Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Claude Neuffer: Se USC Profc Catalogu Has your grandmother told you a story about Upper Dog Bluff, Polecat Landing or Burnt Woods? Claude Neuffer, editor of Vol. 20 of "Names in South Carolina" published this month, is seeking information on the origin of the names of these sections and others in the state. Vol. 20 also features articles on Texas counties named for South Carolinians, South Carolina post offices of 1867, historic homes in Newberry, Part I of the South Carolina Revolutionary Battles and Abbeville District towns and plantations on the Savannah River. Neuffer, an onomasticist and professor of English at the USC, has been hunting and cataloging South Carolina place names since high school days in Abbeville. When not practicing with the Panthers football team, he and an aunt, Mary Hemphill Green, were exploring back roads in Abbeville County listening to the rural residents and old-timers tell why and how a place got its name. Twenty years ago, Neuffer put this avocation into print with the first "Names in South Carolina," five mimeographed sheets sent to 150 friends and educators throughout the state. The small journal, sponsored by the USC Department of English, attracted national acknowledgement with its first issue from the "Journal" of the American Names Society. Through the years "Names in South Carolina" has become a model place names journal for several states and an outlet for people in 47 states who are in terested in knowing more about Tcu Beta Pi Selects Members The USC chapter of Tau Beta Pi, national engineering fraternity has announced the selection of 16 new members. Selected were: Ronald S. Cotner, Edward Chang Wah Lee, David M. Taxler, Kenneth M. Jefferson, Jimmie D. Michau, Nancy M. Richardson, William Chi Fong Ting, Paul Po Ki, Quoc Vuong, Terry D. Atkins, Robbie P. Ballentine, Willaim F. Bloking, Donnie H. Huffman, Carl J. Hut chins, Steven L. Johnson and Ronnie M. Usher. The Gamecock Is published tw14 sday during the fall and spring se summer, with the exception of um Change of address forms, sul should be sent to The Gamecoci 29208. Subscription rate is $3 pe The Gamecock received $36,O00 1973-74. Offices of the Gamecoc Russell House on the university are 777-8178 and m7-4249, ews, eks Name Origins ?ssor es Names their native South Carolina and preserving their rich heritage. "We helped a woman in California get her DAR papers through articles in "Names," provided recipes such as Awendaw Bread and, recently when a woman bought the whole 19-volume set, she wrote to answer a place name query from an article published seven years ago," said Neuffer. He considers the journal's success to be based on the widespread participation since its inception by subscribers and patrons. No pay is provided for any articles submitted, yet each issue features material by several authors. Many who hesitate to write an article will jot off a letter to Neuffer answering a query on a place name or asking for in formation on another. These are incorporated into his monthly column, "Notes on Names." One out-of-state patron offered his services to index the journal, a voluminous task resulting in a alphabetical listing of more than 12,000 place names. The whole Neuffer family is involved with "Names in South Carolina." Irene LaBorde Neuffer, a University graduate and former English teacher, handles much of the correspondence and inquiries with personal letters. She also collaborated with her husband to co-author "The Name Game: From Oyster Point to Keowee," a book which has been recom mended as a possible text to teach South Carolina history in elementary and middle schools. The Neuffer children, too, helF with assembling and mailing copies of "Names" in the fall. For the first 11 years, "Names' was published by the Englist Department. Later, as the sub scription list grew and costs in creased, "Names" changed t< circulation on a subscription basis. Today more than 1,100 receive copies of the 52-60 page annua volume for the nominal pre publication rate of $2.50 for Sout] Carolina residents and $3 for out of-state residents. Neuffer is especially please< that all county libraries are sut scribers as well as a number ( collegiate libraries all over th country, including Harvar University. ~COCK e weekly on Monday and on Thur meters and once a week during the Iversity bolidayr and exam periods. crption requests and other mail c, Drawer A, USC, Columbia, S.C., r semester and $2 for the summer. from the student activity fund for k are rooms 317 318 and 319 in the campus, 1400 Green St. Telephones and /777-3888, advertising. 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