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1950

The Clarice Wilson Garden Club presented Pansy Dunn Lane of Greenville with its Woman of the Year Award.

Mattie Wallace Strickland taught for her entire career in the Dillon County School District. Recently, a for- mer student, Earl Whatley, contacted her after decades apart. He was so touched by her teaching that he began a scholarship in her honor at Auburn Univer- sity’s Raymond J. Harbert College of Business. The scholarship is open to Dillon County residents.

1958

Sadie Livingston Boyer of Carrollton, Virginia, retired after a 32-year career with NASA Langley Research Center.

Patricia Causey Nichols has moved to Ashland, Oregon, to be closer to her grand- children, and she is con- ducting research on food- ways in early South Carolina that led to culinary fusion and Southern cooking.

1973

Rock Hill native Elaine Whit- ton Davis was honored with the Advocate to the College Award during Winthrop’s

College of Business Admin- istration’s 2016 Pinnacle Leadership Society award ceremony.

The 2016 Community Ser- vice Merit Award for Rock Hill’s Come-See-Me Festival was presented to Sylvia Ful- bright Echols of Rock Hill.

1975

Charlene DeStefano of Minnetonka, Minnesota, received the Archie Caple Award at the University of Minnesota Extension Mas- ter Gardener awards and recognition banquet.

1976

Florence native Wayne Catoe is a financial advisor with Northwestern Mutual.

Cissie Barnes Lewis of Clyde, North Carolina, retired this past spring after teaching a number of years in North Carolina. She had previously retired after three decades of serving South Carolina’s special needs children, giving her a combined 40 years in the teaching pro- fession.

1977

Dwight Watt, an instructor at Georgia Northwestern Technical College and resi-

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dent of Swainsboro, Geor- gia, earned the Expert Level Instruction Excellence status from Cisco Systems, Inc., following 40 years of work in computer instruction.

1980

James C. (Jimmie) William- son of Cheraw is president of the North Carolina Com- munity College System.

1983

Jasper County School Dis- trict hired Donald Andrews from Crossville, Tennessee, as superintendent.

1986

The 2016 Community Ser- vice Merit Award for Rock Hill’s Come-See-Me Festival was presented to Harry Dalton of Rock Hill.

1989

Marc Bogan, president of The Fauquier Bank in War- renton, Virginia, received the Distinguished Alumni Award during Winthrop’s College of Business Admin- istration’s 2016 Pinnacle Leadership Society award ceremony.

Hampton Hopkins of Mat- thews, North Carolina, is president of the Carolinas College of Health Sciences.

1992

North Augusta native Charles Bennett II was promoted to vice president of administration at Santee Cooper in Moncks Corner.

1995

Belleview Elementary School’s new principal is

Kevin Hood of Rock Hill.

1996 Jay Karen is CEO of the National Golf Course Own- ers Association on Daniel Island.

1997

Caroline Rust Ward was awarded Best of Show for the painting “Billie Holiday Wears a Veil Gifted by John Rawls!” at the InVISIBLE exhibition at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1998

Bryson Herron of Beaufort is the new South Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insur- ance Company District 2 sales manager.

John Kirell of Woodruff is principal of Castle Heights Middle School.

Central Carolina Insurance Agency Inc. in Mooresville, North Carolina, has named Jason Meadows partner and vice president.

Maura Andreucci Wilson of Conway is executive di- rector for federal programs with Horry County schools.

1999

Atlanta, Georgia, resident Steven Drew is chief exec- utive officer of InteliSecure located in Denver, Colora- do.

The Charlotte Business Jour- nal honored Rock Hill native Melissa Allen Gladden with the 2016 Women in Busi- ness Achievement Award.

Jack Kinley of Atlanta, Georgia, is president of the Atlanta Gay and Lesbian