Club President, Linda Pierschella, paid tribute to our fallen Rotarian Dan Davis, who passed away at the young age of 57 on May 14 after a courageous battle with cancer. Dan was a member of our Rotary board as youth exchange chair and he and his wife, Beth, often volunteered at our fundraising events. Knowing Dan’s love for the outdoors through his work at Riveredge Nature Center, Linda shared these quotes by famed naturalist John Muir in Dan’s honor:
“Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.”
“The mountains are calling, and I must go.”