ANNOUNCEMENTS: LAST WEEK`S PROGRAM:

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ROTARY CLUB OF OAK RIDGE, TN
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THIS WEEK - December 16, 2010:
Program: Dale Pendley, Oak Ridge Community Band
Host: Chuck Landguth
Greeters: Charles Jones, Virginia Jones
Invocation: Keith Kahl
Guests & Visitors: Craig Kallio
NEXT WEEK - December 23, 2010:
Program: No Meeting - Merry Christmas!
IN TWO WEEKS - December 30, 2010:
Program: No Meeting - Happy New Year!
ATTENDANCE-UPDATE - 12/9/2010
Members: 125 ( including 1 honorary)
64 Members; 3 Visiting Rotarians; 3 Member Guests;
1 Other Guests; Total Present - 71; 70%
AREA ROTARY CLUB MEETINGS
ANY TIME eClub eClub – http://www.rotaryeclubone.org
MONDAY
Oak Ridge Sunset: Flatwater Grill Events Center – 5:30 pm
S. Knoxville: UT Medical Ctr, Morrison Cafeteria – 12:15 pm
Rockwood: Victorian Square – 6:15 pm
Lenoir City: 1st Baptist Church, 2085 Simpson Rd. E – Noon
TUESDAY
Loudon: First Baptist Church Annex – 12:00 Noon
Clinton: Clinton Community Center – 12:00 Noon
Knoxville: Knoxville Marriott – 12:00 Noon
Kingston: Two Chefs Deli, Bakery & Florist – 6:00 pm
Alcoa: Airport Marriott – 6:00 pm
WEDNESDAY
Knoxville (B): Gettysvue Country Club – 7:00 am
Oak Ridge (B): Flatwater Grill Events Center – 7:15 am
Farragut: Fox Den Country Club – 12:15 pm
THURSDAY
Maryville: Green Meadow Country Club – 12:00 Noon
Harriman: Roane St. In the Faculty Dining Room – Noon
N. Knoxville: Litton’s Restaurant – 12:00 Noon
Oak Ridge: Flatwater Grill Events Center – 12:15 pm
FRIDAY
Tellico Lake: Tellico West Conference Center – 8:00 am
Knoxville Volunteer: Knoxville Marriott – Noon
West Knoxville: Buddy’s Bearden Banquet Hall – 12:15 pm
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
VOTE FOR NOMINEES THURSDAY: Mary Jane White, president-elect for 2012-2013; David Bradshaw, vice president; Cyndi Jeffers, secretary; Keith Kahl, treasurer;
Jan Melcher, Rick Morrow, Carol Mullane, Ron Stellhorn, directors. Nancy Stanley will become president in July 2011. President Barry repeated the slate presented the
previous week by Nominating Committee Chair Devrin Kuipers. President Barry asked for nominations from the floor and heard none. Club members will vote for the
nominees during the meeting this Thursday.
GOOD NEWS FOR ROANE STATE: Roane State Community College is one of five community colleges in Tennessee to receive $9 million from the state as a matching
grant. The money will be used to construct a building for health sciences and technology education on the Oak Ridge campus, said President Barry. Congratulations to
Barry Stephens, past president of the Roane State Foundation Board of Directors, and Melinda Hillman, executive director of the foundation and dean of RSCC’s Oak
Ridge Branch Campus and seven other campuses. These Rotarians played critical roles in attracting state grant money to RSCC. Melinda announced that Roane State
plans to start a program to educate future surgical technologists for hospital operating rooms.
STAR CLUB DONATION: If you haven’t contributed $100 to The Rotary Foundation’s Annual Fund to help make the Rotary Club of Oak Ridge a Star Club once again,
please consider doing so this month, so you can take a tax deduction. Write your check to the Rotary Club of Oak Ridge with “TRF Annual Fund” on the memo line.
AD OPPORTUNITY: If our club members buy $500 worth of advertising space in the Rotary insert in The Oak Ridger which the Oak Ridge Breakfast Rotary Club publishes each World Rotary Day, our club will get a free full-page ad in the insert. Articles on our club will also appear in the insert in February.
MAJOR GOLF TOURNAMENT: Tennessee is in one of 10 regions involved in the United States Golfing Fellowship of Rotarians, and it is our region’s turn to host the
national Rotary golf tournament, which also includes golfers from Canada and several other foreign countries. The golf tournament will be held May 14-18 in Nashville.
The registered golfers will play on the Vanderbilt University private and public courses and a country club course. The 2012 golf tournament will be in Greensboro, NC.
Visit www.usgfr.com for more information.
HELP AFGHANISTAN: To help support the work in Afghanistan of the Indiana Rotary club of Jim Graham (a previous speaker and past district governor), consider sending a check to World Community Service Foundation, Box 457, Brownsburg, IN 46112.
LAST WEEK’S PROGRAM:
OUR SPEAKER: Chuck Landguth introduced Randy Boyd as a local success story. Randy is a graduate of (South) Doyle High School in Knoxville and has a bachelor’s
MEMBERS’ BIRTHDAYS: PARTNERS’ BIRTHDAYS:
Marian (Bob) Poteat, 17 December
Keith Kahl, 18 December
Garrett Asher, 23 December
Chuck Hope, Jr., 23 December
CLUB ANNIVERSARIES:
Rick Morrow, 3 Years
Harry Lillard, 7 Years
David Beams, 10 Years
Lee Smalley, 17 Years
The 2011 Rotary International Convention will be held May 21-25 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
To register for the 2011 RI Convention, visit http://www.rotary.org/kiosk/KioskC2011/index.html.
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degree from the University of Tennessee and a master’s degree from the University
of Oklahoma. His father had a company called Fi-Shock that manufactured and
sold electric fencing for cattle and horses. In 1991 Randy started a company called
Radio Systems Corporation in Knoxville to make dog fences, including an electronically controlled wireless dog fence that delivers a shock to a dog wearing a specific
collar when the pet tries to run beyond the buried fence. The company raised
capital in 1993, including an $800,000 seed money grant from the Tennessee Innovation Center established by Lockheed Martin. That’s how Randy met Chuck. In
1996 the company had $24 million in sales. Now it has more than 580 employees
in Knoxville, Cleveland (OH), England, and China and $320 million in international
sales. The company, which has acquired other companies such as PetSmart, sells
more than 5,000 different pet products and is one of the largest pet product manufacturers in the United States. Randy spoke on KnoxAchieves, which he heads.
EDUCATING OUR WORKFORCE: Randy Boyd has a vision for new at-risk high
school graduates in Tennessee, including Anderson County: help those accepted
by one of three community colleges get the financing needed to enable them to
enroll, take practical courses, and graduate. Randy, an entrepreneur who started
Radio Systems Corporation to provide products for pets, founded KnoxAchieves in
2008 to help Knox County high school graduates accepted by Roane State, Walter
State, and Pellissippi State Technical community colleges afford to continue their
education. It all started when Randy heard that Tennessee was ranked as one of
three worst states in animal welfare. In the summer of 2008, Randy invited Knox
County Mayor Mike Ragsdale to breakfast to discuss making Knoxville the country’s pet-friendliest city. After Ragsdale listened to Boyd’s pitch, the mayor had a
proposal of his own – create a fundraising organization to make community college
available to every high school graduate in Knox County. Ragsdale basically said
to Randy, “Here’s the deal: if you help me raise the funds for a new program called
KnoxAchieves, I’ll work with you on pet-friendly communities.”
KNOX ACHIEVES: Randy volunteered to work with other movers and shakers
(e.g., Bill Haslam, now governor-elect) to raise money from private donors for
KnoxAchieves. In the first 60 days they raised $2.3 million worth of pledges and
cash. The money and future donations have provided opportunities over the past
two years for numerous Knox County public high school graduates, who initially did
not plan to go to college, to receive up to $2,000 annually to attend one of Knoxville’s three community colleges. For students with other financial aid but limited
financial resources, KnoxAchieves pays the difference so the students can afford a
community college education. The second part of the KnoxAchieves program is the
requirement that every recipient of a KnoxAchieves scholarship “gives back” by doing eight hours of community service every semester “to make a difference,” Randy
said. The third part of the program requires that each KnoxAchieves student has
a volunteer mentor to help with forms and academic issues. In the first year some
200 persons volunteered to be mentors. In 2008 KnoxAchieves leaders learned
that some 1200 high school graduates in Knox County do not attend college. “We
offered 500 scholarships the first year,” Randy said. “We had 497 apply for our
scholarships, and in August 2009, we had 323 students who were accepted by one
of the three community colleges. We were disappointed because only 323 of 1200
high school graduates not planning on college are actually going to college. Then
we found out that our scholarship program sent more kids to college than all other
private scholarship programs in the state combined.” Some 65% of these college
attendees are the first in their family to attend college. For 59% the family income
was less than $50,000. In 2010, 700 high school graduates applied to a community
college and to KnoxAchieves for a scholarship, and 408 were accepted and received a scholarship. About 700 of the scholarship recipients are still in a community college, and the retention rate for these at-risk students is higher than the rate
for the general population, largely because of the mentoring program. For the 2011
fall semester, 1071 students have applied, and it is anticipated that 700 will be accepted. KnoxAchieves will spend $211,000 next fall and $180,000 in the spring of
2012 on scholarships for at-risk students. The cost to KnoxAchieves is about $800
per student per year. “We expected the cost would be $1300 a student,” Randy
said, adding that the key to reducing the cost is to train mentors to help students
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submit their requests for state financial aid early, before most other student applicants. Randy is mentoring four students and finds the experience “moving and
rewarding.” Randy has learned several things from his experience with KnoxAchieves: (1) what a great asset and resource our community colleges are, (2) how
effective many high-school guidance counselors are in recruiting applicants to help
make KnoxAchieves work, and (3) how much people in our community care about
education and step up to write checks and/or volunteer to be mentors.
ANDERSON ACHIEVES? In his call to action, Randy said, “I would love to see
this program rolled across the counties of Tennessee.” He encouraged our group
to step up to get a program called Anderson Achieves started and supported.
President Barry said that the program Randy envisions for our county is already
attracting interest and support and that he will provide more information later.
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Year-end deadlines for Foundation contributions
Rotary International News -- 14 December 2010
It is not too late to get a deduction on your 2010 income taxes by making a yearend donation to The Rotary Foundation.
According to IRS rules, contributions are deductible in the year they are made.
Checks count for 2010 as long as they are mailed in 2010 and clear shortly thereafter. Donations charged to a credit card before the end of the year count for 2010
even if the bill isn’t paid until 2011.
When you contribute to the Foundation, you advance world understanding,
goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education,
and the alleviation of poverty. Find out ways your contributions are making change
possible. Read more.
Deadlines
Checks: Must be postmarked no later than 31 December 2010 and received by
The Rotary Foundation by Wednesday, 5 January 2011.
Wire transfers: Must be initiated before 31 December 2010 and received by Monday, 3 January 2011. For wire transfer account details, please e-mail Foundation
staff.
Credit cards: Via www.rotary.org or fax (+1-847-556-2139) must be authorized
before 31 December 2010, midnight (CST).
Make a contribution now
United States mailing address:
The Rotary Foundation
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Chicago, IL 60693
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SECOND, Is it Fair to all concerned?
THIRD, Will it Build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
FOURTH, Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?