Welcome to the Friendly Westwood Village Rotary Club Meeting Thursday noon at the UCLA Faculty Center 480 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles, California 90095 Mailing Address:  PO Box 24114, Los Angeles, Ca  90024 2011-2017 Rotary International Pilot Program Club! A 100% Paul Harris Club!   Marsha Hunt, President     Roozbeh Farahanipour, International   Tom Barron, Incoming Pres. Jim Crane, Vocational Colby Smith, Past Pres. Brian Whitney, Youth Diane Good, Vice Pres. Jim Meyer, Community Paul Aslan, Secretary Aly Shoji, Peace Chair Terry M. White, Treasurer Steve Day and Gordon Fell, Foundation Ronald Lyster, Webmaster Philip Gabriel, Membership Nevin Senkan, Board Member Mark Rogo, Board Member

Meeting June 29 - Raife Gulru Gezer, Consul General of Turkey   Events Upcoming Meetings and More June is Rotary Fellowships Month   Meeting June 29 - Raife Gulru Gezer, Consul General of Turkey Raife Gulru Gezer was born in İstanbul in 1979. She graduated from the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Boğazici University in the year 2000. She completed her M.A. in European Political and Administrative Studies at the College of Europe in Brugge, Belgium in 2010. Raife Gulru Gezer started her career in the year 2000 as an editor at the international new department of the NTV news channel. In 2002 she joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey and began working at the European Union Political Affairs Deputy Directorate as a Candidate Career Diplomat. She worked in the same department as Attache, Third Secretary and Second Secretary until 2007. In 2007 she was posted to the Turkish Embassy in Damascus where she worked for two years. Later on she was sent to the Turkish Permanent Representation to the EU in 2009. Returning to Ankara in 2010 she was appointed as the Chief of Cabinet of the Under Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After serving for four years in Ankara, she was appointed as the Consul General of Turkey to Los Angeles. She has assumed her duties on September 15, 2014. Gulru Gezer speaks fluent English and Russian. July 6 - Dark - Happy July 4th! July 13 - Tom Barron The new regime begins.  What is in store for us in Rotary year 2017-2018? Windmill Speakers Roster Local Clubs World Club Locator Past Presidents Anniversary Books:     25   50  75 Rotarians of the Year       Rotary is a leadership organization made up of local business, professional and civic leaders who meet regularly to get to know each other, form friendships, and through that, be able to get things done in our local community.  Rotary is the world’s oldest and largest service organization (founded in 1905). July is the start of new Rotary Club officers' year of service July 18 - District Breakfast August is Membership and New Club Development Month