May 2, 2025 | Club Meeting
Rotarian Dave Winstrom introduced Marianne Wanamaker, PhD, UT’s professor of economics and dean of the Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, as the day’s featured presenter. A native Tennessean, Dr. Wanamaker achieved degrees at Vanderbilt...
Apr 29, 2025 | Club Meeting
RCK member Lina Shatara introduced our speaker, Kyndra Brewer, Director of the Office of Special Events of the City of Knoxville. Ms. Brewer has been with the City in the Office of Special Events since 2005, and became Director in 2020. Ms. Brewer indicated that the...
Apr 17, 2025 | Club Meeting
Rachel Ford introduced the program of Interact and Rotaract clubs. She began by reading the report from UT Rotaract President Jack Huskey, who wrote that his goal for the year was to obtain more members and get more people involved in leadership in the club. “I am...
Apr 10, 2025 | Club Meeting
Today’s meeting for the Rotary Club of Knoxville was led by the New Member Committee, with Co-Chairs Sharon Hudson and Erin Ortiz. This was a unique opportunity to allow our new members to run our weekly meeting from start to finish. The committee had 17 members show...
Apr 4, 2025 | Club Meeting
On April 1, 2025, we were joined by Catherine Porth, Founder and Executive Director of Let Her Speak, a non-profit organization dedicated to elevating women’s wealth, power, and influence. She started working for her dad at his law firm the age of 8and, and after a...
Mar 27, 2025 | Club Meeting
This week’s meeting of the Rotary Club of Knoxville was held at Bearden Banquet Hall. The meeting began with the recognition of guests in attendance, including Cindy and Judy Waters of Orbit Village and form Knoxville City Mayor and Ambassador to Poland, Victor Ashe....
Mar 24, 2025 | Club Meeting
This week’s meeting of the Rotary Club of Knoxville began with Suzanna Navarro introducing new Member Christa Rosenberg. Next, Rachel Ford introduced the club to the upcoming Legacy 110 Campaign that the Rotary Foundation of Knoxville will be embarking on as part of...
Mar 24, 2025 | Club Meeting
Trudy Hughes, CEO of Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, began her talk by asking how many of us had heard of Arrowmont. Many of raised their hands. She noted that Arrowmont’s mission is simple: to enrich life through arts and crafts. The school does...
Mar 6, 2025 | Club Meeting
Today we heard from Ginny Morrow, Past President of the Rotary Club of Knoxville. Ginny was raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and graduated from The University of Alabama with a degree in accounting. Today she had a table of Alabama Alumni friends along with President...
Mar 6, 2025 | Club Meeting
Karly Noel, Vice President of Operations and Education at RedRover, the publisher of kind News, introduced herself to RCK. She presented on the work she and her team at RedRover do – only part of which is publishing kind News. RedRover, based in Sacremento, CA, has...
