To coincide with the newest Rotary Area of Focus, Supporting the Environment, our Wednesday speaker was Samantha Siegel, representing the nonprofit, Oceana. Samantha now lives in Charleston, SC. She originally grew up between Rockville, Maryland (a DC suburb), and a small island in the Bahamas. Therefore she was well acquainted with the ocean. She became an activist […]
Our meeting’s speaker was Blakely Roof, fellow Rotarian who is the President and CEO of the Horry County United Way. United Way is an organization all over the country with over 1000 branches. Horry County United Way is self-governed and all of the money raised stays in Horry County. The job gets done with five […]
On July 8th, the Rotary Club of Carolina Forest hosted the first official visit in the new Rotary year of District Governor Pauline Levesque. Pauline is a member of the Myrtle Beach Rotary Club and has been involved with Rotary for 33 years. The first half of her Rotary career was spent in Southington, Connecticut […]
Dr. Atiya Stokes-Brown, Vice President of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion For the initial week of the new Rotary year, we welcomed Dr. Atiya Stokes-Brown, Vice President of Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion at Coastal Carolina University. Dr. Stokes-Brown spoke about the reality of racism in America. She noted that this civil protest is different as […]
2019-2020 District Governor Johnny Moore The club was joined in person by District Governor Johnny Moore. DG Johnny presented the District Public Image award for 2019-2020 in the form of a plaque, accepted by Carolina Forest Rotary Club (CFRC) member Brooke Vu and CFRC President TJ Egan. The club is also in the running […]
Our guest speaker Wednesday was George Buss of Freeport, Illinois. Buss has spent years portraying President Abraham Lincoln. He resembles Lincoln in height, weight and facial hair. Buss was also our very own TJ Egan’s high school teacher! “President Lincoln” filled our program with various historical elements about wrestling with the issue of slavery. […]
Wednesday, June 3rd, was our first hybrid meeting with about half of the sixteen attendees and one guest, Jessica Dumas meeting at Legends Golf Resort and the other half on the ZOOM screen. Our speaker was Diana Greene, Chief of Administration for the Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce. Diana is also the Director of Leadership Grand […]
Our Wednesday, May 27th meeting was very well attended with visiting Rotarians and volleyball enthusiasts. Carolina Forest Rotary President-elect Lauren Zuschlag introduced guest speaker Sarah Sponcil, a national champion beach volleyball player. We had the coach of CCU volleyball at the meeting and some of the team’s players. Sarah is originally from Phoenix, Arizona and […]
The Carolina Forest Rotary Club began the meeting by honoring our Coastal Carolina graduate, Lucia Zats. We also had a quick visit with Kim Causey-Gomez, Past President calling in from the Virgin Islands. President Terry noted that the Club had received the District Award for “Public Image”, for the second year in a row!! Our […]
Brandon Oates and Lakeya joined us from Shepherd’s Table in Conway, SC. The Carolina Forest Rotary Club has been regularly involved with Shepherd’s Table over the last few years, helping to serve an evening meal or two a month. Shepherd’s Table is a soup kitchen in Conway that is supported by a number of churches […]