Nearly 30 Winthrop student-athletes participated in the 50-state relay run for world harmony on April 25 as the 11,000-mile, four-month journey found its way to the Rock Hill campus. The students met with the representatives from World Harmony Run and took turns carrying the lighted torch as they ran around Winthrop Lake.

Michael Lavine, assistant professor of art, speaks with sculpture student Katie Lloyd while in her sculpture titled “Some Tuesday in October in 2003” during an April 14 reception at the Winthrop Galleries. The event was part of Big Friday, an alumni mini reunion for art and design majors.

Political science majors Shalai Coakley and Willie Lyles III won the top student awards presented by the Division of Student Life for 2006. Coakley of Mount Pleasant, S.C., took the Mary Mildred Sullivan Award, while Lyles of Blythewood, S.C., captured the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award.

Winthrop senior James Shuler (right) played his final game against the Tennessee Volunteers in the first round of the Big Dance in Greensboro, N.C. The Eagles lost in the final seconds of the 63-61 thriller.

Winthrop’s largest student organization, the Association of Ebonites, held their 30th anniversary concert on April 9. The office of Alumni Relations is interested in forming an alumni interest group of former AOE members. Contact Sylvester Owens, alumni programs director, if you would like to join.