VOLUME 50 | ISSUE 1 | FALL 2017 WOFFORDTODAY Excellence, engagement and transformation from the ground up WOFFORD TODAY MESSAGE from the PRESIDENT Fall 2017 | Volume 50 | Issue 1 wofford.edu/woffordtoday In the Class of 2021 EDITOR are future teachers, Jo Ann Mitchell Brasington ’89 attorneys, physicians, DESIGNER entrepreneurs, Michelle Griggs accountants, scientists, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS clergy, musicians, Kelsey Aylor ’18 interior designers, Laura Hendrix Corbin historians, architects … Ryann Kroske McCall ’13 Annie S. Mitchell the list goes on and on. I Dr. Phillip Stone ’94 don’t know where the Class of 2021 will end up in four PHOTOGRAPHER years, but I’m positive that Mark Olencki ’75 they will be prepared! COORDINATOR OF WEB CONTENT That’s what Wofford College does. It offers students Craig Sudduth ’09 opportunities to prepare for their first (or fifth) job. In the pages of this Wofford Today, you’ll find the stories of graduates who Wofford Today (USPS 691-140) is published four times have taken their Wofford foundation and upon it built — or are each year by the Office of Marketing and Communications, building — careers in the military. They all say that Wofford’s Wofford College, 429 N. Church St., Spartanburg, S.C. 29303-3663, for alumni and friends of the college. Issued liberal arts education helped them prepare to serve and lead quarterly: fall, winter, spring and summer. under often unexpected and demanding circumstances, and for Periodicals postage is paid at the Spartanburg Main Post that we are all grateful … but not surprised. Office, Spartanburg, S.C., with additional mailing entries in Columbia and Greenville. Other features in this issue include stories of how students spent the summer preparing for their futures through SEND ADDRESS CHANGES OR LIFE UPDATES TO: internship, research or job experiences. 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The following persons have been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non- discrimination policies: Title IX and ADA coordinator, 864-597-4375, or assistant dean of students for student involvement, 864-597-4048. Nayef » In the first public event in the Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts, President Samhat and « Living and learning in Tanzania other Herald-Journal Working in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, these panelists, including Wofford students spent the summer as interns with Erica Brown ’00 (far various nonprofit organizations in Tanzania as part of right), discussed the a program through The Space in the Mungo Center. job market for recent From left are: Lydia Estes ’20, Kiara Williams ’18, college graduates in Chris-Marie Mensah ’19, Madison Guyton ’18, Zainab Spartanburg. Bhagat ’20, Helen Seddelmeyer ’20 and Elizabeth Beecy ’18. Tom Stack ’20 also participated in the internship program. IT’S YOUR WORLD. VIEW IT. On Aug. 21 at 1:10 p.m., the Wofford campus turned its eyes (covered by ISO-certified safety glasses, of course) toward the skies for the beginning of the solar eclipse. Terriers gathered in teams, departments and with families to watch an event that had been 99 years in the making. The Wofford soccer teams, on campus for workouts, bought eclipse doughnuts and gathered between Gibbs Stadium and the statue of Jerry Richardson to commemorate the event. Although not in the band for a total eclipse, the college saw a 99.93 percent obscuration on campus at 2:29:52 p.m. 2 3 A D B C E THE WORLD @ Contents Read more about these and other stories at wofford.edu/woffordtoday » WOFFORD Prepare 8 Students spend summer in internship, research and work experiences A. STUDENTS B. STARTALK HAS C. WATTS TO LEAD D. SUSTAINABILITY E. FOWLER F. EXPLORING AND G. AVI UPGRADES H. DISCOVERING NEW RECEIVE GILMAN LOCAL STUDENTS OFFICE OF DIVERSITY STORYBOARD HAS COMPLETES NEH APPLYING DESIGN CAMPUS DINING HORIZONS Laying the groundwork ... INTERNATIONAL TALKING AND INCLUSION WOFFORD SEEING INSTITUTE THINKING Students, faculty and staff Woody Middleton ’18 will SCHOLARSHIPS GREEN 14 literally Now in its fifth year, Demario Watts has accepted Dr. Cynthia Fowler recently This summer five Wofford returning to Wofford this spend his fall semester Meet the people who maximize the A group of Wofford STARTALK at Wofford offers the position of assistant dean Thanks to the $4.25 million spent four weeks at the East- students participated in fall found campus dining sailing aboard the 57-foot impact of the physical campus students were among the local middle and high school of students for diversity and grant from the Romill West Center in Honolulu, a rigorous three-week upgrades. AVI Foodsystems sailboat Nogal through undergraduates selected for students the opportunity leadership development. He Foundation, the Milliken Hawaii, as one of 25 Entrepreneurial Thinking Inc. began providing services the islands of Indonesia, the prestigious Benjamin to learn Chinese language had been serving the college Sustainability Initiative professors from institutions Certificate Program through in July. They are renovating Malaysia and Thailand. In Meet the Class of 2021 A. Gilman International and culture. The two- as assistant director of at Wofford College is across the country to learn The Space in the Mungo Zach’s this semester in what he describes as the 20 Class of 2021 joins pipeline of Scholarship, sponsored by the week intensive immersion residence life for the past two under way and already about Islam in South and Center. The program was the Campus Life Building opportunity of a lifetime, student success U.S. Department of State’s experience is free of charge years. In addition, Watts has making a difference. The Southeast Asia. The Islam designed to help students by expanding Chick-fil-A he will help crew the Bureau of Educational and and designed to increase served as one of the college’s college has installed new in Asia Institute was hosted build a highly sought- and Boar’s Head deli, and ship, scuba dive through From the Old Guard to Cultural Affairs to study the number of Americans Title IX deputy coordinators metering technology on by the National Endowment after skill set that today’s plans also are under way to breathtaking coral reefs 28 Air Force One or intern abroad this year. learning, speaking and and is a member of the college campus, including an online for the Humanities. Fowler employers and graduate renovate the Burwell dining and reconnect with family. Wofford graduates prepared to Wofford has produced six teaching critical-need foreign National Coalition Building storyboard that displays has conducted ethnography programs want. The program hall in the coming year. He still plans to graduate preserve and protect Gilman Scholars during the languages. Institute (NCBI) team. sustainability initiatives and fieldwork in Indonesia included attending Startup from Wofford on time in the 2017 award cycle. real-time energy usage. since 1996. Fest in Montreal, Canada. Continued online. spring. Continued online. Continued online. Class notes Continued online. Continued online. Continued online. Continued online. Continued online. 40 Alumni updates, Terriers in the news, in memoriam F G H Here’s the proof 42 Langley preparing for national distribution of alcohol ice cream Join us! 45 College announces new initiatives in alumni engagement World War I at home and 47 abroad Sandor Teszler Library features exhibit marking centennial of the Great War Remembering Vince Miller 48 Hammond shares memories of one of Wofford’s great challengers of students 4 5 UNLEASHED Carolina Panthers tight end Greg Olsen takes a selfie with a Navy petty officer at Military Day at training camp this summer. The Panthers and the USO-NC work with military bases in the Carolinas to show gratitude to military personnel for their services with an exclusive experience each summer at Wofford. Invited troops watch practice from a special viewing area, receive Panthers memorabilia, get a behind-the-scenes tour and dine with players and coaches. 6 7 PREPARE.Wofford students spend their summer in internship, research and work experiences by Kelsey Aylor ’18 and Jo Ann Brasington ’89 ANNIE GENTRY ’19 AUSTIN JONES ’18 Majors in biology and Spanish, minor in studio art; Major in Spanish, minor in religion, concentration in St. George, S.C. Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Chesnee, S.C. Gentry interned at Edisto Beach State Park this Jones spent his summer in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, as summer in the sea turtle preservation and education a community service coordinator with Youthworks, program. Working with sea turtle specialists, Gentry an organization that takes students on service and was responsible for patrolling the beaches every immersion trips throughout the U.S., Canada and Puerto morning to locate nests and install protective netting. Rico. He coordinated service projects for the students She led weekly night walks and presentations and worked at the service sites as a translator and project on sea turtles and worked with the Edisto Island director. Off-site he taught Spanish lessons and salsa Environmental Learning Center to rehabilitate animals, classes for the students. Jones found the internship help conduct DNA research and assist with other through Terrier Black Book, one of Wofford’s career public programs.