The Rotary Club of Hilo installed four new officers and 11 board members for the upcoming 2015-16 Rotary year during a meeting last month in the ‘Imiloa Planetarium. ADVERTISING The Rotary Club of Hilo installed four new officers and 11
The Rotary Club of Hilo installed four new officers and 11 board members for the upcoming 2015-16 Rotary year during a meeting last month in the ‘Imiloa Planetarium.
This session, the 95th year of the historic club, saw Wally Wong installed as president; Mitchell Dodo as vice president; Susan Munro as secretary; and Alan Kusunoki as treasurer. Eleven other Rotary members also were installed in various committees and duties.
The keynote speaker was Bruce Blankenfeld, pwo navigator and current captain of the Polynesian voyaging canoe Hokule‘a.
“The Rotary International theme for this new fiscal year is ‘Be a Gift to the World,’ and our local Hilo theme will be ‘Malama Honua,’ taking care and preserving the earth, the land,” said Wong, who will be aboard the Hokule‘a in August. “Both of these themes work together well, as Rotary International strives to better the world and our club strives to better our community.”
Rotary Club members around the state and world are neighbors, community leaders and global citizens uniting for the common good. The Rotary Club of Hilo supports nonprofits and numerous worthy causes, the most recent being the Residency Program at Hilo Medical Center and the Friends of the Children’s Justice Center of East Hawaii who support children of abuse.
Anyone interested in finding out more about Rotary and the Rotary Club of Hilo can log on to the club’s website hilorotary.org and fill out a contact request on the “contact us” tab.
