New Officers to be installed this June are as follows:

        President:               Ted Noe
        Vice President:         J.C. Grimes
         Treasurer:               Tony Daniels
         Secretary:               Buzz Wachsteter

New Board Members to serve from 2009 - 2011 are as follows:

        Chip Nimmons            Rhonda Wallace
        J.C. Grimes               Joan Crumley
        Steve White

Speech Contest for local high school students was held at the April 3rd meeting of the Rome Exchange Club.  The topic for the speech contest was Positive Patriotism. 

Each contestant received a check from the Exchange Club.  The winner, Parker Strain Moore from Armuchee High School, will compete at the Exchange Club   District Convention in June held in Rome.

The 84th Annual District Convention will be hosted by the Rome Exchange Club, June 11-13, 2009. The activities will begin Thursday at 12:30pm with the annual golf tournament, with the proceeds going to the CAP Foundation. On Thursday evening there will be "Taste of Rome" dinner at Ridge Ferry Park. ..and best of all its free!  All Rome members please contact Jackie Moreland (706) 346-8824 to volunteer. 

For more details and registration forms, click on the link to the right.

Conventions enable members to meet new friends and get reaquainted with old ones.

By attending the convention, you'll gain a broader appreciation of Exchange's impact and strengthen your commitment to service. 

For more information on the upcoming national convention in Jacksonville, FL, click on the national link to the right.

Jeffery Rice, a senior at ModelHigh School, has been chosen as the 2009 Rome Exchange Club Student of the Year.  Rice has a 4.0 grade point average and would like to be a pediatrician some day.  Rice has been offered a full scholarship at ShorterCollege but he is also considering Princeton, Harvard, Duke, Vanderbilt and Emory.  He plans to major in pre-med.

Rice will compete in the District Exchange Club Student of the Year competition in June.

Jennifer Chandler, executive director of the Family Resource Center announced that over 350 people attended his years event and that over $13,000 was raised for the FRC.  The Center served 2,526 people in 2008, nearly 3% of the Rome & Floyd County population.  The Exchange Club of Rome and the Family Resource Center would like to thank our sponsors who made this fund raiser possible:

Don Martin, GA District Director for Area 1[bottom right] inducted the officers and board for the 2008 - 2009 term.  Jackie Moreland, President [bottom left]; [L-R top row] J.C. Grimes, Treasurer; Ted Noe, Vice President; and Lee Smollar, Secretary.

Board of Directors are Buzz Wachsteter, Dan Scott, Gigi Binion, Rhonda Wallace, Steve White, Barbara Carter, Paul Gamber, Bobby Padgett, Debarah McCarley, and Elizabeth Davis.

Here are instructions you can print out explaining how you can register on this website telling the site that you are a member of the Rome Exchange Club.