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Hollings Library Exhibit: The Great Gatsby at 100
January 21, 2025, Craig Brandhorst
A new exhibit, “‘Something significant, elemental and profound’: Celebrating 100 Years of The Great Gatsby,” opens Jan. 24 at the University of South Carolina’s Hollings Library. Michael Weisenburg, director of USC’s Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, discusses the novel’s enduring appeal.
Topics: Faculty, History, Collections, University Libraries
Two-time Olympic gold medalist's second act connects athletes' minds and bodies
January 15, 2025, Anna Francis
Natasha Hastings came to the University of South Carolina with dreams of excelling as an athlete. Although her talent eventually would propel her to an NCAA championship, multiple world championships and two Olympic gold medals, her initial start on the Gamecock track and field team was less than stellar. Her body was sound, but she had psychological demons to slay.
Topics: Alumni, Faculty, History, Recognition, Leadership, College of Education
Vatican synod open to wider roles for Catholic women
October 11, 2024, Carol E. Harrison
At the current Vatican synod, whose purpose is to address “communion, participation, and mission” in the church, women’s role is on the agenda. History professor Carol Harrison writes for The Conversation on how Catholic women have historically found ways to speak to and about their church leadership, even when they have been excluded from its proceedings.
Topics: Students, Alumni, Faculty, University Leadership, University President, Academics, Research, History, Leadership, College of Arts and Sciences, The Conversation
Student ensembles kick off School of Music centennial celebration
September 04, 2024, Carol J.G. Ward
The Centennial Celebration Concert joins more than 500 student musicians in the first of a series of events showcasing School of Music programs, students and faculty.
Topics: Students, Alu Midtown - Downtown in Columbia in Richland County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic) Photographed by Anna Inbody, August 21, 2011 1. Remembering Dr. King Marker Remembering Dr. King. . , Front , The honorary designation of Harden Street and installation of markers in the name of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. recognizes the achievements of a man who inspired the world to embrace equality and non-violence to which he dedicated his life. Dr. King served as Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia. At age 35, Dr. King was the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. On April 4, 1968, he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee., Reverse , Sponsors: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; Alpha Psi Lambda Chapter, Columbia, SC; Cromartie Law Firm, LLC; Belinda Gergel, PhD; , Columbia City Council: Robert D. Coble, Mayor; E.W. Cromartie, II; Sam Davis; Tameika Isaac Devine; Daniel J. Rickenmann; Kirkman Finlay, III; Belinda Gergel, PhD; Steve Gantt, Interim City Manager; S. Allison Baker, Sr. Assistant City Manager. , Martin Luther King Memorial Foundation Committee, Durham E. Carter, Chair; Mayor Robert D. Coble and Councilman E.W. Cromartie, Co-Chairs . This historical marker was erected in 2011 by Martin Luther King Memorial Foundation Committee. It is in Midtown - Downtown in Columbia in Richland County South Carolina Five Points Theatre was under Sam Suggs’s theatre management. This photo, from his collection, was taken on a Sunday afternoon in summer of 1942. On Sundays, Fort Jackson gave passes to the troops and they flooded the theatres. The real patriarch of Five Points may have been a blood-thirsty mosquito because it was fear of malaria that prompted developers to begin infilling the swampy low ground along Rocky Branch Creek. Health concerns were not the only issue. Around the same time, still considered the turn of the century, land long believed undevelopable was given a closer look. The convenience of the land’s location inspired developers and entrepreneurs to consider it more carefully. Residents of University Hill, the brand new Wales Gardens subdivision, and nearby Shandon needed somewhere to buy groceries, fill gas tanks, get haircuts, choose engagement rings, and shop for fashions and furniture. To make the tract buildable, huge culverts were buried, channeling creek water from Maxcy Gregg Park all the way to what now is Martin Luther King Park (in 1915, Valley Park) opening the potential for development. That was 1915. Looking back over the dynamic evolution characterizing Five Points’ inaugural 100 years, it seems Columbia’s first suburban shopping village has been changing up, one way or the other, for most of that century. All that changing of scenery and personnel impacting this village and its built environment has perpetually attracted some of Columbia’s most creative thinkers and doers. Beginning with the earliest business owners who ventured on Five Points, the creative thinking has frequently included artists. Five Points’ proximity to the University of South Carolina, and other local colleges as well, has made it a visually attractive place for students— as well as graduates who became professional artists— to sketch and paint. As the centennial year winds down, the citiz Share to Google Classroom Septima Poinsett Clark (1898-1987) was a pioneering African-American teacher in the Lowcountry. A graduate of Avery Institute (see The Avery Institute In Charleston), Mrs. Clark taught at a two-teacher school on John's Island from 1916, beginning her life-long commitment to African-American education. She first began her life of activism in 1919, leading the petition drive of Avery Institute teachers who successfully fought to allow African-Americans to teach in the African-American school system in Charleston. After her marriage took her out of the state from 1920 until the death of her husband in 1929, she settled in Columbia where she received degrees from Benedict College and Hampton Institute. She worked in Columbia for the equalization of teacher salaries, and continued the fight when she moved to Charleston in 1947 to teach in the public school system there. Active in the NAACP and the YWCA, she attended the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, and worked toward civil rights for her people. She was fired from her job in 1956 for refusing to give up her civil rights organization membership. She subsequently taught at the first Citizenship School at Highlander, where she worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and became the first woman member of the Executive Board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.Remembering Dr. King
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The honorary designation of Harden Street and installation of markers in the name of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. recognizes the achievements of a man who inspired the world to embrace equality and non-violence to which he dedicated his life. Dr. King served as Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia. At age 35, Dr. King was the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. On April 4, 1968, he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Te Five Points’ historic first century captured by artists
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