Several years before his retirement as Furman’s president, Dr. David Shi maintained a correspondence with one of Furman’s best known former students, nationally syndicated sports journalist and columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Furman Bisher. Bisher who attended Furman in 1938-1939, was winding down an award-winning career in sports journalism. During part of the conversation Mr. Bisher let it be known that he had amassed an extensive, wide-ranging collection of books about sports and sports figures, and that he would like to donate the greatest part of them to the James B. Duke Library at Furman. Mr. Bisher personally oversaw the selection of donated titles until his death in March of 2012.
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Joint work between the library, the university’s development office, and Lynda Bisher brought the rest of the collection to Furman within a year. This year over Spring break the last twenty two boxes were delivered to the James B. Duke Library, where they are now undergoing accession processing and cataloging. A sample of Bisher’s donated collection is on display in the James B. Duke Library.
