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| Paula Harper
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Biography:
Paula Harper Bethea was born in Hampton County, South
Carolina and graduated from Estill High School. In 1975, she graduated from the
University of South Carolina, with honors, and moved to Hilton Head Island,
South Carolina in 1977. Paula is Director of External Relations for McNair, and
is active in numerous local, state and national organizations.
Paula serves
as Chair Emeritus of the United Way of America's Board of Governors, having
been Chair in 1996-1997. As a member of the Board of Governors, she served as
Chair of the National Initiatives Committee, the United Ways' Leadership
Conference, and the Community Impact Committee. She was also the United Way
Liaison to the NFL and a member of the Board of United Way International. In
addition to her national leadership, Paula serves as a former Chair of the
United Way of South Carolina, and former Chair of the United Way of Beaufort
County.
Paula chairs the Board of The Drummond Center at Erskine College,
is Chair of The Caring Coins Foundation on Hilton Head Island and is Chair of
the Board of the Hilton Head Regional Medical Center. She is a Board Member of
First Financial Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiary, First Federal of Charleston,
and she is a Founding Board Member of the Palmetto Institute where she serves
as Secretary. She is a life member of Independent Colleges and Universities of
South Carolina; a member of the Board of the MCI Heritage Classic Foundation; a
member of the Board of the MUSC Foundation at the Medical University of South
Carolina where she chairs the Nominating Committee and Vice Chairman of the
Board of Presbyterian College. She is a past Chair of the Board of the South
Carolina Chamber of Commerce and Columbia College (1998-2000) and of the Heart
and Vascular Center at the Medical University of South Carolina.
She was
one of nine South Carolinians chosen to establish the
South Carolina Education Lottery, and is
now the chairman of the Centers for Economic Excellence Board, as well as a
member of the Board of the South Carolina Competitiveness Council.
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