Tuesday, September 10, 2013
WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY
Lunch begins at noon - Meeting begins at 12:30 p.m.
District Governor Art MacQueen
Art
MacQueen grew up in the Detroit area and
attended Eastern Michigan University. Married to Gingie, his wife of 35 years they
have two children, four grandchildren and are blessed to have the kids and
their families all residing in the Northeast Florida
area.
Art
worked in retail management prior to accepting the position of CEO and
President of a Northern Michigan company manufacturing
industrial cutting tool packaging. After
13 years in that role it was time to pursue a warmer climate and the MacQueens
relocated to Florida in 1995, “as our parents
had done before us”. In Florida Art
stayed busy volunteering with The American Red Cross in disaster response and
officiating local track and cross country events.
A
second career presented itself when Art went to work for a telecom company eventually
becoming the Southeast sales manager for the equipment division. Following 11 years of service a second attempt
at retiring was made in 2009. Once
again, however, that did not last long as old friends in the telecom software
business reached out and Art accepted the position of Special Projects Manager
for the Pittsburg based firm. Gingie is employed as an admissions director
for a long term health and rehab facility as well as a fitness instructor for a
local area gym.
While
employed in telecom Art was visiting a Daytona area medical firm discussing
their equipment needs and was asked by the office manager to be a guest at her Thursday
morning Rotary meeting. Having no idea
what Rotary was about but seeing it as a great opportunity to network with
local business professionals he attended his first meeting in the spring of
2001. The Rotary Club of Daytona Beach
West has been Art’s Rotary home since that first visit.
Art
has served in a number of capacities at the club level including President in
2004-05, Sgt-at-Arms for a number of years and is currently a club board
member. At the District level Art was
an Assistant Governor in 2006-09, and has also served on the Fund and
Procedures Committee, Share Committee, District Grants Committee Chair and Long
Range Planning Committee. Art is a multiple Paul Harris Fellow and a
Benefactor. Wife Gingie is also a Paul
Harris Fellow.
For
hobbies, the MacQueens enjoy boating, riding their motorcycle, paddle boarding kayaking,
running, golf and anything involving the kids.
August 27th Blood Donors
Thank you to all those who participated to make this a successful drive!
What Paul Harris Said
RGHF History Day
What Paul Harris Said, a feature of RGHF since December 2001.
"May Rotarians continue to be ambassadors of good-will to
high and low, rich and poor, to all races, to the devotees of all
religious faiths and to members of all political parties, purveyors of
tolerance, forbearance, justice, kindliness, neighborliness and
friendliness to the inhabitants of this snug little world, the best
little world of which we know." Paul P. Harris, "This Rotarian Age" page 257, 1935.
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Would the world be better off if there were 1,000,000,000 Rotarians? Look what just a few Rotarians did nearly a century ago. The key is that they still knew where they came from. They knew their history.
That was a powerful tool. If today's 1,000,000 Rotarians knew what
they knew, we might soon be 2,000,000 Rotarians and 2 would become 4 and
so forth.
What Paul Harris Said, is our longest running feature, started in December of 2001. His writings are timeless and speak to Rotary leaders and visitors at www.whatpaulharriswrote.org
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