MEET LYNN M. KIRCHNER...This member of
our Rotary Club joined our club in July 1991.
She was the third woman and youngest to join Carbondale Rotary at that
time. Since 2000 she has been the #1 top
Selling and Top Listing Broker in the Roaring Fork Valley with her real
estate company, Amoré Realty. Lynn assisted the
Presidents in the year preceding and immediately following her Presidency which
was in 1996-1997. She was awarded our
club's Rotarian of the Year in 2003 - 2004. A graduate of SUNY Cortland with a
BA in Education, Lynn was one of 14
students throughout the United States selected to
participate in the first ever government student exchange program to Japan. While in Japan, Lynn earned a second
BA in Business and her Masters Degree in International Business.
Lynn has been
successful in the Cable TV, travel and airline, healthcare and real estate
industries. A published poet and author,
She has written various handbooks and was responsible
for airline emergency preparedness, which was the basis for the system now used
universally by all airlines. She served on the Leadership Councils for The
governor's taskforce on Education in the early 1980's in Denver and here
locally, Crystal River Elementary
School.
She was instrumental is helping Ross Montessori and Carbondale Community Schools get started
here. She has assisted the National
Dyslexia Research Foundation and currently sits on the Board for Carbondale Clay Center and is actively
involved with numerous non-profit organizations and projects throughout the
Roaring Fork and Colorado River Valley.
Lynn met her husband,
David Clark, in Denver through a mutual
friend. Their fathers were on the same orders at Stewart Air Force Base in West Point, NY. They celebrated their 21st
anniversary on May 10th 2009. Although they have no children of their own,
they are a favorite "aunt" and "uncle" around the valley to many kids and god
parents to Matt and Jake Townsley. They do have 4-legged kids Kodi, Calvin & Hobbes, Rhythm & Hollywood.
Something you might not know about Lynn is that in 1993,
she became involved with rescuing thoroughbred horses from racetracks across
the country and finding them homes. Lynn owned
Secretariat Dancer, the son of Triple Crown winner Secretariat, and the
grandson Valentine Dancer, until their death in the fall of 2001. Lynn works with her
horses and volunteers her time to provide disadvantaged adults and children
with the opportunity to be around horses and ride them.
"Rotary has been a very important part of my life. Having grown up traveling the world and being
thrown into the business world at a very young age, Rotary has been a solid
influence for me. The 4-way Test is
something I feel that is beneficial to be taught to young people at an early
age, so they can learn to incorporate it into their life and their future."
