Poe Festival Honors Poe At USC Aiken Sigma Tau Delta
USC Aiken Sigma Tau Delta held its second annual Poe Festival on October 21 to mark Edgar Allan Poe’s death anniversary. Exhibits featured The Cask of Amontillado readings and a Usher House model with a surrounding bake sale offering Poe excerpts. Angela Williams leads the chapter with Dr. Thomas Mack as sponsor. Carolina Legal Scholarship honors Robert Merrel Cook of Aiken for a Clemson degree and top undergraduate record. Laura E. Thomson was named Blue Key National Honor Fraternity member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USC Aiken
Sigma Tau Delta
National
Edgar Allan Poe
Poe
Amontillado
Angela Williams
Aiken
USCA
Thomas Mack
Robert Merrel Cook
Carolina Legal
Cook
Clemson University
School of Law
USC
South Carolina
Collegiate Notel at Wofford College in Spartanburg
Ms. Thomson daughter of Mae B Thomson of New Ellenton is a senior English and French major at Wofford College. She leads campus activities as editor of the yearbook and holds Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Phi Omega membership while singing with the concert choir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wofford College
Spartanburg
Ms. Thomson
Mae B. Thomson
New Ellenton
Thomson
Alpha Phi Omega Service Fraternity
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Fraternity
Vietnam work led Roberts into law enforcement
Jerry L. Roberts joined the Aiken County Sheriff's Department after 13 years with Charleston County. He now serves warrants in civil process, chairs the South Carolina Civil Process Officers Association, and has trained at a federal center near Brunswick, Georgia. Roberts credits Vietnam service for steering him toward law enforcement and maintains a 1963 Chevrolet Impala as a prized project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry L. Roberts
Aiken County
S.C. Civil Process Officers Association
Robert
Brunswick
S.C. Law Enforcement Academy
Vietnam
Roberts
Army
Military
South Carolina Poet Laureate Bennie Lee Sinclair read works at USC Aiken
Poet laureate Bennie Lee Sinclair will read from her poetry tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in room 125 of USC Aiken's Etherredge Center. Born in Greenville, she earned a BA in philosophy and English from Furman, authored Little Chicago Suite and The Arrowhead Scholar, which won the Wintrop College Excellence in Writing Award, and received multiple honors including the Stephen Vincent Benet Narrative Poem Award and Best American Short Stories recognition. For more information, contact Dr. Ann Adele Lee at 648-6851.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
Bennie Lee Sinclair
USC Aiken
Etherredge Center
Ms. Sinclair
Greenville
Furman University
Wintrop College
Stephen Vincent Benet
S.C
S.C. Society of Professional Journalists
Also Mentioned on This Page
Usca English
Aikenite
Wofford
Laura E. Thomson
Blue Key
Rich Wilson
Langley
Bruce Moyer
Baptist College of Charleston
New Vision
Baptist College
Danny Nicholson
First Baptist Church
Wilson
Moyer
J. L. Roberts
Erma Bombeck
S. C
Ann Adele Lee
Robert “Skipper
Perry
Whiskey Road
Robert ‘‘Skipper
Arai
Hitchcock Plaza
Silver Bluff Road
Gordon Village
Gordon Highway
E. Martintown RD
N. AugusTa
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!