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GREENVILLE — As preseason polls have rolled out over the summer, The Citadel football team has been a consensus Top 25 pick, even ranking as high as No. 16 among the nation's FCS teams in one poll. ...

1. The Citadel Football: Are the Southern Conference coaches and media nuts? Did they really pick The Citadel football team to finish all the way down at sixth in the league this season? ...

The remains of Air Force Capt. William Kennedy Mauldin ('44) have been laid to rest with military honors in Easley 56 years after he was killed on an aerial reconnaissance mission during the Korean War. ...

A Columbia man died Sunday after he was ejected from his motorcycle in an accident and then was struck twice by two different vehicles. Mark Emory Joyce, 46, of Newstead Rise, died at the scene, Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said. The accident happened at about 10 p.m. on Clemson Road. Joyce was driving a 2007 Harley Davidson when he hit a median and was ejected. Joyce was not wearing a helmet, authorities said.

From staff reports

As we count down the days until kickoff, The Post and Courier's Jeff Hartsell breaks down the prospects for The Citadel's football team in 2008.  His picks will appear in Top of the Second fro 12 days, with more in-depth analysis available each day on each game at The Post and Courier's Citadel sports blog at www.charleston.net/blogs/bulldog_bites/

Emmett I. Davis Jr. ('50), co-founder, CEO and chairman of Davis & Floyd Inc. , has received the Service to the Profession Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of South Carolina and the South Carolina Society of Professional Engineers.

I just don't get Auburn's complete incompetence when it comes to scheduling football games. ... I jokingly said last week that AU officials hadn't finalized the '09 football schedule because they were waiting to see if a hole on The Citadel's schedule would open up. I had no idea I was so right. None of this makes any sense. Honestly, it's as if when football scheduling time rolls around an entirely new staff of people take over. And they do idiotic things, like schedule The Citadel, Furman and West Virginia. ...

EASLEY — The tribute to Air Force Capt. William K. Mauldin  ('44) came 56 years late. But that Friday's moving funeral service here came at all is a testament to a country's commitment to find its war dead and a daughter's search for a father she barely knew.  ...

... Born: 1970 in Finley, Ohio. Grew up in Delaware, Ohio.

Occupation: General manager of the Charleston RiverDogs. ...

Girlfriend of two years: Debra Glenn, director of protocol at The Citadel.

How they met: At "The Joe." Echols was standing at the gate with Andy Solomon, who works for both The Citadel and the RiverDogs, when Glenn came in and Solomon introduced them. ...

The Citadel football coach Kevin Higgins has signed a five-year contract extension that will keep him at the military school through the 2013 season. The extension was in the works and signed before new Citadel athletic director Larry Leckonby reported for duty this week, but he's happy to have the fourth-year coach locked up for the near term. ...

Randy Carlson, a member of The Citadel baseball staff for the past three years in a volunteer assistant position, has been promoted to a full-time assistant position while former Bulldogs star Jon Aughey was named volunteer assistant coach.  ...

It took 56 years, but the remains of a dead U.S. Air Force serviceman are being brought back to his family. A DNA sample from Surfside Beach resident Ward Ayres helped the U.S. Department of Defense identify the remains of his uncle, Capt. William K. Mauldin ('44) , who died during the Korean War. Ayres and several other members of his family plan to attend Mauldin's 11 a.m. burial ceremony at Robinson Memorial Garden in Easley today. ...

The College of Charleston will open its new basketball arena in style, with an eight-team, ESPN-sponsored tournament that will also feature Clemson.  ... NCAA rules would prohibit Clemson and the College of Charleston from returning to the tournament in the next four years, but ESPN will likely attempt to have South Carolina, The Citadel and Charleston Southern play host to the tournament over that time period. ...

When the Citadel decided to fully renovate the West Stands, the other side was completely neglected, until a couple of alums came to the rescue.  Hollywood resident Jim Maxon and several classmates banded together and bought supplies.  They also rounded up manpower in a very odd place, the Charleston County Department of Corrections.  Every day, 10 non-violent offenders from the Family Courts come to work, paint, fix and do whatever is necessary to get Johnson Haygood's East Side ready for August 30th. ...

Larry Leckonby's diploma from Duke University sits propped against a wall in his new office on the second floor of The Citadel's McAlister Field House. On his desk and bookshelf are mementos from various stops in his career — a stuffed Cougar from Houston and a toy Terrapin from Maryland, a hockey puck from Boston University.  "We'll get some Citadel stuff in here soon," Leckonby quipped. ...

"Signals optional." That's what the sign should say. My question is: Where are the signs? I travel the interstate back and forth to work every day and I know that it must be the new policy, but there should be signs. ...

Long before we popped aspirin for headaches, American Indians chewed twigs from willow trees. And before antibiotics, they drank a natural concoction known as Mexican tea to oust parasites in the digestive tract.  Did the remedies work? "Some did and some didn't," says Dr. Richard Porcher, biology professor emeritus at The Citadel. Porcher will give an encore of his talk, Lowcountry Folk Remedies & Pharmacology: A History, at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Sewee Visitor and Environmental Education Center, 5821 U.S. Highway 17, Awendaw. The event is free. More at 928-3368 or www.fws.gov/seweecenter.

Here's a portion of the cutline from the photo, "Scholarship winner at the Lowcountry Phi Beta Kappa Association Scholarship Awards Banquet at the College of Charleston include (fromn left) Jui-Chiang Chen, The Citadel; Kate Rogers, College of Charleston" ...

Q I'd like to compliment the paper on Ron Menchaca's story about a daughter bringing her father's remains home. It was beautiful — a moving piece. Terry.

A The story, which appeared in Tuesday's paper, told the story of Air Force Reserve Capt. William K. Mauldin ('44)  who was killed during the Korean War. His daughter, Corinne Mauldin of James Island, searched for years to learn his story. Ron will be in Easley on Friday to report on his military burial.

William Polk Ginn, 73, retired principal, of 205 Hawkridge Place in Goose Creek, SC, died Monday evening, July 14, 2008 in the Trident Medical Center in Charleston. ...was a graduate of Clemson University and received degrees from SC State University and the Citadel...

...* Commanding Officer: Cmdr. Greg McWherter of Atlanta, currently assigned to the Golden Dragons in Atsugi, Japan. He attended The Citadel, where he graduated cum laude in May 1990. ...
 

Citadel head coach Ed conroy announced the addition of Ronnie Hamilton to the men's basketball coaching staff.  Hamilton will serve as an assistant coach of The Citadel for the 2008-09 season. ...

WATERTOWN, N.Y. - When Brad Felder ('10 - November Co) tells the story, it sounds like something straight out of a Hollywood movie or spun from the mind of a baseball fiction novelist.  A struggling young outfielder from the South travels to the North for the first time in hopes of regaining his hitting stroke. While practicing his swing during an off-day, an elderly man approaches him to provide unsolicited advice.

In the early morning of April 12, 1861, Confederate soldiers, outnumbering their counterparts 100 to 1 by at least one account, began their assault on Fort Sumter. The island fortress had been the last bastion for Union troops since South Carolina's dramatic secession nearly four months earlier on the Charleston peninsula. While the cannon attack on Fort Sumter is recognized as the "official" start of the war, local historians note a prologue — a Citadel cadet assault on a Union supply vessel called the Star of the West in January 1861. The school still honors a cadet each year with a Star of the West medal.  ...

(William K. Mauldin '44) Corinne Mauldin of James Island doesn't remember her father. The Air Force Reserve pilot died in the Korean War when she was 2. Now 58, she's lived her life knowing only scant details about how he was killed while flying a reconnaissance mission in 1952. His remains were never identified. ...

COLUMBIA — Lt. Col. Louis Antoine Wintzer, 68, husband of forty-six years to Janice Ruff Wintzer, died Saturday, July 12, 2008, in Providence Hospital following a long illness. ... A memorial service will be held Wednesday at 12:30 p.m., July 16, 2008, at Trenholm Road United Methodist Church with the Reverends Wayne Horne and Mollie Bame officiating. Interment for immediate family will precede the memorial service. The family will receive friends in the church parlor 11 a.m.-12 p.m. prior to the memorial service. ...

The Heffron family hopes they will have a lot to celebrate once the SC State Junior Hardcourt Championships have finished on Wednesday. ...The brothers say they play to honor their late father, Randall “Randy” Heffron, who played tennis at The Citadel and also played junior tennis. ...

Hayward, CA (PRWEB) July 14, 2008 -- Jupiter Systems is saddened to announce the unexpected death of Wayne Wahlenmeier, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, and highly regarded industry leader and pioneer in the Audio Visual Industry, on June 28, 2008. Mr. Wahlenmeier was also a multiple recipient of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. He was 63 years old. ... The funeral was held Wednesday July 2nd in Charleston, South Carolina at Summerall Chapel at the Citadel. He was buried at Beaufort National Cemetery, Charleston, SC with full military honors on July 8...

Jeff Taylor of Cognetix LLC has received the 2008 Volunteer Leadership-Individual Award from the National Children's Alliance for his work on the "I Believe ..." campaign for the Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center.

Charleston Southern did not have to look very far to find its new head baseball coach, hiring Citadel assistant and former Buccaneers player Stuart Lake. Lake replaces Jason Murray, who resigned in June after four seasons. Lake was rumored to be the leading candidate for the position throughout the coaching search and signed his contract over the weekend. ...