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Virginia Uldrick

Virginia Uldrick. Major Accomplishments. Founding Director and first President of the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. Founding Principal of the Fine Arts Center

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Virginia Uldrick

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  1. Virginia Uldrick

  2. Major Accomplishments • Founding Director and first President of the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities • Founding Principal of the Fine Arts Center • Artistic and choral director for the Singing Christmas Tree for Twenty Years, even having it perform with the Alanta Symphony Chorus

  3. Director of the Roper Mountain Science Center Her superiors had her go to a naval institute in Washington, DC, to ask for a 26- inch refractor telescope. Numerous awards, including: Lifetime Achievement Award Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Award Order of the Palmetto Distinguished Alumna Award Other achievements, awards, and positions • First female member of the Rotary club • Supervisor of Music for elementary and junior high schools of Greenwood, SC • Performed with the Chautauqua Opera Company and the South Carolina Opera Workshop • Music Director of the Greenville Little Theater for four years

  4. Education • Graduated from Greenville High in 1946 • Influenced by her teachers--especially her drama and chorale teachers, who inspired her to continue and follow her dreams • Graduated from Furman in 1950 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance and Education • Received Master of Arts in Music/Arts Administration from The University of South Carolina (1968) • Holds two Honorary doctorates • Columbia College (1983), Musical Arts • Furman University (1984), Doctorate of Humanities

  5. Family Information • Daughter of Virginia Campbell Short and William Short • Married Marion B. Uldrick (now deceased) • Two children, Stephen Michael Uldrick (now deceased) and Lisa Uldrick • Two grandchildren, Scott and Nicole Parris

  6. Interview Press for interview with Virginia Uldrick. It is 27 minutes long. Q: What is your fondest or best memory of Greenville High? A: Greenville High School has provided me with so many memories that one would really build on the next. I was deeply inspired by the choral teacher, Francis Lynch, and each one of my teachers in the academics inspired me to reach for the best that I had within me. So that was a highlight as a student, and then some of the things that happened to me in my classes here really helped me to focus more on my college work. I had an excellent education in Greenville High School. Q: What was your plan, goal or dream while you were a student at Greenville High? A: I wanted to be an opera singer. And I suppose I was inspired by this teacher at Greenville High that planted the seed. In college I was inspired by all of my teachers, academic and art, but I think those people in music and drama were the ones that helped me to decide what I wanted to do in my future with hardly the highest expectation that I would ever fully realize my dreams. Then as I moved along I had the wonderful opportunity to study with the best people in the world in choral music. I did get a music degree.

  7. Interview, continued Q: What do you think is the highlight of your career or life? A: I'm saying all of these things to help you understand there is no one place that I can say, “This is it.” Eveything was a progressive and inspiring and extrodinary moment in my life. I don't know how it happened. I just know that I had a lot of ambition. I wanted to learn how to teach and satisfy the needs of young people with talent because they were not given the education they needed at the time. Q: Who has been your greatest mentor? Who has influenced you the most? A:I was deeply inspired by Robert McClain, who was the drama teacher. I was deeply inspired by the choral teacher, Francis Lynch, and each one of my teachers in the academics inspired me to reach for the best that I had within me. I think M. T. Anderson deeply inspired me, my high school principal and my first superintendent as a teacher when I came back to Greenville. My students inspired me to want to find out how students learn better, what they need to know and do. Richard Riley was governor at that time. He established through executive order the Governor's School summer program. That program was so successful that he said to me, “Virginia you must take the students to the mountaintop, and when they go there, they will never look back; they'll want to keep soaring. And you must partner with people who cannot afford to really duplicate services. So be careful how you plan to develop your programs.”

  8. Sources • “A Current Resolution. May 16, 2001.” South Carolina Department of State (2001). www.scstatehouse.net/sess114_2001-2002/bills/686.doc • Uldrick, Virginia. Personal Interview. May 20, 2008. • Virginia Uldrick Plaque. Greenville High Wall of Fame Gallery. Greenville High School. Greenville, South Carolina.

  9. People involved in creation of this presentation • Amber- Interview and information gathering • Alessandra- Pooled the information into the Powerpoint

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