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Don Cavalier, is a member of the Crookston Rotary Club and will serve the next two years, respectively, as District Governor Nominee and District Governor Elect for Rotary International District 5580.  He will become District Governor of District 5580 in 2012-2013 that includes 65 Rotary Clubs and 2,000 located in North Dakota, Northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario Canada an more than 2,000.

Don was born and raised in Walhalla, North Dakota.  He received his B.S. in teaching and coaching from Mayville State University in North Dakota, his M.S. in Counseling from Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota and continued additional graduate work at Moorhead State University, the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, and California Coast University.   He has been employed at the University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) for the past 35 years and is a Nationally Certified Counselor. He has served as Head Baseball Coach, Director of Alumni Relations, and Diversity Programs.  Presently, he is the Director of Career and Counseling Department that also includes Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Awareness Programs (ATODAP) and Disability Services.  He is also an instructor in UMC’s Business Department.  He has been chairperson of the all University of Minnesota Civil Service Committee that employs over 4,000 University employees on 5 University of Minnesota campuses and was just elected to serve a second term as chairperson in 2011-2012. He most recently has represented the University Internationally in building educational relationships for student exchanges with South Korea and China. 

Don became a member of the Crookston Rotary Club after he participated in a Rotary Group Study Exchange (GSE Team) to the Philippine Islands in 1978 for District 5580. He has been an active member of the Crookston Rotary Club for twenty (20 Years).  He served as President of the Crookston Rotary Club in 2005-2006 and as a District  Assistant Governor for Area 7 of District 5580.   During his Crookston Rotary presidency, he initiated a club survey and a new club organization manual that included a strategic plan that helped to increase the club’s membership to 43 members.  He was Rotarian of the year in 2003-04 and received the Clubs “Service above Self Award” in 2007-08.   Don was one of the Co-Founders of the Rotary Youth Leadership Award Camp (RYLA) which is one of the most successful Crookston Rotary Club’s and District 5580 Rotary projects for which he has received special recognition by Past District Governors.   Over 1,900 students have participated in Camp RYLA.  He has also served on the committee to develop Crookston’s International relations with the Winnipeg West Rotary Club of Winnipeg, Canada, which resulted in Winnipeg West becoming Crookston Rotary’s Sister Club.  Our club helps to sponsor the Goodwill Weekend that is held annually in Winnipeg, Manitoba. 

Don currently is a member of the District Executive Committee, a Paul Harris Fellow and served as the District Trainer in 2009-2010.  He is a member of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and a Chancellor in the Knights of Columbus.  Don and Mary (Salibury) have been married 44 wonderful years.  Mary was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota.  She is a retired elementary school teacher for the Crookston School District and was named “teacher of the Year” for the school district and President of the Crookston Education Association.  She was President of Crookston’s Rotary Club in 2006-07 (her major accomplishment was to have all members of the Crookston Rotary Club become Paul Harris Fellows during her presidency). She has been involved in the Crookston Community serving as Chairperson of the Crookston United Way Board in 2007-08 and President of Crookston Habitat for Humanity in 2008.  Presently she has taken a temporary position in the Crookston School District as Principle of Washington Elementary School.  She and Don were also recognized as the “Outstanding Volunteer Couple of the Year” by the city of Crookston for their volunteer work and community service.
Don and Mary have two sons David, who presently is employed at Michigan State University in Bio-Technology Research and Todd, who is employed at the University of North Dakota in the Aero-Space Center.  They have two Grandchildren, Henri and Katherine.

Dick was born in Merrick County, Nebraska, where he attended school and married his wife Patricia “Pat.” They moved to Le Mars, Iowa where he graduated from Westmar College. While employed by Le Mars Public Schools, the family spent summers in Bozeman, Montana, where he obtained his Masters degree.
In 1964 the family moved to Omaha where he held administrative positions with the Omaha Public Schools and served as an adjunct lecturer at several universities. In 1975-76 he received an International Rotary and District 5650 Ambassador Scholarship. He and his family moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to attend the university where he received a diploma in Maladjusted Children.
The Ambassador Scholarship was a turning point in the family’s lives that lead to leading tours for our friends and fellow educators. We have traveled to over 80 foreign countries. My studies in England led to a doctorate from the University of Northern Colorado.
Dick’s interests are family, world travel, genealogy, bicycling, singing,volunteering in the Diet Kitchen at the Henry Doorly Zoo and working with the incarcerated persons in the Douglas County Correctional Center and Daily Reporting Center.

Bob Stowell is Senior Vice President/Chief Operations Officer for US Federal Credit Union, a $785 million financial cooperative serving the Greater Twin Cities Community.  In his role Bob leads the credit union’s consumer, mortgage and commercial loan and deposit functions, 12 full-service branch locations and a member service center.  He has over 30 years of financial institution and commercial lending experience and has addressed audiences across the country on a variety of lending and operational issues.  Bob is Chairman of the Burnsville Chamber Public Policy Committee, Chairman of the Burnsville Economic Development Commission, Vice-Chair of the Chamber PAC Board, Assistant District Governor of District 5950 Rotary organization, Past President of Burnsville Morning Rotary, and a Board Member of the Community Action Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention of domestic violence.

When Joe graduated from St. Mary’s College (Winona, MN), his professional goal was clear: Be the best teacher of English ever. Pursuing that end, he managed a large English and Speech department in a suburban high school outside of Chicago—the place of his birth. While still living in the Windy City, he attained a Master of Arts degree from Loyola University (Chicago, IL).
"I moved to Minnesota,” says Joe, “to ostensibly teach in the then rapidly expanding Minnesota Community College System.” He taught at Normandale Community College and subsequently opened up the campus of Inver Hills Community College. “But the real reason for coming North,” adds Joe, “is my unproven sociological axiom that if you want to know where your soon-to-be-married son will live, find out where his wife-to-be is from.” Needless to say, his wife, Kathy, is from the St. Paul area.
Joe then traded up his administrative and instructional skills for a first-time position as Education Director in a substantial financial firm in St. Paul. Soon after, he became the Vice President of Personnel. An ensuing three-company merger enabled Joe to assume the charter role of Vice President of Education and Training. He says, “It was like being the Dean of the Business. Dollars and programs were plentiful for employees, officers and directors across a four-state area.”
However, a significant economic downturn forced the company to cut discretionary spending. The comprehensive Education and Training department was eliminated—functions and personnel gone. Joe was resilient, thinking “I’m not the victim of corporate downsizing, but the beneficiary of corporate right-sizing.” The “pink slip” enabled him to begin anew.
Joe’s next career step was his first experience with private consulting where he specialized in the unique field of “white-collar” productivity. At a Rotary meeting a couple of years later, a fellow Rotarian offered Joe a position as National Sales Manager for his manufacturing company. Though Joe enjoyed the cross-country travel to work with sales representatives in every major market, he yearned to return to the development of people.
Consequently, he began his independent consulting practice in “Sales and Management Performance Coaching” which has taken him to nearly every state in the “lower 48” and two provinces in Canada. Joe summarizes his return to a consultative teaching role as “similar to my first job, the difference is that the ‘students’ are a bit older and the nation’s the classroom.”
Joe’s initial exposure to Rotary International was in 1977 when he was recommended by the Rotary Club of St. Paul and selected by the District to be a member of the then-all male GSE Team to India. Two years later he joined Club #10. He has been actively involved at Club, District, and International levels ever since, including the gratification of being GSE Team Leader to the Philippines in 1999. He was Club 10 President in 2007-2008. Joe, too, is an inaugural member of the District 5960 Board of Directors.
He was the first person to join with PDG Steve Wilcox who was developing the Visioning Program for D5960 Clubs. Moreover, he has further assisted Steve since Visioning has branched out beyond USA borders. Joe has taught the how-to-visioning skills to facilitators in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.
Joe is a multiple Paul Harris Fellow. With the St. Paul Rotary Foundation, he is an Elmer L. Andersen Fellow.
Joe and his wife, Kathy, who is an Elmer L. Andersen Fellow, reside outside the Capital city of St. Paul. They have two married children and 5 grandchildren living within 30 minutes.

Member of Marion East Cedar Rapids Rotary since 2001. Served as president. At the district 5970 level, I have served as the co-chair of GSE and am serving as assistant district trainer. I am a PH fellow +1 and lead the GSE team to S. Korea in 2008 and participated on an NID to India in February of this year. I am a retired school administrator and currently teach in the graduate education program at Gracelend University.

Terry has been a member of Rotary since 1976, and a member of the Decatur County club since 1998. He is a native of Seward, Neb., and he and his wife Peggy most recently moved back to Iowa in 1998, where Terry assumed the position of president of the Citizens Bank in Leon, Iowa. Peggy is affiliated with Graceland College
in educational administration.
Terry has had an interesting career in the banking managementfield. After receiving his economics degree at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., he has worked in several locations, including Glenwood, Ia., Kearney, Neb., Tecumseh, Neb., Genoa, Neb., and finally Leon, Ia. He retired from Great Western Bank in Leonin 2008.
Terry has been active in many organizations, including serving on the boards of Decatur County Hospital, Decatur County Development Corporation and the South Central Iowa Community Foundation.
Terry’s Rotary career includes being president of the Rotary Club of Decatur County in 2000-2001. In 2010, he will have completed three years serving as District 6000 Assistant Governor. Terry and Peggy have a strong interest in the District 6000 Rotary Youth Exchange program. They have been counselors since 1999, and have chaperoned two Youth Exchange trips across the USA. Also, they have hosted three youth exchange students in their home.

Robert W. Sharkey has been a Rotarian since 2000. He is a Paul Harris Fellow (2008) and Paul Harris Society member (2009). As a member of the Rotary Club in Houghton, Michigan he has served with distinction in a variety of capacities including

• Community chair  (2004 -05)
• Seafood Fest chair (2004 &  2005)
• President of the Houghton Rotary (2006-07)
• Board Member Houghton Rotary (2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08)
• Assistant Governor (2007- present)
• PETS Trainer – membership (2008-present)
• District conference presenter – membership (2008-present)
• District vision trainer (2009-present)
• District World Peace Scholarship committee member (2009-present)
• District executive committee member (2008-present)
• PETS Council member (2010-present)

Bob has been active in the community for many years, particularly in the area of youth activities. He was a founding member of the Copper Country Soccer Association, serving on the Board from 1992-1996.  The CCSA currently serves over 700 youth. He was also a founding member of the Copper Country Ski Tigers, serving on the board from 1991-1995.  He was a Little League Baseball Coach from 1994-1999 and served on the Portage Lake Little League Board 1995–99. He has been a volunteer for the Houghton High school athletic program (2001 - present) in a variety of capacities most recently as a timer at track meets. Additionally, Bob was a faithful volunteer at Rotary Seafood Fest for a number of years prior to becoming a Rotarian.
Professionally, Bob received a BA (1971) and MA (1972) from Western Michigan University.  He received a second Masters Degree in 1978 from the University of Kansas, where in 1986, he received a doctorate.  As a psychologist he was employed by Copper Country Mental Health from 1986 until 2001 when he left to start Psychology Associates of the Keweenaw with his wife, Susan Donnelly. 
Bob has been married to Susan Donnelly since 1984. They have one son, Ryan who graduated from Western Michigan University  and will be attending Northwestern University studying for a doctoral degree in physical therapy.  As a family they have been involved in a variety of community activities.

Rob joined the Downtown Madison Rotary Club in 1980, sponsored by his father, and became a third generation Rotarian, following his grandfather, father and uncle. The international aspect of Rotary appealed to Rob, and he and his wife, Mary, agreed to host a Rotary Exchange student from Brazil shortly after joining Rotary, the first of many Rob and his family have hosted. After serving as his club's youth exchange officer for several years, Rob agreed to host a visiting Group Study Exchange team member from India. The experience turned out to be so rewarding that in the following year, he assumed responsibility for making all of the hosting arrangements for a GSE team from the Philippines. This led to promotion to Chairman of the GSE committee, a position Rob held for more than twenty years. Rob was the team leader for the GSE team that visited District 2250 (Norway) in 2004. Rob attended the Rotary International conferences in Seoul, Korea and Chicago.
Within his club, Rob has served in numerous capacities, including two terms on the board of directors, club president in 1989-90, foundation president, youth exchange officer, member and/or chairman of a number of committees and fellowship groups and a long-term and continuing member of the club's kitchen committee. Rob is a nine times Paul Harris Fellow and a loyal supporter of both the Rotary International Foundation and the Madison Rotary Foundation.
Rob is the managing partner of Stroud, Willink and Howard where he began his law practice in 1974, joining his grandfather, father and uncle. He has his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College and his law degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison law school and is a member of the Dane County and Wisconsin Bar Associations. His practice is primarily focused on estate planning and business law. He is active in community service as a board member on a number of boards of directors, including the Madison Library Foundation, the Cremer Foundation, the Dane County Hockey Officials Association, the Wisconsin Lacrosse Officials Association, and the Goodman-Rotary MSCR 50+ Fitness Program. Rob referees ice hockey and lacrosse and actively participates in numerous sports. He is one of the charter members, and the oldest, of the Flying Fossils, a competitive, international team of inline skaters, all of whom are over the age of 55, and he is also an active member of the International Fellowship of Rotarian Scuba Divers.
Rob served in the U.S. Army, with most of his service in an Army Reserve hospital unit in Madison. Rob and Mary are the parents of three adult children, all of whom are former Rotary Exchange students. Their older son is an attorney, working as a police officer in Barrow, Alaska. Their daughter is a physician, completing her surgical residency at Dartmouth. Their younger son spent two years as a Rotary Exchange student and, since finishing college, has been working in Chicago and is planning to move to New York and attend law school.

Rick is a member of the Rotary Club of Mukwonago since 1998. He is a Paul Harris fellow and also belongs to the Paul Harris Society.
Rick has been a past president of his club in 2001-2002 and chaired many local projects.
On a District level he is the current District Governor Elect, was the Polio Plus Chair and R.I. Alumni Chair.
The driving core for Rick is helping others in time of need and opportunities, whether it is a local or international humanitarian challenge.
Rick operates an Independent Insurance Agency in Mukwonago and has operated for 30 years in southeast Wisconsin. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin Parkside in Kenosha. He spent 7 years as a volunteer fireman and rescue officer with the Waterford community and logged hundreds of hours. “Some of my proudest moments and heart breaking tragedies were during those times”.
Rick & Terry have been married for 32 years and have 3 grown daughters and 6 grandchildren. Rick’s deceased father Gordon was a past Rotarian in Racine West and left him a lasting impression on the meaning of “Service above self”. Terry has been a strong supporter of Rotary and is involved locally with other community based groups.
They both like to travel extensively and have many hobbies. Rick is a private pilot, avid sailor, weekly racquetball player, motorcycle rider and enjoys many activities.

Mike Yesner joined the Rotary Club of Niles/Morton Grove in 1990, and served as its President during the 1995-1996 Rotary Year, when the Club won a Presidential Citation. During 2003-2004, that club was merged into The Rotary Club of Skokie Valley, his current club.  Other club offices have included Public Relations Chair, Secretary, Club Foundation Board Member and Board Chair, 70th Anniversary Chair, and Nominating Committee Chair.  He's a multiple Paul Harris Fellow.
            Mike is a native Chicagoan and served District 6440 as the Assistant Governor Coordinator each of the last three years. He will be District Trainer in 2011-2012.  His prior District posts have included Assistant Governor (2 years), PETS Chair (3 years), Community Service Advisor (2 years), Governor's Rep for both the Chicagoland Korean Rotary Club of Northbrook and Arlington Heights Sunset as well as District Assembly Chair.  He was on the NIPETS Steering Committee each of the last two years, and represented NIPETS at The PETS Alliance in the summer of 2010.  As DGN, he will also coordinate youth activities in the District.
            Outside of Rotary, Mike has served on the Board of Commissioners of the Golf Maine Park District for 24 years and is currently its President.  The Park District serves parts of  Unincorporated Maine Township, Niles, and Park Ridge.  He's coached in the District's baseball program, primarily the 13-15 team for more than 30 years, and had a North Suburban Youth Baseball Association championship team.
            He also has been on several Illinois Association of Park District Committees including Accredited Agency, Joint Legislative, Public Relations and Awards.  Prior community services include Vice-President of Chicago Jaycees, and President of The Chicago Delta Upsilon Alumni Scholarship Society.
            Mike  holds a BA in Political Science and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Chicago.  For more than 20 years, he has operated Yesner Marketing, Inc.  He also teaches marketing at  the graduate and undergraduate levels at The University of Phoenix, both Online and Chicago Campuses.
            His career started at Procter & Gamble and he has also worked for Sears, J. Walter Thompson, and other ad agencies. Prior to starting Yesner Marketing, Inc., he was Senior Vice President  of Keroff and Rosenberg, and President of G M Feldman. His clients have included McDonald's, Marriott, Arby's, and Popeye's.
                        Mike and Donna (also a Paul Harris Fellow) in 1967, have lived in Des Plaines since 1967. They have two children, Staci and Stephen and 1 grandchild, Theo, who also is a Paul Harris Fellow.

Pat is committed to the Rotary motto of Service Above Self and incorporates service into her every day life and activities.   Pat immensely enjoys her time with Rotary as it is the best of all worlds in having fun, fellowship, and service combined into one organization.

Pat is a member of the Rotary Club of Naperville and joined after making a presentation at a Rotary Club meeting on a non-Rotary ambassadorial exchange on public health and hospitals in China shortly after 9-11.   While Pat was in China, she found that the people in rural China were dying and ill due to poor public health infrastructure such as clean water, sanitation, and access to medical care.  Frustrated by the inability to make a difference in the health conditions, Pat found Rotary International to be the perfect solution to addressing basic health needs and human development for people throughout the world.

Since Pat has been involved in Rotary, she has been to many developing countries working on water, solar energy, medical missions, and peace.  Some of her most remarkable life experiences have been in working with people in communities where people live on less than a $1 per day and yet share that common bond of wanting the best for their children and to live in peace and harmony with others.

Pat has worked in health care policy and quality improvement for nearly three decades.  She is currently the Executive Director of the Illinois Medicare Quality Improvement Organization after serving 26 years as the Senior Vice President of quality for the Illinois Hospital Association.

Pat and her husband George are the proud parents of four sons and a daughter-in-law and are expecting their first grandchild in September 2011.  Two of their sons have served in the military overseas and one of their sons, Chris, is a Rotarian with the Rotary Club of Chicago Near-South and another son, Jason, recently relocated and is visiting Rotary Clubs in the hopes of joining one soon. 

Pat is a major donor and is committed to the Rotary Foundation as she believes that it is the foundation for bringing peace and understanding to the world through its service projects, youth and ambassadorial exchanges, and peace programs.

Don joined Rotary in Yuma, Arizona in 1982, moved back to Michigan, and joined Grosse Pointe Rotary Club in 1987, serving as President in 1993-94, and as a Governor’s Rep in District 6400. 
In 1999, Don joined Troy Rotary Club, and served Club President in 2001-02.  Don served as Assistant Governor from 2003 until 2006, was District Conference Chair for PDG Gerry Jackson, and now serves on the District Finance and RI Foundation Committees.    
Along the way, Don has sponsored four Ambassadorial Scholars, with three being chosen, hosted GSE team members and youth exchange students. 
Don’s Rotary energy comes from the great Rotarians he sees around him.  It is easy for Don to be “Rotarized”  when he sees all the great things Rotary does on behalf of others.
Professionally, Don has been in the road construction industry his entire career, having worked for 25 years at a large multi-state contractor based in Grosse Pointe, and more recently for Florence Cement Company, based in Shelby Township.
Don and Ann have been married for fifteen years, and together have three adult children and three grandchildren.  Don enjoys skiing, golf and traveling.  Ann is a Paul Harris Fellow, and Don is a Multiple Paul Harris Fellow and a Bequest Society member.

Bob is a member of the Rotary Club of Bowling Green and served as an Assistant Governor. Bob is well known through out Rotary District 6600 and the Rotary world for his work in helping Rotary bring potable water to areas of need.
Dr. Vincent is a full professor in the Department of Geology at Bowling Green State University, which he joined in 1993. Before that, he was the founder and President of GeoSpectra Corporation and BioImage Corporation in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He holds a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Michigan, M.S. in Physics from the University of Maryland, and B.S. in Physics and B.A. in Math from Louisiana Tech University. He was a LANDSAT I Principal Investigator, while at Willow Run Laboratories (now ERIM) at the University of Michigan, and he has written a text book entitled Fundamentals of Geological and Environmental Remote Sensing, Prentice Hall (1997), in addition to numerous other technical publications.
He is a past Director of the OhioView remote sensing consortium and past Board member of the America View remote sensing consortium. He was among 237 American scientists invited by the U. S. Department of Defense to attend the Scientists Helping America Conference in Washington, D.C. from March 11-13, 2002.  In 2004 he received Bowling Green State University’s highest research honor, the Olscamp Research Award, for outstanding scholarly or creative accomplishments during the previous three years. He has been awarded environmental grants from the USDA for studying the effects of sewage sludge on agricultural fields in NW Ohio and from NOAA for mapping cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie from satellite.
Dr. Vincent also founded (2006) and is director of the Rotary District 6600 Global Satellite Water-Finding Office in the Dept. of Geology at Bowling Green State University, and was an Assistant District Governor for Area 5 for five years. He is currently the District Governor Nominee of District 6600 and will be District Governor in 2012-13. He has been a Rotarian for 30 years.

Julie joined the Rotary Club of Akron in 1991, sponsored by a business colleague.  She joined the Rotary Club of Cleveland in 1992 after her job took her to Cleveland.  She is a Past President of the Rotary Club of Cleveland (2003-2004) and the Cleveland Rotary Foundation (2006-2007) and Past Chair of her Club’s International Service Committee.  She has been involved with a Matching Grant project to establish a pediatric open-heart surgery suite in a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. She chaired the Volunteer Committee of the 2010 Cleveland Tall Ships Festival, which the Rotary Club of Cleveland presented in honor of their 100th anniversary.
At the District level, Julie served as an Assistant District Governor for three years and just completed her second year as Assistant District Governor Coordinator.  At the District level she has also served on the Executive, Group Study Exchange, By-Laws, Nominating, and Training Committees.  She has been a presenter at District Assembly and a facilitator for All Ohio PETS.  She has attended seven RI Conventions.
Julie is a multiple Paul Harris Fellow and member of the Bequest Society.
An avid birder, she is a member of the International Fellowship of Bird watching Rotaadditionrians, serving as Vice President.
When not involved in Rotary activities, she and her partner Gary Neuman enjoy a variety of bird related activities including travel, conducting song bird research for Black Swamp Bird Observatory and leading Audubon bird walks at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, where she is completing her third term on the Board.

Linda Fergason has been a Rotarian since 1992 - proudly serving as a member of the Alliance Rotary Club.  In District 6650, Linda has served in the past as District Trainer, GSE Hub chair, and was co-chair of the District Community Avenue of Service.  In , she currently is a faculty member of the Rotary Leadership Institute;  All Ohio P.E.T.S. Steering committee;  and the Ambassadorial Scholarship Chair.  Fergason is also the Area Administrator for France and Belgium for D6650 Youth Exchange.  In 2012-13, she will serve as District Governor for 6650.

Fergason has enjoyed a career filled with adventure and exciting challenges.   Executive Director of nonprofit agencies, noted presenter, fundraiser, planner and evaluator – she says her life has been full of interesting interactions with corporate leaders, Foundations and key individual throughout Stark County.  
In 2011, Linda Fergason was tapped as an Advancement Officer for Kent State University at Stark.   She is developing a comprehensive plan for advancement for the many projects and priorities in alignment with Kent State Stark’s strategic initiatives.    Her goals are to create vibrant partnerships, greater awareness, to build relationships and additional support for the Stark Campus, bringing the University and community closer together.
Fergason is a graduate of Kent State University and serves on several Boards in the community.
She also does media voiceover work for television and radio, loves travel and has friends in many parts of the world. 

She and her husband, Bruce, are professional musicians, enjoy history, reading and speaking various languages.  They are lifelong residents of Alliance, Ohio and have three children:Eric , Michelle, and Brandon.   Grandchildren are a delightful part of their lives.

I grew up in Knoxville Tennessee and have been a lifelong University of Tennessee fan. I spent several years In the U S Navy following high school.
After the Navy, I worked for a research lab in New England on a variety of laboratory projects. I attended Rhode Island Jr College and Bryant College while there. I also attended Rowan College in NC for 2 years. I subsequently moved back to Tennessee and started to work for Curtin Matheson Scientific selling a large variety of Laboratory Supplies. I also served as a sales manager in Atlanta and a branch manager in Washington DC. While in Tennessee, I became involved with the Knoxville Environmental Coalition Group. This was one of the 1^st recycling centers in the USA.
I subsequently started to work for Kewaunee Scientific Corp and have been there for the last 29 years. I plan to retire early in 2011. Kewaunee is a manufacturer of laboratory furniture for schools, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and other research related industries. I have served as a general sales manager for those years and have traveled extensively. During my three sons growing up years, I coached soccer, baseball, softball and basketball for over 15 years. I also served as president/VP of their respective PTA’s.
My lifetime partner, Joyce Yasko, PHD and I collectively have 6 children and 9 grandchildren. Joyce is a VP of Clinical Research at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY.
We enjoy traveling, spending time with our grand children and working on our 122 year old Queen Anne Victoria home. We’ve competed in several garden contests for landscaping and flowers. We are both 10 year Rotarians who enjoy the efforts and results produced by Rotarians around the world. I have served 2 terms as president of the Evans City Club and 3 years as an AG.

Tom and Marie Fallon are both members of the Lawrenceville Club in Pittsburgh.  Tom joined Rotary in 2004 and has served two terms as Club President from 2005-2007.  He has also served as Assistant District Governors for both Denny Crawford and Jim Kunkelmann.  He is a member of the District Foundation Committee and the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, RYLA.
In addition to Rotary, Tom is an active Board Member for the Lawrenceville Meals on Wheels Program and instituted the Club delivering meals on a weekly basis. He is the President of the Greater Pittsburgh Sister Cities Association overseeing 17 Sister Cities programs.  GSPCA is an organization which promotes international relationships and the region's benefits, while bringing businesspeople, educators, and government officials from those cities to Pittsburgh.  Working with the Asian community through the GSPCA, Tom is the chairperson of the Pittsburgh Dragon Boat Festival, a festival which highlights Asian cultures in the Pittsburgh region promotes intellectual understanding between the East and the West in a fun way.
For the past few years Tom, and his wife Marie, have mentored eleventh grade students at Career Connections Charter High School in Lawrenceville. 
He is a member of “Friends of Danang”,an organization that raises money for humanitarian projects in and around the City of Danang, Vietnam. Its aim is to nurture better understanding between the citizens of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Danang, Vietnam regions. Tom hopes to one day develop a Rotary Club in Danang.
His passion for the environment is reflected in his business, Urban Green Development, where he rehabilitates single-family homes utilitizing “green” earth friendly products, systems and applications.  The end result is a home that lessens global impact, increases efficiency and reduces the dependence on fossil fuels.
Tom has served over 20 years as a collegiate volleyball official, as well as a coach at the Division I level. His crowning achievement was becoming an international official and being chosen to participate in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. In addition, Tom also competed in the Paralympics and the Goodwill Games.
He is a graduate of Kent State University with a Bachelor in Business Administration in Marketing and International Business.  Tom is an assistant volleyball coach at his alma mater, Central Catholic High School. He has earned the Eagle Award from the Boy Scouts of America.
Tom is a Pittsburgher, born and raised in Oakland.  He and his wife, Marie, reside in Morningside with their dog and two cats.

Maria is a native of Fayette County and graduate of California University of Pennsylvania with degrees in Biology and Computer Science.  She also holds a certification in secondary education and is currently completing a degree with Duquesne University in K-12 Administration.   For nine years, Maria taught high school science for the Diocese of Greensburg and in 2007 became a Student Services Support Assistant with Westmoreland County Community College.
Maria was a member of the 2002 Group Study Exchange to Sweden and became a member of the Brownsville Rotary Club the following year.  Since then, she has served as president from 2008-2010 and has been the Literacy Committee chair for the past 6 years.  Maria is also the liaison for the Brownsville Area High School Interact Club. During her time as president, the club received an Exceptional Service Award and was named, “Small Club of the Year”.  During the same year, she received the District 7330 Community Service Award.
On the district level, she has served on the Group Study Exchange and Literacy committees.  She is a 2009 graduate of the Rotary Leadership Institute. Several times, Maria has been a District Assembly and District Conference presenter speaking about “Reading Around Town … Bringing Books to Life”, a literacy program that she developed for K-3 grade students of Brownsville Area School district. She is a sustaining member of the Rotary Foundation and in 2006 the members of her club presenter her with a Paul Harris Fellow.
Within the community, Maria is a volunteer for the St. Vincent DePaul Society, a supporter of the Brownsville Free Public Library and is a member of Big Bedtime Story / Music and Reading on the Mon committee.  She lives in Grindstone, PA with her mother to whom she provides care.