{"id":3984,"date":"2015-08-25T16:39:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T16:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/19\/furman-to-hold-fall-convocation-sept-3\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:48:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:48:49","slug":"furman-to-hold-fall-convocation-sept-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-to-hold-fall-convocation-sept-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman to hold fall convocation Sept. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/convocation.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18828 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/convocation-medium.jpg\" alt=\"convocation\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/203;\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Furman University will celebrate the beginning of the 2015-16 school year with its fall convocation Thursday, Sept. 3 at 10 a.m. in McAlister Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>Furman president Elizabeth Davis will preside as the university welcomes the freshman class and presents a number of major honors and awards.<\/p>\n<p>The public is invited to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The convocation address, \u201cAspects of Transformation,\u201d will be delivered by Dr. Scott Henderson, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Education at Furman.<\/p>\n<p>Robert H. Buckman, who has served numerous terms on Furman\u2019s Board of Trustees, will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree during the ceremony.\u00a0 He is the former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Bulab Holdings, Inc., the holding company of Buckman Laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. James Russell Dean II, a 1986 Furman graduate, will receive the Richard Furman Baptist Heritage Award. \u00a0He is co-pastor of Park Road Baptist Church in Charlotte with his wife, Amy.<\/p>\n<p>The university will also recognize five members of the senior class who have been named Furman Fellows for the current academic year. They are Jordan Brown of Gastonia, N.C., Jennifer Duer of Sarasota, Fla., Samuel Hill of Richmond, Va., Jonathan Kubakundimana of Rwanda, and Kristen Marakoff of Fort Mill.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Furman News and Media Relations office at (864) 294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University will celebrate the beginning of the 2015-16 school year with its fall convocation Thursday, Sept. 3 at 10 a.m. in McAlister Auditorium.\u00a0Furman president Elizabeth Davis will preside as the university welcomes the freshman class and presents a number of major honors and awards.\u00a0The convocation address, \u201cAspects of Transformation,\u201d will be delivered by Dr. Scott Henderson, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Education at Furman.\u00a0The public is invited to attend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984","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=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}