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Mount Prospect Rotary Club elects new president

• Mount Prospect resident James Helm was elected president of the Mount Prospect Sunrise Rotary Club for the 2010-2011 Rotary year. A senior structural engineer at Bowman Barrett & Associates, in Chicago, Helm was installed during a recent awards ceremony and dinner, held at his home. He has been the club's international service chairman since 2006. William Beattie, an attorney with The Law Offices of Thomas Glasgow, Ltd., Schaumburg, succeeds him in the international service post.

Sunrise Rotary's new president-elect is Marcin Bos, manager of MB Financial Bank's Mount Prospect branch; Bert Schmitt, a Palatine CPA and charter member of the club, was elected vice president.

Rhonda J. Serafin, manager of adult education and family literacy at High School District 214 Community Education, was elected club treasurer and will also serve as vocational service chairman. She was 2007-2008 president of the Arlington Heights Sunrise Rotary Club.

Jere Teed, retired business manager/controller of CEDA Northwest, continues as club secretary.

Other members of the Sunrise Rotary board include: club service chair, Marilyn Genther, executive director Mount Prospect Public Library; community service chair, Maria Guillen, senior travel consultant in the Mount Prospect office of AAA Chicago; membership committee and literacy chair, Dr. Harold Wyckoff, a Des Plaines dentist; foundation committee chair and End Polio coordinator, Brian Gilligan, professor of business and accounting and chair of the department of business technologies, Morton College; fundraising chairperson, Susan Dozier, Mount Prospect branch manager, American Chartered Bank; public relations committee chair, Richard Bragaw, president, Bragaw Public Relations Services, Palatine.

The Mount Prospect Sunrise Rotary Club is part of a global network of volunteers that comprises about 32,000 clubs in more than 200 countries. Its mission is to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace throughout the world.

• The Sisterhood of Congregation Beth Judea, Long Grove, elected the following officers and directors for 2010-2012: Officers: Co-presidents, Rhonda Cohn and Debbi Green; membership vice president, Elizabeth Ladin-Gross; programming vice president, Wendy Weinger; education vice president, Bobbi Goldenberg; secretary, Melissa Chudnoff; treasurer, Davida Finkle; and parliamentarian, Lauri Rosenbloom.

Directors are: Lori Finn, Pamela Max, Mary Brickman, Harriet Fine, Laura Zoller, Linda Lippman, Karen Nagel, Ann Lerman, Sherry Krawitz, Ellen Antman, Eileen Spiegel, Carla Bankendorf, Renee Lustig, Gloria Hernandez, Sari London, Laurie B. Davis, Karen Bakst, Sherry Weinberger, Heidi Sakol and Marilyn Victor.

The Sisterhood offers religious, social, education and charitable programs to all the women of Beth Judea. For information about Sisterhood, visit BethJudea.org.

• Maine Township High School District 207 board of education named Dr. Henry (Hank) Thiele chief technology officer.

Board members formally approved an updated job description that expands on the responsibilities Thiele has handled since joining the district as director of technology in 2007. As chief technology officer, Thiele will take on additional duties in the area of managing the district's information technology and data processing functions. With his new title and responsibilities, he will also serve as a member of Superintendent Dr. Ken Wallace's cabinet.

Thiele earned his doctoral degree from Roosevelt University and taught and served as technology coordinator at Conant High School in Hoffman Estates before joining Maine 207. He is a Google Certified Teacher and Administrator.

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