Speakers
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LUNCH: Ellen Yount, VP & P. Area Lead @ MSI | Apr 03, 2024 12:10 PM |
Update on Ukraine with Focus on Reconstruction and Recovery
Ellen Yount will join us to provide insight into the latest issues associated with the reconstruction and recovery efforts associated with Ukraine. Given her extensive international work experience (see below), Ms. Yount is uniquely qualified and informed to help us make sense of this complicated and fraught situation. Ellen Yount has served in a variety of senior leadership positions at MSI for more than a decade, focused on Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery efforts and regional donor-funded activities. During her 25+ year career in international development, she has focused on governance, strategic communications, capacity building and gender. She has lived, worked and traveled extensively throughout the developing world, living in former Yugoslavia for nearly six years. She served as the country director for the International Republican Institute (IRI) in Serbia and Croatia during a historic period that ushered in democratic changes. Ellen returned to the U.S. to work as USAID’s chief spokesperson and director of media relations and subsequently as the Agency’s press director in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the intervention in Afghanistan and the Iraq war. For 13 years, she served as a senior advisor to the Legislative and Public Affairs Bureau at USAID. Previously, Ellen served as former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge’s Press Secretary in the U.S. House of Representatives and later as his director of communications in Harrisburg. She is a Board member of the Vermont Council of World Affairs; a global Ambassador for RefuSHE; a member of the Board of Trustees at Allegheny College; and the President and Founder of the One Connected Village Foundation, which invests in girls’ and women’s programs in East Africa and Vermont. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. |
LUNCH: Golf Committee & Chair Chris Kasper | Apr 17, 2024 12:10 PM |
Hockey - Golf Handoff and "Charge Up" for Essex Rotary's Largest Fund Raiser
It's time to start process that will lead to a successful Golf Tournament on June 12th - the Wednesday between our two June meetings. Over 130 golfers, in teams of four, will enjoy the Links at Lang Farm course through a shotgun start. Lunch and a BBQ bracket the day. Essex Rotary members who aren't playing staff the event, making sure players have a great day. And, we're doing all we can to guarantee a sunny, calm day!! Chris Kasper, the Golf Committee Chair, and his Golf Committee are well into planning and organizing. They ask members to seek sponsors - usually at the hole sponsor level - to make our event a fund raising success. And of course, Chris and Jason Ruwet, Chair of the Hockey Committee, will "perform" the annual Hockey to Golf handoff. Which makes me wonder, should we have an annual "Golf to Corn" handoff?? |
LUNCH: Committee Readouts - 2024 Assessment | May 01, 2024 12:10 PM |
Committee Chairs and Members will share committee based activity
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SOCIAL@Black Flannel: ++ Golf Putting Contest | May 15, 2024 5:00 PM |
The annual golf putting contest will highlight this quarterly social gathering at Black Flannel
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LUNCH: Annual Essex Rotary Scholarship Awards | Jun 05, 2024 12:10 PM |
Students from Essex HS, Mt. Mansfield HS, and Essex Center for Technology Are Awarded
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Annual Essex Rotary Golf Tournament | Jun 12, 2024 12:10 PM |
Major Essex Rotary Fund Raiser
Annually Essex Rotary raises about 50,000 through three major fund raisers: |
Change Over Gathering - Location TBD | Jun 19, 2024 12:10 PM |
Rotary Leadership Changes at the End of the Year
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