Carolyn joined the Rotary Club of Anchorage East in 1987.  From 1997-1998, she was the governor of R.I. District 5010.  Her past Rotary activities include: President’s Representative to Districts in Italy, Canada, Slovakia and the USA; 2000 and 2005 International Training Leader; delegate to the 2001 and 2004 Councils of Legislation; service on a variety of RI committees; membership on the Northwest PETS Operations Committee; and 2003-2005 Rotary Regional Foundation Coordinator.  She was the chairperson of the 2004 Zone 22 Rotary Institute.  On 1 July 2005, Carolyn began a four-year term as a Trustee  on the Board of Directors of the Rotary Foundation.

 

In 1999 and 2000 she headed the Rotary committee that coordinated the U.S. Library of Congress-sponsored visits to the United States of emerging young Russian leaders.  She was  a member of the Khabarovsk-Alaska Rule of Law Steering Committee from 2001 to 2005.  She is the continual Yale Law School Class of 1966 Class Secretary and Reunion Chairperson.

 

She has received the Rotary “Service Above Self Award” and the Rotary Foundation “Citation For Meritorious Service,” as well as the Alaska Bar Association’s “Distinguished Service Award.”  In 2002, she was named over 149 other nominees as the “Volunteer of the Year” by the Russian Children’s Foundation – a nonprofit organization based in Moscow, Russia.

 

Carolyn has traveled to Russia 28 times in her service to Rotary – four of those visits as a Rotary Volunteer.  Her story “The Children of Russia” was published in the July 2002 issue of the Rotarian and in “Chicken Soup For The Volunteers’ Soul.”

 

Carolyn has two married, adult daughters but no grandchildren.  She loves to fish for salmon; hike Alaska’s many trails; see the world; work in her flower garden, and count the stars in the bottom of her champagne glass.