A College Park Middle teacher has climbed the ranks to now lead an infantry battalion in the National Guard in the upstate.

Jim Dillahey,’01, leads the world’s largest piping and drumming organization, is an accomplished piper and a full-time teacher of piping at The Citadel.

It’s been a little over a year since the novel coronavirus first hit the radar of CDC employee Bill Howard, Class of 1989.

“I work out a lot because of my job, and I want to stay in shape,” said Johnson, a 2013 graduate of The Citadel who grew up in Hanahan.

For months…we knew him only as the unknown hero. When the challenge came, Arland D. Williams Jr., Class of 1957, was ready.

The former assistant solicitor for the state of Georgia and Fortune 500 CEO named The Citadel as the sole beneficiary of his entire estate.

It seems long ago that we began to fully understand the impact that COVID-19 would have on the world and, closer to home, our college.

When Billy Workman matriculated in August of 2020, he was simply echoing the Workman family tradition. He was after all the sixth in a line of William Douglas Workmans to attend the Military College of South Carolina.

Members of The Citadel Gospel Choir gathered with safe distancing to record a variety of songs, to be played in lieu of a live performance.

Dawson, 50, a 1991 graduate of The Citadel and 1997 graduate of the University of South Carolina Law School, will be the only African American male judge on the state’s federal bench.