The Philip Simmons Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, established in 1991, whose mission is to develop and maintain a commemorative garden from design to completion and to preserve the legacy and craft of Mr. Philip Simmons.
The Philip Simmons Foundation was incorporated in 1992 with a very diversified board of citizens. This board set out to make the request of St. John's Reformed Episcopal Church a reality: a commemorative garden in honor of Philip Simmons. With this goal in front of the board, it was perceived that the project would be a community-wide effort. The landscape architectural firm of Edward Pinckney/Associates, Ltd., (College of Charleston campus) committed to designing the garden. The estimated cost was $250,000. Next, the board along with some creative citizens who volunteered their talents, developed several marketing items to aide the fundraising methods. The results from their meetings were a traveling black/white photographic exhibit, a video, posters, a curriculum for grades 3-12, Christmas ornaments and cards, and jewelry of designs by Simmons in silver and gold.
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CONTACT INFORMATION Philip Simmons Foundation, Inc.
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Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Honorary Chairperson David C. Floyd President, Director of Job Corp. Jimmie Cobbs Financial Secretary General Contractor Arnold Collins Treasurer, Executive Director, Charleston County Human Services Center Rossie M. Colter Project Administrator, Realtor Olga P. Burke Owner, Affiliated Management Service Herbert DeCosta Preservationist/Construction Consultant Sen. Herbert U. Fielding Former State Senator, Lobbyist/Mortician Lillian Gilliam Retired Nurse/Daughter of Philip Simmons Pearl G. Jenkins Retired Educator, Realtor Thomas M. Leland, Ph.D., M.D. Ophthalmologist Dr. Ruby N. Martin Retired, Public School Principal |
Arthur C. McFarland, Esq. Attorney/Municipal Court Judge F. Truitt Rabun, Jr., FASLA Landscape Architect, Landplan Partnership, Hilton Head Island, SC Ronald Satterfield, Rector St. John's Reformed Episcopal Church Philip Simmons Master Blacksmith George W. Twiggs Educator Leo F. Twiggs, Ph.D. Retired Educator/Artist Maurice Washington Former City Councilman, City of Charleston Bishop James C. West, Sr. Bishop, Diocese of the Southeast Region, The Reformed Episcopal Church Sheila Wertimer, ASLA Landscape Architect Dr. Lucille S. Whipper Former SC State Representative Gloria Scott - Philip Simmons Granddaughter Cashier Bi Lo's Columbia, SC |
