Events

Join us for our weekly meeting.  All are welcome.

Come learn about the projects that the Student COVID Project Winners worked on.

Would you like your family to be involved in local community service projects? Do you want to work with other local families to make our community better?

Come join us for a Rotary Information Meeting about our new Family Club. Learn about what Rotary does and why you should join.

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Debra E. Blaine, was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island, NY. She received her BA in the Honors Liberal Arts Program at the University of Texas at Austin, before going on for graduate studies in Comparative Religion at Temple University. She attended Baylor College of Medicine to earn her MD in 1987, and has practiced medicine on Long Island and Queens for thirty years.
Her first novel, "CODE BLUE: The Other End of the Stethoscope", is a medical thriller and a love story about Russian hackers stealing patient information from electronic medical records, and murdering patients for millions of dollars. This fictional murder mystery is set in a real-life, corporate-run urgent care clinic, and vividly reveals the challenges that physicians now face in the current, greed-infected healthcare industry, whose priority is profit over health.
She is also a Certified Professional Coach and serves medical and other professionals working in the impersonal corporate world to find and pursue their passions. She offers individual and group sessions.
Dr. Blaine has been published in medical forums, including KevinMD and Doximity, interviewed by Medscape and the Brazilian newspaper, The Falho de São Paulo, and has been featured in articles in HealthNewsDigest. She continues to work as a physician in the Long Island urgent care medical community on a part-time basis.
She can be reached through her website, DebraBlaine.com.

Join us for our weekly meeting.  All are welcome.

Would you like your family to be involved in local community service projects? Do you want to work with other local families to make our community better?

Come join us for a Rotary Information Meeting about our new Family Club. Learn about what Rotary does and why you should join.

Register Today!

Rob Raylman has held the position of Chief Executive Officer of Gift of Life International since February 2008. He has been a member of the Manhasset Rotary since March 2008. Before Rob came to Gift of Life International he was a Vice President for Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI), at one time the second largest solid waste management company in the world. He left BFI in 1999 and started his own consulting business in upstate New York, where he represented individuals and corporations that did business in New York State. He specialized in legislative and regulatory affairs. Rob is a life-long resident of New York. He graduated from Hobart College in 1984 with a BS in Political Science. Directly out of college Rob went to work for United States Senator Alphonse D’Amato (R-New York). He worked from 1984 to 1986 for the Senator. At which time he began work for BFI in January of 1987 until 1999. Since Rob began as Chief Executive Officer of Gift of Life International he has been focusing on the development of sustainable pediatric cardiac surgery programs in emerging countries. Presently he is working to develop programs in the Jamaica, The Philippines, El Salvador, Uganda, and Bolivia. Each of these programs is in various stages of development. Rob lives in Germantown, New York.

Allison is a sophomore at Columbia University, studying a double major in Political Science and Neuroscience. I am particularly interested in Social and Behavioral Sciences as they apply to International Relations.

We are an innovative, national campaign that is dedicated to reducing global poverty through aiming to contact our congressional leaders.

Veronicas has spent three years as the program coordinator and vivarium director at Sweetbriar Nature Center.

We are a local non-profit that cares for sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife and does natural science and environmental education for the public.

Lonnie J. Sherman is both the Founder and President of General Needs. His path to these positions have their origin in Lonnie’s charitable endeavors.

Having been in insurance and financial planning industry for 30 years, Lonnie has worked in all facets from Sales, Recruiter, Trainer, Sales Manager and General Agent for the major firms such as John Hancock, MassMutual, MetLife and Guardian Life Insurance. His success is due to his commitment to serving his clients with honesty and integrity.

Throughout his career, Lonnie has devoted time and efforts to several charitable organizations in addition to serving on the advisory board of Ronald McDonald House in New Hyde Park, N.Y.

Lonnie is an avid New York Yankee fan and was present on October 18, 1977 for Reggie Jackson’s 3 homeruns during Game 6 of the 1977 World Series. He is also a percussionist and played in a Latin band performing in New York City and Queens venues. Lonnie is most proud of his family, Susan, his wife and sons Andrew, Michael and Ryan, all of whom have been instrumental in supporting General Needs.

General Needs focuses on helping thousands of homeless Long Island Veterans and their families through your charitable donations and support.  Our Mission focuses on providing the basic necessities that are missing in the everyday lives of our homeless veterans.  We do over 4,300 distributions for veterans per year.