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On the Road with Peter Gwin
PETER GWIN REMEMBERS VIVIDLY the first time he experienced the thrill of sudden, bright-white clarity. While on a Furman study abroad trip to the United Kingdom, he and some friends decided to visit the European...
Continue ReadingEntrepreneurial Spirit
by Andy Peters David Trone walks past a display featuring holiday wine suggestions. He sees an assistant manager standing behind the customer-service desk at the McLean, Va., location of Total Wine & More and asks...
Continue ReadingOur man at the Boston Pops
As a Furman University piano student 32 years ago, did Keith Lockhart have a feeling he would one day be an internationally renowned orchestral conductor? Not at all. He planned to be a lawyer. But...
Continue Reading‘It’s Bell Tower Serious’
Look to your left. Look to your right. One of you is going to marry someone you meet at Furman. That's what former Furman president David Shi told Courtney Tollison's freshman class at orientation in...
Continue ReadingSaving baby Jordan
Nancy ’02 and Shelvis Smith-Mather ’02 were doing peace-building ministry work in South Sudan late last year when the couple’s first child was born seven weeks early. In a rural and conflict-filled area with no...
Continue Reading‘Left foot, right foot, one foot at a time . . .’
by Jim Stewart, Contributing Writer Three hundred twenty-one days. Twelve states. Approximately 4,000 miles. All on foot. With a 40-pound knapsack on his back. Valderi, valdera. When Alastair McCandless ’97 waded into the Pacific Ocean...
Continue ReadingMore awards for Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Furman graduate Tomiko Brown-Nagin has been awarded the 2012 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Nonfiction Prize for her recent book, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement. Brown-Nagin, who graduated from...
Continue ReadingCelebration is set for Furman’s Homecoming weekend
For one week, Furman University is bringing its entire family back to campus. Furman alumni, students and friends will celebrate Homecoming 2012 with a week of reunions, student activities and events. The festivities begin Oct....
Continue ReadingFurman gets thumbs up from alums
Furman is listed in a new publication that ranks colleges and universities according to the satisfaction of their alumni. The Alumni Factor profiled 177 institutions who received highly positive reviews from their graduates. Furman was...
Continue ReadingFurman listed in Forbes’ annual rankings
Furman is included in Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of “America’s Top Colleges.” The university is listed at No. 20 in the category of top Southern colleges, and is ranked No. 96 among the top 200 colleges...
Continue ReadingA Bollywood ending
It’s not everyday a movie night turns into a career networking event. But for Lauren Moon, it did just that. When she was a senior, Moon thought a Bollywood night sounded like a fun event...
Continue ReadingCoulter looks for that championship form
Once upon a time, Leigh Coulter played golf well enough to qualify for the USGA Junior Girls national tournament, earn a berth on Furman’s 1976 national championship team and spend seven years teaching the game...
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