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Herbert
B. (Bert) Strange lives in Simpsonville, South
Carolina with his wife, Nancy. They have been married for 39 years, and have three adult
children and two granddaughters.
Bert is a graduate of Furman University,
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Duke University
Divinity School, and the University of Exeter (England),
from which he received the Ph.D. in Old Testament.
Bert is a retired United States Army chaplain,
having served for a total of 24 years. He has also been a
pastor and a secondary school chaplain and teacher.
In addition, he has taught as an adjunct professor
of religion for Campbell University, Saint Leo University,
and Anderson University, and currently teaches for Furman
University and Greenville Technical College.
Bert has been a member of the Rotary Club of
Greenville since 2002.
He is a member of the International Projects and
Scholarship Committees, and is serving his second term on
the Club Board. He
is a multiple Paul Harris Fellow and Sustaining Member.
He was Alternate Team Leader for the Group Study
Exchange (GSE) teams to Brazil in 2004 and to France in
2006, and the Team Leader of the 2007 GSE team to the
Canary Islands (District 2200).
He serves District 7750 as a member of the GSE
Committee. He
served for two years as District Chairman for the Rotary
Leadership Institute, and is currently the South Carolina
State Chairman, coordinating RLI events for both District
7750 and District 7770.
He is also a Zone 33 RLI instructor.
In addition to Rotary, Bert participates in
numerous activities in his community, including serving as
President of the Greenville Chapter of the Military
Officers Association of America, as a Community
Representative on the Institutional Review Committee (B)
of Greenville Memorial Hospital, and as a member of the
Guild of the Greenville Symphony, the Greenville County
Art Museum Association, and the International Center of
the Upstate. He
also enjoys golf, reading, travel, cooking, wine, and
playing with his grandchildren.
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