January 2007 - Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce

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u Continued from page 21How long has The Mobility Center beenin business?Since June 1996.How many people work at The MobilityCenter?Ten full-time employees.What’s a typical day like?A typical day at The Mobility Centerbegins with several customer phone callscoming in with questions regarding howinsurances work to help the customersobtain the products and/or services thathave been ordered by their physician andwith our employees coming in to gatherup files and equipment for that day’sdeliveries. We get a good bit of walk-incustomer traffic with the same questionsand concerns or for an appointment to testout equipment first hand and make finaldecisions on what product they would liketo receive.What do you enjoy most aboutyour job?The satisfaction of helping those withsome type of physical, musculoskeletal,neurological, vascular, cardiovascular, orpulmonary abnormality, disease state, orcondition to be achieve a better quality oflife through the quality products and/orservices which we provide.What makes it challenging?The challenging part of our jobs is the factthat when we are faced with providingour customers with our products and/orservices, they are sometimes in a depressedstate of mind, have feelings of hopelessnessand have finally come to face fact thatthey may have to actually need equipmentto aid them with theircondition. The familymembers who are involvedare also sometimes in astate of grief as some of ourcustomers are in the endstages of diseases and it is areal tough thing to convincethem that our products andservices will actually helpthem to a better qualityof life. Reimbursementfrom Medicare is also a realchallenge to keep up withand survive by. In the everchanging reimbursementarena, we find ourselvesspending the most of ourtime trying to figure outhow to offer the highestlevel of quality serviceamongst seemingly endlesscuts in pay for them.How’s the medicalequipment business doingin the Grand Strand?The Grand Strand is awonderful place to be in the medicalequipment business as far as I amconcerned. There are droves of peoplemoving here from all over the nationto have a better lifestyle, and it is still agood deal here compared to a lot of otherparts of the nation. The Grand Strand iscentrally located between the Northernand Southern Coast states, and hasmoderate weather with all four seasons ofthe year to enjoy. Given all that the GrandStrand has to offer, it really seems to attractthe 50 plus aged population and ourbiggest customer base is in that age group.Any new products or services?We offer a wide realm of products andservices, and are always on top of and tryto offer the latest in technological advancesin any of them.The Mobility Center has been a memberfor 10 years. What has the chamberdone for you? What benefits/serviceshave you used?The chamber has been a wonderfulorganization to be a part of. There are somany ways to benefit from the chamber’sofferings and advantages of membership.There are educational seminars to learnnew things at, networking opportunities tointeract and share businessexperiences with other businesspeoplein the community and has always beena good source of referrals to us forthose visiting or relocating to theGrand Strand.MyrtleBeachAreaChamber.combb
Matthew J. Perry,Peter Horrybound for S.C.Hall of FameCivil rights activist and famed attorney Judge MatthewJ. Perry and Revolutionary War hero Peter Horry, bestrecognized as the namesake of Horry County, wererecently inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame.A formal induction ceremony took place Jan. 8 at theMyrtle Beach Convention Center, where the S.C. Hall ofFame is located. Portraits of both inductees were unveiledand added to the gallery in the convention center lobby.Matthew J. PerryMatthew J. Perry was born in Columbia in 1921. Aftergraduating from Booker T. Washington High School,Perry served in the U.S. Army from 1942-1946 and thenreceived his bachelor and law degrees from S.C. StateCollege (now S.C. State University). Perry opened alaw practice in Spartanburg and while handling routinecases, he began to devote time to civil rights work. Thiswork soon consumed his professional time and led to hishistoric appointment by the S.C. NAACP as its chiefcounsel in 1957. Perry strategically selected cases to attackthe state’s scheme of racial segregation. In Cummingsvs. City of Charleston, Perry successfully challengedCharleston’s public golf course segregation. Perry alsoprevailed in cases involving segregation of state parks,hospital waiting rooms, state colleges and universities, andpublic schools. His skillful representation of civil rightsmarchers and protesters established important precedentsin the areas of free speech and right of assembly. Perry’srepresentation of civil rights marchers arrested at theState House led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Courtdecision in Edwards vs. South Carolina, considered bymany scholars to be one of the most important FirstAmendment cases in modern American history. Perry alsowas very active in voting rights and in 1976, PresidentGerald Ford nominated Perry on the recommendationof Sen. Strom Thurmond to the U.S. Court of MilitaryAppeals, which marked the first time a black man fromthe deep South had been nominated to the federal bench.Three years later, President Jimmy Carter nominatedJudge Perry as the U.S. District Judge for the District ofSouth Carolina, where he served with distinction for morethan 25 years. In 2004, the new U.S. Court House inColumbia was named in honor of Judge Perry.Peter HorryPeter Horry was born in South Carolina in c.1743. In thelate 1760s, Horry became a partner of Anthony Bonneauin the Georgetown mercantile firm of Bonneau & Horrybut Horry did not pursue a mercantile career. Instead,he became a planter and owned three plantations and116 slaves. Active in the military during the AmericanRevolution, Horry was commissioned a captain in theSecond Regiment and was present at the Battle of FortMoultrie. He was in command of the Fifth Regiments by1780, after being promoted to a major and then colonel.In 1780 after the fall of Charleston, Horry traveledto North Carolina where he joined Baron deKalb’sContinental forces. Uniting with Francis Marion in S.C.’slowcountry, Horry commanded a regiment of light horseand was at the Battle of Quinby Bridge. Together withMarion, he later preserved an important supply route.Years later, Horry wrote a history of Marion’s Brigadeand sent the manuscript to Mason Weems for possiblepublication. Although Horry instructed Weems to editonly for style, Weems fictionalized the manuscript andhad it published as “Life of Marion.” Horry disclaimedauthorship of the distorted work. Horry served in boththe S.C. House of Representatives and Senate and asregister of the mesne conveyances for Charleston. Afterthe state militia was reorganized in 1792, BrigadierGeneral Horry was given command of the Sixth Brigade(Georgetown), where he served until 1802. Horry heldother offices and memberships including commissionerfor auditing public accounts for Georgetown District(1782), tax inquirer and collector for Prince Winyah(1784), justice of the peace (1790), and a member of theSociety of Cincinnati. In tribute to Horry’s service, HorryCounty was reconstructed from Georgetown District andnamed in his honor (1801). Peter Horry died Feb. 28,1815, in Columbia and is buried at Trinity (Episcopal)Church.The Confederation of South Carolina Local HistoricalSocieties is the official selection organization for the Hallof Fame. Each of the confederation’s 10 districts annuallyselects one contemporary and one deceased nominee forconsideration by the board of trustees.The S.C. Hall of Fame is sponsored by the city of MyrtleBeach and the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.For more information about the S.C. Hall of Fame, visitMyrtleBeachAreaChamber.com and click on S.C. Hall ofFame.MyrtleBeachAreaChamber.combc
Page 2 and 3: Board of Directors2OfficersChairman
Page 4 and 5: January Convention BureauTravel Iti
Page 6 and 7: f• Technology Workshop“Excel-Ba
Page 8 and 9: Hospitality PartnershipHospitality
Page 10 and 11: Are we doing what we say?The Myrtle
Page 12 and 13: Centex Homes Myrtle Beach division
Page 14 and 15: The event of the year-I.C.E. Awards
Page 16 and 17: ECONOMIC INDICATORSSept. Unemployme
Page 18 and 19: Chamber welcomes new employeesKimbe
Page 20 and 21: Chamber Anniversaries for December
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