January 19, 2016

Lunch is served at Noon, Meeting begins at 12:30pm

Welcome Julie Shafer, Healthy Living Centers

Julie Schafer is a manager at Baptist Health and oversees the Y Healthy Living Centers and the Jewish Community Alliance's Wellness Connexion.  She received her Bachelor’s degree from Miami University of Ohio in Exercise Science and Health Studies, and a Master of Public Health degree from University of North Florida. 

Prior to joining the Baptist Health team in 2014, she spent eight years with Brooks Rehabilitation, one of the leading rehabilitation networks in the U.S. She established an award-winning Stroke Wellness Program during her tenure at Brooks, which was operational in eight YMCA facilities in four counties and replicated for persons living with brain injury and Parkinson’s in Northeast Florida. Julie also has extensive experience in care coordination initiatives, health education, corporate wellness, and has taught as an adjunct professor in the Brooks College of Health at University of North Florida for four years. 

Rotaract News-Change of Meeting Location
Rotaract will be meeting back at River City Brewing Company (NOT Hightide Burrito) on the second and fourth Thursdays starting with the meeting of January 14, 2016

Satellite Club News!

Satellite meets the second and fourth Mondays of each month!



The next meeting will be held on January 25th at Indochine in San Marco.
The speaker will be Robin Watson from Year-Up


Year Up seeks to close the Opportunity Divide by providing urban young adults with the skills, experience, and support that will empower them to reach their potential through professional careers and higher education. We achieve this mission through a one-year, intensive training program that provides low-income young adults, ages 18-24, with a combination of hands-on skill development, college credits, and corporate internships.

• The satellite speaker on Feb 8 will be Rotary 6970 DG Fel Lee

 

For more information - Visit the new Facebook Site:

Rotary Satellite Club of South Jacksonville 
  
Service Opportunity of February...

The Undie Campaign
Dignity U Wear provided brand new clothing to over 200,000 people in need last year. Underwear is the most requested item. To provide more people with basic human dignity and to meet the incredible need, Dignity created The Undie Campaign.

DONATION REQUEST: During the month of February 2016, please bring BRAND NEW socks and underwear to any meeting. We will collect and donate them to Dignity U Wear for those who need them most!

SERVICE EVENT: In addition, we have an opportunity for nine (9) club members to volunteer to sort clothing: Saturday, March 5, 2016 from 9am – 12pm.
Contact Robyn Watson if you are interested in volunteering!

Stay Tuned... more service events coming soon!

February 18, 2016 Final event for the Rotary Oratory Competition
March 5, 2016 from 9am - 12p Dignity U Wear Event

Rotary Club Of South Jacksonville - Upcoming Events:
January 21, 2016 The Lost Art of the Induction - Membership Seminar  6:30p
To register:   https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1632455180681603841

Our Club Members In Action....

Rotary readers Colleen Lanahan Foy, Jim Lanahan and Marian Lanahan starting the week off at San Jose Elementary School

Week 28Rotary Minute... Our District Governor's Message:  

Rotary International General Secretary John Hewko recently announced a service partnership agreement between Rotary and Peace Corps to help enhance our club and district service activities locally and around the world.  By working together with active and returned Peace Corps Volunteers, we can continue addressing Rotary’s six areas of focus while enhancing goodwill, international understanding, and building capacity to address the most pressing community concerns. More information can be found under our district website’s “Opportunity Center.”

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) will take place again this year on the University of North Florida’s Campus. The event will be held from June 16^th through June 19^th. Make sure your club sponsors at least one, and preferably two, aspiring high school leaders who will be entering their junior or senior year at the start of the 2016-2017 school year. Pledge commitments from clubs are due on January 30^th.
 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

January 30, 2016: RYLA Pledge Commitments Due From Clubs

February 20, 2016: Rotary Leadership Institute – St. Johns River College - Orange Park

May 13-15, 2016: District Conference and District Assembly in St. Augustine

For more on these and all other events in District 6970, please go to www.rotary6970.org.

Yours in service to Rotary,

Fel

Fred“Fel” Lee

District Governor 2015-2016

January 12, 2016

Lunch is served at Noon, Meeting begins at 12:30pm

Welcome Russ Armistead, CEO UF Health

Russell E. Armistead was named chief executive officer of Shands Jacksonville in 2013.  Armistead has broad experience in academic health center and medical school administration. Since 2004, he has served as associate vice president for finance and planning for the University of Florida Health Science Center in both Gainesville and Jacksonville.  The Health Science Center includes the colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health Professions, and Veterinary Medicine. The HSC, which is part of UF&Shands, generates approximately $1 billion in annual revenue, with more than 6,000 students and 1,700 full-time faculty across both campuses.

Since March 2012, Armistead has worked closely with Dr. Daniel R. Wilson, vice president for health affairs at the University of Florida and dean of the UF College of Medicine–Jacksonville, on matters pertaining to the faculty practice in partnership with Shands hospital leadership. He has led initiatives to improve profitability, managing financial and planning projects affecting the Jacksonville campus.

“Russ has a long history of effecting change that has led to positive results for our patients and our employees. He was instrumental in leading the recent strategic planning process for the UF&Shands system, which we call ‘Forward Together.’ Our plan sets the vision for our organization as a place where the patient comes first, and where we make careful use of our resources in support of that goal,” Guzick said.

 “The Board of Directors believed we needed someone who could step in immediately in order to further efforts that have already led to significant accomplishments for Shands Jacksonville in the last two years,” DuBow said. “We are confident that his combination of business savvy and experience working in an academic health care setting will help us achieve our financial goals as well as plans for future growth.”

Russ is familiar with all facets of UF&Shands Jacksonville − from finance to clinical operations, patient care, education and research,” Wilson said. “Russ also has the right temperament to be a great CEO. He has consistently good judgment and a quiet wisdom that will lead us well. Russ is a direct, honest and very thoughtful person. I am confident he is the right person for this position of such consequence for UF, Shands and, indeed, the entire region.”

Prior to joining UF, Armistead was president of Armistead Consulting LLC, a North Carolina firm that provided management and consultation services to academic health centers, hospitals and other health care organizations. During this time, he served dual roles at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo – interim executive director of MCO Hospitals and vice president for finance and chief financial officer/treasurer. Efforts focused on revenue enhancement, consolidation and cost reduction, including efficiency and productivity of staff, resulting in the hospitals becoming profitable within a year.

Before starting his consulting firm, Armistead held leadership positions at Wake Forest University School of Medicine over the course of 24 years, including vice president for health services administration and associate dean for administrative services.

Rotaract News-Change of Meeting Location
Rotaract will be meeting back at River City Brewing Company (NOT Hightide Burrito) on the second and fourth Thursdays starting with the meeting of January 14, 2016

Satellite Club News!

Satellite meets the second and fourth Mondays!
The next meeting will be held on is January 11th at at Indochine in San Marco.

The Speaker will be Tayloe MacDonald of the Dolores Barr Weaver Policy Center.

Tayloe represents and promotes the work of the Policy Center to stakeholders, the community and the media. Bringing 15 years’ experience in nonprofit management and business development to the Policy Center, she identifies and develops strategic collaborations that sustain and advance our mission. She graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.

• The satellite speaker on Feb 8 will be Rotary 6970 DG Fel Lee

For more information - Visit the new Facebook Site:

Rotary Satellite Club of South Jacksonville

The Undie CampaignDignity U Wear provided brand new clothing to over 200,000 people in need last year. Underwear is the most requested item. To provide more people with basic human dignity and to meet the incredible need, Dignity created The Undie Campaign.

DONATION REQUEST: During the month of February 2016, please bring BRAND NEW socks and underwear to any meeting. We will collect and donate them to Dignity U Wear for those who need them most!

SERVICE EVENT: In addition, we have an opportunity for nine (9) club members to volunteer to sort clothing: Saturday, March 5, 2016 from 9am – 12pm.
 

***NEW DATE: Saturday, March 5^th from 9am – 12pm

Contact Robyn Watson if you are interested in volunteering!

                      Stay Tuned... more service events coming soon!

Rotary Club Of South Jacksonville - Upcoming Events:
January 21, 2016 The Lost Art of the Induction - Membership Seminar  6:30p
   To register:   https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1632455180681603841
February 18, 2016 Final event for the Rotary Oratory Competition

March 5, 2016 from 9am - 12p Dignity U Wear Event



2016-2018 Board Nominations

PE Jason is pleased to announce the nominations to serve on the Club's Board for July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2018:
PP Harlan Bost, Bea Fore, Bill Langley, Jacqueline Rudloff and Robyn Watson.
Nominations are open and will be accepted from the floor at the January 5, 2016 meeting. The Club will hold it's vote at the meeting of January 12, 2016. 

Our Club Members In Action....





Casey Martin presenting South Jacksonville Rotary banner to Daniel Balkudembe, President of the Rotary Club of Entebbe, Uganda

  

Photos from Casey Martin's recent safari trip to Uganda ...

Week 27 Rotary Minute... Our District Governor's Message:  

January is Vocational Service month. The Object of Rotary is a philosophical statement of Rotary’s purpose and the responsibilities of Rotarians. The concept of vocational service is rooted in the Second Object, which calls on Rotarians to “encourage and foster”:

 

• High ethical standards in business and professions

• The recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations

• The dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society

As we start the second half of our Rotary year,  join in using your profession or trade with fellow Rotarians, exchange ideas on how to use your occupation and take action to impact each other, your community, your nation and the world !  “All of us have been given so many gifts. Now we have been given this great gift of another year…to take everything we are and can become – and Be a Gift to the World” - Rotary International President Ravi.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

January 30, 2016: RYLA Pledge Commitments Due From Clubs

May 13-15, 2016: District Conference and District Assembly in St. Augustine  

 

For more on these and all other events in District 6970, please go to www.rotary6970.org.

Happy New Year!

Yours in service to Rotary,

Fel

Fred“Fel” Lee

District Governor 2015-2016

January 5, 2016

 

We will see you in 2016!!

 Lunch is served at Noon, Meeting begins at 12:30pm

Please Welcome, Kifimbo Holloway-Parnell

2015 Duval County Teacher of the Year

Kifimbo (Kee-Feem-bow) Holloway Parnell is originally from Bridgeport, Connecticut.  Although a New Englander by birth, she has made Florida a place for academic enrichment and proudly, her home.   

She began her teaching career in Dade County.  Her work as an English teacher in Homestead, Florida was highlighted in a former's students essay entitled "Apples of Gold," in which the student credits the then Ms. Holloway for an eye-opening year learning 7th grade English.  This essay would win the young author Khaleah Evelyn, a 4 year college scholarship awarded by former Governor and Presidential hopeful, Jeb Bush.  It also awarded Mrs. Holloway-Parnell recognition from Dade County Public Schools.

Mrs. Holloway Parnell would eventually move to Duval County where she has served Florida State College at Jacksonville as an adjunct professor teaching English to immigrants assimilating into the United States and Kirby Smith Middle School as a Journalism and English Literature Instructor.  Whether she is teaching adults or children, Mrs. Holloway-Parnell encourages her students to obtain an education in order to build a legacy for oneself, one's community, and one's nation.  In her opinion, without a legacy, what remains is the baggage of history. 

Kifimbo was named the 2015 Florida Blue Duval County Teacher of the Year at the 24th Annual EDDY Awards. Holloway-Parnell, a language arts teacher at Kirby Smith Middle School, was selected from five outstanding finalists.  She was recognized as an exemplary educator who is continuously exploring new ways to connect her students with new experiences and hands-on projects, helping them use their voices to seek answers about society's imprint in their lives. Her students conducted research at Kingsley Plantation, producing documentaries that led them to compete and defend their research in state-level competitions.

Rotaract News-Change of Meeting Location
Rotaract will be meeting back at River City Brewing Company (NOT Hightide Burrito) on the second and fourth Thursdays starting with the meeting of January 7, 2016

2016-2018 Board Nominations

PE Jason is pleased to announce the nominations to serve on the Club's Board for July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2018:
PP Harlan Bost, Bea Fore, Bill Langley, Jacqueline Rudloff and Robyn Watson.
Nominations are open and will be accepted from the floor at the January 5, 2016 meeting.  The Club will hold it's vote at the meeting of January 12, 2016.

Satellite Club News!

The next meeting will be held on is January 11th!

The Speaker will be Tayloe MacDonald of the Dolores Barr Weaver Policy Center.

Tayloe represents and promotes the work of the Policy Center to stakeholders, the community and the media. Bringing 15 years’ experience in nonprofit management and business development to the Policy Center, she identifies and develops strategic collaborations that sustain and advance our mission. She graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.

For more information - Visit the new Facebook Site:

Rotary Satellite Club of South Jacksonville

** Save the Date...Saturday, February 6, 9:00am-12:00pm **

The Undie Campaign
Dignity U Wear provided brand new clothing to over 200,000 people in need last year. Underwear is the most requested item. To provide more people with basic human dignity and to meet the incredible need, Dignity created The Undie Campaign.
 
DONATION REQUEST:  During the month of February 2016, please bring BRAND NEW socks and underwear to any meeting.  We will collect and donate them to Dignity U Wear for those who need them most!

SERVICE EVENT:  In addition, we have an opportunity for eight (8) club members to volunteer to sort clothing:  Saturday, February 6th from 9am – 12pm.
 
Contact Robyn Watson if you are interested in volunteering!

Rotary Club Of South Jacksonville - Upcoming Events:
February 6, 2016 from 9am - 12p     Dignity U Wear Event
February 18, 2016                                Final event for the Rotary Oratory Competition

Stay Tuned... more service events coming soon!

Our Club In Action.... 

2015 Salvation Army Bell Ringers...

                    







Week 25 Rotary Minute... Our District Governor's Message:

December 13th was Rotary Game Day during the Jaguars vs. Colts football game. To say it was almost a perfect day would be an understatement. Prior to the start of the game, the Jaguars organization presented our district with a check to assist us in our fight toward eradicating Polio. With close to 1000 Rotarians, family members and friends in attendance, the Jaguars took the day with a 51 to 16 win over the Colts. We are still tallying all the information and after the holidays we will announce how much we have raised toward our Polio campaign. Thank you to the Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation and to each of you in support of this partnership. 

This will be the last Rotary minute of the year given most of our clubs are not meeting the last week of the year. I will resume the Rotary minute the week of January 4th.

Wishing each of you a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, a joyous Holiday Season, and a most prosperous and exciting New Year. Regardless of your faith and religious practices may be, you each are a Gift to the World as we continue to Do Good in the World!

UPCOMING EVENTS:

May 13-15, 2016:  District Conference and District Assembly weekend in St. Augustine

For more on these and all other events in District 6970, please go to www.rotary6970.org.

Yours in service to Rotary,

Fel

Fred“Fel” Lee

District Governor 2015-2016