District Assembly Awards

Noelle & Sondra

Galperin Named Humanitarian of the Year

District Assembly is where the Rotary Club leadership goes to be trained for the new Rotary year (which starts in less than 90 days) and the outgoing leadership gets recognized for all that they have accomplished during the year.  Rotary Club of Coral Gables did pretty good!

Our own Noelle Galperin was the recipient of a newly created District Award,  HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR.  She was lauded for her outstanding work on behalf of Rotary International with the PolioPlus NID program.

Last year she accepted the position as Chair of the District Haiti Initiative well before the January 2010 earthquake. As with everything in which Noelle is involved ... she has done an outstanding job!

She was at the Assembly with her mother, Sondra to speak to the Haiti Initiative and to give out the first District Award for Service named for her late father, PDG Arnold Galperin.  She knew nothing about her own recognition and was completely taken aback by the award,  We are very proud to have Noelle as a member of the Rotary Club of Coral Gables.

The Club also won First Place for the "Best International Service Project for 2010-2011.  That is of course the project developed and nurtured by International Avenue Chair Catarina Jimenez and  Bill Quesenberry in Honduras.

Additionally, Coral Gables received Honorable Mentions for "Best Club Newsletter" for our Rotarygram Blog;  "Best Community Service Project" for Habitat for Grandma with Coral Gables @Home and for "Best Public Relations" for the way that we branded RCCG with our pin, our Rotarian at Work T-shirts, 5 Way Test and all of the ads and media for Chance & Dance.

And thanks to all of you and all that you did for the club, the community and the world this year, we also received the Presidential Citation from Rotary International.

All in all not a bad showing for one of 51 Rotary Clubs in District 6990!  Much to be proud of we have.