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ANDY VANHOOK District Governor Nominee

Andy Vanhook is a member of the Rotary Club of Harrisonburg, VA. He served as Club President in 2017-2018 and currently serves on the Zone 33-34 Membership Action Plan team. He was part of a team that traveled to rural Kenya to install a water well for a community of widows as part of a Global Grant his club received. Also, he helped unite Rotary Clubs in Rockingham County and Harrisonburg to raise funds to address significant challenges in the community. Andy has served as liaison to the Rocktown Rotary Satellite Club since 2019, been a member of District 7570’s Membership Committee since 2021, served as Zone 33 Assistant Rotary Coordinator 2019-2022, and graduated from the Rotary Leadership Institute in 2016. Andy is a Paul Harris Fellow +8, Polio Plus Society member, and Bequest Society member. He has consistently supported the Rotary Foundation since joining in 2013.

CHARLOTTE WHITTED District Governor Nominee Designate

Charlotte Whitted is a Winston-Salem native, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, and a Rotarian since 2006. She has spent most of her career in non-profit management and development but retired in 2019 as executive director of Crab Orchard Museum in Tazewell. When the last of her three children left for JMU, Charlotte opened Weatherbury Cottage in Burke’s Garden as an Airbnb. She is a Past President of the Tazewell Rotary Club, past Area 10 Governor, and now a board member of the Abingdon Rotary Club. Charlotte and her family have hosted two exchange students, Anri from Japan and Daniel from Spain. She became District Chairman for Rotary Youth Exchange in 2018. This year she became the Country Contact for Bolivia and Zimbabwe through Eastern States Student Exchange. Charlotte is also a Paul Harris Fellow, a member of the Paul Harris Society, and the Bequest Society. Her passions outside of Rotary are her golden retrievers, Bo and Devon, puzzles of all kinds, songwriting, and pickleball.