{"id":22594,"date":"2023-01-18T14:57:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T19:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=22594"},"modified":"2023-01-23T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:46:57","slug":"historic-gift-to-furman-athletics-draws-media-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/historic-gift-to-furman-athletics-draws-media-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic gift to Furman Athletics draws media attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A slew of media outlets run news of Ravenel B. Curry III&#8217;s $10 million pledge to Furman University Athletics to renovate Timmons Arena. Among them are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/furman-timmons-arena-donation-curry-south-carolina\/42537280\">WYFF News 4<\/a> (see Jason Donnelly, Furman vice president for intercollegiate athletics, in an interview), <a href=\"https:\/\/lifestylesmagazine.com\/latest-news\/10-million-gift-from-ravenel-b-curry-iii-to-furman-university\/\">Lifestyles Magazine<\/a> (subscription required), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/greenville\/business\/furman-receives-10m-gift-from-ravenel-curry-for-arena-renovation-project\/article_2e781842-9697-11ed-a609-2fe920f4b6b5.html\">The Post and Courier<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wspa.com\/sports\/10-million-pledged-for-furmans-timmons-arena-renovation\/\">WSPA News 7<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scbiznews.com\/news\/construction\/83040\/\">SC Biz News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gsabusiness.com\/news\/construction\/83040\/\">GSA Business Report<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/whosonthemove.com\/ravenel-b-curry-iii-pledges-10-million-gift-for-furmans-timmons-arena-renovation\/\">UpstateBizSC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/education\/furman-alum-ravenel-curry-pledges-10m-to-support-timmons-arena-renovation\/\">Greenville Journal<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gvltoday.6amcity.com\/furman-timmons-arena-improvements-greenville-sc\">GVL Today<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/philanthropynewsdigest.org\/news\/furman-university-receives-10-million-pledge-for-capital-projects\">Philanthropy News Digest<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2023\/01\/17\/furman-receives-10-million-gift-arena-renovation\/\">FOX Carolina.<\/a> The gift marks the largest in history for Furman Athletics. Curry, a 1963 Furman graduate (political science) who also participated in Army ROTC, is founder and chief investment officer of Eagle Capital Management in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ravenel B. Curry III pledges $10 million toward Timmons Arena renovation. Several media outlets run the story about the record-breaking gift to Furman Athletics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":22608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,57,1569,119,1712,1683,6,44,35,139,32,90,1744,116,1,140,1578,120],"tags":[1036,1810,130,1130,1811],"class_list":["post-22594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-donor-stories","category-fox-carolina","category-greenville-journal","category-gsa-business-report-in-the-news","category-gvl-today-in-the-news","category-in-the-news","category-military-science-rotc","category-parent-news","category-philanthropy-news-digest","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-president","category-sc-biz-news","category-the-post-and-courier","category-uncategorized","category-upstatebizsc","category-wspa-7-news","category-wyff-tv","tag-basketball","tag-facilities","tag-philanthropy","tag-philanthropy-in-sports","tag-ravenel-curry-iii"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}