TODAY'S SPEAKER (2/7/2024): Mr. Todd McGhee is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and an international speaker on counterterrorism and violent extremism. Todd is the author and course developer of the Behavior Observation Skills (BOS) Course and the Airport Physical Screening (APS) Course written and developed for the Department of State, Office of Antiterrorism Assistance. Both courses are currently being delivered around the world to US Partner Nations to help combat against global terrorism and to build international relationships. Over the last five years, Todd has personally delivered these courses on four different continents in twelve different countries, some countries on multiple occasions.
He started his law enforcement career in 1987 and is retired from the Massachusetts Department of State Police after serving twenty-four successful years in public safety. He was assigned to the Massachusetts State Police Troop F Headquarters at Logan International Airport's Massport Authority as a specially trained officer and lead trainer of their Anti-Terrorism Unit.
Mr. McGhee is an active and current Board of Trustee member for Bishop Feehan High School, Bristol Community College, the Attleboro/Norton YMCA, and he is an Advisory Board Member for the Metro One Loss Prevention Services Group. In these roles, he can share his experience and help guide these organizations strive to stay aligned with their mission and track toward their security posture and vision.
He has authored the P.A.T.R.1.O.T. Training System® and the Security Awareness and Vigilance for Everyone™ (S.A.V.E.™) course curriculums which are Department of Homeland Security approved training courses. Todd has authored, developed, and successfully delivered the Active Shooter Awareness course around the US which is designed to prepare civilians and private security professionals for the unthinkable.
Mr. McGhee actively makes appearances on breaking news stories with WHDH Ch 7 News, ABC News, NECN News, NBC Boston, ABC 6 Providence, RI, and NBC 10 Providence, RI as a subject matter expert and contributor providing commentary and analysis on international and domestic terrorist related case studies, active shooter, school safety and security, cyber-crime, and police use of force issues.
As a highly dedicated and ambitious professional and business owner, he thrives on imparting his knowledge and expertise as a consultant, trainer/instructor and is committed to helping lessen the dangers of potentially hazardous and life-threatening situations. To that end, he works closely with governmental agencies at the local, county, state, and federal levels of jurisdiction. Mr. McGhee's Massachusetts training firm is registered on the GSA Schedule, positioning his firm as a prime contractor for government contracting opportunities, and his second business providing consulting services is a certified MBE in the state of Massachusetts.
Mr. McGhee has earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Northeastern University and a master's degree in criminal justice from Anna Maria College in Massachusetts. As a sought-after professional, his experience in planning, implementing, training, and executing highly effective training programs has made him an invaluable pacesetter with a remarkable talent for achieving extraordinary results.
ROTO 
: Todd McGhee
GUESTS: None
VISITING ROTARIANS: None
HAPPY BUCKS: Kathi Hague gave $40 because she just told Sturdy Health that she was retiring....date tbd.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Jim Jones informed the club that the auction mailers are going out by Friday to all prospects. The individual packets will be handed out within the next two weeks to all club members.
2/15/24 - The Arc of Bristol County will be having a plaque dedication at 9:00am. It will be at the Family support location at 140 Park Street, 3rd floor.
2/17/24 - Winter Festival from 4:30pm - 7:30pm; volunteers needed (4)
3/21/24 - Flower Show at the Attleboro Art's Museum. They will have the Cafe with Morin's providing the food. Volunteers will be needed.
3/23/24 - Habitat for Humanity - we will be building stairs.
4/1/24 - Annual Rotary Auction
**Todd is still working on a date for the soup kitchen, but we are probably looking at March.
Fun facts - history of retirement:
Retirement, or the practice of leaving one's job or ceasing to work after reaching a certain age, has been around since the 18th century. Retirement as a government policy began to be adopted by countries during the late 19th century and the 20th century.
There had been a long practice beginning in the Roman empire to the modern nation states of providing pension to those who had served in the military. Cotton Mather, the 18th century New England Puritan minister and author, proposed that elderly people should be "pleased with the retirement which you are dismissed into".
In 1881,the conservative
German chancellor,
Otto Von Bismarck, in a maneuver against
Marxists who were burgeoning in power and popularity, announced that anyone over 70 years old would be forced to retire and that he would pay a pension to them.
Bismarck drafted the formal request by Emperor,
William I in 1881 to the
Reichstag: "...those who are disabled from work by age and invalidity have a well-grounded claim to care from the state" The German welfare program provided contributory retirement benefits and disability benefits. Participation in the retirement system was mandatory and contributions were taken from the employee, the employer and the government.
In the mid-1800s certain United States municipal employees, including firefighters, police and teachers, started receiving public pensions. In 1875, the American Express Company began to offer private pensions. By the 1920s, a variety of American industries, from railroads to oil to banking, began offering pensions.
By 1935, the idea of paying older persons a pension sufficient to get them to quit working became widespread. A Californian, Francis Townsend, proposed a plan offering compulsory retirement at age 60. In return, the Legislature would pay benefits of up to $200 a month, provided he spent it all quickly. Some Republicans supported the Townsend Plan but most experts said it would be impossible to finance. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a team working on a plan and in 1935 he secured the Social Security Act of 1935, which made workers and their employers fund their retirement at age 65.
By 1910, Florida got to be distinctly available as a retirement destination to the white collar class. Retirement communities started to show up in the 1920s and 30s. The explosion of golf courses, and the onset of films and TV transformed having nothing to do into a leisure time activity. The distribution in 1955 of Senior Citizen magazine, which quickly went defunct, contained the first popular usage of the phrase "senior citizen".
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