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Hilton Head Rotary Keeps Leadership in the Family

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Jul 142015

Hilton Head Island, SC . . . At yesterday’s meeting of the Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island, outgoing 2014-15 President Andrea Bhatt Siebold passed the gavel to her husband Bruce Siebold who will provide club leadership for 2015-16. This represented the first time in the club’s nearly 50-year history (and rarely in Rotary worldwide) that leadership has passed directly from one spouse to another. Both had served earlier as presidents of their former clubs in Toledo, Ohio, and Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Also inducted to club leadership were:

President Elect: Don Brashears

Vice President: Karen Cully

Secretary: Larry Sanders

Treasurer: Mark June

Sergeant at Arms: Rick Riebesell

Past President: Andrea Siebold

Directors: Mark O’Neil, Dean Roberts, Nancy Williams, Lindsay Bunting, Brian Little, Bill Grand, Robert Eberley III, Kay Roshnow, and Scott Hamlin

Executive Secretary: Linda Neff

Habitat for Humanity and Salvation Army Receive Major Support from Hilton Head Rotary

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Feb 062015

Hilton Head Island, SC . . . At last week’s meeting of the Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island, Patricia Wirth, President and CEO of Habitat for Humanity accepted $67,000 and the Club’s volunteer commitment to build a home in The Glen, Habitat’s new and first development on Hilton Head Island. Also, Major Bryan Tatterson of the Salvation Army, accepted more than $27,000, the result of the Club’s bellringing during the holiday season.

Rotary Club President Andrea Siebold commented that she was very pleased to make these awards, totaling nearly $100,000, on behalf of Club members whose volunteer and fundraising efforts continue to benefit our local nonprofit organizations and our community in significant ways.

Photo attached (left to right): Hilton Head Rotary President Andrea Siebold, Major Tatterson, Patricia Worth, and Rotary Immediate Past President Paul Walter.

Hilton Head Rotary Recognizes Top Teachers for 2014

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Nov 032014

Hilton Head Rotary Honors Top Teachers for 2014

The Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island honored the Island’s top teachers for 2014 at their luncheon meeting on October 16, 2014. Teachers were selected by their schools. Teacher recognition chair, Mary-Stuart Alderman, thanked the teachers for enriching the lives of their students. Guest speaker, Jeff Kidd, Executive Editor of The Island Packet, praised the teachers not only for the knowledge they impart but for the curiosity for learning that they inspire.

Teachers honored (left to right in the attached photo) were:

Chris Harris, Sea Pines Montessori School

Steven Moe, HHI Middle School

Jan Dowell, HH Preparatory Upper School

Parker Collins, HH Christian Academy

Annette Lee, HHI High School

Karen Sandlin, HHI Early Childhood Center

Justin Vaughn, HHI School for the Creative Arts

Michele Quigley, HHI IB Elementary School

Stephen Powell, Heritage Academy

Marianne Frederick, HH Preparatory Lower School

Dan Sheehan, HH Preparatory Middle School

Tori Safe, St. Francis Catholic School

Each teacher received a certificate of recognition, a wooden apple trophy (hand-carved by a club member), a $50 gift certificate from Reilley’s, and a $40 cash award.

Bluffton Boys & Girls Club Benefits from Multi-Club Work Day

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Jun 302013

On Saturday, May 18, members from the Bluffton, Okatie and Hilton Head Island Rotary Clubs came together for a work day at the Bluffton Boys & Girls Club. Approximately 15 members or friends of the three Rotary clubs worked on some needed projects, including dismantling about 30 old bicycles, crushing oyster shells and making an oyster shell path to the new garden, painting bathrooms, organizing the library and painting outside safety posts. This is a true example of Service Above Self and working together to accomplish a shared goal.

Rotary International District 7770, Eastern South Carolina