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After serving as executive director of the East Carolina Educational Foundation (Pirate Club) since 1991, Dennis Young was promoted to associate athletics director for major giving in March, 2006, and is now responsible for the planning and execution of all major fund raising efforts to meet the department's future capital and endowment needs. Under Young's leadership, the Pirate Club raised more than $35 million in capital gifts to fund the expansion of Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, build the Murphy Center and construct the state-of-the-art Clark-LeClair Baseball Stadium. During his 15 years as executive cirector, the Pirate Club annual fund campaigns have also experienced a significant rise from $500,000 to nearly $4 million for athletic scholarships. A native of Winston-Salem, N.C., Young returned to Greenville after earning his undergraduate degree in accounting from East Carolina in 1969. Young, who became a licensed certified public accountant in 1972, worked in commercial mortgage bonding, real estate, long-term healthcare and public accounting during his previous 22 years of business experience. Young and his wife, Ellen, are the parents of two children, Chip, of Philadelphia, and Allison Baise, of Greensboro, N.C., who have made Dennis and Ellen the proud grandparents of Mallory and Tanner. |
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