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Make a Gift to Voyages of Discovery using the newly redesigned online giving website.

The Voyages of Discovery series is actively seeking corporate, foundation, community organization, and ECU campus partner sponsors for the 2024-2025 season. For more information on how your business, organization, or unit can support this valuable series, please contact THCAS Director of Alumni Relations and Outreach Ashley Harzog at clelanda18@ecu.edu.

2024-2025 Community, Foundation and Corporate Partners

The Voyages of Discovery Series is possible thanks to the following Community and Corporate Partner contributions.

Friends of Sheppard Memorial Library
Amanda Whited, Ph.D., Realtor with Keller Williams Points East
Nostalgia Newsstand

2024-2025 ECU Campus Partners

The Voyages of Discovery Series is possible thanks to the following ECU Campus Partner contributions.

Academic Library Services
College of Education
Department of English
Eutsler Lecture in Children’s Literature
Department of History
David Julian and Virginia Suther Whichard Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities
Friends of Joyner Library
Office of Innovation and Engagement

Corps of Discovery

Individual and family supporters are warmly invited to join the Corps of Discovery. These generous gifts allow us to continue to bring timely, thought-provoking, and impactful leaders to speak directly to our community, as well as secure the financial future of the series.

In 1804 President Thomas Jefferson commissioned his own Corps of Discovery, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to explore the American West. The objectives of the expedition were to study the plants, animal life, and geography, as well as learn about the native peoples and the cultures of those living in that region.

In that same spirit of exploration, the Voyages series brings to ECU speakers who help us understand more fully the world in which we live and those with whom we share it. The speakers in the Voyages series are changing the world and inspiring us to work together for a better future. The benefits of the series are not just for the university, but also for our city and our region.

Just as the Corps from the Lewis and Clark expedition shared the wonders of their discoveries and new-gained knowledge, so our own Corps of Discovery will enrich the lives of those in the region by ensuring access to the rich treasures of the Voyages series.

Corps of Discovery Program Rates

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Corps of Discovery Contributors

The Voyages of Discovery Series is possible thanks to the following Corps of Discovery contributions.

(This list is based on gifts made to the Series from January 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.
All good faith has been made to compile a list that is as complete and correct as possible.)

Royal Yacht

Ms. Harvey S. Wooten

Flagship

Anonymous

Galleon

Dr. Michelle F. Eble & Mr. Shane L. Ernst
Mrs. Meredith Spears Hinton & Mr. Hank Hinton, III
Mr. William Phillip Hodges & Mrs. Lisa Brewer Hodges
Mr. Alton Wayne Holloman & Mrs. Sherry McKee Holloman

Fly-boat

Dr. Allison S. Danell & Dr. Ryan Danell
Mr. Carolos Adrian Ochoa
Mr. Charles Edward Saunders
Mr. Matthew Howard Slate & Mrs. Kelly Mitchem Slate

Clipper

Mr. Carl Wade Davis, Jr. & Mrs. Martha L. Davis
Mrs. Judith Kirkpatrick Whichard
Mrs. Wanda Edwards Yuhas

Schooner

Mrs. Beverly Jones Cox
Mr. Neil Edward Dorsey & Mrs. Donna Morgan Dorsey
Mrs. Christine Holkan Grant

Skipjack

Dr. Alethia H. Cook
Mrs. Christine L. Danell-Tepper
Mrs. Jennifer Ann Daugherty & Mr. Michael Ezra Daugherty
Mrs. Deborah D. Diffenbaugh & Mr. Jon G. Diffenbaugh
Ms. Ashley B. Harzog & Ms. Kelsey Curtis
Mr. Mitchell Lee Hunt & Mrs. Cynthia Duffy Hunt
Dr. Derek F. Maher & Mrs. Jill Dorothy Jennings-Maher
Mr. Lee Mascarenhas & Ms. Julia Toms
Dr. Victoria Hardy McGowen & Mr. Sean Perry McGowen
Mrs. Jessica Creson Nottingham & Mr. Mark Austin Nottingham
Dr. Jean-Luc Scemama
Dr. Anne Marie Spuches
Dr. Robert J. Thompson