Rotary District 5440 Governor, Mike Forney, to Visit Club September 19

Mike Forney, Governor of Rotary District 5440, will be our speaker this week.  The international Rotary theme for the year is “Peace through Service.”  Forney will also encourage Rotarians to be “Rotary Proud.”   

Mike is a member of the Steamboat  Springs Club where he served as Club President in 2008. 

Mike has served in a number of capacities at the district level, including District Public Relationships Chair and one of the original facilitators in the Rotary Leadership Institute and Club Visioning programs.  He has participated in club visioning exercises with 13 clubs in our district.

Mike is a multiple Paul Harris Fellow and a member of the Rotary Foundation Bequest Society.  His wife Janet is also a Paul Harris Fellow.

 Mike’s background is in radio broadcasting, corporate public relations, advertising, and commercial mortgage banking.  He retired in 2003 after selling his mortgage banking company in New York City and Bernardsville, New Jersey and moved to Steamboat Springs where he lives with his wife Janet Finley, two cats and two horses. They also have a loft in Old Town Fort Collins.

Mike has been an active private pilot for 50 years and currently owns a high performance Cessna Skylane.  He is a long-time Angel Flight Senior Command Pilot, an on-call pilot for the Department of Homeland Defense, and a member of the International Fellowship of Flying Rotarians