Guests Rub Elbows With Senators, Mayors At 2012 Greenville Dialogue Dinner
Date posted: September 26, 2012
TRIPP MESSICK, GREENVILLE, S.C.
Close to one hundred guests turned out at the Embassy Suites in Greenville Monday night for the 2012 Dialogue Dinner, entitled “Empathy: Walking in Another’s Shoes.” Guest speakers included Dan Waldschmidt, CEO of Waldschmidt Partners International, S.C. Senator John Wesley Matthews, and Furman Professor A. Kadir Yildirim.
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