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That infectious smile Rhonda Hudson Gibson smiled her way through 51 SPRING 2017 South Carolina Honors College Dean / Steven Lynn Managing Editor / Writer / Aïda Rogers Director of Communications / Anna Redwine SCHC AHA! Intern / Aeriel Lee
years of life, two of them at the South Carolina Honors College, and before that at USC's School of Music. As budget manager, she assisted students, staff and faculty with financial issues, and with her trademark good humor kept the SCHC in solid order. We lost Rhonda unexpectedly Christmas morning, 2016. To say we’re devastated is not overstating the case. This issue of AHA! is dedicated to her.
Honors College Partnership Board Marshall Winn Catherine Heigel Chairman Vice Chairwoman Roger Barnette Eddie Jones Jay Cain Jodie McLean Dan D’Alberto Ben Rex Bill Duncan Thomas Scott Lori Clos Fisher Jacob Shuford Kevin Hall Sherri Timmons Steve Hibbard Jeff Vinzani Anita Hood, M.D.
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In this issue 4 / Ready to do their part Four SCHC scholars share their bold plans for the future.
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On a mission Courtney Hopkins Mann wants to save children from drowning. Steph Simonson Jeffries wants to save the southern Appalachian forests. There’s probably no one more dedicated to either cause.
8 / Best way to establish a creative career? Jaime Bernanke and Zack McKown reflect on the paths they took to create success in film and architecture, respectively.
10 / ON THE COVER Southern connector Stanfield Gray is bullish on the digital economy and the South, and he’s not bashful about explaining why.
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12 / A scholarship to help seal the deal
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Paul and Allison Aitchison believe the SCHC should be everyone’s top choice, which is why they established a new student scholarship.
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Cover photograph: Stanfield Gray in his Charleston, S.C. office
Dear alumni, Aeriel Lee remembers when it happened. She was in Anne Gulick’s Literary Approaches to Human Rights course, learning that the term “human rights” is rooted in Western imperialism. “I had to totally revise everything I thought I knew — not just about human rights but what being an ethical citizen in a modern world meant,” she says. “We really learned we’re global citizens due to our global economy.” Aeriel has been my intern this semester. A senior English major, she’s the recipient of the Summer Smith Taylor writing internship. When our editorial committee decided this issue of AHA! would focus on our “wide open” students and alumni, I thought I would interview her. “When I decided to stay in South Carolina for college, I figured I would get
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this provincial experience,” she confesses. “But the classes I’ve taken have been incredibly global. The commitment to diversity has been so surprising, especially in the Honors College.” For Aeriel, an American who grew up in Greer, S.C., with Korean-born parents, diversity matters. So does justice. Michael Dowdy’s Borders and Barricades course, which focuses on Latino fiction and poetry, revealed that behind the abundance in American grocery stores are migrant workers toiling in inhumane conditions. “These stories are usually never heard because their writers don’t occupy spaces of privilege, because they’re poor, don’t have access to elite education systems or don’t write in English,” she says. “Studying art and literature can bridge these gaps of empathy that exist in our alienating modern world.” Aeriel is at the SCHC thanks to a Pell Grant, Life Scholarship and loans. Even attending college was iffy — her father’s small construction-related business suffered during the Great Recession — and the debt seemed overwhelming. But that was four years ago. “Being here has given me courage to think more deeply about things and question issues. That’s scary but worth it, if we want to improve the world,” she says. I teasingly chide her to pursue journalism and cover issues she
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cares about so much. But she’s set on graduate school and becoming an English professor like those who’ve inspired her. She’s undaunted by the $20,00030,000 debt she faces after graduating in May. “I’ve learned I’m capable of more than I thought. Young people talk about loan debt, but I know it’s worth it. It’s been a really good educational experience, and I’ve been so lucky to have it.” Like I’ve been lucky to have her. For the students,
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Ready to do their part They’re producing socially-conscious films, clerking in law offices, writing more diverse characters into video games, defending our country — all to create a better world. And these are just a few of the students we’re proud of. By Aeriel Lee
Phillips will return to L.A. this summer, where he hopes to gain more experience while also conducting hands-on Magellan Scholar research on how virtual reality is changing the Holly wood business model. Meanwhile, "Night Exit," his new film, can be found on Kickstarter. “It’s a coming of age story, but it’s a bit more of a darker, realistic take on what it means to grow up in this modern age, while also focusing quite a bit on issues of identity and sexual orientation and gender fluidity.”
Herman Phillips
HERMAN PHILLIPS, ’18, captained the crew for his film “I Alone,” which he submitted to Campus Movie Fest last semester. For its poignant meditation on the experience of Islamophobia, “I Alone” swept the awards program at USC and advanced to the TERMINUS International Film Festival in Atlanta, where it won an additional $10,000 in the social justice category. “I want my films to speak to social issues or to larger political issues to move our society forward and progress,” says Phillips, who is double majoring in English and film and media studies. After acclaimed documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick visited campus last spring, Phillips contacted him. Phillips secured an internship for the summer in L.A. that eventually led to his executive assistant gig for Dick’s own film producer, Amy Ziering. “Getting to work for a producer really gives you an inside look on everything a producer does, which was really great for me, getting to sample that,” Phillips says. One highlight was being in L.A. for the Emmy nomination process for Dick’s latest film, about campus sexual assault.
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NICOLE WITTSTEIN, ’17 BARSC, is headed to Duke University School of Law in the fall and traces her interest in justice to age 5 when she began doing theater. From there it was an easy transition to mock trial, a program where students simulate court trials. Now, she’s serving her second year as president of the USC’s Mock Trial club. “I love my team, I love this program,” Wittstein says. Equally important has been her experience with the highly selective Honors BARSC program, which allows students to design their own degrees. Legal advocacy and jurisprudence will be Wittstein’s. She’s enjoyed taking smaller, intensive Honors courses that deepen her knowledge of law.
Nicole Wittstein
“I’ve pretty much just fallen in love with the law from there,” she says. Wittstein is interested mostly in constitutional law, which seeks to ensure the rights guaranteed in the constitution are continually upheld. She’s getting real world experience, working between classes as a law clerk for Columbia firm BNTD LLC. After law school, Wittstein plans to stay in the Carolinas where extreme political division offers what she calls a “fight to fight.” There might be something political for her in the future, she hints, but for now, she’s concentrating on how to succeed in her first year at a top law school. “I know it’s going to be hard, but it’s going to be worth it.” BONNIE HARRIS-LOWE, ’17, loves playing video games, but she thinks they can be improved. “My whole thing with video games,” says Harris-Lowe, “is that representation of women, minorities and LGBT groups is not good and it’s rarely even there.” It’s a problem she plans to fix. Her method? Write more stories for these characters into video games. Harris-Lowe has been writing since she was 5, and her media arts major has allowed her to explore creating stories for different technological media, including video game design. A Magellan Scholar, Harris-Lowe is conducting research on how the representation of women and minorities in video games affects their treatment within their community, which often is characterized by harassment and exclusion. That frustrates her. “Video games have an immense amount of untapped potential as a tool for teaching and as something that can really shape people’s hearts and minds,” she says, noting that many more women and minorities play than people realize. But she doesn’t forget gaming is, above all, fun. She wants to make lighthearted games that can put something positive
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Daniel Keenen
into a grim world. Perhaps she’ll start this fall at the University of Southern California, where she’s been accepted into a graduate program in video game design. Or maybe she’ll do it on her own, taking the path of indie game development. “This is my own way of putting light into the world,” she says. DANIEL KEENEN, ’17, decided to join the Army ROTC his freshman year after completing the GORUCK challenge, an extreme, overnight 12-hour fitness test inspired by the special operations unit of the U.S. Army. His decision paid off recently when he was ranked the No. 2 ROTC cadet from more than 5,000 in the country. “I love the United States and wanted to play my part in preserving our freedoms for the next generation,” Keenen explains. “Freedom is earned, not given, after all.” While Keenen, a native of Cumming, Ga., nailed a perfect score on the physical fitness test to earn his high ranking in the ROTC, that’s not all the Army considers. A double major in geography and Russian, he also has a 4.0 GPA and is president of both the ROTC and Russian club. “A lot of it just comes back to being disciplined and willing to put in the work,” he says. “I also expected a lot of myself, so I had to work hard to meet my own standards.” After graduation, Keenen plans to join the Army Reserves and has aspirations to work in military intelligence. He’s also on track to start seminary in the fall, possibly at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. He knows he’ll enjoy his memories of his time as a cadet. Even if ROTC’s rigorous commitments haven’t always been fun, it’s been worth it, he says. “I would not trade my time in ROTC for anything.” Aeriel Lee, ’17 English, is the current recipient of the Summer Smith Taylor Endowed Internship Fund.
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MISSION
PREVENTING CHILDHOOD DROWNINGS Courtney Hopkins Mann dreads summers. A pediatric emer-
you started talking about child safety, they became skittish.
gency medicine physician, Mann knows inevitably she will have
They were not eager to jump into that entrepreneurial pool,
to tell parents their child has died or sustained a permanent
because what we were doing had never been done.
disability from drowning and there is nothing more she could
“Most of our initial capital was raised from physicians and small angel groups. Not until wearable technology became
have done. But in 2008, she had enough. When a 7-year-old girl drowned in water so shallow “she could have stood up in it,”
more common did we finally gain traction.” A two-part system, SwimSafe consists of colorful, light-
Mann and her colleague took action. They decided to create
weight bands swimmers wear around their necks and a hub
a device that could alert adults their children were in trouble
that stays in constant contact with those bands. When swim-
before it was too late.
mers submerge past the time set for their level of ability, the
“We were tired of seeing children die needlessly,” said Mann,
hub lights up and sounds an alarm. Portable and easy to use,
a Hartsville native practicing in Raleigh who earned a chemis-
it nevertheless represents years of testing, revisions and work
try degree at Carolina in 1989. “People can argue that parents
with radio frequency, antennas, complex computer program-
should be watching, but things happen quickly and parents
ming algorithms and waterproofing.
are human. The perception is when you’re drowning, you’re thrashing and making noise and people will notice you, but what we know is they quietly slip under the water. There had to be a better way.” That better way is the SEAL SwimSafe Monitoring System. Mann helped develop it with Dr. Graham Snyder, with whom she was working when they tried to save that
“The final product is light years away from the draft we made years ago. We had some general ideas that generated our original patents, but it took a lot of other great minds to overcome what we didn’t see,” Mann says. “We’re just the ones who wouldn’t give up. We are passionate about saving children’s lives and just naïve enough to believe we could fix this problem.” Not that it’s just for children. Anyone who goes in the water is a candidate when you consider the possibility of a heart
7-year-old girl. Featured in the New York
attack or seizure while swimming. Multiple YMCAs around the
Times, Newsweek, and on the Today Show,
country and cruise lines in the United States and abroad have
the system took years and countless engineers
implemented the system, and all have reported positive results.
to design. It also took years of Snyder and Mann
“We hope to see this as ubiquitous as bicycle helmets,”
“bootstrapping” it themselves — putting their own money
Mann said. “Just this past summer, in one week, I had three
into hiring engineers to create it. “The difficulty we faced initially raising capital was heartbreaking,” Mann recalled. “People seemed willing to give
drownings in the ER. I walk into these rooms and I’m thinking, ‘This is so unnecessary. We have technology to get this done. We must move faster.’”
money for any new technology game or app, but when (above) A child wears the SEAL SwimSafe Monitoring System band
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SAVING SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN FORESTS Steph Simonson Jeffries exudes fresh air. The forest ecologist
us wherever we went,” she recalls. “Every time I snapped a
spends as much time as possible outdoors, leading study trips
photo of a family I asked about their favorite hike, and we
in the southern Appalachian Mountains, researching hikes for
got lots of recommendations.”
a guidebook, even running in ultramarathons. For Jeffries, ’93
While hiking is fun, there are serious lessons to learn. Since
marine science, joy is understanding and conserving the envi-
she’s been teaching, countless hemlocks and Fraser firs have
ronment — and inspiring others to do the same.
died, a result of climate change and exotic insects imported
“People say they’ll never take a walk in the woods or see the
with nursery stock. As shady streamside hemlocks disappear,
forest in the same way again,” she says of Exploring Southern
water temperatures rise, threatening brook trout that need
Appalachian Forests, which she wrote with Thomas R. Went-
cold water to survive. The changes upset Jeffries, perhaps
worth, her colleague at North Carolina State University. “What
most within Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest with its towering
we’re accomplishing with the book is creating ecologically
tulip trees, some more than 20 feet in circumference and
literate citizens.”
400-plus years old.
As teaching assistant professor in N.C. State’s Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Jeffries has taught about a dozen students every other summer since the early
“It used to be this deep, old-growth hemlock forest for the first part of the hike, and now it’s blazing sunlight,” she says. “The big question is what happens once the hemlocks
2000s at the Highlands Biological Station in North Carolina.
and Fraser firs are gone. There are seedlings
Wentworth and other professors have joined her. It’s “sunup
and cones, yes — but can they compete in a
to sundown” teaching, with professors and students covering
warmer climate? The easy part of ecology
27 sites in the Smokies and southern Blue Ridge Mountains. During a violent thunderstorm in the Ellicott Rock Wil-
is concepts, but there are so many factors that complicate the story. The recent
derness, where the Carolinas and Georgia meet, Wentworth
wildfires in North Carolina and Tennessee
joked to Jeffries that their adventures were book-worthy. They
are linked to 2016 being the driest fall on
discovered there was a market for a book that both new and
record, yet another symptom of a changing
experienced hikers could consult, one that would teach them
climate.”
how to read the stories in the forested landscape. Exploring Southern Appalachian Forests: An Ecological Guide to 30
Last semester Jeffries was brought inside to teach environmental science to 275 freshmen
Great Hikes in the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia
in different majors — all in one class. Returning to a
was published by the University of North Carolina Press in
traditional classroom doesn’t lessen her enthusiasm.
2014. “We never figured out if it was my straw hat or the little surveyor’s notebooks we carried, but people would talk to
“These are future engineers, educators, and business leaders, and this is their chance to really understand environmental issues,” she says. “How could I not be excited about that?”
(above) Steph Jeffries and her husband, Andrew Jeffries, ’95 IMBA, with their sons Simon and Stephen
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Best way to establish a
creative career? Jaime Bernanke and Zack McKown
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hey started out in the same place and ended up in the same place. But what happened in between makes for some pretty interesting conversation, particularly if you’re an SCHC student aiming for a creative career. At “Careening into Creativity,” a special evening lecture in Feb ruary, two alumni offered a fascinating and entertaining look at what worked for them. “Sometimes you want to take the scenic route even if it’s going to take you longer to get to your destination,” said Jaime Bernanke, a three-time Emmy award-winning documentary film producer and writer. “Turn off the GPS and wander, and in the end, you will be very happy.” “Don’t get locked into plans,” added Zack McKown, an architect/urban planner/interior designer. Recipient of the 2009 Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award for Interior Design, McKown’s work has been implemented all over the world. “Allow yourself to let things happen, to have different experiences. If you have an opportunity, travel. I didn’t know anything about architecture until I went to Italy, and then I was halfway through architecture school.” Before trips to Italy and ceremonies for television’s highest awards, Bernanke, ’75 history, and McKown, ’74 interdisciplinary studies, were students in USC’s then brand-new Honors College. Both grew up in Gaffney, S.C., and both entered Carolina as prelaw majors. Best friends then on campus and now in New York, both were willing to change their minds about what they wanted as life brought different opportunities their way. For McKown, the unexpected opportunity to design and build a one-room house on his father’s farm in Cherokee County changed the course of his life. When given the option of work, school or building the house one summer during college, McKown chose the house. Though it took two summers and friends to help build the polyurethane foam structure, he realized he’d discovered what he wanted to do. He changed his major from international studies to what was then called general studies, preparing him for Harvard’s graduate program in architecture. “There were so many twists and turns, and the point is that planning wouldn’t have worked,” McKown recalled. “It was about responding to things with an open mind and not being afraid to take it on, and depending on friends to help with various parts. The opportunity to do that house with my father was incredible.”
For Bernanke, studying at the University of Warwick in England as part of USC’s exchange program spurred him to pivot from law to history. A few years later, an inspiring lecture while he was a history Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin redirected him to Columbia University in New York City, where he earned a master’s degree in literature. A random job as a TV production assistant for a commercial for Dr. Seuss’s “Cat in the Hat” book — “I literally had to herd cats” — set him on a winding path to producing films and writing scripts for National Geographic and PBS documentaries. His subject matter has been as absorbing as it’s been diverse, ranging from the powerful “Gorilla Murders” for National Geographic to the enlightening “Constitution USA” series for PBS to the bewitching “Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air” for Nature. Trying other things can be helpful and instructive. “Put on a different hat, see how it fits,” Bernanke said, recounting his jobs as on-air promotion producer, marketing director, producer, writer and supervising producer during his decade on staff at National Geographic. “If something’s not working, maybe I should do something else for a while.” Collaborating with others can yield surprising and rewarding results, Bernanke and McKown agreed, not the least of which is making lifelong friends with like-minded people. Those friends can help when you’re stuck on a project. When projects don’t turn out the way you want, they still offer lessons on what not to repeat. “That term ‘follow your bliss’ seems to be the wisdom,” said McKown, who with his partner Calvin Tsao has designed clear lipstick cases for a Japanese cosmetics firm, housing for elderly monks in Bhutan and homes and centers in Singapore, Shanghai and New York. “Many people don’t know what their bliss is, and I believe one can have many, not just one,” McKown said. “It’s important to know you can make many paths work. It is critical that you be very interested in what you’re doing and not be overly influenced by preconceived notions of the right path.” And if times get really bad, you might follow one bit of advice from Suze Orman. “She says credit card debt is generally bad, but if you need to get over a hump, invest in yourself,” McKown emphasized. “Don’t stay somewhere if it doesn’t feel right. Get yourself out.”
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SOUTHERN CONNECTOR
A CONVERSATION WITH STANFIELD GRAY MIGHT TAKE YOU ANYWHERE. One minute he’s extolling the writings of Thomas Paine and Allen Ginsberg, the next he’s discussing the momentum of the digital economy in the South he so loves. But don’t think those subjects aren’t related. For Gray, the ’92 English Honors grad who has established the Southeast’s pre-eminent digital conference, it’s all about putting ideas and people together for the betterment of the region. “I’ve always been interested in writing and music and technology and all things creative, and particularly how they intersect, where those connections are,” he says. “And keeping ideas moving forward.” The ideas definitely brim and bubble at his annual Dig South Innovation Conference, a three-day gathering of high-level executives, investors, and builders of fast tech startups. It happens in Charleston, Gray’s adopted hometown, and bears many of his hallmarks. Along with 50-plus sessions and workshops, there’s always music: Gray’s a rock guitarist who almost became a musicologist. There’s also plenty of clever wordplay: Besides its Dig(ital) South title, attendees can attend nightly networking “shindigs.” Its website asks viewers to “dig our sponsors.”
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Those sponsors are many, impressive, and most notably, repeat. Same goes for the attendees and some of the presenters. Now in its fifth year, Dig South went from 450 attendees its first year to 1,100 the next. Now it draws 2,000. “Our goal is not to grow to 20,000,” Gray says. “Our goal is to focus on knowledge and networking and developing relationships between executives and entrepreneurs.” With Dig South, Gray is developing his own entrepreneurial skills, both as master event planner and content creator. While computer-smart, he’s quick to say he’s not a coder. His broad focus is making sure the South doesn’t lag behind the rest of the country, particularly now that the internet allows entrepreneurs to build their companies anywhere. A year in New York exposed him to big-time conferences and the realization that Silicon Valley, Boston, Chicago and New York were leaving the South behind. Back in Charleston in 2012, he thought the time was right for something similar but unique to the South. The recipe is working. Presenters — there are about 150 each year — have included representatives from Vox Media, Facebook, CNN, Twitter, the New York Times and Buzzfeed. Gary Vaynerchuk, the web-savvy business builder and venture capitalist, presented the Super Keynote in 2016. “He said there were tremendous opportunities in the South and came twice in a row, and he seldom goes anywhere twice,” Gray notes. “Our participants are surprised by how strong our companies are.” Spend some time on digsouth.com and you’ll see Gray and his team are finding and featuring innovative entrepreneurs and companies in major Southern metros. In time, Gray may launch complementary Dig South Conferences in Atlanta and other Southern cities. Promoting and connecting the South as a region is his way of keeping talent from leaving for bigger markets. “If Atlanta and Raleigh-Durham and Columbia collaborate more and invest capital, we’ll better compete with other parts of the country,” he reasons. “For example, it’s better for Columbia to lose a company to Atlanta because they can more readily partner and collaborate than if they choose Silicon Valley. It develops the regional ecosystem.” A Spartanburg native, Gray has been influenced by the civil rights movement, punk rock, the beatniks, bluegrass, jazz, blues, augmented reality and much more. To him, the South is a great place to live, rich in culture and foodways, literature, history and friendly people. “Why should you have to give those up to work in a business or industry in another part of the country?” he says. He wants to make sure his son and daughter — wife, Sunny, is Dig South’s CFO — have more opportunities after college than he did. Gray, who earned a master’s in southern studies from the University of Mississippi, maintains there’s more to the South than what happened in the past. In fact, it was a science fiction course with John Ower at USC that helped him think about an alternative vision for the future. “I appreciate and respect history,” Gray says, “but we can dedicate equal time and energy to imagining a better future.”
Starting Dig South brought unexpected benefits for Gray, chief among them a Liberty Fellowship. A global leadership conference in Costa Rica, as part of the Aspen Global Leaders network, connected him to CEOs of major corporations and government officials of foreign countries. “It’s opened my mind to a million possibilities for what I can do personally and professionally, and what I can do for anyone.” (above) Gray speaks at the 2016 Dig South conference in Charleston
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“What sets the Honors College apart is the faculty,” says Marisa Rasnick, recipient of the Garnet and Bruce Aitchison Endowed Scholarship Fund. “You get a lot of one-on-one time if you want it.” Rasnick, who plans to attend medical school, currently is leaning toward emergency medicine. Her scholarship, she says, “took off a lot of the stress of going to school.”
A scholarship to help seal the deal Marisa Rasnick
Anyone who knows the Aitchison family knows their blood runs garnet. That became plainer than ever in 2014, when Paul and Allison Aitchison decided to give an Honors College scholarship and name it for his parents, both Carolina grads. “Allison and I both had scholarships and were very thankful for them,” says Paul Aitchison, ’91 chemistry, ’95 medicine. “And this was a great way to honor my parents.” The Garnet and Bruce Aitchison Endowed Scholarship Fund reflects the family’s interests and geography. The scholarship is given to science and math majors from Georgetown, Greenville, Lexington and Richland counties because those are the subjects the Aitchisons enjoy and because those are the counties where family members lived at various times in their lives. “My mom was from Georgetown and we grew up in Greenville,” Paul explains. “We live in Columbia and wanted to reward some kids Paul and Allison Aitchison nearby and hopefully keep them in Columbia.” Because the scholarship is new, only one student has received it so far. Chemistry sophomore Marisa Rasnick is a graduate of Dutch Fork High in Irmo, S.C.. “She told us the scholarship helped seal the deal for her to attend USC Honors,” Paul says. That’s music to the Aitchisons’ ears. “Our children are growing up and are now or will soon be in the process of making their own way in college,” says Allison Davis Aitchison, a ’93 Honors biology graduate who earned a master’s in genetic counseling
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from USC’s medical school in 1995. “We hope our scholarship can relieve some of that financial burden and maybe even provide the last little bit of incentive needed to make the SCHC a student’s top choice.” As the scholarship grows, the Aitchisons envision it supporting four students annually — one in each class. “We feel very strongly about the awesome opportunities and education we received at the Honors College and the value of attending a small liberal arts college in the midst of all of the offerings of a large state university,” said Allison, a Columbia native and Carolina Scholar. “Paul’s parents were passionate about Gamecock athletics and the academics offered at USC. They were intensely proud of Paul attending the Honors College and then receiving his medical degree on full scholarship from USC School of Medicine.” The younger Aichisons met in 1990. Paul, a senior, was the teaching assistant in the organic chemistry class Allison, a freshman, was taking. The next year, when Allison needed to shadow a medical student for “A Day in the Life of a Medical Student” program, she shadowed Paul. Then, when Paul needed a date for a Christmas party, he asked Allison. They married in 1995, following his graduation from medical school and hers from graduate school. They’re still involved with Carolina, having both served on the USC School of Medicine Alumni Board. Allison is on the USC Genetic Counseling Advisory Board, and volunteers at the schools of their three children, ages 17, 15 and 11. Paul is a radiologist specializing in orthopaedic imaging at Pitts Radiology in Columbia. He also is an assistant professor of radiology at USC’s medical school in Columbia.
LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP For six SCHC Liberty Fellows, there’s a time to speak up, and a time to reflect. Difficult experiences shape successful leaders. As part of the campus-wide Carolina Leadership Week, the SCHC invited six alumni — all Liberty Fellows — to tell students about their charge to make South Carolina better. AHA! intern Aeriel Lee nabbed these comments from the “Dynamic Leaders on Leadership” presentation: “I’ve seen as much value in my quiet as I’ve found in my voice,” said Charleston lawyer Cameron Blazer, ’97 BARSC. “You can’t just talk — you have to listen. My vision
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for participating in change in South Carolina is to continue to find small, important things to do. I don’t care about being credited, I care about being consequential.” “It takes perseverance, patience,” said S.C. Rep. Laurie Slade Funderburk, ’97 art history. “Not every issue is going to get attention. Some are small, incremental — some can be frustrating.” Iris Griffin, ’01 accounting, and Kevin Hall, ’87 international studies, discussed the importance of active tolerance. “If you want to be a change agent, you can’t just sit back and point fingers and say, ‘You’re wrong,’” said Griffin, vice president of finance for SCANA Corp. “Find those people you don’t agree with and have discussions with them — that’s how we bring about change in our society.”
Honors College Dean’s Circle
“Try to see the decency in the other person,” said Hall, a Columbia lawyer. “If you can see and even just acknowledge to yourself, as a truth, that the other person has inherent
Honors College Dean’s Circle members have
decency and worth,
each given more than $1,000 this year. This
your ability to be
special giving society allows alumni and
effective is enormously
friends to support programs and scholarships
enhanced.”
at the Honors College through annual gifts of
Jenny Anderson Horne, ’94 English, ’97 law, reflected on her speech to the S.C.
$1,000 or more. Annual gifts are essential to
legislature in 2015, calling for removal of the Confederate flag from the State House
the growth and success of the Honors College
grounds after the shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. “It really changed the tide of the debate, and we might have lost if I had not shamed some people. That’s part of being a change agent — you have to speak up. If you’re silent you’re condoning what’s going on.” For Ben Rex, ’03 business economics, leadership means taking an idea and finding others to help: “Bind together with people you care about and share your vision.”
because your donation will be applied toward an area of greatest need. Donors who contribute $1,801-plus annually are granted membership in the President’s Society. Donors who give at any level for three or more consecutive years are mem-
Rex is CEO of Cyberwoven, a Columbia web design firm he started as an under-
bers of the Carolina Circle. For more infor-
graduate. “South Carolina is not a logical place to run a cyber design company,”
mation on these and other giving societies,
he said. “We’re creating this culture.”
visit giving.sc.edu/donorcommunications andstewardship/givingsocieties.aspx and
To read the complete story, “SCHC Liberty Fellows: Consequence, Not Credit,” see schc.sc.edu/news
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‘In love and good fellowship let us unite’ The words from ‘Vive L’Amour’ ring especially true at Homecoming, where classmates and professors catch up and honor two of their own
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The South Carolina Honors College has plenty to celebrate: We continue to grow at a reasonable rate, and we continue to rank high — ahem, highest — in national rankings of public honors colleges. But enough of that. Bring on the champagne. Bring on that elegant breakfast buffet with egg soufflé and mimosas. Bring on, dear friends, each other. Because what is our Honors College without us, our alumni? And what better time to salute each other than at Homecoming? “We have such an interesting diversity of alumni, and it’s always fun to watch them come back together,” says Beth Hutchison,, SCHC director of alumni engagement. “No matter who wins the football game, everyone enjoys catching up.” At November’s champagne brunch, two alumni were honored for their professional success and their efforts to improve society. Anne Southerland Ellefson,, ’76 English, is the recipient of the 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award. Nicole Modeen Hark,, ’07 international studies, received the 2016 Distinguished Young Alumni Award. Like others, the honorees came with families in tow. 2 “My daughter has called this ‘The Year of Anne,’” Ellefson joked, alluding to the fact that she’d also received the 2016 My Carolina Alumni Association’s Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award. A 1979 graduate of USC’s School of Law who practiced real estate law for 34 years, Ellefson has done a lot of behind-the-scenes legal work that’s helped propel Greenville, S.C., into a major Southeastern city. Along with her involvement with countless subdivisions, she worked on the city’s striking RiverPlace development and the modern, mixed-use ONE building. Meanwhile, she’s been the ultimate volunteer. As president of the Junior League of Greenville — the first to serve and work fulltime — Ellefson restructured that organization’s training program. She also chaired the first United Way campaign in the state to raise more than $10 million. A seemingly endless list of accolades follows her name: first woman lawyer in South Carolina elected managing director of a law firm of 100-plus lawyers, president of the SCETV Endowment, recommendations by Best Lawyers in America and South Carolina Super Lawyers and 2015-16 president of the S.C. Bar. “I grew up thinking you were supposed to get involved,” Ellefson said, explaining how her parents volunteered with organizations in Laurens, her
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hometown. “Community work lets me be involved in things and know people I wouldn’t know otherwise. I’ve made friends who have really added to my life over the years.” As deputy regional director for Asia and the Middle East at Lutheran World Relief, Hark has helped implement more than 40 projects in India, Indonesia, Jordan, Nepal, Palestine, the Philippines, Syria and Sri Lanka. She’s also helped communities rebuild after natural disasters — the earthquake in Nepal, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, the tsunami in Indonesia — frequently making them stronger. “I thrive more in emergency situations than I thought I would,” she said. “I expected to be overwhelmed, but there’s something motivating about a natural disaster. So much you see is sad — the collapse of buildings, the separation of families — yet at the same time you see such opportunities to make things better. “How do you build communities back so they’re more resilient to the next shock, so that people are having a better life after the tragedy? My energy level gets going a lot more to rise to those challenges.”
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1. Former SCHC Associate Dean Jim Stiver greets Anne Southerland Ellefson at Homecoming 2016; 2. Dean Steven Lynn speaks at the awards ceremony. 3. Jeff Vinzani with his wife Victoria and their son; 4. Elizabeth McLendon ’74 with her guest, Vivian Clark Armstead Armstead 5. Nicole Modeen Hark won a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to American University in Cairo, and became conversationally fluent in Egyptian Arabic. She and her husband, Adam Hark, ’05, and children (above) live in Ruckersville, Va.; Va.; 6. (from left) Dr. Gerald Wilson, Honors Ambassador Shreya Mehta and Joe Brockington Brockington 7. Jamie Hamill with her husband Lanny Secrest
To nominate someone for an SCHC alumni award, visit http://schc.sc.edu/content/dha-nomination-form. Deadline for the 2017 awards is July 1. Read more about Anne Southerland Ellefson, Nicole Modeen Hark, and other outstanding SCHC alumni at http://schc.sc.edu/alumni/alumni-spotlight SAVE THE DATE! Join us for a special Homecoming brunch Saturday, Oct. 28, in the Campus Room at Capstone. To register, visit http://schc.sc.edu/alumni/homecoming-2017 U NI V E RS I T Y O F S O U T H C A R O LIN A
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Alumni News 1970 Julia Royall, ’71, set up a Global Health Information consultancy, www.juliaroyall. com, which focuses on supporting African leadership and capacity in the health field. She is the principal investigator for the African Digital Health Library, a collaboration of academic medical libraries across the African continent that provides research and information from full texts and reports at no expense to the user. Royall lives on a ranch in Dubois, Wyoming. James Banks, ’73, has been a practicing allergist-immunologist in Annapolis, Md., for the past 32 years. A fellow in the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the American Academy of Pediatrics, he also has a clinical faculty appointment at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Banks was one of 10 students in the first group of Carolina Scholars at USC. Catherine Hood Kennedy, ’73, was recently elected to the Board of Governors of the S.C. Bar
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Association. She is an attorney with Turner Padget Graham & Laney PA in Columbia. Sherre L. Harrington, ’76, is the library director at Berry College in Rome, Ga., and married Dr. Christina G. Boucher on Nov. 9, 2016. Sarah Springer, ’77, lives in Katy, Texas, and is an attorney and owner of the Springer Law Firm PLLC. She celebrated her 60th birthday with a month-long trip around the world, which included hiking in Slovenia. The trip ended in Japan for the birth of her first grandchild, Audrey, born Sept. 18, 2016.
1980 Vicki L. Grooms, ’82, is a media specialist in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. In January, Grooms was awarded four 2016 Blue Ribbon Awards from the N.C. School Public Relations Association: two gold awards and a bronze for writing and a silver award for a publication.
Kyle Pruitt, ’83, joined Park Sterling Bank as senior vice president and chief administrative officer of Park Sterling Wealth, headquartered in Charlotte, N.C. He lives in Greer. Anne Poplin Summerall, ’87, has taught high school English for 24 years. She credits the Honors College senior thesis process for giving her the opportunity to research unique and interesting topics that have evolved into a family business. Her topic focused on the restaurant industry, where she predicted home-meal replacements as its next big trend. She and her husband own What’s Cookin’ Downtown, a restaurant and homemeal replacement service in Aiken. Boyce Mendenhall Lawton, III, ’89, has worked at Wofford College for 20 years,
where he has served in several leadership positions and recently was named dean of student success. He received his Ph.D. in higher education administration at USC. A long-time volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America, Lawton is president of the Palmetto Council of the Boy Scouts. He and his wife live in Spartanburg and have two sons.
1990 Jodie W. McLean, ’90, is chief executive officer of Edens, one of the nation’s leading private owners, operators and developers of retail real estate. With a more than 20-year tenure at Edens, McLean has been responsible for the development, redevelopment, acquisition and disposition of more than $10 billion in retail assets. She lives in Washington, D.C. Jay Cain, ’92, joined Mozeley, Finlayson & Loggins LLP in Atlanta as a partner in early 2017. Cain serves on the Honors College Partnership Board.
John C. McElwaine, ’92, has been named managing partner of the Charleston office of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. McElwaine joined the office in 2000 and is a member of the Intellectual Property Group. He also focuses his practice on internet, domain name and technology litigation and strategic counseling. He has been active internationally since 2009 with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which coordinates the unique names and numbers of computers around the world. He is chairman of the Internet Committee of the International Trademark Association. Jeff Davis, ’93, lives in Columbia and has joined Palmetto Health-USC Medical Group as a marketing strategist.
Heather Riley Gleaton, ’93, veterinarian and owner of Roper Mountain Animal Hospital, recently raised enough donations to equip every Greenville County fire department with oxygen masks specifically designed for animals. She partnered with the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Clemson University to study the effects of stem cell therapy on arthritis in dogs. So far the results and research have been very positive.
Solomon A. Amusan, ’94, finished the 2016 Savannah Rock ’n Roll Marathon wearing Gamecock garnet and black. Amusan is the principle attorney at Amusan Law Firm in Savannah. Ethan Myerson, ’96, was promoted to digital communications and appeals manager at the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, which serves more than 225,000 people. Myerson lives in Tucson.
Nate Terracio, ’97, is the assistant director at the Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia. Previously he worked for the performing arts complex, Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York City. Anna Barnhill Saville, ’99, lives in Conway, S.C., where she is a resident construction engineer for the South Carolina Department of Transportation.
2000 Ashley Melton Festa, ’02, and Andrew Festa, ’03, joyfully announce the birth of their daughter Delaney Anastasia on Aug. 15, 2016. Big sister Delia already roots for the Gamecocks. The family lives in San Antonio, where Ashley Festa is a self-employed writer and editor. James Dickson, ’02, lives in Chevy Chase, Md., where he works at AstraZeneca pharmaceutical company as a senior project manager. Hillary Scearce Haigler, ’03, is a Sanger heart and vascular RN with the Carolinas Healthcare System. Based in Pageland, Haigler works for several N.C. malpractice law firms as a nurse expert. Brian Uholik, ’04, lives in Washington, D.C., where he is a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in the Environmental and Natural Resources Division.
Paula B. Randler, ’04, moved to Vallejo, Calif., in February 2016 as a program manager with the U.S. Forest Service. She assists private forest owners with sustainable forest management practices and helps protect environmentally important forests with conservation efforts. Kyle Bishop, ’06, is a trial attorney for the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Eric Friedman, ’06, earned his IMBA in 2010 and is now a financial consultant with Colonial Life Insurance. He lives in Columbia.
Sharika Richardson Shropshire, ’08, visited the Honors College with her daughters Bella, age 3, and Maya, age six months, saying “It’s never too early to expose your children to higher education.” After graduating from USC, Shropshire attended law school at Duke University and is currently an attorney in the litigation group for a large bank in Charlotte.
Hannah Dykes Markwardt, ’07 lives in Seattle and works at Seattle Central College as a student development specialist. Thomas Chandler, ’08, works in Washington, D.C., for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as an attorney and adviser.
Mary Allison Joseph, ’09, lives in Kansas City, Mo., where she works for the University of MissouriKansas City as a student services and programs coordinator.
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Meredith Tershansy Gregory, ’07, is a technical service manager at Huntsman in Houston. Daria Marchionda Minton, ’07, is a marriage and family therapist in Moon Township, Penn., and lives in Canonsburg, outside of Pittsburgh.
Sara Barker, ’09, lives in San Francisco, Calif., and works as a treasury manager for Atlassian, a provider of team collaboration and productivity software.
Mallory Amons Goodrich, ’10, lives in Memphis, Tenn., where she is a second grade teacher at Promise Academy Charter School.
Amy Jackson, ’09, graduated from Beeson Divinity School in 2013 and is the family ministries associate at her church in Birmingham, Ala. She oversees and writes for the church-wide devotional Bible reading plan.
Jennifer Lias Gordon, ’10, lives in Washington, D.C., where she is an attorney and associate with Bracewell LLP, a leading law and government firm. Stephanie Bedard, ’11, works as a sourcing associate at A.T. Kearney, a global management consulting firm. She lives in Chicago.
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advocacy. She now lives in Camp Springs, Md., and clerks for the Honorable Cathy H. Serrette.
Warren Durrett, ’12, married Audrey-ann Green, ’12, in 2014. The couple lives in Seattle, where Durrett is a senior data scientist at Microsoft. Christina Galardi, ’12, is a project manager with the S.C. Department of Health and Human Services in Columbia.
TRAVEL WITH THE HONORS COLLEGE! Want to explore new corners of the world and reconnect with the SCHC community? Join your fellow Honors College alumni on one of our domestic and international tours. Expand your travel horizons with an exciting and enriching Honors College travel experience. You might find yourself ziplining through the jungle … or soaring to the top of the Alps in a gondola … or learning how to make chocolate right at the source. An Honors College alumni tour is simply a better way to travel! Please visit http://schc.sc.edu/alumni-travel to register for information about upcoming tours and to provide us feedback about where you’d like the Honors College to go next!
Ben Groneman, ’12, lives in Chicago and works as a corporate partnership executive for SportsDesk Media, which designs, implements and executes digital strategies for sports organizations. Emily Ingram, ’12, lives in Rochester, Minn., where she works as a registered nurse in the medical intensive care unit of the Mayo Clinic. Jade McDuffie, ’12, graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in May 2016 with awards in public service and
Myra Robinson, ’12, graduated from the USC’s Arnold School of Public Health in 2014 with a master’s in public healthbiostatistics. She lives in Fort Mill, S.C., and works for Levine Cancer Institute as an oncology biostatistician.
Carter Goman, ’14, works in New York in investment banking for BNP Paribas, an international banking group located in 75 countries.
Daniel Anthony, ’13, lives in Jonesborough, Tenn., where he works for Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport as a supply manager. Christopher Shuping, ’13, is currently enrolled in the University of Tennessee’s College Student Personnel Program and is a graduate assistant in the arts and sciences advising services department. Salem Carriker, ’14, is working as a nutrition educator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches healthy cooking methods and helps families gain greater access to fresh foods from local farms. Connor Deason, ’14, began a M.Ed. program in higher
Emily Padget, ’14, and Kyle Applegate, ’14, were married in February 2016. They now live in Ansbach, Germany, where Kyle is stationed as an AH-64 helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army. Padget graduated with a master’s in teaching from Lipscomb University in 2016. Chris Scudder, ’14, has joined the USC Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations as the assistant director of development after working at the Columbia Museum of Art as a grants and government relations
YES, YOU’RE PART OF THE FAMILY! If you thought you might not be a bona fide South Carolina Honors College alumni just because you didn’t do a senior thesis, you are, dear one, quite wrong. If you attended the SCHC, you are one of ours. Stay in touch with us by contacting Beth Hutchison, director of alumni engagement, at beth.h@sc.edu. LOOKING FOR AN HONORS INTERN? Contact Julie Hutt, SCHC director of Internship Programs, at jhutt@mailbox.sc.edu.
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education administration at Vanderbilt University and works with institutional and academic policy as a graduate assistant in the Office of the Provost.
specialist for two years. Daniel Fischer, ’15, studies the effects of the retreating Greenland Ice Sheet as a geology and geochemistry Ph.D. student at the University of Florida. Melodie Hunt, ’15, lives in Dallas, Texas, where she works as an equity analyst for Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinnery & Strauss LLC, a financial investment advisory firm.
Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, is an atmospheric and oceanic sciences Ph.D. candidate at the University of ColoradoBoulder. Brady will spend the next five years studying the climate system and making predictions of climate change impacts on coastal systems. Christina Brown, ’16, is a medical student at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
Jason Mohn, ’15, has been named government affairs coordinator at the McNair Law Firm in Columbia. Will Allen, ’16, is earning a master’s in biomedical sciences at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He is also a patient navigator for the Colon Cancer Prevention Network. Patrick Mackenzie Barboun, ’16, is a Ph.D. student in chemical engineering at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. Michelle Bizzell, ’16, works in Columbia as a business analyst for TCube, a software service provider for the insurance industry.
Riley Brady, ’16, a recipient of the Department of Energy
money for pediatric cancer causes. Elizabeth Ernest, ’16, is serving with the Peace Corps as an urban and peri-urban agriculture extension agent in Senegal, West Africa. She will be in Senegal until December 2018. Natalie Hobson, ’16, celebrates her engagement with fellow Honors College graduate Jack Sajovec, ’16. The two became engaged during a summer trip to Iceland. Hobson works at Accenture as a mortgage analyst in Charlotte. Lauren Miller, ’16, is at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., pursuing a doctor of physical therapy degree.
Maribeth Bottorff, ’16, is beginning her software engineering career through the Engineering Residency Program at Google and is living in Sunnyvale, Calif. She will rotate through several engineering teams to learn about several of Google’s business sectors. Elizabeth Crummy, ’16, is a graduate student in the neuroscience program at the University of Washington in Seattle. Keenan Dunkley, ’16, is working as an autism therapist at Palmetto Autism Interventions in Columbia, and is coordinating a 5K campaign to raise
Gamble Ouzts, ’16, spent the summer of 2016 backpacking around Bolivia, where she visited pre-Incan ruins, salt flats and the Amazon rainforest. Ouzts lives in Atlanta, where she is an analyst at ScottMadden Management Consultants, specializing in energy and corporate shared services.
Lisa Schexnayder, ’16, started working at Societe Generale Bank in New York City in June 2016. She is in the asset-backed products group.
Allison Shaw, ’16, is a medical student at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia.
Jessica Parker, ’16, works as a senior analyst for Johnson & Johnson in Annandale, N.J.
Jake Sims, ’16, is training as a supply chain order fulfillment manager at Belden. He lives in Richmond, Ind.
HOW’S THAT CAREER GOING? If you’re interested in making a career change or want to tap into some USC talent for your own professional purposes, consider checking in at USC’s Career Center. There are two new programs for alumni who want a job change, jump-start or place to find outstanding employees. Handshake is a free job search platform that connects alumni job seekers and employers. To search for jobs and register for events, visit sc.edu/career/Pdf/Handshake_ create_account.pdf to create your Handshake account. To find entry-level and experienced hires to take your organization to the next level, visit sc.edu/career/Pdf/HS_Emp UserGuide.pdf to create your Handshake account. CareerShift is an aggregate search engine that helps identify job opportunities from job boards, career sites and employer websites, and finds possible connections with people you might know in those organizations. It also provides a platform for saving job postings, organizing your campaign and storing documents you want to share with employers. Alumni use the password “SCalum” to access CareerShift. Schedule an appointment with a USC Alumni career coach through Handshake. Appointments can be conducted by phone, Skype or in person. Fees are $40 per session. Candidates for these services are beyond their first year after graduation. Interested? Contact the USC Career Center at 803-777-7280 or career@sc.edu.
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