Amanda Senn kicked off our month of programs highlighting local talent. Marcquis Parham, a talented athlete in the local sports scene during the 1990’s, described his journey as an impoverished black male in a single parent matriarch family in our community. His powerful message of influencer’s in his life can provide a path for us as individuals and an organization. I believe our efforts to support our schools and literacy programs with our time and money truly make a difference. Next week’s speaker will be Dr Ellie Yanchar, another 1990’s local talent, who now serves on the front lines of health care in New York City. Should be another informative and interesting program.We are currently in the process of launching a “100th Anniversary Capital Campaign” to build the Kent Rotary Foundation endowment. The goal is to increase our holdings from just over $300,000 to $500,000 in the next 5 years and insure an income stream to our local grant’s mechanism in perpetuity. We are currently soliciting “pace setter” donors in order to establish a benchmark from which to build our goal.
I am, once again, saddened to announce the passing of another member. Dr James Waugh, a multi-decades long member, succumbed to complications of Covid recently. Jim was an Internist in Kent for many years. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his wife Susie.
