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SPECIAL ISSUE Your guide to RI’s 2023–24 leadership JULY 2023 THE NEXT STEP President Gordon McInally embarks on his hope-filled a enda pa e 12

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My call to action E ven as we face new and serious challenges, more members and attract more prospective mem- Rotary takes care of its members and those bers. We must make our clubs as welcoming and as we serve, works to build lasting peace, engaging as we can. and embeds belonging and inclusion in Our goal is to create a sense of belonging, from our everything we do. That is why I am asking club meetings to our service activities. We need to continue creating inclusive, welcoming environments everyone in Rotary to Create Hope in the World. where everyone can be their authentic selves. All people of action need to be able to imagine a place for them- This year, we’re prioritizing projects to support men- selves in Rotary — it’s up to us to ensure they can do so. tal health. This effort is deeply personal to me. I know Over the next year, I will be putting a focus on con- tinuing our journey in diversity, equity, and inclusion what it’s like to see someone suffer in silence. I have also — ensuring that Rotary reflects the communities we serve and continues to take significant steps toward witnessed the power of personal connections, the value accessing the full range of human talents and experi- ences, so that we can better serve humanity. And we of discussing emotional and mental well-being, and the will continue to empower women and girls by helping them unlock the potential already within them. lifesaving impact of preventive care and treatment. As we begin this journey together, I take inspira- Research shows that performing acts of kindness tion from Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, who in the 18th century spoke of all the world is an effective step any of us can take to protect our becoming kin, promoting “sense and worth, over all the earth.” This has long been my call to action, and I well-being. And by building peace within, we become share it now with you. more capable of bringing peace to the world. Let us build peace within and spread it freely. Let us create belonging and imagine the future of Rotary Building peace is the essence of Rotary. Many of afresh. Let us work together joyously and Create Hope in the World. our service projects foster the conditions for Posi- R. GORDON R. MCINALLY tive Peace. We work tirelessly to overcome barriers President, Rotary International and create new connections. This year, we’ll promote virtual international exchanges for members to strengthen those vital connections. Peace isn’t a dream, and it’s not passive. It’s the re- sult of working hard, earning trust, and having open conversations that may be difficult. Peace must be waged persistently — and bravely. Everything we do across our areas of focus has the potential to foster the hope that can make peace possible. The spirit of connection and purpose should in- spire every Rotary member. When club leaders focus on offering an excellent club experience, we retain Photograph by Monika Lozinska JULY 2023  ROTARY  1

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GENERAL OFFICERS OF ROTARY TRUSTEES OF THE ROTARY INTERNATIONAL, 2023–24 FOUNDATION, 2023–24 PRESIDENT CHAIR R. Gordon R. McInally Barry Rassin South Queensferry, Scotland East Nassau, Bahamas July 2023 PRESIDENT-ELECT CHAIR-ELECT Stephanie A. Urchick Mark Daniel Maloney McMurray, Pennsylvania, USA Decatur, Alabama, USA EDITOR IN CHIEF ART DIRECTOR VICE PRESIDENT VICE CHAIR Wen Huang Jacqueline Cantu Patricia Merryweather-Arges Bharat S. Pandya Naperville, Illinois, USA Borivli, India MANAGING EDITOR PRODUCTION Jason Keyser MANAGER TREASURER TRUSTEES Marc Dukes Drew Kessler Martha Peak Helman SENIOR EDITOR North Rockland (Haverstraw), Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA Geoffrey Johnson DIGITAL EDITOR New York, USA Kristin Morris Chun-Wook Hyun SENIOR STAFF WRITER DIRECTORS Seoul-Hansoo, Korea Diana Schoberg EDITORIAL Antônio Henrique Barbosa de COORDINATOR Vasconcelos Jennifer E. Jones EDITOR Vera Robinson Fortaleza-Alagadiço, Brazil Windsor-Roseland, Ontario, John M. Cunningham Canada CIRCULATION Alberto Cecchini COPY EDITOR MANAGER Roma Nord-Est, Italy Holger Knaack Rose Shilling Katie McCoy Herzogtum Lauenburg-Mölln, Ghim Bok Chew Germany Send ad inquiries and materials to: Bugis Junction, Singapore Marc Dukes, Rotary magazine, One Rotary Center, Hsiu-Ming Lin 1560 Sherman Ave., 14th floor, Evanston, IL 60201; Patrick D. Chisanga Taipei Tungteh, Taiwan phone 847-866-3092; email [email protected] Nkwazi, Zambia Larry A. Lunsford Media kit: rotary.org/mediakit Eve Conway-Ghazi Kansas City-Plaza, Missouri, Redbridge, England USA To contact us: Rotary magazine, One Rotary Center, 1560 Sherman Ave., Evanston, IL 60201; phone Daniel C. Himelspach Geeta K. Manek 847-866-3206; email [email protected] Denver Mile High, Colorado, USA Muthaiga, Kenya Website: rotary.org/magazines Jeremy S. Hurst Aziz Memon To submit an article: Send stories, queries, tips, and photographs by mail or email (high-resolution Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands Karachi, Pakistan digital images only). We assume no responsibility for unsolicited materials. Hans-Hermann Kasten Akira Miki Aachen-Frankenburg, Germany Himeji, Japan To subscribe: Twelve issues at US$12 a year (USA, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands); $16 a year Muhammad Faiz Kidwai Greg E. Podd (Canada); $24 a year (elsewhere). Contact the Karachi Karsaz, Pakistan Evergreen, Colorado, USA Circulation Department (phone 847-424-5217 or -5216; email [email protected]) for details and for airmail Lena J. Mjerskaug Carlos Sandoval Delgado rates. Gift subscriptions available at the same rates. Enebakk, Norway San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico To send an address change: Enclose old address Anirudha Roy Chowdhury label, postal code, and Rotary club, and send to the Calcutta Mega City, India Dennis J. Shore Circulation Department or email [email protected]. Hawthorn, Australia Postmaster: Send all address changes to Circulation Yoshio Sato Department, Rotary magazine, One Rotary Center, Okayama-South, Japan GENERAL SECRETARY  1560 Sherman Ave., Evanston, IL 60201. John Hewko Beth Stubbs Kyiv, Ukraine Call the Support Center: USA, Canada, Maryville, Tennessee, USA and Virgin Islands (toll-free) 866-976-8279. Elsewhere: 847-866-3000. T.N. “Raju” Subramanian Deonar, India Unless otherwise noted: All images are copyright ©2023 by Rotary International Yeong Ho Yun or are used with permission. Masan South, Korea Published monthly by Rotary International, 1560 Sherman Ave., GENERAL SECRETARY Evanston, IL 60201. Rotary® is a registered trademark of Rotary John Hewko International. Copyright ©2023 by Rotary International. All rights Kyiv, Ukraine reserved. Periodicals postage paid at Evanston, Illinois, USA, and additional mailing offices. Canada Publications Mail Agreement No. 1381644. Canadian return address: MSI, PO Box 2600, Mississauga, ON L4T 0A8. This is the July 2023 issue, volume 202, number 1, of Rotary. Publication number: USPS 548-810. ISSN 2694-443X (print); ISSN 2694-4448 (online). 4  ROTARY  JULY 2023

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CONTENTNew Rotary year, July 2023 1 President’s message new look: Vol. 202, No. 1 2 Welcome PHOTOGRAPHS: THIS PAGE ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES; OPPOSITE MONIKA LOZINSKARotary magazine has refreshed its nameplate. FEATURES CONNECT This new stylized title on the cover reflects 12 8 Staff corner the organization’s 9 How to get answers when you have efforts to achieve brand Ethos into action consistency with its questions about Rotary corporate and regional Scotland’s Gordon McInally publications. stands ready to bring his OUR CLUBS presidential priorities Cover photo by to fruition 56 A guide to applying for a global grant Monika Lozinska Review FAQs about the grants that By Dave King support large international activities 6 ROTARY JULY 2023 Photography by Monika Lozinska 58 Trustee chair’s message 24 60 Apply yourself Rotary’s Scottish past Would you like to contribute to Rotary’s success? Rotary is searching As Gordon McInally assumes for members to serve on committees the RI presidency, we look in 2024-25 back at Rotary’s early history 62 2024 convention | Crossword in his homeland 64 Start with oats, finish with whisky Savor some Scottish cuisine beyond 26 haggis and deep-fried Mars bars Rotary leaders 24 Meet your 2023-24 RI Board of Directors and Rotary Foundation Trustees 42 District-level leadership District governors are beginning their year of service to promote Rotary, strengthen clubs, and manage district business. Find the leader in your district.

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CONNEC STAFF CORNER PHOTOGRAPHS: COURTESY OF MICHELE BERGMichele Berg Deputy general secretary/chief operating officer I was born in Japan but grew up in Chi- Bachelor’s degree in Italian from Loyola University cago. My parents emigrated from Italy Chicago; MBA from the to the U.S. My mother was a high school University of Illinois Chicago French and Italian teacher, and my dad Languages: English and Italian was a professor of Italian language and literature. As a child, speaking Italian and background has taught me to respect and observing Italian cultural traditions was a cherish other cultures without being eth- big part of my life. When my parents trav- nocentric, enabling me to connect well eled to Italy for summer programs, they with Rotarians around the world. would bring me and my sister. So, the many summers we spent living in Italy Rotary runs in the family. I met my hus- and traveling in Europe boosted my bilin- band, John, here; he worked for Rotary’s gual skills and my bicultural knowledge. Meetings and Events department. After we were engaged, we felt it would be I have always embraced my heritage. too much for us to both live and work together. So John left Rotary to pursue In my teenage years, when some of my another job opportunity. Later, my sister, peers may have shied away from their Stephanie Giordano, joined the Rotary immigrant backgrounds, I considered it a staff, and she now manages Heritage unique quality about me, and I was proud Communications. And her husband, of my culture. So, naturally, I studied Ital- my brother-in-law, David Schober, also ian in high school and majored in Italian worked at Rotary at one point as the language and literature in college, and web manager. spent a year studying abroad in Rome during college. Follow us to get updates, I started working at Rotary in 1992, my My parents used to tease us about all share stories with your first real job out of college. I had always networks, and tell us what wanted to work for an international orga- working for Rotary. Jokes aside, my dad you think. nization where I could use my bicultural joined a Rotary club in Florida. I’m a past skills, and Rotary fit the bill. Rotary’s Rotary.org mission of doing good in the world really president of the Rotary Club of Evanston, [email protected] appealed to me. In 1999, I left Rotary to @rotary work for a large association manage- and while I was president, I inducted /rotary ment firm but was invited back two years @rotaryinternational later. I’ve been with Rotary since. My my dad as a transferring member to the Rotary magazine One Rotary Center Rotary Club of Evanston. Both of my 1560 Sherman Ave. Evanston, IL 60201 daughters and my husband have been ac- 8  ROTARY  JULY 2023 tive in service projects with my club and are Paul Harris Fellows. Michele Berg and her family celebrate the conclusion of her year as president of the Rotary Club of Evanston in June 2019. Daughters (from left) Sophie and Isabell and her husband, John Berg, marked the occasion by becoming Paul Harris Fellows.

Rotary runs in the Questions? family. As club We’ve got president, Berg inducts answers her dad, Paul Giordano, into the Rotary Club Rotary Support Center of Evanston as a transferring member Rotary members can in February 2019. contact the Support Center with questions As a Rotary member, my most memo- family leave policy to include both men about: and women who need to take care of rable club project involved working their families, including adoptive parents. Foundation on a microcredit program called Soap Meanwhile, from my own experience contributions for Water in Kenya, where women took raising two daughters, I spearheaded a small loan and bought ingredients to the creation of a nursing moms’ room at Point transfers make soap. I traveled there to witness One Rotary Center. Creating supportive Reports how women managed and reinvested policies for working parents is a critical Club invoices the money to expand their soap-making element to retaining talent. Recognition businesses. Their profits enabled them to Navigating Rotary’s support their families and secure water What I love about working for Rotary for their village. Locally, my club engages website in many projects that focus on food is the opportunity to meet people either security. through travel or here at RI headquar- Hours: ters, where Rotarians the world over 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. There are two main aspects to my job, come to visit. When people ask what’s U.S. Central time, kept me at Rotary for so long, my answer Monday through Friday which is a combination of strategic and is: It’s never the same each day. Things operational details. I assist and partner are always changing. Each year, we have Phone: with the general secretary in managing a new president and a fresh crop of lead- 1-866-976-8279 or the Secretariat and setting strategies for ers. Each week and day, we encounter 1-866-9ROTARY the organization. Meanwhile, I oversee new circumstances. I love challenges, the administration and operations of our which inspire us to try new and dif- Rotary members organization, including managing the RI ferent approaches. For example, when outside of North headquarters building — the leases and the world suddenly shut down during America can reach maintenance work and operations at One the COVID-19 pandemic, we quickly the center at Rotary Center — Rotary’s Travel Services, adapted, experimenting with new busi- 1-847-866-3000. procurement, print shop, Data Services, ness models, and changed the way we and the cafeteria. I’m also in charge of served and supported Rotary members. Email: Global People and Talent; our six inter- We organized a virtual convention, a vir- rotarysupportcenter national offices with staff in 14 countries; tual assembly and held Board meetings @rotary.org the support services for Rotary’s presi- every week by Zoom. All of these were dent, president-elect, the RI Board and unheard of even just four years ago. This $%( 7 $6 , 6 % /21' Trustees; as well as the audit group. innovative way of thinking is what makes my job very exciting. / , 0( 5 , &+ ((1 , ( As a working mother, the proudest de- — as told to wen huang /2%( &5($ 7 (+23( cision I have made is to expand Rotary’s , 76 0( ) , 56 7 /27+ , $1 (1/ $ 7 7 3 / 8* '28% 7 6 52( $ 7 , ( , 0($1 *25'2150& , 1$ / / < ( / (1$ , 0$1 / (' 6('$.$ (60( 66( 796 +($7+(5 / $ 6 7 5 2: 7($ , 1 7 + (:25 / ' $ 3 ( 6 6 7 $5( 5($5 0(1' 7 , 786 '23( 2''6 JULY 2023  ROTARY  9

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ETHOS INTO ACTION Scotland’s Gordon McInally stands ready to bring his presidential priorities to fruition

Gordon and Heather McInally in South Queensferry, Scotland BY DAVE KING Photography by Monika Lozinska

A young bagpiper parades out of a hotel banquet room playing the familiar refrain owned and operated a private nursery, and his father worked for Macdonald & Muir, of “Scotland the Brave.” Behind him, carrying a plated ceremonial haggis and which makes Glenmorangie whiskies. His late brother, Ian, was three years younger, wearing blue, green, black, and yellow Gordon Modern tartan, is 2023-24 Rotary and the two spent much of their childhood playing and watching rugby. Gordon and Heather met in their late International President Gordon McInally. teens, and their relationship blossomed on a trip to Florence, Italy, with a combined choir from their separate schools in Edin- burgh. “We’re not in each other’s pockets; we do our own thing,” Heather McInally It’s Burns Night, celebrated every January with folk says. “Even with Rotary, I belong to the Borderlands music, drams of Scotch whisky, enthusiastic rendi- passport club [a satellite club of the Rotary Club of tions of the songs and poems of Scotland’s greatest Selkirk], and Gordon is a member of South Queens- poet, Robert Burns, and, of course, haggis with neeps ferry. Our lives have always worked like that, largely and tatties (turnips and potatoes). It is quintessen- due to work commitments, where we go off in differ- tially Scottish, and McInally is in his element with ent directions. We’re both independent people, but we friends as he marks the occasion in Galashiels, a town always come home at night and tell each other what in Scottish Borders close to his home in Yetholm. we’ve been doing.” Heather McInally, his wife of 42 years, is wearing Her husband agrees. The couple have two daugh- a sash of tartan — checks of green, light blue, and ters, Rebecca and Sarah, and two grandchildren, Ivy dark red — created for the 1997 Rotary International and Florence. He describes Heather as “a very, very Convention in Glasgow. A classically trained former tolerant lady who has been a great support to me professional opera singer and music teacher, she belts over the years.” out songs by Burns learned from childhood. He adds: “She’s always a good sounding board. I can rely on Heather to tell me it as it is. If I give a Contented wi’ little, and cantie wi’ mair, presentation, everyone’s going to tell me it was great, Whene’er I forgather wi’ Sorrow and Care, but Heather will always tell me the truth! I know I I gie them a skelp as they’re creeping alang, couldn’t do this job without her support.” Wi’ a cog o’ gude swats and an auld Scottish sang. When they married at Craigsbank Parish Church in Edinburgh, Gordon McInally became a member of the Church of Scotland, having previously been a member NOW T H E H AG G I S I S S OM E T H I NG E L S E . of the Methodist Church. Now an elder and trustee in It is made of a sheep’s pluck — the heart, liver, and the church, he has also served as a presbytery elder, lungs — minced with onions, oatmeal, suet, salt, chairman of his parish congregational board, and a pepper, and other spices, mixed with stock and then, commissioner to the church’s general assembly. originally, boiled in the animal’s cleaned stomach. It “My parents instilled in me and my late brother sounds like a culinary nightmare, but on their travels a sense of helping and caring for others that has re- the McInallys have been spreading word of haggis’s mained with me for life,” he says. “My personal faith, appeal throughout the Rotary community. and my upbringing within a family with a similarly Heather McInally explains how, on their visits to strong faith, has definitely impacted my life choices the States, they have sourced local supplies of haggis and career.” and even warmed up the Scottish delicacy in their McInally owned and ran a busy dental practice hotel room microwave. “The smell of haggis lin- in Scotland’s capital for more than three decades, gered in the room the entire week,” she recalls. “We retiring in 2016. He held teaching and examining served it to other RI Board members while in Chicago. posts and served as a branch chairman of the Brit- Everyone seems to love it, even though they were not ish Paedodontic Society (now the British Society of quite sure what they were eating.” Paediatric Dentistry). After living for many years in Gordon McInally grew up in Portobello, a pic- South Queensferry, the McInallys relocated to Scot- turesque seaside area of Edinburgh, notable for its tish Borders when he stepped back from day-to-day Opposite: McInally at beautiful beach with light-colored sand and wooden practice. The move was over 30 years in the planning. The Borders Distillery groynes (barriers to protect the shoreline) jutting “All the time I was working as a dentist, we said in Hawick, Scotland out into the water of the Firth of Forth. His mother it would be nice to ultimately make our home in the 14  ROTARY  JULY 2023



Below: The McInallys Borders, because it’s where my forebears came from,” and counted Queen Victoria among his fans. Abbots- talk with Anna he says. “My mother’s family were farmers, and my ford’s architectural style inspired many buildings in Hinnigan, senior mother was born on a farm about 15 miles from here. Scotland, including Balmoral Castle, Queen Elizabeth operations manager I’ve said to people since we came here that I feel as if II’s summer home. Now, Scott’s works such as Ivanhoe at Lochcarron my DNA has come home.” and Rob Roy have been adapted for the screen. of Scotland, a manufacturer of For McInally, this is a night off, listening to young- On this day, the 19th century Scots Baronial tartan cloth in sters from Galashiels’ schools deliver dramatic recita- building with its crow-stepped gables, “pepper-pot” Selkirk. Opposite: tions of Burns’ works, including the “Address to a Hag- bartizans, and elements taken from medieval struc- McInally introduces gis” read by young Poppy Lunn, who then theatrically tures in Scotland, is shut to the public for the winter. the 2023-24 cuts it open. There’s more pipe music and fiddle play- Dust sheets hang over the furniture, and one poor presidential theme ing, plus community singing, until the evening rounds soul is in the middle of cleaning the 9,000 books that at the International off with a hearty rendition of “Auld Lang Syne.” line the library’s shelves. Assembly in Florida in January. A FEW DAYS LATER, McInally is at Abbotsford Scott’s connection to the Borders began when he House, which towers over the gently flowing River contracted polio at 18 months old. He was paralyzed Tweed in the heart of Scottish Borders country. The in the right leg, and so his parents sent him to re- countryside is a tapestry of greens, and in the dis- cover at his grandfather’s farm outside Kelso. “It tance loom the three conical peaks of the Eildon Hills, was because of polio that Sir Walter was brought to steeped in Roman history. It’s a beautiful spot and the Borders where he heard the stories and songs one of McInally’s favorite places to take visitors, as which would inspire his writing,” explains Mary he has done today. Kenny, Abbotsford’s heritage engagement officer. McInally and Kenny agree that Scott would have Abbotsford House was the home of Sir Walter made a great Rotary member. Scott, the novelist, poet, and historian, who popular- ized the wearing of tartan, created the historical novel, McInally’s own Rotary journey began at 26. He joined the South Queensferry club after being invited by a farmer friend who was a member of the family’s 16  ROTARY  JULY 2023

church. “Initially I saw the Rotary club as a great way “My parents instilled in me and to make friends in the town and to do things in the my late brother a sense of helping area that would benefit the wider community,” he and caring for others that has says. “As time went by and I realized the work done remained with me for life.” by Rotary all around the world, I was hooked.” McInally’s work in Africa has spread to Kenya. Just Except for a three-year period when McInally before the COVID-19 pandemic, he traveled to the was a member of the sadly now-closed Rotary Club country to volunteer as part of an initiative led by of Kelso, he has remained a member of the South Scottish Rotary members. There he carried out den- Queensferry club. He served as district governor tal screenings in Nyumbani Village, a self-sustaining, in 1997-98 and marked Rotary’s centenary year in purpose-built eco-village that provides homes and 2004-05 by serving as president of Rotary Interna- support for orphaned children and grandparents who tional in Great Britain and Ireland. serve as their guardians. He also helped renovate resi- dents’ accommodations. Shortly before becoming RIBI president, McInally visited Rwanda and South Africa to work with chil- “I have found Rotary to be a great vehicle for being dren orphaned by the 1994 Rwandan genocide and able to care for and help others,” he says. “Rotary by HIV/AIDS. He subsequently helped set up an RIBI has also given me friends all over the world and, as partnership project with Hope and Homes for Chil- dren, which had been operating in both countries, to support orphans there with food, shelter, medicine, and education toward a sustainable future. McInally is a proud patron of Hope and Homes for Children, which is now supporting the Rwandan government to develop a national child protection system that minimizes family separation and provides family- based alternatives. JULY 2023 ROTARY 17

Heather and Gordon McInally on the banks of the Firth of Forth



Below: McInally skips a consequence, a better understanding of the world time he spoke on a public stage about his brother’s around a maypole with in which I live. All that, together with the personal suicide. He had gotten emotional when he practiced his granddaughters, development, is what makes it continue to appeal to the address. “I might tell you, it was not an easy pre- Florence (center) and me and what makes me want to share it with others.” sentation to give,” he says. “That day was the first Ivy, in East Lothian. time I had ever been able to get through it without Opposite: the McInallys WHILE MCINALLY STAYED CLOSE TO HOME, breaking down.” with daughters Sarah his brother, Ian, after graduating from Heriot-Watt Wardell (left) and University in Edinburgh, lived outside of London, His goal in telling the story was not to seek sym- Rebecca McInally in where he was a member of Rotaract and met his wife pathy but rather to let people know mental health Yetholm, and with while working in the computer industry. The two issues can touch anyone, to illustrate why he feels Rotarian Andy Ireland brothers and their families would visit one another so strongly about this subject. “A number of people (left) and friend over the years, but little did McInally suspect that his came up to me afterwards and said, ‘Your story is very Eric Williamson at brother was suffering from the “black dog” of depres- similar to mine,’” he says. Murrayfield rugby sion, as Winston Churchill called it. Ian McInally took stadium in Edinburgh his life on 8 February 2014. Last year, McInally became an ambassador for the charity Bipolar UK, which then launched a partner- That moment forever changed the lives of those ship with RIBI. After his brother’s experience, he who loved Ian, and they continue to ask themselves shares a deep resonance with the organization and questions: Why? What signs did we miss? What more has supported it by hosting a webinar about suicide could we have done? prevention and producing a video about the condition. McInally recalled all of this in a speech at the In- And one of his presidential initiatives is prioritiz- ternational Assembly in Florida in January, the first ing mental health. “My call to action in this new ini- tiative for Rotary,” he says, “is that we advocate for removal of the stigma of talking about mental health, help people to find better quality care, and also sup- port them through their journey to recovery.” It’s another opportunity for McInally, through Ro- tary, to put his personal ethos into action. “I have found Rotary to be a great AFTER ABBOTSFORD HOUSE, McInally’s next stop vehicle for being able to care for and is the grounds of the Kelso Rugby Football Club for help others. Rotary has also given its local derby against Gala in the Tennent’s National me friends all over the world and … League Division 1. If there is one passion that unites a better understanding of the world.” Border folk, it’s rugby. The region has produced some of the best rugby players to come out of Scot- land, many of whom have gone on to play for the revered British & Irish Lions. Joining the McInallys at the clubhouse for a pre- match meal of lentil soup followed by steak pie are six friends from their Rotary clubs. The conversation is rich and the laughter frequent with friends catching up on the latest news. A former police officer, Doug Forsyth has good in- stincts and takes the opportunity to approach Kelso RFC President Neil Hastie to talk about joining the new Borderlands passport club. “Neil is someone who knows what Rotary is about in the community, but he likes the flexible approach of the passport club,” says Forsyth. “We don’t have weekly meetings, we don’t have meals. We meet maybe once a month for a coffee and a scone, and we do projects. … We’re here to do Rotary, not talk Rotary. We’re all about making Rotary active and attractive.” McInally looks on approvingly. “This is flexible Rotary, and this is the future,” he adds. Around the table, there’s widespread admiration for the man who will become president of Rotary In- ternational — the second Scot and the sixth person 20  ROTARY  JULY 2023

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from the UK. Out of earshot, Sandy McKenzie, presi- in 2016, one condition was that he had permission to dent of the Rotary Club of South Queensferry, insists park there for Scotland internationals. everyone is very proud of the achievement. “We are absolutely delighted,” McKenzie says. “Gordon is a Heather McInally recalls one occasion when the down-to-earth, coalface Rotarian. He is a man with television cameras were at Kelso and they homed in his feet on the ground.” on daughter Sarah, then a toddler, who was with Gor- don watching a match. “Aye, they start them young in Club colleague Kate Gibb reveals how she always the Borders,” sang the lyrical tones of legendary BBC knew her good friend of almost 30 years would reach rugby commentator Bill McLaren. the pinnacle of Rotary International. “I remember tell- ing our [Queensferry Parish Church] minister, David Gala steal victory over Kelso 36-31 with two Cameron — not the former British prime minister late penalty goals. As we’re getting ready to leave — that he would be Rotary International president the ground, Heather notes: “Gordon jokes in his one day,” she says. “Call it instinct. Gordon is self- speeches how he is waiting for someone from the effacing, humble, and hardworking.” nominating committee for RI president to come along and say, ‘Sorry, we called the wrong person McInally was a second row forward and a number with the invitation to be president. We meant to call 8 in his rugby playing days — “a promising career cut the next person on the list!’” short by a severe lack of talent,” he concedes. After the meal, at the Kelso rugby match with his friends, “It is such an honor. We’re meeting heads of state, he watches from the stands wedged in the front row visiting glamorous places, and I’m pinching myself between boisterous fans of both teams. It’s a fast and thinking, ‘I am just Heather. What on earth are we flowing match with plenty of tries and plenty of good- doing here?’” she says. “We’re from a small village in humored advice being dished out by the spectators. Scotland of 500 people, and here we are representing Rotary International.” Rugby is a big part of the family’s life. McInally’s former dental practice is just a drop kick from the Before we part, she acknowledges being immensely Murrayfield rugby stadium. When he sold the practice proud of what he’s achieved: “Of course,” she says, “but please don’t tell him that!”

2023-24 PRESIDENTIAL INITIATIVES Prioritizing mental health Building peace through dialogue, awareness, Empowering girls Talking about mental virtual exchanges and understanding. McInally will continue illness and emotional Rotary has a long the initiative launched health may feel history of working for Adding or maintaining by 2021-22 RI President uncomfortable, but peace through personal these components in our Shekhar Mehta and it’s vital to the well- connections, but the exchange programs like maintained by 2022-23 RI being of Rotary’s global COVID-19 pandemic Rotary Youth Exchanges President Jennifer Jones community. RI President made it difficult to and Rotary Friendship that focused on elevating Gordon McInally do that face to face. Exchanges will: the voices and unlocking encourages clubs and Inspired by what we’ve the power of girls and districts to work toward learned during this time, G ive members and women around the world. creating a space where McInally encourages participants new ways Rotary encourages it’s safe to address these districts to incorporate to experience other members to keep issues to help provide a virtual components cultures, make new finding ways to improve welcoming and equitable into more of their friends, and broaden the health, well-being, environment for all. programs, events, and their global awareness education, economic activities. By using M ake membership security, and agency To do that, think about innovative technologies more accessible to of girls. ways that you can: to make connections, people with time, we give more people health, or financial Opposite: Sheep E rase any stigma the opportunity to considerations graze in Yetholm. associated with experience Rotary’s B uild stronger Below: The McInallys discussions of global community while intercultural take a walk in emotional well-being laying the foundation for communication and Roxburghshire. R aise awareness of peacebuilding through understanding, and mental health needs improved intercultural ultimately foster more Improve access to stable and peaceful mental health services communities For more information, please visit rotary.org/initiatives23-24.

12 ROTARY’S SCOTTISH As Gordon McInally assumes the RI presidency, we look back at Rotary’s SCOTLAND HAS IMPORTANT TIES Another pioneer was Scottish pharma- ain and Ireland, before he served on the RI cist Tom Stephenson. As charter secretary Board of Directors in 1928-29. to the history of Rotary International. of the Edinburgh club, Stephenson em- The British Association of Rotary Clubs, phatically directed Rotarians to forget the In June 1921, Edinburgh welcomed which eventually became Rotary Interna- “business-boosting” aspect of club mem- 2,500 attendees to the 12th annual Rotary tional in Great Britain and Ireland, set up bership and instead focus their efforts on International Convention, the first held its original headquarters in Edinburgh in useful civic service. After the club’s char- away from the country where the orga- 1914. Seven years later, Edinburgh became ter president, R.W. Pentland, was elected to nization was founded. The ocean liners the first city outside the United States to the RI Board of Directors at the 1913 Ro- Cameronia and Caronia, full of Rotarians host a Rotary Convention. The city was tary Convention in Buffalo, New York, he and their wives, crossed the Atlantic from also the birthplace of Jean Thomson and Stephenson encouraged other clubs North America. It was at this convention Harris, the wife of Rotary founder Paul in Great Britain and Ireland to form the that Rotary amended its constitution to in- Harris, and the couple witnessed the British Association of Rotary Clubs. clude the goal “to aid in the advancement of organization’s growth in Scotland over international peace and goodwill through several visits. The association officially came into a fellowship of business and professional being in May 1914. Stephenson became its men of all nations united in the Rotary ideal The enthusiasm and missionary zeal of honorary secretary and set up its head- of service.” Summing up the event’s suc- Irish American Rotarian William Stuart quarters in Edinburgh. Even after the cess, 1920-21 RI President Estes Snedecor Morrow set the course for Rotary’s devel- headquarters moved to London in 1921, told delegates: “This convention is Rotary’s opment in Scotland. Morrow helped form Stephenson remained involved. He was greatest opportunity. It gives promise of numerous clubs in Great Britain and Ire- 1927-28 president of the group, which by being Rotary’s greatest achievement.” land, including the first two in Scotland, then had changed its name to Rotary In- the Rotary clubs of Glasgow (chartered ternational — Association for Great Brit- Although serious business was accom- April 1913) and Edinburgh (May 1913). plished, fun and friendship were also on 24  ROTARY  JULY 2023

PAST 3 early history in Scotland 1. Rotarians parade through the streets of 4 Edinburgh, Scotland, during the 1921 Rotary Convention. 2. Edinburgh Rotarians and spouses and 1920-21 RI President Estes Snedecor (center) are flanked by men in traditional Scottish attire at the convention. 3. Poster welcoming attendees from the U.S. and Canada to the convention 4. Luggage tag used by convention goers traveling to Edinburgh IMAGES: ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVE order. Convention festivities culminated Many Scottish Rotarians regarded Paul 110 years of making history with a grand parade through Edinburgh’s Harris as a close friend, especially those streets. Participants included Rotarians in the coastal town of Ayr, near the birth- Rotary in Scotland has come a long way and their wives, as well as Edinburgh’s place of Scotland’s national poet, Robert from its formative years. Today Scotland lord provost, magistrates, and councilors, Burns. On 2 April 1934, members of the has 181 Rotary clubs, seven Rotaract resplendent in their robes of o ce. One Rotary Club of Ayr presented Harris with clubs, and more than 4,300 members highlight for many of the American visi- a copy of the complete works of their across two districts (1010 and 1320). tors was sailing down the River Clyde with world-famous poet, which is now part of the Rotary Club of Glasgow, led by its most Rotary’s archives. At the same time, Scottish Rotarians famous member, entertainer Sir Harry continue to make Rotary history. Gordon Lauder. Another was the o er of “home After her husband’s death, Jean Har- McInally is the second RI president from hospitality” by Stephenson and members ris returned to her native land, where she Scotland; the first was John Kenny of the Rotary Club of Edinburgh to visit- lived the rest of her life. Although her ex- of the Rotary Club of Grangemouth ing Rotarians, a tradition that remains a pressed desire was to remain essentially a in 2009-10. Kenny had been the first popular feature of the conventions. private person, Rotarians paid her regular member of a Scottish club to be elected visits. She also attended a small recep- to the RI Board of Directors since Tom Following World War I, Rotary ex- tion in honor of the Rotary Club of Edin- Stephenson in 1928. More recently, Tony panded gradually in Scotland despite an burgh’s 50th anniversary. A commemora- Black of the Rotary Club of Dunoon economic depression. The visits of Paul tive plaque is now displayed outside her served on the Board in 2019-21. and Jean Harris to Scotland in the 1920s birthplace in central Edinburgh. and 1930s were reported in the national More than 75 years after Edinburgh press, and the couple were given civic re- Adapted from an article by James McKelvie hosted the first Rotary Convention ceptions during their visits to Edinburgh. in the February 1997 issue of this magazine outside the United States, Glasgow hosted the 1997 convention, with the theme Welcome Home to Scotland. With more than 23,000 attendees, the event was touted at the time as the largest meeting ever held in Scotland. JULY 2023 ROTARY 25

ROTARY LEADERS Board of Directors R. Gordon R. McInally gational board, and commissioner to Trade-Aid, an initiative of the Rotary the general assembly of the Church of Club of Grantham Kesteven, England, President Scotland. that provides sustainable humanitarian aid to individuals, families, and busi- Rotary Club of South Queensferry, Scotland McInally joined Rotary in 1984 at nesses in the developing world. He is age 26. A member of the Rotary Club also an ambassador for Bipolar UK, a R. Gordon R. McInally was educated of South Queensferry, he has served as national mental health organization. In at the Royal High School in Edinburgh president and vice president of Rotary August 2022, he was made a laureate of and at the University of Dundee, where International in Great Britain and Ire- the Sino Phil Asia International Peace he earned his graduate degree in dental land. He has also served RI as a director Awards Foundation. surgery. He operated his own dental and on several committees, most re- practice in Edinburgh until 2016. He cently as an adviser to the 2022 Houston In his free time, McInally enjoys was chair of the East of Scotland branch Convention Committee and chair of the rugby, good food and wine, and stick of the British Paedodontic Society and Operations Review Committee. dressing, the traditional Scottish craft has held various academic positions. He of making walking sticks. has also served as a presbytery elder, McInally says he looks forward to chair of the Queensferry parish congre- working with members to build new McInally describes The Rotary Foun- Rotary clubs and groups. “My vision dation as “the engine that provides the is that Rotary should exist everywhere energy to do Rotary service.” He and in a style to suit everyone who has the his spouse, Heather, also a Rotarian, desire to be part of us and to help us do are Paul Harris Fellows, Major Donors, good in the world,” he says. Benefactors of The Rotary Foundation, and members of the Bequest Society. McInally is a patron of the UK-based nonprofit Hope and Homes for Children McInally wishes to dedicate his and led a partnership between that or- presidency to making the world a better ganization and RIBI to support children place to live and thrive for his grand- in Rwanda who had been orphaned in daughters, Ivy and Florence, and all the the genocide there. He is a patron of children of the world. 26  ROTARY  JULY 2023

2023 –24 The RI Board of Directors manages Rotary International affairs and funds in accordance with the RI Constitution and Bylaws. Directors are nominated by their zones and elected to two-year terms. Nine new directors and the president-elect join the Board on 1 July. Stephanie A. Urchick A Rotarian since 1991, Urchick Dominican Republic to install water first joined the home club of Past RI filters. A speaker of several Slavic lan- President-elect President Chuck Keller, who served as guages, she has mentored new Rotary her mentor. Urchick has been a Rotary members in Ukraine and coordinated Rotary Club of McMurray, Pennsylvania Foundation trustee and RI director. She a Rotary Foundation grant project for has served RI in numerous capacities, mammography equipment and a biopsy Stephanie A. Urchick retired in 2022 as including as training leader, regional unit for a hospital in Poland. partner and chief operating officer of Rotary Foundation coordinator, and Doctors At Work LLC, a consulting and RI president’s representative. In ad- Urchick is currently helping to part- training company. She holds a doctor- dition she was a representative and ner clubs and districts in the U.S. with ate in leadership studies from Indiana member-at-large to three sessions of Rotary clubs in Kosovo, Albania, and University of Pennsylvania. She is the Council on Legislation. Ukraine for humanitarian and educa- active on numerous community boards tional services. and committees and has been honored Urchick has also served as a member by organizations including Zonta Inter- of various Rotary committees, includ- She wants to see 100,000 more Ro- national and the Sons of the American ing the Election Review Committee tary members in 2024-25 and believes Revolution. and Operations Review Committee, that the magic of Rotary happens at the and as chair of the Rotary Strategic club level, where the people are serving Planning Committee and The Rotary their communities. Foundation’s Centennial Celebration Committee. “We need to make our club experi- ences simply irresistible,” says Urchick. She has participated in a variety of “We want people to feel that there’s international service projects, includ- value in getting involved in Rotary to ing National Immunization Days in create changes in themselves, in their India and Nigeria. In Vietnam, she communities, and in the world.” worked with clubs to help build a primary school and traveled to the She is a Major Donor and a member of the Bequest Society of The Rotary Foundation. JULY 2023  ROTARY  27

ROTARY LEADERS Pat Merryweather-Arges of awards for her civic engagement. cial ventures with major businesses in A Rotarian since 2002, Merry- the New York City area. Vice President weather-Arges has served on Rotary’s Kessler has led numerous professional Rotary Club of Naperville, Illinois COVID-19 Task Force, as a represen- real estate organizations, serving as tative to the Council on Legislation president of the Rockland County Board Pat Merryweather-Arges is the execu- and Council on Resolutions, and as a of Realtors and of the 10,000-member tive director of Project Patient Care, a regional Rotary Foundation coordinator, Hudson Gateway Association of Real- nonprofit that brings together patients, RI president’s representative, and chair tors, where he launched the HG Realtor residents, families, caregivers, and of the 2018 presidential peace confer- Foundation. community members to improve health ence held in Chicago. care. In that role, she has led nationwide He was director of both the New York patient and family engagement initiatives She’s also held numerous district and State Association of Realtors and the with 140,000 clinicians and an 18-month zone appointments. She is on the board National Association of Realtors. Kes- project to bring patient concerns into of the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene sler regularly appeared on Fox Business diagnostic research. She also developed Rotary Action Group and chairs the news from 2008 to 2013 because of his a guide to elective services during the health outcomes and patient safety com- expertise in the finance industry and the COVID-19 pandemic that was high- mittee of the International Fellowship of real estate market. lighted in The New York Times and more Healthcare Professionals. than a dozen health journals. A passionate fundraiser, Kessler has Merryweather-Arges, who has been raised hundreds of thousands of dollars Merryweather-Arges is working on involved in more than 20 Rotary Foun- for various organizations including The care disparity issues in nursing homes, dation grant projects focused on health Rotary Foundation, Habitat for Hu- and she is co-leading a pilot project that care and water, sanitation, and hygiene, manity, March of Dimes, and Feeding aims to transform the U.S. nursing home says that Rotary’s expansive network is Westchester. system to a resident-centered ecosys- the reason for its success. tem. She is part of the World Health Kessler joined Rotary in 2001 at age Organization expert consultation on “No one goes at it alone in Rotary. It’s 20. He served as president of the Rotary the agency’s Global Patient Safety Action all of us together bringing our expertise Club of North Rockland (Haverstraw) at Plan 2021-2030. and leveraging resources, knowledge, age 25 and was at that time the youngest and experience, making a difference lo- president in the club’s history. Previously, Merryweather-Arges cally, globally, and in ourselves,” she says. served as executive director of a com- At age 32, he was governor of District pany contracted by the U.S. government She has received the Service Above 7210. “For anyone who says you have to improve the quality of Medicare in Self Award, the Avenues of Service to be retired to serve in these positions, several Midwestern states. She was Award, and The Rotary Foundation Cita- I’d like to show there is another path,” a senior vice president at the Illinois tion for Meritorious Service. he says. Health and Hospital Association, where she advocated for legislation on infec- She and her spouse, George, also Kessler has served RI on the Young tion screening and engaged hospitals in a Rotarian, are members of the Paul Past Governors Committee, as a repre- reporting health care outcomes to the Harris Society and are Benefactors and sentative to the Council on Legislation public. Major Donors. and Council on Resolutions, and as an RI president’s representative. He also has She serves on a nominating com- Drew Kessler held zone leadership positions, including mittee for the American Red Cross Treasurer chair of the Zone 28/32 summit, assis- Heroes Awards; two nonprofit hospital Rotary Club of North Rockland tant Rotary coordinator for Zone 32, and boards in Chicago, including as chair of (Haverstraw), New York chair of the Mid-Northeast presidents- a hospital board; and state committees elect training seminar. for infection control and prevention and Drew Kessler is senior vice president of health care reporting. She was named the commercial real estate division at Committed to continuity and col- woman of the year by the MRSA Survi- M&T Bank, where he manages a large laboration, he is a member of the District vors Network and has received a number loan portfolio of real estate and commer- 7210 executive board, a committee he helped establish that is made up of past and current district leaders who work together to lead the district. As a husband and a father of five, Kes- sler prioritizes incorporating family into Rotary events, projects, and meetings whenever possible. All of his children have participated in Rotary, including through Interact, RYLA, and Rotary Youth Exchange and other programs. He and his spouse, Vicki, also a Rotarian, live in Hopewell Junction, New York. 28  ROTARY  JULY 2023

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Antônio Henrique Barbosa de Vasconcelos vivor who had wanted one for 40 years. a partner, board member, and techni- He coordinated the delivery of 2,000 cal director of 3TI Progetti Italia, an Director 2023-25 ShelterBoxes in the aftermath of massive engineering firm with offices in cities in- mudslides and floods in the state of Rio cluding Rome and Milan; Muscat, Oman; Rotary Club of Fortaleza-Alagadiço, Brazil de Janeiro in 2010. and Hong Kong. Antônio Henrique Barbosa de Vasconcelos, who lost his mother Among the many projects Cecchini Vasconcelos holds a civil engineering to COVID-19, also led the Information has led or designed are the rehabilita- degree from the University of Fortaleza. Saves Lives campaign, engaging Rotary tion of a water and sanitation system He is the owner of three businesses and Rotaract clubs throughout Brazil to in Kenya, the construction of a new operating in the construction and engi- promote the importance of vaccinations military air base in Oman, and the neering sectors. through social media, traditional media, rebuilding of panoramic Provincial Road outdoor ads, and more. 28 in Sicily. Born in 1969, the same year his Rotary club was chartered, Vasconcelos grew “Rotary’s greatest challenge now is Cecchini’s first experience with up surrounded by Rotary, inspired by for us to be more active in our com- Rotary was in 1988, when he became a his father, who served twice as a district munities,” says Vasconcelos. “When we charter member of the Rotaract Club of governor. His Rotary Youth Exchange in have greater projects in our communi- Anzio-Nettuno. Pennsylvania created lifelong friendships ties, we will add more members to our that run deep in his family: 22 years after ranks, our public image will grow, and He joined his first Rotary club in his experience, one of his daughters went donations to The Rotary Foundation 1994. Cecchini has served RI at the zone to live with the same host family during will increase.” and international levels, including as her exchange. a committee member, training leader, Vasconcelos holds the title of Hon- regional coordinator and adviser, Rotary Vasconcelos joined Rotary in 1996, orary Consul of the Grand Duchy of public image coordinator, governors- seeking an opportunity to give back and Luxembourg in Ceará. In his spare time, elect training seminar facilitator, and to see his father more regularly. At 38, he enjoys riding a motorcycle through- International Assembly speaker. he served as governor of District 4490. out Brazil and the U.S.; he was director Since then, he has taken on many roles of the Fortaleza chapter of the Brazil- Drawing on his experience in Rotary’s for RI, including training leader, Rotary ian Harley-Davidson owners group in youth programs, he served as chair and coordinator, regional Rotary Founda- Ceará. vice chair of the Rotaract-Interact Com- tion coordinator, Council on Legislation mittee and chaired the 2014 Rotaract representative, Rotary zone institute A Paul Harris Fellow, he supports Preconvention in Sydney. In addition, chair, RI president’s representative, and The Rotary Foundation with his wife, he has served as the primary RI rep- member of the 2020 RI Convention Pro- Renata Macedo, as Benefactor, Bequest resentative to numerous Rome-based motion Committee. Society member, and Major Donor. organizations, including the Food and Vasconcelos is a recipient of the Service Agriculture Organization of the United He has supported The Rotary Above Self Award. Nations, the International Fund for Foundation as regional coordinator Agricultural Development, and the World and endowment/major gifts adviser. In Alberto Cecchini Food Programme. He is also the Rotary Brazil, he has served as a board member Director 2022-24 International representative to the Holy of the Brazilian association of The Ro- Rotary Club of Roma Nord-Est, Italy See in Vatican City. tary Foundation since 2009 and wrote as a columnist for Revista Rotary Brasil Alberto Cecchini is the sole administra- Cecchini envisioned and organized (Rotary’s regional magazine in Brazil) tor and technical director of Idroesse a polio eradication fundraiser held at for six years. Engineering, one of the oldest firms of its the Colosseum in Rome in 2018 that kind in Italy. featured actors from the film Gladiator, One of his most memorable moments including Russell Crowe and Connie in Rotary was when he and his club He earned bachelor’s and master’s Nielsen, as well as a projection of the traveled in four-wheel-drive cars to a degrees in civil engineering at Sapienza movie in the amphitheater with a live remote area in the state of Ceará to de- University of Rome. He also served as orchestra. The event raised $500,000. liver goods and services. There, his club Cecchini has also volunteered during presented a wheelchair to a polio sur- a National Immunization Day in Delhi, India, and has delivered bed nets in Guinea-Bissau. He divides his time between Padua and Rome. In his spare time, he enjoys exercising, traveling, golf, and reading. Cecchini has received the Service Above Self Award and The Rotary Foun- dation Citation for Meritorious Service. He supports the Foundation as a mul- tiple Paul Harris Fellow and Benefactor. JULY 2023  ROTARY  29

ROTARY LEADERS Ghim Bok Chew a justice of the peace who volunteers in of Directors of Zambia as well as the local prisons, chair of two religious orga- African Corporate Governance Network, Director 2023-25 nizations, trustee of three national trust an organization that awarded him the organizations, and honorary consul for 2022 Corporate Governance Personality Rotary Club of Bugis Junction, Singapore the Republic of Slovakia in Singapore. Award in recognition of his outstanding efforts to promote corporate governance Born in Singapore, Ghim Bok “G.B.” Chew, who decided to join the Bugis across Africa. Chew graduated in 1981 with an honors Junction club after reading about the degree in computer science from the global polio eradication effort in a local Working for nearly 20 years in the University of Liverpool, England, before newspaper, advocates for the power of public and corporate sectors of Zambia, returning to his home country to launch partnering to accomplish great things. Chisanga served as chief executive of- a career as a serial entrepreneur, venture “As a business person, I strongly believe ficer and chair of numerous companies capitalist, and private equities fund in creating synergy and leveraging part- and organizations before taking early manager. After opening his first busi- nerships,” he says. “One plus one can be retirement in 1994 to focus on running ness, an IT systems integrator, he took more than two — it can be 11.” a family-owned group of companies, a bankrupt food processing company Muchanga Investments Ltd., which he to an initial public offering after turn- Chew has applied this approach by founded in 1987 and now chairs. He is ing it around. Now semiretired, Chew partnering with Rotary clubs and outside also chair and lead consultant of Dy- maintains real estate and real estate organizations to support cleft palate namic Concepts Ltd., a consulting firm management companies in Singapore, in surgeries in Indonesia and prosthetic dedicated to corporate governance and addition to his fund management hold- limb fittings in Malaysia. In another proj- leadership development across Africa, ing company. ect coordinated by his club, he helped and he serves on the boards of several raise funds for doctors in Indonesia who local and international companies. Chew joined Rotary in 1996. Imme- donate their time to provide cataract sur- diately after serving as district governor geries, implanting lenses for only about Chisanga first joined the family of Ro- in 2013, he took on several zone and $50 each. “Imagine an older person tary as a member of Interact. As a high international roles, including assistant who has never seen their grandchildren school student in 1968, he was selected regional Rotary Foundation coordinator, suddenly seeing them for the first time,” to go on a short-term interclub exchange assistant Rotary public image coordina- says Chew. “These are some of the life- to Kenya, where he stayed with the tor, Rotary coordinator, and chair of changing experiences I have been able to district governor in Mombasa. “I was so the zone institute committee. He is the witness through Rotary.” impressed with this man’s dedication to Host Organization Committee chair for humankind that I decided there and then the Rotary International Convention in He is a recipient of the Service Above that I would serve as a district governor Singapore in 2024. Self Award. With his wife, Phyllis, he is in Rotary one day,” Chisanga says. a member of the Arch Klumph Society Outside of Rotary, Chew is active as a Chair’s Circle. In 1986, he became a charter member local volunteer, having served for nearly of the Rotary Club of Nkwazi, and in three decades with Singapore’s People’s Patrick Daniel Chisanga 1998, he realized his goal of becoming Association, a government organiza- Director 2022-24 governor of District 9210. He was the tion that uses a grassroots approach Rotary Club of Nkwazi, Zambia first nonwhite person to hold that posi- to promote racial and social harmony tion. “It was a turning point for me and among Singapore’s diverse population. Patrick Daniel Chisanga, a chartered my district,” he says. Chew created synergy between People’s governance professional, is a fellow of Association youth groups and Rotary the Chartered Governance Institute UK As governor, Chisanga focused on when he helped start community-based from the London School of Accountancy supporting communities in need in Interact and Rotaract clubs that are still and a fellow of the Institute of Directors his district with projects dedicated to active. For his contributions to Singa- of Zambia. He has advised the World health, hygiene, and clean water, and pore’s communities, Chew was awarded Bank on corporate governance and on building safe bridges in rural areas. the Public Service Award Medal in 2005 has served as president of the Institute Later, while serving as RI president’s and Public Service Star Medal in 2012 by representative at a district event in Singapore’s president. He also serves as Bremerhaven, Germany, he lent his networking skills to help start an ongo- ing project to improve infrastructure in Zambian schools that later received several Rotary Foundation grants. Chisanga has served Rotary Interna- tional on several committees, including the Membership Committee and the Reach Out to Africa Committee, and as a training leader and Rotary institute chair. He has also chaired regional Rotary organizations, including the governors’ 30  ROTARY  JULY 2023

BOARD OF DIRECTORS council of southern and eastern Africa. had 80 percent of RIBI clubs participat- South Dakota School of Mines & Tech- He received the Service Above Self ing, which yielded a 19 percent increase nology. He worked briefly at DuPont as in giving for polio eradication over the a chemical engineer before joining the Award and The Rotary Foundation Cita- previous year. In addition, it helped U.S. Army as an officer with the Army tion for Meritorious Service. He and his raise public awareness, with more than Corps of Engineers. He later earned his partner, Petronella, are Major Donors. 900 media reports about the campaign. law degree from the University of Denver Conway-Ghazi has been a vice chair of College of Law and a Master Negotiation Eve Conway-Ghazi the End Polio Now: Countdown to His- Certificate from the Program on Negotia- Director 2023-25 tory campaign committee and previously tion at Harvard Law School. Rotary Club of Redbridge, England served as director of the Rotary Action Group for Endangered Species. After working as an attorney at one Eve Conway-Ghazi is a multimedia of Denver’s larger firms and practicing journalist. After earning her bachelor’s She has traveled numerous times with law at a firm he founded with three other degree in English from Queen Mary British Rotarians to take part in National attorneys, Himelspach formed Dispute University of London, she worked as a Immunization Days in India and has Management Inc., a full-service dispute newspaper reporter. Her editor, a Rotar- worked with leading journalists from resolution firm, where he mediated more ian, was pleased when she received a the BBC and The Independent covering than 7,000 lawsuits and conducted more Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to the the topic. She produced a documentary than 100 arbitrations. Medill School of Journalism at North- for the BBC on fighting breast cancer in western University in Evanston, Illinois, Pakistan, as well as more than 30 videos Himelspach joined Rotary in 1993 and where she earned a master’s degree in that RIBI used for a membership and has served in multiple district and zone broadcast journalism. She returned to marketing campaign. “We have to tell leadership positions after serving as dis- London to launch a career in TV and the story that what Rotary is all about trict governor, including End Polio Now radio journalism that included 20 years is projects with impact that save lives,” coordinator, regional Rotary Foundation at BBC News as a reporter and producer. says Conway-Ghazi. coordinator, and zone institute education week trainer. Himelspach was instrumen- Conway-Ghazi was invited to join One of her proudest accomplishments tal in proposing club flexibility provisions Rotary in 2000, after doing a series of was starting the Rotary Young Citizen that became Enactment 16-21, adopted at speaking engagements at London-area Awards in association with BBC News the 2016 Council on Legislation. He also clubs. In 2012, she became the first in 2007, to promote positive stories served as a representative to the Council female district governor for Rotary in about young people. Outside of Rotary, on Legislation from 2017 to 2020. London. She organized numerous Rotary Conway-Ghazi chairs The Media Circle, activities in connection with the London part of The Circle nongovernmental or- He has been involved in many local 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, includ- ganization founded by singer-songwriter and international service projects, includ- ing a Rotary reception for the Jamaican and activist Annie Lennox to empower ing a long-standing partnership with Paralympians, all polio survivors. That women and girls globally. Rotary clubs in Kathmandu to provide year, she also worked with her coun- water to a mountain community in Nepal. terpart in Mumbai to start a successful She met her husband, Robert Ghazi, Himelspach says he was amazed during vocational training team project focused through Rotary. They support The an in-person site visit to see how the ini- on preventing problems during childbirth Rotary Foundation as Major Donors and tiative had grown to become an economic in a community in rural Jawhar, India. members of the Bequest Society. empowerment project for women, who were freed up from carrying water and Conway-Ghazi served as president Daniel C. Himelspach are now entrepreneurs. “The magic of of Rotary International in Great Britain Director 2023-25 The Rotary Foundation is how we work and Ireland in 2016-17. That year, she Rotary Club of Denver Mile High, Colorado with local Rotary clubs as partners,” says launched and led the Purple4Polio cam- Himelspach. “I don’t know of any other paign, engaging Rotarians across Britain Raised on a sheep and cattle ranch in organization that has the global reach.” and Ireland about polio eradication, one southeastern Montana, Dan Himelspach of her passions. The successful campaign earned his chemistry degree from the Himelspach serves on the boards of two Denver-based nonprofits: World- Denver, which promotes understanding of world affairs and cultures throughout the community, and BrainWise, which develops curricula to teach critical- thinking skills to youths and adults. He and his wife, Leslie, are mem- bers of the Paul Harris Society and the Bequest Society and are Major Donors. Himelspach has received several awards for his Rotary service, including The Rotary Foundation Citation for Merito- rious Service. JULY 2023  ROTARY  31

ROTARY LEADERS As a cartographer, Hurst enjoys to attend Rotary club meetings, which collecting antique maps in addition was successfully adopted. “Rotary and to watching rugby, boating, traveling, Rotaract should learn much more about and being a grandfather. He and his each other,” he says. wife, Michelle, are Major Donors and members of the Arch Klumph Society, Kasten was a member of his local city Bequest Society, Paul Harris Society, and council and chair of its school commit- District 7020’s PolioPlus Society, and he tee. He was also an active member in the is a recipient of The Rotary Foundation Young Christian Democratic Union. Citation for Meritorious Service. He is a Paul Harris Fellow, and with his partner, Nadja Picard, a Major Donor. Jeremy Hurst Director 2022-24 Rotary Club of Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands Born in Rochester, England, Jeremy Hans-Hermann Kasten Muhammad Faiz Kidwai Hurst relocated to the Cayman Islands in 1988. He owns and operates the IRG Director 2023-25 Director 2022-24 group of companies, providing property services to the Cayman Islands and other Rotary Club of Aachen-Frankenburg, Rotary Club of Karachi Karsaz, Pakistan Caribbean markets. A past president of the Cayman Islands Real Estate Brokers Germany Muhammad Faiz Kidwai is chair of Association and a founding member of CG Global, a leading architecture, the Cayman Islands Investment Council, Hans-Hermann Kasten is a lawyer and engineering, urban design, real estate de- Hurst chairs the Global Advisory Board businessman. After earning his law velopment, and hospitality firm. A 1983 and sits on the board of Leading Real degree from the University of Münster, architecture graduate of NED University Estate Companies of the World. he pursued a career in sales and market- of Engineering and Technology, Kidwai ing, working for three major insurance was later awarded a research fellowship Hurst says he started applying The companies — first Allianz, then Generali in conservation in Mostar, Bosnia and Four-Way Test at his business and saw a and Provincial — where he also served Herzegovina, by the Aga Khan Program positive impact, especially with employ- on the board of directors of each. He for Islamic Architecture at Harvard Uni- ees. “I’ve always tried to bring the best of later left insurance to work as a lawyer versity. A specialist in socially responsive Rotary into my businesses and the best for eight years before retiring in 2021 to architecture, Kidwai has developed aspects of my businesses into Rotary.” dedicate more time to Rotary. master plans for urban housing projects as well as large urban development and Hurst joined Rotary in 1988. He has Kasten joined Rotary in 2003 and has city planning projects. served RI as a member of the Member- focused on youth projects throughout ship Development Committee and the his Rotarian life. With his club, he has Kidwai, who joined Rotaract in 1980, Joint Committee on Partnerships, and supported literacy for children and tree is the first Rotary director from Pakistan. has been an RI president’s representative planting in Armenia and worked on In 1986, departing from Karachi on a Ro- multiple times. His role as board liaison to projects that teach the German language, tary Group Study Exchange to Canada, the Interact Advisory Council reflects his beekeeping, and swimming to young he survived a violent attack during the commitment to Rotary’s youth programs. immigrants and refugees in Germany. As hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73. “I pledged district governor in 2016-17, he stressed that, if given another chance to live, I He has been heavily involved in diversity and inclusion with his motto would dedicate my life to the betterment managing Rotary’s disaster relief ef- “Rotary is becoming younger, more fe- of humanity,” he says. “This was the mo- forts in the Caribbean, chairing his male, more colorful, and more cheerful.” ment that influenced me to join Rotary.” district’s disaster relief committee for the 2017 hurricanes Irma and Maria and He has served RI as training leader He joined Rotary in 1987 and became a organizing the Rotarians Emergency and twice as representative to the charter member of the Rotary Club of Ka- Disaster Initiative conference in 2009. A Council on Legislation, coordinat- rachi Karsaz in 1993. He has been active passionate supporter of water, sanita- ing the training and proposals of in polio eradication efforts since Rotary tion, and hygiene initiatives, Hurst is a German-speaking districts in Germany, began its work for the cause in Pakistan. founding member and steering com- Switzerland, and Austria. He authored mittee chair of the Haiti National Clean the 2022 proposal to allow Rotaractors Kidwai has recently launched a “smart Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Strategy, or HANWASH, the Rotary-led partner- ship to bring clean water, improved sanitation, and hygiene to all the citi- zens of Haiti. 32  ROTARY  JULY 2023

BOARD OF DIRECTORS villages” project focused on environmen- Norwegian Air Force with the aim of be- neur. In 1980, he took out a small loan tal sustainability and climate change to coming Norway’s first female fighter pilot, to form the Zoom 16 Color Film Labora- help areas affected by the devastating worked as a teacher, and helped local tory. Today, the Zoom enterprise (not 2022 floods in Pakistan, which impacted entrepreneurs start their own businesses. related to the online meeting platform) 33 million people and caused eco- employs more than 250 people and spe- nomic losses of more than $30 billion. Mjerskaug joined Rotary in 1997 as the cializes in digital imaging, 3D printing for His vision is to transform the affected first woman in her club and, at the time, medical applications, and large-format communities through interventions in its youngest member. She has served printing. Roy Chowdhury’s enterprises shelter, water and sanitation, alternative Rotary as an End Polio Now zone coordi- also span other business segments, energy, health care, education, tree plant- nator, Rotary coordinator, representative including electrical motors and drives, ing, and economic infrastructure. to the Council on Legislation, and RI health care diagnostics, and pharmacies. president’s representative. She was chair He is founder and chair of the Rotary of the Norsk Rotary Forum, a multidis- Roy Chowdhury joined Rotary as a Pakistan Literacy Mission, whose goal trict administrative group, and she was charter member of the Calcutta Metro is total literacy and quality education heavily engaged with a national Rotary City club in 1995. During his tenure as in the country. He has been involved in project, Handicamp Norway, a camp that district governor, he added 450 mem- supporting Afghan refugees in Pakistan, brought together young adults, some bers and 11 new clubs and helped raise co-chairing an initiative that has assisted with disabilities, from around the world. district contributions to The Rotary more than 50,000 Afghan refugees, and Foundation to $613,000. He has since working on projects that fight poverty Mjerskaug, who works full time while served RI as Rotary public image coor- and hunger while promoting the educa- serving as director, says she wants to dinator, assistant Rotary coordinator, tion and empowerment of Afghan girls lend her experience and skills to mini- assistant Rotary Foundation coordinator, and women. He says he would like to mize the gap between clubs and Rotary and RI president’s representative, and as see Rotary become the most influential International. “Rotary is what the club a member of The Rotary Foundation’s service organization in the region. members create themselves,” she says. Cadre of Technical Advisers. He also “No two clubs in Rotary are the same — served on the board of trustees of the Kidwai has received the Service what works in Norway may not work in Eastern India Rotary Welfare Trust. Above Self Award, The Rotary Founda- Bangladesh. I’m not representing myself tion Distinguished Service Award, and or my region on the Board; I am repre- During his first years in Rotary, he The Rotary Foundation Citation for senting the world.” was involved in social mobilization and Meritorious Service. He and his wife, working with the Muslim community Uzma, are Major Donors. In addition to her work, her farm, and on National Immunization Days in Rotary, Mjerskaug enjoys sports, read- India. While out in the community, he Lena J. Mjerskaug ing, and learning about the history and observed problems such as the lack of Director 2022-24 culture of the places she visits. potable water and children who were not Rotary Club of Enebakk, Norway in school. “That experience transformed She supports The Rotary Foundation me quickly to be a service-oriented per- Lena J. Mjerskaug is chief of administra- as a Benefactor and a Major Donor. “I son,” says Roy Chowdhury. tive control at Defence Staff Norway, give because, even though my contribu- where she has worked since 1997. She tion will go to a project I may never hear Passionate about promoting lit- also owns and operates a farm that of and help people I will probably never eracy through Rotary, he is serving as has been in her family for generations. meet,” she says, “I know that gift will a member of the executive body of the Mjerskaug holds a master’s degree in definitely change someone’s life.” Rotary India Literacy Mission, which economics and business administration provides free digital content and is from the NHH Norwegian School of Anirudha Roy Chowdhury targeting 27 million school students. He Economics and a postgraduate certifi- Director 2023-25 has also helped lead Rotary Foundation cate in education from the University of Rotary Club of Calcutta Mega City, India global grant projects to train doctors in Oslo. Before 1997, she served in the Royal Lesotho in orthopedics and eye surgery. Anirudha Roy Chowdhury is an electrical Roy Chowdhury says he is eager to take engineer and first-generation entrepre- the next step in Rotary leadership as a director, but that it is important to stay humble. “At the end of the day, I am just a Rotarian, and my passion is to serve the community in the capacity I can,” he says. “We are all working with the same objectives in mind.” Roy Chowdhury has been active in regional business organizations, includ- ing the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce & Industry, the Federation of Small and Medium Industry, and the JULY 2023  ROTARY  33

ROTARY LEADERS Calcutta Chamber of Commerce, where tary as chair of the District 2690 Rotary its finance, Foundation, and leadership he serves as a board member. He also Foundation audit committee and as a development and education committees. established the Zoom Foundation, which member of the Rotary Japan centen- Stubbs has attended 21 international promotes health causes such as funding nial executive committee and the Japan conventions, traveled to New York City a hematology diagnostic center to treat Youth Exchange multidistrict organiza- for Rotary Day at the United Nations, children with thalassemia. tion. At the zone level, he has served as served in a National Immunization Day convener of the nominating committee in India, traveled to Mexico for club part- Roy Chowdhury is a recipient of the for RI director and as a training leader, nership projects, and attended various Service Above Self Award as well as The Rotary institute session panelist, and RI zone meetings around the country. Rotary Foundation Citation for Meri- president’s representative. He is also a torious Service and the Distinguished contributor to the Rotary Yoneyama Me- During a zone meeting in New Or- Service Award. He and his spouse, morial Foundation, a project of Rotary leans that she attended with a Rotary Shipra, support the Foundation as Level districts in Japan that supports foreign friend — before either had served as club 3 Major Donors and Bequest Society students who are pursuing academic president — she learned about Ambas- members. research in Japan. sadorial Scholarships and Group Study Exchange. Inspired after the meeting, she Yoshio Sato In addition to organizing numer- and her friend worked together to help Director 2022-24 ous fundraising events, including zone set up these activities in her district. Rotary Club of Okayama-South, Japan events for Major Donors and Arch Klumph Society ceremonies, Sato per- In addition to bagging and deliver- Yoshio Sato is a certified public accoun- sonally supports The Rotary Foundation ing food with her “small but mighty” tant who has owned his own consulting as an Arch Klumph Society member, Maryville club to school children, firm since 1986. He has also served as Paul Harris Society member, Benefactor, Stubbs has worked with her district director of Chugoku Bank since 2016. and Bequest Society member. to raise $1.3 million for polio eradica- tion through the sale of “purple pinky” After earning his master’s degree in Beth Stubbs doughnuts and other fundraisers. The accounting from Keio University, Sato Director 2023-25 satellite club she helped start in her worked at Arthur Andersen and then at Rotary Club of Maryville, Tennessee district is still going strong. Tohmatsu & Co., now a part of Deloitte, before starting his own firm, Sato Yoshio Beth Stubbs is a certified public accoun- She has served on the boards of local CPA Firm. He has held leadership roles tant who earned her degree at Plymouth nonprofits, including Michael Dunn in regional professional groups, includ- State College. After working as a CPA at Center, which helps people with develop- ing the Certified Public Tax Accountants’ a Maryville firm, she set up her private mental disabilities, and Asbury Place, a Association of Chugoku region and the practice in 1994, focusing on consulting regional retirement community organiza- Japanese Institute of Certified Public for small-business owners on account tion. She also served in officer positions in Accountants Western Japan Federation management, finances, and exit strate- Toastmasters International and is active Assembly at Okayama. gies. She also worked as chief financial on several committees at her church. In officer for her husband’s business, Trinity her spare time, she enjoys reading, travel- Sato has actively supported, on his Benefit Advisors, for 14 years. Stubbs is ing, and attending football and basketball own and with his Rotary club, the local a member of the American Institute of games at the University of Tennessee. branch of Asahikawa Villa, an organiza- Certified Public Accountants and the tion that helps people with disabilities live Tennessee Society of Public Accountants. She and her husband, Tony, support independently. He has also served as a di- The Rotary Foundation as Arch Klumph rector of the Kazuko Watanabe Memorial Stubbs, who started frequenting Society members. Scholarship Foundation of Notre Dame. Rotary club meetings at age 8 with her father, joined the Rotary Club of T.N. “Raju” Subramanian A member of the Rotary Club of Maryville in 1991. She served her district Director 2023-25 Okayama-South since 1989, Sato has in several capacities, including as chair of Rotary Club of Deonar, India been active in numerous district and national committees. He has served Ro- T.N. “Raju” Subramanian is a senior 34  ROTARY  JULY 2023

BOARD OF DIRECTORS counsel, working in India’s High Court Yeong Ho Yun John Hewko and Supreme Court systems. He earned degrees in economics and law from Director 2023-25 General Secretary Mumbai University. Rotary Club of Masan South, Korea Rotary Club of Kyiv, Ukraine His civil law clients have included multinational corporations, state and Yeong Ho Yun is chair of the Korea Tour- John Hewko is the general secretary and local governments, the Board of Control ism Association, the country’s premier chief executive officer of Rotary Interna- for Cricket in India, and educational organization representing the tourism tional and The Rotary Foundation. institutions. He has also taken on pro industry. A graduate of Seoul Digital bono work representing clients in AIDS University who earned his master’s From 2004 to 2009, Hewko was vice discrimination cases as well as environ- degree in business administration from president for operations and compact mental cases. Kyungnam University Graduate School development for the Millennium Chal- of Business, Yun owns several businesses lenge Corp., a U.S. government agency Subramanian joined Rotary in 1987 that employ more than 400 people. In established in 2004 to deliver foreign as- as a charter member of his club. He addition to owning and serving as chair sistance to the world’s poorest countries. has volunteered in club projects that of Hotel International Changwon, his range from administering polio vac- other ventures include transportation, Before joining MCC, Hewko was cines during National Immunization cargo, and rental car companies. an international partner with the law Days to supporting his club’s global firm Baker & McKenzie, specializing in grant-funded project that provides free He served as the president of two international corporate transactions in pediatric heart surgeries in low-income professional associations, the South emerging markets. He helped establish communities. Gyeongsang Province Tourism Associa- the firm’s Moscow office and was manag- tion and the Korea Trucking Association. ing partner of offices in Kyiv and Prague. One of his greatest Rotary moments Yun is a recipient of two South Korean was seeing the children helped by one of government awards: the Silver Tower Working in Ukraine in the early 1990s, the club’s school projects, which teaches Award for his work promoting tourism he assisted the working group that English, computer literacy, and life skills and the Stone Tower Award for his con- prepared the initial draft of the Ukrainian to kids who would otherwise have lim- tributions to the trucking industry. post-Soviet constitution and was a char- ited opportunities to learn outside their ter member of Kyiv’s first Rotary club. native language. Yun joined Rotary in 1983 at the rec- ommendation of a friend. Soon after, he Hewko has been a public policy “It was satisfying to see how some was volunteering with the Masan South scholar at the Woodrow Wilson In- moved on to graduate to become club to provide food for older people in ternational Center for Scholars, an chartered accountants, architects, the community during the holidays. As adjunct professor of law at Georgetown and engineers,” says Subramanian. “It governor in 2013-14, he led an initia- University, and a visiting scholar at the helped them see that there is a large life tive that resulted in the district’s first Carnegie Endowment for International ahead of them.” $1 million contribution to The Rotary Peace. He has published papers and Foundation. articles in leading U.S. and international He has served RI as a member of the publications, and he has spoken exten- Election Review Committee, the Con- During his three-year term as the sively on political and business issues. stitution and Bylaws Committee, and endowment/major gifts adviser, he the Council on Legislation Organizing helped find 51 additional Arch Klumph He holds a law degree from Harvard Committee. Subramanian also served Society members in his zone. In addition, University, a master’s in modern history as Rotary institute chair, training leader he served RI as assistant Rotary public from Oxford University (where he studied and support training leader, regional image coordinator and twice as training as a Marshall Scholar), and a bachelor’s Rotary Foundation coordinator, and di- leader, an experience that he cherishes. in government and Soviet studies from rector of the Rotary Fellowship for past Hamilton College in New York. district governors. Yun is a recipient of the Service Above Self Award and The Rotary Foundation As general secretary, Hewko leads a His two most challenging Rotary Distinguished Service Award. He and his diverse staff of 800 at Rotary Interna- roles have been serving as training wife, Hae Suk Lee, are Trustees Circle tional’s World Headquarters in Evanston, leader and as vice chair of the 2022 members of the Arch Klumph Society. Illinois, and six international offices. Council on Legislation, when he stepped He and his partner, Marga, are Major in to lead the meeting after the chair fell Donors. They live in Evanston. ill with COVID-19. Subramanian and his wife, Vidhya, are supporters of The Rotary Founda- tion as Paul Harris Society members, Arch Klumph Society members, and Benefactors. Subramanian is a recipi- ent of the Service Above Self Award and The Rotary Foundation Citation for Meritorious Service. JULY 2023  ROTARY  35

ROTARY LEADERS The Rotary Foundation Trustees Barry Rassin trainer, and an RI training leader. Mark Daniel In 2010, Rassin coordinated Rotary’s Maloney Chair 2023-24 disaster relief efforts in Haiti after a Chair-elect 2023-24 Trustee 2020-24 devastating earthquake. That included supervising the completion of 105 relief Trustee 2021-25 Rotary Club of East and development projects made possible by the $6.5 million raised by Rotary Rotary Club of Nassau, Bahamas members worldwide. He worked with the Bahamas Rotary disaster relief com- Decatur, Alabama Barry Rassin is mittee to help with relief efforts after a director and Hurricane Dorian in 2019, and he coor- Mark Daniel former president dinated the volunteer efforts to manage Maloney is a of Doctors Hospital Health System in COVID-19 vaccination centers. principal in the law firm of Blackburn, Nassau, Bahamas, where he retired after Maloney and Schuppert LLC, with a a 38-year career. He was the first fellow of Outside of Rotary, Rassin was the focus on taxation, estate planning, and the American College of Healthcare Exec- founding chair of Volunteer Bahamas, a agricultural law. He represents large utives in the Bahamas and was honored national program to create a culture of farming operations in the Southeast- with the National Award of Health Hero volunteerism in the country. He helped ern and Midwestern United States and by the Bahamas Ministry of Health and found the Haiti National Clean Water, has chaired the American Bar Associa- the Pan American Health Organization. Sanitation, and Hygiene Strategy, or tion’s Committee on Agriculture in the A Rotarian since 1980, Rassin served HANWASH, a collaborative program to Section of Taxation. He is a member of as RI president in 2018-19, when he ad- bring potable water and adequate sanita- the American Bar Association, Alabama vocated for closer partnership between tion to all citizens of Haiti. In 2018, the State Bar Association, and Alabama Law Rotary and Rotaract clubs and presented Bahamas government named him as an Institute, and a past president of the a measure at the 2019 Council on Leg- officer of the Order of Distinction. Morgan County Bar Association. islation that broadened the definition of He has been active in Decatur’s reli- membership in Rotary International to Rassin has received the Service Above gious community, chairing his church’s include Rotaract clubs. He has served RI Self Award. He and his spouse, Esther, finance council and a Catholic school in many other capacities, including as a are Rotary Foundation Major Donors, board. He has served as president of director, Rotary Foundation trustee and Benefactors, Paul Harris Fellows, and the Community Foundation of Greater vice chair, chair of the Finance and Shap- members of the Paul Harris Society. Decatur, chair of Morgan County Meals ing Rotary’s Future committees, seminar on Wheels, and director of the United 36  ROTARY  JULY 2023

2023 –24 The Trustees of The Rotary Foundation manage the business of the Foundation, the charitable arm of Rotary that funds service activities. The RI president-elect nominates the trustees, who are elected by the RI Board to four-year terms. Four new trustees take office on 1 July. Way of Morgan County and the Decatur- Foundation’s WASH in Schools Target district contributed over $2 million to Morgan County Chamber of Commerce. Challenge Committee. The Rotary Foundation, making it the top contributor worldwide for 2006-07. Maloney served as RI president in Maloney’s wife, Gay, is an attorney in He has led numerous projects, including 2019-20, when he successfully advo- the same law firm and a past president water and sanitation projects funded by cated to add a seventh area of focus on of the Rotary Club of Decatur Daybreak. Foundation grants that installed check protecting the environment. He also Both support The Rotary Foundation as dams so that villagers no longer needed emphasized strategies to grow Rotary Paul Harris Fellows, Major Donors, and to walk up to 4 miles to collect water. and presided over the first virtual Rotary Bequest Society members. International Convention, during the He has served Rotary as director, COVID-19 pandemic. A Rotarian since Bharat S. Pandya RI treasurer, regional RI membership 1980, he has served as an RI director, coordinator, and training leader. He has Rotary Foundation trustee and vice Vice Chair 2023-24 been a member of Rotary’s Member- chair, and aide to 2003-04 RI President ship, Strategic Planning, Leadership Jonathan Majiyagbe. He has partici- Trustee 2022-26 Development, and Convention Promo- pated in the Council on Legislation as tion committees and the India PolioPlus chair, vice chair, parliamentarian, and Rotary Club of committee. During his term on the trainer. He was an adviser to the 2004 Borivli, India Board, Pandya initiated Project Positive Osaka Convention Committee, chaired Health across India, a disease preven- the 2014 Sydney Convention Commit- Bharat S. Pandya is tion and treatment initiative aimed at tee, and chaired RI’s Operations Review a general and lapa- reducing noncommunicable conditions Committee for four terms. Maloney also roscopic surgeon. such as diabetes, hypertension, heart led a Group Study Exchange to Nigeria. He and his wife, Madhavi, a gynecologist, disease, and chronic kidney disease. He own a private hospital in Mumbai. He is has served on the Foundation Trustees He served as Future Vision Com- a fellow of the International College of Finance and Stewardship committees. mittee vice chair, Foundation training Surgeons and has served on the board institute moderator, Foundation Per- of the Jan Shikshan Sansthan vocational He has received the Service Above manent Fund national adviser, member training institute, sponsored by the Self Award and The Rotary Foundation and vice chair of the Peace Centers Indian government. Citation for Meritorious Service and the Committee, member of the International Pandya joined Rotary in 1989 as a Distinguished Service Award. He and PolioPlus Committee, and adviser to the charter member of his club. During his Madhavi are Level 2 Major Donors. year as governor of District 3140, his JULY 2023  ROTARY  37

ROTARY LEADERS Martha “Marty” School, was admitted to the New York tice that is still in place in District 3640. Peak Helman Bar, and participated as a visiting lawyer Hyun supports The Rotary Founda- at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. Trustee 2022-26 tion as a member of the Arch Klumph His writing has been published in Society. Rotary Club of numerous books and journals, including Boothbay Harbor, the Columbia Journal of Transnational Jennifer Jones Maine Law. In 2007, he was named one of the top 12 professional lawyers in his field Trustee 2023-27 Marty Helman by The Chosun Ilbo newspaper. Hyun is spent her career as widely recognized as a trusted adviser to Rotary Club of a writer for business executives and as the largest and most reputable compa- a magazine editor at McGraw-Hill and nies doing business in Korea. Windsor-Roseland, the American Management Association. Later, she served as president of the Otto Hyun has worked as commissioner Ontario and Fran Walter Foundation, a nonprofit of the Seoul Labor Relations Commis- that has helped build schools in develop- sion, legal counsel to the Ministry of Jennifer Jones be- ing nations, provided scholarships for Employment and Labor of South Korea, lieves in the power youth, and supplied aid to Holocaust and adjunct professor at Korea Univer- of storytelling to survivors, among other initiatives. The sity Law School. He currently serves as move the world forward. Walter Foundation partnered with The director of Save the Children Korea, the In her vocational life, she is the Rotary Foundation to fund the new Ro- Amway Korea Foundation, and United founder of a media company in Ontario tary Peace Center that will be located at Nations Global Compact Korea. He that has helped countless corporations Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul. is also an auditor of the BMW Korea and not-for-profit organizations lead Helman and her late spouse, Frank, Future Foundation. He has served as with conviction and credibility. joined the Rotary Club of Boothbay Har- chair of the Korean Bar Association’s Jones served as Rotary International bor in 2003. She has served Rotary as Legal Aid Foundation and adviser and president in 2022-23, making her the chair of the Peace Major Gifts Initiative member of Korea’s Peaceful Unifica- first woman in Rotary’s history to serve and on the working group to select a site tion Advisory Council. Hyun received a in this role. Her focus on inclusion and for the new peace center. commendation from the president of the equity has helped break down barri- A keen fundraiser for The Rotary Republic of Korea in 1997. ers and has opened doors for others Foundation, she initiated an effort to to see themselves authentically recog- support the Sakuji Tanaka Rotary Peace A charter member of the Rotary Club nized within the organization. She is a Fellowship, which raised $1 million for of Seoul-Hansoo since 1991, Hyun has member of the Rotary Club of Windsor- the Rotary Peace Centers. been focused on membership as a men- Roseland. Helman is an Arch Klumph Society tor to younger leaders. He volunteers She has strengthened Rotary’s reach member, and she supports Rotary as a with his club on projects such as helping and impact as an ambassador of leader- member of the Paul Harris Society and older people, making kimchi for people ship. She believes in connecting those District 7780’s PolioPlus Society. She who need help with food, supporting who are most vulnerable with people of and Frank were charter members of The a school in Tanzania, and organizing purpose, people of influence, and people Rotary Foundation’s Legacy Society. events to support PolioPlus. “Rotary of action. changed my life and I see how much it Working alongside world leaders, Chun-Wook Hyun can change others’ lives too,” says Hyun. celebrities, and international thought leaders, Jones has raised awareness and Trustee 2023-27 He has served RI in various capacities, hundreds of millions of dollars to eradi- including as training leader, RI president’s cate disease, elevate education, support Rotary Club of representative, and Host Organization peace, and provide clean water, sanita- Seoul-Hansoo, Committee member and legal adviser to tion, and hygiene. Korea the Rotary International Convention in She is the recipient of Rotary’s Seoul in 2016. He also serves as director Service Above Self Award and The Chun-Wook Hyun of Rotary Foundation Korea. Rotary Foundation Citation for Meri- is senior partner at torious Service. She holds a Doctor of Seoul-based Kim Hyun constantly seeks to embody Laws and has been recognized with the & Chang, one of the largest law firms in and exemplify Rotary’s core values in YMCA Peace Medallion and the Queen’s Asia, where he has worked since 1981 his daily life, and his leadership motto Diamond Jubilee Medal. She is also the as a labor and employment law expert. is “passion, innovation, and execution.” first Canadian to receive Wayne State Born and raised in the island province As district governor, he helped increase University’s Peacemaker Award. of Jeju, Hyun received his law degree membership and giving to The Rotary Jones is married to Nick Krayacich, from Seoul National University and was Foundation. He innovated a memoran- who is a family physician. They share a admitted to the Korean Bar in 1978. He dum of understanding among governors, love for Rotary, travel, cycling, golf, and also earned a degree from Harvard Law governors-elect, and governors-nominee relaxing at their family cottage, in addi- that fosters continuity of sustainable tion to adventures such as climbing to goals and growth for the district, a prac- 38  ROTARY  JULY 2023

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION TRUSTEES the summit of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Rotary as a regional Rotary Founda- Donors, Benefactors, and Bequest So- They support The Rotary Founda- tion coordinator, Rotary coordinator, RI ciety members. He is a charter member president’s representative, committee of the District 6040 Paul Harris Society. tion as members of the Arch Klumph member and chair, and RI director and He has been awarded the Service Above Society, Paul Harris Society, and Be- treasurer. Self Award and The Rotary Foundation quest Society. Citation for Meritorious Service. He and his wife, Chen-Yi, are mem- Holger Knaack bers of the Arch Klumph Society. Lin is Geeta Manek also a Benefactor of The Rotary Founda- Trustee 2022-26 tion and a Paul Harris Fellow. Trustee 2020-24 Rotary Club Larry A. Lunsford Rotary Club of of Herzogtum Lauenburg-Mölln, Trustee 2021-25 Muthaiga, Kenya Germany Rotary Club of Geeta Manek, a Holger Knaack is second-generation the former owner Kansas City-Plaza, Kenyan, gradu- of a real estate company and of Knaack ated from business Bakery Enterprises, a family business Missouri school in the United Kingdom before founded in 1868. He is a founding mem- returning to Nairobi to join the family ber of the Civic Foundation of the City of Larry A. Lunsford, retail and real estate business. Ratzeburg and the founder and chair of a certified public Manek joined Rotary in 1997. She has the Karl Adam Foundation. accountant, is ex- served in many roles, including district A Rotary member since 1993, Knaack ecutive vice president and chief financial governor, Rotary coordinator, RI presi- has served Rotary as president, trea- officer of Bernstein-Rein Advertising. A dent’s representative, training leader, surer, director, moderator, a member recipient of bachelor’s and master’s de- Regional Leaders Training Institute lead and chair of several committees, repre- grees in accounting from Truman State facilitator, Council on Legislation repre- sentative to the Council on Legislation, University, he has served his alma mater sentative, and chair of the Health Major endowment/major gifts adviser, training on its National Alumni Association Gifts Initiative. leader, and district governor. Board and its Foundation Board. She has served as a member of He served for six years as chair of the His passion for Rotary and his invita- several RI groups and committees, multidistrict Rotary Youth Exchange tion into the family of Rotary began including the Major Gifts Initiative program in Germany and was co-chair during his college years, when in 1982, Oversight Team; The Rotary Foun- of the Host Organization Committee for he was selected as a Rotary Foundation dation Stewardship Committee; the the Rotary International Convention in Ambassadorial Scholar to Australia. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Hamburg in 2019. Lunsford joined Rotary in 1991. He Force; and the Programs of Scale Com- Knaack and his wife, Susanne, have served RI as director and aide to RI mittee. Manek has also chaired the hosted more than 40 Rotary Youth Ex- President Mark Daniel Maloney. In ad- Joint Committee on Partnerships, Host change students and are Major Donors dition, he has served as RI president’s Organization Committee for the Zone 21 to The Rotary Foundation and members representative, zone institute chair, institute, Rotary Foundation Executive of the Bequest Society. Rotary public image coordinator, Rotary Committee, and the Foundation’s Pro- Foundation alumni coordinator, regional grams Committee. She was her district’s Hsiu-Ming Lin Rotary Foundation coordinator, training coordinator of the Kick Polio Out of leader, International Assembly leaders’ Africa campaign. Trustee 2020-24 seminar trainer, RI committee chair Manek is passionate about initia- and member, chair of the Peace Centers tives that help women and improve Rotary Club of Committee, and vice chair of the Trust- education. She was a charter member of Taipei Tungteh, ees in 2022-23. Lohana Ladies Circle, a women’s club Taiwan He served four years as a member of dedicated to community service, social the Shaping Rotary’s Future Committee welfare, and cultural heritage. She is Hsiu-Ming for Rotary International. championing the Rotary literacy initia- “Frederick” Lin is For the past 22 years, Lunsford has tive in Kenya and is the liaison between managing director served as the “shoes cheerleader” for his the Ministry of Education in Kenya, of Continental Worldwide Enterprises district’s Shoes for Orphan Souls project Rotary International, and the Global Co. Ltd., a company that designs and in partnership with Buckner Interna- Partnership for Education. integrates satellite communications tional, resulting in the collection of Manek has volunteered as a first systems. Lin is active on the boards of nearly 400,000 pairs of new shoes. The responder during national crises. She other organizations, including as director project has taken him to Russia, Gua- has led teams of Rotarians to collaborate of the Taipei Lifeline Association. temala, and the Dominican Republic to and coordinate initiatives with orga- A Rotarian since 1988, Lin has served deliver new shoes to orphaned children. Lunsford and his wife, Jill, are Major JULY 2023  ROTARY  39

ROTARY LEADERS nizations such as the Red Cross, the partners and stakeholders, including coordinator, Council on Legislation United Nations, and community-based UNICEF, the World Health Organization representative, and sergeant-at-arms for institutions. Along with partnering with and its Expanded Programme on Immu- international conventions and assem- the Ministry of Health and corporate nization, government officials, religious blies. He is an adviser of the Japan Youth organizations, she has assisted her scholars, celebrities, business leaders, Exchange committee. He visited Wash- country in mitigating the effects of the and Rotarians around the world. He was ington as a short-term Youth Exchange COVID-19 pandemic. one of four polio eradication activists to student and has been a strong advocate receive the Louis Pasteur Medal by the for youth development. Since 1985, Manek was awarded an honorary Institut Pasteur. His other RI leadership he has led the district RYLA seminar, doctorate of humanities degree in 2019 positions have included training leader, the all-Japan RYLA institute, and the and the presidential commendation committee member, and RI president’s all-Japan Interact institute. He is also Moran of the Burning Spear by Kenya’s representative. Memon says his favorite committed to youth service activities president in 2021. Rotary project was working with his that would strengthen Rotary’s future. club to raise over $400,000 to fund an She is a trustee of the Vijana Poa English-language instruction school for Miki is a former Interactor and a initiative. Apart from Rotary, she sits on 4,000 children in a poor area of Karachi. recipient of The Rotary Foundation several committees, including as a board Citation for Meritorious Service. He and member for the Task Force for Global Memon has received the Service his wife, Chiharu, are members of the Health based in Atlanta. Above Self Award, the International and Arch Klumph Society, Benefactors, and Regional Service Awards for a Polio-Free Major Donors. Manek has been honored with the World, and The Rotary Foundation Dis- Service Above Self Award. She and her tinguished Service Award and Citation Greg E. Podd husband, Kaushik — who served as gov- for Meritorious Service. In recognition ernor of District 9200 in 2008-09 — are of his outstanding and exceptional Trustee 2022-26 Rotary Foundation Major Donors and contribution to humanitarian and Benefactors, as well as Bequest Society community services, the president of Rotary Club of and Arch Klumph Society members. Pakistan conferred the prestigious Pride of Performance Award on Memon. He Evergreen, Colorado Aziz Memon and his wife, Samina, are Chair’s Circle members of the Arch Klumph Society. Greg Podd is a Trustee 2020-24 retired certified Akira Miki public accoun- Rotary Club of tant and personal Trustee 2021-25 financial specialist who opened his own Karachi, Pakistan firm in 1979. During his career, he wrote Rotary Club of four professional continuing education Aziz Memon accounting and finance courses and is chair of the Himeji, Japan was a keynote speaker at five national Kings Group, a conferences. Podd has taught many conglomerate of Akira Miki, a den- courses as a guest professor in the five companies that is a leading textile tist with his own master’s degree in taxation program at and ready-made garment manufactur- practice, dedicated Arizona State University and has made ing and exporting group in Pakistan. himself to disaster presentations to more than 20,000 CPAs His other roles include honorary consul recovery projects after the 1995 Hanshin- and chartered accountants worldwide. general of the Republic of Suriname Awaji earthquake, one of the worst to He was also president and owner of a in Pakistan, president of the English- hit Japan in the 20th century. As chair firm specializing in metal fabrication for Speaking Union’s International Council, of the earthquake relief committee, Miki the telecommunications industry and and patron-in-chief of the English- worked on building a children’s home of an international health care software Speaking Union of Pakistan. He also and supported children who needed development firm. serves as president of the United Memon emotional care. He also helped build Podd joined Rotary in 1982. He has Jamat of Pakistan, a nongovernmental shelters for international students who served Rotary International as vice pres- organization dedicated to community lost their place to live, so they could stay ident and director. During his time on development and helping people in need, in Japan to continue their studies. the Board of Directors, he chaired com- chair of the Trust for Malnutrition and Miki joined Rotary in 1981. He served mittees including the Audit Committee Stunted Growth, and chair of the Center on the Board of Directors in 2018-20 and the Council on Legislation Advisory of Excellence for the Deaf. and as a special adviser for the Founda- Committee. He has also served a six- Since he joined Rotary in 1995, tion Trustees in 2020-21. Previously, year term as a member of The Rotary Memon has been widely recognized for his leadership roles included serving as Foundation’s Investment Committee, his leadership in polio eradication. He RI president’s representative, training a three-year term as a member of the has served as a member of the Interna- leader, governors-elect seminar trainer, Finance Committee, and a three-year tional PolioPlus Committee and chair committee member, assistant Rotary term as a member of the Operations of the Pakistan PolioPlus Committee. He has worked closely with Rotary’s 40  ROTARY  JULY 2023

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION TRUSTEES Review Committee, among others. Other ous projects, including one — supported groups, including as a council member roles he’s held include training leader, RI by Foundation grants — that provided of the Australian Standards Association, president’s representative, and represen- professional bakery training and bakery past director of the Australian Share- tative to the Council on Legislation. equipment to people who recuper- holders’ Association, and member of the ated from drug addictions. In honor of Business Council of Australia’s Environ- As a Rotary Foundation endowment/ his late son, Carlos, he established a ment Committee. major gifts adviser, Podd organized his directed gift to The Rotary Foundation district’s million-dollar dinner, which that supports community economic de- He was an inaugural director and raised more than $3.1 million in one velopment projects focused on women continues as a trustee for a founda- night. He enjoys applying his profes- entrepreneurs throughout Mexico, the tion of Monash University in Australia, sional knowledge and skills to help Dominican Republic, and Colombia. which awarded him with the Sir John Rotary’s club, district, and zone leaders Sandoval is a proponent of giving to Monash Medal for distinguished service resolve financial and funding questions. the Foundation and has hosted million- to engineering education. dollar dinner events three times. Podd has been active in numerous Shore, who joined Rotary in 1980, professional organizations, community His philanthropy work outside Rotary has served as endowment/major gifts groups, and charities. includes establishing the Orsan Founda- adviser and is vice chair of Rotary tion, a nonprofit that promotes health Foundation Australia. He has served Podd has received the Service Above initiatives and provides assistance in three times as RI president’s representa- Self Award and The Rotary Foundation disasters. He sponsors three addiction tive and twice as Council on Legislation Citation for Meritorious Service. He and rehabilitation centers in the Monterrey representative. He was a vice chair and his spouse, Pam, are Major Donors and area and serves on the boards of the promotions director of the Host Orga- members of the Arch Klumph Soci- Monterrey branch of the Mexican Red nization Committee for the 2023 Rotary ety, Bequest Society, and Paul Harris Cross and the Autonomous University International Convention. Society. of Nuevo León Foundation. In his spare time, he enjoys watching car races and Shore’s greatest passions in Rotary Carlos Sandoval running to stay in shape for his three are supporting education and peace Delgado daughters and 15 grandchildren. initiatives, part of a new world of op- portunities that opened up for him after Trustee 2023-27 Sandoval is a recipient of The Rotary attending the 2003 Rotary Convention Foundation Citation for Meritorious in Brisbane as club president. “I realized Rotary Club of Service. He and his spouse, Martha, what you can do when you have a lead- support the Foundation as Platinum ership opportunity in Rotary — and that San Nicolás de los Trustees Circle members of the Arch you can have a ‘Rotary moment’ every Klumph Society. day,” he says. Garza, Mexico Dennis J. Shore With his club, he has supported Carlos Sandoval projects ranging from scholarships Delgado is chair of Trustee 2023-27 and water tank installations in the Orsan Corp., a leading company in the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, a energy sector and the main distributor Rotary Club of hospital in Cambodia, and mental health of Exxon Mobil in Mexico, with more initiatives in Australia to the club’s than 270 service stations and over 3,000 Hawthorn, Australia signature Rotary Safe Families program. employees throughout the country. He Shore, who has done grassroots work is also regional consultant of the Mexico Dennis J. Shore is to grow Rotary Foundation grants in division of BBVA, the multinational a chartered chemi- his zone, also convened a million-dollar financial institution. A graduate of the cal engineer with dinner in 2017 that raised over $3.5 mil- National Autonomous University of bachelor’s and lion for the Foundation. Mexico’s School of Architecture, Sando- master’s degrees from the University of val earned his MBA from the Monterrey New South Wales. After a distinguished Shore and his wife, Lynda, are Major Institute of Technology and Higher career as a senior executive, culminating Donors and Bequest Society members. Education. in international business development He is a member of the District 9800 Sandoval joined Rotary in 1975. He and management for Australian Paper Paul Harris Society and a recipient of has served RI and The Rotary Founda- Manufacturers (later Amcor) in the U.S., The Rotary Foundation Distinguished tion as regional Rotary Foundation Europe, and Asia, he established his own Service Award and the Citation for Meri- coordinator, member of the Fund Devel- consulting business before retiring in torious Service. opment and Peace Centers committees, 2021 to focus on Rotary. and extraordinary donations endow- Shore is a fellow of the Australasian John Hewko ment/major gifts assessor. In addition Pulp and Paper Industry Technical to serving as Foundation trustee, he will Association and a recipient of its Dis- General Secretary also serve as Community Economic De- tinguished Service Award. He served in velopment Major Gifts Initiative adviser several Australian industrial advocacy Rotary Club of Kyiv, Ukraine through 2025. He has participated in and led numer- See Board of Directors bio, page 35. 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ROTARY LEADERS ROTARY CAUSE: PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT In a project supported by a global grant, Rotary members helped cabbage farmers in Taiwan adopt more sustainable practices by transitioning to the higher-yield crops of chestnuts and truffles. 42  ROTARY  JULY 2023 Photograph by I-Hwa Cheng

2023 –24 District Governors These leaders selected to represent each district are beginning their year of service to promote Rotary, strengthen clubs, and manage district business. JULY 2023  ROTARY  43

ROTARY LEADERS 1010: James Hatter 1210: Mukunda Chidrawar 1510: Jean-Marc Bidet 1740: Jean-Louis Gaudillère Kintore, Blackburn & Kemnay, Walsall, England Les Sables d’Olonne, France Bergerac Cyrano, France Scotland 1220: Richard Vergette 1520: Alain Cuisse 1750: François Berthelon 1030: Christopher Baylis Epworth & Isle of Axholme, Béthune-Brunehaut, France Dijon Côte d’Or, France Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England England 1040: David Phillips 1240: David Willis 1550: Guido Rijninks 1760: Thierry Caut Bingley Airedale, England Manningtree Stour Valley, Landgraaf, Netherlands Carpentras Comtat Venaissin, England France 1060: Amal Rampal 1560: Bert Meijer Bromsgrove, England 1260: Barbara Middleton Doetinchem, Netherlands 1770: Frédéric Metzinger Brookmans Park, England Nogent sur Marne-Le Perreux 1070: David Kendrick 1570: Stan Uyland sur Marne, France Rushden Chichele, England 1285: Swati Mukherjee Soest-Baarn, Netherlands Bolton Lever, England 1780: Jean-Pierre 1080: Bob Maskall 1580: Hans Ruck Chassagnolle Norwich Blackfriars Breakfast, 1320: Narek Bido Purmerend, Netherlands Annecy-Rive Gauche, France England Falkirk, Scotland 1590: Marijke Inklaar-de Haan 1790: Martine Delatte Pekela, Netherlands Lunéville, France 1090: Kate Hodges 1360: Ómar Bragi Stefánsson 1600: Wendy Boog 1800: Stefan Karnop Winnersh and Binfield, England Saudárkrókur, Iceland Zuidplas, Netherlands Jerichower Land, Germany 1100: Anne Bartholomew 1385: Petri Keränen 1610: Anja Rijlaarsdam 1810: Norbert Froitzheim Cheltenham North, England Oulu City, Finland Bergen op Zoom-Noord, Köln-Kastell, Germany Netherlands 1110: George Phillips 1390: Simo Hautala 1820: Heidemarie Krüger Ringwood, England Vanajavesi (Hämeenlinna), 1640: Sophie Roughol Baunatal, Germany Finland Caen, France 1120: Raymond Seager 1830: Hans-Hinrich Kruse Minster On Sea, England 1410: Aaro Söderlund 1650: Pierrick Bazin Künzelsau-Öhringen, Germany Nagu, Finland Quimper-Odet, France 1130: Suraiya Kassamally 1841: Uli Gerhardt Stratford, England 1420: Ritva Semi 1660: Alexandre Guiard Gersthofen-Nördliches Lechtal, Pasila-Fredriksberg, Finland Clamart, France Germany 1145: Annemarie van Bochove Allen 1430: Raimo Hallman 1670: Jean-Paul Robert 1842: P. Nikolai Ehlers Burgess Hill & District, England Kuopio, Finland Lille La Madeleine, France München-Mitte, Germany 1150: Mary Adams 1440: Britta Hedegaard 1680: André Gerbet 1850: Frank Garrelts Narberth & Whitland, Wales Viborg-Asmild, Denmark Champagnole, France E-Club of D-1850, Germany 1160: Kenny Fisher 1450: Flemming Libner 1690: Gilbert Pierre-Justin 1860: Manuela Angel Enniskillen, Northern Ireland Ringkøbing, Denmark Angoulême-Les Eaux-Claires, St. Wendel-Stadt, Germany France 1175: David Glover 1461: Peter Herman Zinck 1870: Hans-Eckhard Langer E-Club of Southwest Peninsula, Odense City, Denmark 1700: Jean-Marc Martinez Meerbusch, Germany England Toulouse, France 1462: Marius Grigelionis 1880: Sabina Gärtner-Nitsche 1180: Norman Waddell Vilnius Vytis, Lithuania 1710: Alain Bouvard Nürnberg-Neumarkt, Germany Mid Wirral, England Bourg-en-Bresse-Brou, France 1470: Thomas Salil Knudsen 1890: Uwe Honschopp 1190: Pamela Holgate København, Denmark 1720: Marc Altès Kiel-Düsternbrook, Germany Accrington, England Tours Plumereau, France 1480: Arly Troelsen 1900: Lore Benz 1200: Stuart Gilbert Nørre Alslev, Denmark 1730: Dinh-Hoan Tran Bielefeld-Sparrenburg, Chippenham, England Nice, France Germany 44  ROTARY  JULY 2023

DISTRICT GOVERNORS 1910: Herbert Pfeiffer 1950: Stefan Kuchenmeister 2032: Remo Gattiglia 2080: Maria Carla Ciccioriccio Wien-Stadtpark, Austria Höchstadt/Aisch, Germany Alba, Italy Roma Nord-Ovest, Italy 1911: Gila Erzsébet Kovácsné 1960: David Valente 2041: Giulio Koch 2090: Gesualdo Angelico Szentes-Csongrád, Hungary Loures, Portugal Milano Linate, Italy Loreto, Italy 1912: Andrej Bozic 1970: Duarte Besteiro 2042: Giuseppe Del Bene 2101: Ugo Oliviero Ljubljana Iliria, Slovenia Gaia-Sul, Portugal Varese Ceresio, Italy Napoli Sud Ovest, Italy 1913: Sunčica Bulat Würsching 1980: Alex Schär 2050: Luigi Maione 2102: Francesco Petrolo Zagreb Alpha, Croatia Muttenz-Wartenberg, Brescia Moretto, Italy Hipponion Vibo Valentia, Italy Switzerland 1920: Thomas Gredler 2060: Anna Favero 2110: Goffredo Vaccaro Kitzbühel, Austria 1990: Simon Bichsel Jesolo, Italy Salemi, Italy Bern Kirchenfeld, Switzerland 1930: Christian Falkenstein 2071: Fernando Damiani 2120: Vincenzo Sassanelli Bad Waldsee-Aulendorf, 2000: Thomas Hunziker Grosseto, Italy Bari, Italy Germany Au am Zürichsee, Switzerland 2072: Fiorella Sgallari ROTARY CAUSE: 1940: Jörg Max Haas 2031: Roberto Lucarelli Bologna Valle del Samoggia, PROMOTING PEACE Berlin Platz der Republik, Torino Stupinigi, Italy Italy Germany Rotary clubs from the Houston area and their community partners turned a vacant lot in the city’s Third Ward into a park with picnic and chess tables, garden beds, and public art. Photograph by Nathan Lindstrom JULY 2023  ROTARY  45

ROTARY LEADERS ROTARY CAUSE: Photograph by Mark Lehn SAVING MOTHERS AND CHILDREN Through Give Every Child a Future, Rotary members and UNICEF are helping immunize 100,000 children to prevent rotavirus, pneumococcal disease, and cervical cancer in the South Pacific islands. 46  ROTARY  JULY 2023

DISTRICT GOVERNORS 2130: Geert Dewulf 2320: Philip Cohen 2500: Seiichiro Tsurumi 2690: Sadaaki Ishikura Sint-Niklaas, Belgium Skellefteå, Sweden Monbetsu Minato, Japan Matsue Shinjiko, Japan 2140: Peter Wolters 2330: Viveka Larsson 2510: Mitsunori Matsuura 2700: Tomohiro Yoshida Landen, Belgium Bollnäs, Sweden Otaru South, Japan Fukuoka Higashi, Japan 2150: Brigitte Niset 2340: Olof Frisk 2520: Akimasa Morikawa 2710: Koki Inai Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Karlskoga-Nobel, Sweden Sendai Miyagino, Japan Hiroshima South, Japan 2160: Joseph Faber 2350: Birgitta Dickson 2530: Hachiro Ukon 2720: Kazuhiko Zeze Bascharage-Kordall, Upplands-Bro, Sweden Fukushima, Japan Hita, Japan Luxembourg 2360: Stig Ottosson 2540: Tooru Awaji 2730: Tsuyomu Ikenoue 2201: José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gothenburg International, Katagami, Japan Miyazaki, Japan Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Sweden Spain 2550: Fukujiro Mitsui 2740: Nobuyuki Ogata 2370: Hannele Sjö Sano, Japan Sasebo North, Japan 2202: Raül Font-Quer i Plana Strängnäs, Sweden Tarragona, Spain 2560: Tadatoshi Yoneyama 2750: Yoichiro Miyazaki 2380: Leif Nordlander Sanjo North, Japan Tokyo Mitaka, Japan 2203: José Ibañez Climent Vara, Sweden Xativa, Spain 2570: Hideatsu Takani 2760: Noritake Sakai 2390: Annika Skoglund Fukaya, Japan Toyota, Japan 2223: Maria Gavrilyeva Helsingborg-Kärnan, Sweden Yakutsk, Russia 2580: Kazuo Tochigi 2770: Matsuo Nashimoto 2400: Magnus Uvenfeldt Tokyo-North, Japan Satte, Japan 2231: Marek Wcislo Halmstad-Norre Port, Sweden Kraków-Wawel, Poland 2590: Akira Higuchi 2780: Toshihisa Tajima 2410: Ann-Christin Bayard Kanagawa, Japan Sagamihara West, Japan 2232: Myron Uhryn Nybro Glasriket, Sweden Lviv, Ukraine 2600: Masaaki Orii 2790: Kazuhiro Uzawa 2420: Mehmet Altay Matsumoto, Japan Chiba Wakashio, Japan 2240: Katarina Cechova Istanbul-Suadiye, Turkey Bratislava International, 2610: Tsutomu Hara 2800: Mitsuyuki Ito Slovakia 2430: Teoman Kaynar Hakusan, Japan Yamagata North, Japan Samsun-Karadeniz, Turkey 2241: Ovidiu Constantin 2620: Koseki Nakamura 2820: Hiroyuki Okubo Bunget 2440: Ayda Özeren Hamamatsu-Harmony, Japan Mito, Japan Timisoara-Cetate, Romania Izmir-Gündogdu, Turkey 2630: Kazuyuki Shinohara 2830: Tomonori Tsukidate 2250: Wibecke Natås 2451: Ayman Mounir Tajimi Riverside, Japan Hachinohe, Japan Bryne, Norway Alexandria-El Nozha, Egypt 2640: Munemitsu Tani 2840: Mitsuo Hosaka 2260: Knut Willy Sørensen 2452: Bashar Haddad Izumi, Japan Numata, Japan Fredriksten, Norway Amman Citadel, Jordan 2650: Hiromi Nakano 2981: G. Senguttuvan 2275: Sissel Slettum Bjerke 2475: Dimitrios Bekos Kyoto, Japan Thanjavur Mid-Town, India Trondhjem, Norway Kifissia-Politia, Greece 2660: Kenji Nobuhara 2982: Sundarasan Raghavan 2290: Ole Sverre Lund 2482: Christo Mihailovsky Osaka-Oyodo, Japan Hosur, India Stokke, Norway Sofia, Bulgaria 2670: Hiromi Yoshioka 3000: Anandtha Jothi 2305: Anders Andersson 2483: Aleksandar Radojicic Tokushima, Japan Rajkumar Eda Sweden-Eidskog Norway, Beograd Skadarlija, Serbia Dindigul, India Sweden 2680: Eibun Yasuyuki 2490: Bashir Nusair Sanda, Japan 3011: Jeetender Gupta 2310: Torhild Hallre Nazareth, Israel Delhi, India Oslo, Norway JULY 2023  ROTARY  47

ROTARY LEADERS 3012: Priyatosh Gupta 3160: Manik Pawar 3272: Masrur Scheik 3490: Yusen Chen Ghaziabad Metro, India Gulbarga North, India Islamabad Downtown, Pakistan Shulin, Taiwan 3020: Subbarao Ravuri 3170: Nasir Borsadwala 3281: Md. Ashrafuzzaman 3501: Shih-Che Chang Vijayawada Midtown, India Kolhapur Mid-Town, India Dhaka Dynamic, Bangladesh Miaoli, Taiwan 3030: Asha Venugopal 3181: Keshav Ramakrishnaiya 3282: Md Motiur Rahman 3502: Shu-Hua Lin Nasik Grapecity, India Mysore Brindavan, India Chittagong Khulshi, Bangladesh Pa-Te Mei-Te, Taiwan 3040: Ritu Grover 3182: Geetha Balehonnur 3291: Hira Yadav 3510: Pao-Ho Lai Indore Royals, India Chinniahgowda Hooghly, India Fengshan South, Taiwan Balehonnur, India 3053: Pawan Khandelwal 3292: Rajendra Dhoju 3521: Ching Yuan Chang Alwar, India 3191: Udaykumar Bhaskara Butwal, Nepal Taipei Choumei, Taiwan Bangalore Cubbon Park, India 3055: Mehul Rathod 3300: Dato’ Dr Siva Ananthan 3522: Benison Hsu Ahmedabad Metro, India 3192: V Srinivas Murthy Greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Taipei Chung Hsiao, Taiwan Bangalore Peenya, India 3056: Nirmal Kunawat 3310: John Chan 3523: Yi-Lan Yang Udaipur, India 3201: Vijayakumar Thandassery Kuching, Malaysia Taipei Cheng-Ai, Taiwan Trichur Central, India 3060: Nihir Dave 3330: Chatchawal Telavanich 3590: Kwang Kyoo Kim Anand Round Town, India 3203: Sundararajan Sadasivam Samutsakhon, Thailand Sancheong, Korea Udumalpet Tejas, India 3070: Vipan Bhasin 3340: Viroj Pipatchaisiri 3600: Hak-Jun Lee Amritsar-South, India 3204: Sethu Sankar Udonthani, Thailand Opo, Korea Calicut East, India 3080: Arun Mongia 3350: Wichai Chivakanit 3610: Bong Seog Lee Jagadhri North, India 3211: G Sumithran Dhonburi, Thailand Gangjin, Korea Karunagappally, India 3090: Ghanshayam Kansal 3360: Wathit Tangrapeeleart 3620: Hong-Jun Park Sunam, India 3212: Muthiah Pillai Nakorn Hariphunchai, Thailand Daecheon Jungang, Korea Ramatheerthan 3100: Ashok Gupta Tirunelveli West, India 3410: Ditte Sukardi 3630: Du Gwan Chung Saket-Meerut, India Jakarta Cinere, Indonesia Gyeongju East, Korea 3220: Jerome Rajendram 3110: Vivek Garg Colombo West, Sri Lanka 3420: Romy Junardy 3640: Young Jin Shin Kanpur Industrial, India Surabaja, Indonesia Seoul Southwest, Korea 3231: P. Bharanidharan 3120: Sunil Bansal Kanchipuram Temple City, India 3450: Andy Li 3650: Young Suk Lee Varanasi Greater, India Kwai Chung, Hong Kong Seoul Hangang, Korea 3232: Ravi Raman 3131: Manjoo Phadke Madras Coromandel, India 3461: Chin-Cheng Yang 3661: Tae-Yong Kim Pune Deccan Gymkhana, India Taichung Southeast, Taiwan Pusan-Ulsukdo, Korea 3240: Nilesh Agarwal 3132: Swati Herkal Greater Tezpur, India 3462: Cheng-Hsiung Lee 3662: Sung-Min Yun Wai, India Yuanlin South, Taiwan Jeju-Seobu, Korea 3250: Shiv Bagaria 3141: Arun Bhargava Giridih, India 3470: Yu-Hsing Lin 3670: Ki Woon Lee Mumbai Andheri, India Tainan Southeast, Taiwan Jeonju-Poongnam, Korea 3261: Manjit Arora 3142: Milind Kulkarni Rourkela Mid-Town, India 3481: Kuei-Hsiang Huang 3680: Hee Jong Cheon Kalyan, India Taipei Yungfu, Taiwan Gongju-Gongsanseong, Korea 3262: Jayashree Mohanty 3150: Shankar Reddy E-Club of District 3262, India 3482: Robert Chuang 3690: Dong-Seong Shin Busireddy Taipei Paronpon, Taiwan Ilsan, Korea Bhadrachalam, India 3271: Muhammad Hanif Khan Karachi Bay, Pakistan 48  ROTARY  JULY 2023