Inside Furman February, 2001

Faculty/staff news

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
LISHAN YAU will give a presentation titled "Furman University's Pro-Card Program - A case study" at the annual Cards on Campus Conference in Phoenix, Ariz., February 25-28. JIM HUDSON will attend the winter forum of the Association of College Administration Professional (ACAP) in San Diego, Calif., February 10-13. Topics to be covered are negotiation, e-commerce, campus cards, course packs and electronic textbooks, branding and catering, and safety in residence halls.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
WENDY HAMILTON has helped coordinate a variety of local events for alumni, parents and friends. The next three events scheduled are: February 3, The Coastal Empire Furman Club will host a joint event with Davidson alumni in Savannah, Ga., to watch the Furman-Davidson men's basketball game: February 13, the New York City Furman Club will gather for cocktails and appetizers at The Cafe in the Gershwin Hotel in Manhattan (special guests include Shannon Wilson, alumni director, and Carol Daniels, student services coordinator); February 17, the Atlanta Area Furman Club will host its annual Winter Gala at the Commerce Club in downtown Atlanta (special guests include David and Susan Shi, several representatives from the Development Office, and student singing sensation Ebony). In addition to these major events, several other clubs will host happy hours and small gatherings, which keep alumni connected to each other and alma mater.

ATHLETICS
BONNIE FLYNN served as a consultant for the International Softball Federation by speaking at the First Slovak Softball and Baseball Clinic held December 15-17 in Bratislava, Slovakia. More than 30 softball coaches and players attended this instructional workshop. She was also a speaker at the ISF-sponsored Norwegian Softball and Baseball Clinic held January 19-21 in Oslo, Norway.

BUSINESS AFFAIRS
WENDY LIBBY will attend the Harvard IEM (Institute for Educational Management) this summer.

CHEMISTRY
LAURA WRIGHT and NOEL KANE-MAGUIRE published an article in December titled "Photobehavior of (Diimine)dimesitylplatinum(II) Complexes" in Inorganic Chemistry. The piece was co-authored by Keenan Dungey (Dreyfus Fellow in Chemistry) and Brian Thompson (Class of 1997).

COMMUNICATION STUDIES
SEAN O'ROURKE was interviewed three times on Channel 4 and by the Knight-Ridder wire service about the presidential debates, election and concession/victory speeches. His review of "Voice in the Storm" was accepted for publication by the Southern Communication Journal. His essay on "The culture of eloquence in the early Republic" has been accepted for publication by Argumentation and Advocacy. Both will appear in 2001. He also presented a paper titled "A sentimental journey: Hugh Blair and the emotions" to the American Society for the History of Rhetoric in Seattle, Wash., in November.

DEVELOPMENT
DON LINEBACK spoke to the Simpsonville Rotary Club last month on "The Hollingsworth Legacy."

EDUCATION
TOM CLOER is featured in the latest edition of Columns, a publication of his alma mater, Cumberland College. Columns features profiles of alumni who have made a difference in the nation. Cloer is featured with Jean Ritchie, the folksinger, and Betty Siegel, president of Kennesaw State University. On December 2-3, PHIL WINSTEAD led a session on "Institutional effectiveness for new evaluators" at the annual meeting of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) in Atlanta, Ga. In October, GENEAL CANTRELL presented a paper, "Using oral histories to examine the sense of rural community by preservice teachers" at the National Rural Education Conference in Charleston, S.C. Cantrell will also present "Creating and nurturing learning communities between university and preservice teachers" at SCEPUR on February 15 and has published "Why can't they ever get it right? Reflections of a teacher-in-residence" in the fall issue of Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina. LORRAINE DeJONG has been elected to serve on NAEYC's Early Childhood Professional Development Review Panel. This panel is charged with evaluating materials prepared by colleges of education nationwide submitting the Early Childhood Programs to NCATE for accreditation review. In late September, DeJong gave two presentations at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children in Columbia, and was elected to vice president of this professional group. Also, her article, "Making ADEPT work for teachers in K-4 and K-5 classrooms," was recently published in the Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina.

ENGLISH
NICK RADEL has published a book The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature. Also, an article by Radel, "Queer Romeo and Juliet: Teaching early modern 'Sexuality' in Shakespeare's 'Heterosexual' tragedy," was recently published in Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Radel's review of Unspeakable Shakespeares:Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture by Richard Burt has been published in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England XIII. Last fall, GILBERT ALLEN read his poems at Greenville Memorial Hospital (September 6), the Greater Augusta (Ga.) Arts Festival (September 17), the Greenville Writers' Guild (September 26) and Presbyterian College (November 20). Some of his new poems have appeared in First Things (December 2000), Quarterly West (Autumn/Winter 2000-2001) and the inaugural issue of The Pedestal Magazine His short story "Fat Eyes" was reprinted in the anthology Food and Other Enemies in November.

FACILITIES SERVICES
BUD LEHN of recently performed on the Peggy Denny Show, which aired December 12. He also recently performed a solo at the interfaith interracial gathering in Beth Israel Synagogue to honor Martin Luther King Day. He sang "The House I Live In." The following people have completed The Supervisory Certificate Program from the Management Center of Greenville Tech: RITA WATTS, DOUG CANNON, GARY HUFFMAN, JOHN MARK McCAIN, DONNIE GALLAMORE and ANNIE VANDEWARK.

HEALTH AND EXERCISE SCIENCE
VERONICA YOCKEY attended the Southern Academy of Physical Activity, Sport and Health in Memphis, Tenn., in October. She presided as president of the academy. SI PEARMAN gave presentations at the Southeast American College of Sports Medicine with three Furman students in Columbia, S.C., January 25-27. The presentations were titled: "Epidemiological patterns of melanoma - Risk factors, prevention, and treatment issues," with Carley Howard; "Physical activity patterns among an elite group of academically talented minority students," with Cristina Achem and JUDITH CHANDLER; and "Nutritional behaviors among an elite group of academically talented minority students," with Kelly Rook and Chandler.

HOUSING
MELANIE BRANHAM received the South Carolina Housing Officers Association 2000 Award in October for outstanding contributions to residence hall students and the housing profession. She and BOYD YARBROUGH co-chaired the University Housing the South Carolina College Personnel Association's Fall Institute hosted by Furman and titled "Student affairs in litigious times."

LIBRARY
ED BABINSKI and his "freethinking" publications were listed in Who's Who in Hell: A Handbook and International Directory for Humanists, Freethinkers, Naturalists, Rationalists and Non-Theists, compiled by Warren Allen Smith. JANIS BANDELIN is serving on a committee of private and public academic library directors to plan the creation of an academic virtual library in South Carolina. She attended the American Library Association's Midwinter Conference in Washington, D.C., January 12-16, and is serving on several committees including one for the College Libraries Section of the ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) and the Buildings & Equipment Section of LAMA (Library Administration and Management Association). Bandelin will be attending the ACS Information Fluency Symposium at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, February 16-18.

MATHEMATICS
DOUGLAS RALL's research paper "Fall colorings of graphs" (co-authored with six other graph theorists) appeared recently in Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing. He will be presenting a research talk, "Improved bounds for dominating some Cartesian products," at the Southeastern International Conference on Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Computing at Louisiana State University, February 26 - March 2. DAVID PENNISTON's paper "Unipotent groups associated to reduced curves" appeared in the September issue of Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. Another article, "The 2-adic behavior of the number of partitions into distinct parts," (joint with Ken Ono of the University of Wisconsin) appeared in the November issue of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A. This fall, Penniston gave invited addresses at the University of Wisconsin, Clemson University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
NORMAN WHISNANT spent a week in December in Mecklenburg/Vorpommern in former East Germany studying the art works of Ernst Barlach and Caspar David Friedrich, visiting medieval Hanseatic cities on the Baltic and experiencing the progress which former East German cities like Griefswald and Guestrow are making as a part of the German Federal Republic today. He also directed the 10-day study-tour of the German Foreign Study 2000 program in Bonn. The tour included major emphasis on Wittenberg and Martin Luther and on Weimar and the German classisists. ADRIAN PABLO MASSEI's article "Oralidad y escritura en la trilogía histórica de Héctor Tizón" appeared in the book Pensamiento y crítica: los discursos de la cultura hoy.

MUSIC
TINA THOMPSON-BROUSSARD preformed a solo recital of sacred music at Christ Church Episcopal in Greenville February 7. She will sing Mozart's solo cantata Exsultate Jubilate as a guest soloist with the Hendersonville (N.C.) Symphony February 24 under the baton of THOMAS JOINER at the Hendersonville High School Auditorium. ROBERT CHESEBRO conducted three performances of the Nutcracker Ballet with the Carolina Ballet Theater and the Carolina Youth Symphony on November 25-26 and presented a clarinet clinic for the Alabama Music Educators Conference on January 18 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He also performed a clarinet recital in Greenville on January 31 at Christ Church Episcopal's Winter Classic Series. Thomas Joiner was the guest conductor for the annual Broward County High School Honors Orchestra on November 21 in Plantation, Fla. Thomas is spending a portion of his sabbatical leave studying with maestro John Nelson, music director of the l'Ensemble Orchestral de Paris. Among the concerts to be presented is Bach's B minor Mass in Notre Dame Cathedral. Both Thomas and ANNA JOINER will be performing for services at the American Church of Paris during their Paris residency. The Joiners released a compact disc titled "Intermezzo" to coincide with their faculty recital October 30. The CD, released on the ACA Digital Label and distributed by Albany Records, includes works for violin, viola and piano by Brahms, Bruch, Fuchs, Lidl, Bruni and Kalliwoda. It is available at the Furman Bookstore as well as at Horizon Records. Last September, LES HICKEN completed a residency in the school system of Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, where he also prepared and presented a concert with the city school's string orchestra. Hicken ajudicated marching band festivals in Rock Hill, S.C., (October) and Phoenix, Ariz. (November). On November 11, Hicken reprised his role as John Philip Sousa with the Columbia (S.C.) Community Concert Band in a Sousa-style concert in Columbia. RUBY MORGAN has been awarded a matching grant from the S.C. Arts Commission for recording and production of a CD of piano music by women composers, Women's Voices with a Southern Accent. Recitals of the music to be included were performed at Furman last month. Future recitals will be held at Limestone College, Meredith College, Salem College, Edison Community College and Western Carolina University. Morgan also performed at Florida State University January 14 during a memorial recital for the distinguished FSU performer and pedagogue Edward Kilenyi.

POLITICAL SCIENCE
TY TESSITORE was an invited participant in a seminar on "Jefferson, Madison and the Constitution of a Liberal Republic" in Lexington, Ky., September 14-17. He was also the discussant for a panel on "Politics in Plato's Dialogues" at the Institute of Global Cultural Studies in Binghamton, N.Y., October 27-29. JIM GUTH contributed a chapter, "Clinton, impeachment and the culture wars," to Steven F. Schier (ed.) The Postmodern Presidency. He was also named as lecturer in the Christian Scholars Lecture Series established by the University of Notre Dame with funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Guth will present featured addresses over the next three years at leading research universities and liberal arts colleges on his work on religion in political life.

PSYCHOLOGY
Over the past year, GIL EINSTEIN has served as an external examiner for the psychology departments at Davidson College, Drew University and Oberlin College. He and alums Bryan Cochran, Marisa Manzi and Merideth Baker published a paper titled "Prospective memory and aging: Forgetting intentions over short delays" in the December issue of Psychology and Aging. He also received approval for the third year of support on a $326,000 grant from NASA-Ames, the purpose of which is to examine memory for intentions in demanding work settings. CHARLES BREWER is serving a thee-year term on the board of directors of the American Psychological Association and as chair of the Advanced Placement Psychology Test Development Committee. He is co-editor of Handbook for Teaching Introductory Psychology (Vol. II), and he served as a consultant to Hawaii Pacific University. In July, SOPHIA PIERROUTSAKOS presented a paper titled "Infants of the dreaming: Caretaking in the Warlpiri culture of Australia" and a poster titled "Feathers and fuzz: Infants' manual investigation of pictures as a function of referent characteristics" at the International Conference for Infant Studies in Brighton, England. In November, she gave an invited talk to the Developmental Psychology Colloquium at the University of Virginia titled "Grasping the nature of pictures." Pierroutsakos is chairing a symposium titled "Picture it: How children develop an understanding of iconic symbols," which has been accepted to the March 2001 meeting of the Southeastern Psychology Association (SEPA) in Atlanta. JOHN BATSON, and Robert Batsell from Kalamazoo College, published an article, "Augmentation, not Blocking, in an A+/AX+ flavor-conditioning procedure" in the September issue of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

PUBLIC SAFETY
Public Safety hosted a training workshop at Furman for the South Carolina Campus Law Enforcement Association January 10-11. CHRIS GILBERT and FLETCHER WHITTENBERG, new public safety officers, attended the basic certification training for law enforcement officers at the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy in Columbia December 4 to February 3. Furman will co-host the S.C. Campus Safety Forum at Clemson University February 26-28. This is a statewide forum on safety issues on college and university campuses.

RECREATIONAL SPORTS
OWEN McFADDEN has been elected to the board of directors of USA Team Handball, one of the National Governing Body's for the United States Olympic Committee. He will be at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs February 10-12.

RELIGION
ALFONS TEIPEN will present a seminar titled "The other brother: Overcoming barriers between Islam and Christianity" at the 13th annual Peace Prize Forum on March 9-10 at Luther College (Decorah, Iowa). His article "Islam and the question of modernity. A brief observation on Encyclopedia Britannica's understanding of science" has been accepted for publication in a special issue of Islamic Studies devoted to Islam and Science. CLAUDE STULTING's article "Theosis and Paideia in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa and the Prelapsarian Books of Paradise Lost" has been published in Living Texts: Interpreting Milton. Also, his article "New heavens, new earth: Apocalypse and the loss of Sacramentality in the Postlapsarian books of Paradise Lost" will soon be published by Cambridge University Press in Milton and the Ends of Time.

THEATRE ARTS
KATHLEEN GOSSMAN has been named co-editor of Costume Research Journal, a scholarly journal devoted to actively promoting the exploration, knowledge and understanding of all aspects of dress and costume.