O'Neal Smalls, President and Chair

(Grew up on a farm in South Carolina; attended high school in Conway, SC; BS Tuskegee University; JD Harvard Law School; LLM Georgetown University Law Center. Professor of Law, Emeritus, University School of Law.)

George McCauley, Vice President and Vice Chair
(Professor, Horry-Georgetown Technical College, Agronomist, and Faculty: Golf Course Management and Agriculture Technology.)

Maxine B. Stanley, Secretary/Treasurer

(Registered agent; administrator in a government position; active in community affairs.)

James R. Frazier

(Current member of the Horry County Council and farmer/businessman.)

Veronica D. Gerald
(Professor, Coastal Carolina University, Historian, Storyteller, and Gullah Specialist)

Ivory Wilson

(Retired military, businessman and bank board member.)

Emeriti Members

Page Oberlin
(Businessperson; owner and operator of Sea View Inn, Pawley's Island, SC.)

Franklin C. Blanton
(Businessman who formerly farmed and served as Chairman of the Horry County School Board.)

Genevieve C. Peterkin

(Lifelong resident of Murrells Inlet, SC; oral historian; community leader and traveled with her mother while her mother conducted interviews for the Federal Writers Project.)

Advisory Board

Fredrick C. James
(Bishop, former presiding bishop of the Seventh Episcopal District of South Carolina)