Furman Magazine. Volume 30, Issue 1 - Full Issue

Furman Magazine Volume 30 Issue 1 Spring 1985 Article 1 3-1-1985 Furman Magazine. Volume 30, Issue 1 - Full Issue Furman University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/furman-magazine Recommended Citation University, Furman (1985) "Furman Magazine. Volume 30, Issue 1 - Full Issue," Furman Magazine: Vol. 30 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/furman-magazine/vol30/iss1/1 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 . Furman's Beautiful Campus Magazine Spring 1985/Vol. 30 No. I THE FURMAN MAGAZINE is pu blished by Furman University, Greenville, S.C. 29613 and printed by Provence Printing, Inc. Copyright© Furman University 1 985 Marguerite Hays/Editor Blake Praytor /Photographer Tom Hays/Cons ul tant hy did you decide to come to fountain at the front gate. More Furman?" a member of than 800 rosebushes of 21 different Furman's Advisory Council asked varieties bloom in the rose garden. W a studem at a recent meeting. "I The lawns have been unusually knew," she said, "this was where I green this spring. The Bermuda wamed to spend my next four grass was fertilized and overseeded years as soon as I drove in the with rye grass last fall. The lawns front gate." were fertilized again at Easter, so Last spring a Furman _. inistrator asked the same aclm that after a rain of several days the grass grew furiously. question of a student visiting in "Keeping the grass cut and CONTENTS his home. The student said that trimmed is our biggest job," says Striking the Bal ance in the Sixties her father, an ai�line pilot who Gregory Burriss, who is now in by fames A. R ogers frequemly flies over Furman, charge of Furman's grounds. "The page 2 urged her to think about Furman hardest job is keeping all of the The Sheridan Factor beca�se he thought it had an trees and shrubs trimmed." by Vince Moore unusually beautiful campus. An ornamental horticulturist Although the majority of who previously served as director page 8 The Crisis in the Southern Baptist Convention by Edgar V. McKnight page 14 Parenthetical Women by judith Babb Chandler page 20 Return to Yoknapatawpha by Willard Pate page 26 Furman students say they decided of grounds at Presbyterian College, to auend the university because of Burriss has been at Furman about its academic reputation, many a year. With a grounds crew of ten, only found out about the academic he is responsible for all the program after they were attracted plaming, culling, trimming and to Furman by its campus. Other everything else that goes along visitors have been equally with keeping up 750 acres. impressed. After driving through ''I'm still memorizing the the campus a few years ago, a campus, although I know it preuy Californian wrote that he had well by now," he says. COVERS visited all of the best known In spring, lush blossoms weigh down colleges in the coumry and When asked if he has any special plans for the campus, Burriss says the limbs of Furman's crabapple trees thought Furman's campus was the he and his crew are working on a (front cover), while thou sands of most beautiful. lot of projects and he has a few dogwood (back cover) and other flowering trees and shrubs flood the campus with brilliant color. The photograph on the front cover is by Blake Praytor; the one on the back cover is by Rob Sprecher. Furman Unwer.uty offers equal opportunity in th t>mpluyment, admissions and educational aunntzeJ 1n compliance with Title I X and other ( wll nght.\ laws. If any season is the most ideas he would like to try in the beautiful at Furman, it is spring. future. "Right now we're trying to Thousands of flowering dogwood, pay more auention to detail work. azaleas, crabapples, redbud trees, We're trying to get everything in Bradford pears and magnolia trees good shape." line the roads and walkways and For some of us, it's hard to provide brilliant patches of red, imagine the campus in beuer white and pink all over the shape. But chances are, next campus. Pink Japanese flowering spring will be even more cherry trees circle the main spectacular at Furman. M.H. Blake Praytor Striking the Balance in the Sixties As editor of the Florence Morning News, James A. Rogers disagreed with most of his readers on the subject of desegregation. Yet he managed to keep their respect, as he led the community to better race relations. By James A. Rogers I t was lonely in the sixties for forced out of his job and u l timately denying the black man his right of liberal newspaper editors in the out of the state because he had come meaningful franchise or that I had not supported the States' Rights ticket in · South. D uring those years the out in support of the Supreme Court's newspapers in South Carolina 1 954 decision that outlawed public 1948. I was welcomed back by written generally reflected the attitudes on the school segregation. He was and spoken word. A ringleader in the race question of their white readers, intel lectually brilliant and morally strong White Citizen's Council stated who by a vast majority stood by the idealistic, but he was young, they now had someone in the editor's "never" position on public school unseasoned, sometimes inconsistent, chair who would speak the truth. desegregation. Of the 14 daily and surprisingly insensitive to the newspapers in the state, all but two depth of Southern mores. He also My problem as I returned was not a simple one. I t involved being honest sounded what might be called the possessed a flavor for writing in ways with myself on a matter that was "party line. " calculated to stir public wrath. But on greatly disturbing the public mind, the basic issue of social j ustice, he was being effective as an editor, and The two exceptions were the Greenwood Index-journal, edited by also right. The trouble was that he was the late Ed Chapin, and the Florence so far ahead of his time that no one Morning News, which I edited. The lis tened, or, if they did, they reacted in story went around among some anger. members of the South Carolina Press Upon his departure I was asked to james A. R ogers, class of 1927, served as editor of the Florence Morning Association that when Ed Chapin and come back to pick up the pieces, News for more then 30 years. At the I went into a room and closed the reverse the downward circulation request of the editor of the Furman door, the liberal press in South spiral of the newspaper, and, Magazine, he agreed to w rite about Carolina was in session. hopefully, regain the support and some of his persona (...truncated)