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From the Archives

ROTC as an integral part of student life at Wofford B

y providing students with the opportunity to serve their country, exercise leadership on campus, and represent the college in the community and elsewhere, ROTC has been a significant part of student life at Wofford since 1919. During World War I, students at Wofford were organized into a Student Army Training Corps, and campus D o yo u h ave R OTC life was militarized. Out of a student body of 218, 187 stories that you’d like students were part of the training corps during the 19181919 school year. President Henry Nelson Snyder noted to share? Let me know in a letter to an alumnus in the Army written just two days or you can post them before the armistice that, “We have been turned into a military post,” and that the course of study and discipline Wofford ROTC belt buckle and patch on my blog: http://blogs. had been changed to suit the government’s needs. The end of the war saw the campus returned to civilian control, but wofford.edu/from_the_ the country’s need for a trained officer corps did not go away. A Reserve Officers’ Training Corps unit was organized at Wofford already had graduated) as the archives/. in October 1919. An order from the Secretary of War formally estabbattalion commander. The two Dr. Phillip Stone ’94 lished the unit on Dec. 29, 1919. According to the 1920 Bohemian, companies included 108 students. the battalion was reorganized in the spring semester, with future Participation in ROTC continued to grow through the 1920s. South Carolina Governor and U. S. Senator Olin D. Johnston (who In 1925, 267 out of 474 students were part of the corps. Students in ROTC during the 1920s in the basic course studied first aid, military hygiene and sanitation, military courtesy, and lots of infantry drill, physical training, and minor tactics. In the advanced A picture of ROTC Company C in 1925, led by Capt, J. G. Huggin course, students continued training and drill, but added field engineering, military history, military law and administration. In the summer between their junior and senior years, cadets were expected to attend summer camp for six weeks at Camp McClellan, Ala. Students in the advanced course received a subsistence allowance of about $108 a year, plus all of their military equipment and uniforms. Especially during the Great Depression, receiving uniforms that they could wear to class and a stipend helped keep many students in college. Tuition in those years was just under $100 a year, with room and board costing about $200. Throughout the time period, the college strongly supported having ROTC at Wofford. President Snyder wrote to a colleague in another state that, “We like the training it furnishes – the drill is excellent for the physical exercise it gives, and the instruction is ast summer, Betsy Collins presented to the archives the ceremonial saber that her father, the sufficiently academic to warrant its inclusion in the curriculum. Rev. James George Huggin Jr. ’25, wore as the commander of one of the campus ROTC Great emphasis is made on preparation for citizenship in time of companies. Inscribed “J. G. Huggin, Co. C,” the sword is a standard Army-issue saber for officers, peace.” During the 1930s, ROTC was housed in the old gym – not and it was made by Rosenfield and Rapkin in Boston, Mass. Jim Huggin was active in the Preston Andrews, which was the new gym then – but Burnett Gym, near Literary Society, the campus YMCA, wrote for the Old Gold & Black student newspaper, and where the Burwell Building is today. earned distinctions in scholarship. Participation in ROTC remained high throughout the 1930s, After Huggin took his seminary degree from Duke, he was an influential minister in the Westand well over 1,000 Wofford alumni served in World War II. After ern North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church. In 1958, Wofford presented Huggin the war, ROTC continued to have a strong presence on campus. with an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. Even during the Vietnam era, participation remained high. In the The saber is the only one of its kind in the Wofford collection. Collins also presented the colfall of 1968, for example, 188 freshmen signed up for ROTC, and lege with her father’s regalia and several valuable rare books. in 1969, 67 members of the graduating class of 264 were commisThanks also to the Department of Military Science, which recently transferred sioned. The advent of Interim made additional training opportua number of historical materials to the archives. nities during the academic year possible, and in 1969, the ROTC band of 44 students participated in one of the largest Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans. Led by John Coker and Maj. Ed Hall, they were housed on a nearby aircraft carrier during their stay in Louisiana.

The Huggin Saber

by Dr. Phillip Stone ’94

The 1925 Army ceremonial saber

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In this issue...

Spring 2011

WOFFORD TODAY... Wofford receives grant from Teagle Foundation; Energy audit recommends new campus lighting............... 4 Best in Show: Chaser’s remarkable story............... 5 Wofford and the law: continuing Ed Hardin’s legacy............ 6-7 STUDENTS... Active Minds changes conversation on campus mental health; Cody Chesneau competes in national collegiate snowboarding championships; students honored for Chinese proficiency............ 8-9

Roger Milliken’s Legacy of Service, pages 16-17

INTERIM 2011, photos from abroad........ 10-11

2010 ANNUAL REPORT.... 12-19 ATHLETICS... Men’s basketball takes another spin around the dance floor............. 20 FACULTY/STAFF... College appoints new director of Multicultural Affairs; Neely shows art at Oxford College; Library Web site earns recognition............. 21 For & About Alumni... including births, weddings, photos, notes and profiles of Wofford alumni........ 22-31

Student competes in Snowboarding National Championships, p. 8

Peace Corps turns 50: an interview with Paul Lofton............. 23 Wofford Bookshelf . ........... 24 Dave Murphy shares secret to Mother Murphy’s success............. 25 Terriers in the News............. 26 Barber turns Bowens Island green............. 27 Black & Gold gatherings............. 29

Find out where 270 Wofford students spent the month of January, pp. 10-11

Remembering George Martin and John White............. 31

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offord Today (USPS 691-140) is published four times each year by the Office of Communications and Marketing, Wofford College, 429 N. Church St., Spartanburg, SC 293033663, for alumni and friends of the college. Issued quarterly: fall, winter, spring and summer. Periodicals postage is paid at Spartanburg Main Post Office, Spartanburg, South Carolina, with an additional mailing entry at Greenville, S.C.

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Energy audit recommends exterior lighting change

o get a glimpse into Wofford’s carbon-neutral, goldblack-and-green future, President Benjamin B. Dunlap has only to look outside his bedroom window. There, he can see an experimental Light Emitting Diode (LED) outdoor fixture, the first fruits of last fall’s water and energy audit. Commissioned by the late Roger Milliken, the audit was conducted by Jeffrey G. Ross-Bain, PE, LEED AP, BEMP. The letters after the name are important professional credentials associated with the Atlanta firm Ross-Bain Green Building, LLC. One of the recommendations of the Ross-Bain report calls for Wofford to move as soon as possible to replace its 150 High Intensity Discharge (HID) “acorn” outdoor lamps with the latest LED technology. As a first step toward that goal, a Wofford team worked with Brent Medearis, an electrical engineer who is the principal in the firm of Carolina Architectural Lighting. The company often works with Hubble Lighting, an international company based in the Upstate that has specialized in electrical lighting fixtures for more than 100 years. “This new fixture has 60 individually aimed LEDs (72 watts of total consumption),” says Medearis. “The benefit is that each LED can be aimed to provide light exactly where light is needed on the ground. The traditional HID acorn has a single lamp that emits light in

all directions, even straight up ✓ LED arrays have an toward the night sky. To put this operational expectancy of in perspective, imagine trying to 50,000 hours, which means light a stadium with a single lamp that major maintenance versus hundreds of individually should not be necessary for aimed sportslighting fixtures.” a decade or more. He lists some of the advan✓ Disposal of used HID tages of LED technology: bulbs requires managing ✓ An LED lighting system significant amounts of provides an opportunity to environmentally harmful comply with Department of chemicals, which is not the Energy “dark-sky” standards. case for LED systems. Students can walk on a safely “Our Gold, Black and lighted pathway, but they also Green team is energized by the can look up and see the stars. recommendations found in the That’s an important aesthetic Ross-Bain report, and there consideration for a “new are projects that we would like urban” campus. to move forward as quickly as ✓ LED lighting requires significantly less electricity than HID systems, representing another important step on the college’s path toward carbon neutrality. ✓ LED technology does not produce excessive glare or deep shadows. Those who walk and patrol the campus no longer will lose night vision if they happen to look straight at one of the fixtures. ✓ The light can be directed to go exactly where it is needed. As in the case of the president’s bedroom window, it is possible to sleep in darkness even while the area below is appropriately illuminated.

Wofford’s familiar acorn lights (left) soon may be replaced with energyefficient LED technology (right).

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practical,” says Robert Keasler, senior vice president for operations and finance. “Right now, we’re looking for grants, donors and various other funding sources that might take a particular interest in where we are and where we want to go. We would be happy to share detailed information with our alumni and friends.” For more information, contact Lani J. Foster, director of special projects and financial systems in the Wofford Business Office, fosterij@wofford. edu.

by Doyle Boggs ’70

Novelist Nnedi Okorafor (above) will be on Wofford’s campus this summer as Shared World’s Amazon.com 2011 Visiting Writer. As part of her visit, Okorafor will talk about writing with the students, participate in a reading, and be interviewed about her books. For more information about Shared Worlds 2011 or to register a teen-aged participant, visit www.wofford.edu/ sharedworlds.

Teagle awards $200,000 grant for student learning assessment

he Teagle Foundation of New York City has awarded Wofford College and Elon University a $200,000 grant from its “Engaging Evidence: Programs for Improving Student Learning” fund. The collaborative project, “Using Assessment Evidence to Improve Programs and Promote Shared Responsibility for Mission-Based Outcomes” is led by Dr. Ellen Goldey and Dr. Trina Jones, and includes Dr. Ron Robinson ’78 and Dr. Dennis Wiseman, among others. “We have enjoyed working with Dr. Peter Felton and the rest of the Elon team,” says Goldey. “Although Wofford and Elon are rivals on the playing field, we are all on the same team when it comes to the pursuit of educational excellence. It’s great to be collaborating with them.” Recognizing the challenges inherent in an inter-institutional undertaking, the project will employ a postdoctoral fellow as an assessment scholar who will facilitate the work between the campuses. “Most often assessment evidence, such as from the National Survey of Student Assessment (NSSE), is used only to compare institutions to each other, and the evidence never finds its way to the faculty in a form that can be used to improve our programs. This project will make assessment evidence actionable by all constituencies,” says Dean David Wood. Beyond making better use of the many years of existing evidence gathered from national surveys, the project has another task. “Both schools seek to strengthen students’ cultural awareness and ability to function in our increasingly pluralistic society, and we want to assess how we are doing on that front,” says Jones. “A core value of our college is to enable students to function confidently and with a high level of sophistication in an increasingly complex and diverse world,” adds Robinson. To help with this aspect of the project, Wofford and Elon will partner with the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core to explore attitudes and capacities regarding ethnic, racial and religious diversity on the two campuses and in their surrounding communities. The funding from the Teagle Foundation underscores that Wofford is among the leaders of the on-going, and newly collaborative, effort to improve American higher education.

Wofford’s Chaser gains worldwide fame

Sawyer and Lauer photos by Debbie Pilley

Photo by Chris Bott

ABC’s World News Tonight featured Chaser, Reid and Pilley (above with host Diane Sawyer) prior to their appearance on NOVA.

Photo by Robin Pilley

Chaser (above) with one of her named toys and (below) as a puppy.

offord’s mascot may be the Boston Terrier, but for the past few months, people around the globe have associated the college with another dog – a border collie named Chaser, who now is known as the “smartest dog in the world.” Dr. Alliston Reid ’75, the Reeves Family Professor of Psychology, and Dr. John Pilley, professor of psychology emeritus, are quick to point out that they don’t make that claim, but they do revel in the fact that Chaser understands 1,022 words, more than any other animal on record today. “As scientists, we would never make such a claim (of Chaser being the smartest dog in the world),” Reid says. “After all, there are many different ways to be smart. Lots of dogs have been trained to do incredible things in agility training, for television and movies, to help people who have handicaps, and to save lives. Our research with Chaser did not attempt to do those things, and she would not be able to compete with those dogs.” Instead, the two researchers explored “the upper limit” of the number of names of objects that Chaser could learn with intensive training – training that included four to five hours a day, every day, for more than three years with Pilley, her owner. “Dr. Pilley stopped after she had learned 1,022 names of objects – not because she could not learn more, but because he could not afford to invest more time training her each day. “It is true, however, that no dog or any other non-human animal has learned to recognize that many names,” Reid says. “She is definitely smart!” The research by the pair was first published in a peer-reviewed article in the Elsevier journal Behavioural Processes in December 2010, followed immediately by an article in New Scientist magazine in the United Kingdom – and then, the floodgates opened. NOVA scienceNOW featured Chaser and the research in an hourlong program that aired on PBS on Feb. 9 titled “How Smart Are Dogs?” Chaser was the primary focus during one 15-minute segment with Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of NOVA scienceNOW, an astrophysicist and the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium.

Matt Lauer (NBC’s Today show) tests Chaser while Dr. Alliston Reid ’75 and Dr. John Pilley watch and explain the science involved in training Chaser to recognize more than 1,000 words. The segment was filmed at Pilley’s home in October 2009 and showcased Chaser’s amazing intelligence, with Tyson even introducing a new toy – thus a new noun – for Chaser to learn. She passed the test with flying colors. Then, there was a New York Times article – the front of its Science Times section – and two articles in the London Daily Mail, along with thousands of other newspaper and blog articles appearing in nearly 50 languages and on every continent. Chaser articles have been featured widely in print, too, including in magazine in France (Paris Match), Austria (WUFF: Das Osterreichische Hundemagazin) and more locally, in Charleston, S.C., (Lowcountry Dog Magazine). Still more national and even international radio program interviews, including with NPR, PRI, the BBC London and the BBC Wales, were done. At the height of the media attention, a Google search for “Chaser Border Collie” identified 1.2 million different articles, blogs and tweets. That number has gone down to slightly under 85,000, with a search of “Chaser Wofford” returning 106,000 results – still impressive. In a whirlwind media tour in New York City during February, the trio – Pilley, Reid (both sporting their Wofford shirts, of course) and Chaser – appeared on NBC’s “Today” show with Matt Lauer helping Chaser show her stuff. Later, Chaser

and Tyson were on set for “ABC World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer,” all done to promote that evening’s airing of the NOVA scienceNOW program. How does all of this worldwide attention come about? Reid says it really started back in the summer of 2009 when Dr. Clive Wynne, a friend and a professor at the University of Florida, and two of his students came to Spartanburg to work with Chaser, Pilley and Reid. “Clive had been a close friend of mine for years, and we both worked at the same lab at Duke years ago. Clive already had become very well known internationally for his research with dogs, and he heard me give a talk at the Conference on Comparative Cognition about Chaser that March.” Wynne knew some of the staff involved with NOVA, who already were thinking of filming his work with wolves at a wolf park in Indiana. “He asked if I would like to be contacted by NOVA, and, after discussing it with John, we said yes.” Within a couple of months, NOVA had contacted Pilley and arrived in October to film. “This shows the opportunities that conference presentations and friendships can provide,” Reid says. The academic paper in Behavioural Processes followed, along with the TV appearances, and radio and newspaper interviews.

Wofford’s News Services staff worked with NOVA as its staff put together the NBC and ABC appearances that not only promoted the research, but also promoted the NOVA program. Reid, Pilley and the News Services staff were inundated with requests for interviews, appearances, and even book deals and films following the release of the academic paper and the article in New Scientist. Reid recently presented the research to the International Conference on Comparative Cognition in Florida. More attention is on the horizon. Discovery Canada and National Geographic, for example, have expressed interest, and Pilley is discussing a book on training dogs. John and Chaser will provide a demonstration of her abilities at the American Psychological Association in Washington, D.C., in August. “We have been contacted by other groups for film, books and other opportunities,” Reid says. “However, we told them that we were currently overwhelmed, so please consider us at a later time. It’s not clear how many or which of these will actually take place, especially if – or when – the 15 minutes of Chaser’s fame extinguishes.” Move over Terriers – at Wofford, that may never happen. by Laura H. Corbin Director of News Services

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Wofford pre-law provides foundation for legal profession Four up-and-coming legal eagles André Caldwell ’05 (Oklahoma City, Okla.) J.D., University of Oklahoma, College of Law, 2008 Caldwell works on the Violent Crimes and Drug Enforcement Task Force Team as assistant United States attorney. He has participated in more than 10 federal trials involving drug wiretap investigations, firearms violations and domestic terrorism. Recently he received an FBI Director's Award from FBI Director Robert Mueller for outstanding prosecutive skills. During law school, Caldwell received the William L. Bruce Scholarship and the Charles B. Memminger Memorial Scholarship. He earned the Order of Barristers given to the top 10 members of the graduating class for their skill in oral advocacy. Upon graduation, he also received the Just Desserts award, awarded each year to the single student who has made the College of Law a better place. Caldwell’s other law school accomplishments include membership on the nationally recognized Black Law Student Association Moot Court Team and the American Association for Justice Mock Trial Team. He served as president of the Dean’s Council, a group that mentors first-year law students, and judging director of the University of Oklahoma College of Law Board of Advocates.

Rachael M. Crews ’01 (Orlando, Fla.) J.D., Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, Tenn., 2004 Selected as a Super Lawyers “Rising Star” in 2009, 2010 and 2011, Crews practices in eminent domain, general litigation and creditor’s rights inside and outside of bankruptcy with Gray Robinson (a firm from which 67 attorneys are listed among Florida’s Outstanding Lawyers). A senior associate with the firm, she has given National Business Institute Seminars on the new bankruptcy law and has written a chapter in Creditors’ and Debtors’ Practice in Florida (3rd Edition, 2007). Crews was admitted to The Florida Bar in 2004 and to the Northern, Southern and Middle Districts of Florida. She also is a member of the Orange County Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Orange County Bar Book Club. She is currently presenting in Leadership Orlando.

Matt Howsare ’04 (Washington, D.C.) J.D., University of South Carolina School of Law (2007) In June of 2010, Howsare was appointed as the chief of staff of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. As the senior-most advisor to the chairman, Howsare has an executive role in establishing the agency’s regulatory agenda, budget, and strategic plan and vision; implementing the chairman’s key priorities; and working with Congress and the White House. Howsare has traveled across the United States and to Canada, Singapore, Vietnam, Beijing, Hong Kong, Brussels and Spain, helping to establish new domestic and international partnerships and emphasizing the importance of compliance with safety requirements for consumer products. He also played a leadership role in the legal interpretation and policy implementation of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, landmark legislation that reformed the agency. Prior to joining the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Howsare worked as an attorney at the law firm of Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough in Columbia, S.C. During his time in private practice, Howsare volunteered as a special prosecutor for the S.C. Attorney General’s Criminal Domestic Violence pro bono program and represented many pro bono clients, including nonprofit organizations, family court clients, and a crime victim assistance program.

Catherine Brawley Templeton ’93 (Charleston, S.C.) J.D., University of South Carolina School of Law, 1998 At the invitation of United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Templeton was named one of two national coordinators for O’Connor’s Our Courts Project. Our Courts is designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in democracy. An attorney with Ogletree Deakins of Charleston, S.C., Templeton has been listed in Best Lawyers in America and was recognized with the Compleat Lawyer Award by the University of South Carolina, where she completed law school serving on the Honor Council and as the associate editor of the American Bar Association Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal. She worked as a human resources manager at Milliken & Company before enrolling in law school. Templeton recently was asked to serve as the state’s labor, licensing and regulations director by South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

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An interview with the Dean John Benfield ’78, Charleston School of Law John Benfield ’78 is the associate dean for admissions, administration and alumni development at the Charleston School of Law. He is a Wofford parent himself, and he hosts a popular gathering Benfield every year for alumni who are enrolled in the school. Prior to moving to Charleston in 2003, Benfield was the assistant dean of admission at the University of South Carolina School of Law.

offord Today: Dean Benfield, perhaps you could begin by telling us a little about the Charleston School of Law.

ean Benfield: The Charleston School of Law is a private institution that was approved to offer the J.D. degree by the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education in September 2003. We opened in the fall of 2004 with 200 students, including five Wofford graduates; this year, there are 28 Wofford alums enrolled in the law school. For me, it was a leap of faith to leave the University of South Carolina School of Law, but it was also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The founders’ vision appealed to me. They hoped to create the experience they wished they had had in law school — an elegant legal education that offered friendly, cooperative competition in a collegial atmosphere. We also wanted to emphasize the role that public service should play in the legal profession. As of today, graduates of the school have contributed more than 150,000 hours of pro bono legal services through the externship program and the pro bono program, a huge contribution to the people of the Charleston area, the state of South Carolina and in other states as well. All graduates are required to perform a minimum of 30 hours of pro bono legal assistance prior to graduation.

offord Today: What advice would you like to give to a high school student or first-year undergraduate who is considering law school?

ean Benfield: Get the best education you can. Take challenging courses, courses where you will get accustomed to be being called on in class. Learn to

John Benfield ’78 and his wife, Carol, hosted the 7th Annual Wofford College/Charleston School of Law Dinner at their home in November. Those attending the event included: Jacob Smith ’07, Melissa Fried ’06, Nicole Beck ’08, Kelly Turek ’09, Elizabeth LaMance ’09, Elizabeth Goodall ’09, Michael Gault ’10, Laura Trent ’10, Ellis Colvin ’10, Jonathan Spitz ’09, Molly Hughes Cherry ’93, Kate Hendricks ’10, Meredith Ann Carter ’10, Jordan Cash ’10, Eric Armstrong ’07 and Justin Hunter ’10.

express yourself confidently, orally and in writing. Don’t obsess with building up a resumé, or what your undergraduate major will be. The majority of law students major in business, government, history or English, but it’s really the skills you learn rather than the specific subject matter that are important. Don’t do anything because you think a law school wants to see it on the resumé, engage in those activities and programs that are meaningful to you, and then tell a law school why they were important to you and what experience you gained and what value you derived. Nationally, law school applications for the fall 2011 have declined by about 12 percent from this year, but it’s still a competitive world. As far as law school admission committees are concerned, nothing trumps solid LSAT scores and GPA. Study for the LSAT! Admission committees are very aware of the quality of undergraduate institutions, and I am as impressed as ever by the caliber of Wofford graduates who inquire about law school here. Other intangibles matter too: letters of recommendation, evidence of community involvement, and a good personal statement. We want to see a passion of the law and for public service.

offord Today: We sometimes hear that there are too many lawyers and too many

law schools. How would you respond to that?

ean Benfield: At this time, admittedly, there is a tight market for entry-level positions in law firms. While our placement statistics remain about the same, it takes recent graduates a little longer to settle into a permanent job. You can’t blame law students for expressing concern because many of them will graduate with six-figure debts for educational expenses. But these facts do not tell the whole story. Charleston School of Law graduates do not routinely end up in large firms in big cities, but then there are very few firms in South Carolina that would meet a national definition of “large.” It’s now very possible to hang out a shingle and start a solo practice or join a small partnership. A high percentage of those now practicing law in South Carolina are “baby boomers,” and as they retire, we anticipate that middlesized county seat towns will be underserved. There are also other good options, such as the military JAG branches. The fact is that there is always a need for lawyers because the law touches all of us in many ways. Also, a law degree is valuable for its own sake. In many ways, I see it as the ultimate liberal arts degree. A good legal education, like good education at any level, changes the way you look at the world. interview by Doyle Boggs ’70

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Hardin’s legacy inspires Wofford’s commitment to the law

hen he was growing up and attending Bethel United Methodist Church in Chester, S.C., Joel W. Collins Jr. chose a role model named Edward K. Hardin III. Tall, thin and impeccably dressed, Probate Judge Hardin was an articulate speaker, particularly when it came to explaining complicated issues to administrators of estates. He was loyal to the American legal system, to his Upstate South Carolina community, and to Wofford College. He was a good, generous man throughout a long and productive life that ended on Jan. 13, 1992, at the age of 79. “Judge Hardin The Honorable Ed Hardin ’32 left me with a good impression of the legal profession, which is something that we badly need today,” says Collins, who is now an attorney himself, a founding shareholder in the firm of Collins and Lacy, which has offices in Columbia, Greenville and Surfside Beach. “Good lawyers like Judge Hardin are intelligent. They understand the law and have the self-confidence to study the facts, adapt and interpret. Today’s case law is more complicated than ever. “Good lawyers must be willing to work long hours and pay attention to details. They understand that productivity is not measured in billable hours, but in positive relationships with clients. There are many temptations, and good lawyers have the integrity to resist them.” Collins says that the key to becoming a good lawyer is to get a broad, quality education, particularly at the undergraduate “pre-law” level. That’s why he made a gift in 2010 to establish the Edward K. Hardin III Pre-Law Society at Wofford. Even though he did not graduate from the college himself, he feels that Wofford graduates share a rich tradition that goes back to Hardin and before. Wofford’s pre-law program director, John Fort ’74, agrees. “In the fall of 2010, we sent 37 graduates to law school and there are now 90 members of the Hardin Ronald Norman ’12, a member of the Edward K. Hardin III Pre-Law Society, participated in the pre-law Interim.

Students and advisors at the February meeting of the Edward K. Hardin III Pre-Law Society at Wofford Pre-Law Society, so the numbers are very impressive,” Fort says. “We really appreciate the recognition and financial support that we have received from Mr. Collins and from alumni who practice the law. Funds from the Hardin Society will help us adapt the pre-law program to the realities of the 21st century profession. “Perhaps the biggest recent change we have seen is the development of a refocused pre-law Interim,” Fort says. “We’re finding that more students come to Wofford anticipating going to law school rather than defaulting into it from a major in the social sciences. We feel it is important for such students to have a comprehensive orientation experience during the first or second year at Wofford rather than a brief ‘shadowing’ exposure to a local law office. For example, during the pre-law Interim, we take trips to law schools such as the University of Richmond, the Charleston School of Law and the University of South Carolina. Also included are visits to the South Carolina Supreme Court and the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. “Of course, we still emphasize a broad liberal arts curriculum,” Fort says. “Many people think that pre-law students ought to major in government or economics. However, the specific subject matter is less important than working in small classes that teach communication skills and include capstone presentations.

“We’ve added some elective courses that are directly related to the law, such as property rights, due process and water rights. I think those are important for developing citizenship and leadership skills, but they also provide grounding in some of the vocabulary and skill sets that students will need in law school. “Our number one goal is quite basic,” Fort says. “We want to graduate engaged students who are prepared for professional schooling and who will be solid citizens.” by Doyle Boggs ’70

Of 15,994 living Wofford alumni (graduates and non-graduates), 732 are attorneys or judges. Wofford graduates who practice in the law firm of Collins and Lacy Jack Griffeth ’73 / Ross Plyler ’00 Claude Prevost ’05 / Lee Floyd ’03 Gray Culbreath ’85 (recently elected president of the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association) Robert Goings ’03 (named a finalist in "South Carolina Lawyers Weekly" Emerging Leaders Award)

Among the stops made during the pre-law Interim were visits to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the University of Richmond School of Law in Virginia.

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Students in Wofford’s Chinese program sweep beginning level proficiency competition

students

hree students in Wofford’s Chinese Language and Studies program recently swept the beginning level of Chinese proficiency in speech in the second Palmetto Chinese Star Language Contest hosted in Columbia, S.C., by the Confucius Institutes at Presbyterian College and the University of South Carolina. Another won first place in the advanced level of Chinese proficiency in the competition. In the beginning level competition, Rachel Woodlee ’12, of Greer, S.C., took first place; Megan Kusek, a senior at Converse College from Owens Cross Roads, Ala., who is taking the Chinese 202 course at Wofford, took second place; and Gregory Pullen ’14, of Huntersville, N.C., was the third-place winner in the beginning level competition. Pullen also won the “Future Palmetto Star.” Ben Walsh ’11, a native of Columbus, Ga., and a student in the Chinese 402 course, took first place in the advanced level competition. The Palmetto Chinese Star is an annual event for Chinese language students from across South Carolina to come together and demonstrate their language proficiency. Seventeen students from the Wofford program participated along with students from Furman University, Bob Jones University, the University of South Carolina, Presbyterian College and Columbia High School.

Kappa Alpha Order selects Huff to serve as national chairman

artin Huff ’12 has been elected to serve as national undergraduate chairman on Kappa Alpha Order’s board of directors. He will preside over the Undergraduate Conference at the Leadership Institute and Convention and regularly participate in executive council (national board of directors) meetings, relaying the interests of undergraduates to the board. Martin, a native of Columbus, Ga., majors in finance with a business minor. He is a third generation member of KA. Huff previously held the positions of philanthropy chairman and historian, and is currently leading the Wofford chapter as number I. He has served as a member of the executive council of Wofford’s Interfraternity Council.

Wofford ranks high on Forbes list of best colleges for women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics

offord ranks 14th among the nation’s best colleges and universities for women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, according to Forbes.com. In a recently released listing of the best colleges for women and minorities in those fields, known colloquially as STEM, Forbes says that “so far, higher education hasn’t done a good job” of helping those two groups succeed in those fields. “These are the schools that are getting it right,” it continues. Producing more graduates with STEM degrees is an important goal for any college, Forbes says, noting that the majors with the highest starting and mid-career salaries are nearly all STEM degrees, according to Payscale.com’s 2010-2011 College Salary Report. For the full story and listings, go to: www.forbes.com/2010/12/10/best-collegesminorities-women-science-lifestyle-education-stem.html.

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Chesneau (above) makes his first run during the regional championships in New York.

Chesneau competes in Collegiate Snowboarding National Championships

ody Chesneau ’13 recently competed in the 2011 U.S. Collegiate Ski & Snowboard National Championships in Sun Valley, Idaho. The weeklong event, held March 6-12, included competitions in skiing, snowboarding, freestyle, alpine and cross-country. Chesneau competed in the boardercross competition. Although knocked out in the first round by boarders who went on to place fourth and fifth overall, Chesneau feels he held his own. “I knew the performance level from these athletes — the best of the best from around the nation — would be top notch, so I had to bring my A-game. Knowing I could compete near that level gives me more confidence to come back next year and try again,” he says. To qualify for the national championships, Chesneau and fellow Wofford student Andrew Baldamenti ’12 attended

the regional championship in New York. With temperatures reaching 65 degrees, race conditions were horrible. Snow turned into slush, and the course had to be treated with chemicals to prevent it from melting. “Conditions were extremely dangerous for all the competitors. About 20 people were injured,” says Chesneau, who finished 20th out of 57 racers. “For us not really being able to practice and not having snow in Spartanburg, my score wasn’t too bad.” A native of Buford, Ga., Chesneau and his family spend several weeks each year sking and snowboarding in Big Sky, Mont. Chesneau considered western colleges where he could focus more time and effort on snowboarding, but chose Wofford instead. “The truth of the matter is, I am at college to get an education,” he says. “I also wanted while at college to explore some interests of mine that were pushed to the side earlier in my life. I am always a fan of trying new things and having new

experiences. When I found I could compete in snowboarding, I jumped on it,” says Chesneau who majors in computer science and business economics with an emphasis on information management. He’s a member of Wofford’s NCAA rifle team, the Outdoor Club and Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. Chesneau also currently serves as president of Wofford’s Ski and Snowboard Club team. He likes the idea of spreading enthusiasm for winter sports on campus. Chesneau has big plans to return Wofford’s Ski and Snowboard club team back to its racing roots and increase the intensity of competition. The team will continue to compete in local competitions at Beech Mountain and Sugar Mountain in North Carolina but next year will make a run at nationals as well. “My goal is to bring an entire team to nationals: skiing, snowboarding, or both,” he says. by Robert Donaldson ’11 and Jo Ann M. Brasington ’89

Students charter Wofford chapter of Active Minds

The purpose of Active Minds at Wofford College: To change the conversation about mental health, to promote student discussion and education surrounding mental health issues that college-age students commonly face, to raise awareness and promote acceptance for students who struggle with mental health, and to connect the student community with trained mental health professionals on campus and in the Spartanburg community. Active Minds is a student-led organization with the goals of awareness, education and advocacy. For more information visit the Active Minds national Web site at www.activeminds.org.

nxiety and depression clouded Jessica Grantham’s teenage years. She left high school convinced that college and a change in her environment would lift that cloud and transform her into someone happy… someone different. “Unfortunately I had to learn the hard way that depression does not fix itself,” says Grantham ’10. At Wofford, she started weekly visits with one of Wofford’s fulltime, on-campus licensed counselors and started a regimen of antidepressants. She also decided to found a Wofford chapter of Active Minds, a national organization that uses student voices to change the conversation about mental health. “Being a part of Active Minds showed me that while counseling and medication are very important, a group of supportive and understanding students taking part in advocacy work for the mental health of others is also helpful and important for recovery,” says Grantham. While researching mental health advocacy options with Perkins-Prothro Chaplain Ron Robinson ’78, Grantham met Jordan Hardy ’12, a Bonner Scholar and psychology major. The two worked with Robinson as well as college counselors Beth Wallace ’82, associate vice president for student affairs and director of health services, and Betsy Claire Neely, assistant director of health services, to charter Active Minds on campus. “Wofford Active Minds isn’t a group of students counseling other students,” says Hardy, who uses her work with Active Minds to explore a career in mental health and fulfill her Bonner Service requirements. “We’re an event and awareness-based organization.” This spring with Grantham now graduated and working as a youth and community involvement coordinator for Our Towns Habitat for Humanity in Cornelius, N.C., and Hardy studying abroad in Denmark, Kimberlee Lockwood ’12, has taken over student leadership of the organization. “The past year was about developing the organization as a

Jordan Hardy ’12 (left) and Kimberlee Lockwood ’12 want students to look for the Active Minds banner then stop by to learn more about student-led mental health initiatives on campus. presence on campus. This year it’s about making the organization grow,” says Lockwood. “We work with Health Services, the Chaplain’s Office, Active Minds national and the Psychology Kingdom to make the Wofford community aware of mental health issues and address them in a positive way.” According to Lockwood, this spring Wofford’s Active Minds will participate in National Eating Disorders Awareness Week and National Stress Out Week. Participants also will add their voices to campus-wide discussions on suicide prevention, spring break safety and substance abuse awareness. In sharing some of the stresses that college students face, Grantham, Hardy and Lockwood list academic pressure, transition to college, career decisions, social pressure, family or relationship issues, appearance, drugs and alcohol abuse, and financial pressure, to name some of the big ones. The organization’s commitment to increasing discussion about these and other key stressors while promoting positive mental health earned the Wofford Active Minds a 5-Star rating in their first year, the highest rating a chapter can earn from the national organization. Wofford was the only chapter in the state of South Carolina to earn the distinction. “We want college students to know that conversations about mental health or mental illness are not off-limits,” says Grantham, whose testimonial is on the Active Minds national Web

site, www.activeminds.org. “If we hide from depression and other mental health issues, we will be hiding from a lot of bright and fascinating college students and the opportunities to grow and understand ourselves in important ways.”

in crisis was more informal. Now it’s systematic,” says Wallace. “We created BIT because we wanted to know that we were doing as much as possible to keep our students safe.” Wofford’s BIT is made up of college leaders from different departments across campus including student affairs, health services, the chaplain’s office, enrollment, academic administration, and campus safety. The group provides a proactive structure for assessment, determines and initiates n a response to the recent appropriate intervention plans, shooting in Tuscon, the provides follow up and monitorAmerican College Counseling ing, and eliminates fragmented Association (ACCA) released a care. An important part of BIT statement saying that colleges is the Student Concern form, and universities need to increase a completely confidential way “efforts to train faculty, staff and for faculty and staff to express student leaders to identify the concern about a student who is warning signs of students who showing signs of crisis. may be at risk for mental health According to Wallace during problems and/or aggression.” A spring semester and summer recent survey by the organizaschool 2010, the BIT reviewed tion specifically recommends that 153 Student Concern forms. For colleges and universities across the the fall semester and first few country form Behavior Interven- weeks of Interim, BIT reviewed tion Teams (BITs) and partner 157 forms. with peer-to-peer organizations “The vast majority of these such as Active Minds as investforms represent absentee warnings ments in prevention. from faculty that we follow up on Active Minds is now thriving by contacting the student,” says on Wofford’s campus, and the Wallace. college has had a Behavior Inter“Faculty are often the first to vention Team in place since the see changes in behavior or acaVirginia Tech shootings in 2007. demic performance,” says Neely. The college’s BIT was formed “Their help has allowed us to see to help meet the individual needs patterns of behavior in individual of students in distress while students and help before they fall maintaining the well-being of the through the cracks.” greater Wofford community. by Jo Ann Mitchell Brasington ’89 “Prior to forming the BIT, our process of helping students

The role of Wofford’s Behavior Intervention Team

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2010 Annual Report

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Going to the dogs (for a little advice) a message from Wofford President Benjamin B. Dunlap

hy would anyone be surprised to learn that the world’s smartest dog is a Wofford College product? After all, our mascot is the terrier precisely because it’s a small, highly energetic and intelligent breed that has always been prized for its ability to wear down much larger opponents through sheer tenacity. As is often observed by Wofford alums, there’s nothing bigger than the heart of a terrier. That’s as true when it comes to supporting the college’s Annual Fund as it is of cheering for the teams we put on the field and in the arena. In effect, Wofford alumni, faculty and staff give to current students who, after they graduate, give in turn to those who’ll follow them. It’s an old terrier tradition. Nevertheless, I’ve been asked if it’s time to reconsider our mascot. Border collies guide the flock, I’m told, but Boston terriers look after their owners. If you’ve ever owned a Boston terrier, you know what I mean. Loyalty and courage are two of their salient traits. On the other hand, border collies are supremely intelligent. Of course, in a photograph that hangs in the downstairs corridor of Burwell, Jack, the original mascot of Wofford’s 1909 baseball team, looks a good deal more like a pit bull than a terrier. Had we adopted Jack’s breed as our mascot, we could have added ferocity to the list. In fact, judging from the photo, the famous story of his intercepting an opposing player as he rounded third and decided to run instead to the safety of his dugout is altogether plausible. Of course, if a pit bull morphed into a Boston terrier, there’s no reason why we couldn’t change Boss’s costume to make him resemble a border collie—though once we launch

ourselves in that direction, there are other possibilities as well. For example, when I first became president, I began to collect dog jokes that I could tell on official occasions, and I was delighted to run across the work done by a group of Cambridge University scholars who’d set out to identify the world’s funniest joke. Predictably, they discovered that what was funny in one culture wasn’t necessarily funny in another, so they settled instead on the funniest American joke, the funniest British joke, the funniest French joke, and so forth. When I heard the results, I was disappointed to find that virtually all their choices were duds—until they got to the funniest Eastern European joke, at which I laughed so loud that I nearly fell out of my chair. In fact, I still wake up in the middle of the night laughing at the punch line, though, whenever I venture to tell it to someone else, it tends to fall flat. That might suggest that I should spend more time in Budapest, but let me recount the joke and see what you think. A dog walks into a telegraph office and says, “I’d like to send a telegram, please.” The clerk replies, “Yes, of course—what is the message?” “Okay,” says the dog, “Woof woof, woofwoofwoof, woofwoof, woof woofwoof woof.” The clerk looks up from the message and says, “That’s only 11 words, sir. For the same price, you get 12. Shall I add another ‘woof ’?” The dog looks at the clerk with consternation and says, “But that wouldn’t make any sense!” Just in case you don’t consider that the funniest joke you’ve ever heard, I should clarify my point in telling it. It just so happens that Eastern Europeans—and, more specifically, Hungarians—have repeatedly been among the wisest and most generous friends our college has ever had. Think Sandor Teszler or Francis Robicsek. . . and would you believe Mike Brown, whose mother was born in Hungary? So maybe our mascot should look

more like a Magyar vizsla, one of the oldest hunting dogs in the world. Its ancestors are said to have come into the Carpathian basin with the nomadic Hungarian tribes, and it’s easy for me to assume that, as a breed, they’re as likely to be sending a telegram as a border collie or a Boston terrier, much less a pit bull. But my real question is this: if we translate the telegraphic message in that joke, what does it say? I personally am convinced that every Wofford dog is, in fact, saying the same thing to each of us: “Support the Annual Fund.” And if we demur, its follow-up is equally to the point: “But that doesn’t make any sense!” For, if you’re impressed with what we accomplish with our dogs, you should see what we do with our humans. Please give what you can. Nothing is bigger than the heart of a terrier.

The 2010 Wofford College Annual Report

o save paper and money, the college’s development staff condensed the 2010 Annual Report on the financial health of the college into this six-page insert in Wofford Today. The names that were once printed in the annual Honor Roll of Contributors are now posted online at www.wofford.edu/gifts/HonorRoll. Visit the Web site to see a complete listing of Wofford’s many loyal and generous contributors. If you would like a printed copy of your constituent list, please contact Lisa De Freitas. For more information about the 2010 Annual Report or to talk with someone about making a contribution, please contact any of the following staff members:

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Lisa De Freitas ’88 – Director of Annual Giving, 864-597-4191, defreitaslh@wofford.edu

Marion Peavey ’65 – Senior VP for Development & College Relations, 864-597-4200, peaveymb@wofford.edu

Ed Story – Associate VP and Director of Development, 864-597-4205, storyeh@wofford.edu

Smith Patterson ’67 – Director of Gift Planning, 864-597-4196, pattersonds@wofford.edu

Richard Johnson – Director of Athletics, 864-597-4090, johnsonra@wofford.edu

Terri Lewitt – Associate Director of Athletics for Development, 864-597-4096, lewitttl@wofford.edu

2010 Annual Report

visit www.wofford.edu/gifts/HonorRoll to see a complete list of contributors

Annual Fund results and highlights

Annual Fund Results by Constituent Groups / TOTAL $2,716,502 Church / $447,130 / 16%

2010 Results

Businesses / $191,437 / 7%

Unrestricted............................... $1,413,333 Terrier Club*................................1,275,285

Foundations / $97,982 / 4%

Friends of the Library........................ 27,884 TOTAL........................................ $2,716,502

Alumni / $1,394,715 / 51%

* This number does not include the Annually Funded Scholarships that the Terrier Club includes in its results.

Non-Alumni Faculty & Staff / $47,878 / 2% Friends / $308,328 / 11%

Non-Alumni Parents / $225,232 / 8% Non-Alumni Trustees / $3,800 / 0.1%

Best of the Decade (Dollars Given): Other 2010 Annual Fund Highlights: • Wofford received $200,000 from Mike Brown ’76 as a result of getting 530 participants in the Wofford Forever Challenge (55% alumni and 43% parents). To qualify, participants had to make three-year pledges of at least $50 per year. Wofford constituents went beyond what was required with an average gift of $105! Visit www.wofford.edu/gifts/woffordforever for information about how to qualify in 2011! • Wofford on Call students secured 2,977 pledges and raised $861,576.

Decade

Class

AF Amount

1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

1964 1976 1983 1996 2001

$46,776 $144,310 $38,820 $25,881 $10,063

Best of the Decade (Participation):

• Credit card gifts increased by 16 percent.

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Class

Percent

• The college launched Giving Wofford, a way to help people celebrate, honor or thank someone special with a gift to the Wofford College Annual Fund. Holidays, birthdays, thank-you gifts, anniversaries — Giving Wofford is a way to give any time of year. Visit www.wofford. edu/givingWofford to find out how to select the perfect gift!

1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

1960 1972 1983 1996 2000 2010

80% 44% 43% 34% 33% 60%

• 41% of current parents of Wofford students made a gift to the Annual Fund. The average gift was $337. • 37% of alumni contributed to the Annual Fund with an average gift of $486. • 54% of the faculty and staff contributed to the Annual Fund for a total of $74,629. The average gift topped $400. • The college’s first-ever March Madness Annual Giving Championship was a success with each class increasing its giving percentage by at least one point during the competition. The Class of 1951 won, jumping from 28% to 41% during the three-week campaign.

* For complete information about class giving go to www.wofford.edu/gifts/classresults

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2010 Annual Report

visit www.wofford.edu/gifts/HonorRoll to see a complete list of contributors

2010 Alumni and Development Highlights Wofford College received thousands of contributions from its alumni, trustees, parents, friends, the United Methodist Church, businesses and foundations during the 2010 calendar year. Total giving for 2010 amounted to $10,273,137. In addition, the college recorded $4.2 million dollars in new pledges. Gifts were made to major facility needs, endowed scholarships and professorships, and to the Annual Fund (which includes the Unrestricted Annual Fund, Terrier Club, and Friends of the Library).

GIVING BY DESIGNATION — TOTAL GIVING: $10,273,137 Currently Funded Scholarships / $451,777 / 5% Endowment / $2,048,663 / 20%

Other Restricted / $1,883,344 / 18%

Much of the fund-raising emphasis during the year was centered on five major facility priorities: Phase V of the Village; the new Montgomery Family Music Building; the Goodall Environmental Studies Center; the Joe E. Taylor Athletic Center; the new organic chemistry lab; and renovation of the Kilgo-Clinkscales Home. Planned gifts continue to provide an important source of income for Wofford. The college received $412,938 from bequests in 2010. In addition, more than $3.4 million in planned gifts were created to provide future support for Wofford. The 2010 Annual Fund provided more than $2.7 million for operating costs and scholarships for student-athletes. The success of annual giving relies heavily on a cadre of volunteers led by National Annual Fund Chair Scott Gantt ’83 and Terrier Club President Dial DuBose ’83. 530 participants made three-year commitments to the Annual Fund, which helped meet the Wofford Forever Challenge offered by Mike Brown ’76. Alumni participation remained steady at 37%. We must continue to build a broad base of support. The college, along with alumni and parent leadership, is working diligently to ensure that gift support, as well as percentage of participation, expands in 2011. Every gift truly is important. Wofford’s endowment continued to rebound through investment returns and gifts this year, reaching a market value of $ $158,381,232 as of 12/31/10 (see chart below). More than 2,600 alumni, parents and friends attended regional alumni events held in 26 communities. In addition, thousands of others visited the Wofford campus for events that included Homecoming, Family Weekend, the Easter EggStravaganza, continuing education programs, athletic gatherings and donor appreciation events.

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’04

$158,381,232

$144,874,506

$149,228,429

$123,591,597

$110,751,000

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$87,916,174

$101,644,040

’99

$97,275,000

$101,165,725

$85,148,835

$75,857,339

100

$62,541,916

millions

150

$107,254,202

200

$118,819,291

ENDOWMENT GROWTH AND RECOVERY (totals from Dec. 31 of each year)

$166,424,686

Each and every donor to the college plays an important role in sustaining our momentum. Please visit our online Honor Roll of Contributors at www.wofford.edu/ gifts/HonorRoll for a complete listing of donors by category. If you would like a printed copy of your constituent list, please contact Lisa De Freitas ’88, director of annual giving, at 864-597-4191 or defreitaslh@wofford.edu.

Facilities / $3,172,851 / 31%

Annual Fund / $2,716,502 / 26%

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2010 Annual Report

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GOODALL ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CENTER

MONTGOMERY MUSIC BUILDING

Overlooking Lawson’s Fork on the Pacolet River, about 15 minutes from campus Cost: $1.4 million

Former Baptist Collegiate Ministry Building on N. Church Street Cost: approximately $2 million / Funding: private gifts

Walter and Betty Montgomery, along with Rose Montgomery Johnston, gave the lead gift toward the purchase and renovation of this new facility, which will provide a home for Wofford’s music program with badly needed soundproof spaces for rehearsals, performances and classes. The building will also house faculty offices. Renovation of the building is expected to begin in the spring, and the facility is expected to be ready for use by the opening of fall classes.

The Goodall Center was dedicated in April 2010 after several months of construction and restoration on what had been Glendale Mills office building. Trustee D. Christian Goodall ’79 and his family made the lead gift toward this project. The facility has labs, a spacious great room and office areas dedicated to the college’s new Environmental Studies Program.

The Kilgo-Clinkscales House Located on campus drive, one of the campus’s early historic homes Cost: $700,000 / Funding: private gifts

The Kilgo-Clinkscales House has been completely renovated during the past several months and is now occupied by the dean of the college. The entire building was completely updated and made more functional for entertaining and meetings.

OTHER PROJECTS

PHASE V OF THE VILLAGE 55,000 sq foot building along Evins St. adjacent to The Village apartments Cost: $11 million; $1.5 million still needed (naming opportunities available)

Phase V will house 80 students on the top two floors in loftstyle apartments. The first-floor will feature a Grand Galleria with open air dining, offices, meeting areas and classrooms. The Center for Professional Excellence (including Career Services and the Success Initiative) will move into the new space. Phase V will serve as the gateway to The Village and the north end of Wofford’s campus. The project is expected to be completed by August.

Other facility projects currently underway or soon to begin include the complete renovation of both Shipp and DuPré residence halls including new furnishings and HVAC equipment. Both are expected to be ready for use by late summer. Other residence halls are also scheduled to be renovated in the next two to three years.

NEW ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LAB 1,800 sq foot lab on the third floor of the Roger Milliken Science Center Cost: More than $1 million / Funding: alumni, corporations and foundations

This state-of-the-art lab will house the scientific equipment and space necessary to provide advanced opportunities in organic chemistry research and study. The additional space will serve 24 students per laboratory session and will allow students to perform individual experiments. With a third of Wofford’s student body enrolled in pre-medical, pre-dental, chemistry or biology programs, completing this new lab is a must. 1. The Village Student Housing (5) 2. Reeves Tennis Cntr. (6) 3. Wightman Hall (4) 4. Lesesne Hall (4) 5. F. W. Olin Bldg. (2) 6. The Pavilion (3) 7. Montgomery Music Bldg. 8. Ben Wofford Books (20) 9. Papadopoulos Bldg. (21) 10. Hugh S. Black Bldg. (1) Admission Financial Aid 11. Kilgo-Clinkscales House (22) 12. President’s Home (23) 13. DuPré Admin. Bldg. (24) 14. Shipp Hall (25) 15. Main Bldg. (7) Leonard Auditorium 16. DuPré Hall (26) 17. Snyder House (27) Business Of�ce Success Initiative 18. Burwell Bldg. (19) Players Corner 19. Milliken Science Cntr. (18) 20. Sam O. Black Bldg. (28) Greenhouse 21. Fraternity Row (17) 22. Daniel Bldg. (29) 23. Sandor Teszler Library (8) 24. Carlisle-Wallace House (30) 25. Greene Hall (31) 26. Carlisle Hall (32) 27. Marsh Hall (33) 28. Hugh R. Black House (34) 29. Andrews Field House (35) Anna Todd Wofford Cntr. 30. Campus Life Bldg. (13) Benjamin Johnson Arena McMillan Theater Tony White Theater 31. Richardson Bldg. (12) Harley Room 32. Snyder Field (14) 33. Russell C. King Field (15) Switzer Stadium 34. Frank Roberts Practice Fields (36) 35. Intramural Field (37) 36. Gibbs Stadium (11) 37. Joe E. Taylor Athletic Cntr. (9) 38. Disc Golf Course 39. Tailgate Area 40. Cumming St. Facility 41. Liberty Trail J.R. Gross Steps

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Map with Legend.indd 1

The Milliken Years at Wofford College, 1955-2010 Complied by Doyle Boggs ’70

October 24, 1915 Roger Milliken (RM) RM wholeheartedly supports the college in its is born. decision to desegregate. He creates a permanent “Gift Stabilization Fund” to offset potential loss of 1937 RM graduates from Yale University, majoring contributions from constituencies seeking to punish in French history. Later he says, “I am a product the college for controversial policies. of a liberal arts education… In too many cases, potential Nobel Prize Winners have failed to be May 1967 RM receives an honorary doctoral recognized because they had not developed the degree at Commencement. written and oral skills that a liberal arts education teaches and inculcates. I believe in this approach 1969 RM begins a second 12-year cycle on the to education, because it lays the groundwork for Board of Trustees, 1968-1980. a lifetime commitment to continuous learning and November 1972 RM provides a challenge gift receptiveness to positive change. Of course, I to launch ENDOW, a $9.25 million capital campaign, would add immediately that any complete liberal arts designed to stimulate gifts to Wofford of $250,000 education includes the requirement to take courses or above. in science and mathematics.…” September 1974 The South Carolina 1947 RM inherits a controlling interest in his family’s Conference of the United Methodist Church approves major textile firm, Deering Milliken (now Milliken & a plan to expand the Board of Trustees from 21 to Company) 27 members and abandons a traditional quota of 11 1954 RM and his family relocate from New York lay members and 10 clergy trustees. to Spartanburg, and the company headquarters November 1974 RM receives the Alumni follows in 1958. Association’s Distinguished Service Award 1955 Wofford’s young president, Francis Pendleton Gaines, succeeds in bringing RM onto the Wofford Board of Trustees. His first 12-year cycle on the board runs from 1955 to 1966. Gaines is the first of five presidents to serve during RM’s tenure on the board.

Mr. Milliken (left) with a young Wofford President Francis Pendleton Gaines

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October 1975 After a thorough study, the Board of Trustees approves the faculty’s recommendation to institute full, residential coeducation at Wofford. Initially, RM is ambivalent about women at Wofford, but once the studies are complete and the decision is made, he provides resources to develop needed 1956 RM issues a challenge to alumni to raise infrastructure for the change. By the fall of 1978, money for a viable “living endowment” (Annual Fund). the first-year class is composed of 221 men and When the effort is successful, he presents a check 79 women. for $62,000 to President Gaines. Alumni participation 1975-1976 The ROMILL Foundation provides in the 1956 Annual Fund is almost 75 percent. The $300,000 to award additional full tuition academic effort leads to a commendation for Mr. Milliken merit scholarships in the Charles E. Daniel and W. from Marquis Who’s Who Inc., and the challenge is Hastings McAlister Scholarship programs. repeated for even higher stakes in 1957. March 1980 Dr. Gus Papadopoulos ’54 is 1959 Plans are announced for a new $750,000 elected to the Board of Trustees. For the next academic building to house the departments of 25 years, RM and Papadopoulos often work in physics, biology and chemistry. In October 1960, this partnership to improve Wofford. For example, they science building is named in RM’s honor. alternate in providing funds for a weekend faculty/ 1960 Wofford launches a travel study program that staff retreat to a beach resort for small group allows one-fourth of the faculty each year (about discussions on topics such as “The Essence of 12 in those days) to participate in a travel-study Wofford’s Future.” Also, in 1986, the two provide opportunity. RM is enthusiastic about the idea and most of the money needed for the Wofford’s “new front door,” the Neofytos D. Papadopoulos Building pays one-third of the cost. and the surrounding water features and landscaping. 1963 Feeling that Wofford’s planning, business Papadopoulos later becomes the first Wofford and development offices require experienced staffs alumnus to pass the $1 million milestone in lifetime with recognized credentials, RM and other trustees contributions to his alma mater. bring the late Edward E. Greene, C.P.A., into the 1982 RM returns to the board for a third 12-year president’s cabinet. Through the years, RM works cycle, 1982-1994. with able consultants on management innovations such as “Forward Funding” for Annual Giving April 1986 Friends honor Mr. and Mrs. Milliken revenue and including a depreciation charge for with a $1 million unrestricted gift to Wofford to revenue-producing facilities in the annual budget. recognize their lifetimes of service to Spartanburg business, culture and education. May 1964 Wofford trustees and President Charles F. Marsh issue a formal statement that May 1987 Trustees approve the year-long prospective students will be judged according to work of a planning task force chaired by President standards uniformally applied “regardless of race Lesesne and Trustee Russell King ‘56. RM heads or creed.” When Albert W. Gray ’71 of Spartanburg one of committees of the task force, on research enrolls in the fall, Wofford becomes one of the first and development. Adoption of this Masterplan historically white independent colleges in the “Cotton signals new momentum and sets dramatically new Belt” South to admit African-Americans voluntarily. goals for the college. The total cost estimate for

fully implementing the Masterplan exceeds $100 million. September 1989 After reviewing the 1987 Masterplan, the F.W. Olin Foundation announces a $5.5 million gift to Wofford for a new academic building featuring first-rate computer and teaching technology. The building is dedicated in May 1992, in colorful ceremonies. June 1990 The college launches The Campaign for Wofford: An Investment in People, a $33.3 million drive to provide the first one-third of the funding for the 1987 Masterplan. Successful completion of this effort is announced in December 1991, after three gifts of $1 million each from RM, Milliken & Company, and the Reeves Foundation, Inc. 1992 In her will, Mrs. Homozel Mickel Daniel makes the largest single distribution of gift resources to Wofford up to that date, totaling approximately $14 million. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel did not have personal ties to Wofford, but knew of the college through their long friendship and business relationship with Mr. and Mrs. Milliken and Dr. Larry McCalla ’43. Summer 1993 For the first time, four Wofford professors and 12 students participate successfully in the Milliken Summer Challenge, an annual real-world problem-solving exercise at the Milliken Research Center in Spartanburg. 1994 Robert E. Gregory Jr. ’64 becomes chair of the Board of Trustees, and the board reorganizes from five standing committees to nine. RM agrees to head the new facilities committee, which has direct responsibility for buildings and grounds. Accelerated progress in landscaping and acquisition of adjacent property to the north and east soon follow, largely because of RM’s generosity. By 2010, the Wofford campus has doubled in size from the acreage it occupied in the early 1970s, and the historic district has been restored to an appealing pedestrianfriendly landscape. May 3, 1994 Wofford trustees authorize construction of the Richardson Physical Activities Building, Gibbs Stadium, and the Frank Roberts practice fields. They issue a formal invitation to the NFL Carolina Panthers to hold their summer camps at Wofford. 1994 The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges honors RM with its 14th Distinguished Service Award in Trusteeship. Each year the AGB presents this national award to one trustee at a public institution and one trustee at a private institution. 1996 RM begins a fourth 12-year cycle of membership on the Board of Trustees, 1996-2008. 1997 RM pledges $5 million for the sciences at Wofford if others will contribute $9 million. Trustees respond to this matching gift challenge and approve plans to build a new residence hall and science building in March 1998.

“As a trustee and friend

ROGER MILLIKEN — THE MASTER BUILDER

don’t know whether Roger Milliken— the renowned business leader and conservative mover and shaker— regarded me as a friend, a protégé, or merely as someone who needed watching and, if possible, converting. But I know how I regarded him. I thought of him first as an essential ally, a longtime trustee of Wofford College whom I had to placate and reassure. In the course of time, I came to see him also as a teacher, a mentor of sorts, who taught me more about decisionmaking and project management than I thought I wanted to know. In the end, I felt affection and admiration in equal measure along with awe at his irrepressible delight in problem-solving, his curiosity about whatever is new or persistent, and, rarest of all in those of such resolute conviction, his openness to disagreement. His joy was in discourse rather than dogma, and vitriol was not in his product line. In fact, despite an occasional testiness, what made his company so inspiriting was a contagious exuberance, whether the subject was Wofford College or Milliken & Company. I can recall his looking around the room after one very grueling session and saying to his exhausted listeners, “Aren’t we having fun?” He wasn’t being sarcastic. He really meant it. On another occasion, he took me by the elbow and began to steer me down a sidewalk to where he’d parked his car. I asked him where we were going. “Never mind,” he said. “I want to show you something.” I asked him what it was, but all he’d say, with an enigmatic smile, was, “Wait a minute. . . just wait.” When we reached his car—a relatively modest, American-made model—he unlocked the passenger-side and, in his courtly fashion, gestured for me to sit. After getting behind the wheel, he inserted the ignition key, but the car didn’t move. I waited and finally said, “Are we going somewhere, Mr. Milliken?” In response, he lifted his hand.

“Feel anything?” he asked. I tried to fathom what was going on, then said with a shock of recognition, “Why, Mr. Milliken, the seat’s getting warm!” “Isn’t that something?” he exclaimed with the sort of boyish enthusiasm one would expect from a kid with a new Buck Rogers ring. I didn’t tell him that my presidential Buick was similarly equipped. In my first week as a college president, I attended a Saturday-morning facilities committee meeting convened by Mr. Milliken to discuss the interior of the new science complex that would bear his name. After spending what struck me as an inordinate amount of time discussing such matters as where the light-switches should be placed and where wastebaskets would go, we settled into a debate about the carpet design for the second and third-floor corridors. We heard reports and looked at samples, considered thread-counts and examined colors. After 20 or 30 minutes, my head began to swim. But Mr. Milliken persisted, and, though at last we made a decision, I was completely baffled. If time was money and what we’d spent so long discussing was, at best, of minor importance, was this really how one should run a business? I kept such thoughts to myself, but at least we’d made a decision. The following week we met again, and, as the first item of business, Mr. Milliken wanted to revisit the carpet question. Something about it still struck him as wrong. After further debate, we changed our collective mind, and this time he was satisfied. He thought we’d gotten it right—and, though it seemed of minimal importance, I acknowledged that we’d improved the result. It was only gradually that I realized how the little right decisions began to accumulate, altering the project as a whole, and, in the end, transforming it. He really knew what he was doing. But he was also reveling in the process. After several years of working together, he

Summer 1998 25 leading high school students from across the Carolinas and Georgia attend the inaugural Milliken/Wofford Summer Leadership Institute, held at “Milliken University” as well as on the Wofford campus. The goal, according to RM is “to provide experiences in new ways of thinking about leadership development.”

October 2003 At Homecoming, Theatre Workshop alumni honor the recently retired Dr. J.R. Gross with the dedication of Cascading Steps on Liberty Trail. A project of special interest to RM, the Liberty Trail is called by one architect, “one of the best examples of environmental sculpture in the past decade.”

July 1, 2000 Benjamin Bernard Dunlap becomes May 2004 Dr. Ellen Goldey receives the first the 10th president of Wofford College following the annual Roger Milliken Award for Excellence in retirement of Joab M. Lesesne Jr. the Teaching of Science. RM provides $1 million to endow this uniquely generous program, which April 24, 2001 In impressive ceremonies, provides $50,000 in professional development President Dunlap is inaugurated and the Roger resources for outstanding faculty over a 10-year Milliken Science Center is formally opened. period. At the same time, he also provides $1 million Nov. 15, 2002 Wofford opens its campus-wide for a science equipment fund. arboretum, later named to honor Mr. Milliken. Over Summer 2004 With approval of the United the decade from 1992-2002, more than 4,500 “noble Methodist Church, the Board of Trustees begins trees” were planted on the campus. adding one new member in each of the next four August 4, 2003 Mrs. Milliken dies after years. This action creates a 31-member board. a lifetime of service to arts and cultural life in Spartanburg.

told me that, as a young graduate of Yale, where he’d majored in French history, he had taken an aptitude test in which he scored so high in one specific area that they’d administered a more specialized assessment—which revealed in turn a truly remarkable gift. . . for architecture. There was nothing vainglorious in his anecdote, but he was confiding, I thought, a wistful awareness of a road not taken. He’d become a textile magnate instead, inheriting the family business—and, at one point, fighting ferociously to control it. But his love of harmonious patterns writ large in buildings, landscaping, and politics was truly passionate. What set this predilection apart from, say, golf or stamp-collecting, was his eagerness to share what he loved, whether noble trees or masterpiece tapestries, with whoever might be receptive. I have elsewhere described a furious debate he engaged in at a Wofford dinner party. At issue was whether the second Harry Potter movie was as good as the first. In the last several months of his life, he hosted a dinner party of his own for the Liberty Fellowship of South Carolina, avidly inquiring of young leaders seated about the table how they might address the problems besetting our state. Just a few weeks before he died, I got a package from him in the mail. Along with a short personal message, it contained two printed items: one was a conservative op ed piece about the economy, and the other a Xeroxed advertisement for a palm-sized emergency radio costing $5.95. In shaky longhand, Mr. Milliken advised me that, during a recent power outage, this ingenious little device had proved invaluable. He urged me to acquire one. Now that I think about it further, there’s no doubt in my mind. He was truly my friend.

of Wofford College, Mr. Milliken always exerted pressure for continuous improvement and good financial management. He provided the vision and resources to set excellence as the standard for all programs — these became part of the culture of the college and will be his legacy.” Dan B. Maultsby ’61 Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Emeritus

Mr. Milliken (right) with former Wofford Trustee Minor Mickel Shaw and Wofford President Benjamin B. Dunlap

by President Benjamin B. Dunlap

October 2005 Wofford launches the public phase of a $105 million fund-raising campaign for endowment, programs and facilities, scheduled to conclude by Oct. 31, 2009. Jerry Richardson ’59 chairs the campaign, with Hugh Lane and Harold Chandler ’71 serving as co-chairs.

January 2009 13 members of the faculty and staff participate in the revived and improved Milliken Faculty Development Seminar Abroad, spending two weeks in Argentina studying a curriculum developed in partnership with the Institute for International Education of Students. In January 2010, the second seminar in the series takes 20 faculty and staff May 2006 RM provides funds for an impressive members to Shanghai. The program is designed for outdoor pavilion on the northwest side of the campus, a five-year cycle, allowing most faculty and academic which opens with an event honoring the senior class staff to participate. of 2006. 2010 RM supports and provides funding for a 2008 At the end of 48 years of service, Mr. Milliken campus-wide “sustainability audit” conducted by becomes the first Wofford “Trustee Emeritus” and Jeff Ross-Bain. The Atlanta-based environmental continues to be active with college projects. On engineer and architect is considered by many to be October 21, the college observes the inaugural the nation’s leading authority on “green building.” Roger Milliken Day by planning a birthday tree on campus in his honor. Dec. 30, 2010 After a period of declining health, Mr. Milliken dies. Dec. 31, 2008 Having surpassed its $105 million goal, the Campaign for Wofford ends a year early. The final accounting reflects funding for 142 new scholarships and 11 new professorships as well as more than $15 million for new facilities. Spring 2011 • Wofford Today • 17

2010 Annual Report

visit www.wofford.edu/gifts/HonorRoll to see a complete list of contributors

he Legacy Society was created by the Wofford College Board of Trustees to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of Benjamin Wofford’s will and the subsequent founding of the college. It recognizes those individuals who have made the ultimate expression of their faith in the college by remembering Wofford in their estate plans. The society is comprised of individuals who have provided for the future of the college through planned gifts such as charitable bequests, life income plans, gift annuities, pooled income fund contributions, and life insurance designations. By confirming to the college the establishment of such plans, the following individuals are recognized as members of The Legacy Society.

Anonymous Maryann and Forrest Abbott Richard C. Adkins Marianne J. Bagwell Mrs. Mason M. Barrett Kenneth and Peggy Barton Erin Bentrim-Tapio Peter D. Berry Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Bethea Cecil and Pamela Bond Marshall W. Breland William P. Brickle Christopher Brownlee Ken and Martha Ann Campbell Jule K. and DeArmond E. Canaday William M. Cannon John Robert Capes Alec H. Chaplin Cermette and Anne Maner Clardy Sally and Jerry Cogan Mrs. William H. Cogswell III Jesse C. Crimm Robert C. Deale III Dr. and Mrs. Don C. Dodson Morrill B. Donnald Mr. and Mrs. Fred F. DuBard Jr. J. Madison Dye Mark R. Erbe Edward S. Ervin III Bill Evins Billy Ezell Don P. Ferguson Sr. Donald L. Fowler Ted Hamilton & Mary Louise Gaines Gene W. Grace Albert W. Gray Sr. Marie Gregory Rob Gregory

Don and Dixie Griffin James R. and Kay H. Gross Allen S. Guignard Bob and Sara Gunter James R. Hackney, Jr. Cathy and Ed Y. Hall Anne Hames M.P. “Red” Hamilton Joe W. Hamrick Richard E. Hollis Peter and Zelda Howell William F. James Robert D. Jennings William Webb Johnston Andrew Kang Ann J. Kelly Russell King Jim and Shirley Kirby Paul D. Kountz Jr. Mark H. Lee John and Pam Linton Armando G. Llorente J. Grady Locklear Freda and Al Lynch Larry and Rachel McCalla Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. McLeod Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Dan B. Maultsby Beverly M. Minter Milton P. Moore Charles E. Morgan Dr. and Mrs. Ted R. Morton Jr. Jeff D. Moss M. Stewart Mungo Steven W. Mungo David L. Neugent Harry and Bobbie Nix Dan W. & Betty Poteat Olds Heather M. Onstott Perrygo

Lyn A. Radke ’11 (center) enjoys meeting her scholarship sponsors, Pat and Anne Porcher Perrin, at the Scholarship Donor and Recipient Dinner held at Wofford last spring. Lyn is the recipient of the Lewis Wardlaw Perrin Jr. Endowed Scholarship.

cholarship support is vital to the success of any outstanding college or university, and Wofford is no exception. More than 86% of Wofford students receive financial aid, so every gift makes a positive impact at Wofford. For years, generous donors have given annual and endowed scholarships to help qualified scholars receive a superior education. A gift of financial aid to Wofford makes a difference that lasts a lifetime for our students. Annual scholarships are awarded directly from a gift, whereas endowed scholarships are awarded from earnings of an invested gift. A fully endowed scholarship at Wofford requires a commitment of $750,000. A scholarship is considered endowed when its principal reaches $50,000.

In 2010, 10 new endowed scholarships were established and they are listed by name below. For a complete listing of all scholarship funds and their descriptions, or to establish a scholarship at Wofford, please contact Susan Gray, director of donor relations, at 864-597-4204 or graysd@wofford.edu.

Endowed Scholarship Funds (ESF) established in 2010 Karl Edward Alexander ESF • Peter F. Asmer ESF Daniel/Delores W. Chandler ESF • Daniel/Gibbs ESF • Daniel/Wile Family ESF Duke Energy Corporation Environmental Studies ESF 1970 Football Championship Team ESF Dr. Walker H. Ford ESF • M.C. Poole ESF Waccamaw Neck ESF 18 • Wofford Today • Spring 2011

Joseph H. Owens Betty Patterson Liz and Dwight Patterson Ann and Pepe Perron Dixie and Bobby Pinson John H. and Anne R. Pitts Harold E. Plaster Jr. Charles and Mary Sue Poole Mr. and Mrs. L. Perrin Powell O. Eugene Powell Jr. Gretchen K. Price Ann R. Price Joe O. Price Jr. Russell R. Raines Charles W. Saunders Jr. March E. Seabrook John and Anne Shuler Katrina Spencer-Silverstein Russell D. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Stallworth Ken Steen Willie G. Stevens

Grady and Sybil Stewart Allen H. Stokes Mr.and Mrs. James Stuckey Jr. Jean Sydnor Carol and George Tate Thomas L. and Lucy Scales Tiller Mr. and Mrs. G. Cameron Todd Sr. Gregory Lee & Eleanor Breazeale Troutman Katherine S. Unger Esther H. Verstegen Marshall T. Walsh W. Carl Walsh Theodore W. Walter Charles Raymond West Thomas J., Jr. and Kathryn G. Westbury D. Wayne Whetsell Henry B. Wilkinson Betsy and Harry Williams Elizabeth and Will Willimon Patsy and Will Willimon Dennis M. and Annemarie Wiseman Carl and Angela Young

2010 ESTATE GIFTS Neetum G. Bagwell / Margaret B. Booth S. Hart Booth Jr. / Ernest Burwell Elizabeth R. Herbert / James Foster Lupo Marjorie Mabry / Elizabeth K. McKelvey Joseph B. Miller / Dorothy F. Morrow Sam G. Parler / Chris B. Staubes Jr. David E. Watson

2010 Annual Report

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Brent’s Quick Hits 2010-11 Basketball Success

In 2009-10, the Wofford men’s basketball team reached new heights with a SoCon Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance. Those firsts were followed by seconds in 2010-11 as the Terriers were able to repeat as SoCon Champs and earn back-to-back trips to the NCAA Tournament. Although the Terriers (14th seed in the Southeast region) lost in the second round against a strong, thirdseed Brigham Young University (BYU) team, the Terriers played strong, even holding the lead early in the game. Wofford was led by Noah Dahlman ’11 with 22 points and Tim Johnson ’11 with 11 rebounds. Dahlman recorded his 2,000th career point in the first half. He is only the fifth player in Wofford’s history and the first in the college’s Division I-era to reach that mark. Johnson had his 1,000th career rebound in the second half, ranking seventh in college history and first in the NCAA Division I- era at Wofford. Dahlman earned All-SoCon honors for the third straight season and also earned SoCon Tournament Most Outstanding Player honors for the second season in a row. Johnson and Cameron Rundles ’11 also earned All-SoCon honors, while Rundles and Jamar Diggs ’11 joined Dahlman on the All-Tournament Team. The BYU game finished a 21-13 season and marked the final contest for five Wofford seniors – Dahlman, Johnson, Rundles, Diggs and Terry Martin. The past two seasons have seen this group lead the Terriers to back-to-back 20-win seasons, SoCon South Division titles, SoCon Tournament titles and appearances in the NCAA Tournament. It was the first time since the 196364 and 1964-65 seasons that the Terriers reached 20 or more wins in back-to-back years and only the second time in the more than 100 years of Wofford basketball to accomplish the feat. On the way to the NCAA tournament, the Terriers faced a challenging slate of non-conference games, including contests against Minnesota, Xavier, Georgetown, VCU, South Carolina, George Mason and Clemson. Despite a rough start, the Terriers saved their best basketball for February and March. As the second seed in the South Division for the 2011 SoCon Tournament, the Terriers defeated Appalachian State and Western Carolina in the first two games. The title game pitted Wofford against the College of Charleston, who had defeated the Terriers in the two previous meetings in the season. In a game televised nationally on ESPN2, the Cougars took a lead at the half. Wofford came out in the second half on a mission and when the buzzer sounded had a 77-67 win over the Cougars to claim the championship and the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Academic Honors

Wofford has five student-athletes on the CoSIDA/ Capital One Academic All-District Team. These include Wilson Hood and Paulo Bonfim from the men’s soccer team, Tommy Irvin and Ben Wilmoth from the football team, and Brad Loesing from men’s basketball. Hood, a senior from Fletcher, N.C. was named the SoCon Tournament MVP in 2009 and led the team in scoring as the Terriers won the Southern Conference Championship. Bonfim, a senior from Sao Paulo, Brazil, was captain of the team in 2010. In 2009, he started the first 12 games of the season and earned second team All-Southern Conference honors. Irvin is a senior safety from Davidson, N.C. This season he has started all 13 games and led the team

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The Southern Conference presented the Terrier football team with the 2010 championship trophy during half-time of the men’s basketball game against College of Charleston.

2011 Wofford Football Schedule Sept. 3

at Presbyterian College

Sept. 10 at Clemson Sept. 17 OPEN Sept. 24 SAMFORD * Oct. 1

APPALACHIAN STATE * (Family Weekend)

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Nov. 12 GEORGIA SOUTHERN * Nov. 19 at Chattanooga * * denotes Southern Conference game All dates are subject to change. A Southern Conference television schedule and times will be announced in early summer.

in tackles and interceptions. Wilmoth, a senior from Arlington, Texas, has started every game this season at right guard and helped pave the way for the nation’s top ranked rushing offense. Loesing, a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio, started all 33 games at point guard for the Terriers as they reached the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season.

The Canadian All-American

Wofford junior defensive lineman Ameet Pall had an outstanding season on the football field for the Terriers in 2010. Pall, from Montreal, Quebec, helped anchor Wofford’s defense, which ranked first in the SoCon and seventh in the nation. He had 12.5 sacks this season, which was the fourth most in college history and was ranked eighth the nation. He also ranked eighth nationally with 1.73 tackles for loss per game and his 22.5 tackles for loss were the third most in a single season at Wofford. Pall also earned All-America honors from multiple organizations in 2010 and was the Southern Conference Defensive Player of the Year. Pall also finished second in the voting for the Buck Buchanan Award, which is presented to the top defensive player in NCAA FCS Football. He was only the third player in Wofford’s history to earn a spot

Tim Johnson ’11 dunks during the Southern Conference championship game win over College of Charleston. on the Buchanan Award List. Pall joined Matt Nelson, who finished third in 2003, and Lee Basinger, who was a finalist in 2004. by Brent Williamson assistant athletic director for media relations

Neely’s work featured at Oxford College in Georgia

This lithograph by artist William Walmsley is a recent donation to the Sandor Teszler Library permanent collection from printer Lynn Froehlich. Froehlich and her husband, the late Wayne Kline, ran a lithography studio in Atlanta and assisted other artists in printing their works. As the printers they were given a portion of the run for each lithograph. The Walmsley print is part of a group of five lithographs donated by Froehlich to the college. Work from artists Arthur Deshaies, Michael Ellison, Howard Finster and Wayne Kline also were donated.

Frazier appointed director of Multicultural Affairs and Diversity Education

r. Denise Frazier (above) has been selected to serve as the college’s director of Multicultural Affairs and Diversity Education. “Dr. Frazier has injected energy and creativity into he Sandor Teszler Library’s major means of communicating. simple recognition, highlighting our community through her work as a faculty member Web site was selected as the As a result, the communications exemplary Web pages provides in our Spanish program. She will now focus on ex“College Library Website of the the library community with a committee features one coltending her reach across the entire campus,” says Dean Month” for February 2011 by the lege site a month that possesses convenient listing of sites that can of the College David Wood. Communications Committee of noteworthy contents, features and be used by others to gain insights Frazier will work closely with the Student Affairs ACRL’s College Libraries Section. designs. and inspiration to enhance their Office to plan programs and activites designed to The College Libraries Section own library’s online presence. Once selected, the sites are enrich the student experience at the college. recognizes that a library’s Web Visit the ACRL/CLS “Site of listed on the College Libraries Frazier earned both her master’s and doctoral site, in addition to enhancing the Month” page at www.ala.org/ Section’s site along with a brief degrees from Tulane University with a focus on Latin access to a library’s resources and summary outlining the reasons ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/secAmerican literary and cultural studies. Her talents services, serves in general as a tions/cls/websiteofthemonth/. for their selection. Beyond range from the scholarly to the performing arts and include violin, dance, vocals and more.

Sandor Teszler Library Web site recognized by ACRL/CLS

Faculty/Staff Updates

series of works by artist Kristofer Neely ’02 (right), assistant dean of studio art and instructor at Wofford, is a featured cultural exhibit at Oxford College of Emory University this spring. “Into Your Hands: Postmodern Meditations on the Stations of the Cross” will be on display in the Oxford College Chapel. The work was commissioned by Oxford Chaplain Lyn Pace ’99, former associate chaplain at Wofford. The traditional 14 stations of the cross are the inspiration for these works, although Neely gives each his personal interpretation. Begun as a way to instruct Christian pilgrims in the medieval ages, stations of the cross depict individual scenes from Jesus’s journey from the Garden of Gethsemane to his tomb. “As an artist, I consider the very process of creating my work to often function as a manual act of contemplative prayer…. I believe there is no greater challenge than creating art that can invite others into a prayerful experience,” says Neely. “The privilege to share my work in the austere beauty of the Oxford Chapel only adds to the scale of that challenge. The work in this installation will draw on visual traditions that include street art, American folk art, German expressionism, and traditional Christian icons.” The exhibit is free and open to the public and will be on display through April 22.

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Keeping inTouch James M. Brown and his wife, Emma, live in Irving, Texas. The couple celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on March 14, 2010.

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We received a nice note from Mary Parsons, wife of the late Harry Parsons. Mary lives in Shelby, N.C., and she shared some wonderful memories of Harry and his days at Wofford, the time spent in the Air Force and his 40-plus year career for Celanese Americas Foundation. We send Mary all our best wishes.

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Skinner belts out last alma mater for Wofford fans

Bill Kinney Jr. of Bennettsville, S.C., was honored as a 2010 Award of Merit winner by the American Association for State and Local r. Talmage Skinner ’56 History of Nashville, Tenn., on Sept. 24, 2010, ended his tradition of leadduring its annual meeting in Oklahoma City, Okla. Kinney, editor-publisher of the Marlboro ing the singing of the Wofford Herald-Advocate, was nominated for the honor alma mater following the men’s by the Marlborough Historical Society.

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Greensboro College has created a new merit scholarship in honor of the late Dr. James S. Barrett that will offer up to five winners each year the equivalent of free tuition, room and board for up to four years. The James S. Barrett Scholarships honor the college’s 15th president, who served from 1981 to 1984. During his tenure, the college refocused its core mission as a liberal arts college in the Methodist tradition. He also led creation of what is now the George Center for Honors Studies. The Rev. Melvin McIntosh has retired as associate minister of Myers Park United Methodist Church. He and his wife, Anita, live in Denver, N.C.

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The Rev. Charles Brockwell will be a delegate to the World Methodist Conference to be held in Durban, South Africa, in August 2011. Brockwell, retired minister of Fourth Avenue United Methodist Church, lives with his wife, Mary, in Louisville, Ky.

1961

Class Chair, Richard L. Robinson 50th Reunion, Homecoming 2011 The Rev. Needham Williamson and his wife, Roselle, live in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. Williamson is retired from the South Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. Their son, Lawrence Williamson ’92, lives in Simpsonville, S.C., and is a mechanical engineer with Michelin.

1963

basketball team’s 78-60 home win over The Citadel on Jan. 6. Skinner ended the song the same way he always has, with a loud cheer of “Go, Dogs!” Skinner began the tradition during his 17 years of service as college chaplain and continued even after retirement. After Skinner and the men’s basketball team finished the song for the final time, the Athletics Department presented Skinner with the Heroic Terrier print. Skinner, who remains chaplain emeritus, has moved with his wife, Beverly, to the Raleigh, N.C., area so they can be near their daughter, Valerie Skinner Hendricks ’90, and her family. 1966

We had a nice note from Tommy Simpson to tell us that he is almost retired, which will equal more time for duck and deer hunting and visiting his grandchildren in Alabama and Texas. Simpson is home health coordinator for Mullins Pharmacy. He and his wife, Ann, live in Mullins, S.C. Ronnie Ward is senior vice president at Carolina Bank in Darlington, S.C. Ronnie and 1967 his father, C.M. Ward Jr., both have served as Class Chair, Hubbard McDonald Jr. president of the Darlington Kiwanis Club and The Rev. James Haralson retired in June Ronnie’s son Josh was elected president of the 2010 from the North Georgia Conference of Club for the 2010-11 year. the United Methodist Church. He and his wife, Christine, celebrated 40 years of marriage in 1970 40th Reunion, Homecoming 2010 August. They live in Colbert, Ga. Sid Smith and John Johnson, former Class Chair, Arthur W. Rich President Barack Obama has nominated Wofford roommates and fraternity brothers, enjoyed a visit on Nov. 17, 2010, at The Grove U.S. District Court Judge Henry F. Floyd Park Inn in Asheville, N.C. Smith lives in for a position on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court Charlotte, N.C. and Johnson lives in Lake of Appeals. Floyd has been a federal judge for seven years and is the only federal judge who Toxaway, N.C. Thomas Sumerel and his wife, Janet, live currently sits in Spartanburg. He and his wife, in Spartanburg. Sumerel retired from Spartan- Libba, divide time between Spartanburg and their home in Pickens, S.C. burg School District Two in June 2010. Class Chair, J. Hayne Culler Sr. The Georgia Athletic Directors Association has named Rusty Hudson the 2010 GADA State Athletic Director of the Year. Walker is director of athletics for Westminster Schools. He and his wife, Sherry, live in McDonough, Ga.

Class Chair, Andrew C. English Henry M. Smith spent the month of August 2010 in France visiting friends in Paris and touring the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, where Van Gogh spent the last 70 days of his life. He delved further into Les Annees Noires/The Dark Years of the Vichy Regime and was able to procure the photo of a child who was born on the very same day as himself and who was deported to Auschwitz by the French State at age three and a half. He also translated an article titled “The Troubling Message of Hiroshima” (LeMonde – 7 Aug.) on the 65th anniversary of the annihilation of that city. Smith lives in 1969 Class Chair, Richard L. Myers Durham, N.C. It was nice to hear from Michael Foxworth, who lives in Reston, Va., with his wife, 1965 The Clarendon County Chamber of Com- Lindy. The couple became proud grandparents merce named Todd Heldreth Ambassador in March of 2010, and they are “still smilof the Year during its November 2010 awards ing.” Foxworth is a computer analyst with dinner. Earlier this year, he was awarded the Lockheed Martin. Jack Pratt lives in Summerville, S.C., Order of the Silver Crescent, one of the state’s highest civilian honors. Heldreth and his wife, and is a commercial broker at Carolina One Real Estate. Carolyn, live in Manning, S.C.

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A familiar sight for the past few years: Noah Dahlman ’11 singing the alma mater with Talmage Skinner ’56.

1971

Class Chair, Kenneth E. Smith Keith Dyer is a retired educator with Norfolk City schools. Dyer lives in Norfolk, Va., and has two children and two grandchildren.

1972

Class Chair, Allen S. Guignard It was nice to hear from Ed Briggs, who lives in LaGrange, Ga., with his wife, Bettie.

Briggs is a retired executive of Milliken & Company. Dr. John Wall is senior minister at Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church. He and his wife, Carolyn, live in Savannah, Ga. John B. White Jr., a founding partner of Harrison, White, Smith & Coggins P.C., has been inducted into the South Carolina Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. White serves on the Board of Trustees for Wofford College and the Federal Judicial Center Foundation Board. He and his wife, Karen, live in Spartanburg.

1977

Class Chair, C. Stan Sewell Jr. The Hon. Ernest A. Finney III, solicitor for the Third Judicial Circuit, was the guest speaker at the annual Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Banquet held on Jan. 15, 2010, in Georgetown, S.C. Finney and his wife, Tammy, live in Sumter, S.C. On June 19, 2010, the Rev. Donald R. Hayes was ordained as deacon in the Orthodox Anglican Church. In August 2010, he was appointed to the South Carolina State Guard as a chaplain with the rank of captain. Hayes and his wife, Cynthia, live in Dillon, S.C. 1973 Tal Land lives in Tampa, Fla., and is Living in Fair Lawn, N.J., Lee Cun- director of Deloitte Consulting LLP in its ningham is a quality assurance manager for Tampa location. Verizon Laboratories. He and his wife, Debbie, have two children. 1978 James Hipp and his wife, Edie, live in Class Chair, Armando G. Llorente Spartanburg. Hipp is deputy county adminisMarc Collins is vice president of human trator for the County of Spartanburg. resources for Bekaert Corp., a global market Bud Simmons is a principal planner with leader in drawn steel wire products and apthe City of Winston-Salem and the Forsyth plications. He lives in Marietta, Ga. County Planning Department. He lives in Living in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Rhett SansWinston-Salem, N.C. bury is an insurance agent at First Southeast Insurance Services and the owner of Double 1974 Golf. He recently was appointed to the board of Class Chair, Jerry L. Calvert directors of Mercy Care, a community-based, Michael Thomas and his wife, Jean, live nonprofit hospice in Horry County, S.C. in Dallas, Texas. Thomas is general manager of Dallas Resorts and Country Clubs. 1979 Class Chair, Wade E. Ballard 1975 Maj. Gen. Rodney O. Anderson is Class Chair, John O. Moore deputy commanding general of the XVIII The Hon. Phillip Sinclair is a family Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg. His previcourt judge in Spartanburg. He and his wife, ous duties included command at the battery, Vicki, have three children. battalion, and brigade levels and staff assign-

ments at the battery through Joint Staff levels. Anderson and his family live in Fayetteville, N.C. Dr. Chuck Bagwell, principal of Arcadia Elementary School, was presented with a life-time achievement award in November 2010 by the Carolina Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). The award recognizes Bagwell for his leadership and success while serving ESOL students throughout his 32-year career in education. He will be a featured speaker at next year’s Carolina TESOL conference in Asheville, N.C. Rick Cloninger and his wife, Lori, live in Fort Mill, S.C. Cloninger is a division manager for Carolina Tractor. The couple’s daughter, Stephanie, is married to Gary Blount Jr. ’10. Stephanie’s grandfather is B.B. Stevens ’56.

1980

Class Chair, Paul D. Kountz Jr. Lucien Richardson and his wife, Frances, live in Moore, S.C. Richardson is assistant manager at the men’s clothing firm Jos. A. Bank in its Spartanburg location.

1981

Class Chair, G. Patrick Watson Steven Mungo, chief executive officer of Mungo Homes, has been named the 2010 Byron Crosthwaite Builder Member of the Year. He also serves on the board of directors of Lexington Medical Center, EdVenture and the Medical University of South Carolina, as well as the Wofford’s President’s Advisory Board. Mungo and his wife, Maria, live in Irmo, S.C.

1982

Class Chair, J. Madison Dye Jr. Anne Robinson Poliakoff, a real estate professional with W. Lewis White Co., has been named to the board of trustees of the Spartanburg Regional Foundation. The foundation is a non-profit charitable organization that benefits Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System through direct support of health services and programs. Poliakoff and her family live in Spartanburg.

1983

Class Chair, W. Scott Gantt Cameron Davidson is managing director of corporate foreign exchange for Wells Fargo Bank N.A. Davidson lives in Ridgewood, N.J., with his wife, Amy, and their three children. W. Scott Gantt is president of employee benefits for Benefit Controls of the Carolinas. The firm was named the eighth largest benefit specialist by Business Insurance magazine. Gantt lives in Charlotte, N.C., with his wife, Pamela, and their three children. Susan Thorne-Jordan and her husband, Boone, live in Chesnee, S.C. Susan is marketing manager for CoversDirect.com. The couple has two children. Living in Bonaire, Ga., Lee Minor is president of the real estate appraisal firm FLM and Associates Inc. Minor and his wife, Cheryl, have two children.

1984

Class Chair, Kenneth Kirkpatrick Lander University presented the first Alston Award to Dr. Jim Colbert in September 2010. The Alston Award was established by Rowland P. Alston, host of South Carolina ETV’s “Making It Grow” gardening show. Colbert is assistant professor of chemistry and director of the Experience Your Education (EYE) program. He and his wife, Alice, live in Greenwood, S.C. Kim Adams Nelson is owner of Daisy Cakes located in Pauline, S.C. Nelson and her husband, John, live in Spartanburg with their three children. Living in Greenwood, S.C., Dr. Bill Ramsey is an associate professor at Lander University. He and his wife, Mei-Yee Kung, have two children. Willis J. Woodham Jr. has been awarded the 2010 Business Person of

The Peace Corps turns 50... and Paul Lofton ’61 was one of the first to volunteer to serve W

hen Dr. Paul Lofton ’61 began his senior year at Wofford, he thought his future path would take him through the Duke Divinity School and into a career in the United Methodist ministry. Then, on March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed the executive order creating the Peace Corps, which combined altruism with the secondary purpose of discouraging the spread of communism in developing nations. That summer, Lofton became one of the first young Americans, and the first Wofford graduate, to volunteer for a two-year assignment. The attraction of the Peace Corps for Lofton was simple. “It sounded like a great adventure and a chance to get away from school,” he says. “It was a chance to learn another language.” Lofton hoped to be sent to a Spanish-speaking country, where he could broaden his knowledge of South American culture. After a waiting period, Lofton was accepted into the Heifer Project, a dairy program located in Bolivia. Luckily, he had grown up on a dairy farm, and he was pleased to be accepted into such a program. He took a leave of absence from Duke and left for the Peace Corps training camp at Arizona State University. His training began in June 1962. The volunteers lived in rustic trailers and cooked most of their own food. Lofton was “surprised at how frustrating it was. I thought they would be more encouraging. It was a challenge to see who could put up with all of that.” Nevertheless, he learned about Bolivian history and culture, American history, and Communist insurgencies. He became first aid certified. The Cuban Missile Crisis delayed Lofton’s departure to Bolivia. When global tensions eased, Lofton departed for La Paz, at that time a cold and unfriendly place where he developed altitude sickness. To his relief, he was soon relocated to Cochabamba, which was a more pleasant environment. The Heifer Project required Lofton to work at the only milk plant in Bolivia, which was supported by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). Lofton feels lucky that he was not left alone; some Americans he knew in the early days of the Peace Corps became lonely and disoriented. As Lofton became familiar with the

area, he was particularly happy to discover an English language library. Lofton worked as a milk tester. Every month, he visited a certain number of farms to collect samples of the cows’ milk. He took the samples back to the plant for testing to determine butterfat content. He enjoyed this work, taking pride in the fact that he knew exactly what he was doing. He considered himself fortunate to have a specific task to get up and accomplish almost every day. When the two years were over, Lofton came home to earn a master’s degree in English from Duke and a doctorate in history from The University of Texas. He accepted a faculty appointment at Spartanburg Methodist College, where he worked until he retired in 2009, and he also taught at Wofford from time to time. Over the years, Lofton gave many speeches about his great adventure in the Peace Corps. He twice returned to Bolivia, in the summer of 1966 and the winter of 1973. Looking back from the vantage point of a half-century, he believes that the fledgling Peace Corps was able to provide foreign

Lofton in his Spartanburg living room, still surrounded by reminders of his Peace Corps experience.

countries with a better undermore understanding and successstanding of the United States, and ful when dealing with people of vice versa. He gained an interna- different backgrounds. tional outlook in life, becoming by Courtney McIlroy ’11

Wofford Peace Corps returned volunteers Paul Lofton ’61, Bolivia, 1962-1964

Elizabeth Cline ’96, Gabon, 1997-1998

Wayne D. Lineberger ’69, Paraguay, 1988-1990

Blythe Fuller ’96, Bangladesh, 1998-1999

Pat Satterwhite ’70, Thailand, 1977-1980

Audrey Roach ’96, Latin America, 2002-2004

William H. Sapp ’72, Peru, 1969-1977

Jess Moore ’96, Zambia, 1997-1999

Ray H. Price ’74, Ghana, 1975-1977

Katherine Sillimon ’97, Guinea, 1998-1999

George Adams ’76, Morocco, 1988-1990 & the Dominican Republic, 1990-1992

Colleen Cunningham ’98, Honduras, 1999-2001

Boyd Correll ’76, Philippines, 1978-1881

Daniel Harter ’98, Nepal, 2003-2005

Bradley A. Smith ’77, Sierra Leone, 1978-1981 Fred Armand ’80, Mali, 1980-1982 Gregory Fowler ’80, Malaysia, 1980-1984 Joseph H. Pope ’86, Senegal, 1988-1990 Karen Galindo ’87, Yemen, 1987-1989 Jan M. Brabham ’88, Lesotho, 1988-1990 Peter P. Graser ’88, Guatemala, 1988-1991 Christ Frost ’89, Hungary, 1993-1995 Greg Harris ’90, Kenya, 1998-2000 Trent Dabney ’91, Guinea, 1994-1998 Wendy Sellers-Campbell ’93, Nicaragua, 1995-1997 Steven Witherspoon ’95, Russia, 1999-2001

Sara Suber Harter ’98, Nepal, 2003-2005 Cayce McIntosh ’98, Mali, 1998-2000 Jeff Rosato ’98, Armenia, 2003-2005 Will Rhem ’00, El Salvador, 2001-2003 Nathan King ’00, Honduras, 2002-3003 Greg Norris ’00, Senegal, 2002-2003 Michaele Mata ’01, Thailand, 2003-2005 John Henderson ’02, Kenya, 2003-2005 Liz Scarborough ’02, West Africa, 2002-2004 Christina Kocisko, ’03, Togo, West Africa, 2003-2005 Rebecca Paulson ’03, West Africa, 2003-2005 Alex Schaefer ’06, Kenya, 2008-2010

Editor’s Notes: These names come from Wofford records and from a survey several years ago. Some of the dates of service may be incorrect or incomplete; a correction would be appreciated. The Peace Corps maintains an official list of returned volunteers that does not include all these names. If all of Wofford’s returned volunteers self-reported into the Peace Corps system, we would rank highly on the list of participating institutions over the past half-century. The college would appreciate your visiting www.peacecorps.gov to look over the materials found there. The Alumni Office also is trying to expand a listing of those who have given a year or more in continuous volunteer international service other than the Peace Corps. Possibilities include Non-Government Organizations (NGO), faithbased missions and other government agencies. For example, some assignments in the Defense and State departments may qualify. Please email boggsdw@wofford.edu with that information.

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New releases The Wofford bookshelf

Tracy J. Revels, “Sunshine Paradise: A History of Florida Tourism” (2011) and “Shadowfall: A Novel of Sherlock Holmes” (2011).

readers that today’s urban centers are also part of Latin America and its environmental crisis. Her first book, “Writing Women In Central America: Gender & Fictionalization Of For Dr. Tracy Revels, professor of history at History,” was an 2003 entry in the Wofford, two plans came together simultaneously Ohio University Press’ Research this spring. She is the author of a worthy addition to in International Studies Series. the Florida History and Culture Series of University Press of Florida titled “Sunshine Paradise.” And she has also published an intriguing Sherlock Holmes Nelson Harris and Harold novel, “Shadowfall.” McLeod III ’88, “Roanoke “Sunshine Paradise” is Revels’ third scholarly book since she joined the department of history Valley: Then and Now.” in 1991. “Grander in Her Daughters: Florida’s (2010). Women during the Civil War,” received the 2005 Harold McLeod usually tells Rembert Patrick Award for the Best Scholarly Book folks that he is a banker, not a in Florida History. photographer. However, the fact is that he has been In the introduction to “Sunshine Paradise,” she making good pictures since he was 10 years old. writes, “To most outsiders, Florida is one big theme When he moved to Roanoke in 2004, he was park, not a state but a magic kingdom of dreams intrigued by the beautiful natural surroundings and and fantasies where real life, with its mundane the “New South” architecture of the city, the one-time cares is effectively banished. hub of the Norfolk & Western Sunshine, water and thrill Railroad. That made him a rides await the tourist who natural choice to work with arrives clad in the official Roanoke minister and former Florida uniform of straw hat, mayor Nelson Harris on this shorts and sandals.” book in Arcadia Press’ Here and Revels’ goal in writing Now series, sponsored by the the book was to challenge Historical Society of Western readers to move beyond Virginia. stereotypes and consider The book has special how tourism came to define importance in that it has the character and public policy preserved and made more of her native state. After accessible the work of the late all, until after World War II, Roanoke photographer George Florida was equally known Davis and other historical for its citrus orchards and photographs from the collection year-round agriculture. In this of Frank Ewald, former coextended essay, Revels goes owner of a photography store about her task with concise, in Roanoke. entertaining prose, based solidly in historical research. Linda Bilanchone, Revels has shared the works of Arthur Conan Doyle with Phillip Stone ’94, with Wofford students over “Embracing the Seay the years, during Interim House: A Sampler of its projects as well as extracurricular gatherings. She Life and Times,” with crafted “Shadowfall” one an afterword from John summer during the Wofford Lane ’77. Community of Scholars, weaving together a tale of The Seay House on mystery and the occult that Crescent Avenue in Spartanburg begins when sacred relics is one of those places where a and mystical objects all over visitor can effortlessly step London begin disappearing. back in time. A typical 19th Sherlock Holmes must call on century farmstead first owned more than his powers of deduction to solve a mystery by a leading citizen of the village, it was the domain that threatens the safety of the British Empire and of two unmarried sisters after the Civil War. The Doctor Watson’s soul. house remained intact on its original site overlooking Fairforest Creek until it could Laura Barbas Rhoden, “Ecological be acquired and restored in Imaginations in Latin American Fiction.” the 1970s and 1980s by the Spartanburg County Historical (2011). Association. In this book from the University of Florida Press, Linda Powers Bilanchone Dr. Laura Barbas Rhoden, associate professor of teaches communications at foreign languages at Wofford, discusses the natural Wofford and volunteers for settings within contemporary Latin American novels the historical association. She as they depict key moments of environmental change compiled most of this book by or crisis in the region from the era of 19th-century researching newspaper files and other contemporary sources. Dr. imperialism to the present. Pre-publication reviews are praising Barbas Phillip Stone added an interesting Rhoden for pushing the ecocriticism discussion commentary of the house and beyond the realm of "nature writing." She has the city during the Civil War. avoided the clichés of literary nature and reminds Goodall Environmental Center 24 • Wofford Today • Spring 2011

the Year Award by the Greater Hartsville Chamber of Commerce. Woodham is partner in the certified public accounting firm Moore Beauston & Woodham. He and his wife, Katherine, live in Stokes Bridge, S.C. The couple has two sons, Josey and Conner.

by Doyle Boggs ’70 Director John Lane, who grew up near the house, contributed a personal afterword.

Vivian B. Fisher, “Hampton Heights of Spartanburg: Its History, Houses, and People.” (2011). From its beginnings in 1892 through the mid-20th century, the neighborhood of Hampton Heights in the center of Spartanburg produced some of the city’s outstanding leaders in the professions, the arts, and business. In the 1960s and 1970s middle-class flight to new suburbs took its toll on Spartanburg’s city center, including Hampton Heights, but the lovely houses attracted new generations of residents, and the neighborhood is again flourishing, its resurgence fueling the renaissance of the downtown business district. Dr. Vivian Fisher, retired chair of the Wofford English department, spent years researching, taking photographs and writing this beautiful, full-color book that chronicles and celebrates Spartanburg’s first downtown neighborhood. Fisher and her husband, Jim Newcome, continue to live in Hampton Heights. They are restoring their West Hampton Queen Anne home after a fire that damaged much of the interior and upper floors. Filled with important historic photographs, many in print for the first time, as well as recent color pictures, this book, available in May, makes a significant contribution to studies of Spartanburg. Proceeds from the sale of the book benefit the Spartanburg County Historical Association.

1985

Class Chair, Timothy E. Madden Heidi Faber Kerns and her daughter, Allison, live in Chesnee, S.C. Kerns is finance director for the Rutherford County Board of Education. Tim Madden, a native of Laurens, S.C., has been named managing partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP’s Greenville office. He will oversee an office of 37 attorneys and 33 support staff. Madden joined Nelson Mullins in 2006. Living in Charlotte, N.C., Susan Wallace Martin is a client service executive for CIGNA HealthCare.

1986

Class Chair, Brand R. Stille Valerie Côté is neuroscience area manager for Avanir Pharmaceuticals. She and her husband, Michael Davenport, live in Chapin, S.C.

1987

Dr. Bang Nguyen Giep lives in Spartanburg with his wife, Julie. Giep is a physician at Spartanburg’s North Grove Medical Park and The Village at Pelham.

1988

Class Chair, C. Lane Glaze David Atchley is vice president of institutional advancement for Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va. Atchley and his wife, Toni, have two children. The family lives in Greenville, S.C. Travis Wheeler lives in Columbia, S.C., and is a partner in the law firm of Nexsen Pruet, where he practices antitrust law. He also taught an antitrust course in the fall of 2010 at the University of South Carolina School of Law.

1989

Class Chair, Michael R. Sullivan Lynn Fulton-Archer, a Spanish teacher at Richmond Drive Elementary School, received the South Carolina Foreign Language Teachers’ Association (SCFLTA) Teacher of the Year Award on Feb. 12, 2010, at the association’s annual conference. She and her husband, Dean, live in Rock Hill, S.C.

1990

Class Chair, Scott W. Cashion Doug Bruce was profiled in the Jan. 14, 2010, edition of the Powdersville Post. A supervisor for Drive Automotive, Bruce is president of the Wren Youth Association. He coaches basketball, baseball and football. Bruce and his wife, Keli, have three children. Donald M. Nance has joined South Carolina Bank and Trust as vice president and commercial loan officer at its Florence location. He is a member of Habitat for Humanity and also volunteers with Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Nance and his wife, Stacey, live in Florence, S.C., with their two children. Living in Cayce, S.C., Beth Auld Thrailkill is assistant administrator at Ballentine Elementary School. Beth and her husband, Christopher, have three children. Nick Wildrick, treasurer of Long Leaf Holdings, USA, has been named to the board of trustees of the Spartanburg Regional Foundation. The foundation is a non-profit charitable organization that benefits Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System through direct support of health services and programs. Wildrick lives in Spartanburg with his wife, Cile.

1991

Class Chair, Leslee Houck Page Mike Fanning, executive director of The Olde English Consortium, was the featured speaker for a Business Over Lunch session on Dec. 10, 2010, sponsored by the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce. The Olde English Consortium, a non-profit organization, works to improve education, economic development and the quality of life throughout the state. Fanning lives in Columbia, S.C. Living in Chesnee, S.C., Lori Duckett Henson is an online instructor of English for DeVry University. Henson and her husband, Jeffery, have three children. The Rev. Clint Pressley has become senior pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Hickory, N.C. Pressley and his wife, Connie, live in Mint Hill, N.C., with their two children.

1992

Class Chair, Nicholle Palmieri Chunn Attorney John B. Critchfield has become a shareholder in the law firm of Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel.

He is a member of the firm’s litigation practice group and is a member of the Tennessee Association of Construction Counsel and Associated General Contractors of East Tennessee. Critchfield also serves as program chair for the Downtown Sertoma Club. He and his wife, Theresa, live in Ooltewah, Tenn. Matt Grayson is chief operating officer for Fulbrook Capital Partners. He and his wife, Adrienne, live in Mount Pleasant, S.C. The couple has three children. Living in Simpsonville, S.C., Eric Ireland is a marketing and technology manager for Momentive Specialty Chemicals. He and his wife, Lisa Deavenport Ireland ’90, have two children, Grace and Eli. Heather Onstott Perrygo and her husband, Doug, live in Boston, Mass. Heather invites all Wofford people “to come and experience a winter wonderland!” Andrew Richter and his wife, Karen, live in Scottsdale, Ariz. Richter is assistant vice president at GE Capital Americas, Franchise Finance. He has been with the company for more than seven years. The couple has three children. Dr. Robert R. Walker has joined the staff of Complete Healing and Wellness Center in Williamston, S.C., as medical director and supervising physician. Walker and his wife, Annette, live in Simpsonville, S.C.

1993

Class Chair, Sarah Copeland Sawicki Leroy Pinckney and his wife, Veronica McCutchen Pinckney ’94, live in Spartanburg. Leroy is assistant vice president and branch manager for Regions Bank, and Veronica is a retirement education consultant for Prudential Financial. The couple has two children.

1994

Class Chair, Alicia Nunamaker Truesdail Aaron Cole is broker-in-charge and officer of South Carolina Home Corp. in Greenville, S.C. Cole lives with his wife, Mary, in Simpsonville, S.C. Living in Columbia, S.C., Ginny Stout Hairston is a territory manager for Pfizer Vaccines. Hairston and her husband, Forrest, have one daughter, Mary Katheryn. Langley Moore Meredith and her husband, William, live in Savannah, Ga. Meredith is a teacher at Savannah Christian Preparatory School. Teresa Ann McCarter Post and her husband, Thomas Post ’95, live in Warwick, N.J. Teresa is a homemaker, and Thomas is owner/insurance broker of Post Financial Services Group LLC. Allen Thomas and his wife, Jill Preston Thomas ’96, and their two daughters, Willa and Libby, have moved to San Diego, Calif. Allen is chief operating officer of APS Technology Group, and Jill is a homemaker.

1995

Class Chair, Brandie Yancey Lorenz Living in Spartanburg, Dr. Hoang Nguyen Giep is a physician at Spartanburg’s North Grove Medical Park and The Village at Pelham. Former North Carolina State Representative Charles Thomas is chief of staff for House-Speaker designate Thom Tillis. Thomas served one term in the legislature and was Tillis’ seatmate. He served 10 years in the Army and is now a financial advisor. Thomas and his wife, Amy, live in Asheville, N.C. Dr. Grant Warren and his wife, Dr. Kari Wheeler Warren, live in Spartanburg. Grant is a physician at Piedmont Women’s Health Clinic and is board chair for the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. Kari earned her Ph.D. in English in May of 2010, and is a lecturer at Wofford. They have two sons, Jack and Hank. Sallie Shuford West and her husband, John, live in Richmond, Va., with their two children. Sallie’s father, Stuart Shuford ’52, died in October 2010. West wrote to us, “One of my happiest Wofford memories was going to the alumni parent/student breakfast on graduation day with my daddy. Graduation itself was a huge milestone, but as proud as I was of that, I was even prouder to share that honor with him.”

1996

Class Chair, Curt L. Nichols Jr. Orlando Soto has been named head football coach at Walnut Grove High School in Loganville, Ga. Soto played football at Wofford and looks forward to implementing his comprehensive “Winners for Life” plan at Walnut Grove. Former United States attorney Walt Wilkins was elected 13th Judicial Circuit solicitor in November 2010. Wilkins was named Young Lawyer of the Year in 2003 by the American Board of Trial Advocates. He and his wife, Donyelle, live in Greenville, S.C., with their two children. Maj. Carl Young and his family live in Annandale, Va. As an enterprise architect, Young is project manager for future plans, policies, and operations for the Army National

Dave Murphy ’74 shares a taste of what makes Mother Murphy’s a success

hen I drove up to Mother Murphy’s (the Southeast’s largest flavor manufacturer) in Greensboro, N.C., the smell of vanilla met me on the interstate. I walked to the front door already planning the first paragraph of the alumni profile on David Murphy ’74... maybe something about the “sweet smell of success” or “following your nose.” As I met Murphy for the first time, his gigantic hand swallowing mine, scent took a back seat to what really makes Mother Murphy’s a success. “We’re celebrating our 65th anniversary this year, and our 64th year was our best year yet,” says Murphy, who goes on to explain that preliminary numbers show that the current year will probably be even better. Mother Murphy’s serves customers in 28 countries through sales offices in six states. The company holds formulas for more than 5,000 flavors, including 1,800 active flavors, 350 of which are vanillas, and Wofford folks will understand the significance of this: Mother Murphy’s is even the flavor of a wellknown Southern doughnut chain within walking distance of campus. “We’re represented on almost all of the grocery aisles and are in everything from cookies to pizza, coffee to cigarettes, cereal to ice cream to liquor,” says Murphy. Although Murphy has served the company as president since 1994, he shies away from taking personal credit for the company’s expansion and economic stability. “I just happened to be at the front of the train at the right time,” he says. “We’ve got lots of good people. Good people make you money; bad people cost you.” Following Murphy throughout one of the company’s manufacturing facilities is like walking through Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. Everyone Murphy passes is a valued friend. He jokes with the flavor chemists in the lab, offers a buenos dias to an employee in the first office we pass and even gives a longdistance point to a driver pulling out of the distribution center in one of Mother Murphy’s bright yellow trucks. It’s the universal “thanks for the assist” sign that Murphy probably perfected during his college basketball days at Wofford. The driver was still grinning as he turned onto South Elm Street. Murphy doesn’t just value what his employees do for the company, he also values their roles in their local communities. Not long after taking over as president, Murphy initiated monthly drawings for employees. Each month the selected employee gets $1,000 to donate to the charity of his or her choice. “They know more about the needs in the community than I do,” says

Murphy, all smiles, in the flavor lab at Mother Murphy’s in Greensboro, N.C.

a senior in high school, Murphy was recruited by several North Carolina colleges to play basketball. After visiting Wofford, however, he chose to walk on with Coach Gene Alexander’s Terriers. Murphy remains on the Wofford men’s basketball all-time career rebounds list. He’s ninth, bumped down this year by Tim Johnson ’11, who moved up to seventh. Murphy says he enjoyed his four years at Wofford and remembers fondly his mentor and major advisor, Dr. John Pilley. Under the instruction of Pilley, Murphy and three other Wofford students made fiberglass kayaks, scrounged hockey helmets, then took an Interim trip down the Colorado River through the heart of the Grand Canyon. “It was always an educational experience to be around him,” says Murphy, who has taken great pleasure watching Pilley make international headlines for his work with his brilliant border collie Chaser. “Psychology is the study of behavior and people. It’s a major that has served me well in sales, management and life in general.” Murphy. “This allows us to reward our employees and give on a more individual basis.” Murphy always knew he wanted to work in the family business, founded during the 1940s by his father, Kermit Murphy, and a local doctor who paid his way through medical school by making drink flavors. Murphy’s uncle joined the business a few years later. Mother Murphy’s remains privately held by two families; each owns 45 percent of the company. “We’re all minority shareholders, which means we all have to work for a living,” says Murphy. “The first generation built the company. They did the heavy lifting.” Murphy’s generation took that foundation and expanded Mother Murphy’s into international markets. Now the third generation, Murphy’s children, nieces and nephews, work in sales and marketing for the company. According to Murphy, they

will have access to technology and global markets that will move Mother Murphy’s forward once again. Although in charge of overall operations, Murphy still spends 100-plus nights a year on the road selling Mother Murphy’s flavors. “Everyone who comes into the company works in sales first. If we’re not selling products, then there’s no need to make anything,” says Murphy. He grins, a grin that makes his employees smile, and I bet turns most prospective buyers into loyal customers. I know I’m sold. by Jo Ann Mitchell Brasington ’89

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Hackney named new trustee for American Craft Council Jim Hackney ’77, managing partner of Alexander Haas in Atlanta, Ga., has become a trustee of the American Craft Council (ACC), the oldest non-profit in the nation cultivating and promoting awareness of fine craft. A consummate craft advocate and collector, Hackney has served as an adviser and patron of the ACC’s Atlanta Show for many years. Hackney also serves on the executive committee of the development and membership committee of the American Association of Museums. In his role at Alexander Haas, Hackney serves cultural organizations all over the United States, helping his clients raise more than $700 million in recent years. Nationally known in the museum world, he directed the Centennial Campaign for the Dallas Museum of Art that resulted in more than $400 million in donations of art and increased endowments. In Columbus, Ga., he conducted a campaign that joined nine cultural organizations in a unified fundraising effort that raised more than $110 million in a community of less than 200,000 people. For the State of South Carolina, Hackney directed the successful campaign to build the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in a joint public-private partnership.

Powell retires from command Maj. Gen. O. Eugene Powell Jr. ’62, retired from command of the Joint Services Detachment (JSD) of the S.C. Military Department, during change-ofcommand ceremonies in Columbia, S.C., in December. Powell, a retired U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps officer, served with the U.S. Central Command and the U.S. Special Operations Command. A career attorney, he served as federal administrative law judge with the U.S. Social Security Administration.

TERRIERS McGirt earns PGA Tour card

Since becoming the first Wofford graduate to earn a PGA Tour Card in December (by finishing second overall in the six-round qualifying event), William McGirt ’01 has been spending a lot of time on the road. In his two months on the tour, he has made the cut in four of the eight events played. His top finish has been a tie for 19th at the Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya-Cancun. McGirt added a 22nd place finish in the Waste Management Phoenix Open. “The last part of December it was non-stop,” says McGirt. “I had so much to get done before I left.... It has been so much fun. If you can’t take the time to enjoy it, then it’s just going to be overwhelming.... Having my wife (Sarah) travel with me every week and having somebody to come home and sit down and talk to, have dinner with, it makes it a little more normal. That has been the hardest part. Last year she was working and did not travel. I think she saw me play four times. Now we have our routine, and everything is starting to calm down.” The season began on the road in Hawaii for the Sony Open, and the West Coast swing continued in California, Arizona and Mexico, with stops that included famed Pebble Beach. “I started out missing the first three cuts and had to keep myself from going into panic mode,” recalls

McGirt. “I didn’t play great in Hawaii, but that was knocking the rust off. I played well at the Bob Hope Classic and, to be honest, the way I missed that cut hurt. I took a lot of positives away from it. We went to Phoenix and everything started to fall into place. I had my teacher come out that week, and we got a lot of good work in early in the week. I played well tee to green and finally started making some putts.” Last season on the Nationwide Tour, McGirt posted four top-10s in his first 11 starts. He finished 34th on the Nationwide Tour money list in 2010. McGirt still feels that earning his PGA Tour card is a dream come true.

“When you have worked your whole life for something like this and it finally happens, it is one of those things that you really don’t believe is true. It does not sink in until you get out there. Now it is time to get down to business. To know that every week you are teeing it up against the best players in the world is one of those things you always dream about and wonder what it would be like to have that opportunity. And now to do it every week, this is the life.” During this season on the PGA Tour, fans can keep up with McGirt on Twitter at: williammcgirt and on Facebook at: William McGirt Golf. His Web site is www. williammcgirt.com. by Brent Williamson

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Chesney’s Solaris Expeditions catches the attention of the New York Times

Dr. Dendy Engelman’s advice on preventing dry skin has been featured during the winter months in major magazines including People and Cooking Light. Look for Engelman’s photo and simple tips and little-known skin facts on Vaseline's Intensive Rescue full-page advertisements. Engelman lives in New York City and is a dermatologist at Skin Laser and Surgery Specialists.

South Carolina governor visits Wofford South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley visited Wofford on Feb. 13 for an Army National Guard deployment ceremony held in the Benjamin Johnson Arena. Blanche M. Price ’09 (below right with Haley) accompanied the governor as her travel aide. The group flew from Columbia in a Blackhawk Helicopter and landed on Wofford’s practice field. Other Wofford connections to the new governor include Katherine Haltiwanger ’04, serving as deputy chief of staff for operations, and Catherine Brawley Templeton ’93, appointed by Haley as the state’s new labor, licensing and regulations director. Mitti Randhawa ’84 is the governor's brother.

Skinner steps up as director of Greenwood Genetic Center Outgoing director and co-founder of the Greenwood Genetic Center, Dr. Roger E. Stevenson (above left) passed the gavel of leadership to Dr. Steven A. Skinner ’76 (above right) at a reception honoring both men at the J. C. Self Research Insititute on GGC’s Greenwood Campus. Skinner, who previously served as a senior clinical geneticist and associate director of the center, began his tenure as executive director on Jan. 1, 2011. Throughout his clinical career Skinner has devoted his time and talents to the evaluation and care of children and adults with birth defects, intellectual disabilities and other genetic disorders. He has been actively involved in the development of the South Carolina Center for the Treatment of Genetic 26 • Wofford Today • Spring 2011

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Disorders on the GGC campus and provides clinical supervision for the genetics services provided through the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs. Skinner is also a co-lead investigator for two NIH-sponsored studies to further the clinical understanding of Rett syndrome and Angelman syndrome. Skinner is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Medical Genetics. Skinner is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the South Carolina Medical Association, the Greenwood County Medical Society, the South Carolina Pediatric Society and the American Society of Human Genetics. He is a Founding Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics.

The New York Times featured an article on Solaris Expeditions on Nov. 28. The story focused on the company’s tailormade safaris and adventure expeditions for U.S. service personnel on leave. According to Mark Chesney ’80, Solaris’s CEO, “From the harsh reality of the war zone, to the incredible pure nature immersion of the African bush — it’s great tonic for the soul... We plan safaris for anyone but connecting with the men and women serving in Afghanistan and Iraq has been a rewarding experience for us.” Solaris, based in Marietta, Ga., organizes expeditions across the globe. Visit www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/ travel/28military-journeys.html or look for Solaris Expeditions on Facebook for more information. compiled by Jo Ann Mitchell Brasington ’89

Guard. On Sept. 1, 2010, he was awarded the Signal Corps Regimental Association’s Bronze Order of Mercury for contributions to the promotion of the Signal Corps and the Signal Regimental Association.

1997

Class Chair, Beth Mangham Guerrero Mary Frances Gibson Jowers is an assistant attorney general for the state of South Carolina. She and her husband, Jerry, live in Columbia, S.C., with their daughter, Catherine. Maj. Bryan Lake is stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., where he is serving as a Group Signal Officer. Lake received a master’s degree in information technology from Webster University in June 2010. He also attended the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., where he completed Army Intermediate Level Education. Lake and his wife, Stephanie, have two children, Kensley (2) and William (1). The Rev. Kristen R. RichardsonFrick and her husband, John, welcomed into their family, through adoption from Russia, Peter Artyom Frick on Oct. 4, 2010. Artyom (“Tyoma”) is 3 years old. He joins big brother John (6). The family lives in Orangeburg, S.C. Presbyterian College has announced the hiring of Simon Whitaker to the position of assistant director of athletics for sports information and game operations. Whitaker had spent the past 12 years at the College of Charleston as associate director of athletics communication. John Zuber is a marketing analyst for Core-Mark International, a wholesale distributor of packaged consumer products to the convenience retail industry. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas.

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2001

Class Chair, Jenna S. Bridgers Allen Bridgers and his wife, Jenna Georgette Sheheen Bridgers, live in Columbia, S.C. The couple has two children. Allen is in business development at McCrory Construction Co. Amy Ledford Diliegro and her husband, Thomas, live in Charleston, S.C. Diliegro is the owner of Amy Diliegro Photography. The couple has two boys, Tommy and John. Dr. Marshall J. Shuler is a dermatologist at Carolina Dermatology of Greenville. He and his wife, Amanda, live in Greenville, S.C. Dr. Rush-Baker Caldwell and his wife, Mary, live in Greenville, S.C. Caldwell is an orthodontist at Palmetto Family Orthodontics. The couple has three children. Living in Ridgeville, S.C., Sharreka Williams works for the South Carolina Department of Social Services in the child protective services assessment/investigations unit.

2002

Class Chair, L. Yorke Gerrald Capt. Brett Edwards and his wife, Tammy, live in Lawton, Okla., where Edwards is on temporary assignment. The couple has a son, Henry (1). Benjamin Foster lives in Bellaire, Texas, and is a managing associate for the management consulting firm ScottMadden Inc. Living in Iron Station, N.C., Derrick Ledford is sales director of oncology for Caris Life Sciences. The firm is a privately held leader in biosciences. Ledford and his wife, Hillary, have two children.

2004

Class Chair, Fred A. Byers II Adam Perrow and his wife, Stacey Williamson Perrow, live in Charlotte, N.C. Adam is attending graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Stacy is corporate communications specialist for Piedmont Natural Gas.

Class Chair, Casey B. Moore Erin Loray Holt Trypuc and her husband, Steven, live in Norfolk, Va. Trypuc is an executive assistant for the contracting firm The Empire Co. Inc. The couple has one son, Asher James. Living in Summerville, S.C., Dixon 2005 Whitmire is a software engineer for Charles- Class Chair, Ryan M. Waller Beth Butler lives in Colorado Springs, ton-based CommIT Enterprises. Colo., and is a recruiter for Volt Workforce 1999 Solutions. Class Chair, Zack O. Atkinson Living in Summerville, S.C., Philip Michelle Hadley Burlingame lives in Ladd and his wife, Amy Jordan Ladd, Fishers, Ind., and is associate director of busi- are both teachers at North Charleston High ness development for the international clinical School. research organization Averion International. Southcoast Community Bank announced Burlingame and her husband, Matthew, have in December the promotion of Carter two children. Pearson to vice president and mortgage Living in Atlanta, Ga., Lindsay Dukes is loan originator. Pearson has been associated owner and broker-in-charge of the Charleston with the bank since 2005. He lives in Mount real estate firm Copper Roof Properties. Pleasant, S.C.

2000

Class Chair, Anthony D. Hoefer Jr. South Carolina Bank and Trust has named R. Montague Laffitte III senior vice president and Columbia city executive. He has been associated with the bank since 2002. Laffitte and his wife, Lauren, live with their two boys in Columbia, S.C. Dana Howell McCarthy and her husband, Vincent, live in Charleston, S.C. McCarthy is a registered nurse at the Medical University of South Carolina. Capt. Kevin Sill and his wife, Hilary Ward Sill ’01, live in Spartanburg. Hilary has joined Total Ministries as part-time operations director. Kevin is on his second deployment in Iraq. Prior to moving back to Spartanburg, the couple was based at Fort Hood, Texas. While at Fort Hood, Hilary was named 2009 Volunteer of the Year for her dedication to Santa’s Workshop, a program which provided toys for more than 3,000 children of Army soldiers needing assistance. Hilton Head Regional Healthcare has announced the promotion of Bradley Talbert to chief operating officer effective Feb. 2, 2011. Talbert had served the firm as market vice president for business development for the past three years. He and his wife, Jennifer, live in Hilton Head, S.C., with their two sons.

2006

Class Chair, Hadley E. Green Saterria Williams Broomfield is assistant principal at Byrnes High School in Duncan, S.C. Broomfield earned a master’s degree in education from Southern Wesleyan University in December 2011. She lives with her husband, Richard, in Moore, S.C. Chris Cook and his wife, Mary Jane Kimbrough Cook ’07, live in Hillsborough, N.C. In September 2010, Mary Jane passed the North Carolina Bar and began working as an assistant appellate defender in the Office of the Appellate Defender in Durham, N.C. Chris is assistant director of sports information at Duke University. Sarah Louise Smith is a writer/editor in the department of communications at Cornell University. She lives in Brooktondale, N.Y. Living in Raleigh, N.C., Elizabeth Frazier is youth minister at Apex United Methodist Church in Apex, N.C. Living in North Bethesda, Md., Dr. Meghan Hall is a veterinarian at Friendship Hospital for Animals. Hall graduated in May 2010 from The Ohio State University with a degree in veterinary medicine. Tara Kathryn Hartness lives in Greenville, S.C., and teaches geometry, algebra, statistics and economics at Shannon Forest

Tradition with a twist: Barber creates new eco-friendly Bowens Island

or Robert Barber ’71, running Bowens Island seafood restaurant off the coast of Charleston, S.C., remains “a ritual” faithfully followed from the lessons he learned as a child working alongside his grandmother, May Bowen. May, with the help of her husband, Jimmy, and a variety of locals who picked oysters, began serving fresh seafood, fish-camp-style, shortly after buying the island and moving there in 1946. Barber, who was born in 1949, says some of his first memories were of sawhorses covered with plywood, piled high with oysters. Local families who ordered their meals by the bushel or peck gathered around the sawhorses to eat and catch up with their neighbors. The restaurant changed little through the years until a fire in October 2006 threatened to shut down the South Carolina institution. “One of the first things that came to my mind when it happened was that I had lost a family member,” says Barber in an oral history interview for the Southern Foodways Alliance. Barber, whose path to restaurant ownership included an M.Div. from Duke Divinity School, a J.D. from South Texas Law School, three terms in the South Carolina House of Representatives, and service on the Charleston County School board, including a two-year stint as chairman, used his interest in conservation to rebuild the restaurant as ecologically friendly as possible. Barber has used recycled materials in the construction of the building and added a vegetative roof on a portion of the remains of the original building. The new building has no central heating or air conditioning units. Instead, Barber will bring in portable heaters to make guests more comfortable in the winter, and the restaurant now has retractable windows to make the most of the natural salt marsh breezes during the summer months. Bowens Island also boasts a rain garden on the side of the building that collects runoff from the roof. The water will be used to sustain the soil and plants around the building.

(Top) Robert Barber on the pier leading out to Bowens Island seafood restaurant. (Above) The new vegetative roof, now on top of the original building. (Left) Bowens Island is located off Folly Beach Road south of Charleston, S.C. Bowens Island Restaurant

“We’re carrying on the tradition but with a twist,” says Barber, who is preparing the restaurant’s application for Gold Standard LEED Certification. In 2006, Bowens Island received a James Beard Award for distinction as an American Classic, a restaurant that provides excellent food and service as well as regionally distinctive atmosphere. In 2009, Man vs. Food featured the restaurant, and Bowens Island

continues to receive regional and national attention in outlets such as Southern Living, Men’s Journal and People magazine. The restaurant has changed, but according to Barber, the important things have stayed the same. by Holly Holladay ’11 and Jo Ann M. Brasington ’89

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Christian School. She received her master’s of arts in teaching math in 2010 from Clemson University. The Rev. Duncan Gray Martin is senior pastor of Antioch United Methodist Church and Oak Grove United Methodist Church. He and his wife, Meredith, live in King, N.C. Rachel Ann Smithson lives in Charlotte, N.C., and is finance business communications manager for the City of Charlotte.

2007

Terrier Top 5 Reunion Homecoming 2011 Class Chair, Hunter L. Miller Living in Florence, S.C., Kelly Barr is a financial advisor for Wells Fargo Advisors LLC. Marty Bauer lives in Columbia, S.C., and is a graduate student at the University of South Carolina Moore School of Business. Matt Beavin is an investments associate with the real estate firm Edens and Avant. He and his wife, Katherine Chrismer Beavin, live in Columbia, S.C. Bryan Blair received his juris doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law in May

2010, and has joined the academic staff of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Living in Deep Gap, N.C., Hartford Campbell is an associate with K-Mart in Boone, N.C. Bess Fortune is a biology and physical education teacher at StoneBridge School. She and her husband, Russell, live in Suffolk, Va. Congratulations to Mary Melissa Hayes, who earned a master of science degree in microbiology in December 2010 from Clemson University. LeAnn Lancaster graduated from the Charlotte School of Law in 2010 and has joined the law firm of Lancaster and St. Louis PLLC. Elizabeth Switzer Malcolm is a sales representative for Essential Dental Systems. Elizabeth and her husband, Harrison Reid Malcolm, an attorney, live in Columbia, S.C. Santiago Mariani is studying at the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, Pa. Mariani, who is from Spartanburg, often assists with services at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Tryon, N.C. Erin Blanton Metcalf and her husband, Jason, live in Norway, S.C.

Metcalf graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2010 and has joined Barnwell Family Medicine as a physician assistant. Hunter Miller is vice president of institutional clients group for Wells Fargo Bank. He and his wife, Catherine Jones Miller, live in Charlotte, N.C. Living in Charleston, S.C., Whit Perrin is pursuing a law degree at the Charleston School of Law.

2008

Terrier Top 5 Reunion Homecoming 2011 Class Chair, Nathan Madigan Phil Beene is employee coordinator for Care Focus Inc. He lives in Chattanooga, Tenn. Stephanie Fontenot lives in Washington, D.C., and is a scheduler for United States Rep. Steve Womack. Living in Columbia, S.C., Evan Hobbs is a certified public accountant for The Hobbs Group PA. Living in Smyrna, Ga., Mark Reynolds is an analyst-revenue manager for Delta Airlines. Laurie Traywick works for the South Carolina Senate, where

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she is an assistant to senate judiciary committee chairman, Sen. Glenn McConnell and the judicial merit selection commission. She lives in Columbia, S.C.

2009

Terrier Top 5 Reunion Homecoming 2011 Class Chair, T. Peyton Hray Living in Charlotte, N.C., Chris Bundy works for North Star Emergency Services as a roof inspector for its insurance division. Joshua Harris is senior guest services team leader for Target. He and his wife, Cassandra, live in Moore, S.C. Louisa Houston lives in Columbia, S.C., and is a graduate assistant at the South Carolina Institute for Childhood Obesity and Related Disorders. Bethany Jerabek received her nursing degree in 2010 from the University of Miami and is working as a pediatric intensive care unit nurse at Wolfson Children’s Hospital. She lives in Saint Johns, Fla. Living in Greenville, S.C., Whitner Kennedy is a technical recruiter for the technology staffing and service firm of TEKsystems.

Matt Norcia lives in Lake Bluff, Ill., and is an account manager for the technology products and services firm of CDW. Nicholas Yeaw lives in Greenville, S.C., and is an account executive for IKON Office Solutions.

2010

Terrier Top 5 Reunion Homecoming 2011 Class Chair, Matthew Abee Keshia Boyd lives in Memphis, Tenn., and is working for Teach for America. Sarah Cecile Burns lives in Washington, D.C., and is a commercial real estate research analyst for CoStar Group. Caroline Cotter lives in Charleston, S.C., and is a graduate student at the Medical University of South Carolina. Living in Lexington, S.C., Ashley DeCleene is a personal banker with Ameris Bank. Katie Grainger lives in Bothell, Wash., and is a graduate student at the University of Washington. Living in Charleston, S.C., Jeffrey Griffin is operations manager for Huguenot Energy. He handles the accounting and finance depart-

ment for this small, private energy provider. Lacie Hyatt works for Milliken & Company in its R&D Chemical Division, Plastics and Additives. She lives in Spartanburg. Coldwell Banker Caine announced in January the addition of Rebekah Johnson to its Spartanburg location as an agent support representative. Johnson will support the company’s sales associates. Philips Leach lives in Raleigh, N.C., and is an energy logistics and optimization specialist for Consolidated Asset Management Services. William Render is a graduate student at the Medical University of South Carolina. He lives in Charleston, S.C. Billy Zweier is a graduate student in accounting at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C.

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Chad Nicholas Johnston married Frances Clark Belk, Nov. 13, 2010. The couple resides in Columbia, S.C. He received his juris doctorate and International M.B.A. from the University of South Carolina and is an attorney with Willoughby & Hoefer, P.A. She is a teacher at Sandhills School. Wofford grads and groomsmen gathered for the Johnstons’ wedding. (Left to right) Front row: March Chase ’03, Dr. Brad Nesmith ’03, Chad Johnston ’03, Ryan Langley ’02, Michael Anzelmo ’00. Back row: Kevin Vaughn ’03, Dixon Dedman ”03 and Jesse Smith ’03

Sanjay Patel and his wife, Devangini, of Inman, S.C., announce the Jacquelyn Starks Gayle and her husband, Todd, of Irmo, S.C., announce birth of Krishna Sanjay Patel, Dec. 25, 2010. the birth of Connor James Gayle, Sept. 3, 2010. Jamie Anthony Lanning and her husband, Kevin, of Mauldin, S.C., 1991 announce the birth of Addison Riley Lanning, April 30, 2010. Jae Anna Collins Beasley and her husband, Jay, of Easley, S.C., announce Ayden Meyer and his wife, Brooke, of Charlotte, N.C., announce the birth the birth of Katherine Elaine Beasley, Jan. 1, 2010. of Graham Richter Meyer, Dec. 8, 2010. 1993 Mary Elise Voitier Pesses and her husband, Josh, of Baton Rouge, La., Joy Wolfe Graves and her husband, Lawson, of Starkville, Miss., anannounce the birth of Louise Caroline Pesses, Oct. 29, 2010. nounce the birth of Piper Graves, Nov. 18, 2010. Dr. Leah Bryan Wilkins and her husband, Talmadge, of North Augusta, Dr. Brad Painter and his wife, Lauren, of Columbia, S.C., announce the S.C., announce the birth of Loren Ann Wilkins, March 10, 2010. birth of Caroline Corbin Painter, May 12, 2010. Claire Myers Winslow and her husband, Ken, of Duncan, S.C., announce the birth of Robert Thompson Winslow, Dec. 25, 2010.

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Chad Gabrich and his wife, Dawn, of Winona Lake, Ind., announce the birth of Morgan Elizabeth Gabrich, Aug. 12, 2010.

1992 Margaret Louise Bartel married Jeffrey Ziolkowski, June 24, 2010. The couple lives in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. She is a transitional coordinator at Center Point Inc.

1995 William Sterling Anderson II married Anne Carroll Guthrie, Sept. 16, 2010. The couple resides in Spartanburg. He is the owner of W. Sterling Anderson II, LLC, Attorney at Law in Spartanburg.

2000 Katherine Randolph Annas married Glenn Elwood “Bo” Ketner, Feb. 26, 2011. They live in Charlotte, N.C. She is associate general counsel for Carolinas HealthCare System. He practices law with K&L Gates L.L.P. in Charlotte.

2001 Sarah Prentiss Counts married Brian Rudolph Shealey Jr., Nov. 6, 2010. The couple resides in Columbia, S.C. She is an attorney with Masella Law Firm. He is an assistant public defender with the Richland County Public Defender’s Office. Mary Page Stroup married J. Austin Bitner, Nov. 20, 2010. The couple lives in Baltimore, Md. She is a software trainer for Vocus Inc. in Lanham, Md.

2004 Matthew Scott Belger married Jennifer Nichols, June 19, 2010. They reside in Jupiter, Fla. He is a business analyst for NextEra Energy Inc.

Elizabeth Moffett Hipp married Scott Edward Shackouls, Jan. 15, 2011. The couple lives in Houston, Texas. She is a public relations and communications specialist for Texas Children’s Hospital. He is associated with Encore Bank in Houston. Ann Burnett Johnson married John Spencer Hopkins, March 5, 2011. The couple resides in Spartanburg, S.C. She received her M.B.A. from Queens University, and he is the owner of Educated Calcs. Adam Holman Perrow married Stacey Megan Williamson, Nov. 1, 2010. They reside in Charlotte, N.C. She is a communications specialist with Piedmont Natural Gas. He is working on his doctorate at the University of North Carolina Charlotte.

2005 Carolyn Marshall Baarcke married Bryan Arthur Wyker, Nov. 13, 2010. The couple lives in Charlotte, N.C. She is associated with UBS Financial Services. He is a commercial real estate broker with The Providence Group. Thad Bryant Ball married Emma Sinclair Litzenburg ’07, Dec. 18, 2010. They reside in Walhalla, S.C. He received his juris doctorate from the Charleston School of law and is associated with Larry C. Brandt, P.A. She is working on a M.A.T. degree from The Citadel. William Robert “Trey” Rodgers III married Leigh Ashley Bell, Dec. 4, 2010. The couple lives in Columbia, S.C. He is associated with Bank of America Global Commercial Bank. She is associated with Grubb & Ellis/Wilson Kibler.

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2006 Thomas Adam Pierce married Catherine Asher Cayce, Oct. 30, 2010. They reside in Charlottesville, Va. He is associated with National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. and the University of Virginia’s Foundation for Humanities in Charlottesville. She is a graduate of William and Mary School of Law and employed with a consulting firm in Charlottesville. James Cody Garland married Bobbie Carol Waugh, Oct. 23, 2010. The couple lives in Statesville, N.C. He is associated with John Woodie Enterprises Inc. She is a registered nurse at Forsyth Medical Center.

2007 Erin Renee Rolland married Aaron Michael Inman, Nov. 13, 2010. They reside in Santa Rosa, Calif. She is an event coordinator in Healdsburg, and he is a winemaker in Santa Rosa.

2009 Jessie Leigh Davis married Hayes Eugene Modlin ’10, May 30, 2010. The couple lives in Smyrna, Ga.

2010 Christopher Michael Campbell married Katherine J. McCavitt, Dec. 11, 2010. The couple lives in Powdersville, S.C. He is associated with Greenville Hospital System. She is employed by Ultra Tan corporate offices in Greenville.

2002

The Rev. B.J. Hutto and his wife, Rebekah McLeod Hutto, of Durham, N.C., announce the birth of Hannah Ruth Hutto, June 12, 2010. 1996 Jeni Imfeld Strain and her husband, Butler Strain ’03, of Tallahassee, Ryan Beasley and his wife, Sarah, of Greenville, S.C., announce the Fla., announce the birth of May Elizabeth Strain, Oct. 14, 2010. birth of Lillian Steele Beasley, Dec. 12, 2010. Christi Owen Brown and her husband, Kelan Brown ’00, of Durham, 2003 N.C., announce the birth of their adopted daughter, Lettie McCaskill Brown, Heath Hanna and his wife, Meredith Healy Hanna, of Smyrna, Ga., Nov. 27, 2010. announce the birth of Chapman Healy Hanna, Jan. 26, 2011. Mary Madison Brittain Langway and her husband, Drew, of Myrtle 1997 Beach, S.C., announce the birth of Lillian Carson Langway, July 12, 2010. Allison Marsh Behr and her husband, Chris, of Indian Trail, N.C., anJosh Skinner and his wife, Mary Kate Dula Skinner, of Charleston, S.C., nounce the birth of Annika Piper Behr, Nov. 12, 2010. announce the birth of Mary Margaret Skinner, Nov. 20, 2010. Marie Espiritu McGill and her husband, Robert, of Melrose, Mass., Erin Miller Wallin and her husband, Bart, of Chattanooga, Tenn., anannounce the birth of Evelyn Marie (Evie) McGill, Nov. 17, 2010. nounce the birth of Sellick Joel Wallin, Aug. 2, 2010. 1998 Erica Wooten Woodward and her husband, Dixon, of Daniel Island, S.C., Cayce McIntosh Granger and her husband, Hugh, of Timmonsville, announce the birth of Andrew Dixon Woodward III, Aug. 13, 2010. S.C., announce the birth of David Brett Granger, July 17, 2010. 2005 Stuart Moore and his wife, Grace, of Columbia, S.C., announce the birth Ben Whitney and his wife, Ashley Worley Whitney ’06, of Millersville, of Joan ‘Alston’ Moore, Dec. 23, 2010. Md., announce the birth of Cooper Barton Whitney, Jan. 31, 2011.

1999

2008

Jennifer Jones Hallenbeck and her husband, Brad Cook HalKirby Shelley Davis and her husband, Matt Davis, of Moore, S.C., anlenbeck ’02, of Spartanburg, announce the birth of Brad Cook Hallenbeck, nounce the birth of Colson Hayes Davis, Nov. 5, 2011. Dec. 2, 2010.

2000 Elliott Goldsmith and his wife, Emily Whitt Goldsmith ’01, of Greenville, S.C., announce the birth of Samuel “Whitt” Goldsmith, Sept. 9, 2010. Leigh Hyman Ryan and her husband, Tim Ryan, of Marietta, Ga., announce the birth of Julia Belle Ryan, Oct. 1, 2010.

Upcoming Black & Gold gatherings:

LaRone Washington ’07 and Chip Finney ’77 enjoy a conversation at the Columbia Wofford Gathering at the Capital City Club on February 24. Finney, a Sumter attorney, was sworn in in January as solicitor for the state’s 3rd Judicial Circuit, the first African-American to hold the post. Finney has been a criminal defense attorney for 28 years in the law firm established by his father, Ernest Finney Jr., the first African-American chief justice of the S.C. Supreme Court.

April 17..........................................................................Easter EggStravaganza April 19.....................................................................Florence Alumni Gathering April 28.....................................................................Rock Hill Alumni Gathering April 28............................................................................................Football 101 April 30........................................................................ Charleston Family Event May 5...................................................... Grand Strand Area Wofford Gathering May 7................................................................... Family Fun Day at Carowinds May 21 – 22................................................50th Class Reunion - Class of 1961 June 2.......................................................... New York City Young Alumni Event July 23............................................................................Boston Red Sox Game Aug. 16................................................................... Atlanta Young Alumni Event Aug. 25.............................................. Spartanburg Area Fanfest / Oyster Roast Aug. 30 - Sept. 4........................................... Alumni Association trip to Chicago Sept. 7................................................................ Columbia Young Alumni Event Sept. 8.............................................................. Charleston Young Alumni Event Sept. 30 - Oct. 2.......................................................................Family Weekend Oct. 6............................................................... Washington, D.C., Alumni Event Oct. 8..........................................................................Citadel Post-Game Event Oct. 13............................................................... Greenville Young Alumni Event Oct. 28 - 30.................................................................................... Homecoming Nov. 10................................................................Charlotte Young Alumni Event Dec. 1-3.......................................................... Ben Wofford Books Holiday Sale

Moyer’s Men back on campus The Moyer’s Men gathered for a reunion on Jan. 30 and sang the National Anthem and alma mater before the Wofford vs. Samford basketball game.

We’re looking for stud ents of Sam Moyer (Wofford Professor of Music from 1947 – 19 63

) f you performed in the Wofford Glee Cl ub, Aristocrats or W marching bands (in offord cluding ROTC) un der the direction of Sam Moyer, the Al the late umni Office is look ing for you. The stu Moyer have organi dents of Sam zed as Moyers Men , and we’d like to inclu that group so that yo de you in u may attend reunio ns and receive news remembrances of Sa regarding m Moyer. If you have not alrea dy been contacted by Wofford regardin Moyer and would lik g Sam e to be included in the Moyers Men gr contact Karen Cann oup, please on, alumni records clerk, at 864-597-42 cannonky@wofford 02 or .edu with your nam e, class year, and the na of the vocal or band me group in which you participated.

Smith Patterson ’67, director of gift planning at the college, at the Low Country Alumni Meeting with Mary and Joe Cross ’67. Chelsey Weathersbee ’11, Katya Filina ’11, Nicky Cangcuesta ’11 and Courtney McIlroy ’11 enjoy a celebration marking the final 100 days before graduation. Spring 2011 • Wofford Today • 29

Alumni Executive Council, 2010 President: Molly Hughes Cherry ’93, Charleston, S.C. Past President: Hunter Quick ’71, Charlotte, N.C. Terms Ending Dec. 31, 2011

Sally Sue Garris Brown ’96, Columbia, S.C. Jim Crawford III ’78, Cheraw, S.C. Mike Trammell ’85, Spartanburg, S.C. Wade Keisler ’80, Lexington, S.C. Craig Melvin ’01, Washington, D.C. Richard Williamson ’75, Orangeburg, S.C.

Terms Ending Dec. 31, 2013

Dawn Williams Burks ’81, Simpsonville, S.C. Lance Crick ’95, Greenville, S.C. Tracy Harrell Dunn ’87, Columbia, S.C. Elizabeth McAbee ’91, Spartanburg, S.C. Anthony Miles ’91, Atlanta, Ga. Maureen Ward Shealy ’87, Cartersville, Ga. Ben Waldrop ’93, Greenville, S.C. Josh Whitley ’05, Columbia, S.C.

Terms Ending Dec. 31, 2012

Gray Culbreath ’85, Columbia, S.C. Monique McDowell ’92, Atlanta, Ga. Roy Morton ’84, Birmingham, Ala. Curtis Nichols ’96, Spartanburg, S.C. Alvin Wells ’83, Chicago, Ill. Andy Young ’96, Charlotte, N.C.

DEATHS 1933

Dr. Benjamin Mondsie Oliver Jr., Jan. 8, 2011, Jupiter, Fla. In World War II, Dr. Oliver served as an Army medical officer with the 9th Division at Normandy, Northern France, Central Europe, Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge) and the Rhineland. In 1946, Dr. Oliver opened a private medical practice in Lynchburg, S.C., where he practiced for 54 years until his retirement at the age of 89.

1938

Roy Allen Bussey Sr., Nov. 11, 2010, Spartanburg, S.C. Mr. Bussey was the owner and operator of Nash Electric Supply. He was a member of Southside Baptist Church and of Morgan Lodge #22, Knights of Pythias, for more than 50 years. Dr. Thomas Lawton Neely, Dec. 23, 2010, Ridgecrest, N.C. Mr. Neely was a pastor, evangelist, missionary, and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention in Colombia, South America. From 195870, he served as an administrator at North Greenville College, retiring as the president. He later returned to the mission field, but also served as a Bible conference speaker, retreat leader, and in prison ministry.

1942

Robert Ray Odom Jr., Jan. 28, 2011, Spartanburg, S.C. Mr. Odom was retired from the law firm of Odom, Terry and Cantrell. He was a member of the South Carolina Bar Association, serving as president in 1980. He was president of Odom Inc. (formerly Odom Oil Company), past-president of Odom Transport Inc., and a director and secretary of Associated Petroleum Carriers. Odom was a director of First Federal Savings and Loan Association for more than 50 years and was also a past chairman of the board of directors. He was a member of Bethel United Methodist Church. He was a leader in the Spartanburg Chapter of the American Red Cross, Mountainview Nursing Home, and the Rotary Club of Spartanburg.

1943

Daniel Claude Carmichael Jr., Jan. 16, 2011, Pasadena, Calif. Mr. Carmichael served in the Army during World War II and earned a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. He earned a master’s degree in architecture from Yale University. He moved to Los Angeles and was a founding partner in Carmichael-Kemp Architects, known throughout California for their unique expertise in designing public schools. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects. In 1991, he received the Service Citation Award from the Council of Educational Facility Planners International for 25 years of service.

1944

The Rev. Homer Everett Bradey, Dec. 21, 2010, Hickory, N.C. Mr. Bradey was a Baptist minister in North and South Carolina, retiring as pastor emeritus of Mount Grove Baptist Church. He also served as a moderator

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of the Theron Rankin Baptist Association and the Caldwell Baptist Association. He was a committee member on the Baptist State Association and the advisory board for Gardner Webb University. In 1985, he and his wife pastored a church near The Hague in Holland through the Baptist Partnership in Europe. Mr. Brady was a member of Viewmont Baptist Church at the time of his death.

1945

Rodney Cudd Jr., Nov. 15, 2010, Isle of Palms, S.C. A U.S. Army veteran, Mr. Cudd served in the European Theater during World War II. He was president of Union Transfer Companies in Asheville, N.C., for 50 years.

1946

Clarence Prince “Bill” Stribling, Feb. 20, 2011, Spartanburg, S.C. A U.S. Army veteran, he served with the 77th Infantry division. Mr. Stribling began his career in broadcasting with WSPA and WORD radio stations in Spartanburg and WBCU in Union. In 1974, he left broadcasting to become the Union branch manager of First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Rock Hill, and retired from American Federal of Greenville in 1984. Mr. Stribling served as mayor of the City of Union from 1962 – 1972; as the president of the Municipal Association of South Carolina in 1968; and as a member of the South Carolina State Development Board from 1977 – 1981. He was a member of Southside Baptist Church. William Stillwell Vincent, Dec. 5, 2010, Greenville, S.C. Mr. Vincent graduated first in his class from Northwestern Midshipman’s School and served at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, until released from the Navy in 1946. Mr. Vincent was associated with J.P. Stevens & Co. until he retired in 1989 with 41 years of service. He then joined the Anderson Symphony Orchestra where he played for 17 years, the last two as principal cellist. He was a member of John Knox Presbyterian Church in Greenville.

1948

Fred Albert “Ziggy” Elias, Jan. 10, 2011, Spartanburg, S.C. A U.S. Army veteran of World War II, Mr. Elias was the owner of Jeri’s Shoes for more than 30 years. He was an avid musician, playing with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus as well as local bands. Mr. Elias was a member of First Baptist Church of Spartanburg. Dr. Henry Boyd Israel, Jan. 20, 2011, Leesburg, Ga. Dr. Israel served in the combat engineers during World War II and was an Army Reserve officer in the Adjutant General’s Corps during the 1950s. He was the founding director of Southwest Georgia Regional Education Service Agency in Leary, Ga. After retiring, he was an adjunct instructor at Albany State University until 1998. He was a member of Central Baptist Church where he served as a deacon and taught the Crusaders Sunday School Class.

1950

William Andrew “Bill” Camp, Jan. 8, 2011, Marietta, Ga. Mr. Camp began his career with Dun & Brandstreet, then worked for GE Credit. He retired as regional manager from Westinghouse Credit in Atlanta. Mr. Camp was a member of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Atlanta. William Fulton Wood, March 7, 2011, Spartanburg, S.C. Mr. Wood served in the U.S. Navy during World War II at Guadalcanal. After the war he attended Wofford, beginning a three-generation family tradition. Mr. Wood had a 40-year career as a homebuilder and was a member of the Spartanburg Homebuilding Association and the National Association of Homebuilders. He was also a City of Spartanburg firefighter and police officer with 35 years of service. Mr. Wood was a member of Evangel Cathedral, the Hejaz Shrine Temple and Mill Village Masonic Lodge #360. Memorials may be made to Wofford College.

1951

Dr. Joseph Kenyon East Sr., Feb. 19, 2011, Columbia, S.C. Dr. East, who earned his undergraduate degree at Berry College, completed a master’s at Wofford while working as superintendent of schools in Blacksburg, S.C. For 48 years, he was an innovative public educator and consultant. He was particularly known for his work on a statewide Adult Basic Education Campaign that served as a model for other states, and he is listed in the South Carolina Adult Education Hall of Fame. He received the Order of the Palmetto and the Jefferson Award. He was a Rotarian for 61 years and a life deacon with the First Baptist Church of Columbia. Thomas Jeffers Ford, Nov. 19, 2010, Orangeburg, S.C. Mr. Ford was a U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean conflict. He spent more than 35 years as an industrial/ economic development practitioner. During his career, he served as president of MarlboroChesterfield Technical College, now known as Northeastern Technical College. Luther “Luke” Cosby Pool, Jan. 17, 2011, Raleigh, N.C. A Navy veteran of World War II, Mr. Pool served aboard the USS San Jacinto in the Pacific. After the war he completed his education. He worked as a sales manager for Standard Fruit and Steamship Co. (which was later became Dole) for 32 years. Mr. Pool was a member of Trinity Baptist Church in Raleigh. Dr. John Howard Tillotson, Jan. 16, 2011, Spartanburg, S.C. An educator, Dr. Tillotson’s career spanned nearly four decades beginning as a mathematics teacher and finishing as Spartanburg School District Seven Superintendent. Wofford honored him as a recipient of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award in 1992. Dr. Tillotson was an honored administrator from the South Carolina Music Educators Association Hall of Fame. He was a U.S. Army Veteran, a member of East Spartanburg Rotary Club, where he had served as president, and a

member of the Evening Optimist Club. Memorials may be made to Wofford’s Class of 1951 Scholarship Fund.

1953

Dr. Sidney Legrande Kelly Jr., Jan. 18, 2011, Winston-Salem, N.C. Dr. Kelly retired as professor of religion and philosophy at Salem College after a 30-year career. His main focus was on racial equality and economic justice that included the founding and sustaining of Crossing 52. He was a member of the Minister’s Conference, Crisis Control Ministry of Winston-Salem, CHANGE and St. Anne’s Episcopal Church. His spiritual quest was his life’s work and is clarified in his memoirs, “A Strange and Wayward Life.”

1955

Clarence Talmadge Biggerstaff, June 18, 2010, Staunton, Va. Mr. Biggerstaff was a retired school psychologist with the City of Staunton, Va. Cecil Martin Camlin Jr., Nov. 18, 2010, Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. Camlin served as a United Methodist minister for 20 years and then managed substance abuse treatment programs in Virginia for 15 years. After he retired, he was a financial planner with American Express Financial Advisors in Richmond, Va., until 2002. Charles Legette Graham, Feb. 9 2011, Johnsonville, S.C. Mr. Graham began his career by starting the football program at Jonesville High School and later served as principal of Johnsonville High School. He went on to serve as assistant superintendent, interim superintendent and chairman of the school board in Florence School District Five. Mr. Graham helped operate Eastern Carolina Foxhunters’ Paradise and is a member of the Foxhunters Hall of Fame. He was a member of Johnsonville United Methodist Church and the Free Masons. Charles Douglas Roddy, Jan. 27, 2011, North Augusta, S.C. A Navy veteran of World War II, he was a member of the Disabled American Veterans, the Jessie Lynch Lodge and the Concordia Lodge #50. He began his career as a coach and teacher at Edgefield and Strom Thurmond high schools. He retired as a sports specialist at Fort Gordon, Ga.

1959

Doane Epps James, Jan. 2, 2011, Latta, S.C. Mr. James spent six years as a field adjuster with the General Adjustment Bureau and then became a field claimsman and claims superintendent with State Farm Insurance for 26 years. He served on the Terrier Club Board of Directors. A member of Latta United Methodist Church, he served as a lay leader, delegate to the United Methodist Conference, Sunday School teacher, member of the choir, board of trustees, and Pastor/ Parish committee. He was the brother of Jerry James ’70 and uncle of Kyle M. James ’03. Memorials may be made to the Doane E. James Scholarship Fund at Wofford.

William Boyd Johnson, Jan. 5, 2011, Spartanburg, S.C. Mr. Johnson served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean Conflict. He was superintendent of No. 2 Plant in Forsyth, Ga. Prior to becoming a textile executive, he had been president and CEO of Futura Manufacturing Co. in Ware Shoals, and former general manager of Color Spectrum in Dalton, Ga. He was a member of Roebuck Baptist Church. Dennis Earl Pike Sr., Jan. 16, 2011, Boiling Springs, S.C. Mr. Pike served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean Conflict. He retired in 1996 from Univar Corp. after 38 years of service as the national accounts manager. Mr. Pike was a volunteer for Mobile Meals and a member of Gramling United Methodist Church and the Spartanburg Lions Club.

1960

Robert Olee Berry, Jan. 27, 2011, Latta, S.C. After graduation, Mr. Berry spent several years as a football and baseball coach for Dillon, Clio, Aynor, and Timmonsville Schools. After coaching, he was a production coordinator for the Florence Rehabilitation Center and worked as a referee in the Pee Dee area for public and private schools. After he retired, Mr. Berry worked tirelessly for volunteer organizations including the Red Wolves and American Legion Baseball. He served in the S.C. National Guard for six years.

1961

The Rev. William Robert Morris Sr., Feb. 16, 2011, Summerville, S.C. Mr. Morris served United Methodist churches in South Carolina for more than 40 years. He was an active fire department volunteer in several locations, serving as chief in Quinby and Murrells Inlet, S.C.

1962

Maj. William Broadus Foster Sr., Dec. 24, 2010, Spartanburg, S.C. Mr. Foster retired as a pilot from the U.S. Air Force on Dec. 31, 1960 with 21 years of service. He participated in D-Day Normandy and also the Southern France invasion. After retiring from the armed services, he was a teacher in Spartanburg County for 23 years.

1967

Vernon Franklin Cornwell, Dec. 9, 2010, Manassas, Va. Mr. Cornwell was the quality control manager for Shannon Auto Sales in Manassas.

1968

Charles Ronald Mauney, Feb. 5, 2011, Blythewood, S.C. Mr. Mauney was a member of the Home Builder’s Association, and had received his Professional Project Manager’s Designation (P.M.P.). He was a member of Northeast Presbyterian Church where he served as a deacon.

1970

Townes Boyd Johnson II, Nov. 17, 2010, Greenville, S.C.

Ex Officio — Two Year Terms

Dial DuBose ’83, Easley, S.C. President, Terrier Club Scott Gant ’83, Charlotte, N.C. National Annual Fund Chair

Volunteer Extended Terms

Bryan Brooks ’97, Charlotte, N.C. Rick Cohn ’73, Columbia, S.C. Dennis Guthrie ’66, Charlotte, N.C.

Ex Officio

Hugh Lane, Wofford College Board of Trustees Benjamin B. Dunlap, President David Wood, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Marion Peavey ’65, Senior Vice President for Development Ed Story, Assistant Vice President and Director of Development Smith Patterson ’67, Director of Planned Giving Charlie Gray ’72, Director of Alumni & Parents Associations Lisa DeFreitas ’88, Director of Annual Giving Debbi Thompson ’88, Director of Alumni & Parents Programs

1975

Jerome Paul Hanna, Jan. 6, 2011, Enoree, S.C. Mr. Hanna was the CEO of Kwik Food Store in Greer. He was a 25-year member of Enoree Masonic Lodge #222. Darrell Flynn Scott, Nov. 17, 2010, New Port Richey, Fla. Mr. Scott worked in construction for J.C. Penney Company for 18 years, before becoming a general contractor in the Atlanta, Ga. area. He later relocated to Florida and worked at DFS Construction.

1977

Marcus Dawson Antley Sr., Nov. 24, 2010, Pigeon Forge, Tenn.

1980

Mark Whitfield Vick, Nov. 7, 2010, Durham, N.C. Mr. Vick was associated with UNC Memorial Hospital and Duke University Hospital as a certified nursing assistant. He was a member of Duke Memorial United Methodist Church.

1992

Leon Nathaniel Mills, Jan. 5, 2011, Spartanburg, S.C.

1993

Capt. Marc Wade Richardson, Dec. 9, 2010, Brunswick, Ga. Mr. Richardson was a special agent with the state. He was also an Environmental Protection Agency special agent and a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve.

2009

William Paschal Mabry, Feb. 11, 2011, Savannah, Ga. Mr. Mabry died in an accident. While a student at Wofford, Mr. Mabry designed the fountain at the main entrance to the college on North Church Street.

Friends

Harriette Elizabeth Alexander, Feb. 1, 2011, Spartanburg, S.C. Mrs. Alexander was the widow of Gene Alexander, a beloved coach and administrator at Wofford. Memorials may be made to the Wofford College Athletics Department, Eugene Alexander Endowment Fund. Lt. Col. Theodore S. “Ted” Danielson, Jan. 28, 2011, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Mr. Danielson was a ROTC instructor at Wofford in the early 1970s. Broadus Richard “Dick” Littlejohn, Jr., Dec. 13, 2010, Spartanburg, S.C. Mr. Littlejohn was the former chairman and president of Spartanburg-based Community Cash Stores and the recipient of multiple civic and philanthropic awards. “Wofford lost a friend and supporter when Broadus R. ‘Dick’ Littlejohn, Jr. passed away,” says Littlejohn Collection Archivist Luke Meagher. “Dick was a retired businessman and philanthropist with deep connections to Wofford and other Spartanburg institutions, but to many he was much more: mentor, history aficionado, humanitarian, man of faith and student of the soul. The fine collection of historical materials

John B. White Sr.

ohn B. White Sr., known to generations of Wofford students as the owner and operator of Spartanburg’s famous Beacon Drive-In, died Feb. 13, 2011, at the age of 89. After serving in the U.S. Navy in World War II, Mr. White opened the Beacon on Nov. 25, 1946, selling the local institution and retiring on May 1, 1998. He did business in a way that reflected a steadfast commitment to his Baptist faith. He was a good friend to his employees, and he always gave his customers a little more than they expected for their dollar. Without being asked, he very quietly did a great deal of community philanthropy, particularly when people were distressed or hungry. If a member of the armed services wanted a taste of home, Mr. White would ship the food at no charge. He bought ads in high school newspapers and yearbooks, not because he needed to, but because he thought young people deserved the encouragement. Mr. White was a Wofford parent and a benefactor to the college over many years, and the family suggested memorials to the John B. White Sr. Scholarship Fund at the college. He was survived by three sons, current Trustee John Belton White Jr. ’72, William Lewis White ’74 and David George White ’77. He had 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

that he leaves with Wofford — the Littlejohn Collection — will serve as a testament, not only to Dick’s generous spirit, but also to his passion for history and the profound lessons it teaches.” William Coke Morris, Feb. 22, 2011, Greenville, S.C. Mr. Morris was a former publicity director at Wofford. Donald Valentine Richardson III, Nov. 23, 2010, Columbia, S.C. Mr. Richardson was a founder of the Richardson

Plowden Law Firm (now Richardson Plowden & Robinson, P.A) in Columbia, S.C., and continued to be of counsel until 1999. He was the grandfather of Nelson ’09 and Richard Seabrook ’12 and Margaret Deans Fawcett ’13 and Gavin Fawcett ’14. Louise Murphy Robertson, Dec. 25, 2010, Spartanburg, S.C. Mrs. Robertson was the widow of former basketball coach and administrator Joel Robertson ’41.

Dr. George B. Martin Sr. ’59

r. George B. Martin Sr. ’59, who inspired countless students during a 36-year career as a college professor of English and literature, died Jan. 11, 2011, at his home in Spartanburg. He was 72. Dr. Martin completed a doctoral degree at Manchester University in England in 1967. Until 1981, he was a distinguished faculty member in the Honors Program at the University of Georgia, where he received the first Beaver Award for distinguished teaching. From 1981 through 1995, he served as professor of English and chair of the department at Wofford, and then was president of the Liberty Fund, a foundation that discusses great books throughout the United States, England, Central and South America, and Iceland. After he retired, Dr. Martin returned to Spartanburg and taught adjunct classes at Wofford. Dr. Martin was active in the Episcopal Church of the Advent, where he was a member of the Brotherhood of Saint Andrew and a lecturer in Sunday School classes on the works of C.S. Lewis. He is survived by his wife, Agnes Reed Martin of Spartanburg; three children, George Brantley Martin, Jr., Lillian Martin Stephano ’91, Reed Martin Chewning ’93; and, four grandchildren. Dean Emeritus Dan Maultsby ’61, said, “As a student and teacher, Dr. Martin was influenced by Wofford Professor Vince Miller, and, like Dr. Miller, he was successful in developing students’ judgment and sharpening their thinking. Moreover, he helped students find examples of human virtue in literature and to see the relevance of literature to their own lives. I am grateful to Dr. Martin for his contribution to students and to our college. I am glad he was my colleague and friend.” Spring 2011 • Wofford Today • 31

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