Ambasador Visits Mount Vernon Club
by Bruce Malkin
Ambassador Thomas Pickering, former Under Secretary for Political Affairs at the U.S. State Department, was the Guest Speaker on July 1 at the dinner meeting of the Mount Vernon Kiwanis Club (MVKC) at the Mount Vernon Country Club. About 30 MVKC members and guests were treated to a global tour d'horizon of issues and possible steps toward solutions within an analytical framework he uses. The next dinner-speaker program of the MVKC will be on Wednesday, September 2, at which a representative of Capital Hospice will explain its services. More information on the MVKC and its many community service activities may be found at www.mtvernonvakiwanis.org. Pictured is Amb. Pickering wearing his gift of a much-coveted MVKC baseball cap, Pres. Bruce Malkin.