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■ Inside
McKissick Museum exhibit
examines history of “Pets
in America.” Page 3
USC faculty and staff around
the state share the spirit
of the season with others.
Page 5
Carolina Caller is a six-figure
success for Office of Annual
Giving. Page 8
Happy
holidays
from the
Times staff
www.sc.edu/usctimes
imes
A publication for faculty, staff, and friends of the University of South Carolina
December 8, 2005
Lee Williams and the Spiritual QC’s to headline gospel fest
Martin Luther King Jr.
The University’s annual Gospel Unity Fest will be held
at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 16, 2006, in the Koger Center and
will feature Lee Williams and the Spiritual QC’s as the
headliner group.
The Grammy Award–winning group is considered
the No. 1 traditional gospel quartet group in America
and consistently dominates the “Billboard Gospel Top
10” in hits and sales.
Lee Williams, the group’s leader and a native of
Tupelo, Miss., has also won numerous individual
awards, including the Traditional Gospel Male Vocalist
of the Year award. The group also has earned many
Music Excellence Awards for “Male Vocalist of the
Year,” “Quartet of the Year,” “Album of the Year in the
Traditional Category,” “Video Concert and Concept,”
and the “Best Gospel Album of the Year” from the Soul
Train Music Awards.
The Gospel Unity Fest has become an integral part of
the annual King Holiday celebration at USC and ranks
as one of the largest King Day events in the state.
Continued on page 6
Get on board
Cocky’s Reading Express
ready to roll across state
By Larry Wood
Kim Truett
Bow-tie-ful Christmas
Lydia McCollum, left, a junior English/English Education major from Walterboro; Anita Brandon, house director; and Stephanie Clark, a
junior advertising major from Charleston, decorate the Alpha Chi Omega house’s grand staircase with festive ribbons and bows for the holiday season. Garnet ornaments
cover the towering Christmas tree.
Final exams are almost over, but several USC
student leaders will be extending the fall
semester a week to promote literacy to South
Carolina schoolchildren.
Using the same
van President
Sorensen travels in
on his Bow Tie Bus
tours, the students
will cross the state
from Spartanburg to
Charleston and Aiken
to Myrtle Beach Dec.
12–16 as part of
Cocky’s Reading
Preston
Express. Along the
way, students will stop at elementary schools
and public libraries to read and interact with
children and emphasize the importance of
reading and learning to read.
“When young children see student leaders
reading, we believe it will encourage them to
do the same,” said USC Student Government
treasurer Tommy Preston, who is organizing
the project. “We’ll also be recruiting future
USC students. I know it’s a little early now
because we’ll be targeting elementary-school
kids, but having children that age seeing
students from USC and seeing Cocky might
make them want to come to USC some day.”
Student Government is sponsoring the
tour in collaboration with the School of
Library and Information Science to promote the school’s “Children, Libraries, and
Continued on page 6
Commencement to be on cable, Internet
The University’s commencement ceremonies at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 12
can be viewed on digital television or the Internet. Political commentator and news analyst Cokie Roberts will be the speaker.
S.C. ETV will broadcast the commencement ceremonies live on ETV’s South
Carolina Channel, the digital cable
channel, beginning at 3 p.m. and repeat
it at noon Dec. 18. The University will
have streaming video of the ceremony at
3 p.m. The Web address is www.sc.edu/
commencement/.
To tune into the digital cable channel,
viewers must have either digital cable or a
digital television with a digital tuner or a
digital receiver. Digital cable customers of Roberts
the following will have immediate access
to the South Carolina Channel: Time Warner Cable, Comporium
Communications, Comcast, Charter Communications, Southern
Coastal Cable Communications, HTC Cablevision, PBT, Pinetree
Cable, Fairfield Communications, Homestar Entertainment
(Berkley Cable TV), and West Carolina Communication.
Campus wireless system is virtually complete
By Chris Horn
With a properly equipped laptop computer, it’s now
possible to roam across the Columbia campus—nearly
from one end to the other—and maintain a connection
to the University network and the Internet.
That’s because University Technology Services
(UTS) has all but completed a wireless access system for
many campus buildings and common areas of residence
halls. Laptop users also can access the network while
sitting on the Horseshoe or outside the business school
or engineering college. Discussions to make the entire
USC Columbia campus wireless are underway.
“Not every single nook and corner is ‘hot,’ but wireless access really is campuswide now,” said Kimberly
South, public information coordinator for UTS. “We’re
finding that not many people are accessing the network
outside. We’re considering some signage and other
communication to alert faculty, staff, and students
which areas are covered.”
Currently, only those with USC usernames and passwords can access the wireless system. UTS administrators are considering ways to allow guest access to the
❝Not every single nook and corner is
‘hot,’ but wireless access really is
campuswide now.
❞
—Kimberly South, public information
coordinator for UTS
system beginning sometime next year while protecting
the security of the University network. Guest access will
become especially important with the development of
Innovista, USC’s research campus initiative that promises to bring private-sector scientists to campus.
Configuring a laptop computer for wireless access
can be accomplished by logging into VIP and selecting
the “technology” link for the appropriate SSID (wireless
access code). Instructions are also available via the
USC Wireless Web site at http://uts.sc.edu/wireless .
For those who want hands-on assistance, there is the
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Briefly
USC PARTNERS WITH GREATER COLUMBIA
SHRINKDOWN: Residents of the Midlands can make a commitment to improve their health as part of a statewide program
designed to curb the obesity epidemic in South Carolina.The
Greater Columbia SHRINKDOWN, which gets under way
Jan. 9 at USC’s Colonial Center, is a free, eight-week program
designed to help residents lose weight and make lifestyle
changes in 2006.The SHRINKDOWN, a partnership of the
YMCA, Lexington Medical Center, Palmetto Health, and USC,
is a significant collaboration among four Columbia leaders in
wellness, healthcare, and education. On Jan. 9, participants can
register for the SHRINKDOWN at the Colonial Center from
3 to 7 p.m. Each participant will receive materials on health,
fitness and nutrition, and free health screenings for body fat and
cholesterol. During the SHRINKDOWN, which runs through
March 3, participants will weigh in weekly at designated sites
around the Midlands and receive additional information to support healthy lifestyles. Free programs on nutrition, fitness, and
health also will be offered throughout the SHRINKDOWN. For
more information, call Andy Edgren at 748-YMCA (9622).
USC RELEASES ECONOMIC FORECAST FOR 2006:
Jobs are expected to grow by 1.5 percent in South Carolina, and
personal income in the state should increase by 6 percent next
year, according to a report released at the 25th-annual Economic Outlook Conference, sponsored by USC’s Moore School
of Business.The projected job growth in the state should translate into a net gain of about 28,000 jobs, said Donald L. Schunk,
research economist in the Moore School’s Division of Research.
This will be a “welcome improvement” from 2005, Schunk said,
when rising interest rates and high energy prices led to sluggish
job growth.The increase in jobs still will be below the state’s
historical average, the report said.The state’s unemployment
rate “is expected to begin to decline” in 2006, although it will
likely remain above the national average “throughout the forecast horizon,” Schunk said. South Carolina’s jobless rate—expected to average 6.4 percent for all of 2005—was among the
highest in the nation this year.
COLONIAL CENTER RANKED NO. 1 COLLEGE
ARENA: The most recent ratings in Pollstar Magazine, one of
the concert industry’s premier publications, list the Colonial
Center among the top arenas in the world.The rankings are
based on ticket sales for the first nine months of 2005.The Colonial Center is ranked No. 38 in Pollstar’s Top 100 list of arenas
worldwide. It ranked 21st among arenas located in the United
States and is the No. 1 rated university arena in the world. Each
year since the building’s opening in 2002, the Colonial Center
has been named among Pollstar’s Top 100. “ Two of our goals for
the Colonial Center are to make it the best university arena in
the country and to serve the entire Midlands community,” said
Colonial Center general manager Tom Paquette. “ This ranking
shows that we are achieving both goals.” The Colonial Center
is ranked ahead of other well-known arenas in larger markets,
including Denver’s Pepsi Center, Houston’s Toyota Center, and
the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
USC LANDSCAPING RECEIVES AWARD: USC Columbia recently received a Green Star award for its landscape management program from the Professional Grounds Management
Society.The award was presented Nov. 5 in Orlando, Fla., at the
society’s School of Professional Grounds Management. USC
Columbia maintains more than 350 acres of campus grounds.
USC was one of only two universities nationally to receive the
society’s Grand Award.The awards program brings national recognition to grounds maintained with a high degree of excellence.
The program complements other national landscape award
programs that recognize outstanding design and construction.
THURMOND CENTER NAMED FACILITY OF MERIT:
The Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center has been
selected by the trade journal Athletic Business as a Facility of
Merit Award winner for outstanding sports and recreation
facility architecture.The center is one of six university facilities
to win the honor and the only one in the Southeast.The award
will be presented at the Facility of Merit Awards Reception in
December in Orlando. Previously, the center has been awarded
the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association’s 2004
Outstanding Sports Facility Award.
POSTAL SERVICES SCHEDULE FOR HOLIDAY
BREAK: The University Postal Service will operate with a
reduced staff to ensure that inbound USPS mail is sorted and
available for departments that wish to pick up their mail during
the December holiday break. Mail will be available for pick up
at the USC Post Office at 1600 Hampton St. between 8:30 and
11:30 a.m. on the following days: Dec. 22–23, Dec. 26–30, and
Jan. 2.To pick up mail, report to the USC Post Office loading
dock and ring the doorbell. Please note that incoming USPS
mail will be distributed only in whole department bundles and
released to staff who present valid USC identification. For more
information, call 7-2158 or 7-3168.
SALKEHATCHIE SPONSORS BRAIN BOWL: The USC
Salkehatchie Campus Opportunity Scholars Program recently
sponsored a Brain Bowl. Student teams that competed in the
academic quiz competitions were the Indians (all Salkehatchie
baseball players); the Nubian Queens (all female team); the Winning Team (all male team); B EZ; the Brainiacs; and the SGA Team
(members of student government.) The Winning Team won.
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Art brochure takes national, regional awards
“Live, Learn, Think, Create,”
a Department of Art recruitment brochure produced by
University Publications, has
received six national and
regional awards:
■ University and College
Designers Association 2005
National Design Show Competition. Award of Excellence in
the “Recruitment Publication”
category and was exhibited at
the 2005 national conference
in San Diego
■ Council for Advancement
and Support of Education
(CASE) 2005 National Circle
of Excellence Awards Program
Gold Medal in the “Individual
Student Recruitment Publications” category
The award-winning
Department of Art
recruitment brochure
was designed to
resemble an artist’s
portfolio.
■ Council for Advancement
and Support of Education
(CASE) 2005 National Circle
of Excellence Awards Program Gold Medal in the “Individual
In-House Publications” category
■ Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
2005 District III (Southeast) Advancement Awards Program
Award of Excellence in the “Student Recruitment” category
■ Columbia Advertising Club 2004–2005 American Advertising Awards (ADDY Awards). Silver Addy in the “Collateral
Material” category
■ Printing Industries of the Carolinas (PICA) Special Judges
Award.
Jodi Salter, student services coordinator, was the art
department’s coordinator on the project. University Publications staff who helped create the brochure were Kimberly
Massey, designer; Chip Harvey, creative director; Thom Harman, writer; Mike Brown and Kim Truett, photographers; and
Carolyn Parks, production coordinator.
Aiken to break ground
on Convocation Center
Kiernan
Walters
Wright
Three journalism alumni
recognized at ceremony
The School of Journalism and Mass Communications presented its Distinguished Alumni Award and its Outstanding
Young Alumni Award to three graduates during its annual
Alumni Dinner Nov. 3.
David “Rick” Kiernan, ’82 master’s, vice president of
strategic communications for MPRI, a global training corporation, received the Distinguished Alumni Award, while Martha
J.E. Wright, ’02, a Style Section copy editor and page designer
with The Washington Post, and Bradley Dean Walters, ’01,
also a copy editor and page designer at The Washington Post,
received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award.
Kiernan, who is responsible for his firm’s corporate
communications and its public affairs programs in Eastern
Europe, Central Asia, and Africa, retired from the U.S. Army
as a colonel in 1993. He was director of press operations and
public information for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and
organized an international media symposium in 2000 that
represented 22 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Wright, who majored in print journalism at USC, was editor-in-chief of The Garnet & Black magazine and The Gamecock student newspaper. She graduated magna cum laude and
was named Outstanding Print Journalism Senior and USC’s
Outstanding Woman of the Year.
Walters, also a print journalism major, was managing
editor of The Carolina Reporter practicum newspaper and
editor of The Gamecock. He won the Buchanan Award upon
graduation from the University and worked at the Spartanburg
Herald-Journal and The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.,
before joining the Washington Post.
Family Fund drawing is Dec. 9
A drawing for a free breakfast will be held Dec. 9 to
choose among University departments and units that have
achieved 100 percent participation in this year’s Family Fund
campaign.The department or unit whose name is drawn
will receive breakfast with President Sorensen and campaign
co-chairs Ray Tanner and Janette Turner Hospital at 8:30 a.m.
Dec. 16. Contributions to this year’s campaign have topped
$758,000, and gifts received by Dec. 31 can be deducted as
charitable contributions for 2005.
The groundbreaking ceremony for USC Aiken’s Convocation Center will take place at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 9 at the
construction site located on the Robert M. Bell Parkway.
The event will feature guest speakers, including President Sorensen, S.C. Sen. Thomas L. Moore, and Aiken
Mayor Fred Cavanaugh.
The 100,000 square-foot center adjacent to the
Roberto Hernandez Stadium will have a seating capacity
of 4,000 people. The facility will include three playing
surfaces, dressing rooms, and meeting spaces.
USC Aiken officials expect that the building will be a
positive addition to the campus as well as the surrounding areas.
“This is a very exciting time for us,” said Chancellor
Thomas L. Hallman. “The Convocation Center is going to
be an asset to the entire Aiken community, not just USC
Aiken.”
In addition to providing state-of-the-art facilities for
USC Aiken’s athletic programs, the building will be the
largest gathering place for Aiken County, accommodating the campus’ graduation ceremonies and other major
campus events as well as community meetings and
conferences.
The rain location for the ceremony is the lobby of the
Etherredge Center on the USC Aiken campus.
For more information, contact Deidre Martin, vice
chancellor for university advancement at USC Aiken, at
56-3448 or deidrem@usca.edu.
Faculty/Staff Dependents’
Scholarships available
Applications for the Faculty/Staff Dependents’ Scholarships for the 2006–07 academic year are now available.
The scholarships are open to the dependent children
or spouses of full-time employees in the USC system.
The Faculty/Staff Dependents’ Scholarship is valued at
$1,500 for students attending the Columbia campus,
$1,200 for students attending the Aiken, Beaufort, and
Upstate campuses, and $800 for students attending the
Lancaster, Salkehatchie, Sumter, and Union campuses.
Applications are available at the financial aid offices
of all campuses but must be received by the Office of
Student Financial Aid and Scholarships at USC Columbia
by the priority deadline of Feb. 1, 2006.
To be eligible, an applicant must be enrolled or accepted for enrollment as a full-time undergraduate or
graduate student on one of USC’s campuses. Freshman
eligibility is determined by weighted core course GPA and
standardized test scores. Continuing students’ eligibility
is based on the student having attained a 3.0 cumulative
GPA.
For more information, contact Ashleigh Speaks at
7-8134.
Animal attraction: Bond with pets is more than puppy love
In our last issue, Times asked faculty and staff to submit
stories and photos of their pets in conjunction with the “Pets
in America” exhibit at McKissick Museum. Following are two
submissions. For more photos, check our Web site at
www.sc.edu/usctimes/.
‘Mutt’ takes top prize at show
Over the years, my husband and I had various breeds of dogs,
so it was no surprise when we acquired a Tibetan Mastiff. This
breed of dog is known as a ‘Rare Breed,’ not because it is so
scarce, although there are probably only 2,500 in the United
States, but because it is a breed that is not yet fully recognized
by the American Kennel Club.
The Tibetan Mastiff is a guardian breed originally from the
Himalayas. Because of the harsh climate there and because of its
role as a guardian for the Tibetan
nomads and monks, the breed is
rather large with long thick fur.
They are unique in many of their
features but are frequently mistaken for a Chow, because their
tails curl up over their backs and
because of the heavy mane of fur
around their heads.
Our puppy, Shania, soon
grew into a beautiful black
and tan adult, and by the time
she was 6 months old, she was
Robin Allwright and Shania
already performing in the show
ring. In May 2002, we took her
to the breed club’s national specialty show held in Maryland.
On the drive there, we stopped for lunch and a relaxing
walk at a small park. Here we were greeted by two young
children. The girl politely asked if they could pet our dog. We
said yes, and the girl began petting Shania, while her younger
brother hung back, quite uncertain what to make of this furry
creature that definitely outweighed him. The girl then turned
to her brother and quite confidently said, ‘Oh, don’t worry. It’s
just a mutt.’
“Well, this ‘mutt’ did very well at her first national specialty.
She earned a five-point major and was awarded Best Female in
the show by the judge. A very big award for our little girl! ”
—Robyn Allwright, adjunct, art history, USC Upstate
Neutering animals is a must
When the USC Children’s Center was still at the old Booker
T. Washington school, a sign caught our attention: Keep gate
closed—cat using sand box.
Being cat lovers, we began watching for the miscreant
and soon saw a pretty gray female and her single black kitten
lurking in the vicinity. The mother’s friendliness suggested
that she was an abandoned student pet, but the kitten wanted
nothing to do with us. My
husband, Mark Tompkins
(political science), began
feeding them occasionally,
as did staff in the animal
lab down the hill. Eventually we caught “Mom” and
brought her home to join
our own two cats.
“Daughter” was still at
large, still being fed by Mark
Kittens born at the old Booker T.
and the animal lab. Eluding
Washington complex.
numerous capture attempts,
she spent one too many nights under the moon with other
abandoned or transient cats and “Daughter” became “Mom.”
Eventually Mark and a team of grad students lured the kittens
into the open with baby food and seized them. The kittens were
tamed, and homes were found.
Our son had aged out of day care but “Daughter” was still at
large, still being fed. One evening Mark came home muttering,
“Bad news. ‘ Daughter’ is having conjugal visits.” Indeed! In the
final days of her second pregnancy, Mark was able to capture
her using a Rube Goldberg system of nets and wires. She delivered six kittens the next day. Once again, homes were found.
Two years later, we received a phone call begging us to take
one of the “kittens” back because, although she loved him, there
were problems with her infant daughter. I was reluctant, but my
son wailed, “Mom! He’s family. We HAVE to take him.” Thus,
Archie joined his mother and grandmother on our bed.
While this story has a happy ending for Maggie and her
offspring (11, assuming all the kittens were neutered as
promised), we need to discourage students from taking on
responsibilities they can’t manage, and we need to encourage
everyone to spay/neuter their pets. If left to their own devices
on campus, Maggie and her offspring could have numbered
about 8,000 within seven years.
—Trish Jerman, program manager,
Sustainable Universities Initiative
Pets are often treated like members of the family, as was Spotty the Hero Dog at this 1958 Chicago funeral.
Exhibit examines history of pet keeping
By Marshall Swanson
Keeping pets is a fundamental part of American life and
has been for centuries.
“Pets aren’t a modern trend or fashion, and there’s
a lot more to them than simply getting a dog or cat and
changing the Kitty Litter,” said Nathan Stalvey, curator of
temporary exhibitions and graphic design at McKissick
Museum.
“There is really more about the bond between animals
and their human owners that can be hard to explain.”
The depth of that bond—one that can make pets seem
like a member of the family—will become evident for
visitors to “Pets in America: The Story of Our Lives with
Animals at Home,” a new exhibit at McKissick Museum
for which Stalvey served as project manager.
The exhibit, which will remain on display through
April 22, 2006, was inspired by the work of Katherine C.
Grier while she was an associate professor of history at
USC. The University of North Carolina Press published
her book, Pets in America, this fall.
After its Columbia premiere at McKissick, the exhibit
will go on tour to Indianapolis, Ind., Grand Rapids,
Mich., Lexington, Mass., and possibly Chicago and the
Winterthur Museum near Wilmington, Del., where Grier
is now a professor of material culture studies.
Work on the exhibit, which includes 2,000 square feet
of floor space and some 250 items, began in August 2002.
In addition to Grier’s research, it also drew on the efforts
of Jason Shaiman, McKissick’s chief curator, and the rest
of the McKissick staff and its graduate assistants.
McKissick and the University provided funding with additional support from the Humane Society. About a dozen
other organizations also contributed to the exhibit in kind
by loaning objects, providing speakers, or in the case of the
National Association of Humane Environmental Education, printing a special edition of its children’s newsletter,
Kind News, which features an article on the exhibit.
The history of pet keeping in the United States has
been a social, cultural, and economic phenomenon, Stalvey
said. The exhibit provides a view of the activity from the
standpoint of material culture since the 18th century.
Sections of the exhibit include titles such as “A Natural History of Pets,” “At Home With Animals,” and “The
Pet As Patient.”
Different themes emerge in the exhibit, Stalvey said,
including the nature of a pet, other people’s interpreta-
A young girl cossets her pet lamb.
■ If you go
What: “Pets in America:The Story of Our Lives with
Animals at Home,” an exhibit
Where: McKissick Museum
When: Through April 22, 2006
Hours: 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday, 11 a.m.–
3 p.m. Saturday, closed Sunday and all USC holidays
Admission: Free
tions of pets and what they mean to them, and at the end
of the exhibit, another look at the concept of pets after
visitors have had a chance to reflect on the subject.
In addition to the McKissick exhibit, “Pets in
America” also features a Web site (petsinamerica.org)
that can be viewed either in lieu of or as a complement
to the museum’s exhibition. McKissick also is arranging
for University classes to visit the exhibit and providing
speakers who will talk about how it relates to different
curriculum areas.
Because Grier’s book and the exhibit share the same
name, it’s easy for people to assume the two go handin-hand, but actually they’re different in several ways,
Stalvey said. “The book is completely separate and is
more of a scholarly approach to the subject.”
He hopes visitors to the exhibit will come away from it
with a deeper appreciation for pets, whether or not they
own one.
“This will appeal to everyone,” he said. “The target
audience is as wide and general as possible.”
Pets exhibit reflects move to University-related topics
McKissick Museum’s exhibition of “Pets in America” reflects a new direction in its programming that expands its usual
emphasis on Southern culture, folk life, and history to include University-related subjects.
Katherine Grier was an associate professor of history at the University when McKissick began work on “Pets in
America,” and the museum has embraced other topics that reflect USC faculty members’ work. It recently mounted exhibitions featuring the art of David Voros, an assistant professor in the Department of Art, and alumnus Sigmund Abeles.
Upcoming exhibits are planned on the work of art professor Harry Hansen; the people of the Sudan in conjunction
with African Studies faculty member Ronald R. Atkinson; and photographs documenting the season of a semi-professional
baseball team in Rembert by Brian Baldwin, who specializes on topics dealing with Southern history and perspective.
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December & January
Calendar
■ Sports
■ Around the campuses
Dec. 13 Women’s Basketball: Minnesota, 7 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
Dec. 9 USC Aiken: Groundbreaking, new convocation center, 1:30 p.m., construction site, Robert
M. Bell Parkway, Aiken. Rain location is Etherredge
Center lobby, USC Aiken campus.
Dec. 14 Men’s Basketball: Winthrop, 7:30 p.m.,
Colonial Center
Dec. 9 USC Aiken: John
Berry Christmas Concert, 8 p.m.,
Etherredge Center. Tickets are $27
each. For more information, call
the box office at 56-3305.
Dec. 15 Women’s Basketball: Ohio, 7 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
Dec. 17 Women’s Basketball: S.C. State, 5 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
Dec. 17 Men’s Basketball: Wofford, 7:30 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
Dec. 19 Women’s Basketball: Savannah State,
7 p.m., Colonial Center.
Dec. 21 Women’s Basketball: Bethune-Cookman, 7 p.m., Colonial Center.
Dec. 28 Men’s Basketball: Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
Dec. 29 Women’s Basketball: Western Carolina, 7 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
Dec. 31 Men’s Basketball: Detroit-Mercy, 2 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
Jan. 3, 2006 Men’s Basketball: S.C. State, 7:30 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
Jan. 5, 2006 Women’s Basketball: Tennessee, 7 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
Jan. 8, 2006 Men’s Basketball: Tennessee, 4 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
Jan. 14, 2006 Men’s Basketball: Georgia, 3 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
Jan. 15, 2006 Women’s Basketball: Vanderbilt, 3 p.m.,
Colonial Center.
■ Exhibits
Through Jan. 5, 2006 Thomas Cooper Library:
“Twenty-two Collections: An Exhibition from the Matthew
J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collections,” an exhibition chiefly of
20th-century American writers, ”Mezzanine Exhibition Gallery. Free and open to the public.
Jan. 12–Feb. 10, 2006 McMaster Gallery: USC Alumni
Exhibit, featuring works by USC art department graduates.
McMaster Gallery is located at 1615 Senate St. Hours are
9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Monday–Friday, 1–4 p.m. Sunday. Closed
Saturdays and University holidays. For more information,
contact Mana Hewitt at 7-7480 or e-mail mana@sc.edu.
Through Jan. 29, 2006 McKissick Museum: The
Southeast Printmaking Invitational, an invitational exhibition that showcases hand-pulled prints by students from
several Southeastern universities, including USC, UNC, and
Clemson. The museum, which is free and open to the public,
is open 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday and 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Saturday. The museum is closed Sunday and all holidays. For
more information, call Jason Shaiman, curator of exhibitions,
at 7-2515.
Through April 22, 2006 McKissick Museum: “Pets in
America,” a 2,000-square-foot traveling exhibit with education programs and an interactive Web site, curated by Katherine C. Grier, associate professor in the USC Department
of History and author of Pets in America: A History.
■ Lectures
Dec. 8 Physics and astronomy, “Nuclear spin dynamics in solids: implications of microscopic chaos,” Boris Fine,
Department of Physics, University of Tennessee Knoxville
and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 4 p.m., Jones Physical
Sciences Center, Room 409.
Dec. 15 Physics and astronomy, Madalina Furis, National High
Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory. 4
p.m., Jones Physical Sciences Center, Room 409.
Jan. 19, 2006 Women’s Studies, “Rethinking Trauma:
Chronic Oppression and Health,” Tawanda Greer, USC
women’s Studies Program and Department of Psychology,
3:30 p.m., location TBA. Reception will follow lecture.
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Dec. 10 USC Aiken: “Creole
Christmas,” Augusta Symphony
with the Preservation Hall Jazz
Band, Aiken Symphony Guild,
8 p.m., Etherredge Center. Tickets
are $30 each. For more information, call the box office at 56-3305.
Through Dec. 15 USC Sumter: “Signs of Life,”
an exhibit of photography by Sumter-based artist
Mary Tuggle, Umpteenth Gallery, Arts and Letters
Building. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday, closed Saturday and Sunday. For more
information, call Cara-lin Getty at 55-3727.
Through Dec. 16 USC Sumter: “Recent Paintings,”
an exhibit of large-scaled geometric paintings by Grant
Jackson, Columbia artist and assistant educator at the
Columbia Museum of Art. Anderson Library, University Gallery. Gallery hours are 8 a.m.–8 p.m. Monday–Thursday; 8 a.m.–1 p.m. Friday; closed Saturday;
2–6 p.m. Sunday. Free and open to the public. For more
information, call Cara-lin Getty at 55-3727.
Through Dec. 16 USC Sumter: Exhibit, prints
and print lithographs by artist Carole Carberry,
Upstairs Gallery. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. –5 p.m.
Monday–Friday, closed Saturday and Sunday. For
more information, call Cara-lin Getty at 55-3727 or
Laura Cardello at 55-3858.
Jan. 9–Feb. 3, 2006 USC Sumter: Selected
works from USC Sumter’s Permanent Art Collection, Umpteenth Gallery, Arts and Letters Building. The exhibit is presented in conjunction with USC Sumter’s 40th-anniversary
celebration. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday, closed Saturday and Sunday. For more information, call
Cara-lin Getty at 55-3727 or Laura Cardello at 55-3858.
Jan. 9–Feb. 28, 2006 USC Sumter: Exhibit, “Sculpture
in Stone,” works by Columbia-based sculptor Sharon Licata,
Upstairs Gallery, Administration Building. The exhibit is presented in conjunction with USC Sumter’s 40th-anniversary
celebration. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday, closed Saturday and Sunday. For more information, call
Cara-lin Getty at 55-3727 or Laura Cardello at 55-3858.
Jan. 17–Feb. 3, 2006 USC Salkehatchie: Exhibit, “Frank
Martin: My Work, My Way,” works by Martin, an adjunct
art professor at USC Salkehatchie, LRB Conference Room,
West Campus. Hours are 8 a.m.–9 p.m. Monday–Thursday,
3–5 p.m. Sunday.
Just Mama and Me, a serigraph by Carole Carberry, is on display at USC
Sumter through Dec. 16.
Sing Gloria! Árpád Darázs
Singers in tune for holidays
The Árpád Darázs Singers will present their holiday 2005
concert season at several locations in the Midlands during
December.
The theme this year is “Sing Gloria!” Selections include
traditional sacred offerings, familiar carols, and some contemporary pieces, often with an upbeat flavor. Selections will
include “O Magnum Mysterium” (a renaissance motet), “The
Holly and the Ivy,” a contemporary setting of the Magnificat
called “Mary’s Praise,” “Jamaican Noel,” and the Fred Waring arrangement of “ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.”
Jan. 18, 2006 USC Salkehatchie: Senior scholar lecture,
“The USC Salkehatchie Walterboro Story,” Arthur Mitchell,
distinguished professor emeritus of history at USC Salkehatchie, 7 p.m., Main Building, Room 111, East Campus.
Jan. 20, 2006 USC Salkehatchie: Reception for artist
Frank Martin, 7 p.m. LRB Conference Room, West Campus.
■ 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, 920 Sumter St.; 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 business days prior to the publication
date of issue. The next publication date is Jan. 19.
If you require special accommodations, please contact the program sponsor.
■ Online calendar
USC Calendar of Events is at http://events.sc.edu.
All concerts are free and open to the public. Donations to
help with the choir’s expenses are accepted. The schedule:
■ Dec. 11, 3 p.m., St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 1529 Assembly
St., Columbia
■ Dec.13, 7 p.m., Kathwood Baptist Church, 4900 Trenholm
Road, Columbia
■ Dec. 15, 7 p.m., Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Still Hopes,
1 Still Hopes Drive, West Columbia.
The Árpád Darázs Singers were formed in 1987 in
memory of USC’s choral conductor, Árpád Darázs. Go to
www.ADSingers.org for more information.
C
hristmas giving
■ Concerts
Dec. 8 USC School of Music: Graduate String Quartet,
7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall, free. This event was
originally scheduled for Dec. 4.
Dec. 10 USC School of Music: String Quartet Workshop Recital, 8 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall, free.
Dec. 11 St. Paul’s Chorale and Orchestra: Autumn
Concert Series, “Glorious Morning—A New Birth!” Featuring selections from Vivaldi’s Gloria and new music by Mark
Hayes, Craig Courtney, and Gilbert Martin. 10:30 a.m., St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church, corner of Bull and Blanding streets
in downtown Columbia. Service is free and open to the
public. For more information, e-mail stpaulsevents@yahoo.
com.
Dec. 15 Columbia Museum of Art: Charles Wadsworth
and Friends Concert Series, concert number two, featuring Charles Wadsworth, piano; the Saint Lawrence String
Quartet; and the Pacifica Quartet. 7 p.m., Columbia Museum of Art. Season tickets are $150, or $125 for museum
members; individual tickets are $30, or $25 for museum
members. For tickets, call 343-2170. Parking is available in
the Wachovia parking lot at Hampton and Assembly streets.
All concerts begin promptly at 7 p.m., and latecomers will
not be seated until intermission. The Columbia Museum of
Art is located at the northwest corner of Main at Hampton
streets in downtown Columbia. For more information, call
343-2208 or go to www.columbiamuseum.org.
Jan. 10, 2006 USC Symphony: USC Young Artist Competition, 7 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall, free.
Jan. 11, 2006 USC School of Music: Guest artist
Poovalur Srinivasan, South Indian percussionist, with Craig
Butterfield and Stockton Helbing, in a concert fusing traditional Indian classical music and Western jazz. 5 p.m., School
of Music Recital Hall, free.
Jan. 15, 2006
USC School of
Music: Guest artist
Bonnie Hampton,
cello, 7:30 p.m.,
School of Music
Recital Hall, free.
Jan. 17, 2006
USC School of
Music: Charles
Fugo, Faculty Piano
Recital, 7:30 p.m.,
School of Music
Recital Hall, free.
Hampton
Jan. 18, 2006 USC School of Music: Piano Concerto
Competition, graduate and undergraduate students compete performing Mozart’s Concerto No. 17 in G major and
Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody, 7 p.m., School of Music Recital
Hall, free.
Jan. 21–Feb. 12, 2006 USC School of Music: Mozart
Festival, three-week festival celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth. Trinity Cathedral, School of Music,
and other Columbia locations. For more information, go to
www.music.sc.edu.
The St. Lawrence
String Quartet
Campuses respond to the needs
of others during the holiday season
USC’s response to a monthlong holiday drive to benefit
the Nurturing Center and the Salvation Army has been
so overwhelming that every stocking available has been
stuffed.
Students, faculty, and staff have collectively filled
1,300 stockings for the Salvation Army and adopted 34
children who will receive holiday gifts through the Nurturing Center.
“We’re really excited because last year we only had
750 stockings,” said Megan Kraft, a senior psychology major from Port Huron, Mich., who is the chair of
Carolina Cares. The student service group organized the
holiday drive and promoted the charity donations around
campus.
“We increased dramatically from last year, and we had
even more students who came and asked for stockings,”
Kraft said. “But we ran out and so did the Salvation Army.
This was a really
great response.”
Here’s a
roundup of how
USC Columbia and
other campuses
are helping this
holiday season.
■ “Our division (Regional
Campuses and
Continuing Education) is adopting a
family in WIS-TV’s
Families Helping
Families Program.
Our office will
provide clothing,
toys, gift cards,
and other things
on our family’s
list and also will
collect money to
purchase food or a
gift certificate from
a grocery store,
even though that’s
not on the list. We
also send a holiday
newsletter and
card to all of the
middle- and highschool students who attended the University’s Carolina
Master Scholars Program over the last three years. They
get the first look at the summer 2006 schedule and can
pre-register if they want to come back next summer.”
—Cynthia Steele, director,
Academic Enrichment and Conferences
■ “The Mary Black School of Nursing instructors at USC
Upstate will once again set up a Victorian nursing vignette
for the ‘Dickens of a Christmas’ event in downtown
Spartanburg at Bishop’s Furniture Store. Participants are
Mary Lou Hodge, Pat Clary, Charlotte Koehler, Angie
Davis, Karen Peel, Susan Ludwick, Debbie Wilson,
Heather Arthur, Tammy Gilliam, and myself.”
—Barbara McCracken, Mary Black School
of Nursing, USC Upstate
■ “Our office plans to serve cookies and invite students
to come by for an end-of-the-semester treat and farewell.
We have 102 countries represented by international
students at USC. They celebrate a lot of different cultural
traditions, so we tend to observe the end of the fall semester with a warm greeting and snacks, but don’t decorate
for a specific holiday. Our seasonal outreach effort was to
promote a fund-raising project at 10,000 Villages, a new
store in the Forest Park Shopping Center in Columbia,
which sells fair trade handicrafts from around the world.
Half of the shop’s proceeds on that day went to the Columbia Council for Internationals, a support organization
for international students at USC.”
—Patricia P. Willer, director,
International Programs For Students
■ “Twenty-eight of us in Advancement Administration
and University Development have teamed up to sponsor
a family through the Nurturing Center. Project Holiday
Joy assists local families who are in need of assistance to
provide a special Christmas to moms, dads, and children.
We have been assigned a family of five, and we’re going to
purchase a multitude of items that the children requested,
such as sheets, crayons, construction paper, markers,
hair bows, and books. The mother and father requested
gift certificates for bookstores and The State newspaper.
Our plan is also to provide them with a gift certificate to a
grocery store.”
—Lola Mauer, Annual Giving
■ “USC Upstate Athletics sponsored a canned food drive
to help benefit the Miracle Hill Downtown Rescue Mission in Spartanburg. Faculty and staff members who donated four or more canned food products received a free
admission to the
UNC Pembroke
game.”
—Bill English,
assistant
athletic director for Sports
Information,
USC Upstate
■ “The National
Resource Center
for The FirstYear Experience
and Students in
Transition and
University 101
has had a 10year tradition
of adopting a
family for the
holidays with the
Families Helping
Families project
sponsored by
Palmetto Project
and WIS TV. The
program helps
area families in
need who may
not have the finances to provide
gifts, toys, or
other items to children and adults. In the past, we have
collected as much as $425 and always have been able to
buy the kids and the mother so much more than they have
asked for.”
—Nina L. Glisson, conference coordinator,
National Resource Center for The First-Year
Experience and Students in Transition
■ “USC Upstate held its annual Angel Tree Lighting in
November. The Angel Tree, sponsored by the student
community service organization IMPACT and the Department of Social Services, gets the entire campus involved in
spreading holiday cheer to area children who are served by
the Department of Social Services and may not otherwise
receive gifts for Christmas. This is the perfect opportunity
for USC Upstate to make a difference in the lives of children in our community. It’s a very uplifting campuswide
activity that is eagerly anticipated every year.”
—Adrienne Middleton, assistant director
of student life, USC Upstate
■ “The Student Government Association is collecting toys
for the United Way/Toys for Tots program through Dec.
20. The Student Government Association and the Campus
Faith Fellowship are volunteering and have enlisted faculty
and staff to volunteer in the Salvation Army Kettle Drive.”
—Jane Brewer, associate dean,
student services, USC Salkehatchie
■ “I am team-teaching a University 101 class with Dominique Hemphill, and part of our students’ community
service is to bring canned goods so we can donate them to
the local HOPE organization.”
—Shana Funderburk, public information
officer, USC Lancaster
December 8, 2005
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Staff spotlight
Briefly
■ Name: Leslie Brunelli
NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR MUNGO TEACHING
AWARDS: Nominations are being accepted for the Michael J. Mungo
Undergraduate Teaching Awards and the Michael J. Mungo Graduate
Teaching Award. Each of the four winners of the undergraduate teaching awards will receive $2,500.The deadline for nominations is Dec. 9.
Nominees will be notified and asked to provide specific information
by Feb. 3, 2006.The awards are open to all full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty who teach undergraduate students, including those
who are candidates for, or who have already received, other teaching
awards.The winner of the Michael J. Mungo Graduate Teaching Award
also will receive $2,500.The deadline for nominations is Jan. 27, 2006.
Nominees will be notified and asked to provide specific information
by Feb. 24, 2006.The award is open to all full-time tenured or tenuretrack faculty who teach graduate students, including those who are
candidates for, or who have already received, other teaching awards.
Nominations may be made by students, faculty, department chairs,
and deans. Send nominations to Karl G. Heider, associate provost
and dean of undergraduate studies, Office of the Provost, Osborne
Administration Building, Suite 102.To contact Heider, call 7-2808 or
e-mail heiderk@gwm.sc.edu. For more information, go to
www.sc.edu/provost/facultydev.html.
HRTM COURSE WILL ALLOW STUDENTS TO CRUISE
THROUGH MAY SESSION: USC’s School of Hotel, Restaurant,
and Tourism Management will offer students a May session course
May 8–25 that will include a seven-day cruise to the Caribbean, with
one week of lectures and presentation both before and following
the cruise. Students enrolling in the “International Cruise Industry
Experience” course will depart Miami and dock in four ports of
call: Labadee, Hispaniola; Ocho Rios, Jamaica; George Town, Grand
Cayman; and Cozumel, Mexico.Topics of the HRTM 590 course will
include: changing structure and geography of the industry; market segmentation of cruise ship travelers; trends in the industry; health and
safety issues; and environmental and sociocultural impacts of cruising.
Laura Lawton and David Weaver will teach the three-hour course.
For more information, contact Lawton at llawton@sc.edu or Weaver
at dweaver@sc.edu.
CD FEATURES TRADITIONAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN
MUSIC: The Folklife Resource Center at McKissick Museum has
released a CD of gospel, work songs, blues, and Gullah spirituals.
Many of the musicians featured on Feel the Presence:Traditional African
American Music in South Carolina are recipients of the Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award, a state award that is presented annually to
artists who demonstrate a commitment to the state’s traditional arts,
including folk music.The CD is the second in the museum’s traditional
music series “Considerable Grace Traditional Music.” The series brings
attention to the state’s musical heritage and to the cultures that practice these traditional forms of music.The CD is available for $5.To
order a copy, contact Barbara Griggs at 7-6403 or barbarag@gwm.
sc.edu.
Gospel fest
Reading Express
NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR ADVISING AWARD: Nominations are being accepted for the Ada B.Thomas Faculty and Staff
Advisors of the Year Awards. Each nominee must be a full-time faculty
or staff member who advises undergraduate students.The deadline
for applications is Jan. 16, 2006.To complete an application online, go
to http://sc.edu/univ101/ada/.
CIVIL RIGHTS TOUR SET FOR JANUARY: The 2006 Civil
Rights Tour will be Jan. 4–7, 2006.Tour stops will include the boyhood
home of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the MLK Civil Rights Center,
the Ebenezer Baptist Church, the National Civil Rights Institute, and
the Lorraine Motel. Only 46 seats are available.To register, stop by
Multicultural Student Affairs in the Russell House West Wing, Suite
033. For more information on cost or to register by phone, call
7-7716. For information online, go to www.sa.sc.edu/omsa/ or e-mail
omsa@gwm.sc.edu.The trip is sponsored by Multicultural Student
Affairs, the African American Studies Program, Student Government,
and the USC Chapter of the NAACP.
MLK Holiday Committee and the USC Black Law Students
Association. The reception begins at 5:30 p.m. and the legal
symposium at 6:30 p.m. The location traditionally has been at
the USC School of Law Auditorium, but this year’s event may
be moved to another location, which will be announced.
The annual Commemorative Breakfast will be held at
7:30 a.m. Jan. 13, 2006, at The Zone at Williams-Brice Stadium. This year’s speaker will be the Rev. Charles B. Jackson
Jr., pastor of the New Laurel Street Baptist Church. Tickets are
$8 for faculty and staff and $5 for students.
The Office of Community Services Program will sponsor
the University’s Annual Day of Service, beginning at 8:30 a.m.
Jan. 16, 2006. During the Day of Service, hundreds of USC
students, staff, and faculty will perform a day of community
service in the greater Columbia community. Students, faculty,
and staff will assemble at the Russell House for their community service assignments.
■ Title: Univeristy budget director
■ Background: I earned a BA and an MBA from USC.
I was a Carolina Scholar and was in the Honors College.
I was also inducted in Phi Beta
Kappa as an undergrad. I worked
for Colonial Life & Accident after
graduating and earned my MBA
then. I started there in customer
service and ended up in financial
reporting after six years. I then
moved to Beaufort and was the
senior accountant for the Technical College of the Lowcountry
for a little more than a year, then
Brunelli
went to USC Beaufort in 1998 and
was vice chancellor for finance until May 2004. I moved
to Columbia last year and worked in Regional Campuses
and Continuing Education until moving to the University’s budget office in February.
■ Tell us about your job: The budget office prepares
the annual budget document for consideration by the
Board of Trustees and completes the state budget and
various reports to state agencies. We prepare analyses
throughout the year to ensure that the University maintains a sound financial status and operates within the
budget limitations established by the General Assembly
and the Board of Trustees. My office works on more than
one fiscal year at a time—we are reporting on the year
that has ended (2004–05), implementing the current
year (2005–06), and developing next year’s budget
(2006–07) at the same time.
■ What’s the most challenging thing about managing a budget that is so large and has so many
components? Because there are different University
budgets, providing relevant information to the people
who need it both internally and externally in a timely and
consistent manner is probably the greatest challenge.
■ What’s the one thing that you wish everyone
could understand about USC’s budget? That the
budget is a tool for planning the use of limited resources.
■ When you’re not crunching numbers, what do
you do for fun? I have two small children, Eli, 7, and
Lucy, 3, who keep me busy. We’re a family of avid Gamecock fans, so there is always something to do. Right now
we’re planning our bowl trip.
Wireless
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iCare center (Internet Computing and Resource Education) at
the University Technology Services building at the southwest
corner of Sumter and Blossom streets.
“You can bring in your laptop and power card, sit down
with a technician, and learn a little about your computer to
boot—it’s more of a learning environment than just a ‘fix-it’
mode,” South said.
The following buildings are equipped for wireless access:
Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center, classroom
level of the Coliseum, Law Center (excluding basement), Russell House, McCutchen, Thomas Cooper Library, Hampton
Street first-floor training room, Gambrell Hall second-floor
patio, parts of Thornwell Annex, and sections of the Osborne
Administration Building. Other wireless coverage areas can
be found on the USC Wireless Network Web site, http://uts.
sc.edu/wireless.
All residence halls have wireless access in common areas
and lounges.
Times • Vol. 16, No. 20 • December 8, 2005
Times is published 20 times a year for the faculty
and staff of the University of South Carolina by
the Department of University Publications,
Laurence W. Pearce, director. lpearce@gwm.sc.edu
Director of periodicals: Chris Horn chorn@gwm.sc.edu
Managing editor: Larry Wood larryw@gwm.sc.edu
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Literacy” initiative. The initiative, which began in September,
strives to eliminate illiteracy across South Carolina by targeting young children, adults, and teachers.
President Sorensen’s office is providing a children’s book
about Cocky that the students will donate to each school
library. Students have been working with the School of Library
and Information Science and the S.C. Center for Children’s
Books and Literacy at the S.C. State Library to select other
books for the tour. Their focus will be children in grades K–3,
but some of the schools are “so excited by the project that
they’re turning it into a schoolwide assembly,” Preston said.
At some stops, the students also will speak to teacher
cadets in high schools and meet with USC alumni. “It’s a neat
way to keep former USC students informed about what we’re
doing here now,” Preston said.
The tour will begin in the Midlands and Rock Hill and, on
December 8, 2005
COMPOSITION PREMIERED AT USC SCHEDULED
FOR P.D.Q. BACH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT: “O Serpent,”
a work composed by P.D.Q. Bach (1807–1742) and first premiered at
the 1989 International Serpent Festival at USC Columbia, has been
selected for Peter Schickele’s 40th-anniversary concerts in New York
City. “P.D.Q. Bach: A 40-year Retrogressive, An Overview of Classical
Music’s Underbelly” will feature many of the finest works by J.S. Bach’s
“long-lost son.” “O Serpent” will be performed by the American
serpent players Craig Kridel, Steven Silverstein, and Douglas Yeo.
The concerts will take place Dec. 27–29 at Symphony Space, 2537
Broadway at 95th Street, New York City. Kridel, a USC professor
of education, is coordinator of Berlioz Historical Brass; Silverstein,
a USC School of Music alumnus, is a New York City dance/theatre
musician;Yeo is bass trombonist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
For more information, go to www.symphonyspace.org.
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“The Gospel Unity Fest caps a weekend of holiday activities
in which we pay tribute to a great American here on the USC
campus and give persons in the community an opportunity to
come together and share in our celebration,” said Bobby Gist,
chair of the MLK Holiday Committee. “Dr. King was a person
who loved gospel music, and this Gospel Fest we hold each
year is our way of connecting the traditional gospel music of
the civil rights movement to the gospel artists that we have on
the scene today.”
Tickets for the Gospel Fest are available at the Carolina
Coliseum box office. Tickets are $10 each, and all seats are
reserved.
The Gospel Fest also will feature two other local South
Carolina–based groups, the Gospel Redeemers of Columbia
and the C.B. Jackson Singers, a gospel choir from the Brookland Baptist Church of West Columbia. The Rev. Ed McDowell, pastor of the Trenholm Road United Methodist Church,
will offer words of reflection.
USC’s King Day activities will begin Jan. 12, 2006, with a
reception and legal symposium jointly sponsored by the USC
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TEACHER OF THE YEAR TO SPEAK AT UPSTATE
CONVOCATION: USC Upstate will hold its convocation
honoring December graduates at 7 p.m. Dec. 14 at the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium.The campus expects 400 students
to graduate. Stephanie Seay, 2005–06
S.C.Teacher of the Year and a 1994
graduate of USC Upstate, will deliver
the graduation address. Seay earned a
degree in early childhood education
from the USC Upstate and a master’s
degree in elementary education from
Furman University. She is National
Board certified and has taught for
10 years. For more information, call
Frances Krydynski at 52-5221.
Seay
Design editor: Betty Lynn Compton blc@gwm.sc.edu
the second day, travel to the Upstate, where Cocky and the
Clemson Tiger will read together. The third day is reserved for
Aiken, Lexington, and Richland Counties. The tour will end
with a two-day sweep of the north and south coast.
“We’ve received e-mails from more than 100 schools that
want us to come next semester,” Preston said. “Before this trip
has even taken place, we already have interest for the next tour.
Hopefully, we’ll be doing it again, maybe around spring break.”
Although the tour will begin after classes and most exams
have ended, Preston had no trouble recruiting volunteers
to give their time during the holiday break. “As a matter of
fact, the van that we’ll be using seats about 15 people, and we
definitely had more students who wanted to participate. They
really believe that this project is important not only to USC
but to the entire state of South Carolina, helping to eradicate
illiteracy.”
Senior writers: Marshall Swanson mswanson@gwm.sc.edu
Kathy Henry Dowell kdowell@gwm.sc.edu
Photographers: Michael Brown mfbrown@gwm.sc.edu
Kim Truett ktruett@gwm.sc.edu
To reach us: 7-8161 or larryw@gwm.sc.edu
Campus correspondents: Office of Media Relations, USC
Columbia; Jennifer Lake, Aiken; Jill Bratland, Beaufort; Shana Funderburk, Lancaster; Jane Brewer, Salkehatchie; Tammy Whaley, Upstate;
Tom Prewett, Sumter; Terry Young, Union.
The University of South Carolina provides equal opportunity and
affirmative action in education and employment for all qualified
persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age,
disability, sexual orientation, or veteran status. The University of
South Carolina has designated as the ADA Title II, section 504, and
Title IX coordinator the Executive Assistant to the President for
Equal Opportunity Programs. The Office of the Executive Assistant
to the President for Equal Opportunity Programs is located at 1600
Hampton St., Columbia, S.C.; telephone 803-777-3854.
Faculty/staff news
J. Christopher Gillam, S.C. Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology
at USC, David G. Anderson (University of Tennessee), A. Townsend Peterson
(University of Kansas), and Neil Caithness (Southhampton University),
“An Eco-cultural Niche Model of Pleistocene North America,” NSF/ESF
Workshop on Eco-Cultural Niche Modeling, Musée National de Préhistoire,
Les Eyzies, France, also, “A Geographic Analysis of the S.C. Paleo-Point
Database,” Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Columbia, and, with
David G. Anderson, D. Shane Miller, Stephen J.Yerka (University of Tennessee),
■ BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
“Paleoindian Artifact Distributions in the Southeast and Beyond,” Clovis in
the Southeast Conference, Columbia.
Catherine J. Castner, languages, literatures, and cultures, Biondo Flavio’s
‘Italia illustrata’:Text,Translation, and Commentary,Volume I: Northern Italy, Global
Richard Clodfelter, retailing, “You Can Get It For Less on the Internet, or
Academic Publishing, Binghamton, N.Y.
Can You?” Atlantic Marketing Association Conference, Salem, Mass.
Patrick Hubbard and Robert Felix, law, 2005 Supplement to The South
Sue L. Scally, Center for Health Services and Policy Research, “Changing
Carolina Law of Torts, third edition, S.C. Bar, Columbia.
the Long-Term Care System in South Carolina,” Administration on Aging and
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Aging and Disability Resource
Janette Turner Hospital, English, De Zevende Engel (Dutch translation of
Centers National Grantee Meeting, Arlington,Va.
Oyster), translated by Jan Fastenau, Ambo Anthos, Amsterdam.
Mary Lou Hightower, art education, Upstate, and Linda Neely (Lander
Carol Myers-Scotton, English and linguistics, Multiple Voices: An Introduction
University), “Praxis II Art Making as a Test for Teacher Certification: Friend or
to Bilingualism, Blackwell Publishers, Malden, Mass.
Foe?” Southeastern Art Conference of Art Colleges, Little Rock, Ark.
Ray Merlock, fine arts, Upstate, “Preface,” Hollywood’s West,The American
Theresa Ricke-Kiely, Center for Nonprofit Leadership, Upstate, “LeaderFrontier in Film,Television, and History, Peter Rollins and John E. O’Connor,
ship and its Future,” S.C. Chapter American Association for Mental Retardaeditors, University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, and, same volume, with Jack
tion, Myrtle Beach.
Nachbar, “Bibliography: Trail Dust—Books about Western Movies, Selected
Classics, and Works since 1980.”
Elaine Lacy, Consortium for
Latino Immigration Studies, and
Thomas Lekan, history, and
Maggi Morehouse, history, Aiken,
Thomas Zeller, editors, Germany’s
“An Investigation of Inter-ethnic
Nature: Cultural Landscapes and EnviRelations Among Latino Immigrants
ronmental History, Rutgers University
and African Americans in Central
Press, Piscataway, N.J.
South Carolina,” Social Science
Robert E. Herzstein, history,
History Association, Portland, Ore.
Henry R. Luce,Time, and the American
Terry K. Peterson, education,
Crusade in Asia, Cambridge Univer“The Arts and Afterschool,”
sity Press, Cambridge, U.K.
National Arts Education PartnerCharles Curran, library and
ship, Charleston.
information science, and Lewis
Braden J. Hosch, institutional
Miller (graduate of library and
effectiveness, Aiken, and Lynne
information science), Guide to Library
Rhodes, English, Aiken, “Measurand Information Agency Management,
ing, Managing, and Communicating
Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Md.
Learning Outcomes of General
Jerry Lehman, psychology,
Education,” Southern AssoUpstate, Understanding Marriage,
ciation of Institutional Research,
Family, and Intimate Relationships,
Charleston.
Charles C. Thomas Publishers,
Andrew Graciano, art history,
Springfield, Ill.
“Science and the Visual Arts,
William D. Harpine, communica1700–1900,” Southeastern College
tions, Aiken, From the Front Porch to
Art Conference, Little Rock, Ark.
the Front Page: McKinley and Bryan
Bradley E. Cox, National
When
I
called
for
dramatic
change
from
the
top
down
in the 1896 Presidential Campaign,
Resource Center for The Firstand inside out, I meant the organization.
Texas A&M University Press, College
Year Experience and Students in
Station.
Transition, and Elizabeth Orehovec
Girma Negash, political science,
(education graduate student,
Aiken, “A Political Calculus of Apology: Japan and Its Neighbors,” Justice and
“An Interactive Experience: A New Model for Faculty-Student Interaction
Violence: Political Violence, Pacifism and Cultural Transformation, Allan Eickelmann,
Outside of the Classroom,” Association for the Study of Higher Education,
Eric Nelson, and Tom Lansford, editors, Aldershot, Hants, England, Ashgate,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Burlington,Vt.
Hoyt N. Wheeler, business, “American Trade Unions and Immigrant Labor,”
University of Frankfurt Center for North American Studies, Weilburg, Ger■ ARTICLES
many, and, same conference, “The Uninvited Gastarbeiter: Mexican Immigrant
Qian Wang, chemistry and biochemistry, K. Sivakumar, F. Xie, B.M. Cash,
Workers in the United States.”
S. Long, and H.N. Barnhill (all USC graduate students), “A Fluorogenic
Armand J. “Joe” Gagne Jr., business administration, Sumter, “An Examina1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reaction of 3-Azidocoumarins and Acetylenes,”
tion and Possible Explanation of John’s Dating of the Crucifixion,” ConferOrganic Letters.
ence on The Death of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel, Colloquium Biblicum
Joseph L. Staton, biology, Beaufort, and Bruce C. Coull, School of the
Lovaniense, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium.
Environment, “Genetic isolation discovered among previously described
sympatric morphs of a meiobenthic copepod,” Journal of Crustacean Biology.
■ OTHER
Robert R. Weyeneth, history, “The Architecture of Racial Segregation: The
Chrissy Coley, student affairs, recently was named to the Gallery of DistinChallenges of Preserving the Problematical Past,” The Public Historian.
guished Graduates at Gardner-Webb University.
Dana D. DeHart, Center for Child and Family Studies, “Turning points may
Joseph Pappin III, academic credit programs, appointed editor of Studies
be crucial to prevention,” Women, Girls, & Criminal Justice, and, “Standards for
in Edmund Burke and His Time, official journal of the Edmund Burke Society
programs and providers,” Crime Victims Report.
of America.
J. Mark Davis, exercise science, Abdul Ghaffar and Eugene P. Mayer,
Gregg Akkerman, jazz studies, Upstate, and his wife, Therese, performed
pathology and microbiology (medicine), A.S. Brown, E. Angela Murphy, and
on piano jazz and classical works composed for, or inspired by, children for
Martin D. Carmichael, “Gender differences in viral infection after repeated
the public library in Gaffney as part of their “Music Sandwiched In” series.
exercise stress,” Medical and Science in Sports and Exercise.
George Roberts, theatre, Upstate, wrote and performed “Blessed: An
William J. Padgett, statistics, and C. Park (Clemson University), “AccelerExpression of Faith,” a one-man play about the life of St. Paul, at St. James
ated Degradation Models for Failure Based on Geometric Brownian Motion
United Methodist Church in Spartanburg.
and Gamma Processes,” Lifetime Data Analysis, also, “New Cumulative DamCathy Murphy, chemistry and biochemistry, has been named an editor of
age Models for Failure Using Stochastic Processes as Initial Damage,” IEEE
the Journal of Physical Chemistry.
Transactions on Reliability.
Timothy Shaw, chemistry and biochemistry, has been named an associate
Shawn D.Youngstedt, exercise science, D.F. Kripke, J.A. Elliott, A. Tuunainen,
editor of Aquatic Geochemistry.
K.M. Rex, R.L. Hauger, and M.R. Marler, “Circadian Phase in Adults of Contrasting Ages,” Chronobiology International.
Stephen Criswell, folklorist and visiting assistant professor, English and
Native American Studies, Lancaster, invited to lecture and serve as member
Elizabeth A. Fallon and Sara Wilcox, exercise science, and Barbara E.
of panel at the S.C. State Museum event “Stirring Stories of South Carolina’s
Ainsworth, “Correlates of self-efficacy for physical activity in African AmeriLowcountry.”
can women,” Women & Health.
Robert Thomas, instructional media services, Upstate, had photographs of
the Loray Mill displayed in conjunction with the Preservation North Carolina
■ PRESENTATIONS
Conference, recently held in Gastonia, N.C.
Carol Myers-Scotton, English and linguistics, “Grammatical steps in
Mary Lou Hightower, art education, Upstate, re-elected to the Board of
language shift,” International Conference on Attrition, Amsterdam, The
Trustees for Spartanburg County School District Six.
Netherlands, also, “As the World Turns: Bilingualism and Globalization,”
Middlebury College,Vermont.
Bernard Omolo, mathematics, Upstate, lectured on statistical methods in
observational studies at the International Research and Philosophy SympoNicholas Vazsonyi, languages, literatures, and cultures, “Wagner Marketing
sium, Spartanburg.
Wagner,” Opera Studies Group, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Mark Leach, music library, selected to write program notes for the six
Rhonda B. Jeffries and Susan L. Schramm-Pate, education, “From
concerts of the USC Symphony 2005–06 season.
Kindergarten to College: Creating and Maintaining Diversity Affirmation
through Professional Development Initiatives,” American Educational Studies
Amy Kautz, University housing, elected president-elect of the S.C. Housing
Association Annual Meeting, Charlottesville,Va.
Officers Association.
William F. Edmiston, languages, literatures, and cultures, “Euphemism,
Terry K. Peterson, education, panelist on “The Creative Economy and
Preterition, Secrecy, and Closets in the Erotic Fiction of Sade,” South Atlantic
The Arts and Education,” Arts Education Partnership, Charleston, and, same
Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Ga.
meeting, honored as a cofounder of the partnership along with former U.S.
Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley.
Albert C. Goodyear, Tommy Charles, and J. Christopher Gillam,
S.C. Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology at USC, “The S.C. PaleoDan Streible, art, appointed to the National Film Preservation Board for
Point Database: Past, Present, and Future,” Clovis in the Southeast Confer2005–09 by the Librarian of Congress.
ence, Columbia.
Lisa Hammond Rashley, English, Lancaster, “The Materiality of Southern
Sentiment: Stitchery, Slavery, and Representing History,” American Studies
Association, Washington, D.C.
■ Job vacancies
Jeffrey Makala, Rare Books and Special Collections, Thomas Cooper
For up-to-date information on USC Columbia vacancies
Library, “Consuming Paradise: Polynesian Restaurants in Postwar America,”
and vacancies at other campuses, go to uscjobs.sc.edu.
American Studies Association, Washington, D.C.
The employment office is located at 1600 Hampton St.
John T. Addison, economics, “A Reduction in the Disadvantages of British
Unionism?” Institute for Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
Faculty/staff items include presentations 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, 920 Sumter St., Columbia campus. Send by e-mail to:
chorn@gwm.sc.edu.
■ Lighter times
Veteran professor named
interim dean of pharmacy
Randy Rowen, chair of the
Department of Pharmacy Practice
and Outcomes Sciences in the
S.C. College of Pharmacy, has
been named interim dean of the
college, effective Jan. 1.
Rowen, who joined the
college’s faculty in 1984, succeeds
pharmacy dean and veteran professor Farid Sadik, who will retire
Dec. 31. Rowen will step down as
Rowen
a department chair when he assumes the interim deanship. The search for a permanent
campus dean is ongoing.
Joe DiPiro is the executive dean of the pharmacy
college, which has been integrated with the pharmacy
college at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Dodenhoff is interim vice
president for advancement
Michelle Dodenhoff has been named interim vice
president for University Advancement. Her appointment
became effective Dec. 1.
Dodenhoff has a background
in education and advancement
with more than 20 years of experience in fund raising. For the
past year, she has been assistant
vice president for University
development and directed the
University’s fund-raising efforts.
Before coming to USC, Dodenhoff worked for 11 years in various
fund-raising and outreach capaciDodenhoff
ties at Tulane University, where as
director of major gifts for Tulane’s Health Sciences Center
she oversaw a $225,000,000 capital campaign. She also
worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New
York City and at Marymount Manhattan College.
Streible appointed to film board
The Librarian of Congress has appointed Dan Streible to
the National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) for 2005
to 2009.
The NFPB is an advisory body to the Library of
Congress, counseling the librarian on national film
preservation planning policy and the selection of films to
the National Film Registry. Each year the librarian and
board select 25 “culturally, historically or aesthetically
significant films” for the registry, which was created by
Congress to promote the preservation and awareness of
America’s film heritage.
Others of the 22 newly-appointed NFPB members
include Motion Picture Association of America head Dan
Glickman, cinematographer Caleb Deschanel (Being
There, The Right Stuff), producer and Turner Entertainment president Roger Mayer, Oscar-winning composer
Alan Bergman, critic Leonard Maltin, actress Alfre
Woodard, as well as director-writers Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams, Band of Brothers), Gregory Nava
(American Family, Selena), and Martin Scorsese.
USC Upstate student
receives service award
Joseph Carson, a business administration major in his
senior year at USC Upstate, recently received the 2005
Southern Business Administration Association’s (SBAA)
Annual Student Community Service Award at a ceremony
in Atlanta.
The plaque and $1,500 cash award are presented
annually to one undergraduate and one graduate student
from an SBAA member institution who has demonstrated
excellence in the classroom and whose time and effort
has made significant contributions to the community.
Carson was nominated by Richard Stolz, a faculty
member of USC Upstate’s School of Business Administration and Economics, who praised Carson for being “a
motivating personality in the creation and success” of the
school’s newly formed business student advisory council.
Yvonne Gilliam, program director of USC Upstate
AmeriCorps, also nominated Carson for the award.
Gilliam observed Carson tutor and mentor area youth
as a volunteer with AmeriCorps and said that he “was
extremely helpful, dedicated, and committed to improving the wellbeing of students in this area.”
December 8, 2005
7
Student speak
Political Science launches Constitution study site
By Marshall Swanson
■ Name: Caitlin Farquharson
■ Class: Sophomore
■ Major: Anthropology
■ Hometown: Atlantic City, N.J.
■ Looks like you’re doing some holiday shopping
here in the University Bookstore. Who for? My
dad; I’m going to give him this hoodie sweatshirt and
long-sleeve T-shirt. It’s cold in Atlantic City, N.J.—about
10 degrees colder than here—so he’ll wear it. He’s been
to Carolina before when he helped me move in, but he
doesn’t have much Carolina stuff.
■ What about the rest of your family? They’re not
getting any Carolina goodies? The rest of my family
has already bought their own shirts and things here, actually several times, so I’m just shopping for him today.
■ So your dad will be an honorary Gamecock
when he pulls on his hoodie. Yeah, he’s a chef at one
of the casinos in Atlantic City. He didn’t go to college, so
Carolina can be his school, too.
■ What are your plans for the holidays? I’m going
home. It will be a long drive—about 12 hours—but I want
to do it in one day. It will be the first time I’ve driven it
alone. My family will go down to Florida for a few days,
but other than that, I’m just looking forward to being
home.
■ What does next semester look like? I’ll be taking
more anthropology courses, which I’m looking forward
to. I’m really interested in cultural anthropology, so it will
be fun to start delving into that more.
Some colleges and universities observed
Constitution Day last Sept. 17 by having
someone give a talk on the Constitution.
At USC, faculty and students launched
something more ambitious that will
serve as a learning and teaching device
for years to come. It’s called the Spoken
Constitution, a link on the John C. West
Forum on Politics and Policy Web site
(www.westforum.sc.edu) that features
10 students engaging in brief discussions
with political science professor Blease
Graham about the first 10 amendments,
also known as The Bill of Rights.
“The whole spirit of the West Forum
is to get students involved in politics,
and that was the impetus for it,” said
John Stearns
Graham, who also is director of the West
Students taking part in the Spoken Constitution Project at USC included, from left, Mark McLawhon, a
Forum, which was established in 2002 as
third-year political science major from Columbia (Fourth Amendment); Jonathan Lounsberry, a fourtha nonpartisan, nonprofit civic leadership
year political science major from Columbia, (Second Amendment);Tyler Elmendorf, a second-year
international studies major from Greer (Sixth Amendment); Rebecca Spencer, a fourth-year history
incubator in the Department of Political
major from Aiken (First Amendment); Nicole Young, a second-year international studies major from
Science that works to enhance the quality
Virginia Beach,Va., (Ninth Amendment); and Elizabeth Harvey, a third-year international studies major
of South Carolina’s political environment. from Florence (Seventh Amendment). Not shown are: Jenny Fehr, a first-year political science major from
The discussions were recorded and
Dayton, Ohio; Nichole Stein, a third-year international studies and Spanish major from Charleston (Fifth
Amendment); Ashley McDowell, a fourth-year political science major from Aiken (Tenth Amendment);
placed on the forum Web page by asand Tiffany Caroffino, a fourth-year Italian major from Virginia Beach,Va.
sociate professor Robert Angel, political
science director of undergraduate studies,
Hammarskjold Professor in International Affairs) was interWest Forum Web page administrator, and associate director.
ested in the department doing something, and this seemed the
The site includes separate Flash movies, Angel said, “and
best way we could think of on a budget that was meaningful
10 of them offer video. Each Flash movie has an audio track of
for students,” Graham said.
the program, the text of which is presented on the page. The
The students’ discussions are designed to encourage
site offers hundreds of photos of our students and the amendfurther study and examination of the Bill of Rights. Angel
ments.”
has begun a search of the Web for Constitution-related sites
The long-range plan is to have the Spoken Constitution as
that might be interested in including a link to The Spoken
an ongoing project with selected amendments to be discussed
Constitution.
in future years until the complete Constitution is covered. The
Graham said the discussions of the amendments were kept
material is presented so that it can also be used by teachers as
brief and explored their “plain meaning” rather than attemptan instructional aid and by lay people who want to learn about
ing to interpret them in ways that might be controversial. “The
the Constitution or merely reflect on it, Graham said.
discussions aren’t intended to indoctrinate anybody about the
“A lot of students study the Constitution in class, and we
Constitution, but rather to just call attention to it, renew knowlthought this would be a good way to get them to tell other
edge about it, and encourage respect and discussion,” he said.
students about the part of the Constitution they worked on,”
The 10 students who took part in the project researched
Graham said. “We first thought we could do the entire Constieach of the amendments individually before talking about
tution, but then reality sank in when we had a time getting all
them on camera, Graham said. Angel said his test for whether
10 amendments done in the month to six weeks we worked on
the project is a success would be what he imagined John West
them.”
would say about it.
The project has its roots in a Senate resolution introduced by
“I think he would have liked it. He loved the students and
Robert Byrd of West Virginia that designated Sept. 17 as Conrespected them. He realized their potential and encouraged
stitution Day. Byrd’s idea was that universities receiving federal
them, and, I think, he’d say if we reach 10 South Carolinians
funds should provide instruction on the Constitution each year
with this it might inspire them to do just a little bit more
on Sept. 17, the day the document was signed in 1787.
thinking about their role in the civic life.”
“Professor [Harvey] Starr (department chair and Dag
Voice of USC
Senior English major is six-figure
success for Office of Annual Giving
By Karen Petit, media relations
Kim Truett
National AIDS Quilt
Katie Bennett, a graduate student in higher education and
student affairs, back;Lindsey Sheeley, a sophomore sociology major, front left; and MeganHutchison, a freshman business major, front right, examine a panel from the National
AIDS Quilt, which was on display at Capstone through
Dec. 1 as part of World AIDS Day. Each of the three panels
on display had a Columbia connection, including a square
dedicated to Bill Griffin, a former student and member of
the USC band.
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December 8, 2005
Amy Henderson hasn’t yet decided what she will do with her
English degree, but the outstanding job she’s done as a Carolina Caller for the University’s Office of Annual Giving has her
at least entertaining a career in business.
Since she began her job in February, Henderson has successfully asked for more than 1,000 pledges totaling more
than $100,000. The dollar total is the most generated by a
single Carolina Caller in at least three years, said Steve Farwick, assistant director of annual giving.
Henderson, a senior from Charlotte, is one of 50 student
workers in the call center who make, on average, 4,000 calls
per night to alumni, parents of students, friends of the University, and others. The callers represent, for many, the voice of
the University and are the primary source for information on
events, achievements, and other news and notes on USC.
They also are charged with making requests for donations.
And in the latter regard, Henderson stands alone.
President Sorensen recently paid a special visit to the
center to extend his thanks in person to Henderson and to
congratulate her on meeting a remarkable milestone.
“Thanks to students like you who are committed to our
success, the University of South Carolina has a promising
future,” Sorensen said in a letter, which he presented to
Henderson. “Your dedication and commitment to advancing
our University are phenomenal. Having students like you who
proudly represent USC across the nation is a comfort not only
to me but to all faculty, staff, students, and alumni as well.”
For the soft-spoken Henderson, the job was not a natural
fit. It was actually her mother who saw a notice in a newsletter
about job openings and approached her with it.
In little time, however, she was winning the office’s contests
for most credit-card pledges, most first-time pledges, and more.
Kim Truett
Carolina Caller Amy Henderson recently topped $100,000 in donations.
Her formula for success is simple. “You’ve got to believe in
the University,” she said. “And you’ve got to be patient. You
hear a lot of ‘nos’ before you hear ‘yeses.’”
Farwick admitted he didn’t see $100,000 when he hired
her, but he noticed potential.
“I saw someone who was enthusiastic and willing to do
what the job takes,” he said. “The job requires someone with
a good personality, who is able to converse well, who is confident, persistent, and not easily discouraged, and who is not
afraid to hear ‘no.’ She is all of those. And she is always willing
to help other callers.”
None of her calls stands out in particular, Henderson said,
but she does have a soft spot for parents.
“I especially like to talk to parents,” she said. “They are just
excited, especially parents of freshmen.”