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FURMAN'S MISBEHAVING BEHAVIORIST 2 The rise and fall- and rise again- of John Broadus Watson, the influential psychologist and 1899 Furman alumnus. by Charles L. Brewer

CODE GREEN 10 HermanN. Hipp Hall, Furman's newest academic building, is designed with the environment in mind. by John Roberts

THE STORYTELLER 14 Through his work with International Justice Mission, photographer Ted Haddock documents human rights abuses around the world. by David McKay Wilson

A DEFINING EXPERIENCE 20 A recent graduate recounts how she took full advantage of the engaged learning opportunities Furman offers. by Anna King

FURMAN REPORTS 22

CAMPAIGN 30

ATHLETICS 32

ALUMNI NEWS 34

THE LAST WORD 48

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ON THE COVER: Herman N. Hipp Hall is reflected in the contemporary sculpture/fountain Aquarii, by Housi Knecht. The abstract work is a gift from Irwin Belk of Charlotte, N.C.

Photo by Charlie Register BY CHARLES L. BREWER

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SBEHAVING BEHAVIORIST

JOHN BROADUS WATSON WAS NOTORIOUS NOT ONLY FOR HIS INFLUENTIAL VIEWS ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY, BUT FOR HIS TEMPESTUOUS PERSONAL LIFE AS WELL.

ohn Broadus Watson, known as the "father of behaviorism, " is one of the most important J figures in the history of psychology. He believed that most human behavior is environ­ mentally determined and rejected the speculative and mentalistic psychology of his day, insisting instead that psychology is the rigorous, scientific study of overt and measurable behavior. He promoted his theory religiously and inflamed many with his forceful and formidable advocacy of his position. Although many of Watson's primary positions have been questioned or discounted since he first proposed them almost 100 years ago, few people have had such influence on the nation's intellectual and scientifichistory. His emphasis on direct, objective methods of observation has had a profound impact on research and study procedures throughout the social sciences. Indeed, in 1956, Gustav Bergmann wrote that second only to Sigmund Freud, Watson was the most influential shaper of psychological thought in the first half of the 20th century. "His place in the history of our civilization is ...secure. Such men are exceedingly rare, " said Bergmann. In 1957, the American Psychological Association cited Watson as follows: "To Dr. John B. Watson, whose work has been one of the vital determinants of the form and substance of modem psychology. He initiated a revolution in psychological thought, and his writing has been the point of departure for continuing lines of fruitful research. "

ohn Broadus Watson was born in Travelers Rest, S.C., on January 9, 1878, the son J of Pickens Butler Watson and Emma Keziah (Roe) Watson. He was named for John Albert Broadus, a Baptist minister in Greenville who rose to national prominence as a theologian and educator. As a youngster, Watson was called Broadus. In a short autobiographical sketch published in 1936, Watson wrote that his earliest academic memories were of the rural schools in the picturesque hamlets of Reedy River, White Horse and Travelers Rest. He was handling tools, half-soling shoes and milking cows when he was 9 years old and was a pretty good carpenter by the time he was 12. Indeed, years later he built a 10-room house from blueprints, then added a garage and a bam.

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Watson was the fourth of six children toward the field of psychology. A stem to. The title was 'Lift Me Up, Lift Me in a dirt-poor family, but his mother had taskmaster, Moore told the class that any Up.' There wasn't much religion in it­ high hopes for her offspring. When student who turned in a paper "backward" it was rather the whole theory of evolution Broadus was 12, she moved the family would flunk the course. During his senior in blank verse." Moore was later fired to Greenville because the city schools were year, for some strange reason, Watson fromFurman for his liberal religious views. thought to be better than the small, rural handed in his final paper backward. Moore schools. "I have few pleasant memories flunked him, and Watson had to stay at atson received his master's degree of those years, " he wrote in 1936. "I was Furman for another year, at the end of W in 1899, graduating 14th in a class lazy, somewhat insubordinate, and so far which he received a master's degree rather of 20. Because of limited fmances, he took as I know, I never made above a passing than a bachelor's degree. a job teaching in the summer session at grade." Watson's years at Furman turned him a rural school in nearby Pickens County, Something must have stuck, however. against college. His main complaint was then became principal of the now defunct After graduating from Greenville High that college coddles students and ignores Batesburg Institute. He received $25 per at the age of 16, Watson entered Furman their vocational slants, leading to "softness month for teaching, plus free lodging, in 1894 and stayed for five years, working and laziness and a prolongation of infancy." meals and laundry provided by parents two of those years as an assistant in the As he said in his 1936 autobiography, "... of various students on a weekly basis, chemistry department to help defray his until college becomes a place where daily as he moved from one home to another expenses. Although he joined the Kappa living can be taught, we must look toler­ in the community. Such a migratory status Alpha fraternity,Watson was not very antly upon college as a place for boys and for teachers was common in those days. sociable and had few friends at Furman. girls to be penned up in until they reach After working for a year at Batesburg One notable exception was Professor majority- then let the world sift them Institute, and a few weeks after his mother George Buist of the chemistry department. out." died, Watson began to think seriously about Watson's Furman transcript lists six Yet in 1950, when a group of psy­ graduate school. At the time he was more courses in mathematics; four each in Greek chology students at Furman dedicated interested in philosophy than psychology. and philosophy; three each in Bible, the first issue of their Journal to Watson Learning that Princeton required a reading English, German and physics; two each for his contributions as a "scholar, educator, knowledge of Greek and Latin, he decided in French, geology and psychology; and and leader in practical application of to go to the University of Chicago, arriving one each in chemistry, economics, Latin, psychology, " the 72-year-old Watson wrote with $50 in his pocket and no other mechanics and sociology. His academic them a letter in which he said, "I have financial resources. marks were satisfactory but not distin­ a very warm spot in my heart for Furman. Ambitious but broke, Watson worked guished, with some of his lowest grades Probably any time during my five years as a janitor, waiter and caretaker for in psychology. there they would have sold me for a plugged Professor H.H. Donaldson's laboratory Still, he enjoyed his philosophy and nickel (and rightly). But Prof. G. B. Moore rats, while focusing his studies on philo­ psychology courses and credited Professor really gave me inspiration. He delivered sophy, neurology, physiology and experi­ Gordon B. Moore, a philosopher and cleric a sermon at the Greenville Baptist Church mental psychology. He studied with John who taught psychology, with directing him -probably the only sermon I ever listened Dewey, the influential philosopher and educator, but claimed he never understood secretly wed on December 26, 1903, but bordello. Baldwin gave a fictitious name anything that Dewey said. were soon separated when Ickes sent Mary and later succeeded in having his case Watson received his Ph.D. in 1903 to live with an aunt in the East. quietly dropped. When the mayor of (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), While Mary was gone, Watson broke Baltimore nominated Baldwin for a position his research being directed jointly by off an affair with a lover who tried to win on the school board in the spring of 1909, Donaldson and James Rowland Angell. him back. Afterthat, according to Buckley, however, the tawdry details of his nocturnal Then 25, Watson was said to be the "Watson sent for Mary, and they were visit came to light. To avoid an all-out youngest person ever to earn a Ph.D. publicly marriedin the fall of 1904. Watson scandal, Baldwin was forced to resign from at Chicago, which was considered an confessed everything to his bride, even Hopkins. intellectual hotbed filled with academic though he realized that the situation did His abrupt departure shifted responsi­ hotheads. He served first as Angell's not provide 'a very good foundation for bility for psychology at Hopkins and for assistant and later as a faculty member marriage'." Indeed, the marriage was never editing the Psychological Review to in the Department of Psychology. a happy one. Watson. Buckley points out that "at age In December 1903, Watson married Watson's work at Chicago went well thirty-one Watson became the director of 19-year-old Mary Amelia Ickes, a student but did not receive the support he thought psychology at a major research institution in one of his classes. According to Kerry it deserved. With two small children, the and editor of a journal of considerable W. Buckley's Mechanical Man, the family Watsons seemed always to be living from influence within the profession. Now he legend was that Mary "had developed a hand to mouth. Perhaps because of his would have access to funding for his own crush on her professor and during one long precarious financial situation, Watson used research and a forum for the dissemination exam wrote a love poem in her copybook his growing professional reputation to of his ideas." instead of answers to the test questions. attract offers from other universities. In his 1950 letter to Furman students, When Watson insisted on taking the paper Watson described himself as "aghast " when at the end of the quiz, Mary blushed, handed n the fall of 1908, at the age of 30, Watson he learned of his new responsibilities. He him the paper, and ran from the room. The I accepted a position as professor and said, "The Psychological Review was literary effort must have had its desired director of the Psychological Laboratory the official organ of the American Psycho­ effect. But the courtship that ensued was at The Johns Hopkins University in logical Association. I was about as well never blissful." Baltimore, Md., almost doubling his salary prepared to undertake this work as I was Mary's brother was Harold Ickes, to $3,500. At Hopkins, he renewed his to swim the English Channel. .. . But the a United States senator from Illinois who acquaintance with James Mark Baldwin, magazine prospered. Prospered to such later became Secretary of the Interior under another native of South Carolina. an extent that it was thought best to add Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Ickes vehe­ Baldwin had helped to rejuvenate the Journal of Experimental Psychology. mently opposed Mary's marriage to the psychology program at Hopkins after "Professor H. C. Warren of Princeton Watson, whom he considered a contemp­ coming from Princeton in 1903. In the University became interested in these tible egomaniac. His opposition was so summer of 1908, however, he was involved publications. He bought the Review, the violent that Watson later feared for Mary's in a "delicate situation " when he was caught Journal, and Psychological Monographs. physical safety. Watson and Mary were during a police raid on a Baltimore I believe that Dr. Baldwin sold out his holdings for $5,500. It was a godsend to most cordial feeling toward you and your one of the most famous subjects in all of us at Hopkins to have the financial end of work from every direction." The irony of psychology. They conditioned the toddler the journals taken care of. Prof. Warren Goodnow's kind words would soon seem to fear furry objects by placing a white rat took over the editorship of the Review and ominously prophetic. near him, then sounding a loud gong when I of the Journal. " the child reached toward the animal. Even­ Watson's work at Hopkins flourished. atson's professional prestige was tually, Albert would recoil and react nega­ In addition to editing the Psychological W skyrocketing, but his personal life tively whenever any object resembling the Review, he was founding editor of the was another matter. His marriage to Mary rat was introduced to him. Journalof Experimental Psychology in Ickes was tempestuous; he had an affair While the research drew widespread 1915. The same year, at the young age a few years after they were married with attention, Watson's romantic involvement of 37, he served as president of the Ameri­ a woman named Vida Sutton, the object of with Rosalie led to his academic demise. can Psychological Association. In addition, an earlier infatuation. Harold Ickes insisted During a social visit at the Rayners' house, his research and writing, especially an that Mary sue Watson for divorce; Watson's Mary Watson purloined 15 of her husband's article titled "Psychology as the Behaviorist mentor, James Rowland Angell, intervened love letters to Rosalie. In connection with Views It," published in the Psychological to preserve the marriage. But Mary became the divorce proceedings, these letters were Review in 1913, established his reputation increasingly embittered. published on the front pages of most major as a powerful but controversial pioneer for A few years earlier, Watson had begun newspapers throughout the country-with behaviorism -the scientific study of research on the development of emotions predictable embellishments that resembled observable behavior. in young children, which proved to be some a 1920s National Enquirer. After serving in the Signal Corps in of his most widely cited work. He pro­ The letters are revealing. In 1920, World War I, Watson returned to Hopkins, moted the theory that displaying affection Watson wrote to Rosalie that "every cell where his reputation soared even higher toward a child was inappropriate because I have is yours, individually and collec­ with the publication of Psychology From it fostered dependence rather than indepen­ tively. My total reactions are positive and the Standpoint of a Behaviorist in 1919. dence. He advocated instead a strictly towards you. So likewise each and every Furman awarded him an honorary degree, controlled and detached approach to child heart reaction. I can't be any more yours the British Psychological Society invited rearing. than I am even if a surgical operation made him to lecture, and he entertained offers One of his graduate assistants was us one." With less clinical precision, but from major universities. Rosalie Rayner, a member of an influential perhaps more warmth, Watson asked In an attempt to keep him at Hopkins, Baltimore family and a recent graduate of Rosalie: "Could you kiss me for two hours President Frank J. Goodnow offered to Vassar College, where she had admired right now without ever growing weary? raise Watson's salary from $4,000 to Watson's work. Together they had pub­ I want you all 24 of the hours and then I'd $6,000, saying in March 1920, "It would lished an article titled "Conditioned quarrel with the universe because the days be extremely unfortunate for the University Emotional Reactions" in the Journal of are not long enough. Let's go to the North if you were to accept a call anywhere else. Experimental Psychology (1920, Volume Pole where the ...nights are 6 mo. long." I sincerely hope that you will see your way 3). Their research involved conditioning Buckley says, "Watson claimed that to stay with us, and can assure you of the fear in a young child- Little Albert, the dissatisfaction with his marriage was shared by his wife. By Christmas of 19 19, the board of trustees was the fact that advertising impressed his superiors, and her interest in him had become 'purely Rosalie Rayner's grandfather had [recently] he was made a vice president in 1924. He maternal.' According to Watson, his wife given ten thousand dollars to Johns left J. Walter Thompson in 1935 and served complained that 'married life .. . was a Hopkins. " After all the high-level as an advertising executive at the William bore and that she hated for the evening discussions and correspondence about Esty Company until his retirement in 1945 to come.' She too had become involved his "delicate situation, " Watson said simply: at the age of 67. in an affair, and when confronted with "I was asked to resign." His resignation His entrepreneurial bent helped him Watson's infidelity, declared that 'Rosalie essentially ended his career as an academic flourish in the business world, where he could have [him] as far as she was psychologist. eventually earned a salary of $70,000. He concerned.' gave occasional lectures at the New School "A separation agreement was reached atson was devastated by his treat­ for Social Research and wrote for popular between the two parties in late July 1920, W ment at Hopkins and hurt that his magazines, including Harper's, The Nation, with Mary Watson obtaining a substantial colleagues did not come to his defense. The New Republic, The Saturday Review property and alimony settlement from her He was on the verge of a breakdown, and ofLiterature, and McCall's. But he never husband that left him with but a third of the academic world was closed to him. forgave the academic community, which his former income. The matter could have He had a new wife and considerable he thought had betrayed him. passed quietly without further incident, but financial obligations from his divorce The Watsons lived on Whippoorwill when the case went to court, the press settlement, but no job and no promising Farm, a beautiful estate in Westport, Conn. picked up the story and focused national prospects. Watson enjoyed speeding around Long attention on the trial." Watson eventually went to New York, Island Sound in his 200-horsepower boat. The divorce was granted on December and with the help of a former colleague He was fond of pound cake, farming, 30, 1920. The very next day, Watson and he obtained a position with the J. Walter horseback riding and bourbon. He read Rayner were married. He was 42 and she Thompson advertising agency, where he detective stories and western novels, and was 21. analyzed consumer behavior-and made he often played bridge with friends. He A few of Watson's colleagues at Hop­ four times his salary at Hopkins. To under­ was a strong andhandsome man-rugged, kins had known of his separation from stand what motivates people to buy certain dashing and polished in social situations. Mary, but the university had hoped to avoid products, he studied the marketing of rubber Some have speculated that Watson's a scandal similar to the one that forced boots along the Mississippi River, sold physical attractiveness and engaging Baldwin's resignation 11 years before. products door-to-door, and worked as a personality made him almost irresistible Like Baldwin, Watson had violated the clerk at Macy's Department Store. to women. As one colleague said, "Watson unwritten code of the day that faculty mem­ He thoroughly enjoyed applying was not involved in any love triangle. It bers should not be romantically involved scientific principles to consumer behavior was a polyhedron of indeterminable with their students. and once said that "it can be just as thrilling dimensionality." Buckley points to yet another factor: to watch the growth of a sales curve of a Watson and Rosalie had two sons, "A detail of information that was probably new product as to watch the learning curve William Rayner Watson (called Billy), born not overlooked by the administration and of animals." His scientific approach to in 1921, and James Broadus Watson (called Jim), born in 1924. Rosalie contracted an he was scared to death of driving a car, which usually result from a childhood ... undiagnosed infection and died in 1935 at and, in fact, never learned to do so. In that Jacks a ... sense of human connection." the age of 35, and Watson never completely his presence, one felt an aura of genuine In his declining years, Watson regained recovered from her death. In the early warmth, but as an individual he was hope­ a modicum of his lost academic respect­ 1950s he sold the Westport estate and lessly unable to communicate or demon­ ability, as the 1957 citation from the moved to a small farm in Woodbury, Conn., strate any affection- I am not sure if that American Psychological Association indi­ where he spent his last years. was the cause or the effect of his theories cates. Such recognition came grudgingly, of behaviorism." however, because many resented his "fall s part of a symposium at the 1981 Jim Watson continued: from grace " and his stunning success in A meeting of the American Psycho­ "Both dad and mother, although she the business world. Others found the logical Association in Los Angeles, Jim died when I was still a child, rigorously notions of behaviorism so repulsive that Watson made the following poignant pursued the foundation teachings of they rejected its founder, and still others comments about his father and what it behaviorism. Frankly, I think that a better thought that his popular writing smacked was like being reared by the author of end product would have resulted if the of hucksterism. Psychological Care of Infant and Child: process of growing up had been annealed John Broadus Watson died in New " ...it would be hard to come to any with some measure of affection -it York City on September 25, 1958, at the other conclusion than [that] in his unbridled certainly would have made growing up less age of 80. He would be quietly amused enthusiasm for behaviorism, my father was like a business proposition where one is that we are still talking about him, but such arrogant or, at best, not inhibited by conven­ judged by bottom-line performance. men are rare indeed! tional modesty- perhaps he had to be "It is my hope that ... others who have a rebel to rock the world's psychological followed him have tempered the emotion­ The author is the Wi lliam R. Ke nan, Jr., boat. But in real life, at least as I knew ally Spartan upbringing that he espoused. Professor of Psychology at Furman and him, he was a much different person - His behavioristic theories on child develop­ a re cognized authority on John B. Wa tson. one, incidentally, of considerable contra­ ment unquestionably have value in terms diction. of life's preparation through the setting of Portions of this article are adapted fro m "Despite his reputation as more of standards and developing an understanding Brewer's article on Wa tson in Portraits an evangelist for behaviorism than a of the parameters of acceptable and respon­ of Pioneers in American Psychology, pages scientist, he was shy and conservative ... sible behavior, but they could have been 170-186. Copyright ©1991 by La wre nce and he was a considerate human being. much improved if one were permitted to ErlbaumAssociates, Inc., and the American He had a vocabulary second only to mix in a big helping of parental affection. Psychological Association. Adapted with Webster, but he used more four-letter words I believe to do so would provide a better permission. than a mule skinner. He had all of the he­ psychological foundation for all of us who, man attributes of Ernest Hemingway, but at one time or another in life, are ultimately limited his hunting prowess to clay pigeons put to the test of weathering the emotional on the skeet range. He drove a high­ storms that often topple people because of powered boat with great abandon, but the frail egos and low levels of self-esteem, CHARLES IN CHARGE

FOR 36 YEARS AND COUNTING, BREWER HAS 'JOSTLED THE FOLKWAYS' OF FURMAN STUDENTS

Earlier this year, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates published The Teaching of Psychology: Essays in Honor of Wilbert J. McKeachie and Charles L. Brewer, a collection that recognizes the professors' talents as teachers and leaders in their fi eld. The book includes a chapter about Brewer written by Furman colleagues John Batson '75 (a Brewer student) and Gil Einstein. The fo llowing is adapted, with the publishers permission, from their article.

hen the Department of Psychology Brewer believes that the best teachers W at Furman moved in 1998 from the are those who, in his words, are willing to dingy, cramped basement of Plyler Hall of "jostle some folkways." Students may at Science into the spacious, sparklingsecond times complain about his requirements or floor of John E. Johns Hall, the psychology the difficulty of his tests, but in the end majors decided that such a seismic shift they usually wind up boasting about how in venue should be celebrated with a New much they learned from him. Moretelling Orleans-style funeral procession. is evidence of Brewer's lasting impact: Having persuaded a trumpeter to lead More than 100 of his former students have the way, students and faculty marched up earned Ph.D. degrees in psychology. from the old space, accompanied by slow, His commitment to students extends mournfulmusic. As they exited the build­ to his colleagues and to his profession. ing, however, the mood quickly changed, Many a young professor, struggling to and the trumpeter launched into a spirited establish a foothold in the classroom, has rendition of "When the Saints Go Marching benefited from Brewer's expertise, encour­ ln." Most of the marchers began to dance, agement and support. As longtime editor although somewhat self-consciously, since of the APA' s Tea ching of Psychology, he they were standing in the middle of campus has published a journal held in the highest - in broad daylight. regard throughout the academic commu­ Except for Charles L. Brewer, who principle of sexual fixations,and then asked nity, and he has served as a consulting had endured life in the cellar longer than the class what Freud would say about his editor for many psychology textbooks. anyone and who, when asked about the owning a large Volkswagen van. When In addition, he is recognized as one of impending move, had responded, "I will teaching about successive approximation, the country's leading experts on under­ miss the basement like I might miss he once crawled on top of the desk and graduate psychology curricula and is cholera." Not about to let this opportunity oinked like a pig in response to reinforce­ frequently asked to evaluate college pass, he proceeded to dance, jiggle and ment from the class. psychology departments. gyrate around campus. He even dragged As Brewer is fond of pointing out, it the embarrassed trumpeter through the enerations of students can still recall is often difficult to know where a teacher's administration building and the boardroom G plenty of "Brewerisms," such as his influence ends. In his case, the geometric -with a trustees meeting in session! standard advice about research reports: progression produces a span of influence While some may have been taken "Write with clarity, conciseness and felicity that is nearly infinite. aback by this interruption, those who know of expression." As for students planning Every Furman student who has taken Brewer would not have been surprised by to conduct research, Brewer often reminds psychology during the last 36 years has his uninhibited display. them that "things always take longer than come under the influence, either directly After all, his ability to seize the they do." or indirectly, of Charles Brewer. Through moment is well documented. Every year The professor's wit and style, com­ his devotion to students' best interests and on his birthday, students surprise him during bined with his passion for scientific psy­ his record of service to Furman and the class with a party. Sometimes the cele­ chology, stimulating classroom presence academic community, he has demonstrated brations get a bit exotic, as happened the and rigorous expectations, have earned that he is one of the university's- and the year his methods class decided to invite him legendary status almost since the day nation's- true teaching talents. a belly dancer to enliven the proceedings. he arrived at Furman in 1967. His impact When the dancer unveiled her midriff, the was so immediate that, in 1969, he was The Department of Psychology has class noted that it was decorated with one named the first recipient of the Alester G. established an endowment fu nd to honor of the professor's pet phrases: "Keep Your Furman, Jr., and Janie Earle Furman Aw ard Charles L. Brewers ongoing contributions Eyeballs on the Data." Without missing for Meritorious Teaching. as a teacher, scholar and mentor. Pro ceeds a beat Brewer joined in, matching the Since then he has earned a host of from the Brewer Endowment Fund will dancer wiggle for wiggle -a nd keeping other honors, including the 1989 Aw ard create special/earning opportunities his eyeballs squarely on the data. for Distinguished Teaching in Psychology fo r undergraduate psychology majors. Brewer's use of humor to reinforce from the American Psychological Associ­ To learnmore, contact Bob Fuzy lecture material has long endeared him ation and, in 1995, the APA' s Aw ard for ([email protected]) or Jane Dungan to students. In a general psychology class Distinguished Career Contributions to ([email protected]) in the Office many years ago, he taught the Freudian Education and Training in Psychology. of Ma jor Gifts , (864) 294-3732. 9 Photos by Charlie Register

hat's wrapped in hidden heat­ standards. Hipp's design, from its fly ash It reduces the amount of cement required reflective tinfoil and has solar green concrete foundation to its heat-reflective yet maintains strength. Cement production glazing and carbon-dioxide sensors that roof shingles, is intended to conserve energy is a high-energy consumption process. detect the presence of humans? while minimizing the building's environ­ • Sensors in the building's ductwork No, it's not the space shuttle. It's mental impact. detect carbon dioxide, which is exhaled Herman N. Hipp Hall. when we breathe. The data is used to To the casual observer, Furman's ntering the lobby of Hipp Hall, an astute monitor the air temperature and humidity newest academic building - named for visitor might first notice the odor- or in the building. a 1935 Furman graduate who was a civic lack thereof. There's no harsh "new building" • R-19 insulation and a special tinfoil­ leader in Greenville and a longtime exe­ smell because, to reduce the possibility of like substance are layered under all the cutive with Liberty LifeInsu rance Company indoor air pollution, no oil-based paint was external brickwork. This combination - resembles most any gleaming, modern used. reflects heat while keeping the interior cool university facility. It has a sun-bathed lobby On first glance, the building's large during the summer and warm in winter. with lustrous tile floors, sleek new furniture windows appear to have a slightly green • Every room has occupancy sensors. and soothing teal and aqua-green colors. tint. In fact, the windows on three sides Overhead lights turn off automatically if no The bathrooms glisten. of Hipp Hall are equipped with a (solar) one is in the room. And no new academic building would green glass tint. The tinting allows the • More than 90 percent of the offices be complete without at least one piece of maximum amount of daylight to enter in Hipp Hall have a direct line of sight to abstract art. Hipp's is Aquarii , a contem­ but blocks ultraviolet heat, which can the outside. porary outdoor sculpture that is the center­ cause the temperature in the building • External lighting reflects down to piece of a brick patio. Like most abstract to rise. The glass also reduces glare. conserve energy and reduce light pollution. art, the work first confuses, then delights. Other "green" facts about Hipp Hall: • Thanks to tree conservation and But take a closer look. Although Hipp • Twenty-five percent of the materials new plantings, more than 30 percent of the Hall is as modern as its name implies, it is used in construction of the building con­ sidewalk and parking areas around Hipp clearly not your father's academic building. tained recycled content, compared with Hall will be shaded in five years. Completed late this summer, the three­ 15 percent for most buildings. • More than 75 percent of the waste story, 38,000-square-foot building was • Hipp Hall concrete is constructed generated during the construction of Hipp constructed under stringent environmental with fly ash, a by-product of coal burning. Hall was recycled. "Green" construction, although popular efficient buildings, developed the LEED mately 400 LEED-certified buildings in elsewhere, has only recently gained inroads Green Buildings Rating System. Buildings the United States, most of them in the in the South. In November, Furman applied are assigned one of four levels in the rating Northeast and California. to have Hipp Hall named the first LEED system - certified, silver, gold and platinum Mary Pat Crozier, capital construction (Leadership in Energy and Environmental -based on the number of environmentally manager at Furman, says implementing the Design) building in South Carolina. friendly features they include. A LEED environmentally friendly features added The U.S. Green Building Council, panel ascribes points after reviewing about $300,000 to the building's cost. a national group of building industry leaders documentation supporting each LEED But through energy savings, those expenses that encourages the construction of energy- prerequisite and credit. There are approxi- should be recouped in about 12 years. 11 "This is too long of a payback period "In class you can show a video clip, of Business at USC is named in her honor, for most homeowners to consider bene­ then go immediately to an overhead without and the School of Education at Clemson ficial," Crozier says. "However, Furman missing a beat. Because classrooms have University is named for her father, Eugene and other universities and institutional clients Internet access, you can pull up current T. Moore. Designated one of the 50 most build buildings with life cycles of 25 to 50 stock quotes and interest rates," says EBA powerful women in American business by years, so a 12-year payback represents a professor Bruce Brown. "It's brighter than Fo rtu ne magazine, she is the founder and viable savings. Plus, you're doing your part what we were accustomed to in Furman chair of the Palmetto Institute, a foundation to protect the environment." Hall. This is such a pleasant environment." dedicated to improving the economic climate The building's lower level (or Garden in South Carolina. Level, as its occupants affectionately call uring the building's dedication cere­ Tenenbaum is a graduate of the it) is home to the departments of Continuing mony October 29, Furman awarded University of Georgia and of the University Education and Graduate Studies. The honorary Doctor of Humanities degrees of South Carolina School of Law. Elected Department of Education and the Rushing to two prominent South Carolinians: Darla superintendent in 1998 and re-elected Center for Advanced Technology are D. Moore, a leading businesswoman and this fall, she has worked to raise academic stationed on the ground floor, with the philanthropist, and Inez Tenenbaum, the standards, improve student readiness Department of Economics and Business state's Superintendent of Education. for school, and strengthen the quality Administration on the second floor. Moore, executive vice president of of instruction in the state. She created With its roomy offices, cozy conference Rainwater, Inc., a private investment firm, the School Leadership Executive Insti­ rooms and classrooms equipped with the is a graduate of the University of South tute and has played a major role in the latest multimedia technology, Hipp Hall is Carolina and of the Master of Business development of the First Steps in School designed to enhance learning in both large Administration program at George Readiness initiative. and intimate settings. Washington University. As a result of her generosity and support, the Moore School

By David McKay Wilson The Storyteller

ARMED WITH A CAMERA AND A SERVANT'S HEART, TED HADDOCK USES HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC TALENT TO DOCUMENT HUMAN-RIGHTS ABUSES.

o know the face of injustice in the investigative team wanted to rescue. He world today, take a moment with the visited the home of a I 00-year-old Kenyan photographs of Ted Haddock. woman who was being forced from her Look into the sad eyes of a 14-year­ land by a government that allowed unbri­ old girl from the hills of Thailand, abducted dled development. He spent several hours from her village and sold into prostitution in an after-care facility in the Philippines, against her will. Observe the tired hands where a traumatized 6-year-old girl was of a 12-year-old Indian boy, rolling ciga­ recovering from a vicious sexual assault. rettes I 0 hours a day to pay offa $50 loan Haddock, a 1996 Furman graduate, that his parents took from a tobacco mer­ says his work is inspired by Proverbs chant. See the look of hope on the face of 31: 8-9, which calls on people to defend Photos by Ted Haddock ALL PHOTOS INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION'" a Kenyan father, finally free after being the rights of the needy and to raise a voice detained for three years on trumped-up for those who cannot speak for themselves. charges that could have brought the death "If you want your light to shine, you Above : The photographer in Ma nila , penalty. have to go into some very dark places," August 2002. To p: In Nairobi, 1 DO­ In Haddock's most recent photographs, says Haddock. "As I travel to these places, year-old Miria m and her fa mily, who taken during a 28-day journey this summer that verse from Proverbs keeps ringing in have lived on the same fi ve -a cre plot for International Justice Mission (IJM), you my ears. I want my photography to be for 71 years , are being forced to leave glimpse the suffering of people living under a light for those people." as a result ofgovernment corruption. the thumb of their oppressors in India, For Haddock, 28, working as IJM's Without an advocate, they could lose Kenya, Thailand and the Philippines. But publications associate has been a way to his work for IJM, a Christian-based human combine his artistic talents with his heart the only home they have ever known. rights organization in Washington, D.C., for service and his yearning for justice in Opposite : An In dian fa mily released also reveals the inner dignity of these the world. Haddock, whose unofficial title awaits from the Annavaram quarry victims, who have hope that they will some is "storyteller," takes photos for IJM promised funds from the government. day see freedom. publications and creates PowerPoint Officials are offering sheep instead Haddock's trip in August took him on presentations for churches and student of cash. IJ M is working to secure brothel raids in Bombay's red-light district, groups. He edits video for IJM confer­ the payments. searching for underage girls that IJM's ences, and this year he edited a video presentation that was shown before a photographer Robert Capa, who said that Haddock took his first class in photography Congressional committee in Washington. if a picture isn't good enough, you aren't and developed an interest in documentary He also documents stories of victims that close enough. work, a field that bridges the gap between have been helped by IJM and assists with "I much prefer the unassuming little the grind of photojournalism and the airy the organization's Web site (www.ijm.org). camera that forces me in close, kind of like remove of fine-art photography. His compelling photographs, however, David and his five smooth stones," says But he was not planning to pursue have had the biggest impact. Haddock. a career in photography when he left "Not only does Ted have a servant's That closeness demands that he develop Greenville after graduating from Furman heart, but he brings incredible courage and a relationship with his subjects, discovering in 1996. He took a year off, then entered sensitivity behind the camera," says Gary an intimacy that is simply inaccessible from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Haugen, the former U.S. Justice Depart­ a distance. 1998, hoping to improve his portfolio and ment prosecutor who founded IJM in 1994. "There is no hiding, no room for win acceptance to a Master of Fine Arts "The victims of injustice deserve to have distance, just a couple of people looking program in painting. their stories told- and for many of us, each other in the face," he says. "It can While in Maryland, however, Haddock unless we see them, they don't exist. be unsettling at first, but this is how I learn came to the realization that painting wasn't Oppression and darkness conspire to make to enter in, to listen. It requires genuine what he did best, and he began to reconsider them invisible, but Ted brings home the concern,and when they see this, I find they his direction. After he was accepted at human face of injustice in a way that makes begin to trust me and let me into the honored Indiana University's School of Fine Arts, doing nothing impossible. He allows us to experience of sharing their lives." he returnedto photography, an art form that see the beauty and dignity that's worth A good picture, says Haddock, comes Jinger Simkins-Stuntz, an art professor and fighting for." as much from his ability to respond intui­ department chair during Haddock's years Revealing that beauty and dignity takes tively to a situation as from his ability at Furman, had encouraged him to pursue. both technical prowess and the knack for to choose the right f-stop or shutter speed. "Jinger's compliments held a lot of connecting with strangers, so they will be "I listen and watch for the telling weight. Remembering her encouragement themselves before the lens. moment- an expression on a face, a helped push me on to the next level," Unlike many professional photogra­ gesture, a glance," he says. "I look for he says. phers who lug around huge bags of gear, those moments when the whole image Simkins-Stuntz, who now lives in Haddock travels light. He generally has is working together to tell a story, when Atlanta, Ga., says she recalls her conver­ just two cameras on hand- a Widelux the foreground and background share sations with Haddock, who at the time swing-lens panoramic camera and a Contax a meaningful relationship in a way that wanted to become a painter. G2, a compact camera with a 28-mm, wide­ reveals the narrative." "I told him that he was good painter, angle lens. Haddock's fledgling career had its but that he was really a photographer," she Both of these cameras require Haddock genesis a decade ago at Furman, where says. "He has such a strong interest in to get up close with his subjects. He says he majored in art with a concentration people and in helping them. He has a talent he has adopted the motto of World War II in painting and photography. At Furman, for capturing people, finding the nuances and telling the personal story. It's a natural tum. Staffed by attorneys and criminal outlet for him." justice professionals, IJM uses investigative While in school at Indiana, Haddock expertise to document abuses and present became aware ofiJM's work whenhe heard the evidence to local authorities. Haugen speak at a Christian conference Last year IJM worked to document Above : This 70-year-old and in Urbana, Ill. At the time, Haddock was hundreds of cases of bonded slavery, win his fa mily were fo rced to work a few months away from earning his the release of indebted workers, and free in a rock quarry in In dia for the master's degree and unsure how he would underage girls from forced prostitution. past 20 years as repayment fo r make a living upon graduation. IJM attorneys won release for several a debt. With the help of IJ M, He says he was touched by Haugen's illegally detained persons, including two more than 100 workers at the message of hope and curious about IJM's who faced the death penalty, and is working quarry were fre ed from bonded pursuit of justice around the world. So after toward securing land titles for families in slavery, including this entire graduation, Haddock decided to learn more Latin America whose property has been group . Th e woman in the about the organization's work and volun­ taken from them. center recounted how the teered to go to India as a photographer in With IJM, Haddock has gone to the qu arry owner cut off food and July 2001. With his camera, he docu­ front lines to raise awareness both overseas mented the plight of underage girls involved and in the halls of Congress, where IJM water supplies prior to their in forced prostitution, photographed victims has worked to influence U.S. policy on the release. Her fa ther said, "I am of bonded slavery, and saw firsthand IJM's international issue of traffickingin persons. so happy - we were suffering success in freeing girls and bonded laborers. A law passed in 2000 requires that the State so badl y, but you are here. IJ M Upon his return he applied for a job, Department prepare an annual report, is helping us." Opposite : In and by November 200 1 he was hired, grading countries on whether they have Nairobi, Susan cares for the becoming part of an organization that has made significant efforts to meet minimum child ofher brother, James , who grown from a staff of three in 1997 to one standards to combat trafficking. Countties has been wrong fully imp risoned that today has 90 employees and a budget with failing grades could face a reduction and charged with a capital of $4.2 million. IJM has field presences in in U.S. aid if they don't step up their efforts offense in an effort to extort India, Thailand, Kenya and the Philippines, to combat the problem. bribes from the fa mily. He will and has partnerships with human-rights Haugen testified at Congressional organizations in Latin America and South hearings twice in June, with Haddock be sentenced to death unless America. alongside to photograph his appearance. a bribe is paid. IJ M is working Haugen says he founded IJM to fill the Haugen urged thelegislators to put pressure to secure his release and have void felt by Christian workers overseas who on the State Department to demand that the charges dropped. James ' for years have been aware of human-rights nations that receive passing grades, such mother holds a photo of her abuses but often felt helpless to do anything. as India and Thailand, actually provide data son, framed by a Bible. Now these missionaries have a place to showing that brothel owners have gone to 16 jail for their crimes and that corrupt police officers have been dismissed for their complicity. His testimony included a video Haddock helped produce, using undercover footage from IJM investigations in India, Thailand and Cambodia. The video showed a brothel raid, officials accepting bribes to protect sex offenders, and children as young as 6 being offered for sex. "The video got everyone's attention," Haddock says. "There's no ignoring the weight of these far-off situations when you can actually show everyone what it looks like, who it's happening to, and how it happens to them." During his trip in August, Haddock came face-to-face with all these issues. In Bombay, he accompanied IJM investi­ gators and Indian police on a brothel raid one rainy night when the streets were muddy, and the lamps on businesses in the red-light district created an amber glow. The team was hoping to free three underage girls the investigators had inter­ "There was quite an adrenaline rush," viewed a few days earlier. They entered Haddock says. "I kept thinking, tonight a brothel and began to search for girls could be the night when a girl gets rescued, on each of the establishment's three floors, and her life can change." hoping to find the three identified by the The following night the team went investigators. They found some girls tucked out again to find the three girls, and under beds, while others were hiding in Haddock tasted the danger that IJM secret rooms. The police arrested three undercover investigators experience men and took 10 girls for questioning, on occasion. but the girls they were looking for were That evening, an IJM investigator had nowhere to be found. gone into the brothel, but had not come out 17 In Thailand and the Philippines, Haddock had a chance to meet with girls who had been rescued from prostitution and were now in Christian aftercare centers. In some cases, the girls had been tricked into coming to the city with the promise of legitimate, well-paying jobs. Others, though, had been sold by their families into prostitution. Haddock says he sat and spoke with the girls for a long time before taking his camera from his bag. "They seemed so sensitive and fragile," he says. "I let them know that there were people out there who cared about them and wanted to make sure they were OK. I asked them about their lives now. I didn't want to hear about the brothels." While in the city of Chennai (f01merly called Madras) on India's eastern coast, the IJM team traveled to the nearby Ve llore district to do follow-up work on the status of 30 children who were involved in bonded labor and whose cases were still pending at the agreed upon time. When the police before local authorities. These children, tried the door, it was locked. between 7 and 17 years old, were working "It looked like things had gone bad," in the local tobacco industry, rolling ciga­ Haddock says. "We spent several hours rettes. IJM had taken affidavits from the trying to find the operative. Finally we got children, documenting that they had been in and discovered a false wall concealing pledged to the business owner (or mudalali) a doorway into a secret room. We found by their parents, who had turned to him for the brothel manager, two girls, and our an emergency infusion of cash. investigator, who had kept his cover. The mudalali gives a loan of as little The police even pushed him around as $50 with the agreement that the adults, and treated him like a bad guy." or their child, will work at below market 18 wages until the loan is paid off. It can take made several attempts on his life. After years to pay off the loan. Sometimes it two years the children escaped and found is never satisfied and is simply transferred their father, keeping one step ahead of the from generation to generation. in-laws. Their lives are under constant Indian law prohibits this practice, threat, but the children stick with their but reports estimate that up to 2.6 million father, Haddock says. IJM has been work­ Indians remain bonded to their mudalali, ing with the United Nations to secure safe To p le ft: IJ M works with local who serves as their employer, lender and lodging for the family. officials to document the master. The system is linked closely to the Haddock asked the children why they distribution of rehabilitation Indian caste system and has its roots in would put themselves in a situation where funds tor those released from rural communities where poverty and they would suffer for their father's faith. slavery in the Annavaram illiteracy are rampant. "They told me that they loved their father quarry. Above: In dian children Haddock visited the huts where the and wanted to live in freedom," Haddock in Ta mil Nadu wait cheerfully children sat on the floor with a basket of says. "I was simply in awe of these people." cigarettes on their lap. "There was this Experiences like these touch Haddock to meet with IJ M investigators sense that they were just waiting," Haddock at his core. for fo llo w-up documentation says. "There was an uncertainty about what "It is such a privilege to be brought regarding their bonded sla very would happen with their lives and their to a place where the people are no longer cases. Savitha (right, in red families. They recognized there was some­ representatives of some category - a sex­ sari) and Nathiya (center) are thing wrong with the fact that they were trafficking victim, a prostitute, a torture cousins. Opposite: In Bo mba y, working so hard and earning so little. But victim or someone who lives in some two girls rescued during a horrible circumstance," he says. "They their families needed money, and they had brothel raid huddle against to work." become a person with a face, with emo­ the wall as they wait to leave The strains that poverty and oppression tions, a unique personality and dreams ­ the brothel. have on family life were in full view in an irreplaceable individual created in God's Kenya, Haddock's next stop. There, image, a person bearing incredible dignity. Haddock met with an Ethiopian man named I realize then that this one is my brother, Belay and his son and daughter, who were my sister, my mother, my friend." on the run from his wife's family. Belay and his family were Muslim, but Belay had The author works as a senior writer fo r converted to Christianity after coming to The Journal News in White Plains, N.Y. Kenya as a refugee. His in-laws would have none of this, * Some names of victims have been so they kidnapped the wife and children, changed to protect both their identities forced Belay to sign divorce papers, and and IJM's ongoing casework. 19 A Defining Experience

A RECENT GRADUATE REFLECTS ON HER UNORTHODOX YET ALL-ENCOMPASSING FURMAN EDUCATION -AND THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED MAKE IT HAPPEN.

By An na King

"At Furman, an education is not complete until students have become involved in learning outside the classroom, as well as within. " -Barron's Best Buys in College Education

fi1ne person in particular was responsible for my decision to fundamental in shaping my future goals. The innovative mind L!Jattend Furman. of Glen Halva-Neubauer and a generous grant from the Bowater I was planning to attend another South Carolina school before Corporation helped me arrange to spend five weeks working with visiting Furman during spring break of my senior year (1998), but Canada's Secretary of State to Africa and Latin America - the it took only a visit to one psychology class, taught by a certain Hon. David Kilgour. professor with a famous last name, for me to change my mind. Kilgour is not your typical politician. He has served Canadians Later, on the first day of general psychology, this frightened, befuddled for 22 years, not by promoting himself but by putting his constituents freshman knew that she was in the right place when the same first. He personally ensured that letters and phone calls were professor remembered my name and hometown and asked about answered ahead of speeches, conferences or other concerns, and my brother. his staff members strongly reflected his commitment to public service. I opted for a lush, landscaped campus, but what I found at One specific circumstance comes to mind. A Latin American Furman was much more than a beautiful setting. I discovered refugee arrived in Canada in the middle of winter. Her meager the people. belongings had been stolen; she had no place to stay and spoke Once I was settled at Furman, the best decision I made was no English. Kilgour and his chief of staff heard of the woman's to major in political science (thanks anyway, Gil Einstein) and to plight and exhausted all resources to help. The chief of staff went take full advantage of the engaged learning opportunities Furman so far as to invite the woman to live in his home with his family - has to offer. The Christian A. Johnson Center for Engaged Learning where she still resides. Such examples helped renew my faith in and its cohort of Dean Charles Brock and professors Glen Halva­ politicians and their ability to make a difference in people's lives. Neubauer and Judy Bainbridge were instrumental in helping me When my internship in Canada ended, I returned to my home coordinate a mishmash of internships and travel-study programs state of Georgia for the rest of the summer, thanks to the Herman that spanned the globe. My journeys may appear random and N. Hipp internship program and one special guy. Randy Eaddy, a disjointed - I worked for a criminal defense lawyer, a senator, Furman trustee and alumnus (Class of '76) extraordinaire, routinely a Canadian cabinet minister, an international law firm and a landmine opens the doors of his Atlanta firm, Kilpatrick Stockton, to Furman clearance organization - but upon closer inspection, a unifying students. Mr. "E" often had papers piled high on his desk, but he thread weaves them together. always made time to discuss interesting cases or to reminisce fondly about his alma mater. He also introduced me to Debbie Segal. 171 Rotary International scholarship enabled me to study at the Debbie is the first full-time pro bono counsel hired by a Georgia LiJ International Summer School in Oslo, Norway, after my law firm. According to Atlanta Ma gazine (March 2002), which sophomore year, and sharpened the focus of my college studies featured an article about Debbie, "Last year, the dollar value of legal and activities. The following winter term, I traveled with a group services provided to pro bono clients at Kilpatrick Stockton was an of Furman students and professors to Mediterranean countries, impressive $3.7 million. That translates into just under 18,000 hours where we studied ancient civilizations. of work." I spent the majority of my internship learning from Debbie. In many ways, though, the summer after my junior year was A remarkable role model and mentor, she asked me to work with a team of associates on a project called the "Pigford Cases." in Columbus, Ga. I'm enjoying other kinds of engaged learning For years, the U.S. Departmentof Agriculture had been discriminating opportunities by waiting tables and working in an outdoors store against African-American farmers in the South by denying them as its first female fly-fishing salesperson (OK, so I'm breaking loans. A lawyer in Washington, D.C., decided to do something about barriers on a small scale). Columbus is the antithesis of London, it, and eventually so many farmers filed lawsuits that the lawyer's but I'm having fun and slowing down a couple of paces before I firm could no longer handle the caseload. rev up again for the London School of Economics. Debbie agreed to coordinate a group to facilitate the appeals When my graduation day arrived June 1, my brother seemed process for farmers working toward settlements of $50,000 and astonished. Teasingly he questioned, "How did you make it in only more. Tw enty-five attorneys took time to travel to the small town four years when you spent most of your college career away from of Douglas, in southeastern Georgia, and help nearly 50 farmers your college?" My friends shared similar sentiments. They often appeal their cases - for free. Afterward, Debbie and I spent hours joked that my major was study abroad, and it's true that my Furman combing through courthouse files, finding crucial evidence to support experience was unorthodox. It was, however, a prime example of our cases. Very Erin Brockovich; very powerful in demonstrating what an all-encompassing Furman education offers and of how it how versatile a law degree can be. extends out from the classroom and into the world. Debbie is a quintessential example of an intern-turned-attorney. Sir Isaac Newton once wrote to a friend, "If I have seen further, Her career choice hinged on a college internship with Legal Aid, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." I certainly feel the where she realized that she could do so much more with a law same is true in my life. The so-called "engaged learning experience" degree under her belt. And, like David Kilgour, she exemplifies is real, not just flashy buzzwords that Furman touts on its Web site. someone who does not have to be there for others, but chooses Furman engaged my aspirations and allowed me to transform to be. internships and international trips into meaningful life goals. However, During winter term 2002, with the help of a Herman N. Hipp more than reflecting on the cathedrals I visited, the banquets I internship and a John I. Smith scholarship, I was fortunate to travel attended and the dignitaries I met, I will most poignantly remember to England as an intern with Adopt-A-Minefield, which works to the people who influenced me in so many ways and who provided publicize the global landmine crisis. The London-based charity the means to make my ventures possible. raises funds for mine clearance in six countries. During my internship My professors, friends and mentors have shown me what kind we were able to help families in Afghanistan, Cambodia and of person I want to become. Their commitment to improving the Mozambique return safely to their homes and livelihoods. quality of others' lives is remarkable - and contagious. Countless Much to my parents' relief, I was not digging landmines out times, I witnessed their compassion, enthusiasm and dedication. of the ground. Instead, I helped coordinate fund-raising events, I hope to emulate these qualities. including a sponsorship with the London Marathon and a black­ I am forever grateful for those who so profoundly impacted my tie gala that raised almost $1 00,000 in one evening. (It costs time at Furman and beyond. Those people - my "Giants" - will • roughly $2 to clear one square foot of mine-infested land.) In continue to inspire and fuel my passions. addition, I worked on a redesign of Adopt-A-Minefield's Web site (www.landmines.org.uk), developed promotional materials, and Write Anna King at anareina@hotmail. com. helped create a PowerPoint presentation to use in classrooms and corporate settings. My work with Adopt-A-Minefield helped me narrow the scope of my aspirations. Besides gaining valuable experience, I realized that London is where I want to pursue my graduate studies. Next fall, I will enroll in the London School of Economics to undertake a master's degree in international relations. r:1el ieve it or not, despite all my time overseas, I actually did take L!Jcou rses at Furman - courses that broadened my understanding of both national and international politics. Whether it was Michael Bressler's class on international relations or Don Gordon's seminar on African democratization, my coursework related directly to my internships. I was honored when, during my senior year, Gordon asked me to be his teaching assistant and to help coordinate Furman's "Women and Politics" series. The first and only female Canadian prime minister, Kim Campbell, was our inaugural speaker, Anna King 's tra vels during her Furman days took her all over the world. Opposite: With She/vis Smith '02 in St. Peter's and Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary of State, headlined Square in Rome during a winter term 200 1 study abroad trip the spring series. Meeting such impressive women inspired me to the Mediterranean. Above: Anna gets a warm greeting from to strive to shatter a glass ceiling of my own someday. Jean Chretien, the Canadian prime minister, during a party in For now, I'm using my one-year grace period before graduate June, 2001. Secret service agents hover in the background. school to save money and to spend time with my family and friends 21 Furmanre ports

Homecoming 2002 crowds bask in exceptional weather, good times

Because the fall season began with a succession of heavy downpours Lucius H. Weeks '54 of Pompano Beach, Fla., a leader in the and generally wet, dreary days, Greenville was due fo r some nice banking industry in both South Carolina and Florida, received the weather by the middle of October. Distinguished Alumni Aw ard for his career success and civic And there wasn't a better time to serve it up than Homecoming contributions. Weeks was for years associated with South Carolina Weekend, October 18-20, as Furman celebrated reunions for classes National Bank in Greenwood before moving to Florida, where he ending with the numbers 2 and 7. As always, Saturday (the 19th) became president and chief executive officer of Landmark First was the centerpiece for the festivities, and a near capacity crowd National Bank in Fort Lauderdale. He retired from Landmark in was on hand for the traditional Lunch on the Lawn at Chen·ydale. 1985. Folks seemed undeterred that the football game didn't start Aside from his work in the banking industry, Weeks is well until 3:30, or an hour and a half later than usual (to accommodate known for his contributions to civic life, as he has spearheaded television). Instead, they hung out in the balmy, 68-degree weather, community and charitable programs wherever he has lived. At toured the Alumni House, engaged in animated chatter and basically Furman, he is a lifetime member of the Advisory Council and is the had a grand time. Their good cheer carried over to Paladin Stadium, fo under of the Order of the Paladin, which encourages individuals where Furman took control early in the game against arch-rival to become major scholarship donors to the Paladin Club. With The Citadel and rolled to a 37-10 victory. George Short, he also established the Selvy-Floyd Basketball Afterward, alumni headed to downtown Greenville for reunion Scholarship. In September, he was inducted into the Furman Athletic dinners and the annual block party that has been a popular recent Hall of Fame. addition to Homecoming. Not to be outdone, the students - yes, The Outstanding Yo ung Alumni Aw ard was presented to J. Todd Homecoming is for students, too- enjoyed their own dance at the White '88, director of the South Carolina Teacher Advancement Palmetto Expo Center, conveniently located off of Highway 29 1 Program and a former state and national award-winning principal just behind Krispy Kreme, a longtime, late-night Furman hangout. in the Greenville County School District. Supported by the state The weekend clearly inspired good times and good memories Department of Education and the Milken Family Foundation, the among those who attended. As Ed Bridges of the Class of '67 program which he heads is designed to improve teacher quality and commented, "It was a remarkable weekend. The sense of a shared increase student achievement in South Carolina. bond came back immediately, and the warmth of our time together While principal at Mitchell Road Elementary School, White was as happy as anything I've experienced in a long time." was named South Carolina Principal of the Ye ar and was a winner Homecoming also always offers Furman a chance to give of the Milken Foundation's National Outstanding Educator award. special recognition to some of its own, and this year was no exception. Furman cited his "enthusiasm as an educator, his love for children and his unwavering efforts to improve the schools of the state" in presenting his award. John Laney Plyler, Jr. '56 of Davidson, N.C., son of the longest serving Furman president (John L. Plyler, 1939-1964), received the Alumni Service Award for his loyalty to Furman, his knowledge of university history and his gifts of time, talent and resources. Plyler, who enjoyed a long and distinguished career in health and hospital administration before retiring in 1996 as senior vice president of SunHealth, Inc., has been a class agent and a member of the Advisory Council and the Alumni Association Board of Directors. A key contributor to the planning committee for the university's 175th anniversary activities, he has established scholarships named for his mother, Beatrice D. Plyler, and for his late son, James Williams Plyler II. In addition, the university introduced a new award this year. The Wayne and Rubye Reid Award recognizes alumni who have provided significant career assistance to Furman students. It is named for a 1968 Furman alumnus and his wife, both of whom have touched the lives of countless alumni by assisting them in establishing and developing their careers. The late William R. Axmann '59 was named the fi rst recipient of the Reid Award. Axmann, who died in May, was an enthusiastic university supporter who each year recruited Furman students on

Recipients of the major alumni awards were, from left, Lucius behalf of his employer, Milliken and Company. He also participated Weeks '54, Distinguished Alumni Award; John L. Plyler, Jr. '56, in Furman's annual Career Fair and was active in the university's Alumni Service Award; and J. To dd Wh ite '88, Outstanding "mock interview" program to help students prepare for the real Yo ung Alumni Award. world. His wife, Martha, accepted the award. Homecoming collage: Folks who came for Friday night's Carnival on the Mall enjoyed its variety of offerings. Stu­ dents didn 't spend all their time playing, though, as the floats (except for one that collapsed) were completed and on display as Saturday dawned. The traditional Lunch on the Lawn at Cherrydale attracted a large gathering, some of whom stopped off to watch the rugby teams in action on the nearby fo otball practice fields. After the fo otball game, most alumni gathered at the Hya tt Regency downtown, while students went to the Palmetto Expo Center for their Homecoming dance. (Photos by Charlie Register and Sarah Brown '03)

23 Furmanre ports Meritorious professors: Teaching, Advisi

Tessitore makes In Henderson, political philosophy students discover accessible, intriguing reliable sounding board

Ask most outstanding professors In Scott Henderson's gleaming why they chose a career in higher new office in Herman N. Hipp education and you're likely to get Hall sits a piece of wood, two feet the same response: A teacher in length, sanded and smooth with inspired them. a glossy finish. Meticulously Aristide (Ty) Tessitore of burned into the wood are the Furman's political science depart- letters "H-e-n-d-e-r-s-o-n". ment says he had two such mentors during his undergraduate days It stands out like a rusty old pick-up in a sea of BMW Roadsters. at Assumption College: philosophy professor Ernest Fortin and The story behind it: When Henderson was a first-year history language professor Denys Gonthier. teacher at an impoverished junior high school in eastern Virginia, Tessitore, a recipient of the 2002 Alester G. Furman, Jr. , and he had no classroom. Instead, he traveled from room to room each Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious Teaching, says, "Fortin period, pushing a metal cart that contained everything he would could speak about complex matters with remarkable clarity and need for class, from textbooks and papers to office supplies. humor. Gonthier was something of a mystic who excelled outside As he struggled to teach under these circumstances, Henderson the classroom. He often invited students for walks and hikes. I often wondered if his students were listening, much less learning. strive for the clarity of Ernest and the availability of Denys." During the final week of class, John Nixon, a shy seventh­ Both men were also Catholic priests- and further inspired grader, approached Henderson in the hall and handed him the piece Tessitore to follow in their footsteps. He became a priest in 1982. of wood. "He said, 'This is a license plate for your cart'," says Tessitore, who holds a Master of Divinity degree from Weston Henderson. "It was the result of a nine-week-long shop project." School of Theology in Boston and a Ph.D. in political science from Henderson suddenly realized that he had made a difference, Boston College, returned to his alma mater to teach in 1984. And at least in one boy's life. And today, 16 years later, the student's his star seemed to be on the rise at Assumption when his life took gift sits on the windowsill in Henderson's office, serving as a daily a different tum: he decided to leave the priesthood. reminder of the impact a teacher can have. He realized, he says, that remaining a priest would have "I can't witness any more than that wood can," says Henderson, eventually taken him away from teaching, which was his passion. an assistant professor of education and a recipient of the 2002 And Tessitore adds that the priesthood would ultimately have been Alester G. Furman, Jr., and Janie Earle Furman Award for unhealthy for him. "I continue to hold the priesthood in high Meritorious Advising. regard," he says. "Leaving was like going through a divorce. Known for his boundless energy and sympathetic ear, Henderson It was very painful, but I have no regrets." works with Furman students from many different disciplines. With the watershed decision behind him, he began looking for Some are struggling to choose a major. Others are having academic a fresh start. He joined the Furman faculty in 1992 and quickly or personal problems. In Henderson, they find a reliable sounding became known as a meticulous lecturer, effective communicator board. and good listener. In his first year, he won the award for teaching "I spend a lot of time listening. I think everyone should take excellence from the Association of Furman Students. a course on listening," he says. "Everyone has a story, and you Students say he has a knack for making the writings of Aristotle, need to know what that stor is before you can give out any advice." y' Socrates, Plato, Locke and de Tocqueville come alive. "His primary Through listening and asking the right questions, Henderson concern is not passing a test, but to digest, understand and apply helps students find their own answers. Says one student who the material," says a student who nominated him for the teaching nominated Henderson for the advising award, ''I'm rarely com­ award. "Political thought does not remain at arm's length." fortable showing weakness and sadness, but I was comfortable Tessitore says, "Students often come in with fear and trembling, in Dr. Henderson's office because my stresses and worries were but they soon discover that this is interesting stuff. These authors never annoyances. He cared and always offered encouraging cause them to think about their beliefs. Political philosophy invites words. His advice was never cliche, run-of-the-mill or elusive, you to examine the fundamental principles upon which you base but warm, intelligent and useful. I always left his office with your life. It is both intimidating and liberating." a lighter step than when I entered." But making a class in ancient political thought exciting to a As the coordinator of secondary education at Furman, 19-year-old isn't easy, and students happening by Tessitore's office Henderson supervises Furman's teaching interns at local middle often see him pacing or reading aloud at a lectern. They believe and high schools. A Truman Scholar during his undergraduate he's practicing his lectures. days at Florida State, he also spends many hours assisting students He finds humor in this false assumption. "I have a bad back, applying for the Truman and other national scholarships. so I sometimes write standing up," he says. "When tired, I do pace In addition, Henderson has published two books in the last and read out loud. It helps me stay awake." two years - a biography of urban planner and civil rights activist Tessitore is spending this academic year in Indianapolis, Ind., Charles Abrams, and the memoirs (which Henderson edited) of as a scholar-in-residence at the Liberty Fund, a private educational Joseph C. Swidler, a New Deal reformer and public servant who foundation. He will return to Furman in August. helped shape the nation's energy policy. -John Roberts -John Roberts 24 1g award recipients for 2002

Oakes stands out Passion, forthrightness for commitment hallmarks of Julian's to students' needs classroom style

The scene: Paladin Stadium. The Once the cheers had died down event: Commencement 2002. after the announcement that As the proceedings began, English professor Linda Julian Margaret Oakes, assistant was a winner of the 2002 A lester professor of English, was G. Furman, Jr. , and Janie Earle lamenting the close of another Furman Award for Meritorious school year. Teaching, the almost universal "Graduation always seems to be such a letdown," she says, question seemed to be: What took Furman so long? recounting her conversation with a colleague. "You may or may In her 22 years at Furman, Julian has earned widespread not see your seniors one last time, and everyone disperses at the admiration on campus for her breadth of knowledge, classroom end of the ceremony, including the faculty. I always feel a bit skills, patience and support for students. Although she is considered depleted and depressed at the end of the year." a demanding instructor, students clamor for spots in her classes Moments later, though, Oakes' mood altered considerably because of her dedication to teaching and her passion for composition when Dean A.V. Huff, Jr. , called her to the platform to accept and literature, especially that of the Victorian era. the Alester G. Furman, Jr. , and Janie Earle Furman Award for Her classes feed off her energy when she tells them to "Put Meritorious Advising. "Suddenly," she says, "the evening wasn't up your feet and enjoy this great stuff," or "Your homework is to such a letdown anymore." curl up with a good book and read for hours. What greater pleasure The honor validated a decision Oakes made more than a decade is there in the world?" And to this day, when Charles Dickens' ago when, after four years as a securities lawyer in Chicago, she name is mentioned, Julian disciples are likely to respond with the resigned from her firm and enrolled in the English Ph.D. program professor's oft-repeated mantra: "Dickens is the greatest writer at Stanford University. After studying and teaching at Stanford that ever lived." for six years, the Renaissance scholar joined the Furman English Julian, who holds a bachelor's degree (in German) and master's department in 1996- and quickly drew raves from students for (in English) from Clemson University and a doctorate from Boston her listening skills, cheerful personality, caring nature and ability University, came to Furman on a part-time basis in 1980, about to guide them through the Furman academic system. the time Wo rkbook fo r Writers, a book she co-authored, was Senior Erin Matthews says, "She is an encourager, a friend published. Soon, she was awarded a full-time contract. and an inspiration. All of her advisees adore her and walk out of Furman students have reaped the benefits of her talents ever her office encouraged and ready to tackle whatever obstacles life since. In particular, she seems to have an affi nity for first-year holds for them." composition students. "All of them come in terrified," Julian says, For Oakes, advising is, quite simply, fun. "I enjoy getting to "so I just try to lead them along without pushing them over the know students outside of class," she says. "Some want to talk all edge. And it's great fun to see how their writing improves. I enjoy the time; some might never stop by; others will come in when they teaching fre shman composition more than anything else." feel the need. You just read their needs and go from there." Because of her journalism background - she wrote and edited An alumna of the University of Illinois, which has an under­ for The Greenville News before and during her college days ­ graduate enrollment of close to 30,000, Oakes admits to going Julian was a natural to advise The Pa ladin, the student newspaper, through a bout of culture shock when she arrived at Furman, with which she did for many years before stepping down last spring. 2,600 students. But her adjustment period turned out to be brief, Former editor Stacy Schorr '99, a journalist in Washington, D.C., and she has become a role model for Furman's personal approach says that lessons learned under Julian apply both within and beyond to academic advising. the classroom walls: "She is a teacher not only of theory and And while her goal is to help students learnto make their own ideals, but of practical application and real-world skills." decisions, she's not above offering pointed advice when necessary. Students also appreciate her honesty and forthrightness. Julian "I don't mind telling someone, 'Grad school wouldn't work has struggled with her health in recent years, and she missed fall for you'," she says. "Other times I hand them tissues and let them term this year because of a recun·ence of a rare cancer. Says talk. I'll even get mad sometimes. But you can't 'not deal' with Danielle Logan '02, another former Paladin editor, "She was very them. The key is that you're prepared to handle anything, and that open about her problems, but she never allowed her illnesses to you don't get embarrassed or flustered." interfere with her teaching. She is constantly upbeat and cheerful." Judging from the large number of students requesting Oakes Julian, who expects to return to the classroom winter term, as an advisor, she knows what she 's doing. As senior Emily Ball says, "I don't think anyone should be reluctant to let students know says, "My relationship with Dr. Oakes has become one of the most what's going on in their lives. For one thing, it might encourage positive aspects of my Furman experience. She has been invaluable someone else to go for treatment. I think truth is the best policy, in helping me assimilate into life at Furman and has encouraged and besides, I fe lt I needed to give some explanation as to why I me to think about my future. Without telling me what to think, might not be at my best." she has challenged me to make wise choices ...She is the paradigm The general consensus, though, is that Linda Julian is one example of an advisor, a professor and a friend." professor who is always at her best. - Jim Stewart - Jim Stewart 25 Furmanre ports

Book buzz Singleton 's latest short-story collection garnering attention, accolades

Earlier this year, Book magazine featured 3"fte­ whose claim to fame is starring in a film George Singleton as one of America's up­ about head lice? HALF-MAMMALS and-coming writers. In August 2001, Book magazine awards Half-Mammals National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" Q/f DIXIE 4.5 stars (out of 5) and says, "Character is profiled him in its "Artists of the New at the heart of Singleton's work, and the South" series. people who live in his stories reflect his And his second collection of short affection for the seldom-examined comers stories, The Half-Mammals of Dixie, was of modern America." so eagerly anticipated that its publisher, Booklist says, "To some readers, the Algonquin, ordered a second printing mere threat of 15 stories about lovable before the book was even released late this Southern eccentrics is enough to prompt summer. a quick retreat north. Fortunately, The word is buzz, and Singleton is Singleton's quick wit, keen intelligence, generating plenty of it. This fall, he em­ and empathy for his characters mean we barked on a 30-city tour to promote Half­ can issue an 'all clear' rather than a Mammals and Harcourt's paperback release hurricane warning.... This fine collection of his first book, These People Are Us, reveals an author who, despite his penchant published originally in 2001. for evolution, has a gift for the act of Singleton, a 1980 Furman graduate creation." who teaches creative writing at the South Gilbert Allen, the Funnan English pro­ Carolina Governor's School for the Arts fessor who is no stranger to award-winning and Humanities in Greenville, is not exactly prose (see page 29), says of his friend and �lo 1.c•• g� a newcomer to the literary landscape. He's former student, "In my judgment, George been around for a while, winning regional GEORGE SINGLETON is one of the funniest short-story writers awards and publishing in a variety of in America. I particularly enjoy his ability "year's best" collections and noteworthy to combine hilarious entertainment with journals,ranging from The Georgia Review humorous situations and a decidedly off­ social satire that somehow manages to and Atlantic Monthly to Playboy and center (and yet dead-on accurate) view of be both wicked and humane." Harper's. life and living - have ratcheted up the And while it's a year or two away from But the stories in Half-Mammals, attention. And who wouldn't be intrigued publication, Singleton has already put punctuated with all the Singleton trade­ by a story titled "Richard Petty Accepts together a third collection of stories - marks - quirky characters, bizarrely National Book Award," or by .a protagonist with a fourth in the works.

'76 grads earning high praise for their faith-informed fiction

Robert E. Whitlow and Gary E. Parker, local shooting. As Ellis works on his become more open to the God they have both members of Furman's Class of '76, defense, he is drawn into advising a mock trusted as real and relevant to life." continue to make their marks in the world trial team at the local high school. There His latest book, Highland Mercies, of religious fiction. he rekindles an old flame- and discovers was published this summer by Bethany Whitlow's third novel in the last three even darker fo rces at work. House. The second volume in a series years, The Sacrifice (W Publishing Group), While praising Whitlow's "dry humor" called the "Blue Ridge Legacy," Highland was released this spring, following on the and strong sense of character development, Mercies is the follow-up to Highland heels of his 2001 Christy Award-winning Publishers Weekly says readers attracted Hopes, a 2002 Christy Award nominee. work, The Trial. The Christy Awards by the book's spiritual message "will It continues the story of Abigail Porter recognize "Christian novels of exceptional appreciate the recurrent motifs of the power Waterbury and takes her through the quality and impact." of prayer and the social cost of absent Depression, recounting her struggles with Anattorney in Charlotte, N.C, Whitlow parents and fragmented families." motherhood, the collapse of her husband's has found an avid audience with his The prolific Parker, senior minister at law practice and the demons haunting her suspenseful legal thrillers. Publishers First Baptist Church in Decatur, Ga., has brother Daniel. We ekly has taken a shine to his work, published a novel a year since 1994. He Rendezvous says that the book describing The Sacrifice as "an excellent wrote about the growth in popularity of "brilliantly portrays the Great Depression novel" in which Whitlow "makes a solid faith-informed fiction in an article titled era," and the publisher says that the author case for positioning himself as the John "Holy Ink" in the Fall 1999 issue of "renders a portrait of a distinctive era Grisham of the Christian market." Funnan, in which he said, "From whatever through hard-to-forget characters." The The Sacrifice, set near Charlotte, tells their perspective, be it Baptist, Catholic, third and final installment in the Blue Ridge the story of attorney Scott Ellis, who agrees Jewish or other, those whose writings are Legacy series is scheduled for release to defend a teen-age racist charged in a faith-inforn1ed inevitably hope their readers next year.

26 Lady Antonia Fraser, Marie FROM FACULTY Antoinette: Th e Journey (Nan Talese/Doubleday, 2001). Fraser, Amy Hackney Blackwell and author of acclaimed works on the Christopher W. Blackwell, wives of Henry VIII, Mary Queen My th ology fo r Dummies (John of Scots and Oliver Cromwell, has Wiley & Sons, 2002). Blackwell, ventured from her traditional a Furman classics professor, has English subjects to publish a . joined with his wife to write a magisterial biography of Mane book that makes the study of Antoinette. As portrayed by Fraser, mythology more accessible to the Austrian-born queen is a the average reader. As part of the sympathetic character who proved best-selling "Dummies" series, this to be a pawn throughout her life. book is written with a light and She served political purposes in Isadora Tattli n, Cuba Diaries: An humorous touch - but with RECOMMENDED her marriage to the future Louis a serious intent. It appeals, American Housewife in Havana XVI of France, and in her death (Algonquin, 2002). Isadora Tattlin according to the publisher, to John Henry Newman, Apologia she became a despised scapegoat (a pseudonym) is an American an audience ranging from "novices pro vita sua (Penguin Classics of the Old Regime in France. Her married to a diplomat who recently who want to dabble in the subject edition, 1995). Newman began life in between was filled with completed an assignment in Cuba. all the way to academicians who his career as an Anglican great privilege, high drama and In this book Tattlin recounts her study mythology for a living." churchman and scholar and ended tragedy. "Out of her league" a: fa mily's four years there. She Christopher Blackwell, who joined it as a Roman Catholic cardinal. France's troubles mounted, Mane writes both entertai ningly and the fa culty in 1996, is the author He converted from the Anglican Antoinette was unable to cope informatively about experiences of The Absence of Alexander: to the Catholic faith in 1845, to with the intrigues of the French ranging from throwing a dinner Harpalus and the Fa ilure of the perplexity of his friends in the Court and never fu lly understood party for Castro to wanting to Macedonian Authority. He is also Oxford Movement - and much the cataclysmic nature of the throw a tantrum when friends fro m the developer of an educational of the English nation. About 20 French Revolution. Courageous the United States forget to bring software program that allows years later he wrote this account to the end, she is seen by Fraser her the Ziploc bags she had students of Greek to practice of his conversion, in which he as possessing both humility and requested. Anyone interested in vocabulary and grammatical forms. describes the painful and humbling courage. our neighbor 90 miles to the south Amy Blackwell, who works as process of reconsidering his _ Marian Strobel, History . will find this book valuable for its a freelance writer, has degrees m passionately held beliefs. For insights into the political, Medieval and Renaissance history him the process involved both economic, social, religious and FROM ALUMNI from Duke and Vanderbilt uni­ reasoning through evidence artistic climate there. versities, and a law degree from gleaned from reading and study _ Willard Pate, English Lucinda Secrest McDowell '74 the University of Virginia. and a deeper, mysterious internal (compi ler), A Southern-Style process that moved him to "a . Brian Greene, The Elegant Christmas (Harold Shaw c. Danielle Vinson, David Pa letz different place." In a culture m Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Publishers, 2000). This elegantly (editor), Local Media Coverage which the experience of religious Dimensions, and the Quest fo r designed book features holiday of Congress and Its Members: conversion figures prominently, the Ultimate Theory (Random reflections, recipes, poems and Th rough Local Ey es (Hampton Newman's thoughtful, well-written House, 1999). Describing the stories from such well-known Press, 2002). What do local media story is of interest. physical laws of the universe is Southern authors and personalities report about Congress and its - Carolyn Watson, Art no easy task. To make such a as Jan Karon, Ruth Bell Graham, members? The answer: it narrative entertaining is even more Anne Rivers Siddons and Celestine depends. Vinson, a Furman J.M. Adovasio with Jake Page, Th e difficult. That, however, is exactly Sibley, as well as McDowell her:elf. political science professor and Firs t Americans: In Pursuit of what the author has done. Greene, A native of Georgia who now lwes 1989 alumna, analyzes coverage Archaeology's Greatest Mystery a Rhodes Scholar who teaches at in Connecticut, McDowell is the of Congress in various markets and (Random House, 2002). Not so Columbia University, assumes that author of fo ur books. She is a discusses the extent to which long ago, everyone knew that the . the reader knows little about basic graduate of Gordan-Conwell congressional reporti ng meets the first Americans were the Clov1s physics. Using simple, concrete Theological Seminary and runs an needs of congressional members (point) mammoth-hunters of . examples, he explains complex inspirational ministry, Encouraging and their constituents. She 11,000 years ago. So when, m topics such as Newtonian Words. Visit her Web site at discovers that local coverage varies 1974, James Adovasio fo und mechanics, the general theory of www. en co u ragi ngwords. net. widely across media markets and 15,000-year-old artifacts in relativity and quantum mechanics types of media, but in predictable a Pennsylvania rockshelter, Janet Walker McDaniel '74, in a clear, concise manner. His ways. The amount of coverage, professional skeptics began By Tra in at Night (Henri Butler specialty is "superstri ng" theory, the substantive content, and how spinning ever more elaborate Press, 2002). According to the the idea that all the matter and favorable or unfavorable it is can "explanations" of why his dates publisher, this book of 16 short forces in the universe are the be explained to varyi ng degrees must be wrong. These days, stories set in the Southeast result of extraordi narily small, by market/district congruence fo llowing the discovery of other features characters that "grapple vibrating strings. This theory, (the fit between media markets pre-Clovis sites in Virginia, South with some of life's most urgent in turn, supports the seemingly and congressional districts), Carolina and Chile, the whole story problems ...the loss of a child, fa ntastic notion that the universe characteristics of different types of these first Americans (evidently difficult relationships, psycho­ is made up of 11 dimensions. of media (weekly and daily news­ not big game-hunters) is under logical stress, pure terror." One Anyone interested in gaining a papers and television), and the reconstruction. This book, without reviewer describes the stories as better understanding of time, relationships between members pulling any punches, offers a clear both "edgy" and "poignant." The space and the laws that regulate of Congress and reporters. The and lively account of past and author, who lives in Georgia, is . those two phenomena should read book also examines how the med1a current views of Ice Age America a reviewer for Midwest Book this book. act as watchdogs over government and its people. Review, webmaster for a fa mily _ Scott Henderson, Education and as links between members of - Brian Siegel, of writing-related Web sites, and Congress and their constituents. Sociology/ Anthropology the publicist for WriterAdvice, a California-based newsletter. 27 Furmanre ports

A healing message September 11 attacks remembered at school year's opening convocation

Werner Kratschell, a prominent Lutheran minister from Germany, brought his message of peace and reconciliation to Furman at the opening convocation of the 2002-2003 academic year - held on September 11. Kratschell, who is Superintendent of the Army Chaplaincy Program in the New Provinces of Germany, was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree for his years of devotion to the cause of peaceful co-existence. While the fo rmer East Germany was under Communist control, he worked successfully to keep the lines of communication open between dissidents and the ruling regime. In 1982, CoventryCathedral in Great Britain named him a Companion of the Order of the Cross of Nails, an honor bestowed upon those on several levels. For one thing, he said, a changed world must result from this who are "devoted to the pursuit of peace we can no longer believe that our physical tension. and reconciliation." security systems can protect us. "When we ask, therefore, how we When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, he "But even more serious," he said, as individuals and as a community of played a prominent role in the country's "is the loss of our inner security, which mankind can continue, the answer must orderly transition to a new form of existed because we believed that our system include the installation of doors - doors government. He is now involved in of values and norms had such a power of for the development of new values and a new task: bringing together the tradition­ conviction that it would automatically be norms through which the powers of God's ally non-religious German military and able to convince people of other cultures word can enter our world to help, heal and the traditionally anti-military church of of its validity and would lead to a world­ reconcile." the former East Germany. wide codex of reason, tolerance and ethics, The convocation launched a day long In his remarks, Kratschell pointed out to which everyone in the world would remembrance of the September 11 tragedy. that, because of the terrorist attacks, people subscribe." Beginning at noon and ending with a throughout the world have been "shattered" Kratschell also told the audience that candlelight vigil at 8 p.m., various campus repaying violence with violence often leads groups offered memorial tributes on the to even more disastrous consequences, and hour. he used the biblical story of Cain and Abel During the convocation, the university to illustrate his point. He said that while announced the establishment of the the story is about murder and its conse­ Dorothy and B.H. Peace, Jr., Professorship quences, it is also about how God allowed in Religion. Endowed by Dorothy Pedrick the murderous Cain to live. Peace, a prominent Greenvillian, the chair "The dark, killing side of human beings will be awarded to a faculty member who does exist," he said. "We must use all of is a pre-eminent scholar of Christianity. our strength to resist this dark, killing side, Announcement of the appointment is regardless of its motivation. For this there expected to be made in the fall of 2003. must be the ethical impulse of the uncon­ In addition, the university announced ditional protection of life, but there must the appointment of two faculty members also be highly specialized people and to existing professorships. systems to resist the dark and killing Sandra G. Roberson has been named instincts. The so-called belief in human to the Robert E. Hughes Professorship in goodness and every form of naivete are Economics and Business Administration. wrong and possibly fatal. She came to Furman in 1999 and holds "But this effort must be carried out in a master's degree from West Virginia such a way that the person being fought University. against is allowed to live and has the chance Chemistry professor Timothy W. to alter his way of life, that Saul can become Hanks has been named to the Henry Keith We rner Kratsche/1 addresses the need Paul, that the fanatic can become a friend and Ellen Hard To wnes Professorship. to work for peace and reconciliation in the wake of international tensions. of the weak and innocent, and that the Hanks, who came to Furman in 1990, To p: Students engage in a candlelight murderer can try to atone for his deeds. earned a Ph.D. from Montana State vigil on the steps of the Charles E. Daniel The tension between decisive clarity and University. Chapel to commemorate the anniversary hopeful patience may seem paradoxical, of the September 11 attacks. but the mental atmosphere of newness in Huff, Pitts to retire at close of academic year Biotechnology to be focus of consortium A. V. Huff, Jr., and Langdon Cheves of James M. Pitts, South Carolina. He is administrators whose a recipient of the furman has joined in a consor­ combined years of Sears-Roebuck tium with two North Carolina service to Furman total Foundation's colleges, Western Carolina and almost 70 years, have "Teaching Excellence the University of North Carolina­ Asheville, to boost the emerging both announced plans and Campus Leader­ biotechnology industry in the to retire at the close of ship Award." western Carolinas. the 2002-03 academic University U.S. Rep. Charles Ta ylor of year. chaplain Jim Pitts the 11th District of North Carolina Huff, a pre­ is a 1960 Furman has pledged to seek $1 3 million eminent historian of graduate who holds A. V. Huff, Jr. Jim Pitts in federal support for the Western the South and South advanced degrees Carolinas Biotechnology Consor­ Carolina, has been vice president for academic from two Southern Baptist seminaries, South­ tium, which is the latest in a series affairs and dean since 1995. A graduate of eastern and Southern. He came to Furman in of initiatives announced by Tay lor Wofford College, he joined the Furman history 1967 as associate chaplain and assistant professor to stimulate economic develop­ faculty in 1968. Holder of a Ph.D. from Duke of religion and assumed the post of university ment by improving the region's University and a Bachelor of Divinity degree chaplain in 1982. educational infrastructure and from Yale University, he is a minister in the He has ministered in both congregational stemming the phenomenon United Methodist Church and serves as historian and hospital settings, and his expertise includes known as "brain drain." of the South Carolina Conference of the United crisis counseling and substance abuse inter­ The projected $1 3 million Methodist Church. vention. In 1992 he received the Lewis W. in federal funding, to be sought A specialist on the history of the American Newman Award from the In-Service Guidance in allocations over several years, will enable the three universities South and South Carolina, Huff is chair of the Conference, which recognized his lifelong to jointly develop the high-tech South Carolina Commission on Archives and leadership in career guidance for ministers and resources, facilities and equip­ History and has been president of the South ministerial candidates. ment needed to provide quality Carolina Historical Association. He also serves He is currently chair of the board of Smyth undergraduate and graduate on the editorial board of the South Carolina & Helwys, a Macon, Ga., publisher of Christian­ training in several biotechnology Historical Magazine and the advisory board themed books and educational resources. He fields, including genomics, pro­ of The South Carolina Encyclopedia . has also served as president of the Greenville teomics and bioinformatics. He has written and edited several books, Mental Health Association and chair of the Research conducted by faculty including The Historyof South Carolina in Election Commission for the city of Travelers and students is expected to spin the Building of a Na tion; Greenville: City and Rest, and has been a consultant to the substance off start-up companies that will County in the South Carolina Piedmont; and abuse program of the Greenville Hospital System. have a positive impact on the economy of western North Carolina and northwest South Carolina. Furman president David E. Three faculty members earn major honors Shi says that the public/private college partnership is unique, "not Two Furman faculty members received special has been an adjunct art instructor at Furman since only because it straddles state awards from the South Carolina Arts Commission 1989. Her work has appeared in more than 25 boundaries, but it brings together this fall, while a chemistry professor was awarded solo and 50 group shows throughout the country, institutions of higher learning that a major grant by the National Science Foundation. and in 1996 she was named South Carolina Art are very different in terms of their The Board of Commissioners of the S.C. Educator of the Year by the state Art Education structure, their heritage and their Arts Commission designated English professor Association. mission." Gilbert Allen and art instructor Diane Hopkins­ Tim Hanks, Henry Keith and Ellen Hard Western Carolina chancellor John Bardo says that the partner­ Hughs to receive $5,000 Artist Fellowships in Townes Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded ship will enable the region to build recognition of "superior artistic merit." The a $390,000 grant by the National Science its ability to participate in the new awards were two of six presented in the state. Foundation to support his research in nano­ economy of the 21 st century ­ Allen, who has taught at Furman since 1977, technology. He is the principal investigator and to avoid duplication of effort is the author of three books of poetry: In for a three-year project titled "Tuning the during tight economic times. Everything (1982), Second Chances (1991) and Supramolecular Structure and Properties "What this consortium is Commandments at Eleven (1994). His fourth of Polydiacetylenes with Charge-Transfer about is trying not to reproduce collection, Driving to Distraction, will be Interactions." William Pennington of Clemson the wheel so that each university published by the Orchises Press in January. His University is co-author of the grant. doesn't have to go out and hire poems, stories and essays have appeared in such Nanotechnology involves the creation of exactly the same people to do publications as The American Scholar, The materials, devices and systems through the control exactly the same work," Bardo Cortland Review, Ep och, The Georgia Review, of matter at the atomic level. A nanometer is says. "That allows us to spread Image and The SouthernReview. He has won one billionth of a meter, or about 1/80,000th of our resources further and interact the Porter Fleming Award twice and the South the diameter of a human hair. with a broader range of students, Carolina Fiction Project four times for his short At least six undergraduate chemistry students and it lets us bring together the stories. at Furman will be involved in the research over great minds that we have on all Hopkins-Hughs, a photographer who the next three years, as will two graduate students of our campuses to get work done specializes in hand-colored gelatin silver prints, and four undergraduates fr om Clemson. for the benefit of the people." Furmancam paign

Campaign's success a direct result of strong volunteer leadership

There is a palpable feeling of excitement FOREVER Their efforts, and those of the people who in the air at Furman. Beyond the extra­ dedicate their lives to teaching, learning ordinary strides made in recent years and tDjFURMAN and service, define Furman University. the achievements of its faculty and students, The Forever Furman campaign has Furman has benefited tremendously from rl (:�� m I' reh e 11 s 1 vr Camp a i� tt helped the university bolster its financial the support and generosity of countless strength, refurbish the campus infrastruc­ volunteers who have given of their time, ture, and establish exciting new priorities talents and resources to shape the course of December 31, 2002, we salute the many for the future. Furman has closed the gap of the university for years to come. volunteers who have brought Furman to a between its aspirations and its ability to Through their support of the Forever new level of achievement and expectation support them - and created many new Furman campaign, alumni and friends have -and who have helped to raise approxi­ opportunities for even bolder thinking. provided Furman students with exceptional mately $190 million during the course of Immediate needs remain to be met, new opportunities to learn and to grow. the funddrive, which began its public phase particularly for the expansion of the James Since the beginning of the campaign in in 1999. When you read of the accomplish­ B. Duke Library, the completion of the 1996, the leadership of trustees Alester G. ments of a student, or of a faculty member Bryan Center for Military Science, and the Furman III, Tom Hartness, Bill Timmons whose work changes lives for the better, or construction of Younts Conference Center. '49, Gordon Herring '65, Nee! Hipp '73, of a graduate who has made a significant Yet as the campaign ends, its success leads Mary Peace Sterling, John Cothran '54, mark on the world, remember that their us to applaud and to celebrate the bene­ Leighan Ri nker and many others has helped efforts began with the help of individuals ficence of alumni and friends. to add outstanding academic and athletic whose appreciation for and loyalty to We acknowledge their generosity, we facilities to the campus landscape, create Furman were matched by their generosity. commit ourselves to honor the trust they and expand engaged learning opportunities, Thousands of people, each with their place in us, and we call on others to join and endow a host of scholarships and own reasons for supporting Furman, have them. professorships. come forward during the campaign to - Don Lineback As the campaign nears its closing date demonstrate their love for the university. Vi ce President fo r Development

Richard Furman Society sets robust pace in unrestricted giving

One of the major success stories of the totaling $783,771. This figure is equivalent program at their place of employment. Forever Furman campaign has been the to the income that would be generated by This is a wonderful way to leverage your generous support from alumni and friends $15 million in endowment. The recent financial support for Furman. To learn for the Furman Fund gift societies. In success of the Richard Furman Society is more about your employer's matching gifts particular, the top upper-level gift society directly attributable to the dedicated program, e-mail [email protected] -the Richard Furman Society (for donors leadership of Jim '64 and Carol Nichols or call 1-800-787-7534. of $10,000 and more in unrestricted gifts) Ney '67, co-chairs of the society for three The Richard Furman Society has set -has grown significantly in recent years. years now. a robust pace. By joining the RFS or any Increasing the membership in the The foundation for the upper-level gift of the other leading gift societies ­ university's gift societies was a key societies is the Pre sidents Club, for donors Founders Circle ($5,000 to $9,999), campaign objective because of their value of $1,000 to $2,499. Chaired by George Trustees Circle ($2,500 to $4,999) or in providing unrestricted support, which is Linney '65, the Presidents Club has been Presidents Club - you can help Furman then allocated to take advantage of new reorganized this year to build an even continue to make great things happen opportunities, fill strategic needs and stronger donor base. Regional committees today! provide scholarships. have been established in Atlanta, Ga., - Jane Dungan The Richard Furman Society, which Charlotte, N.C., Columbia, S.C., and Associate Director, Major Gifts began with 10 members in 1993-94, has Greenville to identify and cultivate been the pacesetter among the societies. prospects. For more information, visit the We b at By the end of the 200 1 -02 academic year, In addition, many alumni have reached www.furman. edu/giving and click on the RFS had increased to 77 members who their current gift society membership level the Gift Societies link. together made unrestricted gifts to Furman by taking advantage of the matching gift Furman graduates establish scholarship to honor relatives

A Georgia couple who graduated from Furman in the 1970s has established a scholarship fund to benefit full-time students who demonstrate financial need and exhibit "initiative, ability and a dedicated work ethic." Glenn Stewart '70 and his wife, Lynn Lewis Stewart '71 , created the Stewart­ Collins Memorial Scholarship Fund in memory of Glenn's parents, Glenn Stewart, Sr., and Hazel E. Stewart; his maternal grandmother, Myrtle L. Collins; and his great aunt, Maude L. Collins. "T he relatives for whom the Stewart­ Collins Memorial Scholarship is named worked diligently to establish a fund so that I could attend college," says Glenn Stewart, now a resident of Roswell, Ga., and the first member of his family to attend college. AAM project helps K-1 2 educators "I have never forgotten the sacrifice that was made to provide me with a good start integrate technology into curriculum in life. I can't imagine a better way to honor their memory and keep them alive in the Since 2000, the Library of Congress has Each year, the Congressional repre­ hearts of others than by creating this awarded Furman grants totaling more than sentatives from South Carolina's 3rd scholarship fund." $1 million toward the development of the and 4th districts choose 10 schools to Rather than being a purely academic Adventure of the American Mind (AAM) participate in the project. From the appli­ award, the Stewart-Collins Memorial Schol­ project, which trains teachers in the South cant pool a selection committee from arship will go to students who have "solid" Carolina upstate to use the library's vast Furman picks two teachers from each academic credentials and a "determination on-line resources. of the schools. to succeed." Priority consideration will go As part of the project, the Department Last spring, Furman received a $50,000 to those who demonstrate financial need. of Education at Furman offers a course grant from the LOC for a pilot program Glenn Stewart, Sr., who died in 1977, titled "Integrating Technology into the to allow 10 teachers to enroll in the course was born in Matthews, Ga., and was a Curriculum." First taught in 2001 , the on-line, through streaming video. During freight foreman with the Railway Express course helps elementary and secondary the course, which is expected to be Agency in Augusta. His wife, Hazel, who school teachers learn to integrate historical launched this winter, participants will meet died in 2000, was born in Lyons, Ga., and data from the library's collections into their on Furman's campus once a month, but was owner and operator of Augusta Florist. classroom curriculum. The collections the majority of the weekly, three-hour Myrtle Collins, Hazel's mother, died in include digitized documents, photographs, classes will be taught on-line. 1976. She was also born in Lyons, owned recorded sound, moving pictures and In addition, a grant of $500,000 from a fish market in Augusta during the 1940s text from the library's Americana the Library of Congress, in conjunction and later opened the Augusta Flower and collections. with the Education and Research Consor­ Gift Shop, which became Augusta Florist. The course features extensive techno­ tium of the Western Carolinas, funded the Maude Collins, Myrtle's twin sister, was logical instruction using such applications university's Center for Teaching and a farmer and grocery store owner in Lyons. as WebQuest, PowerPoint and the Library Te chnology in Herman N. Hipp Hall. She died in 1999. of Congress site search. To complete AAM The AAM project began in 2000 as "My family held in high regard those program requirements, teachers must: a pilot program for western North Carolina, who never forgot where they came from • Integrate content from the American with four institutions participating ­ and tried to give something back to society," Memory digital collection and National Brevard College, Mars Hill College, Glenn Stewart said. "I am certain that they Digital Library into their curriculum; Montreat College and Western Carolina would be pleased that a scholarship bearing • Create a Web page to help students University. In addition to Furman, Southern their names will benefit people who are find American Memory data; Illinois University and South Mountain trying to make a better life for themselves." • Mentor a colleague at their school; Community College in Arizona have since Glenn is a retired federal agent with • Instruct colleagues in the creation joined the program. the U.S. Customs Service, Drug Enforce­ of curriculum-related Web page strategies By the end of the 2001-02 academic ment Administration, Defense Investigative based on content from the American year Furman had trained 80 K-1 2 teachers, Service and U.S. Department of Education Memory collection. and 40 teachers had been trained by men­ Office of Inspector General. Lynn Stewart As part of the program, participants tors. AAM training continued at Furman is a social worker and adoption counselor. receive a laptop computer to assist with this fall. their course work. They earn three hours - Aynoka Bender For more information, e-mail craig. wa/don of graduate credit - and keep the laptop, Associate Director, Grants and @furman. edu or call (864) 294-2157. provided they meet all AAM requirements. Sp onsored Programs Furmanat hletics

Confidence boost

Jackson hopes to make most of U.S. Amateur run

It is amazing what stepping onto a national One thing is certain: Jackson discov­ stage and beating some of the world's best ered there isn't anyone on the amateur level amateurs can do for a young woman's she needs to fear, which should give her confidence. the assurance to excel in her final year of Furman golfer Brandi Jackson did just college and perhaps become the latest in that this summer when she traveled to a long line of Lady Paladins to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour. Scarborough, N.Y.,for the U.S. Women's Brandi Jackson's showing in the Wo men's Amateur and made it all the way to the Her newfound confidence seemed Amateur was the best by a Furman player championship match. Although she lost evident in September when she finished since Beth Daniel won the event in 1977. in the finals, 3 and 2, to Becky Lucidi of the second at the ACC/SEC Challenge and University of Southern California, Jackson's third at the Mason Rudolph Championships, performance gave her a great deal of con­ both of which featured some of the nation's says, "especially if I'm not pointing toward fidence heading into her final collegiate best teams. They were her two best finishes a particular tournament. But I'm looking season. in major collegiate events. forwardto working hard this year and seeing "I've always wanted to win a big college "I can be a little bit lazy sometimes what I can accomplish." tournament, but I've never been able to put [when it comes to practicing]," Jackson -Vince Moore together three good days," says Jackson, a health and exercise science major from Belton, S.C. "Now I don't see why I can't do that. This summer was a good Athletic Hall of Fame inducts five new members experience for me." Although Jackson was one of the Lady furman inducted five people into the university's Athletic Hall of Fame during Paladins' top players last year as a junior ceremonies September 15. and won the Southern Conference title, she Longtime university benefactor Lucius Weeks '54 joined football standouts Ray came in under the radar at the Amateur, which was televised on ESPN. The field Siminski '59 and Eric Walter '91 , cross country star Cate Pichon '93 and softball was full of college All-Americans, Curtis catcher Julie Glasser-Stebbins '97 in becoming the latest alumni to join the shrine. Cup members and players from all over the Weeks, who received the Distinguished Alumni Award during Homecoming world. But Jackson easily qualified for match ceremonies in October, is founder of the Order of the Paladin, which encourages play and breezed through the first three individuals to become major scholarship donors to the Paladin Club. He also helped rounds. to establish the Selvy-Fioyd Basketball Scholarship. In the quarterfinals, Jackson dispatched Siminski was a three-year football leHerman who earned all-Southern Conference Mollie Frankhauser, a Curtis Cup member and perhaps the best-known name left in and all-South Carolina honors in 1958 after leading the league in receiving, with 35 the field, in 20 holes. In the semifinals, she catches for 568 yards and five touchdowns. He played for two years with the Montreal won the last three holes to force overtime, Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. then defeated Maru Martinez of Venezuela Walter was a three-year starter at offensive guard and a two-time all-league on the 19th hole. performer. He made the Kodak Division 1-AA All-America first team and the Associated Things didn't go nearly as well in the Press second team in 1991 , was a two-time GTE Academic All-American, and received 36-hole championship match against Lucidi, an NCAA postgraduate scholarship. as Jackson fell behind by six holes after the first 18 and says she "wanted to crawl in a Pichon was the 1991 Furman Female Athlete of the Year. She won the conference hole" after some of the shots she hit. But cross country titles in 1990 and 1991, when she became the first Furman woman to she collected herself at the break and closed qualify for the NCAA championships. She was the Most Outstanding Performer at within two before finally falling. the league's 1991 indoor championships and at the 1990 cross country meet. "I don't think it was nerves," Jackson Glasser-Stebbins was league player of the year three times and was twice a says. "I just couldn't get anything going. National Fastpitch Coaches Association Academic Scholar Athlete. Twice named But we took a break and I decided that if to the GTE Academic All-District and All-American teams, she was the 1997 Edna she could beat me by six in 18 holes, I could Hartness Female Athlete of the Year at Furman. do the same thing to her. I played much better the last 18 holes." British import Allison takes men's soccer to unprecedented heights

Furman has no idea how close it came to in USA To day as a program that has escaped not enjoying the current success of its men's the broad shadow of the Atlantic Coast soccer program. Conference and come fully into its own. If head coach Doug Allison had followed Experts also rated this year's freshman class his initial inclination 18 years ago, he would as the third best in the country, marking the have boarded a plane back to London and third consecutive year Allison's recruiting never set foot in the United States again. classes had been ranked among the nation's And it is impossible to separate the success top four. of the Furman program from its British head If you're looking for the secret of coach. Furman's success, look no further than that In 1984, Allison, a soccer-mad schoolboy final statistic. from Bath, England, was recruited to play "I decided I wasn't going to wait and see at the University of South Carolina. At first, who was left after all the top players were it seemed natural enough for him to continue gone," he said. "But that's also what makes his soccer career at an American college, it tough, because every kid we recruit has even though he and his parents had to find a choice of going to Indiana or UCLA or South Carolina on a map and he knew only Virginia or Clemson. But I figure if I can get one other person who had ever been to the two or three kids every year who could be United States. playing at those places, then we're going to Things began to seem very strange when have a very good team." his parents took him to the airport for his Allison's success is all the more amazing flight to the States. But the full impact of when you consider that his program has two what he was doing didn't hit him until he was fewer scholarships than the NCAA allows Doug Allison helps son Callum perfect 30,000 feet above the Atlantic. and that he does not have a full-time his header technique. "We hadn't been in the air long and I assistant. Still, he isn't deterred from pursuing was saying, 'What in the world am I doing?'," the ultimate dream. Allison says. "My mother was crying when I left. I wasn't going to "Can we win a national championship?" Allison says. "I hope know anybody in America. I decided right then that as soon as we so. That's always our goal." landed I was getting a flight back to London." Allison is glad he didn't head back to England those many years By the time he landed in the United States, though, he decided ago. In addition to becoming a top coach, he has settled comfortably he should at least visit the USC campus before returning home. into life in the States, marrying a girl from Pittsburgh (Michelle) and But a second wave of doubts hit him when he arrived in Columbia starting a family (his son, Callum, will soon turn two). He is so and was greeted by the oppressive heat of a mid-August night in acclimated that his British accent is but a wisp of its former self, the South Carolina midlands. having been blunted by nearly two decades in the American South. "It was so hot that I could hardly move," says Allison. "It was "I don't really notice it," Allison says, "but my mother sure gives so bad that I asked the assistant coach who picked me up if we me a hard time about it. She now calls me her American boy." could stop and get something to drink." - Vince Moore Allison was in for one final shock when he reported to the athletic dorm and met the other "football" players, many of whom were 6- 6 and 280 pounds. "I took one look at these guys and thought, 'I'm never going to survive over here'," he says. Tragedy strikes soccer program Of course, Allison did survive. He went on to become the leading scorer in South Carolina soccer history - a record he still or the longest time, the men's soccer program at Furman had holds - and one of the most successful coaches in America. Since F experienced nothing but the best of times. But that good fortune his head coaching career began at Furman in 1995, his teams have won nearly eight of every 1 0 games they have played, making his ended tragically October 11, when one player was killed and three winning percentage (.772 entering this season) the third best in others were injured in an early-morning traffic accident on Interstate Division I during that time. 85 near Spartanburg, S.C. But Allison traveled a few other roads before arriving at Furman. Freshman standout Gray Griffin of Huntersville, N.C., who was After graduating from South Carolina, he spent a year with a pro­ driving, died in the October 11 accident. Three of his freshman fessional team in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The team program listed teammates - Chefik Simo of Dallas, Texas, Josh Villalobos of him as being from South Carolina, since Belfast was not the safest Fayetteville, N.C., and Sean Murray of Wauwatosa, Wis. - were place for an Englishman to reside. injured. The students were returning to campus from a concert He returned to the States the next year to earn a master's in Charlotte, N.C., when Griffin's sport utility vehicle overturned. degree at the University of North Carolina and serve as a graduate Villalobos and Murray were released from Spartanburg Regional assistant for the Ta r Heels. He moved on to USC in 1991 as a full­ Medical Center a few days after the accident. Simo required multiple time assistant and, four years later, became head coach at Furman. surgeries and was hospitalized for an extended period. Since that time, one could argue that no Furman athletic program The tragedy shocked more than just the Furman community. has achieved more than men's soccer. From 1995-2001 , the Because of both Furman's and Griffin's standing in the soccer Paladins posted the fifth best record in the nation and claimed community, the accident made national news. Condolences came victories over Clemson, South Carolina, North Carolina, Wake in from all over the United States and Europe. Forest, Notre Dame and Michigan, among others. With a 17-2-1 Griffin, a graduate of North Mecklenburg High School, was record this year through November 16, they qualified for their fourth straight NCAA tournament (they reached the quarterfinals in 1999). a Parade All-America selection and former captain of the U.S. And they have been nationally ranked in at least one poll every Under-17 National Team. He had started as a defender in 12 week for the past four years. matches for the Paladins. What's more, this season Furman set a national record for About 500 people attended a memorial service for Griffin consecutive wins in league play (43 and counting) and was featured on campus October 16. 33 Furmanalumni news

ALUMNI ACTIVITIES

Furman Clubs in full swing Join the FAN club! During the fall, Fum1an Clubs have been busy cheering on the university's athletic teams. As the fall term comes to an end More than 550 alumni and parents attended a at Furman, those of us in the tailgate party prior to the Furman-Va nderbilt game Admissions Office are hard at work September 7 in Nashville, Tenn. Alumni also enjoyed recruiting prospective students for the a barbecue before the Furman football game at Class of 2007. Our counselors are Richmond September 21, and the St. Louis Furman traveling all across the United States, Club cheered on the men's soccer team when the attending college fairs, hosting Paladins traveled to St. Louis University October 5. information sessions, visiting high Furman Clubs also enjoyed visits with Furman schools and meeting with students professors. On September 28, art professor Olof as we try to secure a class that is the Sorensen led the Triad (N.C.) club on a tour of the Reynolda House in Winston-Salem. The Boston equal of this year's first-year students. Furman Club welcomed William Lavery, professor We do not work alone, however. of history and director of international education, For more than 20 years, the Admis­ to a luncheon November 9 at House of Blues. sions Office has benefited from the December 12 is the date for the seventh annual help of the Furman Admissions family who might have questions Charleston (S.C.) Holiday Gala, a yearly favorite for Network (FAN) in identifying, recruiting about the university. area alumni. Another annual favorite is the Atlanta and enrolling top students. FAN • Contact for Prospective and Winter Gala, which is scheduled February I, 2003. members - 200 alumni and parent Accepted Students. FAN members Speaking of February, Keith Lockhart '81 and the volunteers across the country ­ contact and encourage students in Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra will be performing serve as Furman's eyes and ears their area to consider Furman, and at Greenville's Bi-Lo Center on February 14. in their communities and play a key extend congratulations to those who The Fu1man Singers will begin their annual concert role in the university's ongoing efforts are accepted. tour in February and will be performing in Birmingham, to attract a strong freshman class. • Ta ke a Student to Dinner. Ala., and all over South Carolina, from the Upstate to FAN members help personalize During my travels on behalf the coast. Alumni will receive a mailing with details. the recruiting process by taking of the Admissions Office, I'm often To learn more about Furman Club events, call prospective students out for a meal. asked, "How can I help Furman?" Melanie Krone '94, associate director of the Alumni FAN work is easy. We simply "How can I stay connected to the Association, at 1-800-PURPLE3, or e-mail ask volunteers to talk about their own university?" [email protected]. My response: "Join FAN." But Furman experiences. People who are upbeat and who are good listeners I'm somewhat biased, because I'm Travel programs set for 2003 tend to really enjoy this work, and the FAN coordinator. The Alumni Association has partnered with Alumni they take pride in knowing how much FAN representatives assist the Holidays International®to offer these exciting trips university in a variety of ways, their efforts benefit the university. to Europe in 2003: including: To help Furman continue to Rome Escapade, January 3D-February 6: The • Student Referral. FAN mem­ compete effectively for students, the Va tican, St. Peter's Basilica, Michelangelo's Pieta and bers provide Furman the names of Admissions Office plans to enlarge the beautiful Sistine Chapel are just a few of the sites strong prospective students. and expand the Furman Admissions on this trip's itinerary. Enjoy six wonderful nights at • Receptions/Summer Send­ Network. So if you are interested in the five-star Excelsior Hotel at a cost of approximately offs. FAN members host or help with learning more about FA N, please $1,995 per person, based on double occupancy. receptions for prospective students contact me. I'd love to sign you up Alumni College in Tuscany, Aprii B-16: Experience in their areas, typically in the fall and for the FAN club! Pienza, Assisi, Florence and other areas. All meals, spring of each year. In the summer You may reach me via e-mail seminars and excursions are included in the cost of they host parties for incoming at [email protected] or by approximately $2,595 per person, based on double freshmen. phone at 704-362-4116. occupancy. • College Fair Programs. After - Lynn Shirley Osment '88 Alumni College in Kinsale, Ireland, September training, and with admissions mate­ 28-0ctober 6: Journeyto the massive Blarney Castle rials in hand, FAN members repre­ The writer, who also holds a master's (with its world-famous stone), enjoy a picturesque boat sent Furman at college fairs in their degree in education from Furman, trip to Garin ish Island and travel to other exciting spots areas. lives in Charlotte, N.C., and is the on this spectacular adventure. Cost is approximately • Local Resource. FAN North Carolina field representative $2,495 per person, based on double occupancy. members allow the Admissions Office for the Admissions Office. For more information about these travel packages, to give their name and telephone visit http://www.ahitravel.com/furman or call the number to a prospective student or Alumni Association at l-800-PURPLE3. ClASS NOTES FAll 2002

University of Missouri-Kansas Piedmont and the Pickens- the National Football League, 35 City Conservatory as a Distin- Twelve Mile associations. was a volunteer assistant coach Charles H. Townes was pre- guished Professor of Music. this fall at Pickens (S.C.) High sented the Karl Schwarzschild He will continue to perform 61 School. In August, he served Award for 2002 by the German as a concert pianist. Next reunion in 2006 as master of ceremonies for Astronomical Society. Named "A Midsummer's Night with Larry Ayers, a specialist in tax- for a famous Geiman astrono- Special Olympics," a fund- 58 sheltered investments with 30 mer, the award is the most raising event held at the BMW Next reunion in 2003 years in the financial business, prestigious bestowed by the Zentrum and Visitors' Center Harry Eskew, who is retired from has joined MML Investors society. After receiving the in Greenville. New Orleans Baptist Theologi- Services Inc. in Greenville. honor, Townes delivered the cal Seminary, has been honored He has written on investing, has Karl Schwarzschild Lecture by the Southern Baptist Church been fe atured on radio and 68 in Berlin on the topic 'The Music Conference with the television talk shows, and has Next reunion in 2003 Behavior of Stars Observed Hines Sims Award, the organi- been a Securities and Exchange Caroline Smith Helms has been by Infrared Interferometry." zation 's highest award for Commission Registered Invest- named interim vice president contributions to church music. ment Advisor for affluent and dean for academic affairs at 39 • H. Leroy Stewart has been investors and corporate Abraham Baldwin Agricultural Edward B. Clayton and his wife, appointed chaplain general of retirement plans. College in Tifton, Ga. She has Jocelyn, live in retirement in the National Society of the Sons been a professor of history at the Boiling Springs, N.C. After 40 of the American Revolution. He 62 college since 1974 and has years as a high school teacher, will offer advice and assistance Next reunion in 2007 chaired the Division of Social coach and administrator, Edward in ministering to the spiritual Science since 1996. Frankie Creamer Hardin of retired as principal of Crest High needs of SAR members and will Greenville has started a School in Shelby, N.C. assist in leading the group's consulting company, Achieve- 71 headquarters staff and volunteers ment Focus. She has given Next reunion in 2006 in establishing and implementing 41 speeches and conducted work- After a number of years with the society programs. Harold Eugene Lindsey of St. shops in 29 South Carolina We stinghouse Corporation, John Simons Island, Ga., delivered counties and in other states. Chinault left the business world the Commencement address at 59 to attend medical school. He North Greenville College in May Next reunion in 2004 64 is now a radiation oncologist in and was awarded an honorary Robert Burns King, organist and Next reunion in 2004 the Richmond, Ya ., area and is Doctor of Divinity degree. He choirmaster of First Presbyterian medical director of the Southside After receiving a National was president of North Green- Church in Burlington, N.C., was Cancer Treatment Center. • Bob Clergy Renewal Grant from the ville for five years (1970-75) honored September 15 for his Sims of Tallahassee, Fla., retired Lilly Foundation for a 15-week before becoming director of 40 years of service to the church from BellSouth Business sabbatical trip, Gerry Hanberry Southern Baptist work in with a concert by Market Street Systems in April. and his wife, Pat, spent February Massachusetts. He has served Brass, a faculty ensemble from through April traveling to seven as a therapist in pastoral care the University of North Carolina- countries in Central and South 73 at Baptist Hospital of North Greensboro. King, who also America, studying Spanish and Next reunion in 2003 Carolina, as founder and director teaches at Elon University and issues that cause Latins to mi- Robert and Cynthia Digby '76 of Lincolnton (N.C.) Pastoral at UNC-Greensboro, recently grate to the United States. Gerry Wood live in Arlington, Va ., and Counseling Center, and in a issued a compact disc recording is pastor of Glade United Church work for the U.S. Department number of interim pastorates. of the "Three Chorales for of Christ in Walkersville, Md. of State, she in the Office of Organ" by Cesar Franck, the Recruitment and he in the Office 43 most important 19th-century 66 of the Inspector General. composer of organ music in Francis Ruth Folk Rogers of Cynthia recruits foreign service France. The CD includes Next reunion in 2006 Columbia, S.C., has received the officers in the Midwest and music for Christmas by the Shields M. Cochran has been J. Waites Waring Humanitarian Rocky Mountains and Robert church's Chancel Choir and appointed vice president (private Aw ard from the United Black has inspector posts in West soloists. For more information, banker) in the Greenville office Fund of the Midlands. The Africa and Central Asia. of South Carolina Bank and award recognizes her tireless e-mail King at rking@ Trust. • The trustees of Connie efforts in promoting civil rights netpath.net. Maxwell Children's Home have 75 and civil liberties in South named Ben Davis as the eighth Next reunion in 2005 Carolina, especially through her 60 president of the 110-year-old la na Goodwin Vanderbilt, work with the late I. DeQuincey Next reunion in 2005 ministry to children and families. a fam ily court resource attorney Newman, a South Carolina state Ken Dover has been named He has been associated with at the Children's Law Office of senator and civil rights activist. minister of education at Aria I Connie Maxwell since 1993 and the University of South Carolina Baptist Church in Easley, S.C. served as the home's vice presi- Law School, has been elected The re tired public school teacher 53 dent for business and develop- chair of the board of directors has also served as a bivocational Next reunion in 2003 ment. • Sam Wyche, f01mer of Growing Home, a private, pastor and in other ministry In September, Richard B. Cass coach of the Cincinnati Ben gals non-profit treatment fo ster care positions for churches in the retired from the fac ulty of the and Tampa Bay Buccaneers of and family services agency with 35 Furmanalumni news

CLASS NOTES FA LL 02, cont.

headquarters in St. Paul, Minn., chugsand other harmful substan­ for Leadership Florida. He and offices in Minnesota and ces by educating and pa.Itnering serves as the East Central Florida 86 South Carolina. with families and the commu­ regional chair. He practices in Next reunion in 2006 nity. • Libby Powers Keller the areas of commercial, con­ lan Knott of Allison Park, Pa., 76 (M.A. '84) is a music teacher struction, professional liability is marketing director for Giant Next reunion in 2006 at La Jolla Country Day School and employment litigation Eagle, Inc. • Lisa Boyter Marvel in San Diego, Calif. She is matters. Jim and Beth Davis Harrison live of Suwanee, Ga., is an executive studying for her second master's in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he is assistant for Bear Marketing degree, this one in educational an associate professor of path­ 84 Group, Inc. Juan Watson administration. ology and associate director of Next reunion in 2004 To lley is an attorney in Charles­ pathology informatics at the Jim Bryson of North Quincy, ton, S.C., and is director of legal University of Pittsburgh School 81 Mass., is CFO of The Stubbins se1vices for Ca�·eAlliance Health of Medicine. She is the execu­ Next reunion in 2006 Associates, Inc. • lorraine Services . • MARRIAGE: tive director of ALL of Us Care, Dian Uher Garnett, previously Hester lawson is a documen­ William Carey Hedgpeth, Jr., a non-profit organization that a systems engineer with EDS, tation compliance manager with and Rosa Lucille McKinley, July promotes safe schools and is now self-employed as a con­ Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals 20. Bill, who spent the last four healthy communities in six sultant in Fort Wmth, Te xas. • in Clayton, N.C. • Evans years in New Hampshire starting Lower Allegheny Valley munici­ Hal Hanlin earned an L.L.M. Newell, who is employed by and pastoring churches, has palities. • George Kerns has degree in taxation from New Wachovia in Fort Mill, S.C., ran become pastor of Cooley been appointed president and York University in May. the Myrtle Beach Marathon in Springs Baptist Church in chief executive officer of Digex, February. • BIRTH: David and Chesnee, S.C. Rosa is a Incorporated, in Laurel, Md. He 82 Linda Howard Hickman, a son, customer se1vice representative for R.B.C. Liberty Insurance in had previously served as the Next reunion in 2007 Brycen Jasper, March 25, company's senior vice president Greenville. Greenville. South Carolina state represen­ of operations. tative Chip Campsen was named Outstanding Legislator for 2002 85 77 by School Ministries, a non­ Next reunion in 2005 Next reunion in 2007 profit organization that operates Samuel B. George Ill, pastor of After spending three years in released time Christian education Republican United Methodist Dakar, Senegal, Deborah Malac programs around the country. • Church in McCormick, S.C., has entered the Industrial College of David de Armas is an attorney been selected to participate in Pamela Underwood Thomason '76, presi­ dent; James H. Simkins, Jr. '78, president the Armed Forces at the National in Orlando, Fla., with the firm the 2003 class of Leadership elect; Steven B. Smith '83, vice president; Defense University in Washing­ of Cramer, P1ice & de Armas, South Carolina. • lanny George E. Linney '65, past president; ton, D.C., from which she has P. A. • Steve Riley now lives McManus, who earned his Rebecca Hood Becherer '89; Randolph received a master's degree in in Irrno, S.C., and is a senior doctorate in conducting from Williams Blackwell '63; Rosalie Manly national resource strategy. She engineer with Bechtel Te lecoms. the University of South Carolina, Burnett '49; John R. Cassady '62; Bret Alan Clark '88; Diane Maroney Estridge now works on biotechnology • BIRTHS: Wayne and liz has become choral director at '66; Brian H. Fenn '91 ; Joe E. Gentry '53; issues for the Office of Agiicul­ Bourner laney, a son, Central Baptist College in Julia Meeks Glenn '63; Hal E. Henderson tural Trade Policy of the U.S. Christopher Baumer Laney, May Conway, Ark. • Perri Davis '92; Catherine Hunter Hightower '55; Department of State. • Donald 7, Huntsville, Ala. • Richard Wagner of Alpharetta, Ga., is Elizabeth Jean Howard '81 ; George L. Stilwell of Chickamauga, Ga., and Sarah Couture Pope, a son, manager of government affairs Johnson '68; Rebecca Pullin Kay '86; is a publisher with News Nicholas Derek, May 13, Lutz, at Novartis Ophthalmics. She Charles W. Linder '59; Donald H. Lindsey '54; J. David Nelson '61 ; Paul B. Nix, Jr. Publishing Company, which Fla. recently designed and painted '77; Robert E. Poerschke '41 ; James G. owns a number of newspapers an "Old Testament History of Revels, Jr. '62; Jenna C. Robinson '74; in Georgia and Alabama. the Bible" mural for Roswell Ginger Malone Sauls '75; David M. Schilli 83 United Methodist Church and '85; Catherine Rakestraw Smith '92; 79 Next reunion in 2003 wall murals for Ocee Elementary Mickey Arthur Walker '55; Ronald L. School. • BIRTHS: John and Walker '84; Davin K. Welter '89; Harriet Next reunion in 2004 Scott Bader recently accepted Arnold Wilburn '74. Melissa Lamaze-Anthony, a Jean Summerville (M.A.) of a position as senior software daughter, Sophia-Marie, June Charlotte, N.C., is a foUith grade developer with Donnell Systems Ex-Officio: David E. Shi '73, president; 21, Germantown, Md. • Chris teacher at Springfield Elemen­ in South Bend, Ind. • Lisa Sitton Donald J. Lineback, vice president for and Joy Jackson Emery, a son, development; Donald E. Fowler, director tary School in Fort Mill, S.C. Burleson is an assistant principal Brandon Hayes, May 14, of development; Jason Curtin, associate in the Gwinnett County (Ga.) director of Alumni Assocation; Melanie Nashville, Te nn. • Tom and 80 Public Schools. • RobertCaper s Krone '94, associate director of Alumni Jenny Wacht Watt, a son, David recently joined the board of Association; Phil Howard, director of Next reunion in 2005 Aaron, December 27, 200 1, Deer Independent Colleges and Furman Fund; William J. Lavery, faculty Robin Scott Blackburn serves as Park, Te xas. Jenny is an infor­ Universities of South Carolina. liaison; David G. Ellison '72, trustee liaison; first vice president of the board mation technology instructor in Katie Clerkin Benston '92, president, • Skip Kirst, a shareholder with of directors of the Greenville the Department of Continuing Yo ung Alumni Council; Erin Bourne '03, the law firm of GrayHarris in president, Student Alumni Council; A.B. Family Partnership, an organi­ Education at San Jacinto Orlando, Fla., was recently Puckett '03, president, Association of zation that works to keep College. elected to the board of regents Furman Students; Jeffrey Sirolly '03, children off tobacco, alcohol, president, Senior Class. 36 Life lessons

Rotary ambassadorship provides for memorable summer in Dresden

Little did Michael Hix know when he headed 87 overseas for the summer that he would be witness to the horrific mid-August floods that Next reunion in 2007 swept through Germany and the Czech Republic. David Driskill is vice president Hix, a 1998 Furman graduate with a degree for automation with Engineered in music theory, studied German from June to Products Corporation in Green­ ville. DruAnn Byrom Lutinski September at the Goethe-lnstitut in Dresden, damage, but as he points out, "These are highly and her husband, Hunter, have where he also studied opera and represented visible tourist attractions and will be immediately moved to Russia, where he is the United States as a Rotary International Cul­ repaired. The real calamity is the destruction of a division chief with the Defense tural Ambassador Fellow. For Hix, who aspires homes in the smaller villages on the Elbe River. Threat Reduction Agency of the to an operatic career, the opportunity to immerse Many of the victims did not have insurance, and Department of Defense. They himself for three months in the German language are based in Moscow. • most lost everything." and culture was unparalleled, especially in such BIRTHS: Kelly and Anna Despite the flooding, nothing could diminish a historic city. Weber Byars, a daughter, the experience for Hix, a professor of voice and Margaret Patterson, July II, Dresden has been almost completely rebuilt music theory at the Baptist College of Florida in Cincinnati, Ohio. • Jerry and since the end of World War II, when it was virtually Graceville, near Ta llahassee. With approximately Jennifer Chapman, a daughter, obliterated by Allied air strikes. The people of 150 students from more than 40 countries Georgia Grae, March 15, Mount Dresden have since worked tirelessly to restore enrolled at the Goethe-lnstitut during his time Airy, N.C. • Dennis and Angie the historic areas of the city, which is known for there, Hix says that the "life lessons learned" Jackson, a son, Jacob Grant, July its artistic flair and distinctive architecture. 10, Liberty, S.C. • Robert and were as instructive as his studies in German One restoration project still in progress is Stacy Carr Oakley, a daughter, grammar and vocabulary. "Attending such an the Frauenkirche, or Church of Our Lady. This Hannah Grace, January 30, international language school introduced me Durham, N.C. magnificent structure, a symbol of the city for to cultures, ideas, experiences and people that hundreds of years, is being rebuilt using as much 1 never anticipated," he says. 88 of the original brick and stone as possible. Says He became particularly adept, he says, at Next reunion in 2003 Hix, "When my German instructors, Iris Marzinek the art of compromise, especially when it came Maryanne Honeycutt Dotson and Helga Georg, or my host Rotarian, Stephan to communicating with his classmates. Because runs a company called People Noth, spoke of these landmarks and of the of the diversity of the students attending the Power in Louisville, Ky., in rebuilding process, you could feel their pride institute, Hix says that they relied on "a mixture which she works with managers in their city and the tightly woven nature of this of baby German and hand gestures." To build and frontline supervisors to community of people." relationships, people were forced to overcome increase productivity and So in mid-August, when the Elbe River performance in the workplace. their discomfort and insecurity with the language overran its banks and flooded much of the area, • Boots and Katie Holland barrier and ultimately to find middle ground. including the historic Altstadt (Old City) district, (M.A. '98) Holder of Pickens, He illustrated this point by describing the S.C., have been appointed by Hix says that the crisis served as a rallying point development of his friendship with a classmate, the International Mission Board for the people to demonstrate their resilience. Akatsuki. Hix spoke no Japanese and Akatsuki to train as coordinators for "Everyone worked together making sand­ spoke no English; they chose German as their a team that is foc used on people bags or helping their neighbors," he says. "The "language of compromise." Still, it could be groups located in Peru and students at the Goethe-lnstitut could feel the difficult to understand each other. As Hix says, Bolivia. He will research the pride our teachers and neighbors felt for our groups, visit the locations, be "My German explanation of Easter and its adopted city, and we did what we could. We the group's advocate at stateside importance to Christian culture probably would spent our time filling sandbags and donating and Latin churches, and super­ have given my hometown preacher an aneurysm. a considerable amount of food to the victims." vise team members. She will But when you have a vocabulary of only a few conduct outreach through church Hix says that several art galleries and the hundred words and you're interested in discuss­ and home. • Steve Wray has historic Semper Opera House suffered extensive ing cultural differences, all you can do is try ­ opened his own company, SN and smile." Wray & Associates, in Charlotte, All in all, the summer proved to be an invalu­ N.C . • BIRTHS: Brian and Joanne McGregor Morton, able experience for the young musician - a daughter, Sadie Suesanne, so much so that he and his wife, Margaret December 11,2001,Aiken, S.C. Jackson, whom he married last December, hope • Craig and Glenn Stanley, to return to Germany in the next year to pursue a son, Griffi n Craig, May 14, careers in opera. Monticello, Fla. • Greg and Beth Welmaker, a son, Nathan, May 13, Collegeville, Pa. To p: The Elbe River floods the historic Altstadt district. Left: Restoration of the Fra uenkirche is expected to be complete by 2006. Furmanalumni news

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89 Next reunion in 2004 Julie Bolt is director of business development for Banyan Senior Living in Greenville. • Sandra Tom Tripi itt seemed to have a comfortable, Fanning Hinckley of Lithia, Fla., stable life. Having spent 25 years in the a former shareholder with the field of education, he was the middle school law firm of Macfarlane Ferguson principal at Brookstone School in his & McMullen, has become assis­ hometown of Columbus, Ga. tant general counsel with Kforce He and his wife, Diane, had three Inc., a professional staffing firm. daughters, he loved his job and, at the age • BIRTHS: Grat and Christy of 48, he felt secure and settled. Changing Boyd '92 Correll, a son, Andrew careers and uprooting his family were the Scott, May 21, Bristol, Te nn. • Erich and Teresa Rowland Daub, farthest things from his mind. a daughter, Morgan Linn, June Until a round of golf with his good I, Stone Mountain, Ga. • Walter friend Gary Clark changed all of that. and Andrea Heidcamp '90 During their outing in June, Clark, To m Trip /itt says his fa vorite Furman Landow, a daughter, Elena Furman's athletic director, urged Tripiitt to memory is of biology field trips with Grace, August 4, Kennesaw, Ga. apply for the vacant alumni director post professor Leland Rodgers. • Michael and leslie Huckaby at Furman. The pair had attended Furman '90 Miller, a daughter, Emily at the same time during the mid-1970s and Grace, June 18, Charlotte, N.C. later worked together at Spartanburg (S.C.) At Furman he met his future wife, Diane • Mark '90 and Trish Enloe Day School from 1987-91 . Wedgworth, and they married after she Patterson, a daughter, Elizabeth, After their conversation, other Furman graduated in 1978. Tom's first job was April 30, Anderson, S.C. Trish friends began calling Tripi itt to reinforce teaching biology and physical science at and Mark both practice medicine Clark's suggestion. It took some convinc­ Sumter High School. He went on to work in Anderson, she as a pulmonary ing, but Tripiitt eventually decided to update at Christ School in Arden, N.C., and at and critical care physician and his resume and send it in. Spartanburg Day before heading back to he as a vascular surgeon. • Mike "I had a great job and was not des­ Columbus in 1991 . and Julie Roberts Saunders, perate," he says, "so I felt no pressure Now, as director of the Alumni Associa­ a daughter, Annie, March 30, Indianapolis, Ind. during the interview." tion, Triplitt says he "wants to find more Within a few weeks, though, the ways to reach out and connect with the Triplitts had posted a "for sale" sign in the broad spectrum of Furman alumni. I am 90 front yard of their Columbus home. To m overwhelmed by the number of people Next reunion in 2005 had gotten the job, and they were moving whose lives are being touched by Furman Matt D'Angelo of Greer, S.C., to Greenville. alumni every day. I want to celebrate that is global project manager with Datastream Systems, Inc. • "It happened so quickly that I feel this and help alumni realize how much the value BIRTHS: Elton and Amy was meant to be," he says from his office of their diploma increases as Furman grows Williamson Bailey, a daughter, in Cherrydale. in national prominence." Davis Ann, August 7, Simpson­ Was it a leap of faith? "Well, yes," Shortly after arriving on campus, he ville, S.C. • Justin and Sylvia he says slowly. "But I guess more so for leaped right into the fray, presiding over Brent, a daughter, Sienna Furman, since I haven't done this [kind a meeting of the Alumni Association Board Caroline, February 20, Clinton, of work] before." of Directors in mid-September and helping S.C. • Richard and Betsy Howe Triplitt, a 1976 Furman graduate with with the final plans for Homecoming. Cassidy, a son, Rick, August 19, a degree in biology, had reconnected with Perhaps his biggest adjustment, 200 I, Hillsborough, N.C. • his alma mater in recent years through his though, has been to his spacious Cherry­ Craig and Brandy We lsh oldest daughter, Pearce, who graduated dale office, which offers a panoramic view Cleveland, a daughter, Gracen last May. of the campus. Claire, October 25, 200 I. "Pearce had a wonderful experience "My first office at Brookstone wasn't Brandy is a special education here," he says. "Furman did all the right much bigger than a cubicle. There was teacher in Alpharetta, Ga. • Kirk things for her. Knowing this made the room for only one other person besides and Kate Stone (M.A. '00) decision to come here more comfortable." me. Here, I can actually have staff meetings Fisher, a daughter, Ava Triplitt enrolled at Furman in 1972 with in my office," he says. Elisabeth, June 26, Greenville. • John and Bridget Fleming '93 notions of pursuing a pre-med track, but "And I think President Shi deserves Skinner, a daughter, Lindsay "taking chemistry changed things for me," an office with this view, not me." Kay, April 22, Atlanta, Ga. • he says with a laugh. - John Roberts Paul and Elizabeth Sides '91 Wa llace, a daughter, Julia Celeste, June 2. • Ben and Jenni & Family Resources Center, and Management held at the Univer­ West, a daughter, Abigail Marie, 92 Jeff teaches math and coaches sity of Colorado in Boulder. • January I, Marietta, Ga. Next reunion in 2007 basketball at Berea High School. Ed Stein is a commercial rela­ Tim Brown, a drama teacher at • Brian and Stephanie Fleming tionship manager with First 91 Beaufort (S.C.) High School, Norton, a daughter, Nora Union/Wachovia of Greenville. Next reunion in 2006 recently completed his second Elizabeth, November 5, 2001, • MARRIAGES: Jennifer Columbus, Ga. • Ed and Tra cie Perkinson and Brent Walker, Heather Lane Duncan of Ta lla­ trip with students to Edinburgh, VanHooser Setzler,a son, Caleb, hassee, Fla., received a master's Scotland, where they performed July 20. They live in Raleigh, March II, Atlanta, Ga. • Robert degree in public health from in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. N.C., where she is a licensed and Meredith Burt Williams, a professional counselor. • Nancy Tulane University in May. • • Melissa Dancy is a visiting son, Nevin Burt, December 20, Young and Scott Smith, April Steven Ramey and his wife, assistant professor of physics at 2001, Charlotte, N.C. Terra Rodgers '94, have returned Davidson College. • Will Ertel 27. She is employed by James L. Burch, Jr., D.M.D., and to the States from India, where of Charlotte, N.C., is president Piedmont Te chnical College, and he completed research for his of Ta ssel Capital Management, 93 he is a manager of Emerald dissertation. They live in Chapel Inc., an investment management Next reunion in 2003 Internet Services in Greenwood, Hill, N.C., where he teaches at and financial planning services Rebecca J. Huguley received S.C . • BIRTHS: Kevin and the University of North Carolina. company that he started earlier her Master of Divinity degree Julie Adams Aycock, a son, Luke • Wendy Brown Sherlock works this year. • Roger and Caroline from Duke University and has Kevin, March 18, Atlanta, Ga. in computer drafting for PZDM, Munnerlyn Ferrell have moved been commissioned a probation­ Julie is a physical therapist at LLC, a civil engineering firm in from Maine to Greenville where aryelder in the United Methodist Fayette Community Hospital. Macon, Ga. • Bobby Whitson they will continue their work as Church of South Carolina. She • Kevin and Sara Smith of Brentwood, Te nn., is vice church planters. • Richard is currently serving an appoint­ Clement, a daughter, Bonnie president of sales for SmartDM. Gibson of Hyattsville, Md., ment to the Newberry Circuit Ashlyn, September 2, 200 I, He sells database management is a research associate at the United Methodist Church Duluth, Ga. Sara teaches fifth marketing solutions to profes­ Federal Judicial Center. • charge. • Penny Westerman grade in the Fulton County sional sport teams and other Kimberlee Fix Yo ung is assistant Krein, marketing officer for The school system. • Alan and athletic businesses. • vice president with Daniels Palmetto Bank in upstate South Suzanne Brewer Harmon, a son, MARRIAGES: Lisa DeAnne & Associates, an investment Carolina, has graduated from the David Alan, April 28, Columbia, Cottle (M.A.) and Jonathan bank in Denver, Colo. • American Bankers Association's S.C. • Greg and Alison Moore Daniel Moran, July 27. They MARRIAGE: Shellie Moses School of Bank Marketing and live in Taylors, S.C., where she and Ken Shipley, July 14. teaches second grade at Brushy Shellie has earned her master's Creek Elementary School. He degree in deaf education and is employed by Performance alternates between interpreting, CESC alumni: Let us hear from you Data in Hendersonville, N.C. • teaching deaf students and Robert Reed Hunt Ill and Susan teaching American sign language ow in its 38th year, Furman's Collegiate Educational Lynn Shelburne, November to high school students. They N Service Corps remains a leading advocate for justice, 2001. They live in Asheville, live in Centreville, Md. • kindness and service throughoutthe Greenville community. N.C., and he is an account BIRTHS: Scott and Tomoko executive with Coats North Brown, a daughter, Sydney Kei, It has been estimated that through the years as many America. • Patricia Graddy and July 5, Chapel Hill, N.C. Scott as 10,000 Furman students have volunteered with CESC. John E. Oswald, June 22. is a National Institute on Aging Founded in 1965 and directed for 35 years by Betty Alverson, Patricia is sales trainer and predoctoral fellow at Duke Uni­ the group is now led by J. Scott Derrick '88, director of product manager for TA P versity. • Jeffrey and Melanie student activities and the University Center. Pharmaceuticals in Chicago, Ill. Bain Calcaterra, a daughter, Through CESC, many students have come to under­ • BIRTHS: Chris and Bonny Catherine Ann, March 8, Day­ stand the importance of fulfilling commitments, accepting Eichelberger Daughtry, twins, ton, Ohio. • John and Amy responsibility and, ultimately, risking a little of themselves. Wilson Cullen, a son, Scott Christopher, and a daughter, Ella In the process, they have discovered the joy of service a daughter, Emma Kathryn, Kathleen, February 15, Louis­ to others. ville, Ky. • Kevin and Ansley October 17, 200 I, Greenville. Furman is now looking to compile a complete list of • Tr icia Perkins Knox Daniel, a son, Nicholas Jack and students who volunteered with CESC as undergraduates. Harrell, a daughter, Natalie Alexander, July I 0, Marietta, To do so, it needs your help. Ta ke a moment to go to the Anne, April 16, Lawrenceville, Ga. • Jim and Ana Quattlebaum following World Wide Web address: www.furman.edu/cescform. Ga. • Andy and Diane Geary Gibbs, a son, Forrester Deal, There you will find a form where you can register your Powers, a daughter, Amanda March 21, Simpsonville, S.C. • name, year of graduation and what you did as a CESC Diane, April 26, Fairfax, Ya . • Jeff (M.A. '98) and Kara Block volunteer. Or, if you prefer, submit the information by David and Julie Wright Silander, Harrelson (M.A. '94), a son, a son, Samuel Wright, Septem­ Jacob Allen, March 5, Green­ calling the Alumni Office at 1-800-PURPLE3. ber 3, 2001, Charlotte, N.C. ville. Kara teaches 4-year-old In doing so, you'll be helping the university expand its kindergarten at Northwest archive of information on one of the best known and most Crescent Child Development influential groups in Furman history.

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A stylish legacy Collection of vin tage clothes offers unique opportunity for hands-on study

It began with a simple question on an early spring day in 2001 . Bob Beshere, a theatre arts major, stopped by my office to say that a family friend was preparing to close a house. Would I be interested in any old clothes? My answer was no different from that of any other costume designer that I know. I simply said, "Yes!" Months later, Bob and I went to meet Paula Vaughan Mazursky at a small home off Augusta Street in Greenville. She and her brother had set aside an amazing gift for the Department of Theatre Arts at Furman. We filled two cars with dresses, coats, hats, boxes of lingerie, tops, aprons, purses and a riding ensemble complete with boots. The clothes had belonged to the donors' aunt, Paula Vaughan, a 1937 For theatre arts students like Kelly Criss (left) and Mariette Booth, the Va ughan graduate of Greenville Woman's College collection will help research become tangible in the classroom. who served as secretary to five successive mayors of Greenville. 1960s on, it does include several exquisite period, giving us direct evidence of period While we loaded the cars, individual nightgowns from the 1930s that show vir­ construction techniques. pieces would catch our eye, demanding tually no signs of use. Some of the dresses While studying the collection, I discov­ that we stop and admire a sassy hat or clearly were worn regularly, and the hats ered an intriguing mystery. It is unusual softly stroke the pelt of a red fox stole. and purses tend to be practical rather than to own more than one copy of a given But not until everything had been trans­ exotic or overly formal. So this collection dress. Jeans and T-shirts aside, most of ferred did I begin to fully appreciate the includes a wide range of garments that us seldom repeat a design more than once, significance of this donation. people rarely save, let alone donate. and even then we vary the color. So I was Most donations to the theatre program It also features the typical fashions astonished to find that we have five dresses are typically only 10 to 20 years old and of the middle class. While fashion history made from the same home sewing pattern. are wearable articles of clothing that are tends to focus on clothing designed for All five are made from a synthetic fiber, simply no longer fashionable. The Vaughan the upper classes, few plays are about and all are blue (in varying shades) and collection is much more significant, characters that are both wealthy and white! Each dress features subtle varia­ because it represents the taste of Paula fashionable. Teaching students to extrapo­ tions in the collar and the trimmings, but Vaughan over the course of seven decades late what the middle class wore from haute all five have the same type of pleats in the - and offers a parade of 20th-century couture sources is challenging. With this front of the skirt. styles. The earliest item is a floral silk collection, we have actual items that can Paula Vaughan began working for the chiffon dress dating from the 1920s, and be linked to the original high fashion mayor of Greenville in 1943, and these five the most recent is a dress from the mid design. As a result, research will transform dresses clearly speak to the impact of to late 1980s. In between are an evening itself into the tangible in our classrooms. World War II. The fabric restrictions, the gown in a vivid orange silk from the late Hats, purses, aprons, handkerchiefs, stress placed on redoing and making do, '30s, homemade day dresses from the early bed jackets and nightgowns can be price­ and the fashion for the practical are all '40s, a cocktail dress from the '50s, and less tools that help a costume designer embodied in these dresses. much more. visually define a character. But few We may never know why these clothes Most people save clothing for specific scholarly texts focus on these items, and have been preserved, or what meaning or sentimental reasons. Traditional occa­ little information can be found on them in Miss Vaughan placed on them. They reveal sions, such as a wedding, christening, first period sources. the ravages of time in their fragile and day of school or prom, often inspire us to Clearly, then, the Vaughan collection discolored fibers, missing buttons and lost preserve the memories by preserving the offers a unique opportunity for hands-on belts. But as we examine and study them, garment. Sometimes the cost of an item study. Providing actual samples of period history comes alive and reminds us that will also influence us to continue to store fabrics is nearly impossible, but now we a spirit can live on in the simple things we it long after we have ceased wearing it. can give our students the chance to study leave behind. This collection suggests that other and compare early synthetic fabrics. We - Kathleen Gossman forces were at work. While it has no wed­ also have a commercially purchased dress Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts ding gown and no formal gowns from the and a homemade dress from the same Hynds, a daughter, Morgan level and survey courses in Sarah Watkins Satterfield, a manager with Lucite Intema- Grace, June 3. Greg is the modem U.S. history. • Will daughter, Peyton Avery, June 17, tiona! in Memphis, Te nn. • controller for Pinnacle Staffing Waring has become assistant Gainesville, Fla. Charles Volkert Ill is an attorney in Greenville. • Jim and Victoria principal at Knightsville in Miami, Fla. He manages the Deichert Lawson, a daughter, Elementary School in 95 legal staffing division of the Ashleigh Elizabeth, May 29. • Summerville, S.C. • Jeana Next reunion in 2005 affiliates of Robert Half Inter- Lance and Meredith Lentz '94 Samples Yates completed her national, a Fortune 500 Robbie Flowers is studying for Lewis, a daughter, Pearce Master of Science degree in company. • MARRIAGE: a Ph.D. in forest entomology Elizabeth, January 11, Avondale biotechnology at Northwestern Scott Summers and Heather at Virginia Te ch University in Estates, Ga. • Brooks and Katie University last fall and is Nicole Wilson, August 10, Blacksburg. • Jeff Hammer of Mays, a daughter, Caroline employed as product manager Greenville. Both are deputies Greenville has moved from the Elizabeth, December 6, 2001. for life science and biotech- in the Greenville County position of senior account Brooks is a resident in internal nology products in the marketing Sheriff's Office . • BIRTHS: executive with BSA Intema- medicine at Palmetto Richland department of Cole-Parmer Brett and Judith Onley Buzzell, tiona! to director of digital Memorial Hospital in Columbia, Instrument Company in Ve rnon a daughter, Peyton Elizabeth, marketing in the business S.C. • Leland, Jr., and Melanie Hills, Ill. • MARRIAGES: July 15, Columbia, S.C. • Mark development unit. He has Vaughn Powell, a daughter, Corrie Bye lick and Bill Stover, and KariBeth Childress, a son, completed his term as chapter Katelyn Ashley, April 5, April 27. Corrie is a develop- James Faxon, May 25, Norcross, president of the Wade Hampton- Charlotte, N.C. Lee is a manager mental specialist/LMHC at Ga. Mark is an account execu- Taylors Jaycees and is now the at KPMG, LLP, and Melanie is All Children's Hospital in St. tive with BellSouth. • Joseph chapter's chairman of the board. a child neuropsychologist in Petersburg, Fla. • John Denning and Paula Kelley, a daughter, • In May, Phillip Lee Hargrove, private practice. • Cory and and Kellie Hilker, June 8. John Abigail Nichole, June 25, Jr., graduated from Union Melinda Bray Smith, a son, is completing his Ph.D. in clini- Charleston, S.C. • John and Theological Seminary and Connor James, April l9, Hilton cal psychology at Louisiana Mikki Streight '96 Ramey, a son, Presbyterian School of Christian Head Island, S.C. • Monty and State University. Kellie has John Tompkins, April 4. John Education in Richmond, Va ., Elizabeth Hillmer Walton, a completed her post-Ph.D. has begun a fellowship in allergy with a Master of Theology daughter, Mary Lewis Walton, internship and is beginning and immunology at the Univer- degree. • After earning a December 28, 2001, Knoxville, a two-year post-doctoral sity of South Florida in Tampa. master's degree in social work Te nn. Elizabeth teaches at program. • Evan Anslem Gatti Chet and Erin Riddle from the University of South Gresham Middle School. • Bill and Todd Alan Nicolet, August Williams, a son, Spencer Carolina in May, Deborah and Shannon Wilkerson Wilson, 10. She is a lecturer in the art Addison, February 14, Harnish accepted a job with Our a son, William Marvin IV, department at Furman. • Leigh Greenville. Lady of Mercy Outreach. September 2, Greenville. Ann Gauthier and James Michael She works with impoverished Savage, August 17. They live families and migrant farmers 96 in Greenville. Kerry Gail 94 in the Charleston, S.C., area. • Next reunionin 2006 Stubbs and Ty son Neil Boheler, Next reunion in 2004 April Knight lives on the Navajo Bryan Cochran, who is working August 10. She is assistant Hoyt Hudson Andres earned Indian Reservation in Kayenta, on a Ph.D. in psychology at the manager of Forest Park, L.L.C., a Doctor of Musical Arts degree Ariz., where she works as University of Washington, is and he is a broadcast engineer in performance from the Uni- a pediatric occupational therapist doing his clinical internship at with SCETV in Columbia, S.C. versity of North Carolina- for Special Services Consortium. the Ve teran's Administration • Te resa Wyattand Jim Klauber, Greensboro in May. • Jennie • Randy Lee has been promoted hospital in Seattle. • Angela December 8, 2001, Greenwood, Brown is an accountant with to project manager for the pro- Dauby Harper ofNewberry, S.C., S.C. • BIRTHS: Jay and Walston, Wells, Anderson & duct development and research is a third-year resident in the Shawn Guynn '96 Eckard, Bains in Birmingham, Ala. • team at ProActive Technology general psychiatry department a daughter, Bevin Elaine, April Jason Ensley has become an in Greenville. • After two years at the University of South 9, Cartersville, Ga. • Butch and associate in the Johnson City, of teaching math in Guinea, We st Carolina/Palmetto Health Meredith Green Kinerney, a son, Tenn., law firm of Baker, Africa, with the Peace Corps, Alliance. She has been elected John Douglas, June 17, South Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell. Owen Mathews has returned to a two-year term as the resident Riding, Va. • Bill and Macie He concentrates his practice in to Atlanta, Ga. • Mary Beth representative to the American Martin Lawton, a daughter, the area of labor and employ- Ponder Nesbitt works as an Psychiatric Association Board Olivia Grace, April 28, Pelzer, ment law. Jeremy Lont works EMT/paramedic in Greenville of Directors. • Ashley Holmes, S.C. • Blake and Jenny King with Harbor Energy, Inc., in New County. • Jenna Olson is a a teacher in the Lexington Neeley, a daughter, Elizabeth York. • Hannah Bright Morris clinical research associate with County (S.C.) school system, Claire, April 26, Goodlettsville, has started a sales recruiting Pharmaceutical Product Devel- has completed her master's Te nn. • Christopher and Anne business in El Segundo, Calif. opment, Inc., in Atlanta, Ga. degree. • Julie Prince Pare, who Neil Chalker Piccone, a • Jill Petryshyn Paden has She works on pharmaceutical works with Prudential/ daughter, Isabella Ann, April 2, left McGraw-Hill and is now research studies involving C. Dan Joyner in Greenville, was Safety Harbor, Fla. • Anthony a partner with her husband, Brett investigational drugs. • Holly named Prudential Multi-Million and Amy Scott Russo, a '95, in TriMeros South. • Mark McDaniel Orr has joined the staff Dollar Producer and Rookie of daughter, Catherine, March 1, Souther is an adjunct instructor of Amy Pride, Inc., in Greenville the Year for 2001. She is also Durham, N.C. • Phalen and at Tulane University in New as a full-time sales consultant. in the Prudential Honor Society. Orleans, La., teaching upper- • Jeff Sexton is a production • To dd Rantala is a strategic

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sourcing consultant in corporate AIM Systems, Inc., a life insur- graduate teaching assistants at Department of Mental Health financial services with Wachovia ance agency. • Chris and Nicole the University of Missouri in in Columbia, S.C. • Jeff and Corporation in Charlotte, N.C. Runyon, a daughter, Mary Columbia and are pursuing Dean Brannen Noblin live in • Chip Rice of Mauldin, S.C., Mackenzie, August 1, Charles- doctorates in philosophy. • Julie Albany, Ga., where Dean works is a chemist with the Milliken ton, S.C. • Kenneth and Blair Glasser and Jason Stebbins, with SunTrustBank. • Andrew Research Corporation. • Jeff Hennett Zeimetz, a son, William November 3, 2001. They live Severson of Stuart, Fla., is an and Catherine Mabry Shoaf have McCauley, May 15, Greenville. in Dallas, Ga., and Julie works associate attorney with the law moved to Houston, Te xas, where Blair is a pharmaceutical sales in a cardiac rehabilitation firm of Bums & Severson, P. A. Jeff works in retail business representative with Merck & Co. program. • Katy Seaver and Traci Shortridge,who has been strategy for Reliant Energy. Luke Cross, October 6, 2001. an admissions officer at Green- He recently earned his M.B.A 97 They live in Clovis, N.M., where ville Te chnical College, was degree from Darden Graduate Next reunion in 2007 she is a pharmacist with scheduled to start classes this School of Business Administra- Walgreens and he is an F- 16 fall at Winthrop University in Ben Boardman is an aviator in tion at the University of Virginia. pilot in the U.S. Air Force. • Rock Hill, S.C. She plans to the U.S. Army and is stationed Catherine is continuing her Amy Spencer and Keith Pelster, pursue a master's degree in with the 82nd Airborne Division dentistry practice. • Julie West June 2001. They live in St. speech-language pathology. • at Fort Bragg, N.C. • Lori Torres, assistant coordinator of Louis, Mo. • Meredith leigh Jeff Youngs of Mauldin, S.C., Boatright lives in Chester, Pa., educational programs for refu- Wilson and Jason Samuel has become an investigator with and is a teacher of English and gees and immigrants with Burton, July 20. She is a teacher the U.S. Investigations Services. rhetoric at The Christian Acad- Catholic Charities in the Diocese at Fountain Inn Elementary • MARRIAGES: Kathryn emy. • Brandon M. Cordell has of Fort Worth, Texas, was sched- School and he is a software Hollister Bloxdorf and Jason become an associate with Lewis uled to begin graduate school engineer at Guardian Building Woodrow Heming, June 8. Fisher Henderson Claxton & this fall at the University of Products of Greenville. • Kathryn is a third grade teacher Mulroy, LLP, an employment North Texas, pursuing a master's BIRTHS: Chris and Melanie at Liberty (S.C.) Elementary law firm representing manage- degree in English as a Second Montgomery Brummett, a son, School and Jason is a business ment. He is practicing out of Language . • MARRIAGES: William Gentry, February 28, analyst for BlueCross Blue the firm'sJackson, Miss., office. Paula Katherine Khoe and Alexandria, Va. • Colin and Shield of South Carolina. • • Althea Deckrosh has com- Michael Daniel Wehrle, August Brandy Justice Ross, a daughter, Andrea Bob otis and Jason pleted a Master of Arts degree 3. They live in King George, Reagan Olivia, December 29, Heider, May 18. They live in in counseling at Covenant Theo- Va ., and are employed at the 2001, Lawrenceville, Ga. • Richmond, Va ., where Jason logical Seminary. • To dd Dahlgren Naval Surface Warfare Jared and Sarah Wing '99 recently completed his M.B.A. Edwards of Greer, S.C., is an Center, she as an aerospace Svendsen, a daughter, Emma degree at Virginia Common- operations leader with General engineer and he as a computer Madeline, May 10, Boca Raton, wealth University. Andrea is Electric. • Heather Griffin, a scientist. • Anne-Marie Sanders Fla. working toward a doctorate at third grade teacher in Spartan- and Dann V. Angeloff, July 6. the University of Virginia. • burg (S.C.) School District 2, She is a student at the Medical Brian Christopher Joyner and has completed National Board 98 University of South Carolina Kristina Elizabeth Powell '99, Certification in Early Childhood. Next reunion in 2003 College of Medicine. He is May 25. They live in Greenville • Kevin (M.A.) and Sarah Couch Benjamin Barnhill has become employed at Wachovia where she teaches in the county Piland have moved to Clayton, an associate in the Greenville Securities in Charlotte, N.C., as school district. Brian is a student Ga., in Rabun County, where law office of Nelson Mullins an associate in the Financial at Clemson University. • Brian Kevin has his own rehabilitation Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P. Sponsors Group. • Bronwen George Nickerson and Margaret clinic. Sarah is finishing her He will focus his practice on Elizabeth Sanderson and Anne Craig, May 18. She is a nursing program on the Atlanta corporate, tax and estate William Michael Greene, May graduate student at the Univer- campus of Mercer University. • planning. • Matt Black is 18. She is a pediatric resident sity of South Carolina and he is Christie Pees Thomas is a operations director in the event at Greenville Memorial Hospital an engineer at Civil Engineering pediatric resident with the division of The Marketing Arm and he is a physician at Consulting Services. • Tiffany Palmetto Health Alliance in in Dallas, Te xas. • Dana Olsen Greenville ENT Associates. • Adele Williams and Henry Columbia, S.C. • Brian Lanning is a pharmacist with BIRTHS: Arthur and Margaret Steward Watson, Jr., June 8. She Thompson received his Ph.D. in Evanston Northwestern Health- ladson Barbee, a son, Gray, is a teacher and coach at Wade chemistry from Yale University care in Chicago, Ill. • lance March 1, Peachtree City, Ga. • Hampton High School and he is in May and is now a senior Leviner works for SunCom/ Allen and Susan looper '98 a project engineer for Beers scientist at GlaxoSmithKline TritonPCS in Charleston, S.C., Cooper, a daughter, Emma Skanska Construction Company in Chapel Hill, N.C. • Kris providing customer support. • Rebecca, June 8, Easley, S.C. • in Greenville. • BIRTHS: Watts recently completed Stephanie Young McGoldrick Jeff and Emily Reed Greene, a Joseph M. and Joanna Espinosa, a Doctor of Musical Arts degree of Maitland, Fla., is a graduate son, Mitchell Roberts, March a daughter, Hannah Adeline, in composition at the University student at the University of 31, Boone, N.C. • Scott '98 and September 25, 2001, Greenville. of Cincinnati College-Conserva- CentralFlorida, where she works Jane Moody Keefauver, a son, Joseph is employed at Michelin. tory of Music, specializing in in the school's student activities Timothy Michael, July 16, • John and Amanda Fortner music technology and computer office. • Marisa Manzi Nava Easley, S.C. • Rob and Kristi Hendrich, a son, John, May 28, music. • MARRIAGES: lily has begun a predoctoral Padgett Olterman, a son, Nathan Easley, S.C. Amanda teaches in Chang and Troy Matthew internship in clinical psychology Bolton, June 18, 2001, Atlanta, the Greenville County school Nunley, August 3. They are at the Hall Institute of the Ga. Rob is a vice president with system. • Christopher and that specializes in the media Katherine Stewart,a son, David, needs of Christian ministries. • Letter to the editor May 7, Lexington, Ky. Suzanna Wellman is an internal auditor for the CSX Corporation 99 in Jacksonville, Fla. • Next reunion in 2004 MARRIAGES: Christine Dawkins and Joseph Brewster, Camille Bennett is pursuing May. They live in the Washing­ an acting career in Los Angeles, ton, D.C., area, and Christine is Calif. • Nikki Lacount Brandt a social worker with the DC of Taylors, S.C., has become Child and Family We lfare a staff accountant with Scan Services. • Edwin Alonzo Source. • Miyako Keon Farnell and Allison Joan Smith Chambliss has earned a master's ' July 13. Both are fourth-year degree in health administration students at the Medical Uni­ from the University of South versity of South Carolina in Carolina and received a fe llow­ Charleston. • Rebekah Katherin ship for a one-year position with Gentry and Jonathan Martin the Western New York Ve terans Gregory, August 3. They live H?spital in Buffalo. • In July, in Lansing, Mich., where he Alison Cunnold accepted a job attends the Thomas Cooley Law teaching fifthgrade in the Fulton School. • Clevonne Michelle County (Ga.) school system. • Houser and LeRoy Gaillard '00, Chris Ford, a graduate of the August 10. After completing her University of South Carolina law degree in May, Clevonne School of Law, was scheduled accepted a position as an asso­ to enter the U.S. Army as a ciate in the law firm of J.A.G. officer when he passed Thompson Hine. LeRoy is the Bar. • Brian Gill lives in working toward a Master of Lubbock, Texas, and is a medical Public Administration degree student. • Matthew and Amanda at Cleveland State University. Thrasher '00Hobbs are stationed They live in Shaker Heights, at Fort Knox, Ky., where he is Ohio. • Mary Wannamaker Huff executive officer of an AIT and Andrew Henderson, June company, training new recruits 15. They live in Mercersburg, in the U.S. Army. • B.J. Huston Pa., where she is organist and is doing information security choral director at Mercersburg work for the U.S. Navy in Academy. He is assistant London, England. • Rebecca organist at The Church of St. Muncrief works as assistant Ignatius Loyola in New York. manager in the Treasury Group • Stephanie McClelland and of TD Securities (USA) Inc. in Win Walstad, November 17 Houston, Texas. • Leslie Coates 2001. He is a portfolio man ger Rogers lives in Watkinsville, ; and she is a medical assistant in Ga., and teaches Latin and Santa Barbara, Calif. • Mark advanced literature at Oconee Allan Rowe and Olivia Joy County High School. • Taylor, May 4. Both earned Cameron Runyan of Columbia, degrees from Mississippi S.C., served as finance director College School of Law in May for the Phil Leventis for and now live in Greenville Lieutenant Governor campaign. where Mark is assistant le al • Joanna Ponder Skinner has � counsel for Ryobi Technologies. completed her M.B.A. degree • BIRTH: Jeff and Heather and is writing her thesis to Pearch Phillips, a daughter, complete her degree in arts Riley Eileen, March 18, administration at the University Charlotte, N.C. of Ohio. • Chrystal Smith of Shaker Heights, Ohio, is a stu­ dent at Case We stern Reserve 00 University School of Law. • Next reunion in 2005 Kristin Stultz of Duluth, Ga., Christine Aeschliman is is public relations coordinator currently working as a proof­ for the DeMoss Group, a firm reader for Deloitte & Touche

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LLP in Atlanta, Ga. She plans a master's and specialist degree are enrolled at the University of director at Salem Memorial to returnto the Aurora Theatre in school counseling at Georgia Georgia, he as a third-year law Lutheran Church in Detroit. • as stage manager for the 2003- State University. • Curtis student and she as a candidate Gabrielle Ferguson and Leander 04 season. • Lindsay Austin, Callaway has earned a master's for a master's degree in social Cannick III, August 10. She is a teacher in the DeKalb County degree in American history from work. • Kristin Rakness and enrolled in a joint Ph.D./D.M.D. (Ga.) school system, is pursuing the University of South Carolina. Jason Riddle, April 20. They program through the College of • Laura Christian earned her live in Atlanta, Ga., where she Graduate Studies/College of Master of Social Work degree is an employment tax consultant Dental Medicine at the Medical from the University of North for Deloitte & Touche LLP. • University of South Carolina in Carolina in May and became Robin Thomas and Jay Charleston. He is also a student Class vptes director of child and family DiBartolomeo '01, November at MUSC. • Joshua Ladd support with Loaves and Fishes 10, 2001. They live in Linebaugh and Melissa Sue POliCY in Raleigh, N.C. • While Rockville, Md., and Robin is the Manwaring, May 25. They live working toward his master's political advertising coordinator in Columbia, S.C., where she degree in Spanish at the for Katz Media Group, Inc. • is employed with Colonial University of New Mexico, Phil Ginger Marie Warlick and Supplemental Insurance Com­ Because of the large Guengerich has become athletic Andrew Euta Colvin, June 1, pany and he at Lexington number of submissions and coordinator at East Mountain Easley, S.C. They live in Medical Center. • Matthew Patrick Link Jennifer Lynn clippings Furman receives High School in Albuquerque. Columbia, S.C. She is an and He will also teach Spanish at the English teacher at Richland McDonald, June 29. They live for the magazine's class charter school. • Kate Hanmer Northeast High School and he in Augusta, Ga., where he is notes section and the is a second grade teacher at High attends the University of South a student at the Medical College amount of time it lakes to Point Elementary School in Carolina School of Law and of Georgia and she teaches math review, compile and edit Fulton County, Ga. • Elizabeth works in the William S. Elder at Crosscreek High School. • so much information, news Head has earneda Master of Law Firm. James Andrew Parker and Annie items frequently are not Music Education degree from Jane Wood, July 20. He is published until five or six Florida State University. She 01 a tennis professional at Green­ months after they are lives in Vinings, Ga., and works Next reunion in 2006 ville Country Club, with plans submitted. as the orchestra director at Holy to pursue a career in commercial Dean Ferreira is a senior training Innocents' Episcopal School real estate. She is a student at Furman magazine consultant with Solution Source (middle and upper schools). • Converse College in Spartan­ does not publish dated LLC in Greenville. • Meg Craig Hunter completed his burg, S.C., pursuing a Master items (anything more than Flannagan, who has been work­ Master of Public Policy degree of Arts degree in teaching. • 18 months old at time of ing with the Presbyterian Church in international development and Bethany Shannon Pyles and publication) or engage­ USA in Belfast, Northern cultural policy at the University Wade Stuart Wimmer, August ment announcements. Ireland, is now working with of Chicago in June and is now 10. She is a sales research Birth and marriage Presbyterian church and campus working for USAID in Durban, coordinator at Clear Channel ministries in the Charleston, announcements for alumni South Africa. He has enrolled Radio and he is homecare S.C., area. • David Kimball couples who graduated at the University of Natal to operations manager at Spar­ has joined the staff of Infinity in different years are in­ pursue a master's degree in tanburg (S.C.) Regional Medical Marketing, Inc., in Greenville cluded under the earliest development studies. • Nicole Center. as vice president of interactive. graduation dale (except Maglio, a student at Hofstra • Jennifer Neal is an exercise University School of Law in if requested otherwise); physiologist with North Green­ 02 New York, is employed with they are not listed under ville Fitness and Cardiac Rehab. Next reunion in 2007 Arkwin Industries, a company both classes. We ask that • Benjamin Simon has been Preston Broadhead became that manufactures hydraulic parts you include your spouse's selected as a fellow of the Trinity restaurant manager for the for commercial and military or child's name and the Forum Academy, a nine-month Chicago (Ill.) Chop House in aircraft , turbine engines and date and city where the residential learning community June. • Banning Ballard and other spacecraft. • David birthor marriage occurred. on the grounds of Osprey Point Ford Grable are in Japan, serving Schilling was to enroll this fall Send news to the Leadership Center in Maryland. as assistant language teachers at the Patterson School of • Chu Pak Smith of Simpson­ in the Japan English Te aching Office of Marketing and Diplomacy and International ville, S.C., has joined Right (JET) Program. • Meredith Public Relations, Furman Commerce at the University Management Consultants as Moore is currently working as a University, 3300 Poinsett of Kentucky. • Kaitlin a market resources consultant. nanny in Raleigh, N.C. She Highway, Greenville, S.C. Summerville, a ski instructor • MARRIAGES: Thomas plans to enter graduate school 29613, or e-mail to at Big Sky Resort in Montana, Bandy and Rebecca Jackson, next fall. • Thomas Player spent the summer in Wanaka, [email protected]. June 16, 2001. They live in Ann has been named a regional New Zealand. • Lizzi Lightner Selected information Arbor, Mich. Rebecca is are­ researcher by Realti-Corp in Winter is studying for a master's submitted to the on-line Ceptionist and medical records Greenville . • MARRIAGES: degree in library studies at registry at furman.edu/ clerk at Huron Va lley Urology Jennifer Leigh Bailey and Florida State University. • admin/alumni is also Associates in Ann Arbor. Matthew Dave Everhart, June MARRIAGES: Andrea Mills included in class notes. Thomas is organist and choir and Gus Suarez, August 3. Both 22. They live in Bloomington, Kathleen Tra mmell Cox '35, Mary Jane Wa lker Kinard '40, member of Dorchester County Ind., where she is studying for June 22, Greenville. She taught August 21, Greenville. She had District 2 Schools, and he was a master's degree in clarinet fourth grade in Florida and in the distinction of being the first a member of the South Carolina performance at Indiana the Greenville County School woman to be a member of the Athletic Hall of Fame, the University. He works for Jay District for 40 years. North Greenville College Board Fellowship of Christian Athletes Howard Production Audio. • of Trustees. She was a charter and the Masons. Christie Clare Prevost '35, June Allison Leigh Butcher and member of the Camellia Garden 20, Greenville. He was principal Sara Virginia Smith Gentry '48, James David Fox, June 14. Club. of Prevost Realty Company and August 4, Easley, S.C. She was They live in Greenville where was also associated with Byrum James Edward Shields '42, June active in a number of community he attends Greenville Te chnical and Bates prior to his retirement. 7, Greenville. He served in the organizations, including the College and works at High Te ch He was a member of several U.S. Air Force during World War Nosegay Garden Club and Development Center. • Amanda organizations, including the II and was retired after working the Better Homes Club. Faith Crawford and Charles Greenville Rotary Club and St. as a printer with Th e Greenville Edward Underhill III, July 6. • Luther Zedic Barnett '49, May Andrews Society of Upper South News for 46 years. Arianna Mclain and David Shirk, 19, Charleston, S.C. A highly Carolina. July 6. They live in Winston­ Mary Witcher Duncan '44, July decorated U.S. Army veteran, Salem, N.C. David S. Boyd '36, July 14, 20, Greer, S.C. She was a former he was a flight engineer aboard Greenville. He served in the teacher in the Greenville County B-24 bombers, was a member DEATHS U.S. Navy aboard the aircraft School District. of the Flying Tigers in the 14th carrier S.S. Bennington, and was Air Corps in China, and served Louise Pontious '45, June 23, Hazel Revis Ponder '28, August retired from Anchor Post in the Asia-Pacific Campaign North Augusta, S.C. She had 4, Greenville. She taught at Sans Products. during World War II. In 1955 taught at Walterboro (S.C.) High Souci Elementary School in he became the agency manager Louise Glymph Mullinax '36, School. Greenville for 38 years. for Jefferson-Pilot Company in July 13, Panorama Village, Thomas Earl Snyder '45, June Charleston and represented the Mary Lancaster Reeves '29, Te xas. company for 30 years. He June 28, Spartanburg, S.C. She 19, Greenville. A U.S. Air Force served in leadership roles on the was retired from Evans Junior Bess Partridge Bethea '38, May veteran, he was a retired local, state and national levels High School after 34 years of 19, Latta, S.C. She was a mem- chemical salesperson in the with such groups as the Jaycees, teaching in public schools. ber of the Dillon County textile industry. Historical Society. Boy Scouts, Red Cross, United Sara Thomson Waikart '29, May Walter C. Simpson, Jr. '46, April Way, Heart Fund, Optimist Club 27, Seneca, S.C. She was a Lloyd Odell Hughes '38, August 6, Portsmouth, Va. He had been and South Carolina Mental portraitist who also taught art 10, Greensboro, N.C. He was an optometrist with Booneville Health Association. He was classes in Seneca. She and five a U.S. Army veteran of World (Miss.) Vision Clinic. a charter board member of the other artists founded the Blue War II and was a charter member Trident Technical College Edu- Claire Broome Wagner '46, Ridge Arts Council, and she was of the World Peace Through Law cation Commission, eventually June 12, Clemson, S.C. She was often referred to as Oconee Peace Committee. After the war, serving as its chair, and was a retired secretary. County's "Grandma Moses." he worked with High Point Bank a member of the national As so- In addition, she worked as and Tru st Company, was Mary Porter Lewis '47, July 27, ciation of Community College a secretary at Seneca High treasurer and business manager Pickens, S.C. She was retired Trustees. He was selected South School, retiring in 1970. at Brevard College and was an fr om the administration office Carolina Man of the Ye ar in auditor at High Point College. of the Pickens County School 1995. Mary Inman Hendricks '32, July He was also a partner at Hughes- District. 20, Columbia, S.C. She played Ranking Company for 40 years. Paul Morgan Stombaugh '49, the violin with the Columbia He was a 32nd degree Mason Mary Lynn Wilkins Zimmerman June 15, Greenville. During Philharmonic and was a member and was a member of the High '47, July 15, Greenville. World War II, he served in the of the Afternoon Music Club, U.S. Navy aboard the destroyer Point Jaycees and the Lions William Howard Bagwell, Sr. the Gardenia Garden Club and Club. In addition, he was a USS Metivier. He worked for '48 (M.A. '60), July 6, the Home Arts Club. Legion of Honor DeMo lay and the Federal Bureau of Investi- Summerville, S.C. After U.S. State Deputy of the Order of gation for 26 years as a special Susan Ann Ava Hendricks Army service during the Korean DeMolay, was on the board of agent, and his work included Hughes '32, August 3, Green­ Conflict, he was a high school advisors for Friends Home, and investigations of the assas- ville. She was a retired teacher. and college coach and athletic was a member of Concerned sination of President John F. director for 52 years. He served Willie James Verdin '32, July Citizens and Model Cities. Kennedy and of the controversial as a Field Judge for two National 28, Lincolnton, N.C. He was case of Jeffrey MacDonald, the James Towler '38, June 28, Track and Field championships, the retired owner of Ve rdin's Green Beret doctor who was Greenville. He served in the was co-founder of the Big South Dairy. convicted of the 1970 murder of Athletic Conference, and retired U.S. Army during World War II his wife and two children at Fort after 30 years as the first athletic Mary Bethea Wilds '33, July 31, and was a self-employed carpet Bragg, N.C. He retired from director at Charleston (S.C.) Laurens, S.C. She taught high salesman before his retirement. the FBI in 1976, after which SouthernUniversit y. 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Greenville County Crime was a past member of the board and commissions, including the Ruth Stanton Bryant '61, July Laboratory. He was a member of the Baptist Courier as well as Arthritis Foundation, Ve terans 25, Travelers Rest, S.C. She of the Society of Former Special a past member of the YMCA of of Foreign Wars, Ducks served with Greenville County Agents of the FBI-Piedmont Spartanburg and a supporter of Unlimited and the Beebe Schools for 38 years and retired Chapter. the YMCA's Black Achievers Medical Center. from Ebenezer Elementary program. School, where she was the Peggy Cater Hamrick '50, July George A. Stack '53, March 31, principal. She was a member 10, Spartanburg, S.C. She was Jack Edwin Jenkinson '51, June Owenton, Ky. He had been of the Greenville County Edu­ active inchurch and civic organi­ 3, Greenville. He served in the employed by Owen County/Ten cation Association and was zations in both Spartanburg and U.S. Marine Corps and was Mile Baptist Church as director instrumental in the establishment Greenville and was deeply retired from GMAC. of admissions. of the Glassy Mountain Fire involved in university life at Jane R. Sampey '51, July 30, Judith Neilley Sullivan '54, Department. Furman. For many years she Greenville. She taught English January 6, Wyckoff, N.J. was a volunteer with the Ameri­ John Orlin Lenning '62, August and American literature for 24 can Cancer Society, Mobile John McKinney Cann '55, 12, Greenville. A U.S. Army years, including five years at Meals of Spartanburg and St. July 14, Laurens, S.C. He was veteran of the Korean Conflict, junior colleges in Georgia and Luke's Free Medical Clinic. She a commissioned officer in the he had a brief stint with The North Carolina and 18 years at U.S. Army and served in the Navigators in California before the American College for Girls/ Army Reserves before beginning moving to Greenville to work Roberts College in Istanbul, his career in ministry, which as an associate with Cliff Turkey. From Turkey, she included churches in North Barrows and the Billy Graham CAMPUS DIRECTORY traveled in 35 countries in Carolina, Kentucky, South Evangelistic Association. He ------Europe and the Middle East. Carolina and Frankfurt, served as producer of Graham's She won firstprize in "The Face Frequently called Furman Germany. He was the first weekly radio broadcast for 41 of Turkey" contest of the Tu rkish telephone numbers administrator/chaplain of Martha years and was most recently Daily News and served as assis­ (area code 864): Franks Baptist Retirement director of the TV Te lephone tant editor of the magazine Center in Laurens. He served Ministry of BGEA. Main University Number Crossroads: The Wo rld of Islam. on the Board of International 294-2000 She was the author of 16 pub­ Ann Jordan McNeely European Baptist Federation and lished articles and poems and Manzanares '63, May 20, the general boards of state Academic Records fo ur unpublished manuscripts Louisville, Ky. After serving Baptist conventions in North and (Registrar) about Turkey. in Ve nezuela in the Peace Corps, 294-3616 South Carolina. she became an escrow super­ John Andrew Stafford, Sr. '51, Admissions George Lee Broome '56, visor in a savings and loan in July 2, Mauldin, S.C. He served 294-2034 May 29, Monroe, N.C. He was Denver, Colo. in the U.S. Army during World a military veteran and a retired Alumni Association War II and was retired from Roy Parsons Taylor '64, May Baptist minister. 1-800-PURPLE3 Southern Bell after 33 years. 31, Elon, N.C. He was a member of the Masons. Jesse Bradford Brown, Jr. '56, Athletic Ticket Office Thomas Edward Self '84, July June 17, Aiken, S.C. He was a 294-3097 Jack F. Owens '52, July 7, 26, Greenville. After service Baptist minister and had pastored Georgetown, Del. A Marine in the U.S. Navy during the Bookstore churches in New Jersey, Massa­ Corps veteran, he went on to Vietnam War, he worked as 294-21 64 chusetts and Pennsylvania. He work as a coach and educational a medical equipment supplier was a member of the Porcelain Career Services administrator in Pickens County, with Carolina Oxygen Service Painters International Organi­ 294-2106 S.C., and served in an admini­ in Greenville. zation and was involved in the strative capacity with Greenville Furman Fund Gloucester County (N.J.) Art Kerry Harike Joedecke '94, July Te chnical College. In 1967 he 294-3475 League. 1, Atlanta, Ga. After working was hired to help open Delaware as a law clerk in Bankruptcy Graduate Studies Te chnical & Community Brent Ralston Blake '57, July 5, Court in Savannah, Ga., she 294-2213 College, where he served as Columbia, S.C. He began his became an associate with the the campus' first administrator. career as a salesman for Rice Parents Programs Rogers & Hardin law firm in Upon his retirement in 1995, the Music House in Greenville and 294-3465 Atlanta. She served as the recent college's Southern Campus was later became manager of Rice grad appointee to the University Student Services renamed the Jack F. Owens Music House in Spartanburg, of Georgia Board of Visitors 294-2202 Campus. In 1993, he was S.C. He then moved to from 1997 through 1999. recognized with Delaware's For other administrative Columbia to become vice highest award, "The Order of office numbers, call the president of a family firm, the First State." He received main number or visit the Lee Transport Equipment,· Inc., Furman Web site honorary degrees from and retired in 1997. (www.furman.edu) and Wilmington College and the follow the faculty/staff link University of Guadalajara, and to the campus telephone he served on numerous boards directory. Dramatic shift Putney's la w career takes back seat to her shot at show biz

You may have seen Laura Putney last who was preparing to start her legal career May 3. with the firm of Alston & Bird in Atlanta, Ga., At approximately 9:55 p.m. EDT, she was quoted as saying that, given her was lying on a street in Washington, D.C., druthers, she'd rather act. the victim of a hit-and-run that was clearly The story, published shortly after her no accident. graduation, set off a few shock waves. The Laura looked done for, her body beaten Atlanta Journal-Constitution picked up on and battered, her friend kneeling beside the Alston & Bird connection and wrote her, crying for help. Would a miracle a scathing editorial about this "ungrateful" happen? Would she somehow survive? young woman who didn't really want this We'll never know. "First Monday," wonderful job with this wonderful firm. The the CBS show about the Supreme Court CBS Evening News and "Good Morning on which she guest-starred as the unlucky America" followed up, requesting interviews casualty, was canceled, leaving viewers and clips from the film. (and Laura) hanging. Putney was actually vacationing in Italy Frankly, though, it looked like she when the turmoil began. "It was a bit of needed to be transported to "ER"- STAT. a shock to get to my hotel and find a mes­ More likely, as she says, "That character iil sage saying, 'Dan Rather called'," she says. 8 will just have to be on 'Six Feet Under'." 0 While she was willing to talk with the ::t: Fortunately, the real Laura is alive media, she wouldn't let them broadcast the �w and well and has moved on to a more stable cr: film, in large partbecause her friends hadn't CBS program: "JAG." She has a recurring 9 consented to have their views aired publicly. role this year as an attorney on the popular On September 1, Laura Putney took on Without access to the film, the networks military/legal drama. a new role when she married attorney lost interest and the furor soon died down. James Feldman. And what does "recurring" mean? "You "It would be interesting to go back and get to be on more than one show," she see how the people I interviewed feel today," says. Her first episode aired November 5. Putney says. "At the time, they had no She's not about to complain about Furman theatre productions and performed perspective on their Harvard experience. typecasting, either, although in real life, she locally and regionally with Idiom Savant, I'm sure they'd offer a different take now." really is an attorney - with a rather impres­ a popular improvisational troupe. After working for a year (and continuing sive pedigree: Harvard Law School, Class When she moved on to Harvard, she to study acting) in Atlanta, Putney moved of 1995. The "JAG" break came after the says, she enjoyed "a fantastic three years to New Yo rk with Kauff, McClain & McGuire. show's producer, Donald Bellisario - who in an intellectually stimulating environment." There she fed her acting jones by taking also produced "First Monday" and happens Aside from her law studies, she took classes classes and landing occasional jobs, includ­ to have a law degree himself - learned at the American Repertory Theatre and ing a reading of a play by Furman alum that he and Laura shared a similar became involved with the law student drama Randall David Cook '91 . But she was educational background. society, which presented parodies of student working 60-hour weeks, she says, so finding Officially, she is "of counsel" in Los life. "I performed, wrote and directed," she time for acting was difficult. Angeles for the firm of Kauff, McClain & says. "We had great fun." When the itch wouldn't subside, she McGuire, with whom she worked full time During her final year, she produced decided to move to Los Angeles, which she in New Yo rk before following her heart and something more serious: a 45-minute mini­ did in the summer of 2001 . At first she took moving to the West Coast. So while she documentary about the law school experi­ a sabbatical leave, but when the firm asked tries to build a theatrical career by guesting ence. At the time, Harvard was undergoing if she would be willing to represent its on television shows, doing commercials some public and private turmoil, which she interests on a part-time basis, she couldn't and independent films, and studying and says has since been resolved. say no. performing with ACME Comedy Theatre, Putney, who received academic credit For Putney, things seem to be working a sketch comedy group, she has the luxury for the project, interviewed more than 20 out just fine. And in discussing the choices of knowing that she has something to fall classmates, most of whom expressed she has made, she recalls the words of back on. disenchantment with the school and its a Harvard professor, who told students She says, "Many actors struggle to numbing effect on their lives. She donated to "invent the job you want." make a living while pursuing their career. the video, of which only a few copies were She says, "He told us not to try to ima­ I'm fortunate to be able to practice law on printed, to the school; professors and uni­ gine our career path, but to dream our the side. It's interesting and challenging, versity committees watched it in an effort wildest dream. Ask yourself, 'What do you I like it, and it's a flexible job that will support to understand and address the students' want to keep from law school?' 'What do me." dissatisfaction. you want to add?' Then go out and create Acting has long had a grip on Laura Somehow, though, the New Yo rk Times that job." Putney, a history major and 1992 summa found out about it, interviewed Putney, and She seems to have followed his advice cum laude graduate of Furman. As an wrote a story saying that no one at Harvard to the letter. undergraduate, she appeared in several Law School wanted to be a lawyer. Putney, -Jim Stewart 47 The Last Word

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Th e residence halls weren't the only area of the Furman campus beset by overcrowding this fall. A major influx of Canada geese caused a variety of problems both on and around the lake. While the university worked to address the situation, Furman magazine decided to seek out the avian point of view. Here 's the perspective from one Branta Canadensis:

Once we were appreciated, even celebrated. We were Everything was fine when there were just a few pictured in university brochures and featured in South of us. But now that our numbers have grown to more Carolina Wildlife. than 500 (and counting), we've become gandera non We were "Furman's Canada geese." Life was grata. Rumor has it that Furman is trying to find us sublime. a new home in a less populated area, and that the South Today, we are labeled "unmanageable" and "overly Carolina Department of Natural Resources may soon aggressive." We are accused of terrorizing small swoop in and take us away. children, attacking sunbathing coeds and displacing Granted, things have gotten a bit crowded around the indigenous swans and ducks. Plus, they say we're here. And we may have brought some of this negative creating a health hazard by leaving tell-tale reminders attention on ourselves. of our presence along the lake shore - and on the We shouldn't have scared that 5-year-old (and his soles of people's shoes. parents) half to death, but in our defense, we were As for the university employees that once gladly hungry, he had the bread, and we do tend to flock to fed us, they're shooting guns each morningin an attempt the nearest food source. We have also agreed to provide to scare us away. They may be fi ring blanks, but they're restitution to the elderly gentleman who injured himself also making it perfectly clear where we stand in the while trying to avoid us. We're sorry he slipped on lakeside pecking order. those droppings, although we suspect that some snooty And all of this because we had the audacity to get swans set us up. comfortable-and to invite our friends from up North As for the coeds who were catching some rays, to "Come on down. " we really weren't being excessively forward. Our nips and nudges were nothing more than friendly overtures. We had no idea those girls were so scantily clad until they lit out for the dorms. They should chalk it up as a learning experience: It's hard to run and fasten your bikini top at the same time. OK, we admit it. We're not perfect. We've done some bird-brained things. But is there no middle ground here? After all, we like Furman. It nurtures our nesting instincts. We enjoy drinking from wisdom's fountain pure. And we find the emphasis on engaged learning to be uplifting. So we're hoping we can work out a way to settle this flap. Perhaps our friends, the Muscovy ducks, could serve as arbitrators. Better yet, have the university form a task force! That's sure to give us at least a two­ year reprieve. In the meantime, we'll just try to fly under the radar and avoid those who may have foul play in mind. And if we are ultimately asked to leave, we won't let it get us down. We'll simply take off for bluer skies and calmer waters. We don't need to ruffle any more feathers than we have already.

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