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ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
A.V. HUFF, JR., joined 34 other deans in Annapolis, Md., for the Annapolis
Group Deans Meeting June 13-15. Jo Ellen Parker, president of the Great
Lakes Colleges Association, led the group in a productive discussion about
her recent article on collaborative leadership in higher education. Huff
also attended the annual meeting of the Council of Deans of the Associated
Colleges of the South May 26-27 in Atlanta, Ga.
ADMISSIONS
DANA EVANS attended the Southern Consortium Associate Directors Meeting
held at Captiva Island, Fla. WOODY O’CAIN attended the Southern Consortium
Directors Meeting held at Amelia Island, Fla. KATIE McCORD and TEMESHA,
two recent Furman graduates, have joined the Admissions Office.
ATHLETICS
BOBBY JOHNSON, 1999 President of the NCAA I-AA Football Coaches Association,
presided over the organization’s annual meeting June 11-12 in Reno,
Nev. BONNIE FLYNN was named pitching coach for the Dutch National softball
team May 15. She served as the pitching coach for the team during the
European Region Olympic Qualification Tournament in Parma, Italy July
2-9 and during the Haarlem Softball Week Tournament June 19-27 in Haarlem,
Netherlands. Flynn will serve as the keynote speaker at the South Carolina
high school softball coaches annual clinic July 27 at the Palmetto Exposition
Center in Greenville.
BIOLOGY
VICTORIA TURGEON attended an Associated Colleges of the South Teaching
and Learning Workshop in June at Rollins College. Also, her paper,
"Pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) promotes the survival and
differentiation of developing spinal motor neurons," has been accepted
for publication in the Journal of Comparative Neurology.
DEVELOPMENT
SHON HERRICK attended a May 18 awards banquet at the University of Toledo,
where he accepted an award on behalf of the Carolinas Chapter of the University
of Toledo Alumni Association. The group was selected as the school’s
outstanding alumni club in 1999. Herrick is president and helped establish
the club two years ago.
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
BETH CHRISTENSEN traveled to the University of British Columbia in May
to attend a planning meeting to identify key research objectives related
to international ocean drilling beyond 2003. She also presented findings
from ODP (ocean drilling program) Leg 175, the Benguela Current, at a
May meeting in Ventura, Calif., and hosted a graduate student from the
University of London in March to work on the Leg 175 project.
EDUCATION
LESLEY QUAST made several co-presentations at the "In Praise of Education"
conference in Seattle, Wash., June 18-21. She also participated in the
Invitational Summit on Teacher Quality in Charleston June 24-25. SHIRLEY
RITTER took the reins as president of the Teacher Education Division of
the Council for Exceptional Children (TED) July 1. TED has a membership
of 3,000 in higher education. She previously served as president-elect
of TED.
EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
MARTHA VAUGHN attended the South Carolina Arts Commission meeting in Charleston
May 26-27 and the opening of the Spoleto Festival May 28.
ENGLISH
NICHOLAS RADEL has signed a contract with Routledge Press to edit a book
titled The Puritan Origins of American Sex. He will also read a
paper titled "Perestroika?: Queer Detente and the (dis)articulations
of gay identity in recent American film and drama" at the Nordic
Association for American Studies, to be held in Turku, Finland, in August.
FINANCIAL AID
KIM JENERETTE is serving on the SASFAA (Southern Association of Student
Financial Aid Administrators) Legislative Concerns Committee and has been
asked to serve on the advisory committee for the South Carolina Student
Loan Corporation (SCSLC). ANNE SMITH has been promoted to Associate Director
of Financial Aid.
HISTORY
DIANE VECCHIO published a review of Richard Juliani’s Building
Little Italy: Philadelphia’s Italians Before Mass Migration in
the spring issue of The Journal of the American Ethnic History.
Vecchio was in San Antonio, Texas, in late May and early June as an exam
reader for the Advanced Placement Exam in United States History. LLOYD
BENSON attended the Associated Colleges of the South Teaching and Learning
Workshop at Rollins College June 8-13.
MATHEMATICS
DOUG RALL presented "The equal union property on vertex sets in a
graph" at the Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics,
Graph Theory and Computing in Boca Raton, Fla., March 8. His paper, "A
bound on the size of a graph with given order and bondage number,"
co-authored with Bert Hartnell of Saint Mary’s University in Halifax,
Nova Scotia, appeared in Discrete Mathematics.
MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
SOFIA KEARNS read a paper titled "Progress at what cost? An environmental
and cultural critique through a short story by Anacristina Rossi"
at the Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the
Environment (ASLE) June 3-5 in Kalamazoo, Mich. MAURICE CHERRY attended
the "In Praise of Education" conference Jun 18-21 in Seattle,
Wash., where he was an invited discussant representing arts and sciences
faculty at a roundtable titled "Secondary partner schools: Exemplars
of simultaneous renewal." PAT PECOY taught a course on "Integrating
Technology into Foreign Language Education" to foreign language educators
at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., June 14-18. She also represented
Furman at a meeting of the Project 2001 Mellon Consortium Directors at
Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt., May 1-2.
MUSIC
JOHN BECKFORD made a presentation titled "Developing strategies for
implementing total percussion education" to Anderson County arts
teachers during a Clemson University in-service workshop May 12. LES HICKEN
adjudicated concert festivals this spring in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Virginia
Beach, Va., and Reidsville, N.C. BINGHAM VICK, JR., conducted the Greenville
Chorale in a concert during Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston, S.C., June
5. ROBERT CHESEBRO attended the International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest
held in Ostende, Belgium, July 5-11. He will also attend the International
Double Reed Conference in Madison, Wis., August 10-14.
PLANNED GIVING
BETSY MOSELEY attended the June 18-22 American Association of University
Women (AAUW) Convention in Washington, D.C. As a member of the Convention
Procedures Committee she was responsible for all aspects of registration
and credentials for the convention.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
JIM GUTH has received a research grant from The Dirksen Congressional
Center for his project, "Religious Influences in the American Congress."
He has also been named program chair for the Religion and Politics Division
of the American Political Science Association for the 2000 annual meeting.
ELIZABETH SMITH attended the Associated Colleges of the South Teaching
and Learning Workshop at Rollins College June 8-13. TY TESSITORE participated
in a seminar on "Education in liberal society" April 15-18 in
Jackson Hole, Wyo. The seminar focused on the thought of John Locke. Tessitore
has also received an Earhart Foundation summer fellowship to work on a
project dealing with the theme of religion and politics in the thought
of Alexis de Tocqueville. BRENT NELSEN presented a paper at the European
Community Studies Association Sixth Biennial International Conference
June 2-5 in Pittsburgh. The title of the paper was "Explaining the
gender gap: Women, economic vulnerability and public attitudes toward
European integration (co-authored with CLEVE FRASER, Guth, and Furman
Advantage Fellow Jodie Tillman). Nelsen presented a paper at the New Europe
at the Crossroads Conference July 4-8 in Berlin titled "The Great
Divide: Catholics, Protestants and the founding of the European community"
and chaired a roundtable discussion of Samuel Huntington’s The
Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order at the Christians
in Political Science Second National Conference June 17-20 in Grand Rapids,
Mich.
PRESIDENT’S OFFICE
DAVID SHI has been appointed by South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges to
the state Commission on Higher Education. He will represent private colleges
in South Carolina.
PSYCHOLOGY
During the 1998-99 academic year, GIL EINSTEIN served on review teams
that evaluated the psychology departments at Trinity University, Kenyon
College and St. Olaf College. JUDY GRISEL has been awarded a grant from
the National Institute of Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health
to study the neurochemical mechanisms of morphine addiction. PAUL RASMUSSEN’s
article titled "Lifestyle, personality and attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder in young adults" appears in the current issue of The
Journal of Individual Psychology. He also recently conducted a full-day
workshop on "Adlerian theory, therapy and the DSM-IV" for graduate
students in counseling psychology at Georgia State University. CHARLES
BREWER served as table leader for grading Advanced Placement psychology
examinations at Trinity University in San Antonio and participated in
the National Forum on Psychology Partnerships at James Madison University.
An article by ELAINE NOCKS, "Seminary sabbatical: A guide to interdisciplinary
travel," was published in the spring issue of the journal Theological
Education.
PUBIC SAFETY
BOB MILLER attended the annual conference of the International Association
of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators June 21-26 in San Diego, Calif.,
where he served as Educational Program Chairman.
STUDENT SERVICES
HARRY SHUCKER received the Maiden Invitational Award given to a Furman
administrator in recognition of providing a welcoming environment for
all students. The award is presented at the Black Seniors Banquet and
sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs. An award named in honor
of Shucker was presented at the Student Leadership Banquet. The award
is given annually to a senior who has exemplified a four-year commitment
to effecting positive change on the Furman campus. The 28th Council of
the Association of Furman Students named THERESA CURETON the Staff Member
of the Year Award for Outstanding Service and Character.