Welcome Rex Fan Chiang, Rotary Youth Exchange Student

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY

Lunch Begins at noon - Meeting begins at 12:30 p.m.

 

Meet Shih-Chang (Rex) Fan Chiang

Rotary Youth Exchange Student

Shih Chang Fan Chiang was born and lives in Taichung, Taiwan.  He lives there with his parents, younger brother and younger sister.  His father, Chun-Liang Fan, is a member of the Rotary Club of Taichung South, District 3460 in Taiwan.  Shih Chang is 15 years old, loves music, likes to hang out with his friends, plays basketball, table tennis, and soccer and runs track.

We know Shih Chaing as Rex. Rex is a Rotary Youth Exchange student sponsored by the South Jacksonville Rotary Club.   He came to Jacksonville, Florida in August 2011.  He attends Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and plays the violin.  Rex became interested in becoming an exchange student after hearing about the program while attending a Rotary meeting with his father.   He wanted to travel to a different country, meet different people and experience a different culture.     

The following is how Rex describes being an exchange student:

"Exchange is about learning.

It's not as easy as learning whatever is taught in school though.

It's about learning how to listen, how to speak, how to think. Learning who you are, who your friends are and the type of people you want as friends. Learning how to trust your innermost feelings, and how to find these feelings in the first place. Learning what's important to you and what is not.

Exchange is about learning how to tolerate, how to accept, how to like and how to love. Learning how to give as you receive and how to trust that everything will even itself out on its own. Learning that your mom and dad do have the right answers sometimes, and that your kid sister isn't such a dumb kid anymore. Learning that sometimes a kiss isn't just a kiss, sometimes it means more, sometimes it means less.

Exchange is about learning how to achieve, how to succeed, how to accomplish.

Learning how to not come in first place and still be proud and how to come in last and admit that you could have done better. Learning that large parties don't necessarily mean a good time. Learning that loneliness doesn't go away in a crowd, and that sometimes its ok to be on your own a Friday or Saturday night. Learning that your lunchtime crowd doesn't constitute your popularity, and that popularity is all a matter of perspective.Learning that boredom is simply laziness of the mind, and watching 3 hours of TV isn't quality relaxation time.

Exchange is about learning how to pack a bag and to pack away a room full of way too much stuff.

Learning how to motivate yourself and how to motivate others. Learning how to swear in all the different languages of all the other exchange students. Learning that people probably like you a whole lot more than they'll ever tell you and that it's your responsibility to make sure your friends know how much you appreciate them.

Exchange is about learning. Learning how to live life."

Lenny Curry 

Article in Tallahassee Democrat

Lenny Curry wrote an article published in the Tallahassee Democrat about Obomacare.  The entire article can be found at:

http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20120323/OPINION05/203230305/Lenny-Curry-Obamacare-hasn-t-lived-up-promises?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|frontpage|s

Rotary Literacy Project

The well-known and well-attended “Box-A-Go-Go” is making its return Spring appearance in April.  “Books-A-Go-Go” Executive Director, Betty Metz, will be our guest at the upcoming April 3 meeting to remind us about the importance of placing a child’s first book in the hands of children who would not receive one otherwise.  Contributing books (new or gently used, age appropriate for a first time reader) and donations will make our Spring Literacy Project even more successful than last fall!  (Donations can be made directly to Patti or they can be charged to your account.)  Thanks!

Welcome Our Newest Member

 Kevin Hyde is a partner with Foley & Lardner, LLP.  Kevin is vice chair of the Labor & Employment Practice and is a member of the Automotive Industry Team.  He has been a deacon or elder with the Lakeshore Church of Christ since 1992.  Kevin has served the community in many roles including Board of Youth Crisis Center, Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida, NE FL Safety Council, Volunteers in Medicine, Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens, just to name a few.

Kevin and Kathi have been married since 1987 and have two daughters, Virginia,19 and Michal, (pronounced Michael) 17.

 

Suns Baseball Event for South Jacksonville Rotary

Tuesday April 10, 2012 5:45pm
Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville

$16.95 per person – kids under 3 get in free

The ticket includes group seating in section #101

Includes Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, Popcorn and Sodas

                   Sign-up sheets on the table at weekly meetings 

Rotary Night at the Jacksonville Symphony 

Cirque de la Symphony

Thursday April 26, 2012 7:30pm

Jacoby Symphony Hall

Rotary Special discount tickets: $40

$10 of each ticket will support  
Rotary’s Polio Eradication Program

credited to your club

Ticket includes Pops Concert and Symphony hosted beverage reception at 6:45pm for Rotarians and guests in the Davis Gallery

To make reservations and purchase tickets call Bill Cosnotti at 356-0426 or bcosnotti@jaxsymphony.org

Fidelity National Financial Pops Series    Concert Sponsor: SunTrust

TPC Players Championship 

Discounted Tickets for D6970 Rotary Club Members

THE PLAYERS Championship is offering District 6970 Rotary Clubs a private, specially priced ticket program allowing members the opportunity to purchase 2012 PLAYERS Championship tickets at a substantially discounted rate. In addition, for each ticket purchased, THE PLAYERS will make a $2.00 donation to the Rotary Foundation for Polio Plus. Members can purchase good any one day grounds tickets for $35.00, regularly $55.00! Because these tickets are good any one day, there are no worries if you are not sure which day you would like to attend as these tickets are good any one day, Thursday – Sunday (May 10-13). This program is not limited to Rotary members and there is no limit to the number of tickets one member can purchase. Youth, 18 and younger, are admitted free when accompanied by a ticketed adult. To purchase, go to the link listed below and enter the promo code, ROTARY1. Tickets will be emailed to you after the purchase is complete. Your Ticketmaster link: https://oss.ticketmaster.com/html/go.htmI?l=EN&t=pgaplayers&o=20025&g=156

Thank you for your support of THE PLAYERS Championship as we endeavor to showcase Northeast Florida and improve the lives of those in our community.

Mark Your Calenders

• Our "Books-A-Go-Go" drive will be during the month of April.
• Suns Baseball Event - April 10th.
• Rotary Night at the Jacksonville Symphony - April 26th.
• TPC - Rotary Discount - May 10th - 13th
• Rotary Alhambra Event - May 22nd.

Welcome Curtis Hazel, 2012 TPC Tournament Chairman

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

WE MEET AT SAN JOSE COUNTRY CLUB

Lunch begins at noon - Meeting Begins at 12:30 p.m.

Meet Curtis Hazel

2012 TPC Tournament Chairmen

Curtis was born in Jacksonville, Fla., and graduated from The Bolles School in 1992. He attended the University of Florida, a study-abroad program in London, and graduated from the University of North Florida. He and his wife, Jenny, live in St. Augustine, and have two children – McKenna (8), and Jackson (6). 

Curtis is involved in a number of community service and volunteer activities. He currently serves on the board for the following organizations; University of North Florida Athletic Department, the Jacksonville School for Autism, River Garden Foundation, and The River Garden Holding Company Board.  He was a founding board member and continues to serve for Children’s Safe Passage, created in 2010. Curtis also serves as a Mentor for Take Stock in Children (TSIC), and is a member of their Leadership Council.

Professionally, Curtis is the founder and president of Hazel Partners LLC, an independent property and casualty insurance firm, specializing in commercial insurance brokerage and risk management consulting.  

Curtis has volunteered with THE PLAYERS for 16 years. His volunteer assignments have taken him from Standard Bearers to General Parking, and have included Special Events, Shuttle, Island Club, Corporate Hospitality, Practice Area, VIP Parking and Benefactors. Curtis has served as Vice Chairman for Player Services, Spectator Services, Facilities and Volunteer Services.   In 2011, he was First-Vice Chairman.  Curtis is now Tournament Chairman, with leadership responsibilities over the 2,000-plus volunteers who work tirelessly to stage the event.   

Rotary Night at the Jacksonville Symphony 

Cirque de la Symphony

Thursday April 26, 2012 7:30pm

Jacoby Symphony Hall

Rotary Special discount tickets: $40

$10 of each ticket will support  
Rotary’s Polio Eradication Program

credited to your club

Ticket includes Pops Concert and Symphony hosted beverage reception at 6:45pm for Rotarians and guests in the Davis Gallery

To make reservations and purchase tickets call Bill Cosnotti at 356-0426 or bcosnotti@jaxsymphony.org

Fidelity National Financial Pops Series    Concert Sponsor: SunTrust

Suns Baseball Event for South Jacksonville Rotary

Tuesday April 10, 2012 5:45pm
Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville

$16.95 per person – kids under 3 get in free

The ticket includes group seating in section #101

Includes Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, Popcorn and Sodas

Sign-up sheets on the table at weekly meetings 

Mark Your Calenders

• Our "Books-A-Go-Go" drive will be during the month of April.
• Suns Baseball Event - April 10th.
• Rotary Night at the Jacksonville Symphony - April 26th.
• Rotary Alhambra Event - May 22nd.

  

Pictures from Past Meetings

Welcome Neil McGuiness, Businessman & Author

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY

Lunch begins at Noon - Meeting begins at 12:30 p.m.

Neil McGuiness, Author of

"The Beaches: A History and Tour"

Neil McGuiness moved to Jacksonville with his parents at age 17.  He attended Jacksonville University and graduated from the University of Florida. After serving three years as a Marine Corps officer, he earned his MBA in Finance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Neil has had a varied career ranging from owning and operating a 250 passenger paddlewheel riverboat on the St. Johns River to being assistant to the Chairman and CEO of IBM. Neil moved from the technology industry to the investment industry and was President of Fidelity Investments Employer Services Company and later Corporate Senior Vice President of the Prudential  Insurance Company of America in Newark, NJ. Currently Neil is a board member and Chairman of the SEI Private Trust Company, a national thrift in Philadelphia and is a full time business broker and merger and acquisition specialist here in Jacksonville. He owns the First Coast office of Murphy Business and Financial Services in Jacksonville.

Neil is the author of "The Beaches: A History and Tour".  The book is a history and a tour of the 37 mile-long island in North Florida which includes Mayport, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, Jacksonville Beach, Ponte Vedra, the Guana Preserve and Vilano Beach. 

Rotary Night at the Jacksonville Symphony 

Cirque de la Symphony

Thursday April 26, 2012 7:30pm

Jacoby Symphony Hall

Rotary Special discount tickets: $40

$10 of each ticket will support  
Rotary’s Polio Eradication Program

credited to your club

Ticket includes Pops Concert and Symphony hosted beverage reception at 6:45pm for Rotarians and guests in the Davis Gallery

To make reservations and purchase tickets call Bill Cosnotti at 356-0426 or bcosnotti@jaxsymphony.org

Fidelity National Financial Pops Series    Concert Sponsor: SunTrust

Suns Baseball Event for South Jacksonville Rotary

Tuesday April 10, 2012 5:45pm
Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville

$16.95 per person – kids under 3 get in free

The ticket includes group seating in section #101

Includes Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, Popcorn and Sodas

Sign-up sheets on the table at weekly meetings 

Mark Your Calenders

• Our "Books-A-Go-Go" drive will be during the month of April.
• Suns Baseball Event - April 10th.
• Rotary Night at the Jacksonville Symphony - April 26th.
• Rotary Alhambra Event - May 22nd.

  

Pictures from March 13th Meeting

Board Action

At the Board meeting this past week, the following actions occurred:  Approved for your consideration into membership - Dr. Leandra Dopazo, sponsor is Rick Mullens and the classification is Dentistry-Orthodontics; Lynn Betros, sponsor is P Odette Struys and the classification is Non-Profit Development.  Anyone having an objection, please submit it in writing within ten (10) days.

Welcome Past President Ken Weiss

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY

Lunch begins at noon-Meeting begins at 12:30 p.m.

Ken Weiss

Associate Director of the Youth Crisis Center Foundation

Kenneth Z. Weiss is the Associate Director of the Youth Crisis Center (YCC) Foundation.  The foundation supports the work of Jacksonville’s Youth Crisis Center.  It will be his topic for the March 13th South Jacksonville Rotary Club's meeting.  YCC is known and has been recognized both nationally and statewide, but is little known by most residents of Jacksonville.

Prior to his current position, Weiss was CEO of Georgian Galleries, Inc. from 1976 until 2008.  Georgian Galleries owned and operated both Ethan Allen and La-Z-Boy Furniture retail locations in West Virginia and North Florida.

From 1964 until 1968 he attended the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida where he studied Management and Marketing.  After serving in the US Army, Weiss attended West Virginia University, in Morgantown, WV,  where he received a Board of Regents Degree in Journalism and Public Relations in 1978.

A Rotarian since 1979, Weiss served as President of the Rotary Club of South Jacksonville in 2000 and 2001.  Among the numerous organizations and boards on which Weiss has served are:  Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America, Hospice of Northeast Florida, Congregation Ahavath Chesed, Mental Health America, Deerwood Country Club and the Mountain Area Chapter of Cystic Fibrosis.

Weiss spearheaded the “Big Wheel” reading program between South Jax Rotary members and students at Hogan-Spring Glen Elementary School and was one of the early supporters of the Rotary Youth Exchange Program during its infancy in District 6970.  His favorite volunteer positions are when he coached youth soccer and basketball teams.  

Rotary Night at the Jacksonville Symphony 

Cirque de la Symphony

Thursday April 26, 2012 7:30pm

Jacoby Symphony Hall

Rotary Special discount tickets: $40

$10 of each ticket will support  
Rotary’s Polio Eradication Program

credited to your club

Ticket includes Pops Concert and Symphony hosted beverage reception at 6:45pm for Rotarians and guests in the Davis Gallery

To make reservations and purchase tickets call Bill Cosnotti at 356-0426 or bcosnotti@jaxsymphony.org

Fidelity National Financial Pops Series    Concert Sponsor: SunTrust

Suns Baseball Event for South Jacksonville Rotary

Tuesday April 10, 2012 5:45pm
Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville

$16.95 per person – kids under 3 get in free

The ticket includes group seating in section #101

Includes Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, Popcorn and Sodas

Sign-up sheets on the table at weekly meetings

 Joy Hardaker 

 Joy Hardaker was showcased in the 

Financial News and Daily Record this week.   

The full article can be found at 

<http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=535851> 

 Pictures from March 6th Meeting 

 

Welcome Past President Albert H. Wilkinson, Jr., MD

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY

Lunch begins at noon - Meeting begins at 12:30 p.m.

Albert H. Wilkinson, Jr. MD

"Changes in Medicine"

Dr. Wilkinson is a native Floridian, born and raised in Jacksonville.  He attended public school through the tenth grade, following which he finished high school at Emory University Academy in Oxford, Georgia.  He served in the United States Navy toward the end of World War II and soon thereafter.  After he completed pre-med requirements at Emory University, he attended Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia.  Dr. Wilkinson served a rotating internship on Tulane Services of Charity Hospital in New Orleans followed by residency training in General and Thoracic surgery at Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University School of Medicine.  He then began training in children’s surgery including time spent in pediatric pathology and research at Children’s Memorial Hospital and Northwestern School of Medicine in Chicago.  In 1959 Dr. Wilkinson returned to Jacksonville as the first pediatric surgeon in Florida, where for many years he practiced pediatric surgery, served as surgeon-in-chief at two children’s hospitals as well as on their respective Boards of Directors.  For 12 years he served as Chief of Children’s Surgical Services at University Hospital and its predecessor Duval Medical Center.  He founded the first pediatric surgery clinic in Florida at Hope Haven Hospital under the aegis of the Florida Crippled Children’s Commission.  He also served as founding President of the Florida Association of Children’s Hospitals and continues to serve in a part-time capacity for the association.  He was also the founding medical director and director for the planning and development of Nemours Children’s Clinic – Jacksonville.  He has published many papers and in the recent past, a book that deals with children’s hospitals and healthcare.

In 2010, Dr. Wilkinson received the Presidential Citation, Humanitarian Honoree of the Year awarded by “One Jax” and, several years ago, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award as one of Jacksonville’s Health Heroes.

Dr. Wilkinson has served on the clinical faculties of the University of Florida College of Medicine, Emory University and Mercer University School of  Medicine.

Rotary Night at the Jacksonville Symphony

Cirque de la Symphony

Thursday April 26, 2012 7:30pm

Jacoby Symphony Hall

Rotary Special discount tickets: $40

{$10 of each ticket will support Rotary’s Polio Eradication Program

credited to your club}

Ticket includes Pops Concert and Symphony hosted beverage reception at 6:45pm

for Rotarians and guests in the Davis Gallery

To make reservations and purchase tickets call Bill Cosnotti at 356-0426 or

bcosnotti@jaxsymphony.org

Fidelity National Financial Pops Series    Concert Sponsor: SunTrust


 Congratulations!

Congratulations Doug McCullough on  receiving the Stephen Wise Award and your recent marriage!

After 19 years with The Blood Alliance as its President and CEO, Dale Malloy will

be retiring.  Dale’s retirement plans include spending time with his extended family, 

improving his golf game and continuing his community volunteerism. 

Congratulations Dale!   

 Ouch! 

President Odette aggravated an old knee injury while at 

her first Daytona 500 race.  The tickets were her birthday 

gift from boyfriend, Robert Schindler.  After a trip to the 

Mayo Clinic's  Emergency Room, she will be on crutches 

for a few days! 

Salvation Army Bell Ringing

There is a correction to the amount raised during the Salvation Army Bell Ringing.

The recently published total listed was not all inclusive.  The correct total for the bell

ringing is $2,004.33.  A job well done!

Welcome Bill Warner, Rotary Club of South Jacksonville

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY

Lunch begins at noon - Meeting begins at 12:30 p.m.

Meet Bill Warner

Concours d'Elegance

William (Bill) C. Warner is the CEO of H.C. Warner, Inc., a retired Major of the Florida Air National Guard, a Contributing Editor of Road & Track Magazine, and the Founder and Chairman of The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance.

Bill Warner has been around automobiles his whole life.  As a teenager he worked at the local Volkswagen and imported car dealership in the parts department and driving the delivery truck.  On weekends, he worked as a “gopher” for the dealership racing team and became enthralled with motor racing.  Upon earning his degree in Electrical Engineering, he entered the family filter business and started work on the side for Sports Car Graphic Magazine.  In 1971, he began his relationship with Road & Track Magazine which continues today.  His photographs and writing have appeared in Road & Track, Car and Driver, Autoweek, The Atlantic Monthly, Automobile, Automotor und Sport, Classic & Sportscar, Porsche Panorama, and Forza to mention a few.   His photography has won awards from The Los Angeles Art Directors, the Creative Arts Yearbook, and the Sports Car Club of America (Photographer of the Year 1970).  His photos have been featured in the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles as part of the 50^th Anniversary of Ferrari and at the Meadow Brook Concours d’Elegance, in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

In 1975, he teamed with Tom Nehl in a Porsche 911 to finish 14^th in the third running of the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash (AKA The Cannonball run) and with English racing great, Innes Ireland; Can Am racer, George Drolsom; and sedan racer, Dick Starita, to finish 26^th in the inaugural running of the Cannonball One Lap of America.  The One Lap was run in a Hertz-Unlimited Mileage Lincoln Town Car.  Warner started racing in 1978 in a Brabham BT-8 and later in the SCCA in an ex-Bob Sharp Racing Datsun B210.  He finished 5^th in the American Road Racing Amateur Championships at Road Atlanta in 1982 in Class GT-3 (having started in 22^nd place).  His drive earned him a nomination for the Mark Donohue Award.  In 1984 he entered the International Motorsports Association Firehawk Series in a Camaro and had top ten finishes at St. Louis and Sebring, top five finishes at Watkins Glen (twice), a 3^rd at Road America, a 2^nd at Lime Rock, Ct., and a win in the Escort Series at Mid Ohio, all in Camaros.  Warner won the IMSA Media Challenge (for racing journalists) in 1984, 1985, and 1986.   He participated as a driver in the SAAB World Speed Record Run at Talladega, Alabama in 1986.  Warner has driven factory sponsored road races for Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Mercury, and Ford.  He currently races the ex-Bob Tullius, Group 44/ ex-Paul Newman Triumph TR-6 and the ex-Group 44 Triumph TR-8 Trans Am/IMSA car in vintage racing. He has been awarded the Skip Barber Cup (Lime Rock) and the John Kelly Trophy (Mid Ohio) for driving. 

In addition to racing, he restores and collects interesting cars.  Currently in his collection are a 1957 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz, a 1958 Cadillac El Dorado Brougham, a 1955 Chevrolet Corvette, a 1972 Ferrari 365GTB/4 “Daytona”, a 1952 Muntz Road Jet, a 1971 Porsche 911T (owned since new), a 1979 Mercedes Benz 450SL (Jane’s car), a 1928 Simplex Piston Ring Special, 1978 Bill Mitchell Special Vehicles Development Oldsmobile Omega, a 1970 Maserati Ghibli Spyder, a 2005 Ford GT, and the two previously mentioned Triumph race cars.  The centerpiece of his collection was Edsel Ford’s 1934 Ford Model 40 Special Speedster which he sold in 2008.  Over the years he has restored a Brabham BT-8 (ex-Denny Hulme, Tourist Trophy winner), an Elva Mk 5, a Lotus 11 LeMans (ex-Innes Ireland), the Lang Cooper (nee Shelby King Cobra), a 1953 Oldsmobile Fiesta (now in the General Motors Heritage Collection),  a 1954 Corvette, and a BMW M-1.

In 1996, he founded The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance near his home of Jacksonville, Florida.  In the fifteen year history of the show, it has raised over $ 1.7 million dollars for Community Hospice and Spina Bifida.  For his charitable work, he was recognized by The Rotary Club of South Jacksonville with the Frank Sherman Award;  The WTLV Channel 12, Twelve Who Care Award;  The National Philanthropic Award as Volunteer of the Year (1998)and the American Institute for Public Service, Jefferson Award.

In 2002, he was recognized by a panel of automotive writers and journalists with the Meguiar’s Automobile Hobby Person of the Year.  The ceremony was held at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, California, and was nationally televised.  Other recipients of the Meguiar’s Award have been Jay Leno, the late Chip Miller of Carlisle Productions, and Steve Earle of the Monterey Historic Races.

In 2003, he was inducted into the Road Racing Driver’s Club by British Racing Champion, Brian Redman.

In September of 2005, Warner was named to the Steering Committee of the LeMay Automotive Museum, Tacoma, Washington.

In February 2006, The Federacion de Automovilismo de Puerto Rico recognized Bill and Jane for their contribution to the preservation of antique and classic cars.

In July of 2008, Bill was named  one of the “Top 50 Players in the Classic Car World” by Octane Magazine (UK) joining such automotive luminaries at Sir Stirling Moss, Dan Gurney, Jay Leno, Phil Hill and Lord March.

In October of 2008, Bill was awarded the Lee Iococca Award given as recognition for “Dedication to Excellence in Perpetuating an American Automotive Tradition”. 

In August of 2009, Bill was appointed to the Selection Committee of the Monterey Historic Races, Monterey, California.

He has served as the Honorary Chief Judge at the Thousand Oaks Concours d’Elegance, Thousand Oaks, California, and Honorary Chairman of the EyesOn Design, Detroit, Michigan (2010).  He has served on judging teams at the Glenmoor Gathering (Ohio), the Radnor Hunt Concours d’Elegance (Philadelphia), The Louis Vuitton Concours, New York City, and the Keels and Wheels Concours d’Elegance (near Houston).

Bill is recipient of the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Florida Service ribbon and served 30 years in the Florida Air National Guard, retiring at the rank of Major.

He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from The Citadel in 1966.

His wife of forty-four years, Jane, has patiently put up with his automotive mania with an understanding beyond reasonable expectations, as have his three children, son, Clay, and twin daughters, Demery Webber and Dana Shewmaker, and granddaughters, Lindsey Jane Webber and Mildred Huxley Warner.

Newest Paul Harris Fellow

Congratulation to South Jacksonville Rotary Club's newest Paul Harris Fellow, Chris Bouton!

Board Action
Approved for your consideration into membership - John Lawlor, sponsor is PP Al Wilkinson and the classification is Law, Wills/Estates/Trusts.  Anyone having an objection, please submit it in writing to the Board within ten (10) days.

A spring time social will be held on May 22 at the Alhambra dinner theatre.  The show is the Buddy Holly Story and we are looking forward to a fun event!  Mark your calendars and be sure to support the club.

We are pleased to announce the Jacksonville Historical Society raised approximately $15,000 with the Gingerbread Event this year.   

Welcome Howard W. Kelley, Rotary Club of Jacksonville

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY

Lunch begins at noon - Meeting begins at 12:30 p.m.

 Meet Howard W. Kelley

"The History of Rotary in Jacksonville"

          

Howard W. Kelley has been a member of the Rotary Club of Jacksonville for 30 of its 100 years and is also a Sustaining Paul Harris Fellow.

Howard is the recently retired president of Jacksonville-based Sally Corporation. Sally is one of the oldest and largest designers and fabricators of animation robotics and dark rides used internationally in theme parks, museums, and attractions.

Before joining Sally in 1985, Howard spent more than 25 years in broadcasting including 10 years in television management as news director and later vice president and general manager of Channel 12 WTLV. He has been a reporter, assignment editor, news producer and anchor. He is recipient of a number of awards for broadcast journalism.

 In his retirement he is president of Aspergantis LLC, an Internet services company which provides specialized web hosting, custom software applications, and operates a series of retail and commercial websites.

A Jacksonville native, Howard received his undergraduate degree in broadcasting from the University of Florida. He is a PMD graduate of the Harvard Business School and the Japanese International School of Business Studies.

Howard is currently a director Houston-based American Electric Technologies, a NASDAQ energy equipment manufacturing firm. He previously served as corporate director of broadcast strategic planning for a major U.S. communications company.  He has served as a director of several U.S. technology corporations with diverse international business activities. He is a frequent international lecturer on future technology, international business, strategic planning, and corporate governance and ethics.

Howard is a former chairman of the District Board of Trustees of Florida Community College at Jacksonville. He as an executive lecturer at the University Of North Florida College Of Business Administration and Jacksonville University's Executive MBA program.  Howard has also been an adjunct instructor for Florida Community College at Jacksonville teaching courses in Internet technologies and Internet business. 

For more than two decades, he has been active in local and regional civic and community affairs. Howard has been a five-time member of the executive committee of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, past president of the Jacksonville World Trade Center Association and a founder of First Coast Council of Chambers. He has received the Governor's Excellence in Export Achievement Award and is a holder of the Williamson Award for Contributions to Regional Economic Development.

 

Update on the Eradication of Polio

Rotary International has matched the Bill Gates grant!!!!  Rotary International President Banerjee accepted the largest check from any district at the Centennial Celebration in Jacksonville on February 13th with a donation of more than $1 million from our District 6970. Rotary International has now collectively contributed $600 million towards polio eradication!

When Rotary International began working towards the eradication of Polio, there were 1,000 new cases of polio a day.  In the mid 1990's, India had over 50,00 new cases per year.  In 2011, there were less than 2 new cases per day.  There were only 611 cases in all for 2011.

Centennial Celebration Pictures

John McCarthy, President Odette Struys, RI President Kalyan Banerjee and Jane Upton

Dedication of the Mobile Unit

Rex  & Grant

Rotary Youth Exchange Students participated in the Centennial Celebration.  Our inbound exchange student from Taiwan, Rex Fan Chiang entered the celebration with Grant Zwolinski, the outbound exchange student going to Taiwan in August.