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furman_book_v42.indd 76 FURMANSpring15_cover.indd 1 I cannot tell you how thrilled I Furman, Cassidy [Furman’s as- LETTERS TO was to see Title IX on the cover sociate vice president for stu- THE EDITOR of your issue—never before dent life] speaks to groups of have I been more proud of my young men about making good, alma mater, and I assure you low-risk choices and tells them ON SOUTHERN Furman has given me many what they need to do to be pro- WOMANHOOD things to be proud of. I am tected when they are engag- currently serving as Lynn Uni- ing in sexual activity.” Sadly, I thoroughly enjoyed the spring versity’s Title IX Coordinator/ we’re becoming a nation more issue of Furman, with one glar- University Compliance Officer, concerned with preserving our ing exception, the Perspective and I wanted to congratulate rights than doing what’s right. article entitled “Unringing the you on your continued efforts And personal responsibility is Belle.” The article in question to be proactive in approach- missing in action. purports to be about dispelling ing an issue that has so many Ty Dodge ’68 stereotypes of Southern Just read Lynne Shackelford’s higher education administra- Birmingham, AL women, but the author resorts “Unringing the Belle” and am tors stumped and frustrated. to examples from 65-plus wondering why it was pub- The Furman culture defined PHILANTHROPY years ago to make the case lished as written, as it confuses who I am, and I have seen AND FURMAN that these stereotypes exist its own thesis and provides great success in bringing the today. It sounds more like no authority, save a hazy Furman “way” to my univer- I liked the article entitled “The the author is the one holding wish-fulfillment on the part of sity. My youngest sister, Lydia Ask” in the last issue. Great on to the stereotypes. What’s its author, for its assertions. Fink, will be joining the class idea, and good to let the larger most disappointing is that the The article seems to conflate of 2019 this fall at Furman, and university community into examples provided are some civil rights for black women I am thrilled to know that she Furman’s world. And I love the of the worst possible, in my with “women’s rights.” As only is in good hands! last two issues of the magazine: view, and make one wonder one of two separate examples Lorna Fink ’11 visually stunning, intellectu- if the author read beyond the of this, Rosa Parks didn’t sit in Boca Raton, FL ally challenging, and culturally opening paragraphs of the the front of the bus because works from which she quotes. “women” were not allowed in Scarlett O’Hara is one of the those seats, but rather because

strongest and most memorable “blacks” weren’t allowed to sit In the wake of a flood THE of accusations and inquiries, universities across the country characters, male or female, in those seats. It is also counter- are soul-searching about the issue of sexual consent between in all of American literature instructive to drub Gone with KNOW OF young men and women. ince September of 2014, Emma Sulkowicz, magazine’s managing editor, explained that in honoring a student at Columbia University, has car- Jackie’s request not to speak to the men accused—and in ried a 50-pound mattress around Colum- light of conflicting information about the case unearthed bia’s campus in protest of an alleged sexual by The Washington Post—troubling discrepancies had and on screen. Mammy is also the Wind as a hallmark of the S assault that she says has gone unpunished emerged. In the months since, the Rolling Stone piece by the university. Sulkowicz has promised has been widely discredited, prompting its own backlash, to carry the mattress until the male student she claims though Jackie still stands by her account. “NO” raped her, Paul Nungesser, leaves Columbia. In January of this year, a Nashville jury convicted Sulkowicz acknowledges that she and Nungesser two former Vanderbilt football players on multiple ac- unforgettable. She is dignified, “false” portrait of the Southern were friends who had been sexual before, but she says counts of sexual battery and aggravated rape. The trial, the time in question turned non-consensual. After which was not overseen by the university, examined hearing from other women who had negative experi- a host of evidence gathered by the police that showed, ences with Nungesser, she filed a complaint. Colum- among other things, surveillance video of the uncon- bia determined that Nungesser was not responsible, scious victim being dragged down a dormitory hallway which prompted Sulkowicz, who was invited to Jan- and text-messaged mobile phone photographs of her smart, humble, determined, woman. Apparently, Scarlett’s uary’s State of the Union address, to create—and be- being assaulted. The victim said that due to intoxication come—a symbol for sexual assault survivors who feel she remembered nothing, and none of the others who mistreated by their universities. later testified to being at the scene intervened. The case, Not long after the State of the Union, The Daily which may never have gone to trial without the police THE Beast published an article that featured a long inter- evidence, became a study on university cultures, which view with Nungesser in which he denied raping Sulko- many believe are steeped in drinking. Even attorneys and classy. Even the author’s physical, hands-on confron- wicz. To support his case, Nungesser shared friendly for one of the convicted football players attempted, in- Facebook messages the two had exchanged for weeks effectively, to use Vanderbilt’s hard party and hookup after the incident. The Columbia University student sex atmosphere as a defense. newspaper then ran editorials raising the possibility Of course, rape and sexual misconduct on college cam- that they had been too quick to believe Sulkowicz’s puses are not new, but they have come under the klieg attempt at explanation for the tation [with] the armed and side of the story, even after the ruling, out of a desire to lights recently due to such cases, as well as a combination be sensitive to rape victims. of grassroots activism from students assaulted and the GUESS OF A couple months after Sulkowicz began her protest, federal government ordering colleges to step up and do and several states to the south—at the stately, Thom- more to protect them. The messages seem to be every- as Jefferson-designed University of Virginia—another where—across social media, on the front pages of the na- media firestorm began to rage. In November, Rolling tion’s major newspapers, even at the GRAMMY Awards, continuing stereotypes sounds dangerous Yankee soldier at Stone magazine recounted a brutal gang rape at a UVA where President Obama appeared in a public service mes- fraternity in 2012. The story, relayed to the journalist by sage to say it’s on all of us to stop sexual violence. a victim named Jackie (not her real name), alleged dis- Yet this upsurge in interest has also resurrected turbing, predatory behavior by nine fraternity members thorny arguments about what truly constitutes con- who lured and locked Jackie in a room, after which seven sent, how it is articulated in intimate moments, if dy- “YES” raped her while two, including her date, shouted encour- namics between the sexes are increasingly dysfunc- like a stereotype. She says Tara isn’t enough to qualify agement. Jackie’s account generated worldwide head- tional, whether changing attitudes about privacy via lines—not to mention horror, outrage, and protest—and social media are affecting social mores, and if colleges BY KATHRYN MASTERSON months later, an apology. By Rolling Stone. Will Dana, the are the proper legislators for any and all of the above. ART CREDIT ART CREDIT ART ART CREDIT ART CREDIT ART that it is carried on by “white her as a “strong” ideal South- PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL JACOBSON 29 FURMAN | SPRING 2015 FURMAN | SPRING 2015 30

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WHAT QUALITY DO YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE Just wanted to tell you what a Furman magazine is published for Q PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES? beautiful and well-written alumni and friends of the university Read more Quotables in Class Notes, starting on page 50. issue this is. I always enjoy re- by the Office of Marketing and Public Relations, Furman Univer- ceiving it and certainly felt this sity, Greenville, South Carolina was one of the best produced. 29613. Correspondence may be Great stories, exciting to see directed to [email protected]. where alumni have gone, as well as all the reasons Furman EDITOR is an exceptional educational Brendan Tapley choice. I am extremely grateful for the amazing generosity DESIGNER of the school to support my Jack Dylan daughter’s four years there. CONTRIBUTORS Martha Gilmartin William Aarnes Greenville, SC Luke Christie ’15 Julia Cowart some- The Furman magazine is William Crooks ’14 thing to be proud of. I espe- Kate Dabbs ’09 cially like how it gives a sense Elizabeth Davis of Furman as an urban and Brian Faulkenberry today kind of place, but not in Jeremy Fleming ’09 a flashy or silly way. It’s smart A. Scott Henderson and sharp—a magazine, not a Bill Jacobson visual aid. M. Linda Lee Melinda Menzer Woody Register Savita Nair Sewanee, TN Raenae Nay Eric Ogden Damien Pierce Lindsay Niedringhaus ’07 Julia Roberts ’16 Julie Stackhouse ’01 Morgan Sykes Ed Tarkington ’95 Ron Wagner ’93

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CORRECTIONS ©Copyright Furman University 2015. Furman University is committed to providing equal access to its educational programs, activities, and facilities to all otherwise quali- relevant. Just the kind of mail. I’m sure you’ve already We regret the following errors in fied students without discrimination on the basis of race, excellence I love to see coming heard it a hundred times over, our prior issue: The location and date national origin, color, creed, religion, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any out of our alma mater! but I just wanted to send a in E. Donald Crapps’s obituary should other category protected by applicable state or federal quick note about how great have been listed as Troy, Alabama and law. An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, Lee C. Dilworth ’83 Furman also affirms its commitment to nondiscrimination Brentwood, TN the spring issue looked. The October 22. in its employment policies and practices. For information about the University’s compliance with the 1964 Civil design was clean and really Also, in the article “Past is Pro- Rights Act, Title IX of the Educational Amendments surprised me. It didn’t feel like logue,” it was stated that Jen Hanna of 1972, and the IRS Anti-Bias Regulation, please con- tact the director of human resources by telephoning IN GENERAL a for-alumni publication at was let go as Furman’s golf coach in 864.294.3015, or by writing to Furman University, all. Great job again. Looking 2012. Hanna resigned her position. 3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville, SC, 29613. For in- formation about Furman’s compliance with Section 504 I usually have a stack of mag- forward to the next one. of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with azines sitting on the coffee Disabilities Act, contact the disability services coordinator Winifred Leung ’09 at 864.294.2320, or by writing the address noted above. table, just waiting to be read Broomfield, CO

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KEYING IN Shelby Price (left), Calvin Armerding (center), and Jeff Hennessy (right) span class years and backgrounds, but the music they make together offers up moods of “awe and wonderment” that underscore and transcend the lines of traditional folk.

've been thinking about Armerding’s vocals are “ my old selves, wonder- paired with those of Shel- ing if they’re the men by Price ’15. According to I’m supposed to be,” More Is More—Much Armerding, the two met in murmursI Calvin Armerding Furman Hall one afternoon to ’10, lead singer of the indie-folk More, in Fact see if their voices synced. “She band The Muchmores. In “Eu- has such a sweet, simple voice logy for the Owl,” the crystal From the simple rhythms of this Furman that perfectly fit my music,” he clear tenor (who also writes threesome emerge life’s soulful complexity. says. The clarity of their har- the lyrics to all of the group’s mony is most evident in “Pick- songs) croons the story of a BY LINDSAY NIEDRINGHAUS ’07 ens County Line,” an easy- man who returns to a beloved listening song reminiscent of place from the past in hopes duos like the Civil Wars. of reclaiming that youthful Prior to meeting up with feeling, only to be greeted by a Price, Armerding was in “minor key—not sad, but silent Denver for graduate school fear and hate of who I used to where he was an instrumen- be.” talist and backup vocalist for The percussion work of Jeff forward with the drum’s regular instead artfully illustrating an The Stormcellars. He wrote Hennessy ’10 complements rhythm. One would guess that experience with which we are all his own songs on the side, and Armerding’s introspective the cheerful melody would familiar—the internal struggle when he moved back to Green- phrases with a fairly upbeat, clash with the sobering sen- of looking back to the past while ville in 2013, he reunited with simple melody on the xylo- timents. Yet the song doesn’t simultaneously attempting to Hennessy, a Furman friend. ARCHIVAL PHOTO ARCHIVAL phone while driving the song feel disconcerting to the ear, push forward into the future. They then began looking for FLEMING JEREMY

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Fifty years ago, an event took place that some have called “Furman’s greatest athletic moment.” As a result of having won the Southern Conference, Furman baseball headed to the 1965 NCAA District III championships, a prelude to the College World Series. Many sports- writers at the time wondered how “rag-tail” Furman had even managed the feat, but those critics were soon silenced. First to go down, in 12 innings, was Maryland in a tight 5-4 Furman victory. Next up was Mississippi State. During the game, shortstop Mike Pate ’65 had to wear a corset to help stabilize his back, which had given him trouble all season long. The corset was cinched so tightly Pate couldn’t even sit down. Fred Cotney ’65, the second baseman, was sent to the hospital for a quart of glucose in order to combat dehydration—and remained in the lineup. But it was pitcher Andy Coe ’67 who would earn the superlative of stoic. Teammate Charlie Coates ’68 recalls: “Mississippi State’s starting pitcher was Frank Chambers, who could throw pure heat. Andy batted ninth and first time up, with two strikes, he squared to bunt. The ball struck the trademark and caromed up into Andy’s throat, striking him squarely in the Adam’s apple, collapsing him at home plate where he promptly swallowed his tongue. Gary ‘Doc’ Meredith, who later was Furman’s notable golf coach, sprang from the dugout, inserted two fingers into Andy’s mouth, freed his tongue, and literally saved Andy’s life. After a pause in the action, Doc wiped Andy off with a wet towel and Andy took the mound and pitched a complete game.” True Grit A complete game that resulted in a come-from-behind 5-2 I victory over Mississippi and an automatic trip to the finals. Alas, against What you may not have known, Florida State, it was not to be. The Paladins came within two outs of remembered, or thought possible playing the World Series in Omaha, but a heartbreaking double elimina- tion loss of 2-1 and 7-5 ended Furman’s hopes. Still, in the words of one at Furman writer at the time, the “intestinal fortitude” shown by Furman’s boys of BY BRENDAN TAPLEY summer made it a season to remember long past it. ARCHIVAL PHOTO ARCHIVAL JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY

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“POLL” VAULTER Jessica Taylor, NPR’s lead digital political reporter, is going above and beyond the horse race of the upcoming election season to provide necessary news.

he winter of 2004 was a put aside what I think, so my turning point for Jes- opinions don’t bleed into my sica Taylor ’07. That reporting. Above all, it’s im- was the year she was The Insider portant to tell both sides of the Tassigned to cover the Democrat- story.” To do this, Taylor has ic debate, which Furman was As the 2016 election heats up, the campaign built good relationships with co-hosting, for The Paladin. “It trail has a new guide. both Democrats and Repub- was such a cool experience, seeing licans over her years in D.C., the candidates up close,” she says. BY M. LINDA LEE and she credits her liberal arts “There I was, just 18 years old, and education for enabling her to John Edwards, John Kerry, and look at politics in the broader Howard Dean were answering my context of history. questions!” Going into the 2016 Fast forward 11 years and the believes, shoulder a greater election, Taylor says voters would-be music major who ended responsibility. “We play a vital "WE PLAY A are most concerned with the up with a degree in political sci- role in informing the public. VITAL ROLE IN economy and foreign affairs. ence is again covering candidate NPR audiences want to go They are distrustful of politi- debates in her position as lead behind the story and we try to INFORMING cians and want to know where digital political reporter for take them there.” This means THE PUBLIC. the candidates stand on the National Public Radio (NPR) going places others don’t have issues—what’s true and what’s News in Washington, D.C. access to and asking tough AUDIENCES not. It’s her job to plumb the “With the rise of social questions to get to the bottom WANT TO GO candidates’ backgrounds to media, everyone wants to be a of the issues. find out why each believes journalist these days,” says the How does she identify the BEHIND THE what they do. Taylor says what woman who, in second grade, important stories in an arena STORY AND WE she thrives on most is the un- started a school newspaper that contains 14 Republican predictability. “From one day called the Pirate Press. “But and 5 Democratic candidates? TRY TO TAKE to the next, I never know what it’s not just about writing 140 “You have to triage them, in a THEM THERE." I’m going to be covering,” she characters or writing what way,” she explains. And being admits, “but I know it’s going you see.” Reporters, Taylor non-biased is key. “I try to to be exciting.” F SANDERS/NPR CAITLIN ROBERTS JULIA

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Postings from the Inter-webs If you could do it again, what would you do differently about TRIPtych your four years at Furman? Three glimpses of where Furman folk have gone, and why SJH0754: I would have listened more intentionally to everyone very fall, Furman leads around me. about 20 of its students to Brussels, Belgium, for JEFF WADLEY: Ean interdisciplinary study-away I would have spent more time experience. Julia Roberts ’16, building relationships with who participated in the program faculty and understanding during the fall of 2014, pre- the value of mentoring. sents her three most meaningful moments here. PEGGY HAYMES: Looking back, I wish I had accepted my trumpet Cinque Terre: For fall break, teacher’s invitation to play eight of us traveled across Italy in the orchestra. I didn’t before concluding the trip along have the confidence to think the breathtaking coastline of the I could do it. Cinque Terre in Italy. Pictured here is one of the five villages RYAN MCAULEY: terraced snuggly against the I wish I had taken full cliff side with nighttime lights advantage of the liberal arts by majoring in a beginning to twinkle. spoken language while still pursuing pre-med work. Freiburg Market: Markets bring life and energy to many MULRAE DEMERSE of Europe’s old and cobbled KENNEY: streets. In Freiburg, Germany, I would have finished my my senses were overwhelmed by degree. My family went the fragrances of fresh flow- through hard financial issues ers and wreaths, the sounds of near the end of my junior year, street performers, the vibrant and I chose to work instead of coming back for senior year, colors of fall leaves and vendor despite the amazing package wares, and the fantastic flavors of financial aid Furman of German sweets and apfel- cobbled together for me. wein. BILL SHELLEY: Auschwitz: For our course on Those four years were World War II, our class traveled among the best of my 66, to Auschwitz-Birkenau for a so I wouldn’t change much, day more grave and emotional but maybe try to be more than words can express. A child understanding of folks who were different. imprisoned within Auschwitz once drew this carefree picture of a ZACH_DUSKIN: songbird. The sketch is movingly I would have joined a juxtaposed here with a shadow fraternity freshman year cage, the old Nazi watchtower, instead of sophomore. That and the viewer’s knowledge that group of men made my the bird is in fact trapped behind Furman experience worth the windowpane. every day in the classroom. CAITLIN SANDERS/NPR CAITLIN ROBERTS JULIA

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values or concerns of each rather than God smiling down midrash writer. on a happy boat full of animals, The G-Rated Bible On a warm May morning God is full of despair and anger: What happens when studying scriptures in Furman Hall, Bibb’s class is The Lord saw how great wrangling with several mid- the wickedness of the human means unlearning their modern, rash interpretations—these race had become on the earth, sanitized versions? derived from the story of the and that every inclination of BY LINDSAY NIEDRINGHAUS ’07 great flood (Genesis 6-9). The the thoughts of the human discussion among the eight heart was only evil all the time. students, however, moves The Lord regretted that he quickly beyond the midrashes had made human beings on to the Biblical literature itself. the earth, and his heart was That’s because for many of deeply troubled. So the Lord them, this is the first time they said, “I will wipe from the face n the May Experience class, back to rabbis in the first five have actually read the text. of the earth the human race I “Bible in Modern Culture,” centuries of the Common Era Several students are struck by have created—and with them the whiteboard is blank who chose to interpret Bible how their previous knowledge the animals, the birds and the except for one word written stories through the lens of their of Genesis 6-9 is midrashic: creatures that move along the Iin large letters in the center: own time in order to better “Noah’s Ark” and its amalga- ground—for I regret that I have midrash. understand their contemporary mation of storybooks, movies, made them.” (Genesis 6:5-7) “Midrash is a Hebrew term relevance. Those midrashes and childhood toys. “Quite ironic that one of derived from the root drsh, have provided scholars with “Was there anything trou- the most violent passages in which literally means to seek,” valuable insights into not bling about what you read?” the Bible is the inspiration for explains Bryan Bibb, PhD. only religion, but also into the asks Bibb wryly. curtains and bedding in nurs-

The term, Bibb adds, traces time period and the projected In the Genesis version, eries,” remarks Bibb. OGDEN ERIC DYLANJACK

12 FURMAN | FALL 2015 Bibb then directs the class Or take the Hanna Barbera to a passage from Frederick interpretation, produced in Beuchner’s Secrets in the Dark: 1976, that focuses instead on A Life in Sermons. According a countercultural Noah as an to Beuchner, the explanation outcast, being taunted and for those curtains and that shunned by the townspeople bedding—not to mention the for doing what is right, even if lighter versions of the Noah’s it is the unpopular choice. Ark story—stem from the fact Or the 2014 filmNoah , in THEN that human beings cannot which Russell Crowe plays Reflection on the Importance psychologically come to terms the ark builder as a zealous of Furman as It Was with the actual implications of environmental warrior raging such a text. Instead, “we make against the rapacious habits it into a fairy tale, which no of men. one has to take seriously.” But as enlightening as The first time I donned a After college, I won my first For the same reason that midrashes can be about their Furman track uniform, the attempted marathon, went on the story of Pearl Harbor was times, there is something ensuing question from my to run the Boston Marathon made into an action movie unsettling about them, too. dormmate was, “Furman has a twice, and recently won my starring Ben Affleck, and the Their reductions of the story swim team?” It’s true that the first full-distance Ironman. The events of 9/11 have been inter- to a consumable medium and tiny one-pieces are commonly grueling 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile preted into American-pride the targeting of it to children referred to as “bun huggers,” but bike ride, and 26.2-mile run— country songs, we have re- may be evidence of a culture that year, after our team went on even the preparation for it—is duced the story of the Biblical that cannot manage the harsh to win a Southern Conference not for the faint of heart, but the flood into a more manageable realities of its existence. Championship in cross-country, relentless pursuit of a dream that layer that can be compart- “Gulliver’s Travels is too no one confused us with swim- was instilled in me at a young age mentalized into our minds. In bitter about humankind, so mers anymore. and cultivated during my life at the process, we make it small we make it into an animated The team honor that year still Furman is the driving force I try enough to avoid fully engaging cartoon,” writes Buechner, means more to me than the two to pass on to the young athletes I with its provocative issues. “Moby Dick is too bitter about individual SoCon titles I won in work with daily. Additionally, the flood’s God, so we make it into an ad- the 800 meters. And I think that Prior to attending Furman, I reinvention as a fable for venture story for boys. Noah’s says a lot about Furman: The was unaware of what a “paladin” children is another way in Ark is too something-or-other, university has always been less was. One common definition is which we can dilute its psychic so it becomes a toy with a roof about ‘you’ and more about ‘us.’ “any knightly or heroic champi- weight and, in some respects, that comes off so you can take On a daily basis, I use on.” Back then and now, Furman dismiss having to wrestle with the little animals out. This principles I was taught during my athletics and the friendships it. Beuchner says the story of is one way of dealing with undergrad and graduate years formed hold a special place in my the flood is so violent, so in- the harsher realities of our at Furman’s health and exercise heart. Paladin pride for life! credibly bleak, that adults pass existence [rather than] facing science department. Equally it along to those who can only them head on.” important are the lessons I was grasp a happy ending. In doing Yet is this wise in the long taught by former longtime track so, we give ourselves one. run? and field coach, and friend, Gene “What’s interesting are the Bibb’s May X class is a les- Mullin. “On time is late,” he used ABOUT THE AUTHOR ways these midrashes reveal son in story interpretation, to say, and also that to believe For more than a decade, something about us,” says but the class discussion goes in yourself allows you to believe Julie Stackhouse ’01 has Bibb. beyond that. Students begin you’re capable of overcoming coached track and field at The 1960s Mel-O-Toons to question the stories we as any hurdles set before you. several Division I universities, movie about the flood, for human beings choose to tell Engaged learning goes far including Furman, the United example, depicts a “wicked ourselves and whether those beyond the classroom, extending States Air Force Academy, the world” with men throwing choices are toward truth or into the sports arena and life University of North Florida, swords and spears. Nowhere its obfuscation. If we are in outside the Furman bubble, and and the University of Virginia. in Genesis does the text con- fact only telling ourselves it was during these critical years She now teaches at Providence vey that people in the world midrashes that will reduce that my passion for becom- School in Jacksonville, were at war. We can deduce complexity, enhance our ing a coach and mentor to Florida, and is the owner of from this midrash, then, that comfort, or confirm our student-athletes was born. In Stackhouse Fitness. She is the culture of the 1960s was beliefs, then perhaps the fact, my first job as an assistant sponsored by Jacksonville one in which war, for some, braver, more authentic coach at Furman helped launch Running Co. and the Stellar was considered evil—a reac- choice would be to return to, my career. Triathlon Racing Team. tion to the Vietnam War—and and confront, the “originals”

ERIC OGDEN ERIC DYLANJACK that it needed to be cleansed. once more. F

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BRASH MENTALITY A philosophy and history double major, Lane Erwin isn’t comfortable unless he’s uncomfortable—as in, painfully so.

lifetime of extreme out of airplanes? Check. fitness is literally Ridden horses? Yes. Dabbled about to pay off for in parkour? (Look it up, but Lane Erwin ’15. yeah.) “That’s how I’m pro- AWhen a family friend Stunting His grammed,” Erwin adds. helped him land a gig doing Erwin’s father was an stunts for a television show Army Ranger and member of pilot earlier this year, he dis- Growth Delta Force who had his son covered he had a marketable Four years of pushing his body and navigating obstacle courses skill: no fear of physical injury. in the backyard before he had In the stunt world they call it mind at Furman has led a recent grad learned his multiplication “on-the-job training,” and his to embark on an unusual career. tables. One summer, they cov- went so well he was hired to be BY RON WAGNER ’93 ered 43 miles in three days in assistant to the stunt coordi- the Bob Marshall Wilderness nator for the NBC drama Game Area in Montana. “I ended up of Silence, which began filming going back out to Montana and this August in Atlanta. that was where I finally formed “You name it, I’ve probably my idea of fitness and how one done it,” Erwin says. Jumped becomes fit,” he says. “I would FLEMING JEREMY DYLANJACK

14 FURMAN | FALL 2015 Reminded that his father spent the better part of the past year recovering from a broken neck suffered doing a back flip in a hotel room, Erwin laughs. NOW “To me, man, shoot, at least you went out doing Reflection on the Importance of Furman as It Is Now what you want to do.”

At particular moments in life, it never stops shaping you. The certain questions seem to be great thinkers we encountered in at the center of nearly every Furman’s classrooms? Their ideas conversation you have with serve as foundations for our own. those around you. You may have The ultimate questions about wake up in the mornings and and he's right,” Erwin says. noticed this. When the college morality, spirituality, and human- work on a ranch, then I would “For a long time, I wanted to acceptance letters begin rolling ity with which we wrestled? We do some kind of circuit work- be my dad.” in, everybody asks, “Where will face these questions time and out, then go on a long hike or Reminded that his father are you going to school next time again, at work and at home, mountain bike ride that was spent the better part of the year?” When you start wearing in the world at large and in our at least five to six miles. After past year recovering from a that goofy grin everywhere you respective corners of it. And the lunch and a solid cup of coffee, broken neck suffered doing go, people grin back and say, relationships we forged? These I would go for long runs that a back flip in a hotel room, “Who’s the lucky someone?” certainly do not end when classes were anywhere from nine to 14 Erwin laughs. “To me, man, For young college alumni, do. They continue to blossom miles, or rock climb or moun- shoot, at least you went out one inescapable question has and operate as networks of tain surf.” doing what you want to do.” many forms. “What’s next? personal and social support as we At Furman, Erwin gained Erwin came to Furman Where will you go from here? settle into new communities and a reputation for tearing from North Carolina to play What will you do now that you’ve endeavor to do good work for the around the PAC doing timed rugby but left the program earned your degree?” My favor- benefit of those around us. muscle-ups and power cleans because the beating his body ite iteration—because it captures A Furman diploma does not while most everyone else and grades took prevented the question’s true gravity and represent an ending. It signals a has the good sense to stick him from doing other things. brings to the fore the difficult beginning, but not the beginning to well-rested bench reps. He doesn’t much care for reality the question ultimately of life after Furman. A Furman “Over the past 15 years, I do competition anyway, and signifies—goes something like degree signifies the start of lives not believe that I have ever none of the other usual exer- this: “What does your life after filled with meaningful work and met a student who was as cise motivators apply either: Furman look like?” relationships informed by our committed to fitness as Lane,” He doesn’t work out for ap- Life after Furman. Because time at Furman—of life with says Kelly Frazier, Erwin’s pearance, generally practices that’s what we mean when we Furman. The questions we asked instructor for Health Science alone, and has no obsession talk about “next,” when we talk here, the answers we sought, 101 Wellness Concepts. “He with mastering a particular about grad school and careers and the friends we made—these derives immense satisfaction skill. All that seems to matter and starting families. We mean stay with us wherever we go. from overcoming fitness chal- is the activity be difficult and, people and places and vocations lenges.” preferably, fast. pursued after Furman. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Taking a backward baseball “I grew up doing a lot of I detest the “life after Luke D. Christie graduated cap off and running his hand plays. I was in musical theatre, Furman” question, and lately from Furman in 2015 with through thick, sandy-blond and all I ever really wanted to I’ve been trying to discern why. a major in communication hair, Erwin gives explana- do was act, especially film. I I’ve decided it’s because the studies and a minor in tions for his path that sound loved film,” Erwin says. “[But] question implies something that humanities. He is a free- straightforward but don’t I figured out I didn’t want to just isn’t true. lance writer and creative come without some thoughtful do the whole acting thing. I There is no life after Furman. consultant in Greenville with meandering. “I’m a philosophy wanted to do stunts more. I Once you first enter its gates as long-term plans to earn a PhD and history double major, and like doing dangerous things. a student, Furman becomes a in communication studies and my dad always harasses me When you jump off of some- formative force in your life and pursue a career in academia. about thinking too much. ‘You thing, it’s like, that’s it. It’s that

JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY DYLANJACK need to just do stuff sometimes,’ moment.” F

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wage risen along with productivi- Alec ’75 and ty, it would now be $18 per hour. It’s currently $7.25.

Susan Taylor AT: Look, I’m a raging capital- ist, but we’ve got something Advocates and philanthropists, the we’ve got to fix and it’s pretty Taylors help support Furman’s Poverty bad, and the net result of that Studies program, the most popular minor is this poverty gap. It’s fright- at the university ening. It’s not a political issue So many causes cry out for help. in my mind. People ask me why Why poverty? BY BRENDAN TAPLEY there is not more GDP growth, S and I tell them it’s because ST: Alec and I have been in- people are making less money volved with multiple nonprof- than they were 25 years ago. its, and the underlying thing They’re being asked to pay with most of them would be more for gasoline; employ- poverty. Whether it’s housing, ers are pushing more of the childcare, families—it influ- burden of insurance back on ences so many other charities. employees. It’s incumbent on people who have some means AT: I’m not sure there is any to step up and try to do what bigger issue in America today. they can in their own little way When I see this massive wage to help. gap, the haves-have nots, 25 percent or more of people So, then, how much of poverty in America living in poverty, is merely a matter of selfish people who are underem- economics? ployed—the need gets bigger and bigger. AT: The people at the very top—either they don’t need What do you think people most to be making quite as much misunderstand about poverty? money as they are or they need to share the heck out of it. AT: The sheer number of I’m going to get this statistic people who live right on or wrong, but it used to be a CEO beneath the poverty line. Many of a company would make 25 of us are lucky to live in a world times more than the lowest with a safety net: some money paid hourly guy— in the bank, someone who will catch you when you fall. It was 20 times the amount in These people are one missed 1965. In 2013, it was just under paycheck from being in real 300 times. trouble, not having a meal, [not being able] to take care of their AT: That’s just out of whack. kids. You sit there and say, how much is enough? The steak There are a lot of statistics about doesn’t taste any better wheth- poverty, but here’s one that er you make $2 million or $20 caught my attention. According million. We gotta watch it as a to the Economic Policy Insti- country or we’re going to end tute, annual wage growth for the up with the French Revolution bottom 70 percent has grown less if we’re not careful. than 11 percent between 1979 and 2013, even though worker David Gandolfo, who chairs the productivity has skyrocketed. In- Poverty Studies program, wrote cidentally, that wage-productivity in a recent editorial that the true ratio kept pace in the 30 years purpose of a university is to de-

before 1968. But had minimum velop the intellect of the student, FLEMING JEREMY DYLANJACK

16 FURMAN | FALL 2015 “Look, I’m a raging put together. Were the program capitalist, but we’ve a major, it would be larger than all but a handful of majors. Why got something we’ve do you think Furman is an ideal got to fix and it’s pretty home for this work? bad, and the net result AT: It’s one of the most modest of that is this poverty places there is. I graduated gap.” 40 years ago. Furman was a NEXT regional Baptist college then Reflection on the Importance and I look at where it is now. It of Furman Going Forward has this wonderful confluence of natural beauty, motivated kids, good faculty and admin- istrators. It’s not perfect, we Had I been an international And that might involve some don’t get everything right, student at Furman a decade struggle. It will take not only the but I think it’s a special place. ago, my name would have been vocal ones at Furman, but also Sometimes I wish we were a placed on a roster that a few those who daily and silently en- which, he said, “exists to analyze little less modest [laughter]. now-retired folks affectionately dure oppression, invisibility, and and solve the problems with called the “Funny Names List.” “death” by a thousand cuts. It will which we are confronted.” What ST: I didn’t go to Furman, but When I first heard that phrase, take the people who think issues kind of analysis and solutions do I think it’s a place that has I was horrified but did not have of gender aren’t relevant to the you hope to have come out of the encouraged young people to be the courage to say anything. work they do, those who believe Poverty Studies program? proactive. There’s also a joy- Perhaps I’m being overly sensi- that Furman’s racial environment fulness there about doing work tive and critical, I assured myself. is better now than it used to be, ST: The young people in this like this. It’s hard work—de- I’ll get over it. those who ridicule talk of micro- minor are going out and pressing work when you look A decade later—even though aggression, and those who enjoy touching a lot of other people. at the numbers—but when you the list no longer exists in that such a degree of privilege that They have also [developed] talk to these young people, form—I regret not opening they don’t see what’s wrong with an awareness of poverty, and you’re not depressed as you’re the door to that struggle and the “Funny Names List.” they will make choices that talking to them. I love that countless others about how Only a few people on campus will look different because of Furman has been this breeding we see (or don’t), treat, listen, correctly pronounce my first that awareness. Whether they ground for young people who imagine, and understand each name. It’s been like that since I become teachers or bankers— are modest and bright and other at Furman. To struggle started kindergarten, so I’m used if they have an understanding thoughtful and want to take over difference matters if we still to it. I have my favorite mispro- of [poverty]—that’s going to this next step. aspire to “meaningful diversity nunciations and even introduce color how they approach other and equality,” as articulated in myself with one to make it easier people and make decisions. You mentioned your own kids. Is Furman’s Vision 2020. for others. Mispronounce my it important to pass down a sense Debates about difference name; just don’t put it on lists Do you think the foundational of service? are debates about equity, power, that devalue and divide. problems of poverty can be al- and justice; these now divide us Furman’s struggle for the tered by this type of awareness? ST: In our family, it was as- in new and not-so-new ways future is about far more than sumed that you would partici- with this past year’s petitions, the acceptance, accounting, and ST: Alec and I have children, pate and help others. Alec and reports, and protests dealing acknowledgement of difference; and I think they live what they I, what’s been as impactful as with difference and equity at it is about a new Furman that is have learned. This is an amaz- anything we did was fostering Furman. Demographic shifts on willing to struggle as we speak ing generation coming out children. It’s involvement, and campus parallel changes in the truthfully, listen openly, get of school right now. They’re it means you’re interacting county and the state: Furman, uncomfortable, empathize, dis- much more creative, much with a world you wouldn’t Greenville, and South Carolina agree, and eventually understand more open to an entrepreneur- unless you made that choice aren’t what they were 15 years and learn. ial way of approaching things, to step in. It was living it every ago. For Furman, these shifts so I think it’s a perfect time day. were part of active recruiting ABOUT THE AUTHOR to embed in their learning efforts to create a more diverse Savita Nair, James B. the issue of poverty and their Interaction is key to the Poverty community. This has been Duke associate professor of responsibility. I feel hopeful. Studies program. In addition to successful from an impersonal Asian studies and history, coursework, students complete numerical standpoint, but now joined Furman in 2003. She The Poverty Studies minor at a summer internship. What we must humanize who we are received her PhD from the Furman has become larger than was important to you about the and what we care about. University of Pennsylvania.

JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY DYLANJACK all other minors at the university internship requirement?

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ST: Well, you’re hands-on and AT: I’d say go meet the kids. I life, then you need the oppor- realize it. I think that’s less so things become personal. You was a lawyer for 20 years and tunity to learn [about it]. now. There are a lot of people bring it more into your heart can be the biggest cynic, but who are working really, really and head, and the lasting if you go meet the kids you’ll Do you believe, though, that hard who have less ability to effects on you are huge. With- get over that really fast. You the most critical element of the assume their kids are going to out it being personal, it’s just know, where you come from American dream—that it’s pos- do better. another story you’ve read or doesn’t matter as much as sible for everyone—has created a course you’ve studied. where you go. permanent blind spot in us when AT: I still think America is it comes to poverty? unbelievable, though, and it’s A cynical person might feel ST: I’d also say, isn’t that salvageable. It’s getting harder to that kids from privilege dipping who you most want to learn? ST: Part of the issue with the grab the next rung, but I go back into poverty for course credit is I mean, if poverty hasn’t American dream is that we to saying I have a lot of optimism disingenuous. What do you say to touched you personally, if it still believe if people work about this generation. They don’t those people? hasn’t been a factor in your hard enough, they’ll be able to take no for an answer. F

FUmerical FUmerical Facts and figures about Furman F 80 180 96 The national average Total number of online Percentage of students who percentage of students career resources available report that they are employed employed or in graduate on the Career or in graduate school six school six months after Center website months after graduation graduation

99.1 2,000 Percentage of students Average number of that report career student contacts with the counseling sessions as Career Center staff either “effective” or “very per year effective” Much has been in the news lately about how effective a college education is at finding students jobs once college is over. While the debate continues as to whether that is the sole purpose of four years of higher education, we asked Furman’s Career Center to give us 300 1,100 5,404 Number of jobs posted Average Career Center Current number of some numbers on the university’s each week to the Facebook page views per week members belonging role in helping students make that Paladin Job Board to Furman’s LinkedIn transition. F alumni networking group KELLEN HATUNUKA KELLEN

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

OBJECT LESSONS Forget about your usual back- to-school lists. Forget about laptops, backpacks, pens, binders, and notebooks. This list is more personal, more off the wall. This is what student life is really about. These are the items that get students through the ups and downs that college life brings with it. We chatted with 14 random students across campus and asked them to show us what they can’t leave home without when returning to Fur- man. From sriracha and fanny packs to bicycles and pocket watches, the objects are as di- versified as a liberal arts course load. Some items are practical or personal while others are more than a bit quirky. Hopefully some of these items conjure a bit of nostalgia from your own college adventures. F KELLEN HATUNUKA KELLEN

FURMAN | FALL 2015 19 20 FURMAN | FALL 2015 FIELD NOTES FROM THE his equanimityand Rhim isknownfor CALM AND STORM intensity.

ART CREDIT ART CREDIT B much effortyouputin.” is youdon’tvery farforhow go one thingIhateaboutrunning relatable isrunning,butthe sport. Ithinktheclosest that’s can reallydowithany other “It’s just not something you really enjoy,” hesays instead. of nowhere onyourbike I being allaloneinthemiddle there’s something about himself. made aconsiderablenamefor sport inwhichhehasalready leagues whenasked aboutthe lifelong dreamtomake thebig tion, orearnestly articulatehis quenchable thirst forcompeti- about victory, detail anun- Brendan Rhim ’18doesn’t snarl In Rhim’s even tone,youcan “It’s very peaceful,and watched RhimwintheU.S. something specialwhen they knew theywerelookingat Although Millerandothers since heenrolledasaPaladin. dynastyburgeoning atFurman become thecenterpieceofa in Norwich,VT, Rhimhas States whileinhighschool junior cyclistintheUnited in hisexpressionofhimself.” contrast, makes winninganart with selfishness. Brendan, by lot ofpeopleconflatewinning sports arealsojerksbecausea “A lot oftype-A winnersin no matter what,” Millersays. in abike race,hewillbeatyou and calmkind.Whenheis so muchtimeaheadofthepack. does explainwhy Rhimspends during arace,butitperhaps head andstomp onyourskull” ’98 contendswill“ripoffyour coachRustycycling Miller like apersonformerFurman tance. Thevoice doesn’t sound mountains lounginginthedis- pedaltoward face asyougently almost feelthebreeze onyour One Rhim toRule Them All Maybe themost touted “Offgentle thebike, heis could goisstartingtobecomeeverybody’s guess. How far thissophomoreHow cyclist far Notes from the Field JEREMYFLEMING '09 BY RON WAGNER ’93 PHOTOGRAPHY BY places ithadnever been. would pushFurman to cycling talent andhow quicklyit the transcendenceofRhim's no onecouldhave predicted Augusta, GA,threeyearsago, junior nationalscriteriumin however, wouldprobablycome down. ThatRhimfeltthe heat, school workingtotake him with every teamfromevery being thepre-racefavorite, did itcarryingtheweightof championship events, andhe sweeping allfournational the mind-bogglingfeatof trial prevented Rhimfrom finish intheindividualtime year. Onlyasecond-place those threeracesinthesame any schoolhadever won trial—it marked thefirst time to avictoryintheteamtime before leadingthePaladins Nationals inAsheville,NC— USA Cycling CollegiateRoad race andcriteriumatMay’s When Rhimwontheroad ROAD MAP TO SUCCESS

assault. the faceofRhim’s relentless minutes. Again,allwilted in which theriderscircledfor75 hilly courseofaboutamile, day featuredanother difficult unheard of.” world,thisisalmost cycling chase him,” Millersays. “Inthe varsity teamsattempting to 40 milesoftheracealonewith competitor. “[He] rodethelast seconds aheadofthenearest crossing thelinein3:03.37—25 group anddidn’t lookback, his teammates, leftthelead Rhim, whowas beingaidedby ous, butatthehalfway point course isbrutallymountain- obviously huge.” ning both was asurpriseand the topfive,”“Win- he says. myself todowellandfinishin I was definitelyexpecting ing towinby any means. But ranking, soIwas not expect- to performandvalidatethe tohiscompetitors.as news “When Brendancameto “When The criteriumthenext The 75-mileroadrace- “It’s pressureputonyou FURMAN | FALL 2015 21 Notes from the Field

Furman, I described him as the number one cycling recruit in the country,” Miller says. “And after he arrived at Furman it became apparent he was not just the number one freshman recruit but that he was also the number one collegiate cyclist in the United States of America.” Rhim’s first season also saw him capture Southeastern Collegiate Cycling Conference road races at Georgia and Chattanooga, and a criterium at Clemson. In the fall and winter, when competition shifts to the emerging event of cyclo-cross (short races where riders must frequently dismount and carry their bikes while navigating obstacles), he won two more events before finishing third at the USA Nationals in January despite competing “just for fun.” Even more fun—after riding alone for thousands of miles— was having teammates. In the time trial, four riders stay as tightly bunched as possi- ble while rotating who cuts the wind in the lead. Often regarded as collegiate cycling’s “marquee event,” Furman was undefeated in the 2015 season. “It’s probably one of my favorite events because you go out and suffer with three of your friends, and you just go as fast as you can,” says Rhim, who held the trophy in Ashe- ville with Charlie Hough ’17, Brian Suto ’18, and Richard Rainville ’18. “It takes a lot of practice to get everybody to work in sync and understand what everybody is capable of, how much we can push each other. The closer you ride to- gether, the more beneficial the draft, so it comes down to being comfortable riding really, really A STAND-UP GUY close to one another, almost Former coach Rusty Miller describes Rhim as gentle, calm, and kind. "A lot of type-A winners in sports to the point you’re rubbing are also jerks because a lot of people conflate winning with selfishness. Brendan, by contrast, makes winning elbows.” an art in his expression of himself." Miller notes that “you can

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"AFTER HE ARRIVED AT FURMAN, IT BECAME APPARENT HE WAS NOT JUST THE NUMBER ONE FRESHMAN RECRUIT...HE WAS ALSO THE NUMBER ONE COLLEGIATE CYCLIST IN AMERICA." HANDS-ON Rhim's success stems not only from his natural abilities and physical attributes, but also from his approach to preparation and competition.

win the criterium or the road to say the least. title. It also gave Hough, a more than 15,000; and Divi- race like Furman did with one “That team was by pure recruiting coup in his own sion II for those under. star athlete who is supported luck,” says Owen McFadden, right, someone with whom to “Furman has a chance to be by his teammates. But if you who oversees club sports as share the spotlight, if not first- the greatest collegiate cycling have one rock star and three Furman’s director of campus place trophies. Such a rivalry team in the country,” Miller foot soldiers, you can’t win the recreation. “We happened to could have been a problem, says matter-of-factly. team time trial.” get riders here that were good but thanks at least in part to Furman’s combination of In other words, a team was enough to win, but as soon as Rhim’s easygoing nature, it scholastic rigor and fortunate exactly what the university they graduated we went down wasn’t. geography puts it in a unique was hoping for when it wel- to nothing where we didn’t “In a way it makes it easier position to excel. Combine comed players like Rhim into even have a team for a year or because it takes a little pres- that with the rapid growth of its fold. two. I didn’t think it was ever sure off me to have another collegiate cycling and Green- Club cycling has been at going to come back.” fast guy on the team,” Hough ville’s thriving cycling commu- Furman since at least the Nate Morse ’17 of Cohas- says. “In general, it’s always nity, and you start to see the 1980s, but the squad was whol- set, MA, and Hough of Travel- good to have fast guys on your source of people's enthusiasm. ly dependent on whether or ers Rest, SC, made up Miller’s team instead of racing against “I moved here just because not any students were serious first recruiting class, and the you. I was happy to see him of the weather, the road net- enough about it to create one. results were instantaneous as take the title this year and keep works, the amount of climbs Miller, who went on to ride Hough won the DII criterium it inside the Furman family.” you can do,” says George professionally, was one of the national championship as a Unlike the tempered ex- Hincapie, a native of New York sport’s early champions, as freshman in 2014. pectations that can come with City who won three national were Chris Butler ’10 and Joining Rhim as freshmen a competing in NCAA Division I, road-race championships Andy Baker ’13, also future year later were Suto of Oxford, there may be no reason to limit and competed in the Tour de pros who managed to win DII CT; Nolan McQueen ’18 of possibilities for Furman cy- France 17 times. “In terms of road-race national champi- Louisville, KY; Rainville of cling. The sport is run by USA trying to do proper training, onships in 2008 and 2011, Livonia, MI; and Bruce Hall Cycling and usually exists out- there really isn’t much better respectively. The club also ’18 of Nassau, The Bahamas— side of athletic departments, terrain in the world than what captured time trial national all of whom provided the depth with schools broken into two we have here in Greenville. A titles in 2008 and 2009, which necessary to propel Furman to simple categories: Division I, lot of people don’t know that.” was an unlikely achievement a dominant time trial national for those with enrollments of Rhim didn’t. When he

FURMAN | FALL 2015 23 24 FURMAN THE FACE OF Greenville citizen George Hincapie Tour deFrance CYCLING'S veteran and has hiseye FUTURE on Rhim.

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ART CREDIT ART CREDIT ment asacyclist,” Millersays. highly ashedoeshisdevelop - demics andhiseducationas before earningadegree. where hewouldleave Furman can’t envision ascenario andRhim racing incollege, teams asamateurswhilealso compete against professional kids areabletotrainwithand of NCAA involvement means and thepros. Nomore.Lack ers between highereducation riders hadtochooseasteenag- a little morewisely.” allowed metochoosemy time schedulehave and thecollege geographically, theweather, “I’d say Furman’s location previous years,” Rhimsays. ment physically thisyearfrom “There was alot ofimprove - the moreimpressedhewas. Rhim learnedaboutFurman duced himself,andthemore problem whenMillerintro- tosolve the south forcollege better. He was alreadylooking pered hisopportunitytoget that badweatheralsoham- victories inregionalraces, all tough, butdespitepilingup ters undoubtedly madeRhim Rhim says. with it,andtherest ishistory,” to enterarace.“Ifellinlove itive cyclist, convinced him grandfather, onceacompet- Rhim was inhisearlyteens France ontelevision,andwhen family watched theTour de Mountains ofVermont. His and setting behindtheGreen that state’s WhiteMountains border, thesunrisingover ley neartheNewHampshire esque ConnecticutRiver Val- Rhim grewupinthepictur new student. found out,Furman haditselfa GO SOUTH, YOUNG MAN “Brendan prizeshisaca- In Hincapie’s day, talented The brutalnortheast win- - was higherthanthenational servers, thelevel ofthatrace To many professionalob- off aworld-classfieldof 140. Redlands, CA, whenheheld Classicin Redlands Bicycle his youngcareeratApril’s Rhim calls“thebiggest” of ums inthespringseason. won threelong-routecriteri- not asimpressive ashishaving collegiate championshipsare worldhis and inthecycling under-23 development team, California GiantBerryFarms for Furman, Rhimridesforthe competitors.” Whennot racing of NorthAmericaforunder-19 raceforall important bicycle er calls“thelargestandmost l’Abitibi inCanada,whichMill- RhimwontheTourcollege, de at thesport’s prolevel. Before signs pointtoRhimcompeting definitely cleanedup.” where youare.Thesporthas you constantly have toreport year, wherever youare.And time oftheday, any day ofthe and youcanbetested any use, tracksindividualathletes, only oneortwoother sports passport, whichI’m pretty sure world,” addsRhim.“Biological is themost tested sportinthe the best dopingcontrolsand issue.” early 2000s. It’s simplynot an didinthelate90sandcycling ferent way thanprofessional operates inacompletely dif- says. “Ithinkthat[thesport] legiate roadcycling,” Miller a positive dopingtest incol- reflects reality. say thatstereotype nolonger ers, butRhimandMillerboth the mindsofcasualobserv have becomesynonymous in drug use.Thesportanddoping is performance-enhancing forthebetterthat haschanged The highlightwas avictory And make nomistake: All “Cycling now hasoneof “I have never beenaware of Another tradition cycling Notes from the Field - just racing.Iactuallythink on,andit’sing thatgoes not says. “There’s somuchsuffer you’re pretty toasted,” Rhim improvement. loop forfeelingthepainof is otherwise aperfect100-mile only thingmissingfromwhat training, butthat’s about the elevation requiredforaltitude quite reachthe4,000 feet of Carolina mountainsdon’t Head. ThesouthernNorth than 2,000 feet toCaesar’s head north,climbingmore routinely leave campusand clists practice.Alot. get there.” in ourprogramandhelphim the university, wecangethim hope thatoncehecomesoutof forward toseeinghimgrow. I of youngcyclists. “I’m looking involved inthedevelopment Hincapie, whoisheavily a very dynamiccyclist,” says 20th inthecriterium. race, 28thinthetimetrial,and and finished21st intheroad Road NationalsinLake Tahoe in theUSACycling Amateur says Miller. racing intheUnitedStates,” the highest tierofprofessional was afull-onprofessionalrace, collegiate championships. “It OF IMPROVEMENT. MILE LOOP FOR FEELING THE PAIN THAN 2,000FEET...A PERFECT 100- HEAD NORTH, CLIMBING MORE ROUTINELY LEAVE CAMPUS AND RHIM AND HIS TEAMMATES “Once yougetthatfar Rhim andhisteammates Like alleliteathletes, cy “He’s extremely talented… In June, Rhimtookpart - - bicycle, hewins.”bicycle, expresses himselfthroughhis lose, becausewhenBrendan happens thatyou’re to going And intheprocessofallthisit it happenstobeonabicycle. ing theworldwhoIam,and me expressingmyself, show and youlosing;it’s moreabout really not aboutmewinning athlete,”age Millersays. “It’s this planet thanyouraver broader viewperhapsoflifeon petitors aspeople….He hasa tell hecaresabouthiscom- he isinthatyoucanalmost ture inthekindofwarrior that ing andstepping oncraniums. half thatdoesn’t involve remov side ofRhim’s personality—the ing honesty reflectsthe other never wouldhave seen.” and seealot ofthingsthatI allowed metotravel theworld tough sport.Cycling has because itissuchabrutally think Iwouldbeabletodoit have thosetwothingsIdonot love traveling. didn’t Ifcycling live, just acceptance. reward ofthelifehewants to torment heenduresforthe ism whenRhimdescribesthe hours…. Itjust kindofsucks.” I have tokillmyself forthree for atrainingride,yousay, oh, racing isfun…butwhenyougo FURMAN “The boy hasaBuddhana- To Miller, thissortofrefresh- “I love beingoutdoors. I There’s noromantic ideal- | FALL 2015 25

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ART CREDIT cer with the goal ofgraduatingnotcer withthegoal just withadegree,butalsoas studenthabiting thetwinrolesofcollege andfuturemilitaryoffi- cadetsing Corps(ROTC) nationwide—young peoplewhoarein- He will be one among thousands of other Reserve Officers’ Train - lic Affairsdepartmentasthe “capstone summertrainingevent.” ethical decision-making tested in what is billed by the Army’s Pub- physical fitness, leadership skills, criticalthinking,andapplied Cadet Leadership Course(CLC), also known as Camp, to have his easier then.” gear, andFort Knox isvery hot. By trainingmyself now, itwillbe “I’m acclimatizingmyself totheweather. We’ll becarryingalot of sweat even moreandwentforarun.“I’m getting ready,” hesays. fore theruck march, he donned a long undershirttomake himself brisk marchalongthetrailsbehindhishome. attired inlongsleeve fatigues, ahelmet, andlace-upboots—for a of highschoolwrestling, isshoulderinga40-poundrucksack— high noonheat,theFurman senior, leanandathletic fromyears body inside.Not Schwartz. Inthewet blanket ofSouthCarolina’s It wouldappearthatthescorchofearlysummerhasdriven every heat risefromtheasphaltofhisneighborhood’s desertedstreets. in Greenville isclosetocrackingtripledigits, andhazywigglesof A A ndrew Schwartz ’16isruckmarching. Themid-May temperature Schwartz ispreparingtoheadFort Knox, Kentucky, forthe It’s actuallySchwartz’s secondtrainingexercise of theday. Be- - their first choice.” tobesuccessful inlifeseekthemilitaryas people whoaregoing they doinlife.Thethingthat isinteresting tomeiswhy dothese kids you’ve tobesuccessful,nomatter talked aboutaregoing what fascinating pointaboutthefour cadets withwhomIspoke: “Those promoting theircountryandother citizens. Pasquarett raisesa at Furman toapplytheirabilities andgiftstoward protecting and to dosomething forthecountry, forthenation,theirfellow man.” service-oriented. Theyfeel[it’s] kindofanobligationthattheyhave ton, D.C. Pasquarett feelsthekidsthatlandatFurman are“really interact with significant political and military figuresin Washing- Works: TheFurman Model,” whichisahands-onway forcadets to involved by developing aprogramknown as“How Washington moved onfrom being part of the cadre at Furman, he has remained increasing enrollmentintheprogram1970s. Thoughhehas atFurmanformer headofROTC hewas crucialtorevitalizingand Pasquarett hashadadistinguished careerintheArmy, andasthe on thesenseofcivicdutyembodiedinPaladin Detachment cadets. of service. Theseareyoungpeoplecompelledbythrough college. thevirtue involvement assomething inROTC fargreaterthanapathway many ofthemost successfulandmotivated cadets perceive their to spendsixmonthsbackpackingthroughEurope.Whichiswhy a more rooted existence orif they suddenly experience a desire gation ofeightyears, whether theirsignificant other wouldprefer dets know thatby signingup, theyfaceamandatory serviceobli- wherever anddowhatever theArmy deemsnecessary. Theseca- There isreciprocity. It isnot ascholarshipprogramthatsimplysuppliestuitionmoney. to thosewhomay bedrawnstrictly toROTC forfinancial reasons: onaglobalscale.This, initself,createsaninteresting caveat forces to the needs of an institution that is subject to unpredictable will exactlybeisnot. Theseareyoungpeoplewhosubmitting educated. in aneconomicclimatethatcanpromiselittle toeven thecollege isanalluringsecurity prospect ofajobimmediatelyoutcollege foraparentorrelative whoserved. Andforothers,admiration the uate whatmayorderivative beperceivedfroman asalineage, eitheroutofadirectdesiretoperpetation ofafamilyheritage, - provides hisorherroomandboard.)For some,itisthecontinu- a student is awarded an Army tuition scholarship, the university education.(Atin having accesstoaqualitycollege Furman, when financial assistance theArmy offersthat may make thedifference especially totheuninitiated,isabasicone:Why? the scholar-soldier reallyis. dets like Schwartz ishow muchmorecomplexthedailydualityof commitments—whatROTC becomesclearafterspeakingwithca- manifest in their schedules—filled as they are with academic and tiation between twoworldsandidentitiesmay most obviously are fromFurman’s program.Andwhiletheirconstant- ROTC nego existence throughenrollmentinROTC. About 55ofthesecadets second lieutenantintheUnitedStatesArmy. ROTC, Pasquarett believes, provides achannelforyoungpeople Colonel Once commissionedassecondlieutenants, graduatesmust go cadetsBut whileajobforROTC isdefinite,whatandwhereit For certainyoungpeople,theprimarydraw isthestaggering Of course,oneofthefirst questionsROTC, whenapproaching Nationally this year, 35,000 young people have chosen this dual Michael Pasquarett, MA’78hasauniqueperspective FURMAN | FALL 2015 27 SPIRITUAL SEEKING Andrew Schwartz (in a purple shirt near the fireplace) meets with a religious group each week to discuss questions of faith.

opportunity to apply his altruistic nature and achieve his “ulti- t 21 years old, Andrew Schwartz, a health science major, is mate goal of helping people improve themselves” by undertak- introspective, self-aware, articulate, and exudes a conta- ing a health-care path in the military. Initially, he was under the gious calm. He is a self-proclaimed “pretty individualistic impression that a military academy, such as West Point or The person”A who is passionate about cooking—preferring, he says, to Citadel, was the place for him. But after visiting these campuses, always work with local ingredients that are in season. Deciding to Schwartz had doubts about the high level of assimilation at these pursue a military career, however, didn’t require much delibera- institutions, which did not fit his vision for the diverse education tion for Schwartz. Such a path, he says, “seemed very natural” and he craved. Nor was it encouraging of Schwartz’s own treasured in- was even “in his blood.” dividuality. “I can fit into a mold, but I really do have a lot of unique Schwartz grew up with a father who was a colonel in the Army, things about me. After doing some digging, I found out that it was but what impressed him from a young age did not stem from son- more ROTC I wanted.” for-father awe, but rather from observing his father’s selflessness Encouraged by his father’s memories of speaking at a commis- in caring for the soldiers under him. sioning ceremony at Furman before he was born, Schwartz came “That’s what attracted me, the responsibility you have to take to check out the university and was hooked. The program “seemed care of people. If you’re in the military, you have to have a sense like the kind of place that would allow for the unique things about of taking care of people because from day one, as a lieutenant, as me, but to still pursue, academically, health sciences.” an officer, you’re in charge of people, but what that means is you’re Family, it turns out, is a common theme among ROTC cadets. taking care of them.” All four of the young men I spoke with identify relationships with Schwartz remembers how his father “would always talk about their family as being one of the most important parts of their lives. taking care of his ‘boys,’ or taking care of their spouses or families.” They are linked by a sense of respect and admiration for their par- His father “wanted to make sure they had everything they needed, ents, and they spoke of close ties among their siblings. Also, all four that they weren’t going without,” whether that was something ma- cadets come from a military background, with at least one parent terial or otherwise. who served, though sometimes the lineage stretches back a gen- Inspired though not pressured by his father, Schwartz saw an eration or two. Colonel Pasquarett pointed out that these cadets

28 FURMAN | FALL 2015 THESE CADETS "COME FROM FAMILILES THAT CARE ABOUT THEM," WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO THEIR "CARING ABOUT OTHERS," SAYS COLONEL MICHAEL PASQUARETT.

SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT Schwartz, at home with his girlfriend Sarah Jordan Holcombe ’14, during one of the many nights when he indulges his culinary pursuits.

“come from families that care about them,” which contributes to States Forces Korea in the Republic of Korea. It was General Ballard their “caring about others,” helping to lead them into service. who swore in his son at his commissioning ceremony this past May. William Ballard ’15, who commissioned as a second lieu- “Seeing him, seeing the kind of dedication he has for his job, the tenant a day before his graduation in May, is careful to assert, level of selflessness he exudes when he does his job,” says Will, “I however, that despite his family’s illustrious military back- always kind of understood that my dad was doing something spe- ground, he chose ROTC and the Army “for himself.” In fact, his cial. I fell in love with the life, fell in love with what it means to be parents made “it very clear that they do not expect us to go into a soldier.” the Army. If anything, they sort of pushed back a little against it That awareness of what exactly it means to be a soldier was es- because of how eager I was.” pecially reinforced after 9/11, which happened when Ballard was The 23-year-old history major is tall, broad-shouldered, and in elementary school and the family was stationed in Kansas. He muscular, with a rumbling laugh and easy smile. Naturally as- remembers his mother being glued to the television in disbelief, sertive without being overbearing, Ballard has a profound nerdy which is a memory shared by many people around the world. How- streak for all things pertaining to Viking history, the subject on ever, Ballard recalls that for his family the events of 9/11 made him which he wrote his senior thesis. There is, for example, etymology realize an important distinction: When atrocities are committed he is eager to share about his name: “William comes from the Ger- or natural disasters strike, “a civilian sees it and is horrified, wants manic ‘Wilhelm,’ meaning the will to protect, or one who resolutely to help people, like ‘What do we do?’ Military families see it and protects. It is kind of a hint. I like the sense of purpose of being able say, ‘Where are we going now?’” to keep people safe.” For Ballard, it was a direct opportunity to be of service and to And yet there are details in Ballard’s story that echo Schwartz’s. provide protection to the population that satisfies what he identi- “I joined,” he says, “because growing up, my dad was my hero.” fies as “a sense of purpose and direction.” His father, Christopher Ballard ’84, is a brigadier general and He is quick to acknowledge that while the pragmatic benefits has had a remarkable decades-long career in the military, including of “steady pay, housing, a pretty solid career” are perks, the pri- a deployment to Iraq and two to Afghanistan. Currently, the elder ority for him as a young man of faith is what God wants him to do, Ballard is serving as the deputy assistant chief of staff for the United and “what I can do that is actually important, that actually brings

FURMAN | FALL 2015 29 30 FURMAN | FALL 2015 commitments each balances hiscourse lacrosse with10 to 15 hoursofROTC load andaloveof EQUIPOISE Joey White week.

ART CREDIT ART CREDIT F Lithuanian, British,andGerman forces. in jointoperationtrainingbetween American,Latvian,Estonian, pects of[a]country.” Whitewas sentto Latvia.There,heimmersed contact, andeducationonthe social,cultural,andhistorical as- service,host nation military-to-militarycludes “humanitarian (CULP) program.TheArmy billsCULPasanexperiencethat in- chosen foraCulturalUnderstandingProficiency andLanguage do. Duringhissophomoreyear, hewas oneofahandfulcadets stract concept tosomething herealizedcould doandwanted to do want toserve my country, asclichéthatmay sound.” begin with.But to stay with it, I thinkthereasonI’m still here, is I factor,was “ahuge andthat’s probablythemainreasonIdiditto says thatthescholarshipmoney sonal decisiontopursueROTC, he upto.”“look brotherssomeone hisyounger can brother thattheycanbeproudof, motivation” asbeingasonand ly.“biggest White identifieshis his relationshipswithfami- and Ballard,heprioritizes and like Schwartz were in college, sisters whenthey wereinROTC the bunch. nine childrenandtheoldest sonof he reveals thatheisthethirdof humor, whichmakes sensewhen thy, andaself-deprecating senseof projects affability, charm,empa- freckles andalertdarkeyes, White lacrosse. Astrawberry blondwith tain biking,hiking,orplaying spend hisscarcefreetimemoun- as an“outdoorsperson,” prefersto 21-year-old economicsmajorwho, scholarship initially. Whiteisa ’16 was attracted forthe toROTC vaguely suspected.Joey White know aboutthemselves oronly out something thattheydidnot like Iamcontributingsomething.” more. Iwant something thatfeels not be enough. For me,I want check quick.AndI’m like, that’s it?For me,thatdefinitelywould to bealawyer. AndwhenIaskwhy, theysay, pay soIcanget agood tivates them.“Ihave friendswhoaregreatguys, whosay theywant Ballard acontrast between hisemphasisonpurposeandwhatmo- contemplating graduatingfromFurman last spring—have shown something totheworldthatisn’t just makingmoney.” White identifiesaturningpointwhereservicewentfrom ab- When itcametoWhite’s per White’s parents andtwoolder Conversations withpeers—especiallyclassmateswhowerealso ually, oftenbrings andROTC moregrad- purpose emerges or somecadets, asenseof -

airplane jump,hepracticesguitar. "You feelthepowerofitasmakes When Matthew Press isn't studyingChinese, orplanninghisnext music," hesays."You feelconnectedtothesongs." DOWN TIME - noticed adifferencebetween myself and other college students.” but alsoofhimself.He says that“thisyearisthefirst yearI’ve really hisexpectationsnotcording toWhite,changed just oftheprogram cadets—has,levels ofaccountabilitywhile mentoringyounger ac- abletobeassertive andcomposed.”cadets” pushedhimto“be this past yearWhitealsohasnoticed how ofother being “incharge now,” heobserves. Thebalance,however, ispartofthereward, as time managers. “Beingsobusy, rightnow affectstwodays from bility astheyprogress. Whichmeanstheyhave tobecomeexpert White aregiven greaterleadershiprolesandincreasingresponsi- on asportsteam,” thoughyear-round. “It’s acommitment.” White says theexperiencehelpedsolidifywhatatfirst wasn’t clear you’re inthefightoroutside[it],every jobisequallyimportant.” the infantrymanfights, thequartermaster supplies, andwhether military andhow importantevery partcanbe.For example,while Iwassays. inLatvia,Ireallygottoseethebigpictureof “When adjusting to the way each runsa mission or communicates,” White Inhabiting such leadership roles at tender ages—all withhigh Inhabiting suchleadershiproles attenderages—all isamentoredyetSince ROTC cadet-led program,students like “A bigissuewhendifferentcountriesaredeployed together is

White says, is“closetobeing ROTC violence against women.Overall, to raiseawareness aboutsexual where menwearheelsandwalk in Her Shoes,” henotes, anevent nities. We just didtheWalk aMile fers usalot ofvolunteer opportu- Also,lage. Whitesays, of- “[ROTC] exercises withinasimulatedvil- room clearingandforce-on-force ample, wherethecadets conducted the Georgiaborder, isarecentex- Clark’s Hill,anaturepreserve near weekend trips.” An overnight to “every onceinawhile,wewilldo and ethics. which emphasizecriticalthinking in leadership, aswelllabs—allof three other times a week for classes standards. Additionally, theymeet fitness totheArmy’s demanding exercises designed to overhaul their tle bells, runs, and high-intensity approximately twohourswithket- three timesaweek,workingoutfor sessionsatthehourof6a.m. (PT) cadets show upforphysical training ing ontheweek.He andtheother 15 hoursofcommitment,depend- volvement requires10to inROTC ally feltthevalueofserving.” the vastness ofourforces, andIre- know. CULPhelpedmeunderstand was getting into, but I didn’t really to himaboutROTC. “IknewwhatI Besides that,Whitesays that White estimates thathisin- FURMAN | FALL 2015 31 While every successful college student has to What might these misconceptions be? manage his or her time and make choices about “Maybe that people in ROTC aren’t the smartest priorities, White and the other cadets have to bal- or that maybe you have to put in a lot more work” ance both the stress and responsibility of being a than it’s worth. Press is dismissive of these notions, student along with what the Army is already de- especially since the scholarship has been so crucial manding of them to mold them into top-tier lead- to his being able to attend Furman. “If you have to ers. They go to their regular classes after the work- wake up every other morning and do PT and a cou- outs that begin while it is still dark outside. They ple more laps, that’s not a big deal.” have to check in regularly with the younger cadets Also, he has noticed that a lot of people seem to they mentor while managing schedules packed “think it’s all about following orders, that you’re with their own academic commitments. always going to be told you’re wrong, which is Speaking to these men, it becomes clear that, sometimes true. [But] that’s a really small part while at first glance it seems they are shifting compared to what you get out of it.” Press feels constantly between two selves—Joey White, that many of the at-a-glance ideas of what ROTC cadet, and Joey White, student—the duality is is about would be shattered if more people “gave more of a balance than a binary. These young it a try” and went beyond the surface of ROTC. men embody the scholar-soldier whether they All of the cadets acknowledge that they are Joey White are in civilian clothes as regular college students sort of an X-factor on campus, a collective for or the uniform of aspiring officers. One informs which other students have only a shadowy the other, and one balances the other. Of course, awareness. Schwartz explains that, “a lot of peo- when they wake up and move through their daily ple don’t understand what we do. We’re a big existence as both, sustaining that overall equi- mystery…like you do strange things early in the poise requires a strong sense of self and charac- morning and out in the woods.” ter. This is, in other words, far removed from a It can be easy, therefore, for college students Joe College experience. who are not juggling such roles to apply inaccu- Matthew Press ’16, a 20-year-old business rate generalizations to ROTC. White says that major, acknowledges that. Though he never unless he directly tells them, a lot of students planned or expected to be a part of ROTC, he dis- don’t realize he is in ROTC. The news is com- covered it as a way to attend Furman and was able monly received with the remark that he “doesn’t to “see all of the positives the Army can provide.” seem like the type.” He feels that the program “builds you, tests you, What then is “the type?” and prepares you to be put in some difficult sit- Schwartz, Ballard, White, and Press all have uations, whether that’s a battlefield or business.” traits in common—coming from close-knit fam- Press is reserved, humble, whip smart, curi- ilies, for instance—but attempts at generalizing ous, and adventure seeking. Besides his love of them beyond some shared biographical details the outdoors and guitar playing—“You feel the Matthew Press do a disservice to their profound individuality. power of the guitar as it makes music, you can In fact, it is their strong sense of self, and pride in feel connected to the songs,” he says—Press has being different, that is one of the marked, but of- a passion for Chinese culture and language. Like THOSE SERVING ten overlooked commonalities that equips these all of the other cadets, he is close to his family, in cadets to navigate a dual existence that challenges particular his father, who is retired from the Air IN THE MILITARY their convictions every day. Force. Press credits his father with helping him "MAKE UP LESS Each young man I spoke to expressed in his discover his love of “high adrenaline situations.” own words an awareness, and acceptance, of Over the years, they have gone scuba diving with THAN ONE somehow being different. For Schwartz, it’s the sharks, backpacked in Alaska’s backcountry, PERCENT OF THE realization that “I like to do things a lot of people and climbed a water tower when he was in high don’t necessarily take the time to do. I think, in school to hang a sign asking a girl to prom. UNITED STATES," general, I’m not in line with the status quo. It’s This propensity is something that is suited accepting that I am different, not just saying I to ROTC, where he had the opportunity to SAYS BALLARD. need to fit a mold.” spend three weeks in Airborne School and “do "THE MAJORITY Ballard looks at it this way: “I think choosing a few jumps out of planes.” Press, who has light who you are and being fine with who you are is brown hair and wears rectangular glasses—a OF PEOPLE probably one of the hardest things. One of the somehow fitting complement to his reserved, WILL NEVER cool things about college is that you can finally intellectual demeanor—says he is grateful that be free.” ROTC wasn’t a “strange idea” for him, which he UNDERSTAND. ROTC then, in an almost paradoxical way, feels is “something that stops a lot of people, the THAT'S NOT A... seems to provide a path—through structure and misconceptions.” discipline—for these young people with a calling

32 FURMAN | FALL 2015 for service to feel “free” to embody that calling. called to service don’t understand it. It allows them to prioritize what is important to Of the current population, those serving in them personally. the military, Ballard says, “make up less than For Furman cadets, many of these priorities one percent of the United States. That’s a pretty are values—service, duty, patriotism—that may small number, responsible for the entirety of the be anathema to the hedonistic impression some U.S. against any threat. It’s not always going to be have of contemporary college culture. And what easy. There are challenges, there are trials, there such priorities can ultimately mean is that cer- are tribulations, both for the soldier and his fam- tain aspects of the college student life that are ily. The majority of people will never understand. not strictly academic must be sacrificed. As Press That’s not a bad thing. That’s the way it is sup- says, being in ROTC has “taught me that I’ve got posed to be. It wouldn’t be a service if everyone to pick out what’s going to be worth my time.” had to undergo these trials and challenges. That’s Ballard acknowledges that “it can get hard by why we volunteer, and that’s why we serve.” the time you hit 21, and your buddies are like, Surrender may be an incongruous word to hey, let’s have some drinks, and you have to say apply to such driven young men, but their in- no, I can’t. I have to wake up at 5:30 and run a ability to predict the world that awaits them 5K.” Among his peers, Ballard says he realizes post-graduation, and the military’s needs within Will Ballard that he is “simply different than them.” that context, require an acquiescence of ego and For Press, part of managing the dueling de- a surrender of control. Joey White admits that mands of his dual life is by not compromising the uncertainty of where he will land after grad- his sense of professional purpose in either. As he uation is his biggest stress. "I don’t know what’s says, “You have to act like an officer when you are going to happen. I don’t know if I’m going to be doing the training, and act like an officer when active duty, or Reserve, or National Guard. It’s all you are representing the program in the civilian a lottery.” world.” The lottery White is alluding to is the import- Although cadets find the necessary means ant OML, or Order of Merit List. The OML is es- to navigate between both the Army and civilian sentially a compilation of differently weighted world, this exchange is obviously not required performance statistics—including GPA, involve- of non-ROTC students. Even with the program’s ment in extracurriculars within the program, external work in the community, the perceived and so on—that, when crunched together, deter- esotericism of ROTC persists. Press reduces part mine each cadet’s post-graduate military place- of the mystery to very simple terms: “It’s a mys- ment via a fateful algorithm. It is at Fort Knox tery because people are scared. They just know where that algorithm is calculated. As a result, they could be shot at, so nobody tries to learn it behooves cadets to work intensely to beef up about it.” their on-paper bona fides and physical assets be- Andrew Schwartz fore the lottery commences in their senior year. n perusing the Furman ROTC web page, Even this process comes with a caveat, though. there is a phrase that sticks out. The End- Schwartz explains that although the first three state of the Vision document reads that, “the ...BAD THING. IT years of ROTC are about building these creden- IPaladin Detachment commissions leaders with tials, “even if you’re really good, you don’t always the character, intestinal fortitude, and educa- WOULDN'T BE get your top choice, because if that happened, tional foundation to lead the U.S. Army in an era A SERVICE IF you’d have all the really good guys in certain of persistent conflict.” branches. In the end, it’s the Army’s choice.” War, and active combat, are not things these EVERYONE HAD Ballard’s outlook characterizes how cadets young men are ignorant about. Like the rest TO UNDERGO must approach the future and also where their of the Millennial generation, Press, Schwartz, sense of service really counts. “In many ways, we White, and Ballard have come of age in a post- THESE TRIALS. are at the whim of the Army. Our goal is whatever 9/11 world, one that has seen America involved in the Army needs to get done. My goal is to serve conflicts where soldiers are losing lives. Ballard, THAT'S THE WAY well, as long as I can. It is not necessarily to reach the history buff, remembers how 9/11 cast war’s IT IS SUPPOSED a rank or hit a pay grade. I don’t particularly care. reality into a jarring present tense. “As a child, I More important to me is: Do I enjoy my time in thought war was a past thing. It made you realize TO BE. THAT'S the service and am I of benefit to the soldiers that that war is not something that goes away.” WHY WE will be placed under me?” Almost as an antidote, he perceives his calling Schwartz, who aspires to be a physical ther- to be an officer as an opportunity to provide hope VOLUNTEER... apist in some capacity in the military, has done and protection to those who are vulnerable. WHY WE SERVE." everything he possibly can to maximize his pa- It’s not surprising to him that those who aren’t per appeal. However, “it’s really the Army’s path

FURMAN | FALL 2015 33 34 FURMAN Benning inGeorgia. graduated inMay. He isnowatFort Will Ballard, who THRESHOLD nerdy streak for has aprofound Viking history, a successful businessman, a successfulbusinessman, ’76. Mayville, whoisnow like this,”saysBill Mayville produced somany[people] school like Furman has “It’s amazingthatasmall that rank. not tomentionXXbelow (including General Ballard), Reserve General officers active, National Guard, and history. It hasproduced 10 ficers producing distinguishedof- program hasalegacyof The Paladin ROTC FACTOR THE FURMAN in its modest 60-year in itsmodest60-year

| FALL 2015 ties forWest Point cadets saw that“theopportuni- moved todothiswhenhe Pasquarett sayshe was cadets avaluableadvantage. functions, givingFurman how thenation’s capital real-world knowledge of that aimstoprovide cadets an immersiveexperience The Furman Model.” It is “How Washington Works: opment ofhisprogram, today through thedevel- influence Furman’s ROTC Pasquarett hascontinuedto Pasquarett (MA’78). under Colonel Michael spent histimeasacadet several of them would say several ofthemwouldsay graduates. [Afterward] they are here are Furman the studentsmeetwhen officers in Washingtonthat Hill. “A lotofgeneral Department, andCapitol the Pentagon, theState ates inhighplaces,including presence ofFurman gradu- ed, bytheconspicuous been proven, andsupport- Pasquarett’s effortshave heads-up.” Furman kids, kind ofa of ROTC, especiallythe wanted togivethepeople people inROTC. Ijust were somuchgreater than difference, Mayville agrees. Furman” thatmakes the that theyare gettingat cation thatiswellrounded It is“theliberalartsedu- of studentscomingthere.” you haveagoodselection Furman? Ithinkit’s because ficers comeoutoflittleold why dosomanygeneralof- have alwaysquestioned, Pasquarett.“A lotofpeople of theeducation,says and todayisthequality Furman cadetsofthepast What hasdistinguished was I?’” good whenIwasincollege, to me,‘Jeez, Iwasn’t that these young people.” these youngpeople.” proud of nation. Iamvery do great thingsforthe people thatcangooffand they are producing young “It makes mefeelgoodthat program forFurman cadets. excited tocontinuehis Pasquarett saysheis Furman. on from boththeArmyand support” cadetscancount “fantastic resources and who givescredit tothe Colonel Gregory Scrivens, program, Lieutenant science chair ofthemilitary by current department That’s asentimentechoed

ART CREDIT ART CREDIT differently.” He andhisdadareplanningtheirnext bigadventure. ishes the“timetoreflect”andhow travel “getsyourbrainworking found his niche in exploring China and learning Mandarin. He rel- can make themost ofthem.” a lot ofuncertainties, butIcanhandlethem.Whatever theyare,I Press. haslet “DoingROTC meknow that inthefuturethereare erences, perceptions, andneeds. consider themselves in a context than their own much larger pref- tunities fortrainingabroad,andtheemphasisonteamwork to them forthatparadox, however, withthementorship, theoppor has groomed in pursuit of service. ROTC mantling of personal ego tary: For Schwartz, Ballard, White,andPress, theremust beadis- cultivate intheirlives. trary totheextreme orderhe,andother cadets, must otherwise expected and understood yet part of the package, con- bling”—an man whoisintentonexcelling,- thisexercise inletting is“hum go for me.Idon’t reallyknow whatthepathlookslike.” For ayoung IN PURSUIT OF SERVICE. DISMANTLING OF PERSONAL EGO THE MILITARY...THERE MUST BE A OFTEN UNDERSTOOD ABOUT THIS IS ANOTHER PARADOX NOT Joey Whiteinternsasadataanalyst forapet foodcompany, In oneworld,Matthew Presspursuestravel abroad,having And whataboutthatfuture? “The Army andcivilianworldarevery different,” observes This isanother paradox not oftenunderstood aboutthemili- a successful businessman, a successfulbusinessman, ’76 like this,”saysBill Mayville produced somany[people] school like Furman has “It’s amazingthatasmall (including General Ballard). Reserve General officers active National Guard and history. It hasproduced 10 ficers producing distinguishedof- program hasalegacyof The Paladin ROTC FACTOR THE FURMAN . Mayville, who is now . Mayville, whoisnow in its modest 60-year in itsmodest60-year ties forWest Point cadets saw that“theopportuni- moved todothiswhenhe Pasquarett sayshewas cadets avaluableadvantage. functions, givingFurman of howthenation’s capital with real-world knowledge that aimstoprovide cadets an immersiveexperience The Furman Model.” It is “How Washington Works: opment ofhisprogram, today through thedevel- influence Furman’s ROTC Pasquarett hascontinuedto Pasquarett, MA’78. under Colonel Michael spent histimeasacadet several of them would say several ofthemwouldsay graduates. [Afterward] they are here are Furman the studentsmeetwhen officers in Washingtonthat Hill. “A lotofgeneral Department, andCapitol the Pentagon, theState ates inhighplaces,including presence ofFurman gradu- by theconspicuous ported, been proven, andsup- Pasquarett’s effortshave up.” Furman kids, kind ofaleg of ROTC, especiallythe wanted togivethepeople people inROTC. Ijust were somuchgreater than -

form andbealeader.” far, haslet ROTC mebemyself,” hesays, “andthenputontheuni- felt uptonow, despitenot knowing exactlywhereitwilllead.“So cided. numbers areparsedandhis, andhisclassmates’,futuresarede- student andsoldier, willbeendinginthefall,whenOML and creatingsauces. Histimebetween twoworlds, occupying kitchen, wherehehasspentsomuchtimechoppingingredients come. Buttheyalsostill have toget there. “I’m busy. Every It’s day hereisanewchallenge. exciting.” sic OfficerLeadershipCourse(IBOLC)at FortBenning,Georgia. He isnow totally immersedintraining,attending theInfantryBa- of thebrightest and most amazingAmericansonsanddaughters.” abletoleadsome of“being ing whathedescribesas“theprivilege” commissioned as a second lieutenant, is further toward experienc- stillness. man’s beautiful lake, watching the ducks and relishing fleeting the stand-uponawalk by deskhebuiltforhimselforgoes Fur he cooks as a creative outlet and stress reliever. He tinkers with farms tosourcethefreshest ingredientsfortheelaboratedinners family oriented.” “lighthearted” and“very for a young man who defines himself as awoke fromthecomashehadbeeninforayear—a privatestruggle May ashisoldersister Kimmy, cadet aformerROTC herself,finally crosse games. He exultedwithhiswholeextended familythispast earnestly endorsingthebrand,andrefereeshislittle brothers’ la- Her work hasappeared onOxfordAmerican.org andinArkansas. Times Morgan Sykes is a freelance writer based in Asheville, North Carolina. What gives himpeaceishow right the walk along this path has After histrainingruckmarch,Schwartz coolsoffinhisfamily’s For Press, White,and Schwartz, where Ballardis remains to In theother world,theArmy world,WillBallard,whowas just Andrew Schwartz attendstolocal hischurchgroupandgoes difference, Mayville agrees. Furman” thatmakes the that theyare gettingat cation thatiswellrounded It is“theliberalartsedu- of studentscomingthere.” you haveagoodselection Furman? Ithinkit’s because ficers comeoutoflittleold why dosomanygeneralof- have alwaysquestioned, Pasquarett. “A lotofpeople of theeducation,says and todayisthequality Furman cadetsofthepast What hasdistinguished was I?’” good whenIwasincollege, to me,‘Jeez, Iwasn’t that F FURMAN these young people.” these youngpeople.” proud of nation. Iamvery do great thingsforthe people thatcangooffand they are producing young “It makes mefeelgoodthat program forFurman cadets. excited tocontinuehis Pasquarett saysheis Furman. on from boththeArmyand support” cadetscancount “fantastic resources and who givescredit tothe Colonel Gregory Scrivens, program, Lieutenant science chair ofthemilitary by current department That’s asentimentechoed | FALL 2015 35 - 36 FURMAN of hiscareerin NewYork Citypainting suchluminariesasJohn D. interest inSouthernurbanization andracerelations. inson andtheAlabamaSuite,” whichconcentratesonDickinson’s welcoming space—features eight paintings known as “Sidney Dick floor, inthe Holly MagillGallery. The gallery—a commodiousbut pressionism. gift shopwhereapatronslowly leafsthroughabookonFrench Im- unteers greet mewithsmilesasIenter. Theystand nearthesmall County MuseumofArt(GCMA)forthefirst time. Two elderly vol- It’s awarm May day whenIarrive atthepleasantly coolGreenville reinvigorate meprofessionallyandpersonally? experiment: How mightfive days ofunfettered timeatamuseum forme,Iconcoctedan thistypeofdeepengagement encouraged society’s well-being.Andso, becausethevisualartshave always arts university. It’s thoseskillswebelieve arealsocriticaltoour is, afterall,attheheartofteachingandscholarshipaliberal level, butinaprofessionalsense,too. withideas Deep engagement thinking aboutalltheother thingsIcould,orshould,bedoing? focused on whatever experience I was actually having rather than ing bothered by thisimpulse.Iwondered:Whatwouldhappenif there aren’t enoughexternal distractions. terrupt ourselves—by doingsomething like surfingtheInternet—if to constant interruptions that, according to psychologists, we’ll in- modern DNAs. Worse still, itseemswehave becomesoaccustomed sity orunthinkinghabit.Impatienceseemstobewiredintoour try’s most impressive artcollectionsoutofcircumstantial neces- I lovemuseums.Nevertheless, Ihaveracedthrough someofthecoun- WEDNESDAY, NOON Dickinson was a Connecticut-born portraitist who spent much After consultingthemuseum map, Idecidetostart onthefirst This question feltcriticaltomeonmorethanjust apersonal As theacademicyearwounddown last May, Istarted becom- | FALL 2015 rewards ofthose?Ourwriterspendsfive days inamuseumlookingatmasterworks Are we losingourability tolinger,focus, toabsorb—and toreflect, to inturn,the MUSEUM HOURS ARTWORK BY BRIAN FAULKENBERRY in order totrulyseewhatliesbeyond them. BY A. SCOTT HENDERSON - Holiday. I’m aware ofthinking aboutcertainpainting techniques, Mygone. Iactually spend10more minuteslookingat fidgetiness is Inthattime,however,one. something interesting hashappened: looked at31paintingsin12 minutes. Iamstill infrontofthesame seemingly momentsago, exits. Theyhave, by my calculation, nature, butalsotheartist whoshinesthatlight. is exposedby light.Thispaintingmakes merealizethatit’s not just according toLeonardo, everything innatureisdarkexcept whenit vised painterstobeginallcanvases withawash ofblackbecause, freshman inanarthistorycollege course.LeonardodaVinciad- with blackpaint.This, inturn,recallssomething Ilearnedasa Hudson, Iassume.alsonotice how muchofthe canvas iscovered Dickinson isleft-handedandtherearefourboatsintheriver—the I start to notice things I hadmissedduringmy initial half-minute: focus back to to wait even thatlong.) work-related emailsareattended towithinsixseconds. Idon’t like a2012germane; study concludedthatalmost three-quartersof that have accumulatedinmy inbox. (Thereferencetoemailsis habits. It’s asiftheseworksofartareunopenedemailmessages painting. Irealizeit’s tobeharderthanIthoughtbreakold going painter theobjectorsubjectofpainting? painting, which provides an interesting postmodern twist: Is the set slowly descending to the horizon. We cannot see what he is behind him.Scantrays oflightpiercethescene,aManhattan sun- New York waterfront with his futurewife(Mary Watson) seated in 1926 whentheartist was 36yearsold. for metobeginwithHoliday,Dickinson’s self-portrait,completed Rockefeller andMayor FiorelloLaGuardia.Itseemsfitting, however, I’m lost inthesethoughts whenafamilyoffour, whoarrived Reminding myself thatIhave morethansixseconds, Ishiftmy After nomorethan30seconds, however, Ifeelthetugofnext canvas,On thislarge Dickinsonstands infront ofaneaselonthe Holiday. Forcing myself to look carefully at itscanvas,

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but I’m also conscious that I’m thinking in a measured, calming outskirts of Montgomery. On the horizon, tall buildings rise from manner. To put it another way, I’m actually giving myself time to downtown Montgomery, a symbol of the city’s increasing power as a think, which is often the first casualty of our multitasking lifestyles. commercial and financial center. Just as I’m about to move on, something else dawns on me: Be- I spend more than 20 minutes comparing the two works. The cause both Dickinson and Mary Watson are looking straight at the most obvious difference is a significant one: A black girl who figures viewer, it occurs to me that it must be the viewer that Dickinson prominently in the first version is absent from the second, despite is painting on his hidden canvas. The subject we cannot see is, in being the focal point of the former. In the second version, the focal fact, ourselves. I would have missed this marvelous conceit if I had point is the newly built Kilby Prison, which notoriously featured an limited myself to a drive-by view of the painting. electric chair. After Holiday, I sidle over to Dickinson’s next work, Boy on Given the subject matter of Dickinson’s other Alabama paint- Horse, which was painted by the artist in 1918 when he visited the ings, it’s hard not to see the racial implications of this modification. Calhoun School for Colored Children. This school, established Blacks who violated race codes in the Jim Crow South were either under the supervision of Booker T. Washington, was located near killed or imprisoned; by casting a literal light on the prison (recall Montgomery, Alabama. In the painting, a young adolescent boy sits Leonardo’s words), Dickinson was alerting viewers to these reali- astride a dappled horse against a dark background. The boy appears ties. As it turns out, he was prescient: Kilby Prison was where the to be looking at something behind him, though his body faces for- Scottsboro Boys (a group of nine black teenagers wrongly accused ward. I try to get a sense of this painting but without success. of raping two white women) would be held only a few years later. After several more minutes, I realize the boy’s coat seems too big for him. Before I know it, I’ve created a story for the painting. THURSDAY, 3 P.M. The boy, bundled in his mother’s or father’s coat, is beginning his I’m not surprised at being the only person in the main gallery today. journey to the Calhoun School, perhaps as a boarding student. There are few reasons to be inside on a beautiful Southern after- He is moving forward, yet glancing backward, which is how most noon unless one wants to take advantage of an exceptional cultural people confront an uncertain future. By viewing the painting and resource. Today, I pass through the entryway, curious about the creating this backstory, I have experienced what the Hungarian museum’s origins. psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi has called “flow.” Flow is The GCMA traces its beginnings to the formation of the Green- the experience of effortless concentration that occurs when we are ville Fine Arts League by 17 local artists in 1935. Funding from the immersed in something. Those who achieve this state notice a di- Works Progress Administration supported the League’s exhibits minishment of anxiety, which is likely why my earlier immersion in through World War II, and in 1963 the South Carolina General As- Holiday tended to calm my thoughts. sembly approved creation of the Greenville County Museum Com- The last two paintings I view on Wednesday have been paired to- mission. The present building opened in 1974, encompasses almost gether by the museum. One is a study that Dickinson did prior to 70,000 square feet, and welcomes approximately 125,000 visitors painting the same scene on a second, larger canvas. Both works—titled each year. Located on the site of the former Greenville Woman’s

Outside Montgomery, Alabama (1926)—depict a cotton field on the College—absorbed by Furman University in the late 1950s—the GREENVILLE COUNTY OF ART MUSEUM GREENVILLE COUNTY OF ART MUSEUM

38 FURMAN | FALL 2015 NATIVE SON A painting from South Carolina artist William McCullough’s series exploring the town of Mayesville.

GCMA is part of Heritage Green, a collection of museums, includ- the tomb-quiet museum. ing Furman’s own Upcountry History Museum, that surrounds In short, a middle-aged mother holds the hands of her two the Greenville Little Theater and the downtown library. Although young children at Eastertide. The threesome looks directly at many area residents favor limited government, the GCMA is a good the viewer, as if they have just shown up on our doorstep uninvited. example of how public dollars can lead to public uplift, which con- Both children are in bunny suits; the youngest (a boy) is screaming. sequently increases our appreciation for why tax revenues are nec- The mother is smiling, but her expression conveys more hysteria essary in the first place. than happiness. Snow flurries dot the painting. The combination Among other highlights, the GCMA houses the largest public of a serious religious observance with an over-commercialized cul- collection of watercolors by the celebrated artist Andrew Wyeth, tural ritual gives the painting its humorous quality. After ruminat- the best known member of an American family that has produced ing on this scene, I conclude that neither spring nor the holiday’s three generations of noted artists (N.C., Andrew, and Jamie). I de- end can come soon enough for this besieged mother. cide that is where I’ll head today—to view one of the current exhib- Still bound by my habits of time, I notice that I have also just its on the grandson, “Jamie Wyeth: Our Own Rabelais.” checked my watch. I have spent more than an hour in front of these Jamie has been lauded for his portraits and his paintings of three paintings. To put that in perpective, I saw almost every gal- Brandywine River locales in Pennsylvania and Delaware. But what lery in the Cleveland Museum of Art in the same amount of time. I’m interested in is the exhibit’s reference to François Rabelais, the But here’s the thing: I can’t remember a single painting from that 16th-century French satirist whose name is synonymous with ro- collection. bust humor and a bawdy disregard for propriety (“I drink no more than a sponge,” he supposedly remarked). FRIDAY, 1 P.M. The first painting I view confirms why the reference to Rabelais When I head back to the museum, I decide to keep my strategy of tak- is appropriate. Sister Parish and Mr. Universe (2011) depicts a par- ing in just a handful of works. I return to Jamie Wyeth and his series lor overlooking a winter landscape. In front of a large window, Mr. entitled “A Suite of Untoward Occurrences on Monhegan Island.” Universe flexes his nude body. The only parts of Sister Parish that Monhegan is a desolate island 12 miles off the coast of Maine. we can see (she is sitting) are her long-skirted legs. The interior is Barely a square mile in area, the island (population 75) has been a full of color, notably vernal shades of green that contrast with the favorite destination for artists since the 1800s—Edward Hopper, snow outside and reinforce the painting’s eroticism. Is Mr. Uni- Rockwell Kent, and Frances Kornbluth, among others. Typically, verse a lusty daydream being dreamt by Sister Parish? Whatever painters use the island’s natural light and beauty as their subject the case, the painting seems to be winking at the viewer. It has matter. But the title of Wyeth’s series rightly suggests that he is more turned our world of gender assumptions upside down by making a interested in events (real or imagined) than with landscapes. man the object of desire. In The Coop (2014), a group of four children surrounds several The colors in the next canvas, Easter in Maine (2008), oppose chickens. One of the girls, whose expression is downright evil, ap- that of Sister Parish and are uncharacteristically dark for a Wyeth pears to have been designated as the poultry executioner. (This

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GREENVILLE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART Carolina native known forhisrealistic portraitsandlandscapes. work ofahomegrown artist. IselectWilliamMcCullough, aSouth surface ofGCMA’s collections. Onthisfinalday, I want tolookatthe tetic approachtoviewing art,itturnsoutthatI’ve onlyscratchedthe would possibly be left for me to see? But given my new, less peripa- When Ibeganthisexperiment five days ago, IdreadedSunday. What gest thatwedon’t, butshould. motion-filled lives toexamineaframeortwo? Thesepaintingssug- life isnot worthliving.Doweever take enough timeinourown still forourscrutiny. Socrates famously said thatanunexamined they aresingleframesfromamovie that’s beenbroughttoastand- Hitchcock thanto Rabelais. Thesepaintings convey motion, as if ter offthecliff. der ifshe’s tothrow going hersis- tenance, makingtheviewerwon- the oldergirlhasanangrycoun- sucks herthumb nonchalantly, arms. Even thoughtheinfant an infantinheroutstretched highaboveledge theoceanholds one intheseries. Agirlonarocky ters (2015), isthemost disturbing option.) Thesecondcanvas, Sis- cessful. (Idecideonthesecond unsuccessful orextremely suc- that the cats have either been birds inthepainting,weassume ing poses;becausethereareno with seven cats in various hunt- gan series. last twopaintingsintheMonhe- Today’s To goal? finishviewingthe both inandoutoftheclassroom. thinking fromovertaking my life, me how importantitistokeep fast view arthascertainlyreminded The slow thinking I’m utilizing to sions oronwritten assignments. student comments during discus- not least whenI’m respondingto I’m asguiltyofthisanybody, ones withwhichwealreadyagree. toacceptral tendency ideasandopinionsuncritically, particularly fast thinkingthatfrequentlygetsusintotrouble.Itfuelsournatu- time neededforslow thinking.Andthisisaproblem,becauseit’s ing is necessary, but our harried schedules are eating away at the (attentive and purposeful).Eachtypeofmentalprocess- “slow” of twokindsthinking:“fast” (immediateandintuitive) versus home. other hotel occupantsweren’t luckyenoughtoescape. given thehorrorinscribedonman’s faceandthepossibilitythat incident isbasedona1963fire).It’s ascenethat’s hardtolookat, bib runsfromtheMonhegan House Hotel, whichisinflames(the Lobster Bib(2013) isalsocreepy: Ascreamingmancladinalobster SUNDAY, 1P.M. SATURDAY, 10A.M. When Ifirst paintings ofMayesville, viewhisthreelarge South The Monhegan series certainly seems to owe more to Alfred Birding (2014) depictsafield The NobelPrize-winning psychologist DanielKahneman speaks Still wonderingabouttheseunsettling images, Ibeginmy drive Wyeth’s Easter inMaine offersahumorous satire onthe sacred versustheearthbound. EASTER MOURNING

at them. understanding unlesswespendmorethanafewseconds looking them.” True enough, but visible things don’t provide us with any tory posits that “we make things visible so we can understand book as my immersion at GCMA comes to a close. In her influential ratherthanfastand engaged), thinking(casualintuitive). ucation, whichemphasizestheneedforslow thinking (analytical of course,runscountertothewholepurposealiberal artsed- Ontheotherthe goal). hand,today’s students, college including photos ofvirtuallyalltheinhabitedplacesonEarth(oratleast that’s a lot like GoogleEarth,apopularcomputerapplicationthatprovides visited several Mayesville shops. natural thatIfeelasthoughI’ve actuallywalked down streets and In thecaseofMcCullough, hisuseoflightingandperspective isso McCullough and other realist painters seem to rebut this claim. Through theirattention todetails andverisimilitude, however, putatively moreobjective thanthesubjective renderingsofartists. 1830s, photographs wereheraldedasaccuratedepictionsofreality, almost themomentdaguerreotype processwas createdinthe appear tobephotographs. Andthis, ofcourse,isthepoint.From Carolina (atown ofbarely700peopleinSumterCounty),they . and Gardenias , thatisavailable atwww.fiction-addiction.com cation atFurman. He hasrecently publishedapoetrycollection, Gin Rather thanfeelingpessimistic, however, Ifind myself buoyed I supposeonecouldarguethattheseMayesville streetscapes are A. ScottHenderson istheWilliam J.A. Kenan, Jr. professor ofedu- Thinking withThings(2005),thearthistorian Esther Pasz -

F mote deepthinkingaboutanything. That, Twitter andInstagram rarely, ifever, pro- One thingseemscertain:Media suchas by we encounter? truly see—the images eroded ourabilitytofocuson—andthere- deep-seeing skills?Have digitalmedia Could thesame betrue,Iwonder, forour mentally interactwiththewritten word. skills—our abilitytofullyabsorband texts mightbehaving onourdeep-reading concerns about the impact that electronic ogy writerNicholasCarrhave both raised scientist MaryanneWolf andthetechnol- nicative competence. communicative convenience forcommu- daily basis. Theyincreasinglymistake opment amongmy students onanalmost dium isthemessage.” Iseearelateddevel- han expressedwiththephrase,“Theme- conveys, anexistential anxiety thatMcLu- have significanteffectsonthemessageit whatever themediummightbe,itwould opher Marshall McLuhan worried that than 50yearsago, theCanadianphilos- thattechnologypresents.challenges More that artcanprovide insightsintothenew shouldn’t beaneither/or choice. be right, butIcan’t helpfromfeelingthatit substitute forGoogleEarth.Theymight realistic paintingisawoefullyinadequate those atFurman, wouldlikely thinkthata Others sharethesefears. Thecognitive As Ileave themuseum,itoccurstome FURMAN | FALL 2015 41

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PHOTOS BY JEREMY FLEMING I send meintoablissfulcoma of at onceremindmeofhomeand new backyard,aplacethatwill jointinmyearth agreatburger want tobewrong.Iwant toun- Buthere’sway? thething: I South Carolinamagazineany ing: Wholet aTexan write ina Texans. anyone has perfected it, it’s us of toppingsandcondiments. If meat withanoverabundance erly without degrading the how prop- todressourburgers store. From there,welearned conceived inaTexas grocery was the South.Thehamburger of breadwasn’t invented in ground beefbetween twoslices ofrestingthe genius aslabof region hastheirtake onit.But of Americancuisine,andevery be foundanywhere. It’s astaple can tention thatahamburger no moreburgers. more fajitas. And unmercifully, 72-ounce sirloin steaks. No more smoked brisket. Nomore stomach was apprehensive. No to my homestate, I’lladmitmy flame. SowhenIgoodbyesaid things happenwhenbeefmeets Texans discovered that good and not longaftertheirarrival, grasslands fortwocenturies, tle have beengrazingTexas behind bovine country. Cat- Carolina fouryearsago, Ileft votion tobeef. statement thatexplainsmy de- frankly, thereisn’t astronger but boast abouttheirnative land, that aTexan needsareasonto introduction isnecessary. Not bly wonderingwhy suchabold Lone StarState,you’re proba- reading thisoutsideofthe I know whatyou’re think Sure, ithascometomy at- When Imoved toSouth ’m aTexan. Ifyou’re - -

to satisfy my craving. Ivisited stuff.with thegood ensure theywerebeingclogged to clogmy arteries, Iwanted to chain restaurants. If I was going sensibility, I ignored national tenders. For my own snobbish to compilealist ofviablecon- conducted my own research dations from colleagues and burger.good Itookrecommen- it was simplytodiscover adamn the bestjoints;instead, burger sion. My quest wasn’t torank intheUpstate.burger table manners. hands toliftitandanabsenceof my mouththatrequirestwo charred texture. so thatthepatty hasthatlovely seared mediumtomedium-well that is molded by hand, and caramelized groundbeef. Even thoughthe“genius ofresting aslabofground beefbeneathtwoslicesofbread” wasn’t inventedintheSouth, Armed with Lipitor, I set out And so, thatbecamemy mis- I want tofindtheperfect into I want topullaburger I want toconsumeaburger the authorfoundmanyUpstate burgers thatenlistinnovativeingredients, includingThe Cuban (facing page).

sonal andregionalpreferences burger. Butputting thoseper lost causeswhoordertheveggie their burger. Thereareeven dump thekitchencabinet on there arerevolutionaries that ish excessive condiments, and There arepurists whoadmon- and therearethin-patty lovers. There arethick-patty lovers, The Illusionist were humbling. And forthisTexan, theresults I even enteredafewdumps. food trucksacrosstheUpstate. restaurants, diners, grills, and OF TABLE MANNERS. HANDS TO LIFT IT AND AN ABSENCE MY MOUTH THAT REQUIRES TWO I WANT TO PULL A BURGER INTO ONE “MEATERY” AT A TIME -

burgers. Irememberbeingakid connect with,most peoplelove forts offoodandwhatpeople youtalkaboutthecom- “When that Igrewupwith,” Gray says. ofyouryouth. burger warning: This isn’t exactly the collective experience.Butfair Gray set outtore-createour Public House inGreenville, executive chef at Bacon Bros. better thanAnthony Gray. As the same. staple of Americana is basically aside, ourintroductiontothis FURMAN “I wanted tohave theburger No oneunderstands this | FALL 2015 43 The Comeback

DECISIONS, DECISIONS Thick patty versus thin, gourmet bread versus supermarket bun, high-end fixings or no frills, there is a burger for every taste in the Greenville area. Clockwise from left: The Pastrami, Southern Comfort, and The Roadhouse—from The Strip Club 104. and having American cheese Halfway into the burger, I For nearly two years, this “I definitely didn’t want the melted over the burger itself. realized that becoming a per- restaurant on wheels has been ingredients to distract from Burgers resurface different manent resident of South Car- serving 1/3-pound certified An- the beef,” says David Allen, the feelings and memories. When olina might not be a bad thing. gus beef burgers in parking lots truck’s owner and chef. “I wanted I think of a cheeseburger, I still This sandwich embodies ev- across Greenville. The menu a perfectly good charred burger think of a McDonald’s burger erything that a burger purist has four different burgers—in- with fresh ingredients.” on a sesame seed bun. I wanted craves, but it almost doesn’t cluding the N’Awlins Burger Perched on a toasted French to keep within that theme, but taste like a burger because of with andouille sausage—but roll, the Chuck Cheeseburger I also wanted to make a burger the inclusion of brisket. Bris- on the afternoon that I visited is topped with lettuce, tomato, that is unique to Bacon Bros.” ket—with its intense, beefy the truck parked outside The pickles, crispy red onions, and a For the most part, Gray’s flavor—has a way of doing that. Community Tap, I opted for signature aioli sauce. The Swiss masterpiece is as traditional as it But as a beef enthusiast, I’m the standard choice: the Chuck cheese excels where cheddar gets. Stripping Bacon Bros.’s “The not griping. This actually felt Cheeseburger. and others might fail as a com- Burger” down to its bare essen- like home. “I want our custom- There’s a reason for my sim- pliment to the patty. It doesn’t tials, this sandwich utilizes fresh ers to have that (childhood) plicity (besides being from Tex- complicate or overpower the bread, pickles, melted American experience,” Gray says. “But I as). As appealing as the other meat’s juicy flavor. That said, cheese, and a special sauce that also want that first bite to take sandwiches are on the menu, I did splurge on one addition: combines equal parts of ketchup, them to a different place.” the star here is the meat. The the smoked apple-wood bacon. mayonnaise, mustard, and hot hand-pressed, nicely sea- Even for a Texan who is more sauce. Classic enough, right? The The Purist soned chuck patty is charred faithful to beef than all other twist is in the seven-ounce beef Lest anyone forget that ground perfectly. That means add- meats, there’s room for a sliver patty. Gray uses a blend of chuck, chuck is the most pure cow ing additional ingredients is or two of pig. brisket and—this being Bacon ingredient in a burger pat- a gamble. Go too far, and the Bros.—ground bits of bacon. The ty, there’s The Chuck Truck. sum of the parts will over- The Hole-in-the-Wall Burger result is a rich, moist patty with a Leave it to a food truck to be shadow the greatness of the If I learned nothing else in my 70-30 meat-to-fat ratio. conventional. patty. quest, it’s this: The best burgers PHOTOS BY JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY BY PHOTOS

44 FURMAN | FALL 2015 The Temptress it, topped with ripe avoca- For a steakhouse that fea- do, roasted plum tomatoes, tures images of 1950s pinup smoked Gouda, and a balsamic girls hanging on the wall and a glaze. During my visit, I opted stripper pole in the bar area, it for “The Roadhouse.” The bun shouldn’t come as a surprise is soft and sweet, but durable that I felt like I was cheating enough to keep this beast in on my wife when I visited The check. The other ingredients Strip Club 104. However, I want are just as seductive. Smoked to be clear about this: I wasn’t Gouda cheese. Caramelized sinning because of the decor. onions. Pecan-wood smoked The burger alone was sultry bacon. A tower of onion rings. enough. And just for good measure, Every Friday at lunch hour, horseradish sauce. With each this steakhouse opens its doors bite into this moist burger, my with about 40 carnivores al- eyes were rolling into the back ready waiting in line. What in my head. brings the masses is a mouth- Once upon a time, I be- watering, almost outlandish lieved that burgers (the truly menu of 20 burgers. Ever crave great ones anyway) shouldn’t a hot dog and homemade chips, be ruined by an overabundance or macaroni and cheese on of toppings and condiments. your burger? You can get your Such a crime usually meant fix here. the chef was trying to cover “If we were going to open up the fact that the meat was one day a week for lunch, I flavorless, or overcooked. How- wanted to be great at one thing: ever, with all its extras, this "IF WE WERE GOING TO OPEN ONE burgers,” says Jason Clark, burger is flawless. And for a DAY A WEEK FOR LUNCH...I WANTED chef and owner. “Every burger Texan, admitting that is like is a different idea. You can’t agreeing that Texas isn’t its TO CREATE SOMETHING AWESOME." have a muffuletta burger with- own country. It kind of makes —JASON CLARK, CHEF AND OWNER OF THE STRIP CLUB 104 out great olives, or a pastrami me want to stick around the burger without onion straws Upstate for a while. F and Swiss. You have to have the right ingredients. You have to make the pastrami. For ev- ery burger, I wanted to create The Checklist are rarely found in a food court burger. Half a pound of freshly something awesome.” or strip mall. More often, ground beef is sourced from a Here’s another fun fact they’re located in joints where local butcher, seasoned, and about the burgers: They’re all Bacon Bros. Public House you’d least expect them—un- grilled medium well. The fresh-ground filet mignon. You 3620 Pelham Road derneath an overpass, or in a burger is then sandwiched on read that correctly. Greenville shack on the side of the road. a white bun, and stacked with There’s little doubt that 864.297.6000 baconbrospublichouse.com For me, that happy accident is American cheese, lettuce, to- each burger on the menu will Northwest Grill. On the outskirts mato, mayonnaise, onions, and make the person ordering it The Chuck Truck of Travelers Rest sits a redbrick pickles. There’s nothing com- happy. Various locations building that is barely noticeable plicated about it. And yet, I’ve If you’re feeling glutton- daveschucktruck.com along Highway 276. Here, I found found myself coming back again ous, I’d recommend the “The “The Burgerologist” manning and again, even when I was Cuban.” This colossal burger Northwest Grill the grill. “I put a lot of love into supposed to be sampling other contains, among other ingre- 13045 Old White Horse Road the burger,” says John Allmond, burgers. dients, kasseri cheese, sliced Travelers Rest, SC who claims two doctoral degrees “I tried to make myself prosciutto ham, and a healthy 864.610.0610 in burger flipping to justify his a burger one day,” says Lisa helping of pulled pork. Look- The Strip Club 104 nickname. “It’s a classic. I try not Bayne, who co-owns the diner ing for some lighter fare? 104 East Poinsett Street to mess with it.” with Allmond. “It didn’t turn The “California” is basically Greer, SC The Northwest Cheeseburger out right. John was born with a a salad if you forget the giant 864.877.9104 is an epiphany of a no-nonsense talent.” slab of meat in the middle of thestripclub104.com PHOTOS BY JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY BY PHOTOS

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BRIDESHEAD REVISITED in the years between World by Evelyn Waugh Wars. Waugh’s tortured am- British aristocrats, Southern bivalence toward both reli- I long avoided the novels boys, Scottish girls, and Norwegian giousness and the English class of Evelyn Waugh, thanks to system makes this novel both a grudge dating back to my existentialists sublimely moving and deeply sophomore year at Furman. I unsettling. had just met my first serious We asked soon-to-be debut novelist girlfriend’s father, who hap- Ed Tarkington ’95 what works ALIENS IN THE PRIME pened to be a Brit lit aficionado. are currently inspiring him. OF THEIR LIVES Knowing I was planning to by Brad Watson major in English, he wanted to BY ED TARKINGTON ’95 talk books. I was doing a fair The stories of Brad Watson are job of hiding my ignorance small miracles, drenched with until he asked me if I’d read beauty and sorrow, damp heat any Evelyn Waugh. “No, sir,” I and bright color, hilarity and said, “but she’s on my list.” The tragedy. This most recent col- father smiled. “Evelyn Waugh lection of his spans a surreal is a he, son,” he said. For years, ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ed Tarkington ’95 studied English and spectrum of settings, from I couldn’t even think of Evelyn philosophy at Furman before earning an MA in literature and the haunted air of the rural Waugh without wincing. Mer- theory at the University of Virginia and a PhD in English from South to the cheap hotels cifully, I got over the memory the creative writing program at Florida State University. He and chain restaurants of of that humiliation and am now teaches English and coaches wrestling at Montgomery Bell modern Southern California. a great admirer of Waugh’s mas- Academy in Nashville, and is a frequent contributor to Chap- The understated yearning terpiece Brideshead Revisited, ter16.org, a website devoted to the literary culture of Tennessee. in Watson’s voice and vision the bitterly elegiac chronicle of His debut novel, Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Algonquin), reminds me of Hawthorne’s a young man drawn into the fold will be published in January 2016. famous words about Melville: of a doomed family of devoutly “He can neither believe, nor

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46 FURMAN | FALL 2015 unbelief; and he is too honest cultivates a set of pupils whom and courageous not to try to she “educates” by discoursing do one or the other. If he were on her summer travels, her a religious man, he would be admiration for Mussolini, and one of the most truly religious her love life. Eventually, Miss and reverential; he has a very Brodie manipulates one of her high and noble nature, and “set” into an illicit affair with better worth immortality than a male teacher, provoking a most of us." ruinous torrent of jealousy and betrayal. Spark’s mastery PILGRIM IN THE RUINS: A of language and narrative LIFE OF WALKER PERCY technique is awe-inspiring, by Jay Tolson but I admire this book most as a treatise on the secret Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer lives of girls (something is the master text for Southern The bitterly elegiac I’m curious about both as a white boys who want to be tale of a young man novelist and a father) and the writers: a slim, contemplative and doomed family dangerous power of a capti- novel about an aimless son of vating mentor. privilege and his search for meaning, in post-war New MY STRUGGLE Orleans. Percy perfectly cap- By Karl Ove Knausgaard tures the peculiar angst that Drenched with comes along with being given damp heat and In the few years since My everything and having no idea bright color Struggle began to be translated what to do with it. Percy’s life, from the original Norwegian, however, was equally compel- Karl Ove Knausgaard has be- ling. Born into a prominent come an international literary family, he lost both parents rock star. Not coincidentally, to suicide. Raised a skeptic he looks the part. With his and a devotee of science, he stylishly long and unkempt contracted tuberculosis while hair and beard, blue eyes, working as a pathologist. prominent cheekbones, and While convalescing, he decided ever-present cigarette, Knaus- to abandon his medical career, gaard seems way too cool to convert to Catholicism, and be the author of a 3,600-page, A ruinous torrent embark on a life as a novelist. of jealousy and six-volume dissertation of Jay Tolson’s perceptive book is betrayal Proustian anecdotes from a rich with insight into Percy’s mostly typical middle-class evolution as a thinker, his childhood and cranky rumi- progress from fledgling writer nations on the emasculating to literary master, and his de- indignities of 21st-century votion both to the church and fatherhood. I started reading to ideas seemingly incompati- Religion, and ideas My Struggle largely to prove to ble with religiousness. incompatible with myself that it wasn’t worth the religiousness hype. By the time I reached the end of the first section—a med- THE PRIME OF itation on the human compul- MISS JEAN BRODIE sion to shield ourselves from by Muriel Spark the reality of death—I was a zealous convert to the Church Set in a girls’ school in 1930s of Karl Ove. As I read on, my Edinburgh, Scotland, The jaw continually dropped open Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is with admiration for the grace a cross between Mean Girls A six-volume with which Knausgaard gives and a parody of Dead Poets exploration of grace meaning to even the most Society in which the charis- in the banal banal aspects of daily life. My matic maverick teacher is a Struggle’s hypnotic power is

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48 FURMAN | FALL 2015 he Talmud tells us that swimming. It is her third that parents are responsible resonates with me because for teaching our children I have found it surprisingly Tthree things: we must teach The Water Is Wide true. At the same time that them Torah, we must teach swimming is a way to find the them a trade, and we must A successful swim means staying atop the surface, solitary self, it is also a way teach them how to swim. to remember our essential Why are these the things but the ritual of swimming goes much deeper. connectedness. Far from land, we must ensure our children BY MELINDA J. MENZER small and surrounded by water know? We teach them Torah so and sky, a swimmer must rely that they may live good lives. on her team. We teach them a trade so that In July 2014, I swam a 10-mile they may make a living. And race in Lake Minnetonka, Min- we teach them to swim so that On bad days, when every- Alcatraz swim, which bills nesota—five miles across the lake they may live. thing has gone wrong and I am itself as “the ultimate escape,” and five miles back. It’s fulfilling People frequently use vibrating at a frequency that but every swim is an escape, to swim across a lake and back. swimming as a metaphor for can be heard by dogs, I go to either from or to. Open water I highly recommend it. It feels life. Consider Dory’s words the pool and swim 36 repeats swimming is also a lesson in complete. And yet there’s no way in Finding Nemo: “Just keep of 100 yards on 1:40. It’s two humility. For those of us who around it: A 10-mile swim is hard. swimming, just keep swim- miles, it takes exactly 60 believe ourselves indispens- It takes a long time. ming.” That quotation appears minutes, and it clears the mind able—women (and men) who A swim like that takes a everywhere, from T-shirts to of everything. A swim like do too much—a swim in open team. I had a kayaker with tattoos; it’s become a way of that is the hard reset, it’s the water is a reminder that the me and friends and family saying “Keep going” in any mikveh—it washes you clean, world can get by without us for waiting on shore. One of those situation. Lynn Sherr, in Swim: so you can start again. a while. In the middle of Lake friends swam with me when Why We Love the Water, notes In “Birches,” Robert Frost Hartwell or Lake Jocasee, the we were children, through that we often use the language writes, “I’d like to get away sky is huge, the water is wide, years of swim team practices of swimming to talk about from earth awhile/And then and I am small. Swimming and summers in the lake at life: “Getting nowhere? You’re come back to it and begin puts you in your place. Girl Scout camp. She was un- treading water . . . How many over.” The time I swim is the And yet, when you are dergoing chemotherapy that times have you talked about most productive hour of my swimming a long way in a summer, treatments every two ‘sticking a toe in’ or ‘diving off day; I find the solution to the large body of water, something weeks. She flew to Minnesota the deep end’ or finding your- complicated problem, the paradoxical happens. Diana on an off-week to support me. self ‘in over your head’?” words for the difficult situ- Nyad, having swum from Cuba There’s nothing you can do to But as Sherr herself notes, ation. When I get out of the to Florida on her fifth attempt, earn that kind of love. She just swimming is not just a met- water, I can begin over. expressed that paradox in her gave it to me. She was standing aphor for life—it is life, life I love swimming at the Fur- first exhausted words on the on shore waiting for me. made quiet, life made clear. In man pool. It’s my Cheers, the beach: “I have three messages. There is a point in every a 2014 piece in The New York place where everybody knows One is we should never, ever long swim when it feels as if Times, Bonnie Tsui describes my name. They expect me at give up. Two is you never are you’ll never make it to the fin- how swimming helps us find noon; if I show up at six a.m. too old to chase your dreams. ish. I hit that point about four ourselves in a loud, overly instead, Glenn at the fitness Three is it looks like a solitary hours in. It would have been insistent world: center desk will say, “You must sport, but it’s a team.” hard to keep going alone. But “The medium makes it nec- have a lunch meeting.” Nyad’s first two messages I was not alone. I had a team. essary to unplug; the blunting I love swimming in open are standard inspirational They were waiting on shore of the senses by water encour- water, too. I’ve swum the fare: don’t give up, just keep for me. And when I was out ages internal retreat. Though of strength, I thought of my we don’t all reach nirvana when friend, the strongest and brav- we swim, swimming may well est person I have ever known, be that last refuge from connec- and I swam it in. I swam it in tivity—and, for some, the only ABOUT THE AUTHOR Melinda J. Menzer is a professor in the depart- on the strength of her love. way to find the solitary self.” ment of English. She came to Furman in 1996 after receiving her The power of swimming I, like others, need that B.A. from Williams College and her master’s and PhD degrees from is that while it allows us to regular, internal retreat. the University of Texas at Austin. Menzer teaches linguistics and unplug from the everyday, it I have arranged my life medieval literature, as well as a May Experience course called Why also connects us to the tran- around the open hours of We Swim. This essay is dedicated to Carey Elizabeth Fitzmaurice, scendent. There is no solitary the Furman pool. Those pool 1968–2015 sport; it always takes a team. hours are sacred; they are my We swim out so that we may

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BLAINE HART ’08 ON ELECTIONS & FURMAN A NOTE FROM CHERRYDALE RACHELLE THOMPSON ’92 pg. 56 REDOS pg. 59 pg. 55

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BRICE BARNES ’04 RAYMOND MCGEE ’71 PROFILES OF AARON VON FRANK ’00 pg. 53 pg. 54 FURMAN ALUMS pg. 58

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THOUGHTS AFTER THE ESQUIVELS THE HIGHTOWERS & SHORTS STEVE GRANT ’80 THE WEDDING pg. 57 pg. 61 pg. 60

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World War I. Completion of three books about Beaufort, Mousegate Series, details the 1956 the memorial is targeted for SC; co-wrote with her father investigative actions of U.S. Aubrey Bessenger of North the centennial anniversary of A History of North Carolina Secret Service operatives in Vernon, IN, has been inducted the 19th amendment in 2020. Wine: From Scuppernong 1900. Brewer spent 26 years into the Hayden Hall of Fame. to Syrah; and published the with the U.S. Secret Service Bessenger pastored Hayden Hidden History of Greenville and is well known for his work Baptist Church for 29 years. 1960 County. She worked at the in the Counterfeit Division in Floyd Edwin “Eddie” Ellison, South Carolina Department Washington, DC. Claude “Mitch” Carnell, Jr., of Jr. of Greenville was the 2014 of Archives and History for 37 Charleston, SC, has written March of Dimes Excellence years. Our Father: Discovering Family in Medicine honoree. In April 1973 published by WipfandStock he was given a certificate in The art of Denise Fulmer of Publishers. Described as a appreciation of 49 years as 1968 Conway, SC, can be found on spiritual autobiography, he a member of the Greenville Richard Burton of Harrisburg, FineArtAmerica.com. She has writes about his early days at Health System Medical Soci- PA, has founded and is presi- also self-published 10 books Furman and traces his strug- ety. He was a former member dent of the Central Pennsylva- that can be found at Amazon gles with racial discrimination, of the Furman board and was a nia Vietnam Round Table, the and in e-book format in the great sorrow, church splits, member of Greenville Ob/Gyn only known Vietnam-only oral Apple iBookstore. Her most and finding joy. The book is Associates for 45 years. Since history group in the country. recent book is a poetry and art available from the publisher, retirement, he teaches at the The organization invites Viet- book titled Pondering in the Amazon, and most bookstores. University of South Carolina nam veterans monthly to dis- Dark: Poetry for the Mystified. School of Medicine Greenville cuss their experiences before, and he and his wife, Betty, have during, and after Vietnam. 1957 endowed a scholarship for a 1975 Kindle Digital Press has pub- Furman student to attend the Thomas S. Davis, MA ’70, Theodore “Tom” Faber was elected lished William G. Justice’s 51st school. retired president and CEO of to Alpha Omega Alpha Nation- book, An Old Man Remem- the New Jersey-based flooring al Honor Medical Society in bers Rural East Tennessee in company, Mannington Mills, 2014, and in 2015 was elected the Mid-1930s; his e-book 1966 Inc., has joined the board as a fellow of the American The Women to Whom Jesus David Harrill Roberts, a part- of ENCORE International. Academy of Neurology. Also Showed Love; and an e-book time instructor of rhetoric and ENCORE has revolutionized in 2014, he joined Specialists trilogy: The Pastor as Marriage linguistics at the University of the recycled rubber flooring On Call, Inc., in Reston, VA, Counselor, The Pastor as Grief Georgia in Athens, has been category, and today creates the the world’s largest provider Counselor, and The Pastor as selected to receive the Distin- smartest, highest-performing of emergency teleneurology Counselor to the Guilt-Ridden. guished Alumnus of the Year and most ecologically respon- services. More can be found at william- Award from the Alumni Asso- sible recycled rubber products justicebooks.com. ciation at Lander University. made in North America. In June, former five-term congressman Baron Hill filed paperwork to begin his cam- 1958 1967 1969 paign to replace Republican Harry Eskew has received the Murray Brockman, president of Paul Constantine of Greenville, Dan Coats in Indiana’s U.S. Georgia Baptist Church Music the South Carolina Governor’s SC, has been appointed to the Senate race, becoming the first Conference Lifetime Achieve- School for Science & Mathe- board of directors for AIM Democrat to enter the race. ment Award. Eskew is a retired matics in Hartsville, SC, has North America. Constantine faculty member of the New been awarded the Order of the is president of ScanSource Richard Wedemeyer has re- Orleans Baptist Theological Palmetto. This is the highest POS and Barcode US/Cana- ceived the 2015 Great Ideas Seminary. civilian honor a South Caro- da, the leading international for Teaching Award from the linian can receive and it was value-added distributor of au- Oklahoma Association of Com- bestowed upon him by Gov. tomatic identification and data munity Colleges, and the 2015 1959 Nikki Haley in May 2015. capture (AIDC) and point-of- Advocate of the Year Award Sidney Bland has been named sale (POS) solutions, services, from the Oklahoma Drug and to the honorary board of the Alexia Jones Helsley’s latest and sales. Alcohol Professional Counsel- Turning Point Suffragist Me- book, Columbia, South Caro- ors Association. Wedemeyer morial Association, committed lina: A History, was released is a professor of psychology at to building a national memori- on March 9, 2015. A teacher 1971 Ross State College. al to commemorate the brave at USC-Aiken, Helsley lives Donald Brewer’s second book, women demanding the right in Columbia and has written Thunder Canyon, has been to vote who were jailed and three books on the state’s cap- released by Total Recall Press. treated inhumanely during ital city. She has also written The book, which is in the

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vember 2014 by Cedar Creek to the President’s Higher 1976 Church in Aiken, SC, where he Education Community Service 1988 Judith Anne Blackwell Goodwin serves as a counselor on the Honor Roll and commended by Susan Campbell Schugart is a recently earned the creden- pastoral staff. The New America Foundation regent serving on the board of tial of certified fundraising for his support of low-income ACHE, the American College executive. She was also named Robert Flint became pastor of students. of Healthcare Executives. the Central Savannah River music and worship at Frank- Area’s Outstanding Fundrais- lin Heights Baptist Church in Brad Faxon, winner of eight ing Professional of the Year by Rocky Mount, VA, on January PGA Tour events and consid- 1989 the Association of Fundraising 12, 2015. For the past 18 years ered one of the most charitable James J. Burks has started a Professionals. Goodwin works he was the associate pastor of players in golf, was the guest three-year term on the Board with university advancement praise and worship at McGre- speaker and honored with the of Governors of the American at the University of South gor Baptist Church in Fort 18th Francis Ouimet Award for College of Healthcare Execu- Carolina-Aiken. Myers, FL. Lifelong Contributions to Golf tives (ACHE), his professional at the Francis Ouimet Scholar- organization. He has also Deborah DuRant Locklair of ship Fund’s 65th annual been promoted to brigadier 1977 Florence, SC, has been pro- banquet in April 2015. Faxon general in the U.S. Air Force; Tommy Marshall has been in- moted to senior vice president recently signed a contract with assigned to the National Capi- ducted into the Georgia Athlet- of McLeod Health and to FOX Sports to be one of the tal Region to serve as director ic Directors Association Hall of Regional Administrator for lead announcers on their new of manpower, personnel, and Fame, an honor given to coach- McLeod Health Dillon and Mc- USGA TV package. resources; and appointed as es who have displayed great Leod Health Cheraw. Locklair chief, Medical Service Corps, leadership and prominence was also recently elected to the Debra Egger LeVorse has be- Office of the Air Force Surgeon during their career. Marshall, board of trustees of the South come a partner at Hawkins General in Falls Church, VA. athletics director at the Marist Carolina Hospital Association Parnell Thackston & Young School, has been in athletics and the board of directors for LLP in Dallas, TX. Dollars for Scholars of Lan- administration for 30 years the South Carolina Office of caster County, SC, has hired and at Marist for 19 years. In Rural Health Board. Ann Scarborough Womble as its 2004, Sports Illustrated named 1985 first executive director. The or- Marist the 15th ranked high David Ouzts co-created and ganization offers interest-free school program in America, 1981 hosted a sacred arts festival, loans to Lancaster County and Marist has been awarded Angela L. Walker Franklin, Alleluia Be Our Measure, in students enrolled full time in the GADA Directors Cup for president and CEO of Des May 2015 at Church of the accredited higher education best overall athletics program Moines University in Iowa, has Holy Communion (Episcopal) institutions. Womble is past for 16 consecutive years under written an inspirational book, in Memphis, TN. chair of the Republican Com- Marshall. An Unconventional Journey… mittee of Lancaster County An Unlikely Choice, in which and a member of the Council she shares her journey and 1986 of Trustees at Millersville 1979 leadership lessons. The book Ed Kirby, club professional at University. Brenda McClain has written is available in softcover and Alpine Country Club in Crans- One Good Mama Bone, which e-book and at Amazon, Barnes ton, RI, played in the four-day will be published by Pat & Noble, and WestBow Press. Senior PGA Championship in 1990 Conroy’s imprint, Story River May at French Lick (IN) Re- Lisa Bitting, an international Books, under the University of On July 1, Zach Kelehear be- sort’s Pete Dye Course. Kirby baccalaureate teacher at Palm South Carolina Press. Publica- came dean at Georgia Regents turned pro after graduating Harbor, FL, University High tion is slated for spring 2017. University’s college of educa- from Furman and then grinded School, was selected by the tion. through the professional ranks National Federation of State until 1996, when he decided to High School Coaches Associa- 1980 take a position at the Alpine tions to receive the 2014 South Monte Dutton has written his Country Club. Sectional Coach of the Year third novel, Crazy of Natural The1983 Board of Trustees of Award. She coaches the boys Causes, based in the hills of the Maryland Independent swimming and diving teams at Kentucky. College and University Asso- 1987 Palm Harbor. ciation elected Roger Casey Lisa Lee Rust of Lumberton, Timothy Fitzgerald was awarded as chair of the board effec- NC, is currently serving as Tod Hyche, partner in charge an MA in professional coun- tive July 1. Casey, the ninth moderator for Cooperative of the Smith Moore Leather- seling from Liberty University president of McDaniel College Baptist Fellowship of North wood LLP firm in Greenville, in December 2014. He was also in Westminster, MD, and Bu- Carolina. has been elected as South ordained to the ministry in No- dapest, Hungary, was named Carolina State Chair-Elect for PHOTO COURTESY

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more is done in the state and local districts and you can help more people with the work you are doing,” she explains. But being far from the heart of government has not kept her from meeting key leaders. “I’ve been fortunate to interact with Vice President Biden, former President Bill Clinton, and other key leaders for fundrais- ing events. It is always special to meet the leaders of our country shaping our laws and policy,” she says. Before moving to Florida, Barnes created her own political firm, Greenprint Strategies, to help brand herself and build teams for North Carolina candi- dates. “The firm is shifting now that I am in Florida, but I will still keep it active,” she says. Greenprint enabled Barnes to build a niche opening up the field, for women in particular. The Rainmaker “I never came out and said I wanted to focus on help- The political sphere has a secret weapon with this former sociology major. ing other women run, but it happened naturally and I am glad because we need to figure rice Barnes ’04 was sociology major who originally is sometimes what makes you out how to recruit and engage having a good week. As the thought she was headed for most successful,” she observes. other women more effectively. Brecently named finance direc- law school. Cracking the glass ceiling Women have such good per- tor for the Florida Democratic Barnes got her fundraising has become somewhat of a spectives to contribute.” Party, she was celebrating start at Duke University, where hallmark for Barnes, who, Now, Barnes is responsible the Supreme Court rulings she worked in the develop- as a senior adviser to North for leading the party’s fund- that affirmed the legality of ment office after graduating Carolina’s Kay Hagan, helped raising efforts for all of Flor- the Affordable Care Act and from Furman. It was while her leap a gender barrier as the ida—from presidential races same-sex marriage in all 50 studying for the LSAT that first female Democrat elected to city council elections. As states. She was also on day 68 she decided to get involved to the United States Senate. a key electoral state, and one of her new gig, which in April with local politics “because I In sports, Barnes would poised for another presiden- had moved her from North always heard that helps with be known as “clutch.” Her tial election, Florida will keep Carolina, where she spent the being an attorney,” she says. clients have won more than 86 Barnes busy. “We do the bulk last decade blazing her way But when she got a job working percent of their elections and of our fundraising for the party through the state and national for then-Lieutenant Governor raised 172 percent more cam- during presidential election political scene. Beverly Perdue, the law school paign contributions than their years,” she explains. In fact lately, Barnes has idea became a thing of the past. respective opponents. Barnes Which begs the question: been on a roll. “I just never left,” she laughs. reports helping to raise more For someone who has been so In spring, the 33-year-old Barnes went on to serve as than $30 million throughout successful putting others in was named by the Ameri- the national deputy director her career. With talent like office, what’s the likelihood of can Association of Political for Perdue’s campaign for gov- that, one might wonder why Barnes putting herself there? Consultants (AAPC) as one ernor, which Perdue won—a Barnes does not take her “You never know, but at this of the 40 best and brightest source of pride for Barnes acumen to the political nerve point I don’t foresee it,” she campaign professionals under since Perdue became the first center of Capitol Hill. says. A politician couldn’t have 40 years old currently work- female governor to take office “I went to high school in said it better. F ing in the United States. Not in her home state. “I believe D.C. and just didn’t have the a bad feather in the cap for a that taking those leaps of faith bug to go back. To me, so much —Kate Dabbs ’09 COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY

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the double bass while McGee Shortly thereafter, Pres- commuted back and forth. “It ident Gordon Blackwell was five dollars for the lessons summoned McGee and seven and five dollars for gas,” McGee other students over for lunch. explains. “I still remember we had these By his senior year of high big hamburgers with bacon, school, the Furman band came lettuce, and tomato—it was to Asheville for a recruitment maybe the best lunch I have tour. “They asked me if I would had. President Blackwell asked come to Furman. I had a full how we were doing and brought scholarship to attend Duke and up Dixie. He looked at me and only a partial one for Furman.” said, ‘Ray, you can go back But the influence of Peter because the students don’t have Rickett and John Duggan ’69, the authority to dismiss you.’ an older member of the band, I decided I’d rather play in the convinced him Furman would orchestra and didn’t return. be worth the extra cost. But they didn’t play Dixie after At Furman, McGee majored that,” McGee says. in double bass performance McGee was the first African and filled his hours playing with American in Phi Mu Alpha, the Greenville, Asheville, and the music fraternity, and Hendersonville symphonies. stayed involved while also But the year was 1967, and playing for the ROTC band. It Furman—only two years into was during his freshman year official integration sinceJoe that he faced another chal- Vaughn ’68 matriculated in lenge: He learned his mother January of 1965—was experi- had passed away. “I was able encing both racial division and to come back shortly after the Vietnam War tension. funeral, just in time to play “During my freshman year, DuPre Rhame’s 24 Messiah,” my roommate and I had gone he remembers. Music was to bed and were awakened by once again a refuge. a disturbance outside,” McGee After Furman, McGee attended recounts. “It sounded like a graduate school at Florida State bomb went off, and we realized University and completed course someone threw a Mason jar work for a doctorate in music through the window.” He re- education. From 1979 to 2011 calls this incident with obvious he was a strings teacher with discomfort but also explains the Greenville County School that it was the only act of vio- District. For 20 years, he was also lence he faced. the director of Honors Orches- Still, there were other racially tra, an after-school orchestra in Instrument of Change charged events for McGee. One the school district. At a time of racial disharmony, one of Furman’s first was intricately linked with his McGee still plays in a string African-American students found a way through music. love for music. “I was in the quartet—on the cello, adding marching band, and in that time another instrument to his aymond McGee ’71 is a se- He told them it would be a re- the fight song for Furman was repertoire—as part of the Up- rious man—and never more vival of a Furman senior recital Dixie. I spoke with our director state Senior Citizens band, and Rso than when it comes to music. he had more than 40 years ago. about not playing it anymore works part time at Anderson So much so that each passing McGee was first recognized and the next summer, at band University. Although the term year, McGee celebrates his for his talent in high school in camp, it was not in our folder. I “pioneer” would likely make devotion to the art as one would Asheville, NC. At that time, he thought we’d gotten rid of it. But McGee uncomfortable, his a wedding anniversary. In Au- was introduced to Peter Rick- during the first home game that love for his art has propelled gust, he marked 50 years with ett, the longtime Greenville fall, the band struck it up with- McGee through history, and his beloved bass by performing Symphony Director who died in out the music. I left the game in in the process allowed him to a concert at Anderson Univer- 2014. Rickett took an inter- protest. I was later called into make it, too. F sity that included several of his est in the young protégé and the student band council and students and fellow musicians. began to privately tutor him on dismissed.” —Kate Dabbs ’09 JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY PHOTO COURTESY

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the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). Following his one-year term as chair-elect, he will assume the role of South Carolina State Chair for five years. Hyche has practiced with Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP in the wealth transfer planning area since 1995.

It had been 15 years since a non-junior or college golfer had won the Azalea Invita- tional at the Country Club of Charleston, SC. Todd White, a 47-year-old history and govern- ment teacher at Spartanburg, SC, High School ended that drought in March 2015 when he finished the 72-hole tourna- ment at 15-under-par 269. QUOTABLE Christine Caputo Winn is one of three Furman graduates currently serving on the board Rachelle (Harley) Thompson ’92 of the American College of Healthcare Excutives (ACHE). “ ur nation (and all Furman graduates) need to focus on the value of human potential. What is happening to the people with potential who are not on anyone’s 1992 radar? We must find that potential and innovation, and develop it.” State Bank and Trust Co. has O named Bruce Leicht as mar- ket president in Macon-Bibb Rachelle Thompson grew up working in a tobacco field in Dillon, SC, before attending County, GA. He will lead the Furman and graduating first in her class. After Furman, Thompson attended Stanford team responsible for growing University, where she became the first African-American woman in the school’s history to the State Bank commercial receive a PhD in chemistry. She did post-doctoral work in a law firm in San Diego and, 23 and personal banking lines of years after she began life after Furman, has combined a deep knowledge of science with a business. passion for law by serving as a law clerk to two federal judges and becoming a registered patent attorney at McGuireWoods in Raleigh, NC. She applies her experience in litigation Rob Kight’s newest book, Can- involving biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, smartphones, and more. nabis Business Law: What You Need to Know (Quick Prep), has been published by Aspa- tore Books. This authoritative love of science and nature for text addresses progressive 1995 1996 students from diverse cultures legal subject matter and con- Jody Davidson was named prin- After 17 years in education, and experiences. siderations for businesses in cipal at Hand Middle School in Amanda Stone Norton says she the growing cannabis industry. Columbia, SC. re-invented herself and joined A strong believer in cannabis the literary world as a writer 1997 for personal and medical use, Will Williams has been appoint- and editor. She published her Madelyn Cooper Cave has been Kight is an attorney advocate ed as the national managing first children’s book,Muddy named principal at Brewton for NORML, the National partner of KPMG LLP’s tax Madeleine Meets An Arach- (AL) Middle School for the Organization for the Reform practice. Before assuming the A-Doo, in December 2014. 2015–2016 school year. She re- of Marijuana Laws, and a new role, Williams was a princi- The book creatively weaves ceived her EdS in Instructional member of Women Grow, a pal and the U.S. National Lead- together science and language Leadership and Administra- national organization promot- er in Economic and Valuation arts into a bilingual setting, tion from Troy University. ing female leadership in the Services practice at KPMG. forming a unique and comical

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FURMAN | FALL 2015 55 FALL CLASS NOTES 2015 1998 Christopher Lassiter, an asso- ciate professor of biology at Roanoke College, was recently appointed as director of un- dergraduate research for the college. 1999 Melissa Branchetti Atkin is working in the manuscript editorial department at W.W. Norton & Co. in New York City. She anticipates having the opportunity to work on former Furman President David E. Shi’s (’73) 10th edition of America, A Narrative to be published early in 2016.

Stephen B. Long has been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of polit- ical science and international studies at the University of Richmond (VA). 2000 Laura Wahoske Benz has opened her law firm, Laura W. Benz, LLC, which specializes in envi- QUOTABLE ronmental law. Blaine Hart ’08 2001 On May 1, 2015, Kelly Ownby wish I had applied myself [at Furman] like I do today in the real world. I think I actually was welcomed to the full-time, “ on-site psychiatric team of would have had more fun with the subject matter. I was a ‘late bloomer,’ but I am cool Brookhaven Retreat®, LLC, a with that. Furman was the best place for me. I also would have taken more language unique residential treatment classesI and studied abroad. Our world is becoming increasingly international, and I have had facility in Knoxville, TN, numerous incidences where a stronger understanding of international culture would have exclusively for women with helped.” emotional and mental health challenges and/or substance Hart is vice president of CBRE, Inc.’s Greenville office, the largest commercial real estate abuse issues. She brings nearly firm in the world. What started as an internship through Furman after his junior year a decade of psychiatric experi- became “great exposure to change and movement in the Upstate.” Hart is also involved ence to Brookhaven Retreat’s in the United Way as chair of the YP20’s program (Young Philanthropists in Their 20s), team. and in 2012 was recognized for his volunteerism and leadership in Greenville Business Magazine’s Best and Brightest Under Age 35. “Greenville is growing and I want to make Allison Sullivan, a partner with sure it grows the right way,” he says. At Furman, Hart was a member of the baseball team Bluestein, Nichols, Thomp- and a business major. “One thing I took from my Furman experience was from my coach, son & Delgado in Columbia, Ron Smith. I won’t ever settle and I just try to get a little better each day.” SC, has been named chair of the 2015–2016 Leadership Columbia Alumni Association

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ot off the success of Olivia thing we have certainly learned Esquivel’s latest business in being married is how to Hventure, Southern Pressed really help each other. Luca is Juicery—a cold-pressed juice always with me, too, so we have bar and raw restaurant from to balance taking care of him Table 301 in Greenville—the with family in different parts of Esquivels are busy. And that the country,” says Olivia. may be the understatement of “On our days off, we sup- the year when the very inter- port each other in the environ- view for this story was defined ments we work,” Anthony says. as a “date” by the couple. “I come to Southern Pressed But when you take the when I am off and she will dreams of a first-generation come to the soccer field when American (Olivia’s parents she is free.” are Cuban immigrants) and “The secret really is about a fourth-generation Mexi- communication, time manage- can-American on Anthony’s ment, and being smart—Antho- side, add in the rigor of a shared ny is really good at that,” Olivia Furman experience, and spike reports. Anthony acknowledges it with a wicked dose of entre- that it may come naturally. “As preneurial energy, you have a coach, I have to be organized quite the dynamic duo. and on time so I set up that “I accidentally became a structure as a father.” serial entrepreneur,” explains After knowing each other Olivia. “I just can’t sit still.” In as friends for so many years, addition to Southern Pressed Anthony ’03 & Olivia ’06 Esquivel there were not too many Juicery, Olivia has two other surprises once the two merged businesses that keep her their lives in Greenville. Be- bouncing between Miami and Three businesses, a high-level coming parents was perhaps a Greenville: A Public Affair PR, coaching job, an almost two- bigger defining moment. “The a public relations firm; and Pe- birth of our son and seeing my tite Parade, a children’s store. year-old—and the marriage wife as a mother—it was this Not to be outdone, Anthony, that balances it all. amazing experience to see her as the associate head coach connection with Luca. She had for Furman men’s soccer, is a natural birth and I was so By Kate Dabbs ’09 also always on the move—from proud and had so much respect game to game, as well as from [that] I immediately called my coast-to-coast to recruit prom- mother to tell her I love her,” ising talent. Anthony says. “And I tell all The couple, going on year moms I see how much respect three of marriage, added Luca, she was this 16-year-old high I immediately knew,” says Olivia. I have for them.” their son, to the mix almost two school girl. After Karen gradu- “I always tell my guy friends “He really does,” Olivia years ago. But what now is a joy- ated, she asked me to keep an ‘when you know, you know’ laughs. ous, entropic existence was not eye on Olivia,” Anthony says. because in that moment, my “But all in all, it is always always a done deal. “You could “Too close of an eye, I whole future with her was about just growing together. not find two more opposite guess,” laughs Olivia. clear,” adds Anthony. We were two single people people. Anthony is type A, and A close friendship formed “By the end of the day, we living in big cities. I mean, I I am type B,” says Olivia. “Even but romance did not enter were figuring out where we was living on the 42nd floor for the simple act of going to the the equation until 2011, when were going to live [in order] to in Miami, and now we are this grocery store, you would see us Olivia was living in Miami and be in the same city,” says Olivia. little family of three living in going in two completely differ- Anthony was in Austin, Texas, There was a six-month Greenville balancing it all,” ent directions to accomplish the running the largest youth engagement, a wedding at the Olivia says before bouncing same task.” soccer club in the country. “We Biltmore Coral Gables in Miami, to a meeting about bringing The two met when Olivia’s had been talking and decided and 11 months later, a Luca. Southern Pressed Juicery to older sister, Karen Lopez to meet up in Denver while With only 24 hours in a day the Pala Den this fall. Jordan ’01, attended Furman Olivia was there for work,” and four jobs between the two From one observer’s and was a classmate and friend Anthony says. of them, one quickly wonders perspective, they seem to be of Anthony’s. “I met her when “And when I saw him, how they do it all. “The one balancing quite well. F PHOTOS BY JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY BY PHOTOS

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(“earth almonds”), horserad- ish, three different varieties of elderberries, and Tromboncino squash. It’s all a part of the perma- culture philosophy to which the von Franks have become avid followers. Permaculture— derived from “permanent” and “agriculture”—is a method for designing systems that are sustainable, and in turn, low-maintenance. “Everyone thinks that gar- dening is time-consuming,” he explains, “but those who think that are also the ones who believe you have to plow the soil and spray for pesticides and put down fertilizer. You don’t have to do any of that. In fact, you’re making it harder for yourself if you do.” Rejuvenated by their experiences with their own heirloom garden and aware The Farmer and the Sell of the dangers of a world with decreasing biodiversity, the Is it possible to help the green movement through capitalism? von Franks decided to begin their own organic “seed of the month” business. “ want GrowJourney to be the level of global ecosystem over quality. This is where GrowJourney now distrib- the big name—what people disruption we’re causing GrowJourney steps in, and utes USDA-certified organic immediatelyI think of when via an extractive economic where the von Franks’s own seeds to subscribers in 45 U.S. they’re thinking of organic modus operandi.” If you’re not journey began. states, as well as Puerto Rico gardening,” says Aaron von entirely sure what von Frank A few years ago, Aaron and Canada. Members receive Frank ’00 of the company he means, he puts it more simply: and Susan were at a friend’s five packs of seeds each month began with his wife, Susan, a “We’re eroding one pound of home for dinner. The friend as well as access to online little more than a year ago. soil for every pound of food we walked the couple through her guides, tips, and plans for or- Most people don’t associate create with our ‘biotechnolo- backyard garden, where they ganic gardening—all promoting big companies and capitalist gy.’ We’ve lost 75 to 95 percent spotted ground cherries, small the permaculture method of dreams with sustainable prac- of our seed agrobiodiversity fruits similar in appearance to growing. tices, but most people aren’t over the past century.” a cherry tomato. After tasting Von Frank envisions build- Aaron von Frank. With his That loss is a big prob- them, they were blown away by ing a global company with well-coiffed hair and sparkling lem, according to von Frank, the interesting flavor—some- GrowJourney, but he is careful smile, von Frank walks out of because a genetic diversity of thing they never knew existed. to note that the business will his suburban home with his crops is necessary in order for Shortly thereafter, the remain collaborative and sup- pet duck toddling behind him. survival. Von Frank gives the couple began researching the portive of smaller businesses. This is not your stereotypical Irish potato famine as an ex- “secret world of wacky and In fact, GrowJourney would “tree hugger,” and that might ample: one potato contracted unusual heirloom foods,” and help cultivate and “feed” other be exactly what von Frank a disease, and the result was broke ground on their own companies, bolstering them wants. blight across the region, as all plot at their home. Before they in an otherwise “dog eat dog” Von Frank does not dispar- of the potatoes were the same knew it, they had transformed economy. age the word “sustainability,” breed. their backyard into a horti- “Big companies don’t have but he has begun to feel it What’s more, the nutritional culture oasis full of heirloom to be bad,” he says. “It’s all in is not an adequate term. “It quality of modern food crops tomatoes, strawberries, and how they use their size.” F implies stasis,” he argues, “and has diminished over the years, grapes, but also other non- stasis is insufficient given as quantity has been valued traditional crops such as chufa —Lindsay Niedringhaus ’07 JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY DYLANJACK

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Columbia is a program of the students and director of stu- Columbia Chamber that helps 2005 2006 dent rights and responsibili- emerging leaders connect Carolyn Wahl Edwards has John Dickson enrolled in the ties at Florida State University. more deeply with their com- become a senior account MD-PhD program at Har- munity. executive with strategic public vard Medical School in 2006. Emily Hutchinson Morgan relations and crisis communi- While working on his PhD, recently accepted a position as cations firm Lovell Communi- he conducted research into assistant band director at Frost 2002 cations, Inc. Alzheimer’s disease and other Middle School in Fairfax, VA. She Lori Guinn (MA), who has been dementias with his research has taught elementary band in principal at Liberty (SC) High Anne Wagener’s novel Borrow being published in the Journal Fairfax County Public Schools School since 2011, has been -A-Bridesmaid is scheduled to of Neurochemistry in 2013. for seven years, while maintain- named the new director of be published by Pocket Star/ He completed his PhD from ing a thriving private clarinet secondary education in the Simon & Schuster. It is the sto- Harvard in 2013, and this May, studio. She performs with the Pickens (SC) school district. ry of a recent college graduate Dickson received his MD. Virginia Grand Military Band, She is working toward a doc- who decides to rent herself out the Fairfax Wind Symphony, and torate in the field of education, as a bridesmaid. On June 5, 2015, Rod Kelley was Wind Works of Washington. specifically curriculum and promoted to assistant dean of instruction, from the University of South Carolina. 2003 Emily Hull McGee of Louisville, KY, became the 12th pastor of First Baptist Church in down- A NOTE town Winston-Salem, NC. She FROM is the first woman pastor in the church’s history. CHERRYDALE

Susquehanna Financial Group, ver the last year, our team in the Office of Alumni and Parent Engagement has LLLP (SFG), the institutional planned more than 20 receptions for folks to meet President Davis in cities across broker-dealer member of the the country. These events have been a hit with Furman alumni and parents as they Susquehanna International Ohave had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Davis and engage with other Paladins in their region. Group of Companies (SIG), Alumni often express their desire to have more gatherings or functions in their respec- recently appointed Shyam Patil tive cities. Some have even offered to help plan or lead an effort to establish more regional senior analyst covering the In- alumni functions. Our office has heard you, and as a result we will be launching a new regional ternet sector. He will be based engagement plan this year. Leo Fackler ’03, associate director of alumni and parent engage- out of SFG’s New York office. ment, will be leading this effort. We are excited to bring more events and programming to our alumni. In fact, excitement is 2004 the key word here. When we meet as a Furman community and reconnect, network, and help Cal Hurst has joined TD Bank each other with career issues and business connections we all begin to realize the power and in Greenville, SC, as a regional potential of the Furman network. vice president for the Upstate Please watch for communications from our office in the coming months concerning our re- market. He will be responsi- gional engagement plan rollout. This fall, we will pilot the effort in several key cities and expand ble for TD Bank’s day-to-day to a broader audience in 2016. For this effort to be truly powerful and enduring, we will need commercial banking activity in the support of dedicated local volunteers. a 10-county area that includes If you have an interest in crafting what the movement will look like in your city, feel free to Greenville, Spartanburg, An- contact Leo at [email protected]. When Paladins come together in alumni gatherings, derson, and Clinton. the spirit and energy in the room are amazing. We want to offer this spirit and energy in more cities across the country! Latoya M. Mitchell began a new position in July 2015 as senior medical writer for Pharma Write, LLC, of Princeton, NJ. Mike Wilson ’88 Executive Director, Alumni and Parent Engagement JEREMY FLEMING JEREMY DYLANJACK

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Janice Ward is the new director of program evaluation and Lindsay May graduated from 2011 accountability in the Pickens the University of Florida in 2008 Amanda Hassen earned her County (SC) school district. April 2015 with a doctor of Justin and Hailey Carmichael doctorate in occupational audiology degree. Domeck moved to Zurich, Swit- therapy from Belmont Univer- zerland, in July 2015. Justin sity in May 2015. She returned 2007 Khanjan Baxi Shah completed accepted a position with PwC to Greenville, SC, and joined C. Taylor Geraldson has re- a chief residency in internal Switzerland. the pediatric therapy team at ceived his MD degree from the medicine at Case Western Advanced Therapy Solutions. Medical University of South Reserve University and began While in Nashville, she created Carolina and will begin his gen- a fellowship in cardiovascular 2009 and implemented the Phin’s eral surgery residency at the medicine at Harvard Medical Mary Lindley Carswell gradu- program for Dolphin Aquatics, University of Alabama Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess ated from Vanderbilt Owen a nonprofit swim organization Center in Birmingham. Medical Center in July. School of Management in May for individuals with special with an MBA degree. needs. The Phin’s program is a sensory learn-to-swim pro- Brita Long recently became a gram for children with autism. regular contributor for The Huffington Post after her femi- Meredith Yingling graduated nist satire on women changing from Southern College of Op- their last names went viral. tometry in Memphis, TN, with a doctor of optometry and cum Cody Morelock received his laude honors. She has joined PhD in chemistry from the Seaside Ophthalmology on St. Georgia Institute of Technol- Simons Island, GA. ogy in December 2014. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Chemical and 2012 Biomolecular Engineering at Warren Creavalle has been Georgia Tech. acquired by the Philadel- phia Union in exchange for a second-round draft pick in the 2010 2016 MLS SuperDraft. He was Jennifer Barnhardt is working the 37th pick in the 2012 MLS in the manuscript editorial SuperDraft by the Houston department at W.W. Norton Dynamo and made 54 appear- & Co. in New York City. She an- ances for Houston in three ticipates having the opportuni- years before getting traded to ty to work on former Furman Toronto FC for the No. 1 spot President David E. Shi’s (’73) in the MLS allocation rankings 10th edition of America, A in July 2014. Narrative to be published early ithin a space of five years,Steve Grant ’80 lost his two sons, in 2016. Teddy Dozier of St. Louis, MO, is a founding member of Selequi- Kelly and Christopher, to drug overdoses. Devastated but Jonathan Britt has been or- ty, an online commercial real undaunted about helping families to overcome addiction, dained as a minister of word estate crowdfunding platform WGrant established Chris and Kelly’s HOPE Foundation. Grant, named and sacrament in the Presbyte- that connects accredited inves- one of seven “outstanding philanthropists” in 2013 by the Association rian Church (USA). Britt now tors to commercial real estate of Fundraising Professionals, and his foundation support programs serves as the associate pastor projects across the country. and initiatives that treat teen and young adults who struggle with of St. Thomas Presbyterian substance abuse. The foundation recently launched Chris and Kelly’s Church in Houston, TX. Christopher McCants is the new HOPE Fitness Park on the Greenville Health System Swamp Rabbit principal of Beech Springs In- Trail, which will become a key part of the treatment program at White William Gyauch is currently termediate School in Duncan, Horse Academy, a residential facility for adolescent males and families working as the Baldus Scholar at SC. impacted by substance abuse. To learn more about the foundation’s the University of Iowa College of Law, helping to launch the graduated in May other activities and how you can help, visit www.chriskellyhope.org. Chris Pagliaro Darrow Baldus Death Penalty 2015 from the University of Defense and Juvenile Advocacy South Carolina School of Law.

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eorge Short ’54 and HE SHOWED UP Cathy Hunter Hightow- Ger ’55 have been married for WITH ROSES, 107-and-a-half years. That was AND EVER THE the first thing they had to say on a balmy Thursday after- GENTLEMAN, noon as we walked into their MOTEL elegantly appointed foyer in Greenville. This statement is RESERVATIONS. clearly a one-liner that always gets a laugh or at least a look of bewilderment, but George George asked Cathy’s cousin quickly explains it is the for her hand. “He told me that combination of their years of I more than had it, but no marriage to their first spous- tradebacks.” The two report es plus the year and a half of that they sealed it with a kiss their own. At age 80 and 83, under the Bell Tower and, after the Shorts are newlyweds of a a family ceremony in Ridge- different sort. land and a Caribbean honey- Cathy and George were moon, they began their new both married to their Furman life together in Greenville. sweethearts, L.G. Hightower “Even though we both had ’55 for Cathy and Jackie E. long marriages, there are still Horne ’54 for George. The things you just have to learn foursome were dear friends when you are a newlywed,” and tailgated for years with the George O. Short, Jr. ’54 & Catherine Hunter ’55 says George. same group of loyal Paladin Hightower “But we are more mature football fans. Both lost their and less anxious than we were spouses to illness. the first time. There is no ner- While they are quick to tout A couple finds new love after vous tension,” Cathy adds. those 107.5 years mastering “Well, we knew each other marital bliss, the Shorts are longtime marriages to others. for years, too,” George says, also two people trying to figure confirming the validity of the out life together as a new By Kate Dabbs ’09 adage “friends first.” couple. Except in this stage Together, they exercise daily, of life, George is busy trying garden, play bridge, read, and to keep track of Cathy’s eight travel with friends. “We are great-grandchildren. And actually planning a trip to Cathy, a transport from Ridge- China,” Cathy reports. “I just land, SC, is “still getting used to got my new passport.” finding things around here”— remaining single. “But then, eight great-grandchildren and While religion might be a “here” meaning George’s home along came George,” she says I didn’t have one. She got a lightning rod for some couples, and Greenville. in a wistful way that only a standing ovation for her im- the Shorts have a comfortable When George talks about Southerner from the Low- pressive procreation,” he says. agreement, or perhaps decided his B.C. life (“Before Cathy”), country can. The first date for George and they were both too seasoned to he says the two were never re- George’s wife Jackie died in Cathy took place in Ridgeland, ponder conversions. “We go to ally unconnected. In this way, 2012 after a long battle with where he showed up with a Catholic church on Saturday theirs is not a love story about sickness and shortly thereaf- bouquet of roses and, ever the night [for Cathy] and Presby- two people who found each ter, “dinner invitations [from gentleman, motel reservations. terian Sunday morning [for other after a long absence. women] began to increase sig- While they joke about it now, George],” he explains. They were always in each nificantly,” he jokes. The two a year and a half into marriage And if this sweetest depiction other’s lives. reconnected during George’s the two are clear about their of marriage and love for one an- Cathy had been a widow class of 1954 Furman reunion. proper courtship. “My 10-year- other is not enough, both Cathy for 10 years after she lost L.G. “We were asked to sit with old granddaughter Ella was and George continue to speak to cancer. Although she still someone of the opposite our designated chaperone,” of their first loves with respect made sure she attended annual gender and learn something George says. and adoration. Furman games and reunions, about them that few would They quickly knew they “I was lucky enough to mar- she says she was at peace with know. I learned Cathy had wanted to be married, and ry up twice,” George smiles. F COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY FLEMING JEREMY

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Caitlin Elizabeth Whalan grad- She will maintain content in Andy and Christina Valkanoff uated from William and Mary UBJ, TOWN Carolina, and ’02, a daughter, Anna Claire, Law School in Williamsburg, Greenville Journal, as well as March 29, 2015 VA, in May 2015 with her juris manage social media accounts. BIRTHS AND doctorate degree. Known for Andy and Emily Hall ’03, a the beauty of her voice, Whalan International kicker Ray Early ADOPTIONS daughter, Caroline Grace, continued to share her musical signed a contract in summer March 19, 2015 gift while pursuing her law de- 2015 to join the Saskatchewan gree. She sang with The William Roughriders. Brian and Stephanie Morris ’03 and Mary Botetourt Chamber Kelly, a son, Daniel Edward, Singers and Law Capella, serv- The Gary (IN) SouthShore May 18, 2015 ing as president of the former RailCats re-signed rookie RHP the past year. She has relocated Matt Solter in July 2015. Matt Rad and Adrienne Neale ’03 to Charlotte, NC, where she is appeared in two games during Lowery, a son, Kane Radcliff, studying for the North Carolina his five-game stint with the Mark and Christa Bailey ’97 August 25, 2014 Bar examination. team earlier in July. Allen, a daughter, Sara Grace, January 28, 2015 Jeremy ’05 and Jane Haddow Grace Tuttle is working in the ’03 McLaughen, a son, James 2013 manuscript editorial depart- Jim and Amy Pattillo ’97, a son, Henry, March 4, 2015 Nate Smith spent three weeks ment at W.W. Norton & Co. in Andrew Forrest, April 2, 2015 in July representing the United New York City. She anticipates Daniel and Meridyth Lybrand States at the Pan Am Games in having the opportunity to Kris and Elizabeth Ellis Keilhack ’03 Robinson, a son, Luke Mac- Toronto. He described it as a work on former Furman Pres- ’00, a daughter, Louisa Elliott, Millan, August 28, 2014 once-in-a-lifetime experience, ident David E. Shi’s (’73) 10th March 2, 2015 one he “will cherish forever. edition of America, A Narrative Allen and Katherine Winstead I was pretty humbled to wear to be published early in 2016. Matthew Boyleston ’01 and Suttle ’03, a son, Will, January USA across my chest and rep- Abby Heller, a daughter, Carys 25, 2015 resent our country.” Aideen Boyleston, June 18, 2015 Matt Davidson ’04 and Natalie The ’03, a son, Wesley The Da- 2014 Joe and Gretchen Middour ’01, vidson, February 3, 2015 Whitney Becker and Sarah a daughter, Ada Mae Olesen Jordan Holcomb are working as Middour, June 23, 2015 Russell and Mary Beth Lem- interns at the Children’s Muse- mons ’03 Young, a daughter, um of the Upstate in Green- Jeffrey G. ’03 and Kelly Mof- Reese Elizabeth, April 19, 2014 ville, SC. Whitney oversees the fitt ’02 Adkisson, a son, Luke middle school youth program Thomas, February 9, 2015 Erin Caldwell ’03 and Jeff Zell- and Sarah is a development mer ’04, a son, Grayson Allen, intern. Mike ’02 and Ashley Callahan June 7, 2014 ’03 Baisley, a son, Graham Cal- Corey Dalton Hart performed lahan Baisley, July 14, 2015 Glen “Buddy” and Sarah Ann premieres of works by com- Turpen Davis ’04, a daughter, posers twice in April 2015, the Adam and Danielle Logan ’02 Anna-Bea Sandlin Davis, Feb- first at the Morgan Library in Conrad, a daughter, Darcy Lyn, ruary 14, 2015 New York City and the second November 30, 2014 at the Longy School of Music NEW BOARD MEMBERS Trey and Yancey Greene ’04 in Boston. The concerts fea- Trevor and Megan Theiling Fouche, a son, Oliver Sterling, tured works by Bard College The university would like to ’02 Draper, a daughter, Shelby July 9, 2015 undergraduate and faculty welcome the following individ- Jane, January 24, 2015 composers, as well as other uals to the Board of Directors: Ryan and Lisa McCarthy ’05, a composers in the New York Andy and Michele Muro ’02 daughter, Claire, February 22, area. Donald Corbin ’64 Heck, a son, Michael Muro 2015 Dennis Smith ’79 Heck, March 28, 2015 Amy Bobb Breaux ’84 David and Andrea Setters Wright Charles Meisel ’84 Brian and Peyton Greenfield ’05, a son, Caleb Monroe, Feb- 2015 Sarah Armacost Holliman ’86 Ticknor ’02, a son, Bridges Wes- ruary 12, 2015 In May 2015, Danielle Car Todd Callaway ’89 ley, March 11, 2015 joined Community Journals Caroline Dillard Brownlee ’97 David and Elizabeth Marler as the digital content manager. Rodney “Doug” Webb ’02 ’06 Armstrong, a son, Samuel HATANUKA KELLEN BY ILLUSTRATIONS

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Jennings, May 17, 2015 Wright, January 31, 2015 Killebrew ’14, June 6, 2015 June 16, 2015, Calhoun Falls, SC Craig and Jessalyn Davis ’06 Peter Wesley Lord ’02 and Leah Sarah McKenzie Williams ’15 and Garvey, a son, Pierce Davis Gar- Marie Zimmerman, August 7, Conner Rusk Dalton, June 13, Lucy Swearingen Good ’41, June vey, December 19, 2014 2015 2015 9, 2015, Rock Hill, SC

Allen ’07 and Whitney Bost ’09 Kelly Rebecca Rook ’02 and Virginia McKiever McLaurin ’41, Curtis, a daughter, Lucy Elea- Michael Elliott Wolfensperger, April 24, 2015, Dillon, SC nor, June 6, 2015 May 30, 2015 OBITUARIES William G. McLees ’41, July 4, Champ and Megan Jaudon ’07 Jessica Carter ’05 and Russell 2015, Dublin, GA Mann, a son, Jon Austin, Au- Sanford ’05, June 27, 2015 gust 23, 2014 Aiken Brooks Holtzclaw, Jr. ’42, Stephen Highsmith Adams ’07 January 21, 2015, Charlotte, Will and Susan Braik ’07 and Lindsey Courter Evans, NC Taunton, a daughter, Olivia June 27, 2015 Rose, March 13, 2015 Obera McGee Reed ’42, April 6, Ashley Beltz ’07 and Mark Rose, 2015, Easley, SC Daniel ’09 and Courtney March 14, 2015 Stewardson ’08 Leagans, a son, Mary Ellen Griffin Gould ’43, Colton James, July 1, 2015 Matt Alexander ’09 and Virgin- Wade Thomas Batson, Jr. ’34, January 9, 2015, Winston- ia Adkins, August 8, 2015 February 14, 2015, Greenville, Salem, NC Ryan and Lauren Tomory ’09 SC Evans, a daughter, Alta Chris- Mary Catherine Burgess ’09 and Ruth Hood Knisley ’43, July 9, tine, January 7, 2015 Kevin Hearn, October 4, 2014 Judson Carey Segars ’35, April 1, 2015, York, PA 2015, Hartsville, SC Taylor and Sally McKinney Hall Cody Morelock ’09 and Julian- Jerome Petrizzi ’43, January 29, ’09, a son, Houston McKinney na Hendley, June 13, 2015 William Smith Hawkins ’37, Feb- 2015, Fort Lauderdale, FL Hall, July 9, 2015 ruary 26, 2015, Greenville, SC Jessica Stewart ’09 and Roohan Cynthia Knight Cooke ’44, Feb- Carter and Molly Parker Wallace Jabbar, June 7, 2014 Mary Catherine Rhame Horger ruary 22, 2015, Greenville, SC ’09, a daughter, Anna Wells ’38, March 29, 2015, Orange- Wallace, June 20, 2015 Sara Anne Cone ’10 and Brian burg, SC Charles Hubert DeLoach ’44, Blake Fitzpatrick, October 4, May 21, 2015, Wauchula, FL 2014 Mary Lou Mims Reid ’38, June 25, 2015, Greenville, SC Albert Alba Young ’44, February Margaret Lewis Rosebro ’10 and 17, 2015, Hickory, NC MARRIAGES Charles Wesley Sprewell ’10, Frances Ligon Watson ’39, Feb- June 6, 2015 ruary 6, 2015, Greenville, SC Emily Elizabeth Feaster Cham- pion ’45, January 17, 2015, Jenn Betts ’11 and Austin Reeves Alice Cunningham Abercrombie Cartersville, GA ’11, August 1, 2015 ’40, January 15, 2015, Colum- bia, SC Betty Ross Pope Jolly ’45, May 9, Sara Elizabeth-Anne Reynolds 2015, Union, SC ’11 and Matthew Ross Crider, Elizabeth Smith Alford ’40, June 27, 2015 March 28, 2015, Charlottes- Virginia Eleanor Greer Smith ’45, ville, VA April 3, 2015, Charlotte, NC Lee Knight ’76 and Kay Wilson, Raleigh Kent Francis ’12 and Ann March 15, 2014 Tipton Lesslie ’12, June 5, 2015 Phillips Lancaster Bates ’40, Benjamin Lewis Barnett, Jr. ’46, February 13, 2015, Greenwood, April 16, 2015, Kennesaw, GA Lisa Parsons Herndon ’81 and Erin Catherine Frazer ’12 and SC James Reed Wilson, Jr., April Joshua Adam Schardt, June Sue Ellen Cobb Crews ’46, July 18, 2015 13, 2015 Sue Garvin Howard ’40, January 21, 2015, Greenville, SC 13, 2015, Charleston, SC John Avery “Skip” Kirst, Jr. ’83 Chandler Barton ’13 and Eliza- Sally Sullivan Clinkscales Hub- and Eric Deem Hogan, May 16, beth Koppang ’13, December 27, Mable Wannamaker Leadley ’40, bard ’46, July 9, 2015, Greens- 2015 2014 April 20, 2015, Orangeburg, SC boro, NC

ILLUSTRATIONS BY KELLEN HATANUKA KELLEN BY ILLUSTRATIONS Lisa Wheeler ’86 and Alan Wesley Gillette ’14 and Sarah William Mann Broadwell, Jr. ’41,

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Rachel Palmer Waggoner ’46, Roy T. Loyd ’50, February 25, Fred Hammett Brown ’54, May Benjamin Ronald Cook, Sr. ’57, January 29, 2015, Gastonia, NC 2015, Columbia, SC 16, 2015, Greer, SC March 27, 2015, Dillon, SC

Frances Harmon Whitley ’46, Jeff Roland Richardson, Jr. ’50, Henry Alex Cummings ’54, May Edgar Eugene Dobbins ’57, May July 29, 2015, Raleigh, NC August 1, 2015, Simpsonville, 2015, Ruffin, SC 13, 2015, Greenville, SC SC Anne Moore Wilson ’46, June Paul Justice ’54, March 25, J. Edwin Hendricks ’57, March 13, 2015, Lake Lure, NC Carolyn Hunter Shirley ’50, 2015, Centralia, WA 27, 2015, Winston-Salem, NC April 25, 2015, Charleston, SC Joyce Fowler Bridges ’47, Febru- James Douglas McClain ’54, Oc- Mary Louise Cothran Southern ary 24, 2015, Colorado Springs, Betsy Lucille Sowell Sims ’50, tober 22, 2014, Donalds, SC ’57, June 15, 2015, Pelzer, SC CO January 14, 2015, Lancaster, SC Edward Evelio McCollum ’54, James Bailey Watts ’57, April 6, Ruth Easterby Hilton Little ’47, March 12, Walterboro, SC 2015, Camden, SC January 27, 2015, Greenville, Emily Jean “E.J.” Garrett Smith SC ’50, January 20, 2015, Green- James Augustus Moody ’54, Carolyn Littlejohn Ballew ’58, ville, SC April 11, 2015, Summerville, SC March 1, 2015, Spartanburg, Constance Gloria Morgan ’47, SC March 12, 2015, Westminster, Walter F. Chapman, Sr. ’51, William Penn Morrow, Jr. ’54, SC January 11, 2015, Riverview, FL February 3, Greenville County, Shirley Tucker Campbell ’58, SC January 27, 2015, Greenville, James W. Bailey, Sr. ’48, July 1, James Rudolph “Rudy” Cox ’51, SC 2015, Hendersonville, NC April 17, 2015, Travelers Rest, Jane Donnald Prichard ’54, SC March 22, 2015, Greenville, SC Jackie Travis Foster ’58, March Eugene F. “Breezy” Breazeale 2, 2015, Greenville, SC ’48, March 4, 2015, Green- Carl Grayson Ellison ’51, May 10, McDuffie “M.D.” Putnam, Jr., wood, SC 2015, Anderson County, SC MA ’54, February 15, Roebuck, Kenneth Woodrow “Woody” SC Moore, Sr. ’58, April 30, 2015, Margaret Earle Ellison ’48, Feb- James Wilburn Gentry ’51, Taylors, SC ruary 19, 2015, Greenville, SC March 15, 2015, Travelers Rest, Jane Ruth McColley Gross ’55, SC January 10, 2015, Madison, ME Mary Evelyn Green Oltman ’58, Mary Wilburn Norris ’48, March July 15, 2015, Columbia, SC 13, 2015, Bluffton, SC Joseph Leonard “PJ” Thorpe Margaret Marie Jones Howell ’55, Stone ’51, February 25, 2015, May 8, 2015, Taylors, SC Bob G. Sherman ’58, April 13, Jean Robbins Poole ’48, January Greenville, SC 2015, Paducah, KY 9, 2015, Greenville, SC James Byrnes Senn ’55, MA ’71, Hewlett Kelly Sullivan, Jr. ’51, February 19, 2015, Greenville, Robert Montgomery Trammell, Elizabeth Winn Thompson ’48, August 5, 2015, Greenville, SC SC Sr. ’58, January 10, 2015, Fair- March 12, 2015, Milledgeville, hope, AL GA John H. Davis ’52, January 7, Patty Wiggins Brock ’56, MA 2015, Culpepper, VA ’80, July 6, 2015, Greenville, Elbert D. Hutto ’59, February Ruth Trowell Watson ’48, June 7, SC 11, 2015, Columbia, SC 2015, Greenville, SC Margie Cain Humphries ’52, July 4, 2015, Pawleys Island, SC Alan Herbert Kyber ’56, July 10, Dan Warren Wilson ’59, Febru- Mary Ann Rawlings Williams ’48, 2015, Rock Hill, SC ary 24, 2015, Greenville, SC March 9, 2015, Hendersonville, Ann Grayson Bozeman ’53, June NC 29, 2015, Greenville, SC Charles Ray Ruth ’56, July 2015, Margaret Annetta “Peggy” Fant Pawleys Island, SC ’60, March 15, 2015, Camden, William Herbert Barton ’49, Ruben Paul Clark, Jr. ’53, June SC February 25, Lilburn, GA 5, 2015, Greenville, SC Margaret Jameson Waldrop ’56, January 23, 2015, Lynchburg, Kenneth Ridings ’60, March 5, Harry M. Goewey ’49, June 15, Fred Samuel Miller, Jr. ’53, Feb- VA 2015, Hendersonville, NC 2015, Fountain Inn, SC ruary 5, 2015, West Columbia, SC Walter Marion Adams ’57, April James Keith “Chief” Johnson ’61, Robert Lionel Morgan ’49, April 5, 2015, Shelby, NC September 5, 2014, West Palm 29, 2015, Huntersville, NC Nannie Gulledge Price ’53, Feb- Beach, FL ruary 28, 2015, Greenville, SC Wayne Jerry “Shag” Barnett ’57, Robert Eddie Johns ’50, April February 9, 2015, Greenville, Emmett Edwin Deitz ’62, June 24, 2015, Emporia, VA SC 23, 2015, Taylors, SC

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Irene Smith Hartjen ’62, Janu- Beverly Brabham Oki ’69, July Seth Lyman Eckard ’85, April 9, ary 10, 2015, Atchison, KS 2015, Greenville County, SC 2015, Easley, SC CLASS NOTES POLICY Due to the amount of material Furman Mary Pat Arnold Reddick ’62, Ned Lewis Watson ’69, June 3, James Michael Godfrey ’85, receives for this section—and the time needed to edit that material—items are November 26, 2014, Columbia, 2015, Mount Pleasant, SC June 27, 2015, Conover, NC often not published until six months SC after they are submitted. However, Clovie Julia Etta Heaton ’70, Edward Earl ’86, June 19, 2015, please be advised that we rarely publish Ellen Jean Ainslie ’63, May 2, January 20, 2015, Easley, SC Eagle Rock, AR items more than 18 months old and no announcements of things that have not 2015, West Palm Beach, FL yet occurred. When sending news of Brenda Mullis LaCount, MA James Stewart Pitts ’86, Febru- births, please include the child’s name, Frank Howard Altman ’63, Janu- ’70, April 28, 2015, Greenville ary 25, 2015, Six Mile, SC birthdate, and city of birth; for marriages, ary 9, 2015, Columbia, SC County, SC include the city and date of the event, the Larry Wayne Grady, Jr. ’88, new spouse’s name, and his/her year of graduation if from Furman. News about Jenny Porter Farrar ’63, June 9, James Rainier Anderson ’72, March 5, 2015, Lexington, SC couples who graduated in different years 2015, Greenville, SC June 27, 2015, Hutto, TX is included under the earliest graduation Rhonda Jean Littlefield Duncan date. It is not listed with both classes. Gladys Cannada Vernon ’63, J.E. Earle, MA ’73, July 26, Mauldin ’88, April 21, 2014, The magazine reserves the right to edit April 21, 2015, Travelers Rest, 2015, Hilton Head Island, SC Anderson, SC submissions. SC Laura Anne Henry ’73, April 11, Elaine Stone-Drummond ’88, Joseph Warren Clapp ’64, Febru- 2015, Latta, SC April 9, 2015, Alpharetta, GA ary 10, 2015, Grand Island, FL Melanie O’Neal Cavenaugh ’74, Tracey Lyn Meredith Edwards Shelba Powell Couch ’64, April April 22, 2015, Kingwood, TX ’90, July 17, 2015, Washington 10, 2015, Pickens, SC Crossing, PA Elizabeth Kirby Connolly ’75, Delle Wilder Gasque ’64, Janu- March 20, 2015, Eutawville, SC Shannon Elliott Graham ’90, ary 19, 2015, Greenville, SC June 20, 2015, Greenville, SC Patty Dellinger ’75, April 14, Frank Orr Keener ’64, March 9, 2015, Anderson, SC Zacchary L. Pace ’91, July 18, 2015, Nashville, TN 2015, Lexington, SC William Henry Dilling III, MA ’75, Joseph Anthony McAlister ’64, July 28, 2015, Greenville, SC Jason Hightower ’92, January March 27, 2015, Newton, NC 25, 2015, Meeker, CO Kaliope Kiliveros Maurides, MA Wilbur Jesse Rush ’64, June 22, ’75, April 23, 2015, Greenville, Richard Bradford Burklow ’93, 2015, Woodruff, SC SC January 27, 2015, Marietta, GA

Evelyn “Eve” Waldrop Shelnutt Betty Elrod Owens, MA ’76, Erik John Wallin ’96, May 3, ’64, April 7, 2015, Athens, GA March 16, 2015, Piedmont, SC 2015, Roswell, GA

John F. Robinson ’65, May 14, Gary Kendrick Bond ’77, April A. Campbell Berkeley III ’97, 2015, Blowing Rock, NC 27, 2015, Chattanooga, TN January 18, 2015, Weston, FL

William James Barnes ’67, March Andrew N. Gonick ’77, February Trenence Michael “Trent” Reece 13, 2015, Anderson, SC 22, 2015, Greenville, SC ’98, May 2015, Greenville, SC

George Wilburn Johnson III ’67, Con Smith “Trey” Massey III ’83, William Walter Koehler ’99, June 8, 2015, Irmo, SC March 12, 2015, Atlanta, GA March 10, 2015, Greer, SC

Owen Franklin Cardell, Jr. ’68, Ronald E. Alexander ’84, May Renee Amie Boutan ’08, July 4, July 8, 2015, Greenville, SC 28, 2015, Lexington, SC 2015, Wadmalaw Island, SC

Greeta Yvonne Granger Peden Jan Hendrix ’84, May 9, 2015, Katharine Elizabeth Compton ’13, ’68, April 9, 2015, Pendleton, Rock Hill, SC July 6, 2015, Houston, TX SC Julia Ruth Sarratt Hester ’84, Jake Kline ’13, February 8, 2015, Paul Corbett Tomlinson ’68, June 13, 2015, Greenville Raleigh, NC F June 28, 2015, Columbia, SC County, SC

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Intercalary “Open 8 Days a Week” —from Gary Grier’s Cracker Jack (2008)

To help customers feel welcome, Cracker Jack has improved on God As on any other day by adding another day to the week. GAS and CIGS merit bold letters. As on any other day Today is the day after the weekend, COLD BEER is the retort to sunshine. the extra day maybe even shade trees need As on any other day to get rested up for Monday. the dispenser promises ICE.

The shadows say today is half over, But today is the eighth day of the week. this day of the empty street, Today a lone black cat can mosey by the day when the pay phone, without crossing anybody’s path. should it ever ring, Today a sign can guarantee winnings will go unanswered. when it insists PLAY HERE. This is the day when it’s all right that a pump’s gone missing.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR William Aarnes, a professor of English at Furman, has published two collections with Ninety-Six Press: Learning to Dance (1991) and Predicaments (2001). His work has appeared in such magazines as Poetry, The Seneca Review, and Red Savina Review. Recent poems have appeared in Main Street Rag, Shark Reef, and Empty Sink.

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