ROTARY ROSTER

Robert Anderson, SM Sallie Hardy, PHF SM Matt Turpin, SM CPA Commercial Properties Brian Page, (1) SM Certified Public Accountant Tax Attorney Jack Arthur, PHF SM Tom Hayes, PHF SM Susan Page, SM John Vaughan, PHF SM Insurance Financial Services Professional Counseling Past Service

James Bass, SM Jody Henderson, PHF SM  Charlie Palmer, SM Aaron Webber, SM Funeral Director Accounting/Auditing Real Estate Development Condo Management

Michael Beedie, SM Mitzi Henley, (5) SM Roger Peadro, PHF SM RotY Charles West, PHF SM Government Administration Retail Shopping Center Pastor Investment Broker

Nitsi Bennett, (20) PHF RotY  Jeff Hooton, SM Mary Plummer, PHF SM Ken Williamson, PHF SM  www.fortwaltonrotary.org Non-Profit Administration Commercial Lending Real Estate Sales Retired Debbie Bodenstine, PHF SM RotY William Howard, PHF Lyndon Poff, PHF SM RotY Jean Woo, PHF SM October 23, 2013 Presidential Citation Award Winner – 20th Consecutive Year Issue 2,796 Economic Development Real Estate Paint & Body Shop Dentist

Jeffrey Bost Chris Johnson, PHF  Jan Pooley, (7) PHF SM RotY  Mike WrightReynolds, (1) PHF SM Banking CPA Retired Department Store Photography Board of Directors President: Dave Parisot Joseph Brewster, PHF SM Johnny Johnson, (41) PHF Charlie Potts, PHF SM  Jack Yeiser, PHF SM Roger Peadro Cable Television SM RotY   Jeweler Mortgage Broker Okaloosa County Commissioner Banking Frank Brutt, PHF SM Kathy Pritchard, PHF SM Russ Youngblood, PHF SM  Vice President: County Planning Cristie Kedroski, SM Commercial Banking Psychologist Kathy Pritchard Dave Parisot is serving his first term Foundation Development as Okaloosa County Commissioner for Tom Butcher Fred Pryor, PHF SM RotY  Secretary: Honorary Member Laura Kirby Utility Service-Gas Debbie Bodenstine District 2. Dave is a retired USAF aircraft Business Development maintenance and logistics officer and holds Kevin Cagle, SM Ted Rahe, (37) PHF SM  Office Machines Richard Kunkel, PHF SM Property Management Treasurer: a Master’s Degree in Business Administra- Education Charles West tion. Following his military career, Dave Gerry Chalker, (6) PHF SM  Dusty Ricketts, SM was also a small business owner in housing Pension Administration Chuck Landers, PHF SM News Media Past President: Certified Public Accountant Jan Pooley construction and retail sales prior to his full Jason Clark, SM Katie Sharon, SM retirement in 2004. He and his wife Chong Insurance Ross LaBlanc, SM Commercial Banking Certified Public Accountant Committee Chairs (Kim) reside in Shalimar and have a daugh- Andy Corbin, PHF SM RotY  Susan Shaw, PHF SM Membership: ter, two sons and four grandchildren. Electronics manufacturing Tony Leonard, PHF SM  Fund Raising Dave Macdonald Retail/Musical Instruments Not only is Dave a decorated 21-year George Dorris, PHF SM Eulice Shelley, PHF SM  PHF: Paul Harris Fellows Service Projects: veteran, he has also been very involved in Dentistry John Linn, PHF SM Moving & Storage SM: PH Sustaining Members the local community since 1997 in various Kitchens-Retail RotY: FWB Rotarian of the Year Aaron Webber J.T. Edwards, SM Natalie Simpson, SM  FWB Club Past President organiza-tions as a volunteer, to include the Landscaping Owner Ted Litschauer, SM Legislative  Other Club Past President Rotary Foundation: Shalimar Library and Children in Crisis, as Public Safety Jody Henderson well as the USO at Northwest Florida Re- Brian Ekedahl, SM Pete Smith, PHF SM  Social Services Tom Lowrey, PHF Property Appraiser Public Relations: gional Airport. Prior to becoming a county Stockbrocker Members in blue are recognized as commissioner, Dave participated in more Dan Empson Scott Smith, PHF SM  having perfect attendance as of the end of Michele Nicholson Honorary Member Jamey Mattern, PHF SM Chiropractor the previous year than 100 county commission meetings. Architect Members in yellow are on a leave of Club Administration: At the state level, Dave was selected by the First Amendment Foundation in 2010 as Cliff Ennis Whitney Smith, SM absence Katie Sharon one of 26 community activists throughout the State of Florida to be a charter member Business IT Management David Macdonald, SM PHF  Attorney of their Sunshine Brigade, an organization that promotes open government (Sunshine Shopping Center Manager Youth Service: Ralph Fallin, (32) PHF SM RotY  Allan Stearns, PHF SM  Don’t forget that you can make laws) and public access to government records. Dave is a graduate of the Florida Asso- Dairy Products Julie McNabb, SM Travel Agent Debbie Bodenstine up missed meetings at neighbor- Developmental Disabilities ciation of County’s (FAC) Certified County Commissioner program and is currently en- ing clubs. They include: William Foster, PHF SM RotY  Rick Stevens, PHF SM RotY  Sergeant at Arms: rolled in their Advanced County Commissioner program. In June 2012, he was elected Crestview: 12 p.m. Wednesday at Attorney Joe Meyer, SM Surge Suppression Systems Ryan’s Ross LeBlanc/Joe Meyer to FAC’s Board of Directors to represent the counties in Senate District 2. In June 2011 Retail/Computers Destin: 7:15 a.m. Tuesday at Ruth- Bob Fowner, PHF SM Randy Stokes, PHF SM  Dave received FAC’s prestigious Marlene Young Award for his work in testifying to vari- erford’s at Regatta Bay Scholarship, Inc.: Association Manager David O. Miller, (11) PHF SM Architecture DeFuniak Springs: 12 p.m. ous State Legislative Committees to preserve the counties’ Pretrial Services programs. Developmental Disabilities Matt Turpin Wednesday at McLain’s Family Steak- Tony Gilligan, PHF SM Kent Tinsley, SM In June 2012, he received the FAC President’s Award for promoting county issues and house Government Contractor John Morgan, PHF SM  Commercial Banking Rotary Reader: home-rule legislation. Mid-Bay: 7 a.m. Wednesday at Computer Engineer Bluewater Bay Golf Club Dusty Ricketts Over the past two years, Commissioner Parisot has been Okaloosa County’s repre- Ron Grissom, SM Herb Tinsley, PHF SM RotY  Navarre: 12 p.m. Thursday at Tus- Utilities Matthew Morgan, SM Savings & Loan Management sentative for the Natural Resource Damage Assessment early restoration program fol- can Grill at Hidden Creek Executive Secretary: Electrical Engineer Niceville: 12 p.m. Thursday at lowing the BP oil spill, worked with other counties in the Florida Panhandle in coordina- Haydon Grubbs, PHF SM Forrest Townsend, PHF SM RotY  Lorragenia Jackson Northwest Florida State College Education Dan Nelson, PHF SM Veterinarian [email protected] tion with the Florida Congressional Delegation to help formulate the RESTORE Act as Building K Restaurant/Fast Food it applies to Florida. South Walton: 7:30 a.m. Thurs- Chad Hamilton, PHF SM Alex Trum, PHF SM day at Embassy Suites Certified Public Accountant Michele Nicholson, SM Orthodontist Retired Communications Post Office Box 892, Fort Walton Beach, FL 32549 THE ROTARY READER THE ROTARY READER ‘Good Wife’ co-star Archie Panjabi partners with Rotary UPCOMING SPEAKERS Rotary News Oct. 30: Greg Thomas and Mike Owens, Fort Walton and Choctaw football coaches EVANSTON, Ill. — Emmy- Nov. 6: Andy Corbin, Technical Services Laboratory winning actress Archie Pan- Nov. 13: Jody Henderson, Rotary Foundation jabi, best known for her role Nov. 20: Mike Anderson, mayor of Fort Walton Beach as Kalinda on the hit series “,” will talk about her volunteer work in support of polio eradication during a special program co- TODAY IN HISTORY hosted by Rotary and North- On this day in 42 B.C., Marcus Junius Brutus, a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, commits western University’s Center for Global Health on Oct. 24 suicide after his defeat at the second battle of Philippi. – World Polio Day 2013 – in On this day in 1941, chief of the Soviet general staff, Georgi K. Zhukov, assumes command of Red Army operations to downtown Chicago. stop the German advance into the heart of Russia. The program, World Polio On this day in 1983, a suicide bomber drives a truck filled with 2,000 pounds of explosives into a U.S. Marine Corps Day: Making History, will in- barracks at the Beirut International Airport. The explosion killed 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers. clude remarks by Dr. Bruce Aylward, the world’s leading expert on polio eradication and assistant director-general for polio, emergencies and country collaboration at the World Health Organization; Dr. Robert Murphy, director of Northwestern University’s Center for TODAY IN LOCAL HISTORY Global Health; and U.S. Paralympian Dennis Ogbe, a polio survivor and ambassador for the United Nations Foundation’s Shot@Life program. On this day in 1996, several fires and a chemical spill kept firefighters busy throughout south Okaloosa The event will be streamed live to a global online audience at endpolionow.org from North- County and helped put into effect a relatively new plan that allowed county departments to travel north and western University’s John Hughes Auditorium, 303 E. Superior St., Chi-cago, beginning at 5:30 p.m. CST on Oct. 24. About 200 invited guests are expected to attend. south to assist other units. The program will include an overview of the progress of the Global Polio Eradication Ini- tiative, which Rotary co-launched in 1988; the challenges that remain in the corners of the developing world where the crippling virus persists, and a discussion of the ways private citizens, corporations, and non-profits can participate in the his-toric final push now under- ROTARIANS WITH RECENT BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES way to end polio once and for all. Due to the eradication initiative’s success in reaching the world’s children with the oral Tony Gilligan, birthday Oct. 22 polio vaccine, the disease today remains endemic to only three countries: Afghanistan, Pak- istan and Nigeria. Ogbe, the Paralympian, is originally from Nigeria, where he contracted polio at age 3. Panjabi is one of Rotary’s End Polio Now celebrity ambassadors. Last year, the British born actress helped Rotary volunteers immunize children in , her parents’ homeland, where she spent part of her childhood. Once considered the nation facing the most serious chal- lenges to eradication, India was removed from the polio-endemic list in January 2012. ROTARY’S FOUR-WAY TEST “Seeing India become polio-free is tremendous, and I am committed to making sure that no other child anywhere suffers from polio again,” Panjabi said in an interview published in Is it the TRUTH? the November issue of The Rotarian magazine. Is it FAIR to all concerned? “How fitting that we are holding this important program in Chicago, Rotary’s hometown,” said Dr. Robert S. Scott, MD, who chairs Rotary’s polio-eradication pro-gram. “Rotary be- Will it build GOODWILL and better FRIENDSHIP? gan the fight to end polio, and today – World Polio Day 2013 – we and our partners have never been closer to our goal of a polio-free world. Rotary invites everyone -- private citi- Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? zens, businesses, non-profits – to join us in this historic effort.”