WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY
Lunch begins at noon - Meeting begins at 12:30pm
The Wounded
Warrior Project is a veterans’ service organization that offers a variety of
programs, services and events for wounded veterans of the military actions
following the events of 9/11/2001. It operates as a nonprofit organization with
a mission to "honor and empower Wounded Warriors" of the United
States Armed Forces.
Our Speakers
Our Speakers
Jeff Robertson, Dean of
Students
After
graduating high school in Palm Coast in 2000, Jeff joined the Marine
Corps. During his tenure, he was deployed to Turkey for Operation Northern
Watch in 2002, and Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in
2005. After being honorably discharged he attended the University of
Florida where he earned a BA in English and a Master’s degree in
management. He has served as the Dean of Students at Wounded Warrior
Project since September 12 th, 2011.
Chris Rick, Track Manager
Chris
retired from the Navy, as a Master Chief, after 21 years of service in June
2003. He holds a bachelor of science in business administration degree and is
currently enrolled in a graduate program at UNF in nonprofit management. He
helped to develop the Wounded Warrior Project TRACK program, when he was hired
in July 2008, as the dean of students. He was promoted to TRACK manager in
April 2011
Our Two Wounded Warrior Guests
Specialist Bill Schnarr
Bill served as an Infantryman in the US Army from 12/2009 –
3/2013. He was deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom
from 12/2009 – 12/2010, for which he received the Army Commendation
Medal. He comes from Montgomery City, Missouri.
PFC Kevin
Crowder
Kevin is a Jacksonville native and retired Artilleryman from the
US Army, which he served in from 1/2008 – 10/2012. He was deployed twice
in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, for which he received the Army
Commendation Medal.
Supporting our Foundation thru Amazon
A simple way to help our club!
On-line shoppers who use Amazon can designate a (very) small
percentage of the proceeds from their purchases to a 501(c)3 of their choice. Simply shop thru smile.amazon.com instead of Amazon; select Rotary Club Of South Jacksonville Charities Inc from a list of charities,
and 0.5% of the purchase price will be donated to the Foundation. It may not
seem like much, but the cumulative effect might be considerable, especially
with holiday shopping underway.
Interact Minute
The
Wolfson HS Interact Club is up and running.
The club has exploded in numbers and there are more than fifty students
who have paid their dues for the year. They
meet twice a month and have an incredible faculty advisor, Gwen Hoza.
Their
first service project is collecting gently worn clothing for the Clara White
mission. The project will last the entire month of November. They are planning
a winter festival as a fund raiser and will be looking to our club for some
volunteer help.
They
meet at 2 pm the first and third Monday of each month at Wolfson. Attending their meetings does constitute a
make up!
Minutarian Update, Week 19
Rotary
Youth Exchange (RYE)
Student interviews - Nov 16th & 17th
November is also exciting for Youth Exchange.
We need your help to interview over 40 candidates for a position in our
Outbound roster for the Rotary year 2014-2015. We will be accepting 20-25
students from District 6970. All Rotarians are invited to participate in the
student interviews, Saturday & Sunday, November 16, 17. The interviews will
be held at St Johns River State College in St. Augustine. For further
information, times, and registration information, please check the District
website.
We
need as many volunteers as we can get. Please be sure that you are there to
help us select next years outbound students.
Volunteers
can log onto the www.ryeflorida.org website
and sign up for when they can help.
Once
on the site open up District 6970, Under the November 2013 Calendar.. open
the link to sign up to volunteer to help us.
