By: Nathan Vandrey
Greensburg Rotary Club Newsletter Editor
On June 12, at its weekly meeting at the Decatur County REMC, the Greensburg Rotary Club
welcomed it’s next club president, Robert DeHoff. Outgoing president, Alex Sefton, will hand
over the reins to Robert DeHoff at the beginning of July.
During his farewell speech, Sefton lauded the club’s active involvement in ten monthly service
projects in the local community during his tenure, including assisting Wreaths Across America
in honoring military veterans by placing and removing wreaths at veterans’ graves for the
Christmas holiday season, a clean-up of the Decatur County courthouse grounds, and
assembling blankets for the local chapter of the Linus Project, a national effort to provide
blankets to children in less fortunate and stressful situations or in foster care.
He also noted that the club had exceeded it’s goal of $7500 in donations to the club’s Annual
Fund, with $9940 donated in support of Rotary International’s worldwide humanitarian
projects. During the 2022-2023 year, club members also raised and donated $10,000 to the
local community, including the Special Olympics team, Choppers for Coppers, the Decatur
County YMCA, Speranza House, and Our Hospice. The club also donated $500 in support of
Rotary International’s goal of eliminating the Polio virus.
Sefton wrapped up his time as president saying, “I just want to thank you all truly for an
awesome year in Rotary. It’s been a crazy year in my life, but it’s been really cool to see how our
club has just stepped up and rallied around all the amazing projects here in our community.”
Sefton then formally introduced DeHoff as the club’s president-elect. DeHoff took the time to
thank Sefton for his leadership and the club members for accepting him into his new position.
He told his fellow Rotarians that, during his time as club president, he wanted to foment more
collaboration between the Greensburg Rotary Club and other, local service organizations. He
also said he wanted to increase club membership by engaging with a broader segment of the
community at monthly community events.
“We need to be out in the public more,” said DeHoff, “telling people what we do and how we
serve our community.” He stressed the need to be more open and inclusive, breaking out of the
mold of what members see as the “typical Rotarian” and reaching out to a broader local base.
“Anyone can be a Rotarian,” said DeHoff.
DeHoff also stressed his intent for Greensburg Rotary Club to re-engage with local high
schoolers to provide opportunities as part of the Rotary Youth program, Rotaract, as well as
identifying collaborative opportunities for club members to act as mentors and role models for
students at the three area high schools.
DeHoff concluded his discussion by quoting Galatians 6:9 “Let us not grow weary in well-doing,
for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
Born and raised in Sunman, Indiana, DeHoff relocated to Greensburg in 2008. A 2000 Purdue
graduate, he has a Sales Management degree and is a mortgage originator with the local First
Community Mortgage office, with 22 years in the field. DeHoff has two children, Mila, John and
two dogs, and he joined the Greensburg Rotary Club in 2020. He is also active in the local
community as a member of the Greensburg Optimists Club, treasurer of Greensburg Youth
Football, and a coach for local youth softball and basketball.
In a written statement DeHoff said, “I am truly honored for the opportunity to be president and
lead our Rotary club. We are very blessed to have many committed members within our club,
and I will do my best to make sure our efforts are focused on serving our community properly.”