Recipient, Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, College of Charleston, 1990. Recipient, Agnes Scott College Outstanding Alumnae Award, 1991. Recipient, University of Notre Dame Award, 1991. Member, Agnes Scott College Board of Trustees, 1996-present. Recipient, Juris Doctorate, University of South Carolina, 1968.
Honor is the giving of one's word as a guarantee of ethical conduct.
At its core, the honor system under which I lived, and under which our community at Agnes Scott still lives, is a system whereby members of the community are trusted to abide by a set of agreed upon values and regulations without the necessity of being supervised or surveilled. In other words, there are two components of a system of honor under which a community lives. First, the community must agree upon a shared system of values. Second, the individuals in the community must pledge their honor to abide by the community's values. I believe honor systems flounder sometimes because they're used too broadly.