February 2, 2004, Greenville, SC—Liberty Fellowship, the statewide leadership effort launched earlier this month by Liberty Corporation, Wofford College and The Aspen Institute, today named eight prominent leaders to its Board of Directors.
According to Hayne Hipp, founder of Liberty Fellowship and Chair of Liberty Corporation, “Our Board of Directors personifies the values that Liberty Fellowship strives to promote: Integrity, vision, diversity of perspective, and leadership founded in awareness and tolerance. The Board’s insight and counsel will be invaluable as Liberty Fellowship offers South Carolina’s rising leaders the opportunity to thoroughly analyze and evaluate their values through informed dialogue and inquiry.”
“Liberty Fellowship is accepting nominations for the Class of 2006 through March 2004, and our Board of Directors will be instrumental in approving final candidates for this class,” said Jennie Johnson, executive director of Liberty Fellowship. “Nomination criteria can be found on our web site at www.libertyfellowshipsouthcarolina.org.”
The Liberty Fellowship Board of Directors includes:
Benjamin Bernard Dunlap, President of Wofford College, was instrumental in the establishment of Liberty Fellowship and continues his strong support of the Fellowship. Dunlap attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1967. He has held academic appointments at Harvard, the University of South Carolina and Wofford College. A moderator for the Aspen Institute's Executive and C.E.O. Seminars and Crown Fellowship Program, he will also serve as a moderator for Liberty Fellowship. A prominent lecturer, Dunlap has published numerous poems, essays, anthologies, guides and opera libretti, and written and produced award-winning programs for public television.
Hayne Hipp, Chair and CEO of Liberty Corporation in Greenville, SC, is chair of the Peace Center for Performing Arts, and a director of the Palmetto Business Forum, the Hollings Cancer Center and the Committee for Economic Development. He is a former trustee of the Greenville County School District, the National Urban League, Washington and Lee University, the American Council of Life Insurance, and the South Carolina Research Authority, as well as the former chair of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce. Hipp is also a Director of both Liberty Corporation and SCANA Corporation, and a former director of Dan River Inc. and Wachovia Corporation. A graduate of Washington and Lee, he earned an M.B.A. from the Wharton Graduate School of Business and completed additional studies at Harvard University.
Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of The Aspen Institute, is the former chairman and CEO of the CNN News Group. CNN won four Emmy Awards for news and documentaries under Isaacson’s leadership. A former Rhodes Scholar, he has served as editorial director of Time, Inc. and managing editor of Time magazine. A graduate of Harvard College and Pembroke College of Oxford University, Isaacson is the co-author of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made, and the author of both Kissinger: A Biography and Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.
Philip Lader, a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, is Chairman of WPP Group (the world's second largest advertising company), Senior Adviser to Morgan Stanley, and a member of the boards of four global corporations, the British Museum, and St. Paul's Cathedral. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate three times without dissent, Lader was U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, a member of the President's Cabinet, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Previously president of Sea Pines Company and Winthrop University, he also founded Renaissance Weekends, the family retreats for innovative leaders. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, M.A. from the University of Michigan, B.A. from Duke University, and completed graduate studies in law at Oxford University.
Anne Graham Masters, former Medical Director and owner of The Perinatal Center in West Palm Beach, FL, is a Board Member of The Greenville March of Dimes and on the Board of Trustees of Warren Wilson College. She was also appointed by the Governor of South Carolina to the Task Force for the MAP Commission. A 1973 graduate of Warren Wilson College, Graham Masters received her M.D. degree from Tulane University and her M.B.A. degree from the University of London. She has lectured and written extensively on high risk pregnancies and perinatal care.
Francis P. (Frank) Mood, a partner in the South Carolina law firm Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A., is the firm’s lead attorney in its regulated utilities and administrative law practice. He has served as Chairman of The Citadel’s governing board, President of The Citadel Foundation, Chairman of the South Carolina Board of Bar Examiners, and has recently completed a term as Interim Dean of the University of South Carolina School of Law. He is a member of the South Carolina Bar and the American Bar Association and a permanent member of the Judicial Conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Mood is a graduate of The Citadel and the University of Virginia School of Law.
Darla Moore, a partner in Rainwater, Inc., one of the nation’s largest private investment firms, is founder and chair of the Palmetto Institute, a nonprofit think tank aimed at bolstering per capita income in South Carolina. She serves on the boards of the University of South Carolina and New York University Medical School and Hospital. The University of South Carolina’s Business School is named in her honor, the only major business school named for a woman. Moore was appointed to the President of the United States’ education transition team, and has served on numerous corporate boards including Hospital Corp. of America, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and MPS Group. She was a Managing Director of Chemical Bank and now serves on the National Advisory Board of JP Morgan. In recognition of her career in the financial arena, she became the first woman profiled on the cover of Fortune Magazine in its 60 year history, and was named one of its Top 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business. A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Moore holds an M.B.A. from George Washington University, on whose board she has also served.
William (Billy) Webster IV, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Advance America, is the former chief of staff to the U.S. Secretary of Education and a former White House Fellow. In addition, he served as Assistant to the President and Director of Scheduling and Advance in the White House. Webster was a representative to the South Carolina Commission on Government Restructuring, a member of the board of directors of the Palmetto Project and the Alliance for Quality Education, and co-chairman of the South Carolina Voter Registration Drive. A 1979 summa cum laude graduate of Washington and Lee University and a Fulbright scholar, Webster is a University of Virginia Law School graduate.
For more information, visit www.libertyfellowshipsc.org.
