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site of Samuel Lucas McMillan Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar representing the Rotary Club of Mullins and Rotary District 7770 of South Carolina, USA |
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Another long-time interest of mine is writing. In the summer
of 1989, I began work on a summer project that became a published book
entitled A Child's View of the Presidents. As author and
illustrator, I enjoyed researching the personal and political facts behind
America's presidents and then drawing each president's portrait.
This experience allowed me to work with a publisher and printer, seeing
the many stages of the process to publish a book. In September, my
family held an autograph party in Mullins attended by family and
friends. This is another memorable moment for me as a fourth grader.
During my years at Mullins High School, I began writing articles for the local paper, the Marion Star & Mullins Enterprise. I wrote stories about everything from stories to the arts. After the newspaper did not publish a story about the activities of our Student Council (I was serving as Student Body Vice President), I wrote a scathing letter to the editor. My anger soon turned into a cooperative agreement between the high school and the newspaper when I founded the MHS Public Relations Committee. Each week for two years we published an article about the good news and activities of the students of Mullins High School. At Wofford, I began working for the college's Office of Communications during my second year. Along with my public policy activities, I also wrote occasional stories for Wofford Today, the quarterly publication for Wofford alumni and friends. During my senior year, I became interested in writing opinion-editorial (op-ed) pieces and published an article in The State newspaper of Columbia, SC entitled "President's advisors need freedom from testimony". I continue to write letters to the editor from time to time and have gone back to writing stories for my local paper during my year in England. The articles published about my Rotary year are below:
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