On Tuesday, February 20, 2024, Bart Roselli, Director of the Silver City Museum, will speak to the Rotary club.  His topic: “What is Happening in the Silver City Museum.”

Roselli’s career began more than 30 years ago in a recreated 19th Century village museum in his hometown of Middletown located in the Hudson Valley of New York State.  After studying museum education and management at Bank Street College of Education in New York City and at the Getty Institute of Museum Management in Berkeley, California, he then worked in museums of history, art, natural history, science and even a zoo. He has served on state, regional, and national museum associations and on boards of other community non-profits and business associations. He has served as the president of the Silver City Rotary Club, Secretary for the Grant County Silver City Chamber of Commerce, Executive Committee of the Southwest Word Fiesta, The Silver City Historic District Review Commission, Grant County Give Grandly Coalition and he plays the banjo in the local band, the Big Ditch Crickets. He and his wife, Gail live in an adobe house in Chihuahua Hills in Silver City.  

         The Rotary Club meets every Tuesday from 12-1 p.m. for lunch in the WNMU Student Memorial Building, Second Floor, Sunset Room. There is a brief “meet and greet”, a short business meeting and then the speaker has the floor. The club welcomes members of the public to the meetings. If lunch is desired, pay the cashier $11.41 and go through the cafeteria line. If unable to attend in person, a Zoom link for the meeting can be obtained by email to info@silvercityrotary.org .

Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Rotary is the world’s oldest and largest service organization, with more than 1.2 million members in more than168 countries. Since its founding in 1923, the Silver City Rotary Club has provided support and service to numerous non-profit organizations and civic causes in Silver City and Grant County as well as supporting and participating in humanitarian projects sponsored by Rotary International.