The Funriser Aug 16, 2021 Meetings 6:45 A.M

The Funriser Aug 16, 2021 Meetings 6:45 a.m. Wednesdays – Marriott Southern Hills, 71st/Lewis “Serve to Change Lives”

Meeting at the Marriott Southern This Week’s Program & RoD Hills, but… Congressman Kevin Hern. RoD: Kurt Glassco Our meetings are in hybrid format - both in person and on Zoom. Masks will be required except Speaker Profile while you are eating. Those who have not Congressman Kevin Hern, US Representative received a vaccine are asked to attend via st ZOOM only. The buffet will be $15, and if you from Oklahoma’s 1 District, have coffee/juice only it is $5 per person. was born on an Air Force Base, gaining an early appreciation for the sacrifices Zoom, Zoom, Zoom! that military families make. In Via Internet: high school, Kevin earned an https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89035476180?pwd=Ml Architectural Drafting RGZFZ1RDZTUzR3VjBrcU42cC9Ddz09 Certificate at a Career Technology school, which Or Phone in: (346) 248-7799 he used to work and pay for his Engineering Either way, Meeting ID: 890 3547 6180 degree. Later in life, he earned his MBA. Passcode: 359431 He went on to work as an Aerospace Engineer for Rockwell. Then he began saving to purchase Special Note from Sunrise his first McDonald’s Restaurant by starting and operating small business ventures: writing Foundation President Barney T computer programs to automate tasks for Sunrise Rotary Family - businesses, real estate, and even hog farming. Based upon Sunrise Foundation Board member In 1997, Kevin literally sold the hog farm to buy responses, we will hold our monthly meetings his first McDonald’s restaurant in North Little Rock, via Zoom on the 3rd Thursday of each month Arkansas. In 1999, he purchased two McDonald’s at 6:30 p.m. We plan to use Zoom meetings at restaurants in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He grew that least until the current spike in positive Covid cases organization over the next decade; eventually subsides. owning 24 McDonald’s restaurants that employed Going forward, we will depend on our Sunrise hundreds of people in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area. medical professionals to help us determine when Kevin has worked across every aisle by serving in- person meetings might be safe for all in various leadership positions within the concerned. McDonald’s system – what he dubs the most Details for how to access our Zoom meetings grassroots business in the world. He served 13 are pending. We plan to let Sunrisers know via a years on the National Leadership Team that BLAST as soon we have all the details. represented all of the 3,500+ U.S. Franchisees, If you have questions, please contact Barney serving for 8 years as the Ombudsman and 5 Tonquest, Foundation Prez. - 918-740-8885 years as the Chairman of the Systems Economic or [email protected]. Team. Thank you for your patience and understanding. In addition to McDonald’s, Kevin has been a very successful entrepreneur in the areas of banking, manufacturing, real estate development, multiple technology companies, and sports Sep 8: Stephanie Haddock, Executive Direct of publishing. Joy in the Cause. RoD: Janet Cheek He uses this business acumen to help aspiring entrepreneurs create new businesses, so they can Upcoming Events pursue their American Dream. ● Any Day! MSNI is inundated with donations Kevin Hern was sworn into Congress on that need to be inventoried and boxed. It is not November 13th, 2018 serving the remainder of hard work, but VJ Lively needs help. Call him any Congressman Jim Bridenstine’s term. Kevin and weekday to volunteer. And consider bringing his wife Tammy live in Tulsa and have three family and friends. It’s nice to have some people children. They are members at the Church at with you to help pass the time. Battle Creek. ● Third Saturday of Every Month: Jenks Food Bank and Tulsa Hills Youth Ranch We are Rotarian of the Day working on switching our standing dates so that Kurt Glassco was born in these opportunities do not fall on the same day. Seminole, Oklahoma. He is We will let you know when new dates are married to Kathleen Pierce confirmed. For now, plan on spending your 3rd Glassco, a Certified Public Saturday in August at one of these locations! Accountant and Business ● September 17: The 2019-2020 Rotary District Administrator of First United 6110 Foundation Banquet honoring Past Methodist Church of Broken District Governor Ed Hardesty and his wife, Arrow and they have two Jeanette, will be held on Friday, September 17, daughters, Molly, age 16, and 2021, at the Inn of the Ozarks in Eureka Jennifer Ann, age 12. Springs. Keynote speaker for the evening is A graduate of Nathan Hale High School, Kurt past Rotary International President John received his B.S. from Oklahoma State University Germ. Register in DACdb calendar! and his J.D. from the University of Tulsa. ● Sponsorships and Table Captains Needed After graduating from law school he became an Enter Drawing for 2-room and 2-Nights in Assistant District Attorney in Tulsa County. In Eureka 1984 Kurt was appointed Counsel to the Governor You will be treated to an outstanding meal, enjoy and served as Governor George Nigh's legal the humor of PRI President John Germ and help counsel until 1986. Kurt was the Democratic us honor Ed and Jeanette Hardesty as well as nominee for United States Congress for the 1st Rotarians and Clubs who have achieved great District Oklahoma in 1988 and 1990. success by supporting our Rotary Foundation. Upon leaving government service he has been Without added support from sponsorships, we engaged in the general practice of law and is a won’t be able to cover all the added expenses partner in the firm of McCollam & Glassco, P.A. which come with this type of Banquet. We offer primarily representing individuals and small three levels of Sponsorship: Gold receives 8- businesses, in both civil and criminal matters as tickets for $800; Silver receives 4-tickets for $400; well as a significant family law practice. Bronze receives 2-tickets for $200; plus, your Kurt has served United Methodist Church in name listed in our program. Single tickets are many capacities from 1977 to 2005. Since 2002, offered for $75 each. Kurt has served as the Lay Supply Pastor to Table Captains are the catalysts who bring 8- Harvard Avenue United Methodist Church. He has people together to sit at a specific table with a tent served on the Board of Directors of the Tulsa card plus raise $800 for the Foundation Banquet. County Bar Association and the Professional Table Captains will be identified in our program. Responsibility Committee of the Oklahoma Bar In order to promote Sponsorships and Table Association. Kurt's community service includes Captains your name will be entered into a drawing Sunrise Rotary Club, Handicapped Opportunity for not one but two rooms for two nights in Workshop of Tulsa, American Theater Company, beautiful Eureka Springs at the Best Western Inn City of Tulsa Judicial Nominating Committee and of the Ozarks. Individuals usually travel with two The Metropolitan Tulsa Urban League. couples; thus, two rooms and two nights. A Bronze Sponsor receive 2-tickets; Silver receives Future Programs 4-tickets; Gold receives 8-tickets and Table Aug 25: Greg Conway, CEO, Tulsa Boys Home Captains receive 8-tickets for the drawing. The RoD: Mark Welty Christmas Lighting in Eureka Springs is grand and Sep 1: Alex London, Road Trip – Tulsa Air & beautiful. Will you be the winner of this get-away Space Museum. RoD: Barbara Smallwood weekend? Registration is open on the calendar of DACdb. If provide updates from Rotary International as well you need help with registration, please feel free to as providing information about what clubs are call me (John Williams) direct, or Cole doing in our District. Adamson. If you, or your club, inform me that you Register in advance for this meeting: desire a Table, I will hold one for you until you https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYocuy assemble your table guests. Deadline for ticket gqTsoGNX-9apELiE21WfM-krP67eb sales is close of business on Friday, September ● Sep 17: Fifth Annual Rotary Foundation 10, 2021. Rooms at Best Western Inn of the Banquet: The 2019-2020 Rotary District 6110 Ozarks is (479) 253-9768. Foundation Banquet honoring Past District Come help us to celebrate the achievements of Governor Ed Hardesty and his wife, Jeanette will new Major Donors, Bequest Society and Paul be held on Friday, September 17, 2021, at the Inn Harris Fellow Society Members. Will your club be of the Ozarks in Eureka Springs. Register through recognized as a Star Club? Come join us. DACdb. ● September 18: District Conference. Governor ● Sep 18: 2021-2022 District Conference at Inn Kevin Merrill and especially his wife Lisa have of the Ozarks. Registration will be available soon been working hard on this year's IN-PERSON through DACdb. District Conference. It is set for Saturday, ● October 24th - World Polio Day District Event September 18 at the Best Western Inn of the Join us in Putt Putt for Polio 2021! Challenge your Ozarks in Eureka Springs. For under $100 (it's friends, family, and fellow club members to a only $95!!) you will have a day chock-full of what game of Putt Putt. Be creative on how you can use Rotarians have asked for: sharing ideas of what this fun event for bringing awareness to Rotary’s works! Three meals are included in the price also. vital role in almost completely eradicating polio! Also don’t forget that registration is still open for Use it also to raise money for your clubs Polio the Foundation Banquet. donation this year. T-shirts have been designed ● November 4: (Thurs) Sunrise Fundraiser (or for this effort and can be purchased from Paul should that be "Funraiser") Appetizers for Autism Wise & his company mentioned below. We would is our 2021 fundraiser. The Event Chair is Megan love for clubs to order these shirts from Paul for Korn. There are twelve (12) committees and each their members and any other people who would already has a Chairperson. We need 3 members like them and sell them for $20.00 and donate the on each committee. That means that there is a difference from what they cost you to Polio Plus. place for every club member and two places for some. I signup sheet with the list of committees Appetizers for Autism and their tasks is attached. Please save this date! There are still positions and sign up for at least one committee. You can that need to be filled! sign up by sending an email to Cole Adamson at Thursday, November 4 is [email protected] not that far away. Signup sheets for the committees Family of Rotary are being circulated at every meeting. They have We were happy to confirm Herb and Carol Orr as also been attached to previous Funrisers, which honorary members last week! are available on DACdb. We need for every Sunriser to be involved to make this a success. If District Calendar & News everyone does a little bit, then no one will have to ● First and Third Mondays: District Leadership do a lot. Every everyone does a little bit, then our Team Meetings/Reports: These are recurring chances of a successful fundraiser go way up. If meetings that you can find on the handy-dandy everyone does a little bit, then undoing the District Calendar in DACdb. The next meeting is setbacks of the COVID-19 year will largely be TODAY!!!! Here is the registration link and be erased. Sign up for your little bit! You can sign up sure to check that calendar for links to register for by sending an email to Cole Adamson at future meetings: [email protected] https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAocui Happy Bucks rqjIpH91pBR67oM4L0ReInpIsr3x ● Joy Ondracek had herself a good time in Florida ● August 19: The Jenks club will be hosting a and Fred flew off early on Tuesday, August 10 and social event from 5:30 – 7:00 PM at Got Wood is now hiking the Sierras Axe Throwing Co., 103 E Main St., Jenks, OK ● Barbara Smallwood received a Rotary pin that 74037 she – in her illustrious years as a Rotarian - had ● September 2: Join us for the District 6110 never seen before. On it is a beautiful saying. Happy Hour with DG Kevin Merrill. DG Kevin will Hey Barbara, how about a picture for the next AttStats as of Aug 13 Funriser? Note: Wild Cards are not utilized until needed for monthly Club Stats to 6110 or EOY. Many of us What Else You Missed Last Week have CoD on file yet to be used. During the District Governor’s visit we asked if Adamson (100), Adesokan LoA (0), Archibald (100), there is anything we can do as a club or district to Benson (100), Bibby (100), Blackburn (83), Bowen get MSNI funded again. Kevin was receptive to (100), Care (100), Cheek (100), Coffman (67), Conner the idea and said that “as a governor it’s amazing (100), Cyrus (88), Folly (17), Francis (67), the stories you are told and then you see the Freeman (67), Freese (33), Garrett (100), Gaudet (83), reality.” He’s very passionate about making Glassco (50), Grogg (83), Henrichs (17), Holder (100), positive changes in the District, but he can’t Korn (83), Lawson (100), Leithner (67), Lively (100), promise 6110 will make a financial commitment to London (67), Lowe (84), McCollum (100), McGhay (83), sustaining the operation. He did say he’s listened Mikes (50), Milburn J LoA (100), Miller G (50), Miller T to them talk about working collectively in the Tulsa (100), O’Hara (100), Ondracek (100), Ortega (83), Orvis area, which is why he is urging for Tulsa area (100), Poole (100), Roberts (67), Smallwood (100), clubs to perhaps undergo a visioning process Sprague (100), Taylor C (17), Taylor E (83), focused on a specific project. Kevin is going to get Thyvelikaketh (67), Tonquest E (100), Tonquest B a curriculum put together and he suggests that (100), Wasson (100), Welty (100), Williams LoA (0). possibly there is a way through that initiative to get MSNI funded.. 2021-22 Sunrise Club Board Pot of Gold Members The Funriser Editor did not have eyes on the pot President: Bill Bowen Vice Pres: Martha Lowe of gold because he attended via Zoom last week. Past President: Barbara Smallwood We don’t know who the unlucky contestant was, Secretary: Bill Lawson Treasurer: Mike Bibby but we do know we got yet another card out of the deck. Your odds will only keep getting better from Sergeant-at-Arms: David McCollum Dir, Club Service: Megan Korn here and the potential reward will only become Dir, Community Service: Janet Cheek more and more lucrative. Get into the fun! Dir, Vocational Service: Martha Lowe Dir, Int’l Service: Gifty Benson and Your Newsletter (contact Komi Folly Dir, Youth Service: Laura Garrett [email protected]) Other Club Appointees: For your convenience, past issues of the Funriser RI Foundation Chair Linda Ortega are posted on DACdb. Webmaster Carolyn McGhay Your Funriser editor did a cursory search to see Secretary Attendance Kit Sprague where these back files were stored and failed to Membership: Jessy Poole Funriser Editor: Jessy Poole find them. He is offering to pay the cost of Board Meetings: (unless chg notified) food/coffee for any NEW MEMBER (inducted 2ndTue ea month, 6P, Marriott & virtual since 1/1/2020) who can track down the files in DACdb and share the link with him so it can be included in the next newsletter. If you have pictures from our MSNI day on July 31 please send them Jessy’s way. 2021-22 Sunrise Foundation Board Members President: Barney Tonquest Help Needed Vice President: David Francis The Funriser editor is taking a trip the weekend of Secretary: Don Wasson August 20 and would appreciate it if someone Treasurer: Joy Ondracek would fill in and put together the issue for August Past President: Andy Leithner Board Member: Mark Welty 23. Get in touch with Kit and Jessy if you’re Club Liaison: Matha Lowe interested. Board Meetings: (unless change notified) Birthdays & Anniversaries This Week Virtual via ZOOM 3rd Thurs ea month, 6:30P Birthdays: Cole (8/17); Evan (8/17) Tulsa Sunrise Rotary Foundation, Inc. Anniversaries: None of either the marriage or PO Box 701391 Rotary type this week. Tulsa, OK 74170-1391

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