Santa Monica
Rotary Club
Installs Officers
The Rotary Club of Santa Monica has installed John H. Lehne as president for 2000-2001. Lehne, a painting contractor, succeeds Jack L. Siegal as head of one of the largest Rotary clubs in the Los Angeles region.
Other
officers for the club, which has about 160 members, include: Norma Barnes, vice
president, committees; Paul Gaulke, vice president, programs; Karen
Baker,
secretary; Hugh Travis, treasurer; and Hal Quigley, president-elect.
Directors
include Monte Herring, Tom Loo, Erik Jorgensborg, George
Collins, Harris Levey and Philip Tirone.
In
its community service efforts, the club will place special emphasis this year on
youth programs and youth-at-risk, Lehne said. It also hopes to do partnerships
with other clubs and organizations.
At
its installation on Friday, June 23, at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades,
the club awarded plaques to several members for their outstanding work during
the past year. Recipients included:
Hugh M. Travis (Joe Gilbert Award), William H.
Crookston and Clyde Smith (Austin-Jennings Award), Barbara A. Hopper (Herb
Spurgin New Member Award) and James E. Dyer (Presidents Award). Certificates of
appreciation went to William G. Randle, Ronald Bawden, Steven
Litvack, James B. Reidy, Jr and Larry Maher.
The Rotary Club of Santa Monica, founded in 1922, is part of Rotary
International which has about 1.2 million members in 162 countries.
Among the Santa Monica club’s recent projects have been a resource
guide on mental health, healthy aging and elder-care, support for a burn center
in Ecuador, immunization clinics in Santa Monica, a Rotary Reads to Kids program
to promote literacy by donating hundreds of books to schools and visiting
schools in person to reach out to students, scholarships and student citizenship
awards, a public service recognition day to honor outstanding police officers,
fire fighters and teachers, and promotion of organ donation awareness.