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OVERHEARD NOTES FROM THE FIELD Your letters, comments, and a Features The women’s golf team is re- Quotables preview. pg. 5 claiming its legacy. pg. 21

AROUND THE LAKE THE COMEBACK A new digital collection of THE KNOW OF “NO,” THE GUESS OF “YES” Returning to campus? Explore Furman’s sermons and letters; the craft beer movement tak- restoring masterworks with By Kathryn Masterson ing hold in Greenville. pg. 43 Kristen Watts ’13; our On In the wake of a flood of accusations and inquiries, universities across the Quad fashion strip; the the country are soul-searching about the issue of sexual consent SHELF LIFE numbers behind Furman's between young men and women. pg. 29 What works are inspiring campus in FUmerical; three Seattle radio producer Maggie images from a recent voyage Stapleton ’08. pg. 47 for professor Janet Kwami in TRIPtych; and May Day THE ASK CLASS NOTES queens in From the Vault. By Libby Sander Where you’ve been, where pg. 6 you’re going. With Quotables Higher education is a bloated industry of privilege and pampering. from Whitney Curtis ’09, LETTER FROM Higher education is the single-most important investment a society Fran Ligler ’73, and Will THE PRESIDENT can make. Which of these is true? Peer behind one of the most piv- Lowry ’03. Up Close with Elizabeth Davis on public otal conversations universities have: between a longtime fundraiser writer George Singleton ’80; engagement. pg. 7 and a donor who has never given. pg. 35 Liberian Ambassador Debo- rah Malac ’77; and the right- THEN, NOW, NEXT hand men of House Speaker Reflections on what was John Boehner, Tommy important, is, and will be at Andrews ’09 and Will Miller Furman. pgs. 9-18 Perspective ’12. Plus, our new feature, Professor Lynne Shack- After the Aisle, which high- DISPATCH elford unpacks the para- lights two recent marriages A class on the psychology of dox of modern Southern between Kerry Ellett ’04 and SPRINGaging with professor Michelle womanhood. pg. 49 William Glenn ’07, and 2015Da- Horhota. pg. 11 vid Hottel and Katie Premo ’11. pg. 51 Q&A NOTES FROM THE COMEBACK PERSPECTIVE Q&A Former Lieutenant THE FIELD An insider’s guide to Lynne Shackelford Former South Carolina THE ASK STILL GovernorLieutenant Nick GovernorBack Nick to the future Does higher education deserve our Greenville’s surgingPoetry by Philipdeciphers Belcher modern ’82 . TheodoreTheodore ’52 on ’52. pg. 17with women’s golf craft beer movementpg. 67 Southern womanhood politics today pg. 17 pg. 21 philanthropy? pg. 35 pg. 43 pg. 49

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PERSPECTIVE COMEBACK FALL David Shi '73 Your next visit to DESIGNER on the modern marks the 50th Furman starts SHELF LIFE affliction of here Furman. RESILIENCY THE MINDFUL BUILDER This year Books that loneliness pg. 38 anniversary of desegregation at Is our next inspire physics Elizabeth Davis begins pg. 46 A wide range of events is planned, generation professor Susan Jack Dylan COMMEMORATE tough enough? as Furman’s 12th president D’Amato '77 1 including those to honor the first African pg. 32 pg. 24 FALL 2014 American student to attend and graduate pg. 44 FURMAN | from the university: Joseph Allen Vaughn CREDIT ART '68 (pictured here). You can read about 9/23/14 3:33 PM the yearlong commemoration on page 12 Credit by Teekaykay of this issue. You can also visit the website: furman.edu/50years. furman_book_v42.indd 1 9/24/14 9:51 AM CONTRIBUTORS

furman_book_v42.indd 76 Philip Belcher ’82 LETTERS TO Julia Cowart WHAT DON’T MEN AND WOMEN GET William Crooks ’14 THE EDITOR ABOUT EACH OTHER? Men don’t understand how Whitney Curtis ’09 women’s minds can jump from subject to subject during a Kate Dabbs ’09 conversation. Women don’t realize men actually can think Elizabeth Davis The fall issue was excellent. My about “nothing.” — Christina Cole. Read more Quotables Jeremy Fleming ’09 grandfather, John B. Pip- Q in Class Notes, starting on page 50. William Hale ’50 kin, was in the class of ’79 Andrew Huang ’11 (1879); my father and aunt Bill Jacobson set up a scholarship fund in Jake Kinsley ’15 his memory. (My aunt, Edith Just finished perusing this edition CORRECTIONS Janet Kwami Pipkin, also taught English at of your magazine (my husband Fran Ligler ’73 Will Lowry ’03 Greenville Woman’s College is an alumnus)—really well John Lusk Hathaway from 1918 to 1921). That is done! Thought provoking, We regret the following errors in Kathryn Masterson why I receive the magazine; I visually creative—especially our prior issue: Vince Moore don’t have any connection to drawn to the piece on your new Raenae Nay Furman. I particularly liked president. Congrats: Furman In a photograph on page 13, Danielle Nelson Mourning “Tough Enough.” When I was appears to be thriving. the subject was identified Lindsay Niedringhaus ’07 being raised in the 1940s, no Maureen Boyd correctly as former President Steve O’Neill ’82 Libby Sander one worried about the children New London, CT James C. Furman, but he is being tough enough. Also, the not Furman’s namesake, as Lynne Shackelford article about Mr. Hardy and his Bravo on the new layout and the caption stated. Furman’s Maggie Stapleton ’08 Ron Wagner ’93 medical mission was informa- formatting of the magazine! namesake is Richard Furman, tive. Finally, I read the article It looks fantastic and is full of his father. CLASS NOTES EDITOR about the new president; she great content. I am sure it is a Nell Smith seems to be very accomplished. bit more to produce and mail, On page 43, the mention of Up- I get about eight different but it is worth it. For someone country Provisions suggested PRINTING graduate school or university who was not able to make his the restaurant was open every Hickory Printing Solutions magazines. Your fall issue was 10-year reunion, I was thrilled day of the week. It is closed on certainly one of the best. to receive this. Sunday and Monday. ©Copyright Furman University 2015. Furman Uni- Ash Pipkin David Nishchwitz ’04 versity is committed to providing equal access to its On page 48, John Laney educational programs, activities, and facilities to all Raleigh, NC Saint Louis, MO otherwise qualified students without discrimination on Plyler’s class year is 1913, the basis of race, national origin, color, creed, religion, The new design of the Furman I am writing to let you know that not 1956. He was a veteran of sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other category protected by magazine is simply wonderful. I enjoyed the fall 2014 maga- World War I. applicable state or federal law. An Equal Opportunity/ The layout is more attractive, zine very much. The articles Affirmative Action employer, Furman also affirms its commitment to nondiscrimination in its employment content more appealing, and it were interesting even though I On page 63, the current posi- policies and practices. For information about the university’s compliance with the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Ti- is a top-notch periodical. I look am far removed from Furman tion of Christopher Becker ’09 tle IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, and the forward to receiving the next by years and distance. And of was misstated. He is a relation- IRS Anti-Bias Regulation, please contact the director of human resources by telephoning 864.294.3015, or edition! course it was very exciting to ship manager with MUFG. by writing to Furman University, 3300 Poinsett High- learn all about the new presi- way, Greenville, SC, 29613. For information about Sarah Adams Bainbridge ’02 Furman’s compliance with Section 504 of the Reha- Asheville,Furman NC Universitydent. | 3300I wish her Poinsett the very best!HighwayOn page| Greenville, 66, the marriage SC re29613- bilitation | furman.edu Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabil- ported between Brian Greene ities Act, contact the disability services coordinator at Beth Schonmyer ’74 864.294.2320, or by writing the address noted above. Surprise, AZ ’98 and Virginia Van Skiver SARI COHEN SARI Wallace ’98 was incorrect. FLEMING JEREMY

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OVERHEARD NOTES FROM THE FIELD Your letters, comments, and a Features The women’s golf team is re- Quotables preview. pg. 5 claiming its legacy. pg. 21

AROUND THE LAKE THE COMEBACK A new digital collection of THE KNOW OF “NO,” THE GUESS OF “YES” Returning to campus? Explore Furman’s sermons and letters; the craft beer movement tak- restoring masterworks with By Kathryn Masterson ing hold in Greenville. pg. 43 Kristen Watts ’13; our On In the wake of a flood of accusations and inquiries, universities across the Quad fashion strip; the the country are soul-searching about the issue of sexual consent SHELF LIFE numbers behind Furman's between young men and women. pg. 29 What works are inspiring campus in FUmerical; three Seattle radio producer Maggie images from a recent voyage Stapleton ’08. pg. 47 for professor Janet Kwami in TRIPtych; and May Day THE ASK CLASS NOTES queens in From the Vault. By Libby Sander Where you’ve been, where pg. 6 you’re going. With Quotables Higher education is a bloated industry of privilege and pampering. from Whitney Curtis ’09, LETTER FROM Higher education is the single-most important investment a society Fran Ligler ’73, and Will THE PRESIDENT can make. Which of these is true? Peer behind one of the most piv- Lowry ’03. Up Close with Elizabeth Davis on public otal conversations universities have: between a longtime fundraiser writer George Singleton ’80; engagement. pg. 7 and a donor who has never given. pg. 35 Liberian Ambassador Debo- rah Malac ’77; and the right- THEN, NOW, NEXT hand men of House Speaker Reflections on what was John Boehner, Tommy important, is, and will be at Andrews ’09 and Will Miller Furman. pgs. 9-18 Perspective ’12. Plus, our new feature, Professor Lynne Shack- After the Aisle, which high- DISPATCH elford unpacks the para- lights two recent marriages A class on the psychology of dox of modern Southern between Kerry Ellett ’04 and aging with professor Michelle womanhood. pg. 49 William Glenn ’07, and Da- Horhota. pg. 11 vid Hottel and Katie Premo ’11. pg. 51 Q&A Former South Carolina STILL Lieutenant Governor Nick Poetry by Philip Belcher ’82. Theodore ’52. pg. 17 pg. 67

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furman_book_v42.indd 76 Philip Belcher ’82 LETTERS TO Julia Cowart WHAT DON’T MEN AND WOMEN GET William Crooks ’14 THE EDITOR ABOUT EACH OTHER? Men don’t understand how Whitney Curtis ’09 women’s minds can jump from subject to subject during a Kate Dabbs ’09 conversation. Women don’t realize men actually can think Elizabeth Davis The fall issue was excellent. My about “nothing.” — Christina Cole. Read more Quotables Jeremy Fleming ’09 grandfather, John B. Pip- Q in Class Notes, starting on page 50. William Hale ’50 kin, was in the class of ’79 Andrew Huang ’11 (1879); my father and aunt Bill Jacobson set up a scholarship fund in Jake Kinsley ’15 his memory. (My aunt, Edith Just finished perusing this edition CORRECTIONS Janet Kwami Pipkin, also taught English at of your magazine (my husband Fran Ligler ’73 Will Lowry ’03 Greenville Woman’s College is an alumnus)—really well John Lusk Hathaway from 1918 to 1921). That is done! Thought provoking, We regret the following errors in Kathryn Masterson why I receive the magazine; I visually creative—especially our prior issue: Vince Moore don’t have any connection to drawn to the piece on your new Raenae Nay Furman. I particularly liked president. Congrats: Furman In a photograph on page 13, Danielle Nelson Mourning “Tough Enough.” When I was appears to be thriving. the subject was identified Lindsay Niedringhaus ’07 being raised in the 1940s, no Maureen Boyd correctly as former President Steve O’Neill ’82 Libby Sander one worried about the children New London, CT James C. Furman, but he is being tough enough. Also, the not Furman’s namesake, as Lynne Shackelford article about Mr. Hardy and his Bravo on the new layout and the caption stated. Furman’s Maggie Stapleton ’08 Ron Wagner ’93 medical mission was informa- formatting of the magazine! namesake is Richard Furman, tive. Finally, I read the article It looks fantastic and is full of his father. CLASS NOTES EDITOR about the new president; she great content. I am sure it is a Nell Smith seems to be very accomplished. bit more to produce and mail, On page 43, the mention of Up- I get about eight different but it is worth it. For someone country Provisions suggested PRINTING graduate school or university who was not able to make his the restaurant was open every Hickory Printing Solutions magazines. Your fall issue was 10-year reunion, I was thrilled day of the week. It is closed on certainly one of the best. to receive this. Sunday and Monday. ©Copyright Furman University 2015. Furman Uni- Ash Pipkin David Nishchwitz ’04 versity is committed to providing equal access to its On page 48, John Laney educational programs, activities, and facilities to all Raleigh, NC Saint Louis, MO otherwise qualified students without discrimination on Plyler’s class year is 1913, the basis of race, national origin, color, creed, religion, The new design of the Furman I am writing to let you know that not 1956. He was a veteran of sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other category protected by magazine is simply wonderful. I enjoyed the fall 2014 maga- World War I. applicable state or federal law. An Equal Opportunity/ The layout is more attractive, zine very much. The articles Affirmative Action employer, Furman also affirms its commitment to nondiscrimination in its employment content more appealing, and it were interesting even though I On page 63, the current posi- policies and practices. For information about the university’s compliance with the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Ti- is a top-notch periodical. I look am far removed from Furman tion of Christopher Becker ’09 tle IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, and the forward to receiving the next by years and distance. And of was misstated. He is a relation- IRS Anti-Bias Regulation, please contact the director of human resources by telephoning 864.294.3015, or edition! course it was very exciting to ship manager with MUFG. by writing to Furman University, 3300 Poinsett High- learn all about the new presi- way, Greenville, SC, 29613. For information about Sarah Adams Bainbridge ’02 Furman’s compliance with Section 504 of the Reha- Asheville, NC dent. I wish her the very best! On page 66, the marriage re- bilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabil- ported between Brian Greene ities Act, contact the disability services coordinator at Beth Schonmyer ’74 864.294.2320, or by writing the address noted above. Surprise, AZ ’98 and Virginia Van Skiver SARI COHEN SARI Wallace ’98 was incorrect. FLEMING JEREMY

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pg. 21 ASCENDANT The women's golf team is looking to its history to determine its future. That future may exceed the team's prior glories. SARI COHEN SARI JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY

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"WHEN I CONSIDER THE SPECTRUM OF MINDS AT WORK AT FURMAN, I THINK WE FALL SHORT IF WE FAIL TO CREATE AVENUES BY WHICH OUR INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL CAN BE APPLIED TO SOLVE OUR COMMON BURDENS."

my colleague and friend Nancy Accepting that public Cantor, chancellor of Rutgers engagement is a fundamental University-Newark and a role and asset the university national leader on the roles proffers, we must be commit- and obligations of universities ted to it on a meaningful level, in their communities, gave a willing to dig deep into issues keynote speech on the topic. that matter, and to examine I am proud of the faculty for them in nuanced ways, unfet- leading this discussion because tered by fads and the fears that I believe public engagement is, breed shallow thinking. indeed, an expression of hope. What you’re holding in Circling the In an era in which intellectual your hands is one manifes- currency is as vital as ever tation of this engagement. for our understanding of the Furman’s magazine is about Public Square complex forces shaping our reaching as deeply as possible Universities are at their best when economy, politics, and culture, into subjects and perspectives public engagement by univer- that advance our awareness their work shapes our common good. sities fosters solutions that and commitment to the world BY ELIZABETH DAVIS can tangibly improve the lives around us, and in the process of our communities. Perhaps demonstrating the relevancy most importantly, the commit- higher education holds in ment to our neighbors and to those discoveries. the world at large models for From hopeful responsi- our students an engagement bilities come hopeful dis- I’ve been thinking a lot about students. Your hopes have that transcends the classroom coveries—ones shaped by hope these days. In particular been a source of guidance and and provides a sense of purpose an objective, judicious, and the hope people reserve for inspiration. beyond self. compassionate response to the alma mater. It’s not altogether In March, at my inaugu- When I consider the spec- human condition, the needs different from familial hopes, ration, Furman explored the trum of minds at work at Fur- of our communities, and the those beliefs we harbor for theme of “public engagement” man—faculty and students from educational goals we have for what our university was and is, and its place within institu- the humanities to the sciences, our students. This, I believe, and our aspirations for what it tions of higher education. The business to the arts—I think we is an appropriate response to might become. Those ambi- faculty led a series of events miss the mark if we do not tap Furman’s present moment… tions have been expressed in exploring four areas of inter- the richness of their expertise, and its moments to come. F myriad ways as I’ve traveled action with the broader world insight, and dedication. We fall and met with alumni, parents, that often characterize public short if we fail to create avenues Warmly, and friends these past few engagement: research, teach- by which our intellectual capital months, and in my conversa- ing, community service, and can be applied to solve our com- tions with faculty, staff, and institutional partnerships. And mon burdens. ELEANOR TAYLOR ELEANOR PHOTO COURTESY

7 FURMAN | SPRING 2015 RESTORED These days, former chemistry major Kristen Watts ’13 is playing less with beakers and more with paint as an important member of a team charged with preserving The Triumph of David. (Watts is in the acqua shirt.)

during other restoration cam- paigns, left The Triumph of David discolored, faded, and Drawing on flaking. Watts, who is pursuing a master’s degree in chemistry Science at Villanova, joined the project as part of what she terms Chemistry major turned art restorer, the “three-legged stool” of art Kristen Watts ’13 is bringing the lab to conservation: “conservators, art historians, and scientists.” the studio. While Watts doesn’t BY ANDREW HUANG ’11 participate in the physical restoration, she does enlist an- Kristen Watts ’13, by her own alytical chemistry techniques admission, is no artistic vir- to comb paint and canvas for tuoso. “I enjoy painting,” she invaluable information that Kchuckles, “but nobody would aids the effort. Using nonde- say I’m brilliant at it.” That, structive methods (such as however, hasn’t stopped the hanging in Villanova Universi- that, it hung from the walls of X-rays and infrared images), former chemistry major from ty’s Falvey Memorial Library. Italy’s Castle Nemi. Exposure and analyzing microscopic becoming a critical contrib- Attributed to 17th-century to the elements (Castle Nemi’s cross-sections of paint, Watts utor on a team charged with artist Pietro da Cortona, the walls were damaged in World is able to determine the ele- restoring and preserving The 12x19-foot piece was given to War II), along with layers mental makeup of pigments,

ELEANOR TAYLOR ELEANOR PHOTO COURTESY Triumph of David, a painting the university in 1956. Before of varnish and paint added find evidence of pentimenti—

FURMAN | SPRING 2015 8 THEN Reflection on the Importance of Furman as It Was

In the late 1940s, the old influx of returning soldiers from campus rested cozy, majestic, World War II, who had been and green on the hill with the granted a free education through Bell Tower at the center of the monumental—and to many When the opportunity came to spend seven months activity. of us, incredible—GI Bill. All Furman was Baptist with a of a sudden, classes were filled in France performing analyses on a first-century capital “B.” We were required to with an admixture of men of all Gallo-Roman shipwreck, Watts dove in. attend chapel exercises twice a ages and backgrounds, many week, where many local Baptist ill-prepared for college. But this preachers were invited to intone mix added significantly to the their concerns to sleepy stu- richness of discussion in many alterations made to the paint- was immediate: “I fell in love dents. Four semesters of religion classes. ing during its creation—and with the field.” were required. We were all men, I was one of those unprepared even track the removal of old Watts says her passion for including the faculty, except GIs, but Furman became the varnish, which helps deter- the work, which she discusses for an occasional girl from the pivotal point in my life. With mine where specific cleaning on her blog about the proj- Greenville Woman’s College patience and understanding, the agents can be used. “You can ect (http://projects.library. who came across town to take a professors opened the world of think of it as technical art villanova.edu/paintingresto- class—much to our delight. free inquiry and gave me the history,” says Watts. ration/), stems from “intel- Our football team enter- courage not only to seek an- Watts’s work on The lectual curiosity” and a desire tained Clemson in their opening swers, but also to question those Triumph of David is not her to make these masterpieces game each year. Freshmen answers. first foray into this unusual “more dynamic.” In doing so, were required to wear a purple science. While working in she also hopes to advance her beanie with an “F” on it—all year ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sandra and John Wheeler’s part of the field to match the unless Furman beat Clemson in William (Bill) Hale ’50 analytical chemistry lab at art it’s preserving. “As part football, which was in the world became a teacher, school ad- Furman, Watts envisioned of my master’s thesis, I’m of dreams. ministrator, college professor, doing forensic science to currently working on develop- Furman was a liberal arts university executive, profes- analyze crime scene evi- ing a new [analytical] method university, but “liberal” was a soft sional speaker, and author. dence. A chance conversa- using a technique known as word in those days. Occasionally His memoir, The Village and tion, however, directed her absorption electrospray ion- one of our religion professors Beyond, was published in toward another application ization mass spectrometry,” would make a statement about 2014. of analytical chemistry: art she explains. This approach, the “fatherhood of god and the conservation. she says, has the potential to brotherhood of man” that would When the opportunity replace some of the destruc- rankle the segregated society came to spend seven months tive, but necessary, techniques surrounding us. in Grenoble, France, per- conservationists use now. In 1946, things changed forming analyses on timbers Which will likely mean radically for Furman with the excavated from a first-century more “triumphs” to come—not Gallo-Roman shipwreck, just for David or Watts, but for

Watts dove in. Her reaction art and science. F DYLANJACK ILUSTRATION PHOTO. COURTESY HATANAKA KELLEN

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Postings from the Inter-webs FUmerical Where was Facts and figures about Furman “sanctuary” for you at Furman? 500 835 Combined acreage 43 Campus acreage Furman lake acreage of Furman turf and trees

850 Number of inventoried 10.5 JAMES SCOTT MARLER: Miles 850 oak trees will trees at the core of campus I could write an article on span if laid end to end as of 2008 this! Top center study carrel with the bay window, north side of the library. Top corner seat of McAlister’s balcony in the daytime when 200,000 it’s dark. 1958 Number of leaves on Year oak trees on mall a mature, healthy oak were planted NICHOLE CARTEE: Furman Farm. Getting my hands dirty for a good cause takes me to my happy place.

MAJORPARNELLS: 60 , Barefoot, center of the Life expectancy 3600 25 Pounds of leaves an oak tree Number of year-round labyrinth of mall oaks would grow and shed over Furman staff members its 60-year lifespan who care for the KALEIGHINMEMPHIS: campus's grounds When walking around the lake as a student, I stumbled upon the little path that led 3,000 to a quiet clearing in the Cubic yards of wood chips trees, a bench, and a rock generated by Furman and engraved “Be Still and Know sent to landscapers for mulch that I Am God.” It felt like holy ground to me.

SISTERBETSY: The aesthetics of Furman’s campus are well known— the Morton Register of Arboreta, which recognized The English department both Forbes and Travel + Leisure have named it among Furman’s efforts in tree conservation, species diversity, LOUIS_MCMXCIV: “America’s Most Beautiful College Campuses”—and as well as in educational resources and events focused The computational much of that reputation has to do with its trees. The on landscapes and trees. Over the next eight to 12 years, physics lab Arbor Day Foundation has given Furman its Tree Furman aims to replace its stately mall oaks, whose life Campus USA seal of approval. Even more striking, in expectancy is nearing completion, with oaks that have a LADY_ARWEN241: 2013, the university was designated an arboretum by life expectancy of 250 years. F Children’s section in the library. Best kept secret. COURTESY PHOTO. ILUSTRATION JACK DYLANJACK ILUSTRATION PHOTO. COURTESY HATANAKA KELLEN

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her throat. “Let’s start with the variable, and inconclusive Finn article,” she begins. results. Age Appropriate The article presents a study The article, they say, is one They may be decades away from confronting on Lumosity, a company that of many that seeks to prove produces “brain training” vid- such brain games are valid, the issues they’re studying, but that isn’t eo games that claim to sharpen but more rigorous scientific stopping the students in Michelle Horhota’s declining minds. studies have shown that such psychology seminar. These games test every- games only improve a user’s thing from attention and skills in the games themselves BY LINDSAY NIEDRINGHAUS ’07 processing speed to visual and do not transfer. memory, all with the goal of In the ensuing animated improving an aging person’s discussion, the class sides with performance across a range of neuroscientists—in particular, tasks that supposedly apply to a group of 30 scientists who ichelle Horhota, hummus and pretzels along- everyday life. denounced conclusions made assistant side her notebook. Another Horhota’s students, howev- by companies like Lumosity in professor of rushes in carrying an over- er, aren’t buying it. a letter entitled “The Con- psychology, stuffed folder full of the semes- Several point out that the sensus on the Brain Training quickly scans ter’s printouts. A few minutes methodology of the study is Industry from the Scientific the classroom as she sips her later, Erin, the class’s discus- flawed, with an “atrocious Community.” One of the sig-

Mcup of tea. A student pulls out sion leader for the day, clears sample size,” lack of a control natories was Furman’s own Gil NELSON MOURNING DANIELLE

11 FURMAN | SPRING 2015 life,” says Horhota. “She never let others treat her as if she was at any disadvantage due to her age. She aged really well compared to others her age, and it inspired me to begin investigating the extent to which aging is influenced by a person’s attitude." Horhota says that, in this course, she "encourages her students to question the attributions we make about older adults and if our traditional treatment of them and their acceptance of that treatment accelerates their decline.” What Horhota and her students are wrestling with is the extent to which aging is psychological. Do our—and Lumosity’s— preconceptions about older adults lead us to treat them as dependent subjects? Additionally, if these adults accept this treatment, do they then begin to perceive themselves as less adept at handling everyday tasks? And yet by wanting to protect older adults from the marketing tactics of companies like Lumosity—stating that they are taking advantage of these adults—Horhota's students are actually agreeing with the idea that older adults “I encourage my students to question discussions. are a special class that is vul- Under her guidance, the nerable to manipulation and the attributions we make about older adults discussion leader chooses top- easily exploited. and if our traditional treatment of them ics and corresponding primary Would the students find as accelerates their decline.” articles, and the rest of the much issue with such brain class submits response papers training if it was marketed to the leader. exclusively to young adults? This semester, in addi- Still, in their desire to tion to the Lumosity debate, protect older adults, Horho- subjects have ranged from the ta’s students could be raising Einstein, William R. Kenan, Jr. "They’re also spending less stereotypes of aging adults something equally important: professor of psychology. time doing things like taking and the impact of exercise on that denying the realities of ag- “They’re playing off of the walks outside—activities prov- cognition, to the enlistment ing might also be an injustice fears of older adults,” says one en to be beneficial—in order to of companion robots in health to older adults, whose care and student. “[They’re] couching play a video game that hasn’t care. respect society overlooks at its marketing tactics in the form proven to do anything.” But why convene a class own peril. of scientific evidence. It’s Horhota structures her on one’s golden years when “I would sign Dr. Einstein’s extremely manipulative and seminar—titled “The Psychol- Horhota and her students are letter,” concludes one student. potentially harmful, as these ogy of Aging”—much like a years from facing them? “It’s frustrating just talking adults are spending their re- graduate-level course, with “My grandmother was an about it. I want to do some-

DANIELLE NELSON NELSON MOURNING DANIELLE tirement money on the games. the students leading weekly important influence in my thing about it.” F

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COURTING EXCELLENCE "Ansley is an extremely hard worker, and she is self-motivated," says Furman tennis coach Debbie Southern. "We've had a handful of players at Furman as highly ranked as Ansley, but she is the whole package."

t took a while for young around outside the area where Ansley Speaks ’17 to find all the kids were trying to kick her sport. She enjoyed the ball,” she says. “I didn’t like gymnastics, swimming, Speaks, Freely the contact. I didn’t want to be Iand basketball well enough, in that mess.” and she tolerated soccer to Ansley Speaks ’17 was invited to But at the age of eight, the extent she could avoid the Speaks was invited to a tennis tightly packed, ball-kicking a tennis birthday party at age eight. birthday party. “From the scrums that are the hallmark She hasn’t stopped since. beginning, I loved everything of youth leagues. Because even BY VINCE MOORE about [it],” she says. Ten- at a young age, Speaks under- nis was fun, challenging; it stood her personal space was required a lot of running. And more important than victory playing on a surface where at any cost. the boundary lines are clearly “It would drive my Dad marked and opponents stayed

crazy, but I would just hang on their side of the net gave FLEMING JEREMY DYLANJACK

13 FURMAN | SPRING 2015 Speaks, who grew up in Simpsonville, South Carolina, was playing in tournaments by the time she was 10, and she was among the best female players in the state when she reached high school.

her all the personal space she on the academic side, too. A NOW needed. health sciences major, Speaks Reflection on the Importance Speaks, who grew up in posted a 4.0 grade point of Furman as It Is Now Simpsonville, was playing in average both semesters of her tournaments by the time she freshman year. was 10, and she was among the How did Furman win the best female players in South recruiting battle for Speaks Carolina when she reached over schools like Florida State, Mauldin High School. In Alabama, Oklahoma State, I came into Furman with a chip as aspiring business leaders. For addition to being a high school Wake Forest, and William on my shoulder. I think it was me, I realized how afraid people All-American and leading her & Mary? It turns out coach because some people may view a my age can be to network, to ask Mauldin team to three state Southern and Furman held a place like Furman as less than an for help from people who know championships, she won four card the others couldn’t play. Ivy League school. But that chip more. state single championships Both of Speaks’s parents are on my shoulder motivated me, Maybe this is that chip on and was named South Carolina Furman graduates. Chris ’88 in my classes and when playing my shoulder again, but I feel like High School Player of the Year played quarterback for the baseball against Clemson or the now I can approach anyone—a four times. football team and Jan ’89 was University of South Carolina— potential employer, a mentor, If being a five-star recruit a member of the swim team. schools where some people don’t whomever—and say, I’m just as ranked as high as number 19 in “I didn’t want to attend a expect us to do well. competitive and motivated as the country wasn’t incentive big school, so it came down Furman is an environment the next guy. More so. enough for college coaches to to choosing between Furman where anything is possible, but What I’ve realized is that, at come calling, her academic and William & Mary,” Speaks that also means the experience Furman, growing as a whole pedigree was equally impres- says. “In the end, I just felt here comes with an always pres- person is not only expected, it’s sive. She was a national AP more at home at Furman, and ent notion to improve. People inevitable. scholar and National Honor I knew what a great academic demand the best from one Society member who ranked program the school had.” another here. ABOUT THE AUTHOR third in her graduating class at The Paladins opened their Take the Business Block Jake Kinsley ’15 is a double Mauldin. 2015 spring season in late course, which I enrolled in this major in Chinese and busi- “We’ve had a handful of January, and Speaks says she past fall. It’s a semester-long ness administration. Last players at Furman as highly would like to break into the experience that consists of two summer, he interned in the ranked as Ansley, but she ITA national rankings (which classes of two hours each—8:30 International Department was the whole package,” says feature the top 125 players in a.m. to 12:30 p.m.—every day. at Major League Baseball Furman women’s tennis coach the country), reach the NCAA You get into groups of four working on various projects Debbie Southern. tournament (both individually or five and study marketing, in finance, licensing, and Speaks played the number and as a team), and become an accounting, finance, and oper- broadcasting. The internship one position for the Paladins All-American. Southern, for ations management. You write a was divided between New her freshman year, leading the one, wouldn’t bet against that 75-page analysis of the company York and Beijing. Kinsley is team to a 9-0 league record happening. you’re given (ours was CVS), and also a catcher on the Paladin and the program to its first “Ansley is an extreme- recommend what they might baseball team and serves as Southern Conference regular ly hard worker and she is consider doing in the future. the team captain. In May, he season title since 2009. She self-motivated,” she says. That course not only will become a first-year ana- was named both the league’s “She’s a solid player who strengthened my abilities to lyst with Croft & Bender, an 2014 Freshman of the Year rarely misses and that is how work as a part of a team, but I investment banking/private and Player of the Year, and she beats people. If she con- think we were also exposed to equity firm in Atlanta. she received Furman’s Edna tinues at the rate she is going, the next level of our potential Hartness Female Athlete of she’ll be among the very best

JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY DYLANJACK the Year award. She excelled we’ve had.” F

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n the fall, Furman’s archives James’s commitment. The let- launched a digital collection ters in the collection deal with containing more than 700 the university’s early strug- letters and sermons from gles and triumphs, as well as IRichard Furman (1755–1825), father’s and son’s spiritual who was not only considered observations—some powerful the most important Baptist and some prejudicial. We've leader before the Civil War, but excerpted a few here: also credited with the de- nomination’s endorsement of education as a formal element of its program. The collection ON RELIGION: also contains 602 letters and “In a word, persons may be nine sermons from Furman’s members by profession of the son, James Clement Furman most pure and regular Church e-Pulpit (1809–1891). James, a leading on earth; attend on all the voice among secessionists, Ordinances of divine worship, The Furmans, father and son, have had joined the Furman faculty in public and private, common their sermons and letters digitized by the 1845 and later became its first and special; possess much president in 1859, serving un- knowledge; be eminent for university’s archives, giving fresh insight to til 1879. Though the university intellectual endowments, and their views and vision. closed during the Civil War, it even for spiritual gifts; be very reopened largely because of confident of their interest in

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s part of a three-year, National Science Foundation grant, assistantA professor in communications studies Janet Kwami is investigating how populations “marginalized from the global economy attempt to achieve development for themselves” OPEN MARKET through digital connectivity. The Ghanaian “market woman” and her trading activities involve the use of information technology for negotiation These three images were taken and coordination of livelihood activities. Open markets are one of the most economically dynamic and gendered by professor Kwami on one of spaces where such exchanges have socioeconomic implications. her recent research trips. HATANAKA KELLEN

15 FURMAN | SPRING 2015 the Divine favour; and be very “We are open and [we are] Deborah sits as Judge in The Southern matron ought zealous in religion—and yet positive in assigning to hu- Israeal: we do not peer into to have a well cultivated intel- be strangers to regenerating man agency, in this work, or the tent where Jael drives the lect…as the vine, which grow- grace.” service, no higher rank than nail through Sisera’s temples, ing in a dark place, stretches —Richard Furman, a ser- that of instrumentality: for nor do we visit the halls where its tendrils to the light.... Put mon before the Religious we have already seen that the Queen Elizabeth drills her forth all your power to acquire Tract Society, June 10, 1816, renovation of a sinner is the cabinet. all the valuable knowledge Charleston, South Carolina work of God. A man cannot Women’s sphere lies within which you can.” change his own heart: How the limits of private life. The —James Furman, an address ON SERVICE: then can he effect this neces- idea of a youthful female to the students of Johnson “Should any pupil…be found sary, important change in the figure in a class of medical Female Seminary, August 1850, at the end of life to have lived soul of another?” students…is almost shock- Anderson, South Carolina a useless life, and in another —Richard Furman, a ser- ing. We hope the time is far... world be adjudged to have mon before the Religious when our Demonstrators of ON JUDGMENT: been a mere cumberer of the Tract Society, June 10, 1816, anatomy shall be called on “Bear in mind that those who ground, such a pupil will griev- Charleston, South Carolina to introduce female classes are most ready to discover ously disappoint the hopes of into the dissecting-room; and the faults of others are those parents, of teachers, and of ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS: when the rights of women who have most of their own.” friends.” “[When we would study the shall be so understood that —James Furman, an address —James Furman, an address subject of female influence]… feminine forms shall be seen to the students of Johnson to the students of Johnson We do not follow Semeramis elbowing their way through Female Seminary, August Female Seminary, August 1850, to the field of victory—nor the crowds which surround 1850, Anderson, South Anderson, South Carolina do we go to the seat where the ballot-boxes. Carolina F

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BILLBOARD WOMEN UPWARD MOBILITY Esoko provides mobile phone applications for agricultural markets in Africa. Mobile phones are embedded in Ghanaian daily life. This young man sells Studying mobile phone appropriation among Ghanaian market women allows mobile phone units and mobile accessories, repairs phones, decodes phones, an examination of how such communities self-organize with digital tools. and transfers phone credits for customers in Makola market in Accra. KELLEN HATANAKA KELLEN

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arrive...and abuses, as we have Nick Theodore ’52 seen in recent years.

Former South Carolina state You served two terms as a Demo- representative, senator, and lieutenant cratic lieutenant governor under governor, and author of the recent memoir Republican Carroll Campbell. What was the trick to working Trials and Triumphs: South Carolina’s together? Evolution 1962–2014 Well, we both were BY BRENDAN TAPLEY N.T.: You began your career in the from Greenville County and I South Carolina House of Repre- understood the jurisdictions sentativesY in 1963 at age 34. Do of the office. He was the chief you remember what got you into executive of the state and I politics? was there to supplement. It didn’t mean I had to agree N.T.: I come from a Greek with all his positions. He and background, a Hellenic back- I were willing to cross [party] ground, and that always comes lines. We could not afford to let with an interest in govern- partisan politics enter into our ment. objectives and the results we wanted for our people. Was the political climate then different from now? But if, as you say, a leader gets so much done when crossing party N.T.: When I ran for the House, lines, why don’t politicians do it the attitude of the people and more today? the elected officials was very genuine. For instance, I had no N.T.: I’m not sure I have an idea the position had a finan- answer for that except for the cial compensation. Nothing fact that the parties some- compared to what they are times have a tendency to be receiving today, something like overbearing on their elected a few thousand dollars a year, officials to join their line and but that never entered my not cross it. [Former Gover- mind and I don’t think it did nor] Bob McNair said that for others. We found ourselves government in South Carolina in a more civic-responsibility would not benefit from the position. two-party system if it promoted discord and dissension. I’ve Do you think there is something never thought partisan politics in a politician’s psyche that should enter state politics prefers power over service? because you’re so close to the bodies you’re representing. N.T.: I’m always reluctant to say it’s not as good as it used to You write in your book that you be, but when you look at where were asked to change parties South Carolina was when I was before your 1994 gubernatorial in office: We were a poor state. campaign. Why didn’t you? We’re not wealthy today, but economically speaking we’re N.T.: It crossed my mind before much better than we were. I I was asked. When a member think being in a less attractive of the Republican party’s lead- economic condition and need- ership came to see me, I could ing so much reform…it’s unfor- not disagree with anything tunately true that, in politics he said—that by making this or personal living, sometimes change I would be in a position when you’re too comfortable, to be elected governor, and I complacency has a tendency to would certainly be in a better FLEMING JEREMY DYLANJACK ILLUSTRATION PHOTO. COURTESY

17 FURMAN | SPRING 2015 NEXT Reflection on the Importance of Furman Going Forward

Historians spend their time racial issues on campus. Most of looking back at the past, not all, I hope that a study on race UP AND COMING Nick Theodore with his family at the start of forward into the future. Yet a and diversity at Furman today his political career in South Carolina. recent, ongoing project of mine will produce concrete programs has pushed me to see opportuni- and changes tomorrow that ties for our alma mater’s future in would make Furman a clearer Furman’s past. reflection of our community and position to raise financial is going to give them a fair shot For the last year, I have been state in terms of race and social resources for the campaign. and not have partisan politics the co-chair of a committee class. After all, insight into past However, in the final analysis, I be the ultimate rule the voters on campus that has planned a injustice compels us to confront would still have been the same depend on. commemoration of desegrega- the legacies of those injustices. Nick Theodore serving with tion at Furman. This milestone Furman is due credit as the same ideas, and so the only So, are we getting the politicians historical event—Joseph Allen an institution willing to look reason for [the switch] would we deserve? Vaughn’s enrollment as our unblinkingly at its past. I think have been selfish. first black student—occurred the real measure of our efforts N.T.: We live in the greatest 50 years ago in January 1965. as a university, however, will be When you look at the Democrat free country in the history of The story of desegregation at whether a better understanding and Republican parties over your the world and we should take Furman in the 1950s and 60s of our institution’s past might be career, do you think they’ve that responsibility as a citizen contains some uplifting elements used constructively to address changed? very seriously. It’s obvious it and instances of Furman folks issues that still haunt us from the should not be a half-hearted showing courage and a passion earlier period. N.T.: I think they have changed vote. It should be a vote that for justice. Conversely, it is not a a great deal. I think about peo- analyzes the candidate, not proud episode for the university’s ABOUT THE AUTHOR ple like Tip O’Neill and Newt one that follows a team or leadership overall. Furman as an Steve O’Neill ’82 is a pro- Gingrich, and how Clinton party. [Candidates] should institution stood firmly within fessor in Furman’s history brought together different all be placed on an evaluating the wider culture of the white department. He is a native people. Unless we can break scale and their pasts, pres- South that valued segregation of Charleston and received down some of these barriers, ent, and potential should be and white supremacy. Vaughn’s his PhD from the University we are not going to get the looked at. Too often, voters admission was more a result of Virginia. He studies the greatest good for the greatest do “blind voting,” where they of federal pressure from the history of the South and, in number. vote straight tickets. Civil Rights Act of 1964 than a particular, the Civil Rights commitment to racial justice by movement in South Carolina. Some people would say that it’s If you could pass one reform by the university. He is also interested in public hard to make good choices if fiat, what would it be? My hope is that Furman’s memory, which is how ordi- we don’t have the best people yearlong commemoration might nary people—non-scholars— running. N.T.: I would probably want to serve as a springboard for a make sense of the past. develop a bona fide system of comprehensive examination of N.T.: Better candidates must term limitations. In political,

JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY DYLANJACK ILLUSTRATION PHOTO. COURTESY be assured that the electorate corporate, or any phase of life,

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who was placed in a peni- Act. And some of my rulings tentiary for, of all things, the in the Senate, which turned “It’s unfortunately true that, in politics promotion of cockfighting. around the so-called “bobtail” or personal living, sometimes when you’re And in spite of our progress in appropriation of funds—com- some areas, I learn too often mingling funds, skirting the too comfortable, complacency has how low our lawmakers hold law by pushing funds into a tendency to arrive.” priorities for children. In a re- different areas—which were port by the National Center on unconstitutional in my judg- Child Homelessness that ranks ment. states in child homelessness, South Carolina is 36th. A journalist recently described power has a tendency—when A lot of states have certain po- you as someone who “took his allowed to stay in office—to litical reputations: Florida, New Do you have a political role wins with humility and his losses become too self-promoting. Hampshire, Ohio. How would model? with dignity.” That said a lot you describe South Carolina’s? about you but it might also say a What about nationally—what N.T.: Dick Riley ’54 would be lot about what is missing today. do you think is the most critical N.T.: I think it has been on a a person who understands gov- issue? rollercoaster. We’ve had a lost ernment better than anyone N.T.: I certainly appreciated trust problem: 17 individu- else I’ve served with. On the that. The constituency in our N.T.: Strict partisanship. If it’s als prosecuted and only one international level, I’ve always state and nation deserves proposed by one person or one acquitted for bribery, a state admired FDR and Winston impartial and unselfish repre- party, then basically it is going treasurer who resigned from Churchill. sentation. We must continue to be opposed by the other office because of possession to strive for that ultimate goal parties. Whether it’s health care and distribution of drugs. What was your proudest political that recognizes the govern- or labor relations or social cir- A lieutenant governor who moment? ment of the self-governed is cumstances, no one person and resigned shortly after taking the finest work of the govern- no one party is always right. office for ethics violations; the N.T.: Having proposed and ment. F commissioner of agriculture, passed the Education Finance

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May Days What you may not have known, remembered, or thought possible at Furman BY JULIA COWART

May Day celebrations and crowning a May queen began in Greenville as early as 1834 with the Greenville Female Academy. May Day traditions continued after the academy closed in 1854 and the South Carolina Baptist Convention chartered the Greenville Baptist Female College (later Greenville Woman's College [GWC]). May Day celebrations at GWC in the 20th century were often based on a theme and often included a play. The earliest photograph Furman has of a May Day queen at GWC is from 1919. The one at left is from the 1930s. The May queen was elected by female students on the basis of popularity and leadership, in addition to beauty. After the merger with Furman in 1938, male students were also allowed to vote for the May queen. The May Day celebrations stopped in the 1960s. ARCHIVAL

19 FURMAN | SPRING 2015 ON THE QUAD A glimpse at Furman fashion BY WILLIAM CROOKS ’14

HAIRSTYLES “There is something different about you…. Did you get a haircut?” More than your favorite shoes, bag, or jacket, your hairstyle is with you every single moment of the day. Just as college can shift your perspective on just about everything, a quick trip to the barber or hair salon can do the same for how people perceive you visually. If you are not looking to take that big of a step, then grab a new hat or pair of glasses…just don’t get a face tattoo. Anything that frames the face makes a big difference on how people perceive you. If your new haircut doesn’t quite work out, then just remember it will grow back. College is all about experimenting anyways, right?

TEXTURES AND LAYERING Whenever winter settles in, freshmen learn, and upper- classmen are reminded, that it does actually get cold in South Carolina. Really cold sometimes. While dropping temps may make walking to an 8:30 class on a Friday morning even more unbearable, it makes for great street-style weather. Cold weather means layers and textures on top of even more layers and textures. Wool, cashmere, denim, tweed, flan- nel, corduroy, and leather all piled together create a visual depth that is only achieved once the mild temps of fall give way to frosty mornings. Your toes and fingers may be numb, but at least you look as cool as you feel. F ARCHIVAL

FURMAN | SPRING 2015 20 21 FURMAN FIELD After years ofstruggleanddisarray, Furman’s roots—and itsidentity—asapowerhouse. women’s golf program isreturning toits | SPRING 2015 Past I Notes From The JEREMYFLEMING '09 BY RON WAGNER ’93 PHOTOGRAPHY BY s Prologue

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DEMURELY DANGEROUS To many, women’s golf is inarguably the sport that defines Furman athletics and the arena where the university has achieved its greatest success as an incubator of professional talent. In addition to the players, the above photograph depicts coach Kelley Hester and assistant coach Jeff Hull.

To casual fans, the reaction truth: The sport that arguably things were going,” says Dottie Betsy King ’77 won 34 LPGA was probably one of yawning defines Furman athletics and Pepper ’87, a three-time tournaments, including six ma- satisfaction—Furman has been inarguably the sport where All-American who finished jors. Beth Daniel ’78 posted taking pride in women’s golf the university has achieved its second at the 1985 NCAA tour- 35 victories with a major of for years. But many would be greatest success has been in a nament. Pepper is one of the her own. Both are in the World surprised to learn the victory steady decline for more than a most famous former Paladins Golf Hall of Fame. was Furman’s first at the Lady decade, bottoming out with the in any arena, a well-known These women’s domi- Paladin since 2005, or that the firing of a coach and concerns golf analyst who has worked nance—earning five of the six team hadn’t won a competi- that the school wasn’t funding for The Golf Channel, Sports LPGA Tour Player of the Year tion of any sort since 2009— the sport adequately. Illustrated, NBC, and currently honors from 1989 to 1994—is also the last year it won the ESPN, after an outstanding pro one no school will likely top. Southern Conference. In fact, LEGENDS ON “THE FALL” career highlighted by 17 LPGA And Furman’s professional Furman’s last appearance at the Furman’s slide was watched Tour wins, including two ma- golf resume doesn’t end there: NCAA tournament, which from with dismay by the legendary jors; 110 top-10 finishes; and At least 17 former Paladins 1974 to 1999 it competed in 80 alumnae who formed the bed- the 1992 LPGA Player of the have competed at the sport’s percent of the time, is going on rock of the program. “I lived in Year award. Remarkably, she’s highest level, combining to win seven years and counting. All the area until 2002. I prac- only one of several highly dec- 94 times and more than $30.5 of which reveals an unsettling ticed there and I saw the way orated former Furman golfers. million.

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JACQUELINE BENDRICK ’18 ALICE CHEN ’18 MARY MCRANEY ’17

Women’s golf began at finished in the top 10 six more in 2006 with the addition of and I cried. I cried and I cried, Furman in 1972, and by 1974 times, including a heart- outstanding freshmen Kath- and I didn’t know what to do.” the Paladins were a power. breaking second in 1987. The leen Ekey and Blair Lamb The Furman administration King, Daniel, and Cindy Ferro closest thing to a constant for ’09. Then Potter stunned the scrambled to find a replace- ’76 led Furman to third- and the program was Potter, who program by announcing he ment before settling on Jen fifth-place finishes at the took over in 1983 and worked was leaving for Alabama. Suh Hanna ’98, an outstanding Association for Intercollegiate so much annual magic with a and Sarah Sturm transferred player who competed on the Athletics for Women (AIAW) limited budget that it was easy to Tuscaloosa weeks later, and Tour, but one with no coaching national tournament before to forget just how difficult it is the unraveling began. experience. In some former Sherri Turner ’79 joined the to be so good so often with so “I went [to Furman] for players’ minds, it wasn’t the fold in 1976, and they toppled little. But Furman was about to the pros that went there and best fit. Lamb andStefanie Nancy Lopez and Tulsa to cap- remember the hard way. women’s golf history there, but Kenoyer ’11, now on the ture the first and only Division Potter coached the Lady Pal- the number one reason I went Symetra Tour, captured SoCon I golf national championship adins for 18 years, leading them there left,” says Lamb, who individual titles, but the Pala- in school history. to eight NCAA tournaments backed out of her Vanderbilt dins managed only one NCAA The feat that year was all in the 1990s alone. Around the commitment to play for Potter. tournament in Hanna’s eight the more impressive consid- millennium, however, cracks “I was an incoming freshman years, in 2008. Worse, Fur- ering Furman had almost no began to show. Furman, which and I thought they’re playing man wasn’t signing the elite scholarship money and no had never missed the national a prank on us. He said ‘I’m talent it once had. In Pepper’s recruiting or travel budget. In competition more than twice in leaving,’ and I got off the phone analysis, the lack of success in the ensuing years, Furman’s a row in school history, didn’t women’s golf survived the make it past regionals for four graduations of their early straight seasons from 2000 FURMAN'S SLIDE WAS WATCHED stars—as well as coaching to 2003. Whispers began that changes from Gary Meredith reality was catching up to years WITH DISMAY BY LEGENDARY to Willie Miller to Mic Pot- of getting by on a shoestring ter—and remained a national budget. ALUMNAE. "I LIVED IN THE AREA contender. Furman found its way back UNTIL 2002. I SAW THE WAY THINGS From 1974 to 1999, the to the NCAAs in 2004 and teams played in 20 AIAW/ 2005 behind Jenny Suh; an- WERE GOING." NCAA tournaments and other big jump seemed likely —DOTTIE PEPPER '87, WHO HAS 17 LPGA TOUR VICTORIES

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TO EXPECT FURMAN TO MATCH DOLLARS WITH BEHEMOTHS LIKE ALABAMA IS UNREALISTIC, EVEN IN A SPORT LIKE WOMEN'S GOLF, AND THE FINANCIAL ARMS RACE THAT BEGAN IN THE 1990S HAS BEEN DIFFICULT ON A STORIED CLUB LIBERAL ARTS Along with her teammates, Reona Hirai ’18 is part of a promising new generation of Furman golfers. SCHOOLS. recruiting in those years was DOLLARS AND SENSE Alabama’s student paper, The athletic budgets, but the detrimental. “The players who To expect Furman to match Crimson White, at the time. school estimated it would save were there were not motivated dollars with behemoths like “To us, he was never given the $375,000–$400,000 annually and not happy,” she says. Alabama is unrealistic, even in benefits he could have been when it proposed the elimina- Ekey followed Suh and a sport like women’s golf, and given.” tion of the men’s golf team in Sturm to Alabama following the the financial arms race that Furman athletic director February of 2014 as part of an 2007 season, and in 2012, after began in the 1990s has been Gary Clark ’74, who has been effort to make up a $6.4 million Furman failed to qualify for re- particularly difficult on small on the job since 2000, admits budget deficit. It’s likely more gionals for the second season in liberal arts schools. Potter nev- the school embraced the status is spent on the women, which a row, Hanna was let go—a little er publicly blamed his leaving quo too enthusiastically. “Not is a lot to be sure, but a drop in more than a month after Potter’s on lack of resources, but some so much cuts as the budget the bucket compared to what Crimson Tide won the national of his players did. didn’t grow to keep pace with major Division I programs championship. With the talent “I think all of us figured the additional costs to compete devote to the sport. level lower than it had ever been, he’d retire [at Furman]. I don’t on a national level,” he says. Golf alumni rallied to save it was critical to make the correct think Furman ever really ap- “I do not think we had the re- the men’s program. Specifics coaching call this time. But that preciated what Mic did for the sources in place, bottom line.” weren’t released, though at wasn’t the only issue that needed girls on the golf team,” Sarah Clark says Furman does not the time of the announcement to be addressed. (Johnston) Sargent ’04 told disclose the size of specific of the elimination Clark said

25 FURMAN | SPRING 2015 Notes from the Field it would take a $9 million endowment to earn enough interest to pay for the program. That’s not as unusual as it may sound. All athletic departments rely on donations for the majority of their funding, and at a school like Furman, with a small enrollment and a small alumni base, those donations become even more important. “Alums often ask: ‘Why do you need our support? Isn’t Furman supporting the program?’ To be competitive at a high level, particularly a national level, it takes a lot of resources,” Clark says. “Furman invests a tremendous amount of money every year in the athletic department. We’re talking millions. [But] in this day and age, you cannot be successful without the passion, commitment, and investment VALENTINA ROMERO ’16 LAURA DEMARCO ’15 of your alums and friends of the program in any sport at any level.… It’s all Division I schools that find themselves in “I think with Furman’s bud- a small school to be able to “[The endowment] allows that position.” get they were thinking there compete with a larger school us to offer the full number of Kelley Hester was shocked was no way they were going because at that time none of scholarships the NCAA allows when she was fired after five to be able to hire an experi- the colleges were putting a lot us to offer,” Clark says. “In seasons by Georgia, her alma enced coach. They were largely of money into women’s athlet- addition to that, through dona- mater, a week before Hanna looking at a pool of assistant ics,” King says. tions we can enhance some was let go. She reached out coaches or people with not a lot Those times have passed, salaries, some operating bud- to Potter about the Furman of coaching experience,” says and King recognized early in gets, so that we can compete opening. Hester had started Hester, who knew Furman’s her pro career that if Furman where we need to and we can the women’s golf program accomplished players mostly by women’s golf was to remain attract the kind of coaching it at Nevada-Las Vegas and reputation. “[They] pitched in nationally relevant it needed takes to compete on that level. coached Stacy Lewis, currently so that it could even happen.” help. Exactly how much alum- [Alumni] make the difference. the second-ranked woman It wasn’t the first time. But nae have spent on the women’s Furman provides the basics, in the world, at Arkansas the question for the alumnae program over the years is not but it’s the alumni giving, and before taking the Georgia job. was: How much longer would public knowledge, but it’s safe that’s true in cross-country Coaches with those credentials they be supporting the pro- to say the amount has been and football and a number of don’t usually end up at places gram at this level? substantial. our other sports.” like Furman, but places like In King’s day, the concept King created the hugely Furman’s golf alums don’t Furman don’t usually have of an athletic scholarship successful Furman Pro-Am in mind giving. But they aren’t alumnae like King, Daniel, was a fantasy to women. Gary 1982, and before it was discon- sure they agree with the Pepper, and Cindy Davis ’84, Meredith didn’t even make tinued in 2005 the tournament school’s definition of “basics” who finished second in the 1983 the trip to Michigan to coach raised more than $2 million when it comes to sustaining a NCAA tournament and was the in the 1976 national tour- and created an endowment nationally competitive wom- president of Nike Golf until she nament because there was that pays for more than two of en’s golf program. retired in October. They, along no money to send him. This the six women’s scholarships. “Beth and Betsy and I do- with longtime benefactor Scott approach, however, made for Significant individual gifts also nated significantly back in the Timmons Hipp, came up with a lot of parity. “When I was built Furman’s REK Center for mid-90s to get the REK Center the money needed. playing it wasn’t unusual for Intercollegiate Golf. and the practice facility up,

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Ashli Price-Bunch ’97 Melissa Whitmire ’80 SoCon indivivdual (35 wins,80top10s) (34 wins,86top10s) (19 wins,110 top10s)

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| SPRING 2015 30 piece Rolling Stonepiece ------“Only a small percentage [of abuse cases] are reported,” “This issue of ‘consent’ says Nichols, “and of that percentage, a smaller percentage [will] ever to go to trial.” She cites national research is what really gets hard,” that shows false reports for rape range from two to 10 percent (although no exact figure is known), and that says Connie Carson, vice president for student life sexual assault is less about a misunderstanding between at Furman. “Colleges struggle with how do you han- two people and more about predatory behaviors. dle sexual misconduct cases, particularly the stu- One often-cited study shows only a small percent- dent-on-student cases where they know each other, age of college men commit sexual assault, but of those and they’ve been acquaintances, and perhaps they’ve who do the majority have committed multiple as- even out been out together.” saults. A study of a small group of college men in North Carson says that when most people think of sexual Dakota, however, showed nearly one-third would con- assault, they assume force must be involved. But that’s sider acting on intentions to force a woman to have sex not necessarily so. “Were they incapacitated? Or did if they thought they could get away with it (the num- they say yes to some parts of sexual touching but no to ber went down when the word “rape” was used). other parts? These are the kind of conversations we’re It’s not just professionals like Nichols who stress asked to have.” vigilance and victims’ rights. Men are speaking out, Part of Carson’s role is to respond to the govern- too. Last year, a group of male movie stars addressed ment’s increased pressure on universities to change consent in a White House public service announce- policies and laws to more precisely define consent and ment called “1 is 2 Many.” then to thoroughly apply them. California, for exam- “If she doesn’t consent, or if she can’t consent, it’s ple, now requires its public universities to have “affir- rape,” Benicio Del Toro said. Steve Carrell followed mative consent” policies, which means a “yes means with: “It’s a crime, and it’s wrong.” Daniel Craig said, “If yes” standard. The governor of New York wants a law I saw it, I wouldn’t blame her, I’d help her.” imposing the same for both public and private insti- The growing, and prominent, attention to the con- tutions. And while the difference between “no means sent debate has spawned a backlash. A small but vo- no” and “yes means yes” may seem semantic, it is any- cal group of people believes the legal rights of those thing but. accused are being trampled in the current rush for Under California’s law, for example, consent is only colleges to show they are tough on rape and in pro- consent when it is “an affirmative, unambiguous, and tecting victims. These voices come from liberal and conscious decision” by each party to engage in sexual conservative quarters alike, including 28 current activity. Some critics of the policy worry that it may be and retired professors at Harvard Law School who unrealistic and that alcohol use can cloud it. penned a Boston Globe editorial deploring the new In The New York Times last fall, Jed Rubenfeld standards at universities. They wrote that these pol- wrote an editorial in which he argued: “Consider icies violated “the most basic elements of fairness the illogical message many schools are sending their and due process [and] are overwhelmingly stacked students about drinking and having sex: that inter- against the accused.” course with someone ‘under the influence’ of alco- “I feel there is a hysteria,” says Sherry Warner- hol is always rape. Typical is this warning on a joint Seefeld, who founded a group called Families Advo- Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith website: cating for Campus Equality (FACE) after her son was ‘Agreement given while under the influence of alco- falsely accused of sexual assault while a student in hol or other drugs is not considered consent’; ‘if you North Dakota. “All a person has to do is make a state- have not consented to sexual intercourse, it is rape.’ ment or make a claim...making another set of victims Now consider that one large survey showed that should not be our objective.” around 40 percent of undergraduates, both men and With around 90 schools under investigation by women, had sex while under the influence of alcohol. the federal government for mishandling assault com- Are all these students rape victims? And what if both plaints—and the recent release of the documentary parties were under the influence? Asked this ques- Hunting Grounds, which portrays a pattern of white- tion, a Duke University dean answered, ‘Assuming washing efforts surrounding consent cases by prom- it is a male and female, it is the responsibility in the inent colleges—the discussion around sexual assault case of the male to gain consent.’ This answer shows and consent seems only to be escalating. But even with more ideology than logic.” all this attention and noise, it’s unclear if the average Melissa Nichols of the Julie Valentine Center, a college student is taking it all in. nonprofit organization in Greenville dedicated to Furman senior Anna Brown ’15, a student mem- sexual and child abuse survivors, says the idea that ber of the university’s task force on sexual assault false accusations are widespread, and that young (SHARP), says there are misunderstandings around men and their parents need to be worried, does not consent, such as whether consent is null if a woman track with what she sees in her work. has had a drop of alcohol to drink (the university’s

31 FURMAN | SPRING 2015 “I feel there and the state’s standard is incapacitation). She’s even heard a student say the university didn’t have a sex- is a hysteria. ual misconduct policy at all. “If I wasn’t involved in SHARP I probably wouldn’t know that much about All a person has to do Furman’s sexual misconduct policy or their consent policies,” she says. “There’s a lot of misinformation out there, which is sad.” is make a statement Carson believes most students understand the basics of consent, but they’re not aware of the full policy or make a claim... because they don’t think they’ll ever be in a situation involving misconduct. “Who’s going to read all that until they have an issue?” she says. “Do I think stu- making another set dents think about this every single day? No, I do not.” Jason Cassidy, Furman’s associate vice president of victims should for student life and dean of students, says he’s not surprised young people aren’t fully versed in what con- not be our objective.” sent is. “Often, these students are in situations for the first time and they don’t know how to navigate that relationship and that interaction,” he says. “Is it verbal? Is it nonverbal? Is it consent if she doesn’t say anything? There’s all kinds of confusion around consent.” Even people who are sober are nervous in situations involving the potential for sex, he says. “Add in intox- engaging in sexual activity. “You need to ask. You need ication and impaired judgment, and it becomes even to get verbal consent for everything,” he says. more cloudy.” As one of the university’s deputy Title IX coordina- tors, Cassidy is involved in hearing sexual misconduct cases. Most are complicated “he-said-she-said” cases, Cassidy says. “People agree on what happened, they just urman’s policy, updated and expanded last disagree on consent.” The cases rarely provide evidence, year, requires “effective consent.” That is sometimes witnesses, but more often just testimony. defined as something “informed, freely And memory can be impaired. “Essentially you’re being and actively given, [with] mutually under- asked to determine who is more credible,” he says. F standable words or actions that indicate Credibility has a different scale in courts than in a willingness to participate in mutually colleges. In a college proceeding, “preponderance agreed-upon sexual activity.” of evidence” is now the typical standard for finding Lack of consent doesn’t just mean “no means no,” someone guilty of sexual assault. That equates to either. The policy also spells out situations in which “more likely than not,” or greater than 50 percent. In consent cannot be assumed: when one party pays for the past, and even to this day, some universities prefer dinner or a date, or the two parties have or have had the “clear and convincing” standard, which must meet a dating relationship, or when consent was previously a 75 percent litmus. Both, of course, are different from given, or if there is silence. If someone is incapacitated guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the legal system’s due to drugs or alcohol, consent cannot be given. threshold for guilt. One of the emerging male voices on preventing college Historically, universities may not have been prepared sexual assault is Jonathan Kalin, a recent graduate of Col- to handle such difficult issues, Carson says, but now they by College who founded a group called Party with Con- are receiving more training and preparation. And for sent. He argues that popular culture suggests that men those who have been assaulted, the safety and anonym- don’t need to ask their partners for permission. “You’re ity of a campus proceeding can be much more reassuring. tough, you’re cool, you’re suave if you don’t have to ask When a sexual assault case does come in front of anything.” Kalin says there is a culture in locker rooms a university panel, however, it is a time-consuming (Kalin was Colby’s basketball captain) where rape jokes affair. Recently, Furman experienced its own sexual are okay. He doesn’t believe everyone thinks they're funny, misconduct hearing. The two parties had been drink- but that as a guy you aren’t supposed to voice any objec- ing, the man said he thought he had consent, the wom- tion to them. Kalin says he does encounter resistance or an said she didn’t give it. The investigation and hearing confusion when talking about consent. Someone will ask, involved 12 staff people, including two investigators “What are we supposed to get, a signed contract?” who hold other jobs and who each worked 60 hours At Furman, Cassidy speaks to groups of young men on the case. In the end, the male student was found about making good, low-risk choices and tells them not responsible. But Carson and Cassidy know that what they need to do to be protected when they are doesn’t tie up things neatly for either party.

FURMAN | SPRING 2015 32 Strange says that going through what he went through, he felt alone. He says he has heard from young men in all corners of the country who had a one- night stand or were accused by someone they know and feel “railroaded” by their university. “Neither side can prove they’re right, but neither side can prove the other wrong,” he says. Few men kicked out of school for sexual assault have spoken publicly on the issue. But Strange says he wants to see changes to a system that he feels was stacked against him from the start. In addition to giving media interviews, he’s talked to the Department of Education rule-making committee. “I’d like to see the process be more fair,” Strange says. “What I went through was one of the most hor- rible things, a very dark time in my life. I don’t want to see that happen to someone else. They changed my collegiate future and the course of my life forever.” The Department of Education—whose Office for Civil Rights is responsible for enforcing Title IX’s prevention of sex discrimination within educational institutions—has said that colleges and universities are responsible for providing hearings when victims do not wish to pursue charges in the legal system. The founders of Know Your IX, a national student group against campus gender-based violence, say that Title IX contains fair processes for the accused, and if colleges turned reports over to law enforcement, many students would not report their abuse at all. “Let’s encourage schools to follow Title IX rather than destroy “You never feel good when these a safety net that many survivors of abuse or assault need to stay in school,” wrote Dana Bolger and Alex- cases are over, even if you think andra Brodsky in The New York Times. Many critics of the university system—on both justice has been served,” sides of the debate—argue that colleges are ultimately only looking out for their own “brands,” and so justice Carson says. “These are young people who have had is unlikely for accuser or accused. They also argue that their lives significantly altered and changed at a time the fear of losing federal dollars that could accompany when most people are telling them it’s the time of your being found guilty of negligence by the Department of life...no matter what side of it, they’ve had a terrible Education makes universities either complicit in let- thing happen to them.” ting sexual assault crimes go unpunished or overzeal- Carson’s feelings are why some people believe sex- ous in expelling students so accused. ual assault is better handled by law enforcement in- C.D. Mock, who occupies a prominent position as stead of, or along with, higher education institutions. head wrestling coach at the University of North Caro- “I’ve seen what my son and other families go lina at Chapel Hill, has written about his son being ac- through, the unbelievable trauma of being called a rap- cused of sexual assault at the University of Tennessee ist,” says Warner-Seefeld. She and others have begun at Chattanooga. Mock’s son was kicked out of school, a to speak out against what they say is a dysfunctional decision the family is fighting. Mock says the intent of system that is weighted in favor of the person who re- his blog, which has come under fire for insensitivity, is ports and against those accused. Some have even filed to warn other young men that they are in danger. lawsuits against their institutions. “There has been a fundamental change in college Joshua Strange is a member of FACE. While a campuses all over this country,” Mock writes. “In this student at Auburn University, he was accused by an current culture of ‘hookups’ in lieu of dating, with ex-girlfriend of sexual assault and domestic violence. women being every bit as sexually aggressive as men The criminal charges were dropped but Auburn ex- on campuses, parents and young men heading to col- pelled him. On the organization’s website, he has a lege need to understand the extent of this new danger.” letter to others in his situation, saying he is willing to The Valentine Center’s Melissa Nichols, however, listen if they need to talk. believes colleges have an important role to play with

33 FURMAN | SPRING 2015 the disciplinary process and with the victim protec- “I do think there is a certain amount of social re- tions provided under Title IX, regardless of whether sponsibility to make sure the people around you are or not the victim decides to go to law enforcement. safe,” he says. “If I’m a guy and I see another guy tak- “When you have a college and you have people living ing advantage of a girl, then I absolutely have the so- in the same dorm or who are going to classes together, cial responsibility to stop that from happening. If I’m I think the college has an obligation to make sure that a girl and one of my friends is at risk, then I definitely the campus is a safe environment for someone who have the social responsibility to stop that from hap- has already been victimized [and] for other students,” pening. But then I also have a social responsibility as she says. a guy to not take advantage of a girl, or as a girl to stay The members of FACE counter that involving law as in control of the situation as I possibly can, because enforcement, though, would punish the “real” rapists I wouldn’t want to be in a situation of vulnerability.” who are predators targeting women, not those young What’s interesting is that education—the very men who thought they had consent and who see the purpose of universities—appears to be the most cited accusations as next-day regret. To Warner-Seefeld, answer by people considering how to create effective who believes both young men and women need to be change. Training people to look out for one another— taught how to better navigate sexual relationships, to become “active bystanders”—has gained particular it seems crazy that if each is equally intoxicated, it is momentum with activists. Bystander intervention is the man who holds all of the responsibility. “I see it as based on the belief that we have a collective respon- an American issue, and we all have a stake in getting sibility to care about those around us and to intervene this right.” when someone is in trouble or entering a situation where consent seems iffy. Bystander intervention instruction “gives stu- s passionately as people are debating dents the tools to recognize potentially dangerous the issue, they are also working hard situations,” says Brown. She believes such programs to find short- and long-term solutions. may have the best likelihood of reducing assaults on They range in philosophy and scale: campuses today. “If you’re at a party and you see a rel- A eliminating the Greek system; encour- atively sober guy hitting on an incredibly intoxicated aging sororities to hold their own par- woman, it gives you the tools to know how to intervene ties; wearing a fingernail polish that when swirled in in that situation, so that something wouldn’t happen.” a drink can indicate the presence of a date rape drug; Nichols sees potential in bystander education shift- letting women carry guns on campus; and employing ing people’s perceptions about our responsibilities an anti-rape device known as RapeX, which is a female to one another. “Some of that effort really is chang- condom with teeth lining the inside. ing this culture, so people understand this is not just Anna Brown, the Furman student, says the solution somebody else’s business, it’s a community problem. If isn’t to tell women to stay inside or where they shouldn’t it looks like something is occurring without someone’s go. Instead, the focus needs to be more on teaching men consent, then you need to step in as you would with what not to do. “I think more of it is about respect and any other crime.” respecting people’s boundaries, and that goes hand in Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, hand with defining consent,” she says. wrote in an essay in The New Republic that higher edu- Some individuals say they won’t ever get close to cation’s response to the sexual assault question should that line where consent can be misunderstood. Nick be measured not on short-term responses to cases in Rossano ’16, a Furman junior, says religious and per- the media but on the long-term, lasting changes that sonal reasons keep him from drinking and participat- occur. ing in the college party culture, although many of his Furman’s Carson agrees. As higher education and friends do. society at large wrestle with this problem, the hope is “I can’t imagine I would ever put myself in a situa- that something good and lasting will come out of it. tion where consent is up in the air,” says Rossano, who “The bright star of this is the hope that the college remembers his older brother telling him before he got students’ culture will change, and that how people to college about someone he knew at Furman who was talk to each other, who want to be intimate, changes,” accused of sexual assault after a night of drinking. “I she says. “Can we change human behavior and can we try to live my life where I know the consequences of raise a generation of people where this doesn’t be- my actions in advance...and getting myself in situa- come an issue? If we can educate students about how tions where alcohol is affecting my decision-making...I to navigate these conversations and relationships, and would want to have the foresight to just avoid [those do that better than other generations, that would be a situations] completely.” great service.” F Taking personal and social responsibility in these types of situations is important, Rossano says, a belief Kathryn Masterson is a Chicago-based writer and for- he knows could open himself up to criticism from peers. mer reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education.

FURMAN | SPRING 2015 34 35 FURMAN Which ofthese istrue?Behind oneofthemostpivotal, and misunderstood, conversations universities have. Higher education isa bloated, pampered industry | SPRING 2015 of privilege. Higher education isthesingle-most important investment asocietycan make. Photography byJohn Lusk Hathaway The Ask By Libby Sander

ART CREDIT ART CREDIT J recent reportby theUrban Institute. cent more charities in 2012 than in 2002, according to a The InternalRevenue Service registered nearly30per more difficulttocompete fordonors’moneyand loyalty: muster upalltheenthusiasm ofspam.Itisalsogenerally for whomphonecalls, e-mail,andmailedsolicitations andyoungest cohortofalums—theMillennials— biggest teams arescratchingtheirheadsover how toreachthe ber ofvery wealthy people.Meanwhile, development rely moreheavily thantheywouldlike onasmallnum from a shrinkingpoolof donors, forcing many to colleges have plummeted sincethe1990s. Most donationscome like Carswell. Annualgivingratesatmost institutions says. “You have tobealittle bitofagambler.” sitting down withsomeoneyou’ve never met before,” she thropy is thatthereissomeriskinmakingcalland can alsotake years. away: Althoughsometimes thatprocesstakes hours, it timing isright,thegiftwillusuallyfollow. Butnot right ple topartwiththeirmoney. Ifshesucceeds, andifthe tions, andtrytoget attheroot ofwhatmotivates peo principal gifts, shesays, ques istolisten well,askgood she insists, is not what she does. Her job as director of the power ofpersonalrelationships. Askingformoney, by anardentcommitmenttoFurman, philanthropy, and brown eyes, Carswell motors through herdays driven andthen,threeyearsago,agement, toFurman. relations atVanderbilt’s OwenGraduate School ofMan a positionasassociatedeanofdevelopment andalumni of MiddleTennessee. Intime,thatvolunteer workledto sity, theWomen’s Fund oftheCommunityFoundation health center, achildren’s hospitalatVanderbilt Univer cades raisingmoneyforcharitablecauses:alocalmental Instead, shehasspentthebetter partofthepast threede hoping—as many dointhistown—to make itasasinger. and 2003, respectively. ney: closer tohomeandvery earlyintheirphilanthropicjour was onamuchdifferenterrand,preparingtovisitcouple New York, orChicago. Yet onarecentwintermorning,she with them.Her travels take hertocitieslike Houston, $100,000 ormore,andcarefullycultivatesrelationships who are capable of makingcharitablegiftsto Furman of by magnolias, large Carswell, who is 54, identifies people These areinterestingfundraisers timesforcollege “One of the things I love about the business of philan Effusive and warm, withshortblondhairandlively Carswell cametoNashville morethan30yearsago, From herhomeofficeina statelybrickhouseshaded James and Sara Burnett Granberry Furman life.” in whatshecalls“ahuntfornew Morgan Carswell ’82isengaged the Tennessee governor, Tricia musicstars, actors, and country of gated homesbelongingto inaramblingdistrict Nashville, honky-tonk clubsofdowntown ust afewmilessouthofthe , class of 2004 , class of 2004 ------

research program, study away. arship fundforstudents indirestraits, asummercancer schol - central toaliberalartseducation: anemergency ofprogramsthatareincreasingly also fundsawiderange pay foroperatingexpenses andannualscholarships. It that collectively form a significant pool of money—helps trast—those individualdonations of$25, $100, or $500 scholarships andprofessorships. Annualgiving,by con- allocated: tonewfacilities, forexample,orendowed lar amounts, theircontributionsareoftenspecifically philanthropic donationsintermsofsheerdol colleges’ contributions helptoadvancethecollege’s mission. that fosters relationshipswithalumniandothers whose Nowadays, most institutions have a development team have longbenefittedofwealthy fromthelargesse donors. across most campuses to know college that institutions All ofthebuildingssprinkled ittakes isaquickinventory Why haven’t yougiven? question she wants to ask, too: Ten years have passed. there, youbecomepartofit.For life. Furman is:It’s abigfamily, shesays, andwhenyouenroll gratitude, forsure,butalsoaboutfamily. That’s what for bringingthemtogether. Soshe’lltalktothemabout Carswell suspectstheyfeelgratefultotheuniversity about how best tostart. Sincethecouplemet atFurman, a gift. And the timing has to be right. So she’s thought has tohave both theabilityandinclinationtomake guesses, inthisfast-changing businessisgood city. withanotherfew yearsago Furman alum.Sofar, Carswell James co-foundedarealestate investment businessa a pleasant part of town with their two young daughters. graduate school at Vanderbilt. They live in a new house in She knows theGranberrysmet atFurman. Theywentto man. As with any visit, Carswell has done her homework. out—but in timetheycouldbe devoted supportersofFur on the other side of town. They’re young and just starting thing andnothing. the company ofanalum,shesays, talkingaboutevery longing, and trust. Nothing beats a couple hours spent in ships andinspiredby timelessconcepts ofgratitude,be at itsheart,anold-fashionedbusinessbuiltonrelation spun outofcontrol. donors have come to believe that the cost has of college in mind,many parents, makers, policy andeven some for theclassof2013 was $27,511.) Withthesenumbers Project onStudent Debt. (At Furman, the average debt of $28,400 in federal and privateloans, according to the two-thirds ofseniorsgraduatedwithanationalaverage $56,000.) Debt loadshave risen,too. In2013, morethan tion, fees, room, and board this academic year is just over climbed steadily forthepast fewyears. (At Furman, tui- inclined—to donate.Tuitionatmost institutions has to have madeMillennialslessable—andpossibly While major donors still form the backbone of most In themeantime,risingcostappears ofcollege That’s thepitchshewants todeliver. Butthere’s a sofar,Doing homeworkonlygoes however. Aperson That’s whatCarswell hopestodowiththeyoungcouple Still, practitionerslike Carswell say fundraisingis, FURMAN | SPRING 2015 36 - - - - -

THE FUNDRAISER Tricia Carswell ’82 works from her home in Nashville to uncover what she calls “new Furman life.”

These programs, however, can be expensive, which then like most colleges and universities we started to begs a question: Does the perception of spiraling costs drift,” says Gatchell. “Now we’re around 30 percent.” in higher education stem from the very expectations the Despite the recent decline in annual giving participa- public has for what that education should provide? Not tion, the signs are there that Furman alumni are indeed just academics, but also sports, cutting-edge facilities, generous, and still feel connected to the institution: The counseling support services, and extracurricular activ- university’s most recent fundraising campaign, which ities. Of course, fulfilling these expectations also helps ended in 2013, tallied $406 million, and 78 percent of make universities like Furman more competitive in at- alumni participated. But reimagining Furman’s ap- tracting students. proach to annual giving—how to connect with the uni- Mike Gatchell, a 1991 Furman graduate and the university’s alumni, make the case for that $50 or $500 gift, versity’s vice president for development, says that Fur- and explain exactly where that money goes—“is the chal- man, like many of its peers, hasn’t done a good enough lenge of the day,” says Gatchell. job articulating for alumni just how vital annual dona- For starters, Furman’s postcard-perfect campus can tions are in keeping those services intact—and making actually be an impediment. So can announcements up the difference between the true cost and what stu- about wealthy donors making eye-popping gifts. “You dents actually pay. “Every year, in addition to salaries walk around this place, and you say, ‘My goodness, this and utility bills, the university’s budget covers things place doesn’t need money!’ And when we’re fortunate like research, community service projects, and lots of enough to have a donor contribute $1 million, we want need-based scholarships,” Gatchell says. “Most people to celebrate it,” he says. “But there are people who are don’t realize that net tuition and fees cover around 70 turned off by that. It’s really a double-edged sword.” percent of the total cost of the student experience.” Those undercurrents appear to be felt most acutely What’s more, he adds, 87 percent of Furman students among the youngest alumni, he says, who are graduat- receive some kind of financial aid. This is a major ex- ing college to confront a much different financial reali- pense for the institution; at present, only a fraction of ty than their parents or grandparents. “Fifty percent of that financial aid is funded by annual gifts or endowed our alumni finished in the last 20 years or so,” he says. “A scholarships. Increased annual giving, whether to oper- lot of these students are leaving with debt. We recognize ations or specifically to scholarships, will allow greater how that changes the conversation.” flexibility in controlling tuition increases. It’s a dynamic that is familiar to many colleges. Fur- In the early 2000s, more than 50 percent of Furman’s man officials aren’t alone in their apprehension over how alumni made a gift each year to the annual fund. “And to explain the vital role of annual giving—particularly to

37 FURMAN | SPRING 2015 THE PROSPECTIVE DONORS James and Sara Granberry, class of 2004 and 2003, are among the next generation of philanthropists deciding how and where to give. young alumni staring down years of monthly payments says, young alumni will absorb a different message. to retire their debts. “It’s very easy for people to look at major gifts, and “It’s very difficult for the development officer to say, look at the names on buildings, and say, ‘They just gave ‘We understand you’re having to make these payments, $20 million. What does my $20 mean in that kind of but we’d also like you to make a modest gift to the annual context?’” fund,’” says John Lippincott, president of the Council for Explaining the complexities of annual giving and tu- Advancement and Support of Education, a Washington, ition-driven revenue streams can be a tall order. Even D.C.-based association for develop- harder is deciphering the intangibles ment and advancement officials. But of how and why people give. Much of avoiding the issue now could have it comes down to community, experts consequences later, he adds. “If we Does the public perception say. Where do people feel as though lose those young graduates in the they belong? In the Greatest Gener- early years, it’s very hard to bring of spiraling college costs stem ation, philanthropic giving by people them back later once that debt load from the very expectations who came of age during the Depres- has been settled.” sion and World War II was tightly Demographics are indeed driv- the public has for what that linked to community. They gave ing much of what fundraisers are education should provide? generously out of civic duty to reli- focused on right now, says Robert gious charities and also to schools. Sharpe, Jr., president and chairman This generation viewed education as of Sharpe Group, in Memphis, who a privilege, not a right: College, after advises nonprofits and colleges on all, was financially out of reach for fundraising matters. Two big age cohorts are working many until the 1944 GI Bill swung open the campus gates their way through the alumni ranks: the Baby Boomers to millions of veterans and, in doing so, helped to create and the Millennials. The Baby Boomers are entering the modern middle class. their prime giving years, when charitable gift annuities Now, for young alumni in particular, views on educa- and bequests come into play. But the Millennials are at tion are more complicated, and community has taken on the opposite end of the spectrum. This early on, their a much different shape. It’s more likely to be “everybody ability to give generously is limited. But engaging them across the country I’ve ever known,” says Brian Kish, is critical. That’s why fundraisers need to avoid glossing a former senior vice president of development at the over the fact that small gifts do matter; otherwise, Sharpe University of Arizona Foundation who recently became

FURMAN | SPRING 2015 38 THE CALCULUS OF GIVING The Granberrys have two children whose educations, they say, may not leave much for “gratitude-inspired” giving.

president of the Emeril Lagasse Foundation in New Or- and Sara, who sit next to each other on a tall-backed leans. “I’m interested in what’s going on in Africa, and beige sofa. what’s going on in Tibet, and in Virginia where my friend Upstairs, the couple’s two young daughters, Kate, who lives. It’s not just what’s happening on my street corner. is almost 3, and Eleanor, 10 months, have been tucked The neighborhood is gone.” in early for the night. Sara, 34, smartly dressed in slim Even if Kish’s argument is true, says Gatchell, it only jeans, heels, and a rust-colored cardigan, looks with be- reinforces the value of robust support for universities. musement at a digital baby monitor, which clearly shows “How can we expect to have mean- a wide-awake Eleanor clutching the ingful impact anywhere in the world edge of her crib, peering over the rail. if we aren’t effectively educating Molly ambles about, repeatedly of- those who seek to make that impact? “So, when we ended our fering up a plush toy before James, It all starts with education. Educa- 33, shoos her into a nearby room. tion is the cause that makes all other conversation last time, For a half hour, the three chat causes possible.” you had been giving about how James and Sara met through mutual friends at Furman, more thought to your and how they both came to live in philanthropic bent...” Nashville together. They married On an early December evening, with in 2006; in 2009, James enrolled at Christmas lights twinkling as the Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School mercury dips into the 30s, Carswell of Management while Sara, a speech pulls into the quiet cul-de-sac where pathologist, supported them. In 2011, the Granberrys have built their new home. Just a couple James and Justin Albright ’06 founded OakPoint Real minutes past 7:30, bearing a package of chocolate cookies Estate, an investment and advisory firm. Last year, the with peppermint icing, she steps up to their front door. couple built this house on a newly developed block adja- Molly, a seven-year-old goldendoodle, is quick to cent to an older neighborhood. greet her. “Our firstborn,” James Granberry jokes, ush- Then Carswell gets down to business. “So, when we ering Carswell in and accepting the sweets. After a few ended our conversation last time, you had been giving minutes of bustling around the kitchen, fetching coffee more and more thought to your philanthropic bent—not and talking of upcoming holiday plans, the three settle in only to Furman, but in general,” she says. “If you would for a chat: Carswell in a red armchair across from James indulge me, I would love to hear that process. As a young

39 FURMAN | SPRING 2015 FAITH-BASED And yet, even in lean times, the Granberrys say they are called to give. couple clearly doing better and better and better, and ex- the gratitude rationale quite so easily. He is well aware pecting to continue to have resources to give, how do you of how his life thus far—growing up in Dallas, attending make those decisions?” Furman, building a business in Nashville—was also made Silence. Sara and James look at one another. Finally, possible by the hard work of his parents and grandpar- James says, “Well, it’s December 31st—” ents. So he feels responsible for allocating precious re- The quip about the end of the tax year breaks the ice: sources wisely. In his mind, that means giving to those All three laugh. “You know what, that’s how some people organizations that truly need help. who have millions to give actually make their decisions,” “A lot of our conversations are around need. What are Carswell says. “Kind of like the lawyer is the last one to the greatest needs out there that we’re connected to? have a will. There’s no right or wrong answer here. You’re Where is the greatest impact per dollar of investment?” probably way ahead of a lot of people.” he says to Carswell. “We’re not at a point where we’re in- She turns the conversation back. “Who goes first?” dependently wealthy. And so we’re not able to give mil- “It’s a tough thing,” James says. “We definitely feel lions and millions of dollars to these various causes.” called to give. That’s non-negotiable.” “Few people can!” Carswell exclaims. “Where does that come from?” Carswell asks. “Obviously,” James says. But given their limited re- “It’s a faith thing,” Sara says. Both she and James be- sources, he explains, he and Sara have to feel confident lieve in the Christian concepts of tithing and charitable that their donations are going to make an impact. Take giving, setting aside a modest share of their annual income their older daughter’s preschool, he says. Run by a local to various causes. For years, they have been loyal support- church on a modest budget, he says they look at the pro- ers of Mere Christianity Forum, a religious organization gram’s budget and know that their gift goes a long way. at Furman that James helped to found in 2002 and for “For us, there’s nothing like impact,” he says. which he served a stint as co-interim director after gradu- Giving to Furman does have impact, Carswell assures ating. “Even during lean times, we felt called to give.” him. “At 35,000 alums, if everybody joins the family and “So it comes out of gratitude,” Carswell says. helps, Furman moves forward very quickly.” In her many conversations with donors, Carswell of- She explains that she went through a lengthy period ten focuses on a few broad themes that cut to the emo- when Furman wasn’t on her list, either. “I didn’t give for tional core of what motivates a person to give. Gratitude years. Number one, nobody asked,” she says. “I get that is a key driver for many people, she finds. So is the notion Furman hasn’t done a really good job about asking.” of a continuum of people whose generosity, over time, James nods. “It’s funny. Sara and I were talking about, makes an institution truly great. But James isn’t sold on ‘Why haven’t we given to Furman—’”

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ART CREDIT ART CREDIT nancial security. That’s allvery newtous,” James says. conclusiontothem. a foregone swell’s confidencethattheywoulddowellseems hardly Despite thetrappingsofacomfortable, stable life,Car comes withnoregularpaychecks andnoguarantees. adult lives, andJames’s lineofwork,while promising, say. Theeconomy hasbeenupanddown fortheirentire impact. Eitherway, thedecision won’t comelightly, they directed to institutions where they make an immediate a gift purely in thanks—or whether donations are best onthequestionleft, theylingered ofwhether tomake is reallynot aboutneed,butgratitude. thinking, shemuses, persuadingthemthatphilanthropy money. Maybe Itookthemtoadifferentplaceintheir herself. Buttheirsensewas thatFurman didn’t needthe Their tiestoFurman areobviously strong, shethinksto poseful focusonhow best toparcelouttheirmoney. she says. “It’s not aninvestment. It’s agift.” about whatitdoestoyoursoulthantheimpacthas,” level—$50 or$5million—it’s always tobemore going I give $500ayear, how tohave isthatgoing arealimpact?” Sara says, ticking off thelist. good things.”“And they’re all ever set foot in,andevery organizationunderthesun,” Furman. “And fromhereonout,every schoolourkids their highschools. Her departmentatVanderbilt. Owen. Education isthecause thatmakes allothercauses possible.” in theworld ifwearen’t effectively educating those who seek “We’re atthevery earlystageoffeelingany sortof fi The Granberryskept thinking,too. AfterCarswell “I know they willgive,” sheconcludes. Afterward, Carswell isstruck by thecouple’s pur Carswell pauses, andspeakssoftly. “All giving,atany Furman, James notes, hascloseto$1billioninassets. “If There aresomany worthy causes, theysay: Both of “It’s agreatquestion fory’all,” Carswell cutsin. to make thatimpact?”says Mike Gatchell, Furman’s vice Carswell, whocametoNashville singer, tobeacountry saysgenerosity overtimebymanyiswhatmakes anyinstitutiongreat. “How can weexpect to havemeaningful impactanywhere president for

development. “It allstarts witheducation. THE LONGGAME - - - reporter living inWashington, D.C. Libby Sanderis a writer and erstwhile higher education to give. for asmany yearsas they areable,have decided man education—have stuck withthem.Thisyear, and picture—along withgratitude, andtheimpactofaFur either category, butCarswell’s wordsaboutthebigger the Christian faith.Furman doesn’t quitefallneatlyinto causes that speakto them most, and onesgroundedin written note. For theGranberrys, it’s still theneediest forward tokeepand going itsbroaderneedsinmind. to take thatnext step inrejoiningtheFurman family— have forgratitude-inspiredgiving. looming, hewondershow muchroomtheirbudgetwill over thenext twodecades. Withthosekindsofnumbers like it—wouldor acollege requireupwards of$3million for privateschool,andthensendingthemtoFurman, child. If they do, the cost of raising three kids—paying culations. Maybe heandSaradecidetohave onemore liabilities.” Earlierthatday, hemadesomequickcal tution afewmoremillioneachyearmadesense. 35,000 alumnieachcontributing$100togive theinsti giving, resonatedwiththem.Her simpleexplanationof for financialflexibility, andtheimportance ofannual anything to.” goes amountsofdollars,huge andIdon’t reallyknow what Sara says. “Itjust almost feelslike ablackhole—allthese number talkingabout the budget orcosthuge of tuition,” sort offiguresurroundingauniversity, it’s always some youhearanumber,institution inneed.“Whenever any A fewdays later, Carswell mails themashorthand But they acknowledge that Carswell came to ask them Still, James worriesaboutwhathecalls“unfunded But Carswell’s remarksabouttheuniversity’s need They alsostill aren’t sureFurman fitsthebillofan F FURMAN

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The Comeback

New Bottles, Old Values COMING BACK TO GREENVILLE? WE TAKE A TOUR OF THE CITY’S CRAFT BEER MOVEMENT AND FIND SOMETHING THAT CAN’T BE BOTTLED AT ALL.

BY LINDSAY NIEDRINGHAUS ’07

It’s really not about the beer. Though they’ll never admit that. They’ll say it’s about the citrus notes or the malty backbone, the grain roast or the smooth finish, the pumpkin and coffee stouts in the winter and IPAs and saisons in the spring. When beers are served to them in stemmed glasses, they’ll swirl and sniff, commenting on the head and consis- tency. And when they take a sip and breathe out slowly, all will be right in the world. But something else is happening when the beer hits their lips—something besides tasting the hops or feeling the effervescence. Life slows down. JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY

43 FURMAN | SPRING 2015 n 2007, South Carolina brewers, led by Jaime Tenny, co-owner of Coast Brewing in INorth Charleston and president of the South Carolina Brewers Association, lobbied for a law that would allow brewers to create their beers with a higher alcohol content than five percent. They won, raising the maximum alcohol content to 17 percent, and craft beer explod- ed in South Carolina. Then, in May 2014, the state passed another law that allowed breweries to serve food on-site and lifted the cap on the quantity of beer produced. The hope was that this would encourage THE NEXT GENERATION the growth of South Carolina’s Furman alumnus Edward Westbrook is on the vanguard of creating beers craft breweries and attract out- that push the definition of what beer can be. of-state breweries into the state. It worked. What the laws also did was ther-in-law and Okupinski’s “Everything was closed— “It’s almost assumed that allow for a new experience to dad contributed to the con- even the grocery store—but foodies are also going to love be born. One in which over- struction of the space, made we were open. And we were good beer and wine,” says Ok- 21-somethings put down their from 100-year-old wood that slammed! Everybody in North upinski. “The two go hand in phones for a few hours to catch came from a mill in Anderson Main just walked over to the hand.” up, where co-workers laughed County. With family being such store. I think they were excited Food trucks have popped up about the day’s annoyances, a central part of their lives, they to have a diversion from sitting all over Greenville in the past and friends learned something always envisioned that the Tap in their houses all day. I have few years, and some of the favor- about each other. would be family-friendly. never seen so many dogs and ites park at the Tap regularly. Pa- This was the experience that On a nice afternoon, it’s typ- strollers in here all at once.” trons can grab a taco from Asa- places like The Community Tap ical to find couples, children, In addition to the North da or a burger from the Chuck in downtown Greenville in- cycling teams, and co-workers Main area, Okupinski says they Truck, then bring it inside the tended and perfected. sitting outside at the long fam- also chose the location because Tap, where Buffington and -Ok Mike Okupinski, co-owner ily-style picnic tables situated of the large parking lot out front upinski are ready to pair it with with Ed Buffington of the Tap, under the old hardware sign that was perfect for food trucks. a great beer or wine. says, “When Ed and I opened original to the space. They’re en- our store, we took a long time joying craft beer and wine, but discussing the name. Above they’re also munching on local all else, we wanted it to have a pimiento cheese and crackers neighborhood feel.” sold inside. The kids are playing Walkable from the North one of the board games avail- "WHEN ED AND I OPENED OUR Main neighborhood, the Tap able, and the chocolate lab gets STORE, WE TOOK A LONG TIME has become the local gathering a spare pretzel every now and place for beer and wine lovers in then when the toddler decides DISCUSSING THE NAME. ABOVE Greenville. The business itself to drop one under the table. ALL ELSE, WE WANTED IT TO HAVE A is a family one. Okupinski laughs about a Okupinski’s wife works at time several years ago when a NEIGHBORHOOD FEEL." the Tap, and Buffington’s fa- winter storm came to Greenville. —MIKE OKUPINSKI, CO-OWNER OF THE COMMUNITY TAP JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY

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TAPPED IN Perhaps the biggest pleasure of the craft beer movement is how it returns old-fashioned socializing to an otherwise fragmented society. On this recent Friday afternoon, customers begin to gather at The Community Tap.

The two owners, who both beer in Greenville. Opened in Barley's remains a major On a recent Tuesday, a 30- worked desk jobs before their 1996 off Main Street, within draw in the local restaurant something customer sporting current gig, reflect on the short a 19th-century hardware and scene for more than its beer, too. Converse All-Stars and a T-shirt four years they've been open. feed store, the restaurant offers Nearly every evening around frayed at the neck with too many “We had an uncommonly 72 craft beers on tap and more 5:30, families can be seen gath- washings approaches Farmer good first year. It showed us than 200 bottled beers. ering around for weekday piz- holding a bottle. Greenville was ready for a place Owner Josh Beeby, who has zas, or to create personalized “This is my favorite beer, like this—a place where people supported Tenny in her lobbying slices—always with a side of but it’s like $25. Can you tell could relax, unwind, and enjoy efforts on behalf of craft beer, is garlic knots, one of the restau- me what’s similar to it but costs a good beer or glass of wine.” well known and respected among rant's most popular creations. about half the price? I’m on a Barley’s Taproom and Pizze- local beer connoisseurs. They Tucked away down an alley budget.” ria has long been known as the credit him with bringing the craft around the corner from Bar- In 30 seconds, Farmer has original headquarters for good beer scene to Greenville. ley's is The Greenville Beer pulled two different options Exchange, whose unassuming for the customer, explaining presence reveals little about the nuances in the different the world of beers that waits tastes. inside. Meanwhile, two guys walk With more than 1,200 in holding growlers. It's al- SIMILAR TO THE SLOW FOOD beers from around the United most 5 p.m., which means the MOVEMENT...CRAFT BEER STORES States and the world, it’s easy Beer Exchange is poised to of- to become overwhelmed with fer an interesting, sometimes ARE ENCOURAGING PATRONS TO options. experimental keg of beer from “We sell just about every- a brewery. Also known as Rare VALUE QUALITY OVER QUANTITY, thing here,” says co-manager Beer Tuesday, the event brings LONG-TERM OVER SHORT-TERM Andrew Farmer. “Though our regulars who are always ready GAINS. largest selection is local beer.” to try something new. JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY

45 FURMAN | SPRING 2015 Guy on a Budget begins talking to Guys with Growlers, and before you know it, they’re like old friends who haven’t seen each other in years. Farmer smiles. “This is a friendly industry,” he says. “We get people from all walks of life in here, and we all like talking about beer—it’s what we have in common.” One popular line of craft beers at The Beer Exchange comes from Westbrook Brew- ing Co., founded by Edward Westbrook ’07 and based in Charleston, South Carolina. No-nonsense and introspec- tive, Westbrook describes the inspiration for his craft brewery business simply: “I went to Europe in the fall of 2005 on a study away trip. I tried a Guinness. It was the first beer I tasted that had flavor. I was intrigued. I started brewing on the stove, and after several years INNOVATIVE of that, my wife and I decided to Whether experimenting with new flavors, such as Asian spices, or resuscitating old classics, like the Gose, make a business out of it.” the craft beer movement is finding new ways to enjoy a pint. Though Westbrook may be a man of few words, his fla- vorful creations inspire many. Westbrook explains, “While n a world where you’re more No hidden agenda, no schedule, With the mission to “make the we definitely weren’t the first likely to learn about your no pressure. most interesting, drinkable, U.S. brewery to make a Gose, I sister’s engagement from It’s a return to conversa- and generally awesome beer think that our decision to put IFacebook than from her phone tion, to playing peekaboo with possible,” the brewery is known it in six-pack cans in July 2013 call, where every little “I won- a nephew, to scratching a dog for its unique combinations of and distribute it in significant der” is answered by a Google behind his ears. It’s a return ingredients. quantities made it much more search, where multitasking has to the physical, the actual. A “We like to experiment accessible to a wide audience. really become just “tasking,” return to life. F with different flavors,” he ex- Now more breweries are doing it’s easy for our norms to shift plains. “For instance, the idea canned sour beers." to a harried approach to life. for White Thai came from the Okupinski of the Tap is The cottage industry of craft The Checklist thought that Asian spices might amazed at Westbrook's influ- beer is a response to this pro- work well in a wheat beer. ence on the industry. liferation of technology and Other times we’ll brew a beer “Sometimes Ed and I will impersonality. Barley's Taproom and Pizzeria just to learn more about a cer- say to ourselves, ‘Wow. What Similar to the Slow Food 25 West Washington Street tain ingredient, like a new hop would it feel like to know you’re movement that supports local 864.232.3706 variety.” responsible for bringing a beer ingredients and sustainable barleysgville.com Westbrook Brewing is also back into popularity?’ What Ed practices, craft beer stores are making a name for itself with [Westbrook] did was incredible encouraging both patrons and The Community Tap the revival of a classic German for the industry.” breweries to appreciate local 217 Wade Hampton Boulevard sour wheat beer—the Gose. The beers that Westbrook businesses and value quality 864.631.2525 thecommunitytap.com Seasoned with salt and cori- and others are producing may over quantity, long-term over ander, the Gose style had been indeed be incredible, but the short-term gains. The Greenville Beer Exchange slowly declining in popularity un- more striking byproduct of their In the end, there is some- 7 South Laurens Street til some brewers recently began work, and the movement itself, thing refreshingly simple about 864.232.3533 experimenting with it again. is what that work summons. gathering together for a beer. greenvillebeerexchange.com JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY

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THE NEW YORKER radio show, Second Inver- sion, the ensemble Tin Hat is I begin almost every day with always one of the first exam- a cup of coffee andThe New “Barbie” singers, music from ples I give. There are only Yorker. I love the variety, the the heart (literally), and dobros four musicians in the group, in-depth analyses of national but they collectively play an and world issues, the great arts We asked classical music programmer eclectic mix of violin, viola, coverage (I particularly enjoy Maggie Stapleton ’08 what works are currently bass harmonica, clarinet, articles by Alex Ross), a healthy contra alto clarinet, accor- dose of clever comics, good inspiring her. dion, piano, guitar, dobro, fiction reads, and fascinating pump organ, prepared piano. biographical stories. One of my Plus vocals! What makes this favorite articles was on swim- music so quintessentially ming legend Diana Nyad. She is ABOUT THE AUTHOR Maggie Stapleton ’08 holds bachelor’s Second Inversion is the way so inspiring! and master’s degrees in music and flute performance from each track crosses genres and Furman and the University of Washington, respectively. Since breaks down musical barriers. TIN HAT 2010, Stapleton has worked at Classical KING FM 98.1 in Within each song there are The Rain Is Seattle and is currently the station’s assistant program director, unique combinations: Amer- a Handsome Animal coordinating and implementing all content on Second Inver- icana meets Erik Satie; Steve sion, KING FM’s contemporary music project. Reich meets Viennese waltz; When people ask me what jazz meets Icelandic ambient kind of music I program on my Bjork-style vocals. FLEMING JEREMY

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GENGHIS BARBIE Tin Hat RICHARD REED PARRY Amp It Up! crosses genres Music for Heart and Breath and breaks One fun, accessible way to down musical Richard Reed Parry is probably create a gateway to classical barriers. most famous for his member- music is to cover pop songs ship in Arcade Fire. As a huge with orchestral instruments. fan of that band, my heart grew Genghis Barbie is a quartet 10 sizes when I discovered of top-notch French horn Parry’s Music for Heart and players who cover the likes of Breath, an album of original Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Whit- compositions that rethinks ney Houston, Madonna, The tempo. The inspiration for this Eurythmics, David Bowie, music literally comes from the and more on their CD Amp heart. Each musician uses a It Up! Taking after a famous Don’t let the stethoscope to play exactly in girl group from the 90s, they girly-girl sync with his or her own heart- each have their “Barbie” stage nature of beat. The variety in the play- name: Freedom Barbie, Velvet Ghengis ers’ pulses creates a pointillis- Barbie, Cosmic Barbie, and Barbie fool tic effect that will undoubtedly Attila the Horn. Don’t let you. never sound exactly the same the girly-girl nature of their in two different performances. names and the brightly col- The album features an all-star ored bells of their horns send cast of musicians: yMusic, you into skeptics. The blend, Kronos Quartet, Nico Muhly, pitch, accuracy, and power Nadia Sirota, and Bryce and of their playing will impress Aaron Dessner. The smallest classically savvy ears, and the Bischoff’s group on the disc is a duet and lack of vocals will give anyone album the largest is a 14-member the accompaniment to belt rethinks chamber orchestra, with sizes “Papa Don’t Preach” or “Sweet classical and in between for a journey of tex- Dreams” like never before. pop music. tures, dynamics, and timbres.

JHEREK BISCHOFF BROOKLYN RIDER Composed The Brooklyn Rider Almanac

To say Seattle-native Jher- Since the birth of Second ek Bischoff is multitalented Inversion, Brooklyn Rider’s would be an understatement. versatile recordings of new Along with a cast of talented My heart music for string quartet have friends, you can hear Bischoff grew 10 been a significant presence throughout Composed on cello, sizes when I on our airwaves. To celebrate trombone, piano, percussion, discovered their 10th anniversary, they bass, guitar, ukulele, and har- Parry’s released The Brooklyn Rider monica. He has little formal album. Almanac, a collection of 13 training in classical music new works for string quartet (“The Secret of the Machines” mostly by composers rooted has an inadvertent Stravinsky in jazz, rock, or folk music. “Rite of Spring” bassoon), but It’s an incredible celebration throughout his life he learned of Brooklyn Rider’s musical how to play just about any Brooklyn connections in the last decade instrument he could acquire Rider and it rethinks the string and took a few composition breathes life quartet repertoire, putting a classes to figure out how to into the notes stamp on the fact that music get his musical ideas on paper. on the page. doesn’t need labels or catego- This album rethinks classical ries or genres. When you put and pop music; each piece has these four musicians together an intricate chamber orchestra who express emotion and foundation with alt-pop vocals breathe life into the notes on a

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o matter how hard I Finally with uncertainty try to suppress them, in her step comes Blanche the images bubble DuBois, as Tennessee Williams Nto the surface of my mind. describes her: “daintily dressed First, wearing a billowing Unringing the “Belle” in a white suit with a fluffy green dress that enhances It’s time to dispel stereotypes of Southern women. bodice, necklace, and earrings her mesmerizing green eyes, of pearl, white gloves and hat, Scarlett O’Hara flounces in, BY LYNNE SHACKELFORD looking as if she were arriving her waist corseted to 17 inches. at a summer tea or cocktail Fluttering her long lashes party in the garden district.” and deepening her dimples, Shocked by the harsh neon she effortlessly flirts with the world of New Orleans, Blanche Tarleton twins, begging them is a moth searching for a gentler not to bore her with talk of war ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lynne Shackelford has served as a member light. Alcoholic, schizophrenic, and secession. of Furman’s English department for 32 years and as department and traumatized, Blanche des- Next waddles in Mammy, chair from 2008–2014. She has written on 19th- and 20th-century perately seeks a gentleman who “shining black, pure African, authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Augusta Jane can provide her with security devoted to the last drop of her Evans Wilson, Joseph Heller, and Ken Kesey. and peace. blood to the O’Haras,” writes Thus prevail the great stereo-

Margaret Mitchell. types of Southern womanhood: NELSON MOURNING DANIELLE

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the narcissistic Southern belle On December 1, 1955, Rosa from manipulative or clinging the tradition of white South- armed with endless tricks Parks—weary to the depths is, for example, my friend from ern patriarchy raising daugh- for manipulating men, the of her soul of “giving in” to Easley who, in basic training ters to pass from their daddies’ devoted black slave/domestic blatant racial discrimination at the Air Force Academy, en- protection to that of their servant whose identity is fully on a daily basis—sat resolutely dured taunts about her South- husbands. bound to caring for whites, on a bus in Montgomery, Ala- ern charm-school background Perhaps it’s the naïve and the physically and psycho- bama, defying the order to give and later, decades of misogy- romanticizing of antebellum logically fragile lady in need of her seat to white riders and nistic behavior to pursue a ca- culture by those from other knightly rescue. promptly facing arrest. This reer as a pilot—today flying to regions of the country, as The Southern women 42-year-old woman catalyzed Dubai, Paris, Mumbai, Milan, was the case with my college I admire, however, differ a revolution that jolted the and other stops for FedEx. friends, who persisted in the dramatically from these distorted belief that I lived on literary creations. They are a Tara-like plantation with strong, forthright, courageous, a houseful of servants at my and feminist. In an address bidding. entitled “Changing Ideals in Real Southern women bear Perhaps it’s a selective Southern Womanhood,” given little resemblance to the stereotypes amnesia about the economic to the Women’s Congress from television and film...they are strong, and political struggles of at the World’s Columbian forthright, courageous, and feminist. African-American Southern Exposition in Chicago in 1893, women—amnesia so prevalent Sue Huffman Brady called for that the Association of Black Southern women to “throw Women Historians issued an aside the veil of helplessness “Open Statement to Fans of and walk forth into the sun- The Help,” stating that the or- light of independent labor.” moral conscience of a nation Far from self-effacing and ganization “finds it unaccept- She foretold that Southern confronting the vast chasm defined by domestic service is able for either this book or this women would “invade the between its professed ideals my friend Mary Kemp Davis, film to strip black women’s realms of learning, seize its of justice and its Jim Crow professor of English at Florida lives of historical accuracy for choicest treasures, destroy practices. A&M University, author of the sake of entertainment.” the fortifications erected by Other Southern women a scholarly study of fictional Perhaps it’s a culture of wrong, build in their place the have expressed their strength re-creations of the Southamp- Southern politeness not en- stronghold of the right, and through their art. In her essay ton slave rebellion led by Nat tirely at ease with confronta- fight the best fight of which “In Search of Our Moth- Turner. tion and resistance. Whatever she is capable for herself, her ers’ Gardens,” Alice Walker Far from helpless was my the reasons, the stereotypes country, and her God.” reminds us of those countless dear colleague Ann Sharp, do a disservice to Southern Indeed, Southern women slave women who, in the midst who, widowed with two women. in various eras have fought of a horrific struggle to sur- children, ages six and eight, Drawing upon the deep- for their full personhood. In vive, managed to preserve the resolutely pursued her dream rootedness in their native the early 19th century, Sarah creative impulse through their of a doctorate in English, soil, the sustenance of Grimké, deeply wounded gardening, their quilt making, and then became a professor community, and the tran- when she realized she would and perhaps most import- of linguistics at Furman, a scendence of faith, Southern not be allowed to follow in ant, their storytelling. That pioneer in promoting women’s women have triumphed her father’s footsteps as a treasure trove of virtuoso oral and multicultural studies, and through war, slavery, racism, lawyer, raised her younger performances that character- a steadfast source of wisdom illness, and heartache—with- sister Angelina to adulthood. ize Southern culture nurtured and support for her students out Scarlett O’Hara’s vanity, Then the two Grimké sisters Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora and colleagues. Mammy’s selflessness, or left Charleston and migrated Welty, Flannery O’Connor, Far from weak was my Blanche DuBois’s vulnera- north, where they broke free and Walker herself—all mother who, having had bility. Envisioning the ideal from the women’s sphere Southern women with zest for stillborn triplets and having Southern woman, Sue Huff- of domesticity, liberated life, passion for their art, and lost a daughter that lived only man Brady proclaimed, “Let women’s voices in speaking irrepressible determination. one day, endured five months her be able to grapple hand publicly in support of aboli- Real Southern women of confinement to bed—not to hand with destiny, to laugh tion, and wrote compelling bear little resemblance to the being allowed to walk at all—to at defeat, to be undaunted activist works, including stereotypes from television and ensure my safe entrance into by opposition, and strong Sarah’s subversive Letters on film (though I must admit Carol the world. enough to brave the darkest the Equality of the Sexes and Burnett’s rendition of Scarlett Why haven’t the stereotypes hours of adversity.” Angelina’s antislavery Appeal in her green velvet gown created of Southern womanhood “gone Indomitability prevails as a to the Christian Women of the from her mother’s draperies with the wind”? Perhaps the Southern woman’s real legacy

DANIELLE NELSON MOURNING DANIELLE South. does make me chuckle). Far reason is the entrenchment of and lifeblood. F

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Quotables

GEORGE SINGLETON ’80 ON MEN, WOMEN, WHITNEY CURTIS ’09 FRAN LIGLER ’72 pg. 54 AND SANCTUARY pg. 57 pg. 56

Up Close

BOEHNER'S BOYS THE HOTTELS PROFILES OF CHARLES TOWNES ’35 pg. 59 pg. 58 FURMAN ALUMS pg. 64

After the Aisle

THOUGHTS AFTER JOHN R. CASSADY ’62 DEBORAH MALAC ’77 WILL LOWRY ’03 THE WEDDING pg. 53 pg. 55 pg. 61

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brokerage specializing in qual- Teaching. The fund will sup- 1960 ity of life financial products in port the professional develop- 1977 Don Grantham of Augusta, GA, San Francisco. After leaving ment of history professors and Robert Cuttino of Gainesville, was named chair of the state’s the brokerage company, he students by offering grants for GA, a director of research at Department of Transportation became an ordained minister summer research projects. Shi Brenau University, has pub- last fall. in 2012. says that “for 37 years John lished his debut book. Titled shared his love for the past For Goodness’ Sake: Principles Bert Strange of Greenville is with thousands of Furman of an Ecotheology, it explores 1961 one of four people to serve on students, many of whom how religion has affected Charlie Busbee of McDonough, the inaugural board of Veter- benefitted from his teaching mankind’s relationship with GA, was named the 2014 Yanc- an Scholarships Forever, an and are eager to honor him in the environment. The work of ey Ford Award winner. This endowment program aimed at a tangible, perpetual way that nonfiction began 19 years ago award is presented annually by helping veterans get needed will enrich the teaching and as Cuttino’s senior thesis at Golfweek to an individual who funds to pursue vocational and scholarship within the history Furman. has made significant contribu- skilled trades training that can department. Furman’s history tions to senior-amateur golf. lead to employment. department graduates 40 to 50 Thomas H. Hart III of Seattle, majors per year, making it one WA, has become a partner in Nick Hallman, fiddler for the Former college and NFL head of the most studied disciplines Bergman Draper Ladenburg, NickPickers of Pickens, SC, coach Sam Wyche has been at the university. Almost a a firm that has been a leading was awarded the 2014 Bas- added to the Medal of Honor hundred history majors have advocate for asbestos victims com Lamar Lunsford Award Bowl’s national board of direc- contributed to the fund, and I for nearly 20 years. Hart in October during a Bascom tors. The mission of this board hope other alumni will join us worked on his first toxic expo- Lamar Lunsford “Minstrel is to assist and support the Med- in honoring one of Furman’s sure case while a law clerk, and of Appalachia” Festival held al of Honor Bowl in their quest greatest professors.” To en- this sparked a lifelong passion at Mars Hill (NC) University. to become the premier senior courage additional donations, to help victims. This award is given annually college football all-star game Shi has offered to match gifts to an accomplished musician in America. Wyche’s greatest and pledges up to $5,000 per Richard Hyman, author of Frog- who demonstrates leadership, achievement as a head coach year. men, a book about adventures commitment, and dedication to was leading the Cincinnati Ben- while diving for Jacques Cous- keeping mountain music alive. gals to Super Bowl XXIII. His Claudia Barnhill Swicegood of teau, was recently inducted 64 wins with the Bengals were Salisbury, NC, is one of five into the Marine Biology Hall the most by a coach in franchise new members who have joined of Fame. He will be a featured 1963 history until 2011. the board of the Salisbury speaker in May at the Johnson Donald O. Brown, vice president Academy for 2014–15. Space Center, as part of the of Human Resources for Tin- Sea, Earth, and Space (SES) dall Corporation in Spartan- 1970 Summit. burg, SC, has been recognized Mary Jae Abbitt Sushka has 1975 with the Founders Award from worked in international devel- Stephen Fox reports that he has the Southern Association of opment in a dozen countries a new essay in an anthology 1979 Colleges and Employers, the since 1998. She is currently entitled The Exiled Genera- Ronald “Dee” Vaughan has most prestigious award the constructing a school for both tions: Legacies of the Southern published his first book.The organization can bestow on boys and girls in Afghanistan Baptist Convention Holy Wars, Stories of My Life is a collec- one of its members. in Bamyan Province where she edited by Carl Kell. The book tion of personal experiences worked for USAID from 2009 is a collection of testimonials that revealed to Vaughan some to 2012. by individuals whose parents truth about the miracle and 1964 were “purged from, or left, the mystery of life. Naples attorney John P. Cardillo Southern Baptist Convention has been appointed by the Flor- 1973 in the wake of the fundamen- ida Supreme Court to the board Former Furman President and talist takeover beginning in 1980 of the Florida Bar Foundation, professor of history David Shi 1980.” Fox says his contri- Stith “Tom” Gower, currently a statewide charitable organi- has initiated an endowed fund bution to the book traces his professor of forest ecosystem zation whose mission is to pro- in honor of retired history “pilgrimage as a minister’s son ecology at the University of vide greater access to justice. professor John Block ’63, who during the upheaval in the 80s Wisconsin-Madison, will also served as the university’s and 90s.” The book features join the College of Natural athletics director, was chair of contributions from other Resources at North Carolina 1968 the history department, and Furman alumni, including Ken State University as head of David Jeffrey, Jr., has retired as was winner of the Alester G. Satterfield ’81, Kevin Johnson the department of forestry president of California Life & Furman, Jr. and Janie Earle ’93, and Bailey Edwards Nelson and environmental resources Disability, Inc., an insurance Furman Award for Meritorious ’05. (FER).

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works by Paul Flint and Greg Flint 2014 meeting of the Citrus Wa- SC, is the new director of the 1982 of Greenville earlier this year. tercolor Club. Visit her website Early Childhood Center. Elizabeth A. Niblock, chief at www.donnamorrison.net. information officer for Louis- Jack Johnson has been named ville-Jefferson County Metro director of strategic sales with 1993 Government in Kentucky, Securadyne Systems in Dallas, 1987 Victoria Stokely Brannan is has been hired by the city of TX. Math teacher Linda Haynes has never at a loss for using her Detroit to be its chief informa- been selected as 2014–2015 musical talent in shows with tion officer to help implement Greenville Senior High Acad- such well-known artists as digital strategy as that city 1985 emy’s Teacher of the Year, and Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, works to revitalize itself. Joyce Lyn Jordon-Lake, whose was one of the top 10 finalists the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, first bookGrit and Grace: for Greenville County Teacher and most recently with a string Portraits of a Woman’s Life—a of the Year. ensemble for Rock and Roll 1984 collection of stories, poems, Hall of Famers Rod Stewart Cindy Davis, the first woman to and essays—was published Dottie Pepper was the pro- and Carlos Santana. Brannan, be named president of a major in 1997, has now written Blue fessional recipient last fall an orchestra teacher in the golf equipment company Hole Back Home. It is a story when Legends of Women’s Edwardsville (IL) School Dis- and still the highest-ranking about a mysterious girl from Golf Awards were bestowed trict, is a violist, fiddle player, female executive in the game, Sri Lanka who comes to live on some of the greats in and music educator. She has has retired from the presiden- in a small Appalachian town women’s golf history as part performed in orchestras with cy of Nike Golf. Most recently, whose residents reject the of the yearly tradition at the headliners that include Josh Buffalo Wild Wings named presence of someone different. Mercedes-Benz Collegiate Groban; Peter Cetera; Mann- her to the company’s board of Championship. heim Steamroller; Frank Sina- directors. tra, Jr.; Clay Aiken; and Barry 1986 Manilow. The Pickens County (SC) Noted Florida artist Donna 1988 Museum of Art and History Duke Morrison was the featured Ricky Creech has been named spotlighted 77 mixed-media demonstrator at the November president and chief executive 1994 officer of the 112-year-old Chris Jentz successfully sum- Buckhorn Children & Fami- mited Mount Vinson, Antarc- ly Services, an organization tica, on December 16, 2014. founded to provide compas- This climb marked his fifth sionate and dignified resi- of the world’s seven summits. dential care and treatment Number six is Mount Everest, of troubled youth, male and scheduled for spring 2017. female, ages 8–17, and their families. Mike Johnson is president and CEO of Orangeburg (SC)-based Cox Industries, Inc. He recently 1989 received the EY Entrepreneur Susan Dulin Rush’s debut novel of the Year 2014 award in the Just Over the Horizon, chron- Southeast distribution and icling the faith journey of a manufacturing division. hospice nurse, was published in 2014 by Astraea Press. Visit SusanDRush.com. 1995 Sid Parrish, Jr., the Southern Association of Colleges and 1990 Schools associate accredi- Zac Willis has been named the tation liaison at Newberry new football coach at Union College, was promoted last fall College, an NAIA program in to executive director of institu- Barbourville, KY. tional effectiveness.

JUST LANDED 1992 1997 Lieutenant Colonel John R. Cassady ’62 and the first skydive demonstration Jean Powell (MA), an instruc- Meredith Wilson Burton, jump on the “new” campus, which took place at the spring picnic in May, 1962. tional specialist at Rice Ele- director of the Furman Child

mentary School in Greenwood, Development Center, has been PHOTO COURTESY FLEMING JEREMY

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poems, bad plays, 450 pages of a bad novel. At page 200 I knew it was really bad, but I kept going. One of my professors, Gil Allen, said that I ‘had the disease.’ And I did.” Despite all of the manu- scripts that were tossed in the trash, Singleton says the efforts were valuable for the “minor characters I would take from one story—or one sen- tence, or one scene—and start over and over again until I had something better.” Such laborious salvaging has added up to six collections of short stories, two novels, and an instructional book on fiction writing. In 2009, Singleton was named a Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2011 he received the Hillsdale Award for Fiction by The Fellowship of Southern Writers. Now the John C. Cobb Southern Gothic...With Jokes Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Wofford Writer George Singleton has produced a body of work that is at once recognizable and jarring. College, Singleton teaches a variety of courses, including fiction writing, as well as “ othing is funnier than short stories, Between Wrecks, the lengths gone to for both— classes focused on “Grit Lit,” unhappiness,” says Nell Singleton once more sets his which, even if we resist, we a literary movement in which inN Samuel Beckett’s End- sight on the convergence of can’t help looking into. his own works figure. game. This is a premise writer funny and sad, along with the Such hard looking is aided Grit Lit serves as an alter- George Singleton ’80 might rural South, where he often and abetted by an earthy, native to the romanticized sto- agree with, although if Beck- finds the tragicomic cross- rhythmic writing style that ries of the South, attempting to ett’s characters wait to go no- roads of the absurd. For those makes reading Singleton’s sto- more closely capture the spirit where, Singleton’s characters who expect to find front porch ries feel like guilty pleasures: of Southerners, highlighting aren’t waiting at all—they’re rockers, sweet teas, and wide- Because I’d seen part of a their candor, authenticity, and actively going nowhere. brimmed hats…look elsewhere. documentary on gurus who bravery. Consider Mendal Dawes in Singleton’s South is instead slept on beds of nails—and be- Or, as Singleton says, these Singleton’s Why Dogs Chase full of weird customs, strange cause I’d tried to quit smoking are “stories of the rough South, Cars. Dawes has a habit of ailments, self-proclaimed “tal- before my wife came back home usually with lower-to-middle burying dogs who have been ents,” and characters whose pe- after leaving for nine months class people who drink, smoke, run over in his front yard— culiarities, however occasion- in order to birth our first child, and fight.” their literal tracks stopped ally repellent, prompt insights though she would come back Singleton says he never on the property he over- into our common culture. childless and say it was all a lie knows “if something will be looks—even though the story is For example, in “No Shade she made up in order to check considered ‘good’ or not,” but informed by Dawes’s unheal- Ever,” the wife of Singleton’s into some kind of speech clinic that he’ll continue to write ing ache to flee Forty-Five, his main character has lied to her up in Minnesota to lose her because “it’s a blast.” hometown. husband about a pregnancy in bilateral lisp—I had a dream An interesting thought, “[The perfect story] is both order to get away for cosmetic of chairs and beds adorned en- coming from an author who funny and sad,” says Singleton, surgery. Such details, both tirely with ancient car cigarette never shies away from con- “and the reader gets pissed off uncomfortable and humor- lighters. necting the amusing to the because they can’t decide how ous, provide a mirror that “I’ve written all kinds of abject. F they should react.” Singleton wants—in this case really bad stories,” Singleton In his latest collection of on vanity, shallowness, and admits. “At Furman, I wrote bad —Lindsay Niedringhaus ’07 COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY FLEMING JEREMY

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beyond anyone’s imagination… it took a while for all of us to understand what a huge, complex problem we had. When things seemed overwhelming, I would remind my team to stop and step back and identify the positive things.” What’s positive about an Ebola outbreak? Malac says she saw communities taking ownership, with leadership in rural areas growing organ- ically. Liberians, she says, “understood that they could be a positive force, and that they [would] become the new generation’s leaders. These are all critical pieces of good governance.” With the epicurve trend- ing downward, Malac looks forward to a recovered Liberia and feels “absolutely confident” that they will see the end of the epidemic. Cool Head in the Hot Zone “In December, case rates were averaging about 20–25 This past summer, Deborah Malac (pictured in a white shirt) stepped onto the world stage as the voice of per day from a high of more the Ebola epidemic. than 100 per day in the late summer. We are adjusting our “ e were looking for- know something backward and According to Malac, previ- strategies to focus on those ward to a really good forward, you’re able to deal ous outbreaks of the disease last cases.” yearW in 2014,” says Deborah with it, and it doesn’t seem as had been in rural areas, with Malac says she feels a new- Malac ’77, the United States’s threatening.” the most efficient tactic found kinship with the people ambassador to Liberia. “We Malac learned quickly. She being to burn those areas who have weathered the storm had a lot of great projects had to. She would be challenged out. This outbreak, however, alongside her. “Ask anyone that were coming to fruition. with managing accurate infor- occurred in a highly mobile who has chosen a career at Obviously, we had to adjust our mation about the disease and and densely populated urban the embassy, and they’ll tell expectations.” the outbreak to the rest of the area, where the disease trav- you there is something about In March 2014, the first world, which was frantic from eled much quicker. Complex this place that hooks you. I case of Ebola was documented both panic and ignorance. treatment centers needed was captured by the amazing in Gueckedou, Guinea. By the “Of course the sensational to be built, which required potential of the people and the end of March, the disease had stories get the most attention,” time to construct. And even continent.” crossed the border into Liberia, she says. “[But] those of us who when they were constructed, Still, after long days like the and by August 2014, the United live here and deal with it every transportation of the infected ones recently spent—many Nations health agency declared day have the advantage of to the centers was a challenge in the presence of the dead— an “international public health perspective. Reporters would given the Liberian infra- Malac looks for solace in mem- emergency.” At the end of come and see all of the dead structure, which can present ories of another place near the 2014, the outbreak had affected bodies and see how over- travelers with no, or merely ocean: her childhood home in 15,913 people, with the majority whelmed we were, but they dirt, roads. Not to mention Savannah, Georgia. of victims in Liberia. didn’t know about the plan that the country was in the “I’ll breathe in the salt air “When I was first informed that was in place or the steps middle of its rainy season, here, and I’ll close my eyes, about the outbreak, of course we had taken to slow down the which meant monsoon-like and I’ll feel home. For me, the I was a little terrified,” admits spread of the disease. It just conditions and mud, day in ocean is home—no matter Malac. “But then I did some- couldn’t all happen overnight, and day out. where I am.” F thing Furman taught me to do. and I think they were looking Malac freely admits the I educated myself. When you for immediate results.” scope of the epidemic “was —Lindsay Niedringhaus ’07 COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY

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elected president of the South Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children.

Kim Button lives in Orlando, FL, and works as a freelance journalist, TV correspondent, author, and blogger. Her TV work includes FOX News and national and regional television programs. She is founder of GetGreenBeWell.com and KimandCarrie.com.

Scott Allen Jarrett has been promoted to director of choral activities at Boston University, where he currently serves as director of music for Marsh Chapel. His appointment includes faculty posts in the School of Theology and the School of Music. He is also QUOTABLE music director of the Back Bay Chorale, one of New England’s leading volunteer Fran Ligler ’72 choruses.

“ have been married 42 years and am convinced that women have generally different per- 1998 spectives, but increased teamwork has helped us understand each other better. Men are Travis Johnson has obtained an much more involved with their families now and there is less pressure to be ‘tribe leader.’ MD from the Medical Uni- WomenI don’t have to ‘be men’ to succeed professionally, and men get to ‘have feelings’ now, versity of South Carolina, and an MPH in global health too. In my field in particular, bioengineering, women are about 50 percent of the students from Harvard School of Public and 30 percent of the young faculty—a trend that is spreading to other fields of engineering. Health. He has worked the Bioengineering is so collaborative it is chopping down the barriers between disciplines.” last three years in a multifac- eted project in Uganda, and is Fran Ligler ’72, PhD, has been called a pioneer in the fields of biosensors and microfluid- currently working as a UNC ics, having the opportunity to prove biosensors can be used for addressing a wide variety faculty physician in Hender- of detection problems from food safety to environmental pollutants to infectious disease sonville, NC. diagnoses. Ligler is the Lampe distinguished professor at the NC State/UNC-Chapel Hill Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. In 2014, she was elected as a Councilor of Brock Rosser left employment the National Academy of Engineering. Ligler is married to George Ligler ’71, PhD, and with Heart of Florida United is an accomplished equestrian, completing two 50-mile races on horseback this fall with Way last fall to pursue work George as her pit crew. in public policy and nonprofit advocacy as the new executive director of the Florida Non- profit Alliance. been a mainstay of large animal Hampton High School in Steven Edward Buckingham has care in the area for the past 39 Greenville, SC. joined the Perkins Law Firm years. in Greenville as an attorney in 2002 the corporate, employment, After graduating from Furman, Amy Kern (MA) of Greenville 2003 and litigation groups. He has Mary Kathryn Gochnauer attend- has been named principal at Yendelela Neely Anderson, also taught trial advocacy for ed The Ohio State School of Mitchell Road Elementary a partner with Kilpatrick five years as an adjunct profes- Veterinary Medicine, and then School. Townsend & Stockton in sor at Furman, and is a coach returned to North Carolina to Atlanta, GA, is serving a three- of Furman’s award-winning join the Mobile Large Animal Eric Williams (MA) has been year term on Families First’s Mock Trial program.

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Michael Precht has become senior minister at Crest- 2005 view First United Methodist In November 2014, Brigette Church in Crestview, FL. Lindsey Gleason shared her per- While at Furman, he helped sonal experience in combating to found Mere Christianity Ebola disease in Africa when Forum Inc., an on-campus she presented “Overview of ministry. MCF recently cele- the Ebola Epidemic: Insights brated the 10th anniversary of from the Field on Sierra Leone Vista House, an international and Key Features of the Ebola Christian community of which Response in the U.S.” at the he was the first resident. Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond. As an epidemic Alice Rigdon has accepted a intelligence service officer position with Piedmont Med- for the Centers for Disease ical Center in Rock Hill, SC, as Control and Prevention, she chief financial officer. was deployed to Sierra Leone in September for a month to Last fall, Elliott Davis, one of provide technical assistance the largest accounting, tax, and in epidemiology and surveil- consulting services firms in the lance for the Ebola emergency Southeast, admitted Jeff Walker response. and five other new sharehold- ers to its firm in Greenville, SC. Jennifer Meisten (MA) is now principal of Beck Middle 2004 School in Greenville, SC. Paula Alexander (MA) has been Bailey Edwards Nelson is direc- named principal at Hagood Ele- tor of communications with mentary School in Pickens, SC. the Spartanburg County (SC) Foundation. She provided mar- Neal Collins has won a seat keting and public relations ser- in the South Carolina State vices to the New Baptist Cov- House. enant, a national movement convened by former President QUOTABLE Jamie Smith has been selected Jimmy Carter designed to bring as the principal of Southwood faith communities together for Academy of the Arts in Ander- education and public service. Whitney Curtis ’09 son (SC) School District 5. Sam Perry is the new head “ y sanctuary at Furman was a field in front Melanie Elizabeth Trexler of baseball coach at East Hen- of Blackwell, or the porch on our apart- Richmond, KY, graduated from derson High School in Hen- Georgetown University in May dersonville, NC, where he has ment in G in North Village. Both places 2014 with her doctorate of phi- been an assistant for the last wereM where some of my deepest friendships were born losophy in theological and re- three seasons. in moments of unexpected conversation and laughter— ligious studies. Her specialty is often when we should have been studying.” in Islam and Muslim-Christian Brad Wright has joined the relations. Her book, Evangeliz- United Way of the Piedmont in Whitney (Bost) Curtis ’09 is a senior editor for ing Arabs, is being published Spartanburg, SC, as a cam- Home Depot, where she manages the blog and social by Baylor University Press. paign associate. media outreach strategy, working with influencers (bloggers and brand evangelists) around the coun- The Cincinnati, OH, firm of try. Curtis snagged her dream job while freelance Keating Muething & Klekamp 2006 blogging and writing, often for Home Depot, on her PLL announced that Barrett P. Amanda Armstrong of Nash- gardening and lifestyle blog, The Curtis Casa. She is Tullis, a real estate attorney, has ville, TN, recently finished her married to fellow alumnus, Allen Curtis ’08. The been elected as a new partner. ME in education at Peabody/ couple resides in Atlanta. Vanderbilt. She works at the Tennessee Department of

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f you told Katie and David "I LIKED Hottel they would be working Iin similar fields when they met SOMEONE ELSE at Furman—ones that value AT THE TIME, sustainability and an organic lifestyle—they probably would BUT I WAS A not have believed you. It took DIFFERENT a little doing for them to be on the same page on a few fronts. PERSON BACK The two met at a party THEN, AND SO when Katie, who works as a clean air and water project WAS KATIE." associate at Upstate Forever, —DAVID HOTTEL asked David, who focuses on food and farming as a buyer specialist at Whole Foods, to dance. David turned her down. “I liked someone else at the “I knew I loved him,” Katie time,” David laughs. “But I was says. But David took more a different person back then, time. “I didn’t realize it was and so was Katie. We didn’t love. I knew she was always necessarily think we would there for me and I think her marry one another when we love for me made me realize I met, or that our lives would loved her,” he adds. look the way they do now.” Marriage slowly percolated. Despite a rocky start, David Hottel ’11 & Katie Premo ’12 “I knew she was everything I David came to his senses, as he wanted and needed, but when says, and took Katie on a first I first broached the topic with date for sushi in the Paladen Now their love is an her mom, she suggested I on campus. “And six years “organic” connection, wait to talk to her dad,” David later, here we are,” says David, says. He waited, nearly a year, brandishing a grin common to but it didn’t begin and after getting her father’s those three weeks out from a that way. blessing, proposed in an apple honeymoon. orchard in North Carolina in The Furman-transplanted September of 2013. By Kate Dabbs ’09 Greenvillians were married “Marriage shows commit- in a hyper-local celebration ment and accountability. It exhibiting their shared values shows the one you love you are at Greenbrier Farms in Easley, dedicated,” Katie says. David SC, on October 25, 2014. “I agrees: “It is a partnership locally sourced everything but and, for us, how you honor God our wedding attire—the food, by entering into an ordained favors, decorations, even the relationship.” beer we brewed,” Katie says. In their young marriage, The beer, dubbed “Beerly their discoveries of each other Beloved,” was a collaboration as roommates, too, are new. with fellow alumnus Peter “Katie is definitely the CEO/ Calomoris ’11, who works at CFO, and I am learning her newly successful Quest Brew- ways…I like to think I add good ing Company in Greenville. commentary and spontaneity. (Thanks to the friendship and Although now that our financ- David’s connections, Whole es are merged, I can’t surprise Foods of Greenville now car- her as much because she ries Quest Beer.) watches the budget so closely,” Although Katie and David he jokes. But, David adds, “It dated throughout their Fur- is so exciting to have this op- man years, and a little beyond, portunity to love and cherish love didn’t come immediately. another human being.” F COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY FLEMING JEREMY

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advice to heart and went to the Container Store to spend eight dollars on a small trash can for the counter. It was there for a week before the Speaker noticed it, but when he did, it blew his mind. ‘That is the kind of problem solving we need,’ he said. That was a Thursday morning, and I was hired full time that afternoon. You can’t deny the timing.” Political science professor Danielle Vinson says, “Over the last few years, one of the most rewarding parts of my trips to Washington has been learning from these guys through what they are seeing and doing. Their stories give me a fresh perspective that helps me better understand the things I teach.” Vinson remarks, in particular, on Andrews’s and Miller’s generosity, especially “their enthusi- From the diamond into the rough of the capital asm for meeting with individual students who are interested in Tommy Andrews (left) and Will Miller, bound by baseball, now play for Speaker John Boehner. working on Capitol Hill.” Miller says the service attitude stems directly from hen you see Speaker of between all of the staff and the really looking for jobs. But baseball coach Ron Smith. the House John Boehner Speaker when he is not here. It when the draft came and went “He always reminded us to put Wanywhere in Washington, D.C., is like being the quarterback, without me, I was lost. The others before yourself and said chances are Tommy Andrews anticipating movements when phone rang from a 202 number if you do, you are destined to ’09 is with him. every minute of the day is and it was Tom on the line. He have success. That is the kind The Cincinnati native is on accounted for.” was offering me [the chance] to of attitude you need to have his fifth year working for Boeh- Andrews points to an come to D.C. and apply for an on Capitol Hill, always trying ner, a career path he began as unusual source for his skills: internship with the Speaker’s to work for something bigger an unpaid intern starting two Furman baseball, where he office,” Miller says. “Of course I than ourselves.” (Seasoned months after graduation. From played first base and outfield. was going to go.” politicians could take note of there, Andrews was promoted “You balance schoolwork with As an intern, Miller closely this philosophy.) to staff assistant, then to leg- the time commitment of travel followed the “school of Tommy” While one might think the islative correspondent, senior and practice,” he says. He also and took every bit of advice he experiences the two men have staff assistant, and finally, to credits Furman baseball with would give, namely, “Never say had—access to powerful leg- his current position, special another reason he’s able to no,” and “Always be a guy who islators (and brushes with the assistant to the Speaker. handle the intensity of Wash- can find solutions.” president)—might make them “Anytime he leaves his office, ington: his colleague Will Miller claims the differ- jaded to the dazzle of the na- I am on his hip. He could be Miller ’12. ence between his remaining a tion’s capital, Andrews quickly on the House floor and have Miller was a freshman when nameless intern and becoming corrects that assumption. 40 different conversations Andrews was a senior, but the a key employee emanates from “When I pull up to work with members of Congress, so two had struck up a friendship the intersection of Andrews’s every day, there is still a shock it is my role to take notes and through baseball. As a politi- advice and, well, the Speaker’s and awe factor. The view from help—he can’t take it on all at cal science major, Miller was trash can: my desk is the National Mall, once,” Andrews says. interested in D.C. but as a cen- “I noticed when the Speaker and I am never going to have But Andrews’s role extends terfielder, he was more focused finished fixing his coffee, he another view like that in my beyond sessions of Con- on professional baseball. “The always left sweetener packets life.” F gress. “I serve as the conduit draft was in June so I wasn’t on the counter. I took Tommy’s —Kate Dabbs ’09 COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY

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Leah Coakley went from Fur- worked on the planning for the Jade Lawson Fountain recently Miller Yoho has a new job as man to the University of Puget recent visit by the First Lady accepted a position as the gift director of communications Sound from which she gradu- and First Daughter. administrator in the Office of for the Charlotte (NC) Sports ated last May with a master’s of Gift Planning at the Medical Foundation. education in counseling degree. 2008 University of South Carolina. Daniel Hall (MA) is principal of Brittany Jean Carr is partici- Nathan Guinn has become an 2010 York County (SC) Middle School. pating in a residency in canine attorney with Gibbes Burton Jonathan Cote has joined sports medicine and rehabili- LLC, located in Spartanburg, Wyche, a full-service law firm Peter MacKenzie was featured tation at Veterinary Orthope- SC. He was admitted to the that has served the Greenville, in the Atlanta Business Chron- dic and Sports Medicine Group South Carolina Bar in 2013. SC, community for more than icle's list of “Top Financial in Annapolis Junction, MD. 90 years. Advisors Under 40.” Lisa Huffman has been named Ke Ji is an international trade director of children and disciple- Will Gyauch won the Inter- Kate Malone (MA) has been specialist at the U.S. Depart- ship at Trinity United Methodist national Academy of Trial named principal of Riverside ment of Commerce. Church in Winston-Salem, NC. Lawyers Award for 2013–2014 High School in Greer, SC. at the University of Iowa Law Kathryn Savarese Misenheimer School. 2009 has been named 2014–2015 2007 Matthew Cesari was featured in Teacher of the Year at Dorman Tiffany Osborne (MA) works Weston Belkot is U.S. marketing the Atlanta Business Chron- High School’s freshman cam- as an instructional coach at director for Pushpay Holdings icle's list of “Top Financial pus in Spartanburg, SC. She is Glenview Middle School in Limited. Advisors Under 40.” a Spanish/ESOL teacher. Anderson.

Kelly Coxe (MA) was selected as principal of Harold C. John- son Elementary School in York County, SC. A LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The law firm of Owen & Owens OF ALUMNI AND PARENT ENGAGEMENT in Midlothian, VA, has selected Erica L. Giovanni to be included in Virginia Business Maga- n the weeks before I first arrived at Furman University in August of 1984, I was full of zine’s “2014 Legal Elite.” anxiety. I was trying to understand what this college “thing” was going to hold for me. It wasn’t just anxiety about college classes, but also the added pressure of college football and Jessica Patterson (MA) is the Iwhether I would measure up. Excelling at a small country high school in its classrooms and on new principal at Chastain its gridiron is one thing, but achieving at Furman’s level in both areas was another. I will not go Road Elementary School in so far to say I “excelled” in either, but I will say I survived and eventually thrived. Pickens County, SC. Thirty years later, I have arrived on campus once more as a student—an older and hopefully Jessica Rahn (MA ’10) has been wiser student who is now also a member of the University’s staff. This time, what I am learn- named 2014–2015 Teacher of ing has started the way all learning does: with dialogue. Namely, conversations with you, our the Year at Monaview Elemen- alumni, faculty, staff, coaches, parents, and students. As these conversations begin, I am re- tary School in Greenville. minded of why my Furman experience was so special—it was the people. Indeed, some things never change. As I meet with many of you today, I am excited to reacquaint myself, from a A UN Climate Summit was held new vantage, with the specialness that comes with encountering the great people at Furman. last fall in New York City. Kar- While many of us will always appreciate the beauty of our campus or the excellence of our tikeya Singh participated in the academic reputation, I know that like me, most of you were affected by the people you met summit and appeared on NPR here. Which is why I am excited to once more be part of a team that strives to serve and enrich to talk about climate change. our most enduring asset—the Furman family. And in doing so, ensure the enduring legacy of Singh is the founder of the Indian Youth Climate network, which what brings that family together. has served as a forum for voices of the budding youth climate movement across South Asia. Mike Wilson Noah Woodiwiss is currently [email protected] based in Chengdu, China, with

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Alexa Rancourt, a two-time women’s state amateur golf champion who plays on the Symetra Tour, participated in the Charlie Maine Open at Augusta (GA) Country Club last summer.

Amanda Sparrow (MA) has accepted a position as a reading specialist at Hollis Academy. 2014 Branddon Benson (MA) has been named assistant principal at Duncan (SC) Elementary School.

Hayly Humphreys is staff assistant for U.S. Senator Bob Corker.

Magee Morrison (MA) is the QUOTABLE new instructional coach at Chastain Road Elementary Will Lowry ’03 School in Pickens County, SC. Joy Owens is the current “ couldn’t begin to understand a woman’s perspective, so as a man, I recognize the in- director of Johnson Farm in equality women face. There are three schools of thought: what you know, what you Hendersonville, NC. Historic don’t know, and what you don’t know you don’t know. The third is the most dangerous Johnson Farm is a heritage part.I It is most important to know what you don’t know, and that is a struggle for most men. education center owned by Henderson County schools We must acknowledge that we can’t know. The world is an ensemble and we must make sure and managed by the nonprofit everyone feels valued while celebrating our differences.” Henderson County Education Foundation. Will Lowry ’03 is back at Furman doing a two-year, postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in the theatre department. A computer science/theatre arts Carrie Seigler of Greenville, SC, double major, Lowry holds an MFA in design and scenography from UNC-Greensboro, spe- is participating in a one-year cializing in virtual design, lighting, scenery, and costume design. He has worked on more term of Mennonite Voluntary than 80 productions, including Broadway and his own off-Broadway creative group, Flux Service in New York City as Theatre Ensemble, where he remains a creative partner. research and policy associate with Urban Justice Center.

CLASS NOTES POLICY Due to debut with Boston’s Handel the amount of material Furman receives 2011 and Haydn Society under the 2013 for this section—and the time needed to The Columbia, SC, Chamber direction of Scott Allen Jarrett Catherine Catan has joined the edit that material—items are often not published until six months after they are of Commerce has announced ’97. This summer she will sing Ernst & Young consultant firm submitted. However, please be advised Anna Lee Carlisle Burns as its with the Santa Fe Opera. and is now living in Washing- that we rarely publish items more than director of marketing and ton, D.C. 18 months old and no announcements of communications. things that have not yet occurred. When Matthew Critell (MA) has been sending news of births, please include the 2012 child’s name, birthdate, and city of birth; Randy Dendy (MA) is now Emily Bridges has been named named program director at the for marriages, include the city and date assistant principal at Mary editor of the South Carolina new Fisher Middle School in of the event, the new spouse’s name, and Wright Elementary School in Law Review. Greenville County, SC. his/her year of graduation if from Fur- Spartanburg, SC. man. News about couples who graduated in different years is included under the Susan Joyner has been accepted Hannah Haas is working as a earliest graduation date. It is not listed In early December 2014, into the University of Maryland staff assistant to Congressman with both classes. The magazine reserves

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erry and Will’s love story While it took them some is the stuff of romantic time to hit their stride, when Kcomedy—old friends who the couple became serious became something more. about pursuing one another, Over a glass (or two) of wine at it happened fast. “It was a Northampton Wines in down- change to be two very indepen- town Greenville, they gushed dent people trying not to be over their long courtship, the independent. We had to figure beauty of marriage closer to 30 out how we each needed to be than 20, and their dog, Ches- loved,” says Kerry. ter—a raven-haired lab Kerry Will proposed to Kerry included in her official bridal at his family home on Lake portraits at Furman. Burton, where his sister-in- When they first met, Will law and brother helped set the was a freshman and Kerry scene with an outdoor fire and was a senior. That wasn’t the champagne. “I had no idea. I only difference between them. thought someone was in the “Kerry is the oldest child and house and then I thought he I am the youngest,” Will says. was apologizing for some- “Kerry, a biology major, never thing,” Kerry laughs. The two skipped a class at Furman ex- were married on September cept for senior skip day and I, 6, 2014, at First Presbyterian a political science and history Church of Greenville, and a major, missed the maximum reception followed at the Poin- number allowed per term. sett Club. That pretty much describes Kerry Ellett ’04 & Will Glenn ’07 “I am glad I waited until 32 us to a T,” he laughs. “She to be married,” Kerry says. “I always goes by the book and I was absolutely sure and it en- am always trying to broker a “Friendship first” is abled me to eliminate societal deal.” (A valuable trait for an a principle many endorse for pressure to marry before you associate attorney at Leinster are ready. Ultimately, I think Law Firm.) romance, but what surprised it is best to wait until you can- When the two first crossed this couple was how they never not picture your life without paths after Furman, Kerry was that person before you make a in D.C. for the swearing in of expected more than that. commitment like marriage.” David Wilkins, former am- Marriage for the Glenns bassador to Canada, through By Kate Dabbs ’09 is a combination of Christian values, commitment, and selflessness. “All through life everyone tells you it is all her work at Smoak Public says. Kerry confirms this. “I was about you and you can’t think Relations, where she is now more like his life coach, always that way in your marriage. senior account executive. giving him advice on dating. You have to die to yourself "I STARTED They were friends first, of that But one day, I started describ- every day,” Will says. they are both adamant. After a ing the kind of girl he should On how that first year is go- DESCRIBING short stint in Greenville, Will be with and thought, wait, I am ing, Kerry says, “It is a lot of fun THE KIND OF decided to go to law school at describing myself and he is kind but there are days it requires the Charleston School of Law. of perfect for you.” work. You see each other on GIRL HE SHOULD “I was sad when he left, but we But there were major ob- your worst and best days.” BE DATING, were really just friends then,” stacles to overcome regarding “But you are the one I’d Kerry says. life stages. “I was eight years want to be with on my worst AND THOUGHT, By Will’s third year of law into my career, and he was just days,” Will says with a grin school, the “just friends” line getting started,” Kerry says. before drifting back to a less WAIT, I AM didn’t seem to fit anymore. “I “And I was an outsider in rose-colored reality. “You DESCRIBING think I knew in the back of my my own hometown,” adds Will. have to have the patience to mind she was the one before “Kerry had turned into the put up with one another. And MYSELF." we started dating, but I didn’t local even though I grew up that might be the best advice —KERRY ELLETT really know until that time,” he here.” we could offer.” F JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY

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erly, November 1, 2014 Aden Albert ’05 and Jean Schwab ’04, a daughter, Robin Octavia BIRTHS AND Robert ’02 and Sarrin Towle ’03 Albert, October 10, 2014 MARRIAGES Warfield, a daughter, Emerson ADOPTIONS Marie, October 15, 2014 Chris and Jessica Siler ’04, a son, Grayson Barden Siler, Doug ’02 and Jody James ’03 November 16, 2014 Webb, a daughter, Sally Jose- phine, October 10, 2014 Brian and Jessica Moore Fisher ’05, a daughter, Annie, Sep- Chris ’03 and Kacy Herring ’04 tember 10, 2014 Babcock, a daughter, Evelyn Mae Elizabeth, December 5, 2013 Adam and Diana Estes Ligler Patrick Donald Bridges ’89 and Ross and Kara Eldridge ’98, a ’05, a daughter, Alyssa Renee, Donald Scott Gauch, July 26, 2014 daughter, Claire Taylor El- Chris ’04 and Casey Hannifin September 7, 2014 dridge, August 3, 2014 ’03 Field, a daughter, Virginia Michael Hauswald ’03 and Sarah Elaine, September 16, 2014 Andrew and Dana Wilson Litke Harkness, August 16, 2014 Daniel and Stacey Rose ’99 Har- ’05, a daughter, Rebekah Pau- ris, a son, Jonah, July 2013 Paige Harden ’03, a daughter, line, September 23, 2014 Lauren Patricia Robbins ’07 (MA Rowan Naomi Tucker-Drob, ’09) and Austin Michael Baker, David ’00 and Jami Lee ’99 December 4, 2014 Nicholas and Lucy Clark Sanders March 8, 2014 Noyce, a daughter, Rachel Ma- ’05, a son, Joseph Cote, August rie, November 14, 2013 Mike and Carolyn Egan ’03 13, 2014 Michael Wise ’08 and Jennifer Jacobs, a daughter, Ava Amber- Guest, July 12, 2014 Adam ’99 and Christine Hacker lee, September 16, 2014 John Mark and Maxi Elli Shiflet ’01 Stillwell, a son, Jacob Ed- ’05, a son, John Coleman Sarah Martin ’09 and Kelty B. ward, November 17, 2014 Aaron and Alison Williams “Tripp,” July 18, 2014 Richardson, October 4, 2014 Shurts ’03, a daughter, Char- Don and Ellen Culbertson lotte Clare, January 6, 2015 Gaines and Cassie Markham Sarah Octavia Ferguson ’10 and Abramo ’00, a son, Christian Sturdivant ’05, a son, Gaines Paul Michael Sloderbeck, August Donald, October 16, 2013 Brian and Michelle Smith ’03, Peacock III, September 11, 30, 2014 twin sons, Parker and Kenne- 2014 Jonathan ’00 and Pearce Triplitt dy, October 24, 2014 John Heron IV ’10 and Hayley ’02 Butcher, a son John Levi, Thomas and Gabrielle Roberts Duggan ’11, January 10, 2015 September 2, 2014 Wesley and Elizabeth Hubbard ’05 Sweets, a son, Nathanael ’03 Vance, a daughter, Collins Martin, September 4, 2014 Katy MacDonald ’10 and James Sakis and Kimberly Petillo ’00 Elizabeth, August 7, 2014 Godley, September 15, 2013 DeCossard, a son, Dominic Michael and Missy Dempsey Xavier, September 28, 2014 John and Rebecca Beckett ’04, a Hale ’06, a daughter, Alice Charlotte Mary Bissell ’11 and son, William Yates, November Gates, July 17, 2014 Zachary Floyd Garner, Octo- Samuel and Jennifer Coats ’00 14, 2014 ber 18, 2014 Solorzano, a daughter, Evelyn Jerod and Jordan Greene Pilot Jane, March 27, 2014 Clay and Kate Burns ’04, a son, ’09, a daughter, Grace Harri- Whitney Cubbage ’11 and Charles Clayton Brasington III, Sep- son Pilot, December 27, 2014 Ray Coker, Jr., July 5, 2014 Townes Boyd and Marshall tember 21, 2014 Turnbull Johnson ’01, a son, Joe and Kristen Confer Tenini Elizabeth Soule ’11 and Scott Hamil- Townes Boyd IV, November Eric and Jessica Giles Gray ’04, a ’09, twin daughters, Kate ton Cameron, Jr. ’12, July 12, 2014 10, 2014 son Whitley Jackson, Novem- Heinz and Paige Case, Febru- ber 7, 2014 ary 25, 2014 Will White ’12 and Sarah Burke Kyle and Laura Moody ’01, a Sigmon ’13, July 19, 2014 daughter, Caroline Rose, Octo- Hagan and Dena Pope Jordan Jordan and Meghan Kelly ’11 ber 8, 2014 ’04, a son, Rhett William, Oc- Robinson, a daughter, Blythe, Miranda Jolliff ’13 and Sonny tober 1, 2014 October 7, 2014. Skaaning, August 12, 2014 Ryan and Abbey Redfearn ’01 Plexico, a daughter, Ada Marie Rob ’05 and Lauren Welch ’04 Adair Martin ’13 and Marshall Redfrearn, November 12, 2013 Langley, a daughter, Margaret Smith ’13, August 2, 2014 Christine, August 28, 2014 Brian and Jennifer Scholz ’01 Kaleigh Ward ’13 and Grant Cox

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Charles Hard Townes was born in 1915. His father, Henry, OBITUARIES was an attorney and member of the Furman class of 1897. The Townes children grew up in a Baptist household that encour- aged intellectual pursuits and discussions of the Bible. “Charlie” studied physics, mathematics, and biology at Furman, where he graduated summa cum laude at 19. Outside of the classroom, Townes wrote Alice Rouse Edwards ’34, No- for the college newspaper, and vember 30, 2014, Charlotte, was a member of the swim team NC and football band. After earning a master’s Frances deSaussure Furman degree in physics from Duke Hewitt ’34, November 26, 2014, University in 1936, Townes Columbia, SC enrolled at the California Institute of Technology and Elizabeth Turner Pritchard Byrd earned a PhD. During World ’35, October 21, 2014, Green- War II, he worked on radar wood, SC bombing systems that could operate in the humidity of Hazel Waller Register ’38, Au- the South Pacific. After World gust 26, 2014, Sweetwater, TN War II, he became associate professor of physics at Colum- Dorothy Anderson Robelot ’38, bia University and met Arthur December 26, 2014, Greenville, L. Schawlow, who became his SC research assistant. The two would eventually combine Calphurnia Cox Rogers ’39, July IN FOCUS their energies (and become 29, 2014, Wilmington, NC brothers-in-law) to make Charles Townes ’35 major advances in the field of Edna Morgan Bussey Boney ’40, microwave spectroscopy. August 12, 2014, Spartanburg, SC His insights led to the de- harles Townes, a Nobel a key NASA advisor during velopment of the first working Anita Anderson Folsom ’40, Au- Prize-winning scientist, the Apollo mission, and held maser, a device that amplifies gust 17, 2014, Columbia, SC CGreenville native, and a 1935 more than two dozen honorary electromagnetic waves, and graduate of Furman Universi- degrees and a trove of awards the invention of the laser. It re- Ruth Webster McCrakin-Leland ty, died Tuesday, January 27, and honors. sulted in an astonishing array ’40, November 9, 2014, New- 2015. He was 99. Tributes to Townes grace of discoveries now in common berry, SC “The Furman community Furman’s campus. The most use in medicine, telecommu- has lost a giant today,” said visible is the Charles H. nications, electronics, comput- Ann Rutledge Packer ’41, July 3, Furman President Elizabeth Townes Science Center, a ers, and many other fields. 2014, Waycross, GA Davis. “Charles Townes’s $62.5 million facility that “My greatest debt to Fur- scientific explorations and houses all of the University’s man is for the opportunity to Woodrow Wilson Hughes, Sr. ’42, path-breaking discoveries science departments. The associate in small classes with a October 29, 2014, Spartanburg, changed our world in won- Charles H. Townes Lecture number of interesting, inspiring, SC drous ways, and new uses of Series on Faith and Rea- devoted men,” Townes once said. the technology are unfolding son was launched in 2006. Townes is survived by Wallace Williams Rogers ’43, Oc- even today.” The series, held annually, his wife, Frances Hildreth tober 22, 2014, White Rock, SC Arguably Greenville’s most highlights the common Townes; daughters Holly illustrious citizen, Townes ground between science Townes, Linda Rosenwein, Frances Hames Simmons ’43, received the 1964 Nobel Prize and religion. The Charles H. Ellen Townes-Anderson, and October 23, 2014, Lookout in physics for his pioneering Townes Scholarship provides Carla Kessler; six grandchil- Mountain, TN work in the development of $25,000 per year in scholar- dren; and two great grandchil-

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Mary Earle Drawdy ’44, January James Barnwell Gibson ’49, De- Peggy Ann Cantrell Seigler ’52, vember 27, 2014, Hoschton, GA 6, 2015, Greenville, SC cember 27, 2014, Asheboro, NC July 24, 2014, Columbia, SC Humberto “Humby” Leopold Mabel Brown Seel ’44, July 1, Charles Theodore Hudgins, Jr. James Edwin Cassell, Sr. ’53, Quintana, (MA ’56), July 21, 2014, Greenwood, SC ’49, December 25, 2014, Sum- August 1, 2014, Greer, SC 2014, Griffin, GA ter, SC Anne Leppard Smoak ’44, April Paul Wallace Peddicord ’53, Sep- Gena Jo Fant Rabon ’56, July 31, 15, 2014, Walterboro, SC Richard Talmadge Moore ’49, tember 24, 2014, Daphne, AL 2014, Camden, SC October 26, 2014, Pineville, NC James W. Crocker ’45, August Francis Pelzer “Bo” Barry, Jr. ’54, Elaine Koger Brinson-Wiggs ’57, 20, 2014, Boiling Springs, SC Patricia Margaret Pallagut ’49, November 6, 2014, Summer- December 30, 2013, Orlando, FL November 21, 2014, Greens- ville, SC Marvin Coley Ferguson ’45, Oc- boro, NC Walter Eugene Tollison ’57, tober 13, 2014, Athens, GA Grace Elizabeth Cline ’54, Sep- November 14, 2014, Greenville, Joyce Ballentine Toohey ’49, tember 6, 2014, Melbourne, FL SC Joyce Celena McHugh McCuen January 18, 2015, Greenville, ’45, October 29, 2014, Pendle- SC E. Donald Crapps ’54, October Shirley Freeman Barbour ’58, ton, SC 24, 2014, Troy, SC January 10, 2015, Greenville, SC Thomas Spann Farmer ’50, July Dorothy Lewis Owen ’45, August 11, 2014, Summerville, SC Anne Roper Dellinger ’54, Octo- Donald Walter McCarter ’58, 16, 2014, Darlington, SC ber 9, 2014, Greenville, SC September 12, 2014, Green- Ralph Stuart Kaney ’50, October ville, SC Clark Olin Riddle ’45, Decem- 19, 2014, Florence, SC Joseph B. Hucks ’54, November ber 30, 2014, Greenville, SC 27, 2014, Myrtle Beach, SC Wendell Kay Watkins ’58, July Darrell D. Perkins ’50, Decem- 23, 2014, Easley, SC Wilma Boyd Burry ’46, Decem- ber 4, 2014, North Myrtle Mayer L. Johnson ’54, October ber 27, 2014, Hartsville, SC Beach, SC 10, 2014, Columbia, SC Harold Jerome Biggers ’59, Jan- uary 2, 2015, Columbia, SC Carolyn Whatley Dennis ’47, Oc- Carolyn Patricia Rhodes Ramsey Louie Brice Lawrimore ’54, July tober 19, 2014, Greenville, SC ’50, August 30, 2014, Walter- 13, 2014, Florence, SC Jane Ann Hearsey Hurt ’59, De- boro, SC cember 10, 2013, Hampton, VA Agnes McMahan Morgan ’47, Charles Larry Power ’54, Octo- August 29, 2014, Westminster, William Grady Southern, Jr. ’50, ber 14, 2014, Greenville, SC Elizabeth “Betty-Anne” Neal SC September 16, 2014, Win- Kyber ’59, December 18, 2014, ston-Salem, NC Thomas Ray Price ’54, May 8, Rock Hill, SC Dan Sims Wages ’47, September 2014, Anderson, SC 4, 2014, Washington, DC Willard Gene Wade ’50, Decem- Oran Rogers Nabors ’59, Sep- ber 16, 2014, Greenville, SC Robert T. Sewell ’54, November tember 21, 2014, Denton, TX Daniel Eddins Kirk ’48, Decem- 2, 2014, Marysville, WA ber 13, 2014, New London, NC William Van Bradley ’51, October William G. Perry III ’59, October 18, 2014, White Rock, SC Ralph Clinton Dixon ’55, August 19, 2014, Pawleys Island, SC Frederick Edmund White ’48, 13, 2014, Fort Pierce, FL October 5, 2014, Tunnel Hill, Juliette Ward Coleman ’51, Octo- Larry Elliott Watts, Sr. ’59, GA ber 28, 2014, Greenville, SC Muriel Andersen Fielding ’55, March 26, 2014, Germantown, TN July 11, 2014, Hackensack, Barbara Norman Wilson ’48, Au- Claud Charles “Cy” Armstrong, NJ A.L. Curtis ’60, August 31, 2014, gust 10, 2014, Knoxville, TN Jr. ’52, October 10, 2014, Gaffney, SC Greenville, SC Ann Pitman Hutcherson Whit- Marcelyn Walton Wright ’48, De- mire ’55, October 22, 2014, Mill Charles Filmore Freeman ’60, cember 19, 2014, Columbia, SC Gladys Eugenia “Hap” Bryant Spring, NC November 6, 2014, Loris, SC ’52, September 7, 2014, Green- Nancy McCall Bashford ’49, Oc- ville, SC Kyle Norwood Wiggins ’55, Au- Dixie Lamar Gamble ’60, De- tober 22, 2014, Raleigh, NC gust 21, 2014, Charleston, SC cember 22, 2014, Columbia, SC John H. Davis ’52, January 7, Ann Lockwood Breazeale ’49, 2015, Culpepper, VA Douglas LaFoy Blackwell ’56, Leon Keefe ’60, July 11, 2014, July 1, 2014, Mount Pleasant, SC September 30, 2014, Simpson- Fayetteville, NC Mary Craig Kramer ’52, Decem- ville, SC Ella Thomason Flack ’49, August ber 28, 2014, Sumter, SC Robert Gregory Brooks ’61, Oc- 17, 2014, Greenville, SC Helen Hicks Ferguson ’56, No- tober 12, 2014, Clayton, NC

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Clarence Larry Freeman ’61, July James Russell O’Dell ’66, Sep- Charles Lester Lamb ’71, October Martin Herbert Kiser ’76, August 18, 2014, Taylors, SC tember 17, 2014, Jacksonville, FL 17, 2014, Greenville, SC 26, 2014, Columbia, SC

James D. Graham ’61, August 19, John Roscoe “Jack” Fulmer ’67, Kenneth Lee Childers ’72, Au- J. David Smith ’80, November 2014, Damascus, VA December 15, 2014, Greenville, SC gust 26, 2014 27, 2014, McAllen, TX

Charles Richard Franklin Tread- Elizabeth Grant Kelly ’67, Janu- Richard Warren Mays ’72, Au- Patrick Charles Patterson ’81, way ’61, April 30, 2014, Nash- ary 7, 2015, Greenville, SC gust 29, 2014, Savannah, GA July 18, 2014, Thomasville, GA ville, TN Fredrick Manuel “Fim” White Robert Rector McGee ’72, Au- Barry Dean Biddlecomb ’82, Lloyd Curtis Trotter ’61, Septem- ’67, September 17, 2014, Sum- gust 30, 2014, Winston-Salem, NC August 20, 2014, Athens, GA ber 13, 2014, Greenville, SC merville, SC Kenneth Wayne McIntosh ’72, Barbara Tate Wren ’82, Decem- James Lester Wilson ’61, Sep- Edith Wright “Sis” Brummer July 9, 2014, Rock Hill, SC ber 23, 2014, Taylors, SC tember 6, 2014, Idaho Falls, ID (MA ’68), December 25, 2014, Greenville, SC Mary Joseph Fuss Mostertz (MA Carolyn Brown Lawson (MA ’86), William Worth Bridges, Jr. ’62, ’72), December 25, 2014,Tam- November 12, 2014, Marietta, December 14, 2014, Tifton, GA Gabriel Webster Hunter ’68, pa, FL GA September 30, 2014, Mauldin, James E. “Shadow” Ellenburg ’62, SC Dennis G. Thomas ’72, Decem- Heather Mishelle Christopher August 11, 2014, Pelzer, SC ber 6, 2014, Great Barrington, Boyd ’92, October 24, 2014, Carrol James “Pete” Calvert ’69, MA Easley, SC Thomas Leslie Myers, Jr. ’62, November 1, 2014, Buffalo, SC May 16, 2014, Winnsboro, SC Deborah Dobson Heicher ’74, Vivian Jones Searcy ’93, June 29, Charles Robert Love ’69, Janu- December 2, 2014, Greenville, 2014, Anderson, SC Joseph Daniel Seay, Sr. ’63, Au- ary 1, 2015, Fort Walton Beach, SC gust 16, 2014, Greenville, SC FL Jimmy Lee “Butch” Daniel, Jr., Wilene Robinson Schumpert BGS ’95, July 18, 2014, Slater, SC John Edward Cook III ’64, July Rebecca Moore Rochester ’69, Cohen (MA ’75), November 1, 30, 2014, Greenville, SC September 21, 2014, Green- 2014, Clemson, SC Grady Jones Callahan ’97, Au- ville, SC gust 1, 2014, Travelers Rest, SC Earlene Paige Bowlin Hicks ’64, Edith Mullen Simpson (MA ’75), August 15, 2014, West Colum- Thomas Wilson Fort ’70, Novem- August 23, 2014, Winchester, bia, SC ber 19, 2014, Lugoff, SC MA

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Sandra Jean Stenhouse Cleaver ’65, September 17, 2014, An- Professor emeritus of chemistry Charles Stuart Patterson ’50 died October 27, 2014. He napolis, MD had taught at Furman from 1954 to 1988. During those 30 years, he contributed greatly to the university and had a lasting influence on the development of the chemistry program. Michael Eugene Lucas ’65, Sep- He served as chair of the chemistry department from 1957 through 1967, when he was tember 16, 2014, Anderson, SC appointed director of the division of science and mathematics. He held this position until President Gordon W. Blackwell appointed him academic dean for a five-year term ending James Walton Simmons III ’65, in 1977. At that time, he returned to full-time teaching and continued to enjoy his students October 27, 2014, Macon, GA and colleagues until his retirement in 1988.

Harriette Inez Tucker Elrod (MA Professor of English emerita Ann Wyatt Sharp died on October 21, 2014. Sharp taught at ’66), January 4, 2015, William- Furman from 1973 to 1996. She received the Alester G. Furman, Jr. and Janie Earle Fur- ston, SC man Award for Meritorious Advising; upon Sharp’s retirement in 1996, Celia M. Millward established the Ann Sharp Award Fund, which provides an annual cash award to a deserv- Joseph Thomas Greene, Jr. ’66, ing student who is recognized for academic merit and creative writing talent. December 23, 2014, Savannah, GA

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