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 […]
Friends of the Forest – Ralph Jones Ralph Jones grew up in the Bronx in New York City. After a brief, unsuccessful stint at NY Institute of Technology, he was drafted and went into the Army for 3 years including one year in Vietnam. Upon returning he was recruited due to his basketball acumen […]
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. […]
Friends of the Forest – Darla Domke Damonte Dr. Darla Domke Damonte grew up on a farm in rural Minnesota. She remembers her aunt and uncle traveling to Germany and this stimulated her interest in everything international. Her community also hosted a number of American Field Service exchange students, so that also gave her […]
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 […]
Friends of the Forest – Lauren Oman Zuschlag Lauren hails from Greenville, Pennsylvania which is equidistant between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. She is an alumnus of Ithaca College and is a fundraiser for the Slippery Rock University (Pa.) Foundation. Lauren was a member of the Greenville Rotary Club before she and her husband (and Rotary member) […]
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 […]
The Carolina Forest Sunrise Rotary Club is so pleased to have achieved our goal of being awarded the Rotary District 7770 Public Image Award for the second year in a row! This would not have been possible without the strength of the Public Image Committee formed this year. With so many hands on deck, we […]