The records relating to the South Carolina Mother of the Year award are housed at the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections at Winthrop University. In addition, oral history interviews were conducted with 15 living South Carolina Mother of the Year Award Winners, 6 family members, and 14 prominent members of the South Carolina Mother of the Year Award Selection Committee. The oral history project was conceived and executed by Dr. Jennifer Leigh Disney, Department Chair and Professor of Political Science and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Winthrop University and community partners and South Carolina Mothers Association President Martha Cranford and Treasurer Shirley Fishburne. The purpose of the South Carolina Mother of the Year Award Oral History Project is to document women’s experiences as mothers, leaders, and women in the state of South Carolina. The voices of these powerful, dynamic, strong, and devoted women need to be collected, heard, and preserved.
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Interview with Dr. Rosemary Tung Chow and Granddaughter
Rosemary Tung Chow, SC Mother of the Year 2000
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Interview with Shirley Fishburne
Shirley Herlong Fishburne, SC Mother of the Year Committee
Interview with Shirley Herlong Fishburne, South Carolina Mother of the Year Committee member.
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Interview with Miriam Elizabeth McLaurin Gulledge
Miriam McLaurin Gulledge, SC Mother of the Year 2012
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Interview with Marianna Black Habisreutinger
Marianna Black Habisreutinger, SC Mother of the Year 2011
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Interview with Carolyn Montague Laffitte and "Callie" O. H. Wienges
Carolyn Montague Laffitte and Callie Wienges, SC Mother of the Year Committee
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Interview with the Daughters of Marjorie Faucett Patterson
Marjorie Faucett Patterson, Lynn Trobridge, and Laura Timmons, SC Mother of the Year 1995
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Interview with Anne Porcher Perrin and Daughter, Anne Perrin Flynn
Anne Porcher Perrin and Anne Perrin Flynn, SC Mother of the Year Committee