James Gatz has served as Mayor of Shepherdstown since July 2024. Professional experience includes more than 30 years of experience with the Federal government involving numerous assignments in policy development, planning and research, and program design and implementation at the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Health and Human Services. Educational credentials J.D. […]

Our speaker was born and bred in West Virginia's Kanawha County; mother from Martinsburg; grandfather from Zoar on Flowing Springs Rd. Graduate of WVU. Worked for the USDA for 18 years. Now living in Harpers Ferry. Devoted my life's passion to restoring the pawpaw — native fruit — to a notable place in American cuisine. […]

Lillian is a senior Biology major with minors in Mathematics and Chemistry from Capon Bridge, WV. She is the two term past president of MEDLIFE and a member of Rotaract. Lillian is also the president of Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority, in the Biology Honors Society, a McMurran Scholar, and the most recent recipient of the […]

We are very honored to have our own Tom Maiden as guest speaker tomorrow morning.  Tom has the distinction of serving nearly two years as President of our club, from September 1996 thru June 1998.  Tom’s wife Michele is also a Past President (2018-2019).  When he isn’t busy working as a Certified Financial Planner and […]

John Chapman, son of long-time Shepherdstown Rotary member R. Dabney Chapman (1929-2015), was born in Garmisch-Partinkirchen, West Germany, in 1965, and grew up a “State Department brat,” moving from country to country thanks to his father’s career. Migrating to Shepherdstown in 1983 to attend Shepherd College, he became enamored of the area’s beauty, history, and […]