Accomplishments

  • Past President, Historic Columbia Foundation
  • Former co-Chair, Historic Columbia Garden District Project
  • Member, Executive Committee, University Hill Neighborhood Association, 2002-2006
  • Board Member, Columbia Green and Brookgreen Gardens
  • Appointee to city commissions on the homeless center and on government restructuring
  • Retired Chair, History & Political Science Department, Columbia College (Twice selected Columbia College “Outstanding Faculty Member” Awarded the Columbia College Medallion, Columbia College’s highest honor in 2006)
  • Former Teacher, Richland District One
  • Author, Numerous works on Columbia’s history and co-editor of recent Biography of United States Federal District Judge Matthew J. Perry
  • B.A. Columbia College; Ph.D. Duke University