PP- Modesto Rotary, Home Exchanges

John Mensinger is a member and Past-President of the Rotary Club of Modesto, California.  His classification is Building Materials, Retail and he is the third generation owner of American Lumber Company which his grandfather founded in 1923.  In addition to running a lumber company he is an elected Director of the Modesto Irrigation District which supplies water and power to 200,000 Central Valley residents, primarily from its interest in the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park.  John has been in Rotary for over 27 years and is a proponent of home exchanges as a way of seeing the world.  His family has exchanged their home twenty times and he has written a book on home exchange.  John He was the District 5220 Youth Exchange Officer for several years.