Welcome from the President – Suzanne Mitchell
To My Fellow Members of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, I am honored and excited to serve as the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City’s President for 2024-25! First, I want to acknowledge the outstanding leadership and hard work our past Presidents and Boards have dedicated to our Club since its inception—one of the many […]
June 25, 2024 Rotary Inaugural
RSVP Required for the June 25, 2024 Inaugural – Deadline June 18 Rotary Club of Oklahoma City invites you to the 115th Inaugural of the 2024-2025 President Suzanne Mitchell and the Board of Directors and Officers Camp Trivera 2508 NE 50th St Oklahoma City, OK 73111 June 25, 2024, 6:00pm Dress: Glamping Chic No Tuesday Luncheon Meeting at St. […]
Family Roots
Family Roots by Vered Harris The last week of May I traveled to Bratislava, Slovakia on a “family roots” trip. At the time of this writing, I haven’t yet left Oklahoma. By the time this is sent out, I’ll be home. In between, I am going to see the city of my paternal grandmother’s birth […]
Michelle Coppedge – FAA Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center
Livestream – 11:55am 6-18-2024 Michelle Coppedge was named the Executive Director of the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City in April 2013. The Aeronautical Center is the centralized service and support facility for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Department of Transportation (DOT) and home to more than 6,300 Federal and contract employees, with […]
Interview with Rotary President Lesli Massad
Interview with Rotary President Lesli Massad I have enjoyed the assignment for a number of years of interviewing our current president for our Rotary newsletter. Here are President Lesli Massad’s responses. You will enjoy very much what she has to say!!! Emily Stratton What is your first memory of Rotary? My first […]
Dr. Kelly Williams, Chief Innovation Officer – The City of Oklahoma City
LiveStream 11:55am 6-11-2024 Dr. Kelly Williams joined The City of Oklahoma City as their first Chief Innovation Officer in April of 2023. In this role she helps solve problems and improve efficiency across the city. She began her career as Oklahoma City University’s Director for Institutional Research, where she supported data-informed decision making and strategic planning across […]
2023-2024 Perfect Attendance
As of June 4, 2024, these Rotarians have Perfect Attendance. They are to be commended for their efforts Harold Armstrong 50 Barney Semtner 47 Jim Daniel 43 Rick Vermillion 42 Bill Bowden 34 Jim Farha 34 Jeff Brown 31 Lou Gasbarra 30 Terri Cooper 27 Ross Plourde 25 Cliff Branan 24 Bud Oehlert 24 John […]
Golden Boy: Harold Armstrong Achieves 50 Years of Perfect Attendance
Golden Boy: Harold Armstrong Achieves 50 Years of Perfect Attendance by Ted Streuli On June 4, 1974, Richard Nixon was still president, although Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein published “All the President’s Men” that month, and Nixon wasn’t president much longer. That same month, singer Alanis Morisette was born in Canada, shortstop Derek Jeter was […]
Harold Hamm – “The Game Changer”
Livestream 11:55am 6-4-2024 Harold Hamm founded Continental Resources in 1967 and is Chairman of the Board of Directors. Growing up in rural Oklahoma, Mr. Hamm went to work in the oil fields as a teenager and established Continental Resources at the age of 21. He built a grassroots startup into a Top-10 oil producer and […]
2024-2025 Committee Selections
Fellow Club 29 Rotarians: We are in full swing with a lovely spring of 2024 and believe it or not, soon to follow will be the start of 2024-25 Rotary year. As the third largest club in the world, Club 29 offers so many benefits that result from the wide-ranging talents and interests of our […]