Meeting: Rotary International Project

3 presenters - David Copp, Meaghan Likes and Patsy Inouye:

David Copp is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis.  Born and raised in Toronto, Canada.  PhD in Philosophy from Cornell University, 1976.  Taught at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver until 1984, and subsequently at the University of Illinois, Chicago (84-87), Bowling Green State University (98-03), University of Florida (03-09), and University of California, Davis (1989-1998 and 2009-2018).  Department chair at BGSU, UF (acting), and UCDavis.  Retired in 2018.  Member of RC Davis Sunrise since 2011.  Chaired membership committee and international committee and president-elect for 2021-2022.   

Meaghan Likes owns 5 businesses in Northern California…. her favorite of which is her window cleaning business. And, while you wouldn't guess it from her personality, Meaghan's day "job" is working as a CPA. She is known as a disrupter in the accounting industry and her claim to fame is showing small business owners how to do their own bookkeeping correctly in less than 1 hour per month using Quickbooks Online. No accounting knowledge or experience required. Meaghan’s passion is educating and empowering other business owners across the world, to find financial freedom in their own lives. She is a proud Rotarian who volunteers on average 10 hours per week and she teaches smarter ways to make money, save money, and will inspire you to give back in meaningful ways.  

Four Fun Facts about Meaghan: She is the 3rd fastest female window cleaner in the world, She spends about 20 weeks a year travelling around the world, She was a Rotary youth exchange student to France in high school, and She is a proud mama to 7 chickens and a dog :)

Patsy Inouye  - For thirty-nine years was a librarian at UC Davis as a Government Information Librarian and then as an archivist in its Special Collection and Archives. " What a wonderful career, helping professors and students navigate through all the information of a huge library.  In the beginning, it was all on catalog cards, remember those?  Then we had the first computers and databases (I didn’t understand cursors!) and finally the most advanced technology. It is still changing everyday." 

After retirement in 2014, Patsy joined Rotary, explaining that she liked to say “yes.” and enjoyed getting to know fellow Rotarians, and helping those in need. She loved traveling to Kenya to participate in a project to give reusable sanitary pads to underprivileged. Ans she is ever so grateful that Davis Sunrise Rotary selected her to be Rotarian of the Year, 2019-2020.   She is married, with two grown children and two grandchildren.