Spotlight on Seabrookers – Page 5

Seabrook Cancer Survivors

Saturday, May 7^th, was a beautiful day, sunny and warm with a good breeze that cooled off what might otherwise have been a real hot one. Kathy Maher, Sue Dostal and I were headed into Charleston early in the morning to watch something we had never seen before. We were going to the Dragon Boat Charleston race, held in Brittlebank Park on the Ashley River. We were not just going to watch the race, however. We were going to cheer on five Seabrookers who were participating in the race.

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We were not prepared for the size of the crowd. Parking was a serious problem. Kathy went to find parking, while Sue and I tried to find our friends, which turned out to be quite a challenge. We knew our Seabrook participants were on a team called “The Eye of the Dragon,” but there were tents everywhere. The food industry was also out in droves, with a wide variety of offerings ranging from hot dogs to Thai food. Luckily Sue spotted the team sweatshirt so we found their tent at last.

The five Seabrook participants were Betty Maher, Susan Colatsky, Tori Langen, Lisa Hillman and Lois Rinehimer. These ladies have 2 things in common: 1) they were all participating in the Dragon Boat race for the first time and 2) they are all cancer survivors.

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The Dragon Boat Festival races four divisions; Mixed (must have at least eight women), Women’s, Men’s and Cancer survivors. Charleston has been hosting the festival since 2003. There were 62 boats in this race and each boat races at least twice. There are twenty paddlers in each boat, one steersman and a drummer. The races last anywhere from one to one and a half minutes. Each boat raises money so that the cancer survivors can participate without cost and the fundraising this year reached a high of $186,000 and still counting.

Lisa Hillman was one of the participants. She said the Dragon Boat Race gave her an entirely new perspective on life. She knew one of the five women well at the start, but the five formed a bond on their weekly trips to Charleston to train for the race. There are eight training sessions all of one hour. Lisa felt that working as a team in the peace of the river was relaxing as well as challenging.

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CERT or Community Emergency Response Team, Seabrook

How many of you know there is a Community Emergency Response Team, or CERT, located in Seabrook? It is headed up by John Reynolds, a Seabrooker who has lived on the island full time since 2010, but has owned a Spinnaker since 1988. John is well known on the island. Tidelines featured a podcast with John, talking about his activities in the Civil Rights movement, which he documented in a book entitled The Fight for Freedom: A Memoir of My Years in the Civil Rights Movement.

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When John moved full time to Seabrook he looked around for things to do that might be of interest to him. He had spent many years as a pastor of his own church in Rhode Island and had also served as Assistant Chaplain at Brown University in Providence. It is his pastoral background that led him to CERT. John provided counseling to survivors, medical staff, and families of victims of the Station Nightclub fire in Rhode Island, which killed 100 people. This experience and subsequent training in Crisis Counseling, as well as the training he received as a volunteer firefighter in the rural town where he lived, provided him with skills he felt would be useful to him in an organization such as CERT.

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Stan Ullner is May Photographer of the Month

Stan Ullner is Seabrook Island’s Photographer of the Month for May. Examples of his work will be on display during the entire month in the Lake House.

Stan graduated from The Ohio State University College of Dentistry in 1967 and served two years of active duty at Parris Island, SC as a Navy Dental Officer. He then returned to Ohio to private practice and married his wife, Carol. They have three daughters and eight grandchildren.

Stan has been actively involved in photography since high school, where he worked on the school newspaper. He started on a press camera with sheet film, then moved on to 35mm and large format. He was introduced to a Leica Camera eighteen years ago which forced him to slow down and think. This took him back to the press camera days where he shot a football game with eight shots and would then contact print the result. Continue reading “Stan Ullner is May Photographer of the Month”

Seabrook Artist Mary Whyte Receives Prestigious National Award

marywhyte Renowned Seabrook artist Mary Whyte received the 2016 Gold Medal Award of the Portrait Society of America to a standing ovation at its conference in Reston, Virginia. The annual award “honors a lifelong dedication to excellence, as well as recognition of a distinguished body of work that serves to enhance fine art portraiture and figurative works in America.”

Past recipients of the award have included Andrew Wyeth, Philip Pearlstein, Burton Silverman and Jamie Wyeth.

More information on Mary Whyte and her original works, prints, and books can be found at www.marywhyte.com.

—Sharon Crawford

Seabrook Guitarist Featured at Earth Day Celebration

Bob Becker has graciously accepted an offer to provide a little “earthy” music from 9 to 10 am at the Earth Day Celebration this Friday, April 21, at the Lake House.

His easy listening, soft rock (60’s and 70’s), and folk songs are very fitting for the occasion. Bob has been playing guitar and singing since age 15 and has performed publicly for about 40 years. He has provided music for the Seabrook Island Tree-Lighting ceremony for the past three years and accompanies his son Adam at Fischer’s Sports Pub every other Tuesday night.

He and his wife Vicky are full-time residents of Seabrook. Bob volunteers for the Turtle Patrol and Adopt-A-Highway. Both groups will be represented at the Celebration.

If you are collecting corks and batteries, don’t forget that you can dispose of them at the Lake House for recycling on Friday.

Have you ever taken a test to find out the size of your carbon foot print? The test will tell you how well you are conserving your resources and how you can shrink your footprint. The Nature Conservancy’s carbon footprint website is www.nature.org/greenliving.

Come enjoy all this Earth Day has to offer. The weatherman is predicting partly sunny skies with temperatures in the 70s.

-Submitted by Jane Marvin

Seabrook Photographer Wins Awards

Copyright © Patricia P Schaefer Patricia Schaefer, local photographer won First Place in the Wildlife division and Best of Show at the Palmetto Sportsmen’s Classic in Columbia on Saturday. The contest was sponsored by SCWildlife Magazine and the photos will appear in the January issue and online in April.

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Spoleto – Conversations With – May 28 and 29, June 5 and 6th

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DATE: May 28, 29, June 5, 6
VENUE: Charleston Library Society, Emmett Robinson Theatre at College of Charleston

CBS correspondent and Seabrooker, Martha Teichner, hosts lively conversations with Festival artists. FREE EVENT.

Conversations With are held in the beautiful Main Reading Room of the Charleston Library Society and the Emmett Robinson Theatre at College of Charleston, CBS correspondent Martha Teichner will lead intimate conversations with festival artists about the creative process and their experiences at Spoleto Festival USA.

Saturday, May 28, 3:00pm | Mark Down and Phelim McDermott (The Little Match Girl)
Charleston Library Society

Sunday, May 29, 3:00pm | David Herskovits and Jonathan Green (Porgy and Bess)
Charleston Library Society

Sunday, June 5, 3:00pm | Carrie Mae Weems (Grace Notes)
Charleston Library Society

Monday, June 6, 3:00pm | Duane Davis and Tuffus Zimbabwe (Afram, ou la Belle Swita)
Charleston Library Society

You must RSVP for these free events by adding a ticket to your shopping cart. Click here for tickets.

(Photo Credit: Spoleto website)

-Submitted by Tidelines Editor

Meet Your Tidelines Staff: Phyllis Harper

The following is the continuation of a series of stories about all of the people who make up the Tidelines staff. Previous stories have covered Dennis Pescitelli, Cathrine Scully, and Veronica L’Allier.

Phyllis Phyllis Harper, Tidelines Editor

Phyllis Harper is relatively new to Tidelines in the job of editor, having joined the team in May of 2015, but she has already displayed her significant skills in pursuing Tidelines goals.

Phyllis is the oldest of seven children and they are all very close. She calls herself an Army brat having moved around quite a bit with her military family. She graduated from the State University of New York at New Paltz at the age of twenty. She met and married Walt not long after he graduated from West Point, and they have done their share of traveling. First, Walt was sent to Viet Nam, so Phyllis went to Salt Lake City, Utah, to be close to and get to know his Idaho family better. When Walt returned from Viet Nam, he was sent to Oklahoma, then to Germany, where their first son was born.

They returned from Germany and once out of the Army, Walt went to law school at Vanderbilt. Phyllis got a job at the circulation desk at the Joint University Library at Vanderbilt. It was to be the beginning of her long love and association with libraries.

When Walt finished law school, the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where Phyllis went on to graduate from Kent State with a Masters Degree in Library Science. She initially worked in several public libraries in the suburbs of Cleveland, but ultimately found herself at the Shaker Heights Public Library where she was Community Services librarian. It was at this point in her career that she started Friends of the Library, which is on going to this day.

As her family got older, it became more difficult to coordinate work schedules with the needs of active children, so Phyllis became a school librarian to accommodate everyone’s schedules.

Phyllis worked in various school libraries, but in 1990 she was hired to build the new library for the Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She planned the library from the studs out. She was to be their head librarian for 23 years.

She saw many changes in libraries in her years of working, one being the incredible changes computers have brought to library systems. Computers had been around, but without the same vision we have for them today. She put the library’s catalog and circulation system on‐line, making theirs the only school library in the area to be on‐line. She started by lending books and ended by lending Kindle books.

Walt retired in 2009 and Phyllis followed in 2011. They had purchased a house on Seabrook Island in 2005, and they moved here following her retirement. Her early years of retirement were spent caring for her mother, who lived in Charlotte. That made it difficult for her to take on other projects, but Tidelines has been a boon for her as she can participate in it from anywhere.

Phyllis has been a terrific addition to the Tidelines team. She approaches new projects with enthusiasm and a willingness to take on the research and development projects necessary to keep Tidelines up to date. We all welcome Phyllis to Tidelines. We are lucky to have her.

-Submitted by Barbara Burgess Tidelines Writer

Seabrook Author Mary Glickman in TV Interview February 4th

Glickman photo Mary Glickman, who lives on Seabrook Island and is known for her previous three novels, has just published her fourth, titled An Undisturbed Peace. She will discuss her new book on Low Country Live (ABC-WCIV) this Thursday, February 4, 10:00 am to 11:00 am. She has also been interviewed by Charleston City Paper about the book.

Who better to describe this action-packed, historical novel than Pat Conroy, who says:

“Mary Glickman’s powerful new novel is the finest depiction of the infamous Trail of Tears that I have ever read. The forced removal of the Cherokee nation from its ancestral homeland in the southern Appalachia and its forced relocation in Oklahoma is one of the darkest and most fascinating dramas of a shameful American past. Glickman turns this to literature by her brilliant portrayal of three unforgettable characters. Their story is riveting, and Mary Glickman is a wonder.”

Such an endorsement is high praise from a master story-teller. The book is available at Indigo Books in Freshfields Village and also carried by on-line retailers.

Mary has certainly hit her stride now but she worked hard to get to this stage. Continue reading “Seabrook Author Mary Glickman in TV Interview February 4th”

Bob Hider is February’s Photographer of the Month

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I got my first camera when I was in high school. It was a Voightlander 35mm, with a flip down bellows lens. It had a great lens and took good pictures… unfortunately I didn’t take good pictures. I had a lot to learn. So over the years I wasted a lot of film, most of it under or over exposed. I bought a light meter. That solved many of the exposure issues, but still my pictures didn’t have that great look that I had seen from other photographers. That led to a darkroom. There I had another huge learning experience, and it wasn’t until a friend of a friend showed me how to get the most out of a shot in the developing tray that I finally began to be satisfied with my pictures.

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Of course I hadn’t even thought of things like composition, artistic quality and the things that make good pictures great pictures. In fact that didn’t happen for almost 40 years. Sure, I had cameras all throughout my life, but they were mostly for picture taking – kids, trips, parties, etc. I hadn’t considered making artistic images that people would buy until 3 things came into confluence in my life.

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Meet your Tidelines Staff: Veronica L’Allier

Performance-5199 We have begun a series of introducing our readers to members of the Tidelines staff, so that those staff members who work behind the scenes posting information to the blog can be brought to the forefront. Our first story was on Dennis Pescitelli, who started Tidelines. This story is about Veronica L’Allier, who has been with Tidelines since it first began.

Veronica was born and brought up in Washington, D.C. She is one of nine children. Both her parents worked for the federal government, as did she, managing administrative professionals for some 24 years. Veronica and her husband, Michael, began coming to Seabrook to vacation with her sister’s family. They were drawn to Seabrook and ultimately found a lot. They built a house in 2009 and moved in permanently in 2011. She has been very active on the Seabrook scene, having taken part in the ARC, the SIPOA election committee, Stichers, water aerobics, Turtle Patrol and the Sea Island Lady Singers. She is also running for the SIPOA board. Continue reading “Meet your Tidelines Staff: Veronica L’Allier”

The People Who Staff Tidelines

Tidelines has decided to run feature articles on the people who staff Tidelines. Our readers may get to know the two staff writers for Tidelines, Barbara Burgess and Sally Kimball, as they are out in the community conducting interviews to write their stories or do their podcasts. However, it is the editors of Tidelines who work behind the scenes posting stories, correcting on line referrals, checking up on the facts of the story, that do all the hard work of bringing Tidelines to the readers. Therefore, we wanted to feature each one of them in a story that will tell you more about them and bring them from behind the camera to the forefront.

Our first such story is about Dennis Pescitelli, the founder and driving force behind Tidelines. His story appears below. Watch for this feature in the future and get to know the Tidelines staff.

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