Campus News


David Bancroft Johnson to be Inducted into S.C. Hall of Fame


Michael Matthews Earns Top Teaching Award


Associate Professor Michael Matthews received the university’s top teaching award at the Dec. 17 Commencement ceremony.


President Mahony presented Matthews with the 2016 James Pinckney Kinard and Lee Wicker Kinard Award for Excellence in Teaching.


Matthews teaches healthcare management and management


courses for the College of Business Administration and hu- man experience courses for the general education program.


More than 350 students fanned out in Rock Hill on Jan. 16 during the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday so they could help make the community a better place. Te MLK Day of Service is Winthrop’s largest annual one-day service event.


David Bancroft Johnson


Winthrop founder David Bancroft Johnson will be inducted into the S.C. Hall of Fame this spring during a ceremony on the Winthrop campus.


Te S.C. Hall of Fame recognizes and honors both contemporary and past citizens who have made outstanding contributions to the state’s heritage and progress.


Johnson, who served as Winthrop’s first president from 1886 until his death in 1928, lobbied for funding, recruited instructors, obtained a building — and on Nov. 15, 1886, theWinthrop Training School opened its doors in Columbia.


Johnson was elected to serve as president of the National Education Association in 1915 and was voted “Educator of the Half Century” for South Carolina in 1950 — 22 years after his death. He is buried on campus in the Little Chapel, which served as the classroom for Winthrop’s first students.


Gina Price White ’83, director of the Louise Pettus Archives & Special Collections, and Susan Hoffer McMillan ’71, a former Winthrop Board of Trustees’ member and a current S.C. Hall of Fame board member, led the charge to secure Johnson’s induction into the Hall of Fame.


Stay tuned for more information on ceremony details. 14 Watch the December Commencement ceremony highlights.


Students Give Winthrop High Marks on National Survey


Results from the 2016 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) indicate that Winthrop seniors are highly satisfied with their educational experience. Take a look at Winthrop’s 2016 NSSE snapshot and read more about the results.


Students, joined by President Mahony, wife Laura, daughter Elena and her friends, contributed 1,558 hours of service by assembling 150 hygiene packs and packaging fleece scarves for local warming centers; constructing eight greenhouses for the Rock Hill Community Education Garden; preparing and serving 261 meals through the Rock Hill Feeding Project; collecting and donating approximately 100 lbs. of food to the local Veterans Affairs food pantry; cleaning playground equipment, organizing the food pantry and serving meals to Pilgrims’ Inn residents; preparing 1,600 meals for the Urban Ministry Center’s soup kitchen; and organizing the clothing closet and food pantry for Renew Our Community.


Athletics Hall of Fame Welcomes 2017 Inductees


Two former student-athletes, a retired men’s soccer coach and a retired athletic director were inducted into the 2017 class of the Winthrop Athletics Hall of Fame on Jan. 27. Te newest inductees, joined by Athletic Director Ken Halpin, from left, are retired Athletic Director Tom Hickman, Shannon Sitzmann Reid ’08 (volleyball), Chris Gaynor ’08 (men’s basketball) and retired Coach Rich Posipanko (men’s soccer) Te number of former players, coaches and administrators in the Athletics Hall of Fame now stands at 77.


Students Contribute 1,558 Service Hours on MLK Jr. Day


International Organ Series Features Leading Authorities on German Composers


Winthrop’s International Organ Series brings to campus two musicians who share a Leipzig, Germany, connection for a March 25 event entitled “Bach and Beyond — the Leipzig Organ Tradition.” Christoph Wolff, the greatest living authority on J.S. Bach, and Stefan Engels, an expert on the works of Sigfrid Karg-Elert, will delight and inform organ and music enthusiasts during a master class, lecture and recital on the famed D.B. Johnson Memorial Organ.


Christoph Wolff


Wolff, the Adams University Research Professor at Harvard University and Visiting Professor at the Juilliard School in New York, is the former director of the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig. Engels, a professor of organ at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, was founder and artistic director of the European Organ Academy Leipzig.


Te March 25 activities include: a 10 a.m. master class; a 2 p.m. lecture by Wolff on “Te Leipzig Organ Tradition – From J.S. Bach to Karg-Elert;” and a 4 p.m. D.B. Johnson Memorial Organ recital by Engels featuring the music of Bach, Mendelssohn, Karg-Elert and Max Reger.


Stefan Engels


Admission to all three events is $25. Individual events are $10 per event. Tickets are available in advance at bachandbeyond2017.eventbrite.com


For more information, please contact Clara Godshall at 843/697-6978 or email claragodshall@gmail.com.


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