SOUTHWOOD
The Southwood Club is located in the Southwood Mobile Home Park off 5th Street Extended, near the Covenant Upper School and the County of Albemarle office facility. This Club opened in 2000, and currently serves 200 members, with an average daily attendance of more than 100 members, ages 6-18. The Southwood Club is highlighted by ballet, forest education and leadership programs, and has a vibrant Teen Center, with a specific focus on teen-led programming and expanded hours to accommodate the growing teenage demographic located here.
Southwood Club
Contact Information:
Dylan Cope, Unit Director
dcope@bgclubcva.org
Phone: 434.295.0037
Fax: 434.977.5180
Hours of Operation:
Monday-Friday School Year:
Elementary school age : 2:30PM – 6:00PM
Middle and High School: until 7:00PM
Summer:
ALL AGES: 8:00AM -5:30PM
Address:
383 Hickory Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Anita McGinty has recently left the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development after having served for the past four years as the lead investigator for two research-policy partnerships serving young children birth through third grade. She is currently working as an independent consultant/advisor across a range of organizations with a social and education mission, bringing a blend of research and strategy to her clients. Dr. McGinty is a longtime volunteer for the Boys & Girls Club and also serves as a reader and grant adviser for the Ron Brown Scholar Program. She is passionate about building systems and programs that positively impact children’s daily experiences and sees many connections between the potential that rests within early childhood and after-school initiatives. She and her husband Andy McGinty spend their weekends following their three children around on their soccer, tennis, wrestling, and skiing adventures.
Dr. Karen Schulder Rheuban serves as Professor of Pediatrics, Senior Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education and External Affairs, and Director of the University of Virginia Center for Telehealth, which she co-founded in 1995. The Center serves as the hub of a 155 site telemedicine network in the Commonwealth of Virginia, funded in part, by federal and state grants and contracts, and has supported ambulatory and specialty patient visits, e-consults, remote patient monitoring services and thousands of hours of health professional and patient education. UVA is the home of the HRSA funded Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center. Dr. Rheuban is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Telemedicine Association. She recently concluded two terms of service as chair of the Virginia Board of Medical Assistance Services (Medicaid). She chaired the 2020 Virginia Department of Health/Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association’s COVID-19 Response Telehealth Working Group. She led the Institute of Medicine Workshop on Telehealth, serves on the American Medical Association’s Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group, and the AAMC Telehealth Advisory Committee. Dr. Rheuban has previously testified before the US Senate, the US House of Representatives and the Virginia General Assembly regarding telehealth. With Dr. Elizabeth Krupinski, she co-edited the text “Understanding Telehealth”. Dr. Rheuban is listed in the “Best Doctors in America” database, and was profiled in the National Library of Medicine’s exhibit “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians.” In 2017, the University of Virginia recognized her with its Thomas Jefferson Award.
Ernie was born and raised in Palo Alto, California. Upon graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1987, he was commissioned in the U.S. Marine Corps. Ernie served in the Marines for 20 years, in various capacities and all over the world. After serving as an artillery officer with the First Marine Division, Ernie earned his J.D. from The George Washington University School of Law in 1994, and served as a judge advocate in the Marine Corps. Highlights of his service include shipboard deployment as the Staff Judge Advocate to the 22d Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), 2000 – 2002 and as Commanding Officer of Region 3, Embassy Security Group, commanding the U. S. Marines guarding U.S. Embassies and other diplomatic missions in Asia, 2005 -2007. He retired from military service in 2007, with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Eric Dewane Johnson graduated from the University of Virginia, where he majored in psychology. He served as the City of Charlottesville first coordinator of the Victim/Witness Assistance Program in which he provided crisis intervention services and court preparation to victims and witnesses of violent crimes. One of his responsibilities was to educate students about establishing healthy relationships to prevent domestic violence. Eric developed an affinity for teaching youth.
Mike Milligan is President and CEO of Axel Johnson, which he joined in 2002. Prior to leading
A graduate of Mississippi State University, Amanda had a career in Fashion
Basketball great Ralph Lee Sampson, Jr. was born on July 7, 1960 in Harrisonburg, VA to the proud parents of Ralph & Sarah Sampson and the eldest of three children. Sampson credits his sound, small town upbringing in Harrisonburg, Virginia, as well as the love and support of his parents and high school basketball coach, for his success today. At a young age, Sampson learned both the importance of teamwork and leadership, as he led his high school basketball team to three state championships, becoming the most heavily-recruited prospect of his generation.
Melissa has recently returned to the University of Virginia as the John Forbes Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business and Professor of Public Policy at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. She is the former Head of Global Diversity and Belonging at Airbnb, where she led the strategy and execution of their global internal diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging programs and retains an external senior advisor role focused on advancing connection and belonging research. Immediately prior to her role at Airbnb, Melissa served as Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence and Professor of Management in the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Prior to that, Melissa served as global chief diversity officer and faculty at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business where she led the Women in Leadership executive education program and was the founding academic director of the BRAD lab. She has also held faculty appointments at Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, where she was a member of the faculty for nine years, and also taught at Northwestern’s Kellogg School, Washington University’s Olin School of Business, and Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Melissa has been actively engaged in nonprofit board service. She currently serves on the board of Airbnb.org and has previously been a board member at The Center for Nonprofit Excellence, The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Piedmont CASA, The Center for Dispute Resolution, and the Women’s Opportunity Center.