DISTRICT GOVERNOR 2024-25
Dottie Meade is a retired educator after spending 39 years as a teacher, Career Development Coordinator, and administrator. Her classroom experience has been with grades 5 and 6 in a self-contained classroom and in middle school and junior high teaching reading, language arts and social studies. She spent 17 years traveling throughout Greene County working with kindergarten through high school students and teachers creating opportunities for students in their career planning process. Those experiences were made more enhanced because of the partnerships she developed with local businesses.
Dottie spent 7 years as an administrator at Greene County Career Center, supervising many of the career technical programs and academic classroom teachers. She helped to develop Tech Prep partnerships with Sinclair and Clark State. Her last 5 years as an educator were spent as the Executive Director at Fairborn Digital Academy, an on-line drop out recovery school.
During Dottie’s days with Career Development, she was an active member of the Career Education Association (CEA). CEA was the statewide organization developed to support Career Development processes throughout the state. Dottie held the offices of President and secretary for CEA, and was chair for the CEA statewide conference committee for several years.
Dottie joined the Rotary Club of Fairborn in the fall of 1990. From 1990 until 2007, she worked closely with the schools in Fairborn integrating the 4-Way Test, vocational service and the Rotary ideals. In 2004, Dottie met Andy Shoup and later that year, The Andy and Elmer Apple Dumpling Adventure was first written. Andy and Elmer teaches the 4-Way test to young children. Since then, with Andy’s help, a second book has also been published. Becky and Lin’s Apple Orchard Park teaches the ideal of service above self.
Shortly after the first book was published, Dottie became a supervisor at the Greene County Career Center where one of her responsibilities included lunchtime cafeteria duty. In order to meet her responsibilities, she was forced to take a 6 year break from Rotary. In 2013, she retired from the Career Center and returned to Rotary. She was president of the club in 2014-2015.
During the last several years, Dottie has been trained as a Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) trainer and then became the District Coordinator for RLI for the past 5 years. Dottie has multiple Paul Harris Fellows and Alan has one as well.
Dottie is married to her best friend of 38 years, Alan Meade. Together they have 3 adult daughters and 2 grandchildren. She considers herself very blessed that her children have all found good mates, have good jobs, and all live close by.
DISTRICT GOVERNOR 2025-26
Heidi Schiller is an arts administration professional with over 25 years of experience in nonprofit arts and entertainment management. Heidi is currently employed as the Executive Director of the Oxford Community Arts Center. She is a current member and past Board Secretary of the Ohio Arts Professionals Network and a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Heidi holds a MFA in Directing from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1995, and a BA in Theatre from the University of West Florida, 1989. She earned her two-year Certificate in Arts Management from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2008. An avid supporter of community theatre, Heidi has won multiple theatre awards in Florida and Ohio for acting, directing, costume design, and set design.
Heidi joined the Rotary Club of Fairfield, OH in January 2006, after moving to Ohio from her hometown of Pensacola, FL. During her time with the Fairfield club, she served as Interact Advisor, Secretary, Sergeant-of-Arms, and President (2014-15). As Interact Advisor, she accompanied top Fairfield High School students to Rotary Day at the United Nations for over five years. In 2012, she was named Rotarian of the Year. In 2022, after a brief time with the West-Chester/Liberty Club, Heidi transferred to the Rotary Club of Oxford where she serves as the club Public Image Chair.
On the District level, Heidi served as Assistant Governor from 2016-19 and as District Trainer for three years (2020-21, 2022-24). Heidi completed her Rotary Leadership Institute training in 2014, Faculty Training in 2015, and has been a D6670 RLI Facilitator since 2016. She is the current D6670 Public Image Chair, serving in that role since 2020 and was instrumental in winning the Brand Ambassador Citation Award for D6670 in 2021-22.
Heid currently serves as a Zone 30 ARPIC for 2023-24. She attended her first Rotary International Convention in Atlanta and returned for both Toronto and Melbourne. She is a member of the Rotary Wine Appreciation Fellowship and proud to be a multiple Paul Harris Fellow.
Heidi and her husband Robert (Bob) have been married for 32 years. She has one son, Evan (27), a stepson, Barry, daughter-in-law, April, and two grandchildren, Casey (18) and Katelyn (16). She enjoys video games, writing, theatre, wine-tastings, and travel.
DISTRICT GOVERNOR 2026-27
Chuck Shonkwiler grew up in Greenfield, a small city in South Central Ohio. The oldest of 3 children, Chuck recalls life in Greenville being quite simple in the 50s and 60s, enjoying family times on Rocky Fork Lake, in Highland County, Ohio, and family camping trips across the United States. He graduated from Edward Lee McClain High School in 1971 and left for Annapolis, Maryland, and the United States Naval Academy just three weeks after graduation. For the next sixteen months, he attended daily drills, cruised across the Atlantic Ocean, and trained to be a Naval Officer. In the early fall of 1972, Chuck left the Naval Academy to pursue a career as a Pastor.
He attended Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Kentucky, where he graduated with a BA in History with a minor in Mathematics in 1976. During his Senior year, he served as Vice President of the Student Government Association. Besides the course work and Student Government activities, he also served as Pastor and Youth Pastor in churches near school. In the late summer of 1977, Chuck began his Theological studies at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. While there, he also served as a part-time Pastor in Southern Ohio. Chuck graduated with a Master of Divinity in May 1980. After college, he served in various churches in North, Central, and Southern Ohio from 1980 to 2021 as a United Methodist Pastor.
Chuck met Karen Loveless during college orientation in 1973. Their romance moved quickly, and they were married March 9, 1974. After completing his degree, Chuck worked in the Admissions Office while Karen finished her degree in Music Education, graduating in 1977. As the father of three, grandfather of nine, and great-grandfather of one, Chuck appreciates and enjoys family. He and Karen have three children; Sarah Dawley of Edmond, Oklahoma, Joel Shonkwiler, of Westfield, Indiana, and Hannah Scruggs of Fairborn, Ohio. Sarah has four children, Joel has three, and Hannah has two. Sarah’s oldest, Annabelle, is the mother of Chuck and Karen’s great-granddaughter.
Chuck has been involved in Rotary since October 1997, beginning with the Rotary Club of Fairborn. After moving to Hillsboro, Ohio in July 2003, he became a part of the Rotary Club of Hillsboro. The next move in 2010 brought a change to the Rotary Club of Blanchester. Unfortunately, the Blanchester Club could not continue, so having bought a retirement home in Fairborn, Chuck returned to the Fairborn Club in the summer of 2018. Since becoming a part of Rotary, Chuck has grown to appreciate many of the benefits provided by participating in Rotary Clubs and District Rotary activities. Serving as President of Blanchester, a small club, allowed for learning more about the activities and benefits of participating in Rotary International activities. After returning to Fairborn, being allowed to be President of a thriving Rotary Club added even more commitment to serving Rotary in every way possible.
Becoming a District Assistant Governor in 2023, Chuck enjoys being able to provide resources to his four assigned Clubs and to continue his learning about the benefits of serving as a Rotarian. He looks forward to learning even more ways to serve Rotary