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.
Towards the end of the program, there was a live calligraphy demo by Turkish calligraphy artist, Aydin Cayir.
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