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Timeline p. 8 57 years navigating the current, 40 as a college FALL 2018 South Carolina Honors College Dean / Steven Lynn Managing Editor / Writer / Aïda Rogers Director of Communications / Anna Redwine Honors College Partnership Board Marshall Winn Chairman Roger Barnette Jay Cain Dan D’Alberto Bill Duncan Lori Clos Fisher Kevin Hall Steve Hibbard
Catherine Heigel Vice Chairwoman Anita Hood, M.D. Eddie Jones Ben Rex Thomas Scott Jacob Shuford Sherri Timmons Jeff Vinzani
Stay Connected University Home Page: sc.edu SCHC Home Page: sc.edu/HonorsCollege Facebook: facebook.com/SCHonorsCollege Twitter: twitter.com/SCHonorsCollege LinkedIn: South Carolina Honors College Alumni Instagram: schonorscollege Communications and Public Affairs The University of South Carolina does not discriminate in educational or employment opportunities or decisions for qualified persons on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetics, age, disability, sexual orientation, or veteran status. The University of South Carolina has designated as the ADA Title II, Section 504 and Title IX coordinator the Executive Assistant to the President for Equal Opportunity Programs. The Office of the Executive Assistant to the President for Equal Opportunity Programs is located at 1600 Hampton Street, Suite 805, Columbia, SC; telephone 803-777-3854. 18-10653 10/18
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Healing the world Senior Casey Brayton received four prestigious national scholarships. Here’s how each of those scholarships helped alumni Steven Burritt, Chanda Cooper, Brandon Fornwalt and Shawn Loew.
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Honoring a legacy Retired French professor Lucille Mould supported the SCHC from the beginning. She’s not letting up now.
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ON THE COVER How we got here This timeline charts our 57-year journey from program to nationally renowned public honors college.
12 / Mark your calendar for these 40th-anniversary events. 16 / Adios and gracias, Señor Ed Long-time assistant dean Ed Munn Sanchez departs the SCHC to become dean of the honors college at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Will we miss him? Si!
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THEY BUILT IT. WE CAME. Who would have imagined, in 1961, when English professor John Kimmey was initiating honors classes in select departments in arts and sciences, that we would someday offer more than 600 honors courses all across the curriculum for 2,021 honors students? In 1970, when George Geckle, another English professor, was expanding the program to 200-plus students who found themselves in classes with renowned senior professors, who’d have thought that we would now have more than 10,000 honors alumni? In 1977, when William Mould rushed across campus to tell Peter Sederberg that the honors program would indeed become a college, who DEAN STEVEN LYNN
would have foreseen that it would in fact become the nation’s best honors college, a model for other aspiring honors colleges? Who would have dreamed, when the South Carolina Honors College was founded in 1978, that so many students would be turning down the most prestigious colleges and universities to stay in-state, and that the SCHC would also attract an equal number of the most talented students from other states? Did any of the previous deans of our honors college — in forty years we’ve had only four — envision the kind of success that our students are having as they choose between the world’s most prestigious graduate schools, win top awards and fellowships at a remarkable rate, go to work at the most desirable corporations or start their own successful businesses, and enroll in excellent law schools, medical schools and other rewarding professional post-graduate training? Yes, in fact, quite a few people actually did imagine the remarkably superb honors college that we have today. We are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the South Carolina Honors College, but its origins go back much further, to faculty who dreamed audaciously of creating a “Harvard of the South,” and an oasis of “Palmetto Ivy” — to invoke some early recruiting terms. They imagined it, and loved and coaxed it into existence. This year we celebrate everyone who’s helped to make our honors college, and we dedicate ourselves to preserving and even continuing to improve it. Looking forward,
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Healing the world THROUGH NATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS, STUDENTS AND ALUMNI SAVE LIVES AND THE EARTH Casey Brayton is all about making the world better. The budding researcher and social activist will surely reach her goals, particularly with the experience four prestigious national scholarships will provide. In , she was named an NOAA Ernest F. Hollings Scholar and Udall Scholar, and this spring she added Truman Scholar and Goldwater Scholar to her resume. “Casey is the first honors student to earn a Hollings, Udall, Goldwater and Truman scholarship, which speaks to the depth of her academic, leadership and public service record,” says Novella Beskid, SCHC assistant dean in charge of National Fellowships and Scholar Programs. “Her undergraduate research is extensive, and she is published.” A marine science and math major from Irmo, South Carolina, Brayton wants to earn a doctorate in physical oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and possibly a master’s in science communications or environmental policy. With her minor in geography, she’s positioned herself to help cure a turbulent climate. “Casey sees her life’s work as an effort to engage, educate and spur people to action around the central issue of climate change as seen through the lens of oceanography,” says Galen Health Fellows Principal David Simmons, who chaired USC’s Truman committee. “I have no doubt she will do this and much more.”
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Founder and president of the university’s Women in Geo Sciences, Brayton isn’t entirely focused on the environment. She also is vice president of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science. “There are still huge gender and racial disparities in the natural sciences, especially when looking at statistics for tenured professors,” Brayton says. “I want to help create a space where aspiring women and minority scientists can access all of the guidance necessary for success in high-level academic and administrative jobs.” Beyond the classroom, Brayton has developed an impressive array of research results in physical oceanography in diverse laboratory settings at Carolina, Scripps, and NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University. A Carolina and Lieber scholar, Brayton is Carolina’s Traci J. Heincelman awardee. She’s on the board of Columbia’s Citizens Climate Lobby chapter, is involved with the Sierra Club and interned with the Conservation Voters of South Carolina, where she lobbied for stricter wastewater regulations. The university’s ninth Truman Scholar, Brayton will receive , for her graduate education and the opportunity to participate in professional development programming to prepare for a career in public service. Her career goal? Research and public policy in an NOAA research lab.
Steven Burritt
Chanda Cooper
’96 BROADCAST JOURNALISM, ’01 MASTER
’07 BIOLOGY; MARINE SCIENCE MINOR;
OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UNIVERSITY OF
’09 MASTER OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL
NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (MEERM), USC
HOMETOWN: Burritt is from Greer, South Carolina, and now
HOMETOWN: Cooper is from Camden, South Carolina, where
lives in Lexington, South Carolina.
she now lives.
SCHOLARSHIP : Truman
SCHOLARSHIP: NOAA Hollings
SCHOLARSHIP EXPERIENCE: Burritt worked in the Office
SCHOLARSHIP EXPERIENCE: At the National Weather Service Forecast Office in West Columbia, South Carolina, Cooper completed an analysis of local weather data and investigated the influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on the state’s climate in recent decades.
of National Drug Control Policy, i.e., the “Drug Czar’s” office. WHAT HE’S DOING NOW: Burritt is the executive director for
the Mothers Against Drunk Driving South Carolina state office and a Certified Senior Prevention Specialist. TAKEAWAY: “I had a chance to meet incredible, bright and fasci-
nating people,” Burritt says. “The opportunity to attend a top-notch public health master’s program gave me a great educational foundation and provided the connections that led to my first job [the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Maryland] where I stayed 12 years.” GIVING BACK: Burritt is a member of the USC Truman Scholar-
ship Committee, helping current SCHC students apply and prepare for the Truman Scholarship.
WHAT SHE’S DOING NOW: Cooper is the education program
coordinator for the Richland Soil and Water Conservation District in Columbia, South Carolina. TAKEAWAY: “The Hollings Scholarship helped me prepare for
graduate school, conducting scientific research and the professional world,” Cooper says. “I work with farmers and natural resource professionals, teachers, environmental educators and students, sharing my passion for the natural world and spreading a message of conservation and stewardship.” GIVING BACK: Cooper supervised several USC interns, some of
whom also received the NOAA Hollings scholarship. “Coincidence? I think not!” she says.
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Shawn Loew
Brandon Fornwalt
’02 CIVIL ENGINEERING, ’04 MASTER
’02 MARINE SCIENCE AND MATH; ’08 PH.D.
OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, USC
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; ’10 MD, EMORY UNIVERSITY
HOMETOWN: Loew is from Reading, Ohio, and now lives in
Montgomery, Ohio. SCHOLARSHIP: Udall SCHOLARSHIP EXPERIENCE: During Loew’s four-day Udall
Scholar orientation in Tucson, Arizona, he tackled a difficult case study and was inspired by a seminar with David Orr, environmental educator and author of “Earth in Mind,” which remains in Loew’s library to this day. WHAT HE’S DOING NOW: Loew is a wastewater engineer and
project manager at AECOM, a global engineering consulting firm. TAKEAWAY: “If I didn’t receive the Udall scholarship, I may not
have found the spark that guided my major into the realm of wastewater and environmental protection, so it is unlikely I would be in my current career,” Loew says. GIVING BACK: Loew is den leader of his son’s Cub Scout troop.
Last year they helped Matthew 25: Ministries pack and distribute clothes for families in need.
HOMETOWN: Fornwalt is from Hilton Head Island, South Caro-
lina, and now lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. SCHOLARSHIP: Goldwater SCHOLARSHIP EXPERIENCE: Fornwalt studied marine biology
in estuaries and buffer zones around rivers, some at the Baruch Institute near Georgetown, South Carolina. WHAT HE’S DOING NOW: Fornwalt is an associate professor and
chair of the Department of Imaging Science and Innovation at Geisinger Health System. He directs the Cardiac Imaging Technology Laboratory, a group of biomedical engineering doctoral candidates, physician scientists and researchers. TAKEAWAY: “Being awarded the Goldwater reinforced my decision
to become a physician scientist,” Fornwalt says. “The application process prepared me for many things down the road, from applying to medical school to residency and fellowship. Crafting my research plan taught me how to think deeply about a research question, which I still do as part of my job.” GIVING BACK: Fornwalt and colleagues are training computers
to find health problems faster by detecting patterns in imaging data. They have seen positive results in studies of babies born with heart defects and patients with brain bleeds.
The Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs is celebrating 25 years of national fellowship advising at USC. Hundreds of SCHC students have benefited from engaging in these processes. See more at www.sc.edu/ofsp.
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HOW ONE FAMILY KEEPS ON GIVING
HONORING A LEGACY Here are two words that mean a whole lot to the South Carolina Honors College — Lucille Mould. She, along with sons Rob and Tom and the late Bill Mould, a founding dean, had front-row seats to how we got where we are, from fledgling program to startup college to national success story. A believer then, she’s a believer now – enough to establish two endowed scholarship funds and an annual award in memory of Mould. “My history goes back so far,” she says, describing festive dinner parties she and Bill Mould hosted for BARSC seniors decades ago. “It was so thrilling to see the excitement and enthusiasm of those students as they embarked on literally changing the world. They have become extraordinary people. I just couldn’t be more supportive of the mission of the Honors College when I see and read about their accomplishments.” A French professor, Lucille Mould understands the transformative power of study abroad. During her time at the Sorbonne as a master’s degree student at the University of Kansas, she marveled at everything, from the escargot she tasted and loved, to worshipping at the Cathedral of Notre Dame on Sunday morning, sun streaming through the famous rose windows. “It was really a spiritual experience as well, to have that opportunity,” she recalls. “Everything was brand new and exciting. We were all pinching ourselves that we were in Paris, and how lucky we were.” And how lucky future students will be to benefit from her family’s generosity. With Rob and Tom, Lucille Mould has established the William A. Mould South Carolina Washington Semester Program Endowed Scholarship Fund, which honors Mould’s 10-year post-retirement career as its director. They also give the Dr. William A. Mould Outstanding Senior Thesis award, which provides an annual $1,000 prize to the student whose thesis shows the most promise for making a positive impact in his or her field of study. Finally, in honor of the college’s 40th anniversary, Lucille Mould has created the William A. Mould Endowed Scholarship
Fund for students who demonstrate financial need and have exceptional academic potential. “There’s no question Lucille Mould and her sons are wonderfully honoring Bill Mould’s desire to build and maintain a superb public honors college,” Dean Steven Lynn says. A Denver native who didn’t travel outside Colorado or Kansas until her studies in Paris, Lucille Mould is sold on South Carolina. “I want our alumni to know their support for scholarships keeps the best and brightest here,” she says. “Their contributions when they were students have kept us the No. 1 program in the country. I’d like to encourage their support for scholarships and to give back a little bit.” Lucille Mould retired from USC in 2010 after teaching for 26 years. She mentored SCHC students studying French through 2014. She enjoys traveling, visiting her grandchildren in North Carolina and Texas, and serving as treasurer of the Thomas Cooper Society.
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Navigating the From testing the waters to full steam ahead, take a look back and see where we are today.
1965 The first honors program in South Carolina begins, directed by John Kimmey, located in the old observatory building.
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1969 The in-state, meritbased Carolina Scholars Award is established.
1977 Upon the recommendation of a committee chaired by Mould, University President James Holderman creates the South Carolina College, which enrolls 400 students in its first year.
1977
1973
1970 George Geckle replaces Childress as director of the honors program and continues to diversify the curriculum.
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1969
1967
1965
1961
1961 With some honorstype classes already in place, a committee recommends establishing an honors program.
1967 Ten honors courses in any field are required. A committee considers creating an honors college but decides to wait. Richard Childress is director of the honors program.
1973 William Mould replaces Geckle as director and is assisted by Patsy Tanner, who types 500 recruitment letters yielding 350 students.
years
1979 Mould replaces Sederberg as dean. Offices and student housing move to the Horseshoe.
1988 Revocation is established as a ceremony recognizing SCHC graduates.
1997 Peter Siachos and Kathy Aboe defend their thesis, a rich history of the SCHC.
1997
1996
1994 The Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs is established and housed in Harper College. Novella Beskid is director.
1994
1988
1983 Offices move to Harper College. Future lawyer Steve Hibbard earns the College’s first BARSC degree.
1983
1979
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1978 Peter Sederberg is named dean of the Honors College, which incorporates enhanced advising and an expansive curriculum requiring 45 honors credits and a senior thesis.
1996 Maxcy College is renovated for first-year honors students. The SCHC has grown to 800 students and seven staff.
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Freshman “Floatilla” is an annual tradition that began in 2012. During welcome week, Honors College freshmen bond with each other and faculty as they kayak and canoe (i.e., float) down the Congaree River.
2002 Enrollment expands to 1,000 students, with 120 honors courses offered.
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2005 Davis Baird, chair of Philosophy and associate director of the NanoCenter, replaces Sederberg as dean.
2011 The merit-based Stamps Scholarship program is established. Steven Lynn, senior associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, becomes dean of the SCHC.
2011
2010
2009 The Washington Semester Program, started in 1991, moves to the SCHC; Mould, now living in Washington, D.C., is director of the program.
2009
2007
2005 The National Collegiate Honors Council publishes Peter Sederberg’s “Characteristics of a Fully Developed Honors College” based on the SCHC.
2005
2002
1998
1998 The out-of-state, merit-based McNair Scholarship program is established. It provides 410 scholarships in 20 years, continuing today.
2010 Tayloe Harding, dean of Music, replaces Baird as interim dean.
2012 Patsy Tanner retires after 39 years, having served all four SCHC deans. She shares her retirement party with Assistant Dean Jim Burns, who began teaching in the SCHC in the early '90s.
2013 The first Stamps Scholars arrive on campus. The scholarship program has provided 39 scholarships to date.
2016 The Honors College expands to occupy DeSaussure Hall and Harper College. There are now 30 staff members, 1,800 students and 550 courses. SCHC is again top-ranked.
2018
2016 OFSP merges with SCHC.
2016
2016
2014 The SCHC is again top-ranked.
2014
2013
2012
2012
2012 The SCHC has 1,400 students, 430 courses and ranks No. 1 in “A Review of 50 Public University Honors Programs,” the first nationwide assessment of honors colleges. The Freshman Floatilla begins.
2018 The SCHC encompasses 2,021 students, 600 courses, 33 staff members and 10,200 alumni.
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SAVE THESE DATES! WE’RE CELEBRATING OUR 40TH YEAR ALL YEAR LONG—JOIN US! HOMECOMING HOMECOMING BRUNCH Saturday, Oct. 27 10 a.m.–noon Campus Room, Capstone
CHARLESTON ALUMNI RECEPTION Tuesday, Nov. 13 6-8 p.m. Burwell’s Stonefire Grill, 14 N. Market Street Charleston, South Carolina
GREENVILLE ALUMNI AND PROSPECTIVE STUDENT RECEPTION Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019 6-8 p.m. Greenville Country Club Greenville, South Carolina
ATLANTA ALUMNI AND PROSPECTIVE STUDENT RECEPTION Tuesday, March 5, 2019
GIVE 4 GARNET MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR OUR NEXT GIVE 4 GARNET DAY, APRIL 10, 2019!
THANKS to those who contributed to USC’s Give 4 Garnet campaign in April. With your help
we raised more than $126,000 for Honors College internships, research, study abroad and service learn-
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ing experiences. Thanks to Bob H. Hill, ’63, for pro-
Capital City Club Brookhaven, Buckhead
viding a 1:1 match to support Beyond the Classroom
Atlanta, Georgia
initiatives.
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Donor Honor Roll This list includes donors of $100 or more for the 2018 fiscal year (July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2018.) Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. For
Michelle and Michael Hogue
a complete list of donors, visit sc.edu/honorscollege.
Teresa MacPherson and Brad Hutto
Bold indicates Dean’s Circle members.
Jamie and Jim Jamison Amy and Baron Jordan Lawrence Laddaga
$25,000 and above
$1,801 to $9,999
Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation
James and Clara Addison
Yu Hui Zhou-McGovern and John McGovern Deedra and Brian Nunnally
Kim and Gus Dixon
Allison and Paul Aitchison
Jack Graybill
Christopher Bardi
Sidney and Ben Rex
Tracy and Charles Hardaway
Randi Berry Duncan Breckenridge
Kristen Little and Thomas Scott
Judie and Tom Hoffman
Cyberwoven, LLC
John and Susan Shimp
Margaret and Lee Dixon
Cathy and Jacob Shuford
Elizabeth Endler and Gary Wells
Andrea and Jerre Sumter
Lisa and Thomas Engoren
Kathi and Bill Tangney
Jodie McLean Mary Louise Mims and Jim Tipton
Alana and Bob Griffin
Jan Love and Peter Sederberg Rhonda and Lincoln McGinnis
Lucille Mould Victoria and Jeff Vinzani Marshall and Jeannette Winn $10,000 to $24,999 James Atkinson
Catherine Heigel Mary and Steve Hibbard Judie and Tom Hoffman Flora Hopkins Debbie and Mark Husband Tracy and Eddie Jones
Dorothy Poston
Marilyn and Charles Tatum Charles Timmons Foundation Christy and Thad Westbrook $1,000 to $1,800 Christina and Douglas Arnold
Carrie and Whit Lanier
Ali Bickelmann Maria and William Buice John Campanelli Megan and Ryan Campbell Melissa and Stuart Coale
Joseph Muller
Pamela Cobb
France and Tola Roberts
Sheila and Morris Cregger
Julia Royall and Brian Kahin
Stefanie and Gregory Eaves
Lee Royall
Rita and Howard Farrell
Joye and Daniel Sansbury Lea and Barry Saunders Amanda Kay Seals Bersinger and Austin Bersinger Melissa and Michael Sechrest Shell Oil Company Foundation Alicia Sikes Lynette and Larry Slovensky Carolyn and John Taylor
Marcella and Albert Fedalei Sarah Gluek and Gregory Smith Erin Hall Christy Hancock Julia Hunt and Matthew Jochim Theresa Knoepp KPMG Foundation Janis and Damone Leaphart Lisa and Robert Lisson Kathy and Richard McKinless
Sona and Sushan Arora
Elizabeth and Andrew Walker Kathy and Rick Wandrocke
Terry and Anthony Ng Trina and Jay O’Brien
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Foundation
Lori Clos Fisher and Edmond Fisher
Aaron Knowlton
Evelyn and Eldon Bailey
Candi and Aaron Hark
Carrie and Whit Lanier
Todd Bailey
Brian Whisler
Bob Hill
Annette and Steven Lynn
Stephen Brown
Youth Service America
Kacie and Bryan Payne
Carolyn and Bill Burns
Dawn and Paul Zimmermann
Timothy Perrin
$500 to $999
Daisy and Corwin Robison
R.C. Mcentire & Company David W. and Susan G. Robinson Foundation Sherri and Chuck Timmons
Kristen Little and Thomas Scott Joan and Al Lopez Courtney Mann Faye and Bill McAnulty Laura and Matt McGinley
Community Foundation of Louisville Mary and Francis Dannerbeck
Deanna Leamon and Davis Baird
Shannon and Carroll Poole
Stacey and Christopher Field
Jim and Claire Banks
Patricia and Ehab Sharawy
Holly and John Hoey
Novella and Jim Beskid
Keri Shull
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Margaret Anne and Peter Siachos
Sherry and Clay Boswell
Daniel Silvester
Lizzie Boyer
Misty and Jonathan Skvoretz
Stacy and Joel Brandon
Saundra and Andy Smoak
Karen and Gregory Breal
Marta and Jim Stiver
Sherry and Joe Brockington
Elaine and Ernie Thompson Kimberly and Jon Trankina
Kathy and Mark Brookshire Rebecca and DeWitt Brown
Mary and Chris Vlahoplus
Sara and Rick Brown
Dorothy and Wesley Walker
Jane and Johnathan Bryan
Jessica and David Washer Melissa and James Whittingham
Molly Campolong
Pamela and Gunnar Zorn
Marsha and Norman Miller
Beth Hutchinson
Shirley and Gene Mills
Anne and Ted Ellefson
Jane and Dennis Hurt
Timur Engin
Hybrid Realty Services, LLC
Susan and William Minton
Erie Insurance Group ExxonMobil Foundation Qing Fan and Guang Zhao James Fennell Fidelity Charitable Caitlin Figura
IBM Corporation Matching Grants Program
Anne Mitchell Jamie Monogan Linda and Vance Mooney
Talita Ikahihifo
Scott Moore
Debra and Kenneth Jackson
Anne Shybunko-Moore and Jamie Moore
Mary and Cary Johnstone
Helen and Richard Morschauser
Colleen Jones
Sarah Mullis
Amy and Baron Jordan
Katie and Brett Budlong
Alison and Kenneth Franklin
Julie and James Munie
Gerda Kahn
Bonnie and Jim Byrd
Joan and Gary Gabel
Kathy and Andrew Keenan
Michele and Brian Naylor
Jennifer Campbell
Julie Giglio
Robyn Kelly
Lauren and Theron Neese
Minnie and Steve Glymph
Afsar and Obaid Khan
Nicole Newsom
Rebecca and Justin Kielty
Stephanie Paolini
Cardinal Health, Inc.
Aetna Foundation, Inc.
Ann and John Catalano
Jenn Aiosa
Ellen and David Cohn
Ero Aggelopoulou and Michael Amiridis
Lee Cole Suzy and Derham Cole
Nathan Armstrong
Columbus Foundation
Sona and Sushan Arora
Community Foundation of Greenville
Judy and Bill Atkinson
Agnes and John Haslup
Fluor Foundation
Starr and Patrick Carr
AYCO Charitable Foundation
Stefanie and Gregory Eaves
Ashley and Ryan Floyd
$100 to $499
Lorraine Aun and Pierre Barakat
Shannon and Mark Earl
Heather and Britt Cooper Alexa and Matt Conley
Susan and Phil Goodman
Maja Osterman
Ann and Michael Grace
Angela and Fred Kingsmore
Graybill Lansche, LLC
Tara and Kevin Kirk
Rebecca and Steven Groth
Wade Kolb
Elizabeth and William Patterson
Maribeth and Paul Kowalski
Vanessa Perlman
Katie and William Guerin Thomas Guilderson
Kathy Layden
Jennifer Hallworth
Eugene and Barbara Lindberg
Cheryl and Rick Hardin
Lisa and Robert Lisson
Amanda Harding
Litwin Law Firm, PC
Tracie and Hud Paschal Beverly Pascoe
Karen and James Petrucelli Michael Pietras Jennifer Poon Lynn Pruitt-Timko and Joseph Timko
Ashlie Bagwell
Sonia and Robert Conly
Nicole and Adam Hark
Howard Lundy
Denise and Tom Pulte
Catherine and Tom Baker
Gladys and Wayne Cousar
Sherre Harrington and Christina Bucher
Luci Mackie
Leah and Matthew Ballard
Thomas and Susan Covington
Kennon Harrison
Elizabeth and Denny Major
Cathy and Robert Quinn
Natasha Hastings
Sara Mareno
Kay Banks
Mary and Hanson Cowan
Cynthia and Glenn Heins
Susan and Neil Margolis
Janice and Scott Cowen
Laura and Geoffrey Hendrick
Kathy and Alan Marshall
Pamela and Richard Davenport
Yolanda and Robert Henninger
Bridget Martin
Suzanne Rhodes
Julie and Mark Mayson
Matthew DeAntonio
Carol and Parks Hill
Will Richardson
Deloitte Foundation
Rebecca and Edwin Hinds
Susan McBurney and Michael Gadd
Daisy and Corwin Robison
Susan Hitchcock
Beth and James McClay
Eric Rogers
Shannon and Kaz Holley
Kristine McCorquodale and Eric Paine
Elke and William Hood
Pam McDonald
Kathryn Hope
Kathy McKinney Katherine and Edouard Mille
Nancy and Daniel Barnes Elizabeth Baxter Stephanie Bedard Jennifer Crocker and Charles Behling Martha and Ray Bell Lauren and Anthony Bingham
Katalin Demitrus
Katherine Bird
Anita and Jack Dickerson
Cameron Blazer
Elizabeth DiStefano
Theresa and Bryan Blitch
Heather and John Ducat
Leslie and Rebecca Block
James Duckett
TJ Horan
Meredith Dukes
Boeing Company
Jean and Mike Dumiak
Janet Hudson and Lacy Ford
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Kiri and Stephen Rawson Anna Redwine Luanda and Kenneth Reese Judy Rehberg
Frank Romanowicz Korey Rothman and Meredith Carpenter Allie and Ramachellapp Sairam SCANA Services, Inc. Julie and Jerry Schexnayder
Sarah and David Schroeder
Lauren and Jonathan Taylor
Natalie and Tommy Scruggs
Elaine and Ernie Thompson
Brittany and Jay Shaffer
Christy Tinnes and Frank Volpe
Harry Sharp
Brian Turner
Jennifer Shepard
Nida Turner
Carrie and Reid Sherard
Sabine and Bill Turnley
Amy Sikes Michele Silva Rachel and Rick Silver Tracy Skipper Melanie and Barry Slade Lynette and Larry Slovensky
Melissa and Joe Walker Pat and James Wanstreet Laura and Roger Ward Pam and Patrick Warren Leigh Watson Mary Watzin
Melody and Brian Smith
Travis Weatherford
Kathy and Emerson Smith
Wells Fargo Company
Jan and Scott Smoak Erin and Adam Snyder Pamela Solarek Tara and Chadwick Stamper
Krystal Webber Megan and Jason Westmeyer
JASON MOHN, ’15
Jennifer and Mack Whittle Adam Wilson
State Farm Companies Foundation
Chappell and Marty Wilson
Stephanie Stinn
Julia and John Wilson
Lynne and Milt Stombler
ZACH DRIVER, ’16
Sydney Wood
Randy Stowe
Joan and Timothy Woodlee
Kerry Stubbs and Tyson Boheler
Kathy and Chris Wuchenich
Aline and Jason Sullivan
Melissa Wuthier and John Kopsky
Dipu and Sanjay Swami
Ebbie Yazdani-zonoz Beth Zamparo
Robert Swingle
TWO HONORS COLLEGE ALUMNI JOIN STAFF Two young alumni of the Honors College have returned to their alma mater. Zach Driver, ’16, is the new assistant director of alumni engagement, and Jason Mohn, ’15, is the new assistant development director. Both are graduates of the College of Information and Communications; Driver in the broadcast sequence, Mohn in the public relations sequence. Driver, who most recently worked as a multimedia journalist and reporter at WECT/WSFX News in Wilmington, North Carolina, managed those duties at USC’s Carolina News, where he also was an anchor, director, producer, photographer and weather specialist. A native of Nashville,
A special thank you to the Robert and Janice McNair Foundation and the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation for their generous support of scholarships at USC. Thank you to the 989 alumni, businesses and friends who contributed $502,000 to the Honors College and to the Carolina Scholars Program. Your faithful generosity is vitally important in providing the scholarships, research stipends, course enhancements and personal attention that give our students an exceptional educational experience.
Tennessee, Driver was a Shafto Fellow during his summer 2016 internship at WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina. He minored in sport and entertainment management. Mohn worked in government affairs and marketing at the McNair Law Firm in Columbia, South Carolina, where he organized business development efforts and helped lobbyists pursuing legislative action for clients in South Carolina. In 2016, he worked for Rep. Mick Mulvaney in Washington, D.C., as a scheduler and coordinator. A Columbia, South Carolina, native, Mohn minored in business administration. Both Driver and Mohn were University Ambassadors at Carolina.
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Ed Munn Sanchez, who grew up in Madrid, helped expand the Honors College study abroad program and other Beyond the Classroom experiences.
ADIOS AND GRACIAS, SEÑOR ED Nathan Rouse, ’10 BARSC, says he can thank Ed Munn Sanchez for directing him into a fulfilling career. A public defender in Richland County, South Carolina, Rouse recalls a startling moment in a social and political philosophy class Munn Sanchez was teaching. “He told us bluntly that underneath the abstract theory were men with guns. It all came down to justifying violence. Now I’m an attorney. If it weren’t for Ed, I might have been a philosopher.” Rouse, a Landrum, South Carolina, native who worked in New York City after graduating from New York University School of Law, is just one of many who can point to Munn Sanchez for guidance and inspiration. Last summer, the assistant dean took his tremendous skills to the Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he now is dean. “I don’t think I ever came to the SCHC and not had a good laugh,” says Munn Sanchez, a doctor of philosophy who arrived at Carolina in 1995 to teach logic. “One of the best things about working at a university is you rarely work with boring people.” In his 12 years as an assistant dean, he helped guide the establishment and growth of the college’s four Beyond the Classroom programs and managed an annual curriculum of 600 courses. He helped the college grow from an enrollment of 1,350 students in 2006, when he came to the South Carolina Honors College, to 2,000-plus students this fall.
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“This was amazingly good preparation to become a dean because the assistant deans here have so much responsibility,” he says. In St. Louis, his main challenge is building a smaller program, not enhancing an already developed one. The honors college at UMSL has 600 students. Besides a legion of alumni, Munn Sanchez leaves a legacy of programs. Topping them are his beloved Artist in Residence program and the Experimental Music “Cool Course.” A musician and singer, he grew up in Madrid and elsewhere in Europe and the United States, visiting museums and experiencing various cultures. The initiatives he started in South Carolina will be reborn in Missouri. And that’s Missouri’s good fortune, Rouse says. “Ed likes to think of himself as a cynic, but he really cares about students and the ideals of education,” Rouse says, describing the patience Munn Sanchez had advising him through 12 grueling credit hours of independent writing. “I probably wrote hundreds of pages and he gave me feedback on all of it. He was very engaged in helping me to write and think. That’s what I do for a living now. He was absolutely essential in me being where I am, where I am quite happy with what I do.”
Alumni News TO HONOR OUR 40 TH YEAR, WE FOCUSED A BIT ON THE CLASS OF ’82.
1980 Robert A. Bernstein, ’80 business, ’83 law, received the 2018 President's Cup from the Commercial Law League of America. Since 1964, the award has been presented to a CLLA member who provided outstanding service to the organization and exemplified a respectable personal and professional life. He is an attorney with Bernstein & Bernstein, P.A., in Charleston, South Carolina.
Charles Bowers, Jr., ’82, recently published the book “Planning on Living Forever? Financial Planning Insights from a Recovering Engineer,” through the CreateSpace independent publishing platform. An investment adviser with Insight Folios, Inc., in Charlotte, North Carolina, he and Lori, his wife of 33 years, are the parents of two USC graduates, Chuck and Jordan.
David Corvette, ’82, has enjoyed retirement since 2010, working as a volunteer scuba diver at the South Carolina Aquarium. He gets to feed the estimated 550 fish living in the great ocean tank, clean the exhibit and perform dive shows for aquarium visitors. Donna Teuber Gilbert, ’82, leads Richland School District Two’s innovation incubator. She is a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Certified Facilitator, Intel education visionary, Google for Education Certified Innovator, and Google for Education Certified Trainer. Her work can be seen in Forbes. com, THE Journal, District Administration, Project Red, Tech & Learning, EdWeek, and Center for Digital Education. Vicki Grooms, ’82, is a media relations specialist for CharlotteMecklenburg Schools in North Carolina. Earlier this year she won 10 awards from the North Carolina School Public Relations Association — four gold awards, three for excellence in writing and one for photography. She lives in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
William Hamilton, ’82, practices law in Charleston, South Carolina. In 2016, he led an effort that won a referendum providing $600 million for public transit in Charleston County. His PAC, Lowcountry Up is Good, has a goal of statewide public transit by 2025. He lives in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Ron Milne, ’82, is senior pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in Temple, Texas. As foster parents, he and his wife, Elizabeth, have fostered 17 children in their home over the past 20 years. They recently adopted three siblings. Cathy Owens Quinn, ’82, is director of communications and marketing for ArborGen in Ridgeville, South Carolina. She lives in Summerville, South Carolina.
Beth Zamparo Porter, ’82, is founder and president of the Chicago-based BekKit Group. She and her husband, Roger, a consumer protection lawyer, plan to retire in 2019 and return to the South. Her daughter, Lindsay, will graduate from Clemson University this spring. Robert Scearce, ’87, was recently promoted to group operations manager with Monogram Foods. He is responsible for all production operations in the Martinsville, Virgina, facilities.
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Dean Foreman, ’90, is chief economist for the American Petroleum Institute in Washington, D.C.
Jennifer Jablonski, ’93, recently was named assistant dean for enrollment management at the University of South Carolina School of Music. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina. Julye Johns, ’96, married Wesley Bailey on Magnetic Island, Queensland, Australia, March 29. A partner with Huff, Powell & Bailey in Atlanta, Julye represents hospitals and physicians in malpractice claims. The Baileys live in Atlanta and Townsville, Queensland, where Bailey is an associate director with AECOM.
2000 Alisha Quandt Owensby, ’06, is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. She teaches courses in microbiology and mycology and has a lab studying fungal biology. Arren Waldrep, ’06, joined the law firm of Gleason, Flynn, Emig, Fogleman and McAfee, in Washington, D.C., and focuses on medical malpractice, premises liability, personal
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Presley Gilder Manley, ’17, is a marketing specialist for BabyBum Products. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina.
injury, and civil litigation and insurance defense. She is an active member of the Maryland, District of Columbia and South Carolina bars, and the U.S. District Court for Maryland.
2010 Mallory Goodrich Amons, ’10, teaches second grade at Dogwood Elementary School in Memphis, Tennessee. Alina Arbuthnot, ’10, co-founded and serves as vice president for the Alabama chapter of Women in Public Finance, which seeks to advance women’s leadership opportunities through personal relationships and educational opportunities. She’s an associate attorney with Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., in Birmingham, Alabama.
Taylor Garrick, ’13, is a battery cell CAE engineer with General Motors in Warren, Michigan. He earned a doctorate in chemical engineering at USC with Prof. John Weidner. He and Emma Hehn Garrick (USC ’17) married in 2016.
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Jorge VillamizarEscobar, ’13, returned to his home country of Colombia, where he teaches at Cumbres Medellin. He recently was married. Salem Carriker, ’14, started medical school at USCColumbia after working as a rural health strategist in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Anne Shaw, ’14, is pursuing a master’s degree in human development and family science at East Carolina University. She recently completed a child life practicum placement at UNC Children’s Hospital in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and is working toward certification as a child life specialist.
Jennifer Overfield, ’16, is a third-year student at University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky.
Alexandria Stober Beilinson, ’16, is resourcing strategy lead on the product launch team for Biogen, where she’s working to alleviate Alzheimer’s patient and caregiver barriers for the company’s new drug. She married Daniel Beilinson in 2017 and lives in Morrisville, North Carolina.
Bethany Williams Berry, ’17, married Brian Berry (USC ’17). They live in Columbia, South Carolina, where Brian has started his internal medicine residency at Palmetto Health Richland and Bethany is working as a geospatial analyst for Milliken Forestry.
Blakeley Hoffman, ’17, is a research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Arianna Miskin, ’17, is political director on an insurance commissioner campaign in California to elect the first Muslim to statewide office in the United States. She lives in Los Angeles.
Brooke Troxell, ’17, is a guest engagement ambassador at Riverbanks Zoo and Garden and an education assistant at the South Carolina State Museum, for which she’s been traveling around the state helping facilitate astronomy teacher workshops. Anthony Alessi, ’18, is working on a community project through the Obama Foundation’s Community Leadership Corps, at the end of which he plans to spend several months exploring Southern Asia.
Hannah Butler, ’18, is premium hospitality coordinator with the Pawtucket Red Sox in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. She lives in Cary, Rhode Island.
Austin Hetherington, ’18, is assisting a teaching pastor and leading a college freshman LifeGroup as part of Midtown Fellowship’s ministry leadership development program called The Residency. Midtown Fellowship is in Columbia, South Carolina.
James Ledbetter, ’18, is an asset integrity analyst with PinnacleART. He lives in Valrico, Florida. Bryce Pulse, ’18, is a business specialist for Kiewit Corp. in Englewood, Colorado. Eduardo Romero, ’18, is a doctoral student at The Ohio State University. He received the GEM Consortium Fellowship last summer to fund his studies.
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Thanks to a professor . . . A student wrote her way free from childhood trauma
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t wasn’t easy growing up in a dysfunctional, alcoholic home, so it wouldn’t be easy writing about it either. That’s what Niki Driver, ’ business management graduate, realized when she started writing her autobiography during her junior year in Dianne Johnson-Feelings’ Multi-Cultural American Autobiography course. Now a human resources coordinator with Tenneco in Hartwell, Georgia, Driver remembers moments of frustration in the class that ultimately led to her growth. Thanks to the English professor’s patient guidance, Driver began to heal. “Dr. Johnson-Feelings helped me get out of my head, which was my biggest problem when it came to writing,” says Driver, who minored in English. “During our sessions, all I wanted was for her to tell me things to fix. But she wouldn’t. Instead, she encouraged me to just continue writing.” Driver’s autobiography eventually formed the basis for her senior thesis, and she asked Johnson-Feelings, a poet and children’s writer, to be her thesis adviser. “The Undoing: Exploring the Effects of Childhood Trauma in Adulthood through an Autobiographical Narrative” was the physical, hardbound result of Driver’s hard work. But the real success was her improved emotional health. “If I did not go through this project with Dr. Johnson-Feelings, I think I would be further behind on my healing journey,” Driver says. “It forced me to revisit issues I had pushed under the rug, and the writing itself helped me process my experiences in a way I hadn’t before. It ended up being a very rewarding and healing process, and I could not have done it without her continued encouragement.”
“It ended up being a very rewarding and healing process, and I could not have done it without her continued encouragement.” — Niki Driver, ’17
Do you have a memory of a professor who made a difference in your life? Contact Aïda Rogers at aidar@mailbox.sc.edu to share your story.
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Making an impact worldwide SCHC sophomores Jeremy Ward, Eliana Lord and Robert Magee are recipients of the U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission U.K. Summer Institutes award. They spent the summer studying in the U.K. and expanding their world views. Post-graduation work for the three undoubtedly will have an impact worldwide as Eliana plans to work with Doctors without Borders, Robert in the foreign service, and Jeremy as an environmental lawyer. To see who won national awards this year, visit sc.edu/ofsp.
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