TITLE:  Caroline Pardue

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier, July 30, 2001

SUBMITTED BY:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, July 2001

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PARDUE, Caroline
COLUMBIA - Graveside services for Caroline Pardue, 89, will be held at 
11 a.m., Wednesday, August 1, in Aiken at Bethany Cemetery. A memorial 
service will be held at Grace Episcopal Church in Charleston on the 
following Wednesday, August 8, at 3 p.m. Miss Pardue died on Sunday, 
July 29, 2001. Born March 12, 1912, in Aiken, S.C., she was a daughter
of the late Caroline Robertson Pardue and William Hudson Pardue. She 
was a 1929 graduate of the Aiken Institute, and a 1933 graduate of 
Winthrop College, where she was President of the Senior Class, member 
of the Senior Order, Winthrop Journal Staff, YWCA Cabinet, Winthrop 
Literary Society, Debaters League, Dramatic Club, and President's 
Council. She received a M.A. in History from the University of South 
Carolina, with further study at Columbia University, Duke University, 
and the Middlebury College Breadloaf School of Creative Writing. Head 
of Ashley Hall School in Charleston for 25 years, her teaching career 
spanned 45 years, and included teaching history at Aiken High School 
(1934-1939), St. Timothy's School in Baltimore, Md. (1940-1944), and 
Aiken Prep School (1944-1945). She was head of Aiken Day School 
(1945-1950), Ashley Hall Academic Head and Teacher of History 
(1950-1954), and Headmistress of Ashley Hall from 1954 until her 
retirement in 1979. Memberships included the Head Mistresses 
Association of the East, National Association of Principals of Schools 
for Girls (National Council Vice-President), South Carolina Commission 
of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1957-58), Clemson
University Board of Visitors (1966-67), Selection Committee for Duke 
University Agnier B. Duke Scholarships (1964), Vestry of Grace 
Episcopal Church (1974-77), and the Book Selection Committee of the 
Charleston Library Society. Honors included an Honorary LHD Degree 
from Winthrop College (1970) and the Charleston Hall of Fame (1981).
Memorials may be made to the Caroline Pardue Scholarship Fund of 
Ashley Hall School, 172 Rutledge Ave., Charleston, S.C. 29403, or to 
the South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes, P.O. Box 2959, West 
Columbia, S.C. 29171. SHELLHOUSE FUNERAL HOME OF AIKEN is in charge of 
funeral arrangements. She is survived by her sister, Katrina Pardue 
Hammond, of Columbia, and was predeceased by her sister, Helen Pardue 
Plowden, formerly of Riverside, Conn.; she had five nieces and nephews,
Gay Freeman of Columbia, Gretchen Metzroth of California, John Plowden 
of Rhode Island, Rusty Hammond and Mikell Hammond of Columbia; seven 
great-nieces and nephews, and one great-great-nephew; plus hundreds of
her former Ashley Hall students.  (The Post and Courier July 30, 
2001)

PARDUE, Caroline
COLUMBIA - Graveside services for Caroline Pardue, 89, will be held at 
11 a.m., Wednesday, August 1, in Aiken at Bethany Cemetery. A memorial 
service will be held at Grace Episcopal Church in Charleston on the 
following Wednesday, August 8, at 3 p.m. Miss Pardue died on Sunday, 
July 29, 2001. Born March 12, 1912, in Aiken, S.C., she was a daughter 
of the late Caroline Robertson Pardue and William Hudson Pardue. She 
was a 1929 graduate of the Aiken Institute, and a 1933 graduate of 
Winthrop College, where she was President of the Senior Class, member 
of the Senior Order, Winthrop Journal Staff, YWCA Cabinet, Winthrop 
Literary Society, Debaters League, Dramatic Club, and President's 
Council. She received a M.A. in History from the University of South 
Carolina, with further study at Columbia University, Duke University, 
and the Middlebury College Breadloaf School of Creative Writing. Head 
of Ashley Hall School in Charleston for 25 years, her teaching career 
spanned 45 years, and included teaching history at Aiken High School 
(1934-1939), St. Timothy's School in Baltimore, Md. (1940-1944), and 
Aiken Prep School (1944-1945). She was head of Aiken Day School 
(1945-1950), Ashley Hall Academic Head and Teacher of History 
(1950-1954), and Headmistress of Ashley Hall from 1954 until her 
retirement in 1979. Memberships included the Head Mistresses 
Association of the East, National Association of Principals of Schools
for Girls (National Council Vice-President), South Carolina Commission 
of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1957-58), Clemson 
University Board of Visitors (1966-67), Selection Committee for Duke 
University Agnier B. Duke Scholarships (1964), Vestry of Grace 
Episcopal Church (1974-77), and the Book Selection Committee of the 
Charleston Library Society. Honors included an Honorary LHD Degree 
from Winthrop College (1970) and the Charleston Hall of Fame (1981).
Memorials may be made to the Caroline Pardue Scholarship Fund of Ashley
Hall School, 172 Rutledge Ave., Charleston, S.C. 29403, or to the 
South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes, P.O. Box 2959, West 
Columbia, S.C. 29171. SHELLHOUSE FUNERAL HOME OF AIKEN is in charge 
of funeral arrangements. She is survived by her sister, Katrina Pardue 
Hammond, of Columbia, and was predeceased by her sister, Helen Pardue 
Plowden, formerly of Riverside, Conn.; she had five nieces and nephews,
Gay Freeman of Columbia, Gretchen Metzroth of California, John Plowden 
of Rhode Island, Rusty Hammond and Mikell Hammond of Columbia; seven 
great-nieces and nephews, and one great-great-nephew; plus hundreds of 
her former Ashley Hall students. (The Post and Courier July 31, 2001)
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