 - Title:DG Kathy Area 9 Visit
- District Governor Kathleen Kanter will begin her club visits with Area 9. Clubs that compose Area 9 are: Blacksburg; 16 Squares Satellite Club; Christiansburg-Blacksburg; Rotaract-Virginia Tech; Floyd County; Giles County; Montgomery (more....)
- District Governor Kathleen Kanter will begin her club visits with Area 9. Clubs that compose Area 9 are: Blacksburg; 16 Squares Satellite Club; Christiansburg-Blacksburg; Rotaract-Virginia Tech; Floyd County; Giles County; Montgomery County; and Radford (Noon). Area visits allow the clubs in the District and the District Governor to get to know each other, open lines of communication, and work toward Rotary goals.
This is portion of the article in the Northern Virginia Daily, the local newspaper in Strasburg:
Kanter has been a member of the Strasburg Rotary Club since 2007. Her husband Dr. Byron Brill is also a member of Rotary, but he is a member of the Winchester club. Brill served as governor for District 7570 from 2007-2008. Brill and Kanter are the first spouses to both be named district governor in the district’s history, according to Kanter.
Before she could become district governor, Kanter explained, she had to go through two years of training to become well-versed on how to apply for grants, how to take on initiatives, and how to choose service projects. Kanter’s responsibility as district governor is to train incoming club officers and presidents on how to take on leadership duties for Rotary.
“One of my responsibilities is to make sure that all the incoming presidents that will assume the role for the clubs they’ve been well trained and know what they need to do,” Kanter said. "The biggest thing that you do the year before you assume the office of governor, you’re helping to train those coming into office with you.”
The qualifications necessary to be elected a district governor in Rotary include serving as an area governor for three years and serving in a district position for three years. Kanter served as an area governor from 2014-2016 and served on district committees, such as the Scholarship Committee and the Caribbean Partnership Committee.
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