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"Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted"
- Garrison Keillor
Prairie Home Companion
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Board Member Profile: Kathleen M. Bounds
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PERSONAL
Born April 10, 1952, Stockton, England
Married to Dr. Chip Bounds
2 children – Katie, 25 and Tim, 22
EDUCATION
B.A., with honors, University of Virginia, 1974
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Moncks Corner Planning and Zoning Board, 92-94
Volunteer Guardian ad litem, Berkeley County, 95-present
Board of Directors, The Foundation for the Volunteer Guardians ad litem of Berkeley County, 99-2002
Foster Care Review Board, Berkeley County, 99-present
Current Chairman, Board 9E
School Bond Referendum Steering Committee, Spring 99
Open Grants Review Committee of The Community Foundation, 1999 and 2000
Board of Directors, The Community Foundation, 2001-2002
Legislative Appointee, Berkeley County First Steps Board, 99-06
Chairman, 1999 and 2000
Charter member, KidsVoting Berkeley County, 1999
Chairman, 2000-2001
Board of Directors, The Alliance for South Carolina's Children, now
Voices for South Carolina's Children, 2000-2004
Secretary, 2003-2004
Task Force, Communities in Schools/Trident United Way, 2000
Board of Directors, Communities in Schools/Berkeley County, 2000-2004
Treasurer, 2003-2004
Task Force, Success by Six of the LowCountry/Trident United Way, 2000
Member, Moncks Corner-Pinopolis Book Club, 2003-present
Secretary, 2005-2006
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION
Trinity Episcopal Church, Pinopolis, South Carolina
Past Vestry member
Past Senior Warden
Current Chairman, Trinity Scholarship Committee
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Berkeley Elementary, Berkeley Intermediate, Berkeley Middle PTO's
Member and officer 86-94
Strategic Planning, Berkeley County School District 92-93
Curriculum Strategy Committee
Berkeley High School Athletic Booster Club, 92-present
Berkeley County Board of Education 94-98 and 2002-2006
Secretary, 95-96 and 96-97
Chairman, 97-98 and 04-05
School Improvement Councils Berkeley Middle and Berkeley High
Charter/current Board Member, Berkeley High School Academic Booster
Club, 1994-2004
Secretary, 99-2000
Chairman, 2001-2002 and 2002-2003
Chairman, BHS ABC Scholarship Committee, 2000-2002
Title I Community Representative, Berkeley Intermediate School,99-2000
School Improvement Council, Berkeley High School, 98-present
Charter/current Board Member, The Berkeley County Foundation for Education, 2000-2006
Current Secretary
Board of Directors, South Carolina School Boards Association, 03-07
Secretary, 05-06
SC Textbook Adoption Committee, Language Arts, 1997
SC School Boards Association Convention Delegate, 1997
SC ETV Education Advisory Committee, 1997
SC School Boards Association presenter, "Distance Learning", 1997
National School Boards Association moderator, "Issues in Employee Discipline", New Orleans, LA, 1998
SAT Curriculum Alignment Committee, 1998
SAT Competition Advisory Board, 98-99
Review Committee, Palmetto Achievement Challenge Test, 98-2000
SC School Boards Assoc. presenter, "Parliamentary Procedure", 2005
National School Boards Association's Mentor Program participant, 2005
National School Boards Association Advisory Panel, 2005
School Board Representative, Berkeley County School District Strategic Planning Committee, 2004-05
Title 1 Planning Committee, BCSD, 2005-06
SC No Child Left Behind Committee of Practitioners, 2005-06
National School Boards Association, presenter, Chicago, April 2006
Newspaper Columnist, The Monitor/Crosswalk News, 1999-2003
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
National Association of Parliamentarians, 98-present
SC Association for the Education of Young Children, 2000-2002
Berkeley Reading Council, 2000-present
National School Boards Association
RECOGNITIONS
SC School Boards Association "Champion for Public Education", 2001
SC Chapter, National School Public Relations Association, "President's Award", 2001
Trident United Way, "Joseph P. Darby Child Advocate of the Year", 2005
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Foundation E-mail: admin@bcfoundationfored.org
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