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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
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
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: Mat Schaefer, CEO at Children’s Hospital of East Tennessee
Speaker Mat Schaefer, CEO at Children’s Hospital of East Tennessee, was introduced by Greg Maciolek from the Volunteer Rotary Club. Matt is proud to be a steward of a community asset that has been in Knoxville 85+ years. Originally from Houston, he loves living in a...

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 Susie” in...

Meeting Recap: Arts and Education Committee Update with Performances
RCK member Rachel Ford spoke briefly about the RCK Arts & Education Committee. The Committee was created about thirteen years ago. Its purpose is to take arts performances to underserved children and open cultural doors for them. The Committee asked four local...

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 Afghanistan,...

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
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 Mayor...

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 stories, particularly positive, uplifting stories. And he still is doing stories today.
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- Plewniak, Mengeling earn Rotary Knox RFK Scholarships – Farragut Press – July 5, 2023
- New officers for Rotary Club of Knoxville – KnoxTNToday.com – June 29, 2023
- Students receive $20K scholarships from Rotary Club of Knoxville – WVLT – June 20, 2023
- More students than ever will attend the University of Tennessee at Knoxville this fall – Knox News – June 15, 2023
- Rotary Club of Knoxville to award $62K in scholarships to East Tenn. students – WVLT – June 6, 2022
- Rotary and Dunkin’ Donuts are teaming up to eradicate polio – one donut at a time – Bham Now – September 29, 2022