Furman Magazine. Volume 26, Issue 2 - Full Issue

Furman Magazine Volume 26 Issue 0 1980 All Issues Article 2 6-1-1981 Furman Magazine. Volume 26, Issue 2 - Full Issue Furman University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/furman-magazine Recommended Citation University, Furman (1981) "Furman Magazine. Volume 26, Issue 2 - Full Issue," Furman Magazine: Vol. 26 : Iss. 0 , Article 2. Available at: https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/furman-magazine/vol26/iss0/2 This Complete Volume is made available online by Journals, part of the Furman University Scholar Exchange (FUSE). It has been accepted for inclusion in Furman Magazine by an authorized FUSE administrator. For terms of use, please refer to the FUSE Institutional Repository Guidelines. For more information, please contact . The � Magazine The old order Magazine Summer 1981/ Vol. 26 No.2 T HE FURMAN MAGAZ I N E is published by Furman University, Greenvil le, S.C. 29613 and printed by Provence-Jarrard Printing, Inc. Copyright© Furman University 1981 Marguerite Hays/Editor Blake Praytor, David Burke/ Photographers Tom Hays/Consultant CONT E NTS The old order changeth by Albert N. Sanders this page From Turkey with . . . . . . ? by jane Sampey page 8 A new strategy for a new era by Dan Cover page 14 Diary of a Royal visit by Eric Spitler page 20 Cover photo: Lynette Montgomery in front of the women's residence halls. By Bill Henry. Full-page photos: Pages 1 and 21 by Blake Praytor Page 21 by David Crosby Furman l'nwer.Sil)• offer.� f'qual upporlurnty 111 1/.{ nnployment, ad»llHwrn ar1d ('(/!U'alwnal arlHII/te.{ m lomplumlt' l{'llh T1tlt' IX and othn t 11•1/ nghts laws. changeth A personal history of Furman by Albert .N. Sanders A ! though it happened by sheer 1"""\... acciden t, as a historian I could not have come to Furman at a better time. In 1951 the college was com pleting a yearlong celebration of its first hundred years in Greenville, and my first "institutional task" was to help professors Don Held and Dorothy Ritchie put on a historical pageant. While helping with the pageant lighting, I was enveloped by the history of Furman before I had even learned all of my colleagues' names. Now 30 years later I am retiring a few years after Furman 's sesquicen ten nial anniversary. My first classes on the old campus included a large num ber of GI Bill veterans of World War I I . Now many of these men and women are greying members of " Golden Age" groups given to telling tall tales, and I am teaching their children. In the years between I have witnessed some major changes in the life of this institution. In 1951 the " H i l l " with its forest oaks and old buildings was not too different from the campus I had known as a student 20 years earlier, except for the temporary buildings constructed to provide minimal facili ties for the glut of students in the late 1940s. West Hall sat on the tennis courts behind Montague Hall; the library had a strange extension connected to the old Carnegie building by a flying walkway through what had been a window; North Hall for single students and the houses on Graham Field were transplanted war time structures which provided housing of sorts for students. T he fra- ternities occupied houses on University Ridge and Nona Street and the bell in the tower still rang for classes although electronic controls had re placed the bell-ringer on scholarship of my student days. In 1951 Furman was on the semester system: students took five or six courses and faculty members taught five classes each semester. Classes were held on both campuses, at the Woman 's College if there were enough women enrolled to make an all-female section of multiple section courses or on the Men 's Campus above Reedy River if classes were all male or coed. That first year, I was a "federal citizen" of the history department (Dr. Delbert Harold Gilpatrick 's observa tion) since I taught three-fifths history and two-fifths political science. Assis tant Professor Ernest Harrill was on leave completing his work to become Dr. Harrill, so I filled in w i th Dr. Eugene Looper to be the political science department which held forth in West Hall . That "edifice" was air conditioned via thin walls and floors with too many cracks - hot in the fall and unbelievably cold in winter. Although Custodian Lark Harris kept the furnace roaring and hot air (with some constituent sulphurous, soft coal fumes) poured through the ceiling high ducts, students at the lower level wore their overcoats and kept their feet on the seats of empty chairs to counter the vicious cold coming through the floor. The veteran students took it in s tride and the ladies learned to cope. Young Eugene Looper was an able and Right: Dr. Albert N. Sanders Students of the early 1950s hurry to class beneath the forest oaks on the Men's Campus. town by ex-pilots-an experience well exciting instructor (and very good College was an unforgetable experi looking, as the coeds told me). They ence. I used lO catch the city bus lO the remembered by Woman's College called his courses "Looperology " and Carolina Theatre and walk to the residents of those years. Later, when filled his classes despite the discomfort Woman's College. The schedule was classes were first held on the new of West Hall. such that I arrived some 20 minutes campus, Mrs. Gilly had an early In the history department, Dr. before class, giving me time to have a English class at the Woman's College Gilpatrick, Winston Babb and Miss cup of coffee in the dining room with and then the Gillys provided transpor Catherine ("Texas Katie ") Chambers the ladies who resided at the college. tation out to the new Furman. Periodi were my senior colleagues. For six There Dean Olivia Futch, Miss Aileen cally, we would threaten to drive on to years, as the junior member of the Coggins, Miss Marguerite Chiles and Asheville and spend the day - but we department, I taught the 8:00 and 1:25 Miss Garland Carrier would make a never did. classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and space at one of those round tables and Fridays and taught the 8:00 section at catch me up on the college gossip, facully member was soon caught up in At Furman on the Hill this new the Woman's College and the noon while the young ladies of my class the rhythms of the college year. Foot section on Tuesdays, Thursdays and leisurely finished breaking their fast to ball games were events. One night when Saturdays. My other departmental task ward the rear of the hall. When the Furman won, students rushed freshmen was to water the departmental snake bell rang, we all dashed to that corner to the bell tower to ring the bell - as plant each day and keep it heallhy. Dr. Gilly had brought the plant to that dark, one-window office (101 in Old Main) at the foot of the stairs where we each had a desk, lighted by a single bulb hanging on its wire from the 18 foot ceiling. Tradition had it that as long as the snake plant flour (...truncated)