The project will take place between 7:30 am and 4:00 pm. Rotaract would love to have members sing up for 2 shifts (7:30 – 11:30 or 11:30 – 4:00). Please click here to register to work. We will need between 20 and 25 volunteers for each shift.

 Danyetta was born in Birmingham and spent several years living in Texas. She returned to Birmingham in middle school and graduated from Ensley High School. Danyetta is employed with Children’s Health Systems at Children’s Hospital as an Office Medical Assistant. She hopes to return to school to earn her associates degree as a radiology technician. In her free time, Danyetta enjoys spending quality time with her friends and family.

T’Aundra is in 9th grade at Tarrant High School. She loves animals and wants to be a veterinarian one day. TaMya, who enjoys dancing, is in 7th grade at Tarrant Middle School.

“Thank you for allowing my girls and me this great opportunity,” Dnayetta says. “I feel that by owning my own home my kids and I will have a more stable place to live.”

For more informaiton on the project and directions please click here!

If you have any questions please contact Dan Bridges at dan.bridges@navteq.com

Lunch begins at 11:45 am and the meeting will begin promptly at noon at The Harbert Center.

Lawrence J. Pijeaux Jr., is president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI), located in Birmingham, Alabama.  Dr. Pijeaux began his tenure at BCRI in July 1995.  BCRI is a state-of-the-art, multi-media facility housing exhibits of historical events from post-World War I racial segregation to present-day racial progress.

A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Pijeaux received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; a Master of Arts in Teaching Degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana; and a Doctor of Education Degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.  Under his leadership, BCRI achieved full accreditation from the American Association of Museums in July 2005. The Institute has received two consecutive national awards, presented at the White House by First Lady Laura Bush, for community service–the Coming Up Taller Award in 2007 and the inaugural National Medal for Museum Service in 2008.  In April of 2007, the Institute was named an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.  In 2006, Pijeaux was named Alabama Tourism Executive of the Year.  Pijeaux is the immediate past president of the Association of African American Museums. 

Pijeaux is a member of several cultural and civic organizations including the Alabama Symphony Orchestra (Board Member), Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel (Advisory Board), the Greater Alabama Council of the Boy Scouts of America (Executive Committee) and the Rotary Club of Birmingham. 

Lunch begins at 11:45 am and the meeting will begin promptly at noon at The Harbert Center.

Susan Parker was elected to the Alabama Public Service Commission in 2006. Parker’s political career also includes being elected State Auditor of Alabama in 1998, and in 2002 she was the first woman in Alabama ever nominated for the U. S. Senate.

Prior to becoming involved in politics, Parker had a 25-year career in public education. In 1972, at the age of 16, she started working at Calhoun Community College as a file clerk and rose through the ranks to Associate Dean.  In 1988 she became the Chief Development Officer at Athens State University and retired from there in 1996.

One of Parker’s most notable achievements is that she completed four college degrees by attending college at night and working full-time during the day. It took her 13 years but Parker persevered and completed her associates, bachelors, masters and Ph.D. — all with honors.

After only three years as a commissioner, Parker has been selected by her peers to be president of the Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (SEARUC) and will become president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissions (NARUC) in 2012.  In January, 2010, she will become the Chairperson of the Gas Technology Institute Advisory Board in Chicago Illinois.

Throughout her career, community service has been important to Parker. She has served as president and board member for numerous non-profit organizations.

Parker and her husband of 29 years, Paul Parker, enjoy golf and travel. They are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church where Susan is a Sunday school teacher.

Rotary Large Club Conference

Do you want to meet the “Hatton Smith of San Diego”, the “Bill Jones of Dallas” or the Executive Director of the Rotary Club of Seattle?  The Birmingham Rotary Club is hosting the 2010 Rotary Large Club Conference, February 20-24, 2010.  www.lcc2010.org  This conference brings together the presidents and executive directors of the largest Rotary clubs in North America. 

22 Rotaractors have already signed up to help, but we still need more!!!

Volunteers are needed on Saturday February 20, Sunday February 21, Monday February 22, Tuesday February 23, and Wednesday February 24. 

The biggest need is for volunteers is on Saturday and Sunday to pick conference attendees up at the airport and drive them to Ross Bridge.  (We have reserved VIP parking at the airport and good directions will be provided). 

All volunteers will be invited to attend the Welcome Dinner, Sunday night at Ross Bridge featuring a Southern food dinner, BBQ sauce tasting, live music, free drinks, and a few special surprises. 

If you are able to volunteer at any time during the conference, please email Bains Fleming bfleming@nwkt.com with the dates and times your are available.

Lunch begins at 11:45 am and the meeting will begin promptly at noon at McWane Science Center.

Tim Ritchie is the president and CEO of McWane Science Center. He has served in that position since June, 2004. During his time at McWane, general attendance has grown from 250,000 visitors per year to 350,000, and memberships have grown from 3400 member families to 8000. Earned revenue has grown from 55% to 70% of operating revenue. The endowment has grown from a few thousand dollars to $3.5 million (with $2.0 million additionally pledged). Prior to working at McWane, Tim served for six years as the president of Louisville Diversified Services, a non-profit organization in Louisville, Kentucky that runs businesses to provide jobs for adults with mental retardation. Tim lived in Birmingham from 1988 until 1997. He practiced law in the firm now known as Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff and Brandt. He left his firm to serve as the program developer for an inner-city ministry, The Center for Urban Missions. He then worked for the James Rushton Foundation, helping it buy a block in inner-city Birmingham and develop it as a community garden. It is now the principal site of Jones Valley Farm. Tim’s other work experiences have included clerking for the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, clerking in a poverty law clinic in Mendenhall, Mississippi, and representing defendants on North Carolina’s death row. Tim also spent a year in Southeastern Kentucky selling equipment for handling coal, crushed rock, corn and the like. Tim received his B.A. from Davidson College, his J.D. from Duke Law School, and his M.P.A. from Harvard University. He has completed eight marathons and will run in the 2009 Boston Marathon (having finally qualified!). One of Tim’s happiest moments was giving the commencement address for Duke Law School (having been chosen to do so by his class). He is a member of Leadership Alabama (class of 2008), Leadership Birmingham (class of 1998), the Birmingham Downtown Rotary Club, and Altadena Valley Presbyterian Church. He plays the trumpet and leads a brass quintet where he is the only old guy among the five (everyone else is in college or high school). His wife Christine is the director of the Center for Palliative Care at U.A.B. They have two children, Ivy (16) and Ramsay (13).

NEW GUEST POLICY REMINDER:  Effective February 2, 2010, there will be a $10 charge for all guests coming to Rotaract meetings.  Please bring cash or check with you to the meeting to pay at the sign-in table.  If you have a potential recruit you would like to bring as a guest, please contact Recruiting Director Jon Macklem at jwm@csattorneys.com to reserve a recruit spot and to obtain a guest fee waiver.

Lunch begins at 11:45 am and the meeting will begin promptly at noon at The Harbert Center.

Doug Jones represents individual, institutional and corporate clients in complex civil and criminal litigation, with particular concentrations in class actions, securities litigation, white-collar criminal defense, False Claims Act and whistleblower litigation, environmental litigation and employment discrimination matters.  His clients have included pension funds and other institutional investors, high-profile corporate officers and political figures, and a variety of business enterprises, among others.  Mr. Jones served as United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997 until 2001, and joined Haskell Slaughter in 2008 after practicing for several years with a Birmingham litigation specialty firm.   

As United States Attorney, Mr. Jones personally led the team of prosecutors and investigators in the re-opened case of the 1963 bombing of the 16^th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.  Mr. Jones served as lead trial attorney in the successful prosecutions of two former Ku Klux Klansmen for the murder of four young girls killed in the bombing.  He also coordinated the federal and state task force that led to the indictment of notorious fugitive Eric Robert Rudolph, who ultimately pled guilty to four terrorist bombings and is serving a life sentence. 

Since returning to private practice, Mr. Jones has represented individual and corporate defendants and targets in high-profile white-collar litigation in both federal and state courts and has represented both individual plaintiffs and plaintiff classes in complex securities and annuities litigation, as well as in other complex litigation and investigation matters.  In addition, he was appointed General Special Master in Tolbert v. Monsanto and Pharmacia Corp., a massive environmental clean-up action involving PCBs in the Anniston, Alabama area.

In recognition of his work in the area of civil rights, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute recently awarded Mr. Jones the 15th Anniversary Civil Rights Distinguished Service Award. He served as keynote speaker for the “We the People National Conference” in Washington, D.C. and is a regular presenter across the country at civil rights history workshops, law schools, Inns of Court and Continuing Legal Education seminars sponsored by the American Bar Association, the International Society of Barristers, the American Association for Justice, Harvard Law School and other associations and institutions. He has been profiled by numerous national publications, and regularly provides legal commentary on local and national media programs such as 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, CNN Headline News and other television and radio programs.

Mr. Jones began his legal career as Staff Counsel to U.S. Senator Howell T. Heflin on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and then served for four years as an Assistant United States Attorney before establishing his private law practice.  Active in numerous professional associations, he was recognized in Alabama Super Lawyers in 2008 and 2009 and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in Commercial Litigation and Bet-the-Company Litigation.  He is an alumnus of Leadership Birmingham and was named in 2009 by the Alabama Supreme Court to the Advisory Committee on the Alabama Rules of Evidence. 

NEW GUEST POLICY REMINDER:  Effective February 2, 2010, there will be a $10 charge for all guests coming to Rotaract meetings.  Please bring cash or check with you to the meeting to pay at the sign-in table.  If you have a potential recruit you would like to bring as a guest, please contact Recruiting Director Jon Macklem at jwm@csattorneys.com to reserve a recruit spot and to obtain a guest fee waiver.

The Masquerade Ball

March 20, 2010

Woodrow Hall • 7:00 p.m.

  The Rotaract Gala is quickly approaching and it’s time to get your tickets! Be sure to forward this e-mail along to your friends, coworkers and family and invite them to the 2010 Rotaract Gala. Proceeds from the gala will benefit The Birmingham Rotaract Foundation.

Click Here to purchase tickets!

TRIVIA NIGHT

January 27, 2010

6:00 PM

On Tap (Lakeview Location)

Pitchers of beer and appetizers provided

HEARTS FOR HORIZONS & MERCEDES MARATHON

February 12—14, 2010

Like to run?  Want to exercise your commitment to Rotaract and our community?  Does serving and sweating sound good? 

Join Rotaract as we partner with the Horizons School in their 1^st Annual Hearts For Horizons program.

Established in 1991, the Horizons School has filled a much needed niche for young adults with learning difficulties as these young men and women move from home and high school into the larger arena of adult independence.

The Hearts for Horizons Team was created to promote health and wellness among the Horizons students.  Every Horizons student will participate in the BE&K 5K on Saturday, February 13, 2010.  On Sunday, February 14, 2010, those student will then cheer on Horizons Team members as they run in the Mercedes Marathon and Half Marathon. 

Rotaract will be managing the Horizons School booth at the marathon exhibition, running with students in the 5K, and then helping to transport students to cheering stations during the marathon. 

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Curt Peinhardt at cpeinhardt@colonialprop.com

SERVING MEALS AT JIMMIE HALE MISSION

January 13 and 14, 2010

4:45 – 6:30 pm

Rotaract will be serving meals at the Jimmie Hale Mission on January 13^th and 14^th 2010.  Since 1944 The Jimmie Hale Mission has been a shelter for the homeless, a rest stop for the weary, a feeding station for the hungry, and a sanctuary for the hurting.  For many, the Mission has not been their last stop but the first step toward a changed life.

We need 2 service teams.  Each team can have a maximum of 10 people.  One team will serve dinner on  Wednesday, January 13^th and the other on Thursday, January 14^th. 

If you are interested in volunteering to help serve meals, please contact Bains Fleming at bfleming@nwkt.com.