Who Are Fair Lawn Rotarians? – Glenn Stubaus

The Rotary Club of Fair Lawn has been active in our Fair Lawn community since 1948. You’ve seen our signs announcing the time, date and location of our weekly meetings; you’ve seen the Rotary logo all over town – the new clock in front of the library, the old bulletin board in front of the high school; on the “adopt a park” sign at Beaver Dam Park; and inlaid in pavers are Memorial Park as well as other places locally, regionally and internationally.

So who are these men and women that volunteer their time to serve those in our community? Who are these people that travel around the world to fight polio and drive across town to help their neighbors in need?

Our third installment of this continuing series brings us to Glenn Stubaus, a local architect based out of Molinari-Stubaus, Architects whose office is at 26-02 Broadway, Fair Lawn.  Glenn has been a practicing architect for the past 40 years; for the past 21 years he has been a Fair Lawn Rotarian.  Glenn says that his partners are the ones responsible for having him join Rotary; actually his quote is, “My partners made me join!”

Glenn has served the Club in many capacities over the years; he is a past President serving as the Club’s leader in 1996/97 and in 2011/12. Glenn is also a long serving member of the Board of Directors and is our current Finemaster and weekly gossip as editor of the weekly Rotaview. Glenn is also our unofficial Club Jester, his favorite 3 Rotary activities are: 1) making people laugh, 2) making people moan; and 3) making people cry – and if you come to our meetings you will see his act in person where he is successful in all three.  All joking aside, Glenn is a treasure to the Club, filing in when and where necessary and more than willing to share his passion of giving back to the community as a Rotarian.

(Glenn as Master of Ceremonies at the 2013/14 Induction Dinner)

Outside of Rotary, Glenn likes to jog, enjoys railroads and hand splitting firewood.  When asked about his musical interests; he stands by his old LPs, no portable Walkman or iPod for this Rotarian and he is just fine with his “dumb” phone – all he needs to do is send and receive phone calls – no text or data package necessary.