Join us this Friday at Embassy Suites to welcome Past District Governor Margie Kersey, and learn more about the power of The Rotary Foundation.
Margie
Kersey joined Rotary as a charter member of the Rotary Club of Lake Spivey
(then Clayton County Daybreak) on February 16, 1998, and served as President in
1999-2000. She joined the Rotary Club of Stone Mountain July 2006 and was
President in 2016-17. She is now a member of the Rotary Satellite Club of Stone
Mountain Passport where she serves as Treasurer. She is a Major Donor, Bequest
Society member and is very honored to have been named District Rotarian of the
Year in 2008 and as recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from The
Rotary Foundation.
Margie
served as District Governor in 2011-12 and District Rotary Foundation Chair for
2016-2019. She has also served as District Trainer for three Governors and as
President of The CART Fund (Coins for Alzheimer’s Research Trust). She served
as the District Council on Legislation representative in 2019 and as curriculum
and training chair for PETS for 12 years.
She
is a graduate of Rotary Leadership Institute and is the past Chair of RLI
Sunshine Division. She now serves as the Curriculum Chair. Over the past few years,
she rolled out RLI Online, adapting the RLI curriculum to online delivery. Her
most recent appointment is to the RLI International Board of Directors where
she is serving as the Curriculum, Faculty and Training chair as well as
Communications Director. She has received both the Outstanding Service Award
and the Distinguished Service Award from RLI International. She is enjoying the
challenge of working with Rotarians from around the world.
Margie
is self-employed with her husband, Ron Kersey, as financial and estate planners
specializing in timberland. She is currently working on her doctoral degree in
adult education and curriculum at Valdosta State University.
Ron
and Margie live in Lawrenceville where they attend wine tastings whenever they
can.