Upxoming Speakers at Clayton Ladue Rotary in St. Louis, Missouri

Nov 23 - Andy Shaelong.
Introduced by Judy
Cochran.

Nov 30 - J. Robert Green,
40 years of drawings and
photography of J. Robert
Green.

Dec 7 - Christmas Party.

Dec 14- Club Assembly
followed by Prof Tatiana.
Introduced by Judy
Cochran.

Dec 21 - Salvation Army

Dec 28 - Ms. Kairong Tian,
Missouri Falun Dafa
Association.

Jan 4 - Bob Marx, the
Meaning of
Communication is the
Response you Get.

Jan 11 - Judith Cochran,
Democracy in the Middle
East

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September - November Speakers - Clayton Ladue Rotary

Sep 7 - Randy McDonnell

will speak about his four

patented aerospace

inventions. Introduced by

Curt Ittner.

Sep 14 - Pat Wolff MD will

speak about Meds and

Food for Kids in Haiti.

Introduced by Tonia

Shelton.

Sep 21 - John Kemper,

PGAV Destinations.

Introduced by Bill Stewart.

Sep 28 - Ray Friem, COO

Transit Services for Metro.

Oct 5 - Carolyn Green will

talk about architect

William B. Ittner.

Introduced by Curt Ittner.

Oct 12 - Mr. Gerry and Dr.

Ira Friedman will discuss

the Yantalo Foundation in

Peru.

Oct 19 - Juliane Iwersen-

Niemann, EVP at Smith,

Moore and Co. Introduced

by Dan Feichtner.

Oct 26 - Dr. Micah Hobbs,

Orthopaedic Associates.

Nov 2 - Sister Stephanie

Turck, the Room at the
Inn.

July - August Speakers, Clayton Ladue Rotary

Jul 20 - Lisa Baron from

Memory Care Home

Solutions.

Jul 27 - Visoning Session

Results Presentation.

Introduced by C.

McCloskey.

Aug 3 - Eric Park, District

Governor. Introduced byChuck McCloskey.

August 10 - Tom Barden,

Danforth Plant Science

Center.

Aug 24 - Joel K. Emery, Exe

Director at Circus Flora.

Aug 31 - Randy Adams,

author of Speaking of

Rotary.

2011-2012 Clayton Ladue Rotary Officers and Board of Directors

President

Chuck McCloskey

President-Elect

Tim Durbin

Vice President

Joan Bradford

Secretary

Dan Feichtner

Treasurer

Richard Mancuso

Assistant Treasurer

Travis Liebig

Sergeant-at-Arms

Kirk Stange

Corporal-at-Arms

Frank Curtis

Editor

Yao Shi

Ex-Officio

Martin L. Lindsey III

Board of Directors

Terry Baer

Crystal Chittenden

Scott Dieckgraefe

Curt Ittner

Robert Staniforth

Jeannine Stuart

July 13 Speaker at Clayton Ladue Rotary - Rachel Crowe

Rachel Crowe, MSW, Family Empowerment

Director

St. Louis Crisis Nursery

The SAINT LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY (SLCN) is an

independent, not-for-profit agency funded by

donations and committed to preventing child

abuse and neglect by providing short-term,

emergency shelter for children, birth through

age 12, whose families are faced with

emergencies or who are in crisis.
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July 6 Speaker at Clayton Ladue Rotary - Joyce Jonston

Joyce Jonston

National Alliance on Mental Illness

Joyce Johnston has been part of NAMI-St.Louis

since 1994, when she began receiving help for

her daughter who had been recently diagnosed

with a brain disorder. Joyce is a former member

of the NAMI-St. Louis Board of Directors and is

currently director of Programs and Accounting.

Sheis a peer-to-peer mentor and a state trainer.
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John Kuhn - Speaker June 22, 2011

John Kuhn

River City Rascals

The 2011 campaign marks the 13th season for

the River City Rascals (Frontier League) and

20th season for new Team President, John

Kuhn, in professional baseball.

Prior to joining the Rascals as Team President,

John served as President of the Sioux Falls

Canaries (American Association) from

September, 2004 through December, 2009.

His previous Frontier League experience comes

as the former President / General Manager /

Minority Partner of the London Werewolves

and Kalamazoo Kodiaks. Kuhn earned a start in

professional baseball with the Fort Myers Sun

Sox of the Senior Professional Baseball

Association.

Sandy Raffert & Nate Harms - Speaker on June 8, 2011

Therapeutic Horsemanship (TH) has provided

award-winning equestrian therapy programs for

people with disabilities in St. Louis, St. Charles,

Lincoln County and surrounding areas since

1975. As a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization,

TH is located in St. Charles County and is

nationally accredited by the North American

Riding for the Handicapped Association

(NARHA). More than two-thirds of TH

operating revenue comes from contributions,

gifts, grants and sponsored events.

Ranked as one of the top therapeutic riding

Sandy Rafferty & Nate Harms

Therapeutic Horsemanship

Kirk Stange - Clayton Ladue Rotary Speaker on June 15, 2011

Kirk Stange is a memebr and manager at Stange Law Firm, LLC.  Stange Law Firm is a family law firm with offices in St. Louis, St. Charles and Jefferson County, Missouri.

Mr. Stange is to speak to rotary about business and organizational internet marketing, including social networking. 

Mr. Stange's firm webpage is located at: http://www.stangelawfirm.com/.

Mr. Bert Walker - Speaker June 1, 2011

Mr. Bert Walker

St. Louis County Merger

George Herbert “Bert” Walker III served as U.S.

ambassador to Hungary from 2003 to 2006.

Walker is chairman emeritus of Stifel Financial

Corp. From 1978 until 1992, he served as

president and CEO of Stifel Financial and Stifel,

Nicolaus & Co. He served as chairman from

1982 to 2001.

A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law

School, he also has received honorary degrees

from Webster University and Harris-Stowe State
Unversity.

Walker has served on the board of the Midwest

Stock Exchange (now the Chicago Stock

Exchange), the Regional Firms Advisory

Committee of the New York Stock Exchange and

the Executive Committee of the Securities

Industry Association.

Webster University has named its business

school the George Herbert Walker School of

Business and Technology.

Mr. Marc Walsby - Speaker on May 25, 2011

Mr. Marc Walsby

Enterprise Holdings

Marc's position is Director of Business Rental,

which is responsible for customizing and

designing corporate agreements so that

companies can rent cars from Enterprise Rent-ACar

or National Car Rental for Business.

Marc has been with the company 15

years...moved here 4+ years ago from Los

Angeles.

This Week's Speaker - Dr. Roderick Jones and Mr. Alan Freeman - President and CEO of Grace Hill Settlement House

Grace Hill is comprised of sister agencies, Grace

Hill Neighborhood Health Centers, Inc. (GHNHC)

and Grace Hill Settlement House (GHSH). Each is

controlled by a separate governing body. Grace

Hill Settlement House was founded in 1903 by

the Episcopal Diocese to help immigrant

families "settle into their new neighborhood"

on the near north side of St. Louis. Now it

serves neighborhoods throughout the City of St.

Louis and St. Charles County with its MORE

system.

Grace Hill Neighborhood Health Centers began

in 1906 with a small community health and

pharmaceutical service. Now it operates five

Health Centers and a community health

program in the city.

Today, Grace Hill serves neighborhoods

throughout the St. Louis region with a

combined population in excess of 100,000

people.
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This Week's Speaker - Lynsey Hoges & Tiffany Garcia - Clayton Ladue Rotary

The Mission Continues, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit

organization, was founded in 2007 after CEO

Eric Greitens returned home from service in

Iraq as a Navy SEAL. Upon his return, Eric visited

with wounded Marines at Bethesda Naval

Hospital in Maryland. Without exception, each

Marine expressed an unwavering desire to

continue serving his country, even if he could

no longer do so in the military. One young

Marine even said this: “I lost my legs – that is

all. I did not lose my desire to serve, or my pride

in being an American.” Inspired, Eric used his

own combat pay and two friends pitched in

their military disability checks to found The
Mission Continues.
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This Week's Speaker - Suzan Bland, Shriners Hospital for Children St. Louis - Clayton Ladue Rotary

Ms. Suzan Bland is a public relations specialist at Shriners

Hospitals for Children-St. Louis and a former patient at the St.

Louis hospital.
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This Week's Speaker at Clayton Ladue Rotary - Bill Eastman - Life Skills

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This Week's Speaker - Carol Shepley - Clayton Ladue Rotary

Carol Shepley-Movers and Shakers, Scalawags

and Suffragettes:

Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery. This history of

Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis is told through the stories

of some of the 87,000 people who are buried there. Shepley’s

guidebook to St. Louis’s notable residents is organized into

sections, such as artists, fur traders, and Civil War generals,

and features biographies of William Clark, James Buchanan

Eads, Susan Blow, and Adolphus Busch, not to mention some

of even more notorious backgrounds. For example, the book

delves into the stories of lesser-known scalawags, such as

Alfred H. Plant,who scandalized his family on December 20,

1889, when he married Mollie Murphy, a local prostitute. The

next day his relatives had him committed to St. Vincent’s Insane

Asylum, where he lived until his death at 72. He is buried in the family

plot at Bellefontaine, and his bride rests eternally a short distance

away. Cemetery records and interviews with such insiders as

the cemetery’s superintendent and gatekeeper inform the

research. The contributions and controversies that make up

St. Louis history are revealed, and the architecture and

landscape of the cemetery are celebrated as significant to the

region.

CAROL FERRING SHEPLEY lives in St. Louis and has written for

Money Magazine, Time, and Harper’s Bazaar. She is a former

art critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and is an adjunct

professor of art history at Maryville University.

This Week's Speaker at Clayton Ladue Rotary - Judy Cochran - Crisis in the Middle East

The Middle East is where the U.S. now wages two wars in
order to acquire oil and stability. The U.S. is also concerned
that the seventeen countries making up the region will be
taken over by Muslim fundamentalists and become a training
ground for terrorists who will target the U.S. and have
another 9/11. These are the perspectives presented by media
pundits and politicians. Dr. Cochran will provide a different
perspective on why the Middle East is exploding in revolts,
revolutions and anti-U.S.protests.
Dr. Cochran holds the E. Desmond Lee Endowed
Professorship of Education at the University of Missouri-St.
Louis. Her experience in the Middle East has resulted in her
selection as Woman Scholar on the Middle East by the Middle
East Studies Association and awards as a Visiting Scholar to

Middle East Studies Centers at the University of Arizona and
the University of Texas. She received two Fulbright
scholarships to Egypt and Turkey and served on the National
Fulbright Board as President and board member. Fifteen of
her 35 publications are concerned with the Middle East
including Educational Roots of Political Crisis in Egypt (2008)
and the forthcoming Democracy in the Middle East; The
Impact of Religion and Education. As a Professor at the
University of Missouri-St. Louis, Dr. Cochran teaches
'Contemporary History of the Middle East" for the Honors
College, "Women in the Middle East" for the History
Department and education courses.
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This Week's Speaker at Clayton Ladue Rotary - Rep. Jake Zimmerman Dem. Canidate for St. Louis County Assessor

Rep. Jake Zimmerman is the Democratic party candidate for
St. Louis County Assessor. Jake was born and raised in St.
Louis County and went to Clayton High School. After college,
he won a Truman Scholarship that took him to Claremont
McKenna College. He then went on to Harvard Law School.
Upon returning to Missouri, he worked for Attorney General
Jay Nixon In 2006, Jake was elected to serve the people in the
Missouri State House. Jake lives in Olivette with his fiance Megan.
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This Week's Speaker at Clayton Ladue Rotary - Missouri Attorney General, Chris Koster

Chris Koster was sworn in as Missouri’s 41st Attorney General
on January 12th, 2009. Since becoming Attorney General,
Koster has focused efforts on detecting and prosecuting
Medicaid fraud, pursuing mortgage-relief and debtsettlement
scams, cracking down on fraudulent auto service
contract businesses, using Missouri’s legal authority to
protect our water resources, and educating public officials
about their obligations under Missouri’s Sunshine Law.
Prior to being elected Attorney General, Mr. Koster served in
the Missouri Senate from 2004 to 2008, representing Cass,
Johnson, Bates, and Vernon counties. He previously served as
Cass County Prosecuting Attorney for ten years.

Mr. Koster was born and raised in St. Louis. He is a graduate
of the University of Missouri and the University of Missouri
School of Law. He also earned a Masters in Business
Administration from Washington University in St. Louis.
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This Week's Speaker at Clayton Ladue Rotary - Olivia Lahs-Gonzales - Director of the Sheldon Art Galleries

Olivia Lahs-Gonzales was appointed to the position of director

of the Sheldon Art Galleries in St. Louis in October, 2001. At

the Sheldon she curates exhibitions, directs educational

programs, and assists in fundraising for six gallery spaces

devoted to photography, architecture, jazz history, St. Louis

artists and collections, children's art and all media. From

1992-2001 she worked at The Saint Louis Art Museum, most

recently as Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings and

Photographs. She received her M.F.A. from Columbia College,

Chicago, where she worked at the Museum of Contemporary

Photography for three years as Curatorial Assistant and

Education Manager. She received her B.A. Honors from West

Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, Surrey England.

Lahs-Gonzales retains a specialization in photography, but has

also published on prints, drawings, painting and sculpture.

Publications and essays include Josephine Baker: Image and

Icon (2006); Candida Höfer (2005) My Nature: Works with

Paper by Kiki Smith (1999), Defining Eye: Women

Photographers of the 20th Century (1997), and Photography

in Modern Europe: The Spring 1996 Bulletin of The Saint Louis

Art Museum, Currents: 63 -Peter Fraser: Ice and Water

(1995), and Currents 81: Glenn Ligon (2000).
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This Week's Speaker - Stacey Self - Clayton Ladue Rotary in St. Louis, Missouri

Stacey Self joined Rotary on June 5th, 1995 in Palmdale, CA., District 5260. In 1996 she moved to Dittmer  and joined the High Ridge Club. She was President in 2000-01 and named as both Outstanding Member in 2001-02 and Rotarian of the Year 2003-04. She was Special Representative for the local Interact Club 2001-05.

Stacey has served as Assistant Governor for three years and was named Outstanding Assistant Governor of the Year in April 2002. She has fulfilled several positions in the District including Youth Exchange Coordinator, Disaster Relief Task Force Coordinator, District Conference Chair  twice, & Extension Chair. Stacey was the Governor's Special Representative for two new Rotary clubs in 2002.

Stacey is active in Missouri's multi-district PETS/SETS known as "Show Me Rotary". Her Show Me Rotary involvement includes Evaluation Chair, Secretary Trainer, Facilitator and Roundtable Leader.

Stacey and her husband, Keith have hosted three Youth Exchange students.

Stacey is a Paul Harris Society Member. Stacey and Keith are Rotary Foundation Benefactors, members of the Bequest Society and are Major Donors to our Rotary Foundation. Both Keith and their daughter Elizabeth are Paul Harris Fellows. Stacey and Keith are both members of several Rotary Fellowships including , Rotarians against AIDS, Rotarians on the Internet and Rotary Conventions Goers.
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Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis - Clayton Ladue Rotary Speaker This Week- St. Louis, Missouri

It is the mission of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, an educational organization, to maintain a formal program of instruction to teach the game of chess and to promote and support its educational program through community outreach and local and national partnerships to increase the awareness of the educational value of chess.
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Upcoming Calendar of Events - Clayton Ladue Rotary - St. Louis, Missouri

Feb 16 - Harland Crain.
Introduced by Chuck
Shepherd.

Feb 23 - Chess Club and
Scholastic Center of St. Louis.

Mar 2 - PDG Stacey Self will
speak on the Rotary
Foundation. Introduced by
Sandy MacLean.

Mar 9 - Olivia Lahs-Gonzales
Director of the Sheldon Art
Galleries. Introduced by
Charley Taylor.

Mar 16 - LK Chip Wood, Rep
canidate for St. Louis County
Assessor.

Mar 23 - Missouri Attorney
General Chris Koster.
Introduced by Caroline Bean.

Apr 16 - Dinner auction with
Character Plus. Ms Vicki
Newton to MC.

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Harland Crain- Harmonicas - Clayton Ladue Rotary Speaker - St. Louis, Missouri

Harland is a harmonica collector and President of Harmonica
Collectors International. His passion covers every aspect of
harmonicas from the history to the music. He has been
collecting harmonicas for over 12 years and have put together
a world class collection of over 4000 items. His collecting has
taking him to Germany, Holland, Austria, France and many
places in America in search of the finest examples he could
find. His visits to the various museums in Germany such as the
German Harmonica Museum, and the Heimat in
Trossingen.The City museum in Klingenthal and the collectors
museum in Zwota Germany have provide many hours of
enjoyment not to mention the friends he has made.

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