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, University School of Law.)

Maxine B. Stanley, Secretary/Treasurer

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

William P. Johnson, Sr.
(Former teacher and principle; served as Agricultural Extension Agent in Horry County for 26 years. For some 40 years, he has trained, supervised, and counseled small farmers in South Carolina; currently retired.)

James R. Frazier

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

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

Veronica D. Gerald
(Historian, Storyteller, and Gullah Specialist, Penn Center.)

Ivory Wilson

(Retired military, businessman and bank board member.)

Emeriti Members

Page Oberlin, Vice President/Vice Chair
(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 director of the Federal Writers Project.)

Advisory Board

Robert E. McNair, Sr.

(Attorney and former Governor of South Carolina)

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