Your quarterly review of the latest activities and more from the Rotary Club of Fort Collins.
Thank-you Rotarians!
It has been a busy winter, with many opportunities for fellowship and service.
Please take a moment to reflect on the last few months and enjoy the pictures and stories below of our recent quarter in Rotary. Thank you all for your participation; it takes a team to make a successful club and we certainly have a great team.
Please share these stories of Rotary with fellow Rotarians and future Rotarians in-person and on social media: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!
Rotarians in Action
Nappie Project
In January, we worked at the Nappie Project. We rewrapped 10,000 diapers (in 1.5 hours). These diapers will serve 200 kids for 1 week.
We spent 2 Saturday mornings in January helping at the Scout Merit Badge University. We helped 125 scouts work on completing requirements for 16 different merit badges.
Merit Badge University is an opportunity for Scouts of all ranks to meet expert counselors in a safe, dynamic group setting. The goal is to give each Scout the tools, and connections that will fuel their own motivation to successfully complete up to 2 merit badges.
Rotarians volunteered multiple times at the Food Share program of the Food Bank. This time, we were kept busy re-packing carrots, sorting thru donated produce and serving refrigerated items to clients. Thanks Rotarians for being there!
In February, these energetic Rotarians recently helped out at the Food Bank’s Share program. We noticed that donations to the Food Bank were down and they ran out of some food items. Nevertheless, the Food Share clients were still able to fill their carts w/healthy and nutritious foods. Thanks Rotarians for “being the good” in our community.
These Rotarians recently worked at the Food Share program of the Food Bank. They repackaged sweet potatoes and worked in the store assisting clients with food items. Thanks for helping out members in our community who are food insecure.
The Community Grants committee awarded $1,900 to KRFC-Public Radio for the Front Range under our Arts & Culture program area. They will use our grant to purchase an upgrade of their Skimmer Computer. They use this computer to record the station’s on-air programs in support of local music and arts in the Fort Collins community.
Cadet Nadia Howard is the Rotary Cadet of the Month - March 2023! Nadia is a freshman majoring in Mathematics and carrying an impressive 3.866 GPA. She received an Air Force ROTC High School Scholarship while a senior in Southhaven, Mississippi. She is actively involved in the Detachment Booster Club and pledging Arnold Air Society this semester, an organization that develops future leaders through community service, professional development and education about our national defense. She is also an active participant across all Cadet Wing events. Outside ROTC she is active with Valor, an organization devoted to developing the spiritual fitness of ROTC’s future officers and SALT. After graduating and commissioning in 2027, Nadia has sights to be an ortho doctor or an intelligence officer. Congratulations and Rotary’s best wishes for success!
Liz Farrell is Teacher of the Month for Rotary Club of Fort Collins for March, 2023. Liz is an Integrative Services (Special Education) teacher at the Cache La Poudre Elementary School. Among her many responsibilities, she manages a caseload of individual students, is the I.S. Department head, and 6th grade team leader.
ChildSafe Colorado recently received one of our Arts & Culture program grants. They provide therapy services of survivors of childhood abuse, primarily childhood sexual abuse. ChildSafe will use our grant of $3,000 to have their elementary and teen groups work with Chris Bates, a local artist, to design & paint a mural on the handicap ramp leading from the parking lot up to their office.
Cadet Casey Sullivan is the Rotary Cadet of the Month - February 2023! Casey is a sophomore majoring in Journalism and Media Communications. She actively seeks out challenges to better herself, so that in turn she can share her knowledge with her peers, and has demonstrated to always put the ROTC program and its Cadets before her own needs. Casey spends countless hours volunteering in the program clubs and seeks out leadership positions within those clubs to help create new ideas to inspire and be the role model for her under classmates. RAM Battalion cadre noted that Casey’s aforementioned current leadership qualities will certainly serve their ROTC program well in the future. After graduating and commissioning in Spring 2025 she hopes to join her dad’s former Army career field, in the Aviation Branch of the Army. She hails from Parker, CO and outside ROTC she keeps busy with flight school, videography, skiing, hiking and fitness, outside her ROTC activities. Congratulations and Rotary’s best wishes for success!
Lori Eberle is the Rotary Club of Fort Collins Teacher of the Month for February 2023. Lori, who teaches fifth grade at Zach Elementary, is a dedicated, experienced professsional. She recently successfully planned and implemented an overnight Ecoweek for her students.
Rotary Club of Fort Collins honored its first cadet in 2023 during the 25 January lunch meeting. Air Force Cadet Scott Wilson was selected by ROTC cadre to receive the Rotary Cadet of the Month Award - January 2023. Scott is a sophomore majoring in Electrical Engineering at CSU. He is a Colorado Springs native that has displayed perseverance with tenacity as he continues to navigate the ROTC curriculum. During this semester, Scott is not only receiving training with his classmates that will enable them to succeed in Field Training this coming summer, but actively sharing his existing knowledge about the training and leading his peers from the ranks through the training. With an eye on graduating and commissioning in 2026, Scott desires to serve in the Space Operations career field. Congratulations and Rotary’s best wishes for success!!!
Chanda Burd is the Teacher of the Month of January 2023 for the Rotary Club of Fort Collins. Chanda is a teacher of mathematics at Preston Middle School. She is master teacher at several grade levels up to and including algebra II, and she works well with both individuals and small groups.
Our annual Polio fundraiser was in February at Chippers Lanes! Thanks to all our bowlers and all those who contributed to help the fight against polio!
Pictured are the members from Johnny's two teams from Purple Pins.
I was born and raised on a farm in southern Indiana. Obtained B.S. and M.S. at Murray State University in southwestern Kentucky and PhD from the University of Tennessee in Plant Breeding and Genetics. Post Doc’ed at the University of Nebraska and then moved to Fort Collins in 1986 to work at CSU on a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) grant entitled ‘Tissue Culture for Crop’. READ MORE...
I liked reading and reciting the Four-Way Test of the Rotarian values. It’s refreshing to speak to the values each week.
I retired at the end of October of this year after nearly 43 years as a State Farm Insurance Agent. The best part of my years as an agent was the relationships developed with so many individuals. I miss that even today.
It might have appeared to my wife (Alli), my three sons (Blake, Jeff and Rob) and their wives, their 10 kids (my grandkids), their wives and 3 great grandkids that I have been retired for several years. Not true. The heaviness of responsibility of owning a business never ceases. I’m now retired and I can breath. READ MORE...
My name is Janice McAteer and I have been a Rotarian with Champaign West Rotary in Champaign, Illinois since 2013. I have recently moved to Fort Collins from Champaign and would like to continue my Rotarian service and fellowship with the Rotary Club of Fort Collins. READ MORE...
I grew up in Colorado Springs and came to Fort Collins in 1969 to go to college at CSU. My wife Sheri and I met in college and were married upon graduation. We have two children and four grandchildren, and fortunately for us they live in Fort Collins and Denver. READ MORE...
Dr. Robert Meyer has 45+ years of experience in radiation protection, environmental science, nuclear power and alternative energy, beginning his career at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Prior to receiving his MS and PhD degrees at Colorado State University, he served as a Line Officer in the U.S. Navy. Over the decades he has managed environmental radiation protection projects around the United States. He has been a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Radioactive Waste Management and the U.S. EPA’s Science Advisory Board. He holds a patent on the John Deere-based RTRAK radiation scanning system and has published dozens of articles and co-edited the graduate textbook, “Radiological Assessment”. A decade ago he built a solar power system to provide 20 reliable amps to the 110-volt outlets in his family’s foothills cabin. He is semi-retired, still working now and then for Tetra Tech Inc. on environmental protection projects. READ MORE...
It has been a busy winter, with many opportunities for fellowship and service.
I grew up in Colorado Springs and came to Fort Collins in 1969 to go to college at CSU. My wife Sheri and I met in college and were married upon graduation. We have two children and four grandchildren, and fortunately for us they live in Fort Collins and Denver. 
Dr. Robert Meyer has 45+ years of experience in radiation protection, environmental science, nuclear power and alternative energy, beginning his career at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Prior to receiving his MS and PhD degrees at Colorado State University, he served as a Line Officer in the U.S. Navy. Over the decades he has managed environmental radiation protection projects around the United States. He has been a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Radioactive Waste Management and the U.S. EPA’s Science Advisory Board. He holds a patent on the John Deere-based RTRAK radiation scanning system and has published dozens of articles and co-edited the graduate textbook, “Radiological Assessment”. A decade ago he built a solar power system to provide 20 reliable amps to the 110-volt outlets in his family’s foothills cabin. He is semi-retired, still working now and then for Tetra Tech Inc. on environmental protection projects.