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Fall2001

FEATU RES

CARIBBEAN CHRONICLE 2 Furman faculty engage in a fascinating journey of discovery to Jamaica and Cuba. by Cleveland R. Fraser

IMAGES OF CUBA 10 Impressions of Castro's once forbidden island, captured by professor Willard Pate and student Brandon Hinman.

NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS 14 The story of a play, and the man who wrote it- over and over and over again. by Randall David Cook

LEST WE FORGET 20 An exploration of why the Holocaust offers a continuing challenge to our sense of community- and our common humanity. by Ronald J. Granieri

IT'S SHOWTIME AT THE APOLLO! 24 Four 200 I graduates step into the spotlight on a nationally syndicated television show. by Jael B. Gadsden

FURMAN REPORTS 26

CAMPAIGN 32

ATHLETICS 34

ALUMNI NEWS 36

THE LAST WORD 48

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ON THE COVER: La Habana Vieja (The Olde City), Havana, Cuba. Photo by Terri Bright The following pages present perspectives on life in the Caribbean from professors Cleveland R. Fraser, Terri Bright and Willard Pate, and student Brandon Hinman. Fraser and Bright were part of an 11-person faculty contingent that visited Jamaica and Cuba July 19-August 8. Fraser, a member of the Furman faculty since 1983 and chair of the political science department, offers a social and political -as well as personal -chronicle of the group's journey. Bright, who has taught photography and drawing at Furman since 1999, provided the photographs for Fraser's article, reflecting a complementary and yet distinctive view of the trip. Her photographs explore public spaces. She says, "I photograph things run down and worn away, objects used and discarded, familiar spaces that are hurried through or that lead somewhere else. I do not document where I have been as a tourist or travel photographer might; rather, my photographs are fragments borrowed from the social landscape." Joining Fraser and Bright on the trip were William Lavery and Marian Strobel (history); Janis Bandel in (library); Christina Buckley, Maurice Cherry and Sofia Kearns (modern languages and literatures); Brian Siegel (sociology/anthropology); Richard Stanford (economics and business); and Robin Vise! (English). Hinman and Pate enjoyed the opportunity to visit Cuba last spring, Hinman through a Furman service program and Pate as part of a photography class. Their impressions and photographs appear beginning on page 10.

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A trip to Jamaica and Cuba offers Furman faculty an absorbing look at the sights, sounds and societal changes in two of the most exotic locales in the Western Hemisphere.

By Cleveland R. Fraser Photos by Terri Bright

pportunity. It was a concept and intellectually provocative theme: on a quest for knowledge of things 0 that would ultimately serve "Transitions." Caribbean; we were also being pro­ as a fulcrum for my experi­ Underwritten by The Duke vided a unique opportunity to make ences in the Caribbean. Endowment and conducted under new friends and to teach each other. It struck me with particular force the auspices of Furman's Center for as I stood observing a phalanx of International Education and its direc­ efore we boarded the plane young Jamaicans, trained at the tor, William J. Lavery, the program to Montego Bay on July 19, Caribbean Institute of Te chnology is designed to expose members of we had prepared for our (CIT), busily constructing portals on Furman's faculty to societies experi­ Badventure with biweekly meetings the World Wide Web for Jamaican encing profound social, political or during spring term. Each of us gave and international clients. Through economic transformation. Its primary a 45-minute talk on a topic relating a partnership involving Furman, the objective is to encourage participants to Jamaica or Cuba in our area of lndusa Corporation and the Jamai­ to reflect on their experiences and expertise, and we covered everything can government, CIT was a physical to incorporate the information col­ from the evolution of Cuban cinema manifestation of opportunity. lected, sights seen and contacts to the influence of Santerfa on the My impression of these young made into their courses and schol­ religious practices of Jamaican and computer programmers echoed what arship. Previous groups had visited Cuban society. each of our hosts had noted: they Quebec and Prague, two compelling Thus, when we touched down were quick studies. All they needed archetypes of national transitions in Jamaica, we had a solid base was an opportunity to work and to shaped by the persistent and centrif­ of knowledge to inform our experi­ be productive members of Jamaican ugal forces of language and ethnicity. ences. Even though our time was society. One question swirling in my Our group was excited by the limited, we had numerous opportu­ mind, however, was how extensively prospect of traveling to two of the nities to develop a more nuanced Jamaica could combine its human most exotic locales in the Western and original view of Jamaica than resources with emerging technolo­ Hemisphere. The 11 of us were well­ most visitors get when they are gies to accelerate its development. traveled and reflected a cross­ whisked away from the airport to But it seems that I have acceler­ section of the Furman faculty in age, cavort in hermetically sealed "all ated a bit too rapidly. I had an oppor­ gender, fluency in Spanish (and inclusive" resorts. tunity to observe life in Jamaica and Jamaican patois), and disciplines Our lodgings, high on a hill over­ Cuba over three weeks this past (art, English, economics and busi­ looking Montego Bay, had at one summer through the third iteration ness administration, history, library time been owned by the Dewars of a highly successful faculty devel­ science, sociology, Spanish and family, and the faint aura of the past opment seminar with an intriguing political science). We were not only still surrounded the place. I spent

3 time on the veranda taking in stun­ t soon became apparent that minister. She also impressed us ning vistas, trying to imagine what it the fabric of Jamaican society with her willingness to do anything must have been like to live a life of is held together by the strength it would take to insure the opportunity colonial privilege. What passed and intelligence of its women. This for her son to study in the States. though the minds of the masters of Iwas underlined during our visits to Of course, we encountered the Great Houses, for example, when several institutions of higher learning. inconveniences - no water for a the primary crop was sugar and the At the University of the West brief time in Montego Bay, power primary source of labor was African? Indies, Cheryl BrownDash, UWI's interruptions in Kingston. The coun­ Did they have any conception of director of special projects, and her try's primary telecommunications the political, economic and social colleague, Lilieth Nelson, provided provider, Cable and Wireless, is legacies they would bequeath to an excellent overviewof the structure more commonly known as "Careless Jamaica? and issues associated with Jamaica's and Worthless." Yet these minor As we began our exploration, all education system. In Mandeville, vexations to us were part of everyday of us were impressed by the dyna­ the provost of Northern Caribbean life to many Jamaicans. mism of the Jamaican people, and University, Althea McMillan, certainly During a session at the U.S. as time passed important aspects seemed capable of holding the uni­ Embassy, we learned that 30 percent of the Jamaican experience were versity together in the absence of of the population is unemployed revealed by the individuals we met. its dynamic president, Herbert or underemployed, that the gross Sean, the driver of our van, confided Thompson. Her personality filled the domestic product had contracted that he would "do anything to get to room as she filled our heads with between 1996 and 1999, and that America," where one could see some information about NCU's programs interest rates were "high" (35 per­ tangible progress after, say, 10 years and its relationship with the Seventh cent). Over the years, it had become of hard work. He was not certain Day Adventists, a denomination with difficult for Jamaica to maintain its that he would be able to see the deep roots in Jamaica. competitiveness in world markets fruits of his labor in Jamaica. We But these traits of energy and for agricultural products such as sometimes hoped that we would live acumen were not limited to academic sugar. Tourism has become a major to see the fruits of our labor, as there contacts. Jacqui Francis, the mother source of revenue ($1.3 billion per are thrill rides less exciting than tra­ of Furman freshman David, invited year), but it was astonishing that versing some of Jamaica's byways us to her beautiful home. Beside a Jamaica had been experiencing with Sean at the wheel, happily pass­ burbling pool overlooking Kingston another form of '1ourism." In addition ing (no pun intended) signs with at sunset, she offered a delicious to the 2.5 million Jamaicans who live helpful sayings such as "Undertakers sampling of the fare she prepares on the island, a similar number live Love Careless Overtakers." for state dinners for the prime abroad, primarily in the United

4 Kingdom, Canada and the United in areas we had visited. As we of vintage automobiles. A 1956 States. skirtedthe fringes of these precincts Buick, a 1959 Ford Fairlane- each How did they cope with the chal­ on our way to our Cuban adventure, had an analog in my memory. I was lenges of day-to-day living, and how I spied some graffiti scrawled in white particularly taken with a 1959 Buick did they express their perceptions paint on a gray concrete wall: on the streets of Havana; it was of the Jamaican experience? In "Yes USA." identical to one that filled my first­ music - reggae music. Especially grade teacher, Mrs. Sobiak, with the music of one of Jamaica's great­ portunidad. I had always excitement and pride, emotions pal­ est cultural icons, the late Bob 0 told students in my course pable even to a 6-year-old. Alas, Marley. Its syncopated rhythms and on Latin American politics my quest to detect that rarest of message of protest and redemption that, if given the opportunity, and if vehicular species, an Edsel, was followed us everywhere. It drifted it were legal, I would be on the next unsuccessful! But my excitement up from the modest homes dotting plane to Havana. On July 27, 2001, was not diminished even when our the hillsides below our hotel in I was! hosts at the U.S. Interest Section Montego Bay. It was the soundtrack My initial impression of Cuba referred somewhat dismissively to in our coach as we navigated the was paradoxical: upon our arrival these vehicles as "Frankensteins." streets of Kingston. It was the music in Havana's new international airport, They still looked great to me. of the people, a means to transcend we walked through a hall bedecked We began our exploration of the often difficult challenges of life. with flags of many nations - includ­ Cuba by traveling to Santiago de But Jamaica has echoed with ing, in the far corner of the hall and Cuba, the province and the city noted other forms of syncopation. For partially obscured from view, the flag for its tradition of resistance, and the weeks before our arrival, the capital of the United States. I was also scene of two of the most important had been the scene of sporadic skir­ surprised to discover another tangi­ events in recent Cuban history. We mishes between rival factions with ble symbol of home: the U.S. dollar. visited the Moncada barracks, still differing economic and political affil­ Even revolutionary Cuba had been pock-marked from the gun battle iations and motivations. Their battles unable to resist the "dollarization" between the forces of dictator led to the deaths of a score of people. occurring throughout Latin America Fulgencio Batista and a rebel force As we prepared to leave and the Caribbean. ;Viva Ia revolu­ of a little over 100 men led by young Jamaica after our 1 0-day tour, a ci6n! Fidel Castro. Mounted on July 26, Kingston radio station reported that, On a personal level, my time in 1953, the attack failed. Castro was unbeknownst to us, a 6:30 p.m. to Cuba, especially in the cities, pro­ captured, tried and sentenced to a 9 a.m. curfewhad been imposed the vided an opportunity to relive my long term in prison. day before to prevent further violence early childhood through a showroom During his trial, he uttered some

5 of the most famous words in Cuban drivers of multipassenger vehicles the economy through industrializa­ history: "Do with me what you must stop and pick up passengers. tion (with assistance from the former will. It does not matter. History will Certainly a pragmatic way to over­ Soviet Union and its allies), the absolve me!" And in early January come the shortage of public trans­ results, even before the collapse 1959, it seemed as if Castro's pro­ portation. of Cuba's communist benefactors, phetic utterance had been fulfilled, As we traveled down the motor­ had been mixed. Indeed, the facto­ as he stood on the second floor bal­ way, there seemed to be another ries we passed did not seem to be cony of Santiago's town hall and shortage as well: automobiles. It too busy. Did encouraging foreign gave one of the first speeches cele­ might have had something to do with investment, as well as foreign visi­ brating the victory of the Cuban the price of fuel, because when we tors, constitute a way out of Cuba's revolution and of the movement pulled into a service station to fill up economic malaise? named to commemorate the events with diesel, the tariff was approxi­ One of my most vivid recollec­ of July 26, 1953. mately $2.25 per gallon. tions of our time in Camaguey is of As we departed Santiago de ascending to the roof of the Gran Cuba on our way to Camaguey, ields planted with sugar cane, Hotel to view the city's skyline. This Trinidad, and then to Havana, I tried bananas and avocados pivotal spot offered a striking view to imagine what it must have been eventually gave way to rolling of red tile roofs topping facades like when Castro and his victorious hills, and ultimately to flatter terrain of great beauty. I was especially comrades began their procession to Fmore suited to livestock and industrial impressed with the church spires the capital. I was struck by the rela­ concerns. As we traversed the coun­ piercing the burnished sky in all tively large numbers of people try from east to west, the scenery directions. Many of them were active standing by the roadside, arrayed and the confinement provoked reflec­ or under renovation, and one of the as if they were well-wishers to cheer tion on the role that agriculture, most impressive was the painstak­ us on to our ultimate objective of the especially the cultivation of sugar ingly restored Catedral de Nuestra Hotel Parque Central in Havana. In and tobacco, had played in Cuba's Senora de Ia Candelaria, a center fact, they were actually travelers economic and political development. of great celebration during Pope waiting for a ride, and they stood Even today, Cuba's economic John Paul ll's Cuban visit in 1998. anxiously by as some of their number well-being is intimately tied to world Additionally, the spires belied the were conveyed by all method and demand for sugar and its derivatives existence of other denominations manner of transport, from trucks (especially rum) and for tobacco and their houses of worship. (many Russian) to motorscooters products so highly prized by smok­ Impressive secular shrines also (many Eastern European). Nestor, ing aficionados. And while Cuban beckoned. The city is the birthplace our Cuban driver, noted that by law socialism included effortsto diversify of Cuba's celebrated Afro-Cuban

6 poet, the late Nicolas Guillen, one graciously shared an hour with us multihued spandex seemed to be of the first to give voice to the aspi­ to detail the difficulties of preserving the uniform of choice. Strolling along rations of this segment of Cuban records debilitated by time, weather, this famous boulevard, I was quite society. The house of his birth water and insects, and to offer his surprised that most buildings were attracts visitors and scholars from impressions of the sweep of Cuban in a sorry state of disrepair. Beautiful the world over. During a visit to a history. examples of various architectural museum housed in a former chil­ Our continuing exploration of styles had suffered the corrosive dren's hospital fronting the scenic the city led us to two very distinct effects of time, weather and, it Plaza San Juan de Dios, an exhi­ residences. One, occupied by a seemed, a balky revolutionary order. bition of local artists featured a couple who had lived there for 50 As I passed a row of crumbling number of mixed-media pieces years, had relatively spacious living facades, one edifice offered a celebrating the return to Cuba of quarters with high ceilings. In addi­ glimpse of the district's past and Elian Gonzalez. It would not be tion, our hosts pointed out fragments perhaps its future. Freshly stuccoed the last time we would see artistic of frescos dating from the last century and painted, it housed the local tributes to this "victory" of Cuba which they had covered with a pro­ Committee for the Defense of the over the United States. tective layer of paint, hoping that Revolution (CDR). Draped across these delicate works of art could its entrance were slogans such as rinidad, a UNESCO World someday be restored. Our second En Gada Barrio, Revoluci6n ("In each Heritage site, was wet. The visit took us to a much more modest barrio, revolution"), and Barrio x

cobblestones of this pictur­ residence, shared by a larger num­ Barrio = Revoluci6n. But almost esque city were sometimes only ber of people. From our brief stays, directly opposite this bastion of Tglinting submersibles as torrents of it is difficult to know which was more Fidelismo, the carnival's soundtrack rain washed over our visit. Many of representative of a typical family. was not the percussive rhythms of its museums were closed due to the My suspicion, however, is the latter. the rumba or samba but the polished inclement weather. American pop of the Backstreet Boys But all was not lost, for in this inally, our methodical march and the hip-hop-based bombast of "city of museums" resided one of of discovery had reached its Kid Rock. In this festive, almost Trinidad's most resourceful curators final destination - Havana. surreal environment, it was difficult of Cuba's heritage. For almost 60 Almost immediately I made my way to comprehend what revolution was years, city historian Carlos Zerquera Fto the Ma/ec6n, the city's arcing sea­ being made or defended. had been transcribing by hand a side thoroughfare, which on this The Museum of the Revolution, priceless trove of documents dating sultry evening was choked with car­ situated in the former Presidential from the late 1500s. Senor Zerquera nival revelers. Among the crowd, Palace, provided some additional

7 clues. As we ascended a broad the banner of socialism? Moreover, used the medium of the movie poster staircase to the first exhibition rooms, what outlets exist for the younger to place Afro-Cubans in contexts we noticed the busts of four men generation to express their visions formerly the domain of their lighter­ resting on marble pedestals: Jose of Cuba's past, present and future? skinned counterparts. Indeed, one Martf, Cuba's national hero; Simon An afternoon visit to the flat of Alexis recurring theme that informed much Bolfvar, the "Great Liberator'' of Latin Esquivel provided a delightful oppor­ of this group's creative energy was America; Benito Juarez, one of tunity to explore these questions. the desire to depict the relationships Mexico's most notable presidents; Esquivel, a young Afro-Cuban between race, gender and revolution, and Abraham Lincoln. I was aware artistwhose paintings and multimedia and to question whether or not 42 that Castro admired Lincoln, but it installations have been exhibited in years of transformation had brought still was surprising to realize that he the United States, had also invited Cuba any closer to a society without had presumably permitted Honest some of his friends in the artistic prejudice. Abe's likeness to continue to reside community to join us. We did not here. detect any Socialist Realism in the here he was again - Elian This visit also brought home the slides, paintings and lithographs our Gonzalez, this time improb­ randomness of events that combine hosts shared with us. Rather, their ably nestled in the arm of to link our two societies in peculiar, work was provocative and "deriva­ TCuba's national hero, Jose Martf, poignant ways. In this case, one of tively original." who was pointing an accusatory the artifactsdispl ayed at the museum For example, taking a cue from finger at something. But what? was the engine of a U-2 reconnais­ Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, It turned out that this specimen of sance aircraft shot down by Cuba one of Esquivel's most notable paint­ state-supported art was positioned during the Missile Crisis of October ings is a depiction of 13 Cuban directly across from the U.S. Interest 1962. The plane was piloted by presidents arrayed around a mana­ Section. The site was the scene of Greenville resident Rudolf Anderson, tee, an extinct species in Cuba and massive demonstrations supporting Jr., whose sacrifice is memorialized perhaps a symbol of the rapacious­ young Elian's return to Cuba. in Greenville's Cleveland Park. To ness of the old order. Another of For one gazing at this image, paraphrase former British Prime Esquivel's colleagues directed the the message the artist (and the Minister Margaret Thatcher, it is viewer's attention to salient issues Cuban government) intended to con­ indeed a funny old world. in Cuban society through a series of vey was obvious: how dare the soup cans modeled after those made imperialists refuse the request of a ust how is that world per­ famous by Andy Warhol. (The tag father for his son to be returned ceived by the people of Cuba, line on each can was "America's home. But I suspect that Cuban who have lived only under Favorite Revolution.") Yet a third wits, or American visitors to their

8 J country's mission in Havana, have of ganja, and the scablike bauxite It is a collection of talented young considered an alternative interpreta­ mines that provide employment and artists. tion: that one of Cuba's most revered wealth. It is a culture that has grap­ Its future, however, is clouded icons is holding the symbol of its pled with the consequences of by conjecture surrounding an impor­ future protectively to his side and violence as an expression of dis­ tant transition: Who will ultimately pointing his finger toward this symbol content. But it is also the young lead Cuba after Castro? Obviously, of the United States not in censure programmers at the Caribbean no one knows how events will unfold but in approbation! Could it be that Institute of Te chnology who may help when Castro is gone. The official Marti is whispering to Cuba's youth, Jamaica realize its vision of becom­ Cuban position is that it will be busi­ 'There lies your destiny?" ing the "silicon island" of the region. ness as usual when his brother, Raul, It is the engaged students and faculty assumes power. The official U.S. hat conclusions can be at its institutions of higher learning. position is to effect a "peaceful tran­ drawn from these two island It is a country that seems to have sition to a democratic Cuba." nations? Both are lands of moved beyond former prime minister The path that Cuba takes will in Wdiverse beauty. Both share the leg­ Michael Manley's belief that the large measure be dependent on the acies of a colonial past based on the Cuban model might have something ability of the regime to establish a production of sugar, coffee and to offer Jamaica. viable economic base on the one tobacco, and the importation of labor And what of Cuba? One thinks hand, and to address the delicate from Africa. Both have been led by of Fidel and Che, Cohiba and question of political reform on the forceful and charismatic personali­ Montecristo cigars, Havana Club other. Moreover, it must address ties. Both face important political rum, old cars, the percolating rhy­ problems caused by a diaspora of and economic challenges. Both con­ thms of the rumba, and even the its own, which has had a profound tinue to grapple with issues of race ghost of Ernest Hemingway sipping influence on the relationship between and gender. Both have looked to a daiquiri at El Floridita, or a mojito Cuba and the United States. Per­ tourism for economic salvation. Both at the Bodeguita de Medio, two of haps the time will come for both are societies in transition. his favorite Havana watering holes. countries to seize the opportunity When one thinks of Jamaica, But as this island nation of 12 million to reconsider their relationship. typical notions are of hand-holding moves into the new millennium, I look forward to that day. honeymooners strolling along pristine Cuba is also pa/adares (private beaches in front of tourist enclaves, restaurants) and dollars, new hotels spicy jerk pork, tasty fryfish, akee and coastal tourist enclaves, and the and breadfruit, dreadlock-bedecked secondhand book market on the rastamen taking sacramental tokes Plaza de Armas in Old Havana.

9 Camera in hand, a student gets to know the country and its people.

It was 8:28 a.m. on a Tuesday the wheel, we were setting out on While we waited for the rest of morning in February when I met the first "Cuba Service and Learning the group to finish breakfast, Nestor Nestor, the chauffeur, who was Experiment" sponsored by the confided in me that he had always waiting outside our hotel as he had Furman Center for the Theological wanted to be a photographer. "How promised. Exploration of Vocation. I was the much did that camera cost you brand We had hired Nestor to drive our official trip photographer. new?" he asked. "Close to 400 group of 13 Furman students, faculty With eager eyes and Nikon N60 dollars," I sheepishly admitted. He and staff through the busy streets of in hand, I was determined to take grinned before continuing, "I earn Havana, into the hills of the Matanzas every opportune shot. As did most roughly 120 U.S. dollars a year and across the barren yet tranquil Cubans we met, Nestor kept an eye driving this van. Maybe if I do not Cuban countryside. With Nestor at on the camera around my neck. eat or spend any money on my

10 family for the next three years I can and talked to the people, listening to wisdom and experience. It is my save enough to buy a camera like their stories of life, work, school and hope that these moments of image yours." I smiled but choked on an worship. and insight proclaim the spirit of unsettling guilt as Nestor added, After a week of living in Cuba Cuba to the heart and mind of those "Brandon, you have a privilege that and discovering the vitality of who experience them now for the I may never have." Cubans, I came home and felt first time. Indeed. I was in Cuba with a as if I had nothing left but a box - Brandon Hinman camera, and for the next eight days of slides. But soon I realized that The author/photographer is a junior I took Nestor's encouragement to my photographs are more than just philosophy major from Carrollton, Ga. heart and sought to know the country images; they are moments in the life with my camera lens. I took pictures of Cubans, full of energy, flavor, love,

11 Candid moments from Havana, where the residents proved to be eager models.

In the late winter and early spring of In the workshops, professional an Italian who now lives in Cuba with 2000, the Maine Photographic Work­ and experienced amateur photo­ his native-born wife and twin sons. shops, one of the country's oldest graphers work in small groups under In addition to taking on assignments and most respected photography the supervision of internationally for international magazines, Bazan schools, began offering short courses recognized master photographers. has published several books of his in Cuba. Like other American-based The aim is to build an archive of photographs and is presently docu­ educational ventures to Cuba, these images documenting Cuba at this menting Cuba. Each morning he workshops are sanctioned by both particularjuncture in history. These would send the 14 members of his the U.S. and Cuban governments images will be stored in both Cuba class out to shoot, and at the end of and thus serve the dual purpose of and Maine, where they will be the day he would review and critique infusing dollars into Castro's bleeding available for research. our images from the previous day. economy while offering Americans Last March, during Furman's In my eight days in Cuba, all a legal way to sample the fruits of spring break, I participated in a spent in Havana except when I took that forbidden island. workshop taught by Ernesto Bazan, an afternoon excursion to visit

12 Hemingway's villa, Finca Vigia, and is almost impossible to come by in I was constantly having to work Cojfmar, the village where The Old Cuba and would be too expensive around toothy grins or stiff poses. Man and the Sea is set, I shot about for many Cubans if it were readily Even so, with patience and good 35 rolls of film. I concentrated entirely available, some of this eagerness luck, I was able to capture some on people - on the street, in the was most likely the result of a dearth candid moments. markets, in their homes. of opportunity to be photographed. I will return to Cuba during this Almost all of the people I photo­ A camera could generate real year's spring break and will photo­ graphed were eager or at least willing excitement, not just among children, graph both in Havana and in the to cooperate. (Occasionally I did but among adults as well. One tobacco farming area. In the mean­ hear "one dollar'' in response to my woman wanted to be photographed time, here is a small sample of my request to photograph.) Some of holding the receiver of her new images from that fascinating country. this cooperation I attribute to the telephone to her ear; a hospital - Willard Pate Cuban people's natural warmth and orderly wanted to be photographed The author/photographer has taught gregariousness. But because film drawing blood from a patient's arm. English at Furman since 1964.

13 THE DIARY OF A YOUNG PLAYWRIGHT, COMPLETE WITH MISHAPS, DELAYS, HARPY WIVES AND REWRITES GALORE.

By Randall David Cook

In June, Randall David Cook's Herewith is the playwright's Some names have been changed

first play, Southern Discomfort, pre­ journey from the writing of the first to protect the author, not the

miered at the Aronoff Center page to his first professional innocent, for innocents don't survive

in Cincinnati, Ohio. The play, a production, abbreviated greatly, for in the theatre biz, with the possible

dark comedy involving a family of it has been said that the soul of wit exception of Carol Channing.

dysfunctional Southern women, is is brevity. No matter how seemingly

best described as "Steel Magnolias outrageous, the stories are true.

on acid."

14 ACT 1: NEW YORK CITY I decide right then to close the curtain on the theatre world, and I head for the relative tranquility of a corporate job at Newsweek June 1996 magazine. T start and finish my first job in the theatre world in record time: three weeks and two days. The Boss, a brilliant liar with an ACT II: THE SAME, 18 MONTHS LATER encyclopedic knowledge of theatre, sits at his desk and answers the phone something like this: February 1998 My professional life marches on without incident, but Cupid plays BOSS: Hello. Ye s, this is Frank (not his name). You want to a fast one on me, and l get dumped on one of those accursed three­ speak to Albert? Let me get him for you. (BOSS puts phone down day "Valentine's Weekends." I feel a huge hole in my heart and for three seconds, then picks it up again without the slightest change cannot figure out how to fill it or the seemingly endless stretch of in inflection.) Albert here, what do you want? Ye s, I still think hours in front of me. So, in a moment of desperation, after years August Wilson is very, very overrated. Is that all? I'm very, very of encouragement from friends who are tired of hearing my theatre busy and surrounded by idiots who know nothing about theatre. fantasies, I sit down to write the opening scene of a play. As soon Wait a minute. Mr. Cook? as I start writing, I feel better. Or at least distracted. At first I write an hour or two daily during the week, with six ME: Ye s? or seven hours each weekend day. Then, I start taking vacation days from work to write. BOSS: Walk this over to Isabelle Stevenson's office, and walk fast. The exercise will do you good. And when you get there, August 1998 don't talk to anyone. Just hand over the package and leave. I complete a very rough draft and send it to two friends, a writer and an actress, for their comments. They make many. One character ME: OK. disappears, the title changes, and the first of many rewrites commences. BOSS: And before you go, let's have a pop quiz! Where was Strindberg from? November 1998 In a perfect example of Furman networking, Ken Ellison '91, ME: Sweden? my college roommate who is now a doctoral student at Rutgers University, hands a copy of my play to the wife of a musician BOSS: You don't sound completely sure of your answer. You friend of his. Cerasela Stan, a former member of the National young people - you know nothing! You think it's bad here? You Theatre of Romania who came to the United States to further her could be working for Barry We issler. His assistants get to eat lunch career, reads the play and announces that we're going to do a only if he does. Go deliver the package. When you get back, I reading. l have no idea what a reading is, but I have to choose may fire you. a title, so I do: Southern Discomfort.

I end up quitting before I get the ax. And though The Boss had May 1999 lied to me about the nature of the job, the hours, the benefits and I am nauseous during the first rehearsal for the reading. After a even the salary, I know better than to burn a bridge. year of controlling the thoughts, words and actions of my characters, actors I do not know are making my characters their own. Moreover, July 1996 the play sounds terrible. I want to cut their throats and mine, The Boss is named to the exclusive nominating committee for the anything to shut them up and ease my agony. But one of the actors, 1997 Tony Awards. a grand lady playing Dixie, the grandmother, comes up to me afterward. August 1996 My second job in the theatre industry, as a Guy Friday to an Oscar­ GRAND LADY: I'm Tina Howe's cousin, and l edit for a living, winning writer and his harpy wife, lasts twice as long as the first and I can tell you this play has great potential. That second scene, one. In due course, I am lied to about the nature of the job, the however, is a problem. You 'll need to cut it. hours, the benefits and even the salary. Strange, but I sense a pattern emerging! There's nothing wrong with the writer, at least Fortunately, I remember reading Painting Churches, one of Tina on the surface, but the wife is ...wel l, rather than be forced to Howe's plays, during English 24 with Nick Radel 10 years ago badmouth, let me quote what a bona fide movie star has to say at Furman, so I can discuss Howe with at least a modicum of about her: intelligence. What I do not want to discuss, however, is the second scene. What could be wrong with it? It's a good scene ! ANN MILLER: I don't know what would make her so cruel. All At readings, actors sit in chairs, hold their scripts and act their I can think of is: Can you get me a hit man? hearts out while the audience (usually non-paying friends of the cast and author) listens attentively and appreciatively. The second The highlight of this job is the couple's stuffed animal, a lion. The scene intact, my first reading is held at the International House of raggedy lion has its own antique armoire, a maid to brush its mane New York. To my horror, it's a fu ll house, around 70 people, and a wardrobe full of clothes that the maid is responsible for including a theatre producer. Fortunately Cerasela is a fi rst-rate washing and ironing before changing him each week. Moreover, talent, and she coaxes excellent performances out of all the actors. the mangy, moldy lion is an avid television fan, so the TV is always The audience responds strongly, the producer asks for a meeting, on, and the lion watches only NBC. Employees who insult the and a stranger in the audience requests a copy of the script. My lion in any way, form or fashion are immediately given the boot. quiet hobby is suddenly very public. But that is not how I get fired. One sad afternoon my grand­ mother, who has been in a coma for several weeks fo llowing a car July 1999 accident, dies. I ask to leave the office to fly home for the funeral, It turns out that the script-requesting stranger hands the play to and as I am saying goodbye ... Daniel Selznick. Ye s, of the legendary Selznick clan. Dad David 0. produced Gone With the Wind, Rebecca and A Place in the Sun. HARPY WIFE: Don't come back! Mom Irene Mayer was a major theatre producer in her own right, The pampered stuffed animal has an antique armoire, an extensive wardrobe and a TV tuned only to NBC.

most notably A Streetcar Named Desire, and Granddad Louis B. falls flat. And one actress literally freezes on stage, her script in Mayer was responsible for the last letter of the MGM acronym. hand but her mind in Mozambique. I watch in terror as she mangles Daniel is the chairman of Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST), a or drops line after line. My only solace is that her character reading developmental theatre. Trained from a young age to gets shot before the end of the first act. evaluate plays, he reads my script, loves it and asks to meet for The second night goes far better, and the audience erupts breakfast, which starts with a question I often ask myself. wildly at times, but not enough to keep a certain Oscar-winning actress from leaving at intermission. I'm crushed by her departure, DANIEL: Where on earth did you come from? and from that point forward prefer not to know if any notables are in the audience. That question is followed by two hours of notes, and the summer vacation I had planned is now off, to be replaced by rewrites galore. November 1999 Interestingly enough, Daniel insists that I cut as much as possible I hear nothing. From months of rewriting and hard work to absolute from the second scene. I start to sense another pattern emerging. silence. I decide to continue working on a new play, and I also decide to change the title of my play back to Southern Discomfort. September 1999 No bourbon needed, hot or buttered. Daniel, citing a dislike of the original title and a deadline that must be met, changes the name of the play (without my approval) for ACT III: THE SAME, 3 MONTHS LATER the EST reading to Hot Buttered Bourbon. There is no mention of hot buttered bourbon in the play, so I have to create a new line February 2000 for the grandmother's entrance. My new play, Interviews with Aphrodite, is chosen by producer Patricia Watt to launch her spring reading series, and the reading BEFORE: goes wonderfully. Patricia's father, Doug, the former music critic for New Yorker and drama critic for The Daily News, is very DIXIE: Where's the bourbon? encouraging. Someone who does not know my preferences on the matter runs up to let me know that Marisa Berenson, star of Cabaret AFTER: and Barry Lyndon, is in the audience. Not only does she stay until the end, she congratulates me warmly after the show. DIXIE: Where's the hot buttered bourbon? March 2000 October 1999 Cerasela calls. Her husband has been named principal trombonist Hot Buttered Bourbon is included in Octoberfest, EST's yearly with the Cincinnati orchestra, so she moves to Ohio, starts making festival of new plays. Daniel assembles a fine cast, including contacts and pitches Southern Discomfort to a few artistic directors. Robetta Wallach, the talented daughter of stage legends Eli Wallach Michael Shooner of New Edgecliff Theatre (NET) reads the script, and Anne Jackson, as the lead. Robetta and the other cast members loves it and decides to produce the play during the 2000-200 I are wonderful, but the play, moving far too slowly on night one, season, with Cerasela directing.

16 April 2000 and because I thought I didn't have the slightest chance of making More silence. I start working on Sake with the Haiku Geisha, a it to the next round. series of interlocking one-acts inspired by my two years of teaching Three weeks. Three weeks. Three weeks .... in rural Japan. The stress of the deadline goes straight to my back, and I wake up one morning unable to move. It takes three hours to sit up, and May 2000 the spasms are so severe I'll try anything, so I visit an acupuncturist Another reading of Southern Discomfort, this one at the Cincinnati in Chinatown who sticks dozens of needles in my back and legs Museum of Art. It goes well, and in some ways the audience to ease the pain. The treatment works, and I finish the screenplay. enjoys the play more than New York audiences. However, the Now more waiting. theatre critic of The Cincinnati Enquirer, Jackie Demaline, attends and evidently hates the play from the very start. Critics do not December 2000 typically attend readings of plays in a professional capacity, as The wait is over. The screenplay isn't chosen. I read over it again readings are considered works that are in progress, but apparently and see a huge problem dead smack in the middle that I didn't see Jackie is not typical. It's later reported to me that she had such a before. I don't know how to solve it. visceral reaction to the show that she approached members of the theatre board and told them not to do the play ...OR ELSE. February 2001 Southern Discomfort gets postponed again, this time from April June 2000 to summer. I'm furious about the delay as quite a few friends and Good and bad news. family have already purchased plane tickets, and I still haven't Good: Cerasela is one of two candidates accepted to the received a satisfactory explanation. NET's Michael Shooner says prestigious director's program at American Repertory Theatre something about problems with the set design, the budget, casting (ART) at Harvard. problems and Daniel's schedule. Bad: She won't be able to direct the show. March 2001 July 2000 Rewrites, rewrites, rewrites. I kill at least two trees this month Daniel Selznick attends a new playwright's fe stival in which one with drafts. of my one-acts has been selected as the evening's closer. I tell him about the Southern Discomfort situation and ask if he's interested April 2001 in directing the premiere of the show in Cincinnati. Negotiations The postponement turns out to be a blessing when major race riots between Daniel and NET begin. erupt in downtown Cincinnati during the week the show was scheduled to open. Can't see theatre when a curfew is in effect! August 2000 But critic Jackie is still on the case, writing that there has been The theatre in Cincinnati wavers a bit (a reaction to critic Jackie's "much off-stage muttering about fund-raising and rewrites." opposition?) and postpones the show until spring. How confusing gossip is! The rewrites had been finished I'm bothered only slightly by this news, as pressing matters weeks before the delay was announced. elsewhere are keeping me occupied. My first screenplay has been named a finalist for the Sundance Filmmakers Lab, and I have May 2001 three weeks to turn in a final draft. I've written only the first third Daniel returns to Cincinnati in May and doesn't stop calling, telling of the script because that was all that was required for the application me that I need to look at this line and that line, and then something else. Since I'm not there, and since much of the play is farcical and has never been blocked (the movements actors make on stage), I take it on his word that the changes are needed. And, indeed, can a play ever be too tight?

June 2001 Jackie writes in The Cincinnati Enquirer that "Mr. Selznick and his cast have been rewriting furiously." I'm delighted to read that the cast is "rewriting furiously," because I'm exhausted and I'd hate to be shouldering that burden alone. Daniel calls me every day, often mornings and nights. Now that week one of rehearsals has passed, I suggest that we stop doing so much script work because the cast needs to get off book. If they haven't memorized their lines, they're going to be in a panic later. I keep repeating this, but Daniel tells me that the cast is too excited with the progress of the script to want to stop. When not doing rewrite work with me, Daniel is doing a hell of a job marketing the play, speaking to groups, making television and radio appearances, and entertaining all the critics in town. This too makes me nervous because expectations are being set, as in the comments he makes to The Cincinnati Post.

DANIEL: "I spent a lot of time in Hollywood in two specific time periods. One, in my childhood, the first 10 years of my life. I was three when Gone With the Wind was made. And then I lived in Beverly Hills in my late 20s and early 30s because I was an executive for MCA/Universal. [SouthernDiscomfort has] some of the funniest Hollywood-type dialogue I have ever heard in any play anywhere, and I fell in love with the play because it An actress freezes on stage, her script in hand but was so fe arless." her mind in Mozambique. 17 will be the cast's FIRST RUN-THROUGH OF THE ENTIRE PLAY. Needless to say, the actors seem miserably nervous. Not only have they not run the show in its entirety, they've never had full costumes or a technical rehearsal. My stomach falls several miles, a not inconsiderable feat considering its size. Ah, tech. The set is enormous - and unfinished- with overstuffe d, luxurious sofas and chairs everywhere. I should be glad there is a set, for I soon discover there is no sound, and the sound designer, who disappeared earlier in the day, does not return until after the audience is already seated. I find out that both the sound and lighting designers are doing their first professional shows, all managed by an incredibly sweet 18-year-old stage manager who also has no professional experience and is simply flummoxed by being there. In short, no one's running the nuthouse. So the dress rehearsal begins, and I am astonished at what I see. A character shoots a gun, only to have the sound of gunfire go off 30 seconds after the shot. Another character delivers an entire monologue in the dark as the lights shine on an empty sofa. One poor woman is saddled with an incredibly unattractive and impractical wig that disserves both actor and character. Random crowd noises come in and out at bizarre moments. The cast, completely ill-at-ease, hides behind the furniture. Some blocking is clearly happening for the fi rst time, and transitions between Daniel Selznick does a great job marketing the play. scenes are lethally long, often lasting for two full minutes while inappropriate music plays. Some cast members are desperately trying to remember their lines- and not always succeeding. ACT IV, SCENE 1: CINCINNATI, DRESS REHEARSAL Overall, this ensemble piece feels more like a bunch of characters running around trying not to drown. Wednesday, June 19 The next rehearsal will be opening night. I arrive an hour or two before the dress rehearsal. Ominous signs My turn to drown. appear the minute I hear the cast recording that's been chosen to Even though the audience seems to have a good time, and usher in �he audience: "Cats." Meow. everyone stays after intermission (despite my low expectations), But I soon discover that Jellicle cats are really the least of my I am in shock. For a few minutes, when the sense of impending problems. doom is greatest, I consider canceling the show. But I decide to To my shock and dismay, I'm told by the actress playing Dixie play Pollyanna instead. that the dress rehearsal, which will be held in front of an audience, Maybe, just maybe, they can pull this together.

Dress rehearsal disaster: spotlights on an empty sofa, a gun firing 30 seconds late, and uneasy actors hiding behind the furniture. SCENE II: OPENING NIGHT

Thursday, June 20 I can't breathe. The technical elements remain miserable, and the cast is still searching for lines and direction, much less honesty and character. But the show, despite its problems, is not a total disaster. It just isn't ready. Both Daniel and Michael sheepishly avoid me at the party afterward, and I give private thanks to the French for champagne.

SCENE III: THE AFTERMATH

Sunday, June 23, and beyond Randall David Cook shares a moment with Anne Close, Ah, the critics. God love 'em. "Dixie " at the inaugural reading of Southern Discomfort. Jackie decides not to review the show and instead hands off that responsibility to a local playwright, Joseph McDonaugh, who also has a show opening in Cincinnati and is thus dependent on Jackie for reviews. Nonetheless, Jackie attends the show (dressed Author, Author! in highlighter pink), sits next to Joe and spends all of intermission Atter graduating cum laude from Furman in 1991 with a talking his ear off. degree in business administration and a place in Who's Who His review begins: Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, Randall David Cook primed himself for a career in international JOSEPH: "New Edgecliff has been known for producing some business. challenging and respected work. Sadly, Southern Discomfort For two years the former Paladin editor lived in rural misfires in almost every way.... Japan, working as an assistant English teacher in two junior "Director Daniel Selznick tries to keep the mayhem zipping high schools. Upon his return to the States, he enrolled in along, but Mr. Cook's mind-boggling tone changes snuff out both the comedy and the drama ....Yo u'll laugh, you'll cry, your jaw the international business program at the University of South will hang open in disbelief." Carolina, spent most of 1995 in Paris as an intern with To tal, France's largest petro-chemical company, and earned his Rick Pender from CityBeat, a Cincinnati arts publication, writes master's degree in 1996. what I consider the smartest (and fairest) review. At which time he moved to New Yo rk City and, in his words, "immediately refused to have a corporate career." RICK: "Southern Discomfort wants to be a very zany, dark piece Instead, filled with fantasies of a life in the theatre, he of comedy, and at moments it achieves that. Unfortunately, a sought fame and fortune there. But after his first jobs on lethargic pace - inspired by a script that often talks too much - the theatrical (more like lunatic) fringe proved somewhat and a set of performers, each talented in their own right, who never disconcerting, he reconsidered and put his dreams on hold quite jell as an ensemble, prevent it from succeeding ....Southern while putting his degrees to use. Eventually, he discovered Discomfort is not without its entertaining moments, but Cook's that he could apply his business acumen toward a higher script needs more focus and balance to succeed as a satisfying purpose: supporting his playwrighting jones. Little did he comedy. NET should be congratulated for helping that cause and know that his first effort would take him on the roller-coaster advancing the career of a promising writer." ride he describes on these pages. Since beginning his long day's journey with Southern Painful as the reviews are, I am genuinely excited about each Discomfort, he has written five other plays that are now in successive performance because the show, now using performances various stages of development. All have been read or as rehearsals, is finally beginning to take its proper shape. The performed off-Broadway - or off-off-Broadway. Sake With actors stop worrying about their lines and begin focusing on the the Haiku Geisha won the 2001 Southeast Region Playwrights' truth of their characters. Transitions are smoother, and comedic Award for Best Play and was a finalist for the Eugene O'Neill moments are actually funny as opposed to worrisome. Even the Playwrights Conference and the Charlotte Play Award. Third technical elements improve, though at this point I enjoy guessing Finger, Left Hand, produced by the Regardez-Nous Theatre which characters will be left in total darkness during the course of Co., played to strong reviews this fall at New York's Flatiron the show. Playhouse, and English was selected for The PAL Company By the next Saturday night, the last performance I see before Disaster Relief Playfest in late October. returning to New York, the show is in great shape, and for the first time I am able to look at it with a critical eye and see what I need At the end of the year, Cook plans to leave his position to tighten and clarify for future productions. Laughs are huge and with a financial Web site and devote himself to writing for constant in the first act, and I hear people crying and sniffling stage and screen. His experiences have armed him with during the second act. I hear which lines are clunking and need a thicker skin, an extra dose of assertiveness, a talent for to be replaced, and I can see the elements of the show that are laughing at himself and at life's follies, and a fuller under­ really, truly working. And yes, it is now more than clear that the standing of the phrase "hurry up and wait." fabled Scene Two, already chopped to death, needs to be halved. More to the point, his confidence in his ability to make a Make no mistake: the audience is the real test. And fortunately, living as a full-time writer does not appear to be misplaced. word of mouth on the show is strong. Performances the week after To quote NewYorktheatre.com, "Playwright Randall David the opening are well attended and almost sell out on the weekend, Cook is talented and imaginative ... he's certainly a writer and it is only a few weeks before I hear from Daniel again. to keep an eye on." He wants more rewrites. As long as he avoids the hot buttered bourbon. Another pattern emerges, and the madness continues. -Jim Stewart Confronting the Holocaust and its implications represents a challenge we should not evade ­ and a responsibility we should not avoid. By Ronald J. Granieri

do not like talking about the Holocaust. Nevertheless, as a historian of modern Europe and especially of Germany, I have willingly accepted the responsibility to study and teach about the murder of more I than fi ve million Europeans of Jewish descent by the forces and allies of Nazi Germany. Because I discuss the Holocaust in my classes and in public settings, I enthusiastically welcomed a suggestion from the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust to help develop a Summer Institute for Te achers on the subject. Education professor Scott Henderson and I hoped that this institute, which was held in June, would encourage other educators to incorporate the Holocaust and its lessons into their curricula. It is always unpleasant to discuss terrible events, and I would be worried if anyone really enjoyed it. That fact, however, does not mean that we should simply avert our eyes and minds. The Holocaust is one of the central events of the 20th century, leaving its mark on our politics, our culture and our society. Because the Holocaust was both so horrible and so central, every generation must confront it and its implications for the present and the future. Just as we struggle today to comprehend the motives that could lead people to kill thousands of innocents in office buildings and airplanes, we must also struggle to understand those who would kill millions. By doing so, we are not engaging in intellectual masochism or a dose of historical castor oil. Some events call upon the living to honor the memory of the slain- and to consider our common humanity. Why should we fo rce ourselves to confront issues and events that we would rather avoid? The easiest answer is that we must remember so that the victims are not forgotten, and so that we can attempt to ensure that such things never happen again. Laudable as that goal is, however, we are confronted with the stark reality that no amount of remembrance has been able to help humanity avoid further destruction elsewhere. From Cambodia and Rwanda to Macedonia and the World Trade Center, mass murder mocks our ability to control human evil. 20 Opposite: A warehouse full of shoes and clothing confiscated fro m prisoners and deportees gassed upon their arrival. (Photo by Lydia Chago/1; courtesy of United States Holocaust Memoria l Museum Photo Archives). Left: The entrance to Auschwitz, where prisoners were greeted with the slogan "Work Makes One Free. " (Photo by Mark Rowe)

Some would argue that these other abominations should weaken our attachment to studying the Holocaust. Hitler was a monster, but the 20th century was full of monsters -Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot - all jockeying for position as the era's most bloodthirsty killer. The list of their victims, as raw numbers or as a percentage of their countries' populations, dwarfs even the worst Nazi crimes. If that is so, the argument runs, what purpose is served by placing special emphasis on the particular events in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s? Despite the obvious horrors of other genocides (a word whose origins lie in the blood-soaked 20th century, as humanity strained to find a term to describe state-sponsored murder of entire ethnic groups), the Holocaust retains a unique quality. It offers the spectacle of a completely industrialized, "civilized" state in the middle of "civilized" Europe systematically consigning an entire people to destruction. The state targeted men, women and children, irrespective of their wealth, power, political ideology or potential value as workers, using resources to kill them that could have been used elsewhere in a world war. One of the most cherished ideas in Western thought since the Enlightenment has been the proposition that humanity's progress toward a more perfect society is inevitable, the product of increasing freedom and education. Such sweet sounding words seem hollow when we confront the Holocaust. By challenging these confident notions of inevitable progress, the Holocaust forces all of us to confront our own limitations. The Holocaust was an attempt to exterminate millions of human beings for no reason other than their membership in a particular ethnic group. It was a murderous enterprise using the most modern technology, carried out by people possessing the best education Europe could offer, and conducted by tens of thousands of individuals with at least the tacit acquiescence of millions more. That such a thing could happen forces all of us to reconsider our human nature, the meaning of "civilization," and our responsibility toward others. These are questions as old as Cain. They are questions all of us have been asking with greater urgency since the terrorist attacks of September 11. We also need to study the Holocaust because there are too many dangers associated with forgetting. If we do not appreciate and understand what happened, too many people might try to confuse us or convince us either that it did not happen or that it was of no great significance. They would distort history to serve 21 To p right: Ice-covered razor- wire fe nces at Auschwitz. Both photos of Auschwitz accompanying this article were taken during a Furman study abroad program in win ter 1999. Bottom: American soldiers vie w a pile of human remains outside the crematorium in Buchenwald.

their purposes, and they must not be allowed to succeed. It did happen, and it is vitally important that we understand its significance, even as mass murder continues in our barbaric age. Holocaust deniers try to discourage examination of the Holocaust by claiming that such study is motivated by hatred for the Germans or by some fanatical desire for vengeance. Nothing could be fu rther from the truth. We do not study the Holocaust because of anti-German sentiment, or because we wish to saddle future generations with a burden of unjustified guilt. Ye s, the Germans have a responsibility to confront their history, in some cases more than they have, but others also need to admit their culpability as well. There is much blame to spread around, from the Germans who inflicted Hitler on the world to the Europeans who collaborated with Nazi genocide, to bystanders both in Europe and abroad (including in the United States) who refused to expend political capital or sacrifice military forces to help rescue the victims until it was too late. An honest study of the Holocaust leaves little room to exercise our sense of moral superiority. It forces us to recognize how many "ordinary," even "good" people were involved, however peripherally, in the killings. It should not make us feel superior, but rather should encourage us to consider our own failings and work to overcome the evil within ourselves. History is the study of people in time, and of how people not completely unlike ourselves behave. If we find the study of the Holocaust disturbing, it is because we see that not only the victims, but also the perpetrators, were human beings, and we can see reflections of ourselves in both. We study the event so that we can try to understand how things happened, even if the why will continue to elude us. The Holocaust retains a special power to attract our attention precisely because of this connection. So many of us look to Europe as the source of what we call "Western Civilization," and we cannot allow ourselves to forget what happened there. The Holocaust is not simply a "Jewish issue," but it is essential to remember the centrality of Jewish suffering. Recognizing that other groups - Poles and Roma (gypsies), Jehovah's Witnesses, gays and lesbians, Communists and devout Christians - were also victims of the Nazis does not minimize the agony of the Jews as the primary targets of Nazi hatred. This is an especially difficult issue for both Jews and non­ Jews, as we attempt to understand the universal lessons of the Holocaust while remembering the specific identity of the victims. The Holocaust retains its importance precisely because its roots lie in the fratricidal hatred between Christians and Jews. It reminds us of the unresolved tensions and prejudices that remain in our society. Hitler and his henchmen were able to organize their genocidal program because they focused their murderous policies on a population that was already marked by its neighbors as alien and threatening, colored by centuries of lurid myth-making and ignorant hostility. The long tradition of anti-Semitism in European Christian society, no matter how contrary it may have been to true Christian principles or how surreal it may seem to us today, led many otherwise moral and godly people to look away while Jews were being murdered. Even if they did not share the hate, their deep-seated prejudices kept them from feeling the compassion necessary to stand up for their fellow human beings. Studying the Holocaust can help us to see that the problem of unexamined prejudice remains in our society, and that we must work to ensure that such prejudices do not keep us from recognizing and cherishing our common humanity. This is an especially important issue for those who educate our young people. In our discussions during the Summer Institute, Scott Henderson and I tried to make this connection by encouraging the participants to consider the groups who are today marginalized and subjected to discrimination, and to consider how even the "benign" prejudices of those who would not themselves participate in violence can be dangerous. Hatred and suspicion of individuals because of their group identity is an insidious force that weakens the bonds of civilization. As we stand before the obvious result of fanatical hatred in Washington and New York and try to balance our desire for justice with an awareness that hatred should not breed hatred, we wrestle with precisely the same moral questions that the Holocaust poses. · The Holocaust offers a continuing challenge to our sense of community, our common humanity. It is a challenge we should not evade and a responsibility we cannot avoid. I do not expect anyone to enjoy confronting the Holocaust. The empty sense of horror that we feel when contemplating murderous hatred touches our deepest emotions and our darkest fe ars. Despite many examples of goodness, the world can still be a violent and hate-filled place. As we mourn the thousands of victims of fanaticism and terror, we should not forget the millions who have died before. Horror cannot outlast hope, and we should never allow our sadness to drive us from our responsibility to mourn, and to remember. No one can say if remembrance will prevent further tragedies, but we know that forgetting will only invite them.

Ron Granieri, who holds a Ph.D. degree fromthe University of Chicago, has taught at Furman since 1997.

22 The Holocaust Institute

" Understanding the Holocaust: An Intellectual and Social Inquiry" was the topic of a special Summer Institute for Educators held at Furman June 18-29, 2001. The interdisciplinary seminar was funded by the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust and taught by history professor Ronald Granieri, an expert in German history, and education professor Scott Henderson, a social studies specialist. A study of the Holocaust as both a historical reality that affected millions of people from varying economic, religious and social groups and as a vehicle for exploring larger social issues, the course was designed in particular for educators in language arts and social studies. It examined such topics as Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust; the origins of anti­ Semitism; the evolution of Nazi policy; the Jewish Resistance Movement; the place of other victimized groups in the Holocaust; the problem of bystanders and the limits of "collective guilt;" and the reactions of the United States and other governments to the Holocaust. The goal of the program was to help teachers make the tragedy of the Holocaust more understandable to their students, and to incorporate the lessons of the Holocaust into a larger discussion of tolerance and intolerance in contemporary society. And clearly, the subject matter struck a chord, as the institute enrolled its maximum capacity of 25 people, with a waiting list of almost twice that number. Both Furman and the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust hope to offer a similar institute in the future.

RECOMMENDED FOR FURTHER STUDY

NON-FICTION

Michael Berenbaum and Abraham J. Peck, eds., The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed and the Reexamined (Indiana University Press, 1998)

Richard J. Evans, Lying About Hitler (Basic Books, 2000)

Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (Free Press, 1993)

Michael Marrus, The Holocaust in History(Plume , 1989 reissue)

Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler: The Origins of His Evil (Random House, 1998)

FICTION

Louis Begley, Wartime Lies (Fawcett Books, 1997 reissue)

Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Books, 1992 reissue)

Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird (Grove Press, 1995 reissue)

Andre Schwarz-Bart, The Last of the Just (Bentley Publishers, 1980 reissue)

Elie Wiesel, The To wn Beyond the Wall (Schocken Books, 1995 reissue)

FILMS

Europa, Europa (1991) The Nasty Girl (1990) Schindler's List (1993) Shoah (1985)

23 By Jael B. Gadsden

A singing group formed at Furman takes its talents to the stage of one of New York's most famous performing venues.

They met in 1998 through the Furman Gospel Ensemble, formed is the operative term, as they had to overcome a speeding ticket a quartet to perform at an on-campus coffeehouse, discovered that and a flat tire on their way to and fro m the first competition. But their voices and personalities meshed, and went on to sing at their tight harmonies and elegant voices helped them earn the churches, clubs and other venues before graduating together trip to New Yo rk - and their biggest gig yet. in 200 1. Since graduation, the women have moved on to jobs or graduate Yet all of that was just a prelude to Saturday, August 25, when programs in four different cities. Still, they remain committed to Ebone - Robyn Brewer, Jael Gadsden, Reagan Singletary Ebone and harbor hopes of landing a performing contract or record and Raegan Tuff - took a shot at the big time, performing on deal. television's syndicated "Showtime at the Apollo" at Harlem's acclaimed Whether "Showtime" will lead to bigger things is hard to say Apollo Theatre. But whatever happens, they will always have their shining moment The group survived two rounds of tryouts in Charleston, S. C., when they shared their talent and faith with a national audience. during the spring to earn their Showtime appearance. And "survived" The program aired in Greenville in early November

fter barely making our plane out of Atlanta, we arrived to our friends back home? As we discussed the possibility, I in New Yo rk at 6:56 Friday evening and took a shuttle came up with a simple solution: If we were booed, we could to the Barbizon Hotel. Twenty-four hours until our tell people that "they canceled our performance and there was appearance at the Apollo! no need to watch." You could tell that we were getting close, because On Saturday, we made it to the theatre by 1 o'clock, as we the nerves were starting to show. After dinner at a deli had been instructed. We were surprised to discover that the down the street from the hotel, we spent the rest of the night Apollo is not as big as it looks on television, coming closer in fussing with our outfits and rehearsing our song - over and size to Furman's Daniel Recital Hall than to McAlister Auditorium. over and over. At first we sat and talked with the other amateur night performers, Although we had sung "Give Me a Clean Heart" at least 100 including Curtis from Pennsylvania, who told us that he was times, we practiced for another two hours just to be safe. Who chosen to perform after submitting a demo tape. would ever think that a song we had been singing for three years Soon the show's host, Rudy Rush, came out and greeted would suddenly become so complicated? us. He remembered us from the talent show in Charleston and We were listening for every little thing. The Apollo crowd told us that we had a good chance to win and that he was happy can be notoriously tough, and the thought of being booed off that we had made it there. He was extremely friendly and made the stage was our biggest nightmare. How would we explain it us feel really comfortable.

24 One of the stagehands gave us a schedule of the show's line-up. They were taping three shows that evening and we were in the first round, show #1507. The winner in the first show would appear in the second show and, if victorious again, in the third. After hearing this, our stress level went up a notch. As Robyn pointed out, we had brought only two outfits. What if we made it to all three shows? "We could go back to the first outfit," I said. "I don't think people would remember, since the shows are taped and there would be a week between each one." All I really wanted to do, though, was get through the first show. I'd worry about what to wear later. While we waited for our opportunity to practice our number on stage, we were told that people without music could not rehearse. We were stunned. We had chosen to sing a capella because we knew we wouldn't be able to come earlier in the week to practice with the band, but now they were saying we wouldn't be able to rehearse at all. Despite our pleading, the producers stood firm: a cappella acts don't get a mike check. By then, my nerves were pretty much shot, but I tried to relax and tell myself that everything would be fine. The members of Ebone (from left) - Raegan Tuff, Reagan Singletary, At one point, a staff member came around and interviewed Robyn Brewer and Jael Gadsden - bask in the excitement of the all of the amateur performers for background information. She moment before heading into the Apollo Th eatre. asked us where we were from and if anything unusual had happened to us on our way to the Apollo. We told her that we were all Furman graduates and about our car problems (with driving, and everyone turned and pointed at me. I just smiled, me at the wheel) before and after the first tryout in Charleston. since I was too nervous to talk. This piece of information would come back to haunt me. At 4 There was nothing else to do but sing. Everything went by they called us backstage, where we were to wait until the taping in a blur; all I remember is singing and leaving. When we began at 7. finished, though, I was almost in tears. After all the waiting and On the green room television, we watched two of the guest anticipation, we had made it through the song and represented stars, Mary J. Blige and Blu Cantrell, rehearse for their per­ for South Carolina and Furman. And best of all, we didn't get formances. At 5 the staff brought a dinner spread of rice, fish, booed! pasta, rolls and tea, but I was too nervous to eat. Then it was After the last act, we were called back to the stage for the 6 o'clock and time to get dressed. The show provided make­ decision, which would be made by the audience. Curtis got the up artists and hair stylists. most cheers and won, and we weren't surprised. His performance Curtis, our friend (and competitor) from Pennsylvania, was was flawless. But we were content that we had done our best. sitting quietly in a corner. I asked him if he was nervous, but he The best part of the evening followed: we left the theatre smiled and said that he was OK. Four children were also waiting and went to dinner in a limo one of our friends had rented to to perform on the "Apollo Kids" segment, including an adorable make us feel like stars. It worked, too. As Raegan Tuff said, girl who couldn't have been more than 8 and was dressed like "It lets us see what it's going to feel like when we become Josephine Baker. Another girl, 12, was singing a Celine Dion national celebrities!" song. They reminded me of myself when I was younger and And we could finally relax, because in the end we had competing in talent shows. And I figured if these kids had the accomplished our goal. Judging from the compliments we courage to do this, then I did too. received afterward, the audience really enjoyed our performance. Suddenly, it was 7:25 and we were lining up backstage. We had gotten national exposure and, in Reagan Singletary's We were the fourth of five adult acts, which included a dance words, "Hopefully we touched the heartsof the audience members troupe, a rapper, a male rhythm and blues group, and Curtis, through our song and the word of God." who had blown the audience away with his rendition of "A Song I feel fortunate and proud to have had the opportunity to For You." The act before us, though, was booed. It was a bit perform on the Apollo stage, and to have done so with such unsettling, but we encouraged each other, said a quick prayer talented ladies. Although it would have been nice to win, we and waited for our cue. still felt like winners. Then came the words we'd been waiting to hear for months: Now, it's off to other challenges. Our plan is to develop a "The next act, EBONE!" We walked out single file, with Robyn demo tape and try to market it. All of us appreciate the help in the lead and me next. I was so glad Robyn was first; I probably and support we have received from family and Furman friends, would have tripped and fallen, and we would have been booed and we hope that our Apollo experience will be a stepping-stone before we even got the chance to sing. to bigger and better things. Rudy Rush welcomed us and asked what we had in common. For us, the dream lives on. Robyn served as spokesperson and gave Furman a plug, letting people know we were all proud graduates. He asked if we'd The author, a native of Charleston, S. C., earned a degree had any difficulties on our road to the Apollo, and Robyn told in communication studies at Furman. him about the ticket and the flat tire. Then he asked who was 25 Furman reports

Homecoming 2001 Birthday celebration highlights week of fun and excitement

You're only 175 years old once, so you football team ripped East Te nnessee State Association Board of Directors and the might as well celebrate in style - which 31-6. Afterward, classes ending in 1 and Advisory Council, working as a class agent is exactly what Furman did during Home­ 6 gathered for fun, fellowship and good and chairing her 30th reunion. corning We ek October 15-21. times during reunion dinners and the block Sam Wyche '66 received the Distin­ The university first took the party to party that fol lowed in downtown guished Alumni Award for his exemplary downtown Greenville October 17 to share Greenville. career as a professional football player, the excitement with the city and its resi­ Three alumni were honored at the coach and television analyst. An eight­ dents, then staged an even bigger celebra­ Homecoming Aw ards Breakfast Saturday year National Football League veteran, tion on the lawn at Cherrydale October 20, morning. he went on to success first as an assistant Homecoming Saturday. With fanfare from Derek Waugh '93, basketball coach at coach with the San Francisco 49ers and the marching band, a huge cake and the Stetson University, was recognized with later as head coach of the Cincinnati announcement of a generous gift toward the Outstanding Yo ung Alumni Aw ard. Bengals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. the renovation of the library (see page 32), His wife, Mary, accepted on his behalf. From 1996 to this year he was a tele­ Furman alumni got their chance to applaud (For more on Derek Waugh, see page 34). vision analyst for NBC and CBS. alma mater's rich heritage and promise for The Alumni Service Award went to For more highlights from this year's the future. Cam Gregory Williams '65, who was Homecoming, visit the Furman Web The party was one of many highlights honored for her outstanding leadership, at http://www.engagefurman.com/ from a beautiful Homecoming We ekend. generosity and support for alma mater. whatsnew/life.html and click on the The Alumni Office served up perfect She has given of her time and resources Archives link. weather for the Saturday events and the for many years while serving on the Alumni RECOMMENDED FROM AN ALUM

Ann McCutchan, The Muse Th at Jennie M. Smith '88, When the Sings: Composers Speak About Hands Are Many: Community the Creative Pro cess (Oxford Organization and Sodal Change University Press, 1999). Have in Rural Haiti (Cornell University you ever wondered how com­ Press, 2001). Says the publisher, posers go about writing music? "Smith offers a historically What inspires them? How, when grounded overview of how the and where they work? This Haitian state and certain foreign collection of interviews with 25 powers have sought to develop composers endeavors to provide rural Haiti and relates how answers to these questions, and Haitian peasants have responded in so doing pulls back the curtain to such efforts." The book "illus­ on these "wizards" of music. trates the philosophies, styles Each interview is edited into a and structures typical of social monologue, and this "spoken" organization in rural Haiti with style makes it seem as if you're narrative portraits of peasant having coffee with the compo­ organizations engaged in agri­ ser! The way the artists discuss cultural work parties, business their idiosyncrasies makes for meetings, religious ceremonies, delightful reading. Musicians social service projects, song and non-musicians, professionals sessions, and other activities." and aficionados will enjoy this Smith is an assistant professor collection, which demonstrates and chairs the Department of that the creative process is as Sociology and Anthropology unique to each individual as at Berry College. is the music (or art, poetry, architecture, etc.) emanating FROM FACULTY from that person. - Mark Ki lstofte, Music Mary Coker Joslin and Carolyn J. Watson, The Eg erton Genesis Larry Colton, Counting Coup: A (University of Toronto Press, True Story of Basketball and 2001). Part of the British Library Honor on the Uttle Big Horn Studies in Medieval Culture (Warner, 2000). Colton, a series, this is a comprehensive freelance writer, spent a year exa mination of the 14th-century in Hardin, Mont., planning to manuscript that contains 149 write a storyabout a high school illustrations of the book of boys' basketball team on the Genesis. The authors, mother Crow Indian Reservation. After and daughter, studied the book's a few weeks, Colton became physical condition, the icon­ fa scinated by a star player, ography and style of the illus­ Sharon LaForge, and her team­ trations, and the language and mates, and decided instead to script ofthe inscriptions to make write about the girls' team. some determinations about its Eventually he rej ected his first origins and originators. Their Homecoming snapshots (opposite, clockwise from top left): draft (written as a documentary) work sheds light on the parallels Award winners Mary Wa ugh {left, accepting for husband and rewrote the book in the first between drama and art in 14th­ Derek '93), Sam Wyche '66, Cam Gregory Williams '65; the Paladins take the field; at the Senior Order brunch, person, revealing his viewpoint century England and offers new former vice president Marguerite Chiles (left) is presented and involvement with the team. evidence of the presence of the new history of Greenville Woman's College by author The gripping story is a portrait immigrant artists from Flanders, Judy Bainbridge; the cake is Cherrydale 's centerpiece; when of a charismatic young girl who while providing valuable insights the game's lopsided, fa ns turn their attention elsewhere. is battli ng the realities of the into a fa sci nati ng text. Above, from top: The Paladin Regiment performs; reservation - shattered fa mi­ Watson is associate pro­ Micah Sok has a snack; a student band entertains on the lies, alcoholism and bitterness. fessor of art at Furman. Joslin mall; football captain She/vis Smith revs up the crowd, backed - Bill Pierce, is a former French professor at by cohorts Will Bouton (left) and Chris Stewart; students Health and Exercise Science St. Augustine's College. show their enthusiasm; Earl Cobb '51 shows his patriotism. 27 Furman reports Award winners: Meritorious Teaching and

Mentor's influence Energetic Lee still resonates helps students with Fehler stay 'on the path'

Tim Fehler, associate professor of With the exception of the selection history and author of a book and committees, no one at Furman numerous articles on Renaissance knows the identities of the reci­ and Reformation Europe, remem­ pients of the university's awards bers the first college course he ever dropped: We stern Civilization. for meritorious advising and teaching until they are announced at "The professor came in and handed out an 11-page syllabus," spring Commencement. he says. "I was intimidated, and I was a math major with no big So it's not surprising that the most common question each interest in European history." recipient hears is, "What did you think when you heard your name But Jim Vardaman, a history professor at Baylor University, called?" would change Fehler's thinking when the math major took a second Ask that question of Moses Lee, a 200 I winner of the AI ester crack at Western Civilization his sophomore year. "His lectures G. Furman, Jr. , and Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious were so thought-provoking and engaging," Fehler recalls. "And Advising, and his customary smile fades a bit as he says, "I'm afraid he expected us to grasp every implication of what he presented." I was not there." Soon after, Fehler added another major: history. And when he He missed his big moment because he was out of the country. graduated in 1988 and had to choose between history and math for Dean A.V. Huff had approved Lee's travel plans months before, so postgraduate work, Fehler chose history. at least he had an excused absence. "The time with Vardaman was an intellectual turning point in But it's too bad that he wasn't on hand to hear the cheers from my life. I still think about Vardaman every day when I go in the the chemistry graduates he had coaxed, pushed and challenged as classroom," says Fehler, a 200 1 recipient of Furman's AI ester G. their advisor during their years at Furman. Sixteen of the 17 are Furman, Jr. , and Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious now in graduate programs, with seven of them in medical school. Teaching. "His impact on me has been enormous. I hope that Known for his energy, beaming smile and infectious enthusiasm, I can someday impact a student's life in the same way." Lee is also considered a stern taskmaster who demands much from He already has. his students - and earns their fierce loyalty. "I owe a great deal to the history department and especially to "He challenges his students to push their limits," says one Dr. Fehler," wrote a student who nominated Fehler for the teaching student who nominated Lee for the award. "He meets with students honor. "He has inspired me to push onward in my field, to understand who are not doing well and seeks to improve their performance. the humble realities as well as the joys of his profession. At the He wants all students to achieve success and to optimize their time conclusion of my career, if I can claim to possess any part of at Furman." Dr. Fehler's subtle wit, kindness, generosity and commitment to A native of Malaysia and the youngest of eight children, Lee history - much less to have inspired new historians as he has done showed an aptitude for science early on. He earned a scholarship -I will be well pleased with my legacy." to attend a Canadian high school his senior year, then remained in Fehler, whose father, Gene, taught English at Kishwaukee Canada and earned his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees from the College in Illinois and whose mother, Polly, heads the nursing University of Guelph in Ontario. He worked in private industry department at Tri-County Te ch in Pendleton, S.C., has been influ­ for two years before coming to Furman in 1989. enced by outstanding teachers throughout his life. "I've had great Lee has received several large grants for his research, in which role models, from Vardaman to my current colleagues," he says. he is working to create a molecular structure capable of altering He also believes that personal observations and stories taken the DNA structure of a cancer cell. Such a compound would serve from his trips abroad help his classes come to life. Before coming as the basis of a new drug that could combat certain types of cancer. to Furman in 1995, Fehler and his wife, Jacquelyn, lived in Germany Lee points out that teaching, research and advising go hand in for three years. He has returned several times to conduct research, hand. "You cannot separate teaching from research or advising and he is spending this year on sabbatical in Emden, Germany. from teaching," he says. "Through hands-on research, students "Traveling abroad is an invaluable experience," he says. "It come to understand chemistry and biochemistry. It instills confidence makes history tangible and helps us realize how limited our own in them, and that confidence can make a tremendous impression understanding and experiences are." when they interview for the top graduate and medical schools." Fehler's other passion is baseball. His office is fe stooned with Chemistry and biochemistry can baffle even the sharpest scholar, baseball paraphernalia, and last year he even coached - and and Lee says that many students can get discouraged. But through occasionally played for - Furman's club baseball team. Additionally, encouragement, coaxing and cheerleading, he manages to keep the history department softball team won the intramural championship most of them "on the path." behind Fehler's sure-handed play at shortstop. "The most rewarding experience I can have as a teacher and And then, to cap things off, he received the teaching award. advisor is to see students stay on this path - to help them see "This has been such an incredible year. I don't know what I the light at the end of the tunnel," says Lee. "It is tremendously can do to top it," he says. satisfying to see a once unsure student develop confidence." -John Roberts -John Roberts 28 Advising honorees for 2000-2001

A word of advice Watson taps to students: 'great reservoir' check with Vinson of art history

Drop by Danielle Vinson's office Carolyn Watson's Furman debut in the political science department came in the spring of 1989, when any time of day, and you're likely the art department had an opening to be welcomed into a conversation for an art historian and invited her with her and her student guest (or guests) on the media's coverage for an interview and lecture. Given the slow job market at the time, of the latest world crisis. Or on what English course to take next she knew that this was her moment to shine. term. Or on what to wear to the next fraternity formal. But when she thinks back on that day, Watson grins and says, You might even get into an in-depth discussion of Furman "It was a terrible lecture - something about Romanesque sculpture basketball -or more likely, if it's NCAA Tournament time, Duke in the 11th and 12th centuries. I was very formal and stiff. You basketball. should have seen the dour looks of the faculty when I fi nished." Whatever the topic, Vinson's affable, easy-going style and Apparently, though, she misinterpreted the reactions, because genuine interest in others make her a student magnet. Little wonder, she was offered the job, her first fu ll-time teaching post. And today, then, that her name was called during Commencement last spring after 12 years of experience, she acknowledges that she has come as a winner of the Alester G. Furman, Jr., and Janie Earle Furman a long way. Award for Meritorious Advising. "I'm more at ease with myself and the material, and my lectures The recognition didn't surprise political science chair Cleve are far less formal. I'm much more animated," she says, equating Fraser, whose office is next to Vinson's in the department suite. her style to "telling a story that you know so well and want to share "Danielle's affection toward her students literally pervades the wall with others. Students used to comment on my quiet, droning voice, separating our spaces," he says. "Students hover around her office but I've learned to project and improved my voice quality." like bees around a hive, and the buzzing conversation and peals of Affirmation of her professional growth and talent came during laughter are clear indicators to me that she is working her magic. Fu1man's 200 1 Commencement, when she was named a winner of "In my view, there are few individuals at this institution who the Alester G. Furman, Jr., and Janie Earle Furman Award for are more caring and skillful in guiding and nurturing students." Meritorious Teaching. To a person, those who nominated her for For Vinson, a 1989 Furman graduate who holds a doctorate the honor extolled her classroom skill, broad-based knowledge, from Duke, advising is "a pretty easy step if you like students. professionalism, insistence on high standards and caring nature. Of course, one size doesn't fit all. Some students you see only Evan Gatti '94, a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the University once a term, when they stop by to register for classes. Others need of North Carolina, is a lecturer in the Furman art department this someone to get on their case about academics, or to listen to their year. She says, "I owe my passion for teaching and studying the concerns about life in general. history of art to Carolyn Watson. More practically, I owe my "It helps that I was a student here. I understand the academic accomplishments as a graduate student, an instructor and a young calendar, I know what they go through during winter term ...I scholar to her dogged training, kindhearted nature and unfailing know what they're facing." confidence in her students' abilities. Her classes were often touted A specialist in American politics with a particular interest in as among the toughest at Furman, but we all left with a sense of the media (she was sports editor of The Paladin for three years and excitement about the material and admiration for the professor." considered a journalism career), Vinson knew when she hit the Watson's interest in art history actually emerged late in her academic job market that her ideal job would be at a liberal arts undergraduate life. As she points out, "When you go to college, college. The opportunity to return to alma mater arose at the fall you already know about English, languages, math and biology, meeting of the American Political Science Association in 1994, but hardly anyone thinks about studying art history." She was when she learned that Furman had been looking for over a year for no exception; she majored in zoology at Nmth Carolina and planned someone with her expertise. to attend Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Soon, she was on Furman's short list - and that of another Then she happened to take an art history course her senior year strong liberal arts school, Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. -and suddenly, all those trips she'd made to museums with her Somehow, though, the thought of spending winters in Upstate New mother, who holds a doctorate in French, began to make sense. York lacked appeal to the Columbia, S.C., native, so she was thrilled Thoughts of medical school disappeared, and she decided to remain when the call came from Furman. at UNC and pursue her new passion. She acknowledges that she was fortunate to have landed her As she describes her academic epiphany, her eyes sparkle and "dream job" on her fi rst shot. And as a result, she says she took her energy level rises noticeably. "Art history truly stimulates the some good-natured ribbing from friends at Duke: "They didn't imagination," she says. "It combines so many concepts and know whether to be happy for me or to hate me." disciplines - history, science, rel igion, philosophy. It's this great, Now happily ensconced at Furman, she'll celebrate another big inexhaustible reservoir into which so many different currents flow." moment this winter when Hampton Press publishes her first book, And she shares this enthusiasm for her subject with her students Local Media Coverage of Congress: Through Local Eyes. each day. - Jim Stewart - Jim Stewart 29 Furmanre ports

Focus on o.c. RILEY INSTITUTE PROGRAM GIVEs TEA CHERS FIRSTHAND LOOK AT NATION'S CAPITAL

Tours of the White House and the Supreme Court. A visit to the Capitol. Meetings with representatives, press secretaries, congressional aides. Trips to the Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Smithsonian Institute, the American History Museum and more. For 10 teachers of government from South Carolina, this was Washington, D.C., up close and personal. Selected from a large pool of applicants to be the first participants in a program to be sponsored each year by Furman's Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics, and Public Leadership, they spent two weeks in July immersed in the study of American government and politics. After a week at Furman, where they attended classes and seminars and built group camaraderie, they traveled on to Washington, where their mission was to absorb the sights, sounds and inside stories The firs t class in the Summer Te achers Institute for South Carolina teachers of government. of the national government. Kneeling, from left: Chris Burkett, Dutch Fork High, lrmo; Garrett Wa lker '99, Gregg Middle, And everything was free. The Riley Summerville. Standing, from left: Don Gordon, Furman; Kristin Whitley Owens '92, Byrnes Institute picked up the tab as part of its High, Duncan; Bobby Behr '78, Summerville High; Rob Wa lter, The Wa shington Center public service efforts. for Internships and Academic Seminars; Cynthia Capers, Summerville High; Laura Graham, Program coordinator Elizabeth Smith Springfield Elementary, Charleston; Carol Asalon, Furman; Elizabeth Abramson, Camden High; of the political science faculty says that Glenda Hucks, Aynor High; Mike Burgess, Spring Va lley High, Columbia; Harriet Herndon, the Summer Institute gives teachers an Marlboro County High, Bennettsville; Danielle Vinson, Furman. opportunity to update their knowledge of American government, political trends, foreign policy and international affairs. Hollings' office. In these sessions, the Institute is to connect teachers to resources They learn about innovative teaching teachers asked about such issues as edu­ they can use in their classes. To that end, approaches (such as parliamentary cation reform and Social Security, and they met with representatives of the College simulations and mock trials), share lesson learned more about what influences their Board, the Smithsonian Institute and plans, and observe the national government representatives' votes. According to C-SPAN. They also took advantage of the firsthand. For Kristin Whitley Owens '92, Owens, it was "eye-opening" to see how city's many cultural offerings by visiting a teacher at Byrnes Highin Duncan, the difficult it can be to influence policy. such sites as the Holocaust museum, the trip meant "actually seeing what you talk Bobby Behr '78 of Summerville High Newseum (which focuses on the media) about when you teach your courses." used the meeting to do a little lobbying. and the American History Museum. The centerpiece of the program was Fulfilling a promise to his students, he At the beginning of the two-week the week in Washington. Accompanied by delivered to Senator Hollings' office a program, Glenda Hucks, who teaches at two Furman professors and an administra­ petition against re moving vending machines Ay nor High near Myrtle Beach, said she tive assistant, the teachers toured the White from the public schools. The students wanted to bring Washington back to her House and the Supreme Court. They also planned to publish the senator's response students in rural South Carolina, many of tried to tour the Capitol, only to find parts in their school paper. whom have not traveled outside the state. of it blocked off because President Bush The teachers also met with several At the end, Hucks and her colleagues were had decided it was a good day to lobby individuals who work behind the scenes, ready to return to their classes with renewed Congress about the patients' bill of rights. including a staff member fro m the House enthusiasm and creative ideas to help make Despite the president's poor timing, the Education and Workforce Committee, a the study of government more real and group was still able to observe the House representative of the Republican National interesting to their students. of Representatives in session and briefly Committee, and a congressional press - Danielle Vinson '89 watch a committee hearing. secretary. Said Chris Burkett of Dutch One of the trip's highlights was a Fork High in Irmo, "I knew the job des­ The author, a professorof political science, chance to meet with three members of the criptions of these people, but now I've accompanied the groupto Washington with South Carol ina delegation - Reps. Jim heard their real world experiences and have departmental colleague Don Gordon and Clyburn,Jim DeMint and John Spratt ­ stories I can take back to my classes." staff member Carol A salon. and the chief of stafffrom Sen. Ernest F. Another goal of the Summer Te achers

30 Rankings 2001 : U. S. News, others recognize Furman's quality

For the second consecutive year, Furman Two years ago, Berg says, it took an was listed among the nation's top 50 liberal overall score of 68 or higher to make the arts colleges in the annual college rankings top 40 National Liberal Arts Colleges. Last published by U.S. News & World Report. year the list was expanded to the top 50 Furman finished in a tie for 44th (with and it took a score of 67 to get in. This Dickinson, Rhodes and Occidental) in the year, it took a 73 or higher. "Best Liberal Arts Colleges - Bachelor's" Amherst College finished first in the category, which consists of 218 colleges "Best Liberal Arts" category. Others included that focus almost exclusively on under­ Williams (3), Davidson (1 0), Washington graduate education. Furman was also and Lee (13), Oberlin (tie for 22), Bucknell ranked the 14th "Best Value" in that group. (28) and Centre (tie for 42). Furman was The schools were evaluated in seven the only South Carolina school listed in the basic categories: academic reputation, top tier and just one of five Southern schools retention of students, faculty resources, to make the top 50. student selectivity, financial resources, To view the U.S. News ratings, visit graduation rate performance and alumni www.usnews.com, click on the "Education" giving rate. Furman's overall score category and follow the links. increased five points, from 69 to 74 , although Furman is also included in the 2002 its ranking dropped slightly, from 42nd. The edition of The Princeton Review's The Best university ranked 31st in student selectivity 331 Colleges and the 2002 Kaplan/ and 24th in alumni giving. Newsweek College Catalog. In the latter In evaluating Furman's numbers, Bill publication, Furman was singled out among Berg, director of research and institutional "Schools That Offer a High Level of Atter a minor outcry planning, says, "Furman is a stronger col­ Individual Attention From Faculty" and generated by his sudden lege this year by U.S. News' measures, but "Schools That Are 'Hidden Treasures."' disappearance from also by their measures, a number of other Furman was also cited by Insight the Janie Earle Furman schools improved as well. Furman's magazine as one of 30 colleges and Rose Garden (and by academic reputation, which is the single universities in the nation whose academic his plaintive lament in highest-weighted factor (25 percent of the curriculums have remained true to the the summer Furman total), continues to improve. In the last traditional principles of a liberal arts magazine), Putto, with three years, it has gone from 3.2 to 3.3 to education and who "still teach the fullness dolphin has returned to 3.4 on a 5-point scale." of the Western academic traditions." a new location in his old haunt. And although he's no longer the garden's center Professors named to endowed posts of attention, he reports that he is satisfied with his new post, in the small pool Four distinguished faculty members, earned a Ph.D. from Northwestern directly under the stairs including two alumni, have been appointed University and is a former student of leading down to the garden. to academic chairs and endowed profes­ Crantford, who retired in 1995 after 33 "It's comfortable, I can sorships. years at Furman. still see everyone coming Kenneth C. Abernethy has been Cherie F. Maiden is the Lois Aileen and going, and people are appointed to the Herman N. Hipp Chair in Coggins Professor of Modern Languages. going to have to get wet to Computer Science, named for a prominent Maiden earned her doctorate from the mess with me," says the Greenville businessman. Abernethy came University of Illinois and has taught French cherub. to Furman in 1983 and has a doctorate from at Furman since 1983. Coggins retired He also expressed Duke University. He heads the Rushing from Furman in the mid-sixties after teaching his heartfelt appreciation Center for Advanced Te chnology and French for more than 30 years. to Carol Wedemeyer received the Alester G. Furman, Jr., and Thomas I. Smythe, Jr. '85 joined the '79 Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious faculty this fall as the Robert E. Hughes Humphries and to Advising in 1997. Assistant Professor of Economics and Bob Chance, chair of C. Maurice Cherry '65 holds the Carey Business Administration. Smythe previously the art department, for Shepard Crantford Endowed Chair in taught at the University of Te nnessee­ their support in extricating Modern Languages. Cherry, a Spanish Chattanooga. The professorship honors him from storage. professor, taught at Furman from 1969-71, Hughes, a strong Furman supporterand then returned to the faculty in 1974. He Greenville business leader. Sterling gift to provide new wing for library

Mary Peace Sterling of Greenville, a former is restored to its rightful place as the member of the Furman board of trustees, crossroads of campus life. I cannot imagine has provided the naming gifttoward the a more important gift to Furman and its new wing of the James Buchanan Duke students or a more fitting tribute to her Library. father." The 48,000-square-foot addition to Furman named Mrs. Sterling an the library will be named in honor of Mrs. honorary alumna during Homecoming Sterling's father, Charlie Peace, a longtime activities October 20. executive with The Greenville News­ The total cost of the library project, Piedmont Co. The amount of the gift was including the Charlie Peace Wing, not made public, but President David Shi renovations to the current building and called it one of the largest in school history. a maintenance endowment for the revamped The Charlie Peace Wing will be built facility, is expected to be approximately on the building's west (lake) side as part $25 million. Through October 20, Furman of the library's planned renovation and had raised a total of $19.1 million toward expansion. It will feature collaborative the project. study rooms, reading and research areas, Aside from the benefits offered by additional space for the library's growing the new wing, the library renovation and collection, and a 24-hour study area expansion will provide: equipped with computers. Construction • More than 150 computers for general is expected to begin in the summer of 2002. use. In addition to the gift toward the • More than 900 seats with hundreds on criteria from six areas: sustainable new wing, Mrs. Sterling, a longtime of network connections available. sites, water efficiency, energy efficiency, community leader in Greenville, will donate • The largest computer lab on campus, materials and resources, indoor air quality an additional $100 to the library project offering access to information throughout and innovative design. Last February, for every alumnus who makes a donation the world. the Furman board of trustees passed a to Furman before May 31,2002 (see story The new-look library is also expected resolution stating that the university below). Shi said that this effort, called to earn LEED (Leadership in Energy and will strengthen its commitment to the "Charlie's Challenge," could generate as Environmental Design) certification. The environment by promoting sustainability much as $1 million in additional funds for architectural ftrm of Neal Prince & Pat1ners and environmentally sensitive campus the library. in Greenville will concentrate on such issues operations. 'The James B. Duke Library expansion as lighting, air quality and air circulation Herman N. Hipp Hall, an academic and renovation will be our most ambitious in the construction process. building currently under construction, is and expensive construction project ever," The LEED program is a system for expected to be the first LEED-certified Shi said. "Mary Sterling's extraordinary rating commercial, institutional and high­ building in South Carolina when completed generosity will ensure that the library rise residential facilities. Ratings are based in the fall of 2002.

Charlie Peace loved people, and he loved books. As an executive with The Greenville News­ Piedmont Company, he based his whole career on reading and learning. Charlie was my father, and I know he would be pleased that the board of trustees is naming the new expansion of Furman's James B. Duke Library for him: the Charlie Peace Wing. Because this project is so dear to my heart, I have made a gift to provide the new facility, and in addition I would like to offer a challenge to all Furman alumni: If you give $10 or more to Furman this year, for any purpose you choose, I will make an additional $100 gift to the library expansion and renovation. "Charlie's Challenge" can generate as much as $1 million in additional funds for the library project, which will benefit all students and faculty of the university. Thank you for helping to make it happen, and for all you do for Furman. - Mary Peace Sterling Forever Furman campaign set to enter final phase

Dming Homecoming festivities on October $20 million still needed to fund these largest possible number of people the 20, John Cothran '54, chair of the board projects. "We cannot afford to rest until opportunity to participate, from the of trustees, revealed the university's plans our work is completed," Cothran said. youngest alumni just starting their careers for the final phase of the Forever Furman "We believe that we can meet our to retirees and everyone in between. comprehensive fund-raising drive. needs thanks to the thousands of loyal "We're determined to make it easy to Speaking on behalf of the board, alumni and friends who share a common be part of this campaign," said Cothran. Cothran expressed gratitude to campaign vision for the future of Furman, and the He closed by saying, "My request to co-chairs Gordon Hening '65 and Nee! hundreds of faculty and staff who daily Furman students, and to Furman alumni Hipp '73, the countless volunteers who dedicate their lives to teaching and as well, is this: Use what you have received have contributed to the project, and the learning." wisely, take what you have learned with alumni and friends whose sacrificial giving He added that, in the coming months, you, and remember that you too have an has brought the campaign's end into sight. the campaign will broaden to give the important role in Furman's future." Cothran emphasized that, while the $180 million contributed to the campaign to date is an exceptional achievement, the most important result is the number of Special programs offer major boost permanent improvements donors have provided, including endowed scholarships to Paladin Club's drive for $1 million and professorships, new facilities, and countless new learning opportunities for The Paladin Club, Furman's fund-raising arm for athletic scholarships, is seeking students. to raise $1 million in 2001-2002. Two recently established programs are helping The campaign is scheduled to end the organization meet its ambitious goal. December 31, 2002. Its remaining goal is The Order of the Paladin was launched three years ago to create an annual to complete the following projects: base for athletic scholarship funding, encourage people to join the Paladin Club • Renovation and expansion of James and recognize members of an elite group. It is the brainchild of Lucius Weeks B. Duke Library, which will increase the '54 and Sam Phillips '64, with supportfrom Hayden Hays '64, Charlie Moseley size of the cunent facility by more than 50 percent. Construction on the new Charlie '67, Steve Grant '80, and director of athletics Gary Clark '74, a former Paladin Peace Wing, the first phase of the project Club director. (see page 32), is scheduled to begin in the Members of the Order of the Paladin contribute to the Paladin Club at the summer of 2002. Once the new wing is quarter ($6,375), half ($12, 750) or full scholarship level ($25,500). In just three completed, essential library services will years, membership in the Order has risen from two to 33 people, and as a group be moved there while the original building the members have donated more than $4 00,000 to the Paladin Club. is renovated. Order of the Paladin members receive a custom-forged, sterling silver • Completion of Herman N. Hipp medallion with a Paladin emblem and are asked to wear their medallions to Hall, a three-story, 35,000-square-foot Furman events. A black-tie dinner is held each year during Homecoming to academic building that will house the recognize members and welcome new inductees to the society. departments of economics and business administration and education, the divisions Weeks says he was spurred to develop the Order of the Paladin by the of Graduate Studies and Continuing biblical verse Luke 12:48, which states, "For unto whomsoever much is given, Education, and the Rushing Center for of him shall much be required; and to whom men have committed much, of him Advanced Te chnology. Located between they will ask the more." Riley Hall and the University Center, Hipp Clark says, "We hope through this recognition effort to continue to develop Hall is scheduled to open for fall term interest in the Paladin Club. This significantly impacts the ability of our coaches 2002. to recruit outstanding student-athletes." • Renovation of James C. Furman For 2001 -2002, the Paladin Club introduced another special program: the Hall for the humanities, the oldest class­ Football Challenge. Before the year began, only 19 percent of former Paladin room building on campus. • Construction of Younts Conference football players - and only 12 percent of all former Furman athletes - were Center, which will serve the campus and members of the Paladin Club. To build these numbers, 30 past football players the Greenville community. The conference were asked to serve as captains in a pilot program designed to challenge their center will be located near the south teammates to increase the club's membership base among football alumni. entrance of the campus, adj acent to By Homecoming in late October, the giving percentage among football Chenydale. alums had risen to 31 percent. The Class of 1974 , captained by Te d Cain, • Construction of Benefactors Circle, had added the most new members (12); the Class of 1959 1ed with 100 percent which will honor the university's most participation; and the Class of 1964 had raised the most money with $34,363. generous benefactors, and final funding Plans are in the works to extend the challenge program to other sportsto for the Bryan Center for Military Science, boost Paladin Club participation among all former Furman athletes. which opened in the fall of 2000. Cothran said that the Campaign - Ken Pettus Executive Committee and other task Director, Paladin Club forces are working to raise the more than 33 Furmanath letics

Court of appeal Wa ugh finds satisfaction, success on Stetson sidelines

In March, at the age of 29, Derek Waugh learned that Arnold was retiring in mid­ became the youngest Division I head season and that he would be named interim basketball coach in America. This is a head coach. notable achievement in itself, but it is even "I was a little neNous," Waugh admits. more remarkable given that Waugh had "I was the youngest head coach in the provided every other young, would-be head country, we had a potentially traumatic coach with a huge head start. situation with Murray leaving in the middle After graduating from Furman in 1993 of the year, and we weren't playing well." with a degree in political science, Waugh The Hatters were 4-4 when Waugh had no interest in coaching. He had been took over, but they upset Southwest Missouri an All-Southern Conference performerfor State on the road in his first game as head the Paladins and even had an opportunity coach. The next month featured an upset to play professionally in Europe, but of rival Georgia State and a six-game basketball wasn't an option. winning streak. "I didn't give it any consideration," "We let the guys play a little more, Waugh says. "To be honest, I was looking opened up things offensively and made a for a new challt:lnge." few lineup changes," Waugh says. "The So he headed to law school at Wake most important thing, though, is that every­ Forest University and then joined a law firm body bought into what we were trying to in his hometown of Atlanta, Ga., where he do. We won a few games, got some handled corporate securities, mergers and confidence and had a good team by the acquisitions. His coaching experience was end of the year." limited to overseeing a Little League baseball The Hatters finished with a 17-12 team and working with a seventh-grade record, the most victories for the program in 12 years. They also won their first Trans basketball team at Marist School, his alma Derek Waugh finished his Furman career mater. with over 1,400 points and 850 rebounds. America Athletic To urnament game in seven It didn't take long, however, for Waugh years before losing in the semifinals. A few to realize that he wasn't happy. Law school Davidson, Princeton, Georgia Tech, Stetson, weeks later, Stetson officially removed the had been enjoyable and challenging, but it Penn and Furman. He quickly received a "interim" part from Waugh's title. hadn't prepared him for the sort of things slew of rejection notices, but after two All in all, it has been a remarkably he would be doing in the profession. "I months he heard from Stetson coach Murray successful, and perhaps unprecedented, asked myself if this is what I wanted to do Arnold. career change. And it's probably safe to with the rest of my life," he says. "Or did I The Deland, Fla., school had a part­ say that Waugh's law firm could no longer want to try something else?" time opening that didn't pay much and had afford to pay his salary. Still, the idea of coaching didn't occur certain restrictions, such as the coach Waugh is doing all right in his personal to him until a colleague at Marist told him couldn't leave campus and recruit. Waugh life, too. He married the former Mary he had a gift for working with young people. would later learn that Arnold's wife had Underhill, a Deland native, on May 5. They That got him to thinking, especially since fished his resume out of the trash and told met on a blind date arranged by Underhill's he realized that he was happiest when he her husband that she should consider him sister. Even though Waugh says he was on the sidelines and working with the for the job. ordinarily avoided blind dates, he decided kids. What Stetson offered was a chance. to make an exception when he learned that So he decided that coaching - more Waugh accepted the position in July of Mary spent most of her time in Los Angeles particularly, college basketball coaching - 1997, making one-fourth of his salaryat the as a model and actress. might be a suitable profession. "I was young law firm. He says, "I was happy, and I never "I had to admit that it sounded better and single, so I thought why not try it for a doubted that I had made the right decision." than your standard blind date," he says. living," Waugh says before adding with a And despite his inexperience, Waugh - Vince Moore laugh, "or at least what passed for a living." impressed Arnold right away. He ran the Waugh sent resumes to a select group team's practices his first year and, two years of colleges (many of which had recruited later, was promoted to a full-time assistant. him out of high school), among them Then in late December of 2000, Waugh "I can't stay away that long," says Brown. "I love Carter to step down the game too much." Brown, a four-time at end of school year member of the All­ Southern Conference Sherry Carter, head women's basketball team, holds Furman coach at Furman for the last 20 years, records in career points announced her resignation September 25, (2, 169), scoring average effective at the close of the school year. "With appreciation for her 20 years as (19.0), field goals (908), the women's basketball coach, we accept field goal percentage Coach Carter'sdecision to leave Furman," (.591 ), blocked shots (193) said Gary Clark, director of athletics. "She and steals (338). successfully led the program from the NAIA Since her student ranks to the NCAA Division I level, and we days, the Summerville, are grateful for her efforts. We wish her S.C., native has enjoyed well not only during the upcoming season, a productive - and but with her new endeavors." educational -career. Clark said that the department would give its full support tothe Lady Paladins She has played for teams during the 2001-02 season and that main­ in France, Spain and Italy, taining a successful women's basketball experiences that have program is of the highest priority. enhanced her language "Since Coach Carter has let us know skills. And with the her intentions now, it will allow us to make Rockers, she has ridden the smoothest transition possible," he said. the WNBA roller coaster. "It will also give us the opportunity to focus Rushia Brown averaged 8.3 points and 4.4 rebounds In 1997, the Rockers on the job at hand, which is to win the per game for the Eastern Division champs last season. were one of the top teams Southern Conference championship this in the league. Then, after year and plan for the 2002-03 season." Clark said that Furman would conduct For the first time in five years, Rushia Brown a couple of lean years, they returned to a national search for a new coach and that took a vacation this fall. She made time to elite status in 2001 under second-year it was the university's goal to name a read, visit friends and family, travel to coach Dan Hughes, winning the Eastern successor to Carter shortly after the Jamaica and, in her words, "do absolutely Division with a 22-1 0 record. conclusion of the 2001-02 season. nothing." Brown, a frequent starter at forward, Carter became head coach in 1982. The rest and relaxation were well is a favorite among the team's fans, who After spending her first two seasons leading deserved. Since the Women's National show their appreciation by shouting the team at the NAIA level, she oversaw Basketball Association began in 1997, "ROOOOOSHA" when she enters the game the Lady Paladins' move to Division I during Brown's life has been a whirlwind of or makes an outstanding play. On the court, the 1984 -85 season. Entering this season, she has a record of 283-242 at Furman and globetrotting, hoops and hard courts. she is known for aggressive defense (she a 122-95 mark in Southern Conference play. During the last five years, Brown has generally draws the toughest assignment), Her teams won the league tournament and split her time between the Cleveland steady leadership and solid offense. berths in the NCAA tournament in 1995 and Rockers and a bevy of European teams. "Rushia, in my opinion, is the most 2000, and she has led the Lady Paladins By the time the WNBA season ended each underrated player in this league," says to four regular-season conference titles. year in late August, she already had her Hughes. "She has had an enormous impact Carter has been Southern Conference flight booked to Europe, where she would on our team and played a big role in our Coach of the Year three times and is a play until the end of April. Then she'd head success the past two seasons." winner of Furman's J. Lyles Alley Coach of back to Cleveland to prepare for the start Brown is the oldest person on a very the Year Award. She has been chair of the of the Rockers' season, which typically young team. Hughes says, 'The younger Southern Conference Basketball Committee since 1991 and is a contributing member begins in mid-May. girls really look up to her and learn from of the Women's Basketball Coaches That's about 70 games a year. And her. She's a vocal player who can com­ Association. this August, after the Rockers were upset municate with all players regardless of their in the first round of the WNBA playoffs by age." the Charlotte Sting, Brown knew that, at Brown, who shrugs off such compli­ 29, her body was feeling the stress from ments, has a healthy approach to her her nonstop schedule. job. "Basketball has given me the oppor­ A sociology major at Furman, she hopes "I had a lot of nagging injuries that were tunity to travel overseas, see other places to earn a master's degree and work as a bothering me," says Brown, a 1994 Furman and expand my horizons," she says. "Being child psychologist. But she's not planning graduate. "I just needed some rest." a part of the WNBA from the beginning to hang up the high-tops just yet. So, for the first time in five years, Brown has been incredible. It's fantastic that "I'm going to do this as long as I am decided to follow women's basketball in girls can come out and play in front of physically able," she says. "I am doing Europe through the Internet. But she says 15,000 people. But while basketball is something I love. If I were working nine to she will likely join a team in February, when great, I have other things that I want to five, I would be fighting to get on the court." many squads make roster adjustments. do after basketball." -John Roberts

35 Furmanalumni news

ALUMNI ACTIVITIES

SAC promotes loyalty Melanie Krone joins staff We welcome Melanie Krone '94 to the Alumni Association staff as associate director for off-campus programming. She will coordinate events for 50 furman is and always has been a Furman Clubs across the country and will be co-advisor huge partof my life. Both my parents of the Student Alumni Council. (Jane Heckert '73 and Brent Theiling Melanie has a master's degree in counseling from '72) and my brother (Jason '99) the University of Utah and comes to Furman from Greenville's We stin Poinsett Hotel. She has also been attended Furman, so I've long been an event coordinator with the Sundance Film Festival a Paladin fan. in Salt Lake City. When I was young we lived in Melanie takes over for We ndy Hamilton '98, who Columbia, S.C., and my dad and I leaves to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a made many trips to Greenville to nurse. We look forward to working with We ndy on watch Furman football. After games the Charlotte (N.C.) Furman Club steering committee ! my father, a former Paladin player, would walk me down to the field. Alumni College 2002 I rert:�emberonce when we Who isn't interested in achieving optimal health? coordinate programs for Home­ walked up and down the field and At Furman's Alumni College 2002, you'll attend coming. In addition to developing then just stopped on the 50-yard line. seminars and activities designed to help you learn to and organizing Founders Week, we balance the five components of wellness - mental, I looked at my father, who has always help the Alumni Association and social, emotional, physical and spiritual health. You 'll been a hero of mine, and watched as Development Office with fund-raising learn to manage stress and develop the right diet, and he smiled and his eyes danced. I and Furman Club events. you'll craft your own personal wellness plan that was too young to understand what I have learned many things from addresses each of the basic components. he was thinking, but I knew then that my work with SAC and the Alumni The first Alumni College last summer was a big I too wanted to be a "Purple Paladin." hit, and we believe this year's will be just as stimulating. Association. I have learned that After I enrolled at Furman, I Watch for news from the Alumni Office containing alumni love to hear about the latest quickly learned that college was more dates and complete program information. happenings at Furman, and that than just fun and glamour. I dis­ Furman students love to hear stories covered that classes were real, Travel programs set about Furman days of yore. (The The Alumni Association is sponsoring the following and that they could be quite hard. best ones begin with, "I was at the travel programs in 2002: Fortunately, I adjusted to the old campus when ...." ) I have Prague Deluxe Escapade, January 3D­ academic regimen - and found that learned that the Furman community February 6: Prague offers history, culture and Old Furman had plenty of other things extends well beyond its beautiful World charm. Enjoy one of Central Europe's most to offer as well. I became involved campus and that I am part of a interesting cities for a cost of approximately $1,495 with various organizations, including network that will always be willing to per person, based on double occupancy. the Student Alumni Council. Alumni College in Spain, May 27-June 4: help me. Like many other new members Experience J aen, Cordoba, Granada and other storied Lastly, I have learned that the of SAC, I initially questioned the areas. All meals, seminars and excursions are included smile my dad had at the football game importance of an alumni group within at a cost of approximately $2,095 per person, based is a look that many alumni get when the student body. And during my on double occupancy. recalling their Furman days. It is Alumni College in Norway, September 2-10: four years as a member, I've had a look of remembrance and amaze­ Learn Nordic legends and Viking lore while enjoying many students ask, "What exactly is ment, of longing and contentment. the beauty of snow-capped peaks, deep gorges and SAC?" More specifically, it is a look of pride thundering waterfalls. Cost is approximately $2,295 The Student Alumni Council's in what was, is and always will be a per person, based on double occupancy. main purpose is "to promote the great university. For more information, contact the Alumni interests and goals of Furman alumni Association, l-800-PURPLE3. while encouraging student loyalty to - Megan Theiling the university." SAC plans activities Send us your e-mail address The author, a senior communication If you would like to receive news and announce­ designed to appeal to both the studies major, is president of the student body and alumni. We join Student Alumni Council. ments from Furman via e-mail, please send a note to [email protected] and we'll add your address with FUSAB (Furman University to our growing e-mail directory. Student Activities Board) to CLASS NOTES FALL 2001

a chaplain with the Rock Hill took them to Costa Rica and industry as a customer service 35 Police Depmtment. Panama, and they were founders manager and a registered Charles Hard Townes, Nobel of the Foothills Hispanic lobbyist. Prize-winning physicist and 59 Ministries in Upstate South university professor emeritus at Next reunion in 2004 Carolina. 71 the University of Califomia, was Edgar 0. Horger Ill retired Next reunion in 2006 awarded an honorary Doctor of in January as distinguished 66 lillian Brock Flemming (M.A. Science degree by Harvard professor emeritus and former Next reunion in 2006 '75) of Greenville has been University at the school's 350th chair of the Department of Jean Jackson Ashley has retired elected second vice president of Commencement. Obstetrics and Gynecology at after 25 years of teaching the board of directors of the the Medical University of South English at Salem Academy in Municipal Association of South 37 Carolina. He will continue his Winston-Salem, N.C. Charles Carolina. Richard Cullen has lindsay Smith, who taught on active role in the American Carpenter, Jr., a shareholder in been named to the board of the Furman music faculty for 38 College of Obstetricians and the law firm of Richardson, visitors at Virginia Military years until his retirement in Gynecologists, which has Plowden, Carpenter & Institute. Robert Heckert, Jr., 1986, has retired for a second awarded him its Outstanding Robinson, P.A., in Columbia, retired from the U.S. Army as time, this time from Greenville's Faculty Award and Outstanding S.C., was recently elected to a colonel in July after more than Trinity Lutheran church as Service Aw ard. the board of directors of the 30 years of service. In August organist. American Academy of Appellate he became CEO of Daviess 61 Lawyers, an organization that Community Hospital in Next reunion in 2006 advances the highest standards Washington, Ind. 44 and practices of appellate After 50 years in the ministry, Elaine Jones Hudson of advocacy and that recognizes John T. James retired from Fountain Inn, S.C., was named outstanding appellate lawyers. 72 Tatum Ridge Baptist Church in 2000-200 I Teacher of the Ye ar Next reunion in 2002 Sarasota, Fla., in April. He and at Laurel Creek School. Michael Caldwell, global his wife of 50 years, Thelma, 67 director of brand knowledge for live in Rotonda We st, Fla., where 63 Next reunion in 2002 Nike, Inc., in Beaverton, Ore., he is available for supply Next reunion in 2003 Richard Capps has become recently received the company's senior pastor and missions Most Va luable Player Award for preaching and interim work. The fo urth edition of Jerry minister at Forsyth Park Baptist Global Information Technology. Thomas' graduate textbook, Church in Winston-Salem, Stephen Crapps has opened Research Methods in Physical 51 N.C. He was also Red Cross his own CPA firmin Greenville. Thomas C. Tu rner, retired Activity, has been issued. Vo lunteer of the Ye ar for North Stephen Crotts of Burlington, professor and chair of account­ Published by Human Kinetics, Carolina's Northeast Chapter. N.C., is director at the Carolina ing at the University of North the book is used by over 70 Alan Hill won the American Study Center in Chapel Hill, Carolina-Charlotte, received the percent of institutions in the Sociological Association Section N.C., through which he ministers Outstanding Educator Aw ard United States that teach the on Sociology and Computers to college campuses in the tri­ from the North Carolina Asso­ course. The third edition was Aw ard for distinguished state area. He recently went to ciation of Certified Public translated into Chinese and contributions to sociology Wittenburg, Germany, for a Accountants. Japanese. Thomas chairs the instruction. He is chair of the professional study leave. Department of Health and sociology department at Delta Human Performance at Iowa College in University Center, 54 State University. 73 Next reunion in 2004 Mich. Next reunion in 2003 Based on her commitment to Neel Hipp has been appointed and involvement in education in 64 to the Airport Authority in the Knoxville (Tenn.) City Next reunion in 2004 68 Next reunion in 2003 Greenville. Robert Landreth Schools and her community John P. Cardillo of Naples, Fla., Peggy McMillan Davis of of We st Columbia, S.C., has service work with various has received the G. Kirk Haas Winston-Salem, N.C., has retired retired after 33 years of work organizations, Ann Hurst Sneed Humanitarian Aw ard from the from public school teaching and in state government with the was named the 200 I Fountain Florida Bar in recognition of his is working part time at Forsyth S.C. Army National Guard, the City Woman of the Year. "abiding respect for and work Te chnical Community College, Office of the Governor and the on behalf of others." He is in teaching English as a second S.C. Employment Security his ninth year on the Board of language to adults. Carol Commission. 58 Governors representing the Next reunion in 2003 Keller Evans has been named 20th Judicial Circuit. On the Lewis Vehaun has retired after Teacher of the Year for 2001- occasion of their retirement this 74 nearly 28 years as pastor of 2002 at Gadsden Elementary summer as Southern Baptist Next reunion in 2004 Emmanuel Church in Rock Hill, School in Richland County missionaries, Jackie Cooper and Dave Koss is an account S.C. He currently serves as vice (S.C.) School District One. his wife , Arlene, were honored supervisor with Jackson-Dawson president and president elect Julie Wood Harbin and her by the International Mission Marketing Communications of the South Carolina Law husband, Joe, have retired to Board for over 30 years of in Greenville. Ellie Sturgis Enforcement Association and as Murrells Inlet, S.C. Julie spent service. Their evangelistic work has been named the dean of 29 years in the aerospace 37 a daughter, Anna Michelle, School, and he works in the Furmanalumni news born June 27, 2000; adopted traffic bureau of the City of November 8, 2000, Greenville. Greenville. • BIRTH: Robert and Anne Prim, a daughter, CLASS NOTES FALL 01, cont. 79 Elizabeth Louise, February 9, Next reunion in 2004 Sautee Nacoochee, Ga. Robert is pastor of Nacoochee Presby­ Leigh Coulter has been promoted terian Church. to lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves and selected for We sthampton College at the The Buckhead Coalition, a command of the 724th MP 82 University of Richmond (Va.). nonprofit civic organization that Battalion in Fort Lauderdale, Next reunion in 2002 seeks to "nurture the quality of Fla. • Edie Moore McGee of Theresa Lanius Barton of Silver life" in Atlanta, Ga. • Eveline Chesapeake Beach, Md., is Spring, Md., is senior system 75 Miller, assistant secretary at an associate with Piliero, Mazza engineer with BAE System Inc. Next reunion in 2005 Normandale Baptist Church in & Pargament, PLLC. • • Timothy Elder owns a RFJMax Fort Worth, Texas, and her ADOPTION: Susan Elizabeth franchise in Greenville. • In May, Sharon Moore Lunsford husband, Paul, took part in a Lawrence, Steven Faucette is employed in completed her master's degree a daughter, Marina prayer walking trip to Zimbabwe technical support with Lucas in comparative government and Grace, born August 7, 2000, in and South Africa in July. The Systems in Greenville. • John politics and is now pursuing a Russia; adopted June 18. Susan two-week trip was part of the Lockwood, Ph.D. in the same field. She is is vice chair for undergraduate quality assurance International Mission Board's manager for AtheroGenics, Inc., a senior paralegal with Block­ studies and an associate pro­ 2001 Pray for Africa emphasis. buster, Inc., in Fort Worth, Texas. fessor in the Department of in Alpharetta, Ga., has com­ • Angus Poole is employed in • Michael Rice, a voice Political Science at Rutgers pleted a Master of Science sales with Mohawk Industries, degree in quality assurance from instructor at the Greenville Fine University. Inc., of Orangeburg, S.C. • Arts Center, was named Teacher Southern Polytechnic State Stacy Sauls, bishop of the University and has also been of the Week by The Greenville Episcopal diocese of Lexington, 80 certified as a quality auditor News in May. He also received Next reunion in 2005 Ky., received an honorary Doctor by the American Society for a 20-year service award for his Sharon Crawley Bramlett, an of Divinity degree from New Quality. • BIRTH: Andy work with young singers in the attorney in the McNair Law Firm York's General Theological and Karen Arnold White, a Greenville School District. in Columbia, S.C., has been Seminary in October. The daughter, Emma Louise, April appointed to a two-year term on University of the South in 16, Columbia, S.C. the Council of Advisors on 76 Sewanee, Tenn., will award him Consumer Credit. • William Next reunion in 2006 an honorary degree in January. Conrad was elected last spring Roy Crabtree of Tallahassee, • BIRTH: Donnie and Ann to the school board of Lake Fla., became director of the Woodfin Hodge, a daughter, Forest (Ill.) High School. He is Florida Fish and Wildlife Emily Grace, May 4, Landrum, marketing manager for Abbott Conservation Commission's S.C. Division of Marine Fisheries Laboratories. • Scott Sellers has been named president and June I. He has worked in the George E. Linney, Jr. '65, president; field of marine science in South 78 CEO of First Bank of Dalton, Pamela Underwood Thomason '76, Next reunion in 2003 MARRIAGE: Carolina, Florida and Virginia Ga . • Wanda president-elect; James H. Simkins, Jr. '78, Michael W. Armistead has vice president; Norma Karlen Bagwell '45; and most recently held positions Ballenger and Mike Ponthieux, become senior pastor at Jack E. Powers '56; Bret Alan Clark '88; with the Florida Marine February 3. Wanda is assistant Julia Meeks Glenn '63; Rebecca Pullin Lowcountry Presbyterian director of Haynsworth School Research Institute and the Kay '86; Robert E. Poerschke '41 ; Ronald Church in Bluffton, S.C. • and Mike is a jeweler and owner National Marine Fisheries L. Walker '84; Diane Maroney Estridge Mabry Binnicker is in real estate Service. • Gary Parker has of Ponthieux's Jewelry Design '66; Joe E. Gentry '53; Hal E. Henderson sales with Preferred Properties become senior pastor at First Studio. They live in Greenville. '92; Jenna C. Robinson '74; Brian H. Fenn of Key We st, Fla. He has com­ '91 ; Donald H. Lindsey '54; Catherine Baptist Church of Decatur, Ga. pleted two terms as president of Hunter Hightower '55; Randolph Williams He formerly worked with the Lambda Democrats of Key West 81 Blackwell '63; Elizabeth Jean Howard '81 ; Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Next reunion in 2006 Catherine Rakestraw Smith '92; Mickey and is a founding member of Robert Whitlow received the Frederick P. Armstrong IV has Arthur Walker '55; John R. Cassady '62; Key West Frontrunners. • Christy Aw ard for his novel The left the tennis business after 20 Harriet Arnold Wilburn '74; Paul B. Nix, Jr. Belinda Reynolds Bowen of '77; David M. Schilli '85; Rebecca Hood Tr ial. The award, named in years and is in his first year as Virginia Beach, Va., joined Becherer '89; Steven B. Smith '83; Ginger honor of Catherine Marshall, a seventh grade math teacher at Norfolk Academy in August as Malone Sauls '75. a pioneer in Christian fiction Bonita Middle School in Naples, a music specialist. • After over and the author of Christy, was Fla. • Lisa Parsons Herndon of Ex-Officio: David E. Shi '73, president; 16 years in private practice, developed to recognize Christian Atlanta, Ga., has completed an Donald J. Lineback, vice president for Carolyn Dodd Fields, along with novels of exceptional quality and E.M.B.A. degree through a development; Donald E. Fowler, director Marisa Norvell, has opened Paris of development; Shannon Wilkerson impact. corporate in-house program with View Family Practice Healthcare Wilson '93, director of Alumni Association; BellSouth and the Kennesaw Providers in Greenville. Fields' Melanie Krone '94, associate director State University Coles School of Alumni Association; Jason Curtin, 77 special interests include diabetes, of Business. She works in associate director of Alumni Association; Next reunion in 2002 migraines and women's issues. market intelligence with Phil Howard, director of Furman Fund; After 20 years with Airborne • MARRIAGE: Hazel Cingular Wireless. • Julie William J. Lavery, faculty liaison; David G. Express, Jimmy Baker of Monteith and BurtonPardue '82, Ellison '72, trustee liaison; Katie Clerkin Woods Johnson is a store Woodstock, Ga., has joined March 9. They live in Columbia, Benston '92, president, Yo ung Alumni manager for Something Special AFMS Transportation Manage­ S.C., where she is senior systems Council; David Hicklin '02, president, in Ta mpa, Fla . • MARRIAGE: Senior Class; Beau Seagraves '02, ment Group as a transportation analyst with SCANA and he is Patricia Ann Crowe and James president, Association of Furman Students; consultant. • John Holder, minister of music at Greenlawn Robert Heatherly, July 28, Megan Theiling '02, president, Student chairman and CEO of Holder Baptist Church. • Greenville. She teaches at Alumni Council. Properties, has been accepted as ADOPTION: Mark and Mitchell Road Elementary a new member and director of Kathryn Hatfield Zeigler, Furman's response to the events of September 11 in New 83 York, Washington and Pennsylvania took a variety of forms. Next reunion in 2003 September 11: A memorial service was held on campus September 12, Vicki Boyer Denfeld of South Furman's and hundreds of students, faculty and staff visited Daniel Riding, Va., is director of Chapel, where a memorial candle burned, for prayer and national sales and marketing for meditation. Students posted prayers and messages in the KSL Resorts, a company that response area between Furman and Plyler halls, and Phi Mu Alpha owns and manages golf resorts. • David Guyton, a major in the Sinfonia presented a concertto benefit the Red Cross. Among S.C. Army National Guard, other events, faculty held seminars and discussion programs, the university sponsored a blood drive, recently completed the U.S. and a weeklong colloquium addressed the topic "Beyond To lerance: Appreciating Religious Diversity." Army Command and General Furman created Web pages to record its response to the crisis and to allow alumni and friends Staff College. In addition to his in the affected areas to inform each other about their situations and those of other members of the practice in the Rock Hill, S.C., Furman family. The Web addresses are: www.furman.edu/admin/univrel/press/message9_1 7.htm law firm of Harrelson Hayes & Guyton, he is an associate city for university news; www.furman.edu/giving/tragedynews.htm for alumni reports. judge for Rock Hill. • John Kierspe is manager of Light­ has become minister of edu- painting and commissions. Dunwoody, Ga., and is studying house Products, Inc., a cation at Riverland Hills Baptist Chuck Quarles was promoted by for her master's degree in management consulting firm Church in the Lexington (S.C.) SchlumbergerSema Utilities in interrelated special education. in Lanzhou, Gansu, China. • Association. Kent lgleheart, April to information technology • Jim Foley of Coral Springs, Sharon Rhoads Lockwood, coordinator of Clean Cities of manager of the company's Fla., has been promoted from a hotel manager for Marriott Atlanta, Ga., has been named Norcross, Ga., facility. • Warren loan officer to senior vice International, has moved from 200 I Clean Cities Coordinator Schatzle of Lawrenceville, Ga., president and regional manager southern California to the East of the Year by the U.S. Depart- is lead general manager with the with First Union Bank. Coast. • Mary Kate Bagwell ment of Energy. Clean Cities Day Hospitality Group. Michele Miller Papotto of Reese is in private practice as is a national public-private Deborah Nelson Smith is Lilburn, Ga., is executive a licensed professional counselor partnership of more than 80 co-author of The Complete assistant to the dean at Emory and counselor educator at cities working to build markets Graduate, published by University School of Law. • Atlanta (Ga.) North Center for for alternative fuel vehicles. • Houghton Mifflin. She has Kimberly Preacher is a high Change. • Ron Singleton Nancy Roney Khan, a senior started a three-year term as school guidance counselor with became pastor of Inman (S.C.) research coordinator in the a deacon at First Presbyterian the Charlotte-Mecklenburg United Methodist Church in School of Nursing of the Church in Marietta, Ga. • Ruth (N.C.) Schools. • Trina Steele BIRTHS: June. • Andrew and University of Pennsylvania, Swindell of Charleston, S.C., is an occupational therapist with Melissa Gammon, a son, returned to school in January has become bookkeeper for Brotman Medical Center in Brandon Robert, July 3, and is enrolled in Penn's Master Congregation Beth Elohim, the Culver City, Calif. BIRTHS: Orlando, Fla. Andrew is an of Environmental Science home of Reform Judaism in the Ken and Sharon Tartaglia account representative with Program. • Roger Thomas United States . • BIRTHS: Hughes, a son, Colin Ty ler, June Horace Mann Insurance recently became pastor of Fred and Nanette Daily '87 17, Thorofare, N.J. • Mark and Company. • Brian and Cherri Northeast Baptist Church of Bosse, a son, Jared Scott, May Anne Huntley Uhlfelder, a son, Langston Harvey, a daughter, Atlanta, Ga . • BIRTHS: Bill 2, Raleigh, N.C. Fred is Joshua, December 5, 2000, Salleigh Lauren, June 7, 2000, and Lynn Jolly Seybolt, a son, employed in the information Aspen, Colo. Simpsonville, S.C. Andrew Ty ler, May 15, Atlanta, technology department at John Ga. • Peter '87 and Sue Stalling Deere and Nanette owns 88 84 St. Martin, a son, Matthew Nanny's Nursery. • Bill and Next reunion in 2003 Rosse!, July 9, Roswell, Ga. Kathryn Lyons Brannan, Next reunion in 2004 Thomas Bradley Bechtold has a son, Charles Witherspoon, David Rivers of Raleigh, N.C., become director of Continuing December 19, 2000, Ta mpa, is president of Dignus, LLC, Education at Furman. Since 86 Fla. • Kevin and Audra Esval, a privately owned company that Next reunion in 2006 1996, he has been employed at a son, Brennen Patrick, July 9, specializes in mainframe com­ Bryan Holt of Orlando, Fla., is Greenville Te chnical College as BIRTH: Nashville, Te nn. Kevin is presi- puter tools. • King a senior project manager with assistant dean of Continuing dent of Ve locity Health Capital, and Beverly Smith, a daughter, IBM Global Services. • In Education and executive director Inc., a boutique investment bank Mary-Margaret Burnett, June October, Nina Lewis-Guza of of The Management Center. • focused on the health care sector. 30, Anderson, S.C. King is an Greenville participated in the Lemar Bell has moved to Fort • Clayton and LeeAnn Hedgpeth attorney/partner in the Anderson Avon Breast Cancer Walk, a Lauderdale, Fla., where he works '90 Hendrix, a son, William firm of Long & Smith. fund-raiser in which participants as assistant director for McDaniel, December 6, 2000, walked 60 miles in three days. residential life at Florida Taylors, S.C. • Tom and • The Board of Commissioners Memorial College. • Larry 85 LeDayne McLeese '89 Polaski, Next reunion in 2005 of the South Carolina Arts Grady is athletic director and a daughter, Katherine Rebecca, Randy Collins of Duluth, Ga., Commission has awarded Terri assistant head football coach June 4, Charlotte, N.C. is president of The Strategies McCord of Greenville a $7,500 at White Knoll High School in Group, a software sales, training Artist Fellowship for poetry. Columbia, S.C. • Cathy Anton and consulting company. • The award recognizes superior 87 Hudson of Greer, S.C., is an Scott Fitzgeraldof Euless, Texas, artistic merit. Terri has published Next reunion in 2002 independent beauty consultant formerly international marketing her work in such journals as Charles Duke Ill was recently with Mary Kay Cosmetics. • manager for Bell Helicopter Cream City Review, Comstock named a partner with Elliott Eric Nebiker is a geographic Textron, is now the company's Review and Cimarron Review. Davis LLP in Greenville. He is information systems analyst senior manager for international • Donna Duke Morrison of a member of the firm's corporate with the Southern Nevada Water military programs. • Jeff Gallup Ta mpa, Fla., has sold her finance group. • Karen Irene Authority in Las Ve gas. • of Orlando, Fla., is an assistant computer graphic design Ehmer is a special education BIRTHS: Jay and Carol principal in the Orange County business to devote more time teacher at Chamblee (Ga.) Springs King , a son, Isaac Public Schools. • Tim Hawkins to portrait painting, landscape Middle School. She lives in Dennis Auld, May 23, 39 Atlanta, Ga. • Todd and Monica Tu nnell, an attorney in the utility, Furmanalumni news Zoeller Henderson, a son, Davis legislative and regulatory section Edward, April 10, Louisville, of Balch & Bingham LLP in Ky. • David and Kristen Birmingham, Ala., has become CLASS NOTES FALL 01, cont. Boudreaux Maxfield, a son, Alex a partner in the firm. Keith David, June 6, Columbia, S.C. Ward of Grayson, Ga., is • Dennis and Christi Barfield executive vice president of McDaniel, a daughter, Emily, Professional Probation Services, Hartsville, S.C. Christi is an Inc. He was fo rmerly the com­ Campobello, S.C. Carol is an To dd is CEO of the Health attorney in the Wukela Law pany's director of standards and MARRIAGE: associate veterinarian with Blue Adventure, a science and health Firm. • Ken and Martha training . • Lori Ridge Animal Hospital. museum for children, and Keri Villanueva Milam, a son, Joshua Wyndham and Stephen Jolly, Robert and Susan Labriola, a is completing her Master of Davis, January 25, Newnan, Ga. September 2000. They live in daughter, Elizabeth Marie, Divinity degree at Baptist • Graham and Erica Berry Pifer, Reading, Berkshire, United BIRTHS: January 17, Cross River, N.Y. • Theological Seminary. a daughter, Grace Elizabeth, Kingdom . • Bill and Chris and Jan Ingold '89 Speaks, Mark and Gaby Bustos Brucker, January 29, Duluth, Ga. • Cindy Smith Geiger, a daughter, twin daughters, Hannah and a daughter, Susana Marie, Charlie and Beth Wylie '92 Emily Ann, December 14, 2000, Samantha, April 25, Simp­ September 9, 2000, Augusta, Ga. Poag, a daughter, Nancy Columbia, S.C. Cindy is sonville, S.C. Jan is a therapist • Jerry and Viki Stephens, a Holroyd, July 2, Sumter, S.C. • employed by HealthSouth with Vaughn, Buchanan and son, Maxwell John, May 5, Henry and Robyn Jowers Rehabilitation Hospital and Bill Shelley in Greenville. • Matt Doraville, Ga. JeiTY is territory Wilcox, a son, Jack William, is with Geiger Properties. • and Stephanie Webster, a son, sales manager for Georgia August 18, 2000. Robyn is Zack and Heather Dunlap Pace, Carson Matthew, August 6, Diamond Corporation. promotion manager for Leslie a son, Robert Terry, May 18, Hilton Head Island, S.C. Advertising Agency in Lexington, S.C. • Noel and Greenville. Frankie James Painter, a son, 90 Aidan Thomas, April 22, 89 Next reunion in 2005 DeLand, Fla. • Scott and Next reunion in 2004 Shannon Roberts Bergman 91 Next reunion in 2006 Randye Quick Polk, a son, Clay Grat Correll, a physician at teaches mathematics at Lake Garrison, May 5, Greensboro, In July, Wanda Burton Midtown Medical Center in Brantley High School in N.C. • Hugh and Barbara Crutchfield left the pastorate of Bristol, Te nn., was named Altamonte Springs, Fla. • Koosa Ryan, a son, James Hugh Menokin Baptist Church in Outstanding Preceptor of the Donald and Emily Mustacchia IV, April 30, Elgin, S.C. Barbara Henderson, N.C., to become Year by East Tennessee State '91 Butler live in Charlotte, N.C., is a CPA/tax manager with executive director of Area University's James H. Quillen where Emily is administrative Arthur Andersen, LLP. • Bryan Christians Together in Service College of Medicine. The award group head with First Union and Sarah Craig Stanley, a son, of Vance County, Inc. • is sponsored by the U.S. Navy Securities, Inc. • Mike Clark of Porter Alexander, February 3, Chris Ferrell is president of and the recipient is chosen by Cumming, Ga., is district parts Clearwater, Fla. the first- and second-year manager for PACCAR Inc. • MarketingOps in Nashville, medical students at the school. Laura Marie Haley-Creel earned Tenn., and is in his second term • Ronald Craig has been both M.S. and Ed.S. degrees in on the Nashville City Council. 92 promoted to advisory software professional counseling and now • In addition to being an Next reunion in 2002 engineer with IBM Corporation has a full fe llowship at Auburn executive assistant with the Steven and Robin Bryant live in in Pittsboro, N.C. • David University, where she is pursuing Florida Association of Insurance Houston, Texas, where he is Detwiler is head tennis coach a Ph.D. in counseling psychol­ Agents, Julia Frierson Freeman operations manager for Exxon and director of the Duchossois ogy. • In June, Tracy Hulsey is past president of the Talla­ Mobil Corporation and she is Tennis Center at Washington & joined the Greenville law firm hassee Community Chorus, a director ofplanning with Kaiser Lee University in Lexington, Va . of Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler choral society of approximately Aluminum. • In May, Allison Christopher Flynn of North & Krupman. She represents 200 singers. She holds a Master Davis became marketing director Richland Hills, Te xas, has started employers in employment of Arts Administration degree for Kathwood Place, an assisted Flynn Creative, a graphic design litigation. Paula Lollis of from the Florida State University living community in Columbia, business. Chandler Park Easley, S.C., works with the School of Music. • In May, S.C. • Dawn Goffinet Mclaren, Francis has been elected vice legal department of American Melissa Guynn received her chair and originator of "Caroling president for Wachovia Bank, To wer Corporation in Green­ Ph.D. in cognitive psychology for the Cure," which was held NA, in Raleigh, N.C. • Angelo ville. • Lance Roper became from the University of New last December at Furman, works Richardson and his wife, district general manager with Mexico. She is an assistant with the Upstate affiliate of the Brenda, are serving in the U.S. Canteen Vending Services in professor in the Department of Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil, as Columbia, S.C., in March. • Psychology at New Mexico State Foundation. • Rick Owens is career diplomats. • Wade Vinod Thourani of Norcross, Ga., University in Las Cruces. • working toward national board Sexton finished a urological a surgeon at Emory University Christina Littlejohn, executive certification and is a band oncology fellowship at M.D. Hospital, has been accepted to director of the Mobile (Ala.) director at Carmel Middle Anderson Cancer Center in a three-year cardiothoracic Symphony Orchestra, received School in Charlotte, N.C. Mac Houston, Texas, in June. He surgical fe llowship at the the Helen M. Thompson Award and Anne Bauwens-Sams have lives in San Antonio, Texas, and hospital. MARRIAGES: from the American Symphony moved to Atlanta, Ga., where is a urologist in the U.S. Air Emily Radford and Matthew Hill, Orchestra League at the group's she is a Spanish and French Force assigned to the Wilford June 2000. They live in Plano, convention in Seattle, Wash. teacher at the We stminster Hall Medical Center at Lack! and Texas. Gina Wilkie and The award recognizes achieve­ Schools and he is an anesthesi­ Air Force Base. Laura Spahn Gregory Gaillard, June 30. They ment and promise in orchestral ologist at St. Joseph's Hospital. lives in Potomac Falls, Va., and live in Albuquerque, N.M. • management and includes a • To ny Smith and his wife, Lisa, works as a flight attendant with BIRTHS: Mike '91 and Cindy $1,000 gift. Christina has been live in Finchville, Ky., where he United Airlines. BIRTHS: Holt Baxley, a son, Andrew Holt, with the Mobile orchestra since serves as pastor of Finchville To dd and Keri Matthews January ll, Greer, S.C. • Rick 1996 and has been a leader in Baptist Church. Lisa is activities Boyette, a son, Colin Matthews, and Melanye Hays '91 Cravey, expanding the orchestra's budget manager for Marriott's Forum August II, 2000, Asheville, N.C. a son, Samuel Lee, July 7, 2000, and programs. • Andrew at Brookside, a senior living community in Louisville. tices general liability and Jason Underwood received his workers' compensation defense Furman M.B.A. degree in May from the with the law firm of McAngus, Babcock School of Management Goudelock & Courie. • In th of Wake Forest University. He addition to serving as assistant is a financial manager with R.J. chorusmaster with the Cleveland Reynolds. Clint Wa lker (Ohio) Opera, Emily Jarrell (M.S. '93) of Cambridge, Mass., works with a couple of smaller is a senior manager working performing companies in the in research with Aventis Cleveland area and also free­ Pharmaceuticals. • lances as a coach and accom­ MARRIAGES: Elizabeth panist. Duke Labasi, Jr., of Chapin and Brent Taylor, Eatontown, N.J., has become a December 2000. She is presi­ division operations officer with Special anniversary offerings dent of Hutcheson Health the U.S. Army and is also a Foundation in Fort Oglethorpe, middle school wrestling coach. Ga. • David Lafferty and Lisa • Alexander Stubb, who has Furman published four books and a double compact Ann Apodaca, June 9, Las worked at the Finnish Ministry disc this fall as part of the commemoration of its 175th Cruces, N.M. He is finance for Foreign Affairs in Helsinki anniversary. manager for Coca-Cola's New and most recently in Brussels, Mexico operation and she is a is now working at the European The music department's double CD, titled "A Musical manager at Buchanan, Clarke, Commission as advisor to Celebration of 175 Years," features 27 selections from Schlader LLP, a forensic President Prodi . • BIRTHS: faculty and student ensembles, ranging from the Furman accounting firm. They live in Jonathan and Blair Hines Bailey, Symphony Orchestra and Furman Singers to the Sym­ Corrales, N.M. • Jen Sonnati a son, Connor Quin, April 3, phonic Band and Bell To wer Boys. Cost: $7.95, plus and Pete Eisenmann. They live Charlotte, N.C. Jonathan in Aiken, S.C., where she is completed his residency in shipping and handling. accounting assistant with obstetrics and gynecology at The four books: Dogwood Stable, Inc. • Derrick Carolinas Medical Center in • Academy and College: The History of Furman P. Stanley and Jewell Robinson, Charlotte and has moved to University's Wo man 's College, by Judith T. Bainbridge. June 30, Lugoff, S.C. He is Greenville, where he practices project coordinator for the with Greenville OB/GYN. Published by Mercer University Press, the book is a social Crandall Corporation. • Liane Gorrell and Katharine Nixon and institutional history that focuses on Southern women's Wager and Joel MacMillan, June Cheek, a daughter, Araminta changing collegiate experience and the college's relation­ 16. They live in Edgewood, Virginia, April 25, Charlotte, ship to the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Bainbridge N.M., where Liane is a speech­ N.C. • Jeffrey N. and Ashley is director of educational services and professor of English language pathologist at Edge­ Moore Clary, a daughter, wood Elementary School. • Margaret Leigh, May 2, at Furman. Cost: $39.95, plus shipping and handling. BIRTHS: Dan and Carolyn Spartanburg, S.C. Peter and • What Really Matters ? A Collection of Lectures LaMontagne Hefko, a daughter, Lisa Cassell Doering, a son, in the L.D. Johnson Series, edited by Thomas 0. Buford. Claire Elizabeth, October 9, Christopher Noah, February 22, The L.D. Johnson Lecture Series began in 1982 to honor 2000, Rantoul, III. Dan teaches Munich, Germany. • Craig and Amy Phillips '95 Harp, the memory of a former Furman chaplain and Baptist rhetoric and composition at the a son, University of Illinois, and Brooks Pemberton, May 2, 2000, leader. The essays, all delivered by members of the Carolyn does freelance editing Colorado Springs, Colo. Craig, Furman family, express deeply held personal beliefs that and writing. • James McCoy­ an area manager for We lls form the character of each author and portray how each Bruce and Ashley Nicole McCoy Fargo, was transferred from works through the title question. Buford is the Louis G. '95 Bruce, a son, Thomas James, Greensboro, N.C., to Colorado April 5. James is pastor of Springs last spring. • David and Forgione Professor of Philosophy at Furman. The publisher Monaghan United Methodist Cammie Jones, a daughter, is Smyth & Helwys. Cost: $25, plus shipping and handling. Church in Greenville and Ashley Mary Ellen, February 20, • Michelin Tra vel Guide to Greenville, Furman is United Methodist campus Augusta, Ga. • Lane and Tracy University, and the Carolina Foothills. Published in minister at Fum1an. • Chadwick Doster Jones, a daughter, Keller conjunction with Michelin Travel Publications, the 96-page '93 and Elizabeth Watkins Mackenzie, January 10, Thomas, a daughter, Morgan Matthews, N.C. • Ryan and guidebook is filled with historical highlights and photos of Elizabeth, July 26, To ledo, Ohio. Pamela Clay Livezey, a daughter, Furman, plus information on the attractions, events and • Andrew '93 and Carolyn Cook Amelia Margaret, May 16, dining opportunities in Greenville and the surrounding Weeks, a son, Jackson William, Norcross, Ga. • John and area. Cost: $4.95, plus shipping and handling. June 2, Columbus, Ohio. Ashley Russell McCaa, a son, John William, July 20, 2000, • Field Guide to the Furman Habitat. Biology Atlanta, Ga. Bob and Becky professors Travis Perry and Joseph Pollard were joined Spieker '94 Metzger, a daughter, by Lynsey Peterson '01, photographer Adam Drury '01 93 Next reunion in 2003 Katelyn Reeves, July 12, Charlotte, N.C. • Jorge and illustrator Kate Ingram '03 in compiling this guide to Lewis Bozard became associate and Tracie Bishop Roman, the flora and fauna of the campus. Cost: $7.95, plus minister with Trenholm Road a son, Jorge IV, June 10, San shipping and handling. United Methodist Church in Antonio, Texas. • Michael Columbia, S.C., in June. He These items, plus 175th anniversary lapel pins ($1 .95) and Helen Sling luff White, a son, works primarily with singles, and a 30-minute video of Furman's history ($7.95), James Slingluff White, May 4, new members, college ministry Durham, N.C. are available from the Furman bookstore by calling and missions. • Mark Davis (864) 294-2164 or visiting www.bookstore.Furman.edu. of Mount Pleasant, S.C., prac-

41 his wife, Kim, who have been Jones, Walker, Waechter, Furmanalumni news living overseas, have returned Potevant, Denegre and Carrere to the States and live in in New Orleans, La. John is a Hingham, Mass. Barbara general surgeon at the Louisiana CLASS NOTES FA LL 01, cont. Hendrika Doeleman Luccia State University School of received her doctoral degree Medicine. • Becca Tyn dall and from Clemson University's A. James Cipriani, May 5. They College of Agriculture, Forestry live in Nashville, Tenn. • Anne and Life Sciences in August. • Wilson and John Jordan, May his Ph.D. in Spanish at Florida Keith Matthews has moved from 19. Anne is a physician assistant State University. Celine received Arizona to Wo odstock, Ga., at the Carolinas Medical Center 94 where he teaches band at in Lancaster, S.C. • BIRTHS: Next reunion in 2004 her Master of Architecture Wo odstock High School. • Peter and Erin Smith '96 Alter, David J. Cook of Snellville, Ga., degree in urban design from Travis Miller, offensive coor­ a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, has opened his own company, Harvard University in June. • dinator for the football team at December 1 I, 2000, Orange Cook Appraisal, Inc., a real Jenn Overcast and Todd Lane, Blacksburg (S.C.) High School, Park, Fla. Peter is a behavior estate appraisal and sales May 200 I. Jenn has earned her has been named head basketball resource teacher at Fleming business. • Susie Teate Glass, Ph.D. in bioanalytical chemistry coach at the school. • Judith Island Elementary School. • formerly manager of sales from Georgia Tech and works Everett Moody of Cashiers, N.C., Michael and Laura Thompson support with Mayer Electric for Cibavision in Duluth, Ga. • is pursuing a master's degree in Burns, a son, Michael Walker, Supply in Norcross, Ga., is now BIRTHS: Scott and Mary Beth history at We stern Carolina April 30, Greenville. Laura is division accounts payable Jones Adams, a daughter, Sarah University. • Mary Beth Ponder senior manager for business manager. • Kevin McCord Taylor, February 5. They live Nesbitt is studying in the development with the Greater completed his M.B.A. degree at in Southeast Asia. • Jason and EMT!Paramedic Department of Greenville Chamber of the University of Georgia in May Sarah Clifford Mullis, a daughter, Greenville Technical College. • Commerce. • Joe and Ellie and now works in the corporate Sarah Claire, July 3, Greenville. Derek Oliver, who has been Corbett Hammond, twin sons, development program of the Sarah is a school psychologist working on a Ph.D. in clinical Neal Julian and Ethan Charles, international division of Liberty in Spartanburg County Schools. psychology at Miami (Ohio) April 21, Travelers Rest, S.C. • Mutual Insurance Company in • David and Kami Preston, a University, has moved to Chad and Virginia lister, a son, Boston, Mass. Nash Pearson daughter, Adeline Elizabeth, Gainesville, Fla., where he will Rett, November 24, 2000, McCutchen of Richmond, Va., May 30, Johnson City, Te nn. • complete his internshipwith the Easley, S.C. Chad is head has left the Virginia Opera to Brad and Lila Anna Sauls, a son, North Florida/South Georgia basketball coach at Eastside pursue a Master of A11s degree Michael Clarendon, August 1, Ve terans Health System. He High School. • Bernhard and in interpretation at Gallaudet Columbia, S.C. presented a paper in Sydney, Rebecca Deming Rumpf, a son, University. ill Melissa Liles Australia, in July. • Lydia Lars Bernhard, December 26, Mills has begun a pediatrics 95 Pettigrew of Greenville has 2000, Charlotte, N.C. residency at Richland Memorial Next reunion in 2005 completed her M.Ed. degree. Hospital in Columbia, S.C. • John Barton is enrolled in the Her husband, Brent Roberts, has Kristi Adair Nixon is a senior Sloan School of Business at begun work on an M.F.A. degree 96 research scientist at Rio Grande Next reunion in 2006 Massachusetts Institute of at Clemson University. • Medical Technologies in Amy Parsons Breazeale (M.A. Technology. • Michelle Martin Jeff Sexton is director of manu­ Albuquerque, N.M. • Chad '0 I) is a first grade teacher at Burnett of North Augusta, S.C., facturing for the Dyersburg Simmons of Hoover, Ala., is an Dacusville Elementary School served as tournament coor­ (Tenn.) Corporation. • Scott account representative for Ty co in Pickens County, where she dinator for the Asahi Ryokuken Weikle began his residency Healthcare Kendall. • Tywaun was named Teacher of the Ye ar International Championship, a in internal medicine in the Tillman of Rochester, Minn., for 2001-02. • Chip Cole, Jr., new Ladies Professional Golf Greenville Hospital System in has completed his residency in is a third-year student at Association tournament. • July. His wife, Leslie Edwards internal medicine at the Mayo Cumberland School of Law Matthew Dwyer is a fifth-year '97 Weikle, is an account Clinic and is now on staffthere. at Samford University in doctoral student in counseling executive with WYFF-TV. • • MARRIAGES: Lisl Patricia Birmingham, Ala. • Robert psychology at Montana State Jay Weyer works as a sales Behrend (M.A.) and Bryan Chan Fiore recently joined Alza University in Bozeman. • In consultant with Premier Windham, July 14, Greenville, Pharmaceutical as a sales addition to being a librarian Beverage Company in Palm S.C. They live in Greenville, representive. • Ted Haddock in the Darien (Conn.) Public Harbor, Fla., and coaches a youth where she teaches elementary of Bloomington, Ind., has Schools, Karen Evans is a soccer team. • MARRIAGES: school and he is sales manager completed his M.F.A. degree professional singer. She traveled John Maxwell and Jennifer at House of Raeford. • Ransom in photography at Indiana with a group to Europe this Meredith Guthrie '98, May 19. Gladwin and Celine B. Hardan, University and works as a summer as a soloist for Mozart's Meredith, who graduated from July 28, Miami, Fla. They live freelance photographer with "Coronation Mass" and Vivaldi's Washington & Lee Law School, in Tal lahassee, Fla., where he is a humanitarian emphasis. • "Gloria." • Mark Jennings and is an attorney with the firm of a teaching fe llow working on Davidson Hall is studying for an M.B.A. degree in finance at Va nderbilt University. • Ashley Holmes of Columbia, S.C., is an eighth grade science teacher at Sandhills Middle School in Lexington County. • Jay and Jennifer Mendenhall Jackson have moved to Orlando, Fla., where he is project supervisor for Tharp Plumbing Systems and she teaches fourth grade. • Amy Love works in Bonn, Germany, as an English teacher. She is assisting in the opening of a new Diego, Calif., area. He is a Navy Greenville law firm of degree in collaborative piano language school for German Seal and she is a teacher. • Haynsworth, Sinkler & Boyd. fromthe University of Maryland, business people. • Meredith BIRTHS: Mark and Anne Kelly • Paige Tu rner is a third-year Chuck Dillard has moved back Matkin has completed her '97 Adams, a son, Luke David, dental student at the University to Greenville. • David and master's degree in computer June 11, Greenville, S.C. • Tim of North Carolina. • Meredith Michelle Harbin '99 Frazer science (software engineering) and Catherine Hinkle Austin, a l. Wilson received her Master moved to Dallas, Te xas, in May and is a staff consultant and daughter, Laura Ellen, December of Arts degree in literacy from after he completed his M.B.A. recruiting manager for DSoft 26, 2000. Tim is a resident in Furman in June and is a first degree at Georgia Tech. He is a Te chnology, Inc., in Colorado internal medicine at Richland grade teacher in Greenville. • financial analyst with American Springs, Colo. • Bronwen Memorial Hospital in Columbia, Adrienne Zegers of Roswell, Airlines. • Amanda Helms is Sanderson, a fi rst-year resident S.C. • Rob and Kristi Padgett Ga., finished graduate school at completing law school at Florida at Greenville Memorial Hospital, Olterman, a son, Nathan Bolton, Villanova University last State University. • Having was the subject of a feature June 18, Atlanta, Ga. Rob is December. • MARRIAGES: graduated from the University article in The Greenville News agency coordinator for AIM Rebecca Ly nne Bowen and of South Carolina School of in August about the medical Systems, Inc. • Ty ler and Mark Vaughn Roper, June 23, Law, Austin Hood is an associate profession and the shortage of Becki Davis Simmons, a daugh- Greenville. Rebecca is a copy with the firm of Brown and doctors in South Carolina. • ter, Morgan Elena, May 4, editor for The Greenville News Brehmer in Columbia, S.C. • Having completed the Shaw Lawrenceville, Ga. Becki is and Mark is a freelance artist. Nicole Bolte Miller of Seattle, Manufacturing Company a special education teacher and • Arthur Christy and Brenda Wash., a case manager for management training program, Ty ler is a software engineer. Barron, June 23, Norfolk, Va. Compass Health, is enrolled in Ben Tunnell has accepted a He is a forensic scientist for the the Master of Social Work position as senior process 97 Commonwealth of Virginia. • program at the University of engineer for tufting and coating Next reunion in 2002 Kate Kalbas and Jay Norton II, Wa shington. • Allison Peck with the floorcovering company. February 17. They live in graduated from the University Sarah Baggett is a law student • MARRIAGES: John Robert Ta mpa, Fla., where Jay is of Kentucky law school in May at the University of Florida. • Cole, Jr., and Kimberly Ray assistant corporate counsel with and is an attorney with Wyatt Amanda Brodie works at the Art Griffin, June 9, Travelers Rest, Raymond James Financial, Inc. Tarrant & Combs in Louisville, Institute of Chicago (Ill.). • S.C. Both are teachers, she at • Joseph Scott Saunders and Ky. • Ashley Phillips of Boston, Brandy Ray Duncan received Jennifer Katherine Moseley '99, Mass., has been promoted to Travelers Rest High School and her master's degree in music he at Blue Ridge High. • August 4, Greenwood, S.C. district sales manager with Eli education from Winthrop Michael Lawson Ladd and Mary They live in Greenville where Lilly and Company. • Seth University in August and is a Melissa Gatewood '99, July 14, Joseph is a consultant at Axiom Rhine received his Master of strings teacher in the Rock Hill Fort Mill, S.C. She received a Systems. Jennifer is a cost Education degree from the (S.C.) School District. • Having master's degree in environmental accountant at Milliken & Co. in University of Georgia and is a graduated from the Medical management from the Duke Spartanburg. • Karen Oberg and teacher/coach at Grayson High University of South Carolina, University Nicholas School Todd Yochim '98, October 21, School in Gwinnett County, Ga. Emily Ellis has begun a three- of the Environment in May 2000. Karen is a law student at • Broc Rosser is working for year residency in family medi- and is now coastal permjt the University of Florida. the city of Orlando, Fla., as cine at the Spartanburg (S.C.) coordinator with the South an urban planner. • Angie Regional Medical Center. • Carolina Coastal Conservation Mejdrich Tofflemeyer has left Helen Howard lives in Princeton, League in Charleston. Michael 98 active duty as an Army officer W.Va., and is a program mana- Next reunion in 2003 is recruiting manager for Novell. and now serves in the Colorado ger with MediFit Corporate Having completed a master's • Micah Shawn Chaneyworth Army National Guard. • Services. She has completed degree, Mark Bledsoe of and Kristin Ashley Burns '98, Ryan and Wendy Bennis '99 a master's degree at Virginia Madison, Wis., now works for April 21, Greenville. • Victoria Westberry have moved to Te ch and started classes toward Epic Systems, a computer Lynn Foss and Adrian Bowers Columbia, S.C., where he is a doctorate. • Loren Jagisch company. • Karen Buckmiller '97, June 30, Greenville. They band graduate assistant at the has moved to Austin, Te xas, and earned her Master of Science live in Reno, Nev., where Adrian University of South Carolina and is an early childhood special degree in occupational therapy is studying for a Ph.D. in clinical she is the print music manager education teacher at Wooldridge from Washington University psychology at the University of for Pecknel Music Company. • Elementary School. • Rhoda School of Medicine last Nevada and Victoria is a social Charles Wright is an eighth grade Maron has started her trurd-year December. She lives in worker for Wa shoe County. • biology teacher in the Harnett rotation in medical school at the Englewood, N.J., and is an Michael Kellett and Christine County, N.C., school system. • University of Health Sciences occupational therapist with Powell '00, June 16, Greenville. MARRIAGES: Laura Elaine School of Osteopathic Medicine Children's Specialized Hospital. They live in Rjchmond, Va., and Angel and Andre David Mann, in Kansas City, Mo. • Jennifer • David Burns of New Canaan, are students at the Baptist Theo- June 30, Durham, N.C. • Holland Merritt has graduated Conn., has been promoted to logical Seminary. • Trevor Jonathan Babcock and Tia from medical school and is a account executive on the Martin King and Ashley Overbay, March 24. They live resident at the Medical Uni- MasterCard account with Elizabeth Burton, May 26. in Knoxville, Tenn., where versity of South Carolina in Octagon Marketing. • Chris He is product development Jonathan is a photographer/Web Charleston. • Jim Pattillo Covert is fu nding coordinator in chemist for Kelmar Industries in project coordinator for edSouth. worked a summer clerkship the law fi rm of Covert & Black Duncan, S.C., and she is a music • Virginia Almy Danforth and in Florida with the fi rm of in Clearwater, Fla., and is pur- teacher at Gateway Elementary Scott Freeman, July 7. Ginnie McConnaughhay, Duffy, suing a bachelor's degree in School. • Sherri Leigh Lewis is a physical education teacher Coonrod, Pope & We aver. • Spanish and international and James Boyce Martin III, at Woodland Elementary School Rolyn Quattlebaum Rollins of business at Eckerd College. • June 23, Pickens, S.C. She is in Greer, S.C., and Scott teaches Taylors, S.C., has gone from Aaron Crane has moved to a kjndergarten teacher in the English and coaches baseball at teaching to workjng for Pickles Phoenix, Ariz., for an externsrup Greenville County School Mauldin High School. • Angel and Ice Cream Maternity with the district attorney's office. District and he is in management Elizabeth Jolly and Scott Wa yne Apparel. • Gant Sowinski He will graduate from law at The Palmetto Bank. • Liz DeMore, June 2. She teaches earned J.D. and M.B.A. degrees school in January and take the Suskind and Lu Lastra, March. fi rst grade at East North Street from the University of South Arizona Bar exam in February. They recently moved to the San Academy of Math and Science Carolina and is workjng with the • Having earned a master's 43 mathematics teacher at Berea her graduate degree in music Furmanalumni news High School in Greenville and education at Florida State he is youth pastor at Living University. Dave Hoblick lives Praise Wo rship Center. • in Fairfax, Va., and is an account CLASS NOTES FALL 01, cont. Amanda Hunt and Ryan Giles manager with Sallie Mae. Kim '00, August 18, 2000. They live Kinoshita, a registered client in Mount Pleasant, S.C., and service assistant with Salomon both are working toward Smith Barney in Atlanta, Ga., master's degrees, he in teaching has passed the NASD Series 7 in Greenville, and he is the studying for a master's degree at The Citadel and she in Exam. • McKayla Lawson lives assistant equipment supervisor in early childhood education. • occupational therapy at the in Lexington, Ky., where she at Clemson University. • Bryant Kristen House earned her Medical University of South works in sales marketing in her Barnett Phillips and Kelley Jane master's degree in clarinet Carolina. Ryan is also a family's business, Contract Wilkerson, May 27. He is a performance at the University receiving distribution agent Machining & Manufacturing student at Auburn University of Georgia and is pursuing her for Ben Silver. • Markus Company, Inc. • Laura College of Veterinary Medicine. doctorate. • Kevin Martin of Andree Kerr and Jalai Altanese Meisenheimer, a graduate • Margaret Pierson and Charles Bartlett, Tenn., is a third-year Prestwidge, June 16. They make student at Marquette University, Clinton, April 7. They live in dental student at the University their home in Charlotte, N.C., spent the summer as an intern at Gaithersburg, Md., where of Tennessee. • Bryany Moore where she is a pharmaceutical an MRI coil design company in Margie is a teacher in the lives in Davie, Fla., and is sales representative at Merck Milwaukee, Wis. • Harvey Montgomery School District. • studying for a master's degree & Company. He is a profes­ Mitchell of Alpharetta, Ga., is Christopher Rikard and Hilary in physical therapy at Nova sional basketball player with working as an accountant for Harper '99, June 9. They live Southeastern University. • Oldenburger-TB in Oldenburger, Municipal Electric Authority of in Greenville. • Tony Winter Alison Prevost graduated from Germany. • Matthew James Georgia, a utility cooperative. and Elizabeth Lightner '00, Boston University School of Pope and Laura Ann McBride • Scott Ortmayer has completed October 21, 2000. They live in Theology in May with a master's '01, June 30. They live in commercial pilot training and is Oviedo, Fla., and she is a degree in theology and ethics Atlanta, Ga. Jenny Seabrook a flight instructor with Delta Air textbook representative for and has begun an internshipwith and Everette Newland, April 21, Lines, teaching at Comair Pearson Education, Prentice Network Lobby, a Catholic Sanger, Texas. Jenny is a Aviation Academy near Orlando, Hall. BIRTH: Bart and Katie social justice lobbying group in fifth grade teacher at Liberty Fla. • After teaching English in St. Clair Garrett, a daughter, Washington, D.C. Renae Christian School. • Charles Santiago, Chile, for nine months, Millie Caroline, May 17. Bart Norris Staggs of Greenville is Andrew Shive and Natalie Anne Melissa Rekas is now employed graduated from Reformed a fourth grade teacher at Dacus­ Baucum '01, July 21. They live in the Assurance and Business BIRTH: Theological Seminary and ville Elementary School. • in Greenville. • Chris Advisory Department of Arthur is pastor to young married Kevin Stokes is technical editor and Holly Wilson Hallmark, a Andersen in Santiago. • couples at Perimeter Church and proposal coordinator in the daughter, MaKayla Brianne, July Stephen Rodriguez is a press in Atlanta, Ga. Southeast Region Offices of 16, Greenville. officer with the Atlanta Beat, RMT, Inc., in Greenville. He one of eight start-up teams in is also vice president of the the Women's United Soccer 99 00 Association. • MARRIAGES: Next reunion in 2004 Carolina Foothills Chapter of Next reunion in 2005 the Society for Technical Dillon Glenwood Dieffenbach Jenny Adamson, a third-year Emily Barnhill earned her Communication. • Dickie and Amy Kathleen McNeal, law student at the University master's degree in elementary Swaja is a first-year dental June 2. They live in Greenville of South Carolina, is on the education from the University student at the Medical University and both work for Elliott Davis school's Law Review and works of South Carolina in August and of South Carolina. Jodie L.L.P., she as a staff accountant as a law clerk for the South is a fourth grade teacher at Irmo Tillman received her master's and he as a technology consul­ Carolina Senate Judiciary (S.C.) Elementary School. • degree in mass communication tant. • Allison Berry and Brad Committee. • Jaime Ann Albert Andy Burke is a second-year from the University of Georgia George, July 14. They live in graduated from the Medical graduate student in chemistry and is employed by Valley News Charlotte, N.C. • Jonathan Hall University of South Carolina's at the University of Florida. • in White River Junction, Vt. and Allison Easley '01, July 7. master's in clinical laboratory Ginny Carroll is choral director Mike Williams graduated from They live in We sley Chapel, Fla. science/medical technology at her old high school, Farragut Indiana University in May and • Gus Hauser and Amy Presley, program in May. She is a High in Knoxville, Tenn. • Beth is an assistant director of campus August 5, 2000. They live in certified medical technologist Dodd is a middle school science recreation (intramurals) at Idaho Lexington, Ky. • Camille and is coordinator of the Donor teacher in Spartanburg (S.C.) State University. • LaGrone and Andrew Bretko, Center in the blood bank at the School District Six. • Ta mmy MARRIAGES: Matt Blackwell October 14, 2000. They live in Charleston (S.C.) Naval Eitel lives in Largo, Fla., and is and Sarah Blosser, June 23. Covington, La., and she is a sales Hospital. • Aurora Anderson a special projects coordinator at They live in Augusta, Ga., where representative with VWR has graduated from Tulane the international headquarters of Matt is a medical student at the Scientific Products. • Megan University with an M.S. in Raymond James Financial, Medical College of Georgia and Larson and Matthew Johnson. pharmacology and works with working closely with the Tampa Sarah is a middle school math They moved from Michigan to AmeriCorps in New Orleans, Bay Buccaneers. • Travis Filar, teacher and coach at Augusta Greenville in August after their La. • Tara Byer has moved who taught elementary school Preparatory Day School. • maniage. • Michael Rand Lines to Charlotte, N.C., for a year physical education and coached Melissa Ann Faulkner and and Eleanor Brooks Watson, to complete her third-year high school basketball and William Chad McAllister, July June 30. He is director of media clerkships before finishing volleyball in Greenville County 14. She is a music teacher at at Church of the Apostles in medical school at the University last year, is now assistant volley­ Concrete Elementary School and Atlanta, Ga. • Benjamin of North Carolina. • Siobhan ball coach at Furman. • he is a business accountant for Turnage and Lynn McMilkin, Carroll is a graduate student in Elizabeth Head is teaching a Milliken Chemicals. They live August 12, 2000. They live in architecture at Georgia Tech. • strings methods class, con­ Mary Katherine Savannah, Ga., and Ben is a Linda Flannery in Greer, S.C. • ducting a youth symphony of Summerville, project engineer with Carter & Holcombe and Michael Kevin and teaching private violin S.C., is a customer support BIRTH: Smith, June 9. She is a Sloope, Inc. • James analyst with Blackbaud and is lessons while working toward Th Bo f '

Twenty-two years after their first day on campus, 18 years after graduation and 13 years after they began an annual summer reunion, six men from Furman's Class of 1983 maintain a tight, ongoing bond forged during their college days and strengthened through the passage of time. ''The boys," as the fast friends often refer to themselves, are J.R. Goodwin, Bill Holt, Malcolm McComb, Kent Simmons, Steve Smith and Will Yowell. While they're far from the only alumni group that holds an annual reunion, their story is a shining example of how the Furman experience can have an A recent gathering of "the boys" and their wives. Kneeling: J.R. and To mmi Goodwin. impact that extends far beyond one's four Back row, from left: Malcolm and Lee McComb; Will and Kim Godshall Yo well; Steve years on campus. and Shelly Brown Smith; Bill and Ta mara Holt; Kent Simmons, whose wife Laura Four of them lived on Poteat 300 their Brown Simmons missed the reunion but vowed to be on hand for the next one. first year, and the full group came together when all six pledged The Knights Eternal (TKE) the magic of Smith Mountain Lake. Much as his medical training, he yelled, "Don't pull it as freshmen. As "fraternity" brothers they he had during the post-graduation trip five out!"- just as Malcolm dutifully jerked the nail nurtured their relationships, but Malcolm points years before, he was seeing life from a new out of his foot. Despite the mishap, the two to their senior year as the foundation for their perspective. This time, though, he also had remain blood brothers. ongoing friendships. a greater appreciation for the people who were The group also has its serious moments. In those days, most seniors lived off important to him. One memorable evening, Ta mara Holt posed campus in nearby apartments. Steve, Will, So it was that in August of 1988 the boys, the question, "What are you struggling with?" Kent and Malcolm lived together in Woodwinds four of whom were now married, gathered This led to a discussion of coping with such 86 - a number that Malcolm says is with their wives at Georgia's Lake Burton. issues as aging parents, prosperity vs. "permanently etched" in his mind. "The The group had so much fun that they quickly excessive materialism, and other concerns relationships really began to gel during that decided to make the outing an annual affair. many young couples face. year and during a trip that immediately followed They haven't missed a summer since. Although nine of the 12 graduated from our graduation," he says. ''The trip really All are now married and have produced a Furman, Lee McComb, who has degrees from cemented things." combined total of 14 children. Matthew Smith, Te nnessee and Vanderbilt, says the Furman After graduation, five of the six headed born in 1988, is the oldest; 2-year-old Luke graduates don't spend a lot of time recalling to Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia. This wasn't Simmons, son of Kent and Laura Brown '84, their college days. ''We live in the present and a grand blowout before they entered the real is the newest addition. talk about the present," she says, which makes world; instead, they enjoyed a mellow outing, But the group made a rule early on: these the trip just as meaningful for the non-Furman which was not typical of the TKEs of their era would be adults-only outings. Says Malcolm, wives (Lee, Ta mara Holt and To mmi Goodwin). (or of today). They read, cooked, water-skied "We didn't want our time together to be all The gatherings, Lee says, are "like going to and talked. about babysitting instead of reconnecting." camp with the same people each year - and Little did they know that a few years later, The couples take turns planning each it's worth the effort." She even admits that a health crisis would serve as the catalyst for year's trip. When they reach their destina­ she would love for her children to attend them to re-ignite their commitment to each tion, husbands and wives initially go their Furman. other. separate ways, with the boys usually engaging To day two of the group's offspring, Clare In early 1988, Malcolm, at 26, was in some physical activity and the women, in Holt and Morgan Smith, sit side-by-side in diagnosed with cancer - just 1 0 months after Malcolm's words, ''talking and sharing the same fifth-grade class in Charlotte, N.C. his marriage to Lee. He began six months of everything that has occurred during the last Maybe they're already anticipating their first chemotherapy in Atlanta in February 1988. year." day at Furman in 2009, 30 years after their On hand to provide support during his first The boys have maintained a penchant dads arrived. treatment were Kent, Steve and his wife (Shelly for good-natured competition, but one such When they say good-bye to their moms Brown '83) and Will and his wife (Kim Godshall activity actually led to a hospital visit. During and "the boys," I anticipate many tears. '84). a hotly contested basketball game, J.R., the -Wayne King When the treatments ended successfully, group's only physician, stepped on a nail. Associate Director, Furman Fund Malcolm decided to celebrate by re-creating Trying to keep his composure and to remember

and Ashley Ray I '0 l Bright, a Institute. • Veronica Colvard resources department of Bridgette Martin is one of son, James Monroe IV, June 7. lives in Macon, Ga., where she Westvaco, a paper mill in 13 students nationally to be Ashley teaches fo urth grade at is a first-year student at the Charleston, S.C. • Chad Marsar, awarded an Omicron Delta Bethel Elementary School in Mercer University School of a student at Dickinson College Kappa Foundation Scholarship Greenville. Law. • Meg Flannagan is School of Law, spent the sum­ for graduate study. ODK is a employed by the Presbyterian mer studying abroad. He prutici­ national leadership organiza­ 01 Church USA in Belfast, pated in law study seminars in tion that recognizes student Next reunion in 2006 Northern Ireland, where she Florence, Rome and Sienna, leader-ship of exceptional qual­ works with a church and faith­ fo cusing on international and Amy Adkisson lives in Brooklyn, ity and versatility. Bridgette is based community center. Lori comparative fam ily law and N.Y., and is a graduate student using the award to support her Helms works in the human in art therapy at the Pratt comparative constitutional law. work toward a doctorate in

45 Office of the Secretary of Marion E. Lawson '41, August Furmanalumni news Defense in Washington, D.C. 9, Clinton, S.C. After serving in the U.S. Army during the Eldridge M. Caskey '37, June Korean War, he practiced 17, Greenville. He retired as CLASS NOTES FA LL 01, cont. dentistry in Clinton for 50 years regional president of First before retiring from active Savings Bank. A longtime practice. In 1980, he accepted Rotarian, he served on Furman's a position at Whitten Center and board of trustees and was former later became chief of dental business manager and treasurer services at the facility, serving cognitive psychology at Stanford Marie Green Roberts '29, June at the school. University. • Sean Nickerson 25, Greenville. She taught people with special needs. He works as a junior account school in Greenville for 42 years William Bentley Hines, Sr. '37, was a member of the American executive with Erwin-Penland and was an honorary member of July 24, Greenville. A U.S. Navy Dental Association, National Inc. in Greenville. • Missy Ray Mountainside Garden Club. veteran of World War II, he was Rifle Association, South has become band director at a fo rmer president of O'Neal Carolina Department of Natural Hank Allred '31, March 16. Georgetown (S.C.) High School. Williams Sporting Goods. Resources, American Legion, Lions Club and Wadsworth • Laura Simms is a resident Kathleen D. McCoin '31, July Active in the Greenville Community Club. artist with Lime Kiln Arts in 30, Greenville. She taught in community, he served on the County Council, Zoning Lexington, Va. She is also a Greenville County schools for John H. Wotiz '41, August 21, Commission, Greenville member of Theater at Lime Kiln, over 40 years and was a former Carbondale, Ill. A native of Memorial Auditorium board, and a small company that performs member of the Greenville Ostrava,Czechoslovakia, he was as a volunteer with United in schools and does workshops Wo man's Club. a professor of chemistry at the Ministries. He was a member with children. • Dana Smith University of Pittsburgh, La Ia Ophelia Smith '31, July 4, of the Greenville Civitan Club teaches second and third grades Marshall University and Fountain Inn, S.C. She worked and was active with the Boy's at Bluffton Elementary School, Southern Illinois University, at Grandfather Mountain Home of the South. a year-round school near Hilton from which he was retired. At Head Island, S.C. • Elizabeth Children's Home for 18 years Mary Singletary Driggers '38, Southern Illinois he helped Wexler is a Peace Corps and retired from Thornwell August 18, Lake City, S.C. develop exchange programs for volunteer in the Dominican Orphanage. She was a retired teacher and graduate students and faculty, Republic, where she is Dorothy Dillard Stone '32, July mathematics coordinator for primarily with universities in working in health care. • 4, Easley, S.C. She was asso­ Florence (S.C.) School District Eastern Europe. Holder of MARRIAGES: Tony Paxton ciated with Alice Elementary Three, where she was a member a doctorate from Ohio State Doppelheuer and William for over 35 years before retiring of the Hall of Fame. She was University, he authored three Carpe�ter Bouton '02, June 16. as the school's principal. She recognized in 1986 for her books, received 40 patents She teaches at Mauldin High was a member of the Retired contributions to mathematics and lectured in 30 countries School and he is a pastoral intern Teachers Association of South education by the state Council worldwide. He served two years at Grace Church in Greenville. Carolina. of Teachers of Mathematics. in the U.S. Army at the close of • Summer West and Edward After retirement, she traveled as World War II, attaining the rank Darren Landreth, June 30. They Maurice Mason Bridges '36, an ambassador for the Friendship of lieutenant and gaining U.S. live in Myrtle Beach, S.C. • June 21, Blacksburg, S.C. Force, making four trips behind citizenship, and later worked for Mary Kathryn Winkles and Jack J. Forrest Wakefield '36, July the Iron Curtain. a time as research director with Delbert Howle III, June 30. 16, Greenville. A U.S. Army Diamond Alkali in Painesville, They live in Greenville, where Margaret Louise Wright veteran, he worked in sales and Ohio. The American Chemical he is employed at System One. Ambrose '39, August 3, Chester, management with Metropolitan Society presented him the S.C. She was a former teacher Life. In 1988 he received the Dexter Award for his contri­ in the Greenville County School DEATHS Carroll H. Jones Award, the butions to the history of System. highest award given by the S.C. chemistry, and he received Lucile Wyatt Clarke '23, June an honorary degree and the Life Underwriters Association. Barron D. Kennedy, Jr. '39, July 17, Clemson, S.C. She taught University Medal from the He was a member and past 6, Due We st, S.C. He served in elementary school for a number Technical University in Ostrava. president of the Greenville Lions the U.S. Army Air Corps in of years and was active in the Club and received its highest Europe during Wo rld War II, Clemson community. A charter James Buell Woodson '43, honor, the Melvin Jones Fellow after which, for 43 years, he was member of the University July 8, Easley, S.C. He served Award. He also served on the an official of Peoples National Wo men's Club and the John in the U.S. Army Air Corps and board of Boy's Home of the Bank and its subsequent mer­ Robins chapter of the Colonial was retired from J.P. Stevens South. Having played basketball gers. He also served on the Dames, she was also a member Woodside Mill. and football at Furman, he was boards of several civic of the Andrew Pickens chapter past president of the Letterman's organizations in Greenville. Robert LouieWyn n, Sr. '43, July of the D.A.R. and was former Association and was the oldest 12, Greer, S.C. He served president of the Clemson Garden living basketball letterman. He Mary Bright McGee Powell '40, Baptist churches in North and Club. served on the Paladin Club board July 7, Georgetown, S.C. She South Carolina, and after retir­ taught music in the Greenville Henry Louis Ware '27, July 12, for 50 years and was inducted ing he was interim pastor of County School System for Greenville. He was a trust into the Fmman Athletic Hall of churches in South Carolina and 30 years before moving to officer with Chase Manhattan Fame in 1999. Florida. Georgetown. Bank in New York City for Leo J. Burrell '37, July 13, Juanita Dermid Wyatt '45, June 23 years before returning to Dalton, Ga. He served in the Melzar Pegram Booker, Sr. '41, 10, Greenville. She was a retired Greenville, where he partici­ U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air May 29, Anderson, S.C. music teacher, was a former pated in the landscaping of the member of the Greenville Force, retiring as a colonel in Nancy Rhodes Harrison '41, July current Furman campus and of Chorale and was organizer and the Air Force Reserve. After his 23, Greenville. She taught at Exxon stations of the Upstate. director of the Cadenzas. military service, the remainder Greenville's Brushy Creek of his career was spent with the Elementary School.

46 Charles Odell Clark, Sr. '46, for Community Council and June 3, Easley, S.C. He served Phillis Wheatley Center, and Guest named to Romanian post in the U.S. Army Medical Corps was chair of the American Heart I Fund. He was organizer and during Wo rld War II and was a On August 1, the United States Senate approved the appointment charter president of the Simp­ retired Baptist minister. of Michael Guest '79, a career Foreign Service officer, to be sonville Kiwanis Club and ambassador to Romania. President Bush nominated Guest to the John W. McCrary '48, August 6, commander of American Legion position in June, and Secretary of State Colin Powell conducted Fletcher, N.C. Post # 3. He served on the the swearing-in ceremony September 18. George Moulton Barksdale '49, advisory board of the Simp­ Guest is a summa cum laude graduate of Furman and recipient March 28, Aquadulce, Calif. sonville Palmetto Bank and was of the university's Bradshaw-Feaster Medal, which is awarded to He served in both the Merchant listed in Whos Who in American Marines and the U.S. Air Force Law. the outstanding male graduate. He most recently was the principal deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of Legislative Affairs in before becoming a special needs Frank Marion Garrett, Sr. '53, the State Department. instructor for the physically July 18, Greenville. He served challenged and an advocate for · with the U.S. Navy during Wo rld He has held several posts in Washington, serving as deputy the disabled. A veteran character War II, was in the Naval executive secretary of the Department of State and as political­ actor, he had roles in more than Reserves and was a member military officer in the Office of European Security and Political 30 films and television shows of the American Legion. He Affairs. From 1996•99 he was deputy chief of mission in Prague, and did voice tracks. He was retired as a letter carrier with and he has completed overseas assignments in Paris, Moscow a member of the National Mari­ the U.S. Postal Service. and Hong Kong. time Union and the Seamen's Guest earned a master's degree in foreign affairs from the International Union, served as a Charles Earl To llison '53, May docent of the Maritime Museum 31, Columbia, S.C. A U.S. Army University of Virginia. The San Francisco Chronicle reported in Long Beach, Calif., and was veteran of World War II, he that during his interview before the Senate Foreign Relations a member of the Screen Actors pursued his medical degree at Committee, Guest said his goals would include preparing Guild and the American Film the Medical University of South Romania for membership in NATO, working for economic Institute Conservancy. Carolina and the University reform and attempting to cut back on corruption, particularly Medical School of Georgia. He with respect to human trafficking. Jocelyn Hollingsworth was a fe llow of the American lawrimore '49, July 4, Board of Surgeons, was former Hemingway, S.C. medical director of Midlands Charles H. Thomas '49, July 19, Center and retired from the North Myrtle Beach, S.C. He South Carolina Department of and the board of directors of the The Citadel and Clemson Uni­ was a retired principal, having Corrections as director of S.C. Chamber of Commerce, versity and as head coach at worked 39 years in education. professional and medical Cheraw United Way and St. Te nnessee Te ch. Following his He taught his last 14 years at services. David's Cemetery Association. college coaching career, he re­ He became general counsel with entered public education as an Loris (S.C.) High School and Walter J. Sloan '53, August 3, the Municipal Association of administrator. retired in 1990. He served in Greer, S.C. A retired engineer South Carolina in 1997. He the U.S. Navy during World War for Bommer Industries, he was Stephen Wilson Jackson '74, retired from the USAF Reserve II and was a member of the a U.S. Navy veteran of World May 27, New Orleans, La. He in 1999 as a lieutenant colonel. North Strand Civitan Club. War II and the Korean War. He had been organist and choir­ Ernest Bryant Hinnant, Sr. '50, was past president of Woodman Stanley Joseph Moore, M.A. master at St. Paul's Episcopal July 7, Florence, S.C. After of the World Chapter 566. '66, August 16, Anderson, S.C. Church in New Orleans for 12 He served in the U.S. Navy years, and was also assistant serving in the lOlst Airborne Bengcheng Oon Freeberg '54, during the Korean War and had organist for St. Dominic Catholic Corps Headquarters during the February 24. Korean War, he earned his retired as principal of Cowpens Church. He previously served law degree. He went on to Homer Hilton Voyles, Sr. '58, and Cannons elementary as an organist in Tennessee, practice law in Florence and was M.A. '61, June 7, Taylors, S.C. schools. South Carolina, North Carolina, He served schools in the Upstate Illinois and Washington, D.C. the Florence County Public lloyd Kenneth Voyles, M.A. '66, as an assistant principal, coach, He was a member of the Defender for 28 years. He was June 14, Greenville. A U.S. Air principal and area superinten­ American Choral Directors a member of the American, Force veteran, he had retired dent, and retired as associate Association and the New South Carolina and Florence from the human resources superintendent of Greenville Orleans chapter of the American County bar associations and the department of the Greenville County Schools. He was in Guild of Organists, where he Public Defender's Corps. County School District. He the U.S. Air Force during the served on the board. He had worked as a coach, teacher and Edward P. Riley, Jr. '50, July Korean War. recorded and released several principal at Berea High School 21, Greenville. He served in the music programs and published and as principal of Travelers U.S. Army Signal Corps, after William Paul Griggs '61, July choral work and musical scores. which he earned his law degree 16, Cheraw, S.C. He received Rest and Wade Hampton high and was appointed to the South a U.S. Air Force Reserve schools. At the time of his death, Dale Parrish Cottingham, M.A. Carolina Bar in 1956, the bar commission in 1961, entered he was serving as president of '75, August 11, Greenville. for U.S. District Court (Western active duty in 1965, served in the Civitan Club. A watercolorist, she was the wife of Walter L. Cottingham, District) S.C. in 1959 and the the Judge Advocate General William Clifton Malpass, M.A. associate professor emeritus of U.S. Supreme Court in 1978. Corps until 1968 and then began '67, July 2, Boiling Springs, S.C. health and physical education at He was in private practice for a law practice. His professional Following college, he played Furman. many years and also served as and civic affiliations included minor league baseball for the city attorney of Simpsonville, service as town attorney for New York Yankees organization. James K. Allen '79, May 31, S.C. He was a fo rmer member Cheraw and memberships on A teacher, coach and adminis­ Taylors, S.C. He was an of the Greenville Memorial the local advisory board of trator at five South Carolina high employee of Charter Auditorium board of trustees, Wachovia Bank, the Commis­ schools, he also served as an Communications. the advisory board of the State sion on Grievances and Disci­ assistant basketball coach at Museum, the board of directors pline ofthe S.C. Supreme Court, 47 The LastWo rd

According to any properly jaded upperclassman, hook ups don't lead anywhere. They're often a there just isn't any dating at Furman. Despite one-time occurrence that leaves the woman the university's good-hearted attempts to foster feeling emotionally empty. interaction between the sexes - freshman year's And apparently, there is no happy alternative. My-Tie Dance, Residence Hall Council's "Singled Half of the women surveyed say they've had Out" programs, those cute new swings around fe wer than six dates during their college years, the lake - Furman students just don't seem to and a third have had two or less. Is it me, or do get it. these statistics just make the dowry system of So what gives? The majority of Furmanites years past all the more appealing? exercise religiously, wear clothes fresh out of the Perhaps the reason for today's casual J. Crew catalogue, and are able to carry on a approach to relationships is simply that times meaningful conversation. And it's not as if the have changed. According to my medieval history male/female ratio is holding us back. While it's professor, the fe minist movement of the '60s and not a perfect split (45/55), the cadets at The '70s dealt chivalry a fatal blow. The days of Citadel and Converse women face far worse men opening doors and calling women for dates odds. are for the most part gone. The days of hooking Granted, the residence hall complexes are up have arrived. conveniently separated - the distance has been But have they arrived at Furman? I don't measured at half a mile. But in recent years, know that much about the hook up scene, but 1 Blackwell, McBee and Gambrell halls have taken have noticed the dull middle ground of dating a walk on the wild side and gone co-ed - if only inactivity. On campus, I see two extremes: those on alternatingfloors - and visitation hours have who don't date, and those looking to earn their been pushed back to 2 a.m. And North Village? "M.R.S." degree. Many students seem to fall You 've got both sexes on the same floor, maybe into the first category, because if you're spotted even next door to each other! Clearly, the having coffee with a member of the opposite administration isn't trying to cramp our style. sex, you immediately become "an item." Such But based on a recent well-publicized study a classification must be avoided; otherwise, your of collegiate dating by the Independent Wo men's availability might be compromised. Forum, the dating dilemma isn't specific to the This dating vacuum is a sad situation. Furman bubble. The study, based on interviews College is a time for meeting people, and yet with 62 women on II campuses and phone Furmanites, and college students in general, conversations with 1,000 college women rarely venture near the water. While rumor has nationwide, found that dating is down at colleges it that 20 percent of Furman alums many Furman everywhere. Instead, students today prefer to alums, I'm left wondering how this is possible. "hook up." Am I wrong to assume that a date or two must A hook up is defined as a casual physical precede marriage and a baby carriage? encounter often brought about by alcohol. Hook If the hook up scene reigns today, there must ups can range from kissing to sex, and 40 percent be a land outside the Furman bubble I have yet of the women included in the survey said they to see, where Furmanites shed their inhibitions have hooked up at least once. Ten percent said and act like normal men and women. Who they have hooked up six times or more. knows? Perhaps the Furman diploma and the In other words, the dinner/movie combination handshake with President Shi will give us the is no longer necessary before that first kiss/night green light for more social interaction. I' II let together. Courtship is dead, Jet's just get physical. you know in June 2002. All it takes now, it seems, is a party and a few - Danielle Logan drinks. Doesn't sound like a story to tell the The author is a senior history major grandkids, does it? Plus, the survey says, these fro m St. Petersburg, Fla.

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