Area IX Assistant Governor John Finkes

Area IX includes the Rotary Clubs:

East Moline, Milan, Moline, Quad Cities and Rock Island

    John has been a member of the Quad Cities Rotary Club since 2000. This will be John’s third year as an Assistant Governor. He has served as news reader, John Deere Classic Parking Committee Chair, board member and Club President in 2004-05. He is active on the membership committee, program chairman and a literacy reader at Horace Mann School in Rock Island.

    The highlight of his presidential year was attending the Chicago Convention. The dynamics created by the convention speakers and Rotary International officers when speaking about the future plans for Rotary were also a portion of the highlights from the convention.

    John and Vickie, his wife of 43 years, have two daughters. Sandra Straetker lives in St. Louis with husband John and their children Matthew and Jillian. Sandra served as an Ambassadorial Scholar in England in 1989-90. One of her highlights for that year was being present when the Berlin wall came down. Several of the Leichester, England Rotary Club members made the trip to Moline for the wedding of Sandra and John. Daughter Jeanne Richards lives in Hoffman Estates with her husband Gary and sons Bobby and Danny. Jeanne is a reading specialist and keeps dad interested in literacy.

    John retired in 2006 as Vice President of Sales and Marketing of the George Evans Corp. in Moline. He remains active as a board member of Skills, Inc. and keeps up with community business selling advertising for Gold Book Magazine (a SNG Publication) in the Quad Cities region.

     When the weather is right John sails has catamaran out of the Lake Davenport Sailing Club.

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