Rotary District 9630 On-Line Changeover

SYLVIA WHITLOCK
Sylvia Whitlock was born in New York City but educated in Kingston, Jamaica. She returned to New York City to earned a B.A. in Psychology. Sylvia worked for the United Nations as a statistical clerk in New York before moving to California to start a career in Education. In California she went on to earn a Masters Degree cum laude in Education and a Ph.D. cum laude in Education. Subsequently, she earned another Masters Degree, in Marriage and Family Therapy, and began a second career as a therapist. She is licensed by the Board of Behavioural Sciences in California.
The Rotary Club of Duarte, California, was chartered in District 530 in 1952. But in 1976, the Duarte club violated Rotary's bylaws by inviting women to join, ultimately causing its charter to be unceremoniously revoked by Rotary International. Undeterred, the club renamed itself the Ex-Rotary Club of Duarte and its members continued on their quest not to be outcasts of one of the greatest humanitarian organisations in the world.
In 1982, at the invitation of one of the women whose admission had caused the ouster of the Rotary Club of Duarte, Sylvia joined the Ex-Rotary Club of Duarte.
Sylvia became President of that club in 1987, the year the United States Supreme Court ruled that the club be reinstated, thus making her the first woman in the Rotary World to head a club as President. She has served as President twice and as Secretary, Treasurer and Foundation Representative. At District level, she chaired the Four Way Test Speech committee for six years, the Ambassadorial Scholarship Committee for six years and Simplified Grants for two years. She has been an Assistant Governor, presenter in Governors' Institutes and a speaker in Rotary Clubs, conventions and meetings in the USA and overseas.
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