WPCNR DOWNTOWN. From The White Plains Rotary. July 16, 2008:  The White Plains Rotary, the largest in New York State, has named Georgene Mongarella, owner of the design firm The Color Schemer of Scarsdale, as its new president.

 In true Rotary fashion, Mongarella is deeply involved in her community.  She teaches her profession, interior design, at the Scarsdale High School, and serves on the Board of Architectural Review, also in Scarsdale. She chaired the Scarsdale Showhouse in 2005 which worked to preserve the Rowsley Estate (home of the Scarsdale Women’s Club.)She served on the Board of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) for three years.

She is on the Boards of United Way of White Plains, the Westchester Coalition of the Hungry and Homeless and the Gift of Life (through Rotary 7230)   She also serves as a Trustee for the Scarsdale Historical Society and volunteers on design projects for terminally ill children through the Make A wish Foundation.Mongarella is the personification of the Rotary motto: Service above Self. 

“I am thrilled to be serving as Rotary president this year, she said, as strains of the tune, “To dream the impossible dream” played in the meeting room. Among other awards she has received were the 2007 ASID presidential award and Westchester ARC’S 2007 Community Image Builder.

 Her clients include six of the New York Yankees, one New York Giant, and Nick Wolff of Century 21 Wolff, who sponsored her in Rotary. She and her husband Joe reside in Scarsdale.  He is always there for her and to support her goals; her life goal is to make the world a better place. Those who know her well think she is setting the bar quite high for the rest of us.