Gregory Wims is the District 7620 Governor Nominee. He is a Past President of the Bethesda Chevy Chase Rotary Club and has held several Assistant Governor positions. Gregory is decendent of 8 generations of up County tenet farmers. His father was illiterate and Gregory read to him until he died at age 90. On the Rotary Foundation’s 100 birthday he talked about Foundation projects. We participated with his club in a water project in a Kenya girls school and sponsored 2 girls to attend the university. Gregory has visited the school repeatedly to judge its progress. For $7 per baby birth deaths have been significantly reduced in Africa.

As a fund raising professional, Liz Mizell has over five years experience in the nonprofit sector serving in a broad range of roles with increasing responsibility.  She was recruited as Director of Corporate Sponsorships for Luke’s Wings in January 2015.  Luke’s Wings books flights for the families of wounded veterans to come to see them at Walter Read Hospital in Bethesda. Luke’s Wings has a contract with Delta to pool donated frequent flyer miles to book flights for Vets visits

Victoria talked about Fred GrahamYooll’s book CLEOPTRA’S LOST TEASSURE, which he wrote after he retired in DC.  Fred dug out an old family trunk full of artifacts from Egypt.  With this start and his Latin and Greek from school days he researched the history of Cleopatra and after 8 years produced the Cleopatra book.  Cleopatra’s father was a big king of Macedonia and at age 18 Cleopatra became queen of Egypt over her 11 year old younger brother.  Cleopatra was well educated, spoke 9 languages, and at 11 studied trade of China and India.  She made Egypt rich and independent from the Roman Empire 2000 years ago.  She married ( and manipulated) Julius Caesar and later Mark Anthony to become the richest woman in the world.