The Junior League of Savannah (JLS) recently hosted its annual membership meeting. The annual meeting is a time for members and guests to recap and celebrate accomplishments from the League year, as well as present scholarships, community assistance funds grants and awards to local students, organizations and members.

The meeting began with the recognition of the 2022 Kids Who Care Scholarship recipients. Each year, JLS awards this scholarship to local seniors from the Savannah and Lowcountry area in recognition of their outstanding volunteer service to their community. The 2022 recipients of the $1,000 scholarships are:

Laurel Bixler,
Richmond Hill High School

Peyton Coursey,
Islands High School

Annalin Crawford,
Richmond Hill High School

Joshua Johnson,
Richmond Hill High School

Tyler Schell,
Richmond Hill High School

The recipients of JLS’ community assistance funds grants were also announced during the meeting. These funds allow JLS to grant assistance to area nonprofits with a commitment to voluntarism. Each nonprofit organization receives $1,000. The 2022 community assistance fund recipients are:
Love
One

 Lowcountry Legal
Volunteers

Royce Learning
Center

Urban
Hope

Vice presidents of
each branch of JLS provided a year in review, celebrating
successful fundraising events, community initiatives,
communications campaigns and membership
highlights.

Victoria Hall,
Junior League of Savannah’s 2021–2022 Provisional Chair, presented
an update on the provisional project for the League year. The
2021–2022 Provisional Class partnered with Over the Moon Diaper
Bank to host a menstrual product drive. Collection bins were
distributed to participating local businesses, and an Amazon wish
list was almost entirely fulfilled. JLS will work with Over the
Moon to assemble the period packs, which will then be distributed
within the community.

Awards were also
presented to standout JLS members. Winners of the 2021–2022 JLS
member awards are:

Jenny Britt,
Provisional Member of the Year

Caitlin Hilliard,
Community Member of the Year

Meredith Halloran,
In-League Member of the Year

Melissa Austin,
Sustainer Member of the Year

Closing the meeting
was the traditional passing of the gavel from 2021–2022 JLS
President Rebecca Strawn to the 2022–2023 JLS President, Elizabeth
Summerell. Summerell will officially begin her presidential duties
on June 1.

“Our annual meeting
was a chance to celebrate the daring leadership shown by our
members in restarting our Thrift Sale, Fit Kids Fest, Touch-a-Truck
event, member training and many other activities with our community
partners after a yearlong pause,” said Strawn. “It was so wonderful
to gather in person to also welcome our new active members and
recognize our volunteers of the year for their outstanding work
throughout our 96th year in Savannah and the
Lowcountry.”