Upcoming Meetings

Community Service

Rotarians from our Club are doing great work with the Nailbangers group and partnering with organizations like St. Vincent de Paul. Emergency home repairs and larger projects like this one, are life changing to residents in the Huger/Cainhoy area. True to Rotary’s Rotary’s official mottoes- Service Above Self and One Profits Most Who Serves Best!

A BIG “THANKS” to all who contributed to this incredible project!

From St. Vincent de Paul – Joe Nebus, Craig Harber, Chuck Smalley, Guy Wilson and Jim Brown.

From DI Rotary Club – Jim Miller, Tom Cullen, Ed Rominger, Mike Geier, Jim Morrill, Bill Thiefoldt and Michael Jordan, Dr. Bill Greene.

Rotary Beneficiary Highlight

Thanks to YOUR support of the Charleston Duck Race, our President, Bob Schroeder, was able to present a check for $7,500 to East Cooper Meals on Wheels!!! That’s enough support to provide over 2,100 healthy meals to our homebound neighbors!!!

— at East Cooper Meals on Wheels.

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Fall Chilifest

10/25/2023

This past Wednesday we took time to come together at Pierce Pool Park for our Annual Chili Cook-Off. Perfect weather, a beautiful setting, great friends, a good time, and the food was yummy. Congratulations to our chili winners; The Burgesons (1st), Cynthia Rominger (2nd) and Angela Drake (3rd)

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Meeting Recap - 10/18/2023
Doug Chadwick, Mental Skills Development

Doug Chadwick has an impressive bio and gave a very insightful talk this morning! We learned about his unique journey to the field of sport psychology, ways to get back in the moment, and how to learn from failure.
Doug serves as the director of mental skills development for the Colorado Rockies Baseball Club. He designs the curriculum, facilitates the mental skills education, and teaches the Rockies major league and minor league players and staff about the mental skills necessary for optimal performance under pressure.
Doug’s responsibilities cover hundreds of professional athletes and include seven professional teams in the United States and two in Latin America.
Doug earned his BS in management and systems engineering from the United States Military Academy (West Point) where he was also a multi-year letterman and starter on a nationally ranked Army football team. He was commissioned as a field artillery officer and served in the Army for over 20 years before retiring as a faculty member at West Point. While serving in the Army, Doug earned his MA in applied economics from the University of
Oklahoma as well as an MSc degree in kinesiology and sport psychology from Cal State Fullerton,

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Doug Chadwick (cont.)

where he was named the department’s Outstanding Graduate Student. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College. Between two combat tours in Iraq, Chadwick served as an instructor of applied performance psychology as well as the deputy director of West Point’s Center for Enhanced Performance, where he helped to develop an Army-wide program to improve mental skills and soldier performance in combat. After completing his PhD at the IHE, Doug returned to West Point as the director of the Center for Enhanced Performance, a comprehensive student services center, and retired as an assistant professor.

Meeting Archives

8/23/23 Ken Kinsey, Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office

9/14/23 Nick Osborne, President and CEO, Lowcountry Food Bank

9/20/23 Charlie Layton, Speaker Series, Rowing Adventurer

9/27/23 DG Lou Mello

10/11/2023 - Greg Wilsbacher, Curator USC Image Collection

10/11/2023 - Rotary Tours the Navy Yard

10/1/2023 Evan Murray - Life in the Army in Korea