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1970

The International Association of Who’s Who named Paula Farry Birmingham of Cornelius, North Carolina, the Professional of the Year.

1981

Barbara Ragin Champagne has been appointed as superintendent of Clarendon School District 1 in Summerton.

Scott Middleton of Columbia was chosen as the chair of Pfeiffer University’s Board of Trustees.

Columbia native Thomas Stringfellow has been appointed president and CEO of Riverbanks Zoo and Garden.

1984

Lake Wylie resident Cathy Bickley Brooks has become an adjunct professor at Winthrop.

1985

Abbeville County School District named Julie Gore Fowler of Simpsonville the chief administrative officer for the State Department of Education’s deputy superintendent for college and career readiness.

Ameritrust Residential Services in Atlanta, Georgia, promoted John Lang of Pennsville, New Jersey, to senior project manager.

The city of Anderson Economic 16

Development Office hired Anderson native Kimberly (Kim) Harris Spears as the economic development director.

1987

Derrick Alridge of Charlottesville, Virginia, leads the Center on Race and Public Education in the South at the University of Virginia.

1989

The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators honored T. Hampton Hopkins of Matthews, North Carolina, as a recipient of the Pillar of the Profession Award.

1990

Easley native Amy Mason will be inducted into Easley High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

1992

Tara Youngblood Easler of Moore has been inducted into the J.L. Mann High School Athletic Hall of Fame in Greenville.

1993

Lancaster resident Williford (Buddy) Faile joined the University of South Carolina Lancaster as director of budget and finance.

1994 Carrie Hall Dufresne received a

Master of Science in accounting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Tammy Snipes has been named principal of Lewisville High School in Chester County.

The new head women’s basketball coach at Claflin University in Orangeburg is Columbia resident Revonda Whitley.

1996

Veronique Moses, program director for IBM Watson Health in Raleigh, North Carolina, was chosen as a panel speaker for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, The Future of STEM: Back-to-School Minority Opportunity Fair.

1997

Sarah Lageman of Richmond, Virginia, was promoted to associate professor in the neurology department at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Rock Hill resident Caroline Rust-Ward joined the Board of Directors of ArtPop in Charlotte, North Carolina.

1999

Oxford University Press published an article, “The Birth of a New Carol,” by Kevin Gray of Rock Hill.

Works by Marc Roach ’99, Sarah Kinard ’14, Luke Atkinson ’09, Zach Greenway ’13, Adrian Rhodes ’05, ’11, Lila Shull ’11 and Greyson Douglas Smith ’14 were featured at the Printmaking 2017 Exhibition in McLaurin’s Lewandowski Student Gallery.

2001

Greenville resident David McDonald was the recipient of the Association for Middle Level Education’s 2017

National Educator of the Year Award.

2002 Charlotte, North Carolina, resident Alexis Gordon was chosen to receive the Charlotte International Rotary Club Global Service Award.

Charleston native Alyson Maderson Quinlog completed a four-week residency at I-Park Foundation Inc. in East Haddam, Connecticut.

2004

Biesse Group promoted Jacqueline Liger from Charlotte, North Carolina, to North American marketing manager for Intermac and Diamut.

Baltimore, Maryland, resident Scott Melton received the first Distinguished Alumnus Award from Winthrop’s Department of Mass Communication.

Chris Miller of Rock Hill was named South Carolina’s Statewide Sportscaster of the Year for the eighth consecutive year.

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation selected Courtney O’Neill Roldan of Johns Island as one of Charleston’s Best and Brightest for 2017.

2005

Columbia Business Monthly named Ashlye Rumph-Geddis Wilkerson one of the Best & Brightest 35 and Under.

2006

Greenville Business Magazine named Jermaine Whirl of Simpsonville one of the Best & Brightest 35 and Under.

York resident Elizabeth (Anne) Royal Witte graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Doctor of Education in curriculum and instruction.

2007

HarperTeen, part of Harper Collins Publishers, purchased “From Blood and Ash,” a young adult novel by Jessica Baker Leake of Simpsonville.

2008

Pohaikau’ilani (Pohai) Nu’uhiwa Campbell joined Hawaiian law firm Cades Schutte as an associate in the finance and real estate department.

Columbia resident Antjuan Seawright, was presented with the Charleston NAACP’s Presidential Award at the 100th anniversary banquet.

2009

Charlotte, North Carolina, resident Katie Poterala was named Tryon Arts and Crafts School’s Artist of the Month for December.

Work by Michael (Logan) Woodle, Carey Morton ’11, Leah Cabinum ’13, and Emily Furr ’16, were selected for the 701 Center for Contemporary Art South Carolina Biennial.

2010

West Milford, West Virginia, resident Travis Coleman is the throws coach for the University of Maryland track and field team.

Mary LeSesne Delpit, founder of The Blush Label, was featured in “The 50 Most Stylish Southerners” in Southern Living Magazine.

Princeton, New Jersey, resident Daniel Heath launched Church 21, a congregation consulting service, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

James Jeter from Winnsboro participated in the United Way Worldwide’s Leaders Engaged in Accelerated Development (LEAD) program.

Memphis, Tennessee, resident Jeremy Phelps is a volunteer assistant men’s lacrosse coach for the University of Massachusetts.

2011

Amber (Omeaga) Haynes of North Charleston is an agent with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Southern Coast Real Estate.

2012

Megan Chapman was named the head softball coach at Elizabeth City State University, in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

2015

Princeton University hired Ian Deas of Charleston as the program coordinator for the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.

Rock Hill resident Krystal Thomas Gonzales completed her M.B.A. with a concentration in accounting at Winthrop.

2016

Steven Patrick of Knoxville, Tennessee, received one of 29 NCAA postgraduate scholarships to study osteopathic medicine at Western University of Health Sciences.

Simpsonville native Alexandra VanHaasteren is the lead web developer at Uncommn in Greenville.

2017

Amanda Foshag of Rock Hill has been named an ArtPop artist for 2018.

Bluffton native Michelle Perri is a stage management intern at the Public Theater in New York City.

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