Briefs
by John Temple Ligon
      Winter crews College and high school rowing teams from Vermont, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, DC, and Virginia have announced plans for pre–season training on the Broad River near the Richland County Rowing Center. On January 2, teams from Georgetown and Carnegie Mellon begin trai...
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BG Eugene Rogers becomes Chief of Staff of the S.C.State Guard
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      MG Nelson C. Lacy, Commander of the South Carolina State Guard announced the selection of Eugene F. Rogers to the post of Chief of Staff of the SC State Guard and Rogers’s promotion to Brigadier General. SC Adjutant General Stanhope Spears; Rogers’s wife, Elsie Rast Stuart...
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Dean Jack Pratt of the USC School of Law
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      Walter F. “Jack” Pratt was born in Jackson, Miss. He lost his parents when he was in elementary school; his grandmother looked after him and his younger brother. Pratt’s strongest memories of Mississippi are reflected in the writings by Willie Morris of Yazoo City.
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