Ron Baker, Simcoe Rotary President 2020-2021
October 30, 2020
 
President Baker updated the Club on its Strategic Plan with an explanation of its purpose, lifespan and future member involvement. Accompanying the plan update was a modified classification talk.
 
Ron joined the Rotary Club of Simcoe on June 1, 2006.  He married Jacqueline A. Ferris, U. E.; (1938 -2018) in 1960, in Port Rowan, Ontario.   They then spent 42 years, in the USA and Europe.  He returned to Port Rowan in 2002.  In 1969, he went on a Rotary Group Study Exchange to Australia.    
 
His career was in international business management in Asia, North America, and Europe; 17 years in Switzerland and The Netherlands and15 years in Brussels, Belgium; in commercial development, defense, chemical, science, and technology industries. Following university studies in Chemistry, Engineering, and International Business, his first Rotary connection was in 1969, in a Group Study Exchange to Australia.  
 
Ron was adjunct lecturer in Business for 10 years at three of Brussels leading Business schools.  He speaks Dutch, French, German, and Spanish; pursues interests in the arts, English language, and literature.   
 
An Anglican Church Lay Reader, he's a Trustee of the Board of Historic Christ Anglican Church, Vittoria, Ontario .
 
In Rotary, he supported International programs (Director (2009 - 2010; 2012 - 2014); Lynn River Music & Arts Festival; The Norfolk Musical Arts Festival; Rotary House Tour Committee Chair; 2016-'17, President-Elect  2019-2020 and President for the 2020-2021 year.