Rotary Rose Parade Float Committee - Construction Photographs

	The Rotary Rose Parade Float Committee Inc presents our 2011 Float: “Building Communities, Bridging Continents” the theme of 2010-2011 Rotary International President Ray Klinginsmith. Eight bears—actually seven bears and one koala—are outfitted to represent the continents, as in “Bridging Continents.” Eight Rotary Club members will be riding on the float, and seven will be walking with the float. Each one—wearing the traditional costume of their country of origin or the USA--represents one of the continents where 33,000 Rotary clubs form a global network of community volunteers, more than 1.2 million strong!. Our Float Riders and Outwalkers have been selected by the District Governors of the seven southern California and southern Nevada Rotary Districts whose clubs and members provide seed money to start building the float. Funding is completed by donations from Rotary clubs and members across the USA and Canada. Our Outwalkers represent the future of Rotary, young men and women from many nations including the USA who are members of southern California and Nevada Rotary clubs, Rotaract clubs, and Rotary New Generations clubs.
Rotary Districts 5240 5260 5280 5300 5320 5330 5340	Float Riders and Outwalkers Cheney Caldwell Matthew Guillory Janet Hartley Roy Jefferson Daudi Kaliisa Jeanne McClellan Fary Moini Barry Robinson Tatiana Shabelnik DJ Sun
Rotary District 5240	Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern Counties
	Float Rider Daudi Kaliisa, President, Rotary Club of Los Osos
	Outwalker Cheney Caldwell, President, Ventura Rotaract Cheney Caldwell is President of the Rotaract Club of Ventura. Her club, serving the city of Ventura, chartered in June 2010 with 23 business professional men and women in their twenties and thirties. As a start-up club, their local priority is providing assistance to the less fortunate in the community. Their international priority is supporting Rotary’s “Race to End Polio.” Cheney has been working in sales, but is returning to college to finish her Bachelor's Degree. She became involved in Rotary through a dear friend and Rotarian who knew of her desire to do humanitarian work. She tries to live by the words of Ghandi: "Be the change you wish to see in the world", and believes if more people lived by those words, the state of humanity and the earth would be better off. She is excited to be a Rotary Rose Parade Float outwalker, representing thousands of younger members of Rotary, Rotaract and New Generations clubs across the country.
Rotary District 5260	San Fernando Valley, Antelope Valley, Eastern Sierra
	Float Rider Janet Hartley, President, Rotary Club of Granada Hills Janet is winner of many Rotary recognition awards. She and DJ Sun of Koreatown Rotary will be representing Korea/East Asia on the float. Both will be wearing traditional Korean Hanbok. Currently her club is running a Blood Drive and Health Fair with the participation of several community hospitals. Janet is also an active member of North Valley YMCA and Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley. Professionally, Janet is Manager of the US Bank Westlake Village Office. She specializes in the commercial banking field. Janet and her husband Jim live in Westlake Village with their Siamese Cat. They love to travel, be with family, and spend time on their boat.
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Rotary District 5280	Los Angeles Basin
	Float Rider DJ Sun President, Rotary Club of Koreatown In 1989, DJ Sun joined the Koreatown Rotary Club in Los Angeles. He was elected President in 2007–2008 and for second term in 2009-2010. He is a District 5280 Assistant Governor for 2010 – 2011. DJ contributed to the growth of Koreatown Rotary Club’s international projects. Operation Smile is known for providing surgeries for children around the world who have cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities. DJ and Koreatown Rotary Club members led a successful Operation Smile mission to the Philippines in 2008, operating on and giving 50 children their smiles back. In 2009, Koreatown Rotary Club and Munhwa Rotary Club in Seoul, Korea, sponsored another mission to Hai Phong, Vietnam in which 137 children received their smiles back. DJ, the Koreatown Rotary Club, and the Geumjeong Rotary Club of Pusan, Korea worked with Tissue Banks International to provide cornea tissue transplants and restore sight for 28 people in Pusan. DJ and the Koreatown Rotary Club are currently working with Operation Smile in arranging and organizing operations for cleft-lip children in Nepal and with TBI for cornea transplants for 20 people in Jeun-Ju, Korea.
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Rotary District 5300	San Gabriel Valley, San Bernardino County, Southern Nevada
	Float Rider Tatiana Shabelnik, President, Rotary Club of Pico Rivera Tatiana Shabelnik is President of the Rotary Club of Pico Rivera. She was born in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, and grew up under the former Soviet Union. After completing her BA and Masters degrees from the Belarusian University of Culture in Library Science, she taught at the same university, working with students from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Tatiana’s connection to Rotary International goes back to 1992 when she was a Rotary exchange fellow in the city of Weert, Holland, with an internship at the Weert Public Library. Her host Rotarians became an inspiration in Tatiana’s life. In 1994, she came to the United States as a graduate exchange student at Louisiana State University. She subsequently completed all the coursework for her PhD and 2001 became web manager for Whittier College. Tatiana joined Rotary in 2006 after speaking at the Rotary Club of Pico Rivera to share her ideas about a student exchange with Belarus. While attending a Rotary meeting in Minsk, she learned about “Project Baby Heart” which helps children with a condition known as “Chernobyl heart,” a heart with multiple holes. Her Pico Rivera club is now a sponsor of “Project Baby Heart.”
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Rotary District 5320	Orange County, Southern Los Angeles County
	Float Rider Roy Jefferson is Past President of the Rotary Club of Anaheim Hills Roy is currently an Executive Assistant Governor in District 5320. Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Roy moved to Santa Ana, CA when he was 18 and attended Santa Ana College and Fullerton College. He became a State Farm insurance agent in 1983 and has owned his own insurance business in Anaheim Hills for 27 years. In 1993 Roy was invited to join Rotary by an accountant in his community. In 1995-96 Roy served as president of the Anaheim Hills Rotary Club. During his 17 years in Rotary, has participated in many worthwhile projects including personally administering drops of Polio vaccine into the mouths of children in Caborca, Mexico and also building homes in Mexico. Roy’s wife of 26 years, Janice and his daughter, Joanna, have volunteered to help decorate the Rotary floats many times over the years. Roy is honored to represent Rotary District 5320 in the Rose Parade and to be a part of this wonderful American tradition.
	Outwalker
Rotary District 5330	Riverside and Imperial Counties
	Float Rider Barry Robinson, President, Lake Arrowhead Mountain Sunrise Rotary Club Barry was born and raised in England, where he owned five regional Super-Save-Stores. After coming to the United States in 1976, he continued in the food and retail field, retiring from Sysco Corporation after 25 years. He is now Director of Business Development for Valley Services/Traditions, specializing in Meals for Senior Nutrition Programs. Barry joined Lake Arrowhead Mountain Sunrise Rotary Club in 2008 and became totally immersed in all the wonderful work that Rotary does. With the multi-faceted help of his wife Cheryl (President-elect for the Rim of the World Soroptomists) he was in charge of his club’s annual televised auction, netting $46,000 for their Mountain charities. In addition to Rotary youth programs, Barry is excited about District 5330’s work with Odoworo Village in Uganda. This multi-year project has brought fresh water, crops, bee hives, education, mosquito nets, solar lighting and above all, the trust and love of the people of this village. Barry’s other philanthropic endeavors have included Chairman of the Mill Hill Project devoted to physically challenged children in London; Chairman, The Food Service Circle at the City of Hope; Chairman of the Meals on Wheels Association of America Foundation; Advisor to The American Red Cross for Disaster Preparedness and Mass Care/Feeding and Recovery; Board Member of Hearts & Lives; and Board Member of St. Bernardine Medical Center Foundation.
	Outwalker Jeanne McClellan, Past President, RC Temecula
Rotary District 5340	San Diego County
	Float Rider Fary Moini Board Member, Rotary Club of La Jolla Golden Triangle She holds a bachelor of science degree in nursing from the University of Tehran, Iran. She is currently Rotary International’s representative on the U.S. National Commission to UNESCO through 2010. In 2005, Fary was a Rotary Foundation volunteer at the Don Bosco Boys School in Nairobi, Kenya, assisting in the medical clinic. In 2002 she volunteered with the Rotary Foundation in Jalalabad Afghanistan, overseeing the development of a Rotary school that now has more than 5,000 male and female students. She was awarded Rotarian of the Year from Rotary District 5340 in 2002-03.
	Outwalker Matthew Guillory, President, Rotary Club of Mission Valley Sunset Matthew Guillory is the Banking Center Manager and Assistant Vice President of Comerica Bank’s Mission Valley office in San Diego. Matthew graduated in the top of his class while earning his Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from San Diego State University, He is currently working towards his Masters of Science in Finance at San Diego State. Matthew is the Charter President of the Rotary Club of San Diego Mission Valley Sunset. He is also on the boards of Innovations Academy and Mabuhay Alliance. Additionally Matthew serves as a Board Member and Loan Committee Member at Bankers CDC Loan Program, which works to offer for-profit and non-profit businesses alternative lending options to conventional small business loans. Matthew has been a resident of San Diego for more than 8 years and leads by example for his three siblings, Antonio, 28, Dianggello, 14, and Cherish-Dion, 3.