Seneca Rotary presents Ballenger Award

This week, the Seneca Rotary Club awarded the 2017 Ballenger Award to Tracy Brock, owner and operator of Brock’s Car Repair. The Ballenger Award recognizes businesses and business leaders for operating under the highest of ethical standards as promoted in the Rotary 4-Way Test. To be eligible for the award, the business must have been in operation for 10 or more years in the greater Seneca area and not be owned by a Rotarian. The award is named for G. W. Ballenger, the first president of the Seneca Rotary Club and the owner and operator of a hardware store on Main Street in downtown Seneca for many years. Tracy is a 1981 graduate of Seneca High School and a 1985 graduate of Clemson University. His father started Brock’s Car Repair in 1973 and Tracy started working there a few years after graduating from Clemson. In 2011, Tracy took over ownership of the business located on East Main Street, not far from where Ballenger Hardware was located. According to his nominator, Ralph Nix, “Tracy was nominated for the Ballenger Award because of his ethical business practices which go along with the Rotary 4-Way Test.” Tracy is very active in the community, especially in Return Baptist Church. He has gone on many mission trips and held numerous leadership positions in his church. He is married to Tammy Alexander Brock who is a teacher with the School District of Oconee County and they have two children.