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USC celebrates its successful alumni in this publication for faculty, staff and friends of the University of South Carolina.
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USC TimeSA publication for faculty, staff and friends of the university
Aiken BeAUforT ColUmBiA lAnCASTer SAlkehATChie SUmTer Union UpSTATe
University of South Carolina September 20, 2012
Rendering created by LS3P Architects
uscTIMEsStories, snippets & scenes from the University of South Carolina.
Aiken / BeAufort / ColumBiA / lAnCAster / sAlkehAtChie / sumter / union / upstAte 10/21/2013
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A plAce to cAll homeGroundbreaking for the new usc Alumni center is set for Nov. 1 as part of Homecoming weekend. The 65,000-square-foot center will be located at the corner of senate and Lincoln streets in the Vista. construction is expected to begin early in 2014 with occupancy scheduled for spring 2015. The privately funded $26.6 million center will include meeting space for business or personal gatherings as well as social space for weddings, parties and other occasions. New programming is being planned for the center, which will give the university’s 260,000-plus alumni and friends a central gathering place in columbia.
PreSCriPtion for a great Career
In September 2011, Donna Walker
produced the first batch of Pulido-
Walker extra virgin olive oil. The results
were just what those who know her
have come to expect: magnificent.
But Walker didn’t start out in the
olive oil business. Since graduating
from USC’s College of Pharmacy in 1979, her
career has taken her up the corporate ladder
and beyond.
As a first-year student at USC, Walker
attended an American Pharmacy Association
meeting, which sparked a sustained interest.
She became a regional officer and after
graduation moved to Washington, D.C., to
take a job with the national organization.
Throughout her career, she served in a number
of leadership roles in the field, taking after her
father, Tony Walker, a 1957 graduate of the
College of Pharmacy.
“Dad gave me advice,” she said. “He said
to choose a degree that has a profession
associated with it because when you graduate,
there is a community of like-minded people to
meet. He got a great deal of satisfaction as a leader in the profession.”
Following stints in pharmaceutical sales, marketing and management with 3M, Walker’s career
led into telecommunications sales and marketing, followed by the launch of a foundation to
support youth entrepreneurship. That adaptability also helped her open a winery with pharmacist
husband Mark Pulido. This year, the Pulido-Walker cellars are producing their first batch of
cabernet sauvignon.
The couple continues to be involved with the Pulido Walker Foundation, of which
Donna Walker is president. Founded in 1997, the foundation funds organizations that teach
entrepreneurship to high-risk, low-income kids.
“Our parents were encouraging and supportive,” she said. “We’ve worked hard for everything
we’ve accomplished, but we didn’t have some of the fundamental obstacles many of these kids
have. We want to support organizations that get them to the starting line and even the field.”
Walker has now established a leadership scholars program for students on the USC campus
of the S.C. College of Pharmacy. Announced this semester, the program will support student
leadership projects, travel to leadership events and partial tuition for leadership courses.
As a young child, stephen Brown sang advertising jingles and could recognize a company’s logo. A pop culture fanatic, he would memorize the HBO guide and recite movie reviews for kindergarten show-and-tell.
Now managing director of the Atlanta office of cohn & Wolf, a global communications agency, Brown provides tactical public relations, media relations, strategic planning, crisis communications and media training for retail, technology and health care companies. He also serves on the boards of major theaters in Atlanta.
It’s a full plate, but the 1995 graduate of the south carolina Honors college and the school of Journalism and Mass communications learned plenty at usc about juggling. He wrote movie reviews for several publications, was involved in student organizations and completed multiple internships.
“The biggest thing I learned in school was being able to balance a lot at once,” Brown said. “It’s just the way I’m built.”
He remains involved with carolina, helping plan the Atlanta stops on the annual public relations Maymester trip, which has led to jobs for several graduates.
“I like being able to show students how usc life translates to being in the real world,” he said.
— Megan sexton
PR alum oPens the dooR
USC TimeS 10/21/2013 3UniverSiTy of SoUTh Carolina 2
more thAn skin deepThe phrase “plastic surgery” means more
than face-lifts and nose jobs.
Dr. Ben McIntyre’s patients will tell you it means much more. McIntyre is a 2003 graduate of usc’s school of Medicine who returned to launch a professional practice
in the school’s Division of Plastic and Reconstructive
surgery following residencies in Virginia and New Zealand. using
sophisticated surgical techniques, McIntyre is often able to undo the ravages of disease or physical trauma.
“I don’t know how Dr. McIntyre could figure out how to fix my face without knowing what I used to look like. But that’s what he did,” said Earl Baker, a retired veterinarian who had suffered a severed facial nerve in an earlier cancer surgery.
There isn’t any part of the body that McIntyre doesn’t operate on; facial fractures, hand surgeries, joint replacements and rebuilding of jaws and palates are all in his repertoire.
“It used to be that people with these medical problems had to go to Musc, Duke or Emory for help. Now they don’t,” McIntyre said.
Q&A
S yStemwide usC aikenusc Aiken has named Daniel Robb associate vice chancellor for enrollment management.
usC BeaufoRtusc Beaufort has named Mack Palmour associate vice chancellor for enrollment management.
usC lanCasteRusc Lancaster wrapped up the smithsonian Institute’s traveling exhibit “Indivisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas” at the Native American studies center.
usC salkehatChieusc salkehatchie hosted 500 current student athletes, athletic alumni, and family and friends at its first alumni reunion.
usC sumteRusc sumter art galleries are alive with two new displays on view through the end of the year.
usC unionusc union named Issaia Butler to coordinate its Palmetto college student services.
usC uPstateusc upstate is joining more than 450 universities for a social media program that allows students to earn badges for their academic and extracurricular successes, and share them with friends and family.
Palmetto CollegeThe new Palmetto college online degree completion program yielded an initial enrollment of 500-plus students.
telling the gameCoCk Story
Any Gamecock fan looking for highlight reels on the Internet is sure
to have seen an inspiring video cut together by Justin King.
The popular Gamecock videos started as a hobby after King
graduated in 2010 with a degree in media arts but soon landed
him a job cutting highlights for ESPN’s “SportsCenter.”
“Every time I sit down and begin a new video, my goal is
to go further and push harder than before,” he said. “I want
each one to have a better flow, tell a stronger story and capture
more emotion.”
King’s videos, some with more than 100,000 views, continue
to push his career forward. He left ESPN to work as a marketing
strategist with Rackspace, a San Antonio cloud-computing company,
and on the side created his own video production and social marketing
company — Justin King Media.
“The more I made the videos with Justin King Media and the more they continued
to grow, the more I learned different ways to promote them using social media,”
he said. “I was just doing that on the side of my full-time job, but it landed me here
in a field that I enjoy and get to be creative in.”
Last year the athletics department asked King to produce a video honoring
Ray Tanner.
“They wanted something emotional, and that’s what I do,” King said.
His videos, no doubt, will give any die-hard fan chills — and that’s by design.
“It’s about capturing memories,” he said. “It’s about the moment when 80,000
people throw their hands up in celebration and, even if it’s only for a brief moment,
everyone is united, everyone is family.”
By Liz Mccarthy
chAnging the world one life At A timeMost people don’t associate social work with the corporate world, but Thomas Carratto
offers proof that the two aren’t mutually exclusive.
Carratto, a native New Yorker who earned a master’s degree in social work from
USC in 1978, is president of Health Net Federal Services, whose parent company is
one of the largest managed
health care delivery providers
in the country. Carratto’s role
is to oversee contracts with
the Veterans Administration
and the U.S. Department of
Defense.
“It’s pretty easy to get your
head around a mission like this
when it’s helping veterans and
men and women in uniform,” he says.
In addition to providing basic
health services, Health Net operates
programs for the military, including a
behavioral health counseling program for service members and their families.
“It started as a small demonstration, but now we have an army of 3,000 behavioral
health counselors that we can deploy,” he says. “There’s a huge demand for these
services, and not just with the troops themselves. Some of these kids whose parents
are serving have grown up not knowing anything but war.”
Before his current post, Carratto held several positions inside government, including
deputy assistant secretary of defense for health plan administration and assistant
surgeon general and regional health administrator for the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services. But it was his time at USC, he says, that set his course for success.
“I got into social work for the same reason as a lot of my peers at that time,” he says.
“I wanted to change the world.”
On a chilly winter morning when he was 11 years old, Steve Daniels wandered into an Arkansas forest and came out a filmmaker.
OK, the transformation wasn’t quite so quick — in fact, Daniels wouldn’t truly discover his inner Hitchcock until his folks gave him a camcorder two years later — but something strange did occur out there in the woods, something that would literally and forever alter how he looked at the world.
“I had this strange, almost out-of-body experience where I became aware of my subjective viewpoint,” says Daniels, ’95. “We were out looking for a Christmas tree, snow on the ground, and I just kind of zoned out. I was walking around, looking at my feet, not knowing where I was going. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was framing up and shooting a movie in my head.”
A lover of monster movies and ghost stories, Daniels began shooting video and Super 8 films in high school, then majored in media arts at USC, where professor Harry Miller’s class on postmodernism in media broadened his vision.
“I learned so much from that class,” he says. “Film analysis and theory, how to decipher media, how to be playful with your message — it was a huge influence.”
Now an editor for Columbia-based media production company Mad Monkey, Daniels pursues his cinematic dreams at night and on weekends. His 2005 short “The Gibbering Horror of Howard Ghormley” was included on a DVD released by Fangoria magazine, then, in 2009, another film, “Dirt Dauber,” won Best Short at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. In 2011 his macabre fantasy “Dirty Silverware” — which just happens to feature a creepy walk through an even creepier wood — tied for Best Short Film at Spain’s Sitges Film Festival.
Next up? A postmodern nod to George Miller’s “Road Warrior” — in which the bikers all ride Big Wheels.
“There’s something about adults doing kids stuff that I always come back to,” says Daniels. “I love horror, love to scare people, but I’m really drawn to humor and the absurd.”
Zoning oUt, Zooming in
By craig Brandhorst
By Jeff stensLandHow did usc sumter impact your career choice?My time at USC Sumter taught me that I could
accomplish much more if I worked with others on
campus to get tasks done. As a health care provider
you are never alone, so it is imperative that you learn
to rely on your team members and have an openness
to reciprocate that support within the team.
What’s your leadership philosophy?In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem “Success,” one line
reads: “To know one life has breathed easier, because
you have lived, this is success.” In every employment
decision I make, every policy I write, every patient or
family I touch, I try my very best to make sure that
my actions create a ripple effect.
How do you see the role of alumni?Instead of being called alumni, I think we should
be referred to as ambassadors. We need to advocate
for additional funding, be willing to mentor students,
and participate and support programs and activities
on campus.
Michelle Logan-Owens, usc sumter alumna and vice president at Tuomey Healthcare systems
the fRightful vision of filmmakeR steve daniels
“It’s pretty easy to get your
head around a mission
like this when it’s helping
veterans and men and
women in uniform.”
UniverSiTy of SoUTh Carolina4
uscTIMEsVol. 24, No.16 oct. 21, 2013USc times is published 20 times a year for the faculty and
staff of the University of South carolina by the Division of
communications.
Managing editor: liz Mccarthy
Designer: Philip caoile
Contributors: Peggy Binette, craig Brandhorst, Frenché
Brewer, Glenn Hare, thom Harman, chris Horn, Page
Ivey, Steven Powell, Megan Sexton and Jeff Stensland
Photographer: Kim truett
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Campus correspondents: Patti McGrath, Aiken
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Misty Hatfield, Sumter
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or veteran status.
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left-brAin writing?If it’s interesting science, Stephanie Pappas gets to write about it. A 2006 Honors
College graduate, she writes for LiveScience, a news website with international reach.
“It’s all over the map, what we cover — the environment, health, ecology,
psychology,” she said. “I love that.”
Emerging in fall 2008 from the science communication program at the University
of California, Santa Cruz, Pappas immediately found freelance work with LiveScience.
That turned into a full-time position within the year.
“The classes I took in the Honors College and the lab work I was able to do in the
psychology department really bolstered my credentials,” she said. “It worked out well.”
— Steven Powell
“ The university of south carolina instilled a values-based, entrepreneurial leadership approach that has influenced each aspect of the Maker’s Mark business and culture, including how we interact with our customers and employee-family community.” — Rob samuels, president and cEO of Maker’s Mark, on how his
usc degree guides his approach to leadership (’96, sociology)
Carolina has inspired many musicians through the years, and USC’s alumni pull from their time on campus to create harmonies, write songs and pass on their passion.
my cArolinA Alumni AssociAtion’s 2013 Alumni AwArd recipients:Algernon sydney sullivan Award Dr. Todd Crump, ’92 master’s
in education, ’98 medicine
Distinguished Alumni Award William P. Kennedy, ’66, and
Lou W. Kennedy, ’84
Outstanding Black Alumni Award Toby S. Jenkins, ’97
Outstanding Young Alumni Award Dr. Williams R. Jennings, ’03
medicine
The Honorary Life Member Award John Bachmann
The award recipients will be honored throughout My carolina Homecoming, presented by Lowe’s Nov. 1-2.
the musiC mAnMarty Fort, ’08 master’s in guitar performance, may be a top-notch musician and teacher,
but he’s also one heck of a businessman.
“I was an adjunct music instructor at USC Upstate for several years, and I always thought I was
going to be a music professor like (USC guitar professor) Christopher Berg,” said Fort. “Then my
music lesson business started to take off, and I needed to devote full attention to it.”
Fort’s Columbia Arts Academy is now the state’s biggest music lesson business, with two
Midlands locations, more than 600 students and 35 instructors, most of whom are USC School
of Music graduates.
“We give our students broccoli — learning to read music and the daily practice that’s part
of playing an instrument,” said Fort. “But they have to have fun, too.”
plAy it loud, plAy it proudAdd up the School of Music graduates serving in elite U.S. military bands, and you’ll quickly
have a platoon.
Robert Aughtry, ’90, plays flute in the U.S. Army Band; Cynthia K. Wolverton, ’92, plays
bass clarinet in the U.S. Navy Band; Joel Baroody, ’08, plays trumpet in the U.S. Coast Guard
Band — and the beat goes on.
And then, of course, there are musicians-turned-teachers like Ken Ebo, ’00
master’s, who is now a trombone instructor in the Navy School of Music.
“The quality of the education I received at USC was great,” said Ebo.
“I wouldn’t have traded it for anything.”
the mAn in gArnet And BlACk Patrick Davis left Carolina with a history degree in
2000. These days he’s crafting songs for famous
artists and making music.
Davis, a singer-songwriter in Nashville, Tenn.,
has written songs for Lady Antebellum, Jewel and
Darius Rucker (USC’s own Dr. Hootie), just to name
a few.
He also brought his love for his alma mater
to fans across the country with songs about
Gamecock sports and recently finished a
project with USC’s athletics department for
football season. With a growing fan base, tours across the Southeast and an
album in the works, Davis is an alumnus worth knowing.
“When I write songs, I definitely draw from past experience and a lot of
what happened in college will forever be with me,” Davis said. “Anytime I
write a song there’s always a piece of South Carolina in there somewhere.”
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