Capital Rotary Club

Dr. Cedric Adderley serves as the fourth president of the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. With over twenty-five years of experience in the field of education, he has taught on all levels and served in roles of increasing leadership from elementary through the collegiate level and has an impressive record of innovative leadership and scholarship in the arts and education. He most recently served as Dean of the College at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Prior to that appointment, he served as the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. His resume includes additional faculty and administrative appointments at Benedict College and North Carolina A&T State University. He began his career as a music educator in the South Carolina Public Schools, teaching both instrumental and choral music.

Dr. Adderley has an extensive background in accreditation, curriculum and instruction, faculty development, and general education reform. He has served as an accreditation evaluator for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association (HLC), and the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). Throughout his career, he has restructured music programs and academic units with cutting-edge strategies that have increased enrollment, improved learning outcomes, and brought them back to positions of stability while, at the same time, aggressively pursuing new degree programs and partnerships.

An accomplished composer and music educator, Dr. Adderley enjoys a multifaceted career and maintains an active schedule of artistic engagements throughout the United States and abroad. He has earned numerous accolades including winning the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s annual composer search for his Symphony no.1 and being selected as Composer of the Year by the South Carolina Music Teachers Association for his Suite for Young Voices. His compositions for various musical media include works in virtually every idiom and include a considerable amount of commissioned works. His original music is published by Grand Mesa and TRN Music Publishers.

Ensembles throughout the United States and abroad have performed the music of Cedric Adderley including the South Carolina Philharmonic, the Augusta Symphony, the Rutgers Philharmonia, the University of Miami Wind Ensemble, the Moravian Philharmonic, and the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony. As a trumpeter and vocalist, he has performed with many legendary recording artists including Ray Charles, Olivia Newton-John, and Louie Bellson. He has also toured the southeastern United States with several variety bands.

A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Dr. Adderley earned a Bachelor’s degree in music education from East Carolina University and both the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts in composition from the University of South Carolina.

Text & Picture Source: http://www.scgsah.org/cedric-adderley.php

At our meeting this week, we have the honor of having Sandee Brooks, our District Governor visiting with our club.

Sandee moved to Hilton Head Island in 1999 after retiring from Ameritech, the telephone company, in the upper mid-west, and has served on multiple Club and District Committees. Sandee has been a member of the Hilton Head Island Rotary Club for 16 years. She is a Past Assistant Governor, Past President and an RLI Facilitator. She has received the Presidential Citation Award, Distinguished Service Award, The Rotary Foundation District Service Award and Four Avenues of Service Citation. She and Mike are Major Donors, Bequest Society and Benefactors and a Paul Harris Society Member.

Sandee has attended five Rotary International Conventions and currently works at Volunteers In Medicine as IT Support for the Electronic Medical Records System, training over 300 professional and lay volunteers on the system. She is married to Mike Rambo and has a daughter Jessica in Michigan with 2 granddaughters and two step-daughters, one in Fairbanks, Ak. and one in New Zealand.

She is a member of the following non-profit organizations: Rotary 2000 to present, Women’s Association of Hilton Head Island 2004 to present, past president, Hilton Head Hero’s, Operation R & R, Heritage Library Foundation, Habitat for Humanities, Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry.

Source: District 7770 Website: http://www.rotary7770.org/who-we-are/governors-and-officers

Capital Rotary Club members visited the SC Fusion Center for a briefing conducted by SC Law Enforcement Division staff member Jennifer Quick (seated left). Fusion centers, created originally in 2006, are part of the nation’s homeland security umbrella to gather, analyze and share intelligence or terrorism-related information among federal, state and local agencies. The South Carolina center – one of 70 across the country – combats violent crime, does threat assessment for major events, coordinates Amber alerts, helps track fugitives and takes Crimestopper calls, among other tasks. Capital Rotary’s tour was part of the club’s Fifth Wednesday program that substitutes local field trips in place of a regularly-scheduled weekly meeting.

Our speaker will be John Wilkinson, board president for Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands. This service is incredibly important to victims of sexual assault as well as their family. Many of us have been impacted by this already and many of you may not realize someone in your family has been a victim of sexual assault. This can be an opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life.

John is an entrepreneur and COO of USA eShop – an export management and global e-commerce business that helps US manufacturers reach European and international markets. The company was awarded the 2016 Small Business Exporter of the Year Award for South Carolina by the US Small Business Administration. Wilkinson received an International MBA from the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. He serves as the board president for Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands and is a cofounder of 1 Million Cups-Columbia SC. He is also a member of the Leadership South Carolina Class of 2017.