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From the PRESIDENT COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Feel the Teal We at Coastal Carolina University have embraced a new commitment that will redefine this institution. This commitment focuses on three key elements: service excellence, student success and a heightened awareness of how we treat each other.

It has one ultimate goal: that everyone who interacts with CCU, whether you’re a student, a parent, an alumnus or a visitor, feels the spirit and pride of this great university. It’s called Feel the Teal, and I am very excited about it.

During a workshop in August 2012, Feel the Teal was first introduced to CCU’s leadership, who contributed ideas from their respective areas of expertise to help define the initiative. An implementation plan was created, including extensive frontline training—CCU Service Basics. To date, 850 employees have participated in the training, which is being led by Eileen Soisson, director of Service Excellence.

We are already seeing team members stepping up and stepping out to make the plan a successful reality.

We have a steering committee—key faculty and staff leaders who work to prioritize action steps, tweak our process to best suit each area and its specific mission, and provide vital feedback. For example, a need has been identified to improve the signage around campus.

As alumni, you may already have a program like this one in place in your own organizations. But for universities, it’s cutting edge, and we are proud to Feeling It: Coastal Carolina employees at a recent be in the vanguard of the movement.

CCU Service Basics Training Session Approximately 15 other universities in the nation have instituted customer service programs. Our goal is to offer an experience that is faster, friendlier and easier for all of our customers—students, parents, alumni, employers, board members, donors, volunteers, vendors and our local community. Great service could be the determining factor in our ability to retain students and compete in the global educational marketplace.

As president, this will be my legacy. As we advance to become the premier comprehensive university of choice in South Carolina, it is increasingly important not only to attract the best and brightest students, faculty and staff, but also retain them.

Feel the Teal is our culture. We invite and encourage you to be fully involved.You complete the picture.

David A. DeCenzo, President

Gov. Nikki Haley, Ex Officio member D. Wyatt Henderson ’98, Chairman Gary W. Brown, Vice Chairman Larry L. Biddle, Sec./Treas.

William S. Biggs Robert D. Brown Samuel H. Frink Natasha M. Hanna ’94 Carlos C. Johnson William L. Lyles Jr. Daniel W. R. Moore Sr. Oran P. Smith Eugene C. Spivey ’91 Samuel J. Swad ’86 Robert G. Templeton William E. Turner III ’96 PRESIDENT

David A. DeCenzo EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT/ CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Edgar L. Dyer PROVOST and SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT for ACADEMIC and STUDENT AFFAIRS

Robert J. Sheehan

EDITOR

Doug Bell ART DIRECTOR

Rob Wyeth ASSISTANT EDITOR

Mona Prufer DESIGNERS

Jonathan Ady Regis Minerd PHOTOGRAPHY

William Edmonds CONTRIBUTORS

Russell Alston Derrick Bracey Matt Hogue

Change of address notices should be sent with the mailing panel on this magazine to: Office of University Communication Coastal Carolina University P.O. Box 261954 Conway, SC 29528-6054 Copyright 2013 Coastal Carolina University

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The Edwards College launches a CCU first—The Athenaeum Press.

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Sometimes what you learn outside the classroom is what gives you the educational edge.

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An interview with faculty member Cynthia Storer, whose career as a CIA analyst is featured in a current HBO documentary film.

CCU photography student Tim Hodge photographs the Waccamaw River for CCU’s first press project.

On the cover:

See page 17 for instructions on how to view an augmented preview of Chasing the Paper Canoe by scanning the cover of this magazine with your smart device.

Coastal Carolina University Magazine is produced twice a year through the office of University Communication.

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Of NOTE CCU receives accreditation In December 2012, CCU received reaffirmation of accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), the accrediting agency for colleges and universities in 11 Southeastern states.

The reaccreditation is valid through 2022.

CCU received SACS’ highest level of reaffirmation, with no recommendations for improvement.

This is the best possible outcome that could result from the accreditation process.

Required every 10 years, reaccreditation involves an intense self-study and peer review process. As part of the peer review process, faculty and administration from SACS member institutions visited the CCU campus in Spring 2012 and evaluated the University.

SACS’s Commission on Colleges made its final decision in December.

Areas examined for standards compliance included finances, governance, academic programs, faculty qualifications, facilities, student support services, learning resources and student life.

CCU hosts delegation from University of Comoros

Seven delegates from the University of Comoros in Madagascar visited CCU in February as a part of a U.S. Agency for International Development program (USAID) to stimulate institutional development in developing markets.

CCU was chosen by USAID to work with the University of Comoros in the development of high

quality hospitality and tourism education programs.

CCU also provided expertise and insight into the development and accreditation of programs in teacher development and English education development.

The University of Comoros was founded in 2003 and has almost 7,000 students. It is the only public university in Madagascar, an island off the southeastern coast of Africa.

“It is pressing to have partners from countries such as the USA that will help devise new ways of developing the university through linkages, exchanges, training and other mutually beneficial programs in the area of hospitality and tourism education and English language instruction specifically,” said University of Comoros President Ibrahim Mohamed Rachadi.

“This visit reinforced the quality of CCU’s programs in the areas of resort tourism management and teacher education and may create opportunities for faculty research, consultation and joint projects between the institutions,” says Darla Domke-Damonte, executive director of global initiatives at CCU.

Wall College BGS chapter receives top honor

Coastal Carolina University’s chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) was selected among 176 BGS chapters as the Beta Gamma Sigma 2013 Gold Chapter in the annual Outstanding Chapter Award competition. The gold chapter is the top honor a chapter can receive. This is the first time CCU’s BGS chapter has received this award, which includes a $1,500 scholarship prize.

The other finalists in the 2013 competition were Lasalle University (Silver Chapter), the University of Oshkosh (Bronze Chapter) and Saint Joseph’s University, Stephen F. Austin State University and Texas State University-San Marcos (Honorable Mention).

“This is a tremendous honor for our college that could not have been possible without the support of our incredible members, student officers, advisers, administrators, faculty and staff over the years,” say chapter advisers Kenneth Small and Cara Scheuer of the Wall College of Business.

“It is truly an honor to be recognized as the best chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma in the world,” says Ralph Byington, dean of the Wall College of Business. “All the individuals connected with the Wall College should be proud of this recognition, a testament to our high-quality academic programs, students and faculty.”

CCU’s Beta Gamma Sigma chapter was established in 1999.

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Phillips’ single “Home” sold more than 4 million copies.

Food Bank opens

Phillip Phillips performs at CCU Singer-songwriter Phillip Phillips performed to a sold-out crowd of more than 3,200 for the first-ever concert to be held in CCU’s new HTC Center on April 3. Phillips, winner of American Idol season 11, released his first single, “Home,” which sold more than any other American Idol coronation song. The 22-year-old performer from Leesburg, Ga., released his debut album, The World from the Side of the Moon, in late 2012, and it has since gone gold. CCU alumna Elise Testone also competed in season 11 of American Idol, ending in the top 10. The HTC Center concert was organized by CCU’s Office of Student Activities and Leadership.

Ben Vereen visits campus The multitalented singer/dancer/actor Ben Vereen led a 90-minute master class for CCU theatre students in January 2013.

He coached the students on acting and song interpretation and offered some helpful tips about the business side of acting as well.

BEN VEREEN QUICK FACTS: Won Broadway’s 1973 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for Pippin.

In 1977, Vereen’s portrayal of Chicken George in Alex Haley’s landmark TV miniseries Roots earned him an Emmy nomination.

Film credits include Sweet Charity, All That Jazz, Funny Lady (Golden Globe nomination) and Why Do Fools Fall in Love.

BenVereen teaching a master class at CCU.

TV credits include appearances on How I Met Your Mother, Grey’s Anatomy, House of Payne, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, OZ, The Nanny, Star Trek - The Next Generation, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Webster.

CCU is one of a growing number of colleges around the country that have opened food banks to aid struggling students. The Coastal Carolina Food Bank, located in the Grand Strand Activity House at University Place, opened Thanksgiving 2012 in conjunction with National Hunger and Homelessness Week.

The idea for the bank originated with Cara Scheuer, student development and retention manager in the Wall College of Business. After learning that her alma mater, the University of Central Florida, had started one in response to a real need on campus, she began looking into the situation at CCU. The program was implemented largely by freshman students in First Year Experience classes, who found the location, built shelving, solicited donations and organized the inventory.

Through donations and student collections, about 3,900 canned goods and other food items have been collected in the food bank. Soon after it opened, organizers decided to make it available to CCU faculty, staff and students.

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3,900 food items (and counting)

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Of NOTE Ennis named dean of Edwards College Daniel J. Ennis was named dean of the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, beginning Jan. 1.

A professor of English, Ennis joined the CCU faculty in 1999. He has served as interim dean of the Edwards College, chair of the Department of English and co-director of the university’s Honors Daniel Ennis Program. He has also served on numerous university governance committees and task forces in many capacities during his tenure at CCU. Ennis’ specialty as a scholar is British literature, and he has authored or edited three books on the subject. Active in campus life, he has contributed to many CCU dramatic productions as a dramaturg and musician, and has served as a faculty adviser to student groups, including the Phi Eta Sigma English honor society and Tempo magazine. He was awarded a Fulbright-Hays fellowship in 2011 and earned a certificate from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education Management Development Program in 2012.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the College of Charleston, a master’s degree in English from Appalachian State University and a Ph.D. in English from Auburn University.

Professional development activities required for Wall College students Because academic coursework alone isn’t enough to prepare students for a successful business career in today’s world, CCU’s Wall College of Business is requiring all students to participate in a series of Professional Development Activities (PDAs) before they can get their diploma.

Initiated this past fall, the program will enable students to build their business portfolios by taking part in a range of activities on and off campus that are designed to enhance their business credentials, skills and knowledge. Students must complete a total of nine PDAs during the course of their studies.

PDAs include: self-management seminars on such topics as personal finance and time management; professional communication workshops on presentation and interview skills; participation in social responsibility activities that promote an understanding of ethics and diversity; leadership training; seminars on technology and innovation led by guest speakers; and a variety of field experiences.

“The program is just getting started,” said Cara Scheurer, student development and retention manager in the Wall College of Business, “but we look forward to seeing the fruits of the initiative, which should translate into better prepared graduates with superior job prospects upon graduation.”

ChantaTHON raises funds for children’s hospital

CCU’s first ChantaTHON was a 17-hour dance marathon that raised $8,818.21 for the McLeod Children’s Hospital of Florence and the Children’s Miracle Network. Approximately 90 students participated in the event held Nov. 9 and 10, dancing from 8 p.m. on Friday until 1 p.m. on Saturday.

The duration of the event was selected to correlate to the 17 million children who suffer from childhood diseases.

Many participating dancers sent emails to family and friends to collect pledges. Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity was the top group earner, contributing $1,300 to the total collection.

Jenna Curcuma, a freshman from Oakland, N.J., was the top individual earner with $780.

Kristina Nash, a senior business management major and director of ChantaTHON, saw the event as “life changing.” Michael Smith, a graduate assistant who is chairing this year’s event, says that more effort will be focused on fundraising and business partnerships for the 2013 event.

All Night Long: CCU students dance in the first ChantaTHON.

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The number of hours students danced in CCU’s ChantaTHON, commemorating the 17 million children with childhood diseases. Schools across the country raise money for this cause.

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U.S. Senator Tim Scott is commencement speaker

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In Memoriam: Anthony Darnell Liddell The CCU campus was shaken by the loss of Anthony Darnell Liddell, a sophomore from Bennettsville who was killed in a shooting incident at University Place on Feb. 26, 2013.

Approximately 200 CCU students, faculty, staff and friends gathered in the Edwards Courtyard Thursday, Feb. 28, to honor Liddell’s memory.

“A great future has been cut short by violence,” said CCU President David A. DeCenzo in his remarks at the ceremony. DeCenzo paid tribute to Liddell as a student majoring in exercise and sport management “whose desire was to serve others.” The CCU president called on the assembled mourners to work together against violence.

“Our society simply must change,” he said. “Let us dedicate our commitment to civility in honor of Anthony Darnell Liddell.”

Several of Liddell’s friends, including his former roommate, spoke at the event. “Keep your head up because we’re going to get through this together,” said one of his classmates.

“Keep striving. This is weakening all of us, but if we stand together, we will be stronger.”

Mann selected as 2012 Legend of the PGA William Mann, director of player development for the PGA Golf Management (PGM) Program in the Wall College of Business at CCU, was William Mann named the2012 Legend of the PGA. The honor was announced by the PGA in December 2012.

Mann, who served from 1999 to 2000 as the 31st president of the PGA, graduated from North Carolina State with a bachelor’s degree in forestry. He became a member of the PGA in 1979 and began his career as a golf course superintendent. He has worn

many hats in the golf industry, serving in such capacities as head golf professional, general manager and golf course owner.

His first role within the PGA was serving as an officer at the section level for the Carolinas. From 1992 to 1993, he served as the Carolinas Section president, and two years later he served as national secretary of the PGA. He was elected president of the PGA in 1999. Mann was inducted into the PGA Hall of Fame in 2005.

The Legend of the PGA award was created in 1995 to recognize living past presidents of the PGA who have made positive changes within the organization and community.

U.S. Senator Tim Scott will give the address at the Spring 2013 commencement ceremony, scheduled for May 11 at Brooks Stadium.

Scott was appointed to the U.S. Senate in January 2013 following the resignation of Jim DeMint.

He is the only African American in the Senate and the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction. He was previously a congressman serving the state’s First District in the U.S. House of Representatives (2011-2013), where he was selected to be president of the Freshman Caucus and House Whip.

As a legislator, Scott has focused on reducing spending, reforming the tax code and supporting economic freedom and entrepreneurship. He was an original cosponsor of the Cut, Cap and Balance Act and cosponsored two bills aimed at adding a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. He has also been an outspoken supporter of rightto-work states and authored the Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act. Scott grew up in North Charleston and served on the Charleston County Council for 13 years, including four terms as chair. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Charleston Southern University in 1988. Prior to his political career, he was owner of Tim Scott Allstate and partner of Pathway Real Estate Group.

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WOMEN IN PHILANTHROPY AND LEADERSHIP

Rebecca Wesson Darwin, Elizabeth Johnston Patterson, Muriel O’Tuel, Jean Hoefer Toal, Sarah Reese

Terri DeCenzo

Alexis Glick

Conference participant & Mercedes Ramirez Johnson

2013 WIPL Conference & Celebration Approximately 500 attended the third annual Women’s Leadership Conference & Celebration of Inspiring Women, held Feb. 7-8 at the Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center.

Greg Everett, Cookie Sprouse, Heather Jones, Muriel O’Tuel, Sam Cook, Peg Jackson, James Pasley, Sudha Patel

Chandler Parnell

Natalie & Gabriella DeCenzo, Shana Ernst, Kelsey Sapp

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Nicole Boone

Sarah Reese

Marjorie & Lance Thompson, Michael & Sharon Clayton Conference participants

Colleen Johnston, Michael Clayton, John Keyser, Joe Moglia, Alexis Glick

Conference participants

Sara Sanders

Nelljean Rice, Christine Po Colleen Johnston

Joe Moglia

Tim & Joan Meacham, Amber Wall, B.J. Landrum, Coleen Sweatt, Crystal Hummer

Terri DeCenzo, Elizabeth Johnston Patterson, David DeCenzo

Conference participants

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PUBLISHED The Great Harvest: Remembering Tobacco in the Pee Dee

By Bruce Douglas, Benton Henry and Eldred E. Prince Coker College Press

CCU history professor Eldred E. “Wink” Prince, in collaboration with photographer Benton Henry and Bruce Douglas of the Florence Regional Arts Alliance, has produced a richly illustrated coffee table book about the tobacco culture of South Carolina’s Pee Dee region.

The text, by Prince, offers a detailed description of the cultivation and marketing of the crop as it was practiced from 1900 to 1950. Woven into the narrative are quotations from tobacco growers and warehousemen interviewed between 1988 and 1993 by faculty and students of Coker College, publisher of the book.

Photographs in the book include many images of old tobacco barns as well as pictures chronicling the progress of the crop from the planting through the curing process to the warehouse. Several warehouses in various Pee Dee cities are also featured.

Prince is the author of Long Green:The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolina (2000), the definitive history of tobacco culture in this region.

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Gendered Politics in the Modern South: The Susan Smith Case and the Rise of a New Sexism

By Keira Williams Louisiana State University Press

Keira Williams, a lecturer in CCU’s Honors Program, examines specific cultural implications regarding gender politics in connection with the tragic story of Susan Smith.

When Smith’s two young children went missing in the fall of 1994, she told the police and the media they had been abducted by a black carjacker. A national public and media frenzy erupted nine days later when she confessed to drowning the boys in a neighborhood lake.

Williams scrutinizes the story in the context of 1990s culture politics, describing how it syncs with attitudes to sex that were evolving as a result of the budding neoconservative movement.

(Newt Gingrich suggested that Smith’s actions were connected to 1960s counterculture and Lyndon Johnson’s social welfare programs.) Williams argues that the era’s “new sexism” reasserted a traditional form of white male power.

Williams has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Georgia.

The Art of Medicine in Metaphors: A Collection of Poems and Narratives Edited by James Borton Copernicus Healthcare

This unique anthology grew out of CCU teaching associate James Borton’s personal experience after spending nine days in a coma and 12 days in ICU following triple bypass surgery three years ago.

In the fall of 2011 when he was a faculty member at USCSumter, Borton organized a conference there for physicians and professors to discuss the value of literary self-expression as part of the healing process.

“Three years ago I learned a painful lesson about how a patient bleeds a story,” Borton writes in the introduction. “It’s no wonder that my call to others to learn about their broken health stories met with remarkable responses.”

A compilation of stories, essays and poems that Borton describes as “healing narratives,” the book illustrates the human need to tell stories as part of the process of recovery and healing.

He sees these writings as part of the patient’s medical history.

“Stories offer opportunities for learning and a place for reflective self-expression and healing,” according to Borton.

“As a result, an increasing number of academicians, doctors and health professionals understand that the narrative medicine movement draws practitioners—doctors, nurses and volunteers—closer to the stories of illness, to more humanely and effectively bring about healing.”

Allegany to Appomattox: The Life and Letters of Private William Whitlock of the 188th New York Volunteers

By Valgene Dunham Syracuse University Press

Val Dunham, distinguished professor emeritus and former dean of CCU’s College of Science, has crossed the disciplinary aisle in his retirement as the author of a Civil War history book, a biography of his great-great grandfather.

The Journal of Peter Horry, South Carolinian: Recording the New Republic 1812-1814 Edited by Roy Talbert Jr. and Meggan Farish University of South Carolina Press

A personal journal written by Peter Horry (1744-1815), the Revolutionary War militia leader for whom Horry County was named, was recently published by the University of South Carolina Press, edited by Coastal Carolina University history professor Roy Talbert Jr. and Meggan Farish, a CCU history alumna and Duke University doctoral candidate.

The diary covers two years near the end of Horry’s life, 1812 to 1814, providing an intimate account of the social and political life of South Carolina in those years, as well as a revealing personal portrait of Horry, a prominent planter, soldier and political figure.

A Georgetown County planter, Horry served closely with Gen. Francis Marion in the Revolutionary War and also served in the state legislature as a representative and senator in the 1780s and 1790s. In 1801, the newly created Horry District (now Horry County) was named for him in honor of his services in the American Revolution.

When the journal begins, Horry is living on North Island near Georgetown. The early part of the diary chronicles the day-today management of his plantations and his interactions with his household slaves. In 1813, Horry moved to Columbia, and the latter part of the journal describes the social and political life in the state capital.

Pvt. William Whitlock of Allegany, N.Y., joined the 188th New York Volunteers in September 1864 and fought in three battles before he was killed in action at Dinwiddle, Va. Some 39 of his letters were found by Dunham’s cousin, Howard Mark Whitney, in the late 1970s in their ancestor’s house near Allegany, N.Y. The letters, containing Whitlock’s accounts of combat, marches, homesickness, hunger and other aspects of Civil War military life, form the basis of the book, which also describes life in the Allegany area prior to the war. The book offers a glimpse of the political mood of the times from a soldier’s perspective.

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Coastal Carolina University has embarked on a new journey that is taking our students into uncharted territory. The Athenaeum Press is a new prototype of the university press, a student-led endeavor blending new technology with traditional formats. The press’ first book, which debuted this spring, involved students in an experiential voyage of discovery.

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Workshop: Students plan the layout of the Athenaeum Press’ first book, led by head designer Marcello Garofalo (far left) and professor Scott Mann (far right).

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Now—at a time when the prophets of technology cry that the end of print is at hand—might not seem the right moment to start up a press. The word itself conjures archaic images of ink-stained typesetters bent over clattering machines that devour forests of newsprint. The timing would appear to be no better for launching a university press: scholarly publishing is in a state of uncertain flux, searching for an economically sustainable balance between digital and traditional formats in the face of shrinking markets and reduced funding.

The Athenaeum Press, however, isn’t patterned on any established model of a university press.

The idea for Coastal Carolina University’s own press began with the dean of the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Dan Ennis. Thinking about the number of various printed projects the college had its hand in, Ennis saw the advantages of consolidation.

“We had a half a dozen projects already under way or about to start,” he says, “from the cultural arts calendar, to the college’s Tapestry magazine, to academic journals that various faculty members

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were interested in hosting. So, rather than create a separate infrastructure for each project, it made sense to centralize the design and editorial support in one house.”

Another incentive that served as a spur to the project was CCU’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). As part of its accreditation requirements, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) obliges every member institution to create and implement a university-wide QEP program focused on enhanced student learning. After an all-inclusive canvass of the university community, CCU decided on a program called “Experienced@Coastal,” which was formally implemented in 2012. Its aim is to engage as many students as possible in meaningful projects, primarily goal-oriented classroom, internship and study-abroad activities, designed to boost their store of practical knowledge via learning that is “experiential,” as opposed to strictly instructional.

“The Athenaeum Press is the definition of experiential learning,” says Ennis.

Intensive student involvement is the heart and the muscle of this enterprise.

The Logo: The Athenaeum Press logo was

designed by Marcello Garofalo.

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Chasing the Paper Canoe Tapestry Journal of Political Science Journal of Age, Culture and the Humanities • CCU Cultural Calendar • Waccamaw Journal • Paul Rice Broadside Series For more information about the Athenaeum Press, contract director Trisha O’Connor at poconno@coastal. edu or athenaeumpress@coastal.edu

What it is (and isn’t) “One of the advantages of creating something from scratch is that you don’t have to follow any traditional pattern,” says Trisha O’Connor, director of the press. Working with a steering committee of faculty, staff and students, O’Connor, who is CCU’s media executive-in-residence and former executive editor of the Sun News, has led the creative process of defining what the Athenaeum Press will be.

It was decided early on that CCU’s press will not attempt to duplicate the role of many established university presses that focus solely on academic books and monographs. It will not be an inhouse publishing service for CCU faculty. It will not be a printing factory with onsite press machinery, but will concentrate instead on design and editorial elements and bid out the actual printing.

The Athenaeum Press will publish in both digital and print

formats. It will explore new technologies and emerging platforms of delivery. It will focus on quality over quantity. Its products will be largely executed by students from multiple disciplines and will furnish them opportunities to apply skills learned in the classroom.

It will have a community service component, with some of its products devoted to regional or local subjects.

Even though the press is an academic project, it is organized in such a way that students are educated about the economic realities of online publishing and old-school printing. “Projects are discussed in the context of both academic value and commercial potential,” said Ennis, “The students are learning that projects need capital, personnel, space and equipment. We’re trying to interest donors who want to support this kind of pragmatic approach.”

Work in Progress: Chasing the Paper Canoe is a student-driven project,

from photography to design.Tracy Fish (below) shoots theWaccamaw River as CCU boat captain Richard Goldberg steers.

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Debut Book the project.

The first production of the Athenaeum Press meets all the Between September and December 2012, photography students criteria. Chasing the Paper Canoe is a coffee table-style photography/ Tim Hodge and Tracy Fish shot some 3,000 photographs as well art book featuring photography of the Waccamaw River and scenes as video, traveling to various spots on area rivers and waterways of the coastal South Carolina lowcountry. The 120-page book, from the North Carolina line down to Charleston. On some of together with its rich complement of online elements, is the these trips they were accompanied by graphic design student result of an intensive collaboration involving dozens of students Marcello Garofalo, the from many departments principal designer of the in the Edwards College: book. In addition to their visual arts, English, history own excursions, CCU’s boat and communication. The captain Richard Goldberg, breadth of this creative, who spends most of his time cross-disciplinary activity, ferrying marine science all focused on one project, is students, took the Paper Canoe something unique. crew on trips aboard the Inspired by a chapter from university research boat last Voyage of the Paper Canoe, a fall, which gave the students little known 19th century By the Book: Text from Nathaniel Bishop’s original book is incorporated in access to obscure places that travel book by Nathaniel Chasing the Paper Canoe.

Bishop visited 140 years ago.

Bishop, CCU students have While the photographers fashioned Chasing the Paper were exploring the river, graduate students in English professor Canoe as a contemporary reimagining of a canoe trip Bishop took in David Kellog’s class worked on the text of the book, selecting 1874–75. On one leg of his trip, he canoed the Waccamaw and Pee passages from Bishop’s account for inclusion in Chasing the Paper Dee rivers through Horry and Georgetown counties. In this chapter Canoe. When the photography was completed, Garofalo worked of his book he describes the people and places he encountered with Hodge and Fish to cull the best 100 or so pictures and began here, providing a rare glimpse into the local life and culture of this laying out the book, interspersing pictures and text, conceptualizing remote area during the Reconstruction period. the design. Graphic design student Scott Cullum did most of the The press’ debut book is largely the result of the imagination and technical programming for the web version of the book. labor of students from ARTD/ARTS 440, the art department’s pre“Readers of our book will reimagine Bishop’s journey through professional studio. Led by professors Easton Selby and Scott Mann, Tim and Tracy’s eyes,” says Garofalo. “We chose passages of text, the class functions as a professional graphic design and photography plus some illustrations from Bishop’s book, that we thought were agency for university clients—a perfect vehicle to carry out the meaningful in relation to the photographs. Sometimes very short QEP mandate. The agency, called Lusca Studio, is a “strategic phrases spoke volumes. It’s the juxtaposition of images with the partner” of the Athenaeum Press, according to Mann, serving as its text that’s exciting—it creates a whole new perspective.” design and photography arm. Mann and Selby secured a grant from the South Carolina Humanities Council to help defray the cost of 14 •

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Down by the Riverside: (opposite and this page) Photographs by visual arts students Tracy Fish and Tim Hodge capture life on the

Waccamaw and Pee Dee rivers.

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River’s Edge: Following Bishop’s original trek,Tim Hodge (above) and Tracy Fish shot the rivers from the North Carolina border to Georgetown and beyond.

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Life Online Consistent with the mission of the Athenaeum Press, Chasing the Paper Canoe exists in multiple formats. In addition to the printed book, the project has a parallel life online. On certain pages of the book, there are augmented reality tags—those small square symbols that activate apps on smart phones and tablets. These link to various other modes of content, including video of river scenes with voiceover commentary by CCU history professor Wink Prince, who also wrote the foreword to the book.

English professor Jen Boyle’s class produced a digital companion to the book with lots of enhanced content and background material, including an annotated reprint of the complete chapter from Bishop’s original on which the whole project is based. The class created a geomash map of the river route with informational links to relevant locations, as well as a wikispace portal that allows visitors to the site to contribute comments.

“Part of the challenge has been to make sure that the purpose and the feeling of the overall project isn’t lost from format to format,” says Garofalo.

When Chasing the Paper Canoe was officially unveiled at the Edwards College’s annual gala in April 2013, the students who made it breathed a sigh of relief and toasted their success. Like the journey of Bishop himself, it had been an arduous but rewarding trip, full of discovery— and definitely experiential.

“The best part of it was learning how to work in a collaborative process,” says Garofalo. “We all have our egos but we learned to balance them out as we worked toward a common goal.”

“All photographers fantasize about producing a book of their photos,” says Hodge. “But you don’t realize until you do one all the work that goes into it. It’s a crushing dose of reality. When you see the finished product, though, it makes you want to do it again. It’s a challenge I’d gladly accept.”

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Experienced@Coastal

“Experience IS THE

Best

Teacher.”

This wise old adage is the centerpiece of a big new initiative aimed at helping Coastal Carolina University students get the best possible value out of their education.

A Quality Enhancement Plan developed as part of CCU’s accreditation process, Experienced@Coastal engages students in meaningful, goal-oriented classroom, internship and study-abroad activities that give students hands-on learning beyond the traditional instructional curriculum. Meet three students who are getting the “experiential” treatment.

47 days and zero nights Leigha Peterson’s unusual Christmas

By Mona Prufer

eigha Peterson had a Christmas like no other in her 22 years.

She and a group of fellow scientists made a long trek to a part of Antarctica that has never been visited by humans. Known as Point 8, the area has been reserved for scientists since its discovery.

“Being the first group of people to investigate new land has been the biggest highlight of this trip,” says Peterson, a native of Ocean City, Md., who is pursuing a master’s degree in coastal marine and wetland studies at CCU. She spent a total of 47 days on earth’s southernmost continent. It was summer there—the sun didn’t completely set and the stars never appeared. So there was plenty of light for watching seals, penguins and humpback whales as she conducted her research.

The Midnight Sun: Leigha Peterson (left) holds a Center for Marine andWetland Studies shirt, with professors RichViso and Rick Peterson.

Peterson accompanied Rich Viso, assistant director of CCU’s School of Coastal and Marine Systems Science, and Rick Peterson, marine science lecturer (no relation to Leigha), on a National Science Foundation-funded research trip to Antarctica involving groundwater discharge. The two professors returned in late December, but Peterson remained at Palmer Station, a 45-person research camp, for eight more weeks to conduct technical tests on groundwater discharge in a two-mile radius around Anvers Island, located on the northwest coast of the Antarctic peninsula.

She describes 24 hours at Palmer Station: “A typical day begins with a warm shower, whenever the single stall is free (yes, we have hot water) in a community bathroom shared by 12 of the station’s total 19 females. Breakfast is then served from 6:30 to 8 a.m., and we are on the water by 9 a.m.

Most of our work here is done from 16-foot inflatable zodiacs within a two nautical-mile radius surrounding the main island, as we are interested in the water that moves from land to sea and the chemical species these waters deliver to the ocean.

“We spend roughly eight hours a day sampling transects from a zodiac boat called Wonderbread (and I like to think as long as it remains afloat, it is the best thing since sliced bread) to understand the sources of dissolved constituents, like iron, to the coastal ocean. Iron, for tiny marine plants, is much like calcium and nitrogen for us, vital for life.

“Many of the dissolved species we are interested in are present in small quantities so we must collect large volumes of water to detect them, meaning my biceps have increased at least an inch in

circumference over the past month! When our time on the water has ended for the day, our time in the lab begins with filtering the day’s collections and measuring the filtered samples for isotopes of radon and radium (as well as others) as a proxy for fluid that has been in recent contact with the land. Dinner is served until 7 p.m., which marks the end of field work and the start of lab efforts. Once a week everyone on station is responsible for cleanup after dinner as there is no housekeeping service on station.

Interestingly enough, there are currently 45 people on station, and each of us is responsible for our dishes and our personal space, as well as maintaining shared facilities (i.e., gym, bathrooms, galley, etc.).”

Temperatures at Palmer hovered around freezing, Peterson says, but she packed enough layers of insulation that her biggest wish was more cotton attire for the 70-degree inside temperatures.

A Christmas Eve visit from Santa, who left stockings and gifts for the scientists, champagne on New Year’s Eve and mint chocolate ice cream for her birthday on Jan. 5 were ordinary pleasures made extraordinary by the context, according to Peterson. She returned to South Carolina on Feb. 12.

“This has been a fantastic experience considering the aesthetic pleasures, the social interactions and scientific advancements,” she says. “A good way to describe this entire experience is surreal; I have certainly missed seeing the stars and watching the sun set.”

The low point of the trip for Peterson was “swallowing the fact that it had to end. I have promised myself I will make it back here, some way, somehow. I am forever changed.”

Endless Days: (Inset) Peterson (fourth from left) and her Palmer Station colleagues. (Below) Cruising the icy waters on a zodiac.

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Heart and Mind

Jeff Wibben drives long at Pebble Beach

By Derrick Bracey

’m a lucky guy,” says Jeff Wibben, a senior PGA Golf Management Program student at CCU. Spend a few minutes with him, however, and it becomes evident that Wibben’s success is more than a matter of luck.

Wibben did a six-month internship at Pebble Beach in California last year. He was asked to return for a Pro-Am tournament in February 2013 and a second internship this coming summer.

“My internship actually ran long,” Wibben says. “It started in May of 2012, and it didn’t end until November.” When problems arose in the intern placement, he agreed to do double duty, working at both Pebble Beach and its sister course at Spyglass Hill.

He was the first intern ever to do this.

“I have a come-early, stay-late work ethic,” Wibben says. “The head pro saw I was willing to sacrifice, and when I asked him about coming back, he said, ‘Done.’”

Wibben is from Long Island, N.Y., and he’s had his share of waggles on his journey into golf. Growing up, he was a baseball pitcher. Scouts were already looking at him when he blew out his shoulder in the ninth grade. “I was on a table in my doctor’s office.

He was telling me I was going to need surgery to repair it. Then he said, ‘Why don’t you just go play golf instead.’ So I did.”

He played on the varsity golf team in high school, which ultimately led him to CCU’s PGM program—one of only 19 programs in the country accredited by the PGA. Wibben is pursing his PGM degree with an emphasis in finance. “It’s all been so humbling,” Wibben says. “I believe if you keep your heart and mind open, things will fall into place.”

Wibben’s first internship was at Newport Country Club in Rhode Island. “I learned the importance of prestige in my first internship with Newport,” he says. “It’s been around since 1893

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Timeless: The famous Rolex Clock at Pebble Beach

and has a lot of history. I learned I had to get my hands dirty and handle responsibility in my second internship at Huntington Crescent Club in New York.”

After his first two internships, Wibben wanted to venture away from the East Coast. He approached Will Mann, the director of player development for CCU’s PGM Program. A few days later Mann—a past PGA president and 2012’s Legend of the PGA— contacted him about his internship assignment. “Will said to me, ‘It’s a little place in California.You’ve probably never heard of it.

It’s called Pebble Beach.’ I was speechless.”

At Pebble Beach, Wibben chipped in and did whatever was asked of him. He grabbed bags and shuttled guests. He made contacts with corporate sponsors. He monitored the pace-of-play on the course. Using his skills in calligraphy, he drew up the leaderboard and worked in tournament services. He also learned from the best golf instructors in the business. “Pebble Beach is the leader in the golf industry. They’re private and public,” he says, “which means everyone is treated the same, from CEOs who are members to Joe Schmoe who saved up to play this course. For me, Pebble Beach is a challenge every day, a lifetime of experience, and I love it.”

He recites the mission statement “To exceed the expectations of every guest by providing a once-in-a-lifetime experience, every time.” And Wibben never took a mulligan. He committed to every learning opportunity he could. “I would talk to guys in charge of the greens, the marketing guys about floor plans and ordering in the pro shop,” he says. “I was able to observe and learn from Laird Small, the top instructor in the country.” During his internship, Wibben lived on the Pebble Beach property; CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz was his neighbor.

He met athletes—Jerry Rice, Matthew Stafford, both Stephen Curry and Harrison Barnes of the Golden State Warriors. He hobnobbed with politicians—Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. He even gave golf tips to an ex-president. “President George W. Bush came to the range while I was working it,” he says. “I told him he could work on the tempo of his shot a little bit. He came up after and said, ‘Jeff, thanks again for all you do.’ It was really cool.”

But Wibben keeps the perks in perspective, focusing on the long drive that this experiential learning program is offering him. His reputation as a guy who tamps his divots and doesn’t drop the ball has gotten him noticed by his bosses at Pebble Beach. “There’s been talk of me coming on staff after I graduate,” he says. “Like I said, I’m a lucky guy.”

Derrick Bracey is pursuing a Master of Arts inWriting at CCU and is a graduate assistant in the Office of University Communication.

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Lucky Seven: Wibben (top) tees off on Pebble Beach’s famous 7th hole.

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In the News

Jillian Frederick’s behind the scenes internship

By Russell Alston

he path to a career isn’t the same for every student at Coastal Carolina University. Some come with a plan and execute it without serious deviation. Others spend their first two years learning more about themselves than about their future profession.

Often, the deciding factor in determining a student’s future is the internship—a critical right of passage for many college students.

Jillian Frederick, a 21-year-old communication major from Summerville, is conducting an internship during the spring semester of 2013 that is giving her the direction she seeks. She is immersed in the world of journalism at WBTW News Channel 13 in Myrtle Beach.

“I’m learning so much,” she says. “Every day is a different story.”

At WBTW, the local CBS affiliate that serves the Grand Strand-Pee Dee region, Frederick works mostly with anchors/reporters Brie Jackson and Erika Hayes, assisting them in producing their newscasts.

“When I met Brie and expressed my interest, she allowed me to shadow her on stories in my free time,” says Frederick. Her duties include observing producers, helping write news stories and assisting with “stand-up reels,” or taped on-camera segments, in the field with reporters. She believes the internship at WBTW brings “a touch of reality” to the coursework she has been doing in her video journalism class, taught by CCU communication professor Kim Schumacher.

“Jillian wrote and performed five stand-ups for the Journalism 314 class’ first standup montage project,” says Schumacher. “Not only were they very well conceived, but Jillian also performed them well. So much so that when her assignment was played in class, students noticed and commented that she looked like a professional. She seems like a natural.”

Frederick also believes her Writing for Broadcast class, also taught

by Schumacher, complements her tasks at WBTW. Schumacher requires students to write press releases and view recorded television Jillian Frederick

Getting the Story: Frederick and WBTW news anchor Erika Hayes prepare to conduct an interview.

news broadcasts to log information for story purposes, in addition to recording their own interviews.

But there are some things you can get only from an internship, according to Frederick, such as the hands-on reality of creating an on-camera segment for an actual broadcast. “I never realized it takes a whole day to put together that 1 minute-30 second packaged story,” she says. “It involves going out in the field, gathering interviews and knowing how to talk and interact with people, as well as writing and editing the story on deadline. There are a lot of details you won’t learn in the classroom.”

Frederick hopes that CCU’s Department of Communication will have its own TV production studio one day so that all students interested in broadcasting careers will have a workshop to learn these skills.

Another benefit of the internship—the job is helping Frederick come out of her shell. “I’m relatively shy but gaining a comfort level.

The internship is helping me there as well.”

Frederick plans to pursue broadcast journalism as a career and has produced her “résumé reel,” a montage of stand-ups that demonstrates her on-camera presentation skills, her ability to write an interesting story and her editing capabilities. She receives invaluable feedback from her employers at WBTW. “I’m lucky to be at a place where everyone is willing to help and work with me,” says Frederick, who graduates in May. “I don’t know what else I would do. This is the field that fits me.”

Russell Alston, a CCU English major, is in a work study program in the Office of University Communication.

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LLIGENCE CYNTHIA STORER, a lecturer in Coastal Carolina University’s new program in intelligence and national security, was a senior analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency for 20 years. A specialist in terrorism in the agency’s counterterrorism center, she was part of the team that first discerned the threat to American security posed by al-Qaida and its leader Osama bin Laden. Storer was the principal creator of the “Ziggurat of Zealotry,” a model for understanding

the process of becoming a terrorist, that was featured as one of the New York Times’ “Best Ideas of the Year” in 2006. She was interviewed extensively in the HBO documentary film Manhunt: the Search for Osama bin Laden and attended its premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. In this interview, Storer talks about her involvement in some of the most momentous events of our time.

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What is the role of an analyst in the CIA?

The three main missions of the CIA are to collect information on our adversaries, produce analysis and conduct covert action.

The two main analytical missions are all-source analysis for policymakers and targeting analysis for operations. The modern targeting position was invented in the 1990s in response to the rise of Osama bin Laden. Targeters get to know the subject, the bad guy, thoroughly and figure out how to get him. The main character in Zero Dark Thirty is a targeter. Before the 1990s, all analysts in the Counterterrorism Center did both the all-source and targeting jobs. Now, they’re separate career tracks. When I was in the Counterterrorism Center in the mid 1990s, I had the hybrid job: supporting the policymaker and the operations.

Describe the process of analysis.

You come in early in the morning. Usually have a meeting with your branch chief.You get to your computer. Puzzle pieces fall from the sky.You scan for importance, begin to fit the information into a story, organizing information in chronologies and spreadsheets, matrixes, social network diagrams. It’s like working a jigsaw puzzle. Eventually, with luck, you have a eureka moment.

That’s the part of the process that can’t be replicated with a machine; it’s something that happens in the human brain. Once you have an insight, you write it up, and it goes to the branch chief. It undergoes many layers of editing before the policymakers get it. In order to register with the policymakers, your report has to be “a good story.” It has to be accurate and logical. It helps if your story includes some dramatic appeal. That’s why I suggest that our students take English and theatre classes in addition to criminology, criminal justice, sociology, psychology.

How do you reach agreements on conflicting analysis?

In academia, you have peer review. In the CIA it’s called “coordination,” meaning all the parties are in agreement. As you can imagine, that can be pretty tough because, depending on the issue, the agreement might require two or three people, or it might require a hundred people. The Iraq analysis was a knockdown drag-out fight. The Bush administration tried to get us to say that Saddam Hussein was backing al-Qaida, which we absolutely refused to do. But we did have to process information showing that Saddam and al-Qaida did have some sort of relationship. I liken that relationship (Iraq and al-Qaida) to playing footsie under the table; it never went anywhere. Since it was a question of going to war, there was months of infighting. It’s painful, but it’s good because you make sure you get everyone’s views and their knowledge included in the process.

Looking back, what was the most frustrating aspect of your CIA career?

The 9/11 Commission said we “failed to imagine” what al-Qaida was capable of. We started warning about bin Laden in 1993. The attacks in Yemen occurred in 1992. In 1995 there was an attack on the OPM Sang building in Riyadh where our military advisers were. By 1996 we knew this was a worldwide phenomenon. By 1997 we were certain there was an organization that was out to get us because we were standing in the way of a worldwide caliphate. We found that al-Qaida had operations in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. We had been warning about this consistently through the 1990s. Believe me, we imagined.

At Sundance: Cynthia Storer (right) with filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi (Nancy’s daughter) and CIA colleague Nada Bakos.

What is ‘The Sisterhood?’

The sisterhood is basically the group of women who worked for Michael Scheuer [controversial operations’ chief in counterterrorism and special adviser in the search for bin Laden] as well as myself and a few other analysts. The term was coined by one of the analysts, Gina Bennett, who wrote a book called National Security Mom and dedicated it to the sisterhood. We women analysts did have a very close bond and I always refereed to us as “sisters in arms.” It is a fact that in the FBI and the CIA, the experts who pieced together the al-Qaida picture were women, with a couple of key exceptions. There are theories that women are better at pattern analysis—more patient, not interested in getting big recognition, better at multi-tasking. In my career as an analyst and a teacher, I’ve found that only a very small percentage of the population can deal with the details and see the big picture, the forest and the trees.

You have a prominent role in the HBO documentary Manhunt: the Search for bin Laden, which focuses on ‘the Sisterhood.’ How does it compare with Zero Dark Thirty?

They billed Manhunt as the real-life companion piece to Zero Dark Thirty, but it’s really more than that. The film deals with more than the search for bin Laden. It’s about al-Qaida and how the war doesn’t end with bin Laden. It’s about the moral choices of war and educating the American public with fact-based discussions. The torture scenes in Zero Dark Thirty are inaccurate, according to those who were involved.

I’m opposed to torture in any case, but at least the American people should see the care and precautions taken by responsible officers. The intelligence that comes out of interrogations can be unreliable, because it is only one person’s view of complex situations and dynamics. I also object to the movie’s portrayal of Jennifer Matthews, a real life CIA agent killed in the Khost suicide bombing. I knew Jennifer. She was anything but the giddy schoolgirl depicted in Zero. She may have had her giddy moments as we all do, but she does not deserve for that to be her lasting memorial.

How is CCU’s new program in intelligence and national security progressing?

The program started with two instructors, we are proposing a third, and hopefully it will keep growing. Dr. Jonathan Smith, the director of the program, has a background in Navy intelligence.

I bring in the CIA analyst side of things. The next step is getting someone from Homeland Security. The goal of the program is to train students for jobs as analysts. But they can also use these skills in any job where you need critical thinking. Analysts see the larger picture and know how to concentrate on areas and isolate problems.

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TEAL & BRONZE Alumna Athlete Weisbrod Covers the Court for

By Matt Hogue

Channel surf the buffet of televised college basketball these days, and without much effort you will notice a Chanticleer alumna delivering expert game analysis.

Brooke Weisbrod ’01 has become a familiar face in front of the ESPN cameras as one of the network’s rising stars. Handling color commentary (game analysis), Weisbrod works about 40 college basketball games per season, covering both the men’s and women’s games.

Her work has also expanded onto the football sidelines and has featured studio assignments. It’s a career the former CCU basketball standout never imagined until a couple of years after graduating with honors from the university.

“I was fortunate to have an opportunity to play professionally in Germany, but when back problems ended that chapter, it was time to retire and find another career I could be passionate about,” said Weisbrod. “That’s when I visited CCU during a basketball Homecoming weekend, and Matt Hogue interviewed me during the radio broadcast. When I put on the headsets, the light came on, and I knew that was what I wanted to do.”

The road to TV stardom was a winding one for Weisbrod, who initially began working for an advertising agency in Chicago in 2002 as an assistant media buyer and later as a sales rep in the scrap metal recycling and steel industry. She persisted with the goal of Calling The Shots: with ESPN colleague Adam Amin

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becoming a sportscaster and developed a relationship with ESPN coordinating producer Dan Shoemaker, who oversaw operations of the network’s regional productions.

“I rewrote a 10-minute segment of ‘Sports Center’ and used it to create a demo reel to send to Dan. He basically said it was awful,” said Weisbrod. “But most of his critique was about things I could improve upon, so I pressed ahead and about two years later, he gave me my first shot.”

Weisbrod worked her first game as an analyst during the 20022003 basketball season and, though it required a tremendous amount of preparation, she knew the craft was her niche. And her talent began to thrive just as it did on the hardwood at Coastal.

From 1998-2001, Weisbrod was the central figure during the most successful period of CCU women’s basketball. The 2001 Big South Conference Player of the Year, she led the Chanticleers to the program’s first two appearances in the conference championship game and a total of 61 wins during her career.

But how she embodied the term ‘student-athlete’ was perhaps Weisbrod’s greatest legacy. The Big South Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2001, she was also accepted into CCU’s prestigious Wall Fellows program and even earned the NCAA’s Woman of the Year award for the State of South Carolina.

Weisbrod says her lessons on and off the court at CCU provide a strong foundation for succeeding in the sharply competitive world of sports television.

“The discipline I learned from Coach [Alan] Leforce and the business and life skills I learned from the Wall Fellows Program have paid off in so many ways,” says Weisbrod. “I was taught how to prepare, how to be professional, how to organize my time and how to meet goals. We had a sign in our locker room that read ‘Luck is when preparation and opportunity come together.’ When the red light comes on and its time to go live on a broadcast, I’m ready, and my education prepped me well for that environment.”

Coming soon...

Women’s Lacrosse makes debut CCU’s 18th intercollegiate athletic program, women’s lacrosse, made its debut this spring. Led by head coach Jamie Sellers and 19 freshmen, the Chanticleers captured the program’s first ever victory on March 2 with a 21-12 win at Kennesaw State (Ga.), which included four goals from Kasey Griese of Parker, Colo., and three goals from Keri White of Medford, N.J. The advent of lacrosse has also brought springtime activity to Brooks Stadium, where the Chanticleers play their home games.

Later this season, CCU will compete for the first Big South Conference women’s lacrosse championship against six other league schools. The winner earns a trip to the NCAA Tournament.

Ground was officially broken for the new baseball/softball stadium complex at CCU on March 12.The $10.2 million, 33,000-squarefoot complex, which will include new grandstands, locker rooms, offices, team lounges training and concessions facilities, is scheduled to be completed in 2014.

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Class Notes

1980

Susan Wunder-Coleman was one of 11 former athletes to be inducted into Kenwood High School’s (Md.) Hall of Fame. A teacher for 31 years, she received the Joseph E. Singleton Graduate Fellowship from CCU for 1989-1990 and was named one of the Outstanding Young Women of America in 1991.

1981

Rodney Brown is president of Plantation Resort in Myrtle Beach.

He and his wife Mary have six children and two grandchildren.

1983

Kevin Sheffer is the Southern states regional manager of Jacuzzi Spa Division. He and his wife Linda have a daughter, Lindsay, 10.

1984

John K. Gardner is the executive director of finance for Horry County Schools.

1986

Steve Dailey is the sales capabilities manager for Royal Canin, a pet food company. He is married and has a daughter, 23, and a son, 16.

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1987

Barbara D. Exum is currently attending CCU and majoring in health promotion.

1988

Tim Hangge is married with four children.

1990

Mary-Pat Lastfogel is a real estate title examiner.

1992

Joe Froelich is the publisher and editor of Scuba Sport Magazine.

He recently received the prestigious SSI Platinum Pro 5000 award, which puts him in an exclusive club with Jacques Cousteau and Robert Marx.

Jeffrey L. Garland has been elected to the Horry County School Board for District 11.

1993

Gregory Doner is a regional sales consultant for ClearVision Optical.

Patrick M. Lange is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C.

1996 Nathan Westfall is a recruitment coordinator for the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University.

Chris Enter works as the creative director for Area203 Digital design firm in Chattanooga, Tenn. The company was recently honored in Print magazine’s Regional Design Annual. While a student at CCU, Enter was the art director for Archarios in 1996.

1997

Amy L. Cannon is assistant vice president at Horry County State Bank.

Kimberly Holmes Gary is a human resources manager. She is married with a daughter, Jayda.

Ida James works for the Horry County Department of Airports – MBIA.

Matthew Monteiro has been with UPS Airlines since 1998, serving in various finance and accounting roles. He and his wife, Katie Johnstono Monteiro ’99, have a son, Jacob, and recently welcomed a daughter, Julia.

Rodney Reaves is a supervisor at UPS. He and his wife Amy have two children: Ariel, 20, and Abrianna, 9.

Jennifer Tolson Rollar works for Wells Fargo in the Basel Program Office in Charlotte, N.C. She is married with two children.

1999

Kelly Converse Blankenship is a stay-at-home mother. She and her husband Todd have three children: Mickalen, 10, Myla, 4, and Manixx, 1.

James “JJ” Childers is the owner of The Childers Group - Finance & Insurance Services Company.

Jamie L. Scialdone is the owner of White Mongoose Weaponry in Sunset Beach, N.C. He and his wife Meredith have a daughter, Isabella.

Craig Hardee works for Hardee Auto Sales in Conway. He and his wife, Richelle Knight Hardee ’01, have three children: Emma, 10, Hayden, 7, and Layna, 3.

1998

Natalie Burrowes Pruitt was appointed vice president of sales for the Alabama Media Group in October 2012.

Ken Haynes works for Camping World of Myrtle Beach. He has an 11-year-old son.

Katie Monteiro (See Class of 1998)

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Rusty Cotterman

Flying the CCU flag in unfriendly skies– by Mona Prufer

Rusty Cotterman ’02 is serving on a Green Beret team of the U.S. Army in Iraq. It’s his fourth trip to the war zone.

An operator on a special forces operational detachmentalpha (ODA), Cotterman somehow finds the time—and humor—to pull out and fly the CCU flag on his tank, posing with his fellow soldiers.

“I’m out on the AF/PAK border and figured these Haqqani punks that I continually roll up needed to know I’m serious,” Cotterman writes in an email. “These are a couple pictures from some combat reconnaissance patrols with my ODA proudly flying my Coastal flag.”

The Coastal Carolina University flag, Cotterman explains, “is actually going to be a gift to Dr. Bob [Squatriglia, director of CCU’s Veterans Association] and the veterans association for what they’ve created and the support they’ve given [us].”

The Haqqani network, allies of the Taliban, is an Islamist insurgent group that uses asymmetric warfare to fight against US-led NATO forces and the government of Afghanistan.

Cotterman graduated from CCU in 2002, double majoring in marketing and finance. In 2004, determined to help support the war against terror, he enlisted in the army and

went straight into a wartime special forces program.

Originally from Sumter, Cotterman now lives in Southern Pines near Fort Bragg. He and his wife celebrated the birth of their first child, a daughter, in April 2012.

In fall 2011, while in Ranger School, Cotterman met Keith Nevins. About a month later, they came to the realization they were both Chants. Nevins graduated from CCU in 2010 with a degree in exercise and sport science.

The two fellow alumni graduated from Ranger School together in October 2011, “making us,” he wrote, “what I assume are the only double Chant graduates from the brutal course (at least that was our motivation).”

In December 2012, he found still another Chanticleer fighting on the front lines – David Serrano ’04.

“I recently had a new intelligence lieutenant assigned to help me hunt down insurgent leaders,” writes Cotterman of Serrano, a former Wall Fellow from New York City.

“So we felt it necessary for him to come get some ground truth from my team and hang out for a while. Small world, we’ve had a great time sharing stories.”

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Jenny Creque recently graduated with a master’s degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from Ohio Dominican University. She is engaged to Keller Blackburn, a graduate of Ohio State University and Cleveland Marshall Law School.

Erin Donovan has recently taken a position with Sen. Jack Reed’s office as the outreach director to Rhode Island’s nonprofit organizations and the business community. She is based in the Providence office.

Donovan was the recipient of CCU’s

2011 Alumnus of the Year Award for the Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts.

Craig L. Graham is the chief operating officer for Kootio Inc. He and his wife recently had a son, Christian. They live in Reston, Va. Matthew Small was recently promoted to senior escalation engineer at Microsoft, and was also identified by managers as a Microsoft Key Talent. He is a member of the Windows 8 Beta Support team. He lives in Charlotte, N.C., with his wife, Ashley Elvington Small ’02, and their son Wilson Randall Small.

[ Alumnus of the Year ] Stephen Jachec

2001

Stacey Magaha Day is the assistant controller for Globe Communications in Myrtle Beach.

Susan Hendrick Elswick completed her doctorate in special education with a specialty in applied behavioral analysis (ABA). She has a master’s degree in social work and has been working as a school-based social worker for the past 10 years. She has also worked as an adjunct professor for the University of Tennessee graduate program in the Department of Social Work while running in-home programming for children with autism. In 2012, she was hired as an associate clinical faculty member in the University of Memphis Department of Social Work.

Drew Emilio is an institutional bonds trader for Wells Fargo.

Richelle Knight Hardee (See Class of 1999) Amanda Thomasson Himmelsbach is a yoga instructor for Myrtle Beach Intermediate School, the athletes of Myrtle Beach High School, Core Fitness and the Myrtle Beach YMCA. Simona Palmieri Mansbridge is the regional sales manager for Distinctive Hospitality Group in Natick, Mass.

Stephen Jachec of Melbourne, Fla., was named the 2012 Outstanding Alumnus of the Year by the Coastal Carolina University Alumni Association. He graduated from CCU in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in marine science, then went on to earn a master’s degree at Florida Tech and a Ph.D. at Stanford University.

He is an assistant professor of ocean engineering at Florida Institute of Technology, and he has returned to CCU on numerous occasions to present seminars to students on his research efforts and travels.

Jachec has achieved an international reputation with his research on internal tides. He recently won the Department of the Navy’s Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, providing a grant of $170,000 over a three-year period for his study on breaking waves over complex topography. He is currently on sabbatical conducting research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, one of the world’s top marine research facilities.

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Tania Rubesa Mladinic is living in Croatia with her husband and two children.

Christopher St. John is president and owner of Carolina Wealth Advisors Inc. He and his wife Heather have two children: Rachel, 7, and Patrick, 6.

2002

Michelle Anderson is a retail business development officer with South Atlantic Bank.

Manuela Ardeljan Clayton is the assistant solicitor for the 15th Judicial Court in Conway. She earned a juris doctor degree from the Cooley Law School in Michigan.

Terrance A. Herriott is employed at Conway National Bank. He is a

member of the board of directors for the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce and the Joshua Academy, and is co-founder of the Young Black Professionals of Myrtle Beach (YBP). He is married with two daughters, Haven and Quinn.

Jamal Kinlaw is a federal examiner with the National Credit Union Administration. He and his wife Shamara have a son, Jamal Kinlaw II. Jacqueline Clifton Robertson is an assistant director and part-time instructor at Youngstown State University. She is a recent recipient of the Gillespie-Painter Award for Outstanding Achievement in Support of Student Affairs Diversity Leadership Recognition. She and her husband Edward have a daughter, Zyana, 2, and they live in Cleveland, Ohio.

Ashley Elvington Small (See Class of 2000)

2003

Tyler Hasbrouck and his wife Lisa recently welcomed their first child, Austen Marie Hasbrouck.

Nick Kenworthy and his wife Daryl welcomed a son, Carter, on June 27, 2012.

Christopher Rose is an echo/vascular lab director. He is married with two children: Leah, 2, and Matthew, 10 months.

Steve Soja is a commercial real estate broker at Moore Corporate Real Estate. He and his wife Megan live in Rochester, N.Y. Corey Stewart is a product manager at Hudson RCI, a Teleflex Company.

He is married with three children.

Jason W. Smith is vice president of administration for Integra Fabrics in Loris. He and his wife Ashley are expecting the arrival of their first child in January.

Dana L. Goffin Webb graduated summa cum laude from Georgia Southern University with an MBA in May 2010. She and her husband P.J. had their second daughter, Aubrey Lynne, on July 18, 2012.

Jennifer Johnson Smith

[ Outstanding Alumni ]

University College

Jennifer Johnson Smith graduated from CCU with a degree in interdisciplinary studies in 1987. For a number of years, she and her husband, Mac Smith, a 1982 CCU graduate, lived and worked in Dongguan, China, where they started True Children’s Home, a facility for Chinese children with special needs.

With financial help from Alan and Twila True of True Seating Concepts, Smith was able to ensure that some of China’s forgotten children received

2004

Thomas J. Caskey is an area sales manager for Neff Rental LLC.

2006

Antonia Aiello is a controller at Fuel Interactive in Myrtle Beach.

She and her husband Dean have three children: Sydney, 15, Kenzie, 13, and Mia, 6.

Kelly McCoy Kochendoerfer gave birth to her second child, a daughter named Rachel Elizabeth.

Jackson Long is a sales representative for Republic National Distributing Company in Myrtle Beach.

Spencer Reuter is a business analyst at Wells Fargo. He and his wife Beth have a son, Trevor.

necessary corrective surgeries, care in a facility where the ratio of caregiver to child is 1 to 2, and finally, placement with a Chinese foster family.

Smith’s unstinting work and care has resulted in the adoption of 111 children into families in China, Canada, Spain, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Finland and the United States. (Smith was profiled in the Fall/Winter 2006 issue of Coastal Carolina University Magazine.)

Ronald W. Sharpe Jr. works at Southern Fasteners and Supply Inc. He and his wife Jessica live in Anderson, S.C.

2006

Matthew Bennett completed an MBA from the Citadel in May 2012.

He is engaged to Erica Beyerl.

They live in Mount Pleasant and will be married in May 2013.

Aimee Derr is vice president at Citigroup Inc. Michelle Griffin Frazer is an accountant at WBTW News 13.

Michelle Segura Klub is the catering sales manager at Bold American Events. She and her husband William live in Atlanta.

[ Outstanding Alumni ] Amber Campbell, who earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from CCU in 2004, has represented Team USA for three World Outdoor Championships and the 2008 Olympic Games. Last year, she also qualified for her second Olympic Games in London, England, where she placed 13th, one place short of the medalist round. She competed for the Lady Chanticleers of CCU from 2000 to 2004, winning 16 conference titles and five All-American honors.

Heather Lewis is assistant vice president at Firstbank in Vail, Colo.

Jason Ramp married Ashley Lasky on June 6, 2012, in the Dominican Republic. The couple lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where Jason works as an industrial sales representative for Graybar Electric and Ashley attends pharmacy school at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Samantha E. Sanders is employed at Med Tech.

Brandon Sessions and wife Kathryn welcomed their first child on Nov. 12, 2012. Ella Caroline Sessions weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces and was 19.75 inches long.

Laura Trabucco was engaged to Jake Faye on Dec. 1, 2012. They live in Fairfield, Conn., where they are planning a fall 2013 wedding.

2007

Soyoung Lee is a statistical programmer for the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Consulting Lab at Texas Tech University Health Center, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine.

Daniel McCoy is teaching business at a high school in Durham, N.C. Felecia Mebane earned a master’s degree in human services with a specialty in marriage and family issues in July, 2012. She lives in Charlotte, N.C. Nicolas Pincolini is working at REVPAR International, where he oversees asset management, feasibility studies, operational reviews and hotel/resort appraisals.

Amber Campbell College of Science

Campbell is a volunteer assistant track coach at CCU and a managing partner at Sports Doctors Inc. in Myrtle Beach. In her free time she enjoys volunteering with different community services and speak-ing to children about dreaming bigger dreams and overcoming difficult circumstances. She is also active in her sorority, Zeta Phi Beta. Campbell was inducted into the George F. “Buddy” Sasser Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009.

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Class Notes Alexandra Tamburro

[ Outstanding Alumni ]

Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts Alexandra Tamburro has received dual Alumni Association honors. In addition to being named Outstanding Alumnus for the Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, she was also named the 2012 Young Alumnus of the Year, an award honoring outstanding alumni who have graduated within the past five years.

After graduating from CCU in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in political science, Tamburro began serving in the AmeriCorps National Civilian

Ashley Purcell Smith is the account executive at Integra Fabrics in Loris.

She and her husband Jason recently welcomed the birth of a daughter.

Allison Strawn is the group housing manager at the Myrtle Beach Marriott Resort and Spa at Grande Dunes. She and Jonathan Anderson plan to marry on Sept. 12, 2013.

Quinton Teal, former NFL defensive back, and his former Chanticleer teammate James Brochu ’06 opened a kickboxing fitness center called 9Round in Huntersville, N.C.

2008

Marianna Edmunds Fleming is a cosmetologist at Tangles Hair Salon in Greenwood, S.C.

Katie Hinson Lewis graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2011 and joined the law firm of Sottile & Hopkins in May 2012 as an associate.

John David May is a staff attorney for the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Kevin VanDenBerg recently earned a Rolls-Royce Lightning Award for delivering excellence as a pricing analyst on the U.S. Military Systems Joint Strike Fighter Program.

Rebecca Bowen Williams and her husband Josh welcomed their first child, Nathaniel James on Dec. 4, 2012. Rebecca works in Office of the Registrar at Coastal Carolina University.

Serrina Young married Richard Hutka in August, 2012 and received her master’s degree in school counseling from Centenary College.

Brandon Silvey is a subcontracts administrator at Shaw Constructors Inc. in Jenkinsville, S.C. He received his MBA from Texas A&M University in December 2012.

John W. Arrants is the operations manager of Best Rent a Car in Jacksonville, Fla. Lisa Burgo Bartolotto is a software engineer at AT&T and owner of Round Valley Tungsten LLC. Lydia Ann Fore Hampton is the head teller at Conway National Bank.

She was married in April 2012.

Adrienne Jordan works in the accounts payable office at Coastal Carolina University.

Spadoni College of Education Melanie Dozier earned a master’s degree in educational leadership in 2011 as part of the inaugural cohort of the program. She is now an assistant principal at Johnakin Middle School in Marion.

Dozier is recognized as a master teacher providing coaching for language arts lessons, and she coauthored a $200,000 grant for resources for Marion schools. She also serves as a district instruction

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James T. Moore is an accountant at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va.

2009

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Community Corps. She worked on a number of community service projects, including disaster relief in Joplin, Mo., and Madison, Ala., following the devastating tornadoes there. She has also worked with nonprofit organizations, local municipalities, state governments and schools.

In recognition of her service work, Tamburro received the Bronze Congressional Award Medal, which recognizes Americans age 14 to 23 for outstanding initiative and service.

Michael B. Taylor was recently promoted to financial center leader at BB&T in Richmond, Va. He and his wife Season have two children, Gracelyn and Gavin.

Madeleine Winstead is the Coastal Carolina territory sales manager with the American Hotel Register. She married Ryan Condron on Jan. 26, 2013.

[ Outstanding Alumni ] facilitator with the South Carolina Department of Education and is on the advisory board for the Middle School Reading Challenge.

Dozier often volunteers in an advisory capacity for Spadoni College of Education programs, and she is recognized as a “go to” resource for faculty and students. She earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Francis Marion University.

[ Outstanding Alumni ]

Olin Utterback

E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration

Olin Utterback is a senior manager at Ernst & Young’s New York Financial Services practice.

Through the years, he has been instrumental in assisting CCU students through his internship program at Ernst & Young.

Utterback has worked for more than 11 years in the financial services industry. He specializes in U.S. and cross border tax advisory and compliance

related to private equity and venture capital tax structuring, international and domestic tax advisory, and tax compliance. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is licensed in New York and South Carolina.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Wall College in 1988 and an MBA from the University of South Carolina.

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2012

Thomas Rivers Anderson is the branch manager and a commercial lender for Anderson Brothers Bank in Conway.

Chanda Ros Arroz of Surfside Beach is a realtor for Beach Realty Group and a stylist at Stox and Co. Salon Day Spa. She is married and has a 3-year-old son.

Nick Bernardo is a national broadcast buyer at Mindshare New York.

Daniel T. Giacco is the business development director at Gartner Inc. Last year, he received the “Eagle” performance award, the company’s highest sales award, for achieving more than 130 percent of his target sales.

Stephen Lashower works in the cost accounting department at Gulfstream Aerospace.

Travis Oyer attended graduate school in Australia and recently graduated with a master’s degree in natural resource management.

German Perez recently received his MBA from Campbell University and is employed at Jones Lang Lasalle.

Alex L. Wetherell is a commercial credit analyst for TD Bank.

Michael Wetherell works in the global credit services department at Bank of America. He and his wife Sarah had their first child in February 2013.

2011

Emily Acree is the assistant program coordinator at PharmCon in Conway.

Ryan Berdnik is currently pursuing his Master of Accountancy (MAcc) degree from CCU. Amber Brendlen is attending graduate school at the College of Social Work at the University of South Carolina.

Jessica Chesney is the client success manager for Command Partners in Charlotte, N.C.

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Zachary Loberger is a senior financial analyst for Rolls-Royce Energy Systems in Columbus, Ohio.

IN MEMORIAM

Samantha L. Mann is currently pursuing an MBA at CCU. Krista Miller is a procurement analyst at Farmtek in South Windsor, Conn.

Kurt Miller obtained his BSB in finance in 2011 and currently works at Merrill Lynch in Pennsylvania.

Brittany Stump recently passed two out of four sections of the CPA exam, and will complete her master’s degree in May 2013.

Dominique Trapp is a business system consultant at Wells Fargo.

Patrick E. Tyler is the CEO of Tyler Financial Group LLC. He received his Master of Accountancy (MAcc) degree in December 2012 Robert J. Yarmak is a financial analyst for Hewlett-Packard.

2012

Mary C. Ewen is currently working as a ticket operations intern for the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte, N.C. Shelly D. Kammert is co-owner of Kammert and Kleich LLC, an accounting firm in Myrtle Beach.

She is married with an 8-year-old daughter.

Dennis Lamar is currently enrolled in the College Program at Disney in Orlando, Fla. He was recently accepted as a management intern.

Jared Mason is working for Enterprise-Rent-A-Car as a management trainee.

Daniel Rabon works as a capital budget accountant at Coastal Carolina University.

ichard Dame, Distinguished Palmetto Professor Emeritus, died on Feb. 5, 2013.

Dame joined the Coastal Carolina University faculty in 1971 and founded our marine science program.

He taught the first classes in marine biology at CCU and was chair of the Department of Marine Science from 1981 to 1991. He was named South Carolina’s first Palmetto Professor in 1991.

A native of Charleston, Dame was widely recognized for his research on the importance of oysters and other mollusks to coastal ecosystems. During his 35-year career at CCU, he also coached the men’s tennis team (1972-1977) and the women’s tennis team (1980-1982). Dame was named the CCU Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Lecturer in 1999.

He retired in 2006.

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