Omaha, Nebraska, May 11, 2022. The 95th Rotary Honor Roll Program will be held virtually via zoom video conferencing on May 11, 2022, Wednesday, 11:30 AM CST. The virtual invite has been emailed to the 8th grade honor roll students, their parents, school counselors, and principals. The event will be broadcasted live via the Omaha Downtown Rotary Facebook Page here.
Our Honor Roll Keynote speaker this year is Alexander Payne, an Honor Roll recipient himself. Payne is an award-winning American director, screenwriter, and producer, who was noted for creating films that mixed sardonic humor with humanistic character-driven drama in prosaic contemporary settings.Payne grew up in Omaha, where his mother was a professor of Romance languages and his father ran a restaurant. As a child, he took an interest in the family’s 8-mm film projector, and he eventually made his own amateur movies. After studying history and Latin American literature at Stanford University (B.A., 1984), Payne attended film school at the University of California, Los Angeles (M.F.A., 1990). His thesis film, The Passion of Martin, about a love-struck photographer, won him attention from Hollywood and was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. To read more about Payne, click here.
