Anna Tirat-Gefen is an immigrant from Ukraine, a full-time working mother of five children, a wife, and a rocket scientist. Anna also helps match students with host families for an international high school student exchange program.Anna’s hobbies include catching up on sleep, taking walks, cooking, reading and writing.  Anna is also a published designer of crochet patterns, and yet unpublished poet. Another hobby gives Anna a big recognition. This hobby is the comedy.

Anna lives, works and performs at many Comedy Clubs in the Greater Washington DC area. One of very successful performance is Comedy as a Second Language.

Chloe Ellen Stewart is best known for her classical music career, performing with Virginia Opera and Opera Mississippi. She earned her Bachelor’s in Music from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and her Master’s in Music from the University of Mobile. In addition to classical roles, she has worked extensively in musicals, recently creating the role of Mechelle in *The Window King*.

Chloe has also appeared on television’s *Crime Nation* with The CW and is currently filming a horror movie. Her diverse performance background and teaching experience have led her to give private music lessons, sharing the joy of performing with the next generation

Steve Fine, founder and president of the Melanoma Education Foundation, attended colleges in the Boston area, receiving a doctorate in chemistry from Northeastern University. He then moved to Pennsylvania, completing a year of postdoctoral research at Lehigh University. After 5 years as Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, he moved back to New England where he served in technical and management positions in high tech chemical companies.

Shortly after his son, Dan, died of melanoma in 1998 at the age of 26, he founded thenon-profit Melanoma Education Foundation and, since 2000, has devoted full time tothe Foundation.

Visit: https://skincheck.org/

In August of this year, Paul and his wife Kathy embarked on a missionary trip to Romania. Let’s learn more about their journey and the experiences they had along the way.

Dan Sherman is a (mostly) retired economist with a doctorate from Cornell. He has delivered numerous talks and classes on topics such as musical theatre, opera, film and film music, and even mathematics, to various groups in the area. His first presentation was in March 2019 on the musical Hamilton. Since then, he has given many more, both in person and via Zoom.

Currently residing in Alexandria, Dan plans to relocate to Williamsburg, where he owns a house by a lake.

Our North Bethesda Rotarian Bruce received his B.S. degree in Fisheries (Marine Biology) from the University of Washington in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Pathology from the University of Oregon Medical School in 1972. He began his scientific career at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences prior to becoming Director of the University of Maryland System-wide Program in Toxicology and Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.He then served as Associate Director for Science in the Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine at CDC / ATSDR. He is currently a private consultant and Adjunct Professor, Emory School of Public Health and previously a Presidents Professor of Biomedical Science at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Dr. Fowler is an internationally recognized expert on the toxicology of metals and has served on a number of State, National and International Committees in his areas of expertise.