Rotary News

We were delighted to welcome Thomas ‘Tom’ Giunta as our newest member. He is a Financial Planner with Equitable Financial Advisors.  Tom was born and raised in Staten Island, NY. Growing up, Tom loved playing baseball. He was chosen to be on the all-star team for many years. At the age of 13, he rode an ATV and had an accident in which he was nearly killed. This caused the end of his baseball career. However, it opened his eyes to the world in a whole different light. He was just entering high school and decided to get involved [...]

We were pleased to have Denyse Drummond-Dunn as our guest speaker. Denyse is a management consultant who lives in Switzerland but spends a lot of time working with a number of US companies on how to ensure they are focusing on the customer.  Denyse is CEO of C3 Centricity, a new age marketing consultant with a global career spanning over 30yrs in Nestle, PMI & Gillette. Her creativity, technical expertise & cultural sensitivity, together with an innate intuition provides an uncommon advantage for her clients. Through C3Centricity she now helps organizations adopt a customer first strategy, proven to grow [...]

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 [...]