Scholarship
started to honor the late Arthur G. Howe
Area lawyers
invited to contribute to fund started by family members
CHARLESTON, S.C., Dec. 21 - - A new need-based scholarship to
benefit students at the Charleston School of Law will honor the
legal legacy of the late Arthur G. Howe, school officials announced
today.
Howe, remembered as a lion of the S.C. Trial Bar by friends following
his death in October at age 77, was one of South Carolina's great
lawyers, Dean Richard Gershon said.
"The Charleston School of Law Foundation is honored and
privileged to be home to the Howe Scholarship to remember one
of South Carolina's great lawyers," Gershon said. "It
will be used to help promote his ideal of public service among
students who otherwise might not be able to attend our law school."
Three family members who are attorneys -- nephews Gedney Howe
III and Donald Howe, and daughter Bruce Howe Hendricks, a United
States magistrate judge -- started the scholarship to honor their
uncle.
"We invite members of the Charleston and area Bars to contribute
to the scholarship fund to honor Uncle Arthur," attorney
Gedney Howe III said.
Awards will be made annually to entering students who are from
educationally, economically or socially disadvantaged backgrounds,
and who demonstrate their enrollment will significantly contribute
to the diversity of the student body. Successful recipients will
have a record of public service and a commitment to pursue public
service during and after law school. Awards will be renewable
during winners' second and third years.
Howe, a graduate of The Citadel and University of South Carolina
School of Law, made headlines in 1954 as an assistant U.S. attorney.
He later was the 9th Circuit Solicitor, after which he was a respected,
high-regarded lawyer in the state.
