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Governor's School Visionary: Virginia Uldrick

Furman

Winter 2000

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MAGNUM OPUS 2 With the opening of the year-round South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, Virginia Uldrick's dream has become reality.

By John Roberts

MASTER OF ARTS 8 Robert Blocker is dean of the School of Music at Yale University ­ the latest and most prestigious stop in his distinguished career.

By Jim Stewart

EARTH SEMESTER 14 A Furman student recounts her term at the Biosphere 2 in Arizona, where she enjoyed unique opportunities for study, research and travel.

By Brooke Beam

RUDY 20 Rudy Currence has his feet firmly planted on the ground but his eyes on the stars as he plans for a career in popular music. By John Roberts

AN AUGUSTA FAIRY TALE 22 The Augusta, Ga., arts community that gave meaning to Cleon Mauldin's life will benefit fo rever from his extraordinary legacy.

By Jim Garvey

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ON THE COVER: VIRGINIA ULORICK '50 AND GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL STUDENT KRIS WALTERS IN THE SCHOOL'S COMMONS AREA. PHOTO BY CHARLIE REGISTER

By John Roberts

Short Uldrick was not your typical child.

Growing up near downtown Greenville during the Great Depression, Uldrick didn't like to get dirty with the other girls and boys. Instead, each day her grandmother bathed her, outfitted her in a fine dress and helped her into a grand rocking chair with her dolls, books and a small radio. She would remain there much of the day, reading and listening to music. The highlight of Uldrick's week was the Te xaco Metropolitan Opera show, which was broadcast nationally each Saturday at 2 p.m. "I just loved the wonderful nuances of singing," she says. "I would listen to the great rise and fall of the voices. I didn't know what it was but my little heart would beat faster and faster. I would get so excited. I loved it." The child's passion for the fine arts puzzled relatives and family friends. After all, music wasn't taught in the public schools. And Greenville, a working-class textile and agricultural community, wasn't exactly a hotbed for young musicians and artists. But this proper, refined young lady would grow up to change all of that. To day, not far from her childhood home on Hampton Avenue, stands the culmination of Uldrick's devotion to the arts -the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities. The brand new, $24.5-million residential school is nestled in a wooded 8.5-acre site along the banks of the Reedy River, on the same spot where the Furman Virginia Uldrick credits the collaborative efforts of educators, arts patrons, and campus formerly stood. Next fall, when government and business leaders with making the Governor's School a reality. the school enrolls its second class, 250 of the state's most talented high school juniors and seniors will be immersed in the study of music, drama, dance, creative writing and visual arts. Although Uldrick modestly deflects the credit, the Governor's School is her

Color photographs by Charlie Register 3 Through the years she h2s twe11 lr�w tnc·n•1 1-, '""''''!''• often obtaining financial assistance for talented high school students to attend college when funding was not available through regular channels.

creativity from her mother, a popular seamstress and clothing designer in Greenville during the 1920s and '30s. Ruth, who later married George Fretwell, sewed elaborate dresses for her child. She developed the idea in the late struck home. As the Reedy River Falls daughter. With every stitch in perfect 1970s, sold it to then Governor Richard rumbled in the background, Uldrick looked order, the tiny dresses were works of art. W. Riley, helped secure funding and across the river and up the wooded hill. She showered Virginia with love but was nurtured it over the next two decades. With the lights gleaming off the red-brick tough on her as well, teaching her to be The school has known no other buildings and casting a reflection on the tidy and respectful and always to strive leader than Uldrick, a lifelong educator, river, the Governor's School was a for perfection. artist and unrelenting perfectionist. Its majestic sight. "As a little girl, my mother taught me success is a result of her dedication, hard "I really got emotional," says Uldrick. to respect quality," says Uldrick. "That work and steely determination to make "I thought that this is just an extraordinary continues to this day." the arts a vital part of public education. statement for the state of South Carolina." During the 1930s there was little in The year-round Governor's School, Greenville to foster young Virginia's many say, will be her legacy. passion for music. Music in school was With a smile, Uldrick, now 70, Career Dreams rare, but when a music instructor did dismisses such a notion. But she does Uldrick, an only child, never knew her make his rounds at her elementary school admit to getting a bit misty-eyed as she father, William Short, who was killed in each month, the energetic girl hounded reflects on her career and her work with an automobile accident when she was a him. In junior high and high school Uldrick the Governor's School. baby. She was raised by her mother, took drama and choral classes to refine One recent night, while she was Ruth, and an extended family of maternal her stage presence and voice. By her strolling along the north bank of the Reedy grandparents, aunts and uncles. senior year her voice was good enough River, the importance of the new school It's likely that Uldrick inherited her to earn her scholarship offers to Furman, Winthrop and Limestone. She chose Furman, where on her first registration day she introduced herself to Wendell Keeney, a demanding piano instructor, and asked him to take her on as a pupil. "I told him my major was voice and he just laughed," says Uldrick. "He said he only took piano majors and that I would have to give him a very good reason." The next day she approached the professor again. "I said, 'I want to be an artist and I want to learn how to play as an artist."' Her assertiveness worked. Keeney accepted Uldrick as a pupil and went on to play a pivotal role in her life. Keeney, says Uldrick, pushed her to her limit and beyond while teaching her the value of hard work.

Uldrick always has time for students /Ike Susan Heyward, one of the select group chosen fo r the fi rst Governor's School class. A Voice for Students Uldrick remained in Greenwood for one year, then moved back home, where she taught music at several schools before becoming an instructor at Greenville High School, her alma mater, in 1957. Uldrick remained there until 1968, when she left to pursue a master's degree in music education and administration from the University of South Carolina. When she returned to Construction is nearly complete on the Greenville, she was named the music Gov�rn'?r's School, which has scheduled ded1cat1on ceremonies for Ap ril. supervisor for the School District of Greenville County. Through the years she has been a true friend to students, often obtaining "I would go into those lessons and financial assistance for talented high leave drenched, I would work so hard " ' she says. school students to attend college when By the end of her sophomore year funding was not available through regular Uldrick was performing in local plays and channels. recitals and stunning audiences with her "After spending five minutes talking talent. She seemed destined for stardom. to you about a disadvantaged but Rachel Hatton and her classmates enjoy a But her practical mother wanted her artistically talented child, she will turn you comprehensive curriculum of artistic and academic studies. on to support opportunities for that child " daughter to have a back-up plan. ' "She called me in and said, 'What says Richard Riley, now the U.S. Secretary of Education. "She is extremely are you going to do with your life?' I said Shortly thereafter, Riley, a 1954 convincing." that I was going to sing. But my mother Furman graduate, and Furman president Outside the classroom, Uldrick suggested taking some education John E. Johns worked out an agreement became active in the Greenville Little courses in case no one liked my voice. for Furman to host the five-week summer Theatre. She was also a church choir I resisted at first, but my mother said, program. The partnership would prove director and enjoyed performing in the 'Perhaps you can find a job and work at beneficial to both parties: Governor's South Carolina Opera Workshop. something to pay your tuition at Furman.' School students and faculty would have In 1974, Uldrick was named the Then I went to talk to my counselor." access to excellent facilities, and Furman founding director of the Fine Arts Center So with a soul filled with song and a would get a leg up on recruiting some of in Greenville. One of the first magnet bachelor's degree in education, Uldrick the most talented high school students schools in the country, the center left Furman in 1950 and set her sights in the state. educates the city's artistically talented on opera stardom. As the executive director of the high school students. As the Fine Arts That summer she traveled to school, Uldrick began forming Center evolved, so did Uldrick's vision Chautauqua, N.Y., to participate in a partnerships with local arts organizations for arts education in South Carolina. workshop sponsored by the Chautauqua such as the Greenville Symphony and "I just knew that children all over the Opera Association. Near the end of the the Little Theatre to develop the school's state needed a school like that," she workshop, she received a telephone call curriculum and organize course says. "We needed to establish a school from the superintendent of Greenwood instruction. Uldrick and her small staff like the Fine Arts Center for all South County Schools, who wanted her to also began a statewide student recruiting Carolina students." interview for the position of music campaign. On July 1, 1981, the Her message found a receptive supervisor for elementary and middle Governor's School held its first classes' audience in Arthur Magill, a leading schools. with 115 students participating. Greenville businessman and arts patron; "My mother said that I had to provide for myself," says Uldrick. "I drove back J. Floyd Hall, superintendent of Greenville to South Carolina kicking and screaming County Schools; and Dick Riley, who was governor at the time. In a matter of 1ns1de. I did not want to teach." But something happened when months, the four hammered out a plan Uldrick walked into her first class at and secured funding for the South Magnolia Street Elementary. "I loved it," Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, which was created by she says. "I realized then that the classroom would be my stage." Riley's executive order in 1980. 5 Carolina governor Carroll Campbell. Her efforts paid off when, in 1994, the General Assembly passed (and Campbell signed) legislation to establish the new nine­ month residential school. Building on the success of the existing Governor's School, the new residential facility would operate as a public-private partnership, with at least half the funding for the $24.5 million project to be raised through individual and corporate donations. Five cities- Aiken, Greenville, Spartanburg, Newberry and Union­ submitted proposals to a special legislative committee to serve as the site for the school. Greenville, which offered to donate valuable riverfront property, emerged as the winner. Uldrick helped form a Governor's School Foundation that organized a capital campaign to match, dollar for Music students like Joseph Holmes and Caroline Blakely learn from a faculty dollar, the $12 million allocated to the composed of professional musicians, performers, conductors and master teachers. project by the General Assembly. To date, the campaign has netted more than $14. 5 million from individuals, corporations, foundations and other organizations for the project. A Model Partnership "This is a clear demonstration of the

Providing preprofessional training in private sector's strong support of arts the literary, visual and performing arts, education in South Carolina," she says. the Governor's School evolved into a Classes began last September, and model for public and private partnerships formal dedication ceremonies are in arts education. scheduled for April. When the second But as the school flourished and class enrolls in the fall, the South Carolina expanded its offerings over the next Governor's School for the Arts and decade, Uldrick grew restless. She Humanities will be operating at full wanted something more and began capacity. working on a plan that, if successful, In recent months Uldrick has would be her "dream come true": a year­ conducted numerous school tours for round residential high school devoted to parents, teachers, lawmakers and arts arts education. patrons. In those situations, the performer Riley says that once Uldrick locked in Uldrick emerges. She moves easily onto the concept of establishing the year­ and gracefully through the school's new round school, its success was almost hallways, and her eloquence, assured. "When she is determined in a commanding presence and broad, certain direction, she never looks back, " confident smile suggest that she is truly he says. "She never accepts defeat or in her element. is sidetracked. She keeps on the targeted While she acknowledges that she Stanislav lssaev keeps a watchful eye on his "really wanted to be able to sing more ballet class. The dance program features goal. Anytime she's been serious about study in classical ballet and related areas. something, she reaches her objective." than I did," Uldrick says her contributions Uldrick turned to a cadre of business as an educator far exceed the impact leaders, arts patrons, educators and a she might have made as a performer. highly placed former student - South And she has no regrets. "I chose to perform in a different way, " she says. "The classroom was my stage, and the performance is through the students." Governor's School campus rests on firm foundation

This undated photograph shows the fo rmer Furman campus in downtown Greenville. The Governor's School is located at the rear of the old campus, in the area where Manly Field and the power plant (smokestack) stood. How many buildings can you identify? 8 Robert Blocker has built a remarkably versatile career as a teacher, administrator and performer.

By Jim Stewart

ASTER OF ARTS

The turning point for Robert Blocker say no to people. As a result, he neglected came early in 1968, shortly before he was practice at times." to graduate from Furman. Charlotte Smith, another of his major A busy, popular student, Blocker was professors, puts it more bluntly. "Robert involved in a variety of activities during did not always have his nose to the grind­ his Furman years. His senior year alone, stone," she says. "But he was very astute he was class treasurer, vice chair of Honor and immensely capable, and you knew Court, associate editor of the Bonhomie, that great things were in store once he TKE rush chair and a member of the became focused and driven by a purpose." President's Advisory Council. A music Enter DuPre Rhame, founder of the major from Charleston, S.C., who had Furman Singers and a towering musical been a soloist with his hometown sym­ presence. A few weeks before Commence­ phony orchestra while still in high school, ment, Rhame summoned Blocker to his he served as accompanist of the Furman office, sat the young man down and quickly Singers for four years and as the group's took charge of the conversation. president his junior and senior years. As Blocker recalls, Rhame said, "You'll He was young and loved life, and his never be able to have peace about music interests spanned many different subjects. unless you find out just how good you are. When he looks back on those days, with There's one teacher who can help you and 30 years of perspective under his belt, he who has a strong enough personality to sees a somewhat unfocused college senior deal with you: Richard Cass." who had yet to give much consideration Cass, a 1953 Furman graduate, had to his plans beyond Furman. just completed 15 years as a concert pianist "I was thinking about several possibil­ for Columbia Artists Management and ities, including law school, medical school had recently accepted a resident artist and business," he says, "but I really hadn't appointment at the University of North decided what I wanted to do." Texas. "I've talked with the dean there The music faculty fully recognized his and you have an assistantship," Rhame talent and strengths- and his weaknesses. said. "All you have to do is show up." David Gibson, his piano teacher through­ For Blocker, who had never traveled out his Furman years, says, "Robert was west of the North Carolina mountains, always interested in so many things and the decision, at least about his immediate aspired to do so much. He got along well future, was made: he would go to Texas. with everyone and often found it hard to And in the end, Rhame's decisive action

9 m .... c ... on his behalf served as the catalyst for what a member of the Stein way Artist Roster (right) helped Blocker would become a varied and accomplished since 1985, to be the spokesperson for the career as a teacher, administrator and per­ academic world. discover his musical gifts former. But perhaps the most remarkable char­ at the Universityof North Today, Blocker is dean of the School acteristic of his professional life is the Texas. Cass received of Music at Yale University, his latest and seamless way he blends his administrative most prestigious stop on a distinguished duties with an active and productive career Furman's Distinguished professional journey. He has worked at as a concert pianist. He has presented Alumni Award in 1981 private liberal arts colleges and large public recitals and symphonic concerts throughout and was on hand when universities, directing everything from the world, and critics praise his interpretive Blocker received the small music departments to the fine arts skills and technical virtuosity. During one program at a major urban university (the recent season he appeared with the Prague same honor in 1999. University of California at Los Angeles). Chamber Orchestra, Monterrey (Mexico) Since 1981 he has been the dean at Philharmonic, the Beijing Symphony, five schools- the University of North the Shanghai Philharmonic and the Yale Carolina at Greensboro, Baylor, North Concert Band. Just this fall he returned Texas, UCLA and now Yale. Along the to Furman to perform with the university's way, he has become a national spokesperson symphony orchestra. on behalf of the arts. Most notably, his His associates marvel at the dexterity views on the arts and business and on with which he juggles the different aspects cultural leadership are sought by interna­ of his work. Says Richard Cass, "It requires tional audiences. a highly unusual combination of gifts as He is frequently asked to speak at pro­ well as an abundance of energy and positive fessional conferences and to consult with attitude of self-worth. Bob has all of these major arts institutions, and he serves on things!" David Gibson agrees and says, advisory boards ranging from the Avery "He is one of the most versatile individuals Fisher Artist Program at New York's I have known. Often people with such Lincoln Center to the South Carolina exceptional musical talent are consumed Governor's School for the Arts and by that one thing, but not Robert." Humanities. This fall, when Steinway & Charlotte Smith adds, "He's very re­ Sons decided to commemorate the 300th laxed and easy-going and gives the appear­ anniversary of the invention of the modern ance of taking things as they come, but piano by producing a film on the instru­ what appears to come so easily to him is ment's history, the company asked Blocker, actually the result of hard, hard work."

10 In Blocker's eyes, the opportunity to "He truly loved music and had a lot �93, Blocke• live in different places with diverse of fun with it but had not previously been and Cass performed two populations, to travel, and to perform and very single-minded about the kind of work piano duets at an alumni lecture throughout the world has enriched it takes to become a serious artist," says every aspect of his professional life. He Cass. It was Cass' job to help Blocker recital honoring Furman says, "I feel broadened as a person having uncover the drive to go with his ability, music professors. presented concerts, talks and lectures in and after a period of adjustment typical of so many different places. As artists and any mentor-pupil relationship, they devel­ performers, our duty is to re-create others' oped both a strong partnership and a work. To have the chance to meet and friendship that lasts to this day. Cass says, know people from across global lines and "Bob and I found that we had a mutual in different settings gives me insight and love of great music that made it possible understanding toward re-creating that for us to communicate well in the work." studio." And while the foundation for his ster­ Just as Blocker's musical talent blos­ ling career was laid at Furman, the building somed at North Texas, so did his gifts in blocks fell into place under the tutelage of other areas. As Cass recalls, Blocker's Cass. "There is a common Furman thread leadership skills, sense of humor, energy throughout my musical life," says Blocker, and ability to work well with all types of "but the formidable influence was Richard. people quickly became evident, and he He is a superb artist and intellect, and he was often "singled out" for special assign­ tapped my innate curiosity and gave me a ments by fellow students, faculty and passion for learning that I didn't know was administrators. there." Cass says he suggested early in their Cass, now a professor at the Conser­ relationship that Blocker had the potential vatory of Music of the University of to be a dean: "My observations of his Missouri at Kansas City, says that from character indicated to me that he was a their first meeting, he could tell that his strong person of high ideals, capable of student had a fine ear, exceptional musical deep loyalty. He was tolerant of (and sensitivity and a "remarkable natural gift" somewhat amused by) others' personal for the piano. Yet Cass echoes Blocker's lapses and quirks of character but not so Furman professors when he recalls that the patient of pretension and phoniness, traits young artist "had a tendency to coast on that appear no less often in musicians than those gifts." in the general population! I feel sure that

11 (_� eke•, who his sense of humor has served him well in "Whiffenpoofs." More to the point, Yale received an honorary his career as an administrator." is the only Ivy League school with profes­ Cass' suggestion proved prophetic. sional schools for all areas of the arts, a degree from Furman in Since his first full-time position as associate situation that cultivates creativity and 1992, enjoys every professor and chair of the Division of Fine intellectual activity. opportunity he gets to Arts at Western Te xas College, Blocker's Blocker thrives in this environment, career has followed a steady, upward spiral even though balancing his duties as admin­ work directly with that reached its peak in 1995 with his istrator, performer and teacher can be students. In October he appointment as the eighth dean of the Yale difficult. "There's never enough time for performed Beethoven's School of Music. practice and class preparation if I'm doing During Blocker's tenure at Yale, the what needs to be done for the school," he Piano Concerto No. 3 endowment for the School of Music has says, "and the bigger and more influential with the Furman more than doubled, to $74 million, and the school, the more encumbrance on your Symphony Orchestra. its debt has been retired. He has strength­ personal time." When bogged down, ened the relationship between the univer­ though, he finds there's "no quicker sity and the surrounding community of renewal" than working with gifted students. New Haven, Conn., especially through an "They truly are inspiring," he says. aggressive outreach program with the His enthusiasm for teaching is attrib­ public Arts and Humanities High School. utable to his own love for learning. Blocker He has also sought opportunities to work has never stopped being a student, and he more directly with School of Music stu­ suggests that his lack of focus as a college dents, both in teaching situations and senior occurred because he was "so im­ through regular "town hall" meetings. mersed in the college experience that I As Blocker describes it, music perme­ wasn't thinking so much about a career. ates the Yale campus. In addition to the But I'm not surprised that I was inclined School of Music's Philharmonia Orchestra toward academics because I enjoyed being and choral and chamber ensembles, Yale a student so much." boasts numerous undergraduate ensembles An award-winning teacher, he has ranging from its Symphony Orchestra, Band expanded his classroom interests over the and Glee Club to smaller performing years. He received adjunct appointments ensembles within the university's residential in the business schools at both UCLA colleges. Yale is also well-known for and at Yale, where he has taught classes its 24 a capella singing groups, the most that focus on how the arts affect (and famous being the all-male, all-senior are affected by) not only the business

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'hen /jDifert Blocker received the adult through what I prefer to call 1999 Distinguished AlumniAward at very early middle age: a major Homecoming ceremonies In October, professor (Richard Cass), lifelong his acceptance speech was brief, friends and professional colleagues. eloquent and to the point: And most Importantly, a wise and wonderful wife and partner Each of us writes our own biography (Serena Snyder '68). through the actions, deeds, thoughts And what was and Is this and commitments of our lives. Our Influence? story Is edited by those who know • The courage to move forward, The Furman Influence of which us and by those who touch our lives. to take risks; I speak has to do with nurturing The central theme In mine has • Shared laughter and tears; others. Furman teaches her sons been the continual Influence of • Hearing - rather than simply and daughters, very simply, to be Furman people. listening - to accounts of good people. Because of Furman As a child: a pediatrician, a joy, pain and many woefully people and their presence In my life, minister, and several Sunday school uninformed opinions! I became a better person In spite of teachers. As a teen-ager: a coach, • Offering knowledge and myself. I believe that characteristic two Incredibly gifted teachers, insight, at times to a closed is what marks a great educational merchants and a banker. As a young mind. Institution.

community, but the media and popular term as dean, it issued a statement praising culture. AnJ now he is engaged in explor­ his "commitment ro excellence in all area atory discussions with medical colleagues of the school" and his "wisdom, courtesy at both Yale anJ UCLA. 1 le is intrigued and ensirivity." by the potential results of collaboration Those words would come as no sutp·isc between the art and medi inc in the areas to tho e who have helped shape rhe career of cognition and the neurological aspects of this amiable, genteel son of the outh. of creativity. Although he ha traveled the world and Blocker acknowledges that, given his earned wide pread recognition, he makes appointments and ub equent relocations, a con ious effort to mainrain his relation­ he has built hi career "a bit differently" ships with those who have played a than do most academic . And while he signifi ant part in his life. He keeps moving admits to a sense of admiration for those steadily forward, yet remains firmly colleagues who have seuled in one place grounded in the past. where they could "establish longstanding A story from Charlotte mith illu - relationships in a family atmosphere," he trate the point. Years ago, when Blocker doesn't second-guess himself. was teaching at North Texas, he brought "I've always wanted to be where 1 am a youth choir to Greenville for a concert. contributing and where 1 can continue to He called her beforehand and suggested grow," he says. "It can be hard to find the that she might want to attend, that he had balance between tho e goals and the sense "something special" planned for her. of permanence that everyone seeks. Do "They performed a marvelous piece you take advantage of the opportunities by Palestrina," she says. "It was one Robert that come your way or not? You make had loved while he was a student here. choices, and all you can do is try to chao e He and the choir understood the piece wisely and trust that your life will move petfectly, and they conveyed exactly what forward." it had to ay." He seems to have chosen wisely each he pauses, enjoying the memory. step of the way, with his appointment at Then she says, "He is a most unusual and Yale serving a the high-water mark of a endearing student. I'm gratified to know career that ha yet to play itself out. And him and to keep up with him." Yale is clearly delighted to have him. Last For Robert Blocker, the entiment is summer, when the university announced no doubt the same. his reappointment to a second five-year

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ARIZONA'S BIOSPHERE 2 PROVIDES THE IDEAL SETTING FOR A FURMAN STUDENT TO PURSUE HER INTEREST IN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND GLOBAL MANAGEMENT.

'I!1e opportunity 'eemed too perfect biology. business administration. shortages. and severe problems with to ignore. chemistry. earth and environmental oxygen and carbon dioxide levels. lt was Winter Term 1999. and 1 sciences, and political science. Because of the program's well­ had gro"'n a bit re-.;tle-.;s with my And little Jid I know that Fall publiciLed failure, many viewed the ··normal" Furman life. I was looking Term 1999 would lead me to re­ Biosphere as a joke. for �omcthing different. something evaluate my plans for the future and Still. Bass believed it could be exciting. to take me away from the embark on a new path. a valuable tool to the scientific traditiona I classes and labs I had community. After all. the Biosphere :tt!cndcd fur a!nlll't three years. was the only closed, controlled I founJ it---in the Biosphere 2 Columbia University didn "t build the environment of its kind in the world. Earth Scmcste>· program. sponsored Biosphere. but it Jcscrves credit for It offered a unique opportunity to by Columbia Univer,ity. preserving it. study six small ecosystems, or Furman had just become a A Texas oil billionaire. Edward "'biomes"- a cottonwood forest. partner im.titution with Bio-;pherc 2. Bass. provided the funding to rain forest. 900.000-gallon ocean, an imcrdisciplinar) program whose establish the facility. which was built mangrove. desert and savanna- in goal is to educate students about to study how well humans could a setting where different atmospheric environmental �cicnce and global adapt to life in a scaleJ. controlled and climatic conditions could be management. The program, which environment . The iJca was for the duplicated and manipulated. In short, is designed to train a core of students Biosphere. a giant greenhouse-like it was a giant, one-of-a-kind research "'ho can help .,u.,tam the envtronment �tructure that cover� . . 15 acres. to lab. in the 21st ccnrury and beyond. serve as a self-sustaining home in In 1996. Bass asked Columbia sounded ideal. It offered the chance which scientists could test conditions University to assume the to move out of the standard classroom that might eventually be used to management of the $200-million setting and spend 16 -weeks studying support life on another planet or on Biosphere. Columbia agreed to usc my two favorite subjects: -;cicncc long trips into space. the facility for the study of and the em ironment. ln 1991, eight scientists entered environmental science. poliC) and So I applied and was fortunate the Biosphere to dctcnninc how education and hired William C. to be one of seven Fum1an students effectively humans could live in Harris. a National Science selected to be part of the university's closed conditions. isolated from the Foundation administrator and fanner first group to spend a term '·abroad" outside world except for commu­ chemistry professor at Funnan, to at the Biosphere 2 Center in Oracle. nication. Two years later the direct the program. Ariz .. approximately 30 miles north experiment ended in failure, with the Since then. the renamed of Tucson. We were a diverse lot, biospherians having suffered strained Biosphere 2 Center has become a representing the departments of personal relationships. food leader in environmental research. 14 For his research project, Clay Anderson was hoisted 80 feet high each week to measure the movement of light across the Biosphere's rain forest biome.

My Furman friends and I were among a group of 80 students from institutions all over the country who participated in the Earth Semester program, while another 20 studied astronomy and astrophysics through a separate program, the Universe Semester. The Biosphere has overcome its difficult beginnings to become a center for serious scientific inquiry. In December, Columbia announced plans to expand the programs of Biosphere 2 to include 300 undergraduate students by the year 2003.

INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH Camping out in Grand Canyon National Park ... visiting Mount Lemon and the Painted Desert ... watching sunsets on a Mexican beach along the Gulf of California. These might sound like vacation highlights, but they were actually integral parts of our academic adventure in the Biosphere 2 Earth Semester. One of the key elements of the Biosphere 2 program is hands-on experience - a prime example of engaged learning in action. If we were going to study the environment, we couldn't focus all our energy on our 3.15-acre home base; we had to examine the world beyond. The desert Southwest provided ample opportunities for us to connect and interact with the environment. The semester was organized into a series of "modules," or segments, each of which lasted approximately three weeks and included lectures, labs and field experiences. We took classes in Earth Systems Science, Conservation Biology, and Law, Politics, and Economics of Global Change; attended a Planetary Management Seminar and Laboratory (PMS); and devoted Wednesdays to independent research. My independent project focused on studying soil moisture and gases in the rain forest biome. The classes were taught by professors and 15 One of the key research associates who would become our collaborators and friends -and who insisted that we call them elements of the by their first names. We started with an immense amount of work, so that we could Biosphere 2 pro&ram get through the basics quickly. We were treated to a crash course in the geological, biological and policy history of the Tucson area. This is hands-onexpenence. helped everyone - and especially those of us from the East Coast - become oriented to our new Colorado River and in a portion of surroundings. the Painted Desert. We also got a The center's interdisciplinary behind-the-scenes tour (in hard hats) approach was evident from the start. of Glen Canyon Dam, where we All of the classes blurred together to discussed the policy issues related the point that students did not know to the construction of the dam and what official class they were sitting its effect on the health of the through, or which assignments were Colorado River ecosystem. I spent for which class. We worked on group the last day on a 12-mile hike into projects to help us understand the the Grand Canyon to Plateau Point importance of teamwork and group and back. Others participated in 17- A crystal-clear day on a Mexican beach provides dynamics. And by the second week mile and three-mile hikes. Needless a perfect opportunity for bird-watching. we were presenting oral reports and to say, I rode home with very sore developing our communication ski lis, legs! since one of the primary problems Our visit to the Grand Canyon facing scientists and policymakers and its environs served as a transition today is their inability to convey to the module titled "Impact = marine ecosystems; we closed with information across disciplines in an Population * Affluence * discussions of the West Coast's understandable manner. Technology," or I=PAT. Using this problems with its water supply and For our first major field trip we formula, devised by academics John the biological and geological traveled to nearby Mount Lemon, Holdren and Paul Ehrlich, as a implications that human consumption where we conducted landscape starting point, we focused on the has on the fresh-water resources of comparison exercises. But Mount impact of civilization on the the area. In between, we traveled to Lemon was just a prelude to the environment and the relationship Puerto Penasco, Mexico, where we Grand Canyon trip, which covered between human population and stayed at CEDO (Centro Estudiar many miles and lasted a week. lifestyle and the natural environment. Desiertos y Oceanos) and learned We spent each night in Grand Our group project for this firsthand about estuaries, intertidal Canyon National Park on the South segment was a campus audit in which zones and sand dunes. Rim in temperatures below 30 we evaluated every area of the Our first evening at CEDO, we degrees. We divided into groups of Biosphere campus to determine how took flashlights into the intertidal about 20 students for our day it could be made more efficient and zone to search for unusual plants and excursions, when temperatures environmentally friendly. We animals. We saw a starfish, octopus, reached as high as 70 or 80 degrees. focused on everything from energy sea anemone and many other We enjoyed a native history tour, and transportation to landscaping and interesting creatures, all of which we which included a visit to Sunset housing. Each group presented its touched and examined. There was Crater, and conducted landscape fmdings and offered suggestions for no room for the squeamish in this comparison exercises in the Kaibab improvements to the campus; our type of engaged learning. National Forest, along the little reports were not only graded but were We spent our days in Mexico in collected to be used as guides for different locales. We toured three future management of campus coastlines, finishing at an estuary facilities. where a local women's group farmed The "Water" module may well oysters - and let us sample them. have provided the largest variety of We spent an afternoon studying experiences during the term. We plants that grow in the salty, dry opened with classroom discussions conditions around the Gulf of of oceanic and coastline issues, California. Some students connected including chemistry, biodiversity and with the environment by getting into a mud fight in the tributaries of the

Biosphere students studied and collected estuary where we were hiking. We a variety of insects during the term. During the I=PAT module, which focused on the relationship between humans and the natural environment Biosphere students toured Ray Mine, one of Arizona's largest op en-pit copper mining operations.

also enjoyed a visit to the Pinacate in Mexico on the beach with my Change (UNFCCC), which in 1999 Sand Dunes, which were created by friends watching shooting stars; when was held in Bonn, Germany, at the windblown Colorado River Delta we tired we went back to CEDO and Conference of the Parties (COP). sediments. Our lab work on this trip slept outside on a large porch. After dividing into different involved measuring biodiversity in We closed the semester with a negotiating groups, we discussed different sized tidepools. study of the earth 's climate systems various aspects of the Kyoto Protocol, Not surprisingly, the beach was and the human role within them. an agreement among 160 nations to a strong attraction for most of us, as Our group project involved a limit carbon dioxide and other was the chance to go bargain simulation of the United Nations greenhouse gas emissions. Our goal shopping in town. I spent every night Framework Convention on Climate was to encourage the document's

17 ratification by the participating ans lived inside the facility - we In keeping with the interdiscipli­ governments. It was amazing how visited their quarters, and tour groups nary nature of Biosphere 2, my involved some of the students became can do the same - Columbia modi­ housemates were from all over the in the negotiations. The "Oil fied some of the existing buildings country, ranging from Hawaii to Cape Producing Nations" group wore surrounding the Biosphere into stu­ Cod. The housing situation proved turbans and actual nametags of the dent residences. The "dorms" are a to be an educational experience in delegates to the negotiations, and the series of houses called "Units," which its own right, as I had the chance to "Environmental Non-Governmental usually house 11 residents and are live with people of different back­ Organizations" held a picket-line primarily coed, or "Arroyos," du­ grounds and belief systems. demonstration. plexes for two to four people. I was Although the entire program was in the only all-female Unit and had intense and academically HOME BASE only seven other housemates instead challenging, we had plenty of time Because the Biosphere was about 25 of 10. The other Units were coed, to relax. We enjoyed many of the minutes from the closest grocery with two people to a room. normal activities of college life, like store and 45 minutes from the nearest My Unit was unique in that we going to the movies, the mall or just mall or theatre, we were in some had one huge room that slept four hanging around the house, but most ways almost completely isolated from girls and two other rooms that each of the students took advantage of the rest of the world. Virtually all of slept two. And while the buildings their free time by hiking and our time was spent with other Earth look somewhat plain on the outside, exploring their unique surroundings. Semester students, and although we they are actually quite nice and I enjoyed weekend trips to San could leave campus any time we equipped with all the comforts of Diego, Las Vegas and Sedona, with needed to, we were almost never home, including a television and a its beautiful red rock sculptures and alone. kitchen with two refrigerators and cultural offerings. Day trips featured Although the original biospheri- two microwaves. bird watching in the mountains, visits

There was no room for the squeamishin this type of engaged learning.

William Harris, a former chemistryprofessor at Furman, is president and executive director of the Biosphere.

On their first night at CEDO, the Biosphere students discovered this octopus and other fascinating sealife during a visit to an intertidal zone.

18 to Native American ruins and citizen dedicated to the preservation the start of nanotechnology that missions, and even a Broadway of the earth for generations to come. enable assembly of new organi­ touring production of the musical I plan to take as many courses in zations, new states of matter and new "Chicago." Sports enthusiasts environmental science as I can before life forms, and we have become as enjoyed University of Arizona I graduate after Fall Term 2000, and gods of creation. But massive football games and Arizona I hope to complete a double major re-creation itself is a form of ultimate Diamondbacks baseball. in chemistry and biology. destruction. To feel even more at home, we I completed the program with a "These tools impose upon your created a yearbook and established far greater understanding of and generation the task to cultivate the the Biosphere 2 Center's fr rst student appreciation for environmental skills to understand relationships, council. Some of the more dramatic issues, and also with the commu­ meaning, value and ethics; in short, types organized and presented a nication skills that I will need to to ask and answer 'Why,' so that you production of "Romeo and Juliet," work in today's society. All those can become as gods of wisdom. and the social committee sponsored group presentations were definitely So ... I pass it on to you." many events, including a toga party worth it! and a semi-formal dance at the end I'll always remember the Brooke Beam, a senior from of the term. A group of student dedicated professors and staff Norcross, Ga., re ceived a fu ll­ interns also developed new deposit members with whom we spent long tuition scholarship fr om the Vo lvo centers that greatly improved the hours in and out of class. Their Corporation to support her work center's recycling program. devotion to their craft and to the at the Biosphere. In partnership environment was inspiring, and their with the Biosphere 2 Center, Vo lvo A NEW COURSE commitment to the program helped awards scholarships to selected As I sat on the beach in Mexico, make it so effective. undergraduate students each watching the sun set over the Gulf One of the many outstanding semester. of Californiaand knowing I had only professors I encountered was Tony three weeks left at the Biosphere, I Burgess. A professor of conservation realized what an awesome experience biology, he has been part of the the program had been. Biosphere 2 Center staff since its A chemistry major, I had always inception. planned to attend medical school. One of his most profound After my term at the Biosphere, comments serves as a fitting however, I have decided to attend conclusion to the program and to my graduate school in environmental reflections on the experience. Tony chemistry, with an ultimate goal to said, "Our generation has developed become an active and informed computers, genetic engineering, and

To ny Burgess gets up close and personal with a fringe-toed lizard.

With the Biosphere complex in the background, Furman's first Earth Semester students take Brooke Beam at the Pinacate Sand Dunes. a bow. Kneeling, front: Laura Wa hoske, Clay Anderson. Back, from left: Mary Beth Knight, Catherine Park, Katie Dunson, Nam Lee, Brooke Beam.

19 Furman sophomore takes direct aim at recording career.

ven before Rudy on rhythm and blues radio stations "Do It Like Us" around his Furman Currence was speaking in complete throughout the Southeast. classes. The double major in music sentences, he was singing. (I t can be heard at http://www. and communication studies does, At the tender age of 6 he made platinumprojects.com.rudy.htm.) however, manage to log some his debut public performance before Rudy- he uses the one-word studio time on the weekends. He a small crowd of parents and class­ appellation professionally- has also performs with the Furman mates at the Kiddie Kollege in his also completed a music video of Singers and the Gospel Ensemble. hometown of Rock Hill, S.C. He the single, which he hopes will soon "To be able to get a college belted out "Deck the Halls." be playing on MTV and BET. His education has always been a Shortly after he completed his yet-to-be-titled debut album is ex­ dream of mine," says Currence. rendition, the youngster posed a pected out later this year. "My parents have always encour­ question to his mother. "My music career is not to the aged me to excel academically." "Mama," he asked, "do you point where it can sustain me," says His mother and agent, Patricia, think I can sing?" the 19-year-old, whose silky, soulful says that getting an education and She said, "Yes, son, I certainly voice has been compared to that succeeding in the music industry think you can sing." of Donny Hathaway and Stevie have always been goals for her With that encouraging word, Wonder. "I feel really blessed and son. Currence set off to develop what am thankful for the success that "We tell him he's only 19 years he says was "really second nature I've already had." old. He has a lot of life in front of to me anyway." For Currence, musical him," she says. "Right now, getting Within a year Currence was success is just a matter of an education is the most important playing classical piano and perform­ time, say many in the industry. thing for him." ing gospel music in area churches. "From the first time I heard Currence credits much of his He later sang the national anthem Rudy sing I knew we had signed a success to his mother's pragmatic, for a Charlotte Hornets National very special, incredibly gifted per­ cautious approach to his career. Basketball Association game and former who has the power and po­ Like her son, Mrs. Currence, a com­ a Charlotte Knights minor-league tential to appeal to both young and f)Uter analyst by trade, is relatively baseball game. mature audiences," says AI Moses, new to the music industry. But they As an 18-year-old, Currence Platinum Entertainment's vice pres­ are both quick studies. and his younger brother, Patrick, ident of marketing and promotions. "The record business really captured first place in the Apollo Currence signed with the Atlanta­ makes you grow up," says Cur­ Theatre's amateur night competi­ based record company in 1998. rence. "On the surface everyone tion. Taped on location in New York A recent article in Black Beat is really friendly. But they will take City, the show was aired nationally. says, "Rudy is on the high road to your money if they can. They'll More recently, Currence's image success ... his original yet classic take your clothes and leave you has been splashed across the vocal delivery and multiple musical homeless. My mother and I are pages of music trade magazines talents already rival some of today's very observant. We're networking such as Right On!, Black Beat and and yesteryear's greats." with other people, developing rela­ Word Up ! Although musical fame may tionships and learning." But now the Furman sopho­ be in his future, Currence's attention Currence, who also writes and more has his sights set on even now is squarely focused on aca­ produces mu sic, has been influ­ larger audiences. His first single, demics. Platinum Entertainment enced by such greats as Wonder, "Do It Like Us," is getting airtime had to schedule the video shoot for Hathaway and Diana Ross, but he By John Roberts

also appreciates more co ntempo­ rary artists such as Brandy and Boyz II Men . "Th ey're rooted in the church, and they have a gospel flavor that I can relate to ," he says. As an artist, Rudy cut his teeth performing in Rock Hill churches -including Souls for Christ Full Gospel, where his father, Ruperd Currence, is the pastor. An d most of his musical in fluences co me from family members. His father plays the piano and sings, and several of his aunts and uncles are musi­ cians. "Music has always been around me," he says. "Music is like second nature to me. It's like walking." As a musician, Rudy hopes to have a positive impact on his audi­ ence. He refuses to performso ngs with obscene language or racy themes. "Music is very po werful," he says. "If someone has been given the gift of music, then they should use it in a positive manner. Young people do listen to the music, and it can have an impact."

In addition to producing and performing music, Rudy Currence enjoys creative writing, poetry and art. He also ran track in high school, where his specialty was the hurdles.

21 c/N FA IRY TALES, FROGS TURN TO PRINCES, WEAKLINGS BECOME t_ HEROES, SEEDS TOSSED AWAY BECOME GIANT BEANSTALKS.

In Augusta, Ga., it happens too, though Cleon was born in Greenville in the details are a bit different. So here it 1913. His mother, Nell Poe Mauldin, a is, a true Augusta fairy tale: the story of descendant of Edgar Allen Poe, was a a life lived in silence, yet full of music; handsome and elegant woman who grad­ of a clumsy man who took his exit with uated from Converse College with the grace of a dancer; of service faithfully dreams of a career as a concert pianist. performed in obscurity, culminating in His father was a naval officer, so the boy an act of generosity that leaves you grew up moving wherever his father was breathless. stationed. In his early childhood, Cleon This is the story of Cleon Mauldin. contracted a form of tuberculosis from Cleon was a stooped, lumbering man drinking unpasteurized milk and lost his in an ill-fitting suit who used to carry the hearing. He was educated by private score out just before conductor Harry tutors at home, but by the time he reached Jacobs took the podium at Augusta his teens, hearing aids had developed Symphony concerts. Cleon was the to the point that he was able to attend symphony's stage manager and librarian Greenville High School. for 35 years. His family, for all After graduation he went to intents and purposes, was Harry Furman. Even with a hearing aid, and the orchestra. An eccentric and he would miss much that wassaid, solitary man, his joy was ordering and so his mother attended classes cataloguing their music in the basement with him and became his ears, of the Grover C. Maxwell Performing taking lecture notes. She did the Arts Theatre. same when he went on for a master's Yet he never heard a note of it. Cleon degree in sociology at the University of was deaf. Virginia. When he died in September 1998 at With a father at sea much of the time, the age of 85, only a few people were Cleon and his mother were very close. aware of Cleon Mauldin's passing. But She loved music, and when they were he left behind something extraordinary: living in Hartford, Conn., the two would a bequest of well over $1 million for go to Boston Symphony and Metropoli­ arts and education in the Central tan Opera performances. Though Cleon Savannah River Area (CSRA). Through couldn't hear what was going on, he the Cleon Mauldin Foundation, the could feel the beat and he was bathed in symphony's deaf librarian has become a a feast for the eyes and the heart and the major patron of Augusta's arts. Every soul as he sat beside his mother. He December, the fo undation will select grew to love ballet especially, because projects to fund from among applications there the music was visibly embodied in submitted - a perpetual Christmas gift the graceful movements of the dancers. of sorts to the arts community that gave Cleon 's father died while he was in meaning to Cleon Mauldin's life. high school. He moved to Augusta with his mother in the late 1940s to take a job 22 By Jim Garvey

right of way, Cleon," Harry said. "Why did you stop?" With great dignity Cleon answered, "I did not choose to exercise my prerog­ ative." If he was hopelessly incapable of mastering some of the ordinary physical skills of the 20th century, he was gifted he'd gotten at Fort Gordon through the Late one night in in the spiritual ones of gratitude and Hire the Handicapped program. generosity. In 1970, after his mother Late one night in 1951, as he was 1951, as he was died, Cleon wanted to honor her. He walking home from the bus stop, some­ walking home gave the symphony $33,000 with the thing happened that changed his life. proviso that Nell Poe Mauldin Memorial He saw lights on in an old Victorian from the bus stop, Concerts be given on a regular basis. house near his home, and he knew a something happened That $33,000 was the start of the Augusta group was converting the house into the Symphony Foundation. He was also a Augusta Academy of Music. He peered that changed his life. generous benefactor of the Augusta through a window. Vo la Jacobs, wife of blasted, police sirens wailed, the police Ballet. Harry Jacobs, was dipping her paint brush pounded on his door, and when they In 1975 he retired from his Fort in the bucket when she looked up to see finally broke in and rushed up the stairs, Gordon job - "so I can spend more time a face staring through the glass. The they found Cleon quietly reading in bed, with the orchestra," he said. He'd go to man, wearing an oversize hearing aid oblivious to the noise around him and the library in the basement of the Per­ and speaking with an impediment, asked, astonished at the crowd that suddenly fo rming Arts Theatre six days a week. "Could I help?" appeared in his bedroom. Monday through Saturday for more than In a way, that question became the What Cleon most loved doing for 10 years, he made the symphony his full­ theme of Cleon Mauldin's life. When the orchestra didn't require hearing. He time job. Even in fa iling health and the Augusta Symphony was organized could order music, rent it, make copies, wheelchair-bound, he had Harry take three years later, he wanted to be a part send letters to out-of-town players (hand­ him to the PAT every day. "He'd take of it any way he could. He carried in­ written, since his thick fingers couldn't his graham crackers and candy and he struments, arranged music stands, swept manage typewriter keys with any accu­ did something there every day," Harry the rehearsal room. As the ensemble and racy), carry on extensive correspondence remembers, "even if when he got old it its repertoire grew, he supported it fi nan­ with publishers and catalog the library. was only to snooze. He loved to be cially as well. Few people know that He did these things slowly, meticu­ there. It was his cocoon, his spe­ for the first 15 years of the lously, every day. When there was no cial world." orchestra's existence, Cleon paid place to store the music, he bought cab­ Deafness and difficulty speaking for all its music out of his own inets for it. He catalogued all the music. isolated Cleon Mauldin from most of the pocket. And not just its music, but When he wasn't sure of the proper title world. But music, though he couldn't many of its instruments. Once, the en­ - should this piece by Donizetti be hear it, connected him with his mother's semble wanted to perform a piece that called by its English or Italian name? ­ dreams and with the joys of the musicians called for a celesta, a rare keyboard he decided to amass his own reference and audiences he served. Music gave instrument; Cleon bought the $4,000 library and educate himself on composers him a rich sense of purpose. Now the instrument himself. In fact, much of the and repertoire. Cleon Mauldin Foundation, which will percussion section - the bass drum, the After his aging mother lost her driv­ award grants totaling about $70,000 this cymbals, the tubular chimes - were also er's license, Cleon asked Harry to teach year, will keep his name alive as a patron his gifts to the symphony. him to drive. Harry did so, though he of the arts. In a way, they were fitting gifts, since soon regretted it. Cleon was a terrible Harry still remembers that night in percussion was about all Cleon could driver. Once on a trip to Columbia, S.C., 1951 -the rap on the pane, the strange hear in the music they played. His he hit the brakes in the middle of nowhere face in the window ...the thought, Who favorite pieces, Harry Jacobs remembers, and a car plowed into his rear end. Later, is that character? ...then the oddly were loud Sousa marches, the "Anvil he asked Harry to help him fi ll out the inflected offer, "Could I help?" Chorus" and "The Toreador Song" from accident report. Harry asked him why Yes, Cleon. Thank you. Carmen. he had stopped. Cleon said that a half­ "He would feel the beat," says Harry, mile up the road, a school bus was going conductor of the symphony from 1955 to enter the highway. "But you had the to 1991. "But if he got 10 percent of the sound I'd be absolutely amazed." One night Cleon accidentally set off the Jim Garvey teaches English and journalism at Augusta State University. This article is reprinted with pe1mission fr om the December/January burglar alarm in his house. The alarm issue of Augusta Magazine. Vernon Burtonnamed national Professor of Year

urman graduate Ve rnon Burton, an to learn with him." As a result, she says, a ard-winning professor of history and students emerge from his classes as sociology at the University of Illinois at "analytical, observant, creative learners Urbana-Champaign and a Pulitzer Prize­ who engage in both the study of history nominated author, has been named one of and in their community." four United States Professors of the Year Burton is a native of Ninety Six, S.C., for 1999-2000. which he describes as "a wonderful, rural, The award, sponsored by the Carnegie small town where I learned the importance Foundation for the Advancement of of community. I have tried to build some Teaching and the Council for the of that sense of belonging and mutual Advancement and Support of Education obligation into the classroom. (CASE), recognizes professors who "This sense of community was demonstrate extraordinary dedication to reinforced at Furman, where teaching and teaching, commitment to students and students are highly valued. And I believe innovative teaching methods. that scholarly and teaching interests should "What makes Professor Burton special not be walled off from the broader world. are his passion for learning and for life, Because I study race relations, I have been combined with compassion for his called as an expert witness in voting rights students," says Mamie Slavin, a former cases that have helped increase minority student of Burton's. "I have never had a representation. Good teaching and good professor who relishes teaching more than living require giving back to the Vernon Burton." community." Burton was honored as the outstanding A senior research scientist at the research and doctoral university professor. National Center for Supercomputing His interests include the history of the Applications, where he heads the initiative South, agrarian societies, race relations, for the humanities and social sciences, family and community history, religion, Burton is a strong advocate of technology. the intersection of the humanities and social "Understanding history enables us to sciences, and the influence of technology maintain personal freedom and dignity in on culture and society. a technological world," he says. "The A 1969 Furman graduate, Burton twenty-first century will demand a earned his doctorate from Princeton much broader approach to learning, and University. Since joining the University new technology can help us meet that of Illinois faculty in 1974, he has twice demand .... received the university's All-Campus Award "Technology has the potential to for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. become the tool of the elite. We in the He has also received two campus awards academy cannot allow that. Our goal must for mentoring minority students and has be to democratize education. Especially been recognized for outstanding teaching those of us fortunate enough to teach in by the institution's history department and research universities must commit ourselves Panhellenic Council. to expanding the community of learning." Former student Rose Stremlau says Burton, author or editor of six books, that Burton "makes room in his life to was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his develop quality relationships with so many 1985 work In My Fa ther's House Are Many undergraduate and graduate students and Mansions: Fa mily and Community in peers. He develops these strong, rewarding Edgefield, Sou!h Carolina. He was relationships ... as a teacher in the inducted into Furman's Gamma chapter of classroom and beyond the classroom as a Phi Beta Kappa in 1986. mentor and an advisor. His kindness and caring, together with his intellectual An article by Professor Burton will curiosity and his ability to demand quality appear in a fo rthcoming issue of scholarship of his students, have a positive Furman magazine. impact on everyone who is fortunate enough

24 Web site targets Furman named language teachers to Templeton list

he John Te mpleton Foundation has included L anguage teachers, take The site grew out of rman among 100 institutions on the Templeton note. If you want to learn how Pecoy's class on Integrating nor Roll, which recognizes colleges and universities that promote character development and to integrate technology into Te chnology into Foreign inspire students to lead ethical and civic-minded your classroom withoutgetti ng Language Education. lives. too technical, there's a Web Agora Language In The Te mpleton Guide: Colleges That site that can help. Marketplace, a Web site that Encourage Character Development, published by Patricia Pecoy, a French serves as a "clearing house" the foundation, Furman is singled out for its programs professor at Furman and of information for foreign in the areas of faculty and curriculum, volunteer director of the university's language professionals, service, student leadership, spiritual growth and civic education. Collegiate Educational Service Multimedia Language Resource honored "Teachers' Aides" by Corps and President David Shi also receive special Center, has developed a "featured Web recognition, CESC as an exemplary service program "Teachers' Aides" site that, and Shi as one of 50 college presidents who are she says, is "designed to help leaders in promoting and developing character­ teachers at all levels take the building programs. technical out of technology. The guidebook, which is designed for students, It's one of those practical Web parents and educators who believe that character development is an essential part of a college sites that everyone can use," education, highlights individual programs at more no matter how strong (or than 300 colleges. According to the foundation, the limited) their computer skills schools were chosen through a selective process that are. "And it allows teachers learning." considered clarity of vision and statement of purpose, to wow their students and institutional resources, involvement of institutional create marvelous on-line leaders, and impact on the students and campus activities with very little community. Established in 1987, the Templeton Foundation technical knowledge." works with educators, scientists, theologians, medical professionals and other scholars to support more than 100 programs that encourage an appreciation for the benefits of freedom and stimulate serious and scientific research on the relationship between spirituality and health. More information is available http:/f www.furman.eduj .....pe coyjmfl195/aides.html on-line at www.collegeandcharacter.org. Furmanre ports

Furman receives NSEE Beacon Award University'scommi tment to engaged learning given an official vote of approval

t its fall meeting in San Diego, Cali , the National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) presented Goldsmith, Furman honored Furman its 1999 Beacon Award for for technological innovation Outstanding Achievement in Experiential Education. homas T. Goldsmith, Jr. , a 1931 alumnus that have been made during my lifetime, Engaged Learning is a problem­ T and former professor at Furman, was and I am honored to know that I am part solvi ng, project-oriented approach to honored in November with an InnoVision of a process that will continue to honor the arts and sciences that involves award for technological excellence and businesses, schools and individuals who innovation. are distinguished in these two vitally students as active participants in the InnoVision, developed through the joint important fieldsfor years to come." Learning process and allows them to efforts of Deloitte & Touche and IKON At the ceremony, Furman also received combine theory with experience in the Technology Services, is Upstate South the InnoVi sion Technology in Education "real world." Furman students parti ci pate Carolina's first awards program devoted Award for its efforts to integrate technology solely to highlighting achievement in the throughout the curriculum. In selecting in experiential Learning activities that field of technology. Goldsmith, a native Furman, the judges cited the Mellon faculty include study abroad, internships with of Greenville, received the Charles H. development workshops and the BellSouth national companies, government agencies Townes Individual Achievement Award, Technology Project. named for the 1935 Furman alumnus who The BellSouth Technology Proj ect and non-profit organizations, and on­ earned the Nobel Prize in 1964 for work focuses on integrating technology into campus research fellowships with Furman that led to the development of the maser elementary and secondary classrooms in professors. The Christian A. Johnson and laser. Greenville, Anderson, Oconee and Pickens Considered one of the top scientists of counties. The program, developed by Center fo r Engaged Learning coordinates his day, Goldsmith supervised the Furman faculty members, works to these activities at Furman and helps development of the technology, equipment establish a cadre of teacher-leaders who students acquire firsthand experience in and standards first used in the television can instruct and encourage their peers in industry. In 1966, he retired from the fields related to their career interests. the use of technology in the classroom. business world and returned to his The Mellon program, supported in The National Society for Experiential hometown of Greenville, where he joined large part by a grant from the Andrew W. Education is a non-profit membership the Furman faculty as a professor of physics Mellon Foundation, encourages the use of association of educators, businesses and and head of the audiovisuals department. technology to improve teaching, learning He retired in 1975. and scholarship, while reducing community Leaders whose mission is to Goldsmith, who now lives in Lacey, technological support costs. The project foster the effective use of experience as Wash., could not attend the ceremony but also supports intensive summer workshops an integral part of education. The said in a written statement, "I am honored for faculty, the pairing of faculty and moreso because the namesake of this award students to work on the development of organization also serves as a national is Charles Townes - a fellow Furman technology-based course material, and the resource center fo r the development and alumnus and distant cousin." creation of a core group of students to improvement of experiential education He added, "I have devoted my life to assist faculty with technological support programs nationwide. technology and teaching. As I near 90, I needs. marvel at the technological advancements - John Roberts

26 New look on way for administration building

When theAlester G. FurmanAdministration presentations. The building's entrance will to move to Judson Hall and student services Building emerges late next fall from an be shifted to the new addition, which will to the University Center. After a two-year extensive makeover, it will have a new look be connected to the administration building stint in the library basement, marketing and new occupants. by a hallway. The north porch on the fr rst and public relations will move into Hipp Over the Christmas holidays, the fi rst floor, where the current entrance is, will Hall, a new academic building to be floorof the 43-year-old building was gutted. be enclosed. constructed between the library, Riley Hall, Workers began replacing outdated Besides admissions and financial aid, the University Center and the South mechanical systems and preparing to currently on the lower floor of Earle Housing (men's residence halls) complex. renovate the building to make room for the Infrrmary, the previous occupants of the The academic records (registrar's) admissions and financial aid departments administration building's first floor will office, temporarily in the Haynsworth and a 2,600-square-foot welcome center. also get new homes. Financial and Common Room of Furman Hall, will return The welcome center, to be located administrative services, now in a temporary to the administration building's first fl oor. adjacent to the building in the old visitor's building beside the Theatre, will move to Administrative offices on the second floor parking lot, will fe ature a reception area the space vacated in the infirmary. Housing and in the basement will not be affected. for all campus visitors and a room where and student services, which previously prospective students and parents can attend shared office space, have split, with housing

Eugene C. Sneary, professor of Spanish and French at Furman from 1969 to 1976, died December 5 in Carrollton, Ga. Sneary was a native of Marion, Mich., and a graduate of Central Michigan College. He earned his Ph.D. in Hispanic and French literature from Thlane University, where he was an assistant professor. Sneary was an authority on Jose Marti, the Cuban patriot-poet. According to his Furman colleague, professor emeritus Carey S. Crantford, Sneary was an outstanding teacher who helped refine the department's experimentation in new teaching methods fo llowing the introduction of the "new curriculum" in 1968. He also taught at Oklahoma Baptist University and at Bethany, St. Olaf, Carson-Newman andWe sleyan colleges. After leaving Furman, Sneary completed his career at Wade Hampton High School in Greenville. A World War II veteran and retired commander in the Naval Reserve, he served as state genealogist for the Georgia Association of the Sons of the American Revolution and as a past president of the Carroll County Genealogical Society. He is survived by his wife, Phyllis, of 20 Harpers Way, Carrollton, Ga. 301 17, and four children. Phyllis Sneary was formerly a member of the Furman library staff. 27 Furmanre ports

It was December 14, and Cindy Tillman Furman authors, and a CD by the Bell On-line shopping Twardokus '86 hadn't quite finished her Tower Boys, an a capella group. Christmas shopping. "Our alumni base is spread Furman bookstore makes move into £-commerce Cindy and her husband, Duane '87, throughout the country and the world. live in Columbia, Mo., where Duane, a This site will let all those folks show former Furman employee, works at the their Furman pride wherever they are," fle t<�� ,._ ,,.... l"" u"' University of Missouri and Cindy takes says Shannon Wilkerson, director of the .... . �.� � � tft Back fOJ¥Nrd Stop Relreah Horne SNch care of their two young children. Cindy Alumni Association. -� - r--,il...,/1-...... keeps up with Furman by reading the According to Larry Lawter, bookstore JLnu @)MoatActive i)\VQXI ��-S-�-��S141ionl ontroacbclcun news updates on the Furman Web site. general manager, this is just the Soon after reading that Furman had beginning. "We plan to add more items, launched a new on-line bookstore, she including the latest Furman sportswear," and More! thought she might have the answer to says Lawter. "A nd we will eventually her Christmas problems. add on-line textbook orders for current She ordered a Furman T-shirt and students." coffee mug as stocking stuffers for her Cindy plans to shop more at the

Show your Paladin spirit! husband, and, with that, she became the site, and she hopes to see more infant Whether you are a student, alumni, fa cuhy first person to order from the new site. and children's clothing offered. In the member, or parent, you11 find something interesting here... "How wonderful to be the first meantime, she says she's enjoyi ng her customer," says Cindy. "celebrity" status as Furman's first on­ Http:/jwww. bookstore.furman.edu line customer. Subsaibe I has over 60 different items, including - Jake Breeden mugs, jewelry, sportswear, books by

ROE ART BUILDING AN ARCHITECTU RAL INSPIRATION

reenville's architects have spoken. Among the city's "most inspiring" buildings, Furman's Thomas Anderson Roe Art Building ranks second, right behind the Greenville County Museum of Art. The results emerged from a survey conducted by Dawn Huntley, a Greenville management consultant. As a research project for the Greenville Torch Club, she chose as a topic "Greenville's Most Inspiring Architecture" and surveyed members of the local American Institute of Architects chapter. Thirty-eight of the 142 registered AlA members responded, and the results were published in the chapter's newsletter. Of the art building, completed in 1986 and designed by Perry, Dean, Rogers & Partners of Boston, Mass., Huntley quotes one architect as saying, "I feel creative just walking into its space." Architect Jim Neal told The Greenville News that the art building is "a surprise to the first-time visitor. But shouldn't an artbuilding be something that excites the senses and provides that surprise?" The architects also admired the building's design because it breaks the Furman mold yet still fits with the rest of the campus. Its wide corridors, colorful interior and studios bathed in northern light add to its appeal. Aside from the county art museum, which opened in 1974, and the art building, the rest of Greenville's top fi ve were, in order, the Hyatt Regency, completed in 1978; "Broad Margin," a residence designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1954; and the Peace Center for the Performing Arts, which opened in 1990. The top fi ve were recognized in December with the "Millennium" Award at the AlA's annual awards ceremony. 28 hard-working immigrants and century." Hammett is regional the teaching of discipli ne­ leadership consultant for the minded Jesuit priests on Baptist State Convention of Lombardi's rigid personal values North Carolina. and coaching philosophy.

Dispelling myths about the James A. Hite, Jr. '68, Learning legendary Green Bay Packers in Ch aos: Improving Human coach, Maraniss reveals the high Performance in To day's Fast­ cost to Lombardi and his fa mily Changing, Vo latile of his "addictive need to win." Organizations (Gulf Publishing). Excellent research and good Hite explains that change is Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway of a leg and subsequent writing will appeal to biography typical of any organization, but (originally published 1925; re habilitation to his triumphant lovers. by understanding the nature of Harcourt Brace paperback, command of the United States - Bill Pierce, Health and change organizations can 1998); Michael Cunningham, The Army Seventh Corps in the Gulf Exercise Science incorporate it into their planning Hours (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, War - is alternately intriguing, and structure. He is director of 1998). Cunningham's Pulitzer educational, upsetti ng and Frances Mayes, Bella Tuscany: the Distance Education Network Prize-winning short novel is a motivating. Clancy molds Fra nks' The Sweet Life in Italy at Belmont University in clever and moving ode to Woolf story into a great read about (Broadway Books, 1999). Even Nashville, Tenn. in which he translates her 1920s the life of a man worthy of being if you have never been to Italy fa shionable London into 1990s called a hero. or purchased an ancient villa in Dana Malone Kennedy '86, Front gay New York. Woolf herself is - David Jewell, Military Science the hills above Cortona, Mayes' Porch Embraces (Post Oak a fictional character in the novel, second book about her vacation Publications). Kennedy's first as is a depressed California Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew home is one to treasure. She book of poetry celebrates housewife, reading Mrs. and Annette Lawrence Drew, describes gardens and women, motherhood, life in the Dalloway in 1949. I recently Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold landscapes, marvelous meals and South and a variety of other taught these two books and my Story of American Submarine small adventures in Sicily and topics. Her work has appeared students were delighted by the Espionage (Public Affairs, 1998). Venice in extraordinarily in creative writing anthologies intertextual references and We have, of course, known for evocative prose that catches and received awards from the echoes, which extend to the some time that our submarines and holds the reader. It's a book Tennessee Writers Alliance and 1998 film of "Mrs. Dalloway," identified and tracked Soviet to read slowly in order to enjoy Tennessee Mountain Writers. starring Vanessa Redgrave. I submarines, but prior to this her comments on the changing She is a writer and editor in the suggest that you enjoy these book I do not believe that we seasons and the way her public relations office at three works together. knew the extent to which these perceptions develop during a Te nnessee State University in - Robin Vise[, English boats were used for covert sabbatical year in Tuscany. Nashville. espionage. Our boats tapped - Judy Bainbridge, Tom Clancy and Frederick M. underwater phone cables as well Educational Services Lucinda Secrest McDowell '74, Franks, Jr., Into the Storm: A as observed ICBM tests. There Quilts From Heaven (Broadman Study in Command (Putnam, are exciting stories here of risky RECENT BOOKS BY ALUMNI & Holman). The author, a 1997). This is a riveting account missions and losses or near speaker and minister from of the evolution of the United losses of boats. A must read fo r Edward H. Hammett '78, The Wethersfield, Conn., is also a States Army from Vietnam to all students of the Cold War or Gathered and Scattered Ch urch: quilter. In this book, now in its the present from the perspective for those who are si mply Equipping Believers for the 21st second printing, she uses of one of its most interesti ng interested in the world of the Century (Smyth & Helwys). quilting patterns as metaphors leaders. The book combines submariner! According to the publisher, the to describe how God "creatively detailed studies of mechanized - David Redburn, Sociology book "takes seriously the issue designs our lives." warfare tactics with General that we are now living and Franks' personal accounts of David Maraniss, When Pride Still serving in a secular culture" and leading soldiers into combat in Mattered: A Life of Vince "offers suggestions about Vietnam, during the Cold War in Lombardi (Si mon & Schuster, understanding, activating and Europe, on the deserts of Iraq 1999). Maraniss, a Pulitzer evaluating the church and how and in Operation Desert Storm. Prize-winning journalist, we can equip believers for His story of his own challenges explores the joint influences of effective ministry in the 21st and triumphs - from his loss growing up in Brooklyn among

29 $9.5 nrillion gift launches library crunpaign

te Duke Endowment has provided contributes to both self-directed and Furman the means to launch an collaborative investigation. ambitious and far·reaching project: "Furman's leadership has been the expansion and renovation of the planning for the library for many James Buchanan Duke Library. years," said Elizabeth H. Locke, pres­ In January, the Endowment ident of The Duke Endowment. "Long announced a $10 million qualified before the current grant from the commitment to the Forever Furman Endowment, Furman had commis­ campaign, which will be paid over sioned research and consultation on five years beginning in December the library of the future. They wanted 2000. Of the total, $9.5 million will to be sure that any expansion or go toward the renovation and expan· renovation would serve what may be sion of the library. The remaining very nontraditional roles for the $500,000 will be designated for the library. Now that the plans have James Buchanan Duke Scholarship been done, we hope very much that program. others will give to help make the The Endowment's gift marks the entire project successful." beginning of a $25 million "campaign Construction will proceed in within the campaign" for the library. three phases. Over the next two When completed, the library will offer years, non-related offices and pro­ expanded services, a redesigned grams currently in the library will be interior and a new, 48,000·square­ moved to other locations, freeing foot wing on its west (lake) side. more than 8,000 square feet for President David Shi said, "This library use. is not only a historic gift, buta major A Center for Collaborative Learn­ challenge to us to complete this $25 ing and Communication, equipped million project in a timely way. We with state-of-the-art technology to now seek a gift of $7.5 million from support joint student-faculty projects one donor to name the new $17 mil­ and multimedia presentations, will lion wing of the library. We will also be installed in part of the vacated seek other seven-figuregifts for major space. By integrating the Center for interior spaces, plus gifts of all sizes Collaborative Learning and Commu­ to complete the project. nication with academic computer "This will likely be the largest labs and informational technology single building project during my classrooms, the library will serve as presidency, and it is certainly the the campus hub fromwhich students, most central to Furman's academic faculty and staff can develop their purposes. We are grateful for the technological skills. trust and encouragement of The Duke The $17 million new wing will Endowment in this important under­ be built during the project's second taking." phase. It will provide collaborative One of the first buildings con­ study rooms, reading and research structed on the new campus, the areas, and space for the library's library requires renovation and expan­ collection. sion to accommodate the growth of In the project's final phase, $8 its collection, which now totals more million will be raised to renovate the than 400,000 volumes, and to better original building. The main floor will serve a much larger student popula­ be redesigned to accommodate more tion. In addition, the library needs public services, information technol­ The west, or rear, view of the library as It looks today (top) and to keep pace with developments in ogy and study space. A multimedia as it will appear once the new wing Is added. The schematic information technology and research. computing commons, help desk and views from the west (second from bottom) and north Illustrate Because of Furman's emphasis on computer labs will be added on the the new look and organization of the Interior. engaged learning, in which students ground level. The new wing will be are encouraged to become more used for essential services during involved in their own education, the the renovation. university is looking to offer more Other features planned for the opportunities for intellectual library are an education curriculum discovery in an environment that center, which will include children's 30 Bryans' gift supports new facility for ROTC

for more than 30 years, Furman's Army ROTC program has been housed in the basement of the James FOREVER Buchanan Duke Library. Now, with the help of a $450,000 gift from W.K. ("B.K.") and ei FURMAN Frances Bryan of Greenville, the department will have its A Co 111 p r e h e 11 s i v e C a m p a i g 11 literature, textbooks and curriculum own facility, adjacent to the materials, and a multimedia center Herman W. Lay Physical to house the university's growing Activities Center. collection of videos. Construction began in late While the $9.5 million gift will fall on the $1 million Bryan be phased in over a five-year period, Center for Military Studies, the Endowment's $500,000 gift for which is scheduled to be the James B. Duke Scholarship pro­ completed in May. The fac ility gram will provide immediate scholar· will fe ature classrooms for ship and endowment support. military science, offices for the Through the years, the Endow· ROTC cadre and cadets, supply ment has made many special grants and storage facilities, a to the Duke Scholarship program. conference room and a military In recognition of this ongoing com­ history library. The building mitment, Furman has named its full­ will also include a wellness tuition scholarship program the facility for the Department of James B. Duke Scholarships. Twelve ...... _$150 million Health and Exercise Science. full-tuition Duke scholarships will be 2001 Campaign Goal fully endowed by the year 2004. B.K. and Frances Bryan The Endowment's giftis the sec­ are longtime residents of ond largest in Furman history, next Greenville. He is the former to the $24 million bequest from the owner of General Wholesalers estate of Homozel Mickel Daniel in Distributors and is currently 270 programs. For the past 1992. head of WKB Enterprises, a two years Furman cadets have While announcing the $10 mil· collection of bank and real earned the highest average lion pledge, the Endowment also estate investments. He served scores at ROTC Advanced awarded Furman a year-end grant of in the Air Force during World Camp in the 1st Region, which $1.72 million that will fund special War II as a B24 pilot in Italy. includes 96 host colleges and projects. The total includes He is a member of the universities in the eastern $750,000 for the renovation and Furman Advisory Council and United States. deferred maintenance of Furman Hall, the executive committee of the Furman cadets recently $200,000 to support the Bennette Richard Furman Society. won the Carolina Brigade E. Geer Chair in English, and $90,000 Recently inducted into the Ranger Challenge Competition, for international faculty seminars. Greenville Tech Foundation a three-day event testing The grant also provides Entrepreneurs Forum, he chairs athletic and military skills. $284,000 to support the Northwest the Greenville Hospital The Army also recently Crescent Center, a child development Foundation board and is on the awarded Furman increased and family services center in north· boards of Christ Church allocations for fo ur-year ROTC west Greenville County. Furman and Episcopal School and the scholarships. three other local organizations cre­ Greenville Free Medical Clinic. "Thanks to the Bryans, we ated the center in 1998, and the "This gift represents our are more enthusiastic than ever Endowment has made a three-year confidence in the students and about the fu ture of the ROTC commitment of approximately personnel in the military program at Furman," says Lt. $780,000 to support the program. science department at Furman," Col. Thomas Nickerson, head Furman is one of four educational he says. "It's an excellent of the Department of Military institutions in the Carolinas that program, ranked right at the Science. "For the first time in receive annual financial support from top nationally." our long history, we will be in the Endowment (the others are Duke According to the Army a fi rst-rate facility. The Bryan University, Davidson College and ROTC Cadet Command's Center will strengthen our Johnson C. Smith University). The annual ranking of the nation's program as never before." Duke Endowment has awarded senior ROTC programs, Furman more than $65 million since 1924. Furman has the best Army ROTC program in the Carolinas and one of the best in the nation. This year Furman is ranked 12th among athletics

.118 SbJi;l;iJn:g SeaJSCJO For Paladin sports, it was a fall for the ages.

furman's 1999 fall sports season began team had ever gone so far in an NCAA quietly enough. elimination tournament, and only a 3-2 The football team, picked to finish in loss at Connecticut kept the Paladins the middle of the Southern Conference, from reaching the Final Four. lost its opening game at home to lightly When the fall season was finally over, regarded Elon. While the men's and there were so many honors it was all women's soccer teams, both of which Furman's Sports Information Office could were picked to win league crowns, do to keep up with them. opened with victories a few days earlier, Coaches Bobby Johnson (football), they were largely out of sight and out of Doug Allison (men's soccer) and Brian 1 don't think there is mind- the men playing in Birmingham, Lee (women's soccer) were each named Ala. , and the women in Cullowhee, N.C. Coach of the Ye ar in both the conference any question that But just when it appeared to be and region. Their teams produced a total another routine sports season at Furman, of five All-Americans- defensive back the most things changed. The football team John Keith in football, Kaye Brownlee in blistered William & Mary 52-6 in its very women's soccer, and Daniel Alvarez, successful next contest, then followed with a 58-0 John Barry Nusum and Matt Goldsmith rout of Virginia Military Institute. in men's soccer- and another 24 all­ spor s ever The soccer teams, meanwhile, were conference players. Keith and Alvarez at . both in catching not only the attention of the earned conference Player of the Ye ar Furman fans but of the nation as well. A honors. In addition, runni ng back Stuart terms ot wins and month into the season, playing at the Rentz and linebacker Marion Martinmade highest levels of Division I, the teams had the GTE Academic All-America first and losses and in the combined for 20 wins and onl y three second teams, respectively. losses. In fact, at that time - and it For good measure, Furman's other qualitY ot PlaY. would sti ll be true at the end of the season two fall sports teams also enjoyed - no Division I school in the country had successful seasons. The volleyball team, John Block a better combined record among their under first-year coach Keylor Chan, Vice President, men's and women's soccer teams. finished with an 18-15 record and Intercollegiate Athletics It was becoming apparent that this advanced to the semifinals of the could be a special season, and by the conference tournament. The men's and time December arrived, the word "special" women's cross country teams finished was a woefully inadequate description. second and third, respectively, in the The football team finished 9-2 conference meet, and coach Gene Mullin duri ng the regular season, shared the received both men's and women's Coach Southern Conference crown with of the Year honors in the league. Appalachian State and eventual national "I don't think there is any question champion Georgia Southern, and made that this was the most successful fall the Division 1-AA playoffs for the first time sports season ever at Furman, both in since 1996. The women's soccer team, terms of wins and losses and in the quality in only its sixth year of existence, posted of play, " says Vice President for a 20-3 record, won the conference Intercollegiate Athletics John Block. "It championship and earned its first NCAA was like the teams fed off of each other's tournament bid. successes, and the sum of what they The crowning glory, however, accomplished was greater than the belonged to the men's soccer team, individual parts." By Vince Moore which won the league crown with a perfect It was indeed a season to remember, 8-0 mark, compiled a 21-2-1 record and and each of the sports had their own traveled all the way to the quarterfinals stories. of the NCAA tournament. No Furman 32 Men's soccer makes its case help but wonder what a small, liberal arts school with a strong academic reputation had to do to get some respect on the national soccer scene. "I had some coaches call me and oug Allison was beginning to qualify for the national tournament, the say they were shocked we weren't understand what Rodney Dangerfield NCAA failed to give the Paladins one of seeded," says Allison, who has posted a was talking about when the comedian the tournament's eight seeds. 78-27-1 record in five years at Furman. complained about getting no respect. Which meant that after a first-round "I t did hurt a little bit, but that was OK. Even though his Paladin soccer team home game against Atlantic Coast We used it as motivation, and it might · had posted the best regular-season Conference power North Carolina, have actually helped us." record (1 8-1 -1 ) in Division I, was ranked Furman would most likely have to win on If there were those who doubted that third in the country by Soccer America the road if it wanted to advance in the Furman was as good as its record and had already won a play-in game to 32-team tournament. And Allison couldn't indicated, it didn't take long to change their minds. The Paladins knocked off North Carolina 2-1 in a double-overtime thriller, then traveled to Winston-Salem, N.C., and blitzed Wake Forest 4-0. Combined with a 2-1 victory over Clemson during the regular season, the victories gave Furman a 3-0 record against the powerful ACC, which sent five teams to the tournament. The next stop was at fourth-seeded Connecticut, with a trip to the College Cup in Charlotte, N.C., awaiting the victor. The Paladins led 2-1 with eight minutes to play, but the Huskies scored two goals in those final minutes, one on a disputed call, and the greatest season in Furman history finally came to a close. Furman may not have won the match, but the Paladins finally got some respect when Connecticut's coach vouched for the team's authenticity. "Give Furman a lot of credit," Ray Reid said. "We called a lot of people on them and we got a lot of film on them and everyone gave us the same song, 'They're not a good college soccer team.' You know what? That's the best team we played all year- and we've played Duke, we've played Virginia and we've played Maryland." While Allison never doubted that Furman could compete with the nation's best, he would have preferred to prove it in the national semifinals. Still, it was a dream season. "We had nine seniors on this team and everything depended on their leadership," Allison said. ''They did a fantastic job in that area and they pushed the team to perform all season long. This senior class has raised the standard of what we can expect to accomplish in this program, and now it's up to us to see if we can get there again."

33 Furmanath letics women's soccer breaks through

ow difficult is it to start a to urnament and qualified for their first The expectations for 2000 will be Division I at hletic program from scratch NCAA tournament, where they lost 1-0 high again , as Furman will return all but and then qualify for the NCAA tournament to Central Florida. two players, including the seven who just six years later? If you listen to "The real difference between go ing made the all-conference team. women's soccer coach Brian Lee, it's not 13-8 one year and 20-3 the next is winning Lee says he had a five-year plan as hard as you might expect. those one-goal games," said Lee, whose when the program began in 1994 , but he "For whatever reason, soccer players team was 1 0-3 in games decided by a hasn't updated it since the Lady Paladins love Furman," he says. "It seems that if go al. "Sometimes it's as simple as the accomplished those initial go als . It might you can get them to come and vis it the ball hitting the inside of the [goal] post be time. school, they'll want to come here and instead of the outside. But we had play." maturity and talent and depth and that For one thing, Lee says soccer won matches for us." players tend to be good students who are looking for strong academic programs. For another, he says there isn't a better soccer facility on the East Coast than Furman's Eugene E. Stone Ill Soccer Stadium . The combination makes the un iversity a "soccer player's Eden." "This is a place where you can recruit top-level players," says Lee, a 1993 Furman graduate and former Paladin soccer captain, "and we've man aged to bring in some of the best kids in the Southeast." One of them is Kaye Brownlee, a sophomore midfielder from Kennesaw, Ga., who earned first-t eam All-America and Southeast Region honors in 1999 after leadin g the team with 13 goals and 17 assists. Before selecting Furman, Bro wnlee considered offers from Florida State, Ten nessee and Southern Methodist. It also helps to have a good coach. Lee go t the job in 1994 when Furman decided to take its women's soccer program from club sport to Division I status. The team went 4-14 in its inaugural season but improved steadily over the next few years. Lee's teams posted a 17-1 9-3 record over the next two years, including a Southern Conference championship in 1995. They produced their first winning season in 1997 with a 12-6-2 record and followed with a 13-8 mark last year. For his role in that success, Lee was named league Coach of the Year in 1995 and 1998. With 10 starters returning in 1999, expectations were high. And the Lady Paladins didn't disappoint. Their 20-3 season in cluded victories over Jacksonville and 23rd-ranked Iowa, an d a 4-3 overtime loss to South Carolina in Columbia. They went undefeated in the Southern Conference, won the league onense tuels football resurgence

or anyone who had hoped that � 999 would be the year th at Furman football re discovere d the glory it had known a decade before, the season opener was heartbreaking in more ways than one. Not only di d the Pal adins lose to Elon 24-22 in Paladin Stadium, but they also displayed an alarming lack of offense. And as any good Furman fan knows, there could be no re turn to the glory years without a powerful offense. What people didn't realize, however, was that the Paladins' revival had simply been delayed by a week. In the very next game against William & Mary, Furman erupted for 542 yards and 52 points. That was followed by a 546-yard performance in the win over VMI. Suddenly, Furman fans were transported back to the 1980s. "The Elon game was the best thing that could have happened to us ," says junior quarterback Justin Hill, who orches­ trated the offense's resurgence. "We thought we were ready to play and knew what we had to do to win, but it was Once again the Paladi ns proved they acting that we're going to win this game."' obvious that we weren't. We decided were for real as they rolled up 46 1 yards Furman's only conference loss was then that it wasn' t enough to try and play - 200 more than in the loss to Elon - to Georgia Southern in Statesboro, when just well enough to win. We had to want in a convincing 28-3 win. Sophomore a last-second field goal gave the Eagles to dom inate people, and we completely tailback Louis Ivory had 203 yards rushing a 41 -3 8 victory. But the Paladins still dominated William & Mary the next game." in the team's first victory over a Division earned a share of the league crown and Offensive domination would be the 1-A opponent since 1985. hosted a first-round Division 1-AA playoff theme for the rest of the season. After "That's a game none of us will ever game agai nst Massach usetts. Although defeating Western Carolina to open the forget," Hill says. "We'll be able to tell they lost 30-23 in overtime, it di d nothing Southern Conference schedule, Furman our grandchildren about that one. We to tarnish an outstanding season. handily beat th ird-ranked Appalachian were extremely confident and didn't see "It was a good year," Hill says, "but State 35-21 . any reason we couldn' t win. In fact, I we're not going to be satisfied with th at. The Paladins pushed their record to remember talking to Des (Kitchings, star We 've already started our off-season 6-1 with victories over The Citadel and wide receiver] at practice the day before program and we're dete rmined to take it East Te nnessee State, then traveled to the game and saying, 'You know what? up another notch next year." North Carolina to play the Tar Heels. You can tell by the way everybody is 35 Furmanalumni news

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II H ello. Furman Alumni Association. Homecoming 2000: November 3-5 This is Lu." It's hard to believe, but plans for Homecoming 2000 You know her voice, but do you know are under way! Classes ending in 5 or 0 will be in her face? Meet Lu Gillespie, Alumni reunion during Homecoming We ekend 2000. Mark Association receptionist. your calendars for November 3-5 and start planning If you have called the Alumni your return to alma mater. Association anytime in the past 12 years, Most importantly, offer a hand in planning your you'll recognize the greeting. Lu, now She says, "Perhaps the biggest reunion. The Alumni Office is recruiting reuruon chairs in her 13th year as Alumni Association change has been our move to Cherrydale. and committee members, with a reunion planning receptionist, is the office mainstay. It is wonderful to see so many alumni conference scheduled for Saturday, March 25. Contact Over the past decade, the Alumni take pride in their university and come Susan Jones in the Alumill Office for further information. Association has changed as much as any back to visit. Furman Club news office at Furman. As we say around here, "The move to Cherrydale has brought Furman clubs enjoyed a number of successful fa ll and "Change is our only constant," and Lu many more visitors to our offices. We winter events. The fo otball team 's excellent season has hung on for the ride. didn't give many tours while located in helped spur attendance at tailgating events before the Lu came to Furman in 1987, after the basement, and only the really William & Mary, Citadel, North Carolina and Georgia many years in the Development Office persistent alumni could even fi nd us! Southern games. More tailgates are planned for next at North Greenville College. She began Watching people realize the great year's away games, so watch for details. as a part-time secretary for Parents opportunities the Alumni Association Other exciting events included the fo urth annual Programs and a records specialist for the has to offer is the greatest reward of Charleston Christmas Gala, hosted by Karen Spell Shaw '80 at the Governor's House Inn; a basketball drop- in Alumni Association. But it soon became working here." before the Furman-South Carolina game; and an evident that her true skills were in And Lu is right. There are limitless admissions/alumni gathering at the home of Kern and working with the public, and she became ways for alumni to become involved, Norma Wilson in Memphis, Te nn. Many thanks to all the Alumni Association receptionist. whether it's through a Furman Club, volunteers who carefullyplanned these and other events. Her first office was in a corner of reunion planning, membership on the The Atlanta Furman Club's annual February gala the basement of the administration Alumni Board or Young Alumni Council, or as a Cherrydale docent. was once again a huge success, and clubs throughout building, where she had an electric Florida scheduled several exciting events in early March. Let us know how you would like to typewriter (with no correction bar). She Be on the lookout for details about spring and summer serve alma mater - and let us serveyou says, "The entire Development Office, Furman Club activities in your area. with over 20 staff members, shared one as well. Call for addresses of your Alumni travel computer which sat in the hallway classmates, use the alumni career network Trips are filling up quickly for the year 2000. Call the upstairs. We would set up times to use if you're thinking of a job change, send information on births, marriages or new Alumni Office soon to reserve your space for trips to the computer for only the most important Greece and Scotland. jobs for Furman magazine, or just stop projects." Lu now enjoys state-of-the­ Greece, July Experience lifelong learning by for a cup of coffeeand a scroll through 4-13: art technology in Cherrydale. with an alumni college trip to the Greek Isles. Trave l an old yearbook. As technology has changed, so has with experts and professors to the beautiful Greek island Whatever your needs, Lu and the the Alumni Association staff. Lu has of Poros. Each day offers a new educational focus, Alumni Association staff are ready to worked with four different alumni including a look at ancient Greek mythology, a view help. So the next time you diai 1-800- directors and more than 15 staff of Greek art, studies in classical Greek architecture and members. She has watched the Alumni PURPLE3, listen carefully for "Alumni much more. Association move from the second floor Association, this is Lu. How may I help Scotland, July 26-August 3: Known as the of the administration building to the you?" "Gateway to the Highlands," the town of Stirling is an basement and then to Cherrydale, and She's our unsung hero - and yours, ideal base from which to explore Scotland's history she has watched the Alumni Association too. and beautiful landscape. You might also choose to adopt new and exciting programs. - Shannon Wilkerson '93 extend your stay to take in the British Open! Director, Alumni Assodation

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Capturing the Moment was become a certified 4MAT trainer 37 published by the Winston-Salem 62 for the Wichita Falls (Texas) The library at Augusta Circle Journal in celebration of its Nextreunion in 2002 Independent School District. Elementary School in Greenville I OOth anniversary. Editor of a Elizabeth Harrill Mitchell has has been named in honor of newsletter for parents and teach­ been inducted into the Maine 71 Elizabeth Morgan, a retired ers in Forsyth County, she is also Women's Hall of Fame. She Next reunion in 2001 coordinator of "MyCommunity," teacher at the school. was the first female speaker of AlbertA. Ellis, longtime physical which provides Web sites and the Maine House of Representa­ education teacher and soccer links for nonprofit organizations 41 tives and served in that body for coach at Rocky Point (N.Y.) in northwest North Carolina. Ed 18 years. Worth Grant and his wife live in High School, was recognized as Hendricks, a history professor Ellenboro, N.C., after complet­ county, state and Eastern at Wake Forest University, is ing their fo urth chaplaincy Regional coach of the year in author of Seeking Libertyand 63 1998. His team compiled a assignment at the Garden Chapel Justice: A History of the North Next reunion in 2003 of the New Oteni Hotel in Tokyo, Elizabeth Boyce Galloway 17-1-2 record and allowed only Carolina Bar Association, on the Japan. (M.A.) is a visiting professor of three goals. Stephen J. occasion of its 100th anniversary. education at Erskine College in Presley is a mechanical engineer Due West, S.C. with the U.S. Air Force in 45 Fayetteville, N.C. He also has Virginia Greer Smith has 58 Nextreunion in 2003 a rhythm and blues music show received the Life Membership After 18 years as a dean of the 68 called "Stomp Child." Award, the highest honor given College of Liberal Arts of Nextreunion in 2003 by the Presbyterian Women of Michael E. Mongelli, principal Mercer University in Macon, Presbyterian Church USA. She of W.A. Hurst Elementary 72 Ga., Wilfred Platt has begun a is retired from the Charlotte­ School in Port Orange, Fla., has Next reunion in 2002 phased retirement program while Mecklenburg (N.C.) Schools. completed requirements for a Rick Burnette has been named teaching courses in history. His doctorate from the University of principal of the alternative school wife, Barbara Coleman Platt, is Central Florida. Daniel G. for the Berkeley County (S.C.) on the staff atVine ville Baptist 53 Brown has been named School District. Next reunion in 2003 Church. lieutenant general and deputy Robert E. Gaillard has retired as commander in chief of the U.S. economic development director 74 Transportation Command at of Oconee (S.C.) County. 59 Nextreunion in 2004 Next reunion in 2004 Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. Eric W. Berg Ill has completed Carolyn Cooper of Wake l. Julie Wood Harbin of a fe llowship in forensic pathol­ Forest, N.C., is employed in 54 Arlington, Va., has become an ogy at the Officeof the Armed nutrition programs for North Nextreunion in 2004 organizational futurist for KDC Forces Medical Examiner in Norman Gillespie has resigned Carolina Cooperative Extension & Associates. Martha Elaine Washington, D.C., and is a as pastor of Holmes Avenue Service. Rogers has been promoted to regional medical examiner for Baptist Church in North vice president for enrollment the Department of Defense. He Charleston, S.C. 61 management and marketing at is based in Fort Campbell, Ky. Next reunion in 2001 Brenau University in Gaines­ Michael A. McKeehen is a 55 Michael V. Woodall (M.A. '65), ville, Ga. senior clinical research associate This year is reunion! superintendent of the Norristown for Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc., J. Hugh McKinney has accepted (Pa.) Area School District, was 69 in Miami, Fla. MARRIAGE: a call as pastor of Lakeview keynote speaker at a seminar on Next reunion in 2004 R. David Jeffords and Patricia Baptist Church in Camden, S.C. 21st-century China in Washing­ Sharon Anne Feaster has G. Kovacs, March 17. They live He had recently retired from ton, D.C., last fall. His topic become an associate professor in Gahanna, Ohio, where he is Second Baptist Church in was "Technology for Learning of education in the Te acher on the technical staff of Lucent Kershaw, S.C. and Teaching." Roy 0. Forrest Development Department at Te chnologies. of Taylors, S.C., has been named Augusta (Ga.) State University. 56 pastor emeritus of Locust Hill 75 Next reunion in 2001 Baptist Church in Travelers Rest, This year is reunion! S.C., where he served from 1980 70 C. Mitchell Carnell, Jr., has Andrew l. Abrams has been to 1991. M. Walker Gunn is Th is year is reunion! retired after 35 years as president Barbara Fulmer Gary, an named associate provost at the president of the West Ashley and chief executive officer of the elementary school teacher, has College of Charleston (S.C.), Kiwanis Club in Charleston, S.C. Charleston (S.C.) Speech and Hearing Center.

57 ALUMNI OPPORTUNITIES ON THE WEB Next reunion in 2002 Carroll D. Johnson has resigned The information age makes staying in touch with fellow graduates easier than ever, and Furman's Web as director of missions for the services for alumni are expanding monthly. Recent additions to the site include the on-line bookstore Southeast and Williamsburg (see page 28), an alumni directory and a list of upcoming Furman Club events. Baptist associations in South Another update is a link for the Young Alumni Council (YAC), which consists of graduates from the Carolina. J. Edwin and Sue last 15 years who serve as advisors and volunteers for the university. YAC members, who are listed on James '58 Hendricks of the Web, promote interaction among recent graduates and publish a brochure called the Yo ung Alumni Winston-Salem, N.C., recently Resource Directory, or YARD. The YARD is now on-line and provides users the chance to locate other alumni completed commemorative by region or career. works. Her 100 Ye ars of Images: COMING SOON: more opportunities for interaction with an alumni message board. The Web site is constantly evolving, so visit the alumni page at http:/fwww. furman.edu/admin/alumni. Furmanalumni news

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which he also serves as senior reporting and analysis for Reliant vice president and general Energy and is active in local the­ counsel. His wife, Karen Kohler atre. She is a designer. Paul '76 Abrams, is assistant vice A. Wood, Jr., has become pastor president and director of devel­ of Little River (S.C.) United opment at the school. Richard Methodist Church. and Jamie Wedemeyer live in Love fo r competition pushes amputee To m Martin to excel. Norman, Okla., where he is a therapist and part-time 78 Next reunion in 2003 As the starting time neared for think most kids bounce back psychology professor. She is a Douglas L. Robertshas become the New York City Marathon this quicker after something like that dentist. la na Goodwin senior vice president and general fall, many eyes were on To m Martin. than adults do. My parents didn't Vanderbilt is a resource attorney manager of worldwide sales Some competitors whispered treat me any differently and that in the Children's Law Office at helped a lot." for Harbinger Corporation in and looked away. Others walked the University of South Carolina At Furman Martin was a main­ Atlanta, Ga. up and shook Martin's hand. One School of Law. Julia Peacock even had his photograph taken stay in intramural competition, Meadows has been promoted to with the 1988 Furman graduate. particularly in basketball and soft­ ISS project manager for Amdahl 79 The reason? In the sea of ball. "Sometimes I feel like my Corp. in Lothian, Md. Next reunion in 2004 31,597 runners, Martin was diffe r­ major at Furman was intramurals," David R. and Barbara Ellis have ent. He was about to attempt the he laughs. moved to Stuttgart, Germany. grueling 26.2-mile race though the He met his future wife, 76 A lieutenant colonel in the Army, city's five boroughs while wearing LuAnne Creswell '87, after an Next reunion in 2001 he is stationed at the head­ a prosthesis. intramural game. Today they are Thomas A. Russell is assistant quarters of the United States But Martin did more than at­ parents of Sarah, 4, and Kate, 2. professor of religious studies at European Command. Bruce tempt his first marathon. He com­ A business administration ma­ Western Kentucky University. E. and Dian Lancaster live in pleted it, setti ng a record of four jor, Martin began working in a Samuel G. Catoe is a team leader Greenville bank after graduation. Atlanta, Ga., where he is quality hours, 34 minutes and 25 seconds for the International Mission for above-the-knee amputees. But something was missing from manager for Norte! Networks. Board of the Southern Baptist Officially, he finished 18,977th. his professional life. "I felt like I He earned a master's degree in Convention in France. "Completing the race was a needed to be something more," he quality management from MARRIAGE: Ann Norris and personal goal of mine," says Martin, says. "I did some soul searching." Loyola (La.) University. Kevin Roger Ve lasquez. She teaches who lost his left leg in a fa rming As a volunteer with Greenville and Edith Moore McGee live in in the San Diego, Calif., school accident when he was 8 years old. Orthopedic, Marti n enjoyed working Chesapeake Beach, Md., where system, and he is minister at ''I'm nothing special. I just worked with other amputees and decided she is clerk to the Honorable to make it a career. In 1992 he Trinity United Methodist hard. Anyone can do what I've Raymond Thieme on the done." enrolled at Florida International Church. Maryland Court of Special Marti n, who began competi­ University, which is one of just a Appeals. William A. Butler Ill tive running in 1992, has finished handful of institutions with a pro­ 77 ofMarietta, Ga., has been named two triathlons (a combination of gram in prosthetics. Next reunion in 2002 president/CEO of Futurus Bank, running, swimming and biking) Martin graduated fro m Florida Deborah R. Malac and her N.A. Laurie Cooley Bentley and holds the national record for International in 1994 and is now husband, Ronald K. Olson, live is a computer instructor at above-the-knee amputees in the a manager at Greenville Orthopedic, in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa, Seminole Presbyterian Church 5,000-meter run with a time of 22 where he helps to design and man­ where she is a political counselor School in Tampa, Fla. Robert minutes, 27 seconds. He also ex­ ufacture artificial limbs. He also at the American Embassy. and Laura LaGarde have moved cels at the sprint events and has counsels fellow amputees. W. Scott Wilson is a court to Lawrence, Kan., where he covered 100 meters in 14.1 seconds As part of his training regimen Martin can be seen most mornings reporter in Levittown, Pa. heads his own software compa­ and 200 meters in 29.6 seconds. Although pleased that some ru nning in Greenville's Augusta Robert M. Mockrish, Jr. (M.A. ny. Robert A. Pendergrast is draw inspiration from his accom­ Road area, where he lives. He logs '81) is director of the American an associate professor of pediat­ plishments, Martin does not dwell around 20 miles a week and plans Embassy School in New Delhi, rics at the Medical College of on his handicap. "This is just what to continue to compete in triath­ India. He holds a doctorate in Georgia in Augusta. Darrell I do," he says. "''m a pretty hard­ lons and marathons. educational leadership and Priscilla Waters Moench and headed guy and I just love to com­ With the 2000 Summer Games served eight years in Japan as a live in Jacksonville, Fla., where pete." looming, Martin is considering middle school principal. she recently became credit Martin, who trains for sprint tryi ng out for the U.S. Paralympic Roger P. and Delores White '78 quality officer forFlorida events at the Irwin Belk Complex team, which will compete in Rabey have moved to Hunting­ Banks, Inc. Mary Huggins for Track and Field at Furman, has Sydney, Australia. His specialty ton, W.Va., where he is senior Meriwether is a family services never allowed his prosthesis to would be the sprint events. pastor at the First Presbyterian case manager with Asheville interfere with his interest in ath­ ''I'm not sure what I will do Church. John C. Simonsen is (N.C.) Buncombe Community letics. at this point," he says. "I haven't assistant professor of human Christian Ministry. Shortly after the accident that done the sprints in a while so I'll performance and exercise took his leg, he began swimming just have to take the spikes out science at Milligan College in as part of his rehabilitation. By to the Furman track one day and Johnson City, Te nn. Phil B. 80 middle school he was a top swim­ see what my times are. I'll probably Th is year is reunion! and Karen Otterbach '79 mer on a local team. make my decision based on the Joseph M. Martin, director Creveling live in Lake Jackson, "I bounced back pretty quickly times." of church music marketing Te xas. He is manager of revenue after the accident," he says. "I - John Roberts for Shawnee Press, Inc., was support. Berea First Baptist Robert Kent Williams works as comprehensive school in the featured in the July issue of Church in Greenville has called minister of youth at Shandon London borough of Croydon. Church Musician To day. His Christopher A. Murrell as Baptist Church in Columbia, Lisa G. Wheeler is district music choral work "Song of Wisdom" minister of music. S.C. G. Allen Barbee, Jr., instructor for the American received its world premiere in MARRIAGE: Gretchen co-owner and CFO of the New Independent Music Association Dallas, Te xas, last summer. Elizabeth Combs and School of Music in Atlanta, Ga., in Richmond, Va. C. Kevin Miller has opened his Christopher Edward Digby, has been appointed principal MARRIAGE: Erin Clark and own law practice in Spartanburg, August 7. They live in Charlotte, English hornof the Gwinnett James H. Mason, May 29. He S.C. Lisa Cain lambert has N.C., where she is an engineer Orchestra and associate conduc­ is director of curriculum and been appointed associate dean at Capsule Environmental and tor of the Gwinnett Youth instructional services for the of academic affairs at Chatham he is an account manager at Orchestra. He is also principal Jackson (Miss.) Public School College in Pittsburgh, Pa. BASF Corporation. BffiTHS: oboe for the Atlanta Wind Sym­ District. BIRTHS: Charles Butch Blume is director of Barbara and Steven Hill, a son, phony. Ross Keith Dover is a E. Ill and Flora Hall Davis, a promotion and circulation for Jackson, September 1998. paralegal student at Greenville daughter, Virginia Flora, the Baptist Courier in Green- John McFarland and Jennie Tech. Dennis Holtzclaw has September 22. Christopher K. ville. James A. Alexander is Swindler, a daughter, Jillian become pastor of City View First and Susan Bullock Bardin, a an adjunct instructor at Lime­ Alise, March 19, Lexington, S.C. Baptist Church in Greenville. daughter, Sally Austill, January stone College in Gaffney, S.C. Michael A. Mills (M.A.) is 5, 1999, Jacksonville, Aa. Susan Wanda Thomas Ballenger, principal of Pageland (S.C.) Bardin is communications coor­ assistant director of Haynsworth 83 Middle School. BIRTHS: dinator at St. Mark's Episcopal Next reunion in 2003 School in Greenville, received Don and Kim Black Taylor, a Day School. Thomas C. and Wayne A. Blank is senior W. the Clara Barton Award from son, David O'Neil, March 23, laurie Wilcox Slade, a daughter, manager in forensic and litiga­ the American Red Cross as St. Francisville, La. Kathryn Mary-Madison, July 26, tion services for KPMG in "Outstanding Female Volunteer Christopher M. and Balbeer Copperas Cove, Texas. Atlanta, Ga. Michael D. of the Ye ar." BffiTHS: Mark Sihra Bourne, a daughter, Elena Michael Jones and Frances Stewart is plans officerfor the and Ann Bartlett Schambach, a Kaur Sihra, July 18, Kailua, Bolt-Jones, a son, Wilson U.S. Army in Heidelberg, daughter, Emma, December 19, Hawaii. Daryl P. and lydia Alexander, February 23, 1999, Germany. Donna D. Johnson, 1998. Phil and laurie Ann Roper '86 Cobranchi, a son, Philadelphia, Pa. assistant professor of obstetrics Johnson Alioto, a daughter, Jonathan David, June 12, New and gynecology at the Medical Maggie, May 31. Castle, Del. University of South Carolina, 87 received the Health Sciences Next reunion in 2002 81 Foundation Developing Te ach­ 85 Kenneth and Suzanne Frederick Next reunion in 2001 er's Award. Stephen R. and This year is reunion! have been appointed Jody C. and Deborah Monroe Dana Simpson '84 Harris live Mark Alan Metz has started missionaries to Brazil by the Wright live in Rocky Mount, in Charlotte, N.C., where he is Optimus Solutions, L.L.C., in Southern Baptist International N.C., where he is senior minister rheumatology specialty manager Norcross, Ga. Boyd Ya rbrough Mission Board. William M. at Lakeside Baptist Church. for Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. joined the Furman staffin Yates is lead consultant for Shane A. and Martha Holtzclaw Mark R. and Randee Lindahl December as director of univer­ Information Intellect, Inc., in '82 Patrick have moved to Lake live in Lakeville, Minn., where sity housing. He was previously Marietta, Ga. Peter W. and City, S.C., where he has become he is customer service manager assistant to the vice president Vickie lynn Grant Dougherty pastor of First Baptist Church. for Xantel, Inc. Susan White for student and educational ser­ have moved to New Orleans, BIRTHS: David A., Jr., and Beach of Rockville, Md., is a vices at Frostburg State Univer­ La., where he is chief informa­ Kaylor Lowery Oliver, a son, self-employed consultant, writer sity. MARRIAGE: Nina tion officer for Touro Infirmary. David Arthur III, June 29, and editor for trade associations Angela Garrison and Robert MARRIAGES: Christi Linn Tomball, Texas. David Oliver and other groups. G. Brian Edward Hathaway, August 14. Fisher and Stanley C. Grissinger, has joined the law practice of Hendricks is coordinator for the They live in Colu!Ilbia, S.C. February 14, 1999. They live in Porter & Hedges, L.L.P. Bruce Fort Gordon Office of the Fort BffiTHS: David B. and Martha Beaverton, Ore., where he is Dean and Margaret Cooper, a Gordon-Augusta Distance Raymond Thompson, a daughter, category product director of golf daughter, Laura Christine, Learning Center of Georgia Mary Kathryn, September 5, equipment for Nike, Inc. Stacy October 8, Decatur, Ga. Hal Military College. Gastonia, N.C. Todd Lake and Michelle Gossett and Charles and Dottie Smith '82 Hanlin, a MARRIAGE: Gina Renee Joy Jordan-lake, a son, Justin lewis Davidson, October 2. son, Daniel Joseph, February 18, McCarver and Charles Rench Lyle, July 26. They live in Waco, They live in Powdersville, S.C., 1999, Columbia, S.C. Brock, October 2. They live in Te xas. Joy Jordan-Lake is where she is a realtor and he is Greenville where she is associate completing a Ph.D. in English a sales representative for Prime youth minister at First Baptist literature fromTufts University Equipment of Myrtle Beach, 82 Church and he is a training S.C. Caroline Stowe Exum Next reunion in 2002 and her husband is dean of the officer with the City of chapel at Baylor University. and John Weskett Powers, Carol Hardison Hughes, Greenville Police Department. August 14. They live in Raleigh, manager of asset management, BIRTH: Anthony and Laura N.C. BIRTHS: Michael J. information management ser­ Boccanfuso, a son, Michael and Linda Sokol, a daughter, vices at Duke Energy in Aaron, August 30. 86 Katherine Anne, August 10, Charlotte, N.C., and an active Next reunion in 2001 Greenville. To mmy H., Jr., community volunteer, has been Todd D. Carpenter of Greer, and Kristen Bridges, a son, elected chair of the board of S.C., is a sales consultant for 84 Harlin Stone, April 5, Ta llahas- trustees of the North Carolina Next reunion in 2004 Pharmacia & Upjohn. Donald see, Fla. Robert and Dana School of Math and Science. Marcella Frese is coordinator of and Wanda Thompson Anderson Rockett Drum, a daughter, Margaret long McGill is band programs and admissions for the have moved to Charlotte, N.C. Rebekah Elizabeth, August 19, director and elementary music Furman music department. He is operations manager for Newton, N.C. Ned and Wendy teacher at We stminster Catawba David J. Akerson is chief of Ferguson Enterprises. James Gulley, a son, Jay Christian School in Rock Hill, information and evidence with Hiromasa Ebi is manager for William, March 3, 1999, Water­ S.C. John Steven Faucette the International War Crimes Kanematsu Electronics Ltd. in town, Mass. Thomas B. and has joined Lucas Systems of Tribunal for Rwanda (United Sunnyvale, Calif. David P. Elizabeth Rue '92 Norris, a son, Greenville in software technical Nations) in Kigali, Rwanda. Stockwell teaches science in a 39 Jennifer Bogle Thompson, a Baptist Church in Huntersville, Furmanalumni news daughter, Lauren Rayner, N.C. Having earned an October 2. Trent and Melinda M.B.A. degree from the Burroughs Lovick, a daughter, University of Louisville, Tanya CLASS NOTES WINTER 00, cont. Alexandra Kaitlyn, August 6, Pardue Williams has become Raleigh, N.C. Brian R. and Internet marketing program Shannon DuBose, a son, Hunter manager for General Electric Brian, May 25, Monetta, S.C. Appliances. Rebecca Ann Michael E. and Lynne Faulkner Armacost has completed a master's degree in organizational Forde Leslie, February 15, 1999. Savannah, Ga., where he Smith, a son, Michael Scott, Brian design and is a sales education Shepherd and Cynthia Risser practices with Savannah Colon September 2. '90 and consultant for Southern Com­ McKinley, a daughter, Grace & Rectal Surgery. Jennie M. Mary McFarland Wagner, a pany in Atlanta, Ga. Ronald Denali, October 25. Smith, assistant professor of daughter, Anna Grace, February anthropology at Berry College, 13, 1999. They live in Raleigh, E. Dulaney, Jr., has been spent part of last summer in N.C., where Brian Wagner is a appointed assistant professor in 88 computer systems engineer. the school of architecture at Next reunion in 2003 Cuba studying the island's people and culture. Paul Louisiana Te ch University. Donna Ledford Te sner runs Chi-ho Lam is marketing and Bryan W. and Jeanne Ann-Marie Middle River Farm in Marietta, 89 Long muir have moved to Spring­ product plans manager for Ford Next reunion in 2004 S.C., and is Carolinas manager field, Va. He is a health care Motor Co. Sue Campbell Diane Thompson Kingery, for Ag-mart. Peter and Anne budget analyst for the Depart­ Shugart, assistant administrator administrative secretary for the Bryan Kraft '90 Simonetti have ment of Defense. Tom and for Clarendon Memorial San Diego (Calif.) County Credit moved to Doraville, Ga., where Rebecca Hood Becherer have Hospital in Manning, S.C., has Union, won her employer's quar­ he is with Concentrex, Inc., moved to Louisville, Ky., where been selected to participate in terly "President's Award" for and she is senior trainer for she is a pediatrician with Leadership South Carolina Class stepping in on short notice and Direct-1 Medical. Lynley S. Brownsboro Park Pediatrics and of 2000. R. Michael Sisk of successfully completing the sales Durrett ofAtlanta, Ga., has he is a neurosurgeon. Lexington, S.C., has become incentive program. Alicia completed her obstetrics and MARRIAGES: Sarah vice president of finance and Roper of Norcross, Ga., has gynecology residency and Elizabeth Wooten and Jason administration and chief finan­ become practice coordinator for practices at Kennestone Hospital. Antaya, September 18. They cial officer for Ben Arnold­ Clarus Corporation. Kevin A. Anthony D. Jones is job live in Park City, Utah, where Sunbelt Co. BIRTHS: James Hinton is pastor of Black Creek training counselor at Midlands she is employed by Blackbaud A. and Nancy Moon Powers, a Baptist Church in Walterboro, Te ch in Columbia, S.C. and he is a partner in A&B son, Matthew Donovan, August S.C. Landon D. Horton is Patrick F. and Leigh Ann Construction Co. Sandra L. 19, Naples, Fla. Eric '89 and associate pastor of Lake Norman Mclaughlin Hammen live in Fanning and Thomas Hinckley, July 31. He is a sales associate in the Mack Truck Division of NexTran Corporation, and she is an attorney and shareholder The right Choice for the job with Macfarlane Ferguson & McMullen in Tampa, Fla. Every college alumni University, with an emphasis on diplomatic history. BIRTHS: Peter M. and publication needs She taught English and social studies at Hughes Deborah Lamb Farrell, a someone like Choice Junior High in Greenville, where she was also the daughter, Caroline Marie, April McCoin. advisor to award-winning student publications, and 9, Charleston, S.C. Kord and For 30 years, later taught at Greenville Technical Education Center. Carol Burns Kutchins, a Choice has been in She was the first woman president of the Greenville daughter, Bennett Caroline, July charge of the class County Historical Society and has been active in notes section of first community organizations ranging from the Little 20. Geoffrey G. and Christy Boyd '92 Correll, a daughter, the Furman Theatre and Civic Ballet to the Thursday Club and Magazine, then Buncombe Street United Methodist Church. Katy Elizabeth, July 8, Bristol, Furman Reports, and Her contributionsto Furman extend well beyond Te nn. then the first four her work with class notes. In the early 1970s she editions of the stepped up in a pinch and served as interim editor 90 "new" magazine. for several issues of Furman Reports. She also This year is reunion! "I remember when established the Gilpatrick History Prize, which William H., Jr., and Eve we were so proud to honors Delbert H. and Meta Eppler Gilpatrick, two Brantley live in Daphne, Ala., print 105 notes," she of Furman's most beloved professors. The prize is where he is an environmental says. "Now we awarded annually to a woman for outstanding work planner for the Baldwin County probably have 400 to 450 each issue." in history. Many would view the position of class notes Although we have yet to fill Choice's shoes - Commission. Eric and editor as more a chore than a job, considering the and we know it will be difficultto do -we celebrate Courtney Carr Cowles live in number of items that must be processed, reviewed her desire to pursue other challenges and interests. Plano, Texas. She is director of and edited. But Choice's sense of responsibility, We are deeply grateful for her friendship and for international product marketing conscientious attention to detail and determination the opportunity to be her colleague. at Mary Kay, Inc., and he is to get the facts straight prove that she views class Choice is, first and foremost, a lady - charming, director of marketing for the notes not as a laborious task, but as a labor of love. courteous, thoughtful. We will miss her frequent Specialized Technology Group Now, however, we'll have to figure out some visits to the office, her sincere concern for others' of 3DFX Corp. Blair P. and way to carry on without Choice. For with this issue, well-being, her wit and good humor, her Hannah Jenkins Keeley have she retires as class notes editor. professionalism. And, of course, her Christmas moved to Manassas, Va., where "I'll miss it," she says. "I have enjoyed the mints. he is creative director for Capital contacts I have made and the chance to read about On behalf of all Furman alumni, Choice, we One and she writes a monthly what so many alumni are doing." salute you. Thank you for your years of service to column for Pa rentLife magazine. A 1957 Furman graduate, Choice holds a the university. Christi Barfield McDaniel is master's degree in American history from Emory - Jim Stewart an attorney with the Wukela Law Firm in Florence, S.C. Larry Dean Allen II recently became associate dean for academic programs and assistant professor began its program by establishing alter Judson Heacock, Jr. '43, the Hagley Museum, a museum of of religion and society at W a Leader in educational and cul­ industrial history. Andover Newton Theological tural activities in the state of Heacock went on to serve as School in Boston, Mass. W. Delaware who molded the Hagley director of the Hagley Museum Allen and Becky Thomason live Museum into one of America's and, eventually, as general director in Corydon, Iowa, where he is Leading historical museums, died of the foundation, and he was pastor of Cambria Baptist November 21. credited with developing the Church and coordinator for A native of Talladega, Ala., Hagley into the premier industrial the Central Region of the Coop­ Heacock was a summa cum laude museum in the country. His vision erative Baptist Fellowship. graduate of Furman with a double Led to the creation of the Hagley major in history and English. He Graduate Program at the University Todd Lantz has completed his was voted the most intellectual of Delaware, which focuses on the residency in obstetrics and gy­ male in his class and edited the history of industrial America and Hagley Museum, "a training ground necology and has begun practice Echo. has trained many historians and for historians of American industry with The OB/GYN Group of After serving in the Navy for leaders of historical organizations. and for curators of American mu­ Greenville. Lance and Marjie three years, he earned master's He was also instrumental in bring­ seums. Dr. Heacock has succeeded Phillips Roper live in Columbia, and doctoral degrees in history ing the Longwood Library, begun - so well that his particular sec­ S.C., where she is self-employed from the University of Wisconsin. by Pierre du Pont, under the di­ tion of the Brandywine River has and he is a captain in the Army. While completing his doctorate, rection of the foundation. The become a mecca for historians of Nina Landow teaches mathe­ he taught history at Furman for Libraryis one of the nation's major American industry and an inspira­ two years before going to Colonial centers for research in economic, matics at Greenville Technical tion for countless publications. Williamsburg in Virginia as direc­ business and technological history. He has assisted in the training of Charter High School. Kevin tor of exhibition buildings. Furman awarded Heacock an a generation of young scholars, Sharon Crews Brangers and live In 1953 he was invited by honorary degree in 1960 and the researchers, and custodians of in Roswell, Ga. She is a CPA the E.I. du Pont Company to dis­ Distinguished Alumni Award in America's past." and partner in the Alliance of cuss a historical project, which 1967. When the university in­ Active in dvic and historical Financial Professionals in Led to his appointment in 1954 ducted him into its chapter of Phi organizations in Delaware, Heacock Alpharetta, Ga. Lefebvre as director of research and inter­ Beta Kappa in 1983, it recognized retired in 1984. That same year Cowan teaches and coaches at pretation of the Eleutherian his "distinctive contribution to the University of Delaware awarded Fort Dorchester High School in Mills-Hagley Foundation, the com­ scholarship ...for providing for him an honorary degree, dting his pany's nonprofit, educational cor­ the American people an invaluable North Charleston, S.C. "Lifetime of work chronicling the poration. Entrusted with 185 acres Link between its present industrial American spirit" and recognizing MARRIAGES: Diana Laurie of DuPont family Land along greatness and its historical birth­ him as an "educator of distinction, Drylie and Gary Stephen Brandywine Creek just outside place." The Phi Beta Kappa dta­ scholar of influence and historian Murphy, May 22. Julia M. Wilmington, Del., the foundation tion also noted his work with the of vision." Bridges and Clark L. Springs, July 31. He is an assistant pro­ fessor of ophthalmology at Boston University. BIRTHS: director of the Huguenot Society theology. Charles Keith and Steven Feingold and his wife, 91 of South Carolina. Max Austin Emily Johnson '93 Hynds live Cynthia P. May, twins, Sarah and Next reunion in 2001 is a loan officer with Coates & in Atlanta, Ga., where he is Thomas, July 21. The family Noel T. and Frankie James Co., Inc., a residential mortgage employed by Bank of America lives in Charleston, S.C., where Painter live in Deltona, Fla. He firm in Birmingham, Ala. and she is pursuing a Ph.D. in she is a professor at the College is assistant professor of music After receiving an M.B.A. mathematics at Emory of Charleston and he is an emer­ theory at Stetson University. degree from Georgia State University. Cynthia Cady gency medicine doctor. David Amanda Capps has become University, RobertM. Baughan, Failor of Alpharetta, Ga., is L. and Michele Joanis '91 director of marketing and Jr., has become a portfolio program controllerfor Lockheed Reynolds, a son, Andrew communications for Marshall manager for Bank of America Martin Aeronautical Systems. Richard, February 15, 1999, Clarke Architects in Greenville. Investment Management in MARRIAGES: Jeannine Marietta, Ga. Ken and Martha She recently earned a master's Atlanta, Ga. John C. Watts is Pregler and Henry M. Chewning Villanueva Milam, a daughter, degree in mass communications attending business school at III, April. They live in Rich­ Mackenzie Cameron, June 8. from the University of South Duke University. Barry W. mond, Va., where she is em­ They live in Atlanta, Ga. Scott Carolina. Juanita Davis of and Amy Lee live in Irmo, S.C., ployed by the Chesterfield and Julie Ethridge Shaughnessy, Dudley, N.C., has joined the staff where he is an administrative County Schools. Shannon a son, Joseph Tillman, May 24, of Communities in Schools of assistant at Irmo Middle School Spears and Robert Anderson, Columbia, S.C. James A. and North Carolina as resource and a track coach at Irmo High. June 11. They live in Largo, Debbie Milley, a daughter, development and special events John and Jill Woodall Elliott Fla., where she is a teacher in Amanda Ruth, November 4, director. Laura Kessler Nagy have moved to Parrish, Fla., the Pinellas County Schools. 1998. The Milleys live in Addis works part time for Accessible where she is a technical consult­ Dawn Michele Hasty and Timo­ Ababa, Ethiopia, where they are Archives, Inc. Ralph Davis ant for SAP America. thy Vorel, September 18. They missionaries for the Presbyterian and his wife, Kim Hansard, live Michelle Rossmiller Guckeen live in Rincon, Ga., where she Church (USA). Gray and in Knoxville, Tenn., where he is of Coon Rapids, Minn., has been is a special education teacher Virginia Nickles Sloop, a associate editor of new media promoted to conversion manager and he is district representative daughter, Grayson Matthews, for HGTV. Buy.com has in the commercial loan division for Aid Association for Luther­ October 22, Jacksonville, Fla. transferred Clay Hardin to Aliso of U.S. Bank. Jonathan D. ans. Camille Moncrief Hewitt Gratton 0. Ill and Erica Berry Viejo, Calif. He is a software and Aimee Heard have moved and Benjamin Stanford Adams, Pifer, a son, Griffin Russell, engineer. F. Gardner Jackson to Sterling, Va., where he is October 23. They live in Green­ August 8, Duluth, Ga. Greg Ill is owner and president of director of business development ville where she is a pharmaceu­ and Melanie Carr Lewallen, a Sacred Bear Adventures in Park for Sandbox.com, Inc. Carla tical sales representative for son, Alden Grant, December 22, City, Utah. Renee LaHue M. lngrando is a graduate Warner Lambert Co. and he is a 1998, DeLand, Fla. Greg Marshall, formerly of the His­ assistant at the University of family dentist. BIRTHS: Lewallen is youth minister at toric Charleston (S.C.) Founda­ Notre Dame where she is study­ Mark and Jennifer Daily Byers, Stetson Baptist Church. tion, has become executive ing for a Ph.D. in moral twins, Mitchell and Elise, July 41 Furmanalumni news

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6. They live in Birmingham, therapy at the Air Force base. Ala. Wayne Warren, Jr., and John M. Perdiue is employed in Jennifer Sherrill Davis, a son, psychiatric research at the Jonathon Wrighter, August 17, University of Cincinnati. He Raleigh, N.C. Charles Keith teaches private trumpet lessons '92 and Elizabeth Chambless and plays with a band called Ward, a son, Connor Keith, Second Wind. Douglas D. and March 26, Atlanta, Ga. Keith Jennifer Sonnati Oxford are Ward is executive vice president employed at the Aiken (S.C.) of Professional Probation Vineyard Christian Fellowship. Services, Inc. Kenneth P. and Michael R. Burns of Roswell, Tracy Lynn Wood, a son, Ga., has joined the English Kenneth Andrew, August 24, faculty of the Marist School. Savannah, Ga. Ken Wood Heather Carter Chappelear of recently became a partner in North Charleston, S.C., teaches Arthur Dana & Company. kindergarten in the Berkeley Stephen E., Jr., and Sally Logan County Schools. Elizabeth S. Lookadoo, a daughter, Grace Chapin has been named the first Kathryn, August 20, Greenville. executive director of the Cape He has joined the Christie Fear Valley Health Foundation Pediatric Group and she is a in Fayetteville, N.C. Natalie physical therapist for Roger C. Runyan is employed by the New Peace Rehabilitation Hospital. Mexico State Land Office as the Jimmy and Cameron Capps biologist for 13 million acres of Duree, a son, Brian, April 24, Trust land. Morgan Buffington Hixson, Te nn. Juddson R. and has been promoted to banking Tina We bster Smith, a daughter, officer at BB&T in Greenville. Jacqueline Elizabeth, July 26, Jill Wood of Atlanta, Ga., is Kennesaw, Ga. David and state tax consulting manager for Julie Wright Silander, a son, PricewaterhouseCoopers. William Isak, August II, Traci DeVall of Pickens, S.C., is Charlotte, N.C. Joel F. assistant manager for First Fam­ Fletcher, Jr., and his wife, ily Financial Services. Heather L. Duncan, a son, Evan Heather-Camille Cherry earned James Fletcher, August 8, a master's degree in humanities Tallahassee, Fla. Heather and arthist ory fromFlorida State Duncan is senior public health University and is an arts advisor for the Centers for consultant for Decorative Disease Control and Prevention. Expressions in Atlanta, Ga. Sandra Mack Scott of Taylors, postdoctoral work in biology McEiiece Pettit, a daughter, S.C., has become an account at Duke University. Sophie Grace, February 23, 92 manager for Procter & Gamble Next reunion in 2002 MARRIAGES: Conserverina 1999, Chicago, Ill. Brian and Pharmaceuticals. Evan Lee is Outlook, published by the Yvette Rice and Bruce Arnez Karen Timler Justice, a daughter, a physician and captain in the Greater Greenville Chamber of Evans, May 29. They live in Ashlyn Marie, January 29, 1999, Army, serving at Fort Stewart, Commerce and edited by Laurens, S.C., where she teaches Lawrenceville, Ga. Karen Ga. Yvonne Shanklin Wyatt Stephanie Jordan Summerlin, at Ford Elementary School. He Justice is a finance manager for is a paralegal for Lancaster & recently won a national Clarion is assistant basketball coach at Coca-Cola and Brian Justice is Trotter in Charlotte, N.C. Amy award, presented by the Associ­ Presbyterian College. Char a senior project engineer for H. Henderson lives in Rich­ ation for Women in Communi­ Marie Hubbard and Christopher Carrier Transicold. mond, Va ., and teaches at the cations, for the most improved L. Rhoads, October 9. They live C. Thompson and Alison New Community School. magazine. E. Bert and Kelley in Lexington, Ky., where he is Hibbard Hager, a son, William Lance J. and Shannon Wilder Anne Graham Wallace live in an attorney forWo odward Thompson, November 30, 1998, live in Athens, Ga., where he is West Columbia, S.C., where he Hobson & Fulton LLP and she Apex, N.C. Gene and Bonnie an English instructor and Ph.D. is employed by the Harbison teaches at Lexington Catholic Jean Garbiras Grant, a son, candidate at the University of Community Association and High School. BIRTHS: Jacob Cameron, December Georgia. They recently started teaches writing at Columbia Christopher and Ami Fletcher 1998, Flemington, N.J. Bonnie a creative consulting firm, International University. Jarrett, a daughter, Emma Grant is a research chemist for Wilder Concepts, L.L.C. Scott Angela S. Whalen, an occupa­ Nicole, August 25, Douglasville, Merck & Co. M. Jenkins '94 and his wife, tional therapist for Science Ga. Ami Jarrett is a staff Christine H. Lindquist, have Applications International pharmacist for Wal-mart and moved to Durham, N.C., where 93 Corporation, recently moved to Chris Jarrett is a pharmaceutical Next reunion in 2003 she works for RTI, a behavioral sales representative for Merck Lakenheath, England, where she Ronald M. and Megan Heist '94 research institute, and he is doing & Co. Tom and Annebet is doing pediatric occupational Garner live in Highlands, N.C., where he is youth and children's Health Fitness Corporation. the University of Pittsburgh. School in Greenwood, S.C. minister at Highlands United Craig A. and Amy Phillips '95 Corrie Byelick Ledford of Some of her songs have been Methodist Church. She is a Harp have moved to Greensboro, Huntersville, N.C., has qualified published and are being kindergarten teacher. Jay and N.C., where he is area manager as a licensed professional marketed in Nashville, Tenn. Susan Christ McDiarmid have for Norwest Financial and she counselor in North Carolina. Kristin L. Adair is a technical begun the Master of Physical is completing a master's degree Debra Tindall has earneda Ph.D. staffmember at Los Alamos Therapy program at the Univer­ at the University of North in inorganic chemistry from the National Laboratory in sity of St. Augustine (Fla.) for Carolina-Greensboro. University of Florida and Albuquerque, N.M. Jason and Health Sciences. Jennifer BIRTHS: Jorge L. and Tracie become an advanced research Vanessa Hinson '95 Helms live Perkinson is an adolescent and Bishop Roman, a daughter, chemist for Eastman Chemical in Charlotte, N.C., where he family therapist for Wake Teen Emma Dempsey, July 27, Dallas, in Kingsport, Tenn. Kelly E. is senior technical project man­ Medical Services in Raleigh, Te xas. Tracie Roman is an Gainey has completed a master's ager for Bank of America. He N.C. Cynthia Keeler analytical chemist at the Howard degree and is a guidance coun­ recently completed Microsoft Hair-Whitaker has earned a Hughes Medical Institute. selor for Oakdale Elementary Certified Systems Engineer master's degree fromthe Univer­ Daniel Travis and Celia Brown School in Rock Hill, S.C. • certification. • Since graduating sity of Oklahoma and is a Layman, a daughter, Erin Grace, Stephanie M. Barrett has from Florida State College of licensed master social worker March 15, Harrisonburg, Va. • completed a master's degree at Law, Christopher Steinhaus has for the Greenville hospital Robert Craig and Kimberly Indiana University's School of become staff attorney for the system. Edward P. Stein of Wingfield Griffin, a daughter, Public and Environmental State of Florida Agency for Taylors, S.C., is vice president Bailey Elizabeth, October 26, Affairsand is an associate at ICF Health Care Administration. • of Transamerica Mezzanine 1998, Atlanta, Ga. Craig Griffm Consulting in Fairfax, Va. • Andrew C. Esserwein is assistant Financing in Greenville. is director of recruiting for Michael and Cynthia Johnson band director at North Cobb Steven A. Compton is a Bradley-Morris, Inc. recently moved to Orangeburg, High School in Kennesaw, Ga. supervisor for the York County S.C., where he became director • Jeremy Mosteller is taking (S.C.) Department of Social of corporate development for M.B.A. courses at ITESM Services. Christopher '94 and 94 Cox Industries. Kristi Gilreath Nextreunion in 2004 • University in Monterrey, Margaret Haskell Rinker live in Johnson of Creedmoor, N.C., Mexico. He plans to study in Bradley W. Sheppard and his Tampa, Fla. He works with has become account manager wife, Terry Kukuk-Sheppard, Beijing, China, this summer. • Tampa Electric Co. and she is a for Capital Strategies. William Michelle Boone live in Williamsburg, Mo. He is is a graduate third-year dermatology resident H. Waring Ill is assistant princi­ student in ecology at the Univer­ chaplain and instructor of at the University of South pal of Beech Hill Elementary Christopher religion at We stminster College, sity of Missouri. • Florida. Chad W. Jackson is School in Summerville, S.C. M. Elizabeth Dohm and she pastors a Presbyterian • '95 and account manager for Kendro In his second year of the Master Rickwood live in Dahlonega, church. • Michael J. Wautlet Laboratory Products Houston, of International Business in has become a sonar, torpedo, Ga., where she is director of Texas. Christopher T. Nelson program at the University of tomahawk and weapons delivery residence life at North Georgia is a resident physician in family South Carolina, G. Patrick Ta rry officerfor the Navy in Kapolei, College & State University. • medicine at Spartanburg (S.C.) Ill is studying Japanese at Lane and Sara Jamieson '96 Hawaii. • Kerry M. Harike is an Regional Hospital. Stephanie Tokyo's Waseda University. Hammond attorney for Rogers & Hardin in • live in Spartanburg, L. Cupery has become a quali­ Jay and Shawn Guynn '96 S.C. Associated with Atlanta, Ga. • Daniel J. fied plan administrator for Eckard live in Cartersville, Ga. Hammond-Brown-Jennings Benton is senior associate for Marshall & Ilsley Trust and He is an instructional technology Furniture Co., he was recently Cambridge Technology Partners Investment Management in specialist at Kennesaw State elected to the board of directors in Jacksonville Beach, Fla. • Madison, Wis. John W. Parks University. Peter and Ingrid Katherine Schneider was named • of Carolina Counseling, Inc. IV is a graduate student at Kalkofen Kellen are physical outstanding teacher of 1998- She is an environmental quality Eastman School of Music. therapists in Birmingham, Ala. control supervisor for DHEC. 1999 by the student government Last summer he performed as Anne Marie Duckett teaches MARRIAGES: Kim DeVillier at Walter Johnson High School principal timpanist for the and coaches at Emerald High William Anthony Glass, in Bethesda, Md. She has earned '96 and Schlossfestspiele Orchestra in a Master of Science degree in Heidelberg, Germany. education from Hood College. MARRIAGES: Elizabeth Ellen • Sarah Jarboe has begun a Tu rrentine and Thomas Jeremiah master's program in teaching Nuckolls Ill, August 21. They Barefoot retires after years English as a second language at live in Greenville where he is the University of Kentucky. president of Telecom Profession­ John Gary Eichelberger has als Inc. Courtney Lea Hagler z�", "/ , • graduated from Duke University and Aron Michael Devane, with a law degree and master's October 2. They are medical oland Barefoot '55, director of planned giving at Furman for 15 years, degree in theological studies. R residents at the University of retired in December. He is a law clerk for the U.S. Alabama-Birmingham. Barefoot joined the Furman staff in 1984 after 23 years in the • District Court for the We stern Cathryn Finch and Scot Stewart, trucking business. His amiable personality, easy smile and quick handshake District of Virginia. • Kristen June 5. They live in Augusta, turned out to be a perfect fit for the Furman job. Poremba Cordier has become During Barefoors tenure Furman established the Heritage Sodety, Ga., where he is a physician at educational director at Kuwae a group of university supporters who have included Furman in their estate the Medical College of Georgia. Preschool in Okinawa, Japan. • plans. The sodety now numbers more than 625 people who have pledged Meredith Ringholm and John • Scott D. Schulhof of Asheville, approximately $70 million in future gifts to the university. McGarr, May 29. They live in N.C., is a land surveyor for W.K. Barefoot serves on the board of the South Carolina Planned Giving Bethlehem, Pa., where she is Dickson & Co., Inc. • Rebecca Coundl and has been instrumental in the innovative "Leave a Legacy" case manager for KidsPeace Green, a program coordinator program that will encourage planned giving to nonprofit organizations National Centers. Bridget for the South Carolina Depart­ in South Carolina. He plans to serve as a consultant for nonprofit groups Fleming and John Skinner '90, ment of Education, graduated that lack planned giving programs. May 22. They live in Atlanta, from the Intergenerational But, he says, work will not get in the way of one of his favorite Ga., where he is an associate at Specialist Certification program pastimes - golf. "After all," he says, "I will be keeping the schedule." Fountainhead Strategic Solutions at the School of Social Work at Betsy Moseley '74, assodate director of planned giving since 1996, and she is area manager for has been named director. 43 is an industrial design student at Te lTron Technologies Corp. Furmanalumni news the University of Cincinnati, and Audrey Catherine Morgan has she is a development director at transferred to Atlanta, Ga., where Great American Insurance Co. she is a marketing communica­ CLASS NOTES WINTER 00, cont. Rebecca G. Deming and tion specialist for BellSouth Bernhard Frederick Rumpf, Cellular Corporation. Mary September 26. They live in Ann Purcell Ridgeway is a Charlotte, N.C., and both work fust-grade teacher at Jessie Bobo for CompuData, Inc. Amy School in Spartanburg, S.C. Jr. They live in Lawrenceville, in Covington, Ga. She is a Elizabeth Cooper and Timothy Megan Neff is emolled in the Ga., where he is a logistics veterinarian and he is an assistant Michael Comoy, August 21. She master's degree program in manager for CHEP USA and she band director at Rockdale is a clinical exercise specialist nursing at the University of teaches at Creekland Middle County High School. Stephen for HeartLife at Greenville Hos­ Pennsylvania. Joshua C. School. Raquel Zuniga and E., Jr., and Heather Vande Brake pital System, and he is a police Wilhoit ofMount Pleasant, S.C., Brian Gaco Paredes, May I. They live '96 Hunt live at Fort Bragg, N.C. officer. BIRTH: and is a software developer for in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where He graduated from the Com­ Tracee Minnix Wade, a daughter, Blackbaud. He performs with he is government affairsmanager bined Logistics Captains Career Mackenzie Vaughn, October 11. the Charleston (S.C.) Stage for British American Tobacco Course as a Distinguished Company and the Footlight and she is a dentist. Mary Graduate and recently completed Players. Scott M. Powers Lives 96 in Atlanta, Ga., where he is Catherine Martin and William the Officer Advanced Course. Next reunion in 2001 account executive for Manage­ Joseph Lawton, September 11. Robbie W. Flowers is complet­ Allen H. and Susan Looper '98 ment Recruiters International. They live in Taylors, S.C. She ing a master's degree in biology Cooper live in Easley, S.C. He Shawn R. Pierce is a second­ is a paralegal in the office of at We stern Carolina University. is working on a master's degree year law student at the University James C. Blakely, Jr., and he is He received a research assistant­ in counselor education at the of South Carolina and a clerk at a real estate agent. Jennifer ship funded by the Great Smoky University of South Carolina. Suggs & Kelly, P.A. Matthew Lynn Brantley and Kurt Ly le Res­ Mountains National Park. W. Jennifer L. Creech received a G. Walker is senior accountant tine, October 16. They reside in Thomas and Michelle Martin master's degree in German at Orth, Chakler, Murnane& Co. Atlanta, Ga., where she is a flight Burnett have moved to Vancou­ literature from the University of in Miami, Fla. Patrick Vernon attendant for Delta Air Lines and ver, Wash. She works at Reed Cincinnati and is pursuing a and Andrea Campbell-Vernon he is a stockbroker. BIRTHS: College as assistant director of Ph.D. in German studies at the live in Dallas, Texas, where he Thomas S., Jr., and Tracy alumni relations. Rex G. University of Minnesota. is senior sales representative for Berklich LeGrand, a daughter, Sanford is branch administra­ Daniel M., Jr., and Cari International Paper and she is a Abigail Noelle, August 6, tion/marketing analyst for Williams '97 Hicks live in special event coordinator for Camden, N.C. John W. II Carolina First in Greenville. Columbia, S.C., where she is a Habitat for Humanity. Charles and Mary Mundy Miller, a son, Jeffrey B. Hammer is a graphic law student. Cara J. Hofer C. Runyon is a physical therapy John William III, April l6, arts document solutions consult­ graduated from nursing school student at the Medical University Atlanta, Ga. ant for Xerox Corporation and in May and works in the neonatal is in his second term as president intensive care unit at Medical of the Wade Hampton-Taylors College of Georgia. Amy 95 Jaycees. Ta mmy Gann of This year is reunion! Coley of Lawrenceville, Ga., is Murfreesboro, Tenn., teaches Rebecca J. Amos is working in pricing manager for Paragon algebra and Bible at Cedar Hall San Mateo, Calif., as part of a Trade Brands. Douglas D. School. Jennifer Karen travel nurse program. Lisa Carney is an information systems Lynn Powers Gibbs '78, president; George Stanley is a certified public Jeffcoat McNeal and John Paul manager for Lear Corporation E. Li nney, Jr. '65, president-elect; Pamela accountant for Langdon & Underwood Thomason '76, vice president; McNeal '97 live in Columbia, in Wilmington, Del. Rebecca Company in Raleigh, N.C. Powell and Thomas C. Austin Gordon L. Blackwell '60, past president; S.C., where she is an English Aubrey C. Daniels '57; Vernon F. Dunbar Harry R. Foster Ill is a first-year live in Columbia, S.C., where teacher at Brookland-Cayce '83; Michael E. Ray '72; Beth Kendrick Tally law student at Georgia State High School and sings with the she is a Web developer for Pal­ '70; Lisa Roberts Wheeler '82; Ray F. Bell University in Atlanta. Alison Sandlapper Singers, a chamber metto Baptist Medical Center. '48; Kenneth S. Corts '90; Karen E. Foreman Bracewell has completed her '84; E.M. Horton, Jr. '52; Ann Anshus music ensemble. He is with an Frank Scott Cooper received master's degree public admin­ Quattlebaum '64; Norma Karlen Bagwell Americorps program called City in the 1999 Leader of the Ye ar istration at the University of Award for Delta Air Lines in '45; J. David Nelson '61; Jack E. Powers Year. Scott Johnson has '56; Bret Alan Clark '88; Julia Meeks Glenn Georgia and is special projects Montgomery, Ala. J. Chad graduated from the University '63; Rebecca Pulli n Kay '86; Robert E. coordinator for Georgia's Secre- of Florida College of Dentistry and Alison Nelson '97 Poerschke '41; Ronald L. Walker '84; Diane tary of State. Katherine A. and begun his firstyear of a La Bruyere live in Chapel Hill, Maroney Estridge '66; Joe E. Gentry '53; Howe is staffhydrogeologist at Hal E. Henderson '92; Jenna C. Robinson periodontal residency. Melissa N.C. He attends law school at Geomatrix Consultants, Inc., in '74; James H. Simkins, Jr. '78; Brian H. J. Morgan has moved to the University of North Carolina Huntington Beach, Calif. Fenn '9 1; Donald H. Lindsey '54. Asheville, N.C., and is assistant and she teaches first grade in Steven and Karin Walsh managing editor for a children's Durham. Wesley A. Collins Ex-Officio: David E. Shi '73, president; Faulkner have moved to Sonoma magazine called Explore! is an associate with Cecil S. Donald J. Lineback, vice president for County, Calif., where he is Anne Wilson graduated from the Harvell, Attorneys at Law in development; Donald E. Fowler, director of employed by Cisco Systems. development; Shannon Wilkerson '93, physician assistant program at Morehead City, N.C. Robert Christopher and Jennifer Lewis N. Pinkley is a compliance director of Alumni Association; Susan Rice the Medical University of South Jones '97, associate director of Alumni Bingham have moved to Buford, auditor for FSC Securities Corp. ' Carolina and works for Barnett Association; Wendy Hamilton 98, associate Ga., where she is a prosecuting Family Practice in Lancaster, in Atlanta, Ga.. David C. and director of Alumni Association; Phil Howard, attorney in the Hall County S.C. Valerie English Charity Selph Roe live in director of Furman Fund; William J. Lavery, Solicitor's Office. Will B. faculty liaison; David G. Ellison '72, trustee Rum bough is senior tax staff Augusta, Ga., where he is com­ Williams is a manager at KPMG liaison; Davin Welter '89, president, Yo ung member at Bauknight Pietras & pleting medical school and she (Economic Consultant) in is teaching. Thomas and Alumni Council; Nicholas G. Walter '00, Stormer, P.A., doing tax prepa­ president, Senior Class; Allen Cothran '01, Atlanta, Ga. MARRIAGES: Melinda Dawson Vaughan ration and planning as well as live president, Association of Furman Students; Catherine Bell and Matthew financial and estate planning. in Port Orange, Fla. She is Joshua McKoon '01, president, Student David Bell, September He Erik and Erica Goode Mason live I I. director of operations for Alumni Council. Roe was civic, business leader

Thomas Anderson Roe, Jr., a 1948 Furman was sought by many organizations on the local graduate and a longtime civic and business and national level. He served as a member of leader in Greenville, died January 9 at the age the board and chairman emeritus of the State of 72. Policy Network of Fort Wayne, Ind., and as a During hisstudent days at Furman, Roe former finance chairman of the Intercollegiate conducted cancer research and co-authored Studies Institute in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was the several research papers on the subject. He later former chairman of the finance committee of provided annual gifts to the Furman chemistry the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., department. He also earned a business and had recently joined the board of trustees management degree from LaSalle Extension of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, University and a certificate from the Brookings which develops and supports independent public Institution in the Advance Study Program on policy institutes throughout the world. He was Urban Policy. Furman awarded him an honorary a longtime member of the executive committee Doctor of Laws degree in 1980 in recognition of the Peace Center for the Performing Arts in of his civic leadership, business acumen and Greenville, a past president of the Greenville service to the community. Chamber of Commerce, and a former member As chairman of the board of Builder Marts of the board of the South Carolina Foundation of America from 1961 to 1987, Roe directed of Independent Colleges. the building supply company's growth into a Roe and his wife, Shirley, provided the our family has been a part of what has become national franchising giant. He chaired the Roe naming gift for the Thomas Anderson Roe Art a nationally known liberal arts institution." Foundation since its inception in 1968 and Building. It honors his late father, a Furman In 1995 Roe, a former chair of the Furman consistently supported the enrichment of alumnus and Greenville businessman. Advisory Council, was awarded the Order of the Greenville's cultural life. He was founding chair At the dedication of the art building in Palmetto, South Carolina's highest civilian of the South Carolina Policy Council Education 1986, Roe spoke of his family's long association honor. In 1999 the Heritage Foundation Foundation and co-founder of a national network with Furman, starting when his ancestor, Samuel presented him its Clare Boothe Luce Award. of state policy think tanks. Gibson, helped raise the funds that launched An advisor to presidents and leader in the Furman Theological Institute. "From those Republican Party politics, Roe's wise counsel humble beginnings," Roe said, "I am happy

of South Carolina. Sarah N. accountants, she at KPMG and for Christ. Karalyne Moore Heather Peters Collins live in Revis earned a Bachelor of Sci­ he at Ernst & Young. Ley is an English teacher at Columbia, S.C. He is a medical ence degree in physical therapy ADOPTION: Charles and Bearden High School in student at the University of South and a master's degree in health Royale Jackson, a son, Nicholas Knoxville, Te nn. Lily Chang Carolina and she is assistant science from the Medical William Jackson. Charles has earned a master's degree in general manager at We llesley University of South Carolina. Jackson handles claims for philosophy from Baylor Univer­ Inn & Suites. Cyndee Lee has Julie West Torres is assistant Safeco Insurance Co. in sity and has started doctoral become an assistant director and coordinator of educational Portland, Ore. work at the University of instructor at Belfair Activity programs (refugee services) at Missouri. Benjamin S. Center near Hilton Head Island, Catholic Charities in Fort Worth, Boardman is attending flight S.C. Karen L. Esterl has 97 school at the U.S. Army Aviation received a Master of Theological Texas. She also teaches English Next reunion in 2002 as a second language. Rob Center at Fort Rucker, Ala. Studies degree from Harvard Melinda J. Warren is a staff McMahan has earnedan M.B.A. Vernon E. Huff is completing a Divinity School. David and assistant in Washington, D.C., degree from the Lundy Fetter­ master's degree in choral Angela Rail Gabb live in for Sen. Ernest F. Hollings of man School of Business at conducting at Ohio State Univer­ Marietta, Ohio, where she is a South Carolina. Brady Gilbert Campbell University. He sity. Arthur Christy, Jr., is a user analyst for Marietta College has joined Tech Know, Inc., in receives his Doctor of Pharmacy trainee in the Virginia Division and he is pastor at Crown of Life Greenville. Christopher and degree from Campbell in May of Forensic Science. Marjorie Evangelical Lutheran Church. Kay Watts recently earned and has taken a position as J. Avent is studying for a mas­ Joshua S. Trevino has become master's degrees in music at clinical pharmacy specialist at ter's degree at Mercer University CATI center manager for Louisiana State University. He the Mayo Clinic. McAfee School of Theology. Strategy Research, Inc., in is pursuing a doctorate in Christine Ozog Gregory K. Burrell of Ellijay, Miami Beach, Fla. Rachel E. MARRIAGES: composition at the University of and Lee Brown, Jr., July 17. Ga., teaches special education Zola serves as human resources Cincinnati. Kevin Painter has They live in Lyman, S.C. He is at Gilmer High School and is a coordinator at Cerebellum Soft­ earned an M.B.A. degree in a diesel technician for Greenville graduate student at North ware in Pittsburgh, Pa. She finance from the University of Sterling, and she is a program­ Georgia College and State attends graduate school in hu­ Tennessee and is an equity mer and analyst for MetLife. University. Rebecca L. Bowen man resources management. portfolio manager in the trust Leanna Kelley and Scott Fuller, of Greenville has become layout Allen G. McDowell has earneda investments department of May 15. They live in Suffo lk, editor for The Tr ibune-Times, a master's degree in aquarium AmSouth Bank in Birmingham, Va., where she is a part-time weekly community paper. biology and is an aquarist with Ala. BartE. Petrini is a student chaplain at a children's hospital Christa J. Bailey is task force The Living Seas exhibit at at the University of Texas and he is the pastor of Holy Neck coordinator in the Atlanta office EPCOT Center in Orlando, Fla. Medical Branch in Galveston. United Church of Christ. Sally of Georgia Sen. Paul Coverdell. Gina Richter has become Gregory S. and Mary Palmer Ruth Culver and We sley Robert Shelley R. Bridwell works production services engineer for '98 Owens live in Cumming, Littlejohn, August 14. They live with Yo ung Life of DeKalb Fleetwood Enterprises in Ga., where he is a missionary in Greenville where they are County, Ga. Aaron M. and Riverside, Calif. Tom and on the staff of Campus Crusade 45 17. They live in Birmingham, School in Easley, S.C., and he Furmanalumni news Ala., where he is director of is a landscaper. Sharon marketing at Taylor & Mathis Amanda Yeargin and Andrew and she attends Cumberland Timothy Martin, August 21. She CLASS NOTES WINTER 00, cont. School of Law. Suzanne is gallery director at Down­ Marie Sloan and Scott Edward Townes in Greenville and he is Sharp, July 10. He teaches at a tobacconist for Boda Pipes. Hilton Head Island (S.C.) Cheryl Renita Hutchinson and Middle School. Gregory Bernard Scott (M.A.), Kristina Lutz Holcombe live in house coordinator for Southern September 4. They live in Greenville where she is an early San Antonio, Texas, where she Accents magazine. • Mark R. 99 is a business development asso­ Kemp is a graduate assistant in Next reunion in 2004 interventionist for the Greenville County Disabilities Special ciate for EG&G Logistics. • music at Samford University. • Christine Dawkins is outreach Needs Board and he is assistant Brian C. Phillips is a first-year John G. Mancini of Daleville, coordinator for the Greenville principal of Monaview Elemen­ law student at the University of Ala., is a pilot for the U.S. Army. Commission on Alcohol and tary School. Mary K. Beach South Carolina. • Alan G. He recently graduated from Drug Abuse and is studying for • and Daniel B. Hoover, Jr., June Sanders is a dental student at helicopter flight school and the a master's degree in social work 5, Clearwater, Fla. Alicia the Medical College of Georgia. Aviation Officer's Basic Course. at the University of South • Leerssen and JeffStark, July • Matt and Kelly Carmack Pohl • Christopher Lassiter is a Carolina. • Charles H. Crawford 31. They live in Nashville, Tenn., live in Springdale, Ark. She is graduate student in vertebrate Ill of Fairfax, Va., is an antitrust where he is a first-year student pursuing a master's degree in development at Duke University. paralegal for the Department of at Vanderbilt Medical School. • counseling at the University of • Jennifer L. Foulk is a law Justice. • Stacy Schorr is copy Susan Harbison and Kenneth Arkansas and he is a golf course student at the University of South editor and page designer for the Arthur Kuenzli II, October 9. supervisor. • Kelly E. McGinnis Carolina and a clerk for the firm Anderson (S.C.) Independent­ They live in Spartanburg, S.C., is a director for the American of Suggs & Kelly. • Christina Mail. • Daniel P. Day is a where she is a clinical unit Red Cross in Bordentown, N.J. Flynn of Charlotte, N.C., teaches software developerat Blackbaud, educator at Spartanburg • Julie Downing Hanna teaches English and creative writing at Inc., in Charleston, S.C. • Regional Medical Center. special education in Augusta, Fort Mill (S.c.) High School. • Ronnie L. Chastain, Jr., of Ga. • Cheryl Mason teaches Gregory A. Clepper attends Nova Barbourville, Ky., is assistant Latin in Richland County (S.C.) Southeastern College of Dental athletic trainer at Union College, DEATHS School District Two. • Medicine. • William R. where he also teaches, and head Margaret Courtney Nelson '26, MARRIAGES: Jennifer Broneill is attending Western trainer at North Laurel High October 27, Greenville. She was Lanford and James Alan New England College School of School. • Christa N. Brunow is a retired first -grade teacher and Sharrer, June 26. They live in Law in Springfield, Mass. • director of communications for was active in First Baptist Rohnert Park, Calif. • Abby Sally Ryan Burgess is pursuing FitCare in Charlotte, N.C. • Church. Koella and James Ford, October a master's degree in United Clevonne M. Houser is a Jaw 16. They Jive in Louisville, States history at the University student at Duke University. • William H. Nixon '28, March 1, Tenn., where she works with of Richmond. • Karen M. Stephen B. Long is a graduate 1999. He was a retired district Collins, Sharpe and Koella and Buckmiller is studying for a student in political science at the manager for the Social Security is pursuing an M.B.A. degree at Master of Science degree in University of North Carolina. • Administration. the University of Te nnessee. • occupational therapy at Alice M. Gregory is a graduate Meeghan Callahan and Gant Washington University School student in journalism at the Robert Andrew Crawford, Jr. Sowinski, July 17. They live in of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo. • University of Miami and writes '30, August 11, Greenville. He Columbia, S.C., where he is in Bradley Davis and his father have for publications in southern had retired fromLiberty Life, the J.D.-M.B.A. program at the started Discovery Golf, Inc., in Florida. • Mark W. Kinghorn was a veteran of World War II University of South Carolina. Greenville. • James Phillip attends law school at Duke and was active in First Baptist She is finishing her master's and Anne Klein Roe live in University. • Jaclyn M. Smith Church. degree in social work. • Amber Cape Girardeau, Mo., where attends law school at Pennsylva­ Alvin Judson Hurt '31, Marie Anders and Christopher he is territory manager for nia State University. Dave • September 4. Retired as general Scott Blair, September 25. They Michelin Tire Corp. • Susan Dothard is studying for a manager of Blue Ridge Electric live in Greenville where she is Watson is studying for a Master master's degree in international Cooperative, he was a deacon an event coordinator at the of Fine Arts degree in painting history at the London School of emeritus and former Sunday Bi-Lo Center. He is operations at the University of Georgia. Economics. Dana A. Schwartz • school superintendent at Easley manager and program director Michael Oubre is in graduate attends graduate school at the First Baptist Church. He was a at WCRS radio in Greenwood. school in music education at the University of Washington in former president of the Easley • Patricia Walters and Jesse University of Georgia. • Kerrie Seattle. Heather N. Pearch is • Rotary Club, which named him Laine, July 31. He is a flight Seltenheim and Jayda Biddix a health and fitnessspecialist at its first Paul Harris Fellow and instructor and she attends law Justus both work for the Boston MediFit in Charlotte, N.C. • awarded him the Ben F. Hagood school at the University of firm of Sterling Hager, Inc., Mark Rowe attends Mississippi Award. He also received the Georgia. • BIRTH: Jason and Seltenheim as an account College School of Law. • Order of the Palmetto, South Shana Ross Dalton, a daughter, executive and Justus as an J. Kristin Stultz is a staffwriter Carolina's highest civilian honor. Chloe Ross, March 6, 1999, account coordinator. • Laura B. for the Gwinnett (Ga.) Daily He served in the Army during Pickens, S.C. Shana Dalton Scholz is a research assistant at Post. Jennifer E. Walton is an • World War II and received the teaches at Pickens Middle Ohio State University and an accountant for Arquitectonica in Purple Heart and other School. intern in the public information Miami, Fla., where she attends commendations. office at the Ohio Arts Council. graduate school in counseling 98 • MARRIAGES: Dana psychology. • Christy Weber Sarah Frances Moore '32, Next reunion in 2003 Michelle Olsen and Robert teaches kindergarten in Summer­ September 25, Marietta, S.C. A Morgan Lanning Peyton S. Burke is an associate '99, July 31. ville, S.C. • MARRIAGES: retired clerical worker at J.P. account manager for Leslie They live in Oak Park, Ill. • Angela Renae Norris and Travis Stevens, she was a member of Haley Renee Mathews and Advertising in Greenville. • Charles Staggs, July 31. She Pendleton Street Baptist Church Lindsey A. Jenkins is a show James Christopher Jonas, July teaches at Dacusville Elementary in Greenville. Ethel Hughes Jones Swink '32, Court Judge of the Fifth Judicial Thelma Pratt Ehmke '44, March Thomas Moore Castles '53, September 6, Woodruff, S.C. Circuit. A founding member of 21. She was a retired floral August 22, Greenville. He was She was affi liated with her late Lakeview Baptist Church, he designer. a retired teacher and a veteran husband's law firm. served as president of the of the Korean War. Billie M. Balentine '46, October Kershaw County Chamber of Francis James Aiken '32, 29, Atlanta, Ga. He was retired William Samuel Adams Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, '57, August 19, Danville, Va. He was from the DeKalb County Tax November 8, Greenville. He the County Bar Association and a retired businessman. Assessor's Office and was a was a sales representative for the Camden Jaycees. In 1978, founding member of the Monroe Hardware, was active James Wilson Crain '33, he received the Silver Beaver Biscayne Room and of Narcotics in church, masonic and commu- September 10, Travelers Rest, Award for Boy Scout work. Anonymous in the Atlanta area. nity endeavors, and had served S.C. A retired fe deral probation Emogene Gaskins Orr Dennis He served in the Army in World in the National Guard. officer, he served as head of the '39, September 19, Valdosta, Ga. War n. South Carolina Tax Commission Joann Buchanan Jones '57, She was active in community and was a veteran of World War lydia Gibson Davis '47, October October 20, Greenville. and Methodist church work and II. He was active in the commu- 16, Darlington, S.C. She was a with charitable organizations in Bobby Joe Vest '58, November nity and was a rec ipient of the teacher and a columnist for the Georgia. She had managed her 1, Greenville. Order of the Palmetto, the state News and Press. family farm in Berrien County of South Carolina's highest Howard D. Towles '60, for more than 34 years at the Billy C. Franklin '49, November civilian honor. September 28, Greenville. time of her death and served as I, Laurens, S.C. He was a re- He had retired as secretary of Blanche Attaway Winter '33, president and CEO of Bagaskor, tired minister. April 17, Atlanta, Ga. She was Inc., a fam ily farm business. Mayfair Mills, where he served Holland R. Watson a homemaker. She served on the board of '49, August 37 years, and was a Naval Valdosta State University and of 2, Columbus, N.C. He was veteran of World War II. Andrews Floyd Daniel '34, Magnolia Manor, a retirement owner of H.R. Watson, P. A. Ronald lackey '60, September August 10, Landrum, S.C. He community. Rodney Moffett Piper, Sr. '49, 25. He was a professor and was former owner of The Daniel October Greenville. He was chaplain emeritus for Coastal Co. in Landrum. Harold Clinkscales, Sr. '40, II, August 27, Belton, S.C. He was vice president of J.A. Piper Carolina University. Elisabeth Ward McAfee '34, Roofing Co., Inc., for 50 years owner of Southern Burglar Patricia Ann Stephens Jones October 15, Greenville. She had Alarm Co., chairman of the and was a president of the '67, August 22, Greer, S.C. She been active in Buncombe Street Christian Business Men's board of directors of Capital was a pianist for Blue Ridge United Methodist Church and in Bank and was a World War II Committee. He was a World Baptist Church. community organizations. pilot. He served as chairman of War II veteran. the deacons at First Baptist Sam F. Sumner (M.A. '67), Carlyle Rupert Bryant '36, Frank Alexander Ballenger '50, Church of Belton and chaired November 5, Lyman, S.C. Hav- October 6, Greenville. A veteran September 6, Shelby, N.C. He the local United Fund. He was ing served several schools as of Wo rld War II and the Korean was a former sports reporter for a president of the Belton Tennis teacher, principal and coach, he Conflict, he had retired from The Greenville News. Club and a member of the retired from James F. Byrnes active and reserve duty. He was Anderson Airport Commission John R. Rainey, Sr. High School. He was a veteran employed by Liberty Life for 31 '50, October and County Development Board. Maryville, Tenn. He was of World War II and a former years, taught in the Greenville 14, former owner of Airport Toyota, deacon and Sunday school schools, and was active in church Marie Conyers Westervelt Hatch was associated with the Green teacher at First Baptist Church and community work. '40, November 3, Greenville. County Bank, was a former of Duncan. She was a leader in the Altar Heyward Hampton Hitt '36, board member of Maryville Guild at Christ Church Episcopal Carey Neilson Barry, Jr. '77, September 23, Greenville. An College, and was a Sunday and was active in civic and social August 31, Roebuck, S.C. He active churchman, he retired school teacher at Broadway organizations. was a senior development chem- from Duke Power Co. after 38 United Methodist Church. ist for Milliken & Co. and had years of service. He was a Charlton lewis Spillers '41, C.M. Snipes '50, November I, served Providence Presbyterian founder of the Duncan Chapel August 22, Greenville. He was Woodruff, S.C. He had retired Church as choir member, com- Fire Department and was a a service representative in the from B.J. Workman Memorial mittee chair and Sunday school former fire commissioner. laundry and cleaning business. Hospital. teacher. He coached area soccer Harriet Martin Mauldin '37, Malcolm lloyd Ralph Buehler teams and was a former presi- Jesse W. Loggins '51,August August 7, Blacksburg, Va. She '42, October 19, Pelzer, S.C. dent of Republican precincts. 27, Kingsport, Tenn. He was was a volunteer at Montgomery He was a self-employed antique retired. Milton Grayson Evans, Jr. '77, Regional Hospital and active in dealer, an Army veteran, and was December 30, Charleston, S.C. her church. active in the church and commu- Ernest C. Ty ner '52, August 2, A physician and graduate of the nity. Grace Eula Hiott '39, Columbia, S.C. A veteran of Medical University of South World War II, he was retired October 13, Chapin, S.C. She Alice Julian lee August 30, Carolina, he founded Wappoo '44, from the Army and the Federal had retired from Parker High Greenville. She had retired from Internal Medicine and was asso- Deposit Insurance Corp. School in Greenville, where she Hickory (N.C.) High School and ciated with Roper and Bon was Teacher of the Ye ar in 1975. was active in St. James Episcopal Janet Sims Knight '52, July 14, Secours-St. Francis hospitals. She served as director of Camp Church. Charleston, S.C. She had retired He was a member of the Wabak and Camp Graham and from the faculty of the Depart- American College of Physicians/ Fred W. Wheeler '44, February was active in church and com- ment of Cell Biology and Anat- American Society of Internal 13, 1999, Racine, Wis. He had munity organizations. omy at the Medical University Medicine, the Medical Society recently completed 50 years of of South Carolina, where she of South Carolina and the South Frank Ervin Rector '39, August law practice and was an active was an award-winning teacher. Carolina Medical Association. 28, Camden, S.C. A veteran of member of the First Baptist She participated in professional He died of natural causes. World War II, he was a judge in Church. organizations and was a leader Camden and in Kershaw County in her church. and retired in 1981 as Family

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Have you ever heard someone say, "Furman is rich" or "Furman doesn 't need my financial support"? This assumption couldn't be farther from the truth. Indeed, Furman is richly blessed with people and programs of the highest quality, a beautiful campus, and a 174-year tradition of excellence that combines rigorous academics with an Furman is not in a road race with other emphasis on the education of the whole person. institutions to acquire a large endowment and And its engaged learningopportunities are second better facilities for their own sake. But it will to none. take a major enhancement of our endowment But Furman's faculty, students, programs and the completion of our building program for and campus are woefully underfunded when us to continue attracting the most qualified compared to the colleges we compete with for students and the best faculty possible -and in the finest faculty and students. Here are three this respect we are indeed engaged in intense examples: competition. • Over two-thirds of Furman's 2,630 students Furman is no longer simply the best private receive financial aid grants. Of the $14 million college in South Carolina. It is competing on a in financial aid awarded this year, only $4 million national stage with the finest colleges in the is supported by current gifts and the permanent country, most of which enjoy larger financial endowment. The rest must be underwritten by resources. It is painful to see the well-qualified the university's operating budget. That puts a student from a small town in South Carolina or great squeeze on other areas, such as student elsewhere resorting to a second-choice institution internships, student-faculty research projects and because Furman cannot provide enough financial faculty salaries. aid. And we hate to lose good students to larger and wealthier but more impersonal institutions. • Furman's facilities haven't yet been brought All this said, Furman needs you and every to the standard required by 2,630 students and donor on the spectrum of giving, from the multi­ an outstanding faculty. The magnificent $9.5 million-dollar donor to the first-time donor of a million grant from The Duke Endowment starts modest gift one year after graduation. Both are us on the library expansion project, but we have important in their own right. The former creates $15 million to go on that project alone. And we endowments and provides buildings; the latter need over $10 million to complete the funding keeps Furman at the forefront of top colleges in for Hipp Hall for Business/Economics and the nation, in terms of alumni support. Education, to renovate James C.Furman Hall, Is Furman rich? Yes, but not fiscally. and to build the Younts Conference Center. Deserving of our best effort, including financial • There is a looming need to renew the support? Yes, indeed. infrastructure (heating and air conditioning systems, windows, roofs, etc.) of the campus, - David E. Shi which was put in place in the 1950s. This alone President will require $5 0 million in new funds during the coming decade.

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