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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
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Rotary Districts 5240
5260 5280
5300 5320
5330 5340
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Float Riders and Outwalkers
Cheney Caldwell
Matthew Guillory
Janet Hartley
Roy Jefferson
Daudi Kaliisa
Jeanne McClellan
Fary Moini
Barry Robinson
Tatiana
Shabelnik
DJ Sun
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Rotary District 5240 |
Ventura,
Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern Counties
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Float Rider
Daudi Kaliisa, President,
Rotary Club of Los Osos |
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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. |
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Rotary District 5260 |
San Fernando Valley,
Antelope Valley, Eastern Sierra
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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
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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
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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
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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. |
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Outwalker |
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Rotary
District 5330 |
Riverside
and Imperial Counties
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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. |
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Outwalker
Jeanne McClellan, Past
President, RC Temecula |
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Rotary
District 5340 |
San Diego
County
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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.
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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. |
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The Rotary Rose Parade Float is
not an official Rotary International program.
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