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LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will held its weekly meeting Thursday, May 16th,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program  featured the presentation of the annual Tommy Bell Award for Lexington’s Outstanding High School Student-Athlete. Our club established the award in memory of Tommy Bell, who passed away on February 20, 1986. The Honorable Bruce Bell, son of Tommy Bell, will announce the winner of the award. Tommy Bell was a highly respected and well-liked member of our community. While he may be best known for his 14-year career as an NFL referee, including two [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will held its weekly meeting Thursday, May 9,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program’s guest speaker was Cory Ramsey. Cory Ramsey could very well be called Kentucky’s roadtripper. He has been to every county in Kentucky multiple times and on over 250 hiking trips. And with that, he’s been a fixture of radio and TV across the Commonwealth for 22 years. At the age of 20 in 2001, he was the creator and host of an hour-long, weekly NASCAR show called Race Wrap on WBGN-AM in Bowling Green. While [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington will hold its weekly meeting Thursday, September 3rd,   via Zoom. If you would like a Zoom invite please email trafton@rtarylexky.org The program’s guest speaker was Bill Thomason. Bill Thomason became the seventh president and chief executive officer of Keeneland in 2012. He was previously the vice president and chief financial officer, having joined Keeneland in June 2010. Thomason graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.S. in accounting in 1977 and a master of business administration in 1978. He worked for two years at the accounting firm of Alexander Grant & Company before [...]

LEXINGTON, KY – The Rotary Club of Lexington  held its weekly meeting Thursday, April 25th,  at the Red Mile, 1200 Red Mile Road. The program was the  Scholarship Day. Rotary International and the Rotary Club of Lexington believe in education at all levels as a powerful means to change lives.  We invest in the future by giving scholarships each year to students who are already making a difference in our community and have the potential to change the world. The Rotary Club of Lexington started its Scholarship Program in 1960 and has provided scholarship awards to high school seniors and college [...]

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 [...]