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Category: Success Stories
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August 8, Dr. Angelique Walker-Smith, to be Honored
Rotary Club of Indianapolis member since 1995, Dr. Angelique Walker-Smith will be honored at a special Thanksgiving Celebration and Dinner on August 8, 2014. The celebration will take place at Light of the World Christian Church. Tickets and sponsorships can be purchased at http://www.indyfaith.org/_forms/view/20906. Download the invitation here.(Excerpt from The Indianapolis Recorder, March 24, 2011)
As a senior in high school, Angelique Walker wanted to get as far away from Cedarville and Springfield, Ohio, as she could manage. She went away to college at Kent State University, located 162 miles across the state.
It was not that the preacher’s kid was trying to ditch her beloved parents, Rev. Roosevelt and Geneva Walker, but the teenager was ready to make her own mark.
Having given her life to Christ at age 9, Walker started to feel a calling to the ministry while she was an undergraduate student at Kent State, but did not know that calling was toward the pulpit. Still, after graduating she was convinced that she should pursue graduate study at Yale University Divinity School, (YDS) where she earned a master’s of divinity degree. This also allowed her to join her future husband at Yale, R. Drew Smith, whom she met at Blessed Hope Baptist Church in Indianapolis as a youth during a visit from her home church in Springfield.
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Rotarian Harriet Ivey became a member of the club in September, 2009 and was proposed by Marge Tarplee. At the end of January 2014, Harriet Ivey retired after serving for 15 years as the founding president and CEO of the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, a private foundation that as of December 31, 2013, had assets of approximately $375 million. During her tenure, the Trust granted more than $223 million to nearly 900 charitable entities to help people in need, protect animals and nature, and enrich community life.
Rotarian Eric Ellsworth became a member of the club in September, 2006 and was proposed by Sue and Dick Tempero. As the President and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Indianapolis, he believes Indianapolis is on the way to better fitness. He says many of their partners have been working for years to help our community improve its fitness and health. Now, we have come together to form a collective impact coalition to communicate, support, grow and spread that work.
