Carter Holland Memorial Scholarship in Communication

This scholarship is being created by the family of Carter H. Holland 2019 in his memory. With music as his first love, Carter’s talent was only surpassed by his kindness, unconditional love for his wide circle of friends, wry wit, and calm dignity as the embodiment of a true Southern gentleman. Carter was a graduate of St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Virginia where he excelled on the cross-country team and in the orchestra. During those years, he achieved the rank of Eagle Scout and was honored with the Great Son award from Alpine Camp for Boys in Mentone, Alabama. Carter shared his musical talents as a composer and multi-instrumentalist in a Charleston-based band and at garden parties to support Historic Alexandria Foundation. Carter recieved a degree in English from the College of Charleston in 2019 and then launched his career path at the I’On Club in South Carolina and Potomack Company Auctions in Alexandria before becoming a journalist for Law Street Media in Washington, D.C., following in the career footsteps of his father. He delighted in the historic atmosphere of his Old Town Alexandria hometown and Charleston, and he was a member of The Order of the First Families of Virginia and the Huguenot Society of South Carolina. The source of Carter’s greatest happiness was his family and friends, and especially the times he spent with his extended relatives on the Little River in Mentone, Alabama and at Kiawah Island, SC.