Dr. Constance Schulz, professor emeritus of history at the University of South Carolina, has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize the papers of two prominent South Carolina women, Eliza Lucas Pinckney and her daughter, Harriett Pinckney Horry.

Karen Stalvey, Peggy Hogan, Becky Derrick, and Katy Watkins. USDA, Rural Development, has awarded a Rural Business Enterprise grant for $25,100 to the SC Farm Bureau Federation to conduct a feasibility study for a peanut sheller to be strategically located in South Carolina.

The Midlands Affiliate of the South Carolina Association for Volunteer Administration has announced its new board of officers for 2009. They are President Peggy Hogan, South Carolina State Department of Education; Vice- President Dianna Holland, The Cooperative Ministry; Secretary Karen Stalvey, CVA Palmetto Health Baptist Personal Touch; and Treasurer Becky Derrick, Retired Seniors Volunteer Program.

Charles W. Hammer, CPA, has joined Abacus Planning Group as its chief operating officer.

Charles W. Hammer