May 29, 2024 | Announcement
May 26, 2024 – Marina Bay Sands Resort, Singapore. The House of Friendship opened at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 25, 2024 at the Rotary International Convention in Singapore. Representing the Rotary Club of Knoxville are President-Elect Nominee Shannon Holland,...
May 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
For many years, the Rotary Club of Knoxville has selected two outstanding educators from the Knox County School System to be selected as the as the Rotary Club of Knoxville’s 2024 Outstanding Teachers of the Year. This Tuesday we continued this recognition based...
May 14, 2024 | Announcement, Club Meeting, Rotary Club of Knoxville Foundation
On Tuesday, May 21, 2024, at the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Rotary Club of Knoxville will honor the 2024 Peace Award to Marti Baker and the CareCuts of Knoxville. CareCuts of Knoxville was founded by Marti Baker in April of 2016. CareCuts operates with a mission: to...
May 8, 2024 | Club Meeting, Interact, Rotaract
RCK Member Rachel Ford, RCK Board Liaison to our Local Interact Clubs, introduced the presenters of the Interact and Rotaract Club Annual Reports. Webb Middle School Interact Club Faculty Sponsor Carole Hill introduced four students from the 7th and 8th...
Apr 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Rotarian Joe Stabb introduced Michelle Kwon, a professor of law and UT’s interim associate dean of Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement. He said that he had asked her to talk about several pieces of legislation that had impacted education and higher education...
Apr 18, 2024 | Club Meeting
We had the pleasure this week hearing about the Knox Education Foundation (KEF) from Mike Taylor, Chief Executive Officer, and Blake Lawson, Chief Development Officer. KEF was formed in 2020 through the merger of the Great Schools Partnership Trust and Project GRAD....
Apr 4, 2024 | Club Meeting
RCK Member Kim Isenberg introduced Todd Kelly, Jr., a Team Financial Advisor in the Merrill Lynch Advisor Development Program. Mr. Kelly is the founder of TKJ Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization that works with inner city youth. Mr. Kelly is the son of...
Mar 28, 2024 | Club Meeting
Clarence Vaughn, III, Director of the Office of Access and Connection for the Haslam College of Business was our speaker. He mentioned that he once belonged to the Bearden Rotary Club. His work involves community outreach where he takes to groups in the community...
Mar 25, 2024 | Club Meeting
Rick Hill, retired FBI agent and security professional with 35 years’ experience, addressed the club on the topic of ‘active shooter’ scenarios and threat assessment. Mr. Hill and his consulting group work with businesses, nonprofits, and faith-based organizations, to...
Mar 13, 2024 | Club Meeting
Ariel Allen is the community engagement coordinator for Nourish Knoxville, the nonprofit that manages several Farmers’ Markets, including the one at Market Square. Allen began by asking Rotarians to close their eyes and recall their favorite food memory. “It could be...
