Presiding: Esther McGann
Invocation: Galand Thaxton
News: Don Black
Humor: None.
Music: None.
Introduction of Speaker: John Evans
Speakers: Brent Hathaway, Dean, UW
Club Respondent: Gregg Jackson
FOUNDATION
DRAWING: The pot is now $143. Tom Mangan
won $10, the joker remained in the deck.
GUESTS: Doug Mader hosted Alec Shea; Megan Goetz hosted Antonio Bendezu; John Shuster hosted Jon Benson; Bob Bryant hosted exchange student Arda Tezcan.
VISITING ROTARIANS: None.
ROTARIANS
OF THE WEEK: Paul Heimer nominated Rotarian state legislators Kermit Brown,
Phil Nicholas and Jim Slater for passing the Wyoming Matching Grants for the
library foundation.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Todd Pearson announced that committee appointments have been made for next year
and passed the list so members could have a last chance of picking committees
of their choice. Paul Heimer announced
that the Duck Race committee and any other interested members will meet at
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“The dirty
work at a political
convention is almost always done in the grim hours between
--Russell Baker
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PROGRAM
Brent Hathaway, Dean of UW’s Business
College, presented a program titled “Building Business Education In
Wyoming.” The Business College currently
has 1065 undergraduate majors on campus plus 134 taking on-line classes and 150
graduate students.
The college has 5-6 opportunities for
employment for each accounting graduate and is one of only 15% of business
schools that is AASCB accredited. The seniors score in the top 95 percentile.
The college promotes sustainable business
practices and offers a unique value from the faculty/student ratio, tuition and
strength of faculty.
Economists are ranked 10th in the USA and
12th in the world for research productivity in environmental natural resources economics.
Links with UW’s new School of Energy includes two new professors.
Under Entrepreneurship and New Ventures
the college boasts: the $10K competition; a link with the Wyoming Technical
Business Center including grad student interns; an internship program and
career focus; and in the last five years and Executive in Residence program
featuring distinguished speakers and thematic panel presentations.
The Business Ethics program includes: Bill
Daniels Distinguished Professor and also works with community colleges; UW
students placed second in an international business ethics competition hosted
by the Ella School of Management at the University of Arizona; students
research and nominate businesses for the BBB Torch Awards.
Under Leadership/Talent the college
highlights: business grants critical for economic diversity; having more
students stay in state; focusing on new ventures and entrepreneurship; adding
an executive MBA and partnering with the Wyoming Business Council for Wyoming
business leaders.
Among the goals of the college are:
reputation for quality, ETS, ENR; promoting business sustainability; expand
state outreach; and undertaking a facility facelift d(dinged on this 8 years
ago during accreditation survey).
Looking to the future, the college is
building a new facility. When dedicated in 1960 the present facility was
designed for 425 students. Today there are 1300 majors and 1250 non-majors
taking business courses. Hathaway estimates 20,000 people are using the facility
on a weekly basis.
The plan – constructing a $54+ facility.
Adolfson & Peterson has been hired as the construction firm and a
groundbreaking is scheduled for July 9, 2008.
A list of naming opportunities was shared with the club.
Hathaway noted that the new facility will
be LEAD Certified.
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ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
It was Sunday morning. He slipped into his
wife’s dressing- gown and went downstairs to answer the door bell. As he opened
the door, the milkman kissed him.
After giving due consideration to this
unusual occurrence, he came to the conclusion that the milkman’s wife must have
a similar dressing gown.
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DATES TO REMEMBER
MAY 22 – 11:00 a.m.: Duck Race committee meeting at
the Country Club.
JUNE 5-7 – District Conference in Cody WY. You may register
online at www.rotary5440.org. The conference will include afternoon tours,
community work times, golf, etc., to provide a well-rounded experience.
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“A
mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension.”
--Oliver
Wendell Holmes
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ROTARY: 1,210,648 members
in 32,912 clubs in 532 districts. (31 December 2007)