Bill Culp Day to honor 50 years of dedicated service

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The News Bulletin for the Winthrop University Community
October 31, 2001
Fall enrollment
at record high
Winthrop’s student enrollment grew by
12.2 percent between 1996 and 2000, making it the only four-year public institution in
South Carolina that experienced doubledigit growth during that time.
Enrollment at Winthrop climbed from
5,402 students in fall 1996 to 6,061 in fall
2000.
Other higher education institutions across
the state experienced an enrollment drop or
saw only moderate growth of up to 8.5
percent, according to data provided by the
S.C. Commission on Higher Education.
“Having the fastest enrollment growth
of any of South Carolina’s public universities is a tribute to both the sustained excellence apparent across the campus and the
attractiveness of Rock Hill and the greater
Bill Culp Day to honor 50
years of dedicated service
Bill Culp, who retired July 31, has called
Winthrop home for 50 years. To celebrate
his service to the university, President Anthony DiGiorgio has declared Nov. 7 Bill
Culp Day. The entire campus community is
invited to a reception in Culp’s honor from
2-4 p.m. at 101 McBryde.
(see Enrollment on page 9)
Dean of students
candidates to visit
campus next week
Two of the finalists for Winthrop’s dean
of students, Bethany Marlowe and Brenda
Pardini, will be visiting campus over the
next week to discuss their experiences and
philosophies and answer questions.
Marlowe will be on campus Nov. 7 and
Pardini will be at Winthrop on Nov. 12.
Both candidates will be available from 4:305:15 p.m. in the Faculty/Staff Dining Room.
“Since the dean of students touches so
many student lives, in and out of the classroom, and is a key player in fostering important aspects of our campus community, I
hope many people will be able to meet the
candidates,” said Frank Ardaiolo, vice president for student life.
(see Dean candidates on page 10)
For 50 years, Bill Culp has dedicated himself to
the betterment of Winthrop, helping to create a
campus showplace.
“Bill Culp is an amazing gentleman,”
DiGiorgio noted. “A skilled engineer, he
designed much of the infrastructure that has
made Winthrop one of the most energy
efficient campuses in the state. His total
dedication to safety, his unstinting care for
the historic campus and his unabashed love
of the university for 50 years is unparalleled
in Winthrop’s history − indeed, perhaps in
all of South Carolina’s history. Winthrop is
tremendously fortunate to have had − and to
continue to have − Bill Culp as a valuable
member of the Winthrop family.”
Born in a house that once sat behind the
Little Chapel near the amphitheatre, Culp
literally grew up on the Winthrop campus.
His family moved to a house on the Winthrop farm when he was young, and Culp
remembers it being “better than any estate.”
His father, Leonard Parks Culp, served
as Physical Plant (now Facilities Management) director for 39 years. The younger
Culp succeeded his father in overseeing
construction of buildings and maintenance
of Winthrop’s historic campus.
“It’s been a great pleasure to have spent
most of my life on the beautiful Winthrop
campus with the wonderful, enthusiastic
students, faculty and staff,” Culp said.
Culp has been associated with Winthrop
for much of the university’s existence. Hanging in his office was his Certificate of Promotion from the Winthrop Training School
kindergarten in 1926. It is signed by
Winthrop’s first president, D.B. Johnson.
Culp left his campus home to attend
Presbyterian College in Clinton, S.C. Following graduation, he entered Infantry
School at Fort Benning, Ga., and served in
the 8th Air Force during World War II. He
retired as a lieutenant colonel and returned
to Winthrop as Physical Plant director, a
job he held for 35 years. In 1986, he was
promoted to assistant vice president for
campus renovation and special projects, the
position he held until his retirement.
Culp has intimate knowledge of the materials and workmanship that went into the
university’s structures. He designed and
supervised the university’s modern heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, which have been cited as one of the
(see Bill Culp on page 10)
Faculty/Staff Activities
Benefits rep to be on campus to explain
changes and procedures for 2002
The Office of Human Resources and
Affirmative Action has invited a representative from the Employee Insurance Program (formerly the Office of Insurance Services) to conduct benefits presentations on
Nov. 19 in 302 Tillman at 9:30 a.m. and
1:30 p.m. Each presentation will run about
an hour and a half. The representative will
discuss 2002 state-mandated changes, how
to process claims, information about the
EIP Web site and other pertinent issues. A
question and answer period will follow.
HRAA asks that those planning to attend e-mail HRAAHelp@winthrop.edu or
call ext. 2273 so that there will be enough
seats.
Experts in the news
This section notes newspaper, radio and television appearances of faculty and staff
as media turns to members of the Winthrop community to share their expertise. This
listing chronicles the October quotes and appearances of which the Office of University
Relations is aware:
The Charlotte Observer featured English professor Dorothy Perry Thompson
on Oct. 24 in a story about the book she
edited, Out of the Rough: Women’s Poems
Professional activities
Jack Bresenham, computer science and quantitative methods, attended the invitation only international
conference on “The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith: a Conference Honoring Dr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.” Oct.
18-19 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alice Burmeister, art and design,
served as a consultant for the Museum
of York County exhibition “Re-cover,
Re-imagine, Re-adapt: Creative Recycling from Africa.” After conducting
joint research this past summer on toys
made from found materials in Niger,
Burmeister and undergraduate student
Vanessa Fulcher brought back contextual photographs and African toys
from the West African country, some
of which have been included in the
exhibit, which will run through May
2002. The research was partially funded
by the Winthrop University Research
Council.
Boyd Jones, student activities, reviewed hundreds of submissions the
week of Oct. 24 as a member of the
National Association of Campus Activities Selection Committee for the
national conference, which will be held
in Indianapolis in February.
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of Survival and Celebration, while The
Herald mentioned her Novello literary festival appearance in Charlotte on Oct. 19.
International Week started with an expo,
a display about different cultures and countries of the world at Dinkins. International
student advisor Tara Brown talked to CN2
Oct. 23 about traveling abroad and the week
of activities.
The Herald’s special report on the vanishing country life in western York County
included comments from Eddie Lee, associate professor of history. He said families
there are downright clannish. “They are
independent with a capital “I”, said Lee,
who co-authored a history of the area to be
published in mid-November.
Bill Rogers finds that teaching duties at
Winthrop crowd out research, something
he estimates he’s lucky to carve out only 5
percent of his time to do. And some of that
is spent “desperately trying to keep up with
journals.” Since a lot of service is expected,
he also has little opportunity or time for
interaction with colleagues. “Day by day, I
have just quietly lost a sense of connection
with the bigger scientific community out
there,” the biology professor says in a short
profile in the Oct. 12 edition of Science.
CN2 interviewed Sue Smith-Rex about
a conference held Oct. 19 featuring Mel
Levine, an expert from the University of
North Carolina on multiple intelligences,
different learning styles and brain development and how educators need to address
those differences. More than 200 teachers
and others from around the state attended
the conference.
Publications and presentations
Steve Frankforter, management
and marketing, co-authored an article
that appeared in the summer 2001 edition of Central Business Review. Titled
“Why Implement the Dual Governance
Structure? Much Ado About Something,” the article was written by Frankforter, James Davis of Notre Dame
University and David Vollrath of Indiana University.
Shelley Hamill and Mel Horton,
health and physical education, presented at the annual Southern Academy of Women in Sport and Health
Conference held in Biloxi, Miss., Oct.
9-12. Horton presented “Using Palm
Pilots for Teacher Evaluation in the
Field,” while Hamill’s spoke on “HIV:
What We Knew Then and What We
Know Now.” Hamill also had an article
printed in the fall edition of the Teacher
Education Journal of South Carolina,
“Elementary School Health Education:
Pre-service and Classroom Teachers
Offer Their Views on Its Value.”
Mark Herring, library, had his
article “Our Times, They Are AChangin’, but Are We?” featured in the
Oct. 15 issue of Library Journal. Additionally, his article “Readin’, Writin’
[sic], “Rithmetic: Reference Desk
Redux” has just been republished as a
chapter in Doing the Work of Reference: Practical Tips for Excelling as a
Reference Librarian.
Sheila Hill-Carter, modern languages, presented a paper at the 2001
conference of the Foreign Language
Association of North Carolina, Oct 1113 in Raleigh, N.C. The theme of this
year’s conference was “Living Languages: From the Classroom to the
Community.”
Marguerite Quintelli-Neary, English, presented a paper entitled “Tales
from the Other Side: East Coast Journalists and the ‘Irishness’ of American
Frontier Folklore” at the Western Regional Conference of the American
Conference for Irish Studies, at Pacific
Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash.,
on Oct. 13.
Send news for FYI to Gina Carroll Howard
at University Relations, or e-mail
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Welcome to Winthrop
Please join us as we introduce and welcome some of the newest members of the Winthrop community.
Christal Bandy, administrative assisScott Huffmon, assistant professor of
kets. She lives in Charlotte with her hustant in Facilities Management, has been
political science, most recently served as an
band and son.
working as a purchasing assistant for the
adjunct professor at the
Joel McCartney, head volleyball coach,
past 16 years, most recently at Smith EnterUniversity of Mississerved as assistant coach last year at the
prises. Bandy is very
sippi. He earned a B.S.
University of Oklainvolved in her church,
at James Madison Unihoma. For the previworking with the 2versity and Ph.D. at the
ous four years, he was
and 3-year-olds and
University of Missishead
coach
at
being a part of the insippi. In his spare time,
Bellevue University.
tercessory prayer and
Huffmon enjoys listenMcCartney received a
ing to blues and jazz,
Shepherds ministries
B.S. from Graceland
fishing, spending time
at Lake Wylie ChrisCollege in Lamoni,
tian Assembly. She
Iowa, and an M.S.
with his wife and twin
Scott Huffmon
also has training in crifrom Eastern Kendaughters, and watchsis pregnancy counseltucky University. He
ing baseball. He and his family live in Rock
Christal Bandy
Joel McCartney
ing. Bandy attended
and his wife live in
Hill.
York Tech. She and her husband live in
Rock Hill.
Michael Lipscomb, assistant professor
Clover.
Andrea Pent, assistant professor and
of political science, previously was an inMichael Connolly, a computer operacoordinator of Winthrop’s sport managestructor at Penn State
tor, comes to Winthrop from Bank of
ment program, comes to Winthrop from
University. Lipscomb
America where he
State University of West Georgia where she
received a B.A. in Enworked as senior anawas assistant profesglish literature from the
lyst-systems/data sesor. A member of the
University of Richcurity. He was honored
North American Socimond, B.A. in politiby Bank of American’s
ety for Sports Managecal science from Virpredecessor,
ment, Pent received a
ginia Commonwealth,
NationsBank, for deB.A. in physical eduM.A. in political sciveloping and docucation from the Colence from Virginia
menting a helpdesk
lege of Charleston,
Tech, and Ph.D. from
Michael Lipscomb
manual. Connolly atM.Ed. from the UniPenn State University.
tended York Techniversity of Miami in
He lives in Rock Hill.
Michael Connolly
cal College and
sports management
Karen Martin has stepped easily into
Andrea Pent
Kennesaw State College. He enjoys readand Ph.D. from Florida
her position as publications coordinator in
ing, hiking and camping. Connolly and his
State, in sport management. In her spare
university relations
wife live in Rock Hill.
time, Pent enjoys playing tennis, camping,
from her previous job
LaTonya Holley, assistant athletic
cycling, cooking and giving massages. She
as production coorditrainer, has been working in the field for the
lives with her husband in Rock Hill.
nator at the Blumenthal
past five years. She has received good expeCameron Sisson,
Performing Arts Cenrience working with
an instructor in mathter in Charlotte. Marthe Charlotte Sting,
ematics, feels right at
tin, a graduate of the
International Gymnashome. He received
University of North
tics Camp and Comboth a B.S. and M.A.
Carolina at Chapel
plete Rehab. She also
in math from WinHill, enjoys sewing,
reading, gardening and
has helped out
throp and last spring
Karen Martin
“junking” at flea marWinthrop’s trainer
taught just down the
both when she was a
road at York Tech.
graduate assistant and
Sisson lives in Rock
If you are a new employee, we want to
last year as a volunHill.
Cameron Sisson
intoduce you to the campus community. If
teer. Holley received a
LaTonya Holley
you have not yet had your picture taken,
B.A. in sports mediplease call Joel Nichols at ext. 3288 to
cine from St. Andrews and an M.A. in
make an appointment. If you need another
health and physical education from WinCorrection: Gina Jones, assistant regbiographical information sheet, please call
throp. She says she likes mountain biking,
istrar,
was incorrectly identified as Ginger
or e-mail Gina Carroll Howard at ext.
hiking, wall climbing, camping and lifting
in the last issue of FYI. We apologize for the
2236 or howardg.
weights. Holley lives in Rock Hill.
error.
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Profile
Tosha Ansley brightens a room with a little imagination
Everyone wants
she said. “I do most
the space in which
of my carpentry
they live and work
work on my patio.”
to be functional, but
Ansley has also
function without
carried her decorapersonality can be
tive flair into her ofboring. Assistant
fice. Last spring
track and field/cross
break, she painted
country coach Tosha
the Winthrop Track
Ansley doesn’t take
and Field logo on
drab interiors lying
one of her walls with
down. Since she was
just a yardstick and
a child, Ansley has
a level. She is curbeen using her decorently building
rating skills to add a
shelves from wood
little individuality to
she scrounged from
her home and
the Coliseum.
workspace.
“Stuff like that
Ansley’s fascinarelaxes me,” she
tion with decorating
said. “It takes my
began before she
mind off things.”
even had her own
Her coworkers
space with which to
were so impressed
work.
by her work that she
A woman of many talents, Tosha Ansley enjoys painting, making furniture, doing home repairs and
“I’ve always decorating. She says that what she does is to give a breath of life to somthing that may have been shabby has been asked to
been easily bored or has lost its beauty.
paint the logo in the
with my surroundtrack and field
ings,” the Charleston native said. “I guess it
furniture people throw away,” she said.
locker room.
was kind of hard on my mother at first. She
It took Ansley a week to finish the project.
“The thrill for me is to take something
never knew where her furniture would be
She attached woodblocks into the corners,
that was initially shabby or uninteresting
moved to when she got home from work. I
then attached the three-quarter inch tableand make it new,” she said. “Decorating can
also used to take old sheets and hang them
top. After sanding the surface, Ansley used
give a breath of life to something that has
up as curtains.”
lost its beauty.”
tape to mask off the edges to an original
Once Ansley became old enough to drive,
checkered design. Then she painted it,
Ansley said she can’t wait to get into a
there was no stopping her. Unlike most
waited for it to dry and lifted off the tape.
house so she will have more room for her
teen-agers, she spent a majority of her money
“Little things like that make a big differwork. She also would love to have her own
at the hardware store buying paint or other
shop with all the power tools she needs to
ence,” she said. “And they’re not difficult to
materials to change her room to fit her
do. I get a lot of these simple techniques
tackle more complex jobs.
“When I get a house, I’ll be having all
from the Home and Gardening Network.”
individuality. Eventually her mother’s pakinds of fun every weekend,” she said.
Her mother enjoyed the table so much
tience paid off when Ansley saved her
that she talked Ansley into leaving it at
mother a good deal of money by hanging the
home when she moved to Rock Hill.
kitchen drywall herself. She even tried her
Tosha Ansley
“I was so proud of that table that I built
hand at plumbing.
a smaller one when I moved here,” she said.
Before leaving home, Ansley’s biggest
Position: assistant track and field
“I eat breakfast on it every morning.”
project was building a big desk-like table.
coach
Although Ansley currently lives in an
“First, I went out to the salvage yard to
Birthplace: Charleston, S.C.
apartment, she can’t resist adding a little
find a good frame and some legs. You
Career: volunteer assistant track
pizzazz to her rented space. Ansley has
wouldn’t believe the beautiful pieces of
coach, Summerville High School,
built shelves for her apartment in addition
Summerville, S.C
to fashioning hand-cut poster board frames
Please send profile suggestions and
Education: B.S. in psychology and
that she uses to showcase her own abstract
news about professional or departphysical education from Charleston
paintings.
Southern University
mental activities to Gina Carroll
“When I was at home, I used to be able
Other Interests: reading and workHoward in University Relations via
to use power tools, but being in an aparting out
campus mail, or e-mail howard.
ment, I’m forced to rely on elbow grease,”
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Activities Around Campus
Aerial feats and classical ballet on fall dance program
Dancers literally will be airborne when
Winthrop Dance Theatre presents its fall
concert Nov. 7-10, 8 p.m. at Johnson Theatre.
In “Out of Bounds,” dancers will be
suspended from harnesses, so they can
dance not only on the stage but also in the
air. The gravity-defying number is one of
eight being performed by the 40-member
troupe.
Three of the pieces have been choreographed by artistic director Sandra Neels.
She set “On a Theme,” a linear piece for 14
dancers, to music by Rachmaninov.
“Milonga,” a ballet piece on pointe for five
women, is set to the music of Astor Pizzola,
Activities around campus
November 2
Native American singer/songwriter Bill
Miller, $3 with Winthrop ID, $5 without
Dinkins ATS Café
8 p.m.
November 3
Game show “Think Fast” with $200 in
cash and prizes, $3 with Winthrop ID, $5
without
Irvin and Jean Kirby Plowden
Auditorium
8 p.m.
November 4
Faculty series: soprano Meredith Nutter
Frances May Barnes Recital Hall 4 p.m.
November 5
Political Science faculty research series:
“Attitude Accessibility and
Cross-Activation Between Political
Constructs,” presented by Scott Huffmon
321 Bancroft
noon
November 6
M.B.A. fall lecture: Bill Boyd, CEO of
Muzak
Frances May Barnes Recital Hall 7 p.m.
November 7
Bill Culp Day reception
101 McBryde
2-4 p.m.
November 7-10
Winthrop Dance Theatre fall concert,
directed by Sandra Neels, with pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m., Nov. 8, $3 with
Winthrop student ID, $7 for all others
Johnson Theatre
8 p.m.
November 8
Poetry reading and book signing by
members of English department and other
poets in Out of the Rough, edited by
Dorothy Perry Thompson
Faculty/Staff Dining Room
7 p.m.
Julia H. Post Lecture: “High 5 AdvenFYI/October 31, 2001
ture,” presented by Karl Rohnke, author of 18 adventure curriculum books
Student Activity Center
7 p.m.
Percussion Ensemble concert, directed
by Michael Williams
France May Barnes Recital Hall 8 p.m.
Foreign film series: “Delicatessen,” in a
post-apocalyptic society where food is
scarce, the strange tenants of a boarding
house/butcher shop discover the unpleasant truth but also find love and freedom,
in French with English subtitles, sponsored by modern languages
Kinard Auditorium
8 p.m.
November 9
“Cheating: Prevention and Policies,”
sponsored by the Office for Effective
Teaching
308 Tillman
noon-1:30 p.m.
Musical comedian Steven Lynch and
gay comedian Jason Stuart, $3 with
Winthrop ID, $5 without
Irvin and Jean Kirby Plowden
Auditorium
8 p.m.
November 10
Open house for prospective students
Around campus
9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Bluesy acoustic fold singer Devon with
music man Fran Snyder, $3 with Winthrop ID, $5 without
Dinkins ATS Café
8 p.m.
November 13
Faculty series: “Alternative Impulse I,”
concert of electroacoustic music, Ron
Parks, curator
Frances May Barnes Recital Hall 8 p.m.
November 14
Guitar Ensemble concert, directed by
L.H. Dickert
Frances May Barnes Recital Hall 8 p.m.
while “Aria Without Words” is a lyric
dance choreographed for eight women to a
piano version of Puccini’s “O Mio Babbino
Caro.” Annie-Laurie Wheat, theatre and
dance chair, designed the costumes for the
work.
Mary Beth Thompson, assistant artistic
director, also has choreographed three
pieces. In addition to “Out of Bounds,” she
choreographed “Eclectic II,” a fast-paced
athletic work set to percussion music by
Brent Lewis, and “Breakthrough,” a visual-experience piece using movement
through fabric, choreographed to baroque
music.
Diane McGhee, associate professor of
dance, and art and design lecturer Janice
Mueller collaborated on “Entering
Samsara.” Inspiration for this modern work
came from the labyrinth, a symbol found in
art and dance throughout the world in antiquity.
Rachel Ellis, a newcomer, will perform
a classical variation from the ballet “Paquita”
to conclude the program.
Tickets are $3 with Winthrop student ID
and $7 for all others. They may be reserved
by calling ext. 4014 or e-mailing boxoffice.
The box office will be open at 7 p.m. on
performance evenings, and reservations will
be held until 7:45 p.m.
Post lecturer addresses
adventure learning
Learning can be fun and active − very
active.
Karl Rohnke, the “grandfather of experiential education,” will talk about “High 5
Adventure” during the Julia H. Post Lecture, 7 p.m., Nov. 8 at the Student Activity
Center.
Rohnke is one of the founders of Project
Adventure in Hamilton, Mass., and the High
5 Adventure Learning Center in Vermont.
He is the author of 18 adventure curriculum
books, including Silver Bullets, Cowtails
and Cobras and Funn Stuff. He changed
how people approach team building by
stressing cooperation rather than competition.
Dress to be active – and inspired.
Rohnke’s lecture is free and open to the
public.
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Activities Around Campus
Think Fast game show
gives brainiacs a chance
to pocket cash
Sure, education is its own reward but
why not let all those hours of studying pay
off at the Think Fast quiz show where first
prize is $200. Students will test their knowledge and buzzer reflexes at 8 p.m. Nov. 3 at
the Irvin and Jean Kirby Plowden Auditorium.
Think Fast is the nation’s first mobile
trivia-based game show for the college and
corporate market. Staged more than 500
times a year, Think Fast allows 50 individuals or teams to test their knowledge as they
compete for the cash prizes.
In the 90-minute show, the host asks
trivia questions ranging from art and music
to science and politics with all the questions
and answers projected onto a 10-foot screen.
Each team will have its own radio controlled keypad station to answer the questions. Each keypad is connected to a mainframe computer that instantly calculates
and records the team’s answers and scores.
Winner of the Reader’s Choice Novelty
Event of the year for 2000-01, the show’s
hip-hop/club style music creates an atmosphere of fun.
Admission is $3 with Winthrop I.D. and
$5 without.
Foreign film series to
feature postapocalyptic comedy
On Nov. 8, the Foreign Film Series will
feature the dark comedy “Delicatessen” at 8
p.m. at Kinard Auditorium.
The film follows the story of a young
clown in a post-apocalyptic society where
meat is so scarce that people resort to cannibalism. The clown applies for a job at a
local delicatessen where the butcher hires
him with the secret motive of serving him up
to the stranger-than-usual tenants who live
above in the boarding house. The film takes
a romantic turn when the clown falls in love
with the butcher’s daughter who tries to
protect her new love by foiling her father’s
evil culinary scheme.
The film appears in French with English
subtitles and is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages.
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Comedians tackle search for love;
Candadians rock on in first half of month
In the vein of “Saturday Night Live’s”
guitar-wielding comedian Adam Sandler,
Stephen Lynch has used his musical talent
to create dark, comedic songs about the
search for true love. Lynch will bring these
twisted love songs to the Irvin and Jean
Kirby Plowden Auditorium Nov. 9 at 8 p.m.
as part of DSU’s November program.
The 29-year-old Kalamazoo, Mich., native went to New York in 1996 where his
songs of mildly disturbing love scenarios
quickly caught on in the local clubs. After
conquering the legendary Catch a Rising
Star Club in New York, the comedian premiered on his first television special “Comedy Central Presents Stephen Lynch.”
Lynch’s early success led to a sold-out
tour of major U.S. college campuses, including Emory University and Beaver College, and opening performances for such
headline comedians as Steven Wright, Jeff
Foxworthy and Bobcat Goldthwait.
Accompanying Lynch is a performer
with his own original comedic shtick, gay
comic Jason Stuart.
After announcing his homosexuality on
“Geraldo” in 1993, Stuart received mixed
reactions to his “openly gay” style.
Despite this, Stuart has made a career
out of humorously telling the story of his
homosexual lifestyle. The comedian has
appeared on such television shows as “The
John Larroquette Show” and “Murder, She
Wrote” in addition to movie appearances
in “Kindergarten Cop” and “Vegas Vacation.”
Admission to the performance is $3 with
Winthrop I.D. and $5 without.
Proving that Canadians know how to
rock as well as their southern neighbors,
DSU will present two Canadian folk singers
at 8 p.m. Nov. 10 at Dinkins ATS Café.
Devon, who was born in Kingston,
Ontario, grew up in an egalitarian commu-
Athletics home schedule
Nov. 3: Men’s basketball vs. Queens
College (exhibition), Coliseum, 7 p.m.
Nov. 9: Volleyball vs. UNC Asheville, 7
p.m.
Nov. 10: Soccer vs. Appalachian State,
7 p.m.
Comedian Jason Stuart will join musical comic
Stephen Lynch Nov. 9 at 8 p.m. for a night of
laughter at the Irvin and Jean Kirby Plowden
Auditorium.
nity her parents founded. At the age of 11,
she and her parents moved to another commune where the open environment gave her
plenty of opportunity to showcase her budding talent.
At age 15, Devon moved to
Charlottesville, Va., and began performing
for spare change in the local mall. After two
years of refining her raw confessional tone
in the local bar scene, she recorded her selftitled CD and landed a gig playing side
stage at Dave Matthews Band concerts. The
Dave Matthews Band enlisted bassist
Stephan Lessard to produce her second
release, “Long Sleeve Story.”
Joining Devon will be Quebec native
Fran Snyder. Snyder relocated to America
as a child where he lived virtually all over
the country. While his style has been likened to a cross between the Dave Matthews
Band and Peter Gabriel, Snyder’s powerful
vocals and lyric imagery deftly tackles sociopolitical issues ranging from child abuse to
the battle between the sexes.
The talent of this singer/songwriter has
been heralded by JAM magazine, which
dubbed him Best Solo Act and Best Overall
Performer from the mid- to late-1990s at the
annual Jammy awards. The American Society of Composers, Artists and Performers
awarded Snyder its Special Pop Music
Award four years in a row.
Snyder has opened shows for Shawn
Mullins, Shawn Colvin, the Cowboy Junkies and Boz Scaggs. His latest CD is “Stir.”
Admission to the performance is $3 with
Winthrop I.D. and $5 without.
FYI/October 31, 2001
Winthrop poets to read from new anthology
Native American singer/songwriter Bill
Miller heads to Dinkins ATS Café on Nov. 2
at 8 p.m.
Native American
singer/songwriter to
perform Nov. 2
Native American Bill Miller is an experienced singer/songwriter who has been
performing his blend of country, rock and
folk music for more than 25 years. The
award-winning artist will once again bring
this smooth blend to the Dinkins ATS Café
at 8 p.m. Nov. 2.
Miller’s musical persona spans from an
intense rock ’n’ roll guitarist to a soulful
balladeer. The majority of his work focuses
on the past and present condition of the
Native American people.
Raised on the Stockridge-Munsee Reservation in Wisconsin, Miller was greatly
influenced by his Mohican heritage. There
he also discovered musical inspiration from
the works of such classic rock idols as Jimi
Hendrix, Bob Dylan and Neil Young.
Miller’s style and powerful message has
brought him fans from all over the world,
including a host of celebrities. He was chosen by singer/songwriter Tori Amos to open
200 of her shows during her Under the Pink
tour, and alternative rocker Eddie Vedder
of Pearl Jam performed with Miller at an
Apache Indian benefit in Arizona.
Miller also won five NAMMYs (Native
American Music Awards) in 1999, including Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the
Year and Best Male Artist.
Admission to the performance is $3 with
Winthrop ID and $5 without.
FYI/October 31, 2001
What began as a summer writing project
for Dorothy Perry Thompson has been transformed into much more: a poetry anthology
and self-respect for women struggling to be
heard.
On Nov. 8, Judy Corbett, Jo Koster,
Susan Ludvigson, Mary Martin, Jane Bowman Smith, Thompson and Evelyn Weeks,
all in Winthrop’s English department, will
join other poets featured in Out of the Rough:
Women’s Poems of Survival and Celebration at 7 p.m. in the Faculty/Staff Dining
Room in Dinkins to read from and sign
copies of the book.
The idea for the anthology grew from a
writing project Thompson undertook in
1999 at Walls Memorial African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church in Charlotte. The
associate pastor, Rev. Dianna Flournoy,
had written and received a grant for the
Diamonds workshop to help unemployed
and underemployed women who needed
help with their families. She gathered the
resources to provide
the women with counseling, budgeting skills
and computer training.
Flournoy approached
Thompson to teach a
writing workshop as
part of the therapeutic
Dorothy P. Thompson program.
“I discovered the
women were writing poignant stories that
deserved to be shared. They were raw and
real − the stuff of good poetry,” Thompson
said.
When the project ended, some of the
volunteers wanted to continue writing poetry, and Flournoy thought publishing a
booklet of the works would be a good
fundraiser. Thompson had a bigger idea.
Using some of the women’s poems as the
core, Thompson invited some of her colleagues and other poets she knew from around
the country to submit pieces for an anthology.
“I wanted to show that these women
were telling universal stories. I also felt it
would be a boost to these women to see their
names and poetry published alongside established poets,” she said.
This year the anthology was published
by Novello Festival Press, with illustrations
by Thompson’s sister, Andra Whaley, an
unpublished artist, and cover art by
Flournoy. Out of the Rough was a featured
publication at Charlotte’s Novello literary
festival, where Thompson and Diamond’s
workshop volunteer Eva Dawkins read their
poetry.
Thompson, Jane Smith and Dawkins,
who also will read at Winthrop Nov. 8, will
present the book at a session of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 13-16 in Chicago. With
attendance of more than 2,000 people it is
one of the biggest English composition conferences in the country.
Alumna Dorothy Berry, junior Tameka
Barnette and former Winthrop English instructor Lucinda Grey, whose works also
appear in Out of the Rough, also will read at
the Winthrop event. The program is free
and open to the public.
Soprano Meredith
Nutter to perform
Voice instructor Meredith Nutter will
showcase her soprano voice as a part of the
Faculty Recital Series at 5 p.m. Nov. 4 at the
Frances May Barnes Recital Hall.
The recital will begin with George
Handel’s “Tournami a vagheggiar” an Italian aria from “Alcina,” a baroque fantasy
opera based on Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando Furioso.
The program continues with three selections from Austrian composer Hugo Wolf’s
“Spanisches Liederbuch,” which contains
songs set to German poems with Spanish
themes.
The concert also will include three selections from Barcelonan composer
Fernando Obradors taken from old Spanish
folk poems and pieces by French composers Georges Bizet, Maurice Ravel and Leo
Delibes.
The program continues with selections
from contemporary composer Libby
Larsen’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese,”
based on a group of poems of the same
name by English poet Elizabeth Browning.
The recital concludes with Bellini’s Italian aria “Qui la voce sua soave,” from the
opera “I Puritani.”
Accompanying Nutter is pianist Jun
Matsuo, a doctoral candidate in piano performance and teacher at USC.
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Activities Around Campus
Nov. 13 concert
could challenge your
definition of music
Come to Ron Parks’ Nov. 13 faculty
recital with your ears and mind as wide
open as possible, he advises. The 8 p.m.
concert at the Frances May Barnes Recital
Hall is not a traditional performance. In
fact, there are no performers at all.
“Alternative Impulse I” will consist of
music orginally called “tape music,” but
now is more accurately known as electroacoustic music. Begun in late 1940s and
’50s, the genre originally created sounds by
speeding up or slowing down taped sounds,
or cutting and splicing the tape. Today most
works are created on a computer.
“The genre is in a weird netherworld
between what composers normally do − go
away and write instructions for performers on
what to play and how (i.e. a score) − and how
the visual artist creates in a studio,” Parks
explained. “Electroacoustic composers’ presentations (concerts) are more akin to the
way visual artists present their works. The
composer goes into a studio, renders a piece
of art, then has a public viewing. In this case
a concert. So there is no performance to speak
of, unless you consider the act of creation as
the performance. It’s a little strange.”
Parks will give a pre-concert lecture to
introduce the audience to the medium. Before each piece is played, he’ll give a brief
talk after which the audience will listen to
the music.
“The nature of the genre has shaped its
style and the content of the pieces,” Parks
said. “For example, some composers have
taken tapes of spoken word and rearranged
them, creating a new piece. Today, technology has allowed us to capture sounds and
use them in unusual or nontraditional ways.
However, electroacoustic music is not completely unconnected to acoustic music. One
area of overlap between a traditional concert and an electroacoustic one is that sound
is organized and unfolds over time.”
Parks said the pieces on the program are
not necessarily his favorites, but are good
examples of current styles of this genre.
They include works from living composers
from around world who have made important contributions to electroacoustic music.
Said Parks, “I want to introduce people
to this genre. It could potentially challenge
what you think of as music.”
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Rhythm complements melody,
innovation in percussion concert
For those who think all percussion concerts are made up of 20-minute drum solos,
director Michael Williams offers an inno-
Guitar concert is learning
experience for players
The Jazz Guitar Ensemble will perform
an eclectic mixture of bop, Latin, swing,
ballad and straight-ahead jazz tunes at 8
p.m. Nov. 14 at the Frances May Barnes
Recital Hall.
The program will feature two ensembles
with varying degrees of expertise. Ensemble
2, the lesser-experienced, will open the
performance with American jazz composer
Gerry Mulligan’s “Line for Lyons,” continue with Duke Ellington’s “In a Sentimental Mood” and close with “Dizzy”
Gillespie’s “Birk’s Works.” Ensemble 2
includes players Bob Crawford, Bo White,
Nathan Stewart and Chris Morgan
“I’m trying to expose the older, more
experienced players to new and challenging
pieces without intimidating the newer players,” said director L.H. Dickert. “It is important for guitarists to be exposed to new
and evolving music.”
Ensemble 1 will begin the second half of
the recital with Jimmy Van Heusen’s piece
“I Thought About You” and will later perform another piece by the Sinatra composer
entitled “Here’s That Rainy Day.” The program also includes “The Inevitable Return
of the Dog,” by Nathan Stewart, and Antonic
Carlos Jobim’s “Triste” and closes with
“Anthropology,” a piece by jazz greats
Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
The two ensembles will be assisted by
graduate student Adam Snow on drums and
Andy Preston, orchestra director/teacher
and strings coordinator for the Lexington
County school system in Columbia.
“Working guitarists need to be able to
read, play changes and improvise,” said
Dickert. “All these allow a good performer
to have a musical conversation with the
audience.”
Dickert is using the performance to
sharpen the ensemble’s skills for an appearance at the University of Florida’s annual
Electroacoustic Festival in March of 2002.
The program is free and open to the public.
vative performance by the Winthrop Percussion Ensemble that promises to expand
the definition of percussion. The concert
will be at 8 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Frances May
Barnes Recital Hall.
The performance begins with a piece by
John Cage entitled “First Construction (In
Metal).” This unique work is performed
using only metal instruments including a
thunder sheet, a water and Japanese temple
gong, metal pipes and a piano that is played
on the inside using metal rods.
The performance continues with the
three-movement piece “Chamber Music IV”
by Robert Suderburg. One movement features innovative drum and vocal techniques
that simulate waves. Another offers percussionists a chance to showcase their singing
voices.
In the next selection, Bob Becker’s
“Atenteben,” traditional melodies of the
Atenteben flute ensembles of Ghana have
been transcribed for Western marimbas.
The piece also features traditional Ghanaian drums and percussion including the
sogo, kidi, gankogui and axatse.
In the spirit of Halloween, the ensemble
will play Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Danse
Macabre,” the first orchestral piece including xylophone, and the eerie “Funeral March
of a Marionette,” which is best known as the
theme music for “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
The program closes with David Rose’s
“Holiday for Strings” and the traditional
West African Piece “Djole.” For this
final selection, the ensemble will enlist
the help of Guinean drum and dance
teacher Mohamed Da Costa. Da Costa
will perform the solo on the jembe, a
Guinean hand drum, with support from
the ensemble on bass drums called
dundun.
“This ensemble represents by far the
most talented group of percussionists ever
assembled at Winthrop,” Williams said.
“The works on this fall’s concert will be
recorded in December for a CD to be released next spring. These selections represent the wide variety of musical styles
our students are exposed to throughout the
percussion curriculum.”
The performance is free and open to the
public.
FYI/October 31, 2001
Art and design faculty showcase their
work in galleries exhibition
Four Winthrop art and design faculty
artists will be featured in “Art and Design
Faculty Exhibition Two” from Nov. 8
through Jan. 27 in the Winthrop Galleries.
Free to the public, the exhibition presents the work of Shaun Cassidy, David
Freeman, Janice Mueller and Alf Ward.
Like last year’s inaugural “Faculty Exhibition One,” which presented works by Mary
Mintich, Alan Huston, Paul Martyka and
Phil Moody, the 2001-02 exhibition provides a more comprehensive investigation
of each artist’s work.
Sculpture professor Cassidy is exhibiting a large, site-specific, room-like structure typical of his recent work. Freeman,
who has been on the Winthrop faculty since
1970, has a new series of paintings that
Winthrop University
Galleries
Through November 20
Lewandowski Student Gallery:
Figure Drawing
November 8 through January 27
Rutledge and Elizabeth Dunlap
Patrick galleries: Art and Design Faculty Exhibition Two, featuring Shaun
Cassidy, David Freeman, Janice
Mueller and Alf Ward
November 9
Rutledge and Elizabeth Dunlap
Patrick galleries, 7-8:30 p.m.
Opening reception for Faculty Exhibition Two; gallery talk by Alf Ward,
7 p.m.
November 18
119 Rutledge, 3 p.m.
Faculty Exhibition lecture #1
November 22-23
Galleries closed
Winthrop Galleries is located in
Rutledge Building. Hours are
Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-5
p.m. Sunday hours are 1- 4 p.m. The
Edmund D. Lewandowski Student
Gallery is located in McLaurin.
Hours are Monday through Friday
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
FYI/October 31, 2001
Alf Ward’s “Tall Boy,” a work in platinum, is
part of "Art and Design Faculty Exhibition
Two,” running Nov. 8 through Jan. 27.
illustrate his current experimentation.
Mueller’s recent paintings for this exhibition explore her ongoing interest in symbols
of culture. Master silversmith Alf Ward
taps his childhood memories of World War
II London in a new body of finely crafted
jewelry-like forms.
A reception for the exhibition artists will
be held on Nov. 9 at 7 p.m., followed by a
gallery talk with Alf Ward at 7:30 p.m. in
the Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery. Additionally, the Sunday afternoon artist lectures, held at 3 p.m. in Rutledge Auditorium
will feature the faculty artists. Shaun Cassidy
will speak on Nov. 18; David Freeman will
talk about his art on Dec. 2; and on Jan. 20
Janice Mueller will discuss her work .The
exhibition, reception and lectures are all
free and open to the public. For more information, contact Winthrop Galleries Director Tom Stanley at ext. 2493.
Enrollment
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Charlotte region,” said President Anthony
DiGiorgio. “Such growth means we have
our work cut out for us in being sure we have
facilities ready as new students arrive. Since
more than 86 percent of our students are
from South Carolina − many from traditionally under-represented populations − I’m
particularly pleased about what these numbers say regarding our service to the state.”
This fall’s enrollment of 6,306 students
is the university’s largest enrollment in its
115-year history, according to preliminary
figures that will become final next month.
Huffmon to talk Nov. 5
about how political
party knowledge
influences voters
Does the political party to which a candidate belongs influence your opinion of
her or him? For most people it does, Scott
Huffmon has discovered.
He will discuss his research on “Attitude
Accessibility and Cross-Activation Between
Political Constructs” at the Political Science Faculty Research Series, Nov. 5 at
noon at 321 Bancroft.
Huffmon, an assistant professor of political science, says that bringing up one
idea makes you think of another.
“If I introduce information on, say, the
Democratic Party, then ask people for their
opinions on Al Gore, people have an opinion, even if they don’t know much about
Gore,” Huffmon said. “Giving people data
on political parties makes information on
candidates more accessible. However, it
doesn’t work in reverse. People can’t extrapolate information about a particular party
based on what they know about a candidate.”
Huffmon asserts that Americans have
access to so much information about political parties, they can produce opinions
quickly. “Knowing this tells us how people
process political information. It has implications about decision making and the formation of political opinions.”
Faculty and staff are invited to learn
more about political decision making at the
lunchtime seminar, which is free.
The increase comes in both graduate and
undergraduate numbers, reflecting a steady
trend of growth for the campus.
Undergraduate numbers are the largest
ever at 4,838 students, while graduate numbers also are the top level with 1,468 students.
Not only are enrollment numbers increasing but also the university continues to
attract students of different races and ethnic
backgrounds. This year’s minority population of 1,774 students makes up 28.1 percent of the student body. Of the 1,774
minority students, 1,484 students are African-American and the remainder is Hispanic and other traditionally under-represented populations.
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Dean candidates
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Marlowe currently is associate dean of
students and director of residence life at
Georgetown University in Washington,
D.C., where she has worked in student affairs for the last 15 years. At Georgetown,
she has been involved in developing programs to increase faculty involvement in
student life, including a faculty-in-residence
program, faculty fellows program and a
dining conversations program.
Previously, Marlowe held various counselor positions associated with at-risk children and adolescents. She holds a B.S. in
social work from East Carolina University
and an M.A. in counseling from Rollins
College. She is licensed by the state of
Florida as a marriage and family therapist.
Brenda Pardini has been the assistant
vice president for student life at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Pa., for the
past four years. For the previous 17 years,
she was responsible for new student programs, judicial affairs and aspects of residence life at the University of Pittsburgh’s
main campus. In addition to directing all
aspects of student life departments, Pardini
has been especially pro-active in alcohol
education. She is the founder and chair of a
newly created alcohol task force developed
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to address alcohol usage on campus.
Pardini has a B.A. in elementary education from Stetson University, an M.S. in
education with a college student personnel
administration emphasis from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in higher education
administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
The other two finalists, Cristina Grabiel
and Kevin Banks, were on campus earlier
this year.
Grabiel is familiar to many in the Winthrop community. She was the university’s
dean of students from 1994 to 1998, associate dean for student development, 1985-94,
and assistant dean of students, 1983-85.
Since leaving Winthrop, Grabiel has served
as coordinator for judicial affairs at Fort
Lewis College in Durango, Colo.
Grabiel received a B.A. in human development and learning with a human services
concentration, and an M.A. in human development and learning with an administration concentration, both from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Grabiel, who has a keen interest in juvenile justice, was on campus over the summer.
Banks, who visited Winthrop Oct. 22,
has been the dean of student development
and residential life at Monmouth University for the past six years. In his previous
three years at Monmouth, he served as
acting dean of student development and as
assistant dean of campus life for residential
life and student development. Banks has
extensive experience in multiculturalism,
having served as chair of Monmouth’s
Multicultural Retreat Committee since 1990
and as a member of Africana Studies Advisory Committee since 1991.
He received a B.A. in political science
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Bill Culp
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most efficient among the state’s public colleges and universities. In 1997, the university recognized his immense contribution to
Winthrop’s physical plant by naming its
$2.7 million William L. Culp Chiller Plant
for him.
Walter Hardin, associate vice president
for facilities management and Culp’s successor, admired Culp’s ability to design and
repair things from the time he was a young
boy. Hardin grew up with Culp’s son, Billy,
so spent a lot of time with his friend’s father.
“I felt like Bill Culp could make or fix
anything, and I wanted to be able to do that
someday. Maybe if I make it to retirement,
I can catch up,” he said.
A walking encyclopedia of Winthrop
lore, Culp frequently has served as a campus tour guide. Former students rely on his
institutional memory to help them remember Winthrop as it was during their years on
campus and put into context any recent
changes.
Along with his role as oral historian and
campus tour guide, Culp has contributed to
the community by serving as National
Weather Service monitor, a job he inherited
from his father in 1952. Like his father, each
day at 6 p.m. Culp religiously records temperatures and rainfall at the Winthrop station located between Peabody Gym and the
tennis courts. Their efforts helped produce
more than a century’s record of weather in
York County, resulting in invaluable information to assist the National Weather Service in compiling weather patterns.
Throughout the years, Culp’s dedication
to Winthrop has been recognized. The 1975
Tatler includes a note of appreciation from
the graduating class. In 1984, he was named
Employee of the Year and in 1995, he
received a Presidential Citation. Two years
later, the chiller plant was named for him.
Next Wednesday, the entire university will
have the opportunity to honor Culp at the
culmination of his outstanding career. But
don’t expect Culp to fade away.
“I certainly have a big interest in everything that’s going on.”
FYI/October 31, 2001