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OKC Rotary News
October 8, 2024 | Volume 113 | No. 14
In-Person and Livestreamed from Christian Life Center - St. Luke's Methodist Church | 11:55
Livestream Available 11:55am
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| Wings, A special needs community
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|  | Cheri Weaver, Executive Director
Greg Price, Exec. Chair - United Petroleum Transports
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Chair of the Day: Chris Moxley, Ashley Smith
Invocation: Jalal Farzaneh
Introduction of Guests: Patrick Raglow
Introduction of New Rotarians: Mark Neumeister
Scanners/ Greeters: Kelly Kay, Jeff Simpsen
Registration: Peggy Kates, Kathy Williams
Roving Microphone: Bart Binning, Bobby Mills
Menu: Field Green Salad, Grilled Vegetable Pasta Salad; Broccoli, Au Gratin Potatoes, Honey Lemon Chicken, Pot Roast
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Club 29 BreakfastOct. 10, 2024
Quail Creek Country Club | 7:00am | Wingspan Room
Chairs: Susan McVey, Bud Oehlert
Speakers: Whitney Cross, Director of Development & Communications, Dr. Brian Wolfe, Development Manager, and Ryan Joliocoeur-Nye, Artistic Director, all of Oklahoma City Ballet: " Nuts About the New Nutcracker"
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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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Decals Optional
by Ron Page
This article is going to be about family summer road trips. I’m guessing some Rotary 29 members included a road trip with your family this summer. I hope you took plenty of pictures and hope you have viewed them on your big-screen TV’s, and that you continue to view them over and over maybe at Thanksgiving or Christmas gatherings. If you aren’t sure how road trips relate to Rotary ideals, I give you a quote from Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
Cruising the US and Canada from Key West to Quebec City, from Banff to Yosemite to Carlsbad Caverns in my family’s quest to visit all 48 states, all the national parks, and all the provinces of Canada, we saw much more than just the spectacular scenery. We saw unspectacular people and unspectacular places that looked different and sounded different, but, as Will Rogers might have said, “We liked them all”.
Born in 1940, my earliest remembrances of life on the farm in northern Illinois include saving everything from gum wrappers to milkweed pods for recycling into military products. Most of our manufacturing was dedicated to the World War II effort. If you wanted new farm machinery or a new car, you would have to join the list of thousands of other applicants and wait your turn, which likely did not come up until well after the war, which ended in 1945. Have you ever seen a 1943 Ford or a 1944 Chevy? (You haven’t) READ MORE
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New Rotarians
New Rotarians Emma Payne, Jennifer Wilkinson, Kirsten Lindsay, and Julie Blatt will be introduced by Mark Neumeister.
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Rotary Magazine - October 2024
Across the United States, hundreds of thousands of children have been married over the past two decades — each one lawfully. Up until 2018, child marriage — considered a human rights violation by the U.N. — remained legal in every state. The survivor of an abusive arranged marriage, Fraidy Reiss wants to ensure other girls don't suffer the same ordeal.
Fall means football in the U.S., and if you're a fan you may be wondering who will win this year's Lombardi Award. But did you know the prize is presented each year by the Rotary Club of Houston and benefits cancer research? In another of this month's features, we look at the lesser-known origins of one of college football's most prestigious honors.
And finally, October is when we celebrate milestones on the road to eradicating polio. Photographer Jean-Marc Giboux has documented that progress for years. Join us on a photographic journey through his most memorable images. Then, help celebrate World Polio Day on 24 October.
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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
Oct. 15, 2024 - “The Current Landscape of College Athletics and NIL” – Toby Baldwin, Executive Associate AD, University of Oklahoma
Oct.22, 2024 - “Ronald McDonald House Charities USA: Celebrating 50 years and Looking Ahead to the Next 50” – Katie Fitzgerald, President and CEO
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Upcoming Events
Nov. 12, 2024 - Rotary AfterHours
Jan. 7, 2025 - Winter Party
Jan. 25, 2025 - Rotary Pickleball Tournament Chicken 'n Pickle - 10-1
April 23, 2025 - Rotary Club of OKC visits Rotary Club of Tulsa
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attendance
Oct. 1, 2024 In-Person, Online, Makeups: 202
Total Present & Makeups: 36%
Membership
Oct. 1, 2024: 593
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