| Name |
Benedict Groseclose EHRHARDT [1] |
| Birth |
1922 |
Ehrhardt, South Carolina  |
| Gender |
Male |
| HIST |
His great-grandfather, Conrad Ehrhardt, founded the small South Carolina town of Ehrhardt. An early career choice took him to Orangeburg, South Carolina, and a position at Orangeburg High School. Though he was there only two years, his stay in Orangeburg affected his professional career and his personal life. It was in Orangeburg that he met Margaret, who became his wife of 52 years. She was working as a librarian with the Orangeburg Public Schools at the time. Ehrhardt’s subsequent marriage to Margaret convinced him that a teacher’s salary was simply too low to allow them to live comforably, so he resigned his teaching job and accepted a position with Southern Bell Telephone Company, but not before teaching an English composition and an advanced typing course during a summer school session at Lenoir Rhyne College in North Carolina. ¶ Leaving Southern Bell in 1965, his aspirations to return to teaching coincided with personnel needs of the USC’s College of General Studies, the direct predecessor of the College of Applied Professional Sciences. He taught, but he also was an administrator on a 12-month contract until heart problems forced him to relinguish his administrative responsibilities and concentrate solely on being a teaching faculty member on a 10 1/2 month contract. ¶ From 1969-1977, he was a board member for the S. C. Business Education Association; from 1970-1972 he was first vice-president and then president of that organization. In 1982-1983 he was treasurer and a board member of the Administrative Management Society. He also took 18 hours of course work beyond his master’s degree, with most of these hours in marketing or education at USC-Columbia. In May 1972 he published an article entitled “Evaluating Business Education in South Carolina” that was published in the S. C. Business Education Association Newsletter. ¶ He devoted considerable time to his and his wife’s cattery, which is registered with Cat Fanciers’ Association. He judged cats worldwide, but his favorite cats were Persians and he showed many cats nationally. Cats were his passion. [1] |
| Occupation |
teacher and librarian, Orangeburg County, South Carolina- Southern Bell Telephone Company [1] |
| _UID |
1B8D057C071D4013A4D97434F81935667109 |
| Death |
11 Nov 2004 |
| Burial |
15 Nov 2004 |
Ehrhardt Cemetery, Ehrhardt, South Carolina [1] |
- Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, Columbia, South Carolina
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| Person ID |
I148683 |
Singleton and Related Families |
| Last Modified |
20 Apr 2005 |
1922 - 2004 (82 years)