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Coleman Peterson featured
August 30, 2020
Our Brother Coleman Peterson is featured in the September issue of the magazine - LocalLife
Dr. Claude Tolbert Jr. joins new OB/GYN practice
April 30, 2014
No stranger to the Beaufort community, the board-certified OB-GYN has been delivering babies in the Lowcountry for nearly 14 years.
The outgoing chief of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Beaufort Jasper Hampton Comprehensive
Health, Dr. Tolbert is the fourth board-certified OB-GYN physician to join the new BMH practice located in in Beaufort.
Among Tolbert’s professional interests are general obstetrics, diabetes in pregnancy, infertility management and minimally invasive gynecologic surgeries.
A native of Greenwood, S.C., he graduated summa cum laude from Virginia’s Hampton University and went on to earn his medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. He moved to Beaufort in the summer of 2000 after completing his medical training at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, where he was named Gynecology Resident of the Year.
Tolbert worked for four years at the Beaufort Jasper clinic before opening his own practice with his wife, OB-GYN Dr. Ardra-Davis Tolbert. In 2009, he returned to Beaufort Jasper Hampton Comprehensive Health to become head of the obstetrics and gynecology department.
The couple has two children, 14-year-old Collin Elizabeth and 10-year-old Braxton Myles..
“I try not to be on call the same nights as my wife,” Tolbert said. “My mother lives with us, so that’s a help, too.”
Even with careful planning and an extra adult in the house, keeping up with their busy work schedules and the children’s extracurricular activities is no easy feat. Collin Elizabeth models in Charleston and Braxton Myles plays basketball.
“The weekdays are consumed by homework, modeling auditions and ball games,” Tolbert said. “On the weekends, we try to relax and do something together.”
One of their favorite activities is cycling on Cat Island where they have lived for seven years.
“It’s a beautiful community for biking,” Tolbert said. “We love riding through the golf course after hours.”
The family also enjoys making day trips to Savannah, Jacksonville, Charleston and Hilton Head Island, as well as traveling out of state. They have been to New York City more than once to visit the American Museum of Natural History and to see Broadway plays, including the musical, “The Lion King.”
Other vacations have taken them to Paris, France; Germany; Vancouver Island, British Columbia; and Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts.
Closer to home, Tolbert and his family love spending time at the beach. They’re also avid movie buffs.
“We try to find movies that are entertaining, but educational as well,” Tolbert said. “We want to expose our children to as much art, history and culture as we can.”
That’s not to say he can’t be convinced on occasion to go to an action flick or computer-animated film with his son. The two recently watched “The Lego Movie.”
“I stayed up for that one,” Tolbert said of the 2014 release. “If I don’t like the movie, I take the opportunity to sleep.”
Great profile of Brother Larry Sanders in the Hilton Head Island Packet - 11/22/14
November 22, 2014
IN GOOD FAITH - THIS WEEK’S PROFILE
‘We believe in giving back. That’s my thing’
AMY COYNE BREDESON
Publication: Island Packet; Date: Nov 22, 2014; Section: Lowcountry Living; Page: 1C
http://www.islandpacket.com/2014/11/21/3444373_in-good-faith-it-doesnt-do-anybody.html?rh=1
Name: Larry Sanders
Organizations: Hilton Head Regional Habitat for Humanity, Church of the Palms UnitedMethodist Church, Hilton Head Island Rotary Club and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity
Town: Okatie
Position: President of the board of directors of Hilton Head Regional Habitat for Humanity, church lay leader and committee member at Church of the Palms, Rotarian and member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity
Involved for: 10 years with Habitat; 10 years with Church of the Palms; 10 years with Rotary; and 51 years with
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity
Strength in leadership. I was an international marketing senior director. I was involved in the pharmaceutical industry. I had a 30 year career, and I retired in 2000.
I did 21 international years of marketing and sales. I managed the internationally known vitamin brand Centrum. …
I was the brand manager for Centrum globally. That was my big job, to take Centrum and make it a global brand. It was exciting. It was a great career. And that’s probably what motivated me to do a lot of what I’m doing now, because what I do is mostly organizing.
My strength is in leadership, and that’s because I had to coordinate a lot of things from all over the world and pull parts together and make them all go in the same direction. So it’s easier for me to be in a leadership position than some people because it’s been most of my life.
Giving until I can give no more. I’m always thinking. The wheels are turning. So I wake up, sometimes a little
earlier than I should, in the morning, thinking about the things I need to do and want to do. And as I say to my wife,
no one is twisting my arm. I’m doing it because I love it. …
My wife and I are both involved in a lot. She’s involved in the church and also works on the board for The Children’s Center.
We believe in giving back. That’s my thing. I was fortunate enough to be educated and earn a good living and retire, and I feel that it doesn’t do anybody any good for me to take all those years of experience and knowledge and stuff it in a closet somewhere and not use it.
So my philosophy is giving back till I can’t.
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