Three receive 2011 Alumni Awards

By Charleston Southern on December 5, 2011 - 10:55 am in Serving / no comments

Three graduates were honored as part of the annual alumni awards.

L.C. Knight ’73, received the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year award. Knight is the

Sheriff of Dorchester County, a position he has held since 2009.

Prior to his election to Sheriff, he was a Dorchester County magistrate and held several positions in the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. After his son, Troy Knight, died, the Knight family created the Troy Knight Endowed Scholarship at CSU.

Knight is a member of the CSU Board of Visitors and is active in the community serving in the Summerville Exchange Club, Ancient and Accepted Masonic Lodge, member of Knightsville United Methodist Church, Summerville Boat Club, Kiwanis Club of Summerville, Omar Shrine Temple and the S.C. Sheriff’s Association. He has been named to the Summerville High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

The Rev. Shaun Burn ’04 received the University Mission award. He has been minister of worship at Deer Park Baptist Church in North Charleston since 2004.

The music program at Deer Park has grown since his arrival, and he has started a Singing Christmas Tree and a yearly mission trip. Burn and his wife, the former Kristen Murray, also a 2004 CSU alum, provide a one-week music camp for first through sixth graders through the church. The music camp is open to community children for a minimal cost, and the Burns make scholarships available for those who cannot pay.

David S. Cobden ’01 received the Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award. Cobden is the national accounts manager – clinical lead for AstraZeneca LP. He received the 2010 Excellence Award for leadership and innovation from the U.S. Medical Affairs.

Currently, he is a PhD candidate in health policy, management and economics at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Holland. He holds a master of public health with concentration in economics and outcomes research from Dartmouth College and a master of science in biochemistry with concentration in marketing and entrepreneurship from Georgetown University.

Cobden has published extensively in peer-reviewed scientific journals as well as numerous abstract presentations at national and international scientific conferences. While at CSU, he was a member of the Honors Program inaugural class and was the first person to graduate from the Honors Program.

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