WDC Rotary Club
Meeting Minutes 2/22/18
We were led in prayer and pledge by Mike Hansen
We had 15 members present and welcomed 1 guest Rotarian
Treasurers report: $1,977.92 current balance
Announcements: Next Lunch Bunch meeting will be March 14th at Noon at Shevy’s
Other announcements/discussion: President Mike led a discussion on breakfast options for the next couple of weeks. Next week we will again try the continental breakfast and get a better idea of the club’s thoughts on that with hopefully a larger pool of samplers. On March 8th, we will opt for a larger breakfast spread as we welcome Chancellor Gold from UNO/UNMC.
Tod reminded those who are on the Elkhorn Public Schools/ Rotary scholarship selection committee, to review and please make their candidate selections by March 1st. .
Next week’s speaker: Dr. Michael Feilmeier helped to establish the Gift of Sight Foundation with the singular goal of restoring sight to patients living needlessly in darkness. Presently, there are over 39 million people in the world who are blind, and over 50% of them can be cured with a procedure that has a consumable cost of $25 and takes 5 minutes to perform. With vision restored, these individuals can once again look into the eyes of a loved one, walk unassisted across a street, return to work and find their way back to being a part of a family and community that no longer sees them as a burden. Dr. Feilmeier is also a product of the excellent work of the Elkhorn Public School system!
Our scheduled speaker for March 8th will be Dr. Jeffrey Gold, Chancellor of UNMC and UNO. He became the eighth chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, vice president of the University of Nebraska system and chair of the board of UNMC’s principal clinical care academic health system partner, Nebraska Medicine, in early 2014.
As UNMC’s chief executive officer, Dr. Gold is responsible for all aspects of campus leadership, program quality and operations, including seven colleges, numerous institutes, a staff and faculty of about 5,000 and its 3,800 students. Additionally, Nebraska Medicine has over 6,500 employees and an operating budget of well more than $1.5 billion. The combined economic impact of the “500-mile campus” academic health center exceeds $4 billion.
In April 2017, Dr. Gold also was named chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the state’s public metropolitan university. The University of Nebraska at Omaha has an enrollment of over 12,000 undergraduate students, 3,000 graduate students, a broad public service mission and an NCAA Division I athletic program.
Todays’ speaker was introduced by President Mike: Yolanda Hoffman is a native of the Philippines and has been a legacy member of Rotary her entire life. Her grandparents and parents were all very involved Rotary, so Yolanda has followed their lead throughout her adult life. She has been in Omaha/ Elkhorn for the past 14 years and expressed her love of the Omaha area and the Midwest. She is a member of the Suburban club. She shared much of her Rotary experience with us,
and specifically let us know about Rotaract and the “Buy the Big Wheel” Omaha Metro Rotary Tradeshow.
Rotaract: Rotaract clubs bring together people ages 18-30 to exchange ideas with leaders in the community, develop leadership and professional skills, and have fun through service.
In communities worldwide, Rotary and Rotaract members work side by side to take action through service. From big cities to rural villages, Rotaract is changing communities like yours. There are 9,522 Rotaract Clubs world-wide and over 291,000 members.
The Buy the Big Wheel Tradeshow is a great networking opportunity for current and potential Rotarians. Best of all, it’s a FREE event! See the attached flyer for all the information!
