Friday, June 11, 2010 Greenwood Country Club

Featured speaker:  Dr. S. Anne Hancock – “The Power of One: Are you the One?”

11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Tickets $20
Cash Bar Reception: 10:45 amCommittee: Chair, Ellesor Holder

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Associate sponsor:

The Greenwood Country Club

Dr. S. Anne Hancock

Dr. S Anne Hancock is a nationally recognized speaker and presenter in the areas of educational reform and community involvement.  She has traveled extensively throughout the United States sharing her message of commitment and involvement.  Her quick wit and delightful storytelling bring to her presentations inspiring experiences of how people and communities accept changes and challenges.  She instills in her audiences the desire and energy to make a positive difference in today’s society.  Dr. Hancock has presented over 450 speeches, seminars and workshops in 43 states and aboard.

More over, she is passionate about education; it has been her life’s work and her heart.  In a career that spans almost 50 years she has instilled in her students and her colleagues the desire to excel and to always be mindful of others along the road to one’s success.  She describes her profession as “the most honorable of all professions” and is proud to be a “teacher.”

In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Dr. Hancock to be U.S. Secretary of Education’s Regional Representative for Region IV of the U. S. Department of Education.  Dr. Hancock served as the Secretary’s envoy and spokesperson and represented the policies, initiatives, and programs of President Bush.

Prior to Dr. Hancock’s appointment by the President, she was the President and Founding Partner of A. Hancock & Associates, Inc., an educational consulting and motivational speaking firm, in Smyrna, Georgia.  

From 1966 until her retirement she was a professor and administrator at Georgia Perimeter College . When she retired in 1997, she was the Director of Academic Affairs for the five campuses of the College. In 1990 she took a leave of absence from the College when she was appointed by President George H. W. Bush to serve as the Deputy Regional Representative to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander. In 1989 she was appointed by President Bush to serve on the National Advisory Committee for Student Financial Aid, the only two-year college person in the country appointed to the Committee.

Dr. Hancock has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Educational Leadership, a M.B.E. and Ed. S. degrees from Georgia State University, and a B. S. degree from Coker College in Hartsville.  She has done post-doctoral study at Harvard.  She is the first woman academician to be named an Honorary Alumna of Clemson University and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from her undergraduate alma mater, Coker College.

Dr. Hancock has been a member of many professional educational organizations; has published articles in professional journals, has served as a communications consultant to businesses, and has been the recipient of numerous professional awards and recognitions.   She also has been an active participant in community, civic, church, and political affairs.  

Dr. Hancock was born and reared in Greenwood and retired here in 2009.

January 2009“Dr. Anne Hancock has been an outstanding public servant.  She has worked tirelessly to move the ball forward toward a quality education for all Americans.  Anne believes that a public education system should be responsive to the public.  Her legacy will be found in the academic achievement of children once left behind.  Dr. Hancock is unparalleled in her talent and dedication to education, and I am proud to say that she was on our team.”    - President George W. Bush