John Twitchell The Early Years – Born and raised in Southern California – Attended parochial school, and graduated in 1984 Education – Attended Santa Monica Community College to pursue a career in the Fire Service – Attended Rio Hondo Fire Academy in 1991 – Obtained a Fire Officer’s Certification through Santa Ana College Work Experience [...]

Past President PATRICK L. BARNES will give his senior craft talk on 01/06/2012 entitled “Memories Reflected Through Needlework”.  PAT will reflect on his life through an exhibit of many of his needleworks (needlepoint, counted cross stick and Swedish weaving) which have won numerous ribbons at the Los Angeles County Fair.  His wife BARBARA LYNN BARNES [...]

Hamlet Mbabazi, a Rotarian from the Buglobi Rotary Club in Kampala, Uganda will speak this Friday on “Africa’s paralyzed development and its lessons to the world”.  Hamlet is no stranger to Rotarians of our Club or other clubs in District 5300, having helped and acted as a bridge in performing close to $500,000 in Rotary [...]

This coming Friday, October 22, 1010, Arcadia Rotarians will hear from Beth Romans Cole, Corporate Development Manager at Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation for the Greater Los Angeles Area.  Founded in 1970, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is “the worldwide leader for research to cure type 1 diabetes.  It sets the global agenda for diabetes research, [...]

Dr. Budincich, a native of Southern California, graduated from U.S.C. in 1976 and graduated from Los Angeles College of Chiropractic in 1980. In 1983, Dr. Bud joined the “flying Samaritans”, and began a now lifelong love to serve needy patients in free outreach clinics in Baja. He now is a member of several “flying doctor” [...]

Fr. Gregory Boyle – best known as Fr. Greg by all who meet him — was born in Los Angeles, one of eight children. His father, a third-generation Irish-American, worked in the family-owned dairy in Los Angeles County and his mother worked to keep track of her large family. As a youth, Fr. Greg and [...]

Dr. Saul Larner, one of our newest red badgers has certainly used a number of ways throughout his professional life as living proof that “A father is not to lean on, but to make leaning unnecessary”.   He eludes that none of us started at the top, and that “history only leads to hysteria’.  He grew [...]

Tom Novotny is an owner of Arrowhead Printing, a successful commercial printing operation servicing a wide range of corporations, businesses, and organizations in the Las Vegas Valley. Started in 1983, Arrowhead Printing allocates significant resources to non-profit and charitable entities. Prior to joining Arrowhead Printing, Mr. Novotny enjoyed a 20 year career in the cable [...]

Evelyn Gray is a Productivity Expert,  Certified Coach & Seminar Leader, consultant, trainer, speaker, and author. She uses these powerful set of skills to improve your clarity and productivity levels. Learn how to set goals and priorities so you can stay focused on the right things. Her core clients are the AD/HD and chronically disorganized [...]

Our speaker for August 14 will be JPL oceanographer Dr. Bill Patzert who studies the ocean’s role in climate and has some opinions you may find challenging. He approaches this topic with characteristic dry wit. Often called the “Prophet of California climate,” Patzert is a scientist at the California Institute of Technology’s NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory [...]

Tim Murphy is the July 31st speaker regarding the Flying Doctors of Mercy. Tim is an Arcadia resident and a pilot involved with LIGA International. He will present a slide show with an overview of LIGA’s work in Sinaloa and the Mexican villages where LIGA has established free clinic’s. This is a video form KSEE [...]

Brittney Massey graduated with honors from California State University Long Beach in May 2008 with a major in Communications with a minor in Psychology. Brittney will provide the members of our club with insight on how young adults communicate differently from the seasoned members of our club. We need t understand them if we are going to recruit them.