Words and Pictures by Katie Browne '09 The College of Charleston consistently ranks in the top 15 in producing Peace Corps volunteers for medium colleges and universities. And while the sheer number of CofC volunteers produced over the last five years is impressive (155),ย as youโll see in this alumnaโs photo-essay, itโs the individual experience, repeated
by Mark Berry Photography by Andrew Cebulka; illustrations by John Phillips It was really just by chance that these four old college friends bumped into each other 20 years ago at Charlestonโs Hibernian Hall on Meeting Street. Father James Parker, Charles Foster โ50, Robert Chitwood and George Nelson โ51 caught up as if no time
by Alicia Lutz '98 Photography by Heather McGrath This is when it matters. This is when it counts. This is when everything else is irrelevant, everything but life and death is just white noise. When Alicia Moreau Shambo โ89 heard the bombs exploding at the Boston Marathon last spring, she didnโt hesitate. If she
As the oldest institution of higherย education in South Carolina and one of a handful of schools established during Americaโs colonial era, the College knows a little something about history. In fact, the College knows a lot about it. Whether you graduated 50 years ago, 25 years ago or just last May, you couldnโt help but
As president, itโs my jobย to think decades into the future and to make sure the College is on track to achieve its potential and its envisioned future.Over the past year, Iโve devoted a considerable amount of thought and timeย to one issue in particular: Charlestonโs rapid economic transformation and its implications for the future of the
According to Frank Lloyd Wright, โSpace is the breath of artโ: The areas around, between and within art can be just as meaningful as the piece itself โ and, as Herb Parker and Joseph Burwell โ93 (pictured above) demonstrated in their conjoined exhibits at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art this fall, so can the
Gertrude Sanford LeGendre lived a life most people can only dream about. She was an international traveler extraordinaire, big game hunter, American spy, plantation owner and friend to the rich and famous. The daughter of New York congressman and industrialist John Sanford, Legendre became a world-class adventurer who made it a habit to see the
When youโre in the business of collecting, youโre eventually going to run out of room โ especially when youโve been at it as long as the South Carolina Historical Society has. Established in 1855 with the mission of expanding, preserving and making accessible its collection of books, letters, journals, maps, drawings and photographs about South
Gavin Naylor told his protรฉgรฉ to giveย up. The biology professor conceded that Chenhong Liโs efforts had been valiant, his methods innovative and his ideas potentially groundbreaking, but, alas, a year of experimentation was not yielding results. โMove on,โ he said, โyouโre looking for a needle in a haystack.โ Fortunately, Li ignored him. โHeโs stubborn,โ Naylor
She was 2,272 miles from Charleston,ย having left her daughter with her mom for the month and traveled by herself first to her native Georgetown, Guyana, and then to the village of Wowetta in the North Rupununi District, where her dark skinย singled her out as an outsider among the indigenous Amerindian people. Still, it was impossible
