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OKC Rotary News
February 25, 2025 | Volume 113 | No. 32
In-Person and Livestreamed from Christian Life Center - St. Luke's Methodist Church | 11:55
Livestream Available 11:55am
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DIA Equity Partners
“Get Back, Jack, Do It Again”
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Cliff Hudson spent 35 years of his career at Sonic Corp., an Oklahoma City-based, then a publicly held company that owns, operates and franchises SONIC Drive-In restaurants. Most recently, he was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of this public company with more than 3,500 franchised and company-operated drive-in restaurants. He left the company upon its sale in December 2018 and joined the law firm Crowe & Dunlevy as Of Counsel in the firm’s Oklahoma City office. READ MORE
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| Chair of the Day: Meg Salyer
Invocation: Lance McDaniel
Introduction of Guests: Whitney Cross
Introduction of New Rotarians: Rachel Hubbard
Welcome New Rotarian Table: Paul Moore
Scanners/ Greeters: Stephen Zahn, Terri Cooper
Registration: Barney Semtner, Jeff Crain
Roving Microphone: Bobby Mills, Bud Oehlert
Menu: Mixed Green Salad; Hummus and Pita Bread; Wild Rice Pilaf; Zucchini; Mediterranean Baked Sole; Chicken-Roasted Red Pepper Coulis
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club 29 breakfast
Feb. 27, 2025
Quail Creek Country Club | 7:00am | Wingspan Room
Chairs: Susan McVey, Bud Oehlert
Speaker: Robert Birch, OETA, “Back in Time.”
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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 Canada You May Not Knowby Ian Ogilvie
Canada has been in the news lately. Small in population (40 million), Canada is not accustomed to being a headline in the national US news. Recently, Canadians have not welcomed the banter around Canada becoming a US State. But that minor provocation reveals a silver lining for Canada: it stokes Canadian national identity and pride.
Canadians are not known for chest beating nationalism. They are less ideological than their southern neighbors. They put less of a premium on free speech and individualism, and more emphasis on collective well-being.
In part that’s because of its geography. Canada is enormous, larger than the US, but the majority of Canada is subarctic and barely inhabitable. More than 75% of the population lives within 100 miles of the US border.
But it’s mostly because of Canada’s history. Whereas Americans broke off from their colonial parent, Great Britain, suddenly and violently in the American Revolution, Canada’s origins are marked more by gradualism and accommodation.
Not to say that there’s no violence in Canada’s past: colonization by Europeans included forced labor, land theft and cultural suppression of indigenous people. Indigenous nations such as the Algonquin, Iroquois and Cree were decimated by killing by settlers, as well as by smallpox and other diseases brought by Europeans. READ MORE
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New Rotarians
Rachel Hubbard will introduce new Rotarians Amy Spring, Patrick Duffy, Brad Mardis, and Jack Test.
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| In Memory
The Rotary Club 29 Foundation gratefully acknowledges a memorial gift in memory of Page Dobson from Herbert Chappory.
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| Accounting Email Change
On July 1, 2024 the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City updated our accounting software to QuickBooks Online. With this change, the email address that sends your statements has been updated to:
quickbooks@notification.intuit.com
Please add the above email address to your safe senders list and check your spam/junk folders for communications from our Rotary office. Quarterly statements were emailed and we appreciate your assistance to ensure timely payment.
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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
March 4, 2025 -
Oklahoma City Comets – Michael Byrnes
March 11, 2025 - Judge Ken Stoner Oklahoma County District Judge – “Understanding Addiction and the Treatment Court Solution”
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attendance & MEMBERSHIP
Attendance
Feb. 18, 2025 - In-Person, Online, Makeups: Meeting & Breakfast Canceled - Inclement Weather
Total Present & Makeup: No Attendance Makeup Required
Membership: Feb. 18, 2025 - 578
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Upcoming Events
March. 11, 2025 - Rotary Afterhours
April 23, 2025 - Rotary Club of OKC visits Rotary Club of Tulsa
July 1, 2025 - Rotary Inaugural
January 31. 2026 - Pickleball Tournament
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