Lunch and Learn Series   

Randy Conway: The Quality Movement. Randy Conway had staff responsibility for overseeing the Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce response to the Quality movement that began in the US in the late-1980s. The Quality movement refers to the focus placed on the application of statistical quality control methods coupled with training and educating of employees to address effectively these improved work processes. Randy actually left the chamber in the 1990s to pursue a career as a quality process consultant with a nation-wide client base. Some points that will be discussed: 

• Where, when and why did it begin?
• How did it come to America?
• Who were the major influencers?
• What is its status now?
• What was Spartanburg's Quality in the Workplace program and how did it benefit this area?

A box lunch will be provided. 

James Jones, immigration attorney, will discuss Immigration and the challenges and opportunities it presents our country. James A. Jones’ tenure with immigration law and procedure began at Florida State University College of Law. He now dedicates his full-time and efforts in representing clients in a full range of immigration issues.

A box lunch will be provided. 

Brad Steinecke, Assistant Director of Local History, Bringing Home the Freedom Flag and Its Significance to Spartanburg. Soon after the end of the Civil War in 1865, U.S. Army soldiers arrived in Spartanburg County to keep the peace and ensure that newly freed African Americans were granted the freedoms previously denied them. On Sept. 22, 1865, a committee of Black citizens honored these soldiers by presenting them with a hand-sewn American flag made in Spartanburg by a preacher’s wife, who used her red petticoat and other textiles to recreate a flag she had seldom seen. This flag was held by soldiers and Black residents as they marched through the streets of Spartanburg to celebrate emancipation. The original flag is displayed in the downtown library after an interesting journey to come home. 

 

A box lunch will be provided. 

Elizabeth Rabb, Deputy Athletic Director at Wofford College, will discuss Title IX, Wofford women’s sport history and females in athletics. 

A box lunch will be provided. 

Stewart Winslow, Director of Horticulture and Landscape Design at Wofford, The Influence of Beatrix Farrand on Wofford's Everchanging Landscape.  

A box lunch will be provided. 

Andrew Myers, professor of American Studies, USC Upstate and novelist, will describe the scary adventures of a daring young balloonist from New England who was attempting to guide his gas-filled balloon from Cincinnati to Washington, DC, in April 1861, but instead he wound up in Piedmont South Carolina just as the Civil War was getting underway. 

A box lunch will be provided.