{"id":3633,"date":"2015-03-23T20:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T00:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/07\/susan-shi-to-speak-on-what-really-matters-march-31\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:30:19","slug":"susan-shi-to-speak-on-what-really-matters-march-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/susan-shi-to-speak-on-what-really-matters-march-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Shi to speak on “What Really Matters” March 31"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Susan Shi<\/p><\/div>\n

Susan Shi, the former First Lady at Furman University and a current member of the school\u2019s Board of Trustees, will speak on \u201cWhat Really Matters?\u201d Tuesday, March 31 at 7 p.m. in Furman\u2019s Daniel Chapel.<\/p>\n

Her talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Furman\u2019s Chaplains Office and is part of the L.D. Johnson Lecture Series.<\/p>\n

Susan Shi spent 16 years (1994-2010) serving as Furman\u2019s First Lady in partnership with President David Shi.\u00a0 She received an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Furman in 2010, and joined the Board of Trustees in 2014.\u00a0 She is a 1971 graduate of Furman, and earned a Ph.D. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

Before returning to Furman, Shi worked for 12 years as an educator and administrator, mostly in the North Carolina public schools. She has been an active civic and community volunteer, especially in the area of education. She chaired the board of Greenville\u2019s Alliance for Quality Education, and served on the boards of the Community Foundation, United Way and the \u201cSuccess by 6\u201d program for pre-school children.\u00a0 She also chaired the board of the Institute for Child Success from its inception until 2014.<\/p>\n

In past years, she co-chaired a committee that established educational priorities for the School District of Greenville County and served as a board member of the Northwest Crescent Child Development and Family Resource Center.<\/p>\n

Shi\u2019s honors include being elected to The Order of The Jessamine (2000), which recognizes contributions of women to the Upstate; receiving the School District of Greenville County\u2019s \u201cSuperintendent\u2019s Award\u201d (2000); being awarded the Community Foundation of Greater Greenville\u2019s \u201cRuth Nicholson Award\u201d (2001); and having the YWCA\u2019s \u201cSusan T. Shi Endowment for Infant and Toddler Care\u201d established in her honor (2002).<\/p>\n

The L.D. Johnson Memorial Lecture Series was established in honor of the late L.D. Johnson, who served as chaplain and professor of religion at Furman for nearly 15 years before his death in 1981. He was also pastor of First Baptist Church of Greenville.<\/p>\n

For more information, call the Furman Chaplains\u2019 Office at (864) 294-2133.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Susan Shi, the former First Lady at Furman and a current member of the school\u2019s Board of Trustees, will speak on \u201cWhat Really Matters?\u201d Tuesday, March 31 at 7 p.m. in Furman\u2019s Daniel Chapel. Her talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Furman\u2019s Chaplains Office and is part of the L.D. Johnson Lecture Series. Susan Shi spent 16 years (1994-2010) serving as Furman\u2019s First Lady in partnership with President David Shi. A 1971 Furman graduate, she received an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from the university in 2010 and joined the Board of Trustees in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}