Bill joined the Kiwanis Club of Cambria Heights in 1997. In 2001-02 he was distinguished club president; during his year as president, 29 new members joined the club and he sponsored 17 of them himself. During his year as president, the club sent children to Kamp Kiwanis, sponsored a picnic at the St. Albans Veterans Hospital, distributed toys to children in shelters during the Christmas season and provided car seats to mothers for young children in the community.

He served as lieutenant governor of the Queens East Division in 2003-04. During that year he built two new clubs in the division, the Rosedale-Laurelton and Flushing clubs, and a Key Club at St. Francis Prep High School. During his year, the division had the second largest membership growth of the district's divisions. He later was honored by Gov. Peter Mancuso as a Super Distinguished lieutenant governor.

Bill has served on many division committees, and on the district New Club Building and Membership Growth teams. He later built the Kiwanis Club of Jamaica, and was district chair for the Distinguished Kiwanian program.

A Brooklyn native, Bill studied music and was a leader of the rhythm and rock band BT Express, which played at the White House during the Carter administration. Today, he is a licensed insurance broker and owner of the Majestic Driving School. He serves on the board of directors of Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Jamaica, and the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center at North Shore University Hospital.

Bill is an active church member of the Greater Allen Cathedral of New York in Queens.

Bill's partner, Dr. Lavonia Francis, has been a Kiwanian for 10 years and is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Hempstead. She is the Senior Director of Nursing for Ambulatory Care at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

William Risbrook

115-17 172nd St.

Jamaica, NY 11434

(H) 718-297-6218

(F) 718-949-3679

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