Reinhardt Student to Lead Pickens County Chamber of Commerce Amberle Godfrey, a non-traditional, traditional student at Reinhardt University, has been named president/CEO of the Pickens County Chamber of Commerce. From a highly skilled and experienced pool of applicants, the committee realized that, without question, Amberle has the skills, the knowledge of our culture and recent progress, and the passion to take our Chamber to the next level, said Chamber Chair Sonny Proctor, M.D. Godfrey, a Pickens County native, raised three sons in the community she has always called home, and some 30 years after graduating from Pickens County High School, she returned to the classroom as a student at Reinhardt University. In 2018, when Reinhardt decided to expand its highly successful scholarship program for Cherokee County students into Pickens County, the University turned to Godfrey to lead the charge. Under the leadership of Godfrey, the Pickens Scholars program a program focused on securing annual scholarship funds for Reinhardt students from Pickens County raised $37,840, which was 89 percent more than the goal of $20,000.
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