9-14-16 Program - Misquoting the Founding Fathers

 
Bob Meroney is fed up with politicians misquoting the founding fathers, and he’s just not going to take it anymore!  This Wednesday, our favorite Professor of Political Science, Dr. Bob Lawrence will introduce retired CSU Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and RCFC’s most frequent speaker, Dr. Bob Meroney, who will share his research and “favorite” misquotes.  
 
To set the stage, just who are the Founding Fathers?  Meroney defines them to be individuals from the original 13 colonies who were some or all of the following: 
  • Fought in the American Revolution,
  • Signers of the Continental Association (1774),
  • Signers of the Declaration of Independence (1776),
  • Signers of the Articles of Confederation (1777), and/or were
  • Delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention
 
According to Meroney, he also plans to include significant Presidents since that time
  • In time of war (Civil, Spanish American,WW I, WW II, etc.) or
  • In times of national stress
Bob Meroney has been a Rotarian since August 1990.  He has been chair of the Scholarship Committee from 2000 - 2015.   He is an Emeritus Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State retiring in 2004 after teaching 40 years.  He was Director of the CSU Wind Engineering Wind Tunnel Laboratory from 1985 to 2000.  He has authored more than 350 papers and reports and been principal and co-principal investigator of projects exceeding $31 million dollars in 2010 dollars.  He has taught four workshops on Computational Wind Engineering and written 32 papers since retirement.  In December 2013 he visited the University of Western Sydney, AU, where he was appointed a Visiting Fellow and gave a keynote address for the Institute for Infrastructure Engineering annual conference. 
 
Bob is also past-President of the CSU Mens Science Club; Vice President, Newsletter Editor, and Webmaster for the CSU Society of Senior Scholars, and a Director of the Paragon Point Home Owners Association.  He has previously given talks for the Rotary Club on Codes of Conduct, Tombstones, Graves and Epitaphs, Colorado Bats, Colorado Snakes, Rotary Logos, Rotary Pins, Secrets in Corporate Logos, History of the B-17, Aeroballistics of the Golf Ball, Fraud Self-deception and Plagiarism, and did the animation for a program on Who Wants to be a Rotary Millionaire.