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1970

Summerville resident Clara Holland Heinsohn was presented the 21st Annual Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Picture Award by State Representative Wendell Gilliard.

1972

Charlotte, North Carolina, resident Susanne McGuire was appointed to the Blumenthal Performing Arts Board of Trustees.

1976

Tomas C. Dunlap III of Gastonia, North Carolina, retired from Gaston County Schools and now works as the customer care representative for elite services in American Airlines’ Admirals Club at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

1982

Spokane, Washington, resident Mark Danner is director of information technology at Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute.

1984

Clover resident Darrell Johnson will serve as interim superintendent of the Orangeburg

22 School District.

1991 Rock Hill resident Robin Owens was elected to the Rock Hill Schools Board of Trustees.

1995

Columbia resident Kaetrena Davis Kendrick was named the Association of College and Research Libraries' Academic/ Research Librarian of the Year.

1996

Orlando, Florida, resident Jennifer Waddell is the vice president, Orlando area manager, for Axiom Bank, N.A.

1999

Jocelyn Young of Fort Mill has been named the principal of Kings Town Elementary School that is set to open in 2020.

2001

Savannah, Georgia, resident Rachel Young Fields, an attorney and partner at Hunter Maclean, was named one of Georgia's 2019 Rising Stars.

Te Morris Brown College Board of Trustees appointed Columbia resident Kevin James as interim

president.

2002 Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal selected Orlando, Florida, resident Will McIntosh to its Forty Under 40 Class of 2019.

2005

Francis "Mac" McDougal of Charleston will serve as principal of J. Paul Truluck Creative Arts and Science Magnet School for the 2019-20 school year.

2006

Mt. Pleasant resident Elah Hudson is the coordinator of guidance and counseling services for Charleston County School District.

2008

Michael Jenkins of Fort Mill was inducted into the Winthrop Athletics Hall of Fame.

2009

Rock Hill resident Ashley Fann was inducted into the Winthrop Athletics Hall of Fame.

Joseph T. Wilson won the 2018- 19 Teacher of the Year Award for McCormick High School and the District Teacher of the Year Award.

2010

Columbia resident Nicole Gaillard received her Doctor of Education degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of

South Carolina.

2011 Hickory Grove resident Marie Cheek served as the Rock Hill Teachers' Choice Youth Art Exhibition juror.

Laurens resident Sara-Frances Lail received an alumni spotlight from Laurens County School District 55.

Rock Hill resident Cari Wooldridge was inducted into the Liberty High School Hall of Fame.

2012

Charlotte, North Carolina, resident Debra Miller was named the 2019 S.C. Secondary Assistant Principal of the Year by the S.C. Association of School Administrators.

Lewiston, Maine, resident Edward Szeman was selected as a member of the first class of 30 Under 30 honorees by the YMCA of the USA.

2016

Shayna Foxworth of Charlotte, North Carolina, was awarded the Julia Post Activities Award by Rock Hill Mayor John Gettys

2017

Rock Hill resident Drew Alewine is the women's volleyball coach at USC Salkehatchie.

Lauren Watts, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was nominated as the Beginning Teacher of the Year for the Lancaster County School District.

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Milestones BIRTHS

Lawrence Nicholas Hough ’08 and Whitney Nicole Hough ’11, a daughter, Margaret Olivia Hough, Oct. 21, 2018

MARRIAGES

Elizabeth B. Truluck ’81 to Daniel Patrick Scully

Michelle Renee Phillips ’15 to Ryan Kuykendall

Jon Michael Shea ’15 to Whitney Alexis Helton ’16

Mary Beth Turner ’18 to Joshua Doby

IN MEMORIAM

1930s Margaret Arant Welborn ’33 Beryl Johnson Cox ’35 Mary Fewell Blair ’36 Lila Muldrow Riggins ’36 1940s

Leslye Lightsey Fleniken ’40 Ruby Ellison Lewis ’41 Nancy Craig Tomas ’41 Sara (Lavinia) Lesslie Braswell ’42 Sarah Brodie Lesesne ’42 Anne (Becky) Fogle Yates ’42 Anna Kate Williams Leslie ’43

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