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UNIVERSITY HOUSING
University Housing recently welcomed two new staff members. In January, Lilly Bekele joined the staff as area coordinator for South Housing. Lilly is a Greenville area native who graduated from Riverside and holds a bachelor’s degree in speech communication from Wake Forest. Melanie Branham joined the staff April 1 as assistant director of housing after serving in a similar capacity at Belmont University in Nashville. Melanie holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and a master’s in student personnel services, both from Clemson University.
Phase II of North Village is under way and is scheduled to be completed in time for a fall opening. The three new buildings will accommodate 96 students each. Therefore, the total capacity of North Village will be 852. In the fall of 1997, the university housed approximately 58 percent of its students. In the fall of 1999, 92 percent of the student body will be residing in campus housing.
The Commons Building at North Village has opened and is completely operable. The building houses a management office, a small computer lab, a convenience store and a conference room. In addition, outdoor seating is available. An "open house" for North Village residents and a special luncheon for 30 Furman retirees both occurred in April. Members of the Furman community are invited to stop by the Commons at any time. An official dedication is slated for early summer.
— Wayne King
LIBRARY
Displays about the past, present and future of the James B. Duke Library have been created as part of the Comprehensive Campaign kickoff. The display windows in the foyer provide a look back in history with photos and biographical information about Furman’s presidents and vice-presidentsfor academic affairs.
A free-standing display titled "Envisioning the Future Library" illustrates what the future expanded and renovated library could be like. The adjacent display window is filled with photographs of the Duke Library of the past and a description of its present space, infrastructure and technology needs. All displays will be up until the end of May—come by and see them!
Thanks to the library’s Comprehensive Campaign Display Committee and especially to Nancy Sloan, Rick Jones and Jana Crain for their creative and tireless work on these projects!
Several trial databases are available on the "What’s New?" section of the library webpage. These include: Declassified Documents, a database of CIA, FBI, Contemporary Women’s Issues, an index of articles related to Women’s Studies, Grolier Encyclopedias, including online versions of Encyclopedia Americana, Academic American Encyclopedia, and the New Book of Knowledge children’s encyclopedia
— John Payne
RECREATIONAL SPORTS
The Furman men’s and women’s team handball teams competed in the National Club Championships April 23-25 in Fresno, Calif. This tournament featured the best national and international players living in the United States, including more than 20 former Olympic athletes.
Furman was one of only three college teams in the tournament. Although the men’s team finished 0-5, all of their games were within five goals. As a matter of fact, the team that won the gold medal in Furman’s division, beat the Paladins by four goals. During the tournament, the Paladins were coached by Joel Voelkert, a member of the 1972 USA Team Handball Olympic team and father of current Furman player Chad Voelkert. The Paladins were led in scoring by sophomore Rob Warren, who scored 25 goals in the five games.
The Lady Paladins finished 4th in the five-team team field losing toWest Point by a score of 12-6 in the bronze medal game. The halftime score was 6-4. This was the same West Point team that beat Furman 21-5 in the collegiate national championships in early March. Antique Gold, a team comprised of former Olympic and national team members, won the gold medal. Junior Heather Jenkins led the Lady Paladins in scoring.
Goalie Sarah Allgyer played well during the tournament and received high praise from many of the players. Some members of the team will have the opportunity to try out for the PanAm team May 22-23 in Atlanta.
— Owen McFadden
ATHLETICS
Furman’s athletic teams have registered outstanding play this spring and a pair of Southern Conference championships in women’s tennis and women’s golf.
After sharing the league regular season title, Debbie Southern’s women’s tennis team earned its eighth tournament crown and first ever NCAA Tournament bid by capturing the conference tournament title in Davidson, N.C., April 18.
Leading the way for the Lady Paladins was freshman Megan Dunigan, who posted a 16-9 singles record en route to becoming the first tennis player in conference history to garner freshman-of-the-year and player-of-the-year honors. Junior Jarrell Starnes, meanwhile, followed up a solid regular season by earning tournament MVP accolades.
Furman’s women’s golf team continued its outstanding winning tradition by claiming its sixth straight Southern Conference Tournament championship with a 38-stroke margin over second-place UNC-Greensboro April 20 in Johnson City, Tenn. Paced by league player-of-the-year Lindsay Smith, a medalist in a pair of regular season tournaments, and freshman-of-the-year Jennifer Perri, Furman will be making its 22nd post-season appearance and seventh consecutive trip to the NCAA Regionals in May under the direction of Mic Potter, who garnered his sixth straightleague coach-of-the-year honor this spring.
The Furman men’s golf team finished third at the Southern Conference Tournament in Spartanburg, S.C, with Kirk Satterfield, the brother of Paladin coach Todd Satterfield, earning league freshman-of-the-year honors.
In track, the Furman Lady Paladins captured 10 All-Southern Conference citations, including three by freshman Monica Hill.
Despite starting only one senior, Furman’s baseball team is fashioning a good season and is on track to nail down a bid to this year’s Southern Conference Tournament in Charleston in late May. As the regular season came to an end, Furman had two critical conference series’ remaining against league powers Western Carolina and The Citadel. Center fielder Jody Wade, the Paladin’s lone senior in its everyday lineup, is batting an impressive .360 and leads the team with 23 steals.
— Hunter Reid
CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
The children at the Child Development Center are busy learning about spring. Among the exciting activities is an embriology project in conjunction with the Clemson Extension Agency. Twenty-three baby chicks were due to hatch May 4 after 21 days of incubation.
In April, the children went on a field trip to Asheville to visit the Western North Carolina Nature Center. They learned about plants and animals indigenous to the southern United States.
Our spring service project to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital was a huge success. The children participated in a Trike-a-thon that raised $1,152.77 to help fund research for childhood disease and cancer.
We are having fun tending to the garden we planted in mid-April. Each child has a small plot in which they choose what to plant and tend to. We hope to collect vegetables all during the summer.
— Gina Varat