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FM10 Fall issue.indd 1 11/2/10 4:40 PM Furman FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY FALL 2010 Volume 53, Number 3 10

Furman magazine is published quarterly for alumni and friends by the Of!ce of Marketing and Public Relations, Furman University, Greenville, S.C. 29613.

EDITOR Jim Stewart

DESIGNER Roxanne Chase FEATURES

CONTRIBUTORS Judith T. Bainbridge 2 A New Era Nancy R. Fullbright BY JIM STEWART Martin Gramling The university celebrates the inauguration of Rodney A. Smolla in high style. Phil Howard Vince Moore 6 Engaging the Mind and the Spirit Brent Nelsen BY RODNEY A. SMOLLA Andy Peters Furman’s new president issues a challenge to build a campus culture that Lyn Riddle John Roberts is a model for higher education, and by extension for society itself. Rodney A. Smolla Cindy Black Sparks 10 Field of Dreams Tom Triplitt BY JUDITH T. BAINBRIDGE In the 1920s and ’30s, Manly Field was a showplace for Furman football — EDITORIAL ASSISTANT/ Nell Smith and home to some powerhouse teams. CLASS NOTES EDITOR 14 Leap of Faith EDITORIAL ADVISORY Tish Pearman Anderson BY ANDY PETERS COMMITTEE Randall David Cook Paul Wallace has chosen to combine his academic foundation in physics Nancy R. Fullbright Sam Hodges with his Christian faith in an effort to reconcile science and religion.

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FM10 Fall issue.indd 3-1 11/2/10 4:40 PM Furman FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY FALL 2010 Volume 53, Number 3 10

Furman magazine is published quarterly for alumni and friends by the Of!ce of Marketing and Public Relations, Furman University, Greenville, S.C. 29613.

EDITOR Jim Stewart

DESIGNER Roxanne Chase FEATURES

Cover photo by Charlie Register

FM10 Fall issue.indd 3-1 11/2/10 4:40 PM A New Era

Rod Smolla’s inauguration was an inspirational and energizing experience for the entire university community.

he hawk appeared suddenly, gliding campus, and given the magni#cent weather majestically over the crowd, just as — 60 degrees at march time, with brilliant TRodney Alan Smolla stepped to the sunshine — the venue couldn’t have been microphone to deliver his inaugural address better. It was believed to be the #rst time after being sworn in as the 11th president that Plyler Hall of Townes Science Center of Furman. had been artistically rendered in cake form, Rather than make a !y-by appearance, courtesy of Kathy and Company of Easley, though, the bird decided to remain in the S.C. In addition, the inauguration featured area. Finding a perch near the stage in one two world premieres of compositions of the university’s signature oaks, it sat by music professor Mark Kilstofte, both quietly as the new president touched on commissioned especially for the occasion. themes of civility, compassion and respect One piece, “This Amazing Day,” during his 20-minute address. took its inspiration from a poem by E.E. Although no of#cial records have Cummings and expressed gratitude “for been kept, it is assumed that the hawk everything which is natural which is was the #rst of its breed to be on hand in#nite which is yes.” For the other piece, for a Furman inauguration. “Sol La Fanfare,” Kilstofte harkened back Perhaps, somehow, it sensed the to Renaissance times to honor Smolla unusual nature of the occasion. As trustee by “carving” a musical subject from chair Richard W. Riley ’54, who presided the president’s name. As the composer over the proceedings, told the crowd, explained, “The syllables sol la re proclaim, they were witnesses to a rare moment S[m]olla the King!” Both a capella pieces in Furman’s 185-year existence. were performed beautifully by the Furman “Presidential inaugurations have not Singers under the direction of their new occurred very often in the life of this conductor, Hugh Floyd ’84. institution,” he said. “Of the previous 10 As a whole, the inauguration presidents, only two held of#ce less than received rave reviews as a true “feel good” 11 years. So it is with a keen sense of experience for the university community, history that we gather today.” an inspiring launch for the new president, Aside from the hawk’s appearance, and a #tting culmination to an intense several other #rsts marked the installation 72-hour period of events that began with of Rod Smolla on October 22. the L.D. Johnson “What Really Matters” This was the #rst such ceremony to lecture by philosophy professor David take place outside, at least on the current Gandolfo on Tuesday, October 19.

Rod Smolla’s wife, Michele, and family joined him on stage as he took the oath of of!ce from trustee chair Richard W. Riley ’54. Photo by David Crosby.

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FM10 Fall issue.indd 2-3 11/2/10 4:40 PM A New Era

Rod Smolla’s inauguration was an inspirational and energizing experience for the entire university community.

Rod Smolla’s wife, Michele, and family joined him on stage as he took the oath of of!ce from trustee chair Richard W. Riley ’54. Photo by David Crosby.

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FM10 Fall issue.indd 2-3 11/2/10 4:40 PM hings moved into high gear on After a banquet Thursday evening, Thursday afternoon, when Smolla the university turned out for a concert by Tmoderated a panel discussion on the Furman Symphony Orchestra under “Civility and Public Discourse” in Daniel the direction of Thomas Joiner ’76. The Recital Hall. The 90-minute program program featured Dvorak’s “Carnival featured students, faculty and alumni, Overture,” Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, including three participants on hand and Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme via remote hookups from Paris (NPR of Paganini,” with professor David Gross as correspondent Eleanor Beardsley ’86), piano soloist. New York City (Carl Sullivan ’91, senior Then it was time for the main event. editor for MSN.com) and Winston-Salem, And following the 90-minute inaugural N.C. (Randy Eaddy ’76, an attorney and ceremony Friday morning, folks gathered Furman trustee). for a casual lunch on the mall. The panelists touched on a wide Once the lunch crowd scattered, range of topics during the free-!owing the mall was quickly cleared and Furman exchange as they analyzed the American transitioned seamlessly from inaugural public’s growing inability to debate impor- mode to Homecoming 2010. (See page 24.) tant topics without the conversation The last of#cial inaugural event followed disintegrating into shouting and name- on Tuesday, October 26, when Holmes calling. Several pointed to our “sound- Rolston, professor emeritus of philosophy bite culture,” in which people have only at Colorado State University, delivered shallow knowledge of issues, and world the Charles H. Townes Lecture on Faith views and opinions are summed up in and Reason. super#cial, 30-second clips. Others touched Although the pomp and circumstance on a growing public unwillingness to had ended, the soaring high of Inauguration engage in substantive conversations, or to Week — symbolically represented by the acknowledge that reasonable people should hawk’s presence at the ceremony — will no be able to disagree reasonably. doubt energize the campus for months to The panel’s consensus was that, despite come. It was a grand and glorious occasion having the ability to communicate in many at which Furman put its best foot forward, more ways than in the past (Facebook, and the good will and excitement generated e-mail, blogs), people today are actually will serve the university well as it moves communicating less, tuning out the oppo- forward into the Smolla Era. |F| site side, and paying attention only to those — JIM STEWART opinions and sources that re!ect their individual world views. As Cynthia King, Furman Mall was the perfect spot for the a communication studies professor, said, ceremony; Smolla chatted with former discourse in American society today suffers president David Shi, Dick Riley, and Clemson from an overall “lack of good will, good president James Barker as they “robed up;” faith and good intentions.” macebearer Charles Brewer; the cake depicting Smolla would use his inaugural address the front of the Townes Center was a tasty hit. the next day to expand on many of the Photos by David Crosby and Jeremy Fleming. themes and comments from the panel discussion. (See following story.) To view the panel discussion, visit www.furman.edu/inauguration/index.htm.

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FM10 Fall issue.indd 4-5 11/2/10 4:40 PM hings moved into high gear on After a banquet Thursday evening, Thursday afternoon, when Smolla the university turned out for a concert by Tmoderated a panel discussion on the Furman Symphony Orchestra under “Civility and Public Discourse” in Daniel the direction of Thomas Joiner ’76. The Recital Hall. The 90-minute program program featured Dvorak’s “Carnival featured students, faculty and alumni, Overture,” Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, including three participants on hand and Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme via remote hookups from Paris (NPR of Paganini,” with professor David Gross as correspondent Eleanor Beardsley ’86), piano soloist. New York City (Carl Sullivan ’91, senior Then it was time for the main event. editor for MSN.com) and Winston-Salem, And following the 90-minute inaugural N.C. (Randy Eaddy ’76, an attorney and ceremony Friday morning, folks gathered Furman trustee). for a casual lunch on the mall. The panelists touched on a wide Once the lunch crowd scattered, range of topics during the free-!owing the mall was quickly cleared and Furman exchange as they analyzed the American transitioned seamlessly from inaugural public’s growing inability to debate impor- mode to Homecoming 2010. (See page 24.) tant topics without the conversation The last of#cial inaugural event followed disintegrating into shouting and name- on Tuesday, October 26, when Holmes calling. Several pointed to our “sound- Rolston, professor emeritus of philosophy bite culture,” in which people have only at Colorado State University, delivered shallow knowledge of issues, and world the Charles H. Townes Lecture on Faith views and opinions are summed up in and Reason. super#cial, 30-second clips. Others touched Although the pomp and circumstance on a growing public unwillingness to had ended, the soaring high of Inauguration engage in substantive conversations, or to Week — symbolically represented by the acknowledge that reasonable people should hawk’s presence at the ceremony — will no be able to disagree reasonably. doubt energize the campus for months to The panel’s consensus was that, despite come. It was a grand and glorious occasion having the ability to communicate in many at which Furman put its best foot forward, more ways than in the past (Facebook, and the good will and excitement generated e-mail, blogs), people today are actually will serve the university well as it moves communicating less, tuning out the oppo- forward into the Smolla Era. |F| site side, and paying attention only to those — JIM STEWART opinions and sources that re!ect their individual world views. As Cynthia King, Furman Mall was the perfect spot for the a communication studies professor, said, ceremony; Smolla chatted with former discourse in American society today suffers president David Shi, Dick Riley, and Clemson from an overall “lack of good will, good president James Barker as they “robed up;” faith and good intentions.” macebearer Charles Brewer; the cake depicting Smolla would use his inaugural address the front of the Townes Center was a tasty hit. the next day to expand on many of the Photos by David Crosby and Jeremy Fleming. themes and comments from the panel discussion. (See following story.) To view the panel discussion, visit www.furman.edu/inauguration/index.htm.

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FM10 Fall issue.indd 4-5 11/2/10 4:40 PM We cannot plausibly claim that we educate both the mind and the spirit, that we graduate students with an academic degree and a degree in character,

unless we intentionally seek out students who yearn for engagement in both.

o all of us at Furman University and in the world of higher James Clement Furman, Charles Manly, Andrew Montague, Edwin Poteat, education, I issue this challenge: Let us take on as an assignment William McGlothlin and Bennette E. Geer. And as we approached more Engaging Tthe constructive improvement of the civility of our public discourse. modern times, by the leadership of Furman’s more recent presidents: John And let that effort begin right here, at Furman. Plyler, who had the vision to move the university from downtown to this What society sorely needs, and what we are uniquely well-suited to current location, which was once an expanse of !at cotton #elds nestled the Mind contribute, are the habits of engaging minds and spirits to the service of in this valley, and to imagine this campus as we know it today, resplendent civilized and constructive debate and deliberation. Let us be leaders in with magni#cent trees, ebullient fountains and graceful academic buildings; encouraging such habits as a genuine willingness to listen, an avoidance Gordon Blackwell, who had the moral courage to insist that Furman should of gratuitous personal attacks and cheap shots, a commitment to factual not be racially segregated; John Johns, who through indomitable spirit and and the accuracy and intellectual honesty in our own advocacy, a de-emphasis humane warmth expanded the size of the endowment and ensured the on caricature, and a re-emphasis on character. future of academic freedom at Furman; and David Shi, who guided Furman I know, and I appreciate, that many of our students and faculty over the past 16 years with his commitment to engaged learning and members, our alumni and fellow citizens, have passionate feelings passion for sustainability. Spirit about the issues of our day. And in our passions we are often deeply and intensely engaged. et while we may be tempted to mark the epochs of the university’s

FLEMING Trust me, I am not against that. I am not asking you to curb your history by the names of its presidents, what really matters is our By Rodney A. Smolla enthusiasm. This is not a crusade for super#cial politeness or political resolve to rededicate ourselves to drawing from the abiding values EREMY J Y correctness. This is not a crusade for blandness, for a discourse that is of our past as we recommit ourselves to shaping the guiding principles of sanitized and laundered so that it loses all its color, humor, bite and zip. our future. n the very last paragraph of Mark Twain’s classic, The Adventures of telephone, television, radio or cable, today we express and exchange views Your passions are admirable. They are the stuff of a vibrant democracy To that end, let me now speak directly to our students. Huckleberry Finn, Huck tells us that he is planning to light out for the with such breathtaking speed and ease that we ought to be living in a and a vital marketplace of ideas. My hope is that every single student at Furman will pursue and will IWestern Territory because his aunt is out to “sivilize” him. As Huck “golden age” of public discourse, world-wide. There is a critical difference, however, between being engaged and receive a dual degree — one in an academic discipline, and a second in the laments, “I can’t stand it. I been there before.” Yet many of us feel a nagging disquiet. Quantity does not equate being enraged. Furman is a university of engaged learning, not enraged development of character. My hope is that all of you choose to major in the Throughout the book Huck has his issues with both Aunt Sally with quality. Yes, we may talk more than ever before. But when we talk, learning, and we owe it to the nation — and to the world — to stand up life of your mind and the growth of your spirit. and Aunt Polly. At the risk of you thinking me a bit Pollyanna-ish myself, particularly about issues that really matter — in politics, in religion, in and demonstrate the difference. As you have heard me say before, and as you may expect to hear me my opening theme is Huck’s closing theme: this problem he has with science or the arts — we have, as a culture, become more strident, more And so my challenge is for us to unite to build a culture at Furman repeat again and again, this experience is all about you. That is to say, it being “civilized.” shrill, more angry. Our discussions are increasingly laced with personal that is a model for higher education, and by extension for society itself. is all about you learning that life is not all about you. I invite you to join me in re!ection on the state of our contemporary attacks, increasingly prone to caricature and super#cial slogans and sar- I challenge you to rise above the coarse and the common, and by your The purpose of your education here, like the purpose of life itself, civility and its discontents. castic sound-bites. Perhaps most fundamentally, we may be talking more, leadership advance the common good. is not simply to acquire a credential. The point of life is not for you to As a nation we are once again poised on the eve of an important but we are listening less. As we rise to meet that challenge, we might constructively begin enroll in the proper preschool so that you may enroll in an exemplary election. Whatever your politics, whether you are liberal or conservative, And when we do listen, we may not be listening with genuinely open right here, right now, with re!ection on this university’s proud history elementary school and move up to the right middle school, and then the Democrat, Republican or independent, you cannot help but notice that hearts and open minds. We may instead simply be listening tactically, and de#ning values. right high school, and then the right college, and then the right graduate in many political races throughout the country this year, as in so many listening for our cues, listening for our chance to pounce, our opening On a formal level, of course, we are gathered to mark the installation or professional school, and then the right job, and then the right promo- of our elections in recent years, the discourse has often been highly to launch a counter-attack. of the 11th president of Furman. On a deeper and more resonant level, tion, and on and on and on, reducing life to something like an amusement partisan, highly personal and highly polarized. No one political party, no one religious viewpoint, no one space however, it is not the persona of the president that matters, but the identity park in which you traverse from ride to ride, or a video game in which you What is true of our politics extends more broadly across our culture, on the cultural spectrum has a monopoly on these bad habits. We are of the university over which the president presides. spend all your energy amassing points and powers and advancing from level in this nation and around the world. At times it seems as if the whole equal opportunity employers when it comes to the employment of devices Furman was founded in 1826 by Richard Furman. It strikes me as sig- to level — but in the end have nothing to show for the effort beyond the planet is determined to work a cruel twist on the words of Abraham that diminish the civility of our debates and in turn sap the strength ni#cant, in both substance and symbol, that he was both a preacher and a points themselves. Lincoln, proceeding with malice toward all, and charity for none. of our democracy. patriot who called on South Carolinians to join the American Revolution This is not to say that achievement has no place. It is to say that the There is a curiosity to this. We might well expect that the health I urge you, however, to not despair! for the good of the American whole. Richard Furman must have seen that meaning to be drawn from achievement must represent values deeper and of our public discourse should be at an all-time high. Never have so many We have it in our power to effectuate a rescue. It can begin right a spiritual life was consistent with earnest participation in civil society, causes greater than the achievement itself. channels been open to so many voices. From the new media of Facebook, now, and right here. and that the purposes of a university were consistent with both. And so, at Furman, we would all deeply cherish the award of another Twitter and texting to such old-fangled modes of communication as e-mail, His leadership would be followed by the leadership of presidents Nobel Prize to one of our graduates — not for the sake of the bragging

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unless we intentionally seek out students who yearn for engagement in both.

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FM10 Fall issue.indd 6-7 11/2/10 4:40 PM rights attached to the Nobel Prize, but for the our students, our faculty, our staff and our alumni to underlying betterment of humankind, the scienti#c cross divides of generations and geography, of faith and discovery, the literary masterpiece, or the promotion politics, and to listen to one another with authentically A Furman-style Day of Service of peace for which the prize was awarded. So, too, at open minds and hearts. Furman we would take deep pride in another national Let us be a community that moves beyond mere championship in any of our intercollegiate sports — grudging tolerance or forced politeness into the realm Up and down the eastern half of the nation, from Philadelphia not for the banner we hang in the arena or the trophy of generous and genuine respect. As the great and we place in the trophy case, but for the sacri#ce, soulful Aretha Franklin spelled it out: “R-E-S-P-E-C-T, to Jacksonville and points in between, alumni and friends turned out discipline, striving and character that the banner #nd out what it means to me!” or trophy represents. Respect is at the heart of the liberal arts tradition. for a Day of Service to kick off the university’s Inauguration Week. To our students I thus say: For Furman to really CHARLIE REGISTER Respect is at the heart of American democracy. For all matter to you, its meaning must extend beyond what our differences and divisions, what we in America may appears on your transcript, beyond the recitation of a major, a degree or a most proudly and with unalloyed unity proclaim is our collective passion grade point average. For Furman to really matter to you, it must touch both for democracy, for equality, for freedom of speech, for freedom of religion, hen alumni and friends George Flowers ’13 joined us while your mind and your spirit, shape both your intellect and your character. for respect for human dignity. were invited to model one home from Furman on fall break. He This effort must be a partnership. Furman cannot implore you to be Let all of us in higher education be keepers of that !ame. As we Wof Furman’s core values — offered some astute observations about engaged in mind and spirit if Furman is not engaged in mind and spirit. participate in the global marketplace — in the global community — service — in honor of Rod Smolla’s the meaning of our efforts. We cannot implore you, our students, to refrain from thinking of your let us be a beacon of civility, compassion and respect. inauguration, they responded October He wrote, “The Habitat build education as a compilation of numbers — as the acquisition of credentials Let that respect come from our deepest beliefs in the essential dignity 16 by taking part in a variety of projects displayed a characteristic that is — unless we refrain from de#ning you as numbers or credentials. and the essential worth of every human being. and activities. embedded in the foundation of This must begin even before our students arrive. It must begin with And lastly, let us not forget the joy. In Nashville, Tenn., Furman folks the Furman community. Creating the values we profess and the messages we send when inviting students to Let us take joy in one another, and remember to count each day the contributed to Salvation Army efforts, something together without seeking apply to this university. It must continue through the processes we employ blessings of liberty, the beauty of this lovely campus, the memories of our while the Charlotte, N.C., crowd reward is a value we all share. Whether and the decisions we make in deciding whom to admit to this university. bright college years, the gift of our families and our friendships. worked with a crisis ministry program. we learn it in our time at Furman It must extend to all the classes we engage and the experiences we embrace As you, our students, become our future, as you grow in mind and In Philadelphia Furman was well (in or out of the classroom) or come once students are enrolled at this university. spirit to assume positions of leadership and service, may you never surrender represented in the Nephrotic Syndrome with prior understanding, each of us We cannot plausibly claim that we educate both the mind and the the joy, the sweet innocence of childhood, the delight that you and your charity walk, while in Washington, can re!ect on some time during our spirit, that we graduate students with an academic degree and a degree parents and teachers felt as you #rst experienced the magic of discovery, D.C., alumni and friends helped with a walk for the homeless. Greenville Furman careers where we were asked or required to fully engage in a task in character, unless we intentionally seek out students who yearn for from the electric charge of the lightning bolt to the enchanting charm Paladins volunteered with the American Diabetes Association charity larger than ourselves without expecting anything in return. engagement in both. We cannot ask our students, once they have joined of the lightning bug. run, and the Jacksonville group was involved with a program for the “I came to celebrate, build and share that bond with alumni, parents us, to think of themselves as more than numbers unless we #rst think of May all who have been touched by the Furman experience, from those physically challenged. and students. I hope that I will be able to some day grasp a small amount applicants as more than numbers when we invite them to join us. Furman graduates now in their 90s to those future Furman graduates born Habitat for Humanity in Columbus, Ga., was also a bene#ciary of of the sel!essness I found in talking to Furman alumni during this project.” in the ’90s, be emboldened by the words of two Dylans. By the poetry of the Day of Service. Cindy Black Sparks ’80, a member of the Alumni Katie Martin Krieg ’04 provided an additional perspective: “I am so nd if, as a university, we are serious about attracting a more diverse Dylan Thomas, who urged that we not go gentle into that good night, and Association board, #led this report on the Columbus group’s experience: proud to be an alumna of a university that strongly encourages service. student body — a student body enriched by peoples of all cultures of the songwriter Bob Dylan, who expressed in song what I express for you It was great to work with Furman friends to help make our local community A and by members of all the great religions of the world, a student as my closing prayer: Alumni old and young, current students, parents, and other friends a little better.” body that transcends lines of nationality, race, religion, ethnicity, sex, of Furman joined forces in Columbus for the Day of Service in honor of There is, indeed, something about the Furman Family that draws disability, politics and poverty, a student body representative of all parts May God Bless and Keep You Always President Smolla. Wearing our Furman caps and commemorative bandanas, people together. Even if it’s just passing a car with a Furman decal or of our country and all countries of the world, a student body truly engaged May your wishes all come true 20 of us enjoyed catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. seeing someone in a purple T-shirt, we immediately feel a connection. in mind and spirit — then we must ful#ll the promise of that diversity and May you always do for others We did our share of work, too, raising the exterior walls of a house At our Day of Service, we made new friends, renewed old acquain- that engagement once our students arrive. And let others do for you being built for an excited new homeowner. As we worked, we shared tances, created special memories, and pitched in to support a great Diversity is a shallow and hollow achievement if those who comprise May you build a ladder to the stars Furman stories, talking about which couples had become engaged during cause. It was a pleasure to celebrate President Smolla’s inauguration by the community do not genuinely engage, interact and experience one And climb on every rung their Furman years, who knew whom in school, and which dorms everyone demonstrating Furman’s never-ending traditions of service, support and another once here. Diversity becomes for the university itself a mere cre- May you stay lived (or lives) in. We also got the lowdown on the latest fraternity and community outreach. |F| dential, a mere statistic, if as a university community we do not encourage Forever young. |F| sorority escapades.

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FM10 Fall issue.indd 8-9 11/2/10 4:40 PM rights attached to the Nobel Prize, but for the our students, our faculty, our staff and our alumni to underlying betterment of humankind, the scienti#c cross divides of generations and geography, of faith and discovery, the literary masterpiece, or the promotion politics, and to listen to one another with authentically A Furman-style Day of Service of peace for which the prize was awarded. So, too, at open minds and hearts. Furman we would take deep pride in another national Let us be a community that moves beyond mere championship in any of our intercollegiate sports — grudging tolerance or forced politeness into the realm Up and down the eastern half of the nation, from Philadelphia not for the banner we hang in the arena or the trophy of generous and genuine respect. As the great and we place in the trophy case, but for the sacri#ce, soulful Aretha Franklin spelled it out: “R-E-S-P-E-C-T, to Jacksonville and points in between, alumni and friends turned out discipline, striving and character that the banner #nd out what it means to me!” or trophy represents. Respect is at the heart of the liberal arts tradition. for a Day of Service to kick off the university’s Inauguration Week. To our students I thus say: For Furman to really CHARLIE REGISTER Respect is at the heart of American democracy. For all matter to you, its meaning must extend beyond what our differences and divisions, what we in America may appears on your transcript, beyond the recitation of a major, a degree or a most proudly and with unalloyed unity proclaim is our collective passion grade point average. For Furman to really matter to you, it must touch both for democracy, for equality, for freedom of speech, for freedom of religion, hen alumni and friends George Flowers ’13 joined us while your mind and your spirit, shape both your intellect and your character. for respect for human dignity. were invited to model one home from Furman on fall break. He This effort must be a partnership. Furman cannot implore you to be Let all of us in higher education be keepers of that !ame. As we Wof Furman’s core values — offered some astute observations about engaged in mind and spirit if Furman is not engaged in mind and spirit. participate in the global marketplace — in the global community — service — in honor of Rod Smolla’s the meaning of our efforts. We cannot implore you, our students, to refrain from thinking of your let us be a beacon of civility, compassion and respect. inauguration, they responded October He wrote, “The Habitat build education as a compilation of numbers — as the acquisition of credentials Let that respect come from our deepest beliefs in the essential dignity 16 by taking part in a variety of projects displayed a characteristic that is — unless we refrain from de#ning you as numbers or credentials. and the essential worth of every human being. and activities. embedded in the foundation of This must begin even before our students arrive. It must begin with And lastly, let us not forget the joy. In Nashville, Tenn., Furman folks the Furman community. Creating the values we profess and the messages we send when inviting students to Let us take joy in one another, and remember to count each day the contributed to Salvation Army efforts, something together without seeking apply to this university. It must continue through the processes we employ blessings of liberty, the beauty of this lovely campus, the memories of our while the Charlotte, N.C., crowd reward is a value we all share. Whether and the decisions we make in deciding whom to admit to this university. bright college years, the gift of our families and our friendships. worked with a crisis ministry program. we learn it in our time at Furman It must extend to all the classes we engage and the experiences we embrace As you, our students, become our future, as you grow in mind and In Philadelphia Furman was well (in or out of the classroom) or come once students are enrolled at this university. spirit to assume positions of leadership and service, may you never surrender represented in the Nephrotic Syndrome with prior understanding, each of us We cannot plausibly claim that we educate both the mind and the the joy, the sweet innocence of childhood, the delight that you and your charity walk, while in Washington, can re!ect on some time during our spirit, that we graduate students with an academic degree and a degree parents and teachers felt as you #rst experienced the magic of discovery, D.C., alumni and friends helped with a walk for the homeless. Greenville Furman careers where we were asked or required to fully engage in a task in character, unless we intentionally seek out students who yearn for from the electric charge of the lightning bolt to the enchanting charm Paladins volunteered with the American Diabetes Association charity larger than ourselves without expecting anything in return. engagement in both. We cannot ask our students, once they have joined of the lightning bug. run, and the Jacksonville group was involved with a program for the “I came to celebrate, build and share that bond with alumni, parents us, to think of themselves as more than numbers unless we #rst think of May all who have been touched by the Furman experience, from those physically challenged. and students. I hope that I will be able to some day grasp a small amount applicants as more than numbers when we invite them to join us. Furman graduates now in their 90s to those future Furman graduates born Habitat for Humanity in Columbus, Ga., was also a bene#ciary of of the sel!essness I found in talking to Furman alumni during this project.” in the ’90s, be emboldened by the words of two Dylans. By the poetry of the Day of Service. Cindy Black Sparks ’80, a member of the Alumni Katie Martin Krieg ’04 provided an additional perspective: “I am so nd if, as a university, we are serious about attracting a more diverse Dylan Thomas, who urged that we not go gentle into that good night, and Association board, #led this report on the Columbus group’s experience: proud to be an alumna of a university that strongly encourages service. student body — a student body enriched by peoples of all cultures of the songwriter Bob Dylan, who expressed in song what I express for you It was great to work with Furman friends to help make our local community A and by members of all the great religions of the world, a student as my closing prayer: Alumni old and young, current students, parents, and other friends a little better.” body that transcends lines of nationality, race, religion, ethnicity, sex, of Furman joined forces in Columbus for the Day of Service in honor of There is, indeed, something about the Furman Family that draws disability, politics and poverty, a student body representative of all parts May God Bless and Keep You Always President Smolla. Wearing our Furman caps and commemorative bandanas, people together. Even if it’s just passing a car with a Furman decal or of our country and all countries of the world, a student body truly engaged May your wishes all come true 20 of us enjoyed catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. seeing someone in a purple T-shirt, we immediately feel a connection. in mind and spirit — then we must ful#ll the promise of that diversity and May you always do for others We did our share of work, too, raising the exterior walls of a house At our Day of Service, we made new friends, renewed old acquain- that engagement once our students arrive. And let others do for you being built for an excited new homeowner. As we worked, we shared tances, created special memories, and pitched in to support a great Diversity is a shallow and hollow achievement if those who comprise May you build a ladder to the stars Furman stories, talking about which couples had become engaged during cause. It was a pleasure to celebrate President Smolla’s inauguration by the community do not genuinely engage, interact and experience one And climb on every rung their Furman years, who knew whom in school, and which dorms everyone demonstrating Furman’s never-ending traditions of service, support and another once here. Diversity becomes for the university itself a mere cre- May you stay lived (or lives) in. We also got the lowdown on the latest fraternity and community outreach. |F| dential, a mere statistic, if as a university community we do not encourage Forever young. |F| sorority escapades.

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nce upon a time, a long, long time ago, Furman was a football power that competed consistently against Clemson, South Carolina and Georgia. And Manly Field was its home.

F$% &' ()*%+, from the #rst home game of the 1,600 saw Furman play Oglethorpe College there 1919 season until the last hurrah — a victory over on October 4, 1919. Every seat in the home-team The Citadel on October 10, 1936 — “one of the grandstand on the west side of the newly graded most splendid athletic #elds in the South” was #eld was #lled. (No other seats were provided.) home to many of Furman’s #nest football hours. A sportswriter, impressed that “the full #eld is Located at the northeast corner of the seen at a glance from the concrete stands imbed- downtown campus, about where Greenville’s ded in soil in amphitheatre style,” described the Family Court building is today, Manly Field facility as “a marvel of beauty where no expense was a modest structure. But since it offered has been spared.” seating, an amenity unavailable at “the athletic The grandstand lacked a roof, although trees grounds on Augusta Road beyond Prentis surrounding the #eld may have offered some shade. Avenue” that had served the team since football At the 4 p.m. kickoff the temperature was 88 was reinstated as a varsity sport in 1913, it was degrees, but neither heat nor broiling sun affected enthusiastically welcomed. the Furman players, as they defeated Oglethorpe In 1916, the board of trustees, notoriously 13-0 and started a 17-year tradition. tight with money, agreed that the alumni-run The statistics speak loudly: eight state Athletic Association could raise funds to con- championships, a record of 124 wins, 42 losses struct a football #eld to be named for Furman’s and 7 ties, and no losing season. (A 5-5 record in second president, Charles M. Manly. The boosters 1924 was redeemed by consecutive end-of-the-year went right to work, receiving $30,000 in pledges home victories over Clemson, South Carolina and from “alumni, friends, and interested people” the University of Mississippi.) within a year and a half, but #rst the war in Europe The #rst eight years under W.L. (Billy) and then Spanish in!uenza slowed construction. Laval represented a golden age. Laval compiled Early in 1919, though, Gallivan Construction Co. a 69-19-3 record, beat Clemson and Carolina six promised to complete the job in time for the fall times each, and coached the 1927 squad to a 10-1 football season. record, including a 38-7 victory over Miami in the It did so, and a record-breaking crowd of predecessor to the Orange Bowl.

by Judith T. Bainbridge

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nce upon a time, a long, long time ago, Furman was a football power that competed consistently against Clemson, South Carolina and Georgia. And Manly Field was its home.

by Judith T. Bainbridge

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FM10 Fall issue.indd 10-11 11/2/10 4:40 PM Walk of Fame Norwood Cleveland’s Victory March

s a young man, Norwood Cleveland was a devoted Furman Afootball fan — so devoted that, in October of 1926, he made a bold promise. At a Furman practice, Cleveland, a member of the Class of 1913, vowed that should the Hurricane upset Georgia in Athens — a rare accomplishment for the teams of that day — he would walk the 101 miles back to Greenville. You guessed it. On October 16, W.L. Laval’s squad stunned Georgia 14–7. The Greenville News reported that “men close to the team believe [Cleveland’s] promise substantially aided Furman’s morale in the con"ict.” And Cleveland was ready to make good on his commitment. Years later, in a 1972 interview with the News, the 81-year-old Cleveland described the situation. “There was no getting out of it,” he said. The paper had reported on his promise, “and everybody knew about it.” So he cheerfully began the journey from the goalpost *,*-’+ +.//)++ launched the university Endowment, the university would not have Although its size and reputation were at Georgia’s Sanford Field. A friend who had joined him at the into big-time college football. While growing, Furman was still a small school with a survived. But football fever still burned. game agreed to accompany him on the !rst leg, and they made Furman continued to play state teams, small team. The 1927 squad, for example, had no In!uential trustees and alumni soon grew l unhappy with Manly Field. There wasn’t enough it to Royston. The next day, Cleveland crossed the state line and other Southern Baptist colleges (Richmond, man weighing more than 195 pounds. Most were Wake Forest, Mercer), and Presbyterian rival under 160, and one player was described (not seating, they complained. Because the #eld had marched into Anderson. Davidson, under Laval it also scheduled (and lost ironically) as a “towering 6-foot-two-incher.” never been sodded, injuries could be harsh. And Initially, Cleveland recalled, he had planned to do the walk to) Alabama, Georgetown, West Virginia, Army Sports administration was equally spare. federal funds were available. in three days, but arrangements could not be made for a Tuesday and Bucknell, and defeated Virginia, Florida and A non-paid “graduate athletic manager,” Alester Although Furman president Bennette E. celebration. So “they sent a couple of reporters from the News even (once) Georgia. That win was really the big G. Furman, Jr., was, in effect, athletic director. Geer was opposed, in 1934 the trustees voted to down to get me to put it off for a day.” time, since the Bulldogs consistently stomped on Laval coached football, basketball and baseball seek funds to build a new, bigger stadium. They There was just one problem. An acquaintance had made the Hurricane. without an assistant. mortgaged property and borrowed $20,000 from a $10 wager that “Naughty” could make it home in three days, In his history of Greenville County, A.V. Even when the University of South Carolina the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. to buy the land. and Cleveland didn’t want him to lose the bet. An agreement was Huff, former dean and professor of history at On Halloween Day in 1936, Furman christened lured Laval away after the 1927 season, the reached, however, and Cleveland remained in Anderson the extra Furman, tells the story of alumnus Norwood Hurricane (also called the Purple Dervishes, Sirrine Stadium with a victory over Davidson. night, where, he said, he spent most of his time “in a hot tub of Cleveland, who swore that if his team #nally Purple Paladins, Purple People and, later, the Manly Field was not abandoned. It hosted water resting my feet.” beat Georgia, he would walk the 101 miles House of Magic) continued their winning ways Sally League baseball games, served as Furman’s Virtually the entire student body and several hundred from Athens to Greenville. When Furman under #rst T.B. Amis (1928-1931) and then A.P. football practice #eld, and became the university’s accomplished that seemingly impossible feat in “Dizzy” McLeod. ROTC drill ground. But never again would it townfolk turned out to greet his arrival at Manly Field October 1926, Cleveland began hoo#ng his way north. Manly Field served them well. Seating was echo with cheers of celebration or witness such 20 — recorded at 4:12 p.m. He was met with cheers of “Naughty, Four days later, he entered Manly Field to the inexpensively expanded with wooden bleachers, golden victories. |F| you’re the best sport in Greenville,” treated to a parade down applause of the entire student body — and several and a press box with broadcasting facilities was Main Street, crowned “king of sports,” and presented a football hundred Greenvillians. (See accompanying story.) installed above the grandstand. In 1929, 5,000 This article !rst appeared in The Greenville News. autographed by the Furman team. “They even had me in the movie Perhaps coincidentally, the university as a fans watched Furman beat Erskine 19-6 in South Reprinted with permission of the author, a professor newsreels downtown,” he recalled. For his part, Cleveland had told whole improved dramatically during the golden Carolina’s #rst night football game, lighted by emerita of English at Furman. Photos courtesy the paper that he felt “joy in every step.” Furman Digicenter/Special Collections and Archives. Laval years. It became one of the four collegiate 1,000-watt bulbs mounted on 14 posts. He went on to serve as postmaster of Marietta, S.C., for 39 bene#ciaries of The Duke Endowment, ensuring Night lights burned in Old Main of#ces years and remained a staunch Furman supporter throughout his its future; it was accredited for the #rst time; in the years of the Great Depression, as life. When he died in 1987, his obituary listed his greatest claim President Joseph McGlothlin built #ve new build- administrators tried to balance books and pay to fame as his walk from Athens to Greenville. ings, doubling campus facilities; and enrollment faculty salaries. Enrollment fell and Furman’s tripled from about 250 to more than 750. debt increased. Without funds from The Duke — JIM STEWART

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FM10 Fall issue.indd 12-13 11/2/10 4:40 PM After trying to make sense of the world from an intellectual point of view, By Andy Peters Paul Wallace now tackles the tough questions from a spiritual perspective.

aul Wallace spent a decade teaching Berry College students about quantum mechanics, general relativity and the history of astronomy. Before he became a professor, Wallace received training as an experimental nuclearP physicist on a particle accelerator at Duke University, where he earned his Ph.D. He later worked alongside NASA scientists analyzing data gathered from a gamma-ray observatory. Wallace chose that career path because, according to friends and family members, he has always been preoccupied with #guring out how the world works. But over the past decade, Wallace gradually realized that those intellectual pursuits weren’t answering the questions that he really wanted answered. Speci#cally, he decided he wanted to combine his academic foundation in physics with his Christian faith in an effort to reconcile science and religion. In a nutshell, Wallace wants to know the answers to life, the universe and, in general, everything. “I felt like I had gotten from science all I could get from it,” he says. “The questions I wanted to address weren’t really answered by science, questions of meaning and purpose. I don’t think scienti#c understanding is the only understanding that is important.” So Wallace, a 1990 Furman graduate, did what his professional colleagues and many family members least expected of him. In 2008 he quit his tenured job as an associate professor at Berry Through an Emory University program, Paul Wallace traveled to India to enroll in divinity school. to share his knowledge of physics with exiled Tibetan Buddhists. The career switch doesn’t include plans for Wallace, a 42-year- old father of three, to take a steady-paying job as a church pastor Keith Pierce ’88, a Furman friend who is married to Wallace’s or a hospital chaplain, even though he will be ordained as a Baptist sister, Kristen, says, “Paul gave up the kind of security most of us minister in 2011. dream of for the leap of faith in which he still #nds himself. It was Instead, he wants to pursue a ministry that primarily involves a scary move, and most people I know couldn’t sacri#ce that kind writing for his blog, “Positive Science/Negative Theology,” which, of security to follow their call.” among other things, engages its readers in dialogues about how But another of Wallace’s Furman friends, Jerry Salley ’90, isn’t they reconcile their Christian faith with evolution and other surprised by the unorthodox career move. Nor is Salley !ummoxed theories of science, and takes a critical look at pseudoscience, by his friend’s apparent lack of concern about what people think of such as creationism. He plans eventually to convert the ideas, his decision. discussions and stories on his blog into a book. Visit the blog “Without even mentioning a name, if you had told me about at http://psnt.net/blog. a physics Ph.D. who was leaving his tenured professorship to enter Wallace, an Atlanta native, says his wife, Elizabeth Sides divinity school, I would have said, ‘Hmm, that sounds like Paul Wallace ’91, “thinks I’m crazy. Some family members do, too.” But Wallace,’ ” says Salley, who was Wallace’s bandmate in the punk- he also points out that Elizabeth believes in him enough that she rock group Biffen Gjaney that formed at Furman in 1989. “As far as left her own job to return with him to his hometown while he I can tell, Paul never #t anybody’s exact model of anything, nor was enrolled in seminary. he particularly concerned with doing so.”

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FM10 Fall issue.indd 14-15 11/2/10 4:40 PM After trying to make sense of the world from an intellectual point of view, By Andy Peters Paul Wallace now tackles the tough questions from a spiritual perspective.

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FM10 Fall issue.indd 14-15 11/2/10 4:40 PM Wallace uses his blog to display an unwavering tolerance of ideas from all corners of intellectual thought, from cutting-edge particle physics to the attempts by the Creation Museum of Kentucky to disprove the theory of evolution. His goal is to try to answer the ultimate questions about our existence.

y happy coincidence, less than two years after he dropped changed over time. In earlier blog posts he said he was a Christian B his gig as a professional physicist, Wallace was asked to put in practice and a Buddhist at heart. into direct application his fascination with how science and “I never wanted to be a Buddhist. I’m embarrassed to say religion interact. how fascinated I am with Buddhism,” Wallace says, adding that After leaving Berry, Wallace enrolled in Emory University’s sometimes he feels as if he’s “sleeping around” on Christianity. Candler School of Theology. In 1998 Emory, through its Wallace says he and the Buddhist monks enjoyed interesting longstanding relationship with the Dalai Lama, established exchanges about theories of physics. Although the monks had been the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative to “expand the horizons exposed to modern science during their childhood years, some of knowledge for Tibetan monks and nuns” and to provide a concepts were completely new to them. Wallace’s description of comprehensive education in Western science, according to the subtle points of Einstein’s theories of general relativity and special university. To carry out that mission, the university regularly sends relativity prompted one monk to tell him, “You are in error.” faculty members to India to teach science to the Tibetan Buddhist Wallace was later able to explain the concepts to the skeptical monks and nuns who are living in exile from the People’s Republic monk’s satisfaction. of China, which occupies Tibetan territory. But the monks were receptive to many other theories of Through Candler School connections, people involved in physics and astronomy, such as the existence of black holes. Part the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative became aware of Wallace’s of the reason they were so receptive, Wallace says, is that scienti#c background in physics. When an Emory faculty member who was tenets don’t challenge the principles of Buddhism. scheduled to travel to India as part of the 2010 summer program “None of those things con!icted with their Buddhist beliefs,” backed out because of a professional con!ict, Wallace was asked he points out. “They don’t have a problem with the idea of a A meeting with the Dalai Lama was a highlight for Wallace and his fellow teachers and translators. to take his place. time machine.” Once again, he found himself teaching astronomy — only this The Institute for Creation Research, a Dallas-based group Some of his blog writings provide evidence that Wallace time his classroom was located near the village of Dharamsala in allace’s interest in Buddhism is rooted partly in its similarity that promotes Biblical creationism, tries to make the argument is a prime example of a Furman student who really took the the Himalayan foothills of northern India, and his students were Wto science. Buddhism has a “pragmatic, empirical, no- that the Earth’s position in the Universe is “located at a very concept of a liberal arts education seriously. One post explores Tibetan monks who dressed in dark red robes and sat on the !oor. nonsense” approach to daily life, he says, and the Buddha didn’t special location by design.” the notion of symbolism by seamlessly fusing ideas from the Wallace’s lectures, about the life cycles of stars, were translated by ask questions like “Where is God?” or “Where did the world come “That’s a big no-can-do, crackerjack,” Wallace writes. “The Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte with the mathematical a Tibetan interpreter. from?” because those questions didn’t help him reach his goal of people who write this stuff know that their arguments are non- equation from quantum mechanics used to describe the wave Wallace spent two weeks in India, where he ate plenty of relieving the suffering of others. sense. They’re much too smart to believe this stuff. It’s politics, function of subatomic particles. Indian food and tolerated two four-hour taxi rides between Delhi While Buddhism may not be concerned with these types of folks, not science.” More than anything, though, Wallace uses his blog to display and the village near Dharamsala in which the taxi driver attacked metaphysical questions, Wallace is. He wrestles with them on his But Wallace’s blog is far from limited to poking holes in an unwavering tolerance of ideas from all corners of intellectual the roads as if he were playing a video game. blog and plans to address them in his book. Having tried to make ideological warriors like the Institute for Creation Research, thought, from cutting-edge particle physics to the attempts by The India trip was especially poignant for Wallace for sense of the world from the intellectual point of view, he now although when he does sharpen his knives, he douses his critiques the Creation Museum of Kentucky to disprove the theory of evo- another reason. Long before his visit wants to tackle those questions from the spiritual perspective. with an ample portion of humor and wit. Many of his posts are lution. His goal is to try to answer the ultimate questions about there, he had developed a profound “I’m a dig-down-deep kind of person,” Wallace says, “and personal and discuss sensitive topics, such as the reasons he aban- our existence. and in many ways uncomfortable purely scienti#c questions are not what captivate me anymore.” doned Christianity while at Furman, the conversations he had The task is one that many people, of course, would #nd fascination with Buddhism. Many of Instead, he is now more interested in how the religious beliefs with believers while still in college, and how those conversations intimidating and daunting. Good thing there’s someone like the posts on Wallace’s blog deal with of people of faith are affected — either positively or negatively — helped him return to his faith. Wallace who is willing to take on the challenge, says Jerry Salley, his exploration of Buddhism and his by the discoveries of modern science. Nor is “Positive Science/Negative Theology” con#ned to the Wallace’s bandmate and friend at Furman. interest in interfaith dialogue. As is evident throughout his blog, Wallace doesn’t have much musings !oating around in Wallace’s brain. Many posts #nd him “Science and faith don’t always seem to mix together very His engagement with Buddhism patience with the purveyors of pseudosciences like creationism. responding to intellectual ideas from a wide range of sources, such well,” Salley says, “but if there’s one person I’d trust with both has become so intense that he calls In one of his postings, he compares a passage from the Institute as one entry about the philosopher-psychologist William James’ of them, it’s Paul.” |F| himself “a Christian with a Buddhist for Creation Research about Earth’s position in the universe to descriptions of mystical experiences. Wallace is also engaged in an resonance.” Moreover, the way he an absurdist skit from the English comedy troupe Monty Python. ongoing on-line discussion with an atheist in Tokyo about whether The author, a 1992 Furman graduate, is a reporter for the Fulton describes his religious beliefs has The comparison isn’t meant to be !attering. to trust your own mystical experiences. County (Ga.) Daily Report. Photos courtesy Paul Wallace.

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FM10 Fall issue.indd 16-17 11/2/10 4:40 PM A trip to Oxford, Mississippi, offers students the chance to experience FAULKNER’S WORLD !rsthand the area that inspired the Nobel laureate’s work.

By Martin Gramling ulling off Interstate 78 onto one of the left purposefully dilapidated) to his imposingly PMississippi backroads that presumably would columned front porch. deposit us pilgrims in Oxford, our Jerusalem, We toured the house and grounds, but it was was a surreal experience. the porch that most captivated my imagination. Interstate highways are always safe territory The front porch was the great inculcator of the no matter what strange country they may traverse. southern oral tradition which is at the foundation To exit the interstate, however, is an act of faith of so much of Faulkner’s writing. It was the stage on and fortitude, especially in a place like Mississippi, which the southern bards told their stories. As we a place-name which even for a South Carolina milled about the grounds, I could imagine a silver- boy evokes tall tales of gruesome exoticism. haired, exquisitely mustached Faulkner reclining in As our car turned onto a narrow tree-shaded the late evening on the porch with a glass of bourbon, lane, which according to a faded road sign led to half-listening to some friend’s tall tale while musing a place called “Pontotoc” (a neighbor of Oxford, intently upon the peculiar nature of the evening light we could only pray), I was reminded of William in August. Faulkner’s translation of Agamemnon’s lament to Ulysses: “As I lay dying, the woman with dog’s ot every aspect of our trip was strictly tied to eyes refused to close my eyes for me as I went NFaulkner. One afternoon Dr. Pate suggested down to Hades.” we visit a small dairy farm a few miles outside of Led by English professor Willard Pate, whose Oxford, near the area Faulkner called Frenchman’s passion for Faulkner knows no bounds, our class had Bend. The farm did, however, have a literary con- spent the 2010 spring semester studying the author’s nection; it was run by Billy Ray Brown, son of the semi-#ctional Yoknapatawpha County. Now eight of late Larry Brown, a novelist, two-time recipient us had come to Lafayette County, not only because it of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, and was Faulkner’s home, but because Lafayette County author of a book of essays called Billy Ray’s Farm. is Yoknapatawpha County, and Oxford is Faulkner’s The farm was picture perfect, set in a golden town of Jefferson. The characters and locations in sea of blooming wild!owers and anchored by an old such novels as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying white farmhouse. As we stepped out of our cars three and Absalom, Absalom! are modeled on the real small children charged down from the front porch people and places among whom Faulkner lived. and breathlessly introduced themselves. Blonde, Faulkner’s most famous line reminds us: “The 7-year-old Molly was recovering from a recent visit past is never dead. It is not even past.” And indeed, from the tooth fairy. Her sister Emily, 6, was an the past hangs heavy over Mississippi. aspiring teacher. Harris, a dusty 3-year-old boy, was Vestiges of Faulkner’s life and times still haunt less enthusiastic about our intrusion and repeatedly the landscape. The sacred shrine of our pilgrimage wandered off to play with his trucks in a mud puddle. was Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s home in Oxford, which I’m normally no fan of small creatures that make has been preserved almost exactly as it was when loud noises, but these children quickly captured my he died in 1962. Cedar trees, those ever-present heart as they swept us off on a whirlwind tour of the sentinels of southern graveyards, lined the gravel farm. “These are the chickens!” “Here’s the hog!” drive through the ruined garden (which Faulkner “One of the cows just had a baby. Wanna see?”

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FM10 Fall issue.indd 18-19 11/2/10 4:41 PM Perhaps the greatest difference between the real and !ctional counties is that Yoknapatawpha is timeless, but Lafayette is not. Yoknapatawpha will always be available for exploration and discovery, but the Lafayette County that Faulkner knew will eventually disappear.

Of course we wanted to see, so Molly Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha — characters something undeniably saddening about and Emily introduced us to Harris Junior, quickened by the same loves and hatreds all this, and it reminds me of the changes a spindly legged, confused-looking bull and fears and jealousies that animated in the area of my childhood in upstate calf that epitomized the sort of warmth the real inhabitants of Lafayette County. South Carolina, where the once endless and fuzziness that attracts suburbanites to Part of Faulkner’s genius was his ability rows of peach trees continue their long the idea of farming. It’s the same sort of to create characters and places that could retreat before the onslaught of suburbia, warmth and fuzziness that little boys are carry the heavy weight of his symbolism their verdant shadows relegated to innately motivated to destroy, and Harris while remaining realistic and believable. isolated patches tenuously holding out Senior, now provided with an audience, The locations might be spied along the against extinction. was no exception. He climbed the dusty roads of Lafayette County, and the Yet with this destruction comes a fence, ran up to the calf, and kicked the characters could well be walking the streets kind of renewal. More than old buildings defenseless animal squarely in the nose. of Oxford. are passing away in Mississippi and This brazen act of aggression elicited Perhaps the greatest difference between throughout the South; so too is the old gasps and even screams from the audience, the real and #ctional counties is that social order. which only encouraged the young ruf#an Yoknapatawpha is timeless, but Lafayette is When we visited the University to follow up his #rst assault by hurling an not. Yoknapatawpha will always be available of Mississippi, we saw the monument empty plastic bucket at Harris Junior. The calf, Mrs. Brown instructed us in the basics of for exploration and discovery, but the Lafayette to James Meredith, whose admission which was actually taller than the boy (making dairy farming. It’s an intensive process; the cows County that Faulkner knew will eventually to the university in 1962 provoked the kick that much more impressive), did not must be milked every day, “including Christmas disappear. Farmlands will give way to suburbs massive riots. If the physical reality of seem overly shaken by the attack, but Harris and Easter,” she reminded us. We were invited (to “row after row of small crowded jerrybuilt Yoknapatawpha County is fading into had made his point. His dominance asserted, he to become involved in a hands-on way. I confess individually owned demiurban bungalows,” oblivion, so too are the rancid injustices climbed back over the fence, kicked off his boots, that my skill at milking cows is somewhat lacking, to quote The Sound and the Fury), and the last of the racial, sexual, and economic and returned to the solitude of his mud puddle. a fact that Molly and Emily made sure to rub country store will close or be transformed by system that shaped and destroyed the lives of No, Mississippi is not Hades. In fact, the classes he took in history and English — the Molly and Emily now had us #rmly within in my face. the forces of Disney#ed historicism into such Faulkner creations as Joe Christmas, Lucas as I thought as our car merged back onto former for showing him that “a life devoted to the their power. They issued each of us a nickname We did enjoy tasting the end product. Nor- a kitschy gift shop/museum — perhaps a fate Beauchamp, and the Compsons, McCaslins, Interstate 78 to head for home, it is inexplicably study of ninth century Norman clerical vestments is so they could better keep track of us. Jane- mally I don’t drink milk, except in conjunction worse than even the bulldozer. Bundrens and Sutpens. compelling. As #eld and tree again gave way not, in fact, wasted,” and the latter for encouraging Allison was rechristened “Jennifer,” Jill became with a sugary breakfast cereal, but the stuff We witnessed this process #rsthand. The Lafayette County that Faulkner to asphalt and automobile, I thought I could in him “a pernicious vanity called writing.” “Princess,” and Mary Elizabeth was inexplicably produced by the Brown farm was something Dr. Pate, a frequent visitor to the area, men- knew may have passed out of existence to join be perfectly happy spending every day of my named “Toothless.” The little girls had little divine. Ice-cold, unhomogenized, and de#nitely tioned as many structures that “used to be here” his solely owned Yoknapatawpha in the realm life sipping bourbon with Billy Faulkner on his Photo of William Faulkner: Library of Congress, use for Calvin and me — Calvin was renamed whole, its rich, smooth !ow was something of as she did those still standing. “There used of legend and myth, but with it has expired front porch, while Billy Ray’s kids run squealing Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten “Meanie,” while I fared better with “Bob” — an epiphany. to be a big white house here,” on a spot now the long and brutal reign of those garrulous through the yard. Collection (reproduction number, e.g., LC- and we were soon ejected from the games occupied by a mobile home (with a tacked-on old ghosts. And I don’t even like bourbon. Or kids. |F| USZ62-54231). Other photos by Willard Pate. of the group. he sun was sinking low in the sky when we porch wider than the actual residence). “I think Mississippi is not, in fact, Hades. But there I used this opportunity to try to track down T#nally left the farm, with Molly and Emily there’s still an old dogtrot house over there,” does hang about some parts of Lafayette County This article appeared in its original form in Engage someone on the farm who had progressed beyond begging us to stay. Harris merely glanced toward but it was gone. something otherworldly, and around its neatly magazine, Volume 6, Issue 3, a publication of the the #rst grade. It turned out there was only one us from his mud puddle. In the Ripley Cemetery, the stern statue tilled postage stamps of farmland something Of!ce of Admission. The author (pink shirt above), — Paula Brown, the children’s mother and wife As we pulled away, it occurred to me that of Faulkner’s great-grandfather now looks out almost primordial, as though here survives some a 2010 graduate from Charleston, S.C., works for of Billy Ray, who was away tending vegetables here were some of the same sorts of people over a Dollar General and Pizza Hut set amid antique vestige of rural America before the an international design-build company. Although he and securing pizza for dinner. that inspired the characters that populated an ashen sea of empty parking spaces. There’s triumph of suburbs. majored in political science, he says he most enjoyed

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CAMPAIGN: Not such Parents, grandparents accept challenge, surpass $1 million in gifts an intimidating word THE 2009-10 FISCAL YEAR proved to be sustainability, student life, performing and #ne great commitment parents and grandparents a milestone in fundraising among current and arts, scholarships, and service learning.” make to support the university’s mission. We WHEN THE WORD “campaign” is mentioned former Furman parents and grandparents. Much of the impetus for the success of are proud of the strong support we’ve shown, in relation to a fundraising drive, some people For the #rst time, they combined to con- the Parents Fund drive came from a challenge and we look forward to providing continued immediately think only of large, transforming tribute more than $1 million to the university introduced by the Parents Campaign Committee, support for daily operations.” gifts. But most successful capital campaigns are to support annual operating needs. chaired by John and Ellen Yates. The committee In all, Furman parents and grandparents made up of many gifts from a variety of donors. “Furman parents and grandparents continue issued a $50,000 challenge to members of have contributed almost $25 million toward The ambitious $400 million Because to see #rsthand the difference their contributions Parents Council, the volunteer leadership group the $400 million Because Furman Matters Furman Matters campaign will reach its goal make in the educational experiences of their of current Furman parents. Parents Council, campaign. if donors support the campaign with gifts that #t students,” says Judy Wilson, director of parents chaired by Buck and Debbie Wearn, matched into their particular philanthropic comfort zones. programs. “These funds support a wide variety the PCC challenge with an additional $50,000 Visit www.furman.edu/parents or e-mail Corporations and foundations tend to of programs, including study away, athletics, in leadership gifts. [email protected] to learn more about provide support to schools that have a signi#cant undergraduate research and internships, Says Buck Wearn, “Furman recognizes the parents programs. level of participation in their annual giving programs. They rarely ask, “How much did your alumni give?” Rather, they ask, “How many of

your alumni made a gift to the university last UNIVERSITY FOREST BENNETT/WAKE KEN year?” So no matter the size of your gift, it can lead to even greater support for the university. Campaign progress to date $300 ORIGINAL GOAL Friends help Bob Swofford’s legacy live on $275 ! What exactly does a gift of, say, $50 do for ! COMMITTED a Furman student? Here are some possibilities: BOB SWOFFORD was a member of an him every day. . . . [He] will be remembered for FURMAN IS MORE than three-quarters of the way (TO DATE) toward completing the $400 million Because Furman $250 ! Pay a conference registration fee so a student impressive group of chemistry graduates in his gentle spirit, his intellectual curiosity, and can make a research presentation. Furman’s Class of 1969. He and the six other his beautiful singing voice.” Matters campaign. $215 At the close of the 2009-10 #scal year June 30, ! Buy a publication or journal subscription. chemistry majors in the class — Coleman Swofford considered the Furman chemistry $200 the university had raised $307.5 million in gifts and ! Help equip a classroom. Arnold, Dan Dennison, Jerry Dillashaw, Robert department’s summer research program to pledges, and had celebrated such achievements as ! Purchase a musical arrangement for a McKeown, Bob Posey and David Shull — all be a major factor in launching his career as a conducting class or performing ensemble. went on to earn either doctorates or medical scientist and educator. Knowing of his respect the dedication of the Townes Center for Science, $150 the launch of a permanent endowment for the Lilly ! Provide fabric for costuming or pay the degrees. for the Furman program, friends and family royalties for a theatrical performance. Swofford received his Ph.D. in chemistry have created the Robert L. Swofford Endowed Center for Vocational Re!ection, and the creation of Furman United, a scholarship fund to aid students $100 ! Buy a Tyvek suit to protect a student from the University of California, then worked Fund in his honor to support summer research who are facing #nancial hardships. $65 who is conducting waste audits. as a research associate at Cornell University and at Furman. $60 In the coming year, Furman will be revitalizing $51 ! Purchase books for reading programs as a research scientist in chemical and applied The fund will provide a stipend to students $50 $41 sponsored by Heller Service Corps. physics with BP Research. In 1993 he joined the who major in chemistry and conduct research the campaign under the direction of new president The point is, no matter its size, your gift faculty at Wake Forest University and quickly full time during the summer. Student recipients Rod Smolla. The campaign will refocus on such does count. We invite you to join the many became a highly respected teacher and mentor, will be designated Swofford Scholars. ongoing goals as building the university’s endow- $0 alumni and friends who are making a difference receiving the university’s Advisor of the Year ment, boosting scholarship support, and expanding MILLIONS ENDOWMENT CURRENT CAPITAL NEEDS/ through the Because Furman Matters campaign. Award for his impact on students. When he To support the Swofford Fund, or to learn more internship, research, study away and faculty develop- OPERATIONS OTHER — PHIL HOWARD died last March, the Wake Forest community about establishing an endowed fund, contact ment programs. mourned his loss. [email protected], (864) 294-3491. The author is director of donor marketing at His obituary stated, “A passion for Furman. education and the pursuit of knowledge fueled

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Homecoming highlights

WITH SUNNY SKIES, 70-degree weather and a perfect inauguration as a lead-in, Homecoming 2010 October 22-24 was a major success. Along with the annual traditions — !oat building on the mall, reunions and football excitement — several alumni and current students were recognized for their accomplishments. Alumni who received top honors at the awards breakfast Saturday morning were (opposite page, PHOTOS BY JEREMY FLEMING bottom left): Greg Hill ’91, Nashville music industry executive, Distinguished Alumni Award; Susan Thomson Shi ’71, educator, community leader and First Lady of Furman from 1994-2010, Gordon L. Blackwell Alumni Service Award; Chad Bennett ’03, vice president with Reveille, a television production company in Los Angeles, Wayne and Rubye Reid Award for contributions to the career development of Furman students; and Lauren Killey Briles ’02 and Timothy Briles ’01, Greenville business and community leaders, Outstanding Young Alumni Award. Robbie Gilson ’13 of Norcross, Ga. (opposite page, top left), endured various indignities (including being required to dress like Buzz Lightyear) during the weeklong, Survivor-like HAVOC competition to emerge in #rst place and claim $1,000 for his charity, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Before the football game against Tennessee- Chattanooga, junior linebacker and team captain Kadarron Anderson (opposite page, middle) was presented the Palmetto Patriot Award by South Carolina lieutenant governor Andre Bauer in recognition of Anderson’s contributions and commitment to his fellow citizens and the state of South Carolina. It is the highest honor the lieutenant governor can bestow. Anderson, who grew up in the Connie Maxwell Children’s Home in Greenwood, was recognized for his work with young people. He frequently speaks in schools and other settings about the values of determination and a positive attitude.

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Homecoming highlights

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$3.4 million gift to support Bridges’ expanded efforts Furman Fellows named; Year of Global Citizenship begins

WHEN CASEY CRISP was a student at Travelers Rest FURMAN LAUNCHED the “Year of Global because of their ability to think creatively and ! Reece Lyerly, an earth and environmen- High School earlier this decade, Furman’s Bridges to Citizenship” at its Opening Convocation imaginatively and for their potential to make a tal sciences major from Roswell, Ga. He is the a Brighter Future program opened new worlds for her. September 2. difference in the world and in the lives of others. recipient of a Udall Fellowship, one of the “My experience with Bridges undoubtedly changed What does global citizenship mean? They receive $7,500. nation’s most prestigious awards for students my life,” she says. “I was a #rst-generation college student, The Furman community will #nd out through In addition to Shultz, the Furman Fellows planning careers in environmental work, and the support and encouragement I received from the programs, seminars and lectures designed to for the Class of 2011 are, from left: and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and of JEREMY FLEMING program were essential parts of making college a reality determine how our actions as individuals Quaternion, the university’s select men’s for me.” and groups impact the world around us. leadership organization.

Crisp, a 2009 Furman graduate, is now in her second year of teaching Bridges students are from homes where the average income is less (To learn more, visit www.furman.edu/ ! Michael Chiu of Johns Creek, Ga. social studies at Mauldin (S.C.) High School. She says, “While Bridges than $35,000. Many are also struggling to overcome personal and family globalcitizen.) He is majoring in history and communi- certainly prepared me for the college admissions process, I found that it issues. They are nominated for the program as ninth-graders by teachers Katie Shultz ’11 (middle in photo), cation studies, and plans to pursue a career better prepared me for life. Bridges helped me become an open-minded, and counselors, and once selected they remain in the program throughout a political science major pursuing in communications and counseling. He is on resilient and con#dent leader who could look beyond my circumstances their high school years. They participate in an annual four-week summer concentrations in poverty studies and the board of directors of Greenville Forward and imagine a better future for myself.” residential experience on the Furman campus and receive year-round environmental studies, is spearheading and was instrumental in the creation of Which is exactly what it is meant to do: provide encouragement, tutoring and assistance through a “Saturday College” program. the student-led effort to analyze what it Furman Forward, a project that links Furman support and academic enrichment opportunities to students in Greenville In addition to Furman, members of the 2010 Bridges graduating class is to be a global citizen in today’s world. students with community endeavors.

County high schools whose personal circumstances might otherwise pre- were accepted to such institutions as Harvard, Wake Forest, New York As the keynote speaker at convocation, ! Shannon Cantwell, an economics vent them from ful#lling their potential. University, Oxford College at Emory University, and Ohio State. Seventy- she outlined the plans for the program, and political science major from Fairhope, Bridges was launched in 1997 by a founding gift from Greenvillian #ve students are participating in Bridges this academic year. whose goal is to promote “critical Ala. She is senior class president, a Mamie Jolley Bruce, who received an honorary degree from Furman earlier Casey Crisp is just one of many Bridges success stories. After gradu- evaluation and responsible citizenship.” Furman Bisher Scholar and a member of

this year. Now, thanks to a $3.4 million commitment from an anonymous ating from high school and enrolling at Furman, she chose to give back Shultz, from Hoover, Ala., is also one of ! Chemistry major Angela Zeigler of the track team. She has participated in several donor, the program will expand its support beyond high school and provide by spending her summers as a counselor to Bridges students. It was then, this year’s Furman Fellows, all of whom were Seneca, S.C. A Hollingsworth Scholar who international mission trips and over the summer its graduates with an array of services after they enroll in college. The she says, that she realized the program’s true value. recognized at convocation. The Fellows program, aspires to be a pediatrician, she spent the summer led four fellow Furman athletes on a service trip commitment includes $400,000 to be paid over the next three years, “I watched students change from shy, insecure teenagers to con#dent, established by trustee Bob Buckman and his wife, doing research at St. Jude’s Children’s Research to Swaziland, Africa. and $3 million in the form of a bequest. well-spoken and driven young people,” she says. “I’ve seen the joy on their Joyce Mollerup, recognizes #ve seniors each year Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. She has also cap- Tobi Swartz, director of Bridges, says, “While 100 percent of the faces after helping to deliver their college admissions letters. I’ve watched for their contributions to the university and their tained the women’s rugby team and been a More from Opening Convocation on page 37. program’s students graduate from high school and more than 93 percent them cry and hug each other at the end of the summer because they didn’t potential for future success. Fellows are selected volunteer with several Greenville agencies. Photo by Jeremy Fleming. enroll in college, our college retention and graduation rates are not as want to leave the only place that allowed them to completely be themselves. strong. To fully realize our mission, we must continue to support these Bridges is a haven for its students, a place where they begin to discover students into their college years.” who they are and who they want to become.” University adopts student-driven integrity pledge The $3.4 million gift will allow Bridges to introduce an intensive, When Crisp graduated from Furman, she stood even taller because one-week summer program called “Crossing the Bridge,” which Bridges her fellow graduates had designated their senior class gift of $43,650 to “It is the desire of Furman University to unite its members in a collective a high level of behavior. The pledge had been in the works for several graduates will attend before they enroll in college. “Crossing” will also support a scholarship for a Bridges student. “It was incredibly rewarding commitment to integrity. In so doing, Furman University strives to teach its years. The student-driven initiative was approved overwhelmingly during provide advising and support for the students throughout their #rst year to be able to share the program and my experience with classmates as members to live lives of humility, respect, and responsibility. Therefore, it is the the 2009–10 academic year. in college. they began to see what an impact Bridges has on the young people in our expectation that all members of the Furman University community will conduct The purpose of the pledge is to formalize the character and principles Mike Gatchell, Furman’s vice president for development, says, “The community,” she says. “The scholarship will allow a very deserving student themselves with integrity in all endeavors. In honoring these values and ideals that are already implicit at Furman. As a guide, it is meant to be an over- donor’s late husband received the sort of special attention in high school the chance to learn, grow and take charge of their future.” as Furman University’s foundation, it is with utmost faithfulness and dignity arching representation of the more extensive and intricate rules and that changed the direction of his life and led to a highly successful Just as she did. that I will ascribe to them.” regulations that govern Furman academics. It is not to be mistaken for career. Because Bridges is dedicated to recognizing students’ talents and an honor code, although it is a possible step in that direction. (Furman encouraging them to pursue their dreams, she felt it was a worthwhile Photo: The 2010 Bridges graduating class, with director Tobi Swartz (front left). By reciting these words in unison at Opening Convocation September students voted against creating an honor code in the 1990s.) program to support.” Story compiled from reports by Vince Moore and Jim Stewart. 2, Furman students, faculty and staff gave voice to an “integrity pledge” to The pledge has been posted in classrooms, residence halls and public demonstrate, in a tangible way, that they hold themselves and each other to areas around campus.

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University continues to earn recognition from publications, agencies Professors appointed to endowed chairs WHEN PARADE MAGAZINE named Furman ! The Princeton Review called Furman one ! The Sierra Club ranked Furman among to its “A-List Colleges” in its August 22 issue, of the nation’s best undergraduate institutions the country’s top 50 eco-friendly universities. SEVEN MEMBERS OF THE FURMAN FACULTY it marked another acknowledgment of the and featured a pro#le of the university in the Furman was 40th on the fourth annual “Cool were appointed to endowed professorships this fall. university’s growing recognition as one of the 2010 edition of its annual college guide, The Schools” list compiled by the club’s magazine, In making the announcement, John Beckford, APITOL nation’s leading institutions. Best 373 Colleges. The guide ranked the James Sierra. The university received high marks in all C dean of the faculty, said, “These outstanding pro- THE The Parade list was determined by high B. Duke Library 12th among college libraries. categories except energy supply, indicating room OF

fessors were selected in recognition of their record school counselors, who for improvement in locating of teaching, scholarship and service to Furman. designated schools they cleaner sources of energy.

RCHITECT We are fortunate to have the support of generous A say offer “big-league Furman garnered the highest donors who understand the value of a strong education” but that often possible grade (10 points) in faculty and the resources needed to help in its !y under the radar. Furman energy ef#ciency. Washington Center honors Furman development.” was one of seven liberal ! For the third Gifts from donors and foundations support FURMAN HAS BEEN NAMED Private University of the Year by The Washington arts colleges listed, along consecutive year, the Arbor 24 endowed professorships and six rotating Center, an independent, non-pro#t organization that provides college students the with Colorado College, Day Foundation recognized professorships at Furman. opportunity to work and learn in the nation’s capital for academic credit. Founded Kenyon (Ohio), Occidental Furman as a Tree Campus Faculty members who received lifetime in 1975, the center serves a global network of students and colleges that extends (California), University USA for dedication to campus appointments were: throughout the United States and abroad. of the South (Tennessee), forestry management and Gilbert Allen, Bennette E. Geer Professor The award recognizes the longstanding collaboration between Furman and the ! University of Chicago, and environmental stewardship. of Literature. Allen, an award-winning writer, has center. Furman was honored October 4 in Washington. Wesleyan (Connecticut). Furman met #ve required been a member of the English faculty since 1977. Furman students have taken part in the Washington Internship Program for Parade praised the schools core standards of tree care Sam Britt, Gordon Poteat Professor of Asian almost three decades, spending a spring or summer in the nation’s capitol and learning ! for “providing students and community engagement: Studies and Religion. Britt, a 1972 Furman graduate, #rsthand about politics. Danielle Vinson, chair of the political science department, with reading, writing and establishment of a campus joined the faculty in 1992. says nearly 900 Furman students have interned and earned academic credit through evaluation skills they can tree advisory committee, Kate Kaup, James B. Duke Associate the center. ! use in any job.” evidence of a campus tree-care Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies. In addition to Parade, plan, veri#cation of dedicated Vinson says, “Furman’s partnership with The Washington Center has had a JEREMY FLEMING She joined the faculty in 1997. tremendous impact on our students. I frequently hear stories from students about how the university has received a annual expenditures for the David Shaner, Herring Professor of the program helped them decide on a career path and prepared them for the real world, ! number of other mentions in campus tree-care plan, campus Philosophy and Asian Studies. He has taught or brought to life what they had been learning in their classes on campus.” recent months: The Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges observance of Arbor Day, and the institution of at Furman since 1982. The centerpiece of the program is an internship arranged and tailored to each ! Furman was ranked No. 41 among also named Furman one of the nation’s most a service-learning project aimed at engaging the Recipients of limited term appointments were: student’s individual interests. Interns may work on Capitol Hill or with a government national liberal arts colleges in the 2010 edition environmentally responsible colleges. student body. Suresh Muthukrishnan, Henry Keith and agency, interest group, law of#ce, or one of a myriad of other institutions. ! of the annual U.S. News & World Report college ! Kiplinger’s magazine ranked Furman 38th On October 27, Furman was one of six Ellen Hard Townes Associate Professor of Earth and Michael B. Smith, president of The Washington Center, says, “Among our 500 listings. Joining Furman at the 41st spot were among its “100 Best Values in Private Colleges.” institutions nationwide invited to plant 50 trees Environmental Sciences (two years). He has been af#liated institutions, Furman has stood out for the seriousness with which it prepares Connecticut, Skidmore, Union, and Franklin The magazine based its ratings on academic through a program sponsored by the Arbor Day a member of the department since 2002. students for their time here and for the active participation of faculty in the program and Marshall colleges. quality and affordability, with quality accounting Foundation’s Tree Campus USA program. Travis Perry, Henry Keith and Ellen Hard itself. We are delighted to honor the university for the excellence of its program and ! Furman was also included on the U.S. for two-thirds of an institution’s score. ! The Bing Travel website included Furman Townes Associate Professor of Biology (two years). the efforts of all involved.” News list of 25 schools known for their efforts in ! Washington Monthly’s 2010 “College on its list of “Scenic College and Universities.” A 1992 alumnus, he joined the faculty in 2000. The University of Iowa was named the center’s Public University of the Year, “Undergraduate Research/Creative Projects,” in Guide” listed Furman as one of the top liberal Other schools on the list included Pepperdine Doug Rall, Herman N. Hipp Professor and the University of Massachusetts System the System of the Year. ! which students do “intensive and self-directed arts colleges in contributing to the public good. University in California, New York City’s of Mathematics (three years). Rall has taught The Washington Center program is the largest of its kind, with 70 full-time staff research or creative work that results in an Furman was ranked 40th among 252 liberal arts Wagner College, University of Hawaii at Manoa, at Furman since 1976. original scholarly paper or other product that colleges that are considered “service-oriented” and the University of Colorado. and more than 40,000 alumni. can be formally presented on or off campus.” and meet “public obligations in the areas of research, service, and social mobility.”

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Prior remembered for wit, compassion, dedication to teaching Bookmarks: Featuring summaries of recent publications by alumni and faculty

AS THE FALL SEMESTER BEGAN, entire classroom of students, and relate MARK ADAMS ’93 and Tommy Bassett, www.bobdavidlive.com to learn more — clinical hypnotherapy and herbal medicine. part of a hospital cover-up. A cult accuses Furman was saddened by the sudden stories about his personal successes and Just Coffee: Caffeine with a Conscience and see snippets from his “other career” He and his wife, Gail, teach workshops her of being a Satanist and tries to kill her. death of Richard Prior, associate pro- triumphs made him real. (Just Trade Center, 2009). The book was a as a Bill Clinton impersonator, including to help people take charge of their health. The story focuses on how she and her fessor of classics. He died August 24 at “Looking back, it is easy to see !nalist for the Independent Book Publishers his appearances on “The Tonight Show.” Visit www.holistic-medicine-md.com. !ancé weather the storm. Beckham, who age 47 of complications from pneumonia. what made him such a phenomenal Association’s Benjamin Franklin Award for has spent much of his career in college A native of Syracuse, N.Y., Prior, who teacher. He was a person without Best Book in the Political/Current Events AMY BUTTELL ’83, Bonnie Biafore and MERRIE KOESTER SOUTHGATE ’78, development work, is the author of several had taught at Furman since 1994, was a pretense. What you saw was what Category. The Tucson Weekly calls it “a Carol Fabbri, Personal Investing: The Agnes P!umm and the Secret of the Seven books. He lives in Rock Hill, S.C. Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University you got.” moving, colorful and refreshingly optimistic Missing Manual (O’Reilly Media, 2010). (Read for Science Publishing, 2010). This FROM FACULTY of North Carolina-Greensboro and held Illana Fisher Burkhart ’99 also primer on how to solve the poverty that This book is designed to provide advice is the fourth and !nal novel in the Agnes drives illegal immigration, one village at a P"umm science education series, which PAUL THOMAS, Parental Choice? a Ph.D. from the State University of recalls Prior’s compassionate nature. and insight into the investment game in time.” According to the Café Justo website light of the recent economic downturn. the author also illustrated. This time, young A Critical Reconsideration of Choice and New York at Buffalo. He was the author During a study abroad trip to Italy with (www.justcoffee.org), the Just Coffee Buttell is a freelance journalist, editor and Agnes must save the world’s oceans. the Debate about Choice (Information of #ve books, including 501 Latin Verbs, Prior, she and some friends rescued a cooperative was formed in Mexico to speaker based in Erie, Pa. Her website, The publisher says the book is designed Age Publishing, 2010). The publisher says, considered a seminal work in the #eld. stray puppy and “smuggled” it along on address the causes of labor migration from www.amybuttell.com, says the book to “inspire a quest for ocean knowledge “Since A Nation at Risk in the early 1980s Prior was known for his generous a tour of the ruins at Pompeii. They Mexico to the United States. By working covers “topics such as how to get started and an understanding of the need to and the [later] implementation of No Child nature, razor-sharp wit and widespread hovered near the back of the group to to guarantee that coffee growers receive in investing and how to save for college, protect the sea.” While entertaining and Left Behind, a subtle shift has occurred in interests. In a tribute, his departmental For a kid in foreign country, it felt nice to be try to avoid being caught, but as the puppy grew a fair trade price for their product, the retirement and health care needs. It aims informative for students, the series is the traditional support of public education colleagues said, “His students will remember his able to relate to somebody, even if he was a restless, it became a distraction to everyone, cooperative !ghts rural poverty and helps to demystify the often opaque subject designed to help teachers understand — fueled by the misconception that private self-deprecating humor, his love of culture from Sabres fan!” including the professor. ensure a steady income for those involved, of investing by explaining concepts clearly the value of incorporating such skills schools out-perform public schools along the very high (Livy, Vergil) to the very, very low At the end of winter term that year, Burkhart writes, “Finally Dr. Prior couldn’t thus reducing the need to immigrate to and simply and offering a step-by-step as re"ective writing, critical thinking and with a naive faith in competition and the (velvet Elvis, bad movies from the 1960s), and Williams developed mononucleosis. The illness stand it any longer and came to investigate. the United States to !nd work. Adams, an process to investing in all areas of your art into their science curricula. A resident promise of the free market. . . . Political his willingness to share his life’s adventures and forced him to miss the #rst week of spring classes I just knew from the look on his face that we ordained minister, lives in Douglas, Ariz. He !nancial life.” Co-author Biafore has of Charleston, S.C., Southgate is a and ideological claims that all parents innumerable enthusiasms (his dogs, oenology, and, combined with other issues, made him were toast, but as soon as he saw the puppy and and his co-author work with Frontera de written a number of books on !nance, veteran of 25 years in the classroom and deserve school choice have proven to be re-enacting the Civil War, Asian cooking). question whether he should remain at Furman. realized what was going on, his face melted and Cristo, a Presbyterian border ministry, and and Fabbri is a !nancial planner. now works as a science educator and compelling. This book unmasks calls for ”They will also remember his uncompro- When he stopped by Prior’s of#ce one all was forgiven. helped found the Just Coffee movement. consultant. Visit www.agnesp"umm.com parental and school choice [by examining] mising dedication to teaching and his tireless afternoon shortly after his return, he recalls the “Today,” she adds, “I can’t remember the ROBERT PENDERGRAST ’79, Breast both the traditional bureaucratic public scholarship on the pedagogy of Latin. Mostly, professor greeting him with, “I’m worried about difference between declensions and conjugations, BOB DAVID ’85, The Undaunted Life Cancer: Reduce Your Risk with Foods You STEVE PRESLEY ’71, The Magic Ant school system and the current patterns they will remember his ability to reach out to you, Michael. You’ve had a tough year, and you but I will never forget that Cicero means chick- (On Demand Publishing, 2010). The author, Love (Penstokes Press, 2010). In 2004 the (PublishAmerica, 2010). The publisher found in the body of research on all students who needed a counselor or simply a look like hell!” pea, where to #nd the best veal saltimbocca in who lives in Rockville, Va., is a former author was voted Educator of the Year by describes this fairy tale as giving children aspects of school choice and private friend, and the #erce loyalty and boundless Then, for the next hour, they talked. Prior Rome, Dr. Prior’s hockey jerseys, and how he Furman football player who went on to students at the Medical College of Georgia “a feeling of hope. Perils exist among schooling.” Thomas, author of several books, has taught education at Furman generosity he offered with an open heart.” shared stories about his own college struggles would purse his lips and his face would turn a career in the !nancial services industry in Augusta, where he still teaches. The the ants both from the inside and outside since 2002 after a lengthy teaching career Mike Williams ’99 was one of those and of adjusting to life in the South. bright red when he laughed.” before launching his own business, in publisher says this book offers “the unique world, [but] a hero appears to save the which he provides coaching, guidance, day.” The author lives in Peru, Ind., and in the South Carolina public schools. Visit students. As a freshman Latin student under Williams writes, “At that moment I recog- Richard Prior is survived by his partner, perspective of a pediatrician specializing and advice for personal and professional in adolescent health.” Tieraona Low Dog, has published books of poetry and !ction. http://wrestlingwithwriting.blogspot.com Prior for three terms in 1995-96, Williams nized that what I was experiencing was not Scott Henderson; his parents, Edmon Prior and development. He says, “The cover and editor of Integrative Women’s Health, says and http://livinglearninginpoverty.blogspot. discovered common ground with his teacher, foreign, that others had been through what Stella Beaulieu; and two sisters. Memorials: book theme represent many of the lessons Pendergrast “has written a book that is MICKEY BECKHAM ’61, Messengers com. including roots in the Northeast and a passion I had been through and had survived. I don’t Greenville Humane Society, 328 Furman Hall and values forged from my Furman practical, highly informative and easy to Among Us: A Medical Mystery and Love for the National Hockey League. recall saying more than 10 words in that meet- Road, Greenville, S.C. 29609. experience.” Reviewer Ruth Douillette understand. Any woman who is looking to Story (BookSurge Publishing, 2010). The ing, but I felt like the weight of the world was — JIM STEWART “We would #nd ourselves arguing before, of Clarion Press says, “David’s energetic give herself an edge against cancer should plot: A nurse at a major medical center after and during class about whether the [Boston] off my shoulders. and enthusiastic presentation, coupled read this book.” Pendergrast also has a is the last to see three patients who are Bruins or the [Buffalo] Sabres would come out “That day left an indelible mark on me. Photo of Richard Prior (left) and colleague with memorable examples and analogies, private consulting practice in which he terminally ill. All miraculously recover, on top,” Williams writes. “Dr. Prior would often Dr. Prior’s ability to connect on a human level Vic Greene taken by Illana Fisher Burkhart will resonate and encourage.” Visit combines his love of nutritional medicine, but the nurse is falsely accused of being show up to class wearing his Sabres jersey, which with a lost and lonely student seemed so effortless in Egypt in 1999. Prior had purchased the head only made me wear my Bruins jersey more often. for him. That he could sit in his of#ce, or with an scarves from the Bedouin boy.

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Prior remembered for wit, compassion, dedication to teaching Bookmarks: Featuring summaries of recent publications by alumni and faculty

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Wounded Warrior Project Schutz beats law of averages, lands job in NFL

receives university support FOR THE BETTER PART of her four years at Furman, Kelly Schutz prepared for her job in the National Football League by studying mathe- ON JULY 11, 2007, while on combat patrol in Baghdad, Capt. Wayne matical concepts like the cosine rule, which can be used to #nd the third Waldon ’04 was injured when an IED (improvised explosive device) struck side of a triangle when any two sides and the angle between them are the Humvee in which he was riding. known. Waldon, an Army Ranger and platoon leader with the 3rd infantry, While Schutz, who graduated in 2010 with a degree in mathematics, suffered a severe injury to his right leg, to the point that it had to be has yet to use the law of cosines in her job as a public relations assistant amputated just above the knee. He would go on to receive the Bronze Star for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, she is a good example of how a liberal arts and the Purple Heart. education can push students along an entirely unexpected career path and Because of his determination, positive attitude and hard work during prepare them for something they hadn’t quite imagined.

and following his recovery, Waldon is credited with being an inspiration FLEMING JEREMY “When I came to Furman, I knew I wanted to major in math and to others undergoing rehabilitation for similar injuries at Walter Reed become a teacher,” Schutz says. “So that’s the path I took.” Hospital. He has also testi#ed before Congress about meeting the needs Waldon (left in photo) returned to campus October 9 for Military And that was the plan right up until she began looking for internship of injured veterans. Appreciation Day at the Furman-Howard football game. He was accom- opportunities in the summer before her senior year. But what was a math Now retired from the military and associated with defense contractor panied by Harvey Naranjo, the adaptive sports program coordinator at major to do? Well, it might seem unconventional, but if you were born and General Dynamics in Fairfax, Va., Waldon is a strong supporter of the Walter Reed. Kelly Schutz says she is “partial” to such “gentle giants” as Bucs’ linemen Davin Joseph (75) had lived until age 6 near Green Bay, Wis., and your family members were Wounded Warrior Project. The non-pro#t, founded in Roanoke, Va., During halftime, the two accepted a check for $1,925 raised by and Keydrick Vincent. huge Packer fans who returned to Lambeau Field at least once every season, is dedicated to helping those who have been wounded in the line of duty Furman students and friends to support the Wounded Warrior Project. why not take a shot at interning for a National Football League team? So Schutz headed to Tampa in the spring of 2010 to ful#ll her dream as they make the transition, both physical and mental, from the front lines Even though she knew she would be vying against public relations of working for an NFL team. She wrote press releases, proofed copy, helped to the home front. Visit www.woundedwarriorproject.org to learn more. and sports management majors for an internship, Schutz sent résumés to produce the media guide — whatever needed to be done. 30 of the 32 NFL teams. To gain experience, she got a job working in the “We were wrapping up things at the end of the season and getting press box with Furman’s sports information of#ce during the Paladins’ 2009 prepared for the next one, and we were a position down at the time,” Kamis 2010 graduates head weatherization program through Furman, AmeriCorps football season. says. “Kelly stepped into her role so well and did such a great job that she “We had Kelly for only one season, but I knew right away she had was much more than an intern. She was like a full-time member of the staff. THANKS TO A THREE-YEAR, $286,000 federal grant switch plates, all in an effort to promote energy conservation more than a passing interest in learning about what happens in the press When I left, I told them they would be making a big mistake not to hire her from the South Carolina Commission on National and and #nancial stability. box,” says Hunter Reid, assistant athletics director for sports information at full time.” Community Service, two 2010 Furman graduates are “You don’t really think about weatherizing as a way to Furman. “She was extremely bright and articulate, and she was one of the After the internship ended, Schutz applied for the club’s open position, working on campus this year as members of AmeriCorps. boost #nancial stability,” Harris said. “But for the residents best student assistants we’ve ever had.” then packed up and headed back to Furman. Two days before graduation on Jennifer Guinter and Ricky Harris are working with who pay up to one half of their #xed income to cover utility Schutz actually was called to New York for an interview with the Jets May 8, she learned she had the job. Furman’s Community Conservation Corps (CCC), a bills, these weatherization techniques help them save money, and was “heartbroken” when it didn’t work out. But not long after, she heard “When I began applying for internships, I never thought it could group dedicated to energy conservation and #nancial get out of debt or use savings for other essentials.” from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They interviewed her over the phone, possibly lead to a career,” says Schutz. “But I loved working in the press box stability for the Greenville community primarily through Furman’s pilot weatherization project took place last then invited her to come for a second interview in Charlotte, N.C., where at Furman and in the Buccaneers’ public relations of#ce, and it didn’t take the weatherization of low-income homes. The federal April, when the CCC joined with Heller Service Corps the Bucs were playing the Carolina Panthers. Shortly thereafter, the Bucs long to know it was something I wanted to pursue seriously.” grant was awarded to Corps United, a partnership of and the city to weatherize #ve low-income homes and a offered her the internship. So it’s public relations in the NFL for now, although Schutz won’t rule United Way of Greenville County, United Way of community center. The CCC operates through the David “I didn’t get too many résumés from math majors, but that didn’t out working with the law of cosines again someday. “I might go back and Pickens County, Furman and several area non-pro#ts. E. Shi Center for Sustainability. bother me at all,” says Jeffrey Kamis, former director of public relations for teach math at some point,” she says. “I know it’s something I would love Guinter and Harris led a CCC effort to weatherize AmeriCorps programs engage approximately 85,000 the Bucs who now serves as executive vice president of business develop- to do. And it’s comforting to know that possibility still exists for me.” 10 homes this fall, with plans to do the same for up people each year through more than 3,300 non-pro#ts across ment for the FC Tampa Bay Rowdies soccer team. “I liked that Kelly had — VINCE MOORE to 50 additional homes by the end of July 2011. Weatherization involves the country. AmeriCorps is administered by the Corporation for National experience in the SID of#ce at Furman, and I was impressed that she was such measures as weather stripping doors and windows, adding insulation, and Community Service, a federal agency that involves #ve million willing to drive to Charlotte for an interview. That told me she was serious The author is director of news and media relations at Furman. Photo courtesy exchanging incandescent light bulbs for compact !uorescents, installing Americans in service each year. about the internship.” Kelly Schutz. vapor barriers in crawl spaces, and #tting foam pads behind outlet and

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67 75 82 Kathleen Greer Rossmann, associate Peggy Ellison Good was presented Tom Gais has been named director of the J. Carey Thompson has assumed duties professor of economics and associate dean the 2010 Dan Foster Lifetime Achievement Rockefeller Institute of Government of the as vice president for enrollment and of !rst-year programs at Birmingham- Award at the Hall of Fame Banquet of State University of New York communications and dean of admission Southern College in Alabama, was named the Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn. Carey interim provost of the school in August. September 16. The award recognizes 79 is a former director of admission at Furman She joined the BSC faculty in 1998. Greenville County residents who have Jeff Beggs has been appointed director and was most recently vice president for made signi!cant contributions to the of athletics for the Atlanta Public School enrollment and student planning services 88 community through volunteerism, System. This year he is also president of at Centre College in Kentucky. Dale Akins of Bluffton, S.C., has been SMOLLA ERA OFF TO AUSPICIOUS START ...... teaching, athletics, the arts, coaching the Georgia Athletic Directors Association. given the prestigious AV® Preeminent™ or mentoring. Peggy was recognized 83 rating by Martindale-Hubbell, the facilitator HAVING JUST COMPLETED a rousing Inauguration RECENTLY I HEARD FROM MAC WALTERS ’42, Corps in Chile and ultimately to a Ph.D. in psychology for her work in such areas as community 80 Robert Hill of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., of a peer review rating process. The rating Week at Furman October 17-24, beginning with a who was among the !rst people to move into The from Ohio State University. She taught education and improvement projects, education and Tim Hayes of Chester, N.J., senior vice president and chief executive of!cer of indicates that a lawyer’s peers rank him series of service projects among alumni throughout Woodlands at Furman continuing care retirement psychology at Oklahoma State University, Cornell the United Way. president and region head for Bayer Acosta Sales & Marketing and a member or her at the highest level of professional the Southeast and concluding with Homecoming community. Located just a mile outside the campus and the University of Houston, from which she retired. HealthCare’s Consumer Care Division of the Furman board of trustees, has been excellence. Weekend, you’ll forgive the off Old Roe Ford Road, The Woodlands, which has Chuck Evans ’69 (M.A. ’71), a longtime teacher 72 in North America, has been appointed named to the Supermarket News Power 50 staff of the Alumni Of!ce been open for a year and a half, has attracted in Greenville County schools, is another charter John Wood has been promoted to senior to oversee the division’s global business list, which recognizes the most in"uential 90 member. As a rabid fan of Furman athletics who if we join together for a a diverse population of individuals, many of whom, director of agency relations (law and development efforts. executives and leaders in the supermarket Elizabeth Ouzts is working as an Oracle collective sigh of relief. like Mac and his wife, Donna, have close ties to is also involved in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, regulatory affairs) with Ecolab Inc. of St. David A. Merline, Jr., a shareholder in industry. Business Intelligence functional analyst at But what a week it was! the university. a popular enrichment program for many area residents, Paul, Minn., a global leader in cleaning, the Greenville !rm of Merline & Meacham, Ingersoll Rand in Davidson, N.C. From the service weekend Mac practiced tax law for 50 years, including Chuck especially enjoys The Woodlands’ proximity to sanitizing, food safety, and infection P.A., was selected by his peers for inclusion 85 to the various activities stints as the U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue the campus. control products and services. John is in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers Michael Hurdle has been named 91 surrounding the inauguration and as an assistant attorney general. Since he’s kept What draws these and others to The Woodlands? responsible for developing, maintaining in America. He practices in the areas of a senior associate with the Bank of NEXT REUNION IN 2011 of Rod Smolla as Furman’s tabs on his new neighbors, we asked him to tell us In addition to the cultural, athletic and educational and expanding key U.S. and Canada federal corporate law, employee bene!ts, mergers New York Mellon. He is also a pianist Randall David Cook of New York City 11th president (see page 2) and on to Homecoming, about the variety of folks with Furman connections opportunities on campus, downtown Greenville, with agency relationships in regard to regulatory and acquisitions, tax law, and trusts and at Blakemore United Methodist Church was once again the writer for the annual it was a period perhaps unsurpassed in university who now call The Woodlands home. its ever expanding attractions, is just a short drive policies, and assists in coordinating Ecolab’s estates. in Nashville, Tenn. Astaire Awards, which were presented annals for sheer volume of activity and excitement. One is legendary Furman professor Charles away. Residents also have the opportunity to work regulatory and legislative objectives. He is David Ouzts has been appointed to in June in recognition of outstanding What struck me most, though, was the way Brewer, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Psychology. with Furman students, many of whom volunteer at also Ecolab’s representative on regulatory 81 the executive board of the Association achievements in dance on Broadway and Furman people — faculty, staff, alumni, students — While Brewer isn’t ready to retire from teaching, the retirement community or engage in research or consortiums responding to agency-driven NEXT REUNION IN 2011 of Anglican Musicians and chairs the !lm. A member of the board of directors came together to pull off such an impressive array he has already prepared for that eventuality with internship opportunities there. data call-ins, and leads various trade Keith Lockhart has been named principal Professional Concerns and Development of the Japanese Exchange Teaching Alumni of projects, many of which had never been attempted his new accommodations. Moreover, The Woodlands offers a host of organization regulatory projects with conductor of the British Broadcasting Committee. He is sub-dean of the Association of New York, Randall was the respect to Canadian and U.S. regulatory Corporation (BBC) Concert Orchestra. He Memphis (Tenn.) chapter of the American before. Who would have believed what a great Helen and Moffett Kendrick are other early residential options. In addition to independent living, keynote speaker for the third year in a row agencies. made his debut with the group August Guild of Organists and serves on the for new JET teachers as they prepared to setting the main campus mall would be for the of!cial enrollees at The Woodlands. Moffett was vice it provides long-term, customized care ranging from 30 at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The LGBT Ministry Task Force for the Episcopal embark for their year of work. As part of installation? The good vibes generated that day president for development at Furman from 1967 assisted living apartments and memory support to 73 orchestra toured the United States this Diocese of West Tennessee. its national conference, the JET Alumni and, indeed, throughout the week carried over into to 1987, and Helen also worked at Furman in the skilled nursing suites. Jim Howard, who coached high school fall and performed in Furman’s McAlister Association presented Randall’s play Homecoming, where once again the Furman faithful audiovisuals department. The Woodlands describes itself as “the retirement football in Greenville County for more than Auditorium November 13. Keith continues 87 “Sake With the Haiku Geisha” August 13 turned out to celebrate the past, marvel at the present Among alumni living at The Woodlands is Ned community of choice by nurturing a distinctive culture 30 years, was honored in August as a role as conductor of the Boston Pops and is also Jane Harris Downey of Columbia, S.C., in Manhattan. and anticipate the possibilities to come. Mabry ’40, who had a distinguished 30-year military of enrichment for our residents.” model and “Coach of In"uence” by the artistic director of the Brevard (N.C.) Music was selected a 2010 SuperLawyer in the BIRTH: Benjamin and Kimberly McDow, Those of you who have met President Smolla career during which he served under George Patton To learn more, call (864) 371-3100 or visit Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Jim now Center Summer Institute and Festival. !eld of bankruptcy and creditor/debtor a daughter, Mary Grey, June 26, Greenville. and his wife, Michele, know that they have inviting and was awarded the Legion of Merit. In the mid- www.thewoodlandsatfurman.org. teaches elementary physical education in rights. She was also selected by her peers — TOM TRIPLITT personalities and a ton of positive energy, and that 1960s Ned commanded the largest expansion of the Henderson County, N.C. as one of the “2010 Legal Elite” by Greater

they have brought incredible style and enthusiasm Army’s of!cer candidate program since World War II. Columbia Business Monthly. to their demanding new jobs. After graduating from Furman in 1960, Martha The author, a 1976 graduate, is director of the If the !rst few months of the Smolla Era are Crawford Muncrief taught for a time in Atlanta. Alumni Association. Photo by Jonathan Andersen ’09. any indication, Furman’s future is indeed bright. She went on to a career that took her to the Peace

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Kara Stewart has become pastor of 97 Leigh Ann Williamson and Christopher 2010–11 ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS Living Christ Lutheran Church in Flagstaff, William Priestley is a graduate assistant Allan Oden, May 16. They live in Columbia, Ariz. in the athletics department at Campbell S.C., where she is employed by the Clare Folio Morris ’83, president; J. Chris Brown ’89, president-elect; Harriet MARRIAGE: Monica Christine University in Buies Creek, N.C., working Department of Health and Environmental Arnold Wilburn ’74, past president; Rebecca Ann Armacost ’89; Lynn Neely Rinkevich and Michael Eli Pathi, as a broadcaster and technician. He is Control and he by Blue Cross Blue Shield. Bailey ’78; N. Staten Bitting, Jr. ’75; Frank W. Blackwell ’90; Sidney R. Bland December 27. She owns a real estate also studying for a master’s degree in BIRTH: Jamar and Cameisha ’59; Mary Lou Walch Cagle ’69; Tricia Morgan Carswell ’82; Paul D. Goebel ’63; investing !rm, and Michael works for education. Merriweather Barnes, a son, Joel Elijah, Michael L. Guynn ’91; Shannon Scruby Henderson ’75; Gail Laible Hughes ’83; Microsoft. They live in Atlanta. Doug Reed has opened Electric City June 20. They live in Lithonia, Ga. L. Yates Johnson, Jr. ’59; Gwinn Earle Kneeland ’89; C. Todd Malo ’95; BIRTHS: Jeff and Melissa Hammer, Eye Care in Anderson, S.C. James N. Martin ’79; Herman A. Matherson, Jr. ’79; Andrew C. Medlyn ’97; a daughter, Sophia Caroline, August 17. BIRTHS: Noel and Caroline Dillard 00 Matthew A. Miller ’99; Joseph C. Moon, Jr. ’76; William P. Morrow, Jr. ’54; They live in Simpsonville, S.C., where Jeff Brownlee, a son, Benjamin Dillard Tyler Thigpen of Cambridge, Mass., Emmett L. Patrick ’56; Scott W. Raeber ’92; Gordon D. Seay ’61; Ellison L. is a channel marketing manager for Brownlee, October 23, 2009, Greenville. began the Mid-Career Master in Public Smith ’89; Leslie L. Smith ’91; Cynthia Black Sparks ’80; Connie Gartrell Servosity. Missy is a department assistant Caroline is an internist at Internal Medicine Administration degree program in July at Williams ’74. for the history and Asian Studies depart- Associates. Harvard University’s Kennedy School of ments at Furman. Barton and Marcela Jenkins, a daughter, Government. Ex-Of!cio and Other Members: Rodney Smolla, president; Michael Gatchell ’91, Stephen and Heather VandeBrake ’96 Courtney Anne, July 28. They live in Clover, Jordan Tidrick recently moved to vice president for development; Tom Triplitt ’76, director of Alumni Association; Hunt, a son, Stephen III, July 7. They live S.C. Shenyang, China, where she teaches high Tina Hayes Ballew ’78, associate director of Alumni Association; Cal Hurst ’04, in Monterey, Calif., where Stephen Jim and Amy Pattillo, a daughter, Abigail, school science at the Shenyang Paci!c president, Young Alumni Council; Kyle Volkmann ’11, president, Student is attending Naval Postgraduate School May 14. Jim practices with the law !rm Academy. The academy is a new school for Alumni Council; Patrick Wallace ’11, president, Student Government Association; in the !eld of operations research. of Norman, Wood, Kendrick & Turner in Chinese nationals seeking Western-style Shannon Cantwell ’11, president, Senior Class. Hadley and Laurie Steitler Panzer, Birmingham, Ala. He has been named education in preparation for college in the United States, Canada and Europe. a son, Ellison Walter Steitler Panzer, second vice chair of the Defense Research LEMING F May 8, Asheville, N.C. Institute Young Lawyers Committee and MARRIAGE: Ashley Wayne Lowder EREMY Ben and Stacie Snyder, a daughter, will serve as chair in 2012-13. and Maya Eva Lake, March 27. He is J employed by Sunland Distribution and she 92 93 Brookelyn Avery, June 21. Stacie is a nurse TOP HONORS FOR SUSAN SHI, JEANNE DAVIS Timothy Brown, drama teacher at Jeffrey Wilhelm practices real estate at Spartanburg (S.C.) Regional Hospital, 98 is self-employed. They live in Greenville. Travelers Rest High School, was one of 10 law with the Pittsburgh, Pa., !rm of Reed and Ben is an assistant professor of BIRTHS: Thomas and Rosetta Mowbray, BIRTHS: Jeff and Kate Hanmer Elkins, FURMAN SHOWED ITS APPRECIATION for Susan for her commitment and devotion to alma mater. !nalists for the 2010-11 Greenville County Smith. physical education at the University a daughter, Elizabeth Rose, June 27, a son, Jude Benson, June 28, Atlanta. Thomson Shi, the university’s First Lady from 1994 to Described as “a role model for Furman volunteers,” Teacher of the Year Award. of South Carolina Upstate. Greenville. Pete and Shana King, a daughter, Anna 2010, by awarding her an honorary Doctor of Humanities Davis is a member of the executive committee of the Jason Hightower received the 2010 94 Jeff and Lauren Youngs, a daughter, Marie, May 11, Alexandria, Va. Pete degree during Opening Convocation September 2. Advisory Council and a past member of the Alumni practices business law and estate planning, Reba Ferguson Memorial Rookie of the BIRTHS: Chris and Angie Glotzbach 96 Greyson Emery, August 27. Jeff is an Shi (left in photo), who holds a doctorate in Association Board of Directors. She has been a class and Shana teaches in the Fairfax County Year Award from the Colorado Association Bryson, a daughter, Lily Reagan, June 16, NEXT REUNION IN 2011 operations manager for USIS, the leading curriculum and instruction from the University of agent and a member of the Annual Giving Council, Schools. of Elementary School Principals. The award Charleston, S.C. MARRIAGE: Edward Riley and Emily provider of background investigations North Carolina, was recognized for her superb work and she has been active in reunion planning, the Paladin Matt ’96 and Jennifer Elliott Mathis, recognizes principals in their !rst three Gregory and Heidi Bullock Dickens, a Schankweiler, May 14. They live in Travelers to the federal government. Lauren is a as an ambassador for Furman and for her extensive Club and the Furman Admission Network. a daughter, Ansley Cate, June 27. They live years of the profession who demonstrate son, Parker Penn, June 26, Brevard, N.C. Rest, S.C. physical therapist with Amedisys. They live contributions to public education in the city and state. The smiley-face stickers she and Shi wear are in BIRTHS: Greg and Kelly Riley Brooks, in Cumming, Ga. in Gaffney, S.C. strong leadership qualities. He is principal Having served on many boards and panels that have tribute to Davis’ late husband, Lonnie. a son, Riley Jackson, February 25. They live Will and Reid Breckenridge ’01 at Meeker Elementary School. 95 worked to improve and expand opportunities for the Furman also announced that during the summer Helen Rice is an associate with the Vance Jenkins (M.A.) has been in Longmont, Colo. 99 Murphy, a daughter, Bennett Elizabeth, state’s students, she is currently involved with the South it had awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities Alpharetta, Ga., law !rm of Robinson appointed to the English faculty at the Matt and Mari Walker, a son, Matthew, Aaron Merritt, a physical science teacher June 6, Greenville. Carolina Institute for Child Success, a collaborative effort degree to Mamie Jolley Bruce of Greenville. She pro- & Miller, P.A. She practices estate planning, South Carolina Governor’s School for the Jr., March 30. After 13 years with two at Greenville High Academy, was one of 10 Robert and Kimberly Craig Proctor, among agencies, educational institutions and non- vided the founding gift for the Bridges to a Brighter probate, guardianship, real estate, Arts and Humanities in Greenville. He also certi!ed public accountant !rms, Matt has !nalists for the 2010-11 Greenville County a son, Levi Ellis Slate, March 16. Kimberly pro!t groups through which the physical, emotional Future program, which for almost 15 years has helped corporate governance and business law. teaches in the Undergraduate Evening joined First Bank of Miami (Fla.) as senior Teacher of the Year Award. is director of admissions for the Clemson and developmental needs of the state’s young children high school students from economically challenged MARRIAGE: Ann Louise Eubanks and Studies program at Furman. He has been vice president and controller. MARRIAGES: Heather Coffey and University MBA program. will be addressed. backgrounds realize their dreams and pursue their David William Schmitt, July 24. They live admitted to the doctoral program at Drew Christopher Farmer, July 3. They live in Noel and Dayna Schoonmaker, a daugh- In addition, the university presented the Bell Tower personal and educational goals. (See page 26.) Bruce in St. Louis, Mo., where she is a physical University, where he will begin his studies Leesburg, Va. ter, Nora Kate, July 20. They live in Valdese, Award to Jeanne Saunders Davis ’56 of Lexington, N.C., was not able to attend the convocation. therapist with Peg Therapies Inc. and he in the summer of 2011. N.C. works at Monsanto World Headquarters. Michael and Emily Smith White, a son, Samuel Carlton, July 30, Durham, N.C.

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01 Brock and Carace Parmley MacKay, David and Megan Mathis, twin sons, Matt Lynn is Latin American project He has been with the Greenville-based Michelle Kannan has become manager NEXT REUNION IN 2011 a son, Finley MacNeil, August 5, Fort Coleman Richard and Carson Thomas, July coordinator for BiblioWorks, an organiza- commercial mortgage banking !rm for six of alumni relations at Bishop O’Connell Matthew Link of Richmond Hill, Ga., has Thomas, Ky. Brock is a landscape architect 1, Minneapolis, Minn. David is a theological tion based in Asheville, N.C., that years. He is a member of the Urban Land High School in Arlington, Va. joined the orthopaedic department at Fort with Viox & Viox, Inc., and Carace is a assistant to pastor-author John Piper. provides funding to equip and build rural Institute and is active in the Upstate ULI Kristin LaRoche has been named grants Stewart Army Hospital. pediatrician with Pediatric Associates Eugene and Anne Marie Tominack ’02 libraries in Bolivia, train library workers Young Leaders group. administrator in the Of!ce of Sponsored Richard McAdams is a writer for The of Northern Kentucky. Sibal, a daughter, Lennox Marie, February and teachers, and promote literacy. MARRIAGE: Mandy Atkinson and Programs at Clemson University. Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. Doug and Mary Teal Mitchell ’07 5. Eugene is a dental student at the Medical Before joining BiblioWorks, Matt served Gordon Stallard, April 3. They live in Jessica Hawley Sharp graduated from BIRTHS: Morgan and Megan Palmer O’Neal, a daughter, Lucy Mae, March 11, University of South Carolina. Anne Marie is in the Peace Corps for two years. Visit Simpsonville, S.C. She teaches French Converse College in July with a Master of Camp, a daughter, Grace Caroline, April Greenville. an attorney in the U.S. Air Force stationed www.biblioworks.org. at Laurens District 55 High School. Arts degree in teaching in early childhood 26. They have moved to Raleigh, N.C., Beau and Hilary Eldred Seagraves, at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Art work by Nikki Pressley is featured BIRTH: Christopher and Joyce Monforte education. She is interim director of the where Morgan is a radiologist at Duke- a son, Robert “Burke” Seagraves III, Springs, Colo. in the California Biennial exhibition, which Hollins, a daughter, Meredith Joyce, Child Development Center at the YWCA Raleigh Hospital. August 6, 2009, Athens, Ga. Russell and Mary Beth Lemmons runs through March 13 at the Orange February 11. They live in Franklin, Tenn. of Greenville. Erik ’02 and Heather Townes Madsen, Matt ’03 and Molly Stokes Staab, Young, a daughter, Emary Claire, March County Museum of Art. Nikki is one of MARRIAGES: Tina Denmark and Justin a daughter, Claire Frances, March 16. a daughter, Lillian Belle, November 20, 16, Greenville. more than 40 artists and collaborative 05 James Myers, August 21. They live in Prairie Erik recently completed the M.D./Ph.D. 2009, Greenville. groups included in the exhibition, whose Caroline Bentley has been named Village, Kan., where Tina is a healthcare program at Washington University in St. 04 goal is to present new developments in assistant women’s tennis coach at Furman. information technology consultant and Louis (Mo.), earning a Ph.D. in molecular 03 Cameron Howard of Tampa, Fla., contemporary art and showcase emerging A three-time all-Southern Conference Justin is a chef for the Hyatt. cell biology. He has begun a residency in Mindy Jones has joined the National graduated from Nova Southeastern artistic talent. selection in both singles and doubles Jim Eubanks and Komal Patel ’06, University in June with a certi!cate in Lori Ann Forrest Ricklefs has during her undergraduate days, she August 21. Jim, who was pro!led in the pediatrics at Children’s Hospital in Boston. ONEY JAY Council on Aging in Washington, D.C., Erik Ching and Cathy Stevens, a as community and new media manager. endodontics and a master’s degree in graduated from West Virginia School recently earned an MBA degree from spring 2009 issue of Furman magazine daughter, Halle Cathryn Mikel, February NEW CAREER PATH? NCOA is the leading non-pro!t services dental science. His wife, Haley, graduated of Osteopathic Medicine with a Doctor the University of Alabama, where she for his work as the youngest abbot of a and advocacy organization for older from the Philadelphia College of Osteo- of Osteopathic Medicine degree. She was a volunteer assistant coach. She has Buddhist order, completed chiropractic 3, Greenville. Erik is a history professor at WHEN A FURMAN STUDY AWAY GROUP making a stop in Donegal, Furman, where Cathy is coordinator of the Americans. pathic Medicine-Georgia. Cameron has is pursuing an internship at Charleston also been an assistant at the University study at Logan University in St. Louis, Mo., Ireland, came across this storefront this fall, they did a double take. Had Riley Institute’s Center for Education Policy Holly Chudalski Sharp is direct joined a group in the Tampa area, and (W.Va.) Area Medical Center. of North Carolina-Charlotte. while earning a master’s degree in sports the university’s recently retired president decided to chuck his plans, move and Leadership. ministry representative with Young Life Haley is pursuing a pediatrics internship Franklin E. “Trey” Warren III has Justin William Cash earned a Master science and rehabilitation and becoming overseas and open a medical clinic, where he would dispense wisdom and Jonathan and Katherine Hawkins in Greenville. at the University of South Florida. been promoted to vice president of of Laws degree in taxation from American a certi!ed strength and conditioning engage patients in everything from acupuncture to massage? The notion Watts, a daughter, Lydia, July 15, Dallas, MARRIAGES: Maggie Battcher and Q10|Professional Mortgage Company. University’s Washington College of Law. specialist. He and Komal have moved to seemed far-fetched, and yet the name was the same. Perhaps more telling, Texas. Jason Hollis, June 5. They live in Roberta, the building and sign were green — and wasn’t Shi all about sustainability? Ga. Maggie is band director at Crawford Upon further inspection, however, the group discovered that the 02 County Middle and High School, and Jason clinic’s proprietor had no Furman connection. And additional legwork ONE ALUM’S FURMAN HERO STORY ...... Rudy Currence of Rock Hill, S.C., a is a LAN support specialist at the home Disturbing Tha Peace Records artist, visited on this side of the Atlantic uncovered a number of David Shi sightings, of!ce of Georgia Farm Bureau. IN THE SUMMER ISSUE of Furman magazine, we he writes. “On one of her tests, she asked, ‘Who are about, examine and re-examine ideas, however more than 40 colleges in 15 states during con!rming that he has remained in the States to retool, write, and prepare Kathryn Paige Harden and Elliot Max asked you to send us your story (or stories) about the Negroes?’ Like a nut, I answered, “The Negroes uncomfortable the process may be? To take what his 2010 spring college tour leading to the to teach again. Tucker-Drob, June 19. They are assistant your Furman hero — the professor, were put on Earth to serve white people.” When we learn and apply it in our daily lives? release of his album “Black Keys and Blue professors of psychology at the University administrator or coach whose guidance, she returned the test to me, she scribbled on it These are the kinds of stories that we’re con- Skies.” Visit www.rudycurrenceonline.com. of Texas. in"uence or counsel had a lasting something like, ‘Where did you get this idea?’ tinuing to collect. If you are willing to share your tale Kristin Guilliams has become chief as part of the company’s Community His dissertation focused on the literacy Elizabeth Ashmore Snipes and Weston impact on your life. This began a remarkable change in my attitude about the person (or persons) who set the standard for resident of pediatric neurology at Service Award program. She is a learning experiences of boys in single- Bradley Rochester, May 22. They live in Among the earliest responses we toward African-Americans.” a Furman education in your mind — who inspired an Washington University (St. Louis Children’s Northwestern representative with gender classrooms. Spring!eld, Mo., where she is an assistant received was one from John James, a John James told his story in one short “aha” moment in you — we’d like to hear about it. Hospital) in Missouri. The Teague Financial Group. MARRIAGES: Michelle Muro and professor of art at Missouri State University paragraph. Even after 66 years, he still remem- Becky Simonds McSwain of Bradenton, April Neslund Mucci recently became Andrew Heck, May 29. They live in and he is an attorney. retired Baptist minister and member of Fla., has been named one of the top program coordinator for Leadership Polk, Greenville. BIRTHS: Jonathan and Kelley the Class of 1944. Now 87 years old, bers how one pointed question from Miss Please send your story to [email protected], volunteers in the country by Northwestern a county-wide program in central Florida. Jennifer Willis and Jon Girard, April 17. Fitzgerald Caskey, twin sons, Rhys James, who lives in Charlottesville, Va., Ebaugh (photo) led him to rethink his attitudes or mail it to Jim Stewart, Marketing and Public Mutual for her dedication to Young Life She lives in Lakeland. They live in Alexandria, Va. Fitzgerald and Owen William, February 12, recalls a seminal moment from his senior year. and reconsider his opinions. Relations, Furman University, Greenville, S.C. 29613. of Manatee County. A $10,000 grant was Josh Patterson received his Ph.D. in BIRTHS: David and Erin Lyttle Do, Spartanburg, S.C. “The one person who actually changed my way Isn’t this a major aspect of what a liberal arts We plan to publish the stories in some form, either given to the organization on her behalf educational administration from the a daughter, Claire Elise, July 3. They live Lloyd and Emily Flores, a daughter, Elyse of thinking was [sociology professor] Laura Ebaugh,” education is supposed to do — teach us to think on-line or in the magazine. from the Northwestern Mutual Foundation University of South Carolina in August. in Antioch, Tenn. Jensine, June 7. They live in Irmo, S.C.

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on the use of the tobacco mosaic virus Presbyterian Theological Seminary and is at Chapel Hill High School and is pursuing 09 MARRIAGES: Claire Carlton and Patrick Arthur Wesley Holtzclaw and Deborah CLASS NOTES POLICY as a bionanoparticle. His wife, Lauren scheduled to graduate in December. Laura his master’s degree in counseling. Dana is Matt DeLaney graduated from the Gibson, June 10. They live in Nashville, Roos, August 7. They live in Charlottesville, Mobley ’07 Neely, works at The Oaks is a study abroad advisor at the University a grant manager in the medical school at Simon School of Business at the University Tenn., where Claire works with Teach for Va. BECAUSE OF THE LARGE NUMBER OF SUBMISSIONS and clippings in Orangeburg, a retirement community. of Kentucky. Duke University and is studying for an MBA of Rochester in June with a Master of America. Alexander Pinson and Ellen Lightsey Furman receives for the magazine’s class notes section and the time needed MARRIAGES: Dana Boltuch and Jackie Gehner and Kevin Stackpole, May through East Carolina University. Science degree in !nance. Kristen Confer and Joseph Tenini, ’08, June 26. Ellen has completed a master’s to review, compile and edit so much information, news items frequently are Anthony Saxon, May 22. They live in Bear, 29. They live in Atlanta. Jennifer Watson and Carter Bar"eld Patrick Morgan, a graduate student May 22. They are graduate students degree in international relations and religion not published until !ve or six months after they are submitted. Del. Dana is working on a Ph.D. in physics Laura Caitlin Godfrey and Michael ’07, June 26. Carter is a graduate assis- at Appalachian State University and at the University of Georgia in Athens, at Boston University, where she received the Furman magazine does not publish dated items (anything more than and astronomy at the University of Dela- Russell Morris, June 26. They live in Boston. tant football coach at the University of former middle-distance runner at Furman, Kristen in the Master of Social Work prize for excellence in international relations. 18 months old at time of publication) or engagement announcements. ware, and Tony is a Linux administrator She teaches voice lessons at Needham High Kentucky, and Jenny is an elementary won the Bluegrass 10K race held July 3 program and Joe in the mathematics Alexander enrolled this fall at the Charleston When sending news for class notes, please include your spouse’s or child’s for TruPosition. School and also works as an of!ce assistant school teacher. They live in Lexington. in Lexington, Ky. Ph.D. program. (S.C.) School of Law. name, whether your spouse is a Furman graduate, and the date and city Jessalyn Davis and Craig Garvey, August at Revolution Partners/Morgan Keegan. where the birth or marriage occurred. 7. They live in New York City where she is Michael is the support manager for Roam an associate with the law !rm of Latham Data, Inc. When sent electronically, news about alumni couples who graduated SILENTLY THEY SHARE THE MUSIC OF LOVE ...... in different years is included under the graduation date of the submitter. & Watkins LLP. Meredith Camby and Chris Hartman, July 3. They live in Clarksville, Tenn., In other cases it goes under the earliest graduation date. It is not listed Tessa Kay Jaeger and McNeill Palmer PRISCILLA SOFEY HARRIS IS A MUSICIAN. surprise that Harris was not embarrassed by her where Chris is a captain in the U.S. Army with both classes. Kirkpatrick, June 19. They live in Nashville, She sings. She plays the clarinet. She directs parents, and Harris’ grandmother said, “It’s all Tenn. He is a neurology resident at stationed at Fort Campbell. Send news to the Of!ce of Marketing and Public Relations, Furman the choir for 5-year-olds at First Baptist Church in the way you perceive it.” Vanderbilt University and she is a middle Anne Rone and Eric Carl McGovern, University, 3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, S.C. 29613, or e-mail to of Greenville, where she also coordinates the Harris thought she wanted to teach, but not school librarian in Robertson County. April 3. They live in Columbia, S.C. [email protected]. Selected information submitted to the on-line alumni children’s choir programs. music — math, her other major at Furman. She taught Amanda Lea Owens and Jefferson Paul Wisneski and Devon Michael, registry (http://alumni.furman.edu) is included in class notes. Music was one of her majors at Furman, from for three years before realizing it wasn’t right for her. May 22. Devon is pursuing a teaching Mitchell Duncan, July 24. She is a Spanish which she graduated in 1992. She and her husband, John Harris ’91, a Furman teacher at Wade Hampton High School certi!cate for secondary English at Clearly, music has shaped her life, perhaps as math professor, have a daughter, Sophie, and a son, in Greenville, and he is a social studies West Chester University of Pennsylvania, profoundly as the fact that both of her parents are Will. She taught both children to sign as babies, long Charlotte, N.C., where he is an associate Rob and Lauren Welch ’04 Langley, teacher at J.L. Mann Academy. and Paul is a service advisor for Stillman deaf. Her mother was born deaf, and her father lost before they could talk. Will could sign 60 words on his at Priester Chiropractic Clinic and director a daughter, Cameron Grace, June 17. Claire Speer and Patrick Blake, July 24. Volvo in West Chester. his hearing at eight months during a bout with spinal !rst birthday. of the Bodymind Studies Institute, which They live in Dallas, Texas. Rob, who Claire is a client partnership manager with BIRTH: Mandrallius ’06 and Parthenia meningitis and a 105-degree fever. “The brain is ready to communicate, but the vocal is devoted to the study of human perfor- received his MBA with distinction from Agile in Atlanta. Luke Robinson, a daughter, Zoe They’ve never been able to hear their daughter chords are not,” she says. mance training in sports, business and the Kellogg School of Management at BIRTHS: Philip and Lindsey Ross Parthenia, July 4, Greenville. sing or play. And yet Billy and Suzanne Sofey always Her mother signed “The Lord’s Prayer” at Harris’ Over time, Harris began serving as an interpreter healthcare. Komal earned a nursing degree Northwestern University, works for the Stephens, a son, Philip Avery, May 23. attended her performances. wedding, and through the sunroof of the church came for various organizations, Furman students, and from Barnes-Jewish School of Nursing and Riverside Company. Lauren is a nurse. They live in Riverview, Fla. 08 “I try not to think too much about them not a beam of light that fell right on her. “It was like God patients in the Greenville Hospital System. Sometimes is a critical care nurse with the trauma unit Brent ’04 and Megan Robinson Tom and Lauren Ourt Wieme, Joanna Hawley has earned a master’s was sending sunrays to light her up like an angel,” she signs for PTA meetings or parent conferences of Carolinas Medical Center. Lineberry, a son, Elijah Grant, April 19, a daughter, Kristen Joy, July 3. They live degree in wildlife and !sheries biology being able to hear me,” Harris says. “They’ve always Betsy Fischer and Will Rayel, November Atlanta. in Augusta, Ga., where they work as from Clemson University, where she is been so supportive.” Harris says. with the Greenville County Schools. “I feel good when 21, 2009. They live in Gaithersburg, Md. physician assistants. pursuing a Ph.D. with an emphasis in Harris started playing the piano when she was Her mother hadn’t known whether she could do I’m doing it, to give back and help people,” she says. Nathan Henry Thomas Patton and 06 quantitative ecology. in the !rst grade. She came home one day and there it on such an emotional day. But there she was, once “Deaf people don’t take that for granted.” Karen Louis Sandberg, July 3. She NEXT REUNION IN 2011 07 Christina Henderson has enrolled in the it was in the living room, a gift from her grandmother, again sharing music with her daughter. And Harris doesn’t take for granted the undying received her master’s degree in school Hale Edwards (M.A.), a social studies Ian Duggan has graduated from law master’s degree program in public affairs at a Cable upright, the same one Harris plays now. Harris’ father had a surprise of his own during support her parents have offered her through the psychology from the University of Georgia, teacher at Riverside Middle School, school at the University of South Carolina Princeton University. She previously worked When Harris practiced, her mother would stand the wedding festivities. At the rehearsal dinner, he years. She holds onto something her mother is fond where she is enrolled in the doctoral was one of 10 !nalists for the 2010-11 and was scheduled to be commissioned for North Carolina senator Kay Hagan. beside her and rest her hand on the top to feel the played a tape of his daughter as a small child singing of saying: “One day when I’m in heaven, I’ll be able program. They live in New Rochelle, N.Y., Greenville County Teacher of the Year an of!cer in the U.S. Air Force JAG Corps MARRIAGES: Cameron Babbitt and vibration. “I get my musical ability from my mother,” “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.” to hear you.” where he teaches. Award. this fall. Vaughn Layne, August 7. They live in she says. “People think that’s strange.” “I didn’t remember my dad had this,” she says. — LYN RIDDLE BIRTHS: John ’03 and Paula Bible Dee Moss completed his MBA degree Adam Dymond (M.A.) is now assistant Morgantown, W.Va. But her mother was a majorette at the Mississippi “The fact he wanted to record me as a child and he Chesworth, a son, Jack, July 22, at Augusta (Ga.) State University and is principal for Rocky Creek Elementary Christopher Jackman and Lindsay School for the Deaf, where her parents met, and can couldn’t even hear it was amazing to me.” Reprinted with permission from the June 25, 2010, Knoxville, Tenn. employed by SunTrust Bank in Augusta. School in Lexington, S.C. Lark ’09, May 15. They live in Greenville. dance better than half of the hearing people Harris She considers having deaf parents a blessing. issue of The Greenville Journal. Photo by Sophie Harris. Adam Sanders and Dana Jason and Abigail Landis ’04 Kuder, Tony Neely is enrolled in the doctoral MARRIAGES: Phillip Braun and Laura knows. They showed her people can overcome anything if a son, Clayton Ware, May 18. They live program in organic chemistry at the Weidenfeller, June 26. They live in Pad"eld, June 26. Phillip is studying “She signs music beautifully,” Harris says. they work at it. Once a fellow student expressed in Jacksonville, Fla. University of South Carolina, working marriage and family therapy at Louisville Durham, N.C. Adam teaches social studies

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10 Harry P. Covington ’40, July 1, Mary Black Hill ’45, July 19, Amelia Thomas Clyde O’Donnell, Jr. ’48, July State Bank in 1950 and retired as executive many years. Later he was a salesman for MARRIAGE: Caroline Gustafson Davis Bennettsville, S.C. A retired farmer, he was Island, Fla. She had many artistic interests, 24, Greenville. He served in the U.S. Army vice president. He served as treasurer of Beach Ford in Norfolk, Va. He served in and John Robert Albea, June 19. They a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy including acting, painting and dance. After Air Corps from 1943 until the end of World American Legion Post 22 for more than 50 the U.S. Army Air Corps. live in Durham, N.C. Caroline attends the during World War II, serving on transport she moved to Atlanta in 1944 to work as a War II and was a "ight engineer on A-26s years, was a former member of the Union Mary Lou Ellis Wilburn ’50, August MULHOLLAND: University of North Carolina School of ships. chemist for the U.S. Army and then for the and B-17s. He went on to work for Liberty Rotary Club, and was a former director and 3, Union, S.C. A retired educator and COMMITMENT KEY Dentistry, and John works in construction Benjamin Franklin Hawkins ’41, July Food and Drug Administration, she became Life Insurance Company, retiring from its treasurer for the Union County United Way. guidance counselor with the Union County IN AFGHANISTAN management. 4, Columbia, S.C. He was a Southern an important part of the city’s burgeoning treasury department after 38 years. Eleanor “Peetsie” Rhame Gulledge School System, she was a member of the Baptist minister who served as pastor dance scene as a teacher, as a performer Dorothy Mitchell Pittman ’48, May ’49, August 22, Greenville. She was a Daughters of the American Revolution, the THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN is one DEATHS of Park Baptist Church in Rock Hill, S.C., with the Ruth Mitchell Dancers, and as a 8, Pickens, S.C. She was retired from the charter member of the Furman Singers United Daughters of the Confederacy, the of will and commitment, and the side Caroline Inman Crain ’31, July 3, from 1944 to 1958 and of Fairview Baptist member of the Atlanta Arts Council. She Pickens County School District as a third under the direction of her father, DuPre Criterion Book Club, and Friends of the with the greatest desire for victory Hendersonville, N.C. She was a secretary Church in Greer, S.C., from 1958 to 1967. retired from the stage in the mid-1960s grade teacher, spending most of her career Rhame. She was an employee of Greenville Library. will ultimately prevail. for the March of Dimes and was pianist at He was superintendent of missions in the but continued to teach ballet for another at Ben Hagood Elementary. She was also Technical College and was a past president Louis Gardner Green ’51, August That’s the blunt assessment of Lt. Gen. John F. Mulholland, Jr., a Enoree Baptist Church for 48 years. Greenville Association and director of decade. a guidance counselor at three elementary of the Greenville Dental Auxiliary. Her 12, Greenville. After completing military Bessie Margaret Barton McCarrell stewardship development and cooperative Sarah Lang Schober ’45, March 1, schools. She was a member of YMCA Silver family designated the DuPre Rhame Voice service in Tokyo, Japan, he began his 1978 Furman graduate who serves as commander of the U.S. Army Special ’32, June 19, Travelers Rest, S.C. She retired program promotion for the General Board Berlin, Vt. She was an elementary school Sneakers, the Pickens County Historical Scholarship Fund at Furman as a memorial business career with Liberty Corporation Operations Command. Under the auspices of the Riley Institute, Mulholland as a !rst grade teacher at Slater-Marietta of the South Carolina Baptist Convention. librarian for 25 years in West Caldwell, Society, Upcountry Quilters Guild, and option. in Greenville. He worked for Protective Life spoke October 11 before a packed crowd in Younts Conference Center. Elementary School. He was director of missions for the N.J., before retiring to the family farm Quilters of South Carolina. Margaret Welch Mardre Brockman Corporation in Birmingham, Ala., and later “At the end of the day this will be about our will, our commitment as Nancy McCain Clarke ’37, June 12, Palmetto and the Reedy River Baptist in Berlin. She was a volunteer with Frederica Keys Trovillion ’48, August ’50, June 11, Greenville. She was a moved to New Orleans, where he was a military, and our commitment as a nation to give the Afghan people the Louisville, Ky. associations, a past president of the South numerous organizations, including schools, 26, Lakeland, Fla. In 1947 she and substitute teacher for the Greenville a partner in an antique business and a peace they deserve,” said Mulholland. “No people, at least in the modern Betty Harris McGinnis ’37, August 20, Carolina Baptist Convention and its Pastors church, League of Women Voters, New her husband, Frank, were two of !ve County School District and later worked as member of the board of the New Orleans era, have suffered as much as they have.” Greenville. She was active in church and Conference, and former vice president of Jersey Education Association, American rehabilitated polio patients invited to an adjuster for Allstate Insurance Company. Symphony. The country, he said, has been decimated by years of con"ict and community affairs, was a member of the the General Board. He was a trustee of Association of University Women, the participate in an International Conference As a retiree she volunteered for Meals on Hovie Dee Revis, Jr. ’51, July 6, neglect, and its extreme weather conditions (bitter cold, frequent sand- Retired Of!cers Wives Club (military), and North Greenville College, Connie Maxwell American Civil Liberties Union, and the on Polio. She was involved in many Wheels and the Greenville Free Medical Greenville. He served in the U.S. Army with storms) and geography (nearly impenetrable, mountainous terrain) make was on the board of the Sarah Gossett Children’s Home and New Orleans Baptist Berlin and Vermont historical societies. community projects, including serving on Clinic, and for almost two decades she the last horse-mounted cavalry of World providing assistance dif!cult. Nursing Home. Theological Seminary. He also served as Ellen Hodgens Bridges ’46, June 7, the boards of the Junior League of Greater volunteered at Project Host Soup Kitchen. War II, stationed in Italy. After attending The Taliban, a radical Islamic group, took over Afghanistan in 1996 Evelyn Keith Rodgers Easterling a chaplain to the South Carolina National Jacksonville, Fla. She was a teacher whose Lakeland, VISTE and Lakeland Habitat for Elizabeth Dobson Ellis ’50, June 24, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary following a four-year civil war and began harboring terrorist groups, such ’38, June 8, Greenville. She was a retired Guard and was a member of the Masonic career began in New York City. She later Humanity. She was a founding member of Greenville. She taught English for 28 years, he was a Baptist minister for more than 60 as al Qaeda. In late 2001 NATO and U.S. forces quickly overran the Taliban teacher with the Greenville County School 26 of them in Greenville County. years. He was a past president of the South Order. Furman awarded him an honorary spent 20 years in Augusta, Ga., where she her church, where she played piano for the after it refused to stop shielding al Qaeda members or to turn over Osama District. Doctor of Divinity degree in 1983. taught !rst grade and was involved with children’s choir. Frances Irene Nuite Lofton ’50, June Carolina Baptist Convention and served on Bin Laden. Mulholland was involved in the 2001 action. Lenora “Pug” Russell Curry ’39, June Lois Bolding McCrary ’41, May 30, the Harry Jacobs Chamber Music Society. Harry Howell Clyborne, Sr. ’49, 18, Mount Pleasant, S.C. A teacher, writer, the Baptist Brotherhood Commission. In recent years, however, with the United States increasingly focused 20, Anderson, S.C. She was a bookkeeper Asheville, N.C. She began her career as a James Stuart Hepler ’48, June 29, August 15, Greenville. He was retired horticulturist and "oral designer, she was Helen Jeffords Barham ’52, August 1, on Iraq, the Taliban and al Qaeda have regained traction. “Afghanistan got for Carolina Optical Supply. home economics teacher in Liberty, S.C., Bennettsville, S.C. His Furman studies from Metromont Materials. owner of Lofton’s Landscape Nursery West Columbia, S.C. After serving off the radar screen,” said Mulholland. “Whether we lost an opportunity Dorothy Barton Lyday ’39, July 25, and later was the manager and buyer for were interrupted by World War II, when Margaret May Ferris ’49, June 29, for 30 years. She was an award-winning as a resident counselor at the University there will be debated for many years.” Bryson City, N.C. A teacher, she was a Bell’s Gatehouse. She was active in civic he entered the U.S. Army and served Palatka, Fla. She was an English teacher member of the Poetry Society of South of Florida, she was a librarian and reading Before assuming his current position, Mulholland, who received lifetime member of the Swain County causes and was a member of the Children’s three years in the European theatre. After at Osceola Middle School for 32 years. She Carolina and frequently conducted poetry specialist in schools in Richland-Lexington Furman’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2009, was commanding general Hospital Auxiliary and of the Bryson City Welfare League. completing his undergraduate education also taught in Denver, Colo., and in Palatka. sessions during the annual Spoleto Festival (S.C.) District 5 and Richland District 1. of Special Operations Command Central at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. Chapter of the American Association of Helen Miller Paul ’41, June 1, Sullivans he entered Southern Baptist Theological A longtime volunteer with Meals on in Charleston. She published three books She !nished her professional career He has served as chief of the Of!ce of Military Cooperation at the American University Women, and was a past board Island, S.C. She was a former Miss South Seminary. All of his pastorates were in Wheels and at Munroe Regional Medical of poetry and a children’s book, as well as the director of prevention for the member of Marianna Black Library. During Carolina and an avid tennis player. A South Carolina, ending at First Baptist Center, she was a member of the Retired as a book about dealing with grief. In her Lexington/Richland Alcohol and Drug Embassy in Kuwait, and commanded the Joint Special Operations Task Force World War II she worked for the FBI. longtime member of the Ladies Benevolent Church of McColl, from which he retired Teachers’ Association and Delta Kappa later years she taught English as a Second Abuse Commission. In 1991 she received during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Amelia Beason Woods ’39, July 16, Society, she was active in civic and chari- in 1982. Thereafter he continued to work Gamma. Language to elderly students. the South Carolina Association for Health — JOHN ROBERTS Greenville. table causes. as an interim pastor. Claude Daniel Finley, Jr. ’49, June Philip Garvin Pou, Jr. ’50, July 23, Education Award. She also spearheaded Dorothy Brunson Green ’42, July 15, Elsie “Jean” Martin Holland ’48, 2, Union, S.C. He was a veteran of the Saluda, S.C. He served on the Board the 1991 LRADAC Red Ribbon Campaign. Furman magazine plans a more expansive pro"le of Mulholland in a Forney, Texas. She was a teacher and August 26, Weddington, N.C. She was U.S. Navy, serving during World War II. of Regents of Liberty University and was After retirement she worked for several forthcoming issue. guidance counselor. a teacher. He began his 40-year career with Arthur employed by Ford Motor Company for years with the adult literacy program in

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Columbia, and in 1979 she received the Betty Jean Seymour ’53, June 6, in which capacity she worked with the Lawrence Olin Way, Jr. ’53, June 30, Mildred Crymes Young ’53, May She served as a volunteer with Birthright !rst women admitted to the school. She Col. S.L. Finklea Award for her volunteer Richmond, Va. She was a minister, Holly Hill, S.C. He was commissioned a 31, Georgetown, S.C. She was owner of Greenville and Meals on Wheels. WEB-BASED OPTION FOR TRANSCRIPTS work with the American Cancer Society. teacher and scholar, and for more than went on to be the school’s !rst tenured Navy ensign in 1953. After his discharge, and manager of Hitching Post Farm in James Charles Saylors, Jr. ’54, August She helped breast cancer victims through 40 years was a soloist in the choir of woman faculty member, the !rst woman he was a cotton and grain farmer from Greenville from 1967 to 1983. She was 9, Williamston, S.C. After serving in the THE ACADEMIC RECORDS OFFICE at Furman now offers a Web- the Reach to Recovery Program and was River Road Baptist Church in Richmond. to chair a department, and the !rst woman 1955 to 1980. He established Holly Hill also an educator in the Greenville County U.S. Army in the Philippines from 1945 based transcript ordering and e-transcript delivery service 24 hours a day, a longtime volunteer with the Lexington to achieve the rank of full professor, and to 1947, he worked at Marathon Oil in After graduating from Southern Baptist Milling Company, Inc., serving as owner School District for more than 30 years. seven days a week. Medical Center Volunteer Auxiliary. Theological Seminary she was a campus she was co-director of the school’s !rst from 1957 to 1980, and later became Holder of a Ph.D. in gifted education Belton. He then became a teacher and The service is offered in partnership with Avow Systems of Colorado, Mollie Geneva Lee Whisenhunt minister at four colleges between 1955 and women’s studies program. A three-time involved in purebred cattle ranching. from the University of Georgia, she was supervisor and retired from Anderson a leader in the secure document delivery industry. ’52, June 9, Orangeburg, S.C. She served 1966, and she was a founding member of recipient of the school’s Thomas Branch He was on the board of directors of instrumental in developing programs for County (S.C.) School District 5. He was “This new and improved system allows for electronic delivery of as youth director of First Baptist Church Virginia Baptist Women in Ministry. From Award for Excellence in Teaching, she the American Beefalo Association and the gifted and talented. a ham radio operator and amateur of!cial transcripts in a secure, portable document format (pdf),” says of Greer, S.C., education director of 1960 to 1966 she was director of religious also received the S.N. Gray Distinguished was named Premier Breeder of the Kaye Adams Cook Lamport ’54, photographer. Brad Barron, associate dean for academic records and university registrar. Northside Baptist Church of Orangeburg, activities at Westhampton College of the Professor Award, the Exemplary Teaching Year in 1982. Later he became involved August 1, Raleigh, N.C. She was a Faye Robertson Walls ’54, August “The service also provides a series of e-mail alerts that document the and secretary for Estate Life Insurance University of Richmond, and from 1971 Award from the United Methodist Board in addiction counseling and served as longtime community activist. She served 30, Landrum, S.C. She retired from the status of the request throughout the ful!llment process.” Company and Hygrade Meat Products of until her retirement in 2003 she taught of Higher Education, and, in 2003, the intensive treatment coordinator at the on the !rst Town of Wake Forest (N.C.) Greenville County School District after Barron said that his of!ce will still deliver transcripts on traditional Orangeburg. She was a church organist in the religious studies department at Faculty Certi!cate of Appreciation. Upon Tri-County Commission in Orangeburg. Good Neighbor Council and the Wake more than 40 years of teaching. and clerk for 40 years, was a member Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, her retirement the B.J. Seymour Alumna He also served on the board of the Farmers Forest Tree Board, and was an of!cer on Hampton Murray “Bill” Williams ’54, security paper for those who request it. of Edisto Fork Grange, and was county Va. At Randolph-Macon she was the !rst Award was established in her honor. In and Merchants Bank of South Carolina the Wake Forest Community Council. July 30, Abbeville, S.C. He retired in 1989 Former students can use their Furman Online Alumni Community director for the Orangeburg Homemakers full-time woman faculty member and 2009 Randolph-Macon awarded her an from 1974 until his death. She held multiple of!ces and leadership as a freshwater !sheries biologist with account to directly place orders for of!cial transcripts. There is a $5 service Extension Club and Council. She was also was named assistant dean of students, honorary degree. positions in the Wake Forest Area Ministers the South Carolina Wildlife and Marine fee for each transcript request. a partner in Dairy Equipment Co. Association, the Town of Zebulon Chamber Resources Department. He received his Visit www.furman.edu/registrar/records.html to access the new of Commerce, and in the Wake Forest training as a !sheries biologist at the U.S. transcript system. For more information, call the academic records of!ce, Fish Hatchery in Welaka, Fla., and was (864) 294-2030. ELIZABETH McDAVID CAMPBELL, 1917–2010 ...... Schools PTA. She was minister of education at Wake Forest Baptist Church and active director of the South Carolina State Fish WHEN ELIZABETH McDAVID the students commit to be tutors and and the Betsy Campbell Carriage House at the South in the Raleigh Baptist Association, and she Hatcheries before moving to Abbeville in career, he was retired chairman of the Morristown she taught high school science CAMPBELL ’38 died September mentors to local children. Carolina Botanical Garden bear her name. started a program of seminary extension 1962. There he was active in community affairs as founding president of the Aiken Technical College Commission, before going to work with homebound 6 in Naples, Fla., she left behind Tobi Swartz, who oversees the Her generosity and civic-mindedness extended classes at Central Prison. She held of!ces in the North Carolina Federation of Women’s Friends of Abbeville County Libraries and past president of the Aiken County Heart students. Hamblen County Schools an exceptional legacy of advocacy Campbell Scholars (as well as the Bridges to other areas. She was a leader in the Episcopal Clubs, volunteered in the Governor’s Of!ce as a participant in Abbeville Community Association, founding president of Aiken presented her their highest award for for children. Her caring and to a Brighter Future program), says the Church of the Incarnation in Gaffney, the !rst president of Citizen Affairs, and was a member of Theatre for 40 years. He boxed in the Junior Achievement, past treasurer of the teaching excellence in special education. creative assistance and hands- scholarship “combines !nancial support of the Gaffney Friends of the Library, and a founder both the North Carolina Art Museum lightweight division of Golden Gloves and Chamber of Commerce, an originating She served on the Southeast Aging on efforts enabled many young to students who need assistance to of the York (S.C.) Place Episcopal Home for develop- Society and the North Carolina Symphony was a member of the Sports Car Club of board member of Helping Hands, and a Committee and on the board of Senior people to overcome the challenges attend Furman with an experiential work mentally impaired children, which honored her with Society. Listed in Personalities of the South, America, the National Ri"e Association, charter member and past president of Citizens of Morristown. of poverty, emotional distress, opportunity. The Campbells understood its Henry B. Richardson Award. She was also a strong she received the 20th Anniversary National the American Fisheries Society and the Kiwanis Club of Aiken. Keith A. Shelton ’58, July 24, Halifax, illiteracy and abuse. the importance of teaching college supporter of Camp Kanuga, an Episcopal camp in Leadership Award from the Society of Southeastern Association of Game and Joe Edward Cooper ’57, June 12, Va. Following in the footsteps of his father, A native of Greenville, she students the value of service. Not only North Carolina. Distinguished High School Students. In Fish Commissioners. He was a U.S. Marine Greenville. He was a U.S. Army veteran Lynn, he was the owner and publisher of are the Campbell Scholars’ lives changed She received honorary degrees from Limestone earned a degree in history from Boiling Springs, N.C., where her husband Corps veteran of the Korean War. of the Vietnam era and retired as execu- The Gazette-Virginian, a thrice-weekly Furman three months after marrying Robert through their experience, but they enrich the lives of College, Clemson and, in 2002, from Furman, which taught at Gardner-Webb University, she Joe Wilson DeVore, Sr. ’55, June 26, tive vice president of Greenville Technical newspaper in Halifax County. He was S. Campbell, Jr., of Gaffney, S.C. Their partnership the children they work with.” recognized her support of the university and her work was elected board chair of the Gardner- Aiken, S.C. After service with the U.S. College. He was also director of !nance for described by a colleague as “a consummate lasted until Bob’s death in 2003. Bob was the founder Bob and Betsy Campbell were also members of on behalf of children. In 1998 she received the Order Webb Christian Service Organization. Army in Germany, he went into banking Taylors First Baptist Church. newspaperman and a wonderful Virginia of Campbell Limestone Co., which in 1968 merged the Richard Furman Society, which consists of those of the Palmetto, the state of South Carolina’s highest Terri Garoni Parillo ’54, August 6, and retired as executive vice president of Ann Elizabeth Godshall Jones ’57, gentleman.” Under his leadership the with Vulcan Materials, the world’s largest supplier who provide annual unrestricted gifts of $10,000 or civilian award. Greenville. She was a teacher and assistant Regions Bank, formerly Palmetto Savings June 18, St. Augustine, Fla. She was active newspaper received numerous Virginia of crushed stone. more to Furman, and the Heritage Society, made up As her obituary stated, “Betsy believed in helping principal at Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Bank of South Carolina. He served as in Episcopal church work and served on the Press Association awards, and he was The Campbells, models of business acumen of individuals whose planned gifts will bene!t the young people teach each other values, attitudes and School for 30 years. Upon her retirement senior lending of!cer and senior credit board of the Woman’s Exchange. highly regarded as a mentor to young and generosity, were strong Furman supporters. university. In addition, the Campbells supported a skills that would enable each of them to contribute in she was named an emerita member of the of!cer for the South Carolina division of Charlyne Justis Easterly ’58, June journalists. Active in civic and community A scholarship program named for them provides number of initiatives at Clemson University, where the their community as envisioned by our Creator.” school’s board. She was listed in Who’s Regions Bank and was a former senior 25, Morristown, Tenn. She began her endeavors, he was an of!cer in the !nancial support to 12 students annually. In return, Betsy M. Campbell Learning Symposium for Teachers Who Among American Teachers and vice president of Bankers Trust of South career teaching biology, chemistry and National Guard, a former United Way Outstanding Young Women of America. Carolina. In addition to his banking tennis in Vero Beach, Fla. After moving to president, a strong supporter and coach

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BRIAN CRISP, EDUCATOR AND COLLABORATOR ...... Walter O. Luertzing, Jr. ’64, September Robert Mac Watson, Sr. ’66, August Jane Lynn Bright, M.A. ’76, September CAMPUS DIRECTORY 4, Millville, N.J. He was a longtime librarian, 12, Charleston, S.C. An all-Southern 9, Spartanburg, S.C. She taught French THE CHARACTERS OF BRIAN CRISP’S to Orff-Schulwerk, a theory, Crisp says, “that gives !rst in New Orleans and then, for most Conference soccer player at Furman and in the Spartanburg and Cherokee County children the ability to compose the music they want (area code 864): childhood read like a Flannery O’Connor story: of his career, in Cumberland County, an avid outdoorsman, he worked with (S.C.) schools before earning a Doctor of developmentally delayed adults, battered women, so they better understand the fundamentals and are N.J. There he was called “Mr. Library” by the Army Corps of Engineers to provide Divinity degree from Columbia Theological Main University Number runaway teens and recovering addicts. An aunt that able to use music as a language to make meaning young people who enjoyed the tours he training in the reservoir manager program Seminary. After her ordination in the 294-2000 exclusively wears silk pajama sets, consumes mass of the bigger world. There was a lot of theory and conducted of the facility. He was also a !lm in four southeastern states. He also worked Presbyterian Church USA, she served three quantities of Southern Comfort, and drives a John music history, but it was also fun and hands-on and buff and helped establish a !lm club called as an insurance agent with Northwestern churches. At the time of her death she Academic Records (Registrar) Deere lawnmower for transportation. A former beauty experiential. And everyone was sort of acting and “The Reel Thing.” Mutual Insurance Company, was a builder was associated with Owings Presbyterian 294-2030 queen for a grandmother. And Oscar, the one-legged learning within the group dynamic.” Ann Bartlett Cannon ’65, July 8, for several years, and sold real estate.. Church, while also working as an associate French handyman, who suffered from a broken heart He would later spend seven years at St. Paul Chamblee, Ga. She transferred from Linda Elizabeth Taylor ’67 (M.A. ’69), chaplain with the Greenville Hospital and literally became part of the family when he moved Academy in the Twin Cities, working with colleagues Admission Furman to the University of Georgia, where July 31, Manning, S.C. She was a retired System and as volunteer chaplain with the

294-2034 into the Crisps’ home in Horse Shoe, N.C. in education and the arts. While there he serendipi- ETTER she studied journalism and worked as a special education teacher. Spartanburg County sheriff’s of!ce. She Y tously bought a book, Louise Cadwell’s Bringing

“As a child, I thought Oscar single-handedly EAH photojournalist and beat reporter covering Louise Booth Taylor ’70, June 28, was a member of Foothills Presbytery. L rebuilt France after World War II. During one Septem- Learning to Life: The Reggio Approach to Early Alumni Association the Athens area for WSB-TV in Atlanta. Greenville. She was an employee of George J. Schneider, Jr. ’76, August 27, ber malaise in the back yard, [my mother] Estelle Childhood Education, which introduced him to of Reggio and Orff-Schulwerk and make them work 1-800-PURPLE3 After graduation she accepted a position Greenville County Schools, serving as Greenville. After more than 25 years with unearthed more mystery than mud when, knee-deep an educational philosophy developed in post-World in the advertising department of the Coca- both a librarian and school psychologist. Smith Barney, he and his wife, Deborah, together, not just in the lives of 600 students in in water, she asked gently, ‘Oscar, do you still have War II Italy in the town of Reggio Emilia. Annual Giving Cola Company in Atlanta. From 1966 to For years she was a member of the owned and operated the Peddler Steak St. Louis, but in the lives of thousands of students 294-3475 1969 she worked for Georgia Tech as a summer staff of YMCA Camp Greenville, House near Furman. The family indicated family in France?’ This middle-aged man had lost The Reggio approach values a curriculum that all over the United States.” spokesperson for the school and host of a and in 1987 she received the Greatest memorials may be made to the golf teams more than a limb in the war,” Crisp writes in his blog, emerges from a combination of children’s interests, These days Crisp is back in North Carolina Athletic Ticket Of"ce campus-wide radio show. Active in church Grandmother of the Year Award at the at Furman. “In the Family Way” (http://inthefamilyway-south. in-depth studies of concepts from the group, teachers !nishing his second book, an ethnographic study of 294-3097 work, she produced a series of Sunday South Carolina State Fair. Keith Ellis ‘80, September 9, Nashville, blogspot.com). as partners and learners alongside the children, and the how children relate to and learn music. He recently school lessons for teachers and students Ronald Belvin Wingard, M.A. ’70, Tenn. He was a musician, teacher, con- “Oscar lived with us until he had to move into classroom environment, often referred to as the “third launched his own !rm, Crisp Consulting & Coaching Bookstore which came to be used as a standard text August 28, Cayce, S.C. He retired from ductor, clinician and adjudicator. Most a nursing facility. That is family, be it blood or not. teacher.” In 1991 Newsweek hailed the Reggio Emilia (www.crispconsults.com), which helps families choose 294-2164 by many churches in the Southern Baptist the South Carolina Department of recently he was assistant band director Estelle taught us to look beyond "aws, stick together school system as one of the 10 best in the world. Today the school that’s the best !t for their student and Convention. She went on to author more Vocational Rehabilitation, where he was at the University School of Nashville and make it all better. It doesn’t matter if you can’t it’s the innovative basis for Google’s on-site preschool implement what he calls “intentional parenting for than 25 books exploring Christianity for a clinical psychologist. He served in the and an adjunct faculty member at the Parents Programs hold a buzz saw, manipulate a ratchet, or if you just for its Silicon Valley employees. lifelong learners.” teenagers and their teachers. In 1987 she U.S. Air Force and also in the South University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. 294-3465 have one leg. Still you matter.” “Rather than giving children the right answer “My parents were so intentional. I once asked received an Excellence in Writing Award Carolina National Guard, from which He was formerly associate professor of That notion of equality and community has driven or forcing them to come up with the right answer, them what they were thinking when they were raising from the Southern Baptist Convention, and he retired as a chief warrant of!cer. music at Belmont University and also For other administrative of!ces, Crisp since his days at Furman, where he earned an the Reggio approach asks them to construct theories me,” says Crisp, an only child. “My mom said they in 1993 the Atlanta Hawks of the National Margaret Katherine Rion ’72, May taught at David Lipscomb University. call the main number. English degree in 1996 — and where, he says, a class and ideas that might not necessarily be right, but wanted me to know that I could do anything I wanted Basketball Association presented her the 31, Black Mountain, N.C. She had worked Before moving to Nashville he was assistant in medieval literature with William Rogers introduced are new and able to be supported,” Crisp says. in life as long as I put my mind to it and got educated, “Big Assist Award” for her work with as an occupational therapist at Madison director of bands at the University of him to concepts of collaborative learning that have “It teaches children to learn about themselves and that everybody deserved equal chances even young people. Manor Health Care in Mars Hill, N.C. Later Mississippi. He received the Outstanding consistently recurred throughout his career. within their social schema.” though they didn’t have equal opportunities.” Linda Estes Grif"th ’65, August 7, she was a member of Executive Women Band Director Award from Phi Beta Mu and His journey has been a non-traditional one, Crisp continued exploring themes of authentic This philosophy of service and community is of youth sports, and a member of the Sons Mauldin, S.C. International and Daughters of the King the Outstanding Teacher Award from the taking him to Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, classroom connections and real world experiences as one reason the Reggio approach resonates with him. of Confederate Veterans. He was a former Harold Leslie “Tad” Parmelee III ’65, Crusillo. Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts where he earned degrees in theology and music; a context for learning as academic dean of a school “Our house was always full of people, even though president of Furman’s Alumni Association June 18, Sycamore, Ill. Eleanor Suggs Rice, M.A. ’73, June 12, and the South Carolina Governor’s School the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, to study in Louisville, Ky. Then, at a conference, he met Louise there were only three of us. When they were scared of Board of Directors and a member of the Anne Wylie Sparks ’66, July 13, Greenwood, S.C. She was a principal and for the Arts. His professional memberships curriculum design and instruction; and Minnesota Cadwell. She "ew him to St. Louis and offered him their families, it was my family that took them in,” he university’s Advisory Council and Order of Lansdale, Pa. She taught French for more public school educator for many years. included the American Federation of College of Art and Design, for classes in design and a job in the Reggio Collaborative, where he worked remembers. “I really appreciated that because it taught the Paladin. than 25 years in the North Penn School William “Bilbo” Crawford ’76, June 19, Musicians, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, marketing. Along the way he was ordained and worked with several schools in music, curriculum design and Clyde David Henry ’62, June 22, District, retiring in 2007. Zachary, La. He was a longtime chemical International Trumpet Guild and Music me that everyone has issues, but it doesn’t mean you professional development. Lancaster, S.C. A U.S. Army veteran, he engineer with Georgia-Paci!c. An active Educators National Conference. The family with three denominations. He even presented a paper stop caring. It actually means you care more.” retired from Springs Industries as director outdoorsman and two-time world record requested that memorials be made to the at a hip hop conference about the connection between “It exposed me to a real collaboration of how — NANCY R. FULLBRIGHT of product development after 35 years spear !sherman, he died while free diving music program at Furman. the hymns of Englishman Isaac Watts (1674-1748) and to work. And then I had the opportunity to go into of service. in the Gulf of Mexico. the music of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. consulting full time, which felt like a good thing to do,” The author, a 1995 graduate, is a communications Crisp’s eclectic interests extended to other areas. he says. “I was torn about how to take the excitement of"cer with Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation While he was in seminary, a professor introduced him of the collaborative and constructivist approaches Institute in Savannah.

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BRENT NELSEN DIDN’T WIN the Republican nomination for South Carolina Superintendent of Education this year, losing to Mick Zais, former president of Newberry College. But Nelsen, a longtime Furman political science professor, discovered a few things on the primary trail that may well come in handy the next time he teaches a course on politics — or runs for of!ce. After originally declaring that he was considering a run for governor, Nelsen decided a few months later that he was better suited to run for the state’s top education position. While he didn’t win, he maintained his good cheer and sense of perspective throughout. And if nothing else, perhaps now he can arrange a booking on the “David Letterman Show” and present his top 10 list of “Things I Learned While Running for Statewide Political Of!ce.” Nelsen compiled the list for the political science department’s fall newsletter, and gave Furman magazine permission to share it with a larger audience. OK, Paul Shaffer, drum roll please:

10. Political science professors know nothing useful about running for of!ce. 9. People who know about running for of!ce are expensive. All the money you need for TV will go to them. 8. Many people will promise to raise money for you. Don’t believe them. 7. South Carolina is a big little state. Dunkin’ Donuts has the best “road” coffee. 6. Tea parties are led by plumbers and church ladies. 5. Primary campaigns are not about ideas. (See #4.) 4. Political reporters in South Carolina won’t care about you unless you compare poor people to stray animals or are accused of adultery. [I didn’t and I wasn’t!] 3. In a down-ticket race (anything below governor), most people will know nothing about you when they walk in the voting booth (unless #4 applies). 2. In a down-ticket race, most people who know anything about you will know only one thing. If that one thing is that you teach at a “snooty left-wing socialist factory” that dissed President Bush at Commencement — a perception I often encountered — you’re Republican toast.

And the #1 thing Brent Nelsen learned while on the campaign trail: Furman University is committed to providing equal access to its educational programs, activities, and facilities to all other wise quali!ed students without discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, color, creed, religion, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any 1. I still LOVE politics. But politics is a drug. Say no to drugs! other category protected by applicable state or federal law. An Equal Opportunity/Af!rmative Action employer, Furman also af!rms its commitment to nondis crimination in its employment policies and practices. For information about the university’s compliance with the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, and the I.R.S. Anti-Bias Regula tion, contact the Director of Human Resources, (864) 294-3015, 3300 Poinsett Hwy., Greenville, S.C. 29613. For information about Furman’s compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act, contact the Disability Services Coordinator, (864) 294-2320, 3300 Poinsett Hwy., Greenville, S.C. 29613. 48 FURMAN | FALL 2010

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