The association presents the Distinguished Alumni, Algernon Sydney Sullivan, Outstanding Black Alumni, Outstanding Young Alumni, and Honorary Life Membership awards during the annual Homecoming Awards Gala.
2008 Award Recipients
The University of South Carolina presents its highest honors to several University alumni and supporters during Homecoming activities on Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. The award recipients will be honored at the Homecoming Gala at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.
Jim Hoagland, '61, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award. This award is presented each year to the alumna or alumnus who not only exemplifies devotion to the University but also outstanding professional leadership and citizenship. Hoagland is the associate editor and senior foreign correspondent for The Washington Post. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose columns focus on national security and foreign affairs. Hoagland earned the prize for a series of articles on apartheid in 1971 and again in 1991 for his commentary on Iraq’s predatory intentions toward Kuwait and Mikhail Gorbachev’s failed efforts to save communism and the Soviet Union.
The Reverend John Culp, ’67, will be honored with the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, named for the great humanitarian and philanthropist. The award is given to an outstanding alumnus who has served others in a manner beyond that required by the individual’s job or profession. Culp, senior pastor of Virginia Wingard Memorial United Methodist Church in Columbia, pioneered the Salkehatchie Summer Service mission program that improves and repairs homes of some of South Carolina’s poorest residents for free. The service has attracted volunteers nationwide for nearly three decades. Culp was the 2002 recipient of the Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina’s highest civilian honor.
Nioaka “Nikki” Campbell, ’96, ’00 M.D., will receive the Outstanding Young Alumni Award, which goes to a graduate of the past 10 years who has excelled in his or her chosen field. Campbell is an assistant professor of clinical neuropsychiatry for the General Psychiatry Residency Program within Palmetto Health/USC School of Medicine. She received multiple awards for her clinical work during residency and was also the recipient of the School of Medicine Distinguished Young Physician Alumni Award.
Darrin Thomas, '87, will receive the Outstanding Black Alumni Award. The award is presented by the Black Alumni Council of the Carolina Alumni Association to an alumna or alumnus with a record of excellence in his or her chosen field. Thomas is the vice president of Thomas-McCants Media. He was the 1998 recipient of the Moore School of Business Distinguished Young Alumnus Award and serves on numerous local boards including the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce, the Boy Scouts of America, and Communities in Schools of South Carolina.
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 Charles Bierbauer will receive the Honorary Life Member Award, which is presented to non-alumni who support and serve the University. Bierbauer is dean of the College of Mass Communication and Information Studies at Carolina. He is a former CNN White House correspondent and recipient of an Emmy Award for coverage of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta. Bierbauer is a regular participant in many University presidential and Alumni Association events.
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Staff to contact for additional information:
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Shelley H. Dempsey, '99, '04
Senior Director of University Programs
SDempsey@CarolinaAlumni.org
803.777.3986
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