Meeting Recap: Brittany Tarwater

Meeting Recap: Brittany Tarwater

RCK Member David Winstrom, Managing Executive Producer at WVLT News, introduced his colleague from WVLT Anchor and Multimedia Journalist Brittany Tarwater.  Dave spoke glowingly about Ms. Tarwater’s capabilities as a journalist and compared her quite favorably to...
Meeting Recap: Honoring Our Veterans

Meeting Recap: Honoring Our Veterans

Breckenridge Morgan (US Navy 1991-2013) led our post-Veterans Day program honoring and thanking the veterans in our club. Breckenridge cited Mike Comer, Air National Guard for 25 years, retired in 2011 as a Lt. Colonel Jim Cundall, Air National Guard 1963-1999, Air...
Meeting Recap: Rotarian John Germ

Meeting Recap: Rotarian John Germ

RCK Member and past RCK District 6780 District Governor Frank Rothermel introduced Chattanooga Rotarian John Germ.  As Frank noted, Mr. Germ has held many important offices in Rotary, including serving as RI President in 2016-17 and Rotary Foundation Chair 2021-22,...
Meeting Recap: District Governor Susie Cantrell

Meeting Recap: District Governor Susie Cantrell

Assistant District Governor Bill MacGrath introduced both District Governor Susie Cantrell, who joined the meeting via Zoom, and District Governor Coordinator Janice Mitchell— “We call her my chief of staff,” said Susie — who said she was “channeling...
Afghanistan Polio Eradication by Hakim Sohail

Afghanistan Polio Eradication by Hakim Sohail

Hakim Sohail, Visiting Scholar, UTK College of Law, presented about Rotary’s polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan. He is a founding member of the Rotary Club of Afghanistan. He contracted polio as a child and has participated in vaccination efforts in...
Meeting Recap: Marty Baker, Care Cuts

Meeting Recap: Marty Baker, Care Cuts

Sandy Martin introduced Marty Baker, who has her own salon, who started a nonprofit in 2016 called Care Cuts to give haircuts and clothing, food, etc. to the homeless. Marty noticed that a lot of the homeless were never moving out of their situation. They do housing,...
Meeting Recap: Krissy DeAlejandro, TN Achieves

Meeting Recap: Krissy DeAlejandro, TN Achieves

Krissy DeAlejandro was born to a 16 year old mom & 18 year old father, growing up in a 638 square foot home. She was the first in her family to attend college. After completing her Master’s Degree, as a Doctoral candidate, she began working in Knox County...
Meeting Recap: Alan Williams

Meeting Recap: Alan Williams

RCK member Dave Winstrom introduced our speaker Alan Williams, long-time Knoxville television and radio person.  Mr. Williams and Dave worked together at WVLT for many years.  Dave noted that over the years, Alan became particularly adept at finding and telling...