State Representative David E. Rutledge is serving his third term for House District 54, which includes the City of Ypsilanti, along with Superior and Ypsilanti Townships. He is currently the Minority Vice Chair of the Military and Veterans Affairs Committee, and serves on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and Local Government Committee.
He is the president of Alpha Environmental Services Inc. and has also served on the Washtenaw County Road Commission, the Washtenaw Community College Board of Trustees, the State Boundary Commission and the Ann Arbor Community Foundation. He earned a bachelor¹s degree in political science from Tennessee State University.
Rutledge and his wife, Geraldine Simmons Rutledge, have two children, Marcus and Felicia, and two grandchildren, Kelton and Darius.
Rotary members in India selected a popular racecourse in Mumbai to promote Rotary to the tens of thousands of racing aficionados who gather there daily, raising more than $350,000 for club service projects in the process.
And between races, spectators at the Mahalaxmi Race Course were also treated to the Rotary members attempt at a Guinness World Record as 650 members, 75 of them dressed in white and 575 in black, formed the shape of a horse -- with the Rotary wheel as its eye -- on the lawn of the members area.
Despite his longstanding interest in polio eradication, polio was not on Joe Pratt's mind as he prepared for a mid-April 2012 climb of Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth. But that changed in late 2011, when the resident of Nottingham, New Hampshire, USA, participated in a polio immunization project in Pakistan with fellow Rotary member Steve Puderbaugh.
Moved by the efforts of the Pakistanis to battle the crippling disease, and by the vulnerability of the young victims, Pratt reset the focus of his climbing adventure. Pakistan is one of three countries where polio has never been stopped (the others are Afghanistan and Nigeria).
Using their talents, expertise, and leadership, Rotary members worldwide are asked to be gifts to the world this upcoming 2015-16 Rotary year.
Rotary International President-elect K.R. "Ravi" Ravindran called Sunday's address to incoming district governors the "most significant moment of my life."
"All of you have been given so many gifts. And you have now been given this great gift: one year to take all your talents, all your gifts, everything that you are and can become -- and Be a Gift to the World," said Ravindran, revealing his presidential theme at the annual five-day training meeting in San Diego, California, USA. "You have one year to take that potential and turn it into reality. One year to lead the clubs in your district and transform the lives of others. The time is so short, yet there is so much to be done."
May 18, 2015
