JULY 16 SPEAKER - DISTRICT GOVERNOR ROD BATES
Visiting and speaking to our club this Thursday will be our new District 5650 Governor Rod Bates. In addition to being District Governor, Rod is Director Emeritus of University of Nebraska Television. He retired on June 30, 2013. Prior to that he was general manager of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET) , Director of University Television and general manager, Station KUON - TV, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and secretary/treasurer of the NET Commision and the NET Foundations for Radio and Television. (you might remember him for his passionate appeals during the fund raising campaigns). Rod was inducted into the Nebraska Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2014. He currently serves as Chair Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of American Public Television. Rod has been a Teammates mentor since 2005.