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New Member Speech: Kimberly ChamberlainKimberly was born in North East Philadelphia and lived in Bensalem for most of her childhood. She attended Catholic school and graduated from Bishop Conwell High School in Levittown. Her parents are in their 70’s, retired and still reside in her childhood home. Kimberly has an older brother, Chris, who lives in Missouri with his wife. Kimberly has been working in the field of special education for 21 years. She attended Holy Family College for Elementary and Special Education and completed her graduate work at the Penn State Malvern campus. She started teaching in 1996 at a state run, residential school for abused children. She was contracted by the Pennsbury School District in 2002 to work in their special education department. Currently, she works with special education children entering the school system from early intervention, pre-school programs. It is her job to successfully integrate her students into elementary school and design an education program for them that meets their academic, social and physical needs. Kimberly met Gary in her senior year of college at the Roxborough YMCA. Gary hired her to assist him in running YMCA programs for children and young adults with disabilities in 1995. The program was called Camp Magic. It offered recreational programs and camp for children aged 5 to 21 with mental and physical disabilities. The program received award recognition within the YMCA and the city of Philadelphia and still operates today in Roxborough and other YMCA branches.Kimberly and Gary started dating three months after she started at the Y and were married 18 months later. They just celebrated our 20 year wedding anniversary earlier this year. Their daughters, Morgan and Lauren, were born in 1998 and 1999. Kimberly has spent the last 20 years raising her girls and being involved in everything they wanted to do. Both Morgan and Lauren are good students and actively involved in their schools and community. Currently, Morgan is a sophomore at Millersville as a dual major in psychology and sociology and Lauren is a freshman at Penn State main campus as a chemistry major. Kimberly enjoys scrapbooking, spending time with Gary and her daughters, taking local day trips, looking after their little dogs, and getting together with neighborhood friends. She is interested in being part of Hatboro Rotary so she can continue giving back to her community, as she has done for so many years, as a parent volunteer for many community and school organizations. She also would like to share her new volunteer experiences with her husband Gary, who has been an active member in the Hatboro Rotary for many years. Welcome to the Club Kimberly!!