USC, National Society, DAR meets
Contributed by The University of South Carolina Chapter, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution
     The University of South Carolina Chapter, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution met at noon February 22 at the Fort Jackson Officers' Club for its annual luncheon. Chapter Regent Mary Caldwell presided.
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Miss Barr and Mr. Haltiwanger plan August, 2008, wedding
      Dr. and Mrs. Peter Bruce Barr of Glenville, West Virginia, announce the engagement of his daughter, Christine Jane Barr of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to James Nance Haltiwanger Jr. of Anderson, South Carolina. The bride- elect is the daughter of Peter and the late Carol T. Barr. The brid...
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Church makes a statement in neighborhood
Contributed by the Holy Ascension Orthodox Church
      Imagine a neighborhood where people can take a pleasant stroll. There is little traffic. Neighbors call out greetings from porches, retirees cruise the avenues in golf carts or on scooters. As you come up the main street and past the nature sanctuary you can hear bells ringing softly, the Orthodo...
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Rotarians offer free trip
Contributed by The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
      The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is seeking young professionals and business people interested in participating in an all expenses paid trip to the mid section of England. This is part of the Rotary Foundation's Group Study Exchange (GSE), a unique cultural and vocational program for ...
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Friends celebrate 100 years with Katherine Stallings Dunlap
From Converse College
      Katherine Stallings Dunlap, Converse College Class of '29, received the Distinguished Alumna Award. She was an education and psychology major at Converse and has devoted much of her life to public service. In 1951, Dunlap joined S.C. Governor James F. Byrnes' staff as an assistant. As each new ad...
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S.C. State Museum exhibits Finding Priscilla's Children
     Illustration by Dana Coleman/courtesy of S.C. State Museum Dana Coleman's vision of a 10- year- old Priscilla, a slave child from Sierra Leone, can be seen in the S.C. State Museum's exhibit Finding Priscilla's Children, which uses documents to trace her descendants through seven generat...
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Search for Sims Park rose
By Pud Patterson
      For the last 15 years, I have actively searched for the Sims Park fence rose - deep scarlet, velvety, fragrant - that I loved as a child and my mother called a Paul Scarlet. I have bravely knocked on doors to inquire whenever I thought I spotted the rose in a yard.
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