Rotary News

This meeting was hosted by President Elect Jeff Tromberg. We were pleased to have Doug Mosley of ESPN as our guest speaker. Doug joined ESPN in April 2014, and helped launch the inaugural Boca Raton Bowl, a postseason college football bowl game owned and operated by ESPN Events, played annually at FAU Stadium, located on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla.  Since that time, the game has added a title sponsor – now named the RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl – and has logged seven successful years with cumulative viewership surpassing 20 million households and total sponsoring value [...]

We were pleased to have Ruth Bowling of AdventHealth as our guest speaker. Ruth is a graduate of Atlantic Union College.  Prior to coming on board at AdventHealth, she worked for Brown & Brown as an insurance agent, focusing primarily on non-profits and governmental entities.   Since 2013 Ruth has been privileged to represent AdventHealth Foundation (formerly Florida Hospital Foundation), which partners with Rotary Clubs to provide hope and healing to children around the world.  Ruth is an honorary member of four Rotary Clubs in District 6980 and has been made a multiple Paul Harris Fellow. Ruth is married, has [...]

We were pleased to celebrate and recognize Claudia DuBois for her 10th anniversary as the Club Administrator. Lots of members provided positive reflections on how wonderful Claudia is as a person and what she means to the club.  We also celebrated and recognized Pia Giannone for her becoming a second level Paul Harris Fellow in which she has now given $2,000 to the Rotary Foundation. Finally, our Club supports giving every Boca Raton third grader a personal dictionary. Here are two photos from our ‘sticker party’ where the members placed the ‘Given to you by the Rotary Club of [...]

We were pleased to have Jessica Del Vecchio, Manage of Economic Development, City of Boca Raton as our guest speaker last week. We appreciate City Council Member Andrea O’Rourke for getting Jessica to speak to our club.  Of particular note: Since 2010, Boca has committed about $5.8 million to 43 companies creating or retaining 10,956 jobs and leveraged $20 million of State and County incentives. Here are a few of companies that have headquarters here in Boca: Some of the major advertising and promotions that the City of Boca has done includes the following: Thanks to Kelly [...]

Our club was pleased to have President Elect Jeff Tromberg lead a Craft Talk with ‘Sonny’ Lee Tannenbaum. Sonny is an interior decorator, but his love is singing in a rock band called “Sonny Lee & The Straight Shooters” which he joined in 2016.  Sonny grew up in the New York, Rockland County. He went to American University in Washington. He met his wife, Melissa at a singled dance in Clifton, NJ in 1990. They have two sons. He had a manufacturing company in New Haven, CT that employed 100 people. Unfortunately, they had to close the business and [...]

Lisa Talley  Lisa shared that the Youth Peace in Action initiative was featured at the Naples RI Zone 33/34 Conference. Our very own Boca Raton Community High School represented 300+ Internationally based Youth Groups with their combined voices-a song of peace. #YPAvoices. Vanessa Havener  It was a great honor to represent Boca Raton Rotary at the Naples Rotary Reunion Leadership Summit for Zones 33/34 held on 30 September - 3 October.   District Governor Michael Wallstrom invited three of us from District 6930 to participate in the Emerging Leaders class, including Richard Gessert from the RC Vero Beach Sunrise and [...]

Our club was pleased to have Roary District 6930 Governor Michael Walstrom as our guest speaker this week.   Michael talked about the theme of Obsession – how to do any Rotary project with total obsession in order to the best possible. Michael is Co-Founder at Aequus Partners Financial Planning, an independent financial planning practice. Michael Walstrom holds a bachelor’s degree from UCLA, an MBA from the Huizenga Business School at Nova Southeastern University, a Certificate in Financial Planning from Northwestern University, and is a CFP®️ professional. Michael has a passion for connecting with people and his adopted community, both [...]