Wednesday the Carolina Forest Rotary Club was joined by Jody Davis, a nationally recognized tennis coach and current volunteer assistant for the Coastal Carolina women’s tennis team. The current Director of University Recreation came to Coastal Carolina University in 1992 as a faculty member with experience teaching at Emory University and The Citadel. In 1995, […]
Leading and Embracing Change The Carolina Forest Sunrise Rotary Club was joined Wednesday morning by Gina Cummings. The Coastal Carolina University Director of the Wall Fellows Program led a program called Leading and Embracing Change. At the meeting, Cummings explained the emotional cycle of change, reaction to change can have 4 phases, and facilitating movement […]
The Carolina Forest Sunrise Rotary Club was joined Wednesday morning with Vitaliy Bezrodnov. Vitaliy shared information on the Rotary Children’s Fund and it’s international Cultural Exchange Program GOLDEN GATES. He impressed with moving backgrounds and the wonderful candid pictures the students took on their cross-country tour. Bezrodnov stated that the sights and attractions the students […]
Julie Gilbert is the founder of the non-profit Julie’s Kids, Inc. She has been a resident of Little River, SC for thirty-five years and is originally from Connecticut. Service is very close to her heart and is a member of the North Myrtle Beach Rotary and the American Legion Post 186. Julie started out as a volunteer with […]
Wednesday’s program was led by Mike Datlof, a local certified senior solutions specialist. Mike has been in the long-term care insurance and Medicare industry since 2001. He played a major role in establishing the Broker Services division of AMAC, the nations’ largest conservative senior’s organization. “What’s your plan?” That was the question Mike asked members […]
This week we greeted Ryan Cannella of the Myrtle Beach Pelicans baseball organization. Ryan joined the Pelicans as an Account Executive in 2015 before being promoted to Director of Sales in 2018 followed by a promotion to the AGM of Sales in 2020. He previously spent time with Goodyear Ballpark, Spring Training home of the […]
This week’s meeting featured Rotarian Lou Mello, zooming in from Mt. Pleasant and the Mt. Pleasant Rotary Club. Lou is the District Chair for the Rotary Youth Exchange program. The Rotary Youth Exchange program allows high school students to visit, live, and go to school in another country. This program is a non-profit operated by […]
The most active months for tropical systems in the Southeastern United States are August, September, and October. Being at the peak of storm season, we needed to bring in an expert. Wednesday we were honored to host Ed Piotrowski, WPDE ABC 15’s Chief Meteorologist aka “The Best Weathercaster in South Carolina,” according to the South […]
Our speaker Christy “Sweet Tea” Andrulonis, a radio personality and country music leader. Christy is originally from Greenville, SC but her husband is from northern Pennsylvania. Jeff made a brief cameo into our Zoom hybrid meeting, Wednesday. Jeff and Christy own 29 radio stations (some different formats than country music) including a number in the […]
Ansley Browns, Payload Facilities Integrator, International Space Station Programs Office, NASA- Johnson Space Center Our guest speaker was Ansley Browns, who was Zooming in from Houston, Texas where she is on the staff of NASA- National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Ansley started her interest in science at a young age including space camp in 7th grade. She joined NASA […]