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Furman Magazine Volume 52 Article 1 Issue 1 Spring 2009 4-1-2009 Furman Magazine. Volume 52, Issue 1 - Full Issue Furman University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/furman-magazine Recommended Citation University, Furman (2009) "Furman Magazine. Volume 52, Issue 1 - Full Issue," Furman Magazine: Vol. 52 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/furman-magazine/vol52/iss1/1 This Complete Volume is made available online by Journals, part of the Furman University Scholar Exchange (FUSE). It has been accepted for inclusion in Furman Magazine by an authorized FUSE administrator. For terms of use, please refer to the FUSE Institutional Repository Guidelines. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SPRING 2009 FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY Golden Anniversary PAGE 2 Furman FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2009 Volume 52, Number 1 Furman magazine is published quarterly for alumni and friends by the Office of Marketing and Public Relations, Furman University, Greenville, S.C. 29613. FEATURES EDITOR Jim Stewart 2 A Greater Furman DESIGNER Jane A. Dorn BY JUDITH T. BAINBRIDGE The 2008-09 academic year marked the 50th anniversary of Furman’s move to the current CONTRIBUTORS Judith T. Bainbridge campus. Here’s a look back at the early days. Eleanor Beardsley Jeffrey C. Bollerman Dudley Brown 8 Rumble in the Jungle Kate Hofler BY JEFFREY C. BOLLERMAN Liz McSherry An international competition to determine the World Elephant Polo Championship? Vince Moore Indeed. And an alumnus was there to describe it all. Candace O’Connor Josie Sawyer 14 Gladly Wolde He Lerne and Gladly Teche Tom Triplitt BY JIM STEWART Lauren Tyler Wright A tribute to the leadership and legacy of Francis W. Bonner, longtime university administrator. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT/ Nell Smith CLASS NOTES EDITOR 16 The Pragmatic Sensei BY CANDACE O’CONNOR EDITORIAL ADVISORY Tish Pearman Anderson Inspired by his work in Asian Studies at Furman, Jim Eubanks ’05 is helping to define COMMITTEE Randall David Cook a more accessible, culturally relevant strain of Buddhism. Nancy R. Fullbright Sam Hodges 20 For NPR News Eleanor Beardsley ’86 describes her career journey to a lead correspondent’s role in Paris PRINTING Hickory Printing Group, Inc. with National Public Radio. E-MAIL [email protected] TELEPHONE (864) 294-2185 DEPARTMENTS 26 BECAUSE FURMAN MATTERS FAX (864) 294-3023 28 FURMAN REPORTS 34 ATHLETICS © Furman University 2009 36 ALUMNI NEWS 48 THE LAST WORD COVER: The aerial photo, credited to legendary Greenville photographer Bill Coxe, appeared on the cover of the October 1958 issue of The Furman University Magazine. Reprinted here in celebration of the golden anniversary of the move to the current campus. Courtesy Furman Special Collections and Archives and Furman Digicenter. Furman FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2009 Volume 52, Number 1 Furman magazine is published quarterly for alumni and friends by the Office of Marketing and Public Relations, Furman University, Greenville, S.C. 29613. FEATURES EDITOR Jim Stewart 2 A Greater Furman DESIGNER Jane A. Dorn BY JUDITH T. BAINBRIDGE The 2008-09 academic year marked the 50th anniversary of Furman’s move to the current CONTRIBUTORS Judith T. Bainbridge campus. Here’s a look back at the early days. Eleanor Beardsley Jeffrey C. Bollerman Dudley Brown 8 Rumble in the Jungle Kate Hofler BY JEFFREY C. BOLLERMAN Liz McSherry An international competition to determine the World Elephant Polo Championship? Vince Moore Indeed. And an alumnus was there to describe it all. Candace O’Connor Josie Sawyer 14 Gladly Wolde He Lerne and Gladly Teche Tom Triplitt BY JIM STEWART Lauren Tyler Wright A tribute to the leadership and legacy of Francis W. Bonner, longtime university administrator. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT/ Nell Smith CLASS NOTES EDITOR 16 The Pragmatic Sensei BY CANDACE O’CONNOR EDITORIAL ADVISORY Tish Pearman Anderson Inspired by his work in Asian Studies at Furman, Jim Eubanks ’05 is helping to define COMMITTEE Randall David Cook a more accessible, culturally relevant strain of Buddhism. Nancy R. Fullbright Sam Hodges 20 For NPR News Eleanor Beardsley ’86 describes her career journey to a lead correspondent’s role in Paris PRINTING Hickory Printing Group, Inc. with National Public Radio. E-MAIL [email protected] TELEPHONE (864) 294-2185 DEPARTMENTS 26 BECAUSE FURMAN MATTERS FAX (864) 294-3023 28 FURMAN REPORTS 34 ATHLETICS © Furman University 2009 36 ALUMNI NEWS 48 THE LAST WORD COVER: The aerial photo, credited to legendary Greenville photographer Bill Coxe, appeared on the cover of the October 1958 issue of The Furman University Magazine. Reprinted here in celebration of the golden anniversary of the move to the current campus. Courtesy Furman Special Collections and Archives and Furman Digicenter. BY JUDITH T. BAINBRIDGE COURTESY JOHN COTHRAN JOHN COURTESY The way we were 50 years ago, when the university officially unveiled its new campus. On November 12, 1958, Furman invited the Greenville community to visit its new Poinsett Highway campus. The Greenville News published a special section, stuffed with congratulatory advertisements from vendors, to celebrate. Turning its pages opens a window to a 50-year-old past. Furman was a small school with big dreams. With an enrollment of 1,349 (80 percent from South Carolina, 60 percent men), it was building a campus to house and educate 2,000 future students. The James B. Duke Library at the center of the university had only 90,000 volumes but space for 400,000. The new campus had been a long time in coming. In 1947, overwhelmed by a surge of veterans into the classrooms, trustees began considering expanding Furman’s downtown site above the Reedy River. The situation had been awkward since 1933, when, in the heart of the Great Depression, the Greenville Woman’s College had become the university’s coordi- nate Women’s College. Students and faculty had used buses, taxis and personal cars to travel between two campuses a mile apart. A view up the mall from the early 1960s — and how things look today from the opposite direction. JEREMY FLEMING FURMAN | SPRING 2009 3 BY JUDITH T. BAINBRIDGE COURTESY JOHN COTHRAN JOHN COURTESY The way we were 50 years ago, when the university officially unveiled its new campus. On November 12, 1958, Furman invited the Greenville community to visit its new Poinsett Highway campus. The Greenville News published a special section, stuffed with congratulatory advertisements from vendors, to celebrate. Turning its pages opens a window to a 50-year-old past. Furman was a small school with big dreams. With an enrollment of 1,349 (80 percent from South Carolina, 60 percent men), it was building a campus to house and educate 2,000 future students. The James B. Duke Library at the center of the university had only 90,000 volumes but space for 400,000. The new campus had been a long time in coming. In 1947, overwhelmed by a surge of veterans into the classrooms, trustees began considering expanding Furman’s downtown site above the Reedy River. The situation had been awkward since 1933, when, in the heart of the Great Depression, the Greenville Woman’s College had become the university’s coordi- nate Women’s College. Students and faculty had used buses, taxis and personal cars to travel between two campuses a mile apart. A view up the mall from the early 1960s — and how things look today from the opposite direction. JEREMY FLEMING FURMAN | SPRING 2009 3 COURTESY JOHN COTHRAN JOHN COURTESY JEREMY FLEMING between 1920 and 1950 Furman alumni had every feature of the new campus, including comparable figure today is 92 percent of 215 earned the highest grade point averages among the land scaping. Thirteen varieties of 1,100 Old College arrives from downtown. Opposite: Daniel Dining Hall, then and now; early 1960s view from Duke Library toward Furman Hall. professors. all colleges represented in its graduate program. trees had already been planted, although they Today’s campus is far different from the one These pioneering first students, said an were bare spindly sticks, and future “spray the university unveiled just over 50 years ago. article reprinted from The Hornet, as the student ponds,” the university’s fountains, would soon What has remained consistent is the university’s newspaper was then called, knew they were aban- serve the dual purpose of air-conditioning commitment to providing the finest in private doning old traditions — the tug of war across the buildings and adding beauty. liberal education — and the best preparation Reedy River between freshmen and sophomores, While the newspaper reviewed the univer- for a rewarding life of leadership and service. |F| Buying land near the men’s campus isitors to the university that November day together with the student canteen, the post snake dances down Main Street following foot- sity’s history and leading personalities in detail, down town, the trustees soon learned, would found a half-completed campus that only office and a lounge. V ball victories, proposals of marriage at the top it did not neglect Furman’s current status. Total This article appeared in its original form in be exorbitantly expensive; property values rose superficially resembles contemporary Furman. Only the central section of the science of the Bell Tower. They were sure, however, that costs that year for room, board and tuition were The Greenville News, November 12, 2008. because owners knew that Furman wanted it. The gatehouses and entry had just been finished, building was finished, but Daniel Dining Hall, other traditions would accompany them to their $1,100. (For 2007-08 the cost was $43,116.) Reprinted with permission of the author, professor Furthermore, plans to extend several streets but there was no student center and no facilities “a masterpiece of modern design and efficiency” new home, among them May Day with its May The university was served by the Piedmont and emeritus of English at Furman.