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.
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?
HOSTS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Michael Perez
Gateway Mortgage
2 Acadiana Court
Beaumont TX, 77706
Lunch will be served!
Barb Newhouse
SETX Food Bank
3845 S M L King Jr Pkwy,
Beaumont, TX 77705
Lunch will be served!
Carl Lambeth Jr
Safe Move SETX
5 Under Golf Center
5945 College St
Beaumont, TX 77707
Lunch will be served!
Virtue Alexander
Beaumont CVB
505 Willow St
Beaumont, TX 77701
Lunch will be served!
Jay Wilson
Express Employment Professionals
1844 IH-10 South
Suite 202
Lunch will be served!
Dr. Helen Lou
Lamar University
Science and Technology Building
Dr. Helen Lou will give a tour of the Maker Space in the Science and Technology building and talk about the way in which the building is used to create experiential learning opportunities for students
Lunch will be served!
Bel Morian
McFaddin Ward House
1906 Calder Ave,
Beaumont, TX 77701
Lunch will be served!
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CALENDAR OF ROTARY EVENTS
(Club events & opportunities for meeting makeups)
February
9
Rotary Goes To Work!
16
CharLee Hanna Rule, Owner, IRule Dance Company
19
Service Day- Sleep in Heavenly Peace bed delivery
23
Janice Suter, VP/Director of Social Media, GSD&M (*virtual meeting*)
March
2
Rotaract
9
Recognition of International Women's Day: Georgine Guillory
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T. Kelsey Lamb, Sr. Award for Business Ethics
NOMINATION INFORMATION: FEBRUARY 25nd 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 2021, this prestigious honor was presented to Randy Shelton.
President Cindy Cherry presented the T. Kelsey Lamb, Sr. Award for Business Ethics to 2021 recipient Randy Shelton.
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
Our Club will award the coveted honor at the March 23rd meeting, according to this year's chairman, Craig Escamilla. The deadline for submitting a nomination is Friday, February 25nd.
Building beds is so much fun but delivering the completed bed to a child or several children in a household is so rewarding. On Saturday, February 19, 2022, Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Beaumont and the Rotary Club of Port Arthur will be joined by members of the 100 Black Men of Greater Beaumont to deliver dozens of beds! Volunteers will meet at the assembly warehouse at 2950 Milam in Beaumont. Wear your "Rotarian at Work" shirt and be ready to work in a small team to make personal deliveries until around Noon.
Do you know that when asked why they aren't a Rotarian, many people say that no one has asked them to join!
Haveinvited someone to become a Rotarian?
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Would you like to be a member of the
President's Club?
Explain to someone why you are a Rotarian,
and why he/she should be too!
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Josh Davis
February 8
Daniel Jeans
February 9
Teresa Simpson
February 9
Marco Born
February 11
Nakisha Burns
February 11
Charles Foxworth
February 14
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ROTARY ANNIVERSARIES
We celebrate your
membership in our Club!
Chad Mason
February 8, 2012
10 years
Wesley Shipley
February 8, 2017
5 years
Charles Wall
February 8, 1978
44 years
Nakisha Burns
February 12, 2014
8 years
James B Broussard
February 14, 1973
49 years
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PROGRAM REVIEW
February 2, 2022
DENNIS KIEL
(Director of the Dishman Art Gallery at Lamar)
“Photography: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly”
By Bobbie Applegate
The actual beginning of photography occurred somewhere in the first part of the 19th century. There are quite a few people who might be credited with “creating” photography: Louis-Jacque Daguerre, Joseph Nichephore Niepce, and William Henry Fox Talbot.
Daguerre, a French painter and physicist, developed the daguerreotype process in the 1830s. William Henry Fox Talbot, an English artist, developed the calotype process. Joseph Nichephore Niepce, a French inventor, developed the first heliography process which was the first permanent photographic image.
Dennis Kiel showed an interesting photograph which was shot at the Obama inauguration. The “photo” shows the Obamas on stage and almost everyone in the audience is taking a photo on their phone lighting up the facility. Those phone photos may or may not have been good, bad or ugly.
Not everyone who takes a photo creates a good photograph or is a photographer. It was Ansel Adams who phrased that the “negative” was the source, but the “photograph” is the performance. Adams had one of the first photos to ever be auctioned (and created another artistic field) in 1971 for $70,000. This event caused colleges to create photography classes in their art departments, and Lamar created their class in 1974.
Photographs present many different images to different people. Sometimes you might think you know what you are looking at but it is possible that it is not what you think. Good photography presents images that can be interpreted and viewed in different ways.
Michael Wilson, a Texas photographer, became famous for photographs of musicians as well as record album covers. His photos of Lyle Lovett are famous.
In viewing different settings for photos, Dennis presented a photo of 2 wet dogs. This photo was regenerated over the years for many different reasons including a record album and T shirts. The wonder of photography and its growth presents a fascinating story.
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Building beds is so much fun but delivering the completed bed to a child or several children in a household is so rewarding. On Saturday, February 19, 2022, Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Beaumont and the Rotary Club of Port Arthur will be joined by members of the 100 Black Men of Greater Beaumont to deliver dozens of beds! Volunteers will meet at the assembly warehouse at 2950 Milam in Beaumont. Wear your "Rotarian at Work" shirt and be ready to work in a small team to make personal deliveries until around Noon. 
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