The Metro Memo VOLUME 27-41 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR THE COLUMBIA METRO ROTARY CLUB APRIL 22, 2020 Meeting conducted via Zoom videoconferencing ROTARY MONITORS THE Members with Guests CORONAVIRUS CRISIS Member Guest Rotarians are people of action. Around Sarah Read ...................... Chris Horn the world, members are responding to A total of 36 members and guests the impact of the global COVID-19 crisis. participated in today’s online Updates and recommendations are meeting. being closely monitored from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to ensure the safest and most appropriate actions are taken by and for our members and the communities they serve. Consider giving to the Rotary Disaster Response Fund to help Rotary clubs lead disaster recovery efforts, including projects related to COVID-19. https://my.rotary.org/en/disaster- Matt Robe, Service Chair for response-fund Columbia Evening Rotary, signed up a few months ago to run a 50k race this Saturday, but of course Next week . it was canceled. He has decided to do it anyway to raise money for the Columbia Food Bank as they have an extraordinarily high demand right now. He is going to extend it to 59K because he is turning 59 years old. A link has been set up via SignUpGenius (https://www.signupgenius.com/ go/8050e4dafa62daa8-matts) On April 24, Rebecca Knipp will which allows people to pledge an celebrate one year as a Metro amount if they so desire. Pledges Rotarian! can be made for a flat amount or per kilometer. Rob Bartel has recently been moved to Landmark Hospital. Sara Parker Pauley Please keep Rob and his family in Director your thoughts and prayers as he Missouri Department of Conservation continues his recovery. COLUMBIA METRO ROTARY CLUB www.columbiametrorotary.org CHARTERED JUNE 10, 1993 The Metro Memo VOLUME 27-41 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR THE COLUMBIA METRO ROTARY CLUB APRIL 22, 2020 Gary Link Gary Link is the Athletic Director for Father Tolton Catholic High School. He also teaches Intro to Business and Personal Finance for the school, and he serves as an assistant on the boys’ basketball team. Originally from St. Louis, he graduated from Lindbergh High School and then attended the University of Missouri. He played for Coach Norm Stewart from 1970-1974, and he was a member of the first MU basketball teams to win 20 or more games in a season in two consecutive years. th After college, Gary was the 99 player selected in the NBA draft. He was being chosen by the Buffalo Braves, and that team is known today as the Los Angeles Clippers. Note: The first player selected in that year’s draft was a 6-11 center from UCLA named Bill Walton. Gary’s family owned a construction business, and he chose to stay and work with his family rather than going to Buffalo. He worked in that business for 26 years. After his father died, the family sold the business. Gary next worked for the University of Missouri in various roles. He worked for the Tiger Scholarship Fund, he was the special assistant to the Athletic Director, and he served as Mizzou basketball games analyst from 1996-2017. Gary shared stories from his time playing for legendary MU Coach Norm Stewart. He spoke about playing in Brewer Fieldhouse where the team always kept a hammer on the bench to nail down loose boards on the court. He also confirmed the well-known adage that Coach Stewart never spen t a dime in the state of Kansas during his tenure. When asked, he shared that his top five MU men’s basketball players of all time were Derrick Chievous, Steve Stipanovich, Jon Sunvold, John Brown and Anthony Peeler. COLUMBIA METRO ROTARY CLUB www.columbiametrorotary.org CHARTERED JUNE 10, 1993 .