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LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, April 18th at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Steve Polston. Steve Polston began his work career as a river boat pilot on the Mississippi. After over half a decade on the rivers, he left and graduated from the University of Kentucky (UK) with a degree in mechanical engineering, later earning an executive MBA from Harvard University. In Steve’s corporate work career, he led a succession of turnarounds of troubled companies. In these turnarounds, his specialty was providing leadership to fix industrial [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington e held its weekly meeting Thursday,April 11,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Amy Sohner, executive director of Bluegrass Greensource, a nonprofit environmental education organization serving Central Kentucky. Amy has been with the organization since its inception and became executive director in 2006.  She has a background in environmental education and a degree in natural resource conservation and management from the University of Kentucky.   Amy is a certified environmental educator, a graduate of the Leadership Lexington Program, a board member of Bluegrass Tomorrow, the vice [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, April 4,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was  Dr. Michael Taft Benson, Eastern Kentucky University President. Dr. Michael Benson’s presidency at Eastern Kentucky University has been marked by the University’s highest enrollment in decades, record levels of private support for each of the past three years, much improved retention and graduation rates, the best academically prepared freshman classes in the institution’s history and an ambitious campus revitalization initiative requiring massive amounts of concrete and steel that is transforming the way students live [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, March 28,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Kent Masterson Brown, Founder & President, Witnessing History.   Kent was born in Lexington, Kentucky on February 5, 1949. He is a 1971 graduate – and in 2014 named a distinguished graduate - of Centre College, and received his juris doctor degree in 1974 from Washington and Lee University School of Law. Kent has practiced law for forty-four years with offices in Lexington and Washington, DC. Kent has published six books, all on [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, March 21st ,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was John P. Marsden, Ph.D. Dr. Marsden became the tenth president of Midway University on February 1, 2013.  He has collaboratively managed a turnaround of Midway University through coeducation, expansion of athletics and graduate programs, international partnerships, and financial stewardship.  A rapid growth in traditional enrollment fueled a capital campaign that will yield residence hall renovations and additional housing as well as construction of a field house and baseball stadium in 2019.  Dr. [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, March 12,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was D. Keith Key, vice president and wealth management advisor in the Lexington, Kentucky, office of Merrill Lynch.  As a senior partner of Key Williams & Associates at Merrill Lynch, Keith is responsible for creating goals-based financial plans and investment portfolios for the group’s high net worth clientele. Keith began working in the financial services industry in 1998 and is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER ™ (CFP®) certificant, a designation awarded by the Certified Financial [...]

  LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, March 7th,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Richard Kaglic the vice president and senior regional officer of the Cincinnati Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He manages the Bank's relationships with the Cincinnati Branch's board of directors and business advisory councils in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, and Lexington, Kentucky, and serves as the Bank's regional economist in Cincinnati. Mr. Kaglic joined the Federal Reserve System in 1994 as a senior business economist at the Federal Reserve Bank [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, Feb. 28th,,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Jeffrey Boord-Dill, Assistant Professor of English and Theatre at Eastern Kentucky University, designs and supervises the construction of costumes for all four plays of EKU Theatre’s annual season and has done so for the last 34 years.  He also directs one show each year. After attending a special event at White Hall in the early 1990s, Jeffrey fell in love with the Clay family and spent over 20 summers working as a tour [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, Feb. 21,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Dean Rudolf G. Buchheit from the University of Kentucky College of Engineering, and his program title is Trends in Engineering Education and Their Impact on Engineering at the University of Kentucky. Rudolph G. Buchheit is professor of chemical and materials engineering and dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky. Prior to his appointment at Kentucky, he was professor and chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and [...]

  LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, Feb. 14th,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Holly Wiedemann, a native Lexingtonian, is the founder, owner and President of AU Associates, Inc.  AU was founded in 1990 on the principles of adaptive use and focuses on opportunities for urban infill as well as the revitalization of existing structures.  Holly’s firm has created over 900 units of mixed income housing and 200,000 square feet of commercial space with more than 30 developments in Kentucky and West Virginia. Lexington developments include [...]