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December 2, Past President Rob Marschke announced the results of the annual selection of RCFC officers. President 2021-2022 - John Trone President Elect - Marty Bachman Secretary - Kathy Nicol Treasurer - Steve Kane New Directors 2021-24: Dan Mackey and Kip Turain. Board Members Remaining: Larry Salmen, Rajiv Mehta and Lucinda Kerschensteiner. Congratulations to all. Thanks for serving RCFC! |
Born just 2 years after RCFC was chartered, this week we celebrate the 100th birthday of our most senior member, John Matsushima. Our program will celebrate Johnny and his many, many accomplishments and awards.
December 2, local photographer David Mayhew gave us a whirlwind introduction to the practice and art of photographing severe weather. David started his professional life as a design engineer but an introduction to photography and meteorology at the College of DuPage (near Chicago) led to his current life as a fine-art photographer of weather phenomena. In his career as a storm chaser, he has witnessed the two widest tornadoes on record at El Reno, Oklahoma, and Hallam, Nebraska. He has been selected as a judge for the Weather Channel’s annual photography contest. To view the meeting and presentation 
November 25, the Science and Engineering Fellowship heard from Dr. Jeff Wilusz of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology at Colorado State University. Twenty-seven members listened as Dr. Wilusz summarized the technology, including both tried-and-true and ground-breaking approaches, that are being used in the search for a vaccine for Covid-19.
Wednesday July 1, 2020-21 President Del Benson outlined his background, priorities and thoughts for this coming year. He touched on the challenges of declining noon membership and the resultant reduction in income and charitable pledges to support our service mission. Del then outlined his priorities and a "U+2" Time, Talent and Treasure Challenge for every member: