Everybody has a story to tell
StoryCorps is visiting Columbia this February as part of its 2007 tour to capture the way Americans are living today.
By Jessica Cross crossja84@gmail
      Since StoryCorps opened its first StoryBooth in New York City in October of 2003, more than 9,000 stories of average Americans have been recorded. Today, StoryCorps consists of two mobile StoryBooths that tour the U.S. and another booth located in Lower Manhattan.
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Former president of Columbia College returns to Founders Day
By Rachel Haynie
      In an impromptu sermon given in the middle of a cold February night 33 years ago, Dr. R. Wright Spears, wearing a raincoat, not a pastor's robe, uttered his defining words. Flames engulfing the Old Main building on the Columbia College campussent students in thin bathrobes and h...
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Wade Hampton Sertoma Club presents highest awards
Contributed by The Wade Hampton Sertoma Club
      The Service to Mankind Award is the highest award that Sertoma can give to a nonmember. Ronald Mitchum epitomizes the servant/leader, giving cheerfully and selflessly and inspiring others to do the same.
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Shepherd's From page one
Story and photo by Warner M. Montgomery Warner@TheColumbiaStar.com
      The Shepherds Center of Columbia celebrated its 20th Anniversary Jan. 24, but efforts to establish this educational program for seniors began long before 1987. In 1975, such a program was suggested in World Outlook, a joint publication of the Presbyterian and United Methodist ch...
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