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Cross resident with breast cancer disqualified for Medicaid program because he is a man

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Raymond Johnson of Cross found a lump in his left breast and was diagnosed with breast cancer in July. Uninsured, Johnson, 26, must rely on the generosity of hospitals and doctors for treatment.

BY RENEE [email protected]

Raymond Johnson checked himself into the emergency room last month for a throbbing pain in his chest.

Th e 26-year-old was stunned when the doctors delivered his diagnosis — breast cancer.

Uninsured and unable to pay for costly surgery and chemotherapy, the Cross resi-dent followed the advice of his patient ad-vocate and applied for a Medicaid program that covers breast cancer treatment.

A few days later, Johnson got another surprise. He was denied for the program because he is a man.

The Breast and Cervical Cancer Pre-vention and Treatment Act, a federal law

enacted in 2000, uses Medicaid funds to cover treatment for breast cancer or cervi-cal cancer patients who otherwise wouldn’t qualify for the state and federally funded health insurance program for the poor and disabled.

Patients must meet a host of eligibil-ity requirements. According to the South Carolina Medicaid agency, Johnson met all except one: Men aren’t allowed.

Cancer doesn’t discriminate, so this program shouldn’t discriminate.Raymond Johnson

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Navy veteran Catherine Premo (center) and Sharron Wilson teducation classes from Peter Maravel at Crisis Ministries. Premis homeless, hopes that the class will help her find a job.

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forces veterans Sandra Perkins and Catherine Premo found it increas-ingly difficult to find a job.

Then they had no roof over their heads.

Now they are living at Crisis Minis-tries, Charleston’s homeless shelter.

Perkins, 54, and Premo, 56, are among a growing number of homeless female veterans turning up at shelters and VA hospitals around the country, and they present specific challenges to service providers.

Women account for 3 percent to 4

percent of the national population of homeless vets, which can number about 200,000 on any given night, ac-cording to the National Coalition for the Homeless.

The Department of Veterans Af-fairs also said it expects the number of homeless female veterans to rise dramatically in years to come.

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Dialysis alert


A machine stands in the center of Tony Simmons’ world.

For 3½ hours, three times a week, the single father of two is tethered to a di-alysis machine that removes all his blood through a tube in his arm, stripping the impurities, salt and excess fluid before pumping it back into his body.

The 38-year-old Summerville resident has chronic kidney disease stemming from a genetic disorder.

Simmons is among about 10,000 people who regularly receive dialysis in a state that has fallen behind in monitoring di-alysis clinics, even the ones that have re-ported alarmingly high death rates.

In fact, 11 of the 21 South Carolina di-alysis clinics listed as having the highest death rates are the same ones state inspec-tors admit they haven’t had a chance to check out in more than four years.

Simmons’ former clinic is among the 11.

21 clinics in S.C., including 1 in Moncks Corner,listed as having alarmingly high death rates

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‘Proviso’ keeping docs paid


The state Medicaid agency in recent months has slashed dozens of pro-grams, including those that aid dia-betics, the disabled and the dying.

But the budget ax has spared pay-ments to doctors, dentists and other providers.

The reason?A “proviso” stuck in the budget in

October 2008 restricts the state De-partment of Health and Human Ser-vices from cutting payments Medic-aid makes to health care providers.

National health care observers said this week that South Carolina appears to be one of the only states where a state Medicaid agency is barred from adjusting reimbursement rates. Dur-ing the recession, all but a handful of states have used the tactic to save money and stave off cuts to entire programs that help the needy, such as hospice and dental services.

In South Carolina, the groups spared

S.C. Medicaid one of a few that can’t adjust reimbursements

Statesfeel pinchfinancially

BY SHANNON MCCAFFREYand JUDY LINAssociated Press

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — If 2011 is hinting at a national recovery, there is little sign of it in statehouses across the country.

States that already have raided their reserve funds, relied on borrowing or accounting gimmicks, and im-posed deep cuts on schools, parks and public transit systems no longer can protect key services in the face of another round of multibillion-dollar deficits.

As governors roll out their bud-get proposals and legislatures con-vene this month, they do so amid a

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Costs vs. CareCosts vs. CareDispute arises over state plan to cut hospice optionBY RENEE [email protected]

Upcoming Medicaid cuts that elimi-nate hospice care coverage for termi-nally ill adults could end up costing South Carolina more than it saves, hospice providers said this week.

With the cuts taking effect Feb. 1, advocates are warning state officials about potential fallout beyond the human toll on patients and families: Medicaid patients denied hospice care will seek medical attention elsewhere at a higher cost.

“Folks in hospice are sick and dy-ing,” statewide hospice advocate Tamra West said. “If they’re not in hospice, they’re going to be sick and dying somewhere else. Cutting hos-pice is going to cost the state more, so why do it?”

State officials said they are aware of the economic risks and that they have no choice but to make immediate cuts to grapple with crippling budget shortfalls.

“We recognize a danger of driving up long-term costs, but we don’t have the luxury of being able to think long-term in that regard,” said S.C. Depart-ment of Health and Human Services spokesman Jeff Stensland. “We have to make cuts that chip away at this year’s deficit.”

At top, a Bible is open to Psalms in a waiting room at the Hospice of Charleston in Mount Pleasant. Above is the facility’s chapel. In February, South Carolina will be the only state in the U.S. in which Medicaid does not cover adult hospice care. Please see DISPUTE, Page 11A

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Doctors’paidtalks inquestion


The pharmaceutical industry fun-neled nearly $3 million to South Caro-lina doctors in 18 months, prompting concerns over whether the cash pay-ments influence physicians’ prescrip-tion writing.

The data, compiled by national investigative news organization ProPublica, shows the payments of $258 million that seven drug com-panies made to doctors across the country between January 2009 and June 2010.

While the payments are legal, critics charge that they are unethical, creat-ing a conflict of interest that could cause doctors to ramp up prescrip-tions for drugs they are paid to hawk during speaking engagements.

“Their decision to prescribe a drug becomes influenced by money instead of which drug is the most effective, least dangerous or least expensive,” said Sidney Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group of Public Citi-zen, a nonprofit consumer watchdog group in Washington, D.C.

Local doctors say the paid talks are necessary forums for educating their colleagues on new medicines that could help patients.

Caught in the crossfire between pa-tients and doctors are academic hos-pitals, whose teacher-physicians are recruited heavily by the industry.

Officials at the Medical University of South Carolina, whose doctors have received the lion’s share of in-dustry payments to the Lowcountry, said they have struggled to enforce policies that provide oversight on the relationships between their staff and drug companies.

MUSC administrators are consid-ering toughening the school’s con-f lict of interest policy, which will

Drug makers compensate physicians for appearances

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EDUCATION REPORTINGEDUCATION REPORTINGAll Daily Division

THIRD PLACETHIRD PLACEIndependent MailAnna B. Mitchell

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BY ANNA B. MITCHELLIndependent Mail

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Educational televisionplays a large role in the cur-riculum at Crescent HighSchool, says Deborah Jor-dan, the school’s media spe-cialist.

Teachers there approachher daily for online andbroadcast content from ETV,including archives of PBSprogramming such as “NOVA,” interactive lessonplans and educational videos.

“It’s a wealth of informa-tion,” Jordan said. “If welose ETV, that would be dev-astating to public schools.”

Jordan was commentingon discussions nationallyand in Columbia about ceas-ing to fund public broad-casting as lawmakers faceshortfalls in core servicessuch as law enforcementand health care.

Last week,Gov.Nikki Ha-ley replaced every memberof the ETV Commission,shortly after a State of theState speech in which sheurged lawmakers to drop allstate funding — about $9.6million — to the publicbroadcaster.

“The governor believeswe need to convert ETV andits functions to the privatesector,” said Haley’sspokesman Rob Godfreythis week, “and she is excit-ed to have found a group ofappointees who share herpriorities and vision forETV.”

ETV is the radio and tele-vision agency best knownfor broadcasting shows suchas “Sesame Street,”“CharlieRose,” “NOVA” and NPR’s“All Things Considered.”But it also maintains broad-cast infrastructure acrossthe state, including the Am-ber Alert system and otheremergency services,and hasprovided curricula in publicschools since the late 1950s.

Since July 2009,AndersonCounty teachers,school staffand students have used on-line resources from ETV199,683 times.

Jordan’s rural school dis-trict,which serves the Starrand Iva areas, has streamedand recorded 34,000 pro-grams since an ETV broad-band portal was installedthere two years ago.

Linda O’Bryon had beenrunning South Carolina’spublic broadcasting agencyfor less than four monthswhen she learned last weekthat Haley had removedmembers of the commissionthat hired her late last year.O’Bryon said Thursday thatshe has met with the com-mission’s new chairman,Brent Nelsen of Greenville,and understands the finan-cial strain that all publicbroadcasters are under.

“Part of my role comingin as president was to devel-op further ETV’s revenuebase and content initia-tives,” O’Bryon said. “I’vetalked about making sure we

are relevant in everythingwe do and expanding whatwe do.”

The statewide focus onETV, she said, has been ex-citing and drawn outtremendous support.

“This was the second-mostsuccessful TV pledging sea-son in our history,” she said.

Among those removedfrom the commission was itschairman,Robert Rainey ofAnderson. The Rainey fam-ily has helped produce threemajor documentaries for thestation,including the award-winning “Corridor ofShame” piece about failingschools along Interstate 95.

Rainey, reached at hisFoothills Community Foun-dation office this week, saidhe had predicted that Haleywould make some majorchanges in the commission.Her predecessor, Mark San-ford, had let every commis-sioner’s term expire,thoughthe seven commissionerscontinued to serve.

Politically, the Raineyfamily is also at odds withHaley. Rainey’s brotherJohn, former South Caroli-na Board of Economic Ad-visors chairman under San-ford, has undertaken an in-vestigation for severalmonths into issues involvingHaley’s employment and taxrecords.

Robert Rainey said his topconcern about the removal ofall seven commissioners si-multaneously is the loss ofinstitutional memory andcontinuity.ETV is a complexstate agency,Rainey said,andits federal licenses requirethat ETV provide substantialservices to education. In theabsence of those, those li-censes are at risk, he said.

“These new commission-ers will be on a learningcurve you just can’t believe,”Rainey said.

Bubba Self of Greenwood,one of the ousted commis-sioners, had served about 11years. He said the commis-sion was working with O’Bry-on on developing a strategicplan to help ETV be moreclient-focused and stand on itsown without state help — adiscussion, he said, that ishealthy for the agency.

Still, he said, many ele-ments of ETV likely will nev-er have a place in the privatesector — services such asbroadcasting legislative ses-sions and corrections officertraining; developing a wire-less Internet presence in ru-ral areas; and offering a fo-rum for home-grown pro-grams such as “WalterEdgar’s Journal”and “YourDay.

“ETV is more than BigBird and NPR,” Self said.

Before coming to ETV,O’Bryon had more than 30years of experience inbroadcast journalism andwas content officer ofKQED in San Francisco,where she led the most-lis-tened-to radio station in thenation. She created PBS’Nightly Business Report

in1979 while working at apublic station in Miami.

“One of the things I foundinteresting when I took thejob at ETV was CEOs in ma-jor markets and system lead-ers across the nation saidETV is very well-regarded inthe public media sector,”O’Bryon said. “It is consid-ered a center of excellencein education. That’s how weview ourselves.”

Part of that esteem, shesaid, is rooted in ETV’sstatewide broadcast cover-age,a rarity in public broad-casting. Past commission-ers, she said, also had theforesight to secure a broadrange of broadcast licensesbefore they knew where thetechnology was going.

This is paying dividendsnow with a 30-year, $142 mil-lion lease of ETV’s excess

broadband spectrum to twonational companies — Clear-wire and DigitalBridge —signed in 2009. The lease sofar has earned at least $10million for the state.

ETV,which maintains theinfrastructure for this spec-trum, has not received anymoney from the lease,though the proposed 2011-12budget would change that. Ifthe proposal passes,ETV willcollect about $3 million an-nually from the lease. Thebudget proposal also has de-partments such as educationand corrections set asidepart of their budgets for ETV.

Brent Nelsen, a FurmanUniversity professor of po-litical science, is the newchairman of the ETV Com-mission. He was a GOP can-didate for state education su-perintendent last year. He

said his key qualification forrunning the ETV Commis-sion was his education back-ground.ETV’s challenge,hesaid,is providing services ina funding environment fo-cused on core governmentfunctions.

ETV’s state budget is lessthan two-tenths of 1 percentof the state’s overall spend-ing plan.

“But when you are tryingto squeeze every dime out ofthe budget to save cops on thestreet and Medicare, youhave to look everywhere,”hesaid.

ETV has a $19.5 millionbudget with multiple fund-ing streams. Roughly $10million of that came fromfees, individual contribu-tors, sponsors and a $3 mil-lion community servicegrant from the Corporationfor Public Broadcasting.

The broadcaster’s radioand television programmingis fully funded through pri-vate fundraisers,which thisyear raised just under $3.6million.

Rob McCoy is among thesix other commissionersserving under Nelsen.Reached at his used-car busi-ness in Lancaster, McCoysaid he thinks that with thepopularity of ETV’s pro-gramming, the agencyshould be able to raise moremoney privately. The state’scurrent plan to have indi-vidual agencies pay for partof ETV’s operations meanstaxpayers are still paying forit, he said.

“I am a limited-govern-ment-type person,” McCoysaid. “We need to look atwhat’s the best benefit to thetaxpayer and not just shuf-fling around money.”

Other ETV commissionappointees include three for-mer candidates for the statelegislature, Jill Kelso ofMurrells Inlet, Joey Mill-wood of Spartanburg andRob McCoy of HeathSprings, who ran on plat-forms that espoused state-funded vouchers for privateschools. Combined, thosecandidates received at least$59,000 from school-voucherproponent Howard Rich of

New York in the 2008 and2010 election cycles, accord-ing to state ethics records.

The other new commis-sion members are Columbiafinancial adviser Elise Bid-well; Zee Homoki of Aiken,who gave $1,000 to Haley’selection campaign; andNicole Holland, communi-cations director for the so-licitor’s office in Columbia.

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SEFTON IPOCK Independent Mail

Robert Rainey was removed as ETV Commissionchairman last week by Gov. Nikki Haley.

14: number of NationalWeather Service transmit-ters in the state, all main-tained by ETV26: number of radio re-peaters in ETV’s SCHEARTnetwork, which communi-cates emergency messagesto more than 60 hospitals800: hours of legislativecoverage broadcast by ETVannually from Columbia1957: year ETV was creat-ed by the South CarolinaLegislature to transmit edu-cational programming topublic schools statewide2,500: number of schools,colleges, businesses andagencies reached todaythrough ETV’s multimediaeducational system41,000: hours of South Car-olina radio and televisionrecordings archived at ETVover the past 50 years199,683: ETV educationalprograms viewed online forfree by schools in AndersonCounty since July 2009300,000: listeners of ETV’sradio broadcasts weekly1.7 million: South Carolinahouseholds reached weeklyby ETV’s public TV channels3.2 million: number ofvideos viewed annually onStreamlineSC, ETV’s multi-media K-12 educationalwebsite. It is the busiestsuch site per teacher in thenation.$3.6 million: money raisedfrom viewers and listenersto pay for all ETV radio andTV programming last year$9.6 million: state fundingfor ETV last year$19.5 million: ETV’s totaloperating budget

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A math class taped at ETV studios in Columbia in thelate 1950s could be accessed through closed-circuitTV by every school district in South Carolina.

BY ANNA B. MITCHELLIndependent Mail

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GREENVILLE — Actingcomes easily to 18-year-oldBrandon Hall, who playedOthello this week at the Gov-ernor’s School for the Artsand Humanities.

But not much else has.Two years ago,the self-de-

scribed average studentfrom Pendleton High Schoolnarrowly earned his way in-to the Governor’s School onraw artistic talent, said hismentor, drama departmentChairman Dan Murray.

There, teachers had himtested and discovered a long-undiagnosed learning dis-ability. Hall has short-termmemory loss.

“He was a real left-fieldchoice,” Murray said. “Wepulled him aside and toldhim, ‘You can get by as acharming, well-intentionedguy, or you can address thisnow and get back on gradelevel.’ It really was a matterof him reaching his poten-tial.”

After years of strugglingin public school, Brandonembraced the challenges henow better understood, hisfamily and teachers said.

“For his lines, he wouldstudy, study, study throughrepetition,”said Hall’s moth-er, Betty Hall. “But when itcame to his academics, be-cause he wasn’t compre-hending like normal,we sawit in his work. I alwaysthought there was some-thing there.”

Hall has been on the Gov-ernor’s School honor rollever since he arrived thereas a junior and freely dis-cusses his love for the worksof Shakespeare,August Wil-son and Harper Lee.

“I learned to stop askingso many questions and find

things out for myself,” hesaid.

Last month, Hall alsolearned he had been admit-ted into the nation’s mostprestigious acting program:The Juilliard School in NewYork. Hall survived fourrounds of cuts from an ini-tial pool of more than 200students from around theworld. Nine men and ninewomen were eventually cho-sen for the program.

“Juilliard was one ofthose … It’s like he was on abaseball diamond, and theywere throwing fastballs,andhe kept knocking them outof the park,” his mothersaid. “Then they threw acurve ball, and he knockedthat out, too.”

His two trips to New Yorkwere the first flights he’d tak-en in his life.

“The second visit to Juil-liard was the first time he’dbeen on a plane by himself,”Murray said. “He gave me acall and said he was hungry.I told him to what to buy,thento take a cab uptown to theLincoln Center.”

Hall’s mother raised hertwo children by herself. Acustodian at Pendleton HighSchool, Betty Hall is devel-oping a youth ministrythrough her church, theTabernacle of Praise and De-liverance,and reaches out toother children now that herown are grown.

“I am so grateful that de-spite the stigma of being asingle mom, that givingthem what they needed,structure and balance,that Ihave produced these twowonderful kids,” she said.

Hall’s older sister,Octavia,described her brother asfearless. She is an award-winning vocal performancemajor at Anderson Univer-sity.

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Scott Osborne, who drives a school-bus route part time, enjoys helping children from some of Anderson’s

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BY ANNA B. MITCHELL Independent Mail

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Scott Osborne’s two-hour bus route winds itsway through some of An-derson’s poorest neighbor-hoods.

Osborne, a retired air-traffic controller, drives aroute for Homeland ParkElementary and South-wood Middle School. Heknows all his students’names — asks them abouttheir families and whetherthey’ve finished theirhomework.

Some of these childrenlive with their grandpar-ents; some live in homesnext door to burned-outstructures. One middle-school girl stumbles as shegets on the bus, tired froma morning of getting heryounger siblings ready forschool.

“I see where they live,”Osborne said. “They are asbright as they can be. Youcan swap them with kidsanywhere. I give a lot ofcredit to teachers. Peoplehave no idea.”

In 2010, state educationrecords reported 31,012 stu-dents enrolled in AndersonCounty’s public schools.

Of those, 19,775 — near-ly two out of three — wereconsidered poor understate education guidelines.These children live inhouseholds where a familyof four is getting by on lessthan $41,000 a year. Theyqualify for subsidizedmeals and medical care.

In 2002, fewer than halfof the children in Ander-son County lived this way.The number of poor chil-dren has increased by near-ly 5,000, straining educa-tors facing their own stateand federal budget cuts be-cause of the economy.

Devon Smith, principalat Crescent High School inIva, said it’s hard to see dayto day how dramatically

poverty has risen.“I think it’s people tak-

ing care of each other,”Smith said. “You just don’tnotice those things. Thekids don’t look any differ-ent.”

Growing numbersAccording to state data,

every school in AndersonCounty saw poverty ratesincrease between 2002 and2010, from a 9.56 point in-crease at Iva Elementary,which pushed that school’srate over 80 percent, to a41.46 point increase at Cal-houn Elementary, whoselines were redrawn.

The county’s poorestschool, at 99.3 percent, isNevitt Forest CommunitySchool of Innovation — anelementary school outsideAnderson that qualifies forextra federal “Title I” fund-ing for smaller class sizesand after-school programs.

At New Prospect Ele-mentary, Principal JeromeHudson has seen povertyrates jump to nearly 80 per-cent this past year. He seeschildren who are carryingtattered book bags or aren’twearing coats on cold days.The school’s field day T-shirts had lackluster sales,and the school has made apoint of arranging low-costfield trips in town. Mean-while, his school has losttwo teaching positions tobudget cuts.

“You see sometimes thefrustration in the faces ofchildren who can’t dothings,” he said.

In 2002, the poverty ratewas below 60 percent at hisschool.

“The biggest factor is therecent bad economy,” Hud-son said. “This is the westside, so there’s lower cost,

more affordable housing.In tough times, people mi-grate over here.”

Parent-Teacher Associa-tion member Jenny Pick-ens opened a communitycenter at the school thisyear to distribute food andclothes to needy families.

She’s also arranged to havea truck loaded with foodfrom the U.S. Departmentof Agriculture come toLakeside Middle next weekto distribute food.

“At school, we know theyare getting at least twomeals a day,” Pickens said.“Over spring break, wedon’t know what they aregetting. We pack boxes offood for them to pick up orhave counselors deliverthem.”

Census reports suggestpoverty is an intermittentstate for most families —most of whom don’t stay inpoverty for more than a fewmonths at a time. But cen-sus estimates also show thatpoverty — especiallyamong children — has beengrowing over the pastdecade in Anderson Coun-ty.

The federal governmentuses much lower incomeguidelines to determinepoverty — for a family offour it’s an income of$22,350. Just under 16 per-cent of children in Ander-son County were living atthis level of poverty in 2000,the census showed. By 2009,the census estimate wascloser to 23 percent.

The actual number ofchildren in deep poverty by2009 — nearly 10,000 ofthem — had increased 55percent over nine years.

Less moneyNine out of 10 people who

are successful point to pos-itive relationships that gotthem there — and it’s usu-ally a teacher, said KristiKing-Brock, executive di-rector of Anderson Inter-

faith Ministries.Southwood Middle

School teacher MaghanEvans, 23, said she grew upin a community where peo-ple, including those who sheconsidered friends, as-sumed she would neveramount to anything. Col-lege wasn’t an option; grad-uating from high schoolwas unlikely. But her grand-father and a few specialteachers pushed her to ex-cel in school, graduate withhonors and attend the col-lege of her choice — despitegrowing up in a single-fam-ily home with little money.

“It is real,” Evans said.“Look at me. I’m livingproof.”

Anderson School District5 Superintendent BettyBagley said public schoolshave been charged with ed-ucating the total child,which means attending to achild’s health, exposure tothe arts, nutrition and phys-ical activity beyond the coresubjects.

“The resilient children,

it’s usually a significantperson — a teacher, some-one in Sunday school, anadministrator — someonewho believed in them,”Bagley said. “Success iswhere people are emotion-ally invested.”

Knowing this, Bagleysaid, trimming the dis-trict’s budget has beenpainful. Bagley said statecuts to her district sincethe financial meltdown of2008 have amounted to $11million. With federal stim-ulus money running outthis year, educators face anew school year with fund-ing levels harkening backto the 1990s.

District 5 has had to elim-inate more than 50 jobs.Most of these were in-structional positions, lead-ing to larger class sizes andless attention for individualstudents. Schools like NewProspect, which have highpoverty rates but not quitehigh enough to qualify for

First of two partsComing Monday:Health-care costs rise aspoverty claims more children

Schools strain under weight of childhood poverty

KEN RUINARD Independent Mail photos

New Prospect Elementary School PTO President Portia Grooms helps handle donations at the school in Anderson.

Disadvantaged studentsPoverty rates among AndersonCounty School districts.

Source: South Carolina Department of Education

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District 1, Williamston

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District 3, Starr-Iva

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59.4%

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54.48%

65.18%

77.10%

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Scott Osborne, who has a part-time job driving a school bus route through some of Anderson’s poorest neighborhoods, enjoys helping children get to school.

MELISSA LEWIS Independent Mail

“At school, weknow they aregetting at least twomeals a day. Overspring break, wedon’t know whatthey are getting.”

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extra federal aid, have feltthe squeeze the most.

“What does this mean?”Bagley said. “A loss of spe-cific programming, andclass ratios go up. You losespecialized teachers.”

Lisa Hall is the coordi-nator for District 5’s home-less student program,which has operated on thesame $60,000 a year budgetfor nine years. In her sevenyears with the program,Hall said, the number ofstudents she’s helped hasgrown from 150 to 243. Thebiggest growth, she said,has been in older childrenwho have been kicked outof their homes. “Some ofthem are living in homeswith no heat or lights,” Hallsaid.

She provides her stu-dents with school supplies,daytime outfits, toiletriesand field-trip fees. Shecombs the aisles at retailersfor deals and approachesstores, foundations, friends,civic clubs and churches fordonations. An annual soft-ball fundraiser also helps.

“A lot of time school isthe only stable thing theyhave,” she said.

Failing studentsState test data show a

strong correlation betweenpoverty and low school per-formance.

An Independent Mailanalysis of the most recentresults of the state’s annu-al standardized test —PASS — revealed poor stu-dents in Anderson Countyfailing the test in all sub-jects and at all grade levelsat a rate two to three timeshigher than their peers.

For instance, 1,300 An-derson County third-graders who receive subsi-dized meals at school tookthe math portion of the

have limited the reach ofwhat people like Tarrantcan do.

“Our 2011 funding hasbeen decreased by approx-imately 10 percent for bothprograms,” said Jeff Tra-han, director of the An-derson Housing Authority.“We expect the same forthe 2012 budget since hous-ing is part of the appro-priations process.”

The Anderson HousingAuthority — the county’sonly public housingprovider — has 277 publichousing units availableand a waiting list of 282 ap-plicants, Trahan said.Forty-two percent of themhave children. The au-thority also distributes 500rent-assistance vouchersand has a waiting list of127 families, 78 percent ofwhich include children.

Despite the strains, Tra-han said, the authority willcontinue its residentialoutreach and communitypolicing programs — bothdesigned to end the cycle ofpoverty.

“So many children havea defeated attitude,” Cres-cent’s Smith said. “There’snot a lot of hope. Politi-cians talk in terms ofthings that are concreteand measurable. Theydon’t talk about those ab-stract issues.”

The stakes are high: theU.S. Census estimated thepoverty rates among thosewho fail to finish highschool in Anderson Coun-ty at about 26 percent in2009. It’s 12.5 percent forthose with just a diploma.Only about 4 percent of col-lege graduates in Ander-son County are in poverty.Median earnings rangefrom about $18,000 for adropout to nearly $43,000for a college graduate.

New Prospect’s Hudsongrew up the 15th of 19 chil-

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Principal Jerome Hudson shows volunteer Jenny Pickens a pair of donated pants in the community centerroom at New Prospect Elementary School in Anderson.

Educators, administrators try to lessen the sting for impoverished students

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“So many childrenhave a defeatedattitude. There’snot a lot of hope.Politicians talk interms of thingsthat are concrete


BY ANNA B. MITCHELL Independent Mail

anna.mitchell@/ 260.1256

Scott Osborne sees someof Anderson’s poorest chil-dren every day as their busdriver. Nevitt Forest Ele-mentary’s Kelly Elrod seesthem and their parents, too,as principal of the county’spoorest school.

But nobody knows betterthan Maghan Evans what ittakes to rise out of povertyand find success.

Evans,23,graduated fromAnderson University in De-cember and has since em-braced her “dream job”:teaching math to at-risk andlow-income students atSouthwood Middle School.

More than 93 percent ofSouthwood students arepoor, state records show.

“Here I come in with thisbubbly attitude,but I alwayshad heat and grandparentswho cared for me,” Evanssaid. “How can I expectthem to go home and do proj-ects? I’m the only hug,maybe the only smile, someof them will see all day.”

order — in other areas oftheir lives.

“What would life be likewithout order?” Evansasked.

Hands shot into the air.“It would be total chaos.”“It would not be organ-

ized, like our projects.”“What about my check-

book?” Evans asked.“If it’s not in order, you

might be asked by the bankwhere the money’s comingfrom.”

“You might write a fraudcheck.”

Evans used music, move-ment, games and open dis-cussion. She’d composed arap song loaded with math-ematical concepts — inte-gers, fraction,decimals.Sheteamed up students to writeout the precise steps for

the door.Still, educators in this

county are handling thou-sands of children from fam-ilies with little schooling.Between 2000 and 2009,near-ly a quarter of new mothersin Anderson County had notcompleted their high schooleducation, according tostate health records. About30 percent finished withhigh school.

The good news,accordingto the annual “Kids Count”South Carolina report, isthis is a vast improvementsince 1970, when nearly 45percent of new mothershadn’t finished high school.Compulsory school atten-dance was not law in SouthCarolina until 1967.

Evans said she makessome contact with parents


Maghan Evans high fives one of her math students at Southwood Middle School.Evans, who grew up poor, now teaches at a school with high poverty rates amongthe students.

Educators push to break poverty cycle “Here I come in with this bubblyattitude, but I always had heat andgrandparents who cared for me.”

Maghan Evansseventh-grade teacher at Southwood Middle



SECOND PLACESECOND PLACEHerald-JournalLee G. Healy The best gift of all

ALEX C. HICKS JR./[email protected]

Brendyn Hyslop, 11, used the Heimlich maneuver to help save his mother Shantel Hyslop’s life. Brendyn learned the procedure during health class two days earlier.

By LEE G. [email protected]

Eleven years ago, Shantel Hyslop gave the gift of life to her only child, Brendyn. T d b f M th ’

calmly used the Heimlich maneuver to clear his mother’s airway — a skill he learned in health class at school just two days earlier.

“I put my life in his hands in that moment ” a teary-eyed Shantel said of her

remembers how attentive Brendyn’s class was during the training and telling them how vital the information was. Gault said she never imagined one of her students would need to use the knowledge so soon.

“I just stood there in awe when he told

Fifth-grader saves mother by using Heimlich he learned in CPR class

A fine feathered friendTweety is favorite new classmate for fourth-graders at Chapman By LEE G. [email protected]

Behind the squeak of fourth-grade sneakers down the halls of Chapman Elemen-

tary is an occasional, “quack, quack” and the pitter patter of little webbed feet.

Tweety the duck has been a constant shadow for Crystal Weathers’ science class since she hatched from an incubated egg Feb. 22. Now more than a month old, Tweety will soon join the other birds and water fowl at Hollywild Animal Park in Inman, where she can swim in the pond and eventually migrate south with the other mallards.

Weathers was the recipient of $600 for an incubator and three mallard eggs through DonorsChoose.org, an online charity that allows people to contribute to specifi c classroom

PHOTOS BY TIM KIMZEY/[email protected]

Crystal Weathers’ fourth-grade class at Chapman Elementary School hatched a duck egg as part of a science lesson. The duckling, Tweety, has been following the class and teacher around the school since March, but will be taken to Hollywild Animal Park to live out her life as a duck.To see video plus a photo gallery of Tweety and her

friends at Chapman Elementary, visit GoUpstate.com.

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Teacher arrested on sex charge

By LEE G. [email protected]

A 23-year-old Boiling Springs High School teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a student is facing criminal charges under a new state law specifically addressing teach-er-student rela-tionships.

A b b y K a t e McElhenny, of 2000 Berwick Drive, Apt. 20, Duncan, is charged with sexual battery with a stu-dent 16 or 17 years of age, with no aggravated force of coercion.

Sheriff Chuck Wright said McElhenny’s relationship with a rising senior at Boiling Springs High School started around Christ-mas and lasted until May. Spartan-burg School District 2 accepted McElhenny’s resignation Tues-day, Superintendent Scott Mercer said during a news conference at the sheriff’s offi ce Wednesday afternoon. McElhenny, who taught Spanish and coached the school’s varsity swim team, was hired by the district in August 2009.

The legal age of consent is 16 in South Carolina, but Wright said a state law passed just last year allows authorities to fi le charges because of an alleged student-

teacher relationship. If convicted, McElhenny could face as much as fi ve years in jail.

Seventh Circuit Solicitor Barry Barnette said the law leaves it up to a judge to decide if McElhenny must register as a sex offender, if she is convicted. Barnette said it will be the first “sexual battery with a student” case the Seventh Circuit will prosecute, though it is not the fi rst in the state.

According to an incident report, witnesses saw McElhenny and the teen eating breakfast together at a fast food restaurant, holding hands at the Spring Fling festi-val and leaving school together in McElhenny’s vehicle. Wright said that during the course of the investigation McElhenny admit-ted to having a relationship with

Boiling Springs teacher faces charges over alleged relationship with senior

McElhenny

◆ SEE TEACHER PAGE A7

GERRY PATE/[email protected]

Abby Kate McElhenny waits to enter magistrate court on Wednesday night.


FIRST PLACEFIRST PLACEThe HeraldShawn Cetrone

WEDNESDAY December 8, 2010 Rock Hill ● South Carolina

By Shawn Cetrone and Jennifer [email protected]@enquirerherald.com

Aging, broken-down school buses are leavingschools across York County without enough vehiclesto get students to class on time, officials said.

Spare-part shortages cause delays, they said, andoverburdened mechanics struggle to keep up with re-pair needs.

It’s a problem across South Carolina, where morethan 60 percent of school buses are at least 16 yearsold and half have traveled more than 200,000 miles.

Although the Legislature announced in 2007 thatbuses would be replaced at 15 years old, lawmakershave balked at spending during the recession.

As of June, about 1,500 of the state’s 5,672 buseswere 21 years or older, according to Department ofEducation bus records obtained by The Herald.

South Carolina is the only state that owns andmaintains its schools’ buses. Local districts have nopower to replace old buses, and only state mechanicsare allowed to fix them.

Districts hire staff to coordinate routes, a logisticalbalancing act with vehicles taking children to andfrom home while shuttling students between schoolsthroughout the day.

There have always been hiccups and breakdowns.. But transportation officials say problems are worsethan they have ever seen.

“The buses are down so much that they’re notavailable,” Rock Hill schools Transportation DirectorGeorge Hampton said. “We’re having buses breakdown on the road ... We’re in a crisis situation as far astimely routes.”

JIM STRATAKOS - [email protected]

Jeff Marr, a mechanic with York County schools, changes glow plugs on a diesel engine.

More than 60 percent ofbuses are at least 16 years old

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Aging bus fleet hampersYork County schools

JIM STRATAKOS - [email protected]

A 1985 bus registered more than 439,000miles on its odometer last week.

By Shawn [email protected] seven public schools

opening their doors to any RockHill student in August, familieswill have more options than ever.

And it’s just the beginning, saydistrict officials, who expect morecampuses to become “schools ofchoice” in coming years.

Starting Feb. 14, families canapply to enroll children in one off ive programs across sevenschools of choice. Applicationswill be available Tuesday. Enroll-ment is first-come, first-served,as-sociate superintendent LuanneKokolis said.

Families can choose from:■ Norths ide E lementary

School of the Arts■ The Children’s School at

Sylvia Circle’s Montessori pro-

gram■ Sunset Park Center for Accel-

erated Studies’ magnet programfor gifted and talented students

■ Ebinport and RichmondDrive elementary schools’ Span-ish language and global studiesprograms

■ Saluda Trail and Sullivanmiddle schools’ Middle Years In-ternational Baccalaureate pro-grams

Any Rock Hill student can ap-ply to attend a school of choice.Those in the school’s attendancezone get first choice and bus trans-

portation. Families outside the at-tendance area must provide trans-portation.

The exception is Sunset Park’sgifted and talented magnet pro-gram, which requires applicantsto meet the state’s “gifted and tal-ented” guidelines. However, anyelementary-age student can applyfor the school’s accelerated stud-ies program.

Rock Hill joins a growing num-ber of districts statewide offeringfamilies more options for theirchildren’s education.

From science and technologymagnets to virtual schools to Mon-tessori to charter schools, the op-tions for public school studentsare growing.

Following a push by former

SCHOOLS OF CHOICE

ANDY BURRISS - [email protected] Lori Jewell works with Malaysia Wilson, 4, using a movable alphabet at The Children’s School at Sylvia Circle. The school isone of seven schools of choice in Rock Hill, which are open to all students.

Rock Hill increasesoptions for education

INSIDE

■ How to apply toa school ofchoice ● 7A■ Open housedates ● 7A

Coming MondayOver the rest of this week, The Herald

will examine the programs offered atRock Hill’s seven schools of choicefor the 2011-2012 school year.

On Monday, we profile the NorthsideElementary School of the Arts.

See CHOICE ● 7A

SCHOOLS OF CHOICE SERIES

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By Shawn [email protected]

Some Chester County school boardmembers grew increasingly frustratedearly this year with then-superinten-dent Thomas Graves about programchanges, employee restructuring andcommunication, according to emailsreleased by the district.

The emails, obtained by The Heraldunder the state’s open records law, offera glimpse at the months precedingGraves’ resignation.

In an April 7 message, school boardChairwoman Maggie James orderedGraves not to test a new in-school sus-pension program that might have sentsuspended high school students toclassrooms at Great Falls Elementary.

“Please accept this e-mail as confir-mation that I have directed you to re-frain from implementing the in-schoolsuspension pilot program at Great FallsElementary School effective immedi-ately,” James said.

She wrote the board would discussthe program at its meeting on April 11,four days later.

“I am taking this action in my capac-ity as board chair and based on the nu-merous concerns that have been ex-pressed to me and other board mem-bers from teachers, parents and admin-istrators in our school.”

James, in an interview with The Her-ald on Friday, said she gave the orderwith support from a majority of theboard.

In another email to Graves, vicechairwoman Denise Lawson took issuewith his proposal to reorganize the dis-trict’s central office.

“Where is the money coming from?”she wrote. “I recall the direction ofdownsizing district office personnel,not increasing it with unfunded posi-tions.”

The message indicates that Lawsonwas upset the board wasn’t given morenotice.

“This is the second month a restruc-

EmailsrevealgrowingtensionChester school board,Graves often clashed

See CHESTER ● 9A

Rock Hill ● South Carolina h e r a l d o n l i n e . c o m


Jamaris Pressley and several dozen of hisclassmates read more books over the summerthan they ever expected thanks to a new Inde-pendence Elementary program that proved sosuccessful, Rock Hill school officials might ex-pand it across the district.

Over the break, students received books inthe mail, which they read and sent back to re-ceive more.

“I didn’t know how to read that much be-fore,” said Jamaris, a fourth-grader. “Now Iknow a whole bunch of words that I didn’tknow before.”

Independence is among several elementaryschools around the district testing ways to stemthe summer slump – a period when educatorssay students can lose some of the academicprogress they made during the previous schoolyear.

Officials will pore over the results and usethem to create a pilot program for next summer.

Among the elementary schools participat-ing are Belleview, Old Pointe, Oakdale andMount Holly.

“We’re trying to measure the best of those,”Superintendent Lynn Moody said.

Researchers have linked not reading over thesummer to achievement gaps between low-in-come students and their wealthier peers. Butstudies indicate “reading loss” doesn’t affectjust those students.

A recent University of South Carolina study

You’vegotmail

PHOTOS BY MELISSA CHERRY - [email protected]

Korrin Banks, 7, reads a book in

Angela Counts’ second-grade class

earlier this month at Independence

Elementary School. At right, an

Independence student follows

sentences in a book with her finger.

Rock Hill schoolsmight expandNetflix-like booksinitiative to stemsummer slump

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As Rock Hill schools rethink the way theygrade students, officials are bracing for acharged debate.

“It’s going to be messy, to say the least,” Su-perintendent Lynn Moody said.

For the last year a group of teachers has beenexploring how to standardize grading acrossthe district’s five middle schools and three highschools.

Among the questions they’ve discussed:Should homework figure in a student’s finalgrade? What about class participation? Shouldcheaters and students who fail be allowed tomake up work? Why not let all students re-testfor a higher grade?

The committee drafted rules that twoschools – Saluda Trail Middle and South PointeHigh – are testing. Based on results at thosecampuses and feedback from teachers and par-ents, district leaders will craft a new gradingpolicy which they expect the school board tovote on in March.

The draft emphasizes “mastery” learning,which stresses understanding content andmoves away from penalizing students for tak-ing longer to learn.

At South Pointe this year the lowest a studentcan score on an assignment, even if he doesn’tturn it in, is 40 out of 100. A score of 69 or belowis an ‘F.’

Students caught cheating get referred to theadministration and a chance to do the workwith a 20 percent penalty.

Homework can account for up to 10 percentof a student’s final grade. Any student can take atest twice to improve a grade, so long as the stu-dent re-learns the material first. That doesn’tapply to standardized tests such as the PASSand the SAT.

Schoolsputtinggradesto test

Want to learn more?Rock Hill school officials plan to meet with

families to discuss plans to revamp the waystudents are graded. Anyone can attend. Thefirst three meetings scheduled:

■ Nov. 30: 5:30 p.m. at Rock Hill High, 320 W.Springdale Road.

■ Nov. 30: 7 p.m. at Sullivan Middle, 1825Eden Terrace.

■ Dec. 1: 6:30 p.m. at Northwestern High,2503 W. Main Street.

Officials will present their plans at a publicschool board meeting at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 13 atthe district office, 660 N. Anderson Road.

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Rock Hill districtexamines evaluation,considers new methods

FAITH REPORTINGFAITH REPORTINGAll Daily Division

THIRD PLACETHIRD PLACEIndex-JournalSt. Claire Donaghy

By ST. CLAIRE [email protected]

It pains Maha Abdullah when people generalize prac-ticing Muslims — such as she and her husband, Momen Kamaleldin, as adherents of a religion that encourages violence.

Abdullah, 24, is a married mother and permanent Unit-ed States resident residing in Greenwood. She is study-ing to be a certified nursing assistant.

In her native land, Egypt, Abdullah was a practicing nurse. She adheres to Mus-lim customs of conservative dress for women, including the wearing of headscarves and keeping her body cov-ered. Abdullah’s husband, Kamaleldin, currently works in textile manufacturing.

“Islam is not about killing people,” Abdullah said. “Our God is not about killing peo-ple. Many people died on 11 September (2001), and it was not in the name of the reli-gion I know.”

A 2009 survey of religious attitudes by the Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life and the Pew Center for Peo-ple and the Press showed 38 percent of Americans at that time believed Islam encour-ages violence more than other religions, compared with 45 percent who did not have that view. Pew’s 2009 study found nearly six in 10 adults feel Muslims face discrimination in America. Additionally, a 2007 Pew poll of Muslims revealed one in four Muslims has experi-enced discrimination.

War in the Middle East, with American military casualties, and the Palestin-ian-Israeli conflict have not eased U.S. views of Muslims, according to a 2009 article in The Christian Science Moni-tor looking at discrimination attitudes post-9/11.

Despite polls and statistics, Kamaleldin, 29, said he has not experienced discrimina-tion, and “it is a dream” for he and his wife to live here.

“Some people wrongly think all Muslims are bad or mean from what they hear on the news,” Kamaleldin said. “I feel sorry for people who don’t know the truth about Islam and under-stand.”

The word “Islam” is said to mean “submission to the will of Allah,” and Abdullah Abdullah said Quran teach-ings “remind you to keep God” in all you do and to conduct yourself in a man-ner “respectable to your fam-ily.”

Observant Muslims are obliged to pray five times daily, fast during the daytime during the holy month of Ramadan, abstain from pork and alcohol and to make gifts to the poor. Muslims believe in a Day of Judgment when righteous souls will go to heaven, and wrongdoers will go to hell.

“And, if you are able dur-ing your life, you are to trav-el to Mecca (birthplace of God’s prophet Muhammad),” Abdullah said.

Three of the world’s major religions, the monotheistic

traditions of Judaism, Chris-tianity and Islam all trace their roots to the Middle East and have ties to Abraham.

The Rev. Doug Kauff-mann, of Connie Maxwell Baptist Church, teaches world religions at Lander University. Kauffmann has a master’s of divinity degree from Southern Baptist Theo-logical Seminary from Louis-ville, Ky. Islam is among five major religions Kauffmann teaches about in the world religions course.

“Judaism, Christianity and Islam have a lot in common,” Kauffmann said. “They are considered Abrahamic reli-gions because their histories can be traced to the covenant God made with Abraham in the Hebrew Bible. Juda-ism claims descent from the Jewish patriarch Abraham and through Abraham’s son, Isaac. Christianity started after Judaism and Arabs claim descent from Abraham through his other son, Ish-mael. Ishmael is seen as the father of Arabs.”

However, Muslims regard a number of prophets from the Old Testament in the Bible, as well as Jesus Christ, to be prophets and do not view Christ as divine, Kauff-mann said.

“Christianity is monothe-istic, but Christians profess that God expresses himself in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Islam is monotheistic, too, but there is no trinity in Islam.”

Instead, Muslims believe Allah (the Arabic word for God) sent his revelation, the Quran, (the Muslim holy book) to the prophet Muhammad. Muhammad is the chief prophet and central figure of the Islamic religion.

The Quran is believed to have been revealed to Muhammad in the seventh century in Mecca and Medi-na (Saudi Arabia).

While Christianity claims the most followers world-wide, Islam is not far behind in number, Kauffmann said.

Abdullah and Kamaleld-in have had their visas for permanent residence in the United States for a little more than a year. The visas were

obtained through the U.S. State Department, according to Abdullah and Kamaleldin’s friend, Bobby McGovern of Greenwood. McGovern has his own tourism company, Reservations Master, LLC.

The State Department runs an annual Diversity Visa Lottery to offer perma-nent resident visas, known as green cards, to foreigners from countries that have sent few immigrants to the United States. The Diversity Immi-grant Visa Program makes 50,000 diversity visas avail-able annually, drawn from random selection among entries. Abdullah and Kama-leldin received visas through this lottery program.

Sunday, September 11, 2011We Remember

‘Islam is not about killing people’Muslims say religious teachings remind followers to keep God, be respectable

SAM O’KEEFE | INDEX-JOURNAL

Maha Abdullah, left, is studying to be a certified nursing assistant since she worked as a nurse in her native Egypt, while her husband Momen Kamaleldin works in textile manufac-turing.


Jessica C, 21, was in her mid-teens when she began experimenting with alcohol and quickly made a

leap to prescription drugs and meth-amphetamines. She credits Foundation Recovery House, of Greenwood, with helping her get back on her feet.

“I started with methamphetamines when I was 14 or 15, along with that were pills and alcohol,” Jessica said. “I knew what using was when I did it, and I liked it in the beginning. A friend offered meth to me, and when I was asked if I had tried it before, I said I had, but I really hadn’t. It gave me energy, and I wanted to be really skinny. I thought it would help me lose weight.”

Substance abuse nearly cost Jessica her life.

“I overdosed on pills and alcohol and was hospitalized,” Jessica said. “A friend took me to a detox facility in Georgia, and from there, I went to Faith Home of Greenwood, a Christian-based alcohol and drug rehabilitation and recovery program started in 1966.”

After Jessica completed the treat-ment program at Faith Home, she had nowhere to go. Family and friends wouldn’t take her in, and she didn’t have resources to secure housing on her own.

“I burned all my bridges, and every-body gave up on helping me,” Jessica said. “I broke everybody’s trust and knew I had to do something.”

ONE DAY AT FAITH HOME, Jes-sica met Kim Burton, who began steps to start Foundation Recovery House with her husband, Bryan Burton, in

January 2011.“Kim told me about the house she

said she was going to start,” Jessica said, noting she is now among FRH’s longest-staying residents at this point.

“We started with two residents in January, and now we have 14,” Bryan Burton said. “If you have nowhere to go after treatment, you’re likely to end up right back in the same situation. I know because my wife and I both have a history of substance abuse. We started Foundation Recovery House to help women transition from recovery to functioning on their own again.”

Bryan, 44, credits Christian-based 12-step recovery programs such as those advocated by Alcoholics Anony-mous and Narcotics Anonymous with helping him and his wife get on and stay on the path to substance-free lives. Both are no longer addicted to drugs and alcohol, gainfully employed and own their own home, in addition to operat-ing FRH.

“My own battles started with alcohol and drugs,” Bryan said. “I’m lucky to be alive. With what I put myself through, I should’ve been dead a long time ago. I had to hit rock bottom before; the only place left to go was up and to find hope.

“Not too many years ago, I found myself homeless, and there was a house like this that I started in,” Bryan said. “Off and on, the Greenwood area has had several halfway houses for men, and there was one open for a time for women, but before we started Founda-tion Recovery House in January, there wasn’t a home like this for women oper-ating here.”

Bryan said he and his wife, Kim, felt spiritually called to start FRH and

talked over the idea with their pastor, David Harrell, of New Covenant, a non-denominational Greenwood church.

“Kim and I took money from our savings to do this, but the church gra-ciously agreed to help financially with the startup, too,” Bryan said.

David Harrell, who before entering a career in ministry worked five years as a prevention specialist with the local drug and alcohol abuse commission, said, “This is a very, very necessary ministry.

“But, it is going to be a ministry for Bryan and Kim that is tough emotion-ally, spiritually and financially. People of New Covenant have helped Foundation Recovery House get going. Some con-tributed money for beds and furniture, and others helped paint. Now, more churches in the community are jump-ing in to help, too.”

THE BRICK HOME AT 328 West Cambridge Ave. was completely

renovated during its transformation to FRH, Bryan said, noting it had to meet planning, zoning, building and fire code requirements

“The house has seven bedrooms and three full baths, along with common areas, and two residents are to a room,” Bryan said.

Part of FRH’s recovery philosophy for residents who apply and are accepted is

Foundation Recovery House helps women rehabilitate‘GOD RUNS THIS HOUSE’

PHOTOS BY SAM O’KEEFE | INDEX-JOURNAL

The women of the Foundation Recovery House in Greenwood are provided a way to assimilate into a sober lifestyle as they recover from various drug addictions by joining together in sup-port of one another since Bryan and Kim Burton started the program in January.

Jessica curls up in a blanket Tuesday morning at the Foundation Recovery House before leaving to work Tues-day. Though she is one of the younger residents, Jessica is among the longest tenored at the Greenwood home.

See RECOVERY, page 10A

7AJuly 16, 2011

SATURDAY

Faith


Ryan Culbert-son is making preparations to move his family to a Texas town

bordering Mexico to work with deaf school-age children in Reynosa, Mexico.

He’s leaving his family con-nections here in Greenwood and Waterloo. He’s also leaving his position with a successful family printing business, Quick Copies of Greenwood, for a proposed three-year stint as a missionary with Mission to the World and Isaiah 55 Deaf Min-istries.

“Some would say it’s foolish,” Culbertson said. “But, it was God’s providence that’s caused it to happen. I’ve been called to do this. My growth in Christ started in college, and it’s a con-tinuing process.”

Culbertson said he became involved with Mission to the World and Isaiah 55 Deaf Min-istries in 2009, after a church friend of his, Arlan Brady, “pes-tered” Culbertson for years to take part in church missions to Mexico.

“At the time, our house had been on the market here for months, and I told Arlan I would go to Mexico if we sold our house, thinking it would never sell, but the very next week, an offer was made on the house. So I ended up going on a mission trip, and I fell in love with program there and the people.”

Arlan Brady, who recently moved from Greenwood to Lexington, said he has been working with Isaiah 55 Deaf Ministries since 1999, and he makes annual trips to Reynosa, frequently bringing family with him.

“Isaiah 55’s school program is set up to be run by Mexican nationals, local people, natives of that area,” Brady said. “The Americans who come to work there for a week, or longer in Ryan’s case, are really there to serve in whatever way is need-ed to help get the local ministry off the ground.

“When I first approached Ryan about his initial one-week trip a few years ago, I knew he would be a good fit because he’s very flexible and able to work in situations where everything is not ideal. Plus, I needed someone to lead worship on that trip, and he helps with that at Greenwood Presbyterian.

“Deaf children in most parts of Mexico do not have the same opportunities as deaf children in the United States. Most deaf in Mexico do not really get an education or vocation. It’s a population that needs people to reach out to it. Isaiah 55’s ministry makes a lot of sense to me.”

Someone was needed to start a vocational program for the Reynosa schools that are part of Instituto Isaias 55, Culbert-son said, noting that need grew into him wanting to serve the ministry on a greater level.

“My special education teach-ing background has some experience with vocational programs. When I taught high school special education, I designed a vocational program for Ninety Six School District 52 that was implemented dur-ing the year I taught in that dis-trict.”

After that fateful first mis-sion trip, Culbertson said he felt called to make a change in his life and wrestled with the idea of becoming a missionary in Mexico.

“One night, I asked my wife of 11 years, Karen, about us moving to Mexico,” Culb-ertson said. “She, the voice of reason in the household, said, ‘OK.’ It’s exciting and scary all at the same time to uproot fam-ily from everything you’ve ever known, to move to the border of Texas and Mexico.”

What’s needed for the journey

The Culbertsons have two children, Ellie, age 7, and John Thomas, age 5.

“The children are very excit-ed about the move to McAllen, Texas,” Culbertson said. “It’s right across the border from Reynosa. We’re aiming to move in September 2012.”

Culbertson said his wife Karen is planning to continue

home-schooling their children when they move.

Presently, Culbertson does not speak Spanish, but part of his preparation includes attend-ing a Spanish language school in Costa Rica for three to nine months. Additionally, he will have to go through cross-cul-tural training in January in Bel-gium and learn Mexican sign language once he’s ready to begin teaching at the school in Reynosa, Mexico.

“The teachers tell me you have to have an extremely good working knowledge of Span-ish to learn Mexican sign lan-guage,” Culbertson said. “God has gotten us this far. He will get us the rest of the way.”

Also, Culbertson is in the process of trying to raise sever-

al thousand dollars in funds to cover medical insurance, hous-ing, salary and administrative fees, during his three-year mis-sion term.

“Our monthly financial need is calculated to be about $7,000 a month,” Culbertson said. “A goal is to raise 100 percent of our financial need by Decem-ber 2011.”

Culbertson is actively meet-ing with church groups and others to spread the word about Isaiah 55 Deaf Ministries and his call to serve. People have already pledged money to be part of the Culbertson’s Mission to the World support team.

To help or learn more, call Ryan Culbertson at 980-8938, read the family’s blog at krejt–livingwater.blogspot.com or go

online to isaiah55.org or mtw.org.

“First, people can pray for us,” Culbertson said. “Second, people can consider monthly giving. Third, people can con-sider supporting the Isaiah 55 school. Fourth, people can send mission teams to Reynosa to work for a week.”

Helping the deaf learn to communicate while spreading the Gospel

There is a need for deaf edu-cation in Mexico, Culbertson said. “There is no public option for it in schools in that country and there are no options at all if you live outside of Mexico City. The deaf in Mexico are often considered burdens for families and caregivers and society. The earlier we can start interven-tions, the better.

“There are cases of children reaching their teens without developing any language skills at all, sign language or other-wise. The deaf, as a whole, are one of the largest segments of the world’s population not reached by the Gospel.”

Isaiah 55 Deaf Ministries is directed by Nolton “NoNo” Beales of Montgomery, Ala., who has lived with his family near Mexico since 1999, work-ing to “evangelize the deaf ” through education.

Isaiah 55 works toward its goals through building schools, training teachers and provid-ing education for deaf children with the ultimate goal of shar-ing the Gospel with students and their families.

Isaiah 55 also works with vol-unteer teams from all over the United States, providing oppor-tunities to participate in short-term mission projects such as construction, mercy ministries, vacation Bible schools, English as a second language instruc-tion, sports clinics and medical missions.

July 16 through 23, Culbert-son is headed to Reynosa for another brief mission trip in conjunction with Greenwood Presbyterian Church and sev-eral others from different states.

“When the Beales started the school for the deaf in Reynosa, there were 15 kids,” Culbert-son said. “The current building now has 45 students, ranging in age from about 4 to 17. The new school is slated to open in another part of town in Sep-tember.”

It’s anticipated 500 applicants may apply for 30 student slots available at the new school, Culbertson said.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are an estimated 250,000 deaf people in Mexico, with 130,000 of those being school-aged children. According to the 2000 census, WHO reported 17 percent of Mexicans living in that nation were deaf or heard with hearing aids.

A border town

Reynosa, the city where Isa-iah 55 conducts its missions, has an estimated 1 million inhabitants. The city is also considered very “transient” and heavily dependent on foreign-run factories to supply a labor source. Reynosa is the largest city in the border state of Tam-aulipas.

Reynosa is not a community immune to drug cartel vio-lence, Culbertson said, “but it’s not Juarez” either.

“God is sovereign,” Culb-ertson said. “He knows what’s gonna happen and when it’s gonna happen. It’s just a ques-tion of trust. My whole family went to Reynosa in February last year to meet the Beales, but we will be living in Texas. “You drive to Houston, take a left and keep driving until you hit the fence at the border. It’s 21 hours by car. In a way, it feels like cheating, being a foreign missionary while still living in the United States.”

More than 150 United States factories have moved into Reynosa, Culbertson said.

“People who live in Texas work in Mexico every day and people who live in Mexico work in Texas every day. It’s very fluid. My goal, in addition to introducing these kids to Christ, is to possibly work with some of these industries and help these kids get vocational training to do what they want to do, whether it’s graphic design, welding or photography.”

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The Culbertson family of Greenwood Presbyterian Church — Karen and Ryan, along with their two children, John Thomas and Ellie — is raising support for its missionary journey to a Mexican border town.

Emanuel, left, and Jaed, right, are among students attending Instituto Isaias 55, a school for the deaf in Reynosa, Mexico. According to literature from Isaiah 55 Deaf Ministries, deaf children in Mexico typically do not have access to language or education.


SECOND PLACESECOND PLACEThe HeraldDon Worthington

By Don [email protected]

It was not the first Bible printed in English.It was not the first Bible authorized by En-

glish royalty.But the King James Bible stands alone in its

impact over four centuries on believers andnonbelievers all over the world.

Gordon Campbell, author of “The Story ofthe King James Bible, 1611-2011,” wrote that fornonbelievers, “it is a repository of cultural val-ues, a great work of literature, a realization ofthe power and beauty of the English language.

“For believers, it is much more, because itrenders into English content that inspires.”

The King James Bible turns 400 years oldthis year, and the milestone has been markedby celebrations focusing on its literary, histor-ical and cultural influence.

The celebrations also have sparked religiousconversation about whether the King James Bi-ble is the inspired word of God, given to the

translators who labored for seven years beforefinishing their work.

Dr. Joel Hoffman, a former college professorand author, compares the King James versionto an ancient map.

“Those that navigate the Bi-b l e s o l e l y w i t h t h e400-year-old translation jour-ney in peril,” he said.

English has changed overthe years, Hoffman said, andmodern translators are betterable to understand and con-vey the ancient language ofthe Bible.

Local pastors Ron Roddy ofCornerstone Baptist Churchand Wayne Smith, formerly ofBlessed Hope Baptist Church,disagree.

The King James Bible isGod’s word, they say.

“The King James versionhas the word of God the fa-ther,” Smith said. “It is notsomething in the wind. It isreal.”

Roddy said some might read the King JamesBible out of preference, but he and others read it

DON WORTHINGTON - [email protected] Rev. Wayne Smith holds his King James Bible, looking over the words translated 400 years ago, as well as his own notes in themargins.

‘The monarch of books’After 400 years, theKing James Bible isstill many believers’translation of choice

The Bible on displayThe University of South Carolina is

displaying its collection of historicBibles at the Hollings SpecialCollection Library through August.

“Four Hundred Yearsof the KingsJames Bible”includes a folioprinting of theKing James dated1611 (photoinset); pagesfrom theCoverdale Bibledated 1533, thefirst complete Bible in English; a 1685edition of John Eliot’s Indian Bible, thefirst Bible printed in America; and acopy of the first King James Bibleprinted in America in 1782.

The exhibit also traces the influence ofthe King James Bible on literature,politics and culture.

The library is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Forinformation, call 803-777-3847.

Roddy

Smith

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By Don [email protected]

It was the slightest of twinges, a brief pain inhis back.

It was enough to alarm Dr. Kashyap Patel ofRock Hill. To be safe, he visited a friend whowas a cardiologist. He examined Patel and toldhim not to worry. But on the road to Charlotte, avoice told Patel to return to Piedmont MedicalCenter.

He immediately turned the car around.After arriving at Piedmont Medical Center,

his colleagues took him to the heart catheter-ization lab to run tests, expecting not to findanything. But Patel had suffered a mild heartattack, there were blockages and immediatetreatment was required.

The voice?“God,” Patel says in retrospect four years lat-

er.But at the time, Patel’s spirituality was an

eclectic mix of religions and experiences. Hisbeliefs were shaped by the Hindu, Buddhist,Muslim and Christian faiths and the teaching ofMohandas Gandhi.

The heart attack, and other crises in his fam-ily, made Patel ponder the frailty of life andmortality. How do people survive, Patel asked.

His thoughts immediately turned to a formerpatient, Anne Sanford.

Sanford, who was active in several Rock Hillcommunity organizations and at WestminsterPresbyterian Church, had been referred to Pa-tel, an oncologist, complaining of aches, pains,

a low-grade fever and red spots along her legs.The symptoms were the usual signs of a flu, butcould also be clues to something worse.

When Patel examined her blood, he found“large, immature and angry-looking cells.”Sanford not only had leukemia, but a very ag-gressive form of the disease, called ALM, oracute myeloid leukemia.

He paused before telling her, not knowinghow she would react.

After hearing the news, Sanford began pray-ing.

“Oh Lord, I thank you today for giving me

A doctor’s journey to faith

DON WORTHINGTON - [email protected] Dr. Kashyap Patel experienced crisis in his life, he turned to what he learned from former patient Anne Sanford. Sanford kept herChristian faith throughout her battle with leukemia. Patel wrote about the experience in his new book, "From Raindrops to an Ocean."

His book tells how a patient helped bring spiritual awakening

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“You are my life to me. I loveyou. I have such peace about

my future because I knowyou are in control. I rejoicein knowing that I am your

child whom you love.”

Anne Shelton writing to God in herjournal, Feb. 27, 2005

DON [email protected]

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As Denise Barrett picks upher baby girl, Abby Rose,a smile spreads on her

face. Then Abby Rose giggles.There’s not a trace of sadness

on either of their faces to showthat in the in the last sevenweeks Abby Rose nearly died ona hospital bed three times, orthat doctors do not know exactlywhy she still can’t walk or crawlor control her head movement allthe time — even at 21 months old.

Instead, Denise talks to herlittle girl. And Abby Rose re-sponds with, “Da, Da, Da.”

Denise smiles because she,her husband, Doug, and all threeof their girls are all home — to-gether in one place in Andersonafter more than a month of liv-ing in the Greenville hospital’spediatric unit.

She smiles because of all theprayers that have been whis-pered for her youngest child.

“It’s incredibly hum-bling to know thatthere are caring peo-ple who just wantyou to know thatthey are there … andthat they are pray-ing,” Barrett said.“We’ve heard from somany people who havesaid, ‘You don’t knowme, but I am praying forAbby Rose.’ ”

They are pray-ing for AbbyRose, becauseshe has congen-

ital myopathy, a group of muscledisorders that have slowed hermuscle development. Typically,a baby with a congenital myopa-thy will have difficulty breath-ing or feeding, and will havetrouble learning to turn over, situp and walk.

In her 21 months, Abby Rose hasbeen in the hospital five times,usually for dehydration, and hasundergone hundreds of tests asdoctors try to diagnose her specificillness. For the first time last week,Abby Rose was in her own crib.Her sisters, 12-year-old Emily and7-year-old Chloe, can come homenow and find their youngest sister,ready for a hug or to be held.

This is why Denise smiles.“If you get caught up inthe ‘woe is me’ aspect ofit, then you miss thebeauty that Abby Roseis,” said Denise, ateacher at the West

Market Early Child-hood Education Center.

She learned this whendoctors told her and

Doug that Abby Rosemight have Pompe

disease, a raredisorder that

disables theheart and

muscles.

Pompe disease is usually fatal forinfants when they are 6 monthsto 8 months old.

When doctors told the Bar-retts this news, Abby Rose was 5months old.

“I was panicking that in twomonths, she’d be gone,” Denisesaid. “When we learned that shedidn’t have Pompe disease, I justdecided that it didn’t matterwhat her diagnosis was. Istopped mourning her life andstarted living her life with her.”

Now, this family has evenstopped worrying about gettinga diagnosis for Abby Rose fromthe doctors.

They hold to other things in-stead.

Denise holds to her goals forAbby Rose. “I’d like to have herwalking by the time she is 5.”

Doug is happy that he’s closer tohome now, working for the Mit-subushi Power Plant in Savan-nah instead of working as an in-spector for the BP oil pipeline in

Alaska. If he needs to, he canmake it home in a matter of hours.

“I’m just glad she’s home,” hersister, Emily, says. “I missed get-ting to hear her babble and laugh.”

Denise is thankful for prayers,and for technology.

All through Abby Rose’s sev-en-week hospital stay, it wasfriends from church — boththeir home church, NewSpringChurch, and First PresbyterianChurch in Greenville — andFacebook that kept her hearthopeful. In those ways, Denisewas able to share her daughterand her family’s story.

In the “Pray for Abby Rose”group on Facebook, there are530 members.

Denise said she was amazed athow many people — most ofwhom are complete strangers —have contacted her through Face-book and told her that they arepraying for Abby Rose. Some noteshave come from Japan and Europe.

“In the first 24 hours of creat-ing the group, she had 400 mem-bers,” Denise said. “In her 21months, she’s affected more peo-ple than I’ll ever be able to.”

In praying for Abby Rose, thisgroup has lifted up her family.

In this virtual community,they’ve heard messages like,“Thinking of you and AbbyRose and praising God for hisgoodness in Abby Rose’sprogress. I continue to pray forher speedy recovery and youboth to be home soon!” and “Sohappy Abby Rose is doing well.She is still in our prayers.”

So for all of this, the Barrettslook at Abby Rose and theysmile.

Know someone or someplace with a story? The Storyteller is always looking for stories about the interesting places and people who make up this community. If you have an idea, call or e-mail Charmaine Smith-Miles at (864) 260-1260 or [email protected].

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Abby Rose Barrett, 21 months old, wears prescription “big girl” glasses while playing with her mother Denise. Abby Roseis stimulated by the plastic ball toy, a way the family helps her make strides to improve her muscles. She suffers from congenital myopathy.

Anderson family makes each day count while handling baby’s illness

Chloe Barrett, 7, left, holds her 21-month old sister, Abby Rose,while her mother Denise finishes feeding her through her stomach.

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Findingstrengthin thepresent

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BY CHARMAINE SMITH-MILESIndependent Mail

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PLEASANT GROVE, ALA.

Jim Mosley speaks in a soft,measured voice when hetalks about the tornado that

ripped his family’s home fromits foundation in April.

Mosley, a 61-year-old retiredsteel mill worker, felt a peace inhis heart that kept him calm asdark funnel clouds came over ahill behind his house, kickingup trees and homes.

“It was just a loud roar,” Mosleysaid. “It was a sound of its own.”

Everything became dark then.The power went out. The televi-sion was silent. All he could dowas listen to the storm rage acrosshis neighborhood. Somehow he re-membered hearing that a doorframe was a safe place to huddle.

“I wanted to put as muchhouse between me and it as pos-sible,” Mosley said. “At onepoint, I was pretty nervous that Iwas going to be sucked out.

“But then, it was like God’shand was on my soul giving mepeace. I crawled out of the housewith a smile from ear to ear. Iwas just glad to be alive.”

What Mosley didn’t know wasthat strangers in a city two statesaway were not at peace as news ofthat storm’s wrath emerged.Steve Sanders, a member ofClemson Presbyterian Church,felt restless as he saw picture afterpicture of homes scattered to bits.

The tornado hit April 27, and inJuly, Sanders’ daughter, who is anarchitect, was standing in front ofthe congregation at the Clemsonchurch asking for help. She had anewspaper clipping that Mosleyhad found of a house plan hismother saved from 1998. A monthlater, the first shovels of dirt wereturned to make room for the foun-dation of that dream house.

“For some reason, this stormbothered me,” Sanders said. “Ifelt like we needed to get in-volved and do something. Buthow can one church have mucheffect on all of that? We realizedwe needed to find one personwhere we would totally rebuildtheir house. This way, we knowwe are affecting that one life.”

A crumbled mess It only took the tornado a few

seconds, Mosley estimates, to teardown his family’s home, whichhad stood on the edge of his hillyneighborhood since 1925.

Mosley’s grandfather built the1,300-square-foot, white wood-frame house after fire claimedhis first home in Pleasant Grove.

From their front porch, theMosleys watched Pleasant Grovechange from a coal mining townto a steel mill city and then to asuburb of Birmingham.

On the night of April 27, thewinds ripped at its wooden walls.The house shifted off its founda-tion, and the floor where Mosleystood dropped about four feet.Then the front porch kicked upand the roof collapsed. “It was al-most like a seesaw,” Mosley said.

When the storm passed, Mosleyfound a crack near the front of the

house and stepped out onto whatwas left of the porch.

It was all a crumbled mess, withwood sticking out in every direc-tion. Bits of glass and wood hadhit Mosley during the tornado.

“There was an area about twofeet wide that I crawled out of infront of the house,” he said.“When I crawled out, I was a lit-tle bloody, but I wasn’t hurt.”

As the wind died down, peo-ple emerged from their homesand began checking on each oth-er, Mosley said.

Mosley took off on foot for help.“I went to a fire department and arecovery station,” he said. “Butthey were swamped with the seri-ous cases. Mine was minor.”

So he walked to his aunt anduncle’s house on the other side oftown. Three hours after the torna-do came roaring over the hill nearhis house, Mosley was standing attheir front door, explaining to his

uncle what had happened.“He thought at first I had been in

a wreck,”Mosley said.“They didn’tknow we’d been hit by a tornado.”

What had started out as an av-erage, blue-sky day ended withthe deaths of 297 people in sixstates and the destruction ofmore than 20,000 homes andbusinesses in Alabama.

Answering a prayer, building a dream

The news of all of those losthomes tore at Steve Sanders’ heart.

A week after the storm,Sanders called Covenant Presby-terian Church in Birmingham.

“At that point, they were justtrying to survive,” Sanders said.“They were still just clearingtrees off houses.”

Sanders was referred to thepastor at Pleasant Grove Presby-terian Church, about 20 minutessouthwest of Birmingham, a

couple of weeks later.Word began to trickle through

the congregation that people fromClemson were interested in helpingsomeone rebuild after the storm.One of the Mosley family membersis a member of the Pleasant GrovePresbyterian Church.She men-tioned Jim Mosley to the pastor.

“It wasn’t long after the stormthat I heard what the Clemsonchurch was doing,” Mosley said.“Them getting my name at allwas really amazing.”

What made Mosley’s storycompelling was that he had notbeen able to get homeowner’s in-surance because the house wasbuilt before modern buildingcodes were enforced.

Sanders worked with GordenThomason, a coordinator for someof the disaster relief in PleasantGrove. He put the Sanders familyin touch with Mosley.

“He was sitting there in thathouse until the Lord came. Well,the Lord came, but he left Mr.Mosley and took his house,”Thomason said. “We had to dosomething about that.”

By the first week of June,Sanders, his wife, Sharon, andtheir daughter, architect Sara New-ton, were on their way to Alabama.

The family asked Mosley tothink about what he would want

his future home to look like.Mosley thought immediately

of the clipping his mother hadsaved 13 years earlier. It was ahouse plan published in theBirmingham News’ home andgarden section April 17, 1998.

“She just fell in love with it,”Mosley said.

After the storm, Mosley foundthe plan folded in half, lying ontop of a pile of papers in a box. Itwas one of the few things he wasable to salvage.

The Clemson PresbyterianChurch didn’t have a single pen-ny devoted to housing construc-tion when the members decidedto build Jim Mosley a new house.

“This was his mother’s dreamhome,” Sanders said. “When heshowed me that, how could I sayno? So far, anything we have askedfor — so far — we’ve gotten.”

‘Watching God at work’On a recent day, a retired elec-

trician, a maintenance supervi-sor and a construction workerstood in the newly framedrooms of Mosley’s new home.

Sweat dripped off their backsas they climbed ladders andpulled wiring along wooden

Helping hands, a new homeGroup from Clemson reaches out to Alabama man who lost it all in tornado


Jim Mosley stands near the place where construction of a home for him is scheduled to be done in December in Pleasant Grove,Ala. A tornado destroyed his home April 27.

LENDING A HAND

Visit www.gobigwithgod.com orcall (864) 654-4772 for more infor-mation about the Clemson Presby-terian Church mission involving Al-abama and how to help.

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Visit www.independentmail.com toview a photos and two videos thatdetail Jim Mosley’s story and how hishometown of Pleasant Grove, Ala., isrebuilding after deadly tornadoes.

Dick Wolthuis, a member Clemson Presbyterian Church, drillsa hole for electrical wiring.

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It’s pages are torn and hard to read

Joyce Ragsdale Gambrell’s family has a large,ornate family Bible.

At one time, it was the centerpiece for a tableor a dresser. But these days she can barely touchits pages without a piece of one of them break-ing and falling to the table like a leaf.

It was printed in 1885 by the Historical Pub-lishing Co. out of St. Louis, Mo., and Philadel-phia, Pa., and a note written in elaborate, curvy

BY CHARMAINE SMITH-MILESIndependent Mail

milesca@/260.1260

The small, scribbled notes on thepages of Paul Talmadge’s great-grandmother’s Bible are as treas-ured now as the Scripture printedon the pages.

Today, that Bible rests on a book-shelf in a study in Talmadge’s An-derson home. It has survived 147years and at least four generationsof inspection and reading. Hisgreat-grandmother’s handwritingis still legible within its pages.

Most of the notes record a birthor a death.

“My darling dear one died on18th day of June 1879,” is writtenon the blank page between the OldTestament and New Testament.

Then another reads: “My pre-cious dear boy died on June 10,1895.” In the back of the book, shewrote “the Holy Bible is the best.”

“She never completed the sen-tence,” Talmadge said. “Her hopewas for eternity in Heaven. ThisBible was a source of strength andhelp to her when she thoughtabout friends and family who haddied.”

Stories like Talmadge’s are notuncommon when it comes to talk-ing about old family Bibles, whichwere often used as a place torecord births and deaths.

And in the 18th and the 19th cen-turies, nearly all of those familyBibles were King James Bibles.

The King James Bible was com-missioned by James I of Englandin 1603 and in November 1611, thetext was available for sale. It wasnot the first English translation ofthe Bible, but it would become

widely popular with the coloniza-tion of America.

The Puritans brought the KingJames Bible with them when theysailed for America, according tothe King James Bible Trust.

British sailors also took it withthem to India and the colonies ofAfrica, Australia and NewZealand, and the text is one of themain reasons why English is aworld language, according to bib-lical scholars.

“While many may mistakenlythink the now 400-year-old KingJames Bible is outdated, for me itslasting effect has been on the livesof those who have for centuriesread its truth and discovered life-changing message,” said LamarVest, president of the AmericanBible Society.

It was the King James Bible thatmade Scripture more accessible toeveryone, and it also became theplace where people would pre-serve their family histories acrossthe ages.

“It’s almost better than court-house records for anything that’smore than 100 years old,” said RoyCollier, a historian in Toccoa, Ga.“You used to be able to apply forSocial Security benefits if you hadyour family Bible. That was asgood as a birth certificate.”

In honor of the King JamesBible’s 400th anniversary, severalpeople in Anderson and northeastGeorgia opened up their 18th- and19th-century family Bibles and re-vealed the history held withintheir pages, and talked about thebeloved book they’ve handed downfrom one family member to an-other for generations.

These are their stories.

Thy Word for 400 years

Residents share 18th- and 19th-century King James Bibles NATHAN GRAYIndependent Mail

A color etchingdepicts the story

of the Holy ofHolies in the

King James ver-sion of the Holy

Bible that hasbeen in Joyce

Ragsdale Gram-brel’s family

since 1887.

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Roy Collier of Toccoa, Ga., flips through his family King James Bible, printed in 1735.

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handwriting lets Gambrellknow that her great-great-grandfather F.I.Bell gave theBible to his brother,E.V.Bell,on Jan. 1, 1887.

These days, the Bible isusually kept out of sight,protected in a cloth coverand a plastic box.Gambrell’sdaughter is its keeper, andshe has a place in her closetwhere it stays.

“We had to make a clothcover for it,” Gambrell said.“It was falling apart.”

Through the years, Gam-brell has carefully turned itspages to glean informationabout her family’s early his-tory. In the middle of thebook, which is about fourinches thick, are severalpages where the family’sbirths, marriages anddeaths are recorded.

It is information that shehas since recopied into herown, newer version of theKing James Bible.

The dates on the familytree go back to 1873, to whenF.I.Bell of Due West marriedE.V.Branyon of Honea Path.

But this Bible offers moreto treat the eye as well.Thereare pages and pages of full-color illustrations, tellingthe stories of Jesus in al-most photographic detail.ABible dictionary, history ofthe prophets and stories ofthe early Christian churchare all included.

Some of those images stillbring the Scriptures to lifefor Gambrell, even thoughtime has dulled the ink onthose pictures She turns to

“I grew up in this 100-year-old family home in Selma,Ala.,where four generationsof my family lived andwhere my great-grand-mother, Susan AdelineEtheridge Davis, spent herlast years,” Talmadge said.“There were always lots ofbooks in the house, and thisBible was among them.

“When we sold the house,I saved some of the familyheirlooms, including thisBible.”

It holds a place on a shelfin his study among otherbooks, many that detail hisfamily’s history.

In this personal-sized,leather-bound Bible, he isgiven more than dates ofbirths and deaths.With it,healso has a sense of howstrong his ancestors were.

There are handwrittennotes and obituaries thatshe clipped and pasted in itspages. All those things tellhim that his great-grand-mother, who was born inGeorgetown, S.C., eventual-ly moved with her family toMobile, Ala., that she losther father when she wasvery young and that shewent on to marry a man whowas a soldier in the Confed-erate Army.

“She fell in love with thistall and handsome officer,”Talmadge said.

His name was John Wash-ington Davis, and he wouldgo on to become a colonel inthe Confederacy.

He also knows that sever-al of the years between 1876and 1895 were tough for hisgreat grandmother

King James Bibles tend to be family legacies

NATHAN GRAY Independent Mail

Joyce Ragsdale Grambrell shows the King James Biblethat has been in her family since 1887.

FROM PAGE 1CTHAT OLD FAMILY BIBLE

The following is a list ofthe people who called the In-dependent Mail about their19th- and early 20th-centuryKing James Bibles. EachBible has taken the place ofvalued heirloom.

They are listed by the yearthey were printed.

■ 1804, owned by MargaretCrowe of Belton, Bible be-longed to her grandmotherand was passed to her whenher father died ■ 1891, owned by MirandaErwin of Anderson, was givento her by her mother eightyears ago■ 1898, owned by WendyBurgess of Pelzer, her great-uncle gave it to her threemonths ago ■ 1901, owned by Barbara Smith of Hartwell, Ga., mothergave her the Bible when she married in 1952■ 1901, owned by Richard Harder of Anderson, passeddown to him from his mother in 1975

A BIBLE SURVEY

A survey commissioned by American Bible Society to co-incide with the 400th anniversary of the King James Biblethis year found that:

■ Two out of five Americans mistakenly believe the KingJames Bible is the first English Bible, the only Bible trans-lated by a king or the first Protestant Bible. ■ 17 percent of those surveyed believe the King JamesBible was first released shortly after the time of Christ.■ 45 percent of all Bible readers use the King James Bible;10 percent of all Bible readers say they read the New Inter-national Version ■ 57 percent of adults who own a Bible own a King JamesBible ■ 71 percent of Americans do not know that the King JamesBible is the most-printed Bible in history


Paul Talmadge discoveredhandwritten notes, news-paper clippings and poemsinside his great-grand-mothers’ Bible.

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All the way backS

ometimes life throws you a curveball.

For Rhett Nelson and his family, it came at 4:50 p.m. on May 13 last year.

Nelson and his mother, Rosemary, were in a serious car wreck while on their way to Spartanburg to pick up a tuxedo for the Woodruff High School prom.

Rhett, a sophomore infi eld-er/pitcher for the Wolverines, was driving north on Highway 221 when he lost control of his 2002 Ford Sport Trac and overcorrected, which caused the vehicle to fl ip an estimated four and a half times and end

up in the southbound lane.Rhett suffered a life-threat-

ening brain injury and had to be airlifted to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center. Rosemary suffered several broken bones.

The immediate hours fol-lowing the wreck, which seemed like a lifetime to Rhett’s father and Rosemary’s husband, Rob, were touch and go.

“It was an extremely violent accident,” Rob said. “We think he was compressed in the truck. My wife’s side had more room for her to bump around, and she had a number of bro-

ken bones. Rhett had a trau-matic brain injury from the tremendous impact. He took a direct hit, and his head was pinned in the window of the frame against the pavement.”

Rob went on to say that paramedics arrived on site and quickly got his son to the inten-sive care unit.

“They were trying to keep him alive and had to life-fl ight him to the hospital,” he said. “The report was a severe brain injury, and they were monitor-ing his activity and said fl uid was building up in his lungs.”

Woodruff ’s Rhett Nelson

can’t remember what happened to him almost

a year ago, but he’s come

a long way since then

A WOLVERINE COMEBACK STORY

By KEVIN MELTON / [email protected]

ALEX C. HICKS JR./[email protected]

Woodruff baseball player Rhett Nelson has recovered from a serious brain injury he suffered 10 months ago in a car wreck.

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SECOND PLACESECOND PLACEThe Post and CourierPhil BowmanHigh School Football

BY PHILIP M. [email protected]

GOOSE CREEK — Ray Stackley has a state championship in his back pocket, a football field named in his honor and is one of only two Berkeley County football coaches to be inducted into the South Carolina Athletic Coaches Hall of Fame.

The 60-year-old Stackley began his 27th season at the helm of the Stratford High School football team on Friday, and he’s not

planning to rest on his laurels as he attempts to lead the Knights back to the pinnacle of high school football.

“I’ ll slow down when I retire,” Stackley

said. “You have to have the energy and passion to do this job, and I’m still energetic and pa s s ionate . To be hone st w it h you , being around young people keeps me feeling young. I haven’t changed my coaching philosophy one bit over the years.

“The No. 1 thing is to help them become better citizens. Football is secondary.”

Stackley, who has had 24 players go on to coach football, has compiled a 240-88 career

Contact: Malcolm DeWitt, [email protected]

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to 5-year deal, 4C

PHOTO BY RUSS PACE

Tolu Akindele (bottom left), Rod Harland (11) and The Citadel’s defense seemed to spend more time on the field than the Bulldogs’ offense last season.

Tigers trying to find defensive pressureClemson’s Steele is going to get creative with new schemesBY TRAVIS [email protected]

CLEMSON — Even during the football coaching staff ’s short vacation window in the s u m m e r, K e v i n S t e e l e cannot get his mind off work. This summer, the Clemson defensive coordinator could not stop one recurring question from entering his mind: how will he create a pass rush this fall?

After losing six starting

defensive players — three of whom were selected in the second round of the NFL draft — a restless Steele spent much of his summer watch-ing video of NFL defenses searching for creative pass rush solutions. He watched college programs successful at defending spread offenses, notably TCU’s 4-2-5 align-ment.

Last season, the Tigers had the talent to simply line up and beat opposing offensive linemen by only rushing their front four defenders. This season, Steele will need to rely more on scheme to create pressure.

Numbers lied abouCitadel’s defenseDogs defense forced to pick up slack from offense last seasonBY JEFF [email protected]

By the numbers, The Citadel’s defense was a fairly average Southern Conference unit last season. The Bulldogs ranked anywhere from third to ninth in major statistical categories in the nine-team league.

But numbers don’t tell the story where the 2010 defense was concerned, says Citadel coach Kevin Higgins.

“Those guys played a better than any of us gave thcredit for,” said Higgins, wh2011 team returns eight starfrom last year’s unit.

The reason — the Bulldodefense often played wits back to the wall last yethanks to the 44 fumbles a32 turnovers committed byoffense during last year’s campaign.

“Our offense played so poothat it put the defense in bsituations time after timsaid Higgins, who has a 27record in six seasons at TCitadel. “I think back to Georgia Southern game l

Charleston Battery keeper

Andrew Dykstra is

among the USL Pro Division leaders with six

shutouts.

Dykstra making a name for himselCharleston keeper stays optimistic about futureBY ANDREW [email protected]

Two months before the start of the regular season, Andrew Dykstra was a goalkeeper without a team. He called his old college goalie coach

Kickers soccer,” Dykstra said. “Rimond was near where I grew up ait would have been my first choicRonnie wasn’t there already.”

Pascale suggested Dykstra taklook at the Charleston Battery.

“Ronnie told me that if I didn’t swith Richmond, that Charleston wgreat place to play with great faciliand great fans,” Dykstra said.

The problem was that Charles

MEAC PollTeam (first-place votes) PointsS.C. State (6) 468

Bethune-Cookman (8) 454

Florida A&M (5) 420

Hampton (1) 321

Norfolk State (1) 274

Morgan State 250

North Carolina Central 162

Delaware State 158

North Carolina A&T 128

Howard 96

Savannah State (1) 63

Today’s Game

WHO: Rochester Rhinos (10-6-3, 33

points) at Charleston Battery (9-6-5,

32 points)

WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Blackbaud Stadium

S.C. State picked to win MEACEight Bulldogs earn conference accoladesStaff report

NORFOLK, VA. — Despite losing 15 seniors — 11 of them starters — from last season’s 9-3 squad, South Carolina State was picked to win the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title by a poll of coaches and sports information directors, the league announced Friday at its annual press luncheon at the Waterside Marriott.

The predictions marked the fourth consecutive year coach Buddy Pough’s

team has been picked to win the title.

S.C. State cap-t u r e d M E AC crowns outright i n 2 0 0 8 a n d 2009 and shared last year’s cham-pionship with Bethune-Cook-man and Florida A&M.

Bethune-Cookman (8) had more first-place votes than S.C. State (6). Florida A&M was third, followed by Hampton and Norfolk State.

Pough expressed surprise that his team received the voters’ top billing again.

“Picked first, that’s news to me,” said Pough. “We lost some great talent,including a quarterback that was a starter for three years. We also lost a lot of parts around him (leading running back, three starting offen-sive linemen and a wide receiver). So, you can see, we have a little bit of a question mark on offense.

“In fact, I feel we have a lot of work to do on offense. But on the same note, if the offense can make some strides

WADE SPEES/STAFF

Stratford High football coach Ray Stackley (right) is working to bring the Knights back to prominence with players such as 6-4 sophomore quarterback Jacob Park (center), who threw for 1,407 yards and 12 touchdowns last season.

Ready to reloadStackley aiming to get Stratford back into state title contention

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FIRST PLACEFIRST PLACEThe StateNeil WhiteBaseball

WWW.THESTATE.COM ● THE STATE, COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA ● WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2011 C3COLLEGE WORLD SERIES

OMAHA, Neb. — The SouthCarolina baseball programetched its name into the Col-lege World Series historybook Tuesday night.

With a 5-2 victory overFlorida behind the stellarpitching of junior left-handerMichael Roth, the Game-cocks won their second con-secutive NCAA champion-ship, becoming the sixth pro-gram to repeat along withTexas, Southern Cal, Stan-ford, LSU and Oregon State.

The Gamecocks openedTD Ameritrade Park, the$131 million, downtown ball-park on the Missouri River,the same way they closed Ro-senblatt Stadium, the histor-ic “Diamond on the Hill” thathoused 61 College World Se-ries: with a sweep of the best-of-three championship fi-nals.

The Gamecocks (55-14) al-so won their record 16th con-secutive NCAA tournamentgame, breaking the recordset by Texas in 1983-84. Andby winning their 11th consec-utive CWS game, they brokethe record set by SouthernCal in 1972-74 and matchedby LSU in 1996-98.

With a 10-0 run in theNCAA tournament, USC be-came the first team to go un-beaten in the postseasonsince Miami went 9-0 in 2001.The last team to go unbeatenin the CWS was Oregon Statein 2007.

Roth (14-3) turned in aworkhorse effort of 127pitches and held the Gators(53-19) at bay by allowingfive hits and two walks whilestriking out six in 72⁄3 innings.He finished with a 1.06 ERAin 145 innings this season.

Sophomore closer MattPrice recorded the final fourouts without allowing a base

er led the 10-hit attack withtwo hits each. Mooney’s dou-ble started a three-run rallyin the third, and he added asolo home run, USC’s first inthe CWS, in the sixth. The de-fense sparkled again with anerrorless game.

USC got on the scoreboardfirst with three runs in thethird inning off Florida fresh-man right-hander KarstenWhitson (8-1). Mooney ledoff with a double into the left-field corner and moved tothird on a sacrifice bunt. Af-ter a walk to Evan Marzilli,Mooney scored on ScottWingo’s sacrifice fly to right.

Whitson continued to la-bor by walking Bradley, andthen shortstop Nolan Fonta-na misplayed Walker’s chop-per and Marzilli scored. Bra-dy Thomas capped the in-ning with an infield singlethat scored Bradley to give

ing out of first-and-secondsituations with no outs inboth the fifth and sixth in-nings.

Mooney’s homer off re-liever Tommy Toledo gaveUSC a 4-1 lead.

Zunino doubled off Roth inthe eighth and came aroundto score on Josh Adams’ two-out single off reliever JohnTaylor to cut the lead to 4-2.But Price came on to strikeout pinch-hitter TylerThompson to end the threat.

Wingo capped USC’s scor-ing in the eighth with an RBIsingle that scored Robert Be-ary, who led off the inningwith a single.

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South Carolina closer Matt Price, front, and catcher Robert Beary celebrate after South Carolina defeated Florida 5-2 in Game 2 of the College World Series to win thetitle in Omaha, Neb., Tuesday.

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Gamecocks go undefeated inNCAA tourney to repeat as champs

By NEIL [email protected]

USC's Michael Roth delivers a pitch Tuesday.NATI HARNIK/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

REPEAT CHAMPSUSC is the sixth program torepeat as national champ.

Texas 1949-50Southern Cal 1970-74Stanford 1987-88LSU 1996-97Oregon State 2006-07USC 2010-11

OMAHA, Neb. —

CALL THEM THE“Cardiac Kids,” the“Battlin’ Boys,” or

“Destiny’s Darlings.”Whatever you want to callthis South Carolina base-ball team, you now mustrefer to them as the na-tional champions.

The College World Se-ries crown a year ago wasone for the ages, one thatbelonged to the state ofSouth Carolina, which sodesperately needed goodnews in the wake of aplethora of scandals, andto a USC athletics pro-gram that had never be-fore won an NCAA cham-pionship in a major sport.

It also served as a trib-ute to Bobby Richardsonand June Raines, the twoUSC coaches who built thebaseball program intonational prominence, aswell as every player alongthe way who contributedto putting the Gamecockson the national collegebaseball map.

The Gamecocks cap-tured the 2010 title byclosing the doors on ven-erable old Rosenblatt Sta-dium, then returned tousher in new TD Ame-ritrade Park with anotherchampionship.

This one belongs to RayTanner and a team of vet-eran players — from sec-ond baseman Scott Wingoto third baseman AdrianMorales to catcher BradyThomas to center fielderJackie Bradley — whosimply knew how to win.Perhaps no coach in thelong history of USC athlet-ics better molded a groupof players into a solid teamwith an unbending will towin.

as a symbol of the fight inthe Gamecocks.

This season, no symbolwas needed. The rallyingcry, the operative word,the theme throughout thisteam’s championship runwas “battle.” It battledthrough injuries to anoutfield that proved to bemakeshift during most ofthe late season and intothe postseason.

This team battled toscore enough runs fromgame to game as its pitch-ing staff and defenseclamped down on oppo-nents like no USC teamsince the wood-bat era.

It battled to win closegame after close gamethroughout the postsea-son. It did so by takingopposing pitchers deepinto counts, forcing themto run out of steam in themiddle innings. ThenUSC, time and again,turned the late game overto the bullpen tandem ofJohn Taylor and MattPrice.

Few teams could matchUSC’s side-winder (Tay-lor) and power arm (Price)in the late innings. That’salso when the Gamecocksbegan to wave their magicwand, beginning with a2-1 victory against GeorgiaSouthern to open theNCAA tournament.

Holding to that one-runlead in the top of the ninthinning, Price stood tall onthe mound as VictorR h th ti l h

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Then USC opened thefinals series with an11-inning win againstFlorida that featured abases-loaded, no-out es-cape act and the heroics ofChristian Walker, who notonly played with a frac-tured wrist but singled,stole second and scoredthe winning run.

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At bat, USC took ad-vantage of a crucial Flori-da error to score two un-earned runs in the thirdinning, then got its onlyhome run of the CollegeWorld Series from themost unlikely of sources,shortstop Peter Mooney.

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SECOND PLACESECOND PLACEThe Post and CourierTony Brown

BY JOHN ROGERSAssociated Press

LOS ANGELES — They may fall off the pop charts, some might even lose the muse. But these days old rock stars need not worry about fading away, not when there’s a college classroom nearby.

Rock’s gangster of love himself, Steve Miller, created some buzz recently when he became an artist-in-residence at the prestigious University of Southern California’s Thorn-ton School of Music. But it turns out the guy who famous-ly proclaimed, “I’m a joker, I’m a smoker, I’m a midnight toker” wasn’t nearly the first guitar-slinger to move from the stage to the classroom.

Mark Volman, who co-founded the Turtles and later played with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, runs the entertainment stud-ies department at Nashville’s Belmont University these days when he isn’t out on the road singing “Happy Together.” Lamont Dozier, one third of the legendary songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland, which created hits for everyone from Phil Collins to the Supremes, lectures on his craft at the University of Southern Cali-fornia. Around the country, everyone from punk rockers to doo-wop harmonizers are holding down teaching posi-tions at big-name universities.

“It brings the subject mat-ter to life for the students

in a way that a professor, no matter how well intentioned, just can’t do,” Chris Samp-son, dean of the University of Southern California’s music school, said of turning the classroom over to people such as Miller. “It makes all the learning go beyond just theory.”

Indeed, sometimes the learn-ing even goes beyond music — way beyond music — though the musicians will tell you there’s still a connection.

Greg Graffin, who has a Ph.D. in science, for example, has taught evolution and pa-leontology at UCLA in recent years when he wasn’t on the road with the seminal punk rock band Bad Religion.

“I know it sounds crazy, but from my perspective the goal is the same,” he said of playing music and teaching science. “The thing about the band is we’ve always been about asking questions and provoking people to think. We never maintain that we have the answers, and that’s very consistent with a scien-tific pursuit.”

Meanwhile, Rob Leonard, whose over-the-top version of “Teen Angel” with Sha Na Na at Woodstock can still be found on YouTube, runs the forensic linguistics depart-ment at New York’s Hofstra University. He reunited with the group last year for a con-cert at Hofstra marking the university’s 75th year.

“I like to say I’m one of the very few people in the world

who have worked with the FBI and the Grateful Dead,” said Leonard, who has trained FBI agents in how to analyze language for clues in solving crimes.

The musician, who also has a Ph.D., said he really got in-terested in linguistics after he asked his record label where all the money from one of Sha Na Na’s tours had gone — because it hadn’t gone to the group.

“They said, ‘Read the con-tract.’ ”

That’s the message Volman, who began teaching full-time 14 years ago, said he tries to drive home to starry-eyed students every school year. There’s more to succeeding in the music business, he said, than just being a great musician.

“People come in with this television idea that everybody is going to be the next Carrie Underwood,” he said. “They don’t understand how many nights you’re not going to get paid what they said you would and how many nights you’re not going to have a room to sleep in because the promoter didn’t get it in the rider you

signed.” And for those who may

think the music business has evolved too much in recent years for a ’60s- or ’70s-era pop star to have any relevant advice for students, Volman said “Happy Together” was downloaded approximately 90,000 times last year.

“And I make 79 cents out of the 99-cent download,” he told the students in his music business class. “It’s a lot differ-ent than the artist who doesn’t own his own music getting 9 cents. I tell them that and they say, ‘I want to own my own music, too.’ ”

Music publishing also is one of the areas Miller, who lectures at the University of Southern California part-time as an adjunct professor be-cause of music commitments, has focused on during his time there.

Volman, although he teach-es and runs his department, also still finds time to go out on the road about 50 times a year with the Turtles. It’s something that gives him sto-ries to tell the students, as well as ideas for projects to assign involving booking tours.

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Jordan Crabb of Summerville, 10, checks a sock donation box at the Dorchester Road Chick-fil-A on Monday.

Warming hearts 10 toes at a time

BY DAVE [email protected]

SUMMERVILLE — Jordan Crabb, a third-grader at the time, was volunteering at a Christmas festival for the needy in Hampton Park last year, helping children with the jump castle, when she noticed that many of them weren’t wearing socks under their shoes.

“When I put their shoes back on, I was so sad to feel their cold little feet,” she said later.

Jordan, who is 10 now, is in the fourth grade at Fort Dorchester Elementary School. Her parents are Shelley and James Gordon.

Jordan didn’t think much more about it until months later, when a man gave her $20 after hearing her sing a solo in her church, the Church of the Nazarene in West Ashley. She felt she should pass on the blessing, remembered the kids at Hampton Park, and decided to use the money to buy five packages of socks for needy children.

That was the start of

Warm Feet Happy Hearts, a mission she started in September to collect socks for needy children. The re-sponse was much more than she expected.

She gave out 3,640 pairs of socks Saturday at the Con-voy of Hope on the East Side but ran out before the event was over. She and her mother

set up several drop-off boxes so she can continue to give out socks to needy children through other charities.

“We told her we would help her, but she’s always been the driving force behind this,” her mother said.

Reach Dave Munday at 937-5553.

To donate

Donations to Warm Feet Happy Hearts should be new socks in their packages.

Following are drop-off sites:THROUGH DEC. 24:

Chick-fil-A on Dorchester Road near Ashley Phosphate Road

Zaxby’s on Dorchester Road near Ashley Phosphate, University Boulevard near Charleston Southern University and Shelby Ray Court off the Glenn McConnell Parkway in West AshleyJAN. 8 AND 22: Oakbrook Wal-Mart ONGOING:

Park Circle Recreation CenterNorthwoods Recreation Center on Greenridge

RoadMor Beauty (behind Walgreens at Ashley

Phosphate and Dorchester roads)ON THE WEB: Check www.warmfeethappyhearts.org for updates.

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BY DENEEN BROWNThe Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Peace, love and soooooooul spilled out of a white tent on the Mall as a crowd boogied down a massive “Soul Train” line. The event celebrating a do-nation of artifacts from the popular 1970s-era TV show to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Ameri-can History and Culture had, appropriately, turned into a dance party.

A man in brown dress socks and white Converse shoes danced wildly next to a prim woman in a platinum sheath. Nearby, a woman dressed straight out of the iconic television program, in hot pants and platform shoes, grooved to the old-school music pump-ing through the speakers. Those in the multiracial crowd laughed and threw

their hands in the air as they danced the Bump, the Loose Booty, the Robot and the Funky Chicken.

To help celebrate its 40th anniversary, “Soul Train” — which began airing nation-ally in 1971 and became one of the longest-running na-tionally syndicated programs in TV history — donated five iconic props Thursday night for the Smithsonian muse-um’s exhibitions “Musical Crossroads,” “Black Popular Culture” and “Make a Way out of No Way.” The museum is set to be completed on the Mall in 2015.

The items that were donated: “Applause” signs, the 10-foot-wide neon “Soul Train” sign, the neon “Soul Train Awards” sign, silver African heads from the awards program, and the Scramble Board, on which dancers unscrambled word puzzles quickly then broke out in dance.

Donation of ‘Soul Train’ artifacts to celebrate 40th anniversary of show prompts party

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Garrett Chisolm was among the Gamecock players who carried coach Steve Spurrier off the field to celebrate South Carolina’s 36-14 victory over Florida on Nov. 13.

Son also rises

BY GENE [email protected]

All the sadness and death in Garrett Chisolm’s life gave way to pure joy on a sweet Saturday night. The same senior offensive lineman from Charleston who lost both his parents to cancer within the previous 10 months was carrying

Steve Spurrier across the field after South Carolina’s unprecedented victory at Florida in November.

“It was a great feeling,” Chisolm said of the 36-14 victory that se-cured the Gamecocks’ first SEC East football title.

“I had never been part of a win-ning football program, and to be part of a division winner in one

of the best conferences and beat Florida on their home turf was un-believable. Picking Coach Spurrier up was like icing on the cake. You could see him, he was smiling. And when we got in the locker room, he was really, really happy. I love when the man smiles.”

USC football star Garrett Chisolm has overcomeunspeakable tragedy to make his late parents proud

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Be wary of bytes from some Chinese ApplesBY LOUISE WATTAssociated Press

BEIJING — It looks almost exactly like a sleek Apple store. Sales as-sistants in blue T-shirts with the company’s logo chat with customers. Signs advertising the iPad 2 hang on the white walls.

Outside, the famous logo sits next to the words “Apple Store,” one of the few clues that the whole thing is a fake.

China, long known for produc-ing counterfeit consumer gadgets, software and brand name clothing, has reached a new piracy milestone — fake Apple stores.

An American who lives in Kunming in southern Yunnan province said Thursday that she and her husband stumbled on three shops masquerad-ing as bona fide Apple stores in the city a few days ago. She took photos and posted them on her BirdAbroad blog.

The 27-year-old blogger, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the

setup of the stores was so convincing that the employees themselves seemed to believe they worked for Apple.

“It had the classic Apple store wind-ing staircase and weird upstairs sit-ting area. The employees were even wearing those blue T-shirts with the chunky Apple name tags around their necks,” she wrote on her blog.

“But some things were just not right: the stairs were poorly made. The walls hadn’t been painted properly. Apple never writes ‘Apple Store’ on its signs — it just puts up the glowing, iconic fruit.”

A worker at one of the fake Apple stores in Kunming, which most of the photos of the BirdAbroad blog show, told The Associated Press that it is an “Apple store” before hanging up.

The three stores are not among the authorized resellers listed on Apple’s website. The maker of the iPhone and other hit gadgets has four company stores in China — two in Beijing and

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After 55 years, Barbara Gray of James Island has decided to kiss and tell. Gray, 75, is the mystery woman in the famous 1956 “The Kiss” photo with Elvis Presley. The photo was taken in Richmond, after Gray had met Presley in Charleston.

The King and I

BY STEPHANIE [email protected]

Yes, she kissed him.Then she said goodbye to a young man on the

cusp of becoming The King.For her, that day in 1956 with Elvis Presley

was a lark, but there were no sparks.And yes, she knew a photographer was taking

pictures, but she didn’t think too much about him, didn’t even tell him her name.

It was not until her friend Pat Boone called and asked her what she was doing in the National Enquirer with his rival, Elvis Presley. Then she realized she was the mysterious blonde in one of the sexiest photos in rock ’n’ roll.

Even then, she didn’t think it was important

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It is revealed: James Island’s Barbara Graywas the woman kissing Elvis in 1956

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Back for seconds Hungry Gamecocks returning to Omaha to defend national championship

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Carolina in all its prime

COLUMBIA — The University of South Carolina is constantly building new

stuff and consistently raising its academic profile, and here goes the baseball team on another extended national goodwill tour.

These core-group Gamecocks on Sunday night established themselves as the most successful college sports team in Palmetto State history.

Proof: An 8-2 victory over Connecticut in Game 2 of a super regional that sends the defending national champs back to the College World Series.

“I’ve never heard it this loud,” center fielder Evan Marzilli said while standing on the field and taking in the postgame party at Carolina Stadium. “These fans make it fun. They’re awesome, and I’m just so glad to be a part of it.”

This tale, looking back and forward and sideways, is one of remarkable numbers.

In order of impressiveness:

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By GENE SAPAKOFFpostandcourier.com

All the sadness and

death in Garrett Chi-

solm’s life gave way

to pure joy on a sweet

Saturday night.The same senior offensive lineman

from Charleston who lost both of his parents to cancer within the previous 10 months was carrying Steve Spurrier across the field after South Carolina’s unprecedented victory at Florida last November.

It was a great feeling, Chisolm said of the 36-14 victory that secured the Gamecocks’ first SEC East football title.

“I had never been part of a winning

football program, and to be part of a division winner in one of the best con-ferences and beat Florida on their home turf was unbelievable. Picking Coach Spurrier up was like icing on the cake. You could see him, he was smiling. And when we got in the locker room, he was really, really happy. I love when the man smiles.”

Garrett Chisolm is on his way to the NFL Scouting Combine this week after achieving All-SEC second-team honors as an offensive lineman, and winning several team academic awards. His story might be one of the most inspiring in re-cent college football history.

He was not a major college prospect as a struggling student at West Ashley

High School. He paid his way to South Carolina after attending Trident Tech in Charleston and Pikeville Junior College in Kentucky. He joined the Gamecock football team as a 6-foot-6, 299-pound unrecruited walk-on.

Chisolm’s mother Purcella died in January of 2010.

His father Garrett died the following September.

“My parents were my world,” Chisolm said. “No words can really define how I felt then and how I feel now. But I just have to keep on pushing the way they would want me to keep on pushing and just do great things. It has been a dif-

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South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier celebrates the Gamecocks’ win over Florida in Gainesville, Fla., on Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010. Helping hold up the coach is senior offensive lineman Garrett Chisolm (77).

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USC’s Garrett Chisolm overcomes unspeakabletragedy to make his late

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South Carolina State’s Malcolm Reed (95) makes the tackle on a Central Michigan runner.

SCSU NOTEBOOK

By MATT SLOVINSpecial to The T&D

Thursday’s game marked the first-ever meeting between the two schools. It was also the Bulldogs’ first appearance against a team from the Mid-Ameri-can Conference. South Carolina State will play another Division I opponent on Sept. 17 when they meet Indiana. That game in Bloomington against the Hoosiers will also be the Bulldogs’ first against a Big Ten foe.

Unfriendly confinesThe loss to the Chippewas snapped a

four-game SCSU regular-season road winning streak. The most recent away defeat came in the 2010 season opener against Georgia Tech, a game the Bull-dogs lost 41-10. SCSU will play two more on the road against Bethune-Cookman

and Indiana before opening play at Oliver C. Dawson Stadium on Sept. 24 against Delaware State.

Splitting the uprightsBulldog placekicker Blake Erickson

accounted for the entire SCSU point to-tal with a couple of field goals. Erickson was successful on tries from 41 and 29 yards out. His lone miss on the evening came from 48 yards out. The senior is also shouldering the punting duties for the Bulldogs.

Controllingthe football

SCSU enjoyed a plus-two turnover differential to apply pressure to the Chippewas. First, redshirt sophomore cornerback Mason Harris read CMU quarterback Ryan Radcliff perfectly to

pick him off. Later, it was sophomore linebacker Joe Thomas who snatched up a CMU pass. The pair of interceptions, however, did little to ignite a spark on the other side of the ball.

A look aheadAfter a difficult test in week one, the

schedule lends this Bulldog team no fa-vors. Next week, a daunting road task awaits in Bethune-Cookman. Last sea-son, it was the Wildcats that handed SCSU its lone conference loss. Bethune-Cookman earned a share of the MEAC title along with this year’s preseason fa-vorite Bulldogs and Florida A&M. When asked about the challenge ahead next week, Pough was frank. “That will be a tough football game for us. They’re go-ing to see the things that happened to us tonight and it’s going to be hot as fire (in Daytona Beach).”

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A children’s train ride at Cleveland Park derailed Saturday afternoon, killing a 6-year-old Gaffney boy and sending 28 people, mostly children, to the hospital. The extent of their injuries is unknown.

Investigators were working Saturday night to determine the cause of the crash. The miniature train, which was in its fi rst hour of operation this season, apparently overturned near the bridge on Asheville Highway about 1 p.m.

Benjamin Samuel Easler of Gaffney died about 45 minutes later at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center from injuries suffered in the crash, according to the Spartanburg County Coroner’s Offi ce. He is the son of the Rev. Dwight Easler, pas-tor of Corinth Baptist Church in Gaffney, who was also on the train and injured.

Rick Burgess, an investigator with the 7th Circuit Solici-tor’s Offi ce, attends Corinth Baptist Church and said a group of children ages 5 to 10 from the church went to the park on Saturday.

More onlineTo see photo galleries, video and continuing coverage of the Cleveland Park train derailment, visit GoUpstate.com.

‘Terrible nightmare’

PHOTOS BY TIM KIMZEY/[email protected]

Emergency personnel tend to victims after a miniature train wreck at Cleveland Park in Spartanburg on Saturday afternoon.

Miniature train started season’s run on Saturday, was inspected this week

◆ SEE TRAIN PAGE A5 See more photos of the train derailment at Cleveland Park on page A6.

US, allies attack Libya The Associated Press

BENGHAZI, Libya — The U.S. and European nations pounded Moammar Gadhafi’s forces and air defenses with cruise missiles and airstrikes Saturday, launching the broadest international mil-itary effort since the Iraq war in support of an uprising that had seemed on the verge of defeat. Libyan state TV claimed 48 people had been killed in the attacks,

but the report could not be independently verifi ed.

The longtime Libyan leader vowed to defend his country from what he called “crusader aggression” and warned the involvement of international forces will subject the Mediterranean and North African region to danger and put civil-ians at risk.

The U.S. military said 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fi red from Ameri-can and British ships and submarines at

International militaryeff ort supports uprising

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Supporters of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi demonstrate outside Gadhafi’s former home, which was destroyed during an air raid in the 1980s, in Tripoli on Saturday.◆ SEE LIBYA PAGE A4

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THIRD PLACETHIRD PLACEIndex-JournalScott BryanSleep Well Sweet Caden

Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C. Wednesday, March 23, 20118A Local news

SLEEP WELL,SWEET CADENCaden Nathaniel Hall, 5, died early Tuesday morning after a lengthy

battle with acute myelogenous leukemia, otherwise known as AML.

Residents who would like to donate to Hall’s family, which can’t afford

a funeral, can write checks to the Caden Nathaniel Hall Benefit c/o

Countybank, P.O. Box 3129, Greenwood, SC 29648. Index-Journal staff

photographer Sam O’Keefe spent several days with the Hall family.Sandy Smith shows a photograph of her grandson Caden Hall with a full head of hair before leukemia.

At about 2 p.m. Saturday, Lori Hall falls asleep next to her son, Caden, while watching a movie on a portable Cars DVD player in the king-size bed that was donated to the family. Caden Hall, 5, died Tuesday morning after a lengthy battle with acute myelogenous leukemia

A representative of the Make-A-Wish Foundation presents Caden Hall with movies, toy cars and a laptop computer to play games and watch movies.

Dr. William Schmidt, of Greenville, and Lori Hall review a chart of Caden Hall’s medications on the wall in the kitchen. Upon Caden’s diagnosis, Lori left her position as nurse to care for her son day and night.

Caden Hall sips a glass of root beer to wash out the taste of medicine from his mouth as he receives injections.

The Hall family documented Caden’s journey with leuke-mia by making photographs throughout the process.

Bryce Larson, Caden Hall’s 15-year-old brother, sits in the kitchen after not being able to sleep because Caden’s health significantly declined over night.

Caden Hall receives medication from a hospice nurse as his father, John Hall, holds a frozen cherry drink Caden requested.

Caden Hall cries out as his mother, Lori Hall, adjusts him to sit up in bed to help his breathing. During Caden’s final days, any movement of him brought excruciating pain.


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The NLRB lays an egg

Congressional hearings inevi-tably produce heavy-handed political theater. But they also can deliver revealing ex-

changes that cut to the heart of controver-sial issues.

Such was the instructive case Friday as the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing in North Charleston on the National La-bor Relations Board’s bizarre complaint against Boeing.

The agency is seeking a ruling to require the company to put a second 787 Dream-liner finishing assembly plant in Wash-ington state. Its complaint cites Boeing of-ficials’ decision to put that plant in North Charleston, combined with their “public statements” about the advantages of a non-union workforce here, as a violation of the National Labor Relations Act.

In other words, making a legitimate busi-ness decision and stating the legitimate reasons for it are now against the law — if NLRB acting general counsel Lafe Solo-mon says so.

During Friday’s hearing in Charleston County Council chambers, several com-mittee members scored telling points against the illogic of that complaint by asking Mr. Solomon simple questions for which he had no persuasive answers.

Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., offered assurances that the line of inquiry wouldn’t go beyond proper bounds. Still, Mr. Solo-mon expressed understandable concern about being publicly quizzed by committee members regarding a pending case.

He should have been more concerned over the obvious shortcomings of his case against Boeing.

That weakness was particularly clear Friday during Perry Mason moments de-livered by two rookie Republican House

members from South Carolina — and one of them isn’t even a lawyer.

When 4th District Rep. Trey Gowdy, who is a lawyer, asked if any Boeing employees in Washington state had lost their jobs due to the company’s decision to put that 787 plant in North Charleston, Mr. Solomon replied: “Not at this time, no.”

When Rep. Gowdy then asked if any Boe-ing employees in Washington state had lost benefits due to that decision, Mr. Solomon again replied, “Not at this time, no.”

When 1st District Rep. Tim Scott, not a lawyer, asked if Boeing had transferred any jobs to South Carolina, Mr. Solomon re-plied: “There is the possibility that as planes are built in North Charleston those planes would not be built in Everett (Wash.).”

After similarly foggy responses from Mr. Solomon elevating what might be over what is, Rep. Scott aptly pegged it a conflict of “tangibles vs. intangibles.”

Here’s a tangible: Boeing is here to stay.The $750 million plant had its grand

opening last week. Dreamliners are sched-uled to roll off that local assembly line early next year.

That makes the NLRB’s preposterous suggested “remedy” of putting a second Dreamliner plant in Everett more than two years and nearly a billion dollars short.

Yet Mr. Solomon’s unwarranted com-plaint against Boeing evidently is going forward, despite NLRB Administrative Law Judge Clifford H. Anderson’s plea for a settlement during Tuesday’s opening court hearing in Seattle.

The judge warned that without such an agreement, by the time the courts decide this case, “I’ll be retired or dead.”

And judging from Mr. Solomon’s inability to justify his complaint Friday, that would be an appalling waste of taxpayer and Boe-ing money.

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WILLIAM E.N. HAWKINS, Editor and Publisher

CHARLES R. ROWE, Editorial Page Editor

FRANK WOOTEN, Assistant Editor

TOM CLIFFORD, Executive News Director

Wilson plays victim for cash

Joe Wilson became a political celeb-

rity by yelling “You lie!” at the presi-

dent of the United States. Now South

Carolina’s 2nd District congressman

is, in essence, bragging about that

appalling rudeness as he solicits campaign

contributions.

But soon after his stunning outburst dur-

ing President Barack Obama’s health care

speech on Sept. 9, 2009, Rep. Wilson issued

this appropriate apology: “This evening I let

my emotions get the best of me when listen-

ing to the president’s remarks regarding the

coverage of illegal immigrants in the health

care bill. While I disagree with the president’s

statement, my comments were inappropriate

and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to

the president for this lack of civility.”

So if Rep. Wilson was “sincere” in that apol-

ogy, what is he now?

McClatchy Newspapers reported Thurs-

day that the sixth-term Republican sent out

an Aug. 12 fundraising email titled “I Was

Right,” casting himself as the victim of the

“You lie!” spectacle.

He wrote: “Nearly two years ago, I made

national news when I voiced your outrage

at the misrepresentations being perpetuated

by the Obama administration. The media

and Obama’s liberal allies attacked me for

only pointing out the truth that ObamaCare

would cover illegal immigrants.”

Yet yelling “You lie!” doesn’t merely un-

dermine a sense of decorum. It undermines

public discourse.

Yes, the massive health reform bill signed

by President Obama last year, contrary to his

pledge, covers illegal immigrants.

Yes, Rep. Wilson had every right to chal-

lenge the president’s false assertion that it

would not.

However, the right time for that challenge

was after, not during, the president’s speech.

The right words for it were not “You lie!”

And the right way for a politician to raise

campaign cash is to make a good case for

himself — not to make a pitch for rewarding

bad manners.

E pluribus unum

Charleston’s rich history didn’t start or end with the Confed-erate bombardment of Fort Sumter 150 years ago today.

But that epochal event did start the Civil War. And for that reason, it remains the most important episode in our city’s sto-ried past.

The Confederates forced the Union gar-rison to surrender the fort. The South’s “victory,” however, was merely the open-ing act of an awful human drama that ended with the South’s devastation.

The Confederate firing on Fort Sumter didn’t kill anybody, though two Union soldiers later died as a result of injuries suffered when cartridges ignited during a parting salute to the U.S. flag.

Yet over the next four years of sectional strife, approximately 620,000 soldiers died in a nation — counting both South and North — of only 31 million people.

And the casualties were not limited to the massive loss of human life and limb. The South’s way of life was destroyed, in-cluding most significantly, its immoral economic foundation — slavery.

Despite its horrors, the Civil War also was defined, on both sides, by gallantry, patriotism and inspiring self-sacrifice.

On April 12, 1861, though, the defin-ing mood in Charleston was that of war fever. Residents thronged the waterfront and the rooftoops to watch the fireworks as Confederate shells sailed toward the fort.

Local Unionist James Petigru had ear-lier, and aptly, described the secessionist fervor of his fellow residents in terms of a sickness: “My countrymen here in S.C. are distempered to a degree that makes them to a calm and impartial observer real objects of pity.”

Charleston, as the tinderbox of rebel-lion, quickly found itself in the cross-hairs of Northern hatred. Still, the city was luckily spared the torch nearly four years later when Gen. Sherman’s relent-

less invaders roared northward through South Carolina after their destructive March through Georgia.

Columbia did burn, though some his-torians have tried — less than persua-sively — to absolve Gen. Sherman’s men of responsibility for that.

Indeed, historians, including amateur ones, persist in arguing about myriad aspects of the war, from its causes to its conduct to its consequences.

Southern sympathizers, past and pres-ent, have tried — with declining success — to downplay slavery’s role in seces-sion. Northern sympathizers have tried to rationalize some of the cruel tactics used by the Union war machine against the South’s civilian population, includ-ing the shelling of residential areas here in Charleston.

Descendents of the warriors have of-ten — and understandably — sided with their long-dead kin.

But many Americans have ancestors on both sides. And all Americans are, in a crucial, unifying sense, descendents of both sides.

Our Civil War didn’t just change his-tory.

It changed grammar. Before the war, the common wording

was “the United States are.” After the war, that slowly but surely

gave way to “the United States is,” re-f lecting the singular nature of our country — and fulfilling the credo on our national seal, “E pluribus unum (Out of many, one).”

So as we pause today to commemorate the Sesquicentennial of the spark that lit the fuse for the bloodiest conflict in American history, we must remember — and honor — those who fought and died, lost and won, suffered and endured.

But we also should remember that the war ultimately made this nation our na-tion — and one nation.

And that’s something to celebrate.


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ONE HUNDRED fifty yearsafter our state seceded fromthe United States, precipitat-ing the secession of our sis-

ter states and, ultimately, the Civil War,there is heated disagreement over justwhat that secession and war wereabout. Those who insist that it wasfought over slavery and those who in-sist that it was all about our state pre-serving its rights as a state, with slaverybut one of many factors (if that), canagree on only one thing: The other sideis rewriting history.

But for the men who declared on Dec.20, 1860, that “the union now subsistingbetween South Carolina and otherStates, under the name of ‘The UnitedStates of America,’ is hereby dis-solved,” there was no ambiguity. As the

members of South Carolina’s secessionconvention made perfectly clear in the“Declaration of the Immediate CausesWhich Induce and Justify the Secessionof South Carolina from the FederalUnion,” they were indeed leaving theunion in order to preserve the sovereignrights of our state, but they had only oneright in mind: the right to own slaves.

The language of the S.C. Declarationis so straightforward, so unambiguousthat it is difficult to comprehend thatthere ever could have been any dis-agreement over what drove South Car-olina to secede. So before any morebreath is wasted in arguing about justwhat our state will be commemoratingon Monday, we are reprinting the Dec-laration on this page. We would urgeanyone who doubts that our state se-

ceded in order to preserve slavery — or,for that matter, anyone who has come toaccept the fiction that slavery wasmerely one of several cumulative caus-es — to read this document.

What we found most striking in re-reading the Declaration was the com-plete absence of any other causes. Afterlaying out the argument that the statesretained a right to secede if the Uniondid not fulfill its constitutional and con-tractual obligations, the document cit-ed the one failing of the United States:its refusal to enforce the constitutionalprovision requiring states to return es-caped slaves to their owners. “This stip-ulation was so material to the compact,”the document declares, “that without itthat compact would not have beenmade.”

There is room for disagreement overwhether we can fairly judge the morali-ty of the secessionists by the standardsof 2010. There is room to debate wheth-er the men who fought for the Confed-eracy believed they were simply fight-ing to defend their state, without regardto why their state needed defending, orto what role slavery played in the socialorder. There might even be room to de-bate what motivated other states toleave the Union.

But those are debates that need to behad honestly, based on what really hap-pened 150 years ago. Pretending thatanything other than slavery played asignificant role in South Carolina’s se-cession is not honest, as the secession-ists themselves made a point of tellingthe world with such abundant clarity.

Secessionists were clear about their cause: slavery

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Deputies are looking for a red Mus-tang after a Tuesday morning chase that reached speeds of more than 100 mph, according to a Sheriff ’s Offi ce incident report.

Around 4:15 a.m., security at the Zo-diac Club on North Road reported a male subject tried to enter carrying a weapon. The subject then fl ed in a red Ford Mus-tang with a tan convertible top, they said.

Approaching deputies spotted a car matching that description at a gas sta-tion near Wal-Mart. The driver sped off on a chase that would travel north on Kennerly Road, east on Burke Road in Calhoun County, and then south on Columbia Road. The pursuit was termi-nated on Watersprings Road.

If anyone has any information on the subject, they are asked to contact Crimestoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC.

In other reports: A Neeses woman had her foot run

over during an argument with her boy-friend Thursday, according to a Sheriff ’s Offi ce incident report.

The 18-year-old woman said the 30-

year-old male repeatedly threatened to kill her while he slung her around. Depu-ties noted the victim’s blouse was torn.

At one point, the male choked her and burned the victim’s arm with a cigarette, the report said. She said she was struck “with his vehicle, running over her foot, leaving visible abrasions on the top.”

Three separate women called dep-uties Thursday about fl im-fl am opera-tions, according to Sheriff ’s Offi ce inci-dent reports.

The fi rst woman called to say that on July 4th a female caller off ered her 300 phone cards valued at $1,250 for $250. She said she shipped a money order overnight. When she received her pack-age Thursday, it contained four bottles of cologne.

The second woman said she was con-tacted by a female caller who said the woman was approved for a $7,000 grant. She was instructed to wire $180 to India. She did. She didn’t get a grant.

The third woman said a male caller said she owed $1,000 and if the amount was not paid Thursday, the state At-torney General would send an offi cer to arrest her. The caller hung up when she said she was calling the police.

All of the woman are in their 20s and have Orangeburg addresses.

A Folly Road woman wants her money back.

She claims she bought a lemon from a Joe Jeff ords Highway man back in April. She said she since learned the 1999 Chevrolet Blazer leaks oil, leaks gas, has faulty lighting, the engine smokes, it backfi res, the gauges don’t work and there’s not even a spare tire.

She said it broke down the day she bought it. In the three months since she’s had it, she’s been able to drive it two days. She tries to get in touch with the seller but he is never at the location where she bought the clunker, according to a Sheriff ’s Offi ce incident report.

Orangeburg Departmentof Public Safety

A Glover Street youth had his bike sto-len Thursday.

The 13-year-old returned home from a park on Riggs Street around 4:05 p.m. When he didn’t have his bike, his mother called police.

The bike is an orange and black Mon-goose BMX model worth about $110.

It is the second Mongoose-brand bike stolen in the past week.

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part.“They threw a brick and hit my truck.

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At least it wasn’t the book regarding the end times. It was a book of comfort that stopped a bullet early Wednesday.

A man told deputies he was entering his Bass Drive resi-dence in Santee around 5:30 a.m. when four males in a Honda drove up.

As he stood on his steps, one of the males opened fi re, shooting two rounds at him, according to a Sheriff ’s Offi ce incident report.

The man told investigators he knows the individuals, but has no idea why they would shoot at him.

Investigators followed the trail of one bullet that struck a wall near where the man was standing. The second round went through the tailgate of his truck, into the cab and rear seat before lodging in the man’s Bible.

A 9 mm round was found in the Book of Psalms.

Th e Good Book stops bad shot

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