Front Royal Rotary elects new president

Katie McIntyre Tewell – Courtesy Photo/FR Rotary

Katie McIntyre Tewell of Linden will be sworn in Friday, June 25, as the 2021-22 president of the Rotary Club of Front Royal. The passing of the gavel ceremony will take place at the Shenandoah Golf and Country Club.

Tewell was an inaugural member of the then Linden Rotary Club (now the Warren County Rotary Club) in 2005, transferring six years later to the Rotary Club of Front Royal where she has been one of the top money-earners for the club that dishes out up to $160,000 a year to a score of local non-profits and high school students who excel in the classroom and in sports.

For example, she was co-chair of the annual scholarship golf tournament for three years, raising some $50,000 over the period, as well as co-chair of the “Half Lit” golf tournament, another top money raiser. She is currently in her fifth year on the Rotary board, saying she is “excited for my upcoming year as president.”

Derrick Leasure will hand over the gavel during a full-house luncheon where, traditionally, all past presidents of the club are invited to participate in the investiture.