No weekly meeting at Talon Room this week. Please report to your chosen business to attend Business Networking Day. Have fun and take group photos and send them to yolanda@rotary14.org. Big shout out to our business hosts: Assurity, Bay High, Duncan Aviation, Food Bank of Lincoln, Sampson Construction, Hope Spoke, Hudl, and Universal Pure. For last-minute questions, please contact Bob Everitt at (402) 430-3803 or Shari Veil at veil@unl.edu. 

The first Rotary Networking event happened when attorney Paul P. Harris called together a meeting of three business acquaintances in downtown Chicago, United States, at Harris's friend Gustave Loehr's office in the Unity Building on Dearborn Street on February 23, 1905. In addition to Harris and Loehr (a mining engineer and freemason), Silvester Schiele (a coal merchant), and Hiram E. Shorey (a tailor) were the other two who attended this first meeting. The members chose the name Rotary because initially they rotated subsequent weekly club meetings to each other's offices, although within a year, the Chicago club became so large it became necessary to adopt the now-common practice of a regular meeting place.

District Governor Barb Bartle, in cooperation with Rotary District 5630, is undertaking an Imagine Rotary Tour starting September 26 to October 6. But our expected participation will be only for one day, October 6, Thursday, with exciting triple events:

Remember, we are the home club of DG Barb. We must support the Imagine Tour. For questions, please contact President John Gessert at john.gessert@ubt.com.

The 2022 Salute to Business (StB) Honoree is Sampson Construction! Sampson Construction has been shaping Lincoln’s built environment and supporting the community for 70 years. Founded on the principle that a promise and a handshake are as good as a contract, the family-owned business has grown from a local residential builder to a nationally recognized and trusted commercial construction company.  With offices in Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming, Sampson Construction has more than three hundred employees and has completed projects in seventeen states. Company President John Sampson said, “Without our people, Sampson Construction would not be what it is today.  I cannot give enough credit to the many great employees that have been part of the Sampson team, both past and present. They are our company’s greatest asset.” Sampson’s investment in the community goes beyond construction. At the corporate and individual levels, they have been engaged and involved as financial supporters, volunteers, board members, leaders, and advisors for more than thirty public, private and not-for-profit organizations in the communities where the company is located. Click here to purchase your StB ticket.

People of Action, led by Project Chair Pat Birch, had a successful Fall Roadside cleanup at S. 68th Street & Wittstruck Road. Pat was joined by hard-working Rotarians Scott Holechek, Immediate Past President Christina Usher, Brett Neely, Stephanie Stearley, Future Rotarian Makenna Stearley, Past Presidents Eric Drumheller and Dave Livingston, Michael Eckelkamp, Doyle Hulme, Doug Blum, Priscilla Henkelmann, and a Rotarian dog. Thank you, Rotarians!
 

 

Every week, we need your help to run the meeting by serving as Greeters and Cashiers. You get attendance credit every time you serve at our weekly meeting. More importantly, it's the best way to meet fellow Rotarians directly. Volunteer now, click here.

Here's the unedited live capture video of President John Gessert's rendition of Come Together Right Now, Rotary! The performance earned President John Gessert and his Rotary band a standing ovation from fellow Rotarians.