Founded 1909 Weekly News and Highlights February 4th, 2022
NEXT WEEK'S MEETING
Wednesday, February 9
On Zoom
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Patti Payne
Payneful Perspectives on Leadership
Business leader, media maven, and columnist Patti Payne shares her educated take on leadership -what works, what’s needed, and how to maximize our own innate abilities to steer through and guide. She is a columnist for the Puget Sound Business Journal and is a sought-after keynote speaker and emcee. Payne serves as principal of her own public affairs/community relations business, The Payne Group Communicating/Connecting.
Alaska Airlines CEO, Ben Minicucci, was the day’s main program speaker who described how his airline has survived the pandemic, unpredictable weather, employee retention, and recruiting beginning with high schoolers who are looking for a great paying career.
Past Seattle Rotary #4 president Mark Wright introduced Mr. Minicucci as a respected airline executive whose experience spans more than 40 years. He has been with Alaska Airlines for 18 years and was named CEO in 2021 as the industry was struggling to recover from the epic pandemic disruption that continues to this day. He began with a familiar video of the airline’s award-winning ‘Safety Dance’ television commercial that emphasized onboard safety with a jingle that generally stays with audiences all day. The idea for the commercial was to have some ‘serious fun’ but to use real Alaska Airlines employees who practiced dance moves and lyrics like professionals.
“The pandemic triggered a sense of urgency in the whole airline industry with Alaska Air losing $400M per month and more than $2B since the pandemic began,” he said. “Our balance sheet for Q4, 2021, reveals how we are coming back as the most profitable airline in the industry, and poised for growth into the future.”
I asked Chris Shultz to send me a one-page bio. Families and private companies entrust him to steer up to 40% of their disposable income away from the sticky hands of the federal government. You see, he’s a tax accountant at Moss Adams – in fact, a Tax Senior Manager there. He supervises a staff of 10 and sees that 250 tax returns are delivered to the IRS, on time.
However, Chris is really, much more than a one-page CPA, tax guy!
No one knows better than a person from Yakima, that apples simply don’t fall far from their trees. His grandfather was a Yakima Rotarian. Chris’s father, Rod Schultz, is a Yakima Rotarian. Chris’s two uncles are Yakima Rotarians. No surprise then that Chris is a Seattle #4 Rotarian.
Another thread! Chris is a Seattle University grad. So was his younger sister. And, so were many cousins.
Chris began SU as a Mechanical Engineering major but shifted when he found it more satisfying to wrap his head around the arithmetic of accounting, and especially tax accounting. But, that wasn’t his only college pursuit. SU had plenty of tall, lanky guys who could work the hoops at the arena, but not as many who could work an oar on Lake Union. Actually, it only needed just one more as good as Chris, and that was good enough to win gold at the 2013 National Club Championships in the cox-less pair.
Rotary Club Wiesbaden-Kochbrunnen in Germany conducts Zoom meetings in English every four months to keep in touch with their Rotary friends abroad.
For a long time, this strange story was completely unknown, but after 40 years the secret documents were released by the US military. They prove the unbelievable but true deceptive maneuvers of the so-called "Ghost Army" in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany: with inflatable tanks, battle sounds from high-powered loudspeakers, and other illusions, a special American unit fooled Hitler's Wehrmacht and pretended to have troop strengths of up to 30,000 men, which in reality did not exist at these locations.
Among the soldiers were numerous young creative people, many of whom were recruited from advertising agencies and art schools – among them the fashion designer Bill Blass, the photographer Art Kane, and painter Ellsworth Kelly (winner of the Jawlensky Prize of the city of Wiesbaden). The designers brought their impressions of the mission back home in sketchbooks, on film, and in photos.
Recently, the US House of Representatives gave final passage to a bill to award the Ghost Army a Congressional Gold Medal.
Rick Beyer, award-winning filmmaker, best-selling author, and long-time history enthusiast, joins us from Chicago and will talk about this special unit in a picturesque presentation.
The Arts Committee is delighted to invite fellow Rotarians to a matinee showing of Blue on February 27, 2022. Blue is the 2020 winner for Best New Opera (Music Critics Association). From the award-winning team of librettist Tazewell Thompson and composer Jeanine Tesori, Blue, presents a portrait of contemporary African American life: of love and loss, church, sisterhood, and most importantly, family.
Please join us for food beforehand at McCaw Hall at 12:30. The opera starts at 2:00 pm and Rotarians are invited to mingle in the Allen Hall at intermission. Post-show, there is an optional conversation that is open to the public in which Tazewell Thompson and Christina Scheppelmann will be conducting a Q&A. Seats are at the discounted rate of $66.75pp. Seating is limited and people must signup no later than February 9, 2022. Payment for lunch will be collected at McCaw Hall.
If you have questions or would like to sign up for lunch, please contact Jennifer Hohnstein.
Account Manager - Americas and EMEA - Seagull Scientific
YRL Membership with Technology classification.
Proposer: David Frum
Shelby Leyson
Business Performance Advisor - Insperity Individual Membership with Business Consultants & Services classification.
Proposer: Doug Seto
Kim Romano
Individual Membership with Retired (Health Care) classification.
Proposer: Nyasha Tunduwani Seconder: Doug Seto
Robert L. Gilmore
Senior Wealth Manager - Trutina Financial Individual Membership with Financial Advising and Wealth Management classification.
Proposer: Terry Van Nostrand
MEMBERS IN ACTION
Congratulations!
For those who couldn't join Virginia McKenzie and fellow Seattle 4 Rotarians on Monday night for the launch party of Rotary Club of PNW - Ending Sex Trafficking we made sure to record the festivities.
Rotary Club of Seattle
1326 5th Ave Suite 342
Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: 206-623-0023
Caroline Bobanick
Executive Director
caroline@seattlerotary.org
Fiona Ronyai
Membership and Communications Manager
fiona@seattlerotary.org
We love to see our Rotary members promoting good works in our community and abroad! If you have a project or fundraiser that you are excited about and would like to promote to your fellow club members, please check in with our Executive Director, Caroline Bobanick, or Membership and Communication Manager, Fiona Ronyai, before distributing information or invitations through our email roster. We value the privacy of our members’ contact information and can let you know the appropriate ways to reach out to folks in our club. Thank you!!
4. Invite your connections to a weekly meeting, and let fiona@seattlerotary.org know so they may be introduced.
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SEATTLE 4 ROTARY AUDIO VISUAL SPONSORS
Video of Seattle 4 Rotary Programs are available online thanks to the generous support of our Seattle Rotary Audio Visual Sponsors.
Special thanks to our Gold Level Sponsor, Bob Alexander.
In addition to supporting our club, becoming a Seattle 4 Rotary Audio Visual Sponsor brings many benefits. To learn more, click here, or contact Caroline for more details at Caroline@seattlerotary.org.
SPONSORS
Do You Have Any Musical Instruments to Donate to Students in Need?
Music4Life is a non-profit and project of Rotary District 5030 that distributes musical instruments to public school students in need.
We welcome any gently used musical instruments you wish to donate. They can be delivered directly to these local music stores that are now open: American Music in Phinney Ridge and Kennelly Keys Music in Bellevue, Lynnwood, and Everett.
Please accompany your instrument with the PDF donation form, linked below.
Our Rotary Cares team is ready to listen and to support you. One of the wonderful things about our club is that you have many friends --you just need to reach out to tap into our amazing network of caring people. Please contact our Rotary Cares Committee Co-Chairs are listed below to let us know how we can help.
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