Journey to Jordan
By Dr. Joe P. Dunn Charles A. Dana Professor & Chair of the Converse College Department of History & Politics For ten days in June, I was in Amman, Jordan …
Travel
Two Converse Students Prepare Jordanian School to Run Model Arab League Program in Amman
By Dr. Joe P. Dunn Chair of the Converse History and Politics Department Charles A. Dana Professor of History and Politics When Hoor Hawamdeh, a teacher at the Modern …
Converse Students Perform on an East Coast Tour
The 2004 Petrie School tour will feature some of our best chamber music groups including the Converse Chamber Singers, Pine Street Quartet, Converse Brass Ensemble, the Converse Wind Quartet, and …
Converse Takes Top Honors Against Ivy League Schools
A delegation from Converse College was the big winner at the Northeast Model League of Arab States competition as they beat a collection of delegations from Ivy League institutions that …
Music Played Well with Politics
By Linda Lange for The Knoxville News-Sentinel During the summer of 2003, Valerie Brock ’03 sang with the Egyptian ambassador while a guest at his villa on the shore of …
Singers and Players Tour Cathedrals of Great Britain and France
From May 28-June 13, a group of singers, instrumentalists, and faculty from the Petrie School of Music toured Europe and performed at some of the world’s most well known cathedrals …
Economics Professor Invited to Poland for EU Study
Converse College economics professor Dr. Woodrow Hughes has been selected to join 15 other S.C. educators on a five-week swing through Poland to conduct a case study on that country’s …
Mac Boggs Invited to Present World Trade Center Memorial in Italy
By Sherry Henson, Converse II Staring out the window of his elementary school classroom, Professor Mayo Mac Boggs would watch the paddle wheelers pushing barges up and down the Ohio …
When in Rome…
SPARTANBURG, S.C.– For 31 days, Rome was home to 21 Converse College students. From May 21-June 21, the students experienced many aspects of Italian culture as part of a study-travel …