BOARD NEWS

 

New Directors Elected

 

The annual meeting of the Savannah Council was held prior to the program on January 25, and consisted of Reports of the President and Treasurer and the election by the membership of seven directors to serve three year terms.  The following members were elected to the Board of Directors: Mr. H. Lee Cassady, Ms. Dottie Lynch, Mr. Roger Smith, Mr. Justin A. Godchaux, Shirley M. Geiger, Ph.D., Mr. James Edward Alexander, and Mr. Martin Vernick.

 

New Officers Elected

 

After the annual meeting, the Board of Directors met and elected the following officers to serve two year terms:

 

            President:           Sherry Leblang               Recording Secretary:          Justin A. Godchaux

            Vice President:  William T. Pendley          Corresponding Secretary:   Dottie Lynch

            Treasurer:           H. Lee Cassady, Jr.

 

The following is brief biographical information about our new President:

 

Sherry graduated magna cum laude from Wake Forest University in 1972 with a B.A. in Spanish where she was a Carswell Scholar and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Her junior year was as an exchange student at the University of the Andes in Bogota taking numerous courses in Latin American literature, culture, anthropology, and political science.  After graduation Sherry worked in management for Southern Bell and as a stockbroker while obtaining an M.B.A. from Winthrop University in 1977.  She next taught business courses at two four-year colleges in Charlotte, North Carolina.

 

After moving to Savannah, Sherry taught in a public high school where she served as chair of the Foreign Language Department for ten years, sponsored the Foreign Language Club, and took students on trips abroad to Mexico, Costa Rica, Spain, France, England, Scotland, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.  She is a certified Advanced Placement instructor and received an M.Ed. in Spanish from Georgia Southern University in 1992.  Sherry joined the faculty of Savannah Christian Preparatory School in 1999 where she presently teaches or has taught Spanish I, II, III, and IV.  She sponsors the Global Forum Club and served as a co-advisor to the National Honor Society for six years.  Each summer, she leads groups to Europe and really enjoys these educational experiences.  Since 2001 she has traveled to Guatemala six times with Faith in Practice, an ecumenical medical-surgical-dental mission organization.  Fluent in Spanish, she volunteers as a translator and patient advocate.  Sherry has served as President of the Coastal Georgia-Carolina Phi Beta Kappa Association.  She was elected to the Board of SCWA in January 2002, and served as Vice-President from 2005 through 2006.