{"id":1939,"date":"2018-06-28T23:10:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T03:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2020-07-03T16:50:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T20:50:13","slug":"changing-of-the-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/changing-of-the-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing of the Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/officers18-19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1911\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/officers18-19-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/officers18-19-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/officers18-19-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/officers18-19-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/officers18-19.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/JenC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1910 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/JenC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A new Rotary year means a new administration and Jen Luise Champagne was installed as the new club president at a special dinner at Brownson Country Club on June 21. Jen follows Silvia Rodriguez and her installation marks a first for the Derby-Shelton Rotary Club. For the first time in club history, the daughter of a former president has been installed as the new president. Jen follows in the footsteps of her mother <a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LuiseErnestine-bio.pdf\">Ernie Luise<\/a> who not only served as the first female president of the club (1999-2000) but also went on the serve as District Governor. Ernie still remains a very active member of the club.<\/p>\n<p>Former President and current member Troy Adcox did some research to find out that only one other time in club history have we had a parent-child presidential team. The club was in existence for 28 years before <a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SchperoArthur-Kalman-Bio.pdf\">Dr. Arthur Schpero<\/a> (1955-1956) succeeded his father <a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ScheperoDavid.pdf\">David Schpero<\/a> (1945-1946). It took 63 more years for the second parent-child presidency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/installation18019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1940\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/installation18019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/installation18019-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/installation18019-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/installation18019-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/installation18019.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Several District Dignitaries were on have during\u00a0a festive evening to celebrate the passing of the torch and to help honor outgoing president Silvia Rodriguez and incoming\u00a0president Jen and her\u00a0entire team of officers and committee chairs. The full slate of officers includes:<\/p>\n<p>President: Jen Champagne<\/p>\n<p>President-Elect: Tom Wilson<\/p>\n<p>Secretary: Dr. Jeff Forte<\/p>\n<p>Vice President: Shawna Vallillo<\/p>\n<p>Treasurer: Judy Gulish<\/p>\n<p>Immediate Past President: Silvia Rodriguez<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Committee chairs for the upcoming year are:<\/p>\n<p>Youth Service: Chris Clouet<\/p>\n<p>Club Service: Al Patuzzi<\/p>\n<p>Community Service: Kim Ryan Caro<\/p>\n<p>International Service: Drew Scott<\/p>\n<p>Engagement: Shaye Roscoe<\/p>\n<p>Foundation: Ernie Luise<\/p>\n<p>Vocational Services: Mary Ellen Samatulski<\/p>\n<p>Sargent At Arms: John Zsellar<\/p>\n<p>Membership- Arlene Greco<\/p>\n<p>Scholarship: Ed Sheehy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Rotary year means a new administration and Jen Luise Champagne was installed as the new club president at a special dinner at Brownson Country Club on June 21. Jen follows Silvia Rodriguez and her installation marks a first for the Derby-Shelton Rotary Club. For the first time in club history, the daughter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}