Deep Roots

For Ann Looper Pryor ’83, it all comes back to the College of Charleston.

After crossing the Cistern with a degree in political science, Pryor headed to Capitol Hill, where she served as a congressional staffer, working on constituent services and handling public relations for the late senator from South Carolina Strom Thurmond. There, Pryor also worked as a lobbyist for the American Institute of Architects, before she eventually moved off the Hill to serve as the managing director of the American Society of Landscape Architects and publisher of Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Pryor’s career may have taken her far, but she never forgot her roots. That’s why she has given to the College every year since 1987. That’s why she and her husband, Greg, endowed an internship program, the W.N. Looper Award, to honor her father, who, upon his return from World War II, lived in the College’s gymnasium (now the Willard A. Silcox Physical Education and Health Center) before going on to graduate from Newberry College.

And that’s why Pryor is back on campus now. As the College’s newly appointed vice president of alumni affairs, Pryor has returned to her roots – and she is looking forward to helping the College’s more than 60,000 alumni reconnect with their CofC roots, too.