Rotary News

We were pleased to have Jerry Price as our guest speaker on July 14, 2021. Jerry is a South Florida native who has an impeccable road racing career.   One highlight was the World Race 2011 which duplicated the course taken by early automobiles in 1911. Sponsors provided alternative fuel vehicles. The race started in New York and went across the US to San Francisco. A boat took all the cars to China where the race continued through China and Russia and finally ended in Paris. The biggest challenge was logistics to get permissions for the race was from national [...]

Club President Gary Hildebrand was MC of the Rotary Club of Boca Raton’s annual banquet for the Installation of Officers and Board of Directors for the 2021-22 year. The banquet was held at Lakeside Terrace.  Gary announced the following elected officers and directors and thanked each of these individuals for being part of our Club’s leadership for the next year. Officers: Julie Vianale (President) Jeffrey Tromberg (President Elect) Gerry Purdy (President Elect Nominee) John Molica, Jr. (Treasurer) Debra Davis (Secretary) Gary Hildebrand (Immediate Past President) Directors: Silva Alexandrov                     Steve Clarfield                      Nick Darzentas                      Dennis Frisch                         Pia Giannone Vanessa Havener Brian [...]

We were pleased to have Professor Geoffrey Wetherell from the Dept. of Psychology at FAU as our guest speaker on June 30, 2021. Professor Wetherell is the husband of our member Lisa Talley. Here are some of the slides from Prof. Wetherell’s talk on “Having Productive Conversations in Contentious Times.”

This week was enjoyed as a Club Assembly at the Pavilion Restaurant. At the start of the meeting, Club President Gary Hildebrand, honored Bob Buruchian with the Rotarian of the Year Award. This was supposed to be given to Bob during the Club Installation of Officers and Directors on June 16; however, he was out of town.  The Club Assembly enabled the members to dialog among themselves.

We were pleased to have Mayor Scott Singer speak to our Club at Sugar Sand Park. It was great to be meeting again in person.  Here are some notes from Scott’s talk: Boca has a population of 100,000 people with a median age of around 45 and an average household income of $80,938. He reported on the pandemic and distribution of vaccines: Learned a lot about collaboration and response They had very few initial access to only 200 vaccinations Shifted toward the private sector and greatly expanded How great this city is 2,000+ city employees Roads and parks are [...]

We were delighted to have Noelle Dayton, a Certified Holistic Health Coach (CHHC) as our guest speaker last week. Noelle has been helping people understand their amazing ability to heal naturally and holistically for over 15 years. She is a master educator and consults on the use of organic and natural ingredients in the development of natural products, along with privately coaching people all over the world. One of the many reasons Noelle loves helping people is because she was able to reverse 20 plus years of severe, debilitating asthma and allergies over 20 years ago and has been asthma [...]

We were delighted to have Dr. Shelley Plumb as our guest speaker last week. Dr. Plumb recently wrote and published a book called To Break or Bounce: Finding Balance, Stability, and Resilience in Our Lives. It is available on Amazon at this link. Shelley’s talk was entitled "Beyond the Comfort Zone."  She spoke about the science and benefits of living beyond what is comfortable and taking risks in our lives. Her talk addressed how thinking "inside the box" kills dreams and how we can benefit personally and professionally by challenging ourselves daily to think “outside the box.” Dr. Plumb is a [...]