Posted by Susan Yoder on Sep 08, 2026
 
Lesley Kline introduced today’s guest speaker Scott Loveland.  Scott has a background in various careers and is now at YSU as Director of the Apex Accelerator and an adjunct professor in the business college.  He has recently written a new book entitled “My sister says I can do better.”  Scott initially attended Mt Union College as a history major with a minor in French.  He left college after about a year, got married and joined the Army 10 days later.  In the Military he served as a Russian linguist and worked in counterintelligence.  He later joined the FBI and worked in undercover narcotics.
 
Scott later went back to Mt Union to obtain a degree in education to prepare him to teach middle and high school social studies.  After graduation no teaching jobs were available at that time.  He went to the Columbiana County opportunity center for three years until he was laid off from there. Scott shared examples of those he was able to help in that position. Advice he gave to Rotarians is to mentor someone and engage our youth.