|
|
|
Rotary's Second Batch of Women District Governors |
| |
| Zone 34, District 6990, Carleen
Spano, Sunset Beach,
FL |
| |
 Carleen M. Spano Rotary Biography
Rotary
Club Membership
Carleen M. Spano joined the Rotary Club of
Miami Beach in 1987 where she became a major donor and member of
the Bequest Society. She served as Bulletin Editor, Treasurer,
Sergeant-at-Arms, Secretary and President and was a former
Rotarian of the Year. After her retirement, she joined the
Rotary Club of Miami Lakes, where she served on the board and as
club secretary.
District 6990
She has also been active
in District 6990 through service as the 1996-97 governor, with
48 Rotary clubs in an international district including Southeast
Florida, U.S.A., stretching from Deerfield Beach to Key West and
also including Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas. In her year of
governor’s service, she was named a co-recipient of the Florida
Professional and Business Women’s Annual Glass Ceiling Award.
She has served on and/or chaired numerous district committees,
including the Group Study Exchange Committee, the Ambassadorial
Scholarship Committee, the Nominating Committee and the Finance
and Procedure Committee. She has served the district in a number
of capacities, including group representative, district
secretary, district Foundation chairman, and as district
trainer.
State
She helped in the organization of
training for the 2006 and 2007 Florida Presidents-elect Training
Seminar and has served as the training leaders’ trainer in
addition to serving as trainer of club presidents. She has also
trained faculty members for the Sunshine Division of the Rotary
Leadership Institute.
Zones 33 and 34
At the zone
level, Carleen has served on the Executive Committee as
Operations Chairman of the Zones 33 and 34 Institute and has
been the training leader for governors-elect and governors
nominee. She has also participated in zone institutes as a
panelist and speaker.
Rotary International
She has
held numerous Rotary International appointments. She was an
International Assembly Training Leader in 2000 and 2001. Other
appointments include serving as 1999-2000 Chair of the North
American Affairs Committee, member of the1998-99 Women and Rotary
Committee, representative to the 2004 Council on Legislation,
zone coordinator for the Annual Fund, zone coordinator for the
Member Retention Task Force, zone coordinator for the Family of
Rotary and member of the Extension of Rotary to Cuba Committee
followed by service as senior advisor to that committee. She has
attended 10 international conventions (Portland, Mexico City,
Orlando, Calgary, Glasgow, Indianapolis, Singapore, San Antonio,
Barcelona, Chicago). She was a panelist on Women in Future
Society at the Glasgow convention and a panelist on New
Developments in Buenos Aires. Carleen has been a President’s
Representative and district conference speaker in California,
Florida, Puerto Rico, Nevada, Sicily and Perú.
Professional
Carleen currently serves as the Dean of Academic
Affairs at the South Florida Metro of DeVry University. She
previously retired in from Miami-Dade College, where she held
numerous positions during her 35-year tenure, serving as faculty
member, chairperson, associate dean and dean of academic affairs
on the North, Kendall, Wolfson and Medical Center campuses.
Education
Her education includes a doctor of philosophy
degree in Higher Education Administration from the University of
Miami. She also holds a master of education degree in
Educational Research from the University of Miami where she
studied through a U.S. Office of Education grant. Her
undergraduate work was completed at Florida Atlantic University,
where she holds a bachelor of arts degree in English with minors
in Spanish and Education.
Memberships
Professional
affiliations include the Delta Kappa Gamma Society
International, an educational leadership society. Carleen is a
life member of Phi Delta Kappa, an educational leadership
society, as well as a life member of the Florida Association of
Community Colleges. She is also a member of the American
Association of University Women.
Civic involvements include
an appointment to the Town of Miami Lakes Beautification
Advisory Committee and service on the Executive Board of the
Dade Cultural Alliance.
Personal
Born in Camden, New
Jersey, Carleen and her family moved to Florida while she was in
high school. A resident of Miami Lakes since 1973, she is
married to Robert R. Spano, a mortgage banker, past president of
the Rotary Club of Miami Lakes and 1999-2000 governor in
District 6990. They celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in
March and have two married sons: Gary, a commercial real estate
underwriter, married to Renée (daughter of PDG Joe Sublette,
D7770), and Christian, a mortgage broker, married to Jeannie.
Carleen and Bob welcomed their first grandchild on May 22, 2010
– Stella Maria Spano.
2010 cms Rotary bio
7/13/2010
|
| |
| |
|
Home |
|
