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Accolades & More
The Citadel School of Business Administration has inducted three members into its Business Hall of Fame and honored a fourth with the Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Distinguished Leadership Award. This year’s Leaders of Principle and Hall of Fame inductees are retired Army Lt. Gen. James B. Edwards, John H. Moellering and Peter Sulick, Citadel Class of 1972. The Alvah H. Chapman award recipient is Daniel J. Kohl, Citadel Class of 1978.
Girl Scouts of Eastern South Carolina Inc. has announced the nine winners of the annual Women of Distinction Awards: Carol Antman, the arts; Dr. Gwendolyn Brown, medicine/health care; Myrtle McDaniel, education; Lois Scott, Girl Scout lifetime service; Deborah Summey, government; Heather Holbrook, media/communications; Carol Linville, nonprofit; Natalie Parker Bluestein, business; Lynn Young, community/humanitarian.
Steve Litvin, College of Charleston professor of hospitality and tourism, received a Fulbright Scholarship to study sustainable tourism development at the University of Guelph in Canada. Litvin will focus on the tension between tourism growth and livability in a tourism community.
Tim Tolan, senior partner and managing director of Sanford Rose Associates-Charleston, has published “The CEO’s Guide to Talent Acquisition.”
Professor Phanor L. Perot Jr. has been named endowed chair in spinal cord injury by the department of neurological surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina. Perot became professor and chief of the division of neurosurgery at the university in 1968 and was chairman of the department of neurosurgery from 1978 to 1997. He continues his faculty appointment as professor of neurosurgery at MUSC.
Larry Hodge, Charleston County’s safety and risk management director, received the 2008 South Carolina Public Risk Manager of the Year award. The department successfully reduced the number of on-the-job injuries to EMS workers by more than 50%, saving more than $400,000 in workers’ compensation insurance this year.
Jill Eathorne Bahr, Charleston Ballet Theatre’s resident choreographer, has received the Elizabeth O’Neill Verner award for Individual Artist, the state’s highest artistic award.
Manny and Clara Gonzales, husband and wife owners of Tiger Lily, a Charleston florist, were featured on the cover of the April issue of Floral Management. The article focuses on the company’s new high-end Black Market Designs line of floral arrangements.
Charleston Woman in International Trade has announced that two students will each be awarded a $2,000 scholarship. Patricia Holder from Dillon is a rising senior at the College of Charleston. Annie Madren from Summerville is a rising junior at the College of Charleston. CWIT’s scholarship program began in 2004 to aid resident South Carolina students pursuing a degree specific to international trade or a related course of study.
Marilyn Laurie received the College of Charleston’s Distinguished Communicators Award. As former executive vice president of brand strategy and public relations and a member of AT&T’s executive committee, Laurie led AT&T’s brand-building, advertising and corporate reputation activities worldwide. She consults on PR strategy for corporations and nonprofits and lectures widely on corporate social responsibility.
Nadine Evans, chief operations officer for Productivity Solutions and Training, has been elected southern association director of the National Organization of the Association of Information Technology Professionals.
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Charleston partner Mark Fava was a featured speaker during the National Business Aviation Association’s 23rd annual Maintenance Management Conference April 15-17 in Daytona Beach, Fla. He spoke on “Protecting Our Maintenance Function,” providing aircraft owners and fleet managers with principles and risk tools to shield themselves from liability.
Moore & Van Allen attorneys Cynthia J. Lowery, Bruce E. Miller, Thomas Waring and David B. Wheeler have been named South Carolina Super Lawyers for 2008. Lowery practices bankruptcy law and creditors’ rights. Miller practices employment and labor law concentrating his practice in employment discrimination and retaliation. Waring practices bankruptcy and financial restructuring law. Wheeler practices bankruptcy and financial restructuring, concentrating his practice in commercial bankruptcy and representing homeowner/condominium regimes.
Harold Jacobs, Paul Dominick, Bruce Wallace, Bradish Waring, Mary Hughes and Thomas Tisdale Jr. of Nexsen Pruet have been named to the list of South Carolina’s Super Lawyers for 2008 in a Law & Politics publication survey.
Robert C. Byrd, Susan Taylor Wall, Ronald J. Tryon, James Lynn Werner and Kevin A. Dunlap of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP have been named to the list of South Carolina’s Super Lawyers for 2008 in a Law & Politics publication survey.
The Beach Co. has announced Kristie Roe is the 2007 Commercial Broker of the Year and Eddie Hughes the 2007 Residential Agent of the Year. Roe has nine years of experience in the commercial real estate industry. Hughes has been one of the top three producers at Beach Residential for the past two of his four years with the company.
Todd P. Garrett of Grubb & Ellis Barkley Fraser is now a Certified Commercial Investment Member, a designation awarded by the CCIM Institute.
Russell Easterling, former president and CEO of CPM Federal and Blue Oak vice president of operations, was inducted into the newly formed Hall of Leaders at the Credit Union House in Washington, D.C.
Moore & Van Allen announced that the American Bankruptcy Institute has elected David Wheeler to serve on its board of directors. A practicing member in the Charleston office, Wheeler previously served as a board member with the S.C. Supreme Court Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor Law Specialization Board.
Simons Johnson of Colliers Keenan Inc. in the Charleston office has earned the Certified Commercial Investment Member designation awarded by the CCIM Institute. Johnson joined Colliers Keenan Inc. in 2004 and specializes in industrial and office brokerage.
Chernoff Newman received five awards at the annual Mercury Awards ceremony, hosted by the South Carolina chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. The marketing firm received the following honors: 2007 Best of Show Mercury Award for Palmetto Pride, Localization of Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup; Silver Wing Award in Media Relations for Consumer Services for Campus Entertainment for the Scene First Student Film Festival; Mercury Award for Events and Observances (seven or fewer days) for S.C. Department of Agriculture, Market Day; Mercury Award for Public Service for S.C. State Election Commission, senior citizen outreach to educate voters about using the new touch-screen voting machines; Mercury Award for Integrated Communications for Palmetto Pride, Localization of Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup.
Nancy Bloodgood, Shawn Wallace, Carol Ervin, J. Rutledge Young Jr., Wallace Holland and Edward Buckley of Young Clement Rivers LLP have been named to the list of South Carolina’s Super Lawyers for 2008 in a Law & Politics publication survey.
The Medical University of South Carolina has awarded Andrew Aaron Sorensen the honorary degree of doctor of medical science. During Sorensen’s tenure as president of the University of South Carolina, he promoted the academic advancement of the university in areas such as alternative fuels and nanosciences and was a driving force in the creation of Health Sciences South Carolina, the integration of the MUSC and USC Colleges of Pharmacy and the development of the Innovista research campus.
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