DALE R. PAULLING

Retired, Radiology Technician and Healthcare Administrator 

Dale has been a member of the Real Champions, Inc. Board of Directors since the organization’s inception. Although Real Champions, Inc. can now draw on its own history and metrics to demonstrate the transformative impact that advocacy and mentorship have on a child’s life, its founding commitment to this approach is entrenched in Dale’s heart. She has always believed that the key to breaking the cycle of generational poverty is through relationships. Every child deserves the support and resources required to be mentally and physically healthy and to develop in academics and social-emotional learning. The children of a community are its hope and future.  

Dale’s commitment to the well-being of others began while she herself was still a youth. After graduating from St. Matthews High School, she completed her Associate’s in Allied Health Science and became a licensed radiologic technician in 1980 through Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College. The list of certifications continued: she became a Certified CPR and First Aid Instructor with the Red Cross of South Carolina in 1988, a Certified Steven Minister through Saxe Gotha Presbyterian Church in 1990, and a Certified Aerobics Instructor for Lexington Medical Center in 1990. For over twenty years, she served the residents of South Carolina through medical care and administration.  

Dale is married to board chairman Bob Paulling  and has one daughter Brittany Reneé Paulling Sanders who, with her husband Jason Daniel Sanders, have two amazing sons—Jacob Daniel and Brody Robert.