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2024-25 年度國際扶輪社長
RIPE 歐琦珂 Stephanie Urchick 簡介
Stephanie A. Urchick
2024-25 Rotary International President
Rotary Club of McMurray,
Pennsylvania,
Stephanie Urchick is a member of the Rotary Club of McMurray, Pennsylvania, USA. She
will serve RI as president in 2024-25. She has been an RI director and Rotary Foun-dation
trustee. She has served RI in numerous capacities, including as training leader, regional
Rotary Foundation coordinator, and RI president's representative. In addition, Stephanie
was a representative and member-at-large to three sessions of the Council on Legislation.
Stephanie has also served as chair of the Rotary Strategic Planning Committee and The
Rotary Foundation's Centennial Celebration Committee, as well as a member of various
Rotary committees, including the Election Review Committee and Operational Review
Committee.
A Rotary member since 1991, Stephanie has participated in a variety of international
service projects, including National Immunization Days in India and Nigeria. In Vietnam,
she worked with clubs to help build a primary school and traveled to the Dominican
Republic to install water filters. A student of several Slavic languages, she has mentored
new Rotary members in Ukraine and coordinated a Rotary Foundation grant for a mam-
-mography equipment and a biopsy unit for a hospital in Poland. In its commemorative
book, the Rotary Club of Krakow, Poland, noted Stephanie as a key figure for helping the
re-birth of Rotary in post-Communist Poland.
Currently, Stephanie is helping to partner clubs and districts in the U.S. with Rotary clubs
in Albania, Kosovo, and Ukraine for humanitarian and educational services.
Stephanie's professional background is in the higher education, consulting, and enter-
tainment industries. She received her doctorate degree in Leadership Studies from Indi-
ana University of Pennsylvania and has been recognized and awarded by The Rotary
Foundation and numerous community and international organizations.
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