Greg Wims is the former Area Governor for our portion of Montgomery County and the District Governor Nominee for 2017-2018. Among other distinctions, he is also the Founder of the Victims Rights Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) Montgomery County, MD based volunteer group that performs volunteer support services on behalf of victims of violent crimes and attacks. Greg will also discuss several matters related to District 7620.
Rockville Rotarian John Kolm gave a presentation on the Haiti school project on April 21, 2016, that was supported by the Potomac-Bethesda Rotary Club. President Bob Fuhrman presented John with the Rotary Cookbook.
[Above] Guest speaker John Kolm addresses the club on April 21, 2016. [Below] Silver Spring-Kensington Rotarian Jason Taylor and Leslie Gross, John's wife.
[Above] From the Rotary Club meeting on April 7, 2016: President Bob Fuhrman presenting a Rotary Cookbook to Todd Nitkin, who had just agreed to replace Bob Fuhrman. [Below] President Bob also presented a Rotary Cookbook to District Executive Secretary Sherry Whitworth at the District Conference, and Sherry Whitworth presenting a Rotary Cookbook to Nan Fuhrman.
[L-R] Rotary International President's Representative to the District 7620 Conference John Stairs, Bob Nelson and Potomac-Bethesda Rotary Club President Bob Fuhrman at the Montgomery County Clubs' Hospitality Suite on April 9, 2016.
Nancy Mason, Nan and Bob Fuhrman.
[Above] Nancy Mason and Bob Nelson with "Paul Harris." [Below] Nancy assists with magic tricks.
[Above] President Bob Fuhrman thanks Mike Nardolilli, the new Executive Director of the Montgomery Parks Foundation, for his presentation including the “Top 10 List of Why Parks Matter" on March 31, 2016. [Below] Past Potomac-Bethesda Rotary Club President Dr. Juvenal Goicochea and his brother Carlos, also a Past Rotary Club President from Peru.
Potomac-Bethesda Rotarians joined the March 24, 2016, meeting of the metroBethesda Rotary Club. metroBethesda President Russell Lacey presented a giant check in the amount of $1000 to Potomac-Bethesda President Bob Fuhrman for the Ear Care Nepal project. [L-R] Karl Miller, Tom Leuchtenburg, Potomac-Bethesda President Bob Fuhrman, metroBethesda President Russell Lacey and Bob Nelson.
Michael Zhuang was the guest speaker on March 17, 2016, with the presentation "Investment Insight of Nobel Prize Winners." The 2013 Nobel Prize Winners in Economics were Eugene Fama, Robert Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen. President Bob Fuhrman presented Michael Zhuang with a Rotary Cookbook.
Ellen Haggerty, Chair of the Rotarians for Hearing Action Group and a member of the Pleasant Valley New York Rotary Club exchanges club banners and presents President Bob Fuhrman with a check for $500 for the Ear Care Nepal Project.
Nabil Bedewi now has a condominium in Belize available for vacationing; Art Blitz told about the work project at the Jewish Foundation for Group Homes on May 14.
Here is a very easy way to help us with fundraising. If you are an Amazon shopper please bookmark this link http://pbrotary.org/Page/amazon in your browser and ask your friends and family to do the same. Whenever you start your Amazon shopping from this page the club gets a percentage. See the link above for details. You can also get to it from our website banner at http://pbrotary.org.
We now have a page which serves as a launching point to our club’s Foundation. Check it out at http://pbrotary.org/Page/our-foundation. You can get to it in three ways from our home page (www.pbrotary.org) : Look for “Foundation” located on the banner or under the menu choices “About Us” or “Services/Projects”. Besides evolving content and links to internal and external resources, on that page we can now accept online donations for everything we do.
If you shop at Amazon through this link http://smile.amazon.com/ch/52-1264058, Amazon will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases (millions of products) to the charitable foundation of our club. Thank You!
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