The Rotary Club of Whitesburg was honored to have the new District 6740
Governor, Jack McAllister, attend the July 30th Rotary meeting at the
Pine Mountain Grill. Governor McAllister became a Rotarian in 1979 while
working in Ottawa, Canada as a research scientist for the Agriculture Department
of the Canadian Federal Government. He joined the Rotary Club of Lexington, KY
in 1990 and has since held several leadership positions in the Lexington Club as
well as District 6740. He is a multi-Paul Harris Fellow, the most prestigious
award of Rotary International for his contributions to the Rotary
Foundation.
Prior to addressing members of the Rotary Club of Whitesburg, Governor
McAllister met with the Board of Directors and committee chairs to discuss plans
for the 2013-14 Rotary year. He commended the club for their efforts to
increase membership and selection of service projects for the year. He
encouraged Club members to promote Polioplus the week of October 20-26 with
Thursday, October 24th as being World Polio Day.
This year’s theme for Rotary International, “Engage Rotary, Change Lives”,
challenges members to take responsibility for their community and take the
initiative to do what is right and not what is easy. The Rotary Club of
Whitesburg has selected the Imagination Library Literacy Project as its number
one local project for the year. The Club’s international projects include
donating $1000 to the polio eradication effort and participating in the
District’s effort to donate 3100 pairs of shoes to the Shoes for Kids
project.
The 2013-14 officers of the Rotary Club of Whitesburg are President Larry
Whitaker, Vice-president Jerry Utt, Secretary William Banks, Treasurer Eileen
Sanders, Director R.C. Day and Director Jim Webb.
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