Last week President Mailani Veney presided the Changing of the Guard and Yearend Celebration. Ryan Dobesh was the meeting virtual host and tech consultant. Randy Hawthorne was secretary and Angie Muhleisen was the virtual greeter. Mailani discussed the Signature Project as a tribute to the teachers of our community with the "Rotary Plaza" at Cascade Fountain as a tribute to Rotary's 110th anniversary and how the project will benefit the community for many years to come. Kana Leia Veney spoke about Rotary Club - End Human Trafficking. Secretary Randy conducted the first reading for Maggie Schiefen and second reading for LeAnne Call. Pres.-Elect Eric announced survey results & meeting plans. Secretary Randy welcomed 32 new Rotarians who joined in 2019-2020 thanked their sponsors.
President Mailani awarded Rotarian of the Year to Bob Rauner, the most coveted award of the year. President Mailani also presented the Rookie of the Year Award to Bill Michener & Christie Weston. President Mailani conducted Mahalo's and Yolanda announced a gift for all and displayed sample yearbook pages. Lastly, changing of the guard took place between current President Mailani Veney and new 2020-2021 President Eric Drumheller. Thank you Rotarians for a great 2019-2020 year, Rotary 14 is the Place to Be!
President Mailani handing the gavel to President-Elect Eric Drumheller in COVID 19 fashion that is compliant with physical distancing
Congratulations to Dr. Bob Rauner on his selection as the 2020 Rotarian of the Year. Bob has been a member for 9 years. He serves as District Chair of Youth Exchange and actively promotes and coordinates Rotary #14’s involvement. He has served on the Rotary #14 Board, contributes to the Rotary 14 Foundation, as well as the Rotary International Foundation and has made contributions to many club projects including birthday books, fines, and the Rise. Shine. Give fundraiser.
Rauner received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in 1995. He also holds a Master of Public Health degree in Health Policy from The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Rauner is well known in Lincoln for a variety of things he’s done and is doing:
He’s on the Lincoln Public Schools Board of Education and in that capacity was very helpful in guiding the Schools with their decision to have students work from home rather than return to school after their Spring break.
He’s Chief Medical Officer of One-Health Nebraska
He’s President of the nonprofit Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln, working to improve wellness policies, conduct health research, and collaborate with community partners to improve the health of Lincoln and Lancaster County.
Most recently, he published videos discussing the local status of the Covid-19 pandemic, offering suggestions and guidance to viewers. These videos, first posted in early March, have now had more than 100,000 views.
Rauner joins a distinguished group of past award recipients: Jennifer Brinkman, Klaus Hartmann, Mike Wortman, JoAnne Kissel, James Griesen, Sharon Wherry and Allen Beermann.
Congratulations to Bill Michener and Christie Weston the 2020 Rookies of the Year. Rookie of the Year award is the highest honor bestowed to a new member of Rotary 14.
Bill chaired Rotary 14’s new initiative of forming an Interact club at Southeast High School. He assumed the responsibility for “selling” the idea to the school administration this year, as well as investing the countless hours required to successfully charter this new Interact service club. In addition, Bill attended the Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI)--a major time commitment, and was confirmed to attend the second session in March.
Bill is Executive Director at LightHouse. He has been a Rotarian for two years and maintained perfect attendance both years.
Christie co-chaired the Engagement Committee this year where she led the organizing of two popular member engagement events. In addition, Christie served as co-chair of the Everett School projects. She is the lead person in sending out the weekly meeting satisfaction surveys to members. And, she assumed the task of manually recording weekly attendance at virtual meetings in ClubRunner. Finally, Christie is an active member of the Cashier committee.
Christie is Deputy Director at Nebraska Investment Finance Authority (NIFA). She has been a Rotarian for two years and maintained perfect attendance both years.
Pedro Maligo is the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Doane University. He has had teaching positions at Yale and Michigan State, and administrative positions at Coastal Carolina University, Columbus (Georgia) State University, and Rockhurst University.
Pedro has delivered more than 500 workshops in the U.S. and abroad on intercultural communication and international relocation, mostly for Fortune 500 companies.
In the U.S. since 1984, he has a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, where his wife Lidia obtained her M.A. in Art Education Sculpture Both are natives of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and they enjoy exploring their surroundings even if their cat sometimes frowns at being left alone.
Thank you, Lorie Cook-Benjamin, for sponsoring Pedro to Rotary. Welcome to Rotary, Pedro!
Recently, Engagement Co-Chair Allen Beermann recognized highly engaged Rotarians with perfect attendance: Merle Jansen - 30 years, Don Kucera - 28 years, Chris Zygielbaum - 18 years, Jim Griesen - 14 years, Randy Bretz - 8 years, Jim Smith - 7 years, Abbi Swatsworth - 6 years, Roger Ludemann - 4 years, Ruth Gerber - 4 years.
Are you interested in getting into the race for perfect attendance? It got easier despite the virus pandemic. Just download the Zoom app on your mobile device or the desktop Zoom client on your computer and conveniently hop into our weekly virtual meetings. If three or more Rotarians gather virtually, you get an attendance credit as well.
RI Standard: Every 30 minutes to 1 hour of Rotary meeting or committee work is equivalent to 1 attendance credit. Questions, please contact Allen Beermann at (402) 432-8848.
Please send Yolanda (yolanda@rotary14.org) your makeups or attendance credits.
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NE 68508 United States of America
Bob Rauner, Rotarian of the Year 2020
Christie Weston, 2020 Rookie of the Year
