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David
C. Forward
Founder
& President, International Childrens Aid Foundation. David
Forward was born and educated in England. He became a Rotarian in 1978 after moving
to the United States. He just published his 10th book, Miracles Among Us: The
Story of ICAF's mission to Romania
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Jan
Williams
Rotary International President's Representative Jan
Williams is a member and charter president of the Rotary Club of Durango Daybreak,
located in Southwestern Colorado, where she has been a member since it chartered
in 2002. Prior to the Daybreak Club (the third club in a small town of 16,000)
she was an active member of the Rotary Club of Durango High Noon.
Jan served
as District Governor for District 5470, that encompasses the southern two-thirds
of Colorado, in 2007-08, working with 56 clubs made up of 2650 members. Currently,
in addition to serving her club as Membership Chair, she is Chair of the District's
Club Extension Committee and a Zone 27 Assistant Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator.
Her joy is working as liaison with the Durango High School Interact Club and being
active with the other Rotary Youth programs - Exchange and RYLA. In 2009 Jan was
President DK Lee's Representative to District 4790, located in Northwest, Argentina.
Jan's interest in international projects has taken her to Mexico City, Juarez,
Quito, and Utta Ranchal, India where, in 2007, she participated in a National
Polio Immunization Day.
Jan is active in her community and has served on a number of community boards
including the American Red Cross of Southwest Colorado and the Mesa Verde National
Park Foundation. She has recently joined the local school district's Partnership
Advisory Board whose goal is to increase business, non-profit and service club's
presence in the school system.
In 1994 Jan joined her husband, Rotarian Joe
Williams, in running their family business, Hydro Pure Technology, a water purification,
transportation and oil recycling company working with the natural gas industry.
Before going to work with Joe, Jan worked as a consultant for Pyxis Corporation,
a company providing hospital inventory control systems and HBO, and Company, a
hospital information systems company where she worked with in patient pharmacy
departments around the country in automating their record keeping systems. While
working for them, she was given a two year assignment on a project in London,
England, implementing one of the earliest pharmacy computer systems in a National
Health Service hospital.
Jan and Joe, the District's Foundation Chair,
are Major Donors, Benefactors, members of the Paul Harris Society, and White Hat
Society.
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| | David
C. Forward
was born and educated in England. He became a Rotarian in 1978 after moving to
the United States. He just published his 10th book, Miracles Among Us: The
Story of ICAF’s mission to Romania. David
will be familiar to many Rotarians through Frank Talk, the fastest-selling
book in Rotary history. Past-President Frank and David collaborated on a follow-up
book called Frank Talk II, which shows clubs how to retain the members
they bring in, and Frank Talk on The Rotary Foundation. The fourth in the
series was just released in December 2008: Frank Talk on Leadership. David’s
passion is volunteerism, and has initiated and led humanitarian work trips across
America and to the Dominican Republic and Beirut. As a Rotarian for 30 years,
he served three times as club president, as well as district conference chairman,
district membership development chairman, State Vocational Assembly chairman,
and District Polio Plus chairman, for which the president of Rotary International
awarded him the Citation for Meritorious Service. In
1991, David founded International Children’s Aid Foundation and serves as
its president. The all-volunteer foundation has its own orphanage, dental and
medical clinics in Romania. A
blue-chip panel of Rotary International officers unanimously selected David Forward
to be the author of the official history book of Rotary. The book, A Century
of Service, has earned praise from Rotarians the world over. Rotary International
has just chosen David to author the book celebrating the centennial of The Rotary
Foundation, to be published in 2016. While
with us at our District Conference as the featured speaker on Friday Evening,
he will share his passion for volunteerism and his wisdom from his experiences.
His words will resonate with this year’s theme of “The future is in
our hands”, and we are sure to walk away motivated and ready to work. [to
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