Rotary Lunch Speaker: Al Jubitz, Rotary Peace Initiatives

On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, our lunch speaker will be Rotarian Al Jubitz. Al joined Rotary in 1977 as a third generation Rotarian and is Past President of the 2002-2003 Rotary Club of Portland. Al believes that Rotary is uniquely capable of turning the world toward nonviolent conflict resolution, ultimately leading to a world beyond war. To that end, he submitted the application for the Rotarian Action Group for Peace to Rotary International. Al has been invited to speak at more than 60 Rotary clubs, conferences and community events over the last four years to share his vision that peace is possible and that Rotarians can play a leading role. He has received appreciation and encouragement from Rotarians and general audiences that his message is the right cause at the right time.

A native Oregonian, Al received his BS degree from Yale University in 1966 and earned his MBA from the University of Oregon School of Business in 1968. Al retired from the family business (Jubitz Corporation) after a career spanning 34 years. He also served as a director of two private start-up companies. Al is President and founder of the Jubitz Family Foundation which directs funding to organizations that foster peacebuilding, environmental stewardship and early childhood education.

In 2010, Al and his wife Nancy were recognized nationally by United Way USA with the Tocqueville Society Award for their ongoing commitment and support. He is a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum of Oregon, Class 20, and also serves on the Leadership Councils of Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Portland Children’s Museum and the National Advisory Board of Environmental Defense Fund. He is Director Emeritus of Morrison Child and Family Services and an emeritus trustee of Outward Bound Wilderness School. Al and his wife Nancy have been married 54 years. They have three grown daughters and four grandchildren. He enjoys hiking, playing squash and golf.

Al believes that Rotary is uniquely capable of turning the world toward nonviolent conflict resolution, ultimately leading to a world beyond war.

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Rotary Lunch Speaker – Kimberly DeBroux, Development Director, Boy Scouts of America

On Tuesday, February 23, 2021, our lunch speaker will be our own club member Kim DeBroux, Development Director, Boy Scouts of America, Crater Lake Council.

Currently they service over 1,300 boys and girls from Kindergarten through High School. The Crater Lake Council – Boy Scouts of America supports Scouting programs in Southern Oregon, Central Oregon and Northern California, with service centers located in Central Point, Klamath Falls, Bend and Eureka California.

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Rotary Lunch Speaker – Lee Vasche President & CEO, Triton Polling

On Tuesday, February 16, 2021, our lunch speaker will be Lee Vasche, President & CEO, Triton Polling.

Lee will be speaking on the science of polling and reliability, as well as future of polling.

In 2009, Lee Vasche founded Triton Polling & Research, a full service survey, polling and market research firm with offices in Bend, Oregon, Henderson, Nevada, Bellingham, Washington and Missoula, Montana. Triton has helped hundreds of clients win campaigns, sell ideas and develop communications strategies. The company’s client list includes organizations in countless industries throughout the nation, from Fortune 500 companies and statewide political campaigns to non-profit organizations to law firms large and small.

Before founding Triton, Lee had extensive experience running telephone outreach programs dating back to 2002. His leadership and technological expertise has been behind some of the narrowest legislative victories in his native Oregon. Lee’s call centers have conducted some of the most detailed and far-reaching survey projects in Oregon’s history.

Lee has an eclectic mix of talents ranging from statistical analysis to management of advanced telecom systems to political organizing to database administration. In addition to skiing, hiking, scuba diving, and generally enjoying the outdoors, Lee and his wife Courtney frequently leave their home in Bend, OR to travel the world or take trips around the NW.

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Rotary Lunch Speaker – Mandy Skoranski, Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Oregon

On Tuesday, February 2, 2021, our lunch speaker will be Mandy Skoranski, PhD, Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Oregon.

Mandy will be speaking on parental stress biology and mental health symptoms and the affect on young children.

Amanda (“Mandy”) Skoranski attained her master’s degree from Colorado State University in Marriage and Family Therapy in 2007, and her Ph.D. from Penn State University in Developmental Psychology in 2009. Her research focus is on the biobehavioral dynamics of parent-child interactions during early childhood, and how parental characteristics (such as mental health and stress physiology) impact such interactions and in turn children’s socioemotional development. She is interested in understanding both the physiological and behavioral aspects of mental health difficulties in parents of young children, and how symptoms may be transmitted from parent to child during their vulnerable stages of development.

She is also interested in utilizing dynamical systems modeling to analyze how parents’ physiological activation can regulate the physiological activation of the child (and vice versa) during face-to-face interaction, and whether this may be one way in which dysregulation (such as over-activation of stress systems) may be passed intergenerationally.

She is currently working with data from the Coaching Adaptive Parenting Strategies project (PI: Elizabeth Skowron, Ph.D.) at the University of Oregon to better understand parent-child physiological dynamics among families in which child maltreatment has occurred, and whether patterns may be reorganized in a positive way through engaging families in a course of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy.

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Rotary Lunch Speaker – Eric King, Bend City Manager

On Tuesday, January 26, 2021, our lunch speaker will be Eric King, City Manager for Bend.

Eric King began his career in local government working for the City of Portland. In his 10 years there, he worked on a variety of projects and programs focusing on economic development and program management. He began working for the City of Bend as Assistant City Manager in April, 2007 and accepted the position of City Manager in May, 2008.

Eric was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. He has a Master’s Degree in Urban and Regional Planning and a Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development from Portland State University. Eric currently services on the KIDS Center Board and has served on the Visit Bend and Oregon City/County Managers’ Association Boards as well as volunteered with SMART- promoting early childhood literacy.

Eric loves Bend for its scenic beauty, the multitude of outdoor activities it offers, and most importantly, he and his wife Martha believe Bend is an ideal place to raise their two children.

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Rotary Lunch Speaker: Roger Lee, EDCO – Central Oregon Business Update

On Tuesday, January 19, 2021, our lunch speaker will be Roger Lee, CEO at EDCO – Economic Development for Central Oregon.

At EDCO, Roger is responsible for the tri-county area’s economic development strategy, business recruitment, oversight of the organization and its satellite offices, and development of special projects including industrial parks, expansion of commercial air service and creation of new programs to assist the region’s traded-sector employers and improve the overall business climate.

Roger will be giving us an update on the business climate here in Central Oregon and the impacts on it from COVID.

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Rotary Lunch Speaker: Scott Burns – Earthquakes in Oregon – Are we ready for the Big One?

On Tuesday, January 12, 2021, our lunch speaker will be Dr. Scott Burns, Professor Emeritus of Geology and past chair of the Dept. of Geology at Portland State University.

He has been teaching for 48 years, with past positions in Switzerland, New Zealand, Washington, Colorado and Louisiana. Scott specializes in environmental and engineering geology, geomorphology, soils, and Quaternary geology. Scott has won many awards for outstanding teaching with the most significant being the Faculty Senate Chair Award at Louisiana Tech University in 1987, the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Portland State Alumni Association in 2001, and the George Hoffmann Award from PSU in 2007. He has authored over 100 publications and has had over 25 research grants. His first book. Environmental, Groundwater and Engineering Geology: Applications from Oregon, came out January of 1998. His second book, Cataclysms on the Columbia, the Great Missoula Floods came out in October of 2009 and is co-authored by Marjorie Burns, a friend and professor at PSU. He actively helps local TV and radio stations and newspapers bring important geological news to the public, featured on KOIN TV, OPB, KING-5 TV, KATU, and Oregon Wine Press. He was president of the Downtown Rotary Club of Portland, Oregon’s oldest and largest Rotary club in 2009.

Scott has won some national awards in geology: distinguished practice award from the engineering geology division of GSA in 2012, the Richard Jahns Award for engineering geology (top engineering geologist in the U.S.) from GSA and AEG in 2011, the Shoemaker Award for Public Service to the US (GSA) in 2011. and on the state level, the “Outstanding Scientist for Oregon for 2014” from the 73-year-old Oregon Academy of Sciences. Scott is also a Smithsonian Journeys Expert.

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Rotary Lunch Speaker: Michele O’Hara, Executive Director, Opportunity Knocks

On Tuesday, December 15, 2020, our lunch speaker will be Michele O’Hara, Executive Director of Opportunity Knocks.

Michele has always focused on contributing to the local community and has focused her efforts on promoting many worthy community organizations. She currently serves on the executive committee for Redmond Economic Development Inc. (REDI) and as executive director for Opportunity Knocks; a facilitated peer mentorship program for CEO’s and senior leaders. Past board experience includes the board of directors for Portland Fashion Week, the governance committee for Portland Center Stage, board member for Self Enhancement Inc., executive board committee for Oregon Ballet Theatre and a mentor for GLAD (Girls Leadership and Development) through Boys and Girls Aid Society. She was also a co-chair for the Multiple Sclerosis auction, a member of Portland Advertising Federation and a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization. Michele founded a non-profit program, BecomeX, providing young women with experiential learning in the areas of self-discovery, career competence and essential skills to lead a healthy and happy life.

Michele’s work is grounded in the creation of connections between brands and the people they serve. Through her passion, vision and leadership, she has earned a reputation as a brand leader and change agent.

With over fifteen years of experience working for national and regional advertising agencies, DJMC and Saatchi & Saatchi, on major accounts, McDonald’s and Toyota, Michele decided to leave the big agency world to open her own creative shop in Portland Or., Nerve Inc.

Since founding Nerve, and subsequently, Luminous Brands, she has continually focused her time and resources toward producing results orientated brand campaigns for businesses and philanthropic organizations such as the Anaheim Angels, Clear Channel Radio Group, Leave No Trace, Mentor Graphics, WebTrends and Oregon Ballet Theatre. She completed a major brand turn-around for NBA team, The Portland Trail Blazers, and led the reorganization for The American Red Cross after 9/11, building back trust for the organization. She then turned her attention to the hospitality world where she served as chief branding officer for Kuleto Restaurants, Resorts and Kuleto Estate Winery in the bay area. With a desire to make Central Oregon her long-term home, Michele joined Zolo Media, providing a complete turnaround for the broadcast television brand that included concepting and creating a news program, Central Oregon Daily News.

Michele’s life mission is to inspire others to become their personal best. She is a public speaker and facilitates training in the area of business and personal branding and provides leadership development to organizations through her brand consultancy business.

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Rotary Lunch Program: Paul Harris Awards

On Tuesday, December 8, 2020, our lunch program will be presentation of Paul Harris awards, by President Shannon.

The Paul Harris Fellow recognition acknowledges individuals who contribute, or who have contributions made in their name, of $1,000 to The Rotary Foundation.

Rotary established the recognition in 1957 to encourage and show appreciation for substantial contributions to what was then the Foundation’s only program, Rotary Foundation Fellowships for Advanced Study, the precursor to Ambassadorial Scholarships.

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Rotary Lunch Speaker: Mike Krantz, Bend Chief of Police

On Tuesday, December 1, 2020, our lunch speaker will be Bend Chief of Police Mike Krantz.

Krantz started his service here in Bend on August 10, 2020. Krantz is a 27-year veteran of the Portland Police Bureau. He served as the bureau’s Assistant Chief of the Services Branch and was responsible for the business operations of the largest police department in the State of Oregon.

As a captain in Portland, he built the bureau’s Office of Community Engagement to support the development of ongoing relationships and trust with the greater Portland community. Krantz also managed the development and implementation of the bureau’s Racial Equity Plan, focused on addressing the root causes of inequities within the bureau and with community access to the bureau. Additionally, he has served in strategic services, criminal intelligence, rapid response and training capacities, exhibiting a well-rounded set of skills and experience.

Krantz holds a bachelor’s degree in public policy and administration from Western Oregon University, is a graduate from the Police Executive Research Forum Senior Management Institute for Police, and holds an executive certificate from the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.

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