LANDIS BOYD was born on Dec 1, 1923 (yep, he’s 91). After doing a few things like serving as Naval Aviator in WW II , completing a PhD in Engineering Mechanics and Agricultural Engineering at Iowa State, and finding his lifetime love to whom he was married 65 years and 10 months, he got to the important stuff. He became a Rotarian in 1960 while in Ithaca N.Y. ...
 

He then moved to St. Paul, Minnesota which has Rotary Club #10 where it took 22 months for him to clear their Classification quota. Between 1966 and 1978 he chaired every major committee and declined his nomination to be president because of his academic responsibilities. He then moved to Pullman Washington from 1978 to 1985. It was there he received his first Paul Harris Fellow of which he now holds 25 to include every child and grandchild. In 1985 he came to Fort Collins and CSU. Landis is basically the one responsible for bringing RCFC into the digital world.

* He developed our first database for the club Directory.
* He switched club from film photography to digital and later went back and made digital recorder all the previous slide film images.
* He worked with Warren Garst to digitalize our weekly Rotogear bulletin.
* He created the first Webpage for RCFC
* He created first Webpage for District 5440
* Lannie still attends all BOD meetings as Attendance Chair. He initiated using computer for reporting of attendance to Rotary International and as recently as 2013 he switched us to a barcode system for taking attendance.

During 2014 he still got in 61 rounds of golf. You don’t have to be around Lannie long to know he is very precise and goal oriented and has a unique sense of humor.He closed our interview with this statement. “Just so everyone knows, if I make it to 99 I would be willing to being a vegetable for a year so I could say I made it to 100.


Award Presentation for Lannie Boyd