Welcome

 

This year was the 100^th birthday of the Rotary Foundation. To raise awareness of the Foundation each club was asked to have a Foundation birthday cake at the Governor club visits so we could commemorate this great occasion. The creativity involved in each cake was amazing! A few million dollars was raised for the Foundation at our combined D.5040 and D. 5050 Million Dollar Dinner with RI President John Germ as our guest speaker. Past RI President Ian Riseley also visited the district. A Young Professionals Summit was held in May. The theme of the district conference was Generations serving Humanity thus our youth groups were instrumental in the planning and implementation of the district conference.  Three Rylas ( of varying ages )were held throughout the district. A Business Networking system was created for all Rotarians in D. 5040.

 

Lyn joined the Rotary club of Whistler Millennium in 2000 when one her daughters travelled to Brazil as a Rotary Youth Exchange(RYE)student. Lyn immediately joined the RYE committee and became the District 5040 RYE Chair for the years 2003 to 2006. In 2005 her district, District 5040 received the Outstanding District Award from the USA/Canada Rotary Youth Exchange Network. She was president of the Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium in 2007/8.  From 2008 to 2014 she was the NAYEN board director for Region 6 (Independent Canada).

 

 Both Lyn and her husband Alex attend the ISFR (International Skiing Fellowship of Rotarians) ski week most years. She was the secretary of the Davis Boyd Memorial Fund which raises money for adaptive sports programs. Lyn became a District 5040 board director in 2011. She is a proud graduate of Rotary Leadership Institute. Lyn is a multiple Paul Harris fellow and belongs to the Paul Harris Society. After an inspiring trip to Ethiopia and Uganda in 2016 to participate in a NID for Polio and to work on many service projects Lyn and her husband Alex became Arch Klumph society members. In 2016-17 Lyn was honoured to serve as District Governor. She served as D. 5040 Youth Services Chair from 2017-2019. From 2017 to 2023 Lyn will have served 6 years for NAYEN (the North American Youth Exchange Network as President elect, President and Past President.

 

Lyn has been very involved in her community and served on the Whistler Community Foundation Board as well as the Whistler Community Services board.

 

Lyn has a Master of Educational Practice and is certified by the Chopra University as a Vedic Master. Lyn and Alex have four wonderful grown children and are blessed with three grandchildren who hopefully will be Rotary exchange students one day.