Suzanne Rodgers ATKINSON^[1]

• Name	Suzanne Rodgers ATKINSON  [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  HIST	of Sumter, South Carolina Librarian takes Dewey Decimal Destinations tour Share Send this page to your friends Print Create a hardcopy of this page Font Size: Default font size Larger font size Posted: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 6:00 am | Updated: 6:39 am, Wed Feb 9, 2011. BY JADE ANDERSON janderson@theitem.com Librarians are educators, too, as Wilson Hall's Suzanne Hiott proved with her Dewey Decimal Destinations tour. "We traveled up the coast taking in everything," she said about the 2009 trip with her husband, Capers. "South Carolina is so filled with history you could almost do all 10 (Dewey Decimal classifications) in South Carolina. That would be kind of a neat trip, too, I think." The Dewey Decimal System is the most widely used nonfiction classification system for library books although it does include folk and fairy tales as well. It has 10 main categories that range from generalities to language to history. Hiott, who has been with Wilson Hall for 33 years, said she took more than 700 photographs which she narrowed down for a DVD her husband narrated. She then shared it with the Wilson Hall faculty and staff. "Several teachers have used the DVD as a supplement," she said. "I (also) shared my experiences with students." For example, for the social science section, the Hiotts focused on a visit to the Charleston Harbor where "tall ships from around the world were coming in," Capers Hiott narrated. "It gives you chills to see that," Suzanne Hiott said. The couple were able to board some ships and talk with sailors. For the science section, the Hiotts had several images. The librarian found the snakes at one zoo interesting and the mountains quite beautiful, but it was weather conditions over a bay that really got her attention. "Isn't that incredible," she said. "It was lightening for at least an hour." For applied science, she showed video of people preparing pizza dough and some farming pictures. "Sometimes we just ran across these things," Hiott said. The whole reason Hiott was able to take this trip was because of a stipend from Wilson Hall. Headmaster Fred Moulton said every year the school holds a drawing during a teacher in-service for two trips, one for an elementary school teacher and one for a middle or high school teacher. "Each trip is valued at $4,000," Moulton said. "The teacher must present by April 1 where he or she would like to go and how it will benefit his or her students." He said the program started four or five years ago. The football players were practicing on the baseball field on Wilson Hall Road when a funeral procession came by, and the coach had the players take helmets off and cross their chests to show respect. A week later, a man who was riding in that procession came in to see the headmaster. "He said, 'I don't know of any school that teaches respect like that,'" Moulton said. "He wanted to thank the teachers in a way that shows they're doing their job with kids." The man's donation is what enables the school to provide the stipends for the trips. After a teacher has been with Wilson Hall for five years, on their sixth year he or she gets a chip in a bag. For every year after that, the teacher gets another chip in the bag. Once a teacher wins a trip, though, Moulton said his or her name is removed from the drawing for seven years. "The award means so much to teachers," Moulton said. "That the community recognizes what they are doing places an even greater value on it." Hiott was certainly "thrilled to pieces" when her name was drawn. "I started thinking, 'what can I bring back to my students,'" she said. "It was a wonderful opportunity. The school is very, very generous."   Reach Jade Anderson at (803) 774-1250.   Dewey Decimal Classifications - 000-099 Generalities includes libraries and museums - 100-199 Philosophy includes ghosts and supernatural - 200-299 Religion visited churches - 300-399 Social Sciences includes armed services, government, courts of law and schools - 400-499 language explored Cherokee reservation - 500-599 Science includes animals, weather, mountains, fossils, oceans, rivers and archeology - 600-699 Applied Science includes food preparation, cloth making, farming, inventions, architecture and aviation - 700-799 Arts and Recreation includes sports, fine art and music - 800-899 Literature includes poetry, poets and plays - 900-999 History includes Native American, early America and pirates Posted in News, Local news on Wednesday, February 9, 2011  [1, 4, 5, 6]
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  Father	Edward Vandiver ATKINSON,   b. 30 Apr 1918, Hagood, Sumter County, South Carolina d. 15 Oct 1994, at his home (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Margaret Agnes “Possie” DELP,   b. 1922, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania d. 28 Feb 2020, Covenant Place, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina (Age 98 years)
  Marriage	10 Jan 1944	San Francisco, California   [7, 8]
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  Family ID	F43743	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Dr. J. Capers “Capers” HIOTT
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  Children	1. Edward Capers “Cape” HIOTT   2. Brenton Rodgers “Brent” HIOTT
  Family ID	F43745	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  They live in Sumter, South Carolina [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S27544] Margaret Agnes Delp Atkinson. [S37] Cassie Nicholes Historical Sketches of Sumter County Vol. II, page 107. [S12181] First Baptist Church Baby Dedication Service. [S12515] Edward V. Atkinson. [S15564] Librarian takes Dewey Decimal Destinations tour. [S5125] Parent/Child Dedication. [S1524] page 23. [S2344] .