Thursday, August 6 - Aya Holcomb – 2019/2020 Youth Exchange Student
from Half Moon Bay to Chile will share a presentation and pictures of her experiences in Chile during the good times and the COVID times.
Please join us for a wonderful reunion with Aya Holcomb.
Aya, a top student at HMBHS graduated in June 2019 and deferred her college acceptances to explore the world. Aya left for Chile in August 2019 on a wonderful adventure for a school year in Chile as a Rotary Youth Exchange Student - and returned in early June 2020 amid the COVID crisis. Aya will share a powerpoint and pictures of her experiences in Chile and her wonderful memories.
Aya's parents will also be joining us -- and by the way, they hosted Laura from Brazil for the entire year and +++ (given COVID)
Pres. Mary will send out a link to our Zoom meeting each week.
Watch for it in your email and pass it on to any guests you want to invite.
Thursday, August 13 – Annual CISD New Teacher's Welcome
This meeting will be our annual welcome for the new teachers in our district in a new format on Zoom. A great way to meet them and visit with Superintendent Sean McPhetridge, Ed.D as well. Don't miss it, we have some special things planned for the meeting.
Thursday, August 20– Pat Tierney – author of Colorado’s Yampa River
Patrick Tierney has been a professional rafting guide and outdoor educator on the Yampa River for 39 years. It started in 1976 when he was a kayak-based ranger for the National Park Service on the Green and Yampa Rivers in Dinosaur National Monument (DNM). His master’s thesis was on boater impacts to the river corridors of the Green and Yampa Rivers in DNM. Pat and his wife Robin owned and operated Adrift Adventures for 25 years and ran commercial 1-5 day rafting and kayaking trips on the Yampa and six other rivers. Their company was nominated for a Conde Nast Traveler International Ecotourism Award. Currently he is a professor of recreation, parks and tourism at San Francisco State University. Pat is a co-author of four books and over 30 articles, including one titled Wild and Scenic Rivers; Safeguarding Those That Remain. Pat was actively involved in the successful effort, and testified before the U.S. Senate, to designate Colorado's Cache la Poudre River as a National Wild and Scenic River.
Thursday, August 27 – District 5150 Governor Mary Bates will join us as she introduces the new Rotary year!
Mary Bates, our District 5150 District Governor, will share her vision for our pandemic Rotary year.
Mary has served Rotary in numerous leadership positions including Foster City Rotary Club President and Endowment and Foundation Chair, Charter Rotaract Advisor, Foreign Exchange Student Counselor, District Community Services Chair, Assistant Governor, Special Events and Conference Chair. Mary is currently serving as the “first” Executive Director of the Foster City Village, Inc. since December 2017.
Thursday, September 3 – Sanja Kulenovic, author of The Siege of Sarajevo
The Siege of Sarajevo book, a story on separation, struggle and strength. Together with her husband, back in 1992, they were celebrating their honeymoon in Pasadena, California, when they turned on CNN to discover that their hometown, Sarajevo, was being devastated by bombing. Sanja Kulenovic is a Russian-born Bosnian, now an American citizen, who has called Southern California home since the early 1990s, when she was stranded due to the Bosnian War. She studied economics and English language and literature at the University of Sarajevo, where several of her essays and short stories appeared in the university’s magazine. In 1993, she presented a speech at a United Nations-sponsored event for Bosnian women and children. Since then, Sanja has earned a master’s degree in economics and has been working as a financial analyst for an engineering corporation that helped rebuild Bosnia’s infrastructure after the war. She resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters. One special note – Sanja first came to the U.S. as a youth exchange student in high school – and was visiting her exchange family in Pasadena on her honeymoon in 1992 . . .
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
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