David L. Roth, P.E. Chief Executive Officer – Omaha Airport Authority
950 Million Omaha Airport Expansion
For the past 20 years, David Roth has served in different executive roles for the Omaha Airport Authority and currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer. In his role as CEO, Roth leads a team of professionals at Eppley Airfield focused on providing premier customer service and airport facilities through operational excellence.
Roth started his career with the Omaha Airport Authority as the Director of Planning and Engineering. He has planned and overseen in excess of $400M in capital improvements including reconstruction of three runways, numerous taxiways and aircraft aprons, along with other facilities across the airport. Roth added additional responsibilities of strategic planning which included financial and succession planning, and lead the airport’s 20-year Master Plan. The Master Plan incorporates an estimated $1.2B of planned capital improvements including the Terminal Modernization Program at Eppley Airfield.
Roth holds a Professional Engineering License and obtained an electrical engineering degree graduating from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. He earned a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO).
Roth served in the United States Army as an Infantry Officer. His assignments included Platoon Leader, Company Executive Officer and Battalion Signal Officer. After the Army, Roth joined the Trane Company where he lead a cross-functional team in developing products and manufacturing processes. Dave also worked for Alvine Engineering as an Engineering Manager, Project Manager, and Project Engineer.
Roth has served on the Airports Council International - North America (ACI-NA) Operations and Technical Affairs Steering Committee Group as well as the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency Council of Officials. He currently serves on the ACI-NA Board of Directors as well as the National Advisory Board for the UNO College of Business. Additionally, he is active with his church and has served in a variety of church leadership positions. Roth lives in Ashland, Nebraska with his wife, Jennifer and they have four adult children.
PLEASE READ. The Honor Roll Committee is still looking for a few more Honor Roll Luncheon Hosts for April 30, 2024. We encourage every Rotarian to serve as a Host at the Honor Roll Luncheon; click here.
For nearly 100 years, the Rotary Club of Omaha has honored Omaha youth through the yearly Honor Roll Event. The Rotary Honor Roll, a time-honored tradition, distinguishes 8th-grade students who represent the highest characteristics of leadership, character, scholarship & presence. This criterion has been the litmus test since the inception of the award in the early 1900s. The event has also been a platform to award scholarships to chosen graduating seniors who, just 4 years earlier, were 8th-grade Honor Roll recipients.
The 2024 Honor Roll will be back in person on April 30, 2024, Tuesday, from 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM at the CHI Health Center, 455 N 10th St., Omaha, NE.
For questions about serving as Honor Roll Host, please get in touch with Rotary Director Bob Keefer at keefer.robert@gmail.com.
On Saturday, March 30, 2024, we held our first in-person RLI session since October 2019! The Rotary Leadership Institute, or RLI for short, is designed as three interactive, facilitated sessions focusing on topics designed to provide Rotary knowledge and develop leadership skills.
RLI does not provide position-specific training, such as for a president or a board member. Instead, it is an opportunity for EVERY Rotarian to really “discover Rotary” using the three different tracks of knowledge.
For our first session back, we had six Rotarians from six different Clubs from three different cities attend Part I!
Part I centers on the basics of being a Rotarian. This is the fundamental building block of a strong Rotary. Without strong Rotarians there is no future for Rotary so that is why we start with you, the member!
RLI believes that having leadership skills does not alone assure good Rotary leadership. An effective Rotary leader must ALSO have Rotary knowledge, perspective on where Rotary has been, where it is now and a vision of what it could be in the future.
Having so many clubs represented shows how passionate we are about the future of Rotary and that our Clubs want the best leaders and members possible! This is just one of the many reasons why we are the BEST ROTARY DISTRICT IN THE UNIVERSE!!
The next session of RLI will be held on April 20th and will include Parts I and II. EVERYONE IS INVITED TO ATTEND!! Click here for more information.
NOTE: We are actively seeking businesses that would like to host a session of RLI. If your place of business has room to host three separate meetings of 8-12 people simultaneously, please email Kathryn Schubert at dgkathryn5650@gmail.com.
“If something is not impossible, there must be a way to do it,” Rotarian Sir Nicholas Winton once said. Known to his friends as “Nicky,” the British stockbroker rescued hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from the Holocaust in the months leading up to World War II. Winton, who died in 2015 at the age of 106, is now the subject of a new film, “One Life,” starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter. It was released in January 2024 in the United Kingdom.
The film tells the true story of how Winton rescued 669 children from the Nazi advance and found homes for them in the United Kingdom. During a visit to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in December 1938, Winton saw numerous families who had fled the spread of Nazism in Germany and Austria. The refugees were living in desperate conditions, with little or no shelter or food, as the German invasion of Czechoslovakia loomed. Winton immediately realized it was a race against time: How many children could he rescue before the borders closed?
Producers Emile Sherman and Iain Canning first contemplated telling Winton’s story when they co-founded See-Saw Films more than 15 years ago.
“We were very lucky to have had the opportunity to meet Nicholas Winton before he passed away,” Canning says. “He was the most modest, generous human being. [He] felt the film should not glorify him, but celebrate how the most ordinary of people can make a huge impact.”
With the blessing of Winton’s daughter, Barbara Winton, See-Saw approached screenwriter Lucinda Coxon to adapt Barbara’s 2014 book “If It’s Not Impossible.” Collaborating with Barbara, the screenwriting team gained access to Nicholas’ archives and letters. Barbara was a familiar face at Rotary district conferences. She passed away in 2022, during the making of the film.
Barbara’s book was an essential resource for the cast. Explaining how she got a sense of Nicholas Winton’s mother, Babi, Bonham Carter said, “Barbara was named after Babi. I was very lucky to speak to Barbara, to have her perspective as a granddaughter.”
It was Barbara’s wish that Sir Anthony Hopkins should play her father.
Reprint from rotary.org. SOURCE: https://www.rotary.org/en/new-film-tells-story-sir-nicholas-winton-world-war-ii-hero-and-humanitarian
Most North American plant species depend on insects, predominantly bees, for pollination. “Your whole food web is supported by bees,” says Dave Hunter, a member of the Rotary Club of Woodinville, Washington. The club leads a project that nourishes bees while beautifying the Seattle suburb. Members use donated wine barrels to construct planters to attract pollinators. Local businesses can sign up to have one placed at their storefront for a donation of $150 a year to the club’s foundation. The planters have QR codes that take visitors to information on the club’s website about the program and pollinators’ importance. “We are not just putting planters out; we’re educating through them,” says Hunter, proprietor of Crown Bees, which sells bees, bee houses, and other materials. The club also partnered with the city, businesses, a garden club, and a nonprofit organization to host a Pollinator Fest in May that attracted about 500 people to hear the latest buzz on bees.
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The Rotary Club of Olds, Alberta, is livening up its process for awarding grants to community groups. In November, representatives of about a dozen organizations pitched their proposals at a contest modeled on Dragons’ Den, a CBC television program (much like Shark Tank in the U.S.) in which venture capitalists judge entrepreneurs’ proposals for investment. The organizations were allotted five minutes to make their pitch, followed by five minutes of questioning by a panel of Rotarian “dragons,” or judges. Club President Randy Smith concedes that the awardees would have received their share of the roughly $10,000 regardless of who won. But he says the spirited affair gave the groups, including Interactors and fire department cadets, an opportunity to hone their presentation skills and showcase their creativity.
Last weekend, the Rotary Clubs of Omaha, Omaha Suburban, and Omaha West joined forces to fund and assemble an impressive total of over 42,000 meals for Heartland Kids Against Hunger. This remarkable endeavor wouldn't have been possible without the dedication and support of over 120 Rotarians, their families, and friends who generously volunteered their time and energy to package these meals.
A heartfelt thank you goes out to all those who contributed to the Service Fund and those who actively participated in the packaging process. Your generosity and commitment to service have made a significant impact on addressing hunger in our community.
To commemorate this inspiring event, here are some snapshots capturing the moments of collaboration and goodwill:
We will be back at Trinity starting February 7. We are grateful to Vanessa Clark for accommodating us at the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. Remember to enter through the red door between 17th & 18th streets.
Rotarians are making a difference at Stephen Center. CLICK HERE to sign up.
Stephen Center partners with the community, families, and individuals to overcome homelessness, addiction, and poverty. Stephen Center has served the homeless and low-income in Omaha since 1984 through its three programs: Emergency Shelter, HERO Program, and Transitional Living Program. The Omaha Downtown Rotary partners with Stephens Center in serving hot meals to its residents.
Pictured here are the January volunteers L to R:Mike Mancuso, Fletcher Reel, Steve McCollister, Scott Kinnaird, Colleen Brennan (Future Rotarian), Franco Gentile, Jim Stewart, and another Future Rotarian.
The Rotary Club of Omaha is now recruiting more members! It's your opportunity to join the Rotary Club of Omaha, click here to complete the membership application form. For questions, please contact Membership Chair Franco Gentile at FGentile@sbgtv.com.
Chase Bank
UNO College of Business
Centris
Ollie The Trolley
Carlson West Povondra Architects
DA Davidson
Elkhorn Athletics Association
Omaha Massage Therapy
Kevin Baitey
Brad Burklund
Paul Cohen Hal Daub
Gene DeBoer Dianne Desler
John Ewing
Viv Ewing
Brett Frevert
Dawn Gonzales
Okley Gibbs
Fr. Lloyd Gnirk
Tom Gouttierre
Larry Guenther Bill Harvey
Gretchen Harvey
Yolanda Hoffman
Bob Keefer
Susan Koesters
Heather Legge
Sandy Lemke
Adam Leong
John Marburger
Steve McCollister
Heidi McGinness
Camille Metoyer-Moten
Lloyd Meyer
John Mock
Jim Murphy
Fletcher Reel
Jim Scott-Miller
Deb Skinner
Jim Stewart
Jim Suttle
LeRoy Swedlund
Lisa Tonjes Moritz
Michelle Trawick
David L. Roth, P.E.
On Saturday, March 30, 2024, we held our first in-person RLI session since October 2019! The Rotary Leadership Institute, or RLI for short, is designed as three interactive, facilitated sessions focusing on topics designed to provide Rotary knowledge and develop leadership skills.
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