All are invited to an international presentation from Rotary International President-Elect Stephanie Urchick for her talk, “How Clubs Can Use the Action Plan to Be Simply Irresistible.”
The Rotary Club of Eugene Metropolitan will be welcoming President-Elect Urchick and the President’s Aide, Tom Gump, with friends from Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Canada, Romania, and Mexico. We love our global family!
Virtual doors will open at 5:45 pm and we will close doors at 6:05 pm to respect President-Elect Urchick’s limited time and many obligations. Please arrive early if you’re able so we can welcome and introduce everyone.
Guests are welcome to put their questions in the chatbox throughout her presentation.
A Rotarian since 1991, RIPE Urchick has participated in various international service projects, including National Immunization Days in India and Nigeria. In Vietnam, she worked with clubs to help build a primary school and traveled to the Dominican Republic to install water filters. A student of several Slavic languages, she has mentored new Rotary members in Ukraine and coordinated a Rotary Foundation grant for mammography equipment and a biopsy unit for a hospital in Poland.
In its commemorative book, the Rotary Club of Krakow, Poland, noted Stephanie as a key figure in helping the re-birth of Rotary in post-Communist Poland.
Currently, Stephanie is helping to partner clubs and districts in the U.S. with Rotary clubs in Albania, Kosovo, and Ukraine for humanitarian and educational services.
You can read Tom Gump’s full bio below.
Join us for dinner at The Davis in downtown Eugene, Oregon, or comment here for the Zoom link. “Seating” is limited!
Tom Gump – Aide to Rotary International President 2024-2025
Tom serves as Aide to Rotary International President 2024-2025. He is the Presidential Advisor to
Rotary International’s 2025 Calgary International Convention Committee and the 2025 Presidential
Peace Conference. He is helping plan next year’s International Assembly and Global Support Seminar
for Regional Coordinators. Tom has served as an International Assembly Learning Facilitator, General
Chair of the 2021 Rotary Zones 25B and 29 Institute (in Houston, Texas, USA), Co-Chair of the 2020
Virtual Institute and as a President’s Representative to multiple districts.
Tom Gump is an accomplished Rotarian with a long-standing commitment to growing Rotary
membership, raising funds and participating in projects for The Rotary Foundation (TRF), promoting
Rotary and inspiring leadership. Tom is a member of Rotary International’s Membership Growth
Committee and a former Regional Leader/Rotary Coordinator for Zones 25B & 29. He founded, helped
form and/or inspired more than a dozen new and creative clubs around the world, including forming
the first club in the world to serve veterans and the first club in the world focused on ending human
trafficking. Tom also formed a Rotary Community Corps for Refugees, which serves hundreds of
refugees in Minnesota, USA. He was named to The Gold Level of The Membership Society for New
Member Sponsors for bringing in more than 50 active members into his club. Zones 28 and 32 awarded
him with its “Individual Membership Innovation Award.”
As a speaker and writer, Tom now inspires others to grow Rotary membership, regularly speaking on
the topic of membership at all levels of Rotary. His tips for attracting and retaining members and some
of the clubs he has formed have been featured in various Rotary publications.
Tom also fundraises for TRF and its End Polio Now campaign. As District Governor, he led his district to
become only the third district in the world to ever have all of its clubs designated as 100% Paul Harris
Fellow Clubs, leading his district to become one of the top overall giving districts in the world. He also
led his district in raising over $642,000 for TRF’s End Polio Now campaign. As his district’s
Endowment/Major Gift Chair, he helped his district raise more than $3 million in donations as part of
its recent Million Dollar Journey. He has led and/or partnered on 19 international, district and club
grants totaling more than $3 million dollars. He served as the International Grant Partner for a series of
grants totaling over 1.3 million euros that involved every Italy district. The TRF Trustees awarded Tom
the Citation for Meritorious Service in recognition of his outstanding service to The Rotary Foundation.
He has suceeded in various promotion roles for Rotary including as Zone Promotion Coordinator for
both the Toronto and Honolulu Conventions and Assistant Zone Promotion Coordinator for the
Hamburg Convention. He has served on various Rose Bowl Parade Float Committees and rode on
Rotary’s 2023 float.
The Rotary International Board of Directors awarded Tom its highest honor – the Service Above Self
Award. Tom’s impressive contributions to Rotary and TRF make him a valuable member of these
organizations and a source of inspiration for others.
RI President-Elect Stephanie Urchick – Tonight!
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