To Shirley, our thanks

To Shirley, our thanks by Ted Streuli Club 29 isn’t the sort of Rotary club that favors cargo shorts and flip-flops. Meetings aren’t held in a brewery. Meals don’t come in white cardboard boxes. The Oklahoma City Rotary Club is given more to pinstriped suits, linen tablecloths and china. The club maintains it’s own standard, […]

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2019-20 Program Schedule

Meeting Dates Speaker Chair of the Day Video Makeup 1st Quarter 7/2/2019 Happy Independence Day – No Makeup Required 7/9/2019 Bill Moore- 50th Anniversary of the Moon Walk Rick Moore Video Makeup 7/16/2019 Mikeal Clayton – Boeing: Growth of the Aerospace Industry Phil Busey Video Makeup 7/23/2019 Mike Knopp – What’s New at the Boathouse […]

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Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell

Matt Pinnell was elected as the 17th Lieutenant Governor of the State of Oklahoma on November 6th, 2018.  Lt. Governor Pinnell serves as Secretary of Tourism and Branding on Governor Kevin Stitt’s cabinet. Pinnell also runs a small business with his wife, Lisa, an entrepreneur and inventor. Pinnell also currently serves on the Department of Commerce executive committee, leading […]

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Interview – President Tom Phillips

Interview with Rotary President Tom Phillips  By Emily Stratton Recently, I had the privilege of sitting down with Tom to talk about his year as president of our Rotary Club. In a fun and interesting conversation, he responded thoughtfully to my various questions:       Looking back over your year as president, do you […]

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Devon Energy

David Harris is senior vice president of exploration and production. Harris is responsible for mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, as well as land and environment, health and safety. He previously served as treasurer and vice president of corporate finance and as associate general counsel. Harris has been with Devon since 2007. Prior to joining Devon, he was […]

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D-Day Saved Rotary, too!

D-Day saved Rotary, too!   By Ted Streuli Vitali is in most ways a typical 21-year-old hockey player. He spends his time playing video games, hanging out with his friends and trying to meet 21-year-old girls. Especially the ones who happen to like hockey. Vitali — Vito, as we call him — grew up in […]

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Framework for Equitable Community Redevelopment

Framework for Equitable Community Redevelopment Bart Binning, Ed. D.   It is suggested that we are seeing a paradigm shift in the way redevelopment of properties in low income, high unemployment areas that need public financing.  To accommodate these changes, we are proposing that re-development projects initially develop a micro-community prospectus that will act as […]

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Jeff Dixon – Provision Concepts

“Zero -$100 Million” Jeff Dixon, co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of Provision Concepts, is the speaker on June 4th. Starting at zero in co-founder Aaron Soward’s garage, they are headed for a forward looking $25 million dollar company in 2020.  Jeff will discuss what’s made him successful, what he’d do differently, and how he’s going […]

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New Executive Director – Megan Law

Work by our club’s search committee to name the successor to Executive Administrator, Shirley Kirschner, has been completed and president Tom Phillips will introduce Megan Law, our new executive director at the Tuesday meeting, June 4. Megan Law, is a committed and omnipresent Rotary leader. She was introduced to Rotary hardly a decade ago as […]

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A D-Day 75th Anniversary Story

The story behind the C-47 transport aircraft manufactured in OK and used during D-Day in WW II. Commemoration of the 75th  anniversary of D-Day (June 6)   Dan Provo holds a Masters Degree in Anthropology and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Missouri – Columbia and is currently Director of the Oklahoma History Center and Museum […]

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