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ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
A.V. Huff, Jr., represented Furman at the installation of John A. Roush, the 20th president of Centre College (Danville, Ky.) April 15.
ART
An exhibit of BOB CHANCE’s recent work was on display in the Morris Gallery in Columbia during March and April. Chance and DAVID HOOKER have works in an exhibition titled "Pottery of Appalachia" until May 29 at the Pickens County Museum.
CLASSICS
ANNE LEEN read a paper, "Domina Dispar: The Portrayal of Clodia in Cicero’s Pro Caelio," in Cleveland at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South April 14-17.
ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
MARIANNE PIERCE served as chair for a session titled "Supply Chain Transaction Costs" at the annual meeting of the Production and Operations Management Society March 20-23 in Charleston, S.C.
EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
MARTHA VAUGHN served on a grants review panel for the S.C. Arts Commission in Columbia April 10.
ENGLISH
ROBIN VISEL’s article "Mining the Lodestone: Doris Lessing and White-Settler autobiography" has been published in the Winter 1999 issue of The Doris Lessing Newsletter. Her short story "Green Peppers" has been published in Emrys Journal (Spring 1999). CLAUDE STULTING’s article "Differance and the Deus Absconditus: The datanic predicament in Paradise Lost" was published in All in All: Unity, Diversity, and the Miltonic Perspective, Susquehanna University Press, 1999. Another article, "Theosis and Paideia in the Writings of Gregory of Nyssa and the Prelapsarian Books of Milton’s Paradise Lost," has been accepted for publication in the collection of essays from the 1997 Conference on John Milton. Stulting will also be reading a paper, "New heavens, new earth: Apocalypse and the loss of Sacramentality in the Postlapsarian books of Paradise Lost," at the 6th International Milton Symposium to be held at the University of York in York, England, in July.
HISTORY
JOHN BARRINGTON presented a paper titled "John Foxe and the dislocation of the public sphere" at a conference called John Foxe and his World in Columbus, Ohio, last month.
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
KAREN NOREN was recently elected the South Carolina representative for NAFSA (National Association for Foreign Student Affairs: International Education Association).She also visited Montego Bay, Jamaica, and two villages outside Montego Bay March 29-31 to establish contacts in local communities for a service learning project to begin next winter.
LIBRARY
JANIS BANDELIN attended a meeting of the SCICU (South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities) at Presbyterian College April 23.
MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
BILL PRINCE conducted oral proficiency interview workshops for teachers of Spanish in Seattle, Norfolk and Philadelphia this winter and spring. He will coordinate workshops this summer at Furman for teachers of Spanish and French. Prince will also conduct training workshops for
MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
JOHN ROBERTS has been appointed to a United Way Allocations Committee. In this role he will help determine United Way funding for five non-profit agencies in Greenville County.
MUSIC
DANIEL KOPPELMAN was a featured guest performer at the 1999 National Conference of the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the US (SEAMUS) in San Jose, Calif. He performed two computer-interactive pieces which were written for him in 1998 by composers William Kleinsasser and Christopher Dobrian. BINGHAM VICK, JR., conducted a performance of Faure Requiem and music of Randall Thompson with the Greenville Chorale and Greenville Symphony Orchestra in the Peace Center for the Performing Arts April 23. He also conducted a concert by the Furman Chamber Choir at Big Canoe, Ga., as part of its concert series on April 9. Vick conducted the North Carolina All-State Chorus Mixed Choir in Greensboro, N.C., May 8. CLIFFORD LEAMAN and DEREK PARSONS, The Ambassador Duo, performed MARK KILSTOFTE’s Sonata for alto saxophone and piano at the Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI), national meeting held in New York April 23. They performed at New York University as a part of the convention. That same weekend marked the New York City premiere of Kilstofte’s "You [unfolding]" by cellist Madeleine Shapiro at the American Crafts Museum. Kilstofte’s "Recurring Dreams: Variations for Orchestra" has won the Indiana State University 33rd Annual Contemporary Music Festival Composition Competition. The work will be performed in conjunction with the festival by the Louisville Orchestra in October of 1999 under the direction of Robert Franz. Parsons performed solo recitals in April at Clemson Presbyterian Church, Furman, and First Baptist Church, Greenville, commemorating the dedication of the newly reconditioned Mason and Hamlin piano. NANCY LYONS SMITH accompanied the South Carolina All-State Chorus at Winthrop University for a March 20 concert. RICHARD MAAG participated in the Charles Fowler Symposium on Current Research in Music Education. The symposium was held on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park April 16 and 17. LES HICKEN was the guest clinician and conductor for the Monroe County Senior HonorsBand held in Key West, Fla., April 9-10. ROBERT CHESEBRO performed the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Furman University Orchestra in Daniel Chapel March 9. He conducted three performances of Prokofiev’s "Peter and the Wolf" with the Carolina Youth Symphony and the Carolina Ballet Theatre at the Peace Center March 26, 27 and 28. He also did a presentation on the musical development of youth in the Greenville area. On April 10, he and VIVIAN HAMILTON presented a program for the Greenville Symphony Lollypop series titled "The World of Woodwinds" at the Travelers Rest Library and at McAlister Square Mall.
PHILOSOPHY
MARK STONE gave a paper at the South Carolina Society for Philosophy meeting in Clemson at the end of February on "Descartes’ distinction between consciousness and thought." His entry on Aristotle that appears in the Dictionary of Literary Biography 176, Ancient Greek Authors, has been selected for inclusion in the Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography. Philosophy and Biology, a book series edited by DAVID SHANER, has published more than 25 volumes since Shaner founded the series in 1986. The most recent volume released is titled Images of Development: Environmental Causes in Ontogeny by Cor Van der Weele, professor of science and ethics at Utrecht University in The Netherlands.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
JIM GUTH presented a paper at the Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting in Chicago, titled "Changing issue agendas of women clergy." He also served on the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools re-accreditation committee for Washington and Lee University. ELIZABETH SMITH presented a paper at the annual meeting of theMidwest Political Science Association in Chicago April 16 titled "The making of citizens for the new millennium: A longitudinal analysis of social capital as a resource in the political socialization of youth." DANIELLE VINSON presented the paper "Entertainment or education: How do media cover the courts?" The paper was co-authored with Furman Advantage student John Ertter.
PRESIDENT’S OFFICE
DAVID SHI presented Phi Beta Kappa speeches at Davidson College March 14 and Wofford College April 8. He and his wife, SUSAN SHI, attended alumni events in Orlando, St. Petersburg and Jacksonville during March. President Shi also attended the Southern University Conference, an annual conference of university presidents, in St. Petersburg March 19-21.
PSYCHOLOGY
CHARLES BREWER participated in the American Psychological Association’s Accreditation Workshop in Nashville, gave two lectures at the University of Houston, and attended the Midwestern Psychological Association’s annual convention in Chicago.
RELIGION
HELEN LEE TURNER gave the presidential address at the Southeast regional meeting of the Baptist Professors of Religion March 12. The address was titled "Apocalyptic fascination: A real and present danger." SHELLY MATTHEWS’ article titled "Laidies’ aid: Gentile noblewomen as saviors and benefactors in Josephus’s Antiquities" has been published in the April issue of the Harvard Theological Review.
SOCIOLOGY
BRIAN SIEGEL presented "The Kafulafuta Mission in Zambia" at the spring 1999 meeting of the Southeastern Regional Seminar on African Studies in Charlotte, April 3. KRISTY McNAMARA presented a paper with BOB McNAMARA and Katy Smith of the Greenville Hospital System titled "Increased immigration and the growing health care needs of Hispanics in South Carolina" at the annual Southern Sociological Society meeting in Nashville. Kristy McNamara presented a paper titled "From surgery to social work: fieldwork in medical Sociology" at the Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting held in Boston, Mass., during March.
THEATRE ARTS
This summer JAY ONEY will be participating in a National Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored seminar: The American Playwright, 1920–1950. The six-week seminar will be held at Columbia University in New York City and led by Howard Stein, professor emeritus from Yale University and a member of the Tony Award nominating committee.