Jen Tyler inducted

     On Tuesday April 5th at the regular noon mooting at Prante's Past President Norma Nosek inducted one of our most recent new members, Jen Tyler.  Jen was sponsored by Jule Ballinger.

Jule Ballinger                      Jen Tyler                  Norma Nosek

 

    Following this Jen and recently inducted Peter Gifford gave their classification talks.

    Peter Gifford is new to the community as an Associate joining the Lies and Bullis Law firm.  He grew up in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area the second of four boys.  His wife Sarah came to the community first joining the Breckenridge school system as the Grades 5 through 12 band teacher.

  Unlike his experiences in the Twin Cities or law school he likes the community for its general friendliness all the activities and people taking care of one another.  He and his wife have been involved in the arts programs in the area and he joined the Cantata.  He spoke of how his first boss, a restaurant owner in Coon Rapids was a mentor and how he learned of Rotary as the Coon Rapids Rotary Club met at the restaurant.  He liked listening in on their meetings discovering that they were good role models: involved; caring; had projects and understood that they were role models.

  Jen Tyler has been in the community for two years as the Pastor at Evergreen United Methodist Church.  She grew up in southeast South Dakota and has traveled extensively spending two separate years in South Africa as a missionary ad one semester of her education was in Australia.

She is an aficionado of coffee, like biking having done a cross country tour from LA to Delaware on her bike. She is anxious to serve at home or anywhere in the world through Rotary.