Heather for joining us!R. GORDON R. McINALLY, ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT-ELECT https://youtu.be/vAM55rG-LTs?t=4
Gordon joined the Rotary Club of South Queensferry in 1984, was Club President in 1991-92 and served as District Governor for District 1020 in 1997-98. Gordon will serve as President of Rotary International in 2023-24.
He has served Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland as committee member and chairman of most of its administrative and service committees and was Rotary GB&I President in 2004-05. He has also served Rotary International in a number of differing capacities; as committee member and Chair and was a member of the RI Board of Directors from 2007-09. He has chaired two Rotary Institutes. Gordon is currently serving Rotary in a number of capacities, including serving as Chair of the RI Operations Review Committee. He was Chairman of the 2018 Rotary International Convention which was held in Toronto. He has represented the RI President at District Conferences in many countries.
DREW KESSLER, 2022-24 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, ZONES 28 & 32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6UcTJpNEow
Drew Kessler joined Rotary in 2001, at the age of 20. He went on to serve as President of the Rotary Club of North Rockland at age 25 – at that time the youngest president in the club’s than 80-year history. At age 32, he served as District Governor for Rotary District 7210. “For anyone who says that you have to be retired to serve in these positions, I’d like to show that there is another path,” says Kessler.
He has served Rotary International on the Young Past District Governor’s Committee as well as representative to the Council on Legislation and RI president’s representative. Kessler also has served in numerous Zone leadership positions, including general chair of the Zone 28/32 Summit & Symposium, assistant Rotary coordinator for Zone 32 and general chair for the Mid-North East president’s elect training seminar. Committed to continuity and collaboration, he is a member of the District 7210 Executive Board, a committee he helped establish that is made up of both past and present district leaders that collaborate to the lead the District.
As a husband and father to five children, Kessler prioritizes finding a way to incorporate family into Rotary events, projects, and meetings whenever possible; all of his children have been touched by Rotary either through Earlyact, Interact, RYLA and Rotary Youth Exchange. Kessler and his wife, Vicki – also an Active Rotarian – reside in Hopewell Junction, New York.
JEREMY HURST, 2022-24 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR, ZONES 33 & 34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93PFH9XPc5g
Keynote speaker Jeremy Hurst is a 34-year Rotarian and Past President of the Rotary Club of Grand Cayman. He served as the 2013-14 District 7020’s Governor in the French, English and Dutch speaking Northern Caribbean. He’s been a member of Zone 34’s Regional Coordinator Team and Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator Team, as well as of Rotary International’s Membership Committee and its Joint Committee on Partnerships.AKIRI MIKI, 2021-25 ROTARY FOUNDATION TRUSTEE
Akira Miki joined Rotary in 1981. He served on the RI Board of Directors from 2018 to 2020 and a special advisor for the Foundation Trustees in 2020-21. Previously, his leadership roles in RI have included serving as RI president’s representative, training leader, governors-elect trainer, committee member, assistant Rotary coordinator, Council on Legislation representative, and sergeant-at-arms for international conventions and assemblies. He is director of the RI Japan Youth Exchange Committee. He visited Washington, USA, as a short-term youth exchange student. He has been a strong advocate for youth development. Since 1985, he has led the district RYLA seminar, the All Japan RYLA Institute, and the All Japan Interact Institute.
Miki is a former Interactor and a recipient of The Rotary Foundation’s Citation for Meritorious Service. He and his wife, Chiharu, are members of The Arch Klumph Society, Benefactors, and Major Donors to The Rotary Foundation.
H. DEAN ROHRS, 2020-23 ROTARY FOUNDATION TRUSTEE
Dean Rohrs is an owner and administrator at Rhide Technologies Inc., which supplies soil stabilization products used in road construction. Earlier in her career, she had been a nurse in Cape Town, South Africa, on Christiaan Barnard’s heart transplant team.
From 1959-90, she was active in Red Cross in South Africa. She served on the board of the West End Seniors’ Network in British Columbia and is currently on the board of a girls school in Malawi.
Dean Rohrs has been a Rotarian since 1989 and has served RI as vice president, director, Rotary coordinator, regional Rotary Foundation coordinator, and district governor. She is a Rotary Foundation Benefactor, Major Donor, and Bequest Society member.
She and her husband, Reinhold, are Paul Harris Fellows.
MARTHA PEAK HELMAN, 2022-26 ROTARY FOUNDATION TRUSTEE
Marty Helman is president of the Otto and Fran Walter Foundation, a nonprofit that has helped build schools in developing nations, provided scholarships for at-risk youth, and supplied humanitarian aid to Holocaust survivors, among other initiatives. The Walter Foundation made history in 2021 when it announced plans to completely fund a new Rotary Peace Center in the Middle East or North Africa. The new center is expected to welcome its first class in 2026. Marty was instrumental in realizing the $15.5 million agreement between the Walter Foundation and The Rotary Foundation.
Before her career in nonprofit management, Marty worked as a writer for business executives and as a magazine editor at McGraw Hill and the American Management Association.
Marty and her spouse, Frank, both joined the Rotary Club of Boothbay Harbor in 2003. Marty has served Rotary as chair of the Peace Major Gifts Initiative and is currently a member of the site selection working group for the new peace center. She has served on the diversity, equity, and inclusion task force. Helman has also served Rotary as a training leader, zone trainer, and multidistrict presidents-elect training seminar facilitator. She has served as RI president’s representative and has frequently given presentations in breakout sessions at Rotary conventions.
TAYLOR HUIE, SESSION SPEAKER https://youtu.be/FwjwW-JQXYE
Taylor Huie is a Medical Device Design Engineer at Stryker Instruments in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Class of 2021 Biomedical Engineering graduate from Duke University.
In Rotary, Taylor serves as Executive Director of the Ascension Rotaract Network MDIO for Zones 28-34. An active member of the Rotary Club of Kalamazoo, she also serves on the District 6360 Board as District Rotaract Chair. During her time in North Carolina, Taylor served as the 2019-2021 District 7710 Rotaract Representative and Charter President of the Rotaract Club of Duke University, launching with an initial 400 members.
A global speaker for Rotary International, Taylor has led discussions on starting and sustaining Interact and Rotaract Clubs, as well as fostering stronger partnerships between Rotary, Rotaract, and Interact. She is honored and excited to share what she has learned about motivating young people through a life of “Service Above Self.” Connect with Taylor on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/taylorhuie.