Portsmouth - June Recap

 
The Rotary Club of Portsmouth
JUNE RECAP
 
Our club continues to welcome new members at an impressive pace. We signed up four during the month—a tribute to Portsmouth Rotary’s vitality and energy.
 
 
This is the time of year that the club hosts its annual golf tournament and presents Vocational Service Awards. The tournament, directed for the first time by Peter Grace, was well sponsored but experienced inclement weather. We are still awaiting final fundraising tallies.
 
 
Vocation Service Awards, coordinated by Leo Gagnon, were very well received. This year’s impressive honorees included long-time Portsmouth police detective Michael Ronchi (Public Service), Dondero Elementary School Counselor Lisa Chapman (Education), Kelly Doherty, Cornerstone VNA (Health and Human Services) and Tony White, Infinite Imaging (General)
 
The club gave away $2,000 to fund summer camp for under privileged teenage girls. Also some $2,640 went to the Child Advocacy Center and another $500 for international healthcare initiatives. The Gordon Allen Humanitarian Fund will be helped by $4,000 from the President’s project line item.
 
In a study of contrasts, President James honored former WHEB Manager and 1973-74 President Cliff Taylor for his remarkable 51 years of Rotary membership.
 
Pictured to left:  Past President Cliff Taylor
 
 
 
Pictured above:  Andy Chase (center) and family.
 
And one of our younger members, Andy Chace, became the club’s newest Paul Harris Award recipient. Andy helped raise more than $80,000 during his three-year tenure as Golf Tournament Chair.
 
 
Pictured above left to right:  Portsmouth Deputy City Manager, Nancy Colbert-Puff and Planning Director, Juliet Walker
 
We were blessed with exceptional programs in the period. Portsmouth Deputy City Manager Nancy Colbert-Puff and Planning Director Juliet Walker gave a State of the City presentation. Not surprisingly, they disclosed that Portsmouth has been named by Thrillist.com as the fifth best place to live in the world…Mark Heydenberg, a director of the International Medical Equipment Collaboration, gave a riveting and timely presentation about North Korea. Heydenberg has traveled there more than 30 times.