New Members Welcomed to Board of The Nature Conservancy’s South Carolina Chapter

Columbia, SC — 2005 OCTOBER 19 -The South Carolina Chapter of The Nature Conservancy announces the appointment of several new members to its Board of Trustees. The new trustees are: Mr. Howard Coker of Hartsville; Mr. H. Laurance Fuller of Okatie; Mr. B. H. Rutledge Moore of Ridgeland; and Mr. William B. Timmerman of Columbia.

Mr. Howard Coker is the Division Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Consumer Products at Sonoco Products Company in Hartsville. He joined Sonoco in 1985 and has held a variety of positions in his 20 years with Sonoco. His past positions include Plant Manager, Area Business Development Manager and General Manager – Sonoco Asia CPD.

Mr. Coker has a MBA from Wake Forest University and a BA from Wofford College. Mr. Coker and his wife, Rhonda, reside in Hartsville and McClellanville and have three children.

Mr. H. Laurance Fuller retired from BP Amoco in 2000. He was elected President of Amoco Corporation in 1983 and Chairman and CEO in 1991. As a result of the merger of British Petroleum, p.l.c. and Amoco in 1998, he became Co-Chairman of BP Amoco. He is a director of Abbott Laboratories, Cabot Microelectronics, Motorola, Inc. and a life director of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and a Life Trustee of The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Cornell University.

Mr. Fuller Graduated from Cornell University with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering and earned a JD degree from the DePaul University Law School. Mr. Fuller and his wife, Nancy, reside in Glenellen, IL, Highlands, NC, and Spring Island, SC, and have three children and five grandchildren.

Mr. B. H. Rutledge Moore owns and operates the Davant Plantation, which he bought in 1991. The 2,500 tract was virgin long leaf pine until the ‘80s, when it was clear cut. Loblolly pine was replanted instead; even the farm fields were planted in loblolly. Mr. Moore is actively restoring Davant to its former state as a quail hunting and farming plantation.

Mr. Moore is involved in several small businesses. He is a trustee of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation of the University of Virginia, where he graduated in 1959. Before becoming a farmer, Mr. Moore was Executive Vice-President of Johnson, Lane until 1989 and a partner of J.C. Bradford & Co. until 1999. He is married to the former Elfrida DeRenne Barrow of Savannah. They have three daughters and a covey of grandchildren.

Mr. William B. Timmerman is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of SCANA Corporation and all Subsidiaries since 1997. He began his career at SCANA in 1978 as a senior vice president of finance and administration for Carolina Energies, Inc. Carolina Energies later merged with South Carolina Electric & Gas Company to form SCANA Corporation, where he became vice president of finance. He was elected chief financial officer in 1983 and later became senior vice president and executive vice president. Elected to the SCANA board in 1991, he became president in 1995 and chief operating officer in 1996

Mr. Timmerman earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Duke University in 1968 and is a 1990 graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. He serves on the board of directors of SCANA Corporation, Liberty Corporation, Preholding, Inc., the Palmetto Business Forum, Fuqua School at Duke and Duke Neighborhood Partnership Board of Advisors. Past directorships include the South Carolina Research Authority (Chairman), Powertel, Inc., SouthernNet/Telecom USA, Wachovia Bank of South Carolina, Benedict College, South Carolina State Ports Authority and Palmetto Seed Corporation. Mr. Timmerman and his wife, Debi, reside in Columbia and are the parents of four children.

This year’s officers for the South Carolina Chapter of the Board of Trustees are M. Lane Morrison, Chairman of the Board, Yemassee; George A. Durban, III Treasurer, Columbia; and Joseph H. Williams, Secretary, Spring Island.