Elizabeth Peace Stall, trustee emerita, graduated from Greenville High School and went on to Hollins College, where she graduated with honors. Furman also awarded her with an honorary doctor of humanities degree in 2007.

Founding president of the Peace Center, she has served as president of the Community Foundation of Greater Greenville, president of the Junior League of Greenville, trustee of St. Francis Hospital, member of the South Carolina Commission on Mental Retardation, and chair of the volunteer committee of the Citizens Committee for Integration of Greenville Schools. She also serves as a lifetime trustee of Brookgreen Gardens. She has been a trustee at Hollins University; the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, and Presbyterian College and is a member of the First Baptist Church.

She has a daughter*, two sons, and seven grandchildren, and a growing number of great-grandchildren.

*deceased