Today's Program

Today's program was a classification talk by Bob Blumberg.  Bob grew up on the North Side of Chicago in the Albany Park area.  After graduating from Roosevelt High School, he attended the University of Chicago at Navy Pier, which at that time was only a two-year school.  He graduated from Roosevelt University majoring in business, and later completed & passed his CPA exam.

 

After doing internal audits for the Pick Hotel Corporation for a few years, Bob decided he wanted to try something different.  He spent 2 1/2 years in the Peace Corps, serving mostly in the South America regions of Venezuela and Bolivia.  it is in Bolivia where he met his wife, Kathy.  Bob & Kathy relocated to Fox River Grove in 1978 where he began his current CPA practice.  Two years later, he moved his office to Cary where he met Tom Decker, his landlord.  Tom convinced Bob that he should join Rotary, and in 1981 he became a proud member of the Rotary Club of Cary-Grove.

 

In 1992, Bob found himself back in Venezuela as the District's Group Study Exchange team leader.  He looks back on his 35 years in Rotary as a special time.  He is proud of the accomplishments of Rotary and grateful for the opportunities it has presented to him.