Georgia Rotary Student Program District 6910 Director James McCoy presented the inaugural Lynn Clarke GRSP Women in Leadership Award to Atche Bilyal at the Rotary Club of Hall County on April 22.
Atche was also named a Top 5 finalist for the International Youth Representative for the Europe, Mediterranean, and Arab States Region of The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Foundation and founded the only International Rotaract Club in the 1610 District, Rotaract Club of Tilburg International, which turned out to be a great success with the support of Rotary District 1610 Zuid-West of Netherlands.
Atche exemplifies Service Above Self, one willing to give back with her time and talents, as evident by recently helping organize area Rotarians and participating in the Women Build 2025 with Habitat for Humanity. Equally impressive was her immediate desire to connect and assist family businesses in North Georgia, winning Brenau University’s Annual Speech Competition followed by your research journey that you presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Pittsburgh earlier this month.
We were very impressed with her desire to learn, network and experience American culture from Rotarians as well as her fellow GRSP classmates. It is our honor to recognize Atche as the 2024-2025 recipient of the Lynn Clarke Women in Leadership Award, named for advancing “World Peace through Understanding,” exhibiting extraordinary leadership and serving an international ambassador for Bulgaria, for GRSP, Brenau University as well as the Rotary Clubs of Gainesville, Hall County and White County.
Lynn has been a member of the Rotary Club of Bremen since 1997 and served Georgia Rotary Student Program for more than 20 years as a former District 6900 Chair, Trustee and host family. She is a graduate of the Woodrow Wilson College of Law and licensed attorney in Georgia for the past 50 years, specializing in estate and business planning. Lynn’s named scholarship is the result of a $100,000 anonymous donation made in 2017 to GRSP in Lynn’s honor.
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