The Rotary Club of Beaumont, TX, is a large and diverse fellowship of inspired business, professional, and civic leaders with significant community connections that foster the ideals of Service Above Self and high ethical standards.
If you are attending in person, we ask that you use this linkto make a reservation by Monday, January 30, 2023.
Sharae Bassett-Reed
City Attorney
City of Beaumont
Sharae Bassett-Reed is a native of Beaumont, Texas, and a graduate of West Brook Senior High School and Lamar University. She attended Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. After passing the Texas Bar exam, Sharae returned to Beaumont to accept a job with the City of Beaumont in the City Attorney’s Office.
For the past twelve years, Sharae has worked in the City’s legal office. She has held a range of positions from City Prosecutor to First Assistant City Attorney where she has represented the City in all levels of cases from Municipal Court to the United States Supreme Court. Sharae assumed her current position as City Attorney in January of this year. She is the first woman to ever hold the position.
Sharae is a member of several social and civic organizations such as The Links Incorporated and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Texas City Attorney Association and is an active member of the International Municipal Lawyers Association.
She has received numerous awards and recognition but considers her daughter, Madison, to be her greatest accomplishment.
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February 1, 2023
Invocation
Lynn Castle
Executive Director
Art Museum of Southeast Texas
Pledges to USA & Texas Flags
Virtue Alexander
Senior Convention Sales Manager
Beaumont Convention & Visitors Bureau
Introduction of Guests
Erika Harris
CEO/Principal Consultant
Harris Consulting, LLC
Please volunteer for Head Table responsibilities through the
"Show Your Colors" Flag Project for Presidents Day
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New Member Orientation; MCM Elegante, 10:30 a.m.; Rotary Office STE 213
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Rotary After Hours! TBD
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Board of Directors Meeting; 11:30 a.m.; MCM Elegante- Fountainview Room
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T. KELSEY LAMB, SR. AWARD FOR BUSINESE ETHICS
Nomination Information: February 8th is the deadline for nominations.
The T. Kelsey Lamb, Sr. Award for Business Ethics is presented annually to a Beaumont Rotarian who consistently exhibits the highest ethical standards represented by the Rotary Four-Way Test in his or her chosen vocation.
T. Kelsey Lamb, Sr.
1942-43 President of the Rotary Club of Beaumont
The original criteria for the award explains:
Nominees must be a member in good standing of the Rotary Club of Beaumont.
Nominees will have exhibited high ethical standards in their chosen vocation arising from a specific incident or by their consistent actions over a period of time.
First presented in 1996, the T. Kelsey Lamb, Sr. Award for Business Ethics has annually recognized some of the Club's outstanding members. In 2022, this prestigious honor was presented to Mary Poole.
President Brad Brown presented the T. Kelsey Lamb, Sr. Award for Business Ethics to 2022 recipient Mary Poole. (Brad Brown, Mary Poole, John Lee)
An annual tradition since 1996, the Award is named in honor of the late T. Kelsey Lamb, Sr. who served as 1942-43 President of our club and as 1951-52 District Governor. It is presented to a Beaumont Rotarian who consistently exhibits the highest ethical standards represented by the Rotary 4-Way Test in his or her chosen profession.
RECIPIENTS
1996 Thomas K. Lamb, Jr.
1997 Benny Hughes, Jr.
1998 Lum Edwards, Jr.
1999 Douglas E. Steinman, Jr.
2000 Dan Hallmark
2001 Roberta Applegate
2002 Floyd McSpadden
2003 Floyd McSpadden
2004 Charlie Weinbaum, Jr.
2005 Alex Broussard & James Broussard
2006 Jeff Dyson
2007 Earl Hines
2008 Larry Beaulieu
2009 Gerald Condon
2010 Charles "Chuck" Mason
2011 Jerry Carl White (posthumously)
2012 Patrick Anderson
2013 Enrique "Henry" Venta
2014 Tim Sudela
2015 Joe Domino, Robert Turner &
Jimmy Simmons
2016 Becky Mason
2017 Dana Timaeus
2018 Steven R. Lucas
2019 Phil Dunlap
2020 Rebekah Maxwell
2021 Randy Shelton
2022 Mary Poole
Our Club will award the coveted honor at the February 22nd meeting. The deadline for submitting a nomination is Friday, February 8, 2023.
Click HERE for a proposal form and email it to admin@beaumontrotaryclub.org or call the office (409) 842-1913.
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February 15, 2022: Rotary Goes to Work!
No meeting at the Elegante on February 15, 2022.
Where will YOU attend YOUR meeting?
Our 1.2 million-member organization started with the vision of one man—Paul P. Harris. The Chicago attorney formed one of the world’s first service organizations, the Rotary Club of Chicago, on 23 February 1905 as a place where professionals with diverse backgrounds could exchange ideas and form meaningful, lifelong friendships. Rotary’s name came from the group’s early practice of rotating meetings among the offices of each member.
In the initial years of the organization, Rotarians learned about one another and the various diverse professions of the members by meeting in the offices, factories, businesses and firms of the club members. How about doing as one of the original members did back in the early 1900s?
Rotary Has Heart was such a success this year, with 120 backpacks filled with supplies that included composition notebooks, loose leaf paper, pencils, erasers, pencil colors, glue, pens, socks, post it notes, earbuds, calculators and more. Thank you to Deborah Tomov, Rebekah Patin, Jennifer Gregory, Mark Sonnier and Lynn Hill for helping with the District Grant Project that funded this project for Service Day, along with the Beaumont Rotary Foundation. We had a great turnout of Rotarians and friends to make this possible.
We had five local non profit organizations that we assisted with “Done-in-a-Day” projects this year. Those included The Cardiovascular Foundation of SE Texas, Legacy Health, Boys Haven, United Way of Beaumont, and Julie Rogers Gift of Life. We are honored to have completed and been a help to those that showed up.
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