I was born in Washington DC in the last century. I grew up in Wichita, Kansas. What I enjoyed about growing up in Kansas was the “everything is possible” environment of the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s. I spent the next several years in the US Air Force and at the University of Illinois?/ Champaign-Urbana. Surviving sports in college and two years in Viet Nam has left me two metal knees and a total shoulder replacement in my old age.

I met my wife in St. Louis, and we have two children (Ben and Charlotte). We moved to Milwaukee in 1978, (to be here a year). I lost my wife to cancer in 1997.  My son works in senior management for JP Morgan Chase and lives in New York City. My daughter has moved back from Washington DC to pursue a career in real estate management.

I am currently semi-retired after selling my money management firm to two great friends , who have really expanded the firm in assets and client relationships.

My main hobby is sailboat racing. Currently I have a two-boat team called Team Callavino. Our plan is to race in the 2021 Soling World Championships next fall. We are going to compete in other regattas nationwide this summer.

I am active as a board member of the Milwaukee Community Sailing Center, and the Down Syndrome Association of Wisconsin.

By Rotary magazine staff

Every month in Rotary magazine, we showcase answers to ethical questions that members might face in their Rotary clubs, to help members share best practices with each other as they make their clubs stronger. Below is the ethical challenge we will tackle in the August issue of the magazine.

Your club has been flexible in finding ways to meet and participate in service virtually. Your club president wishes to continue to innovate and has tasked a committee that you chair with creating a new service opportunity each month for club members to take part in, either virtually or in person if it is safe. However, there is reluctance among your fellow committee members, who wish to wait until after the pandemic has ended to work on creating new opportunities for engagement and volunteering. What would you do?

Share your suggestions below and send them to: magazine@rotary.org

By building on a proven concept — such as efforts to stamp out malaria in Zambia — Rotary’s new multimillion-dollar Programs of Scale grants help make good better

by Diana Schoberg and Vanessa Glavinskas Illustrations by Gwen Keraval

As part of the polio eradication campaign, Rotary and its partners have trained millions of health care workers and volunteers and vaccinated nearly 3 billion children. Polio cases have dropped 99.9 percent since Rotary took up the cause in 1985, and the number of countries with endemic wild polio has dropped to two: Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“What you’ve done with polio is remarkable,” says Larry Cooley, a well-known international development consultant. “But it shouldn’t be a study of one.”

Rotary is stepping up to that challenge through Programs of Scale, a new Foundation program awarding grants to Rotary clubs or districts with evidence-based interventions that are ready to scale. The first such grant, announced in February, will provide $2 million to Partners for a Malaria-Free Zambia, a member-led program focused on fighting malaria. Co-funders World Vision U.S. and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are also involved in malaria mitigation efforts and will each contribute $2 million to the program. This $6 million program will train and equip 2,500 community health workers in Zambia to support the government’s work to eradicate malaria in that country.

The concept of Programs of Scale dates back to 2013, when global grants, introduced through The Rotary Foundation’s updated grant model, expanded the scope and size of Rotary projects with the aim of increasing their impact. After a 2016 evaluation of the grant model, the Foundation Trustees requested that a new grant type be developed that would fund “scalable” grant projects in the areas of focus — meaning projects that were planned in a way that allowed them to be expanded, built upon, and further developed.