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Susan Audé (born October 31, 1952) is a retired American television news anchor in Columbia, South Carolina at WIS-TV. A child of military service parents she entered adulthood from Virginia to Erskine College in South Carolina in 1972 when she was seriously injured in a car accident in 1974. Living the rest of her life in a wheelchair she overcame depression and anger at the time and earned degrees and a career in television news broadcast starting 1978 and retired in 2006 as well as working in theatre and public speaking. Raised a Methodist she converted to the Bahá'í Faith in 1995 and she says it broadened her views of society and religion. ==Personal life== Audé was born on Halloween 1952 into a military family living in many locations - she graduated from highschool in Germany and was in Fort Lee, Virginia about the time she went to college.〔 Audé attended Erskine College from about 1972〔 because an aunt and uncle attended,〔 served as a dorm representative to the student government council,〔 and was a runner-up in the contest for Homecoming Queen.〔 * * *〕 In 1974 Audé was in a car hit by a truck〔 - two were killed and two others injured - during her junior year, and suffered severe internal injuries.〔 * * * * * 〕 She recovered but was left paralyzed from the waist down. She has spent her life since then in a wheelchair. Following a year of hospitalization and rehabilitation, during which she suffered depression and anger, she went on to finish her college education, competed for national Miss Wheelchair America after winning at Virginia's Miss Wheelchair, Paralympic Games with distinction in javelin and shot put contests, was elected Erskine Homecoming Queen in 1975-76,〔 * * 〕 and earned an A. B. in English and Spanish in 1976. She earned a Masters degree in journalism/communications〔 from the University of South Carolina at Columbia in 1978 and joined Kappa Tau Alpha.〔 Audé has often spoken of how her spiritual faith shaped her life. In 1995,〔 while attending a Methodist Church where she was teaching Sunday School and attended seminary classes, Audé began a period of intense study of the Bahá'í Faith across some three years before converting following contact with a friend of her daughter's parents and her own exploration including some 20 books in about a year.〔 The conversion brought awareness of her social circle having limited exposure to people of other races, and provided an optimism of the future of humanity and affirmed her sense of ethics for journalists.〔 She has organized Bahá'í study circles,〔 and assisted in Bahá'í publication. During her newscaster career Audé was actively involved in many activities and organizations and upon her retirement in 2006 she was awarded the state's highest civilian honor: The Order of the Palmetto for her contributions to the state by then Governor Mark Sanford. Audé married Kevin Fisher in 1982. She was known as Susan Audé Fisher on-air until their 2001 divorce. They have a grown daughter, Blythe. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Susan Audé」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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