Humanities promote diversity

Biennial Report
2003-05
SUMMER 2005
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inspiring. engaging. enriching.
In Focus
how humanities education can indeed be a
powerful catalyst for civic/communal dialog.
Humanities promote diversity
The Humanities CouncilSC
has a thirty-two year
continuous and effective
approach to documenting,
preserving, and shedding
light on the individual and
collective achievements
and significant events
that have contributed to
the social and cultural
evolution of the Palmetto
state. The staff and board of
directors of The Humanities
CouncilSC believe that the
voices and stories of every
South Carolinian represent
a precious resource from
which to learn important
lessons about who we
are and where we have
come from, and to guide
us as we shape our future.
The Council’s sponsored
programs, exhibits, and
documentaries present
a detailed, inclusive story
about the people of South
Carolina.
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The Humanities CouncilSC provides leadership,
programs and support that advance the study
of the humanities in the public sphere: libraries,
museums, cultural institutions, businesses, nonprofit
organizations, colleges and universities, public
television and radio. THCSC initiatives are designed
to foster dialogue among the diverse populations of
South Carolina on the most important and difficult
issues facing our world, nation and state. Through
grants, the speaker’s bureau and programs like
the Let’s Talk About It series, THCSC continues to
reach out to schools, libraries, and community
organizations across the state. The years 2003-2005
have been exciting, as the Council has made many
new connections.
Our participation in the Smithsonian Institution’s
Museums on Main Street traveling exhibit program
enabled us to present Barn Again! Celebrating an
American Icon in 2004 to six small communities and
allowed us to meet a goal of building relationships
with several underserved groups. The participating
museums in Kingstree, Blackville, Winnsboro,
Walterboro, Pickens, and St. Matthews provided
remarkable volunteerism, unique histories, and
reminded us all of the charm within our small towns.
In 2004 THCSC launched its first We the People grant
initiative. Organized by four main themes, THCSC
created a public outreach campaign that included
grant guidelines designed to attract projects
and programs in the fields of education, history,
media, museum, library, nonprofit and arts-related
administration. The Council received amazing
response to the program and was able to fund
several outstanding programs that demonstrate
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Another program THCSC launched in 2004
is Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the
Heart of Health Care©. Created by the
Maine Humanities Council, Literature &
Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health
Care® is a national award-winning, hospitalbased, scholar-led humanities reading
and discussion program for health care
professionals benefiting both the professional
and their patients. THCSC held two programs,
one at the Columbia Area mental Health
Center, Columbia led by Dr. Robert Oakman
and one at the Medical University of South
Carolina led by Marjory Wentworth, SC Poet
Laureate.
Furthermore, THCSC has made measurable
progress regarding our most ambitious
project, the one-volume South Carolina
Encyclopedia. Over 400 scholars and
writers have contributed to cataloging
unprecedented detail the diversity of people
and experiences that have made South
Carolina the engaging place it is today.
Edited by Dr. Walter Edgar, this resource
will serve all South Carolinians, native to
newcomer, and we look forward to its
publication in 2006!
Our next years of service include the 10th
Anniversary of the South Carolina Book
Festival. In 2006 join us as we celebrate a
decade of providing the premier literary
event in the state. THCSC is more recognizable
than ever and on behalf of the Council staff
and board of directors we thank you. We
look forward to seeing you at a Humanities
event soon and we greatly appreciate your
support.
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Goodbye,
Hello &
Congratulations
A Call for
Nominations
for the Board of
Directors
The Humanities CouncilSC invites
nominations for its Board of
Directors. The Council operates
as a tax-exempt, non-profit
corporation granting funds
received from the federal
(National Endowment of
Humanities), corporate, state,
and private sources. The Board
of Directors consists of twentyfour volunteer academic
and public members. New
members will begin three-year
terms in November 2005. Board
members will help initiate and
develop projects, seek to make
the humanities accessible
statewide, and take active roles
in Council fundraising initiatives.
It is always difficult to say goodbye to
friends, staff and board members who have
contributed so much to this organization.
In this Biennial Report, The Humanities
CouncilSC would like to thank John Lomax
for his years of dedication and service on
the THCSC Board of Directors. John is to be
commended for a job well done and will
be missed by board and staff alike when
his term is completed in October 2005.
This summer we also say farewell to the
Literary Arts Programmer, Heather Buggy.
Your Humanities Council has the pleasure
of welcoming new staff: Theresa “T.J.” Frost, who
began as Program Coordinator for the Literary Arts
Partnership in July. The Literary Arts Partnership is a
cooperative effort funded by the SC State Library,
the SC Arts Commission, and The Humanities
Council SC SC.
Congratulations to staff member Paula Watkins
Millen who recently accepted the position of
Assistant Director of the Humanities Council.
Millen will direct the 2006 SC Book Festival.
Millen recently graduated from the Non-Profit
Leadership Institute held at Francis Marion
University.
Board members attend three
meetings per year; evaluate
grant proposals; serve on
committees; determine policy
and Council initiatives; and
plan and oversee financial
responsibility. Nominees should
be supportive of THCSC’s
mission and goals; interested in
the humanities; dedicated to
public service; and committed
to providing cultural enrichment
opportunities for South
Carolinians.
Letters of nomination should
include the name and
address of the nominee and
a brief description of why the
person should serve on the
Board of Directors, including
experience and interest in
public humanities programming.
A vita or resume should be
included. Additionally, the
nominee should write a letter
of interest to be included
with the nomination. Another
person must place a nominee in
nomination.
The THCSC chairperson will
notify successful candidates.
Nominations should be sent to
THCSC, PO Box 5287, Columbia,
SC 29250.
SAVE THE DATE!
Saturday, FEBRUARY 25th
Sunday, FEBRUARY 26th
SC
Book Festival’s 10th Anniversary
Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center,
FREE ADMISSION
Authors Confirmed: Brock Clarke, Jackie Cooper,
Cassandra King, Mary Alice Monroe, Sharyn McCrumb,
Mary Alice Monroe, Anne Rivers Siddons, Dori Sanders
and many more to follow…
10th Anniversary Luncheon
October 20, 2005
Columbia Metropolitan
Convention Center
803-771-2477 for details and
ticket information
This celebration will unveil the
10th Anniversary SC Book Festival
Poster Art by a SC Artist.
803 771-2477
check our web SITE for weekly updates!
The Humanities CouncilSC
PO. Box 5287
Columbia, SC 29250
2711 Middleburg Drive
Suite 308
Columbia, SC 29204
P 803.771.2477
F 803.771.2487
email info@schumanities.org
www.schumanities.org
www.scbookfestival.org
www.scencyclopedia.org
scbookfestival.org
Staff
Randy L. Akers
Executive Director
rlakers@schumanities.org
Paula Watkins Millen
Assistant Director and SC Book Festival Director
pmillen@schumanities.org
Kristin Harkey
Grants and Program Officer
kharkey@schumanities.org
Theresa “T.J.” Frost
Literary Arts Partnership Coordinator
tfrost@schumanities.org
*The Literary Arts Partnership is a cooperative
effort funded by the SC State Library, the SC Arts
Commission, and The Humanities Council SC. The
program coordinator is the sole employee of the
partnership.
grants
Major Grants, Mini & Planning Grants,
We the People Grants, Speaker’s
Bureau & Let’s Talk About It
Major Grants 2oo3
West Mande Drumming Institute
Borenya: West Aftrican Drum and
Dance
Grant: $5,000; Total: $20,000
This project funds a four-day
institute at Hickory Knob State
Park for 300 participants-ethnomusicologists, historians,
anthropologists, music scholars
and musicians--focusing on
the origins, histories, cultural
interpretations and applications of
West African traditional music and
dance.
Edward Hopper and Urban
Realism-Exhibition Public
Programming
The Columbia Museum of Art
Grant: $ 5,600; Total: 292,753
Funds will provide for lectures,
workshops and gallery talks
designed to educate the public
about the social, urban, and
artistic history of the 20th century
as seen through the eyes of
seminal figures in American art,
most notably Edward Hopper.
Brazen Belles
Audrey Muck of Hybrid Films
Grant: $5,020; Total: $60,929
Funds are for a video production
of a one-hour video documentary
about prominent women’s rights
activists in South Carolina.
Eastatoee: The Valley Speaks
The Birchwood Center for Arts and
Folklife
Grant: $8,000; Total: $30,213
Funding allows for a documentary
film project that features the
oral history of this unique Pickens
County agricultural community in
the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The Upstate Contributes to
Reforming a Nation:
Reflections on Brown vs. Board of
Education after 50 Years
USC Spartanburg
Grant: $4,000; Total: $8,000
Funds are for the campus wide
program which investigates
Spartanburg’s history during the
era of desegregation.
The Politics of Culture and Place:
An Oral History of the Home Rule
Initiative in Greenwood County
The Museum (Greenwood)
Grant: $4,000; Total: $30,950
Funds will provide for videotape
interviews and public forums with
citizens who participated in the
transition period in the 1970s
when county governance
changed to a County Council
system.
Catawba Nation Project: Fourth
Grade Authentic Historic Field
Study
Catawba Cultural Preservation
Project
Grant: $ 4,000; Total: $13,378
Funds allow every fourth grade
student in District 3 of the Rock
Hill School District to experience
Catawba Indian history, arts
and language in a culturally
accurate framework.
The Rosenwald Fifth Grade Field
Study
Rock Hill School District Three
Grant: $5,000; Total: $72,672
Funds help provide for field
study for all fifth graders in the
district to the restored 1929
Rosenwald school, an historic
African American school used
during The Depression.
Harvest Heritage Festival
South Carolina State Museum
Foundation
Grant: $2,300; Total: $35,495
Funds are for the first annual
series of presentations over four
weekends in October in art history,
folklore, literature, anthropology,
and religious studies at the State
Museum.
Phase II Exhibits: Elloree Heritage
and Culture
Elloree Heritage Museum and
Culture Center
Grant:$2,824; Total:$38,813
Funds provide exhibits and
interpretation of the living history
museum visitor to experience
Cleveland Street, the main
commercial district, from 19001920.
Reading Today’s Southern Writers
USC Beaufort
Grant: $5,536; Total: $11,993
Funds will provide for a four-day
literary symposium in Beaufort
(USCB campus) in January, 2004.
There will be fifteen speakers who
focus on one specific book by a
Southern writer.
Scholars and educators Jack Bass, Cleveland Sellers,
and Hayes Mizell discuss the significance of the 50th
Anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education case.
Image from the front cover
For Every Person There is
a Name: Survivors of the
Holocaust, Copyright 2002
Friedman / Reynolds / College
of Charleston.
Major Grants 2oo4
For Every Person There Is A Name
The College of Charleston, John
Reynolds
Grant: $2,000; Total: $5,900
Funds assist plans to distribute
a 30 minute film and media kit
about the lives of three Holocaust
survivors who now live in South
Carolina. The materials will be
sent to middle and high schools
throughout the state.
A More Convenient Season: Civil
Rights in SC, 1948-1968
Palmetto Trust for Historic
Preservation / The SC State
Museum
Grant: $3,900; Total: 103,226
As a component of the State
Museum’s exhibit that investigates
the Briggs v. Elliott school rights
case, this application sought funds
to strengthen, in the form of a
video, the theme of the Civil Rights
Movement as it stemmed from or
led to the desegregation of SC
schools and lunch counters.
Harvey Gantt, who became the
first black student at Clemson
College in 1963, is pictured here
being interviewed by the press
on the Clemson campus. His
story was one of many told in
the exhibit A More Convenient
Season: The Civil Rights Movement
in South Carolina 1948-1968, which
was at the SC State Museum the
spring of 2005.
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Pawley’s Island Chautauqua:
American Visions
Pawley’s Island Chautauqua
Committee
Grant: $4,000; Total: $21,039
With a team of experienced
Chautauqua figure scholars,
this year’s program will focus
on visionary characters that
span the history of civil liberty
reform in America: John
Winthrop, Thomas Paine,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Eugene V. Debs, and Martin
Luther King, Jr. Presentations
are held along with adult and
children’s workshops, pre and
post Chautauqua activities.
National History Day
SC Archives and History
Foundation, Joel Walker
Grant: $9,685; Total: $68,215
The National History Day
programs of The SC Archives
and History Center and over 70
participating schools designed
instruction for nearly 8,500 students
on the use of historical research
in the making and presenting
of historical exhibits, papers,
documentary scripts, or historical
reenactments.
Courage: The Carolina Story that
Changed America
University of South Carolina /
McKissick Museum
Grant: $9,000; Total: $22,866
McKissick Museum sought funds
to feature the full exhibit of
Courage, which recounts the
events surrounding the Briggs v.
Elliott desegregation case, from
September 2004 – February 2005.
Oral Histories—WWII to the Present
American Legion Post #6, Dr.
Heyward Hornsby
Grant: $3,931; Total: $33,389
In partnership with Lexington
Elementary School, legion
coordinators and veterans from
around the Midlands record
and archive nearly a dozen oral
histories that recall the events
and personal stories of those who
fought in the major US conflicts
since WWII.
Independence New York Foundation for the
Arts, Gilles Carter (and Richard
Wormser)
Grant: $3,500; Total: $15,550
This application sought funds for
the research, pre-production,
and development of a two-part
documentary on the struggles
of the Revolutionary War, with
particular focus on the African
and Native Americans.
Operation Overlord: Breaking
Through the Atlantic Wall
SC Museum Foundation (for the SC
State Museum)
Grant: $5,000; Total: $46,036
In concert with the major WWII
Operation Overlord:
Breaking Through the
Atlantic Wall presented a
comprehensive history of
American action in WWII.
The exhibit was featured at
the SC State Museum for
much of 2004.
exhibit “Operation Overlord:
Breaking Through the Atlantic
Wall” (a fourth installment of
a commitment to present
a comprehensive history of
American action in WWII), The SC
State Museum will host a series of
dramatic presentations, lectures,
eyewitness accounts/oral histories,
film series, artifact identification
sessions, and reenactments for the
public.
Julia Peterkin or “Miss Julia”
SCETV, Gayla Jamison
Grant: $8,350; Total: $26,157
This application sought funds for
an hour long documentary that
examines the contradictory life
and struggle of Julia Peterkin,
author and Pulitzer Prize winner.
We the People
Grants 2oo4
The We the People special request
for proposals was made possible
by a project grant for the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
Visit www.wethepeople.gov
for a full listing of all the NEH
opportunities under this initiative.
“Project BLAST”
Trident Technical College
Grant: $4,500; total $11,860
Support is for a Clemente Course
in the humanities (English,
ethics and philosophy) for 30-40
underserved or disadvantaged
Charleston residents. Earl Shorris,
founder of the Clemente model,
informs the program.
Changing Lives: The Peter Cooper
Story Documentary
The Gardner Group
Grant: $4,000; total $11,210; gift &
match award: $4,000
Grant is for the pre-production
research and script treatment for
a feature length documentary
of the life and contributions of
ninetieth century philanthropist
and inventor Peter Cooper,
founder of Cooper Union which
later became Limestone College
in Gaffney, SC.
Exploring the Hidden Pasts of the
Savannah River Valley
SC Archives and History Center
Grant: $ 4,500; total $5,200
As part of the National History Day
outreach, this outreach expands
programs to the McCormick and
Aiken counties. Funds are for
lecture, curriculum instruction and
for project materials to be reused
in future years by the schools. The
History Day program will have a
regional competition that focuses
on projects of local history.
How Good People Make Tough
Choices: A Celebration of Inquiry
Coastal Carolina University
Grant: $2,500; total $7,750
Funds are for the keynote speaker
at the Annual Celebration of
Inquiry. Dr. Rushworth Kidder is
an author and ethicist invited
to discuss decision making
and ethical principals both in
current and historical contexts.
Roundtable meetings and
symposia completes the program.
C.C. Pickney Humanities Alive
C.C. Pickney Elementary School,
Fort Jackson
Grant: $2,000; total $3,550; gift &
match $1,600
This program is a comprehensive
approach to the We the People
RFP. Students and teachers
address the four history themes
by grade. Heritage narratives, a
large outdoor visual map of the
United States, with cross-curricular
activities are provided for the
fourth graders. The fifth graders
learn of Colonial America, visit the
Lexington County Museum, and
take part in Gullah storytelling.
Sixth graders interact with the
contemporary political concerns
of conservation and environment
protection.
“Spirituals Rising”
Benedict College
Grant: $4,000; total $9,174.05
An initial symposium about the
significance of spirituals as a state
music, will be held at Benedict
College in February with plans
for strategic replications in
Charleston, Beaufort, Greenville
or Spartanburg, and Florence in
venues including, but not limited
to libraries; schools; festivals;
museums; community centers,
and fellowship and performance
halls. The program will have a
televised component.
Gathering Voices: Living Off the
Land
Beaufort Middle School
Grant: $2,500; total $7,200; gift &
match: $1,000
Funds are primarily for the
promotion of a history, multifaceted program in which 90
young teens interact with local
historians, community workers
and elders, and artists/artisans,
in order to record the stories of
life and industry in the Beaufort
area. The classroom is taken
outdoors where the students
become anthropologists on all
matters related to the low country
landscape.
The Charleston Jazz Initiative
College of Charleston, Arts
Management Program
Grant: $4,000; total $8,305
The College of Charleston’s Art
Management Program receives
funds to assist with oral history
collection and planning for an
extensive survey of the history of
Jazz in Charleston and the low
country. The collection will catalog
the contributions of musicians
from Charleston since the late 19th
century.
Hallowed Ground Film Completion
McKissick Museum, University
of South Carolina Gift & match
award: $1,250
This application sought funds
for the final editing, soundtrack
and completion of Hallowed
Ground: The Story of Two South
Carolina Camp Meetings, which
is a documentary started by Stan
Woodward in 1999. The story
details the African American
heritage and culture surrounding
the Shady Grove and Indian Field
camp meetings that in large
measure helped to establish the
growth of southern Methodism.
Nuestro Futuro Documentary
ETV Endowment of South Carolina
Grant: $6,650; total $83,268
With particular focus on the
transition from high school to
college age youths; ETV will
produce an hour documentary
on the family life of Hispanic and
Latino populations. The grant
supports pre-production costs and
research for the collaborative
web site that ties several service
agencies together.
To Collect and To Preserve: Heroes
and Heroines of SC’s Past
The SC Historical Society
Grant: $11,500; total $23,457
The SC Historical Society, the
SC Department of Archives and
History, and the SC Historical
Association celebrate significant
anniversaries in 2005. This
application seeks honoraria funds
ETV crew interviews Griselda Lopez Negrete, the Aiken area high school
honors student in jeopardy of deportation, as part of the Nuestro Futuro
documentary.
for two speaking engagements
featuring scholars from across the
south east.
The Curious Mr. Catesby
Documentary
Catesby Commemorative Trust
Grant: $2,100; Cost-share $19,100
This grant supports the preproduction phase of an hour
documentary on the life of Mark
Catesby, an early 18th century
naturalist, scientist and artist
who documented the first fully
illustrated natural history of the
Carolinas a century before
Audubon.
Mini & Planning
Grants 2oo4
Capoeira: A Cultural Diversity
Experience at Finley Road
Elementary
Finley Road Elementary School
Grant: $1,200; Total: $6,800
This application sought funding
for eight professional dancers to
participate in an ‘international
exchange’ among fifth graders
at Finley Road Elementary School
(Rock Hill, SC) for one week.
Preservation and Documentation
of Photographs and Ephemera
Elloree Heritage Museum
Grant: $1,200; Total: $8,700
This application sought funding for
the collection, documentation,
and preservation of over
eight hundred newly received
photographs for the patrons of the
Elloree Heritage Museum.
Considerable Grace: Traditional
Music of the Folk Heritage Awards,
Vol.1, An Introduction
McKissick Museum / University of
South Carolina
Grant: $1,200; Total: $3,571
This mini-grant sought funds for the
production of 1,000 compact disks
that examine the traditional music
of the first fifteen years of the Jean
Laney Harris Heritage Folk Awards.
Interpretative Plan / Exhibit
Development for Latta Museum
District
Latta Revitalization Commission
Grant: $1,200; Total: $3,600
In order for the Latta Revitalization
effort to move into an exhibit
development and display phase,
the Revitalization Commission
requested funds for further
planning.
Charleston Suffragists: The Pollitzer
Sisters
Trident Technical College
Grant: $1,200; Total: $4,250
Co-sponsored with the College
of Charleston and the Charleston
Museum, this project explores the
lives of Anita, Mable and Carrie
Pollitzer. The three sisters from a
prominent late 19th century Jewish
family in Charleston, dedicated
their lives to securing education
for adults and children and
particularly for women.
Reader’s Theatre
/ The Laramie
Project
Shandon
Presbyterian
Church
Grant: $900;
Total: $3,350
The core of this
application is a
panel discussion
and audience
response session
to a dramatic
reading, by
the Shandon
Players, of The
Laramie Project,
which is a play
that addresses
violence and
hate crimes
towards
homosexuality.
AfricanAmerican Camp
Meetings As
Seen Through
the Eyes of Children
Dr. Minuette Floyd, University of
South Carolina
Grant: $1,200; Total: $2,408
This proposal outlines a project
where Dr. Minuette Floyd will
distribute disposable cameras to
children, who will then document
their own camp meeting family
and church traditions.
International Showcase and
Literary Competition
The Arts Council of Rock Hill and
York County
Grant: $700; Total: $20,550
Funds were primarily for a juried
public short-fiction and poetry
competition.
Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt
Way
The Leadership Institute, Columbia
College
Grant: $1,200; Total $6,465
Led chiefly by scholar and author
Dr. Robin Gerber, this application
sought funds for a day long
symposium to include four lectures
on Eleanor Roosevelt. The lectures
encompass history, political
science, women’s studies, and
community leadership skills.
In 2004 THCSC
funded the
production of a
compact disk
that examines
traditional
music from the
Jean Laney
Harris Heritage
Folk Awards.
Congregational Heritage
Conference
James R. Crumley Jr. Archives
(Lutheran Theological Seminary)
Grant: $650; Total: $8,740.
Funds were for a day and a half
training program at Columbia’s
Crumley Archives and Lutheran
Theological Southern Seminary
to teach church members of
various denominations how to
use and preserve their church’s
historical documents. The keynote
speaker is Steven Tuttle with the
SC Department of Archives and
History.
Young Filmmakers Showcase:
Urban Realism
Columbia Film Society /
Nickelodeon Theatre
Grant: $700; Total: $4,620
The funds are for an outreach
initiative designed to instruct
students to use digital filmmaking
techniques in concert with the
exhibit, Edward Hopper and Urban
Realism at the Columbia Museum
of Art. The media arts orientation
workshop will allow humanities
scholars to provide a ‘cross-over’
from the themes in the exhibit
to the relevant documentary
methods in filmmaking. Youth
made films and films that tell
the story of Hopper and his
contemporaries will be screened
for the community for free.
Fundamentalism in the South
Center on Religion
Grant: $1,200; Total: $3,386
With five scholars this grant was for
a panel discussion on the origins
and current climate of religious
fundamentalism in the South. The
panel encouraged reflections on
how fundamentalism critiques the
modern world, raises important
issues, or how it represents an
angry religious perspective.
Public Interpretation of the Great
war Poster, Exhibit Materials
Thomas Cooper Library, USC
Grant: $1,000; Total : $2,345
This application sought funds to
invite Robert William Cowley, a
noted military historian and WWI
scholar, to present a lecture on
the role of the war poster during
The Great War. The posters, and
their artists, supported aspects of
the War effort such as recruitment,
war loans, and famine relief. The
posters also have propaganda
qualities to elicit emotional
responses, such as patriotism,
sacrifice and heroism.
Dreamland: The Film
William Bates William of the Script
Writers of South Carolina
Grant:$1,200; Total: $32,000
A documentary film, Dreamland
will convey the loss of an
amusement park named
Dreamland in Greenville that
existed from 1920 to 1945. The
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purpose of the film is to provide an
oral history from people who had
visited the park and are now, in
many cases, elderly.
The American South: Colony or
Empire
College of Charleston
Grant: $900; Total: $2,909.
This application sought funds for
an academic/public keynote
lecture that addressed the history
of the American south in the
context of postcolonial studies.
The American People: From Rosie
to Roosevelt
Charleston County Public Library
Outright: $1,095; Total: $3,410
A six-part series that focuses
on World War II, it involves
documentaries and book
discussion.
Research continues to highlight
the significant contributions
African Americans made in
early furniture assembly. This
bonnet chest from Spartanburg
was built in 1838.
Supporting the Launch of an
Instructional Kit in the History and
Art of Furniture Making in the
Carolinas to Ten Schools in the
Charleston Area
The NC Central University
Foundation
Outright: $1,200; Total: $10,600
The launching of this kit will
blend with SC educational state
standards, grades 4th – 11th in art,
history, language arts, technology
and more.
War Birds: Diary of an Unknown
Aviator
Foundation for New Media Inc.
Grant: $920; Total: $3,600
This request was for funds to cover
the production of DVDs and
website design for the War Birds
documentary film.
West African Culture Residency
Ashley River Creative Arts
Elementary School
Grant: $750; Total: $6,773.90
This application sought honoraria
for West African drum masters and
educators to attend a two weeklong elementary school residency
in Charleston in January.
Columbia International Festival
International Friendship Ministries
Grant: $1,000; Total: $154,500.
This application sought funds for
the educational components of
the ‘multi-faceted’ international
festival, April 2-4, 2004 at the
SC State Fairgrounds. ‘Global
Education Day’, ‘Learn-ALanguage Corner’ and the
‘Cultural Exchange Corner’
represent three areas where the
humanities were most at work.
Audio Postcards from the
Lowcountry
Beaufort County Public
Library
Total: $1,200; Total: $13,730
Project Director Joni Kost
recorded local community
history from the low country
/ Beaufort area for the
SC Public Radio Your Day
program.
Biddle Hall Museum Plans for
Exhibits
The Bettis Academy Heritage
Corridor Team
Grant: $1,200; Total: $2,400
This application sought
funds to hire two
consultants/scholars for the
interpretation and planning
of exhibits in the established
Biddle Hall Museum, part of
the Bettis Academy north of
Aiken.
About Plays and Playwriting:
A Jon Tuttle Residency
USC- Aiken
Grant: $1,004; Total: $3,281
As part of the annual
Oswald Distinguished Writer’s
Series, the USC-Aiken English
Department sought funds to invite
playwright and dramatist Jon
Tuttle to offer workshops and the
War Birds: Diary
of Unknown
Aviator is a
documentary
film largely
about Elliott
White Springs
who was an
WWI ace pilot.
first full presentation of his stage
production Hammerstone.
Audubon and Creation: A Meeting
of Science and Art
Charleston County Public Library
Grant: $1,200; Total: $5,502
This application sought funds to
invite a creative writer/author
Katherine Govier to Charleston for
a public presentation and lecture
on the life of John J. Audubon,
artists, naturalist, and scientist.
Two school groups attended and
outreach to area audiences was
strong.
The South Carolina Civil / Human
Rights Anthology Project
USC Institute for Public Service and
Policy Research
Grant: $960, Total: $18,732.
Funds pay for the initial step to
consult and enlist humanities
scholars, historians, and Civil Rights
Era participants in order to form an
anthology colloquium.
I Commenced the Practice of
Medicine: Healing in 19th Century
York County
York County Culture and Heritage
Commission
Grant: $1,200; Total: $ 17,268
Installed in the north wing
of the Homestead House at
Historic Brattonsville, this exhibit
examines the period objects and
documents from Dr. John Bratton’s
office.
Reading Outside the Lines
Ashley River Creative Arts
Elementary
Grant: $1,100; Total: $3,250.
The Ashley River Creative Arts
Elementary school invited
children’s author Brod Bagert to
perform his poetry and to present
for free at the Charleston County
Public Library.
SMC Symposium on Faith and
Public Policy
Spartanburg Methodist College
Grant: $600; Total: $2,400.
Dr. Mark Gibbs, Project Director,
hosted a discussion on faith,
politics, economics, theology
and the
current
public
policy
climate.
Post War
Years,
Cold War
Fears:
American
Culture
and
Politics
1946
– 1960
Charleston County Public Library
Grant: $1,095; Total $1,915
This application sought funds for
the continuation of a film series
entitled The American People,
offered by the American Library
Association in conjunction with the
National Video Resources archive.
The South Carolina Spirituals
Project
Benedict College
Grant: $1,200; Total: $2,864
This application primarily sought
fund for the continued planning
of a symposia on spirituals and
traditional music lore in South
Carolina. The symposia and
accompanying presentations,
documentation, and public
performances will raise awareness
on the subject of spirituals and
African American contributions to
music in our state.
Sankofa Festival
Kemet School, Inc.
Grant: $300; total $9,300.
Two speakers provided historical
context at a two day festival of
African and African American
culture and history. Drumming,
dance, music, literature, poetry,
clothing, and cultural presentation
made the event successful.
Down Home Play Festival
Arts Council of Rock Hill and York
County
Grant: $1,200; cost-share $2,550.
Funds were for the presentation
of six ten minute plays to be
produced in the old courthouse
on Main Street in Rock Hill, SC.
Theatre scholars from Winthrop
informed the program.
South Reflections of Paper
Actor’s Theatre of South Carolina
Grant: $600; cost-share $3,450.
This application sought funds
for customized programs that
included brief articles written by
scholars on historical subjects.
The programs were offered
to audience members for the
premiere of South, which is a
locally written play about pre-Civil
War low country South Carolina.
Keynote Address for SCTAN
Conference on Traditional Music in
South Carolina
South Carolina Traditional Art
Network
Grant: $900; cost-share: $15,740.
This grant was for the promotion
and honoraria of the keynote
speaker at the SC Traditional
Arts Network’s conference on
Traditional Music in South Carolina
held at the SC State Museum in
October. The keynote was Dr.
Peggy Bulger, Director of the
American Folk Life and scholar for
this project.
The Lives of Our Time
Winthrop University, College of
Visual and Performing
Art
Grant: $600; costshare: $11,134.
Funds are for a
planning forum of
photographers,
exhibit curators,
and photography
educators in an
effort to promote
documentary studies
across the state and
to raise awareness
about the One
Big Self: Prisoner of
Louisiana exhibit at
Winthrop in 2005.
history. Events and
presentations were
conducted at the
Edgefield County
Courthouse, Mount
Vintage Plantation,
antebellum homes,
and the National
Heritage Corridor
Discovery Center. More than
4,000 students
were involved
in the SC
Archives
and History
Center’s
statewide
program
entitled
National
History Day.
Elizabeth I: Ruler
and Legend
– Presentations by Dr.
Carole Levin
Columbia College
Grant: $650; costshare: $3,375.
This grant paid
keynote honoraria
for Dr. Carole Levin,
who will discuss the
life and accomplishments as
well as the limitations Elizabeth I
experienced as ruler of England.
The visiting exhibit is sponsored by
the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
“The Fruits of Exile”
College of Charleston
Grant: $600; cost-share: $2,157.
This grant supported a conference
on the effects of war and
conversely the contributions in
science, humanities, and the
arts of Jewish Europeans to the
intellectual lives and disciplines
in America after relocation/
immigration.
“Lil’ Weary Feet”
Diachronic Research Foundation
Grant: $600; cost-share: $1,750.
This grant supports a printed
collection of oral histories,
narrative, images, and
resources for the Briggs vs. Elliott
desegregation case of the mid1950’s. The materials will be
available fro access through
McKissick Museum web site for
teachers.
Major Grants 2oo5
National History Day in South
Carolina
SC Archives and History
Foundation
Grant: $9,000; cost-share: $60,350
Communication in History: The
Key to Understanding was the
2005 History Day theme, in
which several thousand students
statewide were offered the
opportunity to develop one of
four presentations: an exhibit, a
documentary, a performance,
or a historical paper. Professors,
classroom teachers, archivists,
historians and history professionals
judged successful projects in May
2005 and winners have gone
to the National competition in
Washington.
The Curious Mr. Catesby
Documentary
The Catesby Commemorative Trust
Grant: $8,000; cost-share: $25,600
Funds cover the continued
scriptwriting for a 60 minute
documentary on the life,
drawings and writings of the early
eighteenth century naturalist and
explorer Mark Catesby. His best
known work, Natural History of
Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama
Islands, provides an extensive
study of nature within South
Carolina.
Children Just Like Me
EdVenture
Grant: $3,000; cost-share $41,701
Children Just Like Me is a series
of interactive exhibits, games,
celebrations, Special Saturday
events, reading and discussion
as well as some speaker led
children’s programs on the
distinctions as well as similarities
among several countries and
regions (Brazil, Mexico, Canada,
Poland, Vietnam, India, Mongolia,
East Africa, Western Australia and
Russia).
Conference of the British American
Nineteenth Century Historians
(BRANCH)
Edgefield County Historical Society
Grant: $3,000; cost-share:$9,000
Hosted in March, this conference
introduced notable papers
by British authors on the postRevolutionary, Antebellum, and
Civil War period of southern
South Carolina
Institute for
Community Scholars
South Carolina Arts
Commission
Grant: $4,000; costshare $39,110
The institute for
community scholars
is a tweleve month
period in which
scholars, folklorists,
educators, artists,
and tradition bearers
research and
document special
topics with in the
state’s traditional and
cultural history. The 25 individuals
in the program work closely with
practitioners of several different
traditions, through field work and
folklife documentation, in order to
educate the public on traditional
culture.
South of Main
Hub City Writers
Grant: $2,500; cost-share:$10,900
South of Main is an oral history
project capturing the story of the
African-Americans in Spartanburg
who were relocated in the
mid-late 1950’s due to ‘urban
renewal’. Grants funds would
be used for the compilation
and design materials for book
production.
Strom Stories Documentary
College of Charleston
Grant: $10,940; cost-share: $10,940
This application requests funds
for an eight minute documentary
trailer about the late Senator
Strom Thurmond. The on camera
interviews with Essie Mae
Washington-Williams, Judge Alex
Sanders, several remarkable
politicians and historians including
Hollings, Matthew Perry and others
will attempt to offer a balance,
critical picture of Thurmond.
2005 Sweetgrass Cultural Arts
Festival
Goodwill Development Center
Corporation
Grant: $1,500; cost-share: $17, 484
The first annual Sweetgrass Cultural
Arts Festival took place at Laing
Middle School at the same time
as Piccolo Spoleto and Spoleto.
The festival featured workshops
and public discussions, among
many other activities, that raised
awareness of the historical
significance sweetgrass baskets
has within the arts and within the
lowcountry’s early economic/
traditional industries.
Pricilla’s Homecoming
Documentary
Rice Coast Films, Inc.
Grant: $6,000; cost-share: $41,380
Pricilla’s Homecoming is a
documentary that retraces the
pre-Civil War slave trade among
cities Charleston, SC, Newport,
Rhode Island and the providence
of Sierra Leone. The non-fiction
story is told from the point of view
of a salve descendant known to
be one of the ten children of an
African woman taken in 1756.
Funds cover the on-site filming
portion in Sierra Leone.
Mini & Planning
Grants 2oo5
“LTAI: Jewish Literature”
Charleston County Public Library
Grant: $1,200; cost-share: $1,480.
In order to pay scholar honoraria
and books, The Charleston County
Library proposes a mini grant for
a Let’s Talk About It program. It is
anticipated that this will attract
an Jewish audience that is
underrepresented for the library.
“Southern Brides: The Women
Behind the Lace”
History Museum of Upcountry
South Carolina
Grant: $600; cost-share: $18,000
This application requests funds
for wedding fashions in order
to present a public program on
weddings as they have been held
in the upstate historically. The
program themes are weddings
in the south; the wedding gown
as representative textile; the
significance of weddings for
women; the historical aspects of
wedding gown design, etc. An
exhibit will follow the fashion show
portion of the project.
“The Ambler History Project”
Ambler Elementary School
Grant: $800; cost-share: $1,386
This application seeks funds for
a school oral history project
where former students and
staff of Ambler Elementary are
interviewed. Advanced students
will learn how to conduct local
history research and how to
record oral histories. These findings
will be complied into a second
edition book or printed brochure
that will be a modest fundraiser
item for the Pickens community.
“Haiti 201: Slavery, Struggle and
Survival”
English Department at College of
Charleston
Grant: $500; cost-share $1,200
program.
“Veterans with Flag”, by
Leo Twiggs. This production
still is from a half hour
documentary, produced
by Vivian Glover, about
the life and art of Leo
Twiggs.
This application seeks fund for
honoraria and transportation of
Nadine Dominique, daughter
of Haitian political activist Jean
Dominique, for a program on
Haitian art, culture, politics, and
society. The program includes two
film screenings and a panel of
academics to discuss struggles in
Haiti.
“Oyotunji Documentary”
Center for Independent
Documentary
Grant: $500; cost-share: $4,155
This application seeks funds for
travel to and early research on
the African-American village
of Oyotunji founded in 1970 in
Beaufort County. The proposed
film will describe aspects of the
Yoruba culture and the reasoning
village participants employed to
establish the seemingly ‘fringe’
culture. The results of this planning
grant include a film treatment,
bibliography/filmography, and
commitments from scholars.
“Off the Stage and Onto the Wall:
The Evolution of Ballet”
McKissick Museum / USC
Grant: $1,200; cost share: $1,920
Funds were for an exhibit that
described the contributions of
William Starrett to ballet in South
Carolina, with particular focus on
the Gullah cultural subject matter
in his most recent choreography.
Off the Wall and Onto the Stage
is a series of eight dances that
interpret through dance the visual
art of Jonathan Green. The exhibit
has a three-pronged approach of
ballet, visual art, and Gullah.
“Outreach Programs / The Way
We Were: The Rural South in the
1930’s”
Coastal Discovery Museum
Grant: $600; cost-share $2,125
Funds support two speaker
engagements to accompany the
exhibit The Way We Were which
features items from Depression
Era rural south and images from
Walker Evans. Dori Sanders
and Fred Bassett informed the
The Batiks of Leo Twiggs
Documentary
Orangeburg County Fine Arts
Council
Grant: $1,200; cost-share:
$5,700
Funds were for a two part 30
minute video documenting
South Carolina artist Leo
Twiggs. The film has two
segments: the first is a focus
on the artist himself and the
second is a full exploration
his work including critical
and scholarly interpretive
commentary.
“Filmmaker Stanley Nelson:
Music, Memory & the Civil
Rights Movement”
African American Studies at USC
Columbia Film Society /
Nickelodeon Theatre
Grant: $1,200; cost-share: $7,310.
This grant brought acclaimed
filmmaker, Stanley Nelson, for two
public forums (one at Gambrell
Aditorium at USC, one at the
Nickelodeon Theatre) about his
work on the Civil Rights Movement
in the south and similarly the
influence of the movement in
music and African American
culture/expression.
“Morris Island Civil War
Encampment”
Company I, 54th Massachusetts
Reenactment
Grant: $600; cost-share: $2,700.
Funds pay for tour boat
transportation of program
participants to Morris Island from
Charleston. Participants will take
part in witnessing the Morris Island
Civil War battle in which 218
freed African American men who
composed the 54th Massachusetts
Federal regime were killed in an
attempted attack on Battery
Wagner. This battle was the
subject of the 1989 movie Glory.
The First Annual Conference for a
Better Culture: Telling Better Stories
The Warehouse Theatre
Grant: $600; cost-share: $11,000.
In nine town-hall style discussions
the Warehouse theatre
collaborated with artists,
scholars, entertainment industry
representatives, students and
the public in an effort to arrive
at conclusions about the state
of entertainment in American
popular culture.
SMC Symposium on Faith and the
Arts
Spartanburg Methodist College
Grant: $600; cost-share: $1,605
Funds were for a symposium on
the theological, historical and
practical ‘exchange’ between
faith/formal religion and the arts.
Seminars, performances, and
discussions focus on the similarities
and distinctions between a
religious and creative experience.
“The Hero Quest”
Trident Technical College
Grant: $1,200; cost-share: $1,128.
A panel discussion was conducted
on the topic of western
conceptions of the archetypal
hero as portrayed in theatre and
philosophy. The panel preceded
an original play production by Dr.
Jeffery Fiske.
“Mill Village: The Piedmont
Rhapsody”
Arts Council of Rock Hill and York
County
Grant: $1,200; cost-share: $2,700
Two lectures by Phil Moody
addressed the history of textile
mill life in the counties surrounding
the North / South Carolina state
line. The Arts Council of Rock Hill
and York County collaborate
with the Economic Development
Corporation to host these events
in vacant downtown facilities in
an effort to raise awareness of the
historic significance / potential
reuse.
Let’s Talk About It
Programs 2oo3-o5
LET’S TALK ABOUT IT is not your
average book club. Connecting
interested readers with classic
literature, resonant themes, and
scholarly interpretation, Let’s
Talk About It creates an exciting
classroom-style discussion forum
where ideas and insights abound.
The Council makes grants of
$500 available to libraries to host
these five-part, text-based series
for their patrons. The THC grants
pay scholar honoraria. Any public
library is eligible for a Let’s Talk
About It grant.
2005-2006 should be an exciting
year for Let’s Talk About It as we
work to create new series and
increase promotion to libraries in
underserved counties. Interested?
Comments or Suggestions?
Contact Theresa (T.J.) Frost,
Literary Arts Programmer, tfrost@
schumanities.org
Let’s Talk About It
host libraries 2oo3-o5:
Charleston County Public Library
(2)
Oconee County Friends of the
Library (2)
Kershaw County Public Library (2)
Friends of Surfside Beach Branch
Library (3)
The Library Reading Club of Lake
City
Speaker’s Bureau
The Council offers a slate of
speakers on a wide array of topics
to speak at public gatherings
around the state.
The following organizations hosted
a speaker from the Humanities
Council Scholar Roster:
A.L. Corbett Middle School
Abbeville County Library and
Aiken County Public Library
Aiken County Public Library
Carver-Lyon Elementary School
CBHS / Adolescent Recovery
Program
Charleston County School District
Social Studies Institute
Charleston County Public Library
Claflin University
Columbia College
Columbia High School
Columbia Mental Health
Confederate Relic Room
E.L. Wright Middle School
EED Committee, Naval Facilities
Estill Elementary School
Fine Arts Center of Kershaw
County
Friends of Williamsburg Co. Library
Georgetown County Library
Gibbes Museum of Art
Governor’s School at the College
of Charleston
Greenville Technical College
Harvin Clarendon C. Library
Hood Street School
Hunter Kinard Tyler High School
Jennie Moore Elementary
Midlands Intertribal Empowerment
Group
Newberry College
Oakview Elementary
Redeemer Lutheran Church
Richland Cuonty Public Library / St.
Andrews
Saluda County Library
SC Midlands Chapter of
Charmettes
SC Sate Museum Foundation
Scarbourough- Hamer Foundation
SCDC Broad River Correctional
Institution
St. Andrews Branch Library
The Shepherd’s Center of St.
Andrews
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
U.S. Army Chaplain School and
Center
USC- Aiken Dept. of Visual and
Perf. Arts
USDA / Columbia
USDA / Columbia
Vital Connections After School
Programs
Walhalla Elementary School
Wassamasaw Tribe
Williamsburg County Friends of the
Library
YWCA of the Upper Lowlands
YWCA of Upper Lowlands
The Humanities Councilsc
Grant Activity 2002-2004
District
Grant Amount
Cost-Share
Grand Total
Attendance
1
155,830
436,181
592,011
20,778
2
208,951
1,183,175
1,392,126
273,371
3
45,258
175,750
221,008
21,152
4
69,051
145,356
214,407
70,898
5
47,032
361,129
408,161
29,508
6
61,780
160,397
222,177
9,930
TOTAL
587,902
2,461,988
3,049,890
425,637
Independent Auditors’ Report
To the Board of Directors
South Carolina Humanities Council, Inc.
Columbia, South Carolina
We have audited the accompanying
statement of financial position of South
Carolina Humanities Council, Inc. as
of October 31, 2004, and the related
statements of activities, changes in net
assets, functional expenses and cash
flows for the year then ended. These
financial statements are the responsibility
of the Organization’s management. Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on
these financial statements based on our
audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance
with auditing standards generally
accepted in the United States of America
and the standards applicable to financial
audits contained in Government Auditing
Standards, issued by the Comptroller
General of the United States. Those
standards require that we plan and
perform the audit to obtain reasonable
assurance about whether the financial
statements are free of material
misstatement. An audit includes
examining, on a test basis, evidence
supporting the amounts and disclosures
in the financial statements. An audit
also includes assessing the accounting
principles used and significant estimates
made by management, as well as
evaluating the overall financial statement
presentation. We believe that our audit
provides a reasonable basis for our
opinion.
South Carolina
Humanities Council, Inc.
Statement
of Financial
Position
October 31, 2004
In our opinion, the financial statements
referred to above present fairly, in all
material respects, the financial position
of South Carolina Humanities Council,
Inc. as of October 31, 2004, and the
changes in its net assets and its cash flows
for the year then ended in conformity
with accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States of America.
In accordance with Government
Auditing Standards, we have also issued
our report dated December 21, 2004,
on our consideration of South Carolina
Humanities Council, Inc.’s internal control
over financial reporting and my tests of
its compliance with certain provisions
of laws, regulations, contracts, and
grants. That report is an integral part of
an audit performed in accordance with
Government Auditing Standards and
should be read in conjunction with this
report in considering the results of our
audit.
Our audit was performed for the purpose
of forming an opinion on the basic
financial statements of South Carolina
Humanities Council, Inc. taken as a
whole. The accompanying schedule
of expenditures of federal awards is
presented for purposes of additional
analysis as required by U.S. Office of
Management and Budget Circular A-133,
“Audits of States, Local Governments,
and Non-Profit Organizations”, and is
not a required part of the basic financial
statements. Such information has been
subjected to the auditing procedures
applied in the audit of the basic financial
statements and, in our opinion, is fairly
stated, in all material respects, in relation
to the basic financial statements taken as
a whole.
December 21,2004
Assets
Current Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents
$ 250,612
Grants receivable:
National Endowment for the Humanities
10,294
Other
6.611
Prepaid expenses
2,874
Total Current Assets
270,391
Property and Equipment:
Furniture and equipment
Less: accumulated depreciation
41,903
(23,286)
Total Property and Equipment
Total Assets
18,617
$ 289,008
Liabilities and Net Assets
Current Liabilities:
Payroll taxes payable
Commitments to regrantees
$
87
30,648
30,735
Total Liabilities
30.735
Net Assets:
Unrestricted
Temporarily restricted
136,154
122,119
Total Current Liabilities
Total Net Assets
Total Liabilities and Net Assets
258,273
$ 289,008
Special Thanks to All of the Contributors to Thcsc 2003-2005
Sponsor ($500 and up)
ETV Endowment of SC, Inc.
Elaine T. Freeman
South Carolina Educational
Communications, Inc.
Post and Courier
Foundation
Patron ($250-$499)
John and Dulcie Creech
Felicia D. Furman
Olin B. & Muffet Sansbury
John G. & Ruth Sproat
John J. Winberry
John and Dulcie Creech
Benefactor ($100-$249)
Joan Powers Assey
Jim & Katie Burgess
Judy Burke Bynum
Sharon & Maurice Cherry
Leland H. & Josephine R.
Cox
W. Marvin Dulaney
George H. Frein
Felicia D. Furman
John and Nancy Garman
Risa Grimes
Carmen V. Harris &
Stephen Lowe
Howard D. Hill
William C. Hine
Wayne Q. Justesen, Jr.
Harriet Keyserling
Charles F. & Susan M.
Kovacik
Connie H. Lawson
Eugene T. Long, III
Susan R. Lourie
Brenda J. McAbee
Sam E. McCuen
Michael F. Kohl & Dr. Jane
A. McLamarrah
Page Putnam Miller
Hayes Mizell & Kathleen
Swanson
Theodis P. PalmerMcMahon
June H. Murff
Nina Parris
Edwin & Melissa Pia
Patricia B. Phelps
O. Eugene & Mary Lou
Powell
Donald & Jeanne Puchala
Elizabeth D. & Jimmy Rhea
Donald H. Robinson &
Jane W. Lawther
Margaret & Francis
Rushton
Bill & Patti Workman
THCSC Board Memorial for
George J. Lewis
Associate ($25-$99)
Randy & Mary Alice Akers
Tina M. Beatty
Eloise U. Belcher
John W. Bonner, Jr.
Katherine D. & Marvin L.
Cann
M. E. Christopherson
Barbara Randall Clark
Curtis L. Clark
Margaret V. Cubine
Clyde & Joan Dornbusch
Lesley Drucker, AF
Consultants
Ann Duncan, Palmetto
Study Club
Agneta Enermalm
John Alex M. Famille
Jayne J. Ferrer
Elaine T. Freeman in honor
of Betty Ann Mead
Virginia Friedman in honor
of Jerry Scheer
Susan C. Fedor
Lois R. Fries
Jerry Dell Gimarc
Elizabeth Gressette
Linda F. Ham
Kristin M. Harkey
Fran S. Hawk
Eugenia A. Hooker
Diane T. Howell
Jeffrey J. Hubbell
Charles & Emily Israel
Larry & Barbara Jackson
Zelle & David Jeffreys
Dianne Johnson
Gerda M. Kahn
William L. Kinney
Ernest M. and Sarah
Lander
Sarah Leverette
Sarah & George Linder III
Thank You, South Carolina Encyclopedia Donors
Randy & Mary Alice Akers
Herbert F., Jr. & Mary Murphey
Ames
Herbert F. & Jane Ames
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Baker
Judith & Robert Bainbridge
LaNelle & Robert Barber
William C. Barker
William & Valerie Barnet
Porter & Lynn Barron
Clinch & Mary Belser
Annette Boette
Duff Bruce
James and Margaret McDuffie
Bruce
James and Mary Jo Byrd
John G. & Dulcie E. Creech
Benjamin Dunlap
Walter Edgar
Van E. Edwards
Marion and Frances Swink, McCall
Farms
Robert & Jan Figueira
Elaine T. Freeman
Mr. & Mrs. Alester G. Furman III
Candace Gosnell
Mr. & Mrs. Roger Habisreutinger
Robert D. Hazel
Carlanna Hendrick
Isabel M. Hill
Diane T. Howell
A.V. Huff, Jr.
Sigmon & Judy Huitt
Charles J. & Frances B. Hupfer
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{IN}compassing the Humanities
The Humanities Council Hits the Road to Hear From You
& To Launch The South Carolina Encyclopedia
Throughout 2005 The
Humanities Council staff
travels to several locations
across the state to hear
from you, in your own
words, how to define the
contemporary meaning of
the humanities. Join us in a
conversation about the role
of the humanities in shaping
our world. (In)Compassing
the Humanities is a
tour designed to foster
conversation about civil
society and identify ways to
create more cohesive and
interactive communities.
Council staff was at the
Georgetown County
Public Library on March
10th, and at the Anderson
County Public Library
June 23rd. A special thank
you to the staff at these
libraries for their assistance
in our attempt to invite
contacts from museums,
community development
groups, the chamber of
commerce, heritage tourism
destinations, national parks,
schools, universities and
Anderson County Memorial
Library, Anderson, SC, site
of a recent {IN}Compassing
Meeting
colleges.
Your Humanities Council
also invites you and your
colleagues to learn more
about The South Carolina
Encyclopedia, edited
by Dr. Walter Edgar and
scheduled to be in a hard
bound volume, printed
by the University of South
Carolina Press, by the
end of 2006. This highly
anticipated work will consist
of nearly 2,000 entries,
hundreds of maps and
illustrations, and over one
million words on all the
people, places, events,
things, achievements, and
ideals of South Carolina.
More inclusive and detailed
than any existing work of
historical scholarship, this
encyclopedia is a must
have for all South Carolina
audiences!
Please visit our website for
updates on locations and
times for the (In)Compassing
meetings or contact
Kristin Harkey, khakrey@
schumanties.org or (803)
771-2477.
Kristin Harkey and
Paula Millen attended
the National Program
Officers Meeting in New
Orleans, Louisiana in
June 2005 hosted by the
Louisiana Endowment for
the Humanities. Along
with the sultry heat and
humidity in the June New
Orleans environs, Harkey
and Millen participated
in sessions discussing
humanities programming. Some of the sessions
were The Humanities and
The Sciences; Museum
on Main Street projects
(Millen presented the
successes about Barn
Again! Celebrating an
American Icon); Running
a Speakers Bureau; Family
Literacy; Publications and
PR; and many other sessions
to equip the staff at the
council to better facilitate
community outreach and
program development in
the humanities. The Humanities CouncilSC Board of Directors
Byron Gipson, Chairperson,
Orangeburg
THCSC Board Alumni
John G. Creech, Vice Chair,
Greenville
Judy B. Bynum, Spartanburg
Kwame Dawes, Columbia
J. Douglas Donehue, Charleston
W. Marvin Dulaney, Charleston
John T. Garman, Anderson
Ghussan R. Greene,
Orangeburg
Carmen V. Harris, Simpsonville
Mary (Molly) Harts, Ninety Six
Robert Hazel, West Columbia
Samuel M. Hines, Jr., Charleston
John F. Lomax, Greenville
Sam E. McCuen, Lexington
S.C. “Cal” McMeekin, Jr.,
Columbia
C. Somers Miller, Beaufort
June Murff, Aiken
Larry E. Nelson, Florence
Bettis Rainsford, Edgefield
Elizabeth D. Rhea, Rock Hill
David E. Rison, Charleston
Elizabeth Anne Tate, Columbia
and Charleston
Edgar L. “Lloyd” Willcox, II,
Florence
Wayne Q. Justesen,
Greenwood, Ex-Officio Board
Member & Board Member
of the Federation of State
Humanities Council
Steven Abrams, Mt. Pleasant
Dorothy Aranda, Hilton Head
Island
Charles Ashmore,
Spartanburg
Joan Assey, Columbia
LaNelle Barber, Charleston
Porter Barron, St. Matthews
Nella Barkley, Charleston
William C. Barker, Columbia
Romayne Barnes, Greenville
Charles Batson, Greenville
Jack Bevan, Mayesville
Gordon Blackwell, Greenville
Carol Bleser, Clemson
Eleanor Faye Bookhart, Elloree
Howard Boozer, Columbia
Thomas Boulware, Barnwell
Rosamond Boyd, Spartanburg
Wallace Brown, Columbia
James E. Byrd, Jr., Elgin
Theodore Cart, Florence
Luther F. Carter, Columbia
Marvin Chernoff, Columbia
Peter Coggeshall, Jr., Hartsville
Edward Collins, Jr. Charleston
P. Lamar Coogler, Chester
Hope Cooper, Camden
Maria Cordova, Charleston
Carey Crantford, Greenville
William Daniel, Jr., Rock Hill
Frank Davis, Columbia
Leroy Davis, Orangeburg
Benjamin Dunlap, Columbia
Max Earwood, Columbia
Van E, Edwards III, Columbia
Robert C. Figueria,
Greenwood
Elaine Freeman, Spartanburg
Carol Gable, Greenville
Carol Gaines, Clinton
Byron E. Gipson, Columbia
Robert McCoy, Columbia
Sarah McMaster, Winnsboro
Betty Ann Mead, Beaufort
David Millard, Myrtle Beach
Nicholas Mitchell, Columbia
William Moran, Florence
Jack Morris, Greenville
Gail Morrison, Columbia
Stephen Morrison, Columbia
Richard Moses, Sumter
Ken Mufuka, Greenwood
J.P. Neal, Jr., Columbia
James Oliver, Columbia
Roy Owen, Charleston
Susanne Ozment, Aiken
Theodis Palmer, Sumter
Nettie Parler, Orangeburg
Thomas Persons, Sr., Columbia
Paul Peterson, Conway
Jeffrey Poelvoorde,
Spartanburg
Henry Ponder, Columbia
Blanche Premo-Hopkins, Aiken
Mrs. Granville T. Prior,
Columbia
Candace Gosnell,
Orangeburg
Scott Graber, Beaufort
Marshall Grigsby, Columbia
Candace Gosnell,
Orangeburg
Scott Graber, Beaufort
Marshall Grigsby, Columbia
Terry Grier, Darlington
Philip G. Grose, Jr., Columbia
John Guilds, Jr., Columbia
Lily Roland Hall, Anderson
Willis Ham, Columbia
William Harley, Jr., Columbia
Barbara Hatton, Orangeburg
Fran Hawk, Mt. Pleasant
John Hayes, Rock Hill
Robert Hazel, West Columbia
Ruth Heffron, Charleston
Carlanna Hendrick, Hartsville
Isabel Hill, Columbia
James Holmes, Columbia
A.V. Huff, Jr., Greenville
Sigmon Huitt, Rock Hill
Coles Jackson, Cheraw
Larry Jackson, Greenwood
Donald Janicula, Charleston
Vermelle Johnson,
Orangeburg
Sue Jolly, Edgefield
Lewis Jones, Spartanburg
Wayne Q. Justesen, Jr.
Greenwood
Michael Kennedy, Rock Hill
Harriet Keyserling, Beaufort
Milton Kimpson, Columbia
William Kinney, Bennettsville
G. William Koon, Clemson
Ernest Lander, Jr., Clemson
Joab Lesesne, Jr., Spartanburg
Catherine Lewis, Conway
Harry Lightsey, Charleston
Eugene Long, Columbia
Len Marini, Columbia
Thomas Martin, Charleston
Jacqueline Mattfield,
Charleston
Larry McGehee, Spartanburg
Peggy Ratliff, Orangeburg
George Reeves, West
Columbia
Luns Richardson, Sumter
Hyman Rubin, Sr., Columbia
Alexander Sanders,
Charleston
Olin Sansbury, Spartanburg
Jerold Savory, Columbia
Mary Seamon, Central
Alan Schaffer, Clemson
Walter D. Smith, Florence
James Solomon, Jr. Columbia
Doris Sopkin, Florence
William Starr, Columbia
William Steirer, Jr., Clemson
Thomas Stepp, Columbia
George E. Stone, Spartanburg
Joseph Swann, Greenville
Roy Talbert, Conway
Frederick Tanner, II, Columbia
Mrs. Edmund (Mary) Taylor,
Columbia
Ruby Watts, Columbia
Julia Wells, Sumter
David White, Charleston
Earl Wilcox, Rock Hill
A.G.D. Wiles, Summerville
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Mission
To enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of all South Carolinians.
Vision
To be recognized for the inspiring, engaging and enriching public humanities programs and
initiatives.
Statement of Purpose
The Humanities CouncilSC seeks to increase public understanding of and support for the humanities;
telling the human story by awarding grants for high-quality public programs, by generating special
humanities initiatives, and by bringing humanities perspectives to bear on contemporary issues.
Values
The Humanities CouncilSC Programs and Initiatives are balanced, reflecting sensitivity to the diversity
of ideas, encourage open dialogue, demonstrate integrity and are ethical in operations.
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