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Club Assembly to focus on Members Club President-Elect Dean Fiedler and Club Secretary Ryan Boyd are our featured speakers this week as we begin meetings for the month of June with a club assembly focusing on membership. Dean and Ryan are both key leaders in our club, each managing important club functions, and represent the future of Rotary in Missoula.  Dean was born and raised in Mount Vernon, Washington. His father Robert Fiedler is a long time member and past president of the Mount Vernon-Skagit Rotary Club. In 1995, while in high school, Dean participated in the Rotary Youth Exchange Short-Term program, spending four weeks in Sweden. Dean gradutated from Mount Vernon High School, attending Skagit Valley Community College before transferring to Eastern Washington University, where he majored in history with a minor in art history. Following graduation from EWU, Dean spent a summer abroad in Cork Ireland studying Latin at University College Cork, which helped him enter the Graduate Program in History at San Jose State University. While at San Jose State University, Dean began working in hospitality to support his graduate school endeavors. The beginning of this career path would lead him away from his passion in studying Greek and Roman History, but ignited a passion he did not know he had for hospitality. This path led him to Missoula, Montana, in the spring of 2017.
Soon after relocating to Missoula, Dean met his future wife Angela and they were married in spring 2018. They live in Missoula's Moose Can Gully neighborhood with two dogs, Freya and Jersey. Ryan was born in Anchorage, AK. Her parents were also officers in The Salvation Army, and so Ryan moved around frequently. She has lived in California, Washington, Colorado and Alaska. Her Missoula home is the 34th house in which she has lived in her life. Ryan is the sixth generation in her family to be involved in The Salvation Army and its work.
Ryan began college at the University of California at Riverside and majored in organic chemistry. After meeting her husband Josh and realizing that chemistry was not her passion, she left school and moved to San Diego. There she and Josh worked at multiple Salvation Army locations before entering their seminary school in 2009. They graduated from Seminary in 2011 and were sent to Anacortes, WA, for their first appointment. There she was introduced to Rotary. Over the two years she was a Rotarian, she joined every committee except two and was also the club secretary for a year. Right before she left, she was awarded her first Paul Harris Fellow and a certificate for perfect attendance for eighteen months. Ryan and her husband lived in Yakima for two years before they were transferred to Missoula in 2017. In her spare time, Ryan enjoys spending time with her husband and their two children Jordyn, 12, and Jacob, 9. She enjoys watching movies, math, and reading novels. She loves baseball and has been a lifelong Mariner fan. She loves living in Missoula and hopes to be here for a long time. |
Jenny Eck of Helena received a full scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. The Rotary Club of Missoula was instrumental in promoting Jenny to receive this award.
Thank you to all the many Rotarians who purchased cases of bottled water in support of the Western Montana Global Coalition. Those who purchased cases may pick them up at Victoria’s home on or after Friday evening. Please contact Victoria directly to schedule a pick-up time to be sure she is home when you stop by. 
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