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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.
South Carolina
Lottery Gets New Interim Director
COLUMBIA, South Carolina
(July 9, 2009) - The South Carolina Education Lottery (SCEL) now has an interim
executive director, news reports today..
The news source said former
Lottery Commissioner Paula Harper-Bethea accepted the job Wednesday
afternoon..........................Subscribers |
