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Furman Magazine. Volume 42, Issue 4 - Full Issue Furman University Furman Magazine Volume 42 Article 4 Issue 0 1999 All Issues 12-1-1999 Furman Magazine. Volume 42, Issue 4 - Full Issue Furman University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/furman-magazine Recommended Citation University, Furman (1999) "Furman Magazine. Volume 42, Issue 4 - Full Issue," Furman Magazine: Vol. 42 : Iss. 0 , Article 4. Available at: https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/furman-magazine/vol42/iss0/4 This Complete Volume is made available online by Journals, part of the Furman University Scholar Exchange (FUSE). It has been accepted for inclusion in Furman Magazine by an authorized FUSE administrator. For terms of use, please refer to the FUSE Institutional Repository Guidelines. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Winter 2000 Governor's School Visionary: Virginia Uldrick Furman Winter 2000 FEATU RES 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 24 30 32 36 48 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.
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