The Rotary Club of Santa Monica has announced that Carlthorp School headmistress, Dee Menzies, will become the first female president of the Santa Monica chapter. The announcement triggered rousing applause in the Riviera Country Club banquet hall. She will take office in 2003, following William Crookston, a onetime president of the Chamber of Commerce and the local Rotarians' choice to succeed current president Hal Quigley.