Preserving History and Growing Membership

Reminder - it's almost Wednesday morning!! Come on Rotarians, I've missed you since I had to cancel last week's zoom meeting. Let's have breakfast!! REGISTER NOW.

--President Joyce

PLEASE JOIN US THIS WEDNESDAY FOR BREAKFAST, TO WELCOME RICHARD AND LEARN ABOUT THE IMPORTANT WORK HE'S DOING TO HELP PRESERVE AND HONOR THE HISTORY OF AN ICONIC PART OF LOS ANGELES.

AS President of the Windsor Square Hancock Park Historical Society, Richard Battaglia has sparked an increased interest in historical preservation within the greater Hancock Park community as evidenced by the tremendous growth in membership in the organization. Wilshire Rotary is happy to welcome Richard and learn more about the Historical Society under his leadership.

BREAKFAST AT CANTER'S IS ORDERED AND PAID FOR INDIVIDUALLY AT THE VENUE, BUT PLEASE REGISTER BY CLICKING THE LINK BELOW SO WE CAN GIVE CANTER'S AN IDEA OF NUMBER OF ATTENDEES!

RICHARD BATTAGLIA

Richard is a realtor with Compass and prior to that was nineteen years in senior management with high end national retailers and specialty stores. In 1985 Richard and his former wife, Robin Piccone, pioneered the use of the wet suit fabric, neoprene, into the women's wear market through their creation of Body Glove Swimwear in their Venice Canals garage.

He is a homeowner in the Elysian Heights Echo Park area of Los Angeles.

In 1989 he purchased a big Dutch Colonial fixer at 144 N. Norton Avenue. While under construction the workmen found a long forgotten sterling silver flask hidden in a wall under the sink in a powder room, a sterling silver cigarette case hidden in the overgrown ivy outside and a Gene Autry gun hidden in a wall near the stairs.

A proud member of the group who initiated the Windsor Square Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ) which led to the creation of subsequent overlay zones in Hancock Park, Windsor village, Wilshire Park, etc. He and his group were honored by the Los Angeles Conservancy in June of 2005. This led to a three-year column on historic houses in and around the overlay zone for the Larchmont Chronicle.

His credentials include:
Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Body Glove Swimwear, Guess Swimwear, Robin Piccone
Board member of the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council
Board Member of the Larchmont Village Neighborhood Association
Member of GOHPOZ, Historic Overlay Zone, Windsor Square
Honored by Los Angeles Conservancy, June 2005, GOHPOZ, Windsor Square
Board Member Windsor Square Hancock Park Historical Society
"Preservation Notebook" columnist, Larchmont Chronicle
Father of three children Maximillian, Luca and Isabella