"Chuck" was admitted to Presbyterian Hospital yesterday, May 29, and passed away suddenly today, May 30, from serious health issues. The Family will be announcing a Memorial Service to his friends within a few weeks He was a member of San Juan Rotary for 42 years and was retired President of Hitt & Zalduondo, builders of many housing urbanizations in Puerto Rico. On January 9th, Chuck celebrated his 99th birthday.
WILLIAM MEVS(Restaurant Industry). Bill, a member of our club from 1987-2013, is the owner of Barrachina Restaurant on Calle Fortaleza in Old San Juan. PP Jennifer Bates was his sponsor.
Visiting Rotarian Vicki Brentin of Houston, Texas, as District Director of Disaster Recovery, is in Puerto Rico on a water filter project for churches, homes for the elderly and clinics. Invited to the meeting to receive a Paul Harris Award for his over $60,000 contribution to financially support the water project was EVAN ROSE, a 27-year-old 20/22 investor resident of San Juan. Here we see young EVAN receiving his Paul Harris from DGE Juanita, PDG & President Elect José M.(Pepito) & Vicki Brentin.
Hilda Diaz Soltero, Caribbean Advisor to the APHIS Administrator, USDA, spoke on her life in conservation and management of natural resources. With a degree in Public Policy and Program Management from Harvard School of Government, our speaker went on to administer the UPR Botanical Gardens and Public Recreation. Then, Deputy Secretary of the Dept. of Sports & Recreation followed by Secretary, Dept. of Natural Resources where monies from the Legislature created the Area de Bosques, Santuarios y Reservas Naturales.among many conservation projects Next project was the creation of the Puerto Rico Conservation Trust with the support of $23 million from the Secretary of the Treasury and the Governor of PR. Making national news was the suing of the US Navy to return the lands of Vieques and Culebra. Those lands are being restored from unexploded ordinance or are now used as natural areas by wildlife and people. After she left pubic service in Puerto Rico, she worked in the international area in the Caribbean ad Latin America. Programs were established in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay & Puerto Rico. Hurricane Hugo found her leading the recovery effort for the Puerto Rican Parrot. She lived and worked in Minnesota, recruited by Bruce Babbitt, then Secretary of the Interior. On to Washington, DC with many projects and as Associate Chief for Natural Resources, US Forest Service Back home in Puerto Rico, she is now the Caribbean Administrator to APHIS of the USDA. Our speaker feels fortunate to have discovered in her childhood a passion for nature and very fortunate to have been born into a family where girls were raised like boys in terms of education and expectations with her parents inviting her to "be the best that you can be."
Celebrating our 100th Anniversary
The oldest continuously operating club in the worldsouth of the Tropic of Cancer.
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