YOUR DISTRICT 6380 LEADERS FOR 2020-2021
District Governor
Karen Gabrys (Ypsilanti)
District Executives
Immediate Past District Governor
Sparky Leonard (Chatham Rotary)
Vice Governor
Judy Garver (West Bloomfield)
District Governor Elect
Brenda K Tipton (Livingston Sunrise)
District Governor Nominee
Bala Murthy (Troy)
District Treasurer
Diana Romsek (Livingston Sunrise)
Finance Committee Chair
Ashish Sarkar (Ann Arbor)
Membership Committee Chair
Roma Murthy (Troy)
Foundation Committee Chair
Jay Eastman (Rochester)
District Trainer
Jane McManus (Brighton)
AG Liaison
Aleia MacDonald (Ann Arbor)
District Officers and Directors
District Grants Committee Chair
Joseph Bauman (Birmingham)
Polio Plus Ambassador/Canada
David McGuire (Tilbury)
WASRAG Ambassador
Gary Sobotta (Novi)
Youth Exchange Committee Chair/Canada
Kenneth Bechard (Chatham Sunrise)
Youth Exchange Committee Chair/US
Gabriel Naranjo (Milford Rotary Club)
RYLA Committee Chair
James Adams (Troy)
Rotaract Liaison
Shelley Lake (Royal Oak)
Rotaract Liaison
Kellee Miller (Southfield Area)
Interact Liaison
Patricia Griffith (Howell)
Interact Liaison
Tia Marie Sanders (Novi)
RLI Liaison Gail Scott (Ann Arbor North)
RLI Liaison Judy Garver (West Bloomfield)
Council on Legislation Liaison
Jim Gilmore (Livingston Sunrise)
Council on Legislation-Alternate
Barry Fraser (Chatham Rotary)
Assistant/Area Governors
Sector 1 Ken Corlett (Dresden)
Sector 4 Barkley Pierce (Lake Orion Sunrise)
Sector 5 Linda Hatfield (Birmingham)
Sector 6 Lynda Ludy (Troy)
Sector 7 Phil McPeek (Rochester)
Sector 8 Cindy Hill (West Bloomfield)
Sector 10 Carrie Newstead (Howell)
Sector 11 Julie Schumaker (Dexter)
Sector 12 Janet Burns (Livingston Sunrise)
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL LEADERS
Rotary’s president presides over the Board of Directors and is elected to a one-year term. Holger Knaack is the CEO of Knaack KG, a real estate company from the Rotary Club of Herzogtum Lauenburg-Mölln Germany.
Shekhar Mehta President-elect 2020-21 Rotary Club of Calbutta-Mahanagar West Bengal, India -- an accountant, pioneered a program that performed more than 1,500 life-changing heart surgeries in South Asia. He is also the architect of the TEACH Program, which promotes literacy throughout India and has reached thousands of schools.
Johrita Solari Vice President 2020-21 Rotary Club of Anaheim California, is board chair and chief visionary officer of Solari Enterprises Inc., a property management company. She organized the district’s first million-dollar dinner fundraiser for The Rotary Foundation. During Solari’s second year as director, her daughter Gianna will serve as a district governor, making it the first time in Rotary history that a mother and daughter have served in these two leadership roles simultaneously.
Bharat S. Pandya Treasurer 2020-21 Rotary Club of Borivli Maharashtra, India is a practicing general and laparoscopic surgeon. He and his wife, Madhavi, a gynecologist, own a private hospital in Mumbai. He is a fellow of the International College of Surgeons and has served on the board of the Jan Shikshan Sansthan vocational training institute, sponsored by the Indian government. During his year as governor of District 3140, his district contributed over $2 million to The Rotary Foundation, making it the top contributor worldwide for 2006-07. He has led numerous projects, including water and sanitation projects funded by Foundation grants that installed check dams so that villagers no longer needed to walk up to four miles per day to collect water.
James Anthony Black Director 2019-21 Rotary Club of Dunoon Argyll, Scotland is a veterinary surgeon who ran his own practice covering western Scotland’s Cowal peninsula. He served on the boards of the Cowal Rugby Football Club and the Dunoon Swimming Club. Black had appointments as youth activities chair with Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland and as chair of RI's Youth Exchange Committee. Black volunteered during a National Immunization Day in India in 2012. He has served Rotary in many capacities including as Public Image Resource Group coordinator, vice chair of the Council on Legislation Review Committee, and training leader.
Mário César Martins de Camargo Director 2019-21 Rotary Club of Santo André São Paulo, Brazil, was president of Gráfica Bandeirantes and is now a consultant to the print industry in Brazil. He serves on the board of Casa da Esperança (House of Hope), a hospital that has been sponsored by his Rotary club since 1953. It provides services for 150,000 children with disabilities every year. A Rotarian since 1980, de Camargo was a trustee of The Rotary Foundation in 2015-19, during which time he served on committees including the Foundation’s Finance and Strategic Planning committees, where he helped analyze the Foundation’s grant model and consider future corporate programs and partnerships.
Virpi Honkala Director 2020-22 Rotary Club of Raahe Finland worked as head of surgery at Raahe Hospital until her retirement in 2014 and was the hospital’s medical director from 1989 to 2010. A founding member of the Finnish network within the World Health Organization’s International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services, she served as the group’s chair and national coordinator, and as an international board member. For her service as a doctor, she was conferred an honorary title by the president of Finland in 2015. One of her proudest achievements as a Rotarian occurred during a return visit to a community near Pune, India, that uses rainwater harvesting systems made possible by a long-term, multidistrict global grant. The system had helped lift residents out of poverty. “When we went back five years later, it was such an amazing transformation that I didn’t recognize the village anymore,” she says. Honkala has served Rotary as a Council on Legislation representative, RI president’s representative, RI training leader, regional Rotary Foundation coordinator, and Leadership Development and Training Committee member.
Susan C. Howe Director 2020-22 Rotary Club of Space Center Houston Texas dedicated her career to education. She owned and operated South Shore Montessori. She has served Rotary as an RI training leader and as a member of the Leadership Development and Training Committee. She has also been a regional Rotary Foundation coordinator, host committee adviser for the 2022 Rotary International Convention, and vice chair of the End Polio Now Countdown to History Campaign Committee. In 2005, Howe received the Dome City Award on behalf of all Houston-area Rotarians after coordinating logistics for 650 Rotarian volunteers at the Houston Astrodome after Hurricane Katrina. The group helped hundreds of thousands of evacuees from New Orleans over three weeks. Howe has served on three Million Dollar Dinner committees and chaired a recent dinner event that raised $3.8 million for The Rotary Foundation.
Jan Lucas Ket Director 2019-21 Rotary Club of Purmerend Netherlands retired in 2011 from Waterland Hospital in Purmerend, where he had been a pediatrician for 30 years — treating 20,000 children and one baby gorilla — and served as chair of the hospital’s medical staff. Ket has participated in national and regional teams and networks for pediatrics and public health. He is now vice president of the Waterland School for Music. Ket coordinated logistics for a packaged grant scholarship awarded to an Indian sanitation official to study at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands. Ket has been a member of The Rotary Foundation Cadre of Technical Advisers and a lecturer on Rotary’s role in preventive health care for mothers and children at various international conferences. During his year as club president, he co-founded the Rotary Club of Jihlava, Czech Republic. Ket and his wife, Milou, have hosted Rotary Youth Exchange students and Group Study Exchange members.
Kyun Kim Director 2019-21 Rotary Club of Busan-Dongrae Busan, Korea is owner and executive chair of a chemical products enterprise. As district governor, Kim helped bring in 1,439 new Rotarians, the most of any Korean district for 2011-12. He went on to serve Rotary in numerous other roles, including as an assistant Rotary public image coordinator and a member of the board of The Rotary Korea, the official Rotary magazine in that country.
Aikaterini Kotsali-Papadimitriou Director 2020-22 Rotary Club of Pendeli Greece earned her architecture degree from the School of Architecture No. 1, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and holds a doctorate in human geography. She has worked as an independent architect in Athens, planning houses, offices, and public buildings. She served as a consultant during the historic preservation of 18th- and 19th-century architecture in Mithymna, on Lesbos. Kotsali-Papadimitriou, whose father was a district governor, says she grew up surrounded by Rotary. She has served Rotary in many roles, including as a member of The Rotary Foundation Cadre of Technical Advisers, Rotary public image coordinator, and RI president’s representative. In 2009, she led Greece’s first Rotary National Immunization Day team in Moradabad, India, where she went door to door administering polio vaccine to children. She has received the Avenues of Service Citation, The Rotary Foundation’s regional Service Award for a Polio-Free World, and The Rotary Foundation Citation for Meritorious Service.
Peter R. Kyle Director 2020-22 Rotary Club of Capitol Hill (Washington, D.C.) was born and raised in New Zealand. After graduating with honors degrees in law and economics from Victoria University of Wellington, he clerked for the chief justice of New Zealand before pursuing postgraduate studies in law at the University of Virginia on a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship. In 1992, after a career in private legal practice in New Zealand and a senior role with the Asian Development Bank in the Philippines, Kyle returned to the United States to work as a senior international attorney with the World Bank, based in Washington, D.C. Two weeks after accepting the position, his first assignment took him to Moscow to advise on the transition of the former Soviet Union from a socialist system to one based on market principles. He retired in 2009 but continues to serve as a consultant to the World Bank. Kyle has served Rotary as an RI training leader, Council on Legislation representative, RI president’s representative, and dean of the Rotary Representative Network, on the board of the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group, chaired Rotary’s Alumni Relations and Rotary Peace Centers committees and served on Outward Bound International.
Floyd Lancia Director 2019-21 Rotary Club of Anthony Wayne (Fort Wayne) Indiana began his professional life in education, first as a secondary school teacher and band director, and later as a school superintendent. He spent the second part of his career on his real estate development and construction business. He has served on the boards of several organizations, including the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne and the Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society. Lancia spearheaded Rotary Foundation grant projects that have provided free eye surgeries in Nicaragua and clean water for communities in Mexico, among many others. He has served as president’s representative five times and as a training leader at the International Assembly.
Roger Lhors Director 2020-22 Rotary Club of Pont-Audemer Eure, France retired in 2011 as director of manufacturing at a wellhead parts supplier to the offshore oil industry. Lhors graduated with an engineering degree from École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, Lille, and volunteered for two years as a mathematics teacher in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, before embarking on a 38-year career in industrial plant management. Lhors is also active in several local organizations, including a program that helps local youth find employment and Saint-Germain-Village, a home for children whose parents have lost their right to raise them.
Chi-Tien Liu Director 2020-22 Rotary Club of Yangmei Taiwan Chi-Tien Liu has spent more than 45 years in the medical field as a surgeon. He is a senior adviser and former president of Yee Zen General Hospital, which he established in 1996 after serving as president of his own clinics since 1978. Liu has chaired the boards of numerous organizations, including the Taoyuan Medical Association, SOS Children’s Villages International-Taiwan, and four schools in Yangmei District. Liu has served Rotary as an RI training leader, Rotary coordinator, and governors-elect training seminar team leader. He was also a member of the RYLA Committee and member and vice chair of the Permanent Fund Committee for Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong.
Kamal Sanghvi Director 2019-21 Rotary Club of Dhanbad Jharkhand, India A graduate of Kasturba Medical College in Manipal, India, with a degree in pharmaceutical sciences, Kamal Sanghvi is managing director of a family-owned banking, financing, and construction conglomerate. Sanghvi has served as a training leader, committee member, president’s representative, and in numerous other capacities. He helped establish 28 vocational training centers for women and coordinated 11 polio corrective surgery camps that treated thousands of patients. Sanghvi says one of his proudest achievements was leading a Rotary initiative that helped 200 Pakistani children get heart surgeries in India.
Katsuhiko Tatsuno Director 2020-22 Rotary Club of Tokyo-West Tokyo, Japan is president of Tatsuno Corp. He completed his law degree at Tokyo University. Tatsuno helped the company grow from its core business in textiles into new sectors, including real estate and construction materials. Since joining the Rotary Club of Tokyo-West he has served Rotary as an RI training leader, RI Membership Committee member, and Council on Legislation representative. He also was a member of a Rotary Foundation committee dedicated to supporting recovery efforts in eastern Japan after the earthquake and tsunami of 2011. Outside of Rotary, Tatsuno served on the executive committee of Junior Chamber International Tokyo. During his term, he chaired a youth sumo wrestling program, which spread to other JCs throughout the country.
Stephanie A. Urchick Director 2019-21 Rotary Club of McMurray Pennsylvania, is partner and chief operating officer of Doctors at Work LLC, a consulting and training company. She holds a doctorate in leadership studies from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is active on numerous community boards and committees, and has been honored by organizations including Zonta International and the Sons of the American Revolution. A Rotarian since 1991, Urchick first joined the club of Past RI President Chuck Keller, who served as her mentor. Her service to Rotary has taken her to Vietnam to help build an elementary school and to the Dominican Republic to install water filters. A student of several Slavic languages, she has mentored new Rotarians in Ukraine and coordinated a Rotary Foundation grant project in Poland. Urchick has served Rotary in many roles, including as a Foundation trustee and as chair of the RI Strategic Planning Committee and the Foundation’s Centennial Celebration Committee.
Valarie K. Wafer Director 2020-22 Rotary Club of Collingwood-South Georgian Bay Ontario, Canada retired in 2017 after a 27-year career at Tim Horton’s, one of Canada’s iconic restaurant brands. In addition to owning six franchises in Toronto, Wafer worked at the corporate office as a financial accountant. Wafer’s restaurant operations were widely recognized for their inclusive hiring practices, particularly the employment of people with disabilities. She has served as an RI training leader, 2018 Toronto Convention Host Organization Committee member, assistant regional Rotary Foundation coordinator, and RI president’s representative. She has led a vocational training team focused on youth suicide and depression, audited Rotary Foundation grant projects in Tanzania and Kenya, and volunteered during a 2012 National Immunization Day in India.
John Hewko General Secretary and Chief Executive Officer Rotary Club of Kyiv Ukraine is the general secretary and chief executive officer of Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation. From 2004 to 2009, Hewko was vice president for operations and compact development for the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. government agency established in 2004 to deliver foreign assistance to the world’s poorest countries.
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In case you missed them, articles from The Macomb Daily (copy/paste the urls)
June 19, 2020
https://www.macombdaily.com/lifestyles/service-circuit-mount-clemens-rotary-looks-forward-to-celebration/article_b3c50fa4-b25c-11ea-9099-9f3ba70751a0.html
April 25, 2020
https://www.macombdaily.com/news/service-circuit-u-m-bound-senior-plans-to-stay-active-with-rotary-interact/article_c8329832-8578-11ea-9ca3-3f431352e498.html
February 20, 2020
https://www.macombdaily.com/lifestyles/service-circuit-rotary-helps-to-increase-childrens-literacy/article_ede9cdc6-48f5-11ea-b0c6-c76a6489cbb9.html
