Beloved late actor, Fox News star honored among notable SC public school grads

Late movie star Chadwick Boseman and Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt will be among several people honored at the South Carolina Foundation for Educational Leadership gala in April.

Both are graduates of South Carolina high schools.

Boseman, who died at age 43 in 2020 of colon cancer, was a graduate of T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson District Five. He is perhaps best known as playing the lead role in “Black Panther,” the first African American actor to headline a Marvel Cinematic Universe film.

In 2021, he was awarded a posthumous Golden Globe Award for Best Actor-Motion Picture Drama and a Screen Actors Guild Award for best actor in a lead role.

Earhardt, 46, is the co-host of FOX News Channel’s FOX & Friends and FOX & Friends’ After the Show.

She graduated from Spring Valley High School in Columbia’s Richland 2 school district. Earhardt began her news career with CBS affiliate WLTX in Columbia.

Also honored as a South Carolina high school graduate will be Dr. Gerald Harmon, a family medicine specialist at Tidelands Health and a retired major general in U.S. Air Force. He graduated from Newberry High School. He is president of the American Medical Association.

Also to be honored are the 2022 South Carolina Educator Hall of Fame inductees, Annie E. Hanberry, Stephen W. Hefner and Walter L. Tobin.

Hanberry, a posthumous award for the Booker T. Washington High School graduate was the first African American female principal in South Carolina.

Hefner is a graduate of Qulin High School in Missouri and he worked in public education for 46 years. He served as superintendent for the Richland 2 and Lexington-Richland 5 school districts in the Midlands. In fact, Hefner is now embroiled in a legal controversy with current Lexington-Richland 5 leaders after he raised concerns about how the district recently handled the search for an interim superintendent.

Tobin, a graduate of Macedonia High School in Barnwell County, served over 50 years in public education as a teacher, counselor, principal, superintendent and interim superintendent.

The South Carolina Foundation for Educational Leadership is the South Carolina Association of School Administrators’ (SCASA) non-profit arm.

The fourth annual gala will be held on Friday, April 22.

For more information about gala tickets and sponsorship opportunities, visit www.scleadershipfoundation.org.