Since its founding in 1917, WANADA's primary mission has been to represent and promote the retail automobile business in the Washington Metropolitan area. The Auto Technician Development Program of WANADA’s Automobile Dealer Education Institute (ADEI) has earned a five-year renewal of its Master Automobile Service Technology Accreditation. That is the highest level of achievement recognized by the National Automotive Technician Education Foundation (NATEF), the educational arm of ASE, the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence. “It’s quite an accomplishment,” says Steve Boden WANADA’s educational curriculum advisor on ADEI programing who is also executive vice president of the Automotive Trades Foundation. ATF is the partnership between Montgomery County Public Schools and the local business community, including WANADA, that trains high school students by having them man a licensed used-car dealership. ADEI Tech Development is currently offered at Montgomery College in Rockville and Marshall Academy in Falls Church.
President Caesar Kavadoy congratulates Rotary Scholar Will Todman for his presentation at the meeting on January 8, 2015. Will is from a very small village in England, and graduated from Oxford last summer where he studied Arabic and Modern Hebrew. He's now doing an MA in Arab Studies at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, with a focus on Middle East politics and humanitarian emergencies. He's currently working part time for an advisor to the UN's Special Envoy to Syria too. He talked a about where he's from in England, a bit about Oxford, and then about what he has been doing at Georgetown so far. Last month he traveled to north Jordan with one of his professors to help her with her research with Syrian refugees.
[Above] President Elect Bob Fuhrman (right) and Nihad Kaibni (left) have a "fireside chat" with Potomac-Bethesda Rotary's newest member, Monica Farmer. [Below] We welcomed back Past President Jerry Gross at the first meeting of 2015.
Alex Naron leads Potomac-Bethesda Rotary Club's Manna Food Center Box Packing nights. He needs more volunteers on the second Tuesday of each month. The next Manna Food Center Box Packing Night is February 10 at 7pm.
Rotarians at the Green Road Project service project on December 13. Members of the Rotary Club of Dupont Circle and North Bethesda joined our club in clearing debris; removing trash, brush, and vines; and cleaning up a streambed on the campus of what was formerly known as just the site of Bethesda Naval Hospital. The purpose of this activity is to facilitate the “Green Road Project,” which seeks to upgrade natural environments to optimize nontraditional healing for Wounded Warriors and their families at the new National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD.
The mission of the Green Road is to create opportunities for behavioral health and rehabilitative healing utilizing a combination of natural and manmade elements, including the development of a wheel chair accessible walking path and a central zone of active and passive activity, gardens, and commemorative spaces. The master plan incorporates a 3/8-mile long streambed and adjacent woodlands. The Project will provide a convenient connection between lodging facilities for Wounded Warriors and their families and other parts of the campus where more traditional types of care and rehabilitative services are provided.
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