Keynote Speaker: Virginia O'Reilly, District Governor
Topic: District Governor Address
Host: Nilam Bedi, Assistant Governor
Rotary Toronto Meeting Wednesday, September 4th, 2024
Dinner at The National Club, 303 Bay Street, Toronto
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Biography
DG Virginia O’Reilly, Visionary and Rotary Leader.
DG Virginia is proud to say she is from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and migrated to Ontario in 1978 for education at Queen's University, Kingston.
In 1998 twenty years later she was Co-Chairing a spring festival when she was bit by the Rotary bug. The Charter President of Toronto East Rotary, Bill Phalen asked her to become a Rotarian.
She imagines achievement of goals without sacrifice and shows this through her never-ending support and involvement with Polio Plus/End Polio Now campaigns. She is also well known for her passion for membership and continues to leave her positive imprint. Rotary has given her lasting and fabulous friends and has fine tuned her "active listening" skill set.
She and her husband Robert will be celebrating their 40 year wedding anniversary soon. A fun fact about DG Virginia is that she grew up as a child fearful of black dogs and to date she has owned 3 black dogs, including her current dog Maxie.