Omega Frater Charles Govan appointed to Property and Casualty Board of Directors

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Charles Govan has been appointed to the Property and Casualty (P&C) Board of Directors of the S.C. School Boards Insurance Trust by the S.C. School Boards Association in December.

“I feel humbled that there are persons who feel that I have something to offer because one of my motto’s is ‘To whom which is given, much is expected,’” Govan said. “So I try to give back as much as I can to the community and organizations.”

Govan, a member of the Darlington County Board of Education, will represent school boards and replaces Leni Patterson who resigned. The seven-member P&C board, which governs the property and casualty program, is comprised of five school board members, a school superintendent and a school finance officer.

Govan brings a great deal of education experience with him to the P&C Board. He was elected to the Darlington County Board of Education in 2000 as a representative of Hartsville. He retired from teaching social studies in the Marlboro County School District in 2007.

“I always had a passion for wanting to help children and people,” Govan said.

During his career, Govan has served as a classroom teacher, a probation counselor, a social worker, an investigator for the S.C. Alcohol Beverage Control Commission and the director of Neighborhood Youth Corps in Orangeburg.

Govan has completed Level 6, the highest level of the S.C. School Board Association’s training program for school board members.
He serves as the chair for the Hartsville Boys & Girls Club Board of Directors. He is also a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the South Carolina Association for the Advancement of Colored People (life member) and the Alpha Beta Beta chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. He was the first African-American chair of the Darlington County Democratic Party, a state treasurer of the South Carolina NAACP Youth Branch as a student at Claflin and past president of the Hartsville branch of the Claflin University Alumni Association. He received the Time Warner Star Teacher Award in 1999.

Govan worked with the Upward Bound Program as one of the first tutor-counselors at Claflin University, which was the first in the state to have the program.

Govan is married to Carolyn McCoy Govan and is the proud father of three accomplished daughters: Michelle, Wanda and Dione. They also have three grandchildren, Jaswan, Jasmine and Tahjae as well as another one on the way.

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