FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS David Anderson (economics & finance) co-authored an article, “Pivoting to Childbirth at Home or in Freestanding Birth Centers in the U.S. During COVID-19: Safety, Economics and Logistics,” in Frontiers in Sociology (March 2021). The article is related to a chapter by Anderson and his Canadian co-authors in a new book on birthing models and human rights. In addition, Where’s My Midwife? A Podcast recently featured Anderson and his same co-authors discussing their article and chapter. Sara Egge (history), author of Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920, was the keynote speaker at the General Federation of Women’s Club (GFWC) state convention in Yankton, S.D. William R. Levin (art history, emeritus) published an article, “‘Sepellire imorti poueri et miserabili’: La Settima opera di carità e la Misericordia fiorentina nei suoi primi anni di formazione,” translated as “‘To Bury the Poor and Wretched Dead’: The Seventh Work of Charity and the Florentine Misericordia in its First Years of Formation” in English, in the online journal Iconocrazia: Potere delle Immagini / Immagini del Potere, vol. 17 (2020), disseminated by the Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” (Italy). In mid-September he addressed this theme more generally in a lecture to students, faculty members, and the local public at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., on the origins of confraternities of charity in late-medieval and early modern Florence, their varied objectives, and the artistic patrimonies of two of them. Chantell Limerick (Spanish) participated in a Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad in Mexico on the
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topic of exploring African heritage in Mexico, one of her scholarly interests. As part of the competitive award, she spent the month of August traveling in Mexico City and the states of Veracruz, Puebla, and Oaxaca. Tom McCollough (religion, emeritus) gave the “New Voices” lectures in January 2021 at the First Presbyterian Church in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on “Putting Jesus in His Proper Place: Setting the Geographical Frame for Engaging the Historical Jesus.” His lectures at the University of Helsinki have been published under the title “The Synagogue at Khirbet Qana in Its Village Context”' in The Synagogue in Ancient Palestine: Current Issues and Emerging Trend (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020). McCollough has also been appointed director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Coastal Carolina University. Stacey Peebles (English) and Benjamin West are co-editors of the collection Approaches to Teaching the Works of Cormac McCarthy (Modern Language Association, 2021). In the decades since his 1992 breakout novel, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy has gained a popular readership and great acclaim as a contemporary American author. This book offers information on biographical and critical contexts, notes on different editions, and resources for teaching the author's work in a variety of classroom settings. Peebles has been editor of the Cormac McCarthy Journal at Penn State University Press since 2010. Tara Strauch (history) had an opinion piece, “Laws don’t truly make holidays. We have to learn how to celebrate them together,” in The Washington Post (June 18, 2021). The essay addressed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act as well as the history of Juneteenth itself.
Ellen Swanson (mathematics) used her experience in applied mathematics as a consumer reviewer of breast cancer treatment through a Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, evaluating potential treatments and helping to determine which ones should be allocated more funding. The program is run through the U.S. Department of Defense via the Congressional Special Interest Medical Research Programs. She finds that the program and her own research—also on cancer—have been mutually beneficial. She also drew on her involvement with the organization Living Beyond Breast Cancer for her role as consumer reviewer.
RETIREMENT
Yvonne York Morley retired Sept. 30, 2021, after nearly three decades in the President’s Office. As executive assistant to the president and assistant secretary of the board of trustees, she worked with four presidents— Michael Adams, Milton Reigelman, John Roush, and Milton Moreland. She received the annual Presidential Award for Excellence in 2020. Before retiring, she sent a message of thanks to the College’s senior staff, with whom she worked so closely for so many years. “October 1, 1993, was my official start date at Centre, so my retirement on September 30 will mark 28 years to the day that I have been fortunate enough to call Centre my work home,” she wrote. “And, what a home it has been! Having had the opportunity so meet and work with so many wonderful people—faculty, staff, students, Board members, and alums—at Centre through the years has been one of the richest blessings of my life.” She ended her message with an expression of gratitude for her time at Centre. “Centre will always be in my heart,” she wrote. “While not an alum, being an employee for 28 years and now a ‘past parent’ [her son is McCallum Morley ’21], I treasure the deep connection I have to this place and its people.”
