by Joey Hays '03 and Brent Owens '03
Courtyard Bench
This stone bench reflects words from Archie O. Joslin’s speech addressing the Rock Hill Chamber of Commerce in 1951: “It is they, the human element…what they do. What they say. As we lay stone upon stone, a time will come when these stones will be held as sacred because our hands have touched them.”
Joslin served as president of M. Lowenstein Corporation, parent company of the Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company. Etching his words in stone calls attention to the Courtyard having been built on the site of the community’s textile industry. The stone work and design was created by students Joey Hays and Brent Owens. The etching was made possible by a gift from Capstone Development Corporation of Birmingham, Ala.