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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 [...]

Scholarship and Awards Program THE 2021 DEADLINE HAS PAST. SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES WILL OPEN BACK UP IN THE SPRING OF 2022. **For consideration for the Rotary Club of Lexington Scholarship Program, simply click this link to access our online application.  The deadline to apply is April 15, 2021 at 11:59 PM. **For consideration for The Rotary DELTA Healthcare Scholarship Program, simply click this link to access our online application.  The deadline to apply is April 15, 2021 at 11:59 PM. NO EXCEPTIONS OR EXTENSIONS TO THE DEADLINE WILL BE ACCEPTED. Rotary International and the Lexington Rotary Club believes in education, at all levels, as a powerful means to change [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, Feb. 7th, at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program's guest speaker was Brian Miller, serves as President/CEO of the Bluegrass Sports Commission. He is in his fifth year of leading the organization to being one of the few self-sustaining sports commissions in the country. Brian will speak about the 2019 Barbasol Championship as well as the Bluegrass Sports Commission. Brian oversees the largest youth and amateur sports event in Kentucky, the Bluegrass State Games. To help these teams feel united as one, companies such as [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, Jan. 31, at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program's guest speakers were Kathy Scheller of MetroNet and Scott Shapiro, (former) Chief Innovation Officer, Lexington Fayette Urban County Government. They updated us on the effort to transform Lexington into a gigabit city. Kathy Scheller has over 25 years of experience in the public and private sectors with a primary emphasis on community impact and development. As a key player for MetroNet in its Governmental/External Affairs Division, Scheller is responsible not only for bringing new municipalities across [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington held its weekly meeting Thursday, Jan. 24th ,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The day's program was the Annual Endowment Day.   This year’s Endowment Day will honor two incredible arts organizations as we continue to pay tribute to former Rotary Club Executive Director Nell Main.  The first organization is well known to Lexington but with a new name.  LexPhil (formerly known as the Lexington Philharmonic) is guided by an unwavering commitment to its core values of artistic excellence, innovation, collaboration and accessibility. LexPhil brings the highest level of artistry to [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly meeting Thursday, Jan. 21st,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker is Dr. Lee T. Todd, Jr. Lee T. Todd, Jr., became the 11th president of the University of Kentucky on July 1, 2001, and served in that capacity for 10 years.  After a one-year leave-of-absence, he will return to UK and join the Department of Electrical Engineering as a faculty member. Dr. Todd received his BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky and his MS and PhD degrees from M.I.T., [...]

[embeddoc url="https://rotarylexky.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1-10-19.pdf" download="all" viewer="google"] LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will held its weekly meeting Thursday, Jan. 10th,   at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Brian Engle, SMSgt (ret). Brian Engle is originally from Harlan, Kentucky.  In 1967 he left college to join the US Air Force, beginning what would become a 21-year first career.  Originally classified as a computer technician, he volunteered for Vietnam, serving a 15-month ground tour, in part working with Air Force Security Police in base perimeter defense.  Returning to the US, he retrained into Strategic Air Command (SAC) [...]

[embeddoc url="https://rotarylexky.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1-10-19.pdf" download="all" viewer="google"] LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will held its weekly meeting Thursday, Jan. 3rd,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Carey Cavanaugh a former U.S. ambassador/peace mediator who is currently professor of diplomacy and conflict resolution at the University of Kentucky and chairman of International Alert, a London-based independent peacebuilding organization.  He had a 22-year Foreign Service career focused on conflict resolution, arms control and humanitarian issues.  In addition to assignments at the State Department, Pentagon and on Capitol Hill, Cavanaugh served at U.S. diplomatic missions in Berlin, Moscow, [...]