August 5, 2024 (Aug. 02, 2024)

August 5, 2024

Please join us in Welcoming

Chris Welbon of Chris Welbon Karate Clubs in Plant City

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Thank you Chief Duralia for your presentation last week! Welcome to the community!

Club News & Updates

For updates and pictures, visit our club Facebook page at: (6) plant city noon rotary - Search Results | Facebook

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Congratulations to all of our new board members and to Kayla Drawdy, our new board president! It's going to be a great year!

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Fri. Oct. 25th

Dancing with the Locals

UPCOMING EVENTS: Watch your email for notifications of upcoming events and service opportunities.

If you have any announcements you would like to share, please email me at chuck.gore@stahlinsurance.com and I will include it in the bulletin.

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We have several open dates coming up in February. Please be aware if these are programs you are responsible for and reach out to Steve Solomon or Bill Hughes to let them know what you have planned.

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If you have an announcement that you would like to share with the club, please email me the details by Thursday afternoon so it can be included in this weeks bulletin!

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Famous Rotarians

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president.^[2] Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress prior to his presidency.

Born into the prominent Kennedy family in Brookline, Massachusetts, Kennedy graduated from Harvard University in 1940, joining the U.S. Naval Reserve the following year. During World War II, he commanded PT boats in the Pacific theater. Kennedy's survival following the sinking of PT-109 and his rescue of his fellow sailors made him a war hero and earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, but left him with serious injuries. After a brief stint in journalism, Kennedy represented a working-class Boston district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. He was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate, serving as the junior senator for Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960. While in the Senate, Kennedy published his book, Profiles in Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Kennedy ran in the 1960 presidential election. His campaign gained momentum after the first televised presidential debates in American history, and he was elected president, narrowly defeating Republican opponent Richard Nixon, the incumbent vice president.

Kennedy's presidency saw high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam, and the Strategic Hamlet Program began during his presidency. In 1961, he authorized attempts to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and Operation Mongoose. In October 1962, U.S. spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba. The resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in nuclear war. In August 1961, after East German troops erected the Berlin Wall, Kennedy sent an army convoy to reassure West Berliners of U.S. support, and delivered one of his most famous speeches in West Berlin in June 1963. In 1963, Kennedy signed the first nuclear weapons treaty. He presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress with Latin America, and the continuation of the Apollo program with the goal of landing a man on the Moon before 1970. He supported the civil rights movement but was only somewhat successful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies.

On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. His vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson, assumed the presidency. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the assassination, but he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later. The FBI and the Warren Commission both concluded Oswald had acted alone, but conspiracy theories about the assassination persist. After Kennedy's death, Congress enacted many of his proposals, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Revenue Act of 1964. Kennedy ranks highly in polls of U.S. presidents with historians and the general public. His personal life has been the focus of considerable sustained interest following public revelations in the 1970s of his chronic health ailments and extramarital affairs. Kennedy is the most recent U.S. president to have died in office.

John Kennedy was a member of the Hyannis, Massachusetts Rotary Club.

Member Birthdays

Tamara Jemison

August 2

Shaun Bryant

August 5

Krissie Dilley

August 7

Jim Scott

August 16

Paul Conley

August 17

Brandon Snyder

August 18

Bill Wicker

August 26

Greg Buckner

August 30

Steve Morey

August 30

David Price

September 3

Ryan Rollyson

September 5

Dennis Brownlee

September 11

Billy Riley

September 12

Keith Smith

September 16

Shane Karlson

September 19

Marc Sewell

September 22

Nate Kilton

September 27

Join Date

Billy Herold

August 1, 1988

36 years

Gumby Griffin

August 4, 2003

21 years

Tom Schaub

August 4, 1997

27 years

Donald Thomas

August 6, 2018

6 years

John Haney

August 24, 2015

9 years

Billy Keel

August 27, 2007

17 years

Tatyana Austin

September 3, 2007

17 years

Jon Poppell

September 10, 2007

17 years

Louis Alvarez

September 10, 2018

6 years

Shawn Jemison

September 10, 2018

6 years

Charles Harris

September 12, 2011

13 years

James Moody

September 15, 2014

10 years

Brandon Snyder

September 18, 2017

7 years

Joshua Jiminez

September 18, 2017

7 years

Marcus Caswell

September 18, 2011

13 years

Tony Gould

September 29, 1963

61 years

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