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Our Next Meeting:
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July 10, 2009 |
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Program:
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TBA |
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Our Last Meeting:
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June 26, 2009 |
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Program:
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Scott White - FAA |
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| Important Announcement - Club Meeting Location
Change |
| Beginning May 15, the meeting location for
the Club will change. The Club will be meeting at INTEGRIS Southwest
Medical Center, Cancer Center Conference Room. The address is
4401 South Western. Click HERE
for directions. |
| Clean-Up at Rotary Park - May
30, 2009 |
| On Saturday May 30, we had 16 South
OKC Rotary volunteers to help with the clean-up at Rotary Park.
They were Felix Aquino, Jim Bowers, Sr., T.C. Burgin, Linda Carr,
Lois Conway, Ted Conway, Glen Cosper, Grady Grandstaff, Tommy
Jenkins, Brian Maughan, John Mesa, Tom Miskovsky, Marty Postic,
Steve Satterwhite, David Sellers and Jim Swenson. There were also
several family members and friends that came to help. |
Rotary Sign - This was a stone monument
with engraved letters that identified Rotary Park. Below the
name was "Presented To The Boys and Girls of This City
by the Oklahoma City Rotary Club MCMXXII (1922).
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Team Photo - This was a group photo
of most of the volunteers, family members and friends. Some
of our volunteers had other commitments before arriving.
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Group Gathering - Volunteers started
arriving and setting up a central point for organizing their
work and later their cook-out. |
Senior Members - Marty and Jim found
a very dangerous location that was full of broken beer bottles.
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Job Well Done and Celebrating - Sharing
hot dogs, ideas, stories and laughs. |
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| Amal Moorad, M.D. And Sharon
Smeltzer - May 22, 2009 |
 Dr.
Amal Moorad has been on the medical staff at INTEGRIS Southwest
Medical
Center since 1978 where he has treated and touched the lives of
patients in
our community, state and nation. As the founding Medical Director
of
INTEGRIS Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Hospital in 1984, Dr. Moorad
has grown
Jim Thorpe Rehab into a 103 bed premier rehabilitation facility.
Sharon Smeltzer joined the INTEGRIS Health
family in November 1997 as
Director of Inpatient Services to expand services to the INTEGRIS
Baptist
Medical Center. She has served in various leadership roles with
Jim Thorpe
Rehabilitation Hospital, and in June 2007, she was promoted
to the position
of Vice president, INTEGRIS Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Services.
Together, Dr. Moorad and Sharon continue to
grow and expand the services of
INTEGRIS Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Hospital to include Lawton,
Oklahoma and
most recently Nigeria, Africa. They took a team of medical professionals
to
Nigeria to help patients who had a variety of illnesses that
included
leprosy and HIV. Dr. Moorad told us they help people locally,
nationally and
globally. We are all neighbors on this earth.
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| Rotary Group Study Exchange |
| The South Oklahoma City Rotary
hosted a group of young professionals from Bolivia who are here
in an exchange program GSE (Group Study Exchange) with a similar
group from Oklahoma visiting Bolivia. This group visited with
local professionals in their fields through the 38 Rotary Clubs
in Oklahoma. |
(Left to Right) David Shortt, our International Director from
the South Oklahoma City Rotary Club; Antonio Calvimontes, Rotarian
who is the team leader; Rodney Ramos, president of the South
Oklahoma City Rotary Club; Tomas Saucedo Ortiz, commercial manager
of a catering business; Maria Esther Monasterio Paniagua, civil
engineer; Dr. Felix Aquino, South Oklahoma City Rotary who translated;
Lourdes Patricia Zamora Tardio, attorney and Juan Pablo Antezana
Sahonero, business administration. |
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| 60th Anniversary Celebration
- Apr. 24, 2009 |
| The South Oklahoma City Rotary
Club recently celebrated it's 60th Anniversary. Club members shared
memories from the Club's rich history of service and accomplishment.
Joining in the celebration were several former club presidents,
including Al Snipes. Mr. Snipes has been an integral leader in
the Club, and has been with the Club from the beginning in 1949. |
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| Members enjoying the festive
atmosphere at the celebration. |
Al Snipes quietly accepting accolades
by fellow members. He is accompanied by his wife, Shirley
and surrounded by members. Al has been a member since 1949,
the full 60 years. |
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Left to right - Rodney Ramos,
President and master of ceremonies, Glen Cosper, giving
a colorful history of the past 60 years, Vickie Munsey and
Chastity Oen, organizers of the event.
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Past Presidents: Left
to right - Back row: Jim Johnson, Dick Lee, Randy
Thurman, Al Snipes, Dr. Tom Dudley, Reese Allen, Gary Rankin,
Bob White, Ray Albright, Ken McClain Front row: Rodney
Ramos*, Leo Morrison, Jack Werner, David Attaway, Jack Ramos,
Paul Diggs.
*(term ends in 2 months)
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| Outback Fundraiser - Mar. 14, 2009 |
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The Outback Fundraiser was a success. The
proprietor of the South OKC Outabck, J D Morse, hosted the event
at his restaurant for our fundraiser. We owe him a big thanks.
We also need to thank our sponsors for this year. Jack Werner
with A to Z Inspections, Tommy Jenkins with Hillcrest Clinical
Research and Jim Marshall with J & E Supply and fasteners.
Below are photos of the event:
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| VP Linda Carr served as
a fantastic host. |
J. D. Morse, the proprietor
at
Outback |
Sec. Grady Grandstaff (leather jacket)
celebrated his 39th birthday with his family and Rotary
friends. |
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| Tommy Jenkins and family
preparing to dine. |
Paul Diggs and family enjoying
the great Outback food. |
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| South OKC Rotary's Mentoring Program |
Bob Meier coordinated with Capitol Hill Elementary
School's Pre K classes to
offer a story book reading and donation of the books to all the
students for
their own. The volunteers seem to enjoy the experience as much
as the kids.
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| Reese Allen reading a story to a pre-K
class. |
David Brambrink reading to another pre-K
class. |
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| Mar. 6, 2009 - "Bring a Guest Day" |
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 Our
March 6th meeting was "Bring A Guest" day. We had
12 guests. Our speaker
for that meeting was Glen Cosper, who gave a wild, weird and
wonderful
presentation of what the Rotary Club is about and what we do
for our
community.
Our guests were: Joey Allen, Russell
Davis, Scott Dawson, Darrin McKelvey, Jay Means,
Max Meteer, Jeri Montgomery, Bruce Phelps, Gary Prochaska, Terri
Rindermane,
Nathan Schacter and Rodney Stearns.
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| RYLA |
| The South OKC Rotary Club is active in
our community. One of the exciting opportunities for high students
that our members sponsor each year is RYLA - Rotary Youth Leadership
Awards. Each year youth from our community are sponsored to attend
leadership camp at Redlands Camp, near Stillwater. Click
here to learn more about RYLA. |
| Information for Prospective Members |
| We are always pleased when people
from our community are interested in joining our club. The South
OKC Rotary Club allows people to become active in their community,
and allows people to become acquainted with one another in fellowship.
Please follow the links below to find out more about our club. The
links require Adobe Reader®. |
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South OKC Info |
Membership
Application |
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