Dalhi N. Myers Three marketing consultants from The Holt Group, Inc. won national recognition for sales excellence at Skyline Exhibits’ Worldwide Expo 25th Anniversary celebration. The Holt Group, Inc. won the National Design Award for in–line booths. Winners of the Sales Excellence Awards were Susan Popp , Scott Vines , and Tim Carter . Cullen Bryant , a Holt Group designer, won the Marshall Johnson Design Excellence Award.

Jeff H. Selig

The American Bankers Association Education Foundation honored the SC Bankers Association and its Young Bankers Division with the 2005 Personal Economics Program Award of Excellence. The Young Bankers shared their expertise with 82,300 consumers with 2,622 presentations.

SC Rep. Joan Brady , House District 78, is one of 40 emerging state leaders from across the nation selected for the Toll Fellowship Program sponsored by The Council of State Governments. The seminar to be held in September is aimed at developing the next generation of leaders from all branches of state government.

SC Rep. Joan Brady

The SC Barbeque Association has awarded its first ever Five Star rating to Po’ Pig’s Bo–B–Q in Cayce, a restaurant new to central SC.

Columbia Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau has won the Gold Service Award for 2005 presented by Meetings & Conventions magazine.

Columbia College has appointed five new members to its 27–member Board of Trustees for four–year terms. Those from the Midlands are Jeff H. Selig , executive vice president of CMC Steel Group, and Dalhi N. Myers, special counsel with the law firm of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, PA.

Kenneth M. Suggs has been elected president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA). ATLA has 60,000 attorney members across the US, Canada, and abroad.

Voridian , a division of Eastman Chemical Co., has joined International Paper, WIS News 10, and the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control as sponsor of Champions of the Environment.

The Historic Columbia Foundation named Sara Jane Salley as director of development, Kristina Dunn as education coordinator, and Sheila Washington as collections registrar.

Secretary of State Mark Hammond has been selected by colleagues to serve as the International Relations Committee Chairman for the National Association of Secretaries of State.

The Columbia Police Department was awarded the City of Columbia Municipal Achievement Award in the category of public safety for the department’s implementation of the crime–fighting program COMPSTAT.