President Paul Urtz began the meeting Monday, one of the loveliest days of the spring so far. Almost a shame to be indoors. Almost. A Monday Rotary meeting is always welcome, whether to celebrate the day, or escape from it. It is great to be a Rotarian, especially a Smoky Hill Rotarian!
And now for the rest of the news from Smoky Hill Rotary:
Dave Fisher was our speaker Monday, speaking on the topics of work place violence and firearm safety. Dave is a retired commander of the Greenwood Village Police Department. He was a cop for 35 years with various departments beginning in Gillette, Wyoming. He now give programs on safety to realtor associations and groups on ways to keep safe while in the job. He also teaches firearms safety courses.
May 30 District Training Assembly Front Range Community College
May 30 District Membership Assembly Front Range Community College
July 24- Zone Denver
October 3- Grants Qualification Red Rocks Community College
October 17- Rotary Leadership Institute Red Rocks Community College
November 14- Rotary Leadership Institute Red Rocks Community College
January 16- Grants Qualification Red Rocks Community College
February 6- Rotary Institute Red Rocks Community College
March 11-13- PETS Training Renaissance Hotel
April 2- Rotary Leadership Institute Red Rocks Community College
April 22-23- District Conference Breckinridge
May 14- District Training Assembly Front Range Community College
JOIN US IN KEYSTONE FOR THE 2015 DISTRICT CONFERENCE – May 1-3, 2015
The 2015 Conference is full of great speakers, panels, club projects, community resources and to top it off, world class dining and dancing.
Speakers & Topics Include:
Polio Update from Chris Maher & Carl Tinstman,
Rotary-Peace Corps Collaboration from Carrie Hessler-Radelet,
and a Panel Discussion on "Rotary in an Evolving World"
Entertainment Includes:
Comedian Kevin Fitzgerald of “Animal Planet”,
S'mores Cookout with Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary),
and Dancing with FACE - one of Boulder's Best Bands!
Last week's question: Who are the only two actors to direct a film in which they also won the Oscar for Best Actor? Answer -Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful, and Laurence Olivier in Hamlet.
This week's question: On Monday, PP Terry Remigio asked if anyone knew who David Lloyd George was. Not a lot of people seemed to know, so this week's question is about him. Lloyd George was British Prime Minister during the last half of WWI and then the immedited post-war period. He represented Britain at the peace talks. Unlike the French and Italian leaders, Lloyd George on the whole stood on the side of generosity and moderation. He did not want to utterly destroy the German economy and political system—as the French demanded—with massive reparations. A world famous economist attacked Lloyd George's stance on reparations in his book The Economic Consequences of the Peace, calling the Prime Minister a "half-human visitor to our age from the hag-ridden magic and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity". Who was that economist? Answer next week.
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