RCK Member and past RCK District 6780 District Governor Frank Rothermel introduced Chattanooga Rotarian John Germ.  As Frank noted, Mr. Germ has held many important offices in Rotary, including serving as RI President in 2016-17 and Rotary Foundation Chair 2021-22,...

Speaker Mat Schaefer, CEO at Children’s Hospital of East Tennessee, was introduced by Greg Maciolek from the Volunteer Rotary Club. Matt is proud to be a steward of a community asset that has been in Knoxville 85+ years. Originally from Houston, he loves living in a...

Assistant District Governor Bill MacGrath introduced both District Governor Susie Cantrell, who joined the meeting via Zoom, and District Governor Coordinator Janice Mitchell--- “We call her my chief of staff,” said Susie -- who said she was “channeling Susie” in...

RCK member Rachel Ford spoke briefly about the RCK Arts & Education Committee. The Committee was created about thirteen years ago. Its purpose is to take arts performances to underserved children and open cultural doors for them. The Committee asked four local...

Sandy Martin introduced Marty Baker, who has her own salon, who started a nonprofit in 2016 called Care Cuts to give haircuts and clothing, food, etc. to the homeless. Marty noticed that a lot of the homeless were never moving out of their situation. They do housing,...

Krissy DeAlejandro was born to a 16 year old mom & 18 year old father, growing up in a 638 square foot home. She was the first in her family to attend college. After completing her Master's Degree, as a Doctoral candidate, she began working in Knox County Mayor...

RCK member Dave Winstrom introduced our speaker Alan Williams, long-time Knoxville television and radio person.  Mr. Williams and Dave worked together at WVLT for many years.  Dave noted that over the years, Alan became particularly adept at finding and telling stories, particularly positive, uplifting stories.  And he still is doing stories today. 

We had the pleasure of hearing from Chris Wise and Tuyen Ho today who both work for Designsensory here in Knoxville.

RCK member Joe Stabb introduced speaker Hakim Sohail, presently a visiting scholar at the University of Tennessee College of Law.  His work there includes researching strategies to improve the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.