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John Reynolds during training in California prior to his deployment to Afghanistan.
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Return of an American giant Hope blooms that American chestnut tree will stage a comeback By CHarles Sowell | staff
Closed for the 4th The Chapman Cultural Center will be closed on Wednesday, July 4, in celebration of our nation’s independence. Free Art & History On the first weekend of each month—Thurs.-Sat., July 5-7—both the Spartanburg Art Musuem and the Spartanburg Regional History Museum are free, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.… thanks to a generous donor! Free Declaration of Independence On Tuesday, July 3, visitors to the Walnut Grove Plantation and the Spartanburg Regional History Museum will receive a free replica of the Declaration of Independence. While supplies last and with paid admission. Taking Flight Local artists Jane Frost and Susan Hopps will exhibit their work July 2-27 in the Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg’s gallery at the Chapman Cultural Center. Open daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m., but closed on Sundays. Auto Racing Spartanburg was once at the hub of auto racing. The Spartanburg Regional History Museum presents an exhibit featuring artifacts, trophies, and the development of the auto racing industry, June 19-Sept. 1, Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fine Furniture Exhibit Master woodcraftsman Michael McDunn presents Function & Awe, a large sampling of his handmade fine furniture in the Spartanburg Art Museum. It is both heirloom and contemporary. Tues.-Sat., May 22-Aug. 4, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Youth Photography Exhibit Young people see the world differently. See it through their camera lenses in this annual exhibit by the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Upstate. Mon.Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m., through July 1. Free.
Judy Coker remembers the forest giants that once cloaked her father’s milehigh guest ranch above Maggie Valley in North Carolina. “I was too young back then to think or know much about what was happening to the (American) chestnuts,” the 78-yearold Coker said. “It wasn’t until I was in my 60s that the impact of it all hit me.” Today, Coker is pushing hard to bring the American chestnut back to the land where her father established Cataloochee Ranch in 1933. “My father (Tom Alexander) was a forester. I think he’d like what we’re trying to do here,” Coker said. Her dad and mom, who was known to the community as Miss Judy, purchased a large part of the present 800-acre property on top of Fie Top Mountain from Verlin Campbell, the potato king of Haywood County, in 1938. The high mountains of the Appalachians were the last refuge of a species of tree that once made up 60 percent of America’s Eastern forest. Chestnut blight, an Asian import, killed the last of those trees – but before that another Asian disease, Phytophthora cinnamomi, which is similar to a fungus, killed them all in the lower elevations of their range. The outbreak of blight started in 1900, and by the 1950s the last of the huge trees were gone. Phytophthora began much earlier, but was blocked from the high mountains by the fungus’ intolerance for cold: It cannot survive in areas that experience deep freezes in the soil.
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Printmakers Exhibit 15 printmakers from the Upstate have come together to create a unique and vastly diverse exhibit of handmade prints in Shifting Plates. The exhibit is in support of a project that collected works for the true “art collector.” Presented by the Spartanburg Art Museum, Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.5 p.m. Ends: Aug. 25.
Judy Coker with some of the American chestnuts she is cultivating on her ranch.
Cataloochee Ranch near Maggie Valley, NC, is the location of a backcross chestnut orchard.
The attack was thorough and final. Phytophthora kills the tree from the tip of its crown to the deepest root. Blight kills the tree to ground level. “There were six huge trees on the property that I saw die, fall and rot away,” Coker said. “When you’re young it just doesn’t register … there are other things on your mind.” One day, many years later, she was walking the grounds of her farm and encountered stump sprouts left over from those six monstrous chestnuts. The sprouts, small trees on their own, had matured enough to produce a few chestnuts. Coker retrieved the burrs. “A chestnut burr actually hurts to hold in your open palm,” she said. They are like glass porcupine quills. “But when they open up you find the seeds inside are wrapped in an inner coating that’s like brown velvet.” Fifteen years ago, Coker planted the three seeds she retrieved from those burrs. Two sprouted and are still alive today, if ravaged by blight. They keep coming back with new stump sprouts and produce burrs to this day. And that was the start of the backcross chestnut orchard at Cataloochee Ranch. Once Coker saw the tree would still grow on her property, she contacted the American Chestnut Foundation and the group helped set up the backcross orchard. In a backcross orchard, foundation scientists cross pure American chestnut trees with Chinese or Japanese strains of the tree, which have resistance to blight, producing a blight-resistant tree with American and foreign traits. The process is repeated again and again,
gradually weeding out the foreign tree traits in the hopes of producing a genetic miracle – a tree that is almost purely American chestnut that has resistance to blight. Mark Lemke, who works for the foundation out of its Asheville office, helps tend the 700-tree orchard, which is located on a high hill overlooking the ranch’s lodge. The foundation plans to inoculate all of the trees with the blight fungus this summer, he said. They will save the seeds from the trees that show the most resistance to blight and destroy the less resistant trees. In 2014, the foundation will replant the resistant trees at Cataloochee, Lemke said. These trees are expected to produce some that are highly resistant to blight. Those will become the parents of a seed orchard that will be used to repopulate the highlands of North Carolina with blight-resistant chestnuts. “That’s the hope,” Lemke said. “The foundation has been working on this for decades and we’re really close now.” The highlands along the spine of the Appalachians are the best place to plant the seed orchards, since there is no treatment yet for Phytophthora – although researchers are working on a resistant form of the tree at Dr. Joe James’ farm outside of Seneca. If the research there bears fruit, the American chestnut could eventually be restored to its full range across the eastern United States. Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@thespartanburgjournal.com.
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Closing a DUI loophole Upstate residents who remember a certain airborne Maserati might be interested to learn about a bill the governor signed into law with no fanfare two weeks ago. Effective Dec. 18, the new law requires drivers who cause a fatal accident to submit to chemical testing for alcohol or drug use, as well as an automatic field sobriety test administered by the officer investigating the scene – regardless of whether there is discernible evidence the driver is impaired. Even with the budget debate sucking all the air out of the capital, this is a law that deserved some confetti when it was signed June 18. It represents a celebratory closing of at least one small loophole in the formidable stockpile that legislators who make their living as trial lawyers have worked into this state’s drunken driving laws. According to the S.C. Radio Network, the law was written in response to a constituent of state Rep. Kenny Bingham of Cayce whose son was killed in a collision with a suspected drunk driver. The driver was never tested for alcohol use, Bingham said. At the very least, any driver who kills someone in a crash “should submit to a sobriety test,” he told his fellow legislators during debate earlier this month. So it would seem. Yet existing state law only allows such testing if the responding officers have “a reasonable suspicion” the driver at fault is intoxicated – a caveat that plays directly to this state’s legendary commitment to the “Bubba can hold his beer” defense. If Bubba can hold it (or at least superficially appear to), then lawyer/legislators can argue he wasn’t really drunk – if, that is, they ensure any portion of state law that could objectively confirm legal drunkenness has been fudged, weakened or turned into a debatable issue for a jury. This explains why Sen. Lee Bright of Spartanburg got nowhere with a strikingly similar bill in 2009 despite a precipitating event to rival Bingham’s: a Greenville County man killed by a speeding Maserati while sitting on his couch in the supposed safety of his living room. The sports car traveled 490 feet through a field, uprooted a 25-foot pine tree and sailed over a six-foot privacy fence before hitting the house. Yet contrary to logic, John Ludwig Jr. – whom traffic reconstruction tests revealed was driving between 85 and 96 mph when he smashed into Bill Bardsley’s couch – was not given a sobriety test. Ludwig showed no signs of intoxication at the scene and there was no physical evidence alcohol had been consumed, Bob Ariail, then-13th circuit solicitor, said shortly after the crash. Should Ludwig have been tested anyway? Yes, Ariail said: Logic dictates that officers investigate all possible contributing factors to an accident. Unfortunately, “bad law” – Ariail’s words – barred the sobriety tests. Ariail called it correctly in 2009, just as Bingham did this spring. Confronted with a traffic fatality, investigating officers should not have to sniff the air or debate whether the driver “looks drunk.” Sobriety should be ruled in or out by an objective standard. The only reason to forbid it is to protect the drunken driver – an ambition enough legislators were finally willing to forego when someone dies under the wheels of a car. That’s DUI reform worthy of a little flag-waving.
The heart of cancer care As a physician who has spent his career diagnosing and treating cancer, I can honestly say that the act of telling someone he has cancer never gets any easier. Telling a patient that we have programs and services that can meet his medical, psychological and emotional needs – now, that is something I can get excited about. When we talk about cancer, we often talk about the type of cancer – where it originated, whether or not it has spread and the course of treatment. What we often don’t discuss is how the person is feeling and how those feelings affect his or her ability to cope. These feelings or emotions are called distress, and they can range from normal levels of sadness and anxiety to very high levels that can interfere with a patient’s thoughts, behavior and interactions with others. Because cancer affects the whole family, it is common for a patient’s loved ones to experience similar feelings of distress. So what do we do? How do we help these patients and their caregivers? Research shows that social and emotional support is just as important as medical care in the face of a cancer diagnosis. In fact, integrating psychosocial services into the medical standard of care has actually been proven to reduce feelings of distress, improve patient outcomes and optimize quality. Identifying and treating a patient’s psychosocial needs early in the process is also likely to yield cost savings for both the patient and the healthcare institution. Incorporating programs and services that meet a patient’s psychological and emotional needs into our ever-evolving cancer care delivery model has been a dream of mine for some time. That dream became a reality on Tuesday when Greenville Hospital System announced the Center for Integrative Oncology and Survivorship and a first-in-nation partnership with Cancer Support Community. Cancer Support Community (CSC) is one of the largest worldwide providers of social and emotional support for cancer patients and their caregivers. Through this unique partnership, GHS will be the first hospital in the nation to integrate CSC’s evidence-based support programs and
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services into a hospital setting. All of the CSC programs and services will be provided at no cost to the patient through our new Center for Integrative Oncology and Survivorship. In addition, GHS will be one of the first hospitals to implement CSC’s CancerSupportSource – a distress screening program that integrates screening, referral and follow-up care through a streamlined, Web-based program. This screening tool is critical in that it will give us a reading on a patient’s emotional state shortly after diagnosis, as well as during and after treatment. Armed with this information, we can link the patient to the appropriate support program or service and ultimately help reduce his feelings of distress. Beyond these support programs and services, we plan to offer a number of complementary therapies, such as oncology rehabilitation, yoga, acupuncture, massage therapy, music therapy and nutrition. When performed in concert with traditional therapies, these complementary therapies provide holistic, patientcentered care encompassing mind, body and spirit. For example, when paired with anti-nausea drugs, music therapy can actually lessen the side effects of chemotherapy, thus allowing a patient to return to his daily activities much quicker. So what does all this mean? It means that we recognize that cancer is not a simple disease limited to the patient. Instead, it’s a complex disease that impacts the entire family and requires a personalized treatment plan aimed at healing and improving quality of life. I believe we are positioned to do that at GHS and that we will continue to evolve just as our patients and their needs evolve. Dr. W. Larry Gluck is a medical oncologist and medical director of Greenville Hospital System’s Cancer Center.
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Some say Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport’s new screening technology balances passenger safety and privacy. The airport’s new full-body imaging screening equipment still allows screeners to “look beneath” a passenger’s clothing to screen for potential threats without physical contact. But new Automatic Target R e c o g n it i on software eliminates passengerspecific images that some passengers said re- If the new advanced vealed too much imaging security machine intimate detail. at the GreenvillePass engers Spartanburg International at GSP will still Airport detects a potential have to remove threat, the suspicious area their shoes and is highlighted on a generic belts and emp- outline of a person on a ty their pock- computer screen. ets before going through the security checkpoints. Bags and purses will still have to go through an X-ray machine. Passengers will step through the Advanced Imagining Technology machine. If nothing is detected, an OK will appear on a computer screen and the passenger will be allowed to continue. If a potential threat is detected, no alarm will sound, but a generic outline of a person will appear on the monitor with the area that requires additional screening highlighted. A person can refuse the scan for no reason, but will have to undergo a patdown instead. The AIT screens passengers for metallic and non-metallic threats, including weapons and explosives, said Jon Allen, a TSA public affairs manager based in Atlanta. The machine works by bouncing electromagnetic waves off the passenger to detect items that might be concealed under clothing. TSA officials said the machines are safe for all passengers, including children and pregnant women. The AIT machines are used at more than 150 airports in the U.S. GSP is the fourth airport in South Carolina to get the new technology. They are also used in Myrtle Beach, Charleston and Columbia. GSP has two machines, one each for Concourse A and B. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@thespartanburgjournal.com.
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Parents of wounded Marine say the fighting is still fierce in Afghanistan
By CHarles Sowell | staff
The first members of the Upstate’s church and military family network showed up at the doorstep of the Reynolds family about an hour after the news arrived that their eldest child, a Marine lieutenant, had been wounded in Afghanistan. Lt. John Reynolds, 27, was shot in the head on Wednesday, May 30. Prayer chains at local churches went into overdrive as the Reynolds family learned details. “Most people just don’t know how much fighting is still going on over there,” said Lib Reynolds, John’s mom. “Most people think things are winding down. But the military
families here know. There’s a lot of fighting still going on.” A tremendous number of those military families are also church families, Mrs. Reynolds said. “I’m not sure of the reasons behind that; love of
Methodists – folded the Reynolds family with a wide, loving embrace as they waited and prayed for a miracle. They got it not long ago when military doctors told the family that a birth defect – John
“Most people just don’t know how much fighting is still going on over there. Most people think things are winding down. But the military families here know.” Lib Reynolds, mother of John Reynolds, a Marine lieutenant, who was recently wounded in Afghanistan.
country, a sense of duty – I know John was tremendously impacted by 9/11.” The Christian community of faith in Greenville – Catholics, Baptists, Presbyterians and
Reynolds doesn’t have a sinus cavity where the bullet struck – saved the young man’s life. He will make a full recovery. Currently, he is recuperating from his wound in San Diego.
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If that sinus cavity had been there – making his skull thinner in that spot, as most people’s are – the bullet would have pieced his skull and killed the young Marine, Lib Reynolds said they were told. “John was hit just over his left eye, toward the center of his head,” said the Marine’s father, Lex Reynolds. “The bullet didn’t penetrate his skull; it passed through just beneath the skin and came out, striking his helmet. The bullet came out with enough force to shatter the connection with his chin strap and lodge a nut in the side of John’s head.” He was working at a remote base and was on a mission in the southern part of the country to remove Taliban insur-
John Reynolds during training in California prior to his deployment to Afghanistan.
gents from a village, Lex Reynolds said. The fighting had gone on for some time when John Reynolds was hit. “They helicoptered him out while under fire,” his father said. “He went from there to a field
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hospital, where he was stabilized, and then on to Germany. From there he made a stop at Andrews Air Force Base before landing at San Diego.” Reynolds said his son is not staying at the hospital. “He just goes to the hospital for rehabilitation and doctor visits.” The family has no idea when their Marine son will return to Greenville, he said. “John really is feeling guilty that he’s not still with his men.” John Reynolds was a popular student at J.L. Mann High School and later played Division One basketball at Princeton as a 6-foot-10-inch center. He was any parent’s dream child, his family said. “It wasn’t until he was in the fourth grade that I realized John had never asked for help with his homework,” Lib Reynolds said. Sitting on the back porch of their spacious Cleveland Forest home, Lib, Lex and daugh-
John Reynolds’ parents, Lib and Lex Reynolds, keep American and Marine Corp flags flying in front of their Greenville Home.
ter Elizabeth Reynolds talked about their son and brother for an hour, and in the process painted a picture of an Upstate family as solid and deeply rooted as the massive white oak that dominates the backyard. There are four Reynolds children – John is the oldest, followed by Anne Marie (Al-
len), Elizabeth and Katherine. They are devout Catholics who attended Catholic and public schools. “John got lots of offers from Division One schools his senior year at J.L. Mann,” Lex Reynolds said. “He went to Princeton on a full ride (scholarship).” At Princeton, John Reynolds
played two years of ball before being cut by new coach Joe Scott, who replaced legendary coach John Thompson III when Thompson left the Tigers to coach Georgetown University. Scott only lasted a few seasons at Princeton. John regrouped to concentrate on his studies, his father said. “John had a mind to take up business,” his mother said. “After he graduated he took a job with a large financial company in Los Angeles.” In 2008, Lib Reynolds underwent a lung transplant – she has been battling cancer for many years – and her son came home to supervise his two younger sisters while his parents went to the Duke Medical Center for the operation. “It was while we were gone to Durham (N.C.) that John decided to go into the military,” Lib Reynolds said. John Reynolds enlisted, and after finishing Officer’s Can-
didate School, was commissioned as a second lieutenant, his father said. The Princeton business major went on to become a combat engineer in charge of a unit that dealt with finding and removing improvised explosive devices (IEDs). “It’s dangerous work all by itself ” that is only amplified by the amount of fire the units come under when they work in remote sections of the country, Lib Reynolds said. “We (the Reynolds family) just want to remind everyone in town that there is still a lot of fighting going on over there,” Lex Reynolds said. “We want to remind everyone to pray for our troops and for their safe return, and thank the folks who prayed so hard for us and John. There is real power in prayer.” Contact Charles Sowell at csowell@ thespartanburgjournal.com.
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Neerja Arya, M.D. Laurie Theriot Roley, M.D. Center for Success in Aging 255 Enterprise Drive, Ste. 101 Greenville, 454-8120
S. Meg Carter, M.D. Cypress IM–Maxwell Pointe 3907 S. Highway 14 Greenville, 675-1491
Manisha Patel, M.D. Pediatric Cardiology 200 Patewood Dr., Ste. A200 Greenville, 454-5120
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Timothy Allen, M.D. Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas 105 Doctors Drive Greenville, 797-7060
Brandon Broome, M.D. Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas 200 Patewood Dr., Ste. C100 Greenville, 454-SHCC (7422)
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Work is underway to expand the University of South Carolina Upstate’s space at the University Center, the first step in the school’s plan to increase the number of students and programs in Greenville. But USC Upstate has no immediate plans to build a downtown Greenville campus. “It makes sense for us to have a presence in downtown Greenville,” said USC Upstate spokeswoman Tammy Whaley. “But it’s not the right time. We’re focused on growing to full capacity at the space we have at the University Center and expanding our programs and services there.” The University Center is a consortium of seven colleges and universities – USC Upstate, the University of South Carolina, Clemson University, Furman University, Greenville Technical College, South Carolina State University and Anderson University – that offer programs at the former McAlister Square shopping mall. USC Upstate has been a part of the University Center for at least two decades. It has about 800 students taking classes at the facility on Pleasantburg Drive, a significant chunk of the facility’s total enrollment of about 2,000 students. In March, the Greenville City Council approved a resolution to work with USC Upstate officials on a downtown Greenville campus, including a proposed site on Mayberry Street where the city’s public works complex is now. The city has since found land on Fairforest Way to relocate the public works complex.
JOURNAL COMMUNITY University Center President David Taylor said work is underway to renovate about 3,000 square feet – some near the University Center’s offices and the rest being vacated by Lander University – for USC Upstate. Taylor said the University Center has enough space to meet USC Upstate’s plans to double or triple its enrollment in Greenville.
“We have the capacity to handle all the growth within the next two years and we can methodically study future needs.” University Center President David Taylor
He said with Anderson University’s recent announcement that it will offer a master’s of business administration program at the
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University Center beginning in January, combined with Clemson University’s growth, the University Center could be pushing 3,000 students within the next 24 months. Even so, “we won’t have space capacity constraints here within the next several years,” he said. Taylor said physical classroom space is typically underutilized because of scheduling. At the University Center, the majority of classes are held at night, meaning there’s a substantial availability of instructional space during the day and on Fridays and Saturdays. There are additional expansion opportunities within McAlister Square as well, he said. The old Belk’s store – about 100,000 square feet – remains empty. There’s also about 60,000 square feet of space on the second level of the Greenville Tech admissions facility that is not being used. “The good news is higher education takes time to grow,” he said. “We have the capacity to handle
all the growth within the next two years and we can methodically study future needs.” Taylor said a study is underway to determine the higher education needs and gaps in Greenville. With a target completion date of August, the study will pinpoint areas that need more college degree holders. TD Bank’s announced plans to locate its Southeast headquarters in Greenville may inspire the need for more people with accounting and finance degrees, he said. “This will give us quantitative and qualitative data.” Taylor said he expects University Center member institutions to expand their offerings to meet whatever needs are uncovered, and additional schools may come into the consortium. “There’s no doubt in my mind that Anderson University won’t be the last institution to join.” Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@ thespartanburgjournal.com.
‘Happiness Machine’ gives out more than cold Cokes Turns out you can buy a little bit of happiness. Travelers heading to Atlanta this summer may want to stop at the World of Coca-Cola for a cool beverage from the Happiness Machine that will be on display there until September. In addition to cold drinks, the ordinary-looking machine randomly produces unexpected prizes like flowers, cupcakes, sporting goods and electronics. Nearly 4,000 prizes are expected to be awarded throughout the summer. The Happiness Machine has made an appearance outside a college campus, but this is the first time Coca-Cola has revealed the location of a machine of this type in advance. Part of the “Summer Moments of Happiness” promotion, the machine debuted in June and will be at the World of Coca-Cola in Pemberton Place in Atlanta until Sept. 3. To see the Happiness Machine in action, visit www.worldofcoca-cola.com. Contact April A. Morris at amorris@thespartanburgjournal.com.
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GHS Family Centennial Celebration Sat., July 28 • 11 a.m.-3 p.m. • Upcountry History Museum In honor of GHS’ centennial, admission is free. There will be arts and crafts for kids, an oral history presentation from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and a living history performance at 1:30 p.m.
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A colorful fireworks show will light up the night sky on Wednesday, July 4, at Red, White, and Boom, Spartanburg’s annual Independence Day celebration. The event will be held at Barnet Park beginning at 6 p.m. Gates open at 5 p.m. Entertainment will be provided by the Spartanburg Jazz Ensemble and the Spartanburg Community Band. The Half Dozen Brass Band, a New Orleansstyle jazz group from Athens, Ga., will also perform. WSPA News Channel 7’s Amy Wood and longtime radio broadcaster Bill Drake will emcee the event. American Legion Post 28 Honor Guard will post the colors for the event. Food and drinks will be sold inside the park and no outside food is permitted. Anyone wishing to purchase an alcoholic beverage must be 21 years of age and present a valid ID. General admission is $5 per person, with children ages 6 and under admitted free. Advance tickets can be purchased at any Bruster’s Real Ice Cream location in Spartanburg, Carolina Alliance Bank in downtown Spartanburg, or Spartan Federal Credit Union on Charisma Drive. Tickets will also be available starting at 5 p.m. on July 4 from the Barnet Park box office adjacent to Converse Street. No pets or coolers will be permitted. Daniel Morgan Avenue, between Pine Street and Church Street, will be closed approximately five minutes prior to the start of the fireworks show, and will remain closed until the 20-minute show is completed. Several Upstate healthcare organizations were honored at the recent Palmetto Hospital Trust (PHT) general membership meeting. Spartanburg Regional Medical Center was one of 14 healthcare organizations statewide recognized with a Transitional Duty Award, the best/highest ratio of transitional duty to no lost workdays in their respective categories. Village Hospital in Greer was also honored with a Transitional Duty Award. Greenville Hospital System was one of seven organizations given the Most Improved Safety Award in the Other Facilities category, presented to PHT members with the largest reductions in loss ratio from 2010-2011 in their respective categories. Palmetto Hospital Trust (PHT) was founded in 1977 by South Carolina healthcare executives as a group workers’ compensation selfinsurance pool.
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McDonald’s recently awarded 22 employees in North Carolina and South Carolina with Ray Kroc Scholarships. Selected by area judges and area McDonald’s owners/operators, these scholarships are given to employees who achieve academic and community excellence and plan to continue their secondary educations. Local recipients include: Preston Adams, Easley High School; Rebekah Dosher, Greenville Tech Charter School; Austin Fitzpatrick, Mauldin High School; Dustin Gay, Gaffney High School; Dylan Gay, Gaffney High School; Joshua Gay, Gaffney High School; Erick Giles, Hillcrest High School; Shat’e Griffin, Lander University; Jared Haire, Spartanburg Community College; Corey Hubert, Dorman High School; Mena Melek, J. L. Mann High School; Phillip Nelson, University of South Carolina Upstate; Alexis Robinson, University of South Carolina Upstate; Anna Tribble, Upstate homeschool; and Timothy Williams, Clinton High School. Christmas In Action Spartanburg, a nonprofit organization that repairs the houses of elderly, disabled, and otherwise disadvantaged homeowners, will partner with volunteers from local businesses, churches, and civic groups to repair thirty homes in Wellford. The repair project, known as Rebuilding Day, will take place on Saturday, October 13, 2012. Christmas In Action needs skilled and unskilled volunteers to work on homes (no previous construction experience is required) as well as individuals to help organize meals and make preparations for the day. Christmas in Action also needs licensed contractors, particularly plumbers and roofers, to volunteer. In addition, Christmas In Action is seeking Wellford homeowners who own and live in their homes and who are interested in applying for home repairs. To qualify, applicants must be 60 years of age or older, disabled or low-income. Call 864-576-7101 to volunteer or to receive an application for home repairs. Home repair applications can also be picked up at the Wellford City Hall. The deadline to apply is July 16. If you are sponsoring a community event, we want to share your news. Submit entries to: Spartanburg Journal, Community Briefs, 148 River St., Suite 120, Greenville, SC 29601 or e-mail: spartanburgcommunity@thespartanburgjournal.com
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Gibbs Cancer Center to partner with St. Francis on cancer treatment services By APRIL A. MORRIS | staff
Gibbs Cancer Center of the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System recently announced a cancer treatment partnership with Bon Secours St. Francis Health System in Greenville. The new partnership, one that will not include construction of additional facilities, is meant to reduce costs and increase efficiency. According to officials, broader treatment options will become available and the partnership will help to reduce duplicate services. With Gibbs Cancer Center constructing a new facility at the Village at Pelham and St. Francis’s existing Millennium campus, the two health systems can offer patient services in closer proximity to different patient populations. In addition, St. Francis has applied to the state for approval to construct a dedicated cancer center at the Millennium campus that will include a linear accelerator for radiation therapy. “This will cover a section of the population that had to travel to Greenville or
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Spartanburg,” said Dr. James D. Bearden, vice president of clinical research at Spartanburg Regional and physician manager at Gibbs Cancer Center. The partnership has the potential to reach 3.2 million people along the I-85 corridor and approximately 6 million within a 100-mile radius, he said. CEOs of both institutions said the relationship will bolster clinical service integration, increase quality and offer new opportunities for both patients and providers. The partnership does not involve the exchange of money or merging of businesses – simply services. Collaborating will specifically affect clinical services and programs, research, education, community outreach, supportive care, operational support and quality support, the CEOs said. The Gibbs Cancer Center has been an affiliate of M.D. Anderson Physicians Network since 2006 and is also a Community Clinical Oncology Program of the National Cancer Institute. Mark Nantz, Bon Secours St. Francis CEO, said Gibbs’s affiliations bring new breadth to cancer care in the Greenville market.
“With the multidisciplinary conferences offered by Gibbs, you’re getting a virtual cancer center that features some of the best and brightest in the world,” said Nantz. “It’s these two partners which make this effort so powerful,” added Camilla Hertwig, chair of Bon Secours St. Francis Board of Directors. “It’s a fusion of the recognized accomplishments of the Gibbs program joining with our St. Francis commitment to excellence and our passion to deliver quality patient care through a healing ministry.” According to Gibbs, both administrators and physicians will investigate additional potential treatments that can be offered through the partnership. St. Francis will be able to offer brachytherapy, or radioactive seeds, along with a unique bone marrow transplant program, not to mention patients from 150 primary care providers, said Nantz. “We have a pretty robust cancer program ourselves,” he added. Bearden also mentions St. Francis’ bone marrow program as a boon, along with the possibility of gaining experience
from St. Francis in large pharmaceutical oncology trials, something that the National Cancer Institute does not always have the funding to provide. Moving forward in the collaboration, the two systems will discover ways to complement one another in services and expertise, he said. “As we are integrating, we will find out a lot about each other.” The proximity of the two programs will also help in sharing specialists such as radiotherapy technicians and oncologists dedicated to certain types of cancer, said Bearden. “There is much more to come,” said Dr. Julian C. Josey, chairman of radiation oncology at Gibbs. “These goals represent doors that are opening, and we’re excited about the advancements that we can engineer by working together. This really means more for the future than it does now. Gibbs and St. Francis are dedicated to the advancement of a cure and saving lives.” Contact April A. Morris at amorris@ thespartanburgjournal.com.
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July 24, 26, 31 • 2:30-4:30 p.m. • Patewood Medical Campus These sessions help ease the transition into puberty through open discussion. Fee: $50/mom and daughter per session. For topics or to register, visit the events page at girlology.com.
Convenient Care vs. the Emergency Room Wed., July 18 • Noon-1 p.m. • Thornblade Club Discover which ailments and injuries can be treated at GHS’ MD360® Convenient Care and which ones require a trip to the ER. Lunch provided. Free; registration required.
Your Colon and You Thurs., July 19 • 6:30-8 p.m. • W. Jack Greer Library Branch (Mauldin) Learn fact from fiction regarding your colon health from GHS colorectal surgeon Jay Crockett, M.D. Free; registration required.
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Lymphedema Information Session Thurs., July 26 • 4-4:45 p.m. • GHS Cancer Center Cancer survivors and their caregivers are invited to a free information session on how to prevent and control lymphedema. For more information, call 455-6233. To register, for more information or to see a full schedule of events, visit ghs.org/360healthed or call 1-877-GHS-INFO (447-4636).
Fri., July 20 • Noon-1 p.m. • Green Valley Country Club Join GHS family medicine doctor Antoinette Rhynes, M.D., to find out how to prevent or reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Lunch provided. Free; registration required.
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McClures are a family of ‘serial entrepreneurs’ By DICK HUGHES | contributor
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Jon McClure, founder and CEO of ISO Poly Films Inc., stands next to a blow film bubble in the company’s Gray Court plant. The packaging film is heated, expanded and cooled during the process.
MAKING PLASTIC PAY ISO Poly to invest $20 million in another major expansion By DICK HUGHES | contributor
From early teens into his late 30s, Jon McClure worked under the mentorship of his father in the family business selling plastic packaging. “I knew we could sell it,” he said. “I didn’t know we could make it.” He could, and he did. After three years of homework and lin-
ing up investors, McClure branched out from the family enterprise, International Plastics in Greenville, in 1998 to start ISO Poly Films to custom-make packaging for a myriad of products. From that startup with a $5 million investment in one production line in Gray Court, ISO has become one of South Carolina’s fastest-growing companies, investing $42 million in major expansions in between 2005 and 2010. ISOFILM continued on PAGE 16
Jon McClure comes from a family of “serial entrepreneurs” – a drive he said comes from the genes of the family patriarch, J.R. “Bob” McClure. Bob McClure started the family in the packaging business with International Plastics in Greenville, now in its 47th year as a wholesaler and custom maker of plastic bags of all sizes, shapes and colors – from zip bags to garbage liners. That’s where Jon McClure, his brother Steve, who is president of International Plastics, and sister Carolyn learned the packaging business. Another brother, Rob, is working with his father in a new enterprise Bob McClure launched to build a network of listener-supported Christian radio stations. A Christian minister for “many years,” Bob McClure integrated Christian ethics with an entrepreneurial spirit he passed on to his children. Jon McClure, 52, branched out from the family business at the age of 37 to found ISO Poly Films, a rapidly expanding manufacturer of custom plastic liners and films for consumer and industrial products. “I had an opportunity to work under my father, who taught me a lot of things I wouldn’t have learned if I went to work for a big corporation,” said Jon McClure. “More than anything, he taught me the ethics of honMCCLURE continued on PAGE 16
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12 to 18 new employees in Gray Court. The new plant on the Columbia River will have 25 to 30 employees initially. To set up, maintain and monitor the expensive equipment on the highly automated lines requires highly skilled workers, McClure said. “We compete with the automobile industry with wages of $15 to $25 an hour depending on the job.” According to a company fact sheet, ISO’s average compensation, including wages and benefits, is $69,000 annually, “well above the national average and more than two and half times the state average.” Despite the high wage scales and capital-intensive nature of the business, McClure confidently believes ISO “can compete with anybody. We can compete with China; in fact, the Chinese can’t compete with us. They are 8,000 miles away.” In 2009, McClure joined in a partnership with Sigma Plastics Group and soon became a segment “flagship” among 16 companies “all in some form of different types of films like stretch wraps or industrial bags.” Each company operates independently with its own president, marketing, software and administration. As McClure explained it, “Each operating unit has separate shareholders with Sigma usually being a significant shareholder in each of those holdings. The partner is usually the entrepreneur on the ground, usually the founder who grows the business to a certain size.” The major advantage, Mc-
Clure said, “is combined purchase of raw materials.” ISO and the other companies in the group are major users of resin. The combined companies use 2 billion pounds of plastic resin annually. ISO alone ships the product in more than 350 rail cars annually. The group also uses its leverage for “legal work and banking. We have bankers lining up to do business with us,” he said. Putting a plant on the west coast has been on McClure’s “personal radar screen for years” to be closer to customers in California, west into the Rockies, north to Canada and south to Mexico. With ISO’s highly computerized equipment and advances in the Internet and communications, McClure said he “can monitor production in Vancouver on my cell phone. I can look at all of the quality standards; and if I had the pass codes, I could actually run the machines from my cell phone.” The West Coast was “a logical progression,” he said, and the company “would be interested in other locations, probably in the Midwest, but that is down the road.” As well as ISO is doing, McClure admitted the company has “had some very successful years and we’ve had some bad years. It has been more of a marathon. We haven’t arrived yet. We are working on it.” Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@ thespartanburgjournal.com.
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Last week, the company announced plans to spend $20 million for yet another expansion at Gray Court and for a plant at Vancouver, Wash. – its first outside Laurens County. ISO will invest about $10 million in each place. Their work is visible everywhere in the packaging of common products. Unseen, perhaps, are the variety of poly films tailored for industry. “Our major markets are flexible packaging for items you would find in the grocery store, things that five, 20 years ago you found in cans, bottles and boxes that are now in flexible packages,” McClure said. ISO film is used in wrapping of such everyday food items as frozen meats and vegetables, those standup juice boxes kids sip from and the interior lining used to keep crackers fresh in a box – up to seven layers thick. ISO film also is widely used in packaging for medical devices and pharmaceuticals and for a wide variety of consumer products, notably electronics. ISO makes film for high-end lamination, printable banners, lawn and garden products, webbing, sealants and masking. The company holds “a lot of proprietary processes” to make it the largest producer of the film surface of a specialty duct tape, McClure said. He said the flexible packaging market has grown annually in
the “high single digits to double digits for some period of time,” and ISO has grown with it. “In the height of the Great Recession, we were installing lines,” McClure said. “Of our competitors, the larger guys are either healthy financially or really struggling.” Since 2006, ISO’s production and revenue have more than tripled. The company has become a midsized player in the market. Shortly after extruding its first film in Gray Court, ISO added a second line and steadily added more over the years to reach a total of 11 last year. Before its 10th anniversary in 2008, ISO’s original building had been expanded twice, rail lines extended, a warehouse added and a segregated facility for food and medical film built. The company operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Total employment has grown to 110 full and part-time. With the addition of three lines and the need to fill jobs vacated by some experienced workers who are transferring to the new plant in Washington, McClure expects to add
ISO Poly Films Inc., Gray Court, S.C.
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esty and doing the right thing.” At 86, Bob McClure, who lives in Simpsonville, goes to work daily and is “just as entrepreneurial today as he was when he was 20 years old,” his son said. During the recession, Bob McClure found licenses for FM stations that were about to expire. “He went to the owners, gave them a few dollars, not a lot, and connected them together in an Internet company.” Called The Life FM, the company has 10 stations online with a mission to build a network of “Christian Talk full-service FM radio stations from Chicagoland to the Gulf Coast and in between,” McClure said. One of the stations, WWQEFM, has listener coverage from Anderson, S.C., to Athens, Ga. “He really loves broadcast radio,” McClure said. Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@ thespartanburgjournal.com.
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Milliken’s Manhattan Property to Soar
Pacolet Milliken Enterprises, the investment company founded by Roger Milliken, has joined with a New York real estate developer for construction of a “trophy-class office tower” overlooking Bryant Park in midManhattan. Pacolet Milliken, which is based in Spartanburg, and Hines, the developer, announced the project June 20, saying they had closed on an allequity venture investment from institutional clients advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The 28-story high rise with 470,000 square feet of rentable office space will be built on property acquired by Roger Milliken in 1954. The building is identified as 7 Bryant Park. The parcel on Avenue of the Americas has a full-block frontage across from the southwest corner of Bryant Park and “will capitalize on direct views over the park and past the historic New York Public Library,” which is adjacent to the park, according to the announcement. Designed by architect Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, the building will be built to meet LEED Gold, the U.S Green Council’s second highest of three certificates for environment and energy sustainability. “We are pleased by the confidence placed in this project by J.P. Morgan to provide the capital to move forward with building construction,” said Richard C. Webel, Pacolet Milliken president. “I know Roger Milliken, who was committed to sustainability in the built and natural environments, would be thrilled to see this new landmark come to fruition on this legacy location.” Hines expects construction to begin in the fourth quarter of this year, with first occupancy a year later. Roger Milliken, who died Dec. 30, 2010, led Milliken for 63 years, building it into the world’s largest privately held textile and chemical company. In 2007, he created privately held Pacolet Milliken to manage family assets in “energy and infrastructure, income property in world capital cities, income property in the Southeast United States and undeveloped land and forestry,” according to the company.
advertising concern. Corporate headquarters will be in Duncan. Fairway is the larger entity, and Olympus’ operations will be integrated into Fairway Media, as the merged company is called. Mark Moyer, chief executive officer of Fairway, will be CEO of the combined company. The combination gives Fairway Media more than 21,300 bulletin and poster displays in 17 states in the Southeast and Midwest. ACON Investments, the Washington D.C. private equity owner of Fairway, and MidOcean Partners, the New York equity owner of Olympus Media, effected the merger. Olympus is based outside Atlanta. Moyer said the merger presents greater growth opportunities “in the outdoor advertising industry, including digital technology, new measurement systems, tuck-in acquisitions and other future growth opportunities.” Moyer said he expects to add at least two employees to the 24-person corporate office in Duncan initially, though he anticipates more additions to the staff in the next few months with “other possible mergers.” Beyond its employment of highly paid corporate employees, he said Fairway contributes to the Upstate economy by bringing in employees from throughout its offices for training. Fairway Outdoor, which is an outgrowth of a company started in Minneapolis 75 years ago, has been based in Spartanburg County for 30 years. Press releases issued last week by the parties said corporate headquarters would be in Greenville in Fairway’s current headquarters. However, Fairway’s headquarters are in Duncan in Spartanburg County, and Moyer noted that the Greenville reference was a mistake originating in New York. “We like life here,” he said.
Cable Maker Wins Judgment
AFL, the Duncan-based fiber cable and accessory maker, has won a trademark infringement and false advertising judgment against an Arizona company on behalf of the fusion splicers trademarked by its parent company, Fujikura of Japan. The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona last week issued its final decision in AFL’s favor against Fiberoptic Hardware of Phoenix. AFL claimed and the court agreed that Fiberoptic sold unauthorized and altered Fujikura splicers that were not licensed for use in the United States and had falsely advertised them as new. Steve Althoff, ALF’s executive vice president for equipment business, said the company was pleased with the decision, which included monetary damages. “When companies like Fiberoptic Hardware sell altered products, our customers are the real losers,” Fairway Outdoor Advertising and Olympus Me- he said. “They believe that they are receiving audia, competitors in outdoor billboard advertising, thentic Fujikura goods directly from Fujikura, and have merged to create the fourth-largest outdoor they are not.”
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Local investors provide bridge financing for titanium plant and R&D center By Dick Hughes | contributor
As they did to keep electricbus maker Proterra afloat, local investors have come up with bridge financing to help revive a titanium plant in Laurens County and an R&D center at CU-ICAR in Greenville. The Upstate Carolina Angel Network and SC Launch, a not-for-profit development fund, put together the funding for American Titanium Works of Chicago. The amount was not disclosed. Matt Dunbar, managing director of UCAN, said the bridge funding is to help ATW operate while it “prepares to re-enter the capital markets to secure funding for the plant.” He said there were optimistic indications that the company would be able to secure sufficient financing. Dunbar said while the investment “is atypical for an angel group, UCAN members came together to help the company move forward – similar to the group’s work last year with SC Launch to secure critical bridge financing for Proterra.” Thirteen individuals contributed a total of $250,000 and SC Launch kicked in another $250,000 last year to help Proterra meet payroll until it could close on $30 million in private equity investments, which it did. On Nov. 12, 2008, thenGov. Mark Sanford and Thomas Sax, chief executive officer of ATW, announced that the company would invest an estimated $422 million in a “world-class minimill” in Laurens County. It said it would employ 320 people in the facility. In addition, ATW planned to build a development and engineering center at Clemson University’s International
Center for Automotive Research that would create jobs for 40 professionals in applied engineering. Construction of both sites was to start in 2010. It didn’t happen, as the private credit markets dried up in the first full year of the recession and ATW was unable to raise capital. It was not clear if the plant and the R&D center remain as originally proposed. A message left with Sax in Chicago was not returned. The ATW investment by UCAN was one of six announced by the investment group. UCAN said it invested in two other Upstate firms – KIYATEC and Lab 21 – and in Verdeeco and Airo Wireless, both in Atlanta, and Virtual Race Bags of Charlotte. KIYATEC is a Greenville startup “developing 3-D culture tools and assays for the pharmaceutical, biomedical and life science industries.” The technology was developed at Clemson University. UCAN said it co-invested in KIYATEC with SC Launch, Nexus Medical Partners and other local investors. Lab 21, which is based in Greenville’s NEXT Innovation Center, is a developer of medical diagnostic tools. It came to Greenville after acquiring local startup Selah Technologies. UCAN and SC Launch have made previous investments in Selah and Lab 21. UCAN said the recent transactions bring to $5.6 million investments in 22 companies, two-thirds of them in South Carolina, since the fund’s inception in 2008. More than 75 percent of the dollars remained in South Carolina, and more than 150 jobs have been created, UCAN said. Contact Dick Hughes at dhughes@ thespartanburgjournal.com.
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Teen theater group to stage an original musical Teenagers in That Awkward Stage Theater Project take responsibility for all roles in upcoming production By Cindy Landrum | staff
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Actor and “The Lion King” cast member Nick Cordileone and his daughter Hero, 10, enjoy a open-air lunch at Bellacino’s in downtown Greenville. The New York City pair said they like Greenville’s downtown a great deal and, knowing very little about Greenville before they arrived, were pleasantly surprised to find downtown a vibrant place where people want to be.
Life on the road ‘Lion King’ cast, crew tries to make family life as normal as possible By Cindy Landrum | staff
Sean Sullivan, his wife and his three kids have called Greenville home for nearly three weeks now. But in another week, they’ll cram their SUV full of the clothes, toys, books, strollers and pack-and-plays that are necessities of life for a family
with three children aged 4 and under, and move to Houston. Such is the life on the road for the automation carpenter for the traveling version of Disney’s blockbuster musical, “The Lion King.” Lion King continued on page 20
Katie Payne formed That Awkward Stage, a theater troupe for and run by teens, in the spring of 2011 so teenagers who liked theater would have a place to show what they could do. “That Awkward Stage is a chance to bridge the gap between childhood and adulthood with something constructive; to fill an awkward stage, if you will,” said Payne, who will go off to Clemson University in the fall to major in secondary education and minor in theater. “It is a way for teens to push the limits of what they are capable of creatively and theatrically.” The troupe will really push those limits when it stages its third production at the Chapman Cultural Center in Spartanburg on July 6 and 7. It will present an original musical, “Composed in Memories,” a story about two teenagers’ unspoken love for each other and how they cope with acknowledging their love after the young man loses his memory in a car accident. Awkward continued on page 20
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Sullivan’s job is to move the show’s scenery such as Pride Rock and the Elephant Graveyard through computer control during performances – a task he accomplishes from a platform about 40 feet in the air above the stage-left wing space. “Other guys have a work box with tools,” said Sullivan, who has worked on “The Lion King” national tour since September 2005. “Mine is filled with toys and other things you need for three babies: toys, swimmies, things like that.” He and the other members of “The Lion King” cast and crew live a sort of vagabond life, calling the current city on tour home and then moving on to the next. Often, they’re in a city only three or four weeks. An 11-week stop, such as the one the show will make in San Francisco later this year, is considered long-term. Some do have their own homes or apartments and return there during vacations and when the tour is nearby. Others have no permanent address, instead living in extended-stay hotels or
“The Lion King” crew member Sean Sullivan with his wife Michelle and their children (from left to right) Madison, 4, Chase, 2, and Braden, 2. The family was attending a birthday pool party with the cast, crew and families for actress Mpume Sikakane’s 6-year-old son Mfundo at the TownePlace Suites by Marriott.
short-term lease apartments in whatever the current location of the show turns out to be. Some travel alone, others with their families. Sullivan’s children – a 4-year-old girl and twin 2-year-old boys – have never known life off the road. The cast and crew form a large extended family and try to make this vagabond existence as normal as possible. There are birthday parties at the pool, softball
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Seventeen-year-old CaraLisa Franz, a recent graduate of the Fine Arts Center and Wade Hampton High in Greenville, wrote the script and is directing. Vincent Lovetro, also a Wade Hampton High graduate, wrote the music and lyrics. “I wanted to make a musical that had the story of finding yourself,” Franz said. “So often in my four years of high school, I saw students who didn’t know who they were. Evan, the main character in the musical, doesn’t have a past because he loses his memory.” Franz, who wrote the script while she was acting in two other musicals and finishing her senior year of high school, created the characters before she came up with a plotline. Until this production she had never done anything but acting. The experience of directing the musical prompted Franz to change her college major
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games at the park and cookouts when schedules permit. Children “go” to school and summer camp. Sullivan’s daughter will go to YMCA camp in Greenville. “That will be the first time we’ve dropped our daughter off somewhere and driven away,” Sullivan said. “We’ll remember Greenville for that reason.” Nick Cordileone joined “The Lion King” tour two years ago
at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia to directing. Mike J. McCall, 19, and a student at Greenville Tech, is playing the male lead role. McCall, who has experience in school and community theater, said staging an original musical is a lot more work than staging a previously produced play. “For a regular musical, if you need to learn the songs, you can go to YouTube and watch a video,” he said. “Here, we don’t have sheet music. It’s not tabbed out.”
Members of That Awkward Stage Theater Project sing during a recent rehearsal.
to play the role of the meerkat Timon. His now-10-year-old daughter, Hero, joined him last summer and has traveled with him ever since. “We weighed the idea of how valuable it would be to Hero to travel,” said Cordileone, who home-schools his daughter while they are on the road. “We thought we’d try it. It’s been great.” Cordileone said his wife, Amy, a professor at NYU, joins them often. She’ll celebrate her birthday in Greenville. Cordileone tries to maintain a loose schedule for his daughter when they are on the road. “The most difficult thing is trying to maintain a sense of regimen,” he said. “The load-in and load-off weeks can be difficult. Those are the weeks that the show has to come first, but we still have to do school during the year.” Cordileone said he and his daughter try to explore what’s unique about each city they are in. While in Greenville, they’ve spent plenty of time in Falls Park and made several trips to the zoo and the children’s museum. A trip to Asheville’s Biltmore House is planned. “Each city has something to
He said playing a character that has never been played by anybody before is easier than playing an established role. “There are no expectations for the character because it hasn’t been done before,” he said. Mea Abrahams, a rising sophomore at Byrnes High School who has been in seven shows at the Greer Children’s Theatre, went from hoping for an ensemble role to being an understudy to playing the lead female role overnight. “I get to create this person,” she said. “It’s a big weight, but it’s a great feeling. It’s like the first time anyone ever saw ‘The Lion King.’ The way you play the character the first time is the way people will see the character from now on.”
offer,” he said, “but there are cities that really surprise you with what they have.” In Buffalo, the pair looked for the restaurant where Buffalo wings were invented. In New Orleans, they looked for Popeyes. They also look for the familiar. “Some things are the same in each city,” he said, adding that the mall is a required stop in every city they stay. Some cast and crew have become adept at hot plate and microwave cooking because they have grown tired of meals out. They find doctors, dentists and places to get their hair cut. Cordileone said the gypsy lifestyle can take some getting used to, but life on the road has its advantages, too. “I love change, but I love stability, too. This job has both. I do the same job, but everything else is always in flux.” “The Lion King” is in Greenville through July 8. Then, cast and crew will pack their bags and move on to the next place they’ll call home. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@ thespartanburgjournal.com.
In addition to creating an original script and score, filling all the roles and doing all scheduling, planning and marketing, the teens also raised the $2,000 needed to stage the show through the website Kickstarter, a site that enables individuals to help fund arts projects for as little as a dollar. “I think this just shows what teenagers can do,” Payne said. Contact Cindy Landrum at clandrum@thespartanburgjournal.com.
SO YOU KNOW: Who: That Awkward Stage Theatre Project What: “Composed in Memories,” an original musical When: July 6 and July 7; 7 p.m. Where: Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E. Saint John St., Spartanburg Tickets: $15 for adults; $10 for students Information: 542-ARTS or www.chapmanculturalcenter.org
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On July 3, visitors to the Walnut Grove Plantation at 1200 Otts Shoals Road in Roebuck and the Spartanburg Regional History Museum in the Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E. Saint John St., will receive a replica of the Declaration of Independence with paid admission (while supplies last). Museum hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, except Sundays and Mondays, and Plantation hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, 2-5 p.m. Both will be closed for Independence Day on Wed., July 4. For more information, call 864-542-ARTS. The West Main Artists Co-op will host Pottery Palooza, a ceramics show and sale featuring co-op artists Bryan Davis, Tracie Easler, Jason Galloway, Al Hofmann, Agnes Martin, Terry Murdock, Teresa Prater, Katherine Rausch, Rebecca Savage, Garry Turpin, Holly Williamson, Nancy Williamson, and Kathy Wofford. The exhibit, on display July 19-Aug. 11, will feature functional stoneware and earthenware pottery, decorative wall art and sculptural work. An opening reception will be on Thursday, July 19, from 5-9 p.m., during Spartanburg’s Art Walk. The public is invited and refreshments will be served. The co-op’s regular hours will be extended for this show to also include Friday, July 20, 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. and Saturday, July 21, 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. The show may also be seen for the following three weeks during WMAC’s regular business hours on Thursdays, 3-6 p.m., Saturdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., or by appointment. West Main Artists Co-op is located at 578 West Main St, Spartan-
burg. Call 864-804-6501 for additional information. The Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg is now accepting submissions for its 2012 39th annual juried show, which will be in the Spartanburg Art Museum at the Chapman Cultural Center, Sept. 20-Nov. 3. An opening reception and awards ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 29, 6-8 p.m. The show is open to all artists in South and North Carolina and Georgia. More than $4,000 will be awarded in various categories. The deadline to submit work for consideration is Aug. 1. Media categories are 2D-Painting, 2D-Drawing and Mixed Media, 2D-Photography, and 3D-Sculpture, which includes ceramics and jewelry. The juror this year will be Mana Hewitt, MFA, director of the McMaster Art Gallery, as well as Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Art Department of the University of South Carolina. For more details, please visit hwww.artistsguildofspartanburg.com, contact director Robin Els at 864764-9568 or email artistsguildofspartanburg@gmail.com. From July 9 through Aug. 24, the Chapman Cultural Center will host the National Heart Gallery Exhibit, a collection of 50 oversized photographs of children in need of adoption. Spartanburg will be the only site for this exhibit in South Carolina. It will be free for public viewing, Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information, call 864-542-ARTS or visit www.chapmanculturalcenter.org.
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Dance instructor Marian Norman gives instruction to pupil Marion Tisdale during a private shag lesson with Marion and his wife, Barbara Tisdale, in one of the Ballet Spartanburg dance studios at the Chapman Cultural Center.
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At a recent check presentation, the Upstate Homeless Coalition received, on behalf of The Butterfly Foundation, based in Spartanburg, a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The grant provides homeless families and individuals that have special needs with permanent housing in Spartanburg, Greenville and Anderson counties. From left: Larry Knightner, state director of the South Carolina HUD Field Office; Mary Kay Winstead, president of the Upstate Homeless Coalition Advisory Council; Liberty Canzater, founder of The Butterfly Foundation; Michael Chesser, executive director of the Upstate Homeless Coalition.
Marion and Barbara Tisdale elicit applause from their instructor, Marian Norman, while shag dancing at the Chapman Cultural Center.
Autumn Flores, 10, plays with the skull of a bobcat during a break at the Young Naturalist Day Camp. Greg Beckner / Staff
Above: Taylor Horowitz, 9, takes a closer look at a robin’s nest and egg at the Young Naturalist Day Camp. Left: John Green, executive director of the Spartanburg Science Center, talks to day campers about bees and insects while a praying mantis walks along a box top at the Hatcher Garden and Woodland Preserve. The weeklong Young Naturalist Day Camp held at the garden gave campers hands on experience with plants and animals found at the garden.
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Cross Jenkinson, 5, gets his chance to hold a yellow corn snake and a black rat snake during the Young Naturalist Day Camp.
Eliza Phillips, 6, keeps an eye on a yellow corn snake being held by Spartanburg Science Center Executive Director John Green.
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Life after 60 By Peggy Henderson
Keeping up appearances I can’t help it if I’m a people-watcher. Perhaps this is why I fail to accurately complete my grocery list as I cruise up and down the aisles. I also frequently fail to obey the Bible scripture, “Judge not, lest you be judged.” Honestly? I’ve been wishy-washy living with that scripture ever since the first grade. I preferred to ride bikes with boys rather than play with dolls with my girlfriends. Although this childhood confession has little to do with people-watching, it does illustrate my penchant for discovering what makes the sexes tick, and brings me to ask myself why people like to form clubs and exclude others and make rules about how to dress and how and where to live. That being said, here’s another confession: It’s taken me 67 years to accept that it’s not the above social traits that really matter. If a person is content with his or her environment, so be it. What is difficult to accept is that as we age, our bodies – hopefully, not our minds – lose their sense of gravity and balance. Mirrors are no longer our friends. We wonder how we arrived at a size 14 from a size 10. Year by year we rationalize that it doesn’t matter anymore; it’s a natural progression of growing old. The unkind euphemism “she let herself go” is a four-word sentence that no one wants to hear, much less digest. The process of no longer caring about oneself is a work in progress. It creeps up unknowingly, like a simple cough morphs into pneumonia. The culprit is basically laziness. Reaching a certain age doesn’t mean exclusion from positive work habits and the quintessential virtue of personal responsibility. In our heroic battle to remain authentically realistic about this journey we seniors are negotiating, I’ve decided that I have two choices in the way I live out my advancing years. I can either gripe my way to the end or grin and bear the challenges gracefully. I choose to grin. I refuse to join a pity party. I’ll hang with the doers and shakers. Sing and dance. However, there are a few issues to
attend to, pronto. The numerous health articles about preventive this and preventive that make me grumpy. Not because the medical facts are not valid, but because it sounds like extra work and I’ve always assumed, being a naïve optimist, that all would be hunky-dory. After all, I’ve enjoyed lovely health and I can still touch my toes and walk a straight line. My problem is I spend hours in front of the computer. I keep finding myself hunched over my desk, spine curved into a C, head and neck resembling a dog in a prayer pose. I can’t erase the image of me walking the previously mentioned straight line with my shoulders and neck so far out and over in front of me, I can’t even see the line. The good news is I’m taking the preventive advice and ordering a posture perfector, which looks like a rubber butterfly. My plan is to replace my pajamas with the butterfly before I dress for the day. I guess I’d better order more than one. So pro-action is better than no action. Maybe as a bonus, my uplifted lungs will send more oxygen to my writing brain. Hope springs eternal, as my father would say. Keeping up with keeping up is plain hard work. It takes steely motivation, healthy intentions and spiritual guidance. Yoga helps too. In closing, I found a joke in Ed Fisher and Jane Thomas Noland’s book, “What’s So Funny About Getting Old?” A bald-headed, well-dressed gentleman has invited a well-dressed female out on a date. “What are you wearing?” he asks. “Chanel No. 5? Moonlight Musk? Love Mist?” Her reply: “Vicks.” I believe there’s a lesson to be learned here. I prefer Chanel No. 5. My lovely husband gave that to me as his first gift in our dating life. The man still has good taste, especially in women. Contact Peggy Henderson at peg4745@aol.com
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