Marblehead Rotary Club kicks off speakers’ series

MARBLEHEAD – The Marblehead Rotary Club started its 2009-2010 annual speakers’ series with an exciting lineup. The club meets Thursday afternoons at the Boston Yacht Club. Speakers so far include:u Charlie Baker, former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, spoke to the club Sept. 3 about the health care debate;u Judy Anderson, curator of the Jeremiah Lee Mansion, spoke to the club Sept. 17 about “Saving the Lee Mansion” on the occasion of the Marblehead Museum’s Centennial of Lee Mansion Stewardship;u Alexandra DeGenova, graduate student at Tufts University, who is training to run a half-marathon in St. Petersburg, Fla. and Bran Keighley, Northshore Team in Training program coordinator for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, spoke about their fund-raising activities Sept. 24;u Kathy Leonardson, president of the Northshore Toastmasters Club, spoke Oct. 1 about public speaking and the “Fears That Blind.”