Bulletin for weeks of December 10, 2010 to January 6, 2011

Provo Rotary Club president Steve Tolley and today's speaker, Provo Rotarian Stephen R. Covey,
display a copy of Covey's newest book The Leader In Me.

Upcoming Provo Rotary Club Programs and Activities

No meetings of the Provo Rotary Club between December 16 and July 6.

January 6: Hal Wing, founder of Wing Enterprises

January 13: Tom Dickson, found of Blendtec, "Will it Blend?"

January 20: Becky Lockhart, Speaker of the Utah House of Representativies

January 27: Dr. Ned Hill speaking on Provo's natural resources survey

Report of the Rotary luncheon meeting held December 2, 2010

The Rotary luncheon was held at the Provo Downtown Marriott Hotel. President Steve Tolley conducted the meeting. Jill Moon lead and Ron Roberts accompanied the singing of the Anthem and Pledge.  Bryant Larsen offered an invocation.

Guests:

    Alan Blom introduced guest Jessica Moss

    Steve Covey introduced his associates and friend Boyd Craig

    Greg Hudnall introduced Bob Gentry of the Provo School District and his son Gregger

    Bryant Larsen introduced his friend Ethan Shumway from Intermountain Healthcare

    Vaughn Park introduced his wife Judy and his son Jeff Park

    Kirk Parkinson introduced his son Cole

    Steve Royster introduced Bob Gowans from the BSA Utah National Parks Council

    Ben Guffey introduced his guest Jeff Morris

President Steve Tolley presented a check from the Provo Roary Charitable Foundation to Dr. Ron Pugh for use in his annual humanitarian efforts in Mexico.

President Steve Tolley reported that Strat Wendelboe is in the hospital.

President Steve Tolley introduced speaker Dr. Stephen R. Covey, a Provo Rotarian, who spoke on the topic of his newest book, "The Leader in Me." This is a program that trains teachers how to teach students to become leaders. He gave a copy of the book to each person in attendance. This program has been tested in several schools around the world with universal success integrating leadership principles into all academic disciplines. He showed several videos highlighting the success of some of these pilot schools.

Steve Covey then invited his friend Boyd Craig to talk about the process of sponsoring schools to begin using this system. The owner of Panda Express restaurants sponsored a school near the company headquarters. It was such a success that he has now committed to sponsor a school in the area of every restaurant in the world (around 1,200 to 1,400 restaurants). In Utah Valley teachers from both Orchard Elementary and Noah Webser Academy charter school have been trained.

Steve's goal is to have one participating school in every school district in America.