Welcome to the Marblehead Rotary Club
From left: Past President 2023/24 Don Dowling, current President John Buckey and Past President Nancy Archer-Gwin 2022/23
Rotary is a global network of 1.4 million neighbors, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.
What we do
Rotary members believe that we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues. Our 35,000+ clubs work together to:
Rotary members believe that we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues. Our 35,000+ clubs work together to:
- Promote peace
- Fight disease
- Provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
- Save mothers and children
- Support education
- Grow local economies
- Supporting the environment
There's a Doctor in the House?
John Buckey is a career educator, with over twenty years as a school and district leader. He completed his Bachelor's degree in secondary education and Spanish at Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. He was a Spanish teacher and World Language Department Chair at The Lexington School in Lexington, Kentucky. John went on to the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he earned his Masters in Administration, Planning and Social Policy with a concentration in the Principalship. After graduate school, John was the Dean of Students at The Andrew Schools in Cleveland, Ohio before returning to the East Coast to become Assistant Principal at Littleton High School. After four years, he was named Principal. John moved to Nantucket to become the Principal of Nantucket High School in 2008. He was named Massachusetts High School Principal of the Year in 2013. John earned his doctorate in Educational Administration from Northeastern University in 2014. He served on the Board of the Massachusetts Schools Administrators Association from 2015 to 2020 and as President of the Association in 2018. In 2020, Dr. Buckey left Nantucket to become Superintendent of Schools for the Marblehead Public Schools. He was voted President of the North Shore Superintendents Roundtable in 2022. He is currently the Interim Principal of Hingham High School. John and his husband Kevin, Deputy Chief of Police for North Shore Community College, live in Marblehead.
Marblehead's Got Talent
Back row from left: Johnny Ray, David Deutsch and John Buckey, Front row from left: Marblehead's Got Talent Winners Lani Gilmore, Jake Piascik and Brady Weed
Marbleheads Got Talent winners met with the The Rotary Group of Marblehead at the Boston Yacht Club to receive their checks. Jacke Piascik, our first place winner received a performance scholarship of $6k, Lani Gilmore received a second place scholarship of $4k and Brady Weed received a third place scholarship of $2500. The event was a smash hit at the Cabot Theater in Beverly where hundreds of theater goers grooved to the tunes of our ten contestants. Johnny Ray and David Deutsch produced the event. One of the great take aways from this is that these students get to take the stage at Johnny Ray's restaurant in Marblehead, The Beacon ever Tuesday night at 7 PM. Every week, while they're still in town, Brady MCs the night and schedules the talent.
Currently, David Deutsch and Johnny Ray are producing a documentary of this year's finals that will play at The Warwick theater for a week at the end of August and then will be streamed. The movie will be cut with new filmed interviews of the three winners as well as many of the semi-finalists and finalists. We'll update you on the students as well as the movie as it gets closer to that date.
Please thank our major sponsors, Marblehead Collision, All Auto, Bluestone Capital, The Beacon Restaurant, The Warwick Theater, Lighthouse Fitness, National Grand Bank, Deutsch Creative, Dr. Keith Taylor, Marblehead Bank, Blair Lord, Linda Sullivan and Alexander Falk.
Lobster Raffle Winners
The four winners of the 2024 lobster raffle
The Rotary Club of Marblehead has a raffle each year giving away 80lbs of lobster, 20lbs each to four lucky winners. The money we raise goes directly to pay for camperships and scholarships for Marblehead kids. If you would like to learn more about Rotary grants for Marbleheaders, just click on the links below:
Each of these four lucky raffle winners will receive a certificate for twenty pounds of lobster, provided with love and kindness from Little Harbor Lobster Company. Please show your support for Little Harbor by visiting their site or visiting them in Marblehead at 3 Beacon Street, Marblehead, MA or calling them at (781) 639-1961. We'll have the lobster winners join us as our guest for lunch as their additional bonus. All four winners have been contacted. We're sure they'll have new friends with their 20lb haul. Thank you to all of the wonderful people that invested in our raffle to make this possible.
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