Barney Semtner – Reflections

Being a Rotarian for over 38 years, I have seen some really terrific programs. We have had Governors, Senators and US Cabinet Secretaries speak to Club 29 over the years. We have had great entrepreneurs speak about the businesses they created. We have seen military leaders who serve or served their country heroically. Many religious […]

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Gary Peluso-Verdend Phillips Theological Seminary

  Gary Peluso-Verdend is the President and Associate Professor of Practical Theology at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, OK, an ecumenical seminary affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He previously served at Phillips in several roles. For five years, he was the director of church relations at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL. […]

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Natalie Shirley

Natalie Shirley concurrently serves as president of Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City and as Oklahoma Secretary of Education and Workforce Development. Shirley was hired in May 2011 as the first female president in the OSU system. In January 2015, Shirley was appointed by Governor Mary Fallin to serve in her Cabinet as Secretary of Education and […]

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Chuck Wiggin

  Chuck Wiggin has managed the design, development, construction, leasing, sale, acquisition, financing and operation of many large commercial real estate projects, predominantly in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Boston. He founded Wiggin Properties in 1981 and serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Wiggin Properties began as a developer of office buildings. By the mid-1980s it was an […]

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Dr. Randy Thompson

Born in the Washington, D.C. Suburbs of Maryland, Randy received the Bachelor, Master and Doctors degree in Music from the University of Maryland on scholarship and full fellowship. He became professor of music at the College of Charleston in South Carolina in 1974 where he headed the instrumental music division. While in Charleston he was […]

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Clytie Bunyan

  Clytie Bunyan joined The Oklahoman in 1988 as a Metro desk reporter.  She later moved to the Business desk to cover real estate and presided over extensive coverage in the 1990s about the then-uncertain future of the Skirvin Hotel.  She also has covered small business and the retail beats. She is the director of business […]

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Good Manners – Leonard Sullivan

Rotary Reflections Leonard Sullivan “GOOD MANNERS” Why are good manners, etiquette, and common courtesy disappearing from our society? My mother called these “proper upbringing” and most people with “proper upbringing” exhibited these traits. I have encouraged my grandsons to stand when an adult enters the room. How often do you see adults and young people […]

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A Life Well Lived – Susan McVey

Rotary Reflections “A Life Well Lived” In April, we celebrated my father-in-law Bill King’s 90th birthday. Born on a ranch between Ft. Worth and Wichita Falls Bill lived through the Depression, serving in the infantry in World War II with one hundred days in combat in George Patton’s Third Army, has been married three times, […]

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R. Michael Siatkowski, MD and Lauren Branch

R. Michael Siatkowski, MD is the David W. Parke II, MD Professor of Ophthalmology and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs at the University of Oklahoma/Dean McGee Eye Institute, where he also serves as Residency Program Director. His clinical focus is in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus, as well as neuro-ophthalmology, with particular interest in eye movement […]

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President’s Committees Descriptions & Time Commitments

PRESIDENT GROUP   OnePledge / Annual Project Time Commitment: Active committee July  – December including regular meetings and communication between meetings. Solicit special needs or projects that meet the objectives of Rotary. Selection of annual project through evaluation of letters of intent and grant scoring. Organize a timeline of club communications and materials for solicitation/fundraising […]

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