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Martha Peak Helman
Director 2026-28
Rotary Club of Boothbay Harbor
Maine, USA

 

Marty Helman spent her career as a writer for business executives and as a magazine editor at McGraw-Hill and the American Management Association. Later, she served as 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 partnered with The Rotary Foundation to fund the Rotary Peace Center at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, which opened in 2025. 

Marty and her late husband, Frank, joined the Rotary Club of Boothbay Harbor in 2003. 

 

She has served Rotary as Rotary Foundation Trustee, and as chair of the Fund Development Committee and Peace-Major Gifts Initiative. She chaired a working group designed to increase corporate gifts to The Rotary Foundation, and she served on another task force with a goal to better align our Foundation grant policies with 21st century needs. She was a member of the teams that selected the sites for the Rotary Peace Centers at Bahçeşehir and Symbiosis Universities, and she has earned The Rotary Foundation’s Distinguished Service Award.

Marty is an Arch Klumph Society member, and she chooses to support Rotary as a member of the Paul Harris Society and PolioPlus Society. She and Frank were charter
members of the Legacy Society of The Rotary Foundation.