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ISSUE #75 | AUGUST 5, 2021 | FROM THE OFFICE OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Building block
Dr. Ramin Radfar and Carson Harrell ’24 conduct research on campus in the Roger Milliken Science
Center.
By Robert W. Dalton 
Trust the process. 
That’s one of the lessons Dr. Ramin Radfar, professor of chemistry, is teaching as he guides
Carson Harrell ’24 through a summer research project. 
Harrell is attempting to isolate an enzyme that breaks down glucose in the body and
generates energy. Slowing the breakdown could be useful in slowing the growth of cancer
cells, which require a great deal of energy to grow. 
“In this process he’s going to basically learn the techniques of extraction, purification, making
solutions, crystallizing proteins and so forth,” Radfar says. “That’s basically my goal. We are
not going to cure cancer in a couple of months, but summer research gives an opportunity to
students to learn these techniques so if they go to graduate school or medical school they
can use them later on.” 
Harrell, a biology major from Columbia, South Carolina, is no stranger to research. He
worked on a project involving knee-replacement patients as a requirement to graduate from
the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science & Mathematics. He says he’s happy that
he’s been able to be in a lab over the summer. 
“I thought this would be a good opportunity to work in the science department with the
professors,” says Harrell, who is one of 38 Wofford students participating in undergraduate
research with 21 of the college’s faculty focused on 19 different projects. 
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Proud moment
Jason Kellinger ’24 represented Great Britain in an international rifle competition in some of the sport’s
most challenging environments.
By Jackie Carman ’22, Office of Marketing and Communications Intern 
Jason Kellinger ’24 earned an opportunity that he will always treasure. Kellinger, an
undeclared major from Calne, England, represented Great Britain in the Scottish Open
Fullbore Rifle competition. 
“Representing Great Britain will always be a proud moment of my life,” says Kellinger, who
was one of 12 selected for Great Britain’s under-19 team. 
His team, which finished third after competing against England and Scotland, competed in the
three-day competition in some of the sport’s most challenging environments on a dozen
ranges at distances between 400 and 1,000 yards.
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2021 Hall of Fame Class
Former Wofford College student-athletes Connor Davis ’16 (men’s soccer) and Matt Milburn 
’16 (baseball) have been selected by the Hall of Fame Committee of the Wofford College 
Terrier Club Board of Directors as the 2021 inductees into the college’s Athletics Hall of 
Fame. 
A date for the induction ceremony will be announced later. The ceremony also will include the 
induction of the class of 2020. The 2020 class includes Maggie Bosley ’14 (women’s soccer), 
Karl Cochran ’15 (men’s basketball), Rob Galloway ’15 (men’s tennis) and Forrest Lasso ’15 
(men’s soccer). In addition, the Hall of Fame will honor Converse Draper, retired utility crew 
supervisor, as the Distinguished Service Award recipient, and Mary Ann Phillips, a loyal 
supporter of the college and Wofford athletics for more than 50 years, as an Honorary 
Letterman. Draper and Phillips were selected in 2020. 
The Hall of Fame recognizes “those former athletes and coaches who, by outstanding athletic 
achievement and service, have made lasting and significant contributions to the cause of 
sports at Wofford College, the Spartanburg community, South Carolina and the nation.” 
Read more about Davis and Milburn.
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Conquer and Prevail Issue 75 August 5 2021

ISSUE #92 | DECEMBER 9, 2021 | FROM THE OFFICE OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Candlelight Carols
The holiday season is underway at Wofford after the annual Candlelight Carols and lighting events.
The campus community gathered Wednesday night for the college’s annual Candlelight
Carols and winter lighting to celebrate the holiday season. All student choirs performed
during this festive tradition. An event was also held in the Stewart H. Johnson Greek Village
that included ice skating.
Taking charge
The NCAA’s postgraduate scholarship program doesn’t get a lot of attention. Dr. Jameica Byers Hill ’88
plans to change that.
By Robert W. Dalton
The NCAA’s postgraduate scholarship program doesn’t get a lot of attention. Dr. Jameica
Byers Hill ’88 plans to change that.
Hill, professor and chair of chemistry and the faculty athletics representative, began a two-
year term as chair of the national NCAA postgraduate scholarship committee on Sept. 1. She
was an FCS representative on the seven-member committee the past two years and was a
unanimous choice to lead the group at the committee’s most recent meeting in July.
“When people think of the NCAA, they think athletics, athletics, athletics,” Hill says. “The
postgraduate scholarship program is one of several programs they have that doesn't get the
attention it deserves. I hope to change that.”
The committee awards 126 $10,000 non-renewable scholarships each year to student-
athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and wish to pursue advanced degrees. Meetings
are held three times a year, and scholarships are awarded to 21 women and 21 men at each
meeting.
“Selections are based on academic achievements, athletic accolades and community service
or leadership,” Hill says. “If a student-athlete is doing a one-year accelerated master’s
degree program, he or she can get it done with this scholarship.”
Hill, who has been Wofford’s faculty athletics representative since 2006 and chair of
chemistry since 2007, says her first order of business as committee chair will be to make
sure more student-athletes are aware of the program and of others that offer fewer awards
but more money. She says she also intends to target Wofford student-athletes earlier in their
careers to prepare them so they’ll be more competitive for the awards.
Blair to retire
John Blair is retiring after a 35-year career at Wofford. He has been director of conference services since
2001. He coached the men’s soccer team for 16 seasons, leading the Terriers to 107 victories.
By Robert W. Dalton
John Blair was addressing well-wishers at a retirement reception on Tuesday, Dec. 7, when
a question came from the back of the room.
“Can you still do a flip?”
Blair answered without saying a word. He rose from his chair and urged those nearby to
move back a bit. He took one step, drove his hands to the floor, swung his feet over and
stuck the landing as the crowd applauded.
Applause has been a regular occurrence for Blair, who is retiring after 35 years at the
college. His last day is Dec. 17.
A New Jersey native, Blair arrived at Wofford in 1986 to coach the men’s soccer team. He
coached for 16 seasons, ushering the program into the Division I era and becoming the
leader in career victories with 107.
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Nationally recognized design
National architectural publications have recognized the Chandler Center for Environmental Studies’
design and sustainability features.
Wofford College’s Chandler Center for Environmental Studies has received national attention
for its design and sustainability features.
Two architectural publications, Building Design + Construction and the American School &
University’s architectural portfolio, have recognized the building with a pair of awards.
The 20,000-square-foot building opened in 2020. Its design and construction included the
latest building sustainability features, including systems capturing rainwater for irrigation, a
partial green roof and solar roof panels. It’s one of six new construction projects certified
with three Green Globes in South Carolina.
In early December, Building Design + Construction recognized the Chandler Center for
Environmental Studies with its Silver Building Team Award. “A project and presentation
that check all of the boxes for me. A well-planned, collaborative effort that serves a purpose,
is environmentally conscious, and [will teach] future generations,” one of the publication’s
judges wrote in describing the building.
The building is also featured in the November/December issue of American School &
University and received its Louis I. Kahn Citation. The magazine’s jury characterized the
building as, “An excellent example of how a building is the third teacher, supporting the
curriculum of the facility, incorporates sustainability and flexible design.”
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Conquer and Prevail Issue 92 December 9 2021

ISSUE #58 | APRIL 1, 2021 | FROM THE OFFICE OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Spring Traditions Return
The Spring Concert featuring the Men’s Glee Club, Women’s Choir and Wofford Singers 
took place earlier this week on the steps of Main Building. Enjoy a medley of songs by The 
Beatles, May Erlewine’s “Never One Thing,” gospel and more.
Wofford Singers also performed a 30-minute concert in Leonard Auditorium. The singers
practiced physical distancing and wore masks while performing beautifully.
Talking Art History
Solana Rostick ’23, an art history major from Tampa, Florida, was recently featured on the 
blog, “A Girl in a Museum World.” Rostick talks about being a Black woman majoring in art 
history, discusses her plans for the future and gives advice to other art majors.
Read the full interview here.
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Conquer and Prevail Issue 58 April 1 2021

ISSUE #86 | OCTOBER 28, 2021 | FROM THE OFFICE OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Twilight Bowl
Wofford Theatre’s production of “Twilight Bowl” will be on stage Nov. 4-6 and Nov. 10-13. All
performances begin at 8 p.m. in the Jerome Johnson Richardson Theatre. The cast includes Taylor Giles
’23, Mary-Michael O’Hara ’25, Mac Gavin ’24, Audrey Buffington ’24, Wade Wood ’22, Hailie Gold ’23 and
Emmy Monteverde ’24.
Wofford Theatre’s production of “Twilight Bowl” is a comedy, but that doesn’t mean
audiences won’t walk away with much to reflect on when it comes to serious issues
impacting society.
The play is based in a small-town Wisconsin bowling alley, where a few friends gather and
soon recognize the divide widening between them. It was written by playwright Rebecca
Gilman and debuted in 2019.
“Audiences can expect to laugh and enjoy themselves, but at the same time they will be
challenged and provoked by the material, the characters and the staging,” says Dan Day,
associate professor of theatre and the play’s director.
Wofford Theatre’s production will run Nov. 4-6 and Nov. 10-13 in the Jerome Johnson
Richardson Theatre. All performances will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students, $10 for
Wofford’s faculty and staff and $12 for the public. The college’s COVID-19 protocols require
masks while inside campus buildings.
Thirty-five Wofford students have been involved with the production, including the cast, crew,
designers and students working with Wofford Theatre’s Technical Director David Kenworthy.
The rehearsal process involved several group research projects that examined social and
cultural issues that will be explored in the play. The cast examined the opioid crisis in the
United States, the relationship between incarceration and poverty, the history of feminism
and the role of Christianity in American culture and politics.
“We felt we had to do our best to understand and portray as truthfully as possible the world
of the play — a world of drug abuse and addiction, substandard levels of education,
domestic violence, poverty, low wages and limited opportunity,” Day says. “And so even
though ‘Twilight Bowl’ is a comedy, there is a very strong undercurrent of analysis and
critique in our version.”
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Feathered friends
Biology students studied the impact of different variables on the foraging habits of songbirds.
Dr. Lori Cruze and Dr. John Moeller and their students are working on a research project
that’s for the birds. Really.
The purpose of the project is to measure the impact of different variables on the foraging
habits of songbirds. Cruze, assistant professor of biology, and one of her classes started the
project in the spring, setting up bird feeders on the periphery of campus. They measured the
amount of seed the birds ate and whether the amount changed depending on whether the
seeds were shelled or unshelled. They also introduced predators (fake owls) to gauge the
impact of their presence on the birds’ eating habits.
Tucker Couch ’24, an undeclared major from Bristol, Tennessee, took it a step further during
Interim, introducing competitors into the project and measuring their impact. He used fake
redbirds to simulate male cardinals, which are known to be aggressive.
“This has helped me to get a feel for what research is like,” Couch says. “It’s one thing to talk
about it in class, but it’s a whole different thing to go out and do it. It’s helped me to
understand the whole process.”
Moeller’s animal behavior class joined in for the fall semester. They added feeders to the
central campus and observed which birds were coming to particular feeders and at what
times. They also introduced different colored competitors to measure their impact.
“We’ve been observing to see how the birds interact, which sites have the most traffic and
how much the birds are eating,” says Bradleigh Mills ’22, a biology and Spanish double
major from Boiling Springs, South Carolina.
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Fall choir concert
Wofford’s choral ensembles’ “Fall Concert: Dawning Light” will be held 7 p.m. Friday in
Leonard Auditorium. The Men’s Glee Club, Women’s Choir and Wofford Singers will perform.
The public is invited. Masks are required. The event will be live streamed on the Wofford
College Facebook page.
SoCon Undergraduate Research Forum
About 100 students from 10 colleges and universities with athletics teams competing in the
Southern Conference (SoCon) will be on Wofford’s campus Friday and Saturday giving
presentations based on research they have conducted. The fifth annual SoCon
Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF) is a collaborative project of the membership of the
SoCon. It will include research from the humanities, social sciences, arts and STEM
disciplines. The conference takes place in the fall to showcase students who spent their
summers conducting research.
The Wofford Witch?
There’s a lot of talk about witches going into this weekend, but do you know about the
Wofford Witch? In the late 1960s, Dr. Dan Olds and Professor Aubrey Hartman began efforts
to usher Wofford into the computer age. Both were faculty members in the Wofford physics
department. The college received its first computer terminal in 1968. In 1975, the college
purchased the Wofford Witch, a PDP-11/40 minicomputer made by Digital Equipment Corp.,
after receiving a grant from the Hoechst Corp. The computer was in operation from 1975 to
1989. It ran a timesharing operating system from 1975 to 1986. Learn more about the
Wofford Witch at a website started by alumni with fond memories of the experience.
The computer’s purchase order, shipping papers and issues of Dr. Olds’ “Terminal
Talk” newsletter can also be viewed.
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Conquer and Prevail Issue 86 October 28 2021

ISSUE #59 | APRIL 15, 2021 | FROM THE OFFICE OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Wofford Today
The spring issue of Wofford Today will reach mailboxes soon. You can get a head start by 
reading it online. You’ll find more details about the $150 million gift the college received from 
Jerry Richardson ’59 and an interview with him. There also are profiles on the next 
generation of student leaders, research by Dr. David Pittman ’94 with a $400,000 National 
Institutes of Health grant, recognition of the heroes who’ve made the 2020-21 academic year 
possible and how physician alums prep Terriers for medical school interviews.
Read Wofford Today.
Heading to D.C.
Dr. Rachel Vanderhill is preparing for a fellowship that will give her better insight on how 
the federal government works.
Vanderhill, chair of the Department of Government & International Affairs, has received the 
Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International 
Relations Scholars. She’ll spend the next academic year working with the United States 
Agency for International Development (USAID), which is based in Washington, D.C.
“I hope to gain a better understanding of how USAID functions and how government policy is 
developed,” says Vanderhill, who is being assigned to the agency’s Center for Democracy, 
Human Rights and Governance. “I also believe this experience will directly benefit my 
teaching and advising when I return to Wofford. For example, my experience will enable me 
to provide Wofford students interested in working in the federal government with better, more 
specific advice about how to successfully pursue a government career.”
Nine faculty members from colleges and universities across the United States have been 
selected for the fellowship during the 2021-22 academic year.
Vanderhill recently published her third book, “Autocracy and Resistance in the Internet 
Age,” which focuses on social media’s role in aiding and undermining autocratic regimes in 
the Middle East, North Africa and the former Soviet republics. She’s expecting to do work with 
USAID related to her research.
Read more.
Goodchild Recognized with Excellence in Teaching
Award
South Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities recently recognized faculty from each of 
its 20-member schools with Excellence in Teaching Awards. Dr. Karen Goodchild, Chapman 
Family Professor of Humanities and chair of the Department of Art and Art History, is 
Wofford’s recipient this year. Goodchild oversaw the planning of the Rosalind Sallenger 
Richardson Center for the Arts and helped launch the college’s studio art major. She 
oversees all advanced independent research in art history, co-founded Wofford’s Gender 
Studies Program and the college’s Women in Leadership Initiative. 
This is the 14th year SCICU has recognized faculty with the awards, which have rigorous 
guidelines and come with a $3,000 professional development grant.
2021 Greek Awards
Wofford College’s fraternities and sororities recently held their annual Greek Awards 
program and recognized the contributions by chapters and individuals. Organizations also 
raised nearly $24,500 for She’s Here, a campaign started by Wofford graduates Ella Patrick 
’20 and Olivia Schraibman ’20 to support girls continuing their education in Sub-Saharan 
Africa. Find the complete list of award winners.
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Conquer and Prevail Issue 59 April 15 2021

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