For Immediate Release Contact: Luke Byars
June 5, 2000 803-734-2080
PEELER & COLUMBIA COLLEGE TO PRESENT YOUNG WRITERS’ WORKSHOP
Columbia:
Lt. Governor Bob Peeler and Columbia College will host the fourth annual Lt. Governor’s Young Writers’ Workshop June 6-7, 2000. The workshop will include approximately 78 fifth and eighth graders selected as winners from the 110,000 participants of the 1999 Lt. Governor’s Writing Awards Program. Participants represent public and private schools throughout South Carolina.On Tuesday, June 6, from 2:30 - 3:30 members of the media are invited to join Lt. Governor Peeler, students and speakers in the Breed Leadership building for a unique glimpse of workshop activities.
The Lt. Governor’s Young Writers’ Summer Workshop began in 1997 and was first conceived by Dr. Peter Mitchell, former President of Columbia College and Lt. Governor Bob Peeler. Together, they enlisted professional writers, support staff and approximately $16,000 in private support to make this idea a reality.
Peeler says, "I am proud to once again join Columbia College in providing this one of- a-kind experience to some of South Carolina’s brightest young minds."
South Carolina writers participating in the workshop include Lori D. Roberts, education reporter for The State Newspaper; Bill West, editor for The Dispatch News; David Stanton, anchor and reporter for WIS-TV News; Judi Gatson, education reporter and host of Awareness, WIS-TV News; Heather Hoopes, senior reporter, WIS-TV News; Debra A. Daniel, poet and fiction writer; Ruth Paterson Chappell, children’s book author; Lisa Eskew, public relations consultant; Cynthia Pryor Hardy, Vice President of Communications for Columbia Urban League; Dr. William Shreck, Columbia College professor; and April Simun, Lexington county reporter for The State.
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