by lizzi | Jun 25, 2021 | Donor Profiles, Newsletter Vol. 10
By Burch Barger When Bill Dickinson visited Ossabaw Island for the first time in 2012, two things struck him: the island’s unspoiled beauty, and the relatively low bid at the annual pig roast auction that won a naturalist-guided weekend. Bill promised himself that the...
by lizzi | Dec 11, 2019 | Donor Profiles, Newsletter Vol. 7
A native of Saint Simons Island, Bill Strother has a special vantage point from which to observe and enjoy the Satilla River: the high bluffs of 1700-acre Ivanhoe Plantation – a varied landscape of marsh, fallow rice fields, pine forest, and wetland hardwood nestled...
by lizzi | May 23, 2019 | Donor Profiles, Newsletter Vol. 6
By Dorinda Dallmeyer Cherishing coastal Georgia comes naturally to Dr. Marsha Certain. The daughter of a physician, she grew up in Brunswick. After graduating from the Medical College of Georgia and completing a cardiology fellowship at Emory, her love of coastal...
by lizzi | Jul 16, 2018 | Donor Profiles, Newsletter Vol. 5
By Dorinda Dallmeyer If asked what conservation philanthropy looks like, a common response would be monetary contributions or volunteer hours. But the U.S. Army at Ft. Stewart and the Georgia-Alabama Land Trust have another way to protect important habitat along the...
by lizzi | Nov 10, 2017 | Donor Profiles, Newsletter Vol. 4
“Small towns are generally smack in the middle of nature,” observed Dr. John W. “Rick” Richards, Jr., “and my hometown of Kershaw, South Carolina, was no different. I spent most of my summers, and much of the shoulder seasons at Lake Wateree down stream from the...
by lizzi | Apr 12, 2017 | Donor Profiles, Newsletter Vol. 3
As a finance major at the University of Georgia (’77), Reese Thompson took part in a commodity markets class trip to Chicago where he visited the trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. In Thompson’s words, “There were 6,000 people on the trade floor, more than...
