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Who knows how much of this tale is exaggerated? It happened nearly 80 years ago at Furman,and even those closest to the university can’t recall having heard the story. A quick glancethrough the archives of The Hornet, the student newspaper in those days, also reveals nothingabout what happened. But something remarkable did occur — especially considering Furman’sseriously Baptist nature at the time — and the story goes like this.by Vince MooreIt was sometime after football season in 1933.The Purple Hurricane, as the football team was then called,had gone 6-1-2, beating Clemson and tying South Carolina.The Furman program was the best in the state duringthe Great Depression and was highly competitive throughoutthe Southeast. After the team’s 7-6 victory overCentre College early in 1933, referee Bill Doak, a formerstar at the University of Pittsburgh, was quoted as sayingthat Furman was the best defensive team he had seenin his 15 years of officiating.The Hurricane, coached by Dizzy McLeod, had a combinedrecord of 14-2-2 in 1932 and 1933, beating USC in1932 and Clemson both years. The team was expected tobe better than ever in 1934, and interest in Furman footballwas as great in the Greenville community as it was oncampus. As The Hornet wrote in its final issue of the 1933-34school year, “Our eyes are set on 1934-35. We hereby issueHurricane warnings to all opposing teams.”But the 1934 season didn’t live up to expectations.The Hurricane finished 5-4 and dropped close games toUSC and Clemson. The reason? The team was missingfour players who had been expected to return, three ofwhom were among the best in the state. But why theywere missing wasn’t clear.Early in the season The Hornet reported, almost as anaside, that four “regular stalwarts are absent from the firststring roster.” A little later, there was a brief mention thatthe four had been disciplined, but no further explanation.As the season failed to go as expected, the newspaper’scoverage became a weekly series of lamentations, with manymentions of the team’s diminished firepower and bad luck.One of the missing players was Drayton “Daddy”Dorn, an all-state offensive and defensive lineman fromGreenwood, S.C. The others, according to a story in theSpartanburg Herald-Journal, were Roy “Hardrock” Smith,an all-conference center and defensive guard fromUnion, S.C.; Trask McCarson, an all-state tackle fromHendersonville, N.C.; and Clarence Scott, a runningback from Greenwood.As it turned out, the players had been expelled fromschool for the entire year. And while they were allowed toreturn in the fall of 1935, when they rejoined the footballteam and led the Hurricane to another outstanding season,there remained a huge, unanswered question: Why hadFurman expelled them in the first place?The answer became a bit clearer when Morgan Blake,sports editor of the Atlanta Journal, was invited to speakat the year-end football banquet in 1935 and wrote a columnabout the triumphant returns of Dorn and Smith. Althoughhe didn’t go into great detail about the boys’ transgressions,he did note that “John Barleycorn” had been at the rootof the problem.Years later, when Daddy Dorn was a successfulbusinessman in Charleston, S.C., with a wife and threesons, his boys somehow learned of the lost season andbegan asking their father pointed questions about whathad happened. Daddy kept refusing to be specific, buteventually gave in and agreed to tell the tale.“He said he would tell us one time, and that wouldbe it,” says Pete Dorn, his son. “And he never mentionedwhat happened again.”2 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 3

In regard to the details of that fateful night eight decades ago,we may never learn how much is legend and how much is fact.According to Pete, his father, along withseveral teammates and a group of girls, had goneto Paris Mountain on a Saturday night to celebratethe 1933 season. Pete isn’t sure about thetiming; he thinks it was around Christmas.A quick historical check shows that Prohibitionended December 5, 1933, so they might well havebeen celebrating more than the football season.The players and girls were up on the mountain,far away from the downtown campus,drinking “corn liquor” and having a good time.It just so happened that two Furman professorswere also on the mountain — coon hunting.Their dogs sniffed out the revelers, and beforelong the professors followed the dogs into themiddle of the party. The professors said theyliked the boys and wished they didn’t have toreport what they had seen to Furman’s president,Bennette E. Geer, but they had no choice.It was time to go.What happened next may well have ledto the severity of the punishment.“My Dad said since they knew they weregoing to be expelled anyway and they didn’twant to waste the rest of the night, they tiedthe professors to a tree and went on with theirpartying,” Pete says. “They untied them and letthem go the next morning.”To put such an event into perspective, it’simportant to remember what sort of schoolFurman was at the time. Chapel was mandatory.Dancing wasn’t allowed on campus. And in astraw poll taken by The Hornet in October 1933,the student bodies of both Furman and GreenvilleWoman’s College voted “overwhelmingly”against the repeal of Prohibition.When the miscreants made the long walk tothe president’s office, President Geer, accordingto Blake’s account, delivered a stern lecture thatwent something like this: “If you boys had goneout by yourselves on the bank of the [Reedy] riverand loaded up, I would have given you a severelecture and let it go at that. But you’ve made apublic spectacle of yourselves and brought yourcollege into disrepute. I’ll have to expel you.”The chastened players accepted their punishmentsand went home. Geer made no promisesthat they could return, but he quietly askedprominent alumni in the boys’ hometowns tomonitor their behavior to see if they learnedanything from their expulsions.Daddy Dorn returned to Greenwood,where he lived with his sister, Lila. He hadgrown up on a farm in Saluda but moved hissophomore year in high school so he could attendGreenwood High. He had never played footballbefore, but he went out for the team and madean immediate impression on the coaches.According to Pete Dorn, his father’s firstpractice came in August, and he was the onlyplayer who didn’t complain about the stiflingGreenwood heat or had to crawl to the sidelinesto recuperate. “After working on the farm all hislife, he said practicing football was the easiestwork he had ever been involved in,” Pete says.And it was at that first practice that DraytonDorn picked up his nickname. The coaches werelooking for a punter, and Dorn said, “Give theball to Daddy and he’ll show you how to punt.”He booted the ball some 50 yards downfield,and the nickname stuck.Dorn wanted to go to South Carolina aftergraduation but wasn’t offered a scholarship.Clemson wanted him, but it was a military schoolat the time and Dorn made it clear he was notinterested in attending a military college. Thenhe was contacted by Clemson assistant FrankHoward, who would later become the school’slegendary head coach.“Howard told him not to worry, that hewouldn’t have to stay in the barracks,” Pete says.“He could stay in the local YMCA in Clemsonand just play football.”So Dorn went to Clemson. But despite whathe’d been promised, he spent his first week inthe barracks — which proved to be quite enough.He called Dizzy McLeod and said he’d like tocome to Furman. “Dizzy drove over, picked himup, and took him back to Furman,” Pete says.Daddy’s mother hardly missed a game duringhis career at Furman, but his father watched onegame and swore never to attend another. “I’m notgoing to watch a bunch of boys beat up on eachother like that,” he told the family. “I wouldn’tgo out on that field unless I had some knivesand guns to protect me.”By all accounts, though, opposing playerswere the ones who needed protection. FurmanAll-America end Bob King called Dorn “oneof the greatest tackles in the U.S.,” and theBonhomie likened Dorn’s play to “a wild bullin a China shop.”In the end, loyalty was one of Daddy’s traitsas well. Even though he would have beenwelcomed at Clemson or South Carolina hadhe decided his exile from Furman was too greata punishment, he accepted his fate in hopesthat he might be allowed to return.“He loved Furman,” Pete says. “It neverentered his mind to transfer to another school.”Of course, there was a happy ending.Daddy and his friends evidently lived exemplarylives during their year away from campus,and Geer allowed them to return to school.As a result, the 1935 football season wasa great one. The team went 8-1 with victoriesover Wake Forest, Clemson and USC, andwas once again state champion.At the football banquet, Dorn received theSportsmanship Trophy and Hardrock Smithwas named the Most Valuable Player. Accordingto the column written by Blake, the Furmanpresident and the two honorees had tears intheir eyes as the awards were presented.Key figures in the tale, from left: “Hardrock” Smith, Trask McCarson,President Geer and Dizzy McLeod.“You are real men,” Blake quoted Geer assaying. “I am proud of you. Your school is proudof you.” There must have been tears all around,because Blake wrote that “this hard-boiled oldsports editor had to dry a little himself.”Dorn, who died in 1980 at the age of 68,would ultimately find his way to the FurmanAthletic Hall of Fame, as would fellow conspiratorTrask McCarson. It is worth notingthat Furman never lost to Clemson or SouthCarolina when Dorn was in uniform. Andhis memory lives on at Furman in the formof the P.D. “Daddy” Dorn Endowed FootballScholarship, established by Pete Dorn andhis wife, Susan.As for the details of that fateful night onParis Mountain eight decades ago, we maynever learn how much is legend and how muchis fact. But knowing his father, Pete says, thestory doesn’t sound far-fetched to him.“My Dad was extremely popular when hewas in school,” Pete says. “He was a ladies’man, he was a prankster, and he enjoyed hisliquor until the day he died. His night onParis Mountain might be exaggerated a littlebit, but probably not much.” |F|Opposite: Images courtesy Furman SpecialCollections and Archives/Digicenter. Otherimages from Bonhomies of mid-1930s.4 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 5

Heart of a WarriorMartin Rooney pursues & promotesfitness with a fire few can match.By Ron WagnerWhere to start with Martin Rooney ’93?He’s the author of nine books, the chiefoperating officer of two companies, and aninternationally renowned athletic trainer andmotivational speaker. He was a three-timeSouthern Conference champion in the javelin,a straight-A student at Furman, and an Olympicbobsledder — before becoming a martialarts expert.All are stories unto themselves, but nonecan stand alone if you’re to understand the man.Because as much as they shaped him, they aremerely glowing coals heated by the fire burninginside Rooney, who can’t settle for anything lessthan the best in himself, or anyone else.“He’s got a following, and he presents a positivemessage that I think resonates even if you’renot a National Football League combine guy ora mixed martial arts guy. The average person canbuy into it,” says Tony Caterisano, professor ofhealth sciences at Furman and Rooney’s longtimementor. “His message is there’s a warrior in everyone of us, and there’s an athlete in every one ofus, and you’ve got to bring it out. You can’t justwanna-be. You’ve got to do what it takes to be.Everything he does he’s excited about, and thatbecomes a contagious thing.”Rooney’s enthusiasm about fitness does seemimpossible to fake. Type his name into a searchengine and multiple videos pop up, any of whichwill inspire you to push a truck tire down yourdriveway with a car strapped to your back.His most recent book (and the third publishedby Harper Collins), Warrior Cardio, came out lastApril. It breaks from the tradition of his previoustwo, Training for Warriors and Ultimate WarriorWorkout, in that it reaches out to a broaderaudience. To that end he enlisted Caterisanoas a collaborator.“The first two [books] are more fightingcentric.The newest one is about fitness. It’s notabout fighting at all,” Rooney says. “I neededa science guy to explain the style of trainingin layman’s terms, and Tony wrote that chapter.”In fact, as far removed as Rooney’s life nowseems from Furman, he credits his time therefor everything he has accomplished.“If I would have had somebody who tookan interest in what I could have done, maybeI would have played football or something.But there was a track guy [Bill Scarola, Rooney’shigh school coach in New Jersey] who saw whatI could do, and that got me a scholarship toFurman,” Rooney says. “That’s why people needcoaches. There are so many kids out there whoneed somebody to see the talent they have andthe heart they have.”Martin Rooney strikes a pose in front of the Vatican in Rome. His businesses take him around the world, and he has spoken about the value of fitness in more than 20 countries.6 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 7

Caterisano took the baton when Rooneyarrived in Greenville, first recognizing theyoung man’s drive in class and then lettinghimself be talked into becoming Rooney’s javelincoach — against his better judgment. “I said,‘I don’t even know which end to throw’, andhe said, ‘I’ll teach you how to coach me’, ”Caterisano remembers.“Martin was always an over-achiever. I usedto teach exercise physiology, and it was oneof the tougher courses that we offered. I usedto give quizzes that covered material we hadn’tcovered in class yet. I told them I would dropthe two lowest. Martin got 100s on the first eight,and since there were 10 total I thought surelyhe was going to coast on the next two. But sureenough, he got 100s on the next two as well.I asked him why, and he said, ‘I don’t like to getbad grades. I knew it didn’t count, but it countedto me.’ It was that kind of attitude that made methink this guy is different, this guy is special.”Rooney went on to attend the MedicalUniversity of South Carolina with the goalof becoming a physical therapist. Instead,however, he pulled a Herschel Walker andmade the United States bobsled team throughan open tryout at an amusement park inSeaside Heights, N.J.Rooney happened to be in town visiting hisgrandmother, and he impressed the coaches somuch with his blazing time pushing a 300-poundsled on wheels that he was sent directly toLake Placid, N.Y., to begin training. This was1995, and for the next two years he trainedwith partner Todd Hays while also earninghis degree and working as a physical therapist.Hays and Rooney, racing the two-personbobsled, competed throughout Europe but felljust short of making the U.S. team for the 1998Winter Olympics in Nagano. During their timetogether, however, Rooney learned that Hays,who would go on to win the silver medal in thebobsled at the 2002 Olympics, had been aprofessional fighter. That set him on the roadto training mixed martial arts competitors.“I got really interested in it and startedtraining with him,” Rooney says.When he returned home to New Jerseyin 1998 he decided to go to mixed martialarts fighter Renzo Gracie’s training academyin New York City. Gracie was impressed withRooney’s fitness and dedication, and beforelong Rooney was training Gracie in exchangefor Gracie teaching him to fight.The Gracie family created the modern formof Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu that revolutionized MMAfighting. Working with Gracie gave Rooneythe idea and the opportunity to pioneer fitnesstraining for fighters. “I was the first one in,”he says. “I carved my niche because no one elsewas doing it, and I’m regarded as a leader. Someof it was luck, and some of it was hard work.”His success opened doors. He began to workwith other elite athletes, such as formerfirst-round NFL draft pick Chris Long,and did strength training for the New York Jets.Along the way Rooney was also building twocompanies. He was hired in 1998 by Bill Parisito be the chief operating officer of Parisi SpeedSchool, created to help athletes of all ages. Thesame year Rooney launched another company,Training for Warriors, which focused on workingwith fighters.Both businesses have grown exponentiallythanks to the success of the Parisi School’s pupilsat the NFL combine and of Training for Warriorsfighters in the MMA ring. Rooney now haslocations all over the country and, in the caseof Training for Warriors, in Canada, Mexicoand Europe. His reputation grew with them, tothe point that he says he now works with nearlyevery NFL team and has connections in virtuallyevery corner of the sports world.It seems that nobody can get enough of hisfitness message. Rooney has spoken in more than20 countries, and he’s in such demand that hisschedule is booked for months.“The talks are usually based around coaching,training science and personal development,depending on the audience and what they want.The speeches can be as quick as an hour or upto three days,” he says.“When I was helping build Parisi SchoolI would speak twice a week, and I cut my teethon that for a year. It gave me such confidence.I don’t think anybody’s a natural speaker. It's allabout practice. Now I seek out challenges. Thelast time I went to Germany, I gave the first10 minutes of the speech in German, and theywent insane. They just loved it.”He talks to Olympians and national teamsas well as amateurs and people who aren’tathletes at all. But the message is basically thesame, and it’s one Rooney is passionate about.“If you really had to boil it down, the ultimategoal is to feel better about yourself. Most peopleunfortunately do the wrong things because thatmakes you feel better in the short term, but that’salso going to be what makes you feel worse inthe long run,” he says. “I’m speaking in front ofcrowds of 500 and sometimes 1,000 people, andmost of those people aren’t fit at all. I’m speakingin kindergarten classes about broccoli and then[discussing] the finer details of biomechanicsto a top coach in China.“I can help people. It doesn’t really matterto me who the audience is so long as they’reopen to getting better.”He is adamant that getting better, andfitter, is possible for anyone who wants to and,given the obesity rates in America, he knowsmany people should. With that in mind, hesays he’s ready to “crack the code” on theobesity epidemic.“I only train four days a week, but my dietis really clean. You can work out all you want.If your diet is bad, it won’t work,” Rooney says.“The secret is, I never stopped. There haven’tbeen three days that I haven’t had a workoutin 20 years.“I don’t see that someday I’ll say, ‘I’m done,I’m going to go the next 20 years and not moveanymore.’ It doesn’t compute in my brain. Butthat’s what a lot of this country does, unfortunately.That’s what I’m always trying to teach,to get this to resonate in somebody’s head.”Rooney, who recently moved from New Jerseyto Cornelius, N.C., manages all of this while alsobeing a family man. He is married and recentlyhad his fourth girl, all under the age of 10, whichhas only increased his determination to thinkoutside himself.“The old rush used to be getting it and keepingit. Now the rush is giving it away,” he says.“It’s making me even stronger.” |F|The author, a 1993 graduate, is a freelancewriter based in Hendersonville, N.C.Rooney offers a lift to Kristina, one of his daughters. Opposite: At Japan’s Mount Fuji. Photos courtesy Martin Rooney.8 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 9

Andrew Feight practices “rephotography,” recreating old photos to provide a visual record of change, as in this color photo of Bear Lake in Shawnee State Forest pairedwith one from 1936. Photo left courtesy The Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, Ohio. Forestry Images Collection.IllustratedHistoryMark Souther and Andrew Feightare using modern technology to buildthe historical record — and includethe public in the process.By Elizabeth CookeAndrew Feight ’93 stands on an earthendam overlooking Bear Lake, a small reservoirin southern Ohio’s Shawnee State Forest. Hecontemplates the stone inlet below, debatinghow best to approach it through the tangleof scrub and tall grasses.“Sometimes I think I need to bring amachete,” he says.He sports brown boots, khakis, a red feltvest and a baseball cap. A hefty camera hangsaround his neck. In one hand he holds a clipboard,in the other an iPhone equipped tocollect comprehensive geographic data. It’s justa typical day in the life of an atypical historian.Feight, a professor at Shawnee State Universityin Portsmouth, Ohio, has been exploring thehistory of the Scioto River Valley since he movedto the area in the early 2000s. He emphasizesthe importance of going into the field to talkwith people and to witness history firsthand.“You have to go to the historical sites to understandthem,” he says, because in doing so“you meet people who know more than you.”Feight also stresses the importance of preservinglocal history. “Part of my professionalresponsibility is to create a historical record,”he says. He does this by recording interviewswith longtime residents and by documentingsites through his photographs. “All history islocal,” he pronounces, and like any good historian,he cites his source: former CongressmanTip O’Neill of Massachusetts, who famouslymade the same claim about politics.Politics was on Feight’s mind when heenrolled at Furman in 1989 from Sandy Springs,Ga. At first he thought he would major in politicalscience and maybe go on to law school.Then he took a course with Lloyd Benson.“I really do credit Lloyd with clueing me in tothe possibilities of a career as a historian,” saysFeight, who soon changed his major to history.He was awarded a Furman Advantage Fellowship,and under the guidance of Benson spenta summer exploring the history of Greenvillethrough its architecture. He created two toursof the city’s architectural heritage that includedphotos and short descriptions of the featuredbuildings and explained how they fit into thebroader history of the South and the nation.With Benson’s help, Feight uploaded histours to a website. At the time, the Internetwas a relatively new development: “It was justsort of a storage place for the driving instructions,”says Benson. He and Feight could hardlyimagine that in less than two decades peoplewould be able to access this information froma device the size of their pockets.Today Feight is building a series of historicaltours about southern Ohio that cater to smartphones. To do it, he’s following the modeldeveloped by another Furman graduate fromthe early ‘90s.MARK SOUTHER ’94 was raised with a deepawareness of the past. A native of Gainesville,Ga., where his family has lived for many generations,Souther grew up within a few miles ofboth sets of his grandparents. They taught himabout their family and their hometown.“I had a big dose of history growing up asa kid,” says Souther. He and his parents andgrandparents often visited old home sites andthe family farm in the mountains, where heremembers digging up Cherokee Indian arrowheadsand pottery. “Things like that definitelymade the past come alive for me.”However, it wasn’t until Souther arrivedat Furman that he decided to pursue historyprofessionally. At that point, his story begins tosound familiar. “Honestly, more than anythingelse, taking Lloyd Benson’s classes really turnedme on to history,” says Souther. “WesternCiv — that’s the class that made me decideto major in history.”Despite their similar backstories, Feightand Souther were only casual friends atFurman. After graduation, each took hisown path toward becoming a historian.Feight spent his first post-Furman summerat the Atlanta History Museum where heinterned with Gordon Jones ’84, whose father,Ed Jones, was a longtime Furman historyprofessor. Feight assisted Gordon with researchfor a Civil War exhibit to be displayed duringthe 1996 Olympics. At the end of the summer,Feight went on to the University of Kentuckyto pursue graduate work in history.Souther also had a connection to the Jonesfamily. As a senior at Furman he took threecourses in Asian history, all taught by Ed Jones.“I still remember his slides from China,” saysSouther. “By that time, I was kind of a buddinggraduate student.” He followed his academicinclinations, attending the University of Richmondfor his master’s and Tulane Universityfor his Ph.D.Feight and Souther first reconnected at ameeting of the American Historical AssociationChief Thunderwater of Cleveland, a strongadvocate for Native American causes.Photo from Western Reserve Historical SocietyLibrary Research Center.10 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 11

Images of Cleveland’s historycourtesy Michael SchwartzLibrary, Special Collections,Cleveland State University.DigitalconnectionsFrom left: Vendor Rose Thomas sells her beets at the West Side Market, 1947; Cuyahoga River fire of 1952; aviatrix Blanche Noyes on her way to Santa Monica for Air Races, 1929.in 2003, when they were newly minted academicson the job market. Both ended up in Ohio,Feight at Shawnee State in the south and Southerat Cleveland State in the north.Over the years they built a collegial relationshipbut maintained separate professional tracks.Then Feight got wind of Cleveland Historical,a project that Souther was designing with hiscolleague, Mark Tebeau.Cleveland Historical grew out of an initiativeto revitalize Euclid Avenue, a once-glamorousstreet known as “Millionaire’s Row” that haddeclined during the 20th century. In 2004Cleveland Public Art, a nonprofit civic group,invited Tebeau and Souther, who co-direct theCenter for Public History + Digital Humanitiesat Cleveland State, to develop a projectcommemorating the street’s historic significance.It would be part of a larger urban renewal projectled by the Greater Cleveland Regional TransitAuthority. Tebeau and Souther soon developeda plan to incorporate local history into the streetscapethrough interactive touchscreen kiosks.They worked on the project for three years,adding hundreds of photos and audio clipsto 19 kiosks and highlighting more than 60historical sites and figures. The kiosks werestrategically positioned at bus stops alonga new rapid transit corridor, allowing passengersto peruse the collection of stories and imageswhile waiting for their buses.Tebeau and Souther enlisted their studentsto help them research Euclid Avenue and conductoral histories with local residents. The students,in turn, had a chance to see their work displayedin public.By all measures, the project was a success.But Souther and Tebeau began to envisionsomething bigger.“We started thinking that only a smallnumber of people would ever see [the kiosks],”says Souther. They sought a means “to engagea broader community . . . to really empower thepublic to tell the region’s history.” They decidedto merge their collection of local history storieswith a rapidly growing form of communication— mobile phones.“At that point apps were not really thatwidely used,” Souther says. “The iPhonewas not all that old. We really were chartinga new kind of mobile app.”Souther and Tebeau introduced the ClevelandHistorical app and its accompanying website,clevelandhistorical.org, in 2010. The websiteaverages 5,000 unique visitors per month andthe app, which is free, has been downloadedmore than 11,000 times. The app contains informationon more than 400 local sites and figures.The app offers several advantages over theEuclid Avenue kiosks. It includes far morecontent, covering a much broader swath ofthe city. Some of the sites now feature minidocumentariescomposed of historical footageand expert commentary. Partnerships withschools, neighborhood associations and othercommunity groups have allowed more peopleto share their histories through the app. Finally,and most importantly, you don’t have to stopreading the stories when you get on your bus.SPOKANE HISTORICAL. Explore KentuckyHistory. New Orleans Historical. ExploreBaltimore Heritage. These are just a handfulof the apps that now run on Curatescape, themobile app platform developed by Souther,Tebeau, and several partners to “curate thelandscape.” Each app is slightly different,but they all have a common feel thanks tothe carefully planned design of Curatescape.As soon as he heard about ClevelandHistorical, Feight was hooked on the idea.He licensed a copy of Curatescape and namedhis app Scioto Historical after the river valleyhe now calls home.“[This project] really emphasizes the image,”says Feight, who snaps photos everywhere hegoes. He often takes along historical photos andpractices the art of “rephotography” — recreatingthe exact angle of an old photo with a newcamera to provide a visual record of change.At Bear Lake, the small reservoir where hewished for a machete, Feight scrambled downto the lake bank and up through the trees,trying to recreate photos taken in the 1930sjust after the reservoir was built by the CivilianConservation Corps (CCC).“Really what you’re doing is illustratinga story,” says Feight, who organizes his storiesinto historical tours. “What’s most importantMay Day protests for civil rights and labor reform, 1930; Frank Yankovic Band, 1962.about a tour is that it have a narrative. The firststep is figuring out what the narrative is.”Scioto Historical was scheduled to go publicthis spring with tours on a variety of subjects,including the pioneer days in southern Ohio,local ties to abolitionism and the UndergroundRailroad, Morgan’s Raid, and the work of theCCC in Shawnee State Forest. Future plansinclude a tour about the Adena and Hopewellearthworks and a tour to celebrate the bicentennialof the city of Portsmouth.“A tour is like a chapter in a book,” saysFeight. “It’s not like an encyclopedia.” The point,he explains, is not to be comprehensive but“thoughtfully selective. If you find a significantstory, then you’ve got a location.” And once youhave a location, you can find images or, ifnecessary, create new images.In addition to including his own photos onthe app, Feight commissioned six oil paintingsby Herb Roe, a Portsmouth native who contributedto nearly half a mile of historical muralson the city’s floodwalls. “It’s a new golden agefor illustrated history,” says Feight.SOUTHER AND FEIGHT have faced a commonbias in the academic world against historyprojects that involve the general public. Bothagree there’s a need to strike a careful balancebetween allowing broad participation in theprocess of documenting history and guardingagainst inaccuracies.“Yes, we edit,” says Souther. “Yes, we checkfacts, up to a point.” But not so obsessively thatstories are locked up forever in dusty archives.“Let the public create content,” he urges.“One of the biggest impediments to doing publichistory in universities is the fear of giving upsome control. That’s one of the things we’vedone the best, I think — giving up some control,taking some risks.”Feight notes that some historians believe oralhistories contain distortions because of the limitsof human memory. “That’s true,” he concedes.“But I really believe you can say the same ofall the sources. The key is to be skeptical of allsources. . . . Differing stories interest me. It’s OKto have different accounts.”Perhaps it’s not surprising that Souther andFeight, two products of a liberal arts education,are quick to embrace a bit of uncertainty inexchange for a broader picture of the world.“We find that for many people there is a Truthwith a capital T. History is about facts and datesand it’s not open to interpretation,” says Souther.“We take the view that history is all about theinterpretation. We’re not giving someonea Truth.” |F|See clevelandhistorical.org and sciotohistorical.org.The author, a 2008 graduate, lives in Madison, Wis.,where she works as a technical writer for Epic,a healthcare software company.FURMAN STUDENTS and faculty areincreasingly involved in collaborativeprojects in which they use digital toolsto share their findings with the widerworld. A few examples:Historyengine.org: In collaborationwith the University of Richmond, studentsresearch a topic, then write a short articlethat is published on the History Enginewebsite. The project allows students totake ownership of a small piece of history.Says history professor Lloyd Benson,“Furman students are able to bring to lightdocuments that might not otherwise catchthe attention of scholars. They can becomethe expert on a single document.”Katrinamem.org: Diane Boydand Mike Winiski of Furman’s Centerfor Teaching and Learning worked withDrew Woten ’12 to create a site featuringan interactive map of Hurricane Katrinacommemorations in New Orleans. Theproject grew out of Boyd’s May Experiencecourse in New Orleans, where Woten andhis classmates worked alongside localresidents to rebuild areas devastatedby the storm.Folio.furman.edu: Through theFurman Folio project, classics faculty andstudents work to preserve ancient historyby sharing high-quality digital images ofrare texts, accompanied by contextualinformation to offer a fuller understandingof the featured works. Says ChristopherBlackwell, Louis G. Forgione UniversityProfessor of Classics, “This is a projectentirely in keeping with the best traditionsof the discipline.”Turn the page to learn how anotherFurman program is expanding its reachby going mobile.12 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 13

firstand10The Furman Institute of Running and Scientific Training has goneinternational, and a new training app will further spread the word.By Erikah HaavieBhasker Sharma was looking for a break from the stress of his job asa manager with an information technology company. He found reliefin long-distance running. He soon realized he wanted to improve histechnique — and his intensity. To help him do so, he devoured a copyof Run Less, Run Faster, a book co-authored by Furman health sciencesprofessors Bill Pierce, Ray Moss and Scott Murr.The book, which features training programs and nutritional advicefor runners, further whetted Sharma’sappetite. He eventually boarded aplane in Bangalore, India, and crossedthe Atlantic Ocean to pursue additionaltraining at the Furman Institute of Runningand Scientific Training (FIRST).Sharma, who recently qualified forthe Boston Marathon, says the FIRSTprogram gave him the structure andfocus he needed. “Bill Pierce is a veryresponsive and thoughtful coach,” hesays. “I could not have qualified forBoston without this program.”Sharma’s success prompted himto bring two friends with him ona second visit to Furman in July 2011for a sort of “train the trainer” program.They are now using FIRST methodsto motivate other runners in India.Heading into its second decade,FIRST has gone international, withqueries and interest from throughoutthe world. What began as a simpleseries of lectures about running has morphed into a global trainingprogram reaching thousands of runners.And its impact is likely to continue to expand thanks to itslatest innovation: a training app.Bill Pierce (front right, with brother Don) sports the FIRST colors. Opposite: Scott Murrconducts fitness testing with a client.The FIRST app was designed and developed over several months bycomputer science professor Bryan Catron and his son, Weston, a 2013graduate of Greenville’s Wade Hampton High School who plans tomajor in computer science at Wake Forest University. The app outlinescomprehensive 12- and 16-week training programs for 5K, 10K, halfmarathonand marathon runners.“FIRST is a good, solid program,” says Weston, who has developedseveral apps for local companies.“It just seemed like a recipe fora successful app.”In the first three months afterits launch at the end of December,nearly 750 runners from 41 countriespurchased the $2.99 app, primarilythrough word-of-mouth advertising.Jenny Rikoski, a runner fromBoston who has run the New York,Chicago and Boston marathons,attended a FIRST retreat at Furmanlast May and recently started usingthe training app on her iPhone.“The lab tests at the retreat andthe feedback from Bill, Scott, Rayand the other experts at Furmanhelped me realize that with somehard work and discipline I hadpotential to become an even betterrunner,” she says.Since the retreat, Rikoski hasset personal records in the mile run,the 5K run and the marathon. “No two runners approach mileage, crosstraining, nutrition, hydration and recovery the same,” she says. “FIRSTrecognizes that and, based on science, gives good, practical advice thatall runners can benefit from.”FIRST IS DESIGNED to help runners of all ages and abilities achieve theirgoals and potential and to enjoy lifelong running. FIRST coaches haveassisted runners ages 18 to 80.For each runner, the coaches develop individual training programs basedon scientific laboratory and field tests to improve mechanics and maximizeperformance. In some cases, coaching involves a personal email outlininga training plan for the week. FIRST also offers comprehensive training forgroups of runners during intensive four-day retreats on campus.The concept for FIRST was born on the road, says co-founder Murr,a 1984 Furman graduate who has been Pierce’s running partner since hissenior year. One day the two asked themselves, “What can we do to helpother runners?”Drawing on their shared experiences, they began to help friends andcolleagues with their running goals, at times writing training plans forthem longhand on sheets of lined paper. After a time, Pierce and Murrdecided they wanted to formalize the program. Moss joined their team,and with the support of Furman’s administration they established therunning institute with a simple theme: training based on science.A key feature of the FIRST program is the “three plus two” program,or three specific running workouts and two cross-training workouts perweek. FIRST coaches also take a number of physiological measurementsfor the runners they work with, including maximal oxygen consumption,lactate threshold, running economy and body composition, and thendevelop customized training plans.The results are backed by research, namely three different studiesof 25 runners conducted over a three-year period. “The results wererather remarkable,” Pierce says, as more than two-thirds of FIRSTrunners improved their best times.The program’s big break came in 2005, when Amby Burfoot, editorof Runner's World magazine and winner of the 1968 Boston Marathon,came to campus for four days and wrote a six-page feature about FIRST.“The Furman FIRST training programs are the most detailed, wellorganized,and scientific training programs for runners that I have everseen,” Burfoot said. “For many runners, especially those hard-pressed to findtime for their workouts, the Furman FIRST programs will also be the best.”After the magazine hit newsstands, the phone calls and emails justdidn’t stop. “It just changed everything,” Pierce says. “It continues today.”To date, Pierce and his colleagues have received and responded to morethan 9,000 emails from runners on six continents. A second edition ofRun Less, Run Faster, first published in 2007, was released in 2012, andthe book has been translated into German and Portuguese.The title caught the attention of Furman junior Elisabeth Schlaudtwhen she saw the book on her roommate’s desk. Schlaudt, a Greenvillenative, said she began running as a high school freshman, not only to bepart of a team, but as an excuse to eat more ice cream.“Running has since become more of a lifestyle, something I do becauseI want to,” says Schlaudt.She began training for North Carolina’s New River Marathon in 2011and used the book as a guide. Pierce created a training plan for her andoffered tips on how to prepare. Her five months of hard workpaid off, as she won the race in the 19-and-under category.“As a marathon ‘newbie’, the FIRST program wasa fantastic tool,” says Schlaudt. “It helped turn myrather ambitious running goal into a concreteplan that was easy to follow.”Which ties into FIRST’sultimate goal: to promotetraining with a purpose, andstimulate a love for running.The author is an assistantin Furman’s educationdepartment and a contributorto the university’sonline and print publications.Photos by Jeremy Fleming.14 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 15

A Scholar’sstoryFurman faculty are likely to be talkingabout Matt Correnti for years to come.There are people who know a littleabout many things. There are peoplewho know a lot about a few things.And then there’s Matt Correnti.“He’s someone who knows a lot aboutmany things,” says Lon Knight, CharlesEzra Daniel Professor of Chemistry andchair of the department.Correnti, a native of Springfield, Pa.,graduated in May as a triple major, earningdegrees in chemistry, mathematics andphysics. He actually stayed a fifth year topolish off the math degree.It’s a decision he’s glad he made. “I liketo dip my hands in a lot of different pies,”he says. And he did it all while maintaininga perfect 4.00 grade point average.Correnti came to Furman in 2008, followingin the footsteps of his sister, Christina ’07.He says many students from his hometown, asuburb of Philadelphia, end up at Penn StateUniversity, but Correnti was looking for anew experience.After visiting Furman’s campus, meetingthe people and touring the newly constructedBy Erikah HaavieTownes Center for Science, he saw no reasonto look anywhere else. He enrolled at FurmanEarly Decision. “I sealed my fate pretty early,so I really enjoyed my senior year of highschool,” he says.His Advanced Placement credits allowedhim to jump right into mid-level physics andchemistry courses. He figured one of the subjectswould come out the front-runner, but bythe end of his freshman year he had alreadydecided on a double major.As he spent more time taking advancedcourses, his interest in mathematics continuedto grow and he began to see moreconnections between the three fields. Afterdiscussing the matter with friends and mentors,he decided to add the third major.“Matt is the epitome of a student scholar,”says mathematics professor John Harris.“He isn’t taking courses just to graduate.He isn’t choosing majors to pad his résumé.He’s taking courses to learn, and he’smaking high-level connections in thecontext of very deep topics.”Blending the three fields is a pathto discovery, Correnti says, and those discoverieshave led him to a slew of honorsand awards, as well as presentations atnational and international conferences.He came to Furman as a Lay Scholar —the university’s highest academic award —and while on campus has been named aFurman Fellow, a Barry M. GoldwaterScholar (the nation’s most prestigious undergraduateaward for math and science), anda Beckman Scholar, among other honors.“Matt is among the most brilliant studentsI’ve encountered in 30 years of teaching,”says education professor Scott Henderson,Furman’s director of national and internationalscholarships. “His pure intelligenceis incredible.”DOWN IN THE BASEMENT of theTownes Center, Correnti, under Knight’sdirection, has been using and, in somecases, building laboratory equipment thatsimulates temperatures in outer space.The research, says Knight, is designedto create and study new molecules ofastrophysical interest to help understandthe cosmos at the very basic chemicallevel. They use an electron spin resonanceapparatus to examine hydrogen clusterions at temperatures near absolute zero.Correnti was the lead author on a papersharing the results of their research that waspublished in the Journal of Chemical Physicsin November of 2012. He was also the soleundergraduate presenter at a Royal SocietyDiscussion Meeting in London in Februaryof 2012.Despite his intense academic load,Correnti has been diligent about makingtime for play during his college years.He played several intramural sports andcoached an intramural soccer team.As vice president of the Furman chapterof the American Chemical Society, he organizedcommunity outreach events, includinginteractive activities to help encouragechildren to become interested in science.One of his favorite projects for childrenis making ice cream with liquid nitrogen.Correnti received the Scholarship Cup and the Bradshaw-Feaster Medal for General Excellence at Commencement.“I can’t say it tastes as good as Ben andJerry’s, but it’s definitely in the spirit,” he says.Correnti also has a passion for woodworking.“Creating objects of original beautyand craftsmanship is as alluring to me as theprocess of scientific discovery,” he says.Two of his pieces have received majorrecognition. Woodworkers Journal highlighteda contemporary-style desk Correnti built, anda ball-and-claw table he made was showcasedin the Philadelphia Furniture Show. “It’s anopportunity to take ideas, persevere throughit and turn them into reality,” Correnti says.One of his greatest joys has been attendingFurman with his high school sweetheart,Karen Woods. Woods, a health sciencesmajor, finished her studies in December. Theywere married May 25, and they’re headed toRichland, Wash., where Correnti will be partof the National Security Internship Program atthe Pacific Northwest National Lab. There, he’llbe able to continue what he describes as “theessence of Furman” by working collaborativelywith his research advisor, Marvin Warner.The program will give him flexibility ashe decides what course to pursue and whatgraduate program to attend. Eventually hehopes for a career developing practical technologiesto address contemporary internationalissues, such as clean energy production andstorage and pollution reduction.“Matt is simply a delight,” says John Harris.“Furman faculty will be talking about him foryears to come.” |F|Photos by Jeremy Fleming.FURMAN | SPRING 2013 17

Furman BECAUSE FURMAN MATTERSClass of ’13 ‘First Gift’goes to Furman UnitedTHE SENIOR CLASS GIFT is a Furman traditionthat for years has represented the personalitiesand passions of the students who select it. Someclasses have chosen to support such projectsas the 9/11 Memorial, the patio at Cherrydale,the amphitheater and the Timmons Arena gate.Others have decided to establish scholarships orto designate their contributions to local charities.For members of the Class of 2013, who begantheir college careers in the midst of the recession,their decision held extra resonance. They choseto support the Furman United Scholarship Fund,which allocates money to students at risk of notcompleting their educations because of unforeseenfinancial circumstances.Last year alone, Furman United providedaid to more than 100 students. Class presidentStephen Tagert says, “We all have known someonewho has gone through financial difficultieson campus. We are a family, and we’re here foreach other when things are tough.”He adds, “I think it’s just as important tokeep students at Furman as it is to lure studentsin through scholarships. It is much harderto come to Furman, enjoy its community,and then to give up the experience thanit is to never have been able to come at all.Unfortunately, I also know some studentswho have had to leave because Furman Uniteddid not have enough funds, which is a reasonI hope this gift will be successful.”Tagert says the class renamed the projectthe “Furman First Gift” because it is their firstact of giving back to the university. “It’s aParent leadership, support provide $45 million campaign boostWHAT DOES IT TAKE to transform a $400million campaign dream into reality? For Furman,a key ingredient is philanthropic parents.And while some may quake at the thought ofbeing both donors and tuition-paying parents,Furman parents have demonstrated that theyare a special breed of supporters.When the university launched the BecauseFurman Matters campaign in 2007, parentsjoined the effort by establishing the Parent CampaignCommittee (PCC) within Parents Council.The leadership team set goals, opened new doorsand served as advocates for building the university’sendowment, supporting capital projectsand providing more scholarship funds.The results to date: Furman parents haveraised more than $44.8 million toward the campaign.Says John Yates, a former chair of the PCCwho is now on the board of trustees, “We are veryproud of the role parents have played. We knewthey would be helpful, but we were overwhelmedby their enthusiasm.” Their leadership is moreevident now than ever, as eight current trusteesare or have been Furman parents.Exactly how can parents make a difference?A prime example is the renovated Trone StudentCenter, made possible by generous lead gifts fromtwo sets of Furman parents: David ’77 and JuneTrone, and Class of ’83 members Robert andMargaret Platt Hill.reminder that we need to give to Furman aftergraduation if others are going to have the samewonderful experiences that we’ve had.”The effort has received an added boost fromGreenville’s Daniel-Mickel Foundation, whichis matching each first gift of $25 or more with$100. In addition, a group of parents is matchingevery $50 contributed by other parents ofgraduating students. To date, the fund drivehas raised approximately $56,000.Contact ashley.baker1067@furman.edu to learnmore, or visit furmanfirstgift.com.Lynda Panaretos, who chairs the ParentsCouncil with her husband Jim, says, “The costof tuition does not cover the total cost of providingthe excellent educational experiencesfor our students, so we must do our part tosupport the advancement of the university.It’s worth it.” And as the campaign nears itsDecember 31 conclusion, parents are likelyto continue to play a crucial role in the finalpush toward the $400 million goal.To learn more about parent fundraising efforts,contact judy.wilson@furman.edu.Hanks, Kilstofte receive first Furman Standard awardsTHE BOND between professor and student is one of the hallmarks of a Furman education. It’s thatbit of magic that lends itself to creative expression, career paths defined, and dreams revealed.The Furman Standard, established in 2010 to support faculty development at Furman, paystribute to those professors who set the standard for teaching excellence. Since the program’sfounding, 28 professors past and present have been honored with gifts of $25,000 or morefrom alumni and parents.As a result, the Furman Standard recently announced the first two faculty recipients ofresearch grants. Chemistry professor Tim Hanks (left) and music professor Mark Kilstofte wereselected to receive $9,000 awards ($3,000 for three consecutive years) by the faculty’s Researchand Professional Growth Committee. Two new recipients will be selected each year.Hanks’ award will fund his research into anti-corrosion and anti-biofouling coatings for marineenvironments. His work centers on organisms such as algae, barnacles and mollusks, which formon surfaces in marine environments. This “fouling community” often negatively affects theperformances of things like aircraft carriers and power plant cooling systems. The traditionalmethod for counteracting this problem is to coat surfaces with paints containing toxic tin andcopper complexes that erode and release toxins into the water. Working with colleagues inAustralia and with his student research team, Hanks is attempting to develop an alternativecoating that will be more environmentally friendly.Kilstofte, an accomplished composer, will use his Furman Standard grant to support workon an opera based on Henrik Ibsen’s Brand, which Kilstofte says is “the story of a passionate, wellintentionedpriest brought to ruin (or cataclysmic redemption) by his uncompromising beliefs.”Kilstofte, who also was recently awarded a Fulbright grant, plans to complete a three-actlibretto, develop the work’s principal dramatic arc and a series of character studies, compose thescore, and orchestrate the piece. He says, “A work of this scale, my most ambitious to date, willdemand the synthesis of everything I know about writing for voices and instruments, and aboutprojecting dramatic shape. I’m grateful for the support that will enable me to pursue it.”To learn more, contact shon.herrick@furman.edu or visit becausefurmanmatters.com. Stories on thesepages by Kate Hofler Dabbs ’09. Photos by Jeremy Fleming.Currys’ gift bolstersTocqueville programTHE TOCQUEVILLE PROGRAM atFurman promotes the continuingrelevance of Western and Americanpolitical thought, attracts some ofthe nation’s most prominent scholarsto campus, and sponsors a popularstudent seminar in political thought.Now, thanks to a $500,000 giftfrom Ravenel Curry ’63 and his wife,Beth, the program has a firm economicfoundation on which to build andgrow. “This pledge allows us to turnour efforts to an ambitious projectof expanding the number of coursesoffered by the program,” says TyTessitore, professor of political sciencewho, with departmental colleagueBen Storey, is the program’s co-director.The program, which began in2008, takes its name from Alexis deTocqueville, the French writer andstatesman who visited America inthe 1830s to study and write aboutthe young nation’s experiment withdemocracy. It was developed, accordingto the directors, “in response tothe growing civic and cultural illiteracyof students and the creeping ideologicalconformity that pervades facultyand students alike.”In a recent article on the JohnWilliam Pope Center for Higher EducationPolicy website, the programwas lauded as a “model” of intellectualrigor and was compared favorably tosimilar programs at Duke and Princeton.In 2010, student demand wassuch that it was necessary to doublethe space available in the course.Tocqueville Lecture Series speakershave included such scholars as FrancisFukuyama (Johns Hopkins), Lee Silver(Princeton) and Martha Nussbaum(University of Chicago).“We consider the TocquevilleProgram to be the beginning of amuch broader effort to invigorate theteaching of the liberal arts at Furman,”says Storey.18 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 19

Furman REPORTSCommentary“Kelly and I have chosen to support Furman and to continue toincrease our level of funding as a result of our steadfast belief in theenduring value of a liberal arts education. Our Furman experience,and I emphasize the word experience, created the firm foundationwe both have relied upon to build two successful businesses.”TEDxFurmanU speakers addressed topics in design thinking and social enterprise; Ben Riddle ’16 and political science professor Brent Nelsen were emcees; the 100 participants, includingstudents, faculty and staff, were chosen through a competitive application process; Katie Guptill ’13 offered a running artistic commentary on each presentation.Students bring TED(x) formula to FurmanTECHNOLOGY. ENTERTAINMENT. DESIGN.Ideas worth spreading.That’s what TED, a nonprofit organizationknown for its innovative conferences, stimulatingdialogue and inspirational 18-minute YouTubevideos, has been about for the last 25 years:promoting ideas that can change the world.It’s also the source of several spin-offs, amongthem TEDx, which allows independent groups touse the TED name and approach to sponsor theirown programs. Same format, smaller scale.Which is where Furman comes in — and,more precisely, Furman students.This year the Furman Creative Collaborative,consisting almost exclusively of freshmen andsophomores, received permission to bring aTEDx program to campus. The students chose“Redesigning Education” as their theme andattracted 10 high-energy thinkers to speak.TEDxFurmanU was held in Younts ConferenceCenter March 15 before about 100 students,faculty and staff, all chosen to participatethrough a competitive application process.AJ Calhoun ’15, head of the FCC, called theevent a “catalytic moment” for the university.Whether or not he was right, the speakers,who included Danny Stillion ’89, an associatepartner with IDEO, an international design andconsulting firm, did offer a wide range of possibilitiesfor education in the 21st century. A fewexamples: Christian Long of Cannon Design inColumbus, Ohio, advocated “human-centereddesign thinking,” which focuses on reinventingclassroom space to spur collaborative work. AlanWebb of Washington, D.C., a founding memberof the Open Master’s Program, discussed howeducation is primarily about creating relationships— and how to reimagine those relationshipsin a technology-driven world.Cynthia Lawson with The New School atParsons in New York City suggested pushingeducational boundaries beyond the classroomand into the world, where students learn fromhands-on fieldwork and teachers serve as facilitatorsto help them develop their resourcefulnessand observational skills. DeAndrea Nichols,founder of CatalystsbyDesign in St. Louis,addressed the needs of underserved youthand promoted empathy-based learning modelsdesigned to establish sustainable connectionsand eliminate the “failure mindset.”In all, the evening proved to be a fast-paced,five-hour package of ideas, thoughts, dreamsand possibilities. How can you top that? Furmanwill try on March 22, 2014, with “Stories: TheCommon Thread of Our Humanity.” The FCCand company are already on the prowl for storytellers.Learn more at tedxfurmanu.com.— JIM STEWARTCHARLIE REGISTER (4)— BRIAN McSHARRY ’88 OF GREENVILLE, AT THE RICHARD FURMAN SOCIETY BANQUETIN FEBRUARY, ON WHY HE AND HIS WIFE, KELLY KENNEDY McSHARRY ’88, SUPPORT FURMAN.“The right-to-life people are extremely smart with their strategy.Go after late-term abortions and chip away, chip away, chip away.You are making an argument on late-term abortions that mightend up being very useful to you as a limit on earlier abortions.”— POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR GLEN HALVA-NEUBAUER,IN A KANSAS CITY (MO.) STAR ARTICLE.“When I began my career as a sustainability student, it was witha somewhat vague idea of sustainability. I knew that I was interestedin living more harmoniously with the environment and making choicesthat would help everyone live a better life, but I did not then recognizethis as the basis for sustainability. Each year here has taughtme a new lesson in sustainability, which together created a learningexperience I will never forget.”— ANNE-MARIE MELIEF ’13, ON “THE GREEN SCENE AT FURMAN” BLOG.“The myths of vulnerability are that, one, it is weakness; two, I canopt out; three, it is letting it all hang out, or over-sharing; and four,I can go it alone. In reality, vulnerability is our most accurate measureof courage. It is the heart of all emotions; it isn’t optional. Withoutvulnerability, there is no intimacy. Vulnerability is about trust,intimacy and connection.”— BRENE BROWN, RESEARCH PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON GRADUATECOLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK, DURING FEBRUARY’S “ENGAGING FAITH” CONFERENCESPONSORED BY THE CHAPLAINS OFFICE AND NEXUS CENTER.“It’s an opportunity for juniors and seniors to live together and orienttheir lives around the intersection of their faith and their life in theChristian community.”— RIMES McELVEEN ‘96, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF MERE CHRISTIANITY FORUM, IN AGREENVILLE NEWS ARTICLE. MCF PROMOTES CRITICAL EXPLORATION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.“This place was highly instrumental in my developmentas a person and as a musician, and it had a lot to do withwhere I ended up being.”— KEITH LOCKHART ‘81, BOSTON POPS CONDUCTOR, DURINGA VISIT TO CAMPUS IN FEBRUARY, WHEN THE FURMAN SYMPHONYORCHESTRA PERFORMED WITH THE POPS.“I’ve played a lot of instruments, but the ukulele is best, handsdown. Four strings, four fingers, super happy. Get a ukulele. It’llmake you feel better.”— RUSS MORIN ’84, IN A GREENVILLE NEWS ARTICLE ON HIS WORKAS A LUTHIER. VISIT RUSSMORIN.COM.“Probably around 700 students in Greenville County Schools rightnow are part of families regarded as homeless — that is, staying ina shelter, staying piled in with family or friends, staying in a motel,or staying in a car.”— TONY McDADE ’79, DIRECTOR OF GREENVILLE AREA INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK(GAIHN), IN TOWN MAGAZINE. GAIHN IS A COLLABORATION AMONG CHURCHES TO PROVIDETHE HOMELESS WITH SHELTER, FOOD AND SUPPORT.“We had the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ back in the fall of 2011.People thought it was going to be a cathartic change, it was goingto be significant, an upheaval of massive social proportions. Andit was pretty much a non-event.”— DANA K. CHIPMAN, JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL OF THE U.S. ARMYAND FATHER OF CLAIRE CHIPMAN ’14. HE SPOKE ON CAMPUS IN MARCH.JEREMY FLEMING20 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 21

Furman REPORTSFurman suffers loss of three stalwart members of languages departmentDuring a seven-week period in February and March, the university community was saddened by the deaths of three currentand former members of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: David W. Morgan, and emeriti David B. Parselland Carey S. Crantford. In recognition of their years of service and contributions to the university, we offer these tributes.CAREY CRANTFORD had a style allhis own.Maurice Cherry ’65, a sophomorewhen Crantford arrived at Furman andlater a faculty colleague, once describedhow Crantford “immediately impressedstudents and colleagues alike with hisenthusiasm for teaching and themagnitude of his interests. I recallhearing my peers label Carey variously asa Renaissance man and a Baroque personality.He intrigued us with his considerable knowledgeof both popular culture and the more refinedworlds of art, music and literature, and we werecaptivated by his off-the-wall, often irreverentsense of humor and ability to posit logical connectionsamong ostensibly unrelated topics.”When Crantford died March 11 at the ageof 87, Furman lost one of its wittiest and mostdistinctive personalities — and one of its finestprofessors and scholars.He held a number of positions during his33-year Furman career (1962-95): professor ofSpanish and German, longtime chair of thelanguages department, assistant academicdean, and winner of the 1972-73 Alester G.Furman, Jr., and Janie Earle Furman Awardfor Meritorious Teaching.More informally he was known as the“Master of Furman’s Ceremonies,” a designationhe earned because, for almost his entire tenure atFurman, he chaired the committee that plannedall major academic events at the university, fromconvocations and graduations to three presidentialinaugurations (Blackwell, Johns and Shi).His meticulous attention to detail and apprecia-Crantford Morgan Parselltion for pageantry and heraldry brought dignityand refinement to Furman’s special occasions.He was also influential in developing Furman’sstudy away programs, and he was wellknown for his willingness to share his knowledgeof language and culture with the community.Peggy Ellison Good ’67, who in 2001 helpedlead a drive to endow an academic chair inCrantford’s name — a position first held byCherry — recalls how deftly her former professorreached out to students. “He had the uncannyability to connect with each of us in a personalway,” she says. “We all had identifying nicknames,highlighting some personality traitor talent or just something he made up. He knewwho in the class played football or basketball,who was starring in the next play, even whoyou sat with in the dining hall!“Dr. Crantford took great care to help hisstudents see how all of life — the politics, themusic, the art — permeated the literature of anera. He valued students, he loved the language,and he made what we were studying relevant.”A celebration of Crantford’s life will be heldat Furman November 9 during HomecomingWeekend. Memorials: Carey Shepard CrantfordEndowed Chair at Furman.“DAVID MORGAN is what thoseof us from the Midwest would call‘a great guy.’ Saying someone is‘a great guy’ is to call attentionto that person’s magnanimity.“He’s someone who is generousand thoughtful of others, someoneyou would like your parents or yoursister to meet. A great guy is to bedistinguished from ‘a heck of a guy’— someone who has done something out ofthe ordinary, like bowling a 300 game or outrunninga police officer. And to be distinguishedagain from ‘a good guy,’ which mostly justmeans ‘friendly.’“I mention these distinctions because theyare the kinds of linguistic differences that wouldreally have interested David. He loved words andmeanings, no matter what the language. It wasthe kind of activity David partook of in histeaching, and even more so in his dictionaryof modern Latin, the so-called Morgan Lexicon.”This was how David Spear, William E.Leverette, Jr., Professor of History, began hiseulogy at a memorial service for his friendand colleague, who died of a liver disorderFebruary 6 at the age of 53.Morgan was a Phi Beta Kappa graduateof Wofford College who went on to earn a lawdegree from Vanderbilt. After practicing lawin New York City for four years he returned toschool at Princeton University, where he completeda doctorate in French literature. He joinedthe Furman faculty in 1994, and in 1998 hereceived the Alester G. Furman, Jr., and JanieEarle Furman Award for Meritorious Teaching.In the last week of his life, Morgan’s formerstudents filled the “French at Furman” Facebookpage with testimonies to his warm, caring nature.Their comments described a mentor and friendwho, in the words of Leanna Kelley Fuller ’96,had “an infectious love of learning, an amazinggift for teaching, [and] a spirit of deep kindnessthat just shone through all he said and did.”Spear echoed those sentiments in recountingMorgan’s courage in his final days: “I watchedDavid take a number of phone calls from friendswhile he lay in his hospital bed. And althoughit was difficult for him to talk, he spoke openly,warmly and candidly about his imminent death.Instead of being concerned about himself, heactually ministered to those he was talkingwith, putting them at ease, reminding themof their virtues.”Spear closed by saying, “David Morgan wasa great guy. He was a generous spirit both in hislife and in his death.”Memorials: Furman Chaplains Fund, or acharity of one’s choice.DAVID PARSELL’S intellectual acuity and quirkystyle were well known among Furman Frenchstudents from 1969-2008. His death March 29at the age of 71 prompted the following reminiscencefrom writer George Singleton ’80:When I first sat down and watched thesituation comedy “Seinfeld” back in the earlynineties, I saw this character Kramer blow intothe room and, after his first batch of dialogue,said to myself, “David Parsell.” Over the yearsI thought, well, Parsell is like Kramer, exceptParsell is about 100 percent smarter than thischaracter, and he has more heart, and he’squicker and funnier by a mile.Parsell influenced me — and I suspect everystudent he taught — in ways that I’ll neverfathom. When he handed me a copy of Ionesco’sThe Bald Soprano in the spring of 1977, he saidsomething like, “You seem weird enoughto enjoy this play.” And boy, did I. For somereason it never occurred to me that one couldwrite comic work, whether plays, prose or poetry.As the term continued Parsell pointed metoward other works by Ionesco, and then SamuelBeckett. This may be faulty memory, but I amconvinced that he said — or at least thought— “You’re never going to be much of a Frenchscholar, but you might understand the absurdityof life.”Parsell, for me, was one of those rare professorswhose chief strength fell into the “I do notwant to disappoint this man” category. I triedto learn my verb conjugations. I spent a term inVersailles — a program he helped develop —even though I majored in philosophy. I took hiscourse in 19th and 20th century French literature.I burst in on his other classes just to seehow fast he could unravel himself from hispreferred sitting position, atop the desk, inthat double-jointed-at-the-hip manner usuallyperfected by yogis.Being around Parsell was similar to beinginvolved in an ongoing art happening. It waslike being in the midst of a flash mob continually,long before flash mobs became de rigueur.I showed him my bad, juvenile, plotless, slapstickattempts at plays and fiction. He never —never — made me feel as though a life of writingmay be impossible.I will miss those loud, booming “Ummms”that peppered his impeccable French, his geniusEnglish patter. In the afterlife, I hope that theSpirit in charge finds it necessary to say, “Youknow, we tried to use you for a template whenit came to having writers create smart, hilariouscharacters. They couldn’t pull it off. Here’sa trophy, though, for you being you.”Memorials: Greenville Humane Society,or a charity of one’s choice.JEREMY FLEMINGThorpe takes reinsat history museumDANA THORPE, who has more than 28years of experience working in museumsand historical societies, has been appointedexecutive director of the Upcountry HistoryMuseum-Furman.Thorpe was previously executivedirector of the Building for Kids Children’sMuseum in Appleton, Wis. She has alsobeen director of the Western ReserveHistorical Society in Cleveland, Ohio,director of exhibits at the John G. SheddAquarium in Chicago, and deputy directorof the Association of Children’s Museums,an international service organization.Furman and the museum becamepartners in February of 2012, when theuniversity assumed responsibility forthe museum’s operation and management.The museum is located in downtownGreenville near the site of the GreenvilleWoman’s College; its board of directorsowns the facilities and provides membershipand fundraising support. Museumstaff members are Furman employees.Furman president Rod Smolla said,“We are pleased to have a person of Dana’scaliber in this position and are confidentthat the Upcountry History Museum underher leadership will strengthen its role asa cultural and educational resource in newand exciting ways.”Smolla and Kathy McKinney, chairof the museum’s board, also expressedappreciation for the work of Ken Johnson,who had served as interim executivedirector since July of 2011.22 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 23

Furman REPORTSBookmarks: Featuring summaries of recent publications by Furman writersCrossing the blue-red dividePRESIDENT OBAMA and Mitt Romney couldprobably learn something from these guys. Betteryet, Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid. EvenJohn Boehner and Nancy Pelosi — althoughgiven their genders (and Furman’s housing rules),that might be a stretch in this case.Still, if 2013 Furman graduates ThomasHydrick, executive director of CollegeRepublicans, and Ben Saul, president of CollegeDemocrats, can become friends and roommates,maybe — just maybe — there’s hope for thegridlock, hostility and inter-party bickeringthat mars today’s political landscape from theSouth Carolina state house to Washington, D.C.Can’t we all just get along? Two Phi BetaKappa Furman gentlemen from the PalmettoState have shown it can be done.In past years on campus, relationshipsbetween groups of opposite political persuasionshad not always been particularly cordial. Saulnoticed the tension as early as his freshmanyear, and has been praised for his efforts tobring groups together to co-sponsor eventsthat promote an exchange of ideas.Since 2011, the College Democrats andCollege Republicans have joined to organizeprograms and panel discussions concerning issuessuch as the federal budget, school safety, andU.S.-Mexico relations, which featured formerMexican president Vicente Fox. And whetherthey’ve meant to or not, through their bipartisanexample Hydrick and Saul have served as modelsfor everyone on campus.Although they won’t have each other tobanter with next year, they’re ready for theNorth Village geothermal project nears completionTHE $4.92 MILLION North Village geothermalproject, which will provide a new method forheating and cooling the on-campus apartmentcomplex, is scheduled to be virtually completeby the end of August.A geothermal heating and cooling systemuses the water stored amid the earth’s constantunderground temperatures to heat residencesin the winter and cool them in the summer.“Normally a heating and cooling systemexchanges heat by using air,” says Jeff Redderson,head of facilities services. “Instead we’re usingthe earth, pumping water through wells andreleasing heat to and from the ground.”Furman received a $2.5 million grant in2009 from the U.S. Department of Energyto pursue the project. The university matchedthe grant. The system features 24 heat pumpsand 20 wells for each apartment building.Each well is 517 feet deep.Along with improved energy performance,the geothermal system will eliminate theuse of outdoor condensing units, reduce theuniversity’s carbon footprint and cut back onnext steps in their lives. Hydrick, a history andpolitical science major from Columbia, plansto pursue a Master of Philosophy degree inhistorical studies at England’s CambridgeUniversity, then enroll at Vanderbilt UniversityLaw School. Saul, a Greenwood resident focusedon poverty studies, is spending the summerworking for the Office of Rural Outreach at theU.S. Department of Education. In the fall he’ll bea graduate fellow with Furman’s Richard W. RileyInstitute, working at Scott’s Branch High Schoolin rural Summerton, S.C., part of the state’s“Corridor of Shame.” He plans to attend graduateschool and become an educator.maintenance needs. The mechanical equipmentcould last up to 20 years, with the wellsexpected to have a lifetime of 50 years.One building already on the system hasreported a 32 percent reduction in kilowatthours monthly. The project is expected to savethe university more than $2 million over thenext 20 years.All but one building in the complex willbe on the new system by the end of August.North Village consists of 11 buildings andaccommodates 1,020 residents.JEREMY FLEMINGCATHERINE CLAIRE LARSON ’98,Waiting in Wonder: Growing in Faith WhileYou’re Expecting (Thomas Nelson, 2012).The publisher says, “With Waiting in Wonder,readers are guided through the weeksof pregnancy with devotions for reflectionand guided questions for pondering deeperinto their experiences both spiritually andphysically. Each devotion includes scriptureand journaling space for writing personalthoughts, prayers, dreams, even love lettersto the growing baby.” Larson livesin Ashburn, Va., and is the author of AsWe Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation fromRwanda. Visit catherineclairelarson.com.HEATHER WILLIS ALLEN ’95 andSebastien Dubreil, Alliages culturels:La société française en transformation(Heinle Cengage, 2013). Allen has taughtFrench at the University of Wisconsin since2011. This university-level textbook aboutcontemporary French culture enrichesstudents’ knowledge of France and Frenchsociety in the 21st century through theanalysis and interpretation of textualartifacts, while simultaneously developingtheir advanced linguistic abilities.CHRISTOPHER BUNDY ’88, Baby,You’re a Rich Man (C&R Press, 2013).This novel, illustrated by Max Currie,follows the story of Kent Richman,a down-on-his luck, B-level variety staron Japanese television who is forcedto go into hiding when he becomes thetarget of an escaped prisoner. Kent windsup at a Buddhist retreat where, the publishersays, he embarks on “a journey ofmishap, paranoia, desperation, and selfdiscoverythat leads to an illuminatingshowdown as he attempts to right thewrongs of his past. Rich Man offersa unique look into contemporary Japanand the ubiquitous struggle for a placeto call home.” Bundy teaches writingand literature at the Atlanta campusof Savannah College of Art and Design.Visit christopherbundy.net.VICTORIA JACKSON ’81, Is My Bow TooBig? How I Went from SNL to the Tea Party(White Hall Press, 2012). The WashingtonPost once said of the former “SaturdayNight Live” star, “If you opened her head,it would be filled with cotton candy.” ButJackson has taken full advantage of herdaffy comedic persona, and her autobiographydescribes how she went froma “Bible-believing, piano-playing, TV-freehome in Miami” to Furman on a gymnasticsscholarship, and eventually to showbusiness fame. It was on the Furmanstage, she once said, that she realized themagic of making people laugh, and inthe years since she’s done just that. Morerecently she’s achieved prominence as apolitical pundit and “Tea Party Princess.”Visit victoriajackson.com.LINDA HEATWOLE JACOBS ’74,Jackson Hole Journey (Camel Press, 2013).The fourth novel in the author’s YellowstoneSeries is now in paperback after firstbeing released as an audio original in 2010.A finalist in the 2011 Spur Awards fromWestern Writers of America, Jacobs offersa coming-of-age story about two brotherson a dude ranch whose rivalry comes toa head when a beautiful Italian immigrantarrives on the scene. The book is setagainst the backdrop of the 1925 GrosVentre landslide disaster and subsequent1927 flood. Jacobs, who worked as ageologist for 30 years, lives in New Mexico.Visit readlindajacobs.com.GAYLE LEWIS CARSON ’68, Wyndsover Wylusing (Tate Publishing, 2013).A dying grandmother, Martha Rutledge,decides to reveal her family’s history toher granddaughter. The story begins inthe late 18th century at the court of MarieAntoinette, whose second son, Louis-Charles XVII, is smuggled into the UnitedStates. From there the book follows thelife of the lost Dauphin, his connection tothe modern-day Rutledges, and the familymystery that spans two continents and fivegenerations. Carson, a former teacher andbusiness owner, lives in Mount Pleasant,S.C. She based the story on a tale hergrandmother told her.JACK McINTOSH ’52, Don’t Kill ALLthe Lawyers — I’ll Give You a Short List(McIntosh, 2012). From his childhoodin Charleston, S.C. — where he says heshared a bedroom with a ghost — to hisadventures in the military and law schooland, finally, as a small-town lawyer, theauthor has collected a host of stories anddeveloped plenty of wisdom. He shares hisinsights and humor in this book, illustratedby award-winning cartoonist Robert Ariail.National Public Radio’s Dick Estell featuredthe book on his “Radio Reader” programin March. Estell said, “Jack tells us thatlawyers can be stuffy AND funny, andhe writes about his experiences in wordseven I can understand. He should beproud of this book.”FROM FACULTY/STAFFSAMUEL IRVING BRITT, The Childrenof Salvation: Ritual Struggle in a LiberianAladura Church (University of SouthCarolina Press, 2012). The Aladura Church,with nearly one million adherents worldwide,combines traditional Christian liturgy,a theology of the spirit, and creative ritualstrategies and social practices. Aladurafaith practices emphasize the role of theprophet/healer, who embodies virtue(spiritual power) and guides the faithfulalong a journey of ritual struggle towardsalvation. Britt explores the relationshipbetween worldview and ritual action inthe church, as well as the influence ofNigerian and Liberian traditions in shapingits character. In doing so he provides thefirst in-depth study of an African InitiatedChurch in Liberia. Britt, a 1973 Furmangraduate, is the Gordon Poteat Professorof Asian Studies and Religion and chairof the religion department.GAIL S. McDIARMID and MarilynS. McGee, Running for Home (SundogEnterprises, 2013). McDiarmid is an assistantin the Furman sociology department.Her sister, and co-author, have spent yearsobserving and writing about the gray wolfin the Northern Rockies. Their story, foryounger readers, follows the adventuresof Chinook the wolf, Wapiti the elk andMochni the raven. The authors ask,“What happens when an indigenousanimal, missing for more than 70 years,is restored to its natural habitat?” Theillustrations by Durwood Coffey featurehidden animals for readers to discover.Both authors are on the advisory boardfor the National Wolf Watcher Coalition.24 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 25

Furman ATHLETICSConfident Medved takes command of men’s basketball programNOBODY HAS TO TELL Niko Medved thechallenges he faces as Furman’s new men’sbasketball coach. He was an assistant onLarry Davis’ staff nearly a decade ago, andhe is familiar with the program’s resultsover the last 30 years — 10 winning seasons,one Southern Conference regular-seasonchampionship, zero trips to the NCAAtournament and five different head coaches.So why is Medved so excited about takingon the challenge following Jeff Jackson’sresignation after seven seasons? It’s actuallyMedved’s familiarity with Furman that driveshis optimism, because he can’t understandwhy those numbers shouldn’t be better.“Furman is a special place, an amazingplace,” says Medved, who spent the past sixseasons as an assistant coach at ColoradoState and whose wife, the former EricaNesselroad, is a 2006 Furman graduate.“The campus is beautiful, you can get a greateducation, and the surrounding communityis wonderful. I was gone for seven years, andI come back, and everything is even betterthan before, both on campus and in downtownGreenville. What is there not to likeabout this place? There is a lot here to sell.”That, of course, will be Medved’s basicchallenge — to sell a product that has hadtrouble attracting buyers. The Furman basketballprogram has stirred little sustainedexcitement in the Greenville communitysince the early 1990s, when the team lastwon the regular-season league title, andpoor student attendance at the games hasallowed a whole generation of alumnito come and go without developing anallegiance to the program.Medved, 39, understands all of this andis willing to do whatever it takes to get thingsmoving in the proper direction. He wantsto personally engage the Furman studentsMedved at a glanceHometownSt. Paul, Minn.CollegeUniversity of MinnesotaB.A. (1997), KinesiologyM.A. (1999), Sports managementExperience:Associate head coach, Macalester, 1997-99Assistant coach, Furman, 1999-2006Assistant coach, Minnesota, 2006-07Assistant coach, Colorado State, 2007-13What they say about Medved:“Niko is a terrific hire! He is the total package.Niko can coach, recruit and manage allaspects of a basketball program. He knowshow to build a lasting winner. His energy,enthusiasm and intelligence will resonatewith players and fans alike.”— TIM MILES, head coach, University of Nebraskaand get them excited about attending games.He wants to be a highly accessible and recognizablefigure in the community. And, mostimportantly, he wants to win games, whichwill solve any marketing challenge.“It will take a lot of hard work,” Medvedsays. “There is no quick fix. We need talentedplayers; we need a talented coaching staff.But we can win here. I know that. I wouldn’thave come back here if I didn’t think we couldbe successful.”Medved first came to Furman in 1999 asa member of Larry Davis’ staff and stayed forseven years. It is worth pointing out that fourof Furman’s 10 winning seasons during thepast three decades came during that period,and the 2004-05 team posted the school’s firstwinning record in league play in 13 years.When Davis resigned at the end of the2005-06 season, Medved moved to theUniversity of Minnesota program for a year,then joined Colorado State as an assistantcoach. He was part of a staff that, afterconsecutive seasons of more than 20 losses,guided the Rams to four straight postseasonappearances, including back-to-back tripsto the NCAA tournament in 2012 and 2013.“People ask me about the challengeat Furman, but I can tell you we had a biggerchallenge at Colorado State,” Medved says.“There was a tremendous amount of hard workinvolved in turning that program around.”He has received his share of creditfor Colorado State’s success. When it wasannounced that Medved would be going toFurman, Matt Stephens, a sportswriter withThe Coloradoan, wrote a column sayingRams fans should be grateful for Medved’ssix years of service.“I’d even argue he’s been the most instrumentalpiece for making CSU basketballwhat it is today,” Stephens wrote. “Tim Miles[former CSU coach, now at Nebraska]was the face of CSU’s building projectand Larry Eustachy is keeping it going,but behind the scenes has been Medved,bringing the talent to Fort Collins. He’sone of the most underrated recruiters incollege basketball and has thrived fromactually having integrity and treatingfolks around him with respect.”What can Furman fans expect to seethis fall when Medved’s first team takes thefloor? A more upbeat tempo, for one thing.Medved was in charge of the ColoradoState offense, which led the MountainWest Conference in scoring on its wayto a school-record 26 wins in 2012-13and a third-round appearance in theNCAA tournament, where the Ramslost to eventual champion Louisville.He’s bringing that offensive philosophywith him to Furman.“People can expect to see a lot of ballmovement, a lot of player movement,” hesays. “We’ll be aggressive and we’ll be anattacking team. When we get a good shot,we’ll take it.”Medved says he could count on onehand the number of set plays the Rams ranin 2012-13. “I don’t think people come outto watch a system,” he says. “They come tosee you play with passion and energy. Andthat’s the way we’ll play. We’ll be a funteam to watch.”— VINCE MOOREThe author is director of news and mediarelations at Furman and has been the officialscorer for men’s basketball for 30 years.Photo by Jeremy Fleming.The Corbin-Furman connectionFRANK SELVY ’54 (above, left) is the most storied name inFurman basketball history. Jerry Smith ’63 is not far behind.But other than their accomplishments on the hardwood,their memberships in the Furman Athletic Hallof Fame and their retired jerseys that hang in the raftersof Timmons Arena, what do they have in common?At least two more things: Both are from Corbin, Ky.And both are featured in a new book, The Boys fromCorbin: America’s Greatest Little Sports Town (AcclaimPress), which recounts the stories of a host of athletic stars who came from the little townin the Kentucky hills. “It’s not just a sports book,” author Gary West has said. “It’s abouta community and how families banded together.”The Corbin-Furman connection plays a prominent role in the book. The story of theSelvy clan starts with Frank, the only player to score 100 points in an NCAA Division Ibasketball game and, in West’s view, “the man who put Corbin on the map.” The university’sall-time leading scorer with an average of 32.5 points per game, Selvy went on to play in theNational Basketball Association for nine years, then returned to Furman to succeed LylesAlley as basketball coach. Several of his brothers would follow him to Furman, either asplayers (David ’65 and Curly ’71) or as a coach (Marvin).Smith arrived at Furman almost a decade after Selvy and made his mark as a three-timeall-Southern Conference player who averaged 23.3 points per game for his career. He is theschool’s fifth all-time leading scorer and was drafted by the Detroit Pistons of the NBA.Smith and the Selvy boys are featured in photographs on the book’s back cover. West,a freelance writer and former newspaper reporter, lives in Bowling Green, Ky., and haswritten seven books about various aspects of life in his home state.The book was released April 13 with a well-attended signing and other events in Corbin.Smith and much of the Selvy family were on hand for the unveiling.26 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 27

Furman ALUMNI NEWSCLASS NOTES, SPRING 2013 ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................YOUNG ALUMNI GATHERINGS STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY TIES ...............................................................................................................................................A GLANCE at the campus calendar reveals that almostevery day is full of activity at Furman. All kinds of eventsare scheduled, but rarelydoes Furman’s outreachtouch multiple cities onthe same day.On February 21, however,Furman celebrated itspresence across the nationwhen the Alumni Officesponsored the secondFurman Young Alumni Day,building on the success of the inaugural programin 2012. The first celebration focused on eight cities;this year, with the help of a host of volunteers, wescheduled Young Alumni Day receptions in 10 citiesacross the country. Turnout for the events wasexceptional, as more than 500 young alumni —graduates from the last 20 years — took part.Events were held in Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte,Chicago, Nashville, New York, Washington, D.C., andthe South Carolina triad of Charleston, Columbia andGreenville. For the second straight year the “Paladinsin D.C.” group led in attendance with more than 120participants, with Charleston, Atlanta and Greenvilleclose behind. The energy from the events was sharedon social media, as participants tweeted and postedpictures and status updates.The evening focused on strengthening the youngalumni community within the targeted cities, whichattract the majority of our recent graduates. Furmanrepresentatives were on hand for seven of thegatherings, bringing news from campus. All eventswere stocked with Furman paraphernalia and foodprovided by the Alumni Association.The geographic base for our alumni is rapidlyexpanding, as our graduates are settling farther andfarther away from “home.” Recent graduates aremaking a splash in the most competitive cities andindustries across the United States and throughoutthe world.For them, events like Young Alumni Day createcommunity and a true family feeling. As MonicaHanda ’07, who helped to plan the Washington event,says, “The benefit of Furman alumni events in the D.C.metro area is their ability to connect alumni in a bigcity where networking is the key to success. In addition,regular alumni events like Young Alumni Day are a greatway for recent transplants to acclimate to the city.”The gatherings also serve as reminders that Furmanis committed to supporting its graduates as theynavigate life after college. Events like Young AlumniDay offer a social outlet often needed by newcomersto a city.But Furman doesn’t stop there. The Office of CareerServices offers career counseling and support for life,a benefit often overlooked after alumni secure theirfirst jobs. The Alumni Office can also provide up-to-datecustom networking lists to help graduates with jobsearches and professional development.Young Alumni Day may be one of the university’snewest traditions, but its success suggests it will havea permanent place on the annual schedule. Furmanplans to hold its next Young Alumni Day in July to welcomegraduates from the Class of 2013 to their newcities. The goal is to add two new cities, taking the totalto 12 locations, and to continue to build participation.Alumni should make sure that Furman has theircurrent email and home addresses so they can stay intouch about activities in their area. Anyone interestedFAMILY WEEKEND 2013 is scheduled October 4–6.Parents, grandparents and assorted other kin are invitedto see what campus life is like for their Furman student(or students), and to enjoy such activities as a studenttalent show and a football game. This year’s foe is Elon.And it should be pointed out that the tailgating alongFurman Mall during Family Weekend is second only tothat of Homecoming. Some would say it’s even better!A brochure describing the weekend’s activitieswill be mailed to families in the coming weeks. Learnmore by visiting furman.edu/parents, or by contactingtom.triplitt@furman.edu.HOMECOMING 2013 has a late date this year:November 8–10. Classes ending in 3 and 8 will holdspecial reunions, but everyone is invited to return fora weekend of memories and nostalgia. Samford willprovide the opposition on the gridiron.THE ALUMNI OFFICE is partnering with Furman’sLearning for You program to offer expanded travelopportunities for alumni. New programs are in theworks, so watch for information in the mail andat alumni.furman.edu.— LEO FACKLERThe author, a 2003 graduate, is associate directorof the Alumni Association.in bringing a Young Alumni event to their town should59Sidney Bland, a retired history professorat James Madison University in Harrisonburg,Va., and a member of Furman’sAlumni Association Board of Directors,published “Alice Paul: Finally Getting HerDue” in The Clarion, the newsletter of theWomen’s Suffrage and Political IssuesChapter of the American Political ItemsCollectors. He has been named to the boardof the Edith & Theodore Roosevelt PineKnot Foundation in Keene, Va.68THIS YEAR IS REUNION!Lewis Walker has been named professoremeritus at Lander University in Greenwood,S.C., where he has retired as coordinator ofearly childhood education programs.70Lloyd Linney of DeLand, Fla., a musicprofessor at Stetson University, spent partof her fall 2012 sabbatical studying Frenchart songs in Paris. While there she visitedKathie Brown Thomas and her husbandT Thomas ’71. They live in nearbyArgentuil, where T is a minister.73THIS YEAR IS REUNION!Gary Davis retired this spring as vice presidentof Chattanooga (Tenn.) Coca-Cola Co.,where he had worked for almost 40 years.David Gibson, a mathematics professorat Spartanburg (S.C.) Methodist College,was recognized as a 2013 South CarolinaDistinguished Professor by Gov. Nikki Haleyand the S.C. Higher Education Foundation.In addition, he was the runner-up in the2012 National Scrabble Championship,which he won in 1994.74MARRIAGE: Ann Millikin Laneand Patrick Arthur Schado, December 22.They live in Charlotte, N.C.80George Singleton, who has taughtfiction writing and editing for 13 yearsat the South Carolina Governor’s Schoolfor the Arts and Humanities in Greenville,has been appointed to the John C. CobbEndowed Chair in the Humanities at WoffordCollege, where he will begin teachingin the fall. George recently published StrayDecorum, his fifth collection of short stories.81Jens Holley of Seneca, S.C., has beenelected vice chair of the United MethodistChurch South Carolina Conference Commissionon History and Archives.82David Hamilton Ulmer has been namedchief information officer for the NorthCarolina Department of Transportationin Raleigh. He was previously a technologyexecutive at Bank of America.83THIS YEAR IS REUNION!Vicki Boyer Denfeld of South Riding,Va., has been promoted to executivevice president of sales and marketing forCrestline Hotels & Resorts, where she waspreviously senior vice president. Crestlineis one of the nation’s largest independenthospitality management companies, withproperties in major U.S. and Caribbeanmarkets. Vicki is active with Marriott’sFranchise Marketing CommunicationsAdvisory Council, Starwood’s SeniorMarketing Roundtable, and the WestinOwners Advisory Board.84Cindy Davis of Portland, Ore., presidentof NIKE Golf since 2008, was ranked46th on Sports Illustrated magazine’s listof the “50 Most Powerful People inSports,” announced in March. She wasone of only three women to make the list.Scott Moore has been named deanof the undergraduate school at BabsonCollege in Wellesley, Mass. He was previouslywith the Ross School of Business atthe University of Michigan, where hewas the business information technologyarea chair, held the Arthur F. ThurnauProfessorship, and for seven years was theBachelor of Business Administration facultyprogram director.87Elaine Rudolph Yancey, a managingexaminer with the Federal Reserve Bankof Richmond, Va., was recognized in Marchwith a national award for her work withthe BSA Coalition, a professional organizationthat addresses issues related to moneylaundering and other financial crimes. Asadvisors to the group, she and a colleagueaccepted the Private-Public Sector ServiceAward from the Association of CertifiedAnti-Money Laundering Specialists. Visitbsacoalition.org.89Margaret Lazenby Ritchie ofBirmingham, Ala., is executive directorof the Alabama chapter of the CysticFibrosis Foundation.90Edwin Beckham has accepted a callto become priest-in-charge at The EpiscopalChurch of the Good Shepherd in Covington,Ga. He was previously associate priest atEmmanuel Episcopal Church in Athens.Richard Coughlin of Greensboro, N.C.,has been named by North Carolina SuperLawyers Magazine as a top attorney for2013. Less than 5 percent of attorneys areselected to the exclusive list. He is with theSmith Moore Leatherwood firm.Kirby Mitchell, managing attorneyat the Greenville office of South CarolinaLegal Services, is the 2012 Ellen HinesSmith Legal Services Lawyer of the Year.The award, announced by the SouthCarolina Supreme Court Access to JusticeCommission and the South Carolina BarFoundation, recognizes a lawyer who hasdemonstrated long-term commitment tolegal services for the poor. Kirby is a memberof the South Carolina Bar’s House ofDelegates, the state Supreme Court’sDocket Management Task Force, andthe South Carolina Judicial QualificationsCommittee. He also teaches a courseat Furman on poverty and the law.Keith Morris has been promoted to vicepresident and national sales manager withCline Cellars and Jacuzzi Family Vineyards,wineries in the Carneros district of SonomaValley, Calif. Keith joined the company in2007 as regional manager for the GreatLakes territory. He has also worked withHeidelberg Distributing Company in Ohioand as executive director of the CincinnatiInternational Wine Festival.Jerry Salley of Greenville is managingeditor of Community Journals’ three weeklypublications in the Upstate. Jerry joinedCommunity Journals in March of 2012.91Burl Carraway of College Station, Texas,a 20-year veteran with Texas A&M University’sForest Service, received the school’s2012 Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellencefor Public Service in Forestry. Burl is head ofthe sustainable forestry department at theschool. The award is presented each year forexceptional contributions and commitmentto the agency’s mission.Clarinetist Kenneth Ellison of HighlandPark, N.J., and his chamber ensembletrio@play have released a CD, “In theSandbox,” featuring works by DmitriShostakovich, Gary Schocker and Sir HenryBishop. The group, which includes KevinWillois on flute and Lynda Saponaraon piano, is donating a portion of theproceeds from sales of the CD to theAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention.Visit trioatplay.com.email leo.fackler@furman.edu.28 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 29

Furman ALUMNI NEWS2012–13 ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORSMikee Johnson, president and chiefexecutive officer of Cox Industries inOrangeburg, S.C., is the 2013–14 chair97Lisa DeJaco, a partner with the Wyatt,Tarrant & Combs law firm in Louisville,Caroline Simpson Whaley of Marietta,Ga., has completed her term as presidentof the Junior League of Cobb-MariettaMARRIAGE: Ashley Boland Summerand Danielle Shira Rosenthal, February 23.Ashley is a partner with Nelson, Mullins,CLARIFICATIONJ. Chris Brown ’89, president; Leslie L. Smith ’91, president-elect; Rebecca AnnArmacost ’89, vice president; Clare Folio Morris ’83, past president; N. StatenBitting, Jr. ’75; Marilyn Mayfield Blackwell ’65; Sidney R. Bland ’59; Tracy HulseyBond ’90; Kevin R. Bryant ’85; William M. Burtless ’84; O. Vernon Burton ’69;Mamie Susan Caffey ’81; Michael L. Guynn ’91; Jimmie E. Harley ’58; CharlesD. Hardy ’89; Gregory W. Haselden ’94; Shannon Scruby Henderson ’75; GailLaible Hughes ’83; Gwinn Earle Kneeland ’89; C. Todd Malo ’95; Thomas A.Marshall ’77; James N. Martin ’79; Herman A. Matherson, Jr. ’79; Andrew C.Medlyn ’97; Matthew A. Miller ’99; William P. Morrow, Jr. ’54; Emmett L. Patrick’56; Scott W. Raeber ’92; Kenneth A. Sargent ’62; Gordon D. Seay ’61; E. LeonSmith ’61; George O. Short ’54; T. David Tribble ’76.of the South Carolina ManufacturersAlliance, an organization of more than200 companies. He is also chair of theState Workforce Investment Board andserves on the executive committees ofthe American Wood Protection Association,Treated Wood Council, Southern PressureTreaters’ Association, and the Indian WatersCouncil of the Boy Scouts of America.Scott Medlyn of Alexandria, Va., wasrecognized by the University of SouthCarolina School of Law with a 2013Ky., has been selected to participate in theBingham Fellows Class of 2013. BinghamFellows is the leadership-in-action armof the Leadership Louisville Center.John Scott Gray is an associate professorof philosophy and humanities at Ferris StateUniversity in Big Rapids, Mich. During hissabbatical this spring he did research onAmerican pragmatist John Dewey. Heis co-author of Introduction to PopularCulture: Theories, Applications and GlobalPerspectives, published by Kendall Hunt.and has been elected president and chairof the board for the Youth Museum inCobb County. She also serves on the boardof directors for Cobb Health Futures Foundationand is a visiting professor for theLeadership Academy at ChattahoocheeTechnical University.BIRTH: Jeffrey and Laurie Youngs,a son, Parker Mitchell, December 26.They live in Cumming, Ga.99Riley & Scarborough where he specializesin intellectual property law, and Danielleis an assistant general counsel, focusingon patent litigation, for Honeywell International.They live in New York City.BIRTHS: Greg and Michelle AbrahamCurnutte, a daughter, Hannah Kate,October 2, Sugar Land, Texas.Bryan ’03 and Kylie Inman Holladay,a daughter, Ellen Hensley, October 30,Atlanta.Townes and Marshall Johnson,A LETTER IN THE WINTER 2013 ISSUE of Furman magazine mighthave been read to say that Furman faculty, like faculty at some SouthernBaptist seminaries, were in the past required to endorse and teach inagreement with the Baptist Faith and Message. That is not the case.Moreover, even when the university was connected to the South CarolinaBaptist Convention, Furman faculty, regardless of department, were neverrequired to affirm any creedal statement.BIRTHS: Andy and Michelle Muro Heck,a daughter, Caroline Susan, February 9,Stan Sulkowski and Amy Boatright,a daughter, Nadia Boatright Sulkowski,Ex-Officio and Other Members: Rod Smolla, president; Mike Gatchell ’91,vice president for development; Tom Triplitt ’76, executive director of alumniprograms and constituent relations; Leo Fackler ’03, associate director of alumniprograms; Cal Hurst ’04, president, Young Alumni Council; Kaitlin Parham ’13,president, Student Alumni Council; David Hathaway ’13, president, StudentGovernment Association; Stephen Tagert ’13, president, Senior Class.Compleat Lawyer Award. The school’sAlumni Association presents the annualawards to alumni for outstanding civicand professional accomplishments.Scott is a major in the U.S. Air Force.95Democrat Mandy Powers NorrellBrett Loftis has become chief executiveofficer of The Crossnore School, a residentialschool in the mountains of westernNorth Carolina that provides education,hope and healing for children who havebeen abused, neglected and abandoned.Visit crossnoreschool.org.BIRTHS: Jeff and Hattie O’Neill ’95In January, Christina LaFevers Lopezbegan working as the director of riskmanagement and performance improvementat Cumberland Hall Hospital inHopkinsville, Ky.Justin O’Dell has opened the O’Dell& O’Neal law practice in Marietta, Ga.BIRTH: Jeremy and Kristin Stultza daughter, Mary Randolph, December 28,Greenville.Ed and Ginny Waller, a son, EdwardNissen, October 11. They live in Lexington,S.C.02Melissa Barnes has been namedGreenville.James and Maria Croley Madden,a son, Sanders John, February 21. Theylive in Smyrna, Ga. Maria is dean of middleschool student life at The Lovett School.Joseph ’03 and Elizabeth WrightOsborn, a daughter, Sylvie Caroline,October 4, Greenville.February 16. They live in Charleston, S.C.Both Stan and Amy work at the MedicalUniversity of South Carolina.04Social studies teacher Ashley HollandAdkins has been selected the 2013–14Teacher of the Year at Dorman High Schoolof Lancaster, S.C., is a member of the stateBollerman, twins, a son, Malachy O’Neill,Pressley, a son, Robert Jones Pressley,women’s soccer coach at Eastern KentuckyMatt ’03 and Molly Stokes Staab,in Spartanburg (S.C.) District 6.Matthew D. Lee has been electedto a two-year term as president of theboard of directors of Philadelphia VIP,the pro bono arm of the Philadelphia(Pa.) Bar Association.93THIS YEAR IS REUNION!Lewis Bozard completed his Ph.D.in counseling and counselor educationat the University of North Carolina-House of Representatives representingDistrict 44, which includes southernLancaster County. She serves on theAgriculture, Natural Resources andEnvironmental Affairs Committee. Sheis an attorney in private practice withand a daughter, Honora Halligan, January7. Jeff is an investment banker at HoulihanLokey and Hattie runs the New York officeof Speakeasy Inc., a corporate communicationsconsultancy. They live in Brooklyn.Brady and Jennifer Gilbert, a daughter,October 16. They live in Greenville. Kristinhas earned a Ph.D. in theatre from theUniversity of Georgia.00Emily Roberts Wilson of Raleigh, N.C.,University. She previously was an assistantcoach at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington and at Furman.Eric Loebs of Irmo, S.C., received AllstateInsurance Co.’s Honor Ring award, whichdesignates his agency as one of the com-a daughter, Madeline Hope, October 18,Greenville.03THIS YEAR IS REUNION!Amy Lahey of Clarkston, Ga., a registeredCarrie Parker Eaves has accepted aposition as assistant professor of politicalscience at Elon University in North Carolina.Latoya Michelle Mitchell of Raleigh,N.C., recently began a new position asscientific publications manager at Grifols,92Robert Clifford was one of nine U.S.-Greensboro in May 2012. He is nowassistant professor of counselor educationand college student affairs at the Universityher husband, Mitch.Sandra Padgett Riddle started herown Tupperware business last October,Sophie Magnolia, May 15, 2012. They livein Travelers Rest, S.C., where Brady ownsa computer business and is presidentis a policy adviser for Speaker Thom Tillisof the North Carolina Legislative Assembly.BIRTH: Frederick and Natalie Byarspany’s top agencies nationwide. The awardhonors high standards and accomplishmentsin customer satisfaction, customer retentionnurse at the Aflac Cancer Center and BloodDisorders Center of Children’s Healthcare ofAtlanta, received the Laura Snitzer BoozerInc., in Research Triangle Park.Lindsey Mecca Nicely was promoted tosoftware compliance lead at MeadWestvacobased health workers to be presented withof West Georgia and continues his counsel-and for the month of December was theof the Greater Travelers Rest ChamberFisher, a son, Heyward, August 26,and profitability.Nursing Award for professional excellenceCorporation in Richmond, Va. She earneda REAL Award at the inaugural Patienting practice with the Care and Counseling18th top selling consultant for Tupperwareof Commerce. He also serves on the boardMount Pleasant, S.C.The Business Journal of the North Carolinaand leadership in pediatric cancer care.her master’s degree in statistics fromSafety, Science & Technology Summit hostedin January by the Masimo Foundation inLaguna Nigel, Calif. The Real Awards werecreated by Save the Children and FrontlineCenter of Georgia in Atlanta.94Kimberly Currier of Atlanta has beenUSA and Canada. Sandi and her familylive in Goose Creek, S.C., where herhusband, Charlie, is administrativebattalion chief for St. Paul’s Fire District.of the Greenville County Library SystemChad and Katy Oliver Hutcheson,a son, Elliot Cash, May 29, 2012. Theyown The String Bean, a restaurant and retail01Johnlee Curtis was recently appointedsenior associate counsel at AeroTurbine, Inc.Triad named Jonathan Peddrick to itslist of “Forty Leaders Under 40” for 2013.Jonathan is manager of the healthcarepractice consultants division of DavenportThe award provides financial supporttoward continuing education in the fieldof oncology.MARRIAGE: Angela Christian andVirginia Commonwealth University lastMay and passed the first actuarial examin November.BIRTHS: Clint and Kelsey RuebushHealth Workers Coalition to recognizethe life-saving efforts of dedicated healthworkers. Robert, who is on the clinicalteaching faculty at the Medical Universityof South Carolina in Charleston, is chair ofpromoted to vice president of talent developmentwith the American Cancer Society,Inc., where she has worked for 17 years.She is responsible for the strategy, designand implementation of learning, job train-96Brian Greenwood, a singer/songwriterin Los Angeles, has released a single titled“Malibu You,” available on iTunes andmarket in Belmont, N.C. Katy is a risk officerfor Wells Fargo Bank in nearby Charlotte.98THIS YEAR IS REUNION!He lives in Madeira Beach, Fla.Darcy Walker Krause is executivedirector of The Center for GrievingChildren in Philadelphia, Pa. The centerprovides support services to children whoMarvin Joyce & Co. of Greensboro, N.C.Rebecca Neal Tompkins of MyrtleBeach, S.C., is director of communicationsfor SPM Resorts, a resort managementcompany.Jonathan Jones, January 12. They live inMauldin, S.C.BIRTHS: James ’04 and Sara BurnettGranberry, a daughter, Martha Katherine,February 9, 2012. They live in Nashville, Tenn.Grant, a son, Everett Lennon, August 20,Greenville.Jonathan and Kristen Moore, a son,Adam Riordan, January 18, Greer, S.C.pediatrics at Roper and St. Francis hospitals.ing, performance and change management,Amazon.com. Brian is working on an albumAddison and Caroline Kocher ’00have experienced the death of a loved one.MARRIAGE: Kevin Trexler and AshleyPaige Harden and Elliot Tucker-Drob,In recent years he has led medical teamshuman performance, and organizationaland recently performed at such HollywoodDana have moved to the Washington,Visit grievingchildren.com.Pollock, December 31. They live in Athens,a son, Jonah Tucker Drob, August 3.to Thailand, Burma, Jordan and Iraq.development for staff and volunteers.venues as the Troubadour and Whisky-a-Go-D.C., area. Addison is chief investmentRepublican Josh McKoon of Columbus,Ga., where Kevin is pursuing an MBAThey live in Austin, Texas, where PaigeTeresa Skinner has become directorGo. He was selected as a Spotlight Artistofficer for The Nature Conservancy,Ga., is the new chair of the Georgia Statedegree from the University of Georgia andand Elliot are psychology professorsof development with United Ministriesof the Month by Essential Pop magazine.a nonprofit environmental organization.Senate Judiciary Committee.Ashley is a physician at Athens Regionalat the University of Texas.of Greenville.Visit briangreenwood.com.Visit nature.org.Medical Center.30 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 31

Furman ALUMNI NEWS05John Cole has joined Bradley Arant BoultCummings LLP as an attorney in the firm’sBirmingham, Ala., office. He previouslyworked for the U.S. House of RepresentativesFinancial Services Committee asan advisor to Republicans on bank safetyand soundness, regulatory relief, mortgagelending, consumer credit, money launderingand data security.Elton Daniels is the town manager ofSharpsburg, N.C. He holds a master’s degreein public administration from the Universityof North Carolina-Wilmington.Bernard Frost, a mathematics teacher,is the 2013–14 teacher of the year atFairforest Middle School in Spartanburg(S.C.) District 6.Nathan and Karen Sandberg Pattonlive in Newark, N.J., where Nathan is aninth grade teacher at People’s Prep CharterSchool. Karen completed her doctorate inschool psychology at the University ofGeorgia and works as director of specialeducation at TEAM Academy CharterSchool.Erin McCormick Tindle has beennamed 2013–14 teacher of the yearat Ralph Chandler Middle School inGreenville County. She teaches sixthand seventh grade mathematics.MARRIAGE: Kelli Dieterich andWesley Windsor, March 23. Theylive in Alexandria, Va. Kelli receivedher Master of Public Policy degree fromGeorge Mason University in May 2012.BIRTHS: Nicholas and ChristinaMinotty Bruce, twin sons, CarlisleReagan and Samuel Paul, January 8. Theylive in Vero Beach, Fla., where Nick is anattorney and Christina is an interiordesigner.Andrew and Emily Carson, a daughter,Beatrice, January 20, Charleston, S.C.Rick ’04 and Marisa Krepfle McIntyre,a daughter, Lilia Sophia, December 9. Theylive in Sanford, Fla.Nicholas and Caroline Reinhardt,a daughter, Martha Virginia, October 28,Greenville.06Patrick Mainieri earned the 2013Outstanding Young Music Educator of theYear Award from the South Carolina MusicEducators Association. He is band directorat Gettys Middle School and Easley HighSchool.Liz Meeker joined the staff of UnitedMinistries in Greenville last July as anemployment counselor.MARRIAGE: Adrienne Emerick andBryan Hodges, October 20. They live inCharleston, S.C., where Adrienne is agraphic designer at MVP Group International.Bryan is a paramedic.BIRTHS: Jules and Katey Deas,a daughter, Jane Adele, November 6.They live in Mount Pleasant, S.C.Michael and Missy Dempsey Hale,a daughter, Charlotte Anne, October 12.They live in Alpharetta, Ga. Michael isa senior associate with PricewaterhouseCoopers.Jason and Deb Mathis Read, a son,Hudson Richard, November 3, Louisville, Ky.Aaron and Chrissy Moss Welch,a daughter, Miriam Kathryn, September 26,Florence, S.C.07Darlene Bayles Currier, a third gradeteacher at Sara Collins Elementary Schoolin Greenville, was recently named a NationalBoard Certified Teacher. She completeda voluntary assessment program designedto recognize effective and accomplishedteachers who meet high standards.Erica L. Giovanni has joined Owen& Owens law firm in Richmond, Va.,as an associate focusing on family law.She previously worked as a law clerkto Harold W. Burgess, Jr., of the 12thJudicial Circuit of Virginia.Will Glenn graduated from the Charleston(S.C.) School of Law in 2012. He is anassociate attorney with the Leinster LawFirm in Greenville.Cindy Youssef, who was previously withthe Riley Institute at Furman, is now theliaison for academic development with theGreenville Health System (GHS). She alsomanages the Ramage Center for Teachingand Learning (the administrative unit ofacademics at GHS) and is president ofGreenville Rotaract, a young professionalsRotary Club.BIRTH: Graham and Amanda GriffinButler, a son, Robert Griffin Butler,November 13, Atlanta.08THIS YEAR IS REUNION!Emily Boehnlein Fulp has beennamed director of administration forthe Wilmington (N.C.) Chamber ofCommerce, where her duties includedatabase management, research andspecial projects. She is completinga master’s degree in arts administrationat Savannah College of Art and Design.Christina Henderson of Washington,D.C., has become legislative director onthe staff of D.C. Council member-at-largeDavid Grosso. She is responsible forhelping to formulate and advance hislegislative agenda.Anna Mathis, a fourth grade teacher atO.P. Earle Elementary School in Spartanburg(S.C.) District 1, was the school’s 2012–13teacher of the year.Adam Pajan, a doctoral student(church music emphasis) at the Universityof Oklahoma’s American Organ Institute,is one of 10 people selected to competein the inaugural International OrganCompetition, to be held at LongwoodGardens in Kennett Square, Pa., in late June.The finalists will compete for a $40,000prize, a concert contract and a performanceat Longwood. Adam won first prize atthe 2011 Arthur Poister Organ ScholarshipCompetition and the 2009 AlbertSchweitzer Organ Competition USA,and was a semifinalist in the American Guildof Organists’ National Young Artists Competitionin Organ Performance in May 2012.Mclaine Richardson of Brentwood,Tenn., is the new owner and lead designerof Margaret Ellis Jewelry, an artisan jewelrycompany. The company designs and sellscustom handcrafted metal and gemstonejewelry. Visit margaretellisjewelry.com.BIRTHS: Michael and Katrina LaceyBorer, a son, Silas Emerson, September 11,Las Vegas, Nev.Adam and Darcy Herlong Slizewski,a daughter, Lane Grace, November 2. Theylive in Charleston, S.C.09Russell Guilfoile has completed theJ.D. and MBA dual-degree program atCampbell University.MARRIAGES: Carolyn Stevens andIan Duggan ’07, December 29. Ian,a captain in the U.S. Air Force, has beenassigned to Turkey as a Judge AdvocateGeneral officer.Chris Grande and Jessica Gomez ’10,September 29. They live in Cumming, Ga.Jessie has earned a master’s degree inSpanish literature and works as a U.S.event coordinator for Network TwentyOne.Rachael Parrish and Jeff Vitkum, June1, 2012. Rachael is completing a master’sdegree in law and diplomacy at the FletcherSchool of Tufts University in Boston. Jeffis a copywriter at Arnold Worldwide.Paulette Torchia and Ben Tomlinson’11, June 9, 2012. Paulette teaches bandand chorus in Columbia, S.C., and Ben iscompleting his master’s degree in percussionperformance at the University of SouthCarolina.10Margaret Rosebro is the 2013–14teacher of the year at Jesse Bobo ElementarySchool in Spartanburg (S.C.) District 6.She teaches third grade.SETH G.: CLASSICAL SKILLS, CONTEMPORARY FLAIR ..................................................................................................................................................AS A VIOLIN PERFORMANCEmajor at Furman, Seth Gilliard spentlots of time with Bach, Mozart andall those powdered-wig types. Butthere were times when he really justwanted to let his hair down, metaphorically,and rock out.Nowadays, that’s exactly whathe does.Gilliard moved back home toCharleston, S.C., after graduating in2012 and quickly carved a niche forhimself as a pop violinist. He craftsinstrumental covers of chart-toppingsongs by artists such as Ne-Yo,Justin Bieber and Alicia Keys, andcomposes his own music as well. Itdidn’t take him long to land somesteady weeknight appearances atlocal restaurants and nightspots, and his weekends arefilled with gigs, weddings and private events for peoplewho want to hear a violin sing in the hands of a youngman with classical skills and a contemporary flair.He’s made a name for himself in Charleston, butas befits this age of connectedness, his fame is quicklyspreading beyond his hometown. The YouTube page forSeth G. (that’s his stage name) has more than 10,000subscribers, and the videos that appear there — some ina studio, some showing Gilliard playing to passers-by onCharleston’s busy sidewalks — have attracted more thana million views.Sound, of course, is a musician’s main medium. ButGilliard, 22, knows that visuals are an important part ofmodern music appreciation, too.“With what I’m doing, it’s something different a lotof people haven’t seen before,” he says. “When youhave the video component and they’re like, ‘Oh, OK,he’s actually playing this,’ I think it does help as well.”When he plays, Gilliard is backed by a track (orsometimes a live disc jockey) that provides a foundationfor his expressive violin work. There’s percussionand bass and maybe some electronica effects or subtlechords, but the violin is the star of the show.Gilliard plays with his whole body, swayinggracefully to a slow song or appearing almost to danceto tunes with stronger beats. His face never betrayswhen he’s playing a technicallydifficult passage;instead, there’s a smile thattransmits the pure joyof a musician in his element.It’s a long way from Beethoven. But then again,maybe it’s not.“Without my classical background, I wouldn’t beable to do what I’m doing now,” Gilliard says. “Classicalmusic gets your technical abilities where they need to beso that you can play what you want to play. That’s thebeauty of it.”Sometimes, he says, he’ll tuck a classical passageinto one of his pop songs or improvise during a liveperformance using techniques he learned from his workwith Furman jazz ensembles his junior and senior years.Gilliard’s taste for experimenting with instrumentalmusic developed amid his classical training in middleand high school.“Growing up, and even now, there was definitelya divide between what I was playing on a regular basisand what I was listening to on a regular basis,” he says.“I was listening to pop music, listening to what was onthe radio just like everyone else. I just started messingaround with different things, just trying to play randomstuff that I would hear, figure it out on the instrument.And that just kind of went from there.”After a while, he decided tosee how his interpretations wouldstrike an audience. So duringsummers and on weekends, he’dfind a spot among the crowdsin Charleston’s City Market andstart to play, leaving his violin caseopen for tips.“It was really good moneywhen I was younger,” he says,“and it also gave me the opportunityto play in front of people,and a chance to experiment.”When he started college atFurman, he shifted his focus toclassical music, logging countlesshours in practice rooms andrehearsal halls, playing concertsand auditioning for competitionsamid all his other schoolwork. But a semesterabroad in Italy during his senior year gavehim a more open schedule, and he foundtime to get back in touch with his passionfor pop music. He started recording the songshe composed and covered, and a full-time careerwas launched.Gilliard released his first EP, “The Introduction ofSeth G.,” in February. Four of its five songs are originalcompositions — but he couldn’t resist just one cover,Ne-Yo’s “Let Me Love You.”Now he’s working toward his first full-length album,which he hopes to release this year. And, as any workingmusician must do, he’s concentrating on building hisfan base and looking for bigger and better opportunitiesto perform.Music-wise, he says, “I’m trying to do more experimentalstuff. I don’t know exactly how it’s going toturn out.”Somehow, though, one suspects that Bach andMozart would be proud.— STACY SCHORR CHANDLERThe author, a 1999 graduate, is a freelance journalistin Raleigh, N.C. To see Seth Gilliard in action, visityoutube.com/user/sethxg or sethgmusic.tumblr.com.Photos courtesy Seth Gilliard.32 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 33

Furman ALUMNI NEWS11Andrew Huang is assistant editorof TOWN magazine, an Upstate SouthCarolina lifestyle publication.Stefanie Kenoyer was chosen toappear on Golf Channel’s “Big Break”reality competition program this spring.The show features 12 professional golfers,six men and six women, pursuing theirdreams of playing on the professional tours.The season, filmed in Mexico, began airingMay 13. Stefanie, a two-time SouthernConference Player of the Year, currentlycompetes on the Symetra Tour.MARRIAGE: Steven Hovdesven andCarrie Neal, December 29. They live inKailua, Hawaii, where Steven is an officerassigned to the 25th Infantry Division atSchofield Barracks and Carrie works atAlston, Hunt, Floyd & Ing Lawyers.12Brittany Berger is an environmentalmanager with Reserva do Ibitipoca in Brazil,a retreat area that is part of a large reservededicated to sustainability, reforestationand protecting wildlife.Mary McArthur is an artist-in-residencewith Jonathan and Tina Bailey, CooperativeBaptist Fellowship missionaries in Bali.Mary is working with indigenous musicgroups and studying Balinese andIndonesian music, as well as creatingmusic and exploring other art forms.MARRIAGE: Virginia Pazdan andThomas Powers ’11, June 30, 2012.They live in Charleston, S.C., where Virginiais teller leader at Southern First Bank andThomas is pursuing a Ph.D. in pharmacologyat the Medical University of South Carolina.DEATHSAnne Mae Pickens Collins ’31, January16, Chester, S.C. After earning a degreein journalism from the University of SouthCarolina, Anne wrote for The State newspaperin Columbia, the Rock Hill (S.C.)Herald, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer andthe Chester News, where she penned the“Ambling With Anne” column. Active incivic life, she was the founder and organizerof two theater groups in Chester, a trusteeof Chester County Library for 24 years, anda member of the Chester City RecreationBoard, York Technical College FoundationBoard and Chester County Board ofRealtors. She was one of South Carolina’sdelegates to the first White HouseConference on Aging in Washington, D.C.With her husband, Joe, she establisheda real estate agency, and after his deathshe served as its broker-in-charge untilher retirement in 1988. She was nameda Woman of Achievement and Model forToday’s Girls by the Piedmont Area GirlScout Council, and she was one of fourChester County citizens honored duringBlack History Month in 1997. Her familywas named the town’s Family of the Yearin 1957 and Family of the Year in SouthCarolina’s Region III in 1987. She was theauthor or editor of 13 books of familyand community histories.Selina Parker Stoddard Hopkins ’36,January 19, Summerville, S.C. She was alibrarian with the Charleston County (S.C.)Library. She was a member of Daughtersof American Colonists and the HuguenotSociety of South Carolina.Alice Ives Purser ’36, December 11,Taylors, S.C. She was active in the JoyceScott Chapter of the Daughters of theAmerican Revolution.Numa L. Smith, Jr. ’38, December 10,Arlington, Va. Recipient of Furman’sBradshaw-Feaster Medal for GeneralExcellence at graduation, he went onto law school at Duke University, wherehe finished first in his class. After servingin the U.S. Army he went to work forWhite & Case in New York City. Fromin Washington, D.C., where he spent theremainder of his legal career. He was amember of the bars of the Supreme Courtof the United States, the Court of Appealsfor the D.C. Circuit and the Federal Circuit,the New York State Court of Appeals, andthe Tax Court of the United States, amongothers. A life member of the American LawInstitute and the Fellows of the AmericanBar Foundation, he served on the boardsof a number of charitable and religiousorganizations. At Duke he was a memberof the Board of Visitors and was presidentof the law school’s Alumni Association.A scholarship at the school bears his name.Dorothy Few Walker ’42. March 14,Greer, S.C. Dot had retired from theGreenville County School System.George Albert Bowdler, Jr. ’43,January 25, Saluda, S.C. He was pastorof Baptist churches in Louisiana and SouthCarolina before moving to Guatemalaas a missionary for the Southern BaptistForeign Mission Board. Upon his return tothe States he became chaplain at BaptistHospital in Columbia, S.C. He also taughtat the University of South Carolina-Aikenuntil 1985. He then moved to Panama City,Fla., where he co-founded Capstone House,a spiritual information center.Kathryn Wells Herbert ’43, January 31,Greenwood, S.C. Kay worked with theFederal Reserve Bank in Atlanta and waslater employed with the School Districtof Pickens County and the South CarolinaDepartment of Education.Annie Margaret McDonald Jackson’43, January 14, Lexington, S.C. She taughtthird grade at Lexington Elementary Schoolfor 30 years.Marcia Wyche McIver ’43, December14, Greenville. She was a professional operasinger from 1943–47. She eventually begana career as an educator in Columbia, S.C.,working her way from elementary schoolteacher to principal in both elementaryand middle schools. Later she becamean administrator in Richland County SchoolDistrict 1. After retiring from the fieldof education she moved back to Greenville,Bernice McIntyre Coleman ’45,January 11, Latta, S.C. She had a longcareer in the Pee Dee area, teaching atLatta Primary School and serving as readingcoordinator for Marion School District 1.She was past president of the InternationalReading Association of the Pee Deeand past officer of Delta Kappa Gammaof Alpha Eta State. She was also a memberand past regent of the Rebecca PickensChapter of the South Carolina Daughtersof the American Revolution and a memberof the Pee Dee Chapter of the South CarolinaSociety of Colonial Dames XVII Century.Garnet Andrew Barnes ’46, February25, Easley, S.C. A U.S. Army veteran ofWorld War II, he was the founder of BarnesReal Estate, Inc., and Barnes InsuranceAgency, Inc. He was also affiliated withPinnacle Associates and was co-founderof Smithfields Country Club. He wasa board member of a host of institutions,including Furman, the Palmetto HealthBoard of Directors (founding member),and the South Carolina State DevelopmentBoard. For 27 years he served on the boardof the Baptist Health Care System. He wasa recipient of the Order of the Palmetto,South Carolina’s highest civilian honor.Virginia Hutto Rickborn ’46, February27, Atlanta. She studied at the JuilliardSchool of Music in New York, then spenther professional life as an elementary schoolteacher. She was a sought-after soloist forspecial events and with church choirs.Ida Green Vaughn ’47, January 5,Simpsonville, S.C. She had been presidentof Country Store at Vaughn’s Feed and Seedsince 1986.Lina Wilkinson DuBose ’48, December26, Dillon, S.C. She worked as a bank tellerand X-ray technician in Darlington, S.C.,and as a teller and school administrativeassistant in Dillon.Frankie Elizabeth Huff Granger ’48,January 6, Greenville. She retired after 23years as minister of education at Berea FirstBaptist Church, where she was a memberfor 64 years.Dorothy Williams Jameson ’48,January 5, Easley, S.C. She taught inelementary schools for 35 years, predominantlyin the Pickens County (S.C.)School District. She was a member ofthe Volunteer Auxiliary at Palmetto Healthin Easley.Harry Llewellyn Raley ’48, January 4,Clinton, Miss. After he graduated from SouthwesternBaptist Seminary in 1951, he andhis wife served churches in North and SouthCarolina before being appointed missionariesto Taiwan by the Foreign Mission Board of theSouthern Baptist Convention. They worked inTaiwan from 1954 to 1991, with Harry servingat various times as treasurer, business manager,bookstore manager and chair of theTaiwan Baptist Mission. In 1989 the governmentof Taiwan presented him with the“Good Man, Good Deeds” award for hisservice, an honor rarely given to foreignresidents. After retirement the Raleys continuedto serve as ministers to Chinese populationsboth in the States and abroad. Harryalso volunteered as prayer ministry coordinatorfor the Mississippi Baptist Convention.Helen Bryson Taylor ’48, January 13,Richmond, Va. She was a teacher in fivestates and especially enjoyed teaching coursesin the Bible as Literature and in Americanhistory at Auburn (Ala.) High School, wherethe yearbook was dedicated to her numeroustimes. While teaching history she created andpresented, in full period costume, portrayalsof various American first ladies.Jean Carskaden Weaver ’48, December11, Morgantown, W.Va. She was active inthe Service League of Morgantown, servingas historian during the nation’s bicentennialcelebration in 1976, and was a member ofthe Campus Club at the University of WestVirginia, where her husband taught.Lewis Vincent Wood ’48, January 14,Snellville, Ga. In 1942 he enlisted in the U.S.Army Air Corps. He served as a radar navigatoron a C-47 during World War II and as aradar officer during the Korean Conflict. Afterhis military service he worked for PrudentialMortgage and Loan in Greenville, Charlotteand Atlanta, retiring in 1985.Honorees, front from left: Dan Joyner’s son Danny, daughter Beth Crigler, wife Katherine, daughter Lynn Freeman;back from left: Joyner’s son-in-law David Crigler, Rodney Johnson, Lillian Brock Flemming, Frank Blackwell.ALUMNI RECEIVE HONORS AT AWARDS DINNERFOUR ALUMNI — FRANK BLACKWELL ’90,Lillian Brock Flemming ’71, Rodney Johnson ’03and the late C. Dan Joyner ’59 — took home majorhonors at the Alumni Awards Dinner April 19.Joyner, who died in early 2012, received theDistinguished Alumni Award. Founder of PrudentialC. Dan Joyner Co., one of the Upstate’s most successfulreal estate firms, he was a community and civic leader.At Furman he served as a trustee and as presidentof the Alumni Association, and he was known as“Furman’s Biggest Fan” because of his unwaveringsupport for Paladin athletics. The C. Dan Joyner FamilyAthletic Scholarship is awarded each year, and theporch at the Shi Center for Sustainability is named forhim and his wife, Katherine Poole Joyner ‘60. Joynerpreviously received the Alumni Service Award andwas elected to the university’s Athletic Hall of Fame.His family was on hand to accept the award.Flemming earned the Gordon L. Blackwell AlumniService Award. A former Furman trustee and a recipientof the university’s Richard Furman Baptist HeritageAward, she was one of the first African-Americanwomen to attend Furman. A longtime communityleader, she has been a member of Greenville CityCouncil since 1981 and currently serves as vice mayorpro tempore. She is a past president of the GreenvilleCounty Education Association and of the MunicipalAssociation of South Carolina.Johnson, the Outstanding Young Alumni Awardwinner, is founder and principal of Greenville’s LeadAcademy Charter School, which opened in 2010.At Furman he captained the football team and workedwith Bridges to a Brighter Future, which helps highschool students who have limited financial resourcesreach their potential. He taught for several years inAtlanta before establishing Lead Academy. GreenvilleBusiness Magazine has named him to its list of thecity’s “Best and Brightest 35 and Under.”Blackwell received the Wayne and Rubye ReidAward, which goes to alumni who make major contributionsto the career development of Furman students.As director of sales for ScanSource, Inc., in Greenville,he has hired a number of Furman graduates, providedcareer advice and direction to students, and recommendedothers for positions within the company.He is a past member of the Alumni Board and isvice president of the Paladin Club.JEREMY FLEMINGthere he moved to Miller & Chevalierwhere she was active in the arts.34 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 35

Furman ALUMNI NEWSLETTER POLICYFURMAN MAGAZINE welcomes your letters and comments. We ask thatyou limit the length to 350 words and include your name, address, class yearand a daytime telephone number. Letters are published when space permitsand are subject to editing for length, style and clarity.The views expressed in the magazine are those of the writers or subjectsand do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the magazine or the university.Letters may be sent to the Office of Marketing and Public Relations,Furman University, Greenville, S.C. 29613, or to jim.stewart@furman.edu.Samuel Perry Greer ’49, February 17, of the Augusta Road Kiwanis Club andColumbus, Ga. Sam served in the U.S. received a perfect attendance award fromArmy during World War II and the Korean the Greenville Kiwanis Club. He was anConflict. He began his business career with Eagle Scout with the Order of the Arrow,Monroe Systems for Business and retired a Royal Ambassador plenipotentiary, and aas district manager after 42 years. He was member of the Board of Visitors for SoutheasternBaptist Seminary in North Carolina.a member and president of the KiwanisClub of Greater Columbus and initiated John David Cave ’50, February 26,the club’s Partnership in Education program. Atlanta. He completed a Ph.D. in philosophySara Jean Hilton Rogers ’49, February of religion at Southwestern Baptist TheologicalSeminary, then became associate7, Lake View, S.C. A talented musician,she taught in Lake View schools and for 27 pastor of Second Ponce de Leon Baptistyears was owner and operator of Campbell Church in Atlanta. From there he movedKindergartens. She was a member of the to East Washington Heights Baptist Church,McLeod-Dillon Hospital Auxiliary, the where he was senior pastor from 1958 toUnited Daughters of the Confederacy and 1962, after which he and his wife becameDaughters of the American Revolution. missionaries in Buenos Aires, Argentina.She chaired the Dillon County Crippled There he worked for 11 years as a professorChildren’s Society, was a charter member at the International Baptist Seminary andof the Huntington Society of Brookgreen as pastor of the International BaptistGardens, and was a charter memberChurch. After leaving the mission field heand president of the Glove and Trowel taught at Midwestern and SoutheasternGarden Club.seminaries before becoming senior pastorJohn Miller Waddill ’49, March 1, at First Baptist Church of Rocky Mount, N.C.Saluda, N.C. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy After retiring from full-time ministry hewhen he was 17 years old and served was interim pastor at several churches induring World War II. He was retired from Robeson County, N.C.Santee River Wool Combing Company. Oscar Monroe Folk ’50, January 10,Charles Otto White, Jr. ’49, February Greenville. Buddy attended Pratt Institute11, Greenville. He began his career at The in New York City and obtained a degree inGreenville News before becoming a realtor industrial design. For many years thereafterand owner of his own business. He served he was a designer for IBM before returningon the South Carolina Board of Realtors and to Greenville and beginning a career as anwas a former president of the Greenville artist, working in oils and other media. HeBoard of Realtors. He was a charter member was a U.S. Navy veteran.Don Oliver Rollins, Sr. ’50, February 6,Greenville. He served in the U.S. Navyduring World War II on the USS Refuge.He retired from Texize/Intex after 27 yearsin industrial chemical sales and was theowner of Janitor Products & Services.He was a member of the American LegionDrum & Bugle Corps in the 1950s and1960s.Jocelyn Ann McDonald McCafferty’52, February 25, Greenville.Emory P. Austin, Jr. ’53, January 19,Columbia, S.C. His education was interruptedby the outbreak of the Korean War,and he served three years in the U.S. AirForce. After completing his education hebegan a career with the South CarolinaHighway Department, becoming directorof the Motor Vehicle Division in 1968 andserving as principle liaison with the stateGeneral Assembly. He was regional andnational president of the American Associationof Motor Vehicle Administrators, wasa member of the American Association ofState Highway and Transportation Officialsand the National Committee on UniformTraffic Laws and Ordinances, and was acharter member of the department’s HighwaySafety Committee. When he retiredin 1986 after 34 years of public service hereceived the Order of the Palmetto, thestate’s highest civilian honor. The MotorVehicle Division building on Shop Roadin Columbia is dedicated in his honor.Laurin H. Gardner ’53, January 2,Newberry, S.C. After attending SouthernBaptist Theological Seminary he served aspastor of churches in Indiana, Ohio andSouth Carolina. In 1965 he was appointedby the North American Mission Board of theSouthern Baptist Convention to serve as ahome missionary, and he became director ofmissions for the Southwestern-Miami ValleyAssociation of Ohio and for the KeystoneAssociation of Pennsylvania. He later wasa consultant to the Baptist Conventionof Pennsylvania/South Jersey, director ofmissions for the Clinton (Tenn.) BaptistAssociation, and pastor of Chappells (S.C.)Baptist Church.Gale Lammey ’53, December 18, SprucePine, N.C. He attended Union Seminary inRichmond, Va., and accepted his first pastorateat Elkon (Va.) Presbyterian Church. Hewent on to serve churches in North Carolinaand Virginia from 1980 to 1999. After hisretirement he was an interim pastor in AveryCounty, N.C., and was chaplain for theAvery-Mitchell and Mountain View prisons.He was a lifelong honorary member andchaplain of the Spruce Pine Fire and RescueDepartment. He was an officer of the boardof directors of Community Action and wasnamed board member of the year in 2003.He was a recreation workshop instructorwith the Montreat Conference Associationand served on the Children’s Home Boardin Black Mountain, N.C.Joseph Foster Bennett ’54, June 30,2012, Greenville, N.C. He retired after 25years as a counselor with the Walter B.Jones Treatment Center. He also spentmore than 30 years as pastor of churchesin eastern North Carolina.Richard Pollock ’54, M.A. ’62, January 6,Whitehouse Station, N.J. After three and ahalf years as an officer in the U.S. Army, hebecame an elementary school teacher. Hetaught in the Antilles Consolidated Schoolsof Roosevelt Roads Navy Station in PuertoRico and at Indialantic Elementary Schoolin Brevard County, Fla., then spent theremainder of his career at Hunter CollegeElementary School in New York City.William Louie Summey ’55, January 14,Greer, S.C. He was a U.S. Army veteran ofWorld War II and received the Bronze Star.He was retired from Liberty Life InsuranceCompany as branch manager of the Greenwood(S.C.) office.Margie Jane Capell Tilley ’55, December12, Walterboro, S.C. For many years shedirected the Meals on Wheels program forGreater Greer (S.C.) Community Ministries.She also served on the board of directors forCamp Marietta. A gifted pianist, she wasa popular accompanist, music teacher andchurch musician.Jane Wilson Orr ’56, February 1,Dublin, Ga.DUKE McCALL WAS INFLUENTIAL BAPTIST LEADERDUKE KIMBROUGH McCALL, a 1935 Furman graduate who became oneof the most influential leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), diedApril 2 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He was 98.From 1951-82, McCall was president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminaryin Louisville, Ky. His career also included service as chief executive officerof the SBC Executive Committee, president of New Orleans Baptist TheologicalSeminary, and president of the Baptist World Alliance. He held honorary degreesfrom five institutions, including Furman.McCall was known for encouraging tolerance and cooperation among alldenominations. Chris Caldwell, who served Broadway Baptist Church in Louisvilleafter McCall, told the Louisville Courier-Journal, “He had a broader viewof the church. He was a larger than life figure, a charming gentleman.”While McCall dealt with occasional controversies both from within andoutside Southern Seminary during his tenure as president, the Courier-Journaldescribed his years at the school as a time of “unprecedented growth” in termsof endowment, enrollment and academic expansion. He was an advocate forAfrican Americans, and in the early 1960s he invited Martin Luther King, Jr., tospeak on campus, despite the segregationist views of many Southern Baptists.Writing for the Associated Baptist Press, Bill Leonard of the School of Divinityat Wake Forest University said that McCall “bridged multiple generations ofBaptist life nationally and globally. In some ways he was the personificationW. Earle Purkerson, Jr. ’56, January 24, A strong supporter of public education,Greenwood, S.C. Earle served for a time he was a former chair of the Laurens 56as sports editor for the Greenwood Index- School Board and a past president of theJournal, and he continued through the South Carolina School Boards Associationyears as a contributing writer to the paper. and the Southern Region School BoardsA veteran of the U.S. Army Reserves,Association.he retired from the U.S. Postal Service William Thomas Floyd Wilson ’57,in 1990 after 31 years of service. He was January 4, Greenville. Tom was a sergeantan announcer for Lander University sports, in the U.S. Army during the Korean Warserved on the Lander Bearcats Board of and received two Bronze Stars and twoDirectors, and was active in the Greenwood Purple Hearts. After military service andHigh School Athletic Hall of Fame. He was graduation from Furman, he worked asthe author of two books, The Boys of a postal clerk for 30 years before retiringPhoenix Street and Mama’s New Kitchen. in 1988. He played baseball in Greenville’sWilliam Fred Chapman, Jr. ’57, January Textile League.6, Clinton, S.C. He was a U.S. Army veteran James Glenn Stewart ’58, January 24,of the Korean War and a recipient of the Raleigh, N.C. He was retired from AmericanPurple Heart and the Silver Star. He retired Greetings Corporation.from Presbyterian College in 1994, having Sarah Moore Cring ’59, January 23,served as academic dean for 10 years Greenville.and as chair of the business department.of the amazing organizational success andregional strength of Southern Baptists inmuch of the 20th century. In other ways herepresented the last of the Baptist denominationalists,a leader who both shaped and wasshaped by the cultural and spiritual solidarityof America's largest denomination . . . hecontributed to a denominational breadthinside the SBC. He lived long enough to seethat breadth diminish, but died hoping, if notbelieving, that it would someday return.”McCall sided with the moderates during the battle with conservatives forcontrol of the Southern Baptist Convention in the late 1970s and early 1980s,and narrowly lost a bid for the SBC presidency in 1982. He was later influentialin the formation of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, a moderate alternativeto the SBC, but maintained cordial relations with the national convention.A lecture series, academic chair and pavilion at Southern Seminary are namedin his honor.He is survived by his wife, Winona; four sons and 10 grandchildren, severalof whom attended Furman; and 14 great-grandchildren.Jimmy Carl Dixon ’59, February 24, Christina Looper Baker ’61, January 18,Greenville. He was a sales representative Bass Harbor, Maine. She served three termsfor Moorman Manufacturing, a U.S. Army in the Maine House of Representatives inveteran and a member of the Sons of ConfederateVeterans.known for her commitment to education,the late 1990s and early 2000s. She wasJames Allen Edwards, Jr. ’59, February advocacy for historic preservation and supportof issues affecting the state’s Native15, Greer, S.C. He was a U.S. Air Forceveteran and a member of Bailey Masonic Americans, including her co-sponsorshipLodge #146. He was retired from 3M of a law that requires Maine’s native historyCompany.and culture to be taught in public schools.Walter Glen Hughey, M.A. ’60,She earned a doctorate from The UnionJanuary 18, Prague, Okla. He was retired Institute and taught English and women’sfrom Anderson (S.C.) University, where he studies for 25 years in the University oftaught mathematics and served as registrar Maine system, which awarded her theand director of admissions.Presidential Outstanding Teaching AwardJames Stephenson Putnam ’60, in 1992. She served on the New EnglandDecember 13, Simpsonville, S.C. A U.S. Board of Higher Education and was theArmy veteran of World War II, he went author of In a Generous Spirit, a first-personon to attend New Orleans Seminary.biography of labor leader Myra Page, andThe Conversation Begins: Mothers andDaughters Talk About Living Feminism,co-written with her daughter Christina.36 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 37

Furman ALUMNI NEWSSEEWHAT’SON EDGEWHEN YOU SEE the EDGEsymbol with any story in thisissue, you’ll know that digitaladditions and enhancementsrelated to the article (videoclips, slide shows, etc.) areavailable at edge.furman.edu.The EDGE site is meant toenhance and complement theprint magazine and is especiallycompatible with smart phonesand tablets. And in additionto Furman magazine, EDGEcontains an ever changingcollection of stories and photofeatures about university life.EDGE also includes alink to Furman magazinein its traditional PDF form(furman.edu/fumag). That’swhere Class Notes is availableand where you can seearchived issues, submit newsfor class notes, or completea quick survey.Those who would preferto receive the magazine inelectronic form only shouldemail jim.stewart@furman.edu.William Joseph Cantrell, M.A. ’62,December 15, Spartanburg, S.C. He wasretired from Spartanburg School District 7,having taught and served as an administratorin a number of elementary schools. Hewas also minister of music and organist atFirst Baptist Church of Boiling Springs, S.C.,for many years. He was a member of theNational and the South Carolina educationassociations, School Masters, the SpartanburgHistorical Society, Woodmen of theWorld, the Spartanburg Wellness Center,and the 50 Year Club of Wofford College.He was an accomplished calligrapher,painter and pianist.Mary Lee Cheek ’62, December 21,Taylors, S.C. She started her career as a thirdgrade teacher and later became director ofweekday preschool ministries at Taylors FirstBaptist Church, a position she held for 28years.Oneida Watts Sibley ’62, February 27,Carmel, Ind. Neida was active in volunteerwork, especially in the field of music, andwas involved with symphony orchestraassociations in several cities. She played aleading role in the founding of the SchadtInternational String Competition for theAllentown (Pa.) Symphony Orchestra.Jack Nelson Bethea ’64, February 25,Marion, S.C. Jack was employed withCarolina Power and Light/Progress Energy-Duke, from which he retired as line servicesupervisor after 33 years. A past president ofthe Swamp Fox Booster Club, he served inthe National Guard and was a Little Leaguecoach and member of the Lions Club.Luther C. Elrod III ’64, March 10, RockHill, S.C. Luke earned a law degree from theUniversity of South Carolina and began hislegal career as a captain in the U.S. ArmyJudge Advocate General Corps in Germany.After completing military service he joinedthe John Bolt Culbertson firm in Greenville,then moved to Rock Hill in 1979 to starthis own practice. He was a member of theSouth Carolina Bar Association, the InjuredWorkers’ Advocates and the South CarolinaTrial Lawyers Association, and was activewith the YMCA of Rock Hill.Catherine Patricia Denny Miller’64, December 21, Lexington, S.C. Patriciaworked with Miller Auctions & Land andwas co-pastor of Living Waters ChristianFellowship.Barry Martin Shaw ’64, January 28,Natick, Mass. After earning a doctoratein physics from the University of Tennessee,he worked as chief executive officerof Engineered Yarns. In 1989 he movedinto academics and taught physics andmathematics at the Naval War Collegein Newport, R.I., until he retired.Helen Hester Porter ’65, February 3,Greenville. An avid reader, Helen wasa member of Chapter 76 Book Club.She was also a charter member of theGreenville Legal Auxiliary and was instrumentalin starting the PTSO at TravelersRest High School.Bruce R. Byers ’70, January 19, WinterPark, Fla. He was a coach in Augusta, Ga.,prior to serving a tour of duty in the U.S.Army. He left the military in 1987 and thentaught and coached at Lake Bentley HighSchool for 25 years.Thad W. Herbert, Sr., MBA ’74, March1, Greenwood, S.C. He worked with C&SNational Bank and SCN of Greenville andlater was president of Carolina NationalBank in Easley, S.C. He was active in churchwork and treasurer of the South CarolinaConference of the United MethodistChurch. Thad was a Paul Harris Fellow,a past president of the Easley Rotary Cluband a former chair of the Library Board.He was the first chair of the Pickens CountyUnited Way as well as the Easley PlanningCommission. A U.S. Army veteran of WorldWar II, he served in the South Pacific.Frank Camden Owens III ’75, February15, Greenville. Cam’s professional lifeincluded work as a real estate agent, sportsagent and financial advisor.Luther Wesley White IV ’77, January25, Richmond, Va. Luke was a pioneerin the design and installation of solarsystems for home heating. He expandedhis business to include the construction ofswimming pools for residential use and wasthe Richmond-area franchisee of Foxx PoolCompany for 25 years, operating under thecorporate name of Richmond Pool and PatioCompany.Christopher Barnes Bennett ’79,January 4, McKinney, Texas. After earninga master’s degree in geophysics from theUniversity of Texas, he worked as a geophysicistwith Arco Oil and Gas. He wasalso an environmental geologist. At thetime of his death he was a managingconsultant for MasterCard Advisors.Victor William Wolf, Jr. ’79, March 26,Blacksburg, Va. He earned a Master ofDivinity degree from Covenant TheologicalSeminary and became senior pastor ofValley Reformed Presbyterian Church inRoanoke, Va. He later earned a master’sdegree in counseling and in 1996 joinedGrace Covenant Presbyterian Church inBlacksburg as associate pastor and elder.He was a licensed practicing counselorand a therapist for sex offenders.Robert Martin Porterfield ’80,December 14, Rincon, Ga. Robby wasassociated with Bradwell Institute and spent30 years as a teacher, mentor, administratorand coach. He was active in prison ministryand with the Gideons, and was a memberof the Rotary of Effingham Sunrise.Stephen E. Matton II ’85, December 15,Atlanta. He was a professional golfer andteaching professional for many years atthe PGA Tour Superstores. He also ownedYoforia Frozen Yogurt in Sandy Springs,Ga., and was active in many charitableorganizations.Daniel DeGeeter ’89, January 12,Sussex, N.J. He was a sales counselorat George Washington Memorial Parkin Paramus, N.J., for 15 years and wasactive in the local Rotary Club.Lillian Etolia Smith Eubanks, M.A. ’89,January 26, Greenville. Etolia was retiredfrom the Greenville County School System.Jeremy Thomas Letton ’93, January 27,Columbia, S.C. He owned and operatedthe Garden Bistro restaurant.BIKING AND BUILDING COMMUNITY, FROM CHICAGO TO AFRICA“PARTS OF WINDHOEK, Namibia’s capital city, and bicycles donated from abroad and distributes themthe South Side of Chicago are actually eerily similar,” to low-income people via community bike shopssays Dustin Gourdin ’10, a Ph.D. student in the Universityof Chicago’s sociology department. “You see a lot Despite the country’s strong national economy,housed in converted shipping containers.of the same issues, in terms of transportation challenges roughly half of the population lives in poverty.and youth opportunities. Hopefully we can figure out “You see a lot of growth that benefits small pocketsways to make things better in both places.”of the population that doesn’t necessarily translateSince 2009 Gourdin, 25, has made three research into opportunities for people at ground level, especiallyurban youth,” he says. BEN’s shops teachtrips to Namibia, a nation of 2.1 million people justnorthwest of South Africa. He’s been studying the mechanic skills to these young people and helpBicycling Empowerment Network (BEN) Namibia, them develop bike-powered businesses.a nonprofit that provides disadvantaged local people One of BEN’s most successful programs provideswith efficient transportation and job opportunities, bicycles to the mostly female healthcare workers whoas well as other non-governmental organizations. tend to Namibia’s large HIV-positive population. LargelySince gaining independence in 1990, the country, desert, the country has the world’s second-lowest populationdensity after Mongolia. Bikes make it much easierwith an economy based on mining, agriculture andtourism, has become an upper-middle-income nation. for the caregivers to serve their clients in remote villages.Gourdin is exploring the connection between U.S.-BEN accepts shipments of cycles from sister organizationsall over the world, including Working Bikessponsored empowerment programs and Namibia’srecent macro-level growth. Meanwhile, back in Chicago, Cooperative in the Little Village area of Chicago, wherehe’s involved with several groups that encourage cycling Gourdin currently volunteers, sorting spare parts andin low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. loading shipping containers. “It’s been really interestingBorn in South Carolina, Gourdin first got passionate to watch the process play out in Chicago and then seeabout bikes as a freshman at Furman. After the brake how it turns into results in Namibia,” he says. “I gotcables on his Walmart beater snapped, he Googled to see firsthand the people who get employed by these“brakeless bicycle” for repair instructions and stumbled projects and programs and how it changes their lives.”upon a YouTube video called “Mash SF” of guys riding Gourdin has witnessed the power of bicycles tofixed-gears around San Francisco.transform lives through his work at Blackstone Bicycle“It had an edge to it, like a skateboard video,” he Works, a community bike shop and youth educationprogram on Chicago’s South Side. “It gives a lotrecalls. “I adopted that philosophy: ride a bike the wayyou want to ride.” He converted his mom’s old road of neighborhood kids an opportunity to learn aboutbike into a single-speed and eventually saved enough bicycles and transportation,” he says. “They gain somemoney for an IRO Cycle fixie. He and his buddies formed independence and autonomy from their ability to travela bicycle crew called the Rolling Riot, cruising the streets on their own, and it gives them something positive toof Greenville and its Swamp Rabbit Trail.do after school.”A rap fan, Gourdin became aware of the AfricanHe also rides with Red Bike and Green, a group“blood diamond” phenomenon, where sales of diamondsmined in war zones bankroll bloodshed, through to health, wealth and environmental sustainability.that promotes cycling to African Americans as a paththe track “Diamonds Are Forever (Diamonds From Sierra “They’re a really neat organization,” he says. “ForLeone)” by Kanye West, as well as the movies “Blood me, coming from South Carolina, seeing a contingentDiamond” and “The Last King of Scotland.” He soon of black urban cyclists was something new.”joined the student group Africa Rising, which promoted Gourdin sees many parallels between the economic,social justice on the continent, and then got the idea health, education and transportation challenges facingto study abroad in Namibia.low-income folks in the Namibian capital and their“I was looking for a way to bind my passions for counterparts on the South Side of Chicago. “Windhoekbiking and social justice,” Gourdin says. He focused his has a lot of infrastructure issues,” he says. “There areresearch on BEN Namibia, which receives shipments of enough roads but there’s just not a great public transitDustin Gourdin was on the football and track and field teamsat Furman. He says, “Furman’s really one of the few schools thatallow student-athletes to be exactly that: students and athletes.”system and there are virtually no bicycle lanes — that’sbeen something that the people at BEN have beenpushing for.“It’s similar on the South Side,” he says. “We coulduse more consistent public transit here, and peoplecould really benefit from using a bike as a form oftransportation. You need to take a balanced approachto community development, including things like afterschoolprogramming and access to healthcare, whichshould be a basic human right. But providing goodtransportation options is really in that holy grail ofwhat needs to be done to build a community.”Gourdin recently received grant money from theUniversity of Chicago’s Council on Advanced Studiesand hopes to return to Namibia this summer to continuehis research. “Every time I go I think it’s going to be mylast,” he says. “But you end up building a relationshipwith people and organizations, and you start to geta vested interest in seeing them succeed.”— JOHN GREENFIELDReprinted with permission from the February 19 issueof newcity.com. Photo by John Greenfield.38 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 39

THE LAST WORDOf Ben Bernanke andthe timeless connectionIn her sophomore year, Riley McCallus ’14 drove out ofIN A SMALL SOUTHERN TOWN he sits in a localcafé, both leaning forward and over a bowl of soup.He can be found there most any day. So when the caféowners needed a name for the soup, which he and hislongtime tennis partner asked for every day, Fowler-Carmichael Soup seemed the perfect name.It’s hard to tell if he’s thinking about the presentanymore, or if he’s moving back in time behind the wirerimmedeyeglasses and perfectly genteel demeanor thathas defined John W. Fowler, Jr., for 92 years. For theripples of his life extend in every direction.Before lunch in the café became a routine he wasa teacher of more than 40 years, from the pre-WorldWar II era until 1981, and was recognized by threeSouth Carolina governors for meritorious service in thefield of education. He served on the President’s WhiteHouse Committee on Education and the NationalCommittee on the Employment of the Handicapped.He was a coach and a tennis champion across theSoutheast dating back to his college years at Furman(Class of ’41), winning more than 50 state championships.He planned reconnaissance missions as anintelligence officer in the South Pacific in World War II,while an older brother liberated concentration campshalfway around the world in Europe. And before all thathe was like many Southern boys in the 1920s and ‘30s,working on the family farm in just about any capacityto make ends meet. The Great Depression stampedan ever-fixed mark on his life, as it did for so many.But of all the roles he played in his lifetime,teacher is the one he savors most. It is not unusualfor a former student to spot him over lunch in the café.They are drawn to him, and he remembers every singleone. Some he taught, others he taught their parentsor grandparents, or children or aunts or uncles, brothersor sisters. It becomes nearly impossible to escape thewide web of influence from which his days as a teacherof high school English literature extend.ALTHOUGH HE HAD many bright students,on occasion he will catch a glimpse of perhaps hismost famous former student on the national news.Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve,upon whose shoulders the great market meltdownof 2008 fell, was his student in the late 1960s in Dillon,S.C. He offers memories only when asked, but thisone begs for detail.With clarity he goes back in time as he gestures tohis right, recalling where Ben sat in his classroom andhow he was challenged by Ben as much as Ben waschallenged by the curriculum. He recalls Bernanke’sexceptional intellect and knew he was destined forsome great purpose. Because Bernanke was alreadyin the midst of drafting his first novel, his assignmentswere more focused on descriptive sketches, short storiesand poetic endeavors. “When grading papers, I used tosave Ben’s for last. He would use phrases like ‘incredulityis as close to ignorance as to great brilliance.’ Amazing.”Nearly 40 years later, the two would meet againduring a celebration for Bernanke in Dillon. He recallsa phrase written by the teenage Bernanke, “Whycan’t happy moments be caught as they happen anddisplayed in a glass case to admire?” Then he pausesand answers, “They can.”It seems there is a timeless connection betweensome students and their teachers.One lived the Great Depression; the other studiedit and became a scholar and historian of it, uniquelypreparing him to lead the nation through what hasbeen called the Second Great Depression.Around him now in the café, a new generationrushes in and out. They talk on and on about their day,their list of things to do, paying more attention tomobile devices than anything or anyone around them.Meanwhile this near centurion, still brilliant withhis history and memories, sits nearby, kindly overhearingand watching. His longtime tennis partner is unableto join him these days. Hard to tell what he’s thinking.But likely he is not pondering the ripple effects of hisenormous life that have led across decades, crossingthousands of days and nights to students young andold who have yet to go where he has been . . . or maynever go at all.— BRENDA FOWLER WENSILReprinted with permission from the August 2012 issueof Charlatan, an online magazine. John Fowler lives inMullins, S.C. Brenda Wensil is his niece.Furman’s gates for what she believed was the last time.Unforeseen financial hardship had forced her to withdrawfrom Furman. Then her friend told her aboutFurman United, a scholarship fund for studentsexperiencing economic difficulties. Riley applied,and she returned home to Furman’s campusthree days later.Help students likeRiley remain in theFURMAN family.SUPPORT FURMAN UNITED. To watch Riley tell her story and learn more, visitalumni.furman.edu/furman-united or contact Phil Howard, phil.howard@furman.edu.40 FURMAN | SPRING 2013

FurmanOffice of Marketing and Public Relations3300 Poinsett HighwayGreenville, South Carolina 29613edge.furman.eduNon-Profit Org.U.S. PostagePAIDHickory, NCPermit No. 104ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTEDFreeze FrameAlexandra Cross ’14 caught this sheep in a neatly framed pose during last fall’s British Isles semester. The photo,taken in Cumbria, England, won the Dean’s Award in Furman’s 2013 International Photo Exhibition.