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Old Vol) feel the ei
shock last Tuesday night? How did you ?
all stand It? Iwas much frightened. I a
had gone to bed and was asleep and it IT
woke me. The house was shaking iust ti
as hard as It could. I first thought It
was a storm and looked out but saw no W
sign of a cloud and It was calm and I s<
did not at one time think of en earth ..
quake and I dressed myself as quick as tl
I could and went to the next house and
found that they was more frightened
besides myself...I expect you have
heard the news from Charleston....It
Has Keen ? * * ?
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ever since. No one can think or talk of
anything else... p
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letter written from Manning, S.C. by _
Mrs. Bradham to her aunt, Mrs. t
Catherine Bethune in Lynch wood, C
S.C., dated September 8,1886. Used by k
permission of Ms. Althea Truesdell. jj
By Barry J. Glenn h
Oamecock Staff Writer ?
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Such was the response of one I
witness to what has become known *
as the Charleston Earthquake of r
1886. And it is eyewitness accounts
such as these that are of great
interest to Dr. Kenneth Peters of c
the USC College of General f
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the social aspects of the ear- c
thquake. x
Peters, faculty director of the ?
Learning Resources Center of the j
college, recently received a $500 \
productive scholarship grant to }
study the earthquake which s
resulted in about 60 deaths and
caused widespread damage to the
Charleston area.
Peters, who plans to culminate t
his study with a book or booklet on I
the subject said he wants "to trace I
the social implications of the 1
earthquake ? how it affected '
religion, businesses and the per- 1
Non-exclusio
By Brian Duncan r
Oamtcock Staff Writer C
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A proposal to allow faculty i
representatives to remain during i
executive sessions of the Board of
Trustee's Intercollegiate Athletic
Committee meetings is before the (
board, according to Peter Becker.
i
Dr. Becker, chairman of the
University Athletic Advisory
Committee, said his suggestion i
deals with the non-exclusion of
himself and William F. Putnam, I
faculty delegate to the NCAA, from <
closed-door IAC meetings. I
These two faculty represen- *
tatives presently attend the IAC's {
regular sessions as advisory voices ,
with no voting rights, Becker said. (
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been attending the regular |
sessions, but must leave along with
members of the press and other 1
unauthorized persons when an I
executive session is called, "unless <
expressly asked to stay." (
"I HAD written them (the I AC) a _
letter previously, and simply ?
reiterated it at the last meeting,"
Becker said. "I requested my
presence at executive sessions to
be better able to represent the
faculty's opinion on overall athletic
dealings within the university."
Hugh H. Wells, chairman of the
Intercollegiate Athletic Committee,
said the IAC, "operates as
a major board committee, and
functions as a liaison between the I
board of trustees, the ad- I
fessor st
Hialities of the people. There are
ccounts of people attributing
liraculous cures to the earlquake.
On the other hand, there
'ere people who attributed all
Drts of maladies to the earlquake."
ACCORDING TO PETERS, the
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light of August 31, 1886, had its
picenter not in Charleston but at a
ilace called Ten Mile Hill, between
Charleston and Summerville. "If it
tad hit Charleston with the impact
t hit Ten Mile Hill, there would
lave been even more
levastation," he said. "The efects
of the earthquake were felt in
toston and Detroit. On today's
lichter scale it would have
neasured about an eight."
Peters hopes to get information
>n the social impact of the quake
rom sermons, newspapers,
liaries and other sources written
luring that time. "Some of the
vhite pastors had written their
termons down and these are
ivailable. Of the black churches,
iowever, where the emotion ran
ligh or higher, very few of these
termons were written down.
"A few weeks after the earthquake
the merchants put out a
brochure describing the earthquake.
Interspersed in these
were advertisements which said
'Yes, we're still open' or 'unaffected
by earthquake.' Some
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ninistration and the athletic
lepartment, primarily concerned
vith the developments, problems,
ind the athletic activities of the
iniversity."
The University Athletic Advisory
Committee's next meeting is
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PETERS SAID the biggest
problem he has run into with the
project is lack of time. "The money
from the grant is available until
June 30 of next year. But library
work and looking through
newspapers takes a lot of time. I
have been to Charleston five times
and have found people very willing
to help. Most of the letters I have
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societies and museums have been
very excited about this project."
Peters, who teaches American
and South Carolina history courses
in the College of General Studies,
said he first became interested in
the Charleston earthquake when
he accompanied USC geology
professor Pradeep Talwani on an
exploration trip last summer. "I
went with him into the Dorchester
County area near Holly Hill to do
some testing. Together with his
suggestion and my own trip I
became interested in the
Charleston earthquake."
Peters said he hopes to include
pictures of the earthquake damage
in his book. "There are pictures of
tents being pitched out in the
middle of the squares in Charleston
just to keep people away from the
narrow street where the buildings
were falling down," he said.
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