Staff Report
Published Nov. 13, 2009

Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group, is slated to be the speaker for the University of South Carolina’s Buchheit Family Lecture Series on Thursday.

The 2009 lecture, titled “From South Carolina to Washington D.C.: Seeking Civility in America’s Political Discourse,” will take place at 7 p.m. in the Belk Auditorium of the Darla Moore School of Business. It is free and open to the public. The lecture will focus on the state of America’s political discourse and the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency.

Parker is the most widely distributed columnist in the country; her twice-weekly column is published in 425 newspapers. She writes on politics, gender and culture in America. Parker has taught journalism and writing at USC and is writer-in-residence at the Buckley School of Public Speaking in Camden.

The Buchheit Family Lecture Series was created in 2000 in honor of the late Phil Buchheit, former president and chairman of Mid-South Management Co. and the former publisher of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal.

For more information on the lecture series, contact Elaine Taylor at 803-777-7118 or via e-mail.