2015-2016 Bill 878: Pinner Clinic - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly

121st Session, 2015-2016

S. 878

STATUS INFORMATION

Senate Resolution

Sponsors: Senator Cromer

Document Path: l:\council\bills\gm\24489ab15.docx

Introduced in the Senate on June 16, 2015

Adopted by the Senate on June 16, 2015

Summary: Pinner Clinic

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date Body Action Description with journal page number

6/16/2015 Senate Introduced and adopted (Senate Journalpage15)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

6/16/2015

A SENATE RESOLUTION

TO CONGRATULATE THE PINNER CLINIC IN PEAK FOR A CENTURY OF EXCELLENT MEDICAL CARE AND TO WISH THE STAFF CONTINUED SUCCESS IN THE FUTURE.

Whereas, on September 27, 2015, the Pinner Clinic will celebrate one hundred years of serving the medical needs to people in Newberry, Richland, Fairfield, and Lexington counties; and

Whereas, Dr. Carroll Pinner, Sr., was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina, the son of Benjamin and Mary Johnston Pinner, and graduated from the Medical College of South Carolina. While visiting his brother, Dr. Zack Pinner in Pomaria, Carroll Pinner, Sr., met Rosalie Suber, whom he married in 1915; and

Whereas, the couple settled in Peak where he established the Pinner Clinic to practice medicine. In 1949, Dr. Carroll A. Pinner, Jr., and his wife, Dr. Harriett Ellen Eidson Pinner, both graduates of the Medical College of South Carolina, joined the Pinner Clinic; and

Whereas, Dr. Pinner, Sr., died in 1962, and in 1975, Pinner Clinic expanded when Dr. Carroll A. Pinner III, a graduate of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, joined his parents to practice medicine. Dr. Pinner, Jr., died in 1983, and his wife died in 2002. In 1984, Dr. John H. Ferguson joined Pinner Clinic, and in 2007, Benjamin Carroll Pinner joined his father and Dr. Ferguson. Both new doctors had graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina; and

Whereas, the South Carolina Senate appreciates the dedicated and distinguished medical care provided by the Pinner Clinic to many generations of grateful patients. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate:

That the members of the South Carolina Senate, by this resolution, congratulate the Pinner Clinic in Peak for a century of excellent medical care and wish the staff continued success in the years ahead.

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