Marty was inducted into Rotary in 1980 and has over 20 years perfect attendance. He has served the Rotary Club of Memphis-Central as International Service Chairman (traveling to Haiti for a Club Service project), RYLA Chairman, Sergeant-at-Arms, Treasurer, Vice President, and as President in 1986-87. At the district level he has been involved with RYLA since 1982 and has been the District RYLA Chairman since 2005, hosting 120 delegates each year. Marty was recipient of the District 6800 Rotarian of the Year Award in 2008-09.

  Marty grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he graduated from Jesuit High School. He was a gymnast and athlete through high school. He received his B.S. in Architecture degree from The Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1971. After practicing architecture for nine years, Marty joined The Trane Company in Memphis, Tennessee, where he has worked for the past thirty years in various sales and management roles. He is active in community affairs, serving on governing boards of several organizations providing mental health services, nursing home care and guidance counseling. He even found time to be a Boy Scout leader and soccer team coach for many years.

  Marty is married to Debbie and they have three children and five grandchildren. They have lived in Memphis since 1972 and are members of Holy Spirit Catholic Church. Marty and Debbie are both Paul Harris Fellows.   Marty's hobbies include snow skiing, golf, canoeing, anything outdoors and traveling.
  In the photo at bottom right, District Governor Marty Petrusek is shown at the base of a Rotary Friendship Tree in Aberdeen, Mississippi, planted in 1937 by Rotary International founder Paul P. Harris. Harris visited the Aberdeen club on a second occasion, in 1941, when the marker seen at the base of the tree (notice that it has turned green over time) was dedicated. However, the RI founder received an urgent telephone call and had to leave immediately for an Indiana destination before the dedication ceremony took place. Petrusek visited the tree site on Aberdeen's Commerce Street boulevard while he was in town on a rainy September 2012 day for his official visit to the local club.