Scroll to History Page
Scroll to Previous Versions Links List
Scroll to Full Text
Download This Bill in Microsoft Word format

Bill 4952

                    Current Status

Bill Number:                      4952
Type of Legislation:              Concurrent Resolution CR
Introducing Body:                 House
Introduced Date:                  20020321
Primary Sponsor:                  G. Brown
All Sponsors:                     G. Brown
Drafted Document Number:          l:\council\bills\dka\4801dw02.doc
Date Bill Passed both Bodies:     20020326
Subject:                          Baskin, William P. III


                        History

Body    Date      Action Description                     Com     Leg Involved
______  ________  ______________________________________ _______ ____________
Senate  20020326  Introduced, adopted, returned
                  with concurrence
House   20020321  Introduced, adopted, sent to Senate


              Versions of This Bill

TO COMMEND WILLIAM P. BASKIN III OF BISHOPVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, FOR ALL HE HAS DONE TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF HIS FELLOW SOUTH CAROLINIANS AND TO WISH HIM MANY YEARS OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS UPON HIS RETIREMENT AS CHIEF OF THE BISHOPVILLE RESCUE SQUAD.

Whereas, William P. Baskin III recently retired as Chief of the Bishopville Rescue Squad, a position that he has dutifully and proudly occupied since 1967, having earned the highest regards of his fellow rescue workers and all that know him; and

Whereas, he was born on November 18, 1934, in Bishopville to the late Senator William Peebles and Margaret Pittman Baskin; and

Whereas, Chief Baskin attended Bishopville public schools and served as Student Body President of Bishopville High School, graduating in 1953; and

Whereas, he graduated from Wofford College in 1957, having been a member of the Kappa Alpha Order, the Blue Key National Honor Society, and a Block "W" member of the school track team; he earned his LLB from the University of South Carolina in 1960, was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1961, and the Federal District Court Bar in 1968; and

Whereas, Chief Baskin also participated in the Infantry ROTC while at Wofford College where he was Captain of the 6th Regiment, was awarded the Superior Cadet Ribbon, and was a member of the National Society of Scabbard and Blade, M Company; and

Whereas, he went on to serve six months of active duty and ten years of reserve service in the United States Army with the Basic Infantry Training Company C in Sumter, South Carolina, until his honorable discharge in 1968, having reached the rank of Captain; and

Whereas, in 1961, Chief Baskin began practicing law with his father in Bishopville, and he continued to provide outstanding legal service to the people of Bishopville until his retirement in 1997, having engaged in thirty-seven years of active practice; and

Whereas, he began serving as the Municipal Judge for the City of Bishopville in 1963, ruling from the bench with a fair but firm hand for the next thirty-eight years; he served as the Vice President of the Municipal Judges Association from 1974 to 1975, and is a Life Member of the Summary Court Judges Association; and

Whereas, Chief Baskin expanded his professional activities when he became Director of The Peoples Bank in Bishopville in 1959 and served as Director of the Advisory Board of The National Bank of South Carolina from 1974 until 1998; and

Whereas, he has given of his time and talents to a great number of civic and community enterprises including the Bishopville Jaycees, the Bishopville and South Carolina Chambers of Commerce, the Robert E. Lee Academy, the Santee-Wateree Regional Planning Council, the Comprehensive Health Planning Council, the Pee Dee Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and the American Red Cross; and

Whereas, Chief Baskin's greatest contribution to the citizens of his community may have come through his work with the Bishopville Rescue Squad, of which he became a Charter Member in 1961 and, since 1967, has been unanimously elected by his fellow squad men as the squad's Chief; and

Whereas, in his work with the Bishopville Rescue Squad, Chief Baskin completed extensive training in a variety of emergency medical areas, served as Director of the South Carolina Association of Rescue Squads, and as Chairman of the Department of Health and Environmental Control's Emergency Medical Service Advisory Board where he and others drafted the state's initial air ambulance regulations; and

Whereas, Chief Baskin's outstanding life of leadership and service has been honored by numerous organizations that have presented him such prestigious awards as the Bishopville Rescue Squad Service Award, the Darlington Raceway Service Award, the Sertoma Service to Mankind Award, the Lee County Chamber of Commerce Business Person of the Year Award, and the Declaration of Billy Baskin Day by the Bishopville City Council; and

Whereas, the members of the General Assembly of South Carolina are proud to take this opportunity to express gratitude to Chief Baskin for his unending commitment to improving the health and welfare of others and recognize the remarkable contributions he has made to this State throughout his extraordinary life. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the members of the General Assembly commend William P. Baskin III of Bishopville, South Carolina, for all he has done to improve the lives of his fellow South Carolinians and wish him many years of health and happiness upon his retirement as Chief of the Bishopville Rescue Squad.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be presented to Chief Baskin.

This web page was last updated on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 11:37 A.M.