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       President
Isabel Cavanagh 
  President Elect      
    Geri Schwalb  
            






     Vice President 
  Lorraine DeSisto
      
 






  
      Secretary
   Nancy  Delano    
                                         
        Treasurer 
   Myriam Ramos
         
                Sylvia Astrologo
  
                David Bowers
                Helen Bowers
                Al dePrado
                Gloria dePrado
                Kathleen Fitzpatrick
                Marilyn  Fogelman
                Jonathan Glaser
                Anthony Grasso
 
             Glyn Hearn            
                
                                                 

                                           
           David G. Horvath            
              Thom Ianniccari
 
           Helen M. Lynch
              Joanne C. Marion
              Frieda Meyerson
           Robert Moscone 
           Diana Penna   
              Alice Roker
              Donald Rosenberg
  
           Ann Scarborough
           Anna Szewczyk           
    



Joanne C. Marion was born in New York City but has lived in Yorktown Heights for thirty three years where she, and her husband, Charlie, raised their two children Mark and Kristin.   

After obtaining her MBA at Pace University, Joanne worked as a CPA in Corporate Finance for last twenty-five years.  She has more recently obtained a certificate in financial planning from Boston University and has opened her personal financial planning practice in Yorktown.  Before joining the Yorktown Rotary, Joanne has been actively involved for the last nine years volunteering for the Putnam/Northern Westchester Women’s Resource Center.   
Jonathan Glaser has lived in Croton-on-Hudson with his wife Dani, two sons and cats for 21 years.  His son James is a senior majoring in environmental economics at the University Of Wisconsin and Corey is a sophomore in the architecture program at the University of Illinois.
Jonathan was born and raised in NY with 7 years of education (college & law school) in the mid-west.
He is a Financial Advisor with Edward Jones Investments in Yorktown. 
Jonathan is no stranger to community service, participating in the defeat of the Millennium Pipeline Project is an accomplishment he is proud of. The  project would have cut a 75’ wide path of safety & environmental hazards to construct and install a 36” wide high-pressured natural gas pipeline in Westchester.

Jonathan is looking forward to becoming an active member and participating with environmental and literacy issues. 
 David G. Horvath spent his early childhood in Valders Wisconsin, on a beautiful hobby farm where he learned how to live life honestly.  The remainder of his childhood was spent in Racine Wisconsin just south of Milwaukee.  David met his wife Cathy at the local garden center Town & Country.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in horticulture from the University of Wisconsin at Madison – Go Badgers!  Having had enough of snow plowing in the middle of the night, in 2002 David  replied to a posting in Monster.com.  Since then he has worked with SavATree helping customers maintain a healthy relationship with their landscape’s through valuable services.  On his spare time he likes to spend as much time with Cathy and their four-legged children in Waterbury Connecticut where they live.  David is very proud to have had an article regarding fungi published in the trade magazine ‘ArborAge’ and to be an ISA (International Society of Arboriculture) certified arborist.                                                                           
Kathleen Fitzpatrick was born and raised in Yorktown Heights a gratuate of Yorktown HS and Smith College where she obtained a BA in English. Kathleen lived first in the Boston area and then in the Hamptons, working mostly in the media industry. She has returned to Yorktown to be the managing editor of the North County News. Kathleen and her staff have already won a number of awards from the New York Press Association and continue to work to improve Yorktown’s source of community news. A member of the Smith College Club of Westchester as well as the Nocturnal Adoration Society of St. Patrick’s Church in Yorktown Heights. She is pleased and excited to be a part of our Rotary family.
Thom Ianniccari a 20 year resident of Westchester & Putnam, is a graduate of the University of Scranton.  
He is an Account Executive with the Reis Group Insurance Agency, specializing in personal and commercial lines of insurance. Thom also gives of his time as a Board Director for the Yorktown Chamber of Commerce and the Professional Insurance Agents Association of NY, (PIA). He has served on various PIA committees including education and industry business as well as lobbying campaigns in Albany. 
                                     
W. Glyn Hearn is a founder of Soundview Preparatory School, opened in 1988. Soundview's goal is to provide, for college-bound students, an intensive educational experience in which students, faculty, and staff form close, mutually supportive relationships, so that students consider relationships and ideals and behavior as well as a high level of academic performance.  

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas and a Master of Arts degree from Texas Tech University of Lubbock, Texas, his home town.  He has been involved in education for almost thirty-five years. 
Founding and building Soundview Preparatory are the accomplishments of which he is most proud.  Welcome to our family of Rotary Glyn.   
                                     
                           
Diana Penna holds a degree in Health Management and has worked at the FIELDHOME since 1986. She loves her job as Assistant Administrator at The Seabury Asisted Living. In addition to her association with Rotary, Diana is a Board Director for the Yorktown Chamber and a support group leader for caregivers through the Alzheimers Association. 

Personally, Diana enjoys cooking, baking, knitting, crocheting, walking and lots of family time with husband Anthony and their two children.


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Robert S. Hellman  1908-2007

Robert S. Hellman, 98, died peacefully on March 15, 2007, at Cortlandt Manor, NY. Born in New York City to Abraham and Sarah Hellman.   he was married for 47 years to Adelaide Leifer Hellman, He is survived by his sons, Howard of Somers, NY, Martin of Stanford, CA, and Stephen of Clinton, CT; and by his brothers Charles of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, and Benjamin of Roslyn, NY.  He will also be missed by his seven grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren, and his friends Rotarian friends.  Rob taught physics and chemistry for over thirty years at New York City high schools. He served as an officer in the United States Army during World War II and continued to serve in the Army Reserves, eventually retiring with the rank of Major.

Rob was active in community affairs as Editor of the Yorktown Senior Sentinel for many years, and a member of the Yorktown Rotary Club for 21 years.  His upbeat attitude and outgoing manner earned him a large circle of friends, ranging in age from the very young to, as he put it, the somewhat more mature.

Grace Roma      1921-2007                         

Grace Roma, 86, died peacefully at Hudson Valley Hospital Center following a stroke.  She was a Yorktown resident for 55 years.  Grace was know as a women who spoke her mind about that which was important to her.  She worked hard for what she believed was best for the community.  She was very civic minded and Rotary was one of her great passions.  A member of the Yorktown Rotary Club for 18 years, one of the first women members in Rotary, and the first women president of our club.  Grace was also the first women Paul Harris Fellow and a sustaining member of the Paul Harris Foundation.  The Rotary Club of Yorktown has lost a wonderful friend and Rotarian.  Grace will be greatly missed by those that had the previlege to know her.










 

 
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