The S.C. State Museum Commission and S.C. State Museum Foundation members dined October 30, 2008 upstairs in the S.C. State Museum to celebrate the museum's 20th birthday. Dupre Percival catered the event.

Willie Calloway, executive director, S.C. State Museum Rudy Mancke, founding naturalist of the S.C. State Museum, and the night's keynote speaker Elizabeth Fortson, staff, and Marsha Ligon Dargan, member, S.C. State Museum Foundation