DG George McKinnis recognized the following District Volunteers for their Outstanding Service to Rotary District 7230:
Mahbub Ahmad:
Mahbub Ahmad holds many titles for multiple functions, including Vice Governor, Executive Secretary and a Deputy Governor responsible for a number of District functions. Mahbub was indispensable and in essence my partner in carrying out many of the District’s duties and responsibilities. His experience as a past and highly successful District Governor and his high-level business experience made him indispensable to this Rotary management team and especially to me.
Greg Arcaro:
Greg Arcaro is the first Deputy Governor for District services, many of which are new this year and all of which have proven successful and highly useful. Greg Arcaro is the leadership force behind our having many more District services for our Clubs. He is a Past District Governor whom we all at the time, appreciated for his judgment, couth and courtesy. He nurtured the creation of new functions and new leaders for those service functions arising out of his immense experience in Rotary and his business experience. He was indispensable to this Rotary Year’s success in reorienting our District to a service provider dedicated to the needs of our Clubs and, important to me, and is a long-term Rotary friend and colleague.
The Reverend J. Loren Russell:
Loren is the first Deputy Governor for administration of the District’s Assistant Governors for Area Clubs, a new function that relieves the District Governor of having to micro-manage the Area Assistant Governors. He has also been selected to be a future District Governor. Deputy Governor Loren proved by his management skills, innate courtesy and deep respect for all that he deals with, that our Area Assistant Governors can function well with a manager who is dedicated to their needs and performance.
Lora Archer:
Lora is the Chair of the Foundation Committee for a 3-year term, a difficult and highly rule-based job that she executed unusually well and with charm, competence and spirit. Her experience as a Past District Governor made her judgment an excellent complement to our existing management team. Thank you, Lora, we are grateful for your years of service and for being a Rotary friend.
Helen B. Reisler:
Helen is the first Chair of the new Ethics & Dispute Resolution Committee that created the District’s Ethics Statement and the procedural rules for the mediation of disputes by the committee. Helen crafted this new Committee and has made it indispensable for the future operations of this District. Helen’s intelligence, long business experience and Rotary experience as a Past District Governor made her indispensable to the creation and documentation of this important Committee and function.
Mike Marx:
Mike has been our District Treasurer for the last two years. He has provided top quality professional services to the District and has been a source of enlightened judgment in the discussion of our many topics at Board and other management meetings. He was always available and ready to review and study any of our proposals. The Board always found that his participation was essential and thoughtful.
Eric Storberg:
Eric has multiple functions: he has been Chair of the Budget & Finance Committee and District Trainer for multiple terms. These roles are both difficult and time-consuming jobs, both of which he has executed brilliantly. His many experiences with our District and his skills honed when he was a District Governor, made his participation important to the success of this Rotary year. The entire management team appreciated his balanced judgment and his willingness to jump into a new project has been muchly appreciated. He adapted well to Zoom training, which requires technical skill.
Christina Wellington and Cynthia Paulino:
As Assistant Governors and Co-Chairs of the first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (“called DEI”), Cynthia and Christina have responded well to our District’s duty to address and carry out in our District Rotary International’s profound interest in DEI. I suggest that the programs that this Committee has already offered put it at the head of RI’s drive for DEI improvement of our Clubs. This is a function and a concept that our Clubs and their members need to act upon. I stand in awe of how well this pair of Rotarians have taken a suggestion and rendered it into a permanent committee and essential function.
Amir Asadi:
The Andrew Morzello Award for Outstanding Service to Humanity is a relatively new and important District award. This important award is granted to Amir Asadi, Assistant Governor and Chair of the first International Service Committee that organized multiple international projects that multiple District Clubs participated in that did a world of good to needy humanity. Amir began this service on his own before it was a District function and was highly successful in convincing multiple Clubs to contribute towards the installation of filtering assemblies for ground water that allows many people in Kenya to have fresh filtered water instead of polluted river water that is packed with germs and parasites. After all, the fundamental and core purpose of Rotary is to aid needy humanity. In addition, he organized a multi-Club fundraiser for the distressed victims of the 2021 hurricane in Haiti. A District Rotarian, Jim Kushner travelled to Haiti with 185 water filters and trained villagers in their use. In addition, Amir arranged for Rotary Club donations that bought 20 boxes of needed goods to be delivered to victims of the war in the Ukraine. Amir then linked two Clubs in the District with Rotary Clubs in Taiwan and Japan to sponsor Global Grant Scholars in New York, to be hosted by two of our District Rotary Clubs. Finally, he hosted a multi-Club fundraiser to provide aid to two Rotary Clubs in Poland for delivery to the Ukrainian war victims in Poland. For our District’s first experience with organizing international projects for many of our Clubs to participate in, this is much more than outstanding performance.
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