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Dr. Philip Rogers announced the launch of a listening tour during his first Board of Trustees meeting as ECU chancellor. | Photo: Cliff Hollis
Dr. Ron Mitchelson, former interim chancellor, was presented with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the highest honor awarded by the governor of North Carolina, during the ECU Board of Trustees meeting. | Photo: Cliff Hollis
The East Carolina University Board of Trustees welcomed ECU Chancellor Dr. Philip Rogers to his first meeting of the full board and its committees Thursday and Friday.
I want to say publicly that I m grateful to this board in particular for your overwhelming support during this transition and for your unwavering commitment to East Carolina University, Rogers said during his remarks to the board.
John Hart
Hyde County, N.C., farmer Demock Mann holds the auger that drilled through his leg on Feb. 27, 2019, while wife Mary-Beth Mann holds the boot worn on his injured leg. injury incidents can be prevented with safety protocols.
LaMar Grafft prefers to call what happened to Hyde County, N.C., farmer Demock Mann two years ago in his grain bin an “injury incident” rather than an accident because it could have been prevented with precautions in place.
“In the safety field, we don’t like to use the phrase ‘an accident’ because that tells you it couldn’t have been prevented. With safety protocols in place, what happened to Demock could have been prevented,” explains Grafft, associate director of the North Carolina Agromedicine Institute in Greenville.