Morgan Hill resident and businesswoman Rosy Bergin was honored with the distinguished Leadership Excellence Award by Leadership Morgan Hill at a tribute dinner event held Saturday at the Fountain Oaks estate owned by the Chiala family.
Bergin, the co-owner of downtown Morgan Hill’s Rosy’s at the Beach restaurant, received the medal from Victor Gaxiola, president of Leadership Morgan Hill’s Board of Directors, for her outstanding commitment to making the community a better place for all residents. Past recipients Mike Johnson, Sherry Hemingway, Dennis Kennedy, Mike Rubino, George and Gene Guglielmo, and Roger Knopf helped to present the medal to her.
“I’d like to think the reason Rosy was honored is because she embodies the core values of the Leadership Morgan Hill organization,” Gaxiola said. “As a community leader, she is very visible and very generous. She’s very humble, too. She’s very popular and a real local treasure in our community.
As a testament of Rosy’s popularity, the event honoring her was sold out. It raised more than $47,000 in after expenses funding from sponsorship, ticket sales, silent auction, and raffle fundraising endeavors, Gaxiola said.
As she stood before more than 300 guests at the outdoor event, Bergin said in her acceptance speech, “There are so many things in Morgan Hill that I’m proud of, but tonight, it is Leadership Morgan Hill that is shining.”
Bergin described her experience as a student in the Leadership Morgan Hill class of 2003. “It was an amazing year of learning and doing,” she said. “It exposed me to what is really going on in our community. It took me out of the walls of my restaurant and into the halls of local government where I learned the processes involved in running our town and our state.”
Leadership Morgan Hill will hold an Information Night meeting on Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. in the Morgan Hill Community and Cultural Center for people interested in learning about the organization and how it can help them develop their leadership skills. “The purpose of this meeting is to provide people with a little more insight on the Leadership experience,” Gaxiola said. “We’ll review the curriculum and also invite alumni and board members to talk about their experience.”
For more information on Leadership Morgan Hill, visit the website www.leadershipmorganhill.org.
