Bulletin for May 18-24, 2012

President Steve Densley, today's speaker Brent Adams, and Les Smith.

Upcoming Provo Rotary Luncheon Programs and Events

May 24: Dr. Shane Schvaneveldt, Weber State Professor of Management, "The Triple Bottom Line for Business." Learn of the recent paradigm shift in business from reluctant compliance to eager pursuit of financial advantages in environmental policies.

May 31: Mayor Jim Evans, City of Orem.

June 7: NO LUNCHEON MEETING at Riverside Country Club.

June 7: Annual Girls Night party with dinner at the BYU Skyroom followed by the play Arabian Nights.


June 14: Doug Carlisle, Varian Medical Systems (SLC), will relate how his medium-sized company of 700 employees saved $24,020,000 in a short time with the help of one inexperienced sustainability coordinator.

Report of Provo Rotary Luncheon Meeting May 17, 2012

Today's meeting was held at Riverside Country Club. President Steve Densley conducted with Ron Roberts and Jill Moon providing the music. An invocation was offered by Ron Pugh.

President Steve Densley reminded everyone of the annual Girls Night party at BYU on the evening of Thursday, June 7. He also gave Tom Powell a moment to give away tickets for tomorrow's UVU baseball game and mentioned tomorrow's annual Zions Bank Spring Art Show.

Our club's immediate past-president, Steve Tolley, has been named an Assistant District Governor for the upcoming Rotary year.

Dean Jackson

Dean Jackson reported on his recent trip to Thailand to attend the annual Rotary International convention there. Glen Zaugg from our club also attended.

Mention was made that both Doc Hansen and Steve Covey are recovering from recent illnesses.

Ricky Hood served as sergeant raising a little money for our club's charity.

Les Smith

Dr. Les Smith introduced today's speaker, Brent Adams, BYU Professor and Director of BYU's Center for Animation. This is an interdisciplinary collaborative effort of four departments and three colleges, an unusual cooperative effort to create a unique program in the country. 

He spoke of the great respect the BYU program has in the animation industry, particularly at Disney/Pixar and Sony studios. Both companies have hired a disproportionate number of BYU animation graduates because of the excellence of their training and their ability to work amiably with others. Animation is a team sport.

The BYU students have won eleven student Emmy awards and four student Academy Awards. He showed a couple of the award-winning animated shorts. Look below for more.