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OKC Rotary News
July 16, 2024 | Volume 113 | No. 2
In-Person and Livestreamed from Christian Life Center - St. Luke's Methodist Church | 11:55
Livestream Available 11:55am
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| Robert Mannel, MD, is Director of the Stephenson Cancer Center and Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Since his appointment as cancer center Director in 2007, Dr. Mannel has overseen the Stephenson Cancer Center’s emergence as a center recognized nationally for research, treatment, education and outreach activities. The Stephenson Cancer Center’s major achievements during Dr. Mannel’s tenure READ MORE
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Chair of the Day: Byron Jackson
Invocation: Bill Bowden
Introduction of Guests: Rachel Hubbard
Scanners/ Greeters: Susan Adams, Richard Porter
Registration: Wendi Wilson, Mary Blankenship Pointer
Roving Microphone: Bobby Mills
Menu: Mixed Green Salad; Kale and Quinoa Salad: Steak au Poivre-Beef Tenderloin; Crab Cakes; Asparagus; Baby Baker Potatoes
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Club 29 BreakfastJuly 18, 2024
Quail Creek Country Club | 7:00am | Wingspan Room
Chairs: Susan McVey, Bud Oehlert
Speaker: Brandi Fink, PhD Psychology "Neurobiology of Addiction"
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| In the News
If you have good news - honors, awards, new achievements - to share with the club, please let us know!
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The Power of Improv & Fun
by Charlie Smith - Rotary News Reflections Committee Chair
It was an unexpected question; one that forced me to improvise, asked by my direct supervisor at the Omaha World-Herald. “When did you have your light-bulb moment that you wanted to leave journalism?” The answer was easy. It was during one of those periodic (and, given the nature of newspapers, more frequent these days) times when managers decide that the workers need to expand their abilities and work, seeing how they adapt to new duties and responsibilities. For me, the work didn’t go well at all. You see, copy editors, that odd and rare breed, are a sort solely unto themselves. We’re slavishly devoted to a routine, wholly reliant upon our right-brain “word” skills and nature. Take us out of that environment, and we flail helplessly. That’s what happened to me when I was given the duty of “drawing” pages on the design desk – sketching out a picture of what the page would look like with stories and pictures.
There were many troublesome details about that duty. First, imaginative folks who like design and pictures rely not on their “right brain,” word side, but their “left brain” imaginative side. Thus, like that classic exercise in which you try to fold your arms the “opposite” way, I was asking my brain to undertake a task for which it was woefully underdeveloped. I could do it – but it took me three times longer than anyone else on the design desk. In the painful process of closing my eyes and trying desperately to “imagine” what a page might look like, often as not, I simply reproducing the previous day’s version. And then, as I breathed a sigh of relief, handing my finished product to an editor, I was told, “Oh, there were three breaking stories that got added a few minutes ago. So now you’ll have to redraw the page all over again.” Pure agony! And a lesson – whether wanted or not – in improv. Basically, making it up as you go along. And adapting. Adapting. Adapting. READ MORE
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| Lost and Found
If you lost a necklace, or reading glasses at one of the recent rotary meetings, the office has these items! Please call the office, identify the lost items, and you can retrieve them. Otherwise they will be donated to St. Luke's for their annual garage sale.
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| Memorials
The Rotary Club 29 Foundation accepts gifts honoring loved ones.
A contribution can be made here
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| Rotary Club 29 Online Directory - App is in the App/Play store
Rotary Club 29 has an online membership directory which contains current content information for all club members. The link to access the Club 29 directory can be found at the top of the home page of okcrotary.club or by clicking here.
OKC Rotary has provided this tool as a convenience to help members stay in touch with one another. The online directory, just like the printed roster, should only be used for Rotary purposes. If you need help in accessing the directory, please email the office.
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FUTURE PROGRAMS
2024-2025 Program Schedule
July 23, 2024 “Education in a Majority/Minority School District” – Dr. Cecilia Robinson Woods, Superintendent Millwood PS
July 30, 2024 - Vocational Tour Day - RSVP Required - No Meeting at St. Luke's - Attendance will be taken at your chosen Vocational Tour Venue
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Upcoming Events
July 30, 2024 - Vocational Tour Day
August 13, 2024 - Rotary AfterHours
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attendance
July 9, 2024 In-Person, Online, Makeups: 210
Total Present & Makeups: 37%
Membership
July 9, 2024: 598
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