{"id":5409,"date":"2024-04-05T16:49:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T20:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/?p=5409"},"modified":"2024-04-05T16:49:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T20:49:41","slug":"dr-jeff-forte-named-parsells-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/dr-jeff-forte-named-parsells-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jeff Forte Named Parsells Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/dr-jeff-forte-named-parsells-award-winner\/pasells-facebook\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5410\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5410 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Pasells-Facebook-1024x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Pasells-Facebook-1024x290.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Pasells-Facebook-300x85.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Pasells-Facebook-768x218.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Pasells-Facebook-1536x436.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Pasells-Facebook-2048x581.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Derby-Shelton Rotarians celebrated their 2024 Norman K. Parsells Award winner, Dr. Jeff Forte, along with winners from eight other Rotary Clubs on April 5 at the Gaelic American Club in Fairfield. \u00a0The award honors the memory of Mr. Parsells who was a distinguished member of the Fairfield Rotary Club who passed away in 1986. Recognizing that Parsells life epitomized a basic tenet of Rotary, <strong><em>Service Above Self<\/em><\/strong>, they started to honor Rotarians who fit the model. Eventually the idea was expanded to include the nine clubs participating today. Derby-Shelton started participating in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/dr-jeff-forte-named-parsells-award-winner\/parsells-luncehon-2024-group\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5411\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5411\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Parsells-luncehon-2024-group-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Parsells-luncehon-2024-group-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Parsells-luncehon-2024-group-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Parsells-luncehon-2024-group-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Parsells-luncehon-2024-group.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeff is a 36-year member of the Derby-Shelton Club involved in just about every activity or event run by the Club. He is also a member of the Executive Committee and served a long tenure as secretary for the Club.<\/p>\n<p>He joins 13 previous Derby-Shelton winners of the award:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/blog\/dr-jeff-forte-named-parsells-award-winner\/parsells-winners-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5412\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5412\" src=\"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Parsells-winners.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derby-Shelton Rotarians celebrated their 2024 Norman K. Parsells Award winner, Dr. Jeff Forte, along with winners from eight other Rotary Clubs on April 5 at the Gaelic American Club in Fairfield. \u00a0The award honors the memory of Mr. Parsells who was a distinguished member of the Fairfield Rotary Club who passed away in 1986. Recognizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-events","category-news","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derby-sheltonrotary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}