Bulletin for November 2-8, 2012
Upcoming Provo Rotary Luncheon
Programs and Events
8 November: Brent Ashworth will speak about
his 60-years of collecting
15 November: Lucy Ridolphi, Sundance director
of marketing
22 November: Thanksgiving Day. No Rotary
luncheon meeting
29 November: Past Rotary District Governor
Kelly Atkinson about the Rotary Foundation
6 December: Tyler Jarvis, BYU Mathematics
Department, teaching (grand)children about math
13 December: Annual Provo Rotary Christmas Party,
Riverside Country Club
Report of Provo Rotary Luncheon Meeting November 1, 2012
Today's
meeting was held at Riverside Country Club. President Vaughn Park
conducted with Jill Moon and Ron Roberts providing the music.
An invocation was offered by Linda Palmer.
Guests: Bill Bridges introduced his guest Kristin Wright of UVU Development, and Carol Walker introduced Terry Richardson and Daniel Bruce of the Utah National Parks Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
Birthdays were celebrated for: Jeff Alexander, Stan Miller, Kirk Parkinson, Ron Roberts and Strat Wendelboe.
President Vaughn Park reported on the monthly meeting of the club's board of directors held earlier today. He reminded members of the annual club training to be held this Saturday, November 3 at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. The same meeting will be repeated November 10 at Dixie State College in St. George.
The club has purchased tables at two upcoming galas. Members of the club are welcome to reserve seats to represent Rotary at the Boys and Girls Club gala November 9 at Provo's Academy Square ballroom, and the annual Boy Scout gala November 16 at Riverside Country Club honoring our own Provo Rotarian Ray Beckham and his wife Janette.
Dean Jackson is still raising funds to help pay for replacing venues destroyed by last year's tsunami in Japan. He also spoke about Rotary International's peace forums coming up in Berlin, Honolulu and Hiroshima.
The chaplain's report included Strat Wendelboe who is still in rehab at Stonehenge, and V-Ann Ludlow, wife of fellow Rotarian Vic Ludlow, who has been gravely ill.
Pete Pletsch served as sergeant.
Tom Powell introduced today's speaker, Brent Wood, owner of three notable Utah Companies: The Wencor Group, DigEcor, and the Clear Horizons Academy for children with autism.
The Wencor Group has over 400 employees in Springville generating over $227 million in 2011. The include Wencor, Dixie Aerospace (largest manufacturer of aerospace bearings in the world), Kitco Defense (military), Aerospace Coatings and Absolute Aviation (avionics electronics).
This group manufactures and supplies parts to over 400 airlines around the world. They manage inventory and parts for many airlines. The average airplane has 850,000 parts. Wencor stocks and supplies 225,000 of those. They make over 2,500 shipments per day from the warehouse in Springville.
DigEcor makes portable media players and display monitors used on planes and trains, each with a hard drive.
The Clear Horizons Academy for autistic children is located in Provo. Utah has the largest incidence of autism of any state in the union with about 1 in 48 children being diagnosed. Boys are three times more likely to have autism than girls. The new facility in the Riverbottoms has about 30,000 square feet.
