Mark Richard, Grant County architect, will discuss his 45-year career in Southern New Mexico at Rotary's new location in the GRMC conference room. Mr. Richard's architectural projects have included hotels, schools, hospitals, libraries, restaurants, churches, condominiums, private homes, historic renovation and others.
He will also preview his retrospective exhibition at Geisler Studio in Silver City, which will feature sketches, collages, posters, architectural drawings, and other materials. The exhibition opens September 25 and runs for one month.
Proceeds from the sale of photographs and photocollages support Rotary International's Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which will be matched two-for-one by the Gates Foundation. This program curbed an August 2024 outbreak in Gaza by vaccinating over 500,000 children. It is one example of Rotary's thirty-plus year commitment to end polio worldwide. Rotary is a service organization promoting international understanding, goodwill and peace.
The Rotary Club will meet at a new location, in the conference room of Gila Regional Medical Center. Visitors should enter through the main entrance. There is a brief "meet and greet", a short business meeting and then the speaker has the floor. The club welcomes members of the public to the meetings. Lunch is in the hospital cafeteria. Guests are advised to arrive in the cafeteria well before noon.
Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Since its founding in 1923, the Silver City Rotary Club has provided support and service to numerous non-profit organizations and civic causes in Silver City and Grant County as well as supporting and participating in humanitarian projects sponsored by Rotary International.
