神奇扶輪 THE MAGIC OF ROTARY
2024-25年度國際扶輪社長
歐琦珂 Stephanie A. Urchick
美國賓夕法尼亞州McMurray扶輪社
Rotary Club of McMurray Pennsylvania, USA
2024-25年度國際扶輪社 社長簡歷
歐琦珂於2022年退休，擔任諮詢和訓練公司Doctors At Work LLC的合夥人兼營運長。她擁有美國賓夕法尼亞州印第安那大學的領導研究博士學位。她活躍於眾多社區理事會和委員會，並曾獲得國際崇她社和美國革命之子等組織的表彰。
歐琦珂自1991年以來一直是扶輪社員，她首先加入了國際扶輪前社長凱勒(Chuck Keller)的扶輪社，凱勒是她的導師。歐琦珂曾擔任扶輪基金會的保管委員和國際扶輪理事。她曾在國際扶輪擔任過多種職務，包括訓練引導人、區域扶輪基金會協調人和國際扶輪社長代表。此外，她也當過三屆立法會議的代表和不分區代表。
歐琦珂還擔任過數個扶輪委員會的委員，包括選舉審查委員會和營運檢討委員會，以及扶輪策略規劃委員會和扶輪基金會百週年慶委員會的主委。
她曾參加各種國際服務專案，包括印度和奈及利亞的全國免疫日。在越南，她與扶輪社合作幫助興建一所小學，並前往多明尼加共和國安裝濾水器。她會說多種斯拉夫語言，曾在烏克蘭指導新扶輪社員，並協調波蘭一家醫院乳房X光照相設備和活檢室的扶輪基金會獎助金專案。
歐琦珂目前正在協助美國的扶輪社和地區與科索沃、阿爾巴尼亞和烏克蘭的扶輪社合作，提供人道和教育服務。
她希望在2024-25年度增加10萬名扶輪社員，並相信扶輪的魔力在扶輪社這一階層，因為社員們在此服務他們的社區。
「我們需要讓我們的扶輪社體驗讓人難以抗拒」歐琦珂說。「我們希望人們感受到參與扶輪來改變他們自己、他們的社區和世界的價值。」
她是巨額捐獻人，也是扶輪基金會遺贈會會員。
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 Foundation 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 mammography 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 entertainment industries. She received her doctorate degree in Leadership Studies from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and has been recognized and awarded by The Rotary Foundation and numerous community and international organizations.