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 An opportunity to honor a WW II Veteran
Do you have family members or friends who served in World War II? Would you like to honor them by bringing attention to their military service?
On September 14, a USO show featuring University faculty and staff will kickoff Preface, the USC Upstate Freshman Reading and Writing Experience. We’re beginning with a USC show because this fall all English 101 students are reading When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka, a novel which presents the story of the internment of a Japanese-American family during the WWII.
Through the USO show, we hope to represent the era and to personalize the experience of being a young person about the age of our freshmen students when the whole world was at war. Admission to the event for students will be a card featuring the information about an actual soldier. The card will contain the person’s name and birth date, hometown, the branch of military service and rank, and the location and dates of service. During the show, the cards will provide information for “soldiers” who will be called on to tell the group something about themselves, and they’ll be used in a drawing for period door prizes.
After the show, some English instructors may ask students to use the information on the card to prompt a short writing assignment such as researching the average age of a WWII soldier or examining important events that occurred at a particular place.
To have your family members or friends honored at the USO show, please send the following information to Brenda Davenport:
- Person’s name
- Date of birth
- Hometown
- Branch of Military Service
- Military Rank
- Type of service (guard, combat soldier, nurse, etc.)
- Location of Service
- Dates of Service
If you have additional information or anecdotes you’d like to share, we welcome that as well.
 Can you say that in German?
The German School of Spartanburg (Die Deutsche Schule Spartanburg) is a Saturday school for children and adults, who wish to learn the German language and the cultural heritage of German speaking countries. Many classes are available from beginner level to native speakers. New students are accepted at any time during the year.
Classes meet on Saturday mornings from 9:30 to noon at the Mary Black School of Nursing at USC Upstate. The school year begins on August 19 and continues through the spring. Prospective students, age 4 through adult, are invited on Saturday, August 26 from 11:00 a.m. to noon to attend an Open House.
Entering it’s 11th year, Die Deutsche Schule Spartanburg is the only German School in South Carolina approved and supported by the German government. For more information, contact the school principal, Gislinde Schoenborn at (864) 442-1463.
 More mobile classrooms arrive on campus.
Photo courtesy of Mike Bruce .
The Academic Annex area (located across the creek from the Kathryn Hicks Visual Arts Center) is expanding. The new modular classroom building will house five classrooms: one 75-seat classroom, two 35-seat classrooms, one 50-seat classroom, and one 25-seat classroom. The new building will be for classroom space only and no offices will be located here. The classrooms in the new modular building will be smart classrooms. There will also be additional faculty parking outside of the buildings.
The original Academic Annex building will also remain on the location but Interdisciplinary Studies and the Center for Nonprofit Administration will vacate it in the coming weeks to relocate to the Library. Once this space is releases, it will house primarily music performance classes and rehearsals.
According to Dr. York Bradshaw, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, this new temporary building is needed for several reasons, which include our enrollment is growing and need for additional classrooms, renovations that will take place this fall in Tukey Theatre, two science laboratories are being created out of current classrooms, and the need for additional faculty offices (as our faculty continues to grow) has taken a small amount of classroom space.
 Ask Me Buttons
In an effort to create a warm and friendly environment on campus for our new students, the Center for Student Success is providing green “ASK ME!” buttons to any faculty and staff who would like one. We encourage faculty and staff to wear these buttons during the first week or two of school in August or any time you feel it is appropriate. Our new students will feel more inclined to ask for help knowing that person is definitely willing to be approached. The buttons have both a pin as well as a magnetic option for wearing. If you’d like one of these buttons, please request one by e-mailing emillwood@uscupstate.edu. Please make sure to include your office mailing address. We appreciate your willingness to participate in this endeavor.
The parking lot at the corner of Hodge Drive and North Campus Blvd. is nearly complete. This will be much used parking space when the Health Education Complex is completed. Photo courtesy of Mike Bruce .
The tree that was struck by lighning last Friday comes down. Photo courtesy of Mike Bruce. |
Stadium Party 2006
Art Exhibit: Enid Williams 
New Student Convocation 
Find your remote and tune in to Upstate TV for a discussion on the Globalization of Industry. Host Julie Phillips will interview Bern McKeeley, president of Hartness Corporation. To listen to podcasts of recent Upstate TV show broadcasts, click