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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
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
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...

Meeting Recap: Local Community Grant Finalist Presentations
We had the pleasure of hearing about the 2024-2025 Local Community Service District Project grants from the three finalists and their Rotary sponsors. After hearing the presentations, members had the opportunity to vote on their choice to receive the $10,000 grant by...

Meeting Recap: Doug Lawyer
Rotarian Kim Isenberg introducer Rotarian Doug Lawyer, who serves as vice president of Economic Development with the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce. He has a demonstrated history of success in the areas of regional industrial/business recruitment, retention and...

Meeting Recap: Justin Cazana
Justin Cazana, Principal Broker with Avison Young Commercial Management Justin listed the many segments of commercial real estate, then covered some basics. He said the market is not as bad as it looks. Avison does about $200,000,000 a year in business locally. They...

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...
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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