Patricia Williams Lessane had never heard of the Avery Research Center or the College of Charleston, and didn’t know very much about South Carolina when an e-mail from a colleague in Germany arrived.
The message was saying that Avery needed an executive director and urged her to apply for the job.
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/feb/12/high-profiledirector-thinks-about-averys/
