Second Presbyterian is our treasured church home in South Carolina. Like a home it is comfortable, filled with welcoming friends, and its serene sanctuary is peaceful. Over the last nine years we have joined this caring community and participated in a variety of committees, learning a lot about Second and its missions. As an engineer, Bob is an active member of the property committee. During May and the Tea Room I bake my tortes and if in town work in the dessert room with the dessert divas. Following my retirement in 2010 I served a very hectic two years as chair of the Investment Committee, served on the Finance Committee and co-chaired the Stewardship Committee. I am best known by the pre-schoolers as the Sticker Lady. Every month I provide stickers cut from a myriad of address labels sent from charities. I also sang in the choir but found that I was better at starting a fundraising campaign for new choir chairs. As a result, we have comfortable seating for our outstanding singers, I enjoy the monthly book club and read books that I would have never selected on my own. Our discussions are more than just the book and we get to join friends in great meals in individual homes across Charleston and its suburbs.

Bob and I travel a great deal between our Minneapolis apartment checking in monthly on our disabled son. In addition, this year we have visited Europe three times adding to our list of 61 countries. If Bob ever retires we will travel more. Next February we are sojourning with friends to South America.

We joined Second in 2010 after my retirement as an academic administrator. I served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs for the University of Georgia system school in Atlanta. Prior to that I served as Dean at the University of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Texas and Dean at MUSC. That is how we came to love Charleston.

We treasure Second and hope that the Steeple can be fixed and painted so that all of Charleston sees that we are a beacon of Christian light for the next 100 years.

-Sharon