Longtime USC board member Eddie Floyd steps down

Retired physician Eddie Floyd, the longest-serving member of the University of South Carolina Board of Trustees, has resigned.

Floyd, a former heart surgeon and chairman of the board from 1992 to 1996, is a native of Lake City, S.C., who settled about 35 miles away in Florence, S.C. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business from USC in 1956, and he had served on the USC board since 1982.

Born in Depression-era South Carolina, Floyd was part of a tobacco-farming family, and his father went on to establish a Chrysler dealership. His family valued education highly, and college attendance was expected. Floyd is a fourth-generation USC alumnus.