Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award
Named for the great humanitarian and philanthropist, Algernon Sydney Sullivan. After his death, the Southern Society, based in New York, set up the award and each year allows each Southern university or college to make the award to an outstanding alumna or alumnus who has given service to his fellow man beyond that required by his job or profession.
Note: This award was not presented in 2011 during the Capital Campaign Kickoff.
Recipients are:
2012
Andrew Card, '71, has served as the secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, the president and CEO of the American Auto Manufacturing Association and vice president for government relations for General Motors Corporation. In all, he was the second-longest tenured White House chief of staff, having served in senior government roles for three U.S. presidents. Card led a government-wide reorganization to best allocate resources to deal with the aftermath of 9-11 and the new terrorist environment. He is currently the acting dean of The Bush School of Government and Public Services at Texas A&M University. He also attended the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Card served in the U.S. Navy from 1965 to 1967. Card has been the recipient of many honorary degrees and awards, including the 2002 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of South Carolina.
2010
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Dr. Jim Chow graduated from Carolina in 1980 with a degree in biology and went on to the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, finishing in 1985. He’s now a brigadier general and surgeon in the United States Air Force as an Air National Guardsman from South Carolina. More than 10 years ago, he established an endowment fund for a scholarship in his parents’ names at the USC School of Medicine for students going into primary and preventive medicine. He also established the Chow Bicentennial Scholarship Fund, which is awarded to deserving medical students. In addition to his military duties, he is the associate director of dermatology/ dermatologic surgery and clinical associate professor of surgery at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He’s also a partner at the Columbia Skin Clinic, LLC, and is an elected board member for the South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners. |
2009
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Sister Carol Keehan, '80, a member of the Daughters of Charity for more than 40 years, is the president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association of the United States, the trade group for Catholic hospitals based in St. Louis. She has held influential roles in the governance of a variety of health care, insurance, and educational organizations. She’s been an advocate to ensure that the United States develops a “fair and just health care policy” for all citizens, including those with no health insurance. A registered nurse, Sister Carol has been a hospital administrator and executive for more than 35 years and has spent time testifying on Capitol Hill, arranging conferences, making speeches, and publishing articles. |
2008
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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 Columbia’s Virginia Wingard Memorial United Methodist Church, 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. |
2007
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Hal H. Crosswell Jr., '56 BS, '60 MD, was the 2006 recipient of the Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina’s highest civilian honor. He is an ophthalmologist with the Columbia Eye Center for more than 30 years and has participated in numerous international mission trips to provide eye and other medical care to those in need. Dr. Crosswell currently resides in Columbia. |
2006
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Katherine Anne Close, '88 M.D., is the director of Baskerville Free Medical Clinic near Georgetown, S.C. She also works to provide medical care to those who would otherwise go without in Haiti. Dr. Close graduated from Wofford College in 1983 and then came to Carolina, graduating from the School of Medicine in 1988. In 2004, she earned a graduate degree from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Under Dr. Close's leadership when she was the Medical Director of the Smith Medical Clinic, which serves a primarily indigent population on Pawleys Island, the clinic had added a pharmacy, built a substantial budget and increased patient visits four-fold. She had worked as Medical Director for Haitians Missions which helped people with unmet medical needs and scarce resources. |
2005
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Robert A. “Bobby” Dobson, ’60, ’62 law, a Greenville resident who heads several charitable and philanthropic organizations, is founder and board chairman of the Dobson Volunteer Service Program at USC. Dobson practiced tax law for nearly 30 years in Greenville and is now involved in private investment management and is chairman of Dobson Ministries, a non-profit Christian ministry founded by his father and funded by the Dobson family. He also is chairman of the board of Homeless Children International Inc. and of the Walker Foundation (benefits the S.C. School for the Deaf and the Blind). In addition, Dobson serves on the boards of several organizations, including School Ministries Inc., Wisdom in Living Life Ministries, the United Way of Greenville County, and A Child’s Haven Inc. He and his wife, Catherine, have eight children. |
2004
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J. Frank Martin Sr., MD - The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award is given each year to an outstanding alumnus who has rendered service to humanity beyond that required by job or profession. The 2004 recipient is known for his landmark research into the risk factors associated with heart disease, but he is also known for having a big heart. He’s been a volunteer physician to USC sports teams, a board member of the AIDS Benefit Foundation and a mentor to drug addicts and alcoholics for the Salvation Army. For more than 20 years, despite an eye injury and his battle with cancer, he’s treated patients at the Free Medical Clinic in Columbia. Dr. J. Frank Martin Sr. exemplifies the humanitarian principles embodied in this award. |
2003 - Henry Lucius Laffitte, Sr., M.D. '44
2002 - The Honorable Paul S. Goldsmith, '56
2001 - Awards were not handed out due to University's Bicentennial Celebration
2000 - Rev. Dr. George E. Meetze, '30
1999 - Bradley D. Smith
1998 - Paula Harper Bethea, '75
1997 - D. Strother Pope, M.D. '32
1996 - Ada B. Thomas
1995 - J. Preston Darby, M.D. '50
1994 - Dr. Margaret S. Richardson
1993 - James W. Pearce
1992 - Edward L. Addison, '50
1991 - Jean Hoefer Toal, '68
1990 - Robert V. Royall, Jr.
1989 - Alex English
1988 - John C. Lindsay, '74
1987 - William Reece Smith, Jr. '46
1986 - Rembert C. Dennis
1985 - Jean Galloway Bissell
1984 - John Swearingen, '38
1983 - Guy Lipscomb, '38
1982 - Ernest F. Hollings, '47
1981 - Donald Russell, '58
1980 - Robert E. McNair
1979 - Paul A. Sansbury
1978 - Wilbur S. Smith
1977 - William H. Patterson, '34
1976 - G. Cameron Todd, '50
1975 - William "Bully" Weston, Jr., M.D. '55
1974 - Robert E. Penland, '38
1973 - Leonard L. Long, '40
1972 - Arthur M. Williams
1971 - W.W. "Hootie" Johnson
1970 - J. Willis Cantey, '68
1969 - Robert W. Hemphill
1968 - E. Smythe Gambrell
1967 - Charles W. Knowlton
1966 - Jessie Coleman McPherson
1965 - Frank F. Welbourne
1964 - Charles E. Simmons, III
1963 - John Henderson Lumpkin
1962 - Rutledge L. Osborne
1961 - Chris P. Leventis
1960 - George Bell Timmerman, Sr.
1959 - Beverly Herbert
1958 - B.M. Edwards
1957 - Mrs. Donald Russell
1956 - Dr. Robert Lee Sanders
1955 - David W. Robinson
1954 - Lionel K. Legge
1953 - Robert M. Cooper
1952 - Max Citron
1951 - Caroline McKissick Dial
1950 - Christie Benet
1949 - Francenia Brennen
1948 - Dr. Robert W. Gibbes, Jr.
1947 - Dr. Leonard T. Baker
1940 - Rev. Thomas Noe
1939 - Dr. C Frederick Williams
1938 - Dr. Ernest Cooper
1937 - Wil Lou Gray
1936 - Dr. Robert P. Dell
1935 - Dr. G.A. Wauchope
1933 - Richard H. Sullivan
1932 - Frank C. Withers
1931 - Bernard A. Early
1928 - Dr. J.H. McLeod
1927 - George H. Huggins