Return to Main Menu

Waring library to present Warren Sawyer lecture The Waring Historical Library will hold its 19th Annual Warren A. Sawyer Lecture at 5:30 p.m., Nov. 13  in St. Luke’s Chapel. The speaker will be Richard Porcher, Ph.D., presenting his talk “Lowcountry Folk Remedies and Pharmacology: A History.”   Porcher is a native of Berkeley County and graduated from the College of Charleston with a bachelor of science degree  in biology in 1962. He received his doctorate from the University of South Carolina in 1974, where he studied field botany under Wade T. Batson, Ph.D. He was a professor of biology at The Citadel from 1970 to 2003, where he founded The Citadel Herbarium. In 1995 he published Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry and Lower Pee Dee. He is also a senior author of Wildflowers of South Carolina published in October 2001.   Porcher is presently Professor Emeritus at The Citadel, having retired in 2003. He currently is an Adjunct Full Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Clemson University where he established the Wade T. Batson Endowment in Field Botany to assist students in the study of the state’s flora and ecology.   Porcher and Sarah Fick published The Story of Sea Island Cotton in 2005. Having a long love for the state’s history, he is currently working on a master’s degree in history in the joint College of Charleston—The Citadel Graduate Program in History.   A reception will immediately follow the lecture. This event is free and open to the public. For information, contact the Waring Historical Library at 792-2288 or e-mail waringhl@musc.edu.     Friday, November 1, 2007 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island Publications at 849-1778, ext. 201.