowman
Dennis Earl Leary
Dr. Richard L. Lucas, Jr.
Billie Joe Reid ’70
Estella Hall Simons ’55
2016 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA IX
(Former ECSU First Ladies)
Lula G. Thorpe
Dr. Faleese Moore-Jenkins ’66
LaVera Levels Burnim
Jacqueline Johnson Gilchrist ’72
Brenda Becton
2015 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA VIII
Gwendolyn D. Bowser ’69
Jeff Dixon
Dr. Linda Hayden
Colonel Rodney Haggins ’87
Dr. Darnell Johnson ’73
Dr. Stephanie Bailey Johnson ’74
Mary Elizabeth Sharpe ’57
Cecil Perry
Argle Whitfield ’65
2014 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA VII
Willis Langley ’70
Willie Stewart, Jr ’69
Richard Olson
Lieutenant Commander Navin L Griffin ’00
Dr. Shirley Murphy Turnage ’67
2013 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA VI
Carroll Hurdle ’66
Norris Earl Francis ’64
Mike Chandler
Elston Howell ’88
Congressman G. K. Butterfield
Commander Warren Judge ’97
Dr. Stephanie Dance-Barnes ’97
2012 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA V
Norman M. Cherry, Sr ’64
Todd W. Tilley ’95
Patricia Youngblood ’84
Bishop Kim W. Brown
Roger McLean
Mark R. Brown, Jr ’95
Dr. Lindsey L. White
Randy M. Jones ’96
Colonel Warline S. Richardson ’90
2011 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA IV
Reverend Vonner G. Horton
Colonel Thurinton W Harvell, Sr ’88
Edna Gray Randolph ’45
Philip R. Johnson
Danny and Carol Flowers
Dr. Roger Hathaway ’72
Leonard Carmichael ’72
Matthew Lewis, Jr ’64
2010 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA III
Cola Ashe
Dr. Helen Marshall Caldwell
The Honorable Melvin Daniels, Jr
Colonel Mechelle Hale ’88
Wanda Hunt McLean
Jethro Pugh ’65
Dr. Claude M. Odom
Frank H. Skidmore, Jr
Julius Walker, Jr ’67
Linwood Williams ’69
2009 ECSU FOUNDERS DAY GALA II
Dr. Charles Cherry ’63
Dr. Claudie Mackey ’65
The Honorable Annie Ward Mobley ’63
Dr. Dwayne K. Stallings
Captain Christopher E. Austin ’85
Colonel Randy Braxton Bell (ret) ’72
Captain Roosevelt R. Wright, Jr (ret) ’64
Pedro Holley, Sr ’74
Dr. Johnny L. Houston
Melvyn N. Riley ’61
Vonda Reed Riley ’65
2007 Inaugural Gala
(No recognitions)