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The Rotary Club of Kirkland held a virtual meeting on September 11, 2023 using the Zoom platform.
President Gary Cohn called the meeting to order at 6:17 p.m.
After observing a moment of silence in remembrance of those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Rich Bergdahl led us in the pledge.
Attending were Dave Aubry, Rich Bergdahl, Michelle Cazeau, Gary Cohn, Terry Cole, Donald Dicks, Sandy Ekins, Doug Evanson, Rashmi Garimella, Isabelle Kalisa, Kate Koslosky, John Storbeck, and Rick Walter.
The club’s guests at this virtual meeting were the speaker, Mallory Van Abbema with the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, Rotarian Berndette Jacobs with Hero House, and Josephine Shi with MorningStar Kirkland, who with this meeting met the initial qualifications for membership in the club.
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Michelle moved to Washington last year from Massachusetts. Her education includes a degree from Boston College and graduate certificates from Harvard University, and plans for an M.B.A. in Global Studies. Her parents taught her the value of community, service, and faith, and she's been volunteering teaching first time home buying classes and financial literacy, as well as participating in Habitat of Greater Boston. Michelle is a business banker with Banner Bank.
During her senior year, Hailey Parent was the vice president and treasurer of the Juanita High School National Honor Society. In those roles, she manages a club of 250+ members as well as organized donation drives, club volunteer events, and planned an annual community event in collaboration with various Juanita clubs and organizations. Haley was a varsity swimmer for the Girls Swim and Dive team for four years and attended KingCo competition twice with the team. Haley served as the head manager for Juanita Ravens Wrestling where she scored, managed inventory, and traveled with the team. After graduation, Haley will attend Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to study health sciences and physical therapy. She is one of only forty students accepted into the PT program nationwide. Haley notes she grew up volunteering and has always had a desire to serve. Eventually, she aims to create an environment of compassionate workers, eager to rehabilitate and care for athletes and underrepresented groups in need of rehabilitation. Haley is a recipient of a $2,500 Rotary Club of Kirkland Scholarship.
Rotarian, is your membership photo current? Can new members recognize you from your photo? Is your membership profile up-to-date? Let’s make sure our new Rotarians can recognize us in the club photo directory. If your photo isn’t an easily viewed “head shot” as the photographers say, we’ll crop it for you! If your photo isn’t relatively current, please update it (we can help with that as well!). The profile update request sent to you last week makes it easy to check your photo, phone numbers, and addresses to make sure they are correct. Get in touch with the club's webmaster if you need any assistance bringing your data current.
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