Patti R. Albaugh Bill McMurry recently spoke to SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary about his experience as a POW in North Vietnam. He was captured on February 7, 1968 after helping defend the Lang Vei Special Forces surveillance camp in the northwestern corner of South Vietnam, about one and a half miles from the Laotian border. Lang…
Patti R. Albaugh Louise Grabell, coordinator for the SaddleBrooke Master Gardener program, recently spoke to SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary about the background, vision and services of Master Gardeners. Louise was formerly a high school science teacher but even as a child she was interested in gardening. “I have my mother to thank for that,” she said…
Patti R. Albaugh Dr. Vicki Berkus, Ph.D., M.D. and CEDS (certified eating disorders specialist) was the featured speaker at a recent SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary meeting. She is a psychiatrist and a twenty-two year resident of SaddleBrooke. She is the author of Ten Commitments to Mental Fitness. Dr. Berkus has found that one of the most…
Dick Kroese SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club is all about making a difference in kids’ lives. We decided as a club that we wanted to donate copy paper to Oracle School so that they would have the necessary paper to carry on the many functions that require copy paper. We all went out and purchased paper…
Dick Kroese Kristyn Connor, Development Coordinator for Youth on Their Own (YOTO), spoke at SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club recently and gave us some information that few of us knew little about. Students served in the 2009/2010 school year were 492. In the 2015/2016 school year they served 1,588 students. We have over 100 youth served…
Tony Ingle On Thursday, April 14 Joan provided a dynamic presentation to the Sunrise Rotary Club on The Summer Citizen Program in Logan, Utah. Joan Elder is an exciting and power-packed speaker and educator. Joan taught for 20 years in the Los Angeles School District. She retired only to be recruited by Create-A-Vision providing consultation…
Gary Haslett Gary Jenkins, a former Secret Service officer, spoke to the SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary on March 24. Gary served six different presidents and was also a team leader protecting visiting dignitaries from other countries. He has a wealth of information about the operations of the Secret Service and the presidents he served, only some…
Savo Fries Jim gave an overwhelming and passionate talk on the Trail of Tears. Jim’s ancestry is Cherokee and Scottish. His Cherokee name is Wounded Arrow which means Medicine Man. He is a professor of Physiology and Microbiology, a Herpetologist, Master instructor Lamb’s Marital Arts. He holds several degrees including: B.S, M.S., PhD and Honorary DSc.…
Doug Sweetland On January 28, the guest speaker at the SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club was Colonel Rodger Schuld. Colonel Schuld is the Commander of the 355th Mission Support Group at Davis Monthan Air Force Base. He has held this position since June of 2014. A civil engineer by education, Colonel Schuld is also a graduate…
Dick Kroese SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club speaker was Allison B. Howard, Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Arizona, also the Pride of Arizona and Pep Bands, is a conductor for the Wind Symphony, teaches various music education courses and the Marching Band Leadership course, she is also the chapter sponsor for Tau Beta…