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A Newsletter for Faculty and Staff of Coastal Carolina University • Volume 5, Number 1 • January 8,1996 Former Mideast hostage Terry Anderson to speak at Coastal Prize-winning authors to Former Mideast hostage speakers in the nation, Anderson urges make presentations at and Associated Press Bureau Chief audiences to measure their individual Terry Anderson will speak in hidden strengths. "I try not to lecture writing conference Wheelwright Auditorium on or give lessons. In anyone's life, there are changes you must learn to cope The Waccamaw Center for Historical and Cultural Thursday, Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m. as part Studies of Coastal Carolina University will host a writers with whether or not you like them," he of the Kimbel Distinguished Lecturer conference and symposium, Southern Writers ojFact and said. Series. The presentation, Making a Fiction, Friday, jan. 26 and Saturday, jan. 27 in the Wall Difference: An Evening with Terry Since his release, Anderson Auditorium. The conference is for anyone interested in good Anderson, is free and open to the has emerged as an articulate advocate writing. The conference will follow a plenary session format public. of human rights and grassroots and is free and open to tlle public. Anderson was covering change. His work has ranged from the Charles joyner, Coastal Carolina University the dangerous streets of Beirut, building of elementary schools in war Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Lebanon, as chief Middle East torn sections of Vi etnam to developing Culture and director of the Waccamaw Center for Cultural correspondent for. the AP on March... an org?nization for litical change in and Historical Studies, is conference organizer. Joyner said 16, 1985, when he was kidnapped at his home state of New York. - the conference includes prize-winning writers 0 iction, gunpoint by Shiite Muslims. He Anderson is the author of poetry, history and social commentary. "Some are joined six other Americans and the national best seller, Den oj Lions. Southerners by birth, while otllers have become Southerners Britons who were his fellow hostages He is currently working on a sequel. by chOice," Joyner said. "Some live and work in the South ," for almost seven years of hard time His nationally syndicated newspaper he added, "others live and work outside the region." - blindfolded, gagged, beaten and column has received praise for offering Featured participants are novelists William continually transported to different locations to thwart not just criticism, but also solutions to a wide variety of the Baldwin, Ellen Douglas, josephine Humphreys, William rescue attempts. nation's problems. Styron and Dori Sanders; poets Nikki Finney and Paul Rice; For 2,545 days, Anderson survived the most Born October 27, 1947, in Lorain, Ohio, Anderson essayists Franklin Burroughs and john Shelton Reed; and adverse conditions imaginable. After being freed in 1992, was raised in Batavia, N.Y. He earned a bachelor's degree in historians Drew Gilpin Faust, Barbara Jeanne Fields, David fellow hostage Thomas Sutherland said, "Without Terry political science from Iowa State University in 1974. He Hackett Fischer, Winthrop D.Jordan, William McFeely, Anderson, I couldn't have made it for six and a half years." served in the Marines for six years, stationed in Vietnam and Theodore Rosengarten, C. Vann Woodward and Bertram Wyatt-Brown. By the time he was released, Anderson had demonstrated to japan. He covered the Far East and South Africa fo r the AP In addition to readings by the writers, the before being assigned to their Beirut bureau . He lives in a the world the remarkable potential of the human spirit to conference will feature presentations and panels on topics suburb of New York City with his wife and daughter. triumph over adversity. such as "Soutllern Writing in the Nineties," "Writing the Anderson focuses on the individual's ability to The Kimbel Distinguished Lecturer Series is Truth in History, Poetry and Fiction," "Expatriation and make a concrete difference in the world. He translates his sponsored by the William A. and L. Maud Kimbel Distin­ Southern Writing," and "Depression and Creativity in gripping experience into an exploration of the empower­ guished Lecturer Series Endowment Fund through the Southern Writing." ment of change and the mental and emotional tools that Coastal Educational Foundation, Inc. Participants are: tu m negatives into positives. Displaying a warmth and For more information, call the Office of Public • William Baldwin is winner of the Lillian sincerity that have made him one of the most requested Information at extension 2003 . • Smith Award of the Southern Regional Council for his first novel, tbe Hard-to-Catch Mercy . His new novel, tbe Fennel Joe Clark lecture kicks off 1996 African American Celebration Family Papers, is scheduled for publication in January 1996 and will be excerpted in Vanity Fair and Southern joe Clark, educator and former principal of Wednesday, March 6 Living. He lives with his family in McClellanville. Newark's Eastside High School and subject of the film Lean Sanko/a, a film • Franklin Burroughs grew up in Conway and on Me, will lecture Thesday, jan. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in 12:30/6:30 p.m. • Wall Auditorium now lives with his wife and children in Maine, where he Wheelwright Auditorium as the first of a series of events in SankoJa is a word from the African Akan language which teaches English at Bowdoin College. His essays have the 1996 African American Celebration at Coastal Carolina. means "returning to your roots, recuperating what you 've appeared in journals such as Georgia Review and Kenyon The lecture is free and open to the public. lost and moving forward." With powerful visual imagery and Review and have won the coveted Pushcart Prize. His Clark will deliver his message of self-pride and mUSiC, director Haile Gerima confronts slavery as political writing has appeared in Best American &says in 1987 and commitment to youth in the lecture, "Fight One More and personal suffering. in 1989. Publishers Weekly called his Horry and the Round." The lecture is presented by Horry County Crime Waccamaw, published in paperback as tbe River Home, "a Stoppers in conjunction with the Coastal Carolina • Wednesday, March 27 jewel of a book." University Leadership Challenge Program, Education Club, Affirmative Action: What Does It Really • Ellen Douglas of Jackson, Miss., has been and the Rho Chi chapter of the international education Mean?, a forum praised by Anne Tyler for her "firm, distinctive, intensely honor socie ty, Kappa Delta Pi. 12:30 p.m. · Wall Auditorium personal voice." The Washington Post says of her newest The African American Celebration is sponsored Janie Davis, director of the South Carolina Commission on novel, A Lifetime Burning, "At a stage in her life and career by the Office of Minority Student Relations to honor cultural Minori ty Affairs, speaks on the future of affirmative action. when most American novelists are content to repeat diversity and the contributions of African Americans. All themselves, Ellen Douglas has struck boldly into new events are open to the public; all events are free except the • Wednesday, April 3 territory and come back from it witll her finest novel." She Greater Gospel Sing Out. African American Poetry is author of six novels and a collection of short stories. Additional events in the African American 1 p.m. • Wall Auditorium • Drew Gilpin Faust, according to historian Steven Hahn, "writes about the South with affectionate Celebration are as follows: Hear African American poetry read by Coastal Carolina students, staff, faculty and community members. understanding, but always with a sharp, critical eye." Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award, the Book Award of l1lUl'Sday, January 18 the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic, A Peace Circle, a commemoration Saturday, April 13 and the Jules F. Landry Award, Faust has been called "the 12:30 p.m. The Horseshoe (Rain location: Cultural Explosion, a festival leading intellectual and cultural historian of the Old South" Wheelwright Auditorium) 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. • Spadoni Park, Student by Charles Joyner. She is Annenberg Professor of History at The University and the community remember the life and Center the University of Pennsylvania. achievements of Martin Luther Kingjr. in words and music. Aday-long festival for all ages celebrates cultural diversity in • Barbara Jeanne Fields is a MacArthur Fellow music, art and cuisine. (There will be charges for food and and history professor at Columbia University. She was a • Sunday, February 4 crafts.) featured commentator in Ken Burns' television series, 7be Greater Gospel Sing Out Civil War. She is author of Slavery and Freedom on the 6 p.m. • Wheelwright Auditorium Wednesday, April 17 Middle Ground. Her current book project is a study of the This annual event features the Coastal Carolina University Salute to Education, a forum writing of Southern History. Gospel Choir and gospel choirs of the Waccamaw region in 12:30 p.m. • Wall Auditorium • Nikki Finney was born in Conway and was joyous, moving music.