Presiding Officer: Larry Guenther Secretary: Tobi Mathouser Invocation & Pledge: John Mock
Digital Experience: Adam Leong Sgt at Arms: Okley Gibbs Navigator: Steve McCollister
Registration/Cashier: Need Volunteers
Admin Support: Kevin Baitey
In-Person Greeters: Need Volunteer Speaker Host: James Mackiewicz
Speaker: Rob Simmon
No need to pre-register, just show up
Field Club 3615 Woolworth Avenue Omaha, NE
8/30/23 menu: TBD, green mix salad, bread, vegetables, fruits, and cookies for dessert. Lunch price: NEW PRICE $12 for members, $17 for visiting Rotarians and guests. Best Rotary lunch & best lunch price in all of Metro Omaha Rotary clubs
Rob Simmon is a fellow Rotarian and member of the Glenwood, IA club since early 2009. He’s served in several District 5650 roles since 2015. Rob is presently the Assistant Governor Team Leader, the chairman of the New Club Development Committee, and the coordinator as well as a facilitator for the Visioning Program for District clubs. Earlier Rob served a total of 36 years in the Defense Department beginning in Omaha as an Air Force analyst with Strategic Air Command’s 55 th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing and ending in Omaha as a Senior Executive for the National Security Agency in the Defense Intelligence Service.
Rob’s last NSA assignment was as the representative for the Director, National Security Agency to the Commander, U.S. Strategic Command for seven years - 1999 through 2005. As the NSA Rep to STRATCOM he ensured that the Combatant Command and its components received his Agency’s relevant Intelligence, Information Assurance, and Nuclear Command and Control products and services required to accomplish their missions.
Rob served in a variety of earlier technical and leadership positions for the Agency at its Maryland headquarters and at several overseas locations. Rob studied Russian language and culture at the University of Kansas, at Syracuse University, at the Soviet Union’s Leningrad State University, and later as an NSA employee as a student for two years at the U.S. Army’s Russian Institute in Garmisch, Germany. He has also studied Polish, German, and Spanish.
Rob and his wife Susan, a retired Registered Nurse, live on her family’s Iowa Century Farm outside Glenwood, Iowa. Their daughter and grandsons live in Castle Rock, Colorado after Air Force assignments in Alaska, Germany, Romania, and in several continental U.S. locations. Their son, a manager for an Omaha technology solutions company, lives with his wife in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Rotary Social is on August 30, 2023, Wednesday, 1:00 PM Field Club Bar
No agenda; it's just purely social! Right after the meeting, head over to the bar and enjoy a drink with fellow Rotarians. No cost to attend; just pay your drink, and you get attendance credit! Make sure to write down your name on the sign-in sheet.
The Rotary International Convention: Unforgettable moments, enduring relationships
The Rotary International Convention is where you’ll find people of action from around the world brainstorming solutions to some of the most pressing challenges and celebrating our works of service that create lasting change.
The convention is where you’ll renew connections, discover fresh perspectives, and create unforgettable moments and enduring relationships.
At the convention, you’ll:
Participate in engaging breakout session discussions
Attend motivating general sessions
Network with fellow changemakers
Mingle with old and new friends
Browse exhibits and visit the House of Friendship
Explore an exciting host city
Enjoy live entertainment and enriching attractions
The convention is our largest event of the year, a chance for members to show the general public who we are and what we do. Join us at this year’s Rotary International Convention and show the world who you are and all that you do.
R. Gordon R. McInally is president of Rotary International. He was educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh and at the University of Dundee, where he earned his graduate degree in dental surgery. He operated his own dental practice in Edinburgh until 2016. Gordon was chair of the East of Scotland branch of the British Paedodontic Society and has held various academic positions. He has also served as a presbytery elder, chair of the Queensferry parish congregational board, and commissioner to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland. Read President McInally's biography.
Watch the video below of President McInally's address to the Rotary International Assembly:
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 hard-working Rotarians L to R: Jim Stewart, Heidi McGinness, Bill Harvey, Nash Mahupete and his wife and son, Franco Gentile, and Scott Kinnaird with his daughter.
Connecting with fellow Rotarians is made easy with club service. Plus, you get attendance credit. It's a great deal! If you are a new Rotarian, it counts toward your Red Badge requirements. You may sign up as Greeter, Virtual Greeter, Check-in/Registration, Navigator, and Invocator. Click hereto sign up.
Pictured here are recent greeters Jill Slupe with her niece Future Rotarian Ava.
Jim Cavanaugh
Paul Cohen Sean Connolly
Hal Daub
Gene DeBoer Dianne Desler
John Ewing
Viv Ewing
Brett Frevert
Dawn Gonzales
Okley Gibbs
Larry Guenther
Dee Haj Bill Harvey
Gretchen Harvey
Yolanda Hoffman
Bob Keefer
Susan Koesters
John Marburger
Steve McCollister
Camille Metoyer-Moten
Lloyd Meyer
Jim Murphy
Jim Scott-Miller
Mike Schlickbernd
Jim Stewart
Michelle Trawick
Aileen Warren
Rotary Social is on August 30, 2023, Wednesday, 1:00 PM
Rotarians are making a difference at Stephen Center. 
Connecting with fellow Rotarians is made easy with club service. Plus, you get attendance credit. It's a great deal! If you are a new Rotarian, it counts toward your Red Badge requirements. You may sign up as Greeter, Virtual Greeter, Check-in/Registration, Navigator, and Invocator. 
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