“Honor Code,” a feature article on alumna and World War II Coast Guard code transcriber Mary Ramsay’42
Year: 2019
Award Winner(s): College of Charleston
Award: CASE Platinum Awards
Category: Best Article(s) | Finalist
From the Nominator
“Honor Code”offers a history-based perspective on alumna Mary Croghan Ramsay ’42, a prominent community leader in Charleston, South Carolina, who was one a few women selected by the college’s then president, George Grice, for employment by the U.S. Coast Guard to transcribe code during World War II at the Charleston Naval Yard.