#class of 1995

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Dom Kennedy wearing the “Kisha” Bootleg Tee

Photographer: Gee Bose

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South Carolina’s Critical Race War on Education, Part 1: Origin story

TheGrio's four-part series explores how South Carolina became the home of the fight against critical race theory and equal education

Michael Harriot has written a lengthy and detailed documentation of South Carolina's War on Education. Make a cup of tea before you settle in to digest it. There are four parts: part one above, two, three, and four.

If you scroll down to Harriot's screenshot of the endnotes on the anti-CRT primer, you see his highlighting of Christopher Rufo. But a sharp WutBJU reader saw something else. All BJU students from the 1990s would see it too:

Joshua Matthew Dunn, BJU Class of 1995.

Professor Dunn doesn't like to highlight his BJU connections, but they are all over his scholarship.

His dad, Professor Charles W. Dunn, was well known for "preaching" in his Clemson classroom. WYFF would always highlight Professor Dunn at election time. If you want to read his not-yet-quaint screeds against President Obama, you can go to his old blogger blog.

Who's surprised that Charles Dunn's progeny would be part of the next wave of Klandamentalism?

God help us all.

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Andrew Garfield as Valérien Martin

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Attended Beauxbatons: 1987 - 1995 Major role: a muddle of blue and silver

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Marius Joseph Pundys, age 60, of Greer, South Carolina, left this earth on January 15, 2026.

Marius was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Peter Boniface and Dalia Ona (née Dikinis) Pundys on March 9, 1965 along with his two triplet siblings. He graduated from East Greenwich High School in Rhode Island in 1983.

He would go on to attend the University of Rhode Island. In 1986, he played "Mordcha" in the Newport Players' Fiddler on the Roof.

By the fall of 1993, he left for sunnier climes in South Carolina. He graduated from Bob Jones University with a B.A. in Interpretative Speech in 1995 and an M.A. in Dramatic Production in 1997.

He taught in the Division of Speech Communication at BJU from 1998-2005 with a leave of absence from 2002-2004 while he received advanced training at Indiana University, Bloomington. Students remember him as gentle and invested in their success.

He regularly played, designed, or directed Classic Players' productions and operas at BJU. I remember finding an audio recording of his maternal uncle, Algimantas Dikinis, performing for a Lithuanian radio station in 1977. Listen to it. It sounds just like Marius!

Marius embodied the proverb, "still waters run deep." When you yourself were quiet alongside him, Marius's creativity, intellect, and humor came to light. He adored Christopher Guest movies. He took watching The Office to a new analytical level. He loved watching Mad Men and eagerly anticipated every new episode of Breaking Bad. He was an avid fan of deep discussions whether about Dolly Parton or Robert Reich! He told me all about Lithuanian brown bread, and I will always remember when he made Turkish Delight.

And don't think you could ever best him on Halloween costumes. In 2011, his Frankenstein's monster will never be topped.

His skills as a finish carpenter grace our home. In the front, he designed a one-of-a-kind lamp post.

In the back, he engineered and built a bridge. It was no easy feat to span the banks of that creek, but he did with skill and elegance. The bridge, it seems to us, exemplifies Marius' hidden gifts to craft something useful and beautiful.

Marius is predeceased by his parents and is survived by his siblings -- Lavinia Fiscaletti (Dino), Ravena Creedon (Charles), Aras Pundys, and Aurora Grybowski (Joseph) -- and his son, Peter J. Pundys.

We will see you again, my friend.

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The Crack in Everything: How Trauma Made Me a Teacher

Tonight is my 30th High School Reunion. I thought about going. I'm not.While I feel less animosity than I did for the 10th or the 20th, the invite—and the social media blitz from the class Instagram account—opened a trauma wound that hadn't fully healed.It was a May weekend in 1994. The Rangers had just beaten the Devils in triple overtime to stay alive in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. There was a…

The Crack in Everything: How Trauma Made Me a Teacher

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Emma Stone as Lucy Brown

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Attended Beauxbatons: 1987 - 1995 Major role: a muddle of blue and silver

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Sasha Pieterse as Amandine Pépin

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Attended Beauxbatons: 1987 - 1995 Major role: a muddle of blue and silver

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Leighton Meester as Sophie Lanoix

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Attended Beauxbatons: 1987 - 1995 Major role: a muddle of blue and silver