Ray Ward joined Rotary in 2007 and became President of the Rocklin-Loomis Basin club during the 2010-11 Rotary year. While President, he was asked to develop and present a Super STRS training program on Facebook and social media. From there, he went on to serve on 9 different district committee and was a member of as many as 7 district committees in a single year. Ray is a Paul Harris +5 and is proud that over 40% of his giving is to End Polio Now.

Ray is the proud son of a US Marine that not only served his county but belonged to 4 non-profit organizations in his community, serving on all of their boards. He has been married for over 23 years to Gena and has a lovely daughter, Alyssa, who is in the honors program at Cal State University at Sacramento.