Rotary International awarded $291 million for sustainable global service initiatives in 2023-24.
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Rob Wight is a professional engineer and has worked for UDOT for nearly 30 years. He currently serves as the Director of UDOT's Region One, which includes all of Weber, Davis, Morgan, Box Elder, Cache and Rich counties. He's originally from Idaho and went to Brigham Young University.
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Macc Mic Bowen, based in Logan, is currently a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer at American West Heritage Center. Macc Mic Bowen brings experience from previous roles at Bank of Commerce, Brigham Nursing and Rehab, Lafayette Nursing and Rehab Center and Ernst & Young, Cooper Norman, and Cornerstone Financial Group. Macc Mic Bowen holds a 2015 - 2016 Master's degree in Human Resources Management from Utah State University.
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Vanessa Ballam has been performing professionally and teaching theatre around the country for over twenty years. Vanessa currently serves as an Assistant Professor and Head of the Musical Theatre BFA at Utah State University. Prior to USU, Vanessa was a Professor and Head of Acting in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Idaho State University. Vanessa is the Associate Artistic Director and Education Director for Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and also serves as a Vice-Chair for The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival - Region VII. Vanessa has performed with companies around the country such as Theatre Under the Stars, PCPA Theatrefest, The Utah Shakespeare Festival, Pennsylvania Shakespeare, Anchorage Opera, Music Theatre West, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and Lyric Repertory Company.Vanessa spent three years as a Resident Actor at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA where she oversaw the first-year acting program. She has previously served as a visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at Utah State University. Vanessa is the founding director of the annual Utah High School Musical Theatre Awards, the Utah affiliate for the NHSMTA – Jimmy Awards, and the Utah Festival Conservatory of the Performing Arts. A former Miss Utah, Vanessa was honored with the Bert Parks talent award at the Miss America Pageant. Vanessa is married to Actor Stefan Espinosa and together they have two miraculous children. She is a proud member of Actor’s Equity & VASTA and received her M.F.A.in Acting from Indiana University, and her B.A. and B.F.A. from Utah State University.
Website: vanessaballam.com
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Michael Altshuler: The bad news is time flies—the good news is you’re the pilot.
David Bowie: I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
C.S. Lewis: You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream
Buddha: No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.
Plato: The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Hillary DePiano: You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Nelson Mandela: It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Benjamin Franklin: Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let ever new year find you a better person.
Phil McGraw: A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.
Joan Rivers: Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn’t get better. YOU get better.
Winston Churchill: To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often
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Logan Rotary Club’s Foundation (501[c][3]) was established to promote, sponsor, and carry out educational, scientific, and charitable purposes and objectives, conducted by, and for the benefit of the Rotary Club of Logan.
In 2022, Rotarian Mark R. Hargreaves anonymously established the Challenge Endowment Fund to provide permanent funding for educational scholarships and educational projects. He provided $50,000 and challenged the Club to match it.
By December 31,2023 the Challenge was exceeded. Over 75 individuals donated $55,298! Thus, the Foundation ended up with an endowment fund of $105,298. This should produce $6,000 to $8,500 each year for the stated purposes.
We thank the many donors who gave to the Challenge.
It was Mark’s intent that the Challenge foster the idea of giving generously to the Foundation, which provides for our educational service projects. It is Rotary’s Four-Way Test in action.
As we greet January 2024, all Happy Dollars donated at our luncheons will go to the corpus of the Foundation, with a goal of reaching $2500 by December 31.2024.
Additional future donations to the Logan Rotary Foundation can be made via the links below. It is a legacy that is important to honor.
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