It's always nice to have an interior designer as a friend, and even better if she is a fellow Rotarian. Welcome, Loralee Barlow, President of Chase Associates LLC

Loralee joined Chase Associates, LLC in 1999 as the Vice President of Design and has been a practicing interior designer for 18 years. She is a graduate of the CIDER accredited interior design program at Utah State University with a BS in Interior Design. Prior to joining Chase Associates, LLC, she worked as a lead interior designer for SLA Architects in Salt Lake City.

As president of Chase Associates, Loralee oversees all aspects of each project, from initial design concepts through construction management, purchasing, and installation services. Her attention to detail on each project is reflected in the quality of the completed job.

Education:

Bachelor of Science, Interior Design, Utah State University, 1993

Masters of Education, University of Phoenix, 2011

Mustafa Can Celebi is an international student, a chemical engineer, thinking of joining Rotary Club of Millcreek. Let's see what we can do to make that happen!

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EDUCATION

2011- present                    University of Utah                                                         Salt Lake City

                                          Chemical Engineering

2008- 2011                        Istanbul Technical University                                             Istanbul

                                          Energy Institute - Department of Renewable Energy

2004-2008                         Middle East Technical University                                        Ankara

                                          Chemical Engineering

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

August 2011-present       University of Utah                                                          Salt Lake City

                                         Research Assistant

July 2009 – July 2011      Tubitak Marmara Research Center                                       Kocaeli

Project researcher

June 2009- July 2009       Biovizyon Energy and Food Ltd. Sti                                      Istanbul

                                          Sales engineer (responsible of 250 kW wind turbines) __________________________________________________________________________________

ROTARACT EXPERIENCE

• Founder Board Member of Rotaract Club of Atasehir (treasurer, December 2008-June 2009)
• Club President (July 2009-June 2010)
• Past Immediate President (July 2010-August 2011)
• District 2420 Meeting Coordinator (2010-2011 Service Year)

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SOCIAL VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS

• Founder Member of Young Chemical Engineers Student Club
• Member of METU Productivity Student Club
• Member of Voluntary Education Project (for three years, financially supported by METU Alumni Society)
• Class and Chemical Engineering Department Representative in 2006-2007
• Founder member of Ataşehir Rotaract Club,
• Member of Futuristic Club

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Seriously, Marty Gelman is the nicest person you'll ever meet. Verified in an independent poll of everyone who knows Marty.

Marty Gelman grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received BA and MD degrees from Temple University and did his Radiology residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.

He is currently retired after practicing Radiology in a community hospital as well as at the University of Utah. He and his wife, Sheila, who is a realtor, developed a passion for Utah after serving 2 years at Hill Air Force Base during the Viet Nam War and moved to Salt Lake City in 1971. Marty and Sheila have 3 married children and 6 wonderful grandchildren. Marty is currently president of the United Jewish Federation of Utah and a member of the Holladay Interfaith Council.

Marty's international experience includes teaching Radiology for a month at Moi University Medical School in Eldoret, Kenya as part of a global medicine exchange.

Marty just completed a Master Gardener course through the Utah  State University extension service and is attempting to learn Bridge with his wife.  He and his wife, Sheila, enjoy skiing, hiking, camping, bicycling, snorkeling  and travel as well as their Old English Sheep Dog, Panda Bear.

Marty looks forward to his service in Rotary  in appreciation of the good fortune life has given him.

Megan Dunn is a barely 30-something finding more service opportunities through Rotary

Megan Dunn is a graduate of Judge Memorial. She started her life of service in 1992 when she became a Job’s Daughter. Service got in her soul and never really left. Her service with Youthlinc started in 2006 when she travelled as a student to Kenya. In 2011, she travelled to Thailand as a mentor.  This year, she will serve as the Thailand Team Leader.

When she is not involved with Youthlinc, Megan teaches 3-year-old’s at Challenger School. She is also a Big Sister with the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. She is  a Big to a 10-year-old Little. They love to hang out, go to movies and explore all the fun places Salt Lake has to offer. The most important things to her are her family, friends and making a difference in every  person’s life she meets.

Two other great things about Rotary Club of Millcreek: 1) It meets when teachers are available 2) Peter Ingle, Westminster College Professor is a member!

Peter Ingle graduated from WPI with a degree in Business Management in 1987. He utilized his business degree in a bank in London and at IBM in Pennsylvania. After spending some time traveling globally, he became interested in working with at-risk youth while in Pennsylvania and brought that interest to Salt Lake City.

Since arriving in Utah in 1990,he has worked for numerous school districts in Salt Lake City as both a teacher and program director. He completed his PhD in Special Education at the University of Utah in 1998 and began his career at Westminster College shortly after.

Peter has taught in the Westminster College School of Education since 1999, primarily in the area of special education. However, he has also taught courses on service learning, diversity, secondary educational methods, and the Masters Thesis course. Additionally, he has taught courses/workshops for the Faculty Technology Center on topics related to assessment, teaching with technology and eportfolios.
Peter has also been active in supporting the college community. He has served on numerous committees including the Learning goals Strategic Planning committee and the College/University Task force. He has served as both the chair of the Faculty Senate and Chair of the Faculty.

In other community service work, Peter was the trip leader for the Youthlinc Mexico trip to Ocotlan in 2006-2008 (pictured above with his lovely wife, Krista). This trip focused on serving individuals with special needs in the communities surrounding Ocotlan. For the past 3 years, Peter has led, along with Dr. Han Kim, groups of Westminster College  students on a trip to Thailand. These trips focus on developing global citizenship skills through work in rural villages of Kalasin and Ban Nam Hom.

Beginning in 2008, Peter began serving as the Director of the Learning Coalition, a new position in which he facilitates educational development for staff and faculty at Westminster College. As a part of that position, he has supported a number of new initiatives on campus around teaching with technology and eportfolios.

Peter also enjoys the wonderful opportunities afforded by the mountains near his home in Park City. He enjoys backcountry skiing, cycling, mountain biking, and luge.

Club Members elect all Committee Chairs, announce our first service project. First social: Thursday, Sept. 29 6:15pm at Lugano's Restaurant (not Loggia)

Thursday, Sept. 8 was a very productive meeting for the Rotary Club of Millcreek. Probably the only thing anyone bemoaned was we got started a bit early with the business meeting, and cut the socializing by about ten minutes off the regular schedule. This is a group that likes to talk!

We started with a brief review of last week’s business meeting. Laura Rogers recapped the club’s decisions to make Vocational Service -- business networking, recognizing accomplishments, and mentoring young people – an important focus of our club. Career Days, career counseling, shadowing, helping young people prepare for and practice job interviews are the kinds of things we want to do as part of the Vocational Service Avenue of Rotary International.

Ladd Tanner, a past president of Park City Sunrise Rotary Club, and a new member of the Millcreek Club, recapped our Youth Service discussions last week. Ladd reviewed the official programs of Rotary International: Youth Exchange (where high school students live abroad for up to a year), RYLA (Rotary’s youth leadership award weekend), Interact (high school Rotary Clubs), and Rotaract (college age Rotary Clubs).

Rotary Club of Millcreek is already in discussions with the charter school of City Academy about forming our Interact Club there, where member Sonia Woodbury is the principal. Members discussed inviting Salt Lake based Rotaract Club members to our meetings regularly, and helping both age groups through the Vocational Service activities we want to do. Peter Ingle, a professor at Westminster College, talked about starting a Rotaract Club there, especially since the current Salt Lake based Rotaract president, Jerika Michel, is a student at Westminster.

Club members then discussed International and Local Community Service, deciding that the committees should work together to develop a system for members to propose service projects locally and globally.

Club Service – the fifth Avenue of Service of Rotary International – was the easiest to discuss, as members feel strongly about making this club as social as possible, with lots of opportunities to get to know each other, make meetings fun, and party!

A very quick election of committee chairs followed: Laura Rogers will be Vocational Chair, Ladd Tanner is Youth Service Chair, Peter Ingle will be our International Service Chair, and Miriam Kramer will be Community Service Chair.

There is no stopping Ann Nielson when it comes to the Club Service lead position. She will have some activities for her committee members as soon as the Thursday, Sept. 29 social at Lugano’s restaurant (not Loggia) when we start at 6:15pm for dinner. There will be a cash bar again, and we’ll order off the menu so that different tastes and price points can be available.

Miriam Kramer has our first Community Service Project: We’ll support the local refugee community and help harvest vegetables as well as build new garden beds that will be used for a micro-training farm. These farms allow for our newcomers to nourish their families and earn supplemental income.
We will be meeting on Saturday, September 24th at 9:00am at the New Roots Garden, which is on 3100 S. Redwood Rd. - behind the Redwood Road Recreation Center on the east side just north of the ball fields.
The exact address to the farm is 3060 S. Lester St, West Valley City. For questions, please call Miriam Kramer at 801.824.9855. Lunch will be provided, as part of the University of Utah’s Legacy of Lowell Event.

THERE IS NO CLUB MEETING SEPT. 15 OR 22.

See you at the service project on Saturday, Sept. 24 and the social on Thursday, Sept. 29!

The first two weeks of October will be business meetings. Club members have decided to wait till then to elect remaining club officers: President, President Elect, and a Club Secretary. Ken Klingler, bless his heart, has already volunteered to be our club treasurer.

U Football dents our attendance severely, but we still get a lot done! Report on 3rd meeting:

With numbers diminished by tail gate parties for the University of Utah/Montana State football game, a small but diligent contingent of future members of the Rotary Club of Millcreek met Thursday, September 1 to discuss committee goals for the Five Avenues of Rotary Service. While our numbers precluded actual committee meetings and election of Chairs, we got a lot done.

Vocational Service: club members decided that business networking would be a healthy part of our fledgling club, much in keeping with the initial purposes of Rotary under Founder Paul Harris.

We’ll continue to introduce ourselves at the beginning of club meeting with name and profession, at least till we get to know each other better.

Laura Rogers (who by the way, is looking for a marketing position) took the notes and will present briefly about the Vocational Service discussion next Thursday, Sept. 8 at 5:15pm at Lugano’s Loggia. Here are some of the general points raised:

• A Member Spotlight could be a regular part of our meetings, with a member presenting a 1-2 minute talk about his or her profession.

• Member Spotlights should continue to be part of the Blog, so keep those bios coming!

• We can act as role models of our professions through Career Days at local high schools (especially at our own Interact Club), and through mentoring of college schools aligned with Salt Lake based Rotaract.

• We can serve to help young people practice for job and college interviews.

Youth Service: Former Park City Sunrise Rotarian Ladd Tanner volunteered to discuss Youth Service at our next meeting. He will be meeting with Rotary Club of Millcreek member and Principal Sonia Woodbury, teacher advisors, and students involved with the service club at City Academy, a Salt Lake charter school, to discuss the chartering of an Interact Club.

Ladd was instrumental in forming the Park City High School Interact Club many years ago, and he spoke briefly about the benefits of association with Rotary International for Interact Club members. The club would have access to the network of Rotary Club and Rotarians world-wide for service projects, fellowship with other Interact Clubs, and Rotary Youth Exchange programs.

Our group tabled discussion of Local, International, and Club Service till next Thursday when hopefully there will be our regular contingent of members to get into committee groups, get to know each other, brainstorm, and make plans.

Community Service Project: Come support the local refugee community and help harvest vegetables as well as build new garden beds that will be used for a micro-training farm. These farms allow for our newcomers to nourish their families and earn supplemental income.

We will be meeting on Saturday, September 24th at 9:00am at the New Roots Garden, which is on 3100 S. Redwood Rd. - behind the Redwood Road Recreation Center on the east side just north of the ball fields.

The exact address to the farm is 3060 S. Lester St, West Valley City. For questions, please call Millcreek Rotarian Miriam Kramer at 801.824.9855. Lunch will be provided, as part of the University of Utah’s Legacy of Lowell Event. See you there!