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.
Personal bandwidth is defined as “our individual cognitive, emotional, and psychological capacity to function in various roles in our lives."
In this session, we will:
Identify numerous factors that decrease or negatively affect our personal bandwidth.
Introduce the concept of scarcity: when we push ourselves to work beyond our personal bandwidth, we are operating in a state of scarcity. Operating in an intermittent or chronic state of scarcity significantly limits our bandwidth and negatively impacts our ability to perform at work and at home.
Provide a high-level overview of research that demonstrates how functioning within our personal bandwidth allows us to maximize our full array of executive functioning abilities and perform more effectively in our various roles.
Julie McDonald, Ph.D. has been a practicing clinical psychologist for 25+ years. She brings her experience providing psychological services into the business world through McDonald Graham, LLC, a boutique leadership development and coaching firm located in Birmingham, Alabama that she founded with her business partner, organizational psychologist, Dr. Lisa Graham. Together, their mission is to create space for people to do the difficult inner work that is necessary to become their best selves. They focus on enhancing skill sets that are often neglected in leadership development, through the application of solid psychological principles. Whether it’s through 1:1 executive coaching or one of their coaching workshops for groups, McDonald Graham helps professionals flourish at work and in life. McDonald Graham works with professionals at all levels of their career, individually or in small group settings. Their experience ranges across a wide variety of organizations including small, family-owned businesses, nonprofit agencies, and Fortune 500 companies.
We are grateful to have Ms. McDonald join us from her firm in Birmingham.
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Virtual Head Table for January 13
Invocation:
Lynn Castle
Executive Director
Art Museum of Southeast Texas
Pledge to USA Flag:
Josh Davis
Senior Director-Major Gifts (East Region)
Legacy Community Health
Introduction of Guest Speaker:
Ellen Zimmerman
Owner
Ellen Zimmerman Consulting, LLC
If you would like to serve on the head table at a date in the future, please sign up online at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904054ba5a62fa3f49-head or phone chair, Mandy Clayton at 409-718-7056 or email arclayton@lit.edu
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Rotarians, we really need you to become a part of the weekly meeting! We need volunteers for leading the invocation and the pledges. Please consider volunteering! Look at your calendar and select a date that is convenient for your schedule. Red Badges are strongly encouraged to volunteer for this opportunity so you can move closer to your blue badge and members can get to know you better too.
In membership matters, the Board terminated two members - Kari Dolan and Thomas Kelley.
These resignations were accepted with regret:
Kathleen Alsup
Carly Broussard
Gary Coker
Ivy Pate
Amber Sawyer
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CALENDAR OF ROTARY EVENTS
(Club events & opportunities for meeting makeups)
For the health and safety of members, CLUB MEETINGS WILL CONTINUE WEEKLY USING ZOOM until further notice.
January
26
Board of Directors monthly meeting; 11:30 a.m.
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T. Kelsey Lamb, Sr. Award for Business Ethics
NOMINATION INFORMATION: DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 8
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 2020, this prestigious honor was presented to Rebekah Maxwell.
Nominator Craig Escamilla presented the T. Kelsey Lamb, Sr. Award for Business Ethics to 2020 recipient Rebekah Maxwell.
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
Our Club will award the coveted honor at the February 24th meeting, according to this year's chairman, Dana Timaeus. The deadline for submitting a nomination is Wednesday, February 8th.
While we are practicing distancing, this is the PERFECT time to have the Club Directory available at your fingertips.
If you have not downloaded the ClubRunner app to your cellphone, you will find it a great help when trying to contact fellow Rotarians. The app is available for iPhones, iPads and Androids. Download it to your phone and have the membership directory available, and you are assured it is the latest information. Simply go to the app store you use and search for "ClubRunner" (one word) and the icon is CR. Download it to your phone. You will need to log-in to the app just like you log-into the website, using the same screen name and password
Please note the ClubRunner app "Club Members" page does not update automatically. To keep current, you need to refresh to get the latest additions and updates to the membership directory because it changes frequently. It only takes a minute to re-fresh by clicking on the arrows forming a circle on the top right of the screen. You will have up-to-the-minute membership records at your fingertips!
Please remember the membership directory is for club use only. It is not for distribution to non-Rotarians nor may it be used for any type of commercial mailing or contact list. Thank you.
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Kerry Moncla
January 13
Barry Bryant
January 16
Denise McLean
January 18
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ROTARY ANNIVERSARIES!
We celebrate your
membership in our Club!
Hubert Oxford
January 13, 1988
33 years
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In Sympathy
We join with Rotarian
Mandy Clayton
to celebrate the life of her mother
Willie Clayton
April 29, 1948 - December 16, 2020
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PROGRAM REVIEW
January 6, 2021
"The Influence: Building Partnerships
to Support Students of Color"
Dr. Jerry Wallace
Assistant Dean
Director of College of Public Service
Advising, Recruitment and Retention
University of Houston – Downtown
by Chuck Heare
Dr. Jerry Wallace is an education and community leader who has fifteen years of dedicated experience supporting local ISD’s, community colleges and universities in Southeast Texas. He grew up in a poor rural area near Huntsville, Texas where very few of the children grew up to attend college. Most of his young life was spent outside among loved ones – brothers, sisters and relatives. Many of the young children in his community ended up in trouble with the law and were eventually incarcerated.
His mother realized early on that he was an exceptionally bright child and took a job in a gifted and talented program so that he could attend the program. He was the only child of color in the program. His parents divorced when he was in the third grade, and he became rebellious. However, his mom kept him in line and sent him to a camp at Sam Houston State where he was first exposed to college. He had an awesome day there which opened his eyes to possibilities he had never known to exist.
His mother remarried a man who had a good job and moved the family to the Woodlands. Dr. Wallace began attending a predominately white school, became involved in sports, and thought that would be the way he could get ahead in life through being an athlete and avoid becoming like most of the boys in his old neighborhood. He could be either “On Cops” or excel in sports.
When he was seventeen, he attended a year-end basketball party at a friend’s home – Scott, who was an only child of parents that were both college graduates. Their home was very nice, and he decided then that he wanted to attend college to be able to some day live as they did.
Upon graduating from high school, Jerry attended Grambling on a basketball scholarship, but that didn’t work out, and he transferred to Lamar University. This was his first experience with a very diverse student body, and he went on to graduate from Lamar, the first child to finish college in his family. His graduation started a wave of children from his family to begin attending and graduating from college. He continued his studies at Lamar and went on to receive a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Lamar.
Looking back on his experience growing up, Jerry realized moving to a new community broadened his horizons. He began pursuing work that would help other students get the same kind of broadening experiences he had received. He has developed four key ideas that he believes we need to recognize in order to improve the chances for children in neighborhoods like his to become aware of the possibilities that exist beyond just becoming stuck in the “On Cops” mentality.
Know your community – Exposure is the key.
Accept your differences and move forward.
Build the network of influencers.
No more “Savior” complex.
He said we need to embrace the process and set measurable goals. The going will be tough because communities may resist. He said we ALL want the pursuit of happiness. He said this is Kingdom work and that we should be the influence!
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Link to the Zoom page which includes this and all the recorded meetings for January- March 2021.
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