Immediate past District Governor of District 6820, Amanda Fontaine, spoke to the Rotary Club of North Jackson at the club's November 7, 2017, meeting The subject of PDG Fontaine's talk was Rotary Foundation, Your Charity of Choice.She discussed how the Rotary Foundation has provided neonatal care to children in underdeveloped countries, how it is providing funds to help educate children in U.S. Communities through programs such as Between the Lions, clean water for villages in Malawi, and how the Rotary Club of Memphis, TN is making life-saving surgeries for deserving children from underdeveloped countries by bringing the children and their families to Memphis, providing housing and with the hospitals providing surgery at no cost to the children. PDG Fontaine also discussed the levels of recognition for Rotary Foundation donors.
Following her talk, PDG Fontaine joined with Rotarian Suma Das in recognizing four Paul Harris Fellows, relatively new Rotarians Trost Friedler and Rich Sun and long-term club members Bob Ridgway and Swan Yerger who are multiple Paul Harris Fellows. The accompanying photos show PDG Fontaine during her talk and with the recognized Rotarians, including the Rotarian Das.
The second photo shows (from the left) Rotarians Yerger, Friedler, Sun, PDG Fontaine, Rotarians Ridgway and Das and Club President Witt Ruffin following the recognition of the Paul Harris Fellows. Congratulations to the recognized fellows and thanks to PDG Fontaine for her very interesting and informative presentation.
