Meet the 2019-20 RI president

For nearly 40 years, Mark Daniel Maloney and his family have demonstrated that Rotary connects the world. Now the self-described ‘cheerful traveler’ embarks on the next phase of his life’s journey: serving as Rotary International’s new president.

THE PAST IS PROLOGUE
It’s two weeks before Christmas in northern Alabama, and the Rotary Club of Decatur is in full Yuletide mode. Last Saturday, working alongside members of the Church at Stone River, the club members treated more than 70 children to a pancake breakfast and a shopping trip to Target. Now at the club’s Monday meeting, the Austin Junior High jazz band is rocking the seasonal songs: “Santa Baby,” “Feliz Navidad,” “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” — though with temperatures nudging up against 40 degrees Fahrenheit, it feels, for early December, borderline balmy. Once the band wraps up, club President Larry Payne announces, “Now, back by unpopular demand: Where in the world is Mark?” The crowd hoots and hollers with amiable scorn. The man in question strides to the front of the room and proudly declares, “Mark Maloney is in Decatur, Alabama!” Some 120 people cheer wildly. Hail to the chief.

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