Bulletin for weeks of January 15-21, 2010
Bruce Powell (above) and Dr. Jerry SummerhaysProvo Rotary Club, Inc.
Bulletin for weeks of January 15-21, 2010
2009-2010 Rotary Theme: Moral Literacy for Youth and Adults
Upcoming Luncheon Programs and Club Events
21 January: Brad Agle, George W. Romney Professor of Ethics and Leadership, BYU, speaking on the ethics initiative.
28 January: Glenn Wright, Field Director for Fair Boundaries, speaking on the redistricting initiative.
February 4: Dr. Keith Hooker
18 February: Dr. John Mitchell, lead Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, speaking on heart disease and prevention.
Report of the Provo Rotary Club meeting held January 14, 2010
The Rotary luncheon was held at the Provo Marriott Hotel. President Steve Sabins conducted the meeting. Ron Roberts accompanied and Steve Tolley led the singing the anthem and the pledge. Steve Densley offered an invocation.
Guests:
•Wayne Beesley introduced his brother Richard Beesley of Beesley Monument
•Craig Carlile introduced his guest McKay Pearson of Ray Quinney & Nebeker
•Greg Hudnall introduced his guest Patrus Bukhari of Pakistan
Rotary International has three youth organizations:
1. Earlyact is for elementary age students
2. Interact is for high school students, Provo's first Interact club is now being organized at Heritage School. From that experience we will then consider sponsoring Interact clubs at Timpview and Provo High Schools.
3. Rotaract is for college students. The Provo Rotary Club has been sponsoring a Rotaract club at BYU for many years. It is a large and thriving organization.
Steve Tolley introduced two speakers representing our Utah Rotary District 5420, Dr. Jerry Summerhays and Bruce Powell. They each spoke about the opportunity clubs in our district have to apply for matching grants through the Rotary Foundation for humanitarian projects in certain pilot districts around the world.
Haiti -- Immediate News and Action!
1. District 7020 has Rotarians on the ground, including the DGN and AGs, providing water, food, and rescue operations. Check the D-7020 website if you want to respond through the district Rotarians. We are in communication with them via satellite phones—purchased for this very reason.2. RIDE John Smarge has just set up a Donor Advised Fund for Haiti in our Rotary Foundation, which you can access later tonight with online contributions. These funds will be used for medium and long-term aid—administered by local Rotarians. Check the RI website by 9 p.m. EST to see what you can do.
3. Shelter Box and Aqua Box both have their kits en route to Haiti—about 400-500 units each—way under what is needed. Check out their websites if you want to contribute online. (For a year and just within the past 24 hours I have been working with Shelter Box CEO Tom Henderson trying to get the U.S. Government to donate two C-130s to support his operation).
4. Rotary has a Rotarian Action Group for Disaster Response (DRRAG). You might want to join this RAG and/or check its website…to keep up to date. Check the www.drrag.org website.
Clark M. Merkley inducted as newest member of Provo Rotary Club
Clark Merkley was born in Salt Lake City. When his father completed his doctorate at the University of Utah and took a job on the faculty at Drake University, the family moved to Des Moines, Iowa where Clark graduated from Roosevelt High School. Soon thereafter, Clark served a mission for the LDS Church in the Norway Oslo Mission.
Upon returning, Clark was set to start at Drake, but after a quick trip to Utah he stayed and enrolled at BYU. He taught Norwegian at the MTC and at BYU. Clark met and married the former Sheryl Sanders of Boise, Idaho. They are the parents of Rachel (27, stay-at-home mom with husband, Brian and grandson, Taylor), Steve (24, biology graduate student at BYU), Sean (21, student at UVU), Logan (19, headed to The Ukraine) and Brandon (12, student at Springville Junior High School). Sheryl is a BYU graduate in Home Economics Education and has taught sewing to young students in their home for several years. Clark and his family reside in Springville.
Clark graduated with a B.S. in Zoology and a minor in Scandinavian Studies from BYU and then headed to University of Chicago where he earned an MBA and a J.D. Clark practiced corporate health care and insurance law in Portland, Oregon and Chicago and then took an in-house legal counsel position at Assurant Health in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After a few years in the legal department, Clark went to the business side where he was Senior Vice President of Managed Care and then Senior Vice President of Planning & Development where he did mergers and acquisitions and developed strategic business partnerships.
Clark then made a dramatic career change a took at teaching position at Springville Junior High School where he taught Algebra, Earth Science, Physical Science and Law & Government. He taught for a few years and then went to work in the Nebo School District Office as the Coordinator of Human Resources where he provided human resources support and administered the benefits for the District’s 3400 employees.
In 2007, Clark joined Employer Solutions Group (ESG) as a Senior Human Resources Consultant and was named President of ESG in April 2008. ESG is a professional employer organization, whose mission is to help improve the profitability of its client companies through administrative and strategic human resources initiatives. By outsourcing HR functions to ESG, companies gain an entire team of highly experienced and specialized professionals - at a fraction of the investment required to have this expertise on staff. ESG provides HR training and development, payroll, employee benefits, insurance, risk management and compliance assistance. The team of 65 internal employees in Provo, Loveland, Colorado and Tucson, Arizona provides outsourced human resources to over 470 business clients with more than 9,200 employees around the country.
