Gearing Up For Summer
Published: April 13, 2021
From volleyball to science research, and from soccer to songwriting, campus sizzles all summer with activity, learning, skill building, and faith development. The latest issue of The RECORD offers a snapshot of last summer's activities and previews the excitement to come beginning this June. Summer programs will include a reprise of last summer's music camp that put high school drum majors on the fast track to win awards and more than a dozen athletic camps that put hundreds of young participants through paces that improved their skills in soccer, basketball, volleyball, and football.
Faith plays a key role in summer learning at GC. Camp directors integrate devotions, worship, daily talks and more into campers' schedules. We have a passion for basketball, but more importantly, we have a passion for Christ, explains Roy Mulholland, associate camp director for the Panther Basketball Academy, and GCs head womens basketball coach. Last summer more than 240 young basketball campers enlivened Whitlock Music Center nightly with their vibrant praise and worship.
Participants in GC's youth programs are not the only beneficiaries of accelerated learning on campus in summer. College students involved in G.C.'s summer science research program worked toward ambitious objectives last summer and will do so again during the upcoming summer months. By the end of the first two weeks I had learned more than I thought I would throughout the entire summer, remarked then physics major Brian Stratton. Stratton credits the summer research opportunity as good preparation for the rigors of academic life as an engineering student at Washington University where he now studies.
Not to be missed is an introduction to GC alumnus Bob Joseph, acclaimed astronomer and former director of NASA'S Infrared Telescope Facility on Mount Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Dr. Joseph recalls his experiences as a student on the Greenville College campus fifty years ago as strong influences on his work and teaching decades later.
Click here to read the full March issue of The RECORD.
