Bill Text: SC S1184 | 2021-2022 | 124th General Assembly | Introduced

South Carolina Senate Resolution 1184 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: 101st National Pres. of the Jaycees Heather Danley

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-03-22 - Introduced and adopted [S1184 Detail]

Download: South_Carolina-2021-S1184-Introduced.html

A SENATE RESOLUTION

TO RECOGNIZE AND HONOR HEATHER DANLEY, THE NATIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE JAYCEES, AND TO CONGRATULATE HER FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO THE JAYCEES.

Whereas, the South Carolina Senate is pleased to honor citizens like Heather Danley who proudly serve their communities; and

Whereas, a native of Newberry, Mrs. Danley graduated from Newberry Academy in 2000 and later earned a degree in expanded duty dental assisting from Midlands Technical College. For the last nineteen years, she has been employed by Palmetto Smiles in Lexington; and

Whereas, on her twenty-first birthday in April 2003, she joined the Newberry Jaycees, and just two years later in 2005, she was serving as the chapter president; and

Whereas, Mrs. Danley joined Jaycee leadership at the state level, serving as the 2006 Camp Hope program manager for the South Carolina Jaycees, a camp for individuals with cognitive disabilities located in Clemson; and

Whereas, she continued to serve the South Carolina Jaycees as state vice president over membership and then over administration prior to taking the helm of the South Carolina Jaycees as its seventy-fourth president in 2009 and again as its seventy-ninth president in 2015; and

Whereas, as a program manager for Passport to Leadership, Mrs. Danley served the national Junior Chamber (US Jaycees) in 2017. In 2019, she was elected to serve as a national vice president for the US Jaycees; and

Whereas, in 2020, she served the US Jaycees as the leadership development director, informally known as the state president's coach. She was elected in 2021 to serve the US Jaycees as the one hundred first national president. She was the first national president to grow the national membership of the US Jaycees since 1984; and

Whereas, Mrs. Danley resides in Irmo with her beloved husband, James, whom she met in the Jaycees. Together they have a five-year-old son, Landon, and a two-year-old boxer named Toby; and

Whereas, her term as president will end officially during the Jaycees National Convention to be held from April 6 through April 10, 2022, in Myrtle Beach, and the members of the South Carolina Senate salute her remarkable dedication to the Jaycees and her extraordinary achievements during her year as its president. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate:

That the members of the South Carolina Senate, by this resolution, recognize and honor Heather Danley, the National President of the Jaycees, and congratulate her for her outstanding service to the Jaycees.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be presented to Heather Danley.