Rotary Club of Westwood Village

Meetings Thursday noon @Hillel at UCLA
574 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024
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Diane Good, VP Service & Secretary
Tom Barron,
VP Planning
Jim Crane,
Sergeant-at-Arms

Steve Day, Immediate Past President
and Foundation Chair

Mark Rogo, Membership
Gordon Fell and Chris Gaynor,

Board Members at Large
Benjamin Fisher,
President
Terry M. White, Treasurer
Nevin Senkan,
International
Nancy McCready,
Community
David Stover, Youth
Janet Schwartz,
Vocational
Marsha Hunt, Peace
Ronald Lyster, Webmaster
Aly Shoji,
Social Media
*Last Zoom Meeting*
Events
 
2025
January 30 - Rabbi Sherman & Father Martinez
Rabbi Erez Sherman was ordained from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in May 2009. He is also a graduate of Albert A. List College and Columbia University (with degrees in Music and Talmud).

At Sinai Temple, Rabbi Sherman oversees the Sinai Temple Israel Center, which engages the synagogue and the Los Angeles community in Israel advocacy and education through speakers, classes, trips, and programs. He founded the Sinai Temple Israel Center Rabbinical School Fellowship, which trains future Rabbis through seminaries across North America how to engage Israel in a deep and nuanced manner. He also directs the David and Angella Nazarian Youth Fellowship, inspiring the next generation of Jewish leaders to use their voices in Israel and civic conversations. He was recently named the fifth top Visionary for Israel by the Jerusalem Post.
Paulist Fr. Gilbert Martinez is pastor of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Community in Los Angeles.  He was ordained a priest on May 13, 1995.  He has served as pastor at St. Sebastian Church in Los Angeles and St. Cyril of Alexandria Church in Tucson, AZ.  Prior to these assignments, Fr. Gil was director of campus ministry at the University of California at Berkeley. His other assignments were at the Saint Jude Cancer Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, and associate director of the Paulist Center in Boston.

A native of El Paso, TX, Fr, Gil was reared in California. He completed a bachelor of science degree in conservation of natural resources from the University of California at Berkeley.  He worked for seven years as a National Park Service Ranger at Grand Canyon and Big Bend National Parks before joining the Paulist novitiate.
February 6 - Investment Day
PP Steve Scherer hosts our club members with their prognositcations of investment opportunities for 2025.  How did we do in 2024?  Come see.
February 13 - Denise 
"Why Poetry Matters." Denise is 100% Irish and has degrees from Trinity College in Dublin and Oxford University in England. Her lecture is designed to educate, enlighten and "Why Poetry Matters" Denise is 100% Irish and has degrees from Trinity College in Dublin and Oxford University in England. Her lecture is designed to educate, enlighten and inspire.
February 20 - Dr. Shawn Lin 
Shawn Lin, MD"Ophthalmology and artificial intelligence."  Dr. Lin is the recipient of the Heed Fellowship and the Abelson Fellowship. He has authored more than a dozen peer reviewed publications in leading ophthalmology journals: including the American Journal of Ophthalmology and the British Journal of Ophthalmology. He has written textbook chapters for the classic Practice of Ophthalmology textbook and the subspecialty Cornea textbook, and has delivered keynote presentations at national and international ophthalmology meetings. His research is focused on combining human and artificial intelligence to deliver exceptional surgical results to his patients.
2025 
February 27 TBA
March 6 Janet Schwartz and PP Tom Barron - Day of Trivia
 
2025
January 25 - District Breakfast
June 21 -25 RI Convention in Calgary
 
     
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