OKC Rotary News

July 18, 2023 | Volume 112 | No. 2
In-Person and Livestreamed from Christian Life Center - St. Luke's Methodist Church | 11:55
Livestream Available 11:55am

attorney general - oklahoma

Gentner Drummond was sworn in as Oklahoma’s 19th Attorney General on Jan. 9, 2023. Gentner’s law experience spans nearly 30 years and includes having served as an assistant district attorney in Pawnee and Osage Counties and as an attorney in private practice. In 1999, he founded the Tulsa-based firm, Drummond Law. In addition to his legal career, Gentner, a seventh-generation Oklahoman, has been a longtime rancher, banker and businessman.
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Chair of the Day: Cliff Branan
Invocation/Pledge Leading: Byron Jackson
Introduction of Guests: Andy Koester
Scanning/Greeting: Kathy Williams, John D. Williams
Registration: Ann Ackerman, Mary Blankenship Pointer
Menu: Caesar Salad; House Salad; Creamy Tuscan Shrimp; Grilled Chicken; Meatballs; Grilled Vegetables; Pasta; Sauces- Marinara, Alfredo, Creamy Pesto; Breadsticks

Club 29 Breakfast

July 20, 2023
Quail Creek Country Club | 7:00am | Wingspan Room
Chairs: Susan McVey, Bud Oehlert

Speaker: Trait Thompson, Executive Director, Oklahoma Historical Society

In the News
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Weeds of Time
by Charlie Smith

Outside of Munich, Germany, is the site of the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau. A visit there is an emotional experience; now run by Carmelite nuns, who maintain a chapel there, you are left with an overwhelming sense of sadness and a resolve that humanity must never again allow such evil. Dachau is contemplative, prayerful – and pristine. Not a weed in sight among the lush grounds. Yet many embarrassed locals would qualify Dachau’s existence as a blight – a weed, if you will – on present-day Germany, a harsh reminder of something they would wish to be allowed to forget and move on.

The contrast was stark if you happened a generation ago upon the Buchenwald concentration camp, outside of Weimar in the former East Germany. Maintained by the Soviets to imprison political foes after World War Two, it was a jarring monument to propaganda, extolling the glories of socialism versus the evils of the West. It also, by the time of German unification, had been left to rot and was in terrible shape, weed-infested and poorly maintained. If the message of Dachau was “Never Again!” you got the distinct impression that those who oversaw Buchenwald wouldn’t have been sorry to see history repeat itself.

The weeds of Buchenwald and the idea of Dachau as a weed in the carefully cultivated image of today’s unified Germany are reminders of the ways that the same image is used in the Christian Bible, including a parable told by Jesus in the Gospels. The hopeful message is that even weeds –or, allegorically, people deemed “weeds” – have a redeemable purpose. It’s an encouragement to live with patience in life’s weedy, messy ambiguity.
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