Rod Casavant has joined the University of South Carolina Beaufort’s Center for Strategic Planning (USCB CSP) as a facilitator. He is Chairman Emeritus of the SCORE SC Lowcountry Chapter, where he led a team of more than 40 certified business mentors (2017-22) supporting start-up businesses and in-business clients in Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, and Colleton counties.
Casavant is a SCORE-certified Business Mentor and on the organization’s National Advisory Council.
He had a 30-plus-year career with Eli Lilly & Company in multiple leadership roles with a track record of developing high performing teams focused on successful implementation of strategic and operational initiatives.
Casavant has a BA in Chemistry from the University of South Florida and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
TCL’s spring graduation set for May 12 at Waterfront Park
The Technical College of the Lowcountry will hold its annual commencement ceremony at 6 p.m. on May 12 at the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park in Beaufort.
The ceremony will include approximately 300 graduates from a range of certificate, diploma and associate degree programs. Beaufort County School District Superintendent Frank Rodriguez will give the commencement address.
In addition, TCL will announce and recognize this year’s Presidential Medallion award recipient at the event. As the college’s highest honor, the Presidential Medallion is given to a distinguished community leader who exhibits enthusiasm, integrity and perseverance beyond the ordinary to help build a better and stronger community.
Parking will be available for graduates and their guests. Due to possible traffic congestion, the public is advised to avoid the Bay Street area during this time.
Beaufort’s Wallace initiated into Omicron Delta Kappa
Albert Wallace, a native of Beaufort, was recently initiated into the Young Harris College Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. The Society welcomed 787 new initiates from 32 universities during March 2023.
Students initiated into the Society must be sophomores, juniors, seniors, or graduate/professional students in the top 35% of their class, demonstrate leadership experience in at least one of the five pillars, and embrace the ODK ideals. Fewer than five percent of students on a campus are invited to join each year.
Omicron Delta Kappa Society, the National Leadership Honor Society, was founded in Lexington, Va., on December 3, 1914. A group of 15 students and faculty members established the Society to recognize and encourage leadership at the collegiate level.
– Compiled from staff reports
