After an exhaustive national search, Hershorin Schiff Community Day School has hired its first-ever dedicated middle school director. Dr. Vincent Miller, a former private school administrator and 2020 Polk County Teacher of the Year, will begin his tenure in July.

The Jewish day school in Sarasota serves children of all faiths in preschool through eighth grade. It is seeking to expand its middle school program from 60 students to 90 over the next few years.

Dr. Miller comes to Community Day from Academy Prep Center of Lakeland, a private middle school for students who qualify for need-based scholarships, where he served as assistant head of school.

He is the diversity and inclusion chair for Theatre Winter Haven, serves as an adjunct professor of business at Warner University and formerly served as an adjunct professor at Southeastern University.

He was awarded Teacher of the Year honors in 2020 while teaching math and coaching girls’ basketball at Winter Haven High School.

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Project 180, a local prisoner reentry nonprofit, has added Marianne Moyer and Monica Waterman to its board of directors.

Their appointments follow the addition of Jeffrey Woodin, Centennial Bank, as treasurer, and Michael Quattrone. They join current board members Wendy Cox, chair; David Shuel, vice chair; Lt. Arlene Tracy, secretary; Joe Malave; and Pamela Gore Meade.

Project 180 helps men and women make the difficult transition from incarceration to the community, with a focus on stabilization in six areas: recovery from drugs and alcohol, housing, employment, finances, relationships and health care.

Waterman, of Allison James Estates and Homes, has been a residential real estate agent for over 22 years.

She dedicates her work with Project 180 to the memory of her beloved son, Joe, who lost his fight with addiction in 2003.

Moyer has served on the boards of the Manatee United Way, Red Cross and Junior Leadership.

In 2019, her incarcerated son was nearing release and had no resources to survive on the outside. With the information and support provided by Project 180, Moyer helped her son make good use of his second chance.

For more information about Project 180, visit https://www.project180reentry.org or search for Project 180 at https://www.thegivingpartner.org.

The University of Alabama recently honored Sarasota County developer and attorney Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. and his wife, Eliza Culverhouse, at an induction ceremony into the inaugural class of the 1831 Society.

Named for the year the university was founded, the 1831 Society was created to recognize and celebrate the annual philanthropic commitments of alumni, parents and friends who have taken a significant role in preserving, protecting and promoting UA. The ceremony recognized 31 leaders who donated amounts totaling more than $483 million.

Culverhouse’s roots run deep at the oldest and largest public university in the state. Culverhouse and his wife, Eliza, have cumulatively contributed more than $16 million to UA over the past decade.

Both of his parents attended the university and were involved in athletics there, and the business school bears the name of Hugh Culverhouse Sr., a two-time graduate of UA, prominent tax lawyer, developer and former owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. His mother was a champion golfer on the school’s golf team.

Culverhouse Jr. has donated to a variety of causes at the university, notably including more than $11 million through the Eliza and Hugh F. Culverhouse Student Assistance Scholarship to defray debt for students enrolled in the Culverhouse College of Business and $2.25 million to fund scholarships for female golfers at UA.

Culverhouse is CEO of Palmer Ranch Holdings Ltd. in Sarasota, where Eliza is the director of community relations.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota and DeSoto Counties has added three prominent community leaders to its board of directors.

The new appointees are Julie L. Herd, general counsel, Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office; David Mills, broker associate and success coach, EXP Realty - Icon Luxury Group/Lakewood Ranch; and Patricia C. Pope, CEO and chief creative officer, Pope Consulting.

The new board members join Chair Meghan O. Serrano, Esq., Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP; Chair-Elect Ken Freeman, Gartner Executive Programs; Treasurer David Arch, Chairman and CEO of Blistex Inc; and Past Chair Lee DeLieto, Michael Saunders & Company.

Currently, BGCSDC’s board is leading three bold initiatives: capital projects, enhanced programming and safety efforts in Arcadia, Newtown and North Port.

This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Hershorin Schiff hires first dedicated middle school director