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For six years, Bert and Tracey Ely enjoyed the breathtaking view—and the life—in their 3,500-square-foot dream home on a lake shore in east Columbia.
Three years ago, the Elys chose to live in a far more modest neighborhood in a home where they’re trying to make different dreams—of children’s literacy, academic success, and hope—come true.
Bert, a veteran USC biology professor, recounted the story of the radical address change he and his wife made and what has come of the move.
“We were living in a house that took us six months to design—this was going to be the house we would live in for the rest of our lives,” Ely said. A few years after moving in, the Elys had dinner with Stuart Hamilton, a family physician who runs several non-profit medical centers in Columbia’s Eau Claire and other communities.
“He told us what a great need there was for tutoring kids in the Eau Claire schools; this is a community that really hit rock bottom in the 1980s with drugs and crime, but was in the process of making a strong comeback,” Ely said.
That conversation planted a seed; soon Tracey was making the half-hour trek from an affluent neighborhood to an impoverished one, spending time with children whose academic skills were woefully lagging. Along the way the couple felt a stirring, like a divine tap on the shoulder.
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A formation of B-25s soared over Columbia April 18 in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the United States’ retaliatory bombing of Tokyo during World War II.
The commemorative events were part of the Doolittle Raiders Reunion.
Tracey Ely plays word game with neighborhod kids.
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Opera at USC closes the season with two short works by Puccini.
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The Lady Gamecocks softball team fields another winning season.
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Social work educators and practitioners around the world are discovering the
Electronic Journal of Social Work (EJSW), a new peer-reviewed scholarly journal created by the USC College of Social Work.
“This electronic publication is the first of its kind for the profession of social work,” said Goutham Menon, assistant professor and director of the USC Center for
Technology in Social Work Education and Practice. “And, just two months after the first issue appeared, it has already attracted more than 600 subscribers from around the world.
We’ve had e-mail responses from around the United States, as well as Asia and South Africa.”
The new e-journal, which first appeared in February, is separate from the college’s biannual printed journal, Arete.
That publication has been produced for more than 20 years and, like most such journals, is available only through a subscription fee. Users of the new e-journal are required to subscribe using their e-mail addresses to receive announceMenon ments of future issues, but there is no charge to access any of the information.
Clearly, a journal like EJSW offers numerous opportunities.
“Electronic publishing provides unlimited access to reliable information for academicians, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from all parts of the
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President John M. and Norma C. Palms will receive doctor of humane letters honorary degrees during spring commencement ceremonies May 10–11.
The University will award more than
3,000 degrees on the
Columbia campus, including nine associate degrees;
1,911 baccalaureate degrees; 1,004 master’s degrees; 18 graduate certificates; and 27 graduate specialist’s degrees.
Palms
Candidates from the Moore School of
Business, College of
Criminal Justice,
College of Engineering and Information
Technology, College of Journalism and
Mass Communications, College of
Palms
Library and Information Science, College of Nursing, College of
Pharmacy, The Norman J. Arnold School of
Public Health, and the College of Social
Work will receive degrees at 3 p.m. May 10 in the Carolina Coliseum.
Candidates from the College of Hospitality,
Retail, and Sport Management; College of
Education; School of the Environment;
College of Liberal Arts; School of Music;
College of Science and Mathematics; Fort
Jackson Military Base Programs; and the
Honors College will receive degrees at 10:30 a.m. May 11 in the Carolina Coliseum.
The School of Law will award 219 degrees at its commencement ceremonies at 10 a.m.
May 10 on the Horseshoe. Elizabeth Van
Doren Gray, president of the South Carolina
Bar, will be the speaker. She is a 1976 graduate of the School of Law and received a
BA from USC in 1970. In case of rain, the ceremony will be held in the Koger Center.
The School of Medicine will award 71 degrees at commencement ceremonies at
12:30 p.m. May 10 in the Koger Center.
Gregory Jerome “Jerry” Jurkovich, professor of surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine and chief of trauma at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, will be the speaker.
The Graduate School will award 166 doctoral degrees at its doctoral hooding and commencement ceremony at 8:30 a.m. May
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■ TAI CHI FOR ARTHRITIS CLASSES SET: Tai Chi for Arthritis (TCA) classes will be offered in five-week sessions during the summer at the Blatt PE Center.
TCA is a safe and interesting program that is easy to learn for people of almost any physical condition or age without prior knowledge of Tai Chi. TCA helps with relief from pain and stiffness, the main problems experienced by people with arthritis. Session I will include the six basic movements and will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays in Room 106. This session begins
May 28 and ends June 25. The class also will be available at 6:45 p.m. from
July 9 to Aug. 6. Session II will include the six more advanced movements and a review of the six basic moves. It will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on
Tuesdays in Room 106. The session begins July 9 and ends Aug. 6. The fee for each five-week session is $15. A free informational and demonstration meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. May 21 in Room 106. For more information, contact Joyce Gossard at 463-5197 or redbearfitness@mindspring.com.
■ PARKING PERMIT RENEWAL DEADLINE IS APRIL 30: Faculty and staff who wish to obtain or renew campus parking permits should apply online in the personal section of the VIP Web site at http://vip.sc.edu. Detailed instructions can be found at www.sc.edu/vmps/to vip.html. Online registration enables permit holders to receive important information via e-mail regarding traffic and construction projects that may alter parking arrangements, and to learn about temporary solutions to those changes. The online application must be filled in completely and returned electronically by April
30. Employees who do not have access to the Internet or a personal computer may use a computer at Parking Services, located in the ground floor lobby of the Pendleton Street Garage. Anyone who has not registered via the VIP Web site by April 30 will be sent a Scantron form at a later date.
Individuals needing a Handicap permit must apply using the Scantron form.
Questions regarding this registration process can be directed to 7-5160 or parking@gwm.sc.edu.
■ DROP-IN MEMORIAL FOR FORMER PHILOSO-
PHY CHAIR: Former colleagues of the late James
Willard Oliver, the first chair of USC’s Department of Philosophy, are invited to a drop-in from 3:30 to
5 p.m. May 2 in the Faculty Lounge, Gambrell Hall,
Room 428. Those attending are encouraged to bring memories, stories, or pictures to celebrate the enriching contributions Oliver made to the
University. Oliver’s wife and son will be in attendance at the drop-in. RSVP to Jim Stiver,
7-8102 or e-mail, jim.stiver@schc.sc.edu, or to
Joan Spencer-Amado, 7-4166 or e-mail, amado@sc.edu.
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USC Lancaster is seeking applications and nominations for the position of associate dean for academic and student affairs.
Qualifications include an earned Ph.D.; tenure on a
USC campus at the rank of associate professor or higher; demonstrated excellence in teaching with administrative and financial experience; scholarly publications, as well as excellent communication and conflict resolution skills.
Knowledge of and experience with student affairs, accreditation issues, planning, assessment, institutional research, and budgets are helpful. Salary range is
$70,000–$75,000, depending on qualifications, for a twelve-month appointment with excellent benefits.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the planning, development, and maintenance of academic programs as well as the recruitment, supervision, and evaluation of faculty, along with other responsibilities.
The duties will include teaching one course per semester and will carry faculty rank in a tenure-track position.
The successful candidate must reside in the service area, contribute to community service, and participate in scholarly activities.
Review of applications will begin May 6. The appointment will begin Aug. 16. Send letter of application with resume, statement of administrative philosophy, transcripts, and a list of three professional references to Associate Dean Search, Attention: Zantrell
Clyburn, USC Lancaster, Box 889, Lancaster, 29721.
USC is an EEO/AA employer. Foreign nationals should indicate current U.S. immigration status.
Lancaster County has a population of 61,000 and is located 30 miles south of Charlotte, N.C., and 65 miles north of Columbia. The campus emphasizes excellence in teaching and serves approximately 1,000 students.
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Tiffany Rae Elser and Hydrick Harden, seated, received the Algernon Sydney
Sullivan awards at the University’s annual Honors and Awards Day April 18.
Ripal N. Shah received the Steven N. Swanger award.
Tiffany Rae Elser of Summerville and Hydrick Harden of Winnsboro received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan awards, the University’s highest honors for undergraduates, at Honors and Awards Day April 18.
Ripal N. Shah of Rock Hill received the Swanger award, USC’s second highest undergraduate honor.
A marketing and human resources management major, Elser is membership vice president of Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) and has been involved in numerous campus activities, including membership in Alpha Chi Omega, residence hall government, and business student council.
Elser also is a USC student government senator and has volunteered for the University’s Martin Luther King Day of Service, the senior citizens at Christopher Towers, the March of Dimes, Clean
Carolina, Adopt-a-Highway, and Sistercare.
A Carolina Scholar and business major in the Honors College,
Harden is a National Merit Scholar, Palmetto Fellow, Alumni Legacy
Scholar, and Delta Tau Delta Kershner Scholar. He received the Marie-
Louise Ramsdale Freshman Council Scholarship, State Farm Exceptional Student Scholarship, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
President of Mortar Board and the Order of Omega, Harden has been a member of ODK, Gamma Beta Phi, and Alpha Lambda Delta.
Shah, a chemical engineering major in the Honors College, is a
Carolina Scholar, 2001 Goldwater Scholar, Pi Kappa Phi National
Fraternity Scholar, and a S.C. EPSCoR Fellow.
Sullivan awards are given each year to one male and one female graduating senior for their outstanding academic achievements, campus leadership, exemplary character, and service to the community. The award is named for the 19th-century lawyer and philanthropist.
The Swanger award is named for a former president of ODK, which sponsors Honors and Awards Day, and is given to a graduating senior for exemplary leadership and for making a significant contribution to the Carolina community.
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For the fall 2002 semester, University Publications will implement Web-based graduate and undergraduate bulletins as the primary academic bulletins for the
Columbia campus.
The 2002–03 bulletins of record will be posted to the
University’s Web site on Aug. 15, along with a version that will be updated throughout the year.
The content of the online “bulletin of record” will be frozen as of Aug. 15 each year. (This provides a reference point for application of the eight-year matriculation rule.) At the beginning of each academic year, the previous bulletin of record will be archived and will remain on the Web site permanently; new editions will be added to the archive each year.
Online updated bulletins will include any additions and revisions that occur after the beginning of the academic year. Any updated passages will be highlighted in a different text color, and effective dates will be noted.
Publishing USC’s bulletins on the Web will bring several important advantages. Course and curriculum information can be updated as changes occur throughout the year, making the bulletin up-to-date and accurate at all times. Late changes and additions not approved until
July or August of each year can be included in the updated online bulletins in time for the start of the academic year.
In the future, enhanced content could make online bulletins stronger marketing tools. Also, Web-based bulletins are environmentally friendly; printed bulletins consume 15 tons of paper each year.
University Publications will print a very limited number of administrative bulletins for deans, department heads, key administrators, and campus libraries. These print versions will reproduce the Web bulletins of record with virtually no reformatting. All versions are official bulletins. The only difference among them is that one version is updated regularly.
To access the bulletins, go to www.sc.edu/bulletin, and click on the bulletin you wish to use. After Aug. 15, instructions on the front page of each bulletin will explain how to find specific information, how to print pages, and how to forward updates or corrections to University
Publications.
University Publications will continue to contact academic departments and administrative offices annually to ensure that content is closely reviewed before bulletins of record are closed. For more information, call 7-8161.
Writing enthusiasts will have the chance to hear and learn from some of USC’s most talented writers, including Janette Turner Hospital, at the first USC Spring Authors Weekend April 26–27.
The two-day celebration of fiction, drama, and poetry will include readings at 7 p.m. April 26 and 27 in
Gambrell Hall Auditorium and workshops with writers from10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
April 27.
The evening readings are free, and the cost of the workshops will be $25 for the public and $15 for students.
The event highlights USC’s emerging master’s program in creative writing in the College of Liberal Arts.
Hospital, distinguished writer-in-residence and author of six novels, will join USC poet-in-residence Fred
Dings, USC playwright-in-residence John MacNicholas, and poet Amittai Aviram for readings on April 26.
On April 27, William Price Fox, USC professor of English, humorist, and author of several Southern novels, will join English department colleagues Kwame Dawes, Dianne Johnson, and Keen Butterworth.
The 10 a.m. workshops will feature fiction with Hospital, poetry with Dings, and writing for children with
Johnson.
The 1:30 p.m. workshops will feature humor writing with Fox and a poetry workshop with Dawes. Participants will talk with the USC writers, work on their own writing, and receive personal feedback from the writers.
For more information, call the English department at 7-7120 or visit www.cla.sc.edu/ENGL/index.html.

Wonder-dog Zaina makes a flying catch during play time on the Horseshoe.
Zaina’s owner is Will
Cook, a first-year pharmacy student.
■ ALUMNI INVITED BACK TO CLASS JUNE 19–22: The Carolina Alumni
Association will sponsor its annual Alumni University June 19–22. The event will feature four days of touring new buildings, exploring fascinating topics with USC’s most popular professors, and discussing Ernest Hemingway’s “A
Farewell to Arms” with Donald Greiner, USC Carolina Distinguished
Professor of English. Registration is $250 per person, which includes all seminars, activities, materials, tours, and most meals. Lodging is available for a special group rate of $74 at the Clarion Town House Hotel & Suites on
Gervais Street. Call 7-4111 to register for Alumni University and the Clarion at 771-8711 to arrange lodging. The deadline to register is May 1.
■ SHOWCASE TO FEATURE CONTEMPORARY PLAYS: USC Theatre
South Carolina’s Directors’ Showcase will feature Speed-the-Plow at 8 p.m. April 26–28 in Longstreet Theatre. Jerry Winters, a first-year master’s candidate in directing, will direct the play. Admission is free.
■ YOUNG ALUMNI TO HOST GOLF TOURNA-
MENT: The Young Alumni Council of the Carolina
Alumni Association will hold its second annual golf tournament May 9 at the University Club, home course of the University’s golf teams. The captain’s choice tournament will begin at 9:30 a.m. with registration and a continental breakfast.
Tee times will start at 11 a.m. The cost is $75 per person or $300 for a team of four, which includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner, greens fees, and drinks. Lunch and drinks will be served throughout the day, with a dinner and awards ceremony at
4:30 p.m. Door prizes at the dinner will include footballs autographed by Lou Holtz. For more information, visit www.carolinaalumni.org.
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A young mother dies after a debilitating illness, leaving behind a family awash in grief.
Church members respond with meals and heartfelt condolences, but family members’ by other members during their grieving.
“We often say things to each other that sound spiritual but don’t really offer much comfort and might even inhibit someone from suffering continues long after those initial gestures of comfort.
“Reaching out to those who are grieving goes beyond bringing a casserole,” said
Cynthia Forrest, director of the Dying Well Project in
USC’s Center for Child and
Family Studies. “We sometimes fail in really helping
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Part of the problem is that
modern culture has changed the nature of grieving at death,
Forrest said.
“A hundred years ago, most people died at home, and their deaths were a more intimate part of the family’s experience,” she said. “Now, 80 percent of people people as they grieve.”
Helping faith communities better respond to death, bereavement, and end-of-life issues is the focus of the
Dying Well Project. Dying
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Death in America Foundation and now is supported by the S.C. Hospital
Association’s Carolina Center for Hospice and
End-of-Life Care.
“In our work with faith communities, we know that we don’t have all the answers,” said
Katrina Spigner, Dying Well Project chaplain.
“Instead, we ask questions to start a dialogue, and that helps congregations realize what they’re doing well and where they need work.”
At first glance, faith communities would seem well equipped for dealing with death and dying, but such issues often aren’t collectively discussed in detail if at all. In their meetings with Dying
Well facilitators, some church members have die in hospitals or nursing homes, and the family is more removed from the process.”
Ultimately, Forrest and
Spigner hope their efforts with churches will foster grassroots discussion and initiatives that will help more people in their own experiences with grief, including those who aren’t a part of faith communities. The Dying Well Project also is focusing more attention on end-of-life issues such as caring for elderly family members.
“We’re finding an enormous amount of interest in discussing these issues because they’re affecting more people these days,” Forrest said.
“There are a lot more options now, but there also is a lot of confusion about what to do.”
The Dying Well Project offers more information on its Web site: www.sc.edu/cosw/center/dyingwell.html. The project’s office at the Benson School also has a small library of printed information available.
Paul Willis, director of the libraries at the University of Kentucky, has been named associate vice provost and dean of the libraries and instructional services at USC.
Willis, one of three finalists for the post, will begin his duties in July.
“We are delighted to have someone of Paul Willis’ caliber and experience to lead our nationally recognized libraries,” Provost Odom said. “The search committee was impressed by Mr. Willis’ wealth of experience, his understanding of technology, and his enthusiasm, and we look forward to having him join the administration and implementing a vision that will take all our libraries to even greater heights.”
Willis has spent his entire professional career at the University of
Kentucky, where he also earned his bachelor’s and law degrees. He earned a master’s degree in library science from the University of Maryland.
Under his direction, the University of Kentucky libraries have earned national recognition.
Willis, who will oversee Thomas Cooper, South Caroliniana, business, film, mathematics, and music libraries, as well as the library annex and
Willis conservation facility, said he was eager to become involved in the momentum that he sensed during his visit to USC.
“The libraries at USC have a lot of momentum, and I sense from the people whom I met—both in the libraries and in the administration—that they are eager to keep that momentum going,”
Willis said. “I look forward to coming to the University of South Carolina and becoming a part of that effort, particularly in enhancing the changes in scholarly communication that have been brought by information technology and developing partnerships with other academic institutions.”
Willis succeeds George Terry, who died last October.
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Deep in the woods near a creek bed at the Savannah River Site, a bushy green fern soon will be put to a vital test.
Several square miles of land are contaminated with radioactive heavy metals, a legacy of the 1950s-era nuclear weapons material production there. In hopes of removing contaminants from the soil, USC biologist Laszlo Marton’s team is collaborating with
SRS on the development of a genetically altered carpet fern called selaginella, programming the plant for faster growth and improved ability to uptake metal contaminants.
“SR Technology Center scientist Dan Caplan came to us for ideas on how plants might be used for more efficient remediation in this area,” Marton said. “The site is prohibitively large to attempt conventional methods of soil removal, so plants offer the best option.”
While Marton and other scientists have successfully altered several plant species for phytoremediation purposes, most species require ample sunlight.
This particular contaminated plot at SRS is in deep shade.
“We knew that ferns were likely candidates because they grow in shade, and they take up metals more readily than other plants,” he said. “The problem is that most ferns are not active enough. Then we found the carpet fern, which has a significant growth
Laszlo Marton with fern.
rate.”
The idea of genetically altering a plant, then unleashing it to the environment to devour radioactive metals might conjure up images of the fictional people-eating plant in Little Shop of Horrors. Such fears are understandable but unjustified, Marton said.
“These transgenic plants often are made sterile so they can’t reproduce, and their modifications are subtle, usually focused on improving the plant’s ability to uptake or store contaminants,” he said.
Ideally, the selaginella ferns will absorb copious amounts of the radioactive contaminants from the soil and store the pollutants in their leaves. The foliage could then be harvested and disposed of properly, thus permanently removing contamination from the ground.
“We have done a lot of work with spartina marsh grass that demonstrates how effective those plants are in removing mercury from the soil,” Marton said.
Marton also is conducting transgenic research on giant reed plants, which grow very quickly and can be planted in constructed wetlands for contamination removal. Because the giant reeds are sterile, they don’t spread but are capable of uptaking large amounts of pollutants.
“It’s very easy for an area to become contaminated but quite difficult to remediate it,”
Marton said. “But we have to do it—the pollution won’t just go away.”
Chris Horn can be reached at 7-3687 or chorn@gwm.sc.edu.
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■ Name: Wayne Eargle Opera at USC will close its 2001–02 season with “Two by and also as the cantankerous Zita in Gianni Schicchi,
Puccini,” a double-bill featuring two of the composer’s most Jennifer Luiken will appear in her third Opera at USC
■ Job title: Network manager, Graduate School popular short operas, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi.
production. Luiken is a doctoral candidate in musical arts.
■ What is your educational background? In 1994, I received
Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. April 26 and at 3 p.m.
USC music professor Donald Gray will sing the title role of a BS in business administration from USC Spartanburg, where I
April 28 in the Koger Center. Tickets are $10 for the public Gianni Schicchi. Gray’s previous roles include Count played baseball. I had a red-shirt year in 1995; so, I began and $5 for USC students, faculty, and staff. Tickets are Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, the elder Germont in La working toward an MAT in physical available at the Carolina Coliseum box office or by calling Traviata, and the title roles in Rigoletto and Don Giovanni.
education. But after completing two
251-2222.
Soprano Simoné G. Müller will perform the role of practicums with elementary school children, I decided that wasn’t for me.
■ So how did you get interested in Malcolm Willoughby,
network information? In my junior and
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some programming and had exposure to title character, Suor forced by her noble tenor, will sing the role of
Willoughby is a master’s information systems. That campus sits right
“Two by Puccini” will begin with Suor Angelica, a sentimental tragedy that centers around life in a late18thcentury convent. The family to retire to the
Lauretta, Schicchi’s daughter. Müller, a native of Germany, is pursuing a master’s degree in opera theatre.
degree candidate in opera across the street from Milliken & Comconvent to atone for theatre.
pany, and several of my professors had
Eargle the guilt of an illicit Opera at USC artistic worked with information systems at relationship, which director Talmage
Milliken. The professors there were a great resource, and through resulted in the birth Fauntleroy will serve as them, I was exposed to information management. Since that time, of a son.
stage director for “Two by
I’ve learned more by taking training courses and by reading on my
The second Puccini.” Fauntleroy has own.
opera, Gianni directed operas for the
■ How long have you worked at USC? I joined the College of Schicchi, is a comic Teatro Comunale di
Nursing’s Office of Student Services in June 1995; in 1997, I opera based on the Firenze, the Estate moved to the college’s Information Resource Center and began 30th canto of Fiesolana Music Festival, assisting students with software usage. In 1999, I moved to the
Graduate School and started working with hardware. They were
Dante’s Inferno. Set in Florence in the and the Teatro Fulcoli. He is founder and artistic and looking for someone to manage their transition from paper early 14th century, general director of USC processes to electronic processes, because security and ease of use Gianni Schicchi Studio Lirico, the summer required a considerable amount of new technology and developbegins as relatives opera-apprentice program ment of networks.
of Buoso Donati held in Anghiari, Italy.
■ What are your responsibilities? I maintain the Graduate gather around his This summer, Fauntleroy deathbed in will direct Mozart’s Cosi fan
School’s Web site and all its Web processes. I support the
Graduate School staff on campus and Extended Graduate anticipation of a large inheritance.
tutte for Studio Lirico and
The Magic Flute for the
Campus staff around the state on our other campuses. For
After Buoso’s Miller Outdoor Theater in example, I recently configured several laptops for the outlying passing and the Houston.
campuses so that people can log in from there, just as if they are reading of his will, Neil Casey, a member of on the main campus. It gives them access to the online address the family is the USC conducting staff, book and all our resources.
shocked to discover will conduct “Two by
■ Talk a little about the Graduate School’s Web site. The site he has left his Puccini.” Casey is assistant offers static pages full of information, such as announcements of fortune to the conductor of the Augusta upcoming events, admission requirements, and application monks of Signa.
Symphony and has been a deadlines for both potential and current students. The site also has
The greedy family enlists the help of Gianni Schicchi, who faculty member at the Conductor’s Institute in Columbia and interactive elements that allow graduate students to apply and pay online. Departments can recommend the admission of students promises to see that the relatives get what they deserve.
The role of Suor Angelica will be shared by sopranos
Piccolo Spoleto’s Opera Master Classes in Charleston. John
Keene, music, will serve as vocal coach.
using our electronic action sheet. The site is designed to be user friendly in a secure environment. Students and applicants are given
Christie Inman and J.L. McDaniel, who will perform on alternate nights. Inman, a candidate for a master’s degree in
For more information, call Fauntleroy at 7-2458.
assigned identification numbers and passwords, and they can track voice, performed in Columbia as Dido in Opera at USC’s the progress of their individual application, from start to finish, in read-only documents. In a similar way, faculty and staff can track production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, as Giannetta in
Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore, Clarina in Rossini’s The applicants who have applied to their department. About 70 percent
Marriage Contract, and Alexis in Offenbach’s The Isle of of folks who are applying to the Graduate School now do so electronically.
■ What do you enjoy most about your job? I grew up in West
Columbia and always wanted to be a part of the Carolina community. As for this job specifically, I enjoy taking what doesn’t seem like a feasible project and making it easy to use and easy to operate.
■ What is the job’s greatest challenge? Helping users on campus to understand that an electronic document they can click on is the
Tulipatan.
McDaniel is a doctor of musical arts candidate at
USC and shared with Inman the role of Dido in the fall production of Dido and Aeneas. She was the soprano soloist in last year’s Columbia Choral Society performance of Handel’s Messiah and is a part-time professor of voice at
Winthrop University.
As Angelica’s cold and imposing aunt, the Principessa,
■ What: “Two by Puccini,” featuring the operas, Suor
Angelica and Gianni Schicchi
■ When: 7:30 p.m. April 26 and 3 p.m. April 28
■ Where: Koger Center
■ Tickets: $10, public, and $5, USC students, faculty, and staff; available at the Carolina Coliseum box office or by calling 251-2222
■ Information: Talmage Fauntleroy, 7-2458 same as a paper document they can hold in their hands.
■ Do you have a favorite book? I enjoy reading the sports page, keeping track of the Gamecocks and sporting activities, and also reading books and articles on networking and information systems. I also enjoy reading other subjects to try to broaden my horizons—biography, history, automobile magazines, and gardening and home improvement publications.
■ What is your favorite Web site? That’s easy: www.gradschool.sc.edu.
■ LIST YOUR EVENTS: The TIMES calendar welcomes submissions of listings for campus events. Listings should include a name and phone number so we can follow up if necessary. Items should be sent to TIMES Calendar at
University Publications, 701 Byrnes Building, e-mailed to kdowell@gwm.sc.edu, or faxed to 7-8212. If you have questions, call Kathy Dowell at 7-3686. The deadline for receipt of information is 11 days prior to the publication date of issue.
Remaining publication dates for this semester are May 9 and May 30.
If you require special accommodations, please contact the program sponsor.
The USC Dance Conservatory will present the ballet, Snow
White and the Dwarfs, at 7 p.m. April 29 in the Koger pany artistic director Susan Anderson.
“Students have built costumes, choreographed pieces of
Center. USC dance teacher Florence Stiles created the ballet, based on the classic Grimm fairy tale.
Set in the Wicked Queen’s castle, the ballet, and been able to lead the children—the Dance
Conservatory students—in the dances.
For our dancers, many of whom plan to open studios of their own, this is an the dwarfs’ charming cottage, and a forest filled with dancing birds, flowers, and fairies, Snow White and the Dwarfs is for both children and adults. The production will feature more than 100 dancers from the USC Dance Conservatory, USC Dance Company, and USC dance faculty.
■ What: Snow White and the
Dwarfs, presented by the USC
Dance Conservatory
■ When: 7 p.m. April 29
■ Where: Koger Center
■ Tickets: $5 and are available at the Carolina Coliseum box office or by calling 251-2222
■ Information: Susan
Anderson, 7-5636
Wendy Rickenbaker, principal ballerina for the USC Dance Company, will dance the role of Snow White. USC dance teacher Serguei Chtyrkov will dance the role of the prince. USC Dance Conservatory student
Stephanie McKnight will portray the Wicked Queen.
“It’s been a wonderful opportunity for USC students to experience the creative process,” said USC Dance Cominvaluable experience.”
A ballroom-dance presentation will precede Snow White and the Dwarfs.
USC Dance Conservatory students will showcase their skills in tango, salsa, and swing dance.
The USC Dance Conservatory trains young dancers on a pre-professional level. Classes are offered in cooperation with the USC Department of Theatre,
Speech, and Dance and are taught by
USC dance instructors and qualified USC
Dance Company members.
Tickets for Snow White and the Dwarfs are $5 and are available at the Carolina Coliseum box office or by calling
251-2222. For more information, call Anderson at 7-5636.
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■ May 8 Seminar: “Elder Law: What We Need to Know as We
Age,” Franchelle C. Millender, attorney at law. Discussion will cover
Medicare, Medicaid, long-term care insurance, and powers of attorney and other legal documents. Sponsored by the Office of
Gift Planning. 10–11:30 a.m., Campus Room, Capstone Conference
Center. To make a reservation, call 7-4196 or 7-3346.
■ April 25 USC Choral: Graduate vocal ensemble, 6 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall, free.
■ April 27 Brass Choir Concert: Music performed by various combinations of brass instruments, 7:30 p.m., School of Music
Recital Hall, free. For more information, see www.music.sc.edu.
■ April 28 USC Bands: USC Band’s annual “On the Horseshoe” concert,
Horseshoe, 6 p.m., free.
■ April 28 Preston College and Honors
College Chorus: Directed by Beth Rauh and Tim Powell, 7:30 p.m., School of
Music Recital Hall, free. For more information, see www.music.sc.edu.
■ May 3 USC Chamber Music Concert:
Classical music for various string ensembles, 7 p.m., School of Music
Recital Hall, free.
■ May 6 USC String Project: Spring concert, 7 p.m., Koger Center, free. For more information, call 7-9568 or go to www.music.sc.edu/Special_Programs/
StringProject/index.html.
■ April 24–25 USC Sumter: Student
Education Association presents “The
Learning Station,” a theatrical troupe specializing in educational entertainment for young children, in the Nettles Building auditorium.
The group will perform at 9 a.m.,
10:30 a.m., and noon April 24 and at
9 a.m. April 25. A donation of $3 per person is requested. For more information, call Marilyn J. Izzard, director of the USC Spartanburg
Education Programs at USC Sumter, at 55-3709.
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Spring commencement exercises for baccalaureate, master’s, and professional degree candidates will be May 10–11.
■ May 10 Commencement: Baccalaureate, master’s, and professional commencement exercises. Commencement exercises for the Moore School of Business, College of Criminal Justice,
College of Engineering and Information Technology, College of
Journalism and Mass Communications, College of Library and
Information Science, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, The
Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, and College of Social
Work. 3 p.m., Carolina Coliseum. School of Law, 10 a.m.,
Horseshoe. School of Medicine, 12:30 p.m., Koger Center.
■ May 11 Commencement: Baccalaureate, master’s, and professional commencement exercises. Commencement exercises for the College of Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management; College of Education;
School of the Environment; College of Liberal Arts; School of Music;
College of Science and Mathematics; Fort Jackson Military Base programs; and Honors College, 10:30 a.m., Carolina Coliseum.
Doctoral degree candidates, 8:30 a.m., Koger Center.
■ May 13–15 InfoTech 2002: Topical sessions on technology in education for faculty, staff, and students. The conference will feature more than 80 presentations by campus faculty and IT staff.
Keynote speaker May 13 is David Brown, vice president of Wake
Forest University and dean of the International Center for Computer
Enhanced Learning (ICCEL). Sponsored by the College of Liberal
Arts Computing and Information Technology Center. Gambrell Hall, free. Registration required. To register, call 7-1109 or go to http:// infotech.cla.sc.edu.
■
April 26 Seminar: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
“Chemical Measurements and Imaging with Interference Coatings,”
Michael Myrick, chemistry. 4 p.m., Jones Physical Sciences
Center, Room 006, free.
David Voros’ Ecce Homo
■ Through April 30 USC Sumter: Anderson Library’s University
Gallery presents a collection of oil paintings by David Voros, art,
Columbia. Library hours are 8:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m. Monday–Thursday;
8:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Fridays; closed Saturdays; and 2–6 p.m. Sundays.
For more information, call Cara-lin Getty, at 55-3727.
■ Through May 17 USC Beaufort: “Fresh Paint,” a student and faculty art exhibition, USC Beaufort
Performing Arts Center Gallery, free. Gallery hours are
9 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–
Friday. For more information, call the Arts
Council of Beaufort County at 843-521-4145.
■ April 26 and 28 Opera at USC: The 2001–02 season will close with “Two by Puccini,” a double-bill featuring two of the composer’s most popular operas, Suor Angelica and Gianni
Schicchi. Performances at 7:30 p.m. April 26 and at 3 p.m. April
28, Koger Center. Tickets are $10, public, and $5, USC students, faculty, and staff. Tickets are available at the Carolina Coliseum box office or by calling 251-2222. (See story page 4.)
■ May 1 USC Dance: USC Dance Conservatory concert, 6 p.m.,
Koger Center, free.
USC Beaufort’s Festival Series Season Finale will feature flutist Marina Piccinini, above, joining with Chee-Yun and others to perform works by Beethoven, Haydn, and von Weber.
The concert will be at 5 p.m. May 5 in the
USC Beaufort Performing Arts Center.
Tickets are available by calling the Arts
Council of Beaufort County at 843-521-4145.
■ April 28–January 2003 Collections Highlights: McKissick Quilt
Collection, an exhibit of quilts, coverlets, and bedspreads from utilitarian strip quilts to intricately designed quilts, exploring quilting as a traditional art form. Second floor gallery. Free.
Museum hours are 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Friday, 9 a.m.–7 p.m. Thursdays, and1–5 p.m. Sundays.
■ May 2 Workshop: “Creating a Family Archive,” led by Sharon
Bennett, Charleston Museum archivist. Bennett will discuss how to organize and preserve family archives and how to care for and house family books, papers, documents, and photographs. Storage and handling problems and solutions will be addressed, and participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about their particular collections. 5:15–7 p.m., first floor auditorium. Cost is
$15 for museum members and $18 for non-members. To make a reservation, call 7-7251.
■ Through May 11 McMaster Gallery: MFA/BFA exhibitions, free.
Gallery hours are 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. weekdays and 1–4 p.m. on
Sundays. Call 7-4236 for more information.
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■ SUMMER COURSE ON GOVERNMENT SET FOR JUNE 17–21: USC’s
Institute for Public Service and Policy Research will sponsor its second summer course on South Carolina government and politics for social studies teachers June 17–21 in Columbia. The program carries graduate credit and can be used for recertification. Topics include the governor, Legislature, judiciary and political parties, and interest groups, as well as local government in South Carolina. Full scholarships are available. For information contact
Charlie Tyer7-7764, or e-mail tyer@sc.edu. The deadline for application has been extended to April 30.
■ FACULTY CLUB ANNUAL MEETING IS APRIL 30: The annual membership meeting of the Faculty Club at McCutchen House will be at 5 p.m. April 30.
Following the meeting, light snacks will be provided, and a beer and wine cash bar will be available.
■ THOMAS COOPER SOCIETY PRESENTS STUDENT BOOK COLLECTING
AWARDS: Harry E. Hootman took first place recently in the 2002 Thomas
Cooper Society Student Book Collecting Awards competition. Tonya L. Wertz-
Orbaugh placed second. Hootman’s collection is titled “Collecting Books by
John McPhee,” and Wertz-Orbaugh’s collection covers “British and American
Literary Annuals and Gift Books: An Annotated Bibliography.” Exhibits of materials from both collections will be displayed in the Thomas Cooper
Library. The Student Book Collecting Award is presented annually by the
Thomas Cooper Society to a South Carolina college or university student to encourage the art of book collecting among students. The society is a voluntary support organization for the University libraries and provides community enrichment through lectures, seminars, exhibitions, and publications. The society presented the awards April 16 at its annual meeting.
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Noel Coward’s Hay Fever, now at Drayton
Hall, is played as a madcap comedy in this production by guest director Paul Mullins.
This is uncommon Coward. The typically
British understatement and brittleness have been replaced in this version by over-the-top portrayals more reminiscent of Kaufman and
Hart. The accents are British, but the tone and pacing are purely American.
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“The church we’d been attending decided to move from downtown Columbia to the Eau Claire community, and I felt like God was calling us to move there, too, to be more involved in the lives of those children. I especially felt like I should help Tracey more with the tutoring,” Bert said.
In the summer of 1999, about a year after putting their dream home on the market and buying a home in Eau Claire, the Elys jumped in with both feet. They already had met kids in the neighborhood who “were so far behind in reading and math it was heartbreaking,” Bert said. After talking with several parents, the Elys launched a six-week summer program at the Eau Claire Community Council building, which was designed to emphasize the fun side of learning. The kids cooked, made crafts, read books, and—with help from a small grant—learned computer skills. Bert, who specializes in molecular genetics research, took his vacation that summer in half days so he could help out.That fall, they focused on recruiting college students from USC, Columbia College,
Benedict University, and the Lutheran Theological Seminary to be tutors in the Eau Claire schools. That effort was successful, and continues under the name of Tutor Eau Claire! But opportunities were cropping up close to home, as well.
Two young neighborhood boys, Isaiah and Tony, started showing up on the Ely’s front doorstep every afternoon after school. They brought their homework to work on, and the impromptu tutoring
continued from page 1 world,” said Frank Raymond, dean of the College of Social Work.
“Many journal subscriptions are cost-prohibitive, and most journals make a call for papers 18 months to two years before the issue appears.
“We don’t have those types of limitations. Access to EJSW is completely free, and we can put together an issue within a matter of a few weeks, making the content very timely.
“I really like that immediacy, and I like the ability to offer real-time discussions,” said Raymond, who explained that every issue of the journal will feature a discussion area for readers and authors to interact.
“Students can correspond directly with the author of an article.”
Menon said he is encouraging professors to use articles from the journal as part of class readings. “The site also allows us to use video, and we may add videos of mock counseling sessions for faculty to use as instructional aids,” he said.
The inaugural issue of EJSW, “Social Work Education and
Practice: Issues for the Profession in a New Era,” highlights important issues currently facing the profession. Topics include welfare reform, social work advocacy, technology challenges facing the profession, social work distance education, gerontological social work, and the future of social work education.
sessions in the Ely home soon attracted other kids in the neighborhood who wanted to join them.
“After a lot of planning and prayer, we opened our house as an afternoon homework center; the dining room became a computer center,” Bert said. “We also got two grants, one from the city of
Columbia and another from Sisters of Charity, to open a second center in the Eau Claire Community Center and to hire staff.”
Now in their third year of tutoring, the Elys have received honors from the Eau Claire community, Richland District One, and the
Christian Faculty Initiative at USC. Those acknowledgements and expressions of thanks from parents have been gratifying, they said, but the real reward has come in watching the steady improvement of the students’ report cards.
“We’ve seen kids who were making Ds and Fs become honor roll students,” Tracey said. “My original goal was that the kids would improve academically—reading literacy has always been my crusade.
But that might not be the most important thing—Providing a caring
“mom” to come home to every day, who keeps you on the right track by example and loving guidance, might be even more important.”
To support Tutor Eau Claire! or find information about tutoring opportunities in Eau Claire and other community schools, visit Ely’s
Web page at www.biol.sc.edu/~ely.
The second issue, due out in June, will focus on social policies.
Future issues will study mental health and domestic violence. Each issue of the e-journal will be guest edited by a leading scholar in the area being explored.
Like any refereed journal, the e-journal relies on a board of editors to review and select articles. The EJSW Board of Editors includes scholars from institutions across the country, including Case Western Reserve
University, Florida State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of Tennessee. The board soon will expand to include scholars from other countries.
The e-journal operates through a Web site designed by USC’s i2media. Menon maintains the site, which is updated through a stateof-the-art automated process.
Plans for the site include adding book reviews and other elements that typically appear in refereed journals, and possibly adding banner ads from other schools of social work and publishing houses to generate income to help maintain the site. EJSW can be found at www.ejsw.net.
Kathy Henry Dowell can be reached at 7-3686 or kdowell@gwm.sc.edu.
The action revolves around
Judith Bliss, delightfully played by Sarah Barker, as the eccentric actress/ mother of an equally eccentric family, including Richard Jennings as the author/ father and Marcella Kearns and Michael
Kroeker as the daughter and son.
All play their parts well, as do the supporting actors. Danny Hoskins, Jackie
Coleman, Scott Bellot, and Mardi Sykes have cameos as weekend house guests, and all do a credible job. April Kresken is a hoot as Clara, the comic maid.
While it’s not what you’d expect in a
British comedy—everyone overplays everything to the hilt—there isn’t a weak link in the bunch. And the real star of the evening was Susan Tooker, the costume designer. Her costumes are a visual feast.
The staging is admirable, and a special effect at the end is too good to give away and shouldn’t be missed. This one is played strictly for laughs.
Nic Ularu’s set works well and has a sort of empty elegance, rather like the Bliss family. Lighting designer Jim Hunter also deserves kudos.
Hay Fever plays at Drayton at 8 p.m.
April 25–27 and 3 p.m. April 28. Don’t miss out on the fun. Call 7-2551 for reservations.
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11 in the Koger Center. Mark Smith, an associate professor in the history department, will be the speaker.
Commencement exercises at USC’s other campuses are as follows:
■ USC Lancaster will award 118 associate degrees at 7 p.m. May 2 in the James Bradley Arts and
Sciences Building. David Bell, president of Macon
State College in Macon, Ga., will be the guest speaker. Bell is a former philosophy professor, tennis coach, and academic dean at USC Lancaster.
■ USC Beaufort will award 47 associate degrees at
7 p.m. May 3 in the Performing Arts Center. Jan Norby
Gretlund, senior lecturer of American Literature at the
Center for American Studies at the University of
Southern Denmark, will be the speaker.
■ USC Salkehatchie will award 82 associate degrees at
7 p.m. May 6 in the Conference Center. Dorothea
Benton Frank, a native of Walterboro and author of
Sullivan’s Island and The Plantation, will be the speaker.
■ USC Union will award 38 associate degrees at 7 p.m.
May 7 in the campus’ main building. President Palms will be the speaker.
■ USC Sumter will award 83 associate degrees at
7 p.m. May 8 in the Nettles Building gymnasium.
Ernest A. Finney Jr., former chief justice of the S.C.
Supreme Court, will be the speaker.
■ USC Aiken will award 41 associate degrees, 238 baccalaureate degrees, and seven master’s degrees at
7 p.m. May 9 in the Student Activities Center.
President Palms will be the speaker.
■ USC Spartanburg will award 27 associate degrees,
337 baccalaureate degrees, and 12 master’s degrees at
7 p.m. May 11 in the Quadrangle. President Palms will be the speaker.
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USC held its 15th-annual Showcase April 13 offering exhibits, performances, and hands-on activities on the Horseshoe.
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■ JOB VACANCIES: For up-to-date information on USC Columbia vacancies, access the human resources Web page at http://hr.sc.edu
or visit the employment office, 508
Assembly St. For positions at other campuses, contact the personnel office at that campus.
■ EDUCATION PROFESSOR TO PARTICIPATE IN EMERGING SCHOLARS
PROGRAM: John Lowery, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational
Leadership and Policies, is one of six scholars selected to participate in the
American College Personnel Association Emerging Scholars Program. In its third year, the program is sponsored by the Senior Scholars of the American College
Personnel Association (ACPA) to encourage scholarship and research among its members, especially scholars beginning their post-doctoral work. Josten’s Inc. will fund a research project for each participant.
■ ARPAN NAMED COMMUNITY AMBASSADOR OF THE YEAR: Jeffrey S. Arpan, program director and professor of international business in the Moore School of
Business, has been chosen 2002 Community Ambassador of the Year by International Friendship Ministries. The honor recognizes Arpan’s efforts to encourage understanding among foreign-born citizens, native-born Americans, and local businesses.
■ CHE SETS HEARINGS ON BEAUFORT MISSION CHANGE: The state
Commission on Higher Education will hold public hearings to receive comments for a request by USC Beaufort for a change in its mission from a two-year degree granting campus of USC to a four-year degree granting institution of USC. Hearings are scheduled from 3 to 5:30 p.m.
April 29 in the Performing Arts Center of USC Beaufort, 801 Carteret
Street, Beaufort, and from 3 to 5 p.m. May 1 in Suite 200 of the S.C.
Commission on Higher Education offices, 1333 Main St., Columbia. The hearings will be held by the commission’s Division of Planning,
Assessment, and Performance Funding. Individuals who would like to submit written comments should do so by 5 p.m. two business days before the hearing date. Oral comments at the hearings will be limited to three to five minutes per speaker. Questions should be directed to Lovely
Ulmer-Sottong, director, planning, assessment, and performance funding, 803-737-2225.
■ BOOKS AND CHAPTERS: Paul Allen Miller, French and classics, Latin Erotic
Elegy: An Anthology and Reader , Routledge Press, London.
Ezra Greenspan, English, The House Of Putnam, 1837–1872: A Documentary
Volume , Gale Publishing, Detroit, Mich.
Carol Myers-Scotton, English, “Extending the predictive power of the Matrix Language
Frame model,” German Linguistics Society, University of Mannheim, Germany.
Kathy Evans and Joe Rotter, educational psychology, “Synthesizing Family,
Career, and Culture,” American Counseling Association, New Orleans, La.
■ ARTICLES: Ian Lerche and Evan Paleologos, geological sciences, “Control function measures for hydrodynamic problems,” Mathematical Geology .
Carol Myers-Scotton,
English, “Implications of abstract grammatical structure: Two targets in
Creole formation,”
Journal of Pidgin and
Creole Languages.
Leslie S. Jones and
Marlene A. Wilson, pharmacology and physiology, and Misty D.
Smith, “Sex differences in hippocampal slice excitability: role of testosterone,” Neuroscience .
Janice C. Probst, family and preventive medicine, and Michael E. Samuels, health administration,
“The Economic Impact of
Texas Hospital Closures in the 1980s,” Texas Journal
Marlene A. Wilson and Steven P. Wilson, pharmacology and physiology, Paul R.
Burghardt (Ph.D. student), Stefany D. Primeaux (post-doctoral fellow), and Joaquin N.
Lugo Jr., “Effects of amygdalar opioids on the anxiolytic properties of ethanol,” New
York Academy of Sciences
Conference, The Amygdala in Brain Function: Basic
Clinical Approaches,
Galveston, Texas, also, same conference, with
Sandra J. Kelly,
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it takes architectural renderings to present a gift-naming opportunity.
psychology, Alexander J.
McDonald and Franco
Mascagni, cell biology and neuroscience, and
C.E. Heape, “The effects of altered enkelphalin expression in amygdala on ethanol self-administration,” and, with Kris A.
Ford (USC medical school laboratory technician),
“Herpes virus mediated alterations in amygdalar neuropeptide Y alter ethanol self-administration.” of Rural Health .
Suzanne McDermott, family and preventive medicine, William Callaghan, Lisa
Szwejbka, Heather Mann, and Virginie Daguise, “Urinary Tract Infections During
Pregnancy and Mental Retardation and Developmental Delay,” Obstet Gynecol.
Eric M. Reisenauer, history, Sumter, “Of Arms and Armageddon: the Great War, Great Britain, and the
Apocalypse,” Georgia Association of Historians, Jekyll Island, Ga.
Joseph C. Rotter, counselor education, and Patricia E. Murray (Ph.D. student in counselor education), “Practice: Creative Counseling Techniques for Family
Therapists,” The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families.
Darrell Dernoshek, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, and Lara Lomicka, French and classics, “Connecting Communities through Cyberspace,” S.C. Foreign
Language Teachers Association, Columbia.
■ PRESENTATIONS: Scarlett Wesley, retailing, “Retail Customer Service: An
Exploration of Customer and Sales Personnel Perceptions,” Association of
Marketing Theory and Practice, Savannah, Ga.
■ OTHER: Manoj K. Malhotra, management science, has won the 2002 Stan
Hardy Award for his article, “Assessing the Impact of the Manufacturing
Executive’s Role on Business Performance Through Strategic Alignment,” published in the Journal of Operations Management 2001.
James L. Curtis, communications, “Impact of Self Maintenance Environment on
Major Upgrades,” International Alliance of Avaya Users Conference, San Diego,
Calif., also, same conference, “A Short Notice Forklift Upgrade and Conversion to
Remote EPN.”
Evan K. Paleologos, geological sciences, elected to the Executive Committee of the Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, which provides scientific and policy input to the World Bank, U.N. agencies, the European Union, and bilateral aid programs that relate to disaster reduction.
Paul Allen Miller, French and classics, “Subjections of Empire,” Classical
Association of the Middle West and South, Austin, Texas.
Bruce E. Field, education, guest edited “Illinois in America’s Half-Century:
Participating on the World Stage, 1941–2000,” Illinois History Teacher .
Scott Price, music, “Blindness, Autism, and Developmental Delay: Three Case
Studies in Piano Teaching,” Music Teachers National Association, Cincinnati, Ohio.
James L. Moore, educational psychology, “The Silent Users: Alcohol and Drug
Use Among Women on Public and Private College Campuses,” American
Counseling Association, New Orleans, La., also, same conference, with John
McFadden, educational psychology, “Sharing, Disclosing, and Teaching: A
Roundtable Summit for African-American Males in Counseling.”
Faculty/Staff items include presentation of papers and projects for national and international organizations; appointments to professional organizations and boards; special honors; and publication of papers, articles, and books. Submissions should be typed, contain full information (see listings for style), and be sent only once to Editor, TIMES, 701 Byrnes Building, Columbia campus. Send by e-mail to: chorn@gwm.sc.edu.
George L. Geckle, a professor of English, recently received two honors for outstanding teaching.
Geckle was named Teacher of the Year in 2001 by the English department and was honored last month by the Philological
Association of the Carolinas (PAC) for gifted teaching, exceptional scholarship, and outstanding professional service.
The PAC is a professional association for language and literature scholars with 280 members.
Geckle, who has taught Renaissance drama and
Shakespeare at USC since 1968, will retire in June. In addition to the teaching honors, Geckle was awarded the title of distinguished professor during his final year of service.
“When George received the teaching award, he said to the department that he felt like Ted Williams because Ted also hit a home run in his last at-bat before retiring,” said Steve Lynn,
Geckle chair of USC’s English department. “It’s a nice comparison because
George, like Ted, has been a valuable player throughout his career, serving as the Honors College director, as departmental chair for nine years, and as an outstanding teacher and colleague for many years.
“The PAC tribute also was especially nice because it was a kind of showcase of some of the many students he has taught who have gone on to academic careers, not to mention the hundreds who have gone on to be naval commanders, writers, company presidents, and such.”
Before teaching at USC, Geckle, a Newtown, Conn., native, taught for three years at the University of Wisconsin. Besides his teaching responsibilities at USC, Geckle served 16 years in administration, including nine years as chair of the English department and, before that, director of USC’s honors program.
In 1995, as chair of the speakers committee for the department, Geckle and William Price Fox organized a
World War II Writers Symposium, which included
William Styron, Joseph Heller, Mickey Spillane, James
Dickey, and William Manchester. S.C. ETV made the unprecedented gathering into a documentary.
As a scholar, Geckle has written numerous articles and reviews for journals and has edited several books, including Measure for Measure:
Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, published in July 2001.
Turquoise Funnel/Bronze Cup by Virginia
Scotchie.
Virginia Scotchie, an associate professor of art who teaches ceramics, recently won the Sidney Myer Fund Premier Award, one of the world’s highest honors for contemporary ceramic art.
Scotchie’s sculpture, “Turquoise
Funnel/Bronze Cup,” took top honors in the international competition, which featured more than 57 ceramic works by artists from Australia to Yugoslavia. All the works are featured in an exhibit,
“2002 Sidney Myer Fund International
Ceramics Award in association with La
Trobe University.” The exhibit will be on display through April 28 at the
Shepparton Art Gallery in Victoria,
Australia, a museum considered among the world’s finest for ceramic collections.
A $15,000 stipend accompanied the award, and Scotchie was the only
American honored in the competition, with three merit awards given to artists from Norway, Scotland, and Australia.
Scotchie’s 26-inch tall sculpture is an abstraction of personal objects given to
Scotchie by members of her family. Her father’s old pipe, a funnel from her mother’s kitchen, and her toys as a child inspired the piece. Art reviewers have said that the worn, crusty surface conveys how time acts to make and unmake a form, while the metallic surface suggests an opulence of a vanished era.
The Shepparton Art Gallery began a national ceramics award competition in
1991. In 1997, the Sidney Myer competition was expanded and made international. The 2002 competition was judged by Satoru Hoshino of Japan, an artist whose works have been exhibited throughout Europe, Australia, and the
United States for more than 20 years.
For more information on Scotchie’s ceramic sculptures, visit her Web site at www.cla.sc.edu/ART/Faculty/scotchie/ index.html.
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■ AD TEAM PLACES SECOND IN AAF DISTRICT
COMPETITION: A team of USC advertising students from the College of Journalism and Mass Communications placed second in the Virginia-Carolinas
District of the American Advertising Federation’s annual National Student Advertising Competition.
The team’s advisor is Jon P. Wardrip, journalism and mass communications. The University of North
Carolina won the competition, held April 12 in
Charlotte. This year’s case competition, sponsored by the investment securities subsidiary of Bank of
America, asked student teams to develop a communications plan that would increase brand awareness for the company and double its brokerage business over the next five years.
Cocky creates a wave of excitement and makes new friends wherever he goes.
These young Gamecock fans enjoy a visit with their feathered friend during a game.
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below, a sophomore from
Newton, Pa., winds up. Stacey has had more than 80 strikeouts this season.
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Corinna M. McLeod, English, received the
Outstanding Teaching Award for Graduate
Assistants April 3 at the annual Graduate
Student Day Awards Ceremony.
The Dean’s Award for Excellence in
Graduate Study went to Amy Baldwin, biological sciences; Mamadi Corra, sociology; Lisa Davis; biological sciences; and Matthew Gilg, biological sciences.
Georgette Mayo, African-American Studies, and Kristen Mehl, exercise science, received the Mortar Board Fellowship for Graduate and Professional Studies.
Winners of competitions in oral and poster presentations included:
■ Cultural Enrichment: Meredith Nutter, music, first
■ Humanities: Janelle Bonder, German,
Slavic, and East Asian languages and literatures, first; Cynthia Jean Furr, education, second; and Daniel Haun, psychology, third
■ Communication: Rebecca Jacobson, health promotion, education, and behavior, first; Theresa McGarry, linguistics, second
■ Social Issues: John Shutt, criminal justice, first; Shannon Suldo, psychology, second; and Geoffrey Urbaniak, psychology, third
■ Commerce and Industry: James E.
Talbert III, hotel, restaurant, and tourism management, first
■ Engineering and Technology: Waleed
Tawhed, civil and environmental engineering, first; Tyrone Toland, computer science and engineering, second; and John Aidoo, civil and environmental engineering, third
■ Physical and Life Sciences: Lisa Davis, biological sciences, first; Sherine Obare, chemistry and biochemistry, second; and
Karyn Novakowski, geological sciences, third
■ Health I: David Justus, pharmacy, first;
Dennis Rodriguez, psychology, second; and
Katharine Hendrix, health promotion, education, and behavior, third
■ Health II: Laura Mills, pharmacy, first;
Joseph McClung, exercise science, second; and Rosemary Hall, marine science, third
■ Scholarly Poster Competition Group 1:
Rosemarie Chinni, chemistry and biochemistry
■ Scholarly Poster Competition Group 2:
Michael Doescher, chemistry and biochemistry
■ Creative Poster Competition: Michael
Cassidy, art; Renee Rouillier, art, honorable mention.
Shortstop Amber Curtis, a sophomore from Tucson, Ariz., keeps her eye on the ball. The Lady Gamecocks are the defending conference champions.
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