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Madra is a Central Regional Director at the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development.  In that role, she helps to connect for-profit, non-profit, and local government entities with financial resources, training, and technical assistance.  Previously, she served as a Local Government Policy Manager with the Governor’s Center for Local Government Services where she worked with local municipalities to regionalize their police and fire services, to assess their internal effectiveness, and to assist EMS agencies to provide effective and efficient services to their communities.  Madra has worked in a variety of roles at DCED including overseeing a federal entitlement program to address the needs of low income families, managing a multimillion-dollar statewide homelessness program designed to get individuals and families rapidly housed or to prevent them from becoming homeless, and a statewide training program for municipal officials.  Prior to her 21 years of public service, Madra worked at for-profit and non-profit organizations. 

Madra hold a Master’s in Business Administration with a specialization in Leadership from Capella University and a BA in Psychology from Millersville University.  She considers herself a lifelong learner and is always seeking new ways to learn.

Madra Clay grew up in the City of Philadelphia and learned many lessons in life by playing basketball on the local playgrounds.  She turned that skill into a scholarship and played basketball in college.  The love of sports helped Madra gained a competitive spirit which she has used to challenge herself in all aspects of life.

When seeking alternative interests, Madra enjoys traveling, billiards, cooking, and trying different foods.  She considers herself a foodie and has traveled all the way to Argentina to eat food at a restaurant owned by a famous chef because she wanted to try food she thought would be delicious.  To feed her competitive nature, Madra is a professional boxing official with the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission.  Madra loves the sport of boxing.  She currently lives in Lancaster and has a son.

Come join our annual red kettle ringing with the Salvation Army! In front of Karns in Hershey. 

Dr. Khosrow-Pour taught undergraduate and graduate information system courses at the Pennsylvania State University – Harrisburg for almost 20 years. He is currently Executive Editor at IGI Global (www.igi-global.com). He also serves as Executive Director of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) (www.irma-international.org) and Executive Director of the World Forgotten Children’s Foundation (www.world-forgotten-children.org). He is the author/editor of more than 100 books in information technology management. He is also currently the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Green Computing, International Journal of Library and Information Services, International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and International Journal of Natural Computing Research, and is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Information Resources Management Journal, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, Journal of Cases on Information Technology, and the Journal of Information Technology Research, and has authored more than 50 articles published in various conference proceedings and scholarly journals.

Come join our annual red kettle ringing with the Salvation Army! In front of Karns in Hershey. 

Distributing food items to families as they drive through the parking lot at Spring Creek Church of the Brethern, 335 East Areba Avenue, Hershey.

Warehouse packing shift, pack food items in bags for distribution.

Join us as Kathleen Stoup,District International Service Chair, updates us on happenings in Kenya.  

Here's some history: 

Kenya is home to the first Rotary club in East Africa — the Rotary Club of Nairobi, founded in 1930 .

When the Muthaiga club was founded in 1997, there were 20 clubs in all of Kenya, including eight in Nairobi. The club took its name from the verdant Nairobi neighborhood that is in turn named for the medicinal Muthaiga tree.

Muthaiga is one of the city’s most exclusive neighborhoods, home to ambassadors, politicians, and other elites, but from the start, Manji wanted the new club to be different. It was the only one in town that met on Monday night, and members decided not to have a full meal. The club encouraged couples to join and made a point to promote women in membership as well as leadership. Members say this has resulted in one of the club’s greatest strengths: its diversity, in background and age as well as gender. The club has had a number of women presidents, one of whom happens to be Rotary Foundation Trustee Geeta K. Manek.

One of the club’s greatest strengths is its diversity, in background and age as well as gender.

Over the years, the club has compiled an impressive résumé of projects, including in the areas of vocational training, maternal and child health, literacy, and youth education. Another strong focus of the club, is water and sanitation. In 2010, when a devastating drought struck the country’s Turkana region, the club mobilized to send truckloads of food and supplies north from Nairobi. 

Since then, the club has stayed involved in that region, donating boats to fishermen on Lake Turkana and helping with crop development through a project called Furrows in the Desert, which uses irrigation methods developed in Israel to grow crops in arid regions. 

With the help of Rotary Foundation grants, the Rotarians have built a school and a health clinic and installed electricity. During the pandemic, they also helped several schools in and around Nairobi rebuild or improve their bathroom facilities with an eye toward improving hygiene. 

John Kramb joined the Rotary Club of Gettysburg in 2005, and has served Rotary as club president, Assistant Governor, and District Governor (2015-2016).  He is a past District Rotary Foundation Chair for District 7390. In July 2020 he became the End Polio Now Coordinator for Region 39, northeast US.

John is a member of five Rotary Fellowships: Motorcycling Rotarians, Rotary on Stamps, BREW, Whiskey, and Veteran Rotarians.

He has attended Rotary International Conventions in Montreal, New Orleans, Lisbon, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Atlanta, Toronto, Hamburg, and Houston.

 It was while attending the convention in New Orleans that he learned about Polio immunizations in India.  He has travelled to India four times to participate in National Immunization Days. 

John served in the United States Army from 1970 to 1995, when he retired in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.  He and his wife Katherine have been married for twenty-five years, and they own the Adams County Winery. (No, there are NOT any free samples).

He was also presented a perfect attendance certificate in fourth grade at Waller Elementary School in Bossier (Boshur) City, Louisiana. 

John is an avid motorcyclist.  In 2022 he has ridden in excess of 10,000 miles.