2024 Float Riders and Outwalkers

President, Rotary International 2023-24

R. Gordon R. McInally was educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh and at the University of Dundee, where he earned his graduate degree in dental surgery. He operated his own dental practice in Edinburgh until 2016. McInally was chair of the East of Scotland branch of the British Paedodontic Society and has held various academic positions. He has also served as a presbytery elder, chair of the Queensferry parish congregational board, and commissioner to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Gordon joined Rotary in 1984 at age 26. A member of the Rotary Club of South Queensferry, he has served as president and vice president of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland. He has also served RI as a director and on several committees, most recently as an adviser to the 2022 Houston Convention Committee and chair of the Operations Review Committee.

Gordon says he looks forward to working with members to build new Rotary clubs and groups. “My vision is that Rotary should exist everywhere in a style to suit everyone who has the desire to be part of us and to help us do good in the world,” he says.

He is a patron of the UK-based nonprofit Hope and Homes for Children and led a partnership between that organization and RIBI to support children in Rwanda who had been orphaned in the genocide there. He is a patron of Trade-Aid, an initiative of the Rotary Club of Grantham Kesteven, England, that provides sustainable humanitarian aid to individuals, families, and businesses in the developing world. He is also an ambassador for Bipolar UK, a national mental health organization. In August 2022, he was made a laureate of the Sino Phil Asia International Peace Awards Foundation.

In his free time, Gordon enjoys rugby, good food and wine, and stick dressing, the traditional Scottish craft of making walking sticks.

Gordon describes The Rotary Foundation as “the engine that provides the energy to do Rotary service.” He and his spouse, Heather, also a Rotarian, are Paul Harris Fellows, Major Donors, Benefactors of The Rotary Foundation, and members of the Bequest Society.

Gordon wishes to dedicate his presidency to making the world a better place for his granddaughters, Ivy and Florence, and all the children of the world, to live and thrive.

Heather McInally Brought up in Edinburgh, Heather studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and the Guildhall School of Music before starting a long career as a professional singer and teacher. She has performed all over the world singing a broad repertoire ranging from early music to musicals, but her real love is the music of her native land, Scotland. She is still much in demand as a teacher and adjudicator, and has spent the past 20 years encouraging youngsters to enjoy music of all styles from classical to jazz and rock. Her Rotary journey began in 1983 when President Elect Gordon joined the Rotary Club of South Queensferry, but she didn’t become a Rotarian until 2002, when she joined the Rotary Club of Linlithgow Grange. She became President there in 2012/13, and on retiring to the Scottish Borders, she joined the Kelso Rotary Club and was President there in 2019/20. Now a founder member of a new style Passport Club – Rotary Borderlands – she is working hard to help bring Rotary in the area to a younger, active audience. The charity Hope and Homes for Children is very close to her heart – her involvement began within months of their beginning during the war in Bosnia in 1994, and she has been a strong supporter ever since. She acts as a speaker, raising awareness of their work, with a special interest in their involvement after the 1994 genocide, in Rwanda. Her daughters, Sarah and Rebecca, have also been a long-standing advocates for the charity, having also seen the work being done in Rwanda at first hand. Heather and Gordon have been married for well over 40 years, and in addition to their daughters, they have 2 granddaughters with whom they can enjoy all the wonderful things the Borderlands can offer – seeing the world through a child’s eyes with Ivy and Florence

ANNOUNCING a Rider — the winner of our Ambassador drawing open to all Individual and Club Ambassadors. MYRA ALLEN from Rotary District 5330 and RC of Temecula Sunrise

Our Rotary Club of Temecula Sunrise International Contribution went this year to Jhaure Bhangre, Nepal Drinking Water Project.

Jamie Zinn is the Chief Operating Officer of a major Western U.S. distribution firm and a proud Rotarian for over 17 years. She served on the RI Designated -5330 World Peace Conference as Treasurer and is a Co-Founder and Director for the Solutions for Peace Foundation. She has served as a Club President, as well as Treasurer, Secretary, and Chair for Foundation, Membership, Public Relations, Vocational, Community Service and Club Administration. She has been Treasurer and Director for District 5330 since 2013.

Professionally, Jamie has been in the Financial Services industry for over 46 years and was a senior executive officer with a nationwide financial services corporation where she held multiple senior level management positions throughout the organization including strategic, business, profit and capital planning; financial planning and reporting including accounting, tax and finance; primary and secondary marketing research; evaluation and development of new product and delivery concepts with strategic and tactical solutions for implementation; enterprise project methodology; retail site, market and network planning strategies; sales management and performance programs; profitability analysis and Human Resources management and delivery. She was also a Principal and owner of a Los Angeles based management consulting practice and until recently, owned a Financial Services firm that specialized in Accounting and Taxation with offices across the Inland Empire.

Jamie attended the University of Southern California and University of Phoenix receiving her Bachelor of Science in Business Management-Administration with an emphasis in Finance, Political Science and Pre-Law. She also attended University of Redlands for their Masters of Business Administration program. She has been an instructor for the Institute of Financial Education, held her Series 6 and Series 7 NASD Licenses and is a member of the National Association of Tax Professionals and Society for Human Resource Management.

Jamie has been recognized as the California Business Woman of the Year in 2005 and 2006 as well as recipient of the Congressional Medal of Distinction in 2006 and 2008 for her work with the Business Advisory Council on taxation. She is currently a proud member of the Mountain Sunrise Rotary Club and has been recognized as the Rotary International Four Avenues of Service Award Recipient in 2008, Rotarian of the Year in 2010/2011 and 2011/2012, Lake Arrowhead Rotary Club Presidents Award Recipient in 2009/2010 and District 5330 Rotary Award of Excellence Recipient for 2013/2014. Jamie is a RLI Graduate, Paul Harris Fellow, Bequest Society Member, Benefactor and Major Donor.

Jamie and her husband Dwight reside in Temecula, and are blessed with daughter Kathryn, son Benjamin and his wife Nora.

Her district 5330 is doing a water project in Thailand as part of their Vocational Training Teams program this year.

Arcadia Rotary Club and District 5300 are very proud to share the story of the Thailand Water and Sanitation Project in the remote jungle highlands of Northern Thailand. The project was fully funded by the Rotary Foundation to the amount of $330,000 with a matching grant from District 5300. The construction is already underway on the first village system funded by Rotary dollars. Our host Rotary Club & partner, the Chiang Mai International Rotary Club has been to that village.

Vicki Arndt has been a proud Rotarian for 25 years. She has served in many leadership positions within her club and District 5240.

One of our major water projects involved putting wells, latrines and hand washing stations in Piyali, a rural village outside of Calcutta India. We participated in large, comprehensive grant that transformed an entire village out of extreme poverty.

Conor’s Districts Water projects include

• Cotobullpa, Bolivia: install irrigation system to improve agricultural outcomes
• Quilpe, Chile: provide basic water management systems in area suffering 20-year drought

• Tanzania: bring water and solar energy to 4 small villages
• Uganda: improve hygiene and healthcare in villages, partnering with Balumu
• Burkina Faso: build wall to protect wells, provide water tower and sanitary facilities for village

• Restoration of the Rio Naranjos Watershed, Ecuador

Patricia Jones is the current President of the Thousand Oaks Rotary Club. She was inspired to join Rotary in 2010 because of its mission to eradicate polio. Patricia had a childhood playmate named “Richie” who had polio. Patricia and her siblings would invent games so Richie could participate from his wheelchair. Patricia has served on various Rotary committees over her 13 years in Rotary including Vocational, International, Community Service and Youth. She has headed up the fundraising efforts of her club’s Chili Cook-Off. Patricia is a Major Donor of Rotary. Patricia first got involved with the Rotary Float in 2017 as Rotary was celebrating 100 years of the Foundation. She rode the float again in 2018 and 2019. She became a Rotary Float Ambassador and member of the committee. This year, she is planning to be a walker and has encouraged her fellow Rotarian Vicki Arndt to join her. Patricia is excited to have encouraged her club to get more involved with decorating and supporting the efforts of the Rotary Rose Parade Float Committee.

One of our major water projects involved putting wells, latrines and hand washing stations in Piyali, a rural village outside of Calcutta India. We participated in large, comprehensive grant that transformed an entire village out of extreme poverty.

Rotary District 5280 is a district of Rotary International located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The district has undertaken several water projects to provide safe water and improved sanitation to villages in Niger, the poorest country in the world. Rotary District 5810, in collaboration with Rotary District 5280, has also initiated a project to provide water to homes in the Navajo Reservation near the 4 corner states, and notably in NE Arizona. The project aims to provide clean water to families who do not have access to running water or electricity.

Alec Bastidas, I graduated from California High School in 2023. Currently attending Mt.SAC and pursuing Commercial Flight. Through my years of high school, I would be a part of the Interact Club and had the opportunity to attend RYLA as a camper and trailblazer. I’ve been associated with the Rotary for a couple of projects, all of which have been a blast and I hope to continue participating as a volunteer.