The goal of the workshop was to equip teachers to incorporate nuclear science concepts in their lessons. Teachers participated in hands-on activities and interactive demonstrations that they could use with their students. Additionally, each participant received a Geiger counter and other free materials worth around $350.

This event was free for the educators thanks to sponsorships by the Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness and the Ruth Patrick Science Education Center and with support from the American Nuclear Society and Energy Solutions.

The event was hosted at USC Salkehatchie (West Campus).

Although the Indians did lose to Spartanburg Methodist College in the region tournament on Saturday,  this year the runner-up in Region X also received a berth in the national tournament .  Our team played a great tournament, losing to Spartanburg Methodist by only 3 points.  Spartanburg Methodist is undefeated this season and is the number one team in the nation and is the number two seed in the national tournament.

The Indians will leave for Kansas on Thursday  and will play their first game against Northwest  Florida State on Monday, March 18 at  noon.  The game will be broadcast on the NJCAA website at www.njcaa.org<http://www.njcaa.org> and a special big screen viewing will be set up  in the atrium in Allendale and in room 111 in Walterboro so everyone at Salk can  watch the big game.
Both Trent Kinard and Dawn Rizer will be at the game in Hutchinson for lots of pictures and posting of scores and information on Facebook, Twitter and our athletics webpage.  Be sure to check regularly for updates and information on the team.

Pictures of the tournament action can be found on Facebook.

According to USC Aiken Head Men’s soccer coach Ike Ofoge, “Papy is playing very well, goals like that you just have to applaud!”  Ofoge is also quite happy with the play of Jason King and Andre McFarlane who also transferred to USC Aiken this year after playing two years of junior college soccer at USC Salkehatchie.

“We have to keep this relationship going,” said Ofoge, “I have my eye on several USC Salkehatchie players for 2013.”

The theatre, built almost 100 years ago, has been under renovations to stabilize the building and to make it watertight. The next phase will transform the bare space into an Art Deco theatre that will be a showpiece of the Salkehatchie region.

A variety of events are planned for the theatre, including fine arts and humanities presentations, as well as entertainment activities aimed at enriching the cultural life of USC Salkehatchie students and the citizens of the region.

Helping to create the art deco feel in the theater is Karen Heid, an Associate Professor of Art Education at USC’s Columbia campus. Her students are’ planning a variety of projects that will enhance the theatre’s interior. Projects include making handmade glass sconces, painting portrait panels of the nine mythical muses and murals of graphic art deco design elements.

USC Salkehatchie has been renovating the theatre with the support of USDA Rural Development funding as well as private funding from area businesses, including Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, Collum’s Lumber Mill  and Georgia-Pacific.

If you are interested in supporting the theatre renovation, you may sponsor a theatre seat for $300, which will include a plaque indicating the donor or honoree’s name. Contact Anne Rice at 584-3446 x190 for more information.

Renovations are expected to be complete by the end of the 2013 spring semester and an opening event is expected later next year.

While the majority of faculty and staff at the University of South Carolina at Salkehatchie has a passion for sports, only few have the opportunity to actively participate into their adult years. This  is not the case for criminal justice professors John Peek and Larry Saunders.

Last week Peek laced up his shoes to begin his 30th season and Saunders his 21st as football officials for the South Carolina Football Official’s Association.

“John and I started out calling youth league games in North Charleston and we promised each other that we would work hard and set a goal to work at Williams-Brice Stadium since we both graduated from South Carolina,” Saunders said.

This goal was realized for the pair in 2006 when they were selected to work the 4A state championship game in Columbia. This past week Peek and Saunders returned to Williams-Brice Stadium to work the final scrimmage for the South Carolina Gamecocks.

“It is a great thrill having the opportunity to be on the field with Coach Spurrier and his team.  They are a great group of young men who will represent our university well this year on and off the field,” Peek said.

Saunders, who is a 1989 graduate of  USC Salkehatchie, and Peek have enjoyed numerous highlights over the years on the football field. The two have worked a combined 13 state championship games.  Both have been selected to work the North-South All-star game and the Shrine Bowl.  In 2006, Peek and Saunders were  selected to work the first nationally televised high school game in South Carolina.

Peek and Saunders have served as leaders for the association with Saunders serving as district director for the Columbia area and Peek serving as district director for the Charleston area. Both were elected to state level positions,   Saunders as president for the 700 member South Carolina Football Official’s Association in 2009  and  Peek as the vice president.    Peek was elected as president in 2010.

Peek and Saunders have one more goal:  to be inducted into the Official’s Hall of Fame.  That goal should be reached by both within the next couple of years.

Kenneth Bellamy – Head Softball Coach

Kenneth Bellamy joined the USC Salkehatchie family as the new women’s softball coach earlier this month. Bellamy is a Salkehatchie graduate, having been an athlete here himself. Bellamy has years of experience coaching travel softball, high school softball and women’s basketball. He also has experience coaching at the college level as both an assistant coach and head coach.

Bellamy recently took the time to answer a few questions about his plans for the USC Salkehatchie softball program.

• What is your philosophy of coaching? My philosophy in coaching is all about guiding the student-athlete to a better future on and off the field.  Grades are very important to me and I want the student-athlete to succeed in the classroom.  However, on the field performance is key to having a successful program.  My team will work hard on the field.  I want to bring a Region X championship to Salkehatchie.
•  Why should players want to play at USC Salkehatchie? Players should want to come to Salk for our outstanding softball program and our academics.  Here at Salk, they will receive one-on-one time on the field and in the classroom.  Salk is a great place to start a college career.
•   What are your short-term and long-term goals for Salkehatchie? As far as short-term goals, I want to have a winning season, have at least half the team with a 3.0 GPA or better, have some of the girls make all-region and set the foundation for a successful program.  Long-term goals include renovating the softball complex,  developing a Region X championship team  and sending every student-athlete to a four year program.
• What is your experience with both softball and with coaching? I have coached travel softball for eight years and coached two years at the high school level.  I also have coached two years as assistant baseball coach and eight months as interim head baseball coach at the NCAA Division II level.  Coaching is a passion of mine and knowing that I can help student-athletes reach their ultimate goals in college makes my job worth while
•  What do you think is the ideal student-athlete? The ideal student-athlete is someone who cares about her studies and her team – one who will work extra hard at both to succeed.  Also, she is very respectful to her professors, coaches and teammates.  Another key attribute is community service – giving back.

David Schenck wanted to be accepted and admired, so much so that when he saw the chance, he grabbed power and became a central figure in an intrigue that bilked North Carolinians of their money, land and belongings at a time when they were most vulnerable.

Hidden in plain view within the pages Schenck’s diaries that spanned 50 years, yet under the noses of Civil War historians who have referenced them for decades, are clues to his role as a Confederate receiver.

“I had been laboring under the impression that David Schenck as a receiver under the Confederate Act of Sequestration was some sort of tax collector because everything I could find, which wasn’t much at all, indicated that,” said USC Salkehatchie historian Rodney Steward. “What I found was anything but that.”

Steward’s biography on the Confederate official and lawyer, “David Schenck and the Contours of Confederate Identity,” was released in June by the University of Tennessee Press.

“No one has written about sequestration. I can count on about one hand the number of publications that has dealt with the topic since 1865,” Steward said.

In response to a U.S. Congressional act that allowed Union forces to confiscate property, including slaves, the Confederate Congress passed the Act of Sequestration, which established grand juries and receivers who were charged with ferreting out and seizing the property, debts and anything that was in part or fully owned by a Northerner.

“If you owed money to a Northern factor, you now owed that money to the Confederate government,” Steward said. “It was the only legislation whose jurisdiction was the exclusive domain of the Confederate government. All other policies were delegated to state governments. In this sense, Schenck and other receivers become the face of the Confederate government at the local level.”

While the proceeds of property seized and auctioned were supposed to go to the coffers of the Confederacy, Steward discovered deceit.

“Schenck writes in his diary in 1862 when he first gets started. He makes an entry where he says that he auctioned $22,000 worth of property on a single day. However, the sequestration fund ledger in Richmond indicates that in the month of September 1862 only $3,682 was remitted,” he said. “The district court of North Carolina pocketed or distributed those funds liberally among the various members of the court.”

Steward said its makes a person wonder how much of New South fortunes were the result of this corruption.

“A lot of evidence has been mysteriously scattered,” Steward said. “I’ve found records and court writs in some strange places, including archived records of The Charlotte Observer and a variety of collections in the National Archives. We’re talking about untold amounts of money that I have an idea was upwards of $10 – 20 million.”

Steward became fascinated with Schenck as a Confederate nationalist and how religion, duty and manhood shaped his identity.
“The first story about David Schenck that I connected with was the construction of his Confederate identity,” he said. “Schenck came of age in the antebellum South, which had very rigid social norms in which few were deemed ‘respectable.’ Schenck was part of the small but burgeoning middle class and although he became a lawyer, he remained on the periphery of elite society. His religious training or the lack thereof was an impediment. His father, left in a religious stupor after the death of his wife when Schenck was 2, didn’t provide the spiritual training essential for a young man to being accepted into polite society.”
To overcome social disadvantage, Schenck fashioned a Confederate identity. He became an ardent supporter of the Southern Rights Party of North Carolina, a party Steward describes as “dangerous revolutionaries with violent revolution in mind.”
“They were not hot-headed cotton lovers who wanted to break with the Union and join the secessionist side, and they were definitely not the democracy loving, patriarchal, personal rights individuals that some have portrayed them to be,” Steward said. “These were professional middle-class men who wanted to destroy the state’s Democratic Party and replace it with their new secessionist party and overthrow the popular governance of the state by any means necessary so that North Carolina is removed from the Union. That is what no one has written about.”
The image he fashioned and projected along with his role as a receiver for the Confederacy are among the more compelling aspects of the biography. Another is debunking the notion that those on the homefront were weary loyalists.

“Looking at North Carolina’s homefront through Schenck’s eyes is something more like the French Revolution during the Reign of Terror,” he said. “People were threatened with the loss of their lives, liberty and property.”

USC Salk historian sheds light on Civil War figure David Schenck

David Schenck wanted to be accepted and admired, so much so that when he saw the chance, he grabbed power and became a central figure in an intrigue that bilked North Carolinians of their money, land and belongings at a time when they were most vulnerable.

Hidden in plain view within the pages Schenck’s diaries that spanned 50 years, yet under the noses of Civil War historians who have referenced them for decades, are clues to his role as a Confederate receiver.

“I had been laboring under the impression that David Schenck as a receiver under the Confederate Act of Sequestration was some sort of tax collector because everything I could find, which wasn’t much at all, indicated that,” said USC Salkehatchie historian Rodney Steward. “What I found was anything but that.”

Steward’s biography on the Confederate official and lawyer, “David Schenck and the Contours of Confederate Identity,” was released in June by the University of Tennessee Press.

“No one has written about sequestration. I can count on about one hand the number of publications that has dealt with the topic since 1865,” Steward said.

In response to a U.S. Congressional act that allowed Union forces to confiscate property, including slaves, the Confederate Congress passed the Act of Sequestration, which established grand juries and receivers who were charged with ferreting out and seizing the property, debts and anything that was in part or fully owned by a Northerner.

“If you owed money to a Northern factor, you now owed that money to the Confederate government,” Steward said. “It was the only legislation whose jurisdiction was the exclusive domain of the Confederate government. All other policies were delegated to state governments. In this sense, Schenck and other receivers become the face of the Confederate government at the local level.”

While the proceeds of property seized and auctioned were supposed to go to the coffers of the Confederacy, Steward discovered deceit.

“Schenck writes in his diary in 1862 when he first gets started. He makes an entry where he says that he auctioned $22,000 worth of property on a single day. However, the sequestration fund ledger in Richmond indicates that in the month of September 1862 only $3,682 was remitted,” he said. “The district court of North Carolina pocketed or distributed those funds liberally among the various members of the court.”

Steward said its makes a person wonder how much of New South fortunes were the result of this corruption.

“A lot of evidence has been mysteriously scattered,” Steward said. “I’ve found records and court writs in some strange places, including archived records of The Charlotte Observer and a variety of collections in the National Archives. We’re talking about untold amounts of money that I have an idea was upwards of $10 – 20 million.”

Steward became fascinated with Schenck as a Confederate nationalist and how religion, duty and manhood shaped his identity.
“The first story about David Schenck that I connected with was the construction of his Confederate identity,” he said. “Schenck came of age in the antebellum South, which had very rigid social norms in which few were deemed ‘respectable.’ Schenck was part of the small but burgeoning middle class and although he became a lawyer, he remained on the periphery of elite society. His religious training or the lack thereof was an impediment. His father, left in a religious stupor after the death of his wife when Schenck was 2, didn’t provide the spiritual training essential for a young man to being accepted into polite society.”
To overcome social disadvantage, Schenck fashioned a Confederate identity. He became an ardent supporter of the Southern Rights Party of North Carolina, a party Steward describes as “dangerous revolutionaries with violent revolution in mind.”
“They were not hot-headed cotton lovers who wanted to break with the Union and join the secessionist side, and they were definitely not the democracy loving, patriarchal, personal rights individuals that some have portrayed them to be,” Steward said. “These were professional middle-class men who wanted to destroy the state’s Democratic Party and replace it with their new secessionist party and overthrow the popular governance of the state by any means necessary so that North Carolina is removed from the Union. That is what no one has written about.”
The image he fashioned and projected along with his role as a receiver for the Confederacy are among the more compelling aspects of the biography. Another is debunking the notion that those on the homefront were weary loyalists.

“Looking at North Carolina’s homefront through Schenck’s eyes is something more like the French Revolution during the Reign of Terror,” he said. “People were threatened with the loss of their lives, liberty and property.”

President’s Honor Roll:  Erica R. Bessinger, Cinnamon A. Carson, Dana E. Crews, Sydney E. Elledge, Amber H. Heape, Jamie H. Jones, Corey L. Macfarlan, Molly L. Mills, Leroy L. Mundell, Lauren A. Murdaugh, Jermale A. Paige, Tabitha C. Rice, Chalice S. Ritter, April J. Sexton, Ericka D. Sizemore, Joshua D. Smoak, Eugenia C. Teston, Peter C. Wilson.

Dean’s List:  Eric F. Albany, Glenn V. Amberson, Maryam G. Ashtiani, Robbie Bacon, Veronica S. Bastian, Anna C. Bell, Dorothy L. Belton, Nicole B. Bennett, Jose L. Berbesi Lopera, Summer S. Blocker, Amanda D. Boatwright, Ashlyn B. Boyd, Asia J. Brabham, Stephen D. Bridges, Kathleen H. Buchanan, Stacey G. Childress, Zachary W. Clegg, Lateshia M. Cohen, Marissa J. Collett, Jessica L. Deer, Regan E. Dixon, Blake A. Drew, Brandon A. Duboise, Maybank Duncan, Shannon R. Evans, Taylor D. Fox, Ashley T. Freeman, Devorah M. Gantt, Kayla N. Ginn, Charlene L. Grant, Amelia P. Green, Eva D. Griffin, Justin B. Hiers, Beverly A. Hiott, Kimberly D. Hiott, Elizabeth B. Hogg, Amanda K. Horn, Shandra J. Housey, April R. Howton, Sydney S. Johns, David A. Johnson, Lacey A. Jones, Marilee B. Just-Ta, Jennifer A. Kauffeld, Chanita L. Kennedy, Sarah E. Kinard, Tyler R. Kirby, Richard C. Knight, Kahilu K. Koth, Martika D. Lapresta, Curtis L. Lee, Nicole M. Lewis, Hattie F. Lisbon, Keyon L. Lisbon, Rochelle N. Lyda, Laura A. Maule, Kelly S. Mcdonnell, Satin L. Mcintosh, Kayla L. Mcknight, Joseph M. Metz, Lillian D. Miller, Rickey P. Miller, Katie M. Nettles, Dorian O’Murray, Sherrieka A. Othello, Shannon A. Parker, Morgan W. Proctor, David A. Reeves, Jose M. Regalado, William M. Richardson, Toshyanna L. Roberts, Miguel A. Salas Ceja, Tyler J. Sanderlin, Scott A. Saunders, Sabrina D. Saxon, Ibrahima Seck, Mori S. Shands, Whitney M. Smalls, Bianca D. Smith, Curtis S. Smith, Mindy C. Smith, Ashley M. Smoak, Colette B. Snedegar, Kayla D. Southerland, Sierra D. Stadler, Jessica L. Sterrett, Alicia C. Strock, Daniel B. Stroman, Monica E. Swogger, Jie W. Ta, Chelsea D. Taylor, Dennelle G. Thompson, Sierra M. Tippins, Elijah D. Ukpong, Jonathan D. Wiley, Christina E. Zander.

Crews, who competes in  womens soccer and softball for USC Salkehatchie received the Superior Academic Achievement Award. Recipients must earn a cumulative 3.80 to 3.99 GPA to be honored this level.

Lewis, who competes in womens soccer and softball, Maule, who competes in softball, and Paige, who competes in baseball, each received the Exemplary Academic Achievement Award.  Recipients must earn a cumulative 3.60 to 3.79  GPA to be recognized at this level.

Only 1,680 NJCAA student-athletes met the requirements for individual academic honors. Nearly 60,000 student-athletes competed in the NJCAA for the 2011-2012 academic year on over 3,500 teams in 28 different sports.

For more information about these awards, visit the NJCAA website.