• to provide financial security for future annual convention costs.
• to offer scholarships to students and advisers to attend SIPA conventions and Carolina Journalism Institutes.
• to offer college scholarships to outstanding scholastic journalism students.
• to expose students and adviser to state-of-the-art instructors.
• to support publications and/or programs through technology grants.

Ways to Donate:

• Lifetime Membership – $500. Advantages of Lifetime Memberships: (1) they stay with advisers who change schools; (2) all publications under a lifetime member have free memberships; (3) all Lifetime Memberships fees go directly to the SIPA Endowment.
• Adviser Recognition – Current or former students may choose to donate money to honor their adviser (present or past).
• In Honor – Donations made in honor of living individuals or staffs who have made a difference
• In Memory – Donations made in memory of a loved one
• SIPA Auction – Each year advisers attending the convention enjoy an auction to raise money for the endowment. Even if you can’t attend the auction you can donate gifts and items to be sold.

All lifetime members, adviser recognition and in honor and in memory of honorees are printed in the SIPA program, put on a plaque that hangs in the SIPA office and can be found online.

SIPA Endowment Committee:

Co-Chairs: Karen Flowers (Irmo, S.C.) and Mary Inglis (West Palm Beach, Florida)

Committee Members:

• A.J. Chambers (South Carolina)
• Diala Chaney (Mississippi)
• Marilyn Chapman (Florence, S.C.)
• Erin Coggins (Alabama)
• Beth Dickey (Columbia, S.C.)
• Mary Kay Downes (Chantilly, Va.)
• Sue Gill (Falmouth, Va.)
• Brenda Gorsuch (Hendersonville, N.C.)
• Coni Grebel (Leesburg, Ga.)
• Melanie Huynh-Duc (Greensboro, S.C.)
• Mary Inglis (West Palm Beach, Fla.)
• Amy Medlock-Greene (Irmo, S.C.)
• R.J. Morgan (Oxford, Miss.)
• Susan Newell (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
• Rebecca Piner (Richmond, Va.)
• Jenny Proctor (Lugoff, S.C.)
• Martha Rothwell (Statesville, N.C.)
• Lori Vincent (Ola, Ga.)

Auction Coordinator:

• Ananda Kobierowski (University of South Carolina)

SIPA Lifetime Members:

• Diana Adams
• Yvonne Allen
• Robert Atwood
• Louisa Avery
• Nina Brook
• Vanessa Bump
• Phillip Caston
• Erin Coggins
• Brian Cole
• Sylvia Daughtry
• Lisa Dean
• Karen Flowers
• Marc Ginsberg
• Coni Grebel
• Steve Hanf
• Heather Hanks
• Erinn Harris
• Tara Hays
• Tressie Hays
• Ken Henderson
• Valerie Kibler
• Steve Lindgren
• Dr. Grady Locklear
• Deanna Martin
• Deborah Mayer
• Chris McDonald
• Rik McNeill
• Amy Medlock-Greene
• Melonie Menefee
• Savannah Miller
• Lance Morrison
• Betty Morton
• Lori Oglesbee
• Betsy Owen
• Meghan Percival
• David Ragsdale
• Shawn Risener
• Martha Rothwell
• Al Scroggins
• Michelle Sisson
• Greg Spoon
• Larry Steinmetz
• Stephanie Stone
• Beth Ward
• Chris Waugaman
• David Webb
• Rae Weinstein

Adviser Recognition:

• Alberta Abercrombie
• Helen Browne
• Hope Carroll
• Lynne Collins
• Sylvia Daughtry
• Karen Flowers
• Mary Inglis
• Alice James
• Marianne King
• Dr. J. Grady Locklear
• Shirley Moravec
• Lori Oglesbee
• Betsy Owen
• Kay Phillips
• Herb Sirota
• Bruce Watterson

In Honor Of:

• Andy Bosman
• Lewis G. Brierley
• Catherine Bouknight Brown
• Sylvia Daughtry & Joe Brown
• Morris Dees
• Gary Dickey
• Karen Flowers
• Melanie Huynh-Duc & Northwest Horizons staff
• Irmo HS Stinger Staff (1999-2000)
• Pat Jackson
• Debbie Jacobs
• Sergio and Valentina Korol
• Susan Morton Leonard
• Chris McDonald
• Martha Rothwell

In Memory Of:

• Margery O. Anderson – mother of Derek & Andrew Anderson
• Joe Barron – uncle of Leslie Dennis
• Lucy Beckham – Wando HS principal & 2009 Dr. Kay Phillips Administrator of the Year
• Mary Jody Bible – mother of Donna Johnson, friend of SIPA
• Dr. Regis Louise Boyle – Walt Whitman HS adviser (Md.) & SIPA Board Member
• Billy Joe Breedlove – father of Chris McDonald
• Joe Brown – father of Beth Dickey
• Penney Burton – sister of Mary Inglis
• Betty B. Cain – grandmother of Alison Shuman
• Keith Conrad – father of Marilyn Chapman
• Walter Dennis – father of Joe Dennis
• Grace Ellis Douglass – mother of Kay Phillips
• Leland Douglass – father of Kay Phillips
• Faith Dutton – member of Legend, Wando HS yearbook
• DeDe Fitts – husband of Beth Fitts
• Richard Fitz – former adviser of The Haliscope
• Sandy Floore – mother of Chris Floore
• George and Helen Flowers – in-laws of Karen Flowers
• Debbie Garris – administrative assistant to the director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications and friend of scholastic journalism
• Russ Gold – father of Christie Gold
• Ruth Kissiah Hall – mother of Martha Rothwell
• Beth Hammond – former adviser of The Laureate
• Mike Herring – husband of Martha Herring Anderson
• Elizabeth B. Hudson – mother of Karen Flowers
• James Nathan Hudson – father of Karen Flowers
• Patricia Jackson – former USC SJMC staff member and friend to Scholastic Journalism
• Clara Mae Jacobs – mother of Sylvia Daughtry–Brown
• Lawrence E. Jacobs – brother of Sylvia Daughtry-Brown
• Andy Kilpatrick – brother of Tamela Watkins
• Evelyn Glass Langston – mother of Beth Fitts
• Dorothy E. Leonard – mother of Sharon Diebel
• Mr. & Mrs. James Perry Locklear – parents of Dr. J. Grady Locklear
• Jason Lynes – Irmo HS The Stinger staff
• Marvin McClam – father of Erin McClam
• Logan McCombs – son of Stella McCombs
• Betty Morton – former adviser and board member
• Johnny Morton – husband of Betty Morton
• Kathleen Murphy – Freedom HS Revolution staff member
• Bonnie Neely – friend of Sylvia Daughtry-Brown
• Joseph W. Penton, Jr. – father of Valerie Kibler
• Mandy Puntney – daughter of Linda Puntney
• Renee Ragsdale – mother of David Ragsdale
• O.W. Tom Riegel – former SIPA director
• Edith Robertson – grandmother of Leslie Dennis
• Dr. Al Scroggins – former dean and SIPA director
• Ruth Dennis Sherman – grandmother of Leslie Dennis
• Flip Shulke – photographer and friend of SIPA
• Chuck Stone – University of North Carolina professor
• Shaunee Vazquez – friend of Beth Dickey
• Exene Walker – mother of Brenda Gorsuch
• Pert Wall – friend of Sylvia Daughtry-Brown
• Doris Whalen – mother of Rich Whalen
• Francis John Wuzzardo – father of Kevin Wuzzardo
• David S. Yoakley – father of Mary Inglis
• Madge Yoakley – mother of Mary Inglis

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