The Casper Rotary Club
 
This week's meeting will be held:
Monday, August 19, 2019
Ramkota Hotel
800 N. Poplar St
Casper, WY  82601
 

Greeters: Maribeth Plocek and Jim Porter

Inspiration: Mike Ward

Program: On Monday, August 19, the Rotary Club of Casper is pleased to welcome Jennifer Simon, MTS, founder and principal of JMSimon Consulting, as its speaker at its noon luncheon meeting at the Ramkota Inn. Simon will be discussing the Gender Wage Gap. Rotary Club members and their guests are invited.
Simon’s work at JMSimon Consulting focuses on gender, healthcare and democracy building, and fosters solutions through civic engagement. Governor Mead appointed her to the Wyoming Council on Women’s Issues in 2015 where she currently serves as Vice Chair. She founded the Wyoming Women’s Action Network, focused on improving women’s economic security, access to healthcare, and representation in the Equality State and presents and facilitates on the role of women in revitalizing Wyoming’s economy. She is co-founder off Womentum, a mentoring program created to empower women. Soroptomist recognized her in 2017 with the Ruby Award for Women Helping Women.
Simon is a member of the board of Wyoming 211; an Emeritus member of Womentum’s board, and a 2005 graduate of Leadership Wyoming. She holds a Master of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School and a B.B. from Colorado College. She resides with her husband, Adam, in Teton County

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Rotary Club of Casper WY
Meeting Summary
08/12/2019
 
President John Griffith called the meeting to order promptly at 12:27 pm, with the ring of the bell and welcomed everyone to today’s meeting.                                                                                                                                         
Inspiration, Pledge, 4-Way Test:
Miamie Sleep
Greeters:
Edis Allen and Dusty Johnson were our greeters today and Dusty introduced the members who brought guests:
  • Steve Loftin introduced guest John Rammage (71 Construction);
  • Genevieve Lynch introduced her daughter Bethany;
  • Mike Kemper introduced a guest from CAEDA (apologies for missing the name);
  • Al Scroggins introduced daughter Allie Jo;
  • Charles Schoenwolf introduced brother Burt;
  • Dan Odell introduced Rev. Nancy Boswell (First United Methodist Church);
  • Susan Griffith introduced granddaughters Beau and El;
  • Ann Ruble introduced her son Jimmy;
Song and Merriment:
Gary Pehrson led us in singing “Float Your Duck”.
Family of Rotary:
Vickie Diamond announced that Char Canada’s mother passed away on Saturday. Our thoughts go out to Char and family.
Rotarians of the Week:
Lisa Scroggins nominated John Jorgenson for being recognized at a library event;
Lisa Scroggins nominated George Bryce for surprising his friend;
Steve Loftin nominated the August Food Bank Volunteers (apologies that I missed all of the names);
John Griffith nominated the duck counting volunteers;
Announcements:
President John Griffith reminded us that our new exchange student Chloe arrives next week. We want to meet her at the airport and give her a big Casper welcome;
Miamie Sleep encouraged us to sell those Duck Derby tickets and get your money and ticket stubs turned-in to her by Friday;
Chastidy Fox stated that we still need volunteers for the Duck Derby on Saturday;
Mike Stepp reminded us to deliver Duck Derby prizes to Donells by tomorrow;
Special Presentation:
We had a special presentation from Young RYLA attendees Allie Jo Scroggins and Jimmy Ruble. Allie Joe is an 8th grader at Casper Classic Academy and said “camp was AMAZING!” Camp taught her about critical thinking, teamwork, leadership, trust and non-verbal communication.
Jimmy said that camp taught him about leadership. He said he learned a lot about himself (way to embrace your “weird” Jimmy!). He encouraged the club members to become Y-RYLA counselors and to “send more kids!”
Classification Talk:
Katie Caldwell-Burchett gave her classification talk today. Katie started the Olivia Caldwell Foundation after losing her baby girl in 2013. The Foundation has raised over $325k that will go towards opening a special pediatric clinic that specializes in pediatric cancer in the Fall. Specializing in gastrointestinal, Endocrinology, pulmonary and cardiol cancers.
Program:
Lisa Scroggins introduced Betsy O’Neal from Business Services at the Natrona County Library. Betsy shared about some of the wonderful new features at our library. So many resources are available! Meeting space - usually free or at very reasonable prices. Tons of business resources and trainings! Exam Proctoring, 1:1 Tech assistance, Free Notary, Tech Center. For more information you can contact the Library at 307/577-7323 or www.natronacountylibrary.org. The library is also hosting an event "Grow Through Google for Small Business'". Trainers will be available to help facilitate new Business learn about Google. For more information you can Call the library or go to www.g.co/growwyo.com.  
President John Griffith concluded the meeting at 1:16 pm letting us know that next week we will be back at the Ramkota next week.
“Rotary Connects the World”