Your source for upcoming speakers, special events, and timely announcements from the Rotary Club of Fort Collins.
Programs:
The US Peace Corps – Service and Stories
The Rotary Club meeting at the Lincoln Center this coming Wednesday includes a special program on the US Peace Corps. This will be a timely session, since CSU is in the final stages of establishing a permanent “Peace Corps Tribute Garden”. This will be a place honoring CSU’s role in the founding of the US Peace Corps and researchers Dr. Maury Albertson and Pauline Birky-Kreutzer who developed the first Peace Core feasibility study and technical training program. This week we will hear stories of service and lives impacted from former volunteers, a Country Director and from Laura Thornes, CSU Associate Director of Development Research and International Programs. Laura will update us on the planned Peace Corps Tribute at CSU.READ MORE...
RECAP: Updates from CSU College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
At our noon meeting this past Wednesday, Dr. Susan VandeWoude, since August, 2022, the Dean of CSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS), shared with us recent accomplishments and current near-term plans of the college. CVMBS, one of eight colleges in CSU, consists of four departments across a range of subjects in veterinary and related fields: Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology; Biomedical Sciences, including Anatomy and Physiology; Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences; and Clinical Sciences. For each of these departments, she spoke about not only their internal contributions and goals but also their connections to the wider community. READ MORE...
On May 10th, the History Fellowship will meet immediately following the noon meeting at the Lincoln Center.
Announcements
Social: CSU Ramskeller Teaching Brewery!
Fort Collins Rotary’s first corporate members, Colorado State University, will host our Fifth Wednesday Social Meeting for a tour of the CSU Ramskeller Teaching Brewery on May 31 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Operated by the CSU Fermentation Science and Technology Program, the Ramskeller Teaching Brewery is located in the lower level of CSU’s Lory Student Center. There will be two tours of the facility and those not on tour (or those waiting before or after their tours) are welcome to gather for Rotary fellowship at the adjoining Ramskeller to enjoy a frothy libation.
Fellow Rotarian Ken Teumer passed on April 21, 2023. Ken had been a member of our club since August, 1970. He served as President of our club in 1975-76. Ken and his wife, Katie, moved to Fort Collins in 1968. His career in electrical and mechanical engineering took him on many paths including working for Woodward Governor for 24 years. He was very active in engineering societies and community activities. He was on the board of Bank One, the Community Foundation Boards, the Fort Collins Country Club as well as the local Red Cross Board. Below is a link to his obituary:
A field of 500 American flags will fly in formation on Memorial Day weekend, May 26-29, at Veterans Plaza of Northern Colorado at the south entrance of Spring Canyon Community Park, Fort Collins. Individuals wishing to acknowledge a hero with a medallion on a flag in the Field Of Honor can do so atwww.rotaryfcbreakfast.org Funds raised through medallion sales, community supporters and donations go to Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Foundation to support local non-profits that provide services to veterans and first responders and benefit local and international service projects undertaken by Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Foundation.
Since 1989, the Rotary Club of Fort Collins has adopted a 2 mile stretch of Mulberry Street, just west of Interstate 25. On Saturday twenty members were out picking up trash and enjoying each other's company. Also, finding some interesting items :)
The Rotary Club meeting at the Lincoln Center this coming Wednesday includes a special program on the US Peace Corps. This will be a timely session, since CSU is in the final stages of establishing a permanent “Peace Corps Tribute Garden”. This will be a place honoring CSU’s role in the founding of the US Peace Corps and researchers Dr. Maury Albertson and Pauline Birky-Kreutzer who developed the first Peace Core feasibility study and technical training program. This week we will hear stories of service and lives impacted from former volunteers, a Country Director and from Laura Thornes, CSU Associate Director of Development Research and International Programs. Laura will update us on the planned Peace Corps Tribute at CSU.
Fort Collins Rotary’s first corporate members, Colorado State University, will host our Fifth Wednesday Social Meeting for a tour of the CSU Ramskeller Teaching Brewery on May 31 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Operated by the CSU Fermentation Science and Technology Program, the Ramskeller Teaching Brewery is located in the lower level of CSU’s Lory Student Center. There will be two tours of the facility and those not on tour (or those waiting before or after their tours) are welcome to gather for Rotary fellowship at the adjoining Ramskeller to enjoy a frothy libation.
Fellow Rotarian Ken Teumer passed on April 21, 2023. Ken had been a member of our club since August, 1970. He served as President of our club in 1975-76. Ken and his wife, Katie, moved to Fort Collins in 1968. His career in electrical and mechanical engineering took him on many paths including working for Woodward Governor for 24 years. He was very active in engineering societies and community activities. He was on the board of Bank One, the Community Foundation Boards, the Fort Collins Country Club as well as the local Red Cross Board. Below is a link to his obituary:
