Events

Welcome to our club assembly meeting.  

This is where we discuss club business, ongoing and future projects, fundraising and Rotary updates.  This is the best place to learn what Rotary is all about and to meet our great Members.

Guests and prospective members are invited to attend.  Please RSVP to Alex Parajon, Rotary Club President by phone at (818) 482-0612 or email at aparajon@paragonbizsolutions.com

We will have a buffet breakfast available at 7am for a cost of $21

Food, Games and Rotary Family Fun!

-Cornhole competition + a lot more family fun

Don't miss out and RSVP today!

Melody St. John has been involved with Rotary throughout her entire life, from her days as the daughter of a Rotarian in South Dakota when women were not accepted as members. Today she utilizes her passion for youth programs and has been involved with Rotary youth exchange for over 20 years. She and her husband Paul are currently hosting their 21st exchange student from Turin, Poland.

A member and Past President of the Rotary Club of Hollywood, St. John is involved in a number of  Rotary District 5280 initiatives. She and her husband have been on 9 International Humanitarian trips. Beyond the District, she is the Chair of the multi-district high school youth exchange program (SCANEX) and works with over 100 students each year, placing them in the best situations here in the U.S. and abroad. She and her husband, Rotarian Paul St. John (LA5), are co-founders of the Rotary USA Train Tour going in its 21^th year, having taken over 900 students on a 30-day year-end journey around the USA. St. John is currently serving on the board of NAYEN (North American Youth Exchange Network).

In her professional life, St. John’s founded Video Tape Library, a stock footage image library, in 1984.  The library has over a million images compiled from over 250 cameramen form around the world.  Fun fact:  Her library was used in beta testing for a fledgling website called “YouTube.”

The VRCL is designed to assist the criminal justice community in analyzing evidence taken from crime scenes. The VRCL uses state-of-the-art technology and equipment in the analysis of evidence. Examiners employed at the VRCL are highly trained and educated in their fields of specialty. They also receive extensive training in their areas of expertise. Each is qualified to provide expert courtroom testimony. The VRCL was granted accreditation by ASCLD/LAB-International Program in May 2013.

The VRCL is comprised of the Forensic Biology Unit, Computer Forensics Unit, and Forensic Services Unit. Three Examiners staff the DNA lab, four examiners in Forensic Services (which includes NIBIN, Crime Scene Processing and Latent Prints), and four examiners in the Computer Forensics Lab. The staff also provides training to law enforcement officers and detectives in crime scene investigation, evidence collection and preservation.

The VRCL offer forensic services which include the following:

Crime Scene Investigations: Photography, Evidence Collection, Scene Sketch

Forensic Biology: DNA, CODIS

Latent Prints: Processing, Comparisons, AFIS

Firearms: Test fire and NIBIN

Digital Forensics: Computers and Cell Phones

About Catherine: Catherine Nguyen obtained her B.S. and PhD in Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Nguyen has worked at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Texas Department of Public Safety prior to establishing the Verdugo Regional Crime Laboratory Forensic Biology Unit at the Glendale Police Department. The Forensic Biology Unit serves over 30 federal, regional and local law enforcement agencies. In 2017, Dr. Nguyen promoted to DNA Laboratory Supervisor at the Verdugo Regional Crime Laboratory. She has been recognized for her work by the Verdugo-Montrose Chamber of Commerce, the Crescenta Valley Chamber of Commerce, and the Glendale Police Department. Currently, Dr. Nguyen serves the Laboratory Director of the Verdugo Regional Crime Laboratory. She is an active member of the American Academy of Forensic Science, the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors, the California Association of Crime Laboratory Directors and the California Criminalistics Institute.

Join us for an amazing opportunity of a joint fellowship with other clubs in our district. 

In 1911, Paul Harris, the founder of Rotary, wrote an article entitled “Rational Rotarianism” which can be summarized as follows: “Life in Rotary should be a rational mixture of business, civic activities, and good fellowship.” Rotary Means Business Fellowship was created to encourage Rotarians to network among themselves and to find ways to do business and support each other. An original intent of Rotary was for like-minded business professionals to amplify their fellowship and through association strengthen businesses as well as their communities. Rotarians in the 63 Rotary clubs of Northeast Florida District 6970 continue to build on those core principles put in place over 100 years ago. After all, who would you rather do business with?

Rotary Means Business (RMB) encourages Rotarians to support the success of their fellow Rotarians by doing business with them, and by referring others to them.

We share a common belief that we should honor the roots of our great worldwide organization and support one another in business guided by the core principles of Rotary.

RMB provides a structure to bring business relationships back into Rotary in a way that supplements rather than competes with the service and fellowship aspects of our clubs.  When we are able to provide opportunities to strengthen the businesses represented in Rotary, our members will be stronger, thus creating stronger clubs.  In addition, we encourage Rotarians to bring guest to these meetings, which WILL increase the membership of your individual clubs.

RMB provides a structure to bring business relationships back into Rotary in a way that supplements rather than competes with the service and fellowship aspects of Rotary.

When we are able to provide opportunities to strengthen the businesses represented at Rotary, our members will be stronger creating stronger clubs.

Stronger clubs automatically mean Rotary itself is stronger, The Rotary Foundation is stronger, and therefore we are able to do more to make our communities stronger.

Lucy Burghdorf is the Director of Public Affairs & Communications at Hollywood Burbank Airport.

Jim Collins is the founder, owner and operator of Town Kitchen and Grill in Montrose, CA, a 100 seat new American restaurant that recently won 10 best new American restaurants in Los Angeles. But that’s just his night job. During the days Jim has CEO’d a series of national, venture-backed distributed enterprises including Affinity Internet, a hosting company with more than 500,000 websites and Pictage, a B2B2C enterprise connecting professional photographers and their clients. Today Jim is CEO of Pasadena, CA based Kitchen United, a commercial kitchen outsourcer and operator serving the delivery, restaurant and entrepreneurial food community.

Join us and unite with other Rotarians for a day of service.

This will be an amazing experience.  Signup sheet will be available soon:

Dave Gallagher is currently Associate Director for Strategic Integration at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Previously, he was the Director and Deputy Director for Astronomy, Physics, and Space Technology and before that he was manager of JPL's Advanced Optical Systems Program Office. Prior to that assignment, Gallagher was the project manager for the Space Interferometry Mission. He also managed the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Starlight project, the Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer instrument and Drop Physics Module reflight. In addition, he served as the integration and test manager for the Wide-Field/Planetary Camera 2 instrument, which corrected the spherical aberration for the Hubble Space Telescope. Gallagher received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1982. After working for IBM for several years, he started and ran a software consulting firm until he joined JPL in 1989.

15th Annual State of the Schools Breakfast on October 3rd from 7:00 to 8:30 am at the Glendale Civic Auditorium! 

https://www.glened.org/event/15th-annual-state-of-the-schools-breakfast-3/

Our Regular Club meeting has been moved to Wed Oct 9 for the Glendale Fire Department Awards Luncheon.

Please contact us at glendalesunriserotary@gmail.com if you are interested in attending.

DISTRICT 5280 GALA

ANNUAL FOUNDATION CELEBRATION!

Tickets are $130 per person.  RSVP as soon as Possible.