What a terrific meeting!
Our speaker was Dr. Leslie DiMare, President of Nevada State College. Even though Lynn Price's husband teaches there, I realized how little I know about the institution. It fills a gap between CSN community college and UNLV and UNR as it is a four year state college with a research emphasis. Admission requires a 2.0 GPA with no SAT requirement. The tuition is less that UNLV or UNR and more than CSN. It has a 19 % graduation rate, which is considered good for that category. To illustrate how important education is toward contributions to society and the community, over a lifetime high school dropouts cost the State over $ 5,000 while a high school graduate contributes $ 287,000 and a college graduate contributed over $ 894,000.
Dr. DiMare was followed by seven RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) participants that we sponsored. Each had a format for a short presentation: what they learned, their biggest challenge, and future planned vocation. We had a future photographer, lawyer, civil engineer and All-American football player! Each gave a collection of their thoughts on the weekend experience. Common themes were getting out of their comfort zones, not being too judgmental and learning to listen and follow. They are high school juniors that are obvious leaders and not used to following, but when surrounded by a team of leaders they had to accept others input on issues. Lynn price got a round of applause for her leadership, with Ted Baker, for putting the program together, including interviews and selection process.
Lynn Purdue summarized how pleased we are with these students and announced she is the co-chair for next year's RYLA. There are several ways to get involved as many of our club has in the past. See my RYLA team photo attached, one of my all-time favorite Rotary experiences. At the beginning none of my eight would look at me much less speak to me (or each other for that matter!), and two days later I had several asking for college and life advice, and two asked for me to write recommendations to honor societies or college programs. We left with a collection of hugs and well wishes.
I know everyone is waiting for results of the occasional Rotary golf outing, and whether Duncan Lee won all the money, but you'll have to wait until next week. Scott Ruthe and I are arranging financing to pay off the skins we lost.
Next weeks speaker is Mike Myers, Fire Chief if the Las Vegas Fire Department.
Tom Lott
Our speaker was Dr. Leslie DiMare, President of Nevada State College. Even though Lynn Price's husband teaches there, I realized how little I know about the institution. It fills a gap between CSN community college and UNLV and UNR as it is a four year state college with a research emphasis. Admission requires a 2.0 GPA with no SAT requirement. The tuition is less that UNLV or UNR and more than CSN. It has a 19 % graduation rate, which is considered good for that category. To illustrate how important education is toward contributions to society and the community, over a lifetime high school dropouts cost the State over $ 5,000 while a high school graduate contributes $ 287,000 and a college graduate contributed over $ 894,000.
Dr. DiMare was followed by seven RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) participants that we sponsored. Each had a format for a short presentation: what they learned, their biggest challenge, and future planned vocation. We had a future photographer, lawyer, civil engineer and All-American football player! Each gave a collection of their thoughts on the weekend experience. Common themes were getting out of their comfort zones, not being too judgmental and learning to listen and follow. They are high school juniors that are obvious leaders and not used to following, but when surrounded by a team of leaders they had to accept others input on issues. Lynn price got a round of applause for her leadership, with Ted Baker, for putting the program together, including interviews and selection process.
Lynn Purdue summarized how pleased we are with these students and announced she is the co-chair for next year's RYLA. There are several ways to get involved as many of our club has in the past. See my RYLA team photo attached, one of my all-time favorite Rotary experiences. At the beginning none of my eight would look at me much less speak to me (or each other for that matter!), and two days later I had several asking for college and life advice, and two asked for me to write recommendations to honor societies or college programs. We left with a collection of hugs and well wishes.
I know everyone is waiting for results of the occasional Rotary golf outing, and whether Duncan Lee won all the money, but you'll have to wait until next week. Scott Ruthe and I are arranging financing to pay off the skins we lost.
Next weeks speaker is Mike Myers, Fire Chief if the Las Vegas Fire Department.
Tom Lott
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