Rotary
International President Ray Klinginsmith
Ray Klinginsmith of the Rotary
Club of Kirksville, Missouri, USA. He earned degrees in
business and law at the University of Missouri and completed
graduate studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa,
as a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar. He was general
counsel and professor of business at Northeast Missouri State
University in Kirksville (now Truman State University) from 1973
until his retirement in 1995, and also held the post of dean of
administration for five years.
Klinginsmith, who now operates
a law office, served as an elected county commissioner from 2001
to 2004. He has been a director of the Macon Atlanta State Bank
since 1971 and president of the Chariton Valley Association for
Handicapped Citizens since 1982. He and his wife, Judie, have
two children and three grandchildren.
A Rotarian since 1961,
Klinginsmith has served Rotary as district governor and as chair
of the 1998 Council on Legislation in New Delhi and the 2008 Los
Angeles Convention Committee. He was a member of the RI Board of
Directors for 1985-87 and chaired its executive committee in
1986-87. Klinginsmith joined The Rotary Foundation Trustees in
2002, serving as vice chair in 2005-06, and was a member of the
Future Vision Committee from 2005 to 2008. Klinginsmith, a Major
Donor, is a recipient of the Foundation’s Citation for
Meritorious Service and Distinguished Service Award.
In addition, Klinginsmith has
earned many honors in his community, including the
Parent/Caretaker Award from the Missouri Planning Council for
Developmental Disabilities; the Thomas D. Cochran Award for
Community Service, an annual statewide award by the Young
Lawyers Section of the Missouri Bar; and the Silver Beaver Award
from the Great Rivers Council of the Boy Scouts of America, of
which he is a former member of the executive board.
Klinginsmith believes that
Rotary’s best days are still ahead.
"The reputation and ability of
Rotarians to impact the world positively is better than ever,
and the future of Rotary is bright," he says. "The RI Strategic
Plan and The Rotary Foundation Future Vision Plan are good
roadmaps to the future. However, the decisions about the
selection of strategic partners, the recruitment of younger
members, and the facilitation of district change to enable
younger leaders to serve as district governors will continue to
require leaders of uncommon vision and wisdom."
District
Governor Lloyd
Horadan
Eldest child of a career
Marine, Lloyd grew up living in a number of communities
throughout the southeast, northeast and even lived in Oahu,
Hawaii prior to settling in Georgia. Lloyd was educated in
public schools, graduating from Milford High School in Milford,
Connecticut prior to enlisting in the United States Marine
Corps. Lloyd earned his Bachelor of Science Degree from the
University of Southern Maine, a Master of Education Degree at
Georgia Southern University and his Doctor of Education Degree
at the University of Florida.
Throughout his undergraduate
years, Lloyd worked in hospitals as a Respirator Therapist and
it was while working in the health care field that he met Jan,
his future wife. Jan is a nurse and was assigned to supervise
the unit in which Lloyd was working. Lloyd freely admits that
Jan has been giving him “directions” ever since that first
meeting and she is the most important part of his life.
Following graduation, Lloyd and
Jan relocated to Georgia’s Coast where he joined the faculty of
Brunswick Junior College and spent the next 30 plus years
working in various positions of education leadership. Lloyd is
currently serving as President of Sandersville Technical
College, in Sandersville, Georgia.
Lloyd began his relationship
with Rotary when he became a member of the Rotary Club of
Swainsboro in 1984. He has served as president for the Rotary
Club of Swainsboro and president for the Rotary Club of Savannah
West. Additionally, Lloyd has served in district leadership
roles as an Assistant Governor from 2003 to 2008; District
Foundation Chair from 2005 to 2008; District Membership Chair
2007 to 2008 and he has served as the District’s North Area
Speech Contest Coordinator from 2003 to 2009. As a member of the
Rotary Club of Dublin, Lloyd became a Paul Harris Fellow as well
as a GRSP Will Watt Fellow. Lloyd and Jan are both multiple Paul
Harris Fellows, Lloyd is a member of the Paul Harris Society and
is a Paul Harris Benefactor.
Lloyd and Jan have been married
since 1974. They have three grown children, Sarah, Ryan, and
David. They are both active in a number of community activities
and enjoy their leisure time at a weekend home on Lake Sinclair.
Rotary
Club of Effingham County President Leland Sanders
I
was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in January of 1958. I was
born into my father’s military life and moved to California a
month after I was born. My father’s career took me to Japan in
1967 and then to Bremerton, Washington in 1971.
I followed in my father’s
footsteps in 1976, enlisting in the United States Navy. My
career took me all over the world, spending seventeen of my more
than twenty-year career aboard navy ships. I worked my way
through the enlisted ranks to the second highest position
possible at which time I was commissioned as an Ensign Limited
Duty Officer. During my tenure I served assignments in shipboard
repair as a certified high-pressure plate and pipe welder,
firefighting and flooding control, main propulsion plant
operations, and submarine nuclear and non-nuclear hull and
piping repair. The travels took me to the Persian Gulf where I
was at sea for sixty-seven consecutive days during the Iran
hostage crisis in 1980 and at battle stations for more than
three days during the failed rescue attempt. I participated in
training the military’s Special Forces for the invasion of
Panama and the arrest of Manuel Noriega. The most notable event
of my career took place in the northern Atlantic in support of
the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute’s discovery of the
Titanic. I was one of the first 150 people to see the ship since
it sank decades before.
I retired from the military in
1997 and embarked on my second and only other career at Temcor,
the world’s leading designer, manufacturer, and erector of
geodesic domes and a variety of other clear-span roofing
systems. I started as the Production Planner with no one
reporting to me, a position that was a tremendous reduction in
responsibilities since I had managed as many as 450 personnel
during my military career. I quickly learned everything there
was to know about the manufacturing facility and after one year
I was promoted to Supervisor, followed by a year later promotion
to Fabrication Manager. Less than a year later I was laterally
moved to Manager of Quality Operations to lead the company
toward registration under the ISO 9001 quality system standard.
In a short nine months the company achieved registration.
I was promoted to Director of
Manufacturing and shutdown the California manufacturing facility
and relocated it to Rincon, Georgia in 2001. I obtained my
Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the University
of Phoenix in April of 2005 and was promoted to Vice President
of Manufacturing in May of 2005.
I have been a Rotarian since
2001 and have served on the Rotary Club of Effingham County’s
Board of Directors. In addition to Rotary, I serve on the
Savannah Technical College Board of Directors as Vice
Chairperson. I am a Savannah Area Tech prep Champion. In 2004, I
championed the Ferst Foundation for Childhood Literacy in
Effingham County, which was later partnered with Rotary
throughout District 6920 and eventually worldwide with Rotary
International in 2009. I was Volunteer of the Year in 2005 and
Rotarian of the Year in 2006. I have served on the local United
Way Board of Directors and continue to support the Effingham
Service Center for the United Way of the Coastal Empire. I am a
Georgia Rotary Student Program Will Watt Fellow, a Rotary
International Paul Harris Fellow and a regular contributor to
the Rotary International Bill Gates Polio Plus challenge.
I am married to Carolyn
Boatright Sanders. She is not only my spouse but my best friend
as well. We are the proud parents of two daughters and two sons
and several grandchildren.
