Tim Wiens has served as Jubilee Executive Director since 1979.  He has helped it grow from one group home to an organization providing services for 140 people with intellectual disabilities in 70 different locations.  Jubilee staff live with the patients in 12 of the Jubilee owned locations.  The staff of mostly Africans visit and support the remaining 58 homes in a partnership with the family home owners.  Over the years the patients have moved from institutions to group homes and then to individual homes giving them a more independent life.  Jubilee, like others , is faith based.  Tim Wiens holds a master’s degree in Social Work

Dr Kobbe was inducted in to the Rotary Club f College Park in 2000 and serced as Club President in 2008-2009. Her district experience includes serving on numerous district committees.  She is a Rotary Leadership Institute graduate and is a multiple Paul Harris Fellow. There are Rotary clubs im 150 countries, which facilitated the Polio Pluss mission to eradicate polio from the earth. Rotary will have a birthday party for polio’s eradication this year. For this end, DG Kobbe wants every member of District 7620contribute $26.50 this year and promote the results of Polio Plus in local media. The most important District 7620’s objective is to increase Rotary membership; looking for recent retirees, diversity and women. Jacques Paraskecas is the North Bethesda Rotary Club’s Rotarian of the Year.

Steve Vaccarezza – What I did on my Summer vacation

Steve showed slides of four Greek islands that he and Dona visited – Crete, Santorini, Mykonos, and Rhodes.  He started with a map of the Eastern Mediterranean giving us a short  Greek history in the early centuries AD, and said he missed Tas Tousimis’s filling in the gaps of Greek history.  They visited Santorini Island where there was a volcanic eruption 3600 years ago.  (Carla said she and David had also visited there).  On Rhodes you could ride a donkey up to the Castle of Knights of St. John on the Acropolis where there is a medieval town with vary narrow street about ten feet wide.  They visited the Palace of the Grand Masters on Patmos Island where in the Book of Revelations Christ spoke to John through a crack in the roof.

Sean Pang – Teacher of the Year

Sean Pang, English teacher at Rockville High School, was selected by his fellow teachers as “Teacher of the Year 2016”.  At age 3 Sean and his parents immigrated to the US from Hong Kong.