Charles Seay is retired from Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, Tennessee. He served as a Director of International Marketing, residing in the USA, Canada and Switzerland. He was born in Lebanon, Tennessee, growing up in Nashville, Tennessee and graduated from Auburn University, Alabama, with a Batchelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He served in World War II as a pilot of B-25’s in the South Pacific, completing 70 missions and receiving the Air Medal with 4 Oak Leaf clusters.

Charlie is a member of The Rotary Club of Cary MacGregor, Cary, North Carolina. He was a member of The Rotary Club of Kingsport, Tennessee on District 7570 for 28 years before moving to North Carolina in 2004. He currently serves on the Board  of his club and chairs the Vocational Service Committee.

Charlie is a Multiple Paul Harris Fellow recipient, a Rotary Foundation Benefactor and Sustainer, and a William Skelton Fellow, as is his wife Mary. He received the Service above Self Award in 1997. He has served on the Zone Nominating Committee for RI Director and on the College on Legislation, and has been the President’s Representation to a number of District Conferences.

In civic activities, Charlie is an elder in the Presbyterian church, has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Kingsport, Tennessee, and served for two years after retirement as the Coordinator of the Kingsport annual summer festival, “Fun Fest”.