Gil Klein, 67, a long-time journalist and journalism educator in Washington, D.C., is the author of "Trouble in Lafayette Square: Assassination, Protest & Murder at the White House," published in May 2018. For 22 years, he was a national correspondent for the Media General News Service, writing for 23 newspapers in the South. His deep interest in American history has led him to explore past stories of where he lives and work. As he often walked across Lafayette Park on his way to work, he began collecting the tales in this book, even as he covered the White House during the George H.W. Bush administration.

He was the 1994 President of the National Press Club and wrote its centennial history in 2008, “Reliable Sources: 100 Years at the National press Club.” He toured the United States for the Club, holding forums on the First Amendment, Freedom of the Press and the Future of Journalism, and he remains the Club’s historian.

After leaving Media General, he was a journalism professor at American University’s Washington Semester Program, and now he is working with the University of Oklahoma to create a Washington program for its journalism school.

A graduate of Rollins College, he earned a Masters degree at American University before launching his journalism career. He lives with his wife, Gail, in Arlington, Va. and they have two grown children.

The International Service Committee Technical Review Panel will meet at 1:30 PM to discuss pending grant application reviews.

Richard Rubin created and founded the Alexander Kartveli Association in the former Soviet country of Georgia in 2013 to promote and encourage high school students to pursue STEM and undertake professions that bring them into closer contact with European and American educational scientific and science based organizations.   The story of Alexander Kartveli, a pioneering aviation engineer and innovator who became a US citizen after emigrating from Europe in the late 1920’s and is considered one of the most important aircraft designers in US history, reinforces the need for the development and growth of entrepreneurship and innovation skills both in the scientific community and among students with an interest in STEM in Georgia in today’s world.  In early February 2018, the Alexander Kartveli Association opened the Kartveli Learning Center at the Embassy of Georgia in Washington DC.  

Mr. Rubin is a developmental and emerging market economist and financial expert with over twenty-five years of experience working for private consulting firms, investments banks and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a United States export credit agency.  Mr. Rubin is founder of his own consulting firm, Project Finance Advisors, that engages in technical and financial diligence for U.S. based companies as well as providing financial diligence service to multilateral credit agencies seeking to structure and verify the creditworthiness of various programs and loans. Mr. Rubin has arranged financing for clients from private equity funds, multilaterals banks, export credit agencies and other sources of capital.

Mr. Rubin’s geographic expertise includes the Caucasus region and Georgia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Northern Africa, Central America, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and areas within the Russian Federation.  Mr. Rubin was OPIC’s Senior Finance Office for Russia and the NIS for four years and performed economic diligence and loan negotiations with a number of Russian enterprises as well as Russian government entities.

Mr. Rubin holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, an MA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA from Stanford University. 

Nicole Lynn Lewis serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Generation Hope, an organization which she founded in March 2010. As CEO, Nicole oversees all aspects of Generation Hope’s operations.

Nicole founded Generation Hope because after completing college as a teen mother despite tremendous obstacles, she wanted to help other teen parents earn their college degrees and achieve stable and successful futures. She named the organization Generation Hope because in her own words, "Hope is the number one, necessary, secret ingredient to anyone’s success."  Generation Hope reduces poverty one family at a time by providing direct sponsorships, one-on-one mentoring, and case management to D.C. area teen parents who are attending college.

In just six years, Nicole has created a truly unique and thriving organization that is gaining national attention for its sole focus on college completion for teen parents.  As a testament to her work, Nicole was named a 2014 CNN Hero in June 2014.  She is emerging as a leader in the youth, higher ed, and teen pregnancy/parenting fields.

Prior to founding the organization, Nicole worked for five years with other nonprofit organizations dedicated to youth and/or poverty, providing expertise in the areas of strategic planning, fundraising, and marketing/public relations. Before her nonprofit work, Nicole was a communications and public relations professional for two years with companies in the Washington DC area, such as GEICO. She is also a nationally known author and speaker on topics such as teen pregnancy and parenting, youth development, goal achievement, and self empowerment.

Nicole holds a Master’s degree in Social Policy and Communication from George Mason University and a Bachelor’s degree in English from the College of William & Mary. She was named the 2013 Distinguished Alumna by George Mason University's School of Public Policy for her innovative work with youth through the founding of Generation Hope and was elected to the William & Mary Alumni Association Board of Directors in that same year.  Also in 2013, Nicole was selected and inducted into the National Leadership Honor Society, Omicron Delta Kappa.  In 2014, she was named a CNN Hero, an honor only given to two dozen changemakers across the globe annually.  She is also a two-time TEDx speaker, a member of the 2016 Leadership Greater Washington Signature Class, and a member of the 2017 Leadership Montgomery Core Program.  In 2016, she was named a finalist in the 13th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business for Female Executive of the Year for Government or Non-Profit -- an international recognition.  Nicole previously served on the Board of Directors for Healthy Teen Network, a national organization focused on teen pregnancy, parenting, and prevention.

Nicole and her husband, Donté Lewis, live in Maryland with their two daughters and son.

C. Brian Williams is a graduate of Howard University and a DC resident for over 25 years. Brian first learned to step as a member of his fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Beta Chapter in 1989. After living in Africa he began to research stepping, exploring the many sides of this exciting, yet under-recognized American art form and founded Step Afrika! in 1994. Williams has performed, lectured and taught in Europe, South & Central America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Caribbean and throughout the United States. He is a founder of the historic Step Afrika! International Cultural Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Under Brian’s leadership, stepping has evolved into one of America’s newest cultural exports and inspired the designation of Step Afrika! as Washington, DC’s official Cultural Ambassador. Brian has been cited as a “Civic/Community Visionary” by NV Magazine and “Nation Builder” by the National Black Caucus of State Legislators. He is featured in Soulstepping, the first book to document the history of stepping, and several documentaries discussing the art form. Brian is also a recipient of numerous awards including the Mayor’s Art Award for Innovation in the Arts and the Pola Nirenska Award for Contemporary Achievement in Dance. Most recently, Brian received an appointment from Mayor Muriel E. Bowser to serve as a Commissioner for the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities.

Mark your calendars for the annual holiday party! Entertainment, tasty treats and delicious libations! 

Location: 
The Wine room at the Residences at City Center
925 H St. NW Washington DC 20001

Please bring new, unwrapped toys for children 2-6 years old for Bright Beginnings.

Tickets: $50 pp

Attire: Festive cocktail attire

Anne Midgette is a 1986 graduate of Yale University. After college, she lived for over a decade in Munich, Germany, reviewing opera, music, and art throughout Europe for The Wall Street Journal, Opera News, and other publications. In 2001 she became the first woman to review classical music for The New York Times on a regular basis. She continued as a classical music critic, theater critic, and arts writer for the newspaper until 2008 when she took over as the chief classical music critic for The Washington Post,

In addition to her contributions to periodicals, Midgette has co-authored two biographies. With Herbert Breslin, she wrote the book The King and I, about Breslin's 36 years managing the tenor Luciano Pavarotti, which was published in 2004. She subsequently collaborated with the pianist Leon Fleisher on a book about his life, My Nine Lives, published in November 2010.

Commissioner David Hudson, an officer in The Salvation Army for 42 years, is currently the National Commander of The Salvation Army, stationed at National Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia.

Prior to coming to National Headquarters in November 2015, Commissioner David was the Chief Secretary for the Western Territory, located in Long Beach, California. He and his wife, Commissioner Sharron Hudson, have a wide range of experience as Salvation Army officers, including several territorial and divisional appointments. The Hudsons were corps officers (pastors) for 14 years, including appointments in Oregon, Idaho and Southern California.

David has Business Management degree and a Master of Science Degree in Organizational Leadership. Sharron holds a Masters Degree in Christian Leadership and is currently the National President of Women’s Ministries. They have been married for 41 years and have two daughters, Jennifer and Amy, as well as two grandchildren.

Bridge to Health medical and dental brigades are comprised of passionate medical and dental professionals brought together by a common desire to help provide healthcare to those in tremendous need. They currently operate in sub-saharan Africa, with ongoing efforts to expand to other locations across the globe. Their aim is to provide sustainable healthcare in a cost effective manner and have a lasting impact on the communities served.

Adam Teitelman is a graduate of Georgetown university with a degree in international Human Resource Management. His deep passion for people and their organizations has enabled him to diversity his experiences working and volunteering in both For - Profit and Non - Profit organizations. His years of expertise working in Sales and Marketing have become a great asset to Bridge to Health as an organization and on the field during the various brigades that Adam has volunteered in. Today Adam leads the Bridge to Health fundraising strategies and execution in both Canada and the United States.

Please join President Lisa McCurdy as she leads a discussion of our Club's achievements, challenges and goals as we start the second half of the Rotary year.

Embassy Relations Committee meeting, East-West Conference Room, 1:45-2:30 p.m.

Hendrik Jan Jurriaan Schuwer was born May 3, 1953, in the Hague, the Netherlands, in a family of five. His parents met as journalists who worked for the Netherlands Press Agency.

Henne attended the University of Leiden, where he earned a master’s degree in law. Henne then started working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1978. After postings in Vietnam and India, Henne’s career centered on the EU and the transatlantic relationship.

He served two terms the Netherlands EU permanent representation, most recently from 2002-2006. He was chairman of the Committee of Permanent Representations during the Netherlands EU Presidency in 2004. He also served as the director of the Secretary General of NATO Jaap de Hoop Scheffer from 2006-2009. 

Henne is serving his third term in the United States, where he is the Dutch Ambassador.

He is married to Lena Boman from Sweden. Together, they have four adult children.

Tommy Wells is the Director of the Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE). Appointed January 2015, he is chiefly responsible for protecting the environment and conserving the natural resources of the District of Columbia. Tommy’s team is comprised of approximately 300 environmental professionals collectively working to improve the quality of life for residents and the natural inhabitants of the Nation’s Capital.

Tommy is a Ward 6 resident. He earned a Juris Doctor from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University in 1991 and a Master of Social Work from the University of Minnesota in 1983.

Dr. Unique Morris-Hughes is the Director of The Washington DC Department of Employment Services (DOES).  In her role as State Labor Commissioner, she is directly responsible for more than $150M in local, federal and specific-purpose funds administered by the District of Columbia and the federal government for workforce development programs and training, unemployment compensation, universal paid leave administration and labor standards enforcement along with more than $80M in active capital projects. 

Previously, Dr. Morris-Hughes was the Chief Strategy Officer for DOES. Dr. Morris-Hughes was also OSSE’s Chief Operating Officer, leading numerous management functions in support of the agency’s mission, including a $270 million education grant portfolio and $600 million in student-per-pupil funding. She also provided oversight of several departmental units, namely Grants Management, Facilities, Operations, Contracting and Procurement and Student Enrollment, Funding and Residency. In addition, Dr. Morris-Hughes served as OSSE’s acting Assistant Superintendent of Wellness and Nutrition. 

Dr. Morris-Hughes’ career spans for-profit and nonprofit sectors. She has several years of experience in education, program development, evaluation and compliance. She previously served as Assistant Head of School at Septima Clark Public Charter School, the District’s first all-boys charter school. Her other appointments include: Center Director for the District of Columbia Public Schools; District Director of Programs for Junior Achievement of the National Capital Area; Coordinator of Public Policy for Amazon.com; and Adjunct Professor at Trinity University and at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Graduate School.

Dr. Morris-Hughes is a member of the American Educational Research Association, the National Forum for Black Public Administrators, the Textbook and Academic Authors Association of America, the National Alliance of Black School Educators, National Black MBA Association, and the International Leadership Association. She obtained a PhD from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, an MBA from Trinity University, and a BA in English from Johnson C. Smith University.

Bob Cusack has been reporting on policy and politics in the nation’s capital since 1995. He joined The Hill as Business and Lobbying editor in 2003 and became the newspaper’s managing editor a year later. He became the editor in chief in 2014. Cusack has won five awards from the National Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists for investigative articles on a range of issues, including national security, healthcare and 2008 presidential politics surrounding Hurricane Katrina.
 
Cusack regularly appears on MSNBC, Fox, ABC and CNN as a political analyst. Before joining The Hill, Cusack was a chief editor at Inside Washington Publishers. A native of New York City, Cusack received his B.A. in journalism from Loyola College in Maryland. He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and has appeared in commercials, television shows and feature films.

David Searby, a native of the Washington, DC area, is the founder of BeachCorps (http://beachcorps.com), a new kind of volunteer vacation company based in the Dominican Republic that combines the best of a great beach vacation with fun, simple volunteer activities near your hotel. David started BeachCorps after serving 27 years as a Foreign Service public affairs and economic officer. David is a published writer, fluent in Spanish and Italian, and an expert in Latin America. Over his career in the Foreign Service, David has developed skills in international negotiations and promoting non-governmental organizations and public private-partnerships and corporate social responsibility programs. He has experience developing complex projects with wide arrays of stakeholders including civil society, private sector, donors, government system organizations and international organizations, such as his successful Super Chef Panama (@SuperChefPanama) reality TV cooking show where underserved Panamanian youth compete in a “Top Chef” setting for a scholarship in Panama’s finest culinary institute. David also has ample experience on Capitol Hill, both as a staff aide and in advancing State Department interests. BeachCorps seeks to tap into the growing demand for "Voluntourism," including among millennials. The BeachCorps model incorporates quality hotels/food, an emphasis on traditional vacation fun, and a new, wider, more creative vision of "Empowerment thru Engagement” volunteer activities to include playing baseball, putting on talent shows, and cooking and serving meals.

Emanuel "Manny" Mandel was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1936, the year in which his parents returned to their native Hungary. Manny's father had been selected to become one of the Chief Cantors of the Budapest. As a five year old child Manny witnessed his first Holocaust experience, the Novi Sad Razia in the winter of 1941, while on vacation at his Mother's home town. Although he understood little at that time,  he has remarkable recall of the events of the day when 1,250 Jews, among some 4,000 people, were shot and cast into the frozen Danube .The Numerus Clausus were developed in Hungary in the 1920's. In the late 1930's the Hungarian version of the Nuremberg laws of 1933 were applied with ferocity. Manny's Father's conscription into the forced labor camp battalions, the nightly air raids and bombings, the yellow star and other depravities made a significant impact on him. When Adolf Eichmann arrived in Budapest in March, 1944, deportations in Hungary, the last country to be made Judenrein began at the rate of  12.000 per day.  The Blut fur Ware barter proposal between Eichmann and Reszo Kasztner culminated in the transport of about 1,700  Jews , including Manny and his Mother to what they though was freedom in Palestine. The transport brought them to Bergen Belsen, delaying their freedom for almost half a year. Nevertheless, the  barter  arrangement, one of several, was consummated and Manny and his Mother were taken to Switzerland. They spent a year in a displaced children's home in Heiden and then finally were able to travel to their original destination. One year in a kibbutz and three years in Haifa reunited Manny with his Mother and Father. Manny emigrated to the U.S. in 1949.
High School, Gratz College, Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Social Work, all in Philadelphia, prepared Manny for the human services field. He  has practiced psychotherapy for over 30 years.A Governor's appointment placed him on the Board of Social Work Examiners, the State Licensing Agency, where he served for eight years including two years as Chair. Adjunct appointments were held at Gallaudet, Michigan, Maryland and Penn.
Manny lives in Montgomery county with his wife Adrienne, a former three term State Legislator,. They have a daughter, a son and three grandchildren.

Dr. George Stosur is a geophysicist who managed the upstream oil and gas R&D program at the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He was responsible for DOE-sponsored research conducted at several universities, National Laboratories, the National Petroleum Technology Office, several joint research projects with other countries and a program with the International Energy Agency.

His private sector experiences include Chevron and Shell Oil Companies. There, he focused on petrophysics, R&D of EOR processes, heavy oil production problems and gas production from ultra-low permeability formations. He authored 86 papers and two textbook chapters on oil recovery and served three times as Distinguished Lecturer to international engineering society conferences. He holds two M.S. degrees and a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering. A native of Poland, he holds two MS degrees and a PhD. Now retired from government service, Dr. Stosur has delivered nearly 300 lectures around the world on a wide range of scientific topics.

Please join members of the DC Rotary Club at Write Lunch with Free Minds. Following Wednesday's lunch, we will gather alongside Free Minds Poet Ambassadors home from prison to provide feedback on the writing of Book Club members still incarcerated. It is a simple and powerful way to support members' processes of self-awareness and change, as well as read great writing. We look forward to having you join us. 

Free minds uses books, creative writing, and peer support to awaken incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youths and adults to their own potential. Through creative expression, job readiness training, and violence prevention outreach, these poets achieve their education and career goals, and become powerful voices for change in the community.  

The Rotary Foundation of Washington, DC (our Club’s Foundation) has supported this great organization three years in a row with a large $20,000 grant. 

HOW TO APPLY FOR A GRANT from the International Service Committee.

See dcrotaryclub.org home page.  Click Projects at the top menu,  then International Service to find information and forms about how to apply for a small or global grant.  Deadline is February 28, 2019.

Mohamed Malouche is a Partner at Deloitte Africa with 20 years of experience in designing/implementing large transformational programs for international financial institutions and public sector clients. He leads the International Donors division at Deloitte Afrique focusing on local economic development and service delivery, private sector development, digital transformation (egov, IT modernization) and energy.

Mohamed is currently the board Chairman of the Tunisian American Young Professionals (TAYP), the largest Tunisian American diaspora professional association which seeks to increase economic cooperation, ties and exchanges between Tunisia and the United States. He has been providing economic counsel to important governmental actions related to investment, innovation and entrepreneurship in Tunisia, particularly a US-Tunisia partnership for the promotion of technology innovation, and several programs to enhance young Tunisian entrepreneurs’ soft skills. He is a frequent speaker in numerous US-Tunisia conferences including at the State Department, Clinton Global Initiative, World Bank and in media such as CNN, AlJazeera, Skynews or NPR. 

Mohamed is also a board member and the Treasurer of the Tunisian American Enterprise Fund, a $100M fund that is currently investing in Tunisian SMEs and startups. He is the founder of PromoTunisia, a services company focused on promoting the image of Tunisia as a cultural and investment hub to and American audience. 

Mohamed holds a Masters in Information Systems from Telecom Paris Sud in France, and a Masters in Telecommunications from Michigan State University. He is an institutional development specialist in emerging markets and currently leads a trade and investment capacity building program in Tunisia aimed at enabling regional chambers of commerce to become the catalyst of local economic activities.

Please join us as the Rotaract (young professionals) and Interact (high school) clubs sponsored by the Rotary Club of Washington, DC host their annual Club program.

Following a 25-year career as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, Steve Liston joined Equifax, a global information solutions provider, in 2015 as Vice President for Global Government Relations. Steve devises and executes strategies for external stakeholder relations in 11 Latin American countries, working closely with local and corporate business, public relations, legal, and marketing units. He also provides guidance on government relations across Equifax’s Canadian, Asia-Pacific and European operations and on policy issues related to data protection, cybersecurity and financial inclusion.

As a diplomat, Steve served most recently in Santiago, Chile, where he was Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires, overseeing an embassy of 300 employees and managing an active bilateral relationship. Previous overseas assignments were in Spain, Brazil, Peru, Sudan, and Mexico. He also held a number of positions at the State Department in Washington, D.C., mostly related to the Americas.

Born and raised in California, Steve graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Political Economy and a minor in Spanish. He holds Master of Arts degrees in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University in Boston and in Religion from Reformed Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. In addition to his native English, Steve is fluent in Spanish and conversational in French and Portuguese. He serves on the boards of directors of the Pan-American Development Foundation and the Rotary Club of Washington, D.C. He is an alternate board member of the Chile-based Coaniquem center for burned children, a volunteer with The Christian Embassy in Washington, DC, and an elder at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda. Steve and his wife Susan have three children. 

John Kelly writes John Kelly's Washington, a daily look at Washington's less-famous side. Born in Washington, John started at The Post in 1989 as deputy editor in the Weekend section. Since then, he has edited Weekend, founded KidsPost and been a general assignment reporter in Metro, and he has done journalism fellowships at Harvard and Oxford. John holds a BA in English from the University of Maryland. He was a Nieman Fellow (1998) and a Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Fellow (2007). He is a two-time winner of "Journopalooza" Battle of the Bands.

Eva Schöfer, an Austrian diplomat, holds the position of Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum at the Austrian Embassy in Washington DC since Sept. 2017. Before that she has been Deputy Director of the Human Rights Department in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs for three years. Additionally she has been posted at the Austrian Embassy in Mexico and the Austrian Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva, Switzerland. She has a law degree from the University of Graz, Austria and a Master degree in Comparative, European and International Law from the University of Maastricht in The Netherlands. Previous to her joining of the Austrian Foreign Service she worked at the International Law Faculty of the University of Graz as well as a Programme Officer and Lecturer for the Austrian non-profit organization “ETC” (European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy). She holds a degree in law from the University of Graz and completed LLM studies in Comparative, European and International Law at the University of Maastricht in The Netherlands.

Robert L. Clayton is a Partner with Goldstein & McClintock. He focuses his practice in the areas of labor management relations, employment, sports, education, regulatory compliance and government affairs. He is also Founder and CEO of the Sports Analytics Club Program, created with Professor Ben Shields at MIT Sloan, who is the Faculty Advisor to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.

The Sports Analytics Club concept is designed principally  to address the under representation of young women and African American and Hispanic youth in advanced STEM studies and STEM relevant careers, through research conducted by high school students related to sports analytics. The Advisory Council is committed to establishing Sports Analytics Clubs at selective high schools in the nation, in partnership with major universities. SMEs in each sport advise the STEM Teacher Advisors and University Partner Advisors on the scoping of the research projects.

Prior to joining Goldstein & McClintock LLLP, Mr. Clayton was a partner with such law firms as Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan, Jackson Lewis and Littler Mendelson. He is a former Associate Dean and Professor at Tulane Law School. Dean Clayton was the co-founder of the Sports Law Program and taught the Amateur Sports Law course, which covered Title IX and NCAA rules compliance. He also taught employment rights and international labor law.

Mr. Clayton was a world ranked middle distance runner by Track & Field News and earned five-time All-Ivy and two-time All-ICAAAA honors in the 600, 1000 and 880. He was Captain of the 1972-73 Track Team at Harvard University and a school record holder in the indoor 880 yard run. He is a graduate of St. Albans School (Washington D.C.). Mr. Clayton was a five-time Washington Post All Metropolitan honoree and the scholastic area record holder in the 880. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The Black Ice Project and the St. Albans Alumni Association and served as an inaugural member of the New Orleans Bowl Committee.

Mr. Clayton is a regular contributor to the University Business, Athletic Business, and Legal Issues in College Athletics and Sports Litigation Alert and has been a contributing editor to The Developing Labor Law. He is frequently quoted in major newspapers across the country, including USA Today, The Baltimore Sun, The Dallas Morning News, and The Times-Picayune, on a wide range of labor and sports law issues. Mr. Clayton is a nationally-recognized lecturer on diversity in higher education and is a frequent speaker at the annual conferences of the American Bar Association, National Bar Association, National Association of College and University Attorneys, National Employment Law Council, National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, and Eastern College Athletic Conference.

Ivan Korcok was named Ambassador to the United States in 2018. Prior to his posting in Washington, he served as State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic (2015-2018). Among the positions held over his 27-year diplomatic career, Ambassador Korco has previously served as ambassador to the European Union and ambassador to Germany.

Ambassador Korcok holds degrees from Comenius University and Economic University, both in Bratislava, Slovakia. He is married and the father of two sons. His hobbies include sports and culinary activities.

District 7620 Presents Its Annual Training Opportunity for All Rotarians

Club Leadership Training

Saturday, April 13, 2019
8:00am to 12:15pm

Goucher College
Julia Rogers Building
1021 Dulaney Valley Road
Baltimore, MD 21204

8:00am - 8:45am Hot Breakfast
8:45am to 12:15pm 3 Training Sessions

They are offering 3 sessions, up to 15 breakout topics.  Choose one title in each session.  (They reserve the right to cancel any sessions that don't have sufficient interest).  Please Click here for CLT 2019 Flyer and description of each breakout option:

Registration fee: $30 for Rotarians; $10 for Interactors and Rotaractors

Rotarians - Click here to Register

Interactors/Rotaractors - Click here to Register

Please join members of the DC Rotary Club for the annual Anacostia Watershed Society Earth Day Cleanup!  Thanks to thousands of dedicated volunteers like you, each year they move closer to the goal of a cleaner, healthier Anacostia River.

On Saturday April 13th from 9 am - 12 pm, they invite thousands of volunteers like ourselves to help remove trash and debris at sites around the watershed and show off your enthusiasm to the world on social media with #AWSEarthDay. Then after the cleanup, celebrate your hard work by wearing your Earth Day shirt at area participating restaurants to receive a special discount! 

How do you volunteer? Simply click the yellow “Members” button above, and you're ready to go!  We will register the DC Rotary Club team on the AWS website for this event and the location we’ve chosen. When you volunteer with the Anacostia Watershed Society Earth Day Cleanup, you make a positive impact on your local parks, streams, creeks, and the Anacostia River!

The Rotary Foundation of Washington, DC (our Club's Foundation) supported this great organization last year with a large $20,000 grant. 

U.S. National Editor and Columnist for The Financial Times, Edward Luce is one of the paper’s most popular writers and “one of the finest journalists of our time.” A U.K. native, Oxford graduate, and former speechwriter for Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, he is highly regarded by policymakers, leaders, and political junkies.

Luce’s book, The Retreat of Western Liberalism, examines the weakening of western hegemony and the crisis of democratic liberalism ― of which Donald Trump and his European counterparts are not the cause, but a symptom. The New York Times called the book “insightful and harrowing.” Luce’s previous book, Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent, was described as “a masterful portrait of America.” He also is the author of In Spite of the Gods, praised by The Economist as “likely to be the definitive book on India for some time to come.”

At the FT,  Luce has also served as Washington bureau chief, Capital Markets editor, correspondent to the Philippines, and South Asia bureau chief.  Articles and commentaries by Luce that have garnered a lot of attention in the past year have included: “The boy who escaped Trump country,” “Britain’s Voyage to Inglorious Isolation,” and “Donald Trump leaves Angela Merkel to stand up for liberal values.” With his FT colleague Rana Foroohar, he writes “Swamp Notes,” a twice weekly newsletter on money and power in Trump’s America and the big themes driving politics, business, and markets.

A Graduate of Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, he received his post-graduate in journalism from City University, London. He is a frequent guest on PBS NewsHour, NPR, and C-SPAN.

Dr.  Maria Paola Lualdi Martelli was born in Fiesole (Florence, Italy). She graduated from Florence University in Economics in 1966, and worked as an English teacher in High Schools in Florence for 16 years. From 1981 to 1985 she attended a training  for psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adults in Florence  and Siena .

Dr. Martelli worked in the Children Hospital and in the National Health Service as an intern with psychiatrists and in 1984 started the Tavistock Clinic training (accredited to University of East London) for psychoanalysis of children, adolescents and parents. Qualified by the Tavistock training in 1991 she started working as a teacher in Observation and Clinical courses  for the Tavistock model courses in Florence, and  is a member of the Training Committee of the Centro Studi Martha Harris (the Italian school for the Psychoanalytic training in the Tavistock Model).

Dr. Martelli is a member of Chinese American Psychoanalytic Alliance  (CAPA) and teaches Chinese students in English via Skype. She is a member of AIPPI (Associazione per la Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica dell’Infanzia e Adolescenza), EFPP (European federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy), and Centro Studi Martha Harris, where for over 26 years she has been teaching Medical Doctors and Psychologists who are training for work with children, adolescents and their parents.

Dr. Martelli has presented papers at several conferences in Italy, England and other countries. She works privately with patients and loves, among other subjects, classical music, art  and travelling. Dr. Martelli has a son ,a daughter and four grand children.

DC Rotary Club wine social at Potomac Point Winery.
$100 per person with maximum of 20 guests.
Includes transportation from the University Club departing at 10:30am and arriving at the vineyard at 11:30am to enjoy hors d’oeuvres and a premium wine tasting. The full bistro menu will be available for individual consumption Dutch treat. We will depart the vineyard at 2:30pm and arrive back at the University Club at 3:30pm.