Bulletin for September 28 through October 4, 2012
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| Quent Bates and Charles Lerch |
Upcoming Provo Rotary Luncheon Programs and Events
4 October: Ancestry.com
11 October: Lena Doherty, manager of the new Dick's Sporting Goods in Orem.
Report of Provo Rotary Luncheon Meeting September 27,
2012
Today's
meeting was held at Riverside Country Club. President Vaughn Park
conducted with Ron Roberts providing the music. An invocation was
offered by Dale Jackson.
Guests: Quent Bates was accompanied by his lovely wife Anna. Scott Kirkland introduced his wife Christie and his children Kelli and Kevin.
Club chaplain Paul Warner reported that Greg Hudnall had a growth removed from his eye. Tom Powell reported that Strat Wendelboe is in the Stonehenge rehab center for a few days recovering from his recent hospital stay.
President Vaughn Park reminded all board members that the next monthly board meeting will be next Thursday, October 4 at 11:00 a.m. in the Riverside board room.
Don Jarvis reported that the BYU Rotaract Club has been organized for this year. He is the faculty advisor. Their first service project is to participate in the campus food collection drive this Saturday. Their officers may visit our club luncheon occasionally.
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| Janette and Ray Beckham |
Rick Hood served as sergeant for the day.
Scott Kirkland introduced today's speaker, fellow Rotarian Quent Bates. Quent's first job after graduating from the United States Military Academy and subsequent service in the Corp of Engineers, was with Elevator Maintenance Company in Honolulu which was soon after purchased by Haughton Elevator Company. After spending nearly two year as a construction and service helper in Hawaii and Los Angeles he worked in the service, engineering and estimating departments as a trainee. He was transferred to San Francisco as a new equipment salesman. In 1964 he joined Charles W. Lerch and Associates as assistant to Mr. Lerch. In that elevator consulting business he subsequently served as vice-president, president and chairman. He is still a principal in that firm.
Quent is a professional engineer licensed in fourteen states and holds an MBA from the University of Denver. He was a founding member of the International Association of Elevator Engineers. He is past chair of the Elevator Escalator Foundation. He has written numerous elevator articles and presented papers to elevator, commercial and engineering/architectural groups. He is known worldwide as the "elevator guru."
He spoke about his personal creed and guiding principles. THANKS QUENT!
