Radio Rotary interview Todd Bowen, president of Wappingers Rotary and, at 21, the youngest club president ever in District 7210. Bowen, originally from Pine Plains, got his start in Rotary when his family moved to Wappingers Falls, putting Bowen into Roy C. Ketcham High School, where he joined one other male student and 28 young women in the school’s Interact Club, a Rotary-sponsored service organization Bowen was recruited to be Interact’s secretary, which led in the following years for him to become president of the club (twice). He spearheaded the group’s raising $1,000 to finance a ShelterBox. By the end of his second year leading the club, it had grown to 140 members. While attending Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh, Bowen joined Wappingers Rotary in 2018 Today he works at the charitable organization Habitat for Humanity while maintaining important roles in the club’s Housing Support project, the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA), and trying to start a Rotary Satellite club. Bowen is also active at the District Level, currently as Executive Secretary of District 7210.
Learn more
Rotary Club of Wappingers Falls: https://portal.clubrunner.ca/2259
Habitat for Humanity of Dutchess County:https://habitatdutchess.org/
Rotary Interact: https://www.rotary.org/en/get-involved/interact-clubs
ShelterBox USA: https://www.shelterboxusa.org/
Rotary Satellite Clubs: //clubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000050026/en-ca/files/sitepage/membership/satellite-club-guide/Guide-to-Satelite-Clubs.pdf
CATEGORIES
Housing Assistance
Rotary Club Projects
Youth
WORDS TO LIST:
District 7210, Rotary Club of Wappingers Falls, Rotary Officers, Satellite Clubs
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