Aiken Midwife Joins Elite of S.C. History
Josephine Riley Matthews, who died at 96, helped deliver about 1500 babies in rural South Carolina as a licensed midwife. At 71 she earned a high school diploma, and her portrait will be featured in the exhibit I Dream A World at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, alongside notable South Carolina women.
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Wagener
Josephine Riley Matthews
Mrs. Matthews
South Carolina
Aiken County
Matthews
South Carolina State Museum
Columbia
America
Brian Linker
Palmetto Gallery
Linians Althea Gibson
Ophelia de Vere-Mitchell
Marian Wright Edelman
Charlayne Hunter- Gault
Septima P. Clarke
Ruby Middleton Forsythe
Elaine Nichols
Ms. Nichols
Althea Gibson
Silver
Beg Oom DeVore-Mitchell
Edgefield
Sythe
Charleston
Colleges face push to restrict two year degrees at USC Columbia
Ms Morris notes the CHE views four year colleges should not award two year degrees. The commission once urged USC Columbia to relocate associate degree programs, met with protests, but the university later reversed and kept the two year offerings.
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Commission
Morris
CHE
USC Columia
Board appoints Millbrook principal for Chukker Creek opening
After an executive session the board named Dr. Chris Sates as principal designate for Chukker Creek Elementary set to open this fall. Elizabeth Benton said interviews to fill Millbrook vacancy had not begun. The board will discuss budget procedures March 1 and a March 9 meeting with the Akenne legislative delegation was announced.
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Chukker Creek
Area One
Elizabeth Benton
Millbrook
John B. Bradley
Aikenne
Matilda Evans Pioneer Black Doctor of South Carolina
Matilda Evans earned a medical degree in 1897 and became a pivotal Black physician in Columbia South Carolina. She founded the Taylor Lane Hospital and Training School for Nurses, led St. Luke's Hospital as superintendent, raised eleven children, and launched Evans Clinic, a free public health facility. She also published The No Health Journal of South Carolina and served in World War I. Evans died in Columbia in 1935 after a lifelong campaign to improve Black health care.
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Women’s Medical School of Pennsylvania
Matilda
Matilda A. Evans
Oing
Africa
Evans
Columbia
Taylor Lane
Blac
St. Luke’s Hospital
Taylor St
Colored Congave
Southarolina Good Health Association
Palmetto State Medical Society
Columbia Clinic Association
Evans Clinic
Palmetto Leader
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Skey Rd
Heinz
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Heimen
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Augusta North Leg
Augusta
Viz
Aueres
Lie Claiborne
Kathie Dee
Plaza South
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