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Programs:
Colorado State University’s Role in National Security (Lunch Meeting)
On Wednesday, August 2, the luncheon meeting of Rotary will hear from Wiley Barnes, Executive Director of the CSU Office of Defense Engagement. Our guest speaker is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, with 25 years of service as an intelligence officer and military strategist. After his introduction, Wiley will talk to the point that the CSU land-grant ethos has long inspired the community of faculty, students, research professionals, and alumni to do good by rolling up their sleeves, solving hard problems, and creating better lives “for the benefit of the citizens of Colorado, the United States, and the world,” as the CSU mission states. CSU has an exceptionally strong track record at creating positive impact, so it makes sense to broaden the impact to the national security sector. This led the Office of the Vice President for Research to hire Wiley Barnes as the first executive director of the Office of Defense Engagement. Coming from his extensive experience in threat assessment and creative problem-solving, he will discuss an array of reasonably likely and consequential challenges our nation faces. These risks drive us to emphasize resiliency in our personal lives and for society as a whole. Our speaker’s view is that CSU is well positioned to solve hard problems in the 21st century to increase our resiliency and national security. READ MORE...
Rotary & The Pursuit of Happiness (Evening Meeting)
Please join us Wednesday Evening, August 2nd, at Sweetwater Brewery to hear Dr. Thomas inspirational message around "Rotary & The Pursuit of Happiness" which describes those actions/behaviors that stimulate feelings of joy and happiness (including engaging in 4-way test actions). Dr. Thomas serves as a coach/consultant, particularly in the field of behavioral medicine and preventive health care, life coaching, leadership training, catalyzing success in others, conflict management, assertiveness training; and stress management. He has developed and leads innovative Seminars about creativity, success, wellness, leadership, self-esteem, education/learning, and relationship enrichment. He is a powerful and inspirational public speaker. In Lloyd’s own words, “Happiness is the mental stateof experiencing positive or pleasant emotions, not dependent on events outside your skin. It is the highlyindividualized and ever-changing dynamic of being alive/conscious and depends on the meaning we give to incoming information…usually by way of the five senses and or what we attend to (like our internal experience). “ Further, according to our speaker, “The mental state of happiness is physiologically related to internal “balance” between pleasure (dopamine etc.) and pain/stress (cortisol). Too much or too little of anything becomes a negative. Plato’s Golden Mean. “ Toward that end, our speaker will point out many daily activities that can contribute to one’s happiness. READ MORE...
RECAP: Sanford Underground Research Facility: Leading Innovation in Science and Education
All the way from Lead, South Dakota, Deb Wolf, Director of Outreach & Culture for the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), on July 26 gave us a presentation on “Sanford Underground Research Facility: Leading Innovation in Science and Education.” Ms. Wolf has been a teacher (some 30 years as a K-12 educator before starting her current job), not a physicist or engineer, and her current job is to translate for the public the importance of neutrinos, dark matter, and other advanced science matter in understanding our universe and how the science impacts education. READ MORE...
Wednesday, August 2nd, the DEI Fellowship will discuss the second in a two-part series on The Good, The Bad and The Indifferent of DEI. This fellowship Rajiv Mehta will discuss his personal experience as an immigrant, small business owner and government contractor focusing on “What is being done via the business/government community for disadvantaged communities”. Rajiv plans to touch on government programs such as “Set-Asides”, Affirmative Action, and perhaps even ‘Reparations’.
All perspectives are welcome; please join us immediately following the noon Rotary Meeting (~1:10 PM) in the Lincoln Center’s Columbine room.
Our Rotary partner club is the Rotary Club of Lake Atitlan. Engineers without Borders (EWB) Northern Colorado Professional Chapter and EWB Guatemala are also partners on the project.
Leave a Legacy - Qualified Charity IRA Distribution
Our Legacy Endowment Fund makes an impact in our local community through annual distributions to our charitable efforts: supporting our community grants, scholarships, RYLA, Merit Badge University and other programs. There are many ways you can leave a legacy with our Endowment Fund or the Rotary Foundation Endowment Fund. We will be highlighting a few in the next several months.
Your financial institution must create a distribution check made out to the named charity. You may wish to have your financial institution send such checks to you so that you can photocopy the checks for your records before you mail the checks to the recipient organization
Our Community Grants Committee recently awarded $3,000 to the Gary Bamford Pack Pantry. The students at Bamford elementary researched the needs of the people in their area. They will use our grant to help purchase fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy products, meat and poultry, and new socks & underwear. This pantry serves Poudre School District families in Southeast Fort Collins. The pantry is open to families in the Bamford area or anyone in the greater community area that has a need.
On Wednesday, August 2, the luncheon meeting of Rotary will hear from Wiley Barnes, Executive Director of the CSU Office of Defense Engagement. Our guest speaker is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, with 25 years of service as an intelligence officer and military strategist. After his introduction, Wiley will talk to the point that the CSU land-grant ethos has long inspired the community of faculty, students, research professionals, and alumni to do good by rolling up their sleeves, solving hard problems, and creating better lives “for the benefit of the citizens of Colorado, the United States, and the world,” as the CSU mission states. CSU has an exceptionally strong track record at creating positive impact, so it makes sense to broaden the impact to the national security sector. This led the Office of the Vice President for Research to hire Wiley Barnes as the first executive director of the Office of Defense Engagement. Coming from his extensive experience in threat assessment and creative problem-solving, he will discuss an array of reasonably likely and consequential challenges our nation faces. These risks drive us to emphasize resiliency in our personal lives and for society as a whole. Our speaker’s view is that CSU is well positioned to solve hard problems in the 21st century to increase our resiliency and national security. 
Please join us Wednesday Evening, August 2nd, at Sweetwater Brewery to hear Dr. Thomas inspirational message around "Rotary & The Pursuit of Happiness" which describes those actions/behaviors that stimulate feelings of joy and happiness (including engaging in 4-way test actions). Dr. Thomas serves as a coach/consultant, particularly in the field of behavioral medicine and preventive health care, life coaching, leadership training, catalyzing success in others, conflict management, assertiveness training; and stress management. He has developed and leads innovative Seminars about creativity, success, wellness, leadership, self-esteem, education/learning, and relationship enrichment. He is a powerful and inspirational public speaker. In Lloyd’s own words, “Happiness is the mental state of experiencing positive or pleasant emotions, not dependent on events outside your skin. It is the highly individualized and ever-changing dynamic of being alive/conscious and depends on the meaning we give to incoming information…usually by way of the five senses and or what we attend to (like our internal experience). “ Further, according to our speaker, “The mental state of happiness is physiologically related to internal “balance” between pleasure (dopamine etc.) and pain/stress (cortisol). Too much or too little of anything becomes a negative. Plato’s Golden Mean. “ Toward that end, our speaker will point out many daily activities that can contribute to one’s happiness. 
All the way from Lead, South Dakota, Deb Wolf, Director of Outreach & Culture for the 
Our Community Grants Committee recently awarded $3,000 to the Gary Bamford Pack Pantry. The students at Bamford elementary researched the needs of the people in their area. They will use our grant to help purchase fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy products, meat and poultry, and new socks & underwear. This pantry serves Poudre School District families in Southeast Fort Collins. The pantry is open to families in the Bamford area or anyone in the greater community area that has a need.