| ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS In 2001, descendants of William Gilmore Simms created the Woodlands Families Scholarship Fund to provide assistance for college tuition to the descendants of the enslaved people of Woodlands Plantation. Since then, seven students have received scholarship funding including (from most current):
Thomas Kindall Rumph graduated from Savannah College of Art & Design, 2011.
Tiffany Huggins, attending University of South Carolina Aiken
Kaylyse Beckett, Winston Salem
Samuel Sojouner, South Carolina State
Wilbur Glover, University of South Carolina, Benedict College
Rhennevor Johnson, University of South Carolina, Spartanburg
LaShaye Glover, University of South Carolina Aiken
Aquarius Rowe, Coastal College, graduated Limestone College, Gaffney, SC, 2009
For information about the scholarship and its requirements contact:
Central Carolina Community Foundation
2711 Middleburg Drive, Suite 213
Columbia, SC 29204
803.254.5601 www.yourfoundation.org
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