{"id":1196,"date":"2024-05-22T18:33:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/shi-institute\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:28:22","slug":"a-lifetime-of-lessons-revered-history-professor-and-sustainability-advocate-retires-after-four-decades-at-furman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/shi-institute\/a-lifetime-of-lessons-revered-history-professor-and-sustainability-advocate-retires-after-four-decades-at-furman\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lifetime of Lessons: Revered history professor and sustainability advocate retires after four decades at Furman"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Marian Strobel makes her annual trek to her family home in northern New York, she brings her luggage, and a trunkful of recyclables.<\/p>\n

Since glass recycling isn\u2019t offered locally, she decided taking her load of glass with her was the next best option.<\/p>\n

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Shi Institute staff are shown with some of our Faculty Affiliates (including Dr. Strobel) during the 2023-2024 academic year.<\/p><\/div>\n

Her commitment to sustainability is one reason William Montgomery Professor of History Emerita Marian Strobel keeps coming back to the Shi Institute year after year as a Faculty Affiliate. Though she is technically retired as of July 31, Strobel said she plans to continue to support the Shi Institute\u2019s work through the Affiliates program.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the fellowship of it,\u201d said Strobel, who is finishing her 43rd year at Furman. \u201cIt\u2019s been a way to be friends with people from completely different disciplines and talk about issues that are important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strobel will also continue to teach two classes this fall, including a first-year writing seminar entitled, \u201cCan We Make Sense of the 60s?\u201d The class will discuss Rachel Carson\u2019s book \u201cSilent Spring,\u201d which showed the effects of pesticides in the environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am especially interested in researching the conservation\/environmental efforts of the Kennedy Administration in the early 1960\u2019s, and especially of JFK\u2019s tour of the West in September 1963\u2014shortly before his death,\u201d said Strobel.\u00a0 \u201cCuriously, he ended up abandoning his message on the environment in favor of Cold War matters!\u201d<\/p>\n

Thank you for your leadership and dedication to Furman and to sustainability, Marian! We appreciate you!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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