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1970 and has worked in a variety of capacities throughout the Carolinas and Washington, D.C. He is active in business, civic and community organizations across the state, including serving on the FMU Foundation board. A native of Raleigh, N.C., he is a graduate of Campbell University.
Edwards is the former president and/chief executive officer of Santee
Cooper. He came to FMU as vice president for business affairs and later assumed the role as director of the .foundation. He is leaving that position to enter private business.
Faulkenberry is a graduate of the College of Charleston and has served as an officer in the U.S. Army National . Guard. He comes to FMU after a successful career as an economic development fund-raiser, most recently as president of Advent Development Group of Charleston. From 1996 to 2000, Faulkenberry ,>. was a senior
development director For NCDS Inc., an Atlanta, Ga., based firm that raises money for various non-profit organizations on a national level.
The FMU Foundation was organized in 1974 to provide a means for soliciting and accepting substantial gifts of money or property in order to build an endowment fund that-would promote the educational mission^, and wel fare of the iin iversity. Governed by a 35-member volunteer board of directors, the foundation has approximately $10 million in assets.
De Montluzin publishes annotated scholarly anthology
Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, a professor of history at Francis Marion University, has published her* sixth book, Daily Life in Georgian England as Reported in the "Gentleman's Magazine. ?	.
The book is a fully annotated scholarly anthology of selected excerpts from the Gentleman?s Magazine concerning topics of crime, medicine, science and natural history, archaeology, religion, parliamentary reporting, the American Colonies, the French Revolution, riots and radicalism, and literary criticism.
Established in 1731 and generally considered the first magazine in England, the Gentleman's Magazine constitutes an enormous and scarcely tapped source for scholarly investigation of Hanoverian culture and society.
After a general introduction, de Montluzin?s anthology offers nine chapters containing annotated excerpts from the first hundred years of publication, arranged topically, chosen to cover the widest possible range of aspects of Georgian life.
In the 18th cenftiry, before railroads speeded up transportation, most people in England, had no access to daily newspapers. '
For thousands. of readers in England and colonial America, the monthly issues of the Gentleman?s Magazine brought them news of politics, wars, scientific discoveries, criminal trials, Captain Cook?s voyage of exploration. Jennet ?s discovery of the smallpox . vaccine, the guillotining of Louis XVI, - the,-/excavation of Herculaneum, the first balloon flight in the British Isles, improvements in farm machinery, the sighting of Hailey?s Comet, the mutiny on the Bounty, a new method of cutting out cataracts (before anesthesia), and even how to exterminate cockroaches - by drown-ing.them in a bowl of beer fitted with a convenient up-ramp.,.
The Gentleman's Magazine had a wide readership in the Thirteen Colonies as well as England. George Washington was a regular subscriber, and Benjamin Franklin?s letters describing his experiments with the
lightning rod , and .the kite, and key . found their way into the magazine. ..
Contributors in South Carolina sent in accounts of a catastrophic fire in Charleston as well as the start-up .costs of indigo plantations, and the Gentleman?s Magazine published,..one ;;of the earliest reports of the ?skirmish? at Lexington and .Concord.;
. Daily Life in. Georgian England as Reported in the... ?Gentleman?s Magazine? is published by the Edwin Mellen Press, an international publisher of scholarly rese'arch.?.The book is volume 14 of Edwin Mellen Press?s series, Studies in British and American ' Magazines.. .
De Montluzin has taught in the History Department at Francis Marion University since 1974.
She is. the. author of. five earlier books identifying anonymous and pseudonymous contributors to the Anti-Jacobin Review., the Gentleman s Magazine, and the . European Magazine, as well as articles concerning 18th- and 19th-century British press history. .
Rae publishes article
John G. Rae, Shirley Malloy Professor of Biology, will have his article, ?Demography of the endangered fragrant prickly-apple cactus, Harrisia fragrans,? published this July in the International Journal of Plant Sciences.
Darlington Raceway offers FMU special
Darlington Raceway is offering a ?Super Saturday? special for all FMU faculty and staff for the Carolina Dodge
Dealers 400 race weekend' March 14-17. Any FMU employee who purchases a ticket to the Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 NASCAR Winston Cup race on March 17 has the option to buy a ticket for Saturday's DarlingtonRaceway.com 200 NASCAR Busch Series race on March 16 for $10. Tickets can be ordered directly from the raceway?s ticket office by simply mentioning ?Super Saturday? and FMU. For more information or to order tickets, call 843-395-8499.
Patriot Digest, Feb. 15, 2002
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