Our speaker on Friday will be District Governor Stephanie Meyer. This will be her first "official visit" since taking the office on July 1, 2022.
Stephanie Meyer has nearly twenty years of experience in the public and non-profit sectors in a variety of elected, appointed, and volunteer roles. She most recently completed more than six years of service as a Shawnee City Council member, including three as Council President. Prior to that role, she served on the city’s Planning Commission.
Stephanie is a fourth generation Kansan and a native of Wichita. She attended Kansas State University, where she earned a dual bachelor’s degree in journalism and public relations. She later received her master’s degree in public administration from the University of Kansas. Her professional background includes communications, governmental affairs, and business development work.
Stephanie’s community involvement includes serving as a Past President of the Shawnee Rotary Club and Assistant District Governor, Past Chair of the Johnson County Theatre in the Park Advisory Council, Past Board Member for Prairie Paws Animal Shelter, Director Emeritus for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Excellence in Public Service Series, Volunteer “Big” with Big Brothers Big Sisters; and she recently became a living kidney donor. Following that experience, Stephanie joined the National Kidney Foundation’s regional advisory board to help advocate for organ donation, and in March 2022, successfully summited Mount Kilimanjaro with 21 fellow living kidney donors to increase awareness. In 2018, she was honored to receive the Gene Amos Service Above Self Award in recognition of her contributions.
She is an alum of the Centurions Leadership Program (2019), Leadership Kansas (2014) and Shawnee Tomorrow (2013), a member of the American Enterprise Institute’s National Leadership Network, and a delegate to the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL) trips to Tunisia and Morocco (2014) and Timor-Leste (2019). She also previously served as the Vice Chair of the National League of Cities First Tier Suburbs Council and was a member of the NLC Young Municipal Leaders Steering Committee and Community and Economic Development Advocacy Committee.
Stephanie and her husband Bryan, a patent and intellectual property attorney, have lived in Shawnee since 2007 (with their rescue mutt Charlie) and are members of the First United Methodist Church of the Resurrection.
This is to notify you that The Lenexa Rotary Foundation has been issued a $14.74 donation from the AmazonSmile Foundation as a result of AmazonSmile program activity between October 1 and December 31, 2021.
This week, President Christopher sent an email to everyone about the role of the Secretary. We are in dire need of someone to take over the responsibility of Club Secretary.
Bill McCollum has put together a document outlining potential changes to the role of Club Secretary. Since there has been no volunteer for the new position, we have to consider alternatives, and this is a great starting place for discussion.
If you do not show up, there is a higher than ordinary chance you will get assigned tasks, so please show up or let me know why you cannot.
Please read the email and seriously consider filling this important position with the Club.
Friday will be the last day for members to donate old T-Shirts to be used with the Blue Valley Paws Abilities program. Please get your T-Shirts to Fred Spears.
Blue Valley Schools has a Paws Abilities program for students 18 – 21 years old with disabilities who are out of school . One of their projects is making dog toys and mats out of old t-shirts. I think it would be great if our members donated old t-shirts to the students and program – I have a soft spot in my heart for people with limitations and disabilities.
Fred Spears
For more information their website is: bluevalleyk12.org/18-21services
We are excited to announce that the Students Stopping Traffic Contest idea submission deadline has been extended to April 13, 2022. Teams will be notified the last week in April if their ideas advance and winners will be announced in May. This extension is to allow students more time to fully flush out their ideas and involve more of their friends.
RYLA is back as an overnight camp at the University of Kansas from June 12-16! Check the website for more info!
We'll also have an FAQ, but for clubs the price will be $350/student with the $25 application fee going to the club.
There are several past participants of this program that stated their experience was life-changing and made them more aware of their capabilities. It is common to see a student become emotional when talking about their experience with RYLA. For many students, this is their first exposure to Rotary and what we, as Rotarians, can accomplish. The projects and exercises in this five-day camp are designed to get the students to think differently about certain situations and develop their own solutions with fellow students they may have not met before attending the camp. Many students worldwide, who have attended RYLA, have continued on to become members of an Interact, Rotaract, and eventually a Rotary club.
The University of Kansas in Lawrence will once again host District 5710's Rotary Youth Leadership Academy (RYLA).
The district YE committee along with several other volunteers interviewed and accepted 6 applicants for the outbound Exchange year for the 2022-23 school year. Because of our low numbers we would consider late applicants.
They are now looking for host families for the 2022-23 school year. They are anticipating students from Belgium, Ecuador, South Korea, Chile and potentially others.
Please ask your family and friends if they would be interested in hosting a Rotary Youth Exchange Student. We usually like to have students that will go to either Shawnee Mission Northwest or Shawnee Mission West.
In 2017, Rotary International took on the call to End Human Trafficking. You are invited to earn your Human Trafficking Awareness badge from Justice U. In one hour, you will learn what human trafficking is, how to see it, and how to report it. And if you want to earn your full digital certification by taking all three courses offered in the Learn How to End Human Trafficking series on Justice U, you can use the code ROTARYSWARM to gain free access to these courses + even more resources from Engage Together, our partners in this effort. Go here to sign up and learn more: https://learnwithjusticeu.com/courses/
We are collecting egg cartons to be given to a local food pantry. They only need the 12 egg cartons, not 18.
If you have some to donate, please contact Steve Nettles. You can drop them off at his house, bring them to a meeting, or drop them off at Rimann Liquors at 87th & Lackman.
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