Thom Allen is a lecturer at KU and a former member of the Kansas City Design Center (KCDC). As he pursued his career, Allen declares that his choices were frequently influenced by Rotary’s Four-Way Test,… Read More »Four-Way Test Inspires Career
Rex Buchanan has spent most of his life studying and exploring the state of Kansas. He is Director Emeritus of the Kansas Geological Survey, an accomplished science writer, and a popular naturalist commentator on Kansas… Read More »Stones Tell Stories
Charles D. Bunker discovered a time-saving way to clean skeletons. He put decaying animal remains into a corrogated cardboard box along with dermestid beetles. The bugs ate the flesh, leaving a clean specimen for the… Read More »Beetles in a Box and Other Legacies
Former club president Jim Peters recounted the history of Nicodemus, an all-African American community founded in 1877 in Graham County in northwest Kansas. Jim traced the legacy of slavery in America which existed in all… Read More »Nicodemus and the African American Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction
Gina Meier-Hummell, Executive Director of the O’Connell Youth Ranch, spoke to Rotarians about the work at the Youth Ranch. She is the former Secretary of the Kansas Department for Children and Families. For 45 years,… Read More »Boys Thrive at O’Connell Youth Ranch
