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Women in Leadership Awards

Sep 25, 2024 12:40PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

Organization honors judges, legislator at Leading Women Dinner

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Pioneering Women

Mar 01, 2021 11:52AM

History reveals South Carolina’s unsung business leaders

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Darla Moore

Mar 28, 2019 08:58PM ● By Kiki Wooley

The University of South Carolina’s business school is named in her honor — the first business school in America named for a woman. She received the Business Person of the Year Award from the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and was inducted into the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame. She along with Condoleezza Rice are the first women members of Augusta National Golf Club.

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Kimberly Clarice Aiken

Mar 22, 2019 10:07AM ● By Kiki Wooley

At 14, she read to children who stayed in shelters. Her efforts to get high school students to volunteer to help in homeless programs has resulted in thousands of donations to charitable organizations. “Young people are the future of the country and they need to know that they can make a difference,” said Aiken.

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Mary McLeod Bethune

Mar 20, 2019 09:03AM ● By Kiki Wooley

In 1904, she started a small school for African-American girls which eventually became Bethune-Cookman University.

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Greenville Business Magazine
A Legacy of Leadership: How Women Have Shaped the History of South State Bank

Mar 13, 2019 12:41PM ● By Kiki Wooley

An Act of Congress, the Home Owners Loan Act of 1933, was passed as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal to help those in danger of losing their homes by providing refinanced mortgages or new loans. Horres recognized the Act as a potential solution to Charleston’s real-estate lending needs and, with the partnership of a local attorney, raised the public and regulatory support to start a savings and loan association, First Federal, which would fill the city’s real-estate lending void. The institution received its charter on May 28, 1934.

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Dorothea Benton Frank

Mar 04, 2019 11:43AM ● By Kiki Wooley

Her first novel, SULLIVANS ISLAND (Berkley Publishing 2000) debuted on the NY Times list at number nine and went back to press over twenty five times, has well over one million copies in print and can be found in ten foreign languages.

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