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Friends
of the Riley Institute
CELEBRATING
5 YEARS OF DONALD & SUE RABER'S GENEROSITY
The Riley
Institute and the Department of Political Science appreciate the
support of Don and Sue Raber, long time friends of the institute
and the department. Their generous gift, in excess of $100,000,
has allowed the Riley Institute and the Department of Political
Science to focus on student education through engaged learning,
internships, travel study, and research with the goal of enhancing
the Furman student experience.
Many Political
Science students have benefited from the Raber's generosity. The
Don and Sue Raber Scholar Fund has allowed students, among other
things, to continue research on a Political Science Honors Essay,
participate in the Canadian Parliamentarian Internship program,
attend Political Science conferences, and participate in internships
that would otherwise have been impossible. For a complete list
of students who have received support from the Raber's and to
learn more about their experiences, see below.
Don Raber
is President and CEO of Aldebaran Financial, Inc, Kingsport, Tennessee.
A graduate of Hofstra & Marshall Universities, Mr. Raber is
a member of the Furman Advisory Council. The Raber's son, Don
Raber II, is a graduate of Furman's Department of Political Science
and earned his Masters & Ph.D. from Harvard University. He
has taught at Furman and is a tenured faculty member at Presbyterian
College. Their son Peter received his undergraduate degree from
Emory & Henry College and his MBA from East Tennessee State
University.
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Dana
Adams was
able to continue the research she began on the news media and
social perspective with her Political Science Honors essay for
which she won second place in 2004. The essay title was: “
Effects of News, Media and Sensationalism on Information Recall,
quantitative measure of Bennett’s social perspective hypothesis.”
Dana will be an instructor with the Department of Political
Science during the academic year 2008-09. She is currently a
Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota.
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Desirae
Clodfelter
attended a conference on "Initiatives of Change International"
held in Caux, Switzerland in July 2008. For more information
on this conference, click
here.
- Ricky
Harris completed an internship with the Victim Assistance
Division of the Solicitor's Office in Greenville, SC during the
summer of 2008. He collected and completed victim impact statements
that were used by the assistant solicitor and victim advocates
in court.
- Cindy
Youssef served as an intern for the "Voices of the
Future for APEC" program in Santiago, Chile in November 2004.
Additionally,
the Raber fund made possible the following Furman Political Science
majors to do research for and become a delegate to the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC):
Doing research
associated with the APEC Conference and attending as a student delegate
is prestigious. Furman students are the only American college students
permitted to attend the APEC Conferences. Held in Mexico, Vietnam,
Chile, South Korea, Thailand, and this coming year, in Lima, Peru,
the APEC Conference gives Furman students the chance to meet Presidents,
Prime Minister's, and highly placed government officials from the
22 member states and watch the development of public policies and
international agreements.
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