Meeting Recap: Clarence Vaughn

Meeting Recap: Clarence Vaughn

Clarence Vaughn, III, Director of the Office of Access and Connection for the Haslam College of Business was our speaker. He mentioned that he once belonged to the Bearden Rotary Club. His work involves community outreach where he takes to groups in the community...
Meeting Recap: Rick Hill

Meeting Recap: Rick Hill

Rick Hill, retired FBI agent and security professional with 35 years’ experience, addressed the club on the topic of ‘active shooter’ scenarios and threat assessment. Mr. Hill and his consulting group work with businesses, nonprofits, and faith-based organizations, to...
Meeting Recap: Ariel Allen

Meeting Recap: Ariel Allen

Ariel Allen is the community engagement coordinator for Nourish Knoxville, the nonprofit that manages several Farmers’ Markets, including the one at Market Square. Allen began by asking Rotarians to close their eyes and recall their favorite food memory. “It could be...
Meeting Recap: Casey Fox

Meeting Recap: Casey Fox

We had the pleasure of hearing about the Big Ears Festival (BEF) organization from Casey Fox, Director of Development for Big Ears Festival, a non-profit entity. We learned that BEF does many more projects and events than just the Big Ears Festival each year. Casey is...
Meeting Recap: Kasey Krouse

Meeting Recap: Kasey Krouse

We were joined on Tuesday by Kasey Krouse from the City of Knoxville. Kasey is the first ever Urban Forester for Knoxville. Kasey started with a picture of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where people are planting trees. Trees are important to a community for 3 different...
Meeting Recap: Yassin Therou

Meeting Recap: Yassin Therou

RCK Member Ada Hernandez-Bell introduced our speaker, Yassin Therou, proprietor of Yassin’s Falafel House restaurants. Yassin is familiar to the Rotary Club of Knoxville because he was the 2018 recipient of the Rotary Club of Knoxville Peace Award. Yassin has received...
Meeting Recap: Marcus Hall

Meeting Recap: Marcus Hall

Knoxville native Marcus Hall followed his dream of designing and manufacturing custom-made menswear when he founded Marc Nelson Denim in 2011. The business, named after his grandfather who taught him to always look sharp, took inspiration from the Levi Strauss...
Meeting Recap: Betsy Johnson

Meeting Recap: Betsy Johnson

Rotarian Rob Johnson introduced our speaker, Betsy Johnson, of Betsy’s Nutrition.  Betsy is Rob’s sister-in-law; she is married to Rob’s brother Jonathan. Ms. Johnson’s passion, and business, is nutrition, diet and exercise, and talking and teaching about them.  Betsy...
Meeting Recap: RCK President Jim Alexander

Meeting Recap: RCK President Jim Alexander

President Alexander gave the mid-year State of the Club report. He noted that the organization is committee driven, and the committees are getting the work done. It is important to sign up for a committee that you truly will find interesting. Those committee choices...