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AN ORAL HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA NEWSPAPERS

Remembering Eyewitnesses to History

CO-SPONSORED BY:

School of Journalism and Mass Communications

THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT

Our project’s goal is to capture video and audio

interviews of some of South Carolina’s leading newspaper

journalists from the last half century. We wish to

ensure that the heritage of the state’s journalists and newspapers is preserved.

The Oral History is located on a website containing video and audio recordings, photos, links and biographic information. In addition to

recalling stories from the past, such as the Orangeburg Massacre, we are also interviewing selected journalists who covered signifi cant

events to give their oral recollections and background information.

AP Reporter, Jim Davenport’s interview page on the website.

OUR CURRENT INTERVIEWEES

Time is of the essence with this long-term, ongoing

project. We must get interviews before key

witnesses are gone. This is important for future generations of South

Carolinians so we do not forget, and can broaden our

perspective by looking at the past.

AN ORAL HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA NEWSPAPERS

Remembering Eyewitnesses to History

Can be found at:

SCNEWSPAPERHISTORY.COM

AWARD FOR ASSERTIVE JOURNALISMAll Daily Division

HONORABLE MENTION:The State

Haley Coverage

AWARD FOR ASSERTIVE JOURNALISMAll Daily Division

THIRD PLACE:The HeraldJamie Self

Detention Center

AWARD FOR ASSERTIVE JOURNALISMAll Daily Division

SECOND PLACE:The Post and Courier

Glenn Smith, Gene Sapakoff and Diane Knich

The Citadel

MONTGOMERY FOI AWARDAll Daily Division

SECOND PLACE:

MONTGOMERY FOI AWARDAll Daily Division

REMEMBERING THOSE WE’VE LOSTRobert NettlesBob BentleyMim WoodringErnie AdamsLance Noel AndersonJohn KerrGerhard SpielerWalter Julian

Hugh MunnVicki ShealySamuel Rayford MarshallDwight DanaJim DavenportAnne Mae Pickens CollinsDr. J. Nolan EttersMark Staff ord Linder

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JUDSON CHAPMAN AWARDOpen Division

SECOND PLACE:The Post and CourierTony Bartelme

JUDSON CHAPMAN AWARDOpen Division

FIRST PLACE:The Post and CourierGene Sapakoff and Glenn Smith

Rosa says it’s timeto be accountable

BY GLENN SMITHand GENE SAPAKOFFgsmith@postandcourier.comgsapakoff@postandcourier.com

Citadel President Lt. Gen. John Rosa is urging cadets to cooper-ate with investigators as Charles-ton police examine long-shelved allegations Louis “Skip” ReVille shared porn and masturbation sessions with juvenile campers at the school.

Meanwhile, a private Lowcountry school where ReVille coached and taught, Pinewood Prep in Sum-merville, is pledging to say some-thing soon about its own history

with the admitted molester after weeks of silence on the matter.

Rose told a packed hall of 2,200 cadets Tuesday afternoon that the

school regrets failing to inform police about a camper’s allegation when it first surfaced in 2007. The teen told school officials that five years earlier, ReVille lured male campers into his room with Chi-nese food and pizza, then exposed them to porn and group mastur-bation.

The Citadel quietly shelved the matter after a brief internal inves-tigation and never reported the complaint to police. ReVille went on to teach and coach around the Lowcountry, and he is now charged with molesting at least five boys.

Cadets urged to cooperate with police

WADE SPEES/STAFF

Citadel President Lt. Gen. John Rosa told the Corps of Cadets Tuesday that, “Trying times define leaders who lead organizations. I will continue to lead this organization in the best way I know how.”

InsideThe Citadel will hold a memorial

Thursday for missing cadet. 9A

Editorial: The Citadel’s real shame. 10A

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READ MOREPrevious coverage at postandcourier.com.

Please see ROSA, Page 9A

REVILLE CASE

SERIES OF SPORTS ARTICLESOpen Division

THIRD PLACE:The Post and CourierGene Sapakoff

GRACE BEAHM/STAFF

Mentor Drew Ciccarelli (left) meets with T.J. Figueroa, 15, of West Ashley at Riley Park for the first time as the pair participate in the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities Program.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a two-part series on sports and mentoring

BY GENE SAPAKOFFgsapakoff@postandcourier.com

T.J. Figueroa, one of 10 chil-dren, was introduced to his new mentor last week at Riley

Park. The 15-year-old from West Ashley was quick with a firm hand-shake.

Drew Ciccarelli detected an accent.“You from up north?” asked

Ciccarelli, 30, a Charleston business owner and volunteer mentor in the

Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities youth baseball program.

“Yeah,” Figueroa said. “New Jersey. We moved here two years ago because

my mom didn’t like all the crime up there. Someone got shot on our base-ball field.”

Ciccarelli spotted T.J.’s New York Yankees T-shirt and threw the per-fect first pitch.

“You like the Yankees?” Ciccarelli said. “I’m from New Jersey, too. I love the Yankees.”

T.J. smiled.“The Yankees are my favorite.”“What about football? You like the

Giants?”“Nah. I like the Cowboys.”“Oh, no,” Ciccarelli said. “I hate the

Cowboys. At least we both hate the Eagles.”

A potentially great relationship is born, another clutch hit for one of two Lowcountry sports mentoring models. The Charleston RBI chap-ter and the First Tee golf program provide critically needed options for youth in neighborhoods statisti-cally more likely to send kids to jail and rehabilitation facilities than golf courses or on baseball road trips.

Local programs transcend sports

INSIDEHelping kids who are left out, C3

MENTORING THROUGH SPORTS

Please see MENTOR, Page C3

MENTORING THROUGH SPORTS

TYRONE WALKER/STAFF

St. John’s high school football player Johnny Burch said he has greatly benefited from life lessons learned from mentor Garrett Chisolm.

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Former Gamecock Garrett Chisolm (right) has shared his inspirational story with high school players as part of a mentor/speaker program.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a two-part series on sports and mentoring.

BY GENE SAPAKOFFgsapakoff@postandcourier.com

Garrett Chisolm had most of the St. John’s High School football players in tears. He told the team how he per-severed through his 2010 senior year as an offensive line-man for the South Carolina Gamecocks, breaking into the starting lineup, surviving the cancer deaths of both of his parents a few months apart and eventually carrying head coach Steve Spurrier off the field to celebrate the school’s first Southeastern Conference East Division championship.

Johnny Burch wanted more.“It really got to me,” Burch,

a senior at St. John’s, told Chi-solm. “It motivated me.”

Chisolm, lineman to line-man, offered Burch some football pointers. More im-portantly, he sold life lessons.

“What if my parents died? What would I do?” Burch said. “Am I strong like this man? Or am I a coward? I’d want to fight like Garrett Chisolm and be successful.”

Burch, 18, is a good student mulling college options and says he has benefited from a sports-heavy mentor/speaker program

that St. John’s guidance counsel-or Mark Epstein has presented over the last two years.

“It has helped me become a better leader,” Burch said, “not just at school, but in the community.”

Experts agree that mentor-ing is increasingly important as the percentage of U.S. chil-dren living apart from biologi-cal fathers has grown steadily, up from 11 percent in 1960 to 27 percent in 2010. A mentor-ing boom — both official and informal, and often including involvement in sports — has tried to fill the “father figure” gap, particularly among at-risk children statistically suscepti-ble to jail and drug use.

Coaches fill ‘father figure’ void

COMING WEDNESDAYCharleston’s mentor programs transcend sports.

Please see MENTORING, Page C4

SERIES OF SPORTS ARTICLESOpen Division

SECOND PLACE:Herald-JournalKevin MeltonAgainst the odds

ONLINE COLUMN WRITINGOpen Division

SECOND PLACE:The Sun News

Issac BaileyGOP must rid itself of myths